Part 3
Mark walked around the halls of the Power Chamber, even though he had been here a few days the place still took some getting used to. He hadn't been in many buildings in his life and certainly none as big as his current home. Mark made his way to the kitchen for a late night snack (he also hadn't been free to eat when ever he wanted to so he was going to take advantage of it while he could). The young man opened the kitchen door and walked in heading straight for the refrigerator. When he reached it he noticed that the door was wide open, thinking nothing of it he reached looked inside and saw more food than he had ever seen in his life. Mark literally couldn't figure out what he was going to eat first. After a moment of staring he decided on a simple ham sandwich and gathered together the ingredients. Laying everything on the counter has was startled when he heard a bang behind him. Mark turned around quickly to see the young Purple Ranger limping into the kitchen. "Tara what are you doing out of bed?" he asked "After what happened in the fight you should be resting."
"I would be but I got hungry and decided to get something to eat." The Purple Ranger told her new friend. "What are you doing up so late anyway."
"Well I've never been in any place like this so every night I go on a walk through the Power Chamber just to look around. It's like I'm in some kind of dream and I just want to see as much of it as I can before I wake up." Mark turned around and handed the girl one of the sandwiches had had just made. "Besides who would have been up to make this for you?" he laughed.
The two turned took a seat at the table and looked at their late night snacks. "Were you in here before?" Mark asked.
"No that would have been us." came the answer. They looked over and saw Ashlyn, Bryan and Aron coming out of the small room that was behind the kitchen.
"I guess none of us could sleep." said Bryan as he pulled up a seat next to Tara.
"Well some of us can't afford to miss out on our beauty sleep." Tara teased looking over to Ashlyn. She still couldn't understand why she didn't like the older girl but it felt so good to insult her that the Purple Ranger couldn't seem to help herself.
"What the hell is your problem squirt?" Ashlyn asked.
"Yeah Tara what's your problem?" Aron asked
"I don't know I just can't help myself. I'm never like this with anyone else. I honestly can't stand her." Tara said getting up and walking away from the table.
The girl made it to the kitchen door and fell over. The others saw this and ran to her but she was unconcious. "What's wrong with her?" Ashlyn asked. She was concerned with the loud mouth little girl. Even though the Tara was rude and treated her badly Ashlyn liked the girl (not that she would admit it to anyone).
"We better get her to the infirmary. She's pretty bad, probably from the hit Barberon gave her." Mark announced. He picked up the small Purple Ranger and she began to shake violently in his arms.
"Damn we better hurry and get her stabilized."
Ashlyn stood in shock as the girls eyes opened and rolled to the back of her head. Tara began to vomit violently and her body went limp. "Is she..." Ashlyn started.
"No but she's getting worse." Mark answered as he ran through the door.
"Are you hungry?" Leslie asked the boy.
"Yeah I haven't eaten in days." he answered.
"We don't have that much food Leslie and we have another days walk from here." Jason told his teammate.
"So that means we'll all eat a little less until we get to your parents house." Leslie returned. "There's no way I'm letting this little boy go hungry."
"Fine, just make the food Leslie" Jarrold told her, the team leader then turned to Jason "So what happened after the machines were chased from earth?" he asked the White Ranger.
"Well, after the machines left Earth the Rangers started to prepare for their high school graduation. They were enjoying the rest and relaxation and the chance to just be ordinary teenagers but that wouldn't last for long. You see there was this space pirate named Divatox, and according to dad she was one of the nastiest villians to attack Earth. She came her chasing a wizard by the name of Lerigot to get a golden key that he was carrying. Apparently the key had the power to free Divatox's fiancee from a prison that he had been in for thousands of years. To make it worse she required a sacrifice so she kidnapped Jason the former Gold Ranger and my mom Kim. Divatox tricked the Rangers into releasing Lerigot to her and got away with the wizard the key and the two former Rangers."
"Divatox sounds like a real terror." Leslie said as she stood up from the campfire that they had made a few hours ago.
