Power Rangers Dino Thunder AU: White Lightning
Episode Number: PRDT-AU-023
Episode Title: Part of Me (updated as of 28/04/05)
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.
As due to news rules by this site, I have updated this chapter accordingly, and have removed the lyrics.
Author's Note: -
Well, here it is. My first original episode. Based on the lyrics of a Linkin Park song of the same name, but don't worry this isn't a song-fic. But the lyrics do echo Michael Scott's situation very well. It is a very good song, I recommend you try and listen to it, if you can. 'Part of me' is off the Linkin Park debut album 'Hybrid Theory EP'.
This episode is a little darker then I've been used to writing at late, but it nothing to overboard.
I hope you enjoy this episode. Please review.
RedGenesisRanger
'Part of Me'
"Prepare to be destroyed, Rangers!" White Ranger said.
"What are you doing Michael? Thought you were on our side?" Conner asked picking himself of the ground.
"You thought wrong, Red Ranger! White Drago Saber, Laser arrows!" White Ranger said, drawing several golden arrows in the air and then flinging then at the Rangers, striking them.
"Michael, please fight it" Kira pleaded.
"There is no Michael, Only White Ranger!" White Ranger shouted, and he charged. He slashed Conner across the chest, blocked Ethan's attack and slashed him also. Dr. Oliver charged, attacking with his Brachio Staff, White Ranger blocked and slashed the back of the Black Ranger's knee, causing Tommy to fall, gripping the joint. Kira attacked, reluctantly, and White Ranger took advantage and slashed her repeatedly with the Drago Blade.
"White Drago Saber, Energy Orb!" White Ranger shouted, in a twisted voice as he drew a large sphere of white and gold energy, which he flung towards the Rangers, causing a large explosion. The Rangers landed hard and all four demorphed.
Michael looked on in horror as his alter ego attacked his friends, "No!"
Conner got up and attacked, but without being morphed, he was hardly a match for White Ranger, who smacked him in the face with the blunt, flat side of his Drago Sword. Tommy and Ethan attacked together, but even Tommy's past experience did help, as the White Ranger still expertly took them down. Kira attacked with a Ptera Scream, but somehow, White Ranger deflected the sonic pulse, which caught Kira head-on. Conner was back up, a cut on his left cheek, and he attacked again with a flurry of kicks and punches, but White Ranger, almost on auto-pilot, dodged them all and he punched Conner in the stomach, and then brought a knee into Conner's face, breaking his nose, White Ranger then grabbed Conner by the collar of the shirt, and whispered in his ear.
"Say goodbye, Red!" White Ranger venomously said, before driving the Drago Saber up in-between the Red Rangers ribcage into his lungs.
"NO!" Tommy shouted, getting up. Kira just screamed. Ethan just charged. White Ranger threw the now bleeding Red Ranger to the ground. Ethan attacked in a blind fury, not taking the time to aim and focus his attacks, and he was making mistakes. White Ranger capitalised on this and he grabbed Ethan in a headlock and twisted, all that could be heard was snap echo all around and the Blue Ranger simply fell to the ground in a broken heap.
"Stay here!" Tommy said to the Yellow Ranger, as he stood up and he attacked, using all his skill. Tommy was determined to protect Kira, his only remaining student, from the White Ranger. Tommy, although angry and upset, being a master martial artist for most of life, focused that aggression, and he hit the White Ranger several times, but those hits barely phased him, and White Ranger charged his blade up and fired a single golden arrow directly at the Black Ranger, which struck him in the chest, sending him flying back, the Black Ranger didn't move at all after that.
Michael continued to look on as three Ranger lay on the ground, dead. He was moving on Kira now, who was running away, the only option left open to her, but the White Ranger was unrelenting, and he shot a single arrow shot which struck Kira in the back.
"NO!" Michael shouted and ran towards the White Ranger, took a flying leap and went to connect with a flying kick, but when the attack was about to strike, he went straight through him and landed behind the White Ranger. He turned to find the White Ranger had dragged Kira to her feet, and driving the Drago Saber into the Yellow Ranger's stomach. Kira let out a bloodcurdling scream as the blade penetrated her skin. White Ranger threw her to the ground also.
White Ranger turned to face his alter ego. Michael charged with a blind fury, and tried to connect with a vicious combination of kicks and punches, but none of them were connecting...at all! The attacks were going straight through the White Ranger. However White Ranger simply kicked Michael away with a sabot kick.
