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They Disappeared?
Alpha's POV
I know that the rangers should have made it back here by now, but they haven't. They haven't even contacted me to say that the battle is over or anything like that, it makes no sense. This just isn't sitting too well with me, but what can I do? I can't leave here, but I know that they are alright, they have to be.
The puddy patrol came into view for a few moments on the screen, but then my visuals went blurry and when they came back up, the beach had no one there, not even the rangers. It had been barren before the battle and I expect that was how it was going to be after it was all over. It just has been too quiet around here lately and maybe I should have called Kim and Tommy, too. I just don't feel right with everything that is staring me in the face.
But I know that the rangers must have been able to make it away from that battle. It was not as risky as many of the others that they have been in alone. But if they were not able to make it away, I am going to have some horrible news for Kim and Tommy when they get home tonight from the dojo. I can just imagine the reaction they will have when they find out something like that. I had better start searching for them, if I don't then Tommy will surely claw me for a few days because of my forgetfulness, but he's one to talk about that sort of thing, although I do not feel brave enough to cross him now. He is not going to be happy if my assumption turns out to be correct and I can not take on a six foot ranger with as much karate experience as him.
"Alpha, have you seen Kira, Ethan, and Trent? They didn't come back to Hayley's after whatever it was that was going on and I'm worried about them. They're alright, aren't they?" Conner asked, as he walked down into the command center, with a sense of urgency in his step. He just had this eerie feeling about things right now and he hoped that it was only because of the heightened sense of awareness they were supposed to have now. Tommy had warned them that it would become annoying especially when they knew that they were going to have to fight soon, he had just not taken him very seriously about it.
He had heard his communicator go off, but he couldn't answer it while he was at practice and they all knew that, so he had gone to talk to them about it at Hayley's but they were still gone. He had assumed they would be back, as it was becoming dark outside and they had been called at the beginning of his practice. Hayley told him when they left, but even she thought that they should have been coming back soon. It just seemed like a routine check to see if something might be up; they went on those all the time and they usually came back within an hour or less of being called out. They both knew it had been far too long, but they did not want to admit that to each other, as that would mean that they were admitting that there might be somesort ofproblem.
"Conner, do not go crazy on me, but I am afraid that I have found them, but you are not going to like where it is," Alpha said, as Conner looked at him with a look of confusion evident in his eyes. His inexperience kept him from jumping to correct conclusions immediately, but Alpha knew it wouldn't last very long. He would figure it out sooner or later.
If he had said that to Tommy, he would have gotten a groan of anger before he started telling them what they needed to do about the situation, but Conner did not follow his brain waves as well. Conner just thought that it might be some little mistake and that he really would be able to survive hearing whatever news Alpha had for them. He really didn't want to face any other possibilities. He really didn't know any other possibilities as the only ones that had ever been captured were Kim and Tommy and he, sadly, had assumed that they would be the only ones ever gone after. They just didn't seem to be as valuable.
"Where did you find them, Alpha?" Conner asked, as Ashley, Charlie, Kim, and Tommy were teleported into the command center from whatever they were doing at the dojo, which was a shock to all of them. Tommy was doing a roundhouse kick when he had been teleported and when he felt himself land, he knew that he was in a different place. He didn't feel the cushioning that the mats at the dojo gave him and he could only pray that his students didn't notice it. He didn't know how in the world he could answer these types of questions from them if he had to do that.
Alpha knew that he might as well admit the bad news all at once, instead of saying it several times, although he was going to have to say it again when Tommy called in the Calvary. The Calvary, however, would not be as rough to explain this to and he wished that he could talk to them first. He hated giving news like this to the rangers, it had never gotten easier, although he had been doing this for several years. They just never liked to hear that a ranger or as in this case rangers had been taken away from them.
"I found them on Nonatasion. That is now Lord Zedd and Rita's home planet. It seems that they have taken them," Alpha said, as he knew that some people would not understand exactly where that was or what that meant for them, but others would know exactly what it meant.
