Author's Note: Well, this story idea actually came to me while watching a trailer for Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 and it got me thinking. Wouldn't it be cool if the Guardians were like that, but then of course I lost any hope of coming up with a plot. That is until I remembered Power Rangers Operation Overdrive. I then scrapped the Bubblegum Crisis idea and the story developed into what it is now. A blend of Guardians and Rangers, and not one, not two, but three evils to match it.
And please I insist that you tell me what you think by reviewing.
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New Guardians; Ranger Style
Chapter One: Fairy Tale Reality Part 1: The Return of the Guardians
One hundred years, that was the minimum of the age of the book that rested under her pillow. She enjoyed reading when not beating people at the local virtual reality arcade, but one book was her favorite: The one that was under her blue pillow.
Why was this particular book her favorite? Well, that is a simple question, but it involves a long answer. The book in its original brown case was given to her by her father when she was five. On its simple brown cover where five orbs; a blue one in the upper right hand corner, a white one to the blue one's left, a green one bellow the white one, a red one under the blue one, and a large pink one in the middle.
She enjoyed when her father read her the tales from the book. They were the tales of five girls named Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, and Hay Lin. They were the tales of the Guardians. They were the tales of her heroes.
She remembered asking her dad if she was named after the Water Guardian from the stories. He grinned and told her that it was a great coincidence of the name of the Water Guardian. She quizzically asked why, and was told that her father's side of the family tree could be traced back to a girl named Irma Lair, the exact name of the Water Guardian from the book.
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"Hey, sis," she was aroused from her reminiscing dreams by the sounds of her big brother's voice and a gentle hand shaking her shoulder.
"Not now Derrick," the girl whined flipping in her bed, "I'm trying to get my rest."
"For the virtual grand prix tournament," the sixteen year old boy asked his sister. He stood tall at around six foot and had the same sapphire eyes that lie closed inside his sister, but he had their mother's long black hair. He had taken over for their father after he had died in the line of duty.
"Yes," she snarled pulling her blue covers over her half naked body. She was very much a tomboy and would sleep in just a light blue bra and panties. It made her feel a little more comfortable.
"Well," Derrick says walking back toward her bedroom door, "I'm just here to tell you that you have about thirty minutes to get dressed and get to the arcade before the tourney starts." He then ducks out of the room quickly as his sister springs to life; her long brown hair flying in front of her face as she does.
After random sounds of things falling, and a couple of well placed expletives the brown haired girl runs down the stairs and heads for the door. She's wearing a pink sleeveless tee, and a pair of denim cargo pants. Around her neck is a pair of goggles that she takes everywhere and to the right of one of the lenses is a small insignia of a pink marble wrapped in silver.
"Irma Lancaster," her mother says angrily right before she's able to turn the doorknob, "you are not going anywhere until you have a decent breakfast."
"But mom," she says looking into the kitchen, "first I go by Mizu now, and second Ondo will hold it over my head if I'm late."
"Then you should have gone to bed earlier instead of reading that fairy tale of yours." Her mother says as Mizu walks into the kitchen and sits at the table. Ms. Lancaster looked fairly like her daughter, except for her black hair and brown eyes. She places a plate of food in front of Mizu who immediately begins to eat it as quickly as possible.
"Are you even tasting it, sis?" Derrick asks with a chuckle.
"Yes," Mizu mumbles while slurping the last egg into her mouth. She then wipes her mouth with her napkin and again bolts for the door.
"Brush your teeth," her mom says and after a growl Mizu stomps to the bathroom and cleans up. She then, after finally being relieved from having to do anything, runs out the door while waving to her mother and brother.
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The Earth Colony of New Heatherfield was situated near the older city by that name, and is one of the thousands of the colonies used in the re-colonization of the planet Earth once the planet's resources and atmosphere returned to normal stability. Mizu enjoyed the name as it was the name of the city from her favorite book, and much to her mother's anguish she would travel into the older city to explore, though never very far because of the now dangerous animals that lived outside the colony walls.
"Where in the name of Zordon is that girl," Ray Anne Summers says. She stood at five and a half feet and had short red hair, most likely died, and beautiful emerald eyes. She wore a pair of baggy tan pants and a loose light blue shirt with the words Power Ranger written on the front in black marker. On the right arm she wore a black armband with the same emblem that adorned Mizu's goggles.
