Rumble 12564 Adam Park vs. Tommy Oliver

[Nesh]

Adam Park trudged through the Moon Palace of Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd. The Power Ranger was the eye of a hurricane. He seemed completely calm but anything that got in his way was tossed aside with the barest of efforts. Putties, Tengas, even monsters scattered like leaves before this single unmorphed Ranger. Adam Park was on a mission and there wasn’t anything that was going to stop him.

 

As he walked he thought about the events that had brought him to this point; it had all started… almost year ago now. He’d been just sitting in his dojo; Alpha 6 had just made lunch when he’d heard the sound of Putty Patrollers. Naturally he’d gone to help, as any ranger would. The fact that Putties were back in Angel Grove after fourteen years had disturbed him but the target of the attack had really turned his life upside-down. It was Kimberly Ann Hart, the Earth’s first Pink Ranger, having moved back to her home town after over a decade.

 

After dealing with the Putties the pair had decided to put together a team of veteran Rangers to combat the threat. At first Adam had thought it was Thrax, Rita and Zedd’s son that the Sentinel Knight had called him into fight two years ago along with the other “Retro Rangers†when Thrax had disconnected the Overdrive Rangers from the Universal Morphing Grid. Not for the first time he wished it had been Thrax, that would’ve been so much easier.

 

However, things were never easy for Power rangers. It hadn’t been Thrax but a somehow resurrected Lord Zedd. Thankfully the team he’d put together had been an elite one. Other than Kimberly and himself they’d recruited Andros the Red Space Ranger, Kira Ford the Yellow Dino Thunder Ranger, and their old friend, Jason Lee Scott Earth’s first Red Ranger and equipped the team with some of the most powerful morphing powers Earth had ever seen the Zeo powers. Trey of Triforia, the Gold Ranger had joined them later, giving the new team of Zeo Rangers access to the complete arsenal of the old team.

 

The battle against Zedd’s forces had been difficult but t without its upsides. Over time he and Kimberly had grown closer. The Pink ranger hat what amounted to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder about the last time she’d faced Zedd’s forces back in 1995 and nearly died. Being the only member of the team who had been around for that incident Kimberly had turned to him to help her brush up on her fighting skills so something like that wouldn’t happen again. He’d promised her that he wouldn’t let Zedd hurt her again.

 

He’d failed. Lord Zedd had kidnapped her. That’s why he was here, to get Kimberly back from the clutches of Lord Zedd. This was personal. Adam felt the weight in his back pocket, the weight of a box that contained an engagement ring. He was going to propose today but she’d been kidnapped last night. Adam shut his eyes tightly and took a deep breath. Over the last year they’d fallen in love, of course something like this had to happen the night he had to propose, that was the life of a Power Ranger for you.

The other Rangers were keeping the bulk of Lord Zedd’s forces busy while Adam went for Zedd himself, as he’d said, this was personal. He’d prepared for this fight, he’d been preparing for this since day one. In addition to his Zeonizer he had his Dino Buckler and Mastodon Power Coin, repaired by the Sentinel Knight two years ago, and Alpha had managed to get the Metallic Armor to work with a Dino Power Coin in place of a Ninja Power Coin and gotten it to work outside of Earth’s atmosphere. Unfortunately he couldn’t call on the Metallic Armor in conjunction with the Zeo Powers but he’d take what he could get.

 

Finally Adam steeped into Lord Zedd’s throne room. He found Kimberly strapped to some sort of machine, he didn’t know what it was for and he didn’t care. He marched toward it with the intent of rescuing her but before he even got three steps the throne swiveled around to reveal his enemy.

 

“Hello Tommy,†Adam said calmly. Tommy had seen better days, he’d been possessed by the evil that had been purged from Zedd by Zordon’s energy wave and the malignant presence was twisting his body and mind to match the form it had in life. More than half of Tommy’s body looked like Zedd’s now, or am I speaking to Zedd?â€

 

“Both,†Tommy/Zedd answered, “I wasn’t expecting you Adam. I figured it would be Jason who came to rescue her. Either way, no one will stop me from having Rita’s evil spirit possess little Kimberly, and then once my love is back-“ Adam cut him off with a punch.

 

“I am so sick of this,†Adam said, “I’m so tired of assholes coming into my home and doing this! You think I’m afraid of you, you think I care about your backstory. I have fought conquerors, robots, and monsters, and I have been victorious every time. You’ll be no different. I’ll give you once chance to let Kim go and no one will have to get hurt.â€

 

“I’m afraid that won’t be possible.†Tommy/Zedd said.

 

Well then,†Adam said, “It’s Morphin’ Time! Zeo Ranger 4: Green!†The Green Zeo Ranger prepared for one last battle.

