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Chapter Sixteen-The Battle for Tommy"Where exactly are we?"
"Duh, we're on the moon."
"Yeah, I guessed that much."
The eleven rangers had been teleported to the moon from the dino lair, but they didn't know where they were on the moon. Haley had said she would try to get them as close as possible to the palace, but it was nowhere in sight.
"I don't see anything, do you?" Kat asked Aisha.
"Nope, not a thing." Came the reply. "Unless of course you are counting the empty landscape, and all of the moon dust. Then I see something. But other than that, no."
"Hey Billy, do you think that maybe Zedd's shield is still in place?" Adam asked.
"That's impossible. It would have gone done when he was destroyed. It was made by his magic, and when he died, his magic died with him." Billy answered.
"Then where is the moon palace? I don't see anything except for moon dust." Rocky said.
All of a sudden, there was a shimmer of light in front of them, and Billy, who had been walking in front, got thrown back.
"Well," Billy said getting up. "I think we found something.
"Haley?" He continued into his communicator. "Can you hear me?"
"Loud and clear. Did you find them?" Haley's voice crackled over the device on his wrist.
"No, not yet. When you teleported us here, where did you send us?" Billy asked.
"I sent you to the only coordinates I have for the moon palace. As far as I can tell, they sent you to about five yards from the spot where the shield used to be."
"Well, I've got some news for you. The shield is still there, and we can't get through it. Do you think you could help us on that?"
"I'll do what I can." Haley told him.
A moment later, the shield shimmered in front of them again, then it was gone, and everyone could see the Moon Palace standing one hundred feet away from them.
"Thanks Haley."
"No problem guys, good luck."
"Thanks again, we'll contact you when we find them, or if we need some backup." Billy informed her.
"Got it."
Billy turned off his communicator and started walking towards the moon palace, this time with Kat.
"So Kat, any idea where we are going?"
"Nope. But I might be able to find the throne room once we get inside."
"In that case lead on."
"Yeah." Agreed Rocky. "The sooner we rescue them, the sooner we can get back. I'm starving."
"That's Rocky, always thinking of his stomach." Aisha said, trying very hard not to laugh. She couldn't laugh now, this was a very serious situation.
"Everyone be very quiet, we don't know what's in there." They had reached the entrance to the palace.
"When we get inside, I will lead you to the throne room." Kat continued. "After that, we should be able to find where they are being kept, if they are even here."
"What if they aren't here?" Trent asked.
"Then we are back at square one. But I'm pretty sure someone is here. Someone went to all of that trouble making sure the palace was hidden, and it had to be someone pretty powerful, this palace is huge." Kat informed everyone.
One by one, the eleven rangers followed Kat into the palace. They followed her through passageways, hidden doors, and other rooms. They had been in the palace for ten minutes, when they stopped outside of a door that looked pretty important.
"Well, here we are. This is the door into the throne room."
All of a sudden, they heard voices coming from within the room. They all leaned closer to hear what the voices were saying.
"-the most powerful of all. Nothing can stop us once the three of them are out of the way. It will be the most powerful union in the entire universe. All we have to do now is get that meddlesome little girl out of the way. From there, the two little brats should be no problem."
"But how are we going to destroy the pink ranger?" A familiar voice asked. No one knew who the first voice belonged to, although she did sound something like Rita Repulsa, but not quite the same. Younger maybe, and not fully used to being in charge of everything.
"That's just it. We aren't going to destroy her, her precious power rangers will take care of that. At this very moment, she is being disguised as a monster, then she will be sent to Reefside, to destroy all of those power rangers, at least that's what she thinks she'll be doing. They are too powerful for any monster, history has proven that. They will destroy her for us. And when that happens, the spell will break, and they will realize what they have done. For once, evil will win, and it will be all the fault of the side of good."
"That is a very good plan, mistress." The male voice said.
"Yes, I know it is." The familiar sounding voice replied.
Then, everything was silent in the throne room. But that didn't mean they could go in there. The two evil people would probably kill them. Whoever they were.
"Billy." Hissed Aisha, motioning for him to follow her a little outside of the group. "Did you recognize that other voice, the one that hardly said anything."
