Welcome to the next chapter. Here's the second adventure of the Rangers and it was alright, I am so thankful for Trini being able to translate Billy's big words til he stopped doing that and was able to speak normally. Just so you know, I won't do all of the three seasons into one story, that would kill me. I probably just do this full season and part of season 2 so my brain wouldn't explode for all that writing.
Thank you to brankel1, a guest, and silvermagic210, whose advice I have used while writing this chapter. I have been a writer for a long time but I am not perfect, so any and all advice is welcome for me. I also thank everyone who had followed and Favorited this story.
Disclaimer, I own none of this. Power Rangers belong to Hasbro, I only own my OC, Eliza, her role as the Silver Ranger and her associated powers with that.
Chapter 2 - High Five
Breathing as she stepped out of the shower and stepped into her room, Eliza pulled a curtain and looked outside her window of her apartment, looking out at the city of Angel Grove with the sun shining. Recalling the events from a few days ago, Eliza looked at her desk which had her Power Morpher and her hearing aids. She could still feel herself shaking from the excitement and fear of becoming a superhero team with others, the Power Rangers. But she often found herself asking so many questions and wondering so many things about her new role, looking at the golden coin in the Morpher and the image of the Ankylosaurus enblazed on the front.
'Why was I picked with everyone?' She thought, holding herself and finding it hard to believe that Zordon would consider her a Power Ranger, though she couldn't deny his reason, remembering that she was strong in a way and kind to others, trying to treat everyone equally despite her disability. Shaking her head as not to think about it too much, Eliza walked from the window and rubbed the towel over her hair then opened her closet to find what to wear for the day. She picked her outfit and went to dry off, walking into the bathroom and combing her hair. Then she brushed her teeth and tied her hair back into a ponytail before stepping back into her room to get dressed.
Once she was dressed, Eliza gave herself a once over and nodded, grabbing her hearing aids and putting them in her ears, making sure they were on and she could hear, then grabbed her Morpher, having it hook on her belt to act as a buckle. Then grabbing her bag, Eliza slung it over her shoulder and grabbed her keys, making sure her apartment was closed and headed to the Juice Bar, hoping to see her new friends again and adjust more to the city.
As soon as she entered, Eliza saw that Trini was teaching a yoga class and Kimberly, Zack, and Jason were around the climbing rope in the gym. Kimberly noticed her and waved at her fellow Ranger, beckoning her to come over. Eliza walked over and heard Kimberly as Jason prepared himself to climb the rope.
"Okay, Jase, let's see you do it." She said, looking as Zack added, "Time to go up-and-up."
Eliza looked at them and looked at Jason as he began to climb, she gripped her chest, feeling like she wouldn't be able to do it as she wasn't much of a climber or even much of a fighter since she improvised when Rita sent her troop of Putties and she had used her bag, feeling that she wasn't as good as the others and would be outcast when they learn the truth of her. Kimberly's loud clap made Eliza jump and bring her out of her dark what-if thoughts.
"Come on, Jason!" Kimberly cheered on. "You can do it! Come on!"
"Come on!" Zack included, Eliza smiled as she looked at her new friends and teammates, nodding softly.
"Jason, go for the top!" She said, smiling. "Go for it!"
"Keep going!" Kimberly added.
At this point, Trini finished her class and came by to join them, though as she looked up at Jason, her expression was more scared and afraid. Eliza saw her as she was more concerned and worried about Jason climbing the rope and inputted her concerns.
"Jason?" Trini said, looking at him. "Jason! Be careful! If you slip, you can really hurt yourself." Eliza couldn't blame her since climbing could be dangerous. It seemed that Zack dismissed her worries as he looked at Trini.
"Yo man, back off." He said, looking at her. "You're making him nervous."
"Nervous?" Jason said, nearly slipping. "Man, I never get nervous when I climb."
"Well, you should be." Trini warned. She breathed and looked at her friends, saying, "Guys, I'm gonna be over there. At least its down to earth."
"You should give it a try." Zack suggested. Eliza looked at him and was going to speak, but Trini spoke first, "Are you kidding? Uh-uh. You'll never catch me climbing anything that high. See ya."
