A/N: Last authors note for a while, but if you were wondering about the aliens' names, they're the actual names from what I'm adapting this from (Also what Dino Charge is being adapted from). I'm only using them as I have a lack of ideas for monster names. I'm really horrible with those.
Mr. Bell is portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal
Reese is portrayed by Spencer Boldman
John is portrayed by Brad Pitt
Jack is portrayed by Rob Lowe
Anna is portrayed by Jennifer Aniston
Jesse didn't know why, but everyone at school was looking at him strangely. He was about to ask someone when the speaker crackled to life.
"Jesse Garret, please come to the office. Jesse Garret, please come to the office." The principal's, or Mr. Bell's, voice came through the speaker.
Jesse groaned and turned around, making his way to the office. As he made it in there, the lady at the desk pointed to Mr. Bell's office. The principal was a tall man, standing at about 6'0 with brown hair and blue eyes.
"Jesse! It's great to see you, my friend." Mr. Bell laughed, clapping Jesse on the shoulder.
"Oh great, what happened this time?" Jesse frowned. He had been in the office more than once for fighting, yelling, inappropriate comments, ditching and cutting school and class, etc. He wasn't aware that he had done anything wrong this time around, and he was confused as to why he was talking to the vice principal.
Mr. Bell sighed. "Have a seat, Jesse." As Jesse took a seat in a hard, uncomfortable chair, Mr. Bell began to speak, "I have been looking into your grades, and at this point it is almost certain that you will be held back, unless, of course, you pull off a miracle."
"What are talking about?" Jesse scoffed. "My grades aren't that bad."
"Aren't that bad? Jesse, you barely have a 1.0." Mr. Bell retorted. "That's not acceptable for college or your future." He sighed. "I'm worried that this is foreshadowing bad events to come soon."
"Foreshadowing?" Jesse raised an eyebrow.
"A warning of a future event." Mr. Bell clarified, knowing far too well that the teen did not know what the word meant, though he would deny it. "Your highest grade is a C+ in PE."
"Let me just say that I wont be held back, because if you try to, I'll drop out."
"Threaten all you want, but this is only hurting you, not me." Mr. Bell shook his head. "I'm am disappointed, but if you would like, you can drop out. It wouldn't be advised and I would not want you to, but if you must."
"Okay." Jesse stood up and walked out of the office and school without a look back.
"Jesse, what are you doing?" A voice said from behind him. He turned around to see Nikki standing there.
"Nikki? What are you doing here?" Jesse asked.
"I was late to school today, what are you doing?"
"Dropping out." Jesse answered simply.
Nikki's eyes widened, but as she began to open her mouth, an explosion knocked them off of their feet. Jesse looked up and saw Debo Royaroya standing there laughing.
"Nikki run and tell..." He paused for a moment, deciding who to ask. "Spencer that there's a monster."
"What?" She looked horrified.
"Please." Jesse asked. He sighed when she didn't move. "Dino Squad, Power up!"
She gasped when she saw him morph into the green ranger. "Go get blue now."
"Blue?" She asked. "Spencer?"
He nodded. "Wanna take a guess at the other three before you go?"
"Oh my god." Nikki gasped. "Should I get them too?"
"No, you only have Spencer in this period. Just tell him the green ranger needs him. He'll get it." Jesse replied. "Hurry."
Nikki nodded and ran off. Jesse turned back to Royaroya. He was themed after a prison and the prison guards. "Hey ugly! What are you doing here?"
Royaroya laughed. "What do you think I'm doing? Capturing people."
Jesse shook his head and ran forward, calling for his weapon and attacking the alien. He brought down his sword down across the alien multiple times but it didn't seem to have any effect. "Shit."
Royaroya laughed again. "Having some trouble?"
"Please, I'm just getting started." Jesse responded. He ran up the side of a tree and flipped over Royaroya and came down his back with his sword and slashed him again, throwing the alien away from him just as Spencer arrived.
"Jesse, you good?" Spencer asked as he came up to the green ranger.
Jesse nodded. "Morph." He told him.
