A/N: Since we're at the current chapter, I might as well reveal it. Yup, the One Tree Hill characters have superpowers. Though we see it more from Brooke's side in this story since she's in a world where she needs to use them. Find out how they got these powers in the upcoming chapters.
Chapter 2
Over at Root Core, Clare sees in her crystal ball that Lazarous and the Hidiacs are attacking Crystalspring. "Oh no, better contact the Rangers."
At the nearby city of Briarwood, the Rangers' magical wands in cell phone form go off. Kai and Damon stand by.
"Madison and Chip here," the two of them answer as the other three Mystic Rangers listen in.
"You guys, Lazarous is back," Clare tells them on the other end.
"Where is he?" Xander asks.
"This time he's attacking the city of Crystalspring," she informs them.
"Crystalspring?" Charlie comments as he thinks about how far that is. "We'll be there as soon as we can."
"What did she say?" Damon asks.
"Lazarous is back," Nick answers.
"Well, I'm ready for round two," Damon tells them.
"She says he's attacking over at Crystalspring," Nick tells him.
"Where's that?" Damon asks.
"It's another city. Not the next city down the highway, but the city after that one," Madison informs them.
"We better get going then," Kai says.
All seven of them run out of the Rock Porium.
A small group of minions are about to attack five civilians when Brooke comes flying in above the civilians and sends a hard kick to the two foot soldiers at front of the group. The duo falls, knocking down the others behind them, creating a domino effect that sends the rest of the group to the ground.
Two women are running down the streets trying to get away from a small group of Hidiacs. They attempt to turn the corner, but another group of the minions are already on the other side. The girls are surrounded and they panic, unsure of what to do, one of them decides to close her eyes.
Suddenly the woman feels someone putting their arm around her waist and her feet being lifted off the ground. She opens her eyes and sees she's several stories up in the air. She looks around and sees her friend is also up there with her, and Brooke Davis is the one holding onto both of them.
"What? You're flying!" she says to Brooke.
"Cool isn't it?" Brooke says to the young woman with a smile.
Brooke then swerves towards the rooftop of one of the nearby buildings. Their feet touch down on the roof and Brooke lets go of the two women. "I'm going to take care of the problem down below. Watch if you want to," Brooke tells them before flying off again.
Brooke touches down on the ground and looks at Lazarous. A part of her is amused because she remembered seeing the Power Rangers when she was younger. "Hey you, lizard monster! Now I don't know if you're attacking the city for the sake of attacking the city, or if it's part of your master's plan to defeat whichever Ranger team you're up against, but I'm stopping you right here."
"Take a hike." Lazarous replies casually as he fires off an energy ball at Brooke.
Brooke does a big flip over to the side and uses her flight powers to put some distance between herself and Lazarous as the blast misses her, causing an explosion. "Oh, it's on now!" She remarks.
"Seven Rangers couldn't even stop me; you think you can do better?" Lazarous replies back.
"Let's find out," Brooke says.
Brooke runs towards Lazarous then takes a long leap forwards. The shield plates form on his gauntlets as he sees Brooke readying up her fist for a punch. She rushes quickly towards Lazarous yet he predicts the move and blocks her incoming punch. Brooke immediately spins herself the other way and faces Lazarous just as he attempts to throw some punches of his own. Brooke catches his punch with her right hand then immediately gives a right side kick and left back kick combo to combat him. Sparks fly off Lazarous' stomach as the hits connect and he stumbles back on the hood of a car.
The monster quickly pushes himself up and comes at Brooke, going for a kick and a punch. Brooke kicks Lazarous on the shin before his leg was able to get high enough while simultaneously using her elbow to knock away the punch. The elbowing arm quickly straightens forward and Brooke delivers two quick punches to Lazarous' head before jumping in the air and dive punching him, causing him to crash down to the ground.
Brooke hears the civilians screaming and decides to focus on them instead.
