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Tommy had turned around to see who it was that he had heard. When he turned around he was staring at a fourteen year old boy with a mullet and decked out in green pants and a green T-shirt. The boy stared at him and said "You really don't remember this place?" he began to walk over to the lake as he continued to speak "This is where you first tried to ask Kimberly out. You remember the dance freshman year? The one Zach gave you tips on?"
Tommy thought about it for a moment, then it all came back to him. Zach pulling some dance moves to impress Angela while trying to teach Tommy how to ask Kim out.
"Yeah, this is the lake, Angel Grove Park. It's where I first learned that-"
"-That this," the boy said as the Green Ranger suit manifested around him and the cry of a Dragon could be heard "became nothing more than a memory to you."
"That's not true, Zordon re-energized the powers for me. It wasn't until-"
"-until," the boy interrupted as the scenery changed to a rocky wasteland "Lord Zedd's Green Crystal that he used to power his Dark Rangers. Then you became," the suit fizzled away, looking like static electricity, "just a normal boy again." The boy then walked around the rock the Green Crystal once stood upon.
"Yeah but-" Tommy began, once again being interrupted.
"-But not for long." The boy finished, as the scenery once again shifted to the Command Center and the younger Tommy vanished.
Suddenly a bright, white light appeared in the ceiling, and human shaped figure descended while a Tiger's growl echoed in the background. Before Tommy now stood the White Tiger Ranger. He removed his helmet to reveal a fifteen year old Tommy Oliver. "Then I came along. The White Ranger, and your new partner Saba. But," The White Ranger continued "But these powers barely lasted a year."
"Then I beca-" Tommy started, once again being interrupted, and the scenery once again shifting. This time to Ninjor's Temple.
"Then you became me," a white clothed ninja said, before suddenly becoming The White Ninjetti Ranger as the screech of the wild and free Falcon could be heard in the distance. "The White Ninjetti Ranger. Your spirit felt so free, so full of life. Like you could take to the skies at will. But," The Ninjetti Ranger sighed "not even these lasted."
The scenery next became the Power Chamber, and the Zeo Ranger V: Red stepped out of the shadows as the Phoenix's cry echoed throughout the Power Chamber. "Next came me, Zeo Ranger V."
Tommy who had given up on trying to tell his own past, instead left it all up to the past Ranger forms. "These powers proved to be very effective in your war against the Machine Empire. But alas, they were not to be…"
The scenery shifted yet again to the Power Chamber of the Turbo era. With the sound of thunder, accompanied by flashes of red lightning and a car's engine revving in the background, the Red Turbo Ranger appeared. "You had to claim these powers in order to save Jason and Kim from Divatox. Eventually you willingly gave them up to Theodore Jay Jarvis Johnson. These powers had such an incredible effect over you that you even began racing. You chose racing over going to your high school graduation.
The scenery changed again, this time to Mesogog's lair. The Black Dino Ranger arrived out of an Invisiportal, accompanied by the cry of the mighty Brachiosaurus. "Lastly came me, The Black Dino Ranger and mentor to the four high school students. Eventually you burned through these powers as well. Only to return to-" the Black Dino Ranger burned away and the scenery shifted once again, returning him to the lake, and in the presence of the Green Ranger and the Dragon's cry again.
"-Me. Your very first set of powers. Strongest too. But Tommy, you've been through so many different sets of powers, that you can't choose just one. You must have balance within your powers. One cannot flow any stronger within you than the other. That is why all of your powers after these were either destroyed, or given up." The Green Ranger proceeded to take a few steps back. "So what you have to do now is choose. Are you the Green."
"The White," The White Tiger Ranger said walking up next to the Green.
"The Ninjetti," The White Ninjetti Ranger said as he appeared next to the White Tiger.
"Zeo Ranger V: Red," Zeo Ranger V said, descending next to the White Ninjetti.
"Red Turbo," the Red Turbo Ranger said, speeding up next to Zeo Ranger V.
"and the Black Dino Ranger, all rolled into one," the Black Dino Ranger said as he became visible "or are you-"
"ME!" shouted a very familiar, very evil voice. Tommy turned to see the Evil Green Ranger appear in a cloud of green smoke. "You this is who you really are Tommy. Evil lies deep within you, it always has. Even before Rita's spell you always had a dark nature. You just managed to suppress it thanks to Jason, Zach, Trini, Billy, and especially to Kimberly."
"You're wrong, I'm nothing like you!" Tommy shouted at the Evil Green Ranger.
The Evil Green Ranger threw his head back and laughed "Yes you are! You may not see it clearly like I do, but you are evil. Pure, indescribable evil. Now, let me out. Bring me to the surface Tommy!"
