Valentine's Day
Today was Friday, and for some reason it had dread written all over it. But for the life of him, Jason couldn't recall why. As he walked to school he realized Zack had not joined him along the way. Was Zack mad at him? Didn't Zack know that he and Tommy were friends again? No it couldn't be, cause last time Zack walked with him to school was on Tuesday.
It wasn't till Jason got to school, and to his locker, that he realized what today was. Three Valentine cards fell from to the floor when he opened his locker; all from girls who thought he was really cute. "And so it begins." Jason sighs as he picks them up off the floor.
Jaclyn comes up to her locker. "Fortunate smiles upon you." She wore a red t-shirt and black overalls with red tennis shoes.
"Really?" Jason asked. "What so lucky about being alone this day?"
"What makes you think you'll be alone?" Jaclyn asks as she pulls a trashcan up so that it would be below her locker.
"Do you see my friends anywhere around?" Jason asked sarcastically as he watched Jaclyn. "Of course not. They are off with their significant others this day and will be with them all day." He slammed his locker shut. "Whom would I be with? No one." Jason let out a frustrated sigh.
Jaclyn does the combination on her locker. "So why don't you find someone who doesn't have anyone?" She asks, before takes a deep breath and opens the locker. A pile of Valentines comes pouring out into the trashcan.
"No wonder people don't like you." Jason says as he watched her brush the last Valentine cards into the trashcan. "You're acting like a snob."
"You think I'm being snobby for throwing them away?" Jaclyn looked at Jason with surprise. "Maybe if you read them, you'll understand why." She reaches into the trashcan and pulls a handful out. "Go ahead, I don't mind."
Jason takes one and reads it. "Uh…ok." His eyebrows rise when he sees what is written. "You're trying to tell me all that is hate mail?" Jaclyn nods. "No." He takes another from her and reads it. Again, he cannot believe what he sees.
"It's a contest that started back in the third grade." Jaclyn sighs. "They try to see if they can write one that would make me cry. So far nobody had won. This is the only advantage I have over them. I don't go getting up set and that drives them nuts."
"Don't see how that make things better." Jason takes another card from her. "Just seems to make them just try harder, do more, to make life tougher for you."
"They try and do things to me whether I do something to stop it or not." Jaclyn says with a shrug. "I find that it's less tiring worrying about it and just let things be." She takes some books out and heads for English class.
"Wait up." Jason calls after her. "I'll walk with you to class."
Jaclyn turns and looks at him. "Why?"
"I don't know." Jason shrugs. "Maybe just to be nice."
"No one does things to be nice." Jaclyn says a little coldly. "Least not to me in this lifetime."
"There is always a first." Jason says as they walk to English class.
In class there was a Valentine party happening. Everybody was reading Valentine cards, left by friends the day before, in the decorated shoeboxes. Jason picks up his box that was stuff to the point of almost exploding.
"Lots of secret admires." Jaclyn says as she looks at the box. "There is bound to be one in there that you could spend the day with." She picks up one that had her name on it. "It would figure." Jaclyn sighed. "I wish they'd think of something new."
Jason looks at it. "What do you mean?"
Jaclyn holds it up to him. "What does it look like to you?"
"Like some sort of cylinder wrapped in paper." Jason takes a closer look at it. "It seems to have a paper cover round lid."
"Take the lid off and look at it." Jaclyn tells him. Jason does so and she sees an eyebrow rise. "It's a trash can. I bet that there is a note saying it's my new home or something like it." Jason nods. "Predictable. That joke has been going on almost as long as this stupid contest." Jaclyn takes the lid from him and puts it back on the 'box' before throwing it away in the classroom trashcan.
"That wasn't very nice." Trini says as she, Billy, and Zack comes over. "You had a lot of mail in your box. I saw people having trouble putting their cards in it."
"She has a good reason." Jason tells them. "Believe me, I've seen the evidence."
Zack gives Jaclyn a suspicious look. "If you say so."
"Here, I save a few. Have a look." Jaclyn holds two enveloped cards and a letter in a zip-lock bag. Billy and Trini took the cards, while Zack takes the letter. "I wouldn't open that one." Jaclyn tells Zack.