Kim and Tommy exchanged a confused glance, while Conner let out a moan of depression before they got the gist of what had happened this afternoon. They now had some of their own rangers that had been taken away, as a lure to get them to come fight, which was just excellent and it was a surefire way to get them to fight, although that had killed Nicarni-Aso, in the end. It just seemed that they had not learned from some of the rangers other enemies mistakes in the past, that was a pity.
Kim and Tommy just hoped that they had it in them to go through one more battle like that one, as it had been rough on their bodies and their minds. They were admittedly older than some of the other rangers were and it left them at a disadvantage. They knew more, they had been through more, and their bodies were worn from the decade they had been doing this job, but hopefully they would be able to hold up for one more battle. That was all that they really needed to be able to hold out for, then they would finally be able to say that they were retired and then they would never have to take up another battle with evil. They just had to find some way to make it through this battle and live to tell the tale of what happened while they were there.
"Shit. Did they just disappear or something? How could we lose three rangers in a matter of seconds?" Tommy asked, as Charlie and Ashley looked at him as if he was crazy. This was not something that they had really expected to happen on their first day as rangers.
Charlie and Ashley had never heard him curse, without him saying it jokingly, although they were sure that they had tempted him quite a few times at the dojo, especially on days when they knew he wanted to get home. This, however, was not the dojo and it was a problem that they were sure deserved that sort of language or worse if it was humanly possible. They didn't really know what was going on, but they could imagine that someone being taken away would be awful, especially if they might be in a great deal of danger. Although, they did think that anything that went wrong with the rangers had to be horrible, but they were not going to say that.
"I'm not sure. I couldn't see what was happening at that point during their battle with the puddies and when I got visual contact again, they were gone. Lord Zedd must have deflected our frequency for long enough to take them away without anyone seeing it. I would have contacted you earlier, but I had to make sure first. There was no need to worry you," Alpha said, as Kim raked her hands through he hair and then looked over at Tommy to see what he was thinking. The look on his face, however, did not make her feel any better.
This didn't sound very good to her and there was no telling what Lord Zedd was trying to do to the rangers or what he was going to ask of the other rangers. It could be as simple as asking for their powers or it could be that he honestly wanted to fight them until it was over, until one group was utterly destroyed. She did not want to deal with some evil rangers, but if he did turn them evil, then they needed to be prepared for anything that they would try to do to them and the ways to avoid hurting them. They didn't need this added stress, but for all of the problems they had, had in the past, this was one that they were able to deal with the best. They knew the most about Lord Zedd and they could only hope that he had not changed too much over the years that he had been absent from their life.
"Alpha, you need to call the others and this time tell them to be prepared to be gone for a month or maybe even longer. It looks like Lord Zedd wants us to come to them and I think that we'll be able to do that and survive, somehow. I just don't know if we know enough to really fight them. I'm going to need you to send us the information you dig up as you find it over the next few days. We need to know a lot more than what we do now," Tommy said. He was not sure he wanted to go there, not knowing what was going to happen to them with all of these problems going on around them, but they had to. It was a challenge that they could not look away from, under any circumstances that might be placed in front of them.
His class of rangers was not going to be too happy about all of this mess, but they knew that they could not leave three rangers in Lord Zedd's hands for long. If they did, they risked their deaths being on their conscience and none of them could deal with that sort of guilt. They had to get to them and if that meant that they were unable to defeat Lord Zedd and Mesogogg right now, that was fine. They just had to protect their fellow rangers and they could worry about defeating the two of them at a later point in time. Right now, it would just be a bonus if that happened at the same time.
"What are we going to do?" Ashley asked, as Tommy looked over at her and then went to enter some teleportation codes into the machine. He had no time to answer questions and he could only hope that Conner would hold himself together long enough to help explain some things to them while they worked on the things that had to be done before they left here.
