Part 2
Jason, Jarrold and Leslie had been walking for hours and Jarrold was starting to get upset with the way that Leslie had been hovering close to him since the trio had left the Power Chamber. He couldn't figure out why Jason had brouhgt her along but it was his call so Jarrold didn't argue. Jarrold stopped suddenly and Leslie (who hadn't really been paying attention to where she was walking) bumped into him. "Watch out." Jarrold said.
"I'm sorry, I guess that I'm so tired that I wasn't paying attention." Leslie managed to get out. 'Why am I here?' she asked herself. 'He doesn't even like me, he's in love with Ashlyn'
"It's okay just be more careful" Jarrold told her.
Leslie turned and looked at Jason, who had sat down to take a breather "How long is it going to take to get there?" she asked her friend.
"About another day and a half if we hurry. It's a long walk." Jason answered.
"Yeah, so we better get going before Barberon attacks again." the team leader said. "And Leslie please be a little more careful."
"I will." Leslie said meekly.
'Why is he so hard on her' Jason thought to himself as the group began to walk once more. 'Can't he see that she just has crush on him? Besides she's beautiful and if I were him I wouldn't wait a minute to be with her. Oh well his lose I quess'
'I wish she would quit walking so close to me, she's starting to get annoying. Even though she is really cute' Jarrold told himself.
"Jason tell us about your parents." said Leslie. "I'd like to know about the Power Rangers that came before us."
"Yeah let us in on the little mystery of how you can have three parents and have them all be Rangers." Jarrold probed. 'This should be interseting.'
"Well it's not a mystery really, you see my stepmom was the original Pink Ranger and my was one the original Green Ranger and fought for Rita Repulsa. He was freed from the spell that was made him evil and he joined the team as the first Green Ranger. Rita came up with a plan to steal his powers but he gave them to his best friend and left the team."
"Wow, your dad really had a tough time didn't he?" Leslie said, making more of a comment than a question.
"Yeah but that's not the worst part. You see the parents of Angel Grove got kidnapped by the Dra-Mole one of Ritas monster. To save them the Rangers agreed to give up their power but after they did Rita double-crossed them and kept their parents. The only choice they had was to give my dad his powers back and sned him to retrieve their power coins. His powers were limited and he had a hard time in the fight but eventually he won and the Rangers saved the parents. Later Ritas master Lord Zedd came to Earth to find out why in ten-thousand years she hadn't managed to take over one littele planet. He banished her and gave sent a monster to Earth to beat the Rangers. The monster nearly destroyed their Zords but Zordon managed to save them and create new Zords out of them. My dads powers were to weak to handle a new Zord so he didn't get one."
"Jason, is Zordon that head that gave us our powers?" Jarrold interrupted.
"I don't see how it could've been, dad told me that Zordons been dead for years." Jason answered
"What I really want to know is how that guy know who we were." Leslie said.
"I think we'd all like to know that Leslie" Jarrold said. "Anyway, Jason go on.
"Well dad fought with the Rangers for a while longer but his powers kept getting weaker and weaker so Lord Zedd come up with a plan to drain him of his powers permanetly. He kept sending monsters to ambush dad until his power drained completely. Dad was sad so he left Angel Grove for vacation to take his mind off things. Zedd had a plan to kidnap him and turn him evil again. At the same time Zordon had created new powers and was looking for someone to give them to and since dad had proven himself worthy Zordon teleported him away seconds before Zedd got ahold of him. Dad was given new powers and became the White Ranger, he was also given a new Zord and placed in command of the team."
"Sounds like your dad finally got what he deserved." Leslie cut in.
"But it didn't last." Jason continued "Rita came back and married Zedd. The two were very powerful but the Rangers managed to keep beating the couple. Three of the Rangers left to go to a peace conference and three new Rangers came in to replace them while they were away. The new Rangers helped fight Rita and Zedd until they found and released a creature named Ivan Ooze."
"I've heard of him didn't he tear Angel Grove to shreds?" Jarrold asked.