"Why not?" Zack looks into through the bag and tries to read the letter. "It's kind of hard to read this letter."
"Look at the bottom. There's yellow water." Jaclyn points out. "I'm pretty sure that a stink bomb was broken in there."
"Hmmm…" Zack squints really hard and manages to read the letter. "Roses are red, violets are blue. Flowers smell sweet, but this letter smells just like you."
"Yeah, defiantly a stink bomb." Jaclyn nodded. Billy and Trini opened the cards, but couldn't believe their eyes. "Now you see why I don't keep them?" They all nodded.
Now that Jason had his three friends, he left Jaclyn alone to hang with them for the rest of the period. Jaclyn found a nice place near the teacher's desk to read the next act in the Shakespeare book.
At lunchtime Jason found himself on own again. All of his friends were spending the time with the ones they love. If it weren't for Jaclyn, this would have been the third time Jason would have spent lunch alone. Though, if truth be told, Jaclyn sort of invited herself to have lunch with him. However Jason didn't have any objections, but she really wasn't the kind of person he imagine spending time with.
At the end of school Jason felt like he needed something to do. After yesterday, he wasn't in a hurry to start spending time with Scott again. So Jason decided to do his art homework. It would take him out of the house and keep his mind off things.
Part of the assignment required Jason to go out and draw a park background scene. He goes home, drops off his backpack, and gathered his art supplies together before heading for the park. When Jason gets to the park, he pulls out the paper that had the full assignment on it.
"Maybe I should have read the whole thing before I deciding to do it." Jason mutters.
According to the paper, the whole assignment was to draw someone with a park background. Jason gives out a deep sigh as he walks along the park. Maybe he could find some kids at the playground to draw. As he gets to the bridge, Jason finds Jaclyn practicing some gymnastics.
"Well, fancy meeting you here." Jaclyn says when he comes to cross. "Out to do a little drawing?" She sits down on the banister.
Jason stops and looks up at her. "What gave you that clue?"
"Hey, just making conversation." Jaclyn puts her hands up in defense. "What are you going to draw?"
"I don't know." Jason shrugs his shoulders. "The assignment was to draw someone with a park background." He looks in the direction he was going. "I thought I'd go to the playground to see if there were any children to draw or something like that."
"Well, then I wish you good luck." Jaclyn gets back on her feet on the banister and does a cartwheel.
Jason was still looking down the pathway that led to the playground. It seemed an awful long way for such a simple assignment. Especially since all he needed was right here. So why should he go to so much trouble? "Maybe I could draw you." Jason suggest as he looks back at Jaclyn.
"Me?" Jaclyn stands on the banister and look down at him skeptically. "Why would you want to draw me?" She puts her hands on her hips. "Unless, you planning on showing what improvements I might need."
"No." Jason replied with shock. "I figure you're here, I'm here, and I have all my stuff." He gave a smirk. "Man, you defensive."
"If you were in my shoes, you would be too." Jaclyn jumps down in front of him. "It's hard to go places and not think a joke will be played on you. Not when all you life, every turn you make, you're taking your dignity in your own hands."
"Well this is no joke, I can assure you." Jason tells her.
Jaclyn circles around, looking at him closely. She stops in front of him and looks at his eyes to try to see if he was trustworthy. Jason tugs on the collar of his shirt and clears his throat as she looks at him. "Ok…" Jaclyn finally nods slowly. "So…how does this go?"
"You can just stand there." Jason points over to the banister of the bridge. "I'll get you head and shoulder, after that I'll do the trees behind you."
Jaclyn shrugs. "Ok." She leans back on the bridge banister, her arms crossed in front of her. "This ok?" She cocks her head a little and gives a small smile.
"Yeah…that fine. If I could just…" Jason goes over to her and moves her hair over her left shoulder. "Perfect." He gives an 'ok' sign. "You have nice hair, thought I should try to get that." Jason backs up and flips to a clean page in his sketchbook.
"Um…thank you." Jaclyn blushes a little. "Nobody's ever really paid me a compliment before."