Conner was not looking too good, but Conner knew from the little experience that he had that breaking down was not a wise thing to do at the moment. He needed to remain calm until there were some other rangers that would help guide Charlie and Ashley, as Tommy and Kim were now beginning to prepare for a departure from Earth. He didn't know how they were going to do that, but it didn't really matter to him. Getting ready for that was going to take all of their attention over the next few hours and he knew that it was best just to leave them alone while they worked. If they asked too many questions out of them, then there was the possibility that either of them would go off the deep end and that was not something they wanted to experience. They needed all of the rangers to be sane right now, if it was at all possible.
"Once the other rangers get here, we are going to teleport to the other command center. It has the ship that we will use to go to Nonatasion and we also have to transfer the powers to the old rangers," Tommy said, as streaks of light began appearing around the command center. Some of them landed on top of furniture pieces and others landed as they finished doing whatever they had been doing before they were teleported. It was odd to see, but Ashley was sure that this was only the beginning of what she was going to experience during this mission.
"What the hell," Ally said, as she had happened to wind up being teleported with Rocky and she got the feeling that she did not want anyone to respond to her statement, no matter what they might say that would prove her mind wrong. She had the feeling that her mind was right this time and there was nothing that she could do to change what was going on here. She felt that begging Rocky to stay behind would be a fruitless effort, but if that was what started coming out, there was nothing she could do. She didn't like this idea at all and she only hoped that he would understand some of the things that she was prepared to say to him. She didn't want him to leave and her not feel as if he understood how things were between the two of them right now. "Don't say anything, I know what is going on."
"Billy, how fast can you get your powers back? And I don't mean partially. I mean that I want you to be able to pull out anything that you have, as soon as you have them. We can't risk going in there without enough firepower. We have no clue what type of weapons Lord Zedd has there," Tommy said, as he knew that Billy had stated that it would not take long, except for the fact that they had to dig out their shards again.
Tommy had already pulled out the box and set it in front of Zack, who was frantically pulling out black shards, as he got the idea about what was going on the second he felt himself being teleported away from his home. He had some questions, but they would all be answered on their long journey to Nonatasion, as right now was not a wise time to ask anything of a great deal of importance that did not pertain to whatever they were trying to accomplish at the moment. Their focus was on getting the powers and then getting on their way to Nonatasion, everything else was put off until later.
"Within a couple of hours at the most, what happened to cause this?" Billy asked, as he had not even heard about a battle in Reefside this afternoon, although it did not surprise him at all.
He had still been at work and it was obvious because he was still in a suit and tie, which was something that he hated he had to wear everyday of his working career. It, however, went along with his job and he had to wear it to keep the higher-ups happy and quiet, which was something he wanted to do. He planned to interview for the Reefside branch one more time with the company that he was in and if it didn't work, then he was just going to pick up and leave Angel Grove. He had used all of his patience over the last few months with this company and if they didn't want to help him, he was no longer going to work for them. He was sure that he could find a job Reefside, it might just take a little bit of looking.
"Lord Zedd captured Kira, Trent, and Ethan with his puddies and took them to his home planet. I can help you with the morpher preparations once all of you have sorted your shards," Alpha said, as Billy looked around the room and noticed that there were two new faces there and that Conner was not holding up very well, by any means. He wanted to know who the new rangers were, but introductions would occur later. There was a lot of work that was still left to be done here and it seemed that they were on a tight schedule to try to get it finished.
"Conner, are you alright?" Jason asked, as he had seen Billy act like that during the last mission they had been on and he could only hope that Conner would be able to concentrate, somehow. If he was lovesick, it was going to be hard, but they would get it through his head that they needed him and if they didn't he might get a few hard blows before he understood it. If that didn't work, they might have to send him home. They didn't want to have to face that possibility, but they didn't want anyone dying because of something that they could have prevented.
Teleporting to Nonatasion was an idea that could work for them, but they wanted to have supplies for the battered rangers and not being on a vessel limited what they could take with them. If one of the other rangers had been seriously injured, it was a huge risk to teleport them anywhere and if they didn't get there soon enough, there might not even be anyone left to teleport out of there. The ship would take longer, but it would give them time to formulate a plan and then they would hopefully be able to execute it once they landed on Nonatasion.
