Training and Treachery
"Now, before we begin..." Zordon started "Any other questions?"
"Are we more like Iron Man or Spider-Man?" Billy asked.
"Right here, remember?" The web-slinger noted, hanging upside down
"Would you stop that?" Zack demanded, clearly shaken by the the upside down superhero.
"Sorry, but no." Spidey grinned under his mask. "It's all part and parcel the whole 'web-slinging' gig."
Trini and Jason both chuckled at his little quip and Kimberly even let out a small smile.
"How do you mean?" The blue face in the wall asked in confusion.
"You know, are we to going to be fighting small time baddies or world ending threats?" Billy clarifed.
"I think that's kinda been established with this Rita chick." Kimberly pointed out.
"Rita is no mere 'chick.' She destroyed my team with barley any effort. And as for the level of combat: You will face any and all threats I deem you must face." Zordon answered, making the tone shift into a darker one.
'Whoa.' Spidey thought. 'Somebody got up on the wrong side of the...wall?'
"Um...whose Iron Man? Another hero?" Alpha-5 asked in confusion. "And while we're on the subject, just how many heroes are out there anyways? That you guys know of? Gotta say, I'm not liking the fact they're known..."
As the robot rambled, Billy paused to think.
"Well, there's the Avengers: Iron Man, Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, Vision, War Machine and of course, Spiderman. There used to be others..."
"I'm actually not a full member..." Spidey cut in, immediately feeling Zordon glare at him. "I'm...more of an apprentice, I guess you could say?"
"But you helped Iron Man..." Billy pointed out, taking out his phone and showing some footage of the fight at the airport.
All activity stopped as the others began to watch, and when the clip had finished; all stared at the Web-slinger in either a mix of awe or concern.
"In my defence, all Mr. Star..Iron Ma..." He paused, worrying about secret identities before remembering only HE had one. "...all that he told me was, and I quote:'Captain America is wrong and dangerous."
"Um, yeah, he's Captain freaking America." Zack pointed out, only to see all eyes were falling onto him. "Not...that I...follow...superheroes..."
No one believed him, but with that, Zordon's confidence in this teacher vanished
"So, you are not an actual hero?"
"I've tussled with two, maybe three, possibly four, super villains!" Spider-Man protested.
'Looks like I may have to do what I was planning...' Zordon thought to himself.
"But I always help!" The web-slinger pointed out. "It may not be as grand as whatever you did; stopping a mugging or two, getting kids out of the road before a car hits them, saving cats in trees...but I am someone who tries to do the right thing!"
While his face didn't change, Zordon's interest was peaked at the young man in front of him.
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"This is the pit, it's nice." Alpha explained as pebbles began to rise from the ground, taking on humanoid forms that Zordon explained where simulations of members of Rita's army if she found what she was looking for.
And instantly, Spider-Man begin to feel dread.
'Yeah, definitely another level over Vulture and them.' He then shook his head, glad no one was paying attention.
He then stifled a laugh at what these elite warriors were called:
Putties.
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He chuckled, as did Trini and Jason, ever so slightly. Kimberly and Billy were a little nervous, while Zack was the only confident one; likening them to holograms...before he was sent flying into a wall, with Jason, Billy and Spidey wincing at the impact while Trini laughed and Kimberly giggled
"Strong ass holgram." Billy chuckled
"Not...a videogame." Zack groaned
"This is why you must morph into your armour." Zordon explained. "If Rita becomes strong enough to summon her army. But for now...Spiderman? Show us what you can do."
Instantly, one of the Putties raced towards the webslinger, who shot a webline to narrowly dodge two, only to be grabbed and pulled down by another. He delivered a powerful kick to the hand holding him shattering it and sending another reeling as another charged behind him
Before someone could say 'look out!', the tingling sensation filled his head and he ducked under a punch taht he grabbed and (with some effort), flung to the ground, shattering the Puttie.
"NICE!" Alpha beamed, clapping his hand
"When you're up against multiple enemies, keep yourself surrounded." Spiderman explained, leaping over another Puttie and onto the back of another. "This way they're all within eyesight or senses. And keep said senses peeled."
The Puttie's stone fist was now millimetres from Spidey's face, and he moved to web up its face up. Instead, it was promptly destroyed by a laser that came from the web-shooters and fell to teh ground, pebbles once again
"HOLY!" Billy and Jason shouted.
"AWESOME!" Trini beamed along with Zack.
Our web-slinging hero, on the other hand, was not amused.
"KAREN, WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT INSTANT-KILL?!" Spider-man snapped at the AI. "I! DON'T! KILL!"
"They aren't sentient." Karen noted. "I thought you wouldn't care."
"THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT BETTER! AND THAT'S NOT THE POINT!" Spider-man shouted again.
"I remind you that only you can hear me."
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"I hate you." Spider-man pouted. "You're a bad AI."
"No, that would be Ultron."
Spidey was soon reminded that fights don't wait for you to have a dialogue with the AI in your head when another Puttie slammed its fist into him, sending him flying into a wall he narrowly stuck to. He then clammered up the wall before leaping onto the golem shattering it.
