Disclaimer: Power Rangers...Saban. Yeah, yeah. Dorothy is from the Wizard
of Oz... but I would expect you all to know that, too.
A/N: Haha, I'm having fun writing this story. I must be crazy for trying to write two continuing stories at once, but it works. When I get stuck on one, I work on the other. Ya dig? (Wow. That was random.) So alright! Chapter two of Jurassic Rangers, here we go!
THE BOG
Kim and Jason stood adjacent to each other, each with their own worried faces searching their neighborhood for anything else familiar.
"Kim," Jason said confidently. "I don't think we're in Angel Grove anymore."
Kim stared at Jason, her lip quivering from the laugh she was trying to keep in. "Way to sound like Dorothy. But I kinda wish there were some sort of 'yellow brick road' we could follow, to lead us out of here... wherever 'here' is." She began to absently twist a lock of her hair in her fingers. "I'm starting to really not like the looks of this..."
Jason turned around, looking over Kimberly's shoulder to the sidewalk that used to lead down the rest of the neighborhood. "Well, it's not yellow, and it's not made of brick, but the sidewalk that should lead to Billy's house is still here." He held out a hand, palm up. "Shall we?"
She took it, and they both began to make their way down the path, Kimberly skipping at Jason's side.
'Oh man,' thought Jason, amused at Kim's way of motion. He rolled his eyes and chuckled, letting Kim's hand swing his arm back and fourth. 'I just hope Billy can give us some insight on what's going on.'
* * *
The young intellectual stood in his garage wearing a pair of faded blue jean overalls with a blue and white stripped T-shirt underneath. He slid his glasses back in place with a finger on the bridge of his nose. On the table in front of him lay an assortment of leaves gathered from the unfamiliar plants surrounding his home, and a book that he glanced at repeatedly, after examining each leaf carefully. All of a sudden, a tall, slim girl with lengthy black hair walked into the garage from the side of the house, carrying a leaf in her hand.
"I found another one, Billy. Have you determined anything yet?"
Billy took the leaf from the girls' hand and she peered over one of his shoulders, studying a page in the open book. "Thanks, Trini," Billy said. "So far, from what we've gathered, I think I can make an accurate guess as to what time period we are currently located-" Before he could say anything else, a third voice interrupted.
"Boy, I hope so, Billy man. These bugs are creepin' me out." Zack crunched his neck and shoulders, and stepped into the garage. "I can't take any more of this." The young African-American took a seat on a stool next to Trini, looking over Billy's other shoulder. "I mean, how do you time travel in your sleep? Talk about weird."
The whiz teen picked up one of the leaves amongst the scattered others, and looked at it closely, squinting behind his glasses. "From what I can tell, these leaves were only known to live during the Jurassic Period of the geological time scale. Or to be more precise, during the Mesozoic era, a time period where dinosaurs ruled the Earth."
Zack and Trini exchanged concerned glances as Billy added another comment. "I find it strange that these should be appearing suddenly, seeing as they've been extinct for over 63 million years." He returned the leaf to the pile on the table and stood back, plunging his hands into his pockets. "Assuming that time travel did in fact occur while we were in a state of slight unconsciousness, I find it odd that our destination in time ended up being so far back."
Zack nodded his head. "You know what else is weird? I didn't see either one of my parents this morning. Before I saw what it looked like outside, I figured they went to work a little early. But now, I'm starting to wonder if something happened to them."
Trini chimed in. "Same here. My mother is always up early, but she is usually cleaning or cooking breakfast in the kitchen on Saturday mornings. Her car was in the driveway, but there was no sign of her anywhere."
"A second thought has just occurred to me. You guys, do you think this is Zedd's doing? Perhaps he finally became hit with a stroke of genius and realized that by sending us so far back in time, we could no longer interfere with his plans to overthrow the world."
The other two teens shrugged their shoulders, apparently considering their blue buddies thought.
All three friends looked absently at the pile of leaves on the table in front of them, contemplating on their current situation. The sound of footsteps broke their thoughts, and they all turned their heads to see Jason and Kimberly emerging from the thinning fog outside of the garage.
Jason let go of Kim's hand and watched her rush up to Trini and Zack like a puppy let lose of his leash.
"You guys, can you believe what it looks like out there?" Kim squealed, her arm outstretched to the fog.
Jason strode up to Billy. "Looks like you've been doing some research. Have you found anything?"
Billy nodded. Removing his hand from its pocket, Billy touched a leaf as he explained to his other two friends. "Apparently, we've somehow been re- located through time to the Mesozoic era, the only time period in which these plants lived." He poked at the leaf. "And strange enough, our persons are the only ones who seem to have been affected by whatever occurrence has brought us here." He returned his hand to its pocket and shrugged.