"How should I know sis," another girl yawned. She had shoulder length brown hair that had a bright neon pink streak down the left side. She wore a gray shirt with a pink leather vest over it. On the back of the vest is the emblem of a round gem wrapped in a silver casing. She had on a pair of black shorts that stopped at her knees, and she wore colored contacts that made her normally grey eyes red with three comma shaped dots surrounding each pupil.
"I'm just saying it is very unprofessional, Eva," Ray Anne says placing her hands on her hips. The brown haired girl chuckled at her sister's antics.
"Eva, Ray Anne," Mizu says running up to the two girls. "I'm not too late am I?"
"No," Eva says with a smirk, "Ondo got here first and registered everyone."
"So, where is Ondo then," Mizu asks after catching her breath.
"Inside with Amethyst," Ray Anne says with a grin.
"Good," Mizu says stretching, "then the gang is all here." The three girls then enter the large arcade.
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"Well it's about time," an Asian girl with long black hair says as the three enter the room. She wore a light green shirt with a picture of the moon on the back. Her eyes were a deep blue as she stared at Mizu and the others. She wore basic pants and shoes.
"Sorry we all don't get up three hours before dawn to practice martial arts, Ondo." Mizu speaks placing a friendly hand on the Asian's shoulder. Ondo was the humble type. She had one the World Martial Arts Tournament last year, but she never was much for fancy titles.
"We were about to switch your name for Ondo's in the Mecha Melee portion." A confident voice says from behind the group. It belonged to a tan girl with sun lightened brown hair. She wore a red spaghetti strap shirt and a pair of denim bell bottoms. Strapped across her back was an elaborate purple hover board that had the gem wrapped in silver as its deck.
"Amethyst," Mizu says turning to see her friend, "didn't you have a skating thing to do?"
"Ya," the tan girl responds, "I was just getting ready to leave, but I needed to ask you something first."
"What's that," Mizu asks waiting for a response.
"Are we still going to explore the old city after the competitions?" Amethyst asks with a playful smile.
"Of course," Mizu says happily.
"Right then, see you four at the gate." Amethyst says removing her board from her back and then after jumping on it she flies through the open door and down the street.
"You do know our parents will kill us if they find out we are exploring those ruins, right." Ray Anne calmly asks.
"Of course, but it won't be that bad," Mizu says bringing Ondo close, "I actually feel sorry for anything that tries to take both me and Ondo on at the same time."
"Will the participants of the Speed Cycling portion of the tournament please report to the virtual reality chambers?" An announcement blares over the loud speaker of the arcade.
"Guess that's my queue." Eva sighs with a grin. She then walks off toward where the nearest Virtual Reality chamber is.
"Ya, show them who the fastest thing since Sonic is." Ray Anne yells to her friend as the three of them chuckle loudly.
"Come on retro girl." Mizu says placing an arm around Ray Anne's shoulders. "Let's find a screen so that we can watch the fastest thing since Sonic."
"I sometimes don't know how to take comments like that." Ray Anne says as the three walk into the crowd of other contestants.
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Eva climbed onto the seat of the virtual reality simulator and quickly pulled out a pink card, similar in design to a playstation two memory card, and placed it into the consol in front of her. A monitor showing her name and a pink motorcycle that she customized through her multiple trips to the arcade shows in front of her. She closes the screen as the pink bike forms around her so she is sitting on it.
She looks outward as her environment is created to see a ruined city scape. A red light flashes in the air. Then a yellow light as she starts to rev the bike's engine. A blue bike piloted by a boy with short black hair approaches by her side.
"You do know that your little pink girly bike is going to be all covered in dust right," the boy says in a mocking tone.
"You should pay more attention to the signals." Eva says as a flash of green appears in the air and she as well as the other racers fly off the starting line.
Eva soon becomes content as she quickly separates from the rest of the pack. She yawn's a bit in boredom, and turns to look at the scenery. Then she sees her. She watched as a girl with wings played in a ferocious lightning storm. Eva closes her eyes and shakes her head and now the girl was closer and flying alongside the bike. Electrical current seemed to permeate from her body as she stared at Eva with gentle grey eyes. The girl then points forward before disappearing in a flash of light.
Eva corners quickly and narrowly avoids a face plant into a solid rock wall, well as solid as it can get in virtual reality. She quickly continues on with the race and takes first place to score her and her friends nine points in the tournament.
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"You okay," Ondo asks as Eva gets out of the V.R chamber.
