Nicole had to make a choice, listen to her four year old daughter and take back the power of the guardian senshi or turn her back on all of this and resume her normal life..'What should I do. What I know is right or what I want. Oh mother, what would you do? I just want my normal post-ranger days back'
Suddenly a blinding light filled the dino lab, causing the rangers and Haley to cover their eyes. Nicole only watch as a figure materialize from the light. The woman had long sliver hair with buns on top of her head, a yellow crescent mark on her forever and kind sapphire eyes only she was translucent.
"Always the one to make an entrance, Mother." Nicole greeted.
"Mother?" repeated the Rangers and Haley.
"Hello, Nicole." greeted the spirit.
Trini looked between her mother and this strange woman, that looked like her mother. "Mama?"
Nicole walked over to her daughter and picked her up, "Mama is right here,"
"You haven't told them about me?" asked Queen Serenity, then she really got a good look at the people, "Oh, they aren't the same ones and there's three of them."
"Nicole, could you explain this, please?" Haley asked.
"She's my mother. She appears from time to time. Often to aide her daughters. Queen Serenity meet the Dino Rangers, Conner McKnight, Ethan James and Kira Ford, and Haley, she the tech support." Nicole stated, "Like I said before you should learn more about me, this isn't how I planned it."
"Queen?" asked Kira "as in you're a princess?"
"Yes and No, I was a princess some time ago, but not anymore." Nicole answered, "She gave her life to protect her people,"
"Who is this sweet little girl?" asked Serenity as she walked closer to Nicole
Nicole blushed, "Your granddaughter, Trini."
Trini glanced up at her mama, "Grammy too?"
Nicole smiled and nodded, "But she can't hold you, like Grammy,"
"All the times, I wish I was still corporal now would be the most wished for, so I could hold my own granddaughter." Serenity sighed,
Trini smiled "Luv you anyway, just like mama,"
"Does she have the royal birthmark?" Serenity asked, looking at her daughter, she had grown so much, now a mother herself.
"Yes, as well as my adopted brothers and sisters," Nicole replied, "only their crescents don't show up as well as mine, as much as I love this reunion, why are you here?"
"You asked me, what I would do in your place. I love you and your sister so much. I gave my life for you," Serenity replied. "What did the Moon Kingdom stand for?"
"To watch over earth and guard it against negative forces." Nicole replied, then she wanted to smack herself, "I'm still part of the Kingdom, even if I have my own life."
Nicole looked over at the rangers, "I guess I have to join you, any luck Haley?"
"I've got a lock on a portal," Haley says urgently.
Conner rubs his hands together. "We're on it," he says, turning and stepping away from the computer. He and the others begin to walk away.
"I think you're forgetting something," Serenity stated as she looked at Haley, Nicole shook her head at their impatience,
"They remind me of Serena," Nicole stated,
"Remember," Haley says after them. "You have to reach a speed of five hundred and thirty-six miles per hour upon entry, otherwise you'll never make it passed the security wall and probably be ripped to pieces!"
Serenity beckon Nicole over to her side. "How are you going to reach the place you're going too?"
"I was going to Senshi leap, if you have other ideas, I'm willing to listen." Nicole replied.
"I might just have the solution to that," Serenity thought outloud, then disappeared,
Trini looked up confused, "Grandma?"
"She'll be back." Nicole replied
The rangers stop dead.
"Did I forget to mention that?" Haley asks as they slowly turn to face her. She looks at them. "I take that as a 'yes'," she says as she sees their faces. "Never fear, I have something for just such an occasion." She smiles a little as she presses a button on the keyboard.
A door opens, revealing three color-coded bikes, and Ethan exclaims "Sweet!" as Kira breathes, "Amazing!"
Serenity was there as well, "I know this isn't part of the normal Senshi attire but here,"
Nicole's jaw dropped there in the back of the bikes was another, it was silverish white with painted crescent moons,
"Mother, how did you do this?" Nicole asked after she picked her jaw off the floor.
