Chapter Two: Colorful Spandex
a/n: a reviewer brought it to my attention that I failed to mention that this AU and that it runs on an adujusted timeline for this story. I am so thankful that they brought this up because I myself hadn't even realized it, for more information on that, please go back to chapter one and read the author's note at the beginning of the chapter. Thank you so much. :)
"How long have you been there Tommy?" I asked my godfather curiously.
I didn't even notice the strange looks that Kira, Conner, and Ethan gave me when I called Tommy, Tommy instead of Dr. Oliver. Instead I realized why I had thought that I had seen the room we found the gems in a hundred times, because I have. That room is Tommy's basement.
"Long enough to see that the dino gems chose the right people." Tommy said with the same knowing smile. "Let's head back to my jeep, we can all go to my house and I can explain everything. Oidee, why don't you call your dad? I get the feeling he'll want to be here for this." Tommy finished with a mischievous smile.
I nodded and pulled out my cell phone, as I called Dad to tell him to come over to Tommy's house right away. After I spoke to him quickly, we all walked to Tommy's jeep.
Going down to Tommy's basement via the stairs was much less creep than the underground route.
"This room should look familiar, it's my basement, but it is also where you guys found the dino gems." Tommy said as he sat down at a desk that had a ton of computers around it.
"Why are these stone thingies called dino gems Dr. O?" Conner asked.
"They're called dino gems because-"Tommy began, but was interrupted abruptly by Dad.
"Oh my goodness Tommy, you sound exactly like you are about to give a Billy speech that it is ridiculous." Dad said interrupting and clapping Tommy on the shoulder.
"Everyone, this is Jason Lee Scott, Odette's dad, and my best friend." Tommy began. "Back to the dino gems. All of the dino gems are from prehistoric times, when dinosaurs roamed the world. They carry energy from a certain type of dinosaur, and the experimentation on one caused, all of the others to become active. It was another one of those experiments that caused what you were fighting earlier, the tyrannaodrones to come to be." Tommy added pausing.
"Wait- you created those things?" Kira asked in disbelief.
"Inadvertently yes. I was working with Anton Mercer a few years ago…" Tommy began.
At the mention of the last name Mercer, I looked at Dad curiously. I had no idea that Tommy had worked with Anton Mercer, and from the looks of it, neither had Dad. I found this incredibly strange, and by the time I realized I needed to be listening to what Tommy was explaining, he was done.
"The dino gems have the power of a specific dinosaur or prehistoric animal, most of them are dinosaurs. The power with these gems, in addition to the dino morphers, will give you four the ability to become power rangers
My jaw dropped, I had a feeling that this was going to happen, but now that it was actually happening I couldn't believe it. I looked up to Dad, I saw his eyes shining and brimming with the same happy pride that was in his eyes every time I won a karate competition or got a good grade in school. My father is the one that taught me to walk, to talk, how to read, how to write, how to fight. I only remember there ever being the two of us. Mom died in a car accident when I was almost a year old, so it only has been the two of us.
"So that's why I'm here." Dad said with a smile and a laugh.
"In this box are your Dino Thunder morphers, when combined with your dino gems they allow you to tap into the gems powers, and become the Dino Thunder Power Rangers. Odette, you have the-." Tommy began only to be interrupted by Dad once again.
"Tommy, may I?" Dad asked with pride brimming in his eyes. Tommy nodded handing one of the morphers in the box to Dad. "What dinosaur?" He asked curiously.
"She is your daughter." Tommy said with an eye roll and a proud smile.
Dad's eyes swelled with even more pride as realization dawned on him. He took the morpher and held it up offering it to me, and then he spoke. "Odette, you have been chosen by the red dino gem, you will not only be the leader of this ranger team, but you will possess the powers of the Tyrannosaurus and be the Red Dino Thunder Ranger, wielding the Tyranna sword, which we will talk about later." Dad said with a wink handing me the morpher.
"Thanks Daddy." I said giving him a big hug before returning to the line of Kira, Conner, and Ethan.
