Disclaimer: Still don't own Power Rangers.

A/N: Here we go with the next chapter! Thanks so much for all the reviews, everyone!

Billy took another swing at his newest opponent, the Ice Hawk. He had caught a glimpse of several other monsters the Rangers had battled in the past weeks, as well. So this was what Zedd was up to all this time? How did he manage to bring these monsters back to life? The Ice Hawk countered Billy's attack, knocking him back a few feet. The monster then opened it's mouth, firing a blast of ice at the Blue Ranger. Billy quickly jumped backwards, leaving that building and landing on another. He looked over to see Kimberly and Trini battling the Encycloeater and Diginator.

"Billy!" Trini yelled out as she saw him. She held her daggers up on either side of herself, blocking both of the Diginator's shovel arms. "What's going on!?"

"I know, I don't understand!" Billy answered, taking a baseball style swing at the Ice Hawk as it flew in towards him. The monster went spiraling backwards and fell to the streets below, much to his surprise.

"We can't keep this up for long! They're way too strong!" Kimberly pointed out, however an arrow she fired right into the Encycloeater's mouth sent it reeling backwards. Just then, her communicator went off. "Give me some good news!" she said into it, feeling a little bit like Zack.

"Aye yi yi..." Alpha's voice came through, and Kim realized he had just the opposite. "Kim! One of you needs to go help Jason! He's in trouble!"

"Trouble?" Trini asked, a bit unsure. After all, they had left Jason and David alone because they figured the Red Ranger had everything under complete control.

"Yes, BIG trouble!" Alpha impatiently said. "Go quickly!"

Kim lowered her communicator, looking to the others. "I'll go get Jason. You guys be careful!"

"We're fine, just hurry!" Billy said, stabbing at the Diginator and knocking it backwards. He then went towards the recovering Encycloeater, with Trini right beside him. After all, if they intended to get anywhere, they couldn't give the monsters any breathing room. Kimberly just nodded, and quickly ran off.

Jason tried to fight against David's foot that was pressing down hard on his arm...but it was too much. His morpher was only inches away, but still so far. The pressure the Green Ranger was putting on him was intense, too. He felt like the bones in his arm were about to be crushed. Then again, with the full green powers pushing against his human skeleton...that's probably what was going to happen.

"You're just too predictable, Jason," David said with a laugh. "Did you really think I was done? I'm only getting started."

Jason forced out a laugh, causing David to frown in confusion behind his helmet.

"Tommy...pushed harder," Jason barely got out, struggling to keep a smile as he nodded his head towards the arm David was standing on. After all, this wasn't his first time being pinned to the ground by an evil Green Ranger.

With a yell of anger, David took his foot off Jason, and instead kicked him in the stomach, sending him rolling away. The Green Ranger then kicked Jason's morpher across the rooftop. He then walked back over to the fallen Ranger, lifting him to his feet by the collar of his shirt.

"I killed your brother," David reminded Jason, slamming his fist into the bullet wound. Jason's eyes narrowed in anger only for a second before he let out a yell of pain. "After you, maybe I'll kill those little boys, too. Then I'll have gotten all the Scott kids." David continued, throwing another punch into Jason's chest.

Jason couldn't even see straight anymore. The pain was just too intense. He wanted to use what little energy he had left to attack David, threaten him, or something. That's what he wanted, though, and Jason wasn't about to give it to him.

"I'll kill every single one of the Rangers. One by one," David continued, knowing how sensitive Jason was about his Ranger family as well. Insulting both his families just had to get a reaction out of him.

Jason felt the anger boiling within him. He wanted to tear this leech's head off and punt it straight to the moon. Maybe he'd hit Zedd or someone up there, too. Instead, he kept his control, conserving what little energy he had left, but once again he forced up a smile.

"What!?" David demanded, shaking Jason violently.

"Tommy...wasn't afraid to fight us...all at once..." Jason weakly said, and a real laugh came up. Along with a little bit of blood.

"Damn you!!!" David screamed out, throwing Jason across the rooftop. The Red Ranger moaned in pain as he hit the ground, and tried unsuccessfully to get back to his feet once again. David was already approaching with the Dragon Dagger in his hand. "I've had enough of you."

David dropped to a kneel next to Jason, holding the dagger just above his face. Before he could bring it downwards, though, an blaster shot slammed into the front of his helmet, knocking him away with a yelled mixed with anger and pain.

"JASON!" Kimberly screamed as she ran over to him. She quickly dropped to her knees and set her blade blaster on the ground as she pulled the bleeding Red Ranger into her lap. "Jason, hang on!"

"Kim..." Jason mumbled, he could barely see his friend, even though she was right there. "You...alright...?"

Kim shook her head, not having time to deal with Jason's natural protectiveness. "I've got to get you out of here."

"I couldn't...keep the promise..." he was saying, causing her eyes to instantly well up with tears.

"I'm not losing you, Jason! Just hang in there!" Kim practically ordered him, fighting back the tears with all the strength she had. This couldn't happen. "Your morpher!" she realized. Even if it didn't heal the wound, the Ranger suits were pretty tight. It would at least stop the blood flow. "Where's your morpher...?"

She looked up to try and locate it, but all she saw was the Green Ranger's foot slamming into the from of her helmet. She was knocked backwards, causing Jason to drop back to the ground. David picked up her blade blaster while he kicked Jason to the side, then began walking towards the recovering Pink Ranger.

