Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Power Rangers, or the Disney Company, no money has been made off this story. It is nothing more than a way for me to show my appreciation for the series.
Passion Power and Dinosaurs
Chapter 15: A test of trust
Trent nervously walked the halls of the school; it had been three days since his teammates had discovered that his father was Mesogog, their sworn enemy. In those three days, Trent had been ostracized from his usual group of friends. 'Although ostracized would be putting it lightly.' Thought Trent as he miserably walked through the halls. It had been three days since the last monster attack, three days for him to worry about just what had happened to his father.
On Mesogog's Island Elsa was once again being tortured by the thing that she called master, a stream of mental energy was being shot right into Elsa's head. Screams could be heard throughout the entire fortress as Elsa endured the intense pain that she was experiencing. "Treacherous wench! How dare you betray me." Snarled Mesogog as he circled around his victim, almost like a predator waiting to devour its prey.
"Please master, I only did it to eliminate your only weakness." Begged Elsa, her hands were clutching her head in insane pain. "As long as Anton Mercer still lives, you are vulnerable."
The torture suddenly stopped as two of Mesogog's Tyranodrone slaves walked into the room. "Although the torture has stopped, this doesn't mean I have forgiven you for betraying me Elsa. However, you do make a good point. As long as that fool Mercer exists, then I have a weakness."
One of the Tyranodrones handed Mesogog a vial filled with a gooey yellow liquid. "Bottoms up." Snarled Mesogog before he drank the contents of the vial. The mutant dinosaur suddenly began to violently shake and emit glows of a sickly color of yellowish green, the color of dead grass. The energy began to form a humanoid shaped body before all the energy poured into the figure before it took the form of Anton Mercer.
Anton's eyes were hazy when they suddenly opened, where was he? The last thing he could remember was turning into Mesogog before the eyes of the Rangers. "Where am I?"
"At the end of your rope." Growled Mesogog before he punched Anton in the gut. The human crumbled to the ground in pain. "You are no longer my host, only my hostage." The Tyranodrones quickly ran over and began to drag the human out of the room. "It's time for the final stages of my plan to begin."
Mesogog turned to Elsa, who silently nodded in agreement, before she walked over to a massive computer console. "Since the beginning, I've taken DNA samples from practically every single monster I've created up until now; this time around I'll combine and splice the samples to create one final monster. This monster shall be the strongest monster I've created yet. The rangers have struggled against my monsters, but they have prevailed time and time again. This time I'd like to see how they fare against a monster possessing all of the traits of their previous opponents! "
After pressing a few buttons, turning on a few switches and turning a few dials on the computer's consoles. Strange gases began to fill a nearby chamber giving birth to a new and terrifying creature. It stood at a height of around 5'11, adorned with hard-armor-like red skin, and a massive spear like right arm, it certainly looked deadly. "Kill…" the monster whispered softly. " KILL!"
"Excellent…..." snarled Mesogog.
Hayley slowly rose from the toilet, her face was still staring straight at the pearly white toilet bowl, staring at the disgusting vomit, which swam in the toilet water. 'This is the third time I've vomited today…. I'd better go see a doctor about this.'
It was ten minutes past four when Trent got to the Cyber Café to start his shift. To him, every one of his friends began to treat him differently when they found out about the secret that he had , everyone except for Hayley that is. Hayley being the person that she was, acted like nothing was different. 'Even though everything is different now.' Thought a very depressed Trent as he put on his apron and got ready to work.
"Trent!" called out a voice from a far off distance.
Trent quickly turned to see who had called his name. It turned out to be none other then Maria, the assistant manager of the store. Although Maria was often suspicious of Trent's sudden disappearances and the fact that Hayley would never fire him for disappearing while on the job, she didn't seem to mind since she still got a bigger paycheck then him.
"Yeah? What is it Maria?" asked Trent as he quickly grabbed a tray.
"Hayley said that she'll be at the Doctor's today, so basically she'll be gone for an hour or so." Answered Maria.
Conner and Krista strolled through the park hand in hand, with all the craziness and danger in their lives, a moment like this was rare, and the two individuals savored it. "You know. I'm pretty sure that everything is going to work out fine for us." Krista blurted out; at the moment, she was wearing a jean skirt, and a crisp white blouse.
