Disclaimer: Still don't own Power Rangers.
A/N: Another huge shout out to my
reviewers. Yall're so awesome. I know I told a couple people in
review replies that there would be fast updates this weekend...but
yea. Writer's block. Sorry. Anyways, here's the next chapter.
David gripped his dagger tightly as he heard Jason's almost venomous words.
"I just want to know, though, David..." Jason said, causing David's eyebrows to raise just a little bit with interest. "Why?"
David started trembling a little bit when he heard the tone of Jason's voice during that last word. It wasn't filled with the hate and rage he was so used to. Instead, it sounded more like sadness, disappointment...maybe even pity.
"It's too late," David said, just loud enough for Jason to hear him. "There's no other choice, there's no turning back."
Jason visibly flinched where he stood. He had expected some random outburst about how he was going to destroy all the Rangers and so on. Something to justify him going over there and ripping David's head off. Now that conflict of morals was back in effect.
"I've done too much," David said, and Jason heard a small sob. The poor bastard was falling apart. "All I wanted was to be noticed...to be accepted..."
"And this is how you go about it?" Jason asked, the anger rising once more. "There's a lot less violent ways to cry for attention."
"I know..." David said, lowering the Dragon Dagger and looking at the ground. "I don't know how it got so out of control..."
Jason stood his ground, keeping his sword ready. The adrenaline was flowing through him like never before. He wanted to kill him. Now. But Zordon's words...the Ranger Code...it was all running through his mind.
"You can't forgive me, can you?" David asked, looking back up at Jason.
"You killed my brother," Jason simply responded.
"I know. I'm sorry. I never even met him," David replied. "I heard he was a great guy, though."
"Sorry doesn't bring him back," Jason spat out, narrowing his eyes.
"I don't want to fight anymore," David said, shaking his head. "I just don't want this to carry on."
Jason glanced sideways to the battle with the Dragonzord. Just as he was turning back to David, to tell him to call off the Zord, he witnessed the Green Ranger demorph. His eyes widened, he couldn't believe it.
"No more fighting?" David asked, wiping some tears from his eyes.
Jason couldn't believe it. All that and he was backing out? He was really just a misunderstood, slightly psychotic kid? Still, it wasn't his place to judge anymore. Without Ranger powers, David wasn't under their jurisdiction. He had to turn him over to the law, now, and let them handle it the old fashioned way. Jason ignored the urge to run forwards and impale him, and instead reached to his own morpher, unmorphing as well.
Tommy jumped upwards from the streets, landing next to Kimberly on another skyscraper.
"You alright?" Kimberly asked, however she didn't stop firing arrow after arrow at the Dragonzord.
"I'm fine," Tommy said, shaking his head. "Only thing hurt is my pride."
Kimberly let out a small giggle at that one, and glanced sideways to see Trini landing near them, too.
"He welded the hatch shut!" Trini reported. "I saw it when I was up there...how are we supposed to get in now?!"
"Shit!" Tommy yelled, looking back to his former Zord. "This is going to get a lot worse before it get better."
"We've..." Kim started, but trailed off as the Dragonzord turned to the three of them. It had obviously had enough of her fire, and was going to do something about it.
"Go! Go!" Tommy ordered, and the two girls leaped in separate directions. Meanwhile, Tommy jumped straight at the Green Ranger's Zord. As he closed in, the Dragonzord swung a powerful backhand that hit him dead on, launching him up into the air.
He landed inside an Apache helicopter that had just arrived at the scene with a whole bunch of other forces. He quickly looked to see a soldier standing right next to him, with a pretty surprised look on his face.
"Corporal White," the soldier said after collecting himself, shaking hands with Tommy. Tommy had to smile under his helmet at the irony on that one. "How can we help?"
"Nothing we can do right now," Tommy answered. "We're waiting on our Zords to be operational again, we just have to keep it at bay right now."
"Our weaponry has proven generally ineffective against it before," White said, and Tommy nodded.
"I don't want your boys hitting my team. We're hopping all over the place," Tommy said, and White nodded in understanding. "Think you can organize a full scale evacuation of the city?
"Can do," the corporal answered. "Been rough for you guys, huh?"
"You have no idea," Tommy answered, looking back down to the fight. "Be careful out there."
