Kim narrowed her eyes and crossed her arms. And that sounded nothing like the Alpha she knew and he'd been cheering the rangers on often enough that she'd never mistake his voice.
"First off, not scared. We have a bet and I refuse to lose. Second, the remains of Goldar have been reactivating putties all over Angel Grove since we bitch-slapped Rita into space.
"And this, at no point, was a game. I've been trying to get to my ship. Mostly to train in the Pit but now it seems there's a problem. I suppose you're welcome to tag along. Alpha and Zordon might have a clue but I hope you can swim."
"Remains of Goldar? We fought Goldar yesterday and he retreated. There were no..." That was just gross. "He and Scorpina were more or less whole when they vanished."
She pursed her lips behind the mask. "I agree we need to speak to Alpha and Zordon. But I have a faster way to get us there."
And she really really hoped she wasn't breaking a rule by bringing her. Because Zordon needed to sort this out. She wished she had Billy with them, She was sure he would be able to figure this out.
"Who the hell is Scorpina?" Goldar was definitely not whole when they had been done with that gold mess. She was pretty sure there might still be some gold stuck to Billy's Zord. Something they should probably check before the next time they pulled those out.
She gave a long look to her arm, skeptical. How would that be faster?
"I don't swing that way, just so you know. And my ship, right over that ridge. And under it."
"Never said I was climbing but ugh, fine." What was the worst that could happen? She'd morph, Alpha and Zordon would track her coordinates, and the others would come and back her up. No problem.
She lightly touched the pocket of her pants, double checking that the coins weight could be felt there, not that any of them were even able to ditch the coins now, before heaving a sigh and taking hold of the other girls arms.
I am so afraid to try playing Zordon, lol. So a gap for Kim to respond before I have to.
She touched her communicator and teleported them to the command center. She was going to have to do some fast talking to explain this.
"Zordon, she has some information about Rita, and she got a communication from... it sounded like whoever it was was trying to sound like Alpha without having ever met him. Rita's made one ranger to fight us already, I thought that this might be the same, that maybe we could make a friend and ally of her as well, but... Zordon... she said something about Trini. That's not that common a name, but I can assure you, Trini has no idea who this girl is."
Oh hell, what the hell was happening. Kim's grip tightened for a moment and when they arrived, she shoved herself back and away from the other.
"Yeah, Rita's gone. We slapped her to space, her and her coin, and we stomped Goldar and all her putties. We hid the Zeo crystal and now we're dealing with the fallout- and where the hell even is this?" Her hand slipped into her pocket, tightly gripping her coin, feeling the etchings under her thumb.
True. and now for random it seems right at the time, I can edit anything you want me to.
"I think I may have the answers you are seeking," Zordon said. "Observe the viewing globe."
Back on familiar ground, Trini relaxed and turned to face the globe.
"When Rita summoned her split monster that divided you rangers into separate parts it also tore a rip in the fabric of the universe, causing it to bleed over into another. The two universes have now merged. There are now two Ritas, and two sets of Rangers."
"Does... that mean there are also two Zordons and two Alphas?" Trini asked. That was... either very reassuring or very alarming. She was not yet sure which.
"It does. Rangers, you must work together to stop Rita, both of them, and I will contact the other Zordon so that we can find a way to close the gap, returning both worlds to their rightful state."
"Alright..." Trini said. "But... Zordon, when we were split, the other Rangers looked like us. She may know a Trini, but... I do not know anyone who looks like her. At all. And... are we to keep our identities secret from each other?"
"You are all rangers, so long as they follow the same rules, you may communicate as you need to. As to why you look different now when you did not before, it is because before you were dealing with doubles from the same universe. Different choices in a different universe can cause people to be very different, but their cores are the same. This is indeed a Power Ranger."
(If you want me to edit/change anything I'm cool with that. Also figure even if he's wrong or unsure, he'd say it like it was the truth. Because he's Zordon.)
