Howdy ma dudes and dudettes Haru here! For this chapter I'm combining elements of Legacy of Power, Back in Black and Ocean Alert hope you all enjoy the chapter and just so you know what comes next it is the White Thunder Saga.
Dino Thunder HQ
"Alright can we all agree this is seriously whack?" Ethan exclaimed as he paced around the room back and forth.
Kira, Conner, Carlos and Haley were all in a similar state of mind wondering where Tommy could have been.
"Dude whack is what I'm going to do to your head if you don't stop pacing!" Conner snapped rising from his chair and approaching the blue ranger.
Upon seeing this Carlos and Kira intervened between the two, "Guys enough!" the former black ranger yelled.
"Look I get it Tommy missed work today, has been MIA since yesterday and his Jeep isn't on the driveway, but fighting each other isn't going to fix anything" Haley explained as she typed information on the computer.
"Sorry man" Conner apologized shaking hands with Ethan
"Yeah I'm sorry too bro I'm just nervous" Ethan replied
"We all are, but we are a team remember we don't fight each other" Kira answered joining the two
Few seconds passed when suddenly, a loud ping was heard coming from the computer.
"What's that were you able to find him?" Kira asked curious
"Sort of I found the beacon from his jeep in the forest road around 20km from here" Haley explained as a map appeared on the screen pointing the location of Tommy's black Jeep.
"Alright lets head there" Conner commanded as he and Carlos took Ethan and Kira in their respective cars and headed towards the point on the map
AU: Forest Road
After driving for a couple minutes, the rangers and former ranger spotted the jeep nearby some trees covered in mud and what appeared to be ash.
The four got out of the cars and began to examine it and the terrain
"Well this definitely was no accident I can see scorching marks on the floor here and here" Ethan said as he saw the large black marks on the floor
"Guys!" Kira yelled calling her comrades over to her side
When the three men arrived, the yellow ranger pointed to a tree in front of her; said tree was similar to the other save for a distinct slash mark on it
"That looks like…" Ethan trailed off
"A sword" Conner finished the statement
"And we only know of one guy who uses a sword as a weapon and hates Dr. O with a passion" Kira said
The three teens looked at each other and sighed before saying "Zeltrax"
"Ethan Kira can either of you two drive the jeep back to the house?" Carlos asked
Ethan nodded at the question as he threw Ethan a set of keys
"How do you…" Conner tried asking
"Tommy gave me a spare in case. It may look like an ordinary Jeep to you but we may have a way of finding Tommy with it" Carlos explained as pulled his phone out to make a call
"Hey I need your help at Reefside… its Tommy… he's been taken" the former ranger said in his cell phone to the listener on the other side.
After hanging up, Carlos got back into his car and him and the three rangers rode back to Tommy's house
AU: Next Day Haley's Cyberspace
Conner, Kira and Ethan were sitting down on a table while Trent was cleaning a table behind them.
"Hey Ethan you heard about the new brain waves study?" Trent asked to his friend
Ethan, Conner and Kira were however simply sitting down with their heads down staring at their respective drinks
"Hey Conner you know I heard a rumor the other day that you and Kira were dating. Any comments on that?" Trent teased trying to get a reaction from the two but to no avail
The three teenagers simply looked full of dread
The doors to the café opened and out came the voice of Cassidy who yelled "Is that Nikki Valentina?!"
This seemed to snap the attention of everyone in the café including the dread filled red and blue ranger whose expressions changed from dread to shock
"Woah" Conner said
"Double woah" Trent said next to the red ranger
"Tripl- sorry cant need a paper bag" Ethan tried saying before losing his breath and taking a hold of a paper bag and proceeding to breathe on it
Kira sighed in disappointment at her male friends and continued drinking her smoothie giving the three a mean glare.
Nikki Valentina proceeded to strut down the café to the stools area were she tried placing her order, however her waiter seemed distracted
"Hello" the young actress said as she snapped her fingers in the waiter's face
Trent seeing this gave Ethan his broom and went over to aid his co-worker
"Hello erm" Trent said his voice cracking in between words. Clearing his throat he continued "Sorry about that. Hello Ms Valentina welcome to Haley's Cyberspace how can we help you today?"
