Chapter 5: Help
"Excellent!" rejoiced Lothor from the helm. "The Power Rangers are going to be erased from history forever!"
Jules hung her head low in shame. She had helped, of course. She had no choice. Right after she devised a plan to help Lothor, she demanded he undo what the kelzaks did to her father and brother's equipment. Like the lowlife he was, he simply said, "No."
"But I helped you!" she cried. Again the bonds were returned to her wrists as Lothor threw her at a corner.
"Yes, and like all villains, you shouldn't have trusted me, mwuahahahahahha!" he threw his head back with glee. Seething with anger, Jules tried to kick him but couldn't reach him anymore. He walked back to the helm and started shouting commands to Zurgayne. From the screen, the combat between the Power Rangers' Megazord and Zurgayne's Megazord erupted. No matter what the Rangers threw at Zurgayne, his zord was able to counter it with an even more powerful melee.
"Your plan is working brilliantly, Jules," mocked Lothor. Then he sighed. "I think I'll take a little nap." And then he left the bridge.
Looking desperately around her, Jules tried to loosen the binds, but they just bit harder into her skin. She stopped moving because she was afraid her veins at her wrist might be severed. Slumping back against the wall, she looked at the monitor before her.
"I'm sorry, Rangers," she sadly said, unheard by the struggling Rangers. The plan she had given Lothor was based on an episode she had seen on t.v. the Sentai series of Abarangers. She thought it was among the best episodes she had seen. She watched the series from the first season, and had all the seasons. She knew each of the rangers, their strengths, their weaknesses, and how team work and intelligence always gave them the upper hand.
In this episode, the evil side had made an exact replica of their weapons, resulting to a neutralization of powers whenever the evil one and the rangers battled using their weapons. The enemy upgraded his energy levels, thus causing the rangers a great blow and damage to their weapons and morphers. The rangers were literally battling against themselves for the enemy had everything they had. The replication of weapons happened every time the rangers pulled out their weapons. Instead of being destroyed, the evil one absorbed their energies and the encoded data of their weapons to make a replica the weapons.
Breathing deeply, she slowly stood up and looked at the monitor. "There was a way," she said to herself. She searched her memory. Like in every episode, the rangers triumphed over the evil one…but how? She looked at the monitor again, and saw the sparks and fire as Zurgayne's zord short-circuited the Power Rangers' Megazord. Even the Thunder Rangers' beetle zords were no match for Zurgayne: he blew them up.
How did the episode end? She looked at the console. She could destroy the data disk Zurgayne had of the Megazord. She hobbled over to the helm and searched for something round. No, it was in his Megazord, she scolded herself. Ok, Plan B.
"Think, Jules, think!" she whispered. Wait, if Lothor has a command center, then the Power Rangers must have one as well. "Ok, so the problem is finding it, oh wait, I'll just tell them to beam me up because I have a plan!" she smiled, hope returning. Ok, so getting in their command center isn't a problem. Now, what is the plan?
"Hey you! What are you doing there?" came Capri's sharp voice. Startled, Jules jumped and turned. "You weren't going to press anything there, were you?" she suspiciously eyed Jules.
"Haha," Jules sarcastically laughed. She was tired of being tied up and pushed at whim and at will. It was about time she showed this space pirate who they were dealing with. "As if I could do that with my hands tied behind my back?"
"Wow, that would be so cool! Can I see that trick?" squealed Marah behind Capri. Capri roughly nudged Marah into silence.
"What do you want?" demanded Capri, her pink hair flying all over the place as she shook her head.
Here's my chance to escape. "Actually, I wanted to find the bathroom, because I have it." Whaa…? That's my plan!
"Have what?" wondered Marah.
"IT," imposed Jules. Didn't these girls have it, or are they really aliens? "You know, the monthly cycle, the period, menstruation."
"Oh! That, haha," laughed Marah, "I knew that," she nodded. Then, "Ah! You have it? Right now?" she shrieked.
"Yeah," lied Jules, "But I don't have any pads up here, it's down there at earth, and I can't very well put them on with my hands tied behind my back, now can I?" she made her voice sound a little nervous to add the right tone.
"Oh, don't worry, we'll get you some – "
"Wait," said Capri, "This could be a trick."
"Aw, Capri, I don't think so," said Marah. "C'mon, I'll get you some," Marah led Jules out of the bridge and down some corridors. As they walked, Jules asked what were in each room, feigning interest in Lothor's warship. Jules couldn't thank the heavens more enough when Marah pointed out the teleporters, which were next door to the bathroom. When Jules was "finished" putting on her pad, she quietly made her way to the teleporters. It took a second to understand the controls. Without hesitation, she got in and pressed the buttons.
"Thank you, Marah," she whispered before she felt herself dissolve into atoms.