To say Tori was terrified was an understatement. Trapped between the two bigger Psychos she could only stumble along with them as they led her through the ship. They hadn't said a word since arriving and that in and of itself was unnerving. Even in her highly freaked out state of mind she managed to get a good look around her surroundings, but found that there was nothing to distinguish one hall from the next. If she managed to get loose she'd probably get lost. It was all cold steel walls and floors with black doors offering the only change of color.

"Now see here! The boy can barely stand on his own he's in no condition--."

"You're overstepping your boundaries Doctor and I suggest you watch yourself."

Tori looked down the hall at the commotion and saw a large creature that looked like a raptor straight out of Jurassic Park, only a little more humanoid in its posture, glaring at a man standing in a doorway. She guessed that it was an infirmary of some sort considering the raptor thing had called the man doctor.

Crimson snickered. "Sounds like Kalix is ready to give Zadan an earful."

"If Dr. Radkee doesn't get it first." Red agreed. Neither of them so much as acknowledged that they still had Tori between them. "Kalix should get rid of the man -once a ranger always a ranger with or without his powers."

"Not that I want to agree with you but---."

Crimson was cut off as Kalix noticed them. "Take her to the command room, I'll be there momentarily."

"Yes Master." The two Psychos replied. But they didn't move for a minute; they both wanted to see what was going to happen between Dr. Radkee and Kalix.

"I don't care who you are. The boy isn't going to be any good to you dead and if you do anything to him now you could kill him." Radkee snarled, his accent getting thicker with his anger. "Especially if you use that electric prod of yours on him."

"I can find someone else to be my doctor Kardan. I don't need you." Kalix threatened.

"I'd like to see you find someone your Psycho Rangers will let work on them." Radkee replied confidently. "They trust me."

Kalix's face twisted with rage and he lashed out with a punch that sent the doctor flying. "You're right, I can't kill you, but don't think you're beyond punishment either." He then turned and saw the Psychos still standing there watching with the Blue Ranger caught between them. "I told you to go to the command room! Now!"

At that the two Psychos were moving again. Tori was amazed that they listened to Kalix at all. She could already tell that the reptile man used intimidation and threats to control those around him. The Psychos were so obviously stronger than him she wondered if that was something they just weren't aware of at all. She wondered if it would even be a good idea for them to know that. Things could get much worse if Kalix's leash on them was broken. Or it could get better, but Tori doubted that.

"Think Kalix is going to torture her?" Red asked suddenly. Tori knew immediately that he was talking about her.

"Possibly, but it's not like she knows something he doesn't."

"She knows where their little hideout is…possibly where the Knight Ranger has hidden himself."

"Ah yes, well then he probably will torture her." Crimson amended. He laughed to himself as he felt the Blue Ranger tremble at their words.

Red made a sound of agreement. "After that maybe he'll let us have some fun."

Oh god. Tori didn't want to know what their idea of fun was. She knew that it wouldn't be fun for her and would probably include a lot of pain.

"He might just drain her power and lock her away with the rest of the ranger rejects he has." Crimson said. He was enjoying the fear they were putting into their prisoner.

They entered the command room and were stopped by a white armored being Tori had never seen before. The helmet had no features at all and she wondered how the thing could see, but it was almost as tall as Crimson and though it was hard to judge muscles through the all encompassing armor she thought it was probably pretty well built. Everything on the ship seemed pretty well muscled, even the doctor she had just seen looked like he had pressed some serious weights in the past.

"Get out of the way Deder." Crimson barked.

"You are in fact in my way." the emotionless being replied.

"Oh god not this again." Red grumbled. He shoved forward roughly and moved Deder out of their way.

Tori gasped and choked a little bit as the chain tightened around her throat until Crimson walked forward. Deder didn't seem to care that he had been forcefully moved and left the room. Tori caught her breath just before the two Psychos forced her to her knees before an empty chair. She imagined Kalix was supposed to sit there, but he was taking care of business elsewhere. That meant she had to wait and despite knowing that nothing good was going to happen she also didn't want to wait and agonize over what was going to happen.

She didn't have to wait long. Kalix strolled in and the anger from earlier was gone. He looked smug and she thought she saw a hint of blood on one of his claws. The raptor look alike practically sauntered over to the chair and sat down. She looked up into his face and was really glad that she was still morphed so he couldn't see her fear. Finally his eyes shifted to her captors.

"I must admit I didn't think anything good would come of this." Kalix said.

"Then you'll take these off?" Red asked hopefully.

