Paradise Lost

A/N- Thankyou for all the wonderful reviews, they were great. Here is chapter two, hope you like it just as much. REVIEWS PLEASE! There will be more some time soon (hopefully)…I mean its not like I've got anything better to do these holidays. ENJOY!

When Connor woke up with a throbbing pain in the back of his head he wasn't sure how long he had been out for. Opening his eyes slowly he found himself lying on the highly uncomfortable floor of a cell. There was a dank smell about it, and it was very cold. Conner shivered involuntarily, he had only been wearing jeans and a shirt when he left the house, and he was freezing now.

He propped himself up against a wall and tried to work out what was going on. Why had he been captured? What could Elsa possibly want with him? Shouldn't he be dead? Isn't that what she usually threatened to do when they fought?

He was very confused. Although, as he considered it. He was much happier to sit here in relative ignorance then to have Elsa or Mesagog come in and explain it to him personally.

Conner shrugged and leant his head against the wall in an effort to stop the throbbing. It didn't work. There was only one thing really on his mind now. Were the others going to be able to get him out of this?

Dr Oliver's House

Kira and Ethan wandered back to Dr O's house after a tough battle with the Tyrannadrones. They had been on their way to help Conner when the drones appeared out of no where, a huge swarm of them. Then, as suddenly as they had appeared they had disappeared, no reason whatsoever. Very odd.

She hoped that Dr Oliver came back home from his trip soon, he had gone to visit and old friend during the 'quiet' period the rangers had been having. It looked like that period was over now, and the attacks were back.

After destroying the drones Hayley hadn't told them to go and help Conner, so Kira and Ethan had made their way back to base assuming he had destroyed his monster all by himself.

So it was that she was completely unprepared for Hayley's news when they arrived back.

"Conner's disappeared."

"He did WHAT?" Kira shrieked in surprise, causing both Ethan and Hayley to cover their ears. She flashed them an apologetic look and then looked at Hayley for an answer to her question.

"I don't know exactly what happened. One minute he was there, were the monster was, I went to check your progress, came back and both he and the monster had disappeared. I can't locate his morpher signal anywhere."

Kira froze. He's disappeared. Probably taken by some freakishly ugly monster back to Elsa's little fortress place. What if he was really badly hurt? Elsa could be pretty nasty… what if she never saw him again! How would she live without seeing Conner's gorgeous smile…

Hang on, Kira paused her pessimistic train of thought, did I just call Conner's smile gorgeous?

"I'm going to replay the footage of the fight; we'll see what we can pick up from it."

Pressing a few buttons on the computer Hayley turned to watch the screen in front of her, where Conner had just arrived at the park to fight the monster. She and the others watched in horror as the monster threatened the child. They had all gasped as Conner demorphed and then sighed with relief when the monster let the kid go. It was the last few minutes of footage that horrified them.

Conner grinned in spite of himself, then stood up straighter and pushed the little boy behind him. The monster hadn't moved. Suddenly a look of comprehension crossed his face as the child behind him silently turned into one of Elsa's foot soldiers. It had been a trick all along. Before Conner could notice the change the soldier bashed him over the head with the blunt end of its sword, and he flopped limply to the ground.

A portal appeared, with Elsa inside it, and the soldier, the monster carrying Conner and her all disappeared back inside leaving an empty park behind.

They all stared at the screen open mouthed. Ethan couldn't believe it. Conner had been kidnapped by a soldier masquerading as a kid. That was low, even for Elsa. Or maybe it wasn't, but it was a dirty trick and Conner had fallen for it hook, line and sinker.

"Do you think he's alright?" Kira asked, she was trying to put on a brave, rather indifferent front, but Ethan could tell from the tremor in her voice that this was really bothering her.

"He's Conner." Ethan said trying to reassure them both at once, "of course he'll be alright. Nothing's gotten the better of him yet."

She smiled at him gratefully, though it was a rather wan smile, void of most emotion.

"I'm going to go call Tommy." Hayley said. "We're going to need him back here."

"Definitely." Agreed Ethan, who had sat down at the computer and was watching the replay of the battle again.

"We're going to have to try to recreate this portal." He said quietly, "otherwise we're never going to get too Conner."

Kira bit her lip. That didn't sound very promising. "Can you do it?" she whispered to Ethan, who had positioned himself at the computer and was typing madly.

"Yeah, I think so…" He paused and hit a few more keys. "It will take me a couple hours though…"

"Hours!" she exclaimed, wishing she could take it back when she saw the hopeless look on Ethan's face. Kira knew he was doing his best to help Conner too, but it was just so…ARGH. Damn Elsa, and her stupid tricky monster schemes! Why couldn't they just have a normal life? Instead of having to worry about friends being hurt by random scary Dino critters. It wasn't fair.

"I'm sorry Ethan" she apologised, "I'm not angry at you. I'm just worried."

He shrugged in acceptance, and half turned to her, so he could speak to her and focus on the computer at the same time.

"Since when are you worried about Conner? You don't usually care when stuff happens to him, just shout at him for being ignorant or something. What's changed?"

"Nothing!" She denied quickly…maybe too quickly. Ethan's lips quirked into a smirk.

"I don't believe you Kira." The smirk broadened into a smile, "I've seen the way you look at him. You really like him don't you."

She didn't answer for a minute or too, lost in thoughts that she never thought she'd be having. Who'd have ever guessed that she would be having this conversation? Certainly not her. And never in her wildest dreams would she have thought of giving Ethan the answer that she did.

"I think I do." Was the whispered reply. It annoyed her little that Ethan didn't even look mildly surprised.

"I knew it!" He exclaimed, "I knew it!"

"You tell him and I'll kill you myself" Kira threatened, feeling like a weight had been lifted from her chest. She had been so confused about Conner but now, hey, maybe she did like him.

"Are you going to tell him?" Ethan questioned.

"Oh yeah, that's a good idea." She said sarcastically, "we don't want him to hyperventilate laughing too hard, Dr O would kill us."

"You reckon he doesn't like you?" Ethan exclaimed incredulous, he had completely turned from the computer to face her and the look on his face was totally disbelieving.

"He doesn't, why should he?" Her voice had dropped in volume now, she was seriously regretting ever saying anything to Ethan.

Ethan spluttered, as though his voice had magically deserted him.

"You're joking!" He finally said, "Conner's absolutely smitten! He's terrified to say anything coz he thinks you hate his guts. Man he's gonna be absolutely thrilled when he hears!"

Before she could reply there was a sudden static sound, and the computer screen blurred.

"What the…" Ethan was cut off by Elsa's face appearing on the screen.

"Hello rangers" she said, her cold glare sending a chill down Kira's spine, "I think I have something that belongs to you, and if you want him back I want your gems by noon tomorrow. Think it over…" And the communication cut out.

Kira repressed a sob. "I may never get to tell him now!" She turned increasingly blurry eyes to Ethan. "What are we going to do?!"

There we go the next instalment in my supposed one-shot. I hope you liked it, even if you hated it with a passion please leave a review! Merry Christmas everyone, and remember, Jesus is the Reason for the Season.