The next time that Empress Rita called upon him, Tommy found himself teleported to a deserted beach, then set against a large group of his Empress' Putties to fight. There would be too many things to explain if he used the morphing powers that he'd been given by Elfangor, and Empress Rita commanded him not to use his powers as the Green Ranger, so Tommy fought as a human for the second time.

It didn't feel quite as strange if he thought of it as a tournament fight, so that was what he did even as he knocked the Putties around him to the sandy ground.

Finding himself laughing, with the same strange, giddy glee that he'd felt before when he'd finished a task that Empress Rita had given him to complete, Tommy looked up at where his Empress stood, up on the cliff overlooking the beach that had been emptied all over again.

"You command, and I obey, my Empress!"

The sound of Empress Rita's approval echoed inside him, and Tommy held out his hand for the Sword of Darkness. There was the strangest sense of completion as he held it, and Tommy found himself grinning as he raised it to the sky and power surged through it, erupting from the tip of the sword.

"The Power Rangers will be destroyed," he said, feeling that wild, giddy happiness washing over him again as he made his declaration. "And the Red Ranger will be the first to go."

It made the most sense, to strike at the Red Ranger, since he was the closest target. However, there was also the matter of keeping suspicion from falling on him afterward. There was also the matter of dealing with the Yeerks investigating this area. Empress Rita wanted this planet for her own, and she wouldn't be pleased to have to fight off a bunch of arrogant slugs to claim it.

The small group of Yeerks in the area would be simpler to deal with on his own, and all the moreso since he now possessed the Sword of Darkness; destroying whatever portable Kandrona the pair of them had brought to Angel Grove would be very simple as the Green Ranger, he simply had to find it.

Both the Red Ranger and the Yeerks in control of his foster parents would fall at his hands, Tommy vowed.