Part 2
The trio consisting of Jase, Aron and Leslie materialed in the city of Sacramento California. Unlike the other cities that they had been in this one was nice, almost in pristine condition. The air was clean and seemingly sanitized. Whoever was running this city definately had a thing about keeping it nice.
"We're going to meet Adam at what used to be a local highschool." Jase said. "It's not to far from the base that we have to hit."
Aron and Leslie nodded in unison and then took up position to follow Jase. Aron stood slightly behind Leslie and watched her as she walked. The girl looked so much like Jayna that it was no surprise that he had mistaken her for the princess when he had first seen her. Of course his reaction had frightened the girl as she had no idea what was going on.
Even after her initial reaction and denial that she was who he was looking for Aron had not been entirely convinced that she was not in fact Princess Jayna. It was hard to think otherwise. They looked identical, had the same walk and spoke with the same pitch and inflections. Had he not encountered the Princess some weeks later he was going to press the issue. Of course he realized later that he would have been doing nothing but making an utter fool of himself.
Leslie turned and saw that he was watching her "What is it?" she asked gently.
Aron too realized what he was doing and turned his head. "Nothing... sorry." he said as he walked a little faster to get past her.
Leslie stopped. She felt sorry for him and could almost feel his pain. "It's her isn't it? You're thinking about the Princess Jayna."
"I said it's nothing." Aron said harshly as he kept walking.
Jase stopped and turned back to the two. "we're almost there." he said. "There area that we are going to isn't as nice as everything else here. You better wear these." Reaching into the cloak that he was wearing he pulled out two hood and handed them to the Rangers. "They don't take to kindly to humans here."
Aron and Leslie both took the offered hoods and put them on their heads then pulled them down to cover their faces.
"When we reach our destination keep your mouths shut and follow my lead." he instructed.
Tommy let out a sigh. They had made it to the hovercar and launched with the Nicandros' soldiers right on their heels. "Are you ready to show them our little suprise?" he said Audra
The girl with short blonde hair smiled possibly the widest smile that he had ever seen and pulled out a small device from her pocket. "Would you like to do the honors?" she asked.
"No go right ahead. I insist." Tommy retorted.
"No I'll leave this up to you." Audra came back.
"What are you two carrying on about?" Jerrin interjected into the joviality the two were sharing.
"Maybe we should let him do it." Tommy suggested.
Audra split the difference and handed the deviced to Laran. "Press this button." she said.
Laran took the device and pressed the indicated button at which time there was an almost ear piercing shrill and bright flash of light. Then the entire complex that they had just left went up in a ball of flame.
"What they hell was that?" Jerrin asked as he shook his head.
"That was a little something that I rigged up for our visitors. I call it a mega flash bang." Audra said proudly. "There is absolutely nothing left of our former headquarters or the soldiers inside of it."
Jerrin turned around and looked. Sure enough the entire area had been reduced to less than rubble. "And you couldn't have warned us that you were creating something like that?"
"I had planned on perfecting it. The plan was to place it in a missile and hit the Vandairres Flagship with it." Audra explained.
"Good plan. Well at least now we know that it works. When can you built another one?" Laran cut in.
"There's not going to be another one." came the answer.
"And why not? If we could drop one of those on the Vandairre they wouldn't stand a chance." Jerrin said.
"True enough and I would love to build another. However it's not possible." Audra answered.
"Well why." Jerrin questioned.
"Because it was powered by a 100lb block of Dytronium." she answered.
"What's Dytronium?" Laran asked.
"It's an extremely light element." Tommy said. "A block the size of this hovercar only ways a few ounces."
"Then how did you get enough to cause an explosion that size?" Jerrin asked.
"Remember that brick that we liberated from the Vandairre?" Kat asked.
When Kat spoke Jerrin payed really close attention. Unlike her husbands Kats voices sounded like music to him. Needless to say he had more than a little crush on her. "What about it?" he asked in a much calmer tone.
"It was Dytronium." Audra answered.
"That thing couldn't have been 100lbs of Dytronium if a block the size of this car weigh only a few ounces." Jerrin said, proud of himself for figuring something out logically.
"Normally that would be true but what we took was Packed Dytronium." Kat said.
Laran raised her eyebrow. She may have only been a handmaiden before but she was well versed in science and immediately knew the ramifications of that they were saying."Thing about it Jerrin normally that much Dytronium would amount to an area the size of a small town. What happens if you pack something that big into a package the size of what we stole from that base?"
Jerrin shrugged his shoulders. He wasn't a stupid person but he had never really learned much about science. He was content to work as a Guard at the Palace. "Refresh my memory." he said.
"Well it's going to want to expand to it's true size and create the energy needed to push out to get to that size. However if it is held perpetually in a state that it cannot expand to it's true size it will continue to create energy..."
He finally got it. "So much energy that it will do exactly when happen if used properly." he said.
"If we would have just let it sit for another month it would have had enough energy to blow apart half the planet if we wanted." Audra said."It would have just been a matter of creating a small controlled counter explosion."
"So you still haven't explained why we can't build another one." Jerrin said.
Kat cut in. "Because that was it for the Packed Dytronium. The Vandairre were expermenting with it. They lucked upon a piece of it in space and managed to condense it."
"How do you know so much about it?" Jerrin asked.
"Because they were hoping to use it to find someway to emulate the energy field that still surrounds me from when I was a Power Ranger." she answered.
Tommy looked at her in shock "You never said anything about this before." he said.
"It's why he kept me alive for so long. He wanted to copy my powers and create his own Power Rangers."
"Do you know how close he got?" Tommy asked.
"He kept saying that he was really close but something was missing. That's why I think he brought you here." Kat revealed.
"Oh man this is not good at all." Tommy said as he looked over the side of the hovercar while it sped towards their backup base.
Jase ushered Aron and Leslie into a small building that seemed to be nothing more than a bar. "Remember, just follow my lead and everything will be fine." he said.
The two representatives from the newest group of Power Rangers did exactly as told and stayed right behind him and didn't say a word as they entered. There were creatures of all sorts here, from that look close to human to those that had 2 heads and 6 legs. Jase didn't speak to any of them but instead headed to a table in the back of the building.
At the table sat a lone figure who was drinking out of a glass and kept his head down. He was wearing a cloak similar to Jases and brown gloves.
Jase motioned for the others to have a seat and then took on himself before putting his head down and speaking. "What have you found out?" he asked.
"It's definately doable." the person answered. "It's going to take some effort and the Rangers are going to meet heavy resistance but they should be able to get in."
Aron listened and then spoke up "Why don't we just blast the place apart with the Mega TitanZord?" he asked.
The man looked up at him. He had strong features of what people on the Earth called an Asian. "Because the Zords would be wiped out before that got close enough to do anything. There are about 20 of Nicandros' Generals in there." he said. "Sheesh Jase where did this guy come from?"
Jase shot Aron a look giving him a mental shut up. "These new guys are good. You've seen them in action. They still have a lot to learn." he said.
"Things were certainly different in our day." the man said.