Disclaimer: I don't own Power Rangers and I never will.
A/N:thanks to JJB88 so far the only reviewer of this story.
Dino thunder return of the Dragon
Chapter 4
A few days later Conner, Kira and Justin had received a call from Ethan asking them to meet him.
"Hayley's Cyberspace!" Kira said as she walked up in front of a building with a sign on it. "Conner" She said as she saw Conner McKnight walking up towards her. He stopped next to her in front of the building.
"Ethan called you too huh?" Conner asked.
"Yeah, said it was super important," Kira answered, "Justin two but Kim and Dr. O are keeping him busy as Punishment for lying to them."
"This place sounds like a computer nerds dream" Conner replied.
"Probably why Ethan likes it. Also I know they have a band sometimes I've seen them advertised around school so let's check it out," Kira responded with a chuckle. The two walked inside with Kira leading the way. Entering the building, they found it was full of people and included, among other things, a bar and a performance stage.
"Woah" Conner said, "You think he lives here?"
"I think he wishes he lived here," Kira responded. Suddenly, Ethan walks up.
"There they are, one of my brothers and sister in crime, or at least crime fighting," Ethan said, "Where's Justin?"
"Dr. O and Kim have him on Punishment duty for lying to them"
"Well then welcome to my world you two I'll have to introduce Justin to it later. What do you think?"
"Well, I guess it's kinda cool, in a techno, retro, dorky kinda way," Conner remarked as Ethan began showing them around the place.
"You can do anything here, game, chat online, listen to music, even drink," Ethan remarked.
"Justin was interested the other day when we drove by in his jeep. So who owns this place?" Kira asked.
"That would be Hayley she's a techno legend, MIT graduate and a programming genius. Who got tired of working for big technology company's and decided to open this place," Ethan answered.
"Good thing for you" Kira responded.
"No lie" Conner said, laughing.
"Anyway, what's so important?" asked Kira.
"I just figured if we're gonna be saving the world together, I wanted you guys to see what I'm about" Ethan answered.
"Okay, whatever dude" Conner remarked.
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"Your Kira Ford right?" Hayley asked. As she walked over
"Yeah, how'd you know?" the Yellow Ranger asked.
"Oh I'm all about information, it's my business, I'm Hayley by the way" Hayley responded, "Now, you sing, don't you?"
"Yeah, I do and play guitar" Kira replied.
"Ok how about this Friday you and your band pick your best song and play it here. Call it a try out, if the audience likes it we'll see about making it a regular thing" Hayley said.
"That would be awesome!" Kira answered.
"Alright, I'll look forward to it" Hayley said, walking off.
"Okay, I officially lover her, this could be the start of my career" Kira said to her fellow Rangers.
"There's not one kid in here Hayley hasn't helped out in some way" Ethan responded.
"She hasn't helped me" Conner interjected.
"Conner McKnight, the high school soccer star. I'm surprised you're hear and not at the open try-outs for the Reefside Waves" Hayley said, reappearing suddenly.
"The waves are having an open try-out are you serious?" Conner asked.
"Yeah, at their practice field right now," Hayley answered.
"You're kidding right?" Conner asked again not really believing his ears.
"No" Hayley answered, stifling a laugh.
"You were saying?" Ethan remarked. As Conner made a beeline for the exit shouting "BYE" as he went through them and headed for the practice pitch
"Good luck bro" Ethan added as the door shut then Hayley walked off.
"I gotta go too, I need to tell the rest of my band, find the right song and re-string my guitar ready for Friday night" Kira said, handing Ethan the soda she hadn't touched yet.
Ethan was once again alone sitting at the computer drinking the soda that Kira had handed him before she left. Then his Dino Gem went off Ethan knowing it must be urgent left the Cyber cafe and went round the side and answered it immediately.
"Hey doc, you got Ethan what's up" Ethan said.
"Hey, can you meet me and Justin at the end of Riverside Road?" Tommy asked.
"Yeah, course I'm on my way, what is it if you don't mind me asking" he said in response.
"I'll explain why I need you when you get here," Tommy answered.
"You got it Dr. O!" Ethan responded.
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In Mesogog's Lair "Well?" Mesogog asked.
"Well what sir?" Elsa asked.
"Where's my explanation?" Mesogog asked.
"My lord, we offer no excuses or apologies. But we promise to improve our performance, the next time we face Oliver and his Rangers" Zeltrax answered.