"Your welcome…I guess." Jason shook his head before he starts to draw.
First Jason does the shape of her head. When he finally got that down, he starts on the face and moves closer to help him to do the eyes. Carefully Jason draws them, making sure to get every detail of them. He didn't want any mistakes in his work, it had to be perfect for a good grade.
Just as Jason finishes her eyes, an alarm comes from Jaclyn's right wrist. She lifts her wrist up to show a watch with a red band and a cover with a white rose on a black background. The alarm goes off again and, to Jason, it sounded awfully familiar. "Beep, beep, be-be, beep, beep." Jaclyn puts a hand over her watch to muffle the sound.
"……Interesting alarm." Jason says as he looks from her watch to her with an eyebrow raised. "Sounds like I've…heard it some where before."
"Uh…I don't think so." Jaclyn turns away to pop the cover up. There was something that sounded like talking, but he couldn't hear it. Then Jaclyn turns back to face him. There was a look like she saw something that wasn't right. "It looks like I have to go." She tells him as she closes the lid of her watch.
Jason had a confused look. "O…k."
"Sorry." Jaclyn bites her lower lip. "I forgot that I had an appointment somewhere." She picks up her gym bag that was near by and runs off.
"Now what?" Jason sighs. He goes to close his sketchbook, but stops. There was something about how Jaclyn's face looked, that got him thinking. Somehow it looked awfully familiar to him…like someone he knew it.
Jason sits down to stare at his sketchbook. After awhile he takes up his pencil, puts it on the page, and just let it go. When Jason felt like he was done, he the finished product was…the White Rose Ninja.
'No way.' Jason shakes his head, rubs his eyes, and looks again. 'It can't be.' His skills at drawing were known to never have any mistakes. 'But Jaclyn is not like White Rose.' Jason thinks. 'She doesn't have the same confidence, the same attitude, or affect on me like White Rose.' But here was the evidence was right in front him. Plus it would also explain how Jaclyn's watch sounded so familiar. It was the same as the communicators had when Zordon calls.
Now the question on Jason's mind was, 'Is she really the one for me?'
Jaclyn was not what he expected his girlfriend to be. She was unpopular, no great looker, and untrusting. But on the other hand, he didn't know much about her. Maybe he wasn't really giving her a chance. Maybe he could fall in love Jaclyn…no, he should fall in love with her. After all, he has already determined that White Rose was 'the one' and so must Jaclyn. Besides, she was the only thing that could save him from being what he feared to be. If he didn't fall for her, then he might actually be…gay. What would happen to him if he were?
On the Moon…
"My queen, Jason has discovered the identity of the White Rose Ninja." Baboo says. "Now that we know who she is, we should do something about. Dontchya think?"
"No!" Rita screeched. "We will go with the plan. Goldar is already in the park and is getting in to place."
"But my queen, wouldn't it be smarter to eliminate the competition while we have the upper hand?" Baboo asked. "You know, the element of surprise?"
"Who do you think is the brains of this operation is?" Rita knocks Baboo on the head with her wand. "I want that ninja to suffer and I want the rangers to suffer. With this plan, we will ruin the both. Two birds with one stone." She laughs. "The rangers will lose confidence with their leader and the ninja will lose her life when she loses her powers." Rita looks into her telescope to watch. She sees Scott coming from his great grandfather's dojo and heading for the park. He was wearing his black gym suit with red strips down the side, black shoes, red hat with black rim, and round red shades. "Perfect. He is out in the open. Goldar better not foul this up."
Back on Earth…
A deep growl comes from behind some tree. Scott turns around to see where it came from. Goldar flies out of the trees and lands in front of Scott with his sword out. "Hold it right there."
Scott falls back on his rear. "Whoa." He asked as he scoots back a little. "W…who are you?"
"I am Goldar, Rita's right hand monster." The monster with wings says point his sword at Scott's throat. "You are to come with me."
Scott jumps to his feet. "I don't think so." He in the process of striking a defensive pose, Goldar hits Scott in the face with some gold dust. "Wha…what is…is…oooh." Scott passes out into winged monster's open arms.
