It could Always Be Worse - Nanoha/PRDT

[drunkenpandaren]

Magical Shounen Teacher Tommy As to S.P.D.


“It’s nice watching our children play,” sighed Momoko as she, Shiro, Lindy and Tommy sat in the park watching Nanoha, Fate and Alicia horse around with Suzuka and Arisa waving sticks. “What are they playing?”

“Power Rangers vs Monster of the Day,” replied Lindy, earning a surprised look from Shiro and Momoko. “I think Nanoha-chan’s playing the monster.”

“Power Rangers? You mean like the Red one on television?” inquired Shiro.

“You weren’t here for the big invasion last year,” replied Tommy. “A villain named Mesogog attacked Reefside. A team known as the Dino Rangers rose up to defend the city.”

“I see. And the red one?”

“Zeo Ranger Five Red,” said Lindy with a smile. “He’s most likely a retired Ranger who comes out of the woodwork every so often to fight attacking mages. At least that’s what the latest headlines say.”

“Story of the century,” chuckled Tommy. “But there’s a new team forming up from what I hear. A group named Mystic Force over in Briarwood just came to action.”

“You seem really interested in Rangers Dr. Oliver,” said Momoko.

“I lived in Angel Grove for my teenage years, right around the Green Ranger incident. Since then I’ve made it my business to find out who are the active teams of the year.” Replied Tommy easily.

The Takamachi’s nodded and Shiro turned his attention to Fate who executed a perfect side-kick and Nanoha blocked it. “Martial arts?”

“Alicia insisted on it,” said Lindy with a smile. “Tommy here is a tenth degree black belt.”

“Tose Kwan Do,” put in Tommy. “It’s my own style.” He grinned at the others surprise. “Angel Grove. It does weird stuff to you.”


“School’s out!” exclaimed Nanoha giddily as she spun around with her friends. “What are your plans for this summer?”

“Relaxing as usual,” replied Suzuka. “What about you Arisa?”

“I’m volunteering at the local pet center,” said Arisa. “I want to play with all the animals!”

Fate smiled as she folded her arms in front of herself. “I’m going with father on a trip to Briarwood. He’s doing research on the Mystic Force team.”

“Uncle is really passionate about that isn’t he?” said Alicia. “Is anyone else coming with you two?”

“Aunt Kimberly is coming along, as with Uncle Adam,” said Fate softly. “I insisted on joining them, because having a mage on the team other than father will be good for relations.”

“Maybe we could make a vacation of it,” mused Nanoha. “Summer Vacation is completely unlike anything I’ve experienced here in America.”

“Yes, we’d usually only be on break for a month and then back to class,” remarked Arisa. “At least we don’t have to wear uniforms!”

Fate and Nanoha looked down at their pink and yellow respectively. Yeah, definitely.


“They grow themselves,” said Fate faintly.

“They grow themselves,” said Nanoha, eyes shining in admiration.

“They grow themselves… that brings back memories.” Said Adam.

“They grow themselves. Huh.” Kim had only seen this once on television.

“I’m pretty sure my Zeonizer can handle that now.” Said Tommy thoughtfully. All heads swiveled towards him.

The next giant demon battle was joined by three giant Rangers and two magic girls.


“Undead. Why not.” Said Tommy as he was interviewing Udonna. “We’ve dealt with demons before, why not undead?”

“So we can count on your aid if the time is needed?” inquired Udonna, delighted to know that the previous Rangers of earth had indeed employed mages in their ranks.

“Yeah, we’re working on that.” Said Adam, holding out his business card with a number written on it. “I’m in Angel Grove, Tommy’s in Reefside with Kim…”

“Though I haven’t accessed my morphin powers in ages,” Kim said. “I’ve still got my ninja powers but only the ninja morph.”

“That’s good enough,” remarked Tommy. “The quality of goons has gone down since the old days.”

“So says the man who made himself famous for punching Putties in the Z,” ribbed Adam.

“By the way, what happened to Zedd and Rita anyhow?” inquired Kim.

Surprisingly it was Udonna who answered. “Rita Repulsa is known as the Mystic Mother now, the source of all good magic in the universe. Her husband former Lord Zedd is just as strong and lives here in Briarwood, the closest place to the Grid Nexus.”

Tommy blinked. “Wait, so all of my power is Rita-juice now? That takes me back.”

He could have sworn he felt a metaphysical headslap and a familiar laugh in his ears.


“Tommy I just got a call from an old friend of mine, Andrew Hartford,” said Anton over the phone.

“Oh yeah? Isn’t he the wealthy archeologist?”

“Yeah that’s him. The one obsessed with building a robot of his own. Turns out that he’s looking into building a command center under his place. Got any tips?”

“Well I can say one thing: don’t put a giant dinosaur skeleton as your trigger to the opening,” joked Tommy. “You know Anton, people just don’t build command centers under the mansion on a whim.”

“Astute as ever. He wants to get into Ranger tech. Seems that he accidentally touched something with a “Do Not Touch” sign on it and projects about a year before he’s waist-deep in goons.”

