Hello, all! Quick update, right? Who knows when I'll manage to have this short a time period between updates, again! I'm trying to get better at updating The Power Within and Power of Winter at around the same time. Maybe I'll finally start writing chapters in advance…
I'm gonna start skipping episodes here and there, but I AM going to include the movie, right after The Wedding episodes. The movie has both Zedd and Rita in it, we only have Zedd at the moment, so we'll wait until they get married.
Also, I got called into work a few times this week, so we'll see how that goes.
Thank you so much to Jimmyle311, brankel1, thunderyoshi, RiveraJ88, and Disneyfan10 for your wonderful reviews! Here we go!
Sitting in class, Jamie payed apt attention as Adam presented his science project, a kaleidoscope he had made by hand. He held it up to his eye, looking through it. She doodled in her notebook as she listened, a sketch of Alpha taking up her page. Grabbing a red pen to give her sketch some color, Jamie glanced up and smiled as her friend confidently gave his speech on the kaleidoscope. He was leaning against Mrs. Applebee's desk, but stood as he took the device away from his eye.
"A kaleidoscope shows us how light is reflected. We start with a normal white light, and then the light enters the kaleidoscope and breaks into a million pieces. Take a look," he said, handing it to a student directly in front of him. When the girl looked into it and smiled, so did Mrs. Applebee.
"Nice report, Adam," she said, placing a hand on Adam's arm. "Questions, anyone?" after a pause, Mrs. Applebee's smile dropped and she said "Intelligent questions?"
Curious, Jamie peaked over her shoulder, and saw Skull with his hand up, waving it madly in the air. She hid a smile and turned back around, meeting Adam's eyes as she did. She grinned at him.
"I have an intelligent question!" Bulk said from next to his friend. "How tall is the tallest building in the world?"
"Questions about Adam's report, Bulk," Mrs. Applebee said dryly.
Bulk slammed the eraser of his pencil down on his desk. "Hell, who'd want to know about that?"
Everyone shook their heads and turned back to the front.
"Very well done, Adam," Mrs. Applebee said, and then the bell rang, signaling the end of the school day. Standing up, Jamie closed her notebook, put it and her pens away, and then slung her backpack over her shoulders.
"That was a great presentation, Adam," Jamie said as the Black Ranger joined the rest of them at the door.
"Thanks," Adam said with a smile.
"Yeah, this is really cool," Kimberly said, the kaleidoscope in her hands.
"You can hang on to it if you want," Adam offered.
"You don't want to keep it?" Rocky asked, surprised.
"I made a few of them, but only ended up using two. Mrs. Applebee has one, as well," Adam said with a shrug.
"Cool," Kimberly said, "Thank you! Hey, let's take it to the park, I bet it'll look really cool with it," she suggested.
"You guys go ahead, I have a mountain of math homework," Jamie said. "There's a milkshake and a chair at the Youth Center calling my name."
"I'll go with you," Aisha said with a smile, "I actually understand the homework this week."
"Thank you," Jamie said with a small smile.
In the end, Rocky and Adam ended up joining them at the Youth Center while Kimberly, Billy, and Tommy went to the park. It was while they were there that Rocky pulled out his own project- a Newton's Pendulum.
"So, the answer is 23?" Jamie asked, sitting back in her chair after finally finishing her math homework. Glancing over at Jamie's notebook, and then back at her own that had all the correct answers in it, the Yellow Ranger smiled.
"Yes! See, I told you it isn't as hard this week," Aisha praised.
"Thank you, Aisha," the Silver Ranger said, "Math is just not my strong-suit, but having friends who can help me with it makes it a lot easier."
"We're all happy to help, Jay," Rocky said with an easy grin. "Now watch this."
Grabbing one of the marbles at the end of the Newton's Pendulum, Rocky started it, and they watched as the marble on the opposite end moved, spurred on by the energy of the first marble being shot through the three marbles between them.
As they watched, Bulk and Skull stopped at their table and crouched down until they were eye-level with it. Rocky grinned, tapped Adam's shoulder, and then leaned over the bullies.
"You are getting sleepy… Very sleepy…" the Red Ranger said softly, while the other three Rangers at the table covered their mouths to hide grins.
As their eyes began to droop, and Bulk started to snore, however, the Rangers' communicators went off, causing all four to drop their eyes to their wrists. Grabbing their stuff, the Rangers quickly got up and ran to a secure place before asking what was going on, and then teleporting to the Command Center.
"Aye-yi-yi!" Alpha said, turning to face them. "Thank goodness you're here!"
"You said it was an emergency!" Rocky exclaimed, stepping forward.
"What's happening? Where are the others?" Jamie asked.
"The other Rangers are in grave danger, Rocky and Jamie," Zordon said. "Observe the Viewing Globe."
