Power Rangers: First Omega By: Comet Warrior

Act One: Azure Cove

Chapter Seven: All About Beevil

(Disclaimer: I only own OCs. Everything else belongs to Saban or whoever owns the license.)

Blue Bay Harbor – Motocross Track

It had been a few days since he'd been pulled from the pit, and for once, Lothor had been quiet. There hadn't been an attack on the city or anything, and for Sean, that felt like a reason to celebrate. However, since Sensei had extra training slated for Tori, Shane, and Cam… Sean found himself hanging out at the moto track with Dustin and the Bradley brothers. It wasn't a complete loss- at least they'd been able to go ahead and give him some rudimentary instruction on a slower motocross bike to supplement his Tsunami Cycle training. He felt like he was getting the hang of it- even if the bike was so underpowered Dustin's 125 could run circles around him.

He rolled up to the van and Blake waved at him. Sean killed the engine and stepped off the bike, pulling his helmet off and setting it on the handlebars.

"Looking good out there- at least you're past the whole 'let's skid along the ground and ruin a perfectly good paint job' phase." Hunter looked over his shoulder and around at the small group of people out at the track.

"Sean, you seen Dustin? I haven't seen him since we came off the track…" Hunter looked concerned as Sean shook his head.

"Wait- there he is… but where's his bike?" Blake asked.

"Hey, guys! I found someone who really knows how to tune my bike- said he'd give me some new parts if I told everyone where they could get the same setup, so I let him take my bike so he could work on it." Sean shook his head at the ever-cheerful Dustin.

"I really, REALLY hope you know what you're doing, Dustin. People lose bikes like that." Hunter shook his head, but Dustin kept insisting that his bike was going to be fine.

"I'm going to drop my gear off at the store and then I'll go get my bike." Dustin was having one of his moments, Sean supposed- the one where he wouldn't let anyone else get him down. He just hoped it wasn't going to backfire royally on him.

Storm Chargers

An hour later, Dustin's mood had turned upside down. He'd went to the location on the business card- and found himself staring at a vacant construction lot. He'd just handed his bike to someone claiming to have his own shop and- what's worse- helped him load it into the truck himself and watched him roll on down the road.

"Dustin, when are you going to learn that not everyone is worthy of your trust?" Tori chided, while Shane shook his head.

"Maybe someone at the track has heard of him… I'm going to go ask them." Dustin settled, and Sean stood up off the stool he'd been sitting on.

"I'll go with you. We can cover more ground if we split up." Dustin nodded, and both of them headed out for the motocross track.

Blue Bay Harbor – Motocross Track

They'd taken an hour asking everyone they could find- riders, mechanics, fans, officials, track staff- but nobody had ever heard of the guy that Dustin had given his bike to.

Sean really felt for Dustin- he'd really trusted this guy, and it had come back to bite him pretty severely.

A pair of riders broke off from the pack going around the track, and rolled over to them. Hunter and Blake pulled off their helmets and asked if they'd had any luck.

"No… my bike's got to be in another state by now…" Dustin muttered, somewhat depressed. Sean put a hand on his friend's shoulder.

"Hey- we'll find it. If anything, we'll talk to Cam about using some time on the mainframe to try and find this guy."

A pair of communicators beeped, and Hunter raised his. "What's up, Cam?"

"I'm getting a strange signal over by the power plant…" he started, but Hunter cut him off.

"Blake and I will check it out," he said, and put his communicator down.

"You two keep asking around here, maybe someone saw the guy you're looking for. We'll give you a call if it turns ugly." Blake put his helmet back on and followed his brother as he sped away.

It took them a while, but they still hadn't found anything. Suddenly, seeing Dustin look down the track, Sean followed his line of eyesight to see two girls- a blonde and a brunette- walking up the track towards them. They were so deep in thought, that they didn't seem to see or even hear the pack of riders rounding the curve and coming up towards them.

"HEY, LOOK OUT!" Dustin yelled, and both he and Sean ran and tackled one of the girls (Dustin took care of the brunette, while Sean got the blonde) out of the way just as the riders blew past. They rolled a little bit, and then scrambled to their feet and helped the girls up.

"You two almost got smeared all over the track…" Dustin started, and the brunette brushed herself off before looking at them. The blonde did likewise, and both did a double-take.