"You never learn, do you!" White Ranger said, holding his Drago Saber, resting the blade on his shoulder armor, "You can't escape me, I am always with you, I am a part of you; we are the one and the same, White Ranger"
White Ranger slashed the air with his saber, as he simply disappeared in a flash of light, leaving a scene of utter carnage behind. Michael crawled to where Kira lay, and pulled her head into his lap.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Michael screamed as loud as he could, with tears running down his face.
(A/N: That part was so fun to write, how often does one get to actually kill Power Rangers, eh!)
"Aaahhhhhhhh!" Michael screamed as he awoke in his bed, him, his bed sheets and pillow soaked in perspiration. The door to his room opened and his mother ran in.
"Michael, what wrong?" Karen Scott asked. Michael just kept breathing heavily, "Honey, please tell me. This is the forth night in a row you've had nightmares"
"It's nothing, mom" Michael said.
"I wish you would tell me, Michael"
"I...I can't, It's a secret"
"We never used to keep secrets from each other, Honey"
"I know. But this time I made a promise, and if I told you about my nightmare, I would have to break my promise and I can't do that, not this time" Michael said.
"Okay. I won't force you to break any promises, but if this keeps happening, I am sending you to the doctor" Karen said and she leaned in and kissed Michael on the cheek, "Goodnight, sweetie"
"Goodnight, mom. I gonna grab a shower" Michael said.
"Okay, just don't stay up to late and try to get some sleep"
"Okay" Karen said, closing the door, going to her own bed.
"Man!" Michael said, throwing the covers of himself and grabbing a large towel from the draw next to his bed and prepares to walk to the bathroom to take a shower before going back to bed, when his black dino brace beeps, "Ah, man!" Michael says, grabbing the handle on his door.
"Go for Mike!" Michael says bringing his brace near his mouth.
"It's Tommy, sorry for waking you but Mesogog has sent a monster to the Reefside power distribution center, the others are there already; can you meet me there?" Dr. Oliver said.
"No problem, Dr. O, I was already awake. I'll be there" Michael said, and as the channel was cut, he shifted his morpher into view, "White Ranger, Dino Power, ha!" Michael said, pressing the red button in the center of his morpher and he morphed in a glow of white light, and when the glow subsided, stood in the center of the room was the White Ranger.
When Michael arrived he found his fellow team-mates fighting what appeared to be a cross between a pit-bull and an audio sound system. Michael ran and launched a flying kick to the monsters back.
"Eh? What?" The said, turning around, "Ah, the traitor! Sound-Blast!" the monster said, and Michael was hit head on with a sonic pulse from its stereo speakers and Michael collided with a collection of boxes.
Conner summoned his Tyranno Staff and charged. He slashed the monster with it repeatedly, but the hits caused little damage. Ethan summoned his Tricera Shield, and blasted it with a laser bolt, but again the weapon caused little to no damage. Kira summoned her weapons, her duel Ptera Grips and slashed the monster with the small blades, but still causing no damage. The monster blasted them with energy from his speakers, sending all four of them back. Then an explosion grabbed the monsters attention from behind as a laser arrow hit him from behind.
"Hey, you know you can't beat a Sony sound system!" Michael quipped, "Better bass control!"
"Oh, really?" the monster said.
"Yeah! So why don't we see if you can really kick it!" Michael teased.
"Oh, a challenge" the monster said, and he charged the speakers built into his anatomy, getting ready to release a lot of bass towards the White Ranger.
"White Drago Saber, Laser Arrows!" Michael shouted, and he drew several arrows in front of him and flung them at the monster, a couple hitting the speakers, releasing the energy stored within, inwards and the speakers exploded, send the monster to the ground, smoking. Michael jumped over him to join his recovering team-mates.
"Good work, Michael" Tommy said, "Okay guys, let put 'em together" he ordered, and the Rangers assembled the Z-Rex Blaster, with the Brachio Staff attached.
"Z-Rex Blaster, Super Mode!" Conner, Ethan, Kira and Tommy shouted in unison.
"Ready? Aim! Fire!" Conner said, as he pulled the trigger and a blast of energy was sent towards the monster from the head of the Tyranno Staff. The monster exploded when the pulse hit him.
"Great work, guys. Thanks for the save, Mike" Tommy said.
