Last time on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers!
"So, does that mean we won?" Rocky asked still looking at the Viewing Globe. "I would not say we have won. If I know Zedd and Rita, they will be back. I don't know when, but they will be back." The Rangers, and Jon, turned around to face Zordon. "For now we just have to keep on guard because you never know when they might come back. For now, go on with your lives as planned and I will contact you if anything else comes about." He looked at Jon. "Jonathan. Be safe and I hope we won't be needing you again." Jon nodded. "As much as I liked being a Ranger, I hope I'm not needed either." The Rangers got into a single line and teleported out of the Command Center. Alpha looked up at Zordon when they were gone. "Do you really think they will be back, Zordon?" He looked down at him. "Yes, Alpha. They will be back, the question is, When?"
Chapter 2
3 Years Later
An older looking Jon got out of his car and walked towards Angel Grove High for the first day of his Senior Year. He walked up to a girl who was talking with a few other girls. He put his hands over her eyes. "Guess who?" He asked in a childish voice. "Um, the cutest guy ever?" The girl replied giggling. "Wow, you're good." Jon said. "Yeah, I know." They both chuckled as the girl turned around and looked at Jon in the eyes and leaned up and kissed him. They hugged and then started to walk towards the school. Another girl walked past them and waved to the girl. "Hey, Stacy!" The girl Jon was walking with looked in the other girls direction and waved back. "Hey, Jess!" Stacy looked away from Jess and back at Jon. "So, how was the camping thing you went on?" She asked him as she turned to look in the direction they were walking. "It was okay I guess. My younger cousins were kind of annoying." Jon replied shrugging. "Well Isn't that what cousins are for? They are like brothers and sisters, but not." "Yeah. I guess you're right." "I'm always right. I thought you knew that by now?" "Oh yeah. I guess I'll have to remember that next time." "Good. I'll expect you too." "Okay, then I guess you deserve this." Jon then twirled Kim around and grabbed her by her sides and started to tickle her profusely. Stacey started to laugh controllably. "Hey! That's...no...fair!"
Stacey tried to run away, but Jon was ready and lifted her off the ground while still tickling her. Someone hit him in the back of the head and at the same time he let go of Stacey. Jon turned around to see who it was. "What did I tell you about picking on girls?" It was Tommy. Jon basically gave him a confused yet excited look."Tommy?" Jon, not paying attention to what Tommy said, pointed at Tommy's head. "You cut your hair?" "I'll explain the hair later and that's Mr. Oliver to you." "Oh. Well excuuuuse me! And this isn't just ANY girl. This is my girlfriend Stacy." "Stacy, huh? She reminds me of my ex-girlfriend, Kim. She was the love of my life, that is until she moved to practice for the Pan Global Games." "Oh, dude. Man, I'm sorry." "Yeah, well all is good because she is back and we dated a while. And as of last Friday we are now engaged." "Congratulations, Mr. Oliver!" Stacey said joyfully. She then looked at her watch. "Oh, I've got to go catch up with Jessica. See-ya later?" "Definitely." Jon said. Jon and Stacy kissed and Stacy ran off to see her friends.
"Quite a catch you got there." Tommy said as he pointed at Stacy running away from them. "You two look like me and Kim when we were your age." "Yeah, I know. She's great." Jon said as he was mesmerized by Stacy. He quickly snapped out of it and turned to Tommy. "Oh, one thing. Why do I have to call you "Mr. Oliver"?" "After I graduated I went to college and I started going for a teaching degree. I just entered my second year of college and second years can apply for internships." "Oh, I see. So what happened with the whole "You-know-who-thing"?" Tommy leaned in so he and Jon only hear the conversation. "Since they left we have heard nothing from them. But Alpha and Zordon have been keeping an eye on them. And even though Alpha and Zordon took our morphers for safe keeping, just in case, we still have our communicators." "Oh, I know." Jon rolled up his sleeve a showed him that he was still wearing the green communicator. "I'm not sure if you should still be wearing that." Tommy said pointing at the communicator. "You don't have powers anymore." "If you didn't notice, you don't either." Jon said. "You said it yourself that they took your morphers." "Yes, how that is true, we still have our Ninja powers. So, even though we can't morph we can still use power. I'll explain more later." "Yeah, you're gonna have to, I'm gonna be late for class." "What class?" "Science." "Oh, well I'll walk you there." They started to walk towards the school. "Why would you walk me there?" Jon asked. "Because." Tommy said throwing an arm around Jon. "It's my first class, too." They both had a small laugh and walked through the school's front door. The bell rang and they started sprint down the hall.