"Guess I didn't pay attention to where I was going…" the brunette said, and Sean's ears locked on that voice. 'Nah… it couldn't be…'

"You're…" she continued, and Dustin finished her sentence. "Dustin. That's Sean. You know, you two remind me of some people I know…"

"Yeah… we get that a lot… you see two airheads, you've seen them all…" the blonde finished.

"Hey, I know how you feel... people call me a space case, but as long as you're a good person inside, that's all that counts…" Dustin said, and the two girls collapsed to their knees and started to cry.

"We're not good people… heck, we're not even good BAD people…" the brunette started, and both Dustin and Sean knelt by them.

"Um, you kind of lost me there… Dustin started, and the blonde shook her head.

"Don't you even recognize us?" she started, and both stood.

"Maybe this will jog your memory…" the brunette started, and both girls snapped their fingers and suddenly changed in a flash of light, revealing their true natures- the blonde's hair went pink, and the brunette's head was suddenly topped with a compound-eye headdress. Kapri and Marah.

Sean and Dustin scrambled back, and fell into a fighting form. "You're those evil chicks that keep trying to vaporize us!" Sean brought his hand around and tapped Dustin on the back of the head.

"Dude. Learn some names, maybe people won't think of you as such a space case anymore?" he muttered, but then something unexpected happened- the girls snapped their fingers again and went back to their normal-girl disguises.

"Relax, you're safe. They kicked us out because we're not evil enough…" Marah started, before falling to her knees and starting to cry again.

"'Not evil enough?' Man, no wonder Lothor's having a tough time taking over the universe… guy doesn't know talent when it sits in front of him…" Sean muttered under his breath, and Kapri snorted.

"They replaced us with the Antennai twins, Beevil and Weevil… they're a lot more evil than us… Uncle was so impressed with them; he kicked us out of the ship and told us to go away, forever…" Sean walked over, lowering his guard.

"Two of them, one red, one blue, both look like something from a beekeeper's worst nightmare?" he asked quietly, and Kapri nodded quietly.

"Yeah… apparently Lothor sent them down while we were in the pit… they gave the others a good run for their money…" he finished, and Dustin suddenly perked up.

"You know… have you two ever thought about turning good?" he said, and Marah's face screwed up.

"You mean… forever? Yuck…" she started, but Dustin kept pushing. "How do you know something is going to be bad until you try it? Besides, wouldn't it be a great way to get back at those bugs and Lothor?"

"Hey… you have a point there…" Marah quietly said, before her face lit up. "But if we want to make them REALLY mad, we'll have to do something so good, so disgustingly nice and heroic…"

Kapri finished the thought for her.

"We want to become Power Rangers!"

The girls' eyes sparkled as they imagined it, and started going on about how they wanted to fight their uncle, while Dustin and Sean looked at each other.

"Well…" Dustin started, but suddenly their communicators beeped. Blake and Hunter's little scouting mission had turned ugly, apparently, and they needed help.

"Um, we have to go… I think your friends are tearing up the city…" Dustin started, and the girls nodded.

"Meet us at Blue Bay Point, tomorrow? We'll do some research, maybe we'll be able to find a way to beat Beevil and Weevil!" Marah said, and Dustin and Sean nodded. The decision made, the two guys ran off towards where the battle was at.

As they watched them go, Kapri allowed herself a smile.

"I have to admit… it isn't so bad on this side of the fence."

Power Plant

As they got close, they stopped to morph, and Sean rushed ahead of Dustin. He saw the two bug monsters, and saw the red one's staff get shot out of her hands, so he pulled his twin swords and rushed at the blue one, flashing past her multiple times and trying to knock the weapon from her hands as well. The blue one let out a yell of surprise, and her weapon went flying away as well. Sean skidded to a stop in front of the Bradleys, and pointed one blade at each of the monsters.

"Who wants to try their luck first?" he taunted, looking at each one of them in turn. Apparently neither of them did, so both hissed in a buzzing language, and then vaulted into the sky, flying up and away.

'Hey… they were… telling the truth…' Sean thought, before touching his communicator and opening a private channel to Dustin.

"Dude, they were-" he started.

"I know! They didn't lie to us- I guess they must really be serious about defecting…" Dustin finished, and Sean could hear the happiness in his voice.

On the way home, neither could wait for the next day.

Ninja Ops – about 2 a.m.

Sean sat up in bed, sweating. He'd had the dream again- normally, it was vague, misty, like something was missing from it… but tonight… pieces had been filled in.

