Green with Rage
Chapter 2: Day of the Dino Part II.
"Doctor Oliver, before you go off, can we explain why we're here?" Ethan inquired as they circle the room, facing their teacher, or in Neve's case parents. Neve looked at them sheepishly and shrugs. It wasn't like they took the time to tell her about this even after she spent over four months fighting as a Rangers – even if the first month wasn't exactly kosher for her or her teammates as she kicked them around.
"Dude, he's just gonna laugh when we tell him," Conner whispered.
"It's the truth," Ethan pointed out. "He'll believe us."
"Guys, I think it's safe to say he'll believe us since we got the gems from here," Neve hissed at them. Conner hesitated, looking up at Tommy.
"Kira's gone," he said, bluntly causing both elder Olivers to raise their eyebrows.
"That wasn't exactly what I meant Conner," Neve said sighing and shaking her head.
"She got taken by these weird dinosaur-looking things," Ethan elaborated.
"He doesn't look convinced," Conner said. Kim and Tommy looked at each other and Tommy sighed, turning away. "They're called Tyrannodrones."
Neve's eyes widened and she gaped at her father.
"And you know that because…?" Ethan trailed off.
"I helped create them," Tommy answered.
"YOU WHAT!" Neve asked and swayed on her feet but Conner steadied her and Neve gave him a appreciative look before she turned back to her parents. Kim was biting her lip in her nervousness. What did this mean, did Neve bond with one of the gems that her husband had foolishly left out to be stolen.
"Oh, class project?" Ethan questioned.
Tommy sighed, turning to face them again spoke. "Look, it's a long story, but for now, we gotta figure out what they want with Kira."
"It…might have something have something to do with…," Conner trailed off, getting the red gem from his pocket as Ethan took out the blue and Neve revealed Kira's yellow gem. "These."
Kim and Tommy looked at each other again and Kim sighed. She hoped to god it was Kira who had bonded to that gem, her daughter didn't need to be dragged back into this life.
xXx
Give…me…the gems…
These words echoed in Kira's head as she awoke to an unfamiliar room. It was dark and walls were shaped weird with colors of black and dark purple. Computers were over by another wall and she heard the voice again as she sat up and slid off the metal bed.
"Who's there?" she called. "Come out where I can see you."
Give…me…the gems…
"This is about jewelry?" Kira scoffed, looking around. "Look pal, clearly you've got the wrong girl. I may wear a friendship bracelet once in a while but I—ah!"
She turned, seeing a tall…thing in a black cloak come up. His face was scaled and full of ridges, a lot like a Dinosaur's. His eyes were golden and his teeth sharp. "I have waited…far too long," he rasped, making her back up as he stood closer. "To allow an insignificant teenager…to get in my way. Now, where are the Dino Gems?"
"You mean those rock things we found in the cave?" Kira inquired trying to turn and run but suddenly he was in front of her again.
"Yessss," he hissed greedily.
"I gave mine to Conner…well now Neve has it because of the fuss Ethan and Conner made…but yeah, I don't have it," she told him. Though Kira knew she should turn tail and run she was also not one to filter to much that she said when nervous or in situations like this – not that there were many – she she continued.
"You'll have to ask them. Can I go? My mom's gonna freak if I'm late for dinner. It's taco night."
In a whoosh of air he was suddenly gone, and Kira sighed heavily. "Okay that's it, no more cafeteria food," she said and she turned around, and saw that a woman dressed in black with heavy black eye shadow and lipstick and gelled black hair stood there, hands on her hips.
"You'll be lucky if you ever see food again," she threatened.
xXx
"We're really sorry," Conner apologized as he, Ethan and Neve stood in front of Tommy, guilty looks on their faces. "How we're we supposed to know those things had super powers and those lizard dudes were gonna come looking for 'em?"
"Dad, I don't know why you didn't tell me but now I know. I am not going to leave Kira with whatever taken her," Neve said and
"I guess this isn't exactly something you see everyday," Tommy stated, turning around as he subconsciously moved around the three gems in his hands.
"Sorta like a science teacher with the ruins of an ancient civilization under his house?" Ethan inquired, looking around.
"I can't believe you didn't know," Conner told Neve and Neve glared.
"Well I didn't, which we'll be discussing latter Dad, Mom," Neve said as politely as she could but her parents sighed and nodded.
"Look, not that this isn't all really cool…," Conner began.
"But seriously, dude, you gotta come clean," Conner finished.