"Looks like somebody's got a case of height fright." Kimberly said, Eliza thought and went over to Trini, grabbing her shoulder and having the Yellow Ranger look at her and wonder what she would like to say.
"Trini, if you want, I could help you with your height fear." She suggested, smiling softly. "You don't have to agree, but I just want to help you since we're now friends."
"Thanks, I'll think about it but I might not go with it." Trini said, smiling and nodded in gratitude for her thoughtfulness. Eliza went back to Zach and Kimberly and heard Zach greet Billy who had just arrived in the Juice Bar.
"Yo!" He greeted. "Billy, my main brain! What's up?" Eliza just waved at him and Billy waved back, smiling as he gave Zach a high five as he unknowingly stood under where Jason was before going into explanation.
"Hey!" He said, smiling. "Well, actually, I do have some exciting news to disseminate. See, I've made a significant breakthrough regarding the cross-" "Billy, heads up!" Jason warned, as he dropped his legs over Billy's shoulders and they swung back and forth, Eliza tried not to laugh with Kimberly and Zach, seeing them fall from the rope and landing in front of Trini, who sighed and just did her workout, ignoring the craziness.
"That was good." Zach said. "That was good. You guys should try out for the circus."
"I don't know about that, Zach." Eliza said, looking at him. She smiled, but it disappeared as soon as the two so-called punk bullies appeared, while she knew Bulk from her first arriving in the city, Eliza learned that his 'partner' was called Skulk. She crossed her arms as Bulk tried to put down Zach with his comment of just joking with Jason and Billy.
"Nah." He said, trying to seem tough. "The circus don't take geek clowns."
"Geek clowns." Skulk said, laughing. "That's great! That is so funny."
Eliza rolled her eyes and sighed, wondering how the two were able to be in school. She crossed her arms as the six of them walked up to the two wannabe punks and bullies.
"Why don't you guy just crawl back to the ooze you came from?" Kimberly suggested, having less to deal with by seeing them. Eliza laughed at her suggestion though Bulk and Skulk didn't find it as funny.
"Oh, that's funny, especially coming from a friend of the monkey man." Bulk said, trying to seem fearsome. Eliza looked at him and said, "Like you could do any better."
"Yeah?" Jason said, looking at him, undaunted. "At least, I can make it all the way to the top."
Skulk came up face to face to Jason, asking, "Hey hey hey. You saying that Bulk can't do it? Yeah, that's what you're saying alright."
"I have a idea, if Bulk can climb to the top, we'll actually give you two respect." Eliza said, smiling slyly and the others nodded, taking that as a challenge to prove that he was superior and cooler, Bulk looked at Eliza in the face and she looked at him, undaunted by his attitude.
"Step aside, and let me show you how it's done." He told her, preparing to climb the rope.
"Are you sure you know how to work this work?" Kimberly asked, playing into his disillusion that he was a tough guy.
"What do you think I am?" Bulk said, looking at her. "Stupid?" "Maybe?" Eliza said, not looking at him in a whisper.
Zack added his thoughts, saying, "Well, you know what they say... If the rope fits, climb it!"
At first, Bulk tried to climb but he fell to the ground, Skulk said, "Hey, Bulky, I thought you were going up." Bulk groaned and prepared again.
Eliza stood next to Jason, her hands in her pockets while he had his arms crossed, the six of them watching with Skulk. Jason looked at her and wondered if what she had offered was a good idea. Eliza looked at him and smiled, winking, silently telling him not to worry cause she doubted that he would actually make it. So Bulk hopped up, attempting to climb up but the hook on the ceiling broke and hit him on the head with some rumble from the ceiling. The Rangers laughed at him.
"Well, I hope you have enough money between you two cause all that damage is on you." Eliza said, smiling. Kimberly knelt down to Bulk and said, "Oh, yeah, Bulk, you really showed us this time, didn't you?"
With a laugh and a bit of clean up of his mess, along with a apology to Ernie, the six Rangers went into the hallway and Eliza looked at Billy, she asked, "You said that you had something to tell us and show us?"
"Yes." Billy said, smiling. "You see, I finally completed a narrow-beam transmission module that will allow wave function over a extended interval." Seeing the awkward silence at everyone who looked at him, Billy asked, "Well? Aren't you all excited?"
