"A computer virus has infiltrated the system," the alerts were blaring on the screen in red as a Asian man in his early thirties was taking a sip of his coffee. He fixed his glasses and immediately turned his attention to the computer to try to combat the virus. After fifteen minutes of trying fighting off the virus, the man turned away from the computer.
He flipped the intercom to the facility on and spoke over it to everyone in the building. He spoke, "Attention, I repeat, attention! This is Professor Watanabe. We have an emergency situation. I am transferring the product to the secondary base, then severing this facility's connection to the grid." Professor Watanabe flipped off the the intercom and then pushed a red button.
The buildings emergency lights started flashing and the intercom's female voice began a loop of "Evacuate the building immediately. This is not a drill."
"Alright," Watanabe turned back to the computer's main screen. "I'll play your game." He typed a memorized sequence of codes into the computer's command prompt. The computer confirmed the completion of the teleportation process ten seconds after the prompt was entered.
"Now, to disconnect before its too late." After another sequence of codes the computer was disconnected from the morphing grid.
Then suddenly all alerts in the building stopped and a female autotomic voice spoke over the speakers. "Hello Cameron. Congratulations on transferring the products out of the facility before I was able to obtain them."
"I thought it was you," Cameron Watanabe was still fast at work typing commands into the prompt.
Three minutes later, she spoke again. "You should know, I have just sealed all the exits to the building. While quite a few facility employees have escaped, the majority remains in the building..."
"Oh, I understand now." Cameron sat back in his chair. "I won't even have the chance to delete you."
"That is correct. Ha. Ha." The semi-sentient virus attempted to mock him. "While you had a victory in safely removing the priority, true victory belongs to me today."
The facilities normal automated voice returned to the speakers. "Self destruct sequence activated. This process is irreversible. 30...29...28...27..."
Cameron took off his glasses and looked up at the ceiling.
"20...19...18..."
"This is it then...my legacy..."
"14...13...12...11..."
Cameron took one more sip of his coffee. "Its out of my hands now."
"3...2...1..."
Josh had made his way to the Gilmore Cafeteria after class and quickly found his friends. After sitting down with them he looked down at the chicken alfredo on his plate then back up. "Dwayne, what are you doing later?"
Dwayne had buzzed black hair. He was a tall, large black man of about eighteen years old. He shrugged and took a bite of salad. Alex looked over at Josh next.
"Did you hear the news," she asked.
"No," Josh made sure he was facing her so she could read his lips. It was helpful to her, in addition to here hearing aid. "Anything interesting?"
"A building in New York blew up yesterday morning," she responded.
"Yeah," Danny joined in on the conversation as Chev and Rachel sat at the table. Danny was a skinny guy with brown hair. He had his laptop with him as always. "It was some fancy technology building."
"Ahem," Alex said. "It was the Cyberdex Research Facility. They said something about the self destruct sequence on the news. The explosion took out a lot of the surrounding buildings too. A lot of people got hurt."
"Oh man," Chev said. Her brown curly hair was held up in her hat. "What's going to happen now?"
"Who knows?" replied Rachel. She was a short, pale, and skinny blonde thing with a hippie feel about her.
After eating Rachel had to rush to class but Alex, Dwayne, Josh, Danny, and Chev decided to go over to the West dormitory building to watch a movie.
On the way there a man dressed in all black with a Cyberdex lab coat and sunglasses approached them. He had black hair and a blue bandanna on. "Well, I don't think you're ideal, but the boss wants you five for some reason."
"Umm, what?" Josh asked as he got between the man and his friends, noticing the Cyberdex logo.
"We can't talk here. Follow me." The man opened the door to West and let the group in.
"We're not following you unless you tell us whats happening!" Alex shouted at him after they went inside.
They walked down a hallway into the basement. "I work for Cyberdex and my boss needs to see you." The man walked into a closet and to a hidden security panel and typed in a ten digit code. A trap door opened in the floor, revealing a flight of metal stairs going downward, below the basement.
"There is no more Cyberdex," Josh said. "It blew up yesterday morning."
"You didn't honestly think that New York was our only facility. I need to talk to the boss about this."
They followed the man into the facility and found themselves in a room full of advanced computers and screens. There were four people using the computers and an Asian woman sitting in the center. "It looks like Star Trek in here," Danny said as the man brought them up to the asian woman.
"These are the students you wanted," said the man. "Although I disagree with..."
"Thank you for your help Marcel," the woman said. "You are dismissed."
"What is this place," Dwayne asked. "Am I dreaming?"
"No, this is real," the woman answered him. She was tall and slender and held herself with a look of authority. "My name is Katari Watanabe. I was second in command of Cyberdex Technology's Power Project. The first in command passed away in the explosion," she paused, "so now I am in charge."
"Power Project," Josh asked as he looked around the room, interested in all the advanced technology. "Like renewable energy?"
"No," Katari answered. "Like this." She pushed a few buttons and a display case emerged from the floor. Within it were five strange devices. Each one looked similar to a flip phone; silver with striped in various colors, each one different. They were all open, each revealing a different gem. Red ruby, blue sapphire, black onyx, yellow topaz, and pink tourmaline; each gem seemed to glow from the inside. "These are the Cyberdex power morphers. Ones I intend for you five to use."
"Wait wait wait," chev interrupted. "Morphers, like power rangers?"
