I Don't own anything except Grand Moff Houston, the Earth Spce Fleet, BJ, Marc, and Steve. Any relation to the events of Sept. 11, 2001 is pure fiction.
Power Rangers In Space
The Empire Strikes Back-Setting 3 years after CtoD (Sept. 12, 2001)
Super Star Destroyer Knight Hammer (August 2001)
Admiral Firmus Piett was briefing his fighter pilots and Star Destroyer captains on their plan.
"The Avenger can serve as a communications ship and will block any rebel attempts to escape. The Knight Hammer, Firestorm, and Whirlwind will be off to the side."
"Wrong." A woman's voice said out of nowhere. Piett, Needa, and General Veers stared at her. She was a black woman younger than Piett even. Needa made note of her rank-Grand Moff.
"I am Grand Moff Houston. You three will obey orders or there will be severe punishments." Needa groaned.
"Sir, as you know we have orders to remove a trio of Jedi Knights."
"I have orders to remove the Power Rangers but, we can destroy them both. Now, who are you?"
"Fleet Admiral Firmus Piett. This is Captain Virar Needa and that is General Max Veers."
"Yes, the famous trio of officers who act like nitwits. You three couldn't even find my shuttle in all that traffic." Houston turned to her troops. She looked them over and smiled. Piett got one thing right so far.
US Army Command Center-Jersey City, New Jersey (9-11-01)
BJ Khayman was a very changed man. Yesterday was his 23rd birthday, he wanted 48 hours alone but an Imperial Attack had changed that. He was now the Black Astro Ranger. Carlos the first one was killed when he was shot by the Bounty Hunter Dengar. His wife and fellow Pink Ranger Cassie looked at him. BJ had a nack for getting people in trouble. Back when the Empire first arrived a young man named Sebastian had been arrested six times by the Empire mistaken for BJ. She began to overhear him yelling at someone from the Army.
"Piett couldn't even stop a small fighter from hitting the Bridge." BJ was telling Colonel Tony Hicks who was transferred from Godzilla Affairs to Power Ranger Affairs about Admiral Firmus Piett.
"And if it isn't Piett?"
"Then it might be Daala or even Pellaeon."
"I don't want to get Ebert going about how I'm going to cause more damage to the city then those Imperial TIE Ships and walkers did."
"Ebert won't start about it and besides he's already lost the World Trade Center."
"And if he does. I don't want to be blamed for something an Imperial Pilot did." BJ was ready to explode all over the colonel. He didn't and turned to Sgt. Oliver O`Neal.
"O`Neal get a search party together. Search the Streets and Subways for Imperial Fighters, Bombers, Walkers, and troops." Mayor Ebert walked up to BJ.
"You can't do this."
"Well, unless you'd rather be known as the mayor who let the Empire take over New York, try and stop me."
It was a regular day in Hoboken except for the UPS man carrying a large order of coffee and donuts back to his truck. A French agent-we'll call him Jean-Luc went to the back of the truck and handed out the coffee. His boss Phillipe Roache who was at an eavesdropping console took the food and stared at the donut.
"No croissants?"
"There aren't any." Roache took a sip of the coffee and turned to Jean-Luc.
"You call this coffee."
"I call this America." Roache looked at the coffee and put his headphones on to hear Andros storming in to the command center screaming, "Tell me you don't want me to risk my butt fighting who knows how many Star Destroyers." Roache was glad that the mayor never found the bug that was planted on him.
BJ Khayman was beside himself. His own brother was starting a racket worse than Mayor Ebert's about the Empire.
"Tell me you don't want me to risk my butt fighting who knows how many Star Destroyers." Andros was shouting at Hicks.
"I want to know how many there are so we can get enough firepower if they do attack. I also want to know who's in charge up there, we have three different Admirals that could be up there." Hicks showed him the files labeled: Piett, Daala, and Pellaeon. Mayor Ebert was now starting to eat some candy that was left laying around.
"Andros you're acting worse than Ebert who found and is EATING the candy I got from Cassie for my Birthday." BJ said.
