RANGERS BACK IN TIME PT 1

AUTHOR'S NOTE/DISCLAIMER

Power Rangers belongs to Haim Saban, Fox Kids, and Disney. I only own the subplots.

In a classroom at Angel Grove High, Ms. Appleby faced her students.

"All right, class. The assignment was to bring in a childhood photograph and to share with us your most memorable experience at that age," she stated. "Who'd like to begin?" Various students raised their hands.

"Jason?" He walked up and showed them a class photo with what appeared to be an Angel Grove Police Officer.

"This was taken during Safety Week at Angel Grove Elementary, and listening to Officer Richards was really cool. He taught us a lot of neat stuff, and…" the boy only hesitated a moment before taking the plunge. "It's when I decided that I wanted to be a cop someday," he told them.

"Hey, I didn't know that," Tommy commented. He shrugged, but said nothing.

"Very, nice, Jason," Ms. Appleby approved and he went to his seat.

"Aisha?" She walked up to the front of the room and proudly displayed a picture of herself with an older woman.

"This is me after my first dance recital. This is so special because-my grandmother, who was sick at the time-, was able to come and I made her real proud," she told them.

"You look so cute," Kimberly stated. There was light laughter.

"Kimberly, would you like to be next?"

"Oh. Sure." She stood up and switched places with Aisha.

"Okay, this is me at my first gymnastics competition." Jason, Zack, Trini, and Billy looked at each other and gave sad, but fond grins. They remembered that day.

"Talk about cute." The girl glanced at her boyfriend with mock exasperation at the teasing tone. "Thanks. Um, anyway, I was kinda bummed though because I lost, but you know what? It taught me to be a good sport and that has helped me a lot. Plus I got free ice cream courtesy of Jason, Zack, Trini, and Billy." Again, the class broke out into light laughter.

"Very nice, Kimberly." Up on the moon, Zedd was watching the whole thing.

"Ah…the dawn of another glorious day, which shall witness the final destruction of those Power brats." He looked down on the Earth. "Hmm. The Pink Ranger as a child. Hmm." Then, "That's it! Why didn't you fools think of this before?"

"Sorry! I guess we weren't thinking," Squatt apologized. "Uh…what were we talking about, anyway?" Goldar shook his head. Stop groveling to him, he thought. However, he kept his mouth shut. If the plan to reinstate Empress Rita was to work, he'd have to keep up a pretense of serving Zedd so that the monarch wouldn't get suspicious.

"You may sit down, Kimberly." The girl returned to her seat as the others clapped.

"Tommy? You're next." He stood in front of the class and held up a picture of a younger version of himself in a white karate gi.

"You look so happy and proud in that picture," Ms. Appleby stated in a tone of curiosity and slight confusion.

"Um, this shot's really important to me. This is when I learned about dedication and hard work," Tommy began. "Plus, that was the day my parents told me that they were making my adoption official."

"Oh, wow. That must've been awesome," Hilary commented.

"Yeah, it was," Tommy confirmed. Oh, so that's the story, Jason thought to himself. He and the others had noticed that their friend didn't look very much like his parents but hadn't wanted to embarrass him by asking.

"Aw, that's cute," Aisha said. Kimberly laughed and teasingly shoved her.

"Not you too," she hissed as Billy went up.

"I learned about determination here," he stated, holding up his photo. "It took me four hours to get my mom's vacuum cleaner back together."

"I'll bet she wasn't too happy," Tina commented.

"Affirmative. The repercussion of my scientific curiosity of how the inner parts of that particular mechanical appliance operated was an immediate loss of all privileges for two weeks," Billy responded.

"So in other words, you were grounded," Adam stated.

"Affirmative," he confirmed as Rocky took his place. Back on the moon, Zedd was still outlining his plan.

"The Rangers met Zordon as teenagers. If we turn back time and return them to childhood, they will be powerless!" he stated.

"An excellent idea, my lord, but how will we accomplish it?" Goldar wondered.

"You fool, with the Rock Of Time," Zedd answered, pushing past the warrior. "By calling forth the evil powers-" he pushed Baboo out of the way, knocking him into Goldar, who steadied him. "-we'll cause the Earth to begin spinning backwards and time along with it. Those worthless Power Teens will become ordinary children," Zedd answered.

"Cool," Squatt stated. That was a good plan. I bet those Rangers won't have any idea of how to fight, he thought to himself.

"We will stop them before they can grow up to be Power Rangers," Goldar enthused and then laughed. It's not the best idea I've heard from him, but it should at least be interesting, he thought to himself.

"Yes, exactly," Zedd replied, sitting in his throne. Ah, yes. With the Rangers as children, they'll be too frightened to take on my putties and monsters, and I can finally conquer the Earth, he thought to himself and began to laugh horribly.