A/N: Wow. I was surprised to find that someone (i.e. Liberty the Great) reviewed every one of my chapters. Well, thanks! I appreciate that you enjoy my work that much, and though it was a bit strange that you reviewed every chapter, thank you! I hope you like this one!
Oh and to everyone else, I am so sorry for the delay but you know how holidays are; they can get pretty busy! Oh and there's a special late Christmas surprise for everyone. The moment you've all been waiting for. ;)
It was a cold day on December 21, and the rangers had decided to go ice skating in the town square, seeing as though it was snowing. Also joining them, was Kristi, Nathan, and Reese.
Robin grabbed two pairs of ice skates: one for her and one for Alice, who was sitting on a bench staring out at the guys, who were already on the ice, and were failing miserably to keep their balance,
"Here, Alice." Alice turned towards the pink ranger, who handed her a pair of ice skates. She took them wearily.
"I thought you should know that I've never done this before." Alice said, looking at the skates skeptically as she put them on.
"Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it." Robin assured her as she laced up her own pair of skates.
Alice looked up from her skates to see Matt fall hard onto the ice, and she cringed. She saw James help him up, and turned to Robin.
"It looks dangerous." She commented.
Robin chuckled and stood up, offering her hand to the purple ranger. "It's not that bad, trust me."
Robin began to walk over to the ice and Alice stifled at laugh at the way she walked in the skates, before beginning to follow her. The ground was slick with snow, and Alice slipped and fell to the ground. Robin turned around and cringed, but before she could walk over to help her up, Reese did.
"You alright?" He asked as she steadied herself.
"I don't like ice skating." She responded and Reese laughed.
"You'll be fine." He assured her.
"You sound like Robin." She huffed. She looked him over and shook her head. "It's freezing. How are you not cold?"
"I am, but its too hard to fit a good jacket over this." He pointed to the sling holding his left arm.
"Probably is." Alice said. She opened her mouth to speak, but Robin walked over to her and grabbed her arm.
"Let's go! Come on!" Robin stopped and looked at Reese. "Are you gonna skate?"
"I might, if Spencer lets me." Reese chuckled.
"Good luck with that." Robin joked.
"Thanks." Reese rolled his eyes as they began to walk away, Alice holding onto Robin's arm to keep upright.
Robin stepped onto the ice a bit wobbly, and helped Alice, who stepped onto it and nearly fell. She immediately grabbed for the railing.
Robin laughed. "I still can't believe you've never ice skated before."
Alice glared at her. "Let me focus."
"Need a little help?" Spencer's voice came as Alice struggled to glide correctly on the ice.
Alice looked up at him and blushed with embarrassment. "A bit." She admitted.
"Here." He held out his hand, which she took after a moments hesitation. He then stood behind her and held onto her waist. "You ready?"
"Not really."
He chuckled and moved in front of her, holding out both of his hands. "Let's do it this way first." She blushed and took his hands. He began to skate backwards, pulling him with her.
"You've done this before, haven't you?" She asked.
He nodded as he continued to pull her slowly. "When I was younger, my parents, Reese, and I used to come out here and skate. We stopped after..." He paused, trying to think of how to tell her. "My accident."
She met his gaze with her own. "I heard about that once. I'm sorry."
"For what?" He asked, his expression stoic.
"No person should have to go through that, especially not someone like you." She said, squeezing his hand comfortingly. "Plus, it'd take an idiot to realize that it still affects you."
He pulled her over to the side, where no one was, and stared at her for a few moments before he regained his voice. "How did you know that?"
"It's not a problem, Spencer."
"Yes, it is. No one ever notices. I take anti-depressants to make sure no one can tell. How can you tell?" He asked, voice a bit frantic.
She put a hand on his cheek. "It's okay, Spencer. You don't need to hide it. It's a part of you, and its something that has a lot of feelings, and that's okay."
"I don't think it is."
"I do." She placed a light kiss on his lips and smiled. "I think every part of you okay."
Spencer put a hand on her hand and gave her a small smile. "Thank you."
