Power Rangers: Army of Light
Ch 1 THE BEGINNING OF THE END
The Not too Distant Future
The sky darkened gray, the sound of war echoing throughout the battlefield, explosions left and right, grunts, kiya's, laser blast and swords clashing. The Power Rangers earth's mightiest fighting force banded together to repel a dark threat to the planet earth. The final battle to decide the fate of the world fought on there own doorstep the Power Chamber, the force of the attack and constant fighting draining and tiring them out, the villains close in for the final blow…..
"Energy Orb Super Charged" a voice cried out from the hill top into the wind, a giant orb of light flew toward the majority of evil forces promptly destroying them or knocking them back. The other rangers looked up to the cliff, most of them gasp beneath their helmets while others struggle to stand and some look on amazed at the sight before them, on a cliff stood five familiar heroes.
Present Day
"SAMURAI FOREVER hiya!" the six demorphed samurai rangers yelled as they gathered all their strength and power into their Spin Swords and struck a final blow to Master Xandred. Finally piece had returned to Panorama City and the world….or has it.
Deep within the reaches of space a gigantic space ship enters the Milky Way.
"Sire we have entered the galaxy" a distorted female voice calls out from on of the panels of the ship's command center
"Excellent, Zeia is everything prepared" a dark figure with a husky voice calls out from the throne placed in the center
"Yes my lord all soldiers and a battalions are ready for conquest as well as the fleet" Zeia said as she turned and kneeled before her master. Zeia wore a blood red armored suit with a helmet complete with two short spiked horns and a black face mask.
The door open as a short plump figure wearing black and purple robes walks in, he kneels then speaks.
"Lord Ravian I may be out of place but why are we attacking such a worthless planet" Xenga asks
The figure on the thrones visible hand begins to glow a deathly red "This worthless planet is where my master Thrax was destroyed I intend to find the one responsible" he raises his glowing fist in the air "and make them PAY!" then slams his fist down denting the throne arm he then glared at Xenga with yellowish eyes "and if you question me again I wont hesitate to destroy you"!
"My apologies sire it won't happen again" Xenga claim his voice shaking with fear
Zeia chuckles a bit under her helmet "Xenga you fool how dare you question Lord Ravian, look at you shaking in your boots"
Just as Xenga was about to rise and attack Zeia who stood in attack stance Ravian yelled deeply with a voice that shook the entire ship "ENOUGH!"
Suddenly an alarm on one of the panels went off Ravian looked at Zeia "Report"
"Sire there is an unnatural amount of light energy coming from the planet" Zeia reported while looking at the panel pressing button trying to get an exact reading.
Ravian stands from the shadow of his throne to reveal blood red skin with black stripes all over his unnaturally muscular body which is covered in armor. His face covered in scars one on his left eye and three on his right cheek. "Then we will just have to extinguish it how much longer till we reach the planet, Zeia".
Zeia checks the panel "Approx 15 hrs sire"
"Then we wait; allow the pathetic life forms to enjoy…" Ravian walks to the window of the command center and watches as a crystal blue planet comes into view "...their last day on earth". A dark evil laugh echoes throughout the ship.
On Earth
The night was peaceful, a cool breeze flowed through as the people of Panorama City were finally getting used to the peace and quiet they had obtained thanks to the Samurai Rangers, speaking of which two samurai's just happen to walking downtown in the park. Jayden Shiba walked hand in hand with Mia Watanabe the two rangers finally confessed their feelings to each other, shortly after the fight with Xandred they began dating.
"I love it out here Jay" Mia said dreamily looking into the night sky holding on to Jayden's arm
He also was looking at the stars but for a different reason he mumbled to himself obviously not hearing what his girlfriend had said. Mia picked up on this and gently nudged him in the ribs "Hello earth to Jayden".
Jayden looked back down to Mia's facial expression and smiled in embarrassment "Sorry Mia what did you say?"
Mia sighed stopped walking and stood in front of Jayden with her hands on her hips scowling at him, he thought it was cute "This is the third time I've caught you staring into the sky" her face turned from a scowl to one of concern "what's wrong Jay"
"I'm sorry love but I've just got this strange feeling, it's probably nothing and I'm just being over cautious"
Mia placed her soft hand on Jayden's cheek caressing it softly "It is probably nothing but just in case we'll be ready" she smiles and chuckles "like always".
Jayden looked down to his girlfriend looked deeply into her eyes and leaned for their lips to meet in a long passionate kiss. After a min he soon released her lips allowing them both to breathe.
"May you should be worried more often if you're going to kiss me like that" Mia said dreamily coming down off the high of the kiss she just received.
Jayden smiled and retook her hand as she lay her head upon his shoulder as they continued their walk home not know how wrong they really were.
The next day Noon
The sun was shining midday in Panorama City, at the Shiba estate. The sound of bokken's (wooden katana) clashing is heard. The samurai rangers train on this beautiful day. The Shiba Clan's 18th head Jayden trains with Kevin and Mike in a two on one match while Mia, Emily and Antonio watch.
