Lily's Point of View
I started crying as I saw the megazords being destroyed as I fell to my knees.
'How could my mom and Scarlett be proud of who I am, when our zords got destroyed like this? How can anyone be?' I suddenly thought as I was crying, but I felt someone hugging me from behind.
"Come on flower, we have to go." I heard someone say to me, I slightly nodded while drying my tears away for now.
"O-okay-" I tried to say.
'I helped Zordon and Alpha with the zords in a way, now-' I thought as I got up now seeing the destruction up close.
"They're completely destroyed." I hear Kimberly say while I really hated seeing all of this destruction.
"This is unbelievable." I hear Rocky say as I kept looking around me.
"We got to get back to the Command Center." Maybe Alpha can figure out away to fix them." Kimberly adds as I shook my head to that.
"If only it was that simple." Billy tells her.
"Oh, man..." I hear Tommy say as I had my head down.
"It looks like we lost more than our zords, you guys." I suddenly said as I noticed that my bracelet was still glowing all of a sudden.
"Lily's right, but... We've lost our powers completely." Tommy adds to what I was saying.
'Not all of it.' I thought as I was still looking at my bracelet.
"It's going to be a long walk back to the Command Center." Billy stated as I had my attention back to the others.
"Let's get going." I said to the others as they agreed to that while we started walking.
-Time skip-
"Oh, man. What a mess." Billy says as the two of us were looking at the panels.
"Come on, Lily and Billy. Can you two please give us some good news?" Tommy asks the two of us. We looked at each other then sighed.
"Wish we could, but we're talking about the Command Center's power core.we don't even know where to begin on repairing it." I stated sadly really stressed.
"Ay-yi-yi! I don't know, you two. That could take centuries." Alpha informs us.
"Alpha, we don't have centuries." I hear Kimberly sadly say.
"What about our zords? Can you bring them back, Zordon?" Adam asks as I was unsure of this.
"I'm afraid not. Since the Command Center's power is nearly depleted, there is no way to revitalize your post zords." Zordon informs us.
"There must be something we could do." Aisha says sounding determined.
"I could ask my mom for back up if we need it." I suddenly said knowing that my mom could help us since I can contact her again.
"We could do that." Tommy says agreeing with me, and I could see that the others agreed except for Kimberly.
"But before we do that, where did our powers come from in the first place?" Adam asks Zordon as I looked at Zordon wanting to know as well.
"Legend has it that a lost temple that is hidden beneath the desert of despair. The keeper of the temple, Ninjor, he forged the original power coins to be used by those barreling the evil forces of the universe, but this may only be a myth." Zordon explains to us.
"And I can try to contact Miss Jade to back you up when you all need it. She can also respond to you Lily." Alpha adds as I smiled to that.
"It will be nice to see mom again, also." I said smiling a small bit.
"What about the map we found along with the power coins?" Alpha then asked as I was surprised to hear about this part.
"Map?" Billy asked as we all looked at Zordon for conformation with the map appearing in Alpha's hands.
"Hey, maybe it does exist." Rocky says as I chuckled and smiled.
"Maybe we can find the temple." He continued to say.
"And find the power." Aisha adds as I nodded to that.
"I'm sorry, Rangers. The desert of despair is much too dangerous. Even with the help of the white omega ranger and her team." Zordon tells us.
"We faced danger before. If there's even a chance this temple exists-" Tommy starts as he nods at me.
"We have to take it, with or without my mom's help this time." I finished looking determined.
"Tommy and Lily are right, Zordon. We can't just give up." Billy adds to what we are saying.
"Very well. Although it's against my better judgment, I will let Alpha give you the map. But I must warn you, once Lord Zedd learns of your destination he will try to thwart your every move." Zordon starts to explain.
"Without your powers, you will be at his mercy." Zordon finishes as Alpha turns to us.
"Oh, ay-yi-yi." Alpha says giving Billy the map.
"Powers or not, we don't have choice." I said as the others nodded to that.
"But let me contact my mom for back up, if needed." I said to the others as they nodded to that.
"Ready when you are Lily." Alpha tells me as I nodded and sighed putting my communicator to my lips.
"Emerald mage to Emerald Princess. Emerald Mage to Emerald Princess! Mom, if you can hear me, we require your assistance, again please." I said through my communicator.
