Disclaimer: Power Rangers does not belong to me, nor does Dekarangers or Sailor Moon. The plot, as well as some of the script for this story is not my own. Shout-outs to TV-Nihon as well.

Chapter 5: Game Plan

Z as she went to meet Ron walked purposefully along the streets of New Tech City. Each step solidified her resolve to put any ill-thoughts of Ron out of her head. Furthermore, Z refused to believe Bridge's theory that love had blinded her from the truth about Ron's real, cruel intentions.

"What could Bridge actually know about MY boyfriend?" noted Z bitterly to herself. "All that buttery toast must have gotten to Bridge's brain if he thinks Ron is a crook!"

At that moment, Z paused on the street as she heard her SPD morpher beeping. Sighing, Z clicked the "phone" function on to hear Bridge's voice urgently come over her morpher. And from sound of it, Bridge still seemed to think she was in danger.

"Z!" the yellow ranger heard Bridge call anxiously over the morpher. "Z! Can you hear me? Z! Z! You have to listen to me! Ron is a…"

Slamming her morpher shut, Z shook her head in disbelief set off down the street more determinedly than ever to go to the man that actually cared about her.

Realizing Z had hung up on him, Bridge back in the Command Center groaned with anxious frustration as he too flipped closed his morpher. "What if Ron called to meet up with Z again?" Bridge asked turning to Cruger.

"We've got to get in touch with Z before Ron does," replied Cruger insistently. "Otherwise, Z will be in fatal trouble."

Suddenly, Cruger heard his SPD morpher sound. "Sir," Cruger heard Jack's voice come over the phone morpher. "RIC was trailing the scent of the guy carrying the psycho-mush, but…"

Bridge's heart sunk as he heard the all-too-familiar sound of the other rangers' battle cries and the rings of robotic footsoldiers.

"But on the way we got attacked by Krybots," continued Jack.

"Get rid of those Krybots and keep trying to find the man with the psycho-mush," ordered Cruger before closing his morpher slowly. "So RIC's pursuit was blocked, and time is running out. Now how will we find the guy who is after Z's pure heart crystal?"

Knowing when to get serious, Bridge walked over to wall and got into his best thinking pose: an upside-down handstand. Closing his eyes, Bridge breathed in deeply as he considered the facts of the case before them. How could they draw out the pure heart snatcher? More importantly, what would make Ron reveal his true identity?

"I got it!" said Bridge suddenly as his eyes flung open followed by his release from the handstand. "We seized the heart snatcher's psycho-mush. Now he is panicking and using Krybots to keep us from further figuring out what he is really up to."

"I agree Bridge, but that doesn't change the fact we still have to bring in that heart snatcher," responded Cruger.

"Sir, when we fought that giant robot earlier in the day," began Bridge. "Z bust into the driver's cockpit, but we never actually destroyed the robot itself."

"So what's your game plan, Cadet Carson?" encouraged Cruger.

"Sir, do we still have that giant robot anywhere?" asked Bridge as a sly smile spread across his face.

In a dark staircase leading up to a plaza beside New Tech City Bay, a man watched with a sly smile on his face as woman fell deathly ill to the concrete. His demeanor was as calm as the nearby ocean waves when he watched her body melt into a mere pile of sand only disturbed by a diamond engagement ring amidst the grains.

Chuckling vindictively, the man morphed into as a fiendish feline in a polyester purple dress suit lined with faux-leopard fur. The cat crouched on the ground and fished with his claw the engagement ring out of the pile of sand. He swung the ring around his claw cattily as he once again rose to his feet.

"You took a long time to respond to my proposal," growled Two-Timer in annoyance as he stared at the sandy heap of one of his former fiancées. "Thanks to you, this is the only psycho-mushroom I have left. Next is…"

Nibbling at the psycho-mush, Two-Timer transformed into a Japanese man wearing a navy work suit that flattered his mocha-toned skin. His spiky hair made his beanstalk body look even taller than it already was. Reaching into his business jacket, the man pulled out a miniature, hand knit doll of a girl dressed in yellow with brown bangs.

"Next is that yellow SPD ranger," continued the man who was called Hironobu Sawii, or Ron by his girlfriend Z Delgado.

At that moment, Two-Timer disgusted in the guise of Ron Sawii saw a large, robotic ship fly in the sky overheard. "Broodwing?" asked Ron to himself out loud as he recognized the vessel that usually delivered the psycho-mush. "His new supply must be in!"

A/N: Sorry this next chapter took awhile! I had a ton of schoolwork and then was on vacation. I know this one was kinda a filler chapter, but coming up Bridge finally confronts Ron/Two-Timer so please stay tuned!