"You too!" White said with a salute, and Tommy leaped out of the helicopter.
"Finster!!!" Lord Zedd's voice boomed through the castle, and his faithful servant quickly arrived on the balcony, with the Diginator right behind him.
"Yes, my lord?" Finster asked.
"What's the status of the...project?" Zedd asked.
"We're in the final stages of preparation, sire," Finster proudly reported, and Lord Zedd nodded.
"Good, because there's a change in plans!" Zedd informed him. "We're commencing with the revival, now. Goldar will join them as soon as possible. Diginator! You're going as well!"
"But...the Diginator was only designed to dig..." Finster said.
"And we're done digging!" Zedd yelled, and Finster nodded. "Go, Diginator! NOW!"
"Use this crystal," Finster said, handing Lord Zedd a black gem as the Diginator vanished. "Channel your powers through it...and they should complete the revival."
"Excellent..." Lord Zedd said with a sinister laugh, holding the crystal out towards the planet.
Zack leaped to the side, dodging another strike from the Dragonzord. It was pretty much taking swings at every Ranger, but he was still the main focus for some aggravating reason. Several lightning bolts suddenly came down from the sky, striking down on top of several buildings. Zack spun around as one slammed down behind him...and didn't believe his eyes when the smoke cleared.
The Demon Fang charged from the smoke, swinging it's staff at him. Zack quickly blocked with his ax, then pushed the old monster away. He jumped to another building, with the Demon Fang right behind him as the Dragonzord demolished the skyscraper they had been on. Zack landed near Tommy, who was busy fighting the Screaming Squid.
"What's going on!?" Zack yelled over to his commander, while blocking an attack from the Demon Fang.
"I don't know!!!" Tommy replied, desperately trying to repel all of the Screaming Squid's arms. His communicator went off, however, and he just jumped backwards. Luckily, the Screaming Squid didn't chase him right away, giving him time to answer. "Yea, Alpha?"
"Tommy, it's me," Zordon's voice spoke through it, and the White and Black Rangers both felt a wave of relief surge through them. "The Zords have been restored to full power."
"Good! Glad to have you back!" Tommy replied, looking over to Zack. "Zack! I'll deal with the Dragonzord if the rest of you can handle these guys!"
Zack's only answer was a quick thumbs up, which was good enough for Tommy. Tommy spun Saba around quickly, firing two energy beams from it's eyes into the approaching Screaming Squid, giving himself a little bit more time. He then proceeded to spin his sword around, looking around to see the evacuation of the city going pretty smoothly. Good. He finished the appropriate summoning motions, and called out for his Zord.
"Tigerzord power, now!" he yelled, and soon enough his faithful Zord stormed into the city. Without hesitation he jumped to his Zord, entering the cockpit and setting Saba in it's usual slot. "Alright, buddy. Let's do this."
"Alright, David. Put down your morpher," Jason ordered. When they demorphed, their morphers reset to their hiding spots behind their backs. Jason, however, had already pulled his back out, and was ready to go back to the Red Ranger at any given second. "Put your morpher on the ground, and walk backwards with you hands up."
David nodded, understanding. Jason was being extremely cautious with him here, and who wouldn't be after all that he had done? David sighed, wiping his eyes once more. Then, he slowly reached behind his back for his morpher.
The next couple seconds seemed to take hours. It was almost surreal. Jason saw it, but there was nothing he could do to stop it. He instantly hated himself for unmorphing, for walking into a trap. David whipped his hand out from behind his back, brandishing a small pistol he must have had hidden all this time. Waiting for the perfect opportunity. Now.
Jason instantly activated his morpher, but it was too late. Before he could hold it forwards and transform, David had fired. He felt the bullet dig straight into his chest, and he dropped his morpher as his strength left him. Against all his willpower, he fell to his knees, then flat on his face. He struggled to get up, but couldn't. Looking to his side, he saw his morpher. If he could just get a hold of it and transform...would it heal him? He had to find out. He reached out for it, breathing heavily. It had bounced just out of his reach when he dropped it. He tried to crawl towards it, but suddenly, a white boot stepped on his arm. Looking up, he found himself staring at the cold, emotionless face of the Green Ranger helmet once again.
A/N: A little bit short, sorry. Hope it was alright.