Authors Note: I started a story to explain Carri’s other cousins, but I never could figure out how I wanted to handle the plot, so I abandoned it. Just know that the two cousins mentioned in this story are on her mom’s side of the family and none of the other rangers know them.
Carri Hillard smiled as she sat at the kitchen table of her apartment. It was a nice, peaceful day. She and her friends had made it through their first year at USC. They had made it to sophomore status. She was excited for the summer. Tommy and Kim had left a few days ago to go out of town, and assuming that experiment was successful, the rest of the team was going to take their own vacations. She had one for sure in mind.
Of course, this summer was going to be kind of strange. Rocky, Tommy and Kat had already moved out of their dorms and back to Angel Grove. Their apartment, well that was a year round thing. She didn’t expect to see Billy around much. He keeps talking about wanting to take of for Europe for a while. She knew Jason wasn’t going to spend much of his summer in LA. He was too excited to go home and get to see his girlfriend. In fact, he had left right after finals to go back. That left her and Kim. She figured they would spend some time here. Both of them liked the city. However, both of them had boyfriends in Angel Grove. So they probably would be back and forth. She just hoped the place would get some use.
Suddenly, there was an unexpected knock at the door. Carri got up to go answer it. She paused for a moment at the door, noticing the cross that was nailed there. It was a constant reminder of one of their adventures. It was also a reminder of the uncertainty of the future of their planet. She sighed as she opened the door. The Fed-ex delivery guy was standing there. She smiled as she remembered her and Kim fighting to get to the door to see him. They found him attractive. Of course, it would always be a look don’t touch sort of thing.
“Hi Carri, I’m glad someone’s still here.”, he said as he handed her a package
She grinned. “What can I say I love LA.” She took the package and set it on the floor. She signed for it, then the Fed-ex guy took off.
Carri glared at the oversized box sitting on her floor. The return label was from New York. She opened it. Sitting on the top of the box was a letter from her mother, telling her that she was going through old VHS tapes, and found a lot of Carri’s home movies, which she thought she would like to have. Carri wasn’t sure what to expect to find. She dug in the box and started to look at the labels. “No way.”, she said grinning as she realized what was on them. She had all but forgotten about it.
She reached for her phone. There were people who she had to share these with. Well at least one person. The rest of them hadn’t gotten home yet. She called her friends number.
“Hello?”, Matt Drake asked as he picked up the phone
“Hey, it’s Carri.”
“Hey, what’s up?”
“Not much. My mom sent me an entire box of video tapes. That I made. And you’ll never guess what’s on them.”
“No shit.”, he said as he smiled. “I figured all that stuff was long gone.”
“You still in LA?”, Carri asked
“No, I went back home already.”
“You wanna see what’s on these?”
“Hell yeah.”
Carri grinned. “Give me an hour. Then meet me at my aunt and uncle’s.”
“Sounds good. I’ll see you then.”
“Later.”, Carri said. Then the both of them hung up the phone. Carri went to pack a bag. She had been planning on going home this weekend anyway, now she would just leave a little early. She was excited. It was always fun to have a chance to relive childhood memories. She hurried to get ready so she could leave.
Up on Earth’s moon, two figures were trying to figure out what their next move would be. Rita looked over at Zedd. She was angry about all their past attempts failing. They could not destroy those rangers. “What should we do? None of the monsters we have sent down are worth anything.”
“We will find the perfect monster.”, Zedd said
“And until then? I hate leaving them down there to be happy.”, Rita asked
Zedd thought for a moment. He thought he had a next move, but he wasn’t sure quite how to execute it. “I have been thinking about how we could devastate those rangers. Tommy and Kimberly have gone out of town, and it shouldn’t be hard to take out the other four.”
“What do you want to do Zeddie?”
“I want to find a spell that can make the remaining four rangers angry and turn them against each other. Then we can send down a monster. With the rangers not co-operating, it should be easy to destroy them.”, Zedd explained
Rita smiled. “That sounds like a plan.”
“Yes now all we need to do is get Finster to create the perfect spell. Soon my dear, we will be unstoppable.”
Rocky DeSantos leaned back in a chair, cold drink in hand. He shuffled his feet, accidentally flinging sand in the process. It felt nice to be sitting here under the umbrella. Especially after having working all day.
“What’s up?”, Jason Lee Scott asked as he sat down beside his friend, interrupting his silence.
“Not much.”, Rocky replied. “Just enjoying this beautiful evening.”
“You hanging out here all night?”, Jason asked
Rocky shook his head no. “Carri should be at the house later. She’s not expecting to see me until in the morning, but I switched shifts and I thought I would surprise her.”
Jason smiled. “She’ll like that.”
“What about you?”, Rocky asked
Jason looked over at his working girlfriend. “We’ll probably go out. She has the day off tomorrow, so I will definitely see her then.”
“It must be nice to finally get to spend time together.”
“It is.”, Jason said smiling. “What about you guys? Has she decided if she is going to stay home this summer?”
“I think she’s going to go back and forth more than you. But we’ve talked about me spending some time with her in LA, and her spending time with me here. That way, at least the apartment won’t go to total waste.”, Rocky explained
“I know she and Kim have talked about it. I think she wants to spend some time in LA hanging out with her.”, Jason said. “And I will go there sometimes. I need to bring Emily, show her around the city.”
“I’m looking forward to the summer.”
“Are you guys going to try and take off?”
“Try being the key word there. We’ve talked about it though. She wants to take me to Australia in June. What about you?”
Jason smiled. “Me and Emily have talked about it. We haven’t planned any specifics though. But I’m excited.”
