Author's Note: Welcome to my Dino Thunder rewrite with the Lightning sisters. How will Rebecca and Aliyah weave their way into the lives of the Dino Rangers?

Author's Note: I am updating this now because I can't sleep and I won't have a chance tomorrow as I will be busy all day. Plus, after tomorrow I will be focusing more on my Harry Potter series as it is coming to a very climatic end and I would like to get it out of the way before I focus on this story.

Disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended in the making of this series. I simply own my OCs and anything that is unrecognizable from the show. Power Rangers belongs to Saban... although Dino Thunder was created by Disney. Enjoy.

Warning: Rated T for safety.

Warning! Before continuing, you might wanna have a read of "Lightning Storm! Ranger Form! Redone" before you go any further, or else some references and storyline may confuse you. Thanks.

Title: Prehistoric Storm

Summary: A tug of war begins between the humans and a mutant dinosaur named Mesogog for the control for Earth. It is now up to Power Ranger legend: Tommy Oliver to stop him. With the help of three high school students and a reluctant Ninja student he just might be able to succeed.

"Touch me again," she said in a low and dangerous whisper, "And we're going to have a serious problem."

"Well, it would seem we already have a serious problem, Miss. Logan!" said a voice from behind her.

Aliyah frowned and turned slowly so that she was face-to-face with the new Principal at Reefside High, she had only been there and hour and already she was in trouble. Rebecca is going to kill me she thought with a soft groan of annoyance.

"Come with me..." the principal said, leading her away from the group of smirking jocks that she had been arguing with.

No sooner had they disappeared into the Principal's office did the whispers break out among the other students that had witnessed the scene. What had Clark done? Why had new student: Aliyah Logan lost it? No one would ever know.

~*Prehistoric Storm*~

"That's it? That's all?" Aliyah whispered in disbelief. "You're not even going to punish him for what he did?"

"I can't punish him until I learn whether or not the story is true, Aliyah," Randall replied, slowly. She could sense Aliyah's growing irritation the same way one could sense an oncoming lightning storm, the air fizzled with electricity, setting the hair on the back of her neck on end. "I'll call Mr. Clark in and get his side of the story..."

"What? So he can turn everything against me?" Aliyah asked. "I get that there are two sides to every story, but you, yourself know that our stories are not going to match!"

"Calm down!" Randall snapped. "You know that my hands are tied here! If your stories do not match then I cannot do much. But I can't punish Clark if the victim won't even admit -"

"I'm the victim!"

"Miss. Logan, I must ask you calm yourself!" Randall hissed, before continuing. "As I was saying... I cannot punish Clark, simply on what you have told me. See it from my point... you are standing here scratch free while Mr. Clark is seeing the school nurse for a possible broken nose, at this point you're the only one I can punish."

Aliyah's hands shook angrily at her side. "But -"

"But nothing! You broke another student's nose, for God's sake! He should be practicing for football! He's got a scholarship he'll have to live up to come August! You may have just shot him down for a few months of practice that he really needs! Do you know how much that could hurt him?"

Aliyah scoffed and shook her head. "So he is getting special treatment because he is a jock? Typical!"

"You think you have these justifications for what you've done and you think that they're good enough to explain away kicking the crap out of someone, but they're not! Don't you understand? You're no better than Clark because you hurt other people, Aliyah! You hurt other people, that's what it comes down to, and even though you believe that you're mature enough to take situation such as these into your own hands, that you have what you feel to be good reasons for doing so, you don't!"

Aliyah was silent.

"If you were having trouble you should have told someone, a teacher, a parent! You should have told me, I -"

"What? You would have what?" Aliyah interrupted. "Teachers don't care! My parents are dead! And you're too stupid to do anything about it! I couldn't tell anyone because no one would have done shit about it! Don't you get that? No one cares!"

She was on her feet now, eyes blazing angrily and hands clenched tightly into fists.

"I'm sorry that you have these misconceptions about why I have done what I've done, why I did what I did and why I will continue to do what I do in the days to come, but I'm not sorry that Clark got his ass kicked, he deserved it, and i'm not sorry that i'm being human enough to help, not just myself out, but others that get beaten up by Clark's hand! And, if I am completely honest, Mrs. Randall, your opinion of who I am and what I do are the ones that matter to me the least! Do you want to know why?"

She didn't wait for an answer.

