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Eddy is portrayed by Dominic Scott Kay
Quentin Parker is portrayed by Andrew Lincoln
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Aigaron watched the rangers destroy another alien and sighed. The rangers had their spirits. Or did they? He tilted his head to the side as he noticed the black ranger didn't do anything when the others had unleashed their spirits.
"He doesn't have his spirit!" Aigaron laughed. "Perfect!" He took out a device and spoke into it, "The black ranger doesn't have his spirit. I say we use Yakigonte to make him just a bit more jealous. Well, not him, but you know what I mean."
"Perfect, Aigaron." Chaos' voice came through the device. "I will summon him. Come back to base."
~PRDS~
As the rangers walked back into AD, they were cheering over a victory. "That was awesome!" Jesse smiled. "I love my spirit!"
"Remember you guys can't use it all the time." Kyro reminded them. He frowned as he saw Scott in the back of the group, a little ways away, with his head down. "What's wrong, Scott?"
Scott immediately perked up as the other rangers looked back at him. "What?"
"You okay, dude?" Jesse asked.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" Scott asked.
Jesse shrugged. "I don't know." He laughed. "So, you guys wanna go in the living room?"
"Yeah!" Robin agreed. "We should watch a movie!"
"No chick-flicks." Jesse said. "First one there picks the movie!" He ran off in a cold dash, Robin high on his heels.
Spencer and Matt followed them, conversing about how Spencer's brother was doing. Scott walked slowly behind them.
How come I'm the last one without out my spirit? He wondered. It's not fair. Nothing's fair.
~Flashback~
Before Scott had met Jesse, Spencer, or Robin, he spent his time with a boy named Edward 'Eddy' Stone who had brown hair and eyes. He was Scott's best friend.
"Hey Scott!" Eddy called one day as Scott sat on the playground swings alone. "What are you doing?" He asked, sitting down on the swing next to him.
"Just thinking." Scott answered.
"Thinking about what?" Eddy inquired.
Scott bit his lip. How am I supposed to tell him? He's not gonna understand. Then again, maybe he will, Scott thought.
"Eddy, you're my best friend, right?" Scott asked, and the boy in question nodded. "And you won't overreact or tell anyone if I tell a secret, will you?"
"No." Eddy said, narrowing his eyes in suspicion. "What are you gonna tell me? You're not cutting, are you?"
Scott was taken back. "No! No, of course not." He leaned over and told Eddy in his ear. Eddy pulled away, looking horrified.
"No way." Eddy frowned, standing up. "My parents said I can't hang around with your kind."
"Eddy, I..."
"Don't call me that! I'm a christian, and what you are is wrong!"
"You act like I worship Satan!" Scott yelled, standing up and facing Eddy.
"Maybe you do! Goodbye, Scott." Eddy practically ran away from him, leaving Scott to plop back into the swing alone once again.
~End Of Flashback~
He shuttered and walked into the room to watch the movie.
Kyro watched him from a few feet away. He took out his phone and dial a number.
"Hello?" The voice asked.
"Quentin, it's Kyro."
The person on the other end was quiet for a moment. "What's up? Is something wrong? Do I need to get my...?"
"No, it's Scott. You need to start looking into giving him his spirit. I mean, I know he hasn't done anything yet, but he seems about ready to."
"Well, when he does, I'm ready to give it."
~PRDS~
Later, during the middle of the rangers' movie, the alarm blared.
"Great." Jesse muttered as he was the last one to follow the others.
"Crater drive! Go, now!" Kyro ordered.
The rangers nodded and left.
~PRDS~
An alien, Yakigonte was prancing around as they got to the battle scene.
"Ready, guys?"
"Ready!"
"Dino Squad, Power Up!"
"Power of the Tyrannosaurus!"
"Power of the Parasaurolophus!"
"Power of the Stegosaurus!"
"Power of the Velociraptor!"
"Power of the Triceratops!"
Matt and Robin took out their swords while Jesse and Spencer took out their blasters. Jesse and Spencer ran forward, blasting the alien, and stopped a few feet away from him. Matt and Robin jumped up onto and flipped off of their shoulders, bring their swords down on the alien's head.
Scott, meanwhile, was turning back and forth slashing his sword through multiple Zorima. He finally took out his blaster and spun around, blasting and destroying each one of them. He looked over at the other rangers, and then, did something incredibly stupid.
He ran forward with his blaster, pushing all the others away and then slashed the alien up and down.
