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Accepting Our Fates

Conner's POV

Tonight my world fell apart. I am supposed to become the leader of the newest group of Power Rangers, yeah right. There is no way that Dr. O and his girlfriend got this one right, no matter how many degrees he has hanging over his desk at school and karate belts he has displayed in his office at the dojo or the gymnastics awards that she owns. I can barely get through classes as is and if I'm going to feel the way I feel now, then I don't know how I am supposed to get through this. After I left his house, I had to go to soccer practice and I could barely function there, which only made my coach mad at me. Dr. O makes it seem like this is some sort of grand honor and that I should be willing to drop everything to do this, bull shit. How is this an honor if I can't tell anyone about it? I can't explain why I'll have to leave practice early, when this darned communicator goes off. I mean, the way it looks, I'll barely be able to make it through a soccer practice without being called off to fight some crazy monster. I don't know if I can do that, soccer is my world, always has, and always will be.

When he gave me my morpher, I had so many questions running through my mind. Namely, why me? Why was I chosen to do this, instead of someone else, someone who actually knew what a Power Ranger was and what they were supposed to do? I guess that this is something that has no logic, at all, as Ethan and Kira were the other two choices to receive these powers. I don't think that Dr. O was looking for athletes, if he choose the two of them. No offense, that they just aren't into sports, but it just didn't make any sense to me. I thought you would have to be in good shape to do all of this, I mean fighting monsters and all takes a lot out of you. But I guess I was wrong, big surprise. I guess it's something that comes from inside of you, like you're born with it, which is kinda scary if you think about it too long. I really didn't want to know that I was born with the will to do something like this, although it does seem interesting, I think that is the word for all of this or maybe it's bizarre.

I mean, Dr. O was one since he was my age or younger and he definitely was different when we first met him than most of our other teachers. I know I was lucky to not have him last year or I would have failed his class and I may still do that this year. Most of our teachers, let the athletes ride, you know cut us slack every now and then, when we get in a tight spot. Not Dr. O. I guess since no one ever let him have a break in life, you know take the easy way out, he thinks that we should have to earn the grade we get. If they had only been allowed to tell people who they were, maybe he would have been treated different. He wasn't treated any different, though. So, he expects the same out of me, as everyone else in his class and I don't really like it, but it proves a very real point. He went through it the tough way in high school and look where it got him, doing something he is actually good at and probably loves. He works hard and it is obvious to us that he knows what he is doing and he plans to make sure that we are in this for the long haul. That 'long haul' could mean a lifetime commitment and I'm not exactly sure I am ready for this, who would be at age fifteen?

Okay, so after the initial anger and questions that ran through my mind. I have decided I want to try it, although hanging around Ethan won't help my image any. I mean the guy is a Geek, with a capital G, but that doesn't really matter anymore. The thing is I know that Dr. O is depending on us to do this for him. He really needs our help to keep them from suiting back up, not that they won't if the call comes. They've prooved that they are willng to do that. It kinda sucks, doesn't it? So, I hope that Dr. O is happy, because I know that I am having to give up a lot to do this. Not that, that would pass as a good excuse to him, considering that he has given up almost everything to be a ranger, except maybe Kim and I'm not even too sure that they didn't have some rough times because of ranger related things. Here's to trying to deal with this crazy task.

Kira's POV

Oh my God. That was the only thing I could think when Dr. O told us to morph, nothing else ran through my mind. I didn't have a clue what I was doing or what was going to happen, but once it did, I felt a power surge, like none other I have ever experienced. It was better than the best natural high I have ever gotten onstage and I've had some pretty good highs for performing. Then I looked around at the others and realized that we really were one of them now, although what exactly were we?

Then my mind screeched to a sudden halt. We were one of what! What were we? What have we become? Are we some evil creatures that Dr. O insists are good, but really aren't? Am I really supposed to be doing this and what the hell have I turned into? All of this ran through my head in about a millisecond and then I started fighting. Why? I don't know, my body was yelling at me to, to protect Dr. Oliver, who had just come crashing down on top of his own jeep. Was this urge part of what he had given to us or had it been in me all this time and I never knew it was there? It was scary to be thinking the thoughts that were running through my mind, but I guess this is something I will have to get used to, if I stay.

Well our battle was over as soon as it started, which caused me to worry. Why were we given this if we were only going to use it for a short period of time? The town could look after itself if the battles were only going to last a few minutes. It makes no sense. Absolutely no sense at all why he would do this to us. I didn't care what type of explanation Dr. O had for all of this at that moment. I knew that whatever it was, wasn't going to measure up to what I thought about this whole situation. He couldn't have an explanation good enough for me. That all changed when I walked into the basement of his house, I figured out that the explanation I didn't want, was going to be as astonishing as what I was seeing in front of me.

