Author's Note: The anniversary of my Harry Potter story has passed which means I can get back to updating this story. I hope you all enjoy the next couple of updates. We're getting closer to the one that I really want to start writing.
Disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended in the making of this series. I simply own my OCs and anything that is unrecognizable from the show. Power Rangers belongs to Saban... although Dino Thunder was created by Disney. Enjoy.
Shout Outs: Big thank you too sardellihalas for adding this story to their alerts. Appreciate it mate.
Warning: Rated T for safety.
Title: Prehistoric Storm
Summary: A tug of war begins between the humans and a mutant dinosaur named Mesogog for the control for Earth. It is now up to Power Ranger legend Tommy Oliver to stop him. With the help of three high school students and a reluctant Ninja student he just might be able to succeed.
"You guys heard from Trent yet?" Connor asked as he and Aliyah caught up with Ethan and Kira on the stairs leading to the science room.
"No," Aliyah said.
"I'm guessing it is a good thing you haven't heard from him," Ethan pointed out.
"You're probably right," Aliyah nodded. "Because when I get my hands on him he's gonna be dino toast!"
"Wow, you really do have anger issues!"
"No, I don't have anger issues," Aliyah said, grumpily. "I have issues with people who piss me off!"
"You need to learn to manage your anger,"
"I wouldn't have to manage my anger if people would manage their stupidity!" Aliyah snapped. "Now, can we change the subject because i'm starting to lose my cool!"
"Well, we were talking about Trent," said Connor, "but he seems to set you off as much as your anger issues do, so unless you have a change of conversation -?"
Aliyah rolled her eyes.
"We just need to make sure he doesn't go off on some poor freshman because the kid won't give him his lunch money," said Ethan.
"I think he's after a little more than a free grilled cheese," said Connor, glancing in the Blue ranger's direction.
"And until we know what that is maybe we can deal," Kira nodded, "until then we keep an eye on him!"
Ethan nodded and opened the door to the science lab. Aliyah, however, stopped before she could enter and reached for the key to her locker that was hidden in the secret pocket on the front of her backpack.
"What's up?" Connor asked, noticing her stop.
"I've left my homework in my locker," she said, motioning to the lockers beside the room. "I'll catch up, save me a seat!"
"Alright," the red ranger nodded, taking her back pack and entering the room, leaving Aliyah to approach the locker numbered '339' and put the key into the lock. However, before she could open the door, it shimmered and Trent appeared in front of her.
"Boo!" he sneered.
Aliyah jumped back in surprise and alarm, before regaining her composure and glaring at the White ranger. "You..." she hissed dangerously. "What were you doing? Spying?"
"What's the use of powers if you're not going to use them, Ali -?"
"Don't call me that," Aliyah snapped. "Only my friends can call me Ali, you are not a friend; you don't even get to call me 'Aliyah'."
"Then what do I call you?" Trent grinned.
"Who said you had permission to talk to me?" Aliyah growled. "Now move, unlike some of us, I'm sick and tired of being expelled and actually would like to get to class!"
Trent smirked and stepped aside allowing her to gain access to her locker and the things that were beyond the door.
"Aw, sweet," he said, hovering over her shoulder and spotting the pictures that lined the inside of her locker door, several of them were of her and Tori at the beach, there was also some of her, Dustin and Shane goofing around as kids, but the main two were her, Rebecca and Tyler, while the second was of her and Cam.
Aliyah tensed and slammed the door to her locker shut after retrieving her note pad and homework. "Back off, Fernandez," she sniped, pushing him back a few steps. "I have personal space issues!"
"You have a lot of issues, don't you?"
"I could say the same about you!" she quipped, side-stepping him and walking back to the door of the science lab.
Trent's hand shot out and grabbed her wrist, pulling her back towards him; clearly he wasn't finished with her. However, before he could tug her fully back towards him, Aliyah dropped her items, spun around, raised her fist and smashed it into his face.
Blood spurted from his nose and the White ranger dropped her wrist.
"You bitch!"
"You may not have appreciated it," said Aliyah, "but I sure as hell enjoyed it!"
Aliyah then picked up her things, turned the handle on the science room door and disappeared inside, leaving Trent to mop up the blood before being called to Randall's office, where Aliyah knew that it was only a matter of time before she was called in for hitting another student... unfortunately, this time, she didn't think she would get off half as lucky as she did before.
~*Prehistoric Storm*~
"Hey, did you guys hear that we are supposed to be getting a new teacher today?" Ethan asked, as Aliyah slid into the empty seat beside Connor, opened her notebook and started to rearrange her homework. The blue ranger, however, was playing a game with Connor and Devin, throwing paper balls into Devin's backpack.