"No problem" Michael said, turning around, "Look, um, I'm going home, see you guys tomorrow"
"Bye, dude" Ethan said, getting the same idea.
"See you all tomorrow" Tommy said.
"Bye" Conner added.
"Mike, wait" Kira said, running up, "You alright?"
"Fine. Just a little tired" Michael said.
"Any reason why?"
"Nope. I'll see you at school tomorrow" Michael said, walking away.
"Yeah, okay" Kira said, and then she ran to catch up with her fellow Rangers, "Guys, I'm worried about Mike"
"In what way?" Dr. Oliver asked.
"I don't know. He seams pre-occupied with something" Kira said.
"Yeah, I noticed it too" Ethan says.
"I wonder what his problem is now?" Conner ask.
"Well, I suggest we ask him tomorrow" Tommy said, "its late enough as it is, and you guys have school tomorrow"
"Okay Dr. O see you later" Conner said, as Tommy went to his ATV, climbed on and rode off.
The remaining three Rangers said their goodbyes and went their separate ways. Mainly to their own beds to catch up on their sleep.
The next day at school, Conner, Ethan and Kira meet on the way to their first class, which was first period Calculus, they were waiting for their White Ranger.
"Where is he?" Ethan asked, "Class will be starting in a few minutes"
Just then Michael came around the corner, looking a little worse for ware.
"Hey...What's up with you?" Conner said, "You just wake up?"
"Never went to sleep" Michael said.
"You okay?" Kira asked.
"Fine" Michael said, "Are we going in, or we gonna stand out here?"
"Let's go" Conner said, and the four Rangers entered the classroom.
Meanwhile, inside Mesogog's Island Fortress.
"Are you gonna show him to Lord Mesogog?" Elsa said, referring to the clone White Ranger, who was fighting several creatures in a chamber.
"When it is time. He's not ready" Zeltrax said.
"What do you mean he's not ready?"
"I need to see of he's a match for the original"
"They are identical, Zeltrax"
"Identical doesn't necessarily mean stronger. If Michael Scott can defeat him, then I know I need make him stronger, but I want to make sure before I present him to Mesogog" Zeltrax said.
"And if the real White Ranger destroys him?"
"He won't"
"How can you be so sure?"
"Cause he won't"
"Well, I just hope the White Ranger blows your photocopied fake away, just to see what Mesogog does to you!" Elsa scowls.
"That was fun!" Conner said, exiting the classroom, "I can't stand algebra!"
"I enjoyed it" Ethan said.
"You would!" Conner says. Behind the Red and Blue Rangers walked Kira and Michael.
"You sure you're okay? You seam very distracted" Kira asks her new boyfriend.
"I'm fine" Michael responded.
"You want to talk about it?"
"Not really"
"Mike, if we're gonna go out, we have to trust each other. Maybe I can help" Kira suggested
"What is with everyone today!" Michael snaps, "I'm fine. Nothing is wrong! Will everyone stop going on about it!" and the White Ranger starts to walk in the opposite direction.
"Michael!"
"Leave me alone, Kira!" Michael shouted back.
"What's his problem?" Ethan asks.
"Wish I knew" Kira said.
"Well he was evil till a few days ago; seaming we have next period free, maybe we should ask Dr. O if this is normal?" Conner suggests.
"Wow, dude. A good idea from Mr. McKnight" Ethan jokes.
"I do have them"
"It's actually a very good idea, nice one, Conner" Kira says, Conner beams "Let go"
"So, Dr. O, is Michael behaviour normal?" Kira asks the still suited-up Black Ranger.
"I wouldn't know, Kira. My experience as an evil Ranger was vastly different from Michael's. Firstly, he was evil a lot longer than I was. I was only under Rita's spell for about a week in total" Tommy said, "But..."
"But!" Conner asked.
"But I generally kept to myself until I felt comfortable with being on the team"
"Could it be something else?" Ethan asked.
"I don't know. You guys had better head back to class, I'll find him and talk to him" Tommy suggested.
"Okay" all three teens said.
"Thanks Dr. O" Kira added.
"No problem, Kira" Tommy said, and he waited until he was alone in the lab before contacting the White Ranger
"Michael?" Tommy said into his morpher. He waited a few minutes, when he got a response.
"Yes, Dr. O?" Michael said over the line.
"Can you come to the lab for a few minutes? I wish to go over a few things with you"
"Yeah, sure. Give me half-hour" Michael said.
