Hello Ranger Fans! I know I know, you're late! Sorry for the delay. I've been pondering on how I want this story to move along. How do I want to keep you guys on the edge of your seat and drooling for more? Well. I hope this chapter helps.
August 2001
Angel Grove
The rain fell that day, miserably. For Thomas Oliver, it was the day all his happiness vanished. As he stood silently watching the caskets being lowered six feet under, he bit down onto his lip till a trickle of blood was dripping into the mud beneath his feet. But the small pain from his lip did nothing for the pain in his heart. He lifted his eyes away from the casket when he felt a hand on his shoulder. Turning his head he peered into the solemn eyes of his friend Jason. The young man gave him a comforting look.
"Tommy… I'm so sorry man. But you got to know, they're in a better place know."
Even if he heard those words, it still did little to ease the ache. If they were in a better place, then where was he? Why was he here without them? Tommy's face contorted to the pain he felt inside, the tears he held back so desperately began to fall rapidly. He could feel his knees giving out underneath him but refused to fall onto them. He sucked in the damp air and closed his eyes. He felt arms around him. Not just one pair, but four. Opening his eyes he somberly stared at his oldest and closest friends. They were all here for him.
Later that evening, Tommy sat in the small house, he and the love of his life had bought together. He sat in the large recliner, a bottle almost empty on the stand beside him. The lost man sat staring at the photographs. So many photographs. Was that all he had left? Photographs and heartache?
"AaaahhhhhH!" Tommy screams out and throws the pictures aside, then he grabs the bottle beside him and smashes it against the wall.
The ex-ranger stands there tears again streaming. Clenching his fists he gulps in air and covers his face with his hands.
"Tommy. It will be alright," He hears the familiar voice resounding in his head.
The young man peers up, staring around the room. Maybe, it was his imagination?
"No Tommy, I'm not your imagination, merely in a place you cannot see."
"Z-Zordon?"
The young man slumps down into his chair, a confused look etched onto his face as he looks around the empty room.
"How? I thought you were gone. Zordon?" He manages to sputter out confused.
"My physical form may be gone Tommy, but my spirit can never be destroyed. I will always be with you and the other Rangers. How do you think, you are able to access the morphing grid through your old morphers? But I am afraid this is a onetime thing here. I expend too much energy just talking to you through the veil. When we finish this talk, I can never help you again." the ghostly voice of his mentor speaks.
Tommy peers somberly at the ceiling and shakes his head.
"Zordon, If you're trying to recruit me… for some kind of mission, I don't-"
"This isn't about being a Ranger Tommy. This is about Trini and your son. They need your help."
The ex-rangers mouth hangs open. He stares quizzically and then swallows.
"Zordon… They… They died Zordon. In a car accident. I, We buried them today."
"You buried empty coffins as I recall. And last time I checked, anything is possible for those who possess the power. But if you truly believe they are gone, then look into your heart and tell me so."
"No," Tommy whispers, the tears flow down his face but they are not tears of sadness, but rage.
"Who took them Zordon… Tell me who took my family. And I swear I'll save them, no matter what it takes. No matter how long it takes. Where are they Zordon?"
The ghostly voice of his mentor replies with a somberness.
"Sadly, I do not know, but I can feel Trini's life force. It is somewhere on Earth. But I do not know where."
Nodding his head, Tommy stands up and grips his fists.
"Tell me what I have to do."
January 2002
Ring Ring Ring.
The man answers the phone to a familiar voice. His eyes narrow when the voice on the other end tells him what he's been waiting to hear for almost a year now.
"I've found them Tommy. Remnants of the Machine Empire are holding them on a base in the south pacific, some island off the grid."
"Andros, you'll never know how grateful I am for your help."
"Tommy there's there more. These guys have been active lately, on the moon. I think they've found remnants of Serpentera. I think they're going to use your family as hostages why they take it."
Tommy grips the phone in his hand, his eyes full of the old familiar hate he once possessed as he evil Green Ranger.
"They took my family Andros. They've had them for a year. A year I've had to live without them. I'm going to destroy them Andros. I'm dismantling the Machine Empire for good. They won't have a Serpentera when I'm through. Send out the call and gather them. We need to move now."
A month later Tommy stands before the nine other red rangers and looks them over. The youngest and newest red ranger, Cole of the Wild Force Rangers seems eager. While the other veterans seemed amused by his enthusiasm, but he knows in a few moments all of their attitudes will change.
"I'm sure you're wondering why I've gathered you all here," Tommy speaks up, his voice demanding respect.
