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Now, on with the Story!
Battling Mesogogg Into Submission
Kira's POV
We arrived on the scene of this battle expecting for Jason and Dr. O to be in serious trouble and they were, which was not what we had hoped for in the back of our minds, although it was what we thought would be happening to them. Jason's call was not exactly the nicest thing than any of us have ever heard, but I understand why he selected the strong language that he did. I can't believe the amount of tryadrones that Mesogogg has deployed to try to keep Dr. O from getting to Kim, which only made me more furious about this whole situation.
She really had done nothing to deserve this, other than take on the mantle of being our pink ranger and being Dr. O's wife, which seemed to have more to do with it than her being a ranger, as it seemed that they just wanted to play with Dr. O's mind some more. They have figured out that if they are able to get him unstable, then they have a good chance of him not making a plan that actually works against them. Elsa, Mesogogg, Zeltrax, and Richard are all here, with Richard guarding Kim, although Dr. O has managed to work his way closer to Kim, but I have the feeling that he won't be comforted until she is in his arms, being teleported back to the command center and their home. If something happens to her, I am sure that he will go on a rampage and that is not a very good thing for all of us.
Trent and Conner were the first to sprint off to help them while Ethan and myself lured some of the tryadrones away from the massive army of them, as we knew it would be best to split them up. Although that meant, we were splitting ourselves up as well, which was not something we really wanted to do. We had to have each others backs, but the real priority was to get rid of the tryadrones.
We weren't doing all that great ourselves, so I noticed, immediately, when the other former rangers teleported in. Namely, because they landed only a few feet away from us and didn't seem to skip a beat in helping us and defeating some of the tryadrones, like they were pros at it. Which I guess that you can say that they are, after all of the years that they have done this, come to think of it.
"Thanks for the help," Trent said, as Zack blocked a tryadrone from blindsiding him, which was something they did not really want Tommy to have to worry about. If another ranger went down, the black ranger might lose his mind and that was not something that they wanted to see happen.
The older rangers knew that they were out numbered, almost as badly as when they had defeated Nicarni-Aso and that gave them some confidence to do what was needed to be done here. Their past experiences were what let them have the confidence that the younger rangers were lacking right now, but they would hopefully get as this fight went on and the tryadrones were destroyed. If they did not, then they might have to send them back to the command center, to wait out the rest of the battle. They knew that they wanted to help, but if they did not start fighting the way that they were known to do, then there were going to be problems.
"Anytime. We have to look out for each other," Zack responded, as he continued to keep two of the tryadrones busy, knowing that they were playing with borrowed time.
Jason had, already, been given back his powers, which made it obvious it was only a matter of time before they got them back as well. They knew that their day was coming, they had only hoped that it would have been a little bit further down the road, but even now, Alpha was standing by with a temporary morpher, in case they needed to be connected to their powers for awhile and they very well might have to be tonight. The situation just seemed to go from bad to worse as Mesogogg did not move more than ten feet away from Kim and that was not enough room for any of them to get in and get out with her and not be risking their own life, as well as hers.
"Sweethearts, you must be getting exhausted without those nice little powers to help you," Elsa said, as Trini and Aisha took hold of the woman and insured her of the fact that they were not exhausted, but furious at her for everything she had done to their friends.
They could see that Kim was still tied up and they could only pray that Mesogogg would not take her away again. If he did that, then they knew that Hayley and Alpha would have no choice but to teleport, Tommy straight to wherever she was taken or he would try to do it himself and that was a dangerous proposition to have to deal with. He was utterly furious about all of this, but he was the only one that seemed to be making a good bit of headway on his opponent.
"You should learn that you can't judge people by how they look," Aisha said, as Elsa scrambled away from them, scared at what they could do, even without their legendary powers to help them out. She had been under the preconceived notion that Tommy and Kim were the only skilled, older rangers left out there that would possibly even try to battle them, but now she was getting to meet eight more of them, which she did not like at all. The older ones were even a bigger threat than she remembered and they all seemed positively pissed at all of them.