“I’m glad you guys are doing so well, especially after what happened.”
“Thanks.”
Rocky looked down at his watch. “Well, I’m going to go home and clean up. I’ll talk to you later.”
“Bye.”, Jason said
Rocky got up and went to his car. It had been a few days since he’d seen Carri, and he couldn’t wait to spend time with her again.
Carri sat upstairs in her Aunt and Uncle’s bonus room with Matt. The best VCR in the house was up here, and she wanted to take advantage of it. Carri looked through her box and picked up the first tape.
“We have to see this one.”, she said grinning
“What is it?”, Matt asked
She smiled. “You’ll see.” Carri put the tape in and pressed play. First they heard voices. Then a picture came into focus. It was her family’s old house. Well the garage of their old house. In the picture were a few old mattresses her parents were getting ready to disregard, which had been laid on the floor. Standing around them were her cousins Matt and Jeff, and her brother Josh. They had been figuring out a way to rope off the mattresses so they could use them.
They watched as their younger selves came into view, along with a few friends of theirs. “We’ll be a team.”, Matt Hardy said motioning to him and Josh. Carri smiled. She remembered the summers her cousins came to visit. Matt and Josh were close in age, as were she and Jeff. They used to have so much fun together.
“What about team Hardy?”, asked Jeff
“We’ll be a team.”, a young Matt Drake said motioning to him and Jeff. Jeff nodded eagerly, ready to get into the ring.
Matt chuckled thinking about those lazy summer days. He befriended Jeff while they were there. “It’s hard to believe they’re famous now.”
“I know. I hardly get to see them anymore.”, Carri replied as she watched more of the tape
A young Carri put her hands on her hips. “What about me?”, she asked
Matt threw an arm around her. “You’re my girl, so you are going to be mine and Jeff’s ringside babe.”
“I wanna wrestle.”, Carri pouted
“You can wrestle in a girls match later, after me and Jerry win the tag team title.”, they heard Luke Wright say from somewhere off camera. “With Sally.”, he added. Sally had been Luke’s girlfriend at the time.
Matt and Carri smiled as they remembered what set this afternoon up. The ones in their group that weren’t out of town got together almost everyday over the summer. When Matt and Jeff came, well they were obsessed with one thing. Wrestling. And they would all get together and goof off. That particular time it was in the Hillard’s garage, and they taped it. Of course, if Josh and Carri’s parents knew what they were doing, they would probably have been pissed.
They watched the interactions with the boys for a while. Carri looked over at Matt. “You know, Josh loved you to death. He thought of you as a little brother. He just didn’t like you dating me.”
“And why not?”, Matt asked
Carri laughed. “Please, you were the biggest middle school player before we started going out.” She had been friends with him forever, she knew all his secrets.
“You lie.”, he said with a smile on his face
She grinned. They both knew it was true. Why she went out with him she’ll never know. Well she did know kinda. She was young and stupid. Thinking about it, a question came to mind that she had to ask. “Did you ever cheat on me?”
“What kind of question is that?”, Matt asked
“Come on now. This was seven years ago. I don’t exactly care anymore one way or the other. I’m just curious.”, Carri told him
“Well.... to be honest, you were my first real relationship. Well, real for that age anyway. And we had been friends for so long, I couldn’t do that to you. After you, it was all straight sailing.”
“Really?”, she asked surprised to hear that come from him
He nodded. “Me and Crystal have been together since first semester started. And I wouldn’t even think about looking at another woman.”, he paused and laughed. “Well look maybe but definitely not touch.”
Carri smiled as she turned back to the video tape. Matt and Jeff were getting ready to wrestle Jerry and Luke. Matt watched himself jump into the ring first, and start a few moves. He laughed at how silly it was. “I’ve still got it you know.”
“What?”, asked Carri
“The ability to wrestle.”, he replied
She giggled. “If you call that ability.”
Matt jumped up and stuck his arm out, palm up. He looked at her and bent his fingers in a few times.
“Bring it?”, Carri questioned. She grinned as she jumped up and went after him.
Rocky pulled into the Hillard’s driveway. He smiled as he saw Carri’s car there. There was another car parked in the driveway. He frowned not knowing who it belonged to. He got out of his car and went to the front door, which was left unlocked. He opened it and looked around curiously. “Carri?”, he called out but got no answer
Suddenly he heard a thud coming from the bonus room, followed by a shriek. He recognized the shriek. He flew upstairs and ran towards the bonus room. As he flung open the door he saw his girlfriend sitting on her butt rubbing her lower back, and her friend Matt standing off to the side laughing at her. “What’s going on in here?”
Carri looked up at him and smiled. “He wrestles rough.”, she said. He looked at her curiously as she jumped up and went and threw her arms around him, giving him a kiss.
“Help me out here. Why exactly is there wrestling going on?”, he asked
She pointed to the tv. Rocky turned to look. “Is that... is that you?”
“Sure is.”, she said with a smile. Then she proceeded to point out the other people in the picture. “And that’s Matt, my cousin Jeff, our friends Jerry and Luke and Luke’s old girlfriend Sally. My brother and my other cousin are off to the side waiting for their chance to wrestle.”
“You guys were nuts.”, he said
“I know. Wanna watch?”, she asked
“But of course.”, he replied. And with that, the trio sat down and continued to watch the video tape.
Katherine Hillard stretched out across the sand on the beautiful Angel Grove beach. She could feel the water reach her toes. She smiled as she looked over at her boyfriend.
