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The Rangers hated not knowing what was going on. Over a day had passed and there was no sign of Bridge. Sky had been resting through the entire day, while the other Rangers kept a constant vigil on the security cameras hoping to catch wind of something. The streets had been quiet, Gruumm had not sent anything down in a while, and everyone was more on edge.
"It feels like a tornado." Z sat in the control room.
Everyone looked at her, not sure what she meant.
"When you know chaos is coming, but you can't see it yet, and then there is this silence, right before everything hits. This feels like that." Z shared everyone's worried expression.
Jack sighed. "Sky told us everything Edward told him. That he had weapons, he had chemicals, and he had big plans, but he's smart; never gave Sky enough details for us to do anything with. We just know whatever is coming could be anything. So we have to be ready for it."
"I hate just sitting here, there has to be something we can do." Syd shook her head.
Before anyone else could say anything the alarms began to go off. Kat pulled up the computer.
"Cadets, there are Troobians surrounding the academy."
"Okay, let's do this." Jack grabbed his morpher. "Ready?"
"Ready!" The others grabbed their morphers as well. "S.P.D. Emergency!"
The three Rangers ran outside of the building to fight all the troops Gruumm was sending down.
"There's so many!" Syd could not believe how many Krybots surrounded their home.
"Nothing we can't handle, come on!" Jack ran into the mass, taking out each robot one by one.
While the Rangers were dealing with the Krybots, creatures were being sent down to the rock quarry. Everything was going exactly to Edward's plans. He smiled as he watched the five aliens march into position. Now was the time to test his new power.
"Time to find out if you are as strong as I think, Bridgey." Edward cracked his neck and took off his gloves.
Taking a deep breath he concentrated on the energy around him. He had been inside Bridge's mind for a while, learning the inner workings of the Green Ranger. He let the energy flow through him as he put his bare hands on the ground. He could feel everything. All the energy connected to the Earth was flowing through the palms of his hands. The five creatures did not even see the Ranger before they stopped in their tracks. He connected into each of their minds, gaining control. He had to get into each one at the same time and bend their minds to his will. Bridge had even more capabilities then he thought.
Even though Bridge was trapped in his head and unaware of what was going on in the real world, he felt a sudden shift. There was energy everywhere; he could feel it in every fiber of his body. Edward was unlocking his power; figuring out his full ability to use to his advantage. Bridge was terrified at how far Edward would go to get what he wanted, but right now there was nothing he could do about it.
The Krybots were coming from everywhere and the three Rangers were fighting hard to keep them at bay. Crueger and Sam joined in the fight to help defeat the ever coming force, but they worried the foot soldiers were going to infiltrate the base. The alarms had awoken Sky from his long sleep, and he forced himself to push himself out of the bed to find out what was going on.
Kat was in the Command Center trying to keep up defenses when Sky limped through the rushing cadets.
"What's going on?"
Kat looked up from what she was doing "Sky, you should be in bed."
"Can't get much rest with all these alarms going off, what's going on?"
Kat hesitated a moment before answering. "Troobians are attacking the base."
Sky limped over to look at the security feed. Something was not sitting right with him. He pulled up the energy field for the rest of the city.
"What is it?" Kat was not sure what he was doing.
"This is a distraction."
"You mean Bridge?" Kat hated to think there was more than Gruumm at play here, but she had her suspicions.
"Edward, I think this is part of his plan. There's high energy fields happening in Sector 12. He always said he wanted to rival Gruumm, and I think this is exactly what he is doing."
"Sky I know what you are thinking, but you are not in any shape to go out in the field right now."
Sky shook his head. "Don't care, they need me."
"Sky!" Before Kat could stop him, Sky grabbed the extra morpher Kat had been working on for him and morphed into action. He had to help his friends.
As Jack was fighting a Krybot, he did not notice the Blue Head coming towards him. There was a blast from behind him causing Jack to jump, he turned around to see the Blue Head on the ground. After looking around, Jack realized everyone else was busy fighting, until he saw something blue in the corner of his eye.
"Sky?"
Sky came over to him, taking out Krybots on his way.
"Not that I'm ungrateful, but shouldn't you be taking it easy?"
"And miss all this?" Sky punched another minion.
If Sky could see his face, he would see that Jack was smiling. "Okay then, let's get this done."
"Right."
The two Rangers joined back in the fight and began knocking down as many soldiers as they could. Sky was moving a lot slower than he usually did, but he was still holding his own; his determination let him overcome all the pain he was feeling. The now six Rangers continued to fight the Krybots that seemed to keep coming, but were finally feeling the heard thin out. They were close to taking out the rest of the Troobians, when an explosion sounded far in the city. Each Ranger looked up, not sure what was going on. Crueger got on his com to talk to Kat.
