Power Rangers: Timespeed by Jeff Griffiths
Disclaimer: the Lightspeed Rangers and the Time Force Rangers and all their
various allies and enemies are owned by the great and holy Saban, who doesn't
know what to do with them anyway. Everyone please forgive me because I'm a
reader, not a writer, and I have not written a "fan fic" in 25 years. I couldn't
help myself from wondering what would happen in the Lightspeed/Time Force
x-over so I thought I'd use some of my non-existent spare time to use in
writing the sort of thing I'd like to see happen. This story is dedicated to and
beta read by my wonderful wife Annie, who wishes I would outgrow this Power
Rangers thing already like our sons did. Feedback is welcome. By the way, I
already did the outline before the Timeshadow Megazord or the Quantum
Ranger showed up. Thanks. Jeff.
"We need allies!" Ransig was saying. "This pitiful collection of frozen
mutants should have made some kind of impact against the Time
Force Rangers by now. In the future we had allies to help in our fight
against them. Those annoying Rangers have help from Time Force,
but what do we have?" he demanded.
His daughter Nadira was glued to the television as usual, not listening
to him. However she had just seen something that fit right in with
what she didn't know her father had been saying. "Oh, Daddy!" she
trilled. I have an idea." She had been watching a documentary about
a desert about an hour to the North of Silver Hills. She turned up the
volume. There was a picture of an ancient Egyptain style tomb and
the narrator was saying, "And so Queen Banshira and her monsters
were entombed once and for all by the Lightspeed Rangers and the
desert is now safe."
Ransig had heard about the mighty Queen Banshira before. She had
caused quite an uproar 6,000 years before his own time. So she was
entombed nearby, eh? Along with an entire army of monsters. How
interesting! And if she had been defeated by a group of Power
Rangers, she could be expected to be mightily pissed at any other
team in colorful uniforms. "My dear, I have an idea. What say we
take a trip to this little desert of theirs and give Queen Banshira a
little wakeup call?"
Nadira sulked. "But Daddy, that was my idea first." "Of course it was,
darling, of course it was. Daddy's very proud of you." The pink haired
girl smiled smugly.
Early the next morning just as the sun was rising over the desert, the
little band approached the ancient tomb. Cyclobots unfolded a
portable ladder and entered the tomb first in case of any danger.
Ransig climbed down but Nadira was having trouble getting her
white tassled umbrella through the opening after her. When her
father suggested she try closing it she pouted and reluctantly closed
it. She pouted even more when she climbed down into the interior of
the dusty tomb. "I thought there were supposed to be gold and
jewels in these old things," she whined.
Her father ignored her complaints. "Get that thing open," he ordered
the cyclobots.
The lid of the crypt opened slowly at first, then it suddenly exploded
out of the robots' hands. A flash of gold zipped past their faces,
causing Nadira to squeal and grab her father's arm. The transparent
gold flash was followed immediately by a red light and then a very
large flash of gray. A cacophany of screams filled the chamber.
Ransig and his entourage couldn't make out the words at first but
they slowly resolved themselves into, "Close it! Close it! Don't let
them out."
The cyclobots were frightened into following the orders of the
mysterious voice much to their bosses' anger. "Don't close that door
you fools!" Ransig ordered furiously.
The flashes of light were finally materializing into their familiar
forms. The angry gray one became the still shrieking Queen Banshira,
the red one was her son Olympios and the gold one took on the form
of Diabolico. Nadira and Frax looked at the Queen in horror and even
Ransig was a little shaken. Her eyes flashed in a fury that made
Ransig's seem like a childish tantrum.
The cyclobot's were finally rousing themselves to follow Ransig's
orders but the Queen was across the room before any one else could
move. She hurled her considerable size onto the lid of the crypt,
keeping the robots from opening it again. "Don't let them out!" she
cried again.
"Queen Banshira I presume?" said Ransig, who has recovered by this
time.
"Who has the impudence to address my mother?" demands Olympus.
Ransig had the sense of self-preservation to bow before royalty,
roughly pulling his daughter into a curtsy. "Forgive me Your Majesty.
I am your humble servant Ransig. And this is my daughter Nadira. It
is a great honor to be in your presence."
"Get up, yuou snivelling fool," Banshira ordered. "Why have you
summoned me?"
