The Power Ranger Archives: Things Unsaid Part One - MMPR

by ShinySephiroth

In 1993 Zordon of Eltar chose five teenagers with ATTITUDE to become warriors in the war he had been waging against evil for thousands of years. Step into that world and discover the events which were not known during that time. Secret villains hiding in the wings, dangerous alliances, and surprise allies surround Rita's attack on Angel Grove! And perhaps... new ranger teams?

1. Chapter One: Day of the Dumpster

1993 AD - Universe M54331Z-B

My sweet Reunion... The Ghost of Darkness thought to himself. A burst of power erupted from the skull housing his Spirit, giving him the ability to do a quick scan of the universe.

Several forces for evil were hard at work hoping to become the eventual rulers of the universe. Scorpius, a mutated former general of the old United Alliance and Edenite, stayed in one corner of the universe slowly amassing power for his daughter, Trakeena. Octomus lay dormant in a place called the Corridor Between Realms, trapped by the great Wizard Leanbow, planning a time where he and his minions in the Underworld could escape. Dai Shi, Octomus' former partner, was trapped as a Demon Cloud in a box by the Order of the Claw in one of their temples, though his anger towards those who captured him kept his mind active with plans for revenge. Bansheera's gang of Demons were trapped in a tomb by the Demon Darkonda, along with the Wizard of the Sands and the guardian known as Gosei. Diabolico, one of those Demons, trained up the young boy Ryan Mitchell via his Spirit form in hopes of getting Emperor Mavro's wife, Xelleb, to give him the power to release his master, Queen Bansheera, from the universe of Monsters known as the Oblivion. Emperor Mavro himself worked hard to get his Armada up and running, to be strong enough to fight the one force in the universe powerful enough to thwart his powerful army. That powerful army strong enough to thwart the Armada was the perverted version of the organization once known to be a force for justice in the universe. No longer run by the Morphing Masters, that army was known as the United Alliance of Evil, run by the Demon Dark Specter.

Although there were other forces in the universe that seemed to have the potential to be able to destroy the universe, such as the bounty hunter Sledge, the revenge seeking Count Dregon, or the backstabbing figure in the Armada known as Lothor, none of them really mattered to the Ghost of Darkness. Using his Time Magic, the Ghost of Darkness was able to pierce past the veil of Space and Time to see certain probabilities... scenarios which were likely to impact the plans surrounding his Reunion. The above mentioned villains were those that seemed to play a role in the universe that would end any possibility of the Ghost of Darkness' Reunion.

Let's see here... The Ghost of Darkness thought as he pondered in his solidarity. The best case scenario for me would be having Dark Specter go through with his plans and attack Earth, which he plans to do within the next few days... That would create a chain reaction of events that would cause Octomus to escape the Underworld and the Armada to unleash their full might against the United Alliance of Evil. Let us see here...

Time Magic erupted from the skull housing the Ghost of Darkness. The Ghost was using all of his power to be able to read the strands of unpredictable Time. It was made exceedingly difficult for him due to the actions of a powerful being eons ago, named September, who betrayed his people who were tasked with arranging and caring for the Timelines of the multiverse for the malevolent intentions of a force named the Supreme. September's actions made any outcome of Universe M54331Z-B (the Ghost of Darkness' current universe) almost incalculable. It came down to the Ghost of Darkness reading the many different possible outcomes and using his own intellect to pin down which seemed most probable in his own mind, and even then it was pure conjecture. At that moment, the Ghost of Darkness was just looking for an outcome that would allow for his Reunion. Unfortunately for him, the one with the best outcome for him was still very bleak...

While Dark Specter unleashes his might on Earth, Octomus would launch his attack on the Underworld. With Leanbow working for him, possessed by the Demon Koragg, the Mystic Realm would not stand a chance and fall, including the Pai Zhua and Ninja Academies who would rush to their aid. Dark Specter would be doing all he could to destroy anything that Wizard, Zordon, would throw at him and succeed. The government would prematurely launch their Power Ranger program, Global Strike, but be annihilated. Dark Specter's forces would crush Zordon's Command Center, forcing the Wizard to leave his Time Warp and battle Dark Specter himself. Meanwhile, Octomus would free his partner, Dai Shi, and they would join in on the battle raging on Earth. So many would fall in that battle... Dai Shi and Octomus would do all they could to get the Greatest Treasure on Earth, but would eventually fail, crushed by Zordon himself...

Yes... I can see it! Zordon in his Ranger guise fighting Dark Specter himself. Then, suddenly, Emperor Mavro appears! He interferes, unleashing the entire Armada on Earth. Then, Universal Equilibrium would kick in. Just as Earth was destroyed in the original Timeline in the year 1993, so it would in this new Timeline. This Zordon would fail just like his predecessor and Earth would be destroyed. Zordon and Gosei would team up with the forces of the universe hoping to hide the Ranger Keys to stop both Dark Specter and Mavro from getting the Greatest Treasure in the Universe. That's when Scorpius would swoop in. He would destroy Gosei and take the Ranger Keys for himself!

Then Zordon would wage a war against three factions of power in space... The Armada, the United Alliance of Evil, and Scorpius' forces. The battles would wage on for thousands of years, and... I can't see a victor! The balance of power would continually shift, with Zordon protecting the Greatest Treasure itself and no one being able to get to it with all of the Ranger Keys! And in the midst of it all!? Ahhh! There's no way I could launch my Reunion!

The Red Energy of Rage emanated greatly from the Ghost of Darkness' skull. The current state of the universe made it so that none of the Ghost's plans could go without facing great adversity. He needed to have an opportunity to plant his deadly seeds and let them saturate the universe, but the chaos caused by Dark Specter's invasion of Earth would snuff out his seeds, not allowing them to spread as the Ghost of Darkness needed.

"Wizard!" Ghost of Darkness cried out.

Dragging himself slowly to the Ghost of Darkness due to the summoning was the being formerly known as Yoral, the Wizard of Deception. The one time love interest of Trinity of Triforia before she married Zordon of Eltar, Yoral of Eltar had gone through many ordeals orchestrated by the Ghost of Darkness before becoming the Wizard of Deception. He had been greatly defeated in battle many centuries prior, and was comatose for a good chunk of that time. Even at that moment, he was nowhere near as powerful or able as he was in his prime.

"Yes, my master?" The Wizard of Deception asked.

"I must speak to someone... my mind is abuzz!" The former scientist yelled from his skull. "I need a new course of action! The universe is conspiring against me! I'm from a different Time, and Universal Equilibrium has no plans to include me in its grand schemes!"

The Wizard of Deception nodded slowly. "I see...Then you must change Fate. Change the current course the universe is on."

"But how!?" The Ghost of Darkness demanded. "I see no way of getting around Fate..."

"Well, if the universe's current set up is pointed one way, and you are able to perceive that," Said the Wizard of Deception. "Then take something away from the equation... or add something."

"But what could I possibly-!? That's it!" The Ghost of Darkness proclaimed, the cogs in his brain beginning to churn. "That Witch I poisoned with my seeds! She's a part of the Reunion!"

"Rita Repulsa?" The evil Wizard asked.

"Yes... her!" The Ghost of Darkness proclaimed. "She has been written off by the universe due to that Nathadian Magic keeping her sealed in that prison of hers. If I could unleash her, I could get her to do my will."

"How will you defeat the Nathadian Magic?" The Wizard of Deception asked bitterly, knowing it was his rival Zordon who was the source of that Magic.

"With other Magic..." The Ghost of Darkness stated, using Time Magic to scan the universe for possibilities. "Yes... the Gold Magic of Liaria!"

"Key Magic?" Wizard of Deception asked, confused. "I don't understand..."

"Centuries ago, a Liarian by the name of Gerlit trapped Bansheera's servant, Maligore. He sent him to Earth and trapped him on an island there using the spell of the Nemesis Triangle to sequester him from the rest of the planet. Well, my dear Wizard, one thing the Liarian did not know was the origin of the spell of the Nemesis Triangle!"

"Which is?" Wizard of Deception asked.

"A planet known as Nemesis, many, many years ago once orbited the solar system Liaria belongs to. On it were a dangerous people, enemies of the Liarians. A great battle occurred between them, and many casualties were seen for the Liarians. It coaxed them to forge a great piece of Magic: the spell of the Nemesis Triangle. They cast it on the planet, causing it to change the gravitational pull of their sun to eject the planet from their solar system. It was a dark time for the Liarians, but they justified it saying that it was war," The Ghost of Darkness stated.

"So?" Wizard asked.

"The spell was later depowered over the years to be a simple isolation spell, nowhere near as powerful as its predecessor spell," Ghost of Darkness stated. "But, like attracts like. Although everyone on that planet is long gone, Nemesis itself is still floating throughout the universe due to the Key Magic surrounding it. I'm going to put Rita's prison on it. I'm going to have you go and connect the Magic of the Nemesis Triangle to the planet Nemesis... and then we'll let their attraction do the rest."

The Wizard of Deception was hesitant. He had not been active for quite a while, but he knew it was vital for his master's plans. After some deliberation in his mind, he turned to the skull.

"I will do it." He said, vanishing in a blinding flash of flames.

It took only moments for the Wizard of Deception to pinpoint the floating "dumpster" housing Rita and her minions. The Wizard pointed his wand at the dumpster and shot a blast of Dark Magic at it to move it. He sneered as he saw the Nathadian Magic repel it.

"It's been a long time since I've done this..." The Wizard said, concentrating on his old power of Anti-Magic. "Zocato power!"

The purple and black mist exploded from him, dismissing for a brief moment the protective coating of Nathadian Magic around the dumpster. As fast as he could, the Wizard zapped the dumpster with his Dark Magic and teleported it onto the floating planet, Nemesis.

Now... The voice of the Ghost of Darkness commanded his Wizard in his mind. Connect them!