"No problem. Come on, let's skate." Alice was about to begin trying to skate again, but Spencer stopped her. "What?" She asked. He glided closer to her, and kissed her fully on the lips, shocking her, before leading her out.
Reese, who was watching from a distance, smiled. "Atta-boy, Spence."
~PRDS~
"December." Chaos said in disgust as he sat in the throne of their underground lair. "The happiest time of year."
Candelilla frowned. "Why are you sitting in Deboss's throne? He won't be pleased."
"Deboss isn't here." Chaos growled. "And I'm the head general. While he is out of commission, I am in charge. You will bow before me."
Candelilla gasped and kneeled before him. Suddenly, the doors to the throne room burst open, sending a gust of cold air into the room, along with another general that Candelilla had never seen before. The other two were following him, shouting over each other and threatening the stranger with their weapons.
"Master Chaos, we..." Aigaron began, but was cut off by the head general.
"Endolf." He said, looking at the stranger with a smirk. "You have arrived."
"Yes, I finally made it." Endolf nodded. "I came as soon as I could. I apologize for my last warrior failing you but..."
"Don't apologize. Karyudosu was a good warrior until the gold brat destroyed him. I assume you brought me a warrior." Chaos said greedily.
Endolf nodded. "I did. Yanasanta!" He called, and on cue, an alien walked in, modeled after Christmas. "This warrior takes away the happiness from people during the holidays and can use it against the rangers."
Chaos smiled. "Excellent."
~PRDS~
Alice watched the other rangers, Nathan, and Kristi ice skate as she sipped at her hot chocolate. Spencer sat beside her, but he was looking at the humongous tree in the middle of the town square.
"You like the tree?" Alice asked, noticing where he was looking.
He nodded. "It's amazing. I came here once and took a picture in front of that tree with Reese and a fake Santa. It was one of the best days of my childhood."
She smiled. "I bet. I took a picture in front of that tree once too. I was with my brothers and we were arguing, so in the photo we were all glaring at each other. It's actually pretty funny." She laughed, remembering that day fondly.
Alice then shivered a bit, and Spencer wrapped an arm around her. "Are you cold?"
"Just a little." She smiled, leaning into him more and accepting the warmth.
From a bit away, Robin and Jesse watched them as they both glided on the ice; Jesse a bit wobbly. "They're so cute together." She let go of Jesse's hand to look at them and Jesse slipped on the ice and fell, knocking her over on the way down.
"Jesse!" She scolded. "I told you to say near the sides."
"Well it's not my fault you were holding my hand."
"You guys need some help?" Matt asked, holding out his hands and helping them up.
"Thanks." They smiled.
"No problem." He smirked at the green ranger.
"What?"
"I found out something of importance." Matt chuckled. "When were you planning to tell us that your birthday is coming up."
Jesse rolled his eyes. "It's not important."
"Yeah it is!" Robin exclaimed. "I didn't know your birthday was coming up! Oh my God, this changes everything! What day?"
Jesse crossed his arms. "I'm not telling you guys." He began to skate towards the edge, but Scott and Nathan crashed into him, making the three fall down.
Matt and Robin chuckled. "We'll find out." Matt said.
"Yeah, and when we do, we'll have some fun with it." She smirked.
~PRDS~
Meanwhile, Yanasanta watched the town square and raised up his staff. Suddenly, happiness from many people began to come out of their bodies, and they fell to the ground, including Robin and Alice.
"Alice!" Spencer cried, catching her before she hit the ground and lowering her gently.
"Robin!" Jesse yelled, diving forward and catching her before skating around various other people who were also unconscious and stumbling over to Spencer and Alice in his skates. He laid Robin down next to Alice and checked her pulse. Finding it normal, he looked around, finding that everyone else beside the remaining rangers were on the floor.
"Nathan?" Scott asked, tapping his cheek lightly.
Mason had thrown his skates off and ran over, laying Kristi down as well.
Spencer looked up and ran over to his brother. "Great." He muttered, checking his brother's pulse, thankfully finding it normal. "Who did this?" Spencer asked, looking around.