"Uh, I know it's not my place, but..." Alpha noted to his master. "Perhaps we should have HIM teach them to fight first, then move onto Putties? Just a thought."
The blue face in the wall paused for a bit, considering the options before nodding,
"Rangers. And Spider-man." Zordon announced as he reformed the three destroyed Putties. "Welcome to training."
"I'm so excited!" Alpha beamed. "Hint for fights; aim for the centre mass."
Jason was sent flying with one punch from his Puttie.
"...One more time."
"Hey, how come you didn't give me that hint?!"" Spidey snapped at the robot, grateful for the break but still under the impression the robot didn't like him.
"You're a veteran hero. They're newbies."
"...Fair point."
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Eventually, the teens and hero had to call it a night, but Zordon made them promise to return to countinue training; the next time, Spider-man would be fighting each of them.
The locals all left worried/ exicted about fighting under/ with a superhero...but the hero in question?
"Under-roos!"
The unmistakable voice of Tony Stark filled an exhausted Peter Parker's ears; it was almost 3 in the morning; he did not have the patience for this.
"H-hey Mr. Stark." He groaned with a yawn. "Getting real interesting..."
He yawned again.
"You look like crud." Tony noted offhandely before becoming concerned. "Is there a super-villain?"
"Not yet, but soon."
Peter was too tired to see the worried look on his mentor's face, or hear the mutterings of 'wait, what?' He slipped off his costume and collapsed onto the sofa he was calling a bed.
"I'll tell you everything in the morning." Peter yawned. "G'night, Mr. Stark."
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"..Did he just hang up on me?"
"Yes," Pepper smirked. "I'll alert the media. Who knows, they might forget all about the wedding and we'll have the whole thing to our..oh, who am I kidding?"
",,,,He hung up on me."
For the next few hours, that would be all on Tony's mind.
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A few hours later, Peter awoke exhausted: He was kind of not surprised; back home he spent many a nights without sleep; the occasional mugger giving him enough to stay awake.
But last night was something completely different; aliens, intergalatic conquerors, rock monsters, his identity nearly getting revealed...and on top of ALL of that, he still had school on top of the project with Kimberly AND was going to be giving his friends a crash course on fighting that night.
"Okay...being a teacher is NOT my dream job." He said to himself; still sore from the Puttie punches. Quickly dashing into the bathroom, he saw that there where no bruises to explain and breathed a sigh of relief.
"What's up, Pete?"
The New Yorker yelped in shock, seeing Jason raise an eyebrow from the door-frame.
"You...you okay, Pete?"
"Uh..." Peter racked his brain for an excuse. "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Just...bad dreams last night. Y-you go on in, I gotta grab something from my...couch."
It was offical: Ned seeing him in his costume had NOTHING on his housemate being his housemate, friend and soon to be student.
Peter grabbed his backpack, narrowly grabbing his mask before it fell out.
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At lunch, Kimberly, now with her hair cut, surprised everyone by sitting down next to Peter.
"You okay? You seem...less New Yoker." She asked.
"Bad dreams." Peter half-lied., then realizing why she was probably sitting with him. He reached into his hoodie and unfolded his notes for their possible project.
"An old Geiger counter?" Kimberly asked.
"An energy detector." Peter explained. "Can be tuned to things aside from radiation. Like wi-fi, hydro-electrical power sources, tectonic waves...possible even mutations in DNA if its done early enough."
Kimberly nodded in understanding before a passing snickering came by: cheerleaders, no doubt.
"Ignore them." Kimberly demanded, a smile on her face. "They're not my friends anymore."
"And you're okay with that?" Peter asked.
"I've been thinking." Kimberly confessed. "Want to stand out a bit, ya know? Be Kimberly, not Kimberly the popular and stuck up girl."
"If only more were like you, the world would be so much better."
They turned to see Trini walking towards them.
"Mind if I crash?"
Peter nodded, a little TOO happily, which didn't go unnoticed, but wasn't brought up.
"You want to handle the notes?" the lone boy at the table suggested. "Make them a little more presentable and...speak-able?"
Kimberly smiled.
"I can do that."
"Well Pete, looks like you've done the impossible." Trini smirked. "You've made a popular girl actually do work."
"Oh shut up." Kimberly playfully hissed.
"You know what I mean."
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"You hung up on me."
Tony was not letting his protege off the hook for that
"Mr. Stark; I had just spent the whole night fighting rock monsters after being stringed into becoming a drill sargent." Peter retorted. "WHICH I will be doing in a few hours!"
"Oh boo hoo. I took boxing lessons with Cap and you didn't see me complaining."
"You were the student!" Peter snapped back. "It's a lot harder on the other side! Especially when they're all newbies!"
"Speaking of which..." Iron man said. "Tell me about these...Power Rangers? Are they...like Space avengers?"
Elsewhere, deep in space, a band of 'a-holes' consisting of a living tree, a humanoid raccoon, a literal-minded fighter, the universe's most dangerous woman and the son of a human woman and a living planet, all sneezed.
