All 5 sections in one really long Chapter... 8,591 words, the longest I've ever had a chapter...yay :)
(pt1)
"It's a Martial Arts expo and I'm not competing…why?" I asked Billy confused and annoyed.
"Jason signed up for this months ago," Billy responded, "You weren't even here then."
"It still sucks," I sighed, crossing my arms across my chest. Billy responding with a light chuckle, which only made me glare at him.
"Alright now Jason, remember, think positive and concentrate on your moves," Zack advised.
"Yeah, focus your mind as well as your body," Trini added, touching his stomach; weird.
"Don't let 'em see you sweat. Be a rock," I told him.
"Thanks guys, but it looks like I'm gonna need all the help I can get," he mentioned motioning toward his apparent opponent. Some guy in Green; some guy with terrible hair; some guy that looked just like…
"Tommy," I muttered, apparently out loud as they all looked at me.
"Man that dude is pumped," Zack stated, "How do you know about him."
"I don't know him personally," I half-lie. I don't know this Tommy, "I've just heard of him…he's supposed to be tough." I can see Billy knows what I said is bullshit but doesn't press the matter.
"Apparently he's some new kid in school," Trini states.
"Seriously," I say, sighing, "Great."
"He is really cute," Kim mentions.
"Eww," I wince as Billy elbows me to be careful not to give too much away.
The spar seems to have resulted in a draw, I was a bit surprised, Mr. Oliver was pretty hardcore, I'd never beat him or been equal of him, which was weird since I'd beaten Jason. Tommy must have gotten a lot tougher since this point.
"I didn't win," Jason informs us after, as if we hadn't just seen the fight. It wasn't like we were congratulating him because we were confused.
"Come on Jason, in karate it is the dignity and spirit in which you compete that is the most important," Trini encourages.
"I know," Jason states with a hint of sadness, "Listen I'm gonna catch a shower and I'll meet you guys at the juice bar."
"Sounds good," Zack agrees and we go our separate ways. It's only until we get there that I realize Kim and Trini aren't with us.
"Shit," I mutter to myself.
"What's wrong?" Billy asks confused and concerned.
"Mom's gone."
"Shhh," he reprimands.
"She must be busy with Tommy," I say in a sarcastic mocking tone.
"Well, things will work themselves out. The fact that you haven't vanished shows that as of this moment the future you live in will still occur."
"Thanks, Doc. Let me know when Marty McFly gets back so I can borrow the DeLorean."
"You know what I mean."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," I sigh heading to the counter before calling back, "That doesn't mean I have to like it."
Billy and I are standing across the hall as I see Bulk and Skull move in on Kimberly and I smile. After the fiasco with Tommy, I'm happy to see Mom and Dad talking. Billy looks at the smile on my face and smirks a bit himself.
"Hey babe," Skull says from across the hall, "You need a big strong man to help you with your books?"
"Dream on Skull," she replies.
"Oh hoh, time to teach her a lesson," Bulk decides, putting the moon pie in his pocket.
"Hey," we hear from beside us to spot Tommy coming to the rescue…crap, "Didn't you hear the lady. She said no."
"I think it's time for someone else to be taught a lesson," Bulk decides, Skull agreeing.
"Shit," I mutter, going to step forward before I feel Billy's hand holding me back.
"Stay out of it," he warns, "You'll just make it worse."
Tommy shows off his moves like a prick and Bulk and Skull's faces are priceless.
"And maybe we'll teach you that lesson some other time," Bulk states nervously before they both sneak away.
"Thanks," Kim states awestruck, "That was really great."
"Sure," he says with that smart ass grin on his face, "I'll see ya later."
"Hey," she calls out, "I'm Kimberly. Your new around here aren't you."
"Yeah…I'm Tommy."
I feign gagging and Billy sighs shaking his head as he drags me to class, "This is done."
"No wait. I need to see what happens," I argue.
"Nope. It's time for class." How is Billy dragging me away? I really need to train more.
I hung with Billy, Zack, and Jason while the boys were detailing the white VW beetle. Billy didn't trust me not to mettle with Kim and Tommy, so he wanted me supervised. I told him I wasn't five to which he responded that since I wasn't born yet, I wasn't even five. I stopped trying to argue and just went with it…it was easier.
"I don't think I've ever seen the Rad Bug look this clean," Billy commented.
"Yeah well uh, it's gonna be stylin' after Zack's wax," Zack smiled.
"I think you might have laid on one too many layers of that already. The car's completely white," I mocked.
"What?" Zack asked confused.
"Well your wax is white isn't it?" I asked curiously, taking the conversation into the gutter.
"No it's clear," he responds confused.
"Well then you must be shootin' blanks or something cus' I've never heard of clear jizz."
"What is she talking about?" Jason asked Billy confused.
"You don't wanna know," he responds. Billy's been learning my dirty references from hanging out with me too much in an attempt to learn about the future. It was his mistake.
