Power Rangers Turbo: The New Torchbearers

by Zexth

General Havoc has returned from the dead and is after the Turbo Morphers. The Space Rangers entrust Justin Stewart the Blue Turbo Ranger with the rest of the Morphers while they fly off to try and stop Havoc. Justin attempts to assemble the original Turbo Team to protect the Morphers but encounters a few bumps on the road. Will they be able to keep the Turbo Morphers from Havoc?

1. Episode 1: The Fire Burns

It was a calm night as a sole figure waited in the darkness only broken by the headlights of his blue Jeep and the stars. He looked to his wrist then muttering when he realized he had checked the wrong one and was now staring at his communicator. He raised his other arm to see that they were a few minutes late already, He reclined his chair and set his feet on the dash board. He leant his head against his hand while staring off into the sky while his patience slowly began to fade. The lights of Storm Blaster flashed on and off to get his attention and the young man lowered his gaze from the skies above.

"They'll be here soon enough," He muttered as he took his feet down from the dashboard. He petted it gently with his hand like one would stroke the fur on a dog.

Suddenly Storm Blaster jerked forward and the young man stared at the vehicle in confusion. A gurgling sound started to drone out from behind the vehicle and splashing erupted from the ground in front of them. The sight was familiar and the young man instantly recognised the figures. They were two Piranhatrons. Justin glanced behind him to see three more of its kind creeping up behind and getting ready to pounce. His car reversed into the three behind them managing to run over two of them before the third gripped the back and began pulling itself up onto the Jeep. The unmorphed man then turned to face the minion holding onto his wheeled ally. Balancing as best that could while using the chair to hold himself up and then stomping down on its hands sending it under Storm Blaster. The Piranhatron narrowly avoided the wheels of the car and was brought back to its feet by its two remaining allies. Justin turned back to face the three and summoned his morpher and his activation key. The sudden jerk from the sentient car stopping forced the key from his hand. It clanked against the door of the car and went flying outside before he could catch it. Soon after though Justin followed suit and slammed his head against the ground. His vision blurred for a few moments as he tried to find his Turbo Key. One of the drones legs collided into his chest and knocked the wind out of him. He forced himself to his feet and blocked the next kick from the drone. He threw a clumsy strike at the first one in his confusion. One of them grabbed his throat and pinned him to the ground, squeezing the life out of him. Justin wrestled with the drone trying to break its grip. He was running out of air. Vision was blurring even more. Then he felt the heat from a blaster close by him and he could breathe again. He dragged his body away using the grass to pull himself along.

He had been careless. It'd been so long. Years since they'd appeared. Why were they here? Why now? His mind was racing. He hadn't been expecting to be attacked. He then remembered that there should have still been two more. He flipped his body around just in time to see them run over by his Jeep. He let out a sigh of relief. He couldn't believe how he'd messed up so much in that one fight. He dusted himself down but before he could work out why anything happened the splashing started again. Droves of them began seeping into the world around him and his head was still throbbing. He spotted his turbo key and dove for it with his arm out stretched. He just managed to grab it while turning to face the forces. Some of them had begun hooking and chaining up Storm Blaster.

"Right, now it's my time to shine!" A smirk appeared on his face

"Shift in Turbo!" He raised his hands and did the motions before slamming the turbo key into his Morpher.

"Mountain Blaster Turbo Power," A bright blue light consumed the young man as his suit formed around him. Finally the energy exploded outwards as the sequence ended and forced the advancing enemies back.

The young adult from before was no longer standing before them. In his place stood the Blue Turbo Ranger. A confidant grin was hidden behind the helmet of his suit as he jumped and kicked one of the drones down. He gave a right hook to one knocking it into another. Justin summoned his blaster and began shooting down the advancing troops with ease. He watched as the melted back into the ground and he used the chance to check his vehicular friend. He didn't let down his guard however and waited for the next wave of aggressors. Blotches of colours sparked around him and Storm Blaster but they weren't surrounded by Piranhatrons. It was Chromites. The ones near Storm Blaster had already begun throwing nets around its forms and chaining it the ground. The Jeep tried in vain to fire off blasts but it was just absorbed by the net and redirected to weaken it. A net was thrown over Justin and he could feel it begin to drain away his strength, quickly he summoned his Turbo Blade and cut through it. He slashed through two of the Chromites and turned face the others. They were swaying from side to side until they finally rushed forward with their clubs. He raised his sword and blocked the first and quickly grabbed another with his free hand. Another two clubs struck into his back but he stood his ground and threw the two others in front of him away. He span around and slashed the ones behind him causing them to fade into flashes of light. He withdrew his sword back into his suit and then gripped his blaster.

He had to keep them all in front of him, If he got surrounded he would be overwhelmed. He started firing wildly to keep them at a safe enough distance. One of the drones span the chain and slamming it into Justin's chest. It wrapped around his chest and left arm forcing him to drop his blaster. He grabbed the chain with his free hand ripped the Chromite from its feet. As he tried to force off the chain from around his torso another around wrapped around his throat. Then a third chain wrapped across his legs forcing him to the ground with his blaster just out of reach. He summoned his sword again and tried to cut through the chains but they held together under the pressure of his attack. The leader of the drones whacked down on his helmet forcing Justin to release his grasp on the weapon. It stood on his free hand with its foot. The lead Chromite slowly lifted his sword and raised it above it head, Justin could only stare up as it prepared to strike.

Blaster fire saved Justin for a second time the night but he knew it couldn't have been Storm Blaster this time. Justin looked to the skies as he heard a cheer of triumph from familiar voices. It was the Galaxy Gliders with the Space Rangers flying on top of them. They were blasting the waves of Chromites before jumping from their boards next to Justin. The black suited ranger ripped the chains off Justin's body and helped him back to his feet. He was a little embarrassed with just out of practice he had gotten and how easily these mere foot soldiers could take him out. The other three who had come down to assist him had begun finishing off the waves of troops. They finally turned to face Justin as the last of the threats faded away into light.