Conner raised an eyebrow. "Now what makes you say that?" he asked in a teasing tone of voice, teasing enough so that she wouldn't be offended by his insensitivity. He was currently wearing a red t-shirt and a pair of blue jeans.
"I know for a fact that you always pull through no matter how tough the battle is." Answered Krista, her hand was fingering the locket that he had given her six months ago. "Thanks to the bond between us, I can feel whether or not you're ok. It's very… reassuring. I can feel if you're struggling, if you're worried, if you're angry, and if I have to, I can lend you some Dino energy. In short whenever you fight, I fight with you."
Conner smiled before he affectionately ruffled Krista's head. "Thanks, it's nice to know that you're with me when I'm fighting."
White and sterile, those two words were sufficient enough to describe the room Hayley was waiting in. Dressed in a very loose and thin hospital gown, Hayley was anything but comfortable, finally after about ten minutes of waiting the doctor finally came in. Doctor MacInnis was a short pudgy doctor whose head was balder than an infant's behind, and was covered by several dark liver spots. 'A sign which indicates old age.' Thought Hayley observantly. "So Doctor MacInnis, can you please tell me what's wrong with me? Please tell me it isn't a big deal."
The old doctor smiled a smile, which he was used to giving to many of his patients. "Well it depends on what you feel is a big deal."
Hayley swallowed nervously, as the doctor gave her a reason for her recent case of vomiting.
After about three hours of work, Trent was finally able to call it a day and go home. 'Let's see I'm behind in my math class, the final is in about three days, so it's time to study like crazy. Let's not even get into the fact that my dad's body is taken over by some psycho mutant dinosaur.' Trent let out a breath of frustration. "When did life get this complicated?" he wondered aloud.
"When you started lying to us that's when." Trent quickly turned his head to see who had said that statement. It turned out to be none other then Kira Ford.
"What do you want?" Trent asked coldly as he hung his apron on a nearby hook.
"To talk." Replied Kira with an equal amount of venom and ice in her tone, at the moment she was wearing a pair of light blue jeans, which hugged her hips and outlined her body, a yellow shirt on top, which had gray sleeves. Her hair was tied up into two pigtails.
"To talk?" echoed Trent, "What? The rest of the gang decided that my time of exile is over and you've come bearing an olive branch?"
Kira rolled her eyes in frustration, before she took a seat on a nearby couch. "No, I came here on my own, and why are you so mad at us? We should be the ones mad at you! I mean for crying out loud. How could you not tell us that that freak is really your father? I thought we were a team"
"He isn't my father by choice!" Trent snapped getting a bit angry. "And what did you expect? For crying out loud, the guy raised me! Of course I'm going to be loyal to him."
"Yeah, but after all that he did. Releasing two crazed zords onto the city, attacking the Cyber Café, and nearly killing Hayley, turning Krista into a monster, the tyranodrone virus? And let's not forget his latest scheme, turning Tommy against the rest of us, which nearly resulted in all of us getting killed." Kira shot back angrily. "Trent, don't you have a sense of right and wrong?"
For what seemed to be an eternity there was silence, until a soft beeping sound broke it. "Go ahead, Ethan." Kira spoke into her bracelet.
"Kira, Conner, and I kinda need your help dealing with this new monster down by the warehouse district." Replied Ethan, from the sounds of his voice, the poor guy seemed to be struggling against the monster. "Even Doctor O's having trouble!"
"Got it I'm on my way." Kira said as she quickly got up off the couch, she turned to Trent. "You coming?"
Trent hesitated for a second before he gave her an answer. "Yeah I am."
"Ready?"
"Ready!"
"Dinothunder! Power up!"
"White Ranger Dino Power!"
The two teenagers quickly morphed into their individual ranger suits, Kira in her bright yellow suit, and Trent in his slick white and black suit. "C'mon they need our help."
Kira was right about her teammates needing their help, since they were getting whupped by Mesogog's newest monster, a massive armor like monster with a giant spear for a left arm. Not only was it powerful physically, but it also possessed incredible fighting skills. 'Almost as skilled as the Jade Gladiator.' Thought a very annoyed Ethan as he and Conner both summed their individual weapons into their hands. In a flash of blue light, Ethan's shield quickly materialized on his right arm. "Tricershield!"
