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Chapter Five: Introduction to Destiny
"Whoa!" we yelled out together as we landed in a giant heap on the floor.
"This isn't exactly the mall is it?" Kim asked looking around the dark room.
"The mall?" Eric asked.
"Jason give me the duct tape."
"No Chris"
"Eric just shut up. It's not like you've got a better joke." Taylor said smacking him on the back of the head. Eric just glared at Taylor, Chris rolled her eyes and continued the story.
The… well room we were in appeared to have no end save for some lights far to he distance.
"Gol!" Billy complemented his eyes wide with wonder actually like a kid in a candy store with a nickel from grandma, "This place is magnificent."
"I don't get it how we end up here?" Jason asked taking in the surroundings.
"Well thank you for that stunning observation captain obvious." That comment earned me a glare from Jason, "This place is HUGE does it have an end?"
"I just want to know where HERE is." Trini demanded.
"Hello!!" I called out but there was no echo.
Every where there were lights blinking on and off. The computers were into the next three millenniums compared to technology at the time.
"Maybe the answer in these controls." Billy said stepping up and starting to push buttons.
"Um Bil-" I started to say when a voice from somewhere else said "NO! NO! don't touch that! WH- WH-WHOA!"
We whirled around at the sound of the clunk/thud to see Alpha 5 fall down; being the nice teens we were we help him back on his feet.
A good look at him prompted Billy to said, "Whoa! a fully sentinel Multi-functional Automaton I never seen anything like it."
"I'd be wondering if you had say you did and never told me before now." I quipped.
"A what?" Zack asked dumbfounded.
"If he'd just said 'robot' in the first place I would have been just fine." Zack retorted.
"I know." Chris said and shrugged.
"A robot" I said translating Billy's tecnobabble a language that only I and Trini understood at the time. Zack rolled his eyes at how obvious the answer had been but Billy's speech tended to throw people off.
"Welcome humans" thundered a voice behind us scaring the living daylights out of me and the rest of them. All we saw was a giant floating head not really even a head he didn't have ears. Frankly Zordon always sounded and looked as if he was under water since he was in the tube all the time.
"Uh-oh" Trini mumbled looking up.
"So who are you?" Jason asked always the first in line when danger reared it's head, I was always in front, beside or behind him but never more than a step behind.
"Like what are you?" Kim asked.
"I am Zordon an inter-dimensional being caught in a time warp." Zordon said
"And my name is Alpha 5" Alpha said
"Exactly where are we?" I asked in a clam voice though I was buzzing inside."You are in my secret Command Center." That was a duh moment I wanted to know a better descriptive location than that. Before I could Kim spoke up.
"Excuse me but like would some come back to earth because I'm totally confused." She stated, Kim was hardly ever really truly confused but this was confusing for all of us even me.
"It's quite simple my dear this planet is under attack and I have brought you here to save it." Zordon said. Jason and I shared a look we were dumb founded by the revelation. The name Zordon had struck a cord with me, I just couldn't place from where or why it was important.
"Yeah right!" Zack shouted not wanting to hear the word danger we'd gotten into enough stuff as little kids we didn't need more.
"You actually questioned him?" Leo asked looking at Zack.
"Well it was just too weird." Zack said.
"Leo imagen if there had never been need for power rangers until you guys had gotten your powers? Do you think…wrong person to ask in all honesty. You would even from before there were rangers you wanted to be a super hero. Look a lot of people would have to skeptical it was a bit weird."
"Hey man I totally understand." Joel said from his seat nodding to Zack.
"You have to remember we were the FIRST Power Rangers, we are the people you all heard about growing up we are the ones you've all wanted to be like for so long." Chris said, "It was not easy to take such things after all there weren't really any signs. So for the first of many times we looked into the viewing globe."
