It started out as a beautiful day in Angel Grove Park. Tommy and Kim were walking in the park. He had a picnic basket in one hand as he held Kim's hand in the other. She had a blanket over her shoulder. "This is such a great idea Tommy." She said to him with a wide smile. "A picnic in the park. When will the others be showing up?"
"Billy teleported to New York to work with Donnie on his idea to keep my powers going." Tommy answered. "Trini and Zack are dealing with something at school but they'll swing by when they get the chance. Jason and Amber will join us after they finish their karate class at the youth center. It's just us for at least an hour."
"Morphinomenal." Kim said with a giggle and then cocked her head. "Wait, when did Amber have to join Jason's class?" She now asked. Amber was basically self-taught by her father but she was skilled enough to be the only person Kim had ever seen take Jason and Tommy in a sparring match singlehandedly.
"She didn't. He wanted her to come by and speak about her experiences. It's not every day that someone trains the way she did and turn out so extraordinary." Tommy answered with a smile of his own.
They found a place to set up the picnic and sat down across from each other. They didn't want to start eating right away; wanting to wait until they knew rather or not some of their friends would make it. They each started with an apple each.
As the minutes passed they noticed their 'friend's' from school Bulk and Skull showing up. They weren't really friend's exactly more like local bullies, though Tommy had seen far more menacing ones in his day. It didn't stop them from being annoying and occasionally mildly threatening. They also had an annoying habit of trying to convince Trini and especially Kimberly to date them, not that that ever got anywhere.
At the moment they were approaching one of Billy's friends from the science club and were starting to harass him. "I'd love to see them try that with Donatello." Tommy noted with some disgust.
"Totally." Kim agreed. She was already sure that Tommy was getting ready to defend him.
Then a little boy accidently ran right into Bulk and he turned to him now, snapping at him to watch where he's going, which Skull echoed like a parrot. In fright the kid dashed off.
Kim watched with her own disgust now as she glanced at the kid to see him running in the opposite direction…and unknowingly right toward someone riding a bicycle. They weren't watching what they were doing either and she suspected that the little boy would get ran over. "Oh, no. Tommy." Kim gasped.
"Oh man." Tommy said and immediately stood up to go get him though he highly suspected that he wouldn't make it in time. They could also hear the boy's mother calling out in panic too as the boy's father started to hotly question Bulk's decision to snap at a little kid.
Just as the bicyclist was about to hit the boy a blonde girl in a pink and white summer dress appeared and scooped the boy in her arms, barely avoiding getting smacked by the cyclist herself. She came to a stop just as he zoomed past.
Tommy and the mother were there a moment later with Kim right behind them. The mother thanked the girl several times as she took her son in her arms and returning to her husband, who was still lecturing the two bullies, who very quickly decided to make an exit.
"That was some quick thinking." Tommy said to her with a smile.
"Yeah, really awesome." Kim agreed with a smile as well. "And nice timing too."
"Thank you." The blonde said with a smile of her own. They could both detect an accent in her voice. She couldn't help but notice the guy was pretty handsome.
"I'm Kimberly and this is Tommy." She introduce them to the blonde girl even as they started walking back toward their picnic set up. She followed the pair as they talked.
"My name is Katherine, but everyone calls me Kat." She introduced herself, shaking hands with Tommy and then with Kim. "I just moved here with my parents after my father got transferred to the Angel Grove military base."
"Wow, that's cool." Tommy said to her. "Where were you guys at prior too?"
"Australia, where I was born and raised." Kat answered with a small smile. "I'll be attending Angel Grove High next week."
"We go there with our other friends." Kimberly revealed to her. "We can show you around and help you get acclimated."
"I'd like that." Kat replied.
"So let me get this straight Redd." Zedd said to his brother. "The first thing we need to do is actually get a hold of the green ranger."
"Correct." The muscular version of Zedd answered him. "We can use the Dark Dimension for the first part of this plan. The second thing we'll need is a monster."
"Simple enough." Zedd replied as he glanced at Earth and activated his own binocular vision from the visor that seemed to be his eyes. "I will turn the sentinel statue in Angel Grove into Nimrod the Scarlet Sentinel." He then laughed rather unexpectedly, surprising Goldar and Scorpina. "And what perfect timing as well. I have felt a shift in the morphing grid; the command center has gone offline."
