"HI-YA!" Tommy exclaimed, preforming a trajectory kick, keeping his leg straight and kicking as high as he could.

His students performed the move.

"Good job, now kick and punch like this." He kicked and threw a punch, straightening his arm out all the way. His white gi made him look professional.

"HI-YA!" the young students mimicked his move.

"Awesome! Good job! Now, is anyone familiar with the Square Horse Stance?" he asked and the kids shook their heads. "No? That's OK. I'll teach you. Straighten your arms out in front of you like this." He placed his arms in front of him as he said. The kids did so. "Good, now bend and spread your legs." They followed his instructions once again. "Excellent! Now bring your arms back in, tucked into your armpits." He did so and the kids followed through. "Good, now throw your left arm out to punch." They threw the punch along with him. "Now, switch arms… one, two, three… HI-YA!" They punched with the other hand. "Very good. Let's do a couple more." They continued punching. "ONE, TWO THREE… HI-YA! ONE, TWO, THREE… HI-YA! ONE, TWO, THREE, HI-YA!" Each time, they switched fists. "Awesome!" Tommy looked at the clock on the wall. "Great work today guys; keep practicing. Class dismissed!"

The students bowed with him and parted their separate ways.

Ernie went over as Tommy picked his water bottle up. "Great class. They are getting really good!"

"Aw, thanks, Ernie, yes they sure are improving," Tommy replied, uncapped his bottle, and took a sip.

"It's too bad Jason couldn't teach with you today."

"Yeah, he had football practice after school. "

"Sometimes, it's hard to choose what you want to do and you have to make sacrifices."

"Yeah, but I'm fine with teaching solo."

"Good. Well, keep up the great work and maybe someday, they'll become Power Rangers!"

Tommy laughed. "Yeah!" And thought. That would be ironic!

"I'd better go back to tending the bar. Later, Tommy," Ernie said and strolled towards the Juice Bar.

Tommy saw Kimberly entering the Youth Center. He grabbed his white towel, wiped the sweat off of his face, and walked over to her. "Hi, what's up?"

"Oh, hey, Tommy, I have to study for my chemistry test. I think I have most of the material memorized but I want to make sure I do well." She put her backpack down on the table.

Tommy gave her a friendly chuckle. ""I'm sure you'll ace it! Mind if I study with you?"

"Sure!"

"Great!"

Suddenly, her communicator went off. "And… we'll study later," she said and closed her book.

"Hey, what was that noise?" Ernie asked.

"Uh, it's my pager, gotta go!" Kimberly replied and went in the hall with Tommy. The two of them looked around. Once they saw nobody else around, she held her communicator up to her face and pushed the button. "This is Kimberly. What's up?"

"Kimberly, you and Tommy teleport to the Command Center immediately." Zordon said through her communicator.

"OK, we will be right there, Zordon." She and Tommy pushed the teleport button on their watches and they flew up as pink and white lights.


They teleported in the Command Center and the lights turned into their normal selves. "What's going on, Zordon?" Tommy asked.

"Rangers, I sense unusual activity is happening near the ocean. Behold the Viewing Globe!"

Kimberly and Tommy turned around. The Viewing Globe showed a very deep hole in the sand about twenty feet wide. Thick, white smoke was all around it. "My sources indicate something crashed down a few minutes ago," Zordon continued. "It's emitting a strange energy. My scanners cannot tell what the energy is. I want you to go investigate. I don't know what it is, but your suits will protect you from whatever radiation it might be emitting. Alpha tried contacting the other Rangers but they're not answering their communicators. You two will have to go alone."

"OK, we'll morph right away! We're on it, Zordon," Tommy replied.

"Be careful, and may the Power protect you."

"IT'S MORPHIN' TIME!" Kimberly and Tommy yelled and pulled their Morphers out.

"PTERADACTL!"

"WHITE TIGER!"

Once they morphed into their Ranger suits, they teleported to the beach and looked around.

"Over there; near the shoreline!" Kimberly pointed to it. The two rushed over and examined the hole.


At the Palace on the moon, Lord Zedd sat comfortably in his chair, petting his Anaconda. It slithered on his lap.

