Chapter 1
Debris flew through the air and rained down on my friends and me. But I didn't notice the debris falling around. All I saw was the Command Center blowing up with Dad and Tentomon inside! I heard my friends shout at someone and take off in the other direction. A moment later Billy appeared beside me. Then he and the others began to call out to me as I began to scramble up the mountainside toward the remains of the Command Center. No! Nonononono! This is not happening! This is not happening! IT CAN'T BE HAPPENING!! I just standing there when they came in, I was just standing there and didn't do a blasted thing!! Like Mom, like Kimberly! I was close to saving them but I didn't. I didn't save them!!
"DAD!" I began to scream as I reached the top and looked around at the remains of the Command Center, there was nothing , only charred debris that was the floor of the Command Center. the Command Center was gone. I stared around horror struck I grabbed the sides of my head and pulled my hair and began to scream.
"No! Nononono!!" I began to run around screaming my father's name over and over again, searching searching but finding nothing! No!! He can't be dead! He can't be DEAD!
"DAD! DAD! DAD! DAD!" After searching everywhere and finding nothing I dropped to my knees, I wrapped my arms around myself and began to cry. Then I let out a howl of rage and pain.
"ZEDD!! I'LL KILL YOU! YOU'LL PAY FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE TAKEN FROM ME! DO YOU HEAR ME?" The others were standing a few feet behind me and watched as I began to sob once again. Rocky held the Zeo Crystal in his hand and was staring at it, not believing that it would be still be here of all places! I stood up and began to trudge back to my friends. I stopped and stared at the Crystal.
"Goldar and Rito must have dropped it during the explosion." Said Adam quietly. The others nodded numbly, too stunned by what they have witnessed to speak. I lifted up my head and glared at the Crystal, hatred welling up inside me. I leapt forward and snatched the Crystal from Rocky's hand and lifted it up high over my head preparing to smash it. But the others had all tackled me and pinned me to the ground while I struggled and kicked at them.
"Let go! It has to be destroyed! If it wasn't for that blasted Crystal none of this would be happening! IT KILLED DAD! IT KILLED MY FATHER!!" I began to cry once again Rocky opened his mouth but before he could say anything the ground beneath us fell away and we were falling downward.
After falling for what seemed like hours, we hit the floor. We all lay there winded for a few moments, then we slowly untangled ourselves and stood up. Looking around we all came to realize that we were in some kind of hallway, there were walls on each side of us and when Katherine looked up to see the hole in which we had fallen through, there was no hole! Without saying anything to each other, and my anger completely forgotten, we began to walk down the hallway. I'm not sure how long we walked, could have been an hour or a few minutes when we came upon a green wall of slime. We all stared at it, Tommy stepped over to it and after hesitating a bit, reached out his hand and touched it. A bit of slime came off onto his hand. He looked at it then looked at the rest of us.
"Feels kind of cool." Then we all heard a voice coming from the other side of the wall that made us all jump.
"Rangers, please step through the vortex." My heart lifted. It sounded like Tentomon, he must have survived! Without a second's thought, I charged forward and went through the vortex. The others stared after me for a few minutes.
"You guys come on, you've gotta see this!" They heard my voice call to them, looking at each other and swallowing nervously they all stepped through and into...another room. I was staring and looking around the others did the same The room or whatever it was, was pretty big, the floor was of a half circle like the Command Center only much more bigger. To the west of the room there was a table, my guess was that it was for medical purposes, also beyond that were a pair of double doors. To our right was a console and behind it, was a tube, like the one that Dad used to reside in. I swallowed hard still not believing that I would never see my father again. On the right side of the tube was a map of the place that we were in, to the left was a map of the world and beside it was a...it looked a bit like the viewing globe only it was connected to the wall. The east side of the wall was darkened and even when Rocky walked over to it and tried to see what was there, he couldn't. Walking back to the rest of us we all began to look for Alpha.
"He's here, I know he is! I heard his voice." I said. Just then the double doors opened and Alpha stepped through them! He was alright! He was alive!
"Alpha! Tentomon!" We all shouted as we all raced up to him and hugged him tightly and cried, glad to see that our dear friend was all right. We were all babbling about how we had feared that he was dead and began to ask him questions about the place that we were in. He was about to answer us when a voice said behind us.
"Oh, sure. Go running straight to Alpha and act like I don't even exist." We all turned, I let out a happy scream as tears began to flow down my face.
"Dad! Zordon!" He was in his tube and looking at us with an exasperated look but he was smiling as all of us raced toward him and were levitated. We threw our arms around his tube making a full circle .We began to cry and saying that we were glad that they were safe that they were alive. After levitating us to the floor and after we had calmed ourselves down Dad and Tentomon explained what this place was.
"This is the Power Chamber, it was built several months ago in case the Command Center ever came underneath an attack. So he did have a plan B.
"Along with a new command center, new powers are to be introduced as well." Dad said smiling down at all of us. I realized then that I was no longer holding the Zeo Crystal, I looked around at the ground, thinking that I must have dropped it. Rocky gave me a nudge and I looked up, in the air floated the Crystal! It separated into five pieces and hovered over us, except for Billy.