"There was no name on it." Ebert shouted. BJ turned to Ebert.
"I forgot you're a candy store looting politician who eats all the candy you want to." BJ retorted at the mayor. Andros tapped BJ on the shoulder.
"I don't want them to know we're at full strength again, they might get more ships."
"If it is Piett like I keep saying then we might have to worry. Daala would fire from orbit and Pellaeon is no better then Ebert here." Ebert was shocked that BJ would say something like that about him.
Ashley Hammond was very upset Carlos who was killed by the Empire at the World Trade Center was one of her closest friends. She was now going to meet his replacement. She arrived at the Army command center and went over to Andros.
"Ashley, have you met BJ?"
"Should I Have?"
"Well, he's my brother and our new Black Ranger."
"Well, BJ you know how to handle the Empire?"
"Yes I do. I was the ringleader when they were last here. Me, Cassie, and some friends kicked their butts back to Imperial friendly space."
Later, at the Command Center. Mayor Ebert was yelling at Andros for no reason.
"WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED YOU?"
"I was busy with something else."
"OH GREAT." Hicks decided it was time to deal with Ebert.
"Mr. Mayor, the Rangers cannot be in two places at once."
"I DON'T CARE. THANKS TO THE RANGERS THE METLIFE BUILDING NOW HAS NO ROOF AND WE'VE LOST THE WORLD TRADE CENTER." BJ walked over to them. "Mr. Mayor, I think you need to step outside for a while." Hicks agreed with the Jedi's reasoning and added to O`Neal. "Make sure he doesn't steal anymore candy."
One might think that Marc Jacobs was like any other person but he wasn't. He was like BJ and Cassie a Jedi Knight. He had been Mace Windu's last student. Windu was killed by Iraq during Desert Storm. He was forced to be Saddam Hussein's own version of Darth Vader. When Hussein wanted someone dealt with he went to Marc. When he was 19 BJ Khayman arrived looking for him. They had a showdown in front of the Iraqi Capitol where he had left Iraq with BJ. Now he heard that Hussein was trying to contact the Imperial Fleet that had just attacked. He knew once Saddam had joined with the Admiral in charge they would strike anywhere they wished. He had moved from Chicago where he was raised until he began his Jedi Training to New York where BJ was living. He headed into the command center passing Mayor Ebert who was in a rage with Hicks as usual.
"Get out of my way."
"Same to you, nitwit." BJ walked over to him.
"Marc, did you just call the Mayor a Piett?"
"I called him a nitwit not a Piett." It was known that He, BJ, Steven, and Cassie had outsmarted Admiral Piett's first attack on Earth because Piett ordered the Imperial Star Destroyer Hunter into a mess of Earth's Starfighters causing them a chance to sneak onboard the Hunter and reclaim the US Air Force's F120X X-Wing Air-to-Air Missile prototype while Piett was fleeing the ship. They went to an area of the command center where Andros was standing.
"Marc, this is my brother Andros and that's Ashley who may be my Future Sister-in-law."
"Hi, what was that about with Hershey's Kisses over there."
"Who, Ebert?" Marc nodded. "He just got mad because Hicks was letting people run loose around the City on Andros's advice. He even yelled at me for no reason."
"I heard that our old friend is back with a whole fleet this time."
"Piett."
"Yep. Now don't tell Hicks about my sources. I don't want trouble."
"We better tell Steve that Piett's back."
"Steve was last seen in Harlem cleaning up."
"Well get him here."
(9/12/01)
Hicks had been called out to an air crash in Pennsylvania. BJ, Marc, and Steve went with him. As they looked over the sight BJ noted a group of Frenchmen standing near the wreck and pointed them out to Hicks. Hicks wanted them out of his way and turned to one of his troops. "Sergeant, get those people out of there." A man with a salt and pepper beard walked up to Hicks.
"They are with me." He said in a French accent
"Oh, really who are you?"
"La Rochelle Casualty and Property Insurance. We represent the owners of this plane." He gave Hicks his card.
