Author : Wild Melody
Disclaimer : Once again, a trillion times over, I do not own them and am in no way associated with them. Sue me and all ye shall receive is a folder full of bills and a car and the loan payments to go along with it. Though I would probably fight you tooth and claw…er, nail for the car. I've put to much into it for some legal lackey to try and take it from me…so THERE!!!
Warnings : Sex, violence, drugs…oops, wrong story. Maybe mild language, that's about it.
Pairings : Um…that's a secret at the moment. J
Summary : Read and ye shall find out
TWO SIDES OF A COIN
PART 1
JUST LIKE ANY OTHER DAY
Chapter 2 : There Shall Be No Witnesses
Hughesville, PA
9:15 am
The wind blew gently across the still waters, barely rippling the serene surface. The young woman wiped a hand across her forehead, removing the sheen of sweat that had accumulated there. The air was just starting to heat up as the sun unrelentlessly beat down upon the still Earth. The sky was clear, a few stray white clouds dotting the horizon.
A loud crack of thunder made the young woman jump as she glanced up into the liquid blue sky, searching for the approaching storm. There was none to be seen. Not a single dark cloud marred the beautiful blue of the sky.
Strange, the woman thought to herself and continued pulling weeds from the garden in front of her. The trees surrounding the still meadow began to rock in the gentle breeze that suddenly began to waft through. The ripples upon the otherwise calm surface of the pond intensified, till they became tiny waves upon an even smaller ocean.
Another loud crack of thunder reverberated though the stillness of the meadow, causing the woman to look up into the sky once more. Still there were no storm clouds to be seen.
"Where are we this time?" a voice asked from edges of the meadow.
The woman swung around, looking for who had spoken and gasped in fear at what greeted her eyes.
There, standing at the outer reaches of the meadow, was a creature straight out of ones nightmares. Molten red eyes, like the magma lying far beneath the Earth's crust, stared with evil intent at their surroundings. Fangs, glistening with saliva, appeared as the creature brought its lips up in a feral snarl. Golden robes could be seen, peeking out from beneath a cloak blacker then the pitches of night. The creature brought its clawed hands up to remove the hood from its nightmarish head.
The sunlight glared off of red scales as the creature surveyed its surrounding. "I ask again, where are we?"
The creature standing beside it clicked its teeth together. "The Humans call this place Pennsylvania. Hughesville to be exact."
"It is still not Angel Grove," the first creature demanded, the anger apparent in its voice.
"No Lord, it is not." The second creature withdrew its hood to reveal jet black fur and pointed ears. Emerald green eyes stared directly at the young woman. "It appears we are not alone this time." The creature raised a clawed hand and pointed at the woman.
The first creature turned its red scaled head in the direction that the second creature had pointed and regarded the woman with a small amount of interest. "This is a Human, current with this time period?"
"A Human female, to be precise," the second creature affirmed.
"Pathetic looking creatures," the first creature mused. "It seems impossible that these pitiful things could develop into the problems that they become."
"Never judge a book by its cover…or a Human for that matter," the second creature admonished. "Although we rise to Power in our time, there are a few ProtoHumans that need to be dealt with in this time. From them shall rise the beginning of the DestiHumans-"
"I know all about the DestiHumans and their beginnings. I know about the Power that created the DestiHumans and how the ProtoHumans were involved with this Power. We find Zordon and his twelve Power Holders and we can put a stop to the DestiHumans and our rise to Power will be unavoidable!"
"First we must find the ProtoHumans that are associated with this mysterious Power." The second creature purred.
"Tell me something I do not already know!" the first creature bellowed. A thoughtful look crossed its face, "We must be going, we don't have a whole lot of time to do what we came here to do." The scaled monster turned its fiery red eyes toward the woman one last time as a evil sneer crossed its lips. "But first, we must take care of one minor problem. We can't allow any witnesses to our comings or goings…now can we?"
With that said, a feeling of an electrically charged storm filled the meadow as red energy sparks arced around the scaly monster. With the finality of a lightning strike, one of the arcs of electrical currents jumped from the monster to the young woman and with an ear shattering scream she was gone. The only thing left was the smell of singed flesh and a quickly dissipating dusky red plume of smoke.