Teleporting to be over Nemesis himself, the Wizard of Deception shot a blast from his wand at the planet. Concentrating, a second beam erupted from it and traveled in mind numbing speeds to Earth. It hit the Nemesis Triangle surrounding the Island of Muranthias which housed the Demon Maligore. The Wizard of Deception then combined the two beams into one, connecting them.

"Amazing!" The Wizard exclaimed as he watched Nemesis begin to be pulled toward Earth's orbit.

The gravitational Magic that spell has is astounding. The Ghost of Darkness told his servant. Now if my calculations are correct, all we need to do is wait.

"For what?" The Wizard asked as he watched Nemesis become a dot in the distant expanse of space.

For someone to open the prison. Someone with a pure heart, with no intention of releasing Rita... And it shouldn't be long now...

. . .

Standing in the NASA facility on Earth, General McKnight looked at Dr. Levoy's computations. "And this beam hit Earth only a day ago, and you can see it is bringing something to us?"

"Yes, sir." Dr. Levoy stated, showing his computer model for the unknown force that had hit Earth less than twenty four hours earlier.

"And what do you think, Dr. Phenomenus?" McKnight asked.

Phenomenus sighed. "I... I don't know. I wish I didn't have to say this, but it may be aliens."

"If I didn't know about Area 51, I'd be inclined to think you crazy, but..." Levoy stated.

Nodding slowly, Phenomenus pointed at the screen. "It looked like a concentrated blast that hit that area of water, and it seems to be sending out a constant stream of some sort of force after that. Some of the properties are very similar to the signatures we've determined to be Magic floating outside of the town of Briarwood."

"The gateway to the Mystic Realm, right." McKnight said, nodding. "Well, GA Rex will need to hear about-"

"Look!" Levoy shouted.

McKnight turned to the screen. Along with everyone else at the facility, they watched slack jawed as a planet was seen approaching from the distance. They knew not what Nemesis was, or what it's purpose was. All they knew was that it was coming fast.

"General McKnight?" An employee said, holding a brick sized phone. "It's General of the Army Rex."

Taking the phone, McKnight placed it to his ear. "Sir?"

"I see the planet coming," Rex said. "Harlen here has calculated its trajectory and has determined that it will stop in orbit around Earth. I got Albert Collins from Bio-Lab to fund the mission."

"Mission, sir?" McKnight asked.

"The two pilots will be arriving there within the hour," Rex stated. "They will be boarding a rocket and heading up to Nemesis. Harlen has detected a large power supply on it. It's a Magic source we need to secure before anyone else, McKnight. Understood?"

"Sir, yes sir," McKnight said, feeling uneasy.

"Good. Do not delay," Rex said. "I want that power source in the hands of the U.S. government as soon as possible."

. . .

Jim Myers sat in the space shuttle as it broke out of Earth's atmosphere. It felt odd for him to be in such a rushed mission to space. Something about the whole thing felt off.

"Nervous?" Karl Craw asked, seated next to him. "I sure am... I mean, what if this thing is super radioactive or something?"

"I'm just following orders," Jim said.

"But, you got a kid," Karl said. "Don't you worry about him not having a dad after this?"

"What's wrong with you?" Jim asked. "Please don't talk like that."

"I'm just being realistic, Jim."

Jim sighed. "I do this for Eric, okay? He's a good kid, and deserves a good life. The government takes care of us, so I follow orders. And if something were to happen to me? Well, I know that he'd be taken care of."

"By Rex? Or McKnight!? Don't make me laugh!" Karl barked. "I don't get why Rex has so much pull in the government. I get a weird vibe off that guy. There's just something... wrong about him. Unnatural, ya know?"

"I gotta have faith," Jim said simply.

The rest of the flight to Nemesis was fairly uneventful. Just as Dr. Harlen had predicted using the advanced machinery provided to him by General of the Army Rex, Nemesis parked itself around Earth. The Magical properties of the Nemesis Triangle spell was able to change the Solar System's gravity enough to accommodate Nemesis, simply adding another moon to Earth's orbit. The curious thing about Nemesis was that the connection between it and the Nemesis Triangle caused the planet itself to remain concealed from the eyes of the citizens of the planet, invisible to the naked eye if one were to look up at Earth's sky.

Karl in the ship slipped himself into his space suit. Jim sighed, feeling nervous as he shimmied into his own.

"Testing..." Karl said as both his and Jim's helmets slipped on. "Can you hear me?"

"Yeah..." Jim said. "I wish we didn't have to wear these suits, but I guess the radiation on this hunk of rock may be too dangerous for us..."

"Okay, you're giving me the creeps now," Karl stated. "Let's... let's just get this over with, okay?"

The two slipped out and onto the planet. They were surprised to find the gravity of the planet made them seem heavier rather than lighter, as was the case on Earth's moon, simply named Moon. It took quite a bit of effort for them to move about, making the trek out onto the planet arduous.

"Why did we park so far away from the power source?" Jim asked.

"Because it would jam our sensors," Karl replied.

"Well then how are we gonna get it into the ship? Won't it jam our sensors then, too?"

"Nah. I have a signal jammer. I just couldn't land near it before putting on the jammer. We could've crashed."

As Karl spoke, Jim looked out into the distance. As he did, he saw something red flashing. He could feel it. It was what they were looking for.

"Hey, look at that!" Jim cried out.

"Let's go!" Karl said, the two of them rushing toward the object.

The closer they got to it, the more of what it was became apparent to them. It was Rita's dumpster, shot onto the planet's surface by the Wizard of Deception. Unfortunately for them, they didn't know that.

"What do you think it is?" Jim asked.

"It looks like a giant space dumpster." Replied Karl, catching up to Jim. They were both breathing hard, having ran with difficulty due to the gravity.

Jim looked at it. The red gem full of Nathadian Magic was pulsating as it sat atop the lid. It was almost as if it was calling out to him. He knew not it was actually trying to warn him of the danger the dumpster contained.

Well, whatever energy Rex wants must be in the "dumpster"... Jim thought.

Jim reached forward, placing his hand on the red gem. "Let's open her up!"

As he touched it, the light faded. The Nathadian Magic read his Heart, and saw no ill intent. He was judged as worthy.

"One... two... three!" Karl said as the two grabbed the lid and pulled it off.

"Oof!" Jim yelled as he and Karl hit the dirt.

They watched in awe as several beams of light erupted from the dumpster. They danced around them, floating about for a moment. Jim then saw the lights meet up and congregate on the ground a few feet away from the dumpster. What appeared from the lights shocked him: Monsters.

Future: Omega Ranger (the Power Ranger archiving this incident in history in the year 2050) recognized them as the gang of thugs who had been a part of Rita Repulsa's gang ten thousand years earlier. The gold armored beast from Egypticus, Goldar. The former scientist for the United Alliance before betraying them to work for Scorpius, Finster. A low level grunt who was assigned to work with Rita named Squatt. And Baboo, Prince of the Vampires and the brother to the Queen of the Vampires, Necrolai.

"Let's get out of here!" Karl yelled, turning around and trying to sprint.

Jim turned and followed suit. He kept tripping, due to the gravity weighing him down so much. He could hear the foul Monsters laughing horrifically behind him as he tried to run after Karl.

"All right!" Squatt proclaimed happily. "We're out!"

By that point, both Karl and Jim were exhausted. They had fallen and were trying to crawl back to their ship. As they crawled, akin to why people rubberneck on the street when they pass an accident, the two turned back to see what was going on. It was a disaster yet they couldn't keep their eyes off.

As the other three Monsters looked about, amazed at the blue sky (caused by Nemesis' atmosphere) they hadn't seen in eons, Squatt lumbered over to the dumpster. He was curious to see why Rita and Scorpina had not left the dumpster yet.

"Rita, wake up! Wake up!" Squatt yelled out. "We're free!"

Rita heard the words, but could not believe it. The last time she'd been out was when she had broken free of the control Lord Zedd had over her. Centuries ago, Rita had realized she was being used by Dark Specter and had been kidnapped as a child to be a part of a nefarious child abducting program called Alphabet Soup (at that time run by Queen of the Demons, Bansheera). She had confronted Lord Zedd, threatening to leave the United Alliance of Evil. Lord Zedd had shot her staff full of Red Rage Energy, laced with Demonic properties, causing her to fall under his control. She had been able to break free for a bit, summoning the Dragonzord and helping Zordon stop the warzord Cyclopsis from destroying Earth. After a series of unfortunate misunderstandings, Rita had fallen back under control of both Lord Zedd and (separately) the Ghost of Darkness. After using the Ghost of Darkness' power to banish Zordon to his dimension known as his Time Warp, Rita had found herself trapped in that dumpster due to Zordon's latent Nathadian Containment Spell. After ten thousand years trapped, it was incomprehensible to her that she was no longer trapped in that confined space.

Rita picked herself up out of the dumpster, looking considerably older than the last time Future: Omega Ranger had seen her. She stretched out her arms and exhaled. She was taking in the scenery, happy to know that she was no longer bound in the dumpster that was her home for ten millennia.

"Uh-oh! Morning breath!" Squatt yelled out, covering his nose jokingly. He then reached into his bag and said, "Here! Let me get you a mint!"

Rita looked down in the dumpster. Where Scorpina had once been was the withered and wrinkled body of a fighter from the Order of the Claw. Rita remembered how Scorpina had escaped her imprisonment by the Order of the Claw by stinging one of the fighters, infecting him with what she called a "remnant" of herself, mutating the fighter into an avatar of Scorpina. Rita supposed that the moment the dumpster had been opened that Scorpina sent her avatar back to the boulder the Order of the Claw had trapped her in.

As Baboo ran over to help Squatt get Rita, Finster shook his head. "Oh, my..."

Things haven't changed one bit! Finster thought. I don't know why I thought that if we ever got out of there that they'd change. I should have known better after ten thousand years living with them!

