Chapter One: A Blast From the Past

a/n: A reviewer brought it to my attention in chapter 2 that I did not specify that this is AU, so this is AU! and it is also working on an adjusted time line, I haven't figured out exactly what year, but Odette's parents (Jason, and a currently unnamed former pink ranger) had her when they were about 19-20ish so this story takes place in 2011 and Odette is one of those August birthday kids, who just turned 16 right before school starts. Thank you so much to prophet144 for bringing this to my attention so I could fix it. :)


"ODETTE! GET DOWN HERE! TOMMY ISN'T GOING TO WAIT FOREVER!" Dad shouted up to my bedroom.

Today was the first day of school, not only the first day of my junior year, but my first day at a brand new high school. Dad had decided at the end of last school year that he wanted to move from Angel Grove, California, where he grew up, to Reefside, California where his best friend Tommy lives. This of course wasn't the only reason he decided we were moving to Reefside, he also wanted to start a dojo in the town to add to his chain of them across the country.

I had gotten up hours ago, unable to fall back asleep because I was so anxious. So for once in my life I had spent the amount of time expected of a teenage girl to get ready for school. I was wearing a red floral slightly cut-off top, a pair of denim over-all shorts, red socks, brown work boots that had slightly loose laces, a pair of red feather earrings, a double pale blue gem ring, and my mother's old teardrop necklace. My long black straight hair was hanging down to my mid-back, with all of the extra time I had actually managed to make my bangs look good today, something that never happens.

"I'm here Dad. Good morning Dr. Tommy." I said as I walked down the stairs of our new three bedroom home in Reefside.

"I should not have let Kim take you shopping when we were visiting her in Florida." Dad said shaking his head.

"Oh now it wasn't the shopping that was the mistake Dad, it was the letting her let me raid all of her old clothes, you know from back when you guys were in High School." I answered with a smile and a slight laugh as I began to make myself toast.

"How is Kim?" Tommy asked with a soft concerned smile.

"She's doing great Tommy. She said she was going to come spend Thanksgiving with us, you are welcome to come." Dad said with a smile.

For some reason I tend to forget that Tommy and Kim dated while they were in High School, when they were both members of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers team. I've just always thought of Tommy as my uncle, and Kim as my aunt, that's just the way that it's always been with them, and when I was born they were both broken up, so I've never known them together, I've only ever just heard the stories.

"I might have to take you up on that offer." Tommy said with a smile. "Ready to go Oidee?" He turned to ask me.

Tommy is not only like an Uncle to me, he is also my godfather, and he has only ever called me Oidee. Not Odette, not Ode like Dad or Kim, but Oidee.

"As ready as I am ever going to be." I replied as I started to eat my toast.

"Let's go then." Tommy said with a soft smile as he headed out of the house and to his black jeep.

"Bye dad." I said giving my dad a quick hug, grabbing my small floral print over the shoulder bag.

I followed Tommy out of our house to his jeep dropping my stuff in the back seat and moving to shot gun. Tommy and I are both people that do not like to sit in silence, but we were both so nervous about school and everything that neither of us could bring up the nerve to talk to the other. Instead Tommy turned on the radio and blasted one of the pop stations as loud as he could without getting strange looks.

About ten to fifteen minutes later Tommy's jeep pulled into the school's staff parking lot. I hopped out of the car and handed him his brief case before we both entered the school.

"I'll see you first period then?" Tommy asked me as we walked into the school together. We were parting ways so I could go to homeroom and he could go talk to the principal.

"Yup. I have to actually call you Dr. Oliver for once, it is going to be so strange." I said with a laugh as I headed off in the other direction towards homeroom.

"So strange. I'll see you then Oidee." Tommy said as he went the opposite direction of me.

I walked down the hallway looking on the small map that they had given me during the new student orientation trying to find where my homeroom classroom was. I am not a good map reader, and when walking is thrown in there, it just gets a lot worse.

"Hey watch where you're going." A voice obviously belonging to a teenage boy shouted at me when I accidentally ran into him.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to run into you I swear." I answered slightly defensively.