Jason folded his brow and crossed his stressed arms over his chest. "You mean that's why there are no other houses on the street?"
"So then, that would explain why my mom wasn't here this morning," Kim realized out loud. "This is just too weird, you guys. How could this have happened? I mean, I wake up and find that my mom is gone, all the houses on the street have just disappeared, and there are giant, man-eating bugs everywhere! I can't deal." Kim shook her head with her bottom lip pouted.
Zack nudged her shoulder. "Hey, I'm with you on the bugs. I can't believe how big they are!"
"Oh, I know!" Kim raised her right hand as if she were being sworn in at court. "They are the most disgusting things I have ever seen." Her eyes were raised to the ceiling, staring at nothing in particular.
"Well guys," Jason said, turning to the team. "What do you say we venture out, to see if we can find any way of getting things back to normal?"
Billy spoke in response first. "I concur, although without any proper technology with which to create a time hopping devise, or something of the sort, our situation almost seems a bit hopeless."
Trini was next. "We shouldn't just give up, Billy. Maybe we can find our way to the Command Center! Has anyone tried to contact Zordon?"
Jason nodded as Kim spoke. "We got nothing. Neither Alpha nor Zordon answered."
Zack sighed. "So what, we're stuck here? Man, that's fantastic," he said sarcastically.
"So then I guess our only option is to look for a way out. We can split up into two teams. Kim, you and I can head to the park area. Trini, Zack and Billy, you three see if you can get to the Command Center, if it's where it's supposed to be. If we don't find anything, we'll meet back here in an hour tops." The rest agreed with their leader's decision. Billy, Trini and Zack made their way out of the garage first, leaving Kim and Jason alone.
"I'm really starting to get worried, Jason. What if we don't find a way out of here?" She began to fidget with her fingers, her signature sign of nervousness.
The teen in red placed a reassuring hand on her slim shoulder. "Don't worry. We've always managed to get out of seemingly hopeless situations before. Why should this one be any different?"
Kim shrugged and smiled at Jason's attempt to calm her. Suddenly, their communicator's went off. Kim stared at Jason with raised eyebrows.
"Do you think it's Zordon?!" she hoped excitedly.
"There's only one way to find out." Jason lifted his wrist to his mouth, and activated his communicator with his other hand. "This is Jason. We read."
"Jason," Zack's voice could be heard from the other side of the system. "We thought we'd check out the communicators just to make sure they worked."
Kim and Jason let out sighs of both relief and disappointment. "Well, at least we know they do between us. Good thinking, guys. Be careful out there, okay?"
"You got it, man. We'll let you know as soon as we see anything. Zack man out."
"Right," Jason said as he heard a soft click. He looked at the brunette by his side.
"Well, I guess we should start heading out, too," She figured. They exchanged nods, and Kim followed closely behind Jason as he led the way back out into the fog.
* * *
He thought he'd been walking for hours, but he couldn't seem to find anyone he knew.
'Great,' he thought. 'I'm lost. Man, I wish I knew where the others were. I wake up and my parents are gone. Not to mention the weird weather, and freaky plants. Something tells me I'm not where I'm supposed to be. Or maybe it's more of a WHEN...' He moved his way through the thick brush. 'Being a ranger certainly has unfortunate disadvantages.'
All of a sudden, he heard a thunderous roar to his immediate left. Looking but not seeing anything, he simply released a deep breath and continued walking, a shiver tingling down his spine. "Man, I wish I knew where the others were."
* * *
Kim and Jason came to the area where the Park would normally be, but instead found a bog surrounded by large ferns and the tallest of trees either one of them had ever seen.
Kim looked up in amazement. "Wow," she said, squinting at the faint sun peeking through the tree canopy. "I can't believe we've gone back in time. I want to believe that Billy is wrong, but there's never any use in arguing with his calculations."
Jason didn't respond. Instead, he stood as still as possible, his eyes on a pair of bushes off to the side. Whispering, he grabbed his pink friend's attention. "Kim, come over here for a sec. Stand as still as you can."
She did as told, with a sense of worry. Grabbing his arm, she asked, "Jason, what's wrong?" and followed his gaze to the bushes. They began to shake, their leaves fluttering and swaying together. Their movement became more and more rapid, as did the two teens heartbeats. "Jason, I'm scared!" Kimberly admitted, but Jason remained in his stone position, and slowly placed his free hand on top of Kim's, whose nails began to dig into his flesh, but not so pressured as to draw blood.
The arms of the fern slowly began to move apart, making way for a shadowed figure to move through. At the sight revealed in front of her, Kim opened her mouth to scream and let out a blood curdling shriek. Her heart stopped as the figure from behind the bush emerged, and plowed into Jason.