"Looks like we got here just in time," Rang out the voice of TJ behind the blue helmet of his armour.

Lights of different colours absorbed the gathered heroes and they powered down and Justin turned to see the smiling face of Carlos still helping him up. Carlos gave him a pat on the back before letting go and allowing him to stand on his own.

"You okay Buddy? Things were looking rough there," His voice was filled with concern over his old friend.

"Yeah… I'm fine I just wasn't expecting that. Guessing that's something do to with why you contacted me," A faint smile appeared on Justin's face. It had been so long since he had seen them last but he did wish that it was under better circumstances.

"Yep, Now come on and let us get you inside, You look like you could use a warm drink." Ashley piped up giving Justin a quick hug before she and Cassie grabbed his hands.

"You mean the Megaship?!" He failed to hide his boyish excitement as just in the distance he could see the shape of the Space Rangers ship begin to land.

Justin was lead in by his unmorphed old friends to the Bridge of the Megaship were they were greeted by Andros and Zane. Andros gave Justin a small friendly nood and shook his hand while Zane merely grinned at him from his seat. He didn't know them very well but they had met during the few times his friends had come home to visit him. They were good people and Justin had respect for them. The Turbo Ranger felt like a kid in a candy shop with all the advanced technology in this room. All of the consoles and controls flashed interesting information as he inspected them. He couldn't help but have his hover over all over the buttons and looked up to see the others smiling at his enthusiasm.

"Guessing I can't have a go?" He inquired hopefully.

"We have a few things to talk about Justin," Andros cut in at this point. Justin knew he just wanted to avoid disappointing him.

"Right yeah, Sorry." He pointed towards the chair before being told he could sit down.

TJ came forward and the display screen changed from the view of the outside to images of a spaceship in deep space. It was one that brought up old memories for Justin from his time as a Ranger. It was a strange sphere like construct with metal sections poking out in different areas.

"Divatox's ship?" He blurted out.

"General Havoc's actually. We've been getting images from around the Galaxy and we've been attacked by Chromites," TJ clicked images past of the images of the drones running through the halls of the ship. He finally showed them attempting to steal a crate before be stopped by the Space Rangers.

"What were they trying to take?"

"Ah, Well Justin that's where you come in," TJ, Carlos, Ashley and Cassie reached into their jackets and set down four silver boxes followed by four keys.

"The Turbo Morphers?"

"We think that Havoc is back and he wants the Turbo Morphers. We've gotten some word from the Phantom Ranger that he needs them for something. He wouldn't tell us what," TJ seemed as though he wanted to add something. Justin knew him well enough to tell that he thought the Phantom Ranger was keeping something important from them.

"So wait-wait-wait. General Havoc is back. How is that possible?!"

"We don't know," TJ shook his head and rubbed the back of his neck. They had obviously been stressing out over the return of an old villain.

Ashley stepped forward to help TJ explain things.

"We've tried to track him but we've had no luck. We aren't sure how but we think he's been gathering an army but for some reason he wants these morphers,"

"So we're giving them to you buddy, we couldn't think of anyone better," Carlos slapped his young friends arm fixing him with a proud brotherly stare.

"We've have a few leads and we're hoping to find and stop him. If we fail we want you to protect the Turbo Powers," The Blue Space Ranger was still heading the discussion. He needed to make sure Justin understood the gravity of the situation.

"Why me?" Was all Justin could think to say. He was overjoyed at the idea of being entrusted with the turbo powers and being their protector. He did however know that they could have and probably should have gone to one of the other older Rangers.

Carlos was the first to answer. "You were a Turbo Ranger longer than anyone and most importantly we know you can handle it. You're our friend and the best man for the job. So what do you say Buddy? Are you in?"

Silence filled the room as they waited to Justin's response. The younger man looked to the smiling and confidant faces of his old comrades in arms. Justin could feel himself welling up a little inside from how proud he felt. It was reassuring for him to know that even though he rarely got to see them as they flew around the cosmos his old friends still cared for him and respected him. They gave him more words of encouragement and each handed over their Turbo Morphers to their younger friend. Cassie gripped his shoulder tightly and calmingly as she handed hers over.

"Come on, we'll get you something to eat and we'll all catch up,"

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That night had been one of joy between the gathered heroes but the Elephant in the room still remained. The Space Rangers were planning to search the stars for General Havoc and engage him before he had a chance to amass a larger army. With the Turbo Morphers in his possession it made him the last line of defense if they failed. He was not vain enough to assume that he could do it on his own however and knew who we needed to contact. It had taken nearly a month to get in contact with them all; their lives had changed a lot since their time together. Eventually he had managed to get in contact with them and arrange a meeting point so that they could discuss things in person further. However they all had lives and adventures of their own so a few weeks passed before they were able to set a date for this meet up. At first there had been no rush. The Space Rangers could only send him short messages to let him know of their progress and even then it was delayed by a few hours. They kept him updated on their progress, day to day lives and the problems that they were encountering.

It had been around 2 weeks ago when the messages stopped.

There was silence from the far reaches of space.

Justin checked the device that he and the others had concocted for sharing information. Repaired it over and over just to be sure but there appeared to be no fault. The Sensors were work correctly. The Dish could pick up other signals from the vacuum of space, They were in strange unknown languages.

The last message he had received from them had seemed simple enough. The trail for Havoc seemed to be going cold and they were planning to re-examine some of the leads that they had. The only thing that gave him hope was the fact that he had received no beacon of SOS. He tried to use this to convince himself that maybe they were just unable to contact him. Space disturbances and other things could have blocked the signal. Two weeks was still a very long time to wait...

With no other option in his mind Justin bid farewell to his father and set off for somewhere he might be safer. It would be a few days drive if he limited the amount of stops he made along the way. He hadn't wanted to go this early and it would be a while before the others flew in to meet with them. It sort of seemed like a strange idea to not give them the morphers all at once. A horn blasted to wake him from his slumber and Justin shook his drowsy head to snap himself out of it. He had been sleeping in Storm Blaster and just allowing the car to drive him around while he was unconscious. It would save him time in the long run but it left his muscles tight, sore and gave him all kinds of cramps. He glances over to the passenger seat of his car were the signalling device remained. He began the process of checking for new messages but as expected there was still no word from his comrades. He finally saw the reason that his Jeep had woken him from his sleep.

