Chapter 2 is here,
Thanks go to Pink-Ranger-Mode-92, PurpleLeopard and grits for their reviews on chapter 1, In this chapter - Alarms, Chimes, Intruders
2007:
Tommy and Trent had joined Hayley in the dino lab, or as Conner once called it 'The Dino Cave' as it was like something from another super hero show, lucky for Tommy his alter ego doesn't have to wear tights and a cape.
"I just don't understand it Hayley" Trent said as his eyebrow's arched skywards
Tommy chuckled; sometimes Hayley forgot that not everyone had graduated from MIT and often confused even the smartest of ranger
"Try English this time Hayley" Tommy joked, which earned him a playful smack across the head
"What I was saying is this Invisi-portal was situated on a tear in the space-time continuum, meaning that once Conner and the others activated super dino mode their spike in morphing energy caused the tear to become active pulling them in" Hayley explained as though this was something out of the ordinary, well ordinary for a civilian.
"So where are they then?" Trent questioned, worried about his friends whereabouts
Hayley frowned sadly, "Better question would be when, they could be years into the future and in Tokyo or decades into the past in old England. These things are really hard to predict",
Hayley began to type something on the keyboard but then the screen started to flicker and sparks began to fly out of it, Hayley pushed back "That's not good" she threw a look towards the guys in the room "I was just trying to access the morphing grid to see if they have morphed and when, It seem they have morphed multiple times" she said in a saddened tone
Trent hadn't caught on yet "And that's bad how?" Tommy looked at Trent; a teen his age wouldn't understand the morphing grid, "It's bad because it means they're somewhere in the past, in a situation which calls for morphing and the morphing grid in that time cannot support the power of more than six rangers" Tommy explained
"So then that was feedback from them morphing in the past, but if the morphing grid can't support that amount of morphing power what will happen?" questioned Trent, who was finally starting to wrap his head around one the finer points of the morphing grid,
"It means they will ultimately destroy themselves and the power rangers in that time" Hayley had moved back to the computer after assessing it was safe "Which means it'll cause a ripple effect the next time the tear is open" she could see that Tommy was thinking it over "So say they were blasted back to the time when TJ took over as the turbo rangers and they all morphed, that would cause the morphing grid to blow causing the turbo rangers to lose their powers and destroy the power rangers as well"
"And the ripple effect would mean they never became space rangers, and then Angel grove wouldn't have been protected, but what about me and Dr. O?" Trent asked another question, hoping that his friends were gonna be alright, "You wouldn't of became dino rangers, the would be no power rangers and Astronema would rule the planet"
1995:
"Aye yai yai yai yai" the small robot danced around the consoles pressing buttons in distress around the darkened command centre as alarms around him were sounding off in unison
A booming yet oddly calming voice rang out "Alpha, what seems to be the problem" the face of the legendary Zordon appeared in his tube allowing him to see what the commotion was about.
"A massive surge of unknown energy is overloading the power accelerator, I having trouble keeping the frequency modulator in sync with the power coins" the robot explained waving his hands at the sides of his head "If I don't get it under control we may lose all 6 power coins, Aye yai yai"
"Alpha, you must calm down, do we know where this energy is coming from?" Zordon inquired calmly,
"It appeared in Angel Grove Park, there was a massive spike in the power accelerator but as quickly as it came it vanished, it seems to be slowly building from an anomaly somewhere in the park" Alpha replied in his usual worried tone
"I think we should contact the rangers, as this may be life threatening" Zordon instructed looking down on his robotic friend, "Right away Zordon" Alpha did as Zordon told him, as was his function
The rangers responded to their usual calling card, their future friends looked around to find where the sound had originated from,
"Anyone else hear like a sort of chime sound" asked Conner looking around the group
"It's our communicators, usually meaning Zordon wants to see us" explained Kim, looking around she noticed that the park was empty except the nine teens "We read you Zordon, what's wrong?"
A robotic voice answered "Rangers its Alpha, there is an unknown energy growing inside the morphing grid, if it overloads it could destroy the power coins and strip you of your ranger powers" Billy's brow turned downwards
"Alpha do we know what kind of energy? Could Lord Zedd be up to something?" he asked into his own communicator
"I do not know, we are still unable to assess what frequency wave the power is carrying, to be safe I think you should come to the command centre and see for yourself" replied alpha's robotic voice "Stand by for teleportation"
Kim linked arms with Kira, knowing that the teen didn't carry a communicator and would be left behind, Rocky and Billy followed suit with Conner and Ethan "I'd say hold on to something but you can't" joked Rocky, "the first time's always a bit bumpy" Ethan threw Billy and look of fear, to which Billy just shook his head "We're ready Alpha"
A bright light has consumed them, it was warm but it didn't burn, Kira opened her eyes she was surrounded by yellow energy it tingled as she became aware of its presence, she noticed that the grass around her had dematerialised and it had been replaced by a solid marble floor in a dark shade of blue, she closed her eyes again feeling the energy flow away from her, it was peaceful here until
"Aye yai yai, Intruders in the command centre" it was the robotic voice from Kimberly's communicator, her eyes shot open and in front of her was a short robot with red armour and a golden helmet?, no that was his head it had flashing bars going from left to right "No-one is ment to be able to get into the command centre without a power coin" the robot was throwing his arms up in shock
"Oh dude, that is so sweet, how come Dr. O never let us get a robot" Ethan was amazed at the robot.