"Yeah and he destroyed the Command Center. The Rangers were powerless and were sent to a planet called Phaedos and were attacked by a group of Tenga warriors. Without their powers they were all but defenseless, but a warrrior named Dulcea saved them and took them to a temple where she helped them unlock their animal spirits and gave them the powers of the Ninjetti. The Rangers got the great power and came back to Earth to defeat Ivan.
After they beat him things went pretty much back to normal and the Rangers got their old powers back. Ritas brother Rito came and brought an army of Tengas and a monster egg with him. The egg hatched and the Rangers went to defeat the monster but their ThunderZords were destroyed abnd their powers were lost. Zordon sent them to find Ninjor, the being that created the power coins in the first place to see if he could give them new powers. He gave them powers based on their spirit animals and they reactivated their NinjaZords.
They beat the monster and sent Rita and Zedd packing. About that time Rita kidnapped an Australian girl that had just moved to Angel Grove and placed her under a spell. After a short while the Rangers found out what was going on. The girl saw my step mom falling off a balance beam and got so concerned that she broke the spell on her own. The girl took mom to the hospital and the two became such good friends that when she was leaving mom gave her powers to her and she became the second Pink Ranger.
"That's cool, but where does your real mom come in?" Leslie asked totally engrossed in the story.
"I'm getting to it." Jason said "Have some patience."
"I hope that get back soon, if Barberon attacks while they're gone we're going to be in serious trouble." Tara said.
"Yeah that guy was bad news" agreed Mark.
"Well when we get those Zords we're gonna trash him" Ashlyn added.
The lights in the command center dimmed and sirens sounded. "Damn well I guess it's time to go beat this guy down." Bryan said in response to the sirens.
"Yeah, It's Morphin Time" Aron said reaching behind his back and grabbing his Morpher.
"Panther!"
"Cheetah!"
"Fox!"
"Dragon!"
"Bull!"
The Rangers teleported in five streaks of multi-colored light to face their opponent. Red landed in the middle of a rushing crowd and grabbed the arm of a man that was running past him. The man stopped and looked at Red and started to cry. "I don't believe it your a Power Ranger" he said. "It's been so long."
"What's going on here?" the Red Ranger questioned.
"There's a monster attacking us." the man said frantically. "He just appeared out of nowhere and started tearing up the place."
"Go ahead and get out of here while we take care of him." Red told the man.
The man ran off and then took a look back at the Rangers and smiled. 'Those aliens are in trouble now.' the man told himself.
The others gathered around the Red Ranger and started to look around for thei r opponent. Barberon stepped out from behind a building and glared at the Rangers "Only five of you this time? What happened did your friends get scared and not want fight anymore." he taunted, walking towards the Rangers.
"Hey bonehead in case you forgot the Green Ranger kicked you butt last time!" Purple shouted.
"Oh yeah then how come you guys ran off then?" Barberon returned.
"Because we had better things to do than wipe the floor with you." Blue answered.
"Yeah well try to wipe the floor with me this time little Rangers." Barberon said angerily as he ran at the arrogant youngsters.
"You want it you got it pal." sneered Blue as he took up a fighting stance and then ran to intercept the monster.
"Here have one of these." Yellow said, jumping up and springing off of Blues shoulder and flying at the alien with with a kick. Barberon staggered slightly but held his ground causing the Yellow Ranger to fall back and land on her rear. Barberon reached down and grabbed the girl by her neck and hoisted her in to air. He then kicked her back into the air like a soccerball and puched her in the stomach as she flew up.
"Do the rest of you whimps want what I just gave your yellow friend." Barberon growled.
Purple charged him "No one does that to her but me you jerk!" the youngest Ranger said. "Now have one of these." The Purple Ranger pulled out her bow and aimed at her adversary "Plasma Storm!" she shouted as she let loose a spray of bright purple energy.
