Power Rangers Dino Thunder AU: White Lightning
Episode Number: PRDT-AU-011
Episode Title: White Thunder, Part 1
Rating: PG-13 (U.S.)/15 (U.K.)
By Matthew Keirl (RedGenesisRanger)
Based off of 'Power Rangers: Dino Thunder' by BVS Entertainment, Inc. and loosely based off of 'BakuRyuu Sentai Abarenjaa' or translated into 'Blast Dragon Squadron Outburst Ranger' by Toei Entertainment International.
This Fan Fiction is not intended to infringe on the Copyrights held by BVS Entertainment, or any of its affiliates and is intended solely for my enjoyment and the enjoyment of others. However, any material in this Fan Fiction that I have invented is mine and is protected by internet and plagiarism laws and any infringement will be dealt with appropriately.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo, Power Rangers Turbo, Power Rangers in Space, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, Power Rangers Time Force, Power Rangers Wild Force, Power Rangers Ninja Storm, Power Rangers Dino Thunder, Power Rangers Space Patrol Delta and all related logos, characters, names, and distinctive likenesses are TM and © 2002-2005 by BVS Entertainment.
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'White Thunder, Part 1'
"Man, I can't believe Dr. O only gave us a week to hand this chemistry assignment in!" Conner McKnight, the Red Dino Thunder Power Ranger asked his friend Ethan James, the Blue Dino Thunder Power Ranger. The two male Rangers walked down the corridor with their fellow Ranger, Kira Ford, the Yellow Dino Thunder Power Ranger, towards their first class of the morning, first period science with Dr. Tommy Oliver, former Green, White and Red Power Ranger and also the current Black Dino Thunder Power Ranger.
"Yeah, that's brutal!" Ethan agreed.
"I know, maybe I can ask Dr. O for an extension, being in Red can be a major hindrance sometimes"
"I wouldn't, Conner, remember the last time you asked Dr. O for an extension?" Kira asked the Red Ranger.
"He gave me a lecture on how I had to balance my private life, my school life and my 'professional' life," Conner said, indicating with his hands when he said 'professional', "and then he got me to clean Dino Ops up!"
"Yeah! And then, if I remember correctly, Dr. O said the next time you asked for an extension, he's get you to clean the Zords!" Ethan said, with a laugh.
"Well, guys, between soccer practise, school and," Conner lowers his voice, ", and um, and between Rangering, I don't have a lot of time to do assignments"
"Neither do we, Conner, but we get ours done" Kira said, "And how do you think Dr. O and the original teams managed to save the world, defeat Rita, Zedd and Mondo and their evil plans and still get their biology assignments in. If they did it, you can too"
"Yeah, yeah, come on, Dr. O's proberly waiting" Conner said, as they approached the door to the science labs.
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Doctor Tommy Oliver, the Black Ranger, and mild mannered science teacher at Reefside High was waiting for his students to arrive to his class, first period science. Tommy was also preparing his lesson plan for today, which was chemistry. He watched as his students walked into the lab and sat down in the groups they'd become accustomed to since before Tommy started at the cities High School. One particular group caught his eye and they were wearing primary colors, one in red, and another in yellow and finally the other one in blue. These three were his team-mates, despite the ten year old age gap, and together they were the Power Rangers. Tommy smiled to himself as they chatted to each other.
'These guys are really bonding, not only as team-mates, but as friends, with that behind them, nothing can stop them, not even Mesogog" Tommy thought to himself. Tommy then looked at the clock; it read 8:59, almost ready to start class.
"Okay, guys, please get out your chem. text book and turn to page one-hundred and four, and we'll begin our lesson" Tommy said, and everyone reached into their bags and took out green books. Tommy waited for the class to turn to the page and once everyone did, Tommy begun the class.
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"Do you understand what is expected of you Mr. Scott?" Principle Randall said to the young man sitting in her office, the young man nodded his head, "Reefside High is a school that will not tolerate slackers, and you will be expected to maintain the highest standard of work and an even higher standard of discipline, I am clear on this?" He nodded again.
"Yea, ma'am" the young man said.
"Good, then I'll show you to your next class. And..." Principle said, almost as an afterthought, but making a scowl before turning to face him, "...welcome to Reefside High, Mr. Scott"
"Thank You" he said, smiling.
"If you'll follow me" Randall said, and she picked up his file and then opened the door to her office, gesturing him into the corridor, and they walked down the corridor and up some stairs to the first floor, where she led down another corridor until they came up to a door labelled with '1.32 – Science Labs' and 'Dr. Thomas J. Oliver' indicating who was assigned this classroom for teaching.
"Here we are" Randall said, knocking on the door. Michael thought that Randall must have run this place like a military school, after suffering a twenty minute lecture on what was expected of him at this school and the rules that were in place. He was just glad to be away from her after this and among 'almost' normal people and see if he could make some friends. When a 'Come In' was heard from the inside, Randall opened the door and walked in. Michael waited in near the door frame, white and black bag hung over his shoulder.
"Ah, Principle Randall, what can I do for you?" Dr. Oliver asked nicely when Randall walked into the room, although it was obvious that Tommy was not pleased that she interrupted his class.