“Well mow, I’m glad the Zedd part of me was able to repair this,†tommy summoned his Dino Thunder Morpher, “Dino Thunder, power up! Well we’re in each other’s original colors, how ironic.†The two Rangers started each other down knowing only one of them would walk away from this.

 

So it’s:

 

Tommy Oliver with the powers of the Black Dino Thunder Ranger powers, possessed by Lord Zedd. He has all the power and skills of both Tommy and Zedd.

 

Vs.

 

Adam Park currently morphed as Zeo Ranger 4. He also has his Black Mastodon Powers as a backup and can access the Metallic Armor while in the form of the Black Ranger.

 

*No Zords

 

*Bloodlust is on.

[Callisto]

Learn More About

Adam Park

Read more about Adam Park at Wikipedia

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Tommy Oliver

Read more about Tommy Oliver at Wikipedia

Official Site: Bandai America Links: Wikipedia Tommy Oliver site Power Rangers Central Green Ranger MySpace site

 

 

[Guest skadoosh]

Tommy, probably, but i'm not sure.

[Nesh]

Tommy, probably, but i'm not sure.

What's got you on the fence if I may ask?

[Guest bigballerju]

Awesome match. The fight could go either way for sure. I am going with Tommy because Tommy when he was a Dino Thunder later on in the Power Ranger series is completely superior to Adam in the fighting skill department. The other thing is Tommy could be more powerful between the Dino Thunder's powers and Zedd's. Tommy also has way more experience.

[Nesh]

Awesome match. The fight could go either way for sure. I am going with Tommy because Tommy when he was a Dino Thunder later on in the Power Ranger series is completely superior to Adam in the fighting skill department. The other thing is Tommy could be more powerful between the Dino Thunder's powers and Zedd's. Tommy also has way more experience.

I don't know about more pwer, the Zeo Cystal constantly grows in power, remember the big jump in poweer the Zeo Powers displayed in Forever Red? They would've made a similiar jump here. Honestly I think you're overhypig Tommy's skills, I watched Dino Thunder, his still seemed about the same to me. don't bring up the coma where he fought his Ranger forms, that sequence defies logic based o pwer strength and skill level. Plus he retired after dino Thunder, it's been five years in this set up since he's reall fought he's bound to be rusty.. Wheras Adam has more recent fighting experience. runs a dojo, so his skills are sharp and has two morphing pwers.

 

Tommy is one of the best so is adam. Both have advantges and disadvantages. It won't be easy for either sidde ut to say Tommy's skils are far superior....

[Guest bigballerju]

Tommy's skills definitely got better in Dino Thunder. Watch him in the past and watch him in Dino Thunder. I was a huge Jason David Frank fan when I was a kid and studied his Karate style he incorporated into Tommy Oliver. As he got better in real life he came back in the later Power Ranger series and had Tommy looking more skilled in combat then before. I don't know about logic since it is a Power Ranger show and all of that. But you do bring up good points about the Zeo crystal, Tommy being rusty, and Adam's other powers here. Tommy though has Lord Zedd's powers to back him up in this match too. Tommy's fighting skills would be rusty so Adam might end up being more skilled.

[Nesh]

Tommy's skills definitely got better in Dino Thunder. Watch him in the past and watch him in Dino Thunder. I was a huge Jason David Frank fan when I was a kid and studied his Karate style he incorporated into Tommy Oliver. As he got better in real life he came back in the later Power Ranger series and had Tommy looking more skilled in combat then before. I don't know about logic since it is a Power Ranger show and all of that. But you do bring up good points about the Zeo crystal, Tommy being rusty, and Adam's other powers here. Tommy though has Lord Zedd's powers to back him up in this match too. Tommy's fighting skills would be rusty so Adam might end up being more skilled.

Well the reason the coma scene defies gic is simply this, it;s completly backwards. The Green Ranger was the toughest opponent he fought in that coma. Only the Green Ranger powers were actually the weakeest Tommy ever wielded. Zordon himself said the White Ranger was superior, True when Tommy fought the Green Ranger as the White Rnger they wer even but he was wekened from the cloning process. Zeo Ranger V powers wer clearly superior to any MMPR powers. The coma is backwards because he's having more trouble against figments who should have less power and experience than those before.

[Guest bigballerju]

Very true. I always thought the reason why the power levels of the Rangers were different was because it was more which version of himself as a person did he feel was the one most powerful he had to overcome. Tommy when he was evil makes sense that Tommy would feel that would be the one most powerful to overcome.

[Guest hamtaroblazex]

The metallic armor is also a very nice tool for Adam. Granting a generous speed and armor boost vs. the powers of Zedd.