"First of all, don't call me dude," Tommy told him as he turned around. "Second, as hard as this may seem, you three are gonna forget all about this. I'll find Kira."
"What?" Neve cried in surprise. She was almost positive she knew what those gems did and she knew her dad did as well. Conner wasn't having this though so he sped over and past Tommy with his super speed. He stopped him in his tracks as he skidded to a stop in the way.
"The gem's power is already starting to bond with you," Tommy pointed out, looking back at his daughter he asked.
"Who bonded with the Yellow Gem?" he asked and Neve knew what he was really asking.
"Kira obviously, she was the one taken," Neve told him rolling her eyes and Tommy smiled and chuckled at his daughters words.
"Look man, you can tell us all about it now, or at my next parent teacher conference," Conner stated, a light threat hanging in his voice that made Tommy realize the boy wasn't gonna give up. He sighed heavily, and noticing Kim's look came to a decision. Conner smiled, Kira wouldn't be able to not see him in public after this. Two years of secrecy and he was getting sick of it.
"Okay, come on. Neve stay..." Tommy didn't finish though as Neve looked at him with her arms crossed her eyes flashed pink but thankfully her friends didn't notice, only her parents. Kim sighed and Tommy looked at his daughter.
"Don't even say it, Kira is my friend. I'm going with you," Neve said and Tommy sighed and nodded.
xXx
"You got a name?" Kira attempted to make conversation as she backed up, the tall black-clad woman coming closer in menacing steps. "You kinda look familiar."
"My master calls me Elsa," she replied.
"Your master?" Kira snorted. "Okay, whatever. Look, I'm gonna let myself out."
She turned around only to have Elsa grab onto her shoulder with a tight grip. Kira whirled around, ducking Elsa's punch and blocking a few more before grabbing her arm and twisting her shoulder at a painful angle.
As she was spun away by her opponent, she roundhouse kicked her in the stomach, sending her flying a few feet through the air where she landed, stood up and snarled at Kira with anger in her eyes. She was holding her shoulder, so it was evident Kira had actually hurt her.
"Whoa…," Kira breathed, dropping from a fight stance to a more apologetic one. "I so did not mean to do that!"
She turned around, running towards the exit but was stopped when a tall and heavily-armored figure stepped through carrying an ax and shield. On his heels were a few of the lizard creatures from the forest.
"Meet Zeltrax," Elsa grinned.
"You two dating?" Kira asked nervously. "Or just friends?"
Elsa glared at the back of Kira's head as Zeltrax lifted his ax. Deciding to give screaming a try again, Kira opened her mouth and screamed, sending yellow waves of sonic energy at the monsters and Zeltrax, flooring them.
With one look over her shoulder at Elsa, Kira took off down the hall as fast as she could, the remnants of the woman's angry yells to pursue her fading away as she ran on. Soon she came to a glowing green portal and she touched it hesitantly. As Zeltrax rounded the corner she disappeared.
xXx
"So when you said you helped create those Tyranno…," Ethan trailed off. "….whatevers, you were just kidding right?"
"They weren't supposed to be used like this," Tommy told him, glancing sideways at the blue-cad boy seated in the passenger's seat. Conner and Neve were in the back listening. "Someone's modified their programming."
He went on for a few more minutes as they drove on, talking about his past in Dinosaur DNA with Anton Mercer, a rich man who'd gone missing a little while before the lab island got blown up. Neve already knew this and Ethan was soaking up the information like any blue before him and Conner was lost and confused but had no real interest in what Tommy was talking about.
"And the guy who did this is back?" Conner inquired, finally getting annoyed with all the talk he didn't understand.
"He calls himself Mesagog," Tommy replied.
"And you think he's after the gems?" the soccer star added, leaning forward from his seat behind Doctor Oliver.
"I think that is kind of obvious Eth," Neve said smiling at the boy as she leaned forward, leaning inbetween the two front seats, her hands gripping both. "The bigger problem is getting Kira back. I don't know what they're gonna do when they realize she doesn't have her gem."
"We will," Tommy assured, looking at his daughter in the review mirror.
"So this guy is back?" Conner asked as they stopped at a stop sign. Neve shot the jock a look but nodded.
"looks like it. He calls himself...Mesogog," Tommy said and Neve gasped.
"Mesogog, as in the Mesogog. Shoot, we have got to find Kira now!" Neve said and they all looked at her, and Tommy nodded, agreeing with the urgency in his daughters words.
