So I should have written this a long-ass time ago. Well, I started to, and then my laptop broke and I lost it, so now I'm re-writing it, on my new laptop! I asked, and several of you said you WOULD read an Adam/OC story if I wrote one, so thank you to BigBangVIP, MusicLovingPunkAnimeGirl, thunderyoshi, and Autumn CanterNot for the encouragement. I also would like to point out an Adam/OC story that I found called Beginner, so if someone would like to encourage GenkiPlus to update, and I encourage you all to read it, as it's pretty awesome so far. Okay, on to the story!
Jamie knew that Angel Grove was not always as active as it was now. Once the Power Rangers showed up, it was kind of impossible to call the small city 'quiet.' But still, the girl really didn't mind all that much; the city could use a little exciting action, even if a building got destroyed every once and a while.
Now, some of you may be asking, "is Jamie one of the Power Rangers?" and the answer is no, she isn't. At least, not yet. Did Jamie know who the Power Rangers are? No, she doesn't, although she was friends with them, even if she didn't know it.
And so our story starts, towards the middle of Sophomore year. It was her sixteenth birthday, and as a gift, Jamie had been given a silver coin with a giant shark on it from her mother, along with a necklace. Her little brother, a Freshman, had given her a surprisingly cute outfit, a silvery-gray shirt and some cute shorts, which she wore to school that day.
The coin, apparently, had a story behind it. Centuries ago, a women who had possessed the coin, along with six others with similar coins, used the coin to help save the world. The woman gave the coin to her first-born daughter on her sixteenth birthday, which started the tradition. With a shrug, Jamie had slipped the coin onto a keychain, and attached it to her keys
At school that day, everything seemed be going pretty normally. A couple people walked up to her to say happy birthday as she walked to her locker, opening the metal door once she reached it. She was just taking a textbook out of her backpack and stuffing it into her locker when something rammed into her.
"Happy Birthday, Jamie!" it was Kimberly, Jamie's best friend. As usual, the brunette was wearing mostly pink, which really didn't surprise Jamie. Although, the blonde really couldn't judge; she tended to wear mostly silver.
"Hey, Kim, love you too," Jamie laughed, returning the hug that Kimberly had ambushed her with. Finally pulling back, Kimberly smiled, and then reached over a plucked a long, curly hair off of Jamie's shoulder.
"You're finally sixteen!" Kimberly exclaimed, before a look of sentimentality came over. "My little baby is growing up!"
Jamie raised an eyebrow. "Kim, you're only three months older than me."
"And don't you forget it!"
Jamie laughed. And then she groaned when Kimberly dug a wrapped box out of her backpack. "Kim, I told you I didn't need any presents this year!"
"Like that's gonna stop me from getting my best friend a birthday gift!" Kimberly shoved the silver-wrapped gift into Jamie's hands. It was small, like a jewelry box. Glancing up at Kimberly, Jamie tore off the silver wrapping, and gasped at the contents of the box. Nestled in velvet, was an ankle bracelet, which perfectly matched the necklace her mother had given her.
"Kim, it's beautiful. Thank you," Jamie threw her arms around her best friend in a hug. "It perfectly matches the necklace my mom gave me, did you two plan this?" Jamie crouched down to put on the ankle bracelet.
"Yeah, we did. I even helped your brother pick out that outfit. It's just as cute on you as I thought it would be," Kimberly grinned, proud of herself.
"I thought this was too cute for Aiden to have picked out himself," Jamie mussed, before smiling at Kimberly. "Seriously, Kim, thank you. You really didn't have to."
Kimberly slung an arm around Jamie's shoulders. "I wanted to. Happy Birthday, Jay." Jamie smiled.
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"I sense that the Megaladon Power Coin is back!" Lord Zedd breathed in deeply, reveling that the lost Power Coin was found. "Goldar!"
A golden lion with wings came forward, eager to please his master. "Yes, your lordliness?"
"Ugh, Go down there and find the Silver Power Coin," Zedd instructed. Waving his Z-staff, he managed to zero-in on the coin's location. All it showed was a silvery-gray backpack. "Stupid thing," he grumbled. Waving his staff again, Lord Zedd was able to zoom out, picturing the owner of the bag.
It was a girl, with blonde curly hair down to her mid-back, and brown eyes, a shade of brown that reminded most people of sunlight streaming through a whiskey bottle. She had on a pair of blue-jean shorts, and a silvery-gray shirt.
