A/N: Here it is, chapter four. Sorry once again that it took so long. Since there is no script that I can find on the internet I have to watch the movie and sometimes pause and rewind to get the scenes right and then their is adding Hunter and Neve in an original way. It's a lot of work but soon it will get easier, once I get in the habit and can write faster. I hope you all enjoy this chapter, also I have graphics ready to go up so check out my profile for the new story banner and graphics of the Gold and Purple Ninjetti Rangers.
Some people are asking how Neve and Hunter got to the past. And thought I don't know if it will be explained in the story yet, here is the short version and the only version I can come up with right now.
For some ungodly reason their was temporal matter - I don't know if that is what you would call it or not - in the area they walked in the first chapter and the morpher in Neve's purse, the power disk and her spirit powers reacted to it unknowingly pushing them back to a similar time and place. Hence, 1995 Angel Grove.
R&R!
Purple with Shock.
Chapter 4: The Great Power of Phaedos.
After what seemed like seconds, but was really more like four minutes the Rangers landed on a rocky beach like area under a clear, blue sky. Waves crashed up against the side of the rock formation and onto the beach as the Rangers looked around.
"My god, look at this place," Kim said as she stared at the place in aw.
"It's beautiful, a lot like home," Neveah agreed and the others nodded as well. As they moved along the rocks when Aisha who had wondered away from the group called out them to them.
"Guys over here! Quick!" The Rangers all turned and darted over to the kneeling yellow Ranger and Neve yelped slightly at seeing the dead bone carcase of some sort of animal, looked a lot like a dinosaur skeleton really. Hunter chuckled as she latched onto his arm and Kim smiled but also made a face t the thing. Neve still found it hard to believe she was here, that she was seeing first hand the day that got her father interested in paleontology.
"Wow," Kim said and Aisha nodded.
"Looks like somebody had a bad day," Aisha quipped and Neve smirked.
"Looks like it was harnessed, something someone rode?" Neve stated but it turned into more of a question.
"Someone rode this?" Adam asked looking at the girl in purple, green and pink. "What is it?"
"I think the question is," Billy began and Hunter realizing where this was going finished for the blue clad boy.
"What was it?" Billy sent Hunter a small smile in thanks and nodded, and Kim shrugged.
"Definitely not the welcoming committee that's for sure," Kim said.
"Come on you guys, we've got a job to do," Tommy said with a sigh and the others nodded and they moved on, walking along the rocky beach. They had been walking for around four minutes or so when they scaling bigger rocks to get to other areas of the beach.
Neve and Hunter where behind Kim and Tommy and looked back as the two stopped on another rock, Kim had a concerned look on her face. Looking at Hunter Neve smiled and pulled him farther away onto another rather large rock and she leaned into his side and looked at the waves that seemed to crash against the rock higher then before.
"I've always wondered what they were like when they were my age," Neve said as she looked back at her boyfriend. He raised an eyebrow and then turned to where Kim and Tommy stood talking and smiled back down at his girlfriend.
"They remind me of us, though I think technically it's the other way around," Hunter said, a slightly confused look on his face. Neve sighed.
"Hunter, what are we going to do?" Neve asked. Hunter blinked down at her.
"What do you mean, Beautiful?" he asked and she sighed and leaned her head on his chest before looking back up at him.
"What if we fail, what if we can't get back home?" Neve's voice cracked. "I can't even imagine not seeing our friends and family again. They've already lost so much, Tiernan is still so fresh and if we don't get home..." she trailed off and Hunter shook his head and kissed her lightly before smiling, leaning his forehead against hers.
"That's a lot of what if's Neve, and we could come up with a lot more but I know this," Hunter began. "We'll get home." Smiling Neve took a step away from Hunter and then they all turned as they heard Kim's scream and then as they did Neve caught something black out of the corner of her eye and turned screaming as well before ducking and bird like creatures flying over head.
