Author's Note: I would like to thank Jessfairy88 for her amazing brainstorming in the last few chapters of this story. She has been brilliant and faithful to the Aliyah universe since the beginning of Lightning Storm! Ranger Form! And she so rightly deserves this dedication. I owe her a lot.

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: I would like to give a big thank you too ZReynolds for adding this story or me 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.

Last Time on Dino Thunder:

"I knew there was something I didn't like about you!"

"It's Elsa..."

"Who? Randall!"

"Do you think my father is going to be happy when he finds out you blew it at the school?"

"No happier than your Ranger plans will be when they find out you've been keeping your daddy's secret identity from them!"

"Anton..."

"Whoa... Mercer is..."

"Mesogog..."

~*Prehistoric Storm*~

"I always knew that Mercer wasn't PTA material," said Ethan, "but Mesogog? That's whack!"

"Whack? That's not whack!" said Connor, sitting on the stairs leading out of the Dino Lab. "Trent not telling us, that's whack!"

"Look, i'm as mad about this as you guys are," said Kira, meeting Aliyah's steely gaze, "okay, maybe not as mad as Ali, but don't you think we still owe Trent the chance to explain? I mean, maybe there is a reasonable explanation for why he didn't tell us!"

"No we don't!" Aliyah said snappishly. "He's had his chance to explain, and he still kept us in the dark! If he had told us sooner then maybe, just maybe, we could have done something to help him! But no, he chose to ignore us, betray our trust and keep one of the biggest, if not most dangerous, secrets to himself! He doesn't deserve his Drago powers, much less the ability to morph!"

Kira frowned. "Don't you think that's a bit extreme?" she frowned.

"Aliyah may have a point, Kira," said Tommy. "If Trent doesn't have a reasonable explanation then I'm going to have to ask him to surrender his morpher, and give up being a Power Ranger!"

He turned to walk away.

"Where are you going?" Connor asked.

"To pick up Trent," said Tommy. "While Aliyah has a point, so does Kira, we do have to give Trent a chance to explain! Stay here, no one leaves until I get back, understand?"

The four rangers nodded and watched as he departed.

As Tommy left, Connor spotted a flicker of emotion cross Kira's face.

"Don't tell me you feel bad for Trent," he said, causing Kira to turn in his direction.

"Yeah," Ethan nodded. "You want someone you can't trust running around with those powers?"

"I just hate that it may have to end this way for Trent," said Kira. "We've been through so much... I mean, can you imagine having to give up your morpher?"

Ethan glanced down at his Dino Gem. "Not really," he said. "It is something that I would prefer not to think about!"

"What about you, Ali?" Kira asked, rounding on the Platinum Ranger. "Would you be able to give up your powers?"

"Technically, Dr. O isn't asking Trent to give up his morphers," Aliyah pointed out. "Or do you not remember when he said to us at the beginning of this journey? Our powers can only be taken away one the power is destroyed; if Trent gives up his morpher, he will still be linked to it he just won't be able to morph!"

Kira frowned. "That doesn't answer my question..."

"Actually, it does," Aliyah nodded. "I'm cool with the powers, I love being able to phase through things, but I could do with the whole 'Ranger business'," she explained. "I never wanted it to begin with! I'd already sacrificed a year of my life to being a Ranger, is it really too much to ask that I have at least a normal year?"

"No," Ethan said, shaking his head. "It's not too much to ask..."

"But aren't you destined to be a ranger?" Connor asked, remembering a conversation that he had overheard between Aliyah's sister, Rebecca and Dr. Oliver, the day of the Dino Thunder/Ninja Storm team-up.

Aliyah frowned at him. "No," she said, shaking her head. "What makes you think that?"

"It's just," Connor hesitated. "I overheard Rebecca telling Dr. O..."

"Telling him what?"

"About you," Connor answered. "Something about you and your ranger abilities..."

Aliyah sighed. "She wasn't saying that I was destined to be a Ranger," she said. "Rebecca was probably telling him about the whole stupid prophecy!"

"Prophecy?" Ethan asked.

"Yeah, I have a prophecy," Aliyah answered. "It was created before I was born..."

"Well, what's it about?"

Aliyah shrugged. "I dunno,"

"But you just said it was about you,"

"It is," Aliyah nodded. "But Rebecca refuses to tell me about it... I see that she still has no problems talking about it with others behind my back mind you!"

