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You know it already.
Authors' Note: FINALLY! Last chapter! W000T! Enjoy! By the way, because some have requested it, there will be a sequel. It is in the process of being written. The first chapter will be up hopefully soon. Anyway, enjoy the fic.
Chapter 5: Getting Schooled
"Dr. O?" Kira said as she reached out for her teacher, but then Katherine grabbed her and pulled her back.
"No! He is not himself!" Katherine said.
"Scared of me Rangers?" Tommy said evilly. "You should be!" He began to run towards them.
"Oh SHIT!" Adam said as he pushed the other Rangers out of the way of Tommy's attack. Tommy came down on Adam and pushed him to the ground. Tommy dragged Adam along the ground. Adam could feel the ground cutting into him. Tommy slammed him up into a tree.
"Gaahhh!" Adam yelled trying to push away from the tree. Adam could feel that Tommy was stronger now. All the other Rangers couldn't move because they were too frightened of Tommy. "Trying to leader everyone here around aren't you, Adam?" Adam grunted and strained to pull himself away from Tommy's grip, but to no avail. "You could never measure up to me Adam. You know that you can't lead, because you are too timid." Adam looked away. He couldn't believe what Tommy was telling him. Tommy ripped off Adam's helmet and grabbed his chin to make him look at him. "Look at me! You will never measure up to me! I am greatness! You are merely a footnote, a shadow o my legacy of POWER!" Tommy punched Adam's side of his head repeatedly and Adam was knocked unconscious by one of them.
"Leave him alone!" Katherine said as she started running towards them. Tommy let go of Adam and the Green Zeo Ranger fell to the ground limp. Tommy ran to Katherine, grabbed her by the throat and slammed her into the ground.
"And you….you can't go two seconds without screaming my name!" Tommy said evilly.
"Tommy! I…." Katherine desperately tried to say.
"SEE! TWO SECONDS!" Tommy yelled as he picked up her head, smashed it back into the ground again knocking her unconscious and he threw her onto Adam. Tanya ran up and jumped on Tommy's back. He got off of Katherine, and flipped her over his shoulder and put a chokehold on her. Rocky was on his way to come help Tanya, but when he saw him put the choke hold on, he stopped.
"You Tanya took away Billy's powers from him," Tommy said as he tightened the hold.
"But he…gave me…the power!" Tanya yelled. He sharply tightened the grip which made her gasp for breath.
"But you know full well that Billy deserved those powers," Tommy slyly whispered in her ear. "You know that you never really fit in."
"SHUT UP!" Tanya yelled. She didn't want to hear anymore. Tommy choked her as tight as he could. She was now reaching out because she couldn't breath and she passed out.
"NO!" Rocky yelled. Rocky had enough and came up to help Tanya. Tommy threw Tanya onto the unconscious Adam and Katherine. Rocky came up and grabbed onto Tommy's hands to try to stop him. The two were trying to overpower the other both grunting and straining. Tommy however was winning.
"You think you are stronger Rocky?" Tommy said. Rocky was trying with all of his might to push him back. "Then again, you were never as strong as Jason."
"What…about….Jason?"
"You could never measure up to him, Rocky," Tommy said as he pushed Rocky to the ground. Tommy drop kicked near Rocky's head, but missed on purpose to scare him. "You were never a leader like him, you never fought like he did and you were always jealous of him. Red never seemed to fit you. Red is for those of us who are truly great. Jason and I were great. You were merely a pretender to the throne."
"Shut you mouth Tommy!" Rocky yelled angrily after he had gotten up and jumped out of Tommy's reach. "I am not jealous of him!"
"I know you are! That is why we didn't invite you to help us on the Red Ranger mission! ...or maybe your invitation just got lost in the mail. Weird. Aurico got his."
"THAT'S IT!" Rocky yelled in outrage and ran toward Tommy with his Zeo Blade. Tommy blocked it with the Brachio Staff and kicked Rocky in the back as he went by.
