Power Rangers Dino Thunder AU: White Lightning
Episode Number: PRDT-AU-022
Episode Title: Copy That
Rating: PG-13 (U.S.)/15 (U.K.)
By Matthew Keirl (RedGenesisRanger)
Based off of 'Power Rangers: Dino Thunder' by BVS Entertainment, Inc. and loosely based off of 'BakuRyuu Sentai Abarenjaa' or translated into 'Blast Dragon Squadron Outburst Ranger' by Toei Entertainment International.
This Fan Fiction is not intended to infringe on the Copyrights held by BVS Entertainment, or any of its affiliates and is intended solely for my enjoyment and the enjoyment of others. However, any material in this Fan Fiction that I have invented is mine and is protected by internet and plagiarism laws and any infringement will be dealt with appropriately.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo, Power Rangers Turbo, Power Rangers in Space, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, Power Rangers Time Force, Power Rangers Wild Force, Power Rangers Ninja Storm, Power Rangers Dino Thunder, Power Rangers Space Patrol Delta and all related logos, characters, names, and distinctive likenesses are TM and © 2002-2005 by BVS Entertainment.
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Author's Note: -
I would like to thank the people who have been supporting this fic, especially Storm2003, your reviewing is what is keeping me going and wanting to keep writing this story. As long as I have at least one fan, I will continue to write.
So here is my version of Copy That, I hope you enjoy it.
RedGenesisRanger.
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'Copy That'
"Okay Devin, I have a student council meeting at eleven, then the yearbook committee at twelve," Cassidy asks her cameraman, both of them sitting down at a table in Hayley's Cyberspace, "Are you getting all this?" she asks.
"Yeah, I am. Oh, do you remember you have square dancing club at two" Devin says.
"Why did I join that again?"
"You thought you looked cute in that puffy little dress"
"Oh yeah! Of course!"
"Look, Cass, I'm really starting to wonder how you fit all this stuff in. I know, maybe you should clone yourself?" Devin asks.
"As if there could be more than one Cassidy Cornell!" Cassidy says.
On another table, sat Conner, Ethan and Kira. Cassidy's announcement didn't go unnoticed.
"Just imagine if there was more than one, Cassidy. The horror of it!" Ethan joked.
"Totally dude!" Conner said, agreeing with the Blue Ranger.
"Hey, I wonder why we haven't seen White Ranger around for the past few days." Ethan asks.
"I don't know. You think he's joined up with Mesogog?"
"Who knows? Kira, what do you think?" Ethan asked Kira.
"Maybe" Kira says.
"I guess kicking our butts hasn't kept Michael busy enough these days! That he has to join up with Mesogog!"
"Yeah, no doubt!" Says Ethan.
"I'd hate to admit this, but I think you guys might be right. Maybe there is no good left in him" Kira said.
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CRASH! A Tyrannodrone goes flying into a stone bench. Michael Scott stares at the remaining group of his assailants, and he urges them to attack him. One runs towards him, Michael just simply pivots on his foot and spins around and snap kick it in the head, sending to flying back. Michael then grabs another drone and throws it into a pillar. Several attack at once, but Michael comfortably keeps them at bay, and after a few more kicks and sweeps, all the Tyrannodrones are left at his feet. Anton Mercer walks up after watching the whole fight.
"I need more competition. This is too easy. I wipe the floor with them every single time" Michael says, picking up a towel and whipping his brow.
"So it seams" Anton says, as Michael picks up a glass of orange juice from the table and takes a drink from it, "Look, Michael, this change in you, your...your mother would like it"
"Keep her outta this. You maybe my father, Anton, but your not my dad. Don't try to pretend otherwise, I came here to train, nothing more. You didn't know I existed till Mesogog made the discovery"
"I know. I regret that I never got the chance to know you. I regret that your mother never told me about you"
"Whatever! All I know is the Dino Gem is making me stronger every day. Soon no-ones going to be able to stop me, 'Dad'!" Michael said, snapping the word 'dad', "Isn't that what you wanted?"
"No, it's not what I would have wanted for you. That's what Mesogog wants" Anton says, Michael look on a little confused, "Look, we share the same mind, but I hate what he's done to you"
"But you are Mesogog!" Michael snaps back.
"And you're the White Ranger" Anton counters; "Both of our circumstances are not by choice" Anton got up and proceeds to walk away, "You know, my research on dinosaur DNA was bold, it was groundbreaking. I was sure I was on the verge of a whole new technology, one that would serve the betterment of mankind. But it was experimental. Too risky to try on anyone but myself. I had no idea the effect would be so...monstrous"
"But our plan to bring back the era of the dinosaurs - it's all within our reach" Michael says.
