Paradox: A Rangers Through Time Story
By Lord-of-Dragons2007
A/N: I do not own the characters, concepts, and so on, this is my first try so please play nice kids. Enjoy.
A/N: I'm not sure if anyone else had this problem of logging in but I would have had the second chapter up on Sunday. I would at this time like to give credit to my friend who has been kind enough to proofread my chapters, he is not on the site but I'll call him TheMusicManM, when the proofread version is available I will post over this chapter with the revisions. Enough on with the story!
(Cyber Café)
Conner and Ethan where sitting at the bar of the busy cyber café talking about the previous school week while Trent was busy taking orders from the customers and Hayley filling the orders and taking the money,
"Man I can't believe that I have a 5 page paper due in econ, man Mrs. Skipworth is cold-blooded." Groaned Conner,
"Well, of course she would mad at you dude, you fell asleep for the third time this week and you were snoring." Replied Ethan,
"Oh come on dude I wasn't EVEN snoring . . . hey wait." Conner admitted sheepishly as Ethan let out a stifled laugh.
"So how far along are you on the paper?" asked Ethan while containing his laughter,
"Well I got through a page and a half last night." Conner replied
"Hey that's not too bad." Replied Ethan,
"Yeah I know, hey where's Kira today?" asked Conner showing peeked interest in his question,
"Uh, I think she said something about helping Dr. O with organizing his old stuff." Ethan replied,
just as Ethan answered Conner's question Kira came up behind the guys and caught them off guard,
"Hey guys" Kira said very enthusiastically,
"Kira!" both teens said in unison,
"Hey I got some bad news, Dr. O is giving us a pop quiz on Monday." Kira finished with a bummed tone in her voice,
"Oh man, that's even more that I have to worry about now." Conner said hysterically,
"Well there goes my weekend of breaking in a new game." Ethan said,
"Kira, what did you do to make Dr. O so mad to give us a pop quiz?" Conner asked,
"Nothing I just made an old joke." Kira said innocently, both boys let out an exasperated groan at Kira's explanation.
"Well if that's the case then we're all dead." Said Conner,
"Yeah, we'd better have a better chance at taking out Mesogog than passing that quiz." Said Ethan,
"Well I hope Mesogog doesn't attack this weekend cuz I'm in way over my head." Said Conner in a hopeful tone,
"I don't know about you guys but I have to get ready for my gig tonight, see you guys tonight." Said Kira as she turned to leave.
(Tommy Oliver's privet study)
After Kira left Dr. O grabbed the box that held the mementos from his time with Kimberly, the look of hurt and regret filled his eyes. The "Legendary" Tommy Oliver was over came with the look of a heartbroken kid who lost his dog to old age. (Watermarked images in the background start) as Tommy looked at a picture of him hugging Kim from behind and her laughing, images of when Tommy asked Kim out for the first time, the time when he caught Kim after she fainted when she found out he was the "Mysterious" white ranger, the time when she was captured by Zedd and had her life-force drained, when she left for Florida to train for the Pan Global Games, and finally when he received "the letter".(end background images) snapping back to reality as he felt a single tear run down his face, leaving his desolate, tear welling eye. Tommy's way of cooping was for him to work out and practice his karate; in a way it helped him to quiet his mind. As he was about to go to the gym he heard a siren go off in his lab and he knew instantly what was happening, he had to collect his thoughts and focus his attention to the current battle at hand and contact his teammates. He held his communicator to his mouth,
"Conner guys come in." Dr. O said,
"We read you Dr. O, go ahead." Replied Conner,
"Looks like Mesogog sent down one of his little experiments, we need to take care of it." Dr. O said
"Ok, we're on it; see you there." Said Conner,
And with that Dr. O got into his morphing stance.
"Dino-Thunder Power Up, Ha."
(Outside the Cyber Café)
"Ok, we're on it; see you there." Said Conner,
With that the four teens got into their stance,
"Ready?" asked Conner,
"Ready" replied the three other teens,
"Dino-Thunder Power Up, Ha." All four called out.
