Mean green part 1
From his moon base, Lord Zedd is in a foul temper, his wife has walked out on him to take a holiday, his latest monster has been defeated by the Power Rangers, and he is out of ideas on how to conquer the world.
"My lord," snorts mordant, "good news."
"What," Zedd snaps not used to being interrupted during his brooding, "the Rangers have died in a freak boating accident?"
"Er, no," the pig creature responds some what perplexed, "one of the Rangers is on her own in the park, she seems to be trying to do some dancing."
"Dancing," Zedd is now in a rage over the activities of the Ranger, he feels they see him as such a lack of a threat that they seek their excitement elsewhere. "She wants to dance does she, well lets give her someone to dance with," he calls out to his other helper, "Goldar, send in a dozen putties. We'll see how she likes to dance with them."
* * *
Down in Angel Grove Park, Katherine Hillard, also known as the pink ranger, is attempting to remind herself of her old Ballet lessons she learned in her native Australia. She had been complaining to Adam that while they were perfecting there martial arts or teaching them she felt a little bored. He had asked her what she did while in Australia to keep herself amused, and she said that she had always danced but since moving to California she hadn't taken it up again. Adam told her that she could teach her skills to a new generation and carry on training, he told her about a school that operated on a Saturday morning she could attend and it has been her pet project since. Now she was almost back to the level she was at before she arrived in the city that seems to attract evil, having weathered sarcastic comments from Bulk and Skull when she started earlier this afternoon.
After a few more short routines she returns to her bag and takes out a towel wiping the sweat from her brow, she stretches to relieve the tension from her body, and picks up her bag. As she makes to leave, the Putties Lord Zedd had sent down appear and surround her. "Putties," she exclaims in her thick Australian accent, "what do they want." Her first thought is to morph but there are too many witnesses around, so she has to fight without using her powers. The Putties begin their attack.
* * *
Not far away two young men are walking in the park discussing the tournament set to take place tomorrow at the gym and juice bar, they both have English accents. One of the men is Spence dressed in combat trousers and a white polo neck, he has dark hair neatly combed back and gelled. The other is Eddy who wears a pair of black jogger bottoms and a dark green T- shirt, his hair is a lot more unkempt, it seems to be cut in a wild bob with his fringe hanging over his face, it is a light brown colour. Both men seem to entered into the contest there opponents to be drawn at random on the day of the contest. They step over a small hillock and see the Putties appear around a pretty girl in a pink dancers costume.
"Well they said life here would be exciting," comments Eddy, he then passes his bag to Spence, "hang on to that would you," he tells him.
Spence takes the bag from his friend then asks "what are you going to do?"
He looks at him with a glare that seems to say, you know what I'm going to do, there is nothing you can say that will stop me, so don't bother. Spence doesn't bother he just sighs and let's his friend and sparring partner play the hero.
Eddy walks up behind the putties and asks them "excuse me what seems to be the trouble." The putties ignore him. "I said," says Eddy becoming more animated, "'cuse me."
The woman looks up at him and warns "these things are dangerous."
"Then you need a hand," he comments with a glint in his eyes, that contradict his unassuming image. He grabs the nearest Puttie on the near shoulder from behind and the far shoulder from the front, whipping him backward to the floor, he follows it up with a punch to the chest. When the punch connects the strange creature explodes.
Kat also goes on the offensive, with a few strong kicks and punches to the Z marks on their chests, the attacked creatures, she then tells her new ally, "I can handle it."
"I don't doubt," he agrees never missing a beat in the brawl he is engaged in, "but your not going to refuse help when it is offered are you?"
"Well no," she says returning to the fight, "but I don't want to see you get hurt."
He kicks the final assailant in the chest and it explodes, "not much of a problem, my dear." He walks across to her and extends his hand to her, "I'm Eddy by the way."
"Kat," she tells him as she shakes his hand, "are you here for the big tournament tomorrow."
"Aye, that I am luv," he turns back towards the hillock then calls out, "it's alright Spence, you can come out now."
"I wasn't hiding," he protests as he moves out from behind a small group of trees, "I was ready to work as a second front."
Eddy shakes his head and turns back to Kat, "this is Spence my cowardly companion."
"Hey," Spence objects.
* * *
"How could this happen," Lord Zedd fumes, "she was all alone, is the least experienced Ranger and was already tired from her practice, and yet she walks away unhurt."
"Well there was this English lad," Mordant began.
"I saw what happened you idiotic..."
As he was about to insult his minion further Goldar enters with one of the boxes stolen from the Command Centre, a small case for jewellery "My Lord I have an idea." He shows Zedd the contents of the case. The nearest thing to a smile that Lord Zedd can muster contorts on his metallic features.
