"TIME TO SAY GOOD-BYE GREEN RANGER!" Turbanshell yelled as he advanced on Tommy twirling his staff.
Then a burst of flame Goldar appeared blocking Turbanshell with his sword. "STAND ASIDE UNDERLING I SHALL FINISH THIS!" he said.
"NO WAY! I DESTROYED THE RED DRAGON RANGER! THE GREEN RANGER IS MINE TOO!" Turbanshell yelled.
"OBAY MY ORDER OR I'LL FEED YOU TO THE BIRDS! OUR MASTER HAS OTHER PLANS FOR YOU! NOW GO!" Goldar shouted.
"VERY WELL!" and Tubanshell vanished and Goldar turned to Tommy teeth bared and a glint in his eye.
"Greetings Green Ranger! Or should I call you TOMMY! How does it feel to be stripped of your powers forever HA, HA! Are you green with envy? And your humiliation is far from over for you will always be known as the ranger that caused the destruction of the Red Dragon Ranger ha, ha, ha!" Goldar said as he circled Tommy who kept his head held high not looking at Goldar.
As Goldar continued to laugh and in a flash of light a small device appeared in his hand. "You shall soon pledge your allegiance to me!" Goldar said.
Tommy looked at Goldar steel in his eyes shaking his head. "No way Goldar, that'll be a cold day in hell," he muttered and Goldar laughed.
"We shall see behold!" Goldar said holding up the device.
A line of flame shot out of it then a flame framed vision of Tommy in Green Ranger armor fighting putties appeared. Tommy looked at the hovering image in front of him and lowered his eyes.
"Do you even recognize yourself Tommy? Do you see what a gallant Hero you used to be? Always willing to sacrifice weren't you? Always ready, always there when the others needed you! You have saved your friends a hundred times! And think of all of Rita's monsters you destroyed you and your powerful Dragon Zord!" Goldar demanded laughing.
Tommy fell to his knees as the vision changed from Tommy fighting putties and monsters to Dragon Zord.
"Ha, Ha, Ha, witness the greatness you once were Tommy because it's all over now!" Goldar yelled behind Tommy laughing his head off a longing look of despair on his face.
For almost thirty minutes Tommy sat on his knees watching visions of himself as the Green Ranger appear in the flame frame. Then the frame vanished while Goldar still laughed his head off.
"Before I send you spinning into space with this time device I want to hear you say I am your superior!" Goldar declared grinning down at Tommy as he turned on his hands and knees to face him.
"NOW! SAY IT!" Goldar roared as Tommy raised and lowered his head.
"Goldar…," Tommy muttered.
"SAY IT," Goldar roared again.
"…you are…," Tommy continued.
"Yes go on," Goldar said his voice full of delight.
Slowly Tommy raised his head to look at Goldar. "OUT OF YOUR MIND!" he shouted a smile springing across his face.
In a flash he leapt into the air over Goldar and came down punching Goldar hard in the chest then kicked his sword out his hand where it landed tip first into the ground twenty feet away. After a couple more kicks from him Goldar flipped Tommy onto his back.
"I SHALL DESTROY YOU FOR THAT!" Goldar roared then picked Tommy up like a rag doll and threw him twenty feet away landing sprawled out on the ground.
"I HAVE WAISTED TO MUCH TIME WITH THE LIKES OF YOU!" Goldar roared advancing on Tommy as he sprang to his feet.
"NOW I SHALL FINISH YOU GREEN RANGER ONCE AND FOR ALL!" Goldar roared as the two advanced on each other.
Tommy faked Goldar then kicked the device out of his hand and it rocketed straight up into the air.
"NOOO!" Goldar yelled as Tommy caught it then jumped up spun around and kicked Goldar off his feet onto his back.
Tommy grinned down at Goldar. "I almost gave up on myself there Goldar but your little show there reminded me of all the good I've done. Not Just as the Green Ranger but also as me plain old Tommy. Like something Red Dragon once told me 'its not the powers that defines a Ranger but his will to act on his beliefs' until this moment I never understood what he meant until now," he said then charged forward as Goldar climbed to his feet.
He nailed him with kick after kick and after nailing Goldar with a turning side kick hard to the chest launched Goldar back a few steps.
Goldar slowly climbed to his feet. "GIVE ME THAT DEVICE!" Goldar roared charging Tommy.
"You want it… come and get it… come on!" Tommy barked taking several steps back.
"HERE!" he shouted holding the device up.
A beam fiery light shot from it and Goldar froze as the beam hit him the color flashed around him for a second then he vanished.
