A/N: I've decided to try my hand at an original Power Rangers story, cause while Shuriken Force is, well, not fun given how things are in that story, but fun in that I get to do an adaptation of my own. This story though will be without the constraints of a series already made; completely new characters, stakes, and I hope you'll stick around for where this goes.


Prologue: In Another World…


"We can't hold them off much longer!"

Karina winced at the panicked voice in her earpiece. Her fingers flew across the keyboard console as quickly as she could type. She'd only been able to crack the Insectivores' technology in the last year, but it had been deemed effort enough for this last assault against them. "I'm working as fast as I can!" she shouted back into her headphone. "They've got some kind of password for the portal-lock."

Gunfire rang out over the comm. frequency, and her commander's tone became confused. "Hold on, I see something-" his voice rose as a loud engine rang over the line- "It's Jazz! Jazz got the crystals and she's on her way up!"

Karina felt a tightness in her chest loosen just barely. Even as the frustration of the tech gave her trouble, at least they took from the Insectivores their trump card. Those six Virtuore Crystals had been responsible for annihilating all but pockets of earth's populations; it astounded and horrified Karina to guess only how many other Earths had been destroyed because of these pests and their crystals.

"I'll let her in." Karina hit a button beside the console that unlocked the hatch to the command room, and when a motorbike pulled it, the door slid closed, the lock mechanism securing the door once again.

Jazz grabbed a large black box from the bike and rushed over to Karina, the helmet's visor obscuring her face. "Things are messy out there, Doc."

"I know, I know!" Karina snapped, her feelings of uselessness overwhelming her. She'd just been a simple technician in the resistance who tinkered with an Insectivore's weapon, and now she was the one everybody counted on to get the Virtuore Crystals out of this dimension.

When the screen blinked green, Karina nearly sobbed in relief. "I think I can lock onto one of the portals, but it's gonna be a tight fit for both of us to go through on such short notice."

She heard no reply, and when she looked over at the bike, she found Jazz pulling a sword belt around her waist and cocking a laser gun she must have pilfered from one of the aliens. "I'm not planning on joining you." she said solemnly, her head bowing for a moment as strands of short dark hair escaped her helmet.

Karina faltered, her heart race picking up, but she kept her shoulders from shaking as she continued working on the console. She tried to think of where to go, rather than going there alone. 'Our Intel said that the Insectivores always avoided Earths with some kind of high bio-or was it electrical?-field. Something about the energy grid being used to morph ordinary humans into superheroes…' It would have sounded crazy two years ago, but then a crack appeared in the sky and now anything was possible.

She jumped when a bang resounded against the door, hissing and angry clicking from the other side. A voice she'd only heard in her nightmares growled out to her and Jazz. "Rebel scum, surrender and your demise will not be as painful."

Jazz tensed up, hate and anger conveyed into a single word: "Wasp." She looked back at Karina, and though her face wasn't visible, the doctor could hear the urgency in her voice, "Times up, Doc. Pick an Earth and get the hell out of here."

Karina felt her chest tighten back up, and she locked onto a planet with a strong energy field. She didn't know whether to be grateful or ashamed at the thought of feeling such relief. The Insectivore scientists kept a note that this planet was not up for consumption due to the long string of 'Power Rangers' that kept popping up. 'And now there are going to be six more.' She thought with a significant glance at the black box.

As the portal started up, Jazz readied her blaster. "Be ready to run, 'cause I'm shooting the console."

Karina felt herself pale a little, but nodded shakily as she picked up the box. She clutched it tightly to her chest, and her heart raced as she could hear the bangs against the door pick up. When the swirl of glowing yellow appeared in front of her- Karina ran for it.

She glanced over her shoulder for the barest of moments-and wished she hadn't.

As Jazz shot the console, behind her the door exploded and a tall imposing figure stormed into the room with several Blitzbugs. The portal began to collapse as Jazz turned around with her sword drawn, and Karina kept running.

She could admit she hadn't known Jazz well; the woman was a late edition to the resistance, but while her knowledge of the Insectivores' base was suspicious, Karina likely wouldn't have made it to the command center without detection if not for Jazz's directions. 'I just hope for her sake-for all of them-that they will die quickly.'

Deep down, she knew it was a vain hope. Her old home was gone, overtaken by a bunch of parasites whose goal was complete extermination of the human race.

And the only hope of defeating them was the box clutched tightly in her arms filled with six crystals.