ZEO
RANGERS
#1.02 – "Beginnings, Part II: Adopt, Adapt and
Improve"
By Spoony Spoonerson
Angel Grove
Angel Grove Park
Four figures sit at a bench. It was nearing sunset, which in winter didn't take long.
Tanya: "I can't believe they're gone."
Jason: "It's not unlike him to help those he thinks needs it more. Besides, we can manage without him, can't we?"
Adam: "But it's not just him though, Kat's gone too. We're down a ranger and two friends."
Everyone nods
Rocky: "Yeah, we'd better hope a replacement pink is found soon, it feels different there being only four of us."
Tanya: "Yeah, we're gonna have a lot of free time now we're graduates."
Rocky (laughing): "Not really, I've got to train for a martial arts tournament. Now that Tommy's gone I've got to lead the team through the championships."
Adam: "Yeah, I've got to get a job soon."
The four silhouettes laugh further into the evening
Angel Grove
Angel Grove Private Detective Agency
Bulk and Skull sit at a desk, smiling as they watch Detective Stone sign the paperwork ensuring equal partnership of the agency.
Bulk (Snatching Jerome's pen and looking at it): "Pleasure doing business with you sir, or Stone as I like to call you."
Stone (Snatching pen back): "It's Detective Stone to you!"
Bulk and Skull pop open a can of soda each.
Skull (Quickly): "Why? You don't call us 'Detective Bulk' or 'Detective Skull'."
Bulk and Skull clank their cans of soda as a sign of victory. Detective Stone grimaces
Detective Stone: "Okay, I'll call you Detective Bulk and Detective Skull, just NEVER refer to me as Jerome."
Skull (Shrugs): "Can't argue with that."
Detective Stone takes the cans of soda away, he gets up and starts to pour them down the sink.
Bulk: "Hey!"
Detective Stone: "From now on I will address you as detectives, you will partly own a detective agency; so you must drink like detectives."
He smiles as he pours three cups of coffee into three grayish mugs and hands one to each of them. Skull eagerly accepts it; he starts to drink it then spits it out.
Skull: "How do you drink that? It's hotter than the sun, which Bulky here tells me is pretty hot, like that chick from Baywatch."
Detective Stone: "We don't drink it straight away. We wait at least ten minutes before attempting to drink it, but even then it tastes pretty horrible. But it's the image it presents that counts."
Bulk (Slightly confused): "Right. So we can't drink anything good?"
Detective Stone smacks his head with his hand
Detective Stone: "No! You have graduated from high school now! So no juice, soda, milkshakes or anything of the sort. It's the option of coffee or a dry mouth when dusting for fingerprints, your choice."
Bulk and Skull nod at each other and pour their drinks into the plant pots either side of them.
Earth's
Moon
Machine Empire's Sky Base; The Empire Grounds
Lord Zedd is walking up and down the grounds, inspecting the legions of Quantrons placed before him. They were all placed in blocks of fifty, five lines of ten. Rita is also there.
Lord Zedd: "These are real warriors, not bird type things my half-wit brother sends me."
Rita: "They're not bad; I'd like to see what they can do in a fight."
Lord Zedd: "What an excellent idea. Power rangers: meet your new playmates."
Zedd fires his staff at a line of quantrons, the ten of them disappear.
Angel Grove
Angel Grove Park
The four teens are kicking a soccer ball about. Adam and Tanya against Rocky and Jason.
Adam: "Three two! Aha, I think it's time for a break."
They struggled over to a bench, sweating and panting.
Tanya: "Good game."
Rocky: "You're getting good, Tanya. Adam you still have the ball control of a blind man."
Adam laughed. Ten quantrons appeared in front of them. Led by Goldar.
Jason: "What are they? Upgraded Cogs?"
Goldar: "Silence Ranger! These are the new quantrons, given to us by Dark Specter the monarch of all evil."
The rangers stood up
Jason: "It's morphing time!"
Tanya: "Zeo ranger two; yellow."
