Author's Note: Helloooooooo! I'm back! I enjoyed my week away, but am ready to get writing this story again. Although after several failed attempts, I hope you will bear with me in waiting for the next chapter. Now, just sit back and enjoy.
Disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended in the making of this series. I simply own my OCs and anything that is unrecognizable from the show. Power Rangers belongs to Saban... although Mystic Force was created by Disney. Enjoy.
Warning: Rated T for safety.
Mystic Force: Against All Odds
Summary: "I didn't ask for this," "I know, but this is your destiny... this is our families legacy... and our time is now!" After the fall of the Lightning Academy and the arrival of the darkness, Rebecca learns that the prophecy has begun and Aliyah is now in great danger.
"I can't believe it's been a year already," said Claudia Hansel, a curvy, auburn haired female, dressed in a traditional white Lightning Ninja uniform. She was sat cross-legged near the lake, surrounded by an array of trees, their leaves rustling in the wind. "We're graduating in two days!"
Aliyah Logan, a curvy, dark-haired female, smiled and nodded. "I know! It's gone by fast!" she agreed.
"What are you looking forward to the most, Ali?" Asia Becker asked, with a knowing smirk. "Graduation or being reunited with your beau?"
"Beau?" Aliyah snorted. "Why can't you say boyfriend like everyone else?"
Asia shrugged and smiled. She was a slim, red-head with emerald green eyes; her real name was Anastasia, but everyone called her Asia for short.
"Don't change the subject," she said. "Answer the question..."
"Yes, I am looking forward to seeing Cam," Aliyah answered. "It has been too long! But I have something to take care of first!"
Claudia frowned.
"Something more important that Cam and graduation?"
"Maybe not," Aliyah said. "But something just as important!"
"What is it?"
"Tomorrow there is a reunion at Reefside High school," Aliyah answered. "I have to see Tyler about attending..."
"Why?" Claudia asked.
"Because since we have two days left to graduation," Aliyah explained. "It is still two days isolation from the outside world. We could still flunk, you know."
Claudia blanched, she hadn't thought of that.
"Better get asking then," Asia said, nudging her friend. "Why not hang back after dinner tonight? Sensei always remains in the Great Hall longer than the students."
Aliyah nodded and returned her attention to the rippling waters of the lake, they reminded her so much of the serene waters outside the Wind Ninja Academy, and her heart ached as wished that she could be there now, to be with her friends and boyfriend was something that had pushed her through this past year, just to be able to see them again was enough motivation she needed to graduate the Lightning Academy.
~*Against All Odds*~
Later that evening, just as suggested by her friends, Aliyah hung back in the Great Hall once dinner had ended. Claudia and Asia wished her luck as they left for their sleeping quarters, and once the Great Hall was empty, Aliyah approached her brother and sister who at the front of the Hall.
Tyler had come a long way in the past two years, he had grown as a teacher and would have made his parents proud if they could see him now; maybe this was the reason that Aliyah was so nervous around him, when they were at the Lightning Academy he was her teacher, not her brother.
"Hey," Aliyah smiled, interrupting their conversation. "Can I talk to you guys?"
"Sure, Ali," Rebecca nodded. "What's on your mind?"
"Uh, I was just wondering if I could maybe leave the academy a day early," Aliyah said. Her heart was racing a mile a minute inside her chest, why did she feel like a little girl? Rebecca and Tyler were her family, not some strict intimidating teachers that scared the living daylights out of students.
"Why?" Tyler asked.
Aliyah took a deep breath to calm her nerves.
"Well, there is a reunion at Reefside High School tomorrow," Aliyah answered. "And I was hoping that I could go!"
"You're missing your friends," Rebecca nodded. "It's understandable, you've been cut off from everyone for a year it is only fair that you are anticipating your return to them!"
"What?" Aliyah asked her jaw dropping. "What - No! No, that's not it! Okay, maybe a little, but I am not lying! There really is a reunion tomorrow at Reefside High!"
Rebecca considered her sister.
"How do you know?" Tyler asked. "You've received no mail.