It was a sign that read "Welcome to Reefside," He had made it to his destination. Now all he had to do was track down Tommy Oliver one of the greatest Rangers of all time.

It wasn't too hard for him to believe that Tommy had managed to get a PHD and become a teacher quickly. Justin had been pushed forward a number of years already himself plus they had all managed to get a few strings pulled for them after the Space Rangers saved world. Justin stopped for a second as he thought back to his friends. He had to delude himself into believing that they were okay. Otherwise he wouldn't be able to go on. It took him some time to get his bearings as he entered the city but soon enough he had located the school, Justin checked his phone and saw that it was still within school hours. He bit his thumb while he debated to himself whether he should just wait till the end of the school day and a cramp in his leg seemed to be the deciding factor. He slowly forced himself from the truck while he massaged the sore area of his leg. He gave the vehicle a slight tap and it flashed its lights at him before he started to limp off. He peeked up the slight hill that he had parked next to and spotted a student in an old beaten up leather jacket. Justin decided that he needed to ask someone where he would be able to find Tommy and this kid would be as good as anyone. He trudged his way up the bank and waved to get his attention. The teen didn't respond and Justin called up to him. "Hey. Sorry to bother you but do you know where Doctor Thomas Oliver is?" He still said nothing and continued walking on away from the school.

"Sorry!? I said I was looking for Doctor Oliver, Can you point me in his direction,"

"Do I look like the receptionist?" The young man appeared to be of Asian descent, He seemed to be of an Athletic build but this was hidden under a baggy clothes. His long scruffy hair added to the over all messy appearance that he had. His red shirt and blue jeans both seemed faded from age. His eyes looked just as tired as Justin's and there were heavy bags under them. Justin was taken aback by how confrontation the kid was being towards him from just a simple question.

"Just tell me where he is," Justin responded not wanting to back down.

"Nice car," The teen retorted looking down at the blue Jeep parked at the foot of the hill. He was still avoiding the question Justin was so desperate to have answered. Seemed like the Ranger would have to use a different tactic to get the information from this student.

"I'll let you see it if you give me a hand,"

The Student eyed Justin up and down. He considered the proposition and finally shrugged.

"Right, Whatever just keep up,"

"Whats your name?"

"Kenji,"

"I'm Justin,"

Kenji nodded at him. He didn't seem to want to chat and the walk into the school was a quiet experience for them. The halls of Reefside brought Justin back to his days in Angel Grove with the gang. He watched as groups of students wandered past in their little groups, Things didn't really change in High schools. A young black girl in a cheerleader outfit was passing by and forced a flyer into Kenji's hands, She had a beaming and brilliantly white smile on her face. She was very pretty and her black hair was left to hang loose down to her shoulders. It flicked gently as she moved around handing out the posters. Her brown chocolatey eyes fixed on the Blue Ranger. She gave one to Justin not really noticing that he wasn't a student here and Justin didn't feel the need to correct her. Kenji glanced at the flyer and then scrunched it up and forced it into his bag. "You should consider voting Kenji. Take part in school stuff a bit more. Make a few more friends," Her sweet tone hid a sharper edge to it. It was obvious that she didn't like Kenji and well Justin had to admit that he didn't seem to make it easy to like him. Kenji brushed his long greasy hair away from his face and just glared at her. He didn't even want to acknowledge her presence and tried to push past but she held up her hand to stop him.

"Back off Pom Pom," Kenji said removing her hand from his chest forcefully. Justin was about to break the two kids apart but Kenji just moved on and signalled for Justin to follow him. Justin smiled briefly at the girl who returned the smile though it did seemed a bit forced. Justin glanced at the flyer. It read "Vote Madeline for School Counsel President," It had a little slogan and few promises written on it if she won. In the corner there was a little lip stick mark printed onto it. He folded it up and placed it in his coat before speeding up to catch up with Kenji.

"So you not like school?"

"Who does?" Justin didn't feel like answering and the angry teen continued. "No I can't wait to get out of here. Place is filled with the worse kinds of people and I don't want to have to put up with them,"

"Well what do you want to do after?"

"I dunno. I'll figure that out later,"

They continued along the hallway until they made their way to a classroom. It said it was the science room on the door.

"He'll be here after lunch, I'm gonna head out and check out your car,"

"Hey wait a sec. couldn't you just take me to the staff room?"

A voice called out to Kenji from down the hall before he could answer Justin back. A jockish individual strolled down the hallway towards them. He had a footballers build and he was tall making him tower over Kenji and Justin. His hair was blonde but shaved very close to his head and his eyes were blue. He had a very stereotypically handsome face but an intimating presence that seemed to rile Kenji up just from being there. He stepped up to confront the clean cut student. They both looked like they wanted to knock the other one around. The newcomer spoke up first.

"Didn't expect to see you here. This mean you're actually showing up for class today,"

"Back off Drake, Shouldn't you be off washing the teacher's cars for extra credit or something"

"Yeah right, least I'll have a future. Waste your life and see if I care."

Kenji was about to talk back when Justin stopped them.

"Hey sorry I still need to be shown where the staff room is. It's important,"

Drake took notice of Justin and became a lot more respectful and loosened up a bit.