“Feet falling asleep?”, asked Chris Black
“I’m trying not to let them.”, Kat replied as she smiled
Chris leaned in and kissed his girlfriend on the ear. He was hoping to make her forget about what they had discussed during dinner. He was pretty sure after the visit to the ice cream stand, and the long walk on the beach that followed that she had put it out of her mind. But it was a pretty serious conversation. Chris was thinking about transferring to Chapel Hill. Not because he really wanted to go there more than USC. But because he had a chance at getting a scholarship.
He didn’t want to leave Kat, he had made that clear. He loved her, and he loved spending time with her. He was sad to see the semester end and her have to go back to Angel Grove and him to Bakersfield. But he would manage. He was here with her tonight. He would spend the entire summer with her if he could. Maybe even take her out of town.
As great as the summer would be though, he still had to think about the fall. A scholarship to Carolina would make his parents life much easier. But then he would be thousands of miles away from her. That’s what he had talked to her about during dinner that had made her so sad. But for now, he was pretty sure that she had forgotten about it.
“So shall we sit out here all night?”, he asked smiling at his girlfriend
She grinned. “Don’t tempt me.”
“I don’t want to just sit here all night.”, he replied
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“It means,” he paused as he gently pushed her down to the sand and gave her a kiss, “that I don’t want to sit here all night.”
Kat smiled. “Me neither.”, she said
Suddenly a huge wave crashed in and rolled over them. Kat and Chris laughed at their situation. Then they continued on like nothing had happened.
The next morning Kat and Chris awoke on the beach. They hadn’t meant to fall asleep there. But that was all a part of Chris’s spontaneity. Kat smiled as she and Chris stood up. “I guess I had better go home and take a shower.”
“Me too.”, Chris replied
“Are you coming home with me?”, asked Kat
Chris shook his head no. “Unfortunately, I need to go see my parents.” He saw the look of disappointment on her face. “But don’t worry, I’ll come back in a day or so.”
“I’m going to hold you to that.”, she said
“I hope you do.”, he replied leaning in to give her a kiss. Chris then walked her to her car and sent her off.
A few moments later, Kat pulled up in her driveway. She made a face at the number of cars that were there. She slipped inside and the first thing she heard was static. Kat frowned. There were obviously people in the house. Which meant she couldn’t very well get out of her wet clothes and walk upstairs. She sighed as she proceeded to track water up the stairs. Then she went to the end of the hall to figure out what was going on.
The door to the bonus room was cracked. Kat pushed it all the way open. On one side of the room, Rocky was leaning against a giant pillow, with Carri curled up next to him. On the other, Carri’s friend and her roommate’s boyfriend Matt was asleep on the floor. Kat smiled as she clapped her hands a few times. “Time to wake up guys.”
“What time is it?”, asked Carri
“Oh around ten thirty.”, Kat replied
Matt jumped up. “Crap I have to meat Crystal.”, he said as he started to rush out of the room. “When the guys get home, we’ll definitely have to watch some more of those.”
“You bet.”, Carri replied
“I”ll see you later.”, Matt said taking off
Carri waved at him as Rocky gave her a kiss on the forehead. “Good morning.”, he said
“Morning.”, she replied putting her arms around him
“You know, if you guys actually get up and get moving sometime today, I was going to go over to see Ernie for lunch, and you guys could join me.”, Kat suggested
Carri grinned. “I haven’t had a Youth Center hamburger in forever. Count me in.”
“All you had to do was say lunch and I was there.”, Rocky said smiling and returning Carri’s earlier hug. “Then after that, me and you can go out.”
“Sounds like a plan.”, she replied as she stood up and stretched. She looked at her cousin, who was dripping water onto the carpet. “What happened to you?”
Kat blushed. “Nothing.”, she replied as she turned and walked off
Carri glanced over at Rocky, who was standing up as well. “Boy what I would like to know what nothing was about.”
“Nothing is always something.”, Rocky said with a smile. Then he let Carri lead him out. After he was gone, Carri went upstairs to get ready for the day.
“It took all night, but I think I have created the potion you were looking for.”, Finster said as he approached Lord Zedd with a vile
Zedd snatched it out of his hands. “Well it’s about time. Will it work?”
“Of course.”, Finster replied
“Good. Now all we have to do is find a way to administer this to the rangers.”, Zedd said with a smile as he spied on the teens to try and figure out the next part of his plan.
Jason and Emily were walking arm in arm through the park. “It’s nice to get some time to do this.”, Emily said
“Isn’t that the truth.”, Jason replied
“I”m looking forward to the summer. To spending time together.”, Emily told him. “During the semester I have to partially beg to get to see you. And even when I do, it seems like that Lord Ed or whatever is watching so he makes a monster so you’re sent away so I’m miserable.”
Jason laughed. “You know, I think he does do that on purpose. But now it’s summer, even he can’t send monsters down 24/7.”
“Is that how much time you’re planning on spending with me?”, she asked
He grinned. “Well something like that.”
“Are you going to use your apartment at all?”, she questioned
“Only if you’re coming with me.”
“I can’t wait for you to show me the city. And to show me where you live. I can’t believe all semester and I never got time to go to LA.”
“Well you were busy. I was busy. But, at least for now, that’s behind us.”
“Yeah.”, she said as she looked up at him and smiled. “So what do you want to do today?”
“Well, first I was thinking we should go get something for lunch. Then... well if I told you that it would spoil the surprise.”, Jason told her
She smiled. “Do I at least get to know what I’m eating?”
“I’ll leave that up to you.”
“The easiest thing would be to go by and let Ernie fry us up a few.”, she pointed out
“To the Youth Center it is then.”, Jason said. With that, the two headed for their old hang out spot.
