A/N: Sorry if this chapter isn't as good as usual but I was forced to type this on my iphone, so just sorry in advance if there are some weird autocorrect words in here!
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Deboss enclosed on the downed rangers, ready for the finishing move. "Get.. away.. from.. them." Matt demanded, his voice shaking from rage and injury. He was behind Deboss, demorphed but had his sword in hand. He was drenched in rain and blood, some his own and some not, and all that was on his mid was: destroy Deboss once and for all.
As he stepped forward, his legs shook uneasily under his weight, and with every step, it got harder to take the next. Deboss laughed. "You actually think you can destroy me?" He scoffed. "Only in your dreams."
Deboss stepped forward and threw Matt to the ground without much effort. He stepped in front of Matt with a sick smirk plastered onto his face. "What a tragic way to die, isn't it?" He brought up his sword. "Too bad you'll never see me kill your friends." He brought it down and...
Suddenly, the scene around Matt collapsed and he woke up, drenched in sweat with his hand clenched into very tight fists. He slowly pulled his fingers off of his hand, wincing as the nails that were dug into his hands were pulled out of his flesh.
"It was only a dream." He let out a breath he didn't know he was holding and fell back into his bed. "For now." He whispered into the darkness of his room.
~PRDS~
Matt was the last one to arrive at breakfast, and from the moment he got there, everyone was looking at him strangely and seemed to be mentally cringing at the sight of him. He sat down in his seat and took a bite of his toast, looking around the room to find all of the others watching him intently. He noticed the lack of a blue ranger, but said nothing about it, assuming he was still getting ready for school.
"What?" He asked, around the food in his mouth.
"Are you alright?" Robin asked. "You look a bit.. shaken up."
Matt swallowed his food slowly and bit his lip. He didn't want to talk about the dream he had had. "I'm fine." He nodded, slightly unsure if the others would believe him. "Just didn't sleep much last night."
"Worried about the math test?" Jesse asked. "I feel you."
Matt rolled his eyes. "No, not really. I think I'll pass with a decent enough grade."
"Then why couldn't you sleep?" Scott asked.
Matt tried to think of an answer, but before he could open his mouth, Spencer came into the room, looking frantic. "I gotta go, guys. Something's happened." He picked up his jacket off of his chair and put it on with shaky arms. He looked worse than Matt by a long shot.
"What happened?" Jesse asked, looking as deeply concerned as Robin and Scott.
"Is it Reese? Is he alright?" Robin inquired.
Spencer shrugged. "I don't know, but I have to go. I'll see you guys later." He quickly threw his backpack over his shoulder and left hastily.
While Robin, Scott, and Jesse were worried, James looked extremely confused. "Who is Reese?" He asked, causing the three to look over at him almost immediately.
"Spencer's older brother. He.. well, got into a little problem with an alien a month ago and got stabbed. As far as we know, it's been pretty touch and go, but he's been doing better." Robin shrugged sadly. "I guess there must have been some complications if Spencer looked that shaken up."
"He must known something." Scott said suddenly. "I mean, he couldn't have looked like that he didn't know what was going on."
"I don't know. Spencer and Reese have that same overprotective quality towards each other, so anything could've happened that made Spencer that upset." Robin responded.
"Does Reese know we are rangers?" James asked.
"No. No one knows, or at least, no one is supposed to." Matt spoke up. "Why? Does everyone in your time know about you and your team?"
James nodded. "Yes, mostly because the majority of the population is possessed, and the few that aren't need protection."
"That's horrible." Robin said sympathetically. "Did you have any family?"
James looked away and didn't respond to her question, making Robin know she had asked too soon. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..."
"No, it's fine. I must go. I will see you later." He said quickly before bolting out of the room.
Robin sighed. "Now I feel bad. First Spencer, now James... How could this day get any worse?"
"Just wait until we have to fight evil." Scott muttered. He looked between Jesse and Robin and narrowed his eyes suspiciously at the way they were eyeing each other. "You guys have something planned today?"
"What? Why would I have something planned with her?" Jesse asked, looking at Scott as if he were stupid.
"Agreed. Who would want to spend the day with him?" Robin retorted. "Besides, we have school today. What could we do?"
Scott shrugged. "How would I know? All I know is the way you were looking at each other."
"We were looking at each other?" Jesse asked, seemingly confused.
Scott put his hands up in surrender. "Nevermind. Forget I said anything."