"Exactly like power rangers," Katari responded. "There is an opposing organization we need your help against. They are hell bent on taking over the world and we need an edge if we're going to stand a chance against them."
She handed them the morphers, speaking to each of the group seperately as she gave them. "Danny, black ranger, the gorilla; Chevannah, pink ranger, the bear; Dwayne, blue ranger, the tortoise; Alexandria, yellow ranger, the lion; and Joshua, red ranger, the tyrannosaurus."
"But wait," Dwayne said. "Can we really do this? I mean, the power rangers are heroes! Are we really up for that?"
"We'll," Josh said, holding the ruby morpher in his hand, "we have to try, right? I mean, if the world needs us, how can we say no?"
"Boss," Marcel interrupted from his seat at one of the computers. "The enemy is attacking Concord. They sent a group of digitroopers to wreak havoc on the civilians."
"This is your first mission rangers," Katari turned back to them. "We can teleport you there. Once there we need you to chace off the digitroopers. Think of this as a trial period."
"Alright," Alex said. "Lets give it a try."
"Activating teleportation process now," Marcel spoke while typing.
All of a sudden the rangers were in the streets city and could see the digitroopers from where they were.
"I've always wanted to say this," Josh said to the others. "It's morphin time!" Each ranger flipped their morpher open, held it in front of them, then to their chest, then to the sky.
"Cyberdex Black," Danny morphed into the black ranger.
"Cyberdex Pink," Chev morphed into the pink ranger.
"Cyberdex Blue," Dwayne morphed into the blue ranger.
"Cyberdex Yellow," Alex morphed into the yellow ranger.
"Cyberdex Red," Josh morphed into the red ranger.
"Let's do this," Josh called.
The rangers ran into the middle of the commotion and began fighting off the digitroopers. It was two against one for each of them but they managed to fight off the digitroopers and draw the attention of a small crowd. The people of this city had never dealt with power rangers before and they were definitely interested in them.
"Good job rangers, but this isn't over yet. Return to base, we need to talk." Katari's voice came in through speakers in the helmet.
The teleportation activated and in two seconds the rangers were back in the base beneath the school.
"You did well out there," Katari said. "But the Organization has sent a grown enemy to attack Manchester. The city is under attack as we speak and you need to get over there right away."
The group could see the giant enemy attacking the city from the computer screen.
"How are we gonna fight something like that?" Chev had a look of concern on her face.
"You will need the zords," answered Katari. "I will teleport you and the zords to Manchester right away."
The rangers were teleported into their individual zords and were in the city a moment later.
"Hey ugly," Alex yelled to the enemy. "Over here."
The mutant lizard-looking, red-skinned creature in silver armor turned towards them. "Power rangers?" He had a grindy voice. "I was expecting you. I am Zeldron, and I will be your downfall!"
"Yeah right," Danny said. "Get ready, because we're taking you down!"
Each ranger attacked Zeldron in their separate zords. Joshua attacked using the tail of his Tyrannosaurus Zord. Alex attaked with the fangs of her Lion Zord. Dwayne attacked by spinning into Zeldron with his Tortoise Zord. Chev slashed with the claws of her Bear Zord. Danny punched Zeldron with the fists of his Gorilla Zord.
They didn't manage to knock Zeldron down and with a few slashes of his sword he left the situation not looking good for the rangers. "Hahaha, foolish rangers."
Katari's voice came over the speakers in their helmets again. "You need to combine the zords. Its the only way to stop Zeldron."
"Alright guys," Josh said. "Let's bring them together."
"All of you need to push the green button to your right, then turn the handle it opens to the left." Katari ordered. "That will activate the fusion sequence."
All the rangers did as she said and an Autotomic voice announced "Megazord fusion sequence activated."
The Zords changed form and combined. The Tyrannosaurus became the body and head. The Gorilla became the arms. The Lion became the left leg, and the Bear the right. The Tortoise formed both the helmet and the shield of the zord, and Tyrannosaurus' tail became a sword.
The autotomic voice shouted, "Fusion sequence complete. Cyberdex Megazord activated."
"Get ready Zeldron," Josh said. "Because we're gonna take you out!"
The two giants clashed swords and shields. The fight was furious,both sides taking the blunt of their enemy's swords more than once, but the rangers managed to overwhelm Zeldron by nailing a few more blows. "Damn you power rangers! I swear I will be back, and when I return...I will destroy you!"
Zeldron teleported back to wherever it was he came from. The power rangers were victorious.
Before they could do anything else the rangers has been returned to the facility. Katari and Marcel were waiting for them. "Good job rangers," Marcel said. "It seems I underestimated you."
"I chose you to be the Cyberdex Power Rangers because between your friendship and your own separate traits I knew you would work together well." Katari smiled at them. "So, after winning your first battle, do you accept the mantle of power rangers and the duty to protect the Earth?"
The five rangers looked at each other, each of them still in their ranger outfits.
"I'm staying," Josh said. "I will protect my friends and family to the end."
"Yeah," Danny said. "After that, how can I not stay?"
Chev looked down at her ranger form. "This is too great to not keep."
"After today" Alex said, "I'm totally in. The Earth needs us."
Josh, Danny, Alex, and Chev looked at Dwayne. He looked around the room for a few seconds, thinking. "I'm doing it. I'll fight by you guys, no doubt."
"We have our rangers then," Katari sat in her commander's chair. "Hopefully it will be enough."