"Uh..." Eliza said, rubbing her hair and embarrassed. Zach covered for her and said, "Well, I will be as soon as I figure out what you just said."
Thankfully, Trini was able to translate his scientific talk into simple English, "He's created a communication device using microwaves."
"Affirmative." Billy said, as he revealed the six wristbands that he had made. Each one had the color of the Ranger who would have them. "See? Now we have connection to Zordon and Alpha in the Command Center." He gave them to Kimberly who handed them to their respective colored Ranger and smiled, looking at her new communicator. Eliza admired the skill and effort he put into making it so they could contact their new leader and friend.
"This is morphenomenal." Kimberly said, amazed at the invention that Billy had made for the newly formed team.
Billy nodded and explained, "They respond to tactile pressure followed by auditory stimulus." "So what you're saying is we just touch and talk?" Trini asked, pressing the button, but suddenly they disappeared into their colored beams. Seeing that, Billy said to himself, "Hmm. The neutrino power grid have crossed molecular-" But he pressed the button and disappeared into his colored beam. At the Command Center, it was quiet til the six Rangers appeared, surprising Alpha.
"I hope no one saw that." Eliza said, worried and looked around. Billy seemed embarrassed and said, "It appeared my communicators malfunctioned." Alpha saw the Rangers and was happy as expressed in his voice.
"Oh! Welcome, homeboys, homegirls!" He said, happily. "What brings you to the hood?" Zach gave a laugh, "Too much TV." "Alpha, please don't talk about it." Eliza said, patting his disc shaped. Then Zordon appeared, looking at the six Rangers.
"I commend your latest invention, Billy." Zordon said, praising the bespectacled Blue Ranger. "Not only have you created a communicator, but you've also tapped into the Command Center's teleportation unit." Eliza was speechless to hear that Billy managed to do such a feat, and it seemed Billy was also surprised that he managed that as well.
Zordon said, "With proper adjustment, it will allow you to teleport here in an emergency. But until Alpha can reprogram it, it will serve as a two-way communication link between the Command Center and each other, wherever you are." Eliza saw as Alpha tried to fiddle with Billy's communicator, but was shocked by the electricity and ran around the room, Eliza groaned and touched her ear, when Jason looked at her and looked worried at her.
Eliza looked at him and said, smiling. "I'm okay, Jason." She just waved off her problem and breathed, wondering if the reaction of Alpha's attempt to fix the communicators effect her hearing aids. But suddenly the alarms were sounding and she really groaned at the sound, everyone looked at the alarms were going off.
"Extreme audio oscillation, what does it indicate?" Billy said, looking as everyone tried to plug or cover their ears from the sound.
"There's only one person who could make the alarms go off this crazy." Eliza said, looking at him.
"Yes, it's Rita." Zordon said, confirming her suspicions. "She sent a device to open a time trap. And the Putty Patrol is gathering outside of town. Find out what they are up to while I analyze the time device."
"We're out of here!" Jason said as Alpha sent them to the location for them to check out and see what the Putties are doing. Trying to hide as they saw the Putties, Eliza wondered why Rita even made the gray colored dim-witted fighters and knelt with Kimberly, looking confused.
"What are they doing here?" Kimberly asked, Eliza shrugged, not having a clear answer for her as they watched.
Jason answered, "I don't know, but we better stay here and keep an eye on them."
However, Trini grabbed Eliza's hand and she looked as the Putties were surrounding them, Billy said, "Uh, I don't think that's a viable option at the moment."
"What are you talking about?" Zach said, not seeing they were surrounded. "This is perfect cameoflague."
"It was about ten seconds ago." Trini said, as everyone now saw the babbling Putties were now all around them.
"Guys, we got to morph!" Kimberly suggested, panicking. Eliza wrapped her arm around Kimberly to calm her down and Jason also calmed her down.
"No." Jason told her calmly. "Zordon said we gotta try to take care of things on our own before we use our powers. Come on!"
They ran from the Putties and split, Eliza took her bag off her shoulder and held it as a weapon again, looking at the Putties who were slowly approaching her. "Alright, clay heads, I got something in here that will really make your head ache." She said, swinging her bag and hitting the Putties in the head. Back-flipping, she landed and swung her bag, hitting the Putties on their stomach. However, one sneaked up behind her and hit her across the face, knocking her hearing aids out of her ears as she dropped her bag.