Then, looking on the bright side, he exclaimed, "It's good to be free after ten thousand years!"

Realizing Squatt had gotten absorbed in his joke and was actually really looking for a mint in his bag, Baboo stepped forward. "Here, your evilness, let me help you!"

Taking the older woman than she was before (she was having a hard time not only figuring out the heavy gravity of Nemesis, but also her body that was "not working like it used to"), Baboo decided to brighten the mood by singing, "Walk with me, talk with me!"

As Rita stepped down she felt her foot hit something soft and mushy. "Ugh! You made me step in a puddle you nitwit!"

Goldar stepped forward to help as well, but Rita pushed him away. "Get out of my way, monkey face! I'm going to destroy that infernal dumpster!"

"But Scorpina!" Finster demanded.

"She's gone!" Rita exclaimed. "She went back to her body on Earth, I suppose."

Before anyone could reply, Rita pointed her staff at the dumpster. Years of pent up Rage was in her, and she unleashed the Red Energy in visible beams that hit the dumpster, destroying it.

"Ahh!" Jim and Karl screamed, suddenly remembering they had to get back to their ship.

Rita laughed, seeing the two responsible for freeing her. "Don't leave... you'll miss my coming out party! That's when I destroy the nearest planet!"

Laughing insanely, Rita and the rest of her crew turned to see what planet that would be. A cruel and horrible smile landed on her face as she saw what planet that was. It was the very planet she had been last on before being trapped by Zordon.

"Earth!?" Rita asked, laughing. "Ah-hahaha! Revenge will be mine!"

"Maybe... ZORDON... will be... ugh... there still?" Goldar asked, trying to speak. He spoke very little over the last ten thousand years, after an injury he sustained in battle before his imprisonment.

"Your voice still messed up from when Master Mao hit you in the throat!?" Squatt asked.

"Quiet!" Goldar said in his deeper and rougher than usual voice.

"Yes... Zordon!" Rita said. She then turned to see the astronauts rushing to get back to their shuttle. "Goldar? Destroy those two and take their shuttle. We may need it."

"Thank you, my empress!" Finster said. "I would love to tinker with it!"

"Yes, my queen!" Goldar said, testing his wings out for the first time in eons. He found that the injury he had sustained fighting against Zordon's megazord many years earlier on the Moon was still there, giving his spine pain when trying to use his wings.

As Goldar flew off, Rita turned to the three left with her. "Now, let's make our way back to the palace on Earth's Moon. We need to set up shop there once again!"

"No!" Karl screamed as he watched Goldar fly closer.

"Run! Run!" Jim yelled, still crawling to get to the ship.

"Er... I hate Humans!" Goldar cried out, swooping down and swinging his sword to hit Jim.

"No!" Karl screamed, using all of his strength to jump between Goldar and the sword. He gasped as he felt it dig into his gut.

"Karl! No!" Jim yelled in horror.

"Get... home... Eric... needs you..." Karl said before giving up the ghost.

"Eric, huh?" Goldar asked, laughing as he tossed Karl's lifeless body to the side. He began walking slowly after Jim, finding it pathetic that Jim thought he could outrun him by crawling. "Must be your child... The only thing worse than a Human is a Human child!"

"Leave me alone!" Jim screamed. "Please!"

"Don't worry... your precious Eric will join you soon enough!" Goldar said, walking up slowly behind the man crawling desperately to safety. "And so will the rest of Earth!"

"Ungh!" Jim cried out as a sharp pain hit him in the back.

He fell to the sand, feeling pinned to the ground. He could feel a pool of blood beneath him. Goldar had stabbed him in the back. He groaned as he felt Goldar pull out the sword before walking toward the space shuttle. He watched as the two gold clawed feet walked away from him, blurring as they did. His vision was fading to black, and the last thing he saw before passing on to the other side was an image of his son, Eric Myers, in his mind.

. . .

Ernie Finestein sighed as he leaned on the counter of "his" juicebar. So... it's finally happened, huh? Alphabet Soup is in full swing!

He looked around at the teens coming in and out of the Youth Center. Ernie felt bad for them, because none of them knew what the Youth Center actually was: a front for a government think tank/war prep. And each and every one of those kids were recruited without knowing.

Some are strong... some are smart... some have the potential to have powers... but in the end, they're still just kids. Ernie thought sadly.

Ernie had been recruited in his youth for the sole objective of eventually being the government handler over Alphabet Soup. He had been given many missions, each of them with the objective of fine tuning his skills to be what GA Rex needed him to be: resourceful.

He had his reservations, though. Kids were still kids. He thought himself too young when he went into the government as an agent, and some of these kids were much younger than he had been. He at least had a year of college under his belt.

Glancing over, he saw one of the teens who he pitied, practing her gymnastics routine on a beam. Her name was Kimberly Ann Hart, a sophomore who had been recruited into Alphabet Soup not only for her intellect, but also her extraordinary potential for gymnastics. She moved effortlessly it seemed, going through each motion as if they were second nature to her, not even the slightest wobble seen coming from her.

Seeing some commotion from the mat area, Ernie spied two guys sparring. One was a nationally known karate champion named Jason Lee Scott. Outside of his IQ, the high school sophomore was brought into Alphabet Soup because it seemed he had an unusual connection between his brain and his muscle's motor units. He was also deemed to be a Potential, meaning he fit a certain definition in Alphabet Soup showing that he had the potential of being an all around, well rounded "asset" to the government. That potential needed to be tapped, though, and Ernie was not happy with how the government planned on doing that tapping...

Zach Taylor was the teen sophomore who also had a reputation (and test scores taken without his knowledge via visual testing, alongside scans from computer tech) that showed he, too, had a pentant for being physically gifted. Dr. Kaplan, the scientist running the scientific portions of Alphabet Soup: Angel Grove, hypothesized that Zach had the potential to be able to read physical movements and be able to instantly copy them back at near expert levels with very little practice. For example, he had only started practicing karate a month earlier, and he had already gotten to the level that he could give Jason a good match (which not many could boast, even after years of practice and strict discipline).

Ernie watched intently as Jason performed a spin kick toward Zach, Zach evading and throwing a practice kick toward Jason. The action made Ernie itch, missing the battlefield with every fine tuned movement performed by the youngsters. Ernie was especially impressed when Zach dropped to the mat, performing a dance move to attack Jason. Reacting quickly, Jason leapt over the playful move and rolled out to the end of the mat.

Leaping up and ready, Jason watched as Zach rushed forward, practicing a jump kick of his own as he got close enough to attack, yet not hit his friend. As Zach relaxed for a microsecond, Jason instinctively grabbed Zach's arm and moved into position, landing a sparring jab to Zach's right rib area. At that, the two began to laugh.

It's good they can laugh... Ernie thought glumly. If they knew what was really going on here... if they knew they were constantly under surveillance... I don't think there'd be a happy face in this entire city!

Scanning the room, Ernie's eyes fell on another teen practicing martial arts. The girl was sophomore Trini Kwan. Her uncle, Howard Kwan, was known as a champion in his field of martial arts, while also being a genius. After being hired by the government through General of the Army Rex's underling, General McKnight, Dr. Kwan's niece was targeted to see her potential. She had apparently similar gifts as her uncle, and was immediately brought into the fold of Alphabet Soup.

As Kimberly finished her routine, spinning off the beam, Trini walked over to her. "That was awesome, Kimberly!"

Kim had a bright smile on her face, proud of herself and happy for the compliment. "Thanks, Trini."

Right then, Ernie's hyper alert nature drew him to the awkward young boy who appeared at the door. It was one of the kids on Alphabet Soup's roster listed as a possible science expert: freshman Billy Cranston. Ernie fought the urge to facepalm, seeing Billy walk in wearing a karate get up.

Ah, c'mon Billy... Ernie thought. You don't need to know karate to prove yourself to anyone! You're a bright kid! You don't need to be someone you're not!

"Juice, please?" A girl Ernie did not recognize asked him, snapping him from his observational gazes.

"Uh... yeah, sure." Ernie said, swallowing hard as he began making her "juice".

One of Kaplan and McKnight's top priorities in the project was to help "accelerate" the growth toward each kid's potential. In each "juice" or "smoothie" Ernie made, he snuck in many different drugs. They were a cocktail created by the minds of Dr. Kaplan, Dr. Levoy of Bio-Lab, and Dr. Harlen (McKnight's personal scientist). They promised to have "amazing" effects on each kid.

You're disgusting. Ernie thought to himself as he handed the girl her drug laced drink. Just because you're a government agent doesn't mean you have to just let all this happen! But... what am I to do, huh!? They'll "silence" me if I so much as sneeze wrong...

As Ernie finished serving the girl, he noticed two more fellas enter the room. These two made him angry rather than fill him with feelings of pity. They were "sophomores" Farkas Bulkmeier and Eugene Skullovitch, otherwise "affectionately" known throughout the city as Bulk and Skull. The two were interesting additons to Alphabet Soup. Skull had previously been in the program, but certain events led him to being cut out of the program and his brain getting scrambled by the government to forget what had happened. Apparently something went wrong (which thing Ernie was apprehensive could happen to any of the kids with the vast amount of drugs being pumped into their systems) and he not only forgot his time in Alphabet Soup, but also dropped several points in his IQ. Curiously, he kept his talents as a musician extraordinaire, and Kaplan wanted to see if he could further study the boy's mind.

Bulk was even a more curious case than Skull. He was legitimately an "idiot". Born with a low IQ and an equally low amount of self-discipline and dedication, he had one gift: his strength. Just as it was with Jason, Bulk seemed to have an abnormal connection to his motor units, helping him have an insane amount of power and also muscular endurance. He even held the school bench press record, which was an insane (aka normally impossible with normal Human standards) amount of one thousand and nine reps... at one hundred and fifteen pounds, at that.

