Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers, though it would be awesome if I could. But I do own; Zaltana Cloud, Samantha Rizzo and the evil beings, My friends own their characters; Kayden Matthews, Kairi D. "KD" Scott, Zane Wyatt and Jessie Jacks. The owner of KD owns Madame Grey too and the owner of Black Queen is the owner of Kayden. Any Alpha bot belongs to Power Rangers no matter how much we want to own them.
Author's Note: Well, I'd have to say this is the longest chapter for any story I have ever written and will continue to be long YAY.
On a Space Base in Space
Two cloaked figures moved around the large base in space. One a spirit of a woman in a gray cloak and the other a thirty year old looking woman wrapped good in a black cloak. They were known as Madame Grey and Black Queen to their peers and others, and were now doing their daily update on the computers to check for anything out of the ordinary. Then one of the computers began beeping like crazy.
The robot next to it began to shriek aye yi yi's. The black cloak woman ran towards him and looked onto the screen as the grey cloaked spirit floated away and down the hall. She knew what it meant, and she needed to talk to her old mentor. She rounded the corner and opened the door revealing a crystal coffin that was lit up inside. She stood next to it, touching it.
"You old fool, to go and die on us like that? Now the galaxy needs you and but now I believe it's my turn to save them. I wish you were here, but alas, I think you be proud of the next chosen ones. Lance died protecting the future of our kind, he was brave. He took a lot after you."
She heard a knock so she got up and turned around to see Black Queen standing in the doorway. "I have three pinpointed." The dark warrior muttered, before walking out. Madame Grey said her last goodbye to the man she once knew before walking out of the room. On the wall above the coffin was a plague that read; Zordon, Beloved Husband, Father, Grandfather and Mentor.
Elsewhere in Nevada
Holding her stomach as she waddled barefoot down the streets a young pregnant woman was scratched up and injured but that didn't stop her as she pounded on the doors in the neighborhood. She had been crying a while but she needed help and she needed her friends. No one would open their doors to her; they would look out the windows and then close the blinds. Little over ten feet behind her was a dark creature in yellow armor and a green creature following her, more like after her.
Panting for air she gave up on the people in houses and waddled to the street and into oncoming traffic. A car came towards her; the driver was on the phone and finally noticed her. The driver slammed on the brakes, shifting into park. The pinkish purple haired, dark mocha skinned girl jumped out of her car.
"What the heck!? Are you crazy lady!?"
The pregnant brunette didn't answer, only jumped in the car. The driver looked in at her like she was truly crazy. But before she could say another word she saw a disgusting slime hit the light pole next top them and disintegrated the wood. The pole fell over in front of the car.
"Get in and drive," yelled the pregnant woman.
"Hey, I don't know who you are but you can't tell me..."
"Go! They are going to kill us," she screamed and pointed to the two creatures coming into view.
The girl freaked and jumped into her car at the sight of them. She shifted the gear into reverse and sped back then shifted it back into drive squealing the tires as the two drove away. The two creatures made their way to the spot the car had left.
"You two have failed," said another creature as he walked up to the two. He looked a lot like the one with yellow armor only he had red armor and wings. The two looked upset they lost the woman, now they had to deal with punishment now.
Stone Canyon
"KD, I don't understand. Why won't you let it go," asked the girl with a faint accent.
"Kayd, Jason is a master at martial arts. I don't I'll ever beat him."
KD, better known as Kairi to others and the baby sister of Jason Lee Scott, watched as Jason taught his class at The Z Spot. Jason had opened it four years ago in Stone Canyon with the help of Kat Hillard who had decided to move back to Angel Grove after she finished working for some company that she wouldn't talk about except with Tommy. The small city Stone Canyon was also located eight miles out of both Angel Grove and Reefside. One of the major reasons Jason chose it. It was there to teach students who wanted to learn about dance or martial arts and served some of the best smoothies too.
"Well, if you want to improve, you can always join me and Cloud at the Underground Tourney..."
"No Kayden. I told you, I won't do any dirty fighting," she whispered so Jason wouldn't hear it.
Kayden took a moment to choose her next words carefully. She wasn't originally from around there. She grew up in Russia till she was about thirteen and still had to make sure she didn't sound any different from anyone else.
"Okay, no dirty fighting. See if Kat will teach you some, she practices it with him."
"I might," KD looked at her watch. "Okay we'd better get going Cloud and the boys' class get over soon and I really wanna find out if she chose a dress for the prom."
"But Kat's class is about to start," whined Kayden.