"Okay" Tommy finished, cutting the line.
Tommy waited for over half-hour for the White Ranger to appear, but when Michael did, he looked tired and rundown, like someone who hasn't slept for a while.
"Ah, Michel, please, sit down. I need to talk to you" Tommy said.
"About?" Michael asked.
"Your behaviour as of late" Tommy stated.
"My behaviour!"
"Yes, frankly, your team-mates, your friends, are worried about you. Today you snapped at Kira, didn't you?" Tommy asked.
"How did you...?" Michael asked.
"The guys came and told me"
"They did what!" Michael snapped, "Why can't people mind their own fricking business!"
"That is now how things are done, Michael. We trust each other, or it doesn't work. If there is a problem, we talk about it, because anything that can affect you, also in turn affects the whole team, and if we aren't working together on the same page, we can't work as a team. It's as simple as that"
"But what about privacy? Do we get that?"
"Yes, unless it directly affects the team. You don't get any second chances in this game. Now what ever is affecting you, we need to sort it out, before it becomes a problem. Now, what's the problem?"
"There is no problem. I'm just tired that's all"
"Now, how come I get the feeling that I don't believe you?"
"I don't care if you do believe me or not. I didn't sign up to be interrogated. In fact didn't sign up to be a Ranger at all, and now I'm stuck with it. So why don't you do this on someone who actually cares!" Michael shouted, picked up his bag and walked out of the lab, up the stairway.
Tommy sighed, "Nice job, Tommy. Real nice!" he said to himself.
"So something is defiantly bothering him?" Conner asks, him, Ethan and Kira with Dr. O in the underground lab.
"Yes, but when I tried to get it out of him, he blew up in my face" Tommy said.
"What are we gonna do?" Kira asked.
"I've got an idea. I just need to make a phone call" Tommy said, going up stairs. When Tommy reached the study, he picked up the portable phone on the side, and dialled a number on the phone. He waited several rings for someone on the other side answered.
"Hello" the voice said on the other side.
"Hello, Jason" Tommy said.
"Tommy!" Jason said, "What brings you a callin'?"
"I'm afraid this isn't a social call, Jase, I need your help"
"With what?"
"A Ranger-related problem"
"Ranger-related? Bro, the last time you called me on a 'Ranger-related' problem, we went to the moon, can you be more specific?"
"You know I'm back in uniform, right?"
"I've heard rumours, so it is true?"
"Yeah, Jase, it's true. Our problem is our White Ranger, he's, um, confrontational, and something is defiantly bothering him, Jason and we can't figure it out"
"And how can help?"
"Do you think you can come to Reefside for a day or two?"
"Sure, only if you promise to have a drink with me after, we haven't done that since, um, after Trini's funeral, right?"
"Um, sure, anything. Will you come and talk to him?" Tommy asked, unsure that to say about his current predicament he was quite literary stuck in.
"Sure think, bro, what's your address?" Jason asked.
"1992 Valencia Drive" Tommy said.
"Okay, see you in three hours"
"Yeah, bro, see you soon" Tommy said, putting down the handset.
"Who was that, Dr. O?" Conner asked, coming up the stairs.
"An old friend, he's coming to try and help us" Tommy said, "I just hope can"
After a few hours, the four Rangers, who had been joined by Hayley, heard a motorcycle pull up the drive and stop outside.
"That's Jason" Tommy said.
"Guys, get ready to meet a legend" Hayley said, "I'll get it" And Hayley went to get the door.
"Hayley!" Jason's voice could be heard from hallway, "It's good to see you again."
"Yeah, it's good to see you too, Jason" Hayley could heard saying; Tommy got up and went to 'face the music'.
"I have to show him sometime" Tommy said to the teens, "Jason? That you?" Tommy shouted.
"Well, Hayley, I see you're still hanging out with total losers!" Jason shouted.
"Hey, I heard that!" Tommy said, stepping out from the lounge.
"Tommy, Bro...Okay, there's no need to show it off!" Jason finished, shocked to find Tommy in his Ranger Form, "You know you can actually power that thing down!"
"I wish I could, Jase" Tommy said, Conner, Ethan and Kira joining him.
"What?" Jason asked.
"He's stuck, Jason, he can't power down" Hayley explained.
"Okay. By the way, nice suit!" Jason said.
