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Chapter Thirty Eight-More Reunions and Something Else That I Can't Come Up With A Word For
Slowly, Trini walked over to the guy wiping the table. She recognized him as Trent Fernandez, former white ranger.
"Um...hello." Trini said hesitantly.
Trent looked up. There was a dead look in his eyes. Wow, Trini thougt to herself, who knew someone could be this close to their science teacher. Even if they were rangers together. But it's probably because of Kira too. I was really depressed when Kim died.
"Trent Fernandez, right?" Trent nodded. "My name is Trini, and I think you might be able to help me with something."
"What?"
"Saving Tom- Dr. O." Trini said. These guys wouldn't know him as Tommy. He was always Dr. O to them.
"You can't save him." Trent said. "He's gone. no one knows where to find him. And we don't have any powers to save him, even if we could find him."
"You're wrong about that." Trini stated. "You never lose the power of the Ninjetti. And that is all you need to save him."
"But you need more than me to do it." Trent pointed out.
"That's why I need some help convincing your friends." Trini said. "I don't think Ethan will be much help. But Conner is a different story."
"He hasn't been the same since Kira-" Trent stopped talking. Kira had been his friend. It was too painful to talk about her death.
"I know." Trini said softly. "But this is his chance to get some closure on that. Do you think they'll help?"
Trent nodded. As he walked over to the computer which Ethan was on, Trini thougth she saw a new shine in his eyes.
Trini walked back to where the guys were still standing by Hayley. The four of them watched as Trent easily convinced Ethan to help out. But next came the hard part. Convincing Conner.
It was actually very interesting to watch. First, Trent and Ethan had to get Conner's attention. Turning off the tv didn't do anything, Conner hadn't been paying attention. Then they tried to talk to him. But it looked like he couldn't hear them. Or maybe he was just really good at ignoring people shouting in his ears. After a few more attempts to get Conner to at least acknowledge their presence, Trent and Ethan came back over to the other four adults, looks of defeat on their faces.
"We don't know what else to do." Ethan said in despair. "Conner is dead to the world."
"do you have any ideas?" trent asked the four adults.
"Morph." Jason said softly.
"How?" Ethan asked. "It doesn't amtter if we still have the power, it's been dormant for over thirteen years. And that might just freak Conner out if we morph. You should have seen him right after...the thing...thirteen years ago. he was a train wreck. And then we still had to defeat Mesogog still. I think he was actually trying to get himself killed. we never knew that he cared so much about Kira."
"It doesn't matter." Trini said. "Once he sees you, he'll want to help. It'll be like the second chance he never got for kira."
"But how do we morph?" Trent pressed them.
"Embrace the spirit within." Billy said. "It is still there. All that you have to do now is just grasp it. Have confidence in yourself and you will succeed.
Trent and Ethan shrugged. 'Why not' seemed to be the general concensus here.
Standing slightly apart from each other, after Hayley had drawn the blinds shut and flipped to sign to closed, and morphed.
"Ninjetti!" Trent shouted. "The Fox!"
"The Owl!" Ethan shouted.
At these words, Conner had shifted slightly in his seat, but he was still dead to the world. With swift steps, the two were soon in front of Conner.
"Conner." ethan said. "Look at us."
Conner shook his head. He knew what they had done.
"Conner, look." Trent said. "Just look."
Slowly, Conner shifted his head, so he was facing his the two friends he had known since high school. Or, more importantly, since they became rangers for the first time. His face paled considerably when he saw the uniforms they were wearing. Then, there was a look of disgust on his face.
"Why are you wearing those things?" Conner spat out in even more disgust than the look on his face.
"Because," Ethan said, "We're gonna need them."
"For what? We aren't rangers anymore. And I don't want to be a ranger anyway. I won't do that ever again." Conner stated.
"Conner we need your help." Trent said.
"I don't care. I won't help."
"Yes you will." Ethan said. "Even if you don't want to. We're gonna make you at least come with us."
"You can't do that." Conner said, now looking rather worried.
"Oh yes we can. In case you haven't noticed, we're power rangers."
Ann turned around slowly. A smile spread across her face.
"How considerate of you." She said. "Now come on, we have to get back to our house."
"Wait." Ted said suddenly.
"What?" Ann asked.
"Who are you people? And how did you know who I was?" Ted asked.
"I think that can be explained easily." David said. He glanced at Ann. "Got your communicator?"
Ann held up her wrist in response.
"Good. I'll let you do the honors with Ted." David smirked at Ann, and turned to Kaylie. "Grab my arm." He instructed.
Ann rolled her eyes at her twin's back, and grabbed Ted's hand. He just looked confused. Ann pressed a button on her communicator, and in a beam of light, appeared back in their command center, a.k.a. their basement.
"Woah." Ted said. "How did you do that?"
"We, are power rangers." Ann stated.
"Cool." Was all Ted could say. He still hadn't let go of Ann's hand, and she wasn't complaining.
"We've gotta see how Trini, Billy, and Jason are doing with the guys and hayley." David said after a minute.
Reluctantly, Ann let go of Ted's hand and walked over to the computer. After pressing a few buttons, a view of a cafe came onto the screen.
"Sometimes you never cease to amaze me 'lil sis." David said.
"Only sometimes?" Ann asked, feigning disappointment. "and dont' call me your little sister."
"Well excuse me for speaking the truth." David muttered.
"What are we supposed to be looking at?" Kaylie asked. Even after a few hours of knowing them, she was used to the constant bickering that came with being around the twins. Ted just looked at them as if they were acting way out of the ordinary, which to him, they probably were.
"That." Ann said after pushing a few more buttons.
The view of the cafe had changed, so that they were looking at a corner of the cafe. There was a couch there, upong which sat a man the twins thought they recognized as Conner. Except much older and looking at the two figures in front of him with pure hatred written across his face. And speaking of the two figures in front of Conner, they were wearing ranger uniforms. The two people would have to be none other than Ethan and Trent.
"More rangers?" Ted asked.
"How old are you?" Ann asked randomly.
Ted looked at her strangely. "I don't know." He finally answered. "Why?"
"Remember the Dino Thunder Rangers by any chance?" Ann asked.
Ted shook his head no.
"I'm not surprised." Ann asked. "We were only two when they were around. And we only remember any of that cuz this was their command center and it just happens to be our basement."
"Not to mention that our dad was the black ranger." David added.
"The black ranger." Ted repeated softly. "I remember something about him. People talk on the street. Everyone there always liked the pwer rangers, cuz the bad guys always wrecked their homes, but the rangers stopped the bad guys. But the last time the bad guys were seen, the balck ranger and the yellow ranger weren't there. A lot of our homes were destroyed. People said that if the black ranger had been there, then all of that wouldn't have happened. They say he was the best power ranger there ever was."
"He was." Ann said softly, but with pride in her voice.
"What happened to him?" Ted asked curiously. "And that yellow ranger? They just sort of disappeared."
"That's why we brought you here." Ann explained. "We need your help to bring our dad back."
a/n-wow. i'm so proud of myself. these chapters just keep coming, don't they? But anyway, just because this is like the third time i've updated this weekend i'm probably not gonna be able to update again till at least wednesday. but i hope u liked it.