After a while of not hearing anything, we see something white teleporting in.
"I hear you my daughter, I am on my way to earth. I'll meet you there." I hear my mom say through my communicator, I smiled looking at my friends seeing them smile back at me.
-Time skip-
Once my mom has gotten here we see her in her in her ranger uniform with her helmet off.
(Author/Red: This is what the suit looks like.)
After hearing of our plan, she decided to stay here on earth in case Rita and Zedd tries anything.
"Remember, stay alert and be prepared for the unexpected." Zordon tells us as we all got into position.
"Alpha, are you ready?" My mom asks him looking worried for us.
"Ay-yi-yi. Talk about your crude methods." Alpha responds to my mom as she sighed knowing how stressful this is.
"Keep trying, Alpha. There should be just enough residual power to teleport the rangers safely to the desert." Zordon says as I see my mom looking at me worriedly.
"Before you go, my daughter. You should have these." My mom said as she pulls out some weapons that were green.
(Author/Red: These are the weapons Jade gives to Lily. But both ladies do not have the fan.)
"You'll need these in your quest." She then tells me.
"Are you sure you don't need these mom? I can't take them if they are yours." I tell her in concern.
"I'm sure you can take them. I won't need them for a while. You'll need them more than me." She reassures me and I sighed.
"Thanks mom." I said as we smiled at each other.
"Now, please help your friends, they need you." She tells me as I nodded.
"Either that or we're toast." Aisha says as I gave my mom a reassured look.
"Keep going, Alpha." Billy tells him as I nodded at my mom and she nods back at me.
"It's working." Billy finished saying.
"Good luck my daughter. Both you and your friends." My mom says to us.
"Good luck, rangers. Return to us safely." Zordon tells us.
"Everyone please be careful." Alpha adds.
"Oh, Zordon, Miss Jade. I hope we did the right thing." I heard Alpha say as we were being teleported away.
-Time skip-
Once teleported to the desert, the others and I looked around us.
"Guess this is it." Kimberly says nervously while we gathered around each other and Billy pulls out the map.
"Well, according to the map that Alpha gave us, we should start heading that direction." Billy says looking at a certain direction.
"The entrance to the temple is marked by a very distinctive rock formation." I stated as he then gave me the map, while we started walking in the direction Billy told us to go to.
Then we heard wailing as I decided to stay focused and determined.
"What a horrible sound." Kimberly said suddenly as I mentally rolled my eyes.
'Of course we will hear something out here, Kimberly.' I thought a little annoyed as my bracelet was glowing green again.
"What is that?" Billy asked as I was ready to fight it even if I don't have my powers.
"Remember, Zordon called this the Desert of Despair?" Adam asks as I slightly nodded to that.
"Yeah, well, it certainly lives up to its name." Kimberly says scared.
'I kind of don't blame her for saying that.' I thought as I saw Tommy looking at me out of the corner of my eye.
"Despair or not, this okay gives me a major case of the heebie-jeebies." I heard Aisha say nervously.
-Time skip-
"Are you sure you're not nervous or scared?" Tommy asks me as we were behind all of our friends.
"Who says I'm not either of those things?" I asked trying to stay strong so we can get out of here.
"Hey, it's okay to be those right now. You don't have to be strong for us." Tommy tells me as I sighed.
"I know-" I started to say as we kept walking.
"But we need to meet this Ninjor and persuade him to get our powers back. At least I don't want you guys to be defenseless." I said, honestly telling him my concerns.
"Lily, we're not defenseless. As long as we got each other, we'll be okay." He tries to reassure me, yet it kind of works.
"Thanks Tommy." I tell him slightly smiling.
"Man, I hope we get there soon, my feet are killing me." I hear Kimberly said all of a sudden as I sighed again.
-Time skip-
We hear the wailing again as I was on edge with my bracelet still glowing green.
"Boy, I miss teleporting. I will never take it for granted." Kimberly says as I nodded to that.
"I hear that. Hey, Billy, flower, how much further?" Tommy asks Billy took out the map.
"Let us take a look!" I said as were now looking at it.
"Well, it's not really clear, but if I'm not mistaken- We should be coming up on a certain rock formation pretty soon." I said after looking at the map.
"This way." Billy says adding to my point, we then went to the direction Billy said to go.