"Hey what's up?" Trini asked, coming up the driveway with Kim.
"Hey, you ladies are just in time. Grab a rag and join in."
"Why?" I asked confused, "Is this gonna be a big ol' circle jerk." Billy clasped his hand over my mouth and shook his head at me. He was learning…too quickly.
"I'm not in the mood," Kim states, handing the rag back.
"What's wrong?" Zack asks concerned.
"Tommy," Trini states.
"The guy I fought in the competition?" Jason asks, joining the conversation.
"Yeah, he was supposed to meet me at the youth centre and he never showed," Kim said sadly.
"Yes," I hollered through Billy's hand, but I don't think they heard me; probably a good thing. I think Billy might be my conscience.
"Maybe he got hung up," Zack stated before their watches buzzed. They all looked to me concerned.
"Well have fun playing with the cum car," I stated waving and moving toward the gate, "I gonna go find Skull and Bulk."
"Later," Billy waves, the others muttering goodbyes, clearly more preoccupied with the Zordon ringtone.
My alert didn't go off until giant Goldar arrived. The Rangers had just fallen out of the Megazord and were pre-occupied with the Green Ranger. I never even knew there was a Green Ranger back now. Juan was the Green Ranger where I came from and he was kind of an ass.
I helped the Rangers fight Greeny but we were pretty evenly matched. He even knocked me down a few times. I don't appreciate being knocked down, I'll tell you that much. I shot him with a pulsating ray but it didn't seem to do much damage…to him. Rita must have put a reflex ion barrier on him because the ray bounced off and hit me instead. Like I said, the ray was powerful, and after using it I was weak, so weak me + pulsating ray meant, de-morphing right then and there.
Billy looked worried, while the rest of the Rangers just looked surprised.
"We need to regroup back at the command centre," Jason stated, knowing we were outmatched.
"Come on," Zack stated, lifting me up and pulling me towards the group before we all transported to Zordon and Alpha 5.
The place looked primitive compared to what I was used to. Alpha 5 was running around trying to fix things but I was used to Alpha 11 so that was weird by itself. Zordon was looking like a bad YouTube buffer and the rangers looked both worried and confused.
"Alpha," Jason stated alarmed.
"Rangers I still haven't been able to bring Zordon back," Alpha reported.
"Well keep trying we need answers now," Jason demanded.
"A guy in a green costume attacked our Zords," Kim informed Alpha.
"He just busted right in, do you have any idea who it was?" Zack asked curiously.
"I'm sorry rangers I don't," Alpha stated before uncontrollably powering down.
"Alpha's still not completely recovered from the computer virus," Billy stated, pulling off the back panel.
"I'll get my Vipre software," I told him. He nodded in agreement as I teleported out and grabbed the install disk out of my CD case. By the time I returned Alpha had already shut down.
"What OS is this running," I asked curiously, but no one could answer the question. I shrugged and Billy and I set to work.
"First Zordon disappears and then this Green guy shows," Kim states exasperated.
"I think we only got a small sample of his true power," Jason infers.
"This is all too weird," Trini states turning to me, "Why didn't you tell us you were a Ranger."
"Yeah," Zack agrees, "How do we know you're not part of Rita's scheme like the Green Ranger?"
"I've only been helping you since I got here. I don't need to prove anything to you lot," I state annoyed, "I'm outta here. Billy don't forget to get that install disk back to me tonight, thanks." I teleport myself home and sit frustrated working on the computer. Ungrateful little douche bags. Whatever.
(pt2)
"What are you doing?" Bulk asked curiously, probably on his was to Skull's room just a bit farther down the hall. I should probably learn to close my door… oh well.
"The dweebs were actin' like jerks so I left. I'm kinda bored, what about you?"
"Skull and I are heading to the comic book store," Bulk stated in close to a whispered tone, "Don't tell anyone though. It's kinda geeky."
"Comics are totally cool," I replied, scrunching my eyebrows, "Can I come or is it more of a guy thing?"
"Sure…you can come," Bulk replied, "Just let me go get Skull."
We'd made it about halfway there when Skull noticed that Tommy guy in the alleyway. He was standing there in a daze it seemed like. He was such a loser, I mean his hair gave off that mullet vibe. I mean he was my mentor in the future and I had a lot of respect for him but right now when he went after Mom like that; no he was definitely on my shit list.
"Well looky who we have here guys," Bulk stated, moving toward him, Skull and I at his side.
"Yeah, it's the new kid that made us look bad at school," Skull added.
"Tommy," I whispered.
"That's it; Tommy," Bulk said, "Come on."
"He seems off," I stated, noticing the menacing glare, "Are you sure about this guys?"
"It's no big thing," Bulk replied, casting off my concern.
"Yeah, we can take him on," Skull added.
"Hey," Bulk directed to Tommy, "Nobody insults Bulk."
"Yeah," Skull mimicked, "Nobody."
