Chapter 4: Putty on the brain

Chelbell2016:
Next chapter everyone. Hope you all enjoy it. Please tell me what you think and I will update again as soon as possible.

Jessica Lee Scott: Cheetah thunderzord power*

Jessica's POV:

Me, and Tommy, are on our way to our lockers. Me and Tommy go into our separate lockers and Tommy turns slightly and spots Zack and Billy.

"Hey guys," he said to them. "Can you believe it I almost overslept."

"Whats new?" I asked giggling and Tommy glared at me playfully.

"What the...?" I heard Zack say from behind me.

"Awesome shades guys," Tommy complimented the two on the sunglasses that they were wearing.

Jason and Kimberly approach and Billy turns to Zack making me frown.

"Zack do you see what I see?" he asked.

"Hey guys what's up?" Jason asks the two. "Hey you two ready for the big physics demonstration?"

"PUTTIES!" Both Billy and Zack yell making the rest of us look around quickly.

There was nothing there. They both fall into fighting stances.

"Putties! Where?" Kim asks.

"Uh guys?" I ask a little confused.

"What are you guys talking about?" Jason asks. "Putties? What putties?"

"What do you mean putties?" I asked laughing.

"Guys there's no one here but us," Tommy tells the two of them.

They still look really freaked. I don't know what they are seeing but something tells me it is not us.

"Oh Zack," Kim says. "Quit clowning around!"

"Why aren't they attacking?" Zack asks Billy.

"I don't know," Billy replies.

"Attacking," Kim says in a high pitched voice. "What are they talking about?"

Mr Kaplan suddenly approaches behind us and clears his throat.

"Oh hi Mr Kaplan," I say as we turn to him.

"They're going after Kaplan!" I hear Zack say from behind me.

We quickly move out of the way as the both him and Billy come flying at us and they hit Mr Kaplan sending him flying. I am really wondering what those two are doing now.

"What is wrong with you guys?" Kim asks them frowning as they had knocked her to the floor.

"Billy and Zack," Mr Kaplan said grabbing the two in question. "I'm surprised at you two. I'm afraid I have no choice but to give you Dee-tention! come with me!"

He dragged the two along and they were shouting profanities along the way.

A few minutes later and we are sat in Miss Applebee's class to take a test.

"Hey good luck Zack," I heard Jason say to Zack who was sat behind him.

"No talking during the test," Miss Applebee reminds all of us as she prepares to give out the tests. "Jessica would you help me hand out the test."

"Of course Miss Applebee!" I tell her getting to my feet and taking some of the test papers off of her.

"Okay class," Miss Applebee says as we both go round handing out the tests to the students. "You will have the entire period to finish your exam."

"Here you go," I tell Jason passing him a test paper.

"Thanks Jessie," he says.

I walk to the next desk. It was Zack's.

"Zack are you ok?" I asked him when I seen the look of horror on his face.

"Jessica?" Zack asks confused.

"Zack," Miss Applebee says hearing Zack say something. "Do you have something to say?"

I give him a sympathetic look but he just continue to stare.

"Quit it!" I whispered.

"No mam," Zack says to Miss Applebee.

"I don't want anyone to say another word!" The teacher warns us all.

*Back to action*

I am at the park wondering what had gotten in to Billy and Zack. I see Billy and Zack coming towards me.

"So which one are you?" Zack asks.

"Zack, Billy what is wrong with you two?" I ask.

They went on to explain that they are seeing all of us rangers as putties and that they can no longer tell friend from foe.

"Well you recognise me from my voice right?" They nodded. "Well putties cannot talk and your friends can. What's more is your friends wont fight you!"

They nod and smile.

"You're right," They say. "Billy we have got to figure this thing out!"

"Yeah," Billy said. "like we said, seems like the spell makes our fellow rangers appear as putties!"

As Billy finishes a group of putties appear.

"If you're right then these guys are our friends," Zack says and I shake my head at them.