Nikki chuckled at Trent and simply said "Can I have a peach juice and a blue raspberry frosty for my boyfriend?"
"Boyfriend?" Trent's co-worker said and shortly an echoed "aww" was heard all around the Cyberspace courtesy of all the men on the Cyberspace.
Conner and Ethan returned to their respective seats and began staring down once more to their drinks
"Back to being down now that the superstar has a boyfriend?" Kira asked laughing at the two
The male rangers looked at each other and fist bumped understanding each other's pain
Shortly afterwards the café seemed to normalize once more and then the doors opened once more revealing Carlos and a young man with short brown hair seemingly being in his late teens to early twenties walking alongside him
"Babe!" Nikki said on the bar rushing towards the man walking alongside Carlos hugging him upon reaching him
"Hey Nikki" the young man replied as he hugged the actress laughing with her
"I ordered your favorite blue raspberry frosty" Nikki laughed as she pulled the man towards the stool next to hers
"Haha that's so you to order a blue drink as your favorite" Carlos laughed at the pair.
The man rolled his eyes and playfully smacked the former black ranger in the arm
"Oh you must be Carlos, I'm Nikki Valentina pleasure to meet you" Nikki said as she introduced herself
Carlos smiled at the gesture and did so as well himself "I'm Carlos pleasure is all mine"
The three laughed for a couple minutes before Carlos spotted Conner, Ethan and Kira in their table and took Nikki and his friend with him.
"Hey guys" Carlos greeted the three teenagers
"Hey coach how are y-"Conner attempted to reply as he saw his coach standing next to Nikki Valentina and another man
Conner began tapping Ethan on the shoulder trying to desperately get his attention
"Bro cant you see I'm mourning because-" Ethan replied annoyed as he turned around and just like the red rangers found himself at a loss of words.
Kira rolled her eyes at the two.
"Hello I'm Kira nice to meet Ms Valentina" Kira introduced herself politely
"Pleasure to meet you Kira and call me Nikki please" Nikki replied happily
"The two blabbering fools are Conner and Ethan-" Kira tried explaining
"And Trent… my name is Trent I'm also their friend" Trent interrupted as he joined the group
"Pleasure to meet you all" Nikki said as she introduced herself
"So what brings you to Reefside Nikki?" Kira asked
"Well they are filming a new episode of Ocean Alert on the bay and we begin shooting tomorrow so today's my day to check the town out with my babe" Nikki explained as he giggled next to her boyfriend who was talking to Carlos
"Yeah they are setting the set up in the bay if you guys want to check it out" Carlos said as he commented on the conversation
"Yeah I can give you guys the tour of the show set and everything. It would be so much fun" Nikki said excitedly
The four teens excitedly agreed by nodding their heads
"Ethan sorry but we need you for a side project of ours involving tech" Carlos said as he pulled Ethan aside with him and the other man
"wait but the TV show set" Ethan complained as he was dragged away by the two men
"So what do you say shall we go?" Nikki said as she grabbed Kira's hand and dragged her with Conner following along
"Hey I'm gonna take off you can handle it from here right?" Trent said to his co-worker as he sneaked out with Conner
AU: Outside the Cybercafe
"I'll see you for dinner" the young man told Nikki as the two hugged as she, Conner, Trent, and Kira left in Nikki's limo to the bay
"Aww man why do I have to tag along for the side project?" Ethan wined
Carlos and the young man laughed at the blue ranger's comment and the man simply pressed a button on his wrist band.