The Mystic Force Rangers and Galaxy Rangers are all morphed up and hopping onto their Jet Jammers, or in the Mystic Rangers' case, brooms that have morphed into the Mystic Racers.
Brooke is flying towards a large group of Hidiacs chasing more panicked civilians. Once she reaches them, she uses her flight powers to run kick across the chest of all of the foot soldiers at the front of the group like Neo's spinning pole kick from Matrix Reloaded except Brooke's not using a pole. All the Hidiacs at the front of the group are knocked backwards and send the rest of the group tumbling down with them like dominos.
Lazarous gets back on his feet. "You will pay for that!"
Orange flaming energy starts generating out of Lazarous' hands. Brooke sees that she can't dodge it or the group of people she's standing close to might get caught in the blast. Lazarous fires the energy balls, and they come towards Brooke who then proceeds to catch them in her hands like two basketballs. She then raises them above her head and allows the energy to disperse into the air like water vapour.
"How did you manage to do that?" An amazed civilian asks.
"Yeah, how did you do that?" Lazarous repeats in disbelief.
"A trick I was taught," Brooke tells them. She turns her head to look at the civilians. "You guys head to safety."
Lazarous pulls out his sword, and Brooke runs towards him. She quickly slides across the ground as the monster goes for a failed sword swipe. Brooke uses her flight powers to shoot back up on her feet like a spring while Lazarous has his back turned. She delivers a spinning jump kick to Lazarous' back. Sparks fly off his back as he gets knocked forward, but he quickly regains his footing. Lazarous turns around, does a leap of his own towards Brooke and swings his sword downwards.
Brooke turns the right side of her body to the side so the sword swipe misses her and hits the ground. She quickly turns back into her previous position and uses the momentum to hit Lazarous in the stomach with her right knee. The monster tries to backfist Brooke with his right shield plate as she's to the right side of him. Brooke catches his forearm, pulls him forwards towards her then bends his forearm back so his right shield plate smashes into his own face.
Lazarous falls back and collapses on his knees. Brooke hears the Hidiacs and looks around to see that they're beginning to surround the area. Lazarous gets back up and charges at Brooke. She moves in close to grab Lazarous' hands to stop his sword and quickly rolls back, using her leg to toss Lazarous into the air. The lizard monster flies twenty feet into the air and lands on a large broken piece of concrete.
One of the groups of Hidiacs approaches Brooke from the direction that she tossed Lazarous in and she runs towards them. They ready themselves for the incoming attack, but instead, Brooke takes to the air and flies right past them. She keeps on going until she reaches a building where she bounces off the building's brick wall and shoots straight back in the direction of the Hidiacs. However, she stops short as she kicks a fire hydrant on the edge of the sidewalk.
Water gushes out of the hydrant like a geyser. Brooke places her foot on top of the water and directs it towards the Hidiacs and Lazarous. The foot soldiers stumble around in the puddles of water while the monster is merely irritated. "What is water supposed to do?" Lazarous asks.
Brook flies up and hovers about fifteen feet off the ground. Electricity begins gathering in the palm of her hand, creating a ball the size of a grenade. Brooke tosses the ball of electricity over to where Lazarous and the foot soldiers are. The ball of electricity hits the ground where the puddles of water are. It explodes violently, conducting the energy through the water that the villains are soaked in and shocking all of them. Lazarous lets out a groans as sparks explodes off him and the Hidiacs. The scene plays out as if in slow motion as the villains flail and collapse on the ground from the attack.
Up in the skies, the seven Rangers are not too far off in the distance. "Over there, we're approaching Crystalspring," Vida calls out.
The Rangers fly over the city and look out for any disturbances. "Down there," Charlie points as he sees the fleeing people.
The Rangers touch down in a back alley behind an apartment building. They get off their Jet Jammers and rush to the open streets. They see a number of people are rushing up a stairway towards them to get away from a few Hidiacs. One man has one of his legs yanked on as he attempts to run up the stairwell, while a woman is being grabbed on near the bottom of the stairs.