I looked up and saw a teenage boy, who looked about my age, who was dressed completely in green, in what looked like a practice soccer uniform. He had light brown hair that was going into his face slightly and brown eyes, plus a general pompous look. I already knew that he was a jock, I had gathered that from his practice soccer uniform, I have no problem with jocks, unless they are like how this guy appears to be, overly full of themselves, and acting like they are God's gift to High School, that irritates me.

"Whatever." The boy said and started to stalk off to the entrance of the school. I was going to ask him where room 12B was, but he had walked away so fast that I hadn't been able to.

I managed to get to homeroom about two seconds before the bell rang by some miracle. There were a plethora of people milling around in the room and there were a few empty desks.

My homeroom teacher, a Mr. Davidson, took attendance quickly and we all just sat there for five minutes while the announcements were read off through the intercom before the bell releasing us to first period rang.

I somehow managed to find a girl in my science class in my homeroom, so she showed me the way to Tommy's room.

"Good morning class, let's learn about some science." Tommy said with a smile as he started to lecture.

I love Tommy to death, and he is like an Uncle to me, but science just goes straight over my head for the most part. I could tell I was going to be spending a lot of time at his house getting help for this class, and that was not exactly an exciting thought.


"Excuse me, Ms. Lee Scott." A feminine voice said as I walked to Tommy's room for lunch. I hadn't really made any friends at school yet, and I wanted to call Dad on my phone and tell him how the first day was going, and Tommy's class room was really the best place for that.

I turned around as quickly as I possibly could to find that woman with short black hair, tan skin, and glasses was standing right in front of me. Her face was almost touching my face.

"It's actually just Scott, the Lee is like a false middle name but not a last name." I answered with a smile. This woman looked mean, but I've found that usually if you are nice to mean people, they start to be nice to you.

"Ms. Scott, that shirt you are wearing is inappropirate it goes against the school dress code as most of the school can see the side of your stomach, you have detention this afternoon. You are also having it because I have heard you on numerous ocasions call Dr. Oliver, Dr. Tommy, and you were seen in the staff parking lot with him this morning. Detention runs from 3 O'Clock to 5." The woman said and turned around quickly leaving the hallway.

I tried to brush it off as I walked into Tommy's classroom but it was just not working. It seemed like that woman was out to get me. Maybe a half inch of my stomach was showing, but I'm wearing overalls, so it isn't like anyone can really look at my belly button or anything. I accidentally slipped and called Tommy, Dr. Tommy not Dr. Oliver in class once, and he was my ride to school, so of course I was in the staff parking lot with him, she seemed to be penalizing me for no reason, and I had no idea who this woman even was.

"Who pissed you off?" Tommy asked as I entered the room and whipped my phone out a little bit too angstily.

"Some woman with really short black hair and glasses just gave me detention! Apparently the half inch of skin you can see with this shirt is distracting, I called you Dr. Tommy instead of Dr. Oliver multiply times, and it is also apparently against school rules for me to be seen in the Staff Parking Lot with a teacher! This is ridiculous!" I said angrily. Trying to focus on my breathing so I wouldn't start screaming.

"That would be Principal Randall. I'll talk to her about the whole staff parking lot thing, but I don't understand why you would get detention for the other things. Kim wore worse in high school, hell, I wore worse in high school, and you only called me Dr. Tommy once. Which seeing as how you've called me Tommy for practically your whole life, that's not that bad." Tommy said calmly.

"Dad is going to kill me. I have straight A's, I've never gotten detention, I've never even missed a day of school, and now my first day of a new school I am going to have detention! I am dead meat when I get home." I said stealing Tommy's rolling chair and sitting down in it with a large deep breath.

"Jason is not going to kill you, he got detention a few times himself in High School, and as much as he would like to act like he did, he never got straight A's. He'll understand. You better get going, lunch is almost over. I'll swing by around five and pick you up." Tommy said with a smile.

"If Dad gets mad at me I'm blaming you." I said sticking my tongue out at him as I left his classroom and headed out to try and find my fifth block classroom.


"I'm sorry Principal Randall, I can't do detention today I have to go somewhere." Tommy told the evil principal a few hours later.

I was sitting on a bench in the office with Kira, who was the girl that had helped me find Tommy's classroom early, a black computer geek (self professed) named Ethan, and the soccer player who I ran into this morning, who's name turns out to be Conner.

"That okay, you can take the little deviants with you." Principal Randall said with an devilish smile.

