So I have a friend who is seriously the biggest fan of "The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" like seriously apparently she didn't get to watch the show as a kid and she has asked me questions about it for years. Well she comes to my apartment today with all of the original seasons. Heaven help me. Don't get me wrong I like the power rangers and everything when I was like 6! Still I agree to let her watch the first season here at least. I mean I could manage that.
Half way through though I was begining to fall asleep. Of course Ursula did her best to keep me awake but it doesn't work. Sorry but I still had work in the morning as well. Just as I am getting comfortable I suddenly get the feeling that I am falling, I open my eyes and see myself fall to the ground. Ugh I finally make contact with the ground.
"Uh what the heck happened?" I hear Ursula ask me.
"I have no idea." I tell her as I manage to push the top half of my body up. "Looks like we are in some kind of park."
"You don't like anywhere near a park Katie." Ursula says as she lifts herself up.
"Yeah well I know that Ursula." I tell her as I stand up only to puddies looking at me very strange. "Oh great"
Ursula stands up and looks shocked as well. I look at her and just watch as the puddies move closer to us.
"Uh those look like those puddy things. Are you telling me we are actually here? My wish came true?" Ursula says all excited.
"You wished for this? Why?" I ask her curious to know what was going through her head.
"Hey come on be a teenage superhero who wouldn't want that?" she asks me with a big grin.
"Yeah and now we have to fight geinius. Remeber what to do?" I ask her.
"Uh hit the little Z things on their center?" she asks hesitantly.
"Good, you did pay attention." I tell her as one of the puddies come after me. "Here goes nothing."
I grab the first puddies arm and hold him while I kick him right on the Z and he automaticly pretty much fell apart. While Ursula was being chased down by two.
"Hey two on one this isn't fair!" she calls out to me.
I just roll my eyes as I run to her and manage to grab another puddy and knock him to the ground and punch the Z again therefore getting rid of him. I look up and see Ursula on the playground castle thing. I swear she plays the damsel in distress too well. I run up there as the puddy is trying to climb up the rope web. I grab one side of the web and kick the puddy right on the Z therefore getting rid of him as well.
"You are useless you know that?" I ask her.
"Hey give me a break, I am still learning." Ursula calls down to me.
I just sigh as she slowly starts to come down and about ten more puddies appear.
"You may wanna stay up there rapunzel." I yell up to her as I try to keep my distance from them.
Of course this doesn't work as one grabs me from behind. I try to use my body weight and throw him over me but for a puddy he is strong. He pulls me out and I see the other puddies coming my way. Well this isn't going to end well for me. Just as I am about to call for Ursula I see a few other teenagers come up, all wearing their own perspective colors. They start to fight off the puddies. I just stand there for a minute then remember oh right one is still holding me. I stomp down on his foot as hard as I can. The puddy lets me loose and I turn around and punch him again on the Z. Ha in your face pal!
I turn around to see the other teenagers who I know are Billy, Zack, Trini, Kimberly and Jason look my way. Uh right I guess I better say something but I really don't want to. I want to get Ursula and get out of here.
"Are you alright?" I hear Trini ask me.
I just nod as I look back up to the tower and see Ursula looks start struck. Oh for goodness sake.
"You seemed to know what you were doing. Nice moves girl." Zack tells me.
"Oh thanks, but I owe you guys thanks as well. I couldn't have taken them down all on my own." I say as I look between the five of them.
"What's your name?" Kimberly asks me.
"I'm Katie, my friend there in the tower is named Ursula." I say as I point to the tower and Ursula just smiles and waves to them.
"Nice to meet you Katie. I'm Kimberly." she says smiling at me with a small wave. "Then we have Trini, Billy, Zack and Jason."
"It's nice to meet you all too." I tell her smiling back to them.
"You new here?" Jason asks me.
"Uh yeah, Ursula and I just moved here." I lie not really knowing what else to say. I can't say no I'm from the future and I have no idea how I got here.
"You go to Angel Grove High as well right?" Billy asks already probably knowing the answe.
"Yep, shouldn't we be there now?" I ask them.
"Yeah we were just on our way then we heard a rucus. You looked like you were in a bit of trouble." Jason says stepping forward.
"Well once again thanks guys. I better get Ursula down and head to school. Whichever way that is." I say as Ursula then comes up on her own.
