Disclaimer: I don't own the Power Rangers, or the settings where they have
taken place. They are owned by Saban. I don't wish to get sued. The names
of the children and also Cristina are mine.
Setting: Between 1997-2060
F.Y.I: You are going to have to use your imagination a bit. In this story I have it so all the Rangers, new and old know each other for the most part. There are many flashbacks throughout this story also.
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I remember the very first time I was actually sick and tired of being a ranger. I have been through hundreds of battles, I have morphed a countless number of times and I was growing weary of saving the world.. It was in the summer.. I remember thinking.
Well, Aisha Adam and I have been rangers for one year now. One whole year of being heroes. One whole year of saving the world. One whole year of almost dying. And you know what? I'm starting to get sick of it. What if I don't want to save the world anymore? What if I don't want to be a hero? What if I just want to go back living a perfectly normal life without risking my life practically everyday?
"Earth to Rocky?" Aisha calls to me.
"What?" I grumble.
"You in or not?" Adam says.
"For what?" I reply.
"Boy haven't you been listening to a word we have been saying?" Aisha playfully swats my arm.
"No sorry I haven't." I tell her shrugging my shoulders.
"We are all gonna head down to the lake for the day." Adam says to me. I sigh. "Are you in?"
"Why bother?" I say.
"What do you mean?" Aisha questions.
"I mean, every time we actually try to do something fun it gets ruined by Rita. Why bother going down and starting something than get called off to battle and have the entire day ruined?" I say throwing my hands up in the air.
"Rocky, it doesn't always happen like that!" Adam tells me.
"Of course it does. We actually all try and hang out together and it is ruined within an hour by that bitch Rita."
"Rocky, where is all this coming from? Huh?" Aisha asks me.
"Nowhere, just forget it." I say sighing.
"No, don't just forget it. If something's bothering you, you should talk about it." Adam says to me. "So start talking."
"Forget it." I tell them. "It's nothing."
"Rock, come on." Aisha says.
"I'm gonna get out of here. I'll see you guys at the lake." I say, and walk out of the Youth Center. As soon as I get out the doors I see Kimberly walking over.
"Hey Rocky!" She calls to me smiling.
"Hey Kimberly." I call back to her.
"Leaving already?"
"Yup."
"How come?" She asks me.
"Because I feel like it!" I snap at her.
"Oh.. Well ok.. I guess I'll see you later." She says.
I sigh and look back at her. I am not the type to snap at my friends. "I'm sorry Kimberly." I say to her. "I didn't mean to snap at you."
"It's ok Rocky. Some day's just aren't as good as others." She shrugs. "If you need to talk just let me know Rocco." She smiles and starts to walk away.
"Do you ever just get tired of it?" I ask her.
"Tired of what Rocky?" She asks, giving me a quizzical look.
"Of being a Ranger." I say. She gives me a really odd look. "Kim, don't look at me like I have 3 heads please. I am being serious."
"Rocky." She starts with. "Why haven't you talked to Zordon if you were question your ranger status?"
"I don't know. I guess I never really thought about it before. It's just, the past few battles I have began to think more about it. I just keep on feeling that it isn't worth it anymore." I say to her.
"I don't know what to say Rocky." She tells me.
"Have you ever?"
"Have I ever felt like not being a Ranger?" She asks with a shocked look on her face.
"Kim, please don't look at me like that. Yes, about not being a ranger." I say.
"No Rocky. I haven't. Not at all! I have always loved being a Ranger. It is such a great honor to be picked from hundreds of thousands of people to save the world!"
"Have you ever questioned why you were chosen?" I ask her.
"Yeah, I have, but I just forget about my doubts and trust that Zordon's decision was right and keep on fighting!" She says.
"But, I mean, why are we wasting our time." I begin. Kim cuts me off and says, "Rocky, I am really not the one you should be talking too. I'm sorry but I don't have the answers for you. I don't know what to say to you and as much as it kills me not being able to help you out, I can't. I'm sorry."
"I think I wanna quit the team." I tell her flat out.
"What?" She says to me.
I repeat myself, "I think I wanna quit the team." And I watch her expression change.
"Then go ahead and quit." She says angrily at me and shakes her head in disbelief. "I'm sorry to be saying this to you, but if you do quit, maybe Jason was wrong about picking you, because we can't afford quitters Rocky." And then she turns and goes into the Youth Center.
I watch her enter the doors and sigh. I just don't know what to do, so I decide I should go home and call it a day. Stay in my room and just think about what I should do. I get home and go into my room and go through all the reasons to quit, and all the reasons to stay on the team and to quit. "I should stay because I took over Jason's position. I should stay because I don't want to let down the team. but I am miserable. I don't want to do this anymore. I am sick and tired of risking my life day in and day out. I just want to live a normal life!" My mind is screaming. I flop down on my bed, covering my eyes with my hands and sigh in frustration. Just then I hear a knock on my door.