Rocky: "Zeo ranger three; blue."
Adam: "Zeo ranger four; green."
Jason: "Zeo ranger five; red."
The four rangers sprang into action. Rocky threw a kick at a quantrons but was quickly blocked. He landed a punch on this quantron; the quantron took a step back, and then continued as normal. Adam and Tanya were trying their best. Adam was rolling around to avoid being hit by their weapons. The quantron weapons were tall, double handed blade weapons. Tanya was throwing herself at them, in an attempt to defeat one. Jason was wielding his sword and battling Goldar. Jason had a lot of experience in this particular field and was delighted at fighting him with so much power as a red ranger. They were not doing so well when they were teleported out.
The
Power Chamber; Command Center
Angel Grove Mountains; California
Four beams of light appeared.
Zordon: "Rangers, it appears the Quantrons are a big challenge for you."
Jason (Defensively): "It's because there's four of us. And we always have trouble with a new enemy; soon they'll be normal to us."
Zordon: "I understand that numbers are not on your side. However: when there are people around, you cannot morph, how do you intend to fight them without morphing?"
Jason: "I don't know. But the sooner we get a pink ranger back, the better."
Alpha: "I'm making contact with Trey; he might be able to return should we need it."
Zordon: "Trey will probably want to stay on Triforia for a little while. For now, all you can do is work as a team."
Four rangers (In unison): "Yes Zordon."
The rangers teleport out.
Angel Grove
Angel Grove Park
The rangers appear once again. This time ready to kick some quantron butt. Jason runs in with his sword, and strikes Goldar across the chest. Tanya and Rocky combine their Zeo swords and blasters to make power-blasters. They fire upon the quantrons. The quantrons leap up as the ground disappears beneath them. Adam runs in, bearing his Zeo hammer. He thwacks a quantron across the back of the neck. Goldar is the only one left standing.
Goldar: "You'll never win rangers! We will destroy you!"
Goldar teleports away. The rangers demorph and sit down on the grass, exhausted.
Adam (Panting): "Man that was tough."
Jason (Also panting): "I agree."
Rocky: "Shall we get to the power chamber?"
Jason: "Yeah."
The
Power Chamber; Command Center
Angel Grove Mountains; California
Four beams of light appeared once again.
Zordon: "Greetings rangers."
Tanya (Waving): "Hi Zordon."
Zordon: "I'm afraid I have news."
Rocky (Quickly responding): "Well it's got to be bad news, otherwise you wouldn't be afraid to tell us."
Zordon: "Quite so. As you know we've been looking to find a new pink ranger. We've been faced with two possible matches, and a decision."
Jason (Nodding): "Right."
Zordon: "We have to choose between: picking a ranger you've previously served with, or starting a fresh with a new pink ranger. There has been one match in each category."
Adam: "Who is the previous ranger?"
Zordon: "That is not important, what is important is your decision to ask a retired ranger for help or to take the time to train a new ranger at this time of need."
Tanya: "I think we should ask the retired ranger, we've not got the time or manpower to train up a newbie."
Jason: "You're right. Zordon, we'd like to ask the old ranger to join us."
Zordon: "Very well."
A door opens from behind the rangers. A lot of smoke pours out of the room, eventually, Kimberly walks out. She looks around the chamber, confused.
Kimberly: "Could somebody please tell me what's going on?"
Jason: "Kim, Kat has left the Zeo team as Rita and Zedd have gotten more powerful. We need you as the pink Zeo ranger."
Kim looked flustered.
Kimberly: "You want me? Wow! Well the Pan Globals just ended, I was gonna go live with my mom in France but I suppose that can wait. Saving the world comes first and all that. So tell me; where is Tommy?"
Rocky: "Tommy left, he asked Katherine to go with him. He left Jason as the red ranger. We're glad you're back. You got a place to stay?"
Kimberly: "Not as yet. But I'll find somewhere."
Adam: "You can stay with me."
Kimberly (Smiling): "Thanks, I'd like that."