"If you can't bring me the coin, then bring me that girl. If there was one thing that Rita Repulsa ever did right, it was create an evil Ranger, although her spell was obviously too weak," Lord Zedd laughed menacingly, happy with his new plan.
"Right away, Lord Zedd!" with that, Goldar rounded up some putties and left for Earth.
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The rest of the day went by pretty normally, and included Kimberly somehow getting the entire cafeteria to sing Happy Birthday to her during lunch. By the end of it, Jamie's face was completely red. But anyways, the day was normal. Until her walk home.
Aiden had to stay behind to work on a group project, leaving Jamie to walk home alone. She knew Kimberly and some of her other friends would be at the Youth Center, but she had to Skype call her father. It wasn't something she necessarily enjoyed, as the man had randomly decided one day to divorce Jamie's mother, who had thought she was in the perfect marriage. Turns out the man had been cheating on her with a woman he met up with during his supposed work trips to New York. He was still with this woman, and, needless to say, neither Jamie or Aiden had ever forgiven their father for doing such a thing to their mother. Which was why, every time Jamie had to talk to her father, she made sure to have an excuse ready to get out of it as quickly as possible.
Seeing as it was a shorter route, the blonde tended to cut through the park to get home. As she was walking, however, creatures that she only recognized because of the news suddenly popped up all around her. They were gray and humanoid, with an X in the middle of their chests. Brown eyes widening, Jamie looked all around her, but no one was there to help her.
As the creatures came closer to her, Jamie slunk down into a defensive position. She didn't know how to fight, not really, but she was a soccer player, so at least the girl knew how to kick. But still, there was too many of the creatures for her, and Jamie soon found herself on the ground, having been tossed there by one of them.
As the gray creatures got closer to her, Jamie tried to back away from them, an action only made harder by the fact that she was on the ground.
"Stay away from me!" she demanded, although the creatures didn't listen. Closing her eyes, Jamie waited for one of them to grab her, but it never came.
"Get away from her!" the voice was feminine, and it only took a moment to realize that it was Kimberly. She, and five other teenagers that Jamie considered to be her friends, had all appeared in front of her, and were fighting off the gray creatures. Directly in front of Jamie was Kimberly, with her boyfriend Tommy nearby. Behind her was Billy, a nerdy boy that had only recently gotten into karate. Near Billy was Jason, a guy who loved karate more than life, it seemed, and Zack, a hip-hop dancer, was near Jason. Lastly was Trini, a beautiful Asian woman, and Kimberly's other best friend.
"What do the putties want with Jamie?!" Tommy had exclaimed, kicking a putty away from him, and then going to help Kimberly when four of them ganged up on her.
"Funny you should ask that, White Ranger!" suddenly another creature appeared, this one a golden lion with wings. "How about you hand over that coin, girly?"
Jamie's eyebrows furrowed. "Coin? What coin? I have a quarter, if that's you want!" she exclaimed, pushing a putty off of her.
"She doesn't have a Power Coin, Goldar!" Jason yelled. He moved in front of Jamie protectively, as if shielding her from the newly named Goldar.
Goldar laughed, "Yes she does! My Lord has sensed it, the Megaladon Coin has resurfaced!"
"The Megaladon coin?" Zack questioned, tipping his head to the side. They had defeated the last of the putties, but Goldar didn't seem too concerned with that fact.
"I remember reading about that coin in the Command Center archives," Billy mentioned. "It's passed down from mother to daughter, and has been for centuries," he explained.
"Wait," Jamie dug into her backpack, pulling out the silver coin her mother had gifted her with that morning. It did indeed have a Megaladon on it, a species of shark that had thankfully gone instinct thousands of years ago. "Is this what he's looking for?"
"Hand it over, girly!" Goldar demanded.
"You're not getting your hands on that coin!" Tommy stood next to Jason, protecting the girl from the winged lion in front of her. "Kim, get her to the Command Center!"
"Right!"
Hurrying over to her best friend, Kimberly grabbed her arm.
"Kim, what the hell is going on?!" Jamie demanded, clutching the silver coin in her hand tightly.
"Just trust me, Jay," with nothing else said, Kimberly touched a button on the side of the bracelet around her wrist. Jamie had noticed it before, on Kimberly and the others, but had never questioned what it was. Suddenly, Jamie was no longer on the ground, instead she was swept up in a silver streak, next to Kimberly's pink one, and they landed a moment later in a room that Jamie could only assume was the set for a Star Trek movie.
"Where are we?" Jamie asked, looking around at all the panels in the room. "How did we get here, what the hell is going on?!"
