All Dr. Tommy Oliver could do was stare. "This can not be happening," he thought to himself as he continued to stare at the six teen girls in front of him. "There is no way this is the new team."
Adam Park, who was busy writing down a new martial arts move he wanted to show the other Rangers in a black and green spiral and not paying attention to where he was going, walked right into Tommy. "Hey, why'd you…. no way, AELLA?" Adam said, walking over and staring at the leader of the group, who was wearing yellow.
"Hey Adam!" she said brightly. Her long dark brown hair was pulled back into a ponytail and her brown eyes shone with excitement.
Dustin Brooks, who was coming in from motor-cross, yellow gear on and yellow helmet in hand, stopped next to Adam. "Dude! Nia!" Dustin said, smiling, going over to the girl in green with waist length dark brown hair and giving her a huge hug.
"Hey dude." She said, her dark brown eyes smiling as she got comfortable in his arms.
Shane Clarke, walking through with his red skateboard and red helmet in hand, stopped in his tracks. "Impossible. This HAS to be impossible. Kali?" he said as he walked over to the girl in black.
"You better start believin' it, babe." she said, throwing her long blonde messy braid over her shoulder and smiling at Shane's shock, her brown eyes glittering.
Connor McKnight, who had just arrived from the airport, red duffel in hand, walked towards Tommy. "Dr. O, what's so important that I had to fly in from Virginia to see you?" Tommy, still speechless, only nodded towards the girls. Connor, noticing them for the first time, spotted the girl in white and a surprised look crossed his face. "Charis! Why are you here?" he said, dropping his bag and walking over to her.
"Guess I'm a Ranger now, Conner." she said, shrugging and tucking her long pale blonde hair behind her ears, looked up at him, her hazel eyes looking slightly confused.
Hunter Bradley and Tori Hanson, coming in from the sparring room, walked over to the now crowd of people in the middle of the entrance hall. "Tommy, what's going…CARI?!?" Hunter shouted in disbelief, stopping in front of the girl in red, her long light brown hair French braided down her back, who now also looked slightly offended.
"You got a problem with this?" she asked, crossing her arms and staring to look slightly dangerous, glared at him, her brown eyes daring him to even start going down that thought path.
"No! I'm just…surprised, I guess." He said, trying to amend the situation.
Tori just laughed at Hunter and walked over to the girl in blue. "It's good to see you again, Alexia. It's been a while." she said, giving her a hug.
"Too long, really. I haven't seen you since the time Cyber Cam crashed the main frame into smithereens and Cam needed two more hands and another super brain to help fix it." she said. "Wait, no. Last time I saw you was when you and Blake had that scheme about Nia and Dustin and Cari and Hunter last month." Both Blues starting laughing uncontrollably.
"WHAT SCHEME?" cried Hunter and Cari as Dustin and Nia laughed. "Don't worry, dude. I'll tell you about it later." Dustin said, patting Hunter's shoulder as Cari glared at Nia. "You knew?" she half-shouted. "Dustin told me, dudette. Chill." Nia said, unfazed. "Fine. And don't call me dudette." Cari said turning her attention back to Hunter.
Tommy continued staring at the scene that had unfolded in front of him, still in total amazement. An all-girl Ranger team with all the colors. Former Rangers were even dating the members. He watched as Aella convinced Adam she could take care of herself, Nia discussed the "coolness" of being a Ranger with Dustin, Shane and Kali were having a intense debate over whether or not their team was "legal" (Kali was firmly on the side of her team; Shane was throwing lines from the "Ranger Code" at her), Connor and Charis were debating who was the best leader of all the Ranger teams (Tommy, Jason and Connor ("Not fair! You can't vote for yourself!" said Charis, which started a 5 minute argument) were in the Top 5), Cari and Hunter were having a pointless argument over nothing (which Hunter was losing) and Alexia and Tori were laughing themselves sick over past incidents. Tommy just couldn't wrap his mind around it. An all-girl team?
Just as Tommy was contemplating to either turn around and walk away or to stop the madness in front of him, Cam Wantanabe, who was carrying a green Frisbee, came up and stood beside him. "New team?" Cam asked, pointing at the girls. Tommy nodded, turning his head to look at Cam to catch his reaction to the all –girl team. "Interesting. Think they and the others would want to play Extreme Frisbee with me?"