Okay, the ship had nothing like that. At least, they hadn't discovered it yet, the ship was massive and they'd mostly just seen the zords, the Pit, and the control room.
"Our Rita isn't going to be a problem. There's no way she'll show her face in Angel Grove after the beating we gave her. And she knows we'll drag her to our Zordon to judge her." And they'd take her coin, find someone who was actually worthy and would help protect Earth and the Zeo crystal.
"Also, the name is Kimberly." She pulled her coin from her pocket, the pink glow in the center dimmed compared to when she was at the ship. "And damn right I'm a Power Ranger. I got the crap kicked out of me in the Pit often enough while training to morph that I earned this."
Trini did a double take and pulled off her helmet to stare at the other girl. "Kimberly? You're... you're kim in the other world? You're the pink Ranger?" What.... kind of world was that? This was one of her two best friends...? She couldn't help herself, she had to ask.
She looked nothing like Trini, or rather the Trini she knew. It was surreal. And it made her wonder what she looked like or Jason. Just everyone. And what their Angel Grove was like.
"What about him? He's kind of a nerd, he got the blue coin so he's the blue ranger. He's in detention with me and Jase." She hadn't gotten the chance to really get to know him yet, even with their campfire heart-to-heart. And they'd been so busy since beating Rita and Goldar that they hadn't had another chance.
May I link this on plurk to show my friend who plays Billy?
Billy. In detention. The thought was almost too much for her to accept. Jason, in detention? That was almost as hard. Oh, it happened... once in a very rare while, and usually due to a Power Ranger emergency that led to a missed class, or something Bulk and Skull had done. But it was still hard to accept that she said it so... so casually. As if it was a common occurrence.
"Detention? Billy and Jason? Zordon was right, this is some weird sort of other reality."
Still, she was sure they could learn something from these counterparts of theirs. And they needed to work together.
She hated to ask. But... she had to. "Tommy?" Was he on their side, in this odd other world, or was he still an enemy? Of all people, Kim would be the one to ask. Her, or Jason.
If only she knew all the details, details Kim wasn't planning on handing out just because they're the same people. Sort of. It was still kind of funny though. Billy was a good kid, not someone who would have intersected her social circle before she had screwed up. Then again, the coins had seemed meant for them, she probably would have met him anyway.
"It's not that weird but yeah, we're all in detention now. We're there every Saturday until we graduate."
Which sucked. At least it gave her an excuse to quit cheerleading now though.
"Who's Tommy?" Wait. "The teacher on Saturday was calling for a Tommy Oliver? Never met him though, must have been skipping. Great start. Really."
Trini turned to Zordon. "Will Tommy's powers hold? If he's the only one of us who doesn't match, who doesn't have another Ranger of his colour, maybe he's what we need."
"An interesting theory, Trini. I do not know if his powers will hold."
Trini nodded. "We'll have to hope so." She didn't doubt that Tommy would want to help. Not for a second. The others would just have to do as much as they could first, so he didn't use up what power he had left fighting puttis. She turned to Kim. "Zordon will contact your Zordon," that felt so weird to say. "We should talk to the rest of your team." And her own... but she had no clue how to even start that conversation. Kim, Pink Ranger meet Kim Pink Ranger? Maybe Billy would have some ideas. She knew Alpha would be calling him as soon as they left. If not sooner.
"Your Tommy is probably going to be on his own. We have no other power coins. The only other one was Rita's and she stubbornly believed she was still worthy when we slapped her into space. The only way to get that one is if it falls back to Earth and even then, no idea where the hell it will land."
Alright so, she could kind of handle her team. And her Zordon and Alpha. She didn't particularly want to, this one seemed to have gotten the better attitude between universes.
"Back to the mine then. I wasn't kidding when I said our ship is underground."
"Rita held our Tommy's Power Coin at first too. She made a evil Ranger to fight against us. But we were able to break the spell. We can find where she hid the coin, somehow." Probably. Maybe. Could... could it restore Tommy's powers?
