Fallingstar22-That was the direction I was going in for Scott and Professor Cog, on its own it makes no sense for Scott to go after Cog by himself in 'Clash of the Red Rangers' as they never touched on the reasoning for doing so apart from having two red rangers teaming up. Don't worry, a lot of more things will be happening soon J
AN: Everyone I like to say again, thanks for reading. Power Rangers does not belong to me.
Chapter 6: Divide And Conquer Part 1
By Screech04
A soft cool breeze flew through the air and past his face. He could feel the hair on the top of his shift lightly from the wind flying past him. Something was different though, he felt smaller as if the world around him was a lot bigger then it really was. He looked down at his own hands and saw they were smaller then they should be as he remembered them. Realization came to him as he figured he was viewing the world as himself at a younger age. Looking over to his side, he saw a young girl sitting next to him as an older gentleman came up to them holding a pocket watch and two necklaces. He wasn't exactly sure of who this man was, but felt he could trust him. The man smiled as lifted one of the necklaces to show off the object hanging from it to him and the girl.
"You see this key, it's very special. Watch." The older gentleman stated as he lifted the pocket watch and inserted the key into the side of the watch and turned it. A hauntingly yet soothing melody played from the watch as the man placed the watch in front of him and girl sitting beside him. "I want you to remember that, and to not lose this. It could be very important to the both of you."
The boy watched as the man leaned forward and placed the necklace on his neck and turned and did the same by placing the other necklace with a similar looking key on the young girl's neck.
"Your parents wanted you to have them. As long as you have these, you'll never forget who you are." The older man stood up and looked down at the boy and the girl, "Take care of your sister you hear? Your mother says she doesn't know how long until your sister's vision goes away. Once it does, you need to be there for her, to care and protect her."
He could only nod at the older gentleman's statement and jumped when he felt a soft hand grab his. He looked at the girl and she smiled as she gave his a soft comforting squeeze. He smiled back and gave a comforting squeeze of his own to her hand, to tell her that he would always be there for her. Closing his eyes, he felt the grasp of exhaustion take him.
(Venjix Palace)
Dillon's eyes slowly opened up and started to come back into focus as he looked around at his surrounding environment, from what he could instantly gather he was definitely not in the garage. Looking side to side he saw he was being dragged by two Grinders towards a chamber. His eyes widened as he saw what was residing in the chamber, he had been in this chamber before. In his dreams, Dillon struggled against Grinders that were holding him as he tried to reach out to help the blind girl…his sister from being thrown down a basin.
"Don't let go." She would say in a pleading voice before the Grinders forced him to lose his grip on her hand and watch as she fell in. He would then be held helplessly in place as the Sat Bot came up to him, making him forget of he was or what he was trying to do.
"Well it's been awhile since I last seen you Subject D44?" Kilobyte walked up to the black ranger and then rammed the butt of his rifle blaster into his waist. "I believe I do owe you back for blasting my eye out." He watched with glee when the human coughed and groaned from being hit.
"Kilobyte enough!" Venjix boomed turning his red eye to look at their new visitor. "Welcome home subject D44."
"Not much of a home." Dillon snorted he received another jab in the waist from Kilobyte.
"Your futile attempt at insulting has been noted." Venjix replied as his spinning column rotated to look at Tenaya 7. "Tenaya 7 show Subject D44 to his new quarters."
"Do I have to, make Crunch do it." Tenaya groaned as she stood up from the wall she was leaning against.
"Do not argue with me Tenaya 7! Do it now!" Venjix roared back. Rolling her eyes, but knowing better than to challenge him she walked over and gave Dillon a hard shove to get him moving. Kilobyte turned and watched the two leave the chamber.
"Is it wise to keep him here?" He inquired, "What if he tries to escape?"
"You overestimate his chances Kilobyte. Even if he did escape, Subject D44 will return back soon enough. I can feel my virus growing inside of him, and there is not a thing he can do to stop it."
"If you say so." Kilobyte sighed as he ran a hand over the top of his head.
"Keep moving!" Tenaya growled as she watched the Black Ranger purposely stop, the Grinders that accompanied her looked at each in confusion on why they stopped.
"Why don't you make me!" Dillon returned back.
"Don't make this harder on yourself D44." Tenaya raised her blaster and pressed it hard into his back, "Now get moving!"
"Fine." He sighed. "But I want my watch back."
(Corinth Rural Field)
"Your move Red." Professor Cog taunted as he watched the Red Ranger bring out his weapon for their rematch.
"You talk you much!" Scott charged forward with his Street Saber swinging. Aiming for the general's head was futile as Cog blocked his attack with his two slotted screwdriver arms.
"You have to do better than that." Cog returned as he sliced twice across the chest then did a X shaped cross slash sending the Red Ranger flying onto his back.
"If I don't think of something fast, this is just going to be like last time all over again." Scott grumbled as he struggled to straighten himself up using his Street Saber as support.
"Electro turbines!" Cog called out as multiple energy gears formed out of Cog's body and flew straight towards the ranger.
