The Rangers all took a seat while Billy worked at the computer.
"What did you find?" Adam asked.
"I stumbled across an odd signal which seems to be trying to break into the Morphing Grid."
"Meaning?" Rocky asked.
"Isn't that trouble?" Kat asked. "Won't they be able to take away our powers?"
"No," Billy said. "All of your powers are connected to your spirits and soul. Well, except for Jason's, but Alex used power from Eltar to power up his morpher."
He punched the buttons some more and the viewing screen showed static.
"I think I got it."
All the Rangers rushed forward to see what was happening. They stared as a hooded figure showed up on the screen.
"Who are you?" Tommy cried.
"Hey, that's my line!" Carl cried. He cleared his throat and tried to match Tommy's leader tone. "Who are you?"
The figure laughed menacingly.
"Ah, the legendary Tommy Oliver is under the control of some teenage Prince?"
"Silas!" hissed Tommy.
"You're Lord Silas? You don't look that tough!"
Jason rolled his eyes at the teen's comment.
Lord Silas turned his attention to Tommy.
"Back to Rangering I see?"
Tommy glared at the screen.
"What do you want?" Jason asked.
"The usual," Silas smirked. "Your powers, Earth, Eltar, Revenge, the whole works."
"Well you ain't getting it," Carl growled.
"I'd rethink that, you see, I think I have something that is of importance to you," Lord Silas said. "Or should I say someone?"
"Tammie!" cried Rocky.
"Where is she?" asked Adam.
"What did you do to her?" cried the yellow Ranger. Kat covered her mouth in shock, tears coming to her eyes.
"Nothing," he replied." …yet. It's been a pleasure Rangers. See you soon."
Chills ran up Tommy's spine at Silas' words.
"We gotta do something," Carl said, losing his leadership skill. "We gotta contact Damon now!"
All of the Rangers helped Billy with the machines. Several hours later, they finally got a faint signal. Damon appeared on the screen. He was clad in blue armor, the armor that only the Royalty wore in Eltar.
"Damon!" cried Carl. "You need to come back!"
Jason put a hand on Carl's shoulder.
"Damon, something happened to Tammie," he said.
"What happened?" he asked, his voice full of worry.
"Lord Silas…he kidnapped her."
"Silas?" Damon's tone instantly transitioned to one of anger.
"Yeah, he's using Tammie to get to us, to you. He wants our powers, Eltar, Earth, the whole works!" repeated Carl.
Damon nodded.
"I'll be there soon!"
The viewing screen fizzled out and turned black.
The Rangers all stood in silence. Not knowing what to do next. The alarm startled them but they quickly looked up at the screen.
"Surprise, surprise," muttered Aisha.
"The park," Billy told them as they morphed. "Good luck!"
The Rangers all teleported to the park. The prepared themselves to attack the Putties but were surprised to see only Goldar and Scorpina standing there, waiting for them.
"Finally! A chance to get even!" Scorpina cried. Goldar laughed as he drew out his sword. The Rangers looked at one another.
"Rocky, Jason, Kat, Aisha, you take Scorpina, while the rest take Goldar," Carl instructed. The Rangers obeyed and split into the two groups. They were surprised to see that Goldar and Scorpina seemed weaker. They also noticed that Goldar's sword didn't shoot out the purple lightning that it usually did.
Finally the Rangers were able to flip Goldar and Scorpina to the ground. The two lay groaning on the ground. The Rangers all began to approach them when light grey lightning struck the ground in front of them. They all flew back. Once they stood back up, they saw a silhouette of a figure standing between Scorpina and Goldar.
"Tammie!" Tommy cried, as his daughter stepped forward through the smoke. She stood clad in her Ranger uniform with a matching cloak. She didn't wear her helmet and her flashing grey eyes stood out.
She held out her hands and threw blast after blast of grey energy balls. She stopped when all the Rangers were down on the ground.
"Consider that a warning," she said, her voice sounding unlike her. "Surrender your powers to my master."
"No! Tammie snap out of it!" cried Carl. She answered by hitting him with another energy ball.
"We'll be keeping in touch," she said as the three disappeared.
…………………………………………………..
The Rangers all sat in silence. They were teleported by Billy once Tammie disappeared with her two new teammates. All of them replayed what had happened, they were attacked by one of their own. For the older Rangers, it seemed like déjà vu, it was a thing they were familiar with. But Carl, being new, didn't know how to feel. Tammie was his friend, a friend who had turned evil, and he didn't know what to do.
Tommy sat in the corner, lost in his own world. He needed to get his daughter back, he needed to snap her out of the spell. Since he used to be an evil Ranger, he knew how it felt and he didn't want his daughter to go through the same thing. He knew that Tammie needed the support of the Rangers even more, and he knew that she needed Damon more than ever now.