"Did someone say Extreme Frisbee?" Alexia said, gasping for breath, her light blue eyes watering from laughing so hard. She turned towards the direction that the voice came from and broke out in a huge grin. "Cam!" she cried, running up to him, her medium length light red hair flying into her face, and quickly kissed him on the cheek. "Hey Lexi! Blue Ranger, huh?" Cam said, pulling her hair out of her eyes. "Oh, yes! My newfound abilities are beyond comprehension!" She paused, realizing she had started using big words and reworded what she had just said. "I meant to say, my new powers are really cool!" Cam just laughed.
"EXCUSE ME!" Tommy shouted over the noise of the Ranger's voices. Everyone quieted down and turned towards Tommy. "Could someone PLEASE explain what's going on?" he asked, with a slight begging/pleading tone. Tommy looked at Aella, with an expectant look. She sighed and with a flick of her head, the rest of her team fell in behind her. "What do you want to know first?" she asked Tommy, her arms crossed. "Morphing?" Cam suggested. With a look at Adam, he and Tommy gathered the former Rangers behind them so that they were facing the girls.
Aella glanced at Kali on her left and then over at Nia on her right. They nodded. "Ready?" Aella called. "Ready!" Nia, Kali, Charis, Cari, and Alexia called back. "DRAGON FIRE, IGNITE!" they yelled as they raised their right arm, making a claw with their right hand, brought it back down, and as they brought their left arm up to waist height, hit their right hand against the underside of their left wrist, where the veins are visible. A blinding flash of light and a loud roar later, the new Rangers, stood before them, morphed.
"Whoa." Dustin said, summing up everyone's reaction. Tommy was seriously impressed. He couldn't believe their color. Aella was in highlighter yellow, Nia in neon lime green, Kali in pitch black, Charis in blinding pure white, Cari in bright red, and Alexia in neon bright blue. Each of them had a different looking dragon on their chest, their helmets looked like a dragon's head, which was in mid-roar, their boots were all solid black, and, of course, they all had skirts.
"Think you're bright enough? I think I'm gonna need a pair of sunglasses." Connor joked, which earned him a smack upside the head from Tori. "Ow." he said, rubbing the back of his head. A snort of laughter came from inside Charis' helmet and each of the girls pulled off their helmets.
"How did you come up with a morphing call on your own?" Adam asked.
"We didn't. When we received our powers, it just came with them, I guess." Kali said.
"Speaking of powers, what are yours?" Shane asked.
"Well, I have air, Alexia has water, Charis has weather, Kali has the senses, Nia has earth and Aella has fire. It comes from our dragons." Cari stated.
"Do you guys have gems, coins or whatever that you received your powers from?" Hunter asked.
"We each have a different specific dragon medallion for our powers. We can also use our secondary powers at any time whether or not we are in morph. This is because our abilities are bonded with our DNA." Alexia explained.
"What she said was that our dragon necklaces are what gave us our Ranger abilities and we can use our powers at any time." Aella translated.
"What I want to know is how you got your abilities." Tommy said. "Everyone has their story."
"Well, really it's Nia's fault. I mean, if she hadn't wandered off AGAIN,-" Cari started.
"It's your fault too! If you weren't constantly screaming-" Kali retorted.
"HEY! We're all to blame. Yes, Nia is a wanderer. Yes, Cari is a stress ball. We ALL contributed to getting here. Sheesh." Aella said. She turned to Tommy. "It's kinda a long story. You might want to sit. But first-"
"DRAGON FIRE, DISPERSE!" the girls chorused, repositioning their arms to where they were when they morphed and lifting their clawed right hand upward. After a flash of light, they were back in their normal clothes. Tommy motioned everyone over to a group of couches by a large window on the other side of the room. Aella, Nia, and Kali sat together on the couch facing the window, Cari, Charis, and Alexia sat on the couch next to the wall, Tommy sat in the armchair between them. On the couch in front of the window sat Adam, Dustin and Shane and on the couch facing the wall sat Hunter, Connor and Cam. Tori sat in the armchair between them.
"Shouldn't we wait for Jason?" Adam asked Tommy.
"He's running a few hours late. He said for us to go ahead and fill him in later." Tommy explained to Adam and the group.
"So, from the top, then?" Adam asked.
"It happened a little less than two days ago." Aella began. "As an end-of-college gift to us, Nia, Kali and I had planned a cross-state road trip from San Diego to San Francisco then back home. Cari, Charis and Alexia had, unknown to us at the time, planned the same trip. When Kali found out, she invited them to come with us. You see, only Kali knew them because she had classes with them. So, we weren't really friendly to each other at the start of our trip a week ago. Then as we were heading back home…"