Author: Lexie M (I'm baaack!)
Summary: What if the secret Jayden has to hide from his team isn't as dark and mysterious as the Power Ranger Samurai Series' producers lead on…What if Dekker and Jayden's connection is a lot more innocent then lead to believe?
Disclaimer: You know the drill! I don't intend to violate copyright laws. I don't own the Rights to the Power Rangers franchise or the characters created by the series. I do however own the characters I make up.
Tawni Oliver wasn't like any other girl in her graduating class of Angel Grove High School. How she was stuck in the city of the "Original Power Rangers" as the media called the Angel Grove Ranger Team was beyond her. The city was stuck in a time bubble were there was no crime, no monsters, no aliens and no robotic attack. She supposed she could thank her parents for the "Peace on Earth" City it came to be.
The city's perkiness was enough to send the only normal person not in denial crazy. Her Dad finally retired for being a Power Ranger after spending three years in Reefside, CA with the Dino Thunder Team. Her Mom relocated from Florida where she had trained for the USA Gymnastics team in the Pan Globals back to this sleepy city to raise Tawni, and her two sisters Kerry and Karen. Tawni was the eldest of the three and hated the role thrust on to her by her Parents.
Tawni ended up helping her Mom take care of her two younger sisters much to her protest. After all you couldn't have the Oliver Girls misbehaving and embarrassing the world famous. Dr. Thomas Oliver.
After a lucrative racing career, Tommy Oliver went to college and received his Doctorate in Paleontology. Tawni had a funny thing that it had to do with his time as being a Power Ranger with a Dinosaur Colossal Assault Vehicle has one of his weapons. She never really received a straight forward answer from him about his later in life career move.
She definitely didn't like the career move into assuming Ranger powers again. She especially didn't like hearing that he had spent the better part of a year unable to "Power down" aka "demorph" from his suit because of a freak accident he had to endure.
That's right when you live in a Power Ranger family and there is a definite chance that it will run in the family. Your wife who is also a former ranger tends to fear for her children's safety and all heck breaks loose.
Tommy and Kimberly Oliver along with there former team mates and Society members had to tell each other their children when the reached the age of fourteen their Legacy. NO other child and/or sibling could be in the room during their great reveal.
Tawni envied her sisters. Karen doesn't turn fourteen for another year and Kerry doesn't turn fourteen for another two years. The two can continue on having a normal childhood, not knowing the real reason why their parents are having them learn seven forms of martial arts; dance; gymnastics; various sports; and all forms of weapon expertise.
It all made sense to Tawni after her "talk" with her parents. She just wished that it hadn't thrust her into a world where she had to keep looking over her shoulder and every turn. Just because Angel Grovers were oblivious didn't mean she could stay oblivious. She was told that the chances of her being "Called Upon" were a 15:1 chance.
Tawni wasn't an idiot. She was at the top of her class. President of the National Honors Society, National Art Honors Society, Math Club, Debate Team and Student Body President. So if there were a line of fifteen people and she was one of these people, she would be the unlucky one, just because she had the misfortune of being two former Rangers' child.
It didn't matter because a month after her "Talk" she was "Called Upon" by a Samurai Master by the name of "Ji." The mysterious Samurai had been waiting for her parents to give her the "Talk" and received word almost immediately that the "Eldest" of the "Trio" had reached age.
Now in the world of Power Rangers anything is possible and you don't have to believe in it either. The Society as fellow rangers have taken to call their network had many beliefs. On the top of that belief systems are prophecies. Prophecies were sacred and only mentors are the keepers.
Keepers were usually Ninjas, Deities, Samurai's people who came from 1,000s of years of acquired knowledge from past generations.
Apparently there was a prophecy about Tawni and her sisters. The Oliver Trio Prophecy basically stated that: Two long standing Ranger bloodlines would come together and produce three children of the same gender. The mother no longer of the colored suit and the father the Greatest Ranger Who Ever Lived. The children will be a force that no villain can match once joined together. Each child on their own will be able to be outnumbered and not easily exerted.
When this was told to her, she laughed. It described her parents to a tee but she hadn't thought of her girlish self-absorbed sisters as Ranger material. She didn't think she could fight off multiple super-strengthened monsters all by herself.
When she met Master Ji it was then that she had reconnected with a boy who she had thought was a figment of her imagination.
Jayden Shiba, she shook her head not believing it really was him. She had remembered training in the way of the Samurai at the Shiba House when she was a little girl.
Jayden being the same age thought of her as an annoying girl who just tagged along with him and his friend Antonio. He didn't care that her father was a Ranger just like his father.
She had laughed when they were face to face again. All of her premature feelings for him had resurfaced. When he asked her what she was laughing about she had to explain that when she was a little girl, she had thought she had been in love with him.
Those had been the wrong words to say or so she thought because Jayden's face had turned red with embarrassment.
That had been before Jayden's Ranger Team had been intact. His Rangers were slowly being summoned and he needn't have to hear about a little girl's fantasy of being in love with the future leader of the Power Rangers.
Master Ji had interrupted the moment and had asked her to come with him to his chambers. He had gone on to explain that he was starting a "Sleeper" Ranger Team. Handing her an odd red object her explained that she will be the leader of this "Sleeper" team. An auxiliary team designed to be called into action if Jayden's team were to be dismembered by injury or death.
To say that she really wasn't an active ranger was a relief but it was unfortunate because it meant that the boy she compared every other boy to, was once again out of her reach. Like common vermin she was sent but to the "Peace on Earth" City.
"Ms. Oliver care to explain to the class what is so important that it's keeping your focus out of the window," her teacher admonished.
Tawni shrank in her sit. It was very rare that her focus ever strayed from her schoolwork when she was in school but being reconnected with Jayden left her shaken. It had been four months since she had seen him and her world was upside down.
Her boyfriend Jeremy was growing impatient with her distractibility. She just shrugged off her actions as belated inherited genetics from her father. But her boyfriend and Tommy Oliver were very good friends, since Tommy was Jeremy's Karate Instructor.
She and Jeremy had actually met at a dojo sponsored competition. Tommy had the girls trained in martial arts but he did not instruct them. He figured it would be difficult to defereniate father from mentor show he left his daughters' training to their numerous ranger "Uncles" and "Aunts" who owned their own dojos. The Trio never visited The Green Dragon Dojo because of training.
Tawni had been waiting for her turn for weapons forms when Jeremy literally knocked into her shoulder. After apologizing profusely for potentially injuring her, he had asked for her name. That moment had changed her life forever. Tawni became a girlfriend. Jeremy would be her first boyfriend.
It didn't happen right away it had taken months for Jeremy to ask her out on their first date, he had been terrified about upsetting Master Oliver.
Tommy had reassured Jeremy that if Jeremy had ever dishonored Tawni, she would teach him a lesson not the Karate Master.
"Ms. Oliver this is your second warning. I catch you with your heads in the clouds again you will be given detention. Is that understood?"
"Yes, Ms. Stewart," Tawni sighed. Jayden really does have an undesired effect on me, she thought as she refocused on the class discussion.
The class ended thirty-five minutes later, she slowly walked out of her classroom and into the hall of Angel Grove High School. Jeremy had been waiting outside the door waiting for her.
"Tawni, What is the matter with you," her asked. She looked up to see hurt and confusion in his eyes. She diverted her gaze, she couldn't tell him what was really the matter. School couldn't tell anyone outside the Society.
"You've been jittery ever since you came back from your semester in Japan." He finished annoyed that it had to come to this.
Tawni looked up at her boyfriend again and was speechless. How could she tell this boy she had been dating since Junior High that she had married her childhood sweetheart.