A/N: Thank you for the lovely following of my policy (in my bio)! I will
answer all questions in due time. P.S. I know asterisks are used to signify
action in RPG's. I know.
Raising Cain
Gen sat in class. It had been two weeks since she moved to Angel Grove, and joined the power rangers. They had already battled Totem, a monster who turned his victims into totem poles (why, Gen didn't quite understand herself), Goldar, and Kokopelli, a monster based off of Rose's Kokopelli model. The monster's flute turned all who listened into mindless zombies. This didn't make too much of a difference in some.
Watching the clock, Gen had twenty seconds before the bell rang. She reflected on her team. Shortly after Maggie's experience in Percy's hutch and Gen's subsequent job of terrifying the school bully, the team had named her the leader. Gen had been rather surprised. The bell rang, interrupting her thoughts. Gen jumped out of her seat, and walked swiftly to her locker. If she hurried, she would be able to meet with Theo and head to the Youth Center with a partner. She hated walking alone. Percy, it seemed, had gotten a few more idiots in his gang. Gen avoided fighting at all costs. Besides, if these guys were as good at fighting as Percy, it wouldn't be fair. They would have their butts kicked in no time. They basically subscribed to the school of Being Big and Scaring People. Luckily, the whole gang was meeting at Theo's locker.
"Hey, guys." She said in greeting. Then their communicators all beeped. "This way. It's deserted after school." Gen led them to a door near a creek behind the building. No one went there. "What's up, Alpha?" Gen asked.
"Rangers, you must hurry to the Command Center at once! Adam is in grave danger!"
"On our way." She said. The five teens teleported out.
~~
"Zordon, what's going on? How is Dad in danger?" Theo asked hurriedly. Adam Park was a local detective. Gen sighed. Like father, like son.
"RANGERS, BEHOLD THE VEIWING GLOBE." All looked. Adam was collapsed on the ground, with a large monster standing over him. The monster had a large sphere in its forehead. "THIS IS PSY. PSY IS A PSYCHIC MONSTER. HE HOLDS ALL POWERS OF ITS KIND."
"Ay-yi-yi! Rangers! Psy is leaving!" Alpha exclaimed, worriedly.
"Where to?" Gen asked, holding her ring of authority.
"Your house, Gen. Billy could be in danger. I will teleport Adam here." Gen almost started. Then she regained composure, pushing all emotion out of her mind. No sense in being emotional. She needed to think objectively.
"It's Morphin time!" She shouted. "Blue!"
"Pink!"
"Red!"
"Yellow!"
"Black!" All teleported to Gen's trailer home.
~~
When they arrived, the neighbors were in shock. Gen's home was trashed, and the door had been blown off its hinges.
"Can you tell me what happened here?" Gen asked an old lady, whom she happened to know was quite the busybody.
"Well, some huge monster blew the door in, and then left with Billy Cranston! You don't think he's in danger, do you?"
"Not of death. Don't worry." The blue ranger replied. "Let's go! We need a plan." Five colored beams of light sped off toward the Command Center.
~~
Billy awoke in Lord Zedd's castle to a pounding headache. He suppressed a moan, and tried to sit up and failed. He was strapped to a table of some sort. He could move his head, and look around, but his arms and legs were immobile. He tried to remember how he got there, but as he did, the pain in his head got worse. He closed his eyes, and emptied his mind. He knew how. He'd done it before in college when he found some problem the other students couldn't solve. It always worked. He heard someone come into the stone room. *Empty your mind.* He heard voices. *Think of a peaceful place.* Billy pictured his old lab when he was still in high school. *Relax your body.* His thoughts were cut off by a harsh voice shouting at him.
"Wake up! We cannot wait any longer!" Lord Zedd was standing over him, and so was a monster. He'd seen this monster. Wait. This monster was the one who brought him here.
"What do you want me for? I'm rather useless to you, and you know it. I have no powers and-"
"Silence!" Zedd roared. Billy was silent. "You have a power that I need."
"What are you talking about? I have nothing of importance." Billy had a feeling he knew what Zedd really wanted, so he stalled for time. The monster nodded. Billy felt something horrible force its way in.
*Ranger, you know what it is. Stall no longer.*
Billy was horrified. It knew. It had the same powers. Billy decided it was time to fight back. Using his thoughts, the ground began to shake beneath them. The monster made a fresh effort. He may be able to get in, but Billy wasn't going to make it easy for him.