(The Frank's Gym, Reefside)
A petite brunette haired woman walked in the gym wearing a pink tank top and a black leotard, she headed toward the balance bar to work out a routine for nothing but the benefit of keeping her Olympic gold medalist figure in shape. As she worked out her complex routine in the gym she unknowingly gathered the attention of everyone in the building, when she jumped of the beam for the end of her routine she was startled by the sudden applause she had received. Playing into the applause the took a graceful bow as the applause subsided, now heading over to the juice bar to get quick drink; the man behind the counter had the TV on when a special breaking news bulletin came across the screen warning the residents of Reefside that they were under another monster attack, for some reason the woman couldn't shake the feeling of déjà vu from her old high school days. Then out of nowhere five rangers appeared to defend the city, as she watched the live report go on she couldn't help but notice that the black ranger's fighting style was strangely familiar to her but he couldn't place her finger on it. She thought and pondered about it for a while until the black ranger did a triple roundhouse kick, then it hit her like a semi-truck, she knew who the black ranger was.
"No, it can't be. Could it?" she asked out loud,
"Is there a problem lady?" asked the bartender,
"What, oh no, just though I saw someone" she said as she trailed off,
'wow small world, if he cant give this up then I've still got a chance its not too late for me' she thought.
"Do you have a phone book back there?" she asked the bartender,
"Yeah sure." He replied as he handed her the book,
'I've got to find him.' She thought as she went flipping though the book.
(Downtown Reefside)
All five rangers where sent flying to the ground hard as a failed attack with their saber-max swords backfired on them,
"Uh, Dr. O any other ideas?" asked Ethan,
"Yeah we're getting our butts handed to us." Remarked Conner,
"I know guys he's stronger than he looks." Replied Dr. O,
"Giving up so soon rangers? Anymore of this and you'll become extinct." Said the terror-dragon rex, a monster who had the body of a dragon with spikes all over its back, and two monstrous swirled horns on both sides of its head; its body is all black with streaks of green running trough it, and its weapon of choice is a sword that is similar to Dr. O' brachio-sword but it has a wider frame to it and its hilt is in the form of a horned-dragon's tail.
"He's right, Conner I think its time to go Triassic." Kira said looking from the monster to Conner,
"Shield of Triumph!" Conner called out as the Shield of Triumph materialized into existence, then Kira and Ethan made their power contributions to the shield; which allowed Conner to tap into a new level of power,
"Ok creepy this ends now, Shield of Triumph!" Conner called out as he and the terror-dragon rex disappeared into another dimension where the final moments of this battle would take place.
(Shield of Triumph Dimension)
The Shield of Triumph Dimension is a perilous world with a warped, twisted, distorted reality where anything can and will happen; the monster came spinning down onto a lonely floating square area and landed hard on the surface while Conner now in Triassic Ranger mode gracefully landed on the plane with a flare about him.
"oww, my aching gizzards, where are we?" the monster asked as he slowly rose up where he was standing,
"This ends now, Shield of Triumph!" Conner called out as a large sword blade came up from the middle of the shield as Conner dashed at the monster with light speed.
(Back in reality)
Suddenly Conner appeared behind the monster kneeling with his right are extended back like he had just finished a devastating sword attack while the monster behind him slowly fell away from him on its face and as soon as the monster landed it exploded into a large fireball.
(The Mysterious Island Lair)
"I see that the first step in the plan was a total success." Mesogog hissed at his henchmen,
"Yes my lord they took the bait hook, line, and sinker. Its only a matter of time now." Answered Elsa, much to Zeltrax's jealousy because he was in the background while Elsa got the attention of their master.
"I guess you two aren't completely incompetent after all." Mesogog hissed in approval of the recent success of the plan.
"When can we begin phase II of the plan?" asked Mesogog,
"Patients my lord we still have yet to find the proper power source for the device yet, but I have a good idea where I can find it; but first I have to pay a certain someone a visit to do recon." Said Elsa,
"Make it fast Elsa, before I lose my interest in this plan." Hissed Mesogog,
"Don't worry my lord the rangers will be gone in no time." Elsa replied with an insidious grin on her face,
"So tell me about this power source and who has it." Mesogog inquired,
"well, he's been in this game for a while now, and he's been the strongest leader that any team of rangers has ever had." Said Elsa.
