A/N: With the veteran power rangers free the protection force has to deal with the reveal of Zelda's parentage and an increase of monsters. Special thanks to SpecialK92 for helping me figure out just what to do for this story.

Chapter one: Power of the Crystal part one return of an old enemy

"Zillah is Zordon's Daughter and my mother," Zelda admitted.

The response was split, for those who had to fight family members they just shrugged, understanding the struggle to balance duty with the love they had for that member of the family. However, the others were furious.

"What! You've been keeping that from us this whole time!" Olivia shouted, before turning tail and super speeding out of there.

Zelda glanced from one ranger to another, varying degrees of sympathy to distrust on their faces, "My parentage does not change the fact that my mother needs stopped and I'm the one who is able to see that it is done. If Andros can kill his sister to save the universe I can handle fighting my mother!"

...

Olivia wasn't sure where she was going, only that she needed to get away. She had been lied to, all this time Zelda had claimed to be on their side when she knew that she was the daughter of that monster they were fighting.

She slid to a stop in front of her grandparents house. Her father was outside, talking to his parents, "I don't see the point of them moving back to Reefside with the school year almost over with, Kim and I are going back before the school board makes Elsa find replacements for us. Though there will be protests, I happened to have won best teacher of the year for a decade now."

Olivia smiled, her father was a power ranger legend, surely he would know what to do, "Dad, what do you do when a Mentor is corrupt?" she asked.

Tommy looked up, "I don't think a Mentor can be corrupt. It's never happened and the morphing grid hasn't seen that it is going to happen, it's seen that a team of rangers will become corrupt but that will be in a time when there are multiple teams stationed on earth. Why do you ask?"

"Zelda is Zillah's daughter," Olivia stated.

"And now you don't know if you can trust her?" Tommy asked, letting out a sigh, he knew that feeling, luckily Trent had understood and been able to prove that he was still trustworthy, "I want you to talk to Trent and his father, as well as Andros and Karone and Nick and his parents."

"Why?" Olivia asked.

"I want an essay about what they tell you about being on the opposite team of a family member."

"But..." Olivia sputtered, "that sounds like homework!"

"Get to it!" Tommy ordered, reminding Olivia that while she might be a red, her father was the leader of the power rangers and can trump all but the highest ranking mentors, "And take your teammates with you!" he called.

...

Tyzzi frowned looking up at the large museum, "Why are we here?"

Robby frowned, shrugging, "Dad ordered us to come talk to them about fighting family members in the line of duty or something like that?"

Zoey slowly opened the door to the museum and walked up to the front desk, "So which one of us are paying to get in?" she asked.

Tyzzi shook her head, "I don't own any earth currency."

Olivia groaned, "Robby and I always come here free, we forgot that you guys would have to pay."

Robby walked up to the person in charge of the front desk and started talking to her. After a while she got up and walked away. Robby turned to the others, "I told her that Dr. Oliver sent us to see Dr. Mercer."

Soon the six rangers were being escorted into a lab, where Mercer said with a warm smile, "Olivia, Robby, I take it by the fact your team is with you that your father sent you here on official power ranger business."

Robby nodded, "This is Katy, Cory, Zoey, and Tyzzi, guys this is Anton Mercer, an ally of the power rangers."

Mercer nodded his head, before indicating Trent who was also in the lab, "My son Trent, White Dino Thunder Ranger, what can we do for you."

Katy spoke up, "Our mentor is the bad guys daughter, and these guys are totally freaking out about it, but I'm like totally cool with it because it's like Luke and Darth Vader."

Trent burst out laughing, "You know your father almost forced me to hang up my morpher when he found out that I knew Mesogog was my father and I didn't tell him about it. Turns out they were just worried about me having to face him sometime face to face."

"Even though you were fighting your father, you still did it, even when the others didn't trust you?" Cory asked, shocked.

Trent shrugged, "Dad told me to use my powers for good, to find a way to stop him, the power chose me."

Before anybody could respond Trent's phone went off, after checking the caller id, he answered it, "Hi Hayles, what's up?"

There was a pause while Trent's face drained of color, "That's impossible! We defeated him! And Dad's with me!" He dropped the phone, "Mesogog is attacking downtown Reefside."

"Rangers move out!" Olivia ordered.

...

"I don't get it," Zoey stated as they hurried towards downtown, "I know that Zillah can recreate monsters, but she's never recreated the head villain of a former team and this is the first time she's ever attacked somewhere outside of Angel Grove," she paused for a second, "Well, at least not since we showed up."

"It's quite simple, really," Cory announced, "With the others freed the war has been tipped in our favor, so Zillah has to up her game. By recreating a main villain and placing that villain near his lair means..."

"Not only can she make monsters, but that villain would continue their work on destroying the world, forcing us to break up and make it easier for her to win!" Katy interrupted.

"There has got to be a way to balance this out," Olivia muttered as her communicator went off.

"Rangers report back to the Power Manor immediately," Alpha stated.

...

To be continued...