************************Hanger Bay***************************
Goldar held his arm as he made a break for his ship. Cursing at the painful laser burn and damning everyone he could think of as he hurried along. Tommy, Billy, Lord Zedd, Rita, everyone was a damn fool and brought all this on themselves. Goldar was just caught in the cross fire...again.
The story of his life.
He shook his head, flipping the switches to start Battra's warm up sequence. He wouldn't stay here any longer with such fools. Anyone with any brain at all could sense the tide was changing. Goldar lifted his head, nothing above him but his own ship, but he listened, felt... yes Tommy was winning.
"Time to go." He said softly to his ship. The basket of food he had prepared for Kimberly would go to waste now. Just seeing it made him angry and he kicked it, sending the basket flying and food stuffs this way and that. A quiet yip of surprise stopped him dead.
Goldar drew his sword. "Whose there! Show yourself!"
A pair of blue hands and a pair of black hands raised up from behind the seats. "Oh please don't be mad Goldar." Squatt whimpered, standing up slowly.
"Take us with you." Baboo begged.
Goldar grumbled, putting his sword down. "What are you two idiots doing here?"
"I told them you were leaving." Finster's voice broke in from the doorway of the ship. "As the putties from the kitchen told me." Finster looked around, clearly not seeing any humans on board. So that part had not gone according to Goldar's plans. He would ask about it later. "As you have the only working ship. I was hoping you would be willing to take us with you."
Goldar grumbled, pinching the bridge of his nose. Squatt and Baboo he would have happily throwing off his ship and leaving behind but not Finster. "My ship is too small for so much company."
Squatt and Baboo went pale with panicked but Finster only gave Goldar a small smile. "It will do until we get to the nearest star-port." Finster looked up suddenly, as a distant rumble, like thunder, only much more dangerous, shook the hanger bay. "I do suggest we get going before the power rangers find us."
Goldar sighed dropping his shoulders in defeat. "Fine then. Just strap in."
*************************** Falcon Zord*********************************
Ninjor dropped his knitting, the sound of the metal needles falling made Katherine jump. "What? What's wrong?" She asked clearly near panic.
Ninjor did not answer as he came to stand beside her looking out the windows. The falcon had cried out , he had felt it, only for another voice had joined in. A voice he did not know. He waited but as Tommy's powers did not return, everything must be alright. He told Katherine as much, everything was still alright and she settled back down.
But Ninjor knew something extraordinary had just happened. Something of legend.
He wondered what.
**************************Kitchen****************************
Everything hurt.
His body, his mind, even his soul, felt battered and bruised. Billy let out a groan and then quickly quieted himself. If he hurt this badly, someone must have hurt him he reasoned. And whoever that was could still be close by.
"Billy?" Kimberly's voice called to him. It was quiet and so very worried. "Are you awake?"
Billy forced his eyes open. Praying to whatever god might be listening that Kim wasn't in as bad a shape as he was. What the heck had happened? "Kim... are you okay?" He whispered softly, anxiety for her well being bleed into his voice. He tried to turn over but his right arm wasn't working and hurt terribly.
Broken, it was clearly broken.
"Billy, let me help you." He felt Kimberly's soft hands on his shoulders helping him to sit up.
"My arm..." Billy whimpered slightly as it hung limply at his side.
"I know. Just hang on a little longer. It will be okay." She promised.
Finally Billy's eyes focused. There was Kim, kneeling on the floor beside him. Her brown eyes looking at him with such worry, such sorrow and she was so very pink. Billy gave a small smile. "Kim, you morphed?"
Kimberly let out the breath she had been holding in. Billy was acting normal and that dark gleam in his eyes she could no longer see. His eyes were once more bright blue but she still needed to be wary."Yeah I morphed. Billy how much to you remember?"
Billy's smile dropped as concentration overtook his features. "I... remember our... argument in the bedroom. Gosh Kim, I didn't mean what I said. I don't know what came over me." Billy felt pain chew at his heart. He had basically called his best friend a slut and over what? Some friendly attention from Adam? He had never been that jealous before. Not with Jason or Zack, not even when she started dating Tommy and... god he had declared Kim belonged to him. That was messed up. "If you don't want to forgive my transgression I understand, what I said was irredeemable." Billy voice betrayed him. As beat up as he felt on the outside, it couldn't compare to the beating he was giving himself on the inside.
Kimberly gave a sob and pulled Billy into a hug, burying her face into his chest. "Billy! You're back! I was so scared I lost you."
"Ow Kim, Arm... Arm..." Billy said but her words caught up to him. "What do you mean lost me?"
Kim pulled slightly away. "You really don't remember?"
Billy shook his head finally looking around. He did not know these stone walls, the broken pottery, the small fires still being put out by... people? "Kim, where are we?"
"Were in the kitchens."
"How did we get here and why is my arm so damaged?" Billy asked quietly. Had Zedd done this? Did Kim risk morphing to protect him?
Kimberly sat back on her knees and looked at her friend. "Billy, you were evil. The nightmare ranger."
As soon as she said the name flashes of memories hit Billy like a freight train. He could see it now, all of it. "Oh God!" He sobbed, not even trying to fight back the tears. "I'm a monster."
Kimberly rubbed his back. "It will be okay. The spells broken Billy. You're you again."
Billy couldn't form the words to tell Kim but it was never going to be okay.
Never again...
**************************** Hallways******************************
"So what do we do with this thing?" Adam asked still carrying the trash can containing Rita and Zedd.
Rocky replied, "We'll take it to Ninjor. He'll know what to do."
"Who the heck is Ninjor?" Justin asked, even as the group moved back towards where they had left Ernie's revolution.
Tommy smiled. "He's a friend. You'll meet him soon enough. Hold on, I think we are getting close." In fact they were almost back to Zedd chamber when noise could be heard coming from the direction of the harem.
Tommy was the first to enter the open harem doors followed closely by the others, as soon as Ernie saw them he shouted. "Is it over?"
Tommy nodded. "Zedd and Rita will never bother anyone again."
The cheers that went up were deafening as people began to rejoice and dance. Only after a moment was Ernie able to shout over the throng. "Now wait. Everyone settle down. We've got a lot to thank the power rangers for and we still need there help. I am assuming you won't just leave us here on the moon?"
"Of course not." Aisha assured. "We'll get everyone home, won't we Falcon?" She asked looking at Tommy. Best they didn't use there names right now.
"Right. It may take a few trip but we will get everyone home. But first thing is first. We need to assess who needs medical. Was anyone here a doctor or nurse on earth?" Tommy asked.
"I was studying to be a doctor." One woman said coming forward.
"I have red cross training." Said one of the men.
Tommy nodded, "Good. Ape, Bear, stay here and work with Ernie and the others. I'll take Wolf and... Frog..." Tommy said a bit unsure, looking at Adam's coin for the first time. "Back down to the kitchen, there were injuries there too."
Tommy, Justin and Adam headed out into the hall. Once away from prying ears, Adam rubbed his hand over his coin an spoke. "Wait... I'm a frog? Falcon, wolf, bear, ape and I'm a frog?" He sounded disappointed.
"Well how else would you explain that jump that saved Kim?" Tommy said, coming to a stop, he turned to Adam. "I didn't get a chance to say thank you before. You saved Kim's life. I owe you a debt."
Adam waved him off. "You don't owe me anything. Kimberly's my friend to. I couldn't watch her be hurt."
"Besides she save me and Adam, more than once." Justin added.
Tommy nodded and the trio got moving once more. He hadn't forgotten that Adam had been Kim's slave. He wondered if he should ask about that?
Then again, maybe he didn't want to know.