Jayden get into a confident stance standing straight up with his sword in his right hand resting on his neck his eyes closed.
Kevin raises his katana into a middle stance putting the sword in front of him, Mike does the same.
A, calm quiet falls upon the rangers Jayden Inhales and exhales opening his eyes he yells "Come"
Just as he yells the two other men attack Mike in a flurry of slashes and Kevin more controlled slashes almost like brush strokes. Jayden dodges and parries the on coming attacks. Mike and Kevin jump back to their original positions look at one another and nod.
"Get ready Jayden here…I…COME!" Mike yells as he rushes towards the Red Ranger
Jayden looks up and ducks from a high slash and quickly flips his sword around and jabs the blunt end into Mike stomach making him lose breath.
"Ah argh" mike grunts in pain as he kneels
Kevin comes up from behind with a mid section strike Jayden senses this and kicks mike's sword way up in the air he turns his back to Kevin who is confused but still going for the strike.
"What's he doing he'll get hit like that" Emily said to the two of her friends on either side.
"Just watch and see" Antonio said with a smirk while Mia just watched nodding her head in agreement
Kevin comes closer to Jayden whose back is still turned. "Better do something quick Jayden" Kevin said gaining speed coming even closer.
Just then Jayden thrust his hand upward grabbing the sword that was still spinning in the air, he twist and kneels on one knee just as Kevin swings and misses taking the katana he just caught he raises it up with enough force to knock Kevin's sword out of his hand and impaling it in the wall.
The air is quiet, Antonio simply smirks, a genuine smile upon the lips of Mia. The face Emily makes shows her shock at the sight before her. There stood Jayden, Kevin, and Mike still as the night sky. Jayden knelt down with his own sword pointed at Mike's throat while his head hung low ducking from Kevin's slash which missed allowing the red ranger to knock the sword away using the sword he got from mike while holding the bladed point at Kevin abdomen. Both Kevin and Mike's showed utter shock at this display from their leader they were defeated simple as that.
"Very well done" Ji said walking outside from the house
"Thanks Ji" Jayden says as he helps Mike up
"That was some move Jayden" Mike said still rubbing his stomach
Kevin smiles and pats Jayden on the shoulder "Yeah I thought for sure we had you"
"Jayden you almost did but honestly I didn't expect you to come from behind like that." He said truthfully
Mentor Ji smiled and said "Rangers you've all grown since destroying Xandred and…."
He is stopped mid sentence by an earth shaking explosion they all looked toward the city to see buildings on fire and a giant cloud of smoke people screaming.
"RANGERS!" Mentor Ji looked back to the Samurai Rangers as Jayden nodded first to Ji then to the other rangers who nodded back. The in a split second Jayden looks at Mia and he could see the worry in her eyes. The rangers all line up "GO GO SAMURAI" they all write the respective kanji in front of them and morph.
The City
First people were enjoying their wonderful day now they run and panic from the sudden attack on their city after a month of peace. A massive army of gray and black clad soldiers making a weird noise and wearing a Z on their chest armor, most of them flailing their arms up and down attacking people, some carrying a stylized blaster shooting at people and blowing up cars and building or carrying a short sword slicing people up. There were even fighter jets attacking buildings blowing up bridges. This attack was different from past attacks people were dying this was an organized attack.
A group of people were trying to run away from these monsters when they were surrounded on all sides. The soldiers lowered their blasters preparing to fire when they were attacked by the folding zords allowing the people to escape. They look up to see six multicolored persons standing there.
"Red Samurai Ranger, Jayden Shiba"
"The same Blue, Kevin"
"The same Pink, Mia"
"The same Green, Mike"
"The same Yellow, Emily"
"The same Gold, Antonio"
"Power Rangers Together, Samurai Forever" all the rangers said
"Hey don't know who you are but you picked the wrong city to invade" Mike yelled out
"Rangers go" Jayden yelled out all of the rangers leapt into action.
They attack spin swords blazing each taking a sizable amount of the unarmed and blade armed foot soldiers then they were taken by surprise by the many blast coming from the gun welding soldiers and completely blown away by the shots from the fighter jets. They struggle to get up.
"We can't give up the people are counting on us" Antonio said with staggered breathes
Jayden starts to get up "He's right stand rangers we can do this!"
They all rise to there feet an stand at the ready. The foot soldiers began to charge the rangers follow suit and charge into battle their fight renewed.
"Kevin, Mike, Jayden take the Battlewing an take out those flyers" Mia yelled out as she slashed a row a soldiers "we'll handle things down here"
"Got it be careful guys" Jayden said directed at all of them but mainly at Mia "Tonio take the SHARK ATTACK DISC come on guys" he tosses the disc at Antonio an then nods to Kev and Mike taking a small glance at Mia
"Swordfish Zord" Kevin yelled
"Beetle Zord" Mike yelled
"Tiger Zord" Jayden yelled
"COMBINE" all three yelled as they wrote the kanji for the zord combination
A figure stands atop the ashes and rubble of a destroyed building watching waiting
The battlewing proceeds to engage the alien fighter jets. Antonio now wearing the Shark Vest and wielding the Shark Sword leads the girls to battle.