"Ya, I just saw something weird in there," Eva says sitting down and breathing heavily.
"Weird how?" Ondo asks in a concerned voice as the announcement for the next stage of the tournament was to begin.
"I saw a girl playing in the lightning storms of the terrain." Eva explains while high fiving Ray Anne as she enters the chamber.
"Maybe it was added for the race," Mizu says having overheard Eva.
"That's what I thought, but then the girl got close to me and warned me that I was about to crash." Eva says finally standing. "And that's the part that worries me."
Mizu placed her hand on her friend's shoulder, "Don't worry about it." Eva couldn't help but grinning at her friends childish smile.
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Ray Anne got her things ready and after placing a sky blue memory card into the consol, she was sitting in the pilot's seat of a bright blue jet plane. On its wing was the pink jewel wrapped in silver. She then waited for the signal to take off and start blowing her competition out of the sky.
Then the signal was shown and a variety of jet planes take to the skies. One is quickly shot down after takeoff and then another to Ray Anne's right. She was a little disappointed that everyone else was getting kills but her, but then she caught movement in the clouds below her.
Ray Anne spins her plane around and hovers there waiting for a clear shot but no enemy plane came out of the cloud cover. Instead a girl flies through the clouds like a dolphin swims through the water. She quickly rubs her eyes and then sees the girl resting peacefully on the nose of her jet. She waves to Ray Anne with a friendly grin on her face. Ray Anne waves back as the girl slowly vanishes. Then her alarm goes off and her jet is shot out of the sky.
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Ray Anne stumbles out of the chamber to be caught by Mizu and Ondo.
"You okay," Eva asks placing a hand on Ray Anne's shoulder.
"Yes, but…" Ray Anne starts to explain.
"Let me guess," Ondo interrupts, "a girl with wings." Ray Anne nods at this statement. The group sighs as the final parts of the second event finish.
"Girls with wings," Mizu says to herself, "and on two different environments. One in the clouds and one in light… What if?"
"If you are about to say, what if the tales of the guardians are real and that we are the next generation, then you better banish that thought right now." Ondo scolds noticing Mizu's unbridled excitement.
"But this is exactly how the girls in the story…" Mizu tries to explain.
"Nope," Ondo says pressing one of her fingers to Mizu's lips, "banish the thought." Mizu tries to complain but then after the announcement for the final event concludes she mumbles "okay" from behind the finger and walks into the chamber.
"So what do you think those girls are then?" Ray Anne questions while curling her legs up to her chest.
"Just traps they put into the system," Ondo says as the next event is about to begin.
"But that doesn't explain the reason we weren't able to see the girl Ray Anne saw on the view screen." Eva complains.
"There is a logical explanation for everything." Ondo growls while getting ready to watch the game.
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"Ocean Frontier, huh," Mizu says while placing her blue memory card into the machine. Then sapphire plate armor formed around her body that moved and sounded almost machine like. Then Mizu moves the goggles from around her neck to cover her eyes. "Hard for enemies to hide here."
She smiles as enemies form around her, and then a massive expanse of beach forms. The tide was in and the combatants had to fight with water under their feet, but that didn't bother Mizu. This was her favorite environment.
Then with the signal she dashed forward, catching two black armored combatants off guard, and slices through them with her sword. As their silhouettes faded she turned her attention to a red armored combatant. Whoever it was he was crushing the opposition with just his bare hands.
His back turned to her. Excellent, she thought running at her final opponent, but as she is about to swing an uppercut into his back. She stops. A girl with wings rises out of the water and shakes herself off. She looks up at the blue mech and smiles before sinking back into the water.
"Wait," Mizu says softly as she vanishes, and doesn't see the blow coming for her mech's gut. She is launched backwards and slides to a stop.
"Maybe you should focus on your enemy," the boy in the red mech says.
"I was distracted," Mizu says raising her sword. The blue jewel imbedded in its tip glows violently. "But that doesn't mean I'm a push over. Guardian Strike Sword full power."
The gem on the tip glows even brighter as she charges at her enemy. He throws a punch that launches the entire fist, but Mizu jumps to the side and with a powerful slash cuts the enemy in two.
"Piece of cake." Mizu says sheathing the weapon as her red armored opponent splits in half and then explodes.
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"Well we should be getting first," Mizu says walking out of the chamber. Ondo was staring at her coldly as the other two were cheering that they got first. "I did win didn't I?"