Kat, Rocky and Carri entered the Youth Center around lunchtime. The first thing they saw was two of their friends sitting at a table. “Hey guys!”, Kat said as she waved
“Hey!”, Emily said waving back
The trio went over and sat down with their two friends. “What are you guys up to?”, Carri asked
“Lunch.”, replied Jason
“Same here.”, agreed Rocky
One of Emily’s friends and fellow waitresses came over to take their orders. Each order was practically the same. A burger, fries and a soft drink. The group relaxed as the waitress went to put their order in.
As she finished putting the order in, she got their drinks. She finished putting all five on a tray and before she had a chance to deliver them, Ernie called her name. The waitress walked off.
Once she walked away, Zedd and Rita sized the opportunity and sent Finster down, protected by an invisibility shield spell. Finster stood over the five drinks cups and glanced at the teens. Not knowing whose drink was whose, he poured potion in each of the five cups. As the waitress returned, he teleported back to the Lunar Palace. She picked up her tray and delivered the drinks to the table.
“Thanks.”, Emily said smiling as she took her glass
“No problem.”, her friend said as she walked off
Carri took a big glup of her drink as she looked around the table. “So is everybody ready for the summer?”, she asked
“I know I am.”, Rocky said sipping his drink and leaning back in his seat. “All that college work was stressful. I couldn’t wait for the semester to be over.”
“Same here.”, Kat agreed
“Well that’s one year down, three to go.”, Jason pointed out
“Don’t remind me. The only good thing about school is the city.”, Carri said. “I mean college, is you know, college. But it’s in LA which is absolutely fabulous.”
Rocky smiled at her. “You just like it because everywhere you girls turn there’s a place to shop.”
She laughed. “Just consider that a benefit.”
“You girls will have to show me around those LA malls this summer.”, Emily said
“We’d be glad to. Trust me. Me and Kim will be up there quite often.”, Carri replied
“I’d like to go too. I still haven’t had a chance to really shop in the new part of the mall.”, Kat said
Carri stared at her. She couldn’t believe the new part of the mall had been open for three months and Kat hadn’t explored it. Of course, if she went with her and Kim instead of Chris, that wouldn’t be a problem. “Of course you’re welcome to go with us. Anytime we’re in the city just give us a call.”
“And how often might that be?”, questioned Kat
She shrugged. “We’ll be back and forth I’m sure.”
“Well if your boys had their own places in the city you probably wouldn’t come home at all.”, Jason said
“That’s not true. Well... maybe a little bit...”, Carri laughed
Rocky smiled. “Don’t worry Jase. We’ll just use your place some.”
“Go ahead. I’m keeping him here with me.”, Emily said as she smiled at him
Jason grinned as the others smiled. “Well regardless of where we are, we are definitely all going to have to get together some this summer.”
“Absolutely.”, Kat said and the others nodded in agreement
The group of five sat there for a few moments talking and drinking their sodas. It didn’t take too long for Finster’s potion to hit. As it did you could see the smiles on their faces quickly turn to looks of anger. Nobody spoke for a few moments until the waitress delivered their food.
Carri looked at her dish curiously. She used one finger to lift the top of her bun up and glance inside. She quickly moved her finger and pushed the plate away. “What the hell is this? You call that a burger? I can’t eat that.”
The waitress looked stunned. Emily jumped up and got in Carri’s face. “How dare you talk to her like that. You’ll eat that burger and you’ll like it.”
Carri jumped up and got back in her face. “And who exactly do you think you are talking to me like that?”
“She’s my girlfriend.”, Jason said as he jumped up and got into it as well. “And if you don’t back away from her I’ll...”
“You’ll what?”, asked Rocky as he joined them. “You won’t do anything to her.”
Carri shoved Rocky. “I can stand up for myself I don’t need your help.”
Jason laughed. Emily followed by example and shoved him. “I can too for that matter.”
Rocky and Jason started arguing with the girls. Kat burst out laughing.
“And what do you think is so funny?”, asked Carri as they all glared at her
“Well,” she started standing up, “You guys are. What idiots.”, she said as she rolled her eyes
“Nobody rolls their eyes at me.”, Jason snapped
“Well I just did.”, she snapped back
“You know what?”, Emily said as the others turned their attention to her. “Screw this, I’m getting out of here.” With that, she stormed out of the Youth Center.
“Me too.”, Carri said as she slammed her chair into the table and followed. The others were not far behind. She saw Emily walking off. She dug into her pockets for her keys, then jumped into the front seat of her yellow Mustang convertible. As she reached for the shifter, she heard someone call her name.
“Wait for us. You did bring us here you can’t be such a bitch and not take us home.”, Rocky yelled at her
“Bite me.”, she yelled back as she took off
“What do we do now?”, asked Rocky to nobody in particular
“Walk.”, Kat said as she took off
“Wait for me.”, Rocky said. He was going back in the direction of her house anyway to get his car.
“Oh puh-leese. You think I would actually want to walk with you? Get real.”, Kat said as she pushed him backwards and continued walking
Rocky made a gesture towards her then he turned and walked the other way. As he turned he practically ran over Jason. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?”, Jason snapped
Rocky rolled his eyes and took off. Jason muttered something under his breath as he took off as well.
Zedd couldn’t control his laughter as he watched the situation at hand. “This is beautiful. Thanks to Finster’s potion, those rangers hate each other.”
“Now that we’ve turned them against each other, we can take over the world.”, Rita said smiling
“What are we waiting for? Let’s get started.”, Zedd said. “Goldar!”
Goldar walked over to him. “Yes my lord?”
“Why don’t you take some tengas down to the park. Keep them occupied. While you’re distracting them, I’ll create the perfect monster and send it in to finish those power punks off.”