"I didn't do this, I came up with the design, you can thank my son in law for building it, and your technology expert for programing it." Serenity answered.
They approach the blue, yellow and red bikes slowly, and Conner stares at them. "Which one's mine?" Ethan gives him a look. "I'm kidding," Conner says after a moment.
Nicole looked at Conner, "I wasn't like this in high school, but then again I was being lecture by a cat and a floating head in a jar."
"You so weren't kidding," Ethan says with a laugh.
"These are your new Raptor-Cycles," Haley says as she comes over. "They should have you to the portal coordinates in approximately ninety-two, point seven five seconds."
"So what is mine called, The Moon Cycle?" Nicole teased,
"Actually yes," Haley answered,
"And, when we get there?" Kira asks.
"Use your gems to access the hyper drive, Nicole use your crystal" Haley says. "Then head straight through the portal, to Mesogog's island fortress."
Conner pauses a moment. "Wait, did you just say . . . island fortress?"
Nicole looked at the young Red,
"Yes . . ." Haley says. "Why?"
"Well . . ." he says. "Islands, they're . . . surrounded by water."
"Usually," Haley says.
Ethan smiles. "No . . . You can't swim?"
"I didn't say that," Conner says defensively.
"But it's true," Ethan says. "You can't." Conner just shoots him a look.
"The invisiportal will take you directly to the island," Haley says. "You'll never have to get wet."
"Ethan, drop it." Nicole snapped,
Conner nods a little, but he looks pretty nervous. Haley leaves, and Ethan once again has difficulty keeping in the laughter. "Can't swim . . ." he repeats for his own amusement.
"Whatever, dude," Conner says, embarrassed. "You guys ready?"
They straighten and turn, raising their morphers. "Ready," they say. "Dino Thunder, Power Up—Ha!"
They morph and mount their cycles, and the doors open. "Let's do it!" Conner says.
"Eternal Moon Guardian Power, Make Up!" shouted Nicole as she claimed back the power that is rightfully hers, she backflipped midair, boots formed around her feet, silverish white, her sailor uniform was slightly different with a golden belt that held the dragon dagger on her waist. Her gloves where shorter. Her tiara was gone and her crescent was presence,
"Feels like I never gave up my senshi power," The Eternal Guardian stated,
"Mama pretty." Trini stated, as she looked up at her mother,
Nicole knelt down and hugged her daughter, "You'll be good for Haley, alright."
Serenity watched as the mother and daughter in embraced, and loving smile formed on her face. "I must go now,"
"No Go!" Trini shouted,
Serenity walked up to Trini and knelt down gracefully, "I will always be with you, all you have to do is look at the moon, and I will be there."
Trini nodded, "moon pretty," then she watched as Serenity faded away, going back to the moon. "Bye, Bye."
Nicole stood back up and walked over to her motorcycle turning back to Haley, "Watch her, and if I don't come back take her to jason, and explain."
Haley nodded as Trini went over to her.
They ride forward and leave the Lab.
A while later, the rangers and Guardian come to a stop somewhere abandoned, and look down at their cycles. "Whoa," Ethan states. "It just stopped." They all get off. "What's up with that?"
"This must be where Haley programmed the coordinates," Nicole answered, she was ready for anything,
Kira looking around. "Look!" An invisiportal appears in the sky. "There's the invisiportal. I sure hope Dr. O's on the other side."
Conner and Ethan come over and stare at it. "Only one way to find out," Conner says. "You guys ready?"
"You know it," Ethan answers.
"Ready," Kira affirms.
"Born Ready," Nicole stated,
They go back and mount their cycles again, but in a flash Elsa and Zeltrax appears with a swarm of tyrannodrones. "Hey," Conner says. "No one invited you to the party."
"I'm crashing," Elsa says. "And I brought a few friends. Is that rude?"
"Extremely," Kira states. Nicole nods in agreement, "You're crashing and so am I,"
Zeltrax steps forward. "You're not getting to that portal unless you're in chains."