I understood the pride brimming from his eyes. Dad had been the first red ranger on Earth, and his powers had come from the Tyrannosaurus Power coin, now here I am, a red ranger, the first girl red ranger, with the powers of the Tyrannosaurus. I'm following in Dad's footsteps, how could he not be proud of that?
"Conner, you have been chosen by the green dino gem, giving you the power of the Velocoraptor, making you the Green Dino Thunder Ranger, and giving you the power to wield the Veloco staff." Tommy said with a smile handing Conner the green morpher. "Ethan, you have been chose by the blue dino gem, giving you the power of the Triceratops, and are the Blue Dino Thunder Ranger. You also have the power to control the Tricera Shield." Tommy added with another smile handing Ethan the blue morpher. "Kira, you have been chosen by the yellow dino gem, giving you the power of the Pteryodactyl, making you the Yellow Dino Thunder Ranger, and giving you the power to control the Pterya Grips." Tommy said handing Kira the yellow morpher. "You four make up the Power Rangers Dino Thunder team." Tommy finished with a huge smile.
I felt an overwhelming sense of pride in myself and all four of us. I am a power ranger now, just like my Dad, just like my dead mother. I am part of something so much bigger than myself now and I can't wait to fight it out with all the villains and monsters, protecting the human race.
All of a sudden a loud blaring noise enveloped the basement, I've heard enough ranger stories to know exactly what is going on, some monster is attacking the city.
"What is that blaring noise? It's worse than Odette's Tyranno Roar thing." Conner said complaining in a badly trying to be funny way that somehow managed to be funny.
"That Conner is the alarm alerting us that something is attacking the city, it looks like Zeltrax is attakcing the town center with a group of tyrannadrones." Tommy said pulling up a screen showing a live feed of tyrannadrones, and a creepy cyborg looking thing scaring towns people in the town center.
"We need to get down there and help those people." I said fervently.
"So we morph now then right?" Ethan asked curiously, all of us turning to face Tommy.
"Well, there are some-."
"Tommy, just let them morph first, you can explain your points afterwards. Yes, Ethan you morph." Dad interrupted. Putting his hand over Tommy's mouth to keep him from saying anything. I swear the two of them act more like teenage boys when they are together, than the grown men they are.
"Ready?" I asked turning back to look at Conner, Ethan, and Kira, my fellow rangers, to see if they were ready.
"Ready." The three of them replied and nodded.
"Power Rangers, Dino Thunder, power up. Ha!" All four of us said at the same time smashing our dino gems into the morphers.
The next thing I knew I was looking at Dad, Tommy, and my fellow rangers through a slightly tinted sheild. I looked down and saw that I was in completely red spandex. Well almost completely red. On all outer sides of my body there were what would be called white spikes if they were off my uniform but instead they were lying flat. The uniform also had a red skirt that cut off just after my butt and crotch area. I looked over at Kira and saw that she had the same skirt as well. I looked to my chest, on it was a golden circle that had a dinosaur print on it.
I looked around quickly and saw that Kira's uniform was exactly the same as mine except yellow, and that Conner and Ethan's were basically the same design but with no skirt, and in green and blue respectively.
"This is so cool." Ethan said excitedly. I could tell that he was just squirming with the excitement from the fact that he was now essentially a super hero.
"Rangers, I am going to teleport you to the town center right now. When you are done fighting touch the eyes of the dinosaur on your morpher and we will teleport you back here. Good luck rangers." Tommy said preparing to teleport the four of us into our first battle.
"May the power protect you." Dad and Tommy said together as Tommy pushed the teleport button.
Being teleported is not the most fun thing ever, but it is not bad. It took less than a second for the four of us to rematerialize in the town center, in the heat and center of the action.
"Well, don't just stand there. The fighting should be just like before in the woods, it'll come naturally through the power of the gems." I began to explain quickly. I knew that underneath their helements they were all giving me some very flustered and confused looks. They had no idea that I've been raised on Ranger stories and am the daughter of two rangers, however now was not the time to tell them, nor the place. "Well come on then, let's fight these suckers." I said revved up and ready to fight.
For some reason that got them into the action. I fought against a flurry of tyrannadrones, easily taking some of them out and finding more difficulty with others. I soon found myself standing up against the cyborg alone.