A loud rumble could be heard coming from the space above the moon. Then a picture of a skull showed just above the moon. A loud laugh echoed across the galaxy...
Jon and Tommy ran into the room, but Jon was first. He ran into the classroom and sat down in his chair. Tommy followed him and sat in the chair next to him. He put his head on the desk and tried to catch his breathe. Someone in the front of the room cleared their throat. Tommy looked up to see the whole class, including Jon, staring at them as well as a slightly over-weight female, who was obviously the one who cleared her throat.
"Excuse me, Mr. Oliver?" The woman asked. Tommy then realized that he wasn't a student anymore. "Sorry Ms. Applebee, I forgot I was teacher now and not a student. Force of old habit." Tommy got up nervously and walked towards the front of the room. "It's alright, but don't let it happen again..." She thought for a second. "...or again. Now that you are a teacher you have to set the rules not me." Tommy finally reached the front of the room. "I understand Ms. Applebee. I'll remember that." "Good!" She turned towards the class. "Okay class, as you must have heard me mention before, this is your new Science Teacher. I'll let you introduce yourself."
"Thank you, Ms. Applebee." Ms. Applebee left the room, and Tommy put his briefcase on the teacher's desk. He took out a few pieces of paper and placed them on the desk. He looked up and looked at the class. Jon was sitting in the back of the room with his hand in the air with his pointer finger extended and twirling it as if to say "hurry up". Tommy noticed Jon's motion and came back to reality. "Oh, right. Well, where should we begin?" He opened the text book and looked at the first chapter. "Ah! Jurassic era Dinosaurs! Well, I have plenty of experience with that! Okay, let's get started!"
The Giant skull that was floating above the moon finally came down and landed on the moon. Low-dramatic music is heard in the background (think Zedd's music). An evil laugh is heard in the background. A giant chair was in the middle of the room with a big "Z" on it. The chair rotated and revealed Zedd sitting in the chair. He started to laugh loudly, but was interrupted by a loud clang off to the side.
The view changed to an angry Master Vile standing off to the side. "What do you think you are doing sitting in my chair?" Zedd looked at him from the chair. "What do you mean your chair? Didn't you see the Z on the back?" Vile walked to the back of the chair and he ripped something off of the back. He walked back into view in front of Zedd. "You mean this Z?" Vile was holding a piece of paper with a bit of stone residue on the back of it. "Well? What do you expect me to do? You took away my chair! What was I supposed to do?" Vile took a step forward. "What are you supposed to do?" He threw down the piece of paper. "I'll tell you what you're supposed to do! You have to get out of my chair so I can think of a good way to make earth pay for all the time that they weren't in fear!" Zedd got up and started to walk out. "Fine! But mark my words! I will get my chair back!" Zedd left the room and Vile was alone to think.
Back at School
Tommy was still standing in front of the class was explaining some things. "In conclusion, although Dinosaurs were as big as skyscrapers, they started out as small tiny lizards about the size of your pinky finger." The bell, that signals the end of the period, rings. Tommy closed his book. "Okay class, read chapters one and two and tomorrow we'll see who actually read them. See-ya tomorrow."
The class cleared out except for Jon who walked up to Tommy who was now sitting at the desk. Tommy looked up to acknowledge Jon, then looked back down at his papers. "So, how was my first day of class?" Jon looked at the papers Tommy was working with and itched his head. "Well, for one thing it's the first day all you were supposed to do was tell us what the class was gonna be like, hand us the text-book and tell us what we will need for the class." Tommy looked up quickly. "What? Why didn't you say something?" Jon put his hand behind his head. "Well, because, you were on a roll. Not to mention, you were nervous as it was and I didn't want to make you worse."