"You have nothing to fear, Jamie," the sudden behind her made Jamie freeze. "Kimberly made the correct choice in bringing you here."
Slowly turning around, Jamie was met with a large tube, a head floating in the middle of it. Jamie's eyes widened.
"What…" she broke herself off, unsure of how to continue.
"I am Zordon of Eltar, and I assure you, I am only here to help."
Reaching behind her, Jamie grabbled around for Kimberly, only for her hand to smack onto something hard.
"Ay-ay-ay-ay-ay! Ouch!"
Jamie turned with a yelp, only to be met with a little robot. It had a golden domed head, arms and legs, and its body was golden, with a red lightening bolt in the center of his chest.
"You don't have to be scared of him, Jamie," Kimberly stepped up next to her, "That's Alpha. He helps Zordon run the Command Center.
"Will somebody please tell me what the hell is going on?!" Jamie demanded for the third time.
"Explaining it isn't the easiest thing in the world," Turning again, Jamie found Tommy, Jason, Zack, Trini, and Billy standing at the entrance to the Command Center.
"Please try, I'm so confused," Jamie begged.
Tommy and Jason looked at each other, and then Tommy stepped up.
"We're the Power Rangers. And the coin you have in your hand will allow you to become one, too."
"Me? A Power Ranger?" Jamie let out a laugh. "You've got to be joking."
"We're not," it was Billy who spoke this time. "The coin, where did you get it?"
Jamie furrowed her eyebrows and looked down at the coin in her hand. "My mom gave it to me this morning. She said it belonged to a woman a couple centuries ago who used it to save the world, and then gave it to her daughter on her sixteenth birthday. It's been passed from mother to daughter ever since. Why? If my mother knew what this coin would do, why would she give it to me?"
"I have a feeling that she didn't even know what it was, probably thought it was just an old family heirloom," Billy mussed. "I read about it in the archives, the woman who owned it was one of the original Power Rangers who had locked Rita in her dumpster on the moon."
"Rita?" Jamie asked weakly. This was all becoming too much for her.
"That is correct, Billy. Because the Silver coin was one that chose the human, when it chose the person who would wield it, it also chose a very strong blood-line, and insured that only people of that line would be able to use the coin. Jamie, you are the only one that the coin will accept, and allow to morph," Zordon said, bringing everyone's attention to him.
"Whoa, whoa, wait. I am not apart of some super-strong blood-line. My grandmother was a housewife, and my mother is a kindergarten teacher. I'm a soccer player, for god's sake, I don't even know how to fight!" Jamie protested.
"We can teach you!" Tommy replied.
Jamie sighed, and buried her head in her hands. "Look, I'm not a Power Ranger. Can I please go home, now? I'm supposed to be Skyping my dad right now, and as much as I hate that activity, he'll throw a fit if I don't talk to him today." She set her coin on top of the control panels.
"Jamie," Kimberly placed a hand on the blonde's shoulder. "You won't be alone, you know. We'll help you."
Jamie looked at her friend, and then back up at Zordon. "Can I please go home?"
"Of course. You can think about it for a few days, but please don't take too long, Jamie, the world may not wait that long." Without another word, a silver light enveloped Jamie, swiftly taking her away from the Command Center.
"Well, now what do we do?" Trini asked, looking up at her mentor.
"We give her time to process what has happened, and what is going on," Zordon said, looking down on his Rangers.
"Yeah, remember, we didn't really believe it at first, either," Zack said, reminding his team of their first time to the Command Center over a year ago.
Billy picked up the silver coin, running his thumb over the carving of the ancient shark. "We should give her a few days, and return her coin to her. If she's truly the only one who can use it, then she's probably the only one who can keep it safe."
The others all nodded in agreement.
Meanwhile, Jamie landed pretty close to her house, hidden by a few trees so no one would see her suddenly appear. It was still light out, but Jamie assumed it wouldn't stay that way for much longer. Shaking her head, Jamie walked into her house. The only one home was her mother.
"Jamie? Is that you, honey?"
"Yeah, mom, it's me. I'm gonna go Skype dad, and then do my homework," Jamie replied as she went up the stairs to her room.
Jamie's mother was silent for a moment; she didn't like that her kids kept in contact with their father any more than they did, but he would throw a fit if they didn't, and had threatened a couple times to take her to court for sole custody if she didn't have them contact him. So, even though both Jamie and Aiden would rather stay with their mother, they didn't want to make her go to court for that asshole. Once they turned eighteen, they never had to speak to him again.