"Wind Strike!" Tommy yelled. He slammed the attack into the ground and the wind hit Rocky. He received the full force of it and went flying into the other Zeo Rangers. He landed on top of them and all of the Zeo Suits powered down leaving them in their civilian form. All the other Rangers woke up to see Tommy coming toward them with the Brachio Staff ready. "Time to finish you off!" He held the Brachio Staff and did the motion to do an Energy Orb. "Goodbye old friends! Give my regards to Zordon." He sent the attack flying towards them and the Zeo Rangers braced for the impact.
"NO!" Conner said. The DinoThunder Rangers stepped into the attack and helped Conner block it with the Triassic Shield. In his other hand was his Tyranno Staff.
"What!" Tommy said.
"You know better than that, Dr. Oliver!" Conner said seriously.
"We won't let you harm them!" Kira yelled.
"You taught us better than that!" Ethan yelled.
"We will take you down, Dr. Oliver!" Cassidy said.
"I guess it is time for me to give you lessons as well," Tommy said aggravated. "Ready for your final exam, students?"
"NO!" all the DinoThunder Rangers yelled.
"This won't be our last lesson, Dr. Oliver!" Trent yelled.
"I promise you kids, there will be no extra credit!" Tommy yelled. All the DinoThunder Rangers including Tommy yelled as they ran towards each other. Conner swung his Tyranno Staff at Tommy's head, but Tommy ducked to avoid it. Unfortunately, he was met by one of Kira's Ptera Grips slashing upward. He took the hit and then countered with a kick to her face. Trent came in right after the kick and slashed at Tommy with his Drago Sword. Tommy caught it Trent's wrist, grabbed it and tossed him at Conner. The two went down as Ethan came running in with his Tricera Shield. He tried to stab Tommy, but Tommy dodged it in time, but then was met with two sword slashes to his upper body by Cassidy and Devin. Tommy fell back and the DinoThunder Rangers got into their fighting stances. "Damn you all! This is what I get for teaching you so well!"
"Thanks for the compliment Dr. O!" Conner said. Tommy turned the dial on the Brachio Staff to the blue icon. "NO!"
"Surfs up dudes," Tommy said evilly and slammed the staff into the ground.
"OH SHIT!" Ethan yelled. "Guys! Take cover!"
"What?" Rocky said. The Zeo Rangers soon figured out why Ethan had told them to run. They saw a huge tsunami coming their way. "HOLY --!"
"RUN!" Adam yelled. The four Zeo Rangers ran as fast as they could to find something to hid in or behind to keep from being hit by Tommy's attack. They found a huge boulder and jumped behind it. The DinoThunder Rangers saw the Zeo Rangers and followed them. The attack hit when all of them finally got behind the boulder. They hugged each other tightly to keep from being swept away. The attack was so powerful that the boulder was starting to break up.
"What's wrong, Rangers?" Tommy laughed evilly. (TM: XD Evil Tommy TiC:(w/ mullet) laugh! TM: --;)
"Conner, we have to do something!" Cassidy yelled.
"Yeah but what?" Conner asked as he ducked from getting his head hit by a flying piece of rock.
"Conner! You have to go Triassic!" Ethan yelled.
"I agree!" Kira shouted. "Dr. O is way too powerful now to try to overtake at this level! We need to give you all of our energy!" Conner pulled out the Triassic Shield.
"Are you guys sure? You'll both be defenseless." Conner said.
"Yes!" Ethan and Kira said.
"Ok, TRIASSIC POWER!" Conner yelled as he held out the shield and Ethan and Kira gave all of their powers to Conner and he transformed into the Triassic Ranger and Kira and Ethan demorphed in exhaustion. "Sword mode!"
"Whoa!" Katherine said surprised. The Zeo Rangers and Cassidy and Devin were amazed at Conner's Triassic form.
When the attack stopped, the landscape was in ruins. All the smaller trees were uprooted and the ground was stripped bare. Tommy walked up to the boulder. Conner jumped up and over the boulder and came down on Tommy as the other Rangers peered over to try and look. Their weapons met and the fight was on again. They pushed as hard as they could against their blades to try to get the upper hand. Tommy pushed Conner's sword up and he went down and knocked Conner's feet from under him with a leg sweep. Conner fell on his back and Tommy came down with his staff and tried to hit him. Conner blocked the staff with his sword. Conner then kicked Tommy off of him and Conner came at Tommy slashing. Tommy was having trouble dodging him now. Tommy jumped back.