"He's on his way back," Billy said quietly. While the Rangers were off fighting, he was setting up to get ready for Damon's arrival.
A few minutes later bright blue light filtered the room. The Rangers stood up.
"What happened?" was the first thing Damon said. The Rangers looked at one another uneasily.
"Lord Silas kidnapped Tammie," Jason said.
Damon looked at the Rangers who seemed to be avoiding his gaze. He saw his best friend trying to hide behind Jason and Adam.
"What else?" Damon demanded. "Carl?"
Carl gulped when he heard Damon call his name. He stepped out from behind Jason and looked his best friend in the eye. Damon's eyes were filled with worry and anger.
"Damn, why do I have to break it to him?" he asked himself.
"Damon…" he began. "Tammie-she's…she turned evil…"
Damon looked like he got hit with a ton of bricks.
"Wh-what?"
"From what we saw," Kat spoke up. "Silas put her under a spell to make her turn against us."
The viewing screen begin to static and then Alex was shown.
"Alex!" they all cried.
"Hello, Rangers," he said. "I'm sorry that I cannot be there, but I do promise to help out as much as I can."
"He put a spell on Tammie!" Damon cried. "What do we do?"
"No, Damon, I am afraid that you are wrong," Alex said sadly.
"What do you mean?" asked Tommy.
"Tammie is not under a spell…"
"You mean that she's evil because she chose it?"
Alex sighed.
"Yes and no. She did not choose to be evil, her anger inside did. She had so much anger and frustration built up inside her," he explained, "it made her believe that it was what she wanted."
"Anger?" Tommy asked.
"Yes, Tommy. I'm afraid that you keeping Kimberly's death a secret along with you being a Ranger left her feeling betrayed. And I regret to say that, she seems to believe that all of you betrayed her as well."
Damon's heart sank at what Alex said. He knew why Tammie felt that he betrayed her, but he didn't want to believe it.
"Even me?" asked Carl.
"Yes," Alex said. "While she was being attacked by Goldar and Scorpina, Tammie tried to call out to you for help, but you never came…"
Alex turned to Damon.
"Prince?" he said. Damon shook his head at Alex and turned away.
"I already know why she thinks I betrayed her," he said. "I knew that she wasn't okay, I knew that something was bothering her, but I just push it aside and decided to leave for Eltar anyway..."
Everyone fell silent. Adam stepped forward and placed his hand on Damon's shoulder.
"We'll get her back," he said.
Damon nodded and turned back to Alex.
"How do we get her back?"
"I believe someone else can answer that for you." Damon followed his gaze to Tommy, who seemed deep in thought. Then he looked up at Damon.
"She needs you," he said. "She needs all of us, but she needs you the most. And you can break her out of the spell."
"She's not under a spell remember?"
"True, but she's not under Silas' spell, she's under her own spell…anger." Tommy made his way to the center of the group. "I used to be an evil Ranger too."
Carl and Damon looked at him in shock.
"But Kimberly, Tammie's mother, still stood by my side, trying her best to change me to being good again. Even though I was under a spell, deep down, I knew that she cared for me and that was enough to bring me back," Tommy said. He looked at Damon. "She may not be under a spell, but you still need to bring her back to her old self. Maybe you'll have the most luck in reminding her that we still are here for her…"
Damon nodded, taking in what the older Ranger told him.
Suddenly, the alarms sounded for the second time that day. The Rangers looked to the screen to see the Silver Ranger leading Goldar, Scorpina, and a group of Putties through the park.
"We're waiting Rangers!" she cried.
Damon morphed and they all teleported to the park. The Rangers were immediately bombarded by the Putties while Goldar and Scorpina went to face Jason and Tommy. The Silver Ranger began to advance towards the White Elite Ranger.
Damon dodged a punch and backed away.
"Tammie, it's me, Damon. Don't you remember me?" he asked
"Of course, I also remember how much I hate you! You left me alone! You betrayed me!" Tammie kicked him hard and he was sent flying and hit a tree. "Come on, fight back!"
Damon lay on the ground, formulating a plan on his head. He got back up once he thought he had one. It wasn't a good one, but it was one none the less.
Damon threw a punch, making sure that it was one that Tammie can easily block. The two went at it for a few minutes, when Tammie shot lightning towards Damon. He fell to the ground.
Tammie turned around and saw Goldar and Scorpina still struggling with Jason and Tommy. She shot electricity into the Rangers' bodies.
"Slow pokes," she said. Goldar growled at her. She used her new powers to lift Tommy and Jason off the ground and float towards her. Goldar and Scorpina followed.
"Say bye to your leaders, Rangers!" cried Scorpina.
Goldar laughed and Tammie smirked at the fallen Rangers.
