A/n: I friggen hate hiccups. Ow... Anyways, sorry for the long wait, and there won't be another chapter for at least a week since I'm going on vacation. To a place that doesn't even have a computer, much less Internet.

Disclaimer: I don't own Power Rangers, so Don't sue me.

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Chapter Seven

Isinia snarled as she noticed she was being followed. She was two floors away from where she was told SPD was holding Grumm. She couldn't be caught now, not this close to obtaining her goal. Instead of slowing to a stop and facing her pursuer, Isinia ran harder down the flight of stairs.

And almost got impaled by five swords.

However, she managed to stop a hairs breath away from the sharp points. Looking up, she saw that the swords weren't actually swords, but nails. And wielding them was Hybrid who started all of this, Syrea.

"Hello Empress Isinia." She said in a cold tone with a small smirk on her face.

"Syrea!" Someone shouted from Behind Isinia, sounding slightly relived. She turned around and saw Kat standing behind her, posed to fight Isinia as well.

"I won't be stopped this close to restoring the glory of the Troobian Empire!" Isinia shouted before pulling out several familiar silver orbs and throwing them up in the air. Taking advantage of the distraction, Isinia rushed passed Syrea and towards the staircase leading downwards.

However, she didn't count on Syrea ignoring the Krybots and turning sharply and destroying a portion of the staircase down with her nails. "Now now, Empress. It's rude to run from a meeting." she said in a tone one would use on a naughty child.

Meanwhile, as Kat dealt with the Krybots which were weaker than she remembered, she was paying attention to the change of Syrea. The one that was confronting Isinia now was much different than the one she talked to earlier that day.

This side was much more dangerous. This was the one that had Cruger afraid of choosing between his 'wife' and his 'daughter' from the future.

Destroying the last remaining Krybots by throwing one down the stair case in to two others, Kat approached where Isinia and Syrea were standing. "Syrea, " she said in a calm voice, silently noticing the hybrid tensed when she heard Kat next to her. "Syrea" she began again, "You can relax, the rangers on their way."

After a moments hesitation the sword length nails disappeared, but Kat noticed she still held her hands ready to summon them in an instant.

"Doggie, you better get here before Isinia makes a move, or else you won't have a wife anymore."

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However, six floors above where the three women where at a stand-still, The rangers were currently occupied with four aliens claiming to serve the Troobian empire that had somehow got inside the base without anyones knowledge.

Which, if Cruger had time to reflect on the subject, would have been very upsetting that four hostile beings could sneak on to his base that easily.

But, at the moment he didn't have time for such thoughts as he helped the B-squad fight the aliens. He used the Shadow saber to block the supposed leader of the four beings own sword and quickly counter attacked with a slash to the leaders many tentacles that came out of it's back. The leader yelled in pain and frustration, but didn't even pause in it's attacks.

Sky, who had successfully captured one of the others, joined Cruger in his fight. "Sir, let me handle this one. You need to find Kat and Isinia!" he said as he fired at the alien, causing it to be momentarily stunned.

"Are you sure?" Cruger asked, taking less than a moment to see how the others were doing.

Bridge and Syd were fighting against an alien that was using a staff that could shoot energy balls, but the two were slowly winning against it. Z was fighting alone with a small, but very fast opponent. However, she was making the fight easier by using her ability to make copies of herself. So instead of one on one, it was three against one.

"Yes Sir." Sky said as he used is own ability to make shields to deflect a shot that came from the blaster the lead alien had just pulled out.

Cruger hesitated before nodding. "Very well. Good luck rangers." he said before running down the corridor to the stair case that would lead him to where he hoped Kat and Isinia were, not knowing that another person was watching every move. A person that certainly did not have his best interests in mind.

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Syrea was getting fidgety. Her cold demeanor was still in place, but her mind had switched back to her usual personality, or at least the most often shown, the child like one. So while she was cool and composed outside, internally she was flighty and scared.

In front of her was the person who was to blame for her parents death, let alone half the reason why her time was doomed. She was torn between finishing off what her other personality started, and running as far as she could. But her mother..

"No, that is Dr. Manx. No matter how much she looks and acts like Mom, she isn't her." She reminded herself time and time again. But she was still thankful for the other womans presence.

The silence was broken when they heard someone coming down the stairway in a rush. Kat turned around as Cruger appeared and smiled in relief.

"Dr. Manx! Isinia! ... Syrea?" He said, confused how the hybrid was here when she was suppose to be locked in one of th holding cells.

"I'll explain later?" The hybrid gave a small, nervous smile, her cold facade gone completely and was replaced with a nervous and embarrassed one.

Cruger nodded, deciding that he would deal with that later. "Very well." before turning to where Isinia was standing at the edge of a large break in the stair case. Deciding that he could ask later why there was a gap in the staircase, he stepped down so he was on the same step as Kat, who was a step above Syrea and five steps above Isinia.

"What is going on here?" He asked, focusing on Kat for an explanation.

"I over heard Isinia discussing plans on how to free Grumm from his containment card with someone over a Communicator." Kat said before Cruger stepped down to a step above Isinia and pulled out his SPD morpher.

Using Judgment Mode, Cruger finally spoke to Isinia. " You are accused of intent to free an convicted criminal." The red and green lights on the Morpher blinked back and forth for a couple moments before settling on red.

"Guilty."