Rita Repulsa was furious, she may have recovered the Green Ranger power coin but now she is down a powerful pawn, and a weapon to use against not only Zordon and the Power-pukes but also Lord Zedd…and the fearsome specter that controls him like a meat puppet.
Suddenly that Morphin Grid screams out in pain as if someone is ripping a hole through it, not only does Rita feel the Morphin Grid's pain but everyone connected to it does as well, Rita's attention is drawn to earth where a swirling black and red vortex with blackish-red arch of electricity arching off it forms, around it the pale green grids of the Morphin Grid are warped and distorted.
Rita watches as a man…is ejected from the vortex…at least she believes it is a man his current physical condition is even more disturbing than Lord Zedd's flesh and muscle melted in places revealing charred black bones.
The man raises a skeletal hand into the air like he is reaching for her, he doesn't have lips to read at the moment but Rita can hear him just the same, "Help me…" his hand falls to the desert sand, Rita can sense his deep and powerful connection to magic and even the Morphin Grid a greedy smile spreads across the space witches face as she takes the dragon power coin and throws it at the man, while trying to fire off a mind control spell at him at the same time.
The spell bounced off as the power coin connects with the man's heart and then there is an explosion of black and gold energy that hides what is happening from even Rita's powerful telescope's sight.
When the energy cyclone recedes standing where once the horrifically injured man was laying is now a black and gold version of the green ranger, who is experimentally clenching his fists, before he tilts his helmeted head backwards making himself look up at the sky pure maniacal laughter bubbles out of him, it sends a chill down Rita's back the power, the insane power this black dragon ranger exudes is beyond anything she has ever felt.
The words he speaks shake her to her core, "I'm a fucking Power Ranger now?! Open a portal before the time limit is up and I end up in a Power Rangers universe as some sort of Black Dragon ranger…at least I think it's a black dragon I mean this looks a lot like Tommy's green ranger armor but I have knee pads, a clone trooper Kama, two blasters, and a sword…hmm Rite Repulsa better not be trying to mind fuck me…or she's gonna get a rude fuckin awakening."
~ — — — — — — — — — — — ~
If Zordon still had a physical body he'd be trembling right now, between the Morphin Grid crying out for help and the sudden surge of power that is similar in energy signature to the Green Ranger but a thousand times more intense, Zordon fears a true evil like none before now walks the earth and that his young team of rangers still reeling from the loss of Tommy as the Green Ranger and his subsequent moving away from Angel Grove to shield him from Rita's wrath.
Suddenly the Morphin Masters appear in the command center, "Zordon, you have done well guiding and training this generation of Rangers…but we fear not only the Rangers but your biggest test is coming…be warned a Planeswalker has descended on this plane." The Morphin Masters all nine of them warn with one voice before disappearing from the command center.
"Ayi yayi, Zordon should I call the Rangers?!" Alpha asks in a panic.
"No…no Alpha let the Rangers enjoy this lull in conflict for as long as they can…for I fear that the warning the Morphin Masters delivered is an understatement for the events that we will soon face."
~ — — — — — — — — — — — ~
'I feel so powerful, like electricity is coursing through my veins! Fuck is this what all the rangers feel? If so how do they not go fucking bat shit crazy?!' My thoughts feel like they are coming faster than ever before, as I reach down my black and gold gloves hands coming into contact with a classic Morpher where a belt buckle should be, removing it from my belt there is a Gold and Black Morpher with a gold dragon coin slotted in the center of it.
Holding the Morpher out in front of me trying my best to do the "It's Morphin Time" pose, "Power down!" My voice thunders and there's a sound of lightning, the HUD screen of the armor that I didn't even notice vanishes and the feeling of power inside of me diminishes but doesn't return to the low level it was after evolving in Seiichi's world.
I try to attach the Morpher back to my belt only to discover I'm as naked as the day I was born and that my body has seemingly become even more refined than it did after my multiple evolutions.