"Ah a non-believer turn your attention behind you at the viewing glob. Your doubts will be answered in the images you see" Zordon said before explaining the visions in his cryptic response. Sometimes I wondered what he really knew and what he bluffed his way through with us I figured when he was he said in cryptic responses he really didn't know. We turned to see Rita flying over the city on a bike with Goldar flying behind here the first of many times we would look at the viewing glob. I wondered if Zordon was part Gypsy since he used the globe. (Giggles from around the room) "This is Rita Repulsa an intergalactic sorceress who is bent on controlling the universe. With her putty patrollers and henchmen she plans to take over the earth."
"What does all this have to do with us?" Trini asked not wanting to really hear the answer. We had gotten the idea from the get go we just didn't want to believe it.
"You six have been chosen to form an elite team of heroes." Zordon stated something in the way he said it made me wonder "These powers are drawn from the spirits of the ancient creatures you call dinosaurs."
"Dinosaurs?" Kimberly asked she was never really answered. I've always wondered why Dinosaurs but I never got the chance to ask Ninjor about it before he locked himself away again.
Then suddenly around each of our waists a black belt with a hexagon shaped device on it and in the middle of it had a coin each with a different dinosaur on it.
"Behold the keys to your powers." Zordon said proudly
"Whoa what are these?" Zack asked in amazement his determination wavering with this gift.
"Those are you Power morphers. ('As if we should have known in the first place') When in danger hold them to the sky calling the name of your dinosaurs and you will morph into a formidable fighting force know to one and all as the POWER RANGERS."
"Morph!?" Kimberly asked utterly confused though her question wasn't exactly answered.
"Metamorphous!" Billy exclaimed with cheer that threw me as well I looked at the coin on it was a velociraptor inscribed as a relief(1).
"That means to change" Trini said translating Billy's babble.
"Oh" Kim said.
"I wanted to know what he meant by morph, not what does it mean to morph but change how." Kim said.
Chris nodded as she took a sip of her drink and continued."As Power Ranger you will have access to a universe of power." Zordon said the whole universe of power wasn't something we completely understood until much later on. "And command a fleet of fighting machines called Zords."
"Why us?" I asked.
"Because each of you have a gift no one else does. (Though it wasn't what he said it was.) Jason bold and powerful you shall command the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord. Zachary you are cleaver and brave you shall command the Mastodon Dinozord. Kimberly graceful and small the Pterodactyl Dinozord shall be yours. Billy patient and wise you shall command the powerful Triceratops Dinozord. Trini fearless and agile the Saber-toothed Tiger Dinozord shall be under your command. Christal wise and strong you shall control the Raptorzord which you shall call upon with a flute. Just as the six of you work together so do your Zords. When you need help you only need to turn to the power of the Dinozord which comes together to form the might Megazord, however, Christal's Zord is not required to form the Megazord. Combine power of the Megazord and the Raptorzord you will have the power of the Raptor-Megazord a most formidable machine."
"Power Morphers? Megazords?" Zack said, "Uht-hu this to weird I'll tell ya what it's been real but I got to go."
"YA! LATER" Kim said heading towards the door." Then Trini and Billy followed a little reluctantly. Jason and I were the last to leave something had struck a cord in our veins each of us but we were scared beyond belief.
"Ya all coming? Jason?" Zack said
"Yea." Jason said and turned I looked back and follow it didn't feel right to leave.
"Come on man lets go." Zack said
"Very well may the power protect you." Zordon said for the first time but not the last.
"Well that didn't go very well" Alpha said in a huff as we headed out.
"What a second you actually walked out on him????? YOU HAVE GOT to be kidding you actually walked away??" The Rookie said.
"Didn't you choose to leave at first even knowing of Power Rangers Conner?"
"Yeah but that was for soccer and before I realized I couldn't."
"We had no one to look up to we were afraid to have so much responsible right then and there. I'm only going to say this we had a hell of a lot of ruff stuff happen just a few weeks before that we were all recovering from so we weren't about to jump into anything." Chris said sharing a pained look with each of her friends.
(1) relief- The projection of figures or forms from a flat background, as in sculpture, or the apparent projection of such shapes in a painting or drawing or a work of art featuring such projection. It is also called relievo.