Power Ranger Protection Force Chapter Four: Consequences
Previously on Power Ranger Protection Force:
Olivia smiled as she took off her helmet, "That was freaking awesome! Now I understand why Dad was reluctant to give this up."
"Ay-Yi-Yi, we have a problem," Alpha exclaimed, "They caught you morphing on camera!"
"What!" the teens shouted, surging forward, to watch the news report on the big screen.
"It appears that your identities just went public," Zelda stated.
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Robby took a deep breath as he landed the RADBUG in the Cranston's Grandfather's garage, "We made it without crashing, See I told you I can do it!"
Olivia patted her older brother on the back, "I knew you could do it."
Cory frowned, "Then why did you have your eyes shut and were whispering to yourself that we were all going to die?"
Olivia shot her younger cousin a dirty look, "You weren't supposed to hear that!"
"Well excuse me for having Super Senses." Cory retorted, turning away from Olivia, honestly just because she was chosen as the red ranger didn't mean she had to be so bossy.
Their grandfather was waiting for them outside of the garage, tapping his foot, "What were you thinking, don't you think your parents have enough to worry about without you guys running around playing superheroes, just wait 'til your parents get home."
"Get home for what?" Kat asked slipping up to her father in law.
"Your Children here thinks it would be fun to run around in spandex beating people up."
"We were saving Uncle Adam and Dad's lives," Zoey countered, her eyes twitching in true yellow ranger fashion.
"Are you saying that my children are the newest members of the Power Ranger Family?" Kat asked, her eyes round, unaware of Billy arriving and slipping his arm around her waist.
"Yes, can you think of anything more idiotic! They should let those with proper training take care of things like this."
Billy looked at his children and nieces and nephew, "This is why Zordon didn't want our identities to get out. Our parents would have reacted like this."
Kat turned to the kids, "Don't listen to your grandfather if you must know your father and I are quite proud of you. What colors are you?"
"I'm blue," Cory kind of muttered under his breath, some people claim that the blue ranger was the weak link of the team.
Before he could figure out what had happened, his father had swept him up in a bear hug with a "That's my boy, following in your old man's footsteps."
Katy laughed at her father's enthusiasm, "I'm mighty pink."
Kat threw her arm around her fourteen-year-old daughter's shoulders, "Let's hit the store you probably want more pink in your wardrobe."
Olivia smiled, "I'm red!"
Billy winced, "I wouldn't want that color if it was the last color in the universe. It's a good thing I know that your parents trained you for this role."
"They taught me to remain calm during a crisis and to be aware of the needs of those around us," she took a deep breath, "I just hope that that's enough."
Kat placed a hand on her shoulder, "You will do just fine, come on, I'll take you guys home, and Billy here will try to get a hold of your two's," she nodded to Robby and Olivia, "Parents."
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Zoey was cooking dinner, one of the things she always did when her dad stayed late at the dojo to catch up on paperwork or to fill out an insurance claim like what they had to do today. Thankfully all buildings came with Monster Protection Insurance in Angel Grove.
She smiled softly to herself as she heard JayJay shouting to their dad as he entered the house, "Did you see Zoey on the news Dad; she was awesome, yellow just like Mom was."
Jason hugged his young son, "I didn't watch the news, I saw it first hand, but I have to agree with you, Zoey certainly made her mother proud of her today."
Zoey perked up, "You really think so."
Jason pulled her into a hug, "I know so, but you need to promise me one thing."
Zoey looked up at him, "What's that."
"You be careful, okay, the world of the Power Rangers is a dangerous one."
Zoey nodded her head, "I know to trust myself and my teammates as well as our Mentor. She's a descendant of Zordon, and the techie is Alpha Five, he actually mistook Cory for Uncle Billy."
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Outside the Oliver's home in Angel Grove, Kim and Tommy sat perched on a tree, "Do you think they'll be okay?" Kim asked Tommy as Olivia and Robby told Tommy's parents about their day.
Tommy nodded his head, watching them, "We taught them everything they need to know that we could, the rest is just experience and if they believe in themselves that should come easily."
"What if they don't, a simple spell can destroy one's belief in their selves. You know that as well as anyone else." Kim argued, ruffling her feathers a little.
"And you've taught them that they can do the impossible if they can just try."
