Power Rangers Indomitable Spirit

By Talanane


The following is a work of Fanfiction. This means that it contains some characters, items, locations and other things that I neither own nor have the rights to. It also means that I never have and never will make any money off of these works.


Episode Two: Four Lives, Impact

Location: In front of the Lightbird home.

Henry Lightbird had some trouble driving home, due to the pain in his arm. It was fortunate that he didn't have an accident on the way. Finally, he made it and with a slight groan, he pulled up in his driveway and opened the driver's side door. Lisa, although she usually didn't care too much about other people, she couldn't help but notice his pain.

"Hey Pops? Are you okay?" she asked.

"Mostly.", Henry told her. "I just need to rest for a while."

"Okay, sure.", Lisa replied, not entirely believing him.

As Henry and his daughter got out of the truck, the boys were already standing on either side of the bed, taking out Lisa's suitcases. Having gotten them, they stood by waiting for their teacher to open the door to the house. In a few moments, Henry and his daughter proceeded to the front step, and the two boys followed at a discreet distance. A couple of minutes later the door was open and the teacher motioned for everyone to come inside.

"Excuse me, where do you want these?", Ryo asked as he and John came through the doorway.

"Oh, you can leave them in the first room off the hall there.", Henry said, gesturing toward said hallway with his good arm, as by now his injury was quite obvious to everyone.

"Are you sure you're all right sir?", Ryo asked.

"Like I said, I just need a little rest.", Mr Lightbird replied.

"It seems like that would hurt like a bitch to me.", John said. "I think you should at least see a doctor."

"I'll take care of it boys.", Henry replied, as he once again gestured toward the hall. Since Mr. Lightbird didn't give them a choice, they went ahead and delivered Lisa's luggage into the spare bedroom. After they did that and returned, the teacher simply told them to go home.


When Ryo got home, he found his mother, a still attractive middle aged woman taking down the last of the laundry that had been handing on the clothesline and placing it in a basket.

"Oh hello Ryo Kun.", his mother said. "You're quite late today. I was beginning to worry."

"I'm sorry Mother, but our history teacher asked a couple of us to stay and help him with something today. Well, unfortunately Mr. Lightbird got a little hurt and had to go home."

"Oh, dear, I hope he's going to be all right.", Ryo's mother said.

"Well, he should have gone to the doctor, but he was being a 'little reluctant', let's say.", Ryo told her.

"He's like that?", his mother replied.

"He's Native American and says he's a Shaman, or 'Medicine Man', and probably believes he can treat himself.", the young man told her.

The middle aged woman shrugged and said. "What can I say? You cannot deny someone their own beliefs."

"True.", Ryo answered.

"By the way dear, can you take this into the house for me?", his mother asked. "I have to get dinner started soon."

"All right Mother.", he told har and took the laundry basket from her. And since this happened to be a load of bed sheets, he went ahead and put them away in the linen closet. After doing that he went into his own room and placed his school backpack on the old card table that served as his desk. Then sitting down on his old second hand bed, he took out the altered God's Eye talisman that Mr. Lightbird had given him and took a good look at it. He knew from his studies that it was a common talisman often used in the southwestern part of the United States by both the Native and Hispanic populations. Now he sensed that this particular one had become something more. Well in his hands it was. Then again he knew that he himself was not a normal Human Being, and never had been. He didn't know or at least remember why that was. Only that he wasn't. Normal people didn't have vague, but often accurate glimpses of possible future events at random. He did.

Then he thought about his new friends and surmised that they might not be all that normal either. Mr. Lightbird for instance had admitted to being a Shaman, for instance, and maybe his daughter Lisa had some of the same abilities. John O'Neill on the other hand, what was he? What made him special? Ryo couldn't even speculate. Shaking his head and dismissing the thought, Ryo put the talisman away and paused a moment, hoping that Mr. Lightbird would be all right. After that he got up and went over to his makeshift desk to start his homework.

At about the same time, John O'Neill was having much the same sort of thoughts. He too wondered why a simple God's Eye talisman could have so much power. But he was more worried about Mr. Lightbird's condition and whatever those things were that had attacked them. "Just what kind of Aliens were they?". He thought of them as aliens because he didn't quite believe in spirits, not like that anyway. That was mostly due to his 'past', which he had never told anyone about, for various reasons. In fact he was tempted to call up certain people that he 'knew' and ask them to investigate. Then he shook his head and thought to himself. "No, I don't want to do that if I don't have to. Even if it seems that I'm 'Getting back in the Game', as it were." Having made his decision, he too put his talisman away, but he didn't start his homework, not yet.


Over at the Lightbird house, Lisa was in a less than satisfactory mood due to the recent changes that had essentially turned her life upside down. Only a few days ago she had been living a more or less stable existence with her mother, even if said parent hadn't been around much. Then it had been decided that she was to be uprooted and sent to live with Henry, her supposed father, far away from the few friends she had. Then to top it off she had just as suddenly been drawn into a battle with what were supposedly disturbed spirits, and given powers to do it with to boot. Finally she had an old man with what might be a serious arm injury, who stubbornly refused to go to the Hospital. So it was no surprise that Lisa was on edge.

