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We're Taking Our Chances

Richard's POV

We have been working for the last ten months on trying to get ourselves ready to go up against the Power Rangers again and I think that we are finally close enough to actually believe that we will be able to do that in the near future. I just don't know if I can really go through with all of the things that Mesogogg has planned. With the way that Mesogogg seems to want things to go, he does not want to just harm the rangers. He wants to harm anyone that gets in his way and there are still some innocent people that are associated with the rangers. Actually, come to think of it, the rangers are innocent themselves, they are just carrying out the responsibility bestowed upon them. I don't know what they would do if children got hurt because Mesogogg deemed them "in the way" of his progress.

I still can not shake the feelings that I feel for Kimberly Hart, hold it, now she's Kimberly Oliver, but it doesn't really matter what her name is, she's a Power Ranger and that means I should hate her. However, I don't. Really, it's more like I can't get myself to do that. She saw some good in me, no matter how short of a time it was, she did and I'm still grateful for that. She thinks I'm a creep now and I would if I were her too. The only thing is I can't focus on my job because of her and I don't really like the whole plan that we are going to use against them. It doesn't seem to be as fool proof as everything else that we have tried against them, we all know that, but Mesogogg will not listen to reason on this one. He just wants to battle them, no matter what that may cost us in the end.

Mesogogg has decided that we are going to wait a few more weeks before we attack Reefside with the majority of our full force being brought back into play for the first time in almost a year. Then, we will really know what we are up against and who we are going to be up against. He seems to think that the best thing to do would be to have to get Tommy to choose between his wife and fighting us, which is just cruel, although that is what Mesogogg specializes in. I couldn't do half the things that he does, but that doesn't really matter. I'm here working for him and I have to do what he says or I am as good as dead.

Hell, the man is even fighting his own son and he doesn't give a damn about what happens to him or anyone else he fights, but neither does Zeltrax when he goes up against Tommy. I just don't understand how they can not care about the people that they knew and were friends with at one time, but it seems that Tommy Oliver was only a way to find out more information about something that he took away from them, without a second thought as to what it might do to them. Yeah, he was a great source of information and a huge threat to our whole plan, which is why he should have never been brought in, in the first place. They thought that they were getting a scientist. They wound up getting an ex-ranger and a scientist, all in one package, which was not something that helped their cause at all. They didn't do their research, which puts us in the situation we are in now.

Some of the other people that are helping Mesogogg are getting just as antsy as I am about all of this starting up again. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to know this, but I know that Zeltrax has been monitoring the Oliver's residence and activities without authorization from Mesogogg for a very long time now. He seems to have become obsessed with finding a weakness in Tommy; one that we can exploit, but nothing seems to be good enough for him. He feels as if Tommy took something away from him, but I have no clue what it could be. The dino gems were never really that important to him at least that is what he says to all of us. I mean, Tommy never dated anyone that he loved and he never was Mercer's favorite, by any means, it's just something else, something that is much worse.

So, if he were to ever be discovered by Tommy or any of the other rangers that frequently visit their home, I doubt that he would make it to an invisaportal fast enough to save himself or even let out a cry of help. The mad ranger would take care of him and sound the alert that we, indeed, were back to our old ways and he would be gone, faster than we could come help him. He seems to have this thing against Tommy, not that I blame him, but it gets in the way of everything else that we are trying to do and Mesogogg keeps on briefing us on new things every few days and today happens to be one of those days.

"Well, it seems that the rangers have a little situation brewing down there and look at the position that it is putting Thomas Oliver in, right as we are about to start attacking with full force," Mesogogg said as his cohorts settled into their places around the room, carefully avoiding his disturbing gaze. He was furious that they had not been able to build a big enough army to take advantage of the one thing that could be considered a disadvantage for the rangers sooner. They had finally gotten enough reserves to battle with them as they had almost a year ago. The thing was, they did not know what Tommy, and his rangers had been working on during their leave of absence. It could possibly make all of their improvements a day late and a dollar short, as they were sure to expect them to try to modify their warriors and they had, but not as much as they wanted to. They just needed to start fighting them again, that was what was important to him. "He has always been able to easily avoid choosing between his family and his self imposed duty as a ranger. We want to push him to choose between the two and then we can see what type of damage we might be able to deal to his heart. He is a strong man, but he is human and he does have a heart that can hurt him as badly as anything else that we might do to him, including taking his wife away."

"I don't know if that is a good idea," Zeltrax said, as he braced himself for possible punishment but did not receive any without completely finishing his thought, as they all could tell that there was much more to that statement. He had been watching Tommy a great deal more than he was supposed to, but he found out that messing with his family and friends was a sure fire way to get their asses whooped by him and the others that would be told as soon as he found out. They didn't need to risk that or he was likely to destroy them as quickly as he could and all of their hard work would be for nothing. "If something were to happen to his wife because we held him back, there is no telling what they, excuse me he, would do to us after that. We don't want to make him mad. We just want him to be forced to fight, when he's mad he is much more lethal. I know that from experience."

"Are you suggesting that we do not take advantage of this obvious weakness in the rangers leader? We have nothing else to work with, nothing else we can use against them," Mesogogg asked, taking steps towards him and watching as Richard and Elsa took steps away from Zeltrax, knowing that he was sure to be furious with him. They agreed with what was being said, but they were not ready to tell him off, as of yet. None of them wanted to make him mad, but his ideas were becoming more and more far fetched and it was not working for any of them. They wanted those dino gems, but they did not want to have to risk themselves so much to get them. They could not do stupid things or they would be defeated the way that all of the other opponents of the Power Rangers had been. "If you do not remember what he was like when he first came to help with our research, so help me. Maybe I should have tried to bribe him into working for me instead of you, although I don't think it would have worked, but at least I would know that he had a brain."