"I'll be fine. I just need some time," Conner said, as Kim and Tommy exchanged a glance about how depressed he seemed. It didn't look good to them, but they knew that Conner would pull through, somehow.
The boy had just felt as if he was going to have a chance with Kira and now all of that was being shattered by Lord Zedd and Mesogogg's plans. They could only hope that they would get to them while Kira was still in one piece, so that Conner would not have a mental breakdown. If they got there too late, there was no telling what Conner would do and they didn't want to deal with that. They never wanted to deal with the possibility of a ranger dying and this was the first time that Conner felt as if it really affected him.
"Alright," Kim said, as she pushed Ashley and Charlie towards him and the three of them were soon crowded onto the back couch, trying to stay out of the frantic rangers' way.
They had never seen them act like this before, but they were sure that this would not be the last time that they saw an odd occurrence during this mission. It seemed that they were preparing for something that they had never seen before, except they had heard about a battle against Ivan Ooze in Angel Grove, but this couldn't be anything like that, could it? They were only beginning in their duty as rangers. They could not possibly be asking them to fight in a battle that would bring to end a reign of one set of rangers. It didn't make sense that they would be brought in for only one battle.
"Charlie, do you know who any of these people are?" Ashley asked, as he shook his head no, while Conner looked up from his hands to see that they were worried about what was going on around them.
Conner knew he was going to have to get a grip on himself for a few minutes, as he knew that Dr. O had no time for any sort of introduction right now. He would let himself go when he got onto the ship, as he couldn't hold in all of his emotions for a very long time. It was not healthy or wise for him to do so, but no matter what he would manage to do it long enough to make the others think that he was fine.
"They're the first rangers and they are the ones that will be doing most of the work until we get there. Then our job begins. We'll fight and that is all that we will do until we get the three of them back," Conner said, as Ashley and Charlie looked over at him, wondering if what he said was really true. It didn't seem as if it could be, but he was the best source of information that they had right now and they just had to go with whatever came out of his mouth. They just couldn't understand why the first rangers would be coming back to help them in the first place. This had to be much worse than they imagined.
"No way," Ashley muttered, as Conner shook his head that this was the truth. She had imagined meeting them, someday, but certainly not while they were having to do something like this.
She had thought that Dr. O might just have them load up to go to Angel Grove one day, but that fantasy was being shattered before her eyes, as she was meeting them when they were having to fight a battle that they had started years before. She got the feeling that meant that they were about to see the ruthless side of them, instead of the caring side that they all knew was there, although she did have some questions about Dr. O some days. She often wondered if the ruthlessness was a by-product of being a ranger, although that did not seem to be the truth of the matter from what she could tell. It just seemed as if they all had their moments.
"Okay, so Trini is the yellow ranger again and Aisha is the purple ranger now?" Kim asked, as the colors had flip-flopped since the last time, which led to more confusion among them. These powers seemed to be temperamental, but it would be fine, as they knew that either would answer when they needed some help from them, even if they did call them the wrong name a few times. Being called the wrong name was the least of their worries; they had much more that could go wrong than a mispronounced name right now. "This is too confusing. Why couldn't these powers just stay the same as last time?"
"Kim, honey, it's all right. I'm just glad that they were able to get powers at all. I don't know what we would have done if they couldn't," Tommy said as Kim looked over at him and he then gave her a quick hug. They were going to need all of the reassurances that they could get over the next few hours, as they were trying to avoid thinking of leaving Angie behind, which was bound to rip their hearts out. Neither had really thought about it yet, but it was starting to creep up in Tommy's mind and it would continue to loom there until they said good-bye. "Did Hayley already get Angie?"
"Yeah, don't worry," Hayley said as Tommy looked over at her and heaved a sigh of relief. That was one less thing that he didn't have to worry about right now and that left more room for him to work on everything that was around him. Hayley knew he was going to be more stressed over the next few hours and all that she could hope was that Tommy would be alright in the end. "Come on, get back to work, you know how bad this might turn out if something is not done right."