"An excellent opportunity." Redd agreed. He turned to look at the gold winged monster and the scorpion female. "Go and attack the rangers. Bring the green ranger to the dark dimension."
"At once." Goldar said as Scorpina bowed and then they both disappeared.
Even as Kim talked about some of her favorite shops in the mall, promising to take Kat with her the next time she, Trini and Amber went, the blonde couldn't help but glance back at Tommy. That attraction shifted majorly however when she saw another guy approaching, wearing a red shirt and blue jeans. Beside him was a brunette girl also about their age but she after being around Tommy and Kim and being able to tell they were together, she could see these two were not.
Tommy raised his hand. "Jason, Amber. Over here." He called out. The two started toward the picnic set up.
Jason himself stopped short just a little as he saw the blonde with them. He noticed her eyes, both strong and gentle looking. The small curve of her lips at her shy smile when they came closer. He thought her hair seemed soft and even seemed to glow a little in the sunlight.
Amber didn't seem nearly as fazed about their new acquaintances appearance. "Hey Tommy, Kim. Who's your friend?" She asked.
"Jason, Amber. This is Kat." Kim introduced them. "We just saw her save a little boy from nearly getting ran over by an unaware cyclist."
"Hey, nice to meet you." Amber said as she shook Kat's hand.
"Likewise." Kat said.
"I hope you're okay." Jason said as he lightly grasped Kat's outstretched hand. "You and the boy I mean."
"We're both fine." Kat promised and smiled a little. "It's very nice to meet you Jason."
"It's nice to meet you too." Jason said with a smile of his own. Both held onto each other's hand a little bit longer than necessary.
Amber repressed a giggle at her friend's expense. Like Trini she had seen the spark between Tommy and Kim, something it took a while for the green ranger to acknowledge. She wondered if it would take that long for their leader and the new girl to acknowledge that spark. "I heard from Trini and Zack on the way here." She revealed. "Zack is going to play football with Curtis and some of his friends Trini has a test she wants to study for. They won't be making it today."
"That's too bad." Kim said sincerely. She looked to Kat. "But that means we have extra food. You're welcome to hang out with us."
Kat was ready to politely decline the invitation but Jason seemed to brighten a bit, "Hey, that sounds like a great idea Kat." He said.
She nodded. "Yeah, it sounds great." She agreed.
A pass had just gone wrong and had landed by the sentinel statue. Zack went over to get the football when he looked up at the statue he saw that it seemed to be leaking something, some kind of slime. "Man, something isn't right." He said.
Zedd noticed his interest. "No, it's too soon. My monster isn't ready yet." He said. "Putties, attack." Luckily for him they were basically infinite since Goldar and Scorpina had taken putties too.
Someone screamed as a bunch of putties appeared in the park. The four rangers and Kat looked up as they saw what had caused the commotion. "Oh great, Putties." Kim said as the five of them got up.
"Kat, you got to get out of here." Jason said to her.
"You're not going anywhere." She pointed out to them.
One of the putties tried to attack and Amber kicked it in the stomach hard and slammed her elbow into the back of its head.
Another leapt at Kat and she did her best to deflect the attack, but saving a kid from being ran over and fighting was another thing altogether. Athletic she might have been but a martial artist she was not. It didn't stop her from kicking though; in this case she kicked the putty in the chest. Jason followed up by jumping over her and landing with a solid punch to the Z on the chest. The putty vanished.
"Kat you got to go." Jason said to her. "We'll be fine, but someone needs to make sure that everyone else gets out safely." It was the only reason he could think of aside from the trying to keep her safe.
"Alright, be careful." Kat reluctantly conceded and left them to fight to head toward the place she figured would need the most help; the playground.
That almost seemed to be perfect timing though as Goldar and Scorpina appeared. "You have your orders Putties. Carry them out." Goldar snapped at them.
"Orders?" Amber questioned. "What does he mean by that?"
"I don't know." Jason replied as he looked at the other three rangers. "But I think we all know what's coming now. It's morphin time!"
The four of them pulled out their morphers. "Stegosaurus!" That was Amber's initial dino zord before the transition to thunder where she got the purple horse thunder zord. It could also assume a warrior mode like Jason's zord. "Dragonzord!" "Pterodactyl!" "Tyrannosaurs!"