'Yes Goldar's gone but how the heck am I going to get out of here,' Tommy thought looking around scratching his chin in thought.
'Wait this is supposed to be some kind of time device maybe I can contact myself in the past," he said then started examining the buttons on the device.
'God I wish Billy was here,' he thought as he turned a couple of dials.
"Whoa!" he yelped in surprise as lightning appeared over head then a transparent version of himself appeared in front of him.
"It's a time warp I got message," the transparent Tommy said and held out his hand hold a communicator and the real Tommy took it.
In a flash of lightning the image vanished as Tommy strapped on the communicator and teleported away. As the streak of green light vanished an unmorphed Logan with a slightly charred shirt used the rocks to pull himself out of the grass.
"I always knew he could do it," he muttered.
'Only because where you came from he already did. And what were you thinking taking that blow if that over grown hermit crab had, had a little more Green Ranger energy he would have killed rather than just unmorphed and right now I have one question. How do we get out of here? Tommy took the device with him,' The Red Dragon Spirit said in his head.
"Simple we morph and take a portal out of here," he said and picked up the Dragon Gem from the ground.
"DRAGON RIDERS! UNITE! HA!" he called out and inserted the gem in its slot and nothing happened.
He blinked and looked at the gem. "Red Dragon…" he started.
'I don't understand it myself but from what I feel or link has become unstable I need to strength it. But I don't know how it could have happened in the first place. But it means until I can stabilize or link it means you'll have to rely on your Ninja powers,' Red Dragon said to him.
"Got it I just hope it's enough," Logan muttered and grabbed the corner of his shirt and pulled and his Ninja uniform appeared and slipped on a mask.
I started wandering through the tall grass looking for an exit. For fifteen minutes I walked through the tall grass seeing nothing but grass and open land as far as the eye could see. After walking over the fifth rise I gave a yell in frustration.
"Anger will get you nowhere,"
I a flash I turned into a fighting stance. All I saw as a small child sitting on a rock making a flower crown her face hidden by her long brown. I stood still as she hummed a song while making her crown.
After a moment she padded the rock next to her. "Why don't you take a seat and relax we have time," she said.
He hesitated for a second. "You know we have time your friends don't need you right now," she said.
He blinked then slowly stepped forward and sat down. "That's better," she said.
"Who are you?" Logan demanded.
"Someone who knows who and what you are, and someone who knows that right now you are powerless to help them even if they needed you," she said as she held out her hand a flower floated onto it.
"Really then what am I?" He asked crossing arms.
"One who claims to be a Dragon Rider," she muttered wrapping the flower in away to make it the head of the crown.
"'Claims'?"
She stopped then slowly looked at Logan and he leapt away from her in shock. Because it wasn't the face of a child but of an old woman.
She smiled baring white young teeth. "I get that a lot, but right now you must know this, the next couple years of your unborn life will vital to the future you fight for," she said then held out the crown.
Logan hesitated then very slowly extended his hand. "Make sure you chose right the future is in your hands," she said as Logan took it.
After looking at it Logan closely examined it looked up again and saw that she was gone. I whipped around again and again not see her.
'Now it's time to mediate on this,' he thought and climbed onto the rocks and pulled his legs into a full lotus position and closed his eyes.
For nearly fifteen minutes he sat on the rock then his eyes opened as Red Dragon muttered 'you know that crown might look good on you,'
His eyes slowly opened. 'You have got to be kidding me' he said.
'Oh come on it'll look good on you'
'Not a chance'
'Can't you just hummer her'
'We don't even know if it was a her or a thing!'
'But she knew about us and I trust her'
Logan's hand came up to pinch the bridge of his nose. Then very slowly reached down and even more slowly placed the crown on his head.
'There you happy I now look like a…' started then stopped as he felt something drain his energy.
'red… dragon…" he muttered then fell from the rock.
'Logan!' Red Dragon barked as he hit the ground.
'What's happening… to me?'
'I don't know but your energy is being drained at an alarming rate! Almost like…' Red Dragon started then was cut off by a surge of light flowing from Logan to the crown on his head.
The crown pulsed a couple of times then a beam shot from the head of the crown. And Logan watched in amazement as a portal opened.
'LOGAN GET ON YOUR FEET! YOU ONLY HAVE FIVE SECONDS!' Red Dragon yelled at him and he pulled himself forward.
He raised his head to see the portal shrinking into nothing. "Oh no you don't," he muttered and with a burst of energy threw himself through it.
He landed hard with a roll and looked around at the deserted park around him and he made a sign with one hand and his uniform disappeared.
'Well we're back' he thought and his morpher vibrated.