"Uhh.. I have a slight problem." Spencer said. "My brother - you remember him right? Name's Reese?" Jesse nodded. Reese was Spencer's older brother. He shared Spencer's brown hair, but he had brown eyes and was taller at 6'0. "Okay, well he's coming late today cause he forgot his homework and he's coming this way."
"But why can't you morph?"
"I can, just I don't know if I should."
"Why?"
"If we try to get him to leave, he's gonna recognize my voice." Spencer answered.
"I'll handle it, just morph." Jesse responded. "Hurry."
"Dino Squad, Power Up!" Spencer called. "Power of the Stegosaurus!"
"Two puny rangers, ha!" Royaroya laughed. "You're a joke."
"That's what you think!" Jesse retorted. The two rangers jumped up with their swords, flipping and bringing them down at the same time, but Royaroya grabbed their swords and threw them in the air, then, as they hit the ground, they were stuck in a prison cell with three other spots.
"I can't wait to get the other rangers' swords." Royaroya laughed. "I hope better challenge than you. You're pathetic."
Jesse glanced at Spencer, who he knew was going to be hurt by that comment. Spencer, though he knew he shouldn't care what the aliens thought, but it reminded him of other times when he was called pathetic.
"Spencer, you alright?" Jesse asked as he punched Royaroya.
"Huh?" Spencer looked over in time to see Jesse fly into him. He groaned.
"Ah, my first civilian." They heard Royaroya sneer in delight.
"Civilian?" Spencer asked as Jesse got off of him, and helped him up. He looked over at saw that it was Reese, fighting to get out of the Zorima's grasp as Royaroya stepped forward with the blue ranger's sword, which he had gotten from the prison cell he had contained them in. "No!" He cried, running forward, but stopping abruptly in shock when it happened.
Reese was breathless as he looked down at his side, seeing the sword puncturing, but not coming out. He fell to his knees, and felt someone catch him as he went down. His vision was blurry, but he could just make out his brother lowering him to the ground carefully, and applying pressure to the wound while his friend called 911. The alien, however, was gone, and so were the blue and green rangers, in Reese's mind, at least.
"Spence?" Reese croaked.
"You're gonna be okay." Spencer assured, more to himself than Reese, though. He gripped the sword with shaky hands, and pulled it out, making Reese cry out weakly, but loudly, in pain. "I'm sorry, I had pull it out." He looked up at Jesse, who had just got off the phone. "How long?"
"They said five to ten minutes." Jesse sighed.
Spencer growled under his breath, but looked over at his brother. "Reese, you know Jesse, right?" Reese looked over at Jesse with glossy eyes, but nodded weakly. "Alright, he's gonna take care of you while I go get rid of this, alright."
"But, that's..." Reese protested feebly.
"The blue ranger's sword." Spencer interrupted, though it broke his heart to see Reese like this. He was supposed to be the strong one in the family, and to see him lying broken on the sidewalk with Jesse holding Spencer's now bloody jacket to a gash in his side that bled freely while he seemed to try so hard to stay awake... It was the worst feeling Spencer had ever felt, despite everything in his past. "I have to put it somewhere he'd find it so he can destroy the alien."
"Go." Jesse said, instead of Reese. "There's not much time before the cops show and take it. I mean, how is the blue ranger gonna fight without a sword?"
"Right." Spencer nodded, and ran off into an alley, where he morphed and put his sword back onto his belt. He demorphed, and by the time he got back, Reese was already being loaded into the ambulance, and as he could see, Jesse was getting checked out for the minor injuries he had sustained in the fight.
"Are you Spencer Morgan?" A cop asked as she walked up to him. He nodded. She held out her and and he shook it. "I'm Officer Langley. Now, what happened here today? I mean, we already got it from Jesse Garrett, whom I presume you know, yes?"
Spencer nodded. "Jesse's one of my best friends."
"Well, could you tell me what happened here?" She inspected him closer. "You and Jesse seem to have minor injuries." She observed.