"Angel Grove this time, S'Raw," the first creature ordered, "And make certain you get it right this time, or I'll be having Tigorian for my lunch."
"Yes, my Lord," the creature called S'Raw replied weakly. She shifted her gaze, staring blankly up toward the right blue of the sky and uttered just a single word. Just as before, they were gone with the rumbling crack of thunder.
The stillness that remained was eerily calm, not even the birds chirped a single song and the bugs of the meadow remained quiet.
Command Center
9:47 am
Alarms sounded, their piercing claxons resounding off of the chamber's walls. Data spilled forth from various consuls as paper full of information fell to the solid ground below. Alpha ran in circles, unsure of which terminal to go to first. His normal "Ay, Ay, Ay" was drowned out by the blaring noise of the alarms.
"WHAT'S HAPPENING?" Zordon asked from his dimensional tube.
"Ay, Ay, Ay…I'm not sure Zordon. Something was picked up earlier but I couldn't pin point the location, other than that it occurred somewhere within Australia's outback." Alpha paused as he glanced down at the data sheet within his hands. "It happened again, just a short time ago, this time within the United States. In Pennsylvania to be precise. Then it was gone again, just like the last time."
"DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS?" Zordon asked as he turned his massive head in the direction of the viewing globe.
"It was an interdimensional distortion of some sort, other than that, I can't say much more." Alpha surveyed another sheet of data, but it was just as confusing as the last. "It's gone now, whatever it was."
"ALERT THE RANGERS, MAYBE BILLY CAN HELP YOU ASCERTAIN WHAT IS HAPPENING," Zordon ordered.
"Right away, Zordon," Alpha said as he punched a series of buttons to alert the Rangers to come to the Command Center right away.
Within moments, six brilliant colored beams of light burst into the chamber, accompanied by a phased, lighter shade of pink beam. Seven teens stood there, looking up at their mentor and friend. Tommy was the first one to speak up.
"What's the problem Zordon?" Tommy asked as he stepped to the foreground, standing just inches in front of the rest of the teens.
"WE'RE NOT SURE AT THE MOMENT, TOMMY. PERHAPS BILLY CAN HELP ALPHA GO THROUGH THE INFORMATION TO GIVE US AN IDEA OF WHAT IS OCCURING. MAYBE THEN WE'LL HAVE A BETTER IDEA OF WHAT WE'RE UP AGAINST AND IF IT'S AN ENEMY OR FRIEND."
"What has been happening?" Aisha asked from her place next to Kim.
"There's been a couple of interdimensional disturbances," Alpha began. "The latest occurred just a few moments before you arrived. We're not sure what they are or who is using them…or where they're from."
"Interdimensional disturbances?" Kat repeated, not really liking the sound of it. "Isn't that something like time travel…?"
"To be precise-" Billy began just as Kat's cell phone picked that moment to ring.
"For Heaven's sake!" Kat cried as she threw her hands up in the air, "You have reception all the way out here?"
All the Rangers laughed at her apparent frustration with the small cellular device. She glared at the nearest of the Rangers, who just happened to be Rocky. "Wipe that smile off of your face!" she growled at him just as she tossed the small pink and silver phone toward him. "In fact, you can answer it for me. It's probably my mother, just tell her I'm busy at the moment."
Rocky gawked at her then down at the small phone in his hand. "What?" he asked.
"Answer the phone, if it's my Mom, tell her I'm busy. If it's someone else, tell them I'm busy."
Rocky just looked at her as be brought the phone up to his ear, but not before he pushed the button to put the call through. "Hello?"
"Who in the hell is this?" came a slightly annoyed female's voice. "I know this isn't Kat, unless she had a sex change and neglected to tell me about it."
"She's here," Rocky said, a slight uncertainty creeping into his voice.
"Then how 'bout you put her on the phone since it is hers and all?"
"She's kinda busy at the moment, maybe I can take a message?"
