Katya_Stevens
11-22-2005, 03:22 PM
I've been uming and ahing over whether to post this here or not since September and decided that now is as good a time as any.
Chapter One – Revival of a Legend:
“What’s wrong? You called me out of class for no good reason…you’d better have a good reason for dragging me out of class.” The red took off his helmet as he walked into the control room. He had scruffy-looking blond hair and gray eyes, and there was something about his personality that reminded the yellow ranger of her old ex-boyfriend.
Paging the department of redundancies department, the yellow ranger thought as she rolled her eyes as the red ranger’s comment. The yellow ranger seemed to be the opposite of the red ranger, in both appearance and personality. Her red hair was tied up in a messy ponytail, and her blue eyes were at the moment glued to a microscope. “One of the coins is reacting to a human presence. Looks like we’ve got a new pink ranger somewhere out there.”
The red ranger looked slightly disgruntled. “You dragged me out of class for this?”
“And you’re complaining?” the yellow ranger said, tearing her attention away from the microscope to look at the red ranger.
“Well, I-um…not really, but I was expecting something a little more interesting than hearing that we might have a new pink ranger on the loose in Angel Grove.” The red ranger walked over to where the yellow ranger was working and leaned against the desk.
The yellow ranger raised an eyebrow before turning her attention back to the microscope and adjusting the focus on it. “A new pink ranger is important news, I doubt you’d want to fight against a strong alien when there’s only two people on your team, Markus. You’ve seen that more odd occurrences have been making it to the news, we’re gonna need all the help we can get.”
Markus sighed. "Yeah, yeah, next time, call me when something important’s happening, like Angel Grove being destroyed.” He turned around, hand pressed on his morpher to teleport out of the building, when Aneka interrupted him.
“D’you know someone called Rosa?”
“Uh…yeah, why?”
“…No reason,” Aneka said after a slight hesitation. Markus frowned at her, but teleported out of the control room in a flash of red light. “This is not going to be good. It’s not going to be good at all.”
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Rosa sighed, rubbing her hand across her eyes. The one day she didn’t get detention and Markus had to skip out on his last class. According to a couple of his friends, he had rushed out of the room after his cell had gone off, looking extremely worried.
“At least he’s not as bad as Taro,” Rosa muttered to herself. “Only time I see him is when he’s slipping out of class.” She started slightly when a black cat ran across the road, but ignored it and simply shook her head when it disappeared into someone’s garden.
“Why am I so nervous?” Rosa rolled her eyes. “You do know you’re talking to yourself, right?” A sharp meow brought Rosa out of her thoughts and caused her to awkwardly side-step, nearly toppling over someone’s garden wall. Looking over her shoulder, she placed a hand on the wall to try and steady herself, before looking down at the cat.
“Oh, you again,” Rosa muttered as the black cat sat on its haunches, staring up at Rosa and meowing, the sound echoing throughout the street. “Oh, fine, fine, I’ll pay attention to you.”
Rosa picked up the cat and placed in on the wall and began searching for a collar and nametag, but found nothing. She frowned as she stroked the cat, mentally checking it over.
“Well, you don’t look like a stray, maybe you just lost your collar somewhere?” Rosa muttered, mainly for her own benefit than thinking that the cat would actually understand her. That cat seemed to have understood her a little; its ears had pricked up when Rosa had begun talking and now, with one short meow, it leapt off the wall and began to run away.
“Hey, wait –” Rosa shook her head in annoyance and began to walk in the opposite direction the cat had run, towards her house. I’ve got zero time for this. A few minutes later, she was walking up the path leading to the front door of her house…and the black cat was sitting on the top step.
“I always pulled ‘this animal followed me home, can we keep him’ trick, but I never imagined an animal would find its way to my home before I did,” Rosa said, running a hand through her hair in confusion. “This is so gonna be hard to explain to my mom.”
The cat turned to look at Rosa as she walked closer, its eyes seeming to change color to a very faint pink before returning to the normal amber color it had had when Rosa had first encountered it.
“Okay…that’s weird, never seen a cat do that before,” Rosa muttered as she dumped her bag onto the ground, cautiously walking towards the cat, her hand outstretched. The cat looked over the equivalent of its shoulder before creeping towards Rosa’s hand and sniffed it gingerly.