"Whatcha two got?" Rocky asks Billy and I as we looked at the map again.
"That way." I said as I see the others keep going.
"Hey, you guys, look at this rock." Kimberly suddenly said picking it up.
But then something happened and there was fire on the ground and explosions happening behind us.
We all moved, the only ones that didn't was Kimberly, Billy, and Adam!
"Come on guys, come on!!" I yelled in worry.
"Jump, Kimberly!" I hear Billy say to her.
"Billy, get out of there!!" I yelled to him still worried.
"Come on!" Adam says as Billy jumped to us.
"Oh no! The map!" Billy suddenly says as I see the map getting burnt.
"No, no, no! It's fine Billy!" Tommy says as him and some of the others held Billy back to get it. Since the map was now all burnt up.
"What are going to do?" Aisha then asks.
"Lily, you're burning." I hear Rocky then tell me, I looked confused until I saw my left sleeve was burning a bit.
I then tried to put it out, but thanks to Adam and Tommy I was able to put it out.
"Thanks you guys." I said to them with them nodding back at me.
"No problem." Both Adam and Tommy tell me.
-Time skip-
While walking from what I remembered from the map, I hear Aisha sigh.
"Lily, Billy, what sort of rock formation are we looking for?" Adam asks Billy and I.
"From what I can recall from the map-" Billy starts to say while looking at me.
"We'll know when we see it." I added, sighing.
"Well, it's got to be around here somewhere." Rocky says, then we hear Aisha's screams, she was in sinking into the ground.
"AISHA!!" I yelled in worry.
"She's sinking!" Billy states.
'Thanks for stating the obvious Billy.' I thought as I was looking around for something Aisha to grab onto so we can pull her up.
"Guys, help!" Aisha yelled in worry.
"Hang on!" Adam yells.
"I can't hold on!" She then yells.
"What do we do?" Kimberly suddenly asks.
"Guys, form a chain!" I said to the guys as I quickly thought of a way to help her.
"Get her Tommy!" Billy says as I was at the end with my eyes turning white and looking away from the others as I kept my position to get Aisha out of there.
"TOMMY!!" Aisha yelled for him.
"Hurry! HURRY!!" We heard Aisha's yell.
"HANG ON!!" Kimberly yells back.
'Take my hand." Tommy yells at her, when Aisha finally takes Tommy's hand.
"PULL!!" Tommy yells at us and we did as told.
We finally pulled Aisha out of the ground with my eyes turning back to brown.
"That was too close." Aisha says turning to Kimberly.
"Thanks you guys." She says then thanking us.
"You alright?" Rocky asks her while Kim and Aisha hugged for a moment.
"Yeah." Aisha responds to him, then o looked at where she was before.
'Hmm- That's weird!' I thought seeing a strange glow about it, I don't think anyone else saw after Aisha got out.
-Time skip-
"Hey, guys, wait a second." Billy says a I looked up to see the rock formation we talked about earlier.
"I think I see it too Billy." I said nodding at him and he nods back.
"What is it, you two?" Aisha asks the two of us.
"We think that's the formation we're looking for you guys!" I stated looking at the formation.
"Without the map, we can't be certain though." Billy adds as I slightly nodded to that.
"But if we're right, the entrance to the temple should be concealed near the base." I then added with Billy nodding this time.
"We better check it out." Rocky then says.
"Right." Billy says agreeing with him as we all started walking towards the formation.
"Look for any caves or crevasses that might be indicating an opening in the rock." I then said as we all started looking around.
"I don't understand, I don't see anything. Are you two sure, that this is the rock?" Adam asks the two of us, while Tommy and I are looking around.
"Well, it's the only thing that remotely resembles the formation." Billy says as I agreed to that.
"Maybe Zordon was right. Maybe the temple is a myth." Rocky concludes, yet I looked at my wrist real quick that my bracelet was still glowing.
"Guys, WATCH OUT!!" I called out as I see bird like monsters came at us.
"HELLO RANGERS!!" One of the bird monsters said to us as more of them showed up.
I pulled out one of the weapons that my mom has given me, it was the staff.
"Zedd found us." Tommy says as I ready to fight the bird monsters with the staff.
"Good guess." The monster said as more appeared around us.