Goldar hoists the shade-wearing boy over his shoulder and flies away.
At the Command Center…
Alpha waddles around the Command Center, waving his hands in the air. "Ai yi yi yi yi. Goldar just kidnap Jason's friend Scott."
"Contact the rangers immediately." Zordon tells the little robot.
"Oh." Alpha waddles over to a console. "All we ever get are breaks."
"Don't worry Alpha, someday all this will come to an end." Zordon says.
"I hope so." Alpha pushes some buttons to contact the rangers.
Jason drops his sketchbook and answers his communicator. "I read you Zordon."
Zack duck in to the men's room of the café he and Angela was having lunch at. "What's up's up big Z?"
Tommy and Kimberly make a quick exit out of the mall. "We got your beep, what's going on?"
Trini and her date were walking through the park, opposite of where Jason was. She strays away from him when the communicator goes off. "What's wrong?"
Billy abandons his date at the science museum they were hanging out at. "What is the source of your agitation?"
"Rangers, you must teleport to the command center, Rita has taken a prisoner."
Jason was the first to appear at the Command Center. Couple minutes later Tommy and Kimberly teleport in. After them came Zack, Billy, and Trini arrive.
"You think Rita would take this day off rather than yesterday." Zack complains.
"She couldn't find someone, so she ruins it for the rest of us." Kimberly tells him.
"Who did she take?" Jason asked.
"Your friend Scott. She sent Goldar down to take him." Zordon tells everyone. "Look at the viewing globe."
The rangers turn to see Scott lying on the ground, his hands being tied behind his back by golden beams that comes from Goldar's sword. The golden monster then grabs Scott's neck and lifts the boy's upper body off the ground. Scott lets out a groans as he starts to come out of the dust sleep. Goldar then bind Scott's arms to his sides.
Everyone turns back to Zordon. "Where are they?" Zack asks.
"At the cliff's edge by the beach." Zordon answers.
"Why would she want to take him?" Kimberly asks.
Zordon shakes his head. "I don't know."
Jason puts a hand behind his back. "Well, we'll find out when we get there." Something about all this worries him, but nothing worries him more than having to face Scott before he was ready to. "It's Morphin time."
The other rangers put there hand behind their backs and brings out their power morphers. Once morphed they teleport to where Goldar is holding Scott.
Goldar growls, "It is about time that you got here rangers." He drags his hostage over to the cliff's edge. Scott was limp, because he was still trying to come out of the knockout dust.
"What is it you want with him?" Jason demands as he brings out his power sword.
Goldar moves Scott closer to the edge. "I'd stay where you are Red Ranger." The monster warns. "That is if you care about him…Jason."
Scott mumbles tiredly. "J…Jason?" He tries to lift his head, but it seems so heavy at the moment.
Jason lets the point of his sword drop down. "What…what do you mean?"
"You know exactly what I mean." Goldar laughs. "Isn't this your little boyfriend? You do love him, don't you?"
"N…no." Scott starts to wake up a little more. "This cannot be happening."
Jason loses hold of his sword and it falls to the floor. "Where did you get an idea like that?" He turns to look at the other rangers. All except Tommy had taken a few steps away from him. "You don't think…" They all just look at him. "I am in love with the White Rose Ninja. Didn't you know? I talked about how beautiful her eyes were?"
Tommy suddenly speaks up. "It's true." He tries to help Jason convince the others. "I ought to know, he told me."
Scott gives his head a finally shake to become fully awake. "This had to stop." He looks over at Goldar. "Please stop."
Goldar ignores him. "He also told you something else, didn't he?" Goldar glares at the Green Ranger.
"What?!" Jason and Tommy say, in surprise, together.
"You were listening in on a private conversation?" Tommy yells at Goldar. "How could you do such a thing as that or as this?"
"Because it is so good to be so bad." Rita laughs. The rangers look up to see her on her bicycle. She was looking down at what was happening. "This was too good a thing to pass up." Rita looks at the Red Ranger. "So how was that kiss with Scott?"