The four rangers started to engage the putties again. Despite Zedd's being stronger than Rita's they also had a glaring weakness; as demonstrated by Jason striking the Z on their chests caused them to be destroyed.
Scorpina jumped out and slashed Kim with her sword and then moved to attack Amber. The purple ranger summoned her power staff and barely blocked the attack launched by her adversary.
The putties then moved in and started to swarm Jason and Kimberly. The two rangers started to kick and fight for all that they were worth. "What is with these clay brains today?" Kimberly wondered as she cartwheeled out of the way of one of them only to kick one in the Z when she returned to her feet, shattering it.
"I don't know." Jason answered somewhat needlessly as he caught on in the chest and sent it flying, colliding into two other putties.
"Hang on, I'm coming." Tommy called out to his two friends. But as he started toward them Goldar jumped at Tommy and slashed him with his sword.
As the green ranger fell back Goldar growled out, "You're not going anywhere green ranger. Your presence has been requested by Lord Zedd."
Tommy took a fighting stance. "That's not going to happen Goldar." With that he moved forward and tried to kick Goldar but the winged monster ducked under the attack and slashed the green ranger again. This time as he fell back Tommy was grabbed by two puttie patrollers. Then the four of them vanished.
Scorpina vanished as well just as Amber would have struck with a solid blow and she almost lost her footing, from that as much as Kimberly calling out, "Tommy! No!"
Zack meanwhile had just finished off fighting the putty patrollers that Zedd had sent to attack him. "What is going on here?" He wondered as he looked between where the putties had been standing mere moments before and the slime on the Sentinel Statue. He then raised his communicator. "Zordon, come in. Zordon." A beat passed and nothing happened. He tried another route. "Jason, come in. Jason, do you read me?"
Zack was about to let out a sigh of frustration when he heard the red ranger's haggard voice from the communicator. "I read you Zack. I was just about to contact you guys actually."
"You can fill me in after you meet me at the Sentinel Statue in Angel Grove Park." Zack replied. "I'll contact Trini and Billy."
"We're on our way." Jason said somewhat hurriedly.
Moments later Zack saw Jason, Kim, Amber, Trini and Billy teleport in. He was about to ask the obvious question but Trini beat him to it. "Where's Tommy?" She asked Kim, Jason and Amber. "Wasn't he with you?"
"We were attacked by Goldar, Scorpina, and some putties." Amber explained to them all after glancing at the distraught Kimberly. "I wish I knew what Zedd wanted with him now."
"Take a look at this." Zack said. He pointed to the slime dripping Sentinel Statue and after a second for them to absorb it he then added, "And I can't raise Zordon either."
Jason raised his left arm and tried to verify it. "Zordon, this is Jason, do you read me?" After a second. "Come in Zordon." After another moment of silence he looked to his friends. "Let's go to the command center and see what's going on." The other six teens nodded and they teleported out.
They didn't see the face on the other side of the statue. "See you later Power Rangers." A voice said from the face as the eyes glowed.
Tommy found himself in one of the last places he ever wanted to be; the Dark Dimension. In front of him was Goldar. "What's the meaning of this Goldar?" He demanded to know.
"You shall find out momentarily." Goldar promised. Only then did Tommy notice that somehow Goldar had gotten a hold of his morpher, just as he had the first time that Jason had been teleported to the Dark Dimension when Tommy had been chosen to be Rita's evil green ranger.
"I won't keep you in suspense human." He heard a voice say. After a moment he saw a figure appear. He was basically a beefed up version of Lord Zedd. "You may call me General Redd, and it's time for you to resume your place in the army of darkness."
"I'll never join you." Tommy promised the new comer.
"You don't have a choice." Redd said simply. He used his own battle staff to strike Tommy with a blast of energy. From out of the ether the sword of darkness appeared in his right hand. Goldar released the morpher and it floated over to Tommy. Then he stood as the green ranger. "Are you ready for the next step?" He asked.
The dark monotone voice of the evil green ranger replied, "I am at your command general."
"Why is it so dark in here?" Zack wondered as they found the command center with all of the consoles and power shut down. There was no sign of Alpha or the energy in the tube that contained Zordon.
"This isn't what we need right now." Kimberly mused. "First Zedd kidnaps Tommy, then we find something wrong with the Sentinel Statue. And now Zordon and Alpha are missing."
