'Sup? Everyone doing okay? Quarantine treating everyone well? We all ready for this nonsense to be over with? Anyone else really craving a cheeseburger from your local bar? I know the answer to all of these questions are YES for me! I've actually been working every other day for the last three months, doing my graphic design thing. It's been hard to find time to write, since I live with my parents and oldest brother still. I'm looking for an apartment, but it's kinda hard in these weird Covid times. Either way, I have found some time, and I'm excited to write again!
Thank you so much to RiveraJ88, Hailey Torres, Jimmyle311, FallenArcana, brankel1, and Disneyfan10 for your wonderful comments on the last chapter. Here we go!
Jamie woke up excited that morning. It was finally time for the scavenger hunt! With a grin, the Silver Ranger got out of bed and got ready for the day, pulling on a light gray tshirt dress (it had pockets!) and undoing her hair from the braid it had been in all night. Running her fingers through the strands lightly, Jamie managed to make her hair look somewhat alright, and finally ran to the bathroom to brush her teeth.
"Morning, mom! Bye, mom!" Jamie called, running down the stairs and past the kitchen on her way out.
"Hold on, Jamie, eat breakfast first!" Mrs. Reece exclaimed, surprised.
"Toss me a breakfast bar, I gotta go!" Mrs. Reece looked at her daughter, her eyebrows raised. "Please?" with a smile and a nod, Mrs. Reece grabbed the box of breakfast bars from the pantry and reached in.
"Remind me to get more of these, we only have a few left," the older woman said, tossing her daughter a mixed berry soft breakfast bar.
"I will, but I gotta go meet the others. Thanks mom, love you!" with that, the Silver Ranger ran out the door.
Mrs. Reece smiled and shook her head, a chuckle escaping her lips.
"What's she so excited about?" she looked up at her son's voice, and had to hide another chuckle. Aidan was NOT a morning person, if his bed head and the fact that he hadn't even put a shirt on yet was anything to go by. He rubbed at his eyes with a closed fist, a t shirt hanging from his other hand. He was clearly still half asleep. "It's too early for that kind of excitement."
"It's 9AM, Aidan, and today is the Angel Grove Scavenger Hunt. You know Jamie does it every year with her friends," Mrs. Reece said. "Now put on your shirt and eat some breakfast."
"Yes, mom," Aidan mumbled, pulling his shirt on over his head. Mrs. Reece simply chuckled and turned to the stove, where she'd just put some bacon on to fry.
Meanwhile, Jamie reached the Youth Center quickly, and entered, her breakfast bar hanging from her mouth. Spotting Kimberly, Tommy, and Aisha, Jamie headed over, reaching up to grab her half eaten breakfast bar from her mouth.
"Hi guys," she greeted, stepping up to stand between Kimberly and Aisha.
"Hey! Ready for the scavenger hunt?" Kimberly asked, grinning.
"I'm so ready," Jamie said. "Aisha, excited? It's your first scavenger hunt on the Angel Grove High team instead of Stone Canyon!"
"You know it," the Yellow Ranger said. "Adam and Rocky are excited, too. That's a cute dress, by the way!"
"Thanks, it has pockets! Speaking of, where are Adam and Rocky? And Billy?" Jamie asked.
"Billy's on his way," Tommy said. "Adam and Rocky should be, too."
"Knowing Rocky, he probably accidentally slept in, and now Adam's trying to drag him out of his house," Aisha said with a laugh.
"No, we're right here!"
The four Rangers looked up in surprise, to see Rocky, Adam, and Billy walking towards them.
"I ran into Adam and Rocky on my way here," Billy said. "Now that we're all here, we can grab our sheets and cameras."
"Already got them," Kimberly said, holding three pieces of paper in her hands as well as three old timey, Polaroid camera. At her feet were three bags that could be used to collect small items. "Since there's thirty things to find, maybe we could break into three groups, take ten clues each?"
"Sounds good to me," Tommy agreed. "What should the groups be?"
"How about Rocky, Billy, and Aisha, you and me, and then Jamie and Adam?" Kimberly said.