"Jason! Get Richard!" Tommy yelled, as he was able to break free of the tryadrones and headed straight towards Kim, without having a second thought cross his mind, as all he wanted to do was get to her and get her the hell out of this place. However, before he had been able to take two steps in her direction, Zeltrax stepped in front of him, silently challenging him to another duel between the two, one in which Kim's life was on the line if he did not agree to take him up on it. He was becoming desperate at this point, as he tried to appeal to the man that he once knew, but it proved itself fruitless. "I don't have time for this Todd, that's my wife. I know that there is a human in there somewhere, listen to me and just let me go get her, then you can do whatever you want to, to me."
"No, there is no human part of me left but, we can do this now or allow her to die sooner. What's your choice?" Zeltrax asked. While Tommy noticed Richard holding his hands ready to send a direct pulse from himself to Kim, if he needed to, but she was fully prepared for it.
She might not have been able to morph, but the powers did still protect her some. Although she knew that she would do better the closer that Tommy and Jason got to her, as she was drawing from them as much as she could without putting them in danger and was almost sure that they could feel it, if they tuned into their bodies long enough. She had thought that their connection would go away once Tommy switched colors, again, but it still seemed to be there and she was thankful for that.
"Brachio staff. Zeltrax, you can't say that I didn't warn you this time," Tommy said, as he spun his weapon around and took his defensive stance against him.
Zeltrax couldn't help but shudder when he saw Tommy with a weapon that he had a great deal of expertise with, but Mesogogg would not let him run away, as he so desperately wanted to do. He now wielded a sword, as well as, a shield, but Tommy did not imagine it would be able to stop him from doing what he wanted to. He was determined to get to Kim, as soon as he could, with or without help from the other rangers. As the minutes passed by, he knew that the situation would get more dire and he did not want to be a witness to her death because he did not get there in time.
"Confident, aren't we?" Zeltrax asked, as he tried to strike Tommy, but soon found himself flying in the air towards a stack of crates and the brick wall that was built behind those crates.
He had only thought that Tommy meant business the last time they had messed with Kim, but this time was going to be even worse on him. He had only made a full recovery a few weeks ago and was not sure that going up against Tommy was a wise idea, but no one else was stepping up to try to keep him from getting to his wife. So it looked like it was just him and Dr. Oliver right now and it definitely seemed that he was going to be on the losing end of this battle, no matter how hard he tried to block Tommy's advances.
"Your husband is doing well. But I still don't know if I am going to let you make it out of here alive, beautiful," Mesogogg said, using the nickname that he had learned Tommy had give her, as he brushed a scaly hand down the side of her face, leaving some scratches.
Those scratches were barely noticeable for a few seconds and then they became red from the blood that was trying to escape them. She tried to shrug away from him, but she felt the crate tip towards the bay and righted herself as quickly as she could. If she allowed the crate to tip over the edge, there would be no question what the consequence would be for her. Richard then prepared a pulse for Tommy and the others in his vicinity, although Kim was able to pick up on it, but not in time to get them out of the line of fire.
"Tommy, watch out!" Kim yelled, only a few seconds before the pulse hit him and she heard a yell that she had not heard from Tommy in a long time. The gut wrenching pain that the pulse must have carried with it, caused him to be thrown into the air, but he did seem to fair the best out of most of their friends, as he was the only one that could really tap into his full powers without harming himself. "Damn it! Don't take it out on him, take it out on me! He hasn't done anything to you!"
"Pretty baby, what I want to do to you would kill him faster than these pulses that I control, you know that," Richard said, resting his hand on her knee and he felt her shudder at his touch.
She knew that it was time for her to try to get away, as Richard was deathly serious about what he was talking about. Her morpher laid just out of her reach and she only prayed that she would have enough energy to get the weapon that she needed without being morphed, as she had only attempted something like this when morphed and she had even had a power booster then.
