Chapter 10

All of us ended up on the ground of the Command Center.

"Rangers! Thank goodness all of you are okay." Alpha said. Yeah, no thanks to you. I thought to myself as I helped Rocky lean against the viewing globe, Ninjor said that he would go back to the temple and rest there, and he left. I dropped to my knees suddenly exhausted and glared up at Zordon. I quickly looked away when he caught my eye. I turned my attention back to my friends, Tommy was sitting on the floor with Kimberly's head in his lap. Adam was also sitting on the floor with his head leaned back. Billy, amazingly, was up, he pulled me up to my feet and was busy scanning me looking excited. I raised an eyebrow.

"Uh, Billy what are you doing?" My eyes followed the scanner as it moved up and down the length of my body. He looked at me as though it were obvious.

"I'm scanning your energy levels."

"Energy levels?" Billy fought hard not to roll his eyes.

"Yes Amy, your energy levels, from your body and from your powers."

"Oh." I said. But I couldn't help but think the guy just got back from a fight and from having nearly all of his powers drained from him and yet here he is acting like he hadn't just gotten his energy drained from him. I looked at the rest of my friends, they only smiled and shrugged their shoulders. There was a beep from the scanner, I looked at it. Billy's eyes lit up.

"Well according to the scanner, it seems that you only used about half of your power while at the same time you only used most of your physical energy." No wonder I can barely stand up. I thought as I clutched the edge of the control panel. My knees buckled. Billy saw this, circled his arm around my waist and sat me down on the floor again.

"Sorry about that." I merely nodded.

"With a good long rest you should have all of your power and energy back."

Tommy looked at me.

"Where did that power come from Amy? That was amazing! Did you see the look on Goldar's face?" I laughed remembering, but I also remembered the look of pure hatred and loathing on his face. I bet its going to tougher from here on end. The others started to ask me the same questions wishing that they had known that I could do something like that. I started to tell them that even I didn't know I could do something like that.

"I just felt so angry that Lord Zedd would win and the things that he said to me. I started to believe him and then I just became angry at myself that I was believing him, even though I knew that they were lies. I guess all of those emotions were let loose in the form of that...that ball of energy that I unleashed."

"Why don't you show us again?" Billy started to ask.

"Later Billy." Zordon said. "Right now all of you should go home and get some rest, we could continue all of this later." All of us nodded, then we teleported to our beds and went to sleep.

Later that day, after we had gotten something to eat and had reported back to the Command Center, Billy had us all walk to the outside of the Command Center. I have never been on the outside before and was a little surprised to see that only a few scrubby bushes and shrubs were present, it looked a bit like a desert. Looking to the East I was more surprised to see that I could barely make out Angel Grove. Talk about a secret location. I turned my attention back to Billy who was busy studying some rocks that were 20 feet from us, all of them were of pretty average size, as far as rocks go. There were several boulders next to the rocks. Billy explained hat he had asked Alpha to teleport them to this location because he wanted to see how strong my energy blasts were. I looked at Billy's face, he had a tired look but he looked excited. I couldn't help but wonder if he and Zordon had gotten into a argument about Billy not getting the rest that he needed. As if reading my thoughts all Billy said was.

"I couldn't sleep, not after discovering that you can do something like this Amy." he had a sheepish grin on his face. He instructed the rest of the team to stand a few feet back while I stood where I was. Already knowing what he was going to say, I spread out my feet, then I brought my heels of my palms together. I wasn't entirely sure if I could re-create the blast again and told Billy so.

"Just try Amy." I breathed a sigh, suddenly feeling nervous, if I wasn't able to produce another energy blast the others would feel very disappointed in me and I would be embarrassed. I shook my head. Stop doubting yourself. I took a deep breath and concentrated, I summoned energy from deep inside me and I felt something stir within me, it was my power, it was adding more power to the energy that was already forming in my hands. I heard the others intake deep breaths and mutter among themselves. The power, the one that I held in my hands right now felt different, it felt warm, plus it was light as air, and yet in the back of my mind I could feel the weight of it, it was heavy with power. Yesterday, it had felt hot with all of my anger. And if I released it, it had enough power to destroy anything. Including a staff. I thought beginning to feel excited. I suddenly envisioned myself blasting Zedd's staff into two pieces and getting the power that he had stolen from me back. I was pulled out of my daydream when Billy said.