No. They had a Tommy on her world, she said as much. They just hadn't met him yet. She wouldn't take from anyone the chance to be a Power Ranger. They'd find another way to help Tommy. She was sure of it.
"We can teleport, right?" Trini asked, a little hopefully.
"Yeah, but she didn't hide it. It was her coin, she wasn't giving it up. The only chance we have of finding the thing is with space travel and our ship is under sixty-five million years worth of rock. It's not going anywhere."
Which is unfortunate but at the same time, they're a bunch of teenagers. They shouldn't have that kind of responsibility. The whole protecting the world things was already a bit much.
"No, we don't have anything like that. Relax though, it's like high diving. We dive right into the water and then swim down to the cave. Easy."
"But that means she was planning to use it," Trini said. "I wouldn't count Rita out just yet, though I wish we could. If she lands on another world, there is a chance Billy could rig something up so that we could teleport that far.We've had to go to other worlds before, but thankfully not often."
"Like... high diving..." she asked a bit weakly. She could tag out, right? Ask one of the others to do this while she stays and helps Billy?
No. No, she was a Power Ranger, and she couldn't keep letting her fear of heights stop her.
"How... how hard could it be?" she asked weakly, putting her helmet back on so her fear would be less obvious.
"She was using it." This was confusing, they should know right? Or did they somehow diverge that much reality-wise. Billy would be proud of her. Maybe.
"Rita was the green ranger." She glanced to Trini and around the command center. The right at the other Zordon. "She used to be on your team."
She wasn't going to give it to some kid on the planet she's trying to destroy, not when she was convinced she was worthy of it still. And the armor- if that could have even been called armor, it looks more like thorns than ranger armor- was close enough. Almost. So she was still connected to the morphin grid. Kind of.
"Relax. I won't let you die or anything. We do it every time we visit the ship."
"Rita?" she gasped. "A Ranger? Not a chance. Ever. She gave the green coin to Tommy, to make a Dark Ranger to fight against us." She looked to Zordon. "Rita has never been and will never be a Ranger, right?"
"Trini, I understand what you are attempting to do, but the team needs you. You can push aside your fears, I believe in you."
She deflated a bit, then put her helmet back on. "I can get us back to the... to the cliff." She swallowed hard.
"Where I come from, she was. And there's no getting around that." Luckily, even if they were misfits, the group she was with now were just good kids who got into trouble. She couldn't see any of them getting ideas in their heads to destroy Earth.
It was at least becoming clear to Kim what the problem was here but she kept her mouth shut. It reminded her though that none of her team seemed to have this issue. Though she was wondering how Billy was doing since Rita.
"Seriously, relax. You're psyching yourself out at this point which will only make it harder. Like when I was in cheerleading, the first time we did a pyramid? Terrifying but I didn't think about it and trusted my team, never got hurt and realized 'whoa, this is pretty cool' and the fear went away."
She nodded a bit. "I know we need to do this. I'll be okay." Terrified, but she won't let it stop her. "That was why I was up there in the first place. To work on it so it wouldn't be a problem for the others."
"If you're sure." She wasn't going to argue. Never mind that she was sometimes the first person to argue, this was more important right now.
"Maybe... think about a favorite song or something while we're there." She wasn't sure what other advice she could give. In her formal social circle, she didn't know any of them to be afraid of much. The same applied now, with the rangers. Real friends.
Again, there was a bit of hesitation. This teleporting this was weird but since she didn't know where she was, she couldn't exactly walk out and make her way back on foot. And trying would probably lead to mild criticism about how anyone kept this a secret when there was just a building in the desert.
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"First off, not scared. We have a bet and I refuse to lose. Second, the remains of Goldar have been reactivating putties all over Angel Grove since we bitch-slapped Rita into space.
"And this, at no point, was a game. I've been trying to get to my ship. Mostly to train in the Pit but now it seems there's a problem. I suppose you're welcome to tag along. Alpha and Zordon might have a clue but I hope you can swim."