"Only got one shot to make this work." Scott said to himself as he charged back towards the robot professor. The first gear came flying in his direction ready to slice his head off. "Now!" Scott yelled as he dived under the gear and watched as the gear went ahead and sliced a lamp post in half. He got back onto his feet and watched as two more gears were coming at him from both directions, waiting to the last second Scott jumped as high as he could and the gears collided with each other in a fury of sparks.
"Not bad Red." Cog stated as his eyes glowed red then he fired his red electric eye beams. Scott held up his saber to deflect the beams, repelling them harmlessly into the dirt and pavement around him.
"Street Saber Strike!" Scott yelled as flew forward.
"Gatling Rivets!" Cog yelled as he fired his attack.
"Not going to work this time Cog!" Scott retorted as the glowing rivets bounced off of him and he slammed right into the robot general.
"What!?" Cog exclaimed in shock and anger as he was knocked back into the air.
"Take this!" Scott shouted as he unleashed a furious combination of swings, strikes, and slashes. Each one hit their mark as Professor Cog was sent flying and went straight through a decommissioned crane. "Is it over?" He gasped as he paused to take a breath.
"I must admit Ranger Red, I've underestimated you." Professor Cog stated as he pulled himself out from behind the destroyed crane. Scott could see the nicks and cuts on Cog's body that he made with his Street Saber so he knew he had managed to damage the professor, but how much damage was done Scott did not know.
"Ready to give up yet?" He asked.
"Not a chance, though I do wonder if you're going to give yourself up?"
"What are you talking about?" Scott inquired.
"What will everyone in this city think when one of their precious Rangers attacks one of their own." Cog replied with a smirk growing on his face.
"What do you mean?" Scott growled at seeing Professor Cog's growing smirk.
(Corinth Control Tower)
Colonel Mason Truman watched with a solemn face as medical staff rushed Vasquez out of the main room down to the Medical Center. He had received the notice from Corporal Hicks that an incident had happened in the tower while they were out in their city wide search for Dr. K. Upon returning he saw was shocked to see Vasquez be lifted onto a stretcher with a nasty blaster burn at her side while paramedics worked on keeping her alive. He walked towards his desk and sat down, contemplating the fate of what may happened to one of his most reliable personnel.
At first he blamed himself for what happened to her. If he hadn't sent her back here to the tower, then perhaps she wouldn't be in the situation she was currently in now. He was brought out of his self thought when Hicks walked up to his desk.
"Sir, the camera footage caught the incident. But I must warn you, you might not like what you see." Hicks reported then turned and walked away. Truman sighed as he pulled up the security camera footage on his computer. His eyes widened at what he saw, unwilling to believe what he was seeing.
One of Venjix's Grinders was walking down a hallway accompanied by his son Scott who was in his Project Ranger suit. Every single military personnel that tried to intercept the robot, he watched his son jump in front of it and protect it. Truman couldn't believe his eyes as he watched his son disable and knock out each and every soldier that tried to go for the Grinder. The footage changed to inside of the central command room where Vasquez appeared to be busy working at one of the monitor consoles.
The footage continued as it showed his son appearing within the camera's field of vision and Vasquez looking up as if to greet him. Her posture changed when the Grinder appeared in the view of the camera and Truman saw her immediately reach down for her sidearm blaster. It didn't appear to matter though as he saw that Scott was quicker on the draw and brought up his sidearm and shot Vasquez in the side, the red light emanating from his blaster flying out and impacting itself into her. The next portion of the footage caught Truman's eye, the Grinder walked over to his computer and was typing on it. The camera wasn't able to catch what it was the Grinder was looking for as it finished what it needed to do and left central command with Scott following behind.
"Scott what have you done?" The Colonel sighed to himself as he sat back in his chair, his eyes looking at the camera footage and seeing the prone lying form of Vasquez all there alone and injured. He rubbed his forehead and thought on how everything has almost gone to near insanity. Vasquez was injured with no word yet on her fate, Dr. K was a fugitive on the run and yet to be found, her Project Ranger team was nowhere to be found apart from Scott who seemed to ally himself with a Grinder. "What the heck is going on?"
(Venjix Palace)
Dillon paced around the cell he was placed into in frustration before sitting down and placing his head in his hands. Outside the cell, Grinders were standing guard waving their arms up and down making that irritable grinding noise. He heard footsteps walking up to his cell and looked and saw Tenaya standing outside of it. Dillon could hear the jingling noise of buttons being pressed and his cell door opened up and she walked in holding the pocket watch.
"Fix it." She stated as she tossed the watch to him.
"Why should I?" He retorted as he caught it and glared back at up her.
"Fix it now!" Tenaya growled as she raised up her blaster and pointed it right at him. "Or be destroyed."
"No." Dillon shook his head, not wanting to give into her demands.