Aliyah blushed, a dark colour creeping into her cheeks. "Connor..." she mumbled, reaching into the pocket of her uniform.
"How have you been in contact with Connor?"
"With this..." Aliyah said holding up her cellphone. "I took it back a few nights ago... you had gone out, Rebecca; I crept into your room and took it back, putting a fake in its place. I'm sorry, I just -"
"Miss your friends," Tyler nodded. "You do realize that you have broken two rules of the Lightning Academy? You've had contact with the outside world, prior to graduation day but you've also stolen, which is a crime punishable by banishment."
Aliyah's eyes widened.
"You'd banish me?" she asked, suddenly realizing why she was so scared of her brother. Not only had be grown as a teacher, but he had lost all personality of the Tyler she once knew. He was a ruthless teacher now, bound to the Lightning Academy and its rules.
"No," Rebecca said, quickly. "No, we will not be banishing you, although we are disappointed that you could not resist temptation. But, seeing as you have managed to come this far, we will take no action..."
Aliyah sighed in relief.
"You also have permission to attend the reunion tomorrow," said Rebecca.
"Only if you promise to be back before sundown," Tyler added. "Failure to return will order an immediate expulsion from the Lightning Academy, understand?"
Aliyah stared at her brother, what was happening to him?
"Yes, Sensei," she nodded, bowing in respect and then removing herself from the Great Hall.
~*Against All Odds*~
New Tech City, 2025
"Ah, Professor Cerebros. Thank you for meeting with me."
"Oh, this is highly dangerous, Broodwing! Grumm wouldn't like it if he knew I was working for you."
"That is why I am paying you top-dollar for your skill," said the bat-like creature, as he held up a bundle of money to the alien-formed scientist in front of him, "and your silence."
The scientist took and inspected the money before tucking it away inside his lab coat. "Let us proceed," he nodded. "Do you have them?"
"Right here," the bat replied, as he held up a black case he had been carrying, he opened it to reveal four glowing gems - Red, Blue, Yellow and Platinum. "I procured them on the planet Onyx for a considerable sum!"
The scientist nodded as he listened, although he didn't really care about the story behind how Broodwing had acquired the glowing rocks. Plucking each of them out of the case he set them on the dial behind him, and began to work.
~*Against All Odds*~
Connor smiled as he pulled into the parking lot outside his old High School, it had been nearly two years since had stepped foot in this place, and nearly two years since he had seen any of his old friends, especially his best friend, Aliyah Logan.
Killing the engine and climbing out, the former Red ranger glanced around at the familiar settings the old school had to offer, he had many memories that took place here; some were good and somewhere not. Shaking his head, and locking he car door, he made his way into the building, spotting a familiar blue-clad former student ahead of him.
"Ethan," he called, jogging to catch up. "Wait up, man!"
"Connor McKnight," Ethan grinned. "My ex-partner in crime fighting!"
"I didn't expect to see you at the reunion,"
"Well my schedule at Reefside Tech is brutal," Ethan answered, "but there is no way I'd miss this. What about you? What've you been up too?"
"I'm trying to start a soccer programme for kids, you know," Connor shrugged. "Give them somewhere fun and safe to go after school. It's been tough raising the money though."
"Well it sounds cool, keep at it," Ethan encouraged. "Hey, do you think Aliyah and Kira are coming?"
"I dunno about Aliyah," Connor said. "I haven't heard back from her in days... as for Kira, I heard she moved to New York to try and get a recording contract."
"Trying being the keyword," Kira said as she arrived behind Ethan.
The two boys grinned, turned and hugged her.
"So when can we expect to hear your first big single?" Ethan asked.
"Oh, I'm all over the radio," Kira smiled. "Hey, where's Ali?" she added, noticing they were a former Ranger short.
Connor shook his head. "Like I was just telling Ethan, I'm not even sure she is coming. She's not supposed to leave the Lightning Academy until she's graduated, and her graduation isn't until tomorrow!"
"That's too bad," Kira frowned.
"Hey, turn that frown upside down, Rockstar!"
Kira's frown changed to a grin as she, Connor and Ethan looked up to see Aliyah making her way towards them. "Hey, you made it!" the singer said, embracing her friend.