They stood back up and the two couples looked at each other and almost in unison they flipped off the rocks onto flat land, an area that was not as rocky with the others. Just as the landed the birds flew back over where they had once stood. They all began dodging and ducking as the bird creatures began flying lower over them, and
"Whoa!" The rangers dove out of the way again.
"They're everywhere!" Hunter exclaimed as he pulled Neve out of the way of one sweeping in from behind her. She sighed as she was pulled into Hunter's chest and then the two ducked down out of another swoop attack.
"Take cover!" Tommy instructed and they all threw themselves out of the way. A moment latter the birds landed and they began to fight. Kim and Tommy backed into a large rock before they both kicked out hitting the bird in the chest, using the rock to keep balance.
Neve back flipped away from the one attacking her and Hunter as Hunter grabbed it and swung it around twice and let it go. It was dizzy and Neve then proceeded to take the advantage and did a tornado kick which made it fly back against a rock facing.
"You know the funny thing about morphing?" Billy asked as he stood in a stance after flipping over one of the bird creatures, causing it to smash into a rock facing. Rocky briefly looked in Billy's direction before kicking one in the head and staying on guard as one approached him.
"What that?" Rocky asked as he kicked one of the birds out of the way.
"You don't appreciate morphing until you can't do it anymore!" Billy said and was knocked over by a bird as was Rocky. Aisha jumped out of the way of one, falling onto the ground in between two rocks and the others got out of the way as well. Kim kicked on in the chest just one one approached her from behind and Neve turned seeing this.
"Kimberly, behind you!" she yelled, not aware that another was coming up behind her. Hunter's eyes widened.
"Neve, watch out!" he called and she turned to him and was about to turn around when not only was Kim picked up by the bird creature but so was Neve. Both girls began to struggle as they got higher and higher.
"Hang on Kimberly, Neveah!" Tommy called as he kicked one away but was knocked down by two more. Hunter tried running after them and used his speed to confuse and dispatch of the bird creatures.
"Hunter, help me!" Neve yelled as she kicked and grabbed at the birds legs.
"Let go of me big bird!" Kim cried out not far from her.
"They're too strong!" Aisha called as they were each over powered though Hunter put up a hell of a fight, having his Ninja abilities where as the others didn't have any but their fighting skills.
"Neve!" Hunter yelled. "Your gem power!" Neve's eyes widened as she gasped and then smirked. Why hadn't she thought of that? Oh, yeah she was dangling feet off the ground by a bird creatures, that's sure to put anyone brain to mush. Grabbing the bird legs she closed her eyes and concentrated. Suddenly with a yelp the bird screeched and was electrocuted with green lightning bolt like sparks running through him and he dropped her. She screamed but was able to catch herself on shaky legs.
"M..Kim!" Neve yelled, catching herself from making a mistake. They couldn't tell them who they were in the future, or she could never be born. At least not until she was sure she was conceived. Which is she was right was some time in the next five months or six months.
Just as it looked like the Rangers, the bird holding Kim – Neve was not sure her power would shoot that far without the boost of having her dino gem in working order and if she's not accidentally hit her younger mother on accident – a woman jumped over the side of a cliff and threw off her cloak. She was wearing a small green leather like bikini outfit - similar to something a amazon would wear they were sure - and green boots.
She knocked over a few of the tengas by hitting them with her staff before she split her staff in two. She then began to swing them around in circles at her sides and it made a high pitch whistling sound that drove the birds crazy and was not to pleasant to human ears either. The creatures took off and slowly the Rangers all came forward. Neve and Hunter already knew who the woman was, but decided to keep quiet. It wasn't like Dulcea knew who they were in this time period.
Rocky was the first to come forward and hold out his hand to be shaken.
"Thanks," he said but the woman spun around and whacked his hand with her staff, much tot he shock of them all.
"If you want to thank me, you'll go back to wherever it is you came from!" Dulcea demanded, glaring at them.
