Chapter 2: The Power
Back in Reefside, the rangers and former rangers gathered together.
"Oh my God, I can't believe I'm standing infront of the original Red Ranger! Dude, you're a legend!" Conner gocked.
Ethan put a hand on Conner's shoulder in attempts to calm him down. "Sorry Jason, Conner's going fangirl right now. He'll come back to reality eventually."
"But he is pretty right. We're looking at 3 original Power Rangers, 4 counting Dr. Oliver. Seriously, if it weren't for them we would probably never be rangers now." Trent added, being the only outwardly calm one of the group.
"I don't know about-" Jason went silent when he heard a beeping sound. It was Adam's communicator.
Adam stood silent staring down at his wrist communicator. "This hasn't sounded in years..."
It beeped again and just like old times everyone gathered around Adam as he held his wrist closer to his face and responded. "Hello...?"
Billy's voice replied. "Adam, it's Billy..."
Tommy chimned in cheerfully. "Hey man, it's been a long time. How have you been doing up there?"
Billy's voice was steady and serious. "I haven't called to chat guys... I wouldn't have used this unless there was no choice..." Everyone became silent. "Zed is coming back..."
Kira,Conner, Ethan and Trent watched as the color drained from their faces. Tommy grabs Adam's arm and pulls it to him, for the first time it seemed to them that he was losing his calm.
"Billy how fast can you get here? We need you here as soon as possible." Tommy said in an almost frantic tone.
"Um... depending on the flight I can be there by tomorrow morning if not sooner. But Tommy there's nothing we can-"
"Have you gotten a hold of Kimberely yet?"
"I can get a hold of her." Trini said.
"Okay guys, I guess I'll see you tomorrow..." Billy said before getting off the communicator.
There was a long uncomfortable moment of silence before Jason broke it.
"How are we going to stop Zed without our morphers?"
"I don't know but we'll figure something out when we get the gang back together. Come on lets get back to the Lab." Tommy said before making his way back.
"But guys, who is Zed?" Conner asked before running off to catch up with them.
Back at the Dino Lab Tommy pulls up a file of Lord Zed on the monitor.
Tommy began to speak to his young rangers. "This is Lord Zed, an old enemy with untold devistating power. He and his wife Rita Repulsa fought the Rangers for domination of the Earth. There were many times that they almost defeated us but we finally defeated them sending them and all their evil into the distant empty side of the galaxy. We don't know what happened to Rita but we know that Zed is coming back."
"Jesus, a bad guy that was soo powerful that he almost wipped out the Power Rangers in more than one occasion. Guys, how can we beat something like that?" Trent said sounding obviously disheartend.
Adam put his hand on Trent's shoulder, "He was beaten once, he'll be beaten again. It doesn't matter how many times he's almost won. The Power Rangers always defeated him in the end."
"But those Rangers were you guys not us. How can we possibly handle this?" Trent blurted.
"We'll beat him we have to." Kira said with determination.
"Well guys looks like you're gonna get your chance. Looks like he just touched down in Reefside Square and it looks like he brought some friends." Hailey said typing away at her computer.
"Puddies." Jason said with a serious tone.
"Well guys, let's not keep him waiting." Conner said aching for a fight.
Conner, Ethan, Kira, Trent, and Tommy lined up preparing to morph.
"We're going with you guys." Jason interjected.
"We may not have powers but we're still rangers." Trini joined.
"And I miss smashing puddies." Adam added with a smirk.
"Ok guys lets go." Tommy agreed.
Tommy, Conner, Kira and Ethan called out, "Dino Thunder Power Up Ha!"
"White Ranger, Dino power," Trent morphed.
Within no time they were there in Reefside Square. There stood Lord Zed with his staff at his side and behind him were, not wiggling and untamed Puddies but Puddies standing in order and control.
"Hey Zed! Heard you were looking for us." Tommy shouted.
Zed turned to face the Rangers. His viser flashes red as he spoke. "Ah Tommy, still playing superhero I see. How cute."
"What are you and Rita doing back here? Haven't you learned your lesson yet?" Jason said stepping up next to the Black Dino Thunder Ranger.
"She outlived her usefullness in life. Now her life energy aswell as others now make me stronger, as you will see." After saying that he shot lightning from his staff towards the rangers. "Puddies! Attack!"
The Puddies then sprung to life and charged towards the rangers.
"Let's go guys! We'll take the clay brains, you take Zed." Adam called to the Dino Thunder Rangers before the three former rangers ran at the Puddies.
They paired off against the Puddies and right off the bat they could tell that they were out matched but not as out matched as the Rangers were against Zed. It seemed that with every hit Zed took he hit them twice as hard. He sent energy out his staff sending Ethan and Conner flying. And while Trent was distracted by his friends parrell he didn't see Zed appear before him in lightning speed. Zed grabs Trent by the throat then throws him through the air landing on Jason. And back with the fight against the Puddies, Adam leapts into mid air spin kick sending a Puddy to the ground then shattering to pieces. And once Adam thought he was taking charge of the fight three Puddies pin him down with two holding his arms and one lining up to start beating him before they heard a-
"KYAH!" Billy shouted leaping in the air and kicking the attacking Puddy as Kimberely grabbed the two Puddies holding Adam and pulling them off and punching them out.