"Yes," Ondo says in a sage like tone, "but you shouldn't have gotten hit back there."
"I was distracted for a second by…" Mizu says calmly.
"You say girl with wings then I'll smack you out of fairy tale land." Ondo says waving her finger in the air.
"Fine, I won't say it then." Mizu says sticking out her tongue at Ondo.
After a heartfelt congratulations from the person holding the tournament, and after the three got their prize money. The four girls leave the arcade and head over to a place near an opening in the colony wall.
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"So how'd you do," Amethyst screams and waves at the four.
"We got first," Mizu says calmly, "despite some weird occurrences."
"If you mean weird as in, a girl with wings flying behind you to put her hands close to the thrusters of a hover board, then I understand what you mean." Amethyst sighs rubbing a large bruise on her arm.
"Traps in the game, huh," Eva says to Ondo. The Asian girl quickly covered her look of confusion and returned to her collected appearance.
"That isn't exactly what happened to us," Ray Anne says placing a hand on her chin, "but we encountered girls with wings too."
"I'm going to reopen my, we're the next Guardians of the Infinite Dimensions theory." Mizu says with a big grin.
"I thought I told you to banish that thought." Ondo says crossing her arms angrily.
"I did," Mizu says staring at her Asian friend, "but now I'm unbanishing it in light of the fact that you are the only one who hasn't seen any of these mystery girls."
"So," Amethyst interrupts to try to avoid a fight between the two, "are we going or not?"
"We're going," the two would be combatants say walking towards an average sized hole in the wall. They had used this point to enter and exit the colony many times when they went out exploring the old city. Mizu would go first followed by Ray Anne, and then Amethyst, then Ondo would come next, and lastly, Eva would move through the hole.
Once the group was outside the wall they slowly walked toward the old city.
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"So, what exactly are we looking for," Ray Anne asks calmly.
"You know anything that just jumps out at you." Mizu says looking trough a dust covered window.
"Most people usually don't want things jumping out at them." Eva says unconsciously turning down a street. She is soon followed by the rest as they follow their friend as if she knew exactly where she was going. Eva then stops abruptly at the remains of a Chinese restaurant in the city called the Silver Dragon.
"Why'd you lead us here?" Amethyst asks.
"Don't know," Eva responds. "I just felt drawn here."
"You know what this means," Mizu says with joy.
"No, but I'm guessing it supports your fairy tale theory." Ondo says placing a hand up to her forehead.
Mizu glares at her friend before continuing, "Well this restaurant is named the Silver Dragon, correct."
"Yes," Ray Anne says looking through the window to see most of the interior is still intact.
"And this city's original name was Heatherfield, correct." Mizu continues.
"Yes," Eva and Amethyst say in unison.
"Oh god here it comes." Ondo says but is unnoticed.
"Well, do you really think it's a coincidence that both this restaurant and this town are written in my book on the adventures of the guardians. And is it a coincidence that at least four of us saw winged girls while we were doing things today, or the fact that we were somehow mysteriously led to this exact restaurant." Mizu states walking up and carefully opening the door to the restaurant.
"You're going where with this?" Eva asks while giving her friend a weird look.
"I'm saying that if we want to find an explanation for these things," Mizu says in a leadership quality tone, "that we might as well start here." The four other girls nod and follow Mizu into the building.
"Crush female now." A brute about the height of six seven asks while placing a large club on his shoulder. He wore a basic medieval tunic and boots.
"No you oaf," a girl about the other girls age says to the behemoth. She wore a black and purple dress and a golden circlet covered her head. Her long blonde hair was tied in a pair of braids that rested on her breasts. She stared at the restaurant through dark grey eyes, and wore makeup that made her appear to be a Goth.
She smiled evilly, "We must be patient and let them find it for us." A small broken piece of a sphere that she wore around her neck shimmered in a bright green color.
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"Again, what are we looking for," Amethyst asks blowing some dust off of one of the tables.
"This building is kind of drab." Ray Anne says looking through cupboards.
"I think I found something," Eva says as she tries to reach something under an old armoire.
"What," Mizu asks as the others approach to see if they can help.
"I don't know," Eva says as her hand grabs something small and smooth, "all I saw was a flash of pink light." She pulls her hand out and opens up the palm. Inside is what appears to be a large broken piece of a pink gemstone. It shimmers brightly and almost playfully as the five girls stare at it.
"What is it?" Ondo asks as they hear someone, or something, enter the building.