KD pulled her friend towards the door. "I think Kat's tights will fit the same tomorrow." Kayden rolled her eyes at her friend for blurting that out because Jason and his class looked at them. They walked down the street towards the boxing class.
Kayden was out to everyone but her family. Her family was strong believers of the Roman Catholic Church. KD didn't really understand their beliefs because her family was Jewish, but they didn't go to Temple as much as they should. If Kayden's parents knew about their daughter's second life they probably would send her back to Russia to be raised the way of a nun, under strict discipline as Kayden told her. Kayden didn't like her family and felt she didn't really belong, or look like any of them and swears that she was switched at birth. One thing KD noticed about Kayden's home was they didn't have any baby pictures of Kayden.
"What is the big deal if Cloud wears a dress," asked Kayden.
"Unlike you, she may want a dress. Besides, your date is wearing one." Kayden smirked at that only to get hit in the arm for it. "You're such a pervert Kayd."
"Yes, but unlike you I have a date."
"Hey I have a date... he just doesn't know it yet."
"Too bad Tommy doesn't know you are doing this to make him jealous," stated Kayden. "I hope we don't have to wait as long as last time for Cloud's class to get over."
Cloud was unique; she was a foster kid growing up so she didn't like to talk about her past that much. She was taken in three years ago by Jason's friend Tommy Oliver's brother; David Trueheart. Though she could be secretive, she was also a very good friend and never let anyone mess with her friends or new family. She would sometimes be kinda treated like a little kid by Tommy because he seemed to not get the idea she was growing up and he was very protective over her. KD would have to say that the most interesting thing about Cloud would be her naturally strange highlighted hair.
Cloud would tell KD she was sure Tommy liked her but was too clueless to his feeling for her. Kairi had conspired with one of Tommy's old students Kira to trick Conner into taking her to the prom, because Kira has suspicions that Tommy likes Kairi. So right now Kira was trying to get the plan through Conner's head whether he liked it or not. But at the moment they had to get to their friend Cloud, who was in class with their other two friends Jessie and Zane.
Cloud and Zane lived in Stone Canyon, but went to Angel Grove High school because of a major explosion in the science department that took out half the school, while Jessie went to school in Reefside. He is also dating a girl named Layla, who was from Angel Grove that he met through Kayden, after the girl turned Kayden down and hit on him instead. The two girls walked down the street past the ice cream parlor that was next to the boxing class's building. The two peeked in.
"We're gonna have to wait," said KD.
Cloud was sparring with Zane and he wasn't doing so well against her. Zane was half Japanese and you would say he was the baby of their group, meaning he was the youngest of them all. Sometimes his mouth would get him into trouble with others. KD and Kayden met him three years ago through Cloud when two bullies had him down on the ground beating him up. Cloud walked up to them, knocking one out and breaking the others nose. KD and Kayden stood up for them to the principal, saying it was self defense. They all four got a detention for conspiracy against the board of education.
Zane joined Cloud in boxing class where they met Jessie, making five to the group and they became inseparable. Jason would comment on how they would remind him of how he and his friends were as teenagers. Sometimes he would get this pained look in his eyes talking about Trini and Kimberly. Trini had died a few years back right before he opened up The Z Spot. They had just started dating and were suppose to open the place together, but when she was killed head on by a drunk driver, Kat came to his side, helped him through it and they opened it together, dedicating a tree outside for Trini.
Kimberly on the other hand disappeared after what happened on the island. She said she had to get back to her boyfriend Lance, which broke both Tommy and Kat's hearts. Kat had come out a little after graduation and surprisingly, Tommy didn't mind. He was very supportive about it and it made the two better friends then when they dated. It took KD a while to realize Kat was batting for the same side though and to get over the fact no one told her while she was jealous about the two hanging out.
The class finally got over and it looked as though Cloud let Zane win again. She always did that to build him up. His mother didn't like the fact he chose boxing over martial arts, but she later accepted it. His father was proud and would say he would become a golden glove, but Zane knew that kind of thing would go to Cloud. The class filed around the coach as the two girls quietly walked in.
"Great job everyone. Next week I will post up the sign up sheets for the Stone Canyon Tournament," said the coach and he turned towards Cloud. "I hope you'll be signing up Zaltana."
The coach left the room to go to his office while Cloud made a face behind his back. She hated when people would call her by her first name, especially him. She would say it made her feel like he was flirting with her or something. Though it was the name her adopted parents gave her when she was six she loved them a lot and was very upset when they died, but she preferred her last name Cloud amongst her whole name.
