I don't think it's a stretch to say that for many Power Rangers fans, Power Rangers Super Megaforce was a disappointment. It's not that the season was bad (there were a few stronger episodes), but the season itself felt like a series full of missed potential. Gokaiger was an incredibly strong Sentai series, with tons of great and useable footage for Power Rangers to use, which made the way Super Megaforce was handled that much more disappointing. But what if it hadn't been mishandled? The story I'm attempting now is a look at what could've been by tweaking what Saban Brands did. For the sake of time, I'm not redoing anything with Megaforce, rather just starting with the second part of the season where they adapted Gokaiger. I'm trying with to make each chapter I write correspond to one episode had this been the way they done the TV show. There are some pretty major changes to the storyline, and I will include some cameos from past rangers. Most of the previous rangers I include will be ones who already appeared in the show, with a couple of exceptions.
Small note, with a few exceptions (I know of one scene from Gokaiger that wasn't used that I will be referencing) I won't be referencing any Sentai (or even Power Rangers) footage for this story. This is mainly a story idea of what could've been. Obviously, had this been the story they chose to do, certain aspects may have to change to better match the Sentai footage, but I'm choosing not to worry about that for this story. Additionally, this new story does not mean I'm abandoning my MMPR Reboot, though that one has been on the back burner for some time. I will eventually get back to that one. So without further ado, here is Power Rangers Super Megaforce 2.0
Episode One: Super Megaforce
The Armada had invaded. Troy had thought the Warstar enemies he had faced up until now had been tough, but they had been nothing compared to the overwhelming force that was now attacking the planet. As tough as Admiral Malkor and Creepox had been, Troy wished he was facing them again instead of the Armada.
Troy, the Red Megaforce Ranger, had been separated from his team. Worse yet, his companion RoboKnight was only able to temporarily restore his ranger powers. He was now pinned down in the middle of a battlefield without his rangers powers to protect him. He could only hope that his teammates were not suffering the same fate as him. A large explosion nearby shook Troy. He watched as hundreds of X-Borgs came charing in at him, lead by Vrak, in his new robotic body.
Vrak had always been a tough opponent for Troy, but now he was stronger than ever, and Troy knew that his power were fading. He didn't know how much of a fight he'd be able to put up. Drenched in sweat and covered in scrapes and bruises, Troy took a deep breath and emerged from the pile of wreckage he had been hiding behind to catch his breath. "Hey Ugly, Looking for me?!" Vrak turned to him.
"Ah, Red Ranger. It's so nice to see you again. You won't be victorious this time."
"That's where you're wrong." Troy shouted. "I will defeat you, and you know why? Because the Earth is counting on it."
"How touching." Vrak said. "X-Borgs, attack." The robots all came in firing at Troy. He rolled out the way to dodge the attack. He instinctively pulled out his morpher and looked at it. It was still dead. The restoration of powers had only been temporary, but even so, he couldn't quite break the habit of pulling his morpher out when he was in trouble. He quickly put it away and charged at the X-Borgs. Despite no powers, he was able to put up quite a fight against the foot soldiers, but he was getting worn down. Suddenly, a figure came charging in near him, and threw the X-Borgs off him. "Roboknight!" Troy shouted. "Boy am I glad to see you."
"Red Ranger, why aren't you morphed? I thought I had restored your powers." Troy's robotic friend said.
"It was only temporary. My morpher is down again." Troy said.
"I see." Roboknight said back. "I am still not at full strength myself, but I will do my best to protect you."
"One ranger without his powers and a low powered Roboknight against an army." Vrak said, through as much of a smile as his robotic body would allow. "This will almost be too easy." The X-Borgs charged in again.
This time, the two heroes fought back to back, holding off the incoming robots valiently. Unfortunately it was all for naught, as eventually the shear numbers of the X-Borgs overpowered them. They had their hands tied behind their backs, and Vrak walked up to them. "Such a pitty how easy this fight was. After all of the times we'd fought previously, I would've thought you could've put up a better fight." Troy struggled trying to get free. "I could end this right now. Strike you down, no one would be the wiser, but I've been instructed by my older brother, Prince Vekar, to bring in Roboknight. He has some plans for him. I've got some plans of my own, and you'll fit into them quite nicely. I hope you enjoyed your days of being of a hero, because they are over." He grabbed the two prisoners and disappeared.
Noah stumbled, badly bruised and beaten down, into the Power Rangers command base. Tensou noticed him right away. "Noah! Oh no!" The small robot rushed over to his side. "Gosei, he needs help!"
"Yes Tensou," Gosei responded. "Alert the other rangers that Noah has been injured. Tensou tried to contact the other rangers.