"That's not my plan. That's what I'm trying to tell you, Michael. This creature, Mesogog, he's poisoned my mind. I would never have wanted this for you. I would never want this for anybody. Do you understand that?"
"Well, it's too little to late, Anton!" Michael said, picking up his bag and slinging it over his shoulder, "To little too help me and way too late to try and play 'dad'!" and he walked off.
"That went well" Anton said.
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"Whoo hoo!" Elsa says, watching the footage of Michael's victory over Zeltrax, the 'Z' strike that made the White Ranger in Mesogog's regime, "This is fabulous! Oh! Oh! I could watch that over and over again and laugh every time" In fact that is what Elsa did next, she play the footage again and laughed even harder. Elsa has since changed her style, gone is the tight hair style, but she has grown her hair and placed it in a ponytail. Elsa gets out of Mesogog's chair.
"It was an unfair fight. Next time..." Zeltrax said, before being cut off by Elsa, the person he now reported to, thanks to the White Ranger.
"Next time, he may not be so easy on you. During that fight, he handed your cyborg butt to you, and you know it! You're just jealous 'cause Mesogog favours the White Ranger over you" Elsa said.
"Because he's his son. But that won't stop me from destroying him"
"Right. Whatever. Is that before or after he reduces you to your basic components?" Elsa asks.
"There's something different about you" Zeltrax says, ignoring her question.
"I'm just trying a new look, you like?"
"Why? Trying to impress the Black Ranger? He doesn't even know you are alive"
"Don't go there! Why don't you try and make yourself useful for once?" Elsa asks.
"If that is your wish," Zeltrax says, walking over to the Geno Randomizer, "I will dedicate this monster to you. Activating Geno Randomizer" Zeltrax flips a series of switches and seconds later a monster with a large green sweet pepper from a head and a scanner and photocopier for arms appears from the chamber, "Meet Copyster"
"You're joking, right?" Elsa asks.
"I admit, he may not look terrifying, but with his help, I will win back Mesogog's approval, and get my revenge on the White Ranger"
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"Come in guys, we've got a situation. I need you over at the city center parking lot right away" Tommy says. Talking to the other Rangers from the underground lab. Tommy is still trapped inside his Black Ranger form.
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"Okay, Dr. O, we're on out way" Conner says into his Dino Brace. All three Rangers look at each other and leave the cybercafé and go behind a parked and unattended yellow tram.
"DINO THUNDER, POWER UP, ha!" and the three Rangers morph.
A few minutes later, the Power Rangers arrive a confront Copyster.
"Okay, creep. We're taking you down!" Conner says. Copyster turns around
"Oh yeah, says who? Here's a pepper for you!" the monster says, and he throws a red pepper at them. Kira unhooks her Thundermax Saber and using a flat end of the sword, she smacks it right back at Copyster, causing the pepper to explode on contact.
"I'm not supposed to have too many spicy foods. Thanks anyway" Kira says.
"Then how about some seafood...This is what I call shell-shock!" Copyster says, and then throws several oyster shells at the Rangers, but Ethan and Conner slice them out of the air with their Thundermax Sabers, "You'll pay for that!"
"Tricera Shield!" Ethan calls out and summons his power weapon.
"That's exactly what I've been waiting for! Now here's my secret power! Copy! Tricera Shield!" Copyster says; the scanner on his right arm glowing and seconds later an identical version of the Blue Ranger's weapon appears in his hand, and he fires it at Ethan.
"Now it's on" Kira says.
"Tyranno Staff!" Conner says, his staff appearing in his hands.
"Ptera Grips!" Kira says, doing the same, her daggers appearing in her hands.
"Copy! Tyranno Staff! Ptera Grips!" Copyster says, and a duplicate of Conner's Staff appeared in his hand and a copy of one of Kira's Ptera Grips appeared in his left.
"He copied our weapons!" Conner says.
"That's cheating!" Kira adds. Copyster charges forward and strikes Conner with the copied staff and then hits Kira with the fake Ptera grip.
"He has our weapons; I wonder what else he wants?" Kira asks, being helped up by Conner and Ethan.
"Copy!" Copyster says, his scanner attachment glowing, "Hi! I'm the Yellow Ranger! Aren't I cute?" Copyster says, using Kira's own voice.