"Not exactly..." Peter started, sharing what he knew.
"And what did the Wizard of Oz say about this Wicked Witch?" Tony asked once he got a good enough idea of what was going on.
That got Peter thinking.
"Honestly? Nothing much. Killed his teammates, has an army..."
Tony's eyes narrowed. Earth had faced those before and he was confident they could be stopped again; he just had to know what made Rita different than Loki, Malakeith and the Chitari, besides teh obvious.
"Well, I think I'll be pulling out the research team...but you keep up with what you're doing and keep me posted on ANY and all developments between the energy and these Super-Friends of your's...Huh. Spiderman and his Amazing friends...that's a TV show right there,"
"Ms. Pots, Tony is rambling!" Peter hollered, ending the call as much as he wanted to see how Pepper got her future husband to calm down.
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(AN: Play your favouritemotivational/ training music here. Or 'Make your hands clap' if you want to experience like the movie)
The next few days blended together.
The Rangers all failed to take down Putties on their own at first; not being used to fights like Spider-man was. Jason and Billy snuck off to 'spar' but had little to no success.
Trini proved to be the best fighter, catching Zack off guard every time they sparred
Still, none of them were ready to take on super villains, especially when none of them could 'shed their masks' to dawn the armour that they SO desperately needed.
"You guys know you're going to be murdered, right?" Alpha asked, befoer turning to the Superhero. "You? You'll take a few Putties at least before you die."
"Thanks." Spidey sarcastically smirked under his mask as he watched Jason and Billy spar. A genuine smile took his face when he remembered how he'd struggled.
With taht, he was made their target.
"If you can land a hit on Spiderman, you can hit anything." Zordon instructed the teens.
"...Did he just make a Dodgeball refernce?" Zack and Billy asked, only to slammed onto the grounded
"Sorry!" Spidey smirked. "But baddies don't wait, so I won;t either!"
The teens all failed and roared as they tried to land a punch or kick on the superhero, who honestly started getting bored dodging...until Trini managed to graze his cheek with her knuckles before landing on her face in exhasution.
Every time a ranger fell, he was quick to web them back on their feet
Trini ended up joining Peter and Kimberly when they grabbed coffee and a bite to go over their notes for the project...which resulted in the best fight over a scrap of food Peter had ever seen.
'Kung Fu panda eat yoir heart out.'
Peter kept himself busy in the welding room, patching up the radio and adding what needed to get done. Zack and Billy both popped in to help him, Zack under the pretense of making sure eter wasnt disappointed with what he'd brought his way.
And Peter of course reported to Tony whenever he could; about the Zeo crystal Rita wanted and Zordon's rules to the teens:
"Never use your power for personal gain." Zordon explained. "Never escalate a battle unless an enemy forces you. Always keep your identity a secret, no one may know that you are a Power Ranger."
Something Spider-man bother agreed and disagreed with.
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Suddenly, it was Thursday; just a day before the other reason he came here.
Everything was almost ready; the device was complete and Kimberly had 'translated' their notes into something they could both say and others could understand, yet still prove this 'mutant energy detector' actually was scientific and not science fiction.
The others were coming along in fighting, now being able to slam Putties into the ground on their own and making him actually have to put some effort into dodging.
Peter grabbed his backpack from his locker, narrowly grabbing his mask before it fell out.
"Gotta be more careful with that." He mused to himself and he turned to leave for the day.
Unfortunately for Peter, someone HAD seen what had happened...and it wasn't someone who he wanted to know.
"Hey Pete," They called out. "Can I talk to you for a sec?"
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Throughout all of this, in the farthest reaches of space, a ship taht resembled a blue bus soared through the skies, it's mission unknown.
At the helm was human woman; blonde, tall and beautiful. Her name was Carol Danvers, an agent of SHIELD...and a secret weapon for the worst case scenario.
How she ahd come to be here was a long and complicated story, but she had a mission and she wouldn't fail.
"Captain, we're getting a weak signal." A tech noted. "It's...almost prehistoric by earth standards, but...it has Kree origins."
She dashed to the monitor and saw it was indeed true...and an odd symbol too; like lightning bolt through a sphere.
"Mar-vell?" She said aloud, her friend looking over to her. "I might need to head back a little sooner."
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I AM SO SORRY!
I know, I know! It's been MONTHS since this was updated; this, which has become my most popular story. But the months have not been kind to me; being out of town away from decent Wi-Fi, job hunting in vain, sickness in both my own self and family members and dealing with a massive debt forced upon me.
On top of all this, I have starting having talking with a publisher about some of my original writing getting published, so that someday in the foreseeable future, people may read my own work and possibly even write their own fan-fics about it.
I hope that this chapter has at least filled some of the void and was worth the wait.
Co-creator Justimtaylor and myself once again plead and call out for co-writers so that this doesn't happen again.
On another note...Power Rangers is 25 years old! To celebrate this, I am soon posting another fic that I hope you will take an interest in: 'Power Rangers Dragon Drive."
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