"Unless I've been put under this spell," I told them and they both looked at me. "Then these are real putties! As that is how I see them!"

They nod and approach them even though I have told them that they are not our friends.

"If that's so we should be able to communicate with them," Billy said.

"Guys these are not our friends," I told them.

"Yo how's it going," Zack said to one of the putties on the slide.

The puttie runs down the slide and whacks Zack.

"Zack!" I yell and run forward.

"They're not our friends!" Zack finally catches on.

"Took you long enough to get the message," I told them falling into a fighting stance.

I jump at one and land a kick on it's chest. I duck under a punch and flip away from another one. All of a sudden I feel a twinge of pain from my leg and I don't know why. It was only supposed to hurt when it is hit. The other rangers appear and Tommy comes to help me as I was distracted by the sharp pain in my leg.

"You ok," he asks frowning.

I nod and begin to fight again. I don't want to mention the sharp twinges that are going through my leg during the fight. I heard Billy and Zack mentioning that we as their friends would never attack them. Both Jason and Tommy are not too far from me fighting. I am trying to hide my grimace. 'What the hell is going on?' I think. I feel sorry for Zack when he goes to kick Trini thinking that she is a puttie.

All the putties are gone and we all regroup.

"I can't take it," I hear Zack say as I appear. "I've got putty on the brain!"

"Listen to me," I tell them. "If they speak, they are not a puttie!"

"Bad news man!" Tommy said.

"You mean I look like a puttie?" Kim asks sounding disgusted. "Oh. Gross!"

"Sorry Kimberly!" Zack says.

"Come on guys," Jason says. "We better get back to the command centre."

I go to walk forwards and as the others teleport but I feel a sharp pain in my lower stomach and as they disappear I bend down trying to get rid of the pain.

I take a few deep breaths and then my communicator goes off.

"This is Jessica," I say trying to hide the pain.

"You ok," It was Tommy. "You didn't teleport with us!"

"Yeah," I say. "Just though I seen something I'm on my way!"

I teleport.

*Back to action*

I arrive at the command centre and the others give me a look but I don't say anything.

"So," I turn to Billy and Zack. "Do we still look like putties to you guys?"

They both nod.

"Affirmative," Billy said.

"Rangers," Zordon spoke and we all turned to him. "Lord Zedd's strategy is to upset your the balance of your team. If he can keep you guessing about who is a friend and who is an enemy he'll be free to release his latest monster. The Saliguana."

"Man that's one hot-headed lizard," Zack said and I nodded my head in agreement.

"Lord Zedd has combined a Iguana with the mythical Salamander," Zordon explained. "A creature capable of living in and breathing fire!"

"If we're going to defeat it," Billy explained. "We'll need to make a device to cool it down."

"Zack and Billy," Zordon said. "That will be your task."

"And I will find a way to reverse Zedd's spell," Alpha informed them.

"I hope you can do it Alpha," Billy said.

Zack and Billy take off to Billy's and I realise that now that I have stopped fighting I am no longer in pain. If the pain is connected to fighting, then I am in trouble.

After a few minutes I walk over to Alpha having figured something out.

"Alpha Zack and Billy see us as putties in civilian form right?" I ask.

"Yes that's right why?" Alpha asked and I heard the others listening.

"Does it still effect them when we are in ranger form?" I ask and he thinks about it.

"We'd have to test the theory," Alpha said contacting Billy. "Billy I am sending Trini down to try an experiment."

About a minute after she left Trini contacted Jason.

"Jason good news," Trini tells him. "As long as we're morphed Zedd's spell doesn't work!"

"Great," Jason replies smiling at me. "So if we have to go into battle Zack and Billy will be seeing us straight!"

I nodded glad my idea had worked.

All of a sudden the alarms began to go off alerting us to trouble.

"Red alert!" Alpha cried and I covered my ears against the sound.

"The Saliguana monster has begun it's attack on the beach outside of Angel grove!" Zordon tells us.

"Jason to Billy," Jason said into his communicator.

"Yes Jason?" Billy replied.