"We can't go back," Aisha said shaking her head.
"We we're told there was a great power here," Billy said.
"We can't leave until we find it," Hunter said, though from the glare he received from Dulcea he took it that this was not the right thing to say.
"Is it true?" Adam asked.
"Yes, the ground is littered with the bones of those who have tried for it and failed," Dulcea said.
"But where different, we won't fail," Tommy said as he walked forward. They were all shocked and worried when the woman reacted quickly and used her staff to sweep Tommy's legs out from under him, making his fall hard onto his back.
"Leave Phaedos, before it is too late," Dulcea warned as she leveled her staff at his throat.
"Looks," Aisha began, holding her hands up slightly to show she meant no harm. Kim stood on one side of her and Neve on the other. "We don't want any trouble. Our leader Zordon.." Dulcea's head snapped up and she asked interrupting the girl.
"Zordon? Did you just say Zordon?" she asked.
"You know Zordon?" Kim asked.
"How, who are you?" Neve asked, though she already knew who she was, she needed everyone else to think she did not. Dulcea stood straighter and back away from Tommy, letting him up.
"I am Dulcea, Master Warrior of the Planet Phaedos," she said. "What has happened to Zordon?"
"He was attacked by this cosmic being named Ivan Ooze," Neve replied before anyone else had time to and Dulcea's eyes hardened and she became even more serious.
"Ivan Ooze is free?" The Rangers all looked at each other.
"You've heard of him?" Hunter asked.
"Ivan Ooze is a monster," Dulcea began. "If we don't hurry, your planet is doomed. Follow me." She started walking and without much more motivation they followed Dulcea and walked to the plateau. It took all day to get their and by they time they were on the Plateau the sun was setting.
"There, beyond the jungle is the monolith." Dulcea stood at the edge of the plateau overlooking a jungle. "Inside awaits the power you are searching for. The Monolith is heavily guarded against intruders. No one has ever survived a attempt to reach it."
"Then, how can we?" Aisha asked.
"You where chosen by Zordon," Dulcea began and Hunter and Neve looked at each other. "I have faith in his wisdom."
"But we weren't chosen by him. We just wound up back in time," Hunter said and Dulcea looked at him and Neve.
"I can since the temporal energy still around you, it is fading but it is still there. I can also since the Ninjetti inside you, you are here for your quest, and I believe so much more after this," Dulcea explained and the Neve and Hunter nodded.
"Can you help us?" Tommy asked and Dulcea looked at him.
"We will call upon the sacred Ninjetti for help," Dulcea explained as she turned and walked back to the center of the Plateau. The Rangers looked at each other and began to walk back as well, and made a semi circle in front of where Dulcea stood and lit a fire.
"Buried deep within each of us, is an animal spirit waiting to be released. Close your eyes, and look deep inside." The Rangers all looked to one another and slowly they each closed their eyes and did as she asked as she blew dust into the fire. The fire roared to life, flames shooting high, as tall as them and their clothes changed into the Ninjetti suits in their individual colors.
Dulcea smiled and was a bit shocked to see the two future Rangers were not in a color she had seen in a long time. Neve was in a light purple, as she stood in between Kim and Billy and Hunter was in a brilliant gold as he stood in between Tommy and Adam.
They each opened their eyes and inspected their suits and the gold coins on the chest before they each took down their masks and Dulcea walked over to them.
"Aisha, you are the Bear. Fierce and unstoppable." Aisha smiled and Dulcea moved on to the person in red next to her.
"Rocky, powerful, smart. You are the mighty Ape," she told him and the moved on to Billy.
"Billy, you are the Wolf. Cunning and swift," she said smiling and Billy grinned as he looked down at the golden coin in the center of the suit. Moving on to the one in purple she grinned.
"Lithe and powerful Neveah, swift and courageous. You are the Dragonfly and animal both honored and feared in different parts of your world," Dulcea said and Neve smiled and touched the coin, she had not been in this form but once and she'd only been able to hold it for so long even in the dream like coma world she'd gained her animal spirit in.
