The House of Power

Author's Notes: This is final story of the trilogy & the sequel to "The Line of Power" & "The Power Revelation." I might suggest you at least read up the previous stories first before following this one. This story begins four months after the end of the last story and it's the final story of the adventures of the Original Power Rangers and their successors.

Disclaimer: I don't own Power Rangers I just own the plot and the characters that don't exist.

Summary: The original Rangers & their new team are relishing in a time of peace from a battle that took them beyond the limits. But can they face one last adventure with what they knew about the Line of Power and the legacy be put the ultimate test?

Chapter 1: Prologue- Lost Stories from Time

(Ancient Harbor: Many years ago)

The markets were busy with sales of trade goods and many ships were docked at the port of the Ancient Harbor. The young knight, Atticus stares out at the open waters and the clear bright sky wondering. He has heard the stories from many harbor masters who have come and go from the Ancient Harbor about the lands that lay beyond the sea. However, his fealty and oath as a Knight of the Meridian to an ancient council from beyond the stars sidelined his aspirations and desires. They were called the Order of the Meridian and it was his task to oversee and protect the warriors who possess the Great Power.

However, on this day he wasn't on a mission for the Order or for the Denizens of Twilight. Atticus came across a group of young street urchins being harassed by the Acadian mercenaries. It made him sick witnessing these brutes use Expression on a group of innocent children but they stopped their infliction upon the urchins spotting a witness. The spectator was a ten year old boy with brown eyes and hairs who looked on in horror as his pursuers chased him throughout the harborfront markets.

"Find the boy! The Progeny of the Source wishes for us to obtain him!" one of the Acadians ordered. "He is not like the other tributes!"

"Why is Cassius interested in a mere little boy?" the other asked as they spotted the young boy in an alleyway. "You boy! Stop at once! Come here this instant!" As they attempted to subdue the young boy with Expression, the boy closed his eyes and concentrated. Suddenly, he froze his pursuers in their tracks and telekinetically repelled them back. More of them continued to pursue him as Atticus trailed behind the Acadians and the boy they chased.

Atticus intervened just when he was about to be taken into the Acadians' custody and defeated the pursuing raid party after the boy. He was a bit skeptical of Atticus' presence once the Acadians temporarily departed. Atticus turned to the boy hoping not to frighten him and held out his hand.

"I assure you little one that you are safe and I am a friend." Atticus reassured the boy. "You do not need to worry about fearing me. I only simply wish to help you and protect you from the Acadians."

"Is that who they are? The men in grey who were after me? Mother said to be wary of them for they have malice intentions and follow a man who calls himself the Progeny of the Source." the boy sheepishly replied. "Sir...are you a friend or foe?"

"If I was a foe than they would have brought you to the Progeny. Where is your mother now?"

"She was captured while she tried to aid a wolfpack in the western lands. The Progeny says that my mother is essential to his Ascension of some sorts. However, he witness me using my "special talents" as mother calls them. He found these crystals he tried to use on a few supernatural species, one of them being a werewolf from the pack mother and me were residing with." Something about the boy's story disturbed Atticus but he knew the child was in severe danger from forces from every side.

"Young one you must listen to me very carefully. Staying here will put you at incredible risk and danger should the evil forces that hold your mother in custody discover your secret. The crystals you are referring to holds a genetically and life altering secret should they be used for malice intent." Atticus explained. "I know you are young to understand what lies ahead but what I tell you, can I trust it must be kept for your own protection?" The boy reluctantly nodded. "I must ask your name boy."

"My name...my name is Jacob," the boy sheepishly replied eyeing the young knight. For some odd reason he felt a sense of security and a strange bond with the knight as if he knew him. For Atticus, he knew the truth and it amazed him to be in the presence of his own son though the boy was not aware of their paternal connection. "Sir, what should I call you? After all, you did rescue me from those people."

"I am Atticus and I am what you could refer to as a Knight of a very powerful order. I protect the lives of innocent people like you," he smiled at his son. "Jacob, I'm here to ensure your survival because there are some very powerful forces that will come for you. Our destinies are connected to one another and one day you'll learn the truth. You can trust me because I made a promise to your mother, Lena to keep you safe."

"You know my mother?" Jacob asked excitedly. "Then you can help me save my mother and the others from the Acadians!" Atticus could see his son's fighting spirit and his determination to save the woman that meant something to both of them. He cursed Cassius if any harm should come to Lena but he wouldn't let Jacob become another victim for the Progeny's plans. "I want to fight against them! They hurt the werewolves and my mother! They don't like people different who have supernatural powers, like me. I want to destroy those crystals so they can't harm anymore people. Can...can you teach me to fight Atticus?"

"War and battle is no place for a young boy like you Jacob. The people I am up against will use you for evil intentions but there is a way to safeguard you." Atticus pulled out an iron coin which Lena gave him long ago. It was fitting that this simple would be the key to his son's salvation. "Should you feel that the time will come for you to flee these lands, come seek me out. I'll get you to a place that lies beyond the sea."