Scott tries to pull free from Goldar's grip. "I asked you to stop this!" The winged monster keeps a tight hold on him.
Jason groans as smacks his top of his helmet with both his hands. "I don't believe this." He runs the hands down the helmet to the front of him.
"Is…is that true?" Zack asked with a shocked voice. He and the other rangers scoot away from Jason even more. "I…I thought you I knew you man."
Jason stammers. "I…that is…he…it surp…"
"Tommy?" Kimberly looks over at the Green Ranger. "Y…you knew?" She shakes her head in disbelief.
"Well…he just told me and…" Tommy puts a hand to the forehead of his helmet. "And I promised I wouldn't say anything until we…" He runs his hand down the back of his helmet. "Until he knew what the answer was." Tommy starts to wring his neck nervously.
"Enough." Rita screeched. "Goldar, hold our captive over the edge of the cliff."
"Yes my queen." Goldar holds Scott off the edge of the cliff.
Scott looks down to see his legs dangling over the pointy rocks below, being submerged and surfacing from the crashing waves. If that wasn't enough, he was now finding hard to breath.
"Admit your true feelings, or watch him die." Rita demands.
"My true feelings?" At first Jason seems surprised by this question. "You want my true feelings? Alright," he nods, "I'll tell you all the truth." Jason takes a deep breath. "I love…I love…Jaclyn."
"What?!" Tommy asked.
"Her?" Kimberly says with surprise. "Why?"
Jason turns to look the rangers. "She's the White Rose Ninja. She is 'the one'…I just know it."
"Speaking of that little brat. Where is she?" Rita looks around. "I'd think she would be here by now. Especially with a life in danger."
"I'm…right…here…" Scott gasps.
Rita bicycles down to the cliff side and hops off her back. "What?!" Goldar brings Scott back onto the cliff's edge so that the witch could look Scott in the shades. "What did you say?"
Scott gasped again. "I am…the W…White Rose Ni…nja."
Rita screeches. "I don't believe this." She swings her wand at Scott's midsection and sends the boy flying out Goldar's hands, towards red ranger.
Scott hit the ground a couple feet away from Jason. The beams that bind him disappear as he rolls the rest of the way to Jason's feet.
Jason looks at Scott as the shades-wearing boy got up, dusts himself off. "This…this isn't true, is it?"
Scott reaches out to his friend. "Jason…" The red ranger jumps back and puts his hands up to keep the shades-wearing boy back. "I can explain everything if you just give me a chance." Scott walks towards Jason, but the red ranger just backs up until he was up against a tree.
Scott stops a couple feet away from him and taps his right wrist. A beautiful white rose floats up from the wrist through his sleeve. Scott takes the rose in his left hand and holds it above his head.
"Transformation…"
"No." Jason shakes his head. "Nononono." The other rangers watched Scott.
"Activation!"
The rose in Scott's hand glowed bright before a blizzard of white rose petals surround him. When the petals leave, there stands the White Rose Ninja. "I was coming to tell you everything, but I got caught by Goldar."
Jason looks at who was standing in front of him and his heart sinks. Suddenly the red ranger shouts, "NO!" He falls to his knees and digs his hand in the ground. "I…I…"
Now Jason's heart felt like it was jumping up and down in his body. In one moment it was up in his throat, the next would be down in his gut. It felt like everything around him would fall apart; his friends, confidence in his skills, confidence in…himself. He could hear Rita and Goldar laugh at him.
"Jaclyn…Jaclyn is the White Rose Ninja. The White Rose is a girl, not a guy." Jason's voice begins to cracks and he hugs his legs as he lays his head on his knees. "Her eyes, the watch…the beeping it made. She was supposed to be the one." Jason begins to cry.
White Rose kneels down next to him and tries to pull him into a hug. "Let me…"
Jason shoots up to knock the ninja away from him. "Don't touch me!" He yells. "Don't touch me…" He says quietly as he hugs himself and looks back down at the ground. "I can't be…I never thought I'd be…… This isn't right."