"What happened to graduation rules?" Connor asked, hugging his best friend next.
"Special circumstances," Aliyah said, pulling out of the hug with Ethan. "There was no way I was missing this! I've spent a whole year at the Lightning Academy; it is only fair that I get at least one day away. Besides, I graduate tomorrow, what's the worst that could happen?"
Ethan smirked and held out his arm.
"Shall we?" he asked.
Kira smiled and wound her arm through his and Aliyah looped her arm through Connors.
"We shall!" she nodded, and the four headed towards the gym, following the rest of the former students.
~*Against All Odds*~
Blinking rapidly, Aliyah looked around as her eyes grew accustomed to the lack of lighting in the room, they were drawn upward to the strangest feature of scene; two freakishly looking creatures stood in front of them, one was a bat-like creature with a water-like bowl on his head, and the other was an oldish alien-gentleman.
"Welcome to the future," the bat-like creature said. "Now, you will help me destroy the planet!"
Once he was within reaching distance, Aliyah kicked out and pushed him away, while Ethan knocked the older alien aside, this left Kira and Connor to grab the four Dino Gems that rested on the machine behind them.
"Let's get out of here!" Connor announced, pulling Aliyah towards the exit.
~*Against All Odds*~
"This is strange..." a female technician frowned as she analyzed the reading she was picking up on her monitors.
"Troobian energy reading?"
"No, a Ranger energy reading," the female corrected. "An intense surge in the morphin' grid is spiking in the downtown sector.
"But I didn't deploy the Rangers. I thought they were here in the base?"
The double doors leading out in the corridor slid open and six teens made their way inside.
"What's new in the SPD Zoo, Commander?" the leader of the group asked.
"Narrow in on the energy reading," the commander ordered.
"I'm on it," the female nodded.
"What's going on, Kat?" a blonde, who was dressed in Pink, asked.
"What energy reading, sir?" another blonde, dressed in Blue, questioned.
The female, named Kat, looked up. "I'm detecting a Ranger energy downtown."
A male with short spiky brown hair, and dressed in Green, frowned. "But we're not downtown, I mean, I'm not downtown... at least, I don't think I am..."
The blonde in Pink looked towards a long-haired brunette in Yellow.
"Don't look at me," the brunette said. "I'm all here!"
"Then it's got to be the A-Squad!" exclaimed the blonde in Blue.
"They made it back!" smiled the last member of the team. She had shoulder length blonde hair and was dressed in Platinum and Green.
~*Against All Odds*~
Panting hard, Aliyah pushed ahead of her friends, rounded a corner and jumped a flight of steps. "C'mon!" she called over her shoulder. "Down here - oh crap!"
"What is it?" Ethan asked catching up.
"Dead end!"
Connor and Kira grounded to separate halts as Aliyah and Ethan stared at the garage door blocking their path, cursing furiously Aliyah turned back to her friends.
"Sorry guys," she apologized.
"Not your fault," Kira smiled.
Realizing that they had been followed from the freaky lab, the former Dino Rangers turned to face their pursuers.
"What are these things?" Connor asked.
"They're not Tyrannodrones," Kira said, noting the lack of scales. "But they are definitely up there in the creepy department."
"The look like futuristic cousins of the Kelzacks," Aliyah nodded. "But I agree, Ki, definitely up in the creepy department."
"Any ideas on how to get out of this?" Connor asked.
"I'm still trying to figure out how we got in it," Ethan said, turning to his friend.
Aliyah shrugged and turned to her friends. "How about we do what we're good at?" she asked. "Fight our way out!"
"I like your thinking," Connor grinned.
"Me too," Ethan nodded.
"Me three," Kira agreed.
Aliyah smirked. "Ready?"
"Let's do it!"
As the weird looking soldiers attacked, the four Dino Rangers split up and divided the foot soldiers in four groups, each taking on their own single-handedly. They did well for a couple of former Power Rangers and an almost qualified Ninja; and it wasn't until Ethan, using his super Dino Power, clocked a soldier in the chest and caused him to shatter did they even find out what it was they were dealing with.