"Enegry Orb!" Tommy yelled and sent the attack at Conner. Conner jumped out of the way as the attack exploded behind him and he readied an attack of his own.
"Enegry Orb!" Conner yelled as he charged his attack sent to toward Tommy. It hit Tommy and he fell to the ground. Tommy got up and the two Rangers ran towards each other yelling. Tommy kicked at Conner with a jump spinning crescent kick and it hit its mark. Conner fell back into the boulder.
"Conner!" the Rangers said from behind the boulder. Conner strained to get up.
"You can't summon the battlizer, can you my student?" Tommy taunted. Conner looked up at Tommy with anger. "Just as I thought. It was destroyed in the fight with Mesogog wasn't it?" Conner got to his feet and held out the shield.
"So?" Conner said. "I will do everything in my power to defeat you! Dr. O! I don't want to fight you!"
"If that is all you have, then give up Conner! You can't win against me." Tommy put his arms in front of him and then Conner knew what was about to happen.
"No! My Triassic Mode has your and Trent's powers permanently embedded into it. I believe in it!" Conner yelled.
"Then you're more foolish than I could have ever believed! SUPER DINO MODE!" Tommy yelled as his power increased and his spiked diamonds grew and fanned out, reaching Super Dino Mode.
"NO WAY!" Ethan, Kira and Trent yelled. The other Rangers were in utter shock. They didn't know what to make of Tommy's new form. The suit now had longer dino scales that were twisting around each other in some parts. His visor was now glowing red. The Rangers were terrified of Tommy now.
"Oh no," Conner whispered to himself. "Crap!"
"What about now?" Tommy's distorted voice said. "GAHHH!" He ran up to punch Conner with his free hand. He missed and punched the boulder smashing it in two huge pieces.
"MOVE, MOVE, MOVE!" Tanya yelled as she and the other Rangers jumped out of the way.
"Get out of the way!" Conner yelled. "Run!"
"But!" Cassidy said as she tried to run up to Conner but was stopped by Katherine.
"We can't do anything for him now!" Rocky yelled.
"Oh yeah we can!" Trent said. "Cassidy! Devin! You have to give our powers to Conner!"
"Are you sure?" Cassidy asked.
"If we don't, Conner won't have a chance to stop Dr. Oliver!"
"Let's do it, Cass!" Devin said. "What do we do?"
"Hold your arm up," Trent said as he and the other two Rangers did what he said. "Now imagine your powers flowing to Conner!" They did and then their Dino Gems started to glow. The energy then came out of their gems and headed straight for Conner. Their suits demorphed as Conner yelled when he felt their power around him. His suit burst into flames and then Conner busted out of the flames to reveal a new suit.
"JURASSIC MODE!" Conner yelled. His suit overall looked the same except for the triangles and the armor. The triangles not only had yellow and blue, but now they had pink and green in them. His armor looked somewhat reminiscent of the Gold Ranger's armor with a DinoThunder design. "Super Dino Mode!" From there, he transformed to his highest level, ready to tangle with his mentor. "Dr. Oliver! If you're going to take me down, you have to do it at my best now!" His Triassic Shield had turned into a sword had all the colors that had been contributed to make the Jurassic form. He held it out and readied for an attack.
"Fine by me!" Tommy yelled. The two ran at each other again. Their weapons clashed with a loud clang and sparks literally were beginning to fly. They pushed so hard that their feet were sinking into the ground below them.
"Holy shit!" Trent said.
"Guys, we have to get out of here," Adam said.
"Why?" Katherine asked.
"If we stay here, we will be in their way!" Rocky yelled as he grabbed some of the DinoThunder Rangers and started to run toward the cliff they were on before. They looked back to find that Tommy had thrown Conner into the middle of the battlefield next to the mouth of the Abyss of Evil. They watched the battle in horror as the teacher and his student fought each other.
Conner came back at Tommy with the Jurassic Sword and sent an energy stream racing along the ground toward Tommy. Tommy jumped up and over the attack and sent an Energy Orb at Conner. Conner sliced the attack in half and it exploded on both sides of him. Tommy came running in again and jumped at him to slice him from above. Conner jumped out of the way and he slammed his sword into the ground. The ground began to shake and break open. Tommy jumped out of the way and hit the ground with his attack.