"It is one of the Five Pieces of the Heart of Candracar." A girl wearing a black robe like dress says walking up behind them. "Give it to me and I'll spare your pathetic lives."
"There's no way in hell you're getting it if it's the Heart of Candracar." Mizu screams picking up a broken plank of wood and holding it like a sword.
"Mizu this is not the time to play fairy tale," Ondo says walking in front of her friend, "why would you want it. Does it belong to you?"
"If I said yes would you give it to me?" The girl asks maniacally.
"Not after a question like that." Ondo responds entering a fighter's stance of her own. She hears a whispered "thank you" from Mizu as the group readies for the encounter.
"I was hoping you would put up a fight." The girl says with an evil grin. She then snaps her fingers and the brute she was with comes barreling through the wall behind the girls brandishing a massive club.
"Run." Mizu screams throwing her plank trough a window. The four quickly jump through as the brute swings and misses.
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The five girls make a run for the wall and after looking back notice that they aren't being followed. They then stop just outside of where they left the colony and catch their breath before returning to inside the colony.
"What now?" Eva asks holding the pink shard.
"We should go home and get some sleep," Ondo says noticing the sun starting to set.
"Then tomorrow we'll all meet at my house," Mizu says walking up and gazing at the gem. "From there we'll take the thing to a friend of mine. I've brought him a lot of artifacts, and he'll definitely enjoy this."
"You should hold onto it Mizu," Eva says placing the gem in the brown haired girls hand. "That way we know it'll be safe until tomorrow."
"Okay," Mizu says as the five begin to go their separate ways, "see you guys tomorrow then." Her friends wave to her as she begins to head home.
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The next morning, Mizu gets up early and while waiting for her friends to show up she reads the ending chapters of her book to see if they explained anything. She sighed in anguish noticing for the first time that three chapters appeared to have been ripped out of her most precious book.
"Great," Mizu sighs as she puts the book in her backpack. She then hears the doorbell ring and grabs the shimmering pink shard. She pockets it before running down to great her friends at the door. She then waves goodbye to her mom and brother and leaves with her friends.
"So, who is this friend of yours," Eva asks as Mizu throws her back the gem shard.
"He's a scientist named Dr. Naginata." Mizu says. "He's got a massive research facility though I've only seen part of it."
"And you trust this guy." Ondo asks walking farther away from the group.
"Of course," Mizu says as they turn to corner and approach a massive building. They enter it to see a pretty average looking mech parts shop, but the rest of the building seemed to be cut off from the front. "Hello, Dr. Naginata."
"Yes," a man with wild black hair says walking out from behind a pile of parts. He wore a black shirt with and denim blue jeans with a white lab coat over them. He wore a pair of glasses. "Ah, Mizu, what have you brought for me today."
"We brought you a stone that has some strange properties," Eva says holding out the glowing pink shard. "We were hoping to find out some things about it."
"Not to mention we were attacked for it," Amethyst continues.
"And I have reason to believe that it may be a piece of the Heart of Candracar." Mizu says rubbing the back of her head. Dr. Naginata's eyes widen at this statement. He then reaches and picks up the shard. It hisses and brightly shines until he returns it to Eva's hand. Come to think of it, the whole night Mizu had it, it did the same thing.
"Tell me," Dr. Naginata motions for the girls to follow him as he approaches a bookshelf next to a door marked do not enter, "have you girls been experiencing anything strange lately?"
"Like," all five girls ask.
"Like girls with wings entering your sight but then mysteriously vanishing." Dr. Naginata says. The girls pause for a second before responding.
"Playing in a Lightning storm while I rode on my virtual bike," Eva says first.
"Swimming through the clouds while I was flying my virtual jet," Ray Anne says next.
"Diluting in water while I was mech fighting." Mizu says calmly.
"Trying to pet the exhaust from my hover board," Amethyst says looking at the ground.
"Walking through a brick wall on my way home," Ondo says shyly as if trying to make herself believe it.
"Then it is indeed the Heart of Candracar," Dr. Naginata says removing a book that looks exactly like Mizu's.
"My book," Mizu says, "but I already looked through it."
"Let me guess," Dr. Naginata says, "the last three chapters are missing."
"Yes," Mizu says in a sad tone.
"Same with this copy," Dr. Naginata says, "except mine still has its last page, but all that tells is that the heart in its divided state cannot transform a set of guardians. It doesn't even say how the heart was divided"
"How many copies are there," Ondo asks.