"It's a robot!" Ethan breathed. "Whoa, check out the crazy circuitry... it's way advanced."
"Okay, Cam 2.0, marvel later," Aliyah chuckled, patting Ethan on the shoulder. "Now we have to figure out a way out of -" she cut off as the ground beneath her feet exploded and a scream ripped past her lips.
A dark chuckle caused the four friends to look up as the bat-like creature returned.
"Fools," he snarled. "You actually thought you could escape me!"
"We've run away from a lot worse than you, buddy," Ethan pointed out.
"We have?" Aliyah asked. "Because I distinctively remember kicking ass a lot worse than his?"
Connor and Kira nodded.
Ethan pouted.
"It came out wrong!" he whined.
"Who are you?" Kira asked. "What do you want with us?"
"Your power is legendary throughout the galaxy," the creature explained as more the foot soldiers grouped around him. "Fight alongside me and we will bring down this wretched planet!"
Aliyah and Ethan exchanged amused grins. Was this guy for real?
"Maybe you're suffering from a lack of oxygen from being in that punch bowl too long, but in case you didn't notice, we're the good guys!" Connor pointed out.
"Yeah," Kira nodded. "We're not exactly about to destroy our own planet!"
"Oh, I think you'll come around to my way of thinking, all you need is a little persuasion," the bat hissed.
Aliyah, however, frowned as a siren reached her senses and she glanced over Ethan's shoulder to see flashes of red and blue approaching in the distance. The sirens died eventually as a patrol car and police motorcycle skidded to separate halts behind the Bat.
"What?"
"Who are these guys?" Connor asked watching as the group of six jumped from their respective vehicles and started to take on the creatures at hand.
Kira shook her head. "I don't know," she said.
"Do you think we should help them?" Ethan asked.
"I think they've got it covered," Aliyah said, watching as a blonde teenager, no older than fourteen, danced her away between the foot soldiers, her blonde hair whipping around her face as she cut down the soldiers with her Samurai sword.
Once the foot soldiers had been eliminated the group of six regrouped in front of the Dino Rangers.
"Back off, Broodwing!" the leader of the group, a kid, no older than 19 yelled.
"Fly back to where you came from!" added a female in Yellow.
"SPD," the bat growled. "Always getting in my way! I'm not through with any of you!" he yelled, as he flew off into the sky.
Once the threat had removed itself from the scene, the SPD group turned back to face the group of three on the otherside of the plaza.
"Are you guys OK?" the female in Yellow asked.
"We're a little confused," Connor nodded.
"But fine nonetheless," Aliyah added.
"Broodwing is bad news," a male, with sandy blonde hair, and dressed in Blue said. "But attacking innocent civilians? That's low."
"You've fought this freak before?" Ethan asked.
"Oh yeah," the male in red nodded. "It's all in a day's work for SPD."
"SPD?" Kira frowned. "What's that?"
"Space Patrol Delta," answered an automated voice.
The Dino Rangers frowned and turned in the direction of the noise, their gazes fell upon the youngest of the group of six the one Aliyah had been watching fight.
"And that means -?" Aliyah pressed.
"We are the police of the future," the future Samurai answered. "Space Patrol Delta is an academy where you train to be the elite. We're known as B-Squad. Beta team to the A-Squad..."
"A-Squad being Alpha?" Connor asked.
The Samurai nodded. "Yes. Space Patrol Delta trains a select few to become Power Rangers... We -" she gestured to herself and her team-mates. "Are the B-Squad Power Rangers!" She snapped open her morpher and produced her badge for the Dino Rangers to see. "My name is Savannah, I'm the Samurai Ranger!"
"Wait a minute," Kira frowned, shaking her head. "You can't be the Power Rangers!"
"Why not?" the female in Yellow asked.
"Because we are!" Connor pointed out, raising his wrist along with his friends to revel their Dino Bracelets, and their Dino Gems reflected the glare of the sunlight.