Dulcea smiled as well as she moved on to Kimberly, and instantly, upon seeing the animal spirit which the pink clad girl possessed and sensing the Falcon and Crane inside Neve, protecting her she knew. Neveah was the future daughter of the White and Pink Ranger but she said nothing, knowing it could do more harm then good.
"Agile Kimberly, light as a feather. You are the Crane." Kim grinned and Dulcea moved on to the one in Black.
" Adam. . . Adam what's wrong?" Dulcea asked seeing his depressed look.
"I'm a frog." Dulcea looked down as she grinned and laughed softly.
"Yes, a frog. Like the one you kiss," she said and kissed his forehead. "Your the handsome prince."
Adam smiled and looked at the others, his face flushing slightly and Dulcea moved on to Hunter. Gold was yet another color she had not seen in the Ninjetti in some time, not as long as purple but almost as long. White was also a rare color, mostly she was used to seeing blue, black, pink, yellow and green, though there had not been new Ninjetti in centuries.
"Hunter, You are the snake, but not any snake the noble King Cobra, calculating and powerful," she said and then moved on to Tommy.
"And you Tommy are the Falcon. Winged Lord of the skies." She grinned once more and then moved back up the steps overlooking the jungle of Phaedos.
"To be in harmony with the sacred animal spirits is to have the force of the Ninjetti," she said and turned to look at them. "For those who are Ninjetti, anything is possible."
"But I am afraid you must do this on your own," she said, looking at each of them.
"You're not coming with us, Dulcea?" Aisha asked.
"If only I could. One step beyond this plateau and I would begin to age as rapidly as Zordon is now. The strength is inside your, trust it!" Dulcea smiled. " Your Animal spirits will be your guide." She then transformed into an small white owl as her last words floated to them almost like an echo.
"May your animal spirits watch over you, good luck Rangers." The she flew away, leaving the Rangers to their journey.
"What do we do now?" Kim asked.
"We should get some rest," Hunter said. Neve nodded.
"We have a long journey ahead of us and even if we wanted to we can't do anything tonight." Neve smiled slightly. "We have to trust that we'll be able to do this in time, besides I think we're far enough from earth that night here is probably still day there," she said and Billy nodded.
"She's right, geologically it is improbable that we are even scientifically close to earth any longer," Billy began. "We've probably not been gone long."
Everyone looked at Billy and he smiled sheepishly. "I mean we're probably not on the same time schedule as Earth anymore." Everyone nodded and after a minute they all found placed to call it a night.
xXx
Once the sun began to rise the next morning they were up and Tommy stood at the steps overlooking the monolith and jungle. He was tightening his gloves as Kim came to his side and then slowly the other Rangers followed. Neve on his other side and Hunter beside her, then Billy and Adam. On the other side of Kim was Aisha and Rocky.
"It's time," Tommy said, nodding his head and without further words they began their decent into the jungle. They walked along the flatter land towards the deeper jungle and it seemed like a hour before they reached it as the sun was high in he sky by then. Tommy and the others were walking through the jungle, even hours latter and going up a pretty steep incline.
"Man, this jungle goes on forever," Billy said, to exhausted from hours of walking to use bigger words.
"We've got to keep moving guys," Tommy said and Neve nodded.
"Tommy's right you guys, Zordon's time is running out," Neve replied and everyone nodded and kept going. They did not walk for very much longer when they came upon a area littered in skeletons of dinosaurs and other bones.
"Looks like some kind of graveyard," Billy said as they looked around them.
"Something tells me this isn't your everyday graveyard," Hunter said as he looked around and Neve agreed as she moved closer to the gold ninjetti.
"I agree, something about this doesn't feel right," Neve mentioned.
"I wounder what happened to them all?" Kim asked and Neve scuffed.
