Hey, guys. I'm really sorry for a long update. But not to worry, I'm still going to continue this.
A Storm of Red
Jason Lee Scott had just teleported back to Lord Zedd's palace. He had no look, no expression. He walked up to Lord Zedd, who was standing on the balcony watching the Rangers still in the city, and nodded once. "I have given them your message."
Lord Zedd is pleased. "Oh, yes. Now they will know what is come."
"Yes," Jason said. He walked away into another room.
Rita came into the room. "Zedd!" she screamed. She stomped her way to him. "When are you going to eleminate that Red Ranger!"
"Don't speak to loud, Rita my dear," Zedd said, easing her anger. "I am still thinking if I should spared him or destroy once he destory all the Rangers. You know, it's been hard think since your brother came." Rita rolled her eyes. Lord Zedd looked away from her and stared into space. "We'll see how he does in his next battle. That's when I'll decide."
The Rangers are celebrating their new ninja powers in the Command Center.
"I am thankful that you Rangers didn't let me down," Zordon said.
"I'm just glad that you guys were alright," Alpha said.
"Oh, Alpha," Trini said, embracing Alpha.
"Rangers, Ninjor is giving you guys a message," Zordon said.
The Rangers and Kimberly and Tommy went to the viewing globe.
Ninjor is turned to his back, trying to talk to the Rangers. "Hello, is anyone there?"
Trini giggled. "Over here Ninjor."
Ninjor turned around and face the Rangers. He begin to speak. "Congratulation on a job well done. And now that you've master most of your ninjor powers, we can join forces to protect the temple of power from the evil which inhabits the universe."
"You got it," Rocky grinned.
"Ninjor is now an alliance to us," Zordon spoke, "And when in need from him, he will appear to help fight the monsters of Lord Zedd and Rita."
"Zordon chose well," Ninjor said, "I could not have done better myself. And until we meet again..." He closed off.
"You know, you can't too many friends like that," Aisha commented.
"Yeah, we might've gain our ninja powers, but we still have to face Jason," Adam said.
Kimberly assured them, "Don't worry guys. We can break him. We did it once, we can do it again." Kim was referring the time when they defeated the Sword of Darkness.
"Yeah, but Kim," Aisha pointed out, "Didn't you said that Jason was willingly to go full on evil?"
"Yeah, but that's only because Lord Zedd told him to choose between him destroying me or him becoming evil," Kim said, "he chose to save me. That's the good him."
"But he was the one that captured Adam," Rocky said.
"And don't forget that he absorbed our powers too," Zack added.
"But he never finished the job," Trini pointed out, "He said that he would be back to take a piece of our power but he never did."
"Because he never got the chance because he was protecting me," Kimberly added.
"Okay, I think that's enought," Tommy said in an annoyed voice. "We just need to focus how we are going to get Jason back."
"How? We don't even know his weakness," Zack said.
Adam looks at Trini and spoke to her, "Trini, can I...can we talk?"
Trini looks at him and nodded. They went out of the control panels and Adam begins to speak. "Trini, what is going on with us lately?"
"What do you mean?" Trini asked.
"I mean the fact that you won't even look at me and the fact that we are barely speaking to each other," Adam said. "Is it because of the kiss?"
"I don't know," Trini replied, crossing her hands. "I don't know if I liked it or not. You kissing was a big surprise and I need time."
"I understand," Adam said, "Listen, if you think we should take a break, just tell me."
"No, that's not what I want," Trini said.
"Then what is it that you want," Adam said. Trini looked at him with a sincere look.
Back in Zedd's palace, Lord Zedd called on Jason to come. "Jason, the Dark Red Ranger. Come here."
Jason walked into the room, steadily. "What is it?"
"I need you to attack the town of Angel Grove," Lord Zedd commanded, "and when the Rangers come, I want you to steal their power, their energy. And when you do, their energy will be bestowed upon you." Jason tilt his head a little bit southwest and thought. "Can you do it?" Lord Zedd asked.
Jason looked up at Zedd with a bland expression. "I can." He then teleports away.