"I think you owe me an apology," Bulk demanded. And then it happened; his eyes flickered green. It was just for a second but that was all I needed. Suddenly I realized I was enraged. Tommy was the evil Green Ranger. Why did no one ever tell me this? I looked to the guys to realize that the flicker had made their blood run cold, the opposite of myself. They flickered again and I watched them start to back away, rather quickly.
"Come on Nik," Skull stated, "Let's go." He tried tugging on my arms but they were crossed tight.
"Hey," I shouted at him annoyed beyond belief, "Greeny." The guys were standing right there but didn't bother to think about what I was saying too closely. They just wanted to get out of here. He ignored me and I watched little green ray lightning bolt things come out of his eyes and fling Bulk and Skull into the trash can.
"Hey douche bag," I shouted annoyed, thumping his shoulder with the palm of my hand, "What the hell do you think your doin'?"
Now he turned to look at me, his eyes still flashing green. I could tell he was about to shoot one of those rays and me and slapped him hard in the face, causing his head to jerk to the side and the rays to harmlessly dissipate. I went to punch him and his hand wrapped around my fore-arm with incredible strength.
"Fuck," I seethed in pain as the round thing in his hand pressed harder into my skin and was creating a burn the likes of which I'd never felt before. I tried to keep the tears away but they were starting to form without my consent.
After what seemed like an eternity, he let go, flipping the round object which I could now tell was his power coin before turning and simply walking away. I wanted to go after him but was more concerned about my arm that felt like it was about to explode.
"What is with that guy?" Skull asked upset, popping out of the dumpster.
"I don't know, but he should have his eyes check," Bulk added. It was then that they seemed to notice me, sitting on the alley ground, cradling my arm.
"Are you okay?" Skull shouted, as the two tried to climb out of the dumpster. I stood from the ground, making sure that my sleeve covered the burn but didn't touch the skin…well what was left of it.
"Yeah, I'm fine," I said, gritting my teeth to keep from letting the tears escape.
I didn't want to see Bulk and Skull for a little while, so I bandaged my arm and wandered around downtown. It wasn't for any particular reason that I didn't wanna see them. It was more because I was embarrassed for having been at another's mercy. They didn't know, but I did; and it was killing me inside. I was secretly hoping to run into Tommy again, but this time I wouldn't underestimate his douchebaggery.
Somehow I ended up at the Community Centre. A large part of me didn't want to go in, a really large part but my arm was starting to develop a slight throb from the burn and I decided that I could get some ice from Ernie at the very least.
I walked in to see Jason beating that punching bag like his life depended on it and if my burn was any indication of what was to come for the Rangers…then it probably did. I ignored the boy and moved to the counter, ordering a Strawberry Banana smoothie and a Ziploc bag full of ice.
"All I know for sure," Jason whispers to Zack, "Is I'd like to get my hands on this guy." I couldn't help but agree.
"Nikki," I hear Jason shout from across the room. I don't say anything, pretending not to hear him. "Nikki," he repeats, and I suddenly feel an arm on my shoulder, "Nikki." He turns me with the bar stool and I look into the faces of Jason and Zack.
"I thought that was you," Jason responds to no one in particular.
"Yeah, so what?"
"Look, we're really sorry about we said to you earlier," Zack starts, "It was just that with everything happening and that Green Ranger. We were a bit defensive."
"Yeah, I mean, you've been helping us and clearly that Green Ranger hasn't. It wouldn't make sense for Rita to have two completely different strategies," Jason adds.
"Thanks guys," I say, giving a half-smirk. I understand where they were coming from but that didn't mean that I'd forgiven them yet. They each took the bar stool beside me and looked to each other.
"Do you wanna come back to the Command Centre?" Zack asks.
"Maybe help Billy out with Alpha?" Jason adds, placing his hand on my arm to show kindness. I wince way more that I wanted to and pull my arm back on reflex. "What's wrong," Jason asked, pulling back the sleeve to see a make-shift round band aid covering the center of my forearm.
"What happened?" Zack asked curiously.
"Nothing," I told them, it wasn't their concern, "I fell." They clearly weren't buying it and I decided that I was going to need another excuse. Before I got the chance however, I felt Jason peel back the tape and gasp. Shit.
"Oh my gosh," Zack exclaimed, looking at it from the other side, "Who did this to you?"
"No one, I fell," I stated determined, abandoning the idea of getting a better excuse.
"The pattern of this is strange," Jason noticed, leaning his head back and forth, taking it in, "It looks like a power coin." He looked at me to see my eyebrows go up before I could stop them. The look of surprise giving him his answer, "Did that Green Ranger do this to you…with his power coin."
I tried to pull my arm away but he held it tight. "Did he?" he asked again, anger deep in his tone.
"Yes," I stated quietly, what did it matter anyway?
"I'm gonna kill him," Jason grumbles.
