In the Power Chamber, Billy was working on one of the consoles trying to locate Jason and Tommy. It had been almost a week since they had disappeared and he and the others were more then a little worried. No one had ever been captured this long. Gasket hadn't made any demands either which was odd for a villain.
He looked over at Alpha who was pushing buttons at another console.
"Maybe we should just face facts," Rocky said making Billy jump. He hadn't heard the Blue Ranger teleport in. "I mean if they were alive still, wouldn't we have heard something? Kat did see Gasket about to impale Tommy with the sword."
"WE MUST NOT GIVE UP ROCKY," Zordon spoke up. "UNTIL WE SEE OTHERWISE, WE MUST BELIEVE THEY ARE STILL ALIVE."
The alarms started going off.
"What's going on?" Rocky asked.
"SOMEONE OR SOMETHING JUST TELEPORTED INTO ANGEL GROVE PARK. I CAN NOT DETERMINE WHO OR WHAT IT IS. ALPHA PLEASE CONTACT THE OTHER RANGERS AND HAVE THEM MEET ROCKY IN THE PARK."
"It's Morphin time!" Rocky yelled.
"Zeo Ranger III Blue!"
He landed in the park and looked around. He didn't see anything out of the ordinary in the park.
Soon the other Rangers appeared next to him.
"I don't see anything," Tanya said as they began to search the area.
"Something set the alarms off," Rocky said.
"Are we sure we are in the right area?" Kat asked. She stopped as she almost tripped over something. She looked down and barely held back a scream at what she saw.
"You guys! It's Tommy!"
They all rushed over to Kat and saw the wrappings around Tommy's chest.
Rocky checked for a pulse and let out a sigh of relief. "He's still alive."
They carefully picked Tommy up and teleported him to the Power Chamber.
Alpha brought up a medical bed as soon as it saw Alpha's condition. Rocky and Adam carefully laid him down.
Alpha started to scan Tommy. Billy hurried over to assist. After a few moments Alpha and Billy turned off the machines.
"Ai yai yai!" Alpha exclaimed. "Tommy has no connection to the Zeo Crystal!"
Zordon checked the results that Alpha and Billy had sent to him. He was not happy with what he saw. It wasn't the loss of powers that truly bothered him, it was Tommy's life signs. They were weak. Blood had already seeped through the bandages. He needed to go to the hospital as he had lost a lot of blood.
"TOMMY MUST BE TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL. HE HAS LOST A LARGE AMOUNT OF BLOOD AND APPEARS TO BE GOING INTO SHOCK."
"We could take him and say he was hurt during the camping trip," Tanya suggested.
"It wouldn't explain where Jason is," Adam said, "but it could work."
Zordon teleported them to Angel Grove Hospital.
They landed in a deserted area of the parking lot. Tommy stirred a little when Adam and Rocky carefully put his arms around their shoulders. They started to walk towards the hospital. Rocky misstepped and Tommy cried out in pain.
"I can walk," Tommy said in a shaky voice. He moved out from under Rocky and Adam's hold. He took a couple of steps before he started to collapse. Adam moved quickly to catch him.
Tanya hurried to the hospital entrance to get a wheelchair. They sat Tommy in the wheelchair and wheeled him slowly into the hospital.
A nurse hurried over to them. "What happened?" She asked as she signaled for a gurney.
"We were camping and he fell on a log," Rocky said hoping that would explain the stab wound.
"Steve take him to exam room three," she said to one of the orderlies. "Have his parents been contacted?"
"Not yet," Kat said. "We did not have a cellphone where we were camping."
"Give me their number and I'll call them." She handed Kat a form. "Fill this out as well as you can until his parents get here."
"Sure," Kat said looking at the form. Just a quick glance told her she didn't know her leader very well. She handed the form to Adam before turning back to the nurse. "Their phone number is 555-9140."
"Thank you," she said writing down the number. "What's their name?"
"Ryan and Charlotte Oliver," Tanya answered. "His name's Tommy."
"Thank you," she said before returning to her desk.
Tommy opened his eyes. He didn't hear anyone moving around or any other noises. He was surprised when he sat up without any trouble. He must have been on great pain medication because the last thing he remembered was taking two steps and collapsing.
He looked around the room. It didn't look like a hospital room. There didn't seem to be anything in the room other then the table he was sitting on.
He got up from the table and felt no pain as he set his feet on the cold hard floor. It felt like a stone floor. The walls looked to be made of stone also.
He walked across the room and to a door. He opened the door and jumped back as a Cog went by.
The Cog didn't stop nor did Prince Sprocket who walked so close to him they were almost touching.
Tommy's eyes got bigger when one of the Cogs turned, walked right through Tommy, and into the room.
