Passion Power and Dinosaurs

Chapter 12: Origins

Part 2: Coming storm

Tommy never really enjoyed the long drawn out educational seminars, which were held every time he went on a dig. Most of the professors were old and possessed voices, that tended to put Tommy to sleep. Tommy yawned, as he fought a losing battle against sleep. 'A few minutes sleep can't hurt.' Thought Tommy as he closed his eyes and drifted off into a world of dreams.

In his dream, he was flying, but something wasn't right. The sky was yellow, the sun red and most of the earth's soil was colored a sickly yellow, as Tommy flew by. The roads were ruined, buildings were burning, and people ran away screaming in terror. Strange creatures attacked the people in the city below, while a massive white monster ravaged the city. All the while Tommy watched as he floated overhead, quietly observing the destruction caused by the monsters. Call it instinct, but whenever Tommy saw trouble, it was his natural reflext to try to help. "I have to help them." However, no matter how hard Tommy tried he couldn't reach the ground. "Dammit!"

Suddenly a roar was heard in the distance, and three robot dinosaurs charged forward into battle, leading the group was a massive red Tyrannosaurus, followed by a blue Triceratops, meanwhile a yellow Pterodactyl let out several screeches while flying overhead.

"Those are the zords I created along with Mercer." Exclaimed a very surprised Tommy. "What the hell is going on here!" On the ground the creatures attacking the civilians were quickly fended off by 3 warriors, clad in ranger suits, each one bearing vibrant colors of red, yellow, and blue., The warriors quickly defeated the creatures with their individual weapons, before leaping into their individual zords. The three zords had combined to form a massive robot, but it wasn't enough. The robot was destroyed in a hail of laser fire and a massive explosion rocked the city. It was right there that a voice echoed within the distance.

The Dino gems, you must protect them…

Tommy woke up with a start, sweating and tired. His hands quickly checked his pockets for the strange gems that he had found the other day, feeling that they were still there, Tommy let out a breath of relief. 'Now I know that these things are dangerous. That dream must have been a premonition of some kind; something is coming, something deadly…"

Tommy rushed over to his dig site; he had to see if there were any more of those gems. The crew was definitely surprised to see him there so early; he specifically told them that he would arrive at 12. Tommy was about to return to his digging space when he was stopped by Smitty. "Thomas, I cannot allow you to go there."

"Why not!" demanded Tommy. Suddenly a massive explosion rocked the excavation site, they had decided to use dynamite to clear out the rubble which blocking the excavation team. 'If there were any more of those gems in there, no doubt they were destroyed by the dynamite.'

"Thomas, are you ok?" asked Smitty obviously worried about the well-being of his friend.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Replied Tommy before he playfully punched Smitty in the arm, "Didn't I tell you to call me Tommy!"

"Oh right sorry. Oh yes, I almost forgot there seems to be a women who arrive not too long ago looking for you." Said Smitty.

The woman had turned out to be Hayley, who was more than happy to see him. "Hey, what are you doing here?" asked Tommy.

"Well, I've come to tell you that I accept the job offer that you gave me." Answered Hayley smiling, she was sweating a lot.

"Alright, but you know that you could have just called me to tell me that." Replied Tommy smiling warmly, as he offered her some water from his canteen, which Hayley graciously accepted. "Ok, so pack your bags because this is my last day on this dig, I'm returning to California tomorrow. If you want I can have my flight postponed so you won't have to fly alone."

"Really? That's so sweet. Thanks." Said Hayley smiling sweetly, "Hey, listen I've got a lot of packing to do and I'd really appreciate it if you came over to my apartment tonight to help me pack."

"Sure, so I'll be at your place at around seven maybe?" replied Tommy before he headed back out into the dig. Smitty was waiting for him a smile was plastered all over his tan face. "Oh yeah, Hayley come over here will you? I want you to meet somebody."

Hayley walked over, smiling warmly. "This is my good friend Terrance Smith. Smitty this is Hayley, Hayley Johnston."