"My voice!" Kira says.
"Man, that's cold!" Ethan adds.
"That's enough!" Conner tells the monster.
"I agree. I have more important things to copy. See ya!" and Copyster runs off.
"I can we beat him?" Ethan asks.
"We start by finding him, let's go" Conner says, and the Rangers give chase.
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"Outta my way!" a voice shouts, just as Cassidy exits from her square dance society meeting, "I said 'outta my way!'" the voice shouts again just as they collide with each other. Cassidy looks to find a pepper-shaped monster on the ground.
"Why did you do that for?" Copyster asks.
"Excuse me! But you bumped into me. Just because you're a hideous mutant creature, doesn't give you right to be rude" Cassidy says.
"Ah! Copy!" Copyster says, activating his scanner, and precedes to copy another three Cassidies. They all begin to complement each other, until one grabs the attention of the other three.
"Come on guys, we better hurry up, because we've got a busy day" the lead Cassidy says.
"Totally!" the other three say in unison, and then all four walk off.
"Oh, I'll proberly regret that!" Copyster says, then a white streak attacks Copyster rapidly, and the white form materializes into the White Ranger.
"One of Zeltrax's freaks. Maybe you'll be achallenge" White Ranger says.
"Ah, just the Ranger I was looking for. Copy!" and the monster creates a duplicate of the White Drago Saber.
"Hey!" White Ranger says, seeing the facsimile of his weapon in the monsters hands.
"I'll be going now" Copyster says, disappearing into an invisi-portal.
"What the hell was that all about?" White Ranger asks.
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Knock. Knock.
Karen Scott heard the knocker on the front door go. Her and her son had moved to Reefside from Detroit several weeks ago. Her son was Michael Scott, the evil White Ranger, although she didn't know that. She had noticed his change in both his attitude and mood over the past few weeks, but hadn't commented on it yet.
Knock. Knock.
'I wonder who that could be?' Karen asked herself. As she got up from her computer and walked towards the front door, and saw a man standing on the front porch, looking away from the peephole. She opened the door and he turned around. Karen almost fainted when she saw who it was. A man she though she'd never see again. Anton Mercer.
"An...Ant...Anton?" She asked.
"Hello Karen, long time no see" Anton asks. Then next thing Anton receives is not a warm welcome, but a hard, forcible slap to the face. One so hard, it turns his head almost ninety degrees to the side and a vicious red hand print is burnt on to his left cheek, "Okay, I guessed I deserved that"
"What are you doing here, Anton?" Karen asked.
"I came to talk to you about our son" Anton said, Karen however was ready to slap him again, when he caught her arm, and then realising his mistake, he let go.
"You bastard. You don't write, call, or anything for seventeen years. In fact I don't even hear your name unless it's on the news or the paper. You even disappear of the face of the Earth for two years. Then you appear on my doorstep, expecting to talk about the son you never wanted"
"Karen, I never know about him. You didn't tell me about him"
"For good reason, Anton. I was young and foolish, and I was scared. I was only nineteen."
"Look, can we not talk about this out on the porch."
"Come on" Karen said, allowing Dr. Mercer into the house.
"Karen, I came to ask if you noticed anything strange about him" Anton asked.
"Why do you care?"
"Cause he's came to see me"
"He what?!"
"He came to see me. Please Karen, I know about him now. I want to be a part of his life"
"You're too late, Anton, he's eighteen in a few months, he doesn't need you in his life" Karen said.
"But does he want me?" Anton asks.
"I don't know. I've always allowed him to make his own decisions. I suppose if he wants too" Karen says, "but you ask me if anything has changed about him, how do you know anything about him?"
"I don't. But you do. Is his current behaviour normal for him?"
"No. When we moved here, Michael was fairly happy, but the day he came home from his first day at the high school, something was different"
"In what way?"
"He became colder and more distant. The only other time that happened was when his dad died"
"His 'dad' I would suppose was his step-father?"
"Yes, John. He died when Michael was fifteen"
"I'm sorry. But you said he was becoming distant, was there anything else?"
"One very strange thing. Michael started to wear more white than normal" Karen said.
Anton noticed that everything she was saying was consistent with both the effects of the dino gem and with he's observed with being a Power Ranger.
"Anton? Do you want a drink?" Karen asked, bringing Anton out of his reverie.
"I'd love to" he said.
"What?"
"Coffee would be fine. Thanks"
"Make yourself at home"
"Karen?" Anton asked sitting on the couch in the front room.