"I have a new student here for you, Doctor Oliver" Randall said, and then turning towards the door, "Come on in, then" Randall turned back to Tommy, "This is his first class of the day, here's his file and I'll leave him in you expert care, I have some other 'important' business to attend to" Randall finished, handed Tommy the file and left the class room.
"Okay, what's your name?" Tommy asked.
"Michael, sir" the young man said, looking around the class, everyone was looking at him, taking note of the newbie to the classroom.
"No need to call me 'sir', Michael, it makes me feel old" Tommy said with a small grin, Michael smiled lightly back, some of the tension easing already, 'This guy is not so bad, better than old Sneezy!' Michael thought, but had his train of thought broken when Tommy addressed him again, "Why don't you find a stool and sit down and see if you can pick up where we are at, if not, don't be afraid to ask a question or two"
"Yes, sir" Michael said, and when he said 'sir', a few people laughed quietly at him, and Michael looked down and smiled, just friendly bantering, he then spoke, directing it towards Dr. Oliver, "Sorry, force of habit, my parents taught me to respect my elders" Tommy smiled back and gestured for him to sit down.
"Not a problem, Michael, maybe some of the people here in this classroom could learn a lesson or two" Tommy said, looking around the lab, smiling, teasing the other students. "Oh Michael, how do you like to be addressed? Mike? Or do you prefer Michael?"
"Doesn't bother me, I don't mind" Michael said sitting in an empty lab stool and opening his bag and taking out his pencil case and notebook, getting ready to take notes. A kid sitting next to him introduced himself.
"Hi, I'm Devin, this is my friend, Cassidy" A long haired person in a green and white stripped T-shirt said, holding out his hand, which Michael shaked. Then a young woman dressed in a white and light pink top and a pink headband in her hair held out her hand.
"Hi, Cassidy Cornell, roving reporter for Reefside High Television..." Cassidy said, holding out her hand, but she got cut of by the groaning from her fellow classmates and Dr. Oliver speaking.
"Cassidy, not now okay, I've got a class to teach, if you'll be so kind, Now back to our lesson"
Little did Michael know, he was being watched by another young women dressed in yellow and black, she was Kira Ford.
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'Man, he soooo cute!' Kira thought to herself, and she could see other girls in the class looking at him too, 'He doesn't look like a complete jock, he might actually be intelligent, he certainty looks it and more besides!'
Kira spent most of the first half of the class looking between Dr. Oliver, who was writing stuff on the whiteboard, her notebook and the new member of the class. Her attention did not go completely unnoticed by her male Ranger team-mates either, when Ethan leaned closer and whispered in her ear.
"You know if you take a photo, it will last longer! Or that's how the theory goes anyway" the Blue Ranger said with a grin.
"Eh, what?!" Kira said, like she was coming out of a daydream and into the world of reality after taking a hiatus there for six months. Conner laughs quietly to himself and moves in.
"You've been, like, staring at the guy on and off for like the past twenty-five minutes," Conner asked.
"Yeah, I mean, you haven't blinked for the past five minutes, Kira, that's not normal!" Ethan added.
"I have no idea what the both of you are talking about" Kira countered, although her cheeks were turning a shade of red that did not go with her clothing, her friends laughed at this, but decided to stop when Kira stared at them the only way a girl knows how to, but the smile she had on her face softened the 'threatening' look. They were only teasing, and they'd become closer since becoming Rangers, so she let it slide, 'Just this once!' Kira added with an afterthought.
"Okay, class, experiment time" Dr. Oliver said, picking up a small pile of papers from the front desk and handing it to Michael, "Michael, could you please split these with Devin and the two of you hand these out to the rest of the class" Michael took the papers and split them with the long-haired cameraman, and they started to pass them out to the other student in the lab.
"These, ladies and gentleman, are the instructions for today's experiment, as we'll be using acid, there are certain safety guidelines we must follow, so no-one gets injured, and so no other unforeseen accidents happen, so please read them carefully and follow the instructions to the letter" Tommy finished.
When Michael reached the back bench in the lab, he came face to face with Kira and he handed a paper to Conner and then to Ethan, who said "Thanks" and "Cool" were said respectively and then he handed a paper to Kira and she smiled at him.
"Thanks"
"No problem" Michael said, returning the smile and sitting back down to his seat. Kira watched him the whole way back, and her team-mates were looking at her. When she caught a look at their faces, she hung her head and blushed even deeper then she has before.
"Yeah, I don't know what we were thinking; she cannot be interested in 'him!' Wow stupid must we be, eh Conner?!" Ethan said, grinning like a Cheshire Cat.
"I know, we were really stupid, weren't we, Kira?!" Conner added, his grin mirroring Ethan's. Although deemed scientifically and medically impossible by modern science, Kira's already strawberry-red cheeks just got even redder as her embarrassment grew at her friends teasing, Kira just sank into her chair to try and hide her embarrassment, during her 'retreating' she had completely missed the next set of instructions her teacher/mentor/team-mate had for the class. Then Dr. Oliver and Michael Scott were standing near their table. It seams fate was being especially cruel to her today.
