♜♔ Checkmate ♔♜ - RD

Chapter 13 - Power Down

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Elle stirred, feeling her head pound again, she forced herself to stand before limping over to the cell door trying to get a view of the arena. To her shock, Jason stood in his armor in the arena circling with Tommy. The crowd cheered as Tommy slung Jason into the wall making him falter.

Elle could barely watch, she knew his powers were almost useless in... well wherever this was.

She felt her shoulder pop as she lifted her arms up to shake the cell door. Maybe if she still had that blaster she could blast her way out, but she could only sit and watch helplessly as the fight continued.

The pain in her shoulder had grown to sharp pains when she moved. Her head spun. The room felt deadly cold as she sat back down on the ground trying to recover from the pain she had been in earlier. Her face still felt numb.

A clanging on the cell door brought her attention back to the room, she glanced up seeing the familiar blue suit pushing open the now busted cell door.

"Elle!" Rocky shouted.

Her first instinct was to try and stand up but she was stopped when Rocky dropped to his knees, throwing his helmet to the ground and wrapping his arms around her, "You scared the crap out of me- us. You scared all of us. Don't disappear like that again."

Elle rolled her eyes, "Great, I'll just tell my robotic kidnappers to stop next time they try to take me."

"Glad to see you're still the same sarcastic genius you always were," Rocky chuckled, he pulled back wiping some of the dirt from her face and pushing hair back behind her ear to get a better look at her. The action made her face heat up, she tried to get the butterflies in her stomach to calm down but they didn't listen. Especially when Rocky was looking deep into her eyes with concern.

"God I was-" He started but stopped himself.

"What?"

"I was so worried about you," he whispered.

She felt her eyes brim with tears, "I'm so glad you found me."

Rocky pulled her close again and Elle wrapped her arms tightly around him tucking her nose into his shoulder.

"Where's Tommy?"

"In the arena, the others are trying to get through to him," Rocky said, he picked his helmet back up, "Are you hurt?"

"A bit, but I need to morph before we go back out there."

"Here," Rocky strapped a communicator just like he and the others had around her wrist, "Billy said this will help your morpher reach the command center."

Elle nodded and strapped the watch to her wrist and grabbed her virtualizer, "Let's do this. We are VR!"

Immediately the rush of power made her feel better, her head didn't feel like it was about to explode and her shoulder settled into a dull ache as the two ran out to the center of the arena to join the rest of the Rangers.

"The rest of the Rangers," Tommy growled, "Now I'll destroy your entire evil gang."

"Come on dummy, we're not evil!" Elle shouted.

"How fitting they're going to be destroyed by their own leader," Archerina jeered.

"There's gotta be a way to get through to him," Jason groaned.

Tommy got into a fighting stance, "Prepare to be destroyed!"

Kat stepped forward, "Tommy no! It's us!"