"What about...?" Started Adam.
"Its okay you guys, I talked it over with Zordon while you were away searching for your crystals. We all agreed that I would be of a bigger help working behind the scenes, besides that would give me a lot more time to work on some new inventions." Tommy smiled at him understanding on his face. Billy walked over to stand beside Tentomon.
"It was fun, it really was." Dad cleared his throat and continued.
"The Power Rangers that you once were are no more." He nodded to the space behind us, turning we all say that it was lighted and we all gasped. There were seven panels and each of them held our old Power Ranger suits and our weapons.
"The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers have served the planet and Angel Grove well and they will not be forgotten, but now it is time to introduce a new team of rangers, the Zeo Rangers."
"Zeo Rangers?" Said Rocky. Dad nodded.
"Yes, with the power of the Zeo crystal you will become the Zeo Rangers. Tommy you will become Zeo Ranger 5." The crystal above Tommy flashed red and for a split second he appeared as the Red Zeo Ranger.
"Adam, you will become Zeo Ranger 4." The crystal flashed green and like Tommy, Adam appeared as the Green Zeo Ranger.
"Rocky, you will become Zeo Ranger 3." The crystal flashed blue.
"Amy, you will become Zeo Ranger 2." My crystal flashed yellow.
"Katherine, you will become Zeo Ranger 1." Her crystal flashed pink. Our crystals vanished and upon our wrists were little wrist bands that had the shape and the color of each of our crystals. Dad explained that we would use the zeonizers to call upon our new powers.
"You will have new weapons to fight the forces of evil." Dad paused looking down at me.
"Amy, my daughter, I have decided that it is time to pass down a weapon that our people used in the battle against Count Dregon and Rita Repulsa.. Hold out your hands." In doing so, a sword suddenly appeared. I reached over and grabbed the hilt with my right hand and twirled it. It...felt and seemed familiar somehow. The blade was grayish white, the hilt was of a golden color and in the very center was the symbol of our planet. An upside down triangle, the symbol of my people whom I didn't remember, long dead. I looked up at Dad, touched.
"I hope it serves you well, like it did me." I smiled up at him and put in the sheath that had appeared on my right hip, then we all let out screams and nearly jumped out of our skins as the new alarm rang.
"Oh my gosh! How could we have forgotten?" Tentomon said as he began to push buttons on the console, all of us looked up at the viewing globe. We saw Goldar, Rito and a number of Tengu Warriors plus a monster wreaking havoc on a freeway, which appeared to be at a standstill due to traffic! They were yanking people out of their cars and everyone was scrambling out of their cars and running.
"We gotta get going." Tommy said and at the same time he had a grin on his face, everyone could tell that he was looking forward to showing off the new team of Power Rangers.
"Ready?" Tommy said. We all nodded.
"Its Morphin Time!"
"Zeo Ranger 1 Pink!"
"Zeo Ranger 2 Yellow!"
"Zeo Ranger 3 Blue!"
"Zeo Ranger 4 Green!"
"Zeo Ranger 5 Red!" We became the Zeo Rangers and teleported to the highway and threw ourselves into the battle, I was finally equal to Goldar in weaponry. The sword was a bit easier to handle than the daggers plus it felt...like I've used it before. Goldar and the others were surprised and shocked that we were alive, that we had gained new powers and threw themselves at us. In the back of my mind a memory surfaced. It showed me with a small stick and mimicking the movements of my father who was teaching me how to hold the sword, thrust, parry, block and fight. I do know how to fight with a sword, because my father had taught me. The movements that my Dad had taught me seem to flow though me, I ducked, spun, parried and thrust. It was as if I had never forgotten the teachings. I was a bit disappointed that Lord Zedd wasn't here with his cronies. Knowing my old master he would have loved to be in the middle of it all gloating that he had finally destroyed the Power Rangers and would begin making the plans to capture me and preform horrible acts on me. Our communicators beeped. Tento was telling us that Lord Zedd was attacking people in the park near the Angel Grove cemetery. The cemetery. Where Mom is buried. Another thought made itself known to my mind. Revenge. I can finally have my revenge against him.
"Zeo Ranger 5." I called.
"I'll take this one." Tommy kicked away a Tengu and nodded toward me.
"Good luck." Ha! The one who will need the luck will be Lord Zedd. I teleported away eager to see Lord Zedd down on his knees with my sword sticking out of his head! Arriving at the park I looked around, all seemed quiet. I didn't see anybody running toward me screaming, and no Zedd. I sheathed my sword and began to limp toward the cemetery knowing what I was going to see but not really expecting to see it. Stopping in front of the gates, I pushed them open and began to limp through the graveyard, until I was standing in front of my mother's grave and my step father's. I stared at Mom's tombstone, I began to tremble all over sadness mixed with fury. My knees shook and I let out a moan as I fell to my knees. I knew it. I KNEW IT!! But I didn't want to know. I didn't want to believe. And yet...
"So I finally have you down on your knees." Said a voice behind me. I didn't move knowing what I was going to see already yearning to see his blood on my hands and sword. I stood up and turned slowly around, he was there. Lord Zedd leaning against a tree and was, if he could, smirking at me. I glared at him all of my hatred coursing through me.