"Come in." I reluctantly say, thinking its one of my younger siblings.
"Hey Rock." I hear Aisha call to me. She looked pissed.
"Hey Ish." I say back to her. "Why do you look so pissed?"
"Kimberly." She tells me flat out.
"Kimberly?" I ask.
"Yes. But never mind that right now, how are you doing? Any better of a mood than earlier?"
"No." I say, and am curious about why she is mad at Kim. "Why are you mad at Kim?" I ask her.
"Because you wouldn't believe what she was trying to get Adam and I to believe."
"What's that?" I ask.
"The girl has flipped her nut Rocco. Can you believe she actually told us that you were quitting?" I go numb. "I told her that there was no way in hell that you would ever quit the team, and she argued with me telling me that you told her that you were quitting when she talked to you." She stops to catch a breath before saying, "Sorry, I know I'm rambling."
"Not a problem." I say, "Aisha." I start, trying to tell her that Kim was right, but she cuts me off.
"And then the girl starts arguing with me about this. I told her that I know you better and I KNOW you aren't a quitter and how dare her ever make something like that up about a friend. And she continued to say that she wasn't making it up excreta and Adam and I just got up and left. I mean can you believe her Rocky? Geeze, you think you know a girl and she pulls this." She says, and she must have seen how white I had gotten because she next asks, "Are you alright?"
"She's right Aisha." I tell her.
"What?" Aisha asks.
"Kimberly was right, she was telling the truth."
"Excuse me? What do you mean she was telling the truth?" Aisha asked, a bit pissed off, but who could blame her.
"I am thinking about quitting the team." I tell her.
"Why?" She asks. I look at her and tell her exactly the same reasons I told Kim, and at the end she says, "That's absolute bull shit Rocky! You feel all of the sudden that we are wasting our time? That saving the place we live is not worth anything anymore? Boy you definitely have a screw or two loose in that head of yours."
"Aisha."
"Don't you Aisha me!" She shouts. "I stuck up for you! I yelled at one of my best friends and called her a liar to her face for something that I thought you would never done! What for? Because she was actually telling the truth?" The look on her face was more of a shocked look than a really angry one, but nonetheless, it was a look that I did not want to see on her.
"Aisha, just listen to me. I haven't made my decision yet. I still have to talk to Zordon." I try to reason with her.
"Rocky, you have already made up your decision, and it is one that I have to accept, but it is not one that I have to agree with or like."
"I need to know that you are ok with my decision, whatever it should be." I ask.
"Why Rocky?"
"You're my best friend."
"You want me to tell you that it's ok for you to quit? I'm sorry Rocky, I just cant do that." She says. "I told you, I'll accept your decision, but that's all. Now if you will excuse me, I have to leave and go talk to Kimberly." She tells me, and walks out.
"Aisha, I'm sorry."
"Don't be apologizing just to me Rocky. You owe the other 3 the same explanation on why you are leaving the team." And with that she walks out of my room. I guess that its time for me to go and talk to Zordon so I teleport out of my room, up to the Command Center.
"Rocky, I have been waiting for you to come." Zordon says to me.
"Zordon." I begin, not knowing exactly how to put in words what I am about to say.
"I know what you are here for my son. You are having doubts about your ranger status." He starts for me.
"I just don't think its worth my time anymore Zordon! I'm not happy anymore! Every time that we are called into battle I am pissed off! I just feel like not even answering my communicator!" I tell him, talking a mile a minute. "I feel like I will put the others in danger because of my lack of caring, and want to stop before that happens."
"I see. This is a big decision Rocky, but this is yours alone. No one else can make this decision." He tells me.
"I think I want to quit Zordon."
"Well then, that is your choice, and we shall find another ranger to fill in your place. I will give you a few days for you to think it over. I am aware that the other rangers know what you are thinking about doing, and I will talk to them also about your decision once you made it."
"I want out." I say, putting my power coin down on the consoles and stepping away."
"Very well. We will begin looking for a replacement. Alpha, alert the rangers, and have them teleport here immediately." Zordon says to the little robot, and about 30 seconds later, all of my friends appear. I look around. Kim is standing close to Tommy; you can easily tell that she had been crying. Tommy has his arm around her shoulders, staring off into space, not even making eye contact with me. It is quite obvious that he is pissed. Adam and Aisha are standing together. Aisha, who also has been crying prior to her arrival, looks at the ground, and Adam stares at me with a confused look. Billy is the closest to me and showing the most compassion towards me. He just knowingly nods at me and awaits Zordon's words of wisdom.
"Rangers, Rocky has brought to my attention that he chooses to quit the team." Zordon tells the Rangers.
To Be Continued..
