Chapter 1 Ruined Dream

My name is Amanda, or as I'm now called, Honest Amanda Doc. Doc because of my previous dream, the dream that was ruined, and Honest because I'm always honest. I only wished that I had that old dream back, but no, Zangyack had to destroy it! So, here's what happened.

It was a medical meeting that I was attending, and we were talking about the heart. We were on the tenth floor of the cardiac portion of the hospital, and I was more than prepared. I had on my purple business-like jacket, purple shirt, denim pants, and black tennis shoes. My folder, which had paper, a pencil, and the information of the meeting, was clutched to my chest. I left my family, who had brought me to the meeting, in the lobby.

I met with Dr. Jonas Heart, the doctor who would be leading the meeting, and we walked in together, him telling me everything that would be best to know beforehand.

The meeting was halfway through when the light suddenly shut off.

We were plummeted into darkness, with no windows to see what was happening outside.

"Don't move!" Jonas said. "Now, everyone get up, follow me, calmly, and we'll go down the stairs, together, as a group, and get safely on the ground."

We heard a door open and then Jonas called us to him, us making sure we didn't run into anything.

The ground suddenly shook and we were sent to the ground.

"Ow," I mumbled, rubbing my bruised elbow as I got to my knees.

"Is everyone ok?" Jonas asked.

"Yes," we replied.

Slowly, we got back to our feet and started down the stairs.

When we reached the ninth floor, the building suddenly began to collapse.

Clutching to the railing, we screamed.

The building crashed to the ground and rubble buried us, blocking out any light.

Slowly, I tried to get out, but everything looked bleak, and when I put a hand to my forehead, I felt blood begin to trickle down my head. "Someone," I whispered. "Help." My vision went blurry and I passed out, the last thing I saw was a ship flying through the air with a skull on the side playing a horn.

When I woke up, I was at the hospital, but I wasn't buried under anything.

I sat up just in time to see the lobby being emptied by some things I've never seen before.

My family, they were a part of them, and they were hurt.

"No," I whispered, trying to get to my feet, but my leg was crushed, and I couldn't get up. "Ow." I placed my hand on my leg, breathing heavily.

The things, they started to kill the people who were in the lobby.

"No!" I cried, attracting the attention of one. It came to me, and my first instinct was to run, but I couldn't: my leg was in too much pain.

I put my arms over my head instinctively, but I heard a gunshot and the thing fell. I spun to look at who was there, at who would possibly save me, and my heart skipped a beat: it was the Gokiagers, morphed and ready to fight for us.

Captain Marvelous, GokaiRed, the mighty captain, Joe Gibken, GokaiBlue, the first mate, Luka Millfy, GokaiYellow, the lookout, Don Dogoier, GokaiGreen, the cook and mechanic, Ahim de Famille, GokaiPink, the ex-princess, and Gai Ikari, GokaiSilver, the Super Sentai fanboy.

Ahim came to me while the others went to fight the things. "Are you ok?" she asked me.

I shook my head. "I can't stand, GokaiPink," I whispered. "I'm hurt by the building falling and being in it."

"Help will come," Ahim said. "I know it will. Where is your family?"

I looked back at the things and saw that my family had received serious injuries. They were on the ground, trying to stop the bleeding, but it was no use.

"The Gormin hurt them," Ahim said, getting to her feet.

A Gormin came up behind them, and before I could cry out to them, they were killed.

"No!" I cried, trying to get up, but my leg being unable to support me.

"Oh dear," Ahim said.

I slammed my fist against the ground, feeling sorrow and rage mixed inside of me. They were my family, and they were the only reason I could get these opportunities. They had helped me with my school work, and now they were killed.

As the Gormin were killed by the Gokiagers, they came back to Ahim, all of them unmorphing.

"Let's go," Marvelous said as he began to walk away.

"Marvelous!" cried the rest of the crew as Luka put my arm around her neck and pulled me up.

"We can't just leave her like this," Don said.

"She needs help," Gai said.

Joe simply nodded to agree with the others.

Marvelous turned back to us and said, "She has her family."

"The Gormin killed them," Ahim said. "She has nothing left, Marvelous-san. We need to do something to help her."

"No, we don't," Marvelous replied, continuing his walk away.

Joe sighed, shook his head, and said, "I'm going to talk to him." He ran after the captain, leaving me with the others.

"You poor thing," Ahim said as Luke sat me down on a bench and took a seat next to me.

"Marvelous better change his mind, or else," Luka said, cracking her knuckles to prove a point.

Gai found a folder in the rubble and looked at it. "Is this yours?" he asked, showing it to me.

"Yes," I said, nodding and accepting back my folder. As long as I had this, I could try to continue on as a doctor. "It's now the only thing left that I have for a dream."

"What do you mean?" Don asked, sitting on the other side of me.

