Summary – Zedd is furious and more than Mesagog will pay.
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Showing Mercy
Zedd
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(Back at the Dino Lair…)
"Where is he?!" Ready to shake the answers I want out of the female, I continue to pace the lair in agitation as the children wisely stay out of my way. Twelve hours, twelve hours he's been gone without so much as a word or warning. Where could he be? What could have happened to him? No not what who. And I know who too damn it! When I get my hands on that half lizard split personality son of a bitch, oh just wait. Dark Spector will tremble before me after he sees what I'm going to do to this bastard.
"I can't get an exact location. I need more time." Continuing to try and get a lock on his old power signature, Hayley grumbles in annoyance as the computers do not seem to want to cooperate with her today.
Moving back to her and making my agitation known, I continue to stress the importance of finding my mate and fast. "He doesn't have more time. Find him!"
Pausing in her typing and giving me a look, her voice remains calmly annoyed. "Okay screaming in the ear, not helping." And neither is your human level of intellect.
"Move." Having enough of her lack of progress while Thomas is no doubt being tortured, I all but push her out of the chair and take her place at the main consol.
"Oh sure the woman with the PhD in science and computer engineering can't locate the missing person, but the ex-sorcerer who can't even operate the microwave, he's going to doing an interdimensional search." Sarcasm matching that of Tommy's level, she stands glaring at me, hands on hips as I type in lines of code I struggle to recall from my academy years.
"Bitch."
"Jerk."
Ever the voice of reason as she reminds me so much of Thomas when he was her age, Kira dares to step up, attempting to coil our fear induced anger for the time being. "Could we maybe focus on the fact Dr. O is missing and save your fight for later?"
Knowing the girl is right, I nevertheless am unable to help one more jab at the human woman. "She started it."
Apparently feeling the same as myself her response is expected. "Did not."
"Did so." About to say more I'm suddenly cut off by a shrill beep, indicating I've found what I need. "Got him."
"That's impossible, move." Shoving me aside, Hayley looks disbelievingly at the information appearing on the large screen before us. "That's not him that's an invisaportal."
"Right, which will lead us to him. Duh." Standing and letting her have the chair, I ignore Kira's sigh and Hayley's huff, before moving to teleport to the location of said invisaportal. With any luck it will lead me to at least Mesagog's base of operations, once there I should be able to locate Thomas fairly quickly. "Now if you're done questioning my greatness maybe you could get back to work while I go rescue my mate."
Catching me before I can focus enough to escape though, the woman's ever growing annoying voice stops me once more. "At least take the kids!"
Cringing at such a suggestion, I look back at the waiting children with distaste. "The kids." She cant' be serious. What would I do with the children? This is not some monster battle that requires their piddly little powers. This is my mate, my partner, my lover who is in danger. It is my duty to step in and save him not theirs.
"Yes the kids. The ones who actually have power with which to fight Mesagog."
Growling at the implication that I am in fact powerless, I quickly hold out my hand calling upon my staff. "I have power."
"Scary." Looking at my staff with disinterest, she quickly opens a drawer under the main counsel and removes a weapon of her own. "Scarier." Throwing the blade blaster at me, she shakes her head as I catch it with my free hand, looking at the gun unhappily. "Use it. The kids will show you how."
"I dislike guns." Throwing it back to her having no desire to carry a firearm, I look back to the current Rangers. "As for the children I can move faster on my own."
"That's great and speed is going to help you get Tommy out of there and fight Mesagog at the same time, how?" I honestly do not know if I wish to kill this woman or bring her into our bedroom. At any rate I can certainly see why Thomas is so fond of her.
Making certain to keep my own voice level now, I give her a superior look. "Wouldn't you like to know."
Unimpressed by my bluff she turns back to her computer. "Take the kids." Damn it.
"This is exactly why I stopped dating females."
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Standing with the children around the area of the invisaportal I point my staff towards where I'm fairly certain it is, releasing a low level blast of energy to react with it's own power.
Smiling as a burst of green opens up a few yards away I look back to see the young Rangers jump back in surprise. Kids.
"Whoa check it out." Pointing towards the rip and possibly still leery of it after her own capture by Mesagog's lackeys when she'd first acquired her power, Kira stays understandably just a bit closer to me than the boys.