Turning, the four Rangers took a few steps towards the Viewing Globe, and found the monster of the week displayed on it.
"The three have been attacked by Zedd's Scatterbrain monster," Zordon said. "Scatterbrain fires a ray, which, like a kaleidoscope, breaks its victims into millions of pieces, then reassembles them, but without any memory of who they are."
"You mean Tommy, Billy, and Kimberly lost their memories?" Adam questioned, turning back to their mentor.
"They don't even know they're Power Rangers?" Aisha added.
"Or that they're our best friends?" Jamie finished.
"You must bring them back here to safety so that we can help them."
"We'll take care of them," Rocky said, taking charge.
"Be careful dealing with this monster, Rangers," Zordon said. "If Scatterbrain causes all of you to lose your memories, the Power Rangers will be no more."
That put everyone into a somber mood, but nevertheless, the Rangers lifted their wrists up to teleport to the park.
"Good luck, Rangers."
When they landed, Rocky put a hand out, stopping the others before they could move.
"Okay, let's go," Rocky said.
"Remember, they aren't going to remember who we are," Aisha reminded, and Jamie's frown deepened.
"Hopefully we can get them help in time," she said.
"Why are you talking so weird?" they heard Kimberly ask as they came up on their friends. "Hey, do you think you were one of those intellectual people?"
"I don't know," Billy replied, "Perhaps I am. Or was," he said.
"You are," Rocky said, and when Billy turned, he continued, "You're a straight-A student."
"I'm Billy," Bill said, his hands on his hips. "A brain?"
"Told you," Kimberly said, turning to the Blue Ranger.
"And you're Kimberly," Jamie said.
"You're our best friend," Aisha continued the thought.
"I am?" Kimberly asked.
"Yeah, we do everything together," Aisha said. "Go shopping every day?"
Kimberly scoffed. "Why would we go shopping every day?"
"We don't always buy stuff, it's just a fun way for us to hang out," Jamie said. "You, Billy, and I have been friends since Kindergarten, Kim."
"And you always said we didn't need a reason to shop," Aisha added.
"That was really pathetic," Kimberly said, sounding disgusted at the thought of going shopping every single day.
Aisha turned to Rocky, and then Adam and Jamie, "She doesn't like shopping anymore? That monster's more powerful than any of us imagined."
"Monster?" Tommy questioned, confused.
"Yeah, the Scatterbrain monster that Zedd made," Adam supplied. "You know, Lord Zedd on the moon?"
"He's the one that caused you guys to lose your memories," Jamie said.
Kimberly shook her head, and the others sighed before Rocky turned to Adam.
"Oh man, we better get them back to the Command Center, fast," the Red Ranger said.
"Hey, you're not taking me anywhere!" Tommy said.
"Yeah, me either," Billy agreed.
Before anything else could be said, though, Goldar and a bunch of putties appeared behind the three, laughing. Kimberly screamed, and the three turned to face them.
"Come with us, we'll refresh your memory!" Goldar said.
"Trust us, we'll take you somewhere safe," Rocky said. The others turned back, half eyeing Goldar and the putties, and half wondering if they could trust the four teens claiming to be their friends.
"Best friends, huh?" Kimberly asked, staring at Aisha and Jamie.
"Let's teleport," Aisha said, reaching a hand out for Kimberly to take.
"Teleport?" Tommy asked, but still he came closer to the others, trusting them over the monsters behind them.
Once they were close enough, the four Rangers who still had their memories were able to grab on to the three who didn't, and teleported them all back to the Command Center.
"What just happened?" Tommy asked once they landed.
"Zordon, their memories are completely gone," Rocky said, quickly stepping up.
"Wow!" Tommy said, "Where are we?" He took a few steps forward, and then noticed Zordon. "Forget where we are, who's that?"
Kimberly, who had been doing a slow, 360 turn to look at everything, gasped in surprise when she finally lay eyes on Zordon.
"I am Zordon, a trusted friend to you, Tommy," Zordon said.
"And I am Alpha 5!" Alpha added as he walked over.
"Whoa," Billy said, his eyes widening. "A fully sentient, multi-functional automaton! Never seen anything like it!"
"You really don't remember me, Billy?" If he could, Alpha would have cried.
"They will have to remain here for now," Zordon said. "Their minds are vulnerable to Zedd's evil."
"But, Zordon, can't you just give them their powers again?" Adam asked.
"Without their memories, they do not have the experience, the skills, or the character to be Power Rangers," Zordon answered.
"So what are we supposed to do? We can't leave them like this," Jamie said, crossing her arms.
"Um, excuse me, but can somebody like, come back to Earth and pick me up, because I am totally confused," Kimberly said, raising her hand up into the air like she was in class.
"You, Kimberly, as well as Billy and your leader Tommy are Power Rangers, here to protect the Earth from Lord Zedd's evil forces," Zordon said.