'Alright so classic Morpher, means I should be in Angel Grove, and given the likeness I have to Tommy's green ranger armor, it's most likely some time after Rita takes back the Green Ranger powers…so probably sometime near the end of season 1 or the beginning of season 2…god I really wish I watched all of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series…and through Turbo.' Shaking off my thoughts I pull out a full set of clothes from my Subspace and turn them shred trying to put them on.
"Oh fuck off!" I curse as I reach my second to last pair of jeans I kept stored in my Subspace before I get a good handle on my new strength. It takes me twenty minutes to get fully dressed while leaving behind a pile of shredded fabrics in the desert, where I landed…is made of dark glass.
"Note to self…seriously listen to the warnings the system gives about not opening a portal before half an hour passes…also without target/location lock engaged you can wind up in a sun…now to find out where I am for sure, hopefully this isn't some fucked up power rangers universe where there rangers are the bad guys, or Drakkon is a thing." I hum as I begin heading up the steepest dune towards a cliff face that I can climb and hopefully spot a civilization.
~ — — — — — — — — — — — ~
Red, blue, black, pink and yellow columns of energy descend from the sky to the location where Mason appeared and the Black Golden Dragon Ranger was born, the blue ranger gasps as a machine he is holding in his hands begins to chime and spark before shorting out.
"Uhh guys whatever did this is off the charts is Morphin Grid energy!" The Blue ranger says as he turns to look at the pink and yellow rangers who are inspecting a pile of men's clothing scraps.
"No blood, but whatever came here must have made a snack out of whatever poor guy was hiking through here." Mutters the Yellow ranger, while the pink Ranger looks at a set of boot prints that lead away from the pile of clothing shreds and start just outside of the blackened smooth glass.
"Guys I have boot prints here, size thirteen, from the tread they are some kind of work boots…totally unfashionable." The Pink Ranger exclaims drawing an eye roll from all of her teammates.
"Yo guys, I don't know about y'all but I want to get back to the youth center and drink my milkshake while it's cold!" The Black Ranger says with a bit of a hip-hop lilt to his voice that would make the Fresh Prince of Bel Air ask for pointers.
The Red ranger stands stoically with his arms crossed over his chest putting on a strong front for his friends while on the inside he is still struggling with losing Tommy's powers.
"Let's return to the Youth Center and report our findings to Zordon!" After a few minutes Red Ranger commands, while Pink Ranger tries to follow the tracks left on the sand only for the wind to blow them away.
~ — — — — — — — — — — — ~
Five balls of light fly over my head, heading in the direction of a city, "Heh, the Power Rangers…would have thought they would have found and attacked me by now." I hum before shrugging my shoulders and begin jogging towards the city in the distance.
'Well what do ya know, it is Angel Grove home to the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and co.' I feel excitement bubbling up inside of me as I jog past the welcome to Angel Grove sign.
Tommy had been half way to his family's home in Crystal Cove, when a pain like none other hit him, making him swerve off of the desolate road in his Dark Green Datsun B20 Sunny Truck, with lime green interior.
Something strange begins happening within the mini truck's cabin, flesh ripples and twists soon Thomas Oliver is replaced by a beautiful young woman who is clutching a damaged power morpher in her left hand, while blood trickles from a wound above her left eyebrow.
"I-I have to get back to my team!" The young woman groans before passing out, in another world Tommy Oliver replaces his female counterpart during a fight with Lord Drakkon, just in time to see Jason impaled through his back on a curved sword.
On pure instinct Tommy grabs his Morpher, a Morpher that should be damaged…broken and powerless, but still he invokes the power of the Green Ranger of the Dragonzord, then flings himself head first into the fight against this evil ranger.
~ — — — — — — — — — — — ~
A silver ship that looks similar to a dagger flies out of a rift that forms in the sky above the sea just outside of Angel Grove.
Inside of the ship are the special operations Time Force Rangers, Black, Purple and Silver.