"Alright you can come out now buddy" the young man said as he talked to his wrist
A blue light flashed in the alley next to the three men and from it emerged a blue 4 door jeep which drove itself until it was in front of the three
"Storm Blaster! How've you been buddy?" Carlos said excitedly greeting his old friend
"Woah did that jeep just drove itself?" Ethan asked in disbelief as he went alongside Carlos
"Sorry to pull you away from the TV show set Ethan but we needed to get Trent away and that seemed like the best idea" the young man said as he extended his arm to the blue ranger
"It's alright I understand umm sorry I don't think we ever got your name" Ethan said shaking the man's hand
"That's alright nice to meet a fellow blue ranger, my name is Justin Stewart Blue Turbo Ranger" Justin laughed as he introduced himself
Ethan's eyes widened at the identity of the young man
"Woah you were the kid on the video"
"Not much of a kid anymore seven years will do that to you" Justin laughed at the comment
"Justin here is on his fourth year at MIT I asked him to come so he can help us find Tommy" Carlos explained
"Double woah MIT? But wait aren't you like 18 or something?" Ethan asked curious
"Nineteen but close enough, I skipped a couple grades" Justin replied coyly
"So how can you help us find Tommy, Justin?" Carlos asked as Justin went over to Storm Blaster and opened its glove box
"I gave Tommy one of these as his communicators he has it in his watch as a band. I can use it and the the Jeep's beacon to check on energy signatures of when he was abducted and hopefully find where he was taken" Justin explained as he showed Carlos a device resembling the original mighty morphin communicators
"Alright then… What's the plan?" Ethan asked
"Lets hop on Storm Blaster and head over to your HQ in there I can work on getting the energy feed from the Jeep's beacon" Justin said as the two former rangers and Ethan did so and headed towards Tommy's house
AU: Ocean Alert Set
Nikki, Trent, Kira and Conner were walking around the bay set looking at the different cameras and technicians getting all their gear set for the upcoming shoot.
The latter three were in awe at the production and were excited to be able to walk around the set like they were doing.
"And this is the producer of the show Chuck" Nikki said as she introduced the three to her producer
"Nikki! Darling what are you doing here? The shoot is not until tomorrow cant keep my star away from the set can I?" Chuck replied as he greeted Nikki his attention directing to the three teenagers with his star
"These are my new friends Kira, Conner and Trent" Nikki introduced the three
"Oh hey kids pleasure to meet y'all Chuck's the name and Showbiz is the game" Chuck said as he shook all their hands
"Nice to meet you sir this all looks amazing" Kira commented as she saw the different equipment her attention directed at the sound board
Conner and Trent in the meantime was staring at all the different actresses in the set they were after all in swim suits and they were teenagers so you know
"Yeah we are gonna make some magic tomorrow. Say…" Chuck said as he trailed off looking at the three. "You kids wanna be extras in tomorrow's episode"
This widened the eyes of all three
"For real?" Trent asked in disbelief
"I never lie young man, unless it's about money to my ex-wife" Chuck replied as he laughed at his own joke
The three teens celebrated excitedly at the thought of being on a TV show episode
"Hey Boss" One of the crewman called out gaining Chuck's attention
"What is it Steve?" Chuck calls out
"We found this weird rock in the debris what do you want us to do with it?" the crewman said as he showed Chuck a rather odd looking rock
Kira and Conner looked at the weird shaped rock recognizing it as a Dino Egg
"This is not going to end well" both rangers said at the same time
AU: Dino Thunder HQ
"Alright its loading the feed from the Jeep's beacon it shouldn't take long to get the information" Justin said as he typed the information into the main computer
"The flux alternator is running accordingly" Ethan said as he typed in codes into his computer
"Levels look stable here" Haley commented as she examined her system
"Hey guys incoming call" Carlos said as he answered the call in the monitor
"Guys we are on the set of Ocean Alert and there's a dino egg here" Kira's voice was heard
"Woah for real?" Ethan asked as he continued typing on the computer
As Ethan replied, a load shock sound was heard from the communication.
AU: Ocean Alert Set
As the two rangers talked to their comrades, Elsa emerged from an invisiportal with a monster resembling a shark, and a group of
"Oh great this just got worse, Elsa's here" Kira finished as she and Conner got into fighting stances.
