Terra Force
"Powers Bestowed"
Disclaimer: Power Rangers belong to Disney/Saban, Carri belongs to KJ with many thanks, the name Kaycea belongs to KSuzie with many thanks, everyone else is mine. The idea for a black metal ranger came to me from KJ's "Dark Inheritence".
A/N: Sorry it took so long, I was away over the weekend and very busy Monday and Tuesday. But here is chapter four of Terra Force, I hope you enjoy.
As always reviews are appreciated.
Jason looked at the red ranger across the table from him, Shiro. The leader of the Lunar rangers was dressed in some of Jason's left over red clothes, they were a bit bright compared his shade of red, but they worked just fine. Shiro was dressed in a bright red t-shirt, and a pair of blue jeans. He looked extremely different from his norma garb. Eledore was dressed in a blue denim vest, his black t-shirt, and a pair of blue jeans. Billy had tried to get him to remove his headband, as it looked old and worn, but Eledore adamantly refused. Genma was dressed in his black t-shirt and a pair of black jeans, while Kiki was dressed in a pink top with tight blue jeans. She had managed to find a green bracelet in Kim's things to match her own ranger color. Riku, the fifth and final member, had opted to return to the ship rather than go out with everyone.
The two Terra rangers, Billy, and the four Lunar rangers were enjoying a nice meal. The Lunar's had all tried Earth's food. They imagined it would taste the same as the food KO-35 and Chiga-46, but they weren't entirely sure until they received their plates. The food looked the same, but it tasted way different than what they were used to. They were at a place called Bulkmeier's, and the burgers they served tasted nothing like the yokaw burgers of Chiga-46. They looked the same, but they weren't. It was still good though. Eledore had said it was something he would have to program into their new synthetron, once he was finished building it.
After dinner the group headed back to the Command Center, Billy set up a few bunks for the Lunar's while Jason and Kim went back home for the evening. They both found themselves worried about their teammates, it had been over six hours since they had last seen them. They wondered how they doing with finding their powers.
Tommy brushed the tree branch aside. He stared out at the lush greenery, it had been hours since he started this journey. Shouldn't he have found his power source yet? He'd already had a couple fights, one was against a couple of wood soldiers, and the other was against a very life-like manifestation of evil green ranger. He was really getting tired of battling that bastard. Sighing he trudged onwards. As he pushed through a wall of bushes in his way he saw someone he though he was through with years ago. Standing before him was Goldar.
He should have known he'd have to face two of his greatest enemies. The evil green ranger, okay, he'd give the powers that one. That was his biggest enemy, but Goldar? He was more of a joke than an actual threat. He shook his head as the familiar growl of a voice began to ring in his ears.
"So nice to see you again, ranger." Goldar growled as he stepped towards Tommy. He wasn't sure if this was an illusion or if it was real, what would the the former "greatest ranger of all time" be doing out here? It had to be an illusion.
"Wish I could say the same," Tommy said, pausing before adding "wait, nevermind. I don't."
"I see you've kept that no non-sense ranger attitude, even though you are no longer a ranger." Goldar was certain this had to be an illusion, and that meant he could taunt Tommy all he wanted and not worry about getting his ass kicked. For once. Snarling, he charged Tommy, swinging his sword around.
"Oh I am a ranger, through and through. And don't you ever forget that!" Tommy said as he ducked underneath Goldar sword and counteracted with a swift kick to his stomach. The goldan monkey fell back a couple of feet. Now Tommy wasn't so sure that he was an illusion, neither was Goldar.
He felt as real as those wood warriors, he should have felt like the evil green ranger, shouldn't he? Tommy thought this over as Goldar picked himself up from the ground.
Goldar lifted himself up to his feet after being knocked down. Illusions didn't hurt like that, no, this was real and that meant that it was time for Goldar to get serious. "Let's see you avoid this, Tommy." He said his name with pure hatred as he lifted his sword up and began swinging it in a circle. Finally he acted as though he were launching something, only instead his sword sat pointed at Tommy.
"Is that all golden boy?" Tommy taunted, letting his teenage self take over for a brief second. He couldn't help it, Goldar was just a big joke to him. Goldar smirked as a dozen different blades appeared around the ranger, surrounding him. He had been doing a lot more than hiding these past few years, he had been training, improving his sword skill, and even learning a few new techniques like this one. He swung his sword from left to right, and all the blades began to spear towards Tommy. As they did a gust of wind began to pick up.