"Ever since I was four, I wanted to be a doctor," I said, opening my folder and pulling out a picture of me when I was young, dressed up as a doctor for Halloween. I smiled slightly. "I've never strayed from that dream. This," I looked at the ruined building and saw that the rest of the hospital campus was the same, "was my only chance to do that. But, a ship with a skull on the side ruined it. The skull was playing a trumpet."

"Mou," Luka said. She got up. "I'm going to talk to Marvelous." She ran after Marvelous and Joe.

Ahim took her spot, saying, "You must have put a lot of work into that."

"I did," I said. "I put my life into this dream. All my investments have been in medicine and the medical field."

"We'll help you," Don said. "One way or another."

"Thanks, GokaiGreen," I said.

Luka came back to us and smiled. "Guess what, girl," she said. "You can live on the Galleon with us!"

"That's great," I said, trying to remain positive.

"And, we can still go to school to try and get your dream," Luka added.

That made me smile. "At least I still have hope," I said.

Joe joined us. "One condition," he said sternly.

I gulped. "What?" I asked, scared to hear the reply.

"While on your study, you will be the ship's doctor," Joe said.

"That's fine," I said. "That way I will get more practice."

"You always will need to know how to fight in case we're attacked on the ship," Luka said. "But, I bet Joe is more than ready to help you out." She elbowed the first mate in the side.

Joe simply rolled his eyes, turned on his heel, and walked away.

"He'll get better," Gai said. "Always does."

I nodded.

Luka helped me up, keeping my arm around her neck, and we walked to the Galleon, as a group.

"What's your name, anyway?" Luka asked.

"Amanda," I said.

"Well, Amanda, welcome to the crew," Ahim said.

When my leg was healed and I was back with my friends at school, I felt that nothing could get better. I was with the Gokaigers, I was still continuing my dream as a doctor, and I was able to have a normal life, at least, being as normal as living on a pirate ship surrounded by space pirates would be.

While I did miss my family, I could always get away from the idea of it.

I kept going in my normal schedule: having Luka or Ahim walk me to the school, talking with my friends in the morning, going to class early so that I could talk to the teacher if needed, and then continuing like every school day. Then, when school was let out, either Don, Gai, or Joe would meet me and walk back to the Galleon.

Luka, Ahim, Don, and Gai always wanted to talk, but Joe was different: he always had his arms crossed and he was silent, aside from the small "Hello" that he gave me when I met up with him.

Marvelous believed that, since he was the captain, he didn't have to bother with the newbie, even if she was the medical personal on the ship.

But, one day, Zangyack, who I found out was the enemy, attacked the school.

I was walking away from my friends when Gormin suddenly dropped on the ground and pointed guns at me.

Startled, I spun to them, and my friends cried out warnings.

"Oh no," I whispered. "Don't tell me."

I dived out of the way as the Gormin shot, being able to just barely miss the bullets. Taking my communicator out of my pocket, not a mobirates like the others, but something so that I could talk to them, I pressed a button on the side and said, "Gormin are attacking the school, targeting me. I need help."

"We're on the way," Marvelous said.

"Hold on," Luka added.

I replaced my communicator and kicked one of the Gormin as it came near me, keeping it away from me.

"Be careful, Amanda!" cried one of my friends.

"No need to tell me," I mumbled, trying to block to attacks the Gormin sent at me.

"Let her be!" called Marvelous and he and the other rangers fired at the Gormin.

"You don't want to mess with our friend!" Luka said.

"Or else you mess with us!" Gai said.

"Run," Joe said.

I nodded and started to run to class, but an arm was shot out and struck my throat, knocking the wind out of me. Falling to my knees, I looked up at Basco, who I learned had destroyed the hospital. "You," I hissed.

"Yes, me," Basco said. "I'm going to finish off my job, and no one's going to stop me." He kicked my face and knocked me on my back, resting the point of his sword against my chest. "You're finished."

"Nope, not going to happen!" Marvelous said, kicking Basco back as Joe gave me boost to my feet. "Joe, make sure she is safe in class!"

"Right," Joe said, getting me to the classroom.

Before I could go in, the building started to collapse.

I had a flashback to when the hospital collapsed, and I was frozen with fear.

"Come on!" Joe said, grabbing my arm and pulling me along as the building fell.

Finally, I found myself enough to run with him, and as soon as we were outside, the building was gone.

But, it was the whole campus that had fallen.

"No," I whispered. "Not again."

"Come on, get to the Galleon," Joe said.

That was the longest sentence I've heard him say ever since I joined the Galleon: I was surprised.

Joe brought me to the Galleon and started pacing, the others showing up about ten minutes later.

"Now what?" asked Ahim.

"I need to go think," I said, getting up and walking outside. I had lost everything that was important to me. I couldn't even continue my dream! Zangyack had ruined it.

Now, I had a new feeling inside of me: revenge.

I will avenge my family's death, I will get my revenge for my dream being ruined, and I will make Zangyack pay.

A single tear met my eye but I wiped it away, got to my feet, and returned to the living room.

The others looked at me.

"I want to join the team, as a ranger," I said. "I want to make Zangyack pay for ruining my dream."