Red Problems 
"Rangers, that was perfect! Your first battle and you won with only a tiny problem. You did-"
"Actually, we didn't kill the monster the first time. We got frozen and some other ranger defeated it for us. Then, he broke us out of the ice and the sky turned dark so we couldn't see who it was, what kind of ranger they were, and what color ranger they were. Wasn't that convenient. Then, when we defeat the monster for good, he's gone!" said Trip. 
"Well, if you figure out who it is, tell me so I can teleport them here, okay? Why don't you go to school now?" 
"But I'm 3000 years old! How am I..."
"How long were you not Zen-Aku?"
"About 34 years. Why?"
"Because you never went to school then did you?"
"No, but I know the basics, up to what I think you would call High School. And I DON'T need to learn the rest." said Merrick.
"Well," said Zordon, ignoring Merrick AGAIN.  "The rest of you are teenagers, and are ready to go to your freshmen year of high school, right?" Some mumbled answers came out like "yeah" and "of course.  "Then go to school. You still have some to learn.  Also, it's the first day of school making it even more convenient. Plus, you may figure out who the mysterious Ranger is."
"Sheesh, after living 3034 years, I didn't think I'd be bossed around by some gay floating head to go to school." said Merrick. 
"You know, I almost forgot about school. Anyways, I thought you didn't have to go to school if you were a Power Ranger," said Kerry.
"Well being a Power Ranger doesn't change anything about school," said Zordon. "Here are some hoverboards. They were just invented last month. If you want to get to school on time, you had better ride these. Don't worry, these are the beginners boards. You shouldn't have any trouble getting there on time. Have a good day!" So the rangers all rode off to school, with Trip doing 1 flip or fancy move a minute.
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They got to school on time, luckily. However, they also got there at the wrong time. Michael Petroccio was doing his daily hotshot routine (he did it last year) and making fun of the "geeks". 
"Hey more geekfreaks! Let's give them a-OUCH! YOU @$$#0&!"
"Leave us alone and don't call us geekfreaks!!!!!" said Merrick who was very angry.
"No one punches me and gets away with it!" Michael leaped with his legs in front of him, and would have made Merrick get thrown off his feet except he was too smart. Merrick leaped over him and Michael went sprawling on the hard floor. Then, the principal came over.
"Why did you do that? He could have gotten seriously hurt! You're lucky he didn't crack his head open!" Michael pretended to be crying so he would get sympathy.
"Well excuse me for not wanting to fall flat on the floor and crack MY head open. It was his fault anyway. If he hadn't tried to kick me, it wouldn't have happened," said Merrick.
"And he called us geekfreaks and he called me an @$$#0!&. I didn't call him a bad word, so he shouldn't have," said Merrick.
"Well, YOU have detention for 1 month. No excuses. Every day at 3:00 to 5:00. Be there or else!" The principal left helping Michael to the nurse.
"But-oh shit!" said Merrick.
"What?" asked Kendrix.
"Well, it's very obvious. Let's see, what were we just assigned to yesterday? POW-well you know what. I can guarantee you there's going to be a monster before 5:00. I can't believe this. I was trying to protect myself from getting hurt. This principal is crazy! School is crazy! Either I find some way to get rid of this principal, or I give IT up," said Merrick, walking off to his first class with the other rangers.
"Maybe we could come up with some way to get you out of detention," offered Trip.
"Yeah maybe we could...uh...let's see..."
"Get a new red ranger. That's the only way. I've been one before and I don't need to be one again." 
"Well Zordon chose you and he wanted you and you alone to be the red ranger. I really don't know how we are going to do this though," said Melissa.  "Perhaps we could...um...I...think I have an idea. If only we had the tools, we could make a snowstorm that lasts a few days. If the principal is as crazy as we think, he'll forget. That will definitely end the detention. That is, if we could change the weather...OH SHOOT! WE HAVE 20 SECONDS 'TILL THE BELL RINGS! LET'S HURRY!" They raced off to their first class, which was Archery. What was a big problem was that Michael was in their Archery period. As a matter of fact, he was in ALL of their classes. That gave him lots of time to make fun of them. Merrick also had a separate problem. There was a girl who was also in all of their classes. And she had a BIG crush on Merrick. Guess why she had a BIG crush on Merrick. Well, if you check the end of the PRF Fanfic, you'll notice that ALL of the rangers who were there were teleported to the year 6002. Well, guess who this was.(Hint: Which Ranger in PRWF acted like they liked Merrick some? Better yet, who was the only girly girl in PRWF?) Well, it was Alyssa! Yes, Alyssa.(In Unfinished Business, Alyssa pushed Merrick off a cliff to save him from being killed. Does that not sound like she loved him? Plus, she looked very upset when he got back up from the cliff to fight Zen Aku.)