"Don't bother." Noah said. "I've been trying to contact them and you all day. Communications are down. I'll be fine, I just need to sit down for a minute."
"As I feared, the Armada has managed to knock out our communications with each other." Gosei said. "That will make this battle that much more difficult. However, I am relieved to hear you say you're alright. Tensou, do a scan to make sure there are no significant injuries or internal bleeding."
"Already in progress." Tensou responded. A bright beam of light began scanning Noah. "It appears as though he has no major injuries to report."
"The armada was tougher than I could've ever imagined," Noah said. "I knew they wouldn't be easy to beat, but I can't believe how strong they are. Even there foot soldiers are tough. Never thought I'd miss fighting Loogies."
"Yes, the X-Borgs are significantly stronger than the Loogies that you are used to."
"Especially without powers."
"Without powers?" Tensou asked.
"I guess whatever RoboKnight did to restore our powers was only temporary. I ended up demorphing in the middle of the fight, and couldn't remorph. I was hoping I could figure out a way to restore my powers, but I knew I couldn't do it out there."
"I guess great minds think alike." Noah heard a female voice say from behind him. He turned to see his teammates, Jake and Gia, stumble into the command center holding each other up.
"We were getting creamed out there." Jake said. "I was struggling even before I lost my powers. When they started to fail, it was basically game over."
"Thank God Jake found me when he did." Gia said. "If it hadn't been for him, I don't think I could've made it back here." Jake couldn't help but smile at what Gia had said, even if every bone in his body ached.
"Jake, Gia." Noah said, making his way over to them and giving them each a hug. "I'm so glad to see you guys."
"And what am I chopped liver?" Another female voice said. Noah looked up to see Emma making her way into the Command Center as well. Noah gave her a hug, too.
"So I guess we all had the same thought." Gia said. "We can't fight these guys, not without our powers."
"Gosei, is there anyway you can re-energize our morphers?" Noah asked. "Even if it's only temporary like what RoboKnight did. If we could morph, we could at least put up a fight against these guys.
"It's Unlikely. If the connection to the morphing grid has been severed, there is no way to restore it. Unfortunately, like many ranger teams before you, your powers may be gone." Gosei said.
"So what, just like that, we're not Rangers anymore?" Emma asked.
"No." Gia said. "Powers or no Powers, we're still the Power Rangers. The Earth needs us. We can't just let the aliens take our planet."
"What about all the rangers teams that came before us?" Jake asked. "I mean, if we feel this way, maybe they do and I bet some of them still have their ranger powers."
"The problem is we have no way to contact them." Noah said. "Besides, I bet the armada isn't only attacking here. I bet they're attacking all over."
"We have news reports from all around the globe." Tensou said. "So far, I think I've seen a few former rangers fighting back, but it's tough to tell from a news report, especially since so many of the ranger teams weren't publicly known, none were using ranger powers though."
"It doesn't matter anyway." Gia said. "They were rangers, just like us. If they could help, they'd be helping already."
"Speaking of other rangers, has anyone heard from Troy?" Noah asked. The other rangers all said they hadn't.
"I hope nothing bad happened to him." Emma said.
"Or to RoboKnight." Jake said. The other rangers all nodded in agreement.
"Is the prisoner ready?" Prince Vekar asked his younger brother.
"I told you I'd deliver him to you didn't I?" Vrak responded.
"Yes, well, you've promised a lot of things during our lives. Heck, you promised that the Earth would be defenseless by the time I got here, and yet all 5 rangers and their robot companion were all still fighting back when we arrived."
"Yes, but their powers were drained, and I thought you wanted RoboKnight to still be operational."
"After I saw he was going to be, I made a slight change of plan. So I ask again, is the prisoner ready?"
"Why don't you ask him yourself?" Vrak said, slightly agitated. The robot was brought into the room, but he no longed looked the same. His face was no longer fully visible, and his right shoulder was now sticking up. It appeared as though he had been dismantled and reassembled.
"What is your name, soldier?"
"Argus, boss." The Robot responded.
"And your mission."
"To aid and serve the Armada in anyway I can in their attempt to capture the Earth."
"Excellent." Vekar said.
"Not only has he been reprogrammed, but he also has had his powers fully restored, and I even upgraded his fighting style." Vrak said. "Just a few tricks I picked up from Metal Alice before her demise."
"It appears as though you've outdone yourself brother." Vekar said. "Argus, I want you to go Earth and destroy whatever you can."
"Yes Boss." The robot responded.
Vekar turned to his brother. "What of the other prisoner? What are your plans for him."
"You will see." Vrak said.