"You took forever," commented Kayden as her and KD followed Cloud to the girls shower room as the tan girl toweled off.
"Well, yeah. He taught the class a new move"
Like Kayden, Cloud wasn't too shy about her body. She stripped down out of her shorts and sports bra, and then walked straight to the showers. The other two sat down on the bench and waited for her, because the boys were taking their own showers. There was one thing that always bugged KD about Kayden and Cloud though. It was these scars they had on their backs, but the two never talked about how they got them so she never asked. Didn't mean she wasn't curious.
"Hey, did Kira say anything about whether Conner will go tonight? I mean I know it's last noticed and stuff but I think it be great," said KD.
"Yeah, it took a while to get it through to him that Jason wouldn't hit him this time. And she took him to get the required tux, but I think he's now worried about if the plan works and Tommy tries to kill him," replied Cloud.
KD and Kayden laughed. "Yeah the way Jason punched him when he was checking you out and the fact that Conner didn't know he was your brother was hilarious," commented Kayden.
"Oh hey. Kat said to show up around three-thirty so she can do our hair," said KD.
"Okay, cool," replied Cloud.
"So, Cloud. What does your dress look like?"
"Again with the damn dress," whined Kayden.
"So where are we going," asked the girl.
"Some where that I know is safe. We need to get to my old friends, they can help us."
"Okay look this is crazy. Those things back there looked like they were after you. I'll give you some money and you can get a bus to your friends," commented the girl.
"They seen you, meaning they'll be coming after you too. I know what they can do; they killed my fiancИ and his friend. You have no chance of surviving on your own," replied the pregnant woman.
The color in the girl's face looked like it disappeared as the woman talked. The woman's name was Kimberly Hart and she was carrying a son named Lance. The girl was able to tell Kimberly her name was Sam Rizzo. She realized that these creatures were going to kill her and she wasn't even twenty-three yet. She wanted to live, no she had to. There were things she wanted to actually do that she never thought she would, like finding love and having a family. She wasn't about to let these newly life changes destroy these new life goals, so she was following Kimberly's directions to Angel Grove, California.
The girls finally left the locker room and found the boys waiting like always. "Finally, what takes you so long," asked Zane.
"Unlike guys, girls want to smell good," stated KD.
The boys looked at each other and then sniffed their arm pits. "Our hygiene seems to be fine," replied Jessie.
The girl's rolled their eyes and the five started out the door. They just got out to the street and was about to cross it when a yellow Mustang GT sped up in their way. They jumped back, a man got out of the vehicle and walked towards them. It was Tommy and he didn't seem to notice KD eyeballing him, Cloud on the other hand looked shocked, but upset.
"Tommy what are you doing driving my car? Are you trying to rub it in my face that I can't."
"No. Your dad said I could drive it. So I came to give you a ride, since mine is still in the shop from your prank last week," he said.
"Hey, just because you and David didn't think a pink jeep with pink smoke coming from the muffler wasn't funny, didn't mean nobody else in town didn't."
"Yeah, even Jason and Kat thought it was a good color for you," laughed Jessie. The pink smoke had been his idea.
"Well, okay I see how it is. I was going to let you use the car tonight but..."
"No, Okay. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Thank you," replied Cloud as she grabbed the keys from her uncle and kissed him on the cheek.
"Oh, and David said something about a package in the trunk," Tommy hollered to her.
He moved out of the way as the five piled into the car. He also had to jump out of the way as Cloud and her friends sped off down the street waving to him. Cloud could drive like a maniac he thought to himself as he watched them drive off towards Angel Grove. Maybe he should have let David taught her how to drive instead. He started walking towards The Z Spot, to go see his friends.
"We have location on the fourth one," said the Black Queen.
"We won't call upon them till the time is right," replied Madame Grey. They watched as images moved around on the screens.
"Come on. Tell us what it looks like," begged KD.
"You know she won't stop until you tell her," teased Zane. KD turned around towards him and stuck her tongue out.
Cloud made a face that would make KD and the guys tease her. She did it when she would think about something and KD would say it made her look like Kayden. Then she'd go onto the topic of how the two acted like sisters, which Jessie would argue about it being impossible for the two. KD would also tease the two because of the fact when they met Cloud, Kayden didn't do her natural flirty thing, like she did with her and every other female she came into contact with.
"Okay, I'll give you a hint. It's yellow and I'm guessing Tommy doesn't know what it looks like or he would have taken it back."