The alien laughed. "Poor black ranger." He pushed Scott to the ground and stepped onto his chest, pinning him to the ground. "No spirit. You're pathetic."
He slammed the hilt of his sword down on the Yakigonte's foot, forcing the alien to fall back, so he could stand. However, the alien quickly recovered and grabbed him by the arm, holding him in front of him so the other rangers couldn't do anything.
Yakigonte began walking back, then threw Scott away from him and ran. Scott got up on his knees and pounded the ground with his fists.
"Why can't I do anything right?" He asked himself. The other rangers demorphed, and they did not look happy.
~PRDS~
"You could've gotten yourself killed!" Matt's angry yell traveled down the hall to Kyro's ears.
"What's going on?" Kyro asked, confused. All the rangers were standing in the living room yelling at Scott. "What happened?"
"He jumped into the battle that we we're handling and let the alien get away." Jesse answered. "He totally pushed us out of the way like we couldn't handle it ourselves!"
Scott looked severely offended. "Like you guys couldn't handle it yourselves? I'm the one you guys left to fight the Zorima like I wasn't capable of fighting the alien with the rest of you!"
"Maybe we pushed you back a bit, but we could handle it! Because of your reckless actions, the alien got away and now we have to go back out and clean up the mess you made!" Matt retorted.
Scott shook his head and pursed his lips. "Yeah, because I'm the only one here with problems."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Robin asked.
"Well, for starters we don't even know Matt, yet suddenly, he's our best friend, Jesse has a temper mixed with a huge ego, Spencer's too quiet and we can't say anything to him without hurting his feelings, and your either fighting with Jesse or trusting random people like Matt." Scott sneered. "I'm not the one with problems to resolve."
"You can't talk about Spe..." Jesse started
"Spencer like that? What was he in therapy for? He should be able to handle things people say about him." Scott asked.
Jesse lunged for Scott but Matt and Robin grabbed his arms and held him back. "I swear to God, I'll kill you." Jesse growled. Spencer was Jesse's best friend, almost like a brother to him, and this was getting on his last nerve.
Spencer was standing there in shock, looking incredibly hurt by this as he clutched his wrist.
"If you're sitting her telling us all of our flaws, what about yours?" Matt retorted.
Scott scoffed. "You wanna know? Cause, obviously, you wouldn't know my flaws. You don't know me well enough to point them out."
"Oh yeah? How about this: you're incredibly jealous about everything. You're jealous about our spirits and that's why you're doing this. You're also jealous that we can be ourselves, and you can't." Matt responded as Robin and him let go of Jesse, who had decided not to attack Scott.
"What?" Scott asked, dumbfounded. "What're you talking about?"
Robin raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, Matt, what are you talking about?" The first one, she had to agree with, but he was himself, right?
"I don't know what it is yet, but I know he's hiding something." Matt answered. "I can feel it."
Scott rolled his eyes. "Please. Because I would totally hide something from them." He gestured to Robin, Spencer, and Jesse.
"Never know." Matt suggested.
"Are you hiding something from us?" Robin inquired, raising an eyebrow.
"No. What would I have to hide?" Scott replied.
"Anything." Jesse input. "Maybe you're calling out our flaws to hide a hidden one of yours."
"Yeah, because that's just something I do." Scott responded sarcastically.
~PRDS~
In the other room, Scott was actually laying on his bed, holding a pillow to his chest and staring at the wall. He broke his gaze away from the wall and looked down at his morpher.
"You don't deserve me. You deserve someone who can use your powers for good and to actually help people instead of letting a monster get away." He sighed and sat up, putting his pillow back at the head of the bed. He hung his head low in defeat. "No wonder I don't have my spirit yet. I'm pathetic."
He took his morpher out of his pocket and looked it over. He put it back and grabbed his backpack, emptying it of all of his school supplies before filling it with clothes. He slung the backpack over his shoulder and quietly exited his room. He walked into the door and took out his morpher, leaving it on the table before walking out of the house. He was now alone and defenseless.
He walked for a little while before he reached a park bench, where he sat down and stared out at the lake.
"They're better off without me." He told himself. "They don't need me holding them back."
"Scott?" A voice asked.
Scott looked over at the person who had spoken to him. "Dr. Parker?" He smiled. Dr. Parker was his history teacher, and also happened to be a family friend.
"What are you doing here? It's late." Dr. Parker said. "And, you know you can call me by my name outside of school."