"Okay, sweetie! Dinner should be done by the time Aiden is home," she eventually called, and Jamie frowned, before continuing up the steps.
After an agonizingly long call to her father (he tried to get her to come visit him in New York, but Jamie was able to claim school work as a way to get out of it. For now.), she finally got to work on her homework. She was only halfway done by the time she got called down to dinner.
The next morning, Jamie faltered only a few feet from her locker. Kimberly and Trini were standing by it, looking for her. She contemplated just turning around and leaving, but then Trini spotted her.
"Jamie!" The two girls bee-lined towards her, giving Jamie no time to run.
"Hi, guys," the blonde murmured. She raised a hand to grip at her backpack strap, nervously wishing that Aiden were there. They probably wouldn't talk about Ranger stuff with her brother around.
"Are you okay? After yesterday, I mean," Kimberly asked. The brunette looked worried for her friend, although in this situation, who wouldn't?
"I- I'm fine," Jamie said. Her eyes shifted between the two, and then went to the ground. She moved past them towards her locker, hoping to make a quick escape.
"We're glad," Kimberly said. She shared a look with Trini. "Look, we're sorry about yesterday, but what Zordon said is true. The silver coin chose you, and if even Lord Zedd is after it, then it must be powerful. You're the only one who can harness that power."
"Because that totally makes it sound less daunting." Jamie opened her locker and started to switch out the textbooks and folders she would need. "Look, I get that you guys save the world on a daily basis, but I can't do that. I'm a soccer player, for God's sakes, it's not like I would be much good in a fight."
"We can train you!" Kimberly exclaimed.
"Jason and Tommy can train you," Trini fixed, glancing over at the brunette. "please, Jamie, just think about it." Picking up the blonde's hand, Trini pressed something hard and small into her palm. "But don't take too long." With that, Trini grabbed Kim's arm and led her away. Once they were gone, Jamie glanced down at her hand. It was the Power Coin that she'd left at the Command Center the day before. She sighed.
It was later that same day while Jamie was walking home when Goldar appeared again. But it wasn't putties that accompanied him this time.
"Hello again, little girl!" the lion monster exclaimed. He waved his arms around crazily as he talked. The monster next to him was weird looking, but still scary. It had a large body, and was reminiscent of a bear. This bear, however, could talk.
"Is this the one, Goldar?" his voice was deep and menacing.
"Yes!" Goldar growled. "Now take her!"
"Yes, sir!" the bear jumped forward, intent on grabbing Jamie and making off with her. He landed in front of her easily and made to grab her.
"Power bow!"
Suddenly, an arrow appeared, hitting the bear and knocking him away from Jamie. She fell back, surprised.
"Jamie!" The Pink Ranger was suddenly there, along with Rangers of five other colors; red, blue, black, yellow, and white. It was easy for Jamie to figure out who was who. The Pink Ranger, Kimberly, hurried to Jamie's side and helped her up.
"Thanks," Jamie said, looking from her friend's helmet-covered face back to the bear monster.
"Why do you want Jamie so badly?!" The White Ranger-Tommy- demanded.
Goldar laughed. "The Megaladon Power Coin is the only Power Coin to choose it's user, she's the only one who can wield it! So hand her over, or else!"
"Not gonna happen!" Tommy exclaimed. With a shout, he led the other five Rangers towards the bear monster and Goldar, only for putties to appear.
The Rangers fought them off easily, although a few tried to gang up on Jamie. With the coin in her possession once again, Jamie felt stronger, and she was easily able to defeat them, quickly figuring out to hit the X in the middle of their chests. With the putties gone, the Rangers went to fight the bear monster. Goldar had disappeared during the fight, trusting the bear monster to defeat the pesky rangers. And try as they might, the six Power Rangers were not able to defeat him.
"This isn't working," Tommy said, breathing heavily. "We need to get Jamie back to the Command Center, he can't get his hands on her." The other Rangers agreed. "Jamie, come on, we're going back to the Command Center. It may be the only place where you're safe."
"Yeah," Jamie agreed, albeit reluctantly.
In flashes of seven lights, the Rangers and Jamie teleported away. The bear monster grumbled angrily and went back to the moon base to report his failure.
At the Command Center, the six Rangers took off their helmets the moment that their feet touched the ground.
"Zordon, who was that?" Jason asked, holding the red helmet to his uniform under his arm.
"Bearclaw is a very formidable foe," the giant head said, "I believe that the only to defeat him will be with a seventh Power Ranger." At those words, all eyes turned to Jamie.