"Tyranna Sword!" I shouted, the sword materializing in my hands.
It took me a split second, but I realized what exactly this sword was. It's the Power Sword that Dad and Rocky used back in the Mighty Morphin, or 'Good Ole Days'. It is immensely powerful and I couldn't believe that I was holding it in my hands.
"You are Tommy Oliver's god daughter." The cyborg said in a monotoned voice, not even realizing the great power of the object I held in my hands.
"I prefer Odette, but that works too." I said sarcastically bringing up my sword to prepare for the fight that was sure to occur.
"I am Zeltrax. I have a score to settle with your godfather." Zeltrax said raising his sword to the level of his eye.
"He's not here right now, but I can give you his message." I replied with more sarcasm, preparing my sword for battle.
Zeltrax made the first move, clashing his sword down onto mine causing sparks to come off of both swords. I managed to get my sword up and I made the next move, my sword clashing against his.
Zeltrax and I continued to battle, swords clashing, sparks flying with an ocasional kick or punch thrown in. Every chance I got I looked over to Ethan, Conner, and Kira to see how they were fairing. All of them were holding their own pretty well.
Zeltrax seemed to be convinced that fighting me would settle whatever score he had with Tommy. If anyone with less karate and fighting training than I had been fighting against him, they would be critically injured if not dead by now.
Then Zeltrax did the one thing I'd been hoping and praying would happen, he faltered. It was just a half second, but it lead to him losing his balance for a split second, enough for him to bring his sword down and lower his defenses, giving me the upper hand.
"Fighting me is not going to settle your score with my godfather Zeltrax, just give up already." I said, my sword pointed and almost on his part robotic neck.
"Plus there's a new good in town." Conner began.
"And you bad guys better beware." Ethan added.
"Because we intend to stay." Kira finished.
Zeltrax had a quick look of panic before calming himself down and disappearing in cloud of green light along with the tyrannadrones. I couldn't help but wonder what his beef with Tommy was, Tommy is one of those people who tends to get along with everyone, so anyone holding a grudge against him is very strange, odd, and unusual.
"Are you guys ready to teleport back?" I asked my fellow rangers.
The three of them nodded and we all pressed the eyes of our respective dinosaurs on our morphers at the same time. Our bodies dematerialized and rematerialize right in Tommy's basement.
"Power down." All four of us said together, returning back to our normal appearances.
As we started to chat excitedly about the fight, all thoughts of why Zeltrax had a death wish out for Tommy faded from my mind. All I could think of was how well the four of us had worked together, and we had won our first fight as rangers. The following battles were going to be harder and some were going to be easier, but it didn't matter what foe we faced, because we are a team, and will always help each other and work together.
"If I may." Tommy said interrupting us. All of us gave him our immediate attention, turning our heads and bodies to face him. "There are a few things I need to say. I was going to say them before, but someone, who is Odette's father, stopped me…" Tommy said sticking his tongue out at Dad.
Dad stuck his tongue back out at Tommy, resulting in a bickering argument that include crude gestures insults, and quite a few curse words, between the two of them.
"TOMMY!" I shouted authoritatively, getting them both to be quiet. "Don't let him get to you. DAD! Stop instigating!" I finished shouting. "Now please get back to your point." I added looking at Tommy.
"Thank you Oidee. Now, my points. If any of you don't want to be a part of this, now is the time to walk away. Does anyone feel that way?" Tommy asked, ignoring the funny faces that Dad had been making at him the whole time he spoke.
I looked around at all of us new rangers. I knew innnately that before we had morphed all three of them had their doubts as to whether or not they wanted to be a part of this, I had even had my doubts as well, wondering if I was good enough to lead the team successfully. But now, I know that they aren't going to give it up, or turn their backs on this. Based off of all the ranger stories I know, and now from my own experience, I know that once you save that first person, you can't give it up.
"Okay, now the rules. Do not reveal your identities to anyone unless it is completely necessary and unavoidable, only escalate a fight when your opponent does, and never misuse the power. If you four accept these responsibilities and rules than you will officially begin your lives as power rangers. Do you accept?" Tommy asked.
"I do." I said quickly, without thought. Placing my hand in the middle of the semi-circle we were standing in.
