A/N: This is the first part of the Power Rangers: Frozen Star series. While not necessary to read The Next Year, there will be some questions you may have so I will answer some of them now. Tommy and Kim are married, as are Jason and Kat, as well as Billy and Hayley and Conner and Kira, they all have kids. Jeremy Hanson is the MMPR Green Ranger (If you're confused read TNY) and Tommy tends to favor his white ranger powers over red Zeo or Black Dino.

Power Rangers: Frozen Star Series

In the Face of Defeat

Going Underground

2015:

Dr. Thomas Oliver along with his wife Kimberly and two children led a large group through the desert outside Angel Grove. They were followed by Jason and Katherine Scott, their children, Conner and Kira McKnight and their daughter, Ethan James, Jeremy Hanson, and Trent Mercer and his parents. They were leading a group of civilians and family members to the safest place any of them could think of. Andros, Ashley and their children were using the Astro Megaship to evacuate the Ranger's families, as well as any civilians that they could find off planet, but there are only so many they could take per trip. Life had become full of fear, death, and defeat since the initial Venjix attacks that destroyed most cities around the globe. Tommy marched on leaving thoughts of his destroyed home and town behind, choosing to simply try to focus on keeping his family and friends safe.

In Blue Bay Harbor, the Ninja Rangers realized that they were fighting a losing battle. No matter how many grinders and Attackbots they took out they seemed to be replenished before they could call a victory, and now that their zords had been destroyed the six Ninja Rangers did the only thing that they could. They publicly revealed their identities and began getting as many people as they could into the relative safety of the Wind and Thunder Ninja Academies. Two of the rangers, Tori Hanson and her husband Blake Bradley looked out and took in the destruction around before entering the academy after the last group of people and sealing the doors leaving the rest of the world locked out.

In Briarwood, assisted by Udonna and the Mystic Mother, the Mystic Force rangers successfully evacuated the scared townsfolk into the forest where Venjix cannot find them. The robotic forces appeared in the town just as the portal to the forest was sealed, and found nothing but an empty city completely devoid of any life.

The Wild Force rangers were fighting bravely trying to give Princess Shayla enough time to get as many people to the Animarium as possible. Eric Meyers, the Quantum Ranger stood by his wife Taylor as his friend Wes Collins and Cole Evans were finishing off a group of grinders. "Leave some for us", Eric said as he stepped towards the Attackbot that had just appeared. With one Cannon blast it sent the rangers flying into the ruins of a nearby bank, causing some of them to demorph from the impact. Cole stood up and faced down the attackbot. The attackbot laughed as it fired another shot from its cannon. Cole dodged the blast as he pulled out his morpher and flipped it open, "Wild Acce…..", he was cut off by a lout crashing sound from above. Cole looked up to see a large mass of metal falling towards him. He tried to jump out of the way, but didn't move in time and was crushed beneath the debris. Alyssa screamed as she saw her husband killed, and began to cry when his morpher skidded across the ground stopping at her feet. "We've got to go, now" Eric called as he rounded up the rest of the rangers before teleporting them all to the Animarium, leaving the city and destruction behind like a bad memory.

Billy completed the latest teleportation sequence using the Long Range Teleporter that he had built from diagrams that the Aquitians had sent him. His wife Hayley was busy getting the rest of the power up sequence finished so they could begin rebuilding the underground areas of the command center. He looked over at his sleeping daughter Cestria and smiled. In the ten years since he returned to Earth, he still thought fondly of his old love, and since they were still friends Billy had named his daughter after her. He laughed slightly out loud, which to him sounded a bit off since there really had not been much happiness going around for the last couple weeks. Cestria had fallen asleep while rewiring the intradimensional communications array. He quickly finished the job and activated the array. As soon as Hayley flipped the last switch, the lights came on to full and the rest of the computer consoles came back on. Billy looked at the empty energy tube in the front silently wishing that Zordon were here, but at least with very generous donations from interested parties the old command center was rebuilt as a power ranger museum for the public. Unknown to the public however it was also built so it could return to active duty when needed. He sighed from pure exhaustion, having been up for three and a half days straight trying to get the systems up and running, as well as finding ways off planet for as many people as possible. He could not rest yet because the remaining rangers that were unable to secure safety were all heading to the command center with their families in a hope to find a safe harbor to wait out the Venjix attacks.