"Oh sorry Sir, I didn't realize that you were a guest. You should have just gone to reception. Kenji here can be a bit difficult. I can help you if you need,"

"Yeah thanks, Sorry I just really need to meet up with Tomm… Sorry I mean Doctor Oliver," Justin had almost called him Tommy in front of his students, that wouldn't have helped him to keep things professional. Kenji tried to walk away but Drake grabbed his arm and Kenji looked like he was about to punch him for a second. Kenji was forced to follow along with them by Drake and the tension in the air prevented Justin's conversation with Drake from reaching anything more than pleasantries. Reefside was a lot less harmonious than he remembered Angel Grove being but then he had a strong group of friends to make things easier and apart from a few instances of bullying he enjoyed his time there. Almost by fate as he thought back to his time being the victim of bullies a pile of books and folders were thrown over the ground. Justin looked up to see a group of kids laughing at the expense of some poor nervous looking girl. Kenji suddenly broke away from the group to confront these bullies, their leader was still laughing when Kenji made it over to him.

"Back off her Daniel!" Kenji spat.

"Or what?! You gonna get your minder to come give me a stern talking to?" Daniel motioned towards Drake who sighed and apologized to Justin. He strolled over the arguing students with the intention of breaking off their verbal confrontation.

"Back off now or I'll smack the smile right off your face,"

"Yeah right you lazy piece of-" Daniel was cut off as Kenji fulfilled his promise. He smacked the bully so hard that he was knocked right on his ass. At once the rest of the group stopped laughing, The nervous young girl backed away as the Leader of the bullies forced himself to his feet. He spat blood on the ground and it was obvious that Kenji had busted his lip. Drake sighed and then made his way in between them all trying to break up the fight. Justin started to picked up the girls stuff but then the delinquents strode up to Drake. They wanted a fight and there was nothing that would stop them now. Drake and Kenji were outnumbered. There were eight against the two of them. Justin wanted to help but he knew he couldn't touch any of these students without getting into legal trouble.

One of the delinquents punched Drake in face however the broad student held his ground and lifted his attacker right off his feet before throwing them right into two of his friends. Kenji moved a lot quicker and was much more focused on the leader keeping up his assault. The bully kept pulling himself off the ground but Kenji wasn't getting tired of knocking him straight back down again. It was apparent that this was another person that Kenji had bad blood with. Two of his friends grabbed Kenji's arms and Justin's guide couldn't force his arms free. Their boss cracked his fingers threateningly and started to get a little pay back. He struck Kenji over and over and was only interrupted when the girl that they had been bullying started smacking him with her now mostly empty bag. The trouble maker looked mostly annoyed before pushing her off, She kept trying to whack him with the bag which eventually drew his attention. Justin was forced to step in. He couldn't hit them but he could defend himself and others. He stepped in between the trouble maker and girl. He blocked his strikes, pushed his punches away and just moved out of the way letting the young teen smash his hand against the wall. He clutched at his hand and was wailing in pain. Justin turned to the girl to see if she was okay. She seemed to be quite nerdy and seemed to be going with that Emo teen look which had become very popular these days. Wearing all black expect for some odd gold pattern over her shirt a couple of colourful armbands to match. Her hair was quite short and black with some highlighted blonde streaks to highlight her face.

"Whats your name?"

"Claire," She was obviously spooked and wasn't sure if she should talk to Justin.

"Right Claire. Go get a teacher. Get Doctor Oliver, get anyone. Quick!"

The girl ran off to go and get help without having to be told twice. Justin felt a fist connect with the back of his head. His entire body shook and he slammed into the wall. He could hardly keep on his feet. The room was spinning and he turned to see that his foe had gotten back up and smacked him with his other hand. Kenji was still trying to wrestle himself free from his friends, It might have been the smack to the head but Justin thought Kenji almost looked concerned for him. Justin started to dodge again but he was more sluggish and less focused and now the Teen was getting a few more shots in on the unmorphed Ranger.

Drake was fairing a bit better than Justin or Kenji however he was getting overwhelmed by the four of them and they were trying to force him to the ground. Drake was built like a brick wall though and it took them a lot of them effort before they got him to the floor. As soon as they had however started to lay into them. Drake was saved when one of them received a swinging kick to their face which knocked them off his chest. Then another received the same treatment until Drake got his second wind and threw the others off him. He turned to meet his saviour and it was none other than Madeline the cheerleader they had met earlier. She smiled at Drake and he became a lot more withdrawn. However before they could continue their little chat the dazed Justin was thrown at them. Drake caught him and held the Ranger up to make sure that he was okay. Justin nodded but he knew he needed a few seconds to catch his breath.

They led him to a wall so that he could lean against it as they were dragged back into the fight when Kenji started yelling in pain as most of the gang had decided to take our their frustrations on him. As Justin sat back he made note of how the others fought. Madeline seemed to focus on kicks and there was elegance to the way that she moved that suggested that she had trained in more than just cheer leading. Her kicks moved fluidly into each other and she never seemed to stop, she forced one of the gang members to let go on Kenji. Drake focused heavily on the use of his great strength and added some of his own football experience into the way he fought. He tackled well, easily knocking people off their feet. His punches were untrained but powerful and he smacked one of the students so hard that he was knocked unconscious. Kenji managed to wrestle himself free and made a B-line for the leader again. Kenji was the most ferocious with his attacks and his grunts made him sound almost animal like. There was a lot of pent up anger in this young man that he seemed to be unleashing. His attacks were wild but still there was a strange sort of rhyme to them that suggested that he may have had some formal training in combat.

Kenji gave a left hook followed by a right to the face of this Daniel person. Then followed it up with a roundhouse kick to side and finally finished him off with an uppercut that took them both of their feet. Only Kenji stood back up again. He swung round and delivered a blow square to the nose of one of the one of Daniel's lackies members that wanted to help their fallen friend. They too were knocked down and seemed to be playing possum for the moment. Madeline and Drake backed closer to Kenji. It was 3 against 5 now and it looked like they could win this fight until a loud booming female voice rang out across the hall.

"Stop this now!"

It was the schools principle with a face like thunder going red from barely restrained fury. She stormed down the hall with a nervous looking Claire beside her. The brawling students all realized that they had been caught in the act. They were getting an ear full when Justin spotted the familiar figure of Thomas Oliver hurrying down the hall. He spotted Justin and made his way over to him. Justin tried to meet him but he was still a little bit dizzy from being hit in the back of the head.