The rangers were watching to see how much pain Jason was in, how he sounded. They felt so bad for acting like they did. He was their friend; they should be there for him to helping him to understand what he was feeling. Kimberly and Trini run over to him to put their arms around him. Billy, Zack, and Tommy gathered around them.
White Rose tries to come close again, but the boys just push the ninja away. "But you don't understand." White Rose says desperately. "He's not what he thinks he is." The ninja grabs the headdress and the mask, pulling them off. "The White Rose Ninja is a girl. He was right, Jaclyn is the White Rose Ninja."
Jason and the rangers all look at her. "You mean…" Jason starts to breath heavily. "You mean…" He starts to chuckle a little, almost insane like. "You mean…" Now his voice turned angry. "You mean that Scott was you also?!" Jaclyn nods and he gets in her face. "Do you know how much torture you have put me through because of this little charade?"
"I…I…" Jaclyn backs away from Jason. "I can explain. Just…just give me a chance."
"No! I don't want to hear anything from you, I don't even want to see you." Jason turns his back on her.
"But…" Jaclyn reaches out to put a hand on his shoulder, but it was whacked away by Kimberly.
"I think you done enough damage." The Pink Rangers says coldly. "Why don't you just leave?"
"Uh…" Jaclyn looks down at the ground, ashamed. "Ok." She slowly walks away.
"Oh no you don't." Goldar brings his sword out. "You won't get away from us that easily." He jumps in front of her and she jumps back. "Prepare yourself."
Jaclyn grabs the moon shape necklace off her neck. "C…change." It changes into her Biathlete and she brings the weapon up in time to meet Goldar's sword that was coming at her.
The winged monster pushes down on his sword, while the ninja pushes back up on her Biathlete. Unfortunately for White Rose, Goldar was stronger and soon brings her down to her knees.
Jason yells at Goldar. "Leave Jaclyn alone!" Though he was very angry with White Rose, he knew he couldn't let her get killed. He wanted to deal with her later. "Come on rangers, let's bring our weapons together."
All the rangers bring out their weapons and connected them to make their blaster. They aimed at Goldar who started to back up towards Rita.
"Do I have to do everything myself?" Rita screeched. "Can you do nothing right, like kill one little ninja?" She aimed her wand at the tree behind White Rose and rangers. "Magic wand, make me a monster."
The tree starts to come to life. It's trunk splits to be legs and its big branches become arms, while the smaller ones work like fingered hands.
"What's up with the 'Lord of the Rings' rip-off?!" Zack complains.
The rangers' blaster breaks back into their individual weapons. The tree monster sets his sights on the rangers and the ninja. It tries to smash them into the ground with one of its massive branch hand. However they all were quick enough to jump or roll out the tree monster's way. The tree monster roars in frustration as it waves its branches at them in an attempt to knock them down.
Zack brings his power axe above his head. "I'll take care of it." He jumps at the monster to cut it down the middle, but the monster was ready and grabs him. "Oh man." Zack groans as the tree monster squeezes him.
Billy twirls his power lance as he charged towards the tree monster. "Do not agonize over the current situation at hand." When he got to the base of the monster he jumps up towards Zack to cut the branches. Unfortunately for the Blue Ranger, he was unaware of the branches that was wrapping around his legs, stopping him inches from Zack. "This proves to be a inopportune predicament." He is turn upside down, branches wrapping around his chest to squeeze him.
"Billy! Zack!" Tommy shouted. "We got to do something." He looks at Jason.
Jaclyn brings up her Biathlete to throw, but is her wrist is grabbed by Jason and her attack is stopped. "You said you wouldn't come if you're more of problem than a solution." He says to the ninja coldly. "Guess what?" Jason shoves Jaclyn away so hard that she trips over her feet, losing grip of her weapon and falls to the ground. The Biathlete slides away from the ninja a couple of inches. She looks up at him as he looks down at her. "You're a problem."
Jaclyn looks away from Jason and over to her fallen weapon. Tears of shame run down her face as she grabs the Biathlete, pulling to her as she sits up in a cross-legged position. Jaclyn hugs the handle of the weapon close to her.