Suddenly, the Command Center, the alarms went off. The Rangers, Kimberly, and Tommy went to go view the viewing globe. Adam and Trini joined them. It showed Jason morphed as a darker version of the Red Thunder Ranger.
"Jason is destroying the city," Trini said.
"We have to stop him," Adam said.
"Rangers," Zordon begin. Adam, Trini, Zack, Aisha, Rocky, Kimberly, Billy, and Tommy all faced Zordon. "the ninja powers that you have gain rebuild your previous powers. You may now morph when you battle like before. And when you guys go into battle, you have to remember that Jason was once one of you so choose wisely. You either stop him or destroy him."
"We got it, Zordon," Billy said.
"Tommy and I will stay here, just in case you need us," Kimberly said.
The gang nodded. Billy then called, "It's Morphin Time!"
-Billy- "White Ranger Power!"
-Adam- "Green Ranger Power!"
-Zack- "Black Ranger Power!"
-Aisha- "Pink Ranger Power!"
-Rocky- "Blue Ranger Power!"
-Trini- "Yellow Ranger Power!"
The six Rangers were now teleported into the city. They are looking everywhere for Jaosn, but there was no sign of them. They were wondering if he was even out here because the city didn't seem to be in danger.
"This better not be a joke," Aisha said.
"The alarms wouldn't have gone off if there wasn't any destruction in the air," Billy said.
"We just have to keep our eyes open," Adam said.
Suddenly, the wind started to get blow hard.
"What's happening?" Rocky asked.
"I think there's a storm coming," Zack said.
Trini got knocked off of his feet. "What's happening?" She then got dragged away in the wind.
"Trini!" Adam screamed.
Suddenly, the wind stopped. It was steady like before. They were wondering where Trini went.
"Sorry for the surprise," Jason said. He appeared in front of them.
"Let her go," Adam commanded.
"Sorry, but I don't follow your rules," Jason said.
"What are you doing?" Zack asked.
"I am absorbing her power," Jason answered.
"Why are you doing this?" Aisha asked.
"Because, Lord Zedd wish it," Jason said. He struck his hands, creating electricity, and as he starts to absorb Trini's powers, Adam intervenes and Jason struck him instead. Trini looks up and sees Adam.
"Adam!" Trini exclaimed. Trini got out her blaster and struck Jason with a laser. Jason gets knocked out. Trini ran to Adam. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm f-" Adam said but was interrupted a sting of power.
Trini contacted Alpha and Zordon. "Zordon. Alpha. Teleport Adam to the Command Center right away." Adam is teleported away.
Jason gets up and with a wave, Billy, Aisha, Rocky, and Trini got blown away. Zack is left. "Now, let's get this over with," Jason said with an annoyed tone.
"Jase, don't do this," Zack said. "Remember me, I'm your best friend. We used to do almost everything together."
"I don't need to listen to your words," Jason said, "All I need is power. Strength will be enough to defeat you."
"No, you won't always need strength," Zack pointed out, "sometimes you need a brain too. It's not always who's stronger, but who's smarter. And I know you are smart enough to not let evil get in."
Jason charged at him with his doubled sword, but Zack blocks it with his power axe. "Stop talking," Jason said.
"Jase, if you really succumed the darkness, then I guess I'll just have to destroy you,"
"There's no need," Jason said, "I just need to take your powers and then you'll be a goner."
Jason kicks Zack away. "Jason, I know you. Come on, man. Be the guy that's my brother. Be good again."
Jason walks up to Zack. "Don't you get it. Everytime you want me to not give in, I'm doing the exact opposite."
"Why?"
"You don't need an answer," Jason called on the thunder and strikes Zack with his double sword. Zack is demorphed.
Back in the Command Center, Kimberly and Tommy are viewing the viewing globe. They see Zack getting beat.
"Tommy, we need to get down there," Kimberly said.
"I agree," Tommy said. He walks over to Alpha, "Alpha, teleport us."
"Alrighty," Alpha said and in a few seconds, they are teleported.
Jason walks up to Zack and grabs his shoulder. Zack looks up at him and nod his head. "Take it. I give up."
