This is a prequel to another fic. Let me know what you think of this one and I will keep working on the other one, okay?

I own nothing. If it looks familiar, it's from the Power Rangers franchise.

Enjoy!

(beep) "Ranger Black, prepare for zord sequencing. I'm on my way!" I hear Ziggy say quickly through his morpher.

"Ziggy? No way!" Sigh. "What's happened? Zig? Come in!" I give up trying to communicate with the green ranger, for now.

(Rumbling) 'Woah! What was that?' I look up and see the megazord taking a beating. 'Not good! Zord time!'

As I get in my zord, I notice the green shark on my left! "Zig, you ready?" I ask over the coms.

"Let's do this! We've got to give the others a chance to recover" is his determined answer. 'I've never heard him sound so serious before.'

Before my eyes, a whole new zord combination takes place with ranger green substituting for the left arm of the zord!

'When did he get so good at this? He's acting like he knows exactly what he's doing!' Within the next minute, the monster is destroyed.

"...ow" I barely hear over the coms from the green ranger as they all jump down from the zords, but why?

"...I know you guys have questions...I promise I will do my best to answer them in time...no more secrets, okay?" We all hear quietly through the coms unit in our suits.

"Zig? You okay?" I ask hesitantly after we have demorphed.

"Yeah...or at least I will be...can we go home now? Please?" Somehow he manages to sound tired, pained and hopeful all at the same time. He's holding his left wrist close to his body, kinda like he's guarding it.

"Sure kid. Let's go home" I hear myself speak, even though a few questions are going through my mind.

I don't even have to turn around to know that he is following me to my car and getting in on the passenger side. I just glance at him before following the rest of our rag-tag crew home.