"Yeah, and I just left. I was looking for a place to stay." Scott answered.
Dr. Parker raised his eyebrows. "Well, you know you are always welcome at my house, come on."
Scott stood up. "Thanks, Dr. Par... uh, I mean, Quentin."
~PRDS~
Later that night, after all the rangers had gone to bed, 'Scott' walked around Scott's room and sat down on his bed. He took out a small communication device.
"I'm in. The real black ranger has left. What shall I do?" He asked.
"Zorima, just act normal. Then, in the next battle, we'll tag-team them with you as their friend. It'll break them before we destroy them." Yakigonte's voice flooded through the device in response.
"Alright. Zorima, out." Zorima put the device back into his pocket and laid down.
"Hmm, never had a real bed before. Maybe I can ask Aigaron for one when I get back."
~PRDS~
"Scott, are you alright?" Quentin asked, casting a look over at the young man the next morning as they sat at breakfast.
"Huh?" Scott asked, breaking out of his daze and looking over at Quentin.
"I said, 'are you alright?'" Quentin repeated, looking concerned.
Scott rubbed his face. "Yeah, yeah. Just tired. I really couldn't sleep. I kept thinking of.. of my friends."
"You never did tell me why you left, Scott." Quentin said after a moment of silence. "Did something happen where you were staying?"
Scott raised an eyebrow. "I never told you that I wasn't staying at home." His eyes narrowed at his teacher suspiciously.
"No, but your parents did." Quentin said quickly, regaining Scott's trust.
"Oh, well, I just felt that I didn't belong." Scott answered with a sigh.
"Why not?" Quentin inquired with a frown. Scott was like a son to him, and hearing that he seemed to have troubles upset him.
"I felt like everyone there was better than me. I mean, they all had something I wanted, but I wasn't good enough to get." Scott answered, without giving much intel as to what he was speaking about.
Quentin looked confused. "What do you mean?"
Scott sighed. "I can't tell you."
"Is it because of your difficulty fitting in because of your hidden sexuality or your spirit separating you from the other rangers?" Quentin asked.
Scott's jaw hit the floor. "What?" He spluttered. He was in shock. How did Quentin know? "What are you talking about?" He asked, hoping he could feign confusion to draw Quentin away from those secrets.
"Scott, don't play dumb. For one, I've known you long enough to figure it out in terms of your sexuality. Two, I'm the one who's supposed to give you your spirit." Quentin answered matter-of-factly.
"You? But, I don't understand. Why haven't I got it yet?" Scott asked, frowning in anger.
"Scott, you haven't done anything to gain your spirit yet." Quentin answered gently, hoping to calm the boy down.
His idea, however, didn't work out. Scott got angrier. "Oh yeah? What have the others done?"
"Matt gained his spirit through Ace after he defended Jesse and Spencer; Jesse got his through Mr. Bell when he decided to stay in school due to a promise to his deceased mother; Spencer gained his when he stayed strong when his brother was unconscious in the hospital, and Robin gained her's when she was trying desperately to come out and help you guys through a battle." Quentin answered. "I'm sorry, Scott, but you haven't shown anything that would lead me to give you your spirit just yet. I am, however, ready to give it whenever I deem appropriate."
Scott calmed down and slouched back into his seat dejectedly. "You're right, but what do I do?"
Quentin sighed and gave him a small smile. "Scott, I can't tell you what to do, because your spirit won't accept it if it didn't come from the heart. Now, about your..."
Scott cut him off. "Yeah, I'm gay." He admitted. "I've only told one person, and he didn't accept me, so I opted for keeping it to myself, alright?"
"How do you know he didn't accept you?" Quentin asked, furrowing his brow.
"He got up and told me that his parents told him he couldn't 'hang out with [my] kind.'" Scott answered. "He stabbed me in the back when I trusted him with everything else. I haven't seen him since."
"Scott, I know that may have been traumatic for you, but if you're ever gonna be happy, you have to tell your friends." Quentin encouraged. "You have to be honest with them and yourself."
~PRDS~
The rangers eyed 'Scott' wearily as he sat at breakfast, staring at his food as if he didn't know what it was.
"Dude, you do know what that is, don't you?" Jesse asked, raising an eyebrow. 'Scott' didn't answer, only stared down at his food, trying to process the answer. "It's toast." Jesse said after a moment. "You alright, dude? I mean, first your mood last night and now this... What's up?"
'Scott' smiled. "Nothing's wrong. What could be wrong?"