"Six," Dr. Naginata says pushing his glasses up his nose, "one for each of the guardian's families and one for the royal library of Meridian."
"How do you know all this," Eva asks looking at him.
"I actually have something to show you girls." He rises from his chair and walks to the door marked do not enter. He opens it and motions for the girls to follow, and follow they do. They want to learn more about what is going on.
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"Wow," Ray Anne says with excitement as she walks around the room. There are a variety of terminals and monitors to view. "It looks just like a Power Ranger's command center."
"It basically is," Dr. Naginata says with a chuckle as the girl runs everywhere to investigate her surroundings, "but I am surprised that none of you are fazed by any of this."
"Trust me," Ondo says, "after being around Mizu and Ms. Retro. You get used to it."
"I see well I guess I should begin explaining then," the girls nod at Dr. N's statement. He sighs thinking about where to begin. "About a year ago, I was exploring an ancient ruin in the mountains near old Heatherfield. There I encountered a monster that I dubbed as a Shadow Beast. I was barely able to escape. The creature was powerful and put off a strange form of energy. One month later, I found a copy of Mizu's book and read it. That's when I realized that if someone were to be able to control the Shadow Beasts, what would stop them from attacking the re-colonization process and taking the planet for themselves. So, using the book as a guide I began to make equipment to help me find the pieces of the Heart of Candracar. I even made a way to create my own guardians."
Dr. N presses a button on the consol closest to him and the floor in the room opens. Out pops a table that has five elaborate wrist bands on top. In the middle of each band is a black orb.
"Wow, they look like ranger morphers." Ray Anne says in excitement and begins to float off of the ground.
"Yes, that was their intention," Dr. N continues as her and the other girls approach the table. Eva and Mizu then quickly help the overly happy Ray Anne back to the ground. "But I could never find a power source to effectively utilize them, but if what is said about the heart is true." He presses a button on the table and out rises a stand for a round jewel.
"Then just a small fraction of it could be all the power you need," Amethyst speaks up finally. She had heard Mizu talk so much about the stories of the guardians, which she knew exactly what the heart could do.
"Yes," Dr. N says, "but the only way to find out is to actually try." Eva gulps at the statement, but then quickly places the large shard onto the stand. Dr. N presses a multitude of buttons before returning to Alex. "Now the key words."
"What?" Eva questions.
"Say 'Guardian's Unite'," Mizu assures Eva.
"Guardians Unite," Eva says. The gem reacts quickly emitting a bright flash of pink light. The orbs on the wrist bands light up quickly each in a different color. The colors of the orbs match the colors of the orbs on the cover of the book. The pink light then fades and the shard rests, but the orbs remain brightly lit.
"It worked," Dr. N says with joy, "they haven't stopped glowing. Usually, the orbs stopped glowing when I used any other kind of power source. This is amazing." His joy is cut short as the sounds of alarms fill the room.
"What's going on?" Ondo asks as the doctor runs to a large consol with a monitor.
"What I feared," Dr. N says, "a small group of Shadow Beasts are attacking the colony."
"Sounds like we need the guardians," Mizu says instinctively grabbing the wrist guard with the blue orb and quickly putting it on.
"As in time to give these things a field test," Amethyst says grabbing the wrist guard with the red orb and putting it on.
"I'm so in," Ray Anne says grabbing the one with the white orb.
"Might as well," Eva grabs the one with the pink orb, "after all can't let you guys have all the fun."
"Oh, what the hell," Ondo says grabbing the one with the green orb. "You four need someone to look out for you."
"To use the morphers just run your hand over the orb after saying 'Guardians Unite'," Dr. N says while watching as a group of colony patrol cars stop near the group of Shadow Beasts. "You'll need to hurry though."
"After you leader," Amethyst says to Mizu as her orb appears to have a small flame inside.
"But the Keeper of the Heart is supposed to be leader, not the Water Guardian?" Mizu says in compliant.
"But you know more about what each of us can do than any of us." Ondo says placing a comforting hand on Mizu's shoulder. "And that makes you more than qualified." The other four nod at this comment.
"Alright then," Mizu says with a huge smile, "Guardians ready?" She turns and places the arm with the wrist band attached close to her right shoulder so that it crosses her chest diagonally.
"Ready," the other four girls say mimicking their leader's positioning.