"Me?" she asked, surprised. "I'm not a Power Ranger."
"But you can be," Tommy said. When Jamie just looked at him wide-eyed, he glanced at his girlfriend. Kimberly turned to her best friend and de-morphed.
"Jamie, I know you're scared. We all were when we first found out. But it's okay. I promise you that the six of us will help you. You may make some mistakes, and that's totally okay! We all make them! You'll be an amazing Power Ranger." the brunette said, grabbing Jamie's hands in her own. She had demorphed as a sign of her friendship, to show her that anyone could be a Power Ranger, even little old Kimberly.
Taking a deep breath, Jamie looked up into her best friend's brown doe eyes. "Okay."
"Okay?"
"Okay. I'll join you."
Kimberly grinned, and embraced Jamie tightly. Just then, the alarms in the Command Center started to go off, the blaring noise catching Jamie off guard.
"Rangers, the Viewing Globe!" that was Alpha, who had remained silent the entire time.
The Rangers-now seven- turned. On the Viewing Globe, they could see Bearclaw. He was terrorizing the town, and, different from before, he was huge, now the size of a skyscraper.
"Ay-ay-ay-ay-ay! Bearclaw has grown!" Alpha exclaimed.
"Then let's get out there," Tommy said.
"Wait, how do I morph?!" Jamie exclaimed, suddenly terrified. She had dug the coin out of her backpack, and held it in the palm of her hand.
"Oh, right!" Billy came forward and handed her a device. It was small, about the size of her hand, and it had a slot where her coin would fit. "Put your coin in the slot, and just shout your dinosaur."
She put the coin into the slot, and then looked at Kimberly. "Together?"
Kimberly smiled. "Together. It's Morphin' Time! Pterodactyl!"
"Megaladon!"
In flashes of light, Kimberly and Jamie had transformed. Kimberly was long used to the power surge that came with morphing, but to Jamie it was an all knew experience. She suddenly felt like she could do anything, and god damn it, it felt good.
Her suit was silver, with a white stripe going across her chest and around her wrists. Three black diamonds were in the white stripes. The boots were the same.
"Looking good, J!" Zack said, shooting a grin to his friend.
"Alright, Back to Action!" Tommy said. With that said, the seven Rangers left the Command Center.
Upon arriving, they realized that yes, Bearclaw was indeed the size of a building, and they would need something a little bigger than their weapons.
"We need Dinozord power, now!" Tommy yelled. Within seconds, seven large machines showed up. There was a Tyrannosaur, a Tiger, a Pterodactyl, a Mastadon, a Triceratops, a Saber Tooth Tiger, and a Megaladon.
"Hey, you morphing must have unlocked the Megaladon zord!" Trini exclaimed.
"The what?"
"Zords!" Kimberly explained, "They help us fight the monsters when they grow to be huge like that," she gestured to Bearclaw's huge form.
"Oh. Because that's totally normal." Jamie deadpaned.
"Follow our lead, Jamie!" Tommy ordered. Doing as the White Ranger said, Jamie jumped into the Megaladon zord and joined it up with the others', joining one huge zord that they called the Megazord. Using the Megazord, the Rangers defeated Bearclaw, exploding him into millions of pieces. They went back to the Command Center soon after.
"Amazing as always, Rangers," Zordon praised. The six experienced Rangers all smiled at the praise; Zordon had never been negative to them, he'd always been praising and willing to help in any way that he could. "Jamie, for your first time, you did exemplary." Jamie blushed.
"Thank you, Zordon," Jamie said, "But I was just doing what the others were telling me to do."
"And that's just because it was your first fight," Tommy said. "But we'll train you, and pretty soon, you'll be following your instincts instead of our orders."
"Thanks," Jamie blushed.
"So, what do you think, Jamie?" Billy asked. "Are you ready to be a Power Ranger?"
"Honestly, probably not. But if this is what I can do to help keep Angel Grove safe, then I'm going to do it. Besides, you guys are my friends, and what kind of person would I be if I refused?" Jamie smiled.
The other Rangers all laughed, happy that Jamie chose to join them.
"Ay-ay-ay-ay-ay! Welcome to the team, Jamie!" Alpha exclaimed.
That just caused the Rangers to laugh more.
And there you have it! This is super late and kind of short, and I don't know how often updates are going to happen because college and dorm, but I'll do my best! Adam, Rocky, and Aisha come in the next chapter! Thanks for reading!