Hey. Saban owns Power Rangers, not me. I? Me? Whatever, you guys know what I mean. This is with my Letters verse and will stay so opposed to whatever new canon in the show pops up. Possibly; it'll depend.

And this is my 66th fic. Whoa.


"Things look like they do back home," observed Theo Martin at length. He and his two companions had been teleported to this unknown dimension by Dr. Cranston in order to get some answers. Mack Hartford and Summer Landsdown nodded their heads. Together they wandered out of the park they had arrived in.

Spotting the park's sign, Mack did a double take. "Angel Grove Park?"

"Wait, this city is named Angel Grove too?" a baffled Summer questioned. "I mean, this is not a parallel dimension to you guys' so that doesn't make sense…"

Anxiously they walked down the street, Theo briefly stopping to purchase a newspaper. As the short man flipped through it, Summer asked, "Anything of use?"

"Yeah. There are in fact Power Rangers here. But it's the first time anywhere on this Earth that there have been Power Rangers as far as they know."

"Well, this place is called Angel Grove," joked Mack.

Dourly Theo noted, "This is not a joking matter. We've got a strange dimension, dead aliens getting emails, and SPD ignoring the lot of us."

"I know that as well as you do, Theo," Mack replied. "That's why I'm making a joke."

Theo wound himself up for a retort. Summer felt lucky she spotted something across the street that would avert the budding argument.

"Um, guys?"

"What?" Theo asked curtly, still glaring at the semi-irritated Red Overdrive Ranger.

"There's an Ernie."

"What?" went both men incredulously.

"Yeah, look."

All three stared at the white building labeled "Ernie's Brain Freeze" for a long moment. Finally Mack shrugged and began to head to the nearest crosswalk.

"Come on, it's our first lead."

The three were soon in the building, purchasing ice cream cones as to blend in prior to sitting down at a booth. Laying down the newspaper to the forum page, Theo observed, "The page is full of wondering where and who these Power Rangers are. The team is apparently Megaforce; that's original. It's like 1993 for them…"

"Same color scheme as the first five- red, yellow, blue, black, and pink," noted Mack. "But that doesn't mean anything in particular- so did my team."

"And my team was first in our dimension, and we started out as a trio," Summer agreed. "Still, it's a start. We know how many and which colors to look out for."

"Hmm," went Theo, eying a pair of teen boys who had just entered. Looking over, Mack saw a pair of coffee-skinned boys with black hair, but one wore mostly black while the other wore blue.

"That doesn't mean anything, Theo. It could be a coincidence."

Theo and Summer looked at Mack, amazed that the most experienced of them had just said something that monumentally stupid.

"Sorry. Forgot, we're dealing with Power Rangers here," Mack admitted sheepishly. "Still, we can't just waltz over there and ask them if they're Power Rangers."

"Of course not," Summer sighed.

Theo nodded somberly. "Do any of us even know how to waltz?"

Mack gave Theo a look, but since he wasn't Theo's Red it had no effect. In fact, Theo just responded with a flat look of his own.

"Boys," Summer warned them. "We're on a mission. No time to see who's alpha."

"Mack is, he's the Red and has seniority," a deceptively mild Theo informed her. Mack side-eyed the other male as Summer buried her face in her hands.

Them a third teenage boy entered; he wore red and was tentatively waved over by the boy in blue as he made his order. The red-clad teen hovered at the counter for a bit before joining the other two warily.

"Huh," blinked Mack. Theo smacked him upside the head. "They've been a team for less than a week. What did you expect?"

"And here's our final two pieces of the puzzle," announced Summer as two pretty girls, one a blonde in yellow and an Asian in pink, entered side by side. They got their smoothies before joining the boys, making sure they sat side by side.

"So the girls were friends before, and so were the blue and black. Red knows nobody."

The Black Ranger, smiling widely, tried to chat up the girl in yellow to her bemused confusion. Theo promptly banged his head against the table. "Dear Zordon and Megazords: it's Zack and Angela all over again, but if Angela was a Ranger!"

"Then, it's not the same," Summer observed. Theo ignored her.

"Okay, so we've been pretty successful, considering we've been here for about a half hour. We know there is a first Power Rangers team, we know the city is also named Angel Grove, there's an Ernie who makes smoothies except he's Indian-"

"That's kind of racist…"

"Shut up, Theo. And now we've probably found the Power Rangers themselves. But now what?"

Theo shrugged, his face still lying on the newspaper. Summer was at a loss as well. Mack made a face, looking over at the warily interacting teens.

"Yeah, I don't know what to do now either."