"Kira, would you mind teaming up with Michael on this experiment, as it seems Conner and Ethan have teamed up and Michael will forced to work alone otherwise" Dr. Oliver asked the Yellow Ranger.
"Um...Yeah, no problem, Dr. O" Kira said, trying he best to hide her embarrassment.
"Thank You, Kira" Dr. Oliver said, before walking back to his desk, Kira turned back to her new lab partner, 'He is oh soooo cute, his broad shoulders, I can see his abs under his t-shirt, and oh his butt' Kira thought, 'He must really work out, what I wouldn't give to work out with him....AH, STOP IT, KIRA! You barley know him!' Kira shouted at herself, and then she thought it best to address her partner.
"Um...Hi, I'm Kira, Kira Ford" She said, holding out her hand, she could feel herself drowning in her embarrassment. To her this was ridiculous; she was used to performing in front an audience packed into Hayley's Cyberspace, the local Internet Café in the City, yet this one person was making her heart miss several beats and she didn't know him at all. At the invitation of a hand shake, Michael responded and shook her hand, and Kira could feel a lot of strength in his hands, but he was being very gentle and courteous with her, a very gentlemanly trait, something lost by the majority of guys today.
"Michael, Michael Scott, pleased to meet you, Kira" and at the mention of her name, Kira could feel herself beginning to blush again, and she felt a slight pain in her lips also, she was lightly biting her bottom lip. Although, Michael didn't pick up too much on the signs she was so obviously emitting, this was proberly due to him either being very shy or just inexperienced in this area, Kira wasn't too sure. "Shall I get the beakers and acid, while you get the protective gear?" Michael asked, catching her off guard.
"Um...Pardon?" Kira asked, then what he asked came to her, "Oh, okay, beakers are in the..." she said before being cut off politely by Michael.
"No need to tell me where they are, I'll find them, I have to learn where they are at some point, right?" he said, smiling and she found herself smiling back at him as he went off in search for the Pyrex glass beakers. Kira then went to find a couple of pairs of safety goggles, when she bumped into Conner McKnight.
"Thank you very much, McKnight!" Kira said, whispering to the Red Ranger, "Forcing me to work with him"
"What?! Me and Ethan thought we were doing you a favour" Conner said in his defense, putting his hand up in the classic surrender pose, "Besides, I thought you liked the guy"
"I 'do' not like the guy, I barely know him, Conner" Kira said, keeping her voice down, so only Conner heard her.
"You could have fooled us, Kira, oh, lover boy's waiting, don't want to keep him" Conner teased.
"Conner! I'll get you for this, just mark my words!" Kira whisper-shouted at Conner, he just grinned and went back to join his partner. Kira rolled her eyes and shook her head and went back to her partner. He had slight look of concern on his face.
"Kira, are you okay? He wasn't bothering you was he?" Michael asked.
"What? Him, pla-eese, I can handle Conner 'I'm the King of all jock's' McKnight on my own, but thanks for the offer" Kira said, smiling, Michael laughed and Kira's smile grew a little more.
"But you looked like you were gonna rip his arm off and beat him too death with the soggy, bloody end of it, or am I misinterpreting it wrong?" Michael said.
'Well, he's a major improvement over guys like Conner 'Jock-stain' McKnight, he can actually pronounce words larger then three or four letters in size!' Kira thought, "No, he's just being a jerk, but I'll get him later, surprisingly he's one of my best friends, but he drives me insane sometimes"
"You can't choose you friends, anymore then you can choose your family, but you can't kill them either!" Michael said, and Kira smiled and laughed, "Shall we?" Michael gestured to the experiment they were doing.
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"Zeltrax, there is another Dino Gem out there" Mesogog said, from the main lab in his island fortress. Mesogog is the latest in a long line of bad guys who are trying to conquer the world for one reason or another, Mesogog has dinosaur like figures, and is trying to return the Earth back to age of the dinosaurs.
"Are you sure, My Lord?" Zeltrax, the huge axe and shield wielding cyborg warrior said.
"Of course I'm sure, you fool! But I can't pinpoint its exact location. Which, unfortunately, is where you come in? Begin a search and find this Gem, and when Elsa is available from her responsibilities in her 'day job', tell her to assist" Mesogog ordered.
"Yes, My Lord. Immediately" Zeltrax responded.
"And, Zeltrax, do not attract the attention of the Rangers"
"Yes, My Lord"
"And finally Zeltrax..." Mesogog started, getting his generals attention.
"My Lord?"
"...Do. Not. Fail. Me. Again!" Mesogog said, almost as an afterthought.
"Yes...My Lord"
"You remember the last time you failed me. Do not let this be a repeat performance. My...Imagination holds no bounds, Zeltrax"
"Yes, Master"
"Now go" Mesogog ordered, waving his clawed hand and Zeltrax quickly left the room, "Once I have this gem in my possession, my plans will come into fruition and not even Dr. Oliver and his pathetic Ranger children will be able to stop me, hiss, hiss, hiss" and Mesogog begun to laugh, if you could call it laughing.