"Justin are you alright?"

"Yeah, a couple of those kids were bullying that Claire girl. Kenji smacked one and then it all went crazy,"

"Don't worry, we'll get this all sorted out. I'll bring you to my room and you can sit down for a sec while we handle this,"

Justin nodded as he was lead down the hallway back to Tommy's classroom. He gave a quick look behind him to see that the students were being taken away. Claire seemed to be checking up on Kenji, she was thankful for his help and for the first time since they met he saw the angry young man smile. Drake and Madeline were standing together however they both seemed distant from the other. It seemed to Justin that there was a bit of history between the two but he shrugged it off and just accepted that this was something he just wouldn't know.

Justin sat alone in the science room staring at all of the empty chairs and he awaited the return of Tommy Oliver. Back when he was younger Tommy had been a bit of a mentor towards him. He was the leader of the team and had served as a Power Ranger for the longest time while Justin was the Rookie and good deal younger than the rest of them. Even now there was a part of him that still got a little nervous working with the older rangers. Most of them had more experience than he did and their times as the lead team of Ranger hadn't ended with the Command Center being taken over and destroyed. Justin tapped his fingers on the desks and found his eyes being drawn out to look at the school grounds. He got a few flashes of the Command Center's destruction and they day that Earth was invaded by the Alliance of Evil. The waves of enemies attacking and overcoming them on both occasions as he failed to save the day. The ruins of the Center and the buildings around him. He shook them out of his head trying not to obsess. It was a tough thing to witness as a kid, He'd barely gotten out alive. He hadn't been able to talk to the others about it much as they had rush off into space to find Zordon. It wasn't something he could talk to his father about either. He had nightmares about it. Only in his nightmares it didn't stop with the Command Center. Angel Grove was destroyed to and all his friends lay broken and defeated in front of him. In his nightmares he was the only one left, Alone and fighting an Army he could never hope to beat. He then remembered that he had already lost contact with the Space Rangers, Four of his closest friends were already captured or lost forever. A cold chill encompassed his body and he realized that he was one step closer to living out that nightmare.

He was snapped free from his thoughts by the sound of the door opening and the return of Tommy. He looked a bit stressed out and he was rubbing his temples which gave Justin to wiped his eyes clear. He didn't want his old mentor to see him like this.

"You're lucky there was so much confusion there Justin. If you had hit any of the students there'd have been trouble,"

Tommy pulled a chair up beside Justin and there was silence between the two. Finally the elder patted Justin on the back and they gave each other a smile. They hadn't kept in the best of touch since their days together as rangers but that was to be expected. There was always an age gap and when Justin moved away it put a bit of distance between them all. This was one of the few times they had met in person in all of these years. They had worked together during one troubled time in earth's history but neither of them liked to bring it up. There was a lot of bad memories attached to it and Justin hadn't quite forgiven himself for his failures during that incident.

"Okay, so the others are getting here later this week. Then we'll need to make preparations."

Justin and Tommy spent the next few minutes sorting out things. Justin would be staying with Tommy while he was in Reefside and they would be working from the lab under his house. They needed to get started restoring some of the broken down Turbo technology. They also did a little bit of catching up. Tommy spoke of his recent adventures with the Dino Thunder Rangers and how they had lost their powers and his students had moved on from Reefside. Justin had informed him about his time in college, things with his dad and finally explained how he had eventually lost contact with the Space Rangers. Their conversation was interrupted by the sounds of Thunder rumbling nearby. They stopped and looked outside to see that the weather was calm and the sky was clear, It didn't add up. Another rumble however this time the earth shook slightly. The third and final time it happened a bolt of red lighting struck the grounds outside the window causing the whole school to shake violently and smashing the windows. Justin and Tommy were sent off their feet by the blast and they slowly got back up to see General Havoc standing the courtyard with his sword drawn and a squad of Chromites around him. His eyes scanned around until he spotted the classroom that they were in. Dark purple energy gathered around his hand and he blasted a hole right through the wall.

Justin found himself lying on the ground a few moments later. There was deadly ringing in his ears and his vision was strained. He could barely make anything out at first but soon it became clearer. Havoc was striding towards them and his Chromites were already in the room. Four of them were picking up the limp body of Tommy Oliver who was hopefully just out cold. Adrenaline forced Justin up and he quickly grabbed a chair and fought the Chromites off Tommy. Grabbing his friend's body and dragging him toward the exit. A second and less powerful blast narrowly avoided Justin but it put a whole in the wall helping him out into the hallway. Justin still had the other morphers in his bag but Tommy was out for the count. It was taking so much effort to move Tommy and he heard his enemies getting closer. He wished he could have teleported but his communicator wasn't linked to anywhere since the destruction of the Command Centre. He rounded the corner and tried to think of somewhere to hide Tommy so he was out of the way. He spotted Drake and the others rushing out from the Principles office to see what was going on. He made his way to them as the Monsters rounded the Corner. He handed Tommy to Drake and Kenji.

"Get him out of here quickly. I'll hold them off as long as I can,"

They group looked confused but agreed dragging the weak form of their teacher away from the danger zone. Justin was blasted of his feet as Havoc took a shot at the ground, The young man went spinning through the air until he slammed into the lockers. His bag had been ripped off his shoulders and lay behind him. He was the only thing between it and Havoc. Justin's body was bruised and weak but he knew he had to stand up once more. He got to his feet and summoned his morpher.

"Shift into Turbo,"

"Mountain Blaster Turbo Power,"

He summoned his Turbo Blade. Havoc reached him and raised his blade, A laugh escaped him.

"Ah so the little boy blue has grown up now? Such a shame that your adult life has to end so early for you,"

Havoc let out a short battle cry as he rushed forwards. Justin cartwheeled back to avoid the attack of Havoc's rapier and the Blue Ranger used this chance to grab his bag and throw it over his shoulder. He dodged a second slash from Havoc and retaliated with a low strike of his own that the General easily blocked this attempt and slashed Justin's chest with his blade. Sparks flew out from his armour like blood gushing from a wound. Justin's body twisted awkwardly and Havoc struck again. Justin raised his sword and managed to block however the General was stronger than him and forced his blade to the ground.

