I wasn't going to write this chapter. I was going to skip it, and go on to the next episode, but I still watched it. I'm kind of trying to watch every single season of Power Rangers, since they're available on Netflix. Even though I'm not writing every episode, I AM watching all of them. I didn't think I could make it Jamie centric. And then I watched it, and realized I could. Quite easily, actually. So, here we go. Thank you to FallenArcana, Green-Extreme-Ninjetti13, Jimmyle311, brankel1, and Disneyfan10 for you lovely comments, and here we go!
"You have sunscreen, right?"
Jamie glanced up, saw Billy staring at her with his eyebrows raised, and sighed.
"Yes, Billy, I do," she said, taking the bottle out of her bag to show him.
"Just making sure you don't get burned," the genius said. Jamie smiled slightly; her skin was pretty pale, and sunburns for her tended to be hellish.
"And I appreciate it," she answered.
"Hey, you two ready?" Aisha asked, coming up on her two friends. The three of them were going to meet Rocky at the beach where he was volunteering as a lifeguard. Adam, Tommy, and Kimberly were currently scuba diving, but they were going to meet them, as well.
"Yep," Jamie said with a wide smile. "Let's go, I'm starving."
"Me, too," Billy agreed, and the three headed out.
Taking Billy's car, they made it to the beach quickly, and spotted Rocky. The Red Ranger was in red shorts, and a yellow t shirt that had the word 'lifeguard' written on it on the back. In his hand was a floating device, just incase he needed to throw it to someone.
"Hey, Rocky," Billy said, as the three came up on him.
"Hey!"
"How's lifeguarding going?" Jamie asked.
"Alright," Rocky answered, "But I'm a little worried about Dougie. He won't go in the water."
Jamie furrowed her eyebrows; she'd been the one who taught Dougie how to swim, she knew he could. "Is something wrong?"
"Yeah, is he alright?" Aisha asked.
"Well, he's got this thing about monsters," Rocky answered.
Billy turned to look at the little boy. He was sitting in the sand of the beach, wearing green plaid swim shorts.
"I know just how he feels," Billy said. "There was a time when I wouldn't go swimming, myself."
Rocky sighed. "Hey, where are the others?"
"Scuba diving," Jamie answered.
"Yeah, we're supposed to meet them here," Aisha added.
"Cool," Rocky nodded.
Suddenly, the kids started screaming, and the four Rangers looked at the water in confusion. Sure enough, it looked like there were two shark fins poking out of the water.
"Uh-oh," Rocky said. "Trouble."
He took off running, and Billy took off his glasses, handing them to Jamie. The Red and Blue Rangers quickly got to a jetski, pushed it into the water, pulled on life jackets, and then hopped on. Billy drove out to the shark fins, while Aisha and Jamie stood on the beach, the water laping over their feet.
"Think it's one of Zedd's monsters?" Aisha asked.
"I doubt it," Jamie said. "And real sharks can't get into the lake, anyways, so I'm sure it's some guy in a fake fin trying to prank everyone," she said. "Real sharks don't just attack humans without reason, either. You'd have to seriously mess with one for it to attack you."
Aisha glanced up at Jamie, and smiled. The Silver Ranger was very protective of sharks, seeing as her coin bared the image of an ancient shark on it. All of them were protective of their creatures.
Sure enough, once Rocky and Billy reached the fins, they turned out to be fake, attached to head bands that were worn by Bulk and Skull.
Jamie could see Rocky and Billy shaking their heads at them, before finally turning to come back.
"What happened to the monsters?!" Dougie demanded, running up to them as they got off the jetski.
Rocky stepped over to him, reaching out to touch his shoulder.
"There were no monsters, Dougie!" Rocky said. "They were just faking!"
"All that excitement made me work up an appetite," Billy said, stepping around Rocky and Dougie to meet Jamie and Aisha.
"Yeah, I hope the others get here, soon," Jamie said, slipping Billy's glasses over her own eyes. "Man, Billy, you are blind!" she said.
The Blue Ranger laughed, reaching over to grab his glasses off his friend's face. Her eyes were wide behind the lenses, everything a big blur to her.