"Yes Anton"
"I know we could never pick up where we left off. But I am hoping we could just be friends"
"I would like that. Cream? Sugar?" she shouted from kitchen.
"Just black please" Anton said, only to feel a very familiar sensation begin in his hand. 'Oh no! Not now, please, anytime but now!' The feeling was getting worse. He was doubling over in pain. 'I have to get out of here, now!' Just then Karen make the perfect opportunity to walk, and seeing Anton Mercer double over in pain, she dropped the mugs she was holding.
"ANTON!" she said, running over to him, "Are you alright?"
"I have to get out of here, now"
"Shall I call you an ambulance?"
"NO!" Anton's reaction was immediate, taking her by surprise. Anton gathered all the strength he had to stand, but in the attempt he flashed his hand in plain view.
"Anton! Your hand!" Karen screamed. His hand had changed from its normal five-fingered human hand, to the three-clawed hand of Mesogog, he was transforming right in front of her. He had to get away. Anton picked up his coat and ran towards the door as fast as he could and Karen followed, but she lost him when he disappeared around the corner.
"Anton, what is happening to you?" She asked.
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Anton Mercer stopped when he was sure he'd lost her. He couldn't let Mesogog hurt anyone, most of all her. He'd hurt her enough in the past, he couldn't bare to hurt her again. Anton accessed a nearby invisi-portal before his transformation was complete.
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Meanwhile in Cyberspace, Devin walks in to find Cassidy sitting down in her square dancing outfit.
"Cass, aren't you supposed at the student council meeting?" Devin asked.
"Don't worry, I've got it covered. Listen, could you run out to my car an grab my organizer?" Cassidy asks.
"Sure" And Devin walks back outside the cybercafé, but on the way he runs into another Cassidy.
"Dev, glad you're here. We need to go over tomorrow's agenda"
"Yeah, but I thought you wanted your organizer?"
"Hello, what does this look like?" Cassidy Two says, holding up a pocket organizer, "Now do you have my square dance mix CD?"
"Yeah, it's in my scooter"
"Could you go and get it?"
"Sure" and Devin exits the café and goes to his scooter to find another Cassidy sitting on it, playing a portable CD player, "Oh man!" Devin says and he walks up to the third Cassidy. She sees him approach and removes the headphones from her ears.
"Let me guess, you square dance mix CD?" Devin asks.
"Yeah, how did you know? Oh never mind. Do you feel like a decaf latte, 'cause I could totally use one? Come on" And she walks into the entrance.
"Mom always says to wear my glasses. But no, I'm afraid of looking like a dork!" Devin says to himself.
"Yoo hoo! Devin!" another Cassidy shouts from behind him.
"And look what happens" Devin finishes.
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"My laboratory!" Mesogog says; looking at his laboratory, which has been turned inside out, "What has happened here, Zeltrax?" he bends down to examine the wreckage, "Months of experiments, ruined! Who has done this?"
"I don't know, master. It is horrible" Zeltrax says, although not sounding utterly convincing, "What is this?" Zeltrax bends down into the mess to find something, when he removes it and brushes it off; it is the White Drago Saber.
"Master, look" Zeltrax says, gaining Mesogog's attention, "The White Ranger's weapon. It couldn't have been"
"I knew he couldn't be trusted"
"Why would he betray you?" Zeltrax answers.
"Because he wants all the power for himself"
"Shall I bring him in for you to punish?"
"No. Zeltrax, this is something I will deal with myself" Mesogog says.
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The Rangers arrive in the agricultural district of Reefside, just outside the main city, on their Raptor Cycles.
"Okay guys, I'm picking up some kind of signal from around here" Conner says, getting of his Raptor Cycle.
"Where is he?" Kira asks.
"Looking for me? I was picking peppers" Copyster said, and he throws both Red and Green sweet peppers at the Rangers, which they expertly dodge.
"We need to be careful, as he can copy out weapons" Ethan says.
"How can we defeat him when he can do that?" Kira asks.
"I got it! How about we close up the head of the Z-Rex Blaster. He copies it, fires it at us. And as soon as he pulls the trigger, BOOM!" Conner explains.
"Sneaky! I like it!" Ethan says.
"Are you done with your meeting over there?" Copyster asks.
"Just a minute!" Conner shouts, "Let put it together guys"
"Right!" Ethan and Kira respond. The Ranger assemble the Z-Rex Blaster, except with one small detail, Conner closes the head of his Tyranno Staff before assembly.
