Ranger Tales

Chapter 4: Kat's Djinn

A/N: This story is set in an alternate universe where the Alien Rangers arc never happened, although the Alien Rangers do exist. I'll find another way to explain to eventual Zeo Crystal search. Carri Hillard and all things relating to Carri belong to KJ with many thanks. I used Phaedos as the source of the Ninjetti Powers, but Ninjor exists and is the acknowledged creator of Ninjetti. Also, this story has nothing to do with my previous two. This fic takes place before "Good as Gold ", as will the next couple of chapters. In this fic, Tommy and Kim have not broken up. The little bit with Jason here, what he thinks back to is just a random battle, not in the show and not in the Tales. This is a pre-Supernatural crossover, all the characters from Supernatural belong to Eric Kripke.

Also, let me know what you think, I appreciate it. Thank you for reading.

It was late in November 1996, a few days before Thanksgiving break, and a black 1967 Chevy Impala had just pulled up onto the school grounds. When it came to a stop a teenage boy stepped out, slinging his brown leather jacket over his right shoulder. He leaned back in the car window and said "Sam, if anybody at school gives you a hard time, you let me know." The boy in the abck seat nodded, but didn't say anything. The teenager walked up to the school as the Impala drove off.

School had started back a few months prior and no matter how many he walked through the front doors it always felt as though he'd never left. Jason Lee Scott stretched as he found his way to his locker and saw Emily standing there. He walked up and gave her a quick kiss before asking how she was.

"I'm fine," she replied returning his kiss. She had met Jason not long after his return to Angel Grove, the two had become fast friends and even recently started seeing each other. "How are you? When I last saw you, you could hardly walk."

Jason smiled as he thought back to that. He had just had a run in with Lord Zedd who had recently returned, Zedd had been a pretty tough opponent, but with the help of the Gold Ranger Powers he received from Trey he was able to fend him off easily. "Yeah I had a couple of leg cramps that day, I must have slept wrong," he lied.

"Well you seem fine now," she said as she leaned in for another kiss. "I gotta go though, so do you, class starts soon. Bye."

"Bye," he called out as he watched her take off, and turned to head to his own class. Along the way he passed by a student in a brown leather jacket, he didn't know what, but something about the guy seemed off.

Tommy Oliver sat at his desk, getting ready for ninety minutes of note taking, that's all they ever did in his science class, take notes. He had taken Biology and Physical Science, two out the three required courses, but he had yet to take Earth Science. He watched as his friend Katherine passed by him and sat in the seat behind him. He turned and said "Hey, what's up? You okay?"

Kat smiled and said "Yeah, I'm fine. Just thinking." She was lying and she knew it, Kat had recently given up on Tommy, it had been nearly a year since she left for Florida and neither one seemed to be willing to call it quits. They visited each other every other month now on the weekends. A tradition that Tommy had started. What had Kat bummed now was the fact that Tommy had a ring he was planning on using sometime in the future, to Kat that was a slap in the face saying "give up, he'll never feel the same way about you as you about him."

"What're you-"

"Class we have a new student joining us today," Mr. Irwin said, abruptly cutting Tommy off. "What did you say your name was again?"

"Dean, Dean Winchester," the man replied.

"Well Dean, where are you books? We're taking notes today and I'm sure you'll have work in your other classes," Mr. Irwin said, giving Dean a look.

"Don't need'em, I won't be staying here long so there's no point."

Mr. Irwin tossed Dean a dirty look and told him to have a seat. Dean scanned the room before spotting a beautiful young blonde and flashing her a smile. The blonde smiled back and slightly blushed. He made up his mind to take the empty seat by her.

Kat watched as Dean headed her way and took the seat next to her, she felt her blush deepen. He was good looking, she had to give him that. He made her forget about Tommy too. "Hey there," he said, flashing her another smile.

"Hi," Kat said weakly. Something about this guy just made her feel like a giddy pre-teen again. "I'm Katherine Hillard, but call me Kat," she extended her hand, and he took and shook it. If only she knew what was running through his head right then she probably wouldn't even be talking to him.