* * *
The following day at the youth centre, Kat is explaining to the others about the attack by the Putties. She goes on to tell them about the way Eddy had helped her, and how they spent the next hour just talking. Tommy seems a little uneasy about this, but doesn't speak. With that Eddy and Spence arrive Kat calls them over.
"Hi," he greets, "you must be the guys Kat was telling me about."
"So are you here for the tournament," Tommy asks offhandedly.
"Yeah, that's right, I won the mixed martial arts entry tournament for the UK."
"You'll be going back there soon then," Tommy still speaks offhandedly.
"No, I'm finishing my collage course here. I'm majoring in Popular Culture, focusing on the influence of monsters, that's why I'm in Angel Grove."
"Hey look," notes Rocky, "the competition's starting."
"The first encounter this afternoon," lieutenant Stone begins, "pits a local favourite, Tommy Oliver, against the British under 21 MMA champion of the year Edward Wilson."
Eddy turns to his opponent, "hey man, good luck."
They move to the mats and after a few bows and handshakes the five-minute point-scoring contest begins, Tommy is aggressive with his tactics but is continually blocked by the much more grappling based style of his opponent. The event is a purests dream they are going move for counter-move, throw for counter-throw and hold for counter-hold. No one in the audience could predict the result leading to a lot of tension in the final few seconds of the match where Tommy missed a kick, and Eddy capitalised with a strong Grecko-Roman throw. This last second difference maker made all the difference giving the win to the visitor, the crowd applaud both efforts.
After a few congratulations have been offered to both men, and Spence has been defeated by Adam, Eddy leaves for home. Tommy is sat quietly to the side of his five friends, somewhat dejected.
"Come on Tommy," Aisha cheerily reassures, "what does one loss mean." Tommy ignores her, "that guy really bugs you doesn't he?" Tommy can't help but crack a smile at this comment, he turns back to his friends.
* * *
Not far away, Eddy walks down a back road, the shortest route to his flat, and is confronted by Goldar, who gives him the case, the winged monkey then disappears.
"People have the funniest ways of getting about round here," Eddy says to himself. He then hears a noise behind him, turns and is confronted by a red spectre that seems to have no skeleton.
A beam is projected from his staff with a Z at the top, which links the case and the carrier. "I am Lord Zedd," the monster explains to him, "and you are my evil Green Ranger." And he was.
From his moon base, Lord Zedd is in a foul temper, his wife has walked out on him to take a holiday, his latest monster has been defeated by the Power Rangers, and he is out of ideas on how to conquer the world.
"My lord," snorts mordant, "good news."
"What," Zedd snaps not used to being interrupted during his brooding, "the Rangers have died in a freak boating accident?"
"Er, no," the pig creature responds some what perplexed, "one of the Rangers is on her own in the park, she seems to be trying to do some dancing."
"Dancing," Zedd is now in a rage over the activities of the Ranger, he feels they see him as such a lack of a threat that they seek their excitement elsewhere. "She wants to dance does she, well lets give her someone to dance with," he calls out to his other helper, "Goldar, send in a dozen putties. We'll see how she likes to dance with them."
* * *
Down in Angel Grove Park, Katherine Hillard, also known as the pink ranger, is attempting to remind herself of her old Ballet lessons she learned in her native Australia. She had been complaining to Adam that while they were perfecting there martial arts or teaching them she felt a little bored. He had asked her what she did while in Australia to keep herself amused, and she said that she had always danced but since moving to California she hadn't taken it up again. Adam told her that she could teach her skills to a new generation and carry on training, he told her about a school that operated on a Saturday morning she could attend and it has been her pet project since. Now she was almost back to the level she was at before she arrived in the city that seems to attract evil, having weathered sarcastic comments from Bulk and Skull when she started earlier this afternoon.
After a few more short routines she returns to her bag and takes out a towel wiping the sweat from her brow, she stretches to relieve the tension from her body, and picks up her bag. As she makes to leave, the Putties Lord Zedd had sent down appear and surround her. "Putties," she exclaims in her thick Australian accent, "what do they want." Her first thought is to morph but there are too many witnesses around, so she has to fight without using her powers. The Putties begin their attack.
* * *
Not far away two young men are walking in the park discussing the tournament set to take place tomorrow at the gym and juice bar, they both have English accents. One of the men is Spence dressed in combat trousers and a white polo neck, he has dark hair neatly combed back and gelled. The other is Eddy who wears a pair of black jogger bottoms and a dark green T- shirt, his hair is a lot more unkempt, it seems to be cut in a wild bob with his fringe hanging over his face, it is a light brown colour. Both men seem to entered into the contest there opponents to be drawn at random on the day of the contest. They step over a small hillock and see the Putties appear around a pretty girl in a pink dancers costume.