"Tommy, how are we going to do this?" Jason asked, as he stood up from Richard's pulse and centered himself towards the end of the pier, where Richard and Mesogogg stood, daring them to try to overtake them, as they would surely kill Kim if they tried it right now. Some of the unmorphed rangers were just now lifting their heads off the ground, to slowly stand, more determined than ever. Mesogogg had no idea who he was dealing with this time and it was time that he learned the full lesson of what it was like to go up against the Power Rangers, at their best.
"It's going to be like old times," Tommy said, as the older rangers knew what that meant. Alpha was going to be giving them a temporary connection to their old powers, so that they would be able to defeat Mesogogg for long enough to get Kim and get him to leave. Then they would give them back and begin preparing themselves for the final battle that would be coming sometime in the near future.
"Kat, listen to me," Adam said, as she stood next to him and continued to glare at Richard. She could not believe what this man was doing and she wanted to make him pay, by herself, but that was not possible. She had not connection to any old powers that could still be used and she was going to have to fight without them for a long time, unless something happened to change that. "You know what has to be done, don't you?"
"Yeah, we can take care of the tryadrones. You guys focus on getting to her. We can't lose any rangers tonight," Kat said, as they both ducked in order to avoid being hit by a tryadrone.
Adam then gave her a kiss and joined the guys that were already flanking Tommy and Jason's sides, just as they had done some many times in the past and would possibly do in the future. This job was never going to just let them go, but that was all right, they had known this when they started it. They had just never imagined that it would have been like this.
"What are they doing?" Kira asked, while handling a tryadrone with little difficulty. She noticed that their numbers had been greatly diminished and there were no more tryadrones coming into replace the ones that had been defeated. She, however, had the sinking feeling that this could not be the final battle. It was all too simple for this to be the end of it all. Mesogogg would get away and then who knew what they would be waiting for.
"Getting Kim back," Aisha said, as the more experienced male rangers stood in a line, waiting for Alpha to give them the powers. To the younger rangers, they looked as if they were preparing themselves for something that they had not done in a long time. They were going to morph, although the Dino Rangers had no idea how they could do that without so much as having a morpher on them.
"They won't be able to without some type of powers. Don't we need to help them?" Conner asked, as suits began materializing on the four, unmorphed, men. He was shocked that they had been able to do that, but now Mesogogg had to deal with six, pissed off, grown men. He could not imagine this turning out good for Mesogogg, as their combined experience in this business beat Mesogogg's staff by more than fifty years, easily.
"Don't worry about them, Conner. Just worry about defeating these tryadrones, then we can go help them," Trini said, as she saw Jason turn his helmeted face towards them before turning his full attention back to Mesogogg and his goons.
If something were to happen to him, she would be fine, as she knew exactly where she stood with him right now, not like the last time that he had done battle with something like this. She had been a wreck while she watched him battle the asoriods and amephors, but they had somehow been able to hold out until they got there and that was a small miracle in itself.
"You have any ideas, Tommy?" Zack asked, as he noticed the other black ranger was not acting like his normally composed self, right now, from the frustration he was feeling at not being able to get to Kim already.
Zeltrax was headed towards Tommy and none of the others seemed to think it was a good idea to get in either one of their ways. Zeltrax and Tommy seemed to have something that they needed to settle between the two of them and they were quite all right to let it stay that way, unless things got really bad.
"Yeah, each one of you gets a goon and those that are left, make a break for Kim and Richard," Tommy said, as Zeltrax swung his sword at him and missed. Tommy then landed a kick to his head and he rocked back and forth from the blow, having expected Tommy to only use his weapons, not his body this time. Tommy no longer cared about his own body, he just wanted someone to get to her. "But I have to warn you that she is more susceptible to those blasts when she's not morphed. If he threatens to blast her, don't risk it. We'll figure out some other way to get to her, even if it does take us longer."
"Don't worry, Tommy, we'll get her," Rocky said, as he dodged out of Jason and Elsa's path, which was heading closer to the pier with each passing second.