"Which is why I have these," Billy said, slipping them on over his own blue eyes.
"I hope the others are done with their scuba diving expedition," Rocky said, stepping in between the three.
Billy shared a look with Aisha and Jamie, the Yellow Ranger shrugging. With that, they walked away from the water.
While Billy, Aisha, and Jamie went to sit down and relax while they waited for their friends, Rocky sat up on the lifeguarding tower, keeping a careful watch on the beach and children below.
It was while they were tossing a beach ball around with Dougie that Rocky walked over.
"Hey guys, we have to go," Rocky said, a look on his face that told the other three Rangers exactly what they needed to know.
"Uh, Dougie, we have a little emergency that we have to take care of, okay?" Aisha said, putting her hands on the little boy's shoulders.
"But we'll be back as soon as we can!" Jamie added.
"Yeah, and Steve over there, he's gonna take care of you!" Rocky said, pointing to the other lifeguard. Dougie nodded.
"Here you go, buddy," Billy said, handing the boy the beach ball as the Rangers took off running.
"Bye, see you later!" Dougie called after them.
Once the Rangers reached a secluded spot, Billy, Aisha, and Jamie turned to Rocky.
"What's going on?" Aisha asked.
"Bad news, guys; there's a monster on the other side of that lake, and he's coming this way," Rocky said.
Billy sighed and turned. "Well, I suspect that the others are still scuba diving, or they'd be here," he said.
"Guess we're on our own for a bit, then," Jamie said.
"Yeah, it's just us," Rocky agreed.
"Alright, it's Morphin' Time!" Billy called.
"Triceratops!"
"Megaladon!"
"Saber-toothed tiger!"
"Tyrannosaurus!"
Once they were morphed, the Rangers teleported to the beach on the other side of the lake, where they found a monster shaped like a hammerhead shark. They stood on a lifeguard tower, high up and dangerous.
"Man!" Rocky exclaimed. "Take a look at that ugly thing!"
"That bitch stole my animal!" Jamie exclaimed, angry.
"Ah, Power Rangers!" the shark exclaimed. "I knew you'd take the bait!"
"You picked the wrong beach to pollute, tuna-breath!" Rocky exclaimed, pointing at the shark with an accusatory finger. "Now you're going back to the can you came from!"
With yells, the four Rangers jumped off the lifeguard tower and attacked the Rangers.
Jamie attacked him furiously. The fact that Zedd had stolen her animal made her absolutely furious, and she would defeat this shark reject if it killed her.
"Ah, the Megaladon Ranger!" the shark exclaimed, having thrown the other three off of him. "Lord Zedd told me about you!"
"Did he tell you that I'd be the one to destroy you?!" she hissed, standing defensively in front of him with her arms up.
If the monster could have grinned, he would have. "There's only room for one shark in this town!"
"Yeah," Jamie agreed, "Me!" she attacked him again, pushing him back for a moment before he finally managed to throw her back, right into Rocky. Both were thrown back several feet, falling to the ground.
"Rocky, Jamie!" Aisha exclaimed, running to them. "Are you alright?!"
"I'm fine," Jamie answered, allowing the Yellow Ranger to pull her up and off of Rocky. "Sorry, Rocky."
"It's alright," he gasped out, the breath knocked out of him. Billy pulled him up. "This shark monster's a little tougher than I expected," the Red Ranger added.
"Throwing in the towel already?!" the shark exclaimed, laughing evilly. "But we're just getting started!"
"Hey, we're not through with you, yet!" Rocky yelled back.
"No way!" Billy agreed.
"Right!" Aisha added.
"We'll defeat you!" Jamie finished.
"This is so much fun, I've invited a couple of my friends!"
Suddenly, two more monsters appeared. One resembled a large fish, while the other looked like a piranha. They all laughed maniacally.
"Great!" Billy said. "Just what we needed!"
"More underwater weirdos," Rocky groaned.
"Oh, and they smell bad, too!" Aisha exclaimed, grossed out from the disgusting smell.
"That shark is mine," Jamie said, her hands curling into tight fists.
"Come on, guys," Rocky said. "Let's give these flounders the hook!"