"Dr. Manx, what just happened in the city?"
"I'm not sure, but there seems to be explosions going off, people are beginning to panic. You need to try and get there."
The Rangers fought harder through the Krybots, all trying to get them out of the way so they could investigate the new threat. Sky, however, knew who was responsible for the new happenings in the city, he just hoped they would be able to stop it. As the Rangers finished off what was left of the Krybots, they headed toward the explosions and found a lot of people running in panic. Sam and Commander Crueger began to help people to safety, while the others looked through the smoke to see who was causing all the chaos. Just as the expected the man wearing their friend's face was walking down the street, but what they did not expect were the five monsters trailing behind him. The Rangers got ready as Edward stopped and smiled.
"It's nice to see you spring back so quickly Sky, I was hoping to be the one to destroy you."
Sky snarled a little under his helmet. "You won't win this Edward."
Edward laughed. "Really? I have all of Gruumm's army under my control armed with weapons I stole from S.P.D., chemical traps all around the city, and your little Green trapped inside his own mind. You can't touch me without hurting him, and I have all the cards now, but you know I love to see a good show so, please don't die too quickly."
"Don't listen to him guys. Bridge is still in there, and we'll get him back. Just stay strong and work together!" Jack got his sword ready, as the other Rangers got their weapons out too. Everything was on the line now, and they had no other option but winning.
The monsters jumped on the Rangers fast, and it did not take long for the team to realize how strong they were. Gruumm had pulled out all the stops on this one, and with Edward using Bridge to control them, each Ranger had doubts of getting out of the battle alive. As they fought Edward watched in amusement. He had to keep his distance so he could keep his control on the monsters, but was enjoying every second of the battle.
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Gruumm was watching Earth from his ship, eyes glowing the brightest red they could glow. He screamed as he threw a table across the palace room.
"How could this be? What is going on down there?!"
Mora watched as well. "It would seem the Green Ranger has switched sides and taken control of all your monsters."
"They serve me, their allegiance should not be turned so quickly!"
"I think all of Green's power has gone to his head, he must have figured out how to control them."
Gruumm growled in anger. "Then send someone down there to take him out!"
"Emperor, why destroy him if he wants to take out the Rangers too? I say you let him take care of those nasty S.P.D. officers and after it's done you send down as many soldiers as you want to take out him. Taking out one is a lot easier than seven." Mora gave a matter of fact look.
Gruumm hummed in thought for a moment. "Yes, yes that is a good idea. Let them fight and let them be destroyed. Then I will destroy the Green one and finally take control of Earth. The battle for this planet is almost at its end."
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Jack and Sky were fighting a large rock made monster, barely able to hold their own. Jack kept looking through the team fighting to see the person running the show, smiling at the chaos he caused. Sky noticed Jack watching, and realized what he was thinking.
"No Jack." Sky pushed the monster away a little, ignoring the pain he was still feeling from his beating.
"Sky, I know you wanted to try and get close enough to talk to him, but that doesn't look like it's going to happen. If we can't get to him, then we have one option on how to stop all these monsters from attacking." Jack dodged a swing from the rock monster.
"We'll hurt Bridge."
"I know, but there is no other way right now. Look around Sky!"
Sky did. The Rangers were losing, and losing badly. The monsters were too much for the team, and Sky knew there was one thing that could stop the battle, and that was Bridge. If they could stop his mind from keeping control, then they could take out the monsters.
"Okay, do what you have to."
Jack nodded and let Sky hold off the monster while he got his blaster out. He jumped behind a dumpster to hide from view. He could not let Edward see what he was up to. He aimed his blaster and took a deep breath.
"Sorry Bridge." Jack shot out a laser hitting his target in the right side of his chest.
Edward had been watching the fight, keeping track of his monsters and the Rangers. He was watching a vined monster covered in thorns pick up the Pink Ranger and throw her into the Yellow when he was hit with something. Edward had not even realized what happened until he was flipped onto the ground, pain emanating throughout his entire body. His chest was smoking a little as he began to piece together what happened. He tried to look up to see which one of Rangers shot him, but he could not lift his head. He laid there in pain, keeping his bare hands to the ground, he had to keep control of the monsters.
When Jack shot Edward every single monster looked like they felt it. Each one faltered back the second the blast hit Edward's chest. That gave the Rangers the upper hand for a moment, but Edward was keeping his control even though he had not recovered from the blast yet. Jack realized what that meant. If they could not reach out to Bridge and the monsters were still attacking at full strength, then the only way to stop Edward would be to kill Bridge.
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