"I might be able to pull that look off," Kira says. "But these guys? No way."
"I vote we go for it!" Conner says. They rev up and start forward.
"Guardian Staff!" summoned Nicole, as she smirked "You kidnapped my friend, and want to destroy the world, I won't stand for it, In the name of the Moon, I will punish you,"
"Attack!" Elsa shouts. Her followers charge forward and meet the rangers in battle.
"Rainbow Moon Heart Ache attack!" the Guardian summoned the power of her twin's Spiral Heart Scepter with crisis power. Showing the enemies with rainbows and hearts destroying half of them, The rangers take down the rest of them rather easily, using their new cycles expertly, and soon only Zeltrax and Elsa are left. The rangers meet together and Ethan shouts, "Guys, hurry! The portal's still open!"
"Nice fire power," Kira stated as she rode up,
"No problem, you haven't seen anything yet." Nicole replied
They turn to see a very small portal in the sky. "We can do it," Conner says. "Open net. Follow me."
"Let's go!" Kira shouts.
They ride forward to the portal and Elsa fires blast after blast at them as she realizes what they're doing. But they narrowly make it and disappear within the vortex.
The rangers and guardian appear inside Mesogog's lair in a small hallway, still on their bikes. "Haley," Nicole reports. "We're in."
"Good," Haley says from the lab. "I'll recalibrate the bikes for your exit. You have about five minutes."
"That's all we need," Nicole stated as she nodded at Kira, who started to lead the way, They run around a corner breathlessly as Kira says, "The lab should be just around this corner, I think. At least we still have the element of—"
"Welcome," says Mesogog, stepping forward. They stop dead. "We've been expecting you."
They back up slowly, unaware of the doors closing behind them. "Surprise," Kira finishes. Nicole stands protectively in front facing Mesogog, her staff gripped in her hand,
"You remember me, I trust," Mesogog says.
"Like I could forget that face," Kira says.
"Uh, what part's his face?" Ethan asks. They reach the door and realize it is now shut and they are locked in.
"Obviously you are in need of some discipline," Mesogog says. He fires a beam from his head and Zeltrax, Elsa and another monster appear.
"This way, hurry!" Kira shouts as they're temporarily distracted and the rangers and guardian run by.
"Stop them!" Mesogog shouts. "Now."
"talk about a streak of good luck in this dark place." Nicole stated, They continue down the hallway breathlessly and arrive in the throne room, finding Tommy. "Hey, perfect timing," he says as they come over and begin to untie him. "Hit the red button on the panel."
"I think you been in this dilemma before," Nicole stated, "I think you have more bad luck then I do."
"Okay," Ethan says, going over and pressing it. The door shuts right in front of Zeltrax and the others.
"I should have known you'd try to rescue me," Tommy says, coming over to Ethan with the others and working at the computer.
"Can't leave you have all the fun," Nicole replied,
"Is that your way of saying thanks?" Ethan asks. "Cause if it is it needs some work."
"I'll thank you for real when we get out of here," Tommy says. He takes a breath. "We can use the main invisiportal network." He turns and a small green vortex appears. "Haley gave you the new Raptor and Moon Cycles, right?" Ethan nods. "This way," he says, starting forward.
"Wait," Ethan stops him. "We need to talk."
"Go, I'll explain later," Tommy says breathlessly.
"We already know everything," Conner says.
"They found the video diary," Nicole stated. "Why did you have to add me?
"We know you're a power ranger," Ethan concludes
"Was, Ethan," Tommy says. "Not anymore."
The doors slide open and Zeltrax barges through with a shout, followed by Mesogog, Elsa, and two others. Mesogog steps forward, hissing angrily. "Ranger or not . . . you're mine now."
"First Rita 'befriends' you now, Mr. Scaly" Nicole stated as she got into fighting stance.
"I hate when he gets like this," Tommy says.