"Z-Rex Blaster!" all the Rangers call out.
"Copy!" the monster says and seconds later, the Z-Rex Blaster appears in his hands, "Z-Rex Blaster! Ready to go!" Then the monster notices something about his copied weapon, "Oh, wait! I almost forgot!" and he opens the head of his Z-Rex Blaster, "Now it's ready!" and he fires it, the explosion sending the Rangers into a pond.
Looking on from a distance, Michael, in his unmorphed form, is watching the fight between the Rangers and Copyster unfold.
"So, I guess I get to fight the winner?" he says. But he is unaware of the invisi-portal opening up behind him, and a dark three-fingered claw appearing out of it, which grabs him and drags him into it.
"Get up, so I can blast you again!" Copyster says, aiming his Z-Rex Blaster at the three prone Rangers.
"I don't think so!" Tommy shouts, gaining his attention, and preparing his Brachio Staff, "Brachio Staff, Wind Strike!" Tommy shouts; slamming the weapon into the ground and a huge force of wind smacks the monster head on. Tommy runs to the other Rangers.
"Are you guys alright?" Tommy asks.
"I'll take one of those! Copy!" Copyster says, and a duplicate Brachio Staff appears in his hand, "Brachio Staff, Wind Strike!" and a huge force of moving air slams into the Rangers.
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Meanwhile, inside Mesogog's fortress, Michael is tied to the Life-Force Extractor, with Mesogog breathing right over him.
"Traitor! You'll regret double-crossing me!" Mesogog hissed.
"Traitor?! Double-crossing you?! Michael says in confusion and mixed fear.
"You cannot be trusted, and therefore, must be eliminated!" Mesogog says, walking over to a control console.
"No, you're making a mistake!" Michael pleads.
"Goodbye, White Ranger!" Mesogog says as he activates the Life-Force Extractor, which the tip begin to glow in a white light, which fired itself at the White Ranger, and an accompanying scream not soon after, as the machine, quite literary, sucks him dry.
After several minutes, Michael screams of pain subsided into mere whimpers, and acute delirium was beginning to set in, due to the draining of energy from his body.
"Dad, don't! It's me, Michael. I'm your son...Dad, don't. Please!" Michael says. Mesogog suddenly begins to fall to the ground and the painful process of reversion back into his human alter-ego, Anton Mercer. When the transformation is complete, Anton Mercer stands up, looking a little shaken, and he turns around, to find his son strapped onto Mesogog's torture device.
"Michael!" Anton shouts; pushing the extractor out of the way, as a stream of white energy begins to ricochet around the room, until it strikes the white gem in Michael's black Dino Brace.
"Michael!" Anton asks, Michael groans, as his father un-straps him form the chair, "How do you feel?"
"I'm fine. I feel like my old self again" Michael says, holding his head.
"The explosion. The explosion must have broken the evil influence the gem had over you" Anton said.
"Does that mean there's no more White Ranger?"
"As far as I can tell, the power's still active" the scientist said, as he looked at the Dino Brace, "Try shifting your morpher" Michael hold his left arms down by his side, and a split second later, the Drago Morpher appears in a flash of white light.
"Great! What do I do with it now?" Michael asks.
"Now, you'll be able to use it. You'll be able to use it however you choose" Anton says, as a new wave of pain hits him and he falls to his knees.
"What's wrong?" Michael asks.
"You have to get out of here"
"No, I can help"
"No! I'll find a way to stop this, but until I do, I want you to go and use your powers for something good. Go and help the other Rangers" Anton instructs.
"The other Rangers? That's crazy! They won't trust me!"
"I'm beginning to understand you, Michael; I know you'll do what ever you have to do, even fighting against me. Go, help them" Anton says, Michael beings to find the exit, "Michael, wait"
"Yeah"
"I needyou to do me a couple of favours?"
"What?"
"First, talk to you mother. You too need to talk about a lot of things" Anton said, as his features begun to change.
"The other?"
"Please don't tell Tommy or the other Rangers about this. I need time to sort this out"
"I promise. I won't tell them your secret" Michael said.
"Now go!" Anton shouts as he falls to the ground again, Michael promptly leaves, in search of an invisi-portal.
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"How's the dirt taste?" Copyster asks, hitting the Rangers with another Wind Strike from his copied Brachio Staff, until several white energy blasts hit the monster, sending him flying back. The White Ranger turns up, riding his custom White Battle Cycle, and he skids it to a stop, like a pro rider.
