=Stanford, California, United States==

All of the Rangers stood around the lone surviving criminal. The one word he had spoken had spoken for miles. That 'yes' opened up a whole new door for possibilities. Raylan felt sick to his stomach when he heard it being uttered.

"What...what do you mean?" he asked. "He just...he just eats you?"

"He would have until you all butted in." the student spat while still in Tyler's grasp. "Can't you just let us do our fucking job?"

"Your job involves raping and hurting other people." Raylan said. "As Power Rangers, we can't let that happen."

"Who gives a shit what you guys want?" the student asked.

"The rest of the world does. What compelled you to be a part of this organization in which you would ultimately die?"

"The Great Promise." the student answered.

"The Great Promise?" Raylan asked. "Explain."

"You see, when we complete what we have to complete, Father takes our power from us. Once we are drained of all we call 'life', we can move on to a more powerful life in Valhalla."

"Valhalla?" Emma asked. "Isn't that the Norse heaven?"

"Father used whatever power he had to create a world for us in another dimension." the student answered. "After doing what is asked of us, we are sent to Valhalla where we rule everything limitlessly. We will come back with more power than we every imagined!"

"What do you mean by come back?" Emma asked wearily.

"When Father's power reaches its maximum capability, Valhalla will fuse with the natural world through the Ragnarok. At that time, all who followed him become masters of the universe."

"You...you become demigods." Raylan said.

"Is that why your eyes turn red or something?" Johnny asked. "Cause we still haven't gotten to that part, yet."

"We gain the immense power as we eat a flower of Folkvangr." the student answered. "It gives us semi-demigod powers for a short burst of time."

"Folkvangr is the counterpart to Valhalla..." Emma mumbled. "Something's not right here..."

"So you're not a human, you're a divine!" Raylan exclaimed.

"I was a divine until you held my damn powers to a halt!" the student grunted. "If you guys didn't butt your stupid heads in then our plan would have gone smoothly."

"Um, nobody kidnaps my girlfriend." Johnny said. "Nobody."

"Does it look like I give the smallest shit about what you want me to do with your girlfriend?" the student asked. "I just want to do what's asked of me so I can get all the power in the world."

"You're just a selfish brat." Raylan shook his head. "You get your pleasure out of other people's pain and intend to capitalize on it."

"This world is a nasty place, Ranger." the student told him. "Everybody climbs up the ladder of life by stepping on other people. You just need to know how to play the game."

"We've been playing the game for two years." Tyler informed by. "The game of finishing asshats like you."

"Asshat is kind of a compliment for me." the student smirked.

"You really are a worthless piece of shit." Johnny shook his head.

"And rightfully so. Now if you'd excuse me, I have a task to finish off!" the student shouted and broke from Tyler's grip.

He lunged at Ryleigh and knocked the girl down after she barely managed to stand up the first time. Before trying his sneaky tactics, Johnny was able to rip him off of his girlfriend. When him and his enemy could see helmet-to-eye, Johnny sent his fist flying straight at the kid. He fell back with Johnny standing over him. Johnny pulled out his blaster and continuously fired at him.

"Why did you do that!?" Sydney asked in shock. "We were getting so much information from him!"

"We already found out everything we needed to know for now." Raylan put his hand on her shoulder. "The rest is up to us."

"What do you mean?"

"We know that this isn't some crime ring we're talking about, this is a cult. I can't tell if Father is just spewing lies to feed his cannibalism or if he actually created a pseudo-heaven, but we know enough to be able to go after him."

"How do we find him?" Mike asked. "We literally know nothing about him or where he is."

"We're going to have to play a similar strategy to the way we beat J." Raylan told them.

"So we just wait and do nothing again?" Tyler asked. "That doesn't sound like much of a plan to me."

"Hey, it worked last time." Raylan shrugged.

"But we ended up putting so many innocent people at risk."

"It's not like we had much of a choice." Raylan said.

"You're the leader, so I'll let it be your call." Tyler sighed.

"I'm going to side with Raylan on this one." Mike agreed with Raylan. "Like he said, it worked well for us last time. Not to mention the fact that he hasn't really gotten any call wrong."

"Then we wait." Raylan nodded.

The Rangers headed back to the hotel where the others were staying for the weekend. After a hectic morning rescuing Ryleigh from Father's men, they thought it was best to rest up. Since they were pretty much done with alcohol, they just decided to chill out in the room.

"So we're literally going to do nothing about this." Emma pouted. "I kinda wanna get in some action."

"Too bad we can't." Ryleigh said. "There's no way we can find out about anything when we don't even know who this 'Father' guy is."

"The sucky part is that if we wait to long, Valhalla will fuse with Earth." Raylan said.

"Isn't Valhalla supposed to be some sort of heaven, though?" Emma asked. "What's so bad about fusing Earth with the Nordic heaven?"

"The fact that it won't be heaven for us." Tyler answered. "The dude said that it'll be a heaven for only the followers of Father. All others become powerless slaves."

"Have you guys read the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Raylan asked. "Or at least watched the movie version, Blade Runner?"

"You're asking me? Obviously." Tyler nodded. "But what does that have to do with anything present?"

"Don't you get it?" Raylan asked. "We're playing the part of the androids! We're just going to be slaves for the powerful. And do you know what happened at the end of the book?" he asked. The entire team apart from Tyler shook their heads. "The androids get eliminated."

"We're not just fighting for the sake of our city here, we're fighting for the sake of lives." Tyler said. "But unlike our past fights, we don't have the public's help on this one. We're in this alone."