"You got here pretty fast."
"That is our job. Colonel what could have done this?" Hicks looked at the card.
"Listen, Mr. Roache you get your people out of here or I will." Roache went to gather his men. BJ walked up to Hicks. "I think the question is who not what." Marc was eyeing Roache as if he knew something.
"Hey BJ, I smell a rat. No, a French rat."
"I noticed him in the UPS truck when I went to find Steve." They walked over to Roache.
"Aren't you the guy in the UPS truck."
"It's a used truck." Roache explained. BJ walked back to Hicks while Marc picked something up off the ground. "And put your butts in a trash can." Roache nodded at him.
"I checked the plane's log it was United Airlines Flight 92 from JFK to Seattle." Steve reported. He was a black man born and raised in New Jersey.
"These burn marks don't look like engine trouble." Marc told Hicks.
"Don't tell me what these aren't; start telling me what the hell they are and what put them there."
"Imperial TIE Fighters shot this plane down. These marks are too accurate for anything else." BJ added. His communicator went off.
"BJ this is TJ, a couple of TIE Bombers left calling cards at the Pentagon."
"Oh God. Just what we needed. I'll tell Hicks to put the Fleet on High alert."
Admiral Phelps stood on the bridge of the Star Cruiser Freedom. His fleet of Calamarian Star Cruisers was now on high alert after the Empire's hti and run attack on New York. Each ship carried 2 squads of B-10 (A-wing) Bombers and 4 squads of F120 (X-wing) fighters making for a total of 6 bomber squads and 12 fighter squads. He looked over the gathered fleet and saw that the US had 20 Calamari Star Cruisers. Russia however had only 3 Cruisers. Phelps regarded this assignment with high priority as his ship also carried the Astro Megaship.
Yavin 4
Kyp Durrun was ready to leave for Earth. Luke had sensed one too many disturbances in the Force coming from Earth. Now Kyp had to go find BJ Khayman. Kyp had been under the teachings of Exar Kun when BJ arrived but BJ brought a part of Zordon with him. Kyp doubted even the Emperor would gave been able to defeat Zordon.
Power Rangers In Space
The Empire Strikes Back-Setting 3 years after CtoD (Sept. 12, 2001)
Super Star Destroyer Knight Hammer (August 2001)
Admiral Firmus Piett was briefing his fighter pilots and Star Destroyer captains on their plan.
"The Avenger can serve as a communications ship and will block any rebel attempts to escape. The Knight Hammer, Firestorm, and Whirlwind will be off to the side."
"Wrong." A woman's voice said out of nowhere. Piett, Needa, and General Veers stared at her. She was a black woman younger than Piett even. Needa made note of her rank-Grand Moff.
"I am Grand Moff Houston. You three will obey orders or there will be severe punishments." Needa groaned.
"Sir, as you know we have orders to remove a trio of Jedi Knights."
"I have orders to remove the Power Rangers but, we can destroy them both. Now, who are you?"
"Fleet Admiral Firmus Piett. This is Captain Virar Needa and that is General Max Veers."
"Yes, the famous trio of officers who act like nitwits. You three couldn't even find my shuttle in all that traffic." Houston turned to her troops. She looked them over and smiled. Piett got one thing right so far.
US Army Command Center-Jersey City, New Jersey (9-11-01)
BJ Khayman was a very changed man. Yesterday was his 23rd birthday, he wanted 48 hours alone but an Imperial Attack had changed that. He was now the Black Astro Ranger. Carlos the first one was killed when he was shot by the Bounty Hunter Dengar. His wife and fellow Pink Ranger Cassie looked at him. BJ had a nack for getting people in trouble. Back when the Empire first arrived a young man named Sebastian had been arrested six times by the Empire mistaken for BJ. She began to overhear him yelling at someone from the Army.
"Piett couldn't even stop a small fighter from hitting the Bridge." BJ was telling Colonel Tony Hicks who was transferred from Godzilla Affairs to Power Ranger Affairs about Admiral Firmus Piett.