Goldar marched into the Throne Room. The gold ape alien came up and bowed down to Zedd. "My Lord, I must inform you that Tommy and Kimberly are at the beach. It looks like they're up to something."

"Thank you, Goldar, I will see what they are up to." Zedd stood up with his snake and walked to the ledge. With a free hand, he touched his visor and a red beam shot from it to Earth. He saw Kimberly and Tommy bending down by the crater. "What is that hole they're looking at? It looks suspicious. I'd better send my Putties down."

He held the snake up and with a flash of light, it turned into his staff with a big Z on the end. "Go see what those Power Punks are up to," Zedd told his minions. He raised his staff over the Putties and zapped them, then aimed his staff at earth and lightening shot out of it.


"Should we go down there?" Kimberly asked, still looking down in the dark hole.

Tommy also stared into it. "I guess so."

"OK, but if we run into trouble, we call the others."

"Right," Tommy assured her and prepared to jump in.

Suddenly, the putties appeared, surrounding Tommy and Kimberly. The gray clay-like monsters grabbed each other's hips and did a little jig, kicking their legs like a Scottish dancer.

"Oh, man. Zedd must have seen us and sent his ClayHeads," Tommy exclaimed, unimpressed by their dance.

The Putties surrounded them while babbling and squirming around.

"Let's kick their butts!" Kimberly grabbed the arm of one of them and flipped the Putty onto its back.

Another Putty was going to Kimberly as she had her back turned. Tommy saw it and punched it down.

Kimberly cartwheeled and kicked one in its chest. It fell on its back, wiggled, and disappeared.

Tommy punched the Z in the middle of the chest of another Putty. It immediately busted into pieces and disappeared. "Bet you weren't expecting that."

"Oh, yeah, I kinda forgot they did that," Kimberly said and hit another one in its Z plate. "Makes it a lot easier." It exploded into pieces and vanished.

"Yeah."

Before Kimberly could warn him, another Putty came up from behind and kicked Tommy down.

"Tommy, are you OK?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, thanks." He got back up.

A putty jumped. Kimberly leapt and kicked it down. She gracefully landed on her feet. Several more Putties bumbled after her. She performed a backflip and landed on one's head. "Um, hello, you don't mind if I stand on you?" She immediately walked into the next one's head then the next… and so on, knocking them over one by one. When she stepped on the last Putty, she jumped and landed on her feet while the Putty fell.

Two Putties jumped in front of Tommy and attempted to kick him. He acted quickly and jumped back. "No, you don't!" he exclaimed and punched both in their Z plates. They busted into pieces. "Almost got me there."

Kimberly leapt high in the air, aiming for another Putty on the ground. "HI-YA!" she shouted as she directly kicked the Z. She landed on her feet as it blew up in pieces behind.

"Nice job, Kim!" Tommy reclaimed, checking to see if there were more Putties lurking around. Once he saw nothing, he said, "I don't know why Zedd bothers with Putties anymore."

"Yeah, they're so easy to defeat," she replied.

"Now to investigate this crater."

"Wait, what if it is a trap?"

"Then, we will call for help." Tommy held Kimberly's hand and they jumped in the dark hole.

"Activate Power Beam!" they said in unison and lights on their helmets turned on. They gasped as they immediately saw a mechanical machine just a couple feet from them. It was about ten feet tall.

"Whoa!" Tommy exclaimed.

"Is that a Megazord?" Kimberly asked.

"It's a robot." Tommy shrugged and crept toward it.

"Be careful."

He examined it. It was mostly red and white. As his helmet light hovered over the robot, he noticed a strange marking on its chest. It kind of looked like a tiki head. He looked up and saw that some sort of cannon was mounted on one of its shoulders.

He put his hand out and hesitated.

"Tommy?" Kimberly whispered.

He touched the marking on the cold metal. Nothing happened.

"Zordon hasn't mentioned other Megazords… or whatever that thing is," Kimberly said, walking closer to it.

"Yeah, I don't know what to make of it," Tommy replied and looked at the robot once more.

"I'll contact Zordon," she said, brought her wrist up to her face and-

The robot moved!

Tommy and Kimberly jumped back as it opened its eyes.