"I'm afraid I did. I regret to say that there is no other person that voice could belong to except for…"
"Tommy." Aisha finished for him. "That was what I was afraid of. Do you think anyone else heard it?"
"I highly doubt that anyone recognized the voice as that of our former leader, mentor, and father."
When Aisha just looked at him he hastened to explain.
"I mean no."
"Oh, ok."
The two Ninjetti rejoined the group.
"I don't think they're in there anymore." David said.
"How do you know?" Ethan asked curiously.
"I would hear them if they were." David said simply.
"How?" Conner said.
"It's part of the animal spirit inside of me, I just have very good hearing." David replied.
Billy and Aisha looked at each other worriedly. David didn't seem to notice. They hoped he hadn't recognized his father's voice. But then again he hadn't exactly grown up with the man, he probably wouldn't.
"I have been focusing very closely on the throne room, and there is no one in there." David repeated.
With that, Ann cautiously opened the door.
"No one here." She called out softly.
Everyone followed her and David into the throne room.
"Well, this place sure hasn't changed." Kat said softly, looking around. The only way out of the room, beside the door behind them was another door at the other end of the room. Not counting the balcony overlooking the landscape of the moon, which also had a very good view of earth. "That door over there leads into Zedd's study. They must have gone into it."
"What is that?" Kira asked, pointing to something gold, that was shining, while hanging in midair, next to Zedd's throne.
"That, is a dark dimension." Billy said. "When it is visible, that means someone is in it."
"So they could have gone into there?" Ethan asked.
"I find that highly unlikely. By the sound of it, they have everything they need, for now. The twin's are probably in there. Goldar is probably in there with them."
"Guess again rangers." Came a voice from behind them. It was Goldar.
"We'll go get them then." Ann called, dragging David over to the side of the throne. They went through the light, and into the dark dimension.
On the other side, they came out into a dark, but perfectly circular room. There was mist covering the whole floor, and for a moment, the twin's couldn't see anyone. Then out of the corner of her eye, Ann saw something move.
"Hello." She called softly. "Is anyone there? Ann, David?"
She heard a gasp, then, "Who are you?"
Ann recognized the voice of her older brother, but younger. She remembered this day. Finding herself captured, losing her parents, being frightened by all of the scary surroundings. If it had been any other day, Ann would have been the one talking, and David would be the silent one, always letting his sister do the talking. Except for that day. That day, David had found the strength that he needed, somewhere, and he had protected his sister from the horrors around them.
"I am a friend. We came to rescue you." Ann told her younger self and her young brother.
"What about mommy and daddy, where are they? Why aren't they here?" Young David's scared voice asked.
"Kira, Trent, Ethan, Conner, Uncle Billy, Uncle Rock, Aunt Kitty, Aunt Sha, and Uncle Addy are all out there, getting them." Ann told the younger twins.
"If you come with us, then you can see them again." David added.
"Who are you?" Little David asked, hearing the new voice.
"I am a friend."
"What's your name?"
"Gosh, you were stubborn." Ann said softly to her twin, the older one.
"My name, is David." He heard a gasp.
"So is mine. What about her?"
"My name, is Ann."
"So is mine." For the first time, Ann heard her scared little voice, coming muffled from behind her brother.
Slowly, David got to his feet, with Ann close behind him.
"We will come with you." He told his older self.
When the two of them got closer to their future selves, Ann saw that they were dirty, and they looked so hungry. There was also a haunted look in their eyes. Like they had seen terrible things, that had hurt them very much.
"Come on." Ann said taking her younger hand. "You hold David's hand." She told her brother. It didn't matter which one she was talking to.
Together, the four of them stepped back into the throne room, where there was a full-scale battle taking place. Luckily for them they weren't noticed as they quietly slipped out of the room.
After the twin's had left, the ranger's had immediately attacked Goldar, without warning. They needed to draw his attention away from the two rescuers.
"Hey Goldar! Long time no see." Kat called out in distraction.
"You know, I liked you better as a cat." Goldar snarled.
"Dude, don't say that to her. You are seriously gonna piss her off, big time." Adam told the gold monkey.