"Alright then guys, come with me." Tommy said as he began to exit the office.

The four of us followed Tommy blindly to the staff parking lot where his black jeep was parked. I managed to get shot gun somehow, and the other three sat in the back seat of the jeep. Tommy briefly informed us that he needed to go to a museum for some research he was doing and it took him about ten minutes to get there. Upon our arrival we saw that the museum was closed, Tommy went to investigate and the four of us went to go find something historical/scientific so we could maybe not have detention for the rest of the week.

"Guys, maybe we shouldn't be walking through this forest, I mean there could be sinkholes anywhere." Kira said anxiously as we walked around the woods of Reefside.

"Sinkholes? I think we'll be okay, it's the forest, not a sinkhole danger areaaaaaaaaaaaaaa." I said as I walked and fell into a sinkhole. I heard the others shouting my name and they soon joined me in the sinkhole. "Hey guys what up?" I said as nonchalantly as I could.

"Well we are stuck in a huge hole with no way out!" Conner said overdramatically. I had barely said more than a sentence or two to this guy and he was already annoying the crap out of me.

"You see holes, have walls, walls can be climbed." I said with a fake smile, as I started to try and attempt to scale the wall only to fall straight on my ass when I reached the portion with no more foot holes. "Never mind then." I said after Ethan and Conner both helped me up.

"Why don't we just follow this path and see where it leads?" Kira asked.

I thought it was a good idea so I nodded and started to walk down the tunnel planning on leading everyone. Dad always says that I inherited my natural leadership skills from him genetically and from Tommy from just being around him so much when I was little.

"That's really a good idea, let's go." I said pulling the emergency flashlight out of my bag and starting to head down the tunnel, with Kira following close behind me.

"Hold on babes. I'll go first." Conner said pushing Kira and I out of the way so he was in the lead.

"Babe?" Kira and I said together in shock as we looked at one another.

"I do have name." Kira began angrily and annoyed.

"Last time I checked Conner, I'm the one with the flashlight, so I'll lead." I said pushing him out of the way, with a little more force than necessary.

Conner was slightly taken aback, but he didn't try to lead us through the tunnels again. The four of us walked down the dark tunnels, being guided only by my flashlight. After what felt like fifteen minutes we came across a sandstone wall with wall lamps on either side that gave it the appearance of a door.

"Looks like we're at a dead end. Guess we should-." Ethan began, he was obviously uncomfortable with this whole situation. However, the door-like part of the wall slid up stopping Ethan's statement in its tracks. "Never mind then. Let's just go in and explore this mysterious and creepy room that is underground where we shouldn't be in the first place."

"That sounds like an excellent plan Ethan." I said with a smile as I lead the four of us into the room.

There was something oddly familiar about this room, I felt as if I had been here a million times before. The room had carvings in the wall that looked prehistoric, along with many prehistoric looking artifacts.

In the middle of the room there was a table that looked to be made out of volcanic rock, and had steam coming off of it. On the table were four glowing gems, all different colors there were yellow, green, blue, and red gems. I found myself being drawn to the red gem, almost as if it was calling to me. I looked around and saw that Kira was standing over the yellow gem, Ethan over the blue, and Conner over the green.

I got a felling, a gut feeling that something I never thought would happen to me was going to happen.

I have been raised my whole life on power ranger stories. Mighty Morphin from Dad and Kim, Zeo and Turbo from Tommy, Turbo and Space from TJ and Cassie, and many other stories from just about everyone that has ever been a ranger (Billy's stories from when he lived on Aquitar are the best). The way that this was setting up, seemed to be the start of a new ranger team, I've heard enough of the stories to almost feel as if I know what that feels like.

All of us looked around at each other and grabbed the gem in front of us individually. The moment we grabbed the gems, the room started to shake like crazy.

"Let's get out of here!" Kira shouted, all of us nodded our heads quickly in agreement.

The four of us ran out of the room, and down the tunnel. Once we got to the sinkhole however, things got tricky. There was still no way out of the sinkhole, it couldn't be climbed without something to help, we had no rope, and there was no one above to pull us out.

"Does anyone have any ideas as to how we can get out of this stupid hole in the ground?" I asked everyone.

