Alrighty then…-deep breath- my first power rangers fic. No pressure or anything yeah? This idea was spawned from the minds of myself and my roommate during lunch with another friend but I was the ranger fics of LovelyGinger30's fics-which if you're a power ranger fan and you haven't read those your missing out-that kickstarted everything officially. Honestly I didn't expect to come up with this much but coming from 3 life long ranger fanatics what do you expect?

Enough preamble though..lets begin!

Prologue:

-Reefside, 17 years after the defeat of Mesogog-

'Welcome to Reefside'

Trent Mercer found himself grinning a bit as he passed that all too familiar sign, the wheels of his truck protesting a bit as he sped up. He'd have to remember to get them replaced after he got done with a few things. "Been almost two decades and this place still can't pave these roads. Unbelievable!" He chuckled and rounded the final turn that would lead him through downtown and towards the suburbs. On the way he passed the old cyber café, a flood of memories coming to him as he did. Haley no longer owned the place, unfortunately. Otherwise he might have stopped for a bit. She'd packed up and left Reefside with Dr Oliver a couple years after everything was said and done. Trent was happy those two decided to take some time for themselves and leave the world saving to someone else for a change. "Just..wouldn't have thought this would be the way things would turn out.." he mumbled staring at the black briefcase with the Mercer Industries logo on it in the passenger seat.

He pulled up to the house about twenty minutes later and was greeted in the driveway by Connor, his former Ranger team member smiling widely as they approached one another. Connor had his hair cut short, similar to the way Tommy used to wear his back in the day, and a pair of jeans with a dark maroon t shirt. "Trent..damn. It's been way too long since you came out to see us, y'know that right?" He smiled shaking hands with him. Trent nodded, his smile falling a bit.

"Yeah I know..things just used to be so busy out with the company that I had no free time for a very long time. That's over now though." Connor raised an eyebrow at this, making Trent chuckle a bit. "Things with the company haven't gone well lately. I tried, but my dad's old board of directors have been fighting me over every little thing for years now. I finally got sick of it. Im still the owner on paper, but I turned over day to day operations of it. Im done with all of that. And when Lucas turns 21 he can have that too."

"Can't really compare to slaying monsters can it?" Connor smirked as they headed towards the house. Trent rolled his eyes but nodded with him.

"Nope..nothing really can. Oh!" He hurried back to his truck and grabbed the briefcase. "Can't forget this. The whole reason for coming," he said. Connor let him in and the two headed to the kitchen. Looking around Trent noted how quiet it was. "Kira not here?"

"Ah, she and Elise went out for some last minute clothes shopping. You know me, man. Bag duty is NOT my forte," he laughed tossing Trent a drink from the fridge. He sat across from him and opened his own drink. "You believe it? My little girl starting her senior year of high school..unreal," he said softly.

"I haven't seen Elise since she was 12…god five years. Iit doesn't feel like it's been that long though." Trent shook his head, embarrassed he'd let things go like they had.

"It really doesn't. I keep expecting to wake up one morning and I've been in a coma or something and she's still a baby. Hell, I thought being that little and trying to care for her then was scary. It's got nothing on parenting a teenager, Trent. Nothing."

"I say your doing a pretty good job, though. By now I'll bet shes a soccer ace just like her old man." Connor let out a scoff, leaning back in his chair.

"Nope. She may have my looks, but she is her mother made over as far as interests go. She already plays in a band shes gotten together and she's thinking of taking music theory in community college." He rolled his eyes at this and went back to his drink.

"Damn," Trent chuckled. Connor hadn't changed all that much since their days as Rangers. He still had a bit of that laid back exterior, but you could tell there was a serious side to him as well. It got even more apparent since he and Kira had Elise.

"So..whats in the case? Seemed like it was pretty important." Trent nodded, taking a sip.

"It is. But we should probably wait for Kira to get back, cause honestly I'd rather not repeat this. Kind of a long story, you know?" Connor nodded and let out a breath as he checked his watch. "So..you hear from anyone lately? Ethan or Dr O?"