It had been about the Starlight Academy, about three weeks before it had been attacked. It was a quiet classroom- just him, Sensei Dawn, and the other two that she had put on a specialized training program practically marking them as Rangers.

Normally, he couldn't see the other two, but tonight, something had slid into place- it was him and a pair of girls, one that had excelled at a staff, the other with a spear. They'd faced off on multiple occasions, but nobody else could really come close to their skills at the academy.

The Sensei had been talking, but Sean's mind kept wandering. He saw flashes of uniforms- one with pink lining, the other with dark violet. At that point, he lost the dream and woke up. He shook his head. Something was going on with his head, and he didn't understand. He wanted to ask Illumina, but, unfortunately, that was one of the things she HADN'T decided to tell him how to do.

Rolling over, he decided to go back to sleep, and worry about it in the morning.

The Next Day – Blue Bay Point

Dustin and Sean padded up the trail, looking around. Sean had a pack stuffed full of things- they'd packed some food and some other things for Kapri and Marah, to try and cheer them up, and were busy looking for them.

Dustin kept whispering to try and find the girls- if they attracted too much attention…

A rustling in some bushes caught their attention, and they looked over to see a brunette and blonde emerging from the bushes.

"You guys came!" Marah cried, rushing forward. Kapri walked out of the bushes as well, and she shook her head.

"We met the bug girls… they really ARE seriously bad…" Dustin started, and Marah nodded.

"Yeah… " Dustin started, and then he looked off into the distance. Marah started to say something, and then she suddenly couldn't talk.

"…that's why you need us." Kapri finished, looking at Sean.

It took a while, and Dustin and Sean looked at each other for a while… and both nodded.

"Tell us what you need us to do," Dustin began, and Kapri pulled a pair of strange objects with dials on them.

"These can neutralize Beevil and Weevil's energy… but they have to be charged with an energy source at least equal to their own powers. Just do that and we'll take care of the rest."

Dustin and Sean each took one, and while Dustin put his in his pocket, Sean looked at his.

"You know where we're going to have to charge these, right? And who we might have to let in on the secret?" Sean started, and Dustin nodded.

Ninja Ops – That Night

It had been simple- fake exhaustion, and go to bed early. Setting the alarm for two in the morning had been easy… but creeping past Cam's bedroom and Sensei's habitat without waking them had been the hard part. But they had done it- and as Dustin was firing up the mainframe, Sean looked around nervously. If they got caught, they'd have to spill. Cam was going to chew them out anyways over using the mainframe without permission, and the others would think of them as fools for believing what might be an obvious plot of Lothor's to get bombs inside Ninja Ops. But for some reason, Sean didn't mind. He'd seen the look Dustin had been giving Marah after their little day at the Point, and he shook his head.

'It's the right thing to do… they really do want to go straight,' he thought as Dustin hit a few buttons on the keyboard and a small panel lowered on the console, revealing a recharge station. Dustin reached up, ready to put his device on-

"…care to explain what you two are doing?" came a tired voice, and Sean and Dustin both jumped. The whirled around to find Cam standing there, an empty computer tower in his hands.

Later that morning, the others assembled at Ops to hear them out.

"I'm telling you- they want to change! Kapri and Marah are really good people!" Dustin started, and Blake scoffed.

"Dude- did you miss the whole Choobo thing? He lied to us then…" Tori went ahead and spoke up.

"How do we know it's not a bomb- or a tracking device?"

"Lothor's goons can't be trusted…" Hunter said, and Sean whirled to face him, poking him in the chest with a finger.

"Hey- Kapri and Marah are NOT goons, Hunter! They're just a little… misguided… but something just tells me we can trust them…" Sean trailed off, and Shane gave a grin.

"You two are so into them…"

Both Dustin and Sean blushed quickly, and Dustin started to go on about how yeah, Marah was cute and everything… but Sean stared off into space.

An alarm went off on the computer, and they looked up to see that Beevil and Weevil were back, and attacking the city.

"We shall see what their true intentions turn out to be…" Sensei concluded, and Blake picked up the devices and passed one each to Dustin and Sean.

"We have to go. If you want to still live your little dreams, go ahead and charge these up- but you might not like reality when they're done with us."

The other five Rangers ran out of Ops, and Dustin and Sean looked at each other, until Sensei butted in.