"You're sure this'll lead us to Dr. O? I mean what if we just end up at another portal on the other side of town?" A reasonable concern, Ethan nevertheless though seems to forget that I am well knowledged in just how such things work.
"It won't the power signature that was shown on the computer is too great for it to be such a short link up. It'll take us to his base, it's just a matter of me feeling Thomas out once we get there." Hand clutching the green power coin I still wear around my neck, I only hope we're not too late to keep him from a great deal of harm.
"Well what are we waiting for let's go." A human after my own heart Conner is more then ready to take off at a run for the portal.
"Right just remember to stay together and what ever you do don't let them get the-"
Cringing as a flash of dark green illuminates the portal, dimming down to reveal a hoard of tyrannodrones, Elsa, and Zeltrax I heave a weary sigh. "-drop on you."
The leader the little band, Elsa steps up to play spokes person. "Sorry to crash your little part. Was that rude?"
Apparently having her own issues with the leather clad skank, Kira takes up the response. "Extremely. So why don't you move you're trashy self out of the way so we can have a little chat with your boss."
Not used to being stood up to by the looks of it, and certainly not by children, the woman is having none of it. "The only way any of you are getting through this portal is in chains."
"How about we compromise." Taking his stance and watching as the others follow suit, Conner calls out their morphing code. "Dino thunder power up!"
Moving aside as the three now costume clad Rangers take fighting stances I make certain to keep my eye on the portal. I need to get through it damn it and while I don't have a problem moving Mesagog's lackeys out of the way myself it will take far too much time and power. Two things neither Thomas nor myself have right now. "I need you three to get them down here."
Seeming to know exactly what my plan is, Conner gives a nod before going with one of his greater strengths, his mouth. "So what Mesagog was too busy to come take care of us himself? Had to send his flunkies to do it? And what a group you are. A handful of over grown lizards, a hooker, and whatever the hell you are. Seriously like what are you anyways Zeltrax aside obsessed with Dr. O? A robot? A windup toy?"
Picking it up Kira continues the baiting knowing where Conner is going. "Maybe he's just really ugly. I mean you see what Elsa and Mesagog look like; if he's part of that little group chances are he's probably missing half his face. And speaking of faces you might wanna tone down the black make up cuz seriously it makes you look like a raccoon on crack."
Having enough of the Yellow Ranger for one day, Elsa raises her sword in fury completely forgetting the fact they were most likely assigned to stay in front of the portal and let us bring the attack to them. "Attack!"
Moving further away from the group as the fight begins I absently take out a tyrannodrone or two on the way towards the portal. With any luck the kids should be able to defeat them fairly quickly and join me, though I've no intention of waiting for that to happen.
Jumping through the portal without a second glance I feel myself teleported almost instantly as my stomach lurches in protest.
Landing only a few moments later and taking a minute to hold down my breakfast as the crude teleportation definitely needs some fine tuning I glance around the dimly lit corridor. Now which way?
Taking hold the coin with my free hand once more I try my best to feel the human out, knowing I definitely should have paid better attention to how to do such a thing back when I was in school. Come on, come on he must be here. Just give me something. Anything. A smell. A sound. A marking. A-
"Aghhh!" -scream of pain.
Taking off in the direction of the faint scream I follow the winding hallways like a bloodhound until finally coming to a rather large looking partially opened doorway. Reigning in the urge to simply burst in as one of the impulsive Rangers would I pause just outside glancing into the spacious laboratory.
"I grow weary of this self sacrifice." Catching sight of my soon to be dead enemy I watch as he throws something very sharp and very bloody onto the floor. Moving to the other side of the room and finally giving me a look at just what he was doing I feel my blood turn cold.
Lying upon what seems to be an operating table of sorts is my mate bound, naked, and badly injured. Fresh cuts marring his chest, legs, and even head all still oozing blood he releases a low moan of pain clearly struggling to keep from surrendering to his tormentor's wishes.
"Are you ready to be cooperative yet, or shall we continue?" Cooperative? What the hell could he possibly want from him?!
"I won't help you free the gem." Sounding much closer to defeat then I've ever heard him, he closes his eyes in exhaustion and perhaps even fear as a strong hand is brought down with deafening force onto another table, shaking it and sending several contents spilling onto the floor.