So far Connor was winning.
"Any guesses?" the boy in question asked, lining up another shot.
"Well, I heard from a very reliable source," said Cassidy appearing beside Aliyah, "that it's this eighty year old woman that used to teach kindergarten in Ohio."
Aliyah quirked a curious eyebrow and looked up at the Marah-duplicate, just as the door opened and Randall walked in, all conversations dropped and everyone scrambled to find empty seats.
"Good morning, class," Randall greeted. "I would like you to meet your new substitute teacher, Dr. Anton Mercer!"
Aliyah, Connor, Kira and Ethan exchanged looks.
"Morning class," Mercer said, stepping into the room and standing behind Randall. His gaze settled on Aliyah and she knew, straight away, that he had seen Trent and that she was in trouble.
"Hey, she looks pretty good for eighty," Kira said, glancing over her shoulder at Cassidy. Devin snorted with laughter, an action that earned him a dark look and a slap from the blonde behind him.
"Ow, what? I thought it was funny!" he defended.
"Dr. Mercer has graciously agreed to take over," Randall continued, "until your teacher gets back on his feet. I would like you to treat him with you would treat Dr. Oliver..."
"Thank you," Mercer nodded as Randall turned towards him.
She nodded and headed for the door, only to pause and turn back. "One more thing, Aliyah Logan, I would like to see you in my office!"
"Now, ma'am?" Aliyah asked.
"As soon as school is over!" Randall answered, before leaving them in Mercer's hands.
~*Prehistoric Storm*~
"Anger is like fire, Aliyah," said Randall as she sat behind her desk facing the Platinum ranger, who had just, finished her school hours and was waiting patiently for her punishment to be delivered so she could get the hell out of the school. "Once lit it destroys everything in its path! It is impossible to control and once it catches hold it is hard to stop. To stop a flame you must remove the thing it needs the most..."
Aliyah blinked.
"And that would be?" she asked.
"Fuel," Randall answered. "Without fuel the fire cannot spread. Am I to believe that you know of the reason I have called you here?"
"I have a pretty good idea," Aliyah nodded. "But it is like I told you at the beginning of the year, Principal Randall; I'm not going to stop doing what it is I do within this school! If people are going to get picked on then I am going to do everything within my power to stand up to the bullies!"
Randall nodded, remembering exactly what she had said. "But Trent Fernandez is no ordinary student -"
"I don't care if he is the son of a substitute teacher," said Aliyah, "or even if his father is on the board! Trent Fernandez is a bully! He picks on those smaller and weaker than he; he causes terror and does everything against the rules! Well, if he can do it, then why the hell can't someone else? Why should I be punished for something he started?"
"This is what I mean by hurting people, Aliyah," said Randall, folding her hands together. "The two most common things that anger and fire having in common is that they both leave scars. You may not always see them but they are there."
Aliyah sighed in boredom. "Not that I don't appreciate this pep talk, Principal Randall, but I have a life outside of school! I have places to be and people to meet! So can we just skip to my punishment? What do I have weeks' worth of detention? Suspension?"
"For your attitude and actions I should be giving you an expulsion!" Randall snapped.
"Wouldn't be the first time," Aliyah muttered, she really didn't understand why she was being so bitchy or cold... but she figured it must have been that time of the month and today was just the day that she would act like this for no reason at all. Sucks to be you she thought, savagely.
"You have three weeks suspension!" Randall snapped. "Now, get out of my sight!"
Aliyah sighed, heaved her backpack onto her shoulders and quickly left to find her friends.
Suspension? Great! Rebecca is going to kill me!
~*Prehistoric Storm*~
As expected, Rebecca Logan was anything but happy when she had learned that her sister had been suspended, if anything, none of the old Ninja Rangers were happy with the latest predicament, however, Shane was bouncing as he had finally won back the $10 that Aliyah had one off him a year ago.
"Pay up, dude," he said wrapping an arm around her shoulder as she finished relaying everything that had happened, from the moment she hit Trent to the suspension she had received from Randall. "You were convinced you'd last longer than last year... If I remember correctly when you were enlisted at Blue Bay Harbour it took you less than five months to get expelled!"
Aliyah glared. "One month short!" she said, handing over the money.
"Yes, but you fail to remember that you can't keep your mouth shut for more than five seconds," Rebecca jumped in. "We had a deal, Ali, you'd go to Reefside with the intention of graduating without getting expelled otherwise you'd return to the Lightning Academy! So, I hope you're packed, Tyler's been dying to know when you're coming home!"