"And if it isn't Piett?"
"Then it might be Daala or even Pellaeon."
"I don't want to get Ebert going about how I'm going to cause more damage to the city then those Imperial TIE Ships and walkers did."
"Ebert won't start about it and besides he's already lost the World Trade Center."
"And if he does. I don't want to be blamed for something an Imperial Pilot did." BJ was ready to explode all over the colonel. He didn't and turned to Sgt. Oliver O`Neal.
"O`Neal get a search party together. Search the Streets and Subways for Imperial Fighters, Bombers, Walkers, and troops." Mayor Ebert walked up to BJ.
"You can't do this."
"Well, unless you'd rather be known as the mayor who let the Empire take over New York, try and stop me."
It was a regular day in Hoboken except for the UPS man carrying a large order of coffee and donuts back to his truck. A French agent-we'll call him Jean-Luc went to the back of the truck and handed out the coffee. His boss Phillipe Roache who was at an eavesdropping console took the food and stared at the donut.
"No croissants?"
"There aren't any." Roache took a sip of the coffee and turned to Jean-Luc.
"You call this coffee."
"I call this America." Roache looked at the coffee and put his headphones on to hear Andros storming in to the command center screaming, "Tell me you don't want me to risk my butt fighting who knows how many Star Destroyers." Roache was glad that the mayor never found the bug that was planted on him.
BJ Khayman was beside himself. His own brother was starting a racket worse than Mayor Ebert's about the Empire.
"Tell me you don't want me to risk my butt fighting who knows how many Star Destroyers." Andros was shouting at Hicks.
"I want to know how many there are so we can get enough firepower if they do attack. I also want to know who's in charge up there, we have three different Admirals that could be up there." Hicks showed him the files labeled: Piett, Daala, and Pellaeon. Mayor Ebert was now starting to eat some candy that was left laying around.
"Andros you're acting worse than Ebert who found and is EATING the candy I got from Cassie for my Birthday." BJ said.
"There was no name on it." Ebert shouted. BJ turned to Ebert.
"I forgot you're a candy store looting politician who eats all the candy you want to." BJ retorted at the mayor. Andros tapped BJ on the shoulder.
"I don't want them to know we're at full strength again, they might get more ships."
"If it is Piett like I keep saying then we might have to worry. Daala would fire from orbit and Pellaeon is no better then Ebert here." Ebert was shocked that BJ would say something like that about him.
Ashley Hammond was very upset Carlos who was killed by the Empire at the World Trade Center was one of her closest friends. She was now going to meet his replacement. She arrived at the Army command center and went over to Andros.
"Ashley, have you met BJ?"
"Should I Have?"
"Well, he's my brother and our new Black Ranger."
"Well, BJ you know how to handle the Empire?"
"Yes I do. I was the ringleader when they were last here. Me, Cassie, and some friends kicked their butts back to Imperial friendly space."
Later, at the Command Center. Mayor Ebert was yelling at Andros for no reason.
"WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED YOU?"
"I was busy with something else."
"OH GREAT." Hicks decided it was time to deal with Ebert.
"Mr. Mayor, the Rangers cannot be in two places at once."
"I DON'T CARE. THANKS TO THE RANGERS THE METLIFE BUILDING NOW HAS NO ROOF AND WE'VE LOST THE WORLD TRADE CENTER." BJ walked over to them. "Mr. Mayor, I think you need to step outside for a while." Hicks agreed with the Jedi's reasoning and added to O`Neal. "Make sure he doesn't steal anymore candy."
One might think that Marc Jacobs was like any other person but he wasn't. He was like BJ and Cassie a Jedi Knight. He had been Mace Windu's last student. Windu was killed by Iraq during Desert Storm. He was forced to be Saddam Hussein's own version of Darth Vader. When Hussein wanted someone dealt with he went to Marc. When he was 19 BJ Khayman arrived looking for him. They had a showdown in front of the Iraqi Capitol where he had left Iraq with BJ. Now he heard that Hussein was trying to contact the Imperial Fleet that had just attacked. He knew once Saddam had joined with the Admiral in charge they would strike anywhere they wished. He had moved from Chicago where he was raised until he began his Jedi Training to New York where BJ was living. He headed into the command center passing Mayor Ebert who was in a rage with Hicks as usual.