"Hey guys, sorry we're late, let's get them." Kimberely said helping Adam up.
All five Dino Thunder Rangers rushed Zed all at once and it seemed that Lord Zed had finally started to get irritated with the battle.
"ENOUGH!" Zed shouted sending out a wave of energy which send the Rangers flying back away from him.
"Easy Ed, I would say that we were getting under your skin but you don't have any." Conner said struggling to get on his feet.
"You have fought bravely I will grant you that. But you are all beneath me and I am tired of playing with you." Zed rappedly shot bolts of lightning at the rangers enveloping them in a series of explosions.
When all the smoke had cleared there layed the five rangers, unmorphed, and struggling to move.
"The truth is that you never had a chance in beating me." Zed spoke truimphent.
Tommy gets to his feet, barely, as he pulls up his fists to a fighting position. "The fight isn't over yet." Kira and Conner stands up beside him. "Dino Thunder! Power-!"
Before they could finish Zed appeared infront of them landing a vicious kick to Kiras stomach sending her flying and gripped Tommy and Conner's wrists and squeezed, crushing their morphers. They dropped to their knees in pain as Zed continues to squeeze. "Oh no? It looks very much over." Zed laughs at their groans of pain. Trent and Ethan leapt toward Zed only to be swatted away like flies. Zed releases their wrists then walks up to Ethan and Trent laying on the ground."Your determination is admirable, but.." He stomps on Trent's wrist smashing his morpher. "I am growing tired of these..." Smashes Ethan's morpher under his foot. "tryfulls."
Zed steps back away from the defeated rangers. At that that time Jason and the others finished taking down the Puddies. They saw their defeated friends and charged for him.
"I believe I've accomplished what I've came for. Until next time 'Rangers'."
Then disappears in a bolt of energy, as they run up to their friends.
"Guys!" Jason calls out going over to Tommy and Conner trying to help them up.
Conner grips his wrist in pain as Billy and Kimberely help Trent and Ethan. They were all eventually standing, Trent holding his wrist and Ethan holding his sides, Kira limped over to Tommy and looked at his wrist.
"Dr. O, your morpher.. it's destroyed..." She said in disbelief.
Conner, Ethan and Trent look at theirs aswell, "Ours too..."
Tommy stood with a grim look on his face. "And with them... our powers..."
Billy puts Ethan's arm over his shoulder to help him. "I suggest we move this conversion elsewhere and get some medical attention aswell."
They made their way back to the Dino Lab as Trini went to work treating their injuries.
"Ok, so Trent and Conner both have broken wrists, Ethan has two cracked ribs and how do the morphers look Billy?" Hailey said as she plops into her chair rubbing her head.
Billy sat at the desk inspecting the wiring and mechanics under a magnifying glass. "I hate to say it but it looks like these morphers r beyond repair, and what's worse is the Dino Gems seem to have been destroyed."
Kira held her morpher up. "I still have mine."
"That isn't gonna help anything! We need an army and all we have is you, you are not enough!" Conner snapped at Kira while he held his battered wrist.
"Chill out Conner!" Ethan said in her defense. "One is better than known. Atleast we still have something."
"Well guys, I think I just found something really weird..." Hailey said as she typed on her computer. "Tommy has a program running where it scans the world for specific energy signature just incase any other Dino Gems appear. We've been scanning wide spectrum energy signatures and it looks like we finally got a ping."
Billy walked over and looked at the energy data. "This can't be... The energy signature is almost identical to the energy frequency of our old Morphers. Hailey, can you locate where the signal is coming from?"
A few seconds late a location came up on the monitor and the seasoned rangers stood in surprise.
Kimberely broke the silence. "The Angel Grove desert..."
Jason spoke. "Just where the Command Center use to be..."
"How can that be? Devatox blew up the Comand Center, everything was destroyed. How is there a signal coming from there?" Kimberely questioned.
"I don't know but we gotta find out. If we're reading this then we sure as hell know that Zed and his lackies will to." Tommy spoke.
"And what are we going to do when we get there and we find Zed there? Kick them in the shins?! We barely could take down Puddies! Puddies, Tommy! What can we do?" Kimberely shouted at Tommy.
"You let me handle it." Kira stepped up next to Tommy as if she were defending him. "I'm the only one with the morpher so I'm gonna be your protection. If those are actual Power Morphers then I need to make sure you get there in one piece."
"So it's decided. We're going back to Angel Grove." Adam said. "I'm game."
"Take tonight to get what you need because we'll be leaving tomorrow." Tommy concluded looking over to Kimberely as she gave him a suttle glare and looked away.