"Well you can come with us." Kimberly says as they start walking.
Ursula and I follow them but then Ursula nudges me.
"Look down at your clothes." Ursula tells me.
I give her an odd look as I look down and see I am dressed in light blue shorts with a light purple tee shirt. Oh come on please tell me we won't become rangers. I then look to Ursula who is also dressed in dark blue shorts and a orange shirt. I can't help but want to laugh. Ursula hates the color orange.
"Guess my wish came back at me since I hate the color orange." Ursula says as she rolls her eyes at me.
"You got the good part of your wish right, I think just keep calm and pray we are somehow in the system at the school." I tell her as we walk inside the high school.
"Well looks like a normal school to me." I say as I look around.
"I'll take them to the office to get their class sheets then meet you guys at lunch?" Kimberly tells the group.
"Sounds good, come on Billy we have Biology to get to." Trini says as she and Billy walk off.
"See you two at lunch, I got gym now with Jason here. He likes to show off when we do baseball." Zack says as he friendly nudges Jason.
"Just give it your best and you'd be showing off as well." Jason says as he and Zack start to walk away.
We walk with Kimberly into the office. Of course we were still both hoping and praying somehow the school expected us. The assistant smiled at us and handed us two pieces of paper.
"Nice to meet you Katie and Ursula Jones." the woman says with a smile.
"You too Miss." I say as Ursula just nods.
We take the papers and walk out of the office and Kim looks at both our papers. She smiles more at Ursula's paper than my own.
"We have almost every class together Ursula, Sorry Katie looks like we only have Home room together." Kimberly says handing me my paper back.
"No problem." I say as Kimberly link arms with Kimberly and they start down the hallway.
Ok I guess this leaves me to fend on my own. I look at my paper first period. Gym. Oh this early in the morning? Wait that means I'll be with Zack and Jason. I look around for a minute and finally find the gym. I walk inside and hand the gym teacher my paper. The teacher smiles at me handing me the school uniform for gym. I quickly go and change. Really shorts were this short even in the 90's?
I walk back to the teacher who stops the class. Apparently they were getting ready to go outside and play baseball just like Zack said.
"Everyone this is Katie Jones she is a new student so why don't we be nice to her? Ok so Zack, Jason who wants her on their team?" the teacher asks.
"I'll take her." Jason says stepping forward again.
I look at the teacher and nod as I walk up to Jason's team while putting my hair up in a pony tail on the way. Apparently a few of the other girls on this team aren't happy about me being here. I just shrug it off as we walk outside. Jason's team well I guess my team is on the feild first. Jason starts to tell people where to go and he finally gets to me.
"You think you can handle first base?" he asks me.
"Sure, no problem." I say I was on my schools softball team so this should be ok...right?
Jason smiles at me as we all go to our place. I stand a little bit away from first base. Jason of course is pitcher and who is up to bat first? A girl who keeps giving Jason random smiles. If this is her version of flirting then she really needs to practice. Jason pitches and she hits the ball my way and I go after it. Then on of the girls from earlier try to block me. I twirl around her and still manage to catch the ball.
"OUT!" the teacher calls out.
Sorry girly but I remember how to catch a ball I think to myself as I start walking forward and throw the ball back to Jason. He must find something funny because it looks like he's laughing. I don't think much about it. Two out later its our turn at bat and I make sure I am last on the hitting sheet. I watch as Jason looks at our team and tells them which person will be batting and when. I don't pay any attention knowing I am at the bottom of the list.
"Katie, I think you should bat third." I manage to hear Jason say.
I look up at him confused. Uh wait I signed up at the bottom didn't I? That's when the drama starts.
"Uh Jason I signed up to bat third, plus she' the new girl she can wait a while." the preppy girl with long blonde hair says standing up to Jason.
"Well I'm the team leader and I think she can bat third. What do you say Katie?" Jason asks me turning his attention away from the other girl.
"Sure, your team captain after all." I tell him with a smile.
"Good, it's settled then. Brittany you can bat fourth." Jason inform her.