The pleased look on Kalix's face vanished and was replaced by anger. "You were more focused on beating on each other than paying attention to your real targets. I think it's a fluke you even managed to catch this ranger. You barely worked together."

"But Master---." There was a whining tone to Crimson's voice that surprised Tori.

"You'll have to do a hell of a lot better if you want me to unlock those." Kalix snapped. "Your little romp on Earth just proved you have a lot of things you need to deal with."

"I would rather gnaw off my arm than talk to that rat bastard." Red snarled defiantly.

"Please do, it'll save me to pain of cutting it off myself." Crimson growled in return.

Tori gulped nervously. She was standing between the two Psychos who were quickly working themselves up to violence again. The chain was still wrapped around her neck. Not tight, but still an ominous threat.

"Stop this petty fighting of yours!." Kalix snapped. "Stand there and be quiet unless I talk to you."

Tori was amazed out how complacent the two Psychos were. She wondered how they could let themselves be so intimidated by Kalix. Sure she was scared of him, but she was separated from her teammates and way out of her league. But the Psychos had each other, even if they didn't like that fact, and were so obviously more powerful than Kalix it was almost sickening. What kind of hold did Kalix have on them?

"So, little ranger. Are you going to be more cooperative than the Knight Ranger?" Kalix asked, his voice soft but full of menace.

"I don't know anything about the Gems of Power." Tori said automatically. She then cursed herself for talking at all and sealed her lips.

Kalix laughed. "No, I'd imagine being from this backward, out of the way space dump, you wouldn't have a clue about universal powers and such."

To say Tori was insulted was an understatement, but she wasn't rising to the bait. She kept her mouth closed and glared at the raptor being through her visor.

"No, I want something much simpler." Kalix continued, unfazed by the anger rolling off the Blue Ranger. "I want to know where your little hideout is. What is it you call it? Oh yes, Ninja Ops."

Yeah right. Tori thought. No way in hell she was going to tell the creep anything. She would have laughed right in his face if she weren't still in fear for her life. As it was she just stayed silent as the taunting look on Kalix's face fell.

"Very well, I will get what I want from you eventually." Kalix said confidently. He looked toward Red and then Crimson, making sure not to give the order to just one of them. "Take her to the holding cell where we're keeping the others prisoners. Also, post guards right outside the cell."

"What about her morpher, Master?" Red asked.

"Put it with the others." Kalix said with a wave of his hand. "I'll drain her power later."

"Yes Master." The two Psychos replied before dragging Tori out of the command room.

ZzZzZ

Hunter had to admit he was impressed with how well his little brother was keeping it together. He'd expected Blake to freak out at Tori's kidnapping, but instead the younger Bradley was amazingly calm. As impressed as he was, Hunter knew that was a bad sign. He knew Blake was probably just suppressing his feelings and was a raging mess on the inside. However, the cold determined face Blake was putting on was a little scary. Even when the brothers had been trying to get revenge on the Winds' Sensei, Blake had never been so cold.

"How do we get her back?" Shane wondered as the group sat around the table in Ninja Ops. "Can we try and bargain with them?"

"They'll just want what we can't give them." Hunter replied. "There's also probably no way for us to rescue her."

"And it's stupid to even hope they'll just let her go." Dustin added. "Maybe we should talk to Kale, see if there's anything he can do to help."

"We could try and capture either Navy or Yellow and demand an exchange." Shane suggested.

Hunter laughed humorlessly. "We can't even beat them how could we capture one of them?"

"Maybe Kale has something we could use." Dustin commented.

"Aren't we getting too dependent on him?" Hunter retorted. "We need to take care of our own problems."

"And aren't we just doing a fine job of that." Shane sneered sarcastically.

"Please don't start." Blake spoke up for the first time. "Arguing isn't going to bring her back."

"Sorry." The other three boys apologized.

Cam decided to step in before they started trying to come up with ideas again. He had been reading about Psycho Yellow and needed to talk to somebody who could probably answer his questions. "I need to talk to Kale about some things so I'll see if he has any suggestions."

"We don't know where he is now." Shane said a little confused.

"He stopped by while you were all out having fun and left a well...I think it's a pager of some sort. He said if we needed to talk to him or needed him for anything to push the button." Cam said.

"Wait, why are you going? Don't you want to stay here and--."

Hunter smacked a hand over Dustin's mouth. "Just try and hurry. We'll stay here and plot."