"Ma'am the distortions to the timeline…" A feminine voice comes from the Silver time force ranger.
"I know Hayley…I know." The black Time Force ranger speaks in a commanding tone, her voice also feminine.
"Mom…do…do you think this is because of Dad?" Asks the purple Time Force ranger with a youthful voice, that is too hard to discern whether it belongs to a male or female.
"I-I don't know…Amy, your father is one of the most powerful and longest serving rangers to ever exist, but he shouldn't make his first appearance in our universe until 1997…when he joins the Space Rangers, but knowing your father he probably is having one of his famously disastrous misadventures." The black Time Force ranger mutters with a warmth and fondness that bellies her love of this mysterious man and father to her daughter.
The youngest ranger fails to conceal her giggles at her mother's words while the Silver Time Force ranger lets out an explosive sigh, before going off on a tangent. "Jennifer, you can't seriously be this calm about Mason possibly fucking up the timeline, to the point none of us exist!"
"If there's one thing I know, Aisha…it's that my ex-husband is stubborn enough to make time his bitch just so that he can steal my heart from Wes and fuck m…I mean just so that we can fall in love and have our beautiful daughter Amy…" Jennifer tries not to snicker as her Daughter's giggling intensifies, there are many good qualities about Mason but many bad ones as well and his daughter knows them all.
"Mom, stop it…Dad isn't that bad…" Amy can't even defend her father with a straight voice even though the man is her hero just as much as her mom is.
"Yeah he's worse!" Mutters a disgruntled Aisha.
"Oh come on Auty Aisha, you're just upset that Dad hasn't asked you out to dinner after you came onto him after he stepped down as commander of the S.P.D. 's special forces division and had you transferred to Time Force after you guys slept together." Amy says in a sing-song tone of voice that makes Aisha clench her fists together at the sting of the reminder of why she was now a Time Force Ranger instead of a Space Patrol and Defense Ranger.
Suddenly one of the temporal distortion scanners starts going haywire, "Detecting both a damaged Green Dragon Ranger's energy signature and an unknown signature that is close to but not quite the same as Shadow Ranger Mason Clark's signature!" Aisha calls out from her station.
~ — — — — — — — — — — — ~
I freeze in place as I feel a metaphysical tug pulling me in a direction away from Angel Grove, 'What the fuck was that?!' I wonder and I get mental images…flashes of a Datsun truck front end smashed against a boulder, with a young woman inside of it, with a bleeding head injury and a damaged power morpher in one hand with a broken and burnt out looking dragon coin slotted into it.
"Okay, that's trippy as fuck!" At my expression I hear a roar that reminds me of Godzilla's roar and I look to the ocean to see a black and gold Dragonzord rising from the depths while letting out a sound like it is in pain, the more it rises from the ocean I see that in it's arms is a fading/shrinking Green Dragonzord.
"Alright, alright…I'll go save this chick, calm your tits Dragonzord." I can't help but groan in annoyance while staring into the giant green and gold orbs that make up the Black and Gold Dragonzord's eyes.
The eyes glow and I get this sense that my Dragonzord is thanking me, while also threatening me not to fail, rolling my eyes I head in the direction of the tugging sensation, the world around me blurs by, and I reach the crashed truck in seemingly seconds.
'So I'm here now what the fuck do I do? I'm not a fucking EMT or a Trauma Doctor/surgeon!' I feel myself start to panic before it dawns on me to use an ultimate healing potion on the young woman.
Gently pulling the injured woman from the Datsun, I notice that she looks strikingly like Elizabeth Giles, and is somewhere between her late teens and early twenties.
Forcing her to drink the remains of a healing potion, the realization that I'm down to nine of them is uncomfortable to say the least, but I can't bring myself to regret healing her upon closer inspection finding multiple healing stab wounds throughout her abdominal area.
"What the hell happened to you?" I murmur while pulling out a sleeping bag from my Subspace and putting the young woman inside of it and zipping it shut, looking back inside of the truck pulling open the glovebox.