“It’s all right,” Rosa said, trying to comfort the cat. Something had happed to it between Rosa finding it and it making its way to her house; it was definitely scared of something.
Stepping back, the cat hissed at Rosa, and when she tried to approach it, it scratched her, leaving two deep furrows in her hand. Hissing slightly, Rosa jerked her hand back and inspected it. Already, the bleeding had ceased and the wound was starting to close. It was happening so fast that Rosa could actually see the scab forming, then falling off as new skin was created underneath.
“What the –” she looked at the cat in confusion once again, falling onto her backside as the cat exploded into a fine pink mist, which Rosa had no choice but to breathe in.
As the last remnants of the pink cloud disappeared, Rosa felt a tingling sensation in the tips of her fingers, like she had been sitting on them and feeling was now returning to them. The sensation spread from her fingertips up her arms then split into two paths, one traveling towards her head, the other moving through her torso, and a few seconds later, her legs and feet.
Pink light exploded in front of Rosa’s eyes once the feeling was covering every part of her body. The light existed for only a second before it disappeared, and in Rosa’s place there was now a pink power ranger.
“This is not the kind of day I’d imagine I’d have when I woke up this morning,” Rosa said to herself as she looked at her gloved hands through her helmet. Her uniform was pretty nondescript; all pink except for her boots, gloves and an upside-down triangle on her back. Around her waist was some sort of utility belt, although it was empty at that moment in time. The top of her helmet was in the shape of a cat, the visor being its open mouth.
“There is no way I’m a ranger,” Rosa said in a half-whisper as she stood in front of her house, not having moved at all during the entire transformation period. An ear-splitting shriek drew her attention skywards where a group of half a dozen monsters were circling in the sky above Rosa’s house.
Ranger or not, there’s no one else here to fight these things, Rosa thought as the creatures began to descend. They looked relatively human, with the only differentiations being the pair of huge bat wings attatched to their shoulder blades, slightly graying skin and eyes tinted with yellow.
“Cat bow!” Rosa called, and in a flash of pink light the named weapon appeared in her hands, along with a quiver of arrows in a basket attached to her back. Rosa looked at the bow in confusion; she had only discovered that she was a ranger, how did she know how to call her weapon?
Quick movement out of the corner of her eye drew Rosa back into reality, and she blocked the creature’s attack with her bow. While Rosa had called her weapon and was wondering where it had appeared from, the bat-like creatures had landed. As the creature’s hand hit Rosa’s bow, the weapon split into two small daggers, a secondary weapon. Well, that’s useful, Rosa thought as she started to attack.
A slice across the shoulder, a nick in their wings, and the bat-creatures shrank back, looking at each other in mild confusion. Evidently, they hadn’t expected Rosa to fight back this quickly.
“Aww, come on, don’t tell me you’re giving up,” Rosa said, smirking slightly under her helmet. She hadn’t been able to let loose like this in months; her karate instructor had warned her that any more ‘accidents’ and he would have her kicked out of the class. “What’s the matter, can’t stand a little challenge?”
As the creatures milled around, Rosa attempted to recombine the daggers back into her bow, and succeeded on the second try. Pulling an arrow from its holder, she drew it back and fired it at the nearest creature. With a little more than what could be considered mild interest, Rosa watched as the creature exploded into black smoke, quickly drifting away.
“Now, who’s next?” Rosa said, turning to look at the remaining five creatures. Two of them exchanged glances before rushing at Rosa at the same time. Rosa managed to fire off one shot at one of the three stationary creatures before the two moving ones slammed into her.
Glaring at the creatures, Rosa quickly split her bow into the two daggers, and began to slash at the nearer of the two creatures. Although multiple wounds appeared on the creature’s body, it didn’t relent in its pursuit of Rosa, and soon she was beginning to feel the first tinges of exhaustion.
A final slash across the injured creature’s chest, and it too disappeared into a puff of black smoke, but there were still four more creatures to contend with. The second creature who had rushed at Rosa had backed off slightly, allowing Rosa to reform her bow and fire some arrows at the distant group of creatures. Two of them, including the one she had hit earlier, exploded into black smoke which left two for Rosa to content with.