Gem? What gem? What is he going on about? But suddenly I know as my eyes fall onto the object in question. Sitting on a shelf and giving off a powerful energy is a large chunk of Eltarian ambergrist, a dark stone safely stored inside. A morphing gem. He has a fucking morphing gem.
Feeling an entirely new wave of rage wash over me I am momentarily blinded from it as I try everything in my power to not snap my staff in half. There is only one way to acquire morphing gems and that is from members of the Council of Light. Members like…no, no, no I am not going to even entertain such a notion because I've no proof it is a dino brand gem, the brand Zordon collects, nor am I even going to consider how this son of a bitch could have gotten one when unable to leave this planet and travel to Eltar. No, I will right now focus on Thomas and saving him, then, then I will disembowel Mesagog, yes, good, good, then and only then will I take care of this new development. Breathe, just breathe Zedd. I'm certain there is a perfectly logical explanation for how he has such a thing. Breathe for a bit longer.
"You will tell me." Okay breathe later, save the human now. Returning to Thomas a pair of pliers in his clawed hand he takes hold of his face signaling that it is definitely time for me to move. "Perhaps this will help loosen your tongue."
"I think it's only fair to tell you exactly where I'm about to shove those pliers." Moving into the room and fixing the mutant with an icy look I really dislike how close he still is to Thomas. I need to situate myself between them if I really wish to be effective.
"Who are you?" You're kidding right?
Looking at my staff and raising a brow, I really do have to wonder about this latest generation of villains. "Are you fucking serious?" Looking at Thomas in a disbelieving manner forgetting I should be reassuring him right now, I ask again. "Is he serious?"
"Zedd save the wounded pride for later. The gem, get the gem." Oh yes the gem. Breathe, breathe.
"Thomas this is hardly the time to worry about a rock. Now save your strength while I show this moron just who's the big bad on this planet." Taking stance and silently thanking the human for making me spar with him practically every other day to work his own energy out, I can't help but wonder just how this creature is going to fair in hand to hand combat being as big and slow as he looks.
"You have no idea what you are bringing upon yourself human." He thinks I'm human? Well then isn't he in for a surprise.
As soon as the pliers are down and his hand off of Thomas I attack striking out with a well aimed kick to his solar plex and smiling as it sends him across the room. "Hate to disappoint you, but not human."
Recovering fairly quickly, he let's out a low and clearly unhappy growl. "No matter, you will still suffer horribly for your interference."
"Geez I hope I never sounded that lame when I was evil." Both of us on the offence now we attack head on each kicking, dodging, and striking with much more skill then I believe either of us anticipated the other to have.
Catching him in the head with my staff I smile in pleasure at the satisfying cracking sound which results from the contact, only to find that the strike itself is ineffective as it has apparently only stuck the very hard outer layer of bone protecting his skull. So unfair.
Managing to catch me across the face during my momentary shock of failure, I feel my head whip to the side knowing almost instantly that if I was in fact human he would have snapped my neck with such a blow. Alright so apparently I'm not the only one playing to win here. Right then.
"That all you got?" Moving back just a step to be free of his kill zone, I try my best to play off the stinging pain which is currently running up my neck.
Hissing at me in aggravation, he responds quickly. "I'm just getting started." Straightening and catching me off guard as his hands are suddenly placed on his head, I wonder briefly if I've actually managed to hurt him more then he let on, only to have such a thought abruptly yanked away as my own head begins to sear with blinding pain.
Dropping my staff to the ground and crying out as the clatter of it hitting makes my ears nearly bleed, I drop to my knees lost for what the hell is happening.
"That's right, submit to me." Submit?
Forcing my eyes open to see him standing over me, hands still on his own head I suddenly realize just where the agony is coming from. Is he psychic? Is he a telekinetic? Does it matter? Just stop him!
Releasing my head but still unable to move from my spot on the floor I grasp blindly for my staff, only feeling a small sense of relief as I manage to finally grasp it and with all the force possible strike out at his legs.
Hitting at least some part of him, I breathe deeply as the pain clears almost instantly from my head and I'm able to focus once more. "Nice trick, now here's one of mine." Locking on him and knowing he'll regain his balance any moment I focus all my power onto my free hand watching as a small ball of red and black energy begins to form over my palm.
"Your magic tricks are no match for my power." Really now. We'll let's see about that shall we.