Barberon laughed as the energy hit him "That actually felt kinda good little girl. To bad your green leader isn't here to put some more power into it. That didn't feel quite the same." Barberon taunted. "Now it's my turn." Barberon pulled out his hammer and struck the ground with it causing a fissure in that ground that rippled towards the Purple Ranger, she responded by jumping up over the fissure but Barberon was determined to hit her so brought his hammer up and caught her in the stomach causing her to hit the ground and slide back at the other Rangers. She grasped her stomach in pain and passed out cold.
Barberon stood over the helpless Purple Ranger and raised his hammer to hit her. "Oh no you don't!" cried Black, who was already in mid-move. "Meteor Rain!" he twirled his staff and and tossed it into the air. Rocks and rubble began to raise from the ground and merged together forming a giant boulder above Barberon. The ball turned bright red and burst into flames. The giant meteor then dropped down towards the monster splitting into smaller framents on the way. Each fragment struck Barberon causing him to go down in a smoking heap. "Don't mess with the Rangers" Black said as he picked up the young Purple Ranger and carried her over to the others.
Red stepped back and looked up. Black turned around to see what his teammate was looking at and saw that his attack had not finished Barberon as he had thought. Red grabbed Purple from Black and they ran to join the others. "What does it take to stop this guy?" Red asked.
"You don't seem to get it, do you" the now giant Barberon laughed. "There's no way you're gonna beat me, you guys are gonna end up like the little Purple Ranger."
"The cities clear." Blue announced.
"Then we're outta here". Red told them.
The Rangers reached for the air and teleported away in flashes of light. "You can't run from me forever Rangers" Barberon called as he kicked over a building and then shrunk back down to normal size. "No you can't run forever. I'll get rid of you just like I did the last Rangers."
"So are you going to finish telling us about your parents?" Leslie asked, it was getting late so the trio had decided to stop and make camp for the night. They were still a long way away from Jasons home and needed as much rest as they could get. Still Leslie and Jarrold both were intrigued by his story and wanted to here the rest of it.
"Okay where as I?"
"The Australian girl had just gotten your moms powers." Jarrold reminded him.
"Oh yeah, well Ritas dad Master Vile came to Earth and turned turned time backwards causing all the Rangers to turn into children. Since the Rangers were so young they didn't have the ability to Morph so Zordon sent them back in time to find the Zeo sub-crystals that they had hidden a few months before.
While they were away Zordon called for help from a group of Rangers from the planet Aquitar. The Aquitian Rangers fought bravely but had to return to their planet several times because the were dependent on minerals in the water of their world to survive.
Eventually the young Power Rangers found the crytals that they were after and returned them to the present but one of the Rangers decided to stay in the past and sent a new friend along with her crystal.
The Aquitians beat Rita and Zedd but as last revenge they sent Rito and Goldar to blow up the Command Center and still the Zeo crystal. Alpha teleported the Rangers away before they were hurt. The Rangers ran back to the command center and found a hiddden chamber underneath.
Inside the hidden chamber they found Zordon, Alpha the Zeo Crystal and a completely new Command Center or Power Chamber as they now called it. Zordon gave the Rangers new powers based on the Zeo crystal. Their new friend became the Yellow Ranger and dad was now the Red Ranger.
The Red Ranger Rocky became the Blue Ranger, the Black Ranger Adam became the Green Ranger and the Pink Ranger kept her color also the original Blue Ranger Billy took up a role of support in the Power Chamber.
These new powers came just in time because the no sooner than they got their power did a new group of Aliens attacked. These aliens were from the Machine Empire and ruled by King Mondo and Queen Machina. Mom sent dad a letter breaking up with him and he found a new love in the Australian girl that had become the Pink Ranger.
The Rangers fought the machines and eventually the machines started to gain the upper hand. This changed when the Rangers detected a mysterious energy source heading in from deep space. They were attacked by a monster and were losing badly until a mysterious Ranger dressed in black and gold appeared and saved them. Just as quickly as he would appear he would disappear without a word.