"This is interesting and all but how is this going to help?" Ethan asked motioning around them. "It's not like they're just gonna fall outta the sky." As if by magic a green glow opened in the sky and Kira fell forward onto the hood of the car. She looked up at the shocked occupants and Conner was the first out of the car.
"Kira!" he called and rushed to help her off with Neve. Kira smiled at him as she was turned away from Tommy and Ethan, though Neve caught the looks passed between the two and realized why. Looked like she didn't need to play match maker after all. She smirked at her two friends and they broke away from any contact as they turned.
"How did you do that?" Ethan piped up, as his overly-popped out eyes still hadn't returned to normal since Kira had appeared.
"I have no idea, one minute I'm being chased by Franken-lizards in this creepy lab, next I'm a hood ornament!" Kira replied.
"Invisi-portals," Tommy said and Kira looked at him and shook her head.
"Whatever, next time, I'm calling a cab," she said wryly. "Wait…what are you guys doing here?
"We came to rescue you," Ethan stated.
"Nice job, way to show up when I don't need you anymore," Kira said and Neve smiled and then looked to her right as she saw a green flash. A horde Tyrannodrones and Zeltrax arriving at the end of the road.
"Kira, you might want to rethink that," Neve said and pointed.
The four teens stood together as Tommy joined them, standing in front. "Mesagog find a new goon to do his dirty work for him?" he taunted.
"You are not fit to speak my master's name," Zeltrax growled. "Come with me peacefully or suffer the consequences."
"I'm gonna have to say…no!" Tommy stated, triggering Zeltrax's attack. He ducked the ax swing and got right into battle against him and a Tyrannodrone using fighting moves the teens - except for Neve - never knew he had.
Kira was over by the grass, fighting against half a dozen Tyrannodrones. As Kira blocked an oncoming attack and grabbed the lizard's arm, flipping him onto the ground, she straightened up and kick high at ones head knocking it away. Kira went on like this, kicking and punching and blocking. As the Tyrannodrones regrouped and came at her, swinging their sharp arms wildly, She opened her mouth and unleashed another blast of sonic scream energy, sending them all sprawling.
"Okay, that's just crazy," she commented.
Neve was fighting closely with her dad, but had her own set of Tyrannodrones to deal with. She grabbed the arm of two Tyrannodrones with each hand and kick backwards as one came up behind her before she back flipped and kicked both the ones she help sending them to the ground. She twirled away as on sent a slicing motion at her and ended up next to her dad as he landed on the asphalt from the jeep where he had been avoiding and fighting Zeltrax.
"I see you fight well, the rumors among evil about you are true then girl," Zeltrax growled at the girl in pink and green. Tommy glared at the cyborg and stepped forward.
"Leave her alone," he spat and the fight began again.
A little ways away Ethan ducked the swipe of a monster and kicked another behind him before running towards a stack of boxes beside a wheelbarrow on the side of the road. Seething with adrenaline, he kicked into a box, flipping it through the air where it connected with a monster's head and burst.
Chuckling to himself, Ethan rushed at the nearest monster, planning to attack but merely winding up with a knee to his stomach and seconds later, asphalt to the face. He growled angrily, pushing himself to his feet as another Tyrannodrone attacked.
This time he was ready as he brought his arm up and it covered itself with an invulnerable layer of blue scales. Smirking, he used his free scaled hand to smash into the creature's face, knocking it out as others rushed forward. Continuing to use his scale-covered arms, Ethan blocked more attacks and thrust his arms out again and again, smashing them into the faces of tons of lizard monsters.
Closer to the road compared to his classmates, Conner fought his battle. He dodged the rush of a sliding Tyrannodrone by jumping away, up over another lizard that he kicked in the back when he landed. Seconds before getting kicked in the back himself and rolling forward across the road. He got up only to see they'd followed quickly, and blocked the arm of one before knocking it to the ground and smirking.
"Now you see me…," he began, taunting a monster before him.
It growled and rushed forward, only to find nothing there as Conner zoomed past with his speed, crossing his arms and looking relaxed like there was nothing to it. As it turned and ran at him, he kicked backwards, making it falter as he flipped over it's head, his foot connecting with it's skull as they both came crashing down.
Conner looked down at the passed out monster and smirked again. "Now you're unconscious."
All four teens and Doctor Oliver regrouped on the road near the car, all sporting fighting stances as Tommy grinned. "Make sure you tell your master; Doctor Oliver's back."