"Hey I don't know who you think you are miss but this property has been reserve for filming so take your 4th rate film company before we give you the boot" Chuck said as he tried approaching the new group that emerged in front of him
Elsa simply laughed and ordered the shark monster by waving her hand
The shark monster moved his arms up and blasted the film producer sending him flying backwards
"Chuck!" Nikki cried as she ran to help her producer up
"Ethan we need you here for backup" Conner whispered on his communicator as he Kira and Trent began fighting the
(If only we could morph or use our gem powers) Kira thought as she roundhouse kicked one of knocking it out of the crew's way
"Everyone get out of here!" Trent said as he helped by tackling one of the out of the cameraman's way
Nikki managed to help Chuck up and the two began walking away from them until Chuck saw the three fighting the
"Wait! This is perfect! Steve don't you dare run without recording this. This is gold baby" Chuck commanded dusting himself off
Chuck and the rest of the crew got in position and began recording the three teens fighting the monsters
"Give it up that egg is mine" Elsa said as she lunged at Kira with her sword who dodged out of the blade's way and punched her in the gut
"That's for ruining the set!" Kira said as she tried getting Elsa to follow her out of the set's area
"Trent make sure the crew is out of harm's way. Me and Kira will distract them" Conner said as he spin kicked the shark monster on its back gathering his attention
"Oh you'll pay for that punk nobody messes with Megalador" Megalador exclaimed as it began chasing Conner
"Conner! Wait" Trent exclaimed as he tried helping his friend out however he was soon occupied with 3 that were trying to attack more of the crewmen
Conner and Kira soon ran away to secluded section of the beach Elsa and Megalador following right behind the two
"That's it take this punks. Oleander flower!" Megalador yelled as it shot a lightning ray from his mouth heading the direction to Kira
Conner saw the ray moving quickly towards her and using his super speed he managed to push her out of the ray's way
"Kira watch out" the red ranger said as he pushed the yellow ranger out of the way getting hit by the ray and knocking him into the air into the water
"Oh no!" Kira yelled.
She turned around and unleashed a powerful Ptera scream disconcerting both Elsa and Megalador
Desperately, Kira ran towards the red ranger who was face down in the shallow waters by the sand
In the distance a loud engine could be heard revving towards them, when suddenly Ethan was seen riding on Storm Blaster shooting lasers towards Elsa and Megalador blasting the two away
"Hop in!" Ethan commanded as Kira helped Conner up to the Jeep grabbing Ethan's Thundermax Blaster and shooting the two with it
"Ugh! You'll pay for that rangers!" Elsa yelled as she opened an Invisiportal disappearing with Megalador into it
Ethan drove back to the bay area around the set where he hopped out of the Jeep looking for the egg. Kira and Conner still on the back seat of Storm Blaster
"Oh my stars you're the blue ranger!" Chuck yelled as he and the rest of crew including Nikki and Trent went to greet him
"Thank you for helping us bud I'm sure you gave those villains the good ole one two am I right?" the producer said as he patted the ranger's back
"Oh yes of course I sent those villains flying back" Ethan said deepening his voice not to give it away
"Hey those are my friends back there! Conner Kira you two okay?!" Trent noticed the two on the back of Storm Blaster and tried heading over to them only to be stopped by Ethan
"Not to worry kid, your friends were blasted by that monster back there I'm taking them to get some special kind of help they'll be back to 100% in no time" Ethan said as he tried to avoid Trent from getting more suspicions
"I will take this too rather than have it on the villains hands" the blue ranger said as he grabbed the Egg from the crewmen and got back on Storm Blaster's driver seat and drove back to the Dino Thunder HQ
AU: Dino HQ hours later
Haley, Ethan and Justin were back at work in the different computers trying to figure out Tommy's location
Meanwhile Conner was having a meltdown on the bathroom
"My face… My beautiful face" the red ranger sobbed as he saw his reflection on the mirror. His face now covered with many warts
"It appears to be a side effect of that shark monster from what I can check out if you destroy it, your face should return back to normal" Carlos said as he gave Conner more cold cream to cool his face
"I'm sorry you got hurt for pushing me out of the way" Kira said as he handed Conner a warm wet towel
"Nah it aint your fault Kira that shark monster is so gonna pay for this" Conner said as he cracked his knuckles
Shortly afterwards a ping was heard from Haley's computer
"Alright I can see the egg is a Stegozord egg it should finish hatching within a couple minutes"
*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP*
The HQ's alarm sounded and the monitor began showing Megalador attacking the city