"Well class, since this is your first day in High School and your first day in archery, I will ask this. Has anyone ever done archery at home or taken an archery class anywhere else?"
One kid raised his hand.  "Yeah, I did! Uh, I tried it at uh, home!"
"Well, um..." said the gym teacher
"Cole," said Cole.(Yes, the Cole from Wild Force)
"Do you want to try first since you have had experience?"
"Oh sure!" he said. He tried and it was going to make it! It was definantly going to hit! But then it veered off at the last minute, slapped into metal, and the point to the arrow flew straight into Merrick's hand. 
"OUCH! I thought you said you had experience! I thought you knew it would bounce off metal! I thought you might have SOME experience! OUCH!" said Merrick
"Oh no! We have to take him to the nurse! Alyssa, will you-"
"I CAN GO DOWN BY MYSELF!" said Merrick.
"Oh poor little Merrick! He probably lost 3000 brain cells just now! No, on second thought, he probably didn't even have 2 to start!" said Michael, making 3 quarters of the gym crack up. Then, Merrick came back very angry.
"Oh look! It's the geek with negative 2998 brain cells! Wow! He needs mental help! Get him to the mental hospital!"
"SOON YOU'RE GOING TO END UP IN A REAL HOSPITAL YOU SON OF A &(%@#!"
"Please don't fight boys. Now, Merrick, why don't you try?" said the teacher. Merrick took five arrows. Then he shot all of them(at once) to the center of the target! "Wow Merrick! That was great! You say this is your first time?"
"Yeah," said Merrick.
"Well, here's a champion archer! I can't believe it!"
"Move it dorkface I want to try!" Michael shot 10 arrows(one at a time)and 2 of them were 5 feet off the target. 8 were 10 feet off the target. He tried 5 more and all 5 were 20 feet off the target. Then the bell rang.
"Okay everyone, I'll type up a list showing the best archer to the worst archer. I'll see you tomorrow!" After archery, 20 girls started congratulating Merrick and giving him sweet talk.
"Wow! That was great Merry!"
"You're so cute honey!"
"Oh Merry, you're the best!"
"GET AWAY!" yelled Merrick, infuriated. The girls giggled and went away.
"What was that all about?" asked Kendrix.
"The girls are smothering me and calling me MERRY! That's what!"
"Oh Look! It's MERRY!" said Michael.
"Oh look! It's Stupidshine!" said Merrick.                                      
"Oh look! It's 40 seconds till the next class! Smell ya later Merry!" said Michael and ran off.
"Oh shoot! He's right! 30 seconds till English!" said Merrick. Then he ran to his class in such a hurry with the other rangers, he didn't notice one teacher saying not to run in the halls and chasing him. When he finally got to English, the teacher that had been yelling at Merrick came in.
"I told you not to run in the hallways! Yet you still ran! What's wrong with your ears?" said the teacher.
"What's wrong with your eyes?" murmured Merrick.*
"Is this true?" asked the English teacher.
"Yes, but after archery these girls were smothering me because I did such a great job, this annoying kid was making fun of me, and by the time I actually got away from them, it was 30 seconds till I had to be here. That's why I ran." said Merrick.
"What did you do that was so great in archery?"
"I shot 5 arrows at once to the center of the target. I don't think it's that great."
"There's more," said Trip. "He was doing archery for the first time!"
"That's amazing! How did you..."
"There's more still!" said Michael. "He got shot with an arrow!"
"Are you okay Merrick?" asked Mr.Rangy, the English teacher.
"Yes, I'm fine. I got shot in the hand for heavens sake!" 
"Okay. Well anyway, today we will write some stories about..." RIIINNNNNNNNNG! "Okay class, we'll have to do that tomorrow. Have a good day! I hope your arm's okay Merrick!"
"I can't believe this! We spent the whole class going over the last class! I thought you were supposed to learn things, not re-experience things!" said Merrick. "We better get moving or else we might end up getting more insane with re-experiencing!" So they moved along to their chemistry class. 
