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Summary: Tommy is the green power ranger again, with all that entails.
AN: I don't have a beta at the moment so if I've missed something in my editing or you have any critique please let me know.
Having the green power back was amazing, Tommy thought. Even if it was only for a little while. When he'd arrived at the Youth Center for Parents Day and found the place empty, he'd known that something was seriously seriously wrong. The thought had barely had time to cross his mind before he felt himself flying through the air and appearing in the Command Center. A very serious looking Command Center.
Jason and the rest had filled him in on the situation. Tommy tried to swallow down a sick feeling as he watched his adoptive parents shuffle around like zombies in Rita's Dark Dimension. He'd known at that moment he would take whatever risk it took to get his parents back. The Rangers and Zordon were obviously divided on whether he should be allowed to try to help but he sided on the side of the rangers and they won out.
Being infused with Zordon's energy was...painful. He gritted his teeth and tried not to scream as a feeling very much like acid scoured through his veins. In the end, it seemed to have worked and he teleported off to regain the power coins. Later, Kim would tell him of the trouble he'd left behind, of how they had almost lost Zordon and only the power coins he brought back had saved their leader. Right now it was all Tommy could do to hold on and fight. The power, unnatural to his human system, felt like pins and needles in his body, nothing like the green ranger power used to. Then again, ranger power was designed to merge with sentient beings. This was pure Eltaran energy.
After he had grabbed the coins, his whole world went dark. The Eltaran energy had felt like ice but the energy of the forcefield was like fire, burning it away. It seemed to settle into his bones, dark and malevolent and eerily familiar. When he woke up from his mini coma, it was still there inside of him.
Zordon told him the energy had recharged his green ranger powers. Somehow, Tommy knew that already. The familiarity of the energy inside him, so much like the dose of Rita's power that had started it all, pulsed inside of him and he wondered if others could smell the evilness on him. Still, when he was asked if he wanted to remain a ranger, he had said yes. He had dealt with the evil before and he could do it again, if that meant coming a step closer to defeating Rita. And he had to admit... he'd missed the rangers. Not just being a ranger in costume but hanging out with them during his downtime on a regular basis. They still tried to keep in touch but somehow, they had ended up hanging out together less and less with the whole civilian thing between them.
So he had taken the power back and teleported off to help the other rangers with the monster. After beating the bad guys together (Tommy had forgotten what a rush it was) they all hurried back to Parents Day and their parents who didn't remember a thing of what had just happened.
Tommy wasn't sure how long the green power would stay, this time. Alpha and Zordon had warned him it could disappear at any moment, even in the middle of a battle, and leave him helpless. He knew he had to take the chance though. Something in his heart told him that being a ranger was what he was meant to do. He wondered if he would ever be able to just be a ranger like the others were rangers, with no evil shadow hanging over him, no oily feeling in his stomach whenever he morphed. He doubted it. But it was awesome nonetheless.