Conner steps in front of him. "We can take it from here, Dr. O." Tommy stands back as the three step forward. "Ready."
"Ready," they reply. "Dino Thunder, Power Up—Ha!" They morph and their weapons appear as they face Mesogog.
"Attack," Mesogog says quietly. The others run past him and begin to battle the rangers fiercely, but Mesogog heads straight for Tommy, and the former ranger doesn't do as well as his students.
The rangers hold off their opponents fairly easily, and Conner looks over to where Tommy lies on the floor, Mesogog standing over him. "Dr. O!" he shouts.
Tommy looks up. "Head for the portal! I gotta get something." They start to object but he insists. "Hurry!"
Nicole jumped at the tyrannodrones that was going for Tommy, "Not so fast, try and get past me," she planted a boot in their faces, "I got your back, Bro."
Nicole turns her head back to her students, "Get out of here,"
"We'd better do what they say," Conner says decisively.
"Right," Kira agrees. Mesogog turns to face them and they jump into the portal, disappearing.
Tommy takes the opportunity and stands quickly, running into Mesogog and flipping over a table, grabbing something as he does so. He fights off Mesogog and Nicole fights the remaining tyrannodrones, Tommy's holding a large round object, and jumps through the portal himself followed by the guardian.
"Do not let him escape with that stone," Mesogog says. He turns to Elsa. "Go!"
The rangers are just getting on their cycles in the hallways when Tommy and Nicole appear from the portal. "Hey," Ethan says. Nicole jumps on the back on her cycle.
"You made it!" Kira exclaims as Tommy goes to Conner.
"Do we really need a souvenir?" Conner asks, looking at the stone.
"This one we do," Tommy answers.
They turn as Elsa and a group of tyrannodrones come running down the hall. "There they are!" she shouts.
"Go," Tommy says to Conner, his eyes still on Elsa. "I'm right behind you." Conner doesn't argue, and as one the three rangers rev up and drive through the portal, the guardian follows right after the rangers, Tommy grips the stone tightly, then jumps through.
The rangers and Nicole arrive safely on the other side of the portal, the plaza they drive into completely quiet as they come to a stop and look back at the portal. "Where is he?" Conner asks.
A moment passes, and then Tommy appears from the portal, landing on his knees breathlessly with the stone clutched by his side. Almost immediately, Elsa and her army appear a ways behind him.
Tommy stands and faces them, and raises the stone to absorb the blast as Zeltrax fires a beam from his sword at him.
"Dr. O!" Conner calls as they dismount their bikes and step forward.
"Tommy!" shouts Nicole as she saw Zeltrax continue to fire the beam and Tommy shakes slightly under the growing pressure, then is thrown back as a blinding light flashes and electricity sparks. The rangers and guardian cover their eyes as it hits them, and when they open them again, Tommy is nowhere to be seen, only the shattered remains of the stone on the ground.
Nicole stood frozen at the though of her friend being gone, and what to tell her husband,
"Dr. Oliver!" Ethan shouts.
"No!" Kira cries, falling to her knees. "This can't be happening."
"Such negativity," Elsa comments. "Haven't you learned that in our world, anything's possible?"
Zeltrax speaks. "Even the destruction of the great Dr. Tommy Oliver."
A shimmer appears in the air between the groups, and Tommy steps out of it, something held in his hand. "I heard my name," he states, amused. "You missed me, didn't you Zeltrax?"
Zeltrax only stares in confusion, and the rangers and Nicole run up to Tommy in relief. "Awesome!" Ethan exclaims.
"Right on," Kira agrees.
"You made it!" Ethan continues.
"Don't ever do that to me again, I should kick your arse for this," Nicole yelled.
"Lecture me later, Moon. We got other issues to deal with," Tommy replied.
Conner notices Tommy's hand begin to glow, and grabs his wrist. "Hey . . . Dr. O, what's this?"
Tommy opens his hand to reveal a small black stone, glowing now with energy, and the rangers all gasp in surprise. "A black dino gem," Ethan says. "Let me guess, the power of invisibility."