"You act as though the advice you've given me is correct! As though I should be listening to you and what you believe even though i'm willing to bet that you've never been in my position before! You've never had to defend yourself against someone else, never had to protect yourself because there is never anyone else around to protect you. If you're so smart, Principal Randall, then tell me, who is allowed to defend someone else if they're being attack? Who, if not the people who witness it happen?"

"Get out."

Aliyah didn't move.

Randall's eyes narrowed as she stood up so that she was face-to-face with Aliyah. "Aliyah Logan," she managed to say, her voice full of authority, but to Aliyah it was juvenile, it sounded weak and meaningless, unearned. "You have one weeks' worth of detention, starting today, you should be getting a suspension, but since it is the first day I will let you off with a warning. But if you continue to act like you do, you will be severely punished, do you understand me?"

She didn't scream, didn't topple the desk, and didn't leap at her like a wild animal. Instead, she heaved out a heavy sigh, hefted her book bag onto her shoulder and left the office.

~*Prehistoric Storm*~

"... That should be sufficient torture for them," Randall said as she rounded the corner with new teacher, Dr. Thomas Oliver. "You've all met, I trust; well... enjoy your little outing!"

Aliyah glared at her as she walked away.

"You guys like museums?" Dr. Oliver asked, turning back to the four teenagers in front of him, and removing his glasses.

"Not really," Aliyah mumbled. "But do we really have that much of a choice?"

Dr. Oliver surveyed her and then shook his head. "Not really," he answered, causing Aliyah to smirk in response. "Come on, it will be fun!"

"If you say so," Aliyah nodded, following him out of the building and towards his car.

She clambered into the front seat, as the three others, she hadn't bothered to get their names while they stood outside Randall's office waiting for their detention to begin, clambered into the back. Dr. Oliver started the engine and pulled out of the school parking lot, and peeled off down the road.

~*Prehistoric Storm*~

Ethan grinned as the car drove up the drive towards the white building, outside of which stood a giant model dinosaur.

"Whoa, check out the T-Rex!" he grinned, excitedly.

"Meh," Aliyah said, as she slammed the passenger's door as she left the car. "Dinosaurs are so... 65 million years ago! I'm more a tiger person!"

Dr. Oliver ignored her comment and led them towards the 'Sorry We're Closed' sign that was attached to a chain around the front door. "We'll that's weird!" he frowned.

"Oh, well," Connor, the jock-boy sighed, "No museum for us!"

"Great! Let's go home!" Kira nodded in agreement.

"I'll tell you what," Dr. Oliver said, turning to the four students. "Why don't you guys go have a look around the grounds? You find anything prehistoric; I'll cancel detention for the rest of the week!"

"Sweet!" Ethan nodded.

"I'm going to see if I can find someone who can tell us when they're opening up!"

Aliyah rolled her eyes and turned away from the museum doors, and headed off down the side path with the others in pursuit.

"So, let me get this straight," said Connor, "They have a club just for computers?"

"They have a club for pretty much anything these days," Aliyah said, folding her arms across her stomach and hiking up into the trees.

"Hey, did you guys hear about the guy that was hiking up here and fell in a giant sinkhole?" Ethan asked, as he followed her.

"Must have missed that one," Kira replied, craning her neck to get a better look at the trees around her.

"Come on! It was on all the urban legend websites!" Ethan said, gasping in surprise at their lack of knowledge.

"Dude, you know this isn't computer club, right?" Connor asked.

"Oh, I guess you're too big and bad to surf the web," Ethan mocked, causing Connor to turn in his direction. "So, what do you do in your spare time?"

"Me? I go out with girls!" Connor answered. "You know, they're the ones at school that smell real good, the long hair and the make-up!"

Aliyah smirked. "Basically he means the Barbie-wannabes!"

"Are you including yourself in that statement?" Connor asked, turning in her direction.

"Do I look like an idiot?" Aliyah retorted.

Connor paused. "I don't know whether to take that as an insult?"

"Put it this way, McKnight," Aliyah said, brushing past him and Ethan. "You wouldn't stand a chance with a girl like me!"

"You want to put your money where your mouth is?"

Aliyah stopped and turned around.

"You want to find out why i'm in detention in the first place?" she asked.

"Why are you in detention?" Kira enquired.

"Does the name 'Clark Benson' ring any bells?"

Connor nodded. "Yeah, he's our star kicker," he answered. "Kinda disturbing that he was taken to the emergency room, anyone know what happened?"