Jesse shrugged and stuffed the rest of his toast in his mouth, making Robin, frown in disgust.
"Chew your food." She scolded. Because she sat across from him, she had a full view of the horrid way he stuffed food into his mouth, talked with his mouth full, and even ate with his mouth open. "You eat like a pig!"
Jesse smirked. "At least I don't look like one."
Robin groaned in exasperation and kicked him in the shin under the table. Jesse hissed in pain but smiled at her to create the illusion that it didn't hurt, though no one was fooled.
Spencer stood up and handed his plate to Alicia. "I have to go to the hospital to be with Reese. I'll be back later. Call me if anything happens."
"Alright, Spence." Jesse nodded.
"Bye, Spencer." Robin said. "Tell Reese to get well soon."
Spencer smiled. "I will." As he left, Kyro walked in holding the black ranger morpher in his pocket, eyeing 'Scott' suspiciously.
"Rangers, make sure you all have your morphers and show them to me." Kyro ordered.
The rangers and 'Scott' took out their morphers. Kyro frowned. The only way 'Scott' would have a morpher is... If he wasn't Scott.
"Good. Scott, do you mind helping Liela with the dishes in the other room?" Kyro asked.
'Scott' frowned, but quickly changed his expression to a tight-lipped smile as he grabbed the rangers' plates and walked into the kitchen.
"Rangers, that isn't Scott." Kyro said as soon as 'Scott' was out of earshot.
"What are you talking about?" Matt asked.
"He's an imposter. I found this," He took out the morpher and slid it across the table to Matt. "That's the real black ranger morpher that Scott should have. However, this 'Scott' has another one. I don't know at what point you mixed up this imposter with the real Scott, but Scott is nowhere to be seen, and without his morpher on him I can't track him."
"So you're saying that the real Scott is out there defenseless and alone?" Robin asked, her voice shrill.
"Yes. I assume, since their was no signs of struggle and that his morpher was sitting on the table next to door that Scott had come back here and left his morpher purposely behind." Kyro responded.
"Why would he leave, though?" Jesse asked, frowning. "Was it because of the battle?"
"I would assume that it was because of him being the last one without a spirit." Kyro answered. "He seemed pretty upset earlier yesterday as well."
"And we were basically bragging about how good it was to have spirit right in his face, too." Robin gasped. "I feel so horrible."
~PRDS~
Scott sat outside Quentin's house, alone. He felt horrible about leaving the rangers like that, but he figured they could do without him.
"Scott! You better come see this!" Quentin's voice traveled outside and to Scott's ears.
The teen frowned and stood, not liking the sound of his father figure's voice. He walked into the living room and his jaw dropped by what he saw on the news channel.
"Oh my God. But.. I... That's impossible! They couldn't have already found a replacement for me, could they?" Scott exclaimed.
Quentin shook his head. "It is impossible. No one else can use those powers once they've been used by you. It's in your blood now. It must be someone posing as you."
Scott looked conflicted. "I should save them."
Quentin sighed. "Scott, your powers are on someone else now. You'd be defenseless against him. Besides, the rangers must think it's you, considering they let him go and fight with them. If the rangers see you, they may think you're the imposter."
"Oh, now what's this?" The news anchor asked rhetorically. "The black ranger turned dark side and is working with an alien? Who would've guessed?" He paused. "Then again, it would be black to go dark side first. Reed Johnson, Channel Seven News." The news shut off and changed to the beginning of another show, prompting Scott to turn it off.
"I have to help them before the whole city thinks I've turned dark side and gone completely mad!" Scott cried.
"Scott, wait." Quentin grabbed his arm before he could run out.
"What are you doing? Let go!" Scott ripped his arm out of Quentin's grasp.
"Use your spirit. He'll kick some serious ass!" Quentin called as Scott ran down the street towards the battle scene.
~PRDS~
Spencer, whom had been with his brother, was severely confused as to why 'Scott' was attacking them.
"What's going on? Can someone explain?" Spencer called to the other rangers as they all struggled to stand. Yakigonte wasn't that tough, but with an imposter of the black ranger helping him out, it was pretty difficult.
"It's not Scott! He left!" Matt yelled back.
"I'm here!" Scott called to the rangers as he ran into battle. Matt smiled and threw him his morpher which he flipped up and caught in mid-air, then stuck the landing in front of the other rangers.
"Dino Squad, Power Up! Power of the Parasaurolophus!"