"Wind Strike!" Tommy yelled. The huge gust of wind generated by the attack pounded Conner and he went flying back into one of the remaining trees. Conner sliced at Tommy from where he was, sending a sonic wave at him. Tommy was pushed back. After they caught their breaths, they ran at each other with their fists ready to punch. They hit each other in the face so hard that their helmets shattered and fell to the ground in pieces. They flew back due to the impact and fell to the ground. Conner got up first and looked at his teacher breathing heavily. Tommy looked up and Conner could feel his heart in his throat when he saw his teacher's face. Like his suit, the veins grew out from his eyes which were all black with red pupils. Conner was afraid now.
"Now you show a moment of weakness!" Tommy said as he ran as he jumped up. He performed an Energy Orb in mid-air and hit Conner hard. Conner fell to the ground as Tommy landed. "Where is all that power now Conner?" Conner struggled to his feet. "Earthquake! Strike now!" Tommy slammed his staff into the ground and a huge crack splitting the battlefield into two. Conner jumped up to avoid it.
"Oh no! Conner!" Trent yelled.
"What?" Adam said. "What's wrong?"
"He just left Dr. Oliver an opening!"
"FIRE STRIKE!" Tommy yelled.
"NOOO!" Kira, Trent and Ethan yelled. They watched helplessly as their mentor slammed the staff down into the crack made by the attack before and the valley that they were fighting in erupted into flames.
"Oh my god," Katherine said as she put her hands up to her mouth in shock.
"My God!" Rocky and Adam said.
"There is no way he could have survived that!" Tanya said as she looked on. The horrifying sound of Tommy's evil laugh followed soon after.
"NO!" Kira yelled as she tried to run there, but the other Rangers held her back.
"Noo….no…"
"And that is the end of Conner McKnight," Tommy said contentedly and then started to laugh maliciously. He then turned to the Rangers and started to walk towards them. The Rangers grew frighten for they knew that they had no power to call upon to defend themselves. Tommy punched the side of the cliff and the Rangers fell down towards Tommy. He laughed evilly as he went to grab Adam.
"No!" Cassidy said and then spat at Tommy. Tommy blocked it with his arm and the scales began to melt until he threw the spit off of them.
"It isn't nice to spit at your teacher, Miss Cornell," Tommy said and got ready to slice Adam. Just then from out of the fire, Conner came flying at Tommy. "What the!" Conner punched Tommy in the face and it sent Tommy flying back into a couple of trees breaking all of them.
"Conner! You're alive!" Ethan said happily.
"Stay back!" Conner said seriously. Tommy got his footing and readied his staff. Conner readied the Jurassic Sword came at each other with charged attacks. When they connected, a huge white light hit and they were sent flying backwards with their weapons flying out of their hands. They laid there, exhausted, but trying desperately to move. Tommy got to his feet, but was barely able to keep balance. He grabbed his Brachio Staff and stumbled over to Conner who by this time was trying to reach for his sword.
"Now to finish it!" Tommy yelled.
"NO!" Ethan said as he ran in between Conner and Tommy with his hands out. "If you have to kill Conner, you kill me too!"
"Me too!" Kira said as she walked up to Ethan and turn to Tommy.
"All of us too!" Cassidy said as Devin and Trent also joined Cassidy next to Conner.
"Guys…" Conner said.
"You wish to be destroyed too?" Tommy asked with malice in his eyes. At that moment, Adam and the other Zeo Rangers came up and grabbed Tommy from behind and tried to hold him.
"Tommy! You don't want to do this!" Tanya yelled.
"We all care about you!" Katherine yelled.
"If you do this, you will end up destroying everything that is precious to you!" Adam said.
"Think about your friends and your students!" Rocky said.
"Stop this Dr. Oliver!" Devin pleaded.
"Come back to us!" Cassidy yelled.
"We know that you aren't truly evil!" Trent yelled. At that moment, Tommy was unsure of himself. He looked at them fearfully.
"You taught us everything that we know!" Kira yelled
"Don't destroy what you fought so hard to accomplish!" Ethan said.