There was no place to hide.

"You'll pay for that, Star- Wait Where am I?" It looked around.

"You're underground," Tommy replied and added, "On Earth."

"What? Who are you?"

"I'm T—"Tommy began but stopped himself. "We're Power Rangers."

"Power Rangers?"

"We protect the earth from the evil emperor, Lord Zedd."

"Lord Zedd?"

"It's not important now; who are you?"

"I am Red Alert, a member of the Autobots."

"Autobots?"

"I come from a planet called Cybertron, which is inhabited by sentient robots."

"You mean robots that think for themselves and have free will?" Kimberly asked.

"That's one way to put it. Yes, we think and act for ourselves."

"Wow. We know someone like that," she replied but didn't say anything else.

"Yes, Cybertron was once a robot like me. He was called Primus. He had a brother, Unicron who eventually became corrupt. Primus gave birth to the first twelve robotic beings and sacrificed himself to become our planet, Cybertron."

"Wait! So this robot, Primus became your planet?" Tommy asked.

"Correct."

"Amazing!"

"We apparently have a lot in common; you defend your planet from an evil emperor and we Autobots fight Megatron and the Deceptions."

"Who?"

"First, let's get out of this hole."

"We can teleport you out of here," Tommy offered.

"What?"

"We hake teleportation powers; we can teleport anywhere!"

"That's cool! Alright, teleport me out of here."

"We'd better take you to Zordon, our leader," Tommy said.

"Wait!" Kimberly exclaimed and pulled Tommy to the side. "How do we know that we can trust him? I mean Lord Zedd has tricked us… and we've never heard of this Cybertron planet… or Autobots or—"

"We will be very careful," Tommy interrupted her.

"Alright."

Tommy talked into his wrist. "Zordon, have the others come meet us at the Command Center; we found something big!"

"Affirmative," Zordon replied.

"Ready for this, Red Alert?" Tommy asked.

"If you say so," he replied although he looked nervous.

Tommy and Kimberly grabbed their Morphers on their belts and pushed the button on the side. All three turned into pink, white, and gray light waves and immediately teleported out of the hole.

As they flew in the air as light beams, Red Alert blurted, "Whoa! Everything's a blur! There's a light gray hue; the color around me is slightly gray."

"Yes, we also see a hue that corresponds to our color," Kimberly pointed out.

"Interesting," Red Alert replied as a crow flew towards him. "Whoa!" He swerved out of the way just in time. "I almost hit that bird!"

"Hang on, Red Alert, we'll be there in no time!" Tommy exclaimed.

"If you say so."


They teleported in the Command Center and landed in the middle of the Control Room. Red Alert immediately was bumping into the control panels surrounding and crushing Kimberly and Tommy… and someone else!

"Uh, Red Alert, can you back up, a bit, please?" Tommy asked squashed between him and the Control Panel.

"I'm sorry," he said and backed up to the opening.

"It's OK," Tommy said, catching his breath.

"That was some ride!" Red Alert exclaimed and looked around. "Wow, is this your headquarters?"

Alpha 5 stood back up straight and turned around from the control panel and yelped. "Ay yi yi, another robot?!"

"Welcome to the Command Center, I am Zordon, an interdimensional being caught in a time warp." The voice made Red Alert jump. He looked up as Zordon.

"A head in a… tube?" he blurted out.

"After my battle with an evil sorceress ten thousand years ago, she imprisoned me in this energy tube. Many of the controls you see before you tune into the frequency of the dimension I am communicating from."

"Um, hello… Zordon, interesting system you have here. My name is Red Alert, member of an ancient group of mechanical beings called the Autobots…. I crashed down on this planet after being defeated by one of my nemesis, Starscream, a member of an evil group called the Decepticons."

"I see. My sensors picked up a disturbance near the ocean so I sent Tommy and Kimberly to the beach to investigate."

"Oh, it was a good thing that you did; I could've been stuck in that hole for a long time!" Red Alert laughed nervously, unsure what to make of all this.

Suddenly, red, blue, black and yellow energy waves flew in and landed in the center. The waves turned into their civilian forms. They immediately saw the red, giant robot and gasped.