"Dr O and Hayley live up north, so we see them every once in a while. Ethan? Man ever since he went overseas with that software company you'd have better luck trying to talk to a ghost."

"Yeah I heard he actually got a really good job..must've been to transfer him to Japan, right? Gotta be great..living the dream." Trent envied that Ethan was so content with his company. Granted, he was just an employee and didn't have to struggle to fill the top spot like he had, but still.

"Yeah, my plans for being a soccer star kinda went out the window when Kira found out she was pregnant. She said she'd still support me if I wanted to go for it, and I believed her, but…she was giving up her dream job to raise Elise. I wasn't going to do that," he said. Trent smiled

"You're a good man, Connor. Even if you were a bit of an ass when we were younger." Connor's jaw dropping made him crack up laughing again.

"Oh ME an ass? Says Mr Emo white ranger."

"Hey man, don't hate because you couldn't pull off the cool helmet," Trent grinned. Connor casually held up his middle finger. "Nah..in all seriousness, I think it's great things worked out for everyone"

"Can't say we didn't earn it. Mesogog was probably the worst thing to happen to the planet since reality tv became a thing." They sat there talking about some of their worst battles as Rangers for a while until they heard the front door open and close, Kira smiled brightly as she walked in

"Trent! Oh it's so good to see you," she smiled giving him a quick hug. Trent smiled and nodded as she walked around the table and gave Connor a quick kiss. "Sorry were later than I said we'd be, but you know Elise. Everything has to be absolutely PERFECT," she said dramatically as she opened the fridge.

"Because unlike you mom, I have taste." Elise smirked as she walked by her and into the hallway

"Hey, I'll remember that young lady next time you want to go to the mall!" She called after her

"Yeah, Yeah!" She giggled, closing the door to her room. Trent rolled his eyes in amusement as Kira sat down beside Connor, lacing her fingers with his.

"It really is great to see you, Trent. You've been okay?"

"He was just bragging about how he took out more Tyranodrones than me during the attack on the museum. Now I'm not saying he's lying…Im just saying his helmet must have been strapped a bit too tight that day." Kira scoffed, smacking his shoulder playfully. Trent laughed with them but it slowly died down and he let out a long breath. Kira frowned

"Trent? You okay?" Trent pulled the briefcase he'd brought with him to rest in front of him. Seeing the logo for Mercer Industries made her eyes widen.

"What I'm about to tell you..Well I think it goes without saying we can't tell ANYONE. I trust you two..just feel like I need to get that out of the way now, alright?" Connor and Kira nodded slowly after exchanging a nervous look. "My dad..during one of his better days, decided to make a failsafe. A record of things he was researching so in case things got too bad, his knowledge wouldn't be lost to everyone but the bad guys."

"Your dad was a good man, Trent." Trent smiled painfully at Connors words. He'd been gone seventeen years now, but the pain had never fully healed. Anton Mercer had died as a result of his body's trauma during the split from Mesogog. Already weak from the constant battle, Anton simply couldn't handle the process while Mesogog's altered body could.

"Thank you..anyway, it was everything in the formula that made Mesogog, ideas for cures you name it. I found something in his research folder that I thought was interesting." He reached into the case and pulled out a tablet, pulling up a few images. They were painted drawings on the walls of what looked to be a temple of some kind. "It's something he was looking into around the time he and Dr O discovered the dino gems. According to what he could find, the paintings told of a group of warriors who used animal spirits to fight something called 'the great darkness' centuries ago."

"The great darkness? Yeah, sounds like your run of the mill villain name for back in the day," Connor said.

"The legend said the darkness' chosen champion came very close to ruling the planet. Only the primal beast spirits managed to stop him. The more I read on the legend, the more it sounded familiar..so I found the location of that temple and paid for a team to look for it. And well..we found something big." He swiped to the next picture. "It says that once the darkness was beaten back and sealed into the 'shadow lands' the champions feared what would happen if their power ever fell into the wrong hands. So they sealed them away inside special crystals and buried them within the temple to wait for the day when new champions would be needed."