"Okay Amy, now I'm just going to see how much power this has." He was beside me with the scanner, after he scanned it, he took a breath.

"It has 40 of your physical energy and 25 of the energy from your powers, try to even it out Amy. " I nodded then concentrated, picturing in my mind the energy from my body and the energy from my locket to be two separate colors. Picturing my physical energy, which was blue, to shrink a bit and my energy from my power to remain the same size, little by little I managed to even my physical energy so that the amount was the same as the energy from my power.

"Good, that's it Amy, you've got it." He took a step back then instructed me to aim for the rock on the left.

"Take your time in aiming, then fire." I nodded, took aim and fired. The energy blast flew toward the rock and made contact! The rock exploded on impact, and was reduced to sand. I stared in amazement. Turning to my friends I saw that they had bewildered looks on their faces.

"Whoa."

"Awesome."

"Cool."

"Wow."

"Try it again." I glanced at Billy, who looked at me with an encouraging smile. Taking a deep breath, I concentrated all the while remembering to even out the two energies, after I destroyed a few more rocks, it was becoming a bit more easier. Billy had us all take a break. Zordon had some drinks brought to us by Alpha, courtesy of Billy, who had brought a cooler up to the Command Center filled drinks and sandwiches. As we were eating, we talked about my new power and we began to wonder if it was more powerful than Lord Zedd's power. I highly doubt that. I thought to myself. Lord Zedd has had his powers even before I was born, I' ve had these powers for 2 years and I'm still learning about them. But it was nice to think that I and my power were a lot more stronger then Zedd's. Then a shudder ran through me. He saw that for himself yesterday, which will mean that he'll try more harder to kill me and take my power. I shook myself out of my gloomy thoughts when Billy said that it's time we all got back to training, after going outside and destroying the boulders and getting the hang of the energy blast, and laughing at Rocky as he threw rocks up in the air and shouting

"Pull!" and me blasting them out of the sky, after that we called it a day. I was surprised that there have been no attacks from Lord Zedd today.

"We get a day off and we don't even know it." said Adam laughing.

"You must have scared Lord Zedd pretty bad short stuff with your energy blast yesterday." said Rocky. I like to think that, in fact I would like to think that I scared Lord Zedd so much that he had left this planet, and I can resume my life as a regular teenager. But I know that's not true.

But someday I will show Lord Zedd that he can't shove me around anymore, then he will really fear me.

A few days later, after thinking it over and talking it over with Zordon and Alpha, I decided to share this new power with my friends.

"What? You're going to–? Why? This power is yours Amy." said Tommy.

"I want to Tommybesides...I know this sounds weird but ...it feels strange that I'm the only one with this awesome power I just want it to share it with you guys, think of it as a thank you gift for everything that you guys have done for me."

"Wow, thanks Amy."Kimberly said.

"Now I already talked to Zordon and he has done some research on my power, and he told me that its transferable, but the only way for you guys to hold it is if it's held in something that has the same amount of power." The guys looked at each other thinking.

"The power coins!"

"What power are you going to give us?" asked Billy.

"Well, I was thinking of the energy blast, that way you guys will be equal to Lord Zedd, Goldar, and Rito." I extended out my handand after concentrating a yellow ball appeared in the middle of my palm, the others, who had their power coins outready and waiting, watched as the yellow ball rose several inches into the air; and broke up into 5 other balls. They went to each ranger, and hovered over the power coins for a while then the yellow balls changed colors, pink, red, white, blue and black. They slid into the power coins and they glowed momentarily then faded.

"Cool!" Rocky said an excited grin on his face. After going outside and letting the others get the hang of their new powers Adam thought that maybe our new power needed a name. We all thought up different names but none of them seemed right, we asked Alpha and Zordon but they couldn't think of any names either. For the rest of the day, and in between battles, we tried to think of names. Until finally we came up with one "The Power Ranger Power Blast", we were thrilled with the name and all of us looked forward to using this new power against Lord Zedd and his army.