"Looks like you guys could use a little help!" Michael asks, stepping off his cycle, unholstering his Drago Saber and streak attacks the monster as it gets up, hitting it multiple times with the small dagger-like blade. Michael then draws four large golden crosses on various parts of the monster, and when Michael becomes to a stop, the crosses explode.
"Man" Ethan says.
"Whose side is he on now?" Conner asks angrily.
"Is that all you got?" Copyster asks, getting up off the ground, "I'm not finished yet!"
"Actually, no. SUPER DINO MODE!" Michael shouts, and the black areas on his arms, legs and shoulders extent into black armoured spikes, while the hands pads on the tops of his gloves extend into arrow-like serrated blades, "White Ranger, Super Dino Power, eh-yah!" Michael shouts, assuming his super dino fighting stance.
"He's got Super Dino Mode!" Conner says, not being able to believe that the White Ranger has just gotten stronger.
"And I like it!" Michael says.
"Big deal!" Copyster says, and he fires several energy pulses at the White Ranger, exploding all around him. But out of the explosion, comes a flying White Ranger, using the dino spikes to fly towards the monster, Michael imbeds the serrated blades right into Copyster, and the speed at which Michael was flying at, picks the monster up and pins him up against a tree.
"But I thought we were on the same side?" Copyster asks.
"Not anymore!" Michael says, jumping up, and using his legs, pushes his blades from out of the monster. Using the momentum form the jump, Michael back-flips and upon coming down, slashes Copyster with the two charged arrows on his hands. Michael then begins to walk away and stops a few feet away from Copyster, putting his hands together, Michael suddenly pivots on his feet and makes a slashing motion with his arm-arrows. Just then, two huge golden energy blades lash out, striking the monster, slashing it in half. Michael spins around, facing away from the monster as he explodes, and a second later, the tree falls over also.
"Is this another trick?" Conner asks.
"Ah, man!" Ethan said.
"Michael?" Kira asks.
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"You are beginning to try my patience, Rangers" Mesogog says, as he activates the Hydro Regenerator, and seconds later Copyster reappears, in mega form.
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"Brachio Zord!" Tommy calls into his morpher and the Black Ranger's zord turns up and releases the Tyranno, Tricera and Ptera Zords. Conner, Ethan and Kira, jump into their respective zord and begin the Thundersaurus Megazord assembly. When the Megazord is finished, it charges Copyster.
"I know you can take this guy. Stay focused!" Tommy says, as he is stalked from behind by Zeltrax. Tommy turns, just as Zeltrax is about to strike, and the cyborg strikes Tommy in the chest, sending the Black Ranger to the ground, "You again?" Tommy asks.
"I've been waiting of this moment for a long time!" Zeltrax says, levelling his sword, to strike the finishing blow.
Michael sees Zeltrax strike Dr. Oliver and the cyborg moving in for the kill. "No!" Michael says, bringing his arm-blades up, he jumps the large distance and block Zeltrax's weapon with one blade, knocks it up with the other, and then kicks Zeltrax in the stomach area, sending him back, "Get back, Zeltrax!"
"What is going on?" Tommy asks, seeing the White Ranger and Zeltrax begin to fight, "Okay, now I'm really confused!" Tommy says.
Michael blocks an attack from Zeltrax with his blades, only to get a kick to the stomach. Zeltrax slashes the White Ranger, sending him back, but with Super Dino Mode active, Michael barely feels the attacks and jumps at the cyborg. But Zeltrax blasts him with a laser beam from his sword, sending Michael flying back, next to Tommy, causing his Dino Mode power-up to fail, and he reverted back to normal White Ranger.
Tommy, Brachio Staff in hand, runs towards Zeltrax, only to get kicked back. Michael flips to his feet, Drago Saber in hand and joins in the fight, both locking weapons, until Zeltrax kicks him away. Tommy joins in again, and both rivals clash weapons, but Zeltrax blasts Tommy away with a laser blast from his eyes. Tommy quickly recovers and stands up, only to find Zeltrax flying towards him with a jump kick. Then a white figure intercepts Zeltrax sending him flying instead away from Tommy.
"You will pay for that, traitor!" Zeltrax says, lying on the ground form the kick given to him by Michael. Zeltrax promptly teleports through an invisi-portal.
"You okay?" Michael asks an obviously confused Dr. Oliver.
"What do you want?" Tommy asks, putting his hands in a defensive posture.
"Power Down!" Michael says, crossing his arms, and his Ranger Form disappearing in a soft white glow. He starts to walk towards the Black Ranger.
