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Power Rangers: Dragon Fury

Weeks earlier...

Henry and Bruce Bailey stood around the open hood of a Ninetey-Two Nissan 300ZX. The prospective seller stood nearby, his arms crossed as he watched them argue over it.

"She's about as old as me. Needs a priest, not a mechanic." It was true enough that the paint was in rough shape, and it sat on four flat tires. And there was some kind of nest in the air intake.

"I don't need to restore it or nothing, but if I make it run, I can sell it to someone who will. I've gone and done it before. Besides, it's old, but it's been sittin', right?" He turned to the seller, a man not much older than Bruce himself.

"Huh? Oh, yeah man. My dad parked it because the clutch was going bad, he just never fixed it, and I don't really wanna so..."

"Let's get it on the trailer, daddy. I can make this work"

~~~

Now...

Bruce was seated by the window, next to a kid named Oz, and both boys were similar engrossed on their phone. Bruce had seven different tabs open in his browser, looking for parts for the Nissan that had become the bane of his existence. He'd thought he'd put in a new clutch, some shiny tires and offload the thing, but everywhere he looked there were new problems.

Eleven hundred for this, but then I can't afford both struts, only one is all that bad but I really should do both, and I can't find a good set of calipers for this model anywhere...

On and on he went, lost in his thoughts without anyone to really talk to. He didn't have many real friends. Kids he went to shop classes with were the closest to relating to him, but none of them were interested in dinosaur day, or whatever this was called. Of course, neither was Bruce, but he needed the credits.

There was Helia, of course, but she scared him a little in a way he couldn't explain. He'd talk to her if she struck something up, but usually he kept his head as far down as his stature allowed.

The kid next to him suddenly opened his mouth, “That wasn't political discussion. That was a dick measuring contest. Its a good thing she stopped it now before they started unzipping.”

Bruce hadn't heard the rest, but the off color joke caught him off guard and he let out a much louder bark of laughter than he meant to.

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But to actually contribute:

I reckon we start as is. We can always come up with excuses to add more people.

Another idea: perhaps Zordon can make more nanosuits, but it requires something. Maybe two or more of the Rangers have to "donate" part of theirs. I imagine the suits are capable of self repair, so if they donate some of their nanites, they'll be weakened temporarily, while a new suit "grows" in its own capsule.

EDIT: we would need to bake in some kind of excuse for why he hasn't just been making spares. Maybe it needs a sentient being to bond with before it can grow and/or repair?

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Fun anecdote, I was all over the internet yesterday looking at pictures of Haley Joel Osment, and today I'm talking to a coworker about child actors in horror movie and I went and said "What about that kid in the sixth sense? Who played him, hurr durr?"

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Okay, my current idea for the "zord" bit"



Something with big, segmented wings. The segments can move around independently, form barriers or attack as necessary.

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I used "teen" first as well, but it didn't give me the baby-face factor I needed.

EDIT so I don't double post:
Fun non-canon Bruce fact, I was originally going to write him gay as well, but we seem to be filling that quota just fine lol, and I don't want to force a potential love triangle into this.

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Bruce facts:

Last year his father loaned him three thousand dollars, and he spent the summer flipping cars for profit. Not like restoring classic cars, just buying cars that didn't run and fixing them so they did.(if we're going with the fundraiser, he was not able to continue this year, on account of being in summer school, and has savings are in danger of depleting)

He likes mountain dew, but doesn't drink it anymore, because in freshman year, he was drinking a can of the "throwback" mountain dew, and a classmate pointed to the hillbilly character on the can and said "that's you."

He finds dogs overwhelming and prefers cats, though he has no pets.

Despite his intimidating size, he has never been in a fight, and often avoids conflict.

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Problem actually solved, because de-aged current day Haley Joel Osment is perfect.



I used the "child" setting though, lol

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It's funny, I was actually also looking at Segel from Freaks and Geeks.

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I'm keeping my own eye out, but Haley is top of the list at present. We'll just throw that Marvel de-aging tech on him.

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@CaptainManbeard ah, he looks too old in these pictures, and pictures from when he was an appropriate age he was much too skinny for what I'm going for. I guess we can just use our imagination, but what's the point of a face claim if they don't actually look like the character?