Disclaimer:
I don't own Power Rangers. Power Rangers belongs to Saban Brands. The OC Alice was created by CrimsonRangerFan, who also came up with the idea for the plot.
Alice Wood was sitting at Storm Chargers, working on her homework, when Hunter Bradley came in and sat down next to her. She kissed him.
"What are you working on?" Hunter asked.
"An essay," Alice said. He looked over he shoulder. She got a phone call, and walked away to somewhere a bit quieter to answer it.
"Hey, Hunter, can you come over here for a second?" Alice asked. "I need your advice on something." He walked over to her.
Meanwhile, Jarred, a servant of Lothor, made his way into Storm Chargers, and reached into Hunter's bag while his back was turned, taking his morpher. He left.
'I need to make her fall in love with me,' Jarred thought. 'It's the only way to destroy her and her team. But first, I need to use the one person she already, truly loves.'
He pulled out his communicator. "I've got it," he said to Zurgane.
He saw Alice coming, so he ran, and Zurgane sent a group of Kelzacks at her. She morphed, and he morphed.
Jarred charged at the Kelzacks, helping Alice fight them off. Alice demorphed.
"Alice," he said. "I'm here for you."
"Your voice sounds different," she said.
"It's just one of those days," Jarred said, stroking her helmet. "Come on, let's go." He wrapped his arms around her and embraced her.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"What do you think I'm doing," Jarred said. "Hugging you, embracing you."
"Why are you still morphed?" she asked.
"I feel more powerful," he said.
"Hunter…" Alice said. "Are you okay?"
"Better than ever," he said. Still morphed, Jarred grabbed Alice's face and kissed her.
Hunter leapt out and kicked Jarred down, demorphing him.
"Hunter?" Alice asked.
"I'm here for you," he said, hugging her.
Jarred got up. "I give up," he sighed, teleporting away.
"That guy is trouble," Hunter sighed.
Jarred rematerialized a few feet away, with a burst of ice. He looked down at his teleporter; given to him by Lothor to enhance his snow ninja powers, he'd mostly been using to it spy on Alice. What had started as a trick to destroy her had turned into a genuine interest.
As he looked on her at her, he sighed. He couldn't destroy her. He loved her.
...
Also among the people who loved Alice was Hunter Bradley. Luckily for her.
Alice and Hunter went back to Hunter's house. Alice was texting her friends from school. Hunter smiled at her, before going to his bookshelf and flipping through a book on better meditation techniques.
"How's training going?" he asked her.
"Good," she said. "I'm gaining more control over my fire power."
"That's cool," Hunter said. "That's very cool."
"Apparently, there might be a mental barrier I need to get through," Alice said. "Like, because of everything that happened, people messing with my head, I need to think things through."
Hunter nodded. He remembered what they'd went through just weeks earlier, how Alice was tortured, and had her mind erased. It made him sick.
"Huh," he said, before going back to his book.
A few days later, Hunter, Blake and Alice were training together. Alice was practicing with the use of her fire power. She had a board in front of her, and in seconds, in turned to flame.
"That was cool," Hunter said, walking towards her.
"Something feels off," Alice said, looking at the ashes. "Sensei was right. I'm not in a good enough headset."
"It seems to me you did a pretty good job," Blake said.
"It was a small wooden board, it was easy to set on fire," Alice explained. "And even then, for a second, I felt things going out of control."
"But they didn't," Hunter said.
"They could've," Alice said. "If I'm working with anything more complicated, they will. Unless I practice hard."
"Okay, then," Hunter said. "How about this. I'll stay with you, and help," he said.
"Okay," she said.
Blake left about an hour later. Hunter stayed all night, working with Alice on her concentration, and trying to help her.
He recalled his book on meditation techniques, and thought it might be handy to use some on her.
"Relax your mind," Hunter said. "Lean against the wall."
Alice leant against the wall and tried to relax her mind, thinking of calming things. The beach. An open field atop a hill. Hunter. She smiled.
"Now, think about the things bothering you the most," Hunter said. Alice thought about Lothor, who was threatening the world. About Jarred, who mostly threatened her. She remembered the rest of Lothor's army. She remembered the normal people, they people who didn't need powers to make her feel small.
She remembered predatory behavior, and arguments that descended into screaming matches. She remembered love triangles.
She remembered being late to school every day. She remembered her school being destroyed by an evil man from space.
She remembered everyone and everything Lothor took from her - well, as much as she could, with the memory loss she'd gained from him.
And in the back of her mind, she saw Jarred, laughing over he pain, and trying to exploit her at her most vulnerable.
"Now, imagine flames, rising around you, at the times you feel most at war," Hunter said, trying to remember from the book. Alice thought of her and Jarred, fighting, as flames rose over them.
"You can't control the flames," Hunter said.
"I can't control the flames," Alice said.
Jarred pushed her into the fire, and she started to burn.
"Please stop," she said to Jarred. He didn't listen, but the fire did, becoming colder.
"The fire listened to me," she said to Hunter.
"You cannot control the fire," Hunter said. "But you can be it's guide. You can ask it things. You can move it, show it where to go."
"And what if I lose that?" Alice asked.
"Keep trying," Hunter said.
"I think I'm ready to try practicing with my powers again," Alice said.
"Not here," Hunter said.
...
The two of them wandered over to the hill they went to together to think. Hunter sat down in the grass, and Alice sat next to him.
It was three in the morning, and the grass was wet. The night sky loomed above them.
Alice rubbed her hands together, then started creating fire around her and Hunter.
Hunter smiled widely, as he saw her more relaxed with the fire.
"I think I'm getting it," she said. Flashes of Lothor and Jarred went through her brain. "It's like…they're telling me I can't," she said.
"Who's saying that?" Hunter asked.
"The people we're fighting," Alice said. "Everyone."
Hunter kissed her. "You can do this," he said. Alice rose up, and created more and more fire.