"Is this correct Elsa? Am I to understand that you feel no need to explain your failings, not only did you let that little brat escape but he took the Dagger that we spent years searching for" Mesogog said.
"Lord Mesogog, it is in my humble opinion that it would be a waste of your valuable time, time better spent planning the destruction of Dr. Oliver and his Rangers" Elsa responded, finishing her sentence quickly out of fear.
"That is the answer I was looking for," Mesogog responded, "Two more things have you found a way through the rock yet? And have you had any luck in tracking down what we talked about earlier?"
"No on the Rock and on the other we know they're out there" Elsa responded.
"Oliver has not made his move towards them yet, but when he does we'll be there to stop him" Zeltrax added.
"You had better be" Mesogog remarked evilly.
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In the forest at the end of Riverside Road Ethan walked towards Dr. Oliver's jeep, Justin was filling him in on the research.
"Some of the experiments that survived the explosion appear to have been scattered throughout this area!" Dr. Oliver said. He and his two companions crouched down around four glowing silver objects with glowing center's, one being Red, one Blue, one Yellow and one Green.
"Are they?" Ethan asked.
"Yes their eggs" Dr. Oliver answered.
"Yo, its cool Dr. O, I just had lunch a couple hours ago" Ethan remarked.
"We're not gonna eat them, we're gonna hatch them. Then you're gonna ride them" Dr. Oliver responded then he added "Any way when did you turn in to Conner?"
"I just thought it was funny but did I hear you say we're gonna ride them" Ethan said.
"I did. Trust me guys, when these are ready they'll be a big help to us" Dr. Oliver responded.
"Tommy I don't really need one I have Storm Blaster?"
"Justin I know but Storm is Turbo technology not Dino?"
"Tommy he was my only friend except for Kim before I met Kira?
"Uhm what do you mean Storm is Turbo Technology?" interrupted Ethan.
"We'll tell you later Ethan but for now just forget what we said" replied Tommy.
"Ok but this had better be good" said Ethan.
"Justin can we just focus on this mission please and we'll deal with that later."
"Alright, whatever you say Tommy," Justin replied. The three of them went to put the eggs in a bag, and had one inside when something blurred past them. They stood up and took defensive positions ready for an attack.
"You saw that, right?" Ethan asked.
"Sure did," Justin responded. Meanwhile, Tommy scooped the other three eggs into his bag.
"We have to protect the eggs at all costs" he said as he slung the bag over his shoulder.
"Who would hurt them their only eggs?" Ethan asked. Justin rolled his eyes as Elsa stepped out from behind them.
"I would," she said.
Zeltrax tried to sneak up behind Tommy and tried to steal the bag, but Tommy kicked him away as the Tyrannodrones arrived.
"Attack!" Zeltrax ordered. Tyrannodrones swarmed the two Rangers and their mentor from all sides, and soon a full on fight had begun. Dr. Oliver proved himself to be no pushover, using martial arts to defeat the drones. However, they just kept coming.
"Ethan, call the others!" Dr. Oliver cried. However, the Blue Ranger was promptly kicked to the ground before he could utter a word.
"Guys, we could really use some help out here!" Justin said into his communicator as he pushed over a drone with a swat of his hand and activated his Morpher ready to use.
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Conner, had impressed the coach with his skill so far, but was annoyed at the sudden beeping of his bracelet. 'Of all the fucking times for it to go off, it had to be during my one shot at try-outs' he thought to himself.
"Mr McKnight where do you think you are going" called the coach as Conner ran off.
"Family emergency?" Conner shouted as he ran off, shouting to the coach "I'll be right back"
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Kira had just come out of the music store with new guitar strings and a few other things she needed for Friday, when her bracelet went off. Sighing 'oh god this'd better not take too long my guitar needs these new strings after Randall took the old ones to stop me playing my guitar' she headed towards the other Rangers.
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Ethan stood from being knocked over, and glared at the Tyrannodrone responsible.
"Okay, you asked for it, not me," he said as Conner and Kira arrived.
"DINO THUNDER POWER UP!" said three of the Rangers cried as the pulled out their weapons.
"GREEN RANGER DINO THUNDER" said Justin.
"You guys couldn't have done this tomorrow?" Conner asked.
"Don't tell me, tell them!" Ethan answered, motioning to the bad guys. Conner sighed.
"Let's make it quick!" he said. The four Rangers engaged the drones, using their weapons to help them. Conner's Tyranno Staff enabled him to nimbly kick down drones with ease, and Ethan's Tricera Shield did well as both an offensive and defensive weapon. Meanwhile, Kira's Ptera Grips allowed her to dish out some serious pain, but not as much as the powerful blows dealt by Justin's Dragon Dagger.