"Technically, I was suspended," Aliyah corrected her sister. "For a week! I can go back next Monday. Which means I don't have to go anywhere with you... just tell Tyler that he is welcome to visit me in Reefside!"
"Why did you punch him in the first place?" Tori asked, they were sitting on the beach in Blue Bay Harbour, well, all the previous Ninja rangers, save for Blake and Hunter, both of whom were too busy with their new respective lives to ditch and come hang out. It had taken a lot of persuasion from Aliyah to just get Cam to agree.
"Because he's a jerk," Aliyah said, immediately and without fail. "Plus he has an even worse sense of personal space than Hunter does... there is also the fact that he, just like everyone else, should know that I don't appreciate being man-handled, he shouldn't have grabbed me and prevented me from walking away. It was his hand on my wrist that caused me to punch him!"
"And what did you say to him?" Dustin asked, he was still grinning from the first time she had relayed her message, it was such a classic Aliyah move.
"'You may not have appreciated it, but I sure as hell enjoyed it!'" Aliyah repeated, grinning at the Earth sensei.
Dustin chuckled. "Classic Ali," he nodded. "You never change!"
"I wouldn't dream of it!" Aliyah grinned, glad that someone wasn't mad at her course of action.
Rebecca rolled her eyes.
She still couldn't believe that after four whole months of being in school, Aliyah had gone and received the one thing that she was famous for getting: A suspension.
~*Prehistoric Storm*~
The next afternoon, Aliyah sat in the Cybercafé awaiting the arrival of her friends. Since she had been suspended she didn't have to attend the stupid field trip to the museum with Mercer, which was a relief, because she really hated Museums.
"Where are they?" the Platinum ranger sighed looking up from her computer screen and towards the door, half expecting it to burst open and her three friends to rush in, when they didn't she reached for her cellphone and text Connor asking him where he was.
The reply was instantaneous and explained that he and Ethan were quarter of an hour away, but Kira should have been there already.
Aliyah frowned. Why would Kira be there before the guys? Looking up, the Platinum ranger spotted her Yellow friend enter the cafe, scan the surrounding area and then make her way towards the bar. "Hey, Kira," Aliyah shouted, waving her friend over, but Kira simply ignored her. "Huh... what's up with her?" she wondered loudly.
Exactly quarter of an hour later, Connor and Ethan arrived and made a bee line for Aliyah, Ethan explaining everything about the museum while Aliyah handed over any homework that Aliyah had missed in the rest of their lessons.
That was one thing she had agreed on yesterday, while she was out of school Connor would collect any homework and notes that she was going to miss and she would do the assignments during her days off.
"What's up with Kira?" Aliyah asked, spying the Yellow ranger talking with Hayley at the bar, the red head didn't seem to be getting anywhere and in the end turned and walked away.
"We don't know," said Connor, with a shake of his head. "She was fine this morning, then she disappeared down at the museum and when we found her she started acting all strange and out of character."
"You don't think she's been effected by another meteorite, do you?" Ethan asked, earning looks from his friends. "What?"
Aliyah shook her head. "If another meteorite had crashed into earth, I think Hayley or Dr. O would have told us," she said, patting Ethan's shoulder. "Maybe we've done something..."
"Maybe she's upset that you punched Trent," said Connor, earning a glare from Aliyah in the process. He held his hands up in defence. "Dude, it was just a suggestion!"
"What I do to Trent is nothing to do with Kira," Aliyah hissed. "If I want to hit him then she shouldn't give us the cold shoulder, she should just come out and say whatever it is that is bothering her! So she likes Trent, I don't, and I'm not going to hide my feelings just because she doesn't agree with my methods. I'll admit that I don't want her to get hurt, but she said herself that we need to keep an eye on him!"
Connor and Ethan nodded in agreement.
"I'm gonna go see if she wants to catch a movie later, you guys up for it?" Connor asked, after a few minutes.
"Sure," Ethan nodded, turning to Aliyah who shrugged. She had nothing better to do.
Getting to their feet, the three rangers made their way towards the bar.
"Hey, you want to catch a movie with us tonight?" Connor asked.
"No," Kira answered without looking up.
Aliyah frowned. "You know, when someone doesn't want to hang out they usually come up with some sort of excuse!"
"Look, I just don't feel like spending any more time with you guys," Kira said, finally looking up. "Not unless I have to, okay?"