Kim bobbed her head back in forth, "Hopefully they will find a way to turn us back into humans. If they ever find out what happened."
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Olivia dropped down into a defensive position, feeling her muscles flex underneath her new uniform, they had been Zelda's idea, to make it easier for people to identify them as the protection force. She would have been fine with it if it wasn't for the red bunny on the back of her jacket. Why couldn't have a cool animal like a dragon, like Robby had, or even a dog, like Zoey's? But no she was a bunny.
She quickly kicked a Skeleton away, scanning the area, most people had fled before they had arrived and Cory and Zoey had helped evacuate the rest from the battle zone. She had to admit the new jackets did make it easier to locate her teammates. Zoey and Robby were tag teaming it, just like their fathers had done at their age.
Katy looked like she was playing some sort of game of leapfrog, though knowing Katy, she might have been playing leapfrog, maybe she should have been a frog instead of a Kangaroo. However, it was Cory who was having a hard time taking down the skeletons.
Olivia shook her head before speeding over and helping pull the skeletons off him, "You okay there Cory?"
Cory shook his head, tugging his sports jacket with the words Protection Force, Cory on the front and a blue owl on the back, back on to his shoulders, "If I can't defeat the foot soldiers then how am I ever going to defeat a monster. Face it, I'm no good at this, maybe you should ask somebody else to be blue."
…Up on the moon…
Zillah laughed gleefully, "Self-doubt, how wonderfully delicious, I can use it to create a monster that makes everyone doubt themselves. That should put these pests in their proper place."
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Olivia and the others were about to give everyone the all-clear signal when the ground began to shake and Alpha contacted them, "Zillah's sent down a monster to the park! Hurry."
Olivia nodded her head, "IT's Morphin' Time!"
Soon the Rangers were fighting an ugly monster that looked like it was taken from one of those old monster films.
"You think you can fight," the monster jeered, "You can't even touch me."
Cory jumped up and tried to attack the monster only for a red beam to hit him in the chest causing his blue camouflage suit and owl themed helmet to disappear and for him to roll around on the ground, "It's no use, there's no way we can defeat him. He's too powerful."
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The team of rangers waited as Alpha five finished scanning Cory, "You were hit by a self-doubt ray, it makes you doubt everything you do."
Katy jumped up, a little too much, "Maybe Dad can build a device that can counteract the ray, he's smart like that, he might have something in his lab. I'll go ask!" with that and a streak of pink she teleported out.
"Maybe we should ask Trini for help as well, she was always good with gadgets as well," Alpha Five suggested only to let out a confused noise as Zoey strangled back a sob and buried her head in Olivia's shoulder, who explained, "Aunt Trini was killed in a car accident nine years ago."
Alpha looked shocked, "I'm sorry I did not know." Luckily at that moment Billy and Katy arrived.
"The best way to reverse a monster spell is to defeat the monster," Billy stated.
"How do we do that?" Olivia demanded, "We can't even scratch the guy."
"Use these," Billy stated handing them all different weapons, "These are the same style of weapons that your parents used while in uniform, use them wisely."
With that, he gave Robby a set of throwing knives, Olivia a sword, Zoey a throwing knife, Katy a bow and Cory a lance. After that, they all teleported back to the park.
Billy sighed when he noticed Cory still standing there, "What's wrong Cory, you're great with the lance, I taught you how to use it."
Cory shook his head, "What if I mess up again?"
Billy sighed, "Messing up is part of being human, what matters is we don't let it stop us from doing what we know is right."
Cory looked up, "But what if it isn't enough."
Billy nodded his head, "That is always a possibility, but you have the power, nothing is impossible for you."
"But…" Cory began.
"If you can't trust in yourself trust in your teammates, know that they will never fail you. I probably would have fallen off Dead Men's Cliff if your Aunt Trini hadn't helped me."
"If I go out there, the others will have my back," Cory stated, before morphing and teleporting out.
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The weapons were causing damage, which was a good thing if you asked the rangers, however, the fight was still going on.
Just then the blue ranger showed up, "If we combine our weapons like the former rangers we can blast the monster with an even more concentrated beam."
Cory watched five minutes later as the monster exploded, "I'm glad that we don't have to worry about giant monsters yet, regular size ones are hard enough."
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A/N: finished sorry it took so long.