"Yeah, well, there was a monster attack, and the blue and green rangers showed up, but their swords were taken and suddenly they just disappeared. Jesse wasn't at school and I was gonna go to the bathroom, when I saw Jesse trying to hold off the alien. I ran over to help and the next thing I know, we're on the ground and he stabbed my brother with a sword. I don't know whose it was. I mean, it could have been his or a ranger's, I'm not really sure, and then I go off to see if any of the aliens were still around, which they weren't, and by the time I got back, you guys were here." Spencer told her, wiping some blood off of his lip.
"Why was your brother out here at this time? Isn't he in school?" Officer Langley questioned.
"He's a senior, yes. But, this morning, when we were walking together this morning, he realized he forgot his homework and went back to get it." Spencer answered. As she wrote something down, he peered past her, but didn't see an ambulance or Reese. It had already left. He looked over and saw Jesse talking to a nurse as she tended to his minor wounds. A doctor was standing by, waiting for the nurse. Spencer looked even further, and saw Matt, Nikki, Scott, and Robin looking on fearfully.
"Alright, Mr. Morgan. Your friend has already given me your address and home phone number, so you get checked out by the nurse with Jesse and go back to your academics. I will contact your parents, and you may be able to see your brother after school. Thank you for your time." Spencer nodded as the officer walked away from him.
He walked over to the nurse, who quickly took care of his minor wounds and let him and Jesse go back into the school. Though Jesse dropped out, he came as well, giving Mr. Bell a look to talk later. By this time, it was 10 minutes to lunch, but due to no students being in class, everyone was allowed ten extra minutes.
"Spencer! Jesse!" Robin called as she, and Scott dodged through the various people in the hall to meet with their friends at the usual table. "Are you guys alright?"
"Nothing but the usual." Jesse smirked, flexing the muscles in his arms.
"Gross." Robin commented.
"The usual?" Spencer asked with a glare. "This was not the usual. There isn't even a usual, but if there was, that would not be it."
"What happened?" Matt asked as he joined them. He had gotten Nikki distracted helping a teacher, and ran over to the other rangers.
"My brother, Reese, got stabbed by the new alien, Royaroya." Spencer grumbled, putting his head in his hands in despair.
The rangers, besides Jesse and Spencer, were thoroughly shocked.
"Spence, it could've been worse." Jesse comforted, putting a hand on his shoulder. "Reese is alive, and you should be at least grateful for that."
Spencer looked up and shrugged Jesse's hand off. "Is that supposed to make me feel better? We don't know if he's gonna die. Maybe the doctors won't be able to save him."
"You can't look at it that way, Spencer." Scott said.
"Look at it through optimistic eyes." Matt encouraged, making the other rangers cringe.
Spencer frowned and looked over at Matt. "Look, you obviously don't know me, but there are reasons I have a hard time with those things." He roughly grabbed his bag and stalked off.
~PRDS~
"Jesse, you said you were dropping out, but you came back after seeing what was probably a traumatizing experience. Why?" Mr. Bell inquired, looking at Jesse with curiosity.
"It wasn't the most traumatizing thing I've ever seen." Jesse muttered.
~Flashback~
"Let me see my mommy!" Five year old Jesse cried loudly so everyone in the ICU waiting room looked at him and his father, John.
"Jesse, calm down." John said strictly, running a hand through his brown hair. "We'll be kicked out and then you won't see her at all."
Jesse's bottom lip trembled as he started to cry again. John reached over to take his son in his arms, but Jesse stopped crying and harshly pulled away. John pulled his arms back, stunned that his son rejected him, and Jesse began to cry again.
"I want my mommy! I want my mommy! I WANT MY MOMMY!" Jesse cried at the top of his lungs, and a nurse came over to John.
"Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to take the child elsewhere. I'm sorry, sir, we just can't have this much disturbance on the ICU floor." She said sadly in her country accent.
"I understand." John nodded, and picked up his son, who screamed even louder and began to punch at his father's back. It was this way until the car, where John strapped Jesse into his seat and they started to drive.
"I want my MOMMY!" Jesse screamed again.