"Well they said life here would be exciting," comments Eddy, he then passes his bag to Spence, "hang on to that would you," he tells him.
Spence takes the bag from his friend then asks "what are you going to do?"
He looks at him with a glare that seems to say, you know what I'm going to do, there is nothing you can say that will stop me, so don't bother. Spence doesn't bother he just sighs and let's his friend and sparring partner play the hero.
Eddy walks up behind the putties and asks them "excuse me what seems to be the trouble." The putties ignore him. "I said," says Eddy becoming more animated, "'cuse me."
The woman looks up at him and warns "these things are dangerous."
"Then you need a hand," he comments with a glint in his eyes, that contradict his unassuming image. He grabs the nearest Puttie on the near shoulder from behind and the far shoulder from the front, whipping him backward to the floor, he follows it up with a punch to the chest. When the punch connects the strange creature explodes.
Kat also goes on the offensive, with a few strong kicks and punches to the Z marks on their chests, the attacked creatures, she then tells her new ally, "I can handle it."
"I don't doubt," he agrees never missing a beat in the brawl he is engaged in, "but your not going to refuse help when it is offered are you?"
"Well no," she says returning to the fight, "but I don't want to see you get hurt."
He kicks the final assailant in the chest and it explodes, "not much of a problem, my dear." He walks across to her and extends his hand to her, "I'm Eddy by the way."
"Kat," she tells him as she shakes his hand, "are you here for the big tournament tomorrow."
"Aye, that I am luv," he turns back towards the hillock then calls out, "it's alright Spence, you can come out now."
"I wasn't hiding," he protests as he moves out from behind a small group of trees, "I was ready to work as a second front."
Eddy shakes his head and turns back to Kat, "this is Spence my cowardly companion."
"Hey," Spence objects.
* * *
"How could this happen," Lord Zedd fumes, "she was all alone, is the least experienced Ranger and was already tired from her practice, and yet she walks away unhurt."
"Well there was this English lad," Mordant began.
"I saw what happened you idiotic..."
As he was about to insult his minion further Goldar enters with one of the boxes stolen from the Command Centre, a small case for jewellery "My Lord I have an idea." He shows Zedd the contents of the case. The nearest thing to a smile that Lord Zedd can muster contorts on his metallic features.
* * *
The following day at the youth centre, Kat is explaining to the others about the attack by the Putties. She goes on to tell them about the way Eddy had helped her, and how they spent the next hour just talking. Tommy seems a little uneasy about this, but doesn't speak. With that Eddy and Spence arrive Kat calls them over.
"Hi," he greets, "you must be the guys Kat was telling me about."
"So are you here for the tournament," Tommy asks offhandedly.
"Yeah, that's right, I won the mixed martial arts entry tournament for the UK."
"You'll be going back there soon then," Tommy still speaks offhandedly.
"No, I'm finishing my collage course here. I'm majoring in Popular Culture, focusing on the influence of monsters, that's why I'm in Angel Grove."
"Hey look," notes Rocky, "the competition's starting."
"The first encounter this afternoon," lieutenant Stone begins, "pits a local favourite, Tommy Oliver, against the British under 21 MMA champion of the year Edward Wilson."
Eddy turns to his opponent, "hey man, good luck."
They move to the mats and after a few bows and handshakes the five-minute point-scoring contest begins, Tommy is aggressive with his tactics but is continually blocked by the much more grappling based style of his opponent. The event is a purests dream they are going move for counter-move, throw for counter-throw and hold for counter-hold. No one in the audience could predict the result leading to a lot of tension in the final few seconds of the match where Tommy missed a kick, and Eddy capitalised with a strong Grecko-Roman throw. This last second difference maker made all the difference giving the win to the visitor, the crowd applaud both efforts.
After a few congratulations have been offered to both men, and Spence has been defeated by Adam, Eddy leaves for home. Tommy is sat quietly to the side of his five friends, somewhat dejected.
"Come on Tommy," Aisha cheerily reassures, "what does one loss mean." Tommy ignores her, "that guy really bugs you doesn't he?" Tommy can't help but crack a smile at this comment, he turns back to his friends.
* * *
Not far away, Eddy walks down a back road, the shortest route to his flat, and is confronted by Goldar, who gives him the case, the winged monkey then disappears.
"People have the funniest ways of getting about round here," Eddy says to himself. He then hears a noise behind him, turns and is confronted by a red spectre that seems to have no skeleton.
A beam is projected from his staff with a Z at the top, which links the case and the carrier. "I am Lord Zedd," the monster explains to him, "and you are my evil Green Ranger." And he was.