"Jason Scott, right?" Elsa asked, turning on every type of flirtation that she could, in hopes of distracting the ranger. He was a man after all, most men could not take this type of flirtation without losing their senses, and she was betting that he was like that, although she could not have been more wrong.
The red ranger could only glare at her from under his helmet, as she placed a hand, gently, on his chest, which disgusted him even more. He grabbed her hand and then, gently, slung her out of the way. They were determined now and did not care what type of damage they had to do to Mesogogg's forces, but all Mesogogg could think was that these old, ancient, rangers were risking themselves. He did not know what type of danger he and his staff was in by causing them to have to morph and fight against them.
"Yep, but you probably won't be able to remember that in the morning," Jason said, as she stumbled around from the blow that he had placed on her.
She was desperately trying to focus her powers toward him, but she found that they had been increasingly weakened as the night went on. She knew that they would not be able to hold them off for very long and even Richard could only deal out so many pulses before he was completely drained of his powers. She didn't like to admit it, but their back was up against the wall this time and she did not think that they would be able to fight their way out of it without some great loss being suffered.
"That sounds like a threat, red," Elsa said, slinging Jason down and was surprised when she was hit by something very similar to the laser gun that Kim wielded under normal circumstances, but that was impossible, as she was still tied up.
She, obviously, had not heard of what Kim had been able to do to Nicarni-Aso, with Jason and Tommy's powers a few years ago, which made them even happier that they had not done any research on them. It served them right if they didn't even bother to find out what they were really up against.
"Kim, just to let you know, it works both ways!" Jason yelled, as he could imagine the look on Tommy's face under the newest helmet of his, if he had even heard it, which he had. The two of them had just managed to double their powers without using the power boosters, which was a wonderful thing to have happen.
"Good, but don't drain her too much, Jase," Tommy said, as Zeltrax and Elsa exchanged a glance, before each receiving a blow that was much more than they expected to come from the person that they were fighting.
Mesogogg had not told them to retreat and just take Kim with them, so they could regroup some and possibly lure the rangers onto their turf, where they would have the advantage. They now had to continue to fight; even though they were not sure that it was the best thing for their cause, as life threatening injuries were now becoming a very real possibility.
"Just a little bit more," Kim muttered, as she tried to scoot herself closer to Richard without toppling the crate she was strapped to and causing him to notice what she held in her hands. She had managed to acquire a fire bulb, but now she was having to wait until Richard placed himself in the best place for her to hit him with it. Then he would be hit and hopefully knocked out by the blast. She knew that she would get some of the affects, but Richard was already pushing his powers and would not be able to do that for much longer.
"Rocky, you go on that side. Adam and I will take the other," Billy said, as they were sneaking closer to Kim, Richard, and Mesogogg.
"I'll get Richard," Rocky said, as they nodded in agreement that would be the best way to go about it. It would take two of them to take care of Mesogogg and get to Kim, before they could even think about getting her away from them.
"Tommy, aren't you ever going to grow up and quit this job?" Zeltrax asked, as they heard an explosion in the background, which distracted Zeltrax long enough for Tommy and Zack to make a clean break towards Kim and the now impaired Richard. She was shaking that she had actually gone through with it, but she had no choice. She knew that if she went back to Mesogogg's lair, she would likely be killed, and that just could not happen.
"What was that?" Mesogogg asked, as Richard was now sprawled out on the ground, unconscious and injured to the point of hospitalization, although that was not an option for him.
The blast had singed off Kim's ropes, although she had somehow managed to not get burned by the flames, as they seemed to know that they were not intended to harm her, but to harm only one person. She now laid on the crates, motionless, as she prayed that the guys would hurry and get to her. She had been able to grab her morpher and was now clutching it in her hands, readying herself if she had to quickly place it on her wrist and morph, which was something she was not very sure that she could do anymore with how much she had strained her own powers in order to get that one fire bulb.