"Alright class, today we will try to make some potions that will make people that can't speak be able to speak. There are no toxic chemicals no matter what. Everything toxic has been made safe or has been destroyed after about 2089 years ago, someone had toxic chemicals explode in his face. I think he was having a pretty bad day anyway, but it is still important to be safe. Okay, begin making your potion with the instructions on your table." said Mr.Gard, the teacher.
"I have a question Mr.Gard! Why are we making this potion if it won't do anything to us?" asked Alyssa.
"Well it is very simple Alyssa. We are not trying it out. We are making the potions for others who are mute," said Mr.Gard. With that, everyone started. Merrick had already finished his potion after 5 minutes in the class, so he was trying to figure out a way to get out of detention. He wasn't paying attention to the person beside him(why should he have?)and didn't notice the person knock some extra chemicals in Merrick's potion and when they tried to take the tube out, he snuck it so no one would notice. Only, Merrick saw him and thought he was trying to use his potion to get away with working.
"Hey, give it back!" yelled Merrick.
"Just let me-"
"NO!" yelled Merrick. He yanked so hard on the potion that it flew through the air and flew right into his mouth!
"Merrick! Spit it out, quickly!" said Mr.Gard.
"Vrat?" asked Merrick.
"Okay just swallow it," said Mr.Gard without meaning to. He actually meant to say 'Just DON'T swallow it' but oops! He said 'just swallow it'!
"Okay Merrick, how did your potion turn out?" said Mr.Gard. Merrick mouthed 'I can't talk!'
"Merrick, talk please," said Mr.Gard. Merrick mouthed 'My Potion did not turn out so good obviously! I can't talk now!'
"Merrick? Are you okay?" asked Alyssa. Merrick mouthed sarcastically 'Oh sure! I can't talk, but not being able to talk is a great thing!'
"Let me see..." said Kendrix. "Oh no! He can't talk! The potion must have gotten screwed up and he swallowed it!"
"But I told him not to!" said Mr.Gard.
"You mean you didn't want him to swallow it?" asked Kerry.
"No! I said 'just don't swallow it'!
"No, actually you said 'just swallow it. I have a recording!" said Trip. It played. 
"You mean he swallowed it! Oh no!"
"Hey Mr.Gard! Maybe I could try to use my potion on him," asked Kendrix.
"Please do! If the principal finds out, he'll fire me! He is- I'm sorry-the craziest principal ever!" said Mr.Gard.
"Well that's one thing we have in common," said Merrick after drinking Kendrix's potion.
"What?" asked Mr.Gard.
"We both know he's crazy," said Merrick.  RIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG!
"Well that's all for today class. Have a good day Merrick!" said Mr.Gard.  So they went through the rest of school with a few minor problems with Merrick. Then, Merrick went to detention. As soon as the rangers had finished their homework(except Merrick who was not out of detention by 3:20)Zordon called them because there was a monster attacking Angel Grove. This time it was Eletrod, a Elementatron who focused on electrical attacks and could paralyze!  Merrick leaped in to fight at that moment. 
"Aerozords! Arise!" said Merrick. First came the Psychic Bird. In the midst of a purple beam, the Psychic Bird was visible! Next came the Water Bird. A whirpool appeared in the ocean and out came the Water Bird! Next came the Electric Bird. Lightning struck and at the end of the lightning was the Electric Bird! Next came the Fire Pterodactyl. There was a lava flow and the lava formed the Fire Pterodactyl, who flew to the other zords. Last came the Red Dragon. The lava flow was still going and all of a sudden a lava whirlpool was made and out of it came the Red Dragon! The rangers all jumped into their zords. Then the zords combined to form the Megazord!
"Alright Electrod! You asked for it! Aerasword!" said Merrick. A gold sword appeared in the megazords hand. "Alright, Aerasword, ground slap!" The sword slapped into the ground, causing an earthquake. The monster paralyzed the earthquake and used electricity to make the earthquake reverse. But Merrick wasn't stupid. "Electric Powerback!" said Merrick. The earthquake was reversed again. Electrod was having such a celebration, he got slapped and he never knew what destroyed him. After getting out of the zord, they saw a ranger.  They ran over and it was a blue suit.  They started to take off the helmet and it was...
                            

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