"But Im guessing their people died off before the crystals ever got used again," Kira said. Trent nodded and powered down the tablet.

"The last bit of the legend said that if the darkness ever WERE to return, the crystals would sense it and become active. They would begin to call for their chosen warrior." He opened the case completely and turned it around. Inside, tucked into one of the side panels were five clear white crystals, each the size of one of their palms. Upon looking closer, they saw the crystals were sparking faintly with energy of different colors: Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, and white. Connor swallowed a lump in his throat

"This mean what Im thinking it means?" Trent nodded slowly

"Sooner or later…the world is going to need the power rangers again." The shock of that statement made them both speechless for a few minutes before Kira found her voice.

"Us? Can..can we seriously just-" Trent held his hand up, quick to halt the train of thought she was on.

"No. I wouldn't ask any of us to do that. Im not sure WHAT to do. All I know is..we need to come up with something." They heard the door open and Elise came into the room, Trent closing the case as she did.

"Hey Uncle Trent," she said brightly giving him a quick hug. Trent smiled and looked at her as she walked by

"Still calling me that huh?"

"Should I not? Your as good as an uncle to me," she smiled turning to face her parents. "Im going to head downtown for a bit, is that cool?" Connor looked up, pretending to be in deep thought for a moment.

"I don't know….chores?"

"Done."

"Homework?"

"Yep."

"Alright alright…go ahead. Home by seven." He said pointing at her as she grabbed her jacket.

"Ah come on dad….please can we make it eight?" She pouted. Kira smirked a bit as she watched Connor slowly break down as she kept it up.

"Gah…fine! Eight, no more no less, deal?"

"Deal! Love you guys!" She called as she rushed out.

"She gets that damn pout from you, you know," Connor grumbled Kira leaned up and kissed his cheek.

"You love us for it, stop lying," she smiled. "Oh and by the way, don't feel too old about that uncle comment, Trent. Should have seen Dr O's face when she started calling him 'gramps'

"Oh…I am SO reminding him of that first chance I get." The three of them laughed, unknowing to them at the time however, when Elise had entered the room the red energy that had surrounded one of the crystals began to glow a bit brighter, only fading when she left again.

-Inside the shadow lands-

The demon Kelthain paced around impatiently, his thick black and gray talons scrapping along the rocky ground beneath him as he did so. In front of him sat his two subordinates, Minos and Genos, who were attempting to open another portal out of the darkness and into a fresh world to conquer. "Work faster you whelps! If Lord Andros doesn't have a portal soon, you'll be thrown into the pit again!" Minos glared at him, his bright yellow eyes squinting.

"If you would rather be doing this, by all means bird man. Opening a portal to a new dimension takes WORK you know."

"Indeed. Work you seem to be content to WATCH and not help," Genos added, his fangs clicking as he kept his purple energy pouring outwards. Kelthain let out a long snarl and both of them fell silent again. After a few more moments he began to see it. The spot where their energies were focused began to press inwards, the very air seeming to cave in.

"Yes..yes! I must tell-" he turned and met the eyes of his master, Andros. He fell to one knee, his head tucked low. "My master…they have almost broken through to a target." Andros smirked, his eyes narrowing as the portal opened revealing a planet with bright blue water covering most of it with a few land masses. "What is this place? Genos?"

"I..I am not sure." Andros waved for Kelthain to stand beside him.

"It matters not what the planet is called. Soon..it will be another world that I, Andros the Conquerer have made my own. And no on..shall stand in my way." He began to laugh, the sinister echoing laugh being joined by his comrades. Earths newest hell had indeed found a way to it, even if they were unaware of it for now.

Annd that's it. Um…I hope you enjoyed it. Next chapter will be longer hopefully