Tommy smiles a little. "Looks like it."
Nicole felt a headache coming on,
Elsa breaks in finally. "That gem belongs to my master," she says angrily.
Tommy looks at her. "There's two things you guys need to learn about dino gems. One, you can't choose them, they choose you."
"What's the other?" she asks.
Tommy raises his fist quickly, revealing a dark morpher on his wrist. "They go real well with dino morphers," he says, slamming the stone into it. Immediately the morpher starts to glow.
Elsa looks slightly amused, but not quite confident. "Aren't you a little bit old for this, Tommy?" she asks.
"If he's old for spandex then I'm ancient for wearing this." Nicole snaps pointing at her sailor skirt
"I may be old," Tommy replies. "But I can still pull it off." He grabs a key in his other hand and connects it with his morpher, shouting, "Dino Thunder, Power Up!" he stands before them in uniform. "Dino Thunder—Black Ranger!"
Nicole smacks her forehead, "Wait till I tell Zach and Adam about this."
"Awesome!" Kira exclaims as they run up to stand behind him.
"Just like riding a bike," Tommy says.
"One more makes no difference," Zeltrax says, though his tone betrays that he's lying. He raises his sword. "Attack!"
They all rush at each other and begin to fight. Tommy begins with a large group of tyrannodrones, apparently just testing his powers, and it takes very little time for them all to end up lying on the ground. Then Zeltrax runs up behind him, and he takes out his new weapon, The Brachio Staff.
"Let's see what you're made of," Zeltrax says.
"That isn't fair, Conner and I are the only ones to have staffs," Nicole complained, as she fought the T-drones. "Wait, I forgot I have the dragon dagger,"
Ethan and Kira fight another monster less than successfully, and it disappears on them. Conner takes on Elsa with some difficulty, though he does surprisingly well. Elsa stares at him as their swords lock. "We're not intimidated by your teacher," she says.
Conner pauses as he struggles against her sword. "Then you've obviously never taken one of his pop quizzes," he says dryly.
Meanwhile, Tommy and Zeltrax stare each other down from a few yards away. "Give it up, Zeltrax," Tommy says, sword ready.
"Never!" he answers, running forward. They meet swords and engage in a fast-paced duel, both holding their own, but then Zeltrax gets an opening and kicks Tommy back far, watching him as he stands again. "Is that all you've got?" he asks.
"Give me a break," Tommy quips. "It's been a while."
Nicole fought against the T-Drones, using her staff. "I wish I had my tiara." she finally beats all of them. Just in time to watch Tommy's battle
Tommy and Zeltrax continue their battle, and Zeltrax is thrown against a large stone wall, landing on the ground. He gets to his knees as Tommy watches him, his sword before him. "Go ahead," Zeltrax says. "I dare you."
"No," Tommy says, lowering his weapon. "I got a message for your boss. Tell him Tommy's back. And no matter what color I am, he'll never defeat me." Zeltrax stands and stares at him for a moment, then jumps up, disappearing into a portal.
In his lair, Mesogog watches the scene on his computer. "Don't be so sure," he says quietly. He presses a button on the keyboard and a cloud of black appears in the sky, rain pouring down from it and regenerating the monster. The sky clears as he finishes his transformation.
The rangers all stare up at it, and Tommy's morpher beeps. "Haley?" he asks.
"Welcome back," she says, smiling from her computer. "I've got a little homecoming present for you. I found it on the north side of the forest." She types something into her keyboard and a huge dinozord comes walking down the street. "Meet the brachiozord," she says. "Retrieving the black gem must have awakened him."
"Zord battle, I want in on the action." Nicole stated,
"But you don't have a zord." Haley stated, though Tommy's morpher.
"Don't be to sure about that Haley." Nicole replied as she pulled out of the holster a green and black dagger,
"Its that?" Tommy asked shocked that Nicole has his old weapon from his green ranger days.