Suddenly, she couldn't hear anything, and Eliza was surrounded by complete silence. She froze at the moment, knowing that she should panic and try to find her hearing aids, but she froze in worry of her friends seeing her look around for her hearing aids and suddenly exclude her or even Zordon would send her off the team if they learn that she was deaf and not like them. She gripped her chest and began to breath deeply, not sure what to do and began to look for her hearing aid before her friends began to take notice of her strange behavior.
Trini and Jason noticed her strange behavior and looking for something on the ground, unaware of the creeping Putties from behind her. Nodding at each other, they ran over to her and Jason punched out the Putties behind her while Trini looked on the ground and found the hearing aids, by looking at what she had picked up and seeing how Eliza was acting and frantically looking, she guessed what Zordon had meant by saying that Eliza was born differently than them and softly smiled, Jason touched Eliza's shoulders and she gasped for air but she saw Trini appear in front of her and calmly held out her hand which had her hearing aids.
Eliza was scared and grabbed them putting them in her ears and turning them on, hearing the fighting and craziness around her. She saw Trini and Jason with her and guessed that they probably realized what Zordon meant about her but didn't say anything cause they wanted her to say when she felt ready to say so. Jason nodded at them before running to handle more of the Putties.
Looking as she began to calm down, Trini looked at her and Eliza looked at her, the two female Rangers keeping quiet as Trini helped her stand up and gave her her bag. Eliza breathed, finally calming all the way down and she took her behind a rock, seeing Billy on the ledge of a high rock. This time, Trini was looking scared and frightened.
"Billy!" She shouted. "Billy, come back! You'll fall! Billy, you're too high!"
Gently touching Trini's shoulder, Eliza had Trini face her and she was shaking, Eliza said, "Trini, calm down. It's gonna be alright. But if you want to help Billy, you're gonna have to climb up there." Before Trini could back away, Eliza hugged her and said, "I know it's scary and you're not a big fan of heights but remember, the only way to conquer a fear is overcome it. I felt the same as you do just moments ago, I can understand what you're going through. But I know you can do it."
Swallowing, Trini nodded and went over to where Billy was, ending up just under where he was trapped. Eliza watched and gasped as Billy dropped his Morpher but however, Trini caught it and continued to climb after putting it away, reminding herself that she had to do it though she was scared and what Eliza had told her. Eliza watched her and smiled as she made it to the top, covering Billy and handing him his Morpher back. Eliza looked as they moved and sent the Putty over the edge of the cliff to which she sent it flying with her bag.
When they came back down, Eliza nodded at them and they ran to the others, breaking the crowd of Putties around them and looked around. Jason, Kimberly, and Zach formed a human chain which made Eliza, Trini, and Billy step back as Jason spun around while holding Zach and Kimberly, sending the Putties into the surrounding catci and causing them to go running. Eliza laughed before hearing Zordon contact them somehow.
"Congratulations, Power Rangers." He said. "You've done a superb job dealing with the Putties. And special congratulations to you, Trini, for overcoming your fear in the face of an emergency. I'm sure you and Eliza can learn much from each other." Suddenly, his tone changed, "Hold your positions, everyone. Our scanners have picked up a new threat. Rita has sent a creature named Bones down to the amusement park. He can fire energy bolts out of his eyes and jump long distances, and even make him disappear. He probably controls the time device as well. So get moving, Power Rangers. It's morphin time!"
With that battle cry, the six Rangers morphed into their Ranger forms and teleported to the amusement park. There, they saw their new opponents, the aptly named Bones, who was literally a skeleton with a black hat that had a red stash and a white feather while wearing a black cape with a red underside, around his hips was a black belt with a sword. If Eliza could show her face, she would be questioning how Rita thought this thing could beat them.
"Hey, let me help you get a head." Bones said, tossing his head into the sky and laughing. Eliza groaned as the Rangers wondered what they could do. He shouted, "Into the time warp, all of you!" Everyone shouted as they felt dizzy and suddenly ended up somewhere new, which was a dark gray area with mist covering the ground and a single tree. Eliza groaned and shook her head, looking at their new location and said, "Okay, how do we get out of here?"