"Guardians Unite," four of them say in unison as Ray Anne says "Magical Source; Mystic Force" while rolling their hands across their respective gems.
In a flash of multi-colored light the five girls were instantly transformed into armored fairies. The girls looked themselves over. They had grown in more ways than one and the armor was quiet form fitting. Each one of them had a sleeveless armored tank top that left room for two light green and turquoise wings to sprout from their backs, and each of them had a visor that covered their eyes. They wore normal miniskirts on their lower bodies and a pair of metal boots started at the knee and covered their lower leg. Their forearms were the only part of the arm that was covered and they were covered in form fitting gauntlets.
"A girl could get used to this," Amethyst says as the five look over their new more womanly physique. Amethyst's armor was different than the others in that the trim that lined the actual armor parts was a red color. A small orange triangle was placed on the left shoulder part of her vest just below the collarbone.
"Wow, I'm actually like a Power Ranger," Ray Anne says quickly taking to her wings. The trim of her armor was white and a white C shaped icon was emblazed below her left collarbone.
"Well," Ondo says, "not very modest is it." Her armor had green trim and a green circle with a dot in the middle below her left collarbone.
"I like it," Eva says. She has also taken flight and was enjoying herself. Her armor had pink trim and there are two pink lines, one above the other, under her left collarbone.
"Guardians focus," Mizu commands floating in the air. Her armor had a blue trim and a C with an elongated bottom was below her collarbone. That was when she noticed the design on the backs of the vests was that of a pink orb wrapped in a silver casing. The emblem on their backs was the picture of a whole Heart of Candracar. Though in each of the back emblems was the shape that was below their left collarbone.
The guardians turned their attention to their appointed leader.
"We've got work to do team," Mizu says in an authoritative tone, "so let's get to it."
"Wait," Ray Anne says, "we can't go out their using our real names. We have secret identities now."
"How about this," Ondo says, "We'll call ourselves by our elemental styles." Everyone looks at Ondo funny. She sighs, "We'll call us by our elements basically. Katon for fire, Suiton for water, Fuuton for air, Raiton for thunder, and Doton for earth."
"That works," Mizu says calmly. "Now can we get going?" The four girls nod to their leader as the roof opens up for them.
"I'm transferring the location of the Shadow Beasts to you," Dr. N says, "I'll also be able to communicate with you through your visors. Good luck guardians."
"Thanks Dr. N," Mizu says as the five fly through the hole in the roof and head to their intended destination.
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"This is too easy," the girl in the black cloak says as a group of ten mantis shaped shadows slice through the police cars as the officers desperately try to force the monsters back.
"Not so fast evil doer." A voice shoots out over the area. The five guardians then land in-between the mantises and the officers.
"Impossible," the girl screams, "you should not be able to transform."
"Who are they?" One of the officers whispers.
"As swift and gentle as the wind," Ray Anne says first striking a pose, "Guardian of Air."
"As strong as stone," Ondo says reluctantly taking a pose of her own, "Guardian of Earth."
"As fierce as the wildest flames," Amethyst is next to pose, "Guardian of Fire."
"As fast as lightning," Eva says taking her pose, "Quintessence Guardian."
"As powerful as the ocean," Mizu says finishing the group's pose, "Guardian of Water."
"We are the Guardians of the Infinite Dimensions," the group says in unison while leaving their individual poses, "Defenders of Light." The group raises their wrist guards up as they flash brilliantly.
"Destroy them," the woman growls as she disappears inside a blue tear in space. The mantises then surround the guardians and attack.
"Each one of us gets two," Amethyst says as the five of them enter a defensive stance.
"It almost seems unfair," Ondo mentions running at one and side kicking its head. The beast then disperses as she flies into the air to avoid one trying to cleave her in two. Ondo then claps her hands together and two pieces of road lift up, and smash the bug between the two pieces.
Ray Anne delicately and somewhat effortlessly avoids the assaults from the two that try to cut her to ribbons. She then does a back flip and while doing a handstand spins. The mantises are hit by the powerful wind like and vaporize instantly.
Amethyst on the other hand is barely avoiding her opponent's attacks. She is then sent to the ground by a back hand, and soon the panic stricken girl throws up her hand to try to catch the next attack, but instead a small fireball fires from her hand and crashes through the mantises causing them to vaporize.
"I restate my previous enthusiasm," she says standing, "a girl could get used to this."
