Disclaimer: Don't own anything except some characters and plot. With permission I am using one of Miss Nic's characters, Nicole Scott.

Chapter 1

The Arrival

It was a nice sunny day out and the Dino Thunder Rangers were training in a clearing in the woods with their mentor. Conner, the Red Dino Thunder Ranger, was sparring with Trent, the White Dino Thunder Ranger.

"Is that all you got?" Conner taunted as he dodged a punch aimed for his face. He was answered with a flurry of kicks and pummels and was sent flying back from a kick that connected with his side. He grunted as he landed hard on his back.

"That good enough for you?" Trent asked as he stuck out his hand to thelp his friend up. Instead though, Conner just pushed his hand away and launched at him. Trent quickly backed up and blocked Conner's attacks. Meanwhile, on the other side of the clearing Kira and Ethan were sparring. Kira was having trouble landing any of her attacks, not that it mattered if she did because it hardly phased him with his toughened skin. After a while, of back and forth blocking and attacking Kira finally landed a punch that sent Ethan staggering back.

"Got you," Kira shouted celebrating the fact that she actually hit Ethan. Though she then promptly fell on her butt as Ethan swept her legs out from under her.

"Don't let your guard down, Kira," their mentor, Dr. Oliver shouted to her as he watched over the four teens training. Ethan helped Kira up and they began to spar again.

"Alright guys, I think that's enough for today," Dr. Oliver said to his students.

"Good, I'm wiped," Ethan exclaimed, as he wiped the sweat from his face with a blue towel.

"I totally whooped Trent's butt," Conner announced after chugging his water.

"You did not," Trent responded.

"I did too!"

"Did not," Kira just rolled her eyes at the immature antics of her teammates.

"Guys," Dr. Oliver shouted and gave an angry glare, which promptly shut them up. Suddenly a golden, fiery ball plummeted down to Earth.

"Did you guys see that?" Ehtan asked, hoping he wasn't seeing things.

"Yeah," they answered and then the ground shook as whatever it was made impact.

"Let's go check it out," Dr. Oliver suggested and led the group to where whatever it was had fallen. They soon came upon the crash site and there was a huge crater with smoke billowing from it.

"It looks like there's a man in there," Conner stated.

"Help me get him out guys," Dr. Oliver said, climbing down into the crater. Him and Conner pulled what seemed to be a boy their age out of the crater. He was bloody and bruised a caked with dirt. His shirt and pants were torn in various places.

"Anyone know who he is?" Dr. Oliver questioned, looking at his student.

"Nope," Conner.

"Never seen him before," Ethan.

"No," Trent. Kira looked closely and then answered,

"I have no idea who he is."

"Well, lets take him back to the lab, I think he's hurt." Dr. Oliver said as he picked the boy up.

"Well, no duh Dr. O! He just frickin' fell through the sky and made a huge, smoking crater when he landed," Conner through his hands up in the air as he remarked on how Dr. O just stated the obvious fact that the boy was hurt. Dr. Oliver gave Conner an evil glare and the group began to make their way back to the lab underneath Dr. Oliver's house. When they finally arrived at his house, they laid the boy down on one of the beds they had for medical care. They cleaned him up and bandaged him up to the best of their ability since none of them were medical doctors.

"What should we do with him?" Ethan asked the question that was on everyone's mind. Dr. Oliver shrugged, "I don't know."

"We can't just throw him out, he's hurt," Kira said, angry that her teammates would even think of such a thing.

"I know Kira, I was never going to do that," Dr. Oliver reassured her.

"But was about the fact that we're Power Rangers and we have to keep our identities of a secret," Conner asked, wondering how they would be able to keep him here without him finding out that they were the Power Rangers.

"We can move him somewhere else," Trent suggested.

'Rangers I need your help!' was heard in all of their minds and they all looked around for the source of the voice.

Suddenly, six lights appeared: red, blue, yellow, green, crimson, and navy and with them six people in ninja suits. They looked around wondering where they were.

Then, six more lights appeared: silver, blue, white, black, yellow, and red, and with them six more people, who were just as confused as the others.

And then two red lights flashed throughout the room and two more people appeared, lost and confused.

There was another flash of light, red, yellow, blue, green, pink, and silver and six people.

Then, there was a burst of five lights: pink, red, blue, yellow, and green, and five people.

Six more lights then flashed: red, silver, yellow, pink, blue, and black. The lab was quickly filling up with people, and running out of space.

Two more light flashes came: pink and yellow with two people.

There was a purple flash that brought one person. And then nine more flashes came carrying nine more people.

They landed in a circle: red, yellow, black, blue, white, pink, orange, green, and silver, around the boy. The nine looked at each other and brought their hands up to connect the circle. They closed their eyes and looked deep inside themselves for their animal spirits. The ape, the bear, the frog, the wolf, the falcon, the crane, the tiger, the dragon, and the mastadon respectively. In a brilliant flash, they were in ninja suits of their respective colors with a gold coin on the chest with a picture of their spirit animal on it. The boy's eyes suddenly snapped open.