"I'd rather not find out," the purple clad girl replied and They moved passed a large dino skeleton into more that were around them.
"Welcome to Jurassic Park," Adam said and as Billy looked into the eye holes of a rather large triceratops skeleton Aisha answered.
"Very funny, Adam." It was then the tail of the skeleton Billy was looking at lifted and came towards him but he jumped to the side as he heard it and laded close to the head. The head then reared up and roared some, before he rolled away and to his feet.
Aisha stared in horror, frozen and Kim gasped as Neve's eyes widened.
"I knew there was a reason I hated science!" Neve hissed as she backed away some. Hunter groaned, and nodded, agreeing with his girlfriends words.
"Aisha get out of there!" Rocky cried as the skeleton went after Aisha. Aisha screamed as she tripped and kept screaming as it kept trying to take a bite out of her. Adam ran forward trying to help only to be bated away and Rocky used a bone to hit it but was bated away in a tree hard.
Neve gasped and used her gem power on it only for it to bounce back and hit her sending her to the ground sparking. She groaned as Hunter helped her up and thanked the fact her ninjetti gear seemed to absorb some of the impact or else she was afraid of what might have happened. Electrocution wasn't the way she wanted to kick the bucket, especially not by her own power.
"I'm coming Aisha!" Unfortunately, he was knocked aside and unconscious by the triceratops' tail.
"Rocky!" Kim yelled, seeing Rocky hit the ground as Tommy went to make sure Neve was alright and Billy helped Adam up. Kim's yell gave Aisha enough time to get away though it did have the unfortunate effect of attracting the skeleton's attention. To herself, and Kim ran and said, climbing through the ribs of another skeleton.
"Get away from me!" She screamed and everyone attention went to their Pink Ranger.
"Kimberly!" Neve yelled and clinched her fist, knowing her gem power would not help and her spirit power would probably have the same effect. Tommy didn't wait for much though as he leaped into action.
"Tommy!" Kim yelled, as she tried to keep her feet away from the dino skeletons mouth which had knocked a lot of the ribs away in it's attempt to get her.
"Hold on!" Tommy called and hit it with something but it only drew it's attention to him as he ran at a tree and flipped off it onto the dinosaurs back.
"Whoa!" he called as he held on against it's bucking.
"Tommy hold on!" Aisha called.
"What are we gonna do?" Hunter asked, trying to think of ways to help out his girlfriend younger past father.
"I don't know," Billy said.
"Hold on tight Tommy!" Rocky called and Tommy held on as it tried to buck him off. It was only a few seconds latter he saw a bone which was on the dinosaurs neck and he smirked. He hoped he was right about this though, he never had been the best at science before.
"Hey, I've got a bone to pick with you!" Tommy said as he pulled the bone out and the skeleton fell apart and Tommy went down with it falling into the pile of bones.
"Are you ok?" Kim asked as she ran to his side.
"Yeah, I'm fine," he replied.
"Looks like biology finally payed off for you, huh?" Billy asked and Tommy smiled and nodded. ""
"I don't know about you guys, but I think we should go," Neve said and Hunter nodded. Rocky looked around and nodded as well.
"She's right, let's get out of here before he decides to pull himself together or something," Rocky said and they all nodded and continued on to the Monolith, where the Great Power would reside.
xXx
It only took a little further before the Rangers reached the gigantic monolith.
"Hey guys check this out," Rocky said.
They each looked around, checking to make sure there were no dangers.
"What do you think?" Hunter asked, as he stood beside Tommy and Tommy looked at him and shook his head.
"Wait her," he replied and Hunter watched as Tommy went up to where four statues were embedded in the walls touched it before he turned to face the others and Kim and Neve screamed.
"Tommy!" they cried in unison and Tommy whirled around and moved back, narrowly avoiding being sliced in two by the now solid stature dog like creature with armor and two blades in hand. The creature kept coming as the others had already begun backing up and Tommy back flipped off the monolith steps to stand in front of his friends. He looked down at his Ninjetti suit and said, taking a stance as did the others as the other statues came to life.