Goldar nodded in agreement with Zedd, then he took off to do his bidding.
Jason had ended up in the park. He wanted to de-stress himself. He knew of no better way to do that then to practice some moves. He hadn’t had much time to practice before he found himself surrounded by tengas.
“Just great.”, Jason said looking at them. They were the last thing he wanted to deal with. But it might be a good way to take out some aggression. “Ninjetti, cougar!”
With that, the Green cougar ninjetti appeared and started beating up on the birds.
Kat had almost made it home when her communicator went off. She didn’t want to be bothered with it, but out of habit she answered it anyway. “Go ahead Billy.”
“Lord Zedd sent some tengas to the park.”, Billy informed her
Kat was about to tell Billy to buzz off when it occurred to her that it might be fun to fight tengas. “On my way.”, she said. She turned to make sure nobody was around. “Ninjetti, swan!”
Carri drove her car to a secluded area of the beach. She was sitting on the sand watching the waves come in and wondering why her friends were being such jerks at the moment when her communicator went off. “Whatever.”, she said rolling her eyes. Then it went off again.
She wasn’t going to answer it. But then she thought if she had a chance to beat up on something it might be kinda fun. “I’m here.”
“You’re needed in the park to take out tengas.”, Billy said
She smiled. Tengas were always fun. “Got it.”, she replied as she stood up. “Ninjetti, panther!”
Rocky was taking the long way to the Hillard’s house. Both of the girls were being unreasonable. Rocky made a face. He didn’t know what had gotten into them. As he was storming down the road, his communicator went off.
He contemplated not answering it, but he figured he might as well. He was curious to at least know what was going on. “Yes?”
“There’s tengas in the park.”, Billy told him
Rocky wasn’t sure if he wanted to do it or not. But a good old fashioned tenga fight might be just what he needed right now. “Got it.”, he said. He walked off so he couldn’t be seen. “Ninjetti, ape!”
The three ninjetti’s ended up teleported to a different spot from the fight as Jason. They were well into the fight before they knew that the entire group was there. As they finished off the tengas, they found themselves standing in a huge circle, with Goldar in the middle.
“Nice work rangers. Now allow me to introduce you to Lord Zedd’s newest creation.”, Goldar said as a monster appeared behind him
The ninjetti’s glanced at each other, then at the monster. Kat was the first to speak. “Well I certainly wouldn’t have come if Billy had told me I had to help you guys out.”
“Yeah like I wanted to work with you either.”, Rocky snapped
“This was my fight, and I think I had it handled pretty well. I didn’t need you guys.”, Jason yelled
Carri laughed. “Well in that case he can be your monster too.”
“Well I certainly don’t need your help taking him on. I am the best ranger you know.”, Jason said
“Best my ass.”, Rocky snapped
Goldar laughed. Zedd was right this was working out better than planned. Goldar looked at the monster and nodded. The monster laughed as he fired at the rangers, who were no longer paying him any attention.
The ninjetti’s were thrown off of their feet and they hit the ground hard.
In the Power Chamber, three figures watched the fight with concern. “Aye ai ai, what’s going on down there?”, asked Alpha
“I don’t know. They should have morphed by now.”, Billy Cranston said as he watched the fight. He saw the ninjetti’s get attacked and hit the ground. They got back up and were attacked once more. Billy saw a lot of finger pointing, then the yellow ninjetti disappeared.
“Where did she go?”, asked Alpha as he started to worry
“I don’t...”, Billy paused as the red and purple ninjetti’s disappeared also. “Let me run a scan for them.”
Billy quickly went over to the console and started working. A few minutes later he had the location of the other rangers. “I... I don’t believe this. Kat’s at home, Rocky’s taking a walk and Carri’s on the beach.”
“Something must not be right Billy.”, Zordon pointed out
Billy took a glance at the fight, and saw the Green Zeo Ranger taking on the monster. One lonely Zeo ranger was having no luck in battle. Billy sighed. He knew what he needed to do. Jason was going to get himself killed out there. With the push of a few buttons, the Zeo Ranger was in the Power Chamber.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing?”, Jason asked throwing off his helmet. “I was handling that monster just fine.”
“You were losing.”, Billy pointed out
“Loosing? You may think you’re smart, but you know nothing about battle. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a monster to destroy.” With that, Jason put his helmet back on and teleported himself back to battle.
Billy was baffled. Zordon was right, something wasn’t right here. And Billy knew he needed to figure out quickly. His first instinct was to get the other three rangers to the Power Chamber. Of course, they could just teleport out as well. That’s why he jammed their communicators first.
Flashes of blue, yellow and pink light came streaming in followed by the rangers. “Who do you think you are to just pull people from their homes and bring them here?”, asked Kat
Carri was the first person to try and hit her communicator, but with no luck. “That is totally not fair. Like I want to be stuck here with any of you jerks.”
Rocky rolled his eyes. “Well if you girls weren’t acting like morons maybe being stuck here wouldn’t be half bad.”
“Morons?”, Kat repeated. “Well I...”
“Maybe you should scan the rangers.”, Billy whispered to Alpha as he turned to them. Hey!”, he yelled as everyone snapped their attention towards him. “What do you guys think you’re doing arguing like this? You guys are best friends.”
“Like I would want to be best of friends with either of them.”, Kat said
“I don’t think too highly of you either.”, Rocky said. Carri nodded. Rocky looked at her. “And the same goes for you.”
Billy sighed as Alpha walked over to him. “Maybe it has to do with the spell Lord Zedd has you under.”