Rocky walked through the cave he was in. To him it seemed as though a cave was a pretty weird place to find a ranger power, but then he figured that they had probably been found in weirder places. After all, he had no clue where Zordon and Alpha had found the original powers coins. He shivered, it was getting colder the further in he went. If he had known this would be where he was headed he would have worn a jacket, he'd been freezing for what felt like hours. His fight with two shadow creatures got his blood pumping and warmed him up a little. But it didn't take long after the fight ended for him to get cold again. Whatever this power was he wished he could hurry up and find it so he could go home, he was a nice hot summer day boy, not a freezing cold winter day boy.
He sighed as he reached a fork in the cave. He looked from his right to his left, trying to decide which way to go. Eventually, going with his gut, he went to the left. Not far into the branch off he encountered Jason of all people. "Jason? What's going on?" He was confused, what was Jason doing here? He thought Jason already had his power. He looked at him carefully, and noticed a faint yellowish-green outline along his body. "Strange..." he commented as he began to take a few slow steps forward.
"Gold ranger power!" Jason shouted, morphing into the gold Zeo ranger.
Rocky was baffled, he thought Jason had lost the gold ranger power years ago, that it wasn't meant for human use. Before he could say anything though he saw the gold ranger heading for him. He quickly jumped out of the way, turning to face him again. "Have you lost your mind? What do you think you're doing?" He shouted, staring into the visor of his friend.
"You're still jealous, aren't you? Jealous of how easy it was for YOUR girlfriend to tell ME her problems and not YOU. Jealous of how easily I was welcomed back on he team, of how I took your spot as second in command. Admit it newbie, you are still jealous after all these years." Jason said, smirking behind his helmet.
Rocky wondered what in the world could have brought this up, all of that was in the past. Besides, he and Carri were long since broken up, and where did he get off calling him "newbie"?. "You don't know what you're talking about Jase, I used to be jealous, but that was a long time ago!" It was, he had told himself that for years. It was all in the past, he wasn't jealous anymore, he had no reason to be. Jason didn't know what he was talking about, if this was even Jason to begin with. But then again...maybe he was jealous, may be he did still harbour some resentment towards Jason for all those things...but why would he?
"Right, and I'm the toothfairy!" Jason shouted as he charged Rocky, getting ready for a gold rush.
"It was!" Mind made up, it was all in the past. He had no reason to resent Jason, not even a little. Just as Jason was about to strike, Rocky thrust his hands out in front of him to block the oncoming attack.
Carri walked through the rain, it was peaceful for the moment. The two creatures she fought earlier had given her quite the tussle, but and with it raining like it was her fire manipulation did no good. She had to beat them back with no powers of any kind, which was fine with her. It let her release the stress of seeing Rocky again. She had to talk to him, but what would she say? What could she say? "Hey, sorry I left like that, but I couldn't let Kim go off alone. Oh, why did she go off? You'll have to ask her. Oh I'm glad you can forgive me!" She sighed, wishing it would go something like that. But unfortunately they would have to have a real talk about it. But again, what could she say?
She made her way through the rain, it was pouring harder now than it had been in the past few hours. She knew where she was, she'd heard of this planet from Dulcea. It was called Appana. As far she knew it was a lot like Seattle, in that it never quit raining. She found it a little frustrating as it made for a dark environment. Clouds filled the sky, darkening the area around her and the rain just helped make her vision worse. It was just a little frustrating. She had to assume that it was night time as well since any trace of sunlight she could see before was now gone.
She continued walking, fighting any sort of creature that attacked her. She eventually found herself standing in what appeared to be ruins of a highly advanced civilization, more advanced than Earth. Though out in the galactic community that wasn't hard to do. It there that she bumped into him. She quietly cursed her lack of vision, then stepped back and apologized, eyes widening when she saw him. His teal hair falling down next to his face, and kind of sticking up in the back, his blue eyes looking down at her. She couldn't help but smile for a brief second.
Karone trudged on through the desert, stopping once every hour to get the sand out of her boots. It was unbearably hot out there. SHe would have preferred a jungle, despite her distaste for them, to this hell of a desert. For once she found herself regretting the decision to wear black leather. It was just too unbearable. She had fought a couple of giant sand creatures in the past eight hours. That fight had been the first to exhaust her in a long time. After it ended all she had wanted to do was kick back and relax, but there would be time for that later. Right now she needed to find this power. There was proof that it existed, Kim and Jase were proof enough. She wished she'd searched for her morpher two and a half years ago when Jason first asked, but at the time she hadn't thought she'd need it.
She continued to walk on, eventually spotting someone out in the desert. She couldn't believe it, there stood Leon Weber. She had met him during hers and Jason's travels, he was a mercenary, vowing to take any job so long as it didn't involve killing anyone. He had no problem fighting and rendering them unconscious, but he would not kill. It was one of the reasons Karone had been attracted to him, despite what Jason thought. But what could he be doing out here in the middle of nowhere? She decided she'd ask him.