I find out that this Datsun belongs to none other than Thomas Oliver the former Green Ranger, 'The color coding should have clued me in…' I think while rolling my eyes at myself as I pick up the damaged power morpher that had fallen out of the young woman's limp grip when I took her out of the truck.
Suddenly a ghostly image of the two Dragonzords appear in front of me, the gold and black Dragonzord my Dragonzord shows/conveys to me that we can channel our energies into both the Morpher and the Dragonzord to heal and repower them, but we have to do so together and that I have to be willing to sacrifice a portion of my new power to restore both the green ranger and the Green Dragonzord.
'Fuck it!' I curse and roll my eyes at the imploring look the Gold and Black Dragonzord is giving me while I push my energy into the damaged power morpher.
An explosion of green energy comes from the Morpher as the Green Ranger 's Dragon coin is restored and the ghostly image of the Green Dragonzord becomes revitalized and imposing but much smaller than the Gold and Black Dragonzord.
'I feel reduced but barely…' shaking my head, I place the young woman's power morpher in her hands, underneath the sleeping bag.
~ — — — — — — — — — — — ~
"We should intervene, this…this interloper is undoing and changing too much!" One of the Morphin Masters petitions looking nothing more than a radiant column of light, like it's eleven siblings.
"We cannot intervene further, we already warned our champion, and left behind the tools needed to create the White ranger and Tigerzord ahead of schedule!" Elven voices speak as one while the disgruntled Morphin Master vanishes from sight.
~ — — — — — — — — — — — ~
Thomas Oliver (Lord Drakkon) stares downwards at his younger defeated self, his sword pressed against his younger self's throat.
"Where is the girl?!" Lord Drakkon questions while the young and physically broken Tommy Oliver glares up at his older self in defiance.
"Wherever she is…she's safe from you!" Tommy growls at the older evil version of himself, which makes Lord Drakkon tilt his head towards the sky and laugh a deep belly laugh.
"Oh…I forgot what I was like when I was your age…" Lord Drakkon chuckles and starts channeling a dirty white and dark green energy into the young Tommy Oliver, Tommy's screams rend the air, soon a dirty dark green ranger armor forms around him it's visor a dim red.
"Go my newest Ranger Slayer, capture the girl and bring her to me while killing any Rangers that get in your way!" Lord Drakkon commands the re-evilfied Tommy Oliver while a certain disgruntled Morphin Master opens a portal through the Morphin Grid to Tommy's original dimension.
'If my siblings will do nothing about this interloper I will!' Thought the Morphin Master who is breaking the code of non-interference.
"It is odd for you to interfere, Master Silver." Lord Drakkon snickers and deflects a silver lightning bolt shot at him by the Morphin Master.
"Do not incur my wrath boy, we allow you to exist solely because you keep the Grid balanced, but never forget you are replaceable!"
Lord Drakkon laughs, "Any time you want to go, I'm ready."
~ — — — — — — — — — — — ~
"Ayayiyayi, Zordon…there are two Dragonzord off the coast of Angel Grove!" Alpha cries out while Zordon stares at the viewing orb.
The viewing orb's image changes to the crash sight of a green colored vehicle, where a man in his mid to late twenties tends to an unconscious young woman in her late teens to early twenties, on his waist is a Gold and Black Power Morpher.
"Ayayiyayi, Zordon his power levels are off the charts."
"I can see that Alpha…I believe he is the threat that the Morphin Masters came to warn us about…Alpha, dispatch the Rangers!" Zordon commands and Alpha contacts the rangers through their wrist communicators.
Soon the viewing orb's display changes showing a silver vortex opening through the Morphin Grid and a corrupted looking green ranger with a cracked and eerily glowing red visor stepping through it into the desert, a mile away from where the unknown entity and the young woman are camped.
"Ayayiyayi, Zordon!"