A small robotic dog rolls up to her. "Are you alright mistress?" K-9 asks, door on its back opens up and a hand come out to giver her a tissue.
"I've made a real mess of things." Jaclyn sniffles as she laid the Biathlete by her side and took the tissue from K-9. "I should have said something awhile back, but I didn't cause I was afraid of losing his friendship…and now…I have put us all in danger." She wipes her eyes and nose.
K-9 rolls closer to her. "Some things can not always be foreseen, mistress."
Jaclyn hugs her legs to her and presses her mouth on her knees. She mutters into her knees. "Great Grandfather did, otherwise I wouldn't have that little trip to China."
Meanwhile Jason had turns to Kimberly and Trini. "I think you should try doubling up with your weapons." He tells them. "It might do some damage to it."
"Right Jason." Trini twirls one of her daggers in her hands.
"Got it." Kimberly brings an arrow out and notches it in her bow.
Both the pink ranger and yellow ranger jump up, throw/firing their weapons at the monster. The monster howls in pain as the arrow and dagger dig into one of its larger branches, causing the branch to fall limp.
Being unusable to the monster, it tears it off the branch and swings it at the ones that caused its pain. Kimberly and Trini jump out of the way as the branches come at them. While they were jumping they did not see the other branches coming over them, ready to catch them. On the final jump they were caught up in the tangle of branches.
Jaclyn takes up her Biathlete again and jumps to her feet. She knows she was not wanted, but she could not leave them. As the White Rose Ninja she would be there, ready to help when the time was right.
"Looks like it's up to us pal." Tommy says to Jason.
"Right." Jason nods. "Let bring out our blasters swords." He and Tommy bring out their small swords and transformed them into blasters. They aimed at the branches that held their friends.
The monster swings its dead branch at them, but they roll out of the way and shoot some more. The tree monster roars in frustrations while it tries to stomp on them. As the last two rangers rolls out of the way of giant feet, they failed to realize that branches had come round to sides, ready for capture. Now all the rangers were tangled in the branches of the tree monsters. They yell in pain as they are being squeezed.
"Hah ha." Rita laughs as waves her wand around. "We've won."
"Not yet!" Jaclyn yells as she glares at Rita and Goldar. "I was told to leave, but I will not abandon those put in my charge." Now she was there to fight and the rangers had no choice but to accept her help. Jaclyn raises her weapon above her head and readies herself for attack. "I have made a mess of things and I will make things right."
"But you can not win." Goldar says. "Though the rangers are working together, they no longer support you. They hate you now."
"I don't always need their power and right now, I do not wish to take it." Jaclyn starts to glow. "There is a power with in the 'Protectors' that you do not know about. One that you have awakens with in me to use against you."
"But mistress, it will put you in serious danger if you were to use that power, it could even kill you." K-9 pleads. "That power requires you to you use your own energy to do the attack."
Jaclyn looks down at the robotic dog. "I know, but either way my career is over." Then she turns her attention back to Goldar and Rita. "You thought you could win by trying to ruining a friendship among great people." Jaclyn starts to glow even brighter. "You tried to exploit someone's feelings who you had no business even knowing about." Yellow light comes from her eyes and mouth. "You cause sadness, pain, and anger with your actions. But now it is with those emotions that will seal your fate." Her light was now blinding. "Protector's…" She brings the Biathlete down in front of her and grasps it in both hands, her head bowed. Her light forms into a large ball around her. "…Ultimate Blast!"
Jaclyn throws the large weapon high up in the air and the ball of light stretched into a pillar from the ground around her up to the Biathlete. The Biathlete splits in two and so does the pillar of light, one pillar of light for one Biathlete. Jaclyn points her right hand at the tree monster; the Biathlete with the pillar of light goes to engulf it. The monster disintegrates into nothing, leaving the rangers to land on the ground gracefully. The light goes away, leaving the Biathlete to fly back into Jaclyn's right hand.
With her left hand, Jaclyn sends the other for Goldar and Rita. Frighten, Rita hops back onto her bicycle and flies off.
"Wait for me my queen." Goldar yells as he flaps his wings to follow.