"To beat her the Rangers needed to adopt new powers based on the power of Lerigots key. They gave up their Zeo Powers even though dad said that he felt that the Zeo Powers were a lot more powerful than the Turbo Powers. The Rangers also lost the Blue Ranger in a training accident and a new Ranger took his place. The Rangers along with their new Zords managed to save everyone from Divatox. Zordon left Earth with Alpha 5 leaving the Rangers with a new mentor named Dimitria. The team all graduated and retired, transferring their powers to a new team all except for the new Blue Ranger, Justin. Mom went to london to study ballet and dad began to drive race cars. Adam and Tanya got married and traveled around the world so that Adam could carry out his carrier as a stuntman in movies."
"So how'd they get back together?" Leslie asked, handing Jason a small wooden bowl with some soup in it.
"I'll tell you after I eat." he said as he shoved the spoon in his mouth.
"Is she OK?" asked Aron as he walked into infirmary and looked at the smallest Ranger.
"That jerk Barberon beat her up pretty badly, I don't know if she's even going to wake up" Mark told him.
"Next time we take him out for good!" Aron announced, seething with anger. "He's going to pay for this."
"Yeah nobody gets to beat on the runt but me!" Ashlyn declared.
As if on cue every single alarm in the place went off simultaneously. The Rangers all looked at each other and then to Tara. "You guys go, I'll stay with the squirt". Mark said.
Aron reached behind his back and the others took it as a sign that they were going into battle "It's Morphin Time!" he called out.
"Cheetah" Ashlyn said.
"Fox" Bryan called.
"Bull" Aron said.
In a flash of light the three Rangers teleported out of the Power Chamber and and appeared on the outskirts of a small town.
"Rangers!" came a voice from on the across the street.
The trio looked to see who was calling them and recognized Capt. Sawyer. Aron stepped forward, taking immediate lead. "What's going on here Captian?" the Red Ranger asked.
"Barberon and some of his soldiers are attacking the town and we came as fast as we could but we haven't been qable to hold them back. Their really kicking our butts." she said in one breathe.
"Well don't worry we're her now." The Red Ranger said with mock confidence. Of course this was just for appearences, he knew as well as the others that Barberon had single-handley beat eight Rangers then five so what chance did the three of them stand against the warrior that destroyed the original Power Team. Red Ranger walked over to Captian Sawyer and looked at her. Get your men out of here, we'll take of the rest." He said almost arrogantly.
Becky looked over the Red Ranger not knowing if she should argue but decided the better of it, after all these were the Power Rangers and she knew that if anyone could stop these monsters it would be them. She started to run and gather her troops but stopped to take on look back at the Rangers. She was scared for them but smiled on the inside at how brave they were. She just hoped when it came down to it thst she was this brave.
The three Rangers gathered in a circle and looked at each for a moment then Bryan stepped forward and looked at his two companions. "So what are we going to do about this guy?" he asked. "I mean he's kicked our butts twice aleady and everytime we fight him we come back with less of us. He's just to powerful."
The others knew that the Blue Ranger had a point but none of them wanted to give up. "I say we keep fighting him to the last one of us if we have to." Ashlyn said. "We can't let him or anyone else have control of our planet. I mean tht's why we became Rangers isn't it?"
"It's settled then" Aron said as he stepped forward to take the lead "we fight this jerk and we take him out this time." Aron said harshly as he turned and ran towards Barberon.
The others followed his lead and soon found themselves standing face to face with their opponent. "So you Rangers came back for more huh?" Barberon taunted "How comes there looks like there's less of you this time, could it be because I kicked your butts." he laughed.
"Not half as bad as were going to kick yours for what you did to Tara." Ashlyn yelled at him.
"You mean the little purple kid?" Barberon asked, with obvious fake concern.
"You know who I mean scumbucket!" Ashlyn shouted. "You're going to be sorry."
"No Yellow Ranger, it's you who's going to be sorry." the warrior said as he charged at Ashlyn.
Ashlyn stepped to the side, pulled out her blaster and shot Barberon in the arm. He quickly turned around and slapped her in the side of the helmet with such force that she was sent flying 30 feet into a building a slumped over only half-concious.
Inside his helmet Bryans mouth dropped as he saw what Barberon did to the Yellow Ranger. True none of them had known each other for more than a few days but he didn't think that anyone would be able to do that to her even unmorphed. "Ashlyn are you okay?" Bryan called to her.