ZzZzZ

Tori was surprised to find herself thrown into a large cell with about five other people. Some looked worse than others, but none of them were in very good shape. She was mildly disappointed to find they were all male, some female company would have been appreciated. At first she assumed she'd probably gain the interest of the whole cell, but no one seemed to pay attention to her for that reason at all. Two of the occupants didn't even react to her presence, nor did they seem to be aware of anything at all. One guy was giving her a distrustful look that was punctuated by his nearly glowing feline like eyes. The last two seemed a bit friendlier as they both offered her small smiles, but only one out of the whole group talked to her.

"You've still got your power."

Tori was a little surprised. That wasn't exactly what she had been expecting. "Yeah, so?"

"Kalix drained the rest of us." The young man said. He had striking blue eyes and dirty, shaggy blond hair. "I'm Harper."

"Tori." She said, glancing around at the other occupants a little nervously. The whole situation was just totally overwhelming. "Were you all rangers?"

"We're not really sure about those two. They've never said anything and hardly do anything other than just sit there." Harper said. He gave them a sad look. "They've been here too long."

"Any amount of time is too long." The other friendly looking man said. He had dark brown eyes and black hair, a complete opposite to Harper. He looked younger than Harper, but they both looked older than Tori. "I'm Amias."

Harper motioned toward the third man. He had reddish brown hair and green eyes that were cold and cut off from his emotions. "That's Sizvu, he's my teammate." He frowned as the obviously older man just gave Tori a curt nod. "He's a crotchety old grump."

"Bugger off." Sizvu snapped. Tori was surprised to hear a somewhat Scottish accent on someone who obviously wasn't from Earth. She stared at him for a moment before his hard green eyes met hers. "Stop starin' at me."

"Don't mind him, it hasn't been easy on us since our capture." Harper said. "As you can imagine Kalix isn't a very gracious host."

"It's nice to finally have company though." Amias commented. "We can thank him for that."

"No, we can thank whichever one of the Psychos it was that let the Knight Ranger escape." Harper said. To Tori he explained. "That's the only reason we're in this big holding cell. We used to be in separate cells with sound proof shields so we couldn't talk. Amias has only been here about a year, but Sizvu and I have been here for two and a half and the other two have been here much longer. You can imagine that being in solitary confinement for that long isn't easy."

Tori was surprised that Kalix had captured so many rangers. As far as she could guess Lothor had never messed with other teams of rangers. Kalix was more of a threat than she'd ever guessed.

"Kalix is more powerful than Lothor, isn't it?" Tori asked.

Harper shared a confused look with Amias. "Who's Lothor?"

"That's who Kalix works for." Tori replied. The bad feeling in the pit of her stomach was getting worse.

"I doubt it." Amias said. "Kalix has conquered hundreds of planets. I've never even heard of this Lothor."

"Kalix is just playing right now." Harper added. "When he's ready to get serious nothing will stop him. Anyone who thinks they can is a fool."

"We'll stop him." Tori said.

The other three prisoners laughed and even the two nearly comatose men seemed amused. Tori glared at them. She would not let them take her hope away. It was all she had left. Harper noticed her glare and stopped laughing, elbowing Amias who stopped laughing and shot him a glare.

"Don't get me wrong, I'd pay to see Kalix go down, but he has a strong army behind him." Harper said.

"He's got at least two hundred Lizarians, 500 Dedians, and around 50 monsters on this ship alone. That's not to mention the 600 droigs in hibernation." Amias added. "He has an armada of over a five hundred battleships like this one that are spread over three galaxies. All he has to do is call for them and there will be an invasion force the likes of which you've never seen here in a matter of days."

"Then why hasn't he just done that?" Tori asked.

Harper and Amias shared another look. "He's playing."

"Playing? He calls tormenting us playing?"

"He toyed with us for almost a year before he got bored and called in his invasion squad." Harper said, glancing over his shoulder at Sizvu. "Twenty monsters, and over ten thousand foot soldiers overran our planet in less than a week. Our team had ten rangers, two for each region, and only three of us survived only to be captured and that's only because we had something to offer him."

"What?" Tori asked, still trying to absorb the nightmarish images playing out in her mind. Lothor was looking like an angel compared to Kalix.

"Kardan is his doctor. Sizvu invents things. And I'm...a play thing."

At that Tori finally saw some emotion from Sizvu, who stepped over to Harper and wrapped a comforting arm around his teammate's shoulder. The older man ushered Harper to a corner of the cell where they sat down together. Amias watched them with sad eyes before looking at Tori.