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"Well, that went...well!" Michael said as the acid had an, unfortunate and strong reaction to the magnesium strip. The foam from the reaction spilled onto the counter. Kira was laughing so hard she was doubling over in pain.
"Hey, it's not funny, Kira" Michael said, looking to his lab partner, by now everyone was looking them and the rest of the class was laughing also. The look on Michael's face only made Kira laugh harder.
"Okay Class, calm down. Kira, Michael clean up this mess and the rest of you clean up your experiments too and then you can go" Dr. Oliver said, trying very hard to hide a smile.
"Come on, Mike, let's clean this up" Kira said between giggles.
"Oh, come on, it not that funny, I just completely suck at chemistry" Michael said going to get some paper towels from near the main sink.
"You could have fooled me" Kira said, trying her hardest to stop laughing.
"I do, chem is just not my strong point, I'm better at physics and biology"
In another part of the Lab, Conner and Ethan laughed to themselves over the accident.
"Eth, do you see that?" Conner asked.
"What, Conner?"
"Kira"
"What about her?"
"She's already laughing and joking with him, it took longer for her to click like that with us" Conner explained.
"Maybe it because he not a complete jock, like you. Sometimes people click, and sometimes they have to work at it" Ethan said.
"Maybe. But personally I don't see what she might be seeing in him"
"Jealous, Conner"
"No! We'll kill each other before the week is out"
"Yeah, dude, I suppose, but man, what a week it would be!"
"Dude, you've got to be kidding me!"
"Maybe!"
"DUDE!"
"Never mind, dirt-for-brains!"
"Geekiod!"
"Molecule Mind!"
"Binary Brain!"
"What?! Do you even know what binary is?"
"I read it somewhere"
"Yeah, in the junior encyclopaedia of Computer Science, no doubt!"
"No in a more advanced book" Conner countered.
"Conner, the most 'advanced' book you've ever read was 'Spot goes to Town'!" Ethan joked.
"Bite me!"
"No Thanks! I don't know where you've been!" Ethan said, just as Dr. Oliver came over and told them to behave and help tidy up. When they finished, Conner and Ethan grabbed their bags and headed out the door.
"Let's wait for Kira" Conner said.
Inside, Kira and Michael were finishing cleaning the disaster that was their experiment.
"...And the cloud was green and it stunk. I haven't got a clue what happened, but I was told later that I mixed the ammonia concentrate all wrong. The lab room had to be fumigated!" Michael said telling of a chemistry experiment gone wrong at his last school. Michael was surprised how well he seamed to be making conversation with Kira Ford, he was there at his new school for an hour and a half and he'd clicked with a really gorgeous girl he'd just meet and barely knew.
"No way!" Kira said, laughing as she wiped the table down.
"Yeah, I got a weeks detention for that little stunt. 'Sneezy' didn't like me very much"
"'Sneezy?'" Kira asked.
"Professor Archibald Zarkairian. My science tutor at my last school. A real pain in the ass. He took exception to the fact that I did martial arts. He though martial arts was the reason society was the way it is today"
"You do martial arts?"
"Yeah, a third dan black belt in Shotokan Karate; a second dan black belt in Wado Ryu Karate; a first dan black belt in Jeet Kune Do and first dans in both Aikido and Ju Jitsu. I've also studied parts of other martial arts, like Muay Thai, Tae Kwan Do and Kung Fu" Michael explained, "Do you?"
"A little, I've studied Karate and a little Judo, but nothing to the level you have"
"Well, I've been doing martial arts since before I could walk, my...my dad taught me Shotokan and Wado Ryu, and when I was old enough, I started to study the others and I still do"
"Cool" Kira said, finishing her cleaning task and chucking the paper towel in the waste bin, she then picked up her bag and slung it over her shoulder. Michael grabbed his and slung his over also, "Ready?"
"Yeah" And they walked towards the door.
"See you later, Dr. O" Kira said in passing.
"Bye, Kira, Michael" Tommy said, getting everything ready for his next class.
When Michael and Kira exited the lab room and Kira saw her friends.
"Well, I'll see you around, Michael" she said smiling.
"Yeah, See ya around" Michael said and then he turned around and walked down the corridor. Kira joined her team-mates.
"So, when are you two getting married?!" Conner asked, grinning.
"Shut Up, Conner" Kira said.
"Awwe, you two look soooo cute together!" Ethan said, grinning as well.
"Shut Up!" Kira said, pretending to get angry, but she was just embarrassed by her friends and she walked quicker down the corridor.
"Kira! We were only joking! Ah, come on!" Conner said, as he and Ethan chased her.
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"You really think this is going to work, Cass?" Devin asked, "I mean, I think you need some experience to be a real reporter"
Cassidy rolled her eyes at Devin question, "This is Television, Devin. It's all about the hair, the clothes and the makeup. And let's face it – mine are totally the best!"
Devin had a dumbfounded, unsure look on his face, as he followed Cassidy into the building they were standing near; it was the Channel Seven broadcast building, the city's main news station.