The Rangers encountered this new friend several times and each time he would bail them out and then vanish without a trace. The Rangers were contacted by the Aquitians and told that they had this Gold Ranger and that he had been hurt very badly,
They introduced him as Prince Trey of Triforia and told them that he was dying from an attack. He was teleported to Earth and and he told the Rangers that if he died while he had the Gold Ranger power that they would be lost forever. The only answer was to find someone to take the power.
At first they tried to give the power to Billy the original Blue Ranger but because of the explosion his body had absorped negative protons and he would not be able to use the powers. At least that's what he told the others, but dad told me that he never believed that story. The only answer was to find someone else that could handle the powers and to that end dad went and found a friend that had returned to Angel Grove just a few days before.
When the machines got wind of this they tried to capture them but were not fast enough and the two escaped. In the Power Chamber dad told his best friend Jason who was also the original Red Ranger what was going on and Jason agreed to take the Gold Powers.
Jason became the new Gold Ranger. The Rangers defeated King Mondo and for revenge the machines captured dad, brainwashed him and made him their leader. For the second time in his career my dad was forced to turn to evil. Jason became team leader again and did his best to save dad. They succedded just in time, because the Gold Powers began to slowly eat away at Jason life force.
Prince Trey returned from Triforia and took back the powers, saving Jasons life in the process King Mondo who had been reassembled choose this time to attack but the Gold Ranger revealed a new ability and used his staff to make the Rangers grow.
The Rangers beat the machines and chased then away from Earth for what looks like forever.
Jarrold looked like he had seen a ghost. "What happened to this Jason" Jarrold asked.
"I'll get to that in a moment." the younger Jason told him.
"Yeah and hurry up and get to your parents" Leslie rushed.
There was a rustle in the trees behind them, Jarrold jumped up and looked at them. "Did you guys hear that?" he asked.
"Hear what?" asked Jason.
"There's something in those trees, I'm going to check it out. You guys wait here."
"We all better go, if it's trouble you might need help and we shouldn't leave Leslie alone." Jason argued.
"Okay, but Leslie you stay back and try to stay out of the way alright."
"Alright I'll be careful." said Leslie in a rather cheery mood." The three slowly walked into the trees but didn't see anything.
"Are you sure you heard something?" Jason asked.
"Yeah it was coming from right here as." Jarrold said pointing to the spot that he standing on.
"Well there's no one here now" Leslie said.
There was another rusting sound behind them. This time they all heard it and turned around. Jarrold ran towards the area that the sound was coming from. He saw a shadow out of the corner of his eye and turned towards it. "There it is!" Jarrold called out.
The shadow moved past Leslie, who in response shrieked and jumped back. Jason ran over to her "You ok?" he asked.
"Yeah, I'm ok." she answered.
"Which way did he go?"
"I didn't see. He just ran past me." she said.
"Nevermind, I got him." Jarrold called. He walked out from behind a group of trees holding up a boy by the collar of his shirt.
"Let go of me you jerk." the boy screamed, trying to fight of the bigger man.
"Shut up!" Jarrold said shaking the kid a little.
Leslie walked over to Jarrold and slapped his hand away from the boys collar. "Let him go Jarrold, he's probably alone and scared" she told the team leader.
Jarrold let the kid go and glared at him for a moment "Why were you following us?" he asked.
"I was listening to the story." the boy answered. Then he turned to Jason. "Were your mom and dad really the Power Rangers?" he asked.
"You heard what I said." Jason told the kid. "And you shouldn't be sneaking around kid."
"Leave him alone." Leslie told them. "Are you hungry?" she asked turning to the kid.
"I haven't eaten in days." he told her.
"Well we have sme food and your welcome to share it with us." Leslie smiled.
"What!!!" Jarrold and Jason both shouted.
"Well we can't let him go hungry and can't leave him out here alone, he's coming with us when we get going in the morning."
"No way." Jarrold told her. "There is no way that we're taking him with us."
"Oh yes we are" she said glaring at Jarrold.
Jarrold walked away frowning. He grabbed Jason by the arm and led him over to a group of trees. "Why did you ask her to come?"
Jason just shrugged and walked back to the camp fire.