Deadly Secrets
by Black_TurboRanger

[See Part 1 for Disclaimer.]

There was sickening crack as Rocky was thrown up against the wall by a cog. Another cog punched him in the stomach and kicked him the groin area. Just barely missing that tender spot. They slapped him around, punched him, kicked him, and slammed him into the hard stone wall or the iron bar door and wall. The cogs finally disappeared and left him laying in a corner of his cell.

Rocky let out a groan of pain as he tried to sit up. He wondered why the cogs had left so quickly and why they came in the first place. Then he saw Ashley standing there by the door in the hallway. They must have saw her and then split. Rocky decided.

Ashley opened the cells door and came in with a bowl that had some water in it and sponge. She helped him sit up and cleaned his wounds.

How strange, he thought. Why is she doing this? Rocky looked into her eyes. The evil was still there but so was the sadness. Suddenly he heard inside his head... I don’t know why I’m doing this you silly human. Just shut up. He stared back up at her. Don’t look at me like that.. or I’ll have to slap you. Rocky heard.

Ashley left him some more hard rolls and some water. She then got up and left, locking the cell’s door behind her.

Rocky contently ate the rolls and thirstily drank the water, she had left. He found it hard to move after his severe beating he had gotten, but got in a position on some hay comfortable enough and fell asleep.

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“I’m locking onto Rocky’s life pattern now,” Billy said, “We should be able to teleport him out of there, but......”

“But what?” Kat asked.

“His zeonizers and communicator will be left behind... we’ll just have to hope my sister comes out of this spell soon so she can get them for us. If not then....”

“We’ll be down one ranger?” Tommy finished.

“Affirmative. That is until we can get them back so he can transform,”

“Billy you must hurry and teleport him here. His life signs are beginning to weaken. You must act swiftly,” Zordon stated.

“Ok, I’m locked on. Teleporting now....”

Nothing happened. Billy frantically started pushing buttons again, “There seems to be a problem,”

“What is it?” Adam asked.

“I don’t know. Our teleportation beam is unable to get a good enough lock on him. It’s as if something’s blocking the way,”

“I guess it’s up to Ashley.....” Tanya said.

Billy groaned, “Guess so,”

Just then the alarm went off, “Rangers, Lord Darkredge has appeared in the park again with some monsters. Ashley is with him this time,” Zordon bellowed.

“If I can get a lock on Ashley I can teleport her here and we could try and take the spell off,” Billy said sounding a little unsure of his idea.

“Ok. We’ll take care that creep and his goons,” Tommy said, “It’s morphin time!”

“Zeo Ranger I Pink!”
“Zeo Ranger II Yellow!”
“Zeo Ranger IV Green!”
“Zeo Ranger V Red!”

The four ranger teleported away in bright colors leaving the Power Chamber and heading for the park.

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Lord Darkredge turned around. There stood the rangers ready to attack, “Awww rangers... so nice of you to join us,” he greeted with an evil grin.

This time Klank and Orbis were also there. Ashley stood next to Klank with Orbis sitting on her shoulder. With a smirk on her face she gestured the green zeo ranger to come to her. Adam couldn’t help but resist it was like she had a strange hold on him. The other rangers tried to stop to him but were unsuccessful.

When he reached her, Ashley raised her hands over head, brought them down to her chest and pushed outward. A black bolt of pure electric energy shot out at Adam and went right through him and then to the other rangers. It then disappeared without a trace as if it had completed it’s mission, leaving our hero’s laying on the ground and slowly trying to get up.

“Well done my wife... well done indeed,” the Lord complimented while grinning evilly.

The rangers struggled to their feet. Although they felt completely drained they knew that the fight must go on. They all prayed that Billy would soon teleport his sister out of here, “You haven’t won yet Darkredge!” Tommy yelled pulling out his sword.

“Oh but that’s where your wrong my dear boy.... I already have. ATTACK!!”

Out of nowhere hordes of cogs appeared joining the three monsters that already stood in front of them. A fierce battle broke out. Kat and Tanya blasted the cogs with there guns or tried to anyway. One of the monsters kept getting in the way and tossing them to the ground.

“Power Punch!” was heard being yelled by the green zeo ranger. One of the three monsters fell to the ground, “That’ll teach ya to pick on my girlfriend creep!”

Ashley suddenly disappeared in a black flash of light and Orbis was left floating there in mid-air. The rangers knew that Billy was behind it. They all breathed a little easier seeing as how with his sister in captivity she couldn’t make the fight worse.

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“She should be teleporting in any moment now,” Billy said.