Dean took note of her Australian accent, he loved accents. "Kat, I'm Dean Winchester. Say, how would you like to go out and get a bite to eat tonight?" He could tell by looking at her that she wasn't one to skip class, unlike him.

"I'd love to," Kat said, still in kind of a daze.

"Great, I'll meet you...out front after school?"

"Sure."

Tommy wasn't focused on his teacher, he was eavesdropping in on Kat's conversation with the new guy. There was something about him, a feeling that Tommy got, that made him not trust Dean. He just wasn't sure what it was.

Later that day Dean and Kat met outside of the school and proceeded to the nearest restaurant in seperate cars. John Winchester had left Dean a rental car, taking the Impala for himself. There was a hunt going on in Angel Grove, multiple bodies were being found drained of their blood. But it didn't appear to be Vampires, it was something else, and John was determined to find out what.

The duo entered a Pizza Hut and Dean ordered their largest pepperoni and onion pizza, with extra onions. Kat didn't think that sounded so good so she just had a salad.

As they waited on their food to arrive Kat began asking Dean a few questions. "So, where are you from? You said you wouldn't be here long, but your only a Junior, you have another year until you graduate."

"I'm from Lawrence, Kansas. My dads job keeps me and my brother on the move, I figure two, three days and we'll be gone."

"Oh," was all she managed for the moment. She was hoping he'd be around longer. "Wait, Lawrence, wasn't there some crazy fire at one of the houses there back in 1983?" she paused, "The authorities said that there was no excellerent to start the fire, and that a woman, the mother, had been killed. After that the rest of family dropped off the face of the Earth."

Dean nodded "Yeah, that was my...aunt," he said, not wanting to reveal that it was actually his mother. "Yeah we haven't seen her husband or two kids in thirteen years. We hoped they'd keep contact, but they didn't."

"You don't know what happened to them?"

"Not a clue."

"I'm so sorry," Kat said in an almost whisper. Dean looked at her and smiled. Maybe he wouldn't sleep and run with this girl, maybe he'd actually give something a chance. "So what does your dad do for a living?" she asked, trying to change the subject.

"He's a travelling salesman," Dean answered quickly. It was a flat out lie, but she didn't need to know what his life was really like. Soon after their food arrived, well his did, and the talking ceased as they enjoyed their meals.

While Kat and Dean were over at Pizza Hut, Tommy, Rocky, Carri, Adam, and Jason were over at the Youth Center. They were all gathered around the table as Tommy told them about Dean, an dhow he had this feeling like something just didn't seem right about him.

"I got the same feelin' bro," Jason said "I passed by him on my way to first period."

"He was in mine and Rocky's English class," Carri said. "I got the same feeling as you guys."

"Sam here," Rocky added.

"I saw him out in the parking lot, I agree with you that something seemed off. But, he can't be too bad if Kat agreed to go out with him," Adam said, trying to give Dean the benefit of the doubt.

"Yeah, after all she does only go after the good guys," Carri joked, everyone except for Tommy understood the joke as he was oblivious to Kat's feelings for him.

"Did I miss something?" he asked, clearly confused.

"No bro, your good," Jason snickered.

John Winchester was close, he could feel it. He knew what he was hunting now and where to find it. But just to be on the safe side he called his son, Dean, for back up.

Dean was sitting there talking to Kat, both had finished their meals and Kat had even agreed to try his extra onion pizza, whe his phone went off. "Yeah?"

"Dean, I need you help. I'm out by the desert, on the Eastern side of the city. Meet me there in half an hour," John's voice rang through.

"Yes sir," Dean said, as he hung up, never one to question his fathers orders. "Sorry, but I gotta go," he stood. "Dad needs my help on a job," he said without thinking.

"Your dad needs to help sell something?" Kat asked skeptically.

"Uh, yeah. He needs someone to say they've bought his product before and that it works," he quickly covered. "Sorry, but hey, same time tomorrow?"