Jason snaps his fingers and Trini, Rocky, Billy, and Aisha are flying back with Kimberly and Tommy teleporting in.
"Oh, this is going to be fun," Jason said as the seven of them are lined up. Jason begins fighting them, knocking them one by one.
Rocky and Billy grabs Jason by the arms and Trini and Aisha came charging at him. Jason jerked his arms and grabs theirs and swing them over to Aisha and Trini. Zack is thrown over to them. Kimberly and Tommy were hand to hand fighting him. Kimberly gets pushed and Tommy knocked off his feet. Jason lightly stand on Tommy with one foot.
"Ironic isn't," Jason said, "Remember in your evil green ranger days, you teleported me to a cell and almost destroyed, just like this. But in this case, I will finish the job that you failed to succeed."
"Jase, don't do this," Tommy said.
"Sorry, couldn't quite hear you," Jason said.
Kimberly got up as Jason got out a sword. Jason held it out was rushing it to Tommy until...
"Stop!" Kimberly yelled. Jason looked at her. "Jason, let go of your sword."
"I will not," Jason said. "He needs to pay from what he did to me."
"But that was long ago," Kimberly pointed out, "Revenge is never the answer." Kimberly slowly walked up to Jason. "You should know that."
Aisha, Rocky, Billy, Zack, and Trini got up. They walked over to Kimberly.
"Jason, we know you," Trini said, "You are not this monster."
"That Jason died long ago," Jason said.
"But this one is still here," Aisha said, "And he had a choice to make, just like the old Jason."
"I don't care about my choice," Jason said, "All I want is power."
"Why is that important to you?" Rocky asked. "Have you really become a villian? You don't need power."
"No, you don't understand," Jason said, "You don't understand me at all. I'm not trying to succumb to darkness or have power. I need the power to become dark so I could succeed to what I'm going to do."
"And what is that, exactly," Billy asked.
"Something that we all want," Jason said. "And if you were my friends, you would support me, not go against."
"We are trying too, but you're making it very hard," Zack pointed out.
"I know you think that I'm trying to attack you or get rid of the Power Rangers, but I'm not, I'm doing the opposite and that is all that you need to know," Jason said before stepping off of Tommy.
"Jason, wait," Kimberly said. Jason vanished away.
Back at the Command Center, the Rangers are wondering while Trini is looking over Adam. Adam is laying on a seat that was away from the contol panels. Aisha and Kimberly walked over to her.
"Trini, he's going to be okay," Aisha said.
"I hope so," Trini said, her voice a little shaky, "because, after all this time, I've been ignoring him. I was trying to find out if I like him or not. And if we can move forward from our relationship and that's probably why he kissed me. He wanted to move forward."
"Hold on, you guys kissed?" Kimberly asked.
Trini's cheeks started to reddened. "Yes."
"Trini, no matter what happens, Adam is going to be okay," Aisha assured. "I've known him my entire life and I can definitely say that he's going to be okay."
Trini nodded and the three headed back to the guys.
"Jason said that he's doing the opposite of what we think he's doing," Billy said.
"Yeah, what does that suppose to mean?" Zack asked.
"I think it means that Jason is not trying to get rid of us, the Power Rangers, but insteas trying to get rid of something evil," Billy said.
"Lord Zedd?" Tommy asked.
"I think so," Billy said.
"That's not possible," Kimberly said, "I saw Jason step in that evil lizer thingy, his loyalty is Lord Zedd."
"But not always," Billy said, "Being evil, you can either be loyal or overthrown the master and what we've seen, he's been both."
"Maybe, it's not Lord Zedd that's he's being loyal to, maybe it's us," Rocky suggested.
"How?" Aisha asked.
"I guess we just have to ask Jason ourselves," Trini said.
In the palace, Jason is in a room, taking the power that he had absorbed from Adam into a glass vase. He then separate the power into three. The other two power were stored in their own glass bottles. Jason then pour a blue liquid into the glass vase, causing the it to bubble up. "I have to finish what I started," Jason said to himself.
What is Jason up to? Can the Rangers find out? Stay tuned.