"You should be more worried more about if you're going to be ok." Barberon warned The Blue Ranger as he leaped over him and cut off his path to Ashlyn.
"Plasma Axe" Blue Ranger shouted as he spun around and pulled out his weapon. "Backoff jerk" he ordered.
"You just don't get it do you? I eat Power Rangers for breakfast. Just look at your friends or read a history book."
"Shut up and fight!" Blue Ranger screamed as he charged at his opponent.
The Red Ranger looked in shock as he saw the to adversaries collide head first into one another. A huge cloud of smoke arose around them and when it cleared Aron saw that his friend was in a being held upside down by one leg with Barberon holding the Blue Rangers plasma axe. "You want some of me Red Ranger." Barberon taunted.
Aron responded by rasing his arm to his helmet. "Mark are you there?" he said into his communicator.
"I'm here" came the reply.
"I need an emergency teleport" Red Ranger told him. "Bryan and Ashlyn are down."
In three flashes of light the Red, Yellow and Blue Rangers disappeared and were once again in the safety of the Power Chamber. "Are the ok?" Mark asked as he picked up Ashlyn.
Ashlyn pushed him away and stood up "I'm fine." she said
"Well Bryans not we have to get him to the infirmary and you got hit pretty hard we better check you out to." Aron said grabbing the Yellow Rangers arm.
Ashlyn demorphed and then took of started off towards the infirmary like she was told. Aron looked over to Mark "I don't think we can beat him" he whispered to the Black Ranger."
"Yeah it looks like we need those Zords fast. I'll contact Jarrold and the others." Mark returned.
"I got you Mark" Jarrold said as he lowered his wrist communicator.
Jarrold turned to look at the others "We have to get those Zords and get back fast. Barberon attacked twice and my sister and Bryan are pretty bad off." he told the others.
"If we hurry we can be there in a about three hours. But that means no more rest breaks." Jason announced.
"Okay but you have to finish the story." Leslie throw in.
The three Rangers and the kid that they had picked up started off towards the destination.
"Yeah you said that you would tell us how your mom and dad finally got married." The kid said excitedly.
"Okay calm down." Jason told the kid. "Mom and dad stayed in contact and dad visited mom every during the summer. They were happy in and things seemed to be going good for them up til the time that Terra Venture left for the new world. Dad was selected to go but decided to stay and be with mom and he even proposed to her the night that the colony left. Aliens hadn't attecked the Earth in a while so the then current team of Rangers left Earth to explore the universe leaving only one Ranger, Justin who had recovered his Turbo Powers. That's when Diablicos attacked and with no other Rangers to help him Justin had his hands full and needed help so he went to find my dad and some others. Eventually he found several different former Rangers and all of them assumed the Turbo Ranger powers. Things were different this time though. Since Justin had brought everyone together he became the leader and was the Red Ranger. Dad became the Green Ranger again. They also got contacted Jason, the original Red Ranger and he became the Black Turbo Ranger. Rocky got his old powers back and became the Blue Ranger. Dad made a suggestion and they found an old friend named Trini and asked her to become the Pink Turbo Ranger which she agreed to. While on a mission to Africa the Rangers came across an old friend and ended up having to be saved by her when she donned the Yellow Turbo Powers. Now with the Aisha as the new Yellow Ranger they returned to Angel Grove and started work on rebuilding the Power Chamber. Work went slowly, between the battles and trying to maintain normal lives things didn't seem like they would ever settle down."
"How did they manage?" Jarrold asked, really getting into the story.
"Well at first it was really hard, but they started to make the best of it. Mom and dad got married so that was a happy time for everyone. Also something else happened that made helped out. There had been a mysterious Ranger that appeared and and disappeared several times to help out. Justin had become quit familiar with him but not as much as the other Rangers were. The Phantom Ranger as he was called decided that it was time for him to reveal himself to the others. It appears that after Zordon left Earth he got in contact with Aquitar and began an experiment that was supposed to change everything that was known about the Morphin Grid. He called upon one of the greatest minds that he knew of and the two work together to create a new set of powers that were bestowed upon a former Ranger. The Rangers were surprised when during Mom and dads wedding one of their oldest friends returned and revealed himself to be the phantom. Now with Billy back on the team the Power Chamber was rebuilt in no time."