"Yeah," she replied, smiling as she watched him walk out the door. Something about his story seemed fishy to her, she was going to follow him and see where he was headed.

When she finally found where it was that he was headed she pulle over and walked the rest of the way, being very quiet. She listened as Dean and his father talked about hunting something called a Djinn. She had no idea what was, or why they were hunting it. She was about to reveal herself when she saw something move out of the corner of her eye. Slowly she made her way to where it was, she gasped as she saw it. Standing before her was a bald man with what appeared to be tribal markings all over his face. Before she knew what was happening she felt sleep encompass her and she passed out.

When she awoke she was in her bed, she didn't know how she got there or what had happened. The last thing she remembered was seeing some strange man. She didn't have long to think however as her cousin Carri bounced in her room. "You gonna sleep all morning? C'mon we need to be going soon," Carri said.

Kat looked around at her clock, it read seven-thirty. "Crap!" she gasped, school started in forty-five minutes. She quickly got in the shower and threw some clothes on. All the while she was thinking about how bouncy Carri had been, it was so unlike her to be up and be in a cheerful mood that early. She didn't let it bother her though.

School went by as normal, though she didn't see Dean anywhere, and Tommy had been absent from first period as well. Carri informed her that Tommy had something Ranger related he needed to take care of and that's why he wasn't there.

Like normal, her and Carri went to the Youth Center after school, that was when she received the biggest shock of the day. Tommy came in and walked up to her, "Hey beautiful," he said as he leaned in for a kiss, making Kat blush. She had wanted that to happen for so long, but she didn't want him to cheat on Kim with her.

"What was that for?" she asked without really thinking.

Tommy frowned "Can't I kiss my girlfriend? he asked.

Kat shook her head "But Tommy, Kim is your girlfriend," she said sadly.

"Kim?" he said with a slight laugh "We broke up months ago, remember the letter she sent me? It broke my heart, but you pieced it back together bit by bit." Kat looked at him, stunned. All she had heard about for months was how great he and Kim were doing, and now suddenly they're broken up and he says it's been that way for months? It just didn't make sense.

A few minutes later Jason walked in, scooping Carri up and giving her a kiss. Kat couldn't believe what she was seeing, her cousin and Jason had grown close, she knew that, but she had thought it to be more of a brother-sister relationship. Besides, last she checked Carri was dating Rocky. "What happened to Rocky?" she questioned, her curiousity growing.

"What do mean what happened to me? I'm right here," Rocky said as he came to stand beside Tommy. Oh no, Kat thought, I can't let Rocky see Carri with Jason, it would break his heart.

Standing up she grabbed Rocky and pulled him away. "Come with me Rocky."

"Where are we going?"

"For a walk."

The day after his date with Kat Dean couldn't find her anywhere, she wasn't in class, she didn't meet him out front like she said, she wasn't waiting for him at Pizza Hut, so finally he went to the Youth Center where she said she usually hung out. It didn't take him long to find, but one look at it and he couldn't even imagine what kind of fruits hung out there, it was not his type of place at all, though he thought Sammie might enjoy it.

He quickly found her friends an asked them if they'd seen her anywhere. He was granted a chorus of no's.

"She never came home last night, I figured maybe you seduced her or something," Carri joked, she was trying to hide her concern. If she wasn't with Dean and she never came home then that must have meant that Mondo, or Zedd, had her.

"Shit," Dean shouted. The Djinn had managed to escape him and his dad with another victim last night, he hoped now that it wasn't Kat.

"This is serious," Tommy said, standing, "guys we better go talk to Al and Billy, maybe they've seen her." The others nodded.

"I'm coming too," Dean said quickly. He felt responsible for her disappearing, and he was determined to make it right.

"No, you stay here in case she shows up," Tommy argued, he already didn't trust this guy, he was damn sure not gonna let him in on their secret.

"Fine," Dean growled reluctantly. As soon as the others left he walked up to Ernie. "I'll have a beer."