Tommy made a face. “Oh well that’s annoying. I’ll get Hayley and Cam on the horn. Maybe I can spend my minutes and call Billy at Aquatar.”

“You might want to contact the TSAB too. Andrew showed me the profiles on the people he’s choosing as a Ranger Team. I think one or two is magically strong.”

Fate would wonder why her father was nursing a bump on his head while he poured over faxed files that evening.


“This is the biggest damn think tank we’ve gotten for you,” said Tommy to Andrew who was simply stunned at the turnout.

Cam Wantanabe from Ninja Storm, Hayley support for Dino Thunder, Billy Cranston from Aquatar and Mighty Morphin. Dr. Rawlings from Lightspeed. And two TSAB mages on staff from the in-orbit station, a new girl named Shari and the ever amused Yuuno.

“Between all of us, we should be able to figure out how to build these new Overdrive Morphers for you,” said Billy with a little grin.

“I… don’t know what to say…” said Andrew.

“Thank you would be nice,” remarked Cam.

Andrew nodded, thanked them profusely.


“Wow, is this your robot?” asked Nanoha curiously as she and Fate explored the newly built station. It was a young man with brown hair but his torso was open with circuitry in it.

“Yes it is,” said Andrew. “I never had a son or married so…”

“He looks very gentle,” said Fate, taking its hand in hers.

A leap of yellow magic leaped from her hand into the robots system and it jerked. Andrew startled. “Do that again.”

Fate began to glow with yellow grid energy and Nanoha leaped to the side. “Let me help too!”

In a shower of pink and yellow light, the robot whirred to life. And Andrew hastily closed his chest up. The robot blinked and muttered “Dad…?”


“You’re not mad, are you father?” inquired Fate quietly.

“No, these things happen, even if it means animating a robot with morphin grid energy and turning him into the equivalent of Pinocchio,” said Tommy, ruffling his daughter’s hair. “You did okay. Even Andrew confessed he couldn’t get it to run. He’d almost given up hope.”

Fate smiled and hugged her father who nearly rolled the jeep from the sudden tackle.


There were pitfalls to being a father; one was Fate’s increasing need to have her private time. Tommy chalked it up to hormones. He could see it in her eyes, she was falling in love and despite being a fourth or fifth grader, had latched onto Nanoha like a lamprey.

He could think of worse people to be attached to, but conversely, Alicia had gotten fairly attached to Yuuno, the young librarian often trading tips and hints of various manifestations headed their way.

Hayate was under his guardianship as well, and she had joined the group after she had finally gotten out of the hospital. It had taken some time, and a heck of a lot of magical force but they finally got her to the picture of health. Her and her cosplay fetish would be trouble later, Tommy could tell. As long as it was fun though he could let it slide.

Signum had continued to come over for spars, Shamal had been fast-tracked into a medical school, Vita was actually attending school with the girls and Kim and him were finally getting serious again. Things were looking up.

“Tommy come quick! There’s been an accident!”

Tommy was out the door seconds later.


“Is she going to be okay father?” asked Fate, her eyes full of tears.

“Can’t say, but she’s stubborn. She’ll pull through.” Tommy sighed. “What were you all doing?”

“A mission, for the TSAB. Some kind of cloaked machine snuck up on Nanoha-chan and…” Fate burst into tears.

Tommy pulled his little girl close. Damn. Whoever sent those drone things was going to get a massive ass-kicking. That was for sure.

Once Fate had gone to sleep that night, Tommy dialed a number. “Wes? It’s Tommy. I’m cashing in on that deal. What can you tell me about the timeframe of…” And he rattled off a few numbers.

There was an audible wince on the other end of the line. “Oh man, Time Force is going to have my ass.”

“Wes…”

“Hold on, lemme get Jen. She’s been briefed on this.”


Scalagetti. The name made Tommy’s hand nearly shatter his coffee mug as Hayley and Kim sat across from him.

“I’ve got his profile here. TSAB Geneticist, but one of THOSE people. The ones who would sacrifice morals to get a passing grade,” said Hayley, having been forwarded a profile by Lindy who was genuinely surprised at the abuse of Time Travel Information.

Tommy let out a blue streak that left Kim holding her ears. “Swear enough?” inquired Kim.

“Sorry. Just… augh. I wish we didn’t have to go through this to figure things out,” said Tommy. “Jen was surprisingly complete on her info, like she WANTED us to change… history…”

“Tommy stop headdesking. You’ll leave a dent in my table.”


“Okay, we’re sitting on a goldmine of information here,” said Tommy as he sat around the table with as many allies as he could stand to cram into his house. “What do we do with it?”

“I say, escalation be damned,” said Conner.

“I’m with the rookie,” said Jason. “We march in and do this Red Ranger style.”

“We’ve got the evidence, and we’ve got his motives,” said Wes.

“And we know where the Saint Cradle is,” said Eric.

