"Crush" by Zen'Aku Lati

Disclaimer: If I owned the Power Ranger multi-verse, I'd be stoned for all the wicked things I'm doing. Seeing as how I'm still alive to post another installment, I don't own…

Author's Note: This is from Tommy's point of view during Zeo. Enjoy, and feedback, as always, is very welcome…

Part IV

Sometimes I wonder what the rest of the team really thinks of me. The pretty-boy jock with not a brain cell among the pretty tresses…but I'm still leader. I'm a damn good leader…

I had the skills in what counted. I could fight, I could lead, I had good judgment…

It didn't take a genius…

I knew what happened to geniuses. They get looked down on, preyed upon…stuck in a corner—like Billy…

Obscured by shadow…collecting dust as grey as the clothes he had come to wear…

No. I'm not going out like that…Not me…