"…are you aware of the risk you both are taking?" he asked, and both nodded.

"Sensei, you've taught us that a ninja's most valuable weapon is their instinct- and mine says that even though she comes from the Black Ship… I still think they both have good in them."

"Sensei… something in my gut tells me to trust them. I don't know the future- no one can- but I think they're almost at a personal crossroads- you know, the one where you have to decide what you want for yourself? You weren't in that hole with both of them- I have a feeling that they know life on the Black Ship is only going to end badly for them."

"…then let us hope that you are right." Sensei finished, and Dustin and Sean placed the strange devices on the charging pad, watching as both were filled with energy.

On the screen, suddenly, a large explosion cleared the area of Kelzaks, and Beevil and Weevil were looking at two figures emerging from the smoke. Kapri and Marah, still in regular clothes, walked forward.

"…Weevil, it ends. You're not going to hurt anyone, ever again…" Kapri started, while Marah stood firm. The battle began, but the girls demonstrated clear understanding of fighting, using their skills to keep the monsters at bay. But when they monsters pulled out their energy weapons, it went from a fight into a rout. They knocked around Marah and Kapri, eventually knocking them down, almost unconscious.

Dustin yelled for Marah, and finally, the console beeped that the devices were full.

They each grabbed one, and headed out for the battle.

Parking Lot

The girls had gotten to their feet by the time they had got there, and Beevil and Weevil had started to approach them for the final strike.

"Hey! Catch!" Dustin yelled, and both he and Sean let loose a throw, hurling the two devices to the girls. Kapri and Marah each caught one, and quickly turning, they fired a blast of energy that knocked away the monsters and sent them flopping to the ground. Bending over, they attached the devices to the monsters' heads, and stood up, looking over at the Rangers.

"…it worked! I don't know how, but it worked!" Dustin said… until both girls suddenly snapped their fingers and returned to their normal outfits.

"…that's because Uncle wants us to destroy you ourselves… to get back into his good graces…" Kapri said, slowly.

An energy burst from behind the girls suddenly flashed forward, slamming into the Rangers and knocking them off their feet.

"I have to admit, they plan worked perfectly… I almost thought you lost, but when we destroy the Rangers and take our prize back to the ship, he will surely give you your posts back…" Weevil crowed, before stepping forward, Beevil behind her as they stepped forward to finish the job.

On the ground, half-dazed, realizing this was his last chance; Sean got to his feet and stared at Kapri, eyes meeting eyes.

"…this is how it ends, then? I guess I was wrong about you and Marah. You're not just evil, you're scum. You might even be worse than Lothor, and yet you still want to curry favor with him. I guess they're right when they say some people just want to be told what to do with the rest of their lives. We gave you the chance to live your OWN lives, to make your own decisions, and this is how you want to live life? Scurrying around for Lothor, trying to be his favorite? What a life, huh- you have your own blasted futures in your hands and you won't do anything to change your own lives! You really want to be good- then do something for yourselves! Goodness starts within you- it can't be handed to you!"

Sean collapsed back down to one knee, and then he looked up as the monsters got closer… and closer…

"…no one has the right to tell us how to live our lives."

Beevil and Weevil turned. Kapri and Marah were facing them, eyes full of tears, and faces full of anger. Sean noted that their strange headgear each had a crack in it, and occasionally, it would emit a green spark. Both girls reached up and pulled the headgear off, and shook their heads as green energy left from their heads, and went streaking off into the sky. Kapri's hair changed back to blonde as she looked over at the Rangers.

"We're making our own path through life… and we'll show you just how much good is within us."

They each produced a small device, with the same styling as the devices attached to the monsters.

"Tell Lothor… we know he didn't have any nieces- or any relatives besides his brother. Also-"

Both girls turned a dial on their remotes and hit a button, sending Beevil and Weevil into the air while their bodies filled with energy. Soon, it was too much for them, and they rose up high and exploded, blue tendrils of energy lashing the air as the falling parts became atomized due to the energy.

"WE QUIT!" Kapri yelled up to the heavens, discarding the remote as Marah threw hers away before running over to Dustin and giving him a hug.

The other rangers couldn't find anything to say, but Sean walked over and picked up Kapri's discarded headgear, and looked inside it. The inside, where it would have been touching her skin, was covered in circuitry that still exuded green energy.

A massive laser bolt hitting the ground near them interrupted anything else.