There was the sound of arguing coming over the other line and Rocky heard what sounded like a disgruntled woman's voice complaining about something. A second later the person spoke again, but this time their voice sounded just a bit different.
"Sorry about that," the woman said, "Brenda's all bark and no bite and her phone manners desperately need improving. Is Kat around?"
"She's here, but she's in the middle of something at the moment. Could I take a message?" Rocky rolled his eyes, suddenly feeling like Kat's personal receptionist. He vaguely wondered if it was the same woman as before pretending to be someone else or if it really was a different person entirely.
"Nah, just tell her that Isabel called and that we're going to be coming for a visit in a couple of weeks. Her parents and Bren and mine have already agreed to it."
"Yeah, sure…" Rocky agreed absently. "Isabel called, visiting in a couple of weeks, parents agreed to it…ok, got it."
"Thanks," the woman said and her voice sounded way to cheery.
Rocky tossed the phone back to Kat as she was turning to face him from some data sheets she was looking over. "Anything important?" she asked.
"I'm not sure…" he paused as she looked at him curiously. "Do you know an Isabel or Brenda?"
"Yeah, they're my cousins from back in Australia, why?"
"One or both of them just called, I'm not sure yet. First I think it was Brenda then Isabel took the phone from her. She said to tell you that they'll be visiting in a couple of weeks and that the parents have all agreed to it…er, something like that anyhow. She was way too cheerful."
"That would've been Isabel then.
Angel Grove Park
11:47 am
Just as had happened in Australia and Pennsylvania, there was a loud crack of thunder in the middle of a cloudless day. Shadows shifted, some crossing over one another while others bent at seemingly awkward angles. A strong gust of wind tried bending trees over, breaking some weaker branches and sending them spiraling to the ground below.
People scattered as the sky above suddenly darkened with threatening looking black clouds that had materialized from nowhere. Another loud crack of thunder shattered the still quiet of the park as a bright bolt of lightning flitted across the ever growing dark skies.
Once again, the two strange creatures stepped from the shadows of the trees. "Is this it?" the reptile asked.
"It is," S'Raw answered. "This is Angel Grove Park."
"Ah," the reptile hissed, "Finally we are here!"
"You have the names of the ProtoHumans we seek, my Lord?" S'Raw purred, fearing to anger her master.
"Yes, I do," the reptile answered. With a flick of his scaled wrist a scroll materialized in his clawed grasp. He glanced at the twelve names on the list. "We will search for the first three ProtoHumans…" He paused as a sound that could only be described as laughter spilled from his mouth. "They are females and females are suppose to be the weaker of the two sexes."
"And their names are…?" S'Raw asked.
"The first one we will look for is named Kimberly Hart. Next will one be Riana Zale and the third one is called Isabel Bryant."
Well then, there's chapter 2 and we have discovered that this latest and newest evil cares not for who it kills. It leaves no witnesses to its comings and goings and all who do see it will end up dead. So, what will that hold in store for Kimberly since she is the first on its list? What about Riana and Isabel, what doom will it spell out for them?
How will the Rangers deal with this new evil and just what are these ProtoHumans and DestiHumans it's referring to? How do our heroes and heroines equal into this dangerous equation?
Review, let me a short note on what you think so far!
Now, for the shout outs!
Dominic Fiduccia : I'm glad you've liked the story so far, sorry though that Zack, Trini nor Jason didn't make an appearance in this chapter, maybe the next one.
Hartfelt : Hn, so I can't destroy the Zords…you'd be surprised at what I have in store for this story and what I'm not telling you. I'll hear you bitching at some point in time, I just know it, but oh well. Deal! LOL, later.
Pink-Crane : Well, you got a little more info on the baddies and you even got one of their names. S'Raw is a feline humanoid of some type in case you couldn't tell but as for the main baddie, I ain't giving a whole lot out on him yet. He's still an enigma.
ScarletDeva : You I have got to thank whole-heartedly! Thanks for putting up with me and reading over every little thing and listening to me spaz when Rocky isn't co-operating and just plain driving me nuts! LOL