"Pity that it's not me that has you down on your knees but your mother, the human heart is so weak, just like you. Even now with all of your power you can't beat me, in fact you are still that terrified little girl begging for me to spare the lives of your family. You couldn't protect them just like you couldn't protect your adopted sister Kimberly. It shows that you were never meant to be a ranger, you're too much of a weakling to protect the people that you love and care about. Zordon was wrong to chose such a weakling as yourself." I had stepped out of the cemetery and was limping toward him one hand on the hilt of my sword. I fought the urge to run blindly at him and kill him, but in my anger I could easily be killed. I have to fight him as a ranger not as Amy.
"You're wrong Zedd. I'm not scared of you, not anymore. Plus I am not weak, I'm more stronger than you, something that you tried to prevent but didn't succeed in." He straighten up and his hand tightened on his staff.
"Is that so?" He growled. We began to circle each other. I nodded.
"Let's see how strong you've become since that day we first met."
"As you wish, my master." I snarled. I pulled out my sword and we raced at each other. Our weapons clashed sending up sparks and streaks of red and yellow light in the air, we swung high, low, parried, thrust, dodged, spun, released energy blasts, dodging them at the last second, not being quick enough to dodge the next one that came flying. We were blown away from each other but then would charge at each other again and continue to battle. We yelled and cursed each other telling the other to rot in hell, to go to hell, promising each other that we would send them to hell. All throughout the battle I felt another presence beside me and out of the corner of my eye I saw her, daggers out and slashing at Zedd. Aisha! She's come to help me avenge her death! I felt honored and promised her that I wouldn't let Zedd win. We continued to battle and it seemed that we were evenly matched, but I evened the odds. Grabbing onto Zedd's staff I sent a Power Blast through his staff that went straight in to his body, he yelled and screamed. He kicked me away, I leapt forward my sword held high and brought it down on him, he dodged but I managed to slash him on his shoulder, green blood oozed from his wound. I charged forward, knowing that he was wearing down, he was running out of strength, I began to slash at him over and over again screaming at him.
"For my mother!" Slash.
"For my father!" Slash.
"For Aisha!" Slash.
"For my family!" Slash.
"And this is for me!" I was about to bring my sword down on him for the finishing blow when I froze. His staff, the pointed end of it! I looked down, and gave a chocking cry. The pointed end was inside me. Zedd stood up and began to force me back digging the staff more deeper into my stomach, my back hit a tree and Zedd shoved the staff farther into my body. I let out a gasp of pain. He took a step back panting hard and watching me while I grabbed the staff and at the same time dropped my sword which lay in the grass and tried to take the staff from out of me. Blood, my blood flowed. Zedd stepped forward and placed his hands on his staff about to shove it in the rest of the way.
"Do say hello to Aisha for me." He said as he began to shove, then he froze! His staff was out of me and was sticking out of his stomach! He looked down and began to take several steps back, I had used telekinesis to pull the staff out from within me and insert it into him and now I was rapidly healing myself. I bent and picked up my sword, panting, tired and feeling as if I was going to drop dead at any moment. But I gripped my sword tightly and began to stab and slash at Zedd over and over again. Letting out a yell of anger and grief, I thrust my sword into Zedd's chest and twisted it. Zedd froze once again, his hands began to flail toward me until they were around my neck, I stood still as they slacken then fell to his side. He dropped to his knees, I took a step back and watched as Zedd dropped onto the grass and lay there. Dead. I dropped to one knee panting and crying at the same time. At last finally! I'm free! I'm finally free! I heard a yell behind me, turning I saw Goldar racing at me, anger, disbelief and I think I saw grief, in his eyes and face. I barely had time to duck his swinging sword as it slashed through the air. I lifted up my sword to defend myself, but I was tired and my arm was like lead. I screamed as he slashed at my shoulder, I managed to roll away and counter his blows as he brought down his sword once again. He kicked me in the face then he kicked my sword away. He lifted his sword high and brought it down on me when a Power Blast suddenly struck him full in the face, he screamed as he took several steps back. Acting fast and using what little strength I had I grabbed my sword, struggled to my feet and began to slash at him, green blood flowed from his face as I struck it. He screamed and faced me and my friends who were beside me. He looked at all of us then in one swoop he sheathed his sword, pulled out Zedd's staff from Zedd's body, picked up the body and vanished. But not without a farewell gift from my friends. Using a combined Zeo Ranger Power Blast, Goldar's armor sported a crack right in the chest plate. With a last glare at all of us he and Zedd vanished. All of us stood there and stared at the spot where Goldar had stood.
"We did it! Its over!" Shouted Rocky. All of us burst out into claps and cheers and hugs. Dad teleported us to the Power Chamber and congratulated us on a job well down and teleported up drinks and food. We had a small party in honor of the Power Rangers, Zordon, Alpha and Ninjor Tentomon and Billy fiddled with the console until they found a radio station to which we all danced to. After the party all of us were exhausted from our battle and promptly fell asleep on the Power Chamber floor, Tentomon and Dad covered us all in blankets and congratulated us once again and told us that they were proud to call us rangers. And family.