"Jason, has Trini been feeling all right lately?" Billy asked, as he had to admit he was slightly worried about her.
She was not her normal self, not that anyone was under these circumstances, but she just seemed to be more off than anyone else in the group. He had noticed that she had been acting odd when he saw her earlier this week at the lunch they shared weekly, but he had thought that she had, had a bad day, but he was getting the feeling that this was not caused from a bad day anymore. Unless this had just managed to be the week from hell for her, which would explain why she didn't look like her normal self. She was having a great time at this new job of hers, but it was a lot more work on her than her past job had been and that meant she had more stress on her shoulders.
"Yeah, from what I know," Jason said, as he looked over to see her helping Alpha make the morphers. She didn't look like her normal self to him either, but he'd ask her about it later. They would have plenty of time to talk on the way there and on the way back. He just hoped that it was not something that needed to be handled well before they got on the ship. If it was, he was not sure that he'd be able to deal with knowing that he had gotten some sort of warning and had not taken the chance to use it. But as soon as he had that thought it flittered out of his brain and he went back to the work at hand. "I'll ask her about it later, Billy. I'm sure that she's fine."
"Okay, as long as you're sure, I'm fine with it," Billy said as he walked over to help them with the morphers and to keep a closer eye on Trini.
Jason had never been the brain of the group, but neither was Tommy, although they worked as hard as they could at what they were allowed to touch by the others. They knew that they would not allow them to touch the morphers, so they were just trying to stay out of the way as much as they possibly could and pack whatever else they thought that they might need.
"I'm going to teleport all of you to the old command center, do what you have to do there in order to prepare yourselves. Hayley and myself will follow in a few minutes, in order to make sure that you have a successful lift off," Alpha said punching in some buttons as they had finished with the morphers in a record amount of time.
He just had to make sure that they would work, after the hasty preparation, although he did trust the ones that had helped build up the morphers. He was glad that Jason and Tommy had decided to allow them to work, as he was sure that he would have been checking their work a great deal, if they had helped.
"Is this going to be explained to us?" Charlie asked, as the rangers suddenly looked over at him. They had not even fought in one fight and they were going off on some huge mission. This was not what they had in mind when they volunteered to help the rangers in any way that they could, although they had come into this in an odd manner. They had to be prepared for anything that came at them and all of it was going to be new to them, unlike most of the others who seemed to have some sort of experience.
"Yes, but it will be once we are on our way. We cannot explain it now. It is going to take us about four days to get there, we'll have plenty of time for all of the questions that you want to ask about what is going on," Tommy said, as they nodded their heads and then saw Kim was clinging to Angie.
They had expected her to be like that, although it was worse than they had thought it would be, in some ways. They had all thought that it would be a few more months before they had to do something like this, but it wasn't and that left them without most of their preparations being done. She was scared to think about never seeing her baby again and they were not even sure if Tommy would be able to comfort her enough to get her to calm down before they got on the ship.
"You mean that we're going to miss that many days of school?" Ashley asked, as she was sure that this was going to be suspicious and her mom and dad were going to start worrying when she did not come home tonight, but what else could she do? She could not tell them what was going on and she doubted that they would believe her, even if she did break protocol and tell them what was going on with her.
"At least that many. Don't worry, we'll have something that will cover your backs and if not, we'll just morph in front of them. That should shock them into letting it be an excused absence for all of you," Jason said, as Tommy had noticed how Kim was acting and he was trying to keep himself in some sort of a composed manner, but found himself failing miserably. He did not want to leave either.
"Damn," Zack muttered, as he could see the tears streaming down the pink ranger's face, as she thought about having to leave her baby for that long. She didn't want to leave her like this, but they had to go get back their rangers and that meant sacrificing so many things. Tommy had now joined her and placed his arms around the two of them, trying to calm Kim down, somehow. They knew that it was a fruitless effort, but at least she wouldn't get any worse than she already was with him standing there with her. "Ish."
