Ethan and I sat on the bank of the small pond at the park hidden by the branches of a willow It was getting late but I had no intention of going home. I didn't want to. I wasn't ready to face my father and Kimberly.
Earlier I had woken up and wandered downstairs to get something to eat. Tasha and Nathan had still been passed out, Jason having headed to the airport to head home to Seattle. On the way to the kitchen I had heard raised voices outside the door and had walked over to investigate.
It had turned out to be Kimberly and Dad and I had arrived just in time to hear that they had slept together and that Ethan was my half brother. After I had recovered from my shock I had confronted my Dad before running off.
I had ran straight to Ethan's house, bee lining to the backyard. After climbing the tree I knocked on his window. He had let me in and I had spilled the whole story to him.
At first he hadn't believed me but after I pointed out the now all to obvious similarities to him and my father he had finally agreed. He was fuming and needed to get out of the house. We had headed out and on a whim had decided to teleport to the park.
"So you think that they would've ever told us?" Ethan asked after a few moments.
"Well your mom would've never told my dad and then we'd have never known." I sighed picking up a rock and throwing it as far as I could. It landed in the water with a small 'plonk'.
"Our Dad." Ethan replied.
"Right. Ours." I replied.
"Does it bug you?" Ethan asked.
"Does what bug me?" I replied.
"That you're Dad isn't technically yours alone anymore?" he asked.
"Not so much that. I mean I always wanted a sibling but my mom couldn't have kids. She shouldn't even have been able to have me but she did. Now I have a brother." I replied.
Ethan smirked, "I always wanted a brother or sister too. I was thinking more along the lines of a brother but I guess you'll do."
I reached over and punched him in the arm.
"Ow!" he replied.
"Big baby." I replied rolling my eyes.
"I just don't get why my Mom kept this from me! I mean…I know WHY…your Dad was engaged to your Mom but….I just…I don't know." Ethan sighed.
"I know. No offence but I can't believe that my Dad would cheat on my Mom. Before she died they were so in love. They were always touching and kissing and smiling. If he was so happy with my Mom then why did he cheat on her?" I replied.
"I don't know Izzy. I wish I could tell you." Ethan sighed laying back on the grass.
I joined him and stared up through the branches at the darkening sky.
"So…we could stay here all night or we could go home." I replied.
"I'm truthfully not a fan of either option so what do we do?" Ethan asked.
"There's the Command Center." I replied.
"You think we could crash there?" Ethan asked.
"We did before." I sighed.
"I guess we could try." Ethan replied.
We nodded and teleported to the Command Center. However the moment that we touched down we came face to face with the two people we didn't want to see.
"Izzy! Ethan!" Dad said when he saw us.
"We're out of here." I said and we moved to touch our communicators but Dad grabbed both Ethan and I's hands.
"No. We're talking about this now." Dad replied.
"And if we don't want to?" Ethan replied.
"You have to. We're your parents." Kimberly said firmly.
"Correction. You're my Mom…he's not any parent of mine." Ethan spat.
"That wasn't my choice Ethan." Dad replied.
"Exactly. Don't take this out on Tommy, Ethan. This is my mistake not his." Kimberly replied.
"Yeah well I'm entitled to be pissed off at both of you so why don't you just leave me alone?" I snapped.
"Izzy. You should hear what your father has to say."
Dad opened his mouth but a moment later there was a loud screeching siren. Ethan and I jumped and looked around.
"What on earth is that?!" Ethan asked.
"Ay-Yi-Yi! That's the alarm! That means that there's a monster in Angel Grove!" Alpha said and started running around and pressing buttons.
"Zard has sent down a monster called the Willowwhip. He lashes out his branches with great force, slashing whatever gets in their way." Zordon said.
"The tree were sitting under!" I said pointing to the monster which was a jumble of Willow branches with arms and legs which was by the lake.
"Zed had a bad habit of doing things like that. It looks like his nephew has the same problem." Dad said from behind me.
"Ethan, Izzy you head to the park and I will send the other Rangers behind you." Zordon said.
"Right." Ethan nodded.
We quickly morphed and got ready to teleport out.
"This isn't over with." Kimberly said to the two of us.
Neither of us responded, instead we teleported out.
"Well isn't it the Power Rangers!" Willowwhip cackled as we ran toward it.
"You bet buddy and we're your worst nightmare." Ethan replied.
"Bring it on little Rangers." he cackled again.
Ethan and I charged at him we threw out kicks and punches however each time he brought up one of his branches and would snap at our attacks. Eventually he got tired and with a particularly hard crack he sent both of us flying back.
"Hey! Didn't anyone ever tell you not to hit a girl?"
I looked up to see Ryan, Nathan, Jakob and Tasha running towards us, fully morphed. They all ran at Willowwhip but a moment later were thrown back just as Ethan and I had.
"There's no way that creep is going to let us near enough to do any damage." Tasha said nursing her arm where she'd been whipped by one of the branches.
"Rangers! To get close to Willowwhip use your Power Weapons!" Zordon's voice echoed inside my helmet.
"Power Weapons?" Ethan asked.
"Yes. Behold." Zordon replied.
A moment later there was a flash of light and each of us held weapons.
"When combined they will form the Power Cannon."
In my hand was a white and pink bow, Ethan held a red hilted sword, Jakob was wielding what looked like a black axe, Tasha held two yellow handled daggers and in Ryan's hand was a blue Lance. Only Nathan went empty handed.