Meanwhile, Tommy found himself holding off Zeltrax and Elsa, which he actually did a decent job of. Then, with the Tyrannodrones defeated, the Rangers came to back him up, outnumbering the two villains.
"You really like these odds? Cause you look busted to me!" Ethan declared.
"We're not through with you Power Rangers!" Elsa cried.
"Oh of course not" Justin said sarcastically, knowing they'd be back. The two villains retreated through an invisiportal, leaving Dr. Oliver and the Rangers alone.
"We better get these back to my place," the Ranger's mentor remarked, indicating the eggs.
"What's in them?" Kira asked.
"No idea but apparently we're going to ride them" Ethan said. Justin struggled to not laugh.
"What?" Ethan asked.
"Nothing," Justin replied.
"Look, I have to go back to try-outs see if I can get back in the coaches good books, can you guys handle this?" Conner asked.
"Yeah, we will the others can tell you what you miss later" Dr. O answered.
"Thanks, bye!" Conner responded as he ran off.
"Good luck!" Ethan shouted after him. He and the other two Rangers then followed Dr. Oliver towards where they'd parked his jeep and Storm Blaster.
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Conner arrived back at the try-outs to see things being packed up, but rushed down anyway.
"Hey" he said to the coach.
"McKnight, I've put you down as a DNF, did not finish" the coach remarked.
"Coach I'm sorry, I had a family emergency to take care of" Conner responded.
"If there's anything more important than soccer, this isn't the place for you" the coach replied.
"Nothing's more important than soccer" Conner responded.
"Thanks for trying out, you never know their maybe another try out during the year" the coach said, patting Conner on the back and walking off.
"Oh man" Conner said to himself. Suddenly a soccer ball rolled up to his foot, and a young girl called out.
"Kick it back" she cried. He kicked it back to her, and she stopped it by putting her foot down on top of it.
"Good stop" Conner remarked.
"Thanks" the girl responded. She bent down and picked the ball up then walked off with her mother. Conner sighed and shook his head thinking back to how his extracurricular had interfered with his life.
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Kira and Ethan sat around a table in the Hayley's Cyber Space using the laptops they'd rented.
"Man, I don't even want to think about what Dr. O and Justin are hatching down in that cave right now" Ethan remarked.
"Probably something related to those Eggs" Kira said.
Just then a guy walked in to the Cyber Space and looked round.
"Who's he?" Kira asked looking at the guy who had just walked in to the Cyber Space.
"No idea" Ethan said.
"He's coming this way!" Kira said in a harsh whisper. However, as the boy walked up she hid behind her computer screen.
"Hey, I'm looking for Hayley, she said I'm supposed to start work today, do either of you happen to know where she is" the boy said, walking up to them.
"Um, she's around somewhere. I haven't seen you in Reefside before are you new?" Ethan asked.
"Yeah, I just moved here last week. My name's Trent," the boy responded.
"I'm Ethan, and that's Kira," Ethan responded, shaking Trent's hand.
"Nice to meet you," Kira said to Trent before turning back to the report she was writing.
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Hayley walked up. "Trent, good timing, come with me and I'll get you started" she said.
"Cool," Trent said, turning back to the Rangers, "see you guys later." He and Hayley walked off, and then Ethan turned to Kira.
"So do you like him?" Ethan asked.
"I don't know I didn't really think he was anything special" Kira responded.
"I guess you're more interested in a certain Green Ranger then with his own jeep and can keep Conner in check?" asked Ethan.
Kira pulled her leg back and kicked Ethan in the leg as hard as she could in response.
Just then, Conner walked in looking pissed.
"Hey man, how'd it go?" Ethan asked.
"How'd it go? It's over! The coach said to forget it, if soccer's not the only think in my life then I
shouldn't be playing, and who can blame him, I left in the middle of practice, I might get a chance later in the year but if I stay as a Ranger I'll still probably get called away" Conner responded.
"It's not like you didn't have a good excuse" Kira responded.
"Yeah, because the coach would totally believe that I was fighting freaky looking dinosaurs in the forest wearing a Red uniform! Man, this whole saving the world thing is starting to bum me out!" Conner remarked angrily, "I need to talk to Dr. O."
"Um, he and Justin are kinda busy," Ethan said.
"I don't care, I was busy today and he cut into my life!" Conner responded quiet sharply, storming off out the door.