"Come now, is that really all you have? Your fellow fought much harder than you did,"

Anger rushed through Justin and he gave Havoc a swift head butt that dazed his enemy for a moment and made him step back. Justin slashed at his chest and electricty flew causing Havoc to fly back farther. He laughed which annoyed Justin more and then dusted off his chest. He signalled with his hands and the Chromites came rushing in again. They ran in two lines at Justin with their clubs at the Ready. Justin dodged and blocked at many shots as he could but a few of them managed to get him. They had him surrounded and continued to pummel him while he tried to knock his way through the crowd of them.

---

Drake, Kenji, Madeline, Claire and the Principle had made it out of the school along with the bullies. However the four teens quickly got themselves separated from the others in the large crowd. Suddenly Claire stopped in her tracks and turned to look back at the school. This caught the attention of Kenji who stopped as well forcing Drake to follow suit while still holding up their teacher.

"We can't just leave him in there!" The young girl squealed.

"Well what do you expect us to do?" Drake asked

"We need to go help him, He tried to help me before just like the rest of you!"

"There's no point. He's probably gone already. We need to get to safety and let the authorities deal with this,"

Madeline piped in suddenly "Yeah like they've ever been able to deal with these sorts of problems. Way I see it the only people who can deal with that sort of problem is the Power Rangers and it's been months since they've been about,"

Kenji looked into Claire's eyes. He could see her concern for Justin and he had to admit that there was a part of him that didn't feel right about leaving him behind. Justin had only been their visiting Doctor Oliver and he wasn't like all the jerks that made his life a living hell. He'd even been willing to try and help knock some sense into the bullies alongside Kenji. He didn't seem like a bad guy and as much as he tried to convince himself to do the smart thing he knew exactly what he was going to do. Kenji took Doctor Oliver's arm from around his shoulder. Drake readjusted himself so he didn't drop his teacher.

"No, she's right, we can't leave him. I'm going back,"

Drake attempted to grab Kenji with his free hand but he missed and within seconds the young man had forced his way through the sea of people and back into the school. Claire turned back to her fellow students.

"Well if you're not going then I have to!"

"And what are you going to do? You weren't able to deal with bullies before." Sneered the cheerleader.

"I don't know. But I can't just leave him," She yelled as she followed Kenji back into the school. A silence hung between the two that were left until finally Madeline sighed and began running back however she was stopped by Drake grabbing her hand.

"They're gone we have to get out of here,"

"That's cold Drake even for you, You only live once you know so I might as well see where this takes me,"

Madeline wrenched her hand free from the burly footballer and soon he was left holding Doctor Oliver alone. People kept pushing past him trying to get away and he got a cold sting in the back of his throat. He grabbed one of the people trying to evacuate and handed them Doctor Oliver. He told them to run and they didn't argue. Drake soon found himself heading into the danger zone against his better judgement to save a guy he'd known for 5 minutes and some people he didn't really like. He had to admit that this wouldn't be making his top ten smartest choices list but he knew he'd not forgive himself if the worst happened.

---

Justin had not fared well while the teens had been deciding whether they would help him. He had been beaten badly by the squad of Chromites while forced to dodge the occasional energy wave from Havoc. He charged some of his power through the turbo blade and slashed through a few of the Chromites to get a bit more space. He grabbed the club of the nearest one and spun it into its allies knocking down a few more. However he got blind sighted by another dark energy wave and he was forced to his knees as his suit sparked all over. The sparks were caused by certain sections of the suit overloading or having dangerous power fluxes. Justin was picking himself of the ground when Havoc slashed his chest causing him to fall back on his back. Havoc grabbed him by the neck and lifted him from the ground. Justin gasped for air as his feet hovered off the ground.

"I tire of this game,"

The Chromites appeared behind and began trying to rip the bag off Justin's back. The blue form continued to struggle until he had a flash of inspiration. The Turbo blade faded in a flash of light and was replaced by the Turbo Hand Blasters. Justin began firing widely at close range into Havoc's chest forcing the General back. Seeing his opportunity the young ranger kept up his assault. He couldn't be sure that he would get another. He felt a tug as he tried to move forward and realized that the Chromites were still trying to get into his bag. He flipped around and blasted the Chromites until they melted into a puddle and faded into the ground. The Blue ranger didn't have time to celebrate though as crescent shaped wave of energy slashed its way through his back and into his bag sending him toppling through the air. He landed several meters away. Justin's body twitched in pain as a huge surge shattered his suits and forced him to demorph. His bag had been torn completely open and Justin could see the Turbo Morphers further down the hall. He crawled towards them as quickly as he could however four pairs of feet had already reached the morphers. The defeated Ranger looked up to see that it was the four teens from earlier. They'd come back for him even when he had told them to run. Part of him was glad but another part was cursing the group for putting themselves in dangers. Claire and Kenji had already grabbed the Morphers that had been at their feet and were trying to help Justin back to his feet. Drake and Madeline were keeping the Chromites off them. They knew they needed to move fast as Havoc was closing in on them again.

The hallways were empty as they ran. Justin was lagging behind the rest of them because of his injuries but Claire and Kenji were making sure that he didn't fall too far behind. They ducked into a classroom waiting for the wave of Chromites to pass by them. They made their way to the window as they heard Havoc approaching and just about made it outside and into cover when he slammed open the door looking for them.

"I want every room searched! Find them!"

The Chromites broke apart and the group could hear the slamming of more doors. Havoc raised a small device to the area were face.

"Fixenstein I want another squad of Chromites down here now!"

"Yes my General!" Rang out a shrill voice from the communicator.