"Thanks. Jase, I want to introduce the other Dino Rangers" Tommy said, "Conner McKnight, Red Ranger..." Tommy pointed to Conner.
"So you're the new guy!" Jason asked, echoing something he said to another Red Ranger once upon a time, holding out his hand.
"It's an honour to meet you" Conner said, shaking Jason's hand.
"...Ethan James, Blue Ranger..." Tommy said.
"Man, the first Red Ranger, how cool is that!" Ethan said, shaking Jason' hand, Jason just smiled.
"...and Kira, the Yellow Ranger" Tommy said.
"Nice to meet you" Kira said, also shaking Jason's hands.
"Trini would be proud, to know the legacy of the Yellow Ranger is in safe hands" Jason said, making the current Yellow Ranger blush a little. Jason then turned to the Black Ranger, "So what is the situation with your White Ranger, Bro?"
Tommy and the other Rangers spent the next hour explaining the situation to the original Red Ranger, it was an abridged version, to save Kira some embarrassment, but when they explained it Jason had a better picture of the situation at hand.
"Okay, so Michael was freed from the evil in his gem only a few days ago. And he's become short with all of you?" Jason asked.
"Yeah, that about right" Conner says.
"You've seen this before" Kira asked.
"Yeah, In Tommy, not to this extent, but at first, Tommy just wanted to be left pretty much alone, try to get his bearings, only joining the rest of us to fight" Jason said. The Rangers looked at the Black Ranger, who nodded.
"Yeah, I was ashamed of what I did as Rita's Green Ranger, and at the time, I didn't feel like I was a proper Power Ranger, I was just wearing the suit" Tommy said, "I didn't feel like I belonged in that suit until my second time back in it"
"You think this is what Michael is feeling now?" Ethan asked.
"Without talking to him, I won't know for sure. But it sound like it. He just needs some space, time to sort himself out" Jason said, "But I guess this case is urgent, or you wouldn't have called me, right?"
"Mesogog is very dangerous, Jase, we need all our Rangers at full strength. Mesogog makes Rita, Zedd, Mondo and Divatox look like amateurs" Tommy said.
"Okay, do you know where he could be now?"
"Try the lake in park, he likes to go there" Kira says.
"Okay, I'll be back soon. I will see if I can help him" Jason said, picking up his helmet from the table.
"Thanks Bro" Said Tommy.
"No problem. The moment you get that off, you, me, and a jug of beer" Jason suggested.
"That would be cool"
"Be back later" Jason said, putting his helmet on and stepping out the house to motorcycle.
Michael sat on the bench, near the lake, throwing stones in to it; he was the only person near it at that time of the day. He was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't notice a motorcycle pull up on the road near the lake. A man, taking his helmet of, came walking up to the bench and placed it on the other side.
"Mind if I join you?" the man in the black riding leathers said, Michael looked up.
"Knock yourself out! It's a free country" Michael said, picking up another stone and throwing it into the lake.
"Thanks" the man sat down, "It beautiful here, isn't it, just like back home"
"Is it, I haven't noticed" Michael said.
"Yeah, just like the lake back in Angel Grove"
"Angel Grove, eh? Never been there"
"Yeah, I was born there, I can see why you picked this place to come and sit" the man said, "My names Jason" he held his hand out, Michael however didn't reciprocate.
"Michael"
"So, is something wrong?"
"Why do you ask?"
"You seam pre-occupied with something"
"You know, that's about the hundredth time I've heard that today"
"So, is something wrong?"
"Look, Jason, I don't mean to be rude, but whatever problems I have are none of your business" Michael said.
"I just to help"
"Why do you care?"
"Don't I look familiar to you?"
"No, why?"
"Because I am a part of the same select group you are" Jason said.
"You're a Power Ranger!" Michael said.
"Yeah. First Red Ranger"
"'The' First Red Ranger? Sorry man, I didn't recognise you, you look different in Dr. O's video diary"
"Yeah, younger!" Jason joked, "Look, I'm gonna be honest with you. Your teacher called me to talk with you"
"What!" Michael said, "Why?"
"Because they're all worried about you. You don't have to tell me, but I came to see if I can help you, if you'll let me" Jason said, he gave Michael some time.
"Okay, I've been having nightmares"
"What sort?"
"Where I've been seen the White Ranger attack and kill the others" Michael said, swallowing hard, "And I've been powerless to stop it each and every time"
"Okay. Nightmares are a consistent after-effect of being evil, Michael, or with any traumatic event"
"How do you know?"