Connor smiled, sheepishly. "Sorry,"

"Don't be," Aliyah said, waving him off. "Point is being a ranger is a total pain in the butt! There are some parts of it that I love, like the fact that if I never became a Ninja Ranger, I would never have met Cam, or you guys, for that matter... but it seriously puts you in a crunch at times!"

~*Prehistoric Storm*~

Kira stared at the far wall, her eyes vacant and distant, as if she was lost in some far away memory. "We've changed," she said after a moment's silence. "Being a ranger has changed all of us! I agree with Ali when she says that being a ranger is a right pain the butt, at times, but neither of us can deny that it has opened our eyes to the bigger picture!"

Ethan and Connor exchanged looks.

"I mean, it wasn't just Aliyah that didn't want this to start in the beginning," Kira pointed out, "she just had more guts to actually say that she didn't want to be involved; I mean, she even was willing to bring Cam into this whole thing! Remember?" she pointed at the Platinum Ranger, who nodded. "Then she went and got kidnapped, I guess it was then that I realized what we were actually fighting for!"

Aliyah sighed, heavily.

"Yeah, fighting for the good of humanity," she nodded. "But Trent's abused his power one to many times!"

"How do you know that?" Kira asked. "So he kept one little secret from us..."

"Little Secret?" Aliyah repeated. "Kira! Do you not realize that all it takes is one little secret to bring down a Ranger team? Him not telling us about his father could very well have started Mesogog's entire plan to bring back the dinosaurs."

"What do you mean?"

Aliyah threw her hands up in frustration. "Think about it, Ki," she cried. "Mesogog is going to realize that Mercer is a liability to us, what if he somehow finds a way to separate himself from Mercer? He could use Mercer to get to us, through Trent! He wants our Dino Gems, yes?" her friends nodded. "Who is willing to be that Trent would happily hand over his Dino Gem in exchange for his father's life?"

"Trent would never do that," Kira defended.

"You sure about that?" Connor asked, siding with Aliyah.

Kira hesitated, she wasn't 100% sure that Trent wouldn't succumb to being blackmailed by Mesogog, but there was a nagging feeling inside of her that she couldn't ignore. She knew that if someone she cared for, like her mother, or even her friends were in danger, and the only way she could save them was to hand over her Dino Gem, there may have been a possible chance that she would actually pull through.

"I -"

"How about the last time he lied to us?" Aliyah asked. "What about the time he attacked Dr. Oliver? Or took our Zords, for that matter!"

"He was under the Gem's spell," Kira defended.

"Evil or not, he didn't even try to fight it!"

"Because the influence was too strong," Kira said, "It's different now!"

Aliyah shook her head.

"Changed? Last time he nearly destroyed Dr. O, and now he forgets to tell us that Mesogog is his dad, i'm glad he's changed!" said Connor, acidly.

"I made a promise," said Trent, as he stormed down the steps into the Lab ahead of Tommy.

"What about your promise to us?" Aliyah snapped, taking the offence once more.

"I never let my feelings get in the way of my Ranger duties!" Trent exclaimed, as the room became silent. Aliyah's hands were clenched into fist, and Connor could see the whiteness in his best friends knuckles, her eyes narrowed, she was watching Trent like a predator would its prey.

Tommy sighed as Connor draped his arm around Aliyah's shoulders. "That may be true, Trent," he said, "but you've put us in a difficult position; Aliyah may be right, I don't know if we'll be able to trust you again!"

~*Prehistoric Storm*~

Reluctantly, and after a lot of talking, Aliyah slumped down onto the steps beside Connor, creating a sort of semi-circle around Trent with the others.

"Tell me how I am supposed to make this up to you," Trent said, glancing at the Platinum Ranger, he knew that she was ready to murder him, and the look in her eyes clearly said that she did not care how she did it. "I make no excuses for the harm I have caused, but you know things haven't always been easy for me!"

Aliyah shook her head.

"If you're going to try and win me over with the story of how you lost your parents when you were a baby," she said, "and how Anton Mercer was the only person on the planet to take you in, you can save it! I've heard the story before - I've lived the story!"

Trent sighed and shook his head. "Ali, I -" he started.

"Save it!" Aliyah snapped, starting to get to her feet, but Connor's hand on her shoulder kept her in her seat. "Just get on with your stupid reason!"

