Chapter 4: Legacy of Power

Previously:

They were walking toward the Cyber Café when a group of Tyrannodrones surrounded them. "Seriously?" Andy braced himself to use his lightning when the reptiles converged on them in an overwhelming number. "You just don't know how to fight fair, do you?"

"They're bad guys, Andy." Tommy said, struggling against the ones who held him, "It's what they do. You should be used to it by now."

Before they could say anymore, they disappeared through an Invisiportal.

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Walking into the lab; Conner, Kira and Ethan looked around for their Teacher and Andy.

"This is bad," Kira said, upset.

"Way bad. Worse than crashing after getting to level 9 in SNSW!" Ethan exclaimed. "Super Ninja Space Wars." He explained, seeing the confused looks on their faces.

"Ok, don't you think we're getting a little too freaked out about this?" Conner asked, attempting to be the voice of reason.

"Neither Andy nor Dr. O show up for my gig, then they miss a full day of school, without calling," Kira frowned, "I'd say we've achieved exactly the right level of freaking out!"

"I guess there's only one way to find out what the good doctor has been up to," Ethan stated, walking over to the computer.

"How's that?" Conner asked as they stood behind him.

"I'm in," The Blue Ranger said after typing for a moment.

A video of their teacher came on, making Kira frown, "Yeah...but where?"

He backed away from the camera to sit down and started talking to the camera, "I'm Tommy Oliver," he said, introducing himself. "If you're not me, then something is seriously wrong. This video diary is a confidential record, only to be viewed in case of an emergency. What you're about to see, is a history of my life."

"More dinosaur bone stories. Yawn," Conner rolled his eyes.

"My history, as a Power Ranger," Tommy revealed, making them stare at the screen.

"Ok, un-yawn," Conner said, eyes wide.

"My story begins in Angel Grove, when five teenagers with attitude were recruited to fight the evil space sorceress, Rita Repulsa." They watched as five teenagers morphed into Rangers. "They harnessed the power of the Dinosaurs to become Earth's first Power Rangers," the five fought off the foot soldiers around them as a robot cheered them on. "Under the guidance of intergalactic being Zordon, Trini, Zack, Kimberly, Billy and Jason bravely defended Earth, which forced Rita to create her own Ranger."

"Ok, so where's Dr. O?" Kira asked, confused.

The video switched scenes to Angel Grove High School. They saw the younger version of their teacher standing in the hallway, talking the Pink Ranger.

"Hey. Um...I'm Kimberly. You're new around here, aren't you?"

"Yeah, I'm Tommy," he introduced himself. The scene switched again with him in an alley, "What's going on?!" He demanded as strong winds blew at him.

"Tommy! I have chosen you!" Rita Repulsa yelled as she kidnapped him.

"Her evil magic was too strong. I couldn't fight it."

"This boy is truly the one that shall become my Evil Green Ranger!" They saw her cast a spell, "Arise my Green Ranger!" Young Tommy's flashed green as the spell overtook him.

"How can I serve my Empress?"

They watched as the Green Ranger fought the other Power Rangers. "She commanded me to destroy the other Rangers, and I almost succeeded." he admitted.

"I know you're the Green Ranger," Kimberly whispered, as evil Tommy lifted weights. He let go of them as he turned to face her.

"Well then, Pink Ranger. You should also know that you, and the other Power Rangers, will soon be destroyed."

"But my friends never gave up. They helped me destroy the Sword of Darkness, and I was freed." The scene switch to the Red Ranger defeating the Green Ranger and freeing Tommy from Rita's spell.

They cheered when they saw Tommy go back to normal, "Rita's spell is broken!"

"You okay, Tommy?" Jason asked, helping his friend up.

"What's happening to me?" Tommy asked

"You're no longer under Rita's power. Fight by our side, and we can defeat Rita."

"After everything that's happened?"

"Tommy, we need you. It's where you belong," Jason insisted. "Will you join us Tommy?" Jason and Tommy shook hands as the other Rangers nodded in approval.

"And that's when I joined the team. But not for long. I soon discovered, the Green Ranger powers, were only temporary."