"His monster Scatterbrain has erased your memories to make you powerless," Alpha said. "If we don't unscramble you soon, the whole world will be in danger!"
"Adam, you're the expert on light waves," Aisha pointed out after a moment. "How can you reverse a light scattering?"
Adam thought about it for a moment, and brought his hand up to his chin. "Maybe prisms. Just maybe." He thought for another moment, and then grinned as an idea came to him. "If we tempt Scatterbrain to attack again, and but we deflect the ray through a prism, it might work."
"It's better than nothing," Jamie said, "I'm willing to give anything a try at this point."
"You will have to try," Zordon said. "Without the power of all six Rangers, we have no chance at defeating Scatterbrain."
"Adam," Rocky said. "You take Billy to his lap, and get the prisms. Jamie, help him." When Adam and Jamie nodded, he turned to Aisha. "You and I will try and keep Scatterbrain from entering the city."
The Black, Yellow, and Silver Rangers all nodded in agreement with the Red Ranger's plan.
"Good luck, Rangers," Zordon said.
"Come on, guys," Rocky said as he, Adam, Aisha, and Jamie walked back over to Tommy, Kimberly, and Tommy. "Now!"
With that, the seven teleported in streaks of color to their respective jobs.
When they landed in Billy's workshop, Adam and Jamie both separated off to look for prisms.
"Wow," Billy said, in awe of his own lab.
"Let's get what we came for and go," Adam said hurriedly.
Looking through Billy's desk Jamie looked up, quickly realizing that the Blue Ranger wasn't helping, and instead was looking around in amazement.
"Come on, Billy, we've got to hurry!" Jamie urged.
Billy ignored her, and picked up a vial that had green liquid and smoke in it. "This place is amazing!"
"Yeah, it is," Adam agreed.
"Is it yours?" he asked Adam, before turning to Jamie. "Or yours?"
"No, it's neither of ours," Adam said.
"Billy, this lab belongs to you," Jamie said.
"Wow," Billy said.
"Where do you keep your set of prisms?" Adam asked, hoping that maybe muscle memory would lead Billy to the answer.
Billy looked around for a second and then shrugged. "I don't know."
"Well, we'll just have to keep looking," Jamie said, before moving to a set of shelves. "Maybe they're in one of these?" Adam and Billy both looked up, and found Jamie standing in front of a shelf full of silver briefcases.
"Guess we gotta look in all of them until we find the right one," Adam said with a shrug. Jamie, agreeing with him, pulled the first one off.
It took four briefcases, but they finally opened one that had prisms in it,
"Aha!" Adam exclaimed. "This is the one!" picking one up, Adam glanced at Billy and Jamie. "You two pick one, too." With three prisms now in hand, Adam said, "Billy, stay close."
The three quickly teleported, and landed right behind Rocky and Aisha, who were morphed, as well as Tommy and Kimberly.
"Guys!" Jamie exclaimed.
"We got the prisms!" Adam added.
"Look, they made it!" Aisha gasped in surprise.
"Watch out, you guys!" Rocky warned.
"What this?" Scatterbrain asked, turning to face the newly arrived Rangers, "Aha!"
"Watch out, he's going to fire!" Rocky shouted.
"Adam, Jamie, get down!" Aisha called.
However, Scatterbrain's ray hit Adam, Jamie, and Billy, causing Adam and Jamie to also lose their memories. Billy also forget everything that had just happened. All three Rangers looked at the prisms in their hands, confused.
"Hey, what happened?" Jamie asked. "Who are you guys?"
"I have no idea," Adam said.
"I don't remember anything," Billy remarked.
"Well, at least you're cute," Jamie said, staring up at Adam. Adam, in turn, smiled at her.
All three looked up, though, when they heard a voice. "Come on, Aisha!"
It was two people, in colorful costumes, one in Red, and the other Yellow.
However, just as the two reached them, Scatterbrain hit them with his beam, causing them to lose the prisms, unmorph, and lose their memories as well.
"Okay, so, like, what happens now?" Kimberly asked as she and Tommy ventured over to the other five.
"What are you talking about?" Rocky asked. "Who are you?"
"Why did you guys change clothes?"
"Woo, I've done it!" Scatterbrain cheered. "None of them even has a clue who he is anymore! The Power Rangers are finished! Silenced forever!" Ecstatic about his win, Scatterbrain laughed triumphantly, unaware of the two new heroes who were stepping up. Bulk and Skull.
"Not so fast, Buckaroo!" Bulk said, stepping up with Skull to face the monster, prisms in their hands.
"What?!" Scatterbrain exclaimed in surprise. "Who said that? Who are you?" After Bulk and Skull moved their ponchos in a very dramatic way, Scatterbrain frowned. "Whoever you are, you won't stop me from taking these captives back to the moon!"