"I broke his nose!" Aliyah answered, proudly. "Serves him right for making suggestive comments about my body!"

"You can't really blame him," Connor muttered, looking Aliyah over.

Aliyah growled, her hands curling into fists as she lunged at Connor, knocking him backwards onto the floor. The moment he hit the ground, however, it opened up and swallowed them, Ethan and Kira following with similar yells of surprise.

~*Prehistoric Storm*~

Luckily the drop wasn't that far. They got off the ground, coughing from the dust that now covered them, Connor, who had hit the bottom back first, groaned as Aliyah pushed off of him and looked up at the gaping hole no more than 4 feet above them.

"Alright. You guys stay here where it's safe. I'll climb out and come back with help," Connor said, getting back to his feet and brushing the dust from him. He moved around Kira, and hoisted himself up onto the side of the wall, however, he didn't get very far as the wall broke and Connor crashed to the ground.

"Back already?" Aliyah snickered, and he glared up at her, turning her attention to the tunnels ahead. "I'm a rock-climber and not even I am stupid enough to try and scale a mud wall, come on, we'll follow the tunnels, there's got to be another exit around here somewhere!"

And she set off before the others could stop her.

~*Prehistoric Storm*~

At least ten minutes into the journey through the tunnels, Kira had started to sing under her breath and Aliyah wondered slightly if she was claustrophobic, seeing as this was a technique used to calm people with phobias of small enclosed spaces.

"Babe, would you keep it down? I'm trying to stay focused," Connor said, shutting Kira up as she shot him a glare, that Aliyah noticed was so fierce it put even one of her own to shame.

"Did you just call me babe?" Kira growled, before looking to Ethan, who was unfortunately standing behind her. "Did he just call me babe?" she demanded, but the boy in blue just shrugged.

"I dunno I wasn't listening!" he told her.

Kira stomped on ahead to face Connor, who had stopped as Aliyah paused, looking around.

"What?" Connor frowned as Kira glared up at him. "Just chill out why don't you?"

"Listen, my name is Kira. Maybe you should write it on your hand, so you don't maybe you can remember" she told him.

"If he can even spell it!" Aliyah stated, making Ethan start laughing.

Connor glared at her.

~*Prehistoric Storm*~

Kira, Connor, Ethan and Aliyah stared at the dinosaur skeleton that stood in front of them.

"Okay, this screams Jurassic Park to me," Kira said.

"This will get us out of detention forever!" Connor nodded in approval, reaching out and moving the head, despite Aliyah's protests. They all jumped as the wall began to move, revealing an underground room that was filled with machines.

"I could do a crazy video in here!" Kira grinned excitedly.

"This must be like the mother ship for you dude," Connor clapped Ethan on the shoulder.

"Normally, I'd be insulted... but when you're right, you're right!" Ethan laughed, before looking around as Connor reached over to grab a red stone that rested on a rock alongside 3 others; one yellow, one blue, and one slivery-white one.

Aliyah slapped his hand away from the stone, and glared at him. "One must not touch what isn't ours!" she said, trying to resist the urge herself to reach out and touch the strange coloured stones.

"Why not?" Connor asked rubbing his hand.

"You really are taking the 'dumb jock' to a whole new level!" Ethan exclaimed as he and Kira walked over.

"Look, I have sat through enough lame science lessons to know that that thing looks fully prehistoric," Connor hissed, "and it means I don't have to miss practice!"

"I hate to agree with him. Really, I do. But I already missed one rehearsal." Kira stated.

"Yeah, and I missed out on spending time with my boyfriend," Aliyah interrupted. "But that doesn't mean stealing is the way of getting out of what we did wrong! We did the crime... now we have to serve the time! What are you doing?" she demanded, but Connor had already grabbed the red gem and was examining it in the palm of his hand.

"Well, what are they?" Kira asked, as she grabbed the yellow one and rolled it between her fingers.

"I can go online later and see if I can find out," Ethan muttered as he studied the blue stone, making Connor laugh.

"You in front of a computer. Wait, let me put on my surprised face," Connor chuckled as the red stone he held stopped glowing. Ethan scowled at him.

"You know, 10 years from now, when your hair line is receding and you're playing pick-up soccer in the park because your dreams of turning pro never quite worked out, I'll have my own multi-million dollar software business." Ethan grinned, slipping into his fantasy land.

"Where are you going?" Aliyah called, noticing Kira walking away.