"Whoa!" Red Alert exclaimed.

"Whoa! A giant robot!" Zack said.

"Is it a Zord?" Billy inquired.

"Rangers, this is Red Alert. Tommy and Kimberly found him in a crater at the beach. He told us he's part of an ancient team called the Autobots who defend his planet from an evil group of robots who want to rule the universe called the Decepticons," Zordon said. "Apparently, he crashed down to Earth after being defeated in battle."

"Amazing!" Billy said, examining him.

"Are you all Power Rangers too?" Red Alert asked.

"Yes," Jason said. "I'm Jason, the red Ranger."

"Zack, the black Ranger."

"Trini. I'm the yellow Ranger."

"And I am addressed as Billy. I'm the blue Ranger."

"Wow! It's a pleasure to meet all of you; Tommy told me you defend the planet from some evil emperor called Lord Zedd."

"Yes, he creates monsters out of our animals and inanimate objects and orders them to attack our town or the city," Billy said, adjusting his glasses.

"That's awful! As you probably guessed, the Deceptions cause destruction and chaos to my planet. Their leader, Megatron will stop at nothing to rule the universe."

"We apologize for the predicament your planet has been going through. We will provide as much assistance as needed." Zordon said.

"Did you use an extraterrestrial craft to arrive here?" Billy asked.

"No, I didn't have a ship. I was fighting Deceptions deep in space when one flew to me and shot me with some sort of... gun or laser. And I must've crash-landed on your planet because the next thing that my memory bank can retrieve is waking up in the crater and seeing Tommy and Kimberly."

"You're welcome to stay on Earth as long as you find it necessary," Zordon said.

"Thank you, uh, sir," Red Alert replied.

Back at his palace on the moon, Lord Zedd was glowing red. "You worthless Putties can't do anything right! I should vaporize all of you!" he exclaimed. The putties were bumbling about.

"Why don't you create a monster to investigate the hole, my lord?" Goldar suggested by his side.

"That's a good idea, Goldar; I might not vaporize you after all!" He raised his staff towards Earth and white lighting shot from it and zapped a sting ray in the ocean, immediately turning it into a monster.

Zedd touched his visor and saw his creation. "I want you to go down the hole and look around; the Rangers were investigating it."

"Ya, mon."

The alarm went off. "Ayayayayay-yi!" Alpha exclaimed.

"What is that noise? Are we being under attack?" Red Alert asked.

"I'm detecting Lord Zedd has made a monster. Behold the Viewing Globe," Zordon said and the Rangers turned around. Red Alert did the same.

"Um, Red Alert, can you move? We can't see," Tommy stated.

"Yes, Sorry," Red Alert replied and stepped to the side. The globe showed the sting ray monster going to the hole at the beach. He was zapping people with its ponytail-like stinger while Putties terrorized them. "You be crispy critters, ya mon!"

"Great! Just what needed, a Rastafarian sting-ray!" Zack exclaimed.

"Red Alert, there was no evidence that you were in that crater, correct?" Billy asked.

"Nothing I assume was in there with me. Of course, I was offline until I saw Tommy and Kimberly so…" He paused then his eyes got wide. "Oh, no, my gun! I had it with me when I was fighting Decepticons in space and got knocked out. I didn't return it in my subspace storage." He looked around, as if it would help. "It's gone! I don't know if I had it with me when I crashed. It might be in that hole. I can generate another gun using subspace storage, but someone might find the original and…" His voice trailed off.

"Don't worry, we'll find it," Jason assured him.

"Yeah, you're with us now," Trini contributed.

"I'm not much of a fighter, but I can help defeat the monster with you."

"Lord Zedd and his monsters can be tricky," Alpha said.
"Yes, they have abilities that they use to their advantage," Zordon added.

"My team and I fight the Decepticons who are twice the size of that monster. I may not be the best fighter, but I can help you defeat it. I think I know what I'm up against," Red Alert said and added, "Hopefully."

"I sense your intentions are pure. Go with them then. And may the power protect you," Zordon replied.

"Back to action!" Tommy exclaimed, holding his belt on his waist.


The Rangers teleported to the beach with Red Alert.

