With both monster gone, officials could finally help all casualties. Among them were two men in colorful costumes, along with masks and capes: Bulk and Skull. Paramedics made them conscious again, upon which a cop talked to them.
"You two alright?" he waited for them to nod, "Good. You'r under arrest."
"What?" Bulk couldn't believe it, "What for?"
"As long as that monster was here, that made this a restricted area." the cop explained, "Which makes you tresspassers."
"Now wait a minute." Bulk reasoned, "You don't understand, we risked our lives to help you, and this is what we get?"
"Yeah!" Skull agreed, "We didn't make that..."
"Quiet!" Bulk interrupted him before he said too much.
"Quiet both of you!" the cop said, "You better come with us to the station."
Angel Grove High, three weeks later:
The finals had ended, and everyone was ready to leave the school building. Among them were Terrence and Alexis, discussing how their exams went.
"So how did it go for you?" Alexis asked him.
"About as easy as usual." Terrence sighed.
"Yeah." she agreed, "Think we'd earn extra credit if we told them we saved the school?"
"Knowing Caplan, he'd probably misunderstand and start blaming us for wrecking school property and have us in detention, or worse hold us back for a year, even if our results were good enough."
Alexis grinned: "You're probably right. Adults can be heartless sometimes, eh?"
"Speaking of heartless." Terrence replied, "What are they doing?"
Terrence pointed to the bulletin board, where Bulk and Skull were stapling fliers.
"You haven't heard?" Alexis questioned, "Back when that lizard attacked, they got arrested."
Terrence snickered: "What for?"
"I don't know. Everyone says something else." Alexis answered, "Some even say they made that monster themselves."
"Really?" Terrence found that notion laughable, "Those may be stupid enough to try, but not smart enough to actually pull it off."
"Yeah well, whatever it is..." Alexis continued, "... they now have to do community service."
"Like dealing fliers." Terrence understood, "Let's see what they say."
Once Bulk and Skull went away from the board, Terrence and Alexis came closer to look at what was stapled on the board.
"Save the observatory." Alexis read, "Looking for volunteers for sky-diving event."
"I guess this was bound to happen." Terrence said, after reading the finer print, "With all the money going to restoring all the damage those monsters cause, little can go to scientific research."
"That's sad." Alexis spoke, "I heard people going nuts over the coming of Ryan's comet, but if the observatory were gone..."
"Yeah..." Terrence sighed, just when he spotted something moving in the corner of his eye.
He turned to look. The six teenagers, whom he loathed, and of whom he had figured out that they were the Power Rangers, they just exited the building. Seeing them gave him an idea, for which he had to raise his voice.
"Say, Alexis!" he exclaimed, "It almost sounds like the observatory need a hero, don't you think?"
Alexis couldn't quite understand why he'd suddenly decide to raise his voice like that, but since she was used to drawing attention to herself, she didn't really care, so she joined in.
"Er... yeah, they do!" she replied.
The six teens heard them talk, so they stopped to look at them.
"I mean, they already have people taking care of those monsters, which are ironically the cause for this observatory to go bankrupt!"
"What are you saying?" Alexis couldn't understand where he was going with this, "You think the Power Rangers should help them?"
"Why not?" Terrence questioned, "They are supposed to be heroes after all. One doesn't need to fight monsters to be a hero, or even have powers to be a hero! If they can do something as simple as this, they'd be heroes in my book!"
"Yeah, you're right!" Alexis agreed, "You think they'd volunteer for this?"
"Nah!" Terrence replied, "I mean, what would you prefer? Jumping out of a plane, where you have no control over gravity? Or fighting a monster, where you still have the option to flee if you have to?"
"You mean, it's one thing to fight monsters, but quite another to go sky-diving?" Alexis asked him.
"Yeah it is." Terrence replied, "So I pretty much doubt they'd have the guts to do this!"
He walked away after that, and Alexis followed.
"What was that all about?" Tommy wondered.
"Let's take a look at that board." Adam suggested.
Meanwhile, once Terrence and Alexis turned around a corner, Terrence turned his head to look at what the six were doing. They looked at the flier, took it off, exchanged a few words, after which they all nodded in agreement, and Tommy pocketed the flier.
Terrence snickered: "It worked."
"What worked?" Alexis couldn't understand, "Are the Power Rangers here?"
Before Terrence could say anything, Alexis looked herself, but saw nobody, at least not anyone in a colored suit.
"I don't see them." Alexis remarked.
Terrence sighed, although it was more out of happiness than anything else: "Alexis, can I let you in on a little secret?"
"Er... sure?" Alexis wondered what the big secret could be.
"Well, it's like this..." Terrence started, just as he wrapped his arm around her shoulders, so to pull her closer, so she could still hear him, even when he whispered.
THE END