"We don't have beer," Ernie replied, shocked that a high schooler would even try to order that.

"Scotch?"

"We don't serve alcohol here," Ernie said sternly, "and even if we did, I certainly would not serve it to a minor."

"Whatever, I'm outta here," Dean grumbled as he took his leave. He was going to help, whether Kat's friends liked it or not.

Kat and Rocky were walking along the beach when she suddenly blurted "Jason and Carri are dating!"

Rocky raised one eyebrow at her and chuckled. "Yeah, they've kinda been dating since he got back. Why would I care?"

"Because you and Carri dated, are dating," she corrected herself.

"No," he drug out the word, "Carri and I have never dated. We flirted a little, but that was before Jason came into the picture."

"Mondo must have put a spell on everyone but me..." she muttered, but Rocky heard her.

"Mondo? He's been gone for months, we're back to Zedd and Rita now."

"Since when?" Kat asked in disbelief. Everything was so different, had everything else been a dream? It must have been.

"Since they destroyed the Machine Empire. Are you feeling okay?"

"I'm fine, tell me, how did we get our Powers?"

"Our Powers?" he echoed, she nodded, "Well Zedd and Rita destroyed the Ninjetti coins, and Vile turned back time, making everyone kids again. The Alien Rangers of Aquitar came and defended Earth for us for a while, until we retrieved the Zeo shards, then Rito and Goldar blew the Command Center up. You sure you're okay?"

"Yes," she snapped, she didn't mean to, she was just so confused. She had never heard of these Rangers from Aquitar. "Where's Billy?"

Rocky looked at her, she should at least know that. "He's on Aquitar. His invention backfired on him, causing him to rapidly age. He decided to stay on Aquitar after falling in love with Cestria. How do you not remember all this?"

"First off," she said, getting ready to go into her own explanation, "the way I remember us receiving our Zeo Powers is somewhat different. Vile returned to his own galaxy after we killed his friend Dischordia, not long after that Mondo's forces attacked and destroyed the Command Center. That was when we discovered the Power Chamber and, like you, we had to hunt for the Zeo shards. But we never needed any Alien Rangers to help us. Secondly, Billy is still on Earth with us, and thirdly, you are supposed to be with Carri, and as much as it pains me to say it, Tommy is supposed to be with Kim."

Rocky looked at her for a few minutes, something had definitely happened to her. But she was right about one thing, he felt as though he should be with Carri, not Jason.

The Rangers teleported to the Power Chamber, Billy was already scanning for her. "Have you found her?" Rocky questioned.

Billy shook his head. "I've scanned all of Rita's dark dimensions, as well as alternate realities. But nothing has come up."

"Then scan our Earth," Carri suggested. Just because a Ranger went missing that didn't mean they were in some alternate universe or something,

"I was just getting started on that when you arrived," Billy explained.

"Ay yi yi, Zordon, where could she be?" Alpha asked as he ran over to another console to search.

"I do not know," Zordon replied "This is most troubling. If Mondo or Zedd had kidnapped her we would have heard about it by now."

Up on the moon Zedd and Rita were watching the Djinn. "Well," Zedd said "apparently that creature is killing one of those Power brats as we speak."

"What's he doing Zeddie?" Rita asked cheerfully.

"He seems to be...feeding..."

"Feeding? Let me see," Rita said, taking a look down at the Earth. "Ugh, how repulsive. I like it! Wait a second, who's that?" Zedd looked to where she was pointing. An older man and a younger man were approaching the Djinn with blood covered knives.

"Goldar, take the Tenga's and keep them away from that creature!" Zedd ordered.

"Yes master," Goldarsaid as he teleported down to Earth.

"Hey, what about me? What about me?" Rito asked anxiously. "Can I go? Huh Huh, can I can I?"

"Fine!" Zedd shouted, he'd heard enough. "Go, but if you screw this up, don't bother coming back!"

"Gotcha," Rito teleported off.