"What?" Aisha asked, looking up, momentarily, from loading the ship to see who had called her. She thought that it was no one for a few seconds, until she saw Zack looking at her and he seemed to have something he wanted to say, although he was having a hard time finding the right words.
"I'm sorry," Zack said, as Aisha stood there, frozen, while the others continued to pile things into the ship. She couldn't believe he had just said that, as she knew how much it had taken out of him to do that at all, but especially in front of all of these people who knew what was going on between the two of them.
"Earth to Aisha," Rocky said walking in front of her and waving a hand in front of her face as he smiled at her.
Ally was trying to keep from crying and he had to deal with packing the ship, before he could even think about saying good-bye to her. That was a whole new type of stress to deal with and he was not sure that he would be able to handle it, at all. He didn't know how Tommy had been able to do it in the past and he was now finding more respect for his leader, as he knew how difficult it was to try to say good-bye to someone. He just didn't know if he would be able to handle it as well as Tommy had.
"Sorry, Rocky," Aisha said, with a smile, as Alpha teetered over and handed something to Jason. Tommy could not take anything from him right now and neither could anyone else, so Jason would have to do, although he had no clue what it was. He just hoped that Billy would be able to explain it once they got on the ship. "I'm just a little bit out of it."
"Well, you better get yourself together before we get to Nonatasion. We wouldn't want something bad to happen to you while you're there," Rocky said with a smile as he turned to head towards Ally, while Aisha and Zack walked onto the ship. "I'm telling you that we can't have Zack jumping in front of you too many times."
"This is a new radar detection system. The ship needs to be made undetectable, as soon as you are airborne, and this button does that," Alpha said, as most of the others had grouped off and they were trying to say good-bye to their loved ones. He understood that they had to do this right away and they did not want to risk their other rangers' lives any longer than they could manage. It had always been something that had caused them to come out fighting and it seemed that Lord Zedd had shared that secret with Mesogogg, which was why they were doing this right now. "Be careful. Lord Zedd has armies of creatures that you have never had to deal with before and we can not lose any of you out there. Pull back if you have to and regroup. You'll get the job done, eventually."
"We will be Alpha, but it might take a little while to get everyone on the ship," Trini said, as Rocky and Adam seemed to be having a hard time saying good-bye to their significant other.
They knew the risks that were involved in this job and they did not want something to happen and them never have the chance to see the other person again. They, however, were going to have to turn around and leave them crying, as there was not much else that they could do to comfort them until they got back.
"Rocky, please, be careful," Ally said, as he gave her a bone crushing hug.
He had imagined that she would be upset, but he didn't think it was going to be this bad on his part. He didn't think that he would be to the point that he could not handle any of it without getting choked up about it. She was his world now and he didn't know how he was going to be able to deal with rocking hers so badly. It was not fair to her that she had fallen in love with a ranger, but the most he could do was promise that he would come home to her, even if she didn't believe those words right now.
"I will be, but I have to go. The others are already on the ship," Rocky said, as he let go of her and saw mascara was streaked over her face, which he carefully wiped away with his thumbs. That was not the picture that he wanted to carry with him into battle and he hoped that she would give him something else that he could easily remember her by before he left. Something that would honestly make him happy to think back on every time that he thought of her. "Don't. I'll come back to you."
"How do you know that?" Ally asked, as Rocky bent his head, out of shame, as he started to cry the tears that he had promised himself she would not see. He had wanted to keep himself together until he was able to walk onto the ship, but he just couldn't do it, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't.
"I don't, but the thought of never seeing you again hurts me too much to think about it. Don't make this any harder on me, Ally Mae. I have to do this, just let me do it and I'll come back as quick as I can. I love you," Rocky said and then gave her a kiss.
He quickly turned to go board the ship without looking back. He knew that if he did, he would never be able to get on that ship and that just wouldn't do. The rangers needed him and he needed to be able to say that he had a good last memory to bring him back home on and not one that would cause him heartache while he was away.