*Stop. Should you continue, I shall put your true love in danger.*
Billy's eyes widened. He saw what the monster had in store for Gen. He concentrated harder. The table crashed to the ground, taking Billy with it. He didn't have much strength left. He pushed harder. As he blacked out, he did the only thing he could think of: He told Gen.
~~
Sitting in the Command Center, discussing a plan of action as to enter Lord Zedd's castle, Gen felt it. A small presence in her mind warned her about Psy's plan. She held on as long as possible. An idea was different than a strand of thought. An idea was intricate, and told much more. A strand just held a single thought.
"Billy's in danger." She whispered.
"Gen? Gen are you okay?" Maggie asked, concerned. Gen looked up.
"Lord Zedd isn't planning a ransom, like we guessed. He wants Billy for a reason."
"Why?" Theo was immediately worried. If Billy had something Lord Zedd wanted, then this could get dangerous. For everyone.
"I'm trying- hang on." Gen closed her eyes. The idea was poorly constructed. Obviously done in haste. At the centroid, a memory sat. Gen entered it. She saw Psy, heard his thoughts, heard Billy's thoughts. And then, the truth. "NO!" She screamed. Then, she opened her eyes.
She was laying on a med bed, with everyone looking over her. She felt like crying, but she didn't do that sort of thing.
"Gen, are you all right?" Alpha asked.
"I'm fine. Looks like Billy and I will be re-evaluating some things, though." Gen closed her eyes, and transferred the story to all.
~~
Hank Cranston was in poor spirits. His new wife was in bed next to him, and he was worried about her lack of enthusiasm. She was pregnant, and didn't care. Billy had come home for a visit, and he was not exactly thrilled with Christine. She was in the last stages of pregnancy and-
*Hold on,* Gen interrupted. *It goes into some rather unimportant stuff here.* Gen went to the birth.
Christine was in the hospital, giving birth. Billy wasn't there. He was back in college. Billy's father was in the room. The doctor brought out the baby.
"It's a girl." Mr. Cranston smiled.
"Looks like we're parents." He whispered. His wife seemed nonplussed.
*I'm skipping ahead about two days.*
Hank Cranston was in bed, sobbing. She left him. She didn't want the baby.
*I'm skipping ahead again. This is where things get important.*
Three monsters entered the Cranston residence. Two grabbed Mr. Cranston and the third grabbed a four-year-old girl.
The same day, Billy opened his apartment door to see his younger sister standing there. She was crying.
"Hey, what are you doing here?"
"Don't know." She whimpered.
~~
Gen cut the memory. All stared at her.
"That is why I live with my brother." She said softly. Maggie looked at her.
"Oh Gen." She leaned over and hugged Gen tightly. Gen didn't cry.
"They want something from Billy. The same thing I showed you."
"Memories?" Joel asked.
"Telepathy." Gen replied, darkly. "If Lord Zedd gets a hold on Billy's powers, he'll have everything he needs to overthrow the world."
"RANGERS, BILLY IS ATTEMPTING TO MAKE A CONNECTION WITH US."
"Telepathic?" Gen asked.
"YES, GEN. YOUR BROTHER IS IN GRAVE DANGER. LORD ZEDD IS PREPARING TO GIVE HIM A POTION TO MAKE HIS POWER TURN TOWARDS EVIL. ONCE HE USES HIS PSYCIC ABILITIES, THEY WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO BE USED FOR GOOD."
"Is there any way to counteract the potion?" Theo asked. He was well on his way to becoming a detective himself.
"I'm afraid not, Rangers." Alpha said. Gen was looking at her feet. All eyes turned her way, waiting for a plan of action.
"I think," she said softly "That I need to go."
"Right, we can all be ready as soon-" Rose started
"No. Just me. I know what Lord Zedd is capable of with Psy. I can rescue Billy, and Dad." Joel looked worried.
"Gen, you shouldn't do this alone. You're already facing enough. Your defenses could be down and you could get hurt. You're the best female friend I've ever had." Gen looked him in the eyes.
"Don't worry. I know what to do. Alpha, I'm ready."
"Right, Gen."
"MAY THE POWER BE WITH YOU."
~~
Gen found herself suddenly in the castle. She looked around, getting her bearings. The chamber was the same that she had seen from Billy's thoughts. Signs of a struggle were everywhere. Gen touched a track in the dirt. She followed what had to be the direction in which they went. She slipped, quietly, into a room in the palace. Instantly slipping behind a rock, she hid. Gen was able to get a good view of Billy and Lord Zedd. Zedd was holding a bottle above Billy's mouth, trying to force it in. Billy, however, was unusually good at resisting. Gen's training immediately kicked in. She jumped, emitting a loud shout of "Kai-ya!" Lord Zedd spun around to see her, and Billy seemed to have a look of pure terror written on his face.