"I never meant to find the White Dino Gem," Trent said, "It found me! I tried to fight it, but the power was too strong!"

"Tried to fight it?" Aliyah asked. "Yeah, right, it didn't look that way to me! And you're not the first evil Ranger I have fought!"

"Yeah, I know, you were almost killed by one," said Trent, with a slight roll of his eyes.

Aliyah bit back a growl. "Yeah! I was almost killed by one!" she snapped, shooting to her feet. "But at least he fought the hold evil had over him! But you'll notice, despite turning good, I never forgave him for what he did in the past! And I still don't trust him, or like him, to this day!"

"Look, Anton Mercer is the only family I have," Trent said, as Connor managed to force Aliyah back down onto the steps. "I knew that I couldn't break my promise to him! So I decided to fight with you guys until he was free of that mutant freak forever! Look, i'm sorry I didn't tell you about Mesogog," he sighed, "my father thought he could handle this on his own, and so did I!"

"Anton Mercer was my friend," said Tommy, drawing everyone's attention to him. "I understand your loyalty. The question now is, do they?"

Trent sighed and glanced at the four Dino Rangers, he knew that it would probably have been easy to convince three of them, but Aliyah? She was going to be the most difficult out of the lot. There was no possible way that she would ever trust again!

~*Prehistoric Storm*~

"Being a ranger is the best thing that has ever happened to me," said Trent. "I don't want to lose that! Trust me!"

"We did trust you," Aliyah muttered.

Connor, wrapped his arm around her waist, and glanced up at Trent. "But we've heard that excuse before," he said, "and Ali's right, we did trust you, and you broke that trust, why should we trust you again?"

"Fine! Then let me prove it!"

The computers beeped.

Whipping around the six rangers spotted a giant insect-like monster standing in the rooftop of an office building in downtown Reefside.

"Here's your chance," said Tommy, sliding to a halt beside Trent.

"What?" Aliyah yelled, jumping to her feet. "You're not seriously going to trust him?"

"We don't have a choice;" said Kira, "look at that thing!"

"We always have a choice," said Ethan, "and I choose that Trent comes with us!"

Aliyah turned quickly to Connor. "Do something!" she said.

"What can I do?"

"You're team leader!"

Connor sighed and shook his head, "Ali, if I could do something to stop this, I would," he said, touching her shoulder. "But we may need help!"

"There was once a time that we did fine on our own," Aliyah snapped, "or am I the only one who remembers that? Besides, we don't need the Drago-Stegozord Megazord! I have the White Tiger Zord, and if i'm not mistaken isn't it powerful enough to destroy any monster?"

She turned to stare at Dr. O.

"We may need him, Aliyah," Tommy said. "It's not wrong to want a little extra back-up!"

Aliyah paused and glanced around at her friends, all of which were opting for Trent to follow them into battle. "Fine!" she growled, turning away from Connor.

"Thank you," Trent nodded. "I won't let you down!"

"I hope not," Connor said, as Aliyah took her place between him and Kira, and refused to meet his gaze.

"Ready?"

"Ready!"

"Dino Thunder, Power Up! Ha!"

"White Ranger, Dino Power!"

"Dino Power!"

~*Prehistoric Storm*~

"Look out!"

Aliyah flipped backwards as the now-giant monster tried to stomp on her and her friends. Whipping her Thundermax laser off of her belt, she fired several blasts at the monster, but the impact did nothing but cause a mini explosion, not even enough to knock the monster backwards.

"He's too big!"

"Now what do we do?"

No sooner had the words left Connor's lips; the monster disappeared from the skies above them, and reappeared on the ground level a mere few feet away.

"Miss me?"

He blasted the six rangers, causing Trent and Tommy to avoid the beams and dash forwards, however, they didn't make it far as the monster lashed out and sent them hurtling over the edge of the port into the Harbour.

"Guys!" Connor yelled as he and the other three rushed to the water's edge, but their team-mates did not resurface.

"Two washed up Power Rangers," the monster growled.

"Triassic Time?" Ethan suggested.

"You know it," Connor nodded, holding up the Triassic Shield, and absorbing the blow of energy that his friends supplied him with. "Time for a little intergalactic action!" he added, sucking both himself and the monster into the Triassic dimension.