I stand up and walk to where the third person to bat sits. Of course this earns me a lot of unwanted looks from my teamates. I just roll my eyes. Seriously does the drama never end? First two people were on base and I was up, did I mention that I totally hate batting? I walked to the plate and got ready. Ok in softball I was small so I could usually make my strike zone disappear. Not so much now that I am older. First pitch was a ball, second pitch another ball, third pitch I went for it and accidently knocked out the second baseman. Oops. I still ran though all the bases then almost went back to the second basemen but stopped when he just stood up and smiled at me.
"Nice one!" the second baseman called out.
"Wow did he just compliment me for knocking him out?" I ask no one specail.
"I think he did." I hear Jason's voice say from behind me.
I turn around with a little jump not expecting anyone to hear what I said.
"Sorry, didn't mean to scare you. Nice job got us three runs in." Jason compliments me. "Happy you batted third now?"
"Yeah, still feel bad about hurting him." I tell Jason as I look back to the scrawny second baseman.
"Skull's fine trust me he has been through worse than that." Jason tells me as we walk back to the pit.
Right that was Skull, I knew I recodnized him. I just smile as I sit down and Jason goes back to being the team leader. No wonder he was leader of the power rangers.
After the other classes I had it was now lunch time oh thank goodness I was starving. I walked inside alone only to have Ursula come up to me with a big smile on her face.
"I have gossip." she tells me with a big smile.
"Oh brother what is it this time?" I ask her as I pick out my lunch from the line.
"Apparently one of the girls in gym asked Jason out and he totally denied her claiming he liked somone else." Ursula tells me.
"Uh huh and why should this interest me?" I ask her as I make my way to the register.
"Oh come on you think I wouldn't remember Jason was your favorite?" she asks me.
I turn to her and just look at her shocked, Ok I admit I liked Jason when I use to watch the show. Like years ago. I mean here he is good looking, strong, cute ok I am getting off track here. I finally get to the register and the lady motions for me to go through.
"I haven't paid." I tell her.
"Miss Hart paid for you and your sister." the woman tells me.
I just nod at her as Ursula and I make our way into the jungle aka the lunch room. I use to hate all the groups that were in here since neither Ursula or I belonged to any of them. Finally we find an empty table and sit down fast. I start to eat my food when a nightmare from softball comes over to me.
"Hey new girls you are at our table." Brittany says with a smile as she chews her gum.
"Don't see your name written on it." I say before I realize what I am saying.
"Oh really, everyone here knows this is the popualr table." she says defending herself.
"Sorry, we're new we don't know the lay out of the lunchroom yet." Ursula says.
"Let them eat, we can find a different table." Kimberly offers up to them.
"No way, she stole my place in softball there is no way she gets my table too." Brittany says about to grab my arm.
"She didn't steal your place. I put her there now come on just leave them alone." Jason says coming forward.
"Jason, right where do you want to sit?" Brittany asks her mood changing instantly.
Wow talk about bi polar. I look to Ursula and just roll my eyes as they walk away from us. I guess some things in life never changed. After lunch I have drama class. To my surprise all of us are in it. I guess Kim missed this one. It looks like we are doing Rumplestilskin as well. Oh I remember this. I get to do some painting as they rehearse. I really don't mind painting in fact it was one of the things I loved to do back home.
Just as I am about to finish up I feel something cold go down my back. I look up to Ursula who has a shocked look on her face. I turn around to see Brittany smiling down at me. Why do I get the bad feeling that she just dumped paint down my shirt?
"Just don't move." Ursula tells me.
I remain still as Brittany just walks away laughing. I really am starting to hate Ursula's wish more and more. Trini and Kim come up to me with a lot of paper towel and start to dry my back off the best that they can. I really just want to cry or kill Brittany right now, I'm torn between the two.
"You'll probably have to go shower in the locker room." Trini tells me.
I just nod at her. I stand up and quickly Ursula stuff more paper towels down the back of my shirt. Kim and Trini lead me to the locker room and decide to wait for me outside. Ugh I really hate that girl. I quickly shower getting the blue paint off of my body and out of my hair. After getting red dressed in a new out fit Kim just happened to have I walk out to see all six of my friends standing there waiting for me.
"You ok Katie?" Billy asks first.
"Yeah, thanks Billy. I'm not gonna let it get me down." I tell him as I smile at them. "Oh and thanks for the clothes Kim."
"No prob, you guys wanna go get some Juice? I'm sure Ernie would love to meet you." Kim says as we all start to walk down the hall as the last bell of the day rings.