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A/N: Haha, I'm having fun writing this story. I must be crazy for trying to write two continuing stories at once, but it works. When I get stuck on one, I work on the other. Ya dig? (Wow. That was random.) So alright! Chapter two of Jurassic Rangers, here we go!
THE BOG
Kim and Jason stood adjacent to each other, each with their own worried faces searching their neighborhood for anything else familiar.
"Kim," Jason said confidently. "I don't think we're in Angel Grove anymore."
Kim stared at Jason, her lip quivering from the laugh she was trying to keep in. "Way to sound like Dorothy. But I kinda wish there were some sort of 'yellow brick road' we could follow, to lead us out of here... wherever 'here' is." She began to absently twist a lock of her hair in her fingers. "I'm starting to really not like the looks of this..."
Jason turned around, looking over Kimberly's shoulder to the sidewalk that used to lead down the rest of the neighborhood. "Well, it's not yellow, and it's not made of brick, but the sidewalk that should lead to Billy's house is still here." He held out a hand, palm up. "Shall we?"
She took it, and they both began to make their way down the path, Kimberly skipping at Jason's side.
'Oh man,' thought Jason, amused at Kim's way of motion. He rolled his eyes and chuckled, letting Kim's hand swing his arm back and fourth. 'I just hope Billy can give us some insight on what's going on.'
* * *
The young intellectual stood in his garage wearing a pair of faded blue jean overalls with a blue and white stripped T-shirt underneath. He slid his glasses back in place with a finger on the bridge of his nose. On the table in front of him lay an assortment of leaves gathered from the unfamiliar plants surrounding his home, and a book that he glanced at repeatedly, after examining each leaf carefully. All of a sudden, a tall, slim girl with lengthy black hair walked into the garage from the side of the house, carrying a leaf in her hand.
"I found another one, Billy. Have you determined anything yet?"
Billy took the leaf from the girls' hand and she peered over one of his shoulders, studying a page in the open book. "Thanks, Trini," Billy said. "So far, from what we've gathered, I think I can make an accurate guess as to what time period we are currently located-" Before he could say anything else, a third voice interrupted.
"Boy, I hope so, Billy man. These bugs are creepin' me out." Zack crunched his neck and shoulders, and stepped into the garage. "I can't take any more of this." The young African-American took a seat on a stool next to Trini, looking over Billy's other shoulder. "I mean, how do you time travel in your sleep? Talk about weird."
The whiz teen picked up one of the leaves amongst the scattered others, and looked at it closely, squinting behind his glasses. "From what I can tell, these leaves were only known to live during the Jurassic Period of the geological time scale. Or to be more precise, during the Mesozoic era, a time period where dinosaurs ruled the Earth."
Zack and Trini exchanged concerned glances as Billy added another comment. "I find it strange that these should be appearing suddenly, seeing as they've been extinct for over 63 million years." He returned the leaf to the pile on the table and stood back, plunging his hands into his pockets. "Assuming that time travel did in fact occur while we were in a state of slight unconsciousness, I find it odd that our destination in time ended up being so far back."
Zack nodded his head. "You know what else is weird? I didn't see either one of my parents this morning. Before I saw what it looked like outside, I figured they went to work a little early. But now, I'm starting to wonder if something happened to them."
Trini chimed in. "Same here. My mother is always up early, but she is usually cleaning or cooking breakfast in the kitchen on Saturday mornings. Her car was in the driveway, but there was no sign of her anywhere."
"A second thought has just occurred to me. You guys, do you think this is Zedd's doing? Perhaps he finally became hit with a stroke of genius and realized that by sending us so far back in time, we could no longer interfere with his plans to overthrow the world."
The other two teens shrugged their shoulders, apparently considering their blue buddies thought.
All three friends looked absently at the pile of leaves on the table in front of them, contemplating on their current situation. The sound of footsteps broke their thoughts, and they all turned their heads to see Jason and Kimberly emerging from the thinning fog outside of the garage.
Jason let go of Kim's hand and watched her rush up to Trini and Zack like a puppy let lose of his leash.
"You guys, can you believe what it looks like out there?" Kim squealed, her arm outstretched to the fog.
Jason strode up to Billy. "Looks like you've been doing some research. Have you found anything?"
Billy nodded. Removing his hand from its pocket, Billy touched a leaf as he explained to his other two friends. "Apparently, we've somehow been re- located through time to the Mesozoic era, the only time period in which these plants lived." He poked at the leaf. "And strange enough, our persons are the only ones who seem to have been affected by whatever occurrence has brought us here." He returned his hand to its pocket and shrugged.
