Another Forever Red
A/N I don't know if this has been done like this before. I thought the two Venjixs (RPM and Forever Red) were a little too alike so I thought I would write a story in which they are the same thing. I don't think it will be too long. But then again I may be wrong. I don't own anything unfortunately. Just the plot. I hope you like it.
RPM Ranger Base
Scott sighed. They had found out two months ago that Venjix hadn't been destroyed. In fact, he somehow managed to live in the red morpher. Thankfully, Dr. K had been able to get him out, but now they were back to square one.
"Scott," said Summer, fed up of watching their leader sigh every two minutes. "We have to plan something. And we have to do it now!"
"What? Just what do you suppose we do?" Scott looked at them all. Summer was standing with her arms crossed. Dillon was sitting, looking quite comfortable and also quite bored, Gem and Gemma were going over strategies to blow something up, Ziggy was trying yet again to show Dr K how to make a good breakfast and Flynn was working on Scott's car.
"We could try to," said Gem. "Blow something up," finished Gemma.
"That is not going to work this time," Dr K informed them. "Venjix is a lot stronger this time. We need stronger defences, better equipment. Things we cannot access."
"Then what can we do?" asked Flynn. "I mean, Summer and Ziggy almost ended up in hospital the last time Venjix sent an attackbot."
They all began to think about what they could do when the phone rang. Dillon went to answer it when he saw no one else get up. "Hello, RPM rangers," he said when he picked up the phone. "Can I speak to the rangers' mentor please?" asked the voice on the other end.
Dillon handed the telephone to Dr K. "Hello," she said. "Ok, we'll be there," she said after a while. She hung up the phone.
"We are to go to a meeting that concerns us in Corinth High School next Tuesday," she informed them. "It can't hurt to give it a go," she added when the rangers didn't look convinced.
"She's right," said Summer. "We'll at least give it a try."
Corinth High School
"So, are they gonna come?" asked the man in the uniform. The man who had been on the phone nodded. He was sitting behind his desk in the classroom. He leaned back in his chair. "I can't believe we didn't realise this sooner."
The third man in the room laughed. "I don't really think of past enemies every day of my life!" The other two nodded in agreement.
"I gotta get back before my partner in crime-fighting yells at me for leaving him alone for too long," announced the man in the uniform. He looked at the morpher on his wrist and grinned.
"Why didn't he come?" asked the man behind the desk. "He was the one who figured it out after all."
"Ah, who cares?" joked the third man in the room. "Now, phone all the others. They are so not gonna believe this!"
Next Tuesday, Corinth High School
The RPM rangers couldn't believe it when they walked into the classroom. There were a lot more people than they had expected. There were sixteen men in the room, all wearing red.
"I glad you could come," said a man who was wearing a uniform the rangers could identify with the Silver Guardians. He was also wearing a red beret, which meant he was the leader of the Guardians. "I'm Wesley Collins, Red Time Force Ranger, but you just call me Wes."
"Hello, I'm Scott Truman, Red RPM Ranger." The other RPM rangers introduced themselves also. Wes showed them some empty chairs and they sat down.
"Alright!" said a man with spiky hair as he stood up at the front of the room so everyone could see him. "First of all, I think we should all introduce ourselves." "
"Good," said another man. "I'll start, seeing as I am the original." The man with the spiky hair nodded. "Well, I'm Jason Lee Scott, and I am the first Red Mighty Morphin Power Ranger." He turned to another guy and said, "Your turn. We'll do it in order."
He laughed and stood up. "Rocky DeSantos, second Red Mighty Morphin Power Ranger. Yeah, I replaced Jase here…" Everyone laughed.
"I'm Aurico, Red Aquitan Ranger," said a very weird looking alien dude.
"I'm Tommy Oliver," said the guy with the spiky hair. "Red Zeo Ranger and first Red Turbo Ranger. I organised this."
"I'm Theodore Jay Jarvis Johnson, but you just call me TJ. Second Red Turbo Ranger; I replaced Tommy!" A handful of people laughed harder than others, as they knew Tommy was the longest running Power Ranger.