As she walked up to him she began to see his long blonde hair begin to face, along with his black jacket with the fuzy white collar, his tight black jeans, adn the rest of him. "It must have been a mirage." She said sadly. The heat was beginning to play tricks on her, great. She sighed as she saw yet another illusion, this time it was Ecliptor standing in the desert. Only this time he was speaking to her, scolding her for becoming good. She tried not to pay him any attention, but that plan didn't go too well as she kicked her to the ground, calling her a disgrace.
"You, Karone," he said the name with spite, "are not fit to be Astronema any longer!" She raised his sword up, preparing to bring it down. Just as he began to thrust it towards her face she glared at him, raising her leg to kick him, but a sudden burst of sand sent him flying first. She pulled herself to her feet, wide eyed. What was that? First Ecliptor turned out to be real, or so she thought as she saw him vanish too, and then that strange burst of sand. Just what was going on? As she took a step forward she felt something warm on her wrist, looking down she saw a gray morpher with a yellow hourlglass symbol in the center. Was that her power? Sand?
"Well, I guess I can go home now." She said aloud, dsappearing in a yellow streak of light.
Off in the distance a figure with blonde hair hanging around his ears smiled, sort of. He was glad she had found what she was looking for. If he hadn't vanished when he did he would have most likely slowed ehr down. Leon turned to continue what he doing before being spotted by Karone.
Early the next morning the four rangers returned to the Command Center, surprised to find Billy standing there waiting for them. They didn't know how long they'd been gone, as far as they knew it had been a couple of hours at the most. "How'd it go?" Billy asked, curiousity getting the best of him. He had been expecting them to return any second now, they had been gone for nearly two days after all.
Karone was the first to hold her morpher up, showing the gray morpher with the yellow hourglass on it. Tommy was next, holding up a gray morpher with a white feather on it. Carri follwed, hers was gray with a blue cloud on it. Finally Rocky held his up, it was black with a silver circle on it.
"Good, all went well then. Elieara's been surprisingly quiet since you guys left two days ago." He informed them, figuring they'd like to know that. The Lunar's a little disappointed, except for Eledore. He was thankful for the R&R, it gave him the chance to work on their makeshift ship, to be sure they could make it home. Billy had gladly helped him out with it, now their makeshift ship was close to being a real ship.
"Two days?!" Rocky said, surprised. He had thought it to be only a few hours. What about his schools? How many students left because he wasn't there to teach?
"Relax," Billy said "I took the liberty of informing your employees that you had to leave town for a few days to help out a friend. They were more than happy to cover your classes." Rocky breathed a sigh of relief, that was good. Leave it to Billy to straighten everything out for his friends. "And you," he said as he looked at Tommy "I just told Principal Randall that you were away on ranger-related activity. She understood and Dr. Mercer agreed to fill in for you, again."
Tommy nodded, that was good. He was glad he met Anton, and was also glad that Elsa had been purified, in a sense, and knew who he was. It made things easier on him at school whenever he had to leave suddenly. That didn't happen as often as it used to, his red ranger activities had been declining in the past few years. Though now he knew of a new mission for them, one he was sure Jason would jump on immediately, insisting it be just the two of them for it.
"You two should be fine, as I understand it, Karone, you are unemployed and your brother knew what you were doing," she nodded, "good. And Carri," he looked over at the yellow ranger.
Carri was lost in her thoughts, she had been ever since meeting him. It took a sudden jarring of her body to snap her back into the present. "Yes, what?" she asked, purely confused by what was going on.
"I asked if you let your co-workers know that you were going to be gone for a while." Billy stated as he looked at her curiously. It wasn't like Carri to space out like that, perhaps he should have a talk with Kim about just what exactly had happened out there in space.
"Oh, yeah. I did. Is that all?" she asked quietly.
"Well, yeah. You guys go on and get some sleep if you need to, meet back here tomorrow, or rather today, at six p.m." Billy said, waiting for all four of them to nod then teleport off before turning back to his controls. He yawned, it was just past four a.m and he'd been at this for nearly twenty-four hours. But soon it would be finished. He hoped it would work, as he hadn't had much to work with seeing as how he started before the others returned. He hoped everything was synched right. After about another hour of working he decided it was time he turned in as well, they would be saying farewell to the Lunar's tomorrow and he needed to get his rest. Turning towards the hall and heading for his own bunk he slipped into his bed and within minutes he was fast asleep.