"Please call me Smitty." Said Smitty offering Hayley his hand. Hayley gladly shook it. "It's a pleasure to meet you."

"The feeling's mutual." Replied Hayley.

Meanwhile on an island, Mesosgog was hard at work with one of his twisted experiments; this one just so happened to be more twisted then the rest. The Mutant lizard carefully added the last ingredients to his serum before walking over to his subject. As Anton Mercer, he had found her hours ago lying on the beach, apparently the victim of an unfortunate boating accident. She was barely alive.

'But this serum shall give new life to her..' thought Mesogog, as he filled a needle full of the clear gooey yellow liquid. It had taken him a while to make it, but he had finally created a serum which would infuse it's user with the agility, strength and endurance of the long extinct dinosaurs. The needle was jammed directly into the girl's heart, with a gasp of air the girl awoke. Sweating, confused and obviously very scared, her brown eyes surveyed her surroundings as she tried to figure out just what was going on?

"Where… am…I?" She asked shakily, as she sat up. "Who….am…I? Who…are….you?"

"You're on my island fortress, your name is Elsa, my loyal servant and a general in my army. My name is Mesogog, I am your master."

"My master?" asked Elsa.

"Yes, now come we still have much work to do…" said Mesogog, as he walked out of the room and into a long hallway, Elsa obediently followed. "This planet was once feared throughout the cosmos thanks to the savage rulers, which inhabited it. But now it's diseased, controlled by humans, the ancient rulers of this planet, the Dinosaurs, have been forgotten." Mesogog paused, stopping as he pondered about his next move. "I am the product of human madness, and it is my destiny to end the plague of humanity once and for all!"

Mesogog led Elsa into his armory where Anton Mercer, his other half, kept all of his weapons, some were antiques bought from his travels, others were inventions, all of them were deadly. "Choose one weapon in here Elsa."

"Yes master." Replied Elsa obediently before she began her search for the perfect weapon. She found it in the form of a sword; its blade was a work of art, colored a deep metallic blue, Elsa felt honored to be in the presence of such a magnificent weapon. "This will do…"

"Excellent…."

Hayley opened the door to her apartment, smiling warmly at the person at the door. "Hey you."

"Hey…." Replied Tommy returning the smile, at the moment he was wearing a black sweater along with a pair of tan cargos. "Can I come in?"

"It'd be an insult if you didn't." said Hayley teasingly before she stepped aside and let Tommy into her massive studio apartment. "Sorry, if it's a messy."

Tommy was too awed to reply as he checked out the apartment it was HUGE! White walls, several oil paintings, and a massive bookshelf were placed throughout the apartment. "You own this place?"

"Yes…and no. My parents do, I just live here." Replied Hayley as she walked into her kitchen. "Would you like a cup of coffee?"

"Sure, hey what's this?" asked Tommy picking up a blue firearm, which he found on Hayley's coffee table. Judging from its design, Tommy concluded that it was a multiple purpose weapon.

"Oh that? It's one of my stupid inventions, it's a laser weapon, but it can also turn into a sword if you fold the handle and pull the blade down." Answered Hayley as she joined Tommy in the living room while holding two mugs of coffee in each hand. "It's just some stupid result of me being really bored, borrowing money from the bank and having a lot of free time. I can't even get the laser to work."

"That's because you don't have a sufficient power source, this laser requires a power source that has an energy output of at least 500 megavolts to power the laser enough to fire one shot, if you want multiple shots that you're going to need an energy output of at least 5000 megavolts." Replied Tommy, Hayley stared, her lower jaw hung from the rest of her mouth. "What? I am more than just a paleontologist you know. What else have you invented?"

Hayley got up and went into her bedroom, she came out with three suits each individual suit was colored red, blue, or yellow. "This is my proudest invention. I call it the rampage cloth."

"It's fabric…." Stated Tommy while sipping his coffee.

