Author's notes (OF POWER!): Hello there wonderful viewer, I like that shirt you have on. Where did you buy it? Anyway welcome to Power Rangers Data Force, I hope you enjoy it. If you do please feel free to tell me in the review section, if you don't like it please tell me why. I can't get better if i don't know what i did wrong.
Disclaimer: I don't own Power Rangers, nor do I wish too.
"Are you sure I'm ready?" Jay asked nervously to the brown haired man that drove the jeep they were in.
"You'll do fine," he said with a reassuring smile. Even though he didn't fully answer the question Jay left it alone. The man was Carter Grayson, one of the legendary power rangers, best not to pester him.
"Out of the fifty candidates chosen for possible rangers, you were picked for a reason." Even as the words left Carter's mouth they seemed to have some doubt behind them.
"Anyway," Jay said changing the subject, "What's my first mission gonna be."
Carter suddenly stopped the yellow jeep just a few feet from the edge of a cliff, "Recon." He replied and handed Jay a pair of binoculars.
"Great…" Jay muttered to himself.
"Well, we all start somewhere." Carter said sounding disappointed in Jay's reaction.
"So? Over there?" Jay asked looking over the cliff with the binoculars.
"Yeah."
"There's nothing there."
"Jay, look out!"
It all happened at once. Carter jumped out of the jeep and morphed as a stray blast hit Jay in the chest, knocking him off the cliff.
Fear and shock brewed in his chest as his mind tried recap what happened. He landed back first on the soft grass as pain burned through his entire body. He turned himself over and used the rocky side of the cliff to pull himself up. He could stand which he figured meant he had no broken legs. A pinching unnatural pain shot up his thigh; he fell to his knee and passed out.
Sienna sat in the in the back seat of a Silver Guardian patrol vehicle half hearing the two veteran rangers Wes and Tommy talk.
"…Andros is trying to convince the government of KO-35 to start the Ranger Program there too." Sienna guessed it was Tommy talking considering he was a ranger around the same time Andros was.
"Tommy this isn't their battle, it's ours. We shouldn't get others into it."
Sienna recognized what they were talking about, the Ranger Program was a system to connect all still active past rangers and use their collective knowledge to create new teams of rangers. Only very few rangers still have powers after all these years. Wes Collins, Eric Myers, the Lightspeed Rescue Rangers and Tommy Oliver, although it's rumored that both the other Zeo Ranger and the Space Rangers are still active somewhere in the universe. She looked down at a yellow Morpher on her wrist that had what looked like USB ports on the side, and added Sienna Kaya to her mental list of rangers.
"Seen you still awake over there?" A voice neither Wes's nor Tommy's asked. She turned to the seat next to her and saw that it was her friend and fellow Silver Guardian Dill Granville who smiled and pushed up his glasses after realizing she noticed him.
She remained silent and turned her head to the side so he couldn't see her smiling.
"Oh I see how it is." He said jokingly. "Miss Power Ranger is too good to talk to a lackey like me."
"Hey you two quit flirting; we've got work to do." Tommy said and got out of the car. Sienna followed him with Dill trailing behind, wielding his small black and silver gun just in case. They walked a few feet to find a man passed out next to a yellow jeep.
"Damn." Tommy whispered as Wes ran over to the fallen ranger.
"It's Carter." Wes informed everyone, "This looks bad" Tommy rushed over to Carter assessing the situation and calculating the next move.
"Tommy?" Wes asked nervously and showed Carter's neck to him. "You don't think?"
"If I've learned two things from my time as a ranger, one is that nothing is a coincidence and two always assume the worst."
Seen went to go over and get a better look and Dill went to look in the jeep for clues. For a few seconds her eyes scanned the neck for what Wes had seen, though she couldn't find anything. Then she saw it and didn't know what to make of it.
"Their bite marks." She said shocked staring at the two holes in Carter's neck. "Was it a vampire?"
"I have a feeling it was something worse." Tommy darkly replied.
"I'll call for an ambulance." He concluded.
"Make sure they have room for two." Dill said still in the jeep. "Looks like someone else was injured."
The air smelled musty and old as Anthony sat illuminated by his computer's bluish glow. He took a sip of an energy drink and placed it back on his desk, never taking his eyes off his monitor, waiting for the right moment to strike. On the right hand side a clock counting down from ten read System will update in 10…9…8 he has his fingers on all the right keys and mouse ready to click. 5…4... For the site to update they need to close the fire wall, in that small window of time he'd hack them and get what he needed. 3...2…1… he click his mouse and slammed his fingers on the keys. The entire screen went black and slicking fear was injected into him. They must have found out about his hacking and shut down his internet. Then a red glow reflected from the screen and an option to save the data appeared, with shaking hands he clicked yes and the screen returned to normal.