"I don't wanna think about what kinda freak lives in a place like this, and I sure don't wanna be here when he gets home," Kira said before turning around and heading off.

Connor and Ethan nodded, following after them, leaving Aliyah to sigh, snap up the silvery-white rock and follow them. Why should they get stones that can get them out of detention and not her? Besides, if she could avoid detention for the rest of the week, she could keep today away from Rebecca and her grandparents, and no-one would be any the wiser.

~*Prehistoric Storm*~

"This way!" Ethan shouted making a beeline for the light that was coming from the side of the tunnel walls, rather than the ceiling. The others followed him and looked around as they were instantly bathed in natural light. "Anyone have a compass?" Ethan asked, looking around as they climbed up away from the tunnel.

"And I was going to bring one!" Connor said, sarcastically.

The wind blew and the hair on the back of Aliyah's neck stood on end. "What was that?" she asked, looking around.

"The wind?" Kira asked, looking confused.

There was a second burst of air and a strange howl.

"That's not the wind," Aliyah said, shaking her head. "As much as we'd like it to be... it's not!"

There was a split second pause, before a dozen black armor-plated monsters appeared in front of them.

"Don't... move!" Connor hissed.

"Great idea," Kira growled back. "Make it easier for them!"

"New plan," Ethan said, louder than the other two. "RUN!"

"Run?" Aliyah yelled after him. "Have you completely lost your mind?"

However, Ethan was already gone. Exchanging looks, Aliyah, Connor and Kira, groaned and took off after him. Connor and Ethan leapt over a ditch, closely followed by Aliyah, however, when Kira attempted to follow, she missed the edge and slide back into the ditch.

"Student down!" Aliyah yelled, as Ethan and Connor held out their hands to her and pulled her up.

"Come on!" they yelled, continuing to run as the monsters leapt across the ditch. Aliyah cursed, knowing that she couldn't risk any Ninja tricks in front of the other three; she turned and fell forward, tripping over Kira who had slipped on leaves, putting her hands out to brace her fall, Aliyah cringed as an ear-splitting scream assaulted her senses.

Glancing to the side she saw Kira, eyes wide, staring at the floored monsters as head of her and Aliyah.

"What... was that?" Ethan asked, in pure amazement.

"I have no idea," Kira admitted, looking down at the glowing yellow gem in her hand. Kira blinked as she was suddenly hit with an image of a pterodactyl.

The monsters recovered, and lunged at them again. Instinctively, the four split up, before Aliyah skidded to a stop as she soon as she realized she was out of range of the other three.

She smirked, pushing up her sleeves and raising her fists, she jumped backwards, blocking any attacks that were sent her way and retaliating with her own. After tripping one up, she leapt back and white smoke surrounded her, and she phased straight through the tree that blocked her path.

"What the -?" Aliyah frowned staring at her hands, as an image of a sabre-tooth tiger flashed across her mind's eye.

"Over here!" Connor called, and the four re-grouped, all holding their stones in amazement. Judging by the looks on their faces, they had all developed out-of-this world abilities too.

"How much do I love detention?" Ethan laughed.

"Hey!" all four looked up and immediately pocketed the stones as Dr. Oliver rushed over. "Are you guys alright?" he asked.

"Yeah" Ethan nodded. "Couldn't be better."

"Anything out of the ordinary happen?" Tommy asked.

"Nope, just your routine hike in the woods," Aliyah said.

Ethan nodded. "Lots of fury little creatures!"

"And a few scaly ones!" Kira muttered.

"So, you get into the dino exhibit?" Connor diverted the attention away from the musician, and Tommy shook his head, looking a little troubled.

"Still working the kinks out," he told them. "We better get you guys back. Come on." he looked towards the trees before heading off.

"Don't you think we should tell him?" Kira asked in a hushed voice as they too began to walk away from the trees.

"I don't know about you," said Ethan, "but I've got over a thousand sci-fi DVDs. You want to know how many times the dude with the superpowers ends up in some government lab, lying on a table with wires in his head?"

"Even I know that," Connor agreed.

"Wow, so you're not that dumb a jock after all," Aliyah said, earning in a glare in return.

"Are you guys coming?" Tommy asked, turning around and was surprised to find that they hadn't moved at all. The four looked at each other, before following him.

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"Okay, so we all agree?" Connor asked as the four of them walked through the school grounds. "Not to talk about this to anyone?"