He had. Kat jumped at him, kicking him to the ground. When the monster got up, he called about fifty putties up out of nowhere. That is when the battle really started.
Aisha and Kat were taking control of the situation with Goldar. While the rest of the rangers spread themselves out to attack the putties. Some of them old hands at battling the pathetic monsters, some of them just seeing them for the first time.
"You know." Rocky called out to Adam. "I don't remember these things being so hard to beat."
"Yeah." Adam agreed, ducking at the same time to avoid being punched in the head. "And didn't they used to have 'Z's' on their chests. These all have 'S's'."
Billy had noticed that too.
Someone brought them back, stronger than before. And that someone doesn't have a problem with taking all of the credit for themselves. I wonder if it was the same person who was talking to Tommy before.
With that thought, Billy gave the monster a final kick, harder than before, right in the S on its chest, and it finally disappeared. As he turned around to see if anyone needed help, he saw the twin's slip from the room, leading the younger twin's. Billy smiled to himself, at least they were safe. He jumped back into the battle.
About twenty minutes later, all of the putties were gone, and there was still no sign of anyone except for Goldar. The mysterious person who had had Tommy with her, Tommy himself, and Kimberly were all still missing. Only the twin's were actually accounted for. The nine remaining rangers regrouped at the far end of the room.
"What happened with the twin's?" Asked Kira.
"I saw the four of them leave." Billy told the rest of the group.
"We need a plan." Rocky said. "We only rescued two of the four people we came for. And we still have yet to hear anything about Tommy, and we haven't seen him or Kim."
"Well actually." Aisha said. "I asked Billy what he thought earlier. And we both agree that one of the two people who we heard talking before, was Tommy. He was the one that hardly said anything. We don't know who the other person was."
"I bet she was the one who brought back the putties." Adam said.
"And him." Rocky said, indicating the gold monkey on the other end of the room, who was busy nursing his wounds.
"Do you think we can take him out?" Conner asked. "I mean, you've done it before, what's stopping you from doing it again?"
"Now would be the ideal moment, but we just don't have the time."
"You're right, you don't." The voice came from behind them. Without realizing it, they had backed right against Zedd's old study. They recognized the voice as the one they had heard before. All of a sudden, there was a flash of light, and they were slammed against the wall, held there by ropes ofpurple and red light.
The woman stepped out of the doorway. She was dressed all in red, except for the purple sash around her waist and the thin band of silver around her head, and holding a silver staff like Zedd used to, except hers had an 'S' on it.
"Who are you?"
"Oh, I am just so disappointed in you." The woman said. "You would think that the mighty power rangers would know me, wouldn't you darling?"
She was looking over her shoulder as she said that, and as she finished speaking, Tommy walked out of the study behind her.
"No Tommy!" Cried Kat. "You have to fight it!"
Tommy's eyes were glowing red. Like Kimberly and Jason's had on Muranthias. And he gave no recognition to his name. It was as if he didn't know who he was. He was under the woman's spell.
"Tommy, what has she done to you?" Aisha said. "Tommy answer us."
"He won't answer you." The woman said smiling. "He doesn't remember you. But where are my manners? I have forgotten to introduce myself. My name is Scarlette. I believe that you have had the pleasure of meeting my parents before?"
"No." Gasped all of the older rangers. They knew whom she sounded and looked like now. They knew why she was living in the moon palace. Why she carried a staff that resembled Zedd's, why she had powers that resembled Zedd's. Because in a way, they were Zedd's. He had passed them on to her. Because this evil woman, Scarlette, was the daughter of Emperor Zedd, and Rita Repulsa.
"I am so glad you remember them. It's a shame they couldn't be here. They would be so proud that I am about to accomplish what they never could. I am going to destroy the power rangers."
"You will never destroy the power rangers." Kira said. "No matter when or where, there will always be power rangers. And there is nothing you can do to stop it."
"Oh, how touching, from someone on their deathbed."