"Well it's not like one of us can just fly and get us all out of here." Kira said.

What Kira didn't realize was that as she said the word fly she had started to hover slightly and had gotten slowly higher and higher off the ground.

"Um Kira, I think you spoke too soon." Ethan said frankly with a slight laugh as he looked up at Kira, down at the ground and back at Kira.

"What are you talking about Ethan?" Kira began floating around the base of the hole. "Wait, when did I get taller than all of you?" Kira asked confused.

"When you started to fly. Look down." Conner answered.

Kira looked down and the moment she saw her feet floating she flew up even higher. "This is so cool!" Kira said excitedly with a huge smile.

In about ten minutes Kira shuttled all of us out of the hole and back to the surface. After we were back on the surface she couldn't stop flying around everywhere. Not that I blame her, if I could fly, I wouldn't ever be on the ground. As Kira continued to fly, the four of us tried to make our way back through the forest to Tommy's jeep.

"Who are these guys?" Conner asked as we walked.

A split second before Conner said this, a green cloud which had green lighting coming out of it had deposited a tone of people, or dinosaurs, dino-people who were completely black, and looked like they were out for blood.

"I don't know who they are, but they don't look all that friendly." Kira said, slowly floating down to the ground.

"I suggest we run." Conner said and he, Ethan, and Kira all started to run away from the creepy black dino-monsters.

I shook my head slightly and prepared to hold my ground. I've been doing karate sense I was three and I've been competing in karate competitions since I was five. IF there is one thing that I'm good at, it's fighting and defending myself.

"What are you doing?" Conner shouted as he ran back so he was standing next to me.

"I've been in karate since I was three, my Dad owns the new dojo in town, I am not about to run away from a bunch of wimpy dinosaurs. Go with the others, try and get them out of here, I'll hold these things off for as long as I can." I said commandingly.

I looked over to Conner to await his response. HE was giving me a look that I hated and got from other people frequently. It was that look that I was just an innocent little girl, who didn't know what she was doing at all.

Before Conner could respond however, the dino-people started to attack. I dodged, kicked, and punched in every way I knew how, working hard to take these guys down. I continued to fight the dino-people until I was finally given a moment of rest. In this moment I looked over to see Conner on the ground along with Kira and Ethan (they must've back tracked and followed Conner), being stood over threateningly by the dino-people.

I don't know what came over me, but I opened my mouth as if I was going to scream, instead a large throaty roar that sounded like something that may have come out of a prehistoric Tyrannosaurus Rex. The sound waves coming from this roar were strong enough to push all the dinosaur people away. I ran over to Conner, Ethan, and Kira quickly, helping them up.

"How'd you do that?" Conner asked in an astonished and surprised tone.

"Hell if I know, how can Kira fly?" I replied with a slight laugh.

"It must be the gems." Ethan began.

The moment that Kira, Conner, and I looked over at Ethan to hear what he was saying the dino-people started to attack again. Kira was flying over them and kicking their heads, causing them to fall over and get knocked out. I was fighting them using my usual karate style with a sound barrier breaking roar thrown in every now and again. Ethan was holding his own surprisingly well, he was getting good at blocking the dino-people it was almost as if his skin had become hard and reptilian. It took me awhile to find Conner, once I did however, I knew why, he was moving around so fast that he could turn the tables on the dino-people and beat them up without them even realizing he was there.

The four of us continued fighting against these dino-people for maybe ten or fifteen minutes before the cloud that had dropped them off, sucked them back up into the sky.

"Well, that was fun." I said sarcastically. "Ethan, what were you saying about the gems?" I asked him curiously.

"I think what Ethan was trying to say is that the gems have bonded with each of you, giving you each a power." Tommy said as he stepped out from the tree he was standing behind. "So did you guys find anything?" He asked with a knowing smile.


a/n: So when I started writing this, I did not plan on it being this AU, and now as I write more of it, and come up with more ideas I realize that is going to get quite AU, so please try and not be so judgmental of it. Mesagog will still be the main villain, well for the first part anyway, and it will still have the same basic plot, Trent will still be the evil white ranger, but there will be some more people coming in as rangers. I hope y'all have enjoyed the first chapter and its crazy AU-ness enough to give this story a chance, and if you feel that way please review. :)

xoxo,

Lexi