Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers; "Lost Galaxy" will always belong to Saban.
Author's Notes: After a long absence of writing and going over and over of my unfinished chapters I decided to rework the story from scratch as I spent mostly preparing the story through layouts and layouts. I would like to think "Shadowcat123" form for being my editor and muse, also to Adam/Silver Atma Ranger of Rangertalk and Tsoldier of Rangerboard for their personal reviews.
Words, Hands, Hearts...
Chapter 1: Daylight Robbery
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that is you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work, you don't give up."
-Anne Lamott
During the beginning of the Universe many warriors, swordsmen, and sorcerers stood on opposite ends to the battle of Light versus Darkness in the fight that would last for over a Millenium. Amongst them was a powerful man named 'Orion' who stood with the Light amongst other great legends such as 'Zordon' and 'Demetria' to defeat the Darkness. He continued to fight against the Darkness until his death, but before he past away he passed his power on in the form of five sabers created by some of the universe greatest weapon makers. The sabers were soon founded in the hands of five young warriors; 'Ryouma, Hayate, Gouki, Hikaru, and Saya' vowed to continue Orion's fight until suddenly; they vanished off the face of the universe with the sabers.
Legends say that a year after the war's inevitable conclusion, five new strangers would find the sabers and continue the universe's protection from a new danger...
Armory Department, Weapons Dome... Present Day
Inside the building looked like a battlefield, bullet shells and bodies of "Stingwingers" and "Galactic Space Alliance (GSA)" Soldiers were laid out along the floor amongst the bodies was an unconscious young man; "Leonardo Jonas Corbett." But instead it became horrific nightmare as he was constantly haunted by one specific moment, his brother Michael's death...
In his mind he can still feel that he was back on the alien planet 'Mirinoi', he could feel his arm ready to be torn apart as he held on to his brother over the chasm's edge. Leo's body began to drag along the ground as Michael was slowly descending deeper into chasm, his brother shouted to him to let go but Leo refused. Mike knew Leonardo wouldn't let go even if it means falling into chasm with him so he did what any brother would do, he handed Leo the saber as his brother fell into the chasm.
Suddenly his eyes shot opened as sees the bodies of a few 'Stingwingers' and his fellow GSA officers, some looked unconscious while the others definitely needed serious medical attention.
"Quickly now, they'll be here any minuet!" Said a low-growling voice.
Leonardo slowly turned as he heard that familiar voice to see that it was him, the same man that turned an entire populous into stone, the same man that was responsible for his brother's death; "Furio!"
One of Scorpious top generals as he over saw the Stingwingers hauling crates of assault riffles as they unloaded them from out of the vault, luckily for Leo after being covered by the debris from the surprise attack that Furio and his men mistaken him for the other GSA officers.
Scorpion Stinger...
Inside the ship was a large demonstration room where there a large group of Stingwingers and other shady characters stood in a big circle, inside the circle was a small-unknown pirate that was violently pounded on by a large tentacle-like figure. The figure was about 6'7 feet tall; He had black insect-like eyes with an extremely fit and yet tight muscular physique, long tentacle-fillers that stretched down all the way from his head to the waist. The figure's skin was dark-green that strangely had a hard-shell, which looked like body armor pieces had covered most of his body.
Very little is known about this man's origin, thirty-eight years ago he had only first appeared in space. Since then he has built a cosmic criminal empire behind the shadows of many like Dark Specter, Vyram Empire, and the Machine Empire under the name; "Scorpius!"
"Maybe now, you'll learn to pay for unpleasant transactions by notifying me first..." Scorpius said as he hovered over the pirate.
"Father...!" A raven-hair woman called as she appeared from the room's doors.
"Trakeena, Treacheron deal with this pest..." Scorpius ordered as he went up to greet his daughter.
"Who was that Father?"
"Just a low-level parasite that tried steal from me."
"Furio has just confirmed us that he has just started to infiltrate Terra Venture's weaponry, and will be awaiting further details..."
"That is good, tell Furio to destroy the weapons and then proceed to invade Terra Venture with the reserved forces."
"But father, I was hoping that you let me join Furio in this mission-"
"-No!"
"But I think it would be important to expand my role in this clan-"
"And you will, as the heir of this clan is an important role."
"But let me prove-"
"I said NO! You're too valuable for this clan's future, now do I make myself clear?"
"...Yes father." Trakeena said as she posed a fake smiled to her father.
