Paradise Lost

A/N- Well, happy Australia day everybody. This chapter would be longer, but I'm exhausted (we just had a 3 hour pool noodle fight and played a huge game of cricket) and sporting a rather lovely black eye courtesy of a cricket ball, but I promised to have a chapter up before the end of Australia day, and here it is as promised. Hope you like it...

As always, I apologise in advance for my dodgy fight scenes.

Enjoy, and please review.

Kira didn't move for a couple moments, unable to believe that Dr O wanted to leave Conner there! The practical part of her mind was telling her that the three of them couldn't take Elsa and the drones at one time, and they needed a tricky plan to save Conner.

But the part of her that had over the course of Conner's imprisonment had come to realise that she really, really, really liked him, and couldn't possibly live without him didn't want to leave him there any longer then she needed too.

Unfortunately it was this part of her mind that had control at that particular moment in time. Completely ignoring Dr O's hurried hand movements Kira whipped out her blaster and raced into the room with a loud war cry.

Elsa, who had been in mid punch, was so startled her arm froze in the air as she gaped at Kira, who had dispatched two drones with her blaster and was facing off against the others.

Dr O and Ethan, standing safely around the corner were horrified by Kira's rather insane charge, but had to follow her because while they stood very little chance of winning the fight, Kira stood no chance at all on her own. So they drew their own blasters and raced into the room after her.

Kira was quite relieved when her fellow rangers arrived in the room. For a horrible moment (just after the practical part of her mind had retaken control and she had realised how stupid she was racing into the room) she had thought that maybe they would leave her here to fight alone to make her pay for rushing in so ridiculously.

Dr Oliver went straight for Elsa, who had recovered surprisingly quickly and was trying to get her blaster from where it hung on a hook behind Conner. Moving quickly Dr Oliver got himself between Elsa and her prisoner who was still being held up by two drones.

He was limp in their grasp, although Tommy could see that he wasn't unconscious; eyes were open and moving, but a scarily blank expression was on his face, like he wasn't able to comprehend anything he saw.

Forcing back the worst of his worry and deciding that nothing could help Conner more then Elsa being defeated and him being able to be free from this horrible place Tommy prepared to fight.

Kira and Ethan were facing off against the drones, more of which seemed to pour into the room with every passing minute.

"This is ridiculous!" Kira shouted to Ethan as she knocked over three more with some fast punches.

"Well it wasn't me who rushed in here without thinking, was it?!" exclaimed Ethan, coughing after a drones whacked him in the stomach.

"I know I did the wrong thing! Just leave me alone about it! Let's win this fight, and then you can kill me for being such an idiot."

"Ok." Ethan agreed, "Let's do that."

Tommy and Elsa were circling each other, neither making an aggressive move, both ready for the other to strike first. It seemed like hours before Elsa spoke, not taking her eyes off him.

"He did this you know," she gestured from Conner to her nose. "Stronger then he looks. Of course," she laughed, and evil laugh devoid of any feeling, "he paid for it later." She smiled at Dr O and gestured once more at Conner, who was still flopped between the drones, eyes glazed with pain. "Makes you wish you'd moved just that little bit faster doesn't it."

Tommy tried to ignore her, he could tell she was trying to get under his skin, make his worry and his guilt cause him to do something wrong as he fought, make a mistake that could cost all of them.

But the thought, that they should have been faster had planted a seed of doubt in his stomach. Elsa's eyes flashed excitedly as she saw the slight droop of Dr Oliver's shoulders. She had gotten through, now he would be a pushover. And she would be Mesagog's favourite minion, because she would have brought him all the power rangers on a silver platter.

And with these encouraging thoughts in her head Elsa gave up on the circling, and charged straight at Dr O, who was ready for her, and floored her quickly with a sharp kick.

Spluttering from impact of hitting the floor, and at the indignity of being floored by one punch from the weak Tommy Oliver Elsa struggled to rise, only to be met by a fist and then another kick.

She regained her footing quicker this time, jumping up and catching him in the face with her feet. Dr O stumbled back, but didn't fall, even as she got in a quick punch to the stomach.

He leapt up and did a flip over her, kicking her from behind and following up with a spinney kick to the head.

Elsa countered once more, and they continued their fight, both seeming relatively well matched to each other, neither gaining the advantage.

And as they fought, Ethan and Kira were slowly making headway through the drones; they could actually see the corridor again. It was lifting their spirits some what.

Ethan checked his watch; they had been in Mesagog's lair for exactly 42 minutes. It was going to take them ten minutes to get back to the portal. They had to go soon. This meant they had to get Conner.

Which was not going to be easy.

"Kira!" he called over the sea of drones, "we need to get out of here within the next eight minutes! Otherwise we have to wait another half an hour for the portal, and I don't think we can hold these guys off for that long!"

"We have to get Conner out of here, I don't care if we miss this portal, we're not going without him."

A/N- So, how were the fight scenes? More is coming, and I PROMISE, the sappy connerkira is on its way, just give me a few more chapters to rescue them.