"NO NO!" Tommy yelled as he struggled to get out of the Zeo Rangers hold.
"Don't leave us," Conner said. Tommy broke the hold that the Rangers had him in and grabbed his head.
"NO!" Tommy yelled. "No! Nooo!" All of a sudden, black energy burst out of Tommy. The energy went flying upwards and then into the Abyss of Evil. When it had disappeared, the Abyss closed up. Tommy's suit and face reverted back to normal and he began to collapse. Trent and Devin caught Tommy as he was falling and let him down slowly.
"We did it," Conner said as he too collapsed in exhaustion.
"Conner! Conner!" A female voice said. Conner opened his eyes and saw Hayley over him rubbing a cloth on his head. It stung a bit.
"Ouch!" Conner said. "What is that?"
"Hydrogen Peroxide!" she said. "Kills the germs."
"Where am I?"
"We are back at Tommy's Lab," Tanya said as she came up to him. "You okay?"
"Yeah, sore as hell," Conner said as he tried to get up, but the pain kept him from doing so. He then realized that the fight was over. "Wait! Where's…!"
"Dr. O?" Ethan said as he came up to him. "Right next to you." He pointed to Conner's other side. Conner looked over and saw Tommy lying unconscious on the table next to him.
"He is fine," Hayley said. "He doesn't need to go to the hospital like the last time."
"Last time?" Rocky said confused.
"Yeah. His powers were acting upand he got stuck in his suit. We got him out, but it left him invisible. We utilized his Dino Gen to make him visible again, but it left him in a coma and we had to take him to the hospital."
"He got stuck in his suit?" Adam laughed.
"If Jason finds out, Tommy will never hear the end of it," Rocky laughed.
"You do and I will hurt you!" Tommy said as he sat up.
"Dr. O!" Kira said as she came up on his side of the bed along with the rest of the Rangers.
"Are you okay now?" Cassidy said.
"Yeah I am fine," Tommy said. "Just embarrassed and bruised as all hell."
"Now you know what I went through Tommy," Anton said as he and Elsa came up next to Hayley.
"We are just glad everyone is alive," Elsa said.
"Except Zeltrax," Devin said.
"Yeah, you owned him big time, Dr O," Conner said as he sat up.
"Yeah, but I wasn't myself when I did that," Tommy said. "That is a horrible way to die."
"We know, but he was a threat to everyone," Elsa said.
"His revenge got the best of him," Anton said.
"Yeah," Tommy said. "What I would like to know is how the heck you survived my Fire Strike, Conner?"
"When you did the attack, I jumped into the trunk of a hallow tree and stayed there. When I saw an opening, I got out, took some the attack and jumped through it."
"Damn!" Tommy. "A brave move. Crazy, but brave."
"And you ended up putting us through the ringer," Adam said. "Man you have grown in power since the last time."
"AND with another suit!" Rocky said as he elbowed Tommy with a sneer on his face. "You're a friggin' color wheel." Tommy smiled embarrassingly.
"Guys, I am sorry that I said those things," Tommy said sadly. "I didn't…" Katherine came up and put her hand on his.
"It is ok," she said. "We know that you didn't mean to say them."
"But…"
"It is ok," Tanya said. "Don't worry about it. You rest."
"I need to get the final ready for my class!" Tommy said frantically as he got off his table.
"Tommy, it is okay!" Elsa said. "Katherine has been filling in for you this week."
"Really?" Tommy said.
"Yeah," Katherine said with a smile. "I copied the final on your desk upstairs. It is all ready for tomorrow." Tommy was flabbergasted.
"Thank you, Kat. I don't know what to say."
"Now you need your rest," Anton said as he pushed Tommy back onto the table gently. "Katherine can give the final for you tomorrow."
"But I…!"
"No, 'buts'!" Katherine said. "I can do it."
"It is ok, Dr. Oliver," Devin said.
"We will see you at graduation," Cassidy said.
"Ok," Tommy said annoyed.
The Rangers, Hayley, Elsa and Anton went back to their daily lives and they all got a decent night's sleep for the first time in a week. The next morning Conner and the other DinoThunder Rangers were preparing for the tests they were going to take that day.