"I gotta say I missed this being in the heat of battle hiya" Antonio yelled as he kicked then slashed more soldiers he then activated the shark swords ability he stands still an lets the sword extend an slice throughout a large crowd of soldiers
"Yea but stay focused Antonio" Emily said throwing her Earth Slicer then turning punching and kicking the soldiers then catching it.
Mia whirled her Sky fan around slicing and dicing the soldiers "She's right we have to...whoa" she is interrupted when a red and gold armored figure dropped out of nowhere sword drawn, Mia quickly switches from fan to her spin sword and clashes with the new opponent
"You know I always hated the color pink haa" Zeia yelled as she clashed blow for blow with Mia expertly keeping up "You're pretty good for a no talent novice you have no idea how powerful I am" she says as they cross swords facing each other glaring through their respective helmets.
Mia noticed Emily about to rush over to help her she finds strength and pushed the armor clad woman off of her then slicing a group of soldiers behind her "I've got this Em go" Mia yells out confidently Emily only nods and resumes her fight.
Up In the Sky
"Fire on my command ready and FIRE!" Jayden yells out
The Battlewing fire massive bolts of energy destroying the last of the alien fighters
"Alright let's give them a piece of their own medicine" Mike excitedly yells out
"Yeah punch it" Kevin says
They guide the battlewing low enough and began firing at the soldiers on the ground destroying a massive amount of them be careful not to harm their comrades.
"Alright lets get back in the fight" Jayden says then looks down to see Mia engaged with another more skilled warrior when he notices the plasma pistol she is secretly charging "No…MIA" without another thought his spin sword out and jumps out of the Battlewing.
"Whoa" Kevin and Mike said at the same time "Mike lets get down there" Kevin said Mike only nods
"Haaa" the warrior is back on Mia they both not letting up Zeia even dared to only use one hand
"Who are you and why have you come to our planet" Mia says and she slashes and misses Zeia by only an inch.
"My name is Zeia and my lord is here to rid the world of the good and pure light energy surrounding this planet" she gets up "Now die you foolish girl" she tosses her sword and just as expected Mia moves her head to the side and dodges it "Humph" Zeia says as she draws her gun.
As if times slows down she fires at the unexpecting pink ranger when all of a sudden they both hear someone call out "SUPER MODE". In a split second the red ranger drops from the heavens wearing the super mode's signature white coat he is now directly in front of Mia, what happens next will forever haunt Mia.
"ARGH AHHH" Jayden yells as he takes the full force of the blast Mia looks on in horror and small explosion burst from the ground around the man she loves sparks flying from his chest and he falls to his knees weakened.
"JAYDEN!" each respective ranger yells as they begin run towards the red and pink ranger.
Mia runs to his side "Jayden why did you…." She says franticly but is interrupted by him
"I'm fine Mia are you hurt" he says slowly standing up she could only shake her head no as she lets out a sigh of relief.
The rest of the rangers finally gather around them all asking if there ok.
" Aw how touching now you can all be destroyed together she along with a firing squad rapidly starts firing shots the rangers to their best to deflect most of them but they are all hit by another of Zeia's charge blast. They still struggle to get up "I'll admit your tough but now its time to die" she raises the gun in the air and charges the biggest blast yet.
"POWER AXE FIRE!"
"GOLDEN FIRE BLAST!"
"ENGERY ORB FIRE!"
Three voice rang out above the rangers and Zeia then she sees three giant blasts merge into one she drops and gun an quickly dodges but the devastating blast wipes out the rest of the foot soldiers leaving nothing but piles of ash.
The rangers look up to see three figures all wearing some form of black and gold standing atop one of the still intact buildings. They see on the right one has an all-black helmet with a silver mouth and what looked like tusks on each of the side of his face. His chest was adorned with a gold chest armor with a diamond shape in the middle, two gold arm braces on each bicep and all black suit with a white belt and sliver buckle with a coin in it and both his gloves and boots were white with black diamond patterns he turns to face the samurai rangers raises his axe in the air and yells.
"MIGHTY MORPHIN BLACK RANGER"
The one on the far left looked almost the same with the more stylized chest armor two gold bands on each bicep. All black suit although this one helmet was all black it's face resembled an gold outline of the kanji for king, his gloves all white with go bracers on top of them and a gold belt he raises his staff up which also has the kanji for king on it up.
"GOLD ZEO RANGER"
The finally one in the middle stood with an black suit trimmed on the sides with gold sideways diamond shapes going up the legs and arms, his boots all black with a gold cuff at the top, no gloves only gold bands on his wrist with a dinosaur shaped morpher on his left. The belt is gold with a silver buckle, no chest armor but a giant footprint with a ring around it adorned his chest complete with two pointed shoulder guards. His collar white while his helmet that looks a bit like the morpher on his wrist the visor all black looks like a mouth. He raises his sword like staff in the air.
"DINO THUNDER BLACK RANGER"
They all jump from the building and land kneeling then slowly rise.
"Looks like you guys could use a hand" the black dino ranger said