"Look at the little heroine," David mocked as he moved forwards, switching the blade blaster into it's dagger mode.

"David, please!" Kimberly tried to plead with him, while taking a fighting stance anyway. There wasn't time for this, every second counted now.

David only laughed as he closed in, forcing Kim to form her bow in her hands once again. She stepped backwards a bit, firing several arrows, but David easily blocked them with the two daggers, all while moving in slowly. Finally, Kim unstrung her bow, wrapping the string in a secure section of it. She then swung it over her head, and downwards at David. The Green Ranger crossed the daggers above his head, blocking the strike with ease.

"What makes you think you can stop me, little girl?" David mocked, letting a small chuckle escape from his mouth as well. "I'm the Green Ranger."

"You know what I love about arrogant people like you?" Kim asked, pushing her bow against the two daggers. David's head tilted a bit in interest, and Kim took that opportunity. She quickly pulled her bow back, and swung low this time. She connected with the side of David's knee, sending him straight to the ground with a yell. "Knocking them right on their ass."

Kim jumped over David, running across the building to Jason's morpher. Just as she was getting near it, however, an energy burst slammed into her from behind. She hit the ground face first, and quickly tried to get back up. As she was doing so, David grabbed her by the shoulder and flung her backwards.

She hit the ground hard, but quickly rolled to her feet. Looking over she saw David moving in towards her. His dagger was sheathed, but he was still holding her pistol. As she went to reattach the string to her bow, David fired a blast right into her. Her bow was thrown from her hands, sliding across the rooftop. Next to her she saw David's discarded pistol, but he shot it away before she could grab it.

David closed the distance with a fast paced walk. Kim started trying to crawl backwards, to give herself some more time to think, but David simply fired another shot into her, knocking her completely on her back again. When the Green Ranger got to her, she swung her foot out in an attempt to trip him. Before her leg connected with his, though, David fired yet another blast into her at point blank, and with a scream of pain her attack was stopped.

"What did I tell you!?" David yelled, throwing a kick into her stomach, causing her to roll over. "I'm the best there is!"

"You're crazy..." Kim weakly muttered as David grabbed her by the neck, pulling her to her feet.

David just laughed as he unclipped her helmet, pulling it off and throwing it aside. Kimberly felt her powers...her only chance...leave her.

"You got away last time," David said. "I'm not going to let that happen again."

Kimberly tried to fight against his grip, but she was too injured. She looked down to see David switching her own blade blaster into it's dagger mode, and watched in silent horror as he brought the blade up towards her neck.

Jason was crawling forwards as fast as his energy drained body would let him. Ignoring the skin tearing away as it dragged against the ground, ignoring the pain, ignoring everything. His morpher was right there. He had to get it.

Kim shouldn't have come, now she was in danger. Although he'd hoped for a miracle, he knew the Green Ranger powers were just too much for her. They were too much for any core Ranger power. The White Ranger powers were debatable...but he alone had one advantage over David that no other Power Ranger had.

Closer...closer...Kimberly's screams of pain rang through his ears. He had to get to her. He had to protect her.

Reaching forwards with all he had left, he grabbed his morpher in both hands, activating it without wasting a second.

Please work...please...

"Tyr...Tyrannosaurus!"

Tommy didn't convert to warrior mode this time. He needed to get in close to the Dragonzord. The problem was his old Zord would dominate him from any given range. He was running between the streets, circling the Dragonzord at a long range, while slowly closing the gap.

"Saba!" Tommy said, running the Zord through an intersection that was lit up by missiles only seconds later. "I want shields at full power!"

"I'm on it, Tommy!" Saba responded.

"We're going to run straight at it and switch to battle mode. That should work," Tommy said.

"Not to be a downer on this plan...but what if the shields don't hold?" Saba said, sounding a bit worried.

"Well, I'll figure it out from there," Tommy said with a sigh as he turned a corner, charging straight at the Dragonzord.

As Jason lay there, now in his Red Ranger uniform, he could only think about how everything had gone so wrong. Should he have seen it from the beginning? A traitor in their midst. Funny. He always figured that if he'd meet his end through Ranger duty, it would be against Goldar. Or maybe against Lord Zedd himself. Not this. Not against a crazed Ranger with a damn pistol.

As he lay there on the ground, fists clenched, he had to smile at an old thought. He'd told Zack once that if he died protecting the world, he'd wanted to go out in full uniform. Well, as he sat there, on the cold ground, two words came into his head.

Not today.

The Red Ranger felt his energy start to return to him. It had worked. It took a bit, but it worked. Whether it would hold after unmorphing was to be seen later. He had work to do. Pushing himself to his feet, Jason formed his sword while drawing his blade blaster.

"DAVID!" Jason's voice was deepened with rage and anger, so much that the devil himself would have tucked that pointy tail between his legs and run away if he heard it. David was about to swing the finishing strike to the Pink Ranger, when his head snapped to the direction of that voice.

He didn't see Jason. All he saw was a blast slam right into his visor, causing him to drop Kim and her dagger. He was knocked away, hitting the ground and rolling to his feet. He stumbled back a few steps, eyes widened at the sight.

Jason was walking right towards him, sword in hand.

This time, there would be no mercy.

A/N: Next time, it's the ACTUAL showdown. Stay tuned!