Well, in need of a new muse, I have decided to write my first Power Rangers fanfic with one of my favorite seasons, Dino Thunder! Alright, here we go!
DISCLAIMER: Do not own Power Rangers. Believe me if I would, Samurai would've happened so much sooner than now.
Power Ranger: Dino Thunder
Maroon Thunder
Ch. 1-An Impossible Discovery
It was another day at Reefside High School for the four Dino Thunder Rangers-Conner McKnight, the soccer superstar and the Red Dino Ranger, Ethan James, the computer expert and the Blue Dino Ranger, Kira Ford, the aspiring musician and the Yellow Dino Ranger, and Trent Fernandez, the talented artist and the now good White Dino Ranger. As they were walking to their first period science class, they were nearly knocked over by a girl almost Kira's age wearing a billowing maroon shirt, a black vest jacket, a matching maroon skirt and black boots having fumbled a ton of books out of her hands. Mumbling her apologies while she gathered her stuff she took off without another word which left the group puzzling on what exactly just happened.
"Okay, did anybody think that that was weird or what?," the sports star asked.
"For once, I have to agree with you on that," the self-proclaimed nerd replied. "And for once, it's not on our level of weird."
"Well, either way let's get to class before we're late," the rebel rock star interjected, pushing her way through to the front of the foursome. "Besides, who's going to believe the excuse that we were almost bowled over by a fellow student that was in a state of panic?"
With nods from the other three, they all went straight to into their classroom where they met their substitute science teacher, Dr. Anton Mercer and Trent's adoptive father. Getting to their seats just as the bell rang it had not been two minutes after the door burst open and the same girl who had dropped her stuff was backing in with what looked like a bigger load than what she had before. She had only stopped when Mercer put a hand on her shoulder and asked, "Can I help you with something?"
"Uh, yeah," the young girl replied, adjusting the load of school supplies in her hands and pulling out her school schedule and handing it over. "I just transferred in this morning and I had a bit of trouble getting here. I got room numbers mixed up by mistake and that's why I'm late, sir."
Taking the slip of paper and looking it over, the back-up instructor eyed her for a second then sighed and said, "Well, since I guess that it is your first day, I can give you a break this time. But don't let it happen again, understand?,"
"Yes, sir," the maroon-claded girl nodded in reply.
"Good, now you can take that seat over there," Mercer pointing out the empty seat at the Rangers' table. "So that we can continue with our lesson for today."
At the same time walking over and balancing her load the four superheroes were surprised at how well she could handle her load now that she had one less thing to worry about. Once she had set her stuff down and sat in her seat, the rest of the class ran smoothly with little interruption. After the class had ended, the foursome were the last to leave as well as the girl who was once again struggling to get her stuff together and once she did almost lost it again for the second time in a row when Conner came up and said, "Hey, do you need some help or anything?"
Looking up at the red-claded young man with grateful hope flashing in her eyes, the new girl answered, "Oh, thanks. You're the first person to offer any assistance today alone. You would not believe what a grouch Principal Randall is when she gave me all this stuff and sent me off on my own with no clue where to go."
"You can say that again," the red ranger agreed, his voice letting on that he knew more than what he said.
Receiving similar looks from the other three, they helped take a bit of the load off and helped their fellow student out whenever they shared a class or during a passing period. By the time school had let out and the final bell rang, they said their farewells to each other and watched as their new friend head off for home and as they were about to head for Haley's Cyberspace, their usual hangout they were deterred by the familiar message beep of their Dino Gem bracelets which meant that they had to go meet with their mentor and normal science teacher Dr. Tommy Oliver, or otherwise known in their world as the greatest Power Ranger that had ever lived who was currently stuck in his Ranger form due to a remeculorization incident with amber when Trent was evil when he first started out as Ranger.
As soon as the team of heroes arrived in the subterranean lab that served as the Ranger base, they found the olden Ranger typing away when Kira asked, "Hey, Dr. O what's up? Is there something wrong?"