"It must have been a monster." Matt said.
"Obviously." Mason nodded. "But how come it didn't get us too? I mean, it got everyone else."
"Maybe it wants to see how well just us guys do against it." Jesse suggested.
"Then why would it happen to everyone else in the town square?" James asked, frowning.
"Well, we're not going to help anyone standing here. Lets get them to AD." Matt said.
"But what about Kristi?" Mason asked. "She doesn't know about us."
Matt sighed. "You're gonna have to leave her here. I'm sorry."
"It's fine." Mason pursed his lips. "Let's just go."
~PRDS~
Later, the remaining rangers sat in the living room, discussing plans. "I say we split up." Scott said to Matt. "You and me, Spencer and Jesse, and James and Mason and we can go find this son of a bitch and destroy him."
"It's not that simple." Matt said. He opened his mouth to speak, but Mason cut him off.
"It is that simple. I agree with Scott, we should split up and look for him. And even if we don't find him, he's bound to come for us."
"Mason's right." Jesse nodded. "I think we should do it."
Matt threw his hands up in surrender. "Alright, let's do it. If anything happens, call for help, okay?"
All five nodded and they all split up as they ran out of AD.
Meanwhile, Liela was dealing with the four in the infirmary. "Do you guys want some water?" She asked. The four had been unbelievably grouchy since they woke up, and Liela was getting tired of it.
She walked up to Robin and offered her some water, but the pink ranger scoffed. "Do I have to wait all day or are you gonna hand it to me?"
Liela took a deep breath to calm herself and balanced the tray of water in one hand before handing Robin a glass of water and doing the same for Alice, Reese, and Nathan.
"Does it taste okay, or do you want special water?" Liela sneered as the four gulped down their water.
"I'm surprised. Something you gave us actually tastes good." Alice retorted, but the four soon dropped the glasses on the floor and fell back into the bed, unconscious just as Kyro walked in.
"Liela, what happened? They were fine a minute ago!" Kyro exclaimed.
"I slipped some strong sleeping pills into their water." She answered smugly. "They were being assholes."
Kyro sighed and rubbed his temples. "Why do I put up with you?"
~PRDS~
Jesse and Spencer walked through the park, looking around carefully, making sure they wouldn't become victims for the monster.
"If I was a vicious monster, where would I hide?" Jesse questioned, looking around a tree.
Spencer rolled his eyes. "They're hardly vicious, and I doubt one would hide behind a tree." He chuckled.
"You never know." Jesse laughed as he sat down under the tree.
"What are you doing?" Spencer asked, his demeanor changing almost instantly.
Jesse's eyebrows shot up in surprise, not having heard Spencer talk in that tone in a while. "Just taking a break. What's wrong?"
Spencer shook his head. "Nothing." He sat down beside his best friend.
Jesse looked at him seriously. "Are you sure?"
Spencer gave him a small smile. "Yeah, I'm positive."
"Aww, how sweet. Two best friends showing how much they care about each other." Yanasanta sneered in disgust.
The two jumped up from their spots and pulled out their morphers.
"Dino Squad, Power Up!"
"Power of the Stegosaurus!"
"Power of the Velociraptor!"
Jesse was about to run forward, but Spencer caught his arm. "Should we call for back up?"
"It's cool, we can handle it." Jesse smiled from behind his helmet.
Spencer was about to say something, but Jesse ran forward before he could get any words out. Jesse flipped over some Zorima as they came onto the field, and slashed his sword at the monster. Yanasanta caught his sword and ripped it from his hand, throwing it to the side. He punched Jesse hard a few times in the ribs before throwing him to the side. Jesse clutched his chest painfully, remembering that only two weeks ago he had broken and bruised some of his ribs.
Spencer, meanwhile, was trying to get through the massive army of Zorima. Spencer grabbed one by the arm and spun it around, knocking down many of the others. He then jumped up and shot at them before flipping through the air and striking Yanasanta on the head as he came down.