The hooded figure stood under a large metal pipe, both the pipe's shadow and his cloak concealed him from the two people that talked below him. He at least hoped he was hidden, but one of the figures kept turning in his direction intensely staring into the space the cloaked man occupied. He hoped he was safe. Hoped but not knew. If he was seen it would only bring death whether his or who he stalked didn't really matter in the grand scale. They were just soldiers after all, in the never ending battle of good vs. evil. He pulled a silver phone-like morpher from his pocket and examined it. It was a talisman of his former self, back in the days with Andros. He'd been thinking about Andros a lot lately, the man was like a brother- hell they might as well have been brothers they were so close. He'd been willing to give his life for Andros and in one case he almost did, but that was a long time ago, felt like a million years.
He was shocked back into reality when the brown haired man shot another glance at him; it was Ren the Duke of Darkus, a planet in the self-proclaimed rectorem solar system that proudly stood a few galaxies away. Ren returned his focus to the gray haired man that slumped in his gold incrusted throne.
"Progress report Ren." The man said sounding completely bored.
"Our scientists were able to reverse engineer some of the recovered machines." To demonstrate three silver figures with golden brass colored faces walked awkwardly into the room.
The hooded figure recognized them instantly they were Cogs, the foot soldiers of the machine empire.
"How well do they function?" The gray haired man asked.
"Let's find out." Ren said smiling. "Cogs! Take out the intruder over there!"
To the cloaked man confusion Ren was pointing in the opposite direction, into a narrow hallway of their ship. A spot he couldn't see. A spot he'd better take a look at.
Anthony had posted the data he downloaded online on a popular social network; he could barely understand anything about it other than it was some kind of transmitter that emulated some kind of energy. None of that mattered to him, it was all about revenge, and the rangers had to pay for what they did. The world around Anthony was fuzzy and dazed with red lines going across every inch in his field of vision. Of course things would be weird; he hadn't slept in three days. Every attempt at rest led him to a dream that even though it lay hidden in the farthest and darkest part of his mind it still held its icy grip on him.
It started with Anthony walking through an abandoned alleyway. Hopelessly following a trail of bread crumbs as if this was a nursery rhyme he could only vaguely remember. Everything about the place seemed wrong; the sky was black and empty with the first of the streetlights flickering a scarlet glow on the old weather eroded street. As he walked the sense of panic increased with every step. He was alone, but still being watched. He could feel the fearless eyes watch him from what seemed like an entirely different plain of existence, he could hear their metal claws trying tear through the thin membrane that separated them.
The trail began to get thinner as he approached an old newspaper building that stood under the shadow of a large skyscraper. The sweet smell of flowers held faintly in the air as his hand wrapped around the door knob. He entered the room and a choir of innocent sounding voices seemed to seep through the walls.
"Ring around the rosy."
A figure walked from a shadow that stemmed from a poorly lite side of the waiting room. It was a silhouette of a child, its shadow-like body seemed to shift and flicker as if it were some kind of illusion. Every single fiber of his brain told him that what he was seeing was fake, nothing but his mind playing tricks on him, but despite all that he knew it was real.
"Pocket full posies."
Anthony stood paralyzed in fear as his eyes followed the trail of crumbs that ended at the very edge of a hole that stood in the middle of the room as if it was drilled there. A thin smile spread across the shadow-figure's face as its red eyes pieced through every inch of the darkness.
"Ashes Ashes."
The ground began to shake and crack under Anthony's feet, and before he could react it crumbled under him.
A voice loud enough to escape the ozone layer erupted from all around him, "Someone help me!"
"They all fall down."
Jay awoke with a blinding light that stunned his senses for a brief second as a realization that he was still alive finally hit him. He could feel his senses slowly returning, based on the sterile dry air he assumed he was in hospital and as his eyes re-opened to a white empty room he knew it was true. Well almost empty, a red haired girl in a yellow shirt sat next to him checking her phone and probably texting. He recognized her as Sienna, a girl who was also chosen to be a ranger. Her friend Dill always pushed Jay to talk to her more; he couldn't ever really understand that. She was pretty, in an innocent way but not his type. She was always out of the way and kept to herself.
"Oh, you're awake." She said with pleasant sound in her voice, Jay liked her voice it had a smooth almost hypnotic tone to it.
"Guess so." Jay said trying to painfully sit up.
"I was kinda hoping you'd sleep a little longer."
"Why? You like watching me drool." He said wiping the side of his mouth.
"No you talk in your sleep."
"What do I say?"
"You talk about how much you miss your mommy." She said with a serious tone.
"What? Do I really?" he asked with a flushed face.
"No, God I was only joking." An awkward sideways smile went across the right side of her face.
"Sienna." A boy in a white vinyl shirt said from the door frame, it was Trent Mercer, Tommy Oliver's apprentice. "The same energy signal that appeared when Jay and Carter were attacked has shown up again."
