SUMMARY:: This is a challenge posed to me by Iconic Star Child. This story is to have 100 chapters and a sequel that also has 100 chapters. We'll see how well this works out. I've never written a story this long before. I'm not going to go into a lot of detail about the plot but hopefully you can stick with me as I write this thing.

A/N: I don't own any characters you recognize. Obviously. Not that I would mind with some of them. Anyway, on with the story.

The darkness was broken only by torches in sconces on the rock walls. The shadowy figures gliding through the darkness toward the brightest light to be seen were completely cloaked in black from head to toe. Obviously, they did not want to be recognized.

Walking into the large chamber, all that had stood for evil were gathered before the most evil being in the universe. They all sunk to one knee before him and bowed their heads.

"You have been gathered here today to be given one last chance to redeem yourselves in my eyes. I give you this one last chance to prove yourselves worthy of the title evil. Should you do so, you will be given new life and the chance to wreck havoc on Earth and all other worlds." The evil creatures in the chamber cheered at this chance. They were all determined to prove themselves to their Master. "However, remember this. Should you fail, you will be sentenced to eternity here in the Underworld of Lost Souls. This is your only chance to redeem yourselves. Dark Specter will lead you in this effort."

The muttering that echoed through the cavern told the Master that everyone knew that Dark Specter had long been the Master's favorite and that this just proved it. Some of the evil ones present resented the fact that Dark Specter had been put in charge of this mission. Each of them thought that they should be the ones in charge.

The Master had his reasons behind putting Dark Specter in charge and he didn't see any necessity in informing anyone else of them. After all, this was his world. No one else needed to understand his reasons for anything. He had nothing to explain to anyone.

And that was the way he liked it.

Goldar walked up to Dark Specter. "And what makes you so special that the Master put you in charge of this last chance mission? Why you?"

"Did anyone else manage to break up Kimberly and Tommy thus making both of them miserable and thwarting the prophecy of the Power Couple? I did that. That is the main reason that the Master put me in charge. I have managed the one thing that no one else ever did. And then I ruined the relationship between Tommy and Katherine."

"How did you do that?"

"I was the professor she slept with. I simply convinced her that it was the only way to get a good enough grade to pass my class and keep her scholarship. Of course, once she realized that she lost Tommy because of it, she no longer wanted the chance the school offered her." Dark Specter laughed. "I guess you could say that I destroyed three Rangers in one plot." He looked intently at Goldar. "How many have you destroyed?"

"That doesn't really matter. Tommy is still in the sights of the Power. He has been called back to it by finding those Dino Gems. What makes you think that he will not be able to defeat all of us with the Power holding on to him that way?"

"Goldar, you need to realize that Tommy is vulnerable yet again. At least until he finds himself a team. I, for one, do not believe that he will be able to hold the power too many more times before it starts to take a toll on him. The human body is not meant to maintain a constant tie to the Power like that."

Dark Specter smirked at the former henchman and walked away knowing a great deal about where Goldar's strengths lay. He was brute force. Nothing more. He had no strategic mind, no ability to think tactics. His whole attitude was frontal attack. There was nothing else in his mind. Dark Specter could do that but he tended to prefer the sneak attacks, the ones no one saw coming, that no one could attribute to him. He would let people know when he had been at work.

That was, as the Master well knew, Dark Specter's biggest weakness: his ego. He loved to brag about the stuff he had done but at least he waited until after it had succeeded in bringing about the desired effects. This was but one reason that the Master had chosen him to lead this mission.

Dark Specter stood in front of a bank of screens watching the former Rangers to see who was the most vulnerable. He knew which one he would prefer to go after. His favorite had always Kimberly, so easy to upset and yet so determined to fight for what she believed in. He'd seen that when he watched Lord Zedd try to destroy her spirit so often. He'd always targeted Kimberly. Dark Specter wouldn't make that mistake. Not this time. He would go after her one weakness. The one person she would give her life to protect.

Tommy Oliver.