"No!" he shouted once more "I am the Green, the White Tiger, the White Ninjetti, Zeo Ranger V: Red, the Red Turbo, the Black Dino, and now I am the Green Prehistoric Ranger. All rolled into one. I'll never be evil again." With that realization in his heart, the cries and roars of the Dragon, the White Tiger, the Falcon, the Phoenix, the Car, and the Brachiosaurus all sounded at once. As Tommy stood, ready to fight his inner evil, the other six ranger forms all merged into his being. "Dragonzord Power UP!" he cried, before his morph his eyes flashed green, white, red, and black then in a multi colored flash of light he became the Green Prehistoric Ranger.
Evil Green Ranger pulled his Dragon Dagger out, and Tommy feeling the connection of all his old powers working together, summoned his Zeo Sword and began attacking. Evil Green Ranger dodged the first swing, but was unable to dodge Tommy's punch to his gut. The Evil Green Ranger caught his balance and tried throwing the Dragon Dagger at Tommy, but Tommy side-stepped and avoided it. Allowing to get stick into a tree. Furious, the Evil Green Ranger quickly ran to claim his weapon, when he pulled it out he turned, ready to face Tommy. But he was nowhere in sight. "Where are you? You coward!" he screamed.
"You looking for me?" Tommy asked, reappearing behind the Evil Green Ranger. Before the he could turn to strike Tommy, he summoned his Turbo sword to replace the Zeo Sword and blocked it with lightning fast movement. He then summoned the Brachio-staff and slammed it into the side of the Evil Green Rangers helmet, smashing half of its front to pieces.
'Well this has to count as child abuse…' Tommy joked as the Evil Green Ranger flew about five or six feet from where he was. Peering out at Tommy from the busted helmet was himself at age fourteen.
'Yeah, definitely child abuse.' He summoned Saba next.
"Greetings master, it's been a long time," Saba said to Tommy.
"Oh it certainly has, now are you ready to do this?"
"Of course." Tommy ran, then leaped up into the air and came down upon Evil Green Ranger and drove Saba into his shoulder. He stopped slicing when he felt it hit the bone. The Evil Green Ranger cried out in agony and dropped to one knee as blood gushed out of his shoulder and ran down his arm to form a pool of blood from on the ground.
"And now," Tommy said, summoning his own Dragon Dagger, "it's time to put my evil where it belongs. In the ground and out of my life forever!" he took the Dragon Dagger and drove it into Evil Green Ranger's chest, blood squirted out and he cried out in even more pain. In a flash of green lightning and the dying sound of the last of Tommy's evil, the Evil Green Ranger was gone for good.
Back at the Aqua Base…
Hayley, Jason, Ryan, and Karone were all sitting by Tommy's bed. Watching, waiting, and hoping for him to wake up soon. "We are still trying to figure out what caused the bruises and scratches on him. Even with our advanced technology we can't find any reason for green and white bruises," Dana said as she entered the room.
"Will he be ok?" Karone asked, trying not to cry.
"We're not sure. I'm sorry I can't say more, but we just don't know how to treat this. We don't even know what this is."
"I do," Tommy said, stretching "Man it feels good to be back!"
"Tommy!" all four cried at once.
"Hey bro, you feelin' okay?" Jason asked. Tommy looked around at everyone, Jason, Hayley, Dana, Ryan, and Karone.
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"Thomas, what happened." Dana and Hayley both demanded.
"Well, I'm not sure, but I think I know. See, I've been having these dreams for a while now. I kept battling my old powers, Green through Black. Well, it's like this I guess; I've had more powers than any other ranger, ever. So with all the power flowing around inside me, each one of my powers, Green, White, Ninjetti, Zeo, Turbo, and Dino, kept trying to become the dormant power. That's why I have," he looked "had those bruises and scratches. But then after I passed out," and he went on to explain the events that he had just been through in his mind.
"…And that about wraps it up," he finished "Can I go home now?" Dana and Hayley gave him very stern looks and said together "No!"
"Tommy," Dana said "we need to run a few more tests to be sure that you're really alright. So until further notice, you. Stay. Put."
Tommy threw a glance over to Jason, and then to Ryan who both nodded their heads and said "Come one Hayley, come on Dana. Let's give these two some privacy." After they had exited the room Karone took the seat closest to Tommy and rested her hand on his.
"I'm glad you're okay," she said.
"You weren't worried were you?" he asked with a grin.
"Of course I was you goof!" she giggled.
"Why? You should know, I'm Tommy Oliver, Dr. O, indestructible!" he said proudly joking.
"Oh really?" she said raising an eyebrow and getting a 'we'll see about that' look on her face. She smiled and slugged his arm lightly.
"Ah! Geez, just cause the bruises aren't showing doesn't mean they aren't there!" he teased.
"See? Indestructible my butt!" she smiled and kissed his cheek "I'm really glad you're okay."
"Yeah, me too."
A/N I hope everyone enjoyed the look into Tommy's past, and the fight against himself as much as I enjoyed writing it, inspiration did come from Fighting Spirit, but I modeled it differently. Thank you for reading, and leave a review please.