BACKSTORY: Zedd and Rita have been fighting the rangers for 2 years, Goldar is still their main 'general' but they also have Black Widow, similar to Scorpina, who the rangers can't defeat. Rangers are all mid 20's, and the colors and zord animals are as follows:

Red Ranger-Tiger-Jason Lee Scott 24

White Ranger-Falcon-Tommy Oliver-25

Pink Ranger-Crane-Kimberly Hart-24

Blue Ranger-Wolf-Billy Cranston-24

Yellow Ranger-Mantis-Trini Kwan-25

Black Ranger-Lion-Zach Taylor-25

Purple Ranger-Bear-Aisha Campbell-23

Brown Ranger-Ape-Rocky DeSantos-24

Green Ranger-Frog-Adam Park-23

The Green Ranger flew back into the group of rangers, knocking half of them off their feet. "Stupid bitch…" Tommy muttered as he got back to his feet, glaring at the foe in front of them.

She stood only 5'5'' with long jet black hair and black eyes. Looking at her, you would think she had stepped out of a black and white movie. Skin a pale white, with a black steel collar and black skintight armor, a red Z across the stomach as the only color on her. She was slight, clearly in great shape, and currently kicking the Ranger's asses, again. She stared emotionless at the rangers, a grey fireball floating above her hand, as she poised for their next attack. Trini and Zach charged at the Black Widow. She threw her fire at Zach, knocking him down, but just missed Trini, who slashed at one of her arms with a dagger as she jumped past her to avoid the attack. She turned to Trini, with a shocked look on her face, before disappearing in a puff of smoke. Confused, the rangers looked around them, expecting another attack. After a moment, Jason spoke to the others, "Let's get back to the Command Center."

COMMAND CENTER

Once back to the Command Center the rangers demorphed and walked towards Zordon and Alpha. Trini gave Alpha the dagger with blood from the Black Widow and they went to the computers to analyze it. Tommy stalked back and forth angrily, something he often did when a fight didn't go his way, and Aisha rolled her eyes at him.

"Tommy, you're gonna make a groove in the floor with all your pouting, and the Zordon won't get his security deposit back." She cracked. Tommy glared at her, and she stuck her tongue out at him in response.

"Zach, do you need any patching up?" Kim asked, trying to change the subject. Zach shook his arms and legs slightly before shaking his head.

"Nah, all the important pieces are still there." He responded.

"Ay yi yi!" Alpha suddenly yelled, surprising the rangers. Trini looked at Zordon in shock as the computer sent the results to him.

"Hmm, interesting." Zordon said. "Rangers, it seems that the Black Widow is not a creation of Zedd's monster maker. She has human blood. More importantly, she has ranger blood."

The rangers glanced over at the glass encasement holding a single power coin. 2 years ago, it held ten.

"Zordon, I thought you said there was no 10th, that your scanners couldn't find anyone suitable." Adam asked.

"Rita and Zedd must have found her first, there are certain magics that can cloak a person's true form." Billy offered.

"Correct Billy, the spell would bind her to Rita, as well as the earth. They could control her, but she wouldn't be able to teleport up to them, or here." Zordon explained.

"Is she under a spell then? Is she not really…" Kim started

"A stone cold bitch?" Tommy finished.

"I believe so. The collar around her neck must be the key." Zordon said.

"How can we get it off?" Jason asked.

"Cut her head off?" Tommy mused happily.

"Jason I believe that if you combine your weapons, one carefully aimed shot should break the metal, and the spell." Zordon continued, ignoring Tommy.

"Why are we worrying about saving her? Why not just figure out a way to kill her, she's tried many times to do the same to us. Even IF it's a spell, and she's not evil, she would be a liability. Zedd and Rita don't take too kindly to people taking their things." Rocky said.

"Finally, a voice of reason!" Tommy said excitedly.

"We vote." Jason said shortly. "Who wants to destroy her?" Rocky, Tommy, Trini, and Zach raised their hands.

"And who wants to try to save her?" Kim, Adam, Aisha, and Billy put their hands up. "All right, I'm the tie breaker." Jason said with a sigh. He thought about the pros of having a tenth ranger, and the cons of having a formerly evil one. "We're getting our tenth ranger."

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