Zordon: "So Kimberly, are you ready to become a pink ranger once again?"
Kimberly (Smiling): "I am."
Zordon: "Then I present you with your new morpher. Serve with pride as the pink Zeo power ranger, and the power will serve you. This is a time of great need, so be careful, and remember to keep in touch with your team-mates, and for that I present you with your communicator."
Kimberly smiles. The Zeonisers appear on her wrists, along with her communicator. The pink Zeo crystal flies from Zordon's tube and appears in her hands. Pink electricity surrounds her.
Zordon: "Now go home rangers, and be ready for duty."
Earth's
Moon
Machine Empire's Sky Base; the Royal Throne
Lord Zedd is sitting in his throne, surrounded by all his minions.
Lord Zedd: "Well that was a waste of time. We've only just got here and they're accustomed to our new troops."
Rito: "That's not so bad 'Ed. We still have loads of them, and we have a few surprises up our sleeves."
Lord Zedd (In sheer sarcasm): "Rito, you don't have any sleeves."
Rita: "Zeddy, we can overthrow the Earth, and when we do we'll find those Zeo crystals and then we'll be unstoppable!"
Lord Zedd: "Well that does make me feel a little better."
Scorpina: "I am ready to serve, my lord."
Lord Zedd: "That you are, but if I need a gold goon to yell at I think I'll call Goldar. Rita, she's your friend; you're responsible for her!"
Scorpina (looking disgusted): "Dark Specter sent me here to help you. I can always leave and tell him you didn't want me here."
Rita (Interrupting Zedd from saying something he'll later regret): "No, that's fine. We'll let you attack the rangers soon"
Finster runs in.
Finster: "It appears that the rangers have found a recipient for the pink ranger powers."
Rita's face drops.
Lord Zedd: "Four rangers or five, they can still be destroyed easily."
Youth
Center and Ernie's Juice Bar
Angel Grove, California
The teens are sitting at a table in the juice bar, sipping smoothies.
Jason: "So Kim, how's the moving going?"
Kimberly: "Well I've got the first two suitcases unpacked, only one or two to go."
Rocky: "Yeah that sounds alright, but have you seen the size of her cases?"
Adam (Laughing): "Great, my spare room's gonna be 'pink city'!"
Kim (Not amused): "Actually since I quit being a ranger, I bought a lot of blue stuff in Europe. So I've got a mix of pink and blue."
Tanya: "Yeah, I've never been too partial to pink. So do you need help with anything else?"
Kimberly: "Nah, I think I'm good thanks. But I think I might go clubbing tonight."
Everyone looks shocked.
Jason (Startled): "What?"
Kimberly (Laughing): "Well I think since we've graduated we should go out for some real drinks. You didn't really think we'd spend all our social time here did you?"
Everyone remains shocked
Adam (Patting her on the arm and breaking into a whisper): "Come on. You know we can't perform ranger duties when drunk. We agreed that we all would not even touch alcohol, drugs or even lose virginities in return for having such time as power rangers."
Jason (Nodding): "I won't allow any of my rangers going out in loud closed spaces with alcohol where you can't even here your communicator. What if it was stolen? Or you got wasted and a monster attacked Angel Grove?"
Kimberly: "Ok, I won't go clubbing then. God, why is it always me?"
Tanya: "Oh yeah, we also agreed not to swear. I know that isn't really swearing, but we agreed not to mention religion either."
Earth's
Moon
Machine Empire's Sky Base; the Royal Throne
Zedd was watching the rangers' argument.
Lord Zedd: "That's it, yes, fight amongst yourselves."
Rita: "Zeddy, how do we intend to work on this?"
Lord Zedd (Tired): "I don't know. Finster! I want you to make a monster!"
Finster walks in.
Finster: "Yes Lord Zedd. Are there any specifications to which you want the monster?"
Lord Zedd: "Use your creativity; I want this monster able to defeat those pesky rangers!"
Finster: "As you wish."
Finster leaves. Lord Zedd laughs uncontrollably.