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She pursed her lips behind the mask. "I agree we need to speak to Alpha and Zordon. But I have a faster way to get us there."
And she really really hoped she wasn't breaking a rule by bringing her. Because Zordon needed to sort this out. She wished she had Billy with them, She was sure he would be able to figure this out.
"Take my arm."
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She gave a long look to her arm, skeptical. How would that be faster?
"I don't swing that way, just so you know. And my ship, right over that ridge. And under it."
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She was so not commenting on the implied rejection, since she hadn't been flirting, and they hardly had time for that sort of discussion anyway.
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She lightly touched the pocket of her pants, double checking that the coins weight could be felt there, not that any of them were even able to ditch the coins now, before heaving a sigh and taking hold of the other girls arms.
I am so afraid to try playing Zordon, lol. So a gap for Kim to respond before I have to.
"Zordon, she has some information about Rita, and she got a communication from... it sounded like whoever it was was trying to sound like Alpha without having ever met him. Rita's made one ranger to fight us already, I thought that this might be the same, that maybe we could make a friend and ally of her as well, but... Zordon... she said something about Trini. That's not that common a name, but I can assure you, Trini has no idea who this girl is."
no worries, this is all for fun <3
"Yeah, Rita's gone. We slapped her to space, her and her coin, and we stomped Goldar and all her putties. We hid the Zeo crystal and now we're dealing with the fallout- and where the hell even is this?" Her hand slipped into her pocket, tightly gripping her coin, feeling the etchings under her thumb.
True. and now for random it seems right at the time, I can edit anything you want me to.
Back on familiar ground, Trini relaxed and turned to face the globe.
"When Rita summoned her split monster that divided you rangers into separate parts it also tore a rip in the fabric of the universe, causing it to bleed over into another. The two universes have now merged. There are now two Ritas, and two sets of Rangers."
"Does... that mean there are also two Zordons and two Alphas?" Trini asked. That was... either very reassuring or very alarming. She was not yet sure which.
"It does. Rangers, you must work together to stop Rita, both of them, and I will contact the other Zordon so that we can find a way to close the gap, returning both worlds to their rightful state."
"Alright..." Trini said. "But... Zordon, when we were split, the other Rangers looked like us. She may know a Trini, but... I do not know anyone who looks like her. At all. And... are we to keep our identities secret from each other?"
"You are all rangers, so long as they follow the same rules, you may communicate as you need to. As to why you look different now when you did not before, it is because before you were dealing with doubles from the same universe. Different choices in a different universe can cause people to be very different, but their cores are the same. This is indeed a Power Ranger."
(If you want me to edit/change anything I'm cool with that. Also figure even if he's wrong or unsure, he'd say it like it was the truth. Because he's Zordon.)
nah it's good <3
"Our Rita isn't going to be a problem. There's no way she'll show her face in Angel Grove after the beating we gave her. And she knows we'll drag her to our Zordon to judge her." And they'd take her coin, find someone who was actually worthy and would help protect Earth and the Zeo crystal.
"Also, the name is Kimberly." She pulled her coin from her pocket, the pink glow in the center dimmed compared to when she was at the ship. "And damn right I'm a Power Ranger. I got the crap kicked out of me in the Pit often enough while training to morph that I earned this."
Awesome.
"...Billy?"
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"What about him? He's kind of a nerd, he got the blue coin so he's the blue ranger. He's in detention with me and Jase." She hadn't gotten the chance to really get to know him yet, even with their campfire heart-to-heart. And they'd been so busy since beating Rita and Goldar that they hadn't had another chance.
May I link this on plurk to show my friend who plays Billy?
"Detention? Billy and Jason? Zordon was right, this is some weird sort of other reality."
Still, she was sure they could learn something from these counterparts of theirs. And they needed to work together.
She hated to ask. But... she had to. "Tommy?" Was he on their side, in this odd other world, or was he still an enemy? Of all people, Kim would be the one to ask. Her, or Jason.