Instead of the usual old couches and Ping-Pong table, his basement had an almost NASA control center type feel. That was really the first clue I had gotten all day that he wasn't joking about this, that there really was something that we were going to be called to fight, other than the tryadrones. Why had I decided to even hear him out? As this place was really starting to get on my nerves.

On the back wall, were six panels, each containing some sort of functions within them, I guess, I couldn't really tell by just looking. I do get the feeling though that they contain things that will help us as rangers. I continued to look around the room and noticed several other projects were on their way to being completed. Okay, so maybe I underestimated what I was getting myself into, but no normal teenager would think of this being held in his or her teacher's basement. I guess that from now on, I will be more careful about agreeing to go to a teacher's house, of course this was the first time that I had ever been asked to do so. So, I guess I should have known that this would be no ordinary trip for my classmates or myself, for that matter.

Then Dr. Oliver played a video for us. It showed all of the ranger teams, both old and new. I couldn't understand why he was showing us where all of this came from and why it would matter to us now. We went through roughly nine teams of rangers that contained five or six members, and then we came to a team that had nine. They were older than most of the other ranger teams and several of them looked familiar, as if they had been on one of the other teams. As if they were being called back into action, to defeat Nicarni-Aso, which I had never heard about until now. That couldn't be possible, though. I thought that after a ranger retired, they stayed in retirement, but I soon found out how very wrong I was, as the video was coming to a close.

After seeing that video, I knew I had underestimated all of this, by a long shot. All of these people had been given powers to defeat the creatures that threatened to take over the Earth at the time. The first Power Rangers and the last group of rangers seemed to look very similar to each other, their fighting styles I guess, but I couldn't tell exactly how far it went, yet. Then I turned around and there stood the pink and white ranger, looking expectantly at us. Wow, I would have never thought of Dr. O as a Power Ranger, although I knew he taught karate and did a good job at it, according to Ashley. This just seemed like it was karate on speed or something and I am not sure I am ready for that. I'm not even ready for the regular version of karate, much less the hyped up version that I saw the rangers perform, on a daily basis. I have to admit that I am about as athletic as Dr. O's pinky finger, which doesn't seem like it is going to help me at all if I agree to stay with this. All of the previous rangers seem to be very athletic, in one way or another. I do not fit into that mold, at all.

I guess what gets me the most is that they all look happy that they did this, but they all seem to have lived a rather jilted life, after they became power rangers. Dr. O is always running into crazy creatures at the most inconvenient times. He even ran into one while he was working on his doctorate, the one that is currently threatening the Earth now and Kim is having to wait for a marriage that should have occurred a long time ago. All the others, being called back into action after a five year delay in the action they were to receive. They are amazing people, but I am not sure that I have it in me to become one of them. Not now, or ever for that matter.

Ethan's POV

My science teacher just dropped a bomb on me. He thinks that I can be a Power Ranger. Ha! I barely have the coordination to tie my shoes some days, much less fight a bunch of monsters. How does he expect me to battle monsters without getting tripped up, over my own two feet no less? It's cool and all, but I'm not sure if I'm up for this. I highly doubt that there has ever been another ranger like me and there have been quite a few rangers over the past few years.

Dr. O doesn't know what he has gotten himself into. The three of us, working together? It's so funny that I am barely able to hold in the laughter. It's not that we don't get along, it is more like we don't even associate with each other during a usual school day and all of the other rangers looked to be very close. I know that might scare either one of them off, for fear of becoming too good of friends with the other people in the group, but it makes sense. If you are fighting along side each other day in and day out, then you have to trust the people around you and that means that you have to be friends or more. It looks like there have been several ranger relationships over the years, the one that has endured the most, happens to be Dr. O's. I just have this feeling that behind the happy exterior, the two of them hold a secret, to a very rough past.

He gave us the choice today, to stay or to go. To keep these powers and help the world or to give the powers back and let the world and Dr. Oliver down. I don't know about Kira and Conner, but I intend to see this through, no matter how much work it takes and what it does to me, and it could do a lot to me. Dr. O obviously needs our help, because all of them are finally trying to retire, for good, which means we need to step up and accept the offer. We can't look back; we have to look forward, to what we are going to do and the people we are going to help.

AN: Tell me how you like! I hope that you have enjoyed this chapter and I'll have a new chapter out pretty soon. Until then, happy reading.