Inside Cassidy and Devin were ushered into the office of a bald man, sitting at his desk eating a jam donut.
"Okay, Okay. Let me get this straight. You guys are sick of your high school TV station. You want to work here?" the man said.
"Yes, please, and we'd like to start straight away"
"Alright. Miss Cornell, do you have any experience that might persuade me to hire you?"
"See, Cass, I told you they'd ask you that" Devin says.
"You might want to listen to your friend here. He doesn't say very much, but he seems smarter then he looks" the man said.
"Thanks, I think!" Devin says, earning a light nudge from Cassidy.
"It's obvious you're not a pushover, Mr. Cormier, and I respect that" Cassidy said, sucking up.
"I'm so relieved!" Mr. Cormier said.
"What if...What if we brought you a story? A huge, groundbreaking story. An exclusive!" Cassidy said excitedly.
"An exclusive? An exclusive about what, Miss Cornell?" Mr. Cormier asked.
Cassidy then notices video footage playing on a small widescreen LCD television in the corner of Mr. Cormier's office, the footage was of the Power Rangers, more accurately, the Red, Blue and Yellow Power Rangers destroying another monster with the Z-Rex Blaster, shot from a distance. This gave Cassidy an idea.
"What if I brought you an exclusive on the Power Rangers?!" Cassidy said, "What if we brought you something about them?"
"Like?"
"Like who they are?" Cassidy said.
"Cass!" Devin said, surprised at his partners suggestion.
"Shut Up, Devin! I'm working here!" Cassidy whispered to Devin.
"Miss Cornell, I've had my five of my very best field reporters reporting and gaining information on the Power Rangers for months. And these are my best field reporters and researchers. Two of them are what you would call Power Ranger experts, they've studied on the Power Rangers since the first sightings in Angel Grove ten years ago and have studied every available resource and they are way above your league..." Mr. Cormier said, and Cassidy face feel at the suggestion that she wasn't as good as the people who worked here.
"...But, I like your attitude and you do know how to drive a deal. So I'll give this to you, I'll take you two on as freelance reporters" Mr. Cormier said, "And, if, and I mean 'If' you can bring me the identity of one of the Power Rangers, regardless of color, I'll personally sign you an both to an exclusive contract and Miss Cornell, I'll give the lead story on the six o'clock news." Cassidy's face rose an she smiled at this.
"Yes! You won't be disappointed, sir!" Cassidy said shaking Mr. Cormier's hand, "Come on, Devin, we've got work to do" and Cassidy walked out of the office.
"Thank you, sir" Devin said, following.
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Tommy was scanning for an energy spike on his laptop in his classroom, between classes, looking for an energy signature that appeared to him briefly this morning during the routine sensor sweeps the system conducts every hour. This signature was almost identical to a Dino Gem power signature but it was intermittent and so he couldn't pinpoint it's location. Before leaving for work, Tommy told Hayley to keep an eye out for it and call him if it appeared again. Fortunately it did, and Hayley called him on his morpher fifteen minutes previous about it.
However, Tommy didn't account for Zeltrax, Elsa and several dozen Tyrannodrones seamed to be searching for it also and the system was tracking them too.
"What do you guys think you're looking for?" Tommy said and lifted his Dino Brace to his mouth and pressed a button just below his Black Dino Gem, "Conner, Ethan, Kira, come in"
"Go for Conner!" Conner said over the line
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"Are you all together?" Tommy asked over the comm. Line.
"Yeah, Dr. O" Kira said.
"Good, We have Tyrannodrones, party of twelve with Zeltrax and Elsa near an isolated part of the woods, where the tunnel and sinkhole network criss-crosses the city, they appear to be searching for something" Tommy explained.
"For what, Dr. O" Ethan asked.
"Maybe another Dino Gem, I can't be sure. I've been tracking it for the past couple of days on the system, but it appears intermittently and then disappears back into the natural electromagnetic background noise the earth produces"
"Do you want us to intercept them, before they find it?" Conner asked.
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"Do you want us to intercept them, before they find it?" Conner voice said through the speaker in Tommy's morpher.
"Yes, I'll meet you there; they cannot be allowed to find another Dino Gem. We got lucky last time with the Black Gem; Mesogog cannot be allowed to gain access to this one" Tommy said.
"We'll meet you there, Dr. O!" Conner said before cutting the connection. Tommy then put his laptop into standby, grabbed his keys and locked the lab up and exited the building. He proceeded to go around the back of the building, to where no-one will see him. He looked around and took a black and gold key out of his pocket.
'Shift into Turbo, Tommy!' Tommy thought amusingly to himself as he shifted his morpher into the place where his Dino Brace used to be, the morpher took on a black tinge of energy as it connected to the Dino Gem. Hayley must have had a field day creating his Brachio Morpher, making it somewhat resemble his old Turbo Morpher, being activated by a key. Tommy crossed his arms into a '' shape, with his morpher attached to his left wrist and his Dino Key in his right hand.