"Right!" the three agreed, and they charged.
"Power Katana!" Jamie exclaimed. Once the hilt of her katana solidified in her hand, Jamie attacked the shark monster, leaving the fish and piranha to Billy, Aisha, and Rocky. They seemed happy enough to leave her to it, recognizing that this was her fight, and her fight alone.
"A sharp stick isn't gonna help you, now!" the shark exclaimed, blocking her first strike with his fin.
"You're going to regret fighting against me," Jamie said, swirling her sword around her hand. "I'm going to turn you into a big bowl of shark fin soup!"
With that, she charged again, slicing at his face. The shark avoided her, and the two entered a vicious battle.
They traded blows, and every time Jamie's katana met with the shark's fin, she felt her muscles ache, the strain on them almost too much. She was going to be so sore in the morning.
Suddenly, unfamiliar laughter filed the air, and everyone looked up as some sort of crayfish monster entered the fray, making it four against four. The Rangers were going to need some serious help for this one.
"This is looking bad!" Billy exclaimed, having just pulled Aisha away from the crayfish monster.
"That's for sure!" Aisha agreed. "If we don't get help, we'll be fish stew!"
They continued to fight, all of them tiring.
"Alpha, come in!" Rocky exclaimed. "Alpha, come in! We need help, now!"
Jamie didn't hear Alpha's response, still trading blows with the shark monster.
"Right, Zordon! We'll do our best! Get us help when you can! We'll be waiting. Red Ranger out!"
Suddenly, there were three more Rangers present.
Someone hit the shark monster away from her, and Jamie looked up in surprise to see Adam, morphed and ready to go.
"I've never been happier to see you!" Jamie exclaimed, stepping up to Adam as he jumped over next to her.
"Zordon said you guys needed help, so here we are," the Black Ranger said.
"Yeah, we were ready for a seafood party!" Tommy exclaimed, half to her, and half to Billy's surprised exclamation when he saw them.
"More Power Rangers?!" the crawfish exclaimed.
"Huh?!" the shark yelled. "Where'd they come?"
"I don't know, but they're ugly!" the piranha said.
"It's time to throw you rejects overboard!" Tommy exclaimed, the rest of his team meeting up behind him.
"Hah!" the fish laughed. "You seven won't even make a full meal!"
"Ready, guys?" Tommy asked, taking a single step forward. "Let's get 'em!"
"Let's show they landlubbers what we're made of!" the crayfish exclaimed.
The four monsters charged, meeting with the Rangers. Once again, Jamie met the shark, kicking out at him.
"You're mine, Megaladon Ranger!" the shark exclaimed.
"To get to her, you'll have to get through me!" Adam exclaimed, joining the Silver Ranger as she was thrown to the ground again.
"Thanks, Adam," Jamie gasped out, taking his hand when he offered to pull her up.
"No problem," the Blake Ranger said, and the two looked at the shark monster. "What's this guy's problem?"
"He doesn't like that I get my powers from a shark," Jamie answered. She raised her voice, then, "Even though I had the shark powers before you did!"
"I'm the top shark around here, girly!" the shark monster screamed back.
"Over my dead body!"
"I think we can arrange that!" he was suddenly charging again, and Jamie barely dodged him in time.
"Oh, this guy pisses me off!" Jamie hissed, crouched on the ground.
"Maybe if we attack him together," Adam suggested. "He can't take both of us!"
"I'm down!" Jamie said, and the two attacked. Adam had begun teaching Jamie some more advanced fighting techniques a week or so before, so they didn't have much of a style for fighting together, but their styles meshed well together.
Soon enough, though, something had to change, and that change came with an inner-tube based monster. Super-sized.
A beep filled the air, and Tommy was quick to answer.
"We read you, Zordon," the White Ranger said. "What is it?"
"The Tube Monster is headed downtown," Zordon said.
"Oh, no," Tommy moaned.
"Now, what?" Rocky asked. "We still gotta make fish fry with these posers!"
"Yeah, that's true," Tommy said. "We'll split up. You five to save the city, Jamie and I'll take on these freaks!"