"What about me Zordon?" Nathan asked looking up.
"Nathan meet Saba. He will be your companion in battle." Zordon's voice echoed again as a white light sizzled around Nathan's hands.
A few moments later a sword sat in his hands.
"Wonderful to meet you Nathan." the sword, Saba, said.
"Nice to meet you too." Ethan replied obviously as little taken aback by the fact that a sword was talking to him.
"Alright Rangers lets take this thing down!" Ethan said.
"Right!" we all echoed.
Jakob and Ryan charged at it and lashed at it with their Power Axe and Power Lance. Ethan and I were next. I shot an arrow at Willowwhip while Ethan sliced at it with his sword. The moment we stepped back Tasha stabbed it with her daggers while Nathan sliced through it much like Ethan had.
However when we stepped back. He was still standing even if it was barely.
"We're going to have to step this up." Ethan replied.
"Power Cannon?" Ryan asked.
"You bet." Ethan replied.
Jakob nodded, "Power Axe!" and tossed it up where it stood suspended.
"Power Bow!" I replied throwing it in the direction of the Axe.
It seamlessly melded onto the Axe making some sort of crossbow.
"Power Daggers!" Tasha yelled and threw the weapons toward the Axe and Bow.
"Power Lance!" Ryan yelled and pulled the Lance apart and tossed it in the same direction as Tasha had tossed hers.
"And Power Sword!" Ethan yelled and grabbed the weapon our Power Weapons had come to make and put his Power Sword on the top, balanced like an arrow on the bow.
Beside us Nathan brought up Saba.
"Saba energy blast!" he called the same time as the five of us called, "Fire!"
Beams of light shot from both of our weapons and hit him directly. We saw him fall and a moment later there was a boom as he exploded into nothingness.
"We did it!" I yelled as the dust cleared and turned, throwing my arms around the first person who I reached, which turned out to be Nathan.
He hugged me back and swung me around. Once he put me down I grabbed hold of Tasha and hugged her too.
"I can't believe it! We're like real Power Rangers!" she giggled.
We made sure that there was no one around before we powered down.
"I know! It feels great!" Ryan gushed.
"Looks like we have to go back to the Command Center now." Ethan sighed looking at me.
"We don't HAVE to do we?" I replied.
"They'll track us down either way Iz." Ethan sighed.
"Wait…why do I feel like we've missed something?" Jakob asked.
"Yeah…why don't you want to go back the Command Center?" Nathan asked.
I sighed and looked at Ethan before looking back at the others, "It's a loooong story."
"We have time. We just defeated Zard's monster. So talk." Ryan replied.
"Lets go sit down." Ethan said nodding towards a park shelter with picnic tables.
We sat down and between Ethan and I we managed to tell them the whole story. When we finished all four were staring back at us wide eyed.
"So you're related?" Jakob asked.
"Apparently. We're half-brother and half-sister." Ethan nodded.
"That explains a lot." Ryan said and the others nodded.
"Explains a lot of what?" I asked.
"Well you two sort of look alike." Tasha said.
"We do?" I asked looking at Ethan who looked at me.
I searched his face. We both had dark eyes and the same dark brown hair color. His smile was Kimberly's as was his eye shape and nose but our face shape was the same, as were our lips.
"And you have a similar personality." Nathan replied.
"Yeah you two do act alike sometimes." Jakob nodded.
"Not to mention he looks a hell of a lot like Tommy." Ryan said.
"If you guys saw all of this why didn't you say anything?" Ethan asked.
"Well…it wasn't relevant. How were we supposed to know that her Dad and your Mom made it and that you popped out if the rest if not even you guys knew." Ryan replied.
"We should've known." I sighed.
"Yeah well you guys didn't. I mean is it really fair to take it out on your parents?" Tasha asked.
"You don't understand." Ethan replied.
"Then explain it!" Tasha replied tossing her hands up.
"Well how about the fact that my Dad cheated on my Mom? How am I not supposed to be pissed at him for that?" I asked.
"By understanding he made a mistake?" Jakob suggested.
"Okay how about the fact that my Mom kept something like this from me for so long?" Ethan asked.
"Well look at it from her side. She thought she was doing what was best for you and for Tommy. I mean look at my parents. They're divorced. Dad has custody of me and I fly back and forth from El Paso…or now here I guess…to Ohio for week in the summer and most of Christmas vacation to see my Mom and joker she married before the ink was dry on the divorce papers. Going back and forth between homes isn't fun dude." Ryan replied.
I looked at Ethan who looked back at me.
"What do you think?" I asked.
"I think we should go talk things out with our parents." Ethan replied.
"Right." I nodded.
"Jeeze…who would've thought it would be a bunch of teenage punks to talk sense into us." Ethan laughed.
"Hey. We're not punks! We're Power Rangers!" Jakob replied looking appalled.
"And we're allowed to do all this mushy stuff. It's our line of work." Tasha grinned.
"Yeah. Thanks." I smirked and turned to Ethan.
"Are you ready?" I asked.
"As I'll ever be." Ethan replied and we teleported back to the Command Center.
I stretched out on the sand on the shore of the lake about twenty or so minutes outside of Angel Grove. My Great Uncle had a cabin out there and my Dad had thought it'd be a good idea for us to spend a few days there. He said that we deserved a few days of freedom before Zard put his next plan to take over the earth into motion.
Ethan, Jakob and Ryan were playing around on the jet skis and Tasha was stretched out beside me.