"Stop that right now!" Kai shouts as he's the first to get to the scene and he knocks the Hidiac off the man.
Xander leaps down to the bottom of the stairwell. He shoves away the Hidiac grabbing onto the woman and then kicks it to the ground. "There you go ma'am."
"Thank you," she replies back.
The other Rangers quickly dispatch of the rest of the Hidiacs. "Alright, let's find Lazarous and stop him," Nick instructs.
"If you're talking about that lizard monster, someone is already fighting it," the woman tells them.
"Someone is? Who?" Nick asks.
"I don't know. A young woman. They're back there," the woman points in the direction of Brooke.
"She'll probably need our help," Damon suggests.
"Let's go then," Madison insists and the Rangers start rushing over in the direction given.
About a few blocks away, Brooke is walking down the middle of the city street where the Hidiacs are scattered in buildings and store fronts, smashing up the place. "Alright boys, let's stop with the vandalizing of people's stores!" Brooke says out loud so the Hidiacs can hear.
They stop what they're doing and steps out into the streets, gathering up into one group and facing Brooke.
"Alright, let's have it," Brooke tells them confidently.
Some of them were about to charge in, but others suddenly remembered what Brooke did to their comrades and stopped the rest, now hesitant to fight Brooke.
"What are you guys doing?" a voice calls out to the Hidiacs. They look over to the intersection on the opposite side of Brooke and see that it's Lazarous with another small group of Hidiacs.
Although Lazarous is back on his feet, he hasn't fully retained his balance yet. "Don't just stand there, get her!" He commands.
The Rangers arrive up the street. They look to their side and see Brooke and the foot soldiers in the middle and Lazarous behind Brooke on the intersection on the other side of the street.
Brooke kicks away the first Hidiac in the group in front of her. The kick sends the creature flying back and he knocks a row of his comrades behind him down like bowling pins. Lazarous tries shooting his eyes beams at Brooke while she is busy with the Hidiacs, but she looks back just in time and performs a high back flip away from the group. The beams misses her and it hits the Hidiacs in front of her, causing them to spark and collapse.
As Brooke lands back down on the ground, Lazarous does his own high leap and jumps at Brooke with his sword. He rapidly swings the weapon from side to side, trying to hit her, but she successfully moves out of the way of every hit.
"We've got to help her," Nick says out loud and is about to run into battle before Madison stops him.
"Hold on, look," she tells him.
Lazarous does a small jump off the ground and attempts a spinning sword slash. Brooke clamps her hands together on the sides of the thick sword blade and stops it from touching her body. She then kicks Lazarous in the stomach and separates him from his sword.
Holding onto the blade by the flat sides, Brooke tosses the sword into the air and catches it by the handle. "This will do nicely," she remarks as she looks at the sword.
Brooke then streaks towards the Hidiacs she was originally facing before Lazarous jumped in. The ones Brooke kicked down are just starting to get back on their feet. She copies some of Ryu Hayabusa's techniques and performs numerous fast spins like a tornado with the sword and massive amounts of sparks come out of the Hidiacs. Brooke charges the blade of Lazarous's sword with a green energy and performs an uppercut with it, knocking three Hidiacs off the ground. She then jumps about six feet into the air before she comes back down and slams the sword into the ground. A large wave of green energy explodes around Brooke and knocks all of the Hidiacs in the area at least several feet back and they disappear in defeat.
"Whoa, she's good," Vida comments.
"Hey, that's my sword!" Lazarous says to Brooke.
Brooke looks at Lazarous with a smirk then tosses the sword right in front of her feet. "Come and get it."
Lazarous generates a ball of orange energy in each hand. The small group of Hidiacs who arrived with Lazarous is still standing where they arrived. "Let's go!" Lazarous orders as the Hidiacs follow him into battle.