"I don't think I will get over flying a thousand miles per minute as a lightwave… or whatever you call it!" Red Alert exclaimed.

The monster saw them. "It be the Power Mons… along with a robot. I hope ya have good health insurance cuz ya about to be stung all over! Telly me Rangers!"

Red Alert took one look at the monster, walked over, and stepped on it.

The Rangers just looked. Nobody spoke.

Tommy broke the silence. "Oh…. Well, I guess the monster is destroyed then."


Lord Zedd just stood there stunned. He did not know what to say. Then the words came to him. "Where did that robot come from?!"

"Maybe he was in that big hole the Rangers were investigating," Goldar replied.
"I WASN'T ASKING YOU!" Lord Zedd shouted, his whole body glowing red.

Goldar flinched in response.

"Maybe I can capture that robot and turn it against the Rangers."

"Great idea, master," Goldar replied.

"I want you to go out there and bring me that robot."

"But-"

"GO, YOU BUMBLING BAFOON!"

Goldar started teleporting out when Zedd yelled, "WAIT, GOLDAR!" The gold and black light disappeared, returning Goldar to his normal state. "Let me give you extra power!"


"That sure was a puny monster," Red Alert said.

"Lord Zedd doesn't give up easily," Billy replied.

"Yeah, he's ruthless," Tommy added.

Goldar appeared with Putties, wobbling about.

"See?"

"Rangers, I see you have a bucket off bolts with you," Goldar taunted.

"His name is Red Alert," Trini said.

"I don't care; he's coming with me!" Goldar exclaimed and charged at them with the Putties.

"Are you that dumb? He's bigger than you," Zack said and started fighting them with the other Rangers.

"At least, Zedd could have enlarged you," Tommy said.

"I can kidnap that bucket of bolts in any size," Goldar replied although he was nervous.

"You don't stand a chance, Goldar!" Tommy ran to Goldar with his Saba.

Goldar groaned as he struck his sword at Tommy. Tommy leapt back in time and whacked him with Saba. Then, to Tommy's surprise, Goldar leapt in the air and flew.

"Huh? You can fly?"

"Yes, puny Earthlings, I have new powers!" He laughed and shot lasers from his eyes. Two hit Billy and knocked him down.

"BILLY!" Trini shouted and she was knocked down by another laser. Jason and Zack punched a Putty down that was attacking them.

"Guys, remember the Power Blaster? Let's form it and blast that gold freak down!" Jason exclaimed.

"Right," Billy, Zack, Trini, and Kimberly said in unison and their weapons suddenly appeared in their hands.

"Ready!" Jason exclaimed.

"Power axe!" Zack yelled and threw his weapon up in the sky.

"Power bow!" Kimberly yelled and did the same. Her bow went through the axe.

"Power daggers!"

"Power lance!"

"Power sword!" Jason exclaimed, jumped up, and placed his sword in the middle of the combination. He grabbed the blaster and floated down.

"POWER RANGERS! FIRE!" all of them shouted but-

All of sudden, something in the sky caught their attention. They all stopped and looked up.

"What is that?" Jason asked.

Goldar just made a stupid groan. Something yellow flew high in the sky. It disappeared behind the clouds. Every watched intently. When it reemerged from the clouds, it started coming down.

"Is that…?"Zack started then they saw what it was. The spacecraft flew in the sky. As it lowered, the rest of the Putties wobbled out of the way. It was yellow and kind of circular. It landed a few feet from the fight.

The door automatically slid up and a gallant-looking robot stepped out. His chest kind of resembled the grill of a semi-truck.

Red Alert broke the silence. "Optimus Prime?"

"Red Alert, you're in the middle of a battle? What's going on?"

"Just help me destroy them!"

"I'm going to destroy all of you!" Goldar exclaimed and shot more lasers.

Optimus Prime stretched out his arm and a gun appeared in his hand. He aimed and fired. The laser hit Goldar, taking him down.

Optimus Prime aimed his gun at Tommy.

"NO! DON'T SHOOT! HE'S A HUMAN! HE'S GOOD!" Red Alert shouted and jumped in the way.