"Whoa, stop right there!" Tommy orders.
"Dr. Oliver, you've gotta listen to me" Michael says, as he begins to explain what is going on.
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Copyster fires another vegetable barrage at the Megazord.
"Oh, it's on now!" Ethan says.
"I like vegetables as much as the next person, but this is ridiculous!" Kira said.
"Parasaur Zord!" Conner calls and the facia on his morpher changes from the Tyranno to the Parasaur. The Tyranno Drill detaches and the Parasaur takes it place, "Let's prune this overgrown veggie patch!" Conner says.
"Parasaur Zord, Final Cut!" the Rangers call together and the left arm starts to Copyster to bits, and he explodes after several more cuts.
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Outside Cyberspace, Devin is trying to walk wearing large glasses, and not having much luck seeing where he is going. He is intercepted by the combined and scary might of four Cassidy Cornell's.
"Oh, Devin, great, you're here" Cassidy one says.
"Okay! I think it might be time for a new prescription" Devin says to himself.
"We have so much to do today" Cassidy three says.
"Yeah, I know, Cass, we've always got things to do. I'm trying..." Devin says, trying to find the right Cassidy to address.
"Well, obviously, you're not trying hard enough, 'cause we're not getting anything done!" Cassidy four says.
"No, I am. It's just everywhere I go, there's Cassidy!" Devin points to one of them, "Cassidy!" points to another, "Cassidy!" points to yet another one, "And guess what? Cassidy!" Devin finishes by pointing at the last one.
"And the Problem is?" Cassidy two asks.
"Well, there are just too many Cassidies to handle!" Devin says, loosing despair, and proberly, soon, the will to live!
"Devin, I'm not asking for you to handle me. I'm just asking for you to do what your told..." Cassidy four starts.
"...Now, if that's too hard for you to comprehend, I'm going to have to fire you, because it's really starting to annoy me!" Cassidy one finishes.
"Look, I'm sorry, Cass" Devin says, as he removes his glasses, and is on the verge of crying in frustration, "I...I just can't do this anymore" he finishes by walking away from the group of Cassidy Cornell's, just as the three created by Copyster disappears. The original Cassidy follows after her helpless friend.
"Devin, do you need a hug?" she asks.
"Cass, it's okay. Let's just go, okay" Devin says, as he throws his glasses into a trash can.
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Outside the entrance to the underground lab, the one with the dinosaur imbedded on the wall with it's jaw that is used as a switch. Conner, Ethan and Kira are waiting outside, Conner with his hand on the jaw-switch.
"Anyone know why Dr. O wanted us to meet him here?" Ethan asks.
"Don't know, he just mentioned something about a big surprise" Kira said. Conner flips the switch and the door opens, to reveal Michael standing there with his arms folded and a smile across his face.
"Hi guys" Michael says, and the three Rangers go on the defensive, "Whoa!"
"How the hell did you get in here?" Conner asks, threateningly.
"Because I let him in" Tommy says, turning around in the chair he's sitting in at the computer console.
"What?" Conner snaps.
"But he's..." Ethan begins.
"...On our side now" Tommy finishes.
"Yeah, right. Every time we hear that, he burns us. Why should we believe him this time?" Ethan asks.
"Because he saved my life" Tommy states, as a matter of fact.
"Is that true?" Conner asks Michael.
"Yeah. I'm in control of the Dino Gem now" Michael says.
"How can we trust your word that you're free this time? The last time you played this card, we got burned big time. You've still got three of our zords" Conner states.
"Cause I scanned the gem, Conner. No evil influence was detected. It's energies are clean, like yours" Tommy said, "Plus, Michael has freed the Ankylo and Dimetro Zords"
"What about the Stega?" Ethan asks.
"When Michael took control of the Stega Zord, he poured so much energy into it, the Stega Zord will only respond to him now, much like the Drago" Tommy said.
"Oh"
"Look, I'm in control of the White Ranger powers completely, for the first time. I want to use it to fight with you" Michael said.
"I wouldn't have brought Michael here, if I didn't think he was telling the truth. But only you can decide whether you trust him or not" Tommy said.
"Well, If Dr. O's down with it, then I guess I'm onboard too" Ethan says.