As they walked in, acting as if they owned the place, they took off their sunglasses. Dressed in attire that was similar of certain "punk" groups of their time, they looked as greasy as greasy could get.

"Oh, no... Look who's here," Trini whispered to Kim.

"Bulk and Skull..." Kim said, a look of disgust on her face as she saw the two bullies place eyes on her and her friend.

"Hi, girls." Bulk said, smiling a fake smile. "How about that double date?"

"Yeah!" Skull said annoyingly, chewing his gum. "What about it?"

Trini exchanged a look with Kim before smiling. "Sorry, guys."

Bulk and Skull exchanged looks themselves. Skull, suddenly uninterested, began to walk away before Bulk grabbed him by his purple suit jacket and pulled him back to his own leather jacket clad body. Seeing the extremely skinny Skull being pulled by the rather large Bulk was a sight to behold in and of itself.

Shaking his head to Skull, Bulk turned to the girls and asked, "What's the matter? We're not good enough for you?"

"Leave us alone, Bulk," Trini asked nicely. She didn't want to rock the boat, and hoped Kim wouldn't blow a fuse.

Bulk and Skull seemed annoyed. Bulk sneered before attempting his rebuttal.

"Oh, yeah? Make me," Bulk said, growing more and more frustrated.

"Yeah! Make me!" The parrot known as Skull hissed.

Seeing the broo-haha, Zach made his way to the two girls. He calmly stood behind them, doing a face off between himself and the two bullies.

Skull looked down at his hand, pointing to himself. He slowly moved it over to Bulk while saying, "Him... make him."

"Hey, you heard what she said," Zach said, angry.

"Oh, what do you know?" Bulk said, finding it funny that Zach decided to jump in. "The dancer wants to be a fighter."

Ernie smirked. Ever the bully. Just because you're scared and lonely inside of yourself doesn't mean you have to take it out on those who you wish you could be!

Ah, heck no! Zach thought, getting ready to have a beat down with the two.

Calming herself, Kim turned to her friend. "It's okay, Zach. We can handle these two."

"Oh, really!?" Bulk said, half amused half angry. "Let's show them some karate."

Bullrushing the two like wild apes, Bulk and Skull ran ahead to tackle the two fragile looking girls. As they did, Ernie tensed up and readied himself to tackle the two boys himself.

"Stand down, Agent Finestein!" Dr. Kaplan said into Ernie's ear via the hidden earpiece. "This is all apart of the test!"

"But-" Ernie started.

"Stand down!" Kaplan repeated.

Watching in anger, Ernie was relieved to see both girls grab the boys by the arm and spin them onto their backs. The two dropped on the mats on the floor, wind rushing out of their bodies upon impact.

As people laughed, Kim looked to them and said, "You guys should definitely join Jason's karate class."

"Whoop!" Zach yelped, laughing himself.

Ernie then watched as Jason summoned his students over, starting his class. He was definitely the epitome of what Alphabet Soup was all about: not only was he getting high GPA in school, not only did he train rigorously, but he also taught others, and he didn't even need to. He was certainly a renaissance man, and he was only fifteen years old.

As they practiced, both Kimberly and Ernie noticed Billy having a hard time keeping up. Jason noticed it and stopped the class with a "ba ro" call.

Placing a hand on Billy's shoulder, Jason said, "Billy, try this."

Billy watched as Jason went through the motions of the attack again. He swallowed hard as he saw Jason's biceps flex as he went through each movement.

Ah, man... who am I kidding!? Billy lamented. I'll never be able to be as good as him! Look at him! He's a beast!

Not wanting to look like he had been defeated, he went through and followed Jason, mimicking each step of the routine. As Jason got to a more complicated portion of the routine, Billy finally threw in the towel.

"I'm just not good at this," Billy lamented as the students pretended not to be annoyed at the pause in their lesson.

"Billy, don't worry." Jason said, patting him on the back. "I mean, even I was a beginner once."

Even I? Kimberly thought, overhearing Jason's pep talk. A little too into yourself, don't ya think?

As Billy composed himself, Jason returned to the front and called everyone to attention. "All right class. What does martial arts help us develop?"

Happy that Billy was one of the first to raise their hands, Jason called upon him. Jason had thought ahead, figuring if he couldn't get Billy to feel good about himself through the physical portion of martial arts that he could get him to begin to look on the bright side by hitting a question out of the park.

As Billy began to rattle off the answer, proud of himself, Ernie noted Bulk and Skull making their way to the practice area, wearing karate unifroms under sleeveless jackets. Ernie wanted so badly to beat the two till they couldn't blink, but knew he had to control himself.

As Jason congratulated Billy for a good job Bulk yelled out, "Hey!"

Jason stared at Bulk, leaving a blank look on his face. Deep inside, though, he wanted to lash out and attack the round mound of sound. But that's why he did martial arts: to learn how to control the abilities he knew he had.

"Geek." Bulk spat as he pushed one of the pupils out of his way.

You're gonna pay for that punk. Jason thought, keeping his outer appearance proper.

As he shoved Billy, Bulk paved the way for Skull to follow him up to the area. "Teach us how to beat people up."

I'll teach ya... Ernie thought, staring from his spot at the bar. And I'll use you both as my practice dummies!

As Skull finished being annoying with the various sounds that spewed out of his mouth, Jason calmly addressed his students while answering Bulk's request. He was cool, calm, and collected as he declared that martial arts was not developed to be weaponized.

"We did not sign up for a geeky karate class," Bulk complained.

"Did you hear that, Finestein!?" Kaplan gasped.

"Yeah, they think karate lessons are stupid. So what?" Ernie muttered as he pretended to wipe down the counter.

"No! Kimberly told him to sign up for karate, and he did! Initiative! He listened to someone else!" Kaplan said from his room behind the juice bar, watching the surveillance footage. "This is amazing!"

"What would be amazing would be if Jason pounded him right now," Ernie said, half wishing it to happen.

"It would be amazing, since it is not in his documented character," Kaplan replied.

All the while, Jason had hatched his plan and was following through with it to embarrass Bulk, and also help him realize that martial arts wasn't something to be toyed with. He tricked Bulk into following his movements, getting Bulk to try a tornado kick. The large boy miscalculated and comically fell to his back. Many laughter was had at his expense.

"Class dismissed," Jason said happily.

A few moments later, the five teens were congregated around a table, waiting for their "smoothies". As they drank, Jason turned to Billy.

"Billy, I'm telling you, for your first lesson you did really well," Jason said truthfully.

"I did?" Billy said, looking around at the four kids who had adopted him as a pet project. Billy had been picked on a lot when he first entered the school, and the four do-gooders had each individually decided to stick up for him. After they had all crossed paths sticking up for Billy, they decided to befriend each other and do more things together.

"Yeah, we were watching you," Kim said, beaming at the boy.

Billy's self-defeating nature kicked in, though. "Yeah, I don't know if I've got what it takes."

"It's all a state of mind," Trini said, repeating something she heard her Uncle Howard say many, many times. "You don't need to be strong for this."

How did she know Jason's strength intimidated me!? Billy marveled once again about Trini's intuition.

"It's all up here," Zach added, hitching his wagon to Trini's horse as he pointed to his own head.

I guess it's time for your dose... Ernie thought bitterly as he made his way to the kids.

"Hey, guys," Ernie said, trying to sound normal and not upset.

"Hey, Ernie!" They all greeted their friend in unison.

"Who ordered the spinach juice?" Ernie asked.

As Billy raised up his hand, there suddenly was an earthquake felt. Ernie felt the first couple of tremors and knew what was happening immediately.

"Oh, no! It's an earthquake!" Ernie screamed. "Everybody stay calm!"

As he did, he heard Kaplan in his ear. "Get here to the back. Now!"

Turning around to follow orders, Ernie spotted Bulk out of the corner of his eye. Smiling to himself, he faked that the tremors were affecting him and tossed the platter full of drinks onto the horrible bully.

As he rushed back, he slyly added, "Sorry Bulk!"

Ernie rushed into the backroom. As he did, he saw Kaplan staring at his monitors as white as a sheet. When Ernie looked at them, he imagined that he too adopted that same color on his own cheeks. A woman on a pennyfarthing seemed to be flying around the city on the monitors as if she were the Wicked Witch of the West. Beside he was a gold cladded warrior, looking like an Ozian winged monkey on steroids. He didn't know that they were Earth's newest threats: Rita and Goldar.

"What is going on!?" Ernie gasped.

Kaplan swallowed hard. "It's starting. Just like Rex said... it's the end, and we're not ready for it..."

"What do we do!?" Ernie demanded.

"We... huh?" Kaplan said, suddenly intrigued with something else. "That's odd. There's an absurd amount of energy being pumped into the Juice Bar area. It's coming from the mountain range surrounding the city."

Ernie watched as Kaplan switched the surveillance to the main room behind them. On the screen were Zach, Kim, Jason, Billy, and Trini. They were trying to steady themselves, but it seemed as if they were almost stuck in place. As if they wanted to leave and run outside with everyone else, yet they couldn't.

"This is too weird..." Trini was heard saying.

"It's them..." Kaplan deduced. "They can feel it pulling at them..."

"Hold on!" Jason yelled out intuitively as the Morphing Energy began to be concentrated around them.

Ernie and Kaplan blinked several times as they each were beamed out of the building. Neither could believe what they had just seen. It was like out of a dream.

"What... what was that?" Ernie asked, in a daze as the earthquake continued.

"I don't know..." Kaplan answered.

"Now what?"

"Now...? Now we tell General McKnight what we just saw," Kaplan stated. "This could change Alphabet Soup forever!"

"If we survive this alien invasion, that is," Ernie said darkly as he felt the massive tremors continue. "I just pray some miracle happens that will save us all."

. . .

"Whoa!" The five teens yelled in unison as they landed on the floor of the Command Center. They were heaped in a pile in front of the Viewing Globe.

