Power Rangers: Origins
Chapter 1: The Forgotten Dumpster
Across the vastness of space it drifted, weaving between asteroids and planets; its destination unknown. Bing! A light on the lid of the dumpster flashed out of existence. Bing! A day later two more faded into nothingness as well. Years and years passed, time having no effect on the condition or time frame of the canister. Without a sound it swiveled by some space debris left by a war. How long ago had it been? A year ago? Two years ago? A century? A millenia? It did not matter, nothing seemed to in that section of the universe, not now, not ever it seemed. Bing! Finally the last light flickered out and the canister began to shake violently. BLAM!!! The top burst off sending chunks of the lid flying in all directions, no gravity around to stop it, never to be joined again.
There on top of the canister now, stood a rather slender humanoid with a dragon-like snout. It's body seemed to be made up of a light exoskeleton for skin with no visible eyes across its visor. Testing its reflexes the creature began to clench its three fingered claws, the cold vacuum seeming to take no effect on it. Dangling from the creature's back seemed to be a tail of sorts that slithered about as the it inspected its three toed claws for feet and sniffed the vacuum. "...Scanning for targets...Rita-terminated, Zedd-terminated, Dark Spectre-terminated, Thrax-terminated...Zordon...terminated." it said in a snake-like voice and looked around some more scanning the depths of space with its visor, "Target found." With that a set of enormous bat wings unfolded from the creature's back and it took flight, kicking off from its previous container at an astounding speed.
Walking along some forest on the outskirts of San Angeles, Veronica began to hum to herself to pass some time. Ever since the joining of previous Rangers to replace them when Thrax had attacked she had begun to think about just what all really was out there, just what her and her teamates could really be in for. Thrax had singlehandedly managed to disconnect them from the Universal Power Grid, join together all the known forces of evil (to them), and nearly accomplished his goal! If it had not been for the other Rangers being called upon by the Sentinel Knight the world would probably have been doomed.
"Alright, that settles it," she said to herself smiling, "we need to get better, compared to guys like Adam and all them our fighting seemed to suck! What made those old rangers so great though?...hm..." Just then something slammed down in front of her creating a crater and knocking her, wildlife, and plants everywhere. Hacking the girl got back to her feet and looked around through the smoke that had been created from the impact area. Suddenly she saw a red glow illuminate through the cloud and prepared her Overdrive Tracker.
About a minute passed and the smoke began to clear more with no words being said or movements being made by either humanoid there. "Hello?" Veronica called cautiously to the creature that she could now see was obviously not an earthling, "Who...er, what are you?" "Is this earth?" it replied robotically. "Yes." "Where are the Power Rangers?" it asked, with apparently no mouth, taking a step forward, its clawed feet making imprints in the dirt. "Why?" she asked squinting her eyes as it approached. "They have something that I wish to have," it replied and stopped about a foot in front of her.
"Well, I guess you got your wish of meeting one! Overdrive Accelerate!" she cried out spinning the device and activating her morphing sequence. One instant later she landed in front of the monster and slammed her Drive Claws into its shelled skin. WHAM!!! The yellow ranger was sent hurtling through the air and bursting through trees from a kick from the creature before it launched itself after her, hovering quickly with its wings. Almost delicately it grabbed her around the waist before she gravity could finish its effects on her and threw her through the side of a building which it jumped down into from above after throwing her. "Is this all one ranger can do?" it hissed landing on her chest and kneeling down, its snout nearly touching her eyepiece, "You don't deserve the power you are put in possession of."
"Hiyah!" she cried rolling over and kicking the beast into a few boxes, "take this!" Instantly Veronica began running with her enhanced speed and plowed straight into the creature knocking it through various boxes and machinery in the warehouse. WHAM! The monster was then thrown back from where it was attacked by her enormous dual hand weapons. "What the..." she mumbled noticing something caught around her and was dragged along with the creature by its tail. "Really," it hissed and tossed her into a wall after screeching to a stop, "is this the best you can actually do with all that power you have?"
"Ugh!" she moaned clutching her side as she got up only to be kicked into another wall and grabbed around the neck by her opponent. "I am disappointed..." it hissed with a metal tentacle coming out of its wrist, "you really should be ashamed girl, but then again, you were never meant to possess or even know about such abilities. No worries, you won't have to bare this burden much longer..." Struggling in vain the yellow ranger could only kick and toss her arms about as the tentacle seemed to fuse into her suit. The ranger suit seemed to be loosing energy, her movements getting slower and lazier by the second. Finally the tentacle retracted back into the wrist of the creature as it tossed her to the ground and began to flash yellow.
Suddenly Veronica's armor dissipated and she could do nothing but watch as the creature's shoulders, chest, arms below the elbows, and legs below the knees obtained shining armor around them. Defenseless and powerless Veronica stumbled to her feet spitting out a bit of blood, staring at the creature as its wings spread out, each the length of its body. "Thank you ranger," it hissed turning its attention to her, "though you are now powerless you may still be of use to me. I remember how rangers were, always working in groups," clutching her by the throat it brought her up to were its eye level would be and continued, "Just tell me where exactly your other companions are hiding, my sensors do not seem to pick them up." "Make me."
As if on command it threw her through a wooden box, her body taking tons of damage with no suit to protect her anymore. Coughing out blood she lay on the floor before it picked her up by its foot and tossed her into its hand bringing her to eye level again. "Tell me now." Squinting Veronica attempted to shake her head and clutched the creature's arm, "Why?" "It is of none of your concern," it replied with a hiss. Just then its head turned and looked at a wall. "Now you really are useless to me, I've spotted another ranger. Thank you for a fun fight, its been so long since I've experienced things." Carelessly it threw Veronica off to the side and flew through the roof, taking flight into the horizon.
"I do not understand," the creature said to itself as it soared over San Angeles and inbetween buildings, "How is it that the power rangers won't automatically appear to me now? Have my abilities really diminished over time? I must find the other rangers! Nothing should get in my way!" Frustrated the creature darted past a building and to a far off destination.
Well, I hope this story seems ok so far. I was just real amazed when they made the reference to Rita and Zedd with their son, Thrax, being put into the series. Then I thought how that could have happened and then I thought about the other plotholes in the power rangers series and thus I was inspired to begin writing this story. Hope you all like it so far and stayed tuned for more!