"Tyranostaff!" shouted Conner before both he and his teammate charged back into battle. However, they were quickly repelled by the monster's energy blasts. "Crap."
"I don't think this is any ordinary monster." Grunted Ethan as he got back up. "He knows that most of our weapons are designed for close range combat, that's why he won't stop blasting us."
Tommy quickly tried to attack the monster from behind with his brachiostaff, but the science teacher was quickly knocked back by the monster's massive left arm. "Even if we do get close enough to attack, the monster's long left arm provides it with enough power and range to send us flying." Said Ethan.
The monster silently waited for it's next opponent, when it was suddenly knocked down by several yellow lasers shot out by Kira who rode into battle on her yellow Raptor cycle. Kira quickly stopped in front of her teammates and quickly pulling out her thundermax laser and firing several blasts at the monster. The shots were blocked by the monster's massive right arm. "That the best you got?" growled the monster, the monster was suddenly hit with several powerful high-speed slashes executed by a person who was moving at super speed. All that could be seen was a white silhouette, the silhouette quickly delivered a few more slashes before running over to the rangers and returning to movement at a more normal speed. The silhouette turned out to be none other then Trent.
"Not even close." Sneered Trent as he sheathed his White Drago Sword.
"What are you doing here?" snarled Ethan.
"I'm a ranger and when there's a dangerous monster out on the loose, I stop it. After all, it is written in the job description. I could care less about how angry you guys are at me right now, because right now there's a monster on the loose, and we need to put aside our emotions and stop it." Trent answered coldly.
"You stop me? I'm not like the other monsters you've faced in the past." Growled the monster angrily, as he began to glow a faint color of green.
"Let's see you're ugly, you smell bad, and you're going to be beaten by us, I really don't see a difference." Sneered Ethan as he quickly drew his thundermax laser and shot a few rounds at the monster. The monster quickly used its arm as a shield and deflected the multiple blasts back at Ethan; the team barely dodged the shots.
"How am I different?" asked the monster. "Well, for starters, I have one of these! Copyzord! Arise!"
"One of what?" echoed Conner. Conner's question was quickly answered when the waters behind the monster suddenly began to bubble and rise as a familiar zord emerged from the ocean. "Just like a dragon."
The zord was huge a bore a string similarity to the late Blizzard Force Megazord. "Guys?"
"Yes, Ethan?" replied Kira.
"Isn't that the Blizzard Force Megazord?"
"Yes."
"The same Blizzard Force Megazord that nearly destroyed the city a few months back?"
"Yup."
"Oh, ok. Doctor O, mind providing us with an explanation?"
"I'm guessing that Mesogog took a good look at the zord's specs and managed to create a copy of some sort, although I highly doubt that he managed to copy anything else other then the zord's appearance." Replied Tommy, "Guys, you know what time it is."
"But what about the monster?" cried Kira frantically.
"Leave him to me." Replied Trent. "If you wanna bring down this monster you've gotta strike him at high speeds, something only I'm capable of doing."
"Fine, but be careful." Replied Kira as the Dinozords charged into battle. The three quickly leaped into their individual zords and quickly formed the Thundersaurus Megazord.
The two megazords quickly began their battle, both exchanging powerful blows, but clearly, the Copyzord had the advantage, when a powerful sword slash connected with the upper Torso of the Thundersaurus megazord nearly knocked the Megazord off its feet. The zord quickly leap up and attempted to stab it's sword into the belly of the massive robot. The Thundersaurus Megazord quickly responded with a fireball, which was shot out from the hest area. The intense heat proved to be too much for the fake megazord, as it was quickly blown sky high thanks to the sheer force of the blast before it landed in the water.
"Now's our chance!" cried Kira as the Thundersaurus Megazord quickly activated its Drill. Golden sparks of energy began to emit from all around the drill as the rotation of the drill intensified. The megazord quickly leapt into the air and dove drill first into the Copyzord destroying it in an instant. "Checkmate."
Trent and Tommy on the other hand were both having massive trouble against the monster, since it seemed like it learned from its previous mistakes and would actually grow stronger from learning its opponent's battle tactics. Trent was unable to land even a blow this time around, the same went for Tommy whose powerful sword attacks were use less against the monster. "Dammit." Grunted Trent while placing his hand over a chest wound. "Guess I have no choice, time to take it up a notch. Drago Rush Level 2!"