She closed her book, stuffed it into her bag and slung the strap over her shoulder. "I have to go," she said, brushing past them.
"What's up with her?" Ethan asked, as Aliyah glared after the Yellow ranger and Connor shrugged.
~*Prehistoric Storm*~
"So you think Kira has been acting kind of strange?" Tommy asked, looking at the three students that stood in front of him, he was a little upset that Aliyah had gone and gotten herself suspended from school but was a lot more concerned with the story about Kira's new found attitude, was she mimicking the Platinum ranger and possibly thinking that she could get away with it just like Aliyah did?
Because that was impossible, Aliyah was one of a kind, and her ability to be cold-shouldered and impassive, even to authority figures and get away scot free was something that could never be mimicked or learnt to perfection.
"We just don't know what is wrong with her," Connor said. "I mean, I didn't say anything to make her mad and all Aliyah did was punch Trent, but like she said, Kira was the one who said to keep an eye on him just to make sure he doesn't do anything stupid!"
"Well, putting him in the hospital took care of that," said Aliyah. "He's not going to do much damage with a broken nose now, is he?"
Ethan rolled his eyes and turned to Dr. O who was looking confusedly at the silver box and calling for their attention.
"I think we might have a bigger problem," the Black ranger said.
"Like what?"
"This box contained the final bone to a creature that was created by Mercer and me years ago," Tommy explained.
Aliyah groaned. "I'm so going to regret this but... what kind of creature?"
"Fossilador," Tommy explained. "We were trying to create a dinosaur at one time that had the power of mind control. We scrapped it when it got out of hand!"
"Great," Ethan said, sarcastically.
"As long as I had the main support bone, it could never come to life," Tommy added, putting the box back onto the shelf.
"And that's what was in that box?" Connor asked.
"Yes!"
Connor looked around at his friends and then up at his teacher, "So who do you think took it?" he asked.
"If it wasn't you three," Tommy responded, "and it wasn't me or Hayley. That seriously cuts down the suspects"
"Kira?" Ethan and Aliyah asked.
~*Prehistoric Storm*~
After calling Hayley in to try and track Kira's Dino Gem signal, Aliyah, Connor and Ethan attempted to come up with suitable explanations as to where and who Kira could have come in contact with Dr. O's scrapped mind-controlling Dinosaur.
"Dr. O, I have a serious amount of respect for you," Aliyah said, "but you are seriously starting to freak me out! You really need to get out more... mind-controlling dinosaurs? It sounds like something out a sci-fi thriller movie!"
Suddenly the computer beeped and a freaky looking giant monster appeared on the screens.
"I'm going to take a guess and say that's your fossil monster," Ethan said, pointing at it.
Tommy nodded. "Unfortunately, it is!" he said.
"Any word from Kira?" Connor asked, turning to Hayley.
"Nothing," Hayley sighed, "but I have been trying!"
"Think you guys," Tommy urged. "Where could she have come in contact with this thing?"
Aliyah gasped and snapped her fingers. "Didn't you guys she disappeared for a few hours while you went to the museum? Isn't possible that she stumbled across Fossilador there?"
"It seems possible," Tommy nodded. "And it is our only best shot at the current moment. Hayley," he said quickly, turning to the red head. "Go the Museum and look for Kira, we'll try and hold this thing off!"
Hayley nodded. "I'm on my way!" she said, hurrying off as Connor, Ethan and Aliyah fell into formation.
"Ready?"
"Ready!"
"Dino Thunder, Power Up! Ha!"
~*Prehistoric Storm*~
"This city is mine!" Fossilador bellowed, stomping through the city as Connor, Aliyah, Ethan and Tommy appeared on their Raptor Riders; suddenly a huge purple blast of energy hit them knocking them completely off their riders and Zeltrax appeared in their line of vision.
"You're not going anywhere!" he growled. "Triptoids!"
The Triptoids appeared from behind him, leaping and bouncing over rubble wielding their freaky weapons.
"Aw man, these freaks again!" Aliyah said launching herself at the creatures as Tommy made a beeline for Zeltrax.
"You guys go one!" Tommy shouted after a few minutes. "I'll deal with Zeltrax!"
"Okay!" the three teens nodded, before taking off and going to fight Fossilador. As soon as the fight continued, Tommy broke away to call the Zords.
Moments later, the Brachio zord appeared in the area and the hatches opened to reveal the Tricera, Tyranno and Sabre-tooth Tiger Biozords, which ran alongside their Rangers.
Sensing them, Fossilador turned in their direction, opened its jaws and shot out white smoke.