Rosa bent over slightly, trying to catch her breath before the next creature tried to attack her. The creature nearest Rosa turned to look at its team-make, creating sounds like a bird would make and which sounded extremely strange coming from a human-looking creature.
Without another glance, the two remaining creatures took flight, leaving Rosa staring at them in bewilderment. She snapped her bow into the two daggers, holding one on each side of her body, her stance relaxed yet ready for another fight if necessary.
“Shall I assume that you’re the new ranger?” someone said behind Rosa, and she whirled around, pressing a dagger to the stranger’s throat. Although the morphing suits gave protection against injuries, a slashed neck was a definite killer.
Rosa dropped the dagger when she saw that the person she was about to attack had been another ranger, and she sighed. “Sorry, I’ve just been attacked by these weird bat-like creatures.”
“Ah, Batmors. No worries, three hits and they’re practically destroyed,” the red ranger said, a slightly cocky tone in his voice.
“Yeah, I kinda figured that out on my own. Do you have any ide–” Rosa stopped mid-sentence, and hand flying up to press against her forehead. “Great time for a stre–” Before Rosa could even finish her sentence again, she collapsed, unconscious.
“Woah!” On reflex, the red ranger caught Rosa before she hit the ground. He looked at her for a few moments before exhaling in annoyance and picking her up in his arms. “Back to base then,” he muttered. “Aneka’ll be glad that I found the new pink ranger,” he added, teleporting back to the ranger base Aneka had built.
ooooooooooooooo
“Don’t you ever go home?” the red ranger, aka Markus, asked as he appeared in the center of the ranger’s base, seeing her figure still hunched over a microscope. “Or is this your home?”
“Very funny Markus,” Aneka muttered, looking up from what she had been studying and turning around to look at Markus. Her eyes widened as she saw the pink ranger, morphed but still unconscious, in Markus’ arms. “Mind explaining what happened here?”
Markus shrugged, a very difficult task to accomplish while holding someone. “We’ve got a new pink ranger.”
Chapter One – Revival of a Legend:
“What’s wrong? You called me out of class for no good reason…you’d better have a good reason for dragging me out of class.” The red took off his helmet as he walked into the control room. He had scruffy-looking blond hair and gray eyes, and there was something about his personality that reminded the yellow ranger of her old ex-boyfriend.
Paging the department of redundancies department, the yellow ranger thought as she rolled her eyes as the red ranger’s comment. The yellow ranger seemed to be the opposite of the red ranger, in both appearance and personality. Her red hair was tied up in a messy ponytail, and her blue eyes were at the moment glued to a microscope. “One of the coins is reacting to a human presence. Looks like we’ve got a new pink ranger somewhere out there.”
The red ranger looked slightly disgruntled. “You dragged me out of class for this?”
“And you’re complaining?” the yellow ranger said, tearing her attention away from the microscope to look at the red ranger.
“Well, I-um…not really, but I was expecting something a little more interesting than hearing that we might have a new pink ranger on the loose in Angel Grove.” The red ranger walked over to where the yellow ranger was working and leaned against the desk.
The yellow ranger raised an eyebrow before turning her attention back to the microscope and adjusting the focus on it. “A new pink ranger is important news, I doubt you’d want to fight against a strong alien when there’s only two people on your team, Markus. You’ve seen that more odd occurrences have been making it to the news, we’re gonna need all the help we can get.”
Markus sighed. "Yeah, yeah, next time, call me when something important’s happening, like Angel Grove being destroyed.” He turned around, hand pressed on his morpher to teleport out of the building, when Aneka interrupted him.
“D’you know someone called Rosa?”
“Uh…yeah, why?”
“…No reason,” Aneka said after a slight hesitation. Markus frowned at her, but teleported out of the control room in a flash of red light. “This is not going to be good. It’s not going to be good at all.”
ooooooooooooooo
Rosa sighed, rubbing her hand across her eyes. The one day she didn’t get detention and Markus had to skip out on his last class. According to a couple of his friends, he had rushed out of the room after his cell had gone off, looking extremely worried.