~PRDS~
"Mom! Dad!" Spencer ran through the halls of the hospital into his brother's room. "What happened?" He asked breathlessly. His eyes immediately landed on his brother, who was paler than before and had and oxygen tube once again in his nose. He approached his brother and shook his shoulder slightly. "Reese?" He turned back to his parents when he didn't wake up. "What happened?" He asked again, seeing as they didn't answer the first time.
Jasmine took her youngest son, Caleb, into her arms and left the room with a tear in her eye. Seth just sighed. "We don't know. Apparently, a lot of people have been getting stuck into comas lately, by what the doctors assume was a monster, since most patients have nothing that would make this happen. I bet once the Power Rangers take care of it, he'll wake up."
"Then what's with all of this?" He asked, gesturing to all of the monitors that weren't there before.
Seth shrugged. "I guess the coma slowly starts to kill its victims."
Spencer frowned in a deep panic and stared at his father for a long moment. He knew under the facade that his father was scared of what would happen to his oldest child. He watched as his father left the room and turned back to Reese.
He leaned down and whispered, "I don't know if you can hear me or not, Reese, but it's Spencer. I want you to know that I will save you, because I..." He trailed off, wondering if his brother could hear him or not. He sighed. "Am the blue ranger, and me and my friends will not hesitate to destroy the monster that's doing this to you."
~PRDS~
Matt was walking through the hall, trying to get to class when someone grabbed him from behind. Immediately, he was defensive, but when he saw that it was only Joey, he stopped and sighed. "Don't do that."
Joey frowned. "Who'd you think I was?"
"I don't know. With as many attacks as there have been lately, who knows who it could have been."
Joey rolled her eyes. "Okay, Matt, whatever you say, but I have bad news. You have to come with me and my dad pronto."
"Why? What happened?" Matt asked, frowning in concern.
"Its Chase. He's in the hospital." Joey admitted.
Matt's eyes widened. "What? Why? You've gotta be joking."
"I'm not. I went into his room to wake him up this morning, and... well, he wouldn't wake up. The doctors said its been happening a lot lately and they said that they assume a monster is doing it." Joey answered.
Matt bit his lip. "Lets go."
~PRDS~
Spencer was surprised when he saw Matt and Joey run down the hall in the hospital. He followed behind them and, when they arrived at the room they were going to, he looked through the window and saw Matt looking concerned at a young boy Spencer could assume was his brother, just by the resemblance. He watched them for a long moment until Matt saw him and angrily came out of the room.
"What do you think you're doing?" Matt asked. "Don't you think we need some privacy?"
Spencer held his hands up in surrender. "Look, I wasn't trying to invade your privacy, it's just that the same thing happened to my brother."
"My brother wasn't stabbed." Matt growled. "You have no idea what's going on."
Spencer was quiet for a long moment before he spoke in a small voice. "He's in a coma."
Matt was taken aback. "What? How did you know that?"
"My brother is the same way." Spencer whispered before gesturing the other way. "Come here."
Matt gestured to Joey so she knew he was going with Spencer before he walked through the hall and into another room where he saw a teen, older than both of hem, unconscious on the bed. He bit his lip and looked over at Spencer who was moving slowly towards his brother. He felt bad for the way he had reacted now.
"This is Reese, my older brother. I have a younger brother too, names Caleb, and he used to have a twin. He got hit by a car and died though. I know how it feels, Matt. Sometimes you just gotta let your feelings out. You need to talk to us. We known you for almost two months and we know hardly anything about you." Spencer looked over at him with a tear in his eye. "We've opened up to you, and you should do the same."
"Well, I..."
Spencer cut him off. "I know you probably aren't the type to do that, but..." He trailed off and sighed. He lifted up his arm and turned his wrists over for Matt to see. "I almost committed suicide a year ago. Now tell me something about you."
Matt was speechless. He was surprised that Spencer would open up to him, as he didn't seem like the type to trust people that easily. "I.. umm... started drinking after my mom and dad broke up. I almost died one night cause I drank way too much. My mom actually did commit suicide 6 months ago, I have no idea why, though."
Spencer sighed. "I'm sorry for what happened, Matt."
"I'm sorry too. I'm also sorry for how I reacted earlier. I shouldn't have acted like that." Matt put a hand on his shoulder. "I hope your brother gets better."
"Yours too." Spencer gave him a small smile. "Thanks, by the way."