"I've been evil before" Jason said, "You ever heard of the legend of Maligore?"
"Yeah, something, the legend spoke of a demon locked away by a powerful wizard inside an active volcano, it said if he was released, a wave of unstoppable evil would spread all over the universe. Dr. O's video diary didn't elaborate too much, but the Turbo Rangers fought him, when they switched from the Zeo Power to Turbo, because they needed the turbo keys to get through the Nemesis Triangle"
"Yeah, I was there, so was another former Ranger, Kimberly. We were taken captive by Divatox and were sacrificed to Maligore. We became 'Maligore's Children', imaginative name, I know! We were totally consumed by the evil, for weeks; I had nightmares about doing something I never thought I would do"
"What?"
"Helping evil. I had nightmares about throwing Tommy down into the volcano, turning him evil, like me and Kim, and the three of us helping to destroy the Rangers. It took me a while to get over that"
"I was freed by the influence of my gem, but I think I'm not completely free of it. I think I could turn evil at anytime and kill my friends. I'm scared to be around them"
"I can see how you understand that, you think that this nightmare is a message" Jason explains, "But maybe you're taking it too literally. Some times a dream is a dream, and should be left at that"
"But what if it is some sort of message?" Michael asked.
"If it is, talk to your team-mates about it, that's why they're there. No matter what you think, or do, your team-mates will always be there for you. You're never alone, your team will become as close as any family can be, and I guarantee that!"
"Really?"
"Really! I can't guarantee how long it will take for you to get over it, but you will. And if you let your friends help you, you get over it that much quicker"
"So what your saying is I should stop being a complete ass, and talk to my friends"
"Yeah"
"Okay, I will"
"Good" Jason said, just them the wind picked up, Michael stood up suddenly, Jason following, "What's wrong?"
"We're about to get company" Michael said, just then an invisi-portal opened up and Zeltrax exited.
"Hello, White Ranger" Zeltrax said.
"Zeltrax" Michael responded.
"Nice to see you've brought a witness"
"For what?"
"So I have definitive proof that I beat you" Zeltrax said, "Plus I have someone you should meet" from behind the cyborg a figure materialized and stood next to Zeltrax. Michael couldn't believe it, it was a White Ranger, identical to him in everyway, when he's morphed.
"Hello Michael, long time, no see" White Ranger said, in the same psychotic, twisted voice that inhabited Michael's head every time he fought for control, every time he fought against the Rangers as the Evil White Ranger.
"What the hell!" Michael said, "What is this, Zeltrax?"
"What is this? You'll find out soon enough, when I destroy you and take my rightful place as the true White Ranger!" White Ranger said.
"Not gonna happen!" Michael said, before moving closer to Jason, "Jason, you able to morph?" he whispered.
"Yeah, I brought my morpher just in case" Jason said back.
"Jason, you ready?" Michael said, shifting his Drago Morpher into place.
"You know it!" Jason said.
"Why don't you do the honours!" Michael said.
"With pleasure!" Jason said, putting his right hand behind his back, "IT'S MORPHIN' TIME!" Jason shouted, pulling out a small device emblazed with a small golden coin "TYRANNOSAURUS!" Jason shouted, and the device opened up, and the internals glowed red. Jason morphed into the Red Ranger, his helmet in the shape of a Tyrannosaurs, two white diamonds and four half-diamonds adorning the chest and back and red diamonds on the gloves and boots and finally a blade blaster holstered on the right side.
"WHITE RANGER, DINO POWER, ha!" Michael shouted, pressing the button on his morpher and morphing into the White Dino Ranger.
"I'll take Zeltrax" Jason said.
"I guess I'll take my doppelganger then!" Michael said.
Jason and Zeltrax moved into away from the two White Rangers.
"So you must be Zeltrax, the one butt Tommy's been kicking!" Jason said, mocking the cyborg.
"The Original Red Ranger, my master will reward me greatly for bringing your head to him" Zeltrax said, pulling his sword from his sheath.
"You really don't know who you're dealing with, do you?" Jason asked.
"An old washed up Ranger, who is past his prime"
"Well, we'll find out, won't we?" Jason said, "POWER SWORD!" and the Red Ranger's trusty battle sword appears in his hand in a red glow of light, "Let's see if you're any better then Goldar!"