Back in the Power Chamber Billy jerked up. "Guys, I found her. She's in a cave by the upper East side of the desert. Morph and I'll teleport you."

"Right," Tommy said. "It's morphi' time!"

"Zeo Ranger II, Yellow!"

"Zeo Ranger III, Blue!"

"Zeo Ranger IV, Green!"

"Zeo Ranger V, Red!"

"Gold Ranger Power!"

Five multi-colored streaks of light landed just outside the cave, just as Goldar, Rito and a small army of Tenga's arrived. "Rangers," Goldar growled, "you will not save your friend!"

"How many years has he been saying that?" Jason questioned.

"Too many," Tommy replied as he jumped into battle against the golden ape. e summoned his Zeo Power Sword and began attacking Goldar. He ducked under the apes sword and countered with a punch, knocking Goldar back a few feet. He then swung his sword at him, narrowly missing.

Jason rushed over to face Rito, dodging his sword and countering with a gold rush. The others took on the Tenga's, quickly disposing of them. Goldar began to run towards Tommy, sword held ready for a final strike, when he fall face first into the ground. Tommy watched as Carri jumped up and kicked Goldar in the back of his head, standing on him when he hit the ground. She quickly jumped off and joined Tommy, followed by Rocky.

"Whatsa matter Goldie, getting your butt handed to you by a girl?" Rito laughed, taking his eyes off Jason and Adam. That brief second proved to be a mistake as both the Gold and the Green Rangers attacked him at once.

Goldar stood and growled "Another time Rangers," he assured them as they took off.

Unknown to the Rangers John and Dean Winchester saw everything, they didn't know their identities though. But Dean knew Kat was being held in there, and her five friends had left him, and now standing here there were five people, all of them wearing the same color as each one of her friends. He thought about it for a second, but then shrugged it off until he heard the red one speak. "Come on guys, we need to save Kat."

It is them, he thought. "Hey Tommy, guys, over here!" The five spandex wearing people turned to see who had called out their leaders name.

"Great," Tommy muttered.

Dean approached with his dad in tow. "What're you guys doin'? Tryin' to play Batman or somethin'?"

"We're the Power Rangers," Tommy informed him as he took off his helemt, Dean gave him a look.

"Right, sure you are," he said, talking to them like they were nuts. "Let me guess, Kat is a Power-whatever, too?" Tommy nodded.

"We'll explain later, right now we need to get to her."

"Agreed," John said, speaking for the first time. Tommy glanced down and saw the blood covered knife, he immediately jumped back.

"What the hell is that?"

John followed his gaze to the knife he was holding, he supposed that did seem kind of suspicious. "I'll explain later as well, right now we need to save your friend." Tommy nodded, he didn't trust them, but he would have to get over that for now.

Rocky had left Kat on the beach to go tell Carri how he felt. That wasn't what Kat had been intending to accomplish, but she wasn't really concerned with it. She was more concerned with getting home. Sure she had the one thing in this world that she didn't have back home, but now that she had it, it just didn't feel right. She felt as though she had stolen Tommy, and that didn't sit right with her. She wanted out, and she wanted out now.

"What's wrong? this is your wish?" Tommy said as he approached her.

"What are you talking about?" she asked, stunned at how he suddenly appeared.

"You wished you be my girlfriend, that wish has now come true. Just think of how happy we could be."

"It is what you wanted," Carri said as she too appeared. "I'm your cousin, I can tell you want Tommy."

"She's right," Jason said as he appeared next to Carri, "and you think I'm better suited for Carri than Rocky will ever be. Katherine, this is a whole new world based on your wish." Quietly, she began to sob. This isn't what she wanted, not at all. She didn't want to feel like she was stealing Tommy. Just like she didn't want to see Carri with anyone other than Rocky. True, at one point she thought Carri and Jason would be better, but that was when the two first met. She knew better now.

"They're all right," Adam said.

"Kat, come home. You belong here with us," Rocky added.

"That's right, there's still so much we have yet to do," Tommy told her.