"Um, I think this must be Lothor's severance package… you know, the 'flaming parachute'?" Shane commented. Another bolt fell, this one closer. And that was when the air parted and a dimensional hole opened up.

"Sean! Over here!" That was a voice he hadn't been expecting to hear for a while, and when Kapri and Marah yelled it at the same time, something gave inside his mind.

"SENSEI!"

All tumbled through the hole, back to Ninja Ops. Sensei Dawn (really the Sage Illumina) looked up at the sky and spat.

"You couldn't hit the broad side of a Zord with that thing, greaseball!" she yelled, and then made a rude gesture up to the sky as she stepped through the portal, it closing behind her.

Ninja Ops

If one didn't know any better, they would almost say it was a celebration of sorts.

"Sean, you amaze me sometimes. I knew you were good, but I never dreamed that you'd find the ruins of the Academy even WITH my mental block on you. But not only have you done that- you found two I had assumed were lost to us for eternity."

Sean was blushing- not only was he not used to this much praise being heaped on him, but the others had been giving him and Dustin all the praise they could handle. Dustin was off with Marah, showing her around, and Kapri sat talking with Tori, laughing about life in general.

"Sensei… it is good to see you, but… my father wishes to speak with you…" Cam started, a little uneasy, but Dawn saw right through him.

"I know about your father's furry little problem. His mind is still intact, and at the very least, he can say he's lost a little weight finally. Let him out."

Cam turned around, and when he turned back, he was holding Sensei.

"It's good to see you, Wantanabe. You finally grew some hair, too. But let's get to the point. Sean, bring that box over here. Put the papers on the table, and everything but- yes, that's right."

She turned to the others as Sean stacked the papers. "He's a good ninja, his heart is in the right place… but sometimes I get the feeling his head is elsewhere…" There was a small laugh as Sean brought the box over.

"All right, you two. Front and center." Kapri and Marah stepped forward, back in their 'regular' clothes. They'd changed, taken their old outfits out back, and apparently used some kind of energy cannon to launch their old equipment into the space between the timelines (apparently Illumina had helped them do it, and had enjoyed it immensely).

Lifting the violet morpher out of the box, she reached out and wrapped the straps around Kapri's wrist.

"Kapri… dear child, I have missed you. Your skills, though they were misused by the slimeball in the paper airplane, are fully yours to help with now. I grant you the Starlight Academy's Night Morpher, and when it is done, the Owlzord. Your color is violet."

Kapri stepped back and shot Sean a smile. That had apparently been why she'd been so focused on him- as the mind control band had started to fail, she'd been seeking him out to answer her own questions as much as she could under the band's control. But after getting blown up by Beevil and Weevil, the band had broken, and everything had been flooding back- about how she and Marah had left on a journey to the Wind Academy to acquire one last piece to bring their defenses up… and how they'd found themselves captured by Lothor and placed under mind control.

"Marah, it's your turn. Step over here, dear." Marah came bounding forward, full of excitement. She'd been looking forward for this for a while now, and even if it had been delayed by a few months or so by Lothor, she held her hand out while Dawn buckled the morpher around it.

"Marah, your skills, energy, and bright personality have been long absent from our ranks. But with your return, everything looks brighter. I grant you the Starlight Academy's Daylight Morpher, and when it is completed, the Butterflyzord. Your color is pink."

Marah and Kapri leaped at each other, and started laughing happily, showing off their new morphers to everyone.

"Tell you what- we still have those old hunks of junk you two were using when you last came down… I estimate we could pull everything we need for the Owl and Butterfly Zords from them. Give me a few days, and we'll REALLY give him a headache. I also want to look at your weapons and everything- this is a HUGE opportunity!" Cam was excited, and Tori was apparently right beside him, enjoying it as Cam kept looking over the plans and making notes on his computer.

Sean looked at his friends, and at the two new additions. At least this would put one of his dreams to rest.

Author's Note: Two chapters in a week. I must be feeling good, huh? Anyways, yeah, it's a twist on the regular episode, but I didn't just want to make them Rangers- I always had to ask myself every time I watched Ninja Storm, "Who's their mother and father?" The show never really delved into their past all that much, so I got to thinking, maybe they weren't nieces at all. That opened up one big possibility- the whole Starlight Academy angle.

Anyways, do the usual- read, review.

-Comet Warrior