"Me too." Kira said with a smile, putting her hand in as well.
"Being a super hero? Hell yes!" Ethan said adding his hand in as well.
Conner looked around before answering with, "I'll give it a shot." And putting his hand in.
"Dino Thunder!" We all shouted together throwing our hands up and laughing at what we had just done.
It was then that our morphers glowed their respective colors and turned into silver cuffs with our dino gems on them.
"Dr. O, what happened?" Kira asked curiously.
"When you aren't in need of the morphers they transform into those bracelets, which also work as communicators, and will turn back into the morphers when they are needed." Tommy answered with a smile.
"Billy or Hayley?" Dad asked jokingly and he and Tommy started bickering and fighting once again.
"So the Power Sword? How did that happen?" I asked Dad that night, before we both went to bed.
I was sitting on my new bed in my completely red pajamas. My hair was up in a messy bun on the very top of my head, and my laptop was sitting in front of me on my bed.
"Well, when I came back during the Zeo Team, Rocky gave it to me, told me that it belonged to me and not him. It had been in our old basement back in Angel Grove for years. A few months ago, after I decided we were moving to Reefside, Tommy contacted me, and asked if I could drive up and give it to him, he wanted it for some project he was working on. I didn't get it until this afternoon, when I realized you have the powers of the Tyrannosaurus. I think Tommy knew all along that the red dino gem was going to pick you." Dad said with a soft proud smile. "If your mom was still alive, she would be so proud of you Ode." Dad said as he kissed me on the forehead, and said, "Goodnight."
"Night Dad." I answered as he left the room.
I pulled my laptop closer to me, opened my email and saw that I had a new one from Trent. Trent and I have been best friends since we were seven, and lived next to each other the whole time I lived in Angel Grove. But the moment that I found out that Dad and I were moving to Reefside was when I happened to realize that maybe my feelings for Trent weren't as platonic as I once thought.
I clicked on the email, opened it, and began reading it, excited to see what my artistic best friend had to tell me about his life.
From: Trent Mercer
To: Odette Lee Scott
Oidee,
You will never believe what Dad just told me at dinner (he was actually at dinner today, which is an amazing feat in its own right), Dad and I are moving to Reefside. He said something about there being some activity or something sciencey sounding that he wanted to look into more, so we are moving there over the weekend and I'll be starting at Reefside High next Monday. Didn't I tell you that nothing could keep us apart?
I can't wait to see you again,
Trent
It was on that happy and exciting note that I shut my laptop, put it on the ground, and leaned back to turn off my bedside lamp, trying to figure out what I was going to say when I replied tomorrow.
As I leaned back to turn off the light, I caught a glance of the picture frame on my bedside table. The picture was of Mom, Dad, and I. Mom's long blonde hair was flowing down covering my small body slightly and Dad had an arm wrapped around her shoulder. They were both smiling, and they had somehow gotten Kim to take the picture mid-laugh for me. We all looked so happy. The picture had been taken two months before the car accident that claimed my mother's life. I wish I could've gotten to know my mom, she had so much more of a life to live, Dad and her were only 20 when I was born, and she never got a chance to really know me and I never got a chance to really know her. I wish she was still alive to see me now, to see me become a power ranger, to follow in Dad's footsteps, and her footsteps, even though I am not a pink ranger like she was.
After I turned the lamp off, I laid back against my pillows. I fell asleep with the thought that Mom was seeing me become a power ranger, she was somewhere watching over me, making sure that I was always safe, and being proud of me, no matter what I did. She is always watching.
a/n: I would just like to thank everyone who reviewed, favorited, and added this story to their stories alerts so much. It feels so great to write for a fandom that you love, and have people give you could feedback after you first write a story for it. I will try and update this at least once a week, but it really depends on how much time I have write, which is limited because Senior Year involves way too much homework especially with the courses I am taking. Thank you so much to brankel1 for helping me figure out exactly who Odette's mom is! :) Speaking of which does anyone (other than brankel1) think they know who her mom is? If so let me know in the review, and I will tell you if you are right or wrong! Thanks for reading y'all and please remember to review!
xoxo,
Lexi