Forever Red 2
Chapter 1 – This isn't good…
In Reefeside…
Knock knock!
Adam Park waited semi-patiently at the door of his former teammate, he needed to speak to Tommy immediately. Luckily it swung open in less than a minute to reveal Kira Ford dressed in black slacks and a yellow t-shirt.
"Hey Adam, what's up?" Kira hadn't been expecting him.
"Hey Kira, is T home?" Adam didn't want to be rude to his other friend but this was important.
"Yeah come inside," Kira stood back to let him in. Closing the door behind him she called out, "Tommy, Adam is here." The red zeo ranger jogged down the steps.
"Hey bro," Tommy and Adam hugged.
"We've got a problem," Adam said urgently.
"What is it?"
"There was a break-in at the archive." Tommy and Kira exchanged shocked looks.
Tommy went in straight into ranger mode, "When?"
"Last night," Adam held up a cd and Tommy beckoned him over to the computer that was fortunately already on. "Before you ask no, it wasn't a ranger, it wasn't even human."
"I wonder why that only makes me feel worse," Tommy muttered sitting down with the disc. The other two stood behind him and said nothing. They knew that archive was Tommy's pride. He had worked so hard to build it and make sure it was a secret, only for this to happen. The cd was loaded into the drive and a video began to play.
"Okay give it a minute," Adam bent over, one hand on the back of Tommy's chair. They watched as the ceiling caved and a strange creature jumped in. Tommy was visibly working hard to remain calm as the monster smashed the glass cases with impunity. "There, stop," Adam said suddenly, pausing the video on a frame with the creature facing the camera. It had a yellowish body and red horns with wings and what looked like a ruffled collar around his neck.
"What is that?" Kira asked peering at the screen closely. "I've never seen anything like it."
"Neither have I," Adam shrugged hopelessly.
"I don't recognize it either," Tommy said heavily. "But how did it find the archive?"
"Wait Tommy, it gets worse," Adam restarted the video and the creature turned to the large glass tank. The three rangers watched in horror as it smashed open the tank, swept it contents aside and lifted open the base.
"No…" Tommy gasped quietly. The creature on the screen took a box from inside the base and left the archive in ruins. "This is impossible."
"Nope, I checked, this really happened," Adam confirmed grimly.
Kira looked between the two confusedly, "Would someone mind explaining it to me? What was in that box?"
"Something we should have destroyed," Tommy slammed his fist on the desk. "But no, I thought it might be useful someday."
Adam looked at him sympathetically, "Tommy you can't blame yourself, it really could have been useful to us. It was too valuable to be just thrown away."
Kira looked even more confused, "Okay seriously what was in that box?"
"Ooze," Tommy rubbed his forehead.
"Sorry but did you just say ooze?"
"Yep," Adam nodded, "a little after I joined the team we fought a guy named Ivan Ooze, that's why we got the ninjetti powers. He destroyed our commander and nearly killed Zordon. His trademark was this purple ooze that was capable of mind control which he used on a lot of people in Angel Grove."
"But that's not all," Tommy continued not looking away from the screen, "Our friend Billy looked at some and realised that it had the potential to be put to other uses. So we gathered about twelve vials and put them away but before Billy could do anymore research a whole bunch of stuff happened. Then he had to go to Aquitar, after that he decided to stay there with Cestria so the whole thing was shelved."
"So basically we've got a monster that we don't know anything about running around with a substance that we also don't know anything about," Kira summed up.
"He seems to know something about it," Adam nodded at the screen.
"I've seen this stuff power a machine as big as a zord," Tommy pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Relax man, there not nearly enough of it for something like," Adam pointed out.
"Small comfort," Tommy replied.
"What do we do now?" Kira asked the million-dollar question.
Tommy sighed and opened the desk drawer, from beneath a stack of papers he pulled out a red notebook with a star on the cover, "Time to call in the troops."
A/N: Hey guys, I know some of you aren't fond of Tommy and Kira and you may not like some of the other pairings but I won't be shoving them at you. It will mainly be like this, where it's implied but not really romantic with the exception of Jayden and Mia but you'll see why.