"What's the deal with these 'Spirit', things anyway Pops?", Henry's daughter almost shouted. "So, you're supposed to be this 'Shaman' thing and talk to ghosts? But why? Why does this have to happen to me!?"

"Like I said earlier, those Spirits were disturbed. Probably by something the 'White man has done or is doing to the Earth.", Henry told her.

"You keep saying that!", Lisa snapped back. "Didn't that one guy think they were being controlled by something!?"

"Yes, one of the boys did say something like that.", the teacher admitted. "That is a possibility."

"Great, just great!", his daughter shouted. "Some evil Overlord's ghost or something is mad at people for messing up the world and sending monsters to get revenge? Sounds just like those 'Power Rangers' stories that went around when I was a little kid! Next I suppose that you're going to say that we're going to be the next batch of Power Rangers! Good grief! Not me!", she finished and stormed off back to her room.

Mr. Lightbird sighed. "Lisa, I know that it hasn't been easy for you since your mother and I split. Especially now since she's been so ill. I'm sorry about what happened today, but if we are indeed destined to be the Power Rangers as you suggest, we are all going to have to accept it."



In yet another realm, a few of what to some would be known as Ascended Beings were having a discussion about the recent events taking place on Earth, particularly those regarding Toskarat and the young people who had fought his minions.

"I personally agree with Zordon's assessment of the situation.", a female entity known as Oma DeSala stated. "Although it is true that he 'bent' the rules a little, his interference was quite minimal, and quite justified, given Toskarat's own interference in the Mortal plane."

"Maybe that is true, and indeed I will allow that Toskarat did overstep his bounds in sending his minions to the world of the Living." an Alteran Elder stated. "It isn't like Zordon destroyed the Primals himself. Still, he did bestow abilities to these young people that Mortals do not usually possess."

"These 'powers' as you put are, and always were within them, as with all Power Rangers.", Zordon himself supplied. "I only allowed them the means to access them."

"Which Is in fact less than what I have done in the past.", another female known as Serenity stated. "In fact one of the young people in this newest 'Ranger' group is one whose current state I myself am indirectly responsible for."

"You were still 'mortal' when that happened." the 'elder' said., "and therefore we cannot censure you for that. Very well, we will allow what Zordon has done, but he is to do nothing else. Any powers that these mortals now have, they are to discover and unlock on their own, as do all mortals."

The other three ascended beings, Oma, Zordon, and Serenity, were not entirely happy with this, but they knew that the Others would hold them to this. As the elder faded away elsewhere, they did the same.


The next morning at the home where John O'Neill was staying with his host family, the young man awoke, shaking off the last of a particularly unusual dream. In it he and the others had been surrounded by Primals as well as a number of warriors in ornate armor who carried staves which fired bolts of energy. He shook his head as the combination of opponents did not make sense, unless of course they were involved. "Naah!", he said out loud, dismissing the possibility for now. He did know that he needed to talk to the others, especially Mr. Lightbird about what was going on. Looking over at the clock he noticed that it was still only 6:15 in the morning, way to early to call or visit. Besides that, John was new in town and didn't even have anybody's phone number, much less their addresses. Sighing the young man threw the covers off his bed, stretched, and then got up to go to the bathroom.


At the Urawa's apartment, Ryo and his family were seated at the breakfast table. On this particular day of the week breakfast time was an important occasion, since it was one of the few times when they would be all together at the same time. This was mostly due to his father's job as a traveling consultant for... Well Ryo didn't really know what his father did, but it was probably important. At least the elder Urawa's travel schedule wasn't as bad as it would have been a couple of years ago. Back then Ryo's father was almost never at home and they would have to move at least a couple times a month. Now according to his father, this current assignment in America was relatively long term and they probably wouldn't be moving again for the rest of the year or maybe even two. Ryo himself might even have the chance to graduate High School before they had to leave this time.

"Well Ryo, how are things at school?", Mr. Urawa asked his son. "Have you made any friends yet?"

"Yes Father.", the young man replied simply. He then gave the names and a brief description of John, Mr. Lightbird and his daughter.

"Didn't you say that your teacher had an accident when you were working on some sort of project or something?"

"Yes.", the young man replied. "In fact I was thinking on checking in on them today."

"I see.", his father said back. "Just be careful out there, okay?"

"Yes father.", Ryo replied.


By the time Ryo reached the street in front of the Lightbird house, he saw that an ambulance was just pulling away from the curb, sirens wailing. It was likely that this meant that his teacher's condition had indeed been much worse than he had let on. John, who had arrived a while earlier confirmed this.

"He looked pretty bad to me.", the O'Neill boy told him.

"Did Lisa say anything?", Ryo asked him.

"No, but she sure did look out of sorts.", John told him. "I don't know about you, but something sure bugs me."

Ryo said nothing but nodded. In an unspoken agreement both boys began to make their way toward Prairie City Hospital.

Next Time: Episode Three, A 'Fine' Day.1


Author's Note: Did you ever notice that in some cases, such as when you upload chapters in odt. format, you have to go in and fix the formatting manually? Document manager just doesn't keep the scene separator lines and paragraph indents.