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Brooklyn slowed down to a walk as a crack of lightening filled the air. "Crap." She mumbled, realizing she should probably go back. The fat wet drops that started landing on her solidified her thought. She sighed, turned around and started to jog back, it had only been about a mile and she could make it in 7-8 minutes in good conditions, so she figured less than ten even if it poured. She turned her head towards a large boom of thunder, as it began raining harder. Not watching where she was going she stumbled as Tommy grabbed her arms as she ran into him.
"Oof." She said, looking up to see Tommy's face lit up by another lightening strike. She pulled away and tried to go around him, but everywhere she stepped, he stepped with her to block her path. "Move."
"Talk to me." He responded.
She raised her eyebrows, incredulous. "Talk to you? That's something I figured would never come out of the great Tommy Oliver's mouth."
He sighed, and motioned for her to walk with him back towards the house. They walked quickly and in silence until they could see the house in the distance, by this time, both were soaked. Finally Tommy stopped and spoke to her. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean for you to hear me."
"Whatever."
He rolled his eyes. "Why didn't I expect that? Of course you don't care, you don't feel anything. You're the ice queen."
"Don't feel anything? What the hell is your problem? Of course I feel. Just because I don't express exactly how I feel every single moment, doesn't mean you don't piss me off, it doesn't mean I wasn't happy to be here, and it doesn't mean that your constant barrage of jerk doesn't hurt me. In case you forgot, we were enemies. YOU were the bad guy to ME. I wasn't fighting for good or evil. I was fighting because I was forced to, and you were the ones that wanted me dead. Forgive me for needing some adjustment time, I AM TRYING. You however, have branded me an enemy and won't let me do anything to try to change it. I'm done with you Tommy, just fuck off and leave me alone."
Tommy stared at her, as she said her piece, surprised to see tears mixing with rain water as she spoke. Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was temporary insanity, or maybe it was because she looked sexy with her hair wet; whatever the reason, Tommy couldn't control himself and as she finished yelling, he grabbed her, pulling her against him, put his hand behind her head and kissed her deeply. She tensed up for a second, and then relaxed into the kiss. After another second, she pulled away as if his lips had been on fire, and stared at him shocked. His face mirrored her own. "That didn't happen, and it will never happen again." She said, before running back into the house, leaving Tommy in the rain, mouth agape for the second time in the night.
ANGEL GROVE YOUTH CENTER
"I don't think it's a good idea Kim, I'm not good with…" Brooklyn trailed off.
"Kids?" Kim asked.
"Well yeah, but mostly people in general." Brooklyn finished.
"Ok, we won't push it… much. But I think it's a good idea." Kim said. The two were discussing Brooklyn working at the Youth Center with the other Rangers. The others were scattered around the Youth Center, Rocky and Aisha were working the juice bar, Billy and Trini were tutoring some students, Zach was teaching a hip hop class, and Tommy, Jason and Adam were teaching a karate class. The money was decent, especially considering they had no rent to pay. The week after Tommy and Brooklyn's rainy showdown had passed without incident; they were no longer shooting insults at each other and were instead just ignoring the others existence. Tommy decided that he must have been drunk, after contemplating the possibility of her casting some spell, evil of course. Brooklyn decided that the White Ranger was insane, and left it at that. Neither told any of the other Rangers details of that night, they would simply say, "It's fixed." The others considered their silent treatment strategy to be an improvement and left it alone.
As the day faded to night, the Rangers were getting ready to close up for the day, waiting on Tommy and Adam's last class to finish up. Rocky and Brooklyn were behind the juice bar, making smoothies for the team to take to go. Rocky put all the ingredients in the blender and turned it on, he turned around to clean up his prep area, and Brooklyn walked over to the blender that was shaking precariously. "Rocky did you lock…." SPLAT. The lid flew off of the blender covering Brooklyn with half blended smoothie. "…the lid." The Rangers watched with wide eyes as Rocky's mouth dropped open. Brooklyn wiped the smoothie from her eyes, and then started laughing. The others began to laugh once they realized Rocky wasn't going to be killed in front of them. "I think I should probably go shower" Brooklyn said between giggles.
"Of course, Adam and Tommy have a while longer; just meet up with them to lock up." Jason said. The Rangers finished cleaning up and left, while Tommy and Adam finished teaching, and Brooklyn showered.