"As you are aware, the Green Ranger powers were completely decimated by the last few battles." They saw the Rangers standing in their command center, "Alpha and I felt it was time to create an even more powerful Ranger, to battle Lord Zedd, and his diabolical evil. And now, my friends, I present to you, the White Ranger."

A new Ranger was shown coming down from the ceiling. He removed his helmet, to reveal Tommy. "Guess who's back," He smiled.

When the video was paused, Kira slapped Ethan's arm irritably, "What did you do that for?"

"Cause I'm so buggin', I can't even deal!" He defended himself, throwing his hands up.

"Our teacher is the oldest living Power Ranger," Conner looked over in awe.

"Not the oldest..." They spun around to see Hayley standing with a very grim Jenna and Zoey, "Just the best."

"Hayley?" Ethan between her and the girls.

"How did you get in here?" Conner asked, walking over to them.

"Seriously, Conner?" Jenna looked over at him, "We have keys, remember?"

"And Hayley helped build this lab." Zoey stepped past him and went to the computers, her face impassive.

"Ok," Kira held up a hand, "then do you guys know what happened to Dr. O?"

"And Andy." Ethan interjected.

"We know that they're in trouble. And you are the only ones who can help them," They went quiet as she walked towards them. "I've been helping Tommy prepare the Ranger energies since grad-school. Who do you think built the morphers?" Hayley rolled her eyes.

Jenna laughed, "Yeah, I mean, Tommy's good with dinosaurs and fossils, but a rocket scientist, he ain't"

"And lemme guess. You are?" Conner asked, looking at Hayley.

"Among other things," She nodded.

"To be fair, though, Tommy's the best person to take your car to. He can take an engine apart and put back together in less than two hours." Zoey called over her shoulder.

"Seriously?" Conner look over in shock. She just smirked.

"Since we're on the same page, do you know where Dr. Oliver and Andy are?" Kira asked.

"We have a pretty good idea," Hayley nodded, and reached into her bag. She pulled out a disk and walked over to the computer. "This is a surveillance tape from the day of your gig, Kira." They watched a video of Tommy and Andy being attacked by Tyrannodrones outside the entrance to the café and taken through an Invisiportal.

"Why didn't he just morph?" Conner asked, looking up. "I mean, he's a Power Ranger."

"Not anymore," Jenna told him as Hayley took the second chair, "Or didn't you get that far?" she reached over and started the video up again, showing adult Tommy on the screen, "It wasn't long before the one thing we could never prepared for, happened."

A new scene showed the six Rangers in the park, having a picnic, when two girls about 10 ran up to them, "Hey big brother." The dark-haired girl smiled, sitting in front of young Tommy, "Hey big brother's friends."

"Hey girls." Jason ruffled young Jenna's hair as she snuck a chip from his plate, "What are you two up to today?"

"Mom dropped us off. Told us we could go with you to the Youth Center. Is that okay?" She looked up at him and smiled.

The others snickered, knowing he was going to cave. He glanced over at Tommy and they nodded. "I see no problem with that. Where's your bikes?"

"Destroyed by the last putty attack." Zoey rolled her eyes, "The dads agreed to replace them, but..."

Jenna scoffed, "But now we're on restrictions. You can guess who came up with that."

Tommy grabbed two drinks out of the cooler and handed them to the girls, "They can't help it. You're only 10. They worry."

"Well, they wouldn't worry as much if you guys spent more time with us."

"That's not always possible. We have things..." Jason started, getting nervous when the girls smiled at each other. "What's with the wicked grins?"

"You do it." Zoey pointed, nudging her friend.

"No, you." Jenna shoved back, "You figured it out first."

"Figured what out?" Tommy asked as everyone looked at them curiously.

"Ok. So, first of all," Zoey looked at her brother, suddenly very serious, "We pretty much tell each other everything, right?"

"Absolutely." He held up a hand, "To an extent. I am a teenager, and there are just some things I don't want my baby sister knowing."

"Agreed." She shuddered, making everyone laugh, "But, we made a deal, between the two of us, that we don't keep the important stuff from each other. Life and death stuff."

Tommy looked at her, concerned, "What's so important that you consider life and death?"

"If you knew something..."

"Like a big secret." Jenna interjected, making her friend nod in agreement.