~*Against All Odds*~
Ethan shook his head as he followed Savannah and the rest of the SPD team through the corridors of the command centre. "So you're telling us that we've been transported years into the future?" he asked. "Where a state-of-the-art command centre trains elite fighters to become Power Rangers in order to battle the army of aliens and giant robots that threaten the earth?"
"Yep," the Pink Ranger, Syd, nodded. "That's about it!"
"Good to know there will still be beautiful girls in the future," Connor flirted.
Aliyah rolled her eyes and punched him in the shoulder. "Would you give it a rest?" she asked. "We've got to keep focused here, not to mention your waaaay too old for her!"
In response, Connor stuck his tongue out at her.
"Oh, yeah, very mature," Aliyah nodded.
"Whatever, dude,"
Rolling their eyes, Ethan and Kira pulled ahead and stepped into the command centre ahead of their bickering friends.
"OK, i'm not complaining," Ethan whined as he was faced with all the computers, "but our command centre was a cave!"
"And before that I was in a sort of underground bunker," Aliyah quipped stepping in behind him, before pinching his shoulder causing him to yelp in pain. "Just making sure you know that you haven't died and gone to heaven!"
Kira frowned. "You are way to chipper," she pointed out.
"Yeah, what's the deal?" Connor asked.
"It's my birthday tomorrow," Aliyah shrugged. "I always have a sort of personality change around that time of the year, not to mention it is my graduation!"
Connor, Kira and Ethan grinned, before spotting two aliens on the otherside of the command centre. Instantly, having bad dealings with aliens in the past, the four Dino Rangers responded defensively.
"Whoa," said Jack, calming them down. "It's okay, guys, this is our commander, Anubis Cruger..." the dog bowed in welcome, "and our lovely technical expert, Dr. Kat Manx!" the female smiled.
"Welcome to our base, Rangers," Cruger smiled.
"But he's a dog," Kira frowned, turning to Bridge.
"Pets are authority figures," Bridge explained. "You get used to it."
Aliyah frowned as a group of aliens bypassed her. "Huh -?" she said, pointing at them and turning, expectantly, to Savannah.
"Aliens and Humans live in harmony here," Kat answered.
"But -?"
"For the most part," Sky added, already understanding her trail of thought. "Broodwing is after them..." he added to Kat, who had approached the big computers.
"And I can see why," the feline nodded, activating the Ranger archives. "It says here that the Dino Thunder team faced off against the most treacherous villains in all of history!"
"Ahh," Connor mused, draping his arm around Aliyah's shoulders as their past flashed across the screens. "Memories!"
"But that was years ago," Jack said.
"Actually, that was a two years ago," Aliyah pointed out. "For us anyway!"
Jack shook his head. "OK, what I don't understand is how did you guys get here?"
"Well, things are a little fuzzy," Kira said, "but we were on our way to the reunion at Reefside High."
"I'm sure Broodwing went to a lot of expense to bring you here," Cruger indulged. "He won't give up on you so easily."
"We'll take him on and anyone else that gives us trouble," Aliyah grinned, punching her fist into her hand.
The Yellow ranger, Z, scoffed. "You haven't met Broodwing's boss, Grumm, he's as nasty as they get!"
Aliyah's eyes narrowed and she turned to Ethan.
"Did she just scoff at me?" she asked.
"I think so," Ethan nodded.
Aliyah growled and rounded on Z. "You obviously have no clue who you're dealing with! We are Power Rangers... we harness the power of the Dinosaurs; I also harness the power of Lightning! I have what it takes to go up against this Grumm fellow..." she explained, "with or without the cover of spandex!"
Z glared back at the former Platinum Ranger.
"Correction," Sky interrupted. "You were Power Rangers. We have been specially trained to take on Grumm's army."
"And no offense," Syd nodded, "but fighting Dinosaurs is soooo over!"
Aliyah scoffed and shook her head. "They really are as dense as they come," she muttered. "I feel sorry for the inhabitants of Earth!"
"Now, there is the Ali we all know and love," Connor grinned, pulling Aliyah into a one-armed hug. "But do you think you can tone it down just a little bit?"
"I only have one setting!"
Connor rolled his eyes and looked back at the SPD rangers as Ethan reprimanded them on the way they treated their elders.