Goldar got back up and looked around. He appeared confused. "Another robot?" he blurted out, groaned, and picked his sword up. "You win this time, but I'll be back to destroy all of you!" he warned and turned into gold and green light before vanishing with the Putties.

The Rangers looked at the new stranger.


Goldar materialized in the Throne Room and saw that Lord Zedd was beaming all over with red. "YOU HALF WITTED COWARD! I TOLD YOU TO CAPTURE DEAD ALERT, OR WHATEVER ITS NAME IS!" Zedd shouted.

"But, sire-"

"I don't want to hear your pathetic excuse! I ought to throw you out like that wench!"

"You mean Rita Repulsa?"

"DON'T TALK UNLESS I SAY SO!" Zedd yelled and stood up, glowing even redder. Goldar jumped.

A huge shadow casted over the palace. Zedd and Goldar looked out.

BOOM! The whole palace shook as if something big landed on the moon.

"What in the blazes was that?" Lord Zedd boomed. He walked over to the ledge and looked down. He saw nothing. "I'm going outside to see what it is."

"You want me got go with you?" Goldar asked.

"NO!" Zedd snapped back. "You've done enough!" He left the Throne Room, walked down the staircase, and stepped outside. He immediately stopped. He was staring at a huge space ship in front of him. It was purple and looked more like a jet. "Who dares to land on my planet?" His voice erupted and he put his hand on his visor to make the red beam shoot out. He saw inside the ship and discovered a dark, empty room. He scanned with the red beam and thought he saw controls though it was too dark to tell for sure.

"I'd better investigate," he declared. He marched to the ship with his staff and stopped a few feet from it. He tilted his staff away from him as to defend himself from potential attacks. He slowly reached his hand out and touched the metal surface. Nothing happened. "That was stupid. Maybe I should crush this ship with Serpentera." He mused and looked around. He spotted the door to the right and came up to it. The door automatically slid up and Zedd looked in. Yes, it was dark. His x-ray vision did not betray him back there. Goldar already failed him and Squat, Baboo, and Finster were as useless so he had to do this himself. Come to think of it; where were those four? Why didn't they come out with him? They probably were too scared. Useless! He didn't care; he stepped in. His footstep made a soft clank on the metal floor. He jerked his staff forward in case the noise had woken something up. When nothing happened, he proceeded to creep about. It was freezing; colder than out on the moon's surface but again, he did not care. He was the Emperor of All Evil; he could handle anything.

Suddenly, something hit him, knocking him down.

The lights turned on and Zedd saw a purple robot standing in the middle of the room. Zedd sprang back up to this feet "Who in the blazes are you and what are you doing near my Palace?!" he demanded, pointing his staff at the robot.

"How did you get through the security system?"

"I used my power to break through your puny system," Zedd lied. "Now tell me who you are or I will vaporize you!"

"I am Megatron, ruler of Cybertron," the purple robot answered. "My ship ran out of Dark Engeron and crashed down on this rock. In my conquest to conquer the universe, I've been fighting a war with the Autobots since the Great War started. They are an unruly group of robots who want peace across the universe. They betrayed my rule and started the War. Before my ship crashed, I detected a very powerful spark that I was searching for to be on Earth."

Zedd set his staff back up. "You're in the same situation as me. I fight six pesky teenagers who call themselves the Power Rangers in my conquest to conquer Earth." He looked and shot a red beam on the ship's wall. An image appeared before them. The six Rangers were fighting a monster with three faces. "I create monsters to destroy the Power Rangers, but I've had no luck as they have defeated every monster that I have created."

"I see. Hmmm…" Megatron replied, holding his chin.

"What is this spark that you mentioned earlier?" Zedd asked.

"It gives life to machines so they transform into robot warriors."

"Can these warriors defeat the Power Rangers?"

"Of course, they're humans; weak lifeforms."

"By utilizing my powers, I can help you find this spark for a price."

"What is it?"

"You and I team up to defeat the Power Rangers!"

"How do I know I can trust you?"

"You're smart to doubt me. I like that... but I won't betray you," Zedd said.

"I will join you." Megatron bowed down to Lord Zedd.

"Alright, I'll give you one chance."

"I will not fail you, Sire."

TO BE CONTINUED…