"These are the ones your ATTITUDE algorithm picked up?" Saba asked as he stood by Zordon in the Time Warp Dimension.

"Appearances are deceiving," Zordon replied.

"Why did you specifically ask Alpha for teenagers? And why 'overbearing'?" Saba asked.

"Because I know that was what the ATTITUDE algorithm would spit out," Answered Zordon casually as he continued to spy the newcomers. "I've been looking into it. Since we don't sleep, that's how I choose to use my spare time."

"Well, I just hope the zords that Keeper individual helped us finish aren't too much for them to handle," Saba said, still weary of the five.

As Zordon and Saba exchanged remarks, viewing the five teens but not turning the Command Center tube on just yet, the teens investigated the Command Center.

"This isn't exactly the mall, is it?" Kim asked.

Seriously? Zach thought to himself.

"This place is magnificent!" Billy declared, feeling as if he'd died on gone to heaven.

Jack will love to see all of this! Billy thought, looking around at the consoles and thinking of his best friend, his mouse Jack.

"I don't get it," Zach said. "How'd we end up here?"

"I just want to know where he is," Trini stated, being practical about the matter.

"Maybe the answer's in these controls..." Billy postulated.

As Billy did so, Alpha 5 could no longer control himself. He'd been ordered by the interdimensional Wizard known as Zordon to call for the teens once he had seen Rita attacking downtown Angel Grove. After the summons had been sent, Zordon asked Alpha 5 to stay to the side, to see how the newcomers would react so Zordon could study them out for a bit.

Those are my controls! Alpha 5 thought bitterly as he rushed from the shadows toward Billy.

"Don't touch that!" He screamed, tripping over his feet in the rush to get to Billy.

As the Droid fell, the crew rushed over to help him up. They were quite unsure of who or what Alpha 5 was.

"Whoa!" Billy exclaimed. "A fully sentient, multifunctional automaton! Never seen anything like it! Whoa..."

Zordon looked over to Saba and smiled. "It's time..."

Saba nodded. "Let's see how they react to a giant, floating head."

Focusing on his Nathadian Magic, the power of Zordon's birthright (the Order of Meledon) flowed from him and activated the tube in the Command Center. Red Magic hit the Command Center on the main plane on Earth, causing Morphing Energy to turn the tube on and project a fuzzy image of Zordon't face to the teens. The image had to be as unfocused as possible to not drain too much energy from the Command Center.

"Welcome, Humans," Zordon declared.

"That's a little... uptight..." Saba said as the teens reacted.

Zordon turned from the tube and shrugged. "I have to make an impression!"

Jason folded his arms across his chest and stepped toward the tube. "So who are you?"

"Like, what are you?" Kimberly added.

"Brave, astute... They may be the ones after all," Saba said.

Nodding, Zordon continued to look at those who were to be his new team. "I am Zordon, an interdimensional being caught in a Time Warp."

As Alpha 5 turned and introduced himself, Saba looked to Zordon. "Why does your voice sound like that? Is that a British accent?"

Whispering, Zordon said, "Yes. Humans seem to respect that accent more. I had Alpha program it in."

"Well, it sounds like my accent," Saba replied. "Sure I shouldn't be the one talking?"

Hearing Kimberly say that she was confused, Zordon continued to speak. "It's quite simple. This planet is under attack. I brought you here to save it."

"Just like that?" Saba asked.

"Simplicity!" Zordon whispered.

"Oh, yeah right," Zach said.

"Ah! A nonbeliever," Zordon said, amused. "Look behind you at the Viewing Globe."

I'm assuming he means the big ball... Trini thought. She saw the others thought the same and turned with them.
"Your doubts will be answered in the images you see," Zordon stated. As Rita appeared on the Viewing Globe, he continued. "This is Rita Repulsa, an intergalactic Sorceress who wants to control the universe. With her henchmen and Putty Patrollers she plans to conquer Earth."

"It's so bizarre to see her back after all these years..." Saba thought outloud, echoing Zordon's own thoughts.

"What does all of this... have to do with us?" Trini asked Zordon.

"You've been chosen to form an elite team to battle Rita," Zordon stated. "Each of you will be given access to extraordinary powers drawn from the ancient creatures you call Dinosaurs."

"What else would they call them?" Saba asked, not realizing Zordon was making himself look to be from a much different environment and time.

"Dinosaurs?" Kim asked.

Focusing, Zordon tapped the Command Center and teleported the Morphers that were in their lab (a place they called the Power Chamber) onto their belts. Zordon and those with him in the Command Center had decided with Human fashion that the Morpher being on the belt was best. Some pride swelled within him, seeing his devices on the "chosen ones".

"Behold!" Zordon said, kicking Saba as he laughed at his formality. "The keys to your power!"

"Whoa! What are these?" Zach asked.

"The... keys to your power?" Saba asked, making fun of Zach.

"Those are you Power Morphers," Zordon answered. "When in danger, raise them to the sky calling your Dinosaur's name. You will morph into a fighting force known to one and all as the Power Rangers."

As Zordon said 'Power Rangers', Jason looked up. Something inside of him resonated with that word. He felt as if it was destiny. He knew not that it was Universal Equilibrium, calling out to him. Just as his counterpart in the previous Timeline had been a powerful Ranger, Universal Equilibrium was "glad" to see that he was one as well.

"Morph?" Kim asked.

"Metamorphosis," Billy explained.

Seeing Billy may have been to vague for Kim, Trini stepped in. "That means to change."

"As Power Rangers you have access to a universe of power and will command fighting machines called 'Zords'," Zordon explained as quickly as he could. He knew that with every second wasted, Rita was getting closer and closer to figuring out why she was reading power sources coming from Angel Grove: Zordon's secret artifacts hidden in the "Abandoned Warehouse District".

"I don't get it," Trini said.

Hoping to clarify, Zordon summoned up the scans of the ATTITUDE search. He could see their stats floating across the hologram in the sky that showed him the inside of the Command Center. He breathed in deeply and began to read off to them their qualifications.

"Jason, bold and powerful. You shall command the Tyrannosaurus Dinosaur. Zachary, you are clever and brave. You shall command the Mastodon Dinosaur."

"Not a Dinosaur..." Saba muttered under his breath. He knew what Zordon was doing, though: he didn't want to have to answer questions to the teens they didn't have. They knew not themselves why the Power Coins had been made that way.

. . .

2050 AD - The Hall of Legends

"Come to think of it... Why was that?" Future: Omega Ranger asked, pausing the clip.

"I can't remember," Sophie stated from her ship orbiting around Earth. "Did we even see what Ninjor was doing during that time?"

"I... can't remember either," Omega said. "Sorry, this is a lot to try and remember off the top of my head! Um... I'll look it up after I finish this file. Maybe we recorded what Ninjor had done and I just don't remember. How's the firewall going, by the way?"

"Pretty badly," Sophie stated. "The more I tinker with it now, the worse it seems to be getting..."

"I'm just gonna pretend I didn't hear that and get back to archiving..." Omega said, trying not to get further distraught by the fact that he was stuck in the Hall of Legends.

. . .

1993 AD - Universe M54331Z-B

Zordon looked to Kim. "Kimberly, graceful and smart. The Pterodactyl Dinosaur shall be yours. Billy, patient and wise. You shall command the powerful Triceratops Dinosaur. Trini, fearless and agile. The Sabertoothed Tiger Dinosaur will be under your command."

Finishing the list, he then looked directly at the teens. "Observe the Viewing Globe. Just as the five of you work together, so do your Zords. When you need help, you need only to turn to the power of the Dinosaurs which will come together to form the mighty Megazord."

Zach turned to Kim, seeing the look on her face. He could see she wasn't buying any of this, either. Zach turned around and looked at the tube projecting Zordon. "Power Morphers? Megazords? I dunno... This is just too weird for me. I'll tell you what- it's been real but I gotta go."

Kim nodded, agreeing with Zach. "Yeah, see ya."

As Kim and Zach turned and started leaving, hoping to find an exit out of the Command Center, the other three stayed. Jason stood stoically, staring up at Zordon. Zordon looked back, their eyes meeting. Zordon could feel a strong spirit within that young man. As the two connected, Trini stayed by his side, pondering everything she had just been told. All the while, Billy paced about while looking at the control panels of the Command Center.

Zach turned around, noticing his best friend hadn't immediately followed him. "You all coming? Jason!?"

Jason snapped out of what seemed like a trance. "What?"

Zach shook his head. "Let's go, man."

"Yeah..." Jason said, slowly breaking eye contact with his would be mentor.

"Very well, then. Let the Power protect you," Zordon said, disappointed.

"Now what!?" Saba demanded, turning to stare at his best friend.

Alpha 5 sighed. "Now that didn't go very well, did it? Ay-yi-yi..."

"No, it did not," Zordon said to both of his assistants/friends. "But if you notice, they did not return the morphers. Hopefully this isn't the end of it all."

"Are you telling me you are letting them keep the morphers!?" Saba cried out.

"But Zordon! If they still have the morphers... what if they abuse the powers, or they fall into Rita's hands?" Alpha 5 asked.

"They were chosen for a reason. They do indeed have ATTITUDE," Zordon said, half trying to convince himself. "Keep an eye on them via the Viewing Globe. If they are about to lose the morphers or abuse them, teleport them back here immediately."

"Yes, Zordon," Alpha 5 said as the teens appeared on the Viewing Globe, exiting the Command Center.

"I hope you know what you're doing," Saba said, frustrated.

"You and me both..." Zordon replied, staring at the Viewing Globe from his shared Time Warp dimension.

As they found themselves on a mountain in the desert surrounding Angel Grove, Kim said, "Great. He could have sent us back into town."

"I hope we're still even in California..." Zach muttered.

"I recognize these rock formations. We are on a mountain range surrounding the city," Billy answered. "We're definitely still in Angel Grove."