"Everyone hold on!" Aliyah squeaked as her Zord crumpled to the ground. "Connor, Ethan, Megazord formation!" she shouted after forcing her Zord back to its feet.
The boys nodded and formed the Megazord; however, as the battle continued to three rangers found that they were overpowered and soon floored once more.
"Now what do we do?" Ethan asked.
"Dr. O," Aliyah said into her morpher. "Any luck on finding Kira?"
"No, not yet," Tommy answered. "Just hang in there guys!"
Aliyah rolled her eyes. "I hate when mentors do that," she grumbled. "It is easy for them; they're not getting thrashed and bashed!"
Connor and Ethan nodded in agreement.
~*Prehistoric Storm*~
Fossilador attacked the Megazord once again, sending the Rangers inside crashing against the consoles; Aliyah felt her entire body shake, although she wasn't completely sure if it was due to her being angry or something else, in fact, she had been shuddering a lot lately, and was often left wondering what the hell was wrong.
Just then a screech ripped through the air as the three looked up.
"What was that?" Connor asked.
Turning to the skies the Fossil monster fired off several attacks at the bird that was flying towards them, dodging and looping over the energy beams to avoid a collision, however, it wasn't the bird itself that brought hope to the Rangers, and it was the person perched on the beak of the bird.
"Kira!" Aliyah shouted.
"Hang on, guys!" Kira relied. "Dino Thunder, Power Up! Ha!"
She morphed and jumped from her Zords beak and into the cockpit, and connecting with the Megazord.
"Thundersaurus Megazord!" The four rangers yelled, as Kira appeared beside Connor. "Online!"
"Good timing, Kira," Ethan said.
Connor nodded. "Yeah, we could use the help!"
The singer smiled and nodded. "Don't sweat it guys! Let's blast that bone head!"
"Fire lasers!" Aliyah commanded, when that did nothing she tried again. "Argh! Die you stupid dinosaur! Just freaking lie down and die like a dog!"
Touching her friend's shoulder, Kira took over the controls. "Ptera rang!" she yelled as the boomerang like weapon flew at the fossil monster, before rebounding back.
"Fire breath!" Aliyah commanded as the T-Rex mouth opened and fire shot out sparks flew from the Fossil monster but he didn't explode. His hand merely fell off, but seconds later it regrew.
"Huh?" Connor breathed. "No way!"
"Way!" the monster growled, spurting white smoke from its mouth.
"That was just plain nasty!" Connor said.
Aliyah shook her head. "Dude, that's just gross!"
"The guy's got some prehistoric breath!" Ethan agreed.
The monster raced forward and tackled them in a hug, wrapping his arms around their waist. "I'm just getting started," he said, causing sparks to fly and bright blue energy to ripple through the Megazord as it stumbled way.
Their morphers crackled and seconds later Tommy's voice reached their senses. "Kira, aim for the spot where you put the missing bone! It is his weakness!"
"Right!" Kira nodded, taking control of the Megazord once more. "Locked on!" she said, as a screen came online, and she directed the system to lock onto the point in Fossilador's neck. "Sabre slash!"
Leaping into the air, Kira stabbed at the creature's neck, hit the main support bone and landed as sparks spread rapidly over the creature's body. There was a split second pause where the rangers froze and watched with bated breaths, before the monster shrieked in pain, anger, and then exploded.
~*Prehistoric Storm*~
Aliyah looked thoughtful.
"What's your favourite colour?" she asked, looking over at Kira. They were back at the Dino Lab and while the others were quick to accept Kira back into the fold, the Platinum ranger was hesitant, wanting to be sure that it was really the Ptera ranger and not some evil duplicate.
Kira smirked. "Yellow and Black!" she answered, promptly.
"What's my full name?"
"Aliyah Ziva Logan," Kira said. "And because you're about to ask, you lived in Briarwood until you were eleven before moving in with you grandparents and they lived in Blue Bay Harbour. You have an older sister named Rebecca, a brother named Tyler, three best friends named Shane, Tori and Dustin and your boyfriend's name is Cam!"
Aliyah grinned.
"Welcome back, Kira," she nodded in approval. "You were pretty scary there for a while!"
"I'm so sorry I was mean to you guys," Kira apologized.
"I'm just glad everything worked out," said Aliyah. "Although it is kind of weird and raises more questions than it does answer!"
"What does?" Tommy asked, turning around in his seat.
"Well, Anton Mercer," said Aliyah. "This thing was stored in his museum... why?"
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Chapter written by xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx
Chapter updated Monday, 30th July 2012 at 03:52am