Hey sorry it took me so long to update. The next part to this story will come very quickly! I promise! And they will make up for the other chapters! Thanks for the reviews gang! LUNA
Setting: Between 1997-2060
F.Y.I: You are going to have to use your imagination a bit. In this story I have it so all the Rangers, new and old know each other for the most part. There are many flashbacks throughout this story also.
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I remember the very first time I was actually sick and tired of being a ranger. I have been through hundreds of battles, I have morphed a countless number of times and I was growing weary of saving the world.. It was in the summer.. I remember thinking.
Well, Aisha Adam and I have been rangers for one year now. One whole year of being heroes. One whole year of saving the world. One whole year of almost dying. And you know what? I'm starting to get sick of it. What if I don't want to save the world anymore? What if I don't want to be a hero? What if I just want to go back living a perfectly normal life without risking my life practically everyday?
"Earth to Rocky?" Aisha calls to me.
"What?" I grumble.
"You in or not?" Adam says.
"For what?" I reply.
"Boy haven't you been listening to a word we have been saying?" Aisha playfully swats my arm.
"No sorry I haven't." I tell her shrugging my shoulders.
"We are all gonna head down to the lake for the day." Adam says to me. I sigh. "Are you in?"
"Why bother?" I say.
"What do you mean?" Aisha questions.
"I mean, every time we actually try to do something fun it gets ruined by Rita. Why bother going down and starting something than get called off to battle and have the entire day ruined?" I say throwing my hands up in the air.
"Rocky, it doesn't always happen like that!" Adam tells me.
"Of course it does. We actually all try and hang out together and it is ruined within an hour by that bitch Rita."
"Rocky, where is all this coming from? Huh?" Aisha asks me.
"Nowhere, just forget it." I say sighing.
"No, don't just forget it. If something's bothering you, you should talk about it." Adam says to me. "So start talking."
"Forget it." I tell them. "It's nothing."
"Rock, come on." Aisha says.
"I'm gonna get out of here. I'll see you guys at the lake." I say, and walk out of the Youth Center. As soon as I get out the doors I see Kimberly walking over.
"Hey Rocky!" She calls to me smiling.
"Hey Kimberly." I call back to her.
"Leaving already?"
"Yup."
"How come?" She asks me.
"Because I feel like it!" I snap at her.
"Oh.. Well ok.. I guess I'll see you later." She says.
I sigh and look back at her. I am not the type to snap at my friends. "I'm sorry Kimberly." I say to her. "I didn't mean to snap at you."
"It's ok Rocky. Some day's just aren't as good as others." She shrugs. "If you need to talk just let me know Rocco." She smiles and starts to walk away.
"Do you ever just get tired of it?" I ask her.
"Tired of what Rocky?" She asks, giving me a quizzical look.
"Of being a Ranger." I say. She gives me a really odd look. "Kim, don't look at me like I have 3 heads please. I am being serious."
"Rocky." She starts with. "Why haven't you talked to Zordon if you were question your ranger status?"
"I don't know. I guess I never really thought about it before. It's just, the past few battles I have began to think more about it. I just keep on feeling that it isn't worth it anymore." I say to her.
"I don't know what to say Rocky." She tells me.
"Have you ever?"
"Have I ever felt like not being a Ranger?" She asks with a shocked look on her face.
"Kim, please don't look at me like that. Yes, about not being a ranger." I say.
"No Rocky. I haven't. Not at all! I have always loved being a Ranger. It is such a great honor to be picked from hundreds of thousands of people to save the world!"
"Have you ever questioned why you were chosen?" I ask her.
"Yeah, I have, but I just forget about my doubts and trust that Zordon's decision was right and keep on fighting!" She says.
"But, I mean, why are we wasting our time." I begin. Kim cuts me off and says, "Rocky, I am really not the one you should be talking too. I'm sorry but I don't have the answers for you. I don't know what to say to you and as much as it kills me not being able to help you out, I can't. I'm sorry."
"I think I wanna quit the team." I tell her flat out.
"What?" She says to me.
I repeat myself, "I think I wanna quit the team." And I watch her expression change.
"Then go ahead and quit." She says angrily at me and shakes her head in disbelief. "I'm sorry to be saying this to you, but if you do quit, maybe Jason was wrong about picking you, because we can't afford quitters Rocky." And then she turns and goes into the Youth Center.
I watch her enter the doors and sigh. I just don't know what to do, so I decide I should go home and call it a day. Stay in my room and just think about what I should do. I get home and go into my room and go through all the reasons to quit, and all the reasons to stay on the team and to quit. "I should stay because I took over Jason's position. I should stay because I don't want to let down the team. but I am miserable. I don't want to do this anymore. I am sick and tired of risking my life day in and day out. I just want to live a normal life!" My mind is screaming. I flop down on my bed, covering my eyes with my hands and sigh in frustration. Just then I hear a knock on my door.