The other nine rangers all go silent, giving the legendary ranger their attention.
"Andros and I have been keeping tabs on some of our old enemies. Remnants of the Machine Empire have come out of hiding and have discovered the location of Lord Zed's most diabolical weapons. Serpentara."
"With Serpentara in their hands, they'll have more than enough power to destroy the Earth," Jason adds in.
Nodding Tommy gets a fierce look in his eyes and clenches his fists.
"Not only that… But we've discovered my wife Trini and my son… Have been taken by them. They plan on holding them hostage to try and prevent us from fighting back… But that's why we're going to hit them hard and fast. I haven't seen my wife and child in almost a year now… And I plan on making them pay."
The other nine red rangers all grow deathly silent. This mission would be do or die, and they knew now that Tommy was sacrificing the most here. If something were to happen to his wife or son, he would never be the same.
"What are we waiting for? Let's go kick some can!" Cole shouts out.
"Easy kid, we gotta get there first," TJ responds with a chuckle.
Boarding the large spacecraft of Andros' the ten rangers blast off into the atmosphere and slowly, Space. With their thrusters at maximum, the space megazord soars into the darkness towards the far, dark side of the moon.
"Trini… Tim… Hold on, I swear I'll free you," Tommy mumbles to himself.
Trini Oliver sits in shackles, with her arms wrapped around her young son. She caresses the young boys sleeping form and leans her head back against the hard cold walls. It had been almost a year… A year of being treated like an animal in captivity. Their captors would bring food for them every day but she had to wonder. She wondered about her husband. The man she loved so dearly. Did he think they had died in that set up explosion? Was he weeping for them? Was he angry that she couldn't hold him? She hated not knowing. She hated this place.
Silently Trini closes her eyes and weeps while holding her son tightly.
"Tommy… Please, I need you here. I miss you so much. Please save us."
"Hnn, Please… Don't cry mom," little Tim speaks up.
Trini looks down into her young sons face as he smiles gently and takes her hands.
"Dad will save us. I can feel it in my heart. He's the greatest Power Ranger ever."
With a smile, Trini hugs him hard and nods her head.
"That's right. Your father is an amazing man, and I love him so much. He'll save us."
Suddenly everything felt as if an earthquake started up. The walls and ground began to shake violently, Tim cries out as Trini holds him tightly frightened. The mechanical voices of their captors are heard over loud speakers calling their troops.
"Troops! Assemble at once! Those blasted Power Rangers are attacking! We must stop them! The glory of the Machine Empire demands it! Bring the prisoners to me at once!"
Trini holds her son close as the doors suddenly open and robotic henchmen stand there holding their phaser guns pointed towards the two.
"Come with us now…" The dead toned machines call out.
Meanwhile, The ten rangers charge into a group of robotic goons. The rangers fight side by side as the clash against the mechanical baddies. Tommy growls out viciously as he grabs hold of a robot and rips its mechanical arms off and proceeds to beat the machine with its own arms until its smashed to bits. Jason seeing the spectacle feels a bit relieved he wasn't so vicious when he was the evil Green Ranger.
"Where is my wife!" Tommy bellows as he slams a machine against the ground.
The rest of the machine goons are tempted to flee just from the sight of the savage warrior, but their programming won't allow them to back off. They keep coming, and Tommy keeps destroying them.
"Pitiful worms! You are but ash beneath our feet! And you take one more step and I'll slit this woman's throat and let her blood spill across the moon's surface!" A larger machination bellows as he holds Trini by her hair, a blade against her throat.
Tommy see's her and grips his fists in a rage.
"You… you took my wife… my child… and You expect me to watch them die? I WILL FUCKING END YOU!" Tommy's eyes flash green behind his visor as pulls out his blaster and fires a shot, hitting the machine in his hand causing him to drop his blade.
Trini drops down, sweeping her legs across to trip the robotic fiend. Then jumping to her feet, she charges into another henchbot holding her son. He bashes the robot and grabs Tim and they run. Tim peers down from where he is running with his mother and sees the bright red costume glistening in the sunlight. He knows right away its his father. The red Zeo Ranger clashes into a group of machinations and breaks them all as he runs towards them. Then he see's it, the machine man standing up behind his father, the long blade in its hands. No! He can't let this happen. He hears his mother scream his father's name and he sees something else, the blaster is half buried but it's there. He pulls away from his mother and dives for it, pulling it out of the soil he raises and with fear in his eyes fires. The shot sends him off his feet but the blast hits his target and the machine behind his father goes down.