Sure!
"It's not that weird but yeah, we're all in detention now. We're there every Saturday until we graduate."
Which sucked. At least it gave her an excuse to quit cheerleading now though.
"Who's Tommy?" Wait. "The teacher on Saturday was calling for a Tommy Oliver? Never met him though, must have been skipping. Great start. Really."
Ty
"An interesting theory, Trini. I do not know if his powers will hold."
Trini nodded. "We'll have to hope so." She didn't doubt that Tommy would want to help. Not for a second. The others would just have to do as much as they could first, so he didn't use up what power he had left fighting puttis. She turned to Kim. "Zordon will contact your Zordon," that felt so weird to say. "We should talk to the rest of your team." And her own... but she had no clue how to even start that conversation. Kim, Pink Ranger meet Kim Pink Ranger? Maybe Billy would have some ideas. She knew Alpha would be calling him as soon as they left. If not sooner.
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Alright so, she could kind of handle her team. And her Zordon and Alpha. She didn't particularly want to, this one seemed to have gotten the better attitude between universes.
"Back to the mine then. I wasn't kidding when I said our ship is underground."
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No. They had a Tommy on her world, she said as much. They just hadn't met him yet. She wouldn't take from anyone the chance to be a Power Ranger. They'd find another way to help Tommy. She was sure of it.
"We can teleport, right?" Trini asked, a little hopefully.
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Which is unfortunate but at the same time, they're a bunch of teenagers. They shouldn't have that kind of responsibility. The whole protecting the world things was already a bit much.
"No, we don't have anything like that. Relax though, it's like high diving. We dive right into the water and then swim down to the cave. Easy."
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"Like... high diving..." she asked a bit weakly. She could tag out, right? Ask one of the others to do this while she stays and helps Billy?
No. No, she was a Power Ranger, and she couldn't keep letting her fear of heights stop her.
"How... how hard could it be?" she asked weakly, putting her helmet back on so her fear would be less obvious.
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Billy would be proud of her. Maybe."Rita was the green ranger." She glanced to Trini and around the command center. The right at the other Zordon. "She used to be on your team."
She wasn't going to give it to some kid on the planet she's trying to destroy, not when she was convinced she was worthy of it still. And the armor- if that could have even been called armor, it looks more like thorns than ranger armor- was close enough. Almost. So she was still connected to the morphin grid. Kind of.
"Relax. I won't let you die or anything. We do it every time we visit the ship."
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"Rita?" she gasped. "A Ranger? Not a chance. Ever. She gave the green coin to Tommy, to make a Dark Ranger to fight against us." She looked to Zordon. "Rita has never been and will never be a Ranger, right?"
"Trini, I understand what you are attempting to do, but the team needs you. You can push aside your fears, I believe in you."
She deflated a bit, then put her helmet back on. "I can get us back to the... to the cliff." She swallowed hard.
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It was at least becoming clear to Kim what the problem was here but she kept her mouth shut. It reminded her though that none of her team seemed to have this issue. Though she was wondering how Billy was doing since Rita.
"Seriously, relax. You're psyching yourself out at this point which will only make it harder. Like when I was in cheerleading, the first time we did a pyramid? Terrifying but I didn't think about it and trusted my team, never got hurt and realized 'whoa, this is pretty cool' and the fear went away."
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She nodded a bit. "I know we need to do this. I'll be okay." Terrified, but she won't let it stop her. "That was why I was up there in the first place. To work on it so it wouldn't be a problem for the others."
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"Maybe... think about a favorite song or something while we're there." She wasn't sure what other advice she could give. In her formal social circle, she didn't know any of them to be afraid of much. The same applied now, with the rangers. Real friends.
Real friends were nice.
"Back to the quarry then?"
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I'm not the only one who couldn't unsee that!
omg me and my friend spent an hours after the movie giggling about it
My dad and I were grumbling about it for hours after, lol
a part of me loved it because it was so ridiculous XD
Lol
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