Tommy and his group arrived at the rear entrance of the old Power Chamber shortly before 3pm, and after scouting the area and determining it was safe and free of Venjix Attack-bots, he lead the group into the caves that housed heavily damaged remnants of the Power Chamber. Even though the Command Center was rebuilt, little attention if any was paid to the chambers below it. Upon reaching the doors to the power chamber, Tommy pointed down a tunnel, "Conner, Trent, and Kira take Elsa and Jason and scout the tunnels, see if you can find anything useful under all this mess." Kira squeezed her seven year old daughters hand as she looked at Tommy. "Shannon will stay with me, Kim, and Kat. She'll be safe, I promise", Tommy said to reassure her. Kira had been hard pressed to let go of her daughters hand since this whole ordeal started, and certainly was not comfortable to do so now. She bent down and gave her daughter a kiss on the cheek before handing her over to Kim and joining the rest of the scouting group. Once they were gone, Tommy turned to Anton and Ethan and said, "I'm going to need your help. I want to be able to monitor the situation outside without risking our detection, and I don't know what kind of shape the equipment here is in." With that he turned, and opened the doors to the Power Chamber, for the first time letting a non-ranger in.

After several hours of painstaking work, Ethan said, "Dr. O! Over Here, I've found something odd that I think you should take a look at!" When Tommy reached him, he looked at the screen in front of him. Not believing what he was seeing, he turned to Ethan, and said "When was this message sent?" Ethan pushed a few buttons on the control panel and replied, "This message appears to be less than a month old, Tommy, What does it mean, and where exactly is Inquiris?"

Tommy looked at Ethan and Anton, and replied "Inquiris is the home planet of one of the ranger's former mentors Dimetria, and truthfully I have no idea what 'Find the Frozen Star' means."

Hailey, who had teleported into the chamber after the sensors in the main Command Center went off looked over Tommy's shoulder said "Wait, What was that?" There was a string of numbers at the end of the message..." Ethan pushed a few more buttons on the control panel, going back through the message until Anton said "Stop, there... That's it... Those look like coordinates on a Star Chart."

Tommy copied down the coordinates and turned to face the others," Ok well, we will look into it later. In the mean time, how are the Security systems coming Anton?'

Anton replied "The perimeter sensors are functional, though their range is only about 1500 feet at this point. The internal sensors appear to be somewhat functional, but I'm not sure how accurate their readings are, they are detecting nearly 60 people in the caves around the power chamber, and if I am reading this right, some of them appear to be rangers."

Anton jumped when he heard a piece of metal hit the floor. "Sorry," Tommy said, "I could have sworn you said the internal sensors are detecting 60 people, some of whom appear to be rangers."

"I did", Anton replied, "And if I'm reading this right, Trent and the other rangers are with some of them right now. Why don't you call them and ask for an update"

Tommy looked at Anton like he had three heads, "Call them?"

Anton just nodded his head towards Tommy's wrist, and pointed to his communicator.

Tommy looked down and said "Oh, right, I forgot."

Hailey and Ethan looked at each other, and shared a knowing glance that said "If his head wasn't firmly attached he would lose it."

Meanwhile, Tommy had regained his sense of composure enough to hit the "Talk" button on his communicator. "Trent, your dad said he picked you and the others up on internal sensors along with about 60 other people, is that accurate?"

Trent replied "Hey Dr. O, yeah, there are a bunch of people and their families down here." In the background Tommy could have sworn he heard 'Dr. O, Tommy?" in the background, right before Trent screamed, "Hey, that's my arm, I'm kind of attached to it!"

"Trent", Tommy said into his wrist, "Are you OK?"

"Tommy, is that you, it's Justin, who are these guys, and why are they calling you Dr. O"

Tommy sighed as he replied "Justin, yes, it's me, I'll head down to see you and the others in a bit. Would you mind giving Trent his arm back?"

Justin answered "Oh right, sorry, yeah Tommy, I'll see you shortly".

Tommy looked around the ruins, "Let's start setting up. First order of business is to get some rest; we'll make living arrangements for everyone tomorrow." With that he left the chamber to meet with the others in the caves.

A/N: This was originally a prologue, but since it's now over 10,000 words (And we're still not done) we've decided to break it up into its own story. Again most things that it has in common with The Next Year have already been posted in that story, other than a few characters and slight backstory this is stand alone. As Always please read and review.