MEGAFORCE

Noah pushed up his glasses, unsure of how to bring up the subject. Jake was busy trying to make conversation with Gia for the thirteenth time, who kept trying to continue her discussion with Emma about their math homework; and Troy had retreated himself, staring into his half-empty smoothie as if expecting answers about the strange situation the five were now in due to an alien invasion and a talking face in the wall of a secret base. Finally he performed a polite cough. When that went unnoticed, Noah coughed again, a bit louder this time.

"So, um, you like math?" Jake asked Gia. Noah sighed. His efforts were being ignored.

Emma laughed and replied for her friend. "Yeah, a lot more than most people do!"

"Hey! I don't like math that much!" Gia argued. She assured Jake, "I'm good at math, but it's not my favorite subject. Do you like math?"

"Not really, but I'm not good at it like you and Noah are," a happy Jake replied.

"Speaking of myself," Noah inserted himself into the conversation. Jake glowered at his friend.

"Yeah, Noah?" Troy looked up from his smoothie.

"Please do not react obviously to what I am about to say, but I believe those three people have been observing us."

"What? Why?" hissed Jake, trying not to look. Emma quickly risked a look. "Um. I don't know if they really matter even if they are. After all, one of them has newspaper ink all over his face…"

"Really?" Jake asked, trying not to burst out in laughter.

"Do you think they might be more monsters in disguise?" worried Jake.

"Can they even do that?" wondered Emma. The other four shrugged after thinking it over.

"Okay, so what do we do?" whispered Gia. "Do we go over there?"

"Maybe; what's the worst that can happen? Another alien invasion?" Jake joked. "So… Troy, you're the leader. You go over there."

After a minute Troy got up, letting out a sigh. "Fine."

MEGAFORCE

"Oh Chillers and Lava Lizards," whispered Mack. "Their Red just got up and… yep, heading this way!"

They didn't have any more time to react, because then the teen was standing in front of them. Rubbing the back of his neck, he just stood there for a minute. He looked back at his teammates, who all made encouraging motions. Turning back to the trio, he asked, "So, are you guys new to Angel Grove too?"

"Uh…" Mack's brain went blank and he ended up blurting out, "In a sense."

Theo put his face down onto the table again in an attempt to remove himself from the discourse.

"I'm Summer, he's Mack, and Theo's the one with ink on his face."

"I wouldn't have ink on my face if he was smarter."

"Hey!"

"Well, I'm Troy," he introduced himself. "So, why are you guys here?"

Mack decided to give him a diluted version of the truth. "Well, someone in this area sent an email to a deceased friend of several friends of ours. It's rather strange considering how he's been dead for over a decade. But unfortunately all we know is the rough location and that there was an email because we don't know how to access his email. He was very… techy so yeah. So yeah."

Troy raised his eyebrows and waited.

"Um, it's complicated," Summer admitted.

Cautiously the Yellow Ranger wandered over, followed by the other three.

"Is everything optimal, Troy?" worried the Blue, adjusting his glasses.

"Wow, it's Dr. C. all over again," Mack marveled.

"Who's Dr. C.?" asked the Black Ranger. "For that matter, who are you three?"

"Mack, Summer, and Theo," Troy stated, pointing to each in turn. "And these are my… friends."

"Jake."

"Gia."

"Emma."

"I am Noah and now may we receive an explanation for the identity of Dr. C.?"

"Um…."

And of course the screams began at that moment. Annoyed by the interruption, the five nonetheless left with barely a goodbye.

"Probably just a bunch of minions," Summer decided, getting up. "Do they have a name yet?"

"Loogies, apparently," replied Theo, his voice muffled. "And I thought Moogers was a bad term…"

"So, we going to watch? See what they can do?" Summer pressed.

"Sure, why not," Mack shrugged, getting up.

Theo, however, did not get up although he did remove his face from the newspaper. "Do I have to?"

"Yes," Mack and Summer spoke in unison. Sulkily Theo followed them out of the building, newspaper in hand.

Morphed, the five were coping well enough with the minions for newbies. Stretching, Mack smiled ruefully at the scene. "Ah, this brings back memories, doesn't it?"

"Yeah," Summer and Theo agreed.

After exchanging looks, the three couldn't resist and got out their morphers.

"Overdrive Accelerate! Red Overdrive Ranger!"

"Jungle Beast, Spirit Unleashed! Blue Jungle Fury Ranger!"

"RPM! Get in Gear!"

Between the five newbies and three experienced Rangers, the minions were soon gone. Demorphing, Mack grinned at the still morphed Megaforce Rangers. "Hey. I suppose you guys didn't expect to see us again so soon, huh?"