Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers. If anything I own the OCs. I'm just writing this because I'm enspired to write.
Sign Language
thoughts and telepathic communications
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Chapter 8:
Lightning Pulse
It was about 8:45 when Adam and his lovely wife Tanya walked off the plane and into the airport. Their eyes scanning for Tommy. Well mostly Tanya's. Adam was busying staring at his wife. Even being married for about five years she was as beautiful as the first day they meet. In her yellow sleeveless button blouse, tan dress pants and that curly hair of hers that always made her so beautiful. And then there was her smile. God when ever she smiled at him he became putty in her hands. Tanya knew her husband was staring at her. She loved knowing that he was still attracted to her after all this time. But she knew that now wasn't the time for staring, it was a time to find their fearless leader. She looked him right in the eyes and gave him a smile that said everything that had to be said. And Adam being Adam just looked down at his shoes and blushed.
"God why does he have to be so cute when he does that?" Tanya asked herself looking at her husband. He decided to go green in a green dress shirt and black pants. She gave a little shudder as her former green ranger turned to looked for Tommy and she had to do the same.
"I can't believe he forgot to pick us up."
"Well, Tanya, he does have a lot on his mind. I mean he's probably worried about seeing Kim. Remember how bad it went last time?" Tanya brought her head down and thought back to the first time she meet the former pink ranger. It started off bad and ended worse. She was about to say something when somebody taped on her shoulder. She turned around to see a young man in his early twenties at the latest wearing a nice blue shirt.
"Are you by any chance Adam and Tanya Park?"
"Yes I'm Tanya Park, and this is my husband Adam."
"Hi, I'm Ethan James. Dr. O's ex-student among other things." He said shaking their hands. They looked at him confused for a second trying to make since of his statement.
"Tommy's blue guy?"
"Yes, Mr. Park. He's a little incapacitated at the moment so if you would follow me?"
"OK, but as long as you call us by our first names."
"Sure, Mrs. Park, I mean, Tanya."
They quickly found themselves by a row of chairs and saw Jason and another man in red talking to a female security guard about the Asian woman she holding was by the arm, and they saw a guy in white walk past them holding an ice pack giving it to a man with short spiked hair in green. The man immediately placed the pack on his lower regions.
"Tommy, what happened to you?" asked Tanya while she ran up and hugged him. Adam could have sworn that Tommy turned redder then his uniform back when he was a ranger. Tommy didn't answer until she pulled away.
"Trini." He said jerking his thumb in Jason's direction as the security guard left without taking the woman.
"What did you do?"
"Long story, Adam."
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Hayley, Michael, Kim, and Kira where busy setting up some mild decorations. Nothing special, just some streamers of the original teams colors including green and white. Kim originally wanted to just do Tommy's colors but thankfully Hayley and Michael talked her out of it. Kim was busy putting her last streamer up while Kira was fixing the last table at the same time Michael and Hayley were moving the couches around to accommodate every one. All of sudden Kim lost her balance on the ladder and began to fall. She shrieked for a few moments before realizing she hadn't hit the ground.
"Nice catch, Mike."
"Thanks, Kira." said the psychic while telekinetically sat Kimberly on the ground.
"I'm glad you can do that."
"Your lucky I didn't let you fall." Michael said rather sharply. Now Kimberly began to pout.
"Oh come on, Michael, Kim was just having fun."
"Hayley, I already have enough things to worry about and Tommy thinking I'm with Kim is the last thing I need."
"While on the subject why did you do that anyway?"
"Kira, I bet their are days you want to poke fun at the guys on your team."
"Yeah but what I make fun of them is true."
"How do you know I wasn't lying?"
"Because you just meet him this morning."
"I meant about me faking while me and..."
"Must get rid of disturbing images out of head. Must think of Trent. Must think of Conner."
"CONNER?" Hayley asked out of surprised.
"Shut up. I haven't had anything since I was with Trent. Give a girl a break."
"I don't know you're on your way on following the yellow stereotype when it comes to red rangers." stated Michael
"I have to know where this is coming from." said Kim with interest.
"Well there is Taylor and Eric, along with Andros and Ashely."
"That's it just two couples."
"Well some people thought Rocky and Aisha were getting together and of course there is Trini and Jason."
"What?" Hayley asked out of surprise. Before realizing she shouldn't of said anything. Luckily no one said anything except Michael because he picked up on her embarrassment.
"Does this have to do with why you thought about killing Jason because he told Tommy something?"
"What?" asked the former pink.