“So it’s a Ranger Commando Mission,” said Andros.

“Just like old times,” said TJ. “Though more than ten Red Rangers is going to be tough to sneak in.”

“Well that all depends on how my involvement plays out,” said Bridge, the former SPD Green now Red. “I shouldn’t even be here until I get involved with Operation Overdrive but you know, it’s the principal of the thing.” And he munched on buttery toast.

“I can tell you one thing, you’re not leaving me out of it this time,” said Rocky decisively.

“Then we’re all in this together?” said Cole.

“Seems like it,” said Carter. “Any other objections?”

“No objections here,” said Leo. “We should really figure out though where we should hide this thing.”

“I hear the moon is a nice dumping zone,” said Shane.

“So that’s…” Tommy took a headcount. “Thirteen Red Rangers. Three more than when we took down Serpentera.”

“What about the new guy from Briarwood?” inquired Cole.

“Nick can’t make it. He’s all the way on the other side of the country right now,” said Eric. “Believe me I checked.”

“Shame. We’re going to get our butts kicked then if there’s thirteen of us,” said TJ fatalistically.

“Better than getting baked in a giant pizza,” ribbed Andros and everyone groaned at that.


“Father where are you going?”

Tommy stopped short as he replied, “Um… commando mission?”

Fate pouted. “Father… That’s escalation.”

Tommy sighed. “I know sweetie, and I have a good reason for it too.”

“Take me with you.”

“Say what?”

“They hurt Nanoha-chan. This I cannot forgive.”

His little butt-kicking girl in danger.

Tommy couldn’t find it in his heart to feel sorry for Jail once they caught up to him.


“Wow this guy is creepy on the creep-o-meter.” Said Rocky, sneaking into the complex from the other side of it with Shane and Andros. While the Red Ranger assault took on the defenses from the front, the sneakier Rangers, ie, goddamn ninja-types snuck in the back.

“The creepiest creep that ever creeped?” inquired Shane.

“Creepier. Thus creep-o-rama.” Answered Rocky.

“Will you two focus?” hissed Andros as they rounded the corner. “Wait, hold up.”

Andros peeked into the room and a low growl emitted from his throat. “Look at this…”

Girls of all types in the way of manufacture, numbered with roman numerals from 1 to 13 at the least. Most of them looked incomplete. “These are the combat cyborgs right?” said Shane lowly. “Totally T-1000 here.”

“They look like they’re finished externally, but hardware wise I can’t be sure of,” said Rocky. “I’m not a technical genius.”

“Oh. Well I suppose the blinking light here then isn’t your way of saying I know what I’m doing?” inquired Shane.

Andros cussed as the pods began to release.


“We’ve got Jail,” said Tommy. “And you have… a pack of kids?”

“Long story,” said Andros as he shot a Gadget Drone with his blaster. “SHANE touched a control.”

“I totally did not dude,” defended Shane who had a little girl attached to his hip. “They seem to imprint on the first person they see.”

“… they’re cute at least?” offered Eric as one little girl looked at him with a flat expression. “Hey kid what’s your name?”

“… Uno,” said the kidlet.

“Well… Jen did say she wanted to adopt…” mused Wes as a bundle of energy who called herself Nove attached herself to his waist.


“Congratulations you thirteen, you just successfully averted time,” said Hayley, throwing up her hands. “Now what are you going to do?”

“Well first, Fate gets a new sister. Then I go to sleep. I’ll figure out everything in the morning.” Said Tommy.

“Oneechan is very cute,” said Fate of the girl who called herself Wendi. Wendi blushed a little.

“Well I got in contact with Nakajima. He did seem pretty put out that there’s more Combat Cyborgs but Jail is in custody.” Said Chrono. “So… what do we do with the last of them?”

“You mean the Saint Kaiser…” Tommy exhaled a gust of air. “We can’t keep her in stasis till the girls grow up so…”

“I’ll take her in,” said Kim. “I might not be a Nanoha-mama but I know a thing or two about raising kids.”

“Oh really?” inquired Tommy. “And what qualifications do you have?”

“Simple: if you can do it Mr. Brain-Like-A-Sieve Oliver can, then I can too.”

Tommy winced. Chrono laughed. Hayley grinned.


“How’s the kid holding out Jase?”

“Oh she’s doing great. A bit of an egg-head but that’s cause Trini’s teaching her everything she knows,” said Jason as the men met together for the afternoon. The kids played in the yard. “Quattro insists on making machines that has Trini refining. We’ll be making patents within a week.”

“That’s good. Out of all of the kids, she seemed like the most trouble,” said Tommy.

“At least my kid doesn’t go around yelling Starlight Breaker and shooting tiny blasts during tag,” laughed Jason.

“Hey hey, that’s not MY kid,” laughed Tommy. “I spoke with Shiro about it. As long as the girls don’t go actively shooting each other with full versions of it, it’s fine.”

Jason grinned as he drank his coffee. “Hey did you hear that Andrew’s finally finalized his team…?”