Vachon's plan seemed simple to Tommy, Perhaps too simple. They where 
using
Alma to try and entice Jacqueline into the back rooms. at the same time,
Miklos would take care of Scorpina.

"Can we trust Alma?" Tommy asked skull, as they where hiding.

"She's very trustworthy, at least for me."

"What makes you different?" Tommy asked.

"I'm her master,"

"Be quiet!" Vachon hissed from across the room. "Someone's coming!"

Alma came in, talking. She was followed by Jacqueline and Tracy,

Jacqueline stopped. Then she turned where Tommy was. "I know your here,
come out and face me!"

Skull grabbed Tommy's arm and shook his head no.

"I'm your master, you will do as I command!" Jacqueline ordered.

//Now Tommy!// he heard Vachon whisper in his mind.

Tommy got up, and came out from behind the hiding place. "How did you 
know
I was here?"

"I could feel you!" she walked up to Tommy, and crossed her arms. "You've
been a very bad boy Tommy, you didn't die!"

"Sorry to disappoint you!"

"I should have realized that a power ranger would be hard to kill."

Like a flash, Vachon came up behind Jacqueline, holding a stake. With one
swift movement, he shoved the stake into her back, through her heart.

Jacqueline fell against Tommy. "How could you do that to your master?'

"Your not my master!" Tommy let her fall to the ground.

Skull said. "You must end it,"

"How?"

"You have to take her head," Vachon told him. He opened up a cabinet and
took out a sword, then handed it to Tommy.

Tommy looked down to Jacqueline, and felt the sword. This was the woman
that killed him. She had to pay. He raised the sword over his head, then
brought it down, severing Jaqueline's head from the shoulders.

As soon as that happened, Tracy fell to the ground. Vachon went to 
Tracy's
side. She looked up to him, with recognition in her eyes. "Vachon....."

"Welcome back!"

Tommy could feel Skull's arm go around his waist as he watched his master
turn to ash, then disappear. "I shouldn't have done that!"

"If you hadn't, who knows what else she would have done," Skull whispered
to him.

Just then Miklos came into the back room. "Scorpina' taken off!"

"What about Billy?" Tommy asked.

"He's collapsed!"

"Go to him," Skull prompted.

*       *       *

Billy lay on the floor, unconscious. Tommy knelt beside him.. All this 
was
his fault, he knew it. "Oh my god, Billy. I'm sorry."

"Pick him up," Skull told him.

"What?" Tommy asked.

"We can't teleport in here, someone will see." Skull whispered to him.

Seeing Tommy's hesitation, Skull moved to pick up Billy.

"This is my responsibility," Tommy gently he picked up his friend, and
followed Skull into the back room.

"You're going to have to call Zordon," Skull told him.

"Whose Zordon?" Vachon asked.

"That's kind of hard to say,"

Without saying anything, Skull came over and took Tommy's communicator 
from
his wrist, he held it up to Tommy's mouth. He was nervous, very nervous.
"Zordon, this is Tommy, please come in,"

"What is it Tommy?" The voice was Alpha five's.

"Billy's been hurt...." Tommy couldn't keep the guilt out of his voice. 
"I
need your help, please,"

There was a long stretch of silence, then Alpha said. "How many to 
teleport?"

"Five."

Tommy could feel himself being teleported. They arrived in control 
center.
Two healing beds materialized in the room. Tommy carried Billy over to 
one,
and laid him down on it. Vachon put Tracy on the other.

"This place is wild!" Skull said, looking around.

"Is this one trustworthy?" Alpha five asked, walking towards Skull.

"Yes, he is, and so is Vachon." He went back over to Billy. "I'm sorry. I
wasn't strong enough."

"Move away from the bed Tommy," Alpha Five told him.

Reluctantly Tommy did. Billy was encased in a healing field. The minutes
went past, it seemed like forever.

"Do you know that Billy is a vampire?" Tommy asked.