“At least he’s not as bad as Taro,” Rosa muttered to herself. “Only time I see him is when he’s slipping out of class.” She started slightly when a black cat ran across the road, but ignored it and simply shook her head when it disappeared into someone’s garden.
“Why am I so nervous?” Rosa rolled her eyes. “You do know you’re talking to yourself, right?” A sharp meow brought Rosa out of her thoughts and caused her to awkwardly side-step, nearly toppling over someone’s garden wall. Looking over her shoulder, she placed a hand on the wall to try and steady herself, before looking down at the cat.
“Oh, you again,” Rosa muttered as the black cat sat on its haunches, staring up at Rosa and meowing, the sound echoing throughout the street. “Oh, fine, fine, I’ll pay attention to you.”
Rosa picked up the cat and placed in on the wall and began searching for a collar and nametag, but found nothing. She frowned as she stroked the cat, mentally checking it over.
“Well, you don’t look like a stray, maybe you just lost your collar somewhere?” Rosa muttered, mainly for her own benefit than thinking that the cat would actually understand her. That cat seemed to have understood her a little; its ears had pricked up when Rosa had begun talking and now, with one short meow, it leapt off the wall and began to run away.
“Hey, wait –” Rosa shook her head in annoyance and began to walk in the opposite direction the cat had run, towards her house. I’ve got zero time for this. A few minutes later, she was walking up the path leading to the front door of her house…and the black cat was sitting on the top step.
“I always pulled ‘this animal followed me home, can we keep him’ trick, but I never imagined an animal would find its way to my home before I did,” Rosa said, running a hand through her hair in confusion. “This is so gonna be hard to explain to my mom.”
The cat turned to look at Rosa as she walked closer, its eyes seeming to change color to a very faint pink before returning to the normal amber color it had had when Rosa had first encountered it.
“Okay…that’s weird, never seen a cat do that before,” Rosa muttered as she dumped her bag onto the ground, cautiously walking towards the cat, her hand outstretched. The cat looked over the equivalent of its shoulder before creeping towards Rosa’s hand and sniffed it gingerly.
“It’s all right,” Rosa said, trying to comfort the cat. Something had happed to it between Rosa finding it and it making its way to her house; it was definitely scared of something.
Stepping back, the cat hissed at Rosa, and when she tried to approach it, it scratched her, leaving two deep furrows in her hand. Hissing slightly, Rosa jerked her hand back and inspected it. Already, the bleeding had ceased and the wound was starting to close. It was happening so fast that Rosa could actually see the scab forming, then falling off as new skin was created underneath.
“What the –” she looked at the cat in confusion once again, falling onto her backside as the cat exploded into a fine pink mist, which Rosa had no choice but to breathe in.
As the last remnants of the pink cloud disappeared, Rosa felt a tingling sensation in the tips of her fingers, like she had been sitting on them and feeling was now returning to them. The sensation spread from her fingertips up her arms then split into two paths, one traveling towards her head, the other moving through her torso, and a few seconds later, her legs and feet.
Pink light exploded in front of Rosa’s eyes once the feeling was covering every part of her body. The light existed for only a second before it disappeared, and in Rosa’s place there was now a pink power ranger.
“This is not the kind of day I’d imagine I’d have when I woke up this morning,” Rosa said to herself as she looked at her gloved hands through her helmet. Her uniform was pretty nondescript; all pink except for her boots, gloves and an upside-down triangle on her back. Around her waist was some sort of utility belt, although it was empty at that moment in time. The top of her helmet was in the shape of a cat, the visor being its open mouth.
“There is no way I’m a ranger,” Rosa said in a half-whisper as she stood in front of her house, not having moved at all during the entire transformation period. An ear-splitting shriek drew her attention skywards where a group of half a dozen monsters were circling in the sky above Rosa’s house.
Ranger or not, there’s no one else here to fight these things, Rosa thought as the creatures began to descend. They looked relatively human, with the only differentiations being the pair of huge bat wings attatched to their shoulder blades, slightly graying skin and eyes tinted with yellow.