Eva was quickly overwhelmed. She was a racer not a fighter. So how was she expected to take on two of these Shadow Mantises? Thankfully she had somewhat good reflexes from getting in the crossfire's of many Mizu vs. Ondo fights. She bent backwards under one of the lethal scythes, and stopped abruptly as another attempted to hit her while coming down. She growls at her situation as electricity wraps her hand. She stands strait up and slams one of the electric fists into the mantis on her right. It vaporizes as the second mantis charges her from behind. She spins on one foot while opening her palm to reveal an orb of lightning. Then, using her rotation speed, she throws the ball at her opponent instantly decimating it.
Mizu was quick to dispatch the first one that came charging at her by slamming a foot in its way. The second though was proving to be a problem, but she was quickly adapting to the creature that would attack, miss, and then hop away before retaliation could occur, but it soon made a mistake. The mantis took to the air as it attempted to slice at Mizu from above, but Mizu too took to the air and met it with a powerful blow to the gut. Then a powerful stream of water pierced its chest.
"Meridian's Dark Queen will have this world." It hisses quickly before vaporizing. She floated there confused at the statement as the other four guardians joined her in the air.
"You okay," Ondo asks placing a hand on Mizu's shoulder.
"Yes," Mizu responds, "how about you guys?"
"We're fine." Eva responds with a grin.
"Okay," Mizu says as the officers look up at them from below, "let's get back to base then." The five then fly off back toward Dr. N's Lab.
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"Dark Queen of Meridian," Dr. N says after Mizu and the others returned and told them about their first successful battle. The girls had returned to normal once they landed inside the lab.
"That is what the monster said." Mizu sighs. She knew the story well enough to know that the words just didn't seem like they could be real.
"That's impossible." Dr. N says in disbelief.
"So is sprouting wings and flying," Ondo says crossing her arms impatiently.
"Good point." Dr. N chuckles, "though the armor was designed to not support the addition of wings, and instead use jet packs to provide flight."
"Could whatever caused the heart to divide effect this Meridian place, too?" Eva asks staring at the pink shard as it rest in its stand.
"It is a possibility." Dr. N says calmly. "But it will have to wait for another time. You girls should head home, and take your morphers with you. You never know when a Shadow Beast attack might occur, and be careful with your morphers. Now that they are active, anyone can use them."
"Kay." The four girls say walking out of the command center, and once they were outside they separated and went to their homes.
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Meanwhile in another dimension, a teenage boy with short messy blonde hair is running. He wore a white shirt, and light brown pants that were covered in mud. Over this attire he wore a brown jacket with tan trim. Behind him is an army of at least one hundred Shadow Mantises and behind them was his sister's dark palace. He quickly pulled out a gold diamond shaped talisman and slashed it across the air. A blue tear opened and he jumped through just before any of the shadowy insects could get him.
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Author's Note: Well, that was Chapter One. The girls are guardians/rangers, and I like how the fusion of the two worked out. I just kind of regret I wasn't able to add some other ranger elements to the chapter, but hey you win some you lose some. Now, I know some of you are probably wondering what their anagram is. Well, I'll give you a hint. Put their names in this order: Fire, Water, Earth, Air, and Quintessence.
Technology Notes: Guardian Morpher.
This wrist mounted device allows the new guardians to use the power of just the Quintessence Shard of the Heart of Candracar to become Guardians, since the Heart's separated state would probably result in a flawed transformation that could possibly kill the guardians if they tried a normal transformation. They morph by saying Guardian's Unite and rolling their hand over the jewel that represents their individual Auramere, with the exception of Ray Anne who uses the phrase "Magical Source; Mystic Force" to transform, as this is her favorite season of Power Rangers and the one most closely related to W.I.T.C.H.
The morpher gives the Guardians an armored ranger-like form complimentarily built around the Guardian's wings, though the armor was designed to utilize a jet pack in place of them, and their more adult physique. Since the morphers only use one fifth of the Heart's power the Guardian's transformations are incomplete forms of their true guardian powers and lack the Guardian heightened strength and stamina, hence the reason to include armor for the chest and body to supplement this loss. Lastly, the morphers allow each Guardian to transform individually, without any input from the Keeper of the Heart; this is also a flaw in the design in which if the morpher was stolen the thief would have full access to that Guardian's power.
So, this is the end of the first Chapter and notes. So don't be shy and get to reviewing, tell me what you liked and what you hated as it helps improve the story, and I hope that you look forward to chapter two.