'And not a moment too soon Red Dragon are we stable?' he said.
'Almost… got it!' Red Dragon said and Logan felt energy seep into him.
He rolled over onto his back curled up and leapt to his feet then tossed the crown away. "Then let's go to work!" he barked and ran behind some trees.
"DRAGON RIDERS UNITE! HA!" he called out and streaked away.
He came to a stop next to the other morphed Rangers and they looked at him. "Red Dragon! Your alive Tommy said you were destroyed!" Kimberly barked rushing over putting a hand on his shoulder the other patting his chest to see if he was real.
"It was close but no cigar. Where is Tommy?" he asked not seeing him.
They were silent and Kimberly looked up and following her gaze looked at Turbanshell who was jerking around parts of him smoking. "You got to be kidding me," he muttered and summoned the Dragon Rider Cycle.
He roared into the sky heading for Tubanshell. "Gotta time this right," he said as he circled the head.
"NOW!" he barked and threw himself from the bike as Turbanshell threw his head back mouth open in agony.
He dropped through the air wind whipping by him hopping not to find teeth and he dropped into Turbanshell's mouth. 'Two points' Red Dragon muttered.
When he landed in the stomach with a roll he looked at his hands covered in slime. "I think I'm going to be sick," he muttered shaking his hands and looked around at the dimly lit stomach around him.
'According to my readings it's almost two thousand degrees in here if we spend a little…' Red Dragon started.
"TOMMY!" he shouted spotting him barely on one knee a blaster in his hand that he kept firing over and over.
He rushed over and helped him onto his feet. "Come on man don't give up yet we're getting outta here," he said wrapping Tommy's arm over his shoulders.
"Wha… Red Dragon?" Tommy's voice said as his head looked at Logan.
"No its Santa Claus, who else would it be now come on we gotta get out of here!" Logan barked.
"Any ideas?" Tommy said.
"Maybe," Logan said and held out his hand at his side.
"Sword of the Dragon!" he braked and in a flash of light it was in his hand.
'Logan we're still not strong enough to fuel the Ring of Fire!' Red Dragon barked.
'We'll use the heat in here to fuel it!' Logan barked back.
"HOLD ON TIGHT! RING OF FIRE FULL POWER!" Logan said Tommy tightened his grip as he drew a circle in the air.
"ENGAGE NOW!" he roared and shot the point forward and the funnel shot forward against the wall of the stomach burning a hole straight through.
"This could get rough," Logan said and he started streaking forward.
As they ran forward on the charred muscle and bone both trying not to lose either of their lunches as blood and clear liquid seeped around them. After what seemed like forever they were out and landed on the pavement and side walk of the street. Logan rolled off his back and looked up as Kimberley pulled him into her lap.
'That was interesting' Red Dragon said.
'No that was vile he owes me big!' Logan barked and he walked over to them.
"I'll be fine what about the monster?" he asked Kimberly
"I think you did it," she said as Billy and Trini came over and she and Logan helped him to his feet.
"Excellent that was great team work," Billy said.
"Thanks Billy this Mega Heater of yours worked perfectly," Tommy said handing Billy the blaster.
Kimberly turned to Logan. "Red Dragon…" she started.
"don't worry I'll get him back to the Command Center you guys wrap up things here," he muttered and touched Tommy's morpher and they teleported.
Once their Tommy fell to one knee and Logan helped him back up one arm wrapped around his shoulder. He walked Tommy to the center of the room in front of Zordon where an examining chair appeared. Logan laid him on it then they both looked at the viewing globe to watch Tundermegazord being formed and take out Turbanshell.
A few minutes later the others teleported in all with their helmets off and they gathered around Tommy who held Kimberly's hand.
"There's got to be something we can do?" she said and look at Zordon then at Logan on the other side of Tommy.
He held her gaze for a second then shook his head. "He's too far gone nothing can stop it now," he said then looked down at Tommy who turned his helmeted head to look at him.
After a moment the two grasped hands. "Well fought my friend, you saved Angel Grove, you saved the lives who live on this planet, and of those who are still to come," Logan said.
"More than that you saved us Tommy!" Alpha said shuffling forward.
Zordon nodded. "When you destroyed Zedd's crystal you destroyed the force field and for that I owe you my life Tommy," he said.
"Yeah you're a true hero Tommy you fought Goldar, Turbanshell, and went into Lord Zedd's realm without your powers," Billy said.
Behind his helmet Tommy chuckled. "And yet I almost gave up and it made it worse when I thought I had gotten you killed," he said nodding at Logan waved it away.