"What now?" Kim asked and Tommy was the first to act.
"Ninjetti, the Falcon!"
"The Snake!"
"The Frog!"
"The Ape!"
"The Crane!"
"The Dragonfly!"
"The Wolf!"
"The Bear!" The Rangers called and Aisha gasped and ducked from getting her head cut off and rolled. They all split up to take on the four statues. Neve and Hunter worked together on one and Neve was thrown into the monolith stairs, letting out a small scream as her back hit the indent of the steps. Tommy came to her aid as Hunter flipped over the creature and he used his speed to confuse it and grab one of it's blade and using it against him.
It confused the rock creature even more and hurt it as well before Neve had stood back up, Tommy having helped her regain herself and used her spirit power and released the light pink energy from her hands which blew the creature back some before making it into little pebbles of rock as it blew up.
"You alright beautiful?" Hunter asked as he reached her side and Tommy ran to help Kim who was trying to get a boulder moving.
"Hang on, Kim!" Tommy yelled as he swung over on a vine and they pushed the boulder onto the statue, crushing it under it. Back in front of the monolith Neve nodded.
"I'm going to be sore, but otherwise I'm fine," she said and it was true. She was positve that her back would be very sore and possibly bruised if it was not already but once they got the power Ranger healing would be even faster. It had been proven before that former rangers never fully lost the power, which meant they didn't age as fast as normal people, hence why her parents looked barely into their twenties when they were in their thirties and why they healed faster, but not as fast as when they had active powers.
"Right," Hunter said. It was not a minute latter that Billy, Kim, Adam, Aisha, and Rocky came together with the purple and gold ninjetti and were fighting the last statue together when Tommy said from where he was standing in on a branch.
"Ninjetti Corkscrew kick!" He twirled around as he came down from the limb and kicked the statue into the monolith with force, landing on his feet once it was over.
"Eight ball, quarter pocket," he quipped as it shattered into pieces exactly where it had come to life from. With the last statue defeated they took off their masks, and the ground started to shake. They looked at each other.
"What now?" Aisha asked.
"Whoa, what's happening?" Kim asked and Neve looked around
"Look!" she said and pointed as the monolith opened and a pyramid with a embedded crest of their Ninjetti animals- the Falcon, frog, Dragonfly, Crane, Ape, Beat and Wold - was in the center of the pyramid.
"The great power," Hunter said as he looked at it and Neve smiled.
"The sacred animals," she replied just as the crest glowed and their animals came to them, with the crys of their animal, flying around them.
"New Zords!" Adam said and then the animals went into them and gave them their powers back. Though each noticed that the power coins in their belts were different, a new power coin, and new powers. Hunter's suit was just like the Green Dragon Ranger they noticed but the shield was silver and had the snake crest in the center and was of course gold. Anything that had once been gold was now silver and the helmet was slightly different. The main difference was that their was fang like teeth coming down lower over the visor on either side which really made it look snake like.
Neve's was just like Kimberly, only in light purple like her ninjetti suit. The visor was the only difference and it was only slightly. It was slightly large, more oval shaped then Kim's but also still had a bit of the heart like shape of Kim's to it.
"Alright!" Adam cheered.
"We did it!" Aisha cried.
"Our communicators are back online!" Billy said, letting everyone know and Hunter and Neve turned to each other and smiled. It felt good to be back in uniform.
"This is awesome!"
"Right, we've done it, but we should get back," Hunter said and everyone nodded.
"Hunter's right guys," Tommy began. "Let's go deal with Ivan!" They put their hands on their belts and together they teleported back to Earth.
"Good luck Power Rangers," Dulcea said from a tree were she was perched in her owl form. Feeling the effects even in her owl form the warrior of Phaedos cried out and flew back to the plateau where she'd take refuge and reclaim her health.