The group made their way to a large patch of bushes out of view from the school. Kenji had to help Justin across while he tried to recuperate. His whole body ached and he felt like he had been spent the last few hours being smashed in the chest with a sledgehammer. He couldn't be certain but he was pretty convinced that Havoc had managed to crack one of his ribs. They ducked beside the bushes and he leant against it to keep his body up while he examined his ribs. He looked at the teens that all appeared to be in a state of shock until finally it was Madeline who broke the silence.

"So you're a Power Ranger?"

Justin just nodded in reply as he gasped for air and considered his options. Each of the teens had one of the Turbo Morphers and Keys in their hands. Justin was out of alternatives. Havoc would find them and Justin was too battered and outmatched to have a hope of winning this fight on his own. Getting to Storm Blaster would require moving around the school into the enemies line of sight and the Jeep coming to meet them would be too conspicuous. Claire was attempting to check up on his wounds but he grabbed her hand and signalled for her to back away.

"I wouldn't ask this if things hadn't gotten so nuts but I need your help,"

"What do you need?" Claire asked

Justin held up the Morpher that was strapped to his wrist and the key that he was holding in his other hand.

"This is my morpher. Its is how I transform myself into a Power Ranger. Those things you're all holding are morphers."

Drake cut in at this stage. "Wooh wooh wooh. No. No way. We need to just get out of here,"

"We aren't going to make it far. I'm injured and they'll be swarming all over the place,"

Drake peeked over the bushes and could already see that a bunch of Chromites were coming out to search the area. He ducked back behind the bushes and narrowly avoided being spotted.

"We don't know how to use it though," Drake added.

"Oh Drake you never just take chances do you?" Madeline Moaned.

"I'm gonna give you all a crash course on how to use them, Now listen up. Turn the Morphers and Keys around."

The teens did as they were commanded and they saw that coloured strips had been added to the bottom of each of the morphers. Justin had done this to ensure that he could tell them apart if they ever got mixed up together.

"Alright switch them around so that you're holding a morpher and key with the same colour strip on the back,"

The teens fumbled for a bit before they managed to sort out the Morphers and keys.

"Okay to Morph you need to do a few things. First off-,"

Justin winced in pain as he moved away from the bush so he could more easily move his arms. He slowly went through the process of explaining how to morph while keeping an eye on the Chromites that were steadily making their way towards the bushes. He explained the key phrases need for each of them to Morph and did a mock demonstration of arm movements. He had to keep his voice down to avoid being heard but after a minute or so they seemed to understand.

"It's now or never guys. Are you ready?"

However before they could gather themselves and morph they were discovered and forced out of cover. They formed a protective circle around Justin in the hopes of protecting the more experience ranger from any more harm. They were outnumbered again but these things were no common gang of bullies. They were trained for battle and easily outmatched the group. They were forced into the open where they could be seen by the whole school and they already heard the sounds of more approaching Chromites. Drake had pulled the club away from one of them as was trying to beat his way through the crowd but more and more grabbed onto him. Madeline's swooping and spinning kicks were proving to be more useful and she even managed to work in some gymnastics by spinning and back flipping out of the way. However eventually one of the Chromites grabbed her leg mid kick and she couldn't break herself free. Kenji's barrage of punches kept most of them off his back but it was clear that he was already starting to tire from the huge amount of energy needed to maintain his strength and speed. Claire was obviously having the worst time out of all of them as she seemed to lack the training or strength that the others had. She slammed into a few of the Chromites and even managed to knock some down but soon one had grabbed her. Justin tried to pull them all off her but in this state he could barely manage to keep himself free. The Chromites were trying to rip the morphers straight from their wrists but the struggling fighters weren't making it easy. A flash of energy struck again sending the crowd of young adults and Chromites flying through the air. The team barely managed to hold onto their turbo keys as they hit the ground. Justin let out a very audible shriek of pain as he landed face down on the hard ground. He looked up to see Havoc striding confidently towards them.

"Get up! Get up!"

The teens followed suit after some strained effort. Kenji and Claire were to the left of him while Drake and Madeline were to his right. He nodded at both pairs and they replied with a quick nod in return. The Justin entered his Morphing stance and he heard Claire say 'Oops' from behind him. He glanced around to see that they had all started off their stance in the opposite direction to him and were now fixing their mistake. The Turbo Ranger got an odd sense of Déjà vu at this but he knew he didn't have time to think about it.

"Alright Shift into Turbo!"

"I think not!" Exclaimed Havoc as he fired a blast of dark energy that began coursing through their bodies like electricity. They had just managed to force the key into the slot before the energy had hit but now they had contorted in agony as the electric like force flowed through their bodies. The Morphers were being charged with this energy to and they began to glow a dark purple. They needed to finish the sequence. Justin forced himself forward removing the key from the slot and letting his arms reach his side. The light around the morpher and key began to change from a dark purple to to its familiar azure. A thin strand of energy connected the two orbs that had engulfed Justin's hand. The energy coursed through his body and he was beginning to glow blue all over but Havoc's blast was slowing the Morphing process down.

"Mountain Blaster Turbo Power"

Drake's almost hulking frame stepped forward and for a second it appeared that he was going to fall under the pressure before he regained his balance. The jockish young man was tough but even he let out a number of painful winces as he walked. Even now he thought that this idea was foolish and he was pretty sure that they would all be killed trying to be heroes. There weren't any other options though so he knew he would have to work with the cards he had been dealt.

"Desert Thunder Turbo Power!"

Claire was next up and she repeated Justin's and Drake's actions and the energy surrounding her morphing components changed a brilliantly shining Yellow. She wasn't doing well under this blast and the already pale girl seemed to have lost a lot more colour. She looked like she was about to pass out and there was an air of fear and nervousness that she didn't seem to be able to shake off. She wailed in pain as the Yellow energy struggled to overtake all of the dark energy coursing through her body.

"Dune Star Turbo Power!"

Madeline had barely waited for Claire to finish before she had stepped forward to take her place. She wasn't backing down and refused to scream or moan in pain like Claire had. A burning pink energy completely outshined the dark purple of energy of Havoc's. She even managed to crack a wicked smile at the General while her powers fought to activate.