Lazarous throws the first energy ball at Brooke, who literally knocks it into the air. She starts running at Lazarous, who then throws the next energy ball. Brooke does a forward leap and a fancy spin to dodge the energy ball as it explodes behind her.
Brooke dashes the rest of the distance towards Lazarous. The monster tries to punch her with his right hand and in a series of moves, she ducks underneath his right arm, grabs his arm near the shoulders with her right hand, pushes him forward then punches him in the back with her left hand. Lazarous recovers quickly enough to spin his body back towards Brooke in another attempt to backfist her with his right shield plate. She catches his shield plate with one hand, then grabs his arm with her other hand and breaks the shield plate off his gauntlet. She hits Lazarous over the side of the face with the broken off shield plate and he gets knocked over to the side.
"Let's go save the people from the remaining Hidiacs," Vida suggests. "Looks like this woman has Lazarous handled."
"Agreed," says Damon.
Most of the Rangers scatter to go beat up the rest of the Hidiacs. "I'll stay nearby in case this woman needs help," Xander says.
Brooke throws the stolen shield plate over to the Hidiacs like a frisbee. Sparks emerge as the makeshift weapon hits three Hidiacs as it flies by them. The Hidiacs collapse on the ground as the final two try to attack Brooke. She delivers a swift leg sweep to one of the Hidiacs which knocks it off the ground, and immediately follows it with a side kick with the other leg which sends it flying into the other Hidiac. All five Hidiacs disappear where they lay.
"Looks like it's just me and you now," Brooke tells Lazarous as he regains his footing.
Lazarous, in an irritated manner, rushes over to Brooke and tries to throw a series of punches at her. She dodges and blocks all the hits before delivering a counter. She trips Lazarous by kicking one of his legs back then grabs one of his arms and puts it in a submission hold.
"I got to ask, do you monsters enjoy getting killed?" Brooke asks as she has Lazarous in an armlock.
"Of course not," Lazarous answers.
"Then stay down." Brooke says before releasing Lazarous' arm, and following it up with a powerful back kick.
The force sends Lazarous flying through the air with his body in a horizontal position. He smashes into a tall metal fence, getting stuck as the bars bend around his body on impact.
Brooke flies over to Lazarous. She grabs the top of the bent six foot fence and bends it down further, the top horizontal frame breaking off from the rest of it as the many vertical bars are wrapping around Lazarous. Once the monster gets near the bottom, Brooke breaks off the bottom frame then places the unconscious Lazarous on the sidewalk.
The two young women Brooke saved earlier are watching the whole thing from the roof of the building they were left at. They rush over to the rooftop door to get down to ground level.
"That should hold him." Brooke comments about the fence that's wrapped around Lazarous.
Having finished off the remaining Hidiacs, the Rangers rush over to Brooke. "Oh hey, the Power Rangers, kind of neat seeing you guys in person," Brooke says with a smile on her face.
"That was impressive," Charlie says to her in amazement.
"I see we weren't needed here," Damon comments. "Those guys didn't even land a single hit on you."
Large groups of people begin gathering around Brooke and the seven Rangers. "Thank you so much for saving us," one of the civilians comes up and says to her.
"It was no problem, really," Brooke tells them with a smile on her face. "Though where were the police to help you guys? I didn't see them anywhere."
"Our city doesn't have police," one of the civilians answers her.
"They wouldn't be very helpful either," one of the kids adds.
"What does that mean? Don't the police protect you guys from danger?" Brooke asks.
The two young women Brooke saved arrive on the scene. "No, they only do things like give out parking tickets, make barricades and check to see if no one is speeding. They're not actually trained for combat," one of the girls explains.
"Yeah, the Rangers are the ones who protect us," the other girl adds.
"So you only have these seven people protecting the entire city from attacks?" Brooke concludes.
"That's how it's always been," Kai states. "And technically, we're only visiting." Kai points to himself and Damon.
"This is actually the first time we been in this city too," Madison adds.