"Great guess we'd better follow him" Kira responded. The two Rangers headed after him on the way to Dr. Oliver's house.
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The front door opened to Tommy's house a few minutes later the trap door opened, and Rangers could see items flying everywhere as if a storm was blowing through.
"Don't come down, it's not safe!" Tommy shouted.
"Is that what was in those eggs?" Ethan asked.
"Yeah me and Justin are trying to train them," Tommy responded.
"How's it coming?" Conner inquired.
"Slowly," Tommy responded, ducking a flying object as he and Justin came up the basement stairs, "very slowly."
"Look, I can see that you're busy and all, but I need to talk," Conner continued.
Justin closed the trap door to keep the things in the basement.
"I guess I could take a break," Tommy said.
"Look, you need to find a replacement for me?" Conner said.
"What are you talking about?" Kira interjected.
"You're crazy!" Ethan cried at the same time.
"Calm down you two it's up to Conner" Tommy said "Conner what's the problem is there anything I can do to make you stay?" Tommy asked.
"Look, I'm a soccer player, that's all that I want to do and I get the chance to play soccer for a pro team, and this thing goes off" Conner responded indicating to the Bracelet on his wrist.
"I understand, and you're right," Tommy responded.
"You're agreeing with him?" Ethan remarked.
"Conner, I know how you feel, because I've felt that way before, but I want you to think about this before you do something you will regret" Tommy finished.
"I've got things I want to do as well, but I'm here," Kira added "My music is my passion but this is so much more important than that it is more important to me to help others"
"Good for you, I guess I'm just different," Conner responded, walking off.
"I thought the Red Ranger was supposed to be the leader of the team, not a moaning little bitch about getting interrupted to save the planet" Justin asked.
"I know right, I guess that means we need to find a new leader" said Ethan.
Tommy just shook his head sadly. "Red isn't always the leader sometimes White can be the leader sometimes it's neither"
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"If Oliver and Stewart tame those creatures, they'll be able to use them against us and that would be disastrous" Mesogog said, "The time has come for Dr. Oliver to become the bait and me to be the hunter, Initiate the genome randomizer." Elsa and Zeltrax activated a strange machine, which produced a vicious looking, feathery monster that would definitely be trouble for the Rangers. Mesogog smiled and started chuckling to himself.
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Conner was kicking balls into the empty net on the practice field when the coach from the open trials walked up behind him.
"McKnight," the coach said, catching Conner's attention.
"Coach, what are you doing here?" Conner asked, turning to face him.
"I just received a call from one of your other teachers, and he told me that it was his fault that you had to leave today," the coach said.
"Does that mean I've got a shot at getting in the team?" Conner asked.
"You've always had a shot, you are the most talented kid I've seen in years, you could be the next Landon Donovan and play for the best team in the country or even the world, but only if you're sure you really want this? You'll have to give up everything," the coach asked.
"Yeah, I will!" Conner responded.
"Well then I'll let you know I have a decision to make" the coach said, heading off. Suddenly, the other Rangers walked up.
"Hey bro" Ethan said.
"Things okay with the coach?" Kira asked.
"Yeah, I think so. Listen, I'm sorry you guys, you gotta understand" Conner said.
"Yeah, we do" Kira responded.
"She does more than I do but if it's what you really want," Ethan commented.
"Guys, we have a problem. There's a monster attacking the city, people are in danger! Justin will meet you their" Tommy said.
"Okay, but this is the last time" Conner responded.
"Dino Thunder Power up, ha!" the three Rangers cried, Morphing into their suits.
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"Nasty!" Conner remarked at the sight of the monster. The three Rangers attacked, but were thrown to the ground. The beast approached Kira, but was stopped in its tracks by Justin's voice.
"Hey birdbrain, Thundermax blasters!"" he cried. Kira, Conner and Ethan pulled out their blasters joining Justin and firing at the monster with their Thundermax blasters, and the monster having taking the hit turned and fled.
"He's getting away!" Kira cried, getting up and starting to go after it.
"We'll never catch it!" Conner responded, stopping her.
"God, you are so negative why did the Red Gem decide you would be a good leader" Justin said.
The rage was rising inside Conner as Justin yet again twisted the knife. It appeared obvious to all the other Rangers including Dr. O that Conner would eventually snap and that he would need to prove a point to Justin.