Tommy then put away his papers and stood up. "Yeah, I can see your point. Oh, well. I'll go easy tomorrow." Jon and Tommy walked out of the room together. "Oh yeah, that's another thing." Tommy looked at him. "We have your class every other day, not everyday. So you won't see us until Wednesday." Tommy stopped in his tracks. "What! Wow, a lot has changed since I went here!" Jon started to walk ahead of Tommy. "I guess so, considering you're so old now!" Tommy looked at Jon with wide eyes. "What did you say? Oh, I'll get you for that!" Jon rounded a corner and peaked his head back around. "You'll have to catch me first!" Jon went back around the corner soon followed by Tommy.
Later that night...
Master Vile was sitting in the throne room of his skull fortress. He suddenly stood up with a force that shifted the flying fortress and threw putties across the room. They landed in a heap on the floor. He looked out into space.. "I have the most brilliant idea, yet!" He then turned around and walked toward his chair. "I will send a monster down to Earth with putties and reek havoc like never before!" He finished with throwing a fist into the air in triumph. Rita, who was there the whole time, spoke up finally. "Isn't that what we have been doing for the past 3 years?" Master Vile put his fist back down and turned around to look at Rita. "Yes it is my dear daughter, but you forget one thing. There are no Power Rangers! They are so old now they won't stand a chance!" The corner of Rita's mouth turned up as she was thinking. "You know! That doesn't sound that good. You've done it again Daddy!"
Vile walked out onto a platform that was jutting out of the fortress. "Come daughter! I can not do it without you!" Rita walked out onto the platform as well. They both put their wands together and shot a beam to the Earth that hit a giant dumpster. Purple and green lightning bolts wound themselves around the dumpster and within seconds the dumpster was changed into a walking and growling monster. He stood up and stretched out as if he was sitting for a long time. The monster had a giant mouth that was the dumpster, the rest of him was just made of garbage.
From the Skull fortress Vile yelled to the monster. "Lazy Dumpkins! Hurry up and attack Angel Grove!" Dumpkins looked up and Vile. "Aw, come on! Do I have to?" Dumpkins said as he threw his arms in the air. "I just woke up and I'm hungry!" Vile laughed. "I know you are hungry! And there are many scrumptious meals awaiting you!" Dumpkins jumped in the air with excitement and started to run towards a large crowded area. He reached the beginning of the crowd and they still haven't noticed him yet, but he made himself known. "Hello, citizens of Angel Grove! I am here to eat you up!" The people in the crowd saw him and they started to take off in the another direction screaming and yelling. Dumpkins stood in place and started laughing. "Oh goody!" He said. "I always love to hunt my food first." He opened his mouth and a very long purple tongue flew out and grabbed some people. It turned them into a bunch of different colored balls and they flew into Dumpkins mouth. He closed his mouth and rubbed his belly. "Mmm! That was good!" Vile laughed and yelled down to him, "There is more where that came from!" Dumpkins then started to run after all the people who had run away in the first place.
Meanwhile...
Jon was sitting at his computer desk doing some homework when on the TV behind him they broke into a breaking news story. The newswoman came on the screen. "Good Afternoon. This is Judy Watkins, Channel 3 News. We are breaking with news coming out of downtown Angel Grove. We have news anchor Jill Barker on scene. What exactly is going on there Jill?" A young girl in Pigtails and black rimmed glasses was standing nervously in front of the camera trying to muster composure. She finally spoke, "Well Judy, what looks like a giant dumpster is walking around downtown. There have been reports of it physically eating people. I have yet to see this happen, but I am not..." Just then more screams erupted as Dumpkins ate a dozen or more people. "...Oh my god! He has just eaten more people! We now have evidence that he was and has been eating people!"