"I see Alpha…this is a deeply disturbing…turn of events…warn the Rangers, but keep them targeted on the original target."
~ — — — — — — — — — — — ~
Soon five columns of color coded light descend from the sky coscailing into five rangers with their specific weapons already in hand.
Mason stands up from where he was kneeling beside the young woman in the sleeping bag, "I was wondering when Zordon would send his child soldiers to attack me…I honestly thought it'd be sooner." The man snickers, pulls a gold and black power Morpher from his waist and invokes, "Golden-Black Dragonzord!" And in an explosion of black and gold lighting an imposing black and gold colored Ranger stands in the man's place.
Tommy straightens his head and looks at me through his cracked red visor, his eyes are puffy, bloodshot and crazed.
"Damn dude…is Rita mind controlling you again?" I ask Tommy and have to draw my Dragon blade to block a thrust of Tommy's dragon dagger.
"Tommy, is that you?!" Someone most likely Kimberly Hart screams from behind me, soon a pink blur is pushing in-between us.
"Tommy?" The Pink ranger asks in concern and makes her helmet vanish, Tommy doesn't care though he goes to punch the Amy Jo-Johnson look-alike in the face only for me to grab his fist, which makes a sonic boom echo and a wave of concussive force batter us.
"Hey, pinkie…call Zordon and see if he can cure whatever mind control is affecting your boy toy." My voice comes out as a commanding bark while Kimberly wipes away tears at the corners of her eyes.
"I-I…" Kimberly stutters before bringing her wrist up to her face while I push Tommy away from the others, but Tommy's greater martial skill is showing as I'm starting to collect some minor injuries from his Dragon Dagger and blows.
Soon I'm joined by the Red ranger, "Thanks for saving me from the sneak attack, sorry for coming to attack you." Jason apologies as he holds his side and blocks a high kick from Tommy with his power blade.
"It's cool man…I probably shouldn't have punched you so hard…kinda still learning how strong I am." I offer as an apology, and we're soon joined by the other Rangers including the girl green ranger while Kimberly communicates with Zordon.
Soon Kimberly is joining us as we encircle Tommy, "Zordon says that you may be able to overpower whatever mind control effects Tommy is under because of your obvious connection to the Green rangers." Kimberly says and looks at me with a pleading expression on her face, the girl green ranger looks to me and dips her helmeted head slightly.
"You guys restrain him…and I'll give it a try." I offer and watch as the core rangers with the girl green ranger's help, disarm and restrain Tommy, moving in resting my hands on either side of Tommy's head, I feel a pill deep in my gut, and begin channeling my power into him, Tommy begins screaming in pain.
But the effects of my channeling my energy into him has an obvious physical affect the Green Ranger armor he's wearing begins to heal and return to it's natural coloring, before it disappears into motes of light leaving an exposed and injured Tommy Oliver who has tears running down his face.
I feel a final barrier and hammer my power through it and feel my world shift, I'm standing in a puddle of blood with broken rangers surroundings me as a man…as Lord Drakkon sits on a throne scooping something out of a bleached white human skull, and using a busted red ranger helmet as a footstool.
"So you're the one who has the Silver Morphin Master in a tizzy…savor your victory today for I'll be coming to add your power to my own…soon!" Lord Drakkon says before firing white and green lightning at me.
The lightning does nothing to me, crossing my arms over my chest. I glare at Lord Drakkon through the visor of my helmet and enjoy the way his eyes widen in surprise.
"You have spent way too much time as top dog in a small section of the Power Rangers Multiverse, Thomas Oliver, Lord Dickheaderon…you are but a large fish in a small pond and I am but a minnow in the Omniverse, but compared to you I am a massive Megladon, if you come for me I will show no mercy…I will turn you into a tiny power up, you have been warned Thomas." With my warning I slowly fade away and return to the power ranger dimension I arrived in, and I'm in the arms of a rather worried looking Elizabeth Gillies look-alike who is no longer in her Ranger get-up that looks like mine but in green and silver instead of black and gold.