"But then I realized it's not the power or the armor or even the Zord its what's inside that makes a ranger. And that's exactly what you've been trying to tell me all along," he said looking at Logan who gave a chuckle then knocked on his helmet a couple of times.
"I always knew there was a brain behind that thick head of yours," he said and everyone gave a weak chuckle then Tommy cringed and green lightning appeared at his feet.
"Its time," he muttered and gripped Kimberly's hand harder as the lightning slowly spread upward.
They watched as it slowly moved up his legs to his chest and shoulders then down his arms and finally across his helmet. It gave a flicker then the Green Ranger armor vanished and only Tommy lay on the chair his powers finally drained dry. Logan and Kimberly helped him sit up.
"Easy man," Logan said as he got to his feet alone and looked at everyone.
"Well that's the last of the Green Ranger," he muttered and Jason stepped forward taking hi m by the upper arms.
"You will always be one of us Tommy now and forever," he said and everyone nodded gathering around him except Logan.
"Come on guys one last time," he said holding out a hand a Logan backed away.
They piled hands over each other's and leapt up shouting, "POWER RANGERS!" and Logan vanished behind them.
That night after triple date with Tommy, Kimberly, Jason, and Trini at a restaurant with a dancing area Logan drove Ashley home.
"Tommy seemed a little preoccupied tonight," Ashley said as they walked up the walkway.
Logan shrugged. "He's just got a lot on his mind he's going away to clear his head during school break," he said when they reached her door where they lingered.
Once under the arch she turned to him and wrapped her arm around his neck and he upper his on her hips. "You know I never really figured you to be that good of a twinkle toes," she muttered and he smiled.
"we'll I'm just full of surprises aren't I?' he said and she nodded.
"I guess that's what I like about you," she muttered.
He smiled. "I was wondering if there was a reason to why you were going out with me beside my good looks," he said and she chuckled.
"They're not that good," she muttered leaned forward and kissed him.
"But it's nice to finally have a boyfriend who's not afraid of my father," she said in his ear.
"Are you kidding me I'm petrified especially of the look he's giving me now," Logan said and leaned back and glanced at the window her father was peeking out of.
She put on a pouting look. "Does that mean you won't kiss me again?" she asked.
He put on a look of thought. "Depends," he said.
"On what?"
"If your father is packing rock salt or bullets," he said and she laughed a little then kissed him again then went inside and after a moment he returned to his bike and drove off.
When he came to the first red light all the events of the day seemed to slam into him. 'Logan?' The Red Dragon Spirit said to him.
When the light turned green he veried into a turn causing several drivers to angerly honk their horns at him. A short while later in his Ranger armor he phased though the roof of Tommy's house one hand cleching something. Not hearing him land Tommy continued to soloumly pack things into a duffle.
Taking light steps over Logan grabbed him from behind his free hand going over his mouth the clenched fest around his abdoman to keep him in place. "Keep quite!" Logan said in his ear and Tommy quickly quited down.
When he stopped moving Logan released him and Tommy whipped around to stare at him. "Can't you just say hello like a normal person," he demanded quitely.
Logan shrugged. "Where's the fun in that?" he said and Tommy chuckled.
The two were silent for a moment before Logan asked in a low voice, "how you doing."
Tommy looked away. "Well as can be expected but I got to get out of here and clear my head," he said and Logan nodded.
"I understand that but I stopped by tonight because I wanted to give you something," he said and Tommy looked at him.
"What?" he asked.
Logan held up his clenched hand and opened it.
Tommy blinked. "Dirt?" he aksed looking at the packed amount in Logan's hand.
Logan smiled behidn his visor then brought it close cupping the dirt in both hands and the mouth part of his visor lowered. Tommy watched as he brought his hands close to his mouth and a heard him blow into it. When Logan opened his hands Tommy gasped.
A necklace with a pointed crystal about an inch and a half long now lay in the palm of his hand. "This was given to the families of fallen Riders I believe that you earned it. And I believe you earned something for you to remember your time as the Green Ranger my friend," he said as he stepped forward and placed the neckalce around Tommy's neck.
He then took Tommy's right hand and placed it on his left shoulder. Then put his right hand and placed it on Tommy's left shoulder so their arms crossed.
"Brother to Brother yours in life and death," Logan said.
Tommy looked at him for a moment and after Logan nodded muttered, "Brother to Brother yours in life and death."
Then after a moemtn the two broke apart and Tommy held up the crystal and a holographic image of him as the Green Ranger appeared from it fighting invisible enemies.
He looked at Logan as the image vanished. "Thanks man it great," he muttered smiling then looked up to find Logan had vanished.
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