"Good thing this is the first time we ever had a monster attack," one of the civilians remarks. The rest of the crowd agrees.
"So for the most part, you guys are completely defenseless and if there's trouble, you just have to hope someone nearby hears about it and comes to help?" Brooke asks.
"For this city? Pretty much," the civilian confirms.
"This explains so much actually," Brooke remarks. Thinking about why she never seems to see anyone besides the Rangers trying to stop the bad guys.
"Sounds like this is your first time in the city, do you have a place to stay?" one of the two young women asks.
"Not yet. I'm thinking of just staying at a hotel for now until I find a place to stay."
"Well no need to do any searching, you could stay at my place."
"You sure you don't mind?"
"Oh yeah, I have plenty of room. Plus my friends are going to want to meet you."
"Alright then. You got it. What's your address?"
"You have anything to write on?" the young woman asks.
Brooke searches into her pockets and pulls out her cellphone. "Got it."
The young woman moves in close so the people around them don't hear. She begins telling Brooke her address.
"Let's go grab Lazarous," Vida suggests as this was happening.
"Agreed sis," Madison comments.
The two of them and Charlie move to the fence area where Lazarous is. They grab the bars of the fence that's wrapped around him and stand the lizard monster up.
Brooke finishes typing in the young woman's address. "Thanks a lot for this. I'm Brooke by the way."
"I'm Ashley," the young woman says then goes in to excitedly hug Brooke. "Are you going to be dropping over to my soon?"
Brooke looks around. "Not yet. There's something I've got to do first. It was nice meeting you all," she tells the crowd before taking to the air and flying off.
Several of the citizens wave goodbye too. "Bye. It was nice meeting you," some of the people call out.
The Power Rangers then look at the citizens too. "We should probably be going too," Nick says. "Come on, you." He says to Lazarous as the Rangers take him along with them.
A short distance away, the Rangers head into an alleyway near their hover vehicles.
Damon stops running at the moment. "Hold on guys, want to talk about something before we head back."
"Alright," Nick acknowledges.
The Rangers drop Lazarous on the ground. "Power down," they say in unison as they return back to their civilian clothes.
"That woman back there. I haven't been on Earth in a while, so do any of you guys know who she is?" Damon asks.
"It's the first time any of us have seen her too," Charlie says and the other Mystic Rangers agree.
"I remember she said her name back there," Madison reminds them. "Did any of you guys catch it?"
"You could try asking her yourselves," a voice says from up above.
The Rangers are taken by surprise and look above them to see where that voice came from. They see Brooke standing four stories up on a fire escape balcony. She leaps off the fire escape and lands on the concrete completely fine.
The Rangers are pretty speechless on what to say as she approaches them. "Oh... uh..." one of the Rangers mutters.
"You guys are different from the Power Rangers I was familiar with growing up," Brooke tells them in a cheery mood. "You know the original Rangers. Kimberly, Jason, Tommy, Trini, Billy and Zack, I believe their names are. They were the ones with that floating head in a tube for a mentor. I think his name was Zordon. I always remembered him saying 'we need teenagers with attitude' in searching for Rangers, then it was followed up with the whole catchy theme song."
The seven Rangers are even now more speechless, wondering how Brooke would know all of that.
Brooke could see the Rangers are having a hard time in exactly what to say to her, so she begins. "How about we properly introduce ourselves?" Brooke says to them, "Here I'll start. My name is Brooke Davis." She extends them her hand.
Charlie sees this as a good thing and decides to finally approach her. "Charlie Thorn or Chip as my friends call me. Nice to meet you," he says with a rather enthusiastic smile as he shakes Brooke's hand.
Another Ranger comes up to Brooke and shakes her hand. "Xander Bly, great to meet you Brooke," he says with a smile too as he doesn't have to initiate 'Plan Xander' to get on friendly terms with this super-powered stranger.
The other five follow their lead right after.