That's all Jon had to hear to turn around and watch the TV. "A monster! That can't be! But they left years ago! I have to contact..." He looked down to his wrist and saw no communicator. "What did I do with my communicator?" He thought for a second. "That's it!" But before he could react his cell phone rang. He got off his chair and picked it up. "Hello?" A girl's voice came over the other end, "Hey honey..." "Hey Stacy, listen I can't talk now I have..." "Listen, Jon do you remember that watch you gave me a while ago?" Jon's eyes widened. "Is it mostly green with some silver accents?" He asked. "Yeah, you gave it to me and asked me to take good care of it." The scene changes to Stacy in her bedroom. "Well anyways, it's beeping a strange tune." "Stacy listen to me, meet me outside your house in five minutes. I think I'm gonna need to have that watch back." Kim, with a worried face said, "Um, okay, I'll see-ya in a bit." They both hung up the phone and Stacy looked down at the Communicator with a perplexed face.
Jon ran out to his convertible and started driving at twice the speed limit. He knew he'd get a way with it since all the cops were downtown. When he arrived at Stacy's house she was outside just standing there with the communicator in hand. Jon ran up to her and took it from her. "Stacy, come with me, now. Her face got all confused and she said, "But why? Where are we going?" Jon didn't stop running and got into his car by jumping over the door. He lifted his hesitated just enough to look at Stacy. "Stacy, I can't explain right now, you have to trust me." And with that she ran down her driveway and jumped in the car.
Jon pulled out of the driveway and flew down street at the same speed he was doing earlier. Stacy braced herself for the speed. Jon's determination was getting the best of him. "Stacy, I know this will seem weird, but whatever you are about to see I have to ask for your total trust." Stacy nervously nodded her head. Jon turned into a parking lot that had people running towards them. He pulled into a dark area and got out and motioned for Stacy to come with him. They both crouched into the side of the building and watched as the monster started to eat people. Kim watched in horror. "What the heck is that thing, Jon?" Jon, still looking at the monster replied, "I don't know. But I do know who is behind this."
He brought the communicator to his mouth. "Zordon? This is Jon, come in." Stacy looked at him like he was crazy. "What are you do…" is all she managed to get out until she heard a weird voice come over the communicator. "I read you Jon. I am well aware of what's going on. Though we can not do anything as of yet. Alpha has been working on the teleportation system. You'll need to hold off what you can." Jon's head dropped. He then brought it back up and said. "Okay, I'll see what I can do here, and Alpha? Please hurry." Jon looked back at Stacy who had a very confused look on her face. "What the heck was that and who are you talking to?" He grabbed her by the shoulders and said, "I can't explain that now. What I need you to do is take all the people and bring them to safety while I hold that thing off." Her eyes got a little watery. "But, what if that thing hurts you?" Jon took his finger and wiped the tears away. "You have to trust me on this. Besides didn't I tell you that I would never leave you?" She smiled at his comment then squinted her eyes. "Let's show ugly what it's like to mess with us!" Jon smiled and said, "That's my girl! Now let's go, but remember, be careful." She nodded her head and they split up.
A little boy was running away from the monster and fell down. He moved back on his butt to try and get away, but the monster just kept moving up. The monster took in a breath and was about to let loose a beam to eat him when Jon jumped out and kicked the monster just before the beam came out. The monster landed on the ground and looked up to see who hit him. He saw Jon helping the little kid up and letting him to go to safety. The monster got up and stamped his feet. "Hey that's not fair! That was my lunch!" Jon took a martial arts stance and looked at the monster. "Your lunch is people? That's wrong, and I'm here to stop you!" The monster laughed and put his hand in the air and snapped his fingers. Out of no where putties showed up. "Now do you think you're going to stop me?"
Out of no where two voices shouted, "He will with help!" Jon turned around to see Stacy, Tommy, Billy, Rocky, Adam, and Aisha running towards him. Jon greeted them all as they arrived. "Hey guys! It's been a while. Well except for you Tommy. What are you guys doing here, and where's Kat?" Tommy stepped forward. "We're here to help you defeat this thing. We got here with help from Stacy.", he said pointing to her. "And Kat moved back to Australia so she could pursue her diving career." Stacy stepped forward and whispered into his ear. "How does Mr. Oliver know you outside of school?" Jon laughed and said, "Remember that how I said I would explain later?" She nodded. "Well, that's one of those things."
To be continued...