Carri glared at the little robot. “Spell? Please. We would know if we were under a spell. We are the power rangers you know.”
“Then why don’t you start acting like it.”, Billy said giving her a look
“Jeeze man what crawled up your ass this morning?”, Rocky asked
Billy ignored him and turned to Alpha. “Come on, let’s figure out how to reverse this.” Billy and Alpha walked out of the main room to start working on a potion to cancel the effects of the original potion.
The other rangers looked around the Power Chamber. None of them wanted to be there. They took a look at the fight down below that Billy had been watching earlier. “I told him he wasn’t the best.”, Rocky said as Jason was taking a beating
Kat sighed as she leaned on a console. “This blows.”
“Rangers you must stay here until Billy finds an antidote. Then you can help Jason.”, Zordon said looking at them
“Help him? Yeah right.”, Carri said as she looked at the console. “I’m getting out of here.” Quickly she took her communicator and threw it towards the wall. The others heard it hit the floor and skid to a stop. “Tell nerd boy I’m not as stupid as he may think I am.”, she said as she hit a few buttons and teleported off.
Rocky and Kat looked at each other. “Not a bad idea.”, Rocky said as he threw down his communicator. Kat quickly followed. Rocky then teleported himself out, and Kat was not too far behind.
Ten minutes later Billy walked back in with a box full of syringes, prepared to administer an antidote. To his surprise, there was nobody there. “Zordon where did everybody go?”, he asked
“I am afraid they teleported themselves out.”, Zordon replied
Billy sighed as he quickly went over and hit a few buttons. To his surprise, three flashes of light went from one side of the room too the other. Billy looked down at their communicators. He couldn’t help but smile. “That was my fault. I thought with the spell... I didn’t give them enough credit.”
“Do not blame yourself Billy. What is important now is that we find the others. I am afraid Jason may not last much longer by himself down there.”, Zordon said
“Right.”, Billy agreed. He thought for a moment. He wasn’t completely sure how to find them. Then it hit him. One of the rangers always made herself easy to find. He went to a panel and started a scan. A few moments later, a light blinked blue and yellow. “Gotcha.”, he said as he teleported her in
As the light flashed in, Carri shot Billy a look. “Dammit Billy why...”
Billy cut her off by jumping on her and taking her down. Then he stuck her arm with a needle and quickly emptied the antidote into her blood stream. As Billy stood up, Carri was quick to jump up and slam him across the face. “Billy how....”, her voice trailed off as she paused and made a face. A few seconds later her eyes grew large. “Billy I’m so sorry I didn’t mean to...”
“Don’t worry about it.”, Billy said. He didn’t need to hear an apology for something that wasn’t entirely her fault. “What you need to do now is teleport down to the park. When you get there, I’ll teleport Jason up and give him the antidote, then send him back down with you.”
“Easy enough. I think we owe Zedd’s crew an ass kicking anyway.”, she said smiling. “It’s morphin time! Zeo ranger II, yellow!”
In a flash of yellow light she was gone. Billy glanced back to the fight. He saw her surprise Goldar and the monster as she attacked. Billy had to quickly teleport Jason up as he looked as though he was getting ready to go after her.
Jason threw his helmet off and chucked it across the ground. “What the hell are you doing? That was my fight and you don’t need to send her in there. I can handle it better than any ranger out there.”
Billy took a syringe and put it behind his back. He knew he probably couldn’t take Jason down as easily, especially since he would have to get the needle in his neck, the only exposed part of him at the moment. He walked over to the green ranger. “I brought you back to give you more power. Look.”, Billy said as he spoke he walked Jason off, making sure he was in front of him. Then Billy quickly used the syringe to give him the antidote. As soon as it was empty, Billy hit the floor to keep from getting hit a second time.
“You were lucky that time. But I won’t miss twice.”, Jason said as he thought about swinging at Billy again. Luckily for Billy, a thought was all it amounted to as the antidote kicked in. “Man that was rough.”, he said
“I think you have a fight to get back to.”, Billy informed him. “I’ll search for the last two rangers, and as soon as their free from the spell, I’ll send them down to help.”
“Got it. Back to action!”, Jason yelled teleporting away
Billy looked at the Power Chamber controls and frowned. He wasn’t exactly sure how to find the last two rangers. He thought for a moment then he smiled. He had recently rigged up a device that kept the coordinates of the last dozen or so teleportations. At the time he wasn’t sure how much use he would have with that, but now he knew. Quickly he walked over to the console and did a print out.
Billy looked at the top of the sheet. It wouldn’t specifically say which ranger teleported. But it would say where they teleported to. And that should be enough for him to track the others. The last recorded teleportation was to the fight. That was him teleporting Jason. The one before that was to the Power Chamber, which was Jason again. Then there were two for Carri, one into the Power Chamber and one to the fight. The two before that he wasn’t sure of, but the one before that was where he had found Carri. He knew those two unknowns must be the location of the other rangers.
He put in the coordinates of the one immediately following Carri’s departure. As he scanned the area, he saw Rocky walking around. Billy smiled. “Alpha I’m teleporting Rocky in. We’re going to have to get him the antidote quickly and get him out onto the field with the others.”
“Right.”, Alpha agreed as the blue ranger appeared in front of them
“What the hell is going on here? How did you...”, Rocky never finished asking the second question as the little robot shocked him. Rocky turned down to look at him. “What do you think you’re doing?”
Seeing that Rocky was distracted, Billy seized the moment to give him the antidote. Billy quickly ran over there and stuck him with a needle, pushing the serum into his veins. As Billy finished, Rocky shoved him down and turned his attention towards him.