"Energy orb, strike!" Throwing the now fairly large ball straight at him I smile in satisfaction as it hits, sending him to the ground momentarily stunned. Not waiting for his retaliation my staff is brought down hard across his head and neck this time definitely doing the damage I want. "Who needs magic tricks, when you have raw power dumb ass."
Catching my breath and still a little woozy from his attack on my brain I take a moment to catch my breath before wiping the blood from my mouth and moving back to my opponent's unconscious form. "Little more fight then I expected him to have but it still ends the same." Lifting my staff I prepare to end this entire mess.
"Zedd no!"
Staff poised over his chest I look back at the shout from my mate glaring at the fact my act of vengeance has been interrupted. "What? You want to do it?" I'm not sure if that'll work or not considering how thick his scales are and how clearly weak Thomas is after his ordeal. Still though if he wishes to try…
"No, I don't want it done at all. I don't want him dead."
"…because you wish for me to torture him first?" Receiving a negative head shake, I'm clearly missing something here.
"Mercer is still in there. If you kill him you kill Mercer." I'm not really seeing the problem here. "Please just leave him and get me up."
"You're serious?"
"Yes." Humans. I just for the life of me do not understand how their reasoning and logic works.
"You're positive?"
"Zedd please."
Looking at the down mutant once more and knowing that killing him will upset Thomas more then reassure him right now, I in the end let it be and lower my staff unhappily. "Humans."
Moving to the table and snapping the locks on the collar and cuffs immobilizing him I still cannot believe he's making me spare the psychotic lizard just so he can save the equally psychotic human which is mingled with him.
"Thank you."
"Don't thank me, next time I see him I will kill him." Helping him up carefully and wanting nothing more then to simply take him in my arms and carry him out of this hellhole I'm thwarted as he gives a very noticeable flinch to my touch.
"I can walk." Sliding from the table before I can stop him he stands unsteadily, arms wrapped protectively around his midsection. Oh what's this now.
"It's not a matter of if you can it's a matter of if you should. And with the amount of blood you've lost plus the overall trauma of the events that occurred it would be better if you let me carry you until we get back home." Reaching for him again I feel my suspicion rise as he tries weakly to pull away for a second time. What is wrong with him? I'm well aware he doesn't like to show weakness but this is completely ridiculous there's absolutely no reason for him to…
Stopping in my advance as my senses pick up an unmistakable scent that I have thus far been too preoccupied to notice I grab hold of him quickly pulling his struggling and protesting form to me.
"Let go! Let me go damn it!"
Grip tightening unconsciously I take a deep whiff of him just to be certain. "He touched you." Voice a menacing growl, I feel old and very dark power that I had long since buried quickly resurfacing in me. "He fucking touched you."
"Zedd…" Voice pleading and small he cries out as I release him abruptly, turning back to go finish what I'd started with Mesagog. Son of a bitch! Touch what's mine! How dare he! "Zedd don't!"
Ignoring his cry of protest this time, I raise my staff once more only to find my arm suddenly grabbed pulling me off balance just enough to make me pause. "No, Zedd no don't do it!"
"No?! No why?!" Whipping back around and barely stopping myself from smacking him across the room, the darkness getting the better of me, I instead push him off fully intending to finish this matter once and for all. "He dares touch you and you want to let him go?!" Unable to help the rage in my voice as I do not understand how he can wish to protect this disgusting maggot I only vaguely register his fearful cringe, knowing somewhere deep down that I need to calm down before I do him more harm then good.
Doing his best to be unintimidated he pushes himself up slowly to stand as steadily as possible. "I told you Mercer's still in there. If you kill Mesagog you kill Mercer. And Mercer didn't do anything." Seeing that I really could not care less he continues in a highly pained voice. "It would be like killing me when I was the Evil Green Ranger." What now? "I know what it's like to be forced to watch yourself do things that you don't want to do. I've been where Mercer is now and let me tell you it is hell. If you kill him because of something he's not able to stop, something he didn't even do then I will leave, because it means you don't understand me at all and you don't care to."
"Thomas."
"Yes?" Looking semi-hopeful he is in for a very rude awakening.
"That is the biggest load of crap I've ever heard in my life."
To be continued……..
Awww Tommy got molested. I'm so mean. No anal sex was preformed though so that's something right?