"...like a big secret, but you knew this secret could hurt the ones you love, would you tell anyone?"

Tommy stared at her for a moment, "It depends. Is keeping the secret going to hurt the ones you love, or is telling someone going to hurt them?"

"Oh, definitely telling someone. But I'm talking about a secret my loved one has, and I've figured it out."

"We've..." Jenna pointed out.

"We've figured it out. And we want to tell our loved ones that figured it out, so that they don't have to hide it from us anymore."

Jenna looked at her brother, "That way it might help them to protect us better."

Getting nervous, because he was almost positive that he knew what the girls were talking about, Tommy glance at Jason over their sister's heads, "I don't know girls. This sounds important. But maybe you shouldn't tell your loved ones that you know their secret. Maybe they keep it a secret for a reason. And some secrets should stay that way."

Everyone kept quiet, following Tommy's train of thought, as the girls whispered to each other. Before they could say anything else, the group was attacked by the putties. The Rangers stood up and circled the two girls.

"Get in the middle girls." Kim said, getting into a defensive stance, "We'll protect you."

"Are you kidding me, Pinky?" Zoey got into her own defensive stance, ready to defend herself, "We've been taking Karate since we were three. You've only been active for what, a year? I'm sure the suit helped you along."

"If the helmet didn't mess up her hair." Jenna rolled her eyes.

Everyone glanced back at them with wide eyes, "What?" Zoey demanded, "Like you didn't already figure out what we were going to say. Can you kick the clay-pots butts already?"

"Or do you need to morph to do that?" Jenna looked at her brother and pointed past the circle, "Hello? Bad guys!"

"We'll talk about this later." Tommy sighed, shaking his head, "Just stay in the circle."

The putties, and a newly arrived Goldar, had a better idea. In the middle of the fight, they tried to kidnap the two friends, "Stay away from our sisters, Goldar!" Jason yelled as they were pulled away from the girls, much to the monster's delight.

"I don't think so, you Wizard-of-Oz-Reject!" Zoey narrowed her eyes, nodding together with Jenna. Catching him by surprise, she kicked his arm, making him throw his sword back, at the same time that Jenna kicked him in the stomach. As one, they flipped over the putties coming at them and punch the 'Z' in the middle of the chest, causing them to shatter.

"Freaks!" Jenna yelled as they ran over to their brothers.

"You should've known better, Goldar." Tommy said, grinning, "We taught them well."

"This isn't over Rangers!" The monkey growled before disappearing.

"I bet he says that a lot." Zoey crossed her arms

"Where did you two learn how to do that?" Kim asked, looking at the girls.

"Is she for real?" Zoey looked over at Jenna, who looked as confused as she did, "Seriously?" She asked, turning to her brother, pointing to the Pink Ranger behind her, "Did she get hit in the head?"

Tommy rolled his eyes and slapped her in the back of her own head, "Behave."

"Ow!" She crossed her arms before turning back to look at the others, "We literally just said that we've been taking Karate since we were three."

"And that our brothers are the ones who taught us," Jenna rolled her eyes before shaking her head, "Trust us when we say, we can take care of ourselves."

The scene showed older Tommy smiling in amusement, "Those two. I swear, they surprise us more and more every day. Zordon invited them into the inner workings of the Command Center, gave them both communicators for protection, and offered them a permanent place into the Power Ranger family. Without the morpher."

The video paused at the teens looked over at the girls in awe. "I can't believe you figured it out all by yourself." Ethan said, leaning against the counter.

"Well, Ethan, it's not like we fell down a sink hole and stumbled upon the big secret." The girls laughed as Zoey smirked over her shoulder, "Besides, we both have higher than average IQs and are very observant."

"Not to mention Zoey's eidetic memory makes her a modern-day Irene Adler." Jenna got up and grabbed a couple of drinks. "How's it coming, Hayley?" She asked, handing one to Zoey.

"Working on it, girls." The red-head sighed before muttering, "Pre-historic Freak."

They chuckled at her frustration. "Who's Irene Adler?" Conner asked, looking at Jenna.

"She's the female version of Sherlock Holmes." Hayley continued typing, "Now, I'm trying to focus here. So, watch some more of the video." She play, causing the scene to switch.