 

Though, I am wondering. Would Tommy try to regain control of himself and or, Adam try to bring Tommy back, even if they are blood lusted? Since this has happened to him one other time.

[Nesh]

The metallic armor is also a very nice tool for Adam. Granting a generous speed and armor boost vs. the powers of Zedd.

 

Though, I am wondering. Would Tommy try to regain control of himself and or, Adam try to bring Tommy back, even if they are blood lusted? Since this has happened to him some other time.

Well I'd perfer to leave that up to you guys. Addam wants his girl back, no telling what lengths he'd go to. Whether Tommy could fightZedd in his mind I'll leave up to you.

[xLEGACYx]

I think when it all comes down to it the combined powers of Dino Thunder and Zedds power give tommy the win here

[comic_book_fan]

Well the reason the coma scene defies gic is simply this, it;s completly backwards. The Green Ranger was the toughest opponent he fought in that coma. Only the Green Ranger powers were actually the weakeest Tommy ever wielded. Zordon himself said the White Ranger was superior, True when Tommy fought the Green Ranger as the White Rnger they wer even but he was wekened from the cloning process. Zeo Ranger V powers wer clearly superior to any MMPR powers. The coma is backwards because he's having more trouble against figments who should have less power and experience than those before.

yeah i take tommy's oppinion over zordon's considering he was the one who had the power and also zordon had nothing to do with the green ranger power also the feats for the green ranger were better then the white rangers he had energey projection that the white ranger didn't he was just as strong and fast he had momentary invulnrability and even when they fought the green ranger was getting the best of the white ranger.

that being said tommy beats adam like a drum each and every version of tommy could take on five rangers and hold his own andam could never do that.

[Nesh]

yeah i take tommy's oppinion over zordon's considering he was the one who had the power and also zordon had nothing to do with the green ranger power also the feats for the green ranger were better then the white rangers he had energey projection that the white ranger didn't he was just as strong and fast he had momentary invulnrability and even when they fought the green ranger was getting the best of the white ranger.

that being said tommy beats adam like a drum each and every version of tommy could take on five rangers and hold his own andam could never do that.

You are aTommy fanboy and a green Ranger fanboy, There is ab episode where Tommy is cloned and clone is given the Green Ranger powers and he fights White Ranger Tommy eho is weakened by the cloning, the White Ranger fought on par with the Green Ranger while weakened White Ranger > Green Ranger. The olny time Tommy ever soloed a team was under Rita's mind control when Billy still couldn't fight worth shit and Jason was rhe best fighter on the team by far and then a few episode late Jason bfights roughly on par with him as he did in his first appearance and Tommy never shows that kind of power again as a Ranger. Seems to me Rita pput steriods in her spell and they werent long lasting. Adam, Rocky, and Aisha are all just as good as Jason, Billy was a more compenent fighter in season 2 as was Kimberly

[xLEGACYx]

When Tommy could project energy blasts was when he was under the evil power. He would have still had the invulnerability because that was a combined power of his dagger and shield but none of that is relevant. This is the Dino Thunder Black Ranger. Now if it was that simple than it would be a really close fight but the added power of Zedd gives Tommy too much power and abilities for Adam to defend against

[Nesh]

When Tommy could project energy blasts was when he was under the evil power. He would have still had the invulnerability because that was a combined power of his dagger and shield but none of that is relevant. This is the Dino Thunder Black Ranger. Now if it was that simple than it would be a really close fight but the added power of Zedd gives Tommy too much power and abilities for Adam to defend against

I don't know those Zeo powers have been laying around just growing in power for about seven years since Forever Red and they made an absolute freaking huge jump in power in the six years betwen Zeo and orever Red. Most fans tend to think that during Forever Red Tommy was at his most owerful, now add in another boost like that for Adam. Plus even if that doesn't do thre trick he's still got his MMPR powers and Mettalic Armor to fall back on, Mrphing would reenergize him while Tommy/Zedd would still be battle weary.

 

Now it quite possible for Tommy to still win this, I have never denied that and I never will. However I think your counting out Adam too soon, he wants his girl back, he's going to be fighting hardr and smarter than ever before because he's on the clock.