"I'm tired of just sitting around here." Gia said. "We've got to go out and do something. There are literally thousands of X-Borgs attacking. We can't just do nothing."
"Obviously Troy and RobotKnight aren't coming here." Emma said.
"I've got it!" Noah said, finishing as he twists on his morpher.
"You fixed it?" Jake asked. "You can morph?"
"No." Noah said. "But I should be able to use the communication function of the morpher again. I was able to cut through the Armada's jamming component." He presses on the side of his morpher. "Troy, can you hear me? It's Noah. Please respond." There is no answer. "Troy, are you there?" Still no answer.
"Well, maybe you crossed some wires or something."
"No." Jake said, coming back down the steps. "It was coming through loud and clear on my morpher. I headed outside to see if it would work."
"So what do that mean?" Gia asked.
"It means that at best, Troy's in a lot of trouble and we have to find someway to help him." Jake said.
"At worst, it could mean…"
"Don't even go there." Emma said. "Troy is going to be fine. He has to be. We need him. The Earth needs him. I…" She starts to cry.
"Emma, it'll be OK." Jake said, trying to comfort her.
"Snap out of it." Gia said. "Emma, we don't know what happened to Troy. He could be in danger, or maybe he just lost his morpher. It doesn't matter. None of us want anything to happen to Troy, but right now, the fate of the world is at stake. If we don't stop the Armada, then it won't matter if Troy is OK or not."
"So what's the plan, Gia?"
"We fight back, together." She said. "Whatever happens out there, we stick together."
"Well then, let's go." Jake said. They start to charge out of the building.
"Be careful, Rangers." Tensou said. He turns around to Gosei. "Isn't there anything we can do to help them?"
"I'm afraid not Tensou. They had all of our weapons at their disposal."
"Oh no."
The Four Ranger teens ran into battle. They reached downtown, where a large squadron of X-Borgs has assembled. "Remember, we stick together." Gia said.
"Right!" The other 3 said in unison. They charged together towards their enemy. The four of them put up a pretty good fight. Each of them managed to take down several X-Borgs, but they just keep coming. "There's too many of them!" Emma shouted.
"Just keep fighting." Gia said. "The earth is counting on us." Suddenly, a laser blast came in and sends the rangers flying backwards. As they slowly got back to their feet, they see a robotic soldier walking towards them. Argus.
"Who is that?"
"I will destroy you." Argus said, with no emotion.
"That voice." Noah said. "Does that sound familiar to anyone else? I can't place it, but I swear I've heard it before."
"I know I've never seen that thing before." Jake said. "That's not a face, if you can even call it a face, I'd forget."
"We've got to stop him." Gia said.
"And how are we supposed to do that without our powers?" Emma asked.
"Maybe if we…" Gia started to say, but then suddenly went quiet as the sky darkened. "What is that?" A large red ship loomed overhead. It appeared to stop in the middle of the sky. Then, a large anchor flew out from the ship, and down rope attached the anchor swung a figure cloaked in all red. A Red Power Ranger.
Noah studied the figure closely. To be certain, this was not a ranger he had seen before. Could this be Troy, he wondered. Their own Red Ranger was after all missing and it's not entirely inconceivable he could've found a way to regain Ranger powers. This new Ranger seemed to have a pirate motif about his suit.
"Are you OK?" The Red Ranger asked.
"We're fine, but we won't be if we don't stop, that… robot monster." Gia explained. The red ranger nodded at her. He then ran at a nearby short wall and launched himself off it. As he flew, he swung his saber, knocking out several X-Borgs in the process. Then he pulled out his blaster and fired on several of the robots attacking him. He put the blaster away, pulling back out his saber. He looked at it, and then flung it blade first right towards Argus. Before he could move, the Blade hit Argus right in the chest. The robot moaned in Agony. The Red Ranger pulled his blaster back out and charged towards his opponent, firing at him repeatedly. He reached in and pulled the sword out of the robot' chests, and sliced at him again.
"Power levels critically low." Argus said. "Must return to the ship for repairs and recharging." He motioned his arms, spun his body, and vanished, along with the remaining X-Borgs.
"They retreated." Emma said. "We won.
"No. He won." Noah corrected.
"That was awesome man!" Jake said rushing in. "We were so worried about you. Where'd you get the new suit, and that awesome ship. I'm digging the pirate look." He began admiring the red rangers suit.
"I'm sorry, but I think you're mistaken." The Red Ranger said. "We've never met before."
"You're not Troy?" Jake asked.
"Who's Troy?"
TO BE CONTINUED
End of Episode 1
Hope you guys enjoyed the first part of my PRSM re-imaging. As always please read and review. Episode 2 should be out shortly, though I make no promises on when.