"Well, at least there's that," Zach complained.

"Dude... what's with the negative attitude?" Jason asked. "I mean... he zapped us out here. He's obviously powerful, right? Why did you guys think he was lying?"

"Maybe he wants us to be supervillains or something. I dunno," Zach postulated.

"That wouldn't make any sense," Billy retorted. "He wants us to stop someone from destroying the city."

"That's why there are police. And the government," Kim stated. "I'm sure they're taking care of it. We're just kids!"

"Maybe..." Trini said. "But we dismissed it rather quickly... Maybe too quickly?"

Meanwhile, up on the moon, Rita Repulsa had just returned from her first attack on Earth. It was mostly to get a lay of the land that was near Zordon's Command Center. She was intrigued about the location he had picked, not knowing its connection to the Holy War against King Michael and Beelzebub. She had indeed seen interesting power signatures coming from Angel Grove, pinpointing a lot of it to the Abandoned Warehouse District. She had tried to get to it, but resistance from agents of SHIELD (a government agency who knew of and protected the powerful artifacts Zordon kept in the Abandoned Warehouse District) had come in and opened fire on Rita and Goldar. Rita, not having come prepared for such retaliation, quickly fled back to the Moon Palace created millions of years earlier by the Venerated Ones, ancient Morphing Masters who looked over Earth from the moon. Having once again set up base in the Moon Palace like she had twelve thousand years earlier, she began to look at weak spots in Angel Grove. As she did, looking through her enchanted telescope, she spotted the five chosen teens leaving the Command Center.

"Zordon, I'm surprised... teenagers?" Rita exclaimed, seeing how young the Humans were. She could see Morphing Energy dancing off of them due to the morphers around their belts. She quickly deduced they were to be his new warriors. "So you think you can stop me, do you? Finster, hurry up with those Putty Patrollers!"

Finster, who had been commissioned by Rita to make the Putties to fight against the government agents, heard Rita heading his way. Finster was happy to be back in his lab. It had been ten millennia since he had been able to get to work. The first thing Finster had done was to ensure his paperwork researching the Scrolls of Zordina (Zordon's manuscript for his project, the Zordina Victory Megazord that he had worked on while still a member of the United Alliance) were still where he left them, next to his research on trying to bypass Dulcea's Nathadian spell surrounding the Zeo Crystal in the Caves of Deception. The next thing he did had been to turn on his machine known as the Monster-Matic. Along with it was a book of stats Rita had given to Finster that the dog-like scientist called his own "recipe book". He would use the stats of former soldiers who had been under Rita's command to sculpt a "clone" of the fighter, who would be able to act as if they were the other fighter. Finster had learned if he had something from the fighter he was trying to clone, that he could even resurrect that fighter if they had died before in battle.

"Yes, Your Evil Badness. I'm molding the last ones now," Finster replied to Rita.

Squatt, standing next to Baboo, began speaking. "Those putties will make space dust outta those kids!"

Finster nodded as he was finishing the Putties. "And the beauty is if they don't, we can always make more. Now into the Monster-Matic they go. Ten seconds should do it."

Rita, Finster, and the others watched as the Putties were loaded into the Monster-Matic. They were small little clay dolls, but after the machine was finished whistling and churning, its gears pumping the clay dolls through on its conveyor belts, the dolls were grown and brought to life! Out they plopped from the machine, one at a time, landing under the massive chute that extended out from the Monster-Matic.

"Now my Putties, prepare to get those ha ha-ha!" Rita cackled.

"And what do you want me to do, my Empress?" Goldar asked, holding his sword tightly.

"Wait! This is a little test for the children Zordon has chosen. No reason to waste you when my Putties can do them in!" Rita proclaimed, walking to her telescope to spy on the kids again.

On Earth, Jason turned to his friends "Guys, we shouldn't have left. I mean, he chose us to save the world. I say we do it."

Trini sighed, her conscious having been weighing on her. She, too, thought they shouldn't had left. "Do you really think we can?"

Zach shook his head, upset that they were actually considering having stayed. "Hey, guys? I mean...You don't even know what you're talking about. We were talking to a giant... floating head."

Rita smiled, turning to Goldar. "Those stupid teenagers don't know who they're messing with! Ah! Get the Putties. It's time."

Goldar laughed. And then I will go down and test my strength against them! Once I know my strength is back up, then I will slay Rita and go back to my real master, Lord Zedd!

Rita made her way down to an area where she could concentrate outside the Caves of Deception. Channeling Blue Magic into her wand, she shot out Red Energy from her wand and teleported it down to the teens standing outside the Command Center. "All right. Take that!"

On Earth, the Red Energy blast barely missed the teens thanks to Zordon feeling it coming down. Focusing, he caused the Command Center to emit enough electrons to caust the beam to go off course.

As the beam missed, Jason screamed, "Everybody down!"

Trini gasped. "What was that!?"

That's when the Putty Patrol appeared. They began to circle the teens, ready to strike them down. To eradicate them from existence.

Zach turned, seeing some of them running straight at Kimberly. "Hey! Look out!"

As they reached for her, Kim began to scream. "Let go of me!"

While she kicked out of their hold, Jason looked over as if to cue his sparring buddy. "Zach!"

Zach, figuring out what Jason was insinuating, nodded. "Right... These two are mine."

Zach began to dance. It was what he knew, what he'd done for years. Being able to focus on that helped him tap into his own inherent ability to copy any type of fighting style. As he fought, Jason and Trini fought back as well. They both felt odd, fighting another person for real. They both trained and sparred. Jason even fought in many tournaments, winning in them. But this was different. Fighting for sport or practice was not the same as fighting for one's survival. The stakes had been raised and the tension was eating away at them.

Kim did all she could, but she wasn't trained as a fighter. The best she knew to do was to do her gymnastics routine, hoping to weaponize it somehow. She was surprised when she hit one of the Putties in the chest.

Wow... I've never hit anyone before! It... It kinda feels good! She thought, unknowingly unlocking a warrior that had been residing in her all along.

Billy, however, was a tragedy. As Zordon watched the would be Blue Ranger, wielder of the Triceratops Power Coin, he could only shake his head. The boy had not a fighting skill in his body. He was bumping into the Putties, falling and twisting and pathetically flailing to not get captured.

"Zordon! He's a lost cause!" Saba gasped out. "There must have been a mistake!"

Zordon slowly shook his head. "You are missing something. Any normal person would've been completely overwhelmed. What he lacks in skill, he uses his brain. He has yet to be completely overcome."

"You're an optimist, Zordon." Saba said, smirking. "I hope you know what you're doing..."

By that point, all but Jason had been thrown to the ground. Zordon observed him, wanting to see what the computer saw in him that made him the candidate for team leader. He fought, harder than the others, but nothing that caught Zordon's eye. Although Zordon read that he was a national champion, he wasn't anything that Zordon hadn't seen coming from a first year cadet at the old Morphing Academy. Then, he saw Jason get thrown just like the others.

"Some leader..." Saba remarked, echoing outloud Zordon's thoughts.

Kim shook her head with her friends around her on the ground. "This day is too weird."

Ignoring Kim's remark of complete obviousness, Trini said, "What do we do now?"

Jason was unsure. He didn't know what to do, since he'd never been so outfought. If only I had some more power!

At that, Jason looked down at the morpher on his belt. "Zordon said these Power Morphers give us power. Let's do it!"

Zach grabbed his morpher first after Jason. Zordon thought it interesting that the one who was the "nonbeliever" was the first to grab onto the power of the five. Zordon began to wonder what his home situation was like. Was he automatically resistant to authority for a reason? Whatever the case, Zach initiated the "roll call". The programming in the Power Morpher coursed through the teens, using the same tech Zordon had used in his Megadroids eons ago, syncing the thoughts of the teens with the programming, sending the data into the minds of the new carriers of the power as "prompts" through their neural synapses.

"Mastodon!" Zach cried out.

"Pterodactyl!" Kim felt herself being prompted to say.

"Triceratops!" Billy declared.

"Sabertooth Tiger!" Shouted Trini.

"Tyrannosaurus!" Stoically stated Jason.

The Morphing Grid swam from the totems that were the Power Coins created by Ninjor millions of years earlier. The Power Morphers, or Regulators, absorbed the Morphing Energy and slowly distributed it throughout the bodies of the fragile Human teens. With the Power Regulator controlling how much Morphing Energy pumped through them, they were safe from having any abnormalities hit their physiology.

"Power Rangers!" They cried out in unison.

"Amazing..." Saba said as he watched the Power Rangers begin to attack the Putty Patrol. "They are already acting as one organism!"

"Yes, Saba," Zordon said. "Our programming is helping them move as a team. They are more at one with each other than they ever were with themselves. From now on, they are a team."

In the Command Center, Alpha 5 cried out, "Zordon, they made the metamorphosis!"

Zordon nodded, directing his attention to the hologram in the sky above his head of the inside of the Command Center. As he did, the hologram had some writing appear on it from the Command Center, stating Rita had sent down one of her minions. "Teleport them to Angel Grove City. Rita just sent down Goldar."

"Right away, Zordon." Alpha 5 said as he punched in the coordinates to Goldar's location.

As they continued to fight the Putties, the five newly created Power Rangers felt themselves be lifted off the ground like they had been moments earlier when Zordon first summoned them. Suddenly they were turned into beams of Morphing Energy, flying through the air toward downtown Angel Grove.

"Where are we going?" The Pink Ranger asked, confused about why they were suddenly taken out of the battle.

If the Red Ranger could've smirked (not being able to due to being just a beam of energy), he would have. "We're going to save the world."

"What about the Putties outside the Command Center!?" Alpha 5 asked nervously.

"Teleport them to Japan. I'm sure the Samurai Rangers would love some practice dummies." Zordon said as he used his energy to send a message to the Samurai Ranger's mentor, a stern man and hard worker named Ji.