The guys both got goofy grins on their faces as they tried to think what the dress looked like now, which in return got them both an elbow in the ribs from Kayden. The guys grins turned into grimaces, while Kayden wore a proud smile on her face. In front Cloud and KD burst into laughter at the whole exchange.
- Few Hours later -
"Come on you guys. The limo is gonna be here any minute," yelled Zane outside of Kat's bedroom doorway.
He was already ready like everyone else. Zane was wearing an emerald tunic with a golden vest to match his girlfriend's emerald and gold kimono dress. Sitting on the arm of the couch was Jessie in his powder blue tux; it went really well with his girlfriend Layla's baby blue dress. Kayden was on the other side of the room with her date Hana, who was in a long silk crimson dress, she kept trying to fix Kayden's tux in which Kayden would swat her hands away. Kayden's tux was black like her shirt but with crimson pin stripes, with a crimson vest and tie.
Leaning against the wall near the kitchen was Cloud's date Topher. He was wearing a solid color zoot suit of canary yellow with a black shirt. His tie was canary yellow like his shoes, but his hat was black with canary yellow band around it with a yellow feather. Conner was standing next to him in a pure white tux and shoes with a red vest and tie. He was standing there nervously waiting to leave while Topher was talking about the next car he was going to be racing the next weekend.
Suddenly the door swung revealing Jason. "We're not late are we?"
"No but you were very close to it," replied Kayden.
"KD and Cloud are taking forever as always," added Jessie which got him a smack in the arm from Layla.
"Limo's here... Conner what are you doing here," asked Tommy as he walked in with his twin brother David following behind.
"He's my date," replied KD's voice before Conner could think of anything to say.
Tommy did feel a bit jealous but hid it well. Everyone looked over to her. She was wearing a semi long white Latina salsa style dress that had only one thin strap on her right shoulder. Around the waist of it was a red sash like tie, but the skirt had stopped at the top of her left knee and ruffled down past the right one. Tommy was in awe at the sight, which KD smiled at him. Jason on the other hand noticing this little exchange decided to elbow his best friend in the gut and give him a dirty look.
Before anyone could react to the whole thing Kat walked out of the room with Cloud, and Kayden let a whistle. Jason just looked away at her image while David just shook his head; Tommy on the other hand was now upset with what he saw. Cloud was wearing a thin strapped canary yellow baby doll style dress; the skirt was very short and wide for spinning. It went perfectly with Topher's zoot suit. Tommy grabbed Kat's throw off the couch and quickly started to cover Cloud up.
"Tommy! What are you doing," she shrieked trying to move the throw away from her.
"You are not going to the dance dress like that."
"Tommy it's just a dress," stated Kat trying to help Cloud out.
Cloud finally got out of reach from Tommy then walked over to her date and her friends. She glanced back over to Tommy to give him a look of bewilderment before everyone followed Kat outside. Kat wanted pictures before they left. Tommy started to follow but David stopped him and looked him dead in the eyes.
"Remember Tommy, She's a grown up now. You know you have to start treating her like one and let her come to you if she makes a mistake. You just have to except that now."
Tommy nodded and sighed. David was right, Cloud was practically a woman now and from else he was told lately he had to treat her as one. He followed David out to where the group was at. They were goofing off for Kat as she took pictures and laughing at their crazy expression and goofy stances. Finally Kat ran out of film and everyone started to pile into the limo, but Tommy caught Conner before he could get in.
"Keep them out of trouble," he told him, but his grip got tighter as he looked towards KD. "And keep the girls safe."
Conner nodded and climbed in with everyone else. They watched as all the teens took off in the limo towards their next destination. Kat then came up with an idea and ran inside and came back out with her car keys dangling them and smiling devilishly. The three guys stared at her with curiosity.
"Let's party boys," she said smiling.
-Elsewhere-
"I want that baby Artaxiad," said a shrilling voice in the darkness.
"You will Mistress soon, you will soon," said the yellow armored creature. "But we seemed to have noticed a problem."
"And what would that be?"
A short gray rat like creature walked quickly into the room with a piece of folded paper. "It seems our mother of the baby was a power ranger her self at one time and according to this paper, she was trying to fly to a city named Angel Grove. It seems to be home of the first earth rangers. It seems she is going to them for help."
The voice made an interested sound. "So it seems this baby is a little more special than we thought. Nester make me some metabots, I have a feeling we will need them."
"Right away Mistress," replied the short gray rat creature and he walked out quickly.