(The Cyber Café)
The Cyber Café was full for Kira's performance, and as always Conner, Ethan, Trent, and Dr. O sat in the front most table waiting to hear their friend and fellow teammate play her set. Just as the group of rangers sat down, the woman from the gym appeared not sure what was going on as she made her way to the bar to get a smoothie,
"Welcome to the Cyber Café what can I get you?" asked Hayley,
"um, let he have a straw-berry smoothie please." The woman replied, "you sure are busy tonight aren't you?" asked the woman
"yeah its because we an up and coming musical performer who performs here every few weeks." Hayley explained as she handed her the smoothie,
"if you excuse me I have to announce her before the crowd starts getting restless." Said Haley as she made her way to the stage.
"As always the Cyber Café is proud to present Kira Ford and her band." Hayley announced
"Thank you Hayley, wow a lot more people this week; anyway as Hayley said I'm Kira Ford and this is my band, I hope you guys are ready for a good show." Kira said as she started a riff on her guitar,
(Twenty-five minuets later)
As she finished the last number with a big musical power cord,
"Thank you guys, you were a great crowd and remember to thank Haley also because without her I wouldn't have a place to play my music. Good Night." Kira said,
As she walked off the stage the crowd was going crazy
"ENCORE, ENCORE, ENCORE, ENCORE!" the electrified crowd chanted,
She couldn't resist the reaction to the crowd and walked up on stage and took the microphone.
"Ok guys, one more song." She said, and the whole room erupted into cheers,
"This last song is an old song, but a good song that I think is a good representation of me and my friends" Kira announced while looking at her friends; who at the mention of this the three teens looked at each other wondering what she was talking about while Dr. O had a content look on his face because he helped Kira pick out the song that she was talking about.
FLASHBACK
Kira and Dr. O where in the middle of cleaning up the basement/ command center,
"Hey Dr. O?" asked Kira,
"Yeah Kira, whats up?" Dr. O responded,
"I need some help picking out a song for my set tonight, I think I might be short a song; can you help me?" asked Kira,
"Sure . . . I know why don't you sing Riders On The Storm?" Dr. O suggested,
"Riders on the what?" asked Kira confused,
"Riders On The Storm, it's a song that Creed did back in the day; I think its perfect for you" Dr. O said,
"Ok, do you have the song so I can listen to it?" Kira inquired,
"Yeah sure." Dr. O said as he made his way over to the main computer and fired up iTunes and searched for the song, when he found it he played the song for Kira to hear.
END FLASHBACK
After a few moments of Kira and the band playing intro riff of the song Kira started to sing,
Riders on the storm.
Riders on the storm.
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan.
Riders on the storm.
There's a killer on the road.
His brain is squirming like a toad.
Take a long holiday
Let your children play.
If you give this man a ride
Sweet family will die.
Killer on the road.
Yeah.
Yeah!
Girl, you gotta love your man.
Girl, you gotta love your man.
Take him by the hand
Make him understand
The world on you depends.
Our life will never end.
You gotta love your man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Riders on the storm.
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan.
Riders on the storm.
Riders on the storm.
Riders on the storm.
Riders on the storm.
Riders on the storm.
Yeah!
Riders on the storm.
We're riders on the storm.
Storm, storm
We're riding on the storm
Yeah!
Riders on
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Riders on the storm
As Kira and band finished the song the crowd was ecstatic over the performance,
"Ok guys that my set and the end of the show, you guys where great; see you next time." Kira said
After she set the microphone down she made her way over to her friends to chat with them,
"Hey guys, what did you think about the performance?" asked Kira,
"It was great, cant you hear the crowd still going crazy about it?" Conner said,
"Yeah Kira, you smashed the performance tonight." Ethan said while Trent nodded,
"Thanks again for helping pick the song Dr. O, for an old fossil you know your stuff." Kira said with a smile on her face, while the others gave her the death glare
"Sure Kira anytime, and as for the fossil joke do you want to make it two pop quizzes this week?" asked Dr. O with a grin on his face,
"No, sorry, please don't do that to us." Kira begged,
"Well . . . just this one time I'll forgive you, but first quiz still stands." Dr. O said with an even larger grin on his face.
"Aw man." All four teens groaned at Dr. O's response.
