"It was like they always say. Your life really does flash before your eyes. But I'm getting a bit ahead of myself, aren't I? I guess I'll need to start from the beginning. My name is Penn Zero and I'm a part-time hero. Well... I used to be. After this whole climactic battle between myself and my nemesis, Rippen, I was forced to stop because of some reasons that are to complicated to explain. But I'm getting off track. Anyway, this whole situation started a few months ago, about six months after the events I was just talking about..."
"Me, my girlfriend Sashi, and my best friend Boone were hanging out at the local pizza parlor for lunch, remembering some of the good times we had as part-time heroes."
"And remember The Milk Man?" Penn asked and Boone and Sashi laughed a bit at the memory.
"Oh man, dude, that guy was so weird, right?" Boone said with a chuckle.
"That guy was so creepy! Like he was evil and still had that sickeningly kind smile on his face!" Penn exclaimed, laughing a bit.
"Total creepazoid," Sashi said with a chuckle before taking a sip from her soda.
"Oh man, he wasn't even the most memorable. Remember Scaley Briggs?" Boone asked, still laughing.
"That's Sheriff Scaley Briggs," Penn corrected, imitating the gruff-voiced old man, causing another round of laughter at their booth.
The group laughed for a few seconds before they calmed their chuckling before Penn let out a deep sigh.
"Man, what I wouldn't give to be back on the job, kicking bad guy butt with you guys," He said with a sad smile.
"Hey, we may not be part-time heroes anymore, dude," Boone started off before Sashi put a hand on Penn's hand and looked at him with a smile.
"But we still have each other, PZ."
"Yeah, I guess you guys are right," Penn said, still sounding a bit melancholy at the memories that they were remembering. Just as he was about to start a new topic, he heard and felt his phone vibrate in his pants pocket. As he took it out, he heard his friends' phones go off as well. Opening their phones, the former heroes found that they got text messages from a number that none of them recognized. What was stranger though was the message itself: "Meet at The Odyssey."
"Hey, did you guys just get some weird text saying 'Meet at The Odyssey'?" Boone asked his two friends.
"Yeah," Penn replied.
"Same here," Sashi answered, glancing between her friends and the message.
The group was silent for a little while, just staring at the mysterious text that they had received. They processed it for nearly a solid minute before Penn raised his hand and flagged down a waiter.
"Check please," He said.
The three former part-time saviors of the multiverse walked down the street towards their previous workplace. Or at least where it used to be.
"I still find this text a little fishy PZ." said the ultra violent former sidekick
"I thought that it was only because of the smell of the fish." said Boone eating a slight glare from Sashi
"You're right, not about the actual fish, but about the text. I thought Phyllis merged with Phil and then left, taking the two places with them." replied Penn
They stopped at the red light hand signaling to stand for a second. A large truck covered their view from where they used to work. Honestly a part of the former heroes of the multiverse had some hope that the Odyssey would actually be where it stood once again.
Their silent prayers where answered.
As soon as the truck took off, leaving a large cloud of black smoke blinding the coughing heroes, they saw it. The Odyssey cinema was back where it had been. The three teens stared at it with awe and shining light on their eyes. For a brief second they stood silent just staring. Sashi held on to Penn's hand trying to verify if what they were seeing was real. Penn rubbed his eyes and blinked hoping to be reassured that what they were seeing was not a smog induced hallucination. For Boone, well he did the one thing he could think of.
"EEEEKKKKK! THE ODESSEY! IT'S BACK!" screamed Boone as he jumped and rushed towards the old run down cinema
"Boone!" said Penn snapping out of his stupor.
"Wait for us!" added Sashi as they ran to catch up with their friend.
The three former part-time heroes entered through the doors of the cinema to find the place just as they left it. They rushed to the projection room looking through the glass cases filled with pictures of their previous adventures.
Memories flooded their hearts as they reached the door. Penn pushed the two doors open with too much strength.
"Phyl-" began Penn before the doors bounced right back and hit him back.
"Penn," said Sashi with worry in her voice as she helped Penn up
"I'm OK," said Penn from the floor
The teens opened the doors once more, with more delicacy this time. In front of them stood the large portal and platform that had been used to take them to all sorts of universes and on all manner of adventures. Around them also stood all the worn out seats looking straight ahead to where the movie would've been played.
Suddenly, an all too familiar Slavic voice brought the trio's attention to the platform that held the Multi-Universal Transprojector.
"I see you got text," said the Slavic voice.
The three heroes looked up and in a futuristic platform stood the woman that had been their mentor and friend for so long, Phyllis.
"Phyllis," said Penn.
"Long time no see. Time to get back to work." said Phyllis in her serious monotone.
And with that, this ends the prologue of the new story, Power Rangers Multiverse! Hope you all enjoyed this beginning chapter and I will see you all soon.