"I will inform him that this battle is over, but the war has only just begun," Zeltrax growled, bringing his shield up in front of him as he and the Tyrannodrones ported away in green light.
"That's the best he could do?" Ethan inquired as they walked back towards the Jeep.
"Let's get outta here," Tommy told them. "It's getting late. I don't want your parents to worry."
"I bet you don't," Conner stated. "You might have to explain something."
"I'll fill you in tomorrow after school," Tommy promised, and they nodded and climbed back into the jeep, Kira pretty much sitting on Conner since their was not much room left in the back.
"This has been one crazy day," Neve muttered before looking at the two yellow and red clad teens who were inconspicuously holding hands. She raised an eyebrow and leaned over.
"You two have some explaining to do," she whispered and Kira blushed while Conner smirked.
xXx
"Neveah, get back here right now!" Tommy yelled as he watched his daughter retreating back as she made for the stairs. She turned and glared at her father, she couldn't believe him.
"I can't believe you! Why didn't you trust me enough to tell me?" she asked, as she stood on the second step. Kim watched from the doorway of the living room and sighed as the two most stubborn people she knew faced off.
"It wasn't that I didn't trust you..." Tommy began but was cut off by his daughter bitter laugh which made both wince.
"Really, because it sure seems like it to me. I understand though, why trust me I tend to turn evil every few months," she spat and her eyes flashed pink before she stormed off down the stairs and into the kitchen. Tommy sighed and Kim felt her eyes fill with tears.
"She can't really mean that, Tommy our baby girl thinks we don't trust her," Kim said as she clutched David to her chest. Looking down into his newborn baby blues she sobbed slightly.
"Not for long," he said and stormed after her. Kimberly sighed and walked into the living room and placed the baby in his play pen.
"Stay here baby, you shouldn't have to hear this," Kim said and walked off to the kitchen she winced at the argument.
"Neve, I just didn't want you being pulled back into this world." She heard her daughter laugh and shivered slightly it was a good natured laugh it was one of those bitter ones that reminded them so much of when she had been evil. Kim didn't know know if her daughter did it on purpose or if it was just the way it came out.
"I think it's a little late for that, if you didn't want me to be pulled into this world maybe you should have chosen a town without Rangers for me and mom to move to," Neve said and tried to leave. Tommy grabbed her arm and kept her there.
"Princess, please I'm sorry. We should have told you but we didn't even know when the gems would be needed," Tommy said and Neve sighed.
"How many gems are there?" Neve asked. Tommy sighed, he knew this was a test, if he answered she would most likely forgive him if he didn't she'd stay angry. She's done it before but never over something so big.
"Tommy just tell her. She's in this now, we can't stop it," Kim said and Tommy nodded.
"There are seven, I found the ones Kira and the others bonded to. I never found the Black one but I know it exist. I had the White, Maroon, and Green but I lost them in the explosion," Tommy said and Neve nodded.
"Okay, I forgive you. I love you dad but I need you to trust me. If you can't how can I believe I deserve to be trusted after everything I've done?" she asked and grabbed her apple juice and left for her room. Tommy sighed, that went better then he'd thought.
"You did good Handsome," Kim said as she leaned into his side.
xXx
The bell rang at Reefside High the next morning as Ethan, Conner, Kira and Neve filed into class. The two girls, who had been talking about Kira's song which she was still working the kinks out of, were jolted out their conversation when Cassidy pushed her way through.
"Kira Ford, Cassidy Cornell, Reefside News Network," she introduced herself swiftly.
"Cassidy, I know who you are, we've been at school together and in home room for a excruciating three years now," Kira quipped, stopping at her seat.
"Yes, anyway," Cassidy went on. "What can you tell me about the mysterious goings-on at Reefside? For example, the sudden friendship between you, Conner McKnight, Ethan James and new girl Neveah Oliver who just so happens to be Dr. Oliver's daughter."
"Is she for real?" Neve asked Kira as Cassidy continued to ignore the girl in pink and green. Ethan and Conner, from their separate tables and groups in the science lab, looked over, intrigued.
"Look, other than being Neve's friend, I have no idea what you're talking about," Kira stated, earning an annoyed sigh from the reporter. "And as you can see, I'm just fine. But you…you look kind of um…"
"Washed out, pasty?" Neve asked, helping Kira along who nodded and Cassidy's eyes widened.