Adam checked his phone as the class trickled out of the room. "Brooklyn is still here, we need to make sure not to lock her in." Tommy nodded, but had nothing to add to their conversation. The two walked to the locker rooms, knocking on the door of the Woman's. After no response, Adam pushed the door open slowly, calling out for Brooklyn. The room was pitch black. Tommy looked down the hallway and saw that the classroom Kim taught cheer classes in was lit up. The two walked over to see Brooklyn dancing to silence, executing complicated turns and leaps. Tommy watched her intently, drinking in her toned body, her hair cascading down her shoulders and flowing with her movements, and the look of bliss on her face. As she stood on one foot, slowly raising the other one up in the air she looked towards the door, and quickly stood up.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know you guys were done. " Brooklyn said, going to grab her things.
"Oh it's fine. Don't worry about it." Adam said.
"I thought you said you didn't have anything to teach?"Tommy said with a disapproving look.
Brooklyn made a face, "I didn't say that, I said I probably shouldn't be allowed to teach people."
"Whatever" Tommy said as they walked towards the back door. As Adam put his hand in his gym bag to pull out his keys, the group heard a large bellowing voice from outside.
"COME HERE ORANGE RANGER. LORD ZEDD HAD A PROBLEM HE NEEDS TO DISCUSS WITH YOU."
"Oh just perfect. My favorite flying monkey" Brooklyn grumbled, fumbling in her bag for her morpher. Tommy and Adam did the same, and Tommy announced, "It's morphin time!"
"Falcon!"
"Frog!"
"Phoenix!"
Once morphed the three rushed out to the empty parking lot, with Adam yelling into his communicator for backup. "Did you honestly think you wouldn't be punished, traitor?" Goldar growled.
"Honestly? I didn't care." Brooklyn replied flippantly. Tommy gave the signal and the three rushed forward. Goldar wasted no time grabbing Tommy and Adam, hurling them as far as he could throw them. As soon as they were tossed, Goldar pulled a small glowing lantern from his armor. He twisted the top and a hazy fog covered him and Brooklyn, when the smoke cleared the two were exchanging blows, and a large bubble encompassed them. Tommy and Adam ran towards them but were stopped when they reached the semi transparent barrier, unable to break through. The other Rangers materialized around them and Tommy gave them a status update. The others tried their weapons, their blasters, and their punches and kicks to try to break the barrier but to no avail. They stood against it, watching the fight within hoping Goldar would slip and reveal how to break through.
"Power down little girl, you know I can't take you if you're morphed. Perhaps Lord Zedd and Mistress Rita will show mercy if you throw yourself at their feet." He snarled, trying to get a clean shot in, knowing if he damaged her suit badly enough, she would be forced to power down.
"Oh you mean as long as I can out maneuver you, I'm fine? I thought this was going to be a challenge!" Brook laughed, dodging another punch. Her smile faded as Goldar pulled out his sword, barreling forward again. She was much faster than him, but still wasn't comfortable with her own weapon yet. The two fought, yelling insults over the clang of metal hitting metal. After another near miss, Brook began trying to figure out a way to get the other rangers into the fight. The lantern still hung off of Goldar's armor, and a light bulb went off. She opened herself up for an easy shot, and fell to the ground. Knowing Goldar all too well, he immediately lunged for her, kicking her sword out of her reach, leaning down to put his sword against her throat. "There's no chance of getting your little toy back. Power down Brooklyn."
"Not gonna." She said, grabbing the lantern, yanking it off and smashing it against the pavement. Goldar pulled up just slightly, and she rolled out from under him while the other rangers rushed towards them. A handful of putties appeared, dividing the Ranger's attention. Brooklyn was fighting a couple clay brains when she Goldar running towards Tommy's back while he was fighting his own putties. She looked to realize that she was the only one that noticed this, and sprinted towards them. "Move, stupid!" She yelled, pushing Tommy out of the way as Goldar brought his sword down, making a good size slash across her back as she tried to avoid him.
The blood started pouring from the wound, and she started to feel her suit trying to power down to repair itself. "Get back to the Command Center" Tommy told her, and she pressed the buttons on her communicator to be teleported back.
COMMAND CENTER
The rest of the Rangers teleported back as Brooklyn was pulling her shirt back on, having been bandaged up. She walked out to the War Room where the Rangers told her that Goldar was pulled back by Zedd when the Rangers began to overwhelm them. She nodded grimly, wishing the Rangers had destroyed him.