"DINO THUNDER, POWER UP!" Tommy shouted and he lifted both arms straight out and at a slight elevation and jammed the key into the key slot of the morpher and turned it. The mouth of the Brachiosaurus on the end opened up and Tommy could feel the black energy coursing threw him and with less then two seconds, Tommy stood, morphed as the Black Dino Thunder Power Ranger, "BLACK RANGER, DINO THUNDER, eh-yah!"
"DINO ATV, ONLINE!" Tommy shouted, and with a second later, his gem tapping into power, summoned a four-wheeled vehicle, with a Brachio head and was armoured with the same gold and black color scheme as his own uniform. Tommy hopped into the new vehicle Hayley built for him after becoming the Black Ranger.
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When Tommy arrived he found his team-mates already up to their knees in Tyrannodrones, so Tommy fired the trigger to his blasters mounted on his ATV which struck several Drones. Still riding towards the fight, Tommy unhooked his Brachio Staff from his belt and slashed several more Drones leaping at him. Seeing Zeltrax making a beeline for him, he pointed the Brachio head to the cyborg.
"Brachio Staff! Wind Strike!" Tommy shouted and mere seconds later the micro twister hit Zeltrax head on, sending him flying. Tommy stopped his ATV, hoped off and begun to get stuck in.
"Nice of you to join us, Dr. O" Conner shouted, having to deal with Elsa, which like the Tommy-Zeltrax rivalry was becoming a regular feature.
"Nice! Shall we?" Tommy said.
"Right!" The three Rangers shouted.
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Michael was walking home through a shortcut he discovered during his first days since moving into Reefside. Him and his mother stayed getting the house up to scratch for a week before he started at his new school, so he got a chance to look around and he found this shortcut threw the woods.
He was thinking about the girl he'd meet during first period science and again during calculus later in the day, it seamed they shared about half their timetable at school in the same classes. He had no problem with that, he liked Kira and looked forward to getting to know her. Michael did find out something about her, and that she liked music and that she played at Hayley's Cyberspace, a local internet café and music spot in Reefside. He'll have find out when she was playing next to go and have a listen.
Michael wasn't really paying attention to where he was going except in the general direction of his new home, when he spotted four color-coded fighters taking on a large metal dude, a over excessive biker chick and several 'things'. Michael determined that the color-coded people were the Power Rangers; one in red, another in blue and a female-figure in yellow and an obviously more skilled fighter in the black. Then the biker chick noticed the civilian and grinned, she had found a way to gain an edge over the Power Rangers.
"Tyrannodrones, get him!" Elsa shouted, directing some of the T-Drones to attack Michael. Kira looked over and saw eight Tyrannodrones advance on they new guy.
"No!" Kira shouted using her Ptera Scream to knock a couple Tyrannodrones to their feet, and prepared to intercept the drones, but more kept coming and prevented her from helping.
"Yo, K, a little warning, please!" Ethan shouted shaking his head as his armored skin kicked in, blocking a hit from a couple of Drones.
"No, your fight is with us, Elsa, leave him outta this!" Conner shouted, as his Thundermax Saber with collided with Elsa's sword.
"That's where you're wrong, Red Ranger; all humans are the enemy of Mesogog and are viable targets to be destroyed" Elsa said in retaliation.
Tommy looked briefly to see the Drones advance quickly on the civilian, while fighting off Zeltrax. 'I hope he wasn't exaggerating when he told Kira about his martial arts training!' Tommy thought while deflecting another blow from Zeltrax's huge sword-axe.
Michael was surprised to find eight 'Tyrannodrones', that's what Biker Chick called them, belting towards him at top speed. Michael dropped his bag and assumed a fighting stance. Two of them took a flying leap at him, so Michael rolled out the way and leg swept one that was attacking him at ground level, taking it right off it's feet. Another Drone rolled and kicked Michael in the chest, an attack which sent him flying into the light brush of the woods.
"Ah, man!" Michael said as he landed, his chest hurting like hell, these guys kick hard. He placed his hands flat above his head and flipped himself to his feet and then kicked two drones to the ground with a split kick and in the same motion, spun round when he hit the ground and swept another of it feet. Another two decided to attack the same time, and Michel grabbed the feet of one and planted his boot into the gut of the other, sending it flying into a tree. From kicking one he brung his knee into the stomach of the one he was holding, sending it over, and to finish it off, he drove his knee into it's chest and elbowed it in the back, near the neck and a snap was heard and it fell to the ground in a broken heap. Michael had just broken it's neck with a single strike, he wasn't playing around anymore.
"Anymore takers, you freaks!" Michael shouted, looking pissed now as he assumed his fighting stance as the remaining seven Drones either picked themselves of the floor or regrouped with the others that were standing. They all decided that with their limited intelligence, that numbers were better against this new, dangerous enemy and circled him. Michael saw a pole on the ground, it seamed to be from a building site near by. Michael, using his right foot flicked it up into his right hand in a single motion and twirled it around and the Drones attacked, and Michael struck anything that came near him. The pole hit them in the head, the neck, the sides and the ones he hit in the legs were sent flying over themselves. The last Tyrannodrone came running at full pelt and Michael twirled the pole and hit it head on in the head so hard that the force of the blow sent it flying, tumbling as it hit the ground. Michael finished by spinning the pole and having it finishing in his right hand, going diagonally across his back.