I follow them not really thinking about it. Just then I see that Jason stopped. I turn to him and raise an eye brow at him.
"Jason? You alright?" I ask him.
"She shouldn't have done that to you. It's not right what she did." Jason tells me.
"Well it's a girl thing Jason. Nothing to worry about I'm ok see." I tell him as I twirl once. "I even got to wear one of Kim's pretty pink dresses."
Jason just chuckles at that as we start walking again. Just as we get to the end of the hall there stands a very unhappy Brittany. Something tells me she is the one that got rejected by Jason.
"Well looks like I see who you like now?" Brittany questions Jason.
"We're friends Brittany. Just because I am with her doesn't mean she is the reason I told you no." Jason says.
Of course this is followed by an awkward silence.
"Well I'm gonna catch up with the others." I say as I start to walk away but Brittany steps in front of me. "Seriously, I've been here a day don't blame me for your problems."
Finally I get past her. To be honest I really don't feel like hanging out with the gang or Ursula for that matter. So I decide to go outside. I make my way over to a rope swing that hangs from a tree just a bit away from the Juice Bar. I sit down and just swing back and forith for a second.
"Kim? Did you dye your hair red?" I hear a male voice ask me. Oh crud that must be Tommy.
I just keep still hoping her will go away. I know it doesn't make sense but that's what I do finally Tommy comes up and looks at me shocked.
"Oh sorry, I thought you were Kimberly she has a dress just like that one." Tommy tells me after getting a good look at me.
"It is hers, she let me wear if after Brittany decided to dump paint down my shirt." I admit to him as I start to swing just a little again.
"Ah Brittany, yeah she can be a pain when she wants to be." Tommy tells me as he leans against the tree.
"I think Kim is at the juice bar, just don't tell them where I am please. I just wanted some time to myself." I say with a sigh.
"You alright? I mean I know it sucks to be picked on but you can either rise above it or let it always get to you." Tommy says as he kneels down in front of the swing. "Maybe she's just jealous."
"I think that had to do with a lot of this. Apparently she thinks I am the reason that Jason rejected her. I don't see how though, I just got here today." I reply to him.
"Oh don't worry about her. Come on it's better to be with friends. Trust me." Tommy says giving me the hint to go with him.
I nod and get off the swing, I follow him inside the juice bar. I see Kim and Trini talking to Ursula while Billy is messing with some kind of watch. Zack however is looking around the place like a chicken with it's head cut off. Tommy walks forward and puts his hand on Zack's shoulder.
"Hey man, what's up?" Tommy asks him.
"Have you seen Jason? He said he was coming with us but he still hasn't come." Zack tells him.
Why isn't Jason here yet? I mean I know I left him with Brittany but she wouldn't do anything would she. I decide I am going to go and find out. I walk out of the juice bar determined to find Jason, just as I am starting to go back into the school some knd of feeling pulls me away. I follow the feeling and it leads me to another park. It's then I hear the sound of someone fighting. I run down and see Jason fighting off puddies. I quickly join in the fight and try to help him until we are back to back.
"Any ideas?" I ask Jason.
"You know how to dance?" Jason asks me.
"Uh dance are you kidding?" I ask him but he grabs my hand and spins me out and kicks down the puddy that was about to grab me.
I turn to my left and kick down another puddy. Then I feel him pull me back to him. I follow him and we I get to his center he lifts pe by my waist and spins. Each puddy I hit down with my legs. After that I see there is one left. Jason spins me out again and takes out the last puddy before pulling me back to him. Ok this was very weird. I didn't think Jason could dance well not like this at least.
That's when his communicator goes off. He gives me and odd look. Of course he has to hide the fact he is a power ranger from me.
"Stay here, I'll be right back." Jason tells me as he walks away from me.
I just stand there like an idiot waiting for him to come back. Wait why am I waiting for him? Besides the fact that he asked me of course. Just as I am about to start walking back Jason comes up to me.
"So you probably want to know why those things keep attacking me?" Jason asks as we start walking.
"Uh I think I can guess, but if you don't want me to then I won't." I tell him.
"I doubt you could guess, no offense." he says.
"You are a power ranger right?" I ask him.
Jason stops dead in his track and looks at me completely surprised. Yeah he really didn't see that coming did he?