Chapter 9

Disclaimer: See Chapter 1

On earth Kimberly's Power Coin, her Morpher, and her communicator arrived in the park of Angel Grove in a flash of light, near a shrub. They lay there for a few days, until they were found by, of all people Bulk and Skull! While the pair had been looking for the Rangers, they realized that they needed to bide their time until an opening came up. Upon finding the power items, they knew that they needed to take them to someone who could do something with them. They realized that they needed someone who was something of a geek, but a INTELLIGENT geek! That left only one person that they could talk to about this: Billy Cranston.

"Hey Billy, you got a minute?" Skull asked the young man, wearing a blue shirt. Skull and Bulk knew that while Billy was a genius, they had to be polite to him to get him to look over what they had found.

"I might. It all depends on what you want" Billy responded. Like many of the rangers, over the past month, he had been worried about Kim's disappearance. While Zedd had been sending down Putties and some minor monsters, he had not been up to his usual activities. And this had the team, especially Tommy, worried. Now Bulk and Skull had shown up wanting to ask him something. It had not been a good month for the genius.

"We need you to take a look at these items. We think that they might belong to one of the Rangers, but we're not certain" Bulk told him, carefully holding them in his hands as he allowed Billy to examine them. Both Bulk and Skull were hoping for the best, but expecting the worst. They HOPED that the items were genuine Power Ranger material, but EXPECTED that they would be told that they were phony items.

Billy carefully examined the items. Much to his surprise, they WERE the real deal! They were Kim's communicator, morpher and power coin! "Where did you find them?" he asked the two miscreants, trying to keep his surprise and shock out of his voice.

"We found them in the park by some bushes" Bulk replied. "Are they real?" he asked, hoping that this would help them out in their search for the Power Rangers.

"They look real. But I need to take a look at them up close under a magnifying glass to confirm it" Billy told the two clowns. Inside though, Billy was worried. If Kim's morpher, power coin and communicator had shown up there, was she nearby alive and unconscious or worse? All of this was going through his head.

Bulk and Skull though were ecstatic! "You hear that Bulky. They look real! We might FINALLY be on the trail to finding out who the Rangers are" he told his partner.

"We need to get back to the park and see if we can find anything else" the larger of the two teens said, as they took off for the city park, leaving Billy holding onto the items.

Once Bulk and Skull were out of site, Billy rolled up his own sleeve and activated his own communicator, and disappeared in a nimbus of blue light, reappearing in the command center. Present were Alpha 5, a autonomous robot who took care of many of the things that needed to be done around the base. Also present was the Rangers mentor Zordon, who was in a energy tube, since he had been put in there to save his life after losing a battle with Rita Repulsa centuries ago.

"Billy! What brings you here?" Alpha asked, looking that genius who had done a great deal to help Alpha keep the Zords up and running. Seeing the serious expression on his face Zordon chimed in as well.

"What is troubling you Billy?" he asked. While the battle against both Rita and Zedd had been strenuous, it had never been such that there had been this much strain on the team until now with Kimberly Hart's disappearance.

"Bulk and Skull came by to see me earlier. They had some items that they wanted me to look at. This is what they asked me to look at" he told Zordon and Alpha 5, as he displayed the three items.

"AYE YI YI! That is Kimberly's power coin, communicator and Morpher" Alpha exclaimed. Alpha was always one to be a bit on the excitable side, but these three items really caused him to get in a tizzy.

"Billy, if those are truly Kimberly's communicator and power items, then we have a serious problem. She is probably a prisoner of Lord Zedd" Zordon told the Blue Ranger.

"Then maybe we should consider calling the others in. If we are going to rescue Kim, then it will take all that we can get to do so" Billy Zordon.

"I'll get on it right away Zordon" Alpha 5 told the wizard/mentor of the Power Rangers. A signal was sent out via the communicators, and a minute later, the rest of the Rangers arrived.

Upon acknowledging Zordon, the mission was explained: Search the park and the area around it for any sign of Kimberly. "Well, if Kim is a prisoner of Zedd, then it's time to get ready for action: ITS MOPRHIN TIME!" Tommy called out!

MASTADON! Called out Adam

TRICERITOPS! Called out Billy

SABERTOOTH TIGER! Called out Aisha

TYRANNASOURS! Called out Rocky

WHITE TIGER! Called out Tommy.

And with that, the Rangers, having morphed, headed toward the park.

On the Moon, Kimberly was preparing for a special ceremony: She was about to become the apprentice to Lord Zedd in Magick. She had, under Goldar's supervision, had chosen a combination weapon/magical focusing item: A Halberd! The weapon seemed to fit her perfectly. It was as if the two were halves of each other, as if they were halves of the whole. Now, Kimberly was dressed in robes, and, with the Halberd in her hand, was kneeling in front of him.

"Oh, if only those pathetic Rangers knew the truth, that Kimberly is now my apprentice" Zedd muttered, as he turned away from looking at the earth, and turned toward Kimberly.

"She is ready, my Lord" Goldar stated, as he bowed his head toward his master. When Kimberly had arrived, while she had been in decent shape, but had only ideas on how to fight hand to hand, and use a bow as a weapon. Now, she was in superb shape, could fight in multiple styles of unarmed combat, and now, was using a Halberd instead of a bow and arrow as a weapon. And Kim had managed to surprise Goldar a few times using it. Now, she was about to become a apprentice to Lord Zedd and start learning deeper, more powerful Magick.

However, just as the ceremony was about to begin, a loud screeching voice was heard: "You want HER to be your apprentice? NEVER! I, Rita Repulsa, challenge you!"