"You're not taking the Power Rangers anywhere!" Bulk said.
"What?!"
"Yeah," Skull agreed. "Not if we can help it."
"Don't force me to destroy your minds as well!"
"Draw, you yellow-bellied skunk!" Bulk ordered.
"OH!" Scatterbrain exclaimed. "Very well, Earthlings! If you insist on orchestrating your own doom! We will have what I believe you call a showdown."
Scatterbrain laughed, unaware that Bulk and Skull were holding the three prisms behind their backs, Bulk had two and Skull had one.
"You're not losing your nerve, now, are you?"
After a moment, Scatterbrain fired his ray at them. He hit them, but he also hit the prisms, which redirected the beam to the Rangers, and restored their memories.
When the beam ended, all seven Rangers found themselves morphed, all their memories back.
"I remember now," Rocky said. "It's all coming back to me!"
"Everyone themselves again?" Kimberly asked.
"Yeah!"
"God, that was weird!" Jamie said. "Let's never do that again!"
"Hear hear!"
"Bulk and Skull!" Tommy exclaimed, seeing the bullies on the ground in front of Scatterbrain. "Come on, let's help them!"
Running over, the seven Rangers went to help the two, who they were pretty sure now knew their identities.
"Hey, are you guys alright? Can you hear me?"
"What's going on?" Bulk asked as he and Skull were able to lean up.
"You two took a serious hit," Tommy said.
"Power Rangers?" Skull asked, sounding confused. He pointed to Adam, "Did you save us?"
"Are you kidding?" Tommy asked, "You're the ones who saved us!" After a moment, it became clear that neither Bulk nor Skull remembered what had just happened. "They don't remember a thing," Tommy sighed.
A sudden Power Orb from Zedd appeared, making Scatterbrain much, much bigger.
"Scatterbrain!" Rocky exclaimed. "I remember where we left off, you guys! Let's get to it! We need Thunderzord Power, now!"
Once the Thunderzords arrived and formed the Thunder Megazord was formed, the Rangers engaged in a sword fight with Scatterbrain, determined to end this once for all, and get revenge for him taking their memories away from them.
"Thundersaber, Power Up!" the Rangers called, and their sword, sparking with lightening, became much more powerful. With one strike, Scatterbrain fell, destroyed and defeated. They hadn't even needed to call Tommy's White Tiger Zord.
A few hours later, Kimberly, Aisha, and Jamie were walking into the Youth Center after another shopping trip, when Aisha noticed Bulk and Skull telling an outlandish story.
"Check it out," the Yellow Ranger said, pointing the two bullies, and the crowd around them, out to Kimberly and Jamie.
Both bullies were screaming, and miming… something.
"Right, so where are they?" asked a girl who standing by them.
"What?" Bulk asked.
"If you saved their lives, the least they could do is come by and say thank you," the girl said.
"They're in the bathroom," Skull said, trying to keep the crows from walking away.
"We're meeting them later!" Bulk added.
"We're going to see the president!" Skull shouted.
"The monster was big!" Bulk exclaimed, holding his arms out to try and demonstrate how big it was.
The two kept going on about it, only stopping once every single person had left, and they were left at a table, alone. Dejected, they walked up to the bar, where Ernie stood behind it. Smiling, Kimberly gestured with her head to Aisha and Jamie, and the three girls headed over.
"Hey Bulk and Skull! There you guys are!" Kimberly said.
"We've been looking all over for you," Jamie added.
"Yeah, you and the rest of this lynch mob!" Bulk said, sounding very bitter.
"So… You guys saved the Power Rangers!" Aisha said, sharing a look with Kimberly and Jamie as the three grinned.
"Go ahead and laugh, but we did," Bulk insisted.
"No, we believe you!" Kimberly sounded sincere, which was true. They had saved them, it was true.
"You do?" Bulk asked, confused.
"Yeah!" Jamie said.
"Why?"
This, gave Kimberly pause. "Uh… Because… Besides the fact that… You're strange…"
"You, come through in a pinch!" Aisha said, saving the Pink Ranger.
"Yeah!" Jamie agreed. "And, and, you're courageous, and honorable!"
"And honest, and upright!" Blake finished, standing up straighter, as did Skull.
"And intelligent!" Skull added. "And responsible!"
Fearing what they had just started, Kimberly, Aisha, and Jamie shared nervous looks. How long would they have to stand here, listening to Bulk and Skull? All they had tried to do was make them feel better!
"And available!" Skull finally hinted.
"You ladies want to go out?" Bulk asked.
"Alright, you guys, let's not get carried away that far," Kimberly said.
With a smile, a laugh, and a tiny wave from Aisha, the three girls turned, and walked away, leaving the two bullies behind. It was better that way.