"You don't need to fight my battles," I growl out, standing from the barstool and taking a step back, "I'm a big girl; I can take care of myself."
"It's just that…" Zack began.
"Save it," I grumbled, grabbing the Styrofoam cup of Smoothie and heading to the door, "I can fight Greeny on my own."
My watch vibrated my bad arm and I ripped it off, not thinking twice. It was about ten minutes later that I realized that if it went off then there must be a monster detected, I checked the computer and it told me that it was the Green Ranger, fuckin' A. I transformed and teleported myself to the location to see all but Jason there fighting. I doubted he actually listened to me when I said I'd fight him on my own. He was probably tied up somewhere.
I joined in, the suit protected my arm like nothing had happened which was good for me. I seemed to fill in for Jason as we battled. I was much closer to his belt level than the others but even my suit couldn't take the Sword of Darkness. The other Rangers began calling their Zords and I configured my frequency to call Jason's. It was weird to see the body of the Megazord to be silver rather than red but oh well. Making ourselves a Megazord seemed to work well because the Sword of Darkness bounced off and Tommy disappeared.
I left after we let the Megazords go back. They asked me to come with them but without my suit my arm started to hurt again and I would just be in the way. I'd been in the Command Centre; there wasn't much floor space for a person of little use.
(pt3)
I sat at the bar at Ernie's when Kim came up and sat beside me. I had originally come in with Bulk and Skull but god knows where they were at this point. Skull had lent me his jacket, I needed it to cover up the burn, I'd told him that I was cold; it actually smelled like Dad, it was weird that his smell hadn't changed in over 20 years.
"Hey Nikki," Kim stated, a sad tone in her voice, "I wanted to say sorry about what happened…you know…"
"It's fine…I already talked to Jason and…" I started before she interrupted me.
"You talked to Jason?"
"Yeah; Jason and Zack."
"Oh," she said downheartedly, "I'm actually kind of looking for Jason. He just vanished. I'm really worried about him."
"He can hold his own," I tell her, realizing that it sounded a little colder than I was intending.
"Hey girls," Ernie begins, coming up in some ridiculous blue tinted shirt.
"Hey Ernie," Kim states sadly, "You haven't seen Jason around have you?"
"Sorry Kim, I haven't seen Jason around for a while. You think he's in trouble of something?"
"I don't know Ernie," Kim responds and the boys come up. I watch Ernie take his leave from the situation, it's a good thing they weren't dangerous. Way to be helpful, Ernie.
"Hey, we'll help you find Jason Shmason," Bulk comments, leaning in close to her, ignoring me beside her.
"Missin' persons are our specialty," Skull informs her. I just sigh.
Kim presses her fingers to her temples in annoyance. I know what that means in my time, run and hide until she gets some Advil in her system, "Thanks but no thanks guys."
"Hey, we work cheap," Bulk tells her.
"Oh, are you the 40 cent hooker holmes?" I ask them, catching them a bit off guard.
"What?" Skull asks confused.
"Just leave her alone for now guys, okay…we've had a hard day," I tell them, my eyes drooped; I'm worn out.
"Alright," Skull relents, "Sorry."
"Yeah, we'll talk to ya a little later Nik," Bulk adds.
"See ya later guys," I half wave.
"How did you do that?" Kim asks in disbelief.
"When your friends with them, and nice to them, and show them respect; they show it back to you," I lecture before standing and heading back to the house…I needed a nap.
I woke up to my laptop sending out some shrill high pitched whine, alerting me that there was a high ranked monster on the loose. It identified her as Scorpina, someone I had personally re-sealed in the future…great. It took a long time to get her. I transformed and teleported to the warehouses that she seemed to be attacking. I was about to attack her when Goldar appeared and they both disappeared.
When they teleported back to the Command Centre they asked me to come along and I obliged, not that I saw much of a reason for it.
"Rita's final strike will be soon," Jason informed us all as he half leaned on the control panel.
"With Scorpina and the Green Ranger out there we have to keep our guards up," Kim adds, and I notice Zack and Jason both look at me. I glare at them and they look away.
"I don't get it…every time Rita attacks she pulls back," Jason commented, mulling the thought over in his mind.
"It's almost as if she's holding back getting ready for a bigger battle," Trini guessed.
"At least the wrist communicators are functioning and the computer's back online," Billy informed the group. "That reminds me," he stated moving toward me, "While you're here, I was hoping I could synchronize your communicator with ours so that we could contact one another."
"I don't care," I told him, taking the watch off and dropping it in his hand.
"Is it powered up enough to start looking for Zordon again?" Jason asked curiously.
"Yes Jason I'm scanning the sector that Zordon's signal was in and I think I found something," Alpha said, locking on something.
"Zordon," Zack shouted at the old man in the tube going in and out like a bad analog signal.
"Rangers can you hear me?" Zordon called out.
"Zordon we can barely make you out," Zack replied.
"Hang on," Kim shouted.
"Alpha do something," Jason shouted frantically.