“How dare you.”, he growled. “You’ll pay for that Billy.”, he said as he started to walk over to him. After a few steps, he paused and looked at his friend. “Oh man. I can’t believe...”
“There’s no time to dwell. Jason and Carri are getting handled by that monster you guys left in the park.”, Billy informed him
Rocky nodded. “It’s morphin time! Zeo ranger III, blue!”
Billy watched as the blue ranger jumped into the fight. The battle just got a little bit easier on the two rangers. Now to get Kat into the fight. Billy plugged in the second set of coordinates. He looked for her, and found her sitting on her couch reading a magazine. Billy smiled as he teleported her in.
Kat looked at Billy and rolled her eyes. “Look I don’t care about the monster, I’m not going to help fight it and you can just...”
Billy silenced her by attacking her much like he did Carri earlier. He took her down quickly and gave her the antidote.
Kat pushed him away and slowly stood up. “What are you trying to do to me?”
“Trust me Kat it’s for your own good.”
“Billy you are sadly mistaken.”, Kat said. But before she could do anything the antidote hit. “That was awful!”, she exclaimed
“Fortunately, the antidote worked. Now, you need to get down and help your friends out.”, Billy told her
“Of course.”, Kat replied. “It’s morphin time! Zeo ranger I, pink!”
Billy smiled as he turned to watch the fight and saw all for rangers in battle. Now he only hoped that they could defeat the monster without him having to call Tommy and ruin his vacation.
Goldar looked on in disbelief as the last of the rangers teleported in. “This can’t be. You’re all supposed to hate each other.”
Rocky smiled. “Fortunately for Angel Grove, Billy reminded us of why we’re all best of friends.”
“No matter we will still defeat you!”, Goldar roared as he and the monster charged
The monster fired as he ran. The four rangers rolled out of the way. As they jumped up, they all called for their weapons and attacked, pushing both Goldar and Zedd’s monster back. “I don’t know about you guys, but I think the four of us need to make short work of this moron.”, Carri suggested
“That’s the best idea I’ve heard all day.”, Jason replied
“We need the zeo cannon now!”, Rocky yelled as the weapon appeared in the hands of the four.
Goldar quickly moved out of the way and tried to urge the monster to do the same thing. The monster didn’t listen and was thrown back by the blast of the zeo cannon. He wasn’t down long though, as Rita and Zedd quickly made him grow.
“I hate it when they do that.”, griped Kat
“Yeah, well.”, Rocky replied. “We need super zeo zord power now!”
The Power Rangers jumped into their super zeo zords, and with the help of Billy in the Power Chamber they formed the Super Zeo Megazord. As usual, it didn’t take long for the Super Zeo Megazord to take down the enemy.
As the rangers hit the ground, they saw Goldar and Rito standing there surrounded by tengas. “This fight isn’t over yet rangers.”, Goldar growled
“Then I guess we’ll just have to finish it.”, Carri said with a smile as the rangers attacked
Goldar led his team into the fight. He knew that the yellow ranger was probably right. But Zedd was so furious about his perfect plan gone wrong that he had sent Rito along with more tengas to the surface to help the fight. Goldar ran straight for the green ranger. He had hated Jason long before Tommy ever entered the picture.
“I hate to tell you Goldar but this is one fight you’re not going to win.”, Jason said as they engaged in battle
Rito had left those two be and had taken the tengas and ran for the other three rangers. “You guys are history.”, he said as he went to attack
Rocky jumped in front of him and pushed him back. “I believe that’s what you said last time.”
“These guys aren’t even a challenge anymore.”, Carri said as she whipped through some tengas
Kat smiled as she tossed some aside. “No kidding.”
A few minutes into the fight, the tengas fled. Carri ran to take a shot at Goldar, and Kat took hers at Rito. “Hey Goldie ya miss me?”, she asked knocking him back
Goldar made a face as he saw the yellow ranger standing there. He turned and saw Rito with the blue and pink rangers. “You may have won this time rangers, but believe me when I say that Lord Zedd with attack again and he will be victorious.”
With that, Goldar teleported off. Rito turned to see that he had left, and he quickly departed as well. The rangers looked at each other and smiled as they teleported back to the Power Chamber.
“Good job guys.”, Billy greeted them
“Good job yourself.”, Jason said as he smiled at their friend. He pointed to the empty syringes. “I hope you made one more of those.”
Billy held one up. “For Emily?”, he questioned although he already knew the answer
“Yeah. Maybe we should go down and grab her and...”, Jason started but was cut off
“We have to be careful. We can’t just go down and stick her with a needle in public and hope for the best.”, Carri pointed out
“Which is why I was thinking that maybe we should just catch her when she’s alone and teleport her here.”, Billy replied
“Here? As in the Power Chamber?”, asked Kat
“She does know our identity. And even if she’s alone in public, she could start screaming and attract attention. We don’t want Jason to go to jail for abuse.”, Billy pointed out
The rangers turned to Zordon. “You know I do not like outsiders in the Power Chamber. However I agree with Billy, we need to make an exception in this case.”
“Well then what are you waiting for?”, asked Rocky
Billy nodded as he turned to watch Emily. It had been hardest to pick up on her readings since she didn’t have any powers and didn’t have a need to teleport. He had to visually search her last known whereabouts and go from there. But he found her. And at the moment she was completely alone. He teleported her to the Power Chamber.
“What the hell is going on here?”, Emily said as she looked around. She glared at the four rangers. “You assholes think you can just bring me here whenever you want to? I don’t think so I want to go back now.”, she growled
“Emily this is for your own good.”, Jason said as he held her tightly, allowing Billy to give her the antidote.