"Try to escape this, Power Rangers!" A red alien with silver staff laughed maniacally.

"A new villain, Lord Zedd, was destroying Earth. And with three Rangers leaving, a new Power source had to be found," Tommy's spoke, continuing his story.

"The Sword of Light will allow your powers to be transferred to create new Rangers." At Zordon's voice, Jenna and Zoey looked at each other, smiling in melancholy.

Tommy smiled in recognition, as the three new selected teens came into view on the screen, "Rocky! Adam! Aisha!"

"Isn't this incredible?"

"Trini, Zack and Jason passed on their powers, and the three new Rangers stepped forward," Tommy explained.

They saw Rita and Zedd crossing their staffs together, "By the power and force of lightning, make our monster grow!" They watched as some skeleton creature tripled in size.

"And just in time, as Rita and Zedd teamed up to form our most powerful enemy yet, bringing with them a new terror – Rito. The new team fought bravely, but it wasn't enough. Rito destroyed our Zords." Tommy explained as they saw the destruction.

"Looks like we lost more than just our Zords. We've lost our Powers." Tommy said, looking at the other.

"Your journey is about to begin!" A warrior in blue, with a sword on its back, spoke.

Zoey shook her head, "I'm going to slap my brother." Hayley paused the video as everyone looked at her, "What? I'll make sure he's safe first. Honestly."

"Are you mad because he skipped the trials of getting to the temple and Ninjor's arrogance upon meeting them for the first time?" Jenna asked, curious.

"Yes!"

Jenna nodded, "Just checking."

"He's completely down playing it." She looked up at her friend, "You know, if I wanted to be mean, I could show this video to the others. See if they find it as offensive as I do."

"Diabolical. I like it." They laughed, completely missing the looks the younger teens were sending them and pressed play on the video. Hayley shook her head in amusement.

"A Ranger never gives up. Zordon sent us on a quest to find Ninjor, a warrior from the past who showed us the secrets of the ancient Ninja." Tommy told them. Zoey paused it again.

"Side note, J." She looked over, "Let's not show this to our friends in Blue Bay. They may get a little snobbish about the suits."

"I completely agree, even though I know exactly who you're referring to." She glared at her before nodding in agreement. The pressed play again, ignoring the looks from the others.

"Our quest complete, we gained new weapons, new Zords, and new enemies." The scene showed the Rangers, in new gear, fight giant mutated birds, "But along with new enemies, came new friends," They saw him greeting a new girl named Kat. "When Kimberly chose to leave, Katherine was the only choice," It switched to Kim giving Kat her coin, "Katherine assumed the Pink Ranger powers, and just in time. We were under attack." Sparks flew all over their Command Center, just before blowing up, "We got out just as Rita and Zedd succeeded in destroying the Command Centre," It changed again to the Rangers pulling out a large crystal from the wreckage.

"It's all here," Tommy spoke. "This is incredible." He looked down at Zoey and Jenna, both out of breath, "Are you two sure you're okay? Jenna? I don't need your brother killing me."

They shook their heads, smiling in appreciation, "We're fine."

The ground started to shake and the earth beneath them collapsed, causing everyone to fall down a long hole.

"Beneath the ruins, we found the Zeo Crystal, a mystical power that guided us into the next chapter of our lives as Rangers," Tommy explained.

"Rangers. The power of the Zeo Crystal now resides within you. They will bestow you with powers beyond your imagination," Zordon explained as they received new morphers. They removed their helmets and revealed new powers and new colors. The girls were standing next to Billy, who had stepped down to work full time in the Power Chamber.

"I am so telling Tanya." Jenna muttered, causing Zoey to grin as she paused it again.

"What? That he never mentioned her name?" At her friend's smirk, she nodded, "Agreed. As long as I get to show Jason the video first." They smiled, "Plus, he completely skipped over Master Vile, the Aquitians, their quests or how Tanya got there." Nodding in agreement, they pushed play and continued watching.

"The Zeo Powers were awesome, but when we needed reinforcements, we turned to an old friend," Tommy spoke again, and the video showed Tommy grinning.

"The new Gold Ranger is right here," Tommy pointed behind him, to show a grinning