"For what?" Matt asked.
"For opening up to me. I could tell that it wasn't easy for you." Spencer answered.
Suddenly, their morphers beeped. "Yeah?" Matt said.
"Get to AD ASAP." Robin's worried voice flooded through the morpher.
"Why? What's going on?" Matt inquired.
"It's Scott and James. Just hurry." Robin told him.
"We're at the hospital, though." Matt responded, looking over at Spencer with a worried look.
"What? Who are you with?" Robin asked, shocked. "Who are you with?"
"Spencer. My brother is in a coma right now like a lot of others and I saw Spencer." Matt answered.
"So are Scott and James! Some Zorima appeared and we were just fighting them and all of a sudden an alien shows up for five seconds and they drop to the floor unconscious!" Robin sounded beyond frantic now.
"Just hold on, we'll be there soon." Matt closed his morpher and the two ran out of the hospital.
~PRDS~
Spencer and Matt got there in record time and saw Robin and Jesse first, making them stop in their tracks. Robin was leaning into Jesse and seemed just a bit too friendly to be them.
"Guys? What are you doing?" Matt asked.
"Nothing!" Immediately Jesse moved away from Robin, causing her to fall to the floor. He grimaced and helped her up. "Sorry."
Matt and Spencer came closer to them, but Spencer didn't stop and walked right into the infirmary. Jesse and Robin cringed and followed, Matt a few steps behind them. Spencer was standing in between the two guys, who were both very pale and seemed weak. Spencer glanced at the others with incredibly worried looks. "The alien?"
Jesse nodded and stepped forward so he was standing closer to his friend. "Spence, they'll be okay."
"The same thing happened to Reese and Matt's brother. It slowly kills them. We have to find this alien." Spencer looked at Robin and Jesse angrily after a moment. "Why didn't you call us to help you guys in the battle?"
"It was only a handful of Zorima, the alien didn't even show up until we destroyed them all." Robin defended.
"Then why didn't you fight it?" Spencer asked.
"Well, we weren't morphed. Too many people were around." Jesse said. "We're gonna destroy this bastard the next time he appears, though."
"Rangers," Kyro addressed as he came into the room, carrying charts in his hands. "I have found out that this alien is Akkumoon, and this particular alien puts people into comas where they go into a deep dream like state. The catch, though, is that the dream slowly drain the person's life force, making Akkumoon stronger. Also..." He was cut off by the alarm. "Go, I will look over them."
The four remaining rangers ran past Kyro and made their way to the battle scene.
~Dream~
Scott was confused. He was in a large, window-less and door-less room with many other people he didn't recognize. However, two people in particular caught his eye.
"James! Reese!" He called out to the two. They both snapped their heads towards him and ran over.
"Scott, what has happened? I remember being in a battle and then we are here." James said. "And voices keep entering my mind."
"They sound like the others, right?" Scott asked, before looking to Reese who was giving them both a look. James nodded, then Scott said, "What?"
"Earlier, I heard Spencer talking to me. He said that he would save me because '[he] and [his] friends are rangers.'" Reese answered. "Are you ranger, Scott?"
Scott bit his lip and glanced over at James who was giving him a panicked look. Reese turned to James. "You too? Who are you, anyway?"
"That's James, our friend and.. the gold ranger." Scott admitted. "I'm the black, Robin is the pink, Jesse is the green, and Matt is the red."
"Matt?" Reese asked.
"Our other friend," Scott explained quickly. "But, yeah, we're the rangers. You can't tell the others that you know, though. Don't even act like you know."
"How can I not act like it when my little brother is endangering himself all the time trying to save others? That worries me, especially because of everything that's happened."
"Look, I'll keep you updated, but you can't say anything to the others. Maybe Spencer, but no one else, okay? And I mean, no one." Scott told him.
Reese sighed and nodded. "Alright." Suddenly, he was struck with a sharp pain where he had gotten stabbed and fell onto one knee. Scott immediately knelt down next to time.
"What's wrong?" Scott asked.
"I don't know. I just feel weaker all of a sudden." Reese responded.
Scott looked up to see people starting to drop like flies, James being one of them. He collapsed and groaned, rolling over to look at Scott who moved over to help him. "You gotta keep up, man. Don't let it get to you guys." He encouraged, pulling the two of them to their feet and supporting them. "We just gotta keep moving."