"Guys, use these to catch the monster" Tommy's voice said coming over the Morpher's cutting the tension building up. "Meet the Raptor Riders!" Four semi-mechanical, Black and Ranger coloured Raptors dashed towards the four of them. They jumped on their respective coloured raptors with joy well except for Justin.
"Oh yeah this thing rocks!" Conner remarked.
"I still prefer Storm Blaster!" Justin said.
"Come on Justin at least give them a chance they're not that bad!" Kira added enthusiastically.
"Oh yeah baby!" Ethan finished excitedly.
"Go Raptor Riders!" the Rangers said together. They rode the Raptors through the city, pursuing the monster. They came upon a massive wave of drones, and saw one attacking the girl Conner had seen at the practice field earlier and her mother was trying to get to her daughter but couldn't as more drones blocked the way.
"I'll help the girl, you guys follow the monster!" Conner remarked.
"Got it!" Kira responded.
"One Monster about to be destroyed!" Justin said. He, Kira and Ethan rode off in pursuit of the monster while Conner jumped off his Raptor and engaged the Tyrannodrone that was going after the girl. Taking it down with a powerful kick, he crouched next to the soccer loving girl.
"You okay?" he asked.
"Yeah! Can you help my mother as well?" the girl responded with a smile. Her mother was still struggling to get towards her, Conner pulled out his Tyranno Staff and took them down allowing the woman to make her way to them she ran up and hugged her daughter thanking the Red Ranger and they both left the scene.
"She's safe now," Conner said to himself before realising he was starting to feeling a little different about giving up his power. He chose to think it through later and headed off to help his fellow Rangers.
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Conner caught up to them as they launched an attack on the monster. Kira hit first with a few slashes from her Ptera Grips, followed by Ethan hitting it. Conner then slashed it with his Tyranno staff, which Justin followed up immediately with a powerful blow from his Dragon Dagger. The monster was blasted back to the ground, "Combine your weapons" said Justin.
"Z-Rex blaster! Fire!" Conner cried. The blaster powered up and destroyed the monster.
"Awesome, we rock!" Ethan remarked.
"Total and complete destruction" said Kira.
"One down who knows how many to go" said Justin.
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"Must I do everything for myself?" Mesogog said from inside his lair, he got up and walked over to a computer. "Activating Hydro Re-Generator!" He pushed up a lever on his machine and waited for the effects to take hold.
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A strange storm cloud appeared and rained down some kinds of liquid on what used to be the monster, bringing it back together and causing it to grow to just about 30 stories tall.
"Whoa!" the Rangers remarked.
"Dr. O, we have a problem," Conner said into his Morpher.
"Lemme guess, a 30 story version of the monster you were just fighting?" Dr. Oliver asked.
"You've done this before, haven't you?" Ethan asked.
"Once or twice" Tommy responded, "I'm sending the Dino Zords." The three Zords came charging on to the battle field ready to help the Rangers face the monster.
Justin laughed a little at the exchange between Tommy and Ethan then he raised the Dagger to his mouth and played the six note activation tune.
"Bring it on!" Conner cried.
"Alright!" Ethan remarked.
"Yeah!" Kira added.
"You guys ready?" Justin asked as the Dragonzord appeared.
"Let's do it!" Conner responded. The four Rangers entered their Zords, and then Conner Ethan and Kira combined them into the Thundermax Megazord. However, the monster blasted them, sending the Megazord stumbling back a couple steps.
"Dragonzord let's see what you can do" Justin said as he pushed a few buttons and started up his Drill Tail and fired his missile Fingers knocking the monster back.
"I have an idea!" Kira remarked, "Ptera-rang!" The Megazord pulled out a Pterodactyl themed boomerang and threw it at the monster, knocking it back again.
"Time to finish it off before it regroups!" Justin remarked, "Dragonzord Drill Tail!" The Megazord used its Dino Drill attack and dealt the monster a powerful double finishing blow. The monster self-destructed in a massive explosion, ending the battle.
"Now that's what I call monster busting!" Kira remarked.
"Yeah!" the boys responded. The Rangers exited their Zords, which separated into the three Dino Zords. Justin was next and played the same six note tune but a slower version to signify the battle was over. The Zords returned to where they'd come from, the girl from earlier ran up to Conner.
"Thank you," she said, hugging him.
"Anytime," Conner replied then the girl headed back to her mother and they left the scene.
Justin watched the exchange as did Kira and Ethan.
'It won't be long until the real Conner stands up thought Justin as he realised his constant jabbing at Conner was starting to pay off.
A/N do you think Justin is being a little hard on Conner?