"Are you serious? I hate fluorescent lighting!"
As Kira rolled her eyes and took her seat with Neve, Tommy came in and politely asked Cassidy – now frantically checking herself out in her compact mirror – to sit down. Grinning sheepishly, she scurried to her seat.
"Okay, so, today we'll be talking about the Mesozoic period," Tommy spoke, drawing attention back to him. "Who can tell me when it all began?"
No one got to answer with anything more than surprised yells as the whole place shook from a earthquake – like an earthquake. The lights then went out everywhere, before back-up generators kicked in and dimmer lights turned on. Students rushed towards the window as the sky went black and lightning and thunder rang out. As panicked cries erupted from the students, only Neve, Kira, Conner and Ethan remained in their seats.
"Oh what I wouldn't do to have Hunter and Blake here," Neve muttered and Kira looked at her friend and the girl shook her head. Through the open door came Devin, running at tops speeds and he skidded to a stop beside Cassidy, a large goofy grin plastered on his face.
"Cass, you're never gonna believe this!"
"Lemme guess, the sky just went black in the middle of the day?" Cassidy asked.
"It did?" Devin was confused, before remembering why he was here. "I just heard this whack report about mechanical dinosaurs attacking downtown!"
Tommy's head snapped up at this and Neve sighed and let her head drop onto the desk before groaning as her forehead hit the cold metal. Kira winced and helped her sit up. "Oh, grab your camera!" Cassidy told Devin, grabbing his hand and heading towards the door.
"Wait, hold it you two!" Doctor Oliver called, just as the intercom turned on.
Students remain calm. The mayor has declared a state of emergency. Please report to the front of the school for immediate dismissal! Again…
As Principal Randall repeated her announcement and students rushed out of class, Tommy approached Kira, Neve, Ethan and Conner.
"Dr. O, now would be a really good time to uh, y'know…," Kira stated.
"Have that little chat!" Neve finished for Kira who nodded.
"Exactly," Kira agreed.
"We're out of time," Tommy replied.
"If Mesogog revived the Biozords, we gotta act fast. Come with me," Tommy said and as he rushed out, the four teens exchanged glances.
"What's the worst that could happen?" Ethan shrugged.
"Ethan, shut up," Neve said exasperated and they all they all followed him.
xXx
"So these mechanical Dinosaurs, they're your friends?" Kira asked.
"The Biozords," Tommy stated, turning to face the four teens as they entered his basement laboratory. "Fusion-powered replicates using actual Dinosaur DNA for neural functions."
"Huh?" Neve asked as she frowned. Sometimes she forgot her dad could speak all smart like.
"They look, act and think like the Dinosaurs they're built like," Ethan told her before turning to look at Tommy. "And lemme guess, you helped build them?"
"I'm afraid so," Tommy said as he sighed now standing by his large computer system. "But right now we…I mean you, have to tame them."
Nervous laughter echoed among the teens except Neve, and Ethan began to turn away. "I'll B-B-L if it's all the same to you."
"What's that mean?" Tommy inquired, and Neve smirked.
"Be Back Later," Neve stated.
"Ethan wait," the paleontologist called, walking towards him with a determined face. "You can do this. But you won't have to do it alone."
"Ever since I found the Dino Gems," he added, walking towards a table in the center of the room where they had found the gems. "I've had these waiting. In case I ever needed to harness their powers."
"Into what?" Kira inquired, as Tommy opened the briefcase on the table and Neve moved to stand beside her father smirked. Inside were three little contraptions, no bigger than their hands that were attached to metal wristbands. Each was a different color and designed after a different Dinosaur.
"What are those?" Conner asked.
"Dino Morphers," Tommy replied. "Use these to become Power Rangers."
Conner laughed. Kira scoffed and Ethan's eyes widened. It was evident for Ethan, it was in shock, as his knees weakened and he backed up. "I think I may need to sit down."
"Breathe, dude, breathe," Conner said as he chuckled, helping him back to his feet.
"We can't be Power Rangers," Kira stated, and Tommy looked at her questioningly. "Aren't you supposed to fly, or have superhuman strength and, stuff like that?"
"Kira, Rockstar...you do," Neve said and laughed as the blonde nodded.
"Oh yeah…" Kira bit her lip, remembering their fights with the Tyrannodrones. "...I forgot."