"I'm Andros, Red Space Ranger." Jason laughed. "As talkative as always…" The guy with long hair who had just spoken just shook his head and laughed too.
"Leo Corbett, Red Galaxy Ranger," said a man with a sabre by his side.
"Carter Grayson, Lightspeed Rescue. Of course, if you haven't figured it out by now, I'm the red guy." They laughed again.
"Well, I'm Wes Collins, Time Force Red and it's an honour to be in a room with so many other great leaders and –"
"Hey! Stop sucking up to people," said another man in a Silver Guardian uniform. "I'm Eric Myers," he continued when the laughing had stopped, "Quantum Ranger. If it wasn't for me, Tommy wouldn't have had to organise this!"
"I'm Cole Evans, Red Wild Force Ranger," said the man sitting beside Eric. He didn't look too happy.
"I'm Shane Clarke, Red Wind Ninja Ranger," said a guy with a skateboard.
"I'm Conner McKnight," said a guy who was holding a soccer ball. "Oh, and Dr O, Hayley says you need to hit that projector thingy three times before it works properly." Tommy nodded and went to look about it.
"Nick Russell," said a guy in a leather jacket, "Red Mystic Force."
"Hi, I'm Mack Hartford, and I am the Red Overdrive Ranger. Nice to meet you all."
"I'm Casey, the Red Jungle Fury Ranger," said a guy wearing a Jungle Karma Pizza uniform.
They all looked at the RPM rangers. "I'm Scott Truman, the Red RPM Ranger, and this is the team. Summer Lansdown, Yellow; Flynn McCallistar, Blue; Ziggy Grover, Green; Dillon, Black; Gem, Gold and Gemma, Silver. And this is our mentor Dr K."
"Thank you all for coming," said Tommy. "Those of you who were rangers before 2003 will know what I mean by a repeat of 2002. Well, all except Rocky. His leg was broken and he couldn't help last time."
Carter groaned. "Don't tell me that we have to go to the moon!" Tommy shook his head. "He didn't go there this time, if we are right and it is the same guy."
"In 1996," he continued. "The Machine Empire arrived from deep in space and fought against the Zeo Rangers. By the time the Space Rangers were done in the end of 1998, the Machine Empire was destroyed completely, or so we thought."
He turned on the projector and hit it three times. It came on and showed pictures of several generals of the Machine Empire.
"In 2002, these generals arrived on the moon and dug up Lord Zedd's personal Zord, Serpenterra. All red rangers at the time went up to the moon to try and stop them. Thanks to Cole here, we destroyed Serpenterra and the last of the generals, but recently it has come to light that this may not be true."
"Wait," said Scott. "What has this got to do with us?"
Tommy looked at him. "It may be a coincidence, but the general in charge was named General Venjix."
The RPM rangers gasped. Surely not? They looked at Dr K. "I thought you created the Venjix virus?" asked Flynn.
Dr K nodded. "So did I. But it may be possible that I only activated the virus; that it already existed and just merged with another virus. I mean, he did name himself."
Tommy showed them a picture of General Venjix. He had a circular red thing on his chest, something that looked not unlike the virus' own. "Do you have any proof?" asked Dr K.
Tommy shook his head. "Nothing definite. But Eric was out in the wastelands recently and came face to face with Venjix. He seemed to know who he was and so Eric figured that maybe it was the same guy. After all, he didn't even try to touch him."
Jason stood up. "Look, we need to find out for sure. We want you guys to mention something like Serpenterra, the moon or 2002 the next time you fight. See how he reacts. That is plan A. If it is him, we all team up again and do another forever red. Sound good?"
Scott sighed. He didn't want any of his team mates ending up hospitalized because of this. It nearly happened to Summer and Ziggy before, and they weren't even trying to make him mad. But he also realized that this could be their only shot.
"Ok," he reluctantly agreed. "We'll give it a shot."
A/N Ok so what do you think so far? Reviews please! Thanks to my little cousin Kieran for bugging me to do this, otherwise it wouldn't be here. If you like it, thank him.