"Get out of my way."
"Same to you, nitwit." BJ walked over to him.
"Marc, did you just call the Mayor a Piett?"
"I called him a nitwit not a Piett." It was known that He, BJ, Steven, and Cassie had outsmarted Admiral Piett's first attack on Earth because Piett ordered the Imperial Star Destroyer Hunter into a mess of Earth's Starfighters causing them a chance to sneak onboard the Hunter and reclaim the US Air Force's F120X X-Wing Air-to-Air Missile prototype while Piett was fleeing the ship. They went to an area of the command center where Andros was standing.
"Marc, this is my brother Andros and that's Ashley who may be my Future Sister-in-law."
"Hi, what was that about with Hershey's Kisses over there."
"Who, Ebert?" Marc nodded. "He just got mad because Hicks was letting people run loose around the City on Andros's advice. He even yelled at me for no reason."
"I heard that our old friend is back with a whole fleet this time."
"Piett."
"Yep. Now don't tell Hicks about my sources. I don't want trouble."
"We better tell Steve that Piett's back."
"Steve was last seen in Harlem cleaning up."
"Well get him here."
(9/12/01)
Hicks had been called out to an air crash in Pennsylvania. BJ, Marc, and Steve went with him. As they looked over the sight BJ noted a group of Frenchmen standing near the wreck and pointed them out to Hicks. Hicks wanted them out of his way and turned to one of his troops. "Sergeant, get those people out of there." A man with a salt and pepper beard walked up to Hicks.
"They are with me." He said in a French accent
"Oh, really who are you?"
"La Rochelle Casualty and Property Insurance. We represent the owners of this plane." He gave Hicks his card.
"You got here pretty fast."
"That is our job. Colonel what could have done this?" Hicks looked at the card.
"Listen, Mr. Roache you get your people out of here or I will." Roache went to gather his men. BJ walked up to Hicks. "I think the question is who not what." Marc was eyeing Roache as if he knew something.
"Hey BJ, I smell a rat. No, a French rat."
"I noticed him in the UPS truck when I went to find Steve." They walked over to Roache.
"Aren't you the guy in the UPS truck."
"It's a used truck." Roache explained. BJ walked back to Hicks while Marc picked something up off the ground. "And put your butts in a trash can." Roache nodded at him.
"I checked the plane's log it was United Airlines Flight 92 from JFK to Seattle." Steve reported. He was a black man born and raised in New Jersey.
"These burn marks don't look like engine trouble." Marc told Hicks.
"Don't tell me what these aren't; start telling me what the hell they are and what put them there."
"Imperial TIE Fighters shot this plane down. These marks are too accurate for anything else." BJ added. His communicator went off.
"BJ this is TJ, a couple of TIE Bombers left calling cards at the Pentagon."
"Oh God. Just what we needed. I'll tell Hicks to put the Fleet on High alert."
Admiral Phelps stood on the bridge of the Star Cruiser Freedom. His fleet of Calamarian Star Cruisers was now on high alert after the Empire's hti and run attack on New York. Each ship carried 2 squads of B-10 (A-wing) Bombers and 4 squads of F120 (X-wing) fighters making for a total of 6 bomber squads and 12 fighter squads. He looked over the gathered fleet and saw that the US had 20 Calamari Star Cruisers. Russia however had only 3 Cruisers. Phelps regarded this assignment with high priority as his ship also carried the Astro Megaship.
Yavin 4
Kyp Durrun was ready to leave for Earth. Luke had sensed one too many disturbances in the Force coming from Earth. Now Kyp had to go find BJ Khayman. Kyp had been under the teachings of Exar Kun when BJ arrived but BJ brought a part of Zordon with him. Kyp doubted even the Emperor would gave been able to defeat Zordon.