Go Go Power Rangers!
The next morning came too fast for Peter. But in a way, he was grateful. It took a lot of doing (and meeting up incredibly early), but his and Kimberly's display was professional, eye catching and they had gotten their pitch speech/ explanations down
"We hope that with our simple, hand held and easy to use energy tracker, which can be adjutsed to over 3000 frequencies and yes you may test that, that we can bridge the gap between what we understand and what we want to understand." Kimberly said.
The judges seemed impressed and teh two partners high-fived as they walked away.
"So, not to sound ungrateful, but why am I doing all the talking? Is it because I'm a pretty girl?" Kimberly asked.
"That is one reason, yes." Peter admitted. "And I want you to get good credit."
Kimblery smiled.
"Trini is one lucky gal."
Peter blushed.
"W-what do you mean? We're not...! I mean, I don;t think we,,,! I'd be happy if...but I...!...Um..."
Kimberly's smile grew a wee but mischievous.
"...I hate you now." Peter said, dramtically turning and sticking his nose in the air, "I thought you were different."
"I'm a superhero like you."
"No, you are a superhero in training." Peter retorted. "Until you actially stop a criminal, I will not consider you..."
"Trini's coming."
"Oh, like I'm going to fall for..."
"Hi Pete."
Our hero turned to see Trini, Zack and Billy walking towards his and Kimberly's exhibit. Kimberly simply smiled knowingly.
"I'm detecing hints of Pete being teased..." Zack said. "...Did I miss it."
Peter glared at Kimberly and mouthed 'don't you dare!' before he was pulled away,
"Peter, look!" Billy said exictedly. The webslinger soon shared the fellow nerd's exictment.
"Oh my god, oh my god!" Peter said when he saw the panel of perspective buyers or shcolarship givers as the wondered in. He joined Billy in calm, cooling breaths.
"Um...should we know these guys?" Kimberly asked.
"Bigwigs at science companies." Trini said.
"Reed Richards is here!" Billy said, pointing to one man in particular, with brown hair and white streaks. "THE! Reed Richards! Of teh Baxter buliding and Fantastic Industries!"
"And Hank Pym!" Peter whispered. "AKA the original Ant-Man!"
Before Zack could explain that he and Trini were going to wonder around, teh grond began to shake and an evacuation was ordered. Only the Rangers and Spidey knew why this was happening.
"OH, OF COURSE SHE ATTACKS TODAY!" Peter shouted, too annoyed to care if someone heard him. "Couldn't have waited until tomorrow! NO! She had to do it right away! CURSE YOU, PARKER LUCK! YOU NEVER LET ME HAVE ANYTHING!"
Under different circumstances, the rangers would've comforted the hero, but not today.
"Guys!" Jason shouted as he raced towards his new circle of friends.
"We know!" Trini said.
They barely manged to escape to the clearing where Zordon and Alpha were residing, Peter trying in vain to contact his mentor.
"Mr. Stark? I-if you could maybe send some help I think we'd appreciate it! I know I sound like a kid...!"
"Which we all are!" Trini added.
"...but I'm 90% sure this is Avenger worthy stuff."
"On the plus side, I know where the crystal is." Billy announced happily.
"YOU FOUND IT?" Alpha asked, delight and relief clear. "Where?"
Billy brought up a picture of the location of Rita's target. A place they all knew well.
"...You gotta be kidding me." Zack said.
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...
"You're not kidding." Jason realized, getting a nod.
The Zeo crystal...was under Denny's.
"...Well, it is the last place anyone would look." Trini shrugged, just before another earthquake shook the ground.
From said ground, emerged a mass of gold that took on a humanoid form with wings.
"Goldar..." Zordon explained. "Rita's treasured ally."
It was at this moment, Peter knew...this was DEFINTE Avengers territory.
"So lemme get this straight." Jason requested. "On top of your pyscho ex teammate and her army of rock monsters who I'm going to take a shot in the dark and assume are stronger than what we trained against...we have to fight a giant gold gargoyle monster?"
"Correct." Zordon said as fi it was the simplest thing in the world.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US THAT BEFORE?!" All the teens asked.
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Unknown to all, there were already some heroes on standby. The two men who Billy and Peter had noted earlier, had not moved.
"Sue? Johnny? Ben?" Reed asked over his phone. "I think we have a situation."
Hank merely looked over at the young woman with him, sighed and then nodded. She suddenly vanished from sight.
James Rhodes, on his way to pick Peter up, picked up on his message to Tony, smirked and activated his War Machine suit.