~PRDS~
Back in reality, Matt's suit sparked as he was sent back by one of Akkumoon's bombs into Jesse. Jesse pushed him off hastily as Robin shot a laser at the alien, making the alien defend itself by putting up a pillow looking shield. The laser bounced off of the shield and hit Robin in the chest, sending her flying through the air. She would've hit the ground hard, if Jesse didn't catch her.
"You alright?" Jesse asked, holding her as she regained her bearings.
She nodded slowly. "Yeah.. yeah." She allowed him to help her to her feet and looked at the green ranger longingly. She and him had been trying to go on a secret date with him all day but they had been interrupted first by Nikki, then Mr. Bell, and finally the battles. They were both hoping for a date later, but if anything happened to anyone on the team, they couldn't just leave.
The two stood up together and both got out their swords and rushed forward, but as they slashed at the alien, their swords bounced off of the shield and made them drop them and the swords flew back and hit and stuck in a tree.
Akkumoon laughed and threw a bomb between them. Jesse took the brunt of the attack, but both of them were hit and flew back.
Spencer and Matt climbed to their feet and ran at Akkumoon, but he threw a different looking bomb towards them, but instead of exploding, it began to spray a white gas. At first, the two were confused at to why an alien would just spray gas at them, but they soon began to feel tired.
"It's knockout gas!" Matt pushed Spencer out of the way and jumped to the side. The two coughed to try to get it out of their system, but it was too late as they were already beginning to feel the effects of it. They felt lazy and lethargic as they stood and didn't really want to move.
"Guys, you alright?" Robin called over to them. She was helping Jesse up, and seemed worried about the guys.
Spencer and Matt looked at each other before looking back at the two. It was pretty obvious by the way they were acting that there was something going on. The two couldn't quite put their fingers on it, but they knew something was going on.
Suddenly, Akkumoon laughed loudly. "I'll put all of you to sleep forever!" He threatened.
Matt stumbled over to being in front of Akkumoon. "Tyranno Spirit!" The Tyrannosaurus spirit came out and tried to attack Akkumoon, but the shield he was using seemed to be indestructible as the spirit and Matt were thrown back.
"Oh my God." Robin gasped. "Our spirits have never lost before."
"Why don't we use more than one?" Jesse asked. "I mean, the two of us did that before and it worked better than just one."
"You're right. Spencer!" She called to the blue ranger, who was trying to help Matt to his feet. "We're gonna use our spirits. Come here."
Spencer pulled Matt to his feet and the four stood in front of Akkumoon. "Tyranno Spirit!"
"Stego Spirit!"
"Velociraptor Spirit!"
"Tricera Spirit!"
The four spirits went forward and attacked the alien, overpowering Akkumoon's shield and destroying the alien once and for all.
~Dream~
At this point, the three boys were collapsed on the floor, gasping for air, and feeling very sickly and weak.
"So.. I.. guess.. this.. is.. it?" Scott choked out.
"I.. assume.. so." James nodded weakly.
"Agreed." Reese wearily closed his eyes for a moment, but cracked one back open when Scott shook him as best as he could.
"Don't.. fall asleep." Scott ordered.
Suddenly, the room's walls, floors, and ceilings began to crack and fall apart. The three looked confused until a bright white light shown into the room.
~End of Dream~
Scott and James cracked open one eye at a time as Jesse and Robin walked into the infirmary. "Hey, nice to see you guys awake." Jesse commented.
"How are you guys feeling?" Robin asked as Kyro walked in.
"Weak." Both boys answered at the same time. They were pale and flushed, seemingly exhausted even though they were just asleep.
"You should feel that way for a bit." Kyro responded. "It's a side effect of what happened."
"Where are Matt and Spencer?" Scott asked.
"The hospital. Spencer's with Reese and Matt is with his younger brother, Chase." Robin answered.
"How are they doing?" Scott asked.
Jesse shrugged. "Spencer's parents called so I would guess that Reese is awake. He said that he might go home soon."
"Good for him." Robin smiled. "Now, we have to go."
"Where would you be going?" James asked.
"We're gonna hang out with our friends." Jesse answered as they walked out hastily without saying goodbye.
Next time on Power Rangers Dino Squad: Scott has a hard time dealing when he sees Eddy in town, and has a hard time deciding what to do when he's kidnapped along with others. Meanwhile, Spencer doesn't know that Reese is aware of his ranger status tries to hide it when Reese comes home and he has to leave for a battle soon after.
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