"I'm down," Jamie said, crossing her arms under her chest.
"Yeah, we're in," Billy said, glancing at Rocky and Aisha.
"Alright, it's settled, then," Tommy said.
"Oh, this is gonna be so fun," Kimberly gushed. She quickly handed out a sheet and camera to each group. Next, she stooped down and picked up the bags, handing those out as well. "Okay, Tommy and I'll take the first 10, Jamie, you and Adam take the middle ten, and Rocky, Aisha, and Billy, you three take the final 10. Meet back here at 1?"
Everyone agreed, and so the group headed out of the Youth Center before splitting up. As Adam and Jamie headed to the park to begin their ten, Jamie was silent. She knew Kimberly put them together to try and literally get them together. It was known throughout the group that they had crushes on each other. Adam was just too nervous to say anything, and Jamie too shy. Luckily, they made good friends.
"Okay, what's the first thing?" Adam asked as they entered the park.
"Um, let me see," Jamie said, holding the paper full of clues up. "'Tall and strong, I stay outside. The sun, the rain, they're by my side. I give birds homes and help you breath. I even give you fruit to eat.' Take a picture of me to get a point."
"Tall, give birds home, helps you to breath, and gives fruit," Adam said. "A tree?"
"Makes sense, trees are tall, birds make their nests in them, they make oxygen, which we need to breath, and some of them grow apples and things," Jamie agreed. "So, what, we just take a picture of a tree?"
"I guess," Adam said with a shrug.
Jamie shrugged as well and aimed her camera at a big, strong oak. She snapped the picture and then looked at the paper again.
"First clue was easy enough," she said. "For your next point, solve this clue. 'In a bowl, or on a hook, just keep me somewhere you can look. On a shelf or in your pocket, make sure I'm near before you lock it.' Make sure I'm near before you lock it… keys! You lock things with a key!"
"Here," Adam said, pulling his house keys out of his pocket. Jamie quickly took a picture of them, and Adam put them away.
"Okay, 2 down, 8 to go. Next clue. 'In day I store the light of the sun. At night I shine when the day is done.'" Jamie pulled a face at the clue, unsure.
"Guess we'll have to think on that one," Adam said.
Jamie agreed.
After way too long, the two managed to figure out the clue and got a picture of a street light.
"We make a good team," Jamie said, smiling brightly as Adam took a picture of the next thing on their list. It had been hard, but they'd finally found a license plate from out of state.
"Yeah, we do," Adam agreed. "What's the next clue?" by now, they were halfway through, and only had a few more to go.
"Let me see," Jamie said, taking the folded up piece of paper out of her pocket. "It's the color of a tomato, has wheels, and can travel at great speed. A picture of this is all you need."
"What do you think that means?" Adam asked, confused. "A stop sign on roller skates?"
Jamie giggled, but then spotted a red corvette. "That's it!" she exclaimed, running towards the car. "A red car! Get out the camera!"
"One picture, coming up!" Adam said, raising the camera. "Say scavenger hunt!"
"Scavenger hunt!" Jamie said, holding her arms out wide as she posed in front of the car. Adam grinned, taking the picture.
"Alright, got it," the Blake Ranger said.
"I love scavenger hunts," Jamie said.
"Yeah, this is fun," Adam agreed.
"I'm so glad you're on our team, Adam," Jamie replied. "Some of these clues, there's no way I would have gotten them on my own."
Adam grinned, blushing. "I just hope I can help our team win."
Jamie smiled, but then looked at her watch. "We don't have much time left," she said. "Luckily we only have 3 more clues, and then Kimberly, Tommy, and the others have the other two thirds of the list."
"What's the next clue?" Adam asked.
"Let's see… 'It's small, but makes a noise that can stop a game. People can also do it just the same.'"
"This… isn't easy," Adam admitted.
Jamie grinned up at him. "Come on, I think I have an idea," she said, speeding up to get to the school.
"Man, she loves this game," Adam said, staring after her for just a moment, affection alight in his eyes, before speeding up to catch up with her.