"They may look like pieces of fabric, but bullets and blades haven't been able to pierce it, it's extremely flame retardant and is very light and mobile. But there are still a few flaws to work out." Countered Hayley, it had taken her five months to create this.

"Like what? Maybe I can find a way to work out those flaws." Asked Tommy, as Hayley took a seat next to him.

"Well, for one thing the suit doesn't fully work unless it's on skintight and I have no way to carry it around." Answered Hayley as she let Tommy feel one of the suits.

"Hmmm, how about having it shrunk down so it can be stored inside of a wrist band of some sort and when you press a button on that wrist band the suit automatically fits itself on the user." Suggested Tommy. "Don't know about the skin tight part though…"

"Yeah, that does sound like a good idea." Agreed Hayley. "C'mon we start packing."

Packing was something Tommy was familiar with, when he was younger his parents were constantly changing jobs and he was constantly moving from school to school before they had finally settled in Angel Grove. Tommy let out a sigh as he carefully placed Hayley's books into a cardboard box. At least she wasn't asking him to pack her underwear that would have been awkward, really awkward. A sudden crash in Hayley's room perked Tommy's ears followed by a scream of agony. Tommy ran into Hayley's room.

Hayley sat on her hardwood floor crying her eyes out, several pieces of glass laid all around her; all the pieces of glass had originated from a single framed picture. "Why?" sobbed Hayley, "Why? Why? Why?"

Tommy ran in and let out a breath of relief when he saw that she was ok, at least ok physically. Tears continued to run down her face as Tommy ran over to see if he could help. "Hayley, what's wrong?" Tommy looked down and got his answer in the form of a shattered portrait of Hayley standing next to a man, a smile of unimaginable joy was plastered all over his face. "Hayley..."

"Why did he leave me? We were so happy…" sobbed Hayley as Tommy knelt down to comfort her. "Why?"

"I don't know Hayley, I don't know." Said Tommy softly, "But I do know that he was stupid to let you go, you're better off without him."

"Please just….hold me." Cried Hayley, and he did.

Mesogog wandered throughout the island fortress owned by his human counterpart, Anton Mercer. Mercer, that fool was beginning to become a nuisance, Elsa had suggested killing him, but the results of his death were unknown and could have been catastrophic. Although it had taken him days to complete, Mesogog had finally managed to create a mutant dinosaur of some sort using Tommy's data on fusing dinosaur DNA with human DNA. The result was a relentless foot soldier with unbelievable strength, speed, and stamina.

'Although their intelligence leaves something to be desired….' Thought Mesogog as he walked over to his newest experiment, although it took him a few days of modifying his Invisaportal system, the mutant dinosaur had obtained a very valuable asset to his army. He was dying when he found him, the result of an experiment gone horribly wrong. However, with his robotic skills, Mesogog would give him a new life, a new purposed.

His entire body, from the neck down, was covered by gray and black armor, his eyes were open, but they were empty and soulless. His face was eventually covered by a helmet matching the rest of his dark armor.

"Rise my servant…" hissed Mesogog, almost instinctively the cyborg rose. "What is your name…"

"Smitty…" replied the Cyborg.

"No your name is Zeltrax…" snarled Mesogog. "Your life was taken from you, you are neither human nor machine, now what is your name?"

"Zeltrax." Answered Zeltrax his hands balling up into a tight fist, he knew who was to blame for all this. Tommy Oliver.

"What is your purpose?" asked Mesogog.

"Revenge." Stated Zeltrax.

"Excellent………

A/N: First and foremost, I want to apologize for taking so long to update, but I was struck with a really bad fever so yeah. Really enjoyed writing this chapter, but I had a lot of writing blocks. It's just so boring writing non-fight scenes, lol. Some stuff has been revealed, how Elsa came into existence since I felt that it was unexplained in the show, the creation of the tyranodrones, the creation of the first 3 ranger suits (the rampage suits for those of you who haven't figured it out yet, and the yet-to-be-named Thundermax Laser. Thanks for reading and please review it's nice to know that someone is reading my story.