"No." answered Hayley a little to quickly hoping to keep her emotions in check. That was the bad part of having a psychic that has empathy powers. She couldn't hide her emotions. And she knew Michael wasn't going to pry into her thoughts.
"Oh come on, Hayley, if I was your age I wouldn't be ashamed about having sex with Jason. If he was younger I would want to be all over him to." stated a very unexpected source.
"Kira, how did you find that out?" asked Hayley out of fear.
"Well the way you reacted when he said Trini and Jason."
"I know I should be freaked out by what Kira said, but, I'm not." said Kim.
"Well she is a yellow, and Hayley I wouldn't worry. People tend to think of you as a yellow in disguise."
"In that case I should have had the dino gem Kira found. Thanks for stealing my chance at being a power ranger." Joked Hayley giving a mock glare towards Kira.
"Hayley, what time is it?" asked Kira desperate for a change of subject.
"About 10:00, the guys are suppose to call..." That was when the Cyber Cafe's phone rang. Hayley quickly answered it.
"Hey, Conner, you got all of them? I know your still waiting on her, Michael told me the plan. Who are you and the guys are taking? Ok, I hold on a second but if I lose business. Conner, I was joking Tommy did get me to close it for just them you numbskull. Just ask them or I get Michael to tell Kira whatever thoughts you had last night when I checked on him."
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"No, No, please don't do that. Don't let Michael tell her that." said Conner in a panic voice. Ethan and Trent heard this and gave each other a looked that said 'We got to find this out.' They didn't know what Michael had on him, but it did have do with a banana. Conner walked over to the older rangers on edge due to Hayley's threat.
"Dr. O, who all is going to stay and wait for Kat?"
"Why don't the ones that shared a color with Tommy stay?" spoke Jason as Tommy glared at him.
"I think that would be a good idea." said Trini seconding his motion, hoping to have somebody slip up.
"Wait can Dr.O fit that many people in his jeep?" asked Conner absentmindedly which resulted in a glare for him as well.
"I'm going with my wife, Jason."
"What you don't trust me?"
"I trust you, I just don't trust Zack."
"Man what makes you think I'll try anything."
"Because your Zack." stated Billy.
"Guys," Tommy said in a half shout, "I already decided, It's going to be Jason, Rocky, and Billy. So Adam don't worry about Zack trying anything on your wife."
"Tommy?"
"Yes, Aisha." answered the great ranger half exasperated.
"Where's Kim?"
"Dr. Forgetful forgot." said a certain yellow ranger that Tommy angered earlier.
"Oh, shit." Tommy thought. Aisha is just as bad as Trini when it comes to being pushed, and she was just pushed.
"HE WHAT? TOMMY, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" said Aisha as she began to lunge at him. Kim was her best girlfriend since she moved from Stone Canyon to Angel Grove. She might have broken up with Tommy, but, this was still Kim and her life could be endanger even after hearing the recent turn of events. Thankfully Tanya and Trini grabbed her before she got with in two inches of her ex-white ranger.
"Don't worry, Aisha. I got him to talk to Kim and she's on her way." Lied Trini knowing full well what was in store.
"How did you do that?" ask her replacement relatively calmed her down after this information was revealed.
"Simple she got him by the balls, literally." answered the former yellow zeo ranger. Aisha gave Trini a looked that asked 'you didn't.' All the yellow before her did was nod and this made her smile.
"I'm ready when you are, Conner, right?"
"Yes, Aisha, and may I say you are very beautiful when your angry." Conner learned from his mentor long ago when ever a woman was angry tell them their gorgeous or some variant of the term.
"Why thank you, Conner. At least you learned something useful from Tommy." she said with a quick glare that sent a shiver down his spine. Conner brought his phone to his ear and could of sworn he heard three women and a man laughing.
"I guess you heard all of that did you."
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"Of course I did, Conner. So it's going to be two of Tommy's co-blacks, and three yellows. Conner, did they hear me? Then shut up." Hayley said before hanging up.
"Now you know how I feel every day for a year." stated Kira.
"Yet you want to sleep with him." Michael joked. Kira calmly walked up to him which sent warning sirens going of in his head.
"Keep this up, and I won't sleep with you." Kira said in a mock flirting way
"Sorry, your not my type." Michael stated which resulted in a punch to his bruised arm much to the amusement to the other two girls.
"I'll be glad when Trini arrives. I'm going to hide behind her." said the poor man rubbing his arm.