"Prepare to be destroyed, Ranger!" Zeltrax said, before charging.
Meanwhile, the two White Ranger continued to look at each other.
"It's like looking into a mirror, isn't it?" White Ranger said.
"Only my reflection is a twisted version!" Michael countered.
"Touché!" White Ranger said, "Too me, you're the twisted reflection"
"So, how about we cut the chit chat, a-hole!" Michael said, "And get down to business"
"You read my mind" White Ranger said, taking his Drago Saber out of its holster, Michael doing the same. Both White Rangers charged at each other, both exact mirror images of the other. They locked sabers repeatedly and block each others kick and punches.
"I know your every move" White Ranger said.
"So it would seam. So do I" Michael said. Both Rangers readied their sabers in it's quill mode.
"WHITE DRAGO SABER, LASER ARROWS!" both White Rangers called at the same time, drawing the exact same number and then flinging them at each other. Nearly all the arrows intercepted others, but some got through and hit the opposing White Ranger, sending them to the ground. Both recovered almost immediately and charged at each other again.
Jason and Zeltrax locked swords, Jason parried up and slashed Zeltrax across the chest with his Power Sword and he kicked the cyborg away. Zeltrax countered with a upward slash and then a downward cleaving attack, but Jason dodged them and kicked Zeltrax away again.
Zeltrax got up of his feet and launched an energy blast, which struck Jason in the chest, sending him back. Zeltrax walked over to the Red Ranger, and went to strike Jason on the ground, but Jason took out his Blade Blaster and converted it to blaster mode, pointed it at the cyborg and fired, hitting him in the chest and Zeltrax flew back in a shower of sparks.
Michael and White Ranger tangled, striking each other with their swords.
"You can't win, Michael" White Ranger said, "You'll always be a part of me!" those last words took Michael completely by surprise and the White Ranger took advantage and slashed Michael repeatedly. Michael picked himself off the ground as White Ranger charged again, but Michael ducked under the White Ranger's attack and slashed him across the side, under the armpit area. White Ranger turned and Michael slashed him across the chest diagonally downwards first and then upwards, White Ranger staggered back.
"Time to end this!" Michael said, "WHITE DRAGO SABER, ENERGY ORB!" and he drew an orb of golden and white energy and threw it towards his clone. The sphere encompassed the evil White Ranger and the energy orb collapsed in on its self and the resulting explosion consumed the White Ranger double. When the fire died down nothing was left standing. Michael went to help the Red Ranger.
Zeltrax picked himself off the floor to find a Red Ranger and a White Ranger standing over him.
"Zeltrax, I suggest you use the better part of valour and leave, before I destroy you just like I destroyed that poor excuse of a clone you sent against me" Michael said, pointing his Drago Saber at him.
"Take his advice, Zeltrax. He looks like he could do some damage when he's pissed" Jason says.
"This is not over, Traitor. I will have my revenge against you and Dr. Oliver" Zeltrax said, before disappearing through an invisi-portal.
"Come on, Jason, it's proberly best if we report this to Dr. O" Michael said, "Power Down!" he added, crossing his arms across his chest and the separating them and then his Ranger Form disappears in a soft white glow.
"Power Down!" Jason said, touching the Power Morpher on his belt and his Ranger form disappeared in a red glow, "Yeah, I guess. Michael?"
"Yeah, Jason?"
"I enjoyed that, it was fun" Jason said, Michael just laughed.
"You sure it was a White Ranger?" Tommy asked.
"Yeah bro, identical to your White Ranger in every respect, except the personality, it was twisted" Jason said.
"Dr. O, how could have Zeltrax created him?" Michael asked.
"I don't know. But I can think of only one possibility" Tommy said. Michael took a few seconds to think.
"Copyster!" Michael exclaimed, "It must be. That thing could copy our weapons, to every minute detail. Hell, there were rumours that he copied Cassidy. It wouldn't take much to copy me"
"I'll look into it. Michael, do you think we should tell the guys about this?" Tommy said.
"No, no point. I'm fairly sure I destroyed that clone Ranger; I hit him with an energy orb, which is the strongest attack I have outside of Dino Mode. Unless you think there's a point?" Michael asked.
"You're proberly right. If you're sure you destroyed him, the last thing we need is an clone White Ranger running around"
"Dr. O, where are the guys?"
"At Cyberspace" Tommy said.