"Come in." I reluctantly say, thinking its one of my younger siblings.
"Hey Rock." I hear Aisha call to me. She looked pissed.
"Hey Ish." I say back to her. "Why do you look so pissed?"
"Kimberly." She tells me flat out.
"Kimberly?" I ask.
"Yes. But never mind that right now, how are you doing? Any better of a mood than earlier?"
"No." I say, and am curious about why she is mad at Kim. "Why are you mad at Kim?" I ask her.
"Because you wouldn't believe what she was trying to get Adam and I to believe."
"What's that?" I ask.
"The girl has flipped her nut Rocco. Can you believe she actually told us that you were quitting?" I go numb. "I told her that there was no way in hell that you would ever quit the team, and she argued with me telling me that you told her that you were quitting when she talked to you." She stops to catch a breath before saying, "Sorry, I know I'm rambling."
"Not a problem." I say, "Aisha." I start, trying to tell her that Kim was right, but she cuts me off.
"And then the girl starts arguing with me about this. I told her that I know you better and I KNOW you aren't a quitter and how dare her ever make something like that up about a friend. And she continued to say that she wasn't making it up excreta and Adam and I just got up and left. I mean can you believe her Rocky? Geeze, you think you know a girl and she pulls this." She says, and she must have seen how white I had gotten because she next asks, "Are you alright?"
"She's right Aisha." I tell her.
"What?" Aisha asks.
"Kimberly was right, she was telling the truth."
"Excuse me? What do you mean she was telling the truth?" Aisha asked, a bit pissed off, but who could blame her.
"I am thinking about quitting the team." I tell her.
"Why?" She asks. I look at her and tell her exactly the same reasons I told Kim, and at the end she says, "That's absolute bull shit Rocky! You feel all of the sudden that we are wasting our time? That saving the place we live is not worth anything anymore? Boy you definitely have a screw or two loose in that head of yours."
"Aisha."
"Don't you Aisha me!" She shouts. "I stuck up for you! I yelled at one of my best friends and called her a liar to her face for something that I thought you would never done! What for? Because she was actually telling the truth?" The look on her face was more of a shocked look than a really angry one, but nonetheless, it was a look that I did not want to see on her.
"Aisha, just listen to me. I haven't made my decision yet. I still have to talk to Zordon." I try to reason with her.
"Rocky, you have already made up your decision, and it is one that I have to accept, but it is not one that I have to agree with or like."
"I need to know that you are ok with my decision, whatever it should be." I ask.
"Why Rocky?"
"You're my best friend."
"You want me to tell you that it's ok for you to quit? I'm sorry Rocky, I just cant do that." She says. "I told you, I'll accept your decision, but that's all. Now if you will excuse me, I have to leave and go talk to Kimberly." She tells me, and walks out.
"Aisha, I'm sorry."
"Don't be apologizing just to me Rocky. You owe the other 3 the same explanation on why you are leaving the team." And with that she walks out of my room. I guess that its time for me to go and talk to Zordon so I teleport out of my room, up to the Command Center.
"Rocky, I have been waiting for you to come." Zordon says to me.
"Zordon." I begin, not knowing exactly how to put in words what I am about to say.
"I know what you are here for my son. You are having doubts about your ranger status." He starts for me.
"I just don't think its worth my time anymore Zordon! I'm not happy anymore! Every time that we are called into battle I am pissed off! I just feel like not even answering my communicator!" I tell him, talking a mile a minute. "I feel like I will put the others in danger because of my lack of caring, and want to stop before that happens."
"I see. This is a big decision Rocky, but this is yours alone. No one else can make this decision." He tells me.
"I think I want to quit Zordon."
"Well then, that is your choice, and we shall find another ranger to fill in your place. I will give you a few days for you to think it over. I am aware that the other rangers know what you are thinking about doing, and I will talk to them also about your decision once you made it."
"I want out." I say, putting my power coin down on the consoles and stepping away."
"Very well. We will begin looking for a replacement. Alpha, alert the rangers, and have them teleport here immediately." Zordon says to the little robot, and about 30 seconds later, all of my friends appear. I look around. Kim is standing close to Tommy; you can easily tell that she had been crying. Tommy has his arm around her shoulders, staring off into space, not even making eye contact with me. It is quite obvious that he is pissed. Adam and Aisha are standing together. Aisha, who also has been crying prior to her arrival, looks at the ground, and Adam stares at me with a confused look. Billy is the closest to me and showing the most compassion towards me. He just knowingly nods at me and awaits Zordon's words of wisdom.
"Rangers, Rocky has brought to my attention that he chooses to quit the team." Zordon tells the Rangers.
To Be Continued..
Hey sorry it took me so long to update. The next part to this story will come very quickly! I promise! And they will make up for the other chapters! Thanks for the reviews gang! LUNA