Chapter Six: Billy
Alpha and I have been up through the night. My Mom's been calling, asking where I am, I've just said I'm staying at Jason's working on a project. It's only a half lie, right? I've been awake now for 36.4 hours, and I'm not going to sleep any time soon. Since the attack, I've been trying to make myself as useful as possible. I'm not as good at being a ranger as the others, I mean, I died, then I let Zordon die in my place after he was the one to bring me back in the first place. It's not a good feeling.
"Billy, do you think Zordon will ever come back?" Alpha asks, he sounds so down.
"Well, the odds are that he probably won't but you never know." I reply, Alpha shakes his head, then continues working.
"You should've gone to school today, Billy. It's important." Alpha says.
"So is this." I reply. We hear a noise from beyond the entrance. I jump up, and without even realising it, morph instantly.
"Why are you morphed?" Jason says as he walks in.
"I thought it could be the green ranger again." I reply, Jason steps forward and puts his hand on my shoulder.
"You don't have to worry so much, it's good you're vigilant but you know." Jason says, I un-morph as he does.
"Woah, Billy blue, is that a power rangers costume or are you just happy to see us?" Kimberly asks, laughing as she throws her bag down.
"Very funny." I say. "Do you know where Trini and Zack are?"
"Trini's on a date, I think. Zack is MIA." Jason says.
"Isn't that a bit of a concern?" I say.
"Probably. He stormed out of the cafeteria earlier on and we haven't heard from him. I've tried calling him four times, but nothing." Jason says, "so we're gonna have to train without them."
"Sorry to interrupt, but I don't think you're going to be training this evening." Alpha says.
"Why?" Jason asks, "what's up?"
"There is a huge, powerful energy signature coming from somewhere on this mountain. I've uploaded the coordinates, you'll be able to access them when morphed." Alpha says, "you need to go and see what it is, rangers."
"On it." Jason says, "let's go guys."
We start hiking across the mountain to try and figure out what the energy signature could've been, but there's nothing.
"We've been walking for ages, there's nothing here." Kimberly says.
"I don't know, I have a weird feeling…" Jason says.
"Me too." I add, feeling uncomfortable.
"Jason, look out!" Kimberly shouts, from behind a figure appears, taking hold of him and throwing him about a hundred metres into the air.
"Oh shit." I say, jumping forward and trying to hit the figure but it knocks me back without even moving much.
"You're gonna regret this." Kimberly says, leaping at the figure and wrapping her arms around his head, trying to break it. The figure, who is hooded, throws her off of him. But as he does Kimberly pulls at the hood, revealing his appearance. It's shocking. His body is blue, but covered in red lines and metallic armour. It almost looks like muscle, but it's not organic. His face has metallic indentations in it, and his eyes are dark and soulless. Finally, there is a 'Z' tattoo on his forehead, it's ornate and raised. It's impressive, and terrifying.
"Lord Zedd…" I say.
"Well, at least introductions aren't necessary." he says. "I've been watching you Power Rangers, and I'm glad to finally meet most of you."
"What do you want?" Kimberly asks, she's tending to Jason who is now un-morphed and looking worse for wear.
"That would be telling my dear. I just wanted you to know, I'm watching, and so is my green ranger. Remember, you are not long for this world. Everything will end." he says, turning and walking away from us, before stopping, the way he moves scares me. "One more thing, I forgot." he says, he waves his hand and Jason is pulled from Kimberly's arms and into the air. A dull red light forms around him, it looks almost like he's in some form of stasis.
"Jason! Billy come on, we have to do something." she says, jumping up and running towards Zedd. I follow behind her, but with another wave of his hand we're swept back.
"Goodbye rangers." Zedd says, disappearing in a flash. Along with Jason.
"No no no no…" Kimberly says, collapsing to the floor. I'm shaking, I should've done more.
"We need… I- I don't know what to do." Kimberly says, "we need to call the others."
"Let's get back to the ship, we'll send out the call." I say, before I finish my sentence Kimberly has already taken off in the direction of the ship.
At the ship…
Walking in I expect the ship to be empty besides Alpha, but Trini is ahead of us walking in.
"Trini?" I ask, she turns and smiles.
"Hey guys." she says, smiling before she sees our faces.
"Where the hell were you?" Kimberly asks, pushing past her. Trini continues along next to her, looking concerned.
"Kim? What's up? I thought you were training, I'm sorry I was late…" Trini says.
"It's not about training. It's Jason." I say, trying to help Trini out.
"Jason's been taken by Zedd." Kimberly replies.
"No… How?" Trini asks.
"Because we weren't all there to protect him. Maybe, if we'd all been there we could've won somehow." She says.
"He was very strong Kimberly, seemingly stronger than even our Megazord perhaps." I say, feeling my stomach drop at the thought of Zedd and his powers.
"I'm sorry…" Trini says quietly. Kimberly storms up the stairs of the ship and inside. We walk in together and see Zack standing by the morphing grid, Alpha next to him.
"Zack?" Kimberly says, "where were you?"
"It's my Mom. She's dead." Zack says. The world just keeps getting darker. What are we going to do?