"That's not something I am ever likely to forget, but he had just had his most recent powers taken away from him, what do you expect out of the man? He has his full strength right now and he's no shady fighter, either, if you don't remember that one, of course you have never fought against him. Have you? We're always the ones that have to deal directly with him and the rangers. He could take out all of us and if you underestimate him, you're the stupid one, Mesogogg, not us. We know what he can do and we know what he could have possibly taught those rangers. They are going to be ready for us," Zeltrax said, as Mesogogg could only stare at him for challenging his authority. None of them had ever done that, but he was going to pay soon, if he did not shut his mouth.

"Listen, Zeltrax is right. Tommy knows what he is doing and I doubt that he has not taught his rangers everything that he knows and then some if he was able to. They take his karate class and probably a few more if they are able to find the time. He is getting ready for a final battle and we are not doing that. We just want to be able to fight them again," Elsa said, as Mesogogg shifted his gaze from Zeltrax to her and she felt a chill run down her spine at the look he was giving her. He was furious at them for this, but he could not help to see some truth in what they were saying and they were trying to get their small point across. He just wanted to fight them some more, the rangers wanted to have a final battle and get their lives back to normal. "And if you go after his wife, there is no telling what he will be able to do to us because of the rage that we will cause him to experience. It is not wise to induce rage from this man, I know from experience. I've done that more than once while working with him and every time, I was the one that was made to look like a fool, not him. He suspects something, I know he does and we don't want to push that going after his baby and his wife will do that."

"Well, we just have to risk things. He is also known to not think logically when things happen to his wife and we can only guess what he will do if something happens to the baby. He's human; he is bound to break sometime. We just have to get him to the point where he is about to break," Mesogogg said, as they stared at him.

It was one thing to suggest that they push the issue, they could understand that, but to go after the baby was idiotic, if not deadly for all of them. They knew how Tommy thought, just as well as he did, but he was choosing to avoid the information that he knew, in order to hope for some huge personal gain. They, however, thought that it would not be a gain for them. It would be a great loss for all of them if they tried to press this issue to a breaking point, but they could not get him to understand that.

"Are you suggesting that we try to do something to their baby?" Richard asked as he felt his own stomach lurch to think about what that would do to the girl that he was once good friends with and he had wished that it had stayed that way now. However, he had chosen this path in his life and now he had to live with the consequences, which could possibly lead to his death at her hands or her husband's. Mesogogg was going to get all of them killed if he was not careful, but it did not seem that he cared about it at all. He was too obsessed with trying to get the dino gems to see the obvious flaws that were showing in his idea. If he went after one of the rangers, he would pull all of them in and they didn't want that. They just wanted them to have to battle them again.

"Well, we might have to do that. We have no advantage to push except for the fact that the pink ranger is pregnant, with his child, and if that is what it takes to weaken them, then we'll do it. They have nothing else that we can go against," Mesogogg said viciously, as he pounded his scale-covered fist on the table in front of him.

He had known since the first day that he seen Tommy Oliver step into his laboratory that he would be the making or the breaking of this program that he was trying so feverishly to keep going right now. Why he had thought that at first, was beyond him, but he understood it now, in more ways than he had ever imagined. The fact that he had been a ranger was pretty crazy to find out, but it did explain why he was able to recognize things in the dino gems that would have taken him years to find. It also explained why he was smart enough to grab them before he fled the island and that had left them without the power source that they had been depending on. He knew that they would be used for evil if he left them and he was right about that one. He was also right about a lot of other things that no one else understood.

"What about the rangers that we had to fight against last time, huh? They are just as good as Kim and Tommy and I personally don't want to deal with them again if I can avoid it. You need to think this through before you do something rash. We could all get ourselves killed if we do something stupid. You need to remember that when you're risking our lives as well," Elsa said as they looked over at her, surprised she was brave enough to point this out to Mesogogg, as they had all been thinking about it.

"Those rangers will not be involved in this battle. They are too old to do the job efficiently. You should know that only the young survive as rangers," Mesogogg said, trying to make her back down without an argument ensuing. She, however, had brought out a rather important point. There were older rangers that could be involved here and they would be more than willing to fight until they could fight no more.

"So are Kim and Tommy, if you think of it like that. They looked to be the same age as them. Age does not seem to have anything to do with how well they do the job, as the older ones sure as hell are strong enough to take us out without a second thought. The young ones may be able to take some rougher blows from us, but the older ones can deal the roughest blows of all. They've seen some hard times and those hard times are what made them able to do all of this well," Zeltrax said and Mesogogg then stunned the three of them, which caused them to close their mouths about the situation. They did not need to be injured by him, as well as the rangers, over the next few weeks. They weren't behind him on this, but they had no choice, they'd die at his hands if they tried to truly break away from him.

"We're just taking our chances," Mesogogg said, as they all scrambled away to work on the various projects that needed to be completed. They had the idea that Mesogogg was possibly going to get them killed, but they would have a better chance fighting the rangers than having to deal with him.

AN: I know that this is another short chapter, but I just wanted to get you caught up and what the evildoers are thinking and trust me the later chapters will be much longer.