"I have a proposition for you, Your Majesty. We have a common
enemy, the Power Rangers."
"The Power Rangers were all but destroyed themselves when they
vanquished us!" Diabolico bragged.
Nadira snorted. "Power Rangers have always had a way of rising
again," she said with disgust. "Anyway we have a little problem with
them and Daddy thought if you would come along to Silver Hills to
help us defeat them that then you could be free to pillage Mariner
Bay or whatever. Okay?" she smiled.
"I care nothing for this Silver Hills! The ground the humans have
usurped and called Mariner Bay belongs to me. It is the site of my
palace and I will defeat them and reclaim what is mine!"
"Certainly, certainly," Ransig soothed. "In due time. Right now the
Rangers are in Silver Hills awaiting defeat. After that as my little girl
said you may get back to Mariner Bay."
"The great Queen Banshira takes orders from no one!" snapped her
son.
"Merely a suggestion," said Ransig.
"It had better be," said the Queen. "Or else I shall consume you the
way I consumed my handmaiden Vypra."
Nadira hid behind her father in fear. She plucked at his shoulder.
"Daddy," she whispered. "You know how all you really wanted to do
was conquer the past? It doesn't really have to be Silver Hills does
it? I mean, wouldn't the RAngers just come here if we were here?"
Ransig thought over this compromise. "I suppose the Time Force
Rangers could just as easily be defeated in Mariner Bay as anywhere
else. Then Silver Hills, then the world."
Taking this compromise as a settling of terms Diabolico pointed out,
"We need to release Jinxer or we'll have no monsters ready to battle
the Rangers."
The Queen's eyes flashed. "NO! We dare not open that crypt again! I
will tolerate no disobedience in this matter." She turned herself back
into her non-corporeal form as a cloud of vapor and disappeared
through the opening into the desert. Her son followed closely behind
and floated through Nadira, who screamed.
Ransig stopped Diabolico as he was about to follow and demanded to
know what the Queen was so afraid of letting out of that tom.
Diabolico answered, "She's afraid of the other demons in hell that
have been trying to feed on her since she was lockied in the tomb
last time." Ransig found this very interesting and filed it away for
later use.
Later that morning back in Silver Hills the Time Force Rangers were
busy earning their bread and butter by painting a house.
"Why would anybody want to paint their house yellow with black
shutters?" asked Lucas.
"Well I kinda like it," Katie said.
Just then Trip came rushing up to them. "Hey, guys! Circuit says
there's trouble in the city of Mariner Bay. It looks like cyclobots."
Jen, who had a splash of paint on her cheek, stopped halfway up her
ladder to look at Wes. "Mariner Bay?"
Wes shrugged his shoulders. "Yeah. It's a city North of here. They had
some trouble with some mnsters there last year I think. I was in
college back east but I heard something about it."
Lucas asked, "What would Ransig want in Mariner Bay."
"I don't know," said Jen, "But we better go and find out."
At Starbucks in Mariner Bay Carter was having coffee with his
girlfriend. "Here, honey, I brought you a biscotti as well."
"Oh, thank you, Carter," said Dana.
They sat close together in their booth and talked about what they
planned to do together on their day off.
"Look at that!" someone shouted. The tv in the corner was showing
the Cyclobots attacking merchants in downtown Mariner Bay. A pink
haired girl was taking the opportunity to steal jewelry and cash. The
police were on the scene but their weapons were
not having any effect on the robots.
Dana and Carter looked at each other. Carter said, "I think those
things are called cyclobots. They've been on the news a lot lately
with the Time Force Rangers in Silver Hills."
"Your right, Carter. But the Time Force Rangers aren't here, though."
Carter thought long and hard. "Does your Dad still have our old
morphers, Dana?"
"I think so. But Father is out fishing today with Ryan. Maybe we
could find our morphers at our apartment."
"We have to do something," said Carter. "You look for our morphers
and I'll call the others."
Nadira was very surprised when the Lightspeed Rescue Rangers
showed up instead of the Time Force Rangers. "You've changed
costumes," she said to them.
"No we haven't. We're the Lightspeed Rangers and you made a big
mistake when you decided to invade our city, Nadira."
"Well maybe some old friends of yours might have a different idea
about that."
"It's been a long time, Red Ranger."
The Lightspeed Rangers swung around towards the sound of the
voice.