~*Prehistoric Storm*~

Connor hit the pavement, hard.

"That's a long way down!" he winced, struggling to get back to his feet.

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall," the monster growled, before turning as energy beams collided with his shoulder and bounced off in several different directions, turning quickly to the oncoming Black, Blue and Yellow rangers, the monster blasted them backwards with his own energy beams.

"Leave them alone!" Connor yelled.

"Very well," the monster snarled, rounding on the red ranger once more. "I'll destroy you in their place!"

"Not in this life time!" Aliyah yelled, coming out of nowhere and slashing at the monsters serrated arm with her sabre blade. He howled in pain as sparks exploded from his arm and the sword hit the floor. "Being evil is a bitch, isn't it?"

The monster snarled. "You'll pay for that!" he said, firing lasers at her and throwing her backwards, into the metal piping of the building.

Aliyah cried out as her suit sparked and she hit the floor, pain shot through her shoulders and she was momentarily reminded of the time that Motodrone, who had taken over Perry's body, had slammed her into the metal hatchet he had tied her too.

Her stomach churned.

She felt sick.

"Pesky Ranger," the monster sneered, stalking towards her. "You'll pay for cutting off my arm!"

When he was no more than a few hundred meters away, however, several bright white laser arrows hit him in the side.

"Huh?" Aliyah frowned, looking up as Trent landed beside her.

"Not so fast," Trent said, putting his Drago blade back onto his belt. "She's not going anywhere!"

"Do not get involved in things that do not concern you, White Ranger!" the monster growled.

Trent shook his head. "The Rangers are a team," he pointed out, taking a protective stand in front of Aliyah. "You mess with one of us, you deal with us all! If you want to destroy Ali, then you're gonna have to go through me first!"

"Have it your way!"

"Trent saved Ali," Kira gasped.

"Now where's all the tough talk?" Trent asked, as the monster made it back to his feet.

"I'm through talking,"

"Good," Trent nodded, reaching for his Drago blade again. "Because so am I!"

He dashed forward, striking the monster several times as he whizzed around him at Superspeed, blending in with his surroundings like a true chameleon.

"All together guys," Trent said, after knocking the monster backwards towards the waters.

"Right!"

"Z-Rex blaster!" the rangers chimed, after combing their primary weapons. "Super Mode!"

"Ready..."

"Aim..."

"FIRE!"

Again the monster howled in pain as he keeled over and exploded.

~*Prehistoric Storm*~

"Bro, you were awesome out there!"

"Yeah!"

"Thanks for the help out there, Trent," said Tommy. "It is always a lot easier when the whole team works together!"

Trent smiled. "Thanks Dr. O, it's like I said, i'm in this for good!" he added, turning to Kira and Ethan, "that's if you have me!"

"Well, I vote yes," Kira nodded.

"Me too," Ethan agreed.

Dr. O nodded and turned towards Connor and Aliyah. "Aliyah?" he asked.

Aliyah glared at the floor, her arms folded over her stomach. "What does it matter what I say?" she asked. "You'll take him back whether I agree or not!"

"We're not a team if we can't trust each other," Tommy pointed out.

"Then we're not a team!" Aliyah said, looking up at her teacher. "Because I don't trust him!"

"Ali, he saved your life!" Kira said.

"Yeah, to redeem himself!" Aliyah snapped. "He's known all along that i'm the only one that doesn't trust him, so he figures that saving my life will make me forget all that he has done! Well, i'm sorry, but I can't ignore what he has done in the past, all the secrets he has kept. So, yeah, fine, whatever, take him back... just don't expect me to trust him!"

Trent sighed as she pushed past him knocking his shoulder as she did so.

"That went well," Ethan muttered.

"She'll come around," Tommy reassured Trent, who looked downhearted at Aliyah's reaction, although he sort of expected it. "Connor, do you agree with Aliyah? Or does Trent have your vote?"

Connor hesitated, glancing towards the tunnels where his best friend had just disappeared. "Just one question," he said, turning to face the rest of his team. "Are you sure you want to do this? I mean, there is a very real chance that you'll have to face Mesogog one day!"

"I know," Trent nodded. "But if Mesogog wins then my father is lost forever," he said. "Mesogog has to be defeated, no matter what the cost!"

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Chapter written by xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx

Chapter updated Thursday, 30 August, 2012 at 03:16am