"Yeah, I guess we've got no choice, considering I'm kinda tired of getting my butt whipped by you!" Conner says. Michael turns to face Kira, who was behind him. Michael lightly took Kira hands in his, pleading her to look up to him
"Kira. I know I've got a lot to answer for. A lot to make up for. For all the bad things I did towards you. I proberly irreparably damaged your trust in me, and for what I did; I don't deserve anything from you. But I promise, this time I won't let you down" Michael said.
"I believe you" Kira said, "And I trust you with my life and my heart. But isn't there a rule that newbie Rangers have to clean all the zords?" Kira says with a smile.
"Hey, I forgot about that rule!" Ethan says, Conner grinning behind him.
"The Zords? But they're gigantic!" Michael says.
"Yeah, they are. So, uh, better get started, eh?" Conner says, pushing him off.
"Kira?! Help me!" Michael says, pleading.
"I'll be here when you finish" Kira says. Then all three Rangers laugh.
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After a few hours of cleaning, Michael had finished cleaning the Zords. He found out that using his streaking ability, he could clean a whole zord in around twenty minutes. When Michael returned to the lab, he found that Ethan and Conner had already gone home, but Kira was still waiting, just like she said she would. Now he was now driving her home in his car.
"Well, here we are" Michael said, pulling up near her driveway.
"Yeah" Kira said.
"Kira?"
"Yeah?"
"Can I kiss you goodnight?"
"Thought you'd never ask!" Kira said. They both leaned in for a kiss, pressing their lips together. As they intensified the kiss, Michael moved one of his hands to the back of Kira's head and he lightly stroked the light hairs on the back of her neck, making the Yellow Ranger shiver in delight. Michael and Kira broke the kiss when oxygen became a factor.
"You'd better go. Before your parents wonder where you are" Michael says, "I've got to get home, try to explain my behaviour to my mom"
"Michael, you can't..." Kira said.
"I can't say all the details, I know, but she'll want some explanation."
"Okay. Goodnight" Kira said.
"Love you"
"I love you too" Kira said, getting out of the car. Michael watched her walk up her path and the front door opened when she reached it. Michael took this as the good time to leave.
Kira watched as Michael drove off, her own father beside her.
"Kira, who was that?" Kira's dad asked.
"Michael. My boyfriend"
"Boyfriend?!"
"Don't sound so surprised, dad"
"I'm not that surprised, honey, but you've never mentioned him before"
"I didn't know where we were before. Now we do" Kira said, "I'll tell you about him over dinner" and then they both entered the house.
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Michael pulled his car up into the driveway of where he lived, to find his mother waiting for him on the front porch.
"Hi, mom" Michael said.
"We need to talk" Karen Scott said.
"I know. About a lot things. But, I'm starving; can we do it over dinner?"
"Okay. But you'll explain why you've been acting so strange these last few weeks" she said.
"I will if you explain to me about my father" Michael said.
"Deal"
"It feels good to be me again"
"It's good to have you back" Karen said.
"Oh, mom?"
"Yeah?"
"I've have a girlfriend now"
"Really?"
"Yeah, I'll tell you about her over dinner" Michael said, and both also entered the house.
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"Hey, Zeltrax, if I were you, I'd get outta here" Elsa said.
"Why?"
"Well, now that the White Ranger has joined the enemy, Mesogog will be furious" Elsa says.
"We haven't lost the battle yet" Zeltrax said.
"Yeah, right. How do we beat the White Ranger?"
"I think the saying goes, 'Fight fire with fire.'" Zeltrax says, holding Copyster's scanner arm.
"That's the mutant's copy weapon?"
"Yes, I came in quite handy, before the monster was destroyed"
"How?" Elsa asked, and the main lab doors opened up and in stepped the White Ranger.
"He's an exact duplicate of the White Ranger, but with no trace of Michael Scott in him. A soulless warrior that is one-hundred-percent evil"
"I am at your command" Evil White Ranger said, in a twisted voice.
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Author's Note: -
Hey, what did you think? Like it, hate it? Please, tell. Also the next episode will be the first truly original episode written by me.
Enjoy!
RedGenesisRanger
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PRDT-AU-23 - Part of Me
Synopsis: When Michael starts having nightmares about the time he was the Evil White Ranger, Michael's confidence takes a major nosedive and he pushes everyone away, to ashamed to face his friends, especially Kira, the he hurt the most.
Even when Tommy is unable to reach him, Tommy calls in a very old friend to help. The Original Red Ranger to see if he can get through to him. When Zeltrax decides to test out his new White Ranger clone against the original, Can Michael trust in himself to defeat this impostor?
Idea for episode based on the Linkin Park song 'Part of Me'
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