A few hours later Hayley announced that I was closing time and that everyone had to go,
"well you guys better get going, wouldn't want your parents to be worried about you." Dr O said as he walked with is students out the door,
"You heading home too Dr. O?" asked Ethan,
"Yeah might as well I do have a quiz to right up." Said Dr. O with a chuckle in his voice,
"ok, ok, ok, no more old jokes." Said Kira,
"alright, night guys." Dr. O bid his students,
"night Dr. O" the four teens said as all five rangers parted ways for home.
(in a split-screen all five rangers simultaneously crawl into bed and begin having dreams of things that go bump in the night.)
KIRA'S DREAM:
Random images of a dark circular room with a globe at one end and a large blue tube at the other end, images of Dr O wearing a green suit, a white suit, a red suit, and then a black suit but she couldn't tell if it was a ranger suit or not. On top of those images were ones of a mystery city under attack, and images of a staff with a large 'Z' at the end; images of a rip in the sky growing by the second as thing start to disappear, and finally the last image that jarred from her all but peaceful sleep was an image of Conner unconscious on the ground at the mercy of a winged monkey in gold armor. At this final image she bolted upright in bed with large cold beads of sweat all over her body
"ok, wow, I've got to stop with the hot cheetos before bed." Kira said as she lay back down.
CONNER'S DREAM:
Conner's dream for some reason was just a bunch of random thoughts; thoughts of abandonment, thoughts of having to morph but being able to, thoughts of confusion of who where the villains he was up against, and finally as if someone had turned on the TV Conner had an image of Kira lying lifeless on a table in front of a large blue tube. As this image and thought crossed his mind he rolled over in sleep and rolled out of bed and fell hard on the cold wooden floor.
"oof, ok no more hot cheetos before bed." Conner said holding his sides, after he picked himself back up he got back in be and was fast asleep again in a matter of moments.
ETHAN'S DREAM:
Ethan's dream was like something out of a highlight reel of the power ranger teams throughout time, but the highlights were from the first power ranger team. Every fist to fist fight, every zord fight, and every defeat that the first team suffered; but it was weird because the last fight which ended in a loss Ethan felt like he was there and what was even stranger is that Conner, Kira, and Trent were there, but yet Dr. O was no where to be found. Ethan woke up calmly and made his way to the bathroom as he came back and layback down, and thought 'man Dr. O has us taking this ranger this way too seriously.'
TRENT'S DREAM:
Trent had visions of being in a castle on the moon ruled by a man with a silver staff with a large 'Z' on it and a woman who was a sorceress with help from their henchmen which included a winged monkey in gold armor and a walking skeleton warrior and for some reason what looked like a green power ranger? How could that be possible but then again he was evil so in a way it made sense, but then suddenly the whole area went blank as if time and space were suddenly destroyed in an instant. As Trent's mind wondered through obliterated reality he remained asleep.
DR. O'S DREAM:
Tommy was in fight with Goldar as he came to his friend's rescue, when he had dished enough damage to Goldar to make him retreat back to the moon palace the other rangers came to his side,
"Hey bro, thanks for your help but, what's up with the new outfit?" asked the Red Ranger, Jason Scott asked,
"Jace, what are you talking about I'm the green . . ." Tommy trailed off as he noticed he wasn't wearing the green ranger suit but rather a mesh of the green, white, red, and finally black ranger outfits then he noticed there were two red rangers, two blue rangers, two yellow rangers, and one white ranger,
"Conner? Kira? Ethan? Trent?" Tommy asked hoping he was imagining it,
"Yeah, Dr. O." the four teens said in unison, then he heard it clear as day; a deep all knowing voice,
"TOMMY, THE FABERIC OF TIME AND SPACE IS IN DANGER, ONLY YOU AND ONE OTHER CAN SAVE THE UNIVERSE FROM A HORRIBLE FATE. GOOD LUCK AND MAY THE POWER PROTECT YOU." The voice said
And at this Dr. O bolted up in bed in disbelieve as if he had seen a ghost.
"Did I really just hear that? No. is it even possible?" at this Dr. O went down into his basement/command center to see if there are any abnormalities in the morphing grid or anywhere else.