"Aiy yei yei, I've got him but I don't know how to keep him."
"Lock onto his molecular pattern," Billy advised.
"Come on Alpha you can do it," Trini encourages.
"It's not holding," Alpha shouts.
"Something's drawing power from the command centre," Billy observes.
"We lost him again," Jason states annoyed.
As the power came back, Alpha tells us to look at the viewing globe. A flat screen would be a whole lot easier but, to each his own.
"There is a major disturbance in downtown Angel Grove," Alpha told us.
"It's Goldar," Kim says nervously. It turned out to be a giant Goldar…lame. He's going around smashing buildings like Godzilla.
"Man Goldar's going off the deep end," Zack states.
"Fuckin Lion," I grumble.
"We gotta stop him," Trini says.
"It could be a trap," Billy observes analytically.
"We don't have a choice," Jason decides.
(pt4)
"Goldar's blowing the world to bits," Zack states in awe.
"We gotta move," Jason tell us, indicating a need to morph. It's weird that it's my first time morphing with the rest of the rangers, but as we go to morph, none of them work…not even mine.
"What the fuck?" I growled annoyed, "Mine doesn't even draw from the same power as yours."
"Something is seriously wrong," Trini says nervously, glancing around at the flickering panels of the Command Centre. Alpha 5 is standing at the controls flipping out and Billy runs to him,
"Alpha what is it?"
"I'm getting a reading. Aye yei yei yei yei. It's an inter-dimensional power surge caused by the beam trying to locate Zordon. It's shutting down all sources of energy within the Command Centre and throughout the morphing grid."
"So that's why?" I mutter. I wasn't stupid. I was my father's daughter…wait, my future father who knows theoretical physics, not Skull. Time travel was the idea that you would be traveling through dimensions before arriving back into your own but just in a different time. It would then make sense that the morphing grid would affect all Rangers in this time; future or not.
"So you mean we can't morph?" Jason asked frustrated.
"Not until the power surge ends."
"But Goldar's ripping the city apart," Zack exclaimed.
"There's nothing I can do," Alpha stated pushing some more buttons, "Oh no, now we've lost the computer too."
"If we can't morph, Goldar's gonna trash the world," Jason stated sadly. We wandered around with Alpha trying to fix the computer when Jason broke up the silence, "I can't believe we're stuck here."
"Man it just seems like things are going from bad to worse," Zack grumbles.
"I wish there was something I could do," Alpha states sadly.
"Hold on, I've got an idea," Billy begins, moving toward the computer, "Nikki could you give me a hand?"
"I guess, but I'm not sure what you want me to do," I tell him, shrugging. He starts muttering to himself about electrodes, handing me insulated wires and setting to work. I felt like we were playing doctor. He was the doctor and I was the nurse. I didn't mean the dirty version of doctor…for once.
"You can do it guys," Trini encouraged from over his shoulder.
"Yeah come on guys," Kim added. After about two or three minutes the computer seemed to come back up. It sparked as it did it, but it still managed to boot up.
"Hey," Billy stated surprised, "It worked."
"Wow," I said, thumping him on the shoulder, "You sure seemed sure of yourself." He simply smirked at me, "Well we should be able to morph now."
"Alpha keep looking for Zordon while we take care of Goldar," Jason stated, in charge.
Between the six of us we were able to take pretty good care of the putties. That is until I noticed Scorpina on top of one of the buildings and decided to go after her and her stupid metal coconut bra. Once the rest of the putties were gone, the rest of the Rangers helped against Scorpina. I managed to get that sword away from her.
"How dare you," she screamed, coming straight at me, I already had an idea of how to beat her from before. I was about to attack her when a giant Goldar foot separated us.
"So are you stupid power geeks ready to give up?" Rita asked curiously from on top of a building.
"Never," Jason screamed, he sounded a bit hoarse.
"Jason you are a fool," she taunted, riding some sort of bike thing.
"You're the fool if you think we'll ever surrender to you," Jason remarked back.
"Silence," Goldar grumbled out, before he tried to hit us with his sword. Of course he missed, it's like trying to beat ants with a pencil; it's harder than it looks. But we launched ourselves out of the way, rolling and shit like we were on fire.
"You can't win Rita," Jason shouted when we heard he laugh from above us.
"It's time now to complete my evil plan," she stated, "Goldar do it." I watched Goldar grab some bus. Why was he grabbing buses? That was Rita's evil plan?
"No they're civilians," Jason shouted angrily. He was right it was kind of a douche move. But then again Tommy was a douche and he was working with Rita too.
"Yes, I know. Actually their friends of yours. I believe you call them, Bulk and Skull," Goldar stated.
"What?" I screamed, more upset than I wanted to be, "You can't do this!"
"That's where your wrong little girl," Goldar responded, "I can do whatever I want and you can't do anything about it."
"Put 'em the fuck down Goldar," I shouted.