Emily started to squirm. “What are you putting in me? Let me go or I’ll...” She didn’t finish her sentence as the antidote started to take over. She blinked a few times and looked around, suddenly realizing what was going on. “Am I... am I in your Power Chamber?”
Jason smiled. “This would be the place.”
“Wow. And that anger thing, that was just a spell?”, she asked. The others nodded. “Oh man... you guys I’m sorry for everything I...”
“Don’t worry about it.”, Rocky cut her off
“Yeah trust me with evil around, we’ve done plenty of things to each other that really shouldn’t have to be apologized for. This is one of them.”, Carri told her
Zordon looked at the young girl standing in front of him. “I know why Jason was forced to tell you who we were. I trust that you understand the importance of never revealing to anybody what you know or what you have seen.”
Emily nodded. “Yes. I would never do that.”
Zordon smiled satisfied with her answer.
The rangers looked around the room. “So now that this crisis is over with, are you ready to go out?”, Carri asked Rocky
“Absolutely.”, he replied
“Are we still going out?”, asked Emily
Jason smiled. “A little kink in the afternoon certainly did not ruin our entire day.”
Carri looked at her friends. “I have an idea. How about later tonight, we can all hook up and go out.”
“That would be fun.”, Emily said as Jason nodded his head in agreement
“Did you have anything in mind?”, asked Rocky
She smiled. “Me and Kim found this really great club in the city that you guys have got to see.”
“You and Kim? How do I know it’s going to be any good?”, Jason joked
Carri rolled her eyes as she looked at her cousin. “You in?”
Kat smiled and shook her head no. “I was thinking about going to Bakersfield.” Kat noticed Carri try and restrain from saying anything. She didn’t need to, Kat knew what she was thinking. But if Chris was really going to leave, well she wanted to spend as much time with him as she could.
“Well anyway, we’ll see the rest of you guys tonight.”, Carri said. Then she and Rocky teleported out. Kat smiled and followed.
Jason turned to his girlfriend. “You ready?”, he asked. She nodded. Jason had her grab a hold of him as he teleported both of them out.
The next morning Jason emerged out of his apartment bedroom and stretched. He walked into the living room to find Rocky in front of the TV. “Good morning.”, Jason said
Rocky looked up. “Morning.”, he replied. Rocky looked down at himself. He was wearing a pair of sweatpants and a t-shirt that he borrowed from Jason. He hadn’t planned on spending the night in LA last night, none of them had. But the club Carri and Kim found had turned out to be excellent, and they didn’t leave until the early hours in the morning. They were too tired to drive all the way home, so Carri gave Emily something to sleep in and Jason did the same with Rocky, and they stayed in the apartment.
Jason sat down on the other end of the couch and looked at his friend. “Billy take off already?”
Rocky nodded. “I didn’t know he got up so early in the morning.”
“He likes to keep things running. I didn’t realize how dedicated he was either until I started living with him.”, Jason paused for a moment, “Besides, I think he wants to work really hard right now to get some things done so he can go visit Trini.”
“I’m glad those two found each other.”, Rocky said. Jason nodded his head in agreement.
A door down the hallway slowly crept open. Carri walked through, rubbing her eyes and stretching. She appeared in the living room and smiled at the boys. “I didn’t know you could get up before noon.”, Rocky joked
She smiled as she sat down in between them on the couch. “Oh hush.”, she said as she curled up next to Rocky.
Rocky put an arm around her. “Morning.”
“Good morning.”, she said as she looked over at Jason. “Em still asleep?”
“I was until everybody started making so much noise.”, a voice said. Emily appeared from the hallway and went over and squeezed on the end of the couch beside Jason. She gave him a kiss which he smiled and returned. “So what is everybody up to today?”, she asked
“I have to work this afternoon.”, Rocky said
Emily nodded. “Me too.”
Carri looked over at Jason and smiled. “Does that mean we can go cause some trouble?”
Jason laughed at her. He stopped when he heard the click of the door lock. All four teens looked up as the door opened and Kim and Tommy walked through. Carri turned around and got on her knees, leaning over the back of the couch. “Hey guys!”, she exclaimed
“Hey!”, Kim said back as she waved and walked over and gave her friend a hug. “You guys miss me?”
“We all missed you, but I think Carri missed you the most because she didn’t have anybody to go break the bank with.”, teased Rocky
“Good thing we came back then.”, Kim said as she hugged the rest of their friends
Tommy walked over to the guys and said hello, then gave Carri a hug. The guys turned around in their seats. “So how was your vacation?”, asked Jason
“It was fabulous.”, Tommy replied. Kim grinned and nodded in agreement. Tommy looked at the others. “How was it here?”
“Boring.”, Carri was quick to reply. Jason and Rocky smiled at her.
“No monster attacks?”, asked Tommy
“Nothing we couldn’t handle.”, Rocky replied
Jason smiled. “Don’t forget bro, we are the power rangers.”, he added
“So are you guys ready to hang out today?”, asked Kim. “It’s supposed to be absolutely gorgeous today and we thought there was no better way to spend a perfect day than fun in the sun with our friends.”
Carri smiled. “Do you really think you have to convince me, of all people, of that?”
“What she’s saying is that the two of us are in, but these two have to work.”, Jason said pointing to Rocky and Emily
“That’s too bad.”, Tommy replied
Rocky nodded. “Fortunately, they’ll be plenty of time for that this summer.”
A few seconds passed before Kim spoke again. “Well whenever you guys are ready, we’ll go.”
The rangers smiled as everyone got up off the couch to go get ready for this beautiful, boring day.