Yanasanta grabbed the blue ranger by the neck and held him up as he squirmed to get free.
"Let him go!" Scott yelled as he and Matt ran up and blasted the alien back, making him drop Spencer to the ground. The blue ranger coughed as he tried to catch his breath. Jesse went over to him and helped him while Matt and Scott fought Yanasanta.
Scott jumped up and blasted Yanasanta again, but the alien fired a laser at Scott and he flew back through the air, and the others knew he was out of the fight.
Matt slashed at his staff, but Yanasanta put it behind his back and allowed himself to get hit, rather than his staff. Yanasanta then brought his staff out and slashed the red ranger with it, making him fall back. Yanasanta kicked him away just as the gold and cyan rangers came running onto the field.
Yanasanta shot a laser at them, but the two jumped up and blasted him instead. Then, Spencer and Jesse recovered and came running in, both slashing him with their swords at the same time before Matt blasted him back, which broke his staff and finished him off.
Scott came stumbling out of the trees and Jesse and Spencer ran over to him, catching him as he tripped and nearly fell. "We need to get him back to AD."
"Right." Matt nodded, but a rumbling sound interrupted them.
"What the hell?" Mason whispered as Yanasanta stood once again and then suddenly, he was 60 feet tall.
"No way! That's impossible!" Jesse cried, pointing up at it and almost losing his grip on Scott, who was now barely conscious.
"Leave him here, I know what we have to do." James said, and as Jesse and Spencer were about to protest, James spoke up again. "Prop him up against a tree, this is more important!"
The two sighed as did as the gold ranger ordered, and as they came back, James walked forward and called out, "Spirit Arise, Zord Mode!"
Suddenly, James' pterodactyl spirit rose up and became mechanical. He jumped up and landed inside the cockpit, standing up in front of a podium with various controls on it. The inside of his zord was gold with two large open pterodactyl mouths opening towards the eyes, which is what he saw out of. There was also a little screen in the corner split into 11 pictures, all of which were blank for the moment, since no one else was in their zords.
"Whoa!" Mason smiled. "That's amazing!"
"Let's do it, guys!" Matt yelled.
"Spirit Arise, Zord Mode!" They called, and the same thing happened to them, and all of their zords were color coded according to them.
"This is crazy!" Spencer yelled, smiling under his helmet.
"No kidding!" Jesse agreed.
"Focus, guys, we have work to do!" Matt ordered.
The tyrannosaurus zord ran forward, shooting lasers from its mouth. It's large jaws then clamped down on the alien's arm and threw him through the air towards Jesse and Spencer, who blasted him equally as much.
The stegosaurus motioned towards Yanasanta with its head and the raptor zord nodded before running forward and kicking the alien through the air at James, who caught him in the feet before dropping him on top of Mason's zord, which spun with sharp spikes before it flew off of the ankylosaurus zord's back and landed on top of a building, which was crushed.
"I hope no people were inside that building." Mason cringed.
Despite the beatings, Yanasanta stood up and blasted the zords as they came together. The rangers cried out as they were thrown around their cockpits and tried desperately to hang onto the podiums to stay standing.
"What are we gonna do know? We've done everything we can!" Matt cried.
"We could form a megazord, but without Alice, Robin, and Scott, we can't!" James called out in horror.
"Someone call for help?" Robin asked as she and Alice came out with their zords.
"What about Scott?" Jesse asked, and then they saw the black ranger's zord running up.
"I'm here." He called weakly, barely standing in his zord with his injuries from Yanasanta.
"You guys ready for this?" James asked. The rangers nodded. "Alright, Jesse and Scott, you're zords will combine with mine, Alice and Mason's zords can combine, and Matt, Spencer, and Robin's will." He took a deep breath and called out, "Zords Combine, Pterodactyl Western!"
"Zords Combine, Tyrannosaurus Megazord!" Matt called.
"Zords Combine, Plesiosaurus-Ankylo Megazord!" Alice called.