"And that is how you get that mixture Conner," Kira said.
"Oh now I get it!" Conner said.
"Morning class!" a male voice from the front of the room said. The Rangers stared in disbelief.
"Dr. Oliver! You're better now!" a girl from the front of the class said.
"Yeah, I was a little worried there for a while," Tommy said. As he said that, he saw the Rangers with happy looks on their faces.
"You are so sickly, Dr. O!" a boy said from the middle of the classroom. The whole classroom began to laugh. Even Tommy himself did.
"Yeah I am," Tommy said as he winked at the Rangers. They smiled. "Okay, class. Time for your final!" A large groan came from the classroom.
The auditorium full of parents, siblings and friends of the graduates cheered, as the ceremony was about to start. Elsa came up to the podium and turned on the microphone.
"Good afternoon everyone," Elsa said. "Welcome to your two thousand four graduating class of Reefside High!" The crowd cheered. Amongst the crowd were Adam and the other Zeo Rangers, Hayley and Anton. Tommy was on stage with all of the other teachers in this doctrine graduation robes. "It has been quite a year hasn't it?" A loud yeah came from the students. "We have survived through this trying year and we have finally made it! For the students, your journey of high school is over and your journey of the rest of your life is just beginning. I am pleased to have made that journey with you." The body of people clapped. "And now. A speech by Dr. Thomas Oliver." The students roared with cheers. The last person to make a sound was Conner yelling, "Go Dr. O!" Tommy smiled and laughed.
"I just wanted to say that I am very proud of all of you here today," Tommy said. "I know that many of you had good moments and bad moments, trying moments and fun moments, and all sorts of moments and things that you will always remember about going to Reefside. I myself have had an interesting journey through my first year teaching here." He looked at the DinoThunder Rangers one by one as he looked over the students. "I would like to say thank you for making this year, my first year teaching here, so memorial." The students cheered. "I will treasure these memories and moments and I hope that you will do the same. Thank you!" The people clapped and cheered especially Tommy's students and his friends. The ceremony continued on and at one point, they showed a senior tribute video made by Cassidy and Devin on the main screen behind them. During the middle of it, they showed a little excerpt on what had happened that year and during that section, they had the DinoThunder Power Rangers fighting and defending the city and the school. The place cheered loudly when that happened and when a group shot of all seven DinoThunder Rangers appeared. When it was over, it was time for handing out the diploma as students went up to get theirs. When the Rangers got up there, they gave a huge to Elsa when they got their diplomas and a huge hug when to Tommy when they were about to exit the stage. The ceremony ended and all the Rangers and their family and friends got together and congratulated the graduates. After all their families started to chat with one another, the DinoThunder teens went outside to talk.
"Well, guys," Conner said. "This is it! We are done!"
"Yeah! The year is over!" Ethan said.
"And we almost didn't make it," Cassidy said as he hugged Devin. "Thank God we did."
"Yeah I am glad our Rangering is over," Devin said. "I never realized that it was that hard."
"We didn't either," Kira said. "But we made it though alright."
"That was only a weak for you and Devin, Cassidy. You should try the whole year." Conner joked.
"Guys, you may never know," Trent said. "We might be called to fight again."
"That is true," Conner said. "I mean look at Adam and the others. Even Dr. O. They came out of retirement to ranger again. I don't think that it is ever over."
At that point, Tommy and the other adults came outside.
"Man!" Tommy said. "I am getting too old for this!"
"Too old?" Rocky laughed. "You! Ha!"
"Hey!" Adam said as he elbowed. "Lay off him! He has fought evil more than anyone else. The guy deserves to say that!"
"Well things were sure interesting moving here that is for sure," Tanya said.
"You got that right," Katherine said.
"Especially with Tommy going evil again," Rocky said. "Jason will be bugging you from here to kingdom come."
"I know, I know," Tommy said as stared at his students.
"You okay there, Tommy?" Anton asked.
"Yeah, I am just going to miss them. I knew that I would have to face that sometime, but it just hit me now."
"So what are you guys going to do now?" Elsa said. "Now that your fighting is over?"
"With rangering, you never know," Tommy said as he smiled as he looked back at his students.
The End
Stay tuned for the sequel.