The world was still dark when her phone started vibrating. Trini had not slept a wink, her mind too overrun with thoughts of the voice in her head. Despite not being able to sleep, Trini kept her arms wrapped tightly around a slumbering Kim.
“Mmh, babe turn your phone off.” Kim groaned.
Trini smiled gently, reaching over to see who was texting her. It was Jason telling them to get to the ship, Trini groaned and rolled over.
Kimberly had taken the comforter and turned herself into a burrito. Trini rolled her eyes and laid on top of her.
“Wake up princess, we gotta go train.” Trini said, shaking Kim out of the burrito blanket.
Kim groaned and leaned up, “You are so annoying sometimes you know that?”
Trini laughed and moved off the bed to get dressed, narrowly dodging a pillow thrown at her head.
“Yo Zordon! Let’s get moving.” Zack yelled as he bounded into the pit.
The others walked in behind him, workout bags slung over their shoulders and water bottles in hand.
“Rangers, welcome! Zordon has instructed me on today’s training regimen.” Alpha 5 said in his usual chipper tone.
“So what are we doing?” Billy asked, setting his bag down.
“I’m glad you asked master Billy. Zordon decided that we should focus on training Trini’s alpha abilities as well as check to see if any of you present any new powers.”
“Wait? So we’re basically here to see Tiny get her butt kicked? Oh yeah I’m staying.” Zack teased as Kim smacked the back of his head.
“Precisely Zack! Although, I must say Trini shows the most promise out of all of you.” Alpha said.
“Woah Woah Woah! The most promise?” The boys spoke over each other. Kimberly just laughed and threw an arm over her girlfriend.
“Enough, let’s begin,” Zordon said, loading up the simulator, “Trini please step forward.”
“We’re going to begin with something fairly simple. The targets will move at half speed, all you have to do is use your claws to defeat them.”
She took a deep breath and pulled her armor on. The targets were moving easily, but still going at her.
“What am I supposed to do? How do I pull them out?” She yelled as she tried to dodge hits.
“Focus your energy, your powers are directly related to your emotions. Tap into a powerful feeling and use it to extend your claws.”
As Trini tried to focus, she lost touch with her surroundings and failed to realize there was a nano-monster right outside her peripheral vision.
“Trini watch out!” Kim called as the monster sent a punch to her face.
The simulation paused as she fell to the ground hard.
“Do not help her! Trini must learn to get up without aid. Begin simulation.”
Trini groaned as she got back up, her cheekbone throbbing with pain. She gritted her teeth as the monsters came at her slightly faster.
“I’m trying, it won’t work!” She grunted.
Suddenly, a sim monster appeared behind Kim, punching her in the back. They all turned, focusing their attention on her. A light blue beam surrounded her and suddenly she couldn’t move.
“What are you doing? Stop!” Trini cried as the nano-monsters closed in on her.
“They're gonna hurt her Zordon!” Zack yelled. The light immobilizing them too.
‘Control it Trini! Get to Kimberly by using your powers.” Zordon screamed over the chaos.
A loud roar erupted from the room, Trini whipped her claws from her suit and rushed through a wall of monsters. She opened her mouth, sending a violent, thundering roar at the last remaining putties.
Zordon took away the blue beam, releasing Kim and the boys. As soon as Trini was sure Kim was okay, she rounded on the old ranger.
“What is wrong with you! Are you insane?? You could’ve hurt her!” Trini snarled at him, her eyes blazing yellow. She turned on her heel and walked out of the ship.
“Are you crazy? Trini has no idea how to control her powers. Plus you put Kimberly in danger.” Jason yelled at the man in the wall.
"I felt Trini needed to be pushed both physically and emotionally. The only way to do that was to put Kimberly in immediate danger.” Zordon said calmly.
Jason ran a hand through his hair and sighed. He knew the girls needed a moment.
Trini sat on a rock, Kim’s arms wrapped around her middle as she rocked them back and forth.
“Kim? Trini? You guys okay?” Zack said lightly as he approached the girls.
Kim turned her head as Trini’s small frame shook in her arms. Trini forced her eyes shut as a growl ripped through her throat.
“Her powers have been out of control since she ran out of the pit. She can’t pull back her claws and she’s growling at every living thing in sight.” Kim said.
Zack walked gingerly over to them. Trini’s eyes opened slowly as he kneeled in front of her.
“Trini, i’m gonna hold your hands okay? I just wanna see if we can pull your claws back.” He said softly.
Trini whimpered as he took her hands and ran his fingers from the bottom of her palm, to the tips of her fingers. They breathed deeply together and slowly Trini’s claws retracted.
“Thank you Z. I appreciate it.” Trini thanked him.
“It’s okay, I owe you after the amount of times you’ve talked me down from a panic attack.”
The three of them stood there for a moment, basking in the morning light as the sky over Angel Grove turned light orange.
“What are we gonna do if I can’t control this?” Trini said barely above a whisper.
Zack linked their pinkies, “You’re Trini, you’re the strongest out of all of us, I know you can.
“Alright, we’re trying this again, but I want two things,” Trini commanded, “one, no more using Kim or the others and two, stop holding back, I’m tougher than I look and we know I won’t break.”
Zordon’s face remained neutral, surveying the other rangers before speaking.
The team had spent the rest of the day at Billy’s house hanging out in the basement.
“Kids is that you?” Candace said, popping her head into the basement.
“Yeah mom we’re in here.” Billy called back.
“Okay good I’m glad you’re here. I heard about those missing kids and I wanted to make sure you were all okay. I’m headed to work, dinner’s in the fridge.”
The teens waited until she went back upstairs to talk.