Trent quickly charged at the monster at a much greater speed then before, a speed so great that before the monster could even blink Trent had already delivered a slash to five different parts of the monster's body. However, that was all Trent could do when the intense level of speed proved to be too much of a strain on his body, when he collapsed. The others arrived to finish their battle with the monster.
"Oh my god Trent!" shouted Ethan in shock.
"Give up yet?" asked the monster arrogantly while kicking Trent in the gut. "Tell you what. If you rejoin Lord Mesogog's side I'll spare you and one ranger of your choice."
"What did he just say?" gasped Tommy
"He wouldn't…" started Kira.
"You don't know that." Said Ethan.
If Trent's helmet wasn't in the way, then everyone would clearly be able to see the look of confusion that Trent was currently showing. 'What do I do? If I agree to his terms then two of us will survive, but…'
Kira's words suddenly came back to Trent.
I thought we were a team…
"Heh, betray my friends? Betray my teammates just to save my own hide!" snarled Trent angrily.
"What did he just say?" asked Conner.
"I'm a ranger, and we work as a team! If you're gonna kill somebody, you might as well start with me!" shouted Trent.
The monster seemed to smile for a second, before it energized its spear like arm and prepared for the killing blow. However, the blow was quickly delayed when the monster was blown back by a massive gust of wind courtesy of Tommy. "You may be able to deflect laser shots, but I highly doubt that you can do the same to my gust shots." Said Tommy.
The others quickly ran over to see if Trent was all right. "You ok?" asked Ethan.
"I'll survive." Grunted Trent. "C'mon, now's our chance to finish him"
"Right." Shouted the other rangers simultaneously as they quickly combined their individual weapons to form a massive cannon, which took the efforts of all five rangers in order for them to hold it. "Z-Rex Blaster: Super Mode! Fire!"
The blast that was shot out was huge to say the least but perhaps the most striking thing about it was that the blast was shaped like a flaming Tyrannosaurus, it didn't matter that the monster tried to block because the blast was so big that it had engulfed the monster vaporizing it in an instant. After such an exhausting battle, everyone was glad to finally be able to demorph.
"So we good?" asked Trent nervously, everybody turned to Conner.
"Yeah, we're good." Answered Conner. "Sorry for treating you the way we did."
"Good, cause I could really use a nap right now." Replied Trent as he cracked a small smile.
"I know what you mean dude. I know what you mean." Said Conner, the other rangers laughed as they walked back towards the city, back towards their home.
After a long day of battling monsters, Tommy was more then looking forward to just going home and sleeping. However, those plans went out the window, the minute he walked into his house because the instant he walked in, he could instantly feel something was wrong. Taking a look at the shoe rack he had built a few years ago, he could see that there was a pair of shoes, which didn't belong to him. A pair of women's shoes "Hayley?" Tommy called out. No response, instead he got an echo. 'One of the many disadvantages of living alone in such a big house. Maybe I should ask Hayley to move in.'
Tommy froze when he found himself thinking such a thought. Although it was true that Tommy loved Hayley, and that she loved him, him asking her to move in would be a major breakthrough in their relationship. But having Hayley close by would be a definite advantage, especially if Mesogog was to launch a surprise attack. Carefully and silently Tommy walked into his living only to find the entire place illuminated by dozens of candles, and in the middle of the room was Hayley wearing one of his dress shirts, she didn't seem to be wearing anything underneath. 'At least, I know it isn't an enemy.'
"Hey." Hayley anxiously said.
"Hey." Replied Tommy, "You had me worried there for a second, I thought someone or something had broken in." Hayley turned a way, it was then when Tommy saw the expression of worry on her face, an expression that Tommy rarely saw. Tommy had know Hayley for a long time, he had been with her through the good and through the bad, but he had never seen her worried. Something was not right. "Hayley, what's wrong?"
Hayley looked around almost as if she was trying to find the right words. Finally she decided to just get it over with. "I'm pregnant."
A/N: DUN DUN DUN! Hmmm, this chapter took longer then expected, oh well. I hope you guys enjoyed it. To be honest, I've actually been planning for this to happen for a while. Now on to the grand finale of this story, I won't tell you what'll happen yet but I can promise it'll be a good one.
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