Disclaimer: I don't own Power Rangers: DinoThunder, except my character Aleriyea
AN: So, I just recently found this story and realized that I could not space correctly of anything like that, soooo, I'm' redoing it and making it better! Hopefully, tell me what you think! Also, I know it was a long while ago, but I still have to give credit to xRachx for helping me out with this the first time seeing as some of the stuff I left was from her as well. Enjoy!
It was about 9:30 at night; a girl of about 17 or 18 years old, with semi-long red hair was walking through a park in California when all of a sudden someone came out from behind the bushes…
"Okay Missy, give me all or your money and valuables and you might not get hurt!" threatened an ugly looking man who was walking closer to the girl.
She turned around slowly, "You want my stuff? Well, you're going to have to catch me."
Suddenly she bolted, running as fast as her slim legs could carry her. The thudding of her combat boots on the asphalt pavement echoed through her mind as her heart began to beat rapidly with a mixture of adrenaline and anxiety. After she took a couple turns she ran passed somebody wearing a suit, she didn't stop long enough to take a good look; her mind was fully focused on escaping. A few seconds later the guy that was chasing her ran past the young man in the suit as well. She had assumed her assailant would have given up the chase by now, most muggers didn't chase people this far. If a target wasn't easy and vulnerable, they more often than not gave up after seconds of running, or didn't even bother to give chase at all.
"Give me your things Missy, your trapped" seethed the guy.
She was well and truly trapped. The brick wall staring her right in the face was a sure sign of that. 'I should've known not to run down an alley way' she mentally scolded herself. Now she would have to pull out all the stops to get herself out of this mess. She turned slowly and dusted off some invisible dirt off her white button up shirt and straightened he plaid skirt then looked at her attacker, who had, for some odd reason didn't attempt to get here while she was messing with her outfit.
"Fine, you caught me..." She said throwing her arms up in the air and sighing
"Psyche!" she yelled doing a back flip in the air over the guy and landing neatly behind him before swiping his legs out from under him with a swift kick. He hit the ground hard. The nanosecond before he returned to his standing position scared her, she always worried she had hit them too hard. She, after all, didn't want to be done for manslaughter. Slowly he got up and lunged at her but she just dived out of the way and tripped the guy up, again.
"Do you ever give up?" asked the girl kicking him one more time and running away once more.
Too busy worrying about being tailed again, she accidentally ran into the guy wearing the suit – the one she had passed moments before - she stopped and turned around to apologize. Even in a crisis she never forgot the manners her mother had instilled upon her.
"Sorry Sir" she turned back around and began to run again; not because she was afraid but because she needed the steady, rhythmic thump of her footsteps to clear her mind. A short while later the girl, rather exhausted at this point managed to get to her apartment complex. She walked up to her apartment and took out some keys from her messenger bag and unlocked the door. She stepped into her apartment and threw her stuff onto the table, silently cursing about the eventful evening she had. The young girl stumbled into her room after, barely registering the clock; it read 10:00. She grabbed some clothes out of her wardrobe and set her clothes out for tomorrow. She then grabbed a towel and went into the bathroom to take a quick shower. After she plopped into bed and passed out.
The girl awoke to her alarm clock blaring. She rolled over and groaned as she slammed her hand on the snooze button. After her eyes got a chance to adjust to the sunlight in the room she saw that the clock read 6:30. She groaned again and rolled out of bed. She walked over to the clothes she had set out the night before and started to put them on. Her outfit consisted of a pair of tight black jeans with random silver lightning bolts on them , a long-sleeved, silk shirt with a black lace-up corset on top of that. She brushed her hair then walked to the mirror and put on black eyeliner with shiny silver eyeshadow. She went over to a chair by the front door and grabbed a pair of black and silver combats and laced them up over her jeans. She grabbed her messenger bag and made sure she had all her stuff then headed out the door toward the school.
In Dr. O's class there was a knock at the door.
"Excuse me for one moment class," Tommy said as he strode across to the door and departed into the hallway for a few moments before returning with the girl from the beginning.
"Okay class I'd like to introduce our new student Aleriyea O'Connell" he told the restless class, who were all straining to see their new classmate. None of them really cared, they were just curious.
"Pleasure," she said, with a nod of the head, in a heavy Scottish accent.
"You can take a seat beside Kira and Ethan; if they bite just raise your hand." The class just rolled their eyes at Tommy's weak joke; at least he made his class comfortable, which was one of the things which made him the most popular teacher at Reefside High; That mixed with his stunning good-looks (a great incentive for girls to pay attention in class) and his mastering of the marital arts (which held him in great esteem, and slight fear, of the males) made him one of, if not the most, popular teachers at the high school.