"Where is this coin from? What is it made of?" Jacob asked confused staring at the iron coin in his hand. "How will this keep me safe?"

"This coin is made from iron from a place called Ad Liberam Civitatem. It means "the free lands." You show this coin to a harbor master from those land and recite these words: Est in potentia. It means "to the power." The cabin master will say Qui serviunt ei which means "to those who serve it." They will provide you passage to the lands beyond the sea. Ad Liberam Civitatem is a mysterious land but should you venture there...a whole new adventure awaits you."

(Angel Grove, California: 1881)

The man simply known as The White Strangers rides up to the entrance of an abandon mine outside of town. He knew it was a great risk coming here in the middle of the night but he took the chance. In the eyes of the citizens and the town, some called him an outlaw or vigilante, but it was his nature to help out those in need although others don't see it. Something was closing in on him and came upon a decision to depart and leave behind everything he knew. He saw the stage coach pull up close to the entrance of the mine and see Abraham escort a young woman out of the stage coach.

"Good evening, Miss Fuschia O'Hara," the White Stranger greeted and then turned to Abraham. "Thank you Abraham for bringing her tonight."

"She knew of the risk coming here upon your request White Stranger and possibly incur the wrath of her ward Mr. Nathan Hart..." Abraham replied.

"...I would still come regardless even if it meant the risk just to see you again," Fuschia said as she embraced the White Stranger tightly and he returned her hug. The two of them didn't understand why he sent word to meet him by an abandon mine unless it was of some great importance. "I do pray White Stranger that you are well and are safe everyday. It gives me great joy to know no harm has fallen upon you."

"And I do pray the same for you too, Fuschia. I pray to God everyday that you are well and in good health. Seeing you in town brings joy to my day though I wish our circumstances would allow us to interact more openly instead of behind the covers of the public eye. However, knowing the peril I put myself in is worth it just to glance upon your face for only a few moments." He slightly smiles before getting to the point of his reason for the disclosed meeting. "Fuschia, there is something I must show you for your eyes only. It is the reason why I asked Abraham to bring you here tonight."

"Miss Fuschia, please take this lantern for the mines are dark at this very hour," Abraham said passing the lantern to her. She took the lantern as the White Stranger gently took her hand and led her inside the mines as while Abraham waited outside to keep watch. "Do be careful the two of you venturing inside those mines."

"What is it that you want to show me?" Fuschia asked as they continued walking into the tunnels with the lanterns as their only source of light. "Of all the place to meet why choose the abandon mine the folks halted work in three months prior?"

"Because there was a reason why they stopped the work. I made a discovery a few days ago about the mines that is of great concern which is why I need your help. You are the only one I can confide in and can I trust what we discuss stays between us?"

"I give you my word that the events of tonight stays between us. Sometimes I do wish that our meetings do occur in less stressful and tense times. Life has their ways of steering us in paths we do not condone in. However, the hand of fate and destiny find its ways of intervening." She continued with a sigh and the White Stranger knew what she was talking about. "I'm tempted to ask your name, but to refer to you as the White Stranger makes the lore of you more appealing and intriguing in my eyes."

There was something about Fuschia O'Hara that caught his eye the day she arrived in town. The young girl reminded him of a heroine he met from the distant future one year ago. Only he and a few others knew of the events that rattled their town that day. The White Stranger wonder if he ever see one day and somehow he believed fate answered his pleas with Fuschia O'Hara. However, circumstances limited their contact with one another and no matter what their relation to one another was, she was prohibited from associating with him.

"All you need to do is simply ask my dear and I be more oblige to give it to you. However, I do agree that I sometimes too wish we did meet under different circumstances instead of like this." The two of them stopped at their destination as the White Stranger scanned the area. It looked like something was extracted out of the walls by pix axes but Fuschia didn't understand what was going on. They walked to an empty mine cart as the White Stranger unearthed a cloth wrapped object. "Looks like someone else discover the secrets of the mine, but they missed a spot."

"What was actually in here? The markings on the wall indicate that regular coal or minerals like copper and iron were not in these mines. Something tells me that there was something strange buried within these tunnels."

"Which is why you must promise me whatever happens that somehow this is safeguarded at all times." The White Stranger placed the cloth wrapped object on the ground as Fuschia held the lantern for better lighting. He unwrapped it to reveal what looked like two small crystals: one pink and one white crystal with an iron coin encased in both of them. For a few seconds the crystals started glowing in their presence and then it subsided a moment after. "I wouldn't suggest to touch them physically because I am uncertain about the properties and the contexts it comes from. They look like crystals but this is the first time they actually glowed in my presence..."

"Or maybe because I'm here?" Fuschia said with awe and confused about their discovery. "Where did they come from? And most importantly, who are they for?"