"Okay, it's small but makes noise that can stop a game. People can also do it just the same," Jamie read once they were in the school. It was kinda creepy, since it was completely empty of students or teachers, but this was where the next item was.
However, before they could get far, Jamie's communicator beeped.
"Talk about a noise that can stop a game," Adam said.
"Yeah, think they'd take this?" Jamie joked, raising her arm up. "You got Adam and Jamie, what's up?"
"This is Billy, we just got attacked by putties in the park. They stole our bag with all our scavenger hunt items in it."
"Somehow I knew this day was going too well," Jamie complained. "You guys okay?"
"We're fine. Are you?"
"We're okay," Jamie answered. "Any word from Kimberly and Tommy?"
"Tommy thinks Zedd's up to something. He said to keep in touch, and wait for Zordon's call. Good luck with the rest of the hunt."
"Yeah, you too. We'll stay in touch." With that, Jamie lowered her arm and looked up at Adam. "Let's get back to the game, I guess."
Adam agreed, so Jamie started walking again, only to stop when they heard tambourine noises behind her. Taking a deep breath, Jamie turned and saw Bulk and Skull, dressed like gypsies, with a similarly dressed woman.
"I feel we are closer to the Power Rangers!" the woman said. "Keep the vibrations going, boys! STOP!" the three of them stopped, "I feel the vibrations of the Power Rangers HERE! Look into my eyes! What do you see?!"
Jamie brought her hand up, hiding her smile behind it as Skull tried to get Bulk's attention.
"Bulky! Hey, it's just the scavengers!" Skull continued to yell as the gypsy woman swayed. Then, Skull whistled.
"That's it!" Jamie exclaimed.
"What's it?" Adam asked, confused.
"A whistle! It can stop a game, and people can also do it. It's a whistle. Let's go get one, I know were Coach keeps her spares!" with that, the two Rangers turned and ran off.
With a whistle in their bag, Adam and Jamie left the school, after determining that their last two clues weren't for anything on campus. Now back in the park, the Black and Silver Rangers were off looking for a blueberry bush, per their second to last clue. Jamie knew there was some around, she just wasn't sure exactly where.
Sure enough, just as the bush came into sight, Adam's communicator beeped.
"We read you, Zordon," Adam said.
"Lord Zedd's new monster Cannontop is in Angel Grove. You must get there, immediately. Alpha will contact the others."
"We'll be right there, Zordon," Jamie said.
"Be careful, Rangers. This monster has the power to shoot you all into an intergalactic dimension of no return."
"Understood," Adam said, lowering his wrist. He glanced at Jamie, who nodded. "IT'S MORPHING TIME!"
"Mastodon!"
"Megaladon!"
Once morphed, the two Rangers rushed to where the monster was, meeting up with the others.
"At last, Power Rangers in my sights!" Cannontop exclaimed. Sure enough, he looked like someone had taken a cannon, given it arms, legs, and eyes, and then set it loose.
"Be ready for anything, guys," Tommy said.
Mere seconds after that was said, Cannontop shot at them from the cannons on his arms, causing them all to be thrown backwards from the force of the attack.
"That was close!" Adam exclaimed.
"I'm just getting started!" Cannontop bent forwards, aiming the bigger cannon on his head at them.
Once again, the Rangers were sent flying in all directions, and Cannontop laughed.
"One more blast, and you'll all be power particles!" That shot nearly hit Tommy, who jumped out of the way just in time.
"You missed again!" the White Ranger mocked.
"Your luck is about to run out!"
"We've got to do something!" Aisha said, running up to Rocky as the Red Ranger stood back up.
"Let's fight fire with fire," Rocky said. "Rangers! Let's bring 'em together!"
Jamie grinned, calling on her Power Katana.
"Power Axe!"
"Power Bow!"
"Power Katana!"
"Power Daggers!"
"Power Lance!"
"Power Sword!"
"Power Rangers!" the six called once the Mega Blaster was formed. "Fire!"
The monster exploded upon impact, creating a huge fireball from the excess gun powder he apparently had.
