Chapter 11
The next day, the rangers had assembled in Tommy's basement to figure out what the contents of the boxes were. They were waiting on Jason to arrive before
they did anything. A few minutes later, Jason walked down into the basement. He looked around and saw Tommy, Hayley, and Kim at the computers, Kira, Conner,
Ethan and Anna in the corner and John was off by the side wall. Tommy heard him come down and turned around.
"Jason, you're here." Tommy said.
"Yeah, sorry guys. I got a little hung up."
"It's okay. Let's find out what's in these boxes." Everyone had gathered around the table to see.
"Jason, you found the first box right?"
"Yeah."
"Open it. We're going in order and the person who found it, opens it. I didn't send you guys out there for nothing." Tommy said in his leader tone.
Jason walked up to the box that had the original team's logo on it. With unsteady hands, he reached up and opened the box. Inside lay the rest of the original power coins. The pterodactyl, the mastadon, and the sabre toothed tiger.
"What the hell?" Jason asked.
"Why were these buried in Angel Grove?" Conner asked.
"That's where the team was from." Kim answered.
"How is this possible?" John asked.
"I don't know. I have my old dragon coin, Jase has his tyrannosaurus and Billy's triceratops is in the morpher on the table. It doesn't make sense." Tommy said.
"Who was next?" Kim asked.
"Me." Kira answered.
Kira walked up to the box with the Dino Thunder logo on it, she carefully opened the box and inside lay the white dino gem.
"The white dino gem? How is this possible? It was on Trent's wrist when we destroyed him and Mesogog three years ago."
"Tommy, does that make any sense? How could the white dino gem be buried in Angel Grove and more importantly, how could it be buried period? We were all there,
Trent never made it out of the fortress and the gem was still on his wrist." Jason stated.
"It doesn't make any sense. I have no idea how this could be here." Tommy replied.
"Who's next?" Jason asked.
"I am." Conner replied.
Conner walked up to his small box that had the lightning bolt that was on Alpha 5's chest and opened the box. It was not as big as the boxes Jason and Kira found. As he opened up the box, he saw that it contained a small disk. He pulled it out and handed the disk to Tommy. Tommy took the disk and placed it in his computer. At first it seemed like whatever was on that disk made Tommy's entire system shut down as his screen went black. Soon, a deep voice boomed throughout the basement.
"RANGERS! OR WHOEVER HAS RETREIVED THIS DISC, PLEASE ENTER YOUR NAMES INTO THE COMPUTER SO I MAY KNOW WHO IT IS THAT IS RECEIVING THIS TRANSMISSION."
"Oh my god, that's Zordon." Kim said in shock.
Tommy decided to follow the orders given.
"Tommy Oliver, Green and White Morphin ranger, red zeo and turbo ranger, black dino thunder ranger."
"Jason Scott, red morphin and Gold zeo ranger."
"Kim Hart, pink morphin ranger."
"John Zedden, former Lord Zedd"
"Conner McKnight, red dino thunder ranger."
"Kira Ford, yellow dino thunder ranger."
"Ethan James, blue dino thunder ranger."
Soon the computer screen went dark once again.
"HELLO RANGERS. I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT BE THE ONES TO FIND THIS CD. YES, IT IS ME ZORDON. UNFORTUNATELY I AM NOT ALIVE. I MADE THIS CD SEVERAL YEARS AGO JUST BEFORE
I LEFT FOR ELTAR. THIS IS A RECORDING OF WHAT YOU MUST BE PREPARED FOR IN THE NEAR FUTURE. I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE DEFEATED MESOGOG AND HIS MINIONS, HOWEVER
DO NOT BE FOOLED INTO THINKING THAT YOU ARE OUT OF THE WOODS YET. IT IS WRITTEN IN ANCIENT PROPHECIES THAT DEFEATING MESOGOG IS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF YOUR
JOURNEY. UNFORTUNATELY, THE FINAL BATTLE YOU ENDURED WITH MESOGOG IS NOT THE END. YOU CAN EXPECT AN EVEN BIGGER THREAT TO COME SOON. THE PROPHECIES SAY THAT
IT WILL COME FROM THE INSIDE. A CURRENT OR FORMER RANGER WILL SABOTAGE YOU. BE ON THE LOOKOUT, BE ON YOUR GUARD. THE PROPHECY DOES NOT SAY WHEN THEY WILL STRIKE,
ONLY THAT THEY WILL. MORE INFORMATION WILL BECOME AVAILABLE IN THE COMING WEEKS, HOWEVER I HAVE TOLD YOU ALL THAT I CAN. GOOD LUCK RANGERS, MY FRIENDS, AND
MAY THE POWER PROTECT YOU." With that, Zordon's voice departed from the computer and the systems came back online.
"That was weird." Conner said.
"It may be weird, but he's right. Zordon has never steered us wrong. We need to be on the lookout." Tommy said.
"Hey Tom?" Jason said hesitantly.
"Yeah?"
"I think they already hit."
"What do you mean?"
"What was the first thing we found several months ago?"
Realization hit Tommy like a ton of bricks, it was starting to make sense now. The communicator, the morpher, the phone call, it had to be Billy.
"You think it's Billy?"
"I do. We don't what they did to him on Aquitar. He could have been turned and we would never know."
"I agree with what you're saying but I do think we need to have the facts before we jump to conclusions. I think, first we need to open the rest of these boxes."
"Let's get to it."
Ethan walked up to his box with the dragon logo on it. He slowly opened the box just like everyone else had done and was surprised to find the Dragon Dagger in the box. Tommy was intstantly by his side.
"What the hell is this doing here? This was buried many years ago."
"That thing couldn't possibly still work could it?" Kim asked.
"No way. It's impossible." Kira said.
"Nothing's impossible." Tommy replied.
Anna walked up to her box with the Z on it. She opened it up and there was another CD in it. Once again Tommy placed the CD in the computer and images came up on the screen. It showed shots from the final battle with Mesogog on it. Suddenly the screen went black.
"Tommy what did you do?" Hayley asked.
"Nothing, I swear."
Suddenly, the screen came back on, only now there was a man staring back at them.
"Oh my god. That's Mike." Kim gasped.
Mike just stared back at them on the screen with an evil smirk on his face. Suddenly another face joined him, it was Brandon's.
"Look what you did to my family. Now you will feel the same way." Brandon said as the screen faded.
"This is really creeping me out." Anna said with a worried tone in her voice.
John got up and opened his box. He found miniature versions of the zeo crystals and the turbo keys inside.
"Uh, Tommy." John said to get Tommy's attention from the computer.
"Yeah."
"I think you might want to see this."
Tommy walked over and saw what was in the last box.
"The zeo crystals and turbo keys." Tommy whispered.
Suddenly, they could hear someone clapping behind them. They turned around and came face to face with three people they never expected.
"Seems to me like you have all the information you need." Mike said.
"You stole my family from me and now I must get my revenge." Brandon said.
"Soon enough, you will Brandon. It seems to me like you have completed the quest. You found everything that was left for you. I hope you enjoyed your little scavenger hunt, rangers. Soon, you will know what it feels like to be destroyed by one of your own. By me." Billy said. "Come gentlemen, we have a lot to plan for our little friends."
With that, the three men turned to leave the basement when Billy turned around.
"I beleive these belong to me." He said as he picked up his communicator and morpher.
After collecting his things, he left with the rest, leaving Tommy and the rangers in shock.
TBC.