*Gen! Go! It's not safe for you!*
*If you think I'm leaving you here, you're crazy.* Gen then turned to fight.
"Well, Lord Zedd, I think you've got some relatives of mine."
"And what does that mean to you?" He growled with a laugh.
"Give them back." She blocked out her emotions, feeling only a sense of power. She knew, and would stop at nothing to restore her family. "You wanted me to think I had been abandoned those many years ago. I know better." Then, she felt herself lifted off the floor, and thrown against the wall. She got to her feet, and stared. Psy was standing in a corner of the room. "Stupid." she muttered to herself. She knew how he had concealed himself. She used the trick on a regular basis. Enter the subconscious, and remove the expectation to see something. Instant invisibility. Gen readied her mind. Would a mind blast work? She cast a glance at her brother. She was no match with just her weak telepathy, but combined with her brother's, well, his was far stronger. Billy nodded. He understood. Simultaneously, they blasted Psy. Gen poured her strength into her powers, and so did Billy, obviously. They both shook, violently. The walls around them began to shudder with the power of their minds, coupled with Psy's attempts to throw off the siblings' concentration. A loud noise made both stop, and Gen sank to her knees as darkness curled around her eyes.
~~
Gen awoke on a med bed. Everyone was standing over her. Her head screamed.
"What's going on?" She mumbled, her head hurting too much to think.
"You destroyed Psy, and blacked out. We teleported you and Billy back to the Command Center." Theo explained, gently.
"He okay?"
"Well, he's not awake, yet, but he'll be fine. What did you do to Psy, exactly?" Rose said. Alpha slipped in, and applied a small laser to Gen's temple. Instantly, her headache was gone.
"Thanks, Alpha. Basically, Billy and I mind blasted him. He would have been able to handle just one of us, but the two of us together were too powerful." She sighed. "I take it you couldn't find Dad." She watched as Rose shook her head. Gen sighed again, and laid back to gather her emotions. No Dad this time. But then, tomorrow would be another day.
Raising Cain
Gen sat in class. It had been two weeks since she moved to Angel Grove, and joined the power rangers. They had already battled Totem, a monster who turned his victims into totem poles (why, Gen didn't quite understand herself), Goldar, and Kokopelli, a monster based off of Rose's Kokopelli model. The monster's flute turned all who listened into mindless zombies. This didn't make too much of a difference in some.
Watching the clock, Gen had twenty seconds before the bell rang. She reflected on her team. Shortly after Maggie's experience in Percy's hutch and Gen's subsequent job of terrifying the school bully, the team had named her the leader. Gen had been rather surprised. The bell rang, interrupting her thoughts. Gen jumped out of her seat, and walked swiftly to her locker. If she hurried, she would be able to meet with Theo and head to the Youth Center with a partner. She hated walking alone. Percy, it seemed, had gotten a few more idiots in his gang. Gen avoided fighting at all costs. Besides, if these guys were as good at fighting as Percy, it wouldn't be fair. They would have their butts kicked in no time. They basically subscribed to the school of Being Big and Scaring People. Luckily, the whole gang was meeting at Theo's locker.
"Hey, guys." She said in greeting. Then their communicators all beeped. "This way. It's deserted after school." Gen led them to a door near a creek behind the building. No one went there. "What's up, Alpha?" Gen asked.
"Rangers, you must hurry to the Command Center at once! Adam is in grave danger!"
"On our way." She said. The five teens teleported out.
~~
"Zordon, what's going on? How is Dad in danger?" Theo asked hurriedly. Adam Park was a local detective. Gen sighed. Like father, like son.
"RANGERS, BEHOLD THE VEIWING GLOBE." All looked. Adam was collapsed on the ground, with a large monster standing over him. The monster had a large sphere in its forehead. "THIS IS PSY. PSY IS A PSYCHIC MONSTER. HE HOLDS ALL POWERS OF ITS KIND."
"Ay-yi-yi! Rangers! Psy is leaving!" Alpha exclaimed, worriedly.
"Where to?" Gen asked, holding her ring of authority.