- Night Fall -
It had been hours and she was getting tired. Driving without any breaks was putting a toll on her eyes and now she wished she never got her license when she was sixteen, but that was years ago. This woman with her needed her help and she wasn't going to leave her, plus if she did and those things found her instead they wouldn't let her live, they were monsters after all. She glanced down at the map that Kimberly fixed up for her and was following the directions that were on it, but she really needed to stop and get some gas. They had to be safe right? They were close to their destination anyway.
Kim who had dozed off awoke to the sound of the engine shutting off and looked around after realizing it was night. That's when she noticed where they were, they were in Angel Grove. Sam was getting gas while she looked around watching everyone scared. Suddenly four loud adults walking through the parking lot startled them both and caused Sam to jump. Kimberly took a closer look and couldn't believe it, she found them.
"Jason! Tommy! Kat," she hollered, startling Sam more.
She got out of the car as her three friends and David stopped to look around. Kimberly got Sam away from the car to come with her and the two quickly went towards the four. The three friends were surprised to see their old friend, especially a pregnant one.
"Kim," asked Jason stunned.
Before anyone could say another word, the place was surrounded by tin looking creatures with weapons. "Metabots," gasped Kimberly. "They know where we are now."
Sam looked on in fear as everyone got into fighting stances. Kimberly and Sam hid behind them, while the creatures to the groups dismay, and began attacking the civilians. That caused a major frenzy. People began to run in every direction to get away from the hideous things. David, Tommy, Jason and Kat all began fighting them off while trying to stay close to Kimberly and her friend to protect them.
The three ex-rangers knew something was up and that Kimberly was somehow connected to it. They just didn't want to find out the reason why if they lost her and then found out knowing they should have protected her better. One of the bots came at Sam causing her to scream and kick at the thing's side. That seemed to have been the spot when it fell down, dismantled and disappeared.
"It seems evil still doesn't know how to do anything right," said Tommy after seeing it.
-Prom-
"Woo," hollered someone on the dance floor.
The music was blaring but no one really cared, they were having so much fun. Even Conner had loosened up and was dancing with around in the group. So no one had noticed anything wrong until the cheerleaders started screaming. There were metabots coming in everyone causing more screams. Conner went to check it out but didn't know what to make of the bots but got ready to fight them when he noticed he wasn't the only one. KD, Cloud, Zane, Kayden and Jessie were ready to help him fight them.
"Get out of here," he ordered.
"No way, we're not letting these things destroy our last prom," said KD.
"They are going down," added a ticked off Zane.
"Besides, twenty against one isn't fair. But six against twenty is," included Jessie. "That would make three for four of us and four for the other two."
Kayden made a face at Jessie. Sometimes when Jessie did math it could be very annoying. But it did make sense. Well that was until three of the most hideous creatures walked in. The six were fighting off the metabots when the creature in red pointed to Conner and KD. The green creature spit acid at Conner who got away with just a stinging burn on his arm. Conner was in pain so Jessie came over to help him out while KD had an electrical blast sent to her by the yellow creature, but Cloud screamed at her to get out of the way and KD felt a invisible push and fell to the ground before she was hit.
The yellow guy then sent a blast of electricity at Cloud, hitting her directly in the chest. She fell to the ground. Kayden noticed the red guy standing there watching, caught him off guard. He sent a fiery blast toward her causing her to scream, but the weird thing was the red guy flew away from her. But when he looked up she was passed out so he started walking towards her. Zane looking up from fighting off a metabot, saw this and ran towards the creature. Before he could reach the creature or anyone could see anything else the room lit up in flames.
-Space Base-
"The time has come. Let us call forth our chosen four," said Madame Grey floating down the base.
The Alpha bot walked over to the computers and began typing. "Right away, Madame Grey."
-Gas Station-
They got rid of the last of the metabots. There were a few scratches but nothing they couldn't handle and Kimberly was still safe. They looked around at injured people who were coming out of hiding. If only they had their old morphers on them. David was helping some people up off the ground, so nothing else looked wrong as they looked on at the damages like they had done years before, and only a year ago for Tommy. There seemed to be nothing else wrong until a few ambulances, cops cars and fire trucks past by heading toward the school. They were about to go that way until Kimberly screamed.
"Sam's Gone!"
-Prom-
Conner looked around the gymnasium. Fires were being put out everywhere while teens were still screaming from burns. He had failed Tommy this time and he failed miserably. Now Jason, Tommy and David were all going to kill him. All five teens he was suppose to keep safe were gone, their dates were scared and the girls were crying. Now Conner was scared. He had to face two ex-rangers and a father's wrath. But he knew whose would be worse if the five were hurt in anyway.
Well that was the first chapter. What did you think?