"Do what you want, dude," said Aliyah, tossing her stone into the air and catching it. "But as soon as I get back to Blue Bay Harbour, i'm handing this thing over to my boyfriend to check out! And if it is related to anything dangerous... i'm throwing it!"

Ethan frowned. "What if it's important?"

"What if it is?" Aliyah asked. "I never asked for this! I didn't even want to come to this school, but I was bullied into it by my older sister. I want nothing to do with some freaky-assed rocks that give people random super-enhanced powers and send freaky armor-plated dino-designed creatures after them! I'm out!"

She shouldered her backpack, turned toe and walked away.

However, she hadn't gotten far when the wind started to pick up, just like it had done in the woods, and then came the howl.

"Oh, you've got to be joking!" Aliyah groaned, as suddenly, in a blink of an eye, the freaky dino-designed monsters from earlier appeared all around her.

"Aliyah!" she heard Connor yell, and barely glimpsed him, Kira and Ethan rushing towards her in an attempt to save her, but as soon as they had reached her, the monsters disappeared through a green portal, taking Aliyah with them, but not before she was able to toss her gem at Connor, who caught it the second the portal closed.

"She's gone," Ethan breathed, as Kira picked up Aliyah's backpack and looked around at the other two.

"Now what do we do?" she asked.

~*Prehistoric Storm*~

Connor, Ethan and Kira sped down a street in Connor's car.

"Where are we going?" Kira called.

"Uh, Doctor Oliver's?" Ethan offered weakly.

"What's he gonna do?" Connor exclaimed in panic.

"He's a dinosaur guy! These things are dinosaurs... sort of."

Suddenly music sounded from inside Aliyah's backpack, causing the three teens to exchange looks. Diving into the bag, Kira pulled out Aliyah's cellphone and held it up as a picture of an unfamiliar guy filled the screen and the name 'Cam' flashed in bright white colours.

"Answer it," Connor said.

"I'm not answering it!" Kira said. "What if he wants to know where she is?"

"Tell him she's busy!"

"Doing what?"

"I don't know!" Connor exclaimed. "Just answer it!"

Kira bit her lower lip and pulled her thumb across the screen, unlocking the phone and activating the call. "Hello...?"

"Ali...?"

"Uh, no, it's Kira..."

"Where's Aliyah?"

"She... can't come to the phone right now," Kira said, lamely, "she's a little... uh... tied up...?"

"Tied up?"

Kira paled and looked up at the two guys. "Listen, I've gotta go... but I'll let her know you called... bye!"

She quickly hung up and exhaled heavily.

"I am never doing that again!" she said, switching the phone off and stuffing it back into Aliyah's backpack.

"Where does he live?" Connor asked.

"Uhh..." Ethan waited for it to show. "1992 Valencia Road."

Connor nodded, before pausing.

"That's like, way out in the middle of the woods" he frowned.

~*Prehistoric Storm*~

After a long drive, Connor finally found the house.

He pulled up outside and the three climbed out and leapt up onto the porch. Ethan knocked on the door as Connor peered in through the windows.

"Knock again," Kira said when there was no answer; the boy in blue did so. Again there was no answer. Connor frowned, walked over and knocked on the door, just as it opened. "Creepy!" she muttered.

"What are you doing?" Ethan hissed as Connor walked inside.

"It's unlocked," the jock shrugged.

"He has no neighbors," Ethan pointed out, and Connor grinned slightly.

"You never heard of three bears?" he asked.

"Was that the last book you read?" Kira quipped; Ethan's sarcastic comments were rubbing off on her slightly, but followed him inside nonetheless.

They walked into his study, calling out for the science teacher, but there was still no reply. Connor spotted a tiny t-rex statue, and reached out.

"Remember what happened the last time you did that?" Kira asked.

"Dude, he's a teacher," Connor laughed, and touched the skull. "Not..." he trailed off as a panel of the floor lifted up. "...Batman" Connor finished as the three stared at the secret entrance.

The three walked down the steps, and stared at the place that they had been in not too long ago.

"This is the same place!" Ethan hissed as they took a look around.

"Are you freaking out right now?" Connor asked.

"Define 'freaking out'," Kira muttered.

"If you're looking for extra credit," Tommy said as they turned around to find the science teacher, looking completely unimpressed. "You're in the wrong place!"

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Chapter written by xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx

Chapter updated Monday, 16 July 2012 at 03:31am