As that happened, the five rangers landed in a plaza outside of Angel Grove.

"All right, let's do it," Red Ranger stated, ready for action.

"Hi-ya!" The others cried out.

Goldar kicked a SHIELD agent away from him as he fought off groups of soldiers atop a building's roof, turning around when he heard the shouts below. Moving to the edge of the building, he frowned upon seeing the five colored rangers. As he saw them, he recognized their pattern. They weren't exactly the same and lacked the Dragon Shield, but they were obviously made in the same vein as the Green Ranger who had beaten him years earlier. The Ranger who humiliated him and for whom he swore vengeance. Vengeance that he got when he helped Knasty Knight slay the former Green Ranger, Burai, on Tarmac 3.

"Hi-ya!" Goldar screamed, landing on the ground as he leapt from the building top. As he landed, Putties appeared around him, sent by Rita. "Get them!"

As the Power Rangers began fighting off the Putties, the SHIELD agents above began to spy the fight. "What are our orders!?"

Hearing the squad leader, Commander Nick Fury frowned in his base as he watched the fight. Before he could answer, he saw his computer begin to flash. Furrowing his brow, he leaned over to see why. Suddenly, Zordon appeared on his computer screen.

"Fury. These are my fighters. The being who is attacking Angel Grove is an intergalactic Sorceress known as Rita Repulsa," Zordon said. "She is far too powerful, and her minion Goldar would destroy your soldiers. Please focus on stopping her squadrons of Putty Patrollers from pillaging the Abandoned Warehouse District."

"I already have men there. I-" Fury began.

"All of your men. There are important things there Rita cannot get," Zordon said. "This is what I've been talking to you about, Fury. We must buckle down now..."

"This is the Countdown to Destruction?" Fury said, hoping that his fear that this was actually it would've been wrong.

Zordon sighed. "It may very well be. Let my fighters handle Goldar and the bigger fighters. Fend off the Putties at the Warehouses."

"Will do," Fury said.

"May the Power protect you..." Zordon stated as he logged off.

"May it protect us all, ya big blue head." Fury said, pounding his fist on his desk. "Men!? This is Commander Fury. All available agents to the swarm of grey skinned punks in the Abandoned Warehouse District now."

Meanwhile, up in the Moon Palace, Rita screamed, "Finster, those stupid Putties are getting beaten by a bunch of pimple-faced nitwits! They're pathetic!"

Squatt, hoping to be helpful, said, "How about making Goldar big with your wand?"

Rita didn't want to admit that Squatt had actually given her a good idea, so she replied by saying, "I always have to do everything myself. Finster, I'll deal with you later!"

"Oh, dear," Finster said, wondering how he could've been better for Rita.

Rita made her way to her balcony. The only thing that was fueling her intentions was pure Rage. There was no rhyme or reason. The spell Zedd had placed over her was causing her to not have any logic in her mind. She was solely a being of reaction. She remembered Zordon imprisoning her, and all she wanted was to shut him down because of it. Breathing in deeply, she arched her arm back, ready to toss her wand.

"Magic wand! Make my Goldar... grooooooow!"

Zordon could feel it. The wand was chucked down and sent flying toward Earth. It hit the ground, Blue Magic and Red Energy blasting out of it and hitting the ground. In the form of vapors that Magic flew up and it Goldar, causing him to grow to astronomical sizes. He growled and laughed as he reached full size.

The Red Ranger staggered back, "Look at him, that dude's huge!"

Goldar laughed again, turning and beginning to look around to see what damage he could cause. He had been able to get to the heart of the city, which had proven to be difficult with the SHIELD forces fighting back. While the Putties worked hard to get to the artifacts in the Abandoned Warehouse District, Goldar decided he'd do his best to cause problems, while proving his worth against these new Power Rangers.

As Goldar swung about, wanting to attack, Red Ranger screamed at him, "Back off, fang face!"
The Black Ranger, feeling the energy from the Red Ranger, added, "The good guys are here."

Out of character, Blue Ranger yelled, "Get off our planet."

"Cause we're the Power Rangers!" The Yellow Ranger declared.

Pink Ranger got into the groove of things with the others. "And we're not backing down. Hiyah!"
As Goldar continued his rampage, Red Ranger cried out almost as if by instinct, "Dinozord power!"

Zordon watched in pride as the Dinozords came out of their hiding places. The Mastodon Zord from the Antarctic, the Pterodactyl from a tropical volcano, the Triceratops from a desert, the Sabertooth Tiger from a jungle, and the Tyrannosaurus from deep underground. The work that he, Alpha 5, and the knowledge from an ancient sage known as Seeker had put into it had finally come to fruition.

Red Ranger was smiling behind his visor as the zord appeared in the city, having teleported from his hiding spot. Focusing, he jumped as high as he could, finding himself landing a top the zord. "Yeah! All right!"

Feeling the promptings from his Morpher, Red Ranger ran to a small opening and found himself sliding down into the cockpit of the Dinozord.

"Log on!" He ordered, seeing the console before him.

As Blue and Black Rangers jumped up to their zords, Blue yelled, "Let's do it."

The Yellow Ranger yelled as she and Pink jumped up to their zords, "Going up!"

"Zach here, this is kicking!" Black Ranger said, looking around in awe.

"This is Billy- let's go," Blue Ranger said, extremely impressed with the tech he was seeing.

"Trini here, ready!" Yellow Ranger declared.

"Hey, nice stereo," Pink Ranger said, adding some humor to the tense situation.

Goldar growled as he saw the five zords storming toward him. He was suddenly flashing back to the time he had first met Zordon's Megadroid, and Zordon was doing the same in his own mind as he watched from his Time Warp. It was so similar to the time that he, Orion, Delphine, Gosei, and Dulcea had piloted the five Droids during the events in M51 leading to the Final Siege on Onyx.

"Megazord power... on!" Red Ranger stated, activating the command to have the zords merge.

Suddenly understanding the command, Yellow Ranger said, "Trini here. This is amazing! I seem to know how to drive this thing!"

"Affirmative, I do too," Blue Ranger replied. "It's almost like second nature to me."

As the zords merged, the cockpit in the T-Rex zord grew and had more seats in it to accommodate the four rangers who were teleported into those new seats.

"All right guys, let's go get 'em," Red Ranger said, happy to see he would be sitting with his team.

"Right!" They replied in unison.

Goldar shot a blast from his sword at them. The fire hit the tank, but didn't seem to do much damage. It did rock them, though, causing them to yell out as it did.

Goldar puffed out his chest at the tank approaching him. Even though his throat wasn't healed, he wanted to speak to them in his own voice. "You and your weapons are no match for me."

Red Ranger felt the tech flowing through him, prompting him. "Let's see what this baby can do!"

As Goldar went to attack, Blue Ranger and Black Ranger inputted the commands into their consoles. Morphing Energy erupted from the cannons on the tank they had formed of the five zords.

"Yeah! Zap him again!" Red Ranger cried out as he saw Goldar get hit.

Goldar screamed as the blast hit him, causing him to fall. He wanted to test out his wings, but felt too much pain in his back still. He had been able to fly momentarily in his initial attack of Angel Grove, but since then the pain was too much for him to bear.

"All right!" Red Ranger said happily as the tank pulled up closer. "Let's send this guy back where he came from."

As the team answered in the affirmative, Red Ranger said, "All right, guys, power it up. Activating Megazord Battle Mode."

With each team member activating the consoles like they knew they should, the computer declared, "Megazord sequence has been initiated."

While the tank began to stand up from its Tank Mode, Zordon watched curiously. "Saba? Do you notice how they seem to be speaking more in unison than before?"

"Why, yes," Saba said. "They are definitely becoming the soldiers you need."

Zordon frowned. "But... perhaps it's too much? I... I don't want to take away their individuality..."

"This is war," Saba stated dryly. "We need soldiers and they are them."

"But they know not what the tech is doing to them," Zordon retorted. "Is this our place?"

"What's the alternative, Zordon?" Saba asked him, folding his arms across his chest.

"I... I don't know," Zordon said truthfully. He then turned around to watch the Pteradactyl Zord attach and form the mighty Megazord.

"Megazord Activated," The computer stated.

Angry, Goldar jumped at them, slashing at Megazord's face, then chest. The Megazord staggered back before doing a fist parry of another attack, following up with a punch to Goldar's chest. Goldar then slashed again, only to be deflected. Zach then commanded the Megazord to do a quick backhand to Goldar's chest.

Blue Ranger was shocked as Goldar continued to stand. "Jason! That blow didn't even [i]phase[i] him."

Red Ranger was just as stumped. "Man! He's coming at us!"

Goldar jumped into the air again. Seeing the Megazord was planning a defense against a sword attack, Goldar stretched out his feet and planted them on Megazord's chest. The Megazord fell back, shouts of fear being heard from the rangers.

"They're... they're just kids..." Zordon said, wanting to pull the plug on the whole thing. "They're not ready yet!"

"Neither were we!" Saba screamed. "But what happened!? We were manipulated by the Guardian and the others in the Hall of Legends! Thrust into an interdimensional, Time travel laced, universal war against beings far more powerful than we were! Just like we were trusted with a large task, we have to have faith now that these kids have the power to do what we need them to!"

Red Ranger clenched his fist, looking to his team. "Hang on!"

As Goldar rushed again, Red Ranger screamed, "Look out!"

The Rangers focused, Yellow and Blue Rangers doing all they could to manage the Megazord's feet and stance. Black Ranger pushed buttons and turned hand controls furiously, blocking punches and a kick from Goldar. Meanwhile, Pink Ranger tried to keep managing the shield defenses of the Megazord while Red Ranger had an overall control, helping all systems simultaneously (as well as controlling the head exclusively).

"You fools are finished!" Goldar screamed, ready to take the enemies down.