"Thank you," Aleriyea bowed a little toward Tommy then went and sat beside the two people who where motioning for her to join them at their bench.
Half way through the class an announcement came over the P.A. System.
Attention students of Reefside High, this school is now under our control. You will listen to all we have to say and do as we tell you, if you don't we are not afraid to hurt or kill anyone who doesn't cooperate. Everybody will stay in their classrooms, nobody will leave for any reason, there will people around in a couple of minutes to take a head count, anybody who tries to be a hero, will be shot. Thank you and have a nice day" Silence filled the room, confused by the pleasantries at the end made everyone dumbfounded for a minute. Once everything sunk in though, everybody started to talk all at once. Everybody was terrified; they had every right to be.
"Okay class calm down, there is nothing to worry about, just stay calm," Dr. O soothed, trying his best to calm the class. Aleriyea, on the other hand, just sat their continuing to read through a textbook on the desk
"How can you stay calm?" asked Kira looking at her weirdly.
"Easy, don't think about it, if anybody doesn't try anything we're fine and I'm pretty sure nobody will try anything, everybody looks to scared," answered Aleriyea continuing reading, her eyes never leaving the textbook.
After a couple minutes of waiting a person came in and started a head check. He never spoke, just counted in silence as the class froze petrified into an uneasy silence, many scared even to breathe.
"Hey, um, I was, like, wondering…" Aleriyea began to ask in a valley-girl type voice while twirling her hair as she moved up to the front, "When do you think this might be, like, done, because I have a manicure appointment in, like, a couple hours."
She smiled her best "I'm-a-dumb-Valley-girl" smile then looked over at Dr. O he came up behind him and knocked him out with a swift blow. The class had been hoping the teacher, with all his martial arts training would be able to pull of something like this… hopefully without getting himself, or any of the class, killed in the process. The mute fell into Aleriyea's open arms. The class was so unbelievably stunned you could hear a pin drop.
"Urhg, this guy's heavy," she said pushing him off her onto the desk next to her.
The guy had a walkie-talkie strapped to his waist and, after a slight crackling of static, a voice came over it, "Henry, Henry, come in."
Aleriyea picked up the device put on her best male voice, "There are 22 kids here, Sir, plus a teacher, should I stay here and watch over the little brats?"
"Yes, make sure they don't do anything stupid!"
"Aye sir" she turned off the device and set it down on the desk.
"Idiot," she mumbled quietly to herself scowling at the unconscious man in front of her.
"Help me get him tied up," commanded Dr. O as a few of the class scuttled to the front to help tie up the intruder.
"Now what do we do?" asked Kira.
"We wait until someone thinks of an idea to get us out of his mess," said Aleriyea sending a look in Tommy's direction.
A couple minutes later Aleriyea jumped up in a hyper manner, "I got it, if it's ok with you?" she asked Tommy.
"Okay," he said slowly, "Run it past me then I'll tell you if we can pull it off."
"Well… what we do is we make a lot, and I mean a lot, of noise then when a person comes in we knock them out, then wait a while and wait for another one to come in and we knock them out, then we all get their guns, and change into their cloths then we can roam around freely and we can get everybody out and we can call the cops" she blurted out, somehow in one breath.
Tommy looked at her like she had grown a second head, he shook his own doubtfully. It was a plan worthy of the Rangers and had someone such as Jason or Adam, hell Kim even suggested it, he may have been more willing to give it a shot, but with his entire class? No chance!
"What? It works in the movies!" She shrugged her shoulders.
"Yea, that's the movies," Ethan reminded her, "You know, the movies, stunt doubles, fake bullets, cheesy pre-written plots funded by people with more money than sense…"
"Well, I'd like to see you think of something, smart guy!" she stated standing up getting ready to fight him – her naturally short temper allowing anger to flare up quickly inside of her - luckily Tommy, sensing the tension, came into the middle of it and put a quick stop to any possible confrontation.
"Ok, ok, if we are going to get out of this alive we can't all kill each other first. Let's just give her idea a go and if it doesn't work..."
"You can beat me up…" suggested Aleriyea finishing his sentence.
"Fair enough," replied Ethan with a shrug of the shoulders.
Tommy had one last input into their slowly ceasing bickering, his tone flat and serious trying to convey how risky this situation was, "Well if it doesn't work I don't think she'll have to worry about the class beating her up. It's those guys out there who will be doing the beating up."
A couple minutes later everybody was making lots of noise desperately trying to attract some attention from another guard. Shortly after they began somebody came in and shoot his gun upward, startling the class. Everyone jumped
"Everybody shut up!"