"You mean that Billy the first Blue Ranger turned out to be the Phantom Ranger that whole time?" Jarrold asked. After recieving a bunch of stares Jarrold spoke again. "I read about it in the history archives in the Chamber." he returned.
"Well anyway with the technology that Billy back with him the Rangers upgraded their powers and even rebuilt the Power Chamber in less than a week. Justin also decided that he need time away from the team and turned over his powers to Jason who once again becam leader of the Rangers. The team needed to find a new Black Ranger fast becuase Billy was about to upgrade their powers to the next level and if all the powers were upgraded at the same time then the Morphin Grid could have been damaged. Luckily there was an unexpected visitor to Angel Grove at the time, unfortunately the visitor was kidnapped some of Diabolicos goons. The Rangers last mission with the Turbo powers was to save their friend. After the rescue the Rangers powers were upgraded and Kimberly, the original Pink Ranger became the Black Bio Ranger. Billy also gave each Ranger a power coin that they were to guard until the time when a new group of Rangers were to take over."
"Are those the coins that we have?" Leslie asked.
"I believe so. I got the ones I had from my mom and dad. Since each coin activated the same way they must all be the Power Coins that Billy gave hem to protect."
"Hold on" Jarrold interrupted. "So where did the other two coins come from." he pointed out.
"I'll have to ask my dad about that when we get there." Jason told him. "With the new powers the Rangers beat Diabolicos in just a few more months and after about two years of battle the Rangers were once again free to lead normal lives.
Jason and Trini were married and announced that Trini was pregnant. Billy returned to Aquitar to be with his wife and daughter.
Mom took over the Pink Power until the baby was born wanting them so much that she didn't tell anyone that she was pregnant. Aisha got a deal singing and went on tour where she ran into another Ex-Ranger and the two started dating.
Kimberly bought the Angel Grove Youth Center that they all used to hang out at and started teaching gymnastics full time. Things seemed to be going well, that was until the next alien attack. This time it was from Emperor Nicandros and the Vandairre. Their first attack left Aisha crippled and the Zords in pieces.
Jason tried to bring the team back together and found Justin. Kimberly took over the Yellow Ranger powers and Justin became the Black Ranger. New Zords were built quickly but they were incomplete and couldn't form a MegaZord. The new Zords were destroyed quickly and then the worst thing that could have happened did.
Kimberly was hit and went down foot soldiers were firing shots at her and the only one close enough to save her was my the Pink Ranger, my mom." the last part of this sentence had an obvious touch of sadness. "On that day I was only three years old. Three blast hit my mom as she covered Kimberly with her body. I was there and saw everything Kimberly had been trying to keep one of the soldiers from getting me and my mom died saving her. It was ironic in a way. After that dad went ballistic and started taking wreckless chances even going as far as to summon his original Zord from the bottm of Angel Grove lake and going on a suicide run against a Vandairre Cruiser.
Jason teleported dad back to the Power Chamber and told dad that it wasn't his time to go yet. He then sent the DragonZord back to rest in the bottom of the lake. The Rangers fought with everything that they had but Nicandros summoned his most powerful officer to deal with them and in one battle the Rangers were defeated and their powers were lost.
They contacted Aquitar to ask fof Billys help but he was nowhere to be found. The did find out that Ninjor the creator of the original Power Coins along with Dulcea the master warrior that had giving them their Ninjetti Powers had created these new coins and that there were Zords already created to go along with them. But they were also told that they were not meant to use them and that the next generation of Rangers were destined for these powers. A decision was made and the proto-forms of the Zords of the were hidden in different locations."
"Proto-forms, what are those?" Jarrold cut in.
"What I gathered from talking to my dad about it is that proto-forms are the raw essence used by the Morphin Grid to create Zords. Our powers were created along the same lines as the Ninja Powers that Ninjor created, meaning that the coin actually draw out and took on the essence of the animal spirit of the choosen one that first activated it. My animal spirit is the Lynx and is symbolized by the color white. I think that's why the coins changed color and the symbols appeared on them the first time we morphed. Also the proto-forms adapt and take on the form of it coins animal symbol meaning that my Zord will be a Lynx and yours will be an Eagle Jarrold and Leslie you will most likely have a Phoenix or some type of firebird."