"Your Gems are from the asteroid that crashed into Earth millions of years ago, wiping out the entire Dinosaur population," Tommy explained. "When I found them, I recognized their power and hid them, so that they wouldn't fall into the wrong hands."
"How do you know these are the right hands?" Conner inquired. Neve laughed and shrugged.
"Well it could have to do with you not blasting the town into smithereens with your powers..." Neve trailed off and Tommy shook his head.
"Not exactly, more like…the Gems are yours. You didn't choose them, they chose you," he said.
"Can't they unchoose us?" Kira asked as Tommy walked off to his computer.
"They've already bonded to your DNA," Tommy told them. "It's what gave you your powers."
"So if they're already bonded with us…," Ethan began. "How come Mesogog and his creeps are still after them?" Tommy walked back over to them, a somber look on his face and Neve knew she wasn't going to like this. "The only way these powers can be taken away is if you're destroyed."
"Well, that's harsh," Neve said and shot her dad a look. He sighed, he didn't make the rules.
"Yeah, for future reference, that's not a great selling point," Ethan agreed.
"Look, all I know is that I don't remember asking to be a super hero," Conner exclaimed and Neve sighed. She didn't either but then she didn't exactly start out a hero.
"The Gems wouldn't have bonded to you if you didn't already have something inside you that could handle the power," Tommy explained, returning to stand behind the briefcase and push it towards them.
"Please guys, if we could we would but the gems chose you," Neve told them and they sighed exchanging glances, the three teens nodded and each took the wristband gadget with a matching color to their Dino Gem, examining them.
Conner's was in the shape of a red Tyrannosaurus head, with gray spikes on its face and a yellow eye. Ethan's took the shape of a blue Triceratops head, its gray nose and head horns sticking out and contrasting with its green eye. Kira's was much more pointed, in the image of a yellow Pterodactyl with it's pale gray bump on it's head and flashing red eye.
"So now what?" Ethan inquired. "Do we need some kind of secret password or command?"
"It's called a roll call," Neve told him and they looked at her and Kira narrowed her eyes.
"Speaking from experience Neve?" Kira asked slowly and Neve's eyes widened. To tell or not to tell twas the question.
"She's right, it's a roll call," Tommy stated saving Neve from answering. "And all have to say is 'Dino Thunder, Power Up' and you'll be transformed. You'll know what to do."
"Dino Thunder…," Conner chuckled, looking at Ethan. "What, did you come up with that?"
"I kinda like it," Ethan smiled.
"You would," Conner smirked, making Kira roll her eyes and elbow him in the side. He groaned and gave his girlfriend a look but she ignored him.
"Look, I know you four are from different worlds, I get it," Tommy stated.
"That's an understatement," Kira muttered.
"But you're gonna have to work together, or this'll never happen," he told them. "This won't be easy; nobody knows that better than I- we do. But you're gonna have to believe in yourselves. Cuz I believe in you."
"Really?" Conner questioned.
"Really," Tommy nodded.
Neve smiled at them and nodded at her friends. She knew they could do this, and she would help even if it wasn't actively.
Xxx
Neve watched with her father as the new Rangers started their battle. She was rather impressed with the suits and she also proud at the new team. They had great team work already and it could only get better as the battle waged.
"They're huge," Conner breathed as they skidded to a stop in front of the towering machines.
"That's an understatement," Kira told him.
"Calm down boy," Ethan stepped forward, seeing as how the Tricera Zord was scraping it's front foot against the ground, ready to charge. Hearing him it slowed down slightly, as if pondering. Speaking into his morpher, Ethan went on. "That's right…I'm your friend…"
Sensing it was the right time, Ethan thrust his fist into the air as his Morpher glowed blue. "Tricera Zord!" he called. Echoing his call with its roar, the Zord, which had been gray up until now, stood on its hind legs as it turned blue, green eyes flashing.
"It worked!" Ethan grinned as the others nodded their congratulations.
"Okay, my turn," Kira stated, her Morpher close as she looked up at the dinosauric bird perched atop a high building. "Ptera Zord! We can do this, if you'll let me!"
The Zord expanded its wings, crying out into the dark sky as its coloring became yellow and its red eyes flared with understanding. Neve cheered from her spot and the Pterazord as if seeing a relative swooped down close and Neve chuckled as wind swept her and her dad who shivered slightly not knowing the zord could do that or recognize more then her human.
"Awesome!" Kira smiled, as her and Ethan's Zord moved out towards the much taller and much bigger T-Rex zord. Wincing as their Zords were hit by the T-Rex's spinning tail, she looked at the Red Ranger.