"Diabolico!"
to be continued
Disclaimer: the Lightspeed Rangers and the Time Force Rangers and all their
various allies and enemies are owned by the great and holy Saban, who doesn't
know what to do with them anyway. Everyone please forgive me because I'm a
reader, not a writer, and I have not written a "fan fic" in 25 years. I couldn't
help myself from wondering what would happen in the Lightspeed/Time Force
x-over so I thought I'd use some of my non-existent spare time to use in
writing the sort of thing I'd like to see happen. This story is dedicated to and
beta read by my wonderful wife Annie, who wishes I would outgrow this Power
Rangers thing already like our sons did. Feedback is welcome. By the way, I
already did the outline before the Timeshadow Megazord or the Quantum
Ranger showed up. Thanks. Jeff.
"We need allies!" Ransig was saying. "This pitiful collection of frozen
mutants should have made some kind of impact against the Time
Force Rangers by now. In the future we had allies to help in our fight
against them. Those annoying Rangers have help from Time Force,
but what do we have?" he demanded.
His daughter Nadira was glued to the television as usual, not listening
to him. However she had just seen something that fit right in with
what she didn't know her father had been saying. "Oh, Daddy!" she
trilled. I have an idea." She had been watching a documentary about
a desert about an hour to the North of Silver Hills. She turned up the
volume. There was a picture of an ancient Egyptain style tomb and
the narrator was saying, "And so Queen Banshira and her monsters
were entombed once and for all by the Lightspeed Rangers and the
desert is now safe."
Ransig had heard about the mighty Queen Banshira before. She had
caused quite an uproar 6,000 years before his own time. So she was
entombed nearby, eh? Along with an entire army of monsters. How
interesting! And if she had been defeated by a group of Power
Rangers, she could be expected to be mightily pissed at any other
team in colorful uniforms. "My dear, I have an idea. What say we
take a trip to this little desert of theirs and give Queen Banshira a
little wakeup call?"
Nadira sulked. "But Daddy, that was my idea first." "Of course it was,
darling, of course it was. Daddy's very proud of you." The pink haired
girl smiled smugly.
Early the next morning just as the sun was rising over the desert, the
little band approached the ancient tomb. Cyclobots unfolded a
portable ladder and entered the tomb first in case of any danger.
Ransig climbed down but Nadira was having trouble getting her
white tassled umbrella through the opening after her. When her
father suggested she try closing it she pouted and reluctantly closed
it. She pouted even more when she climbed down into the interior of
the dusty tomb. "I thought there were supposed to be gold and
jewels in these old things," she whined.
Her father ignored her complaints. "Get that thing open," he ordered
the cyclobots.
The lid of the crypt opened slowly at first, then it suddenly exploded
out of the robots' hands. A flash of gold zipped past their faces,
causing Nadira to squeal and grab her father's arm. The transparent
gold flash was followed immediately by a red light and then a very
large flash of gray. A cacophany of screams filled the chamber.
Ransig and his entourage couldn't make out the words at first but
they slowly resolved themselves into, "Close it! Close it! Don't let
them out."
The cyclobots were frightened into following the orders of the
mysterious voice much to their bosses' anger. "Don't close that door
you fools!" Ransig ordered furiously.
The flashes of light were finally materializing into their familiar
forms. The angry gray one became the still shrieking Queen Banshira,
the red one was her son Olympios and the gold one took on the form
of Diabolico. Nadira and Frax looked at the Queen in horror and even
Ransig was a little shaken. Her eyes flashed in a fury that made
Ransig's seem like a childish tantrum.
The cyclobot's were finally rousing themselves to follow Ransig's
orders but the Queen was across the room before any one else could
move. She hurled her considerable size onto the lid of the crypt,
keeping the robots from opening it again. "Don't let them out!" she
cried again.
"Queen Banshira I presume?" said Ransig, who has recovered by this
time.
"Who has the impudence to address my mother?" demands Olympus.
Ransig had the sense of self-preservation to bow before royalty,
roughly pulling his daughter into a curtsy. "Forgive me Your Majesty.
I am your humble servant Ransig. And this is my daughter Nadira. It
is a great honor to be in your presence."
"Get up, yuou snivelling fool," Banshira ordered. "Why have you
summoned me?"
"I have a proposition for you, Your Majesty. We have a common
enemy, the Power Rangers."