"I'm afraid there is, Kira," Tommy replied swiveling around to face the four. "I was pulling some old files that I had stored on the hard drive and I found something that I thought was debunked by both I and Anton Mercer when we were first researching the Dinozords."
"What about them?," Ethan asked starting to get uncertain about the situation.
"Well, it's more about one of the auxiliary zords, the Stegozord, to be more precise," the paleontologist explained turning back around to face the computer screen and pulling the file up in question. "I've been tracing an energy source that closely resembles the zord's and I found it to be the same type of energy as in the Dino Gems."
"So in other words, there's another Dino Gem that's hidden somewhere that we need to find and fast?," Trent simplified, starting to get uneasy as well.
"And protect it before Mesagog and his creeps get their hands on it first?," Conner added.
"Exactly," the Black Ranger agreed, facing his team. "Luckily just before you arrived I locked onto the source's location and pinpointed its position. And if my guess is correct, the enemy's going to be on its trail by the time we head out there, so I suggest that we get going before it's too late."
With everyone in agreement, they all turned around and with Conner being first by raising his left arm while his morpher appeared and said, "Ready?
"Ready," the two other primary Rangers replied, following suit then by Trent who held his left arm by the right side of his head and said, "White Ranger, Dino Power!"
Pressing the activation buttons, they were transformed into their familiar uniforms that protected their identities and several minutes later all five were heading out to their destination and as soon as they arrived the four younger were following behind the elder as he scanned the area for a few minutes then stopped as the sensors detected the Gem in a small boulder in the clearing that they had entered and of course as they were expecting an invisi-portal appeared behind them and out came the evil White Ranger clone and several Tyrannodrones ready to fight.
"Well, at least I'm not surprised to find you all here," the duplicate pointed out, clearly unimpressed by it. "However, I'm taking that Gem for my master and you posers are not going to stand in my way."
"That's what you think," Conner countered.
Acknowledging their cue the foursome dropped into their stances then rushed forward into battle. Seeing this, the polar opposite White Ranger commanded his underlings, "Attack!," sending the lackeys in to do battle while he went in for the prize. While the Rangers battled, Tommy was doing his best to get the boulder broken when all of a sudden he was attacked from behind. Turning around, he didn't even have time to counter as the evil clone moved at hyper speed and sent the Black Ranger flying back and landing hard on the ground. Leaning up and looking at the Ranger double, it warned, "When I said posers, that included you. Now do yourself a favor and stay down whilst I get the Gem in question."
While walking over to the boulder to strike it open with his duplicate Drago Sword, Dr. O had gotten up pulled out his own sword and said, "Not a chance. Brachio Staff!"
Rushing forward, he knocked the evil counterpart out of the way and began to duel, each one matching strike for strike, when the Ranger of Legend got the upper hand and got a major hit sending the the clone back a few feet which gave him the opportunity he needed to win the fight.
"Now you're the one who's going to need that favor," the Brachio Ranger retorted.
Swinging his staff in a wide arc, he summoned an Energy Orb, he fired it at the weakened doppelganger when on contact sent it to the ground defeated just as the others finished off the enemy ground force. Struggling to stand up, the evil White Ranger growled, "You may have won this time, but I will get that power no matter what. You can count on that."
Summoning an escape portal, it fled back to Mesagog's island fortress in utter defeat. When everyone had regrouped, they congratulated each other then remembered why they were there then grouped around the boulder where a team effort managed to break open the giant rock and release the sixth Dino Gem inside which was maroon colored and shaped like the head of the Stegozord upon examination.
"Now that we have it, we have to guard it with utmost diligence and security," Tommy told them. "No matter what, someone has to be with this 24/7 and not lose sight of this."
The four nodded and mumbled their agreements, knowing that they had a huge responsibility placed upon them and understanding that soon they're would be another one of them fighting to save the world from being turned back to the prehistoric era by Mesagog.
And there you have it so far. I really didn't mean to drag this out (it took almost five full pages alone) but I hope this really sparked your interest and you'll want to read more. Please review this and tell me what you really think. If I get a lot of people saying that they really like it, I'll get Ch. 2 up as soon as I can. See you then!