"Conner, you've got to do something. You're Zord's outta control!"
"C'mon, I need you to work with me here!" Conner yelled.
Hearing his voice, the Zord turned away from the other two and stomped towards him, but didn't look like it was for friendly purposes. Conner clutched his Morpher. "Tyranno Zord!"
It stopped in its tracks as its head swayed slightly, before roaring as red covered its body and its yellow eyes turned from viral to calming. "Yes!" Conner smiled, and Neveah and Tommy rejoined them.
"Only one more thing to do," Tommy stated.
"It's time to bring them together and form your megazord," Neve said as she smiled, and the others nodded, the boys figured she'd known because her dad had told her but Kira wasn't convinced. Neve was hiding something from them.
"Okay," Conner stated, as he and the other two brought their wrists close. "Let's do it!"
All together they jumped high into the air and were drawn to their Zords, phasing into the cockpits designed on the inside.
"Combine Power!" they called together, and soon their Zords were assembled and ready, having made the Thundersaurus Megazord as Tommy and Neve watched, the other Rangers battled Zeltrax's ship, eventually finding a weak point near the back of the ship that they hit with their Drill Arm, exploding the large sting-ray-shaped aircraft.
As the Rangers cheered, and Tommy and Neve smiled in pride and remembrance to when that was them, sparks almost like fireworks descended upon the city, and unbeknownst to them, Zeltrax returned to Mesogog's lair alongside Elsa.
"They did it," Neve said sighing and Tommy smiled at his daughter. He was proud of her, she was taking this better then he'd thought. She'd only been powerless for about two weeks now, and now she had to watch as her new friends donned the suits.
xXx
Tommy opened the briefcase from earlier, revealing where the morphers had been put back. As faint echoes of their representing Dinosaurs sounded, the Morphers transformed into silver wristbands, with the Dino Gems carefully fitted onto the top.
"Keep these bracelets with you at all times," Tommy told them as one by one, Ethan, Conner and Kira picked up their respective bracelets, examining them carefully. "They'll access your morphers when you need them. And you can use these to communicate with me, or with each other."
"Dr. O I know you're real smart, being a science teacher and all but this is…," Kira trailed off, frowning. "I mean how did you…?"
"How did he do all this? Good question," Neve said smirking at her father who narrowed his eyes at her briefly.
"I'll fill you in," Tommy promised. "In time."
"Speaking of time," Ethan began. "Think Mesogog's gonna stick around for a while?"
"Unfortunately, they always do," Neve replied and Kira once again noticed the girl's slip. The boys didn't seem to though as Conner looked at her and asked.
"They?"
"I know this is hard to take in," Tommy told them.
"That's for sure," Ethan nodded.
"You're lives are changing in ways you probably couldn't have imagined," he went on after sending a brief look to Neve. "But as long as you work together, and remember you're a team. No one can defeat you. No one."
The three teens exchanged glances, his words settling at just what their futures held for them processed in their minds. Neve gave them all big grins and they nodded. If Neve thought they could and so did Dr. O and Mrs. O – who was standing behind her daughter and husband but had kept silent as to let the teens process – though they could then they'd try and prove their faith founded. This was the beginning of something they'd never forget.
A/N: So here we are, second chapter. I am sorry it took so long but it was harder to write then I thought. Mostly because Neve isn't yet a Ranger and she unfortunately won't find her gem until White Thunder which is being retitled to Multicolored Thunder. That is when the real fun begins to for me. Also I decided this is a Conner/Kira. I know some see them as more of a Jason/Kim relationship - the brother-sister thing but Trent and Kira just wouldn't have worked out for this. But I have someone in mind for Trent, a Spirit Ninja by the name of Etsuko - you might remember her from the end of Pink with Envy. Trent will in the end be the Brother role for Kira while Conner starts viewing Neve as a sister. Poor Neve she is going to be over run with brothers - Shane, Cam, Dustin, Blake, now Conner, Ethan and Trent.
Also since it is a Kira/Conner and this will be the first time I write this pairing since my favorite for Kira are Tommy, Trent and Adam (yes Adam Park is who I mean.) and even Hunter a time or two. I decided to give it a spin I have not seen before, so they've been dating before being a Ranger so no you are not going blind or reading something wrong. They've just been keeping it secret because of coming from different worlds.
Anyways R&R!