Just then a loud crash was heard as Ashley teleported in uncontrollable bolt of black light that bounced around the room knocking things over. Until finally it stopped and Ashley lay on the examining table passed out for the moment.

Billy took a deep breath and went over to his sister’s side. He hadn’t seen her since she was five. This was the first he had seen her in eleven years.

“Billy. You must put the restraints on her quickly in case she wakes up. For if you don’t the results could be disastrous,” Zordon advised.

Obeying the dictates of his mentor Billy strapped the restraints over her wrists, ankles, stomach and forehead. Making sure they were tightened down enough so she couldn’t squirm free.

“Alpha begin scanning her to see if there’s anyway we get her out of this,” Zordon commanded.

Alpha obediently pulled the top of the scanner down over Ashley, hooked up a few wires and went over to the control panel, “Commencing scan now,” he said, pushing a button. A purple light went across Ashley’s body and then went back and forth a few more times. Soon a read out started printing out of the computer and Billy went over scooped it up.

After looking over the print out he finally said, “It says here that she was brainwashed by a spell of some sort,”

“Attach the brainwash remover onto her head and turn it up to maximum power. This spell is very powerful and very dangerous. We need all the energy we can get,” Zordon bellowed.

“Would help if the rangers healed her as well. Like they did when you were dying?” Billy asked.

“Yes. Your right Billy. It would. So we must wait for them to return. Hopefully it won’t be too late by then,” Zordon commended.

I hope you appreciate what I’m doing for you Rocky. I really do. Billy thought to himself. He always disliked Rocky. Mainly because he became the blue ranger instead of him. Where as Billy gave up his zeo crystal to Tanya. He couldn’t believe he did that. I can’t believe I gave all this up to a amature. A little while longer on the team and I would have been leader. He thought sourly.

Bright flashes of light filled the Power Chamber. Interrupting Billy of his thoughts. He hated every ranger for some reason or another. Except Kat. Billy had fallen in love with Kat ever since she had showed up. But that jerk Tommy stole her away from him. Tommy always got the girls. Billy had liked Kim too. And yet again Tommy got the girl.

“Billy? Earth to Billy,” Kat said waving her gloved hand in front of his face.

“Huh? Wha.. Oh hey guys,” he replied snapping back into reality, “you’re just in time. We need your help to bring my sister back to her senses,” adding silently to himself. What little she had.

“How do we do that?” Adam asked.

Billy had forgotten about Adam. He was one of the people he liked as well. Adam had always been a good friend. Comforting him, helping him with girl trouble, listening to his problems. Adam was the only one that knew Billy loved Kat and had felt the sameway about Kim. And he didn’t tell anyone, not even Tommy. Whom he was closer too.

“Remember what we did Zordon was dying?” Billy asked.

“Yeah,” Tommy answered.

“Well that’s what you guys need to do now. Since Rocky isn’t here I’ve attached the brain scrambler to her head. To return her to normal,” thinking to himself. Not that she ever was, “that should add the extra power we need,” he finished.

“Ummm excuse me. But when was Zordon dying?” Tanya asked.

“And how did you bring him back?” Kat added.

“This was when you guys weren’t here. It happened like almost a year ago,” Adam told his girlfriend.

“We formed a circle around him, put our hands up so that the finger tips were touching the ranger’s next to us, closed our eyes and concentrated... like this,” Tommy and Adam showed the girls what they meant.

Billy turned on the device and Tanya and Kat joined in on the circle. Ashley’s brother could see the energy start to flow through her. A red star, pink oval, green square and yellow equal sign met in the middle, crashing into each either. Creating sparks of all different colors and then gentle falling onto Ashley’s body.

“Alpha, remove the restraints,” Zordon commanded.

“Yes, Zordon,” the robot replied and quickly unlatched the restraints and let them hang down off of the table.

The rangers waited anxiously to see what the outcome would be. It seemed to be an eternity when finally.

“You guys look! She’s moving,” Kat said excitedly.

“Everyone got their helmet on?” Tommy questioned looking around at the others, “good,”

“But what about Billy?” Tanya asked.

“She already knows that I help out the Power Rangers,” Billy answered.

“But how? I thought the last time you saw you were six and she was five?”

“Tanya. That’s true. But I just know that she knows somehow. She knows things like that. I don’t know how... but she does,”

Ashleys picked up her hand and put it on her head. Where am I? What happened? How’d I get here? she thought to herself. Her head ached and she was kinda dizzy. She looked up and saw the blurry outlines of the rangers helmets. After a few minutes the blurryness went away. Ashley slowly sat up rubbing her eyes. Then out of the shadows stepped out stepped one of the things she feared the most. Her brother.