However, it was never that easy, and an orb from Zedd soon fell. Next thing the Rangers knew, Cannontop was back, and a lot bigger.
"This could be trouble, you guys!" Adam said.
"No biggie, we've faced worse!" Aisha exclaimed, confidant in their abilities.
"Yeah!" Jamie agreed. "Let's pull together and show him what the Power Rangers are made of!"
"We need Thunderzord Power now!"
"Mastodon-Lion Thunderzord Power!"
"Pterodactyl-Firebird Thunderzord Power!"
"Megaladon-Orca Thunderzord Power!"
"Triceratops-Unicorn Thunderzord Power!"
"Saber Toothed Tiger-Griffin Thunderzord Power!"
"Tyrannosaurus-Red Dragon Thunderzord Power!"
Once the Thunderzords appeared, the Rangers were quick to jump into them as Tommy called for the White Tiger Zord.
The Thunder Megazord quickly formed, and, alongside the White Tiger Zord, was ready for battle.
Riding into battle atop the White Tiger Zord, the Rangers managed a major hit against Cannontop, slashing him with their sword. Soon, Torre was called, and it too shot at Cannontop. Tommy took his Zord into Warrior Mode then, giving them three Megazords. Tommy combined the White Tiger Warrior Mode Megazord with the Torre Megazord, then, creating a nearly indestructible Megazord, the Mega-Tiger Zord.
It was with the Mega-Tiger Zord that they defeated Cannontop, with a well-placed blast that blew him up.
Another battle, won by the Power Rangers.
…
The scavenger hunt had been put on pause during the fight, as everyone in Angel Grove went on Lock Down. Once it was deemed clear, the hunt resumed, and, soon enough, the Rangers only needed one more thing to complete the hunt. They'd managed to get Billy, Rocky, and Aisha's bag back, finding that the Putties had simply hidden it. The toy cannon had been reverted to its' toy self, as well.
"Ernie, we only need one more thing on the list!" Kimberly exclaimed as they entered the Youth Center, their bags full of items and pictures- minus a few photos that had been taken by the friends of each other so they would have pictures to remind them of the day.
"You guys better hurry," Ernie said. "One of the judges just got word that Central High got all of the items and they're on their way back here."
"Aw, man," Tommy said.
"Okay, um, 'They're the colors of the rainbow, and they fight villains too. Find a picture of them, and that will do.'" Jamie read, looking up once she was done.
"Colors… Rainbow…" Ernie said, before slapping his hand on the counter in realization. "It's gotta be the Power Rangers!"
"You got a picture of them?" Aisha asked, hoping that he did. Otherwise they'd have to go to the Command Center, morph, have Alpha take the photo, and then come back. But that would be cheating.
"I think I do, let me check back here!" Ernie hurried away from the counter.
"This way, boys! I feel the presence of the Power Rangers in this room!"
The Rangers turned at the voice, all of them having come across Bulk, Skull, and their Gypsy friend.
"Yes, the Power Rangers are here! I can feel their vibration!" Holding her arms up, Abollonia allowed her feelings to take over, and lead her to the Power Rangers. "You can see them before your eyes! The Princess Abollonia is certain!"
"Here it is, guys. A picture of the Power Rangers," Ernie said, coming back with the promised picture.
"Yeah, in an 8 by 10 glossy," Bulk said, glaring at Abollonia.
"Look into our eyes," Bulk and Skull said together. "You… are… Fired!"
The Rangers laughed, and Kimberly turned to Ernie. "I'll take that, thank you!" she said, grabbing the photo, and running off to the judges' table. The others followed closely.
Once they got there, the Rangers quickly dumped their bags onto the table, and handed over photographs. They watched with bated breath as the judges looked everything over, checking their clipboards as they did so. With a smile, the lead judge looked up at them.
"And the winner is Angel Grove High!"
Everyone cheered as their win was announced.
"I think this calls for some celebratory snacks," Ernie said, placing some fries and milkshakes onto a table nearby.
The Rangers happily agreed.