"He doesn't know how to use the powers you gave him," Kim muttered, as he swung himself around to face her, in time for Adam and Billy to jump out of the covered space and tackle him to the ground.
Mesogogg kicked the crate Kim was on, pushing it over the edge, but Rocky was able to grab Kim's hand before she went over with it. He then pulled her up and carried her out of there, as quickly as he could. Tommy and Zack saw him carrying her and relief washed over both of them, knowing that she was away from Mesogogg now. Tommy then fell to his knees and cried under the protection of his helmet, happy that she was safely back with them.
"You still have to take care of the tryadrones, Elsa, and Zeltrax," Kim said, as Rocky, carefully, placed her on the ground.
She had not known how drained she was, until she had to try to support her own weight and she could not, as she crumpled to the ground, with Tommy catching her before her head hit the ground. She knew that she had strained her powers to get that one fire bulb, but it had helped her get away from them and now Billy and Adam were heading their way. She felt Tommy's grip that he had on her and felt that he was shaking, although he was trying to cover it as much as he could. He was upset, but it would be all right as soon as they could get home and he could let his emotions out, without worrying about it costing someone their life.
"You gonna be able to do this?" Tommy asked, as he had to manage to somehow recompose himself until they were able to get back home. Then he would truly be able to break down in happy tears and take her away from the world for a few hours, if she would only let him do that.
"Yeah, just let me morph, Tommy. I should be alright after that," Kim said, as Jason flew past them with Zeltrax following close behind him.
She knew that being morphed would re-energize her some, but it was hard to deal with all of it. She couldn't help but be happy that Tommy was there and he would watch out for her, somehow, if he had his way, but she did know that there were times when he did not get his way and that bad things could happen. The way that things were going right now, she was not surprised that more bad things had not happened to her already and that was one thing that she could be grateful for.
"She got away!" Mesogogg roared, as he had not seen the other ranger come in and carry her out, before the other rangers left him alone.
He looked around and noticed that Richard still remained unconscious and had multiple injuries, which was almost a guarantee after what Kim had been able to do to him. Zeltrax was now staggering around but he was having to deal with Tommy which was never a good thing for him, as he was sure to be seriously injured if this went on much longer. Elsa was going after Kim but for the ranger to have been through all that he had put her through, she was fighting fairly well. He then looked to see where the tryadrones were, but they were no where to be found, which only meant one thing, he would have to rebuild his entire army of tryadrones. He also knew that the longer they stayed there, the more of a chance he was running at losing it all, in one fight.
"Thank God," Jason muttered, as he saw Elsa doing almost anything she wanted to against Kim, although she had been able to get in some hard blows. He still could not believe that she was able to do that, but he knew that it was better than she being laid in the command center's infirmary was because she was unconscious.
"Well, pinkie, why didn't you just do this earlier?" Elsa asked, as Kim held her away from her body and then tossed her towards Zeltrax.
She was feeling more tired as the seconds went by and she knew that it was only a matter of time before she truly begged Tommy to let her go home. All she wanted to do right now was crawl into her bed and go to sleep, next to her husband, but they never asked her what she wanted. Although Tommy would probably teleport her there himself, if he thought it would help her at all.
"Kim, watch out!" Rocky yelled, as Richard had woken up and now wanted to get even with Kim. The pulse struck her before she was even able to turn around and face Rocky. She felt herself falling to the ground and she looked up to see the dark, night's sky. Before everything went blank in her mind, she heard a barely audible scream that came from Tommy, as he watched her be injured, which was one of the things that she had prayed would never happen to her while she was fighting.
AN: I know it's a cliffhanger and I know that this is a rather short chapter for this story. I'm sorry, I'm going to try to make the next chapter longer, but there is only so much you can do with these scenes and I wanted to try to spread it out. If you hate it this way, I'm sorry, but I'm going to try to get the next chapter out soon. Review if you want and if you don't want to, I hope that you enjoyed the chapter! I hate to say this but it'll be a few weeks before the next chapter, I'm not going to be at home, so I hope you really did like this chapter.