"We don't want you guys getting into any more trouble," Jack replied. "We have enough problems to deal with!"
"Since when did we become a burden?" Aliyah asked, before she could stop herself. "Last I checked you helped us of your own accord, we didn't ask for your help!"
The alarm blared loudly, Savannah, who had been working quietly at the computers, jumped backwards in surprise.
"The Quarry is under attack!" she said, automately.
"My hunch is that Broodwing is trying to draw you out," Cruger told the Dino's.
"Look, just because we're not Rangers any more doesn't mean we can't fight!" Connor argued.
"OK, you guys chill until we get back," Jack told the four furious Dino Rangers. "Ready?"
"Ready!"
"SPD, Emergency!"
~*Against All Odds*~
"I could be wrong but they look like they are in a lot of trouble," Kira pointed out as she watched the SPD rangers get thrashed around by the hundreds upon thousands of Krybots and Orange heads.
"They have never encounted this many troops at once," Cruger confirmed.
"You've got to let us in on this!" Connor said turning rapidly in the commander's direction.
"No, I won't put your lives in danger," Cruger said. "If anything happened to you in this time the results could be catastrophic!"
"But if your cadets lose none of that will matter!" Aliyah argued.
Cruger growled, before looking up at the screens as the alarms blared again.
"I see some things never change," Ethan murmured, spotting a thirty-foot monster on the screens.
"I wish we had our Megazord!" Kira complained.
"Kat, dispatch Omega Ranger to the scene," Cruger ordered. "I am going to help the others..." he added turning to the Dino Rangers. "This is not your battle. You are to stay here! That is an order!"
He stepped away from the team of four and prepared to morph.
"SPD Emergency!"
~*Against All Odds*~
"I couldn't let all my soldiers have all the fun,"
The Dino Rangers frowned as a hideous skeleton appeared on the screens, beside him stood a tall brunette in purple.
"Let me guess," Ethan said, pointing at the skeleton, "that's Grumm?"
Kat nodded.
"Who's the female?" Aliyah asked.
"Morgana," Kat answered. "She is the older, alter ego of Mora."
"Who?"
Kat shook her head as her ears twitched, and she turned back to the screens.
Aliyah quirked a curious eyebrow and exchanged looks with her friends. "Dangerous waters?" she muttered to them.
"Cruger, you and your precious SPD have stood in my way long enough! It ends - NOW!"
He stabbed his staff at the rangers and blasted them off of their feet.
"That's it!" Aliyah snapped, turning away from the computers. "I say it's time we get prehistoric on Grumm and his goons!"
"But Cruger has ordered us to stay here," Kira said, catching her friend's arm as she passed.
"So, what's your point?" Aliyah asked. "Look, I don't care what happens in the past or the future, all I know is that the others need help, and that help just happens to be us!"
"She's right," Connor agreed. "It is obvious we were brought here for a reason..." he shrugged, "maybe this is that reason!"
Aliyah smiled at him.
"Let's do it!" Ethan nodded.
Kira sighed, but followed after her team-mates nonetheless.
"Wait," Kat called out to them, stopping them on the threshold. "If you're going to go out there, at least go prepared..." she hesitated, knowing that she could get into trouble for even allowing them to leave the base, much less go into a battle that was not theirs to fight. "Give me your Dino Gems..."
She held out her hand.
Aliyah eyed her, suspiciously.
"Why? What are you going to do?" she asked.
"I'm going to regenerate them," Kat explained. "If you're want to help, the least I can do is supply you with enough power to morph..."
Ethan gasped.
"You can do that?" he asked.
"I can access the Ranger archives," Kat nodded. "But you have trust me..."
Aliyah tensed, that was one thing that she was never able to do.
~*Against All Odds*~
"At last," Grumm hissed. "No more Power Rangers!"
Bruised, battered and slightly exhausted, the SPD rangers picked themselves up and staggered to re-group. Savannah, the youngest of the team, frowned, blinked and signed to Bridge as she tossed aside the device that helped her speak.
"He destroyed her communication device," Bridge translated to his team. "Oh, and we've also got company..."