"Well, I'd better go over there. I think I have some more apologizing to do. I seam to be doing a lot of that lately" Michael said, with a laugh, "See you around, Jason"
"Take care, kid" Jason said.
"It was an honour fighting along side you"
"All mine, the honour was all mine" Jason said.
"Bye, Dr. O" Michael said.
"Bye, Mike" Tommy said back, and Michael left the lab through the stairway.
"Man, look at this place. You've got the whole 'Command Center' theme going on here!" Jason said.
"Yeah" Tommy says.
"So, Bro, what's the whole story? What have you been doing since our little romp to the moon two years ago?"
"That, Jason, that is a very long story" Tommy says.
Conner, Ethan and Kira sat in one of the big settees in the cybercafé, drinking soft drinks and generally hanging out.
"So, do you think Jason is having any luck?" Conner asks.
"I hope so" Kira says, "I just want Michael to trust me"
"I think he does Kira, maybe he just doesn't trust himself" Ethan said.
"Yeah, but he should trust in himself, cause I trust him" Kira says.
Just then Michael walked in; he looked around for a few seconds and spotted his friends sitting down.
"Hey, speak of the devil!" Conner says, as the real White Ranger walks over, "We were just talking about you".
"Hey guys" Michael said, and he leaned in to give Kira a small kiss, "Really? There's a surprise!"
"Anymore of that and we're leaving!" Ethan joked, referring to the show of affection between the two Rangers; Kira lightly smacked him on the arm, "Ouch!"
"How are you feeling, dude?" Conner asked.
"Better, Now that I've gotten it outta of my system" Michael said.
"What?" Kira asked.
"Nothing important now. Let's just say that I'm feeling better" Michael said, "I want to apologise, to all of you, again. I've been a total ass, keeping it all bottled in when I should have been talking to you, for that and for my overall shitty attitude these past few days"
"Mike, we work effectively as a team when we trust in each other. If we have a problem, we talk about it" Conner said.
"I know"
"Michael. You're our friend, what effects you, effects us, were not just five people who just happen to wear similar costumes, we work better as a collective unit" Ethan says.
"I know"
"Michael, I'm just glad your feeling better" Kira said.
"Me too" Michael says, "So, who wants a drink, my treat!"
"Cool!" Conner says.
"Nice one!" Ethan says.
"Thanks!" Kira says.
"Be back in a minute" Michael says, taking their glasses.
Michael walked over to the counter to where Hayley was serving.
"Hey, Hayley" Michael said.
"Michael, how are you feeling?" the red-headed genius asked.
"Better"
"More drinks?"
"How did you guess!" Michael said, "Hayley?"
"Yeah"
"Do you have any work going?"
"Why? You interested?"
"If you've got it"
"I do as a matter of fact, have one position open, but why do you want to work here?"
"I want to feel more stability; I haven't had that since I got the gem. And maybe working her will give me some sense of that, also I need the money and an employer who'll give me time off for my 'extracurricular activities'!" Michael said.
"You mean an employer who'll let you off to save the world?" Hayley said, smiling.
"Yeah. So, have i got the job?"
"Only on a trial basis. Can you start tomorrow?"
"After school? Yeah, no problem. I make my own protein drinks all the time, so a smoothie shouldn't be much harder"
"Great. I'll see you tomorrow" Hayley said, handing Michael a trey with their drinks on it.
"Thanks Hayley, you won't regret this" Michael said, before rejoining his friends.
"You were lucky you weren't vaporized again the White Ranger!" Zeltrax said to the Evil White Ranger.
"He's the one who got lucky! Next time, I'll destroy him" White Ranger said.
"Yes, next time"
"You have a plan?"
"Yes, follow me. I plan to use your energy matrix to create..." Zeltrax said, as they walked down the corridor.
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PRDT-AU-024 - Triassic Triumph
Synopsis: When Zeltrax releases the evil White Ranger clone and a new and terrifying monster loose on the city, The White Terrorsaurus; the remaining Rangers learn about the White Ranger clone for the first time. Conner, Ethan and Kira then must defend the city against the Terrorsaurus while Dr. Oliver and Michael embark on a quest to find an ancient artifact, the Shield of Triumph, which could be the only thing to stop the monster. Later Conner uses it to become the Triassic Ranger after the other four give their power to it. But even with the Shield, can the Rangers defeat the Terrorsaurus?