"For your sake just hope you don't have anything to offer Kalix."

ZzZzZ

"I'm sorry to hear about Tori." Kale said as he met Cam in the forest.

Cam gave the Knight Ranger a small glare. "She's not dead yet."

"Kalix won't kill her Cam. She has information that he wants." Kale said. "For better or worse he won't kill her for a while."

"There's a cheerful thought." Cam grumbled.

Kale smiled softly. "You and I both know we have a man on the inside."

Cam opened his mouth to reply, but stopped short when he suddenly found himself inside Kale's ship again. He hadn't even seen the remote Kale used to activate the transporter. He shoved his confusion away and focused on what he needed to ask Kale.

"Do you have something to contain a Psycho?" Cam asked.

Kale looked over his shoulder at Cam with a raised eyebrow. "You want to catch a Psycho?"

"Bargaining chip."

"I'm sorry Cam, I don't have anything that can contain a Psycho. The only shield generator I have I'm using to protect my ship from unfriendly transport beams." Kale replied. "You're going to have to hope that Niko will somehow get her out of there."

"Right." Cam nodded. He was a little disappointed, but at the same time never really thought they could catch a Psycho anyway. He pushed that thought away and asked his other question before Kale could say anything else. "What do you know about the Yellow Amulet?"

Kale looked up sharply. His eyes flashed white briefly as he accessed the knowledge of the Protectors and then he focused on Cam once more. "The Amulets were created by one of the Holders to control any ranger in possession of an Amulet. The color of the Amulet has to match the color of the ranger."

"Psycho Yellow is under the influence of an Amulet." Cam said.

"Impossible." Kale replied. "Okay, he may be in possession of an Amulet and it may be influencing him to be evil, but if he was truly under the influence he would be being controlled by a Holder."

"Okay, so the Amulet is making him...evil...how do we free him of its influence?"

"Someone with the power of a Gem of Power has to destroy it." Kale answered.

"We have to tell Niko that." Cam said. "He could destroy the Amulet and then we'd have another Psycho on our side." His face fell as he caught the error in his own plan. "He's still playing undercover agent."

"This can still be used in our favor-just not yet."

ZzZzZ

"You're a lovesick puppy." Crimson sneered.

Red growled at him, jerking their shackled arms. "I've run around doing everything you've wanted to do and now it's my turn."

"Aurias hates your guts Dariv. Accept it."

"You're an asshole Terik."

"And the two of you aren't steppin' a foot into my infirmary arguing like that." Dr. Radkee spoke up from just inside.

Crimson smirked as he looked at the damage Kalix had left behind. There was white wrapping around the doctor's head and he walked with a little bit of a limp. He had his back to the Psychos and they could see the back of his uniform had been shredded and was bloody and he had been bandaged by someone else. Crimson glared at Yellow, knowing that the sleeping Psycho had been the one to do it.

"You're awake."

Crimson looked over at Red's statement and found Aurias watching them sleepily. He tried to convince himself that he didn't care, but deep down Crimson was glad to see her awake.

"Oh brilliant, I'd hoped you wouldn't be too much longer." Dr. Radkee said, bustling over to check on her stats. "I'd begun to worry there was more damage done than I could see."

"I'm fine, just sleepy." Aurias murmured.

"That's good then. Sleep for a while it'll make ya feel better." Radkee urged.

"She's been sleeping." Red argued.

Radkee shot him a look. "No, a coma is not the same as sleeping." He gave Aurias a small smile. "Go on and sleep lass, next time you wake up you'll be your old self again."

"I'm fine Doctor." Aurias insisted. She gave the doctor a small smile in return, having always had a soft spot for the caring man, before turning her attention to her teammates. It was then she noticed they were shackled together. She stared for a moment, her face crinkling a little. And then she began to laugh and laugh like it was the funniest thing she'd ever seen before.

"What are you laughing at!" Crimson demanded angrily. He found nothing funny at being shackled to Red.

"You---I---we---" She couldn't stop laughing long enough to give a proper answer.

Crimson growled and started to move toward her. Red reacted instantly, using their connection to jerk Crimson backward. Crimson was infuriated to find himself on his back again. With a growl the current leader of the Psychos scrambled to his feet and drove Red backwards toward the doorway of the infirmary. Red planted his feet and kneed Crimson in the chest. The two jumped apart and then swung their free fists at each other with devastating force.

Dr. Radkee shook his head as he watched the two slump to the ground unconscious. "Bloody idiots."