"I love you too," Ally said, as she watched him walk away. She knew that he was barely able to hold himself together and she only prayed this would not be the last time that she said that to him.
"You know, I think that I've been doing lots of things wrong lately," Adam said, as Kat looked at him and then gave him a firm hug. He did not need to worry about her changing her mind now; she had been through too much to have that happen because of a ranger mission. He just had to do his job and then come back home, that was all that he could focus on right now and she knew it. She just had to make sure he remembered it.
"I don't care about that, Adam. You just have to take care of yourself right now. I'll be here when you come back, don't worry about how this is going to affect me. Remember that I know what it's like to be there and second guess everything in your life," Kat said, giving him a kiss on the cheek. She could cry once they were long gone from here.
He had to get on that ship so he could help the other rangers and she'd do whatever it took to get him to do that. She knew that this was going to be hard on all of them and she didn't want to add anymore stress to Adam right now. He was worried enough about never coming back to her and as much as she wanted to cry on his shoulder, she knew that he couldn't be forced to worry about her. If he just worried about coming home in one piece, that would be fine with her because that was the most important thing that he could do right now.
"Bye, I'll see you when I get back," Adam said, giving her a final hug before turning around to board the heavily burdened ship.
"Bye, I love you," Kat said as she watched him start to go away, knowing what was destined for him to do and how much it would take out of him to do just that and make it back home in one piece.
"I love you, too," Adam said, as he turned to face her before continuing on his way. His thoughts were scattered right now. He could barely remember having to go on a mission that was so throw together, but he was also forgetting the last mission he had been on. It mattered that he could do all of this and nothing more counted as long as he knew that he could finish what they had started so many years ago.
"Is that everyone?" Jason asked, as Adam shook his head no and then Jason noticed that Kim and Tommy had not boarded the ship, which worried him. They were going to have a rough time letting go of Angie, no matter what anyone said. They had never been away from her before and it worried them a great deal to have to leave her at a time like this.
"I don't want to leave her, Tommy. I don't know if I can do this," Kim said in between sobs, as he gave her a secure hug and gently rubbed her back as she continued to sob against his chest. She was not making this any easier on either of them.
She had not given Angie to Hayley yet and he was beginning to wonder if she would ever do that without him forcibly taking her out of her arms. He didn't want to do that to her, as she would surely hate him for a few hours because of it, but they had to get going soon. They couldn't afford to waste anymore time without getting on the ship, as Kira, Trent, and Ethan would be paying for each minute that they waited to get going. Lord Zedd was not going to be easy on them and he could only pray that Lord Zedd had not seen it fit to turn them evil.
"I know, I don't want to do this either, but if we don't we might lose some people we care about. We have to go Kim. I know it is hard, but we have to," Tommy said, as she continued to sob against his chest. Neither of them had thought they would be forced to battle so soon, but they had learned to expect the unexpected lately. This was not something they had expected, but they would be able to deal with it, somehow. They just had to get over the fact of letting go and then they would be all right or at least they would find a way to be all right. "She's going to be in good hands, Beautiful."
"Okay," Kim said, as Tommy slowly released her from his hug and she turned around to give Angie to Hayley before she turned to walk to the ship as quickly as she could. She couldn't look back and she wouldn't until she was on the ship and that would only be so that Tommy could wrap her up in a hug.
"Bye, Angie. Mama and Daddy will be back soon," Tommy whispered giving her a kiss on the forehead before he turned to board the ship.
He had managed to hold his own tears until then, but now they were flowing freely down his cheeks. He might never see her again, if things went horribly wrong and that tore at his very soul. This was going to be rough, but it had to be done as soon as possible. They couldn't sit back and wait for anyone else to be taken away from them, hoping that the evil forces would be willing to battle on Earth. Mesogogg wanted to see what they were made of and he had pushed them to the point that they were willing to show their full deck of cards.
AN: Let me know what you think! I promise to make the next chapter longer and the more reviews I get, the faster that I'll get the next chapter out.