"Man, can this get any worse?" I hear Rocky asked with my staff at the ready.
"I don't know. Let's try." One the monsters say as he was going after Billy.
"NO YOU DON'T!!" I said as I smacked it with the staff and it landed near the rocks.
"I think it just did!" Billy says as Tommy and their others got near him with me in front of them.
"You okay?" Tommy asks him while helping him up.
"Yeah." Billy responds quickly.
"Stay close together, guys." I tell them as they nodded at me.
"We've never seen these before. No telling what they can do." I then added as they all agreed to that, as the bird monsters surrounded us.
"Back off!!!" I hear Aisha yell as I smacked the monster that went after her. Thankfully knocking it out for now.
"Heads up!" I hear Tommy yell as everyone dodged the next attack.
Two of them almost got Kimberly, but Billy and I got them off of her.
"Kimberly, run!!" Billy tells her as Tommy got her in front of him to run.
I then used the staff and made a weird noise with it. The birds covered their heads as the others ran ahead of me a bit.
"Oh, man, these things are serious." Adam says as I was in front of the others again using the sound of my staff to warn the stupid bird creatures off.
"They're too strong!" Rocky yells as was still doing my thing.
"They've got us cornered." Aisha says.
I noticed a small opening out of the corner of my eye. Tommy notices and looks in the direction. He looks back at me and I nodded to him.
"Guys, over here." Tommy says now that I was focused on what I was doing.
"GUYS GO!!" I yelled as one by one they went through the small opening with me going in last.
I sighed as I put my mom staff back to it'a original state seeing that the monsters were to big to get through.
"They're too big for the opening, that should hold them off for now." I said happily.
"Now where?" Adam then asked looking at Billy and I.
"I don't know." Billy answers.
"But we can't stay here forever, though." I added worried for all of us.
Yet Adam pushes a rock and the place we were at starts shaking. Then suddenly there was an opening in front of us with the place not shaking anymore once opened.
"Look, guys, this rock rolled back. Good job Adam." I said happily seeing the opening.
"Thanks Lily, I guess." He responds as I motioned them for all of us to go in, which they all reluctantly went in with me.
'I mean I would be worried too if there wasn't any bird brains near the way we came in.' I thought as we all went through the opening.
"I don't know. This is really creepy." Aisha says as Adam let's me lead the way.
"But it will put some distance between us and the giant bird-brains back there." I then noted.
"Everybody okay?" Tommy asks as we all got inside the cave.
"Yeah, I think so." Kimberly responds as I was in front of everyone protectively.
"This is weird." Aisha states.
"Of course it's weird and kind of scary down here." I said bringing the staff out just in case.
"We should probably follow the tunnel. It'll probably lead us to safety." Billy says nodding to me as I nodded back while we kept going.
"And if we're lucky to the temple." Adam adds to what Billy said with me still leading the way.
"Where are we?" Kimberly asks us.
"Not exactly certain, but if it does lead to the temple. That would be a plus." I said honestly.
"How are you so certain Lily?" Kimberly asks me as I sighed.
"Not certain, but it's better than fighting those weird birds right now." I said as I see her nod to that.
-Time skip-
"We need to look for any light filtering through. That would show some kind of opening." I said as we kept walking.
"Did you learn a lot of this with your dig with this Mercer guy?" Tommy suddenly asks me as I nodded smiling.
"Yes, actually. When we found the brachiosaurus bones during that dig, yes." I said smiling to the fact that I did that with Mercer.
But out of the corner of my eye I see Tommy giving to what may seem like a jealous look.
'Tommy, are you- Jealous?' I thought, but I shoved that thought in the back of my mind for now, we still need to find Ninjor.
"Looks like the end of the road, guys." Adam says as I looked ahead of us to see that it was true.
"I don't believe it. Perfect." Rocky says annoyed as I suddenly see something out of place about the wall in front of us.
"It's a dead end." Rocky says still annoyed.
"Man! After all we've-" Tommy starts to say.
"Tommy, wait!" I said as the two of us went through the wall in front of us.
'What in the world?' I thought seeing what was in front of us.
(Author/Red: Hello everyone and welcome to the the end of the chapter.
I really hope you all enjoyed it and I'll see you all in the next one!
Buh-bye!!
Theme Song: Confident covered by Chase Holfelder