Author's Note:
I'm glad all of you enjoyed my first big crossover story and have a few things about the story that I have to mention.
1) The Main Character will not become a Power Ranger
2) The Kamen Rider Stuff won't start happening until chapter 3 or chapter 4
3) Updates will be sparse since I have school
4) I'm not that good of a writer so some things may be a little wack sometimes
With Regards, Animus
CHAPTER 2) Finding out I'm not a real boy (technically) and settling in to my new life
After a very filling breakfast of apple juice and blueberry jam toast (I'm vegetarian and I don't eat eggs) the doorbell rang signifying that Tommy's mystery woman arrived, Tommy got up and opened the door revealing a red headed woman of average height wearing light coloured casual clothing and carrying a well worn messenger bag. She seemed familiar, but it's been nearly a decade since I've seen the show so I really don't remember much besides the rangers themselves. She introduced herself as Hayley Zicktor, someone who graduated MIT alongside Tommy and helped him in his study of the Dino Gems and the creation of the Biozords.
She also told me that Tommy told her about my situation and she would help me to the best of her ability.
We made our way into the Dino Lab so she could use the superior hardware down there. We then began concocting my backstory in this universe. We had to use different schools since the ones I went to didn't exist yet and for my family… Since they didn't exist in this world, Hayley had to create fake papers proving their existence as well as death certificates since they couldn't be alive unless we wanted this whole thing to be undone right from the start. So their deaths were the result of a really bad car accident in which I was the only survivor.
"Are you alright?" was the question asked by Tommy after noticing my expression.
"Not really but let's just continue on with this… please?" I said almost pleadingly.
"Sure", he said in response after a few moments.
After that we continued as promised, finalizing my story with me being placed into foster care which is where Tommy found me and took me in. By the time we were finished it was the afternoon and we went upstairs to eat lunch. While in the middle of lunch I spoke up in order to try and get some answers on what happened to my body, something that's been eating away at me since yesterday.
"So weird question but you wouldn't have the equipment to do a physical exam would you?"
"Yeah… why?" Hayley responded with a raised brow.
"Because in my universe I was unathletic, had pretty bad acne and was as blind as a bat, so I kinda want to find out why that isn't the case anymore".
Nodding, the three of us headed back down to the Dino Lab where she hooked me up to several machines and monitors as well as taking a blood sample, after a few minutes she discovered something very shocking judging by the look on her face. She quickly showed Tommy who soon had an equally shocked look on his face. Apparently something was very wrong with my body for them to be acting like that, getting worried I asked.
"So is it bad? Am I dying or something?"
Breaking out of her stupor first Hayley responded.
"Oh! don't worry you're not dying…" she said quickly but stopping as if trying to come up with an answer.
"So then what's the issue then?" I interjected during her long pause, and boy I sure did not like what came out of her mouth next.
Turns out the problem Tommy and Hayley were concerned about was me having highly advanced cybernetics and some DNA the machine couldn't identify, naturally I had many follow up questions like how did I get these? Why did I get these? And most importantly why I couldn't remember how I got them. They didn't have any clear answers but I couldn't blame them, although me having them does explain the nightmare from last night, I should probably tell them about that soon. But honestly the funny part about this thing was how I haven't managed to break anything yet.
I spoke wayyyy too soon, looking at the shards of broken glass in my hand while I sat in a broken chair, which only broke when I sat on it too hard and me falling was enough to startle me into pulverizing the cup in my hand. Naturally this caused me to ask Tommy for help but I did have to wait until him and Hayley stopped laughing.
Two weeks came and went and I was finally allowed to go and be where the people are, this was after Tommy gave me the OK and many hours of training. Yeah Tommy offered to train me in martial arts in order to help control my strength but after our first lesson he decided I didn't need training since I apparently fight "like you've been training for 10 years" his words not mine. So instead of martial arts training he gave me several fragile objects and told me to squeeze them as hard as I could without breaking them.
After passing that and a couple more tests involving my body weight, punching and kicking which required the most work because the cybernetics in my legs were stronger than the ones in my arms for some reason I was finally allowed to go out on the town and maybe get some new clothes because Tommy's hand me downs ain't it.
Which is how I found myself working at Hayley's Cyberspace which is honestly ideal since I get some pocket money and see how my fellow teens act since I am technically from the future and Canadian so I'm kinda lost on the finer details of 2000's American culture.
When I was lost in my thoughts cleaning the floors around closing time when someone walked in. He was around my age, around average height with short black hair and dark skin, he looked around for a bit before turning to me.
"Is this place closed?" he said with some uncertainty.
"In a bit", I get his uncertainty since we close around 7 pm and it was around 6:50.
"Damn it, thanks", he said while turning around to leave.
"No prob!" I called out while he was leaving, I sighed and went back to mopping.
I was holding up two different music CDs (music came in CDs? Weird) from two bands, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Evanescence on one hand Red Hot Chili Peppers has pretty good guitar but on the other hand Evanescence has pretty good singing. Letting a sigh and putting them down I decided to check out some CDs when I spotted something that caught my interest. I went to grab it when I felt another hand touch mine, I pulled my hand back and looked at the other person and golly I'm glad I did. She had long blond hair, beautiful brown eyes and was dressed in what I think was punk clothing. She looked a bit bashful before saying.
"Here, you should have it" , handing me the CD. I gently pushed it towards her and as I did said
"Nahhhh it's all you, I just wanted to look at it".
She seemed apprehensive at the idea but relented and after a few moments of silence introduced herself.
"Thanks, my name's Kira"
"I'm Arjun and no problem, anyways I gotta go now… Bye!" I said whilst leaving the store.
Still thinking about my terrible performance at the music store last week, I almost missed the soccer ball headed toward my face which I caught, almost dropping it as I did and as I scanned the park looking for the owner of this ball I quickly spotted him which was not hard seeing as he was wearing a full soccer kit. He had slightly tanned skin, brown hair and was nearly as tall as me. I walked up to him holding out the ball when I got close, he took and thanked me before turning away and practicing his dribbling. Before I left the park completely, I saw the name on the back of his jersey, Mcknight, and why does that sound so familiar.
Later that day when I was lying in bed looking up at the ceiling I thought about each of these encounters and why they seemed to stick to me like glue, and not too dissimilar to how I came to the realization that I was in another world it was like a veil had shattered leading to the realization that I had met all of the future rangers excluding Trent. Letting out a big sigh, I decided to turn in for the night.
The nightmare this night was a little more abstract than the ones before, this time instead of being dissected I was being chased by a large grasshopper before being eaten by it. It was weird but it beat being cut open again.
And before I knew it the first day of school was here and I was pretty excited since I had basically done nothing but work, train, sleep and listen to music. That and the events of the show would start soon. Speaking of the events that will happen, Tommy tried asking me about what happens and who the rangers would be but I didn't give him a straight answer since I didn't quite remember what happened and that I didn't want to deviate too much from the story which is hard since I don't remember what happens. But for now I headed into the building where I would spend the most of my time going forward.