"Hold on a second." Leslie gasped. "I think I know where one of the Zords is."
"How could you know that?" Jarrold asked skeptically.
"By listening to the story. Jason said that each Zord takes on the form of a Rangers spirit animal he also told us the location of a Zord that was never destroyed, the same type of Zord that your sister has for a spirit animal."
Jarrold and Jason both looked at each other, shocked that they hadn't though about it before "THE DRAGONZORD!!!" they both exclaimed.
"Hold on the DragonZord was the Zord of the Green Ranger why would it be attuned to the Purple Ranger now." Jarrold asked.
"Maybe it was always meant for the Purple Ranger and they activated it early because of some kind of emergency." Leslie suggested
"I've seen pictures of the DragonZord and it was green if it was meant for the Purple Ranger it would have been purple." Jason throughout.
"Maybe it was green because that was the color of the first Ranger that used it but that still doesn't mean that it was meant for him." Leslie argued.
"You know dad had told me that he had problems controlling the DragonZord normally and felt more comforaible piloting it by remote control. He said that the Zord didn't feel right to him. Not like the Tiger or Falcon. Maybe that's becuase it wasn't meant for the Green Ranger."
Jarrold seemed convinced by this statement and placed his communicator to his mouth. "Aron, Mark how are things going there." he asked.
Mark answered "Ashlyn's back on her feet and Bryan is starting to regain conciousness but Tara's still out. She's stable but we can't seem to wake her. How are things going on your end?"
"According to Jason it should take us about four more hours but we're moving as fast as we can." he paused to catch his breathe "you should get Aron for what I'm about to tell you next."
"I'm right here Jarrold" Aron announced as he entered the control room.
"Good, I think we mave have found one of the Zords" the Green Ranger told them.
"Already." Mark gasped
"If what we think is true it was right under our noses the whole time. Sitting at the bottom of Angel Grove Lake."
"Wait a minute" Mark cut in "the DragonZord is under the lake isn't it?"
"Yeah, at least we hope it's still there."
"Well now that we have your Zord you can come back and send the others to get the other Zords locations.
"It's not that simple Mark" Jarrold started. "The DragonZord isn't mine."
"But it's the Green Rangers Zord, isn't it?" asked Mark, who was now confused.
"No look at the Rangers history, the Zords have always matched the Rangers symbols and my symbol is the Eagle."
There was silence for a moment and then Aron chimed in "That means that the DragonZord will go to Tara then." he said.
"But the Dragon is the Green Rangers Zord." Mark tried to reason.
"Look I'll explain later guys. Just trust me the DragonZord goes to my kid sister, there's a Green Dagger setting in the weapons display I want you guys to give it to my sister when she wakes up. But don't tell her about the DragonZord yet. We'll be in touch. Jarrold out."
"Now Jason we better hurry and get to your parents so we can find the rest of those Zords." Jarrold suggested.
"Yeah and you can finish the story to." the kid chimed in.
In their excitement over the DragonZord the Rangers had forgotten about the kid the had been tagging along with them. Jarrold was now much more cheery and knelt down in front of the kid "What's your name little man?" he asked him.
"It's Elliot" the kid said.
"Well Elliot lets get going and maybe Jason will finish the story." Jarrold said as he started walking towards Leslie. "We need to get rid of him" he whispered into the girls ear.
"We aren't just going to leave him here are we?" she asked
"No, I'd never do that but we can't keep him with us. Things could get dangerous from here on out and we can't be distracted by having to worry about him. He can come with us as far as Jasons parents but after that we have to fine something to do with him."
Leslie nodded at Jarrold and the two rejoined Elliot and Jason. "So where were we?" Leslie asked.
"Oh yeah, well after the Rangers gave in the Vandairre hunted them down, but from what dad says they he doesn't think that they ever found out who the Rangers were. Anyway Kimberly felt horrible for what happened to my mom so she decided she would stay and help dad take care of me. The other Rangers scattered and hide not telling anyone, not even each other where they were going. You all know as much as I do after that."
"Wow that was amazing. So the Rangers just lied in wait until they could pass the Power Coins on to us."
"That's about it I guess." Jason responded. "Hey look he pointed. My house is right around the corner."