Over My Head
A tale of "What if?"
Tommy had been the only to go save Kira, how would that have affected how Dino Thunder formed. What if they ensured that Kira couldn't escape?
Note: I do not own Power Rangers Dino Thunder. I'm rewriting it though. I do not own "Over My Head" by The Fray, I do love the song!
Timeline: A/U Day of the Dino Part Two
I never knew
I never knew that everything was falling through
That everyone I knew was waiting on a queue
To turn and run when all I needed was the truth
But that's how it's got to be
It's coming down to nothing more than apathy
I'd rather run the other way than stay and see
The smoke and who's still standing when it clears
-Over My Head by the Fray
Doctor Thomas Oliver raced to Reefside High School; thankful to see it was deserted. As he surveyed the spot where Kira was taken he saw a faint green wink of color and knew it was the weakening portal. He scanned his surroundings again and then reached for the portal and felt his body being sucked through. The next thing he knew he was in a dark hall, he stopped and listened for any sound of anyone approaching. There was silence, he removed the tracker from his bag and watched as it lit up, fortunately for him when it was built there was no annoying beep since it had been decided that it would give away any stealth that the holder was trying to accomplish.
As he pointed the tracker forward it began to glow, but it was dim and as he turned it down the hall and the light began to get brighter. He began to quietly make his way down the empty hall, careful enough not to make a sound. As the light grew as bright as it could, he saw a narrow cell with a glass door, no bars. Slumped in a corner, he saw Kira's limp form; he looked around before running over to the cell. He rapped gently on the glass door and called to her softly.
"Kira? Kira!" he called softly, she looked up and he let out a soft growl. Her eyes were glazed over and disoriented, and to his horror he realized she wasn't responding to him because he called her name, it had been the noise that broke the silence. "Oh God…what did they do to you?"
"My Lord broke her, it was much easier than he thought it would be," came an electronic voice behind him. He whipped around to see a metal like creature, and a woman in black leather watching him from the doorway, but his attention went back to Kira who let out a soft moan and completely fell forward.
"Ahhh Doctor Thomas Oliver, I remember you," came the woman's voice.
"Elsa," he remembered the woman, they had met when he had been escaping the Mercer's lab on the island years earlier. They didn't fight but he saw her lying on a lab table but it was in passing, he was running for his life from Mesogog and the Tyranodrones.
"Yes, I see you're as arrogant as ever, thinking you can save your little girl? Its too bad she's already gone, just a hollow shell of who she once was," Elsa grinned, which was frightening itself. "Tommy, you are useless as always, you weren't anything and you will be nothing," Tommy actually turned to stare in confusion at her.
"Apparently, you don't know me," he shot back reaching back, hand near his Brokken sword's handle.
"But I know you Doctor Oliver, you are going to repay a life with your own!" the technical monster snapped and immediately launched in attack. He held out his hand and fired lazers, Tommy ducked and heard the glass door shatter behind him and knew Kira's cell was broken but there wasn't a sound from her.
He knew she wasn't in any danger for now, but his own life was another story. Removing the sword he first took on Elsa, who went down quicker and easier than he thought after catching her in the wrist and forearm with a kick. The creature, apparently named Zeltrax was carrying on like he was going to kill him and nothing was going to stop him. Tommy fought hard but soon his wooden sword broke and he mentally frowned at himself for thinking to bring a wooden sword within lazers's reach. He just as he was going to grab the sword of darkness from within the bag an inhuman scream filled his ears and threw Zeltrax across the room. He turned to see that it was Kira and it didn't stop until her voice gave out. He grabbed Elsa and placed the tip of the blade into her flesh close her jugular as something within him broke when he watched Kira fall back to her vegetable-like state. She's too young to be taken already! She's just a kid; she had so much more to look forward to! I cannot fail her; she needs to be able to look to someone in her time of need, and it will be me. I won't fail her…I won't fail you Kira, I promise.
"Make one move to attack, Zeltrax, I will kill her. I know you both have a way to fix her, you're human Elsa, you may have changed but you are human you are as flesh and blood like I am. I know with the disappointment you are to Mesogog he's probably broken you before, not fix Kira or you're dead," he hissed in Elsa ear, he felt Elsa swallow hard.
"Zeltrax, get the girl on the table and heal her," she snapped, Tommy smiled a cruel smile that hadn't crossed his lips in years.
"Good choice," he told them and watched like a hawk watched its prey as Zeltrax picked up Kira's form and she didn't struggle or move, she flopped lifelessly in his arms. The mechanical creature placed Kira on the table and went to the controls and Tommy watched as a lazer was lowered and it began to glow a soft yellow. Without a word he hit the switch and the lazer hit in the center of Kira's forehead and her body began to glow a light yellow, which made her look angelic despite of the drool that had leaked from the corner of her mouth. Within moments the lazer was shut down and Tommy heard Kira gasp. She bolted off of the table and immediately wiped off the corner of her mouth. He listened to her gasp for breath and then realized she now saw that he was there.
"Doctor Oliver?!" She asked, her voice was full of fear and confusion. Tommy saw that as his window of opportunity to get away from Mesogog's lab. Then with all his might threw Elsa into Zeltrax, sending them sprawling to the hard floor. He bolted to Kira and effortlessly lifted her from the table, pressed he red button unlocking an invisible portal.
"Tell your boss, Doctor Oliver is back," he said to the two fallen hench people and with Kira in his arms, leapt into the portal, hoping for a soft landing.