Chapter Eight

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Dr. O sat at a table, quietly drinking his cup of coffee in the break room. At the moment, his mind was filled with thoughts about the dream he had and how the power coin was glowing again after years of it being broken. These events worried him, though he wasn't sure why. Dr. O sighed and took another sip of his coffee.

"Hey, Tommy. What are you doing up so late?" a voice asked from behind. Dr. O turned around and saw Mrs. Fairweather standing in the doorway.

"Hey, Mrs. Fairweather. Just thinking. What are you doing up so late?"

Mrs. Fairweather went to a machine and dropped in a few coins. "Just finishing some work on the latest project," she answered as a cup fell and filled itself up with a steady stream of coffee.

"Is it the Megazord revival project?" Dr. O asked.

Mrs. Fairweather grabbed her cup and walked over to the table where Dr. O sat. "Yeah, and we're having a real problem trying to get them up and running again after the battle with Queen Bansheera and her demon army. So far we've only managed to rebuild two out of the five Megazords."

"Really? Which ones?"

Mrs. Fairweather took a sip of her coffee before she answered. "LightSpeed Megazord and Solar Max, but of course we're also trying to finish building the rest of the Zords." Mrs. Fairweather took a sip from her cup before she went on. "But seeing as how we 'don't need them anymore,' the heads of LightSpeed are not really willing to put money in this project."

Mrs. Fairweather set her cup down. "Then again, it surprised me that they gave us the money and the go ahead in the first place, especially after what else happened two months ago." Dr. O was a little shocked to hear this.

"What do you mean, something else happened?" he asked. For an answer, Mrs. Fairweather opened her folder and searched for something. After a few seconds, she pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to Dr. O.

"This says you guys have the wreckage from the Thunder, Tiger, Turbo, and Rescue Zords."

Mrs. Fairweather nodded. "That's right. We got them not too long ago. The Thunder and Tiger Zords were found a recycling planet, and the Turbo and Rescue Zords were found a few miles outside of Angel Grove."

Mrs. Fairweather handed Dr. O another piece of paper. "As you can see, we used the Rescue Megazords as the prototype for our LightSpeed Megazords. Then we used the Turbo Megazord sword and used it as a design for the LightSpeed Saber."

Dr. O handed Mrs. Fairweather back the paper work after he finished reading. "Quite impressive, what you did with the turbo technology, but what were you going to do with the wreckage of the Thunder Zords?"

Mrs. Fairweather took off her glasses and rubbed her eyes. "Don't really know why we were told to collect it, but I do know we needed to research the wrecks from old Zords so we could build more powerful ones of our own." Dr. O slowly nodded at this. So far it all made sense, but...

"What does that have to do with what happened two months ago?"

Mrs. Fairweather put her glasses back on. "The Thunder Zord wreckage was stolen."

"What?" Dr. O shouted, shocking Mrs. Fairweather. "Why would they want to steal only that wreckage?" he asked, now on his feet. Mrs. Fairweather sat there for a moment, seemingly debating something in her head.

"Dr. O, sit down, because what I have to tell you will be another shock for you." Dr. O sat down, unsure of what he was going to hear. "When we first got the wreckage of the Zords, we did a scan." She pulled out another piece of paper and handed it to him.

Dr. O took the paper, looked at it, and his eyes widened. "Does this mean what I think it means?"

Mrs. Fairweather nodded. "There were traces of other Zords in five pieces of the Thunder Zords." She reached over and took the paper back from him.

"Makes sense, now that I think about it. After all, the original Zords were used to make the Thunder Zords after Lord Zedd almost destroyed them. But why did they only take the Thunder Zords wreckage and not the more powerful ones, like Turbo and Rescue Zords?"

Mrs. Fairweather shrugged. "Who knows? After all, the last two months have been nothing but dead ends."

Dr. O sighed and looked down at his watch. To his surprise, it was already 3:15 a.m. "Damn. I better get the others up so we'll be ready in time," he said as he stood.

Mrs. Fairweather drained the rest of her coffee. "Dr. O," she called as turned to leave.

He stopped and looked at her. "Yes, Mrs. Fairweather?"

"I was told by Mitchell to have you guys meet us at the rear entrance and to be late." Dr. O nodded and walked away. Mrs. Fairweather grabbed her folder and walked to a garbage can, then threw her cup away and walked out.

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Meanwhile

The Titanium Ranger was on one knee with his weapon, broken in half, next to him. The five MMP Rangers quickly formed the Power Blaster.

"Fire!" shouted the Red Ranger, and an energy stream shot out from their blaster, hitting the Titanium Ranger square in the chest.

There were several large explosions that engulfed him. Then, when the explosion settled and dust blew away, Ryan fell on his back, not moving, and his morpher appeared to be broken. The MMP Rangers separated their weapons and the Red Ranger called in to base.

"We did it! The Titanium Ranger is down!" a woman's voice answered back.

"Good." A moment of silence, then, "Is he still alive?"

The Red Ranger looked at Ryan and saw some movement. "Looks like he is."

"Good. Now listen closely. Here's the next part of the plan..."

TBC

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A/N: Sorry it took soooooooooo long, but I hope you liked it.