"You'll see your mommy soon, okay!" John yelled, turning back to look at his son and failing to see the oncoming traffic. Another car slammed into the drivers side of the car, and Jesse was knocked unconscious.
~Flashback~
"...I'll be right back with the adoption papers."
"Thank you."
Jesse woke up to a familiar man's voice, but it didn't belong to his father. He opened his eyes slightly to peek out, and saw his uncle Jack. He smiled brightly, opened his eyes fully and reached out for him.
"Uncle Jack!"
Jack's eyes flew open and immediately landed on Jesse.
"Jesse, you're alright. Thank god." Jack stood and leaned over to hug the young boy. After they pulled away and Jack sat back down, Dr. Miller walked in.
"Jesse, it's nice to see you up." He smiled, and looked over to Jack. "You can take him home later today."
"Why I go with Uncle Jack? Why not I go with daddy?" Jesse asked, looking questioningly at the two men.
Jack sighed and spoke gently, "Jesse, daddy's gone. He went heaven."
Jesse felt tears brim his eyes. "Where's mommy?" He asked.
Jack looked over at Dr. Miller, who sighed deeply.
"She's on her last day, but Jesse should see her. She's been asking for him."
"I can see mommy?" Jesse jumped up and smiled widely.
"Yeah. You'll see mommy." Jack nodded with a few stray tears running down his face as he followed Jesse and Dr. Miller to the ICU and to her room. His mother was pale, her eyes dull and sunken in, and any of her dirty blonde hair barely left.
"Jesse." She rasped weakly, putting her hand out to grasp his as she came in.
"Mommy!" Jesse smiled brightly as she held her unusually bony hands around his.
"Where's daddy?" She asked, looking to her brother-in-law and the doctor.
"He went to heaven mommy." Jesse said, tears starting to run down his face. "He left me. Please don't leave me, mommy."
Anna started to cry herself. "I'm sorry, Jesse. I have to, but I'll see daddy again, and someday, after your life is over, you'll see him too." She leaned down to kiss his head. "Pinky promise me that you'll grow up to be a strong, selfless man who succeeds. Who passes high school and college and gets a good job." She knew he didn't understand now, but he would later on.
"Pinky promise." Jesse grasped her pinky with his. She smiled and soon, her hand became limp, and Jesse was taken away with his uncle.
~End of Flashback~
"You see? My dad died in a car crash that I was spared from and my mom, she died of cancer. I was an orphan before my uncle got to adopt me or even live with me. Don't even start with the traumatized crap, because I don't have a bone in my body that can be traumatized anymore." Jesse said as he finished his story. A tear rolled down his cheek.
"Look,I'm sorry about your parents, but that's not what we came here to talk about. I thought you'd be back, so I didn't unenroll you, and if you try to keep up good behavior, especially near the end of the year, I'll pass you. However, that's not all I'm here to talk to you about."
"Huh?" Jesse raised his eyebrows. "What do you mean?"
"Kyro told me that you couldn't unlock your spirit until you reach a point where you make a decision that you don't like and change it, because you often have a problem with that, being your stubborn self, and you've done it."
"What?" Jesse asked, looking at Mr. Bell in shock. "What are you talking about?"
"Oh don't play dumb. I've been working with Kyro since I was a teenager." Mr. Bell answered. "He told me about you, Matt, Scott, Spencer, and Robin being rangers, so don't worry about getting in trouble for running off, green ranger."
Jesse sighed. "So what? I'm the green ranger, big whoop." He rolled his eyes.
"That's not the point. You've unlocked your Velociraptor spirit." Mr. Bell said.
Jesse's eyes widened. "I did? Really?" He smiled.
Mr. Bell nodded. "Now, go back to class, and Jesse," He added as Jesse was about to leave. "Stay in school."
Jesse chuckled. "No problem."
Next time on Power Rangers Dino Squad: Some of Spencer's past is revealed as he anxiously waits to see if his brother will wake up. He uses his spirit for the first time against the same alien that had hurt Reese in the first place.