“Cat bow!” Rosa called, and in a flash of pink light the named weapon appeared in her hands, along with a quiver of arrows in a basket attached to her back. Rosa looked at the bow in confusion; she had only discovered that she was a ranger, how did she know how to call her weapon?
Quick movement out of the corner of her eye drew Rosa back into reality, and she blocked the creature’s attack with her bow. While Rosa had called her weapon and was wondering where it had appeared from, the bat-like creatures had landed. As the creature’s hand hit Rosa’s bow, the weapon split into two small daggers, a secondary weapon. Well, that’s useful, Rosa thought as she started to attack.
A slice across the shoulder, a nick in their wings, and the bat-creatures shrank back, looking at each other in mild confusion. Evidently, they hadn’t expected Rosa to fight back this quickly.
“Aww, come on, don’t tell me you’re giving up,” Rosa said, smirking slightly under her helmet. She hadn’t been able to let loose like this in months; her karate instructor had warned her that any more ‘accidents’ and he would have her kicked out of the class. “What’s the matter, can’t stand a little challenge?”
As the creatures milled around, Rosa attempted to recombine the daggers back into her bow, and succeeded on the second try. Pulling an arrow from its holder, she drew it back and fired it at the nearest creature. With a little more than what could be considered mild interest, Rosa watched as the creature exploded into black smoke, quickly drifting away.
“Now, who’s next?” Rosa said, turning to look at the remaining five creatures. Two of them exchanged glances before rushing at Rosa at the same time. Rosa managed to fire off one shot at one of the three stationary creatures before the two moving ones slammed into her.
Glaring at the creatures, Rosa quickly split her bow into the two daggers, and began to slash at the nearer of the two creatures. Although multiple wounds appeared on the creature’s body, it didn’t relent in its pursuit of Rosa, and soon she was beginning to feel the first tinges of exhaustion.
A final slash across the injured creature’s chest, and it too disappeared into a puff of black smoke, but there were still four more creatures to contend with. The second creature who had rushed at Rosa had backed off slightly, allowing Rosa to reform her bow and fire some arrows at the distant group of creatures. Two of them, including the one she had hit earlier, exploded into black smoke which left two for Rosa to content with.
Rosa bent over slightly, trying to catch her breath before the next creature tried to attack her. The creature nearest Rosa turned to look at its team-make, creating sounds like a bird would make and which sounded extremely strange coming from a human-looking creature.
Without another glance, the two remaining creatures took flight, leaving Rosa staring at them in bewilderment. She snapped her bow into the two daggers, holding one on each side of her body, her stance relaxed yet ready for another fight if necessary.
“Shall I assume that you’re the new ranger?” someone said behind Rosa, and she whirled around, pressing a dagger to the stranger’s throat. Although the morphing suits gave protection against injuries, a slashed neck was a definite killer.
Rosa dropped the dagger when she saw that the person she was about to attack had been another ranger, and she sighed. “Sorry, I’ve just been attacked by these weird bat-like creatures.”
“Ah, Batmors. No worries, three hits and they’re practically destroyed,” the red ranger said, a slightly cocky tone in his voice.
“Yeah, I kinda figured that out on my own. Do you have any ide–” Rosa stopped mid-sentence, and hand flying up to press against her forehead. “Great time for a stre–” Before Rosa could even finish her sentence again, she collapsed, unconscious.
“Woah!” On reflex, the red ranger caught Rosa before she hit the ground. He looked at her for a few moments before exhaling in annoyance and picking her up in his arms. “Back to base then,” he muttered. “Aneka’ll be glad that I found the new pink ranger,” he added, teleporting back to the ranger base Aneka had built.
ooooooooooooooo
“Don’t you ever go home?” the red ranger, aka Markus, asked as he appeared in the center of the ranger’s base, seeing her figure still hunched over a microscope. “Or is this your home?”
“Very funny Markus,” Aneka muttered, looking up from what she had been studying and turning around to look at Markus. Her eyes widened as she saw the pink ranger, morphed but still unconscious, in Markus’ arms. “Mind explaining what happened here?”
Markus shrugged, a very difficult task to accomplish while holding someone. “We’ve got a new pink ranger.”