Jason folded his brow and crossed his stressed arms over his chest. "You mean that's why there are no other houses on the street?"
"So then, that would explain why my mom wasn't here this morning," Kim realized out loud. "This is just too weird, you guys. How could this have happened? I mean, I wake up and find that my mom is gone, all the houses on the street have just disappeared, and there are giant, man-eating bugs everywhere! I can't deal." Kim shook her head with her bottom lip pouted.
Zack nudged her shoulder. "Hey, I'm with you on the bugs. I can't believe how big they are!"
"Oh, I know!" Kim raised her right hand as if she were being sworn in at court. "They are the most disgusting things I have ever seen." Her eyes were raised to the ceiling, staring at nothing in particular.
"Well guys," Jason said, turning to the team. "What do you say we venture out, to see if we can find any way of getting things back to normal?"
Billy spoke in response first. "I concur, although without any proper technology with which to create a time hopping devise, or something of the sort, our situation almost seems a bit hopeless."
Trini was next. "We shouldn't just give up, Billy. Maybe we can find our way to the Command Center! Has anyone tried to contact Zordon?"
Jason nodded as Kim spoke. "We got nothing. Neither Alpha nor Zordon answered."
Zack sighed. "So what, we're stuck here? Man, that's fantastic," he said sarcastically.
"So then I guess our only option is to look for a way out. We can split up into two teams. Kim, you and I can head to the park area. Trini, Zack and Billy, you three see if you can get to the Command Center, if it's where it's supposed to be. If we don't find anything, we'll meet back here in an hour tops." The rest agreed with their leader's decision. Billy, Trini and Zack made their way out of the garage first, leaving Kim and Jason alone.
"I'm really starting to get worried, Jason. What if we don't find a way out of here?" She began to fidget with her fingers, her signature sign of nervousness.
The teen in red placed a reassuring hand on her slim shoulder. "Don't worry. We've always managed to get out of seemingly hopeless situations before. Why should this one be any different?"
Kim shrugged and smiled at Jason's attempt to calm her. Suddenly, their communicator's went off. Kim stared at Jason with raised eyebrows.
"Do you think it's Zordon?!" she hoped excitedly.
"There's only one way to find out." Jason lifted his wrist to his mouth, and activated his communicator with his other hand. "This is Jason. We read."
"Jason," Zack's voice could be heard from the other side of the system. "We thought we'd check out the communicators just to make sure they worked."
Kim and Jason let out sighs of both relief and disappointment. "Well, at least we know they do between us. Good thinking, guys. Be careful out there, okay?"
"You got it, man. We'll let you know as soon as we see anything. Zack man out."
"Right," Jason said as he heard a soft click. He looked at the brunette by his side.
"Well, I guess we should start heading out, too," She figured. They exchanged nods, and Kim followed closely behind Jason as he led the way back out into the fog.
* * *
He thought he'd been walking for hours, but he couldn't seem to find anyone he knew.
'Great,' he thought. 'I'm lost. Man, I wish I knew where the others were. I wake up and my parents are gone. Not to mention the weird weather, and freaky plants. Something tells me I'm not where I'm supposed to be. Or maybe it's more of a WHEN...' He moved his way through the thick brush. 'Being a ranger certainly has unfortunate disadvantages.'
All of a sudden, he heard a thunderous roar to his immediate left. Looking but not seeing anything, he simply released a deep breath and continued walking, a shiver tingling down his spine. "Man, I wish I knew where the others were."
* * *
Kim and Jason came to the area where the Park would normally be, but instead found a bog surrounded by large ferns and the tallest of trees either one of them had ever seen.
Kim looked up in amazement. "Wow," she said, squinting at the faint sun peeking through the tree canopy. "I can't believe we've gone back in time. I want to believe that Billy is wrong, but there's never any use in arguing with his calculations."
Jason didn't respond. Instead, he stood as still as possible, his eyes on a pair of bushes off to the side. Whispering, he grabbed his pink friend's attention. "Kim, come over here for a sec. Stand as still as you can."
She did as told, with a sense of worry. Grabbing his arm, she asked, "Jason, what's wrong?" and followed his gaze to the bushes. They began to shake, their leaves fluttering and swaying together. Their movement became more and more rapid, as did the two teens heartbeats. "Jason, I'm scared!" Kimberly admitted, but Jason remained in his stone position, and slowly placed his free hand on top of Kim's, whose nails began to dig into his flesh, but not so pressured as to draw blood.
The arms of the fern slowly began to move apart, making way for a shadowed figure to move through. At the sight revealed in front of her, Kim opened her mouth to scream and let out a blood curdling shriek. Her heart stopped as the figure from behind the bush emerged, and plowed into Jason.
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