"The Power Rangers were all but destroyed themselves when they
vanquished us!" Diabolico bragged.
Nadira snorted. "Power Rangers have always had a way of rising
again," she said with disgust. "Anyway we have a little problem with
them and Daddy thought if you would come along to Silver Hills to
help us defeat them that then you could be free to pillage Mariner
Bay or whatever. Okay?" she smiled.
"I care nothing for this Silver Hills! The ground the humans have
usurped and called Mariner Bay belongs to me. It is the site of my
palace and I will defeat them and reclaim what is mine!"
"Certainly, certainly," Ransig soothed. "In due time. Right now the
Rangers are in Silver Hills awaiting defeat. After that as my little girl
said you may get back to Mariner Bay."
"The great Queen Banshira takes orders from no one!" snapped her
son.
"Merely a suggestion," said Ransig.
"It had better be," said the Queen. "Or else I shall consume you the
way I consumed my handmaiden Vypra."
Nadira hid behind her father in fear. She plucked at his shoulder.
"Daddy," she whispered. "You know how all you really wanted to do
was conquer the past? It doesn't really have to be Silver Hills does
it? I mean, wouldn't the RAngers just come here if we were here?"
Ransig thought over this compromise. "I suppose the Time Force
Rangers could just as easily be defeated in Mariner Bay as anywhere
else. Then Silver Hills, then the world."
Taking this compromise as a settling of terms Diabolico pointed out,
"We need to release Jinxer or we'll have no monsters ready to battle
the Rangers."
The Queen's eyes flashed. "NO! We dare not open that crypt again! I
will tolerate no disobedience in this matter." She turned herself back
into her non-corporeal form as a cloud of vapor and disappeared
through the opening into the desert. Her son followed closely behind
and floated through Nadira, who screamed.
Ransig stopped Diabolico as he was about to follow and demanded to
know what the Queen was so afraid of letting out of that tom.
Diabolico answered, "She's afraid of the other demons in hell that
have been trying to feed on her since she was lockied in the tomb
last time." Ransig found this very interesting and filed it away for
later use.
Later that morning back in Silver Hills the Time Force Rangers were
busy earning their bread and butter by painting a house.
"Why would anybody want to paint their house yellow with black
shutters?" asked Lucas.
"Well I kinda like it," Katie said.
Just then Trip came rushing up to them. "Hey, guys! Circuit says
there's trouble in the city of Mariner Bay. It looks like cyclobots."
Jen, who had a splash of paint on her cheek, stopped halfway up her
ladder to look at Wes. "Mariner Bay?"
Wes shrugged his shoulders. "Yeah. It's a city North of here. They had
some trouble with some mnsters there last year I think. I was in
college back east but I heard something about it."
Lucas asked, "What would Ransig want in Mariner Bay."
"I don't know," said Jen, "But we better go and find out."
At Starbucks in Mariner Bay Carter was having coffee with his
girlfriend. "Here, honey, I brought you a biscotti as well."
"Oh, thank you, Carter," said Dana.
They sat close together in their booth and talked about what they
planned to do together on their day off.
"Look at that!" someone shouted. The tv in the corner was showing
the Cyclobots attacking merchants in downtown Mariner Bay. A pink
haired girl was taking the opportunity to steal jewelry and cash. The
police were on the scene but their weapons were
not having any effect on the robots.
Dana and Carter looked at each other. Carter said, "I think those
things are called cyclobots. They've been on the news a lot lately
with the Time Force Rangers in Silver Hills."
"Your right, Carter. But the Time Force Rangers aren't here, though."
Carter thought long and hard. "Does your Dad still have our old
morphers, Dana?"
"I think so. But Father is out fishing today with Ryan. Maybe we
could find our morphers at our apartment."
"We have to do something," said Carter. "You look for our morphers
and I'll call the others."
Nadira was very surprised when the Lightspeed Rescue Rangers
showed up instead of the Time Force Rangers. "You've changed
costumes," she said to them.
"No we haven't. We're the Lightspeed Rangers and you made a big
mistake when you decided to invade our city, Nadira."
"Well maybe some old friends of yours might have a different idea
about that."
"It's been a long time, Red Ranger."
The Lightspeed Rangers swung around towards the sound of the
voice.
"Diabolico!"
to be continued