"Not until you surrender," he responded.
"Fine," I grumbled, "I surrender now put them down."
"What are you saying?" Zack questioned.
"Not just you," Goldar stated, "All of you." He didn't wait after that; he just kind of wandered away.
"Oh, no, we gotta save them," Jason demanded, I simply nodded. Suddenly we were teleporting. How was I supposed to save Dad and Uncle Bulk if I was getting teleported somewhere else? We looked up to see Scorpina and Rita standing on the cliff's edge, looking down at us.
"Well Rangers, what took you so long?" Rita questioned curiously.
"There she is up there with Scorpina."
"Why don't you come down here and…" Zack began.
"Wait," Kim questioned, "Where's the bus?" At least someone was worried about them.
"I'll help you," Rita states from the cliff, "It's over there." We look to see the bus near the edge of the cliff with Putties rocking it back and forth. It was like a tiny Puttie riot. Where were the police when you needed them? Oh, I guess we're kind of like the police aren't we?
"Man this is serious," Jason shouted.
"It's going over any second," Kim added.
"We gotta do something," Trini shouted.
"Look their almost over the edge," Kim exclaimed.
"Oh no," Trini says nervously.
"We gotta get up there," Jason states.
"I can handle it," I tell them transporting away in a cloud of silver dust.
"I want your mommy too," I hear Skull say as I transport in.
"That's dirty," I tell them.
"It's a Power Ranger," Bulk shouts, ignoring my remark.
"I've never seen a Silver one before," Skull questions.
"Do you guys wanna die or not?" I ask them curiously, and they nod…then shake their heads.
"No," they both whisper.
"Then come on," I tell them bringing them to stand beside me. I set the transporting beam to fit all three of us and we appear outside Bulk's house.
"How did you know where I live?" Bulk asked astounded.
"I'm a Power Ranger. Power Rangers are aliens," I stated. Apparently Ernie had told them that he had heard that the Power Rangers were aliens. That worked for me, "and as Rangers, we know everything. It's time for me to go." I reset the transporting beam size to ensure that they don't come back with me and go back to the Rangers still standing around nervously. I made it back just in time to see the bus go over the edge.
"It's all good," I say from behind them when I hear their breath hitch at the sight of the bus going over.
Suddenly we turned to see Scorpina grow into some giant Lizard looking thing, the rangers were going to have to call the Zords. I didn't have one, which made me a bit of a hindrance. "You work here with the Zords; I'm going to go help Alpha get in contact with Zordon," I told them.
They nodded, and I teleported away. I would just get stepped on if I stayed.
"Try all you want robot, it'll be no good," I heard someone say as I teleported in. I turned around to see the Green Ranger incased in some yellowish lightning stuff.
"Zordon, I'm losing you," Alpha stated to no one in particular.
"Zordon is lost, and soon the power rangers will be lost too," Tommy commented evily.
"Shut the hell up," I growled coming up right next to his face, "You're the one that's lost."
"Aye yei yei yei yei," Alpha shouted at the tube Zordon should be inside of, "Zordon, Zordon please come in."
"Aww what's the matter you little mechanical misfit. Can't you make anything work? Let me out and I'll do the same to you."
"You such a cunt," I snarl.
"You are truly evil Green Ranger; it's time to find out who's behind that mask," she says moving towards him. Wait, they didn't know it was Tommy, I thought it was obvious but maybe that was just because I saw him with those crazy green eyes. I wasn't sure if I should tell them or not…if it would change the future.
"Better luck next time tin head," I hear Tommy state with a laugh and before I can do anything, he disappeared.
"Wait how did you…oh Aye yei yei yei yei," Alpha shouts, distressed.
"Here let's see if I can do something," I say, talking off my helmet and interlinking a firewire cable from the helmet to the console. It began downloading the data from my helmet to the system configuration and searched through the known dimensions for Zordon's whereabouts. I set the helmet down and turned to Alpha 5, "It might take a while though."
"Oh thank you Nicole," Alpha stated curiously, "Hopefully it will work. In the mean time we need to figure out what to do about the Green Ranger."
"The Power Rangers are history," Kim stated sadly once we met back up at the Command Centre.
"It's over, Rita's won," Trini said defeated.
"Rangers we can't give up," Jason responded.
"Why shouldn't we," Kim spit back, "Zordon's gone, the Megazords have been destroyed; we're outmatched."
"Nikki?" Alpha asked me curiously, "What are the chances of bringing Zordon back online?"
"Actually their pretty good," I told the group, looking at the screen, "It seems that it's located some of his molecular structure already, it just needs to find the rest configure it and defragment it into something that we can see and hear. Once it's able to do that I should be able to lock in on it and store the information into the computer."
"Fasinating," Billy smirked, looking over my shoulder and into the screen.
"How is it that your Ranger suit is so advanced?" Zack asked curiously.
"Let me see," Billy said to me as he began playing with the controls, ignoring Zack and trying to change the subject.