"Fix it!" She took a step forward with her blaster still trained on him. He noticed that her eyes took on a glazed look and her bottom lip had a slight quiver to it. "Fix it….please." She said again in a much softer and smaller voice which was something unlike her to say. Dillon sighed as he pulled out the key that he always kept on him and inserted it into the side of the watch and turned the key. The melody contained within emanated outwards as Dillon looked up to gauge her reactions. Tenaya's gaze seemed transfixed on the watch as the melody played.
"Why is this so important to you?" He asked, but Tenaya didn't respond and simply took the watch out of his hand and stared at it. Dillon knew that with her distracted, he could easily take her out and escape. But some part didn't want to, and so he stayed where he sat as he listened to the melody play in his cell.
"She's been down there too long." Kilobyte stated as he glared down the hallway where Tenaya 7 had marched off in minutes ago.
"It is of no importance of what she does as long as she completes the tasks I designate her to complete." Venjix replied.
"She could let him escape, given what she is of course." Kilobyte retorted back.
"Tenaya 7 would never do that. She knows of what the cost would be for treason. It is the same result if she should fail another assignment." Venjix returned back, confident that his creation would always remain loyal to him. "I have an assignment for you Kilobyte."
"Of course." Kilobyte commented as his eyes glowed when he received the information Venjix was sending him." Your wish is my command Master Venjix."
"This attack bot will aid you with your mission." Venjix turned and watched as the giant claw reached down into the basin and pulled out an attack bot and placed it next to Kilobyte.
"Didn't the Rangers already defeat this one? Seems kind of pointless to send it against them again." Kilobyte glanced over at it before turning back to Venjix.
"The Magnet Bot will be used as a diversion for the other Rangers as Professor Cog has his assignment of keeping the Red Ranger busy. And you have your own assignment to complete."
"It will be done Master Venjix." Kilobyte bowed with a malicious grin.
(Sulfred Mountain Range)
"Where are Ranger Series Red and Black?" Dr. K inquired again as she looked at the remaining members of her team.
"Not here." Ziggy replied.
"And the reason being?" Dr. K raised an eyebrow.
"Both of them were injured against Venjix's forces. They're recovering." Flynn returned. Dr. K sighed as sat back on her chair. "I take it that's a bad thing?"
"Well to get the Paleozord working properly, I need all members of Project Ranger to be present." Dr. K answered Flynn's question. The silence was short lived as Colonel Truman's voice came in through Summer's morpher.
"Rangers are you there?" Truman's voice asked. Summer took a quick glance at Dr. K before bringing her morpher up.
"Yeah we're here, go ahead Colonel." Summer replied.
"We have some problems. Vasquez was injured by Scott and is now in intensive care at the medical center. My son himself is nowhere to be found and your Ranger Series Black appears to be MIA as well." Truman explained.
"What do you mean?" Summer inquired.
"I had Corporal Hicks go to your garage to see if Scott was there. He wasn't there and neither was your Series Black, Hicks mentioned that he found a note that said Series Black was injured and recovering, but he was nowhere to be found. I have my hands tied up now, so I must ask for your help in finding Dr. K. Will you assist me?"
"Of course Colonel, we'll do what we can." Summer finished as dropped the communication line with Colonel Truman.
"I'm pulling up the surveillance footage now." Dr. K's fingers flew across the keys as a screen pulled up showing the camera footage from the garage. For a short time, no events of real importance.
"Is that Tenaya?" Summer pointed out. The others looked and saw she was right as Tenaya 7 appeared in the footage followed by General Crunch. They watched as the infiltration bot pointed off in one direction and General Crunch jumped around a little bit before jogging in the direction Tenaya was pointing to while she stood in plain sight. Minutes passed as the team then saw Dillon appeared within the camera's field of vision. He recoiled when he saw Tenaya and made to charge at her.
"Look, Crunch must of thrown something at him." Flynn pointed out as they saw Dillon grasp his neck and pulled something out of it. He then appeared to stumble around and lose his footing before collapsing on the floor, not moving. Tenaya moved forward to check to see if he was moving and then motioned for Crunch to pick Dillon up.
"That's the last of the footage." Dr. K pointed out as the screen went black when Crunch picked up Dillon.
"What do we do now?" Flynn asked.
"We need to find Scott and Dillon." Summer replied with determination.
"That may have to be put on hold Ranger Yellow, look." Dr. K pulled up a screen. On the screen, it showed live footage of Grinders attacking the civilian population of Corinth with the Magnet Bot following behind using its magnets to pull into metal objects and then fire them back out with tremendous force.
"Didn't we destroy that already?" Ziggy asked.
"Doesn't matter, we have to stop it." Summer announced and the other Rangers nodded their agreement. "Let's go!"
"Oh I don't think you'll be going anywhere!" The voice caused them to stop and they looked at the entrance to the cave.
"It's him." Ziggy whispered knowing full well who it was.
"How rude of me to not announce of who I am." He pulled out his blaster rifle and aimed it in the Rangers' direction. "You can call me Kilobyte."
Hey guys, sorry for the long wait for this next chapter. That's what happens when REAL LIFE gives you a big kick in the…ok I'm stopping there. Tell me what you thought of this chapter, thanks for reading.