"Company?" Jack responded. "Good or Bad?"
Savannah sighed her response and pointed in the direction of the approaching footsteps.
The SPD team glanced around, just as Connor, Aliyah, Ethan and Kira arrived on scene.
"Think again, Bonehead," Connor said, snidely.
"What?" Grumm growled.
Displeased with their appearance, Jack, Z and Sky confronted the four former Rangers, angrily.
"This is not a good idea!" Jack said.
"Get out of here!" Z ordered.
"You have no idea how much power Grumm has," Sky added.
Aliyah rolled her eyes, and pointed at Jack. "You fail to see the bigger picture," she said, moving onto Z, "you have to learn that wearing Yellow does not give you the right to give orders, plus, just because he -" she pointed at Jack, "wears red, does not mean I shall listen to him! And you," she pointed at Sky, "need to learn that Power comes, not just from the body, but from the mind!"
"We also brought a little power of our own," Connor smirked, holding up his morpher.
"Kat's the coolest," Ethan grinned. "She pulled our morphers from the archives and regenerated them!"
"Cam could have done it just as easy," Aliyah pointed out. "And in half the time!"
"With your distractions," Connor teased, "he would have taken twice as long!"
Aliyah pouted.
Kira shook her head and turned to Cruger. "Don't get mad at us, Commander, you would've done the same thing!"
"You make a good point," Cruger nodded. "Now, let us show Grumm what we can do together! Power Rangers, suit up!"
The Rangers nodded.
"You guys ready?" Jack asked, as the two teams fell into formation.
"Ready!"
"SPD, Emergency!"
"Dino Thunder, Power Up! Ha!"
The roll calls followed through with an explosion of energy, curtsy of Grumm, has he tried to eliminate them mid-morph, similar to what Ratwell had done to Aliyah back when she was a Ninja Ranger. However, the blast missed the two teams, and shattered a giant wall of the quarry.
"Super Dino Mode!" the Dino Rangers commanded, the spikes along their suits growing longer, and molding together in respective of their Dino's, and in Aliyah's case, sharp claws extending from her fingertips.
"SWAT mode!" the SPD Rangers, save for Savannah commanded, as their transformed to their upgraded suits.
"Super Samurai, SWAT mode!" the SPD Samurai Ranger commanded.
"Attack!" Grumm yelled, initiating the beginning of another battle.
~*Against All Odds*~
"Nice work," Jack nodded as he and the others re-grouped. The foot soldiers had been a piece of cake, as usual, but Grumm and Morgana had put up a fight, but it was nothing compared to what the Rangers were used too.
"You too," Connor agreed.
"Good job, Rangers," Cruger nodded. "We'll take it from here; Omega Ranger needs your help!"
"You got it!" Jack said. "Let's go B-Squad!"
Following their leaders instructions the B-Squad rangers took off in the direction of the city, leaving Cruger and the Dino Rangers to deal with Grumm and Morgana.
"Let's see how tough the Dinosaurs really where," Morgana said, preparing for battle.
Aliyah stepped forward, her Sabre-blade in hand. "You guys deal with the Krybots," she told her friends. "She's mine!"
"Go for it," Connor nodded, leading Kira and Ethan into the throng of foot soldiers, while Aliyah and Morgana run at one another.
Their weapons clashed and Aliyah jumped up, over a sweep, she landed behind the younger female and aimed a kick to the bottom of her spine. Morgana cried out, angrily, shifting her body weight and slashing her weapon at Aliyah's stomach.
"You are so not worth my time," Aliyah said, kicking off from the ground and Ninja-streaking around the quarry. "I hope this works - Ninja Shadow Battle!" she yelled out, focusing all of her energy onto her inner Ninja.
Morgana cried out as she was thrown through the air and into the quarry wall.
Aliyah grinned as she landed, in a cat-like crouch, in front of her fallen enemy. "You should brush up on your history," she said, stalking towards the younger female. "If you had, you would have known that the function of the ninja included espionage, sabotage, infiltration and..." a cruel, cold, smirk edged its way onto her lips, as her hand closed around Morgana's shoulder, and dragged her back to her feet, "assassination!"