(Present Day: The Boarding House)

Tommy jolted awake after falling asleep in the living room again. He was used to having vivid and weird dreams but he never dreamed about the previous lives of his ancestors. "Why did I dream about Atticus and his son Jacob? Why did I dream about Angel Grove in 1881?." Tommy hadn't had dreams like those ever since Rosaline and Kimberly showed up in Reefside the first time. He looked over at the other end of the sectional sofa he fell asleep on and smiled seeing Kim fast asleep.

"I guess Kim finally got our little guy tuckered out and asleep." Tommy said quietly seeing Gabriel asleep in his play tent as Tommy draped a throw blanket over his now three year old son. He did the same thing with his wife by draping the spare throw blanket that was hanging on the sofa and gently placed a kiss on Kim's head. Tommy then placed a hand on Kimberly's fully grown pregnant belly smiling. "Hope you both sleep well my treasures. Any day now little one, we'll be waiting."

He heard the door open and found Rosaline arriving home with Virgil in tow. It was obvious that she slept over at Virgil's loft last night and although she's been home for about three days Tommy notice his daughter spending more time there. Him and Kimberly realize their three oldest children were growing up but needed to assure them that they had to be able to trust them.

"Mom? Dad? Hello anybody home?" Rosaline called out as Tommy met the couple by the entrance indicating for them to keep their voices down.

"Sorry Tommy, we didn't mean to disturb you guys," Virgil said apologizing.

"It's okay just suddenly took a quick nap and then woke up and found Kim and Gabe sound asleep. The twins are at the Juice Bar with Aaron and Allison and Jason and Katherine are going to drive them home later." Tommy explained. "Are...you looking after the music store today?"

"Chan is looking after the store today and Grace and Kenji are helping him for the day." Virgil replied. "I was hoping if you had some spare blankets and pillows I can use because Shi-Ann is coming to town in a few days. The girl needs a break from her skating training and she's bringing Malcolm and Sydney with her to town. We heard that Bi is still in New Orleans with Ash. They're assisting in a dispute over the crowning of some new Regent for the witch covens."

"What about the others? Have you guys heard from them?" Tommy asked.

"Well Christian is spending a month volunteering the the outreach community program Julliard does giving music clinics to underprivileged children. We heard that Abby and Silas are an item which surprised us. We assumed before Silas had a thing for Bianca but they're just good friends." Rosaline explained giving updates. "Aidan is busy with his summer semester at MIT and Quincy is in the middle some profiling classes at Quantico. Des and Penn are supposedly touring Europe for the month before he ends up applying for Med school next year which he decided to do here in the States. Yeah, it's all paid for by Penny's family, boy Desmond is lucky. How's mom doing?"

"Still the same and desperately trying to find ways of inducing her labor. She's been overdue for four days but the doctors told us she can give birth at anytime. She's hoping it's not on the twins' birthday. Gosh what is with our family sharing birthdays on the same month? Your mom and Gabriel both share their birthday on Valentine's Day, and now April is going to be a triple threat with the twins and the baby."

"Well you and I are lucky dad even though my birthday is late in the year in September." She replied smiling. "So before I go retrieve the spare blankets and pillows I was hoping to find something to snack on in the kitchen. Do we have anything to eat?"

"Check the fridge and pantry closets unless your mom raided them already of our favorite foods." Tommy slightly joked watching the couple head into the kitchen.

Meanwhile, Justin was contemplating whether or not it was wise to make a house call in the middle of the afternoon. However, he was looking for some peace and quiet and a place to do his work in solitude. Although he was content with working at NASADA keeping an eye on the Ranger Initiative Program, sometimes the pressure of training the new generation of future Rangers took its toll. He found using the lab at the boarding house was relaxing and peaceful and it was humorous to hear that Tommy and Kimberly provided spare keys to their place if in case anyone wanted to use it as a retreat or getaway as he rang the doorbell.

"Justin, wow this a surprise," Tommy replied opening the door letting his friend in. "Come on in."

"I know I should have called and I know things have been hectic with you and Kim. How is she by the way if you mind me asking?" Justin asked.

"Being a week overdue and trying to find means of getting our child out I'll say she's doing alright."

"Well you could have asked me how I was doing instead of asking my sometimes Mr. Forgetful husband." Both guys heard Kimberly's voice as she waddle to the entrance of the house. She gave her good friend a hug. "Justin, always a pleasure seeing your face. Let me guess, you're looking for a place to duck away for a few hours from Billy?"

"That and the Rangers in training who is having today's workout sessions being overseen by the Space Rangers. Anyways, I was hoping to use the lab computers to decrypt some files Billy and I encrypted on the hard drive. Basically I'm trying to unlock the files classified under "Special Insights." Do you two have any plans today?"

"Let's see huh the twins are at the Youth Center, Gabriel is down for a nap and I'm assuming Rosaline is home now and going to spend time with Virgil." Kimberly smiled placing a hand on her stomach and then looking at Tommy. "So Tommy, are we free today?"

"I think we have some free time on our hands to random decode some files off of Justin's classified hard drive," Tommy replied as the three original veterans headed down to the lab for an afternoon of decrypting Justin's hard drive.