"Good, now go and contact Furio once that confirmation is made..." Scorpius said as he walked down the hall. Trakeena stood as the smile on her face slowly faded away with an angered frown.
Though to many she was spoiled brat that was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, a princess that thinks she can stand equally with the warriors. And every one of them were true, whatever she wanted; whether it was diamonds, gold, or a new servant, it would be hers in a matter of seconds. Even with all the glamour of luxury there was one thing she could never attain, the same thing that all wealthy daughters wanted, a father's proud of his daughter. At time she thought it would've been better if she was born a man, at least that way she could feel father being proud of her, instead she felt like she was in his way.
Armory Department; Weapons Dome...
"Why rush, we already have their weapons facility?" another voice emerged as a figure appeared from out of the vault: the figure had dark yellow skin with two horns that had black orbs placed in the center of the two horns and was dressed in a long black overcoat.
"Don't be foolish Horn; they won't give this up without a fight..."
"...We'll see!" Horn snickered. Leo knew that the injured officers won't last long without that medical assistance, it was now or never had he thought.
"It's over Furio!" Leo shouted as he appeared from the pile of debris.
"Corbett!" Furio snarled.
"This is the Red Galaxy Ranger, a child!" Horn said surprised.
"More like a stupid child..." Furio commented.
"You're not taking these weapons Furio!" Leo said as he morphed.
"You think you can stop me and my men, just by yourself?" Furio said as stingers gathered around the red galaxy ranger, surrounding him as the red ranger firmly stood his ground.
"Take the boy!" Furio ordered.
The Stingwingers soon swarmed in on the red ranger; Leo quickly swatted down a few grunts before lunging at Furio, suddenly Horn surprisingly stretched his arms out as he caught Leonardo in mid-air. Horn then proceeded to slam the red ranger violently back into the ground, Leo tried to raise himself up but was quickly capture by the Stingwingers; Furio chuckled as the grunts picked Leo up, his blade soon materialized as he hovered over the red ranger.
"You have a long way to go to be a true warrior, boy..." Furio said as he raised his sword high.
"Leo!"
Leo, Horn, and Furio turned to see the other four morphed Galaxy Rangers as ran down the hall, Damon quickly hurled his Quasar Saber at Furio's arm as a loud clang ringed through the air.
"Eh--Aarrgghh" Furio shouted as he held his cut hand as his blade fell to the ground. With Furio and his men distracted, Leonardo quickly freed himself with a few kicks and punches to the Stingwingers as he head-butted Furio in the face causing him to fall on his back.
"...Kill them!" Furio ordered while still reeling from the red ranger's surprise attack.
Scorpion Stinger...
"Impostria!" Trakeena demanded to a nearby Stingwinger as she entered her privet room. Slowly the Stingwinger began to suddenly change into a being; the form was a masked feminine figure that had pale white skin, and green snakes for hair.
"Heh of course, Lady Trakeena... I just wanted to let you know--"
Impostria headed towards the princess desk as she pressed a small conceal button reveal that her mirror was in fact a video transmitter, the video showed Furio and his men in Armory's main vault.
"This is live, but how did you--"
"Thanks to Mutantrum's ability, we can now watch Furio's every little move."
"Heh..." Trakeena smirked as she turned off the screen.
"...You don't care if Furio succeeds?" Impostria asked.
"Doubtful, after his failure on Mirinoi he's becoming more unreliable by each mission after the next, I wouldn't be amazed if failed here as well..."
"...If not him then who else, Treacheron?"
"No Impostria, it going to be us."
"…What do you mean us?" Impostria looked towards Trakeena with great deal of confusion.
"I'm going to destroy them from within…"
Armory Department; Weapons Dome...
"Drive em back people!" Kai ordered.
The Galaxy Rangers continued their battle against Furio and his men as they and the Stingwingers fought for control of the weapon supplies, the fight was soon taken out into the department's main hallway. Horn grew impatiently after being stuck to ensure that the other Stingwingers load up the remaining weapons from the storage, with Furio pre-occupied in fighting the red ranger Horn made his way towards the other rangers.
Leonardo continued to charge at Furio in rage-fueled attempt to strike down Scorpius's general, carelessly the red ranger swung his sword at him like a crazed barbarian rather than a swordsman. Furio slammed his sword like a baseball bat towards Leo who barely blocked, the force from the blades momentum slightly sent the galaxy ranger flying into the air before shifting his body to twirl back as he counter Furio with a swift swipe.
"You've been in a thorn in my side for far to long…" Furio said as he grinned his teeth while locking his sword with the furious ranger.