Morgana seemed to tremble, fearfully.
"Cruger," Grumm growled, as he was overpowered by the SPD Commander, "using Rangers from the past may have helped you win this battle! But I have another surprise of my own in store! Morgana!" she snarled, "quit fooling around, we are leaving!"
He slammed his staff into the ground as a whirl of dust swept up around him, allowing him time to retreat. Meanwhile, Aliyah, who had been in the midst of dealing with Morgana, let out a cry of rage as the younger female also, disappeared.
~*Against All Odds*~
"That was awesome!" Syd said as she and the other SPD rangers arrived back in the quarry, and this time they were joined by the eighth member of their team, the Omega Ranger, Sam.
"Gather round, Rangers," Cruger called as the two teams grew closer. "Connor... Jack... Kira... Z... Ethan... Sky... Aliyah... Savannah... Syd... Bridge... and Sam," he listed, as each rangers nodded at their name. "That was great teamwork"
"Yeah!" Connor and Jack nodded, clasping hands.
Cruger nodded.
"Yes!"
~*Against All Odds*~
"I still say you need us here to deal with Grumm," Ethan said. He was stood in the command centre, trying to convince the SPD team to allow him and his friends to stay in the future, it was more to do with the fact that he wanted to stay and check out the advanced technology, but having his powers back was a bonus. "He is going to be madder than ever!"
"Yeah," Kira agreed. "And what about Broodwing? He's still out there somewhere..."
"It is obvious we should stay," Connor nodded, setting his gaze on Syd. "We work well together!"
"Sorry," the Pink ranger smiled, "but I don't date older guys!"
Aliyah snickered, an action which earned her a cuff across the back of the head from Connor.
"We appreciate your offer to stay, Rangers," Cruger told them. "But that is not possible!"
"Besides Kira," said Syd. "If you don't get back you will never start your recording career,"
"My recording career?" Kira repeated.
"Of course," Syd nodded. "You become a huge singing sensation; I grew up listening to your songs!"
Aliyah nudged the Rockstar and grinned.
"Yeah, and everyone knows about the Connor McKnight soccer camps," Sky nodded. "They're all over the country!"
"For real?" Connor gasped, turning to his friends. "Wow!"
"Ethan, you have to go back," Bridge added. "You and Cam Watanabe develop some software that we use here at SPD..."
Ethan's eyes widened as he turned, expectantly, to Aliyah. "Did he just say I was a genius?" he stuttered. "Working alongside your genius!"
"Yeah, dude," Aliyah nodded.
"Sweet!"
"If only Cam was here to hear this... he'd be totally stoked!" Aliyah smiled. "Okay, what about me? How does my future end?"
The SPD rangers turned to Savannah.
"You become a Sensei of your own academy, one that combines the Way of the Samurai with that of the Ninja." the future Samurai answered. "Teaching your students that a light can be found even in the darkest of times! You also go on to have a beautiful family with Cam, providing me with twin cousins, Freya and Kai..."
A smile edged its way onto Aliyah's lips at the idea of one day having a proper family.
"Your lives as Rangers have made a difference," Cruger explained, "but you all go on to lead exciting and significant lives after you hang up your helmets."
"Awesome!"
"That's amazing!"
"Sweet!"
"I think I speak for us all when I say we're ready to go back," Aliyah said, recieving nods of agreement from her friends.
"Your courage and dedication will live on in Ranger legend," Cruger continued. "Thank you all."
Kat smiled as she tapped a few keys on the console. A podium of four tubes rose up from the centre, each tube holding its very own Dino Gem.
"Goodbye, Dino Rangers," Kat nodded. "Your memory of us will be erased, but we won't forget you. Thank-you."
The four Dino Gems pulsated with energy, tendrils of colours reached out and engulfed their respective humans, and with a flash of Red, Blue, Yellow and Platinum, the Dino Rangers returned home, with no memory or recollection of their adventures in a not so distant future.
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Chapter written by xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx
Chapter updated Tuesday, 11 September, 2012 at 02:39am