"Tim!" Tommy shouts as he races towards his son and wife and scoops them both into his arms and holds them tightly.
"Ohh God! Tommy! I thought I'd never see you again!" Trini cries holding her husband and son.
"I'm here. I'll never let you go again!"
As the family hugs one another tightly, the leader growls and charges towards the large zord, now unburied. As he slips inside and starts the machine up, Tommy slowly pulls away from his wife and son.
"There's one more thing I have to do. I swear, we'll go home soon."
Nodding, Trini holds Tim back as Tommy rushes off to regroup with the other rangers. Once together the ten red rangers curse themselves a bit.
"We need to find a way to destroy that thing for good," Andros cries out.
"Right! It's now or never let's get him!" Carter responds.
The two Time force rangers rush forward first blasting towards the Zord as it begins to hover. Then Cole and Carter rush in blasting away at the top portion of the mechanical beast. Andros and TJ charge in close slashing through the thick metal skin leaving gaping holes uncovered. The Red Aquatian ranger and Leo both blast into the slash wounds causing Sepentara to catch flame. And Tommy along with Jason rush in for the final blow blasting the insides of the beast. The metallic monstrosity shudders as it begins to explode in various places, rupturing and falling apart. The machine general yells out as he rushes out of the Zord as it explodes into flames and debris. The ten rangers stand untied and cheer at their victory.
Trini and Tim both rush towards Tommy, smiles across their faces. Tommy grips hold of the two tightly in his arms.
"Dad! You were so awesome! I.. I can't believe you and mom are Power Rangers!"
"Well.. Technically we're retired. But there is nothing in this Universe that was going to stop me from getting you two back." Tommy speaks as he holds his wife and child.
"Tommy, please lets go home" Trini speaks softly.
Nodding, the eleven rangers and young Tim bored the Astro Megazord and the ship slowly begins to lift off heading back to Earth. On the Moon, the last machine general howls in a rage as he gets into a fighter jet and blasts off after the Rangers, his mind seeped with revenge and murder.
"Uhh Astro… What's that blimp on the radar?" TJ asks.
Astro stares at the blimp and then curses as he grabs the thrusters steering the ship about as the Zord is suddenly hit from behind and shakes violently.
"Brace yourselves! Someone's trying to hit us!"
As the Zord shakes violently, Tim jumps up and rushes towards a small room with a window and peers out and gasps a bit.
"Dad! It's one of those Robots! He's firing at u-"
BOOM! The Zord shakes against and a door closes shut in front of the small boys face.
"Tim! Andros! Open that pod door! Tim's inside! Andros!" Tommy shouts.
With fear in his eyes, Tim stares at his parents as the stare back paralyze in fear as another blast rocks the ship and suddenly, Tim and part of the ship is suddenly gone.
"TIM!" Trini's scream is blood curdling as she rushes to where her son had once been. Tommy grabs her arm and holds her as the watch the pod fall rapidly towards Earth and disappears.
"NO! MY BABY! TOMMY! GOD NO!"
Tommy can only hold her there as Andros swings and out maneuvers the Machine and swings around firing a blaster and hitting the general dead on. The other rangers stand there and look in shame. They had saved the world many times… But this was one time, they lost.
The pod hurtles towards the ground and with a rough landing, smacks the Earth's crust, causing a small crater to form. The small form inside lays there, blood dripping down his face as he gasps for air. The door slowly slides open and he crawls his way out and tumbles down into something wet. Water? He slowly tries to get to his feet and stumbles about before collapsing. He lays there with no concept of time. His mind is a blank, until he feels himself being pulled and held. He opens his eyes long enough to see a man holding him in his arms walking through what appears to be a forest. Slowly he manages a few words from his horse voice.
"W-who? You?"
The man stares at him a moment with kind and fierce eyes.
"Relax young one, my name is Kiya. Now what is your name?"
What was his name? The boy sits there and ponders, but only one thing comes to mind. It seems familiar, but he isn't sure.
"Umm.. Jack… I think my name is Jack."
"Well then Jack… Welcome to the Wind Ninja Academy."
And Done! WOW! Ok, Betcha didn't see that coming didja? Hell, I didn't even see it coming until.. Well just now when I wrote it! HA! I have big things planned for the Oliver familia, and I no right now, some of you hate me. Good! XD But don't fret. All will be revealed. Will the Olivers ever reunite with their Son? Will their Son ever remember who he is? Why is Lothor his good self? All will be revealed… Next time on Power Rangers! Shades of Green…. Or maybe I'll make you all suffer! R&R People ;)