"Good because we might need the zord as backup later" Ethan said as he stood up activating his morpher
"Lets fry that fish! Ready guys?!" Conner activated his as Kira did as well
"Dino Thunder Power Up Ha!" All three yelled as they morphed into their suits
"Take Storm Blaster he will get you guys there faster" Justin said as the jeep revved up
The three rangers got inside the Jeep and the three rushed to the battle field
"Ah rangers back for more pain?!" Megalador yells as it shoots the rangers with rays knocking back Ethan and Kira
"You are so gone Sharky" Conner screams as he charges the monster with his Tyranno Staff slashing it several times
"Aaah jeez someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning" Megalador exclaimed as he felt its wounds
"This is for my face Energy Sphere Full Power Fire!" Conner jumps into the air charging his energy sphere attack hitting Megalador blasting it into pieces
"Woah bro overkill much?" Ethan said as he patted the red ranger on the back
"Never mess with my face bro" Conner laughed
A cloud suddenly emerged and shower the remains of the monster making it grow
"Hahahaha!" Megalador laughed as it grew in size
"It's heading towards the bay!" Kira said
"The megazord wont be able to fight it in deep water" Ethan said as he saw Megalador headed towards the water
"Rangers I'm sending you the Stegozord I believe it can help you out in this predicament" Haley said via the communicator as shortly the three Biozords and the Stegozord appeared
"Alright lets ride some waves guys" Kira yelled as the rangers formed the Thundermax megazord
AN: Megazord fight happens the same as the show
AU: Dino Thunder HQ
"Alright my face is back!" Conner exclaimed as he saw his face on the mirror happy with it being back to the way it used to be
Kira and Ethan laughed at their comrade's joy
"Guys I think I did it !" Justin exclaimed as the monitor flashed blue and shortly afterwards a point was pinpointed on the map
"I believe these are the coordinates to Mesogog's base" Haley said as she mapped the coordinates
"How are we supposed to get to that Island? The raptor riders wont be able to take us there" Ethan commented
"Island? As in like water?" Conner asked
"No way" Ethan answered
"You still can't swim?" Kira asked
"Hey I'm a soccer player water is not really involved unless I drink it you know" Conner replied
"Don't worry I think I got you covered on that front" Justin said as clicked a button on his watch opening the cave's garage revealing the now completed Raptor Cycles
"Woah these are sick" Conner said excitedly as he Kira and Ethan headed over to check the bikes out
"They should be fully charged for the trip in two days until then rest well and may the power protect you guys" Justin finished the rangers admired their bikes
AU: Ocean Alert Set next day
"This is gonna be awesome guys" Trent said as he Kira, Conner and Ethan walked into the set
"Hey Guys!" Nikki called them out from her chair with Justin next to her and Carlos talking to him
"Hey Nikki!" Kira greeted
"Hey kids good to see you back in your feet bud my crew and myself owe ya big time for that one" Chuck said as he approached the group
"No worries Chuck just doing what everyone should have" Conner replied
"So when do we begin shooting?" Trent asked
"Oh yeah about that sorry guys but we actually just finished shooting" Chuck replied shocking the teens
"What? Did we got here late?" Ethan asked curious
"No nothing like that come check it out!" Chuck directed the group towards the screen as they saw the editing team putting the episode together showing Kira, Conner and Trent fighting the and then Ethan showing up in Storm Blaster
"Blue ranger! Were you able to defeat those evil doers?" Nikki asked dramatically
"Oh yes of course I sent those villains flying back"
The next scene showed the blue ranger taking Conner who was face down on Storm's blasters backseat and Kira next to him away with the camera then cutting back to Nikki who ended the episode saying
"Thank you Blue Ranger for responding to our Ocean Alert"
"Alright that was awesome" Ethan said as he was excited to be on the episode even if nobody knew it was him
"Dude that's so awesome we look amazing on screen" Trent commented feeling proud of himself seeing the screen before being pulled away by Chuck and the crewmen who were thanking him
"Aww man cant you like cut out the part were I'm face down in the jeep's seat? Conner said to which Kira and the others laughed
"Its alright Conner cant win them all champ" Carlos said as he patted the red ranger's back
"Yeah besides saving the world needs no recognition right?" Nikki said trying to comfort the red ranger
The rangers plus Carlos stared at the actress while Justin started slowly walking away from the group trying to sneak away
"Justin…?" Carlos said
"Oh yeah did I forgot to mention that she know?" Justin laughed
"Oh you're in so much trouble" Carlos said as he ran after Justin the latter now running away as well
"We're not in duty anymore" the former blue ranger said
The three teens and Nikki watched the scene as they laughed at the sight of the two former rangers bickering