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Meanwhile, the Rangers calmed down enough for Zordon to explain they had one more thing to use against Rita: Zords.
Peter on the other hand, couldn't concentrate on this development, his head filling with the probable images of monsters rampaging and him not being there to stop them...along with the fact Jason and Kimberly were VERY close, holding hands ad all.
"Um...W-when did this happen?" Peter asked. "Cause Jase? I have been living with you for a week and at no point was there any remote implication of this happening."
"Yeah, I'd like to know that as well." Zack said.
"Um, guys?" Billy reminded them. "Evil space lady? Rock monsters running amuck in town?"
Peter remembered his prior concern.
"Get to these Zords and do what you have to. I'll buy you some time." Peter promised, his suit materializing as he raced upwards.
"Peter, be careful." Trini said suddenly, catching his attention.
He saw Billy, Jason, Kimberly, Zack and even Alpha looking on at him with concern.
"I mean...this really isn't your..." the robot started.
"With great power." Peter cut off. "Comes great responsibility. I backed out once. Never again."
He fired off a web-line, but then added.
"But I will make it back safe and sound."
He then swung off.
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Rita walked throughout town, Putties materilzing around her and rampaging.
"Find the crystal." She ordered. "Kill anything that gets in your way."
One group of Putties came across the Scott family and were about to give Mr. Scott an injury akin to his son's (or worse) when a webline stopped the fist and took off the head of one of its comrades.
"Sticks and stones always break bones, but words can be worse!"
The family looked up to see the New York superhero, Spider-man, standing between them and teh monsters.
"Karen?" Our hero asked.
"Yes?"
What he said next, the AI had been waiting for yet was still surprised by,
"Activate Instant Kill."
"Understood."
A putty race forward, but spider-legs materlized and chopped it into pieces. A Spider-enhanced punch, with no limits on it, shattered another Putty.
"No time to watch, folks!" Spider-man said. "Get to safety, please!"
"But, what about...?" Mrs. Scott started.
"No worries, ma'm, I do this every day!" Spidey explained with a little white lie as he flung a Putty a few miles away. "Now go!"
"Do as he says and follow me."
War Machine appeared, shooting down more of the monsters. Several of them suddenly began to twitch and then explode, with a woman in a helmet with wings suddenly appearing and being the cause.
Seeing that this part of town was okay, Spider-man swung away, only to be nearly crushed when a buliding began to collapse. He quickly used his webs to catch falling civilians and as much debris as he could, but it still wasn't enough
"MOVE KID!"
A different rock monster appeared; this one orange and with some clearly human features. Spider-Man barely had time to leap away before the newcomer stopped the building's fall.
"We've got this."
Our hero turned to see a young man made of fire smile and point him to anotehr direction.
"Dunno who you are, but thanks!" He said as he swung away.
"...See stretch, this is why we need to deal with the press!"
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The sounds of a stampede caught Spidey's attention as he turned, reading for the worst.
"Don't worry, Peter." Karen said "I think those are your friends."
Indeed it was; each of the Rangers was in a robot designed like a prehistoric animal; Jason in a red T-rex, Billy a blue Triceratops, Zack a black Mammoth, Kimberly a pink pterodactyl (which looked more like a jet) and Trini in a yellow Saber-tooth tiger.
"Sorry we're late, Pete!" Jason hollered. "Catch your breath!"
"...I want one." Spider-man said aloud as they ran towards the center of town.
"I'll put it on your Christmas list," Karen said.
And then the robots suddenly combined.
"Okay. Now I REALLY want one." Spider-man said.
"Again. Christmas list."
"If it wasn't for the monsters, I'd remark on how I preferred you without sacrcasm."
The tingling appeared again and Peter saw Rita moving backwards into the gold that made up her monster. Not wanting to risk anything making this harder on his friends, he fired a web-line and swung her over to him.
"Okay, got her away." He mused to himself. "What was the rest of the plan?"
Rita growled in anger before recomposing herself. Goldar could handle a batch of newbie Rangers. And if there was one thing she HATED, it was uninvited guests.
"I gave you an out. You refused. Now, you'll regret getting involved." Rita glared as she leveled her staff. The Web-head mentally willed his spider legs to activate.
"And you're going to regret underestimating me."
And thus, the battle for the Zeo crystal began two-fold. On one side, there was the newly minted Power Rangers against Goldar. And on the other, Spider-man was facing Rita in a fight to the death.
To be continued...
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So sorry for the wait! Was trying to make this perfect, kept losing it...then decided to just power write and post this. Its close to what I had in mind.
Again, thanks for all the support.