The Pterodactyl Western formed first, the pterodactyl zord's wings coming off to form suitable legs and the raptor and parasaurolophus zords forming into arms, which sank into the sockets formed when the wings came off. The parasaurolophus zord became a blaster with the left arm and the raptor became a hand with sharp, sword like fingers. The three appeared inside a cockpit together, with their podiums lit up to their respective colors.
The Tyrannosaurus Megazord formed next, with the stegosaurus and triceratops zords becoming arms on the tyrannosaurus zord, which had put the head of the zord in the middle of it's chest with a blaster sticking out and its arms coming up to form a helmet for the head of the megazord. The stegosaurus zord had become a normal arm for the zord while the triceratops zord became a drill. The three appeared inside their cockpit, podiums lit up to their respective colors.
Finally, the Plesiosaurus-Ankylo Megazord formed, with the plesiosaurus zord becoming its own megazord because of it's massive size, though leaving room for the ankylosaurus zord which formed into it's left arm, in the form of a hammer. The two appeared inside their cockpit, their podiums lit up with their own respective colors.
The three zords stood side by side and stared menacingly at Yanasanta.
The Plesiosaurus-Ankylo Megazord moved first, running at the alien before hitting it over the head with its hammer and moving to the side. Then, the Pterodactyl Western ran towards it, blasting it back before slicing it with it's sharp fingers. Finally, the Tyrannosaurus Megazord ran up and grabbed Yanasanta before drilling into it's abdomen, destroying it.
The rangers all jumped for joy as Yanasanta exploded, but inside of the Pterodactyl Western, Scott's knees gave out and he collapsed from his injuries.
~PRDS~
Three days later, it was finally Christmas, and the rangers sat around the living room, opening presents and smiling as they did so, but Jesse wasn't smiling, and he wasn't opening any presents either, in fact, hadn't even gotten any.
Spencer looked over at him and nudged him. "What's wrong, Jesse?"
"There's nothing for me?" He questioned, looking around the room, feeling hurt.
Robin smirked and stood up. "Hold on." She ran out of the room, and Matt turned off the lights, making Jesse frown.
"What is this?" He asked, looking around at everyone, who smiled brighter. Alice came behind him and covered his eyes.
And then he heard it. Robin and the others began to sing "Happy Birthday" to him, and when it was over, Alice removed her hands from his eyes and he smiled. On the table in front of him was a lone cupcake with green wrapping and a card.
"What's this?" He asked, picking up the card.
"Open it." Robin encouraged.
Jesse gave her a smirk and suspicious look, and opened it.
Go to the front yard.
-Rangers
Was all that was written on the card.
He looked around the room suspiciously and walked to the front with everyone in tow. He opened the door, letting in a blast of cold air and snow, and he gasped loudly and looked back at the rangers.
"A motorcycle?" He asked, eyes shining brightly.
"It's a dirt bike, actually." Robin said as they walked out into the snow and towards his new motorcycle. "You could ride it on the streets, but there's also a long beach right there if you ever wanna just have fun or try out tricks."
Jesse smiled. "You guys all pitched to get this for me?" They nodded.
"Do you like it?" Scott asked.
Jesse grabbed as many of them as he could and engulfed them into a hug before letting go and picking up Robin, spinning her around and kissing her.
"This is the best gift anyone has ever given me. Thanks, guys." Jesse sat on it sideways with Robin on his lap. "I think we all can agree that this has been the best Christmas we've ever had by far."
"Agree." The rangers held up their hot cocoa for a cheers and sipped away.
Yup, I've finally given them zords. I really don't like zords all that much, but I figured I'd try it out. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year guys, I'll see you next year.
Next time on Power Rangers Dino Squad: Robin's older sister Payton comes to town to visit and overhears her sister trying to talk someone into buying from a bake sale, and thinks she has great potential for business, which leads to her wanting to bring her to Cambridge to try and get her into a high school near Harvard so she can be a business woman like her. Robin initially wants to refuse, but when she finds out that Payton lives with Michelle, their mother, Robin has to decide between leaving for Cambridge or staying to be a ranger.