"There's nothing to worry about," Alpha said. "We have treated Jason, 
Trini
and Billy before."

"Let me get this straight, Trini and Jason are vampires?" Tommy said 
slowly.

"Jason is an inherited, Trini was crossed over by Billy."

"What is that thing?" Vachon asked.

"This is Alpha five," Tommy said.

"He's a robot!"

"He's much more then that!"

As he was saying it, the field around Billy shimmered, and disappeared.
Zordon shimmered into existence, and Vachon jumped again.

"That's Zordon, he's our boss," Tommy said quickly.

"If you say so," Vachon said.

Zordon finally talked. "I have done everything I can for him. He will 
need
the blood of a vampire to heal him."

"Then so be it," Tommy reached out and touched Billy's forehead.

Billy's eyes flickered open. "Tommy......"

"Yes, Billy, its me,"

"Your safe.... Scorpina had you,"

"I'm free now...."

"I hunger...."

Tommy pulled up the sleeve of his shirt.

"No Tommy!" Skull said firmly. "You can't give Billy your blood!"

"He's right," Vachon said. "Billy isn't fully conscious. Be can't control
himself."

Tommy looked down to his friend. "Billy needs me, I trust him."

Using his fangs, he opened up the vein on his arm. Then he put it at his
friends lips. "Drink Billy, please."

Billy opened his mouth, and the blood trickled in. A few moments passed,
and Billy brought his hand up, and touched the back of Tommy's wrist,
pulling it close to his mouth. He looked up to Tommy, his eyes had 
changed.
They looked into each others eyes.

He could feel his strength leave him as his friend drank. He was too weak
to pull his hand away. He realized that Billy had taken too much. He was
going to die, but it didn't matter, he had helped his friend.

Everything went black.

*       *       *

The first thing Billy could remember hearing was a loud thud, then Skull
yelling "Tommy!"

"Ai yai yai, he's taken too much!" Alpha five said.

"Get him on a table," Zordon ordered. Vachon and Skull hurried to do 
that.
A few moments passed. "This is very grave. Tommy has been drained almost 
to
death."

"Damn you Billy!" Skull yelled. "How could you do that? Tommy trusted 
you!"

"It wasn't his fault," Vachon said.

"It was!" Skull insisted.

"He's right, it was my fault," Billy sat up. He still felt very woozy.
Tommy was lying on the healing bed. He looked very pale. It wasn't that 
far
from the table. Billy got up, he staggered to Tommy's side. "He gave
himself to me, I must pay him back," He opened his wrist, then he parted
Tommy's lips. Finally after a few moments, Tommy swallowed. "Thats good 
my
love, drink."

Tommy drank until Billy almost passed out. Suddenly Skull was at his 
side.
"Stop Billy, stop."

He pulled his wrist from Tommy's mouth. Skull guided Billy back to the
table. Billy laid down and fell back to sleep.

*       *       *

Tommy woke, surprised that he was still alive. He thought he was
dying. He reached his wrist up, so that he could see it, there was a thin
scar where he had opened it.

"How are you feeling?" He could hear Vachon's voice.

"I'm fine," he looked towards the voice.

Vachon was standing beside Tracy's bed. "You up to travel?"

Tommy felt a bit confused. "Yeah, why?"

"You took Billy's blood, you know where the rest are being held."

"I took Billy's blood?" The confusion increasing. He tried to sit up.
Vachon moved to help him.

He was sitting on a healing bed. Billy was lying on the bed beside him. 
He
looked pale, and still, and Tommy couldn't feel him. His friend was dead,
he had to be. Tommy had to be near him. He slid off the table. Vachon
steadying him.

"Tommy, be careful."

"Billy, I have to see Billy".

"Billy's fine," Vachon tried to reassure him.

"I can't feel him!"

Tommy staggered to Billy's side. He reached out to touch him, but there 
was
a force field. "Zordon, let this down, please."