"Yep, and I have say I didn't know what Sailor P meant by the time of the Dino would come again." Nicole replied, "Let's show Meso-freak, some old school power. Dragonzord!"
she places the dragon flute to her lips and play the familiar tune summoning an old friend. Tommy and Nicole smiled at the sight of the Dragonzord.
"Now this brings back memories, but I thought he was still in Angel Grove Harbor." Tommy stated.
"Must have moved to Blue Bay when I moved to Reefside." Nicole replied "Dragonzord missiles." she plays again.
"Wow . . ." Kira says.
"Wait till you see what he has inside," Haley says. "I think you can handle it from here."
The zord opens and Tricera, Ptera and Tyranno run out. The rangers leap into them and immediately begin the megazord transformation. "Thundersaurus Megazord!" they shout.
Nicole stilled playing the flute while giving her zord orders.
The monster almost makes quick work of them, first shooting a barrage of blasts at them, then wrapping them in it's tentacles and shooting through. "We're getting rocked, even with the Dragonzord" Conner says.
Ethan agrees. "We could use some reinforcements."
"Haley," Kira says. "You got anymore surprises?"
"Sure do," Haley says with a smile. "Try the Cephalozord."
"All right," Tommy says, watching from the ground. He looks at his morpher, and the brachio head on it changes to the blue cephalo's. "Locking on," he says, inserting the key.
Brachio opens again and a small blue zord hops out, boxing gloves on his hands as he mock-fights down the street. "What's that?" Kira asks.
Cephalo beats back the monster easily, then they join the megazord to it, adding it as an arm. The punch it gives sends the monster flying, exploding in the air, and the rangers cheer in victory.
"Back to the bay with you, my friend." Nicole stated feeling joy about a zord battle. She plays the tune again sending the zord back into the bay.
Later on that day, they're all gathered on the couches in the Cybercafe later, and Ethan's voice is excited as he speaks. "What a day . . . new bikes, new zords . . ."
The Scott family walked in after Haley let them in,
"Don't you know the meaning of retirement?" asked Jason as he sat down next to Tommy,
"No, I don't." replied Tommy. "Neither does Nicole."
"Hey in my defense I'm only semi-retired." Nicole retorted
"I don't understand how you got the dagger?" Tommy asked.
"It was one of the days I was in the Power Chamber, Sailor Pluto came to me, she gave me the dagger, saying I would need it when the time of the Dinos' came again." Nicole answered, "also the belt that I have is the Dragon Shield, when I got my new powers, the dagger came with it. I kept in the sub-pocket I keep the guardian staff in,"
"New ranger," Conner comments, looking over at Tommy across from them. "Well, sorta new." Tommy laughs slightly.
Nicole and Jason laughed. "Don't forget the renewed Senshi on the block, I can't wait for the six o'clock news."
"Dr. O," Kira asks. "Are you gonna tell us how you happened to have that morpher ready?"
"Right after you guys became rangers," Tommy explains. "I got an energy reading on the tracking system. I had a good idea it was another gem, so I had Haley build the morpher, just in case."
"Did you design this one," Ethan asked looking at Nicole
"Don't look at me, I didn't have anything to do with Tommy becoming a ranger and adding to his list of colors." Nicole answered, she held Trini in her arms, who was playing with the brooch, she was destined to get it so it wouldn't work for her.
Haley comes over and sits on the arm of the couch by Kira, who continues. "And, the day of my gig?"
"I was coming to tell you guys the energy had moved, and we needed to investigate."
"When you were nabbed by the goon patrol," Conner finishes. He shakes his head. "Brutal."
"Yeah, but it all turned out okay." Tommy smiles, then stands. "Well, I'd better get going."
Haley watches as he begins to leave. "Going? Where're you going?"
Tommy leans on the back of the couch behind the boys. "Shopping," he answers. "I checked my closet this morning, and there's a serious shortage of black in there."
DarkPriestess66: Don't own Back in Black or the Dragonzord. Leave a review please