"He-hey…thanks for saving me." Tommy Oliver says to me drawing my attention from his female counterpart and I honestly have to put every ounce of willpower I have into not turning into a fanboy puddle, or question my own sexuality having a young Jason David Frank look alike with long blonde hair shooting me a rather charming smile.
'Oh my God-ohmygodohmygod, Tommy Oliver…Tommy Oliver.' My thoughts are of no help right now.
Feeling my ears burn at my frankly embarrassing display, and not being able to intelligently reply back to him, making me settle on nodding to him, "No-no problem man…Tommy, I'm a big fan…of you and your time as the green ranger, and everything else." My voice carries a bit of a stutter at the start and I swear all of the girls giggle at my reaction to Tommy Oliver thanking me.
"Are you a fan of me too?" A rather jealous sounding voice from right beside me asks and I look up into the eyes of Tommy's female counterpart.
"Honestly, you look like someone I have had a crush on for awhile…she's a somewhat popular actress…but I honestly have no idea who you are other than that you're the Green Dragon Ranger from a dimension similar to this one." I offer with an apologetic shrug of my shoulders, and receive a humph in reply before my head and back drop onto the ground.
"I'm Tammy Oliver, the green ranger of my dimension…and don't you forget it!" Tammy doesn't quite pout, she seems too dignified for that but she also seems rather upset with me for not knowing her…or not being a fanboy for her.
"It's nice to meet you Tammy, I'm glad that I was able to help you." I offer with a small smile and extend my right hand to her, she rolls her eyes at me but takes my extended hand and pulls me to my feet, and I realize for the first time that I'm no longer wearing my power ranger armor.
"Okay, now that you and Tommy are both up we should all teleport to the command center…Zordon wants to talk to you and make sure you, Tammy and Tommy are all alright." Jason says and he steps into my field of view with his helmet off and tucked underneath his arm, looking around I notice the other rangers are all in a lose circle around is scanning our surroundings for enemy threats, on the ground I notice remains of putties, Rita Repulsa's incompetent foot soldiers.
"No offense man, but I'm not going anywhere near the Wizard of floating head in a tube, after he sent a group of teenagers to attack me…good intentioned or not." I offer and look to Tammy who looks uncertainly at the core members of the original rangers, and though she's putting up a good front she looks like she's seconds away from bursting into tears.
Tommy limps over to me, rests his hands on my shoulders then pulls me into a bro hug, "It's alright you don't have to go see Zordon with us, but you're a Ranger, and Rangers stick together." and I totally don't swoon like some love struck teenage girl…but I do get awfully close to it, Tommy releases me from the hug.
And Jason puts in his two cents, "Once a Ranger always a ranger!" And with that I'm left watching as the six rangers of this world turn into columns of color coded energy and take off into the sky
I feel Tammy staring at me and feel the urge to defend myself, "I'm not gay, alright I swear I'm not gay, but that's Tommy fucking Oliver the best power ranger ever!"
"I didn't say anything." She replies in a snarky voice before falling to her knees and cupping her face in her hands as powerful sobs begin to wrack her body, and her shoulders tremble.
Feeling at a loss for what to do for her, for half a second, before I kneel down next to the grieving young woman and draw her into a hug, she latches onto me, and leans into me for support.
"He killed them, he killed everyone I ever loved!" Tammy sobs against my neck as I rub her back, I feel the urge to rip a hole through dimensions and go kill the shit out of Lord Drakkon, though I know it won't do anything to help Tammy it'll only make myself feel better.
Plus the system says I need to wait a year at minimum before opening a portal or else the results will be both catastrophic and fatal.
~ — — — — — — — — — — — ~
Tommy Oliver stood in front of Zordon's chamber, the other Rangers having left the Command Center a few minutes previously…after Alpha and Zordon put him through a battery of tests and confirmed that his powers have returned and that they are stable.