"I am sorry Tommy, but I can't,"

"Why, Zordon, why?"

"Billy almost died saving your life. He needs his rest now."

"He is alive?"

"He needs time to heal."

"Why didn't you just let me die?" Tommy looked down to his friend. Billy
had almost died saving his life. Guilt washed over him. He now knew that
after they got their friends back, he would have to leave Angel Grove
forever.

"You shared blood with Billy, do you know where Bulk is being held?" 
Skull
asked.

Tommy thought, "Yes I do."

"Do you think your up to showing us?" Skull asked.

Tommy looked down to his lover. He had to make this right, for him. "Yes, 
I
can.

*       *       *

"Wow, I wish I had one of these things at home," Skull said as they
materialized in Rita's prison. "Pop your somewhere, it's better then
flying!"

"Sure Skull," Vachon said, he moved around the room, looking it over, the
place resembled a medieval dungeon. It was dark, and damp. Smoke seemed 
to
rise out of the floor. "Doesn't look like anyone's here."

"Bulk's here, I can feel him," Skull said.

"I didn't think you crossed him over yet," Vachon said.

"I know, but I've taken tastes,"

Vachon moved slowly over to Tommy, who hadn't moved since they arrived. 
"Do
you recognize this place?"

"Yes, I've been here before,"

"You mean Billy was here," Vachon pointed out.

"I've been here Vachon, I worked with Rita, remember?" Tommy moved away
from Vachon. Trying to draw on Billy's knowledge of where the prisoners
were being kept.

/Tommy, Tommy, were are you?// He could hear Billy say in his mind. //I
need you Tommy, why did you leave me?//

"Tommy!" Skull grabbed Tommy by the shoulders and shook him hard. "Snap 
out
of it!"

Tommy shock his head to clear it. "Thanks Skull,"

"Will you be all right?"

"I think so,"

Suddenly, out of nowhere, putty's arrived. One grabbed Vachon, and he 
threw
the putty against the wall as hard as he could. He stared aghast, as the
putty broke up into pieces and then desolved.

"I don't understand," Vachon said aghast.

A putty launched itself at Tommy, who as he fought him said. "They aren't
real creatures, they were made out of putty."

"These things are annoying," Skull threw the putty he was fighting 
against
the floor. It desolved.

All the putties defeated, they went on walking. Suddenly Tommy had the 
urge
to stop. "Nick is here,"

"What do you mean here?" Vachon asked. "No one's here, this is just a 
wall."

"I agree with Javier," Skull said.

Tommy went over to the wall. He reached out and touched it. His hand went
through it. Then he took a deep breath, and went through it. He looked
around. He could see a row of large cages. He could see Nick in the 
closest
one.

"Tommy, were did you go?" Skull yelped.

"No where, come through the wall," Tommy said.

"The walls solid!"

"If its solid, how did he get through it," Vachon asked as he came 
through
the wall.

"This place is too strange," Skull said following him.

//Tommy, Tommy, where are you?// he could hear Billy say in his mind. 
using
all his concentration, he pushed Billy out of his mind.

Tommy walked to the door of the cage. Nick got up. "Tommy, Vachon, how 
did
you find me?"

"Billy told us," Skull said. "How it going Nick?"

"I'm surprised to see you here admiral."

"You know me, always go were the action is," Skull smiled.

"Cut the family reunion," Vachon said. He turned to Tommy, do you know 
how
to open the door?"

Tommy examined the lock. It was a fairly simple keypad type, except that
the pad characters weren't in any language he recognized. He closed his
eyes. and for a moment, drew on Billy's memory. Then he reached out and
touched the key pad, and almost automatically punched in the combination.
The door swung open.

"Thanks Tommy," Nick said as he left the cage. "Scorpina's got Nat, I 
can't
feel were she is,"

Tommy moved past them. He felt as if he were Billy. "I know were she is,"