He stood directly in front of his doppelganger, frowning as he put his hands on his hips.
"Parasaurolophus Spirit!" He called, however, nothing happened.
'Scott' laughed hysterically. "You're pathetic! You don't even have your spirit yet!" He took out his blaster and blasted the black ranger a few times before pinning him to the ground with his sword held to his throat.
Scott was holding the sword back, but due to the equal strengths of the two, it was stuck between them. Scott hissed in pain as he could feel the sword digging into his hands, deeper and deeper by the second.
Suddenly, he remember something Quentin told him years back and earlier that day.
~Flashback~
After Eddy had left, Quentin had seen Scott sitting on the swings by himself, weeping silently. Quentin put his briefcase in the trunk of his car and slowly approached him.
"Scott?" He asked tentatively.
Scott looked up, startled, then immediately looked away as if he were ashamed for crying and his secret.
"Mr. Parker, what are you doing here?" Scott asked in a small voice, turning back to the older man, wiping his eyes furiously.
Quentin smiled. "You can call me Quentin, and I saw you sitting over here crying as I was proceeding to leave to go home from work. I thought I should come over and check on you." He gently pulled Scott's hands away from his face. "You can hurt yourself."
"I don't care. I just lost my best friend." Scott pouted and clutched the metal rope that held the swing to the structure.
"Why?" Quentin inquired. Scott and Eddy had been nearly inseparable, seeing them apart was strange, but hearing they had ceased their friendship... It was hard to believe.
"Because I'm different. Because his parents don't want him hanging out with people like me." Scott answered, but didn't seem to want to give up too much information as to what he was speaking of, so Quentin didn't push it.
"Scott, listen to me carefully. There's nothing wrong with being different. In live you're gonna learn that there's truly no such thing as a normal. Only seven things in life are truly normal: Living, dying, eating, drinking, using the restroom, sleeping, and working. Everyone's different, Scott. When you meet the right friends, they'll accept you for who you are."
~Flashback~
Quentin sighed and gave him a small smile. "Scott, I can't tell you what to do, because your spirit won't accept it if it didn't come from the heart. Now, about your..."
Scott cut him off. "Yeah, I'm gay." He admitted. "I've only told one person, and he didn't accept me, so I opted for keeping it to myself, alright?"
"How do you know he didn't accept you?" Quentin asked, furrowing his brow.
"He got up and told me that his parents told him he couldn't 'hang out with [my] kind.'" Scott answered. "He stabbed me in the back when I trusted him with everything else. I haven't seen him since."
"Scott, I know that may have been traumatic for you, but if you're ever gonna be happy, you have to tell your friends." Quentin encouraged. "You have to be honest with them and yourself."
~End of Flashbacks~
Then, it hit him.
"Any last words?" 'Scott' laughed.
"I'm gay." He announced. 'Scott' seemed extremely surprised, and no one spoke. "And one more thing, Parasaurolophus Spirit!" Finally, a black/purple, ghostly version of the Parasaurolophus appeared and destroyed 'Scott' and Yakigonte.
Scott stood up, feeling confident, but also nervous. He was terrified as to what his friends were going to say, but at the same time, he was proud of himself. He felt as if a humongous weight lifted off of his shoulders and he did one of the hardest things he's ever done.
He demorphed along with the others as they stumbled over to him. Robin gave him a funny look. "Why'd you hide that from us?" Her face cracked into a full-blown smile. "Now I can talk to you about other guys!"
Scott raised an eyebrow. but smiled. Spencer and Jesse looked at each other, and back at Scott. "Dude, it's all good with me." Jesse said. "I mean, I never would've guessed, but its not a bad thing."
"I second that." Spencer agreed. "But why'd you hide it?"
"I was worried you guys wouldn't be my friends anymore if I did tell." Scott admitted.
"I true friend wouldn't dis you for something like that." Spencer assured him.
Matt was quiet this whole time. He had no idea what to say or if he should even say anything at all. He did, however, support Scott.
"Matt?" Scott asked, and he saw the others looking at him expectantly.
"I support it. I don't see why not." Matt responded.
The other four rangers pulled in for a group hug, in which Jesse ended up pulling Matt into.
Next time on Power Rangers Dino Squad: Continuing from the crossover of Ancient Animals and Dino Squad, the gold ranger is revealed in a battle, but something seems off about him... Meanwhile, the rangers are feeling a bit down from the previous battle, especially Matt.
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