“Okay so here’s the plan. Billy mapped out the places where all the portals have been opened up and noticed that the earthquake tremors have been starting right under city hall.” Jason said, rolling out Billy’s map from behind his whiteboard.
“We’ve figured out that the kidnappings and nano sightings are happening every night at midnight.” Billy added on, marking spots around town where portals were opened.
“We figure that if we track down the nano-monsters and go through a portal, we should be able to trace where the kids are being taken.”
Zack, Kim, and Trini tried to keep up as the two boys bounced back and forth explaining the plan.
“So let me get this straight,” Zack asked, “You want us to find a group of nano-monsters, sneak in through a portal to god knows where, and find these kids?”
Jason and Billy nodded, “Yeah basically.” they said in unison.
“All right, sounds good.” Zack whooped.
The team smiled at each other, then the same tremors from before started again. The house shook and the earthquake alarms went off across town. Billy shakily walked to his computer.
“C’mon I mapped where the quakes originated from.” Billy said, pulling his arm armor on and plotting the coordinates on his screen.
The team rushed to the center of town where everyone was freaking out. Bricks and pieces of concrete were raining down. About a dozen young kids with blue eyes were tearing up the buildings and beating on anyone who got in their way. The police formed a perimeter around the kids. The chief and his men had their guns raised.
“Wait! Jason yelled, holding his arm out.
“Power Rangers, thank god you’re here. Something's wrong with the kids, they won’t respond to us. Are they on something?” the chief asked.
“We think the kids are under some kind of mind control. Let us try to get through to them.”
“Okay guys, I don’t know how we’re gonna break the spell, but round them up and see if Trini can use her powers on them.”
“Jason I don’t know if I can do it, I only just started and I- I don’t know.” Trini said clumsily.
“Babe, breathe. You got this.” Kim reassured her.
The rangers rounded the kids up into a circle, it wasn’t easy. They seemed to have similar powers to them, although it seemed they didn’t know how to use them.
Trini stepped up to the kids, raising her eyes to meet theirs. She stared intensely at the kids and for a moment, the blue faded away and showed their real colors, then the blue came back.
The kids laughed together, all of them stood up straight and opened their mouths.
“Oh Power Rangers,” they said unanimously, “It’s cute that you think you know what I’m up to or that you think you can stop me. Your alpha hasn’t even learned how to master her gaze properly. You can’t stop us Power Rangers, not now when I've already grown so powerful right under your noses.” they laughed.
A portal opened under the kids. Trini thought quickly and tackled one before he could get in. He thrashed under Trini as the portal closed. Trini put her hands on either side of his face and tried to get through to him. Her eyes blazed yellow and the blue in his eyes faded. The boy fell unconscious.
“Guys we got a crowd let’s go.” Zack alerted them.
“I got this.” Kim said, putting her fingers in her mouth and whistling.
In a split second, the Pterodactyl zord was over them and ready to get them to safety.
“Only I can fit in the cockpit, so give me the kid and everyone else ride on the wings.” Kim commanded.
They followed Kim and took off for the ship.
When they landed, the rangers went to the medbay to make sure the boy was okay.
Billy took his vitals and they sat around the cot. Hw sighed as he looked at the computer.
“It looks like he’s in some kind of coma, I don’t know what to-” Billy stopped mid sentence as Zack lightly shoved him out the way.
Zack reached a hand out and touched the boy’s forehead. His eyes glowed a rich black.
“What the fuck? Zack?” Jason reached out.
Zack snatched his hand back and the boy woke up coughing.
“Masks on,” Jason said hurriedly as the boy sat up.
“Where am I? Please don’t hurt me, I tried to do what you wanted, miss Astronema please!” he cried.
“Woah woah, calm down. We’re not gonna hurt you. Do you know who we are?” Jason said in a soothing voice.
The boy took a deep breath and nodded, “you’re the Power Rangers.”
“That’s right. Can you tell us your name?”
“Kevin.” the boy said quietly.
“Okay Kevin, what can you tell us about what happened?”
The boy shuddered and rubbed his eyes with his palms.
“I was in the hospital, my parents took me there after the attack because I didn’t feel good. Then the next thing I remember is this being dragged underground. This lady with blue eyes took a group of us kids and told us we had to help her or else. She used those big monsters to push kids into pods and keep them in line.”
Jason motioned for the others to meet him outside.
“Okay, so we have information on her. How are we gonna get the kid out of here?”
“Why’s everyone looking at me?”
“Dude you woke him up and your eyes turned black.” Trini punched him in the arm.
“Okay? I don’t know how I did it or how to do it again.” He shrugged.
“Well what were you thinking about when you touched him?” Jason asked.
Zack exhaled harshly, “my mom.”
“Maybe you’ve got healing powers. Can you try again?” Billy said.
Zack nodded and everyone walked back into the room. Jason pulled his mask down to speak to the boy.
“Thank you Kevin, we’re gonna take you home now okay?”
Kevin nodded, his face a little more relaxed than earlier.
“One more thing, what was Astronema looking for? What’s she using you guys for?”
Kevin shrugged, playing with his fingers, “She splits the kids up, I was one of the first ones. She thinks some of us have powers like you guys. With those kids, she can mind control them and make them her fighters, if they’re stable that is.”
“Stable? What do you mean?” Kim asked.
“Some kids can’t control their powers. They're the ones making earthquakes. Every couple days, this man in a suit comes to the lair to check us out. I heard her talking about getting ready to send some of them to a military base in Washington. She says she’s gonna save the strongest of us for a special mission, something about a crystal.”
Jason rubbed his chin, “okay Kevin. Thank you.”
Zack placed his hand on Kevin’s head and he was out like a light.
"All right guys, let's go get the kids."
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