"I don't want any of this!" she screamed, suddenly, for a brief second she saw the man that attacked her. This has got to be a dream, she thought, and your supposed to wake up if you're about to die in a dream, it's worth a shot.

"It's morphin' time! Zeo Ranger I, Pink!" in a pink flash she morphed into the Pink Zeo Ranger and pulled her Zeo Laser Blade out, pointing it towards her chest, and thrusting it back.

Dean, John, and the Rangers got the jump on the Djinn, Tommy and the others distracted it while both Dean and John stabbed it, killing it. As soon as the Djinn hit the ground Kat woke up. Tommy quickly pulled the tube out of her neck where the Djinn had been drinking her blood ever so often and helped her back to the Command Chamber. They took Dean and John with them.

When they arrived at the Power Chamber Billy immediately hooked Kat up to a medical bed, she had lost a lot of blood. Dean and John first looked up at Zordon and both had to do a double take.

"Rangers, what is the meaning of this? You know strangers are not allowed in here," Zordon reminded them.

"I know Zordon, and I'm sorry, but they know. Dean recognized my voice," Tommy explained.

Zordon nodded "In that case it is okay, but tell me, who are you?"

Dean was awestruck, out of all the things he'd seen in his short life, this one took the cake. "My name is John Winchester, this is my son Dean. We're hunters. We hunt down evil creatures like what had that young lady there, also Vampires, Werewolves, that sort of thing." He turned to face Tommy and added "And the blood you saw on the knife was lambs blood, the only way to kill that beast."

"What was it?" Adam asked after he got over the slight shock that hollywood monsters were real.

"The thing we fought tonight is called a Djinn," John explained, he could see they didn't know what that was. "A Djinn is a Genie, though not like Jeanie in the TV show or Genie in the Aladdin movies. A Djinn doesn't grant wishes, it just makes you think it has. What it really does is put you into a deep sleep, like a coma, and make you think your wish has come true so it can feed off you."

Tommy could see he was done explaining so he jumped in with his own explanation about Zordon, about their Powers, Rita, Zedd, and Mondo and all that stuff.

"So let me get this straight," Dean said, pointing at each of the Rangers as he spoke, "you're telling me that there really are spandex wearing superheroes out there, and that you guys are them?" The five teens nodded. "Son of a bitch, who's have thought it."

"Dean, John, I must ask you to keep this to yourselves. You are not to tell anybody, do you understand?" Zordon asked. Both nodded.

"We'll put it in the backs of our minds and treat this case like it never happened," John assured him. Zordon smiled and nodded, he could tell that he could trust them. Tommy and others began to understand the weird feeling they got from Dean earlier, it was because he wasn't much different from them. His tactics were vastly different, but when it came down to it they were all on the same side of the fight.

A few days later Kat awoke to find Adam's head resting on her legs, Zordon informed her of what had happened with the Djinn, and that Dean had left on another case, but that he said to tell her goodbye. He also told her that Adam had not left her side since she returned, and that he had finally lost the war against sleep. She smiled down at him, then watched as four multi-colored streaks of light entered. Her eyes fell to Tommy and she was glad she experienced the dream world as it allowed her to realize that she really did not want Tommy like she thought she did. Billy entered from his lab and did one final scan on her before giving her the all clear.

"Hey, how're you feeling?" Carri asked as she approached the bed.

"Better," Kat replied with a smile.

"That's great," Rocky replied, he was more relieved that Carri would stop worrying now, but he was glad to have his friend back.

"We should do something to celebrate," Jason suggested.

"How a trip to the beach?" Tommy asked, everyone nodded.

"I think that's a wonderful idea Tommy," Kat replied, "You coming Billy?"

The former Blue Ranger looked around "Well I've got to-"

"Go with them Billy, it can wait until later," Zordon urged him.

Billy smiled "I'm in."

With that the the seven teens headed out to the beach to enjoy their Thanksgiving break and celebrate Kat's recovery.