"But that still doesn't help us with what we're going to do with Rita," Kim stated frustrated.
"Let's face it, she won," Trini commented.
"But isn't the smallest chance of a victory enough to keep us fighting, Jason inspired, "The world needs us Rangers."
"Let's face it, the Green Ranger was Rita's trump card, she played it," Zack stated, "She won."
"No Rangers, I cannot accept that," Alpha stated, "Zordon would not accept that."
"But Zordon's not here," Trini said, stating the obvious.
"Hey what's going on?" Zack shouted as the computer began to beep, he turned to me, "Has the computer found Zordon?"
"Nope," I replied, looking into the monitor, "It looks like it found out something about the Green Ranger."
"When the Green Ranger was caught in the force field, the computer locked onto his interspatial bio-vibrations. It's been running them through the system, trying to make a match."
"You mean the computer knows Green Ranger's Identity," Billy interpreted. Too bad I already knew.
"Exactly," Alpha replied.
"A program to show us who he is on the viewing globe," Billy shouted pointing to it.
"Finally some answers," Trini stated thankfully.
"It's coming together," Billy told us, but I could already make out who it was, even if it was like 100 pixel quality.
"Ahh man," Zack stated, first to figure it out.
"No way," replied Jason.
Trini turned to her friend, "Kimberly look."
"I can't believe it…Tommy," Kimberly stuttered out.
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"I can't believe Tommy's the Green Ranger," Kimberly stated shocked, "It's gotta be a mistake."
"It's not," I replied, hovering over the monitor looking for Zordon.
"You knew," Jason shouted angrily at me.
Yeah, so what?" I shouted back, he was the bad guy and I was under attack.
"Why didn't you say anything?" Zack was shouting too.
"I honestly thought that you guys already knew," I supplied.
"How long have you known?" Billy asked curiously.
"Since…" I mumbled, trailing off and gripping my arm.
"Since he burned you with his power coin?" Jason supplied for me.
"Wait he burned you with his power coin?" Billy asked concerned, coming toward me.
"I'm fine," I growled out, turning away from them and going back to the computer.
"Well what are we going to do?" Trini asked confused by the whole situation.
"How could Tommy do this to us?" Zack sputtered out.
"Rita must have cast a spell over Tommy and is controlling his mind," Alpha stated, half defending him.
"You see Rangers, we can't give up," Jason stated, now finding encouragement, "We have to break Rita's spell and save Tommy."
"Can we save him after I kick his ass," I asked curiously, earning me a frown from Kimberly. It then went silent for a little while. I think the Rangers were still leaning toward giving up. Out of nowhere I suddenly heard Alpha shout,
"Oh Rita will rule the world, she'll enslave mankind, she'll destroy the Command Centre again."
"Okay Alpha, you've made your point," Zack stated, trying to calm the irate robot.
"Then you'll reconsider," Alpha stated with what I could tell was a hint of superiority.
"Alright," Jason stated, "Let's do it. We have to find Tommy and break Rita's spell. Let's split up and look for him."
"What if he's at Rita's palace?" Kim asked curiously.
"Then we wade him out," Billy responded, "He'll show up sooner or later."
"What about Zordon?" Trini asked.
"Well I can't fight without my helmet," I told the group, "I'll stay here and keep looking for Zordon, I won't do much good otherwise. Besides if you guys are busy trying to save Tommy, it probably isn't a good idea to let me near him. I might rip him a new one."
"Well then you two keep working on that," Jason agreed, "As for the rest of us; we'll find Tommy."
I was watching the Rangers fight the new Godzilla Zord of Tommy's when the alert rang that it had found, defragmented, and unscrambled Zordon's bytes.
"Alpha 5, well done," the voice of Zordon suddenly said as his giant head began to form in the cylinder, "You have re-established our computer link-up."
"Skype service back online," I comment, as it's the only thing that sounds similar to this situation.
"Zordon it's you, your back," Alpha shouts excited.
"Yes Alpha, get them to their Zords immediately," Zordon states, before turning to me, "Hello Nicole, thank you for your assistance with the Rangers."
"You know me?" I question curiously.
"You must remember that I am from another dimension where there is no realm of time. I know all of you and your friends from your time as I am the same me then as I am now."
"That thought boggles my mind," I told him.
"Their Zords have been taken away; the Green Ranger's on the rampage," Alpha shouts, apparently trying to get a word in edge-wise.
"By destroying his sword of darkness, they will break Rita's evil spell," Zordon tells me.
I arrive just as Jason is injured by that damn sword, but I come, in the form of Rita.
"My empress," Tommy states bowing.
"Green Ranger," I state both disgusted and intrigued by the strange voice coming out of my mouth, "We will save the Red Ranger for later, as a mouse to play with."
"Yes empress, a wonderful idea," Tommy agrees and I smirk; too easy.