"Pay… I'll make you pay for what you did to those innocent people on Mirinoi, those people like my brother Michael!" Leo yelled as he pushed Furio back with much force.
Suddenly the red galaxy ranger was quickly forced away from Furio by a few laser shots from Horn's unusually small shaped blaster; he continued to keep Leonardo off balance with blast before getting caught off guard by the blue ranger.
Damon was so distracted in fighting off his share of the Stingwingers he didn't notice that one of them attempted strike him from behind. Luckily for him, Maya had managed to see his would-be attacker as she leapt from over the remaining few before landing on the stinger with her knees.
"Thanks..."
"--No worries!"
Horn backed away as he extended his left arm out in an attempt to strike Kai down, the ranger barely dodged the attack with a side-roll before locking his saber with Horn's surprisingly blaster-turned dagger. Upon the struggling between them and their blades, Kai notice a strange and yet green markings along the edges of Horn's dagger, the weapon collector quickly kick the blue ranger as slashed him across his chest. Kai was briefly distracted before he countered with a swift kick upon Horn's chin as he staggered back.
"Damn child..." Horn said in an angered tone. He turned the dagger back into a blaster as fired at Kai, who dodged the blasts as he flipped behind a couple of unsuspecting Stingwingers that took Horn's blast. Kendrix suddenly slid across the floor as she kicked Horn from the back of his legs, tripping him instantly. As he fell the Blaster/Dagger weapon slipped out from his hand as it skid along the floor before stopping in front of Damon's feet. Suddenly Horn's expandable arms caught Kai and Kendrix by the throat as they were pinned to a wall, his hands tighten as the two rangers could barely breathe, and their eyes slowly began to blacken.
"Kai, Kendrix!" Maya shouted from a distance as she finished off the last of the Stingwingers. Leo managed to manipulate Furio's body weight as he threw against a nearby pillar, just as the general made a loud thud on the ground Leonardo heard Maya's cry before seeing the blue and pink ranger being strangled. Both the rangers dashed towards their comrades but even with added speed as rangers they were too far to save them in time, just then the 'Green Galaxy Ranger' had quickly appeared as he slashed at Horns arms with his Saber and the strange dagger.
The weapon collector was distracted before Damon continued his assault as Leo and Maya helped the other two rangers, he cut away at Horn. Upon one of his connecting blows the green ranger slashed Horn's coat wide open four similar daggers flown out into the air. As he finished his attack with a kick to the face as the collector went twirling around, Damon jumped into the air to catch the daggers and handing them to his teammates.
"Transdaggers, use them!" Damon shouted.
"What?" Kai wondered in a still groggy.
"--That's what they are, use them…" Damon shouted once more as Horn staggeringly risen. Thought they couldn't explain it, the rangers had somehow made use for their newly given weapons as they gathered in front of Horn as they formed a star with the Transdaggers.
"Five star formation blast!" The rangers shouted in unison. The Daggers glowed as they shot out a large beam that disintegrated the weapons collector. Furio finally awoken to see another had fallen at the hands of these children, he looked over to see that his mission had failed with many of the Stingwingers dead under his command.
"One day, you will fall before my blade…" Furio said as he teleported.
Soon after, the rangers spent no time as they helped evacuated many of the injured GSO officers from out of the building, as they helped the last officer out they were greeted by colony commander Stanton.
"Thank you again, if you weren't here in time we may never had to--"
"There's no need to thank us Commander, you would've done no different in our positions…" Kai said in a deep voice as he shakes Stanton's hand, the pink ranger quickly noticed that Leonardo had disappeared. As the other realized and soon began to look around, the red ranger was heading through a nearby alleyway. His mind was in raged with the images of Kai and Kendrix being strangled in his head, after he'd agreed to take his brother's mantel Leo had promised himself that he would always be there to protect them, as his brother would've done. But instead he saw this as a sign that he was never meant to be a ranger.
"I failed Mike… FAILED!" Leonardo shouted as pounded his fist into a wall; he ignored the sudden pain and continued to walk deeper into the ally.
Scorpion Stinger...
"Are you sure this plan will work?" Impostria said.
"Of course it will, if we all follow it right down to the letter."
"I doubt that your father would approve?"
"He dose not need to know... not yet at least."
"…I'm ready to begin."
"Good… tomorrow will be the beginning for the rangers' downfall!"
To be continued…
Author's Notes II: Next time I'll make these chapters shorter, sorry about this long delay…