"I'm on it." she said without a second thought.
"Me too." Jay said trying to stand but only managing to fall on his face.
"No." Sienna said her deep blue eyes sharply stabbed into him with a strange worried look deeply embedded into them as she helped him up.
"I'm not gonna lose this time." Jay said trying to reassure her. "I'm the leader anyway."
"Not until you're fully healed." She said sternly.
"I can still help!" he pleaded.
"If you go out there like this you'll end up like Carter." Her voice was on the verge of screaming. "He's in intensive care because of whatever attacked you both!"
"Chill Seen," Dill said appearing next to Trent.
"Whatever." She said storming out of the room with Trent at her tail.
"So…" Dill said sarcastically, "That went well."
"She needs to learn that I'm the leader here not her." Jay said madder then he should be.
"Dude as long as she's on your team you'll never be in charge."
"Huh?"
"You're clueless." Dill said and left the room, leaving Jay with only the sound of his own beating heart.
Sienna followed Trent and Tommy through the busy street on foot as they followed the map that had appeared inside their helmets. Tommy was the leader and wore his Zeo Ranger Red suit, Trent in the White Dino Ranger suit, and Sienna was wearing what they called the Data Force Yellow suit. It was of course yellow with a small skirt and a helmet with yellow on one side with black zeros and ones and a black side with the word data in yellow on it. As their yellow, white, and red dots got closer to the street the energy was coming from the fewer cars they passed, this both scared and reassured Sienna. On one side it meant there would be something dangerous. On the better side if there was something there they wouldn't have to worry about people getting in the way. When they reached the alley there wasn't a car in sight and every single house had their blinds closed, it gave Sienna a chill down her spine.
The only person that stood in the street was a red haired man in his twenties with spiked hair and biker gloves. A psychotic smile spread across his face as he stood next to an apartment complex, "Hi my names Nar and I'm going to burn you to cinders." To Sienna's shock a flame formed in Nar's hand.
Three balls of fire shot from Nar's hand and flew for Sienna, but Trent moved in front of her using his super speed and reflected the fire with his Drago Sword.
"Stay on your toes." Trent told her as Tommy rushed at Nar with his Zeo Saber. The two clashed with Nar holding off the blade with his arms. Nar's sweatshirt sleeves ripped reviling twin blades hidden under them. Each slash Tommy swung were reflected by Nar and it was clear the two of them were at equal strength.
"Thanks for the game guys." Nar said and kicked Tommy in the chest, knocking him away. As that happened a purple blur zoomed in front of Nar and when it stopped everyone stared in disbelief. What stood between them was something none of them ever expected to see, it was a purple Power Ranger. "This guy's gonna take over for me ok?" Nar said as a wall of flames surrounded him. When the flame disappeared he was gone only leaving the strange ranger in his place. The purple ranger had a black visor that took up most of his helmet and two white fangs then extended from his mouth guard. Tommy rushed at the purple ranger as it held a katana with a guard shaped like bat wings. Instead of the two swords clashing the purple ranger slashed with blurring speed at Tommy sending sparks out like a pyromaniac on The Fourth of July. He even had the speed to attack Trent who rushed at him using his super speed.
Sienna watched in horror as both Trent and Tommy were defeated and lay un-morphed on the road as the powerful purple ranger slowly walked toward her. She pulled her Silver Guardian handgun out and began hopelessly shooting blasts at him. He kept advancing and reflected the blast without any effort. She just needed to slow him down, maybe a ranger would save them, but she knew it was pointless.
"I never thought the rangers of Earth would be so weak." He said and began laughing. "You all know nothing of sacrifice, being a ranger is more than running around in colored spandex." He knocked the handgun from her hand and held his blade up to her neck. "Good and evil don't exist."
"Stop!" a voice yelled from behind the purple ranger. Sienna saw it was a boy she hadn't ever seen before. He was about seventeen with medium blond hair and gray eyes. Despite how he stood firmly and stared directly at the purple ranger Sienna could tell he was terrified, his hands were balled into bone white fists and were shaking.
"Sorry miss." The purple ranger said, "I've got to take care of this insect first." The purple ranger became a blur that charged at the boy. Then in a strange twist of fate when the purple ranger swung his sword instead of slicing through flesh it clanked against a silver short sword that even the boy looked confused he was holding it. The boy used the moment of shock to swing the sword at the purple ranger, which caused enough damage for it to flee. The sword disappeared and the boy started to walk away.
"Wait!" Sienna yelled finally finding words. "Who are you and how did you do that?"
The boy stopped and said, "My names Anthony, and I don't know it just kinda happened."
"If you come with us maybe you can help fight." She suggested.
"I didn't attack him because he was evil; it was because he was a ranger. I'd do the same to you too but I can't stand to see women in pain." He held his head down as he walked away.
"Wait!" She pleaded, but he left without ever glancing back.