"That isn't your empress," Rita shouts a few feet away; okay maybe not so easy.
"That woman is an imposter," I shout pointing at her accusingly. I see Tommy look back and forth in confusion.
"No you idiot, that woman is an imposter," she shouts.
"Don't let her trick you."
"Green Ranger, you will listen to me."
"I don't know which is which," he shouts desperately, I see Jason is just as confused, but he knows that one of them must be me so he doesn't dare fight either.
"Don't let the Rangers fool you, I am the real Rita."
"She's lying Tommy, don't listen to that woman. She doesn't even look like me."
"That woman's voice sounds like gravel in a coal mine."
"If you're not going to destroy her then I will."
Jason watches as the Sword of Darkness is plucked by one Rita from Tommy's hand and fired upon the other one. The Rita isn't affected by it, meaning that she is the real one, but before anything can come of it, the Rita holding the sword (Nikki) fires a plasma blast at it and it falls into two pieces at her feet; the force of using the power causing her to lose the hologram of Rita.
I smirk; I totally won that ridiculous fight. The rangers come running to the sides of Jason and me. We turn to each other and I unmorphed. It was weird, voluntarily unmorphing in front of someone.
"You destroyed the power sword, Rita's spell is broken," Zack shouts excited.
Jason runs to Tommy, "Are you okay Tommy?"
"What's happening to me?" Tommy asks completely confused.
"You're no longer under Rita's power."
"My head's spinning," Tommy stated; Jason had to help him up and everything.
"It'll be okay man," Jason tells him.
"What have I done?" Tommy asked states regretfully.
"What you did you did under Rita's influence," Jason tells him, attempting to make him feel better.
"You own the power now," Jason tells him, "Fight by our side and we can defeat Rita."
"After everything that's happened," Tommy asks confused. A part of me couldn't help but agree.
"Tommy we need you," Jason states desperately, "It's where you belong."
"Will you join us Tommy," Jason asked. Tommy got some dork ass smirk on his face and shook hands with Tommy, "Alright then. It's morphin' time."
"We're ready to morph into action," Jason shouted.
"Seven working together to fight evil," Tommy shouted.
"To stop Rita," Zack added.
"And all her menacing monsters," Billy stated.
"From destroying our planet Earth," Trini stated.
"And ruling the universe with evil," Kim contributed.
"No," I say, causing them all to look at me, "I am not contributing to the stupidity."
I heard them laugh and I smirked under my helmet.
The rangers combined the Zords of Blue, Yellow, and Black with the Dragonzord to create some new Megazord thing. It sucks being left out of all the Megazord set-ups.
"We missed you Zordon," Jason said smiling.
"Yeah, it was pretty low without you," Zack agreed.
"The fact remains that even as you faced your greatest danger, with all the odds stacked against you, you carried on like true superheroes, and persevered," Zordon told them.
"We really owe a lot to Nikki and Alpha," Trini stated happily.
"The two of you displayed exemplarily leadership abilities in my absence. I am very proud of you. And now I welcome our newest Ranger. Now that you are a true Power Ranger Tommy you must follow three basic rules or lose the protection of the power. First, never use your power for personal gain; second, never escalate a battle unless Rita forces you; and finally, keep your identity secret. No one may know you are a power ranger."
"You can count on me Zordon, 100%," Tommy agreed.
"Here, we made you a communicator," Billy told him, handing him the watch thing.
"Thanks man," Tommy replied.
"You're one of us now man," Jason told him, "Welcome aboard."
"What about Nikki," Kim asked suddenly.
"What about Nikki?" I questioned her back.
"Well, shouldn't she be inducted into the Power Rangers too," Trini stating, apparently she had the same thought as Kim.
"Where Nicole comes from, I have already inducted her," Zordon told the group. I looked to Billy and he smiled back nodding approval. Of what I wasn't sure, "She already knows what it takes and has trained for this for many years."
"What does that mean?" Zack asked curiously.
"Let's talk to Tommy more," I stammer out, trying to get the conversation away from me.
"A new chapter has begun rangers," Zordon stated, saving my ass, "Let the power protect you."
I arrived home pretty late that night and snuck quietly back to my room, to find Skull sitting on my bed. For a second I forgot where I was; he was in his pajamas, in the dark, with a scowl on his face. He stood up as I came in. "Where have you been?" he asked in a super deep and angry voice.
I heard myself stutter, like I had when I'd come home late from a Ranger battle before Dad knew what was going on, "I…I was…"
"I was worried that giant monster got you," he shouted, running up and giving me a big hug, "Bulky and I couldn't find you anywhere. We were really worried."
"You were?"
"Yeah, you're like family, I'd be really upset if something happened to you," he told me.
"I am family," I smirked.
"You know what I mean," he stated, squeezing me really tightly before letting me go and heading for the door.
"Where are you going?" I asked curiously.
"Its 3:45 in the morning on a school night and your safe," he responded, "I'm going to bed."