Conner looked behind him to Rocky and asked "This is Zordon?" obviously not impressed by the robots display, Kimberly pushed past the dino teens "No, that is Alpha 5, he's our friend, Alpha meet Conner, Kira and.." she smiled, and looked down at alpha who was being man handled by Ethan "Ethan stop that, Alpha, its ok these guys are rangers too" shooting Ethan a mean look
Tommy walked past the teens and joined Kimberly, "and that is Zordon" he said pointing towards the large cylindrical tube, and right on cue a face began to form in the mist in side the tube, Kira, Conner and Ethan all look astounded, right in front of them was a giant floating head, as strange as sounded it was therein plain view, Conner was shocked that the other rangers were acting as though it was normal.
"Welcome to the command centre, I'm sure you have a reasonable explanation for revealing your identities to these three teens" the head spoke in a calmed voice
"Are you guys as shocked as I am?" Conner spoke still not taking his eyes of the truly impressive Zordon
"The only thing that compares to this would be Cassidy's over inflated ego" Ethan joked dryly also in awe of Zordon
"Sir… Zordon…" Kira was quite intimidated by Zordon's presence, she knew he wouldn't hurt her as he was on the ranger's side, but the sight of him was quite daunting "Er…Its not their fault, we all ready knew about them being the….power rangers and the location of the…command centre"
"Aye yai yai, how is this possible Zordon!" Alpha flailed his arms above his head again "no-one except the power rangers are allowed to know where the command centre is situated"
"Alpha, I'm sure this young woman was about to explain" Zordon quietly silenced his robot "Please continue"
"That just it, we know the location because we are the power rangers" Kira replied with a smile "We'll show you", the other teens stood back from the teens, Kira, Connor and Ethan twisted their left wrist and their morphers had appeared on their wrist. Alpha walked up to Kira and she held out her wrist for the robot to inspect, Alpha turned and look upwards "I don't believe it Zordon, they are power rangers!" the robot said joyfully "but I don't understand how this is possible?"
"This is indeed good news but not what we summoned you to the command centre for, Rangers, Alpha has detected fluctuations within the morphing grid, if these become stronger they could destroy you and the Thunder zords" Zordon set the issue back to the original "behold the viewing globe". The teens walked over to the large frosted globe at the back of the room, and image of the park flickered into view
"Wait a minute, that's the part of the park where I meet Conner, Kira and Ethan" Tommy looked around at his fellow team mates and then to alpha, "is there something wrong with that part of the park?" he asked
"It appears that this is the focal point of the energy serge, I'm running some tests now to find out if I can find out what sort of frequency wave it is putting out" alpha explained pushing buttons on a panel
"Frequency wave? What's that" asked Conner, the robot turned around to face the red dino ranger "all the energy in the world gives out a frequency wave signature, the power coins give out a certain signature which is associated with good and Lord Zedd's monsters give off an exact negative of that frequency" Alpha explained to a dumbfounded Conner "uh oh….I don't think you understand" tilting his head sideways at Conner.
Ethan had been following, he understood "Dude its really simple Alpha said they can't tell if the energy is good or bad" he explained whilst walking towards Alpha, "Don't worry Alpha, it's just a red thing". "Hey!" Rocky and Conner had said in unison. Ethan felt a little smug, normally his red ranger jokes were just aimed at Conner but now he's also able to apply them to a ranger veteran and leaned against a console
Neerr Neerr Neerr
The alarm jolted Ethan forward "I didn't touch anything I swear" the colour had ran from his face what had he done? "Aye yai yai. What bad timing!" Alpha said in a cross tone "Rangers, Lord Zedd has sent down Goldar, a monster and putties". Tommy looked across at his team "Seams Zedd's in a good mood today, ready?" watching for the nods "It's morphing time",
"Tigerzord!"
"Mastodon!"
"Pterodactyl!"
"Triceratops!"
"Saber-Toothed Tiger!"
"Tyrannosaurus!"
Conner looked at his team "Ready, Dino thunder power up ha!" it was weird; their morphers were not working inside the command centre "I said, Dino thunder power up!"
Ethan, Kira and Conner looked at their friends clad in their coloured suits; "I think we have a problem" Kira told them as Conner was still tapping his morpher's activation control
"We'll go on ahead, there might be civilians in danger" said Tommy behind his white helmet.
Authors note:
Why can't the dino rangers morph?, what kind of energy is at work here?, will Ethan stop with the colour based jokes? Find out next time