"Welcome to my nightmare!" he said, breathing hard. By the time this fight had finished, the Rangers had defeated the other Drones and Zeltrax and Elsa were just leaving.
"This isn't finished, Black Ranger! I promise you that!" Zeltrax shouted, as he opened an invisi-portal and disappeared. The Rangers converged towards the civilian who got dragged into the fight.
"Are you alright?" Kira asked, obviously concerned.
"Yeah, I'm fine" He said, smiling to the Yellow Ranger, and Kira blushed under her helmet, glad she was wearing it.
"You sure? You took a nasty hit" Tommy asked.
"I'll be fine, I've suffered worse, believe me. Who were those guys? Friends of yours?" Michael asked, addressing the Black Ranger.
"Hardly!" Conner, in his Red Ranger garb, answered, "Those things you so expertly took down, were Tyrannodrones, and the big mountain of metal was Zeltrax and Elsa is the cyber chick"
"Still, you shouldn't have gotten involved, they could have hurt you or worse" Tommy spoke, interrupting the Red Ranger.
"I didn't have a lot of choice, Black, they came right at me. My only choice was too fight" Michael said, quick to counter.
"Well, you've proved that you are a threat, you should be on guard, Elsa doesn't like to be embarrassed, and we can't be everywhere at once. If its a choice between stopping a monster from destroying the city and stopping Elsa from dissecting you, we can't help you" Tommy stated.
"Yeah, yeah, the needs of the many dogma. I can handle my self, okay" Michael said, "See ya around, Power Rangers! It was nice fighting alongside, we should do it again sometime!" and he picked up his bag and started the walk home.
"Man, he is a jerk" Conner said, only to receive an elbow from Kira, "What the hell was that for?!"
"For being a jerk. You know the saying, 'It takes one to know one!'" Kira said, although this little quirk in his personality has not changed her perception of him one bit, it's proberly because Tommy questioned his skills as a martial artist. And from Kira's perspective, he could give Dr. O a run for his money in a sparring match.
"Ha, ha, did you see him though, he like destroyed those Drones! He would make a great Ranger, right Dr. O" Ethan said.
"Maybe, Ethan, Maybe. Let's get back to the lab and try to find this gem" Tommy ordered, the Rangers hoped on their vehicles and headed back to the lab threw an invisi-portal.
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Michael continued to walk home wondering what the hell happened to him today. He'd meet a girl he really liked, got into a fight with god knows what and had argument with a Power Ranger. 'What a day! If tomorrow is as half as exciting, then I'll really enjoy living in this city!' he thought as he walked over an unstable piece of ground and it collapsed beneath his feet, sending him several meters underground.
"Ah, great! Just friggin' great! Nobody bothered into inform me that we'd moved into sinkhole country!" Michael said sarcastically to himself as he picked himself of the dirt, "Now how in the blue hell am I supposed to get outta here!" Michael looked around his surroundings, trying to get his bearings and saw that he'd fallen into a tunnel.
"Maybe if I follow this tunnel, I might be able to get out of this rabbit den" Michael said as he picked up his bag and walked down the tunnel.
After several hours of walking, Michael decided to stop in an underground cave and sit on a boulder. "Man, it's gonna take me hours to find my way out of here. Maybe I should stay here and somebody will come for me sooner or later. Although I'll take..." Michael said in mid-sentence as a white glow caught his eye from the opposite wall, "...What in the world?" As he got up to investigate, the gem glowed more brightly, as if it was responding to his presence. Michael, almost mesmerized by the glow, begun to dig it out of the wall, responding to a silent call that only he could hear.
When he finished digging it out of the wall, and he held it in his grip the gem begun to glow even more vibrantly, as unknowingly it begun to bond with him, rewriting and altering his DNA to accept the gem and it's power. However, Michael knew something was wrong, as he felt pain as his DNA was rewritten and then the Gem was absorbed into his body and reappeared on his left wrist in the guise of a black brace of some kind with a perfectly cut white gem in the centre. And then everything changed, a massive white light filled the cave, a light so bright, it would have blinded anyone else in there with him. When the light subsided, all that remained was figure dressed in white and black with gold and black trim, armed with a white, black and white sword hanging on the hilt and a red visor trimmed with a black outline. To this mind, Michael Scott didn't exist, only White Ranger and he'd rule the world and destroy any one who'd got in his way. Bending down, the White Ranger flexed his legs and jumped towards the ceiling of the cave and broke through to the surface, to find himself near the out-skirts of the city.
"Time for some window shopping!" White Ranger said, menacingly.
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Screams. That was all could be heard as Elsa screamed for mercy as she was being punished and tortured by her master. Zeltrax listened as Elsa screamed again, knowing that his turn would be next, but he would take it like a warrior and hope that Mesogog doesn't take to decide to just destroy him. Then the alarms sounded. Zeltrax walked up to a large computer terminal and pressed a few controls. It might do well to keep yourself occupied, while waiting to walk the preverbal 'Green Mile', Zeltrax thought, and then the signature of the energy wave that hit Reefside was the same signature as the one Mesogog detected and sent him to look for. The energy exploded and was now moving, at high speed towards the center of the City.