The pillar of light chases them for a distance and manages to get one of Goldar's wings. He grabs onto Rita's bicycle to keep from falling into the ocean.
"Let go of me, you fool." Rita screeched. "You're going to get us both killed." She tries to shake him off.
"The light is coming closer." Goldar yells as he looks back. "Do something."
"You'll pay for this." Rita yells before she teleports them back to the moon.
The light that was chasing her disappears, leaving the other Biathlete to fly back into Jaclyn's left hand. She brings her two hands together to unite the weapon back into one. Once the Biathlete one again she stops glowing, the light in her eyes and mouth go out. Exhausted Jaclyn collapses to her knees, the weapon falls from her hands and disappears. A moon shape necklace appears around her neck.
The rangers run to her as she tips to the side. Jason slides up to Jaclyn, catching her in time to keep her from hitting the ground.
Jaclyn moans. "I…so…sor…ry." Her hair was covering her face. Jason brushes out of her face to see her eyes struggling to stay open and she was pale. She breathes hard as she speaks, not all of her words could be heard. "I…not…mean…happen…. Want…explain…"
"Later." Jason hushes her. "You obviously need rest." Jaclyn was in mid-nod when she went limp. "Jaclyn?!"
A green steam appears above the girl's chest as the ninja outfit turns into white rose petals. The petals go on to the steam to form a white rose once more and flies into the red watch she wore on her right hand, leaving her in the clothes she wore as Scott.
Jason shakes her hard. "Jaclyn!" The hat and glasses fall off onto the ground.
"Is she…?" Kimberly and the other ranger move in.
K-9 pushed his way in. "Mistress…" His back opens up for two hands to out.
One hand had a suction cup on the thumb and another on the forefinger. The second hand had a suction cup on the palm. The hand with two suction cups went on her head, the suctions cups on the temples and the other hand went over her heart. His computer screen eye had a long green line goes across, a small line go down the center to split screen in half. On the right side was the heartbeat and on the other were brainwaves.
"Mistress is alive." K-9 says. All the rangers breathe in a sigh of relief. "But mistress is very weak." They looked at right side to see that it was true, her pulse was very slow but her brain waves were beating about right.
"We need to get her to the Command Center." Jason says. K-9 retracts the hands, so the Red Ranger could stand up with the Jaclyn in his arms. "Maybe Zordon and Alpha can do something to help her."
"Good idea." Trini and the other rangers nod. They put their hand on their mophers.
"Wait." K-9 says. "I must accompany mistress wherever she goes, to confirm safety while in comatose state."
"I can program coordinates to where we go." Billy says as he gets down on his knees to look at the robotic dog. "But it would take too much time to figure out how this complex networking works." He stands back up, dusting his knees. "Could you trance on our teleport streaming?"
"Affricative." K-9 brings a satellite dish out of its nose.
Once again the rangers put their hands to their morphers and they teleported. K-9 scans the teleport data into his head. A bunch of ones and zeros run across his eyes before a data stream swirled around him, teleporting him to the Command Center. The rangers land in the center in their regular clothes. A few seconds later, K-9 comes.
"We were waiting for you rangers." Zordon says as he looks down at them. "Alpha is waiting for you in the other room. There is a medical bed there that will monitor her condition and feed her back the energy she needs to regain consciousness."
Alpha beckons them from the doorway to another room. "This way rangers."
Jason carries Jaclyn to the room with the others and K-9 following after him. Alpha pats the electronically bed; the bed was more like a plastic table. The headboard had a couple monitors to show heartbeat and brainwave.
"Lay her right here." Alpha informs Jason.
"Boy that looks uncomfortable." Kimberly says as she walks around the bed, looking at it. "You'd think the thing would have a mattress of some kind."
"Will she be alright?" Jason asks as he lays Jaclyn down.
Alpha pushes a couple buttons. "Not to worry." A couple glass walls come for the sides of the bed and meet in the middle to form a tube. Once the tube forms, lights come on underneath Jaclyn's body. "She'll be better in no time." He waddles his way out of the room with the rangers following him.