Billy approached the consoles and happened to find a disc. "If I'm correct we can take this back to my lab," He held the disk up for the other five to see. "And we can discover all of the recent commands that were input into the command center's systems."
"Let's do it." Jason agreed. They teleported to his lab where Billy immediately got to work.
"The first stage is complete my brother." Redd said as he approached Zedd, who was sitting in his throne in the center of the room. "We can proceed anytime."
"I'm tired of waiting." Zedd declared as he stood up and grabbed his wand. "It's time to wake up Scarlett Sentinel." He shot a wave of energy toward Earth.
That energy awoke the Scarlett Sentinel monster. It immediately began to attack the city.
Back at Billy's lab they caught the news report informing Angel Grove of the monster attack. "Looks like Zedd's done waiting." Zack noted. "But I guess we know now what was wrong with the statue."
"Looks like." Jason agreed. He hoped for a moment that Kat was somewhere safe. Tommy's abduction and the former mystery of the Sentinel Statue had made it impossible for him to check up on the exotic blonde. "Guys, its morphin' time."
The rangers pulled out their morphers. "Stegosaurus!" "Mastodon!" "Pterodactyl!" "Triceratops!" "Sabertooth Tiger!" "Tyrannosaurs!"
The six rangers appeared in the park with a declaration of, "Power rangers."
"I am the Scarlett Sentinel, it's so nice to meet you." Scarlett Sentinel said to them. "Before we begin though I would like to introduce you to my newest acquaintance." With that the green ranger appeared, the dragon dagger in one hand while the sword of darkness was in the other.
"What the…" Zack started.
"That's impossible." Kim voiced.
"What did you do to him?" Jason demanded of the monster.
"Defeat me and free your friend." Scarlett Sentinel challenged and formed a staff out of nowhere.
The six rangers charged the monster. Sentinel struck Billy hard, followed by Trini and Kimberly. Zack was next in line before taking out Jason and Amber. Throughout it all Tommy stood by and watched the attack.
"Tommy, snap out of it man." Zack called out. "You can break the spell that Zedd has over you."
Then the capsule that Zedd used to grow his monsters struck the ground and Scarlett Sentinel grew to enormous size. The six rangers took a step back.
"I'll try to get Tommy back." Amber said to the five original rangers. "You guys stop that monster."
"Remember, destroy the sword of darkness and it should free him." Jason said to the purple ranger. That was what he had done to free Tommy from Rita's evil spell the first time. She nodded in understanding and then Jason said, "It's time for the Thunder Megazord."
Amber saw the formation of the Thunder Megazord as they started to engage Scarlett Sentinel. It was not going well. She turned her attention to Tommy. "Come on, man. This isn't you." She said as she prepared her power staff. "Snap out of it."
"You're wrong purple ranger." The green ranger stated. "I am finally me, at last." He attacked her and the purple ranger blocked the attack, but had to take a step back to avoid a follow up. The first time she had met the rangers it was in a karate tournament in which she had just been able to defeat Tommy and Jason in a two on one sparring match. But sparring, where you were not trying to really harm your opponent, was far different that a fight where one was trying not to hurt the opponent while the other wanted nothing more than to win.
"Your former friend isn't my only friend." Scarlett Sentinel said to the rangers. The arms on either side formed two more monsters. "Meet my friends AC and DC." Amber could only barely make out the three monsters damage the Thunder Megazord enough to send it back to recharge. The five rangers hit the ground hard and Amber made the mistake of abandoning the fight to check on them.
The green ranger combined the sword of darkness and the dragon dagger and blasted the six rangers back hard. Their powers deactivated moments after they landed. Then he was gone.
"This can't be happening." Kim said softly.
They returned to the command center where the program Billy was running finally revealed the instructions on the disk. "There appears to be a hidden chamber in the command center. Zordon and Alpha have rerouted power there." He told them.
"But why?" Zack asked.
"I don't know." Billy said. "But I'll go check it out. You guys be ready in case the Sentinel monster and Tommy attack again."
"Do you think it's time to get some backup?" Trini asked them. They knew she was referring to the turtles.
"Not just yet." Jason said to her. "Let's see what Billy discovers first."
Billy teleported to the command center and revealed the door, shining a small amount of white light. He followed it through and found a small vent on the roof where he received a surprise. He saw Alpha taking instructions from Zordon as the robot was working on the project in front of him. "Another ranger." Billy whispered in shock softly.