"You wish to talk to me about your time in another dimension, Green Ranger." Zordon confirms for Tommy who nods.
"I…there is an older evil version of myself out there killing ranges and adding their powers to his own…he's powerful Zordon he kills entire ranger teams and has an army of evil rangers under his command…and he's set his sights on our world…and you've alienated the only Ranger that has a chance of taking him down."
"I agree that my decision to confront this Black and Gold Ranger was a result of poor judgement…but he is too powerful to not be kept close…where he can be quickly terminated or confronted by you and the other rangers."
Tommy shakes his head, "You still don't get it Zordon…he is just as powerful as Lord Drakkon, he could have killed my friends, your Rangers. But he held back against us…and when he confronted me he chose to save and restore my green ranger powers, rather than do the easy thing and kill me. He's a Ranger Zordon, a damn good one, one we're going to need to fight Lord Drakkon and his army of evil Rangers!" Tommy intones passionately, as he begins to step forwards his right foot connects with something on the floor, taking a step backwards and tilting his head down towards the floor Tommy finds a power coin, and bends down to pick it up.
Tommy feels an instant connection to this new coin and sees a phantom image of a white power ranger armor, and nearly drops the power coin from the similarities this white armor shares with Lord Drakkon's armor.
A feeling of fear settles over Tommy as he begins to imagine that the world he went to wasn't really a different dimension, just his world in the future, a future without the Black and Gold Ranger, a future where he is evil…where he has fought and killed other Power Rangers.
Tommy's hands tremble as he slips the power coin into a pocket on his belt, 'I know someone who is more worthy than me to wield the power of this new armor.' Tommy thinks and can't wait to find the Black and Gold Dragon Ranger to transfer this power coin to him.
'I won't become that monster, even if it means I have to give up being a power ranger completely.' Tommy swears to himself as the memories of watching older versions of his friends get slaughtered by his older versions sword, a feeling of bile rises up his esophagus nearly making him gag.
Zordon says something but Tommy can't hear him over the ringing in his ears, the command center is soon replaced by his nearly empty home in Angel Grove…his parents having had movers but the more valuable home items in storage.
"I need to find him…tonight." Tommy mutters and heads into the garage and kick starts his green Kawasaki dirt bike, and drives out of the garage the garage door sensor opening and closing the door for him.
~ — — — — — — — — — — — ~
Tammy cried herself to sleep in my arms, and not feeling like heading into Angel Grove after dark, I pulled my Luxury-off-road 8x8 mobile home out of my Subspace and carried a sleeping Tammy inside, and after changing the sheets I tucked her into the main/Master bed/bedroom and shut the door behind me to offer her some privacy after laying out some of Amy's less provocative clothes.
All clean and laundered of course, while I convert the living room couch into a bed and lay down for the night.
'I really fucked up, trying to get telekinesis…and I don't even know if I even got the telekinesis I almost died for!' With my thoughts turned towards my own stupidity I pull a tennis ball out of my subspace, lightly toss it into the air, and as it begins its downward descent towards my head I try to catch it with the power of my mind.
The tennis ball pauses a few feet away from my head, it shakes a bit while being suspended in the air and I begin to feel pressure on my mind, and I feel blood start to leak from my nose, still a boisterous laugh bubbles out of me.
"I didn't…almost, die for nothing!" I cheer and let my concentration slip which makes the tennis ball bounce off of my face.
A desperate pounding on the door pulls me out of my sleep, 'Amy?…no she's not here.' I wonder for half a second when I feel a woman's body pressed up against my back legs thrown over my legs, arm encircling my waist with a hand resting at my lower abdomen, warm breath hitting my back.
"Why would she crawl into bed with me?" I wonder while gently detaching Tammy's limbs from my body, 'How is she sleeping through the pounding on the door?!' Shrugging off my questioning thoughts walking the ten or so steps to said front door looking at the monitor that shows who is on my metal porch.