"Are you sure, Tommy?" Kimberly asked, pushing the piranha away from her. "What if you two can't handle these fish by yourself?!"
"Don't worry about us, guys!" Tommy exclaimed. "Just get that Thunderzord Power downtown!"
"We'll be fine!" Jamie added. "Now get going, before that innertube thing can destroy the city!"
The other Rangers nodded, and disappeared in a teleport to downtown Angel Grove.
Now that it was just the two of them, Jamie turned to Tommy.
"Ready?"
"I feel like I should be asking you that," Tommy said.
"I'm fine," Jamie answered, "But Sharkie Boy over there is mine."
"You got it," Tommy agreed. "I'll take care of the other three. Be careful."
"You too, Tommy," Jamie said, and the two attacked.
While Tommy took care of the other three, Jamie took on the shark, alone, and ready to win.
"You're not going to win this, Megaladon Ranger," he hissed.
"Oh, I think I will," Jamie replied. She called for her Power Katana again, and held it in front of her face dangerously. "The only shark in this town is gonna me, got it?"
That set off the shark monster, and he charged. Now that he was enraged, he made mistakes, and Jamie took these mistakes to her advantage. He constantly made openings for her to strike him, and soon enough she had him backed into a corner.
Using Saba, Tommy was able to defeat the crawfish, the piranha, and the fish, leaving only the shark. The White Ranger ran to meet up with Jamie, standing in front of the cowering shark monster.
"Jamie, you good?" Tommy asked as he reached her.
"I'm fine," Jamie said, sheathing her sword. "This guy, however, is about to be extinct."
"You can't defeat me!" the shark screamed.
Jamie smirked under her helmet.
"Watch me," she said.
With that, Jamie ran forward, and, with one, last, well-placed kick, she managed to throw the monster back into a tree, and he finally shattered, destroyed.
Jamie stood there for a moment, breathing heavily. Tommy stepped up to her, and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Well done, Jamie," he said, very proud of his Silver Ranger; she'd only been a Ranger for a few months, but she had already improved a lot, and damn was he proud.
"So much for the seafood special."
Jamie laughed. "You know, I could go for some grilled shrimp, right now," she said.
He laughed as well.
…
With the five monsters finally defeated, Rocky, Billy, Aisha, and Jamie met back up at the beach, just in time to see Dougie and the other lifeguard, Steve, bring Bulk and Skull onto the beach. Both were exhausted from trying to swim all the way across the lake, and their legs had cramped up.
"What's going on?" Rocky asked.
"Dougie saved these two from drowning," Steve said, smiling up at the boy from where he was crouched next to Bulk and Skull.
"Duugie? You rescued them?" Rocky asked, surprised. He'd thought the boy was still too scared to go into the water.
"Yeah! And guess what, there's no monsters out there!" Dougie exclaimed happily.
Rocky smiled. "Dougie, I'm really proud of you."
"You're a real hero," Aisha said, "You know that?"
"We're all proud of you, Dougie," Jamie added.
"And Bulk and Skull," Rocky said, looking down at the two idiot bullies. "You two are lucky to be alive! I think you've caused enough trouble around here for one day."
Bulk looked he was going to retort, but before he could, his shirt started moving weirdly. Bulk made a choked sound, and pulled a fish out of his shirt. The poor guy looked ready to cry.
"I hate fish!"
"Well, I think I've seen enough fish today to last me a life time!" Billy exclaimed with a laugh.
Everyone else just laughed.
…
The next day, Jamie sat down in her chair in first period heavily.
"You okay, Jay?" Kimberly asked, raising her eyebrows at her best friend.
Jamie sighed. "Never let me take on a monster on my own again," she said. "There's only one shark in this town, that shark is me, and I am ridiculously sore."
Kimberly laughed, Jamie put her head down on her desk, and she laughed more.
"What's she laughing about?" Adam asked as he and Rocky showed up. They stared at the laughing Pink Ranger, and the incredibly sore Silver Ranger. Jamie only groaned, and Kimberly, who had just gotten her laughter under control, broke down into laughter again.
They both just shared a confused look and sat down behind them. They'd never understand girls.