Welcome to something a little different from what I normally do but this concept has been calling out to me ever since I heard but someone on youtube named SentaiFive (check him out btw!) really gave this idea shape and form! Now first an idea of where this story happens. Basiclly the events of RPM are canon and occour in this story and with all future teams including Samurai and the current team Megaforce. With that said let's begin our tale...
POWER RANGERS HEXAGON
Chapter 0: The Beginnings Of A War
2005 – Reefside
"Another day gone by." A tired Tommy Oliver after having reached his house and gotten inside took off his white lab coat and began to rest from another day of teaching Science classes at Reefside High School where unknown to the majority of the population Tommy and a group of students from there defeated the villian known as Mesagog who sought to return the Earth to the primal age and have dinosaurs become the dominant species on the planet.
He smiled. "Those were the days. Fighting alongside a new team of rangers and defeating evil thus making the world safe again." He said to himself but as he did he began to frown. "Safe again..." Tommy knew too well from his past experiences as a ranger that evil always came back in one form or another but he took confidence in knowing that whenever it came the Power Rangers were always on the scene in a new form and new powers.
"Rita, Zedd, Mondo, Divatox...They all tried to conquer the earth and all of them failed..." But then he began to remember how in 1998 the earth and almost all the universe was about a couple of hours away from being taken over by the United Alliance Of Evil and that while he wasn't there he reassumed the powers of Zeo Ranger V and began to fight the Quantrons in Reefside and was almost overwhelmed by them until they were turned to dust by what he later found out was Andros, the Red Space Ranger shattering Zordon's energy tube and wiping out all known evil.
Tommy moved from his chair and descended down to the former headquarters of the Dino Thunder rangers which while it looked nothing like it did in it's hayday, Tommy rebuilt the place and reconfigured it into a museum to celebrate their victories and how he managed to do what Zordon did and mentor his own team. He walked around and continued his thoughts. "What if..." He thought to himself. " What if something like that happens again and this time we lose? We only made it out of that invasion due to Zordon and Andros. We might not be so lucky next time..." He thought.
He stopped at a group picture of him, Conner, Ethan, Kira, and Trent who had since graduated and were starting their careers. "What if something happens and one team of rangers isn't enough to get the job done?" Then it hit him. "Maybe if there was an organization made of former rangers we could help train the next generation of rangers and pass on Zordon's teachings and if things get rough we could assume our old powers and help them out. But it would require access to the Morphing Grid..." Then he remembered that there was a meteor that he found which contained such a link! Pressing a combination of buttons the panel which housed the Dino Thunder computer mainframe slid back and revealed a glowing meteor which as he touched it felt power course through him.
He finally had the answers to what he needed to get started. "Evil will never win as long as me and the Power Rangers are around and who better to help than the teams that help start it all..." Tommy closed the hatch and picked up his cell phone and began to dial the names of his former rangers.
When the phone rang on the other end it was picked up by none other than TJ. "Tommy?" He asked. He smiled. "Glad to see you still remember me. How would you like to help me with a project?" He asked. TJ began to wonder. "What kind of project?" "Something to help us in case something like what happened in 1998 happens again..."
2008 – Corinth, Dr. K's Laboratory
Years passed since that that talk with TJ over the phone and things changed for Tommy after gathering his fellow rangers from Zeo – Space and even from Miranoi as in 2008 a rouge computer virus known as Venjix escaped the government think tank known as Alphabet Soup and began to infect majority of the world's computers and factories creating robot soldiers known as "Grindors" who laid waste to all the world's major cities. If it wasn't for the coded message Dr. K sent out instructing the surviving humans to go to the city of Corinth, Tommy and those he kept in contact with would be ether dead or captive but luckily they managed to make it just in time as the energy field came up. Since then Tommy in conjunction with Dr. K began to work on a new way to defend the city codenamed "Ranger Series 17."
Tommy had managed to recruit all of the original teams from Zeo, Space, Lightspeed, and Wes from the former Time Force including Billy who after many hoops and huddles managed to get a signal out to Aquatar who having been rejuvenated and his youth restored returned to earth to help Dr. K create a new team of rangers and work on their "other project." Given the experience Wes had with the Silver Guardians he was able to keep what was going on behind the scenes secret for if Venjix ever knew of their plans it would not rest until all of them were killed.
1 Year Later...
"It is complete." The robotic voice of Dr. K said from the monitor. "Ranger Series 17 is underway. We have already found three candidates for Series Red, Blue, and Yellow but none so far for Black and Green. Tommy overcome breathed a sigh of relief. "Remind me to thank Wes later..." He said as he approached the monitor. He nor had any other members of his team aged much during the intervening time but the invasion of Venjix certainly took it's toll on morale. If it wasn't for Tommy holding the team together they would've disbanded long ago. "Thank you Dr. K. It was a pleasure to work with you." The monitor responded. "The pleasure is all mine Dr. Oliver, your experience as a ranger along with your team helped create the new powers and zords to fend off the forces of Venjix." Tommy smiled a tad. "I can't take all the credit, Billy was the one to help design the zords." Billy spoke up. "It was really quite simple to design the zords and since it only requires three to form a megazord you can hold off activating Series Black and Green for sometime but you need to find someone to house the powers soon or else they'll fade and be useless."
The robotic voice of Dr. K sounded like it understood. "Thank you for letting us work with you but we must be on our way." The voice responded. "But why? You won't survive out there with your powers gone!" Tommy flashed a grin that to everyone who knew him meant he had a plan. "We're Power Rangers. We survived far worse." Tommy and his group then began to exit the lab/auto shop when Adam caught up to him. "You sure this is a smart idea?" Tommy just winked.
As they got outside the gate Tommy turned around and gave them all bracelets. "Put these on and get ready." Tommy said as they all did as instructed. Instintly they both appeared in a darkened room which suddenly lit up to reveal monitors around everywhere. "This is our new command center." Billy said. "Took some time and we had to fight off some Grindors to do it but we've built this place to house our project. Everyone turned to Tommy and Andros spoke up. "You've been going on and on about a project but you've just been telling us to trust you. What's going on?"
Tommy turned to Andros. "Several years ago not long after I and my team defeated Mesagog I began to wonder what would happen if something like what happened with the Dark Fortress ever happened again so me and TJ came up with plan for a organization made of former rangers to help protect the world when others can't." Andros just smashed his fist on the table in the room. "What do you call what's going on out there?! The Earth is a baren wasteland!" He said. "Let me finish." Tommy interjected. "We have made Ranger Series 17 which has the power to defeat Venjix if used correctly. I'm more than sure Dr. K will find good candidates to use those powers while ours is more long-term for after Venjix is dealt with." Andros remained unconvinced. "But what if Venjix wins?" He said quietly asking what everyone in the room was thinking of. Tommy hardened his face. "Then we'll be ready by that point. They can at least hold him off until we're finished restoring." "Restoring what?" Everyone asked. Tommy pressed a button and a monitor came up showing how all the rangers gave up their powers including his own. "Your powers were destroyed but not gone and we plan to recreate those powers and give them back to you." Everyone was dumbfounded. Tommy continued. "Yes it is possible. We have a link to the Morphing Grid and can recreate your powers aside Leo and the others as their powers come from the Quasar Sabers."
After this information was made aware to everyone Andros still had one question. "Well what is this project?" He asked. Tommy responded by pressing a sequence of buttons revealing a new command area and a logo with the number "6" and a rainbow representing all their ranger colors.
"Welcome to The Hexagon."