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Conner and company have finally arrived at his and friends normal hangout thirty minutes after leaving the airport. Ethan quickly opened the door to the van for everyone to get out. First was Aisha. She was dressed in a yellow t-shirt and blue jean shorts and she had her hair in a low ponytail that reached to just under the shoulder blades. Next was the Zack-man. He was wearing a black button up shirt and black dress pants and his hair in the trademark squared afro. The whole time on the way there he heard Trini say Tommy changed his hair why couldn't he. The only remark he came back with was 'Why mess with success.' He was shortly followed by Adam, Tanya, Trini and Trent. Conner casually walked up to the door and waited for his predecessors to step up one by one.
"Welcome to Hayley's Cyber Cafe!" the red dino ranger said pushing the doors open. Hayley, Kira, and Michael stood in front of the bar.
"Guy's this is Hayley the Dino Thunder technical expert." Hayley gave a small wave.
"This is our resident musician and yellow ranger, Kira." Kira repeated Hayley's action.
"And this must be the black ranger." said Zack walking up to Michael shaking his hand.
"Sorry to disappoint, Zachary, but I'm not the black ranger. I just love wearing my leather jacket."
"Then who are you?" asked Tanya
"I'm the joker from the other dimension. I'm sure Tommy gave you the rundown."
"Yeah he gave us the abbreviated version. Sorry to hear about your sister." said Trini taking a notice of Michael's reaction about her. It was of slight surprise and wonder. Michael carefully studied her. Granted she has changed some. But one thing that hasn't changed was her eyes. Her eyes still kept that soulfullness. Her eyes was the reason he had a crush with her back then.
"Your heart is still pure as gold, and eyes are as beautiful as I remember, Trini Kwan." That was one complement she didn't expect. It made her heart flutter just ever so slightly. She quickly hugged and whispered in his ear.
"Thank you. I hope your not comparing me to my counterpart though."
"Hey, you are my favorite female ranger. She's just an actress." Michael whispered back feeling her emotions elate once again while she pulled away from the hug.
"By any chance did Tommy tell you guys that I'm empathic?" All of them just nodded their head with quizzical looks.
"Well the reason I asked because I felt your anxiety coming from a mile away. There's no reason to be anxious anymore." They looked at each other trying to figure out who was the anxious one. Michael knew it was Trini but wasn't about to say anything. She was wanting to see Kim. And he felt Kim's anticipation of seeing her friends. So he decided to end the charade.
"Wait it's not you. Then where am I... oh of course. I told her to keep her emotions in check, but, no."
Kim was listening in from the backroom and was getting tired of Michael dragging out.
"Will he knock it off!" Kim thought but she knew he was probably doing it to bug her. To bad he was doing it just to bug Trini. He didn't know why he was doing it. Maybe he was trying to get her to laugh.
"But that's her for ya. She has more mood swings then a pregnant woman giving birth." And that was when Trini laughed. That small laugh made him smile. Making somebody feel good was like a drug for him. Especially someone he cared about.
"Michael, who are you talking about?" asked Aisha. Michael just turned to the backdoor and sent a telepathic communication that produced an unexpected someone, then Aisha's mouth dropped along everyone else's minus one of their group were amazed to see a petite woman wear pink dawning the biggest smile that spoke volumes.
"Hi guys!"
"KIM!" Yelled everyone of the older ex-rangers. As they ran up and hugged her. Michael, Hayley and Kira took a place next to the younger dino ranger men.
"Damn, Dr. O has great taste in women!" said Conner when his friend in white slapped in upside the head.
"OW, Trent! What was that for?"
"I wanted to save Kira the trouble."
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A/N: Well there's chapter 8. Tell me what you think.
Oh I'm going to give you a slight preview of next chapter. I'm think of calling it Chained Lightning
Michael felt multiple emotions come over the room. Most of them he could handle. Two people were giving of anger. But since there was an argument going on infront of him. And he was having trouble keeping his emotions in check because of it. Four people had fear. But seeing someone they cared about so much raise his voice that wasn't them was strange. That was why they were scared. The other nine were full of shock. They weren't surpise this argument was happening but shocked that it was transpiring before their eyes. But one of the nine felt something else. It was guilt. And that guiltwas on the move. Like it was running a way. Michael opened his eyes just in time to see the doors swinging. Michael did a mental head count to figure out who it was.
"I should have know it was going to be her." Michael thought before he decide to let his emotions go.
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Michael roared grabbing both of the arguing factions and throwing them onto the couch telekenticly.
