Chapter 6
[See Part 1 for Disclaimer.]
“Rocky!” Kat’s australian accent was heavy, “look out!”
Too late. Rocky turned around in time to see Ashley ram into him, knocking
him onto the ground so hard he became unconscious. The other rangers struggled
to get to him but the demon like creatures held them back.
“Excellent...” the unholy creature hissed, “Wintal! Take the blue ranger
back to the castle and put him in one of the cells... make sure to take
his zeonizers and communicator away... we can’t have any escape attempts
now can we?”
“No my Lord... right away my lord,” the stout little monster said while
picking up Rocky’s body and disappearing in a flash of red, black and blue
light. The blue of course was from Rocky.
“Before we leave I’d like to give you rangers a little something to remember
us by...” with those words and a twist of his wrist a bomb was hurled at
the the rangers and exploded on impact, sending them flying back into the
wall. An evil laughter filled the room and quickly disappeared.
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A gaurd slapped Rocky across the face roughly. “Wake up, human!” he said
gruffly, “It’s time to eat... we can’t have you dying on us now can we?
At least not yet anyway,” he laughed mockingly. The gaurd opened the cells
door to let Ashley in.. “My lady...” he then turned back to Rocky, “And
you. Don’t try anything funny,” Shutting the door behind him the gaurd
stormed down the hallway leaving Ashley and Rocky alone.
Ashley threw down a bowl of stale biscuits and set a cup of some strange
liquid down as well in front of the ranger. Rocky peered into the cup at
the weird looking substance. He looked up at Ashley for a moment thoughtfully.
She glared down at him with a cold look in her eyes that sent shivers up
his spine. It wasn’t only that but they had a sad part to them as well.
It was like she didn’t even know who she was anymore. Ashley shook her
head for a moment as if remembering something and then walked out of the
cell locking the door behind her and started off down the hall.
Rocky looked down at his wrist which was now bare and tried to call on
his zeonizers but nothing happened. He sighed. Rocky felt as if he had
been drained of all energy what so ever, “Well I might as well eat this..
maybe I can get some of my energy back,”
Up in the throne room the the zeonizers started glowing, “That foolish
ranger must be trying to call upon his powers. Did he really think I’d
be that stupid and leave them with him. Ha! Wintal... have King Mondo send
some cogs down to his cell to rough him up a bit, I’ll teach him not to
try and escape,”
“Yes, Lord Darkredge... right away”
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The rangers teleported into the Power Chamber in blurs of rainbow colored
light. They all took off their helmets and set them down on the control
panel.
“Rangers welcome back... but where is Rocky?” Zordon greeted.
“That demon dude got him, they have him locked up at some castle and...”
Tanya started.
“They took his zeonizers and communicator away,” Kat finished.
“I knew it! But you guys wouldn’t listen to me would you?! I told you my
sister would bring you only problems and make things worse, but you wouldn’t
listen to me, would you?!” Billy started babbling.
“But Billy we....” Adam began.
“WOULD YOU?!” he screamed, completely losing it.
“Billy please control yourself. We must concentrate on getting Rocky and
Ashley back. This is getting us nowhere, we are just wasting time,” Zordon
boomed.
“My sister deserves to die! She killed my parents! She has to die! It was
all her fault!” Billy rambled on.
Adam put a hand on his disgruntled friends shoulder, “Billy... not helping
your sister won’t bring your parents back, even if she is responsible for
there deaths,”
“Neither will saving her...”
“But Billy, what about Rocky?” Tanya asked.
“Come on man, they need your help. And Ashley’s all the family you have
left now...”
“Don’t remind me,” Billy replied smugly.
“Billy we must hurry and get them both free. If Ashley remains under Lord
Darkredge’s control much longer all will be lost and her soul will be his.
For all eternity, if this happens earth will be doomed,” Zordon said.
“Oh.. alright,” Billy finally answered reluctantly, “but I’m only doing
this for you guys,”
Suddenly the alarm went off sending Alpha into a frenzy of aiy yi yi yi’s
and walking back and forth around the chamber. The rangers turned there
attention to the veiwing screen.
“Rangers, Lord Darkredge is destroying the park. You must stop him quickly,
before it is too late,” Zordon bellowed.
“Back to action!” Tommy yelled and they all teleported away.
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“Monsters! Destroy this place... don’t stop until you’ve burned down every
tree and dumped over every trash can! Evil will prevail and King Mondo
will rule this planet, once we have the girl under our complete control!
Ahhhh hahahaha!” Lord Darkredge commanded.
Just then rainbow colored lights flashed into the park leaving the rangers
behind, “Give up Darkredge! Your days are numbered!” Tommy shouted.
“Ha! You simpleton.... nothing will stop King Mondo from world wide domination.
Especially not you,” he replied with bite, “Monsters! Attack!!!”
“Zeo Rangers!” the rangers all said while striking dramatic poses. They
then jumped into action. Fighting with all the had, but they didn’t see
Ashley anyway.
“Tommy help!” the familiar cries of Kat rang out through the park as she
was being mauled by two monsters.
“Kat!” he ran over to her, threw one monster off of her and kicked the
other one away, “are you ok?”
“Yeah.. let’s take these freaks! Pink Power Cloud!” Kat fought back and
sent pink bolt of energy at on of the monsters knocking it over.
The fight raged on for quit some time and soon Lord Darkredge and the monsters
left. Swearing that they’d be back and next time the rangers wouldn’t be
so lucky.
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As the rangers were regaining their strength and energy, Billy worked on
a plan to save Rocky and his sister. All the rangers wondered why it would
be the end of the world as they knew it, if Ashley’s soul became Lord Darkredge,
and why/how she was responsible for her parents death, and what was Zordon
protecting them from about Ashley?
Billy interuppted there thoughts by saying, “I’ve got it! I got a plan...
I hope,” Tommy and the others leaned over to Billy, “Go ahead. We’re listening.....”
Tommy said.