[xLEGACYx]

while I agree that the zeo power had made a great jump it still took 2 red rangers to defeat a single general from the machine empire which would have been weaker than King Mondo himself. I also agree that Adam can never be counted out. Again if this was an Evil Dino Thunder Tommy vs Adam then it would be 50/50 but adding in Zedds powers gives Tommy the advantage

[comic_book_fan]

You are aTommy fanboy and a green Ranger fanboy, There is ab episode where Tommy is cloned and clone is given the Green Ranger powers and he fights White Ranger Tommy eho is weakened by the cloning, the White Ranger fought on par with the Green Ranger while weakened White Ranger > Green Ranger. The olny time Tommy ever soloed a team was under Rita's mind control when Billy still couldn't fight worth shit and Jason was rhe best fighter on the team by far and then a few episode late Jason bfights roughly on par with him as he did in his first appearance and Tommy never shows that kind of power again as a Ranger. Seems to me Rita pput steriods in her spell and they werent long lasting. Adam, Rocky, and Aisha are all just as good as Jason, Billy was a more compenent fighter in season 2 as was Kimberly

the clone was winning it knocked him out of the tigerzord and had the edge in the fight until they decided to team up.

the reason why tommy almost never used those powers again was because he wanted pereserve his powers so he stuck with basic ranger abiliies but while at full strength the green ranger was the most powerful of all the rangers.

[xLEGACYx]

no he was just the most powerful at that time period. Each set of rangers have been more powerful than the last.

[Nesh]

the clone was winning it knocked him out of the tigerzord and had the edge in the fight until they decided to team up.

the reason why tommy almost never used those powers again was because he wanted pereserve his powers so he stuck with basic ranger abiliies but while at full strength the green ranger was the most powerful of all the rangers.

He only demonstrated the energy blast once and Jason was still able to fight more or less on par with him at the end of Green with Evil but you chose to ignore tht. Of course you're also ignoring that the White Ranger was not at his best, constantly getting weaker during that fight. Tommy demonstrated an enegy blast once, he defeated arather green udertrained inexperienced Ranger team with the element of surprise. He never demonstrates that kind of thing again, he didn't know his powers weren't finite until later so he had no real reason not to, and Jason was still more or less his equal. Things he oly showed unsder Rita's spell but never did again I attribute to Rita's magic.

[comic_book_fan]

no he was just the most powerful at that time period. Each set of rangers have been more powerful than the last.

then explain in forever red when the red wild force ranger was getting his ass wooped by one of mondo's genrals and jason comes in and saves him . and i disagree the mmpr got there power streight from the source that had been around forever most of the others were tec based tring to duplicate the original souce after it had been buried.

[comic_book_fan]

He only demonstrated the energy blast once and Jason was still able to fight more or less on par with him at the end of Green with Evil but you chose to ignore tht. Of course you're also ignoring that the White Ranger was not at his best, constantly getting weaker during that fight. Tommy demonstrated an enegy blast once, he defeated arather green udertrained inexperienced Ranger team with the element of surprise. He never demonstrates that kind of thing again, he didn't know his powers weren't finite until later so he had no real reason not to, and Jason was still more or less his equal. Things he oly showed unsder Rita's spell but never did again I attribute to Rita's magic.

jason only won cause the plot had to continue and tommy knew about loosing his powers like 2 episodes later .

the dinothunder tommy is a much more even fight for adam i still think tommy has the edge but it's alot closer.

[xLEGACYx]

then explain in forever red when the red wild force ranger was getting his ass wooped by one of mondo's genrals and jason comes in and saves him . and i disagree the mmpr got there power streight from the source that had been around forever most of the others were tec based tring to duplicate the original souce after it had been buried.

the reason that each set of rangers is stronger than the last is because with each new evil they needed and upgrade in power. Thats why when the MMPR were defeated they needed the Zeo power. When the Zeo Power was depleted at the time they needed the Turbo power. Then when the Turbo Rangers were defeated the need the Space Ranger powers. After power rangers in space though each set of rangers took care of a different place so its hard to judge from there. But each rset of rangers leading up to in space grew in power.

 

Now a possibility could be that in Forever Red each ranger was fed completely by there power source. That means Jason had the full force of the MMPR and Tommy had the full force of the Zeo Powers

[comic_book_fan]

the reason that each set of rangers is stronger than the last is because with each new evil they needed and upgrade in power. Thats why when the MMPR were defeated they needed the Zeo power. When the Zeo Power was depleted at the time they needed the Turbo power. Then when the Turbo Rangers were defeated the need the Space Ranger powers. After power rangers in space though each set of rangers took care of a different place so its hard to judge from there. But each rset of rangers leading up to in space grew in power.

 

Now a possibility could be that in Forever Red each ranger was fed completely by there power source. That means Jason had the full force of the MMPR and Tommy had the full force of the Zeo Powers

but they needed a new power source after each season because the rangers are some how cut off from the original source not because the old powers aren't strong enough

[AVP vs The Terminator]

The "each Ranger team is stronger than the last" logic was only valid up until the end of In Space. After that era ended, they stopped doing that.