Kira just glared. This was her worst nightmare. This woman was going to kill her. She had known all day that she would die, but she didn't want to die like this. Not here in this old and dusty palace. Not at the mercy of this woman who had kidnapped her science teacher, and turned him evil, and who had made his fiancé into a monster, and who had hurt his children. The woman who had made those wonderful twin's grow up without parents.
"I am not." Kira said defiantly.
"Yes you are." Scarlette said, evil laughter in her eyes.
"No, I'm not."
"Are too."
"Am not."
"Are too."
"Am not."
"Are too."
"She is not."
Everyone looked to the door. The twins had come back, the older ones.
"Ooh, who are you?" Scarlette asked, in a voice exactly like one her mother used to use.
"I think you know." David answered.
"No I don't. Who are you, tell me!" Scarlette said.
"No." Ann retorted. Behind the mask, she was glaring at the woman who had scarred her for life. The woman who had taken her parents from her.
"Fine, be that way. You can go join your friends." But when Scarlette turned her staff on the twin's, nothing happened. She hit it against the ground, but nothing happened. "Why isn't this working?"
"Nothing is stronger than the falcon and the crane." David replied.
"But you aren't the falcon or the crane. He is the falcon." She pointed at Tommy behind her. "And the crane is currently off, getting herself killed by her friends."
"No, she isn't, and yes, we are." David said.
"But, that's impossible. The only other people who possess any of that power are in my power."
"Excuse me." Kat said. "But I am not in your power."
"But you are helpless." Scarlette said. "Besides, you aren't that pathetic pink ranger. You cannot possibly possess the spirit of the crane anyway."
"Not entirely." Kat said under her breath. David smiled at her, he had heard. He knew what to do.
"We want our father back, if you please." Ann said.
"Your father? I don't have your father. I don't know your father. Well, maybe I do, but I don't know who you are." Scarlette said, looking genuinely confused.
"Yes you do. You know who we are, and you have our father, and we would kinda appreciate it if you'd give him back." David told her.
"I think we have already had this discussion. Maybe I could help you out if you told me who you were."
The twin's nodded at each other, and stood side by side. Somehow Kat managed to break free of the light, and joined them. They stood there, and all of a sudden the animal spirits were flying around the room. The crane was flying with the falcon from Ann and David, and the crane came also from Kat. As one, they flew into Tommy.
"Impossible. The only two people who could do that are definitely not you." Scarlette said, her mouth wide open in shock.
"You are right about that. They aren't us, not yet anyway." Ann said.
"What, but that is impossible. Those brats are only two years old." Scarlette said.
"In this time they are. But we aren't from this time. Or haven't you guessed that by now?" David asked in mock politeness.
As the evil empress's power over Tommy started to fade, so did her power holding back the other rangers. One by one they broke free and joined Kat and the twins. There was a line of eleven rangers standing there, and they were all feeding their separate animal sprits into him. Slowly, the red color in his eyes faded, until they were once again the same chocolate brown they had been the day before.
"NO!" Screamed the empress. "NO! THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE! THEY CAN'T BE HERE! THAT ISN'T THEM!"
Tommy just stared at everything. He remembered nothing of being evil. He hadn't been there when everyone turned into their Ninjetti forms, but he got the hint who everyone was, except for the two younger ones in white. They seemed to be the focus of Scarlette's rage. Quickly, Tommy joined their ranks.
"Ninjetti! The Falcon!"
Tommy appeared next to them in his white suit. He looked at Ann and David curiously as he stood next to them. Who were they?
"You are going to pay for everything Scarlette." Ann shouted at the evil empress. "Everything that you have done today will not be forgotten."
"Well, that's just too bad." Scarlette said, mockingly. "You see, I have matters to deal with elsewhere."
With a flash of red, Scarlette Repulsa, Empress of Evil, disappeared, but they knew that they would see her again.
The twelve rangers hastened to return to earth and the dino lair, to try and locate Kim.
A/N-Was anyone expecting that? So, who agrees with me that Rita and Zedd should have had children on the show? Now that would have been a dysfunctional family.
The story only has three or four more chapters left, but don't worry, there is going to be a sequel.
i am so sorry it took like a week to update once again. my computer isn't working and i just tranferred these files onto my dad's computer so i could load them here.