That's when it happened. A surge of power flew through the Red Ranger. It was time, and he knew it. The battle had gone on long enough, and an escalation was deemed necessary by the computer system, run by the power of the Order of Meledon.

"Power Sword!" Red Ranger cried out.

Morphing Energy crackled in the heavens above. It surged and mixed with the power coming from the Megazord. It materialized and morphed into a giant sword, mixed with a power Zordon was working on called the Power of Thunder. The sword, programmed to work in conjunction with the Megazord, flew toward it. Black Ranger tried, but both he and Red Ranger were unable to coordinate and missed the sword. The Power Sword landed in the ground, Morphing Energy charged and dancing off of it. The Megazord made its way over to it, plucking it out of the dirt

Goldar felt his stomach in knots. He could feel immense power coming from it. Fearing his own life, he took two steps back away from the Megazord. "Ah, this isn't over. I'll be back."

As Goldar vanished back up to the Moon Palace, Blue Ranger cried out, "We did it!"

"All right!" Yellow Ranger declared.

"Yes!" Both the Black and Pink Rangers shouted.

"Yeah!" The Red Ranger said, feeling himself brimming with joy.

"Rangers? You will be teleported up to the Command Center immediately." Zordon said, smiling from ear to ear. "Your zords will be teleported back to their hiding places after that happens."

"Ready when you are, Zordon!" Red Ranger said, smiling himself, unable to believe he was actually a superhero.

. . .

Rita screamed up on the Moon Palace. "I can't believe they beat us!"

Baboo, hoping no one would notice how he had done absolutely nothing, began to point fingers at Squatt. "This is all your fault, Squatt. You should've helped."

Ignoring those two, Rita turned to her number one general. "Goldar, you failed!"

Goldar stopped himself, biting his tongue so he didn't say anything that would further anger Rita. He knew after that fight that he was not yet ready to take her on, if he couldn't even fight five Humans. "It won't happen again, Empress."

Rita sneered. "Shut up, I've got a headache!"

As she left them, she made her way to the place that had once been her room. As she slammed the door behind her, she stopped dead in her tracks. She was shocked to see before her Darkonda, the secret agent of the United Alliance of Evil.

"Rita Repulsa..." Darkonda said, chuckling. "Now, how did you happen to get out of your little dumpster?"

"You're still around!?" Rita demanded. "My, my... it seems as if you are harder to put down than you appear!"

Darkonda chuckled. "Well, at least I didn't age like you have."

"What do you want!? You're not welcome here!" Rita yelled.

"I'm on task from Dark Specter himself," Darkonda said.

Rita swallowed hard. "Dark Specter!? He's still alive!?"

"Oh, yes. The United Alliance of Evil was mere days away from attacking Earth themselves." Darkonda stated, beginning to pace back and forth as he spoke. "Dark Specter has sent me to ask you... Where are you allegiances? Are you still with the United Alliance, or do you fight for yourself?"

Rita wanted to yell, scream, and destroy Darkonda. She knew that she couldn't, though. With all the Rage in her, she still held a very healthy fear of Dark Specter. She knew that if she did anything to infuriate him, he'd have her hide before she could try to run.

"Once a member of the United Alliance of Evil, always a member..." Rita said begrudgingly.

"Smart. I will let Dark Specter know." Darkonda said, activating his invisible portal to his ship. "And welcome back to the fold. Stay put for now: Dark Specter will give you your orders soon..."

"Nooo!" Rita screamed, shooting a blast of Blue Magic at the wall before her. "Not again! A prisoner again!"

She then sighed, plopping down on her bed. As she did, she felt something in her pocket. Reaching in, she pulled out the artifact that had been on her person for the past ten thousand years: the Green Dragon Coin that had once belonged to Burai. She knew not that it was the Ghost of Darkness influencing her actions at that point.

"I defeated your forces once before using this... I can do it again!" Rita cried out. "Watch your back, Dark Specter! Rita is back and ready to fight!"

. . .

Zordon looked at the group before him. "Congratulations on a job well done. Now that you have become Power Rangers you must follow three basic rules or lose the protection of the power. First, never use your power for personal gain. Second, never escalate a battle unless Rita forces you. And finally, keep your identity secret. No one may know you are a Power Ranger."

Upon hearing the rules of the Order of Meledon, Zach said, "Oh, wait a second."

"Yes, Zachary what is it?" Zordon answered.

Zach sighed. "I'm not sure we're all up to this. I mean, we were pretty lucky this time."

Zordon shook his head. "Luck had nothing to do with it. The five of you have come together to form as fine a group of superheroes as there has ever been."

"No way... really?" Kim said, having been taught to not take compliments readily.

"You've been through an extraordinary experience together. You need each other now... and the world needs you," Zordon said, proud of those before him.

Jason smiled. This all felt right to him. As if this is where he knew he was supposed to be all along. "Yeah, all right. I'm in."

Zach smiled as well. "Me, too."

Trini looked at them. "You can count on me."

"Affirmative!" Billy cried out, still on cloud nine about the whole thing.

"I don't know, you guys... I mean, the outfits are cool and everything but my hair gets all tangled up inside the helmet. I don't think I can do it," Kim said, trying to keep a straight face.

As everyone protested, she couldn't keep up the charade. "Not! Gotcha!"

Alpha 5, still experiencing some of the after effects of the malfunctioning of the attack on Alpha 4 by the villain Prime, began to smoke from the sudden revelation. "Circuit overload! Circuit overload! Ay-yi-yi!"

Kim rushed over to him, feeling guilty. "Don't blow a fuse! Oh... You guys, I was just kidding."

Alpha 5, finally able to control himself, sighed. "Oh... humor! What a concept..."

Jason looked around at those in the room with him. Sticking out his hand in the center of the room, he smiled and said, "Let's do it."

One by one, they each placed their hands in on top on of one another. Once they were all in, they all shouted as they jumped up, "Power Rangers!"
Zordon looked to Saba. "What do you think?"

"They're a little rought, but..." Saba said, smiling. "I like them. Watch out, Dark Specter. The Power Rangers are back and they aren't going anywhere!"

"You're right, Saba," Zordon said, a prompting coming to him from the Order of Meledon coursing through him. "Even after you and I are long gone... the Power Rangers will go on and defend the universe from all manner of evil. Today is the dawn of a new legacy... The legacy of a new era of Power Rangers!"

. . .

General McKnight stood in the back room of Ernie's Juice Bar, located in the Youth Center. He watched the film over and over again of the five teens teleporting out of the room. Each teen was color coded: red, black, yellow, pink, and blue. The same colors as the mystery fighters who appeared to help the alien attack. The ones General Rex said were Power Rangers, the same name he had given to the fighters they had planned on bringing in for Project Global Strike.

"Now what?" Kaplan asked as he stood behind McKnight, who was seated at the computer.

"Now...? Well, although Nick Fury trusts this Zordon contact of his... Rex does not," McKnight stated. "And if Rex doesn't, then neither do we. Keep an eye on these five. They are likely these 'Power Rangers'. We need proof of it. Meanwhile, we will need to expedite Global Strike pronto."

"But we don't have people ready!" Kaplan said. "The drugs haven't had time to create those who can be our soldiers!"

McKnight smiled. "Rex always has a back up plan. There are plenty of others who have yet to be brought into the fold of Alphabet Soup. If this 'Zordon' was able to make rangers of teens who we didn't deem as being ready for Alphabet Soup, then maybe our standards for being a Power Ranger are too high."

Kaplan nodded. "Yes, sir. I will let you know what I can learn about these teens."

Nodding himself, McKnight stood up and left the room. As he did, he looked at the folder he was holding in his right hand. It had a "CLASSIFIED" stamp in red ink on it. Opening it, he saw a list of people who were qualified for Global Strike. He scanned the first few names of the people, in order of who were most qualified to be in Global Strike: Tommy Oliver, Adam Park, Clark Fairweather, Aisha Campbell, Angela Fairweather, Richie Mendoza... and the list went on. Soon, Global Strike would be up and active. McKnight knew that such power that the Rangers had was dangerous outside of the hands of the government, and that soon the power would be there's.

. . .

On the Dark Fortress, Dark Specter listened to Darkonda. "Thank you for your report... Ecliptor?"
Ecliptor, Dark Specter's right hand man, stepped forward and bowed before his master. "Yes, my emperor?"

"Take Astronema and go to Lord Zedd. Tell him that Rita Repulsa has returned and that he is going to be in charge of her attack over Earth," Dark Specter ordered.

"What!?" King Aradon of the second Machine Empire (rival to King Mondo's Empire) cried out.

Darkonda laughed as he stepped into his portal. "This is something that you all should handle amongst yourselves..."

"How dare you raise your voice in my throne room!?" Dark Specter screamed.

"My apologies, your highness." Aradon said, dropping to all fours before him. "It's just that... I was promised Earth."

"Things have changed. With Rita suddenly returning, I must re-plan everything," Dark Specter said. "You are more mobile than she, and she already has set up base. Even if she fails, it will give Lord Zedd plenty of information to hand to me on how we can deal with these new Power Rangers Zordon seems to have had all these years."

"But, master, I-" Aradon said.

"Silence!" Dark Specter screamed. "I will call you when I need you! For now, I need you working on taking down Triforia."

"Yes, my liege..." Aradon said angrily as he stood up and left.

"Now, Ecliptor. You have your orders," Dark Specter said.

"Yes, Dark Specter." Ecliptor said as he turned and left the room himself to fetch Astronema.

Dark Specter looked out the window of his throne room. Interesting development, Zordon. Even more Power Rangers? Well, let's see how long you can delay the inevitable. There is no stopping me, you fool. Contingency plans or not, the day will come when I will attack. I will invade Earth, Zordon. And when I do... that will be the day that I will take your Life! And then nothing will stop me from ruling the universe!