Damon grunted and felt himself being teleported.
"Take them to the dungeon," an unfamiliar voice said. Damon was hoisted up on someone's shoulders. Minutes later, Damon opened his eyes to see that he was chained to a wall in a poorly lit room.
"You alright Damon?" came Tommy's voice.
"Yeah," he replied weakly.
"Jason?"
"I'm fine bro."
Tommy gave a big sigh.
"First me, then Kim, and now Tammie," he said. He gave a small laugh. "Runs in the family I guess."
Jason only snorted.
"So how do we get out of this one?" asked Jason.
"I don't know, we just have to get Tammie to think like her old self again," Tommy replied.
Damon remained silent as the two more experienced leaders talked among themselves. Damon was beginning to lose his will to fight. He couldn't go against Tammie. His heart just wasn't in it. He knew that, as a Ranger and a prince, he had to do everything to destroy evil, even if the girl he loved was part of it.
Tammie's words echoed in his mind. "Of course, I also remember how much I hate you! You left me alone! You betrayed me!"
Tears began to roll down his cheek as he heart began to break. "No," he told himself. "Don't give up yet. There's still hope. Tammie's waiting for me to get her back to her old self."
"What are you doing?" Scorpina's voice cried from outside the dungeon.
"I've come to see my collection," Tammie's voice replied.
"Lord Silas said-"
"Who gives a damn? I caught them for him, he owes me."
Damon wiped his tears away just as Tammie entered.
"Aww," she said with a smirk. "I see my pets are still alive and well. I was worried that my new found powers were too much for you to handle."
Jason opened his mouth to say something, but stopped once he saw the look Tommy gave him. Tommy looked over to Damon. He knew that Damon was the only one who can try and talk some sense into Tammie. When he was the green Ranger, he ignored everything everyone said to him, except for Kimberly. He knew that since Tammie loved Damon, she would more likely listen to him.
Damon tried his best to compose himself and play his leader role.
"Think of her as another enemy for now," he told himself. "This is the evil Tammie, not the one that you love."
"What do you want with us?" Damon asked, his voice sounding surprisingly calm yet firm.
Tammie walked over to Damon.
"I want your power, your throne, and your whole planet," she said, leaning closer and closer to Damon.
Damon's heart began to pound harder. Even though it was a different side of Tammie that was in front of him, it was still Tammie nonetheless. The one with the soft, beautiful lips that he loved to kiss and was only two inches away from his.
"Then why are Jason and Tommy here then?" he asked, trying to keep his firm tone.
"My master wants his revenge on Tommy," Tammie said stepping back from Damon, smirking. She enjoyed teasing him for once. She walked over in front of Jason. "And as for Jason…I think he'd make a great bodyguard for me, don't you think?"
"Tammie, this isn't like you!" cried Jason. She just waved his comment off.
"It isn't like my father to kill my own mother," she said, looking at Tommy.
"Wha-you think that I?" cried Tommy. "No, Tammie! You're wrong, it was Lord Silas."
Tammie sent electricity through Tommy's body.
"You dare to say that I am wrong and then accuse my master of lying?"
"Tammie!"
Tammie shot electricity through Jason's body as well. Then she turned to Damon.
"Anything you'd like to say?"
"Tammie, don't do this. I don't want to have to hurt you," he said.
She made her way over to Damon again. She caressed his hair and leaned him close to him again.
"That's too late, Damon," she whispered in her ear. "You hurt me when you left, and only deepened the pain when you didn't come when I needed you."
"I'm here now," he replied, his voice cracking. He tried not to breakdown in front of her. "I'm here now, and I can help ease the pain."
Damon was able to stretch his hand far enough to touch hers. He felt electricity shoot up his arm, but soon Tammie's touch seemed to go back to normal.
Tammie felt her anger slowly, slowly melting away. She felt the powers within her begin to simmer down. Damon saw that Tammie's grey eyes were slowly turning to their usual color.
"What are you doing?" Goldar shouted. "He's trying to trick you, milady!"
"No, Tammie," Damon said. "Lord Silas is the one trying to trick you."
"Who are you going to believe? The guy who abandoned you at your time of need? Or the one who helped you?"
Tammie broke free from Damon's grip. She looked from Damon to Goldar. The anger slowly came rushing back.
"Don't you dare ever try to mess with my head again!" She shot electricity towards Damon. She kept going until he finally lost consciousness. She spun around and headed out of the dungeons and to her own room.
"Damon!" Tommy called once his daughter left. He had seen the whole thing. He had seen how Tammie seemed to changed once Damon touched her and talked to her. If only Goldar hadn't interrupted, he knew that Tammie would have come to her senses.
It wasn't until for another two hours did Damon finally wake up.