"Tommy…why would Tommy come here so late at night?" I wonder aloud as I open the door and step outside pushing Tommy back away from the door with a hand against his chest.
Tommy lets out a relieved breath, "It really is you, God this is such a relief." Tommy's shoulders relax and it looks like the weight of the world comes off of his shoulders, while I pull out two camping chairs from my subspace one just so happens to be green while the other is black with gold bordering.
"Woah!" Tommy expresses at seeing the chairs appear out of thin air.
"Take a load off man…and tell me why you came out here." I say while motioning for Tommy to take a seat he does so with a tense expression on his face while he pulls a power coin out of his pocket and not just any power coin but the White Tiger power coin, that shouldn't exist yet.
"I-I want you to have this, I think you're the only one worthy of more power…" Tommy says to me while holding out the power coin to me with a trembling hand.
"Tommy, I can't, this is meant for you…" Tommy rapidly shakes his head side to side, "No I don't want this, I he's me…I can feel it the evil the darkness that, that monster gave into and embraced it's inside of me, I'd rather give up being a Ranger entirely than to combine this new power with the Green Ranger powers, please…please take it." Tommy practically begs me as he slides out of the chair and onto his knees in front of me, something that makes me feel incredibly awkward as I reach out and take the White Tiger Power coin from his cold trembling hands.
Transferring the coin to my left hand I rest my right on Tommy's shoulder, "You are a great guy Tommy, you'll never be Lord Drakkon, you want to know how I know?" I begin to try and comfort Tommy who nods at my question.
"I know you aren't hin and will never be him because you not only acknowledge the darkness inside but that you're willing to sacrifice, to give up power to someone else, that is something your twisted and older counterpart would never do, Tommy you are a hero, but you are also human. Just like everyone else we are prone to mistakes and moments of weakness, when you experience those moments of weakness where the darkness feels like it's going to take control, turn to your friends they'll pull your butt back into the light." I pull some power ranger sounding bullshit out of my ass but it seems to do the trick for Tommy as he looks like I just passed on a divine edict from God to him as he stands up and takes a seat in the folding chair.
"Thank you…"
"Mason, my name is Mason…Tommy." I offer my name though I thought I did so earlier but I guess not.
"Thank you, Mason…I feel a lot better now…I should probably get home and call my parents. I was supposed to be in Crystal Cove hours ago…"
"Yeah you better call them Tommy, I'd offer to let you use the phone in the RV, but it's not connected to a network right now."
Tommy lets out a small laugh, "Thanks, but I need the ride to clear my head." Tommy offers a smile as he stands back up and walks off of my metal porch to a green Kawasaki dirt bike kick starts it and drives away leaving me holding the White Tiger Power Coin in my left hand.
Reaching down to my waist, grabbing the dragon coin from my Morpher, I nearly jump in surprise as a magnetic pull between both coins rips them from between my fingers in a small explosion of light the coin merge together creating a power coin that looks like Lord Drakkon's, two ghostly images of a Tigerzord and a Dragonzord appear in front of my RV both silently roaring at the moon…before they both combine.
Now there is a quadrupedal ghostly image of a Godzilla Dragonzord with a roaring Tiger head on it's chest, it looks hella sinister but also dope as fuck at the same time.
'I'm kinda afraid to see what my Ranger armor looks like now…' I express while looking at the sky watching the ghostly image of the massive, gargantuan Dragon-Tigerzord fade away.
"Why the hell do I keep getting random power ranger power ups?!" I can't help but wonder aloud feeling a deep sense of suspicion that someone or something is fucking with me hard core right now.
Putting away my suspicion in a little box inside myself I head inside and though I know I shouldn't I pick up Tammy carry her back to the bedroom, and lay down on the bed with her, she immediately snuggles into my side…and God does it take Willpower I didn't know I had to not try and take advantage of the situation and just be a halfway decent human being and be her security teddy bear for the time being.
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