Eva thought back to her first day as a power ranger. Zordon had chosen her, Jason, Billy, Zack, Trini, Annie and Kimberly to be rangers, and they fought against their first opponents. It was amazing wielding that power and fighting with her friends, but over time, the luster faded away.
She was walking hand in hand with Billy to the Youth Center.
"Are you going to break up with Adam?" Billy asked.
"No," she said. "He's the brightest, kindest, most thoughtful person I know. I don't know what I'd do without him."
"It doesn't seem like it," Billy said.
"Well, every relationship has it's fights," Eva sighed. "But if you can go through that and then come through at the end of the day, trusting each other, and being honest, you know it's real."
"Do you think you'll come through today?" Billy asked.
"We'll see," Eva said.
On their way to the Youth Center, they were stopped in their tracks by a monster made of tree bark.
They called the other rangers, and then morphed. Eva activated her morpher, but she was knocked back by an energy blast and fell to the ground.
Billy confronted the monster, and the other rangers joined in, firing at it.
"I am the Tree-Barker!" the monster exclaimed. "Come one, come all, try destroy, you'll fail! I'm SURE you'll fail."
The rangers surrounded Tree-Barker. Eva, unmorphed, ran up to him, and kicked him. He threw her back, knocking Billy and Aisha back along with her.
"What's going on?" Eva asked, as she tried to morph, failing. The other rangers turned to her.
Tree-Barker blasted them all, then fell to the ground. "My energy levels are dropping," he said, teleporting away. The rangers demorphed, and walked towards Eva.
"I'm sorry," she said.
"It wasn't your fault," Billy said, helping her off the ground. "It was probably that device I built."
"Oh," Eva said. "That explains it." She pushed his hand away, and squirmed as the rest of the team moved closer to her.
Eva bought two boxes of chocolate and then went home, sitting in front of her TV and going through the boxes until she fell asleep. The next day, she made her way over to the Command Center. Billy was presenting his device to Zordon and Alpha.
"You're still working on that thingy?" Eva asked.
"I didn't sleep last night, I just worked on this," Billy said. "So, hopefully, it should be working now."
"If it works, will my morpher work?" Eva asked.
"You can only morph once everything involved in the morphing sequence is in balance," Zordon said.
"So, if this works and whatever weird energy thing in it changes, that'll put the things in my morpher in balance?" Eva asked.
"Almost definitely," Zordon said. Eva smiled.
"Come on, fly-boy, show us what you've got," she said, patting Billy on the shoulder. He pressed a button on the device.
"Its reading full capability," he read off the screen. The device started beeping repeatedly.
"Is the beeping good too?" Eva asked.
"No, I don't know what the beeping means," Billy sighed. Eva and Billy were enveloped by light.
In a moment, Eva saw nothing. She was falling. It was like her morphing sequence, only colder.
She was falling. She was enveloped by light.
Eva closed her eyes, then opened them again. She was in a hilly. She pulled out her communicator, and called Zordon.
"Zordon, can you read me?" she asked.
"Eva, it seems that you and the other seven rangers have been displaced by the teleport," he said.
"Eva!" Tommy called out. He was at the bottom of the hill, and ran up to the top to meet her. He hugged her.
"Get off me," Eva said. Tommy stepped back.
"This is weird, huh?" he said.
"So, can we teleport back?" Eva asked.
"I already asked Zordon, we can't," Tommy sighed. "Let's go, it's a pretty long walk, and we don't want to wait."
"How long?" Eva asked.
"About an hour," he said. The two of them started walking together back to Angel Grove.
Billy, Annie and Kimberly landed in a barn. The three of them looked around, and then checked in with Zordon, and then started back for Angel Grove.
"Sorry about this, guys," Billy sighed.
"I guess it happens," Kimberly said.
"Yeah, and we can deal with this, it's not too far," Annie said.
Kimberly contacted Aisha. "Where are you right now?" she asked.
"I don't know," Aisha said. 'I'm…somewhere with Adam and Rocky, apparently it's in walking distance."
"Where are you going? The Command Center? The Youth Center?"
"The Command Center," Aisha said.
Tommy and Eva kept walking. After a few minutes, Eva stopped and sat down on a rock.
"What are you doing?" Tommy asked.
"I'm taking a break," Eva said. "We've still got so long left to walk."
"How are you tired already?" Tommy asked.
"How many more questions do you have for something so simple?" Eva asked.
"It's not simple, it's you being unable to walk short distances," Tommy said.
"I can, I just prefer to take breaks," Eva said. "If it offends you so much, why don't you just go in without me."
"Are you sure?" Tommy asked. "I mean, like you said, it's pretty long and —"
"I'll be fine," Eva said. "You know the way, right?"
"Yeah, I've walked up here a few times," Tommy said.
"I get it, you're better than me because you can walk," Eva murmured.
"I don't like this side of you," he said.
"Well, I like this side of you," Eva said. He turned to face her, and she covered her mouth.
"What do you mean?" Tommy asked.
"You're getting all frustrated, you're not usually like that," she said, softly. "It's just….passion. I'm attracted to passion."
She feigned a smile at him, and he left. She contacted Adam.
"Hey, Eva," Adam said. "Are you alright?"
"Tommy ditched me," Eva sighed. "Look, I miss you a lot. We didn't really talk all of yesterday, and before that we had a big fight…"
"Well, we'll see each other in, like, an hour, right?" Adam asked.
"I wish I was with your right now," Eva sighed. "I…I love you."
"Oh," Adam said. "Well,"
"Do you love me too?" Eva asked.
"Yes," Adam said. "Yes, of course, I…I.."
Eva started tearing up. "You don't have to say it if you don't mean it. I know I'm not the easiest person to deal with."
"Eva…"
"I'll see you soon," she said, ending the communication. She started walking by himself.
Adam stared down at his watch. Rocky and Aisha turned to him.
"It's gonna be okay," Aisha said.
"Will it?" Adam asked.
Tree-Barker showed up in front of the three of them. They clenched their fists.
"Round 2!" he called out. "Everybody get ready for round 2!"
The three of them ran up to the monster and morphed, taking it on. It fired back at them, and knocked them to the ground. They demorphed.
"Oh! I'm getting stronger!" the monster exclaimed. "This is amazing!"
He teleported away.
"Why'd he leave?" Rocky asked, as he helped the other two up.
"Maybe he's waiting until he knows he can beat us," Adam said
Adam sighed, pressing a button on his communicator to call Eva again. He pressed the teleport button by mistake.
"Oh no," he said, as he felt himself getting whisked away. It was slower this time, like the machinery was still broken. He opened up his last communicator call, Eva, and tried to switch to that. The communicator locked onto Eva's, and the two of them were teleported together.
Rocky and Aisha looked at each other.
"This is bad," they said in unison.
Rocky tried calling Adam, but couldn't get through.
Adam and Eva fell from the sky and into water. The two of them squirmed and gasped for breath, until they saw each other, and swam for each other, trying to keep the other one safe.
Once they were close to each other, they reached their hands out and held their partner.
"Don't ever leave me," Eva said.
"What?" Adam asked. She looked up at him. "Okay," he said.
"Where are we?" she asked, her head tucked into his chest.
"I don't know," he sighed. They made their way to dry land and got up, looking around.