"Your house, Gen. Billy could be in danger. I will teleport Adam here." Gen almost started. Then she regained composure, pushing all emotion out of her mind. No sense in being emotional. She needed to think objectively.
"It's Morphin time!" She shouted. "Blue!"
"Pink!"
"Red!"
"Yellow!"
"Black!" All teleported to Gen's trailer home.
~~
When they arrived, the neighbors were in shock. Gen's home was trashed, and the door had been blown off its hinges.
"Can you tell me what happened here?" Gen asked an old lady, whom she happened to know was quite the busybody.
"Well, some huge monster blew the door in, and then left with Billy Cranston! You don't think he's in danger, do you?"
"Not of death. Don't worry." The blue ranger replied. "Let's go! We need a plan." Five colored beams of light sped off toward the Command Center.
~~
Billy awoke in Lord Zedd's castle to a pounding headache. He suppressed a moan, and tried to sit up and failed. He was strapped to a table of some sort. He could move his head, and look around, but his arms and legs were immobile. He tried to remember how he got there, but as he did, the pain in his head got worse. He closed his eyes, and emptied his mind. He knew how. He'd done it before in college when he found some problem the other students couldn't solve. It always worked. He heard someone come into the stone room. *Empty your mind.* He heard voices. *Think of a peaceful place.* Billy pictured his old lab when he was still in high school. *Relax your body.* His thoughts were cut off by a harsh voice shouting at him.
"Wake up! We cannot wait any longer!" Lord Zedd was standing over him, and so was a monster. He'd seen this monster. Wait. This monster was the one who brought him here.
"What do you want me for? I'm rather useless to you, and you know it. I have no powers and-"
"Silence!" Zedd roared. Billy was silent. "You have a power that I need."
"What are you talking about? I have nothing of importance." Billy had a feeling he knew what Zedd really wanted, so he stalled for time. The monster nodded. Billy felt something horrible force its way in.
*Ranger, you know what it is. Stall no longer.*
Billy was horrified. It knew. It had the same powers. Billy decided it was time to fight back. Using his thoughts, the ground began to shake beneath them. The monster made a fresh effort. He may be able to get in, but Billy wasn't going to make it easy for him.
*Stop. Should you continue, I shall put your true love in danger.*
Billy's eyes widened. He saw what the monster had in store for Gen. He concentrated harder. The table crashed to the ground, taking Billy with it. He didn't have much strength left. He pushed harder. As he blacked out, he did the only thing he could think of: He told Gen.
~~
Sitting in the Command Center, discussing a plan of action as to enter Lord Zedd's castle, Gen felt it. A small presence in her mind warned her about Psy's plan. She held on as long as possible. An idea was different than a strand of thought. An idea was intricate, and told much more. A strand just held a single thought.
"Billy's in danger." She whispered.
"Gen? Gen are you okay?" Maggie asked, concerned. Gen looked up.
"Lord Zedd isn't planning a ransom, like we guessed. He wants Billy for a reason."
"Why?" Theo was immediately worried. If Billy had something Lord Zedd wanted, then this could get dangerous. For everyone.
"I'm trying- hang on." Gen closed her eyes. The idea was poorly constructed. Obviously done in haste. At the centroid, a memory sat. Gen entered it. She saw Psy, heard his thoughts, heard Billy's thoughts. And then, the truth. "NO!" She screamed. Then, she opened her eyes.
She was laying on a med bed, with everyone looking over her. She felt like crying, but she didn't do that sort of thing.
"Gen, are you all right?" Alpha asked.
"I'm fine. Looks like Billy and I will be re-evaluating some things, though." Gen closed her eyes, and transferred the story to all.
~~
Hank Cranston was in poor spirits. His new wife was in bed next to him, and he was worried about her lack of enthusiasm. She was pregnant, and didn't care. Billy had come home for a visit, and he was not exactly thrilled with Christine. She was in the last stages of pregnancy and-
*Hold on,* Gen interrupted. *It goes into some rather unimportant stuff here.* Gen went to the birth.
Christine was in the hospital, giving birth. Billy wasn't there. He was back in college. Billy's father was in the room. The doctor brought out the baby.
"It's a girl." Mr. Cranston smiled.
"Looks like we're parents." He whispered. His wife seemed nonplussed.
*I'm skipping ahead about two days.*
Hank Cranston was in bed, sobbing. She left him. She didn't want the baby.
*I'm skipping ahead again. This is where things get important.*
Three monsters entered the Cranston residence. Two grabbed Mr. Cranston and the third grabbed a four-year-old girl.