"We're under attack," Jason tells him.

"But my ice device we haven't tested it yet," Billy told us.

"We'll have to go with it as it is," Jason says.

"My energy's low," Tommy tells us and I am a little worried about being in battle myself. "Zordon will have to recharge me."

"See you there," Jason says as we all line up. "I hope!"

"You bet!" Tommy agrees and I smile a little at him.

"IT'S MORPHIN TIME!"

"PTERODACTYL!"

"TYRANNOSAURUS!"

"STEGOSAURUS!"

We morph and teleport out.

*Back to action*

We arrive and their are putties there that we begin to fight.

I jump up and kick two. Throwing another away from me and ducking under a punch. I aimed for the 'Z' on one of the putties chest and I hit centre and it breaks apart. I then punch another and sweep it's feet out from under it and as it hits the ground I hit its 'Z'. Another one is gone.

As I move to fight another the pain in my leg comes back. I try to ignore it and keep on fighting but then a sharp pain in my stomach makes me stumble backwards.

"GOD!" I cry. "Not now!"

I watch as the others form the power blaster and blast the monster and it falls to the ground. I force myself to stand up fully and drag myself over to them. Before they can ask the monster grows to an enormous height.

"It looks like lord Zedd has upped the stakes," Jason states.

"Now your precious Angel grove will be history," The Saliguana shouts out.

"Let's do it!" Jason says.

"WE NEED THUNDERZORD POWER NOW!"

"MASTADON LION THUNDERZORD POWER!"

"PTERODACTLY FIREBIRD THUNDERZORD POWER!"

"TRICERATOPS UNICORN THUNDERZORD POWER!"

"SABER-TOOTH TIGER GRIFFIN THUNDERZORD POWER!"

"STEGOSAURUS CHEETAH THUNDERZORD POWER!"

"TYRANNOSAURUS RED DRAGON THUNDERZORD POWER!"

I form the Cheetah warrior mode and Jason has his dragonzord form its own warrior mode.

"Now you're toast," the Saliguana says firing at us it hits both of us but we manage to stay on our feet. "He's still standing I don't get it!"

The other four zords form some sort of platform and my zord and Jason's zord jumps on. I stand to one side as the pain seems to get worse.

"Now I'm really steamed!" The monster says angrily.

The others form their megazord.

"MEGATHUNDERZORD POWER UP!"

"Oh yeah try this!" The Saliguana says and it wraps it's tongue around the megazord.

I use the Cheetah spear and cut the tongue off and it falls to the ground.

The Saliguana groans as it hits the ground.

I power up the spear at the same time that the Megathunderzord powers up it's sword.

"You think your puny weapons will get me?" The monster says. "Try again power brat!"

"All right Jessie you ready?" Jason asked.

"Let's do it!" I tell my brother finding the strength to help them.

"ALL RIGHT! THUNDERZORD ENGAGED!"

"CHEETAH SPEAR! FULL POWER!"

Both megazords strike the Saliguana and it falls to the ground and blows up.

*Back to action*

All of us except for Zack and Billy are at the command centre getting the glasses fixed. After it is done i tell the others to go on as I need to speak to Zordon.

"What is troubling you Jessica?" Zordon asked me once the others had left for class.

"Zordon the virus that is infecting me is getting worse," I tell him. "It hurts now every time I am fighting not even when I am hit there. I can barely stand the fighting. We need to find out how to stop it."

Alpha stepped forward with a device.

"Hold still Jessica!" He says to me.

He runs the scan over my body and it keeps flashing red.

"You are correct Jessica," Zordon says to me and I sigh. "It seems that the more you fight morphed or not the worse the virus is going to be, I don't know how but we will find a cure!"

"I'll tell the others in my own time," I say to him. "For now I want to keep this to myself!"

I need to find a cure for this virus. And fast.

*Back to action*

Chelbell2016:

Ok so she now knows and if people want to give any ideas for how she stops the virus I will try and fit them into my story. Please review.