"Zeltrax! What is going on?" Mesogog boomed through the main lab as he entered from the torture chamber where Elsa was being held.
"The Dino Gem signature is moving, My Lord, at high speed towards the center of the city" Zeltrax said.
"Well what are waiting for, you idiot! Go and intercept the holder and bring it to me"
"Yes, My lord" Zeltrax said, and went to jump into an opening invisi-portal, only to be stopped by Mesogog.
"You have the chance to redeem yourself, Zeltrax. I suggest you do not squander this opportunity" Mesogog suggested.
"Yes, My lord" And Zeltrax disappeared into the portal.
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This explosion of energy did not go unnoticed by the Rangers either as alarms of all types were set off in the laboratory underneath Dr. Oliver's house.
"What in the world?" Tommy shouted, "Ethan, jump onto the secondary terminal and turn these blasted alarms off!"
"Right" Ethan shouted in response.
"Hayley, talk to me!" Tommy asked their resident computer super expert.
"A massive blast of energy has just hit Reefside and most of the Californian seaboard; it's had the effect of a local area EMP pulse, without the side effect of having a nuclear detonation to cause it. Even the outskirts of Los Angles have been hit" Hayley said, "Reefside, Mariner Bay, Blue Bay Harbour, even Angel Grove and the district of Silver Hills have been affected. Power is out across most of California"
"What is EMP?" Conner asked.
"It stands for 'Electromagnetic Pulse', Conner. It's an after effect of the detonation of a thermonuclear weapon, shuts down everything electronic" Ethan said from the secondary computer terminal, "Various conspiracy theory websites have speculated that the U.S. Military is developing EMP-based weapons, but they are in the theoretical stages, and they wouldn't test them near a major residential area"
"Very interesting, Ethan, but what could have caused a EMP pulse? And caused one with such a impact over a large area?" Tommy said
"Unknown, but the city is shut down for the moment" Hayley said.
"How come we aren't affected by this?" Kira asked.
"I built the computers and the Ranger Tech with the ability to withstand a EMP in case Mesogog decided to try his hand at building one, this whole house, and the remote access terminal at Cyberspace are all protected. Even the Laptop with the protected Wi-Fi broadband access that I built for you Tommy, should also be protected against it."
"Good. Hayley, What about the other Rangers in California? Will they still be able to morph?" Tommy asked, if most of California has been hit by an EMP, if they're protected, but how would that effect the other active or stand-by Rangers in the state.
"The Time Force and Quantum Morphers in Silver Hill should be unaffected, their tech being from a thousand years is more advanced then anything we've got. Also the Wild Force Morphers, their 'Growl Phones' I believe they're called should be protected by the Animarium, as it's so high in the sky; the EMP couldn't have reached." Hayley explained, "However I am worried about the state of the Lightspeed Morphers, they are built with EMP shielding, but I don't know if it's strong enough, I'll contact Dr. Rawlings later on and confirm if they are still operational. Your Zeonizer and the others from the Zeo team should be protected by the Zeo Crystals. Justin's and T.J. Turbo Morphers should also work and the Astro Morphers are also protected. I don't know enough about the original morpher technology to..." Hayley said as she was cut off by Ethan.
"Um, guys, we've got something, it's moving fast into the city" Ethan said from the secondary terminal, "Conner, your not gonna believe this, it appears to be using a faster version of your super speed ability. We need to stop this thing before it hits Mach One and starts causing damage when it breaks the sound barrier!"
"Ethan's right, Tommy, this thing is moving so fast that when it breaks the barrier its sonic booms could cause ear drums to rupture. It could kill people!"
"Alright, guys, lets stop this thing, by any means possible" Tommy ordered and the other Rangers stepped into suit, Conner next to him, Ethan on his far left and Kira on his right.
"Tommy, I'll contact Cam, and ask on their situation, see how badly they were hit in Blue Bay" Hayley suggested.
"Good idea. Ready guys!"
"Ready!" The other Ranger said in chorus.
"DINO THUNDER, POWER UP, Ha!" Shouted Conner, Ethan and Kira.
"DINO THUNDER, POWER UP!" Shouted Dr. Oliver at the same time as the others, just omitting the 'Ha' from his morphing call. And the Rangers morphed into their respective uniform. Conner's is red with white diamonds going down the side; Ethan's is blue with the same diamond pattern; Kira's is almost identical to the other two, except with a yellow motif and a small mini-skirt around the waist. Dr. Oliver's is black and has gold diamonds going down the side and two shoulder pads mounted on the shoulders. The four Rangers share the gold and black claw symbol in the center of their chests.
"Alright, Rangers, Raptor Cycles, now" Tommy ordered, and the Rangers climbed on their bikes "Dino ATV, on-line!" and a small bay holding his ATV opened and Tommy's new gold and black ATV rolled to next to master. Tommy climbed on and an invisi-portal opened; Conner, Ethan and Kira entered first, with Tommy not to far behind.
To be continued....