Suddenly, Bones appeared, attacking them with his sword. Gasping, Eliza followed everyone by bringing her sidearm weapon, the Blade Blaster and slashing with his sword. Jumping back, she reached into her pouch and tossed some flash bombs along with some cherry bombs at the skeletal-like minions that appeared to slow them down. Kimberly gasped and Eliza turned, seeing that two of the head grunts had lighted a fuse.
"Oh, no, Rita plans on trapping us in here!" She shouted, but with them distracted, Bones hit the ground with his sword and the ground split opened, but Jason managed to jump to the other side of the ground and everyone switched their blasters to gun mode, firing at Bones and were meant to able to destroy him until he showed that he could reassemble himself.
"We need to destroy his head!" Billy said, guessing that was his weak point.
"I'll distract him, Billy, when I do, grab his head." Eliza said, Billy nodded and jumped when she tossed a powerful flash bomb at Bones, letting Billy jump and grab his head. Trini caught it when Billy tossed it to her and tossed it into the crack, destroying his head and the rest of his body. But the area began to shake as a large hand created a hole and grabbed Eliza and Jason, the two of them struggling as the giant being holding them tightly, intending on squeezing them to end them. Luckily, the rest of the team was blown out and looked up at their teammates.
Groaning as she managed to grab something from her pouch, Eliza tossed a flash bomb with Jason being able to fire at the giant, the mix of the two caused the giant to let them go and they fell from his grip. Seeing his captives freed, the giant swung his sword and Jason called his Tyrannosaurus Dinozord, opting to want and fight the giant on equal footing. Eliza watched as he went to enter the cockpit, gripping the controls. Eliza looked at the red Zord, worried due to it not having any weapons and going up against the giant which had a sword.
However, the Tyrannosaurus roared and swung its tail, using that to attack and was able to send the giant rolling on the ground. With a roar, it knelt down and sent a stream of smoke which seemed to destroy it. Eliza breathed and smiled, looking up at the red dinosaur mech before Jason came out and they headed to the Juice Bar for their victory, changing back before entering the city.
"I'm telling you, I heard it on the radio." They heard Ernie say to someone. "Six superheroes saved the park from this zombie guy. And they call themselves the Power Rangers." Eliza smiled, sitting with the others as they laughed since no one else knew who the Power Rangers were and sipped her smoothie as Billy spoke up.
"Uh, speaking of which, our communicators are fully functional again thanks to Zordon and Alpha," He said, speaking lowly so no one caught on.
Kimberly smiled and said, "Cool. So, like, we can teleport and communicate to the Command Center with these things?"
"Affirmative." Billy confirmed, Eliza smiled and walked with them.
"This is so nineties." Kimberly said, smiling with a big smile on her face.
"Oh, Trini, I really wanted to express my gratitude in helping me out today." Billy said, looking at the Yellow Ranger. Trini was embarrassed, but Eliza looked at her and smiled, "You're great."
"Yeah." Kimberly said, smiling. "The way you climbed those rocks was morphomenal."
"I guess what they say is true." Trini said, unaware of Zack creeping up on them. "You really don't know what you can do until you're forced to do it. I hope I can be that confident the next time." But suddenly, Zack scared her and she quickly climbed up the rope. Though everyone was laughing, Eliza punched Zach in the shoulder and smiled.
"Girl, looks like you've definitely overcome your fear of heights." Zach said, smiling and rubbing his shoulder. Eliza smiled and shook her head.
The scene where Eliza temporally loses her hearing aids and panics about how the others and Zordon would react while in complete silence is something I wanted to try because to be honest, I don't know anyone who is completely deaf, but I do know sign language. So please forgive me, I do try to research and make sure that I do not stereotype my OC since I do not know anyone who has no hearing.
Next chapter, the Rangers receive their new weapons for the first time, Kimberly and Trini collect signatures to close down a dump site, the girls try to get their team to work together, Rita sets a trap for the Rangers. This has been WhiteRose-Aki, see you all in the next chapter. Please, R&R if you enjoyed it.