Tommy landed a karate chop to the gunman's neck knocking him out instantly.
Two people later everyone got quiet, Tommy, Kira, and Ethan were dressed in the clothes of the people they had knocked out.
"Why is she coming?" Kira asked Tommy.
"Because she can fight, and we need somebody to be a "prisoner" so we have a reason to go to the office," Tommy answered.
"How do you know I can fight?" questioned Aleriyea, a slightly shocked look registering upon her face.
"I saw you last night, in the park; guy in the suit, remember?"
"Oh, that was you? Sorry I ran into you, I was kind of trying to get away from somebody rather unwelcome." she said laughing a little.
They continued down the hallway passing people unquestioned, until they got into the main office where the ring leader was sat. Slowly the man turned around in the chair, his every movement oozed menace.
"Can I help you?" he barked
"Yes, this one was trying to escape; luckily we caught her before she got word out," Tommy lied with ease, after being a Power ranger lying had become second nature to him in situations like this.
"Let me go you bastards!" she yelled struggling to get free of the ropes, which were supposed to have bound her arms, and out of Ethan's grasp, but she 'failed' dismally.
"Quiet down Missy, we don't want you disturbing everybody now do we?" the man seethed in an evil tone which would have sent a less determined group of people into a fit of sobs.
"I'll never listen to you or any of you, you're gonna regret the day you came to take over this school" Aleriyea spat at him.
"That Missy was not a wise choice!" he told her taking out a pointer which he whipped her across the face with.
"Hahahaha" she laughed evilly "That all you got? My great grandma can hit harder than you," she continued to laugh evilly, which sent a shiver down everyones spine, and memories to come flooding back to Tommy from when he was evil, but was kneed in the stomach by Ethan.
"Shut up, or we'll have to make an example of you in front of the school!" he told her his voice filled with hate but his eyes filled with an apology.
"My god You guys are wimps! Too afraid to face me fairly, proves to me that you're not as strong as you look, when you need people to hold down your prisoners, complete blarney" said Aleriyea stomping on Ethan's foot and flipping over him to get out, they all threw off their disguises to reveal their original clothing before getting into a fighting stance.
"Time to make the odds tip in our favor," smirked Kira; flipping her hair back over her shoulder in a "don't-mess-with-me" manner Tommy had witnessed Kim and Trinni use many times during his time as an original.
"You really think three students and a science teacher can beat me, ha, try again, four times heavy weight champion!" the guy called ripping his shirt off to reveal bulging muscles.
"Ew put it back on!" Aleriyea teased, covering her eyes.
Their opponent took that to his advantage and went for Aleriyea, but she was quicker than he could've anticipated and dodged out of the way before tripping him without looking, "Black belt in Tae Kwon Do, Jujitsu, Judo, Karate, free style, and full contact Karate - try me."
Just to add to the effect further she took a Neo stance from The Matrix.
"Oh please, you're bluffing," the guy ridiculed.
"Try me, I dare ya!"
The evil guy charged at her but she stepped to the side and karate chopped him on the neck, just as Tommy had done previously, the guy fell to the ground allowing her to knee him in the stomach and bring her leg around and does an axe kick to his back completing her attack. He hit the ground, the others awed by the fact she did all of that with her eyes closed.
"Wow!" Ethan and Kira said amazed as Tommy just looked at her, only one thought coming to mind.
"Where'd you learn how to do all of that, and so cleanly?" asked Ethan now interested in her.
"I say we forget about her for a while and get all the students out of here," Tommy suggested turning his head to look at the others, his gaze lingering a split second longer on Aleriyea.
They evacuated the school with ease, after all once you get rid of the keystone the rest crumbles in an instant. Soon the police arrived and the intruders were taken away.
The cops asked everyone questions and all that fun stuff before letting them all go. After Aleriyea was finished she started to walk home. Kira and Ethan caught up with her fast though.
"So, you still didn't answer my question, where did you learn all of that?" asked Ethan.
"All over the place," she replied with a shrug, "Up in Scotland they have excellent Karate programs."
"Well, I totally think differently of you now" said Kira putting her arm around Aleriyea's shoulder, but upon seeing her new friend flinch, Kira pulled away quickly.
"Sorry, I really don't like being touched."
"Oh. Sorry" said Kira putting her arms behind her back.
"So, we are going to one of our friends' cafe, her names Hayley, you want to come?" asked Ethan
"Uh, sure, if it wont be a problem."
"No way, just follow us," Ethan smiled, he had a feeling things were going to take a new turn with their new friend in their lives.
A.N: Okay, so...That was the first chapter redone. Hopefully you guys like this one better, I'd like any constructive criticism about it. bndgk666 .