The same day, Billy opened his apartment door to see his younger sister standing there. She was crying.
"Hey, what are you doing here?"
"Don't know." She whimpered.
~~
Gen cut the memory. All stared at her.
"That is why I live with my brother." She said softly. Maggie looked at her.
"Oh Gen." She leaned over and hugged Gen tightly. Gen didn't cry.
"They want something from Billy. The same thing I showed you."
"Memories?" Joel asked.
"Telepathy." Gen replied, darkly. "If Lord Zedd gets a hold on Billy's powers, he'll have everything he needs to overthrow the world."
"RANGERS, BILLY IS ATTEMPTING TO MAKE A CONNECTION WITH US."
"Telepathic?" Gen asked.
"YES, GEN. YOUR BROTHER IS IN GRAVE DANGER. LORD ZEDD IS PREPARING TO GIVE HIM A POTION TO MAKE HIS POWER TURN TOWARDS EVIL. ONCE HE USES HIS PSYCIC ABILITIES, THEY WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO BE USED FOR GOOD."
"Is there any way to counteract the potion?" Theo asked. He was well on his way to becoming a detective himself.
"I'm afraid not, Rangers." Alpha said. Gen was looking at her feet. All eyes turned her way, waiting for a plan of action.
"I think," she said softly "That I need to go."
"Right, we can all be ready as soon-" Rose started
"No. Just me. I know what Lord Zedd is capable of with Psy. I can rescue Billy, and Dad." Joel looked worried.
"Gen, you shouldn't do this alone. You're already facing enough. Your defenses could be down and you could get hurt. You're the best female friend I've ever had." Gen looked him in the eyes.
"Don't worry. I know what to do. Alpha, I'm ready."
"Right, Gen."
"MAY THE POWER BE WITH YOU."
~~
Gen found herself suddenly in the castle. She looked around, getting her bearings. The chamber was the same that she had seen from Billy's thoughts. Signs of a struggle were everywhere. Gen touched a track in the dirt. She followed what had to be the direction in which they went. She slipped, quietly, into a room in the palace. Instantly slipping behind a rock, she hid. Gen was able to get a good view of Billy and Lord Zedd. Zedd was holding a bottle above Billy's mouth, trying to force it in. Billy, however, was unusually good at resisting. Gen's training immediately kicked in. She jumped, emitting a loud shout of "Kai-ya!" Lord Zedd spun around to see her, and Billy seemed to have a look of pure terror written on his face.
*Gen! Go! It's not safe for you!*
*If you think I'm leaving you here, you're crazy.* Gen then turned to fight.
"Well, Lord Zedd, I think you've got some relatives of mine."
"And what does that mean to you?" He growled with a laugh.
"Give them back." She blocked out her emotions, feeling only a sense of power. She knew, and would stop at nothing to restore her family. "You wanted me to think I had been abandoned those many years ago. I know better." Then, she felt herself lifted off the floor, and thrown against the wall. She got to her feet, and stared. Psy was standing in a corner of the room. "Stupid." she muttered to herself. She knew how he had concealed himself. She used the trick on a regular basis. Enter the subconscious, and remove the expectation to see something. Instant invisibility. Gen readied her mind. Would a mind blast work? She cast a glance at her brother. She was no match with just her weak telepathy, but combined with her brother's, well, his was far stronger. Billy nodded. He understood. Simultaneously, they blasted Psy. Gen poured her strength into her powers, and so did Billy, obviously. They both shook, violently. The walls around them began to shudder with the power of their minds, coupled with Psy's attempts to throw off the siblings' concentration. A loud noise made both stop, and Gen sank to her knees as darkness curled around her eyes.
~~
Gen awoke on a med bed. Everyone was standing over her. Her head screamed.
"What's going on?" She mumbled, her head hurting too much to think.
"You destroyed Psy, and blacked out. We teleported you and Billy back to the Command Center." Theo explained, gently.
"He okay?"
"Well, he's not awake, yet, but he'll be fine. What did you do to Psy, exactly?" Rose said. Alpha slipped in, and applied a small laser to Gen's temple. Instantly, her headache was gone.
"Thanks, Alpha. Basically, Billy and I mind blasted him. He would have been able to handle just one of us, but the two of us together were too powerful." She sighed. "I take it you couldn't find Dad." She watched as Rose shook her head. Gen sighed again, and laid back to gather her emotions. No Dad this time. But then, tomorrow would be another day.