"Wind Chaser Turbo Power!"

Finally it was Kenji's turn and he was screaming not just with pain but with determination right at Havoc. He was tired of this high school life and he was going to be a hero if killed him. He removed his key and brought his hand to his side like the others. Havoc attempted to add more of his dark energy to stop him but it was already too late.

"Red Lighting Turbo Power!"

Havoc kept trying to pour more energy into stopping or disrupting their morph sequence but finally he ran out of steam and the group was consumed in a brilliant mixed coloured lightshow. Havoc shielded his eyes until finally it faded and the team finally stood forward fully morphed.

"Holy… This is… I mean…" Kenji said as he admired the suit that had formed around his body. He felt around his helmet with his gloved hands.

"This is amazing" Madeline and she stretched out in her suit. Justin glanced back at the team to see the Claire and Drake appear to be dumbfounded. Then Blue Ranger returned his focus to their enemy who appeared to be clutching his chest in pain. It almost seemed to him like Havoc was winded and trying to catch his breath.

"You can all have fun with this later but first we've got a planet to save!"

Another flash of Blue light surrounded Justin's hand and he summoned his Turbo Blade once more.

"Wait how do we do that?" Drake inquired

"Just think of the sword and focus,"

They did as they were told and soon the process repeated and they all managed to summon their Turbo Blades. Justin led the charge as they made their way straight for Havoc. He blocked Justin's first strike and a kick knocked him out of the way so he could slash the newly morphed Yellow Ranger in the same direction. He caught Madeline's Blade in his hand and blocked strike of the Green and Red Rangers. Havoc danced around all three of them with ease and knocked them all back with a wide thrust of his rapier. He snapped his fingers and the Chromites circled around him. He clutched at his chest again and he seemed to be feeling drained from all the energy he had been throwing around.

"Quickly summon your auto blasters,"

Justin's Blaster appeared in his free hand first but soon each of the Rangers had a firearm at the ready. The blasters opened up and they began cutting through the crowd of Chromites with ease. Any one that got up too close to be blasted was cut down by the Turbo blades instead. They were barely touched as they made their way towards the recovering General Havoc. Eventually all of the Chromites had faded into the ground leaving only their leader. However he had seemed to have caught his second wind and was back on the offensive. He moved much quicker than the Turbo Rangers and knocked them back quicker than they could react. A double slash across his chest sent pain rippling through Justin's body. The suit helped to dull the pain but it could only protect them from so much. He wanted to rest but they were forced to keep on going. Justin ran towards Havoc but suddenly he was grabbed by the neck and lifted off the ground. Havoc swung his body around and used it as a shield as the Kenji and Madeline had struck out again. As soon as they were done with their attack Havoc threw the Blue Rangers body into them before turning round and blasting the Yellow and Green Rangers down with his energy. Justin picked himself up and started firing at Havoc's back with Kenji and Madeline following his lead. Energy rebounded from Havoc's back but he seemed barely phased by the attack. Drake and Claire's body contorted in pain until they screamed in agony, their morphed forms barely held under the force of the attack. Havoc chuckled mockingly and held up his sword to the sky readying to attack.

Kenji was the one who ran forward to fight Havoc's sword with the turbo blade. Kenji's speed allowed him to keep up with Havoc. He was comfortable with a sword and it was obvious to Justin and the General that he had been trained in sword fighting. He was experience but Havoc was a master and he danced around his blade and forced it from his hand. A kick to the square of Kenji's back forced him farther away from Havoc. The Red Ranger span around and fired on Havoc but it was blocked by the turbo blade that was stolen from Kenji. Justin and Madeline used this opportunity to fire on Havoc. He responded by blasting them back with a wave of energy before. Havoc took the Turbo blade and snapped it in half in front of Kenji allowing both halves of the blade to tumble to the grass.

"Worried I was going to beat you?" Kenji sarcastically enquired as he shuffled forward and grabbed the tip of the blade. Kenji struck with as much force as he could muster with the blade directly at Havoc's face. It shattered on contact and the pieces cascaded down Havoc's body.

"Let me show you how it's done" Havoc stabbed his sword into Kenji's chest and sent the young man flying back. The suit had saved him from it piercing his body but with the pain he felt he might as well have. Havoc strode over to where Justin lay and set his foot on his helmet pressing down on it. Harder and harder as Justin struggled trying to force his boot off him and Madeline tried to reach her gun which she had lost grip of while soaring through the air. Justin could hear the sounds of glass cracking and he opened his eyes again to see that his visor was starting to fracture under the pressure. The sound of the visor cracking echoed through his helmet but in the distance he could hear the faint sound of a car approaching. Havoc heard it too and turned too late to see that Storm Blaster had made its way to the battle field. It fired a full powered blast directly at the warrior forcing him off his owner's head. It fired again forcing Havoc back farther and farther. Storm Blaster gathered more speed with each blast closing the distance between them. Finally the Jeep rammed into him knocking the General into the air. It looped back to where Justin was lying and opened its driver side door drawing a laugh from the eldest Ranger as he grabbed onto the door and got into the seat. Madeline got herself into the passenger seat and they were joined by Drake and Claire who jumped up onto the back grabbing the railings with their free hands. Each of them had recovered their fire arms but Justin handed his Auto blaster to Madeline before summoning his personalized weapons. The Jeep sped off and swerved to continue its attack.

"Fire!" Justin yelled. This was all the instruction the other three Rangers and Jeep needed. They began pouring on the blasts on the General causing a minor explosion of energy. He landed on his feet this time but Storm Blaster slammed into him but the General grabbed the onto Storm's hood. He started to drag himself closer to the rangers and they tried to blast him off but he held firm. He raised the rapier to the sky then stabbed his blade down through Storm Blaster. The car made a screeching sound as energy poured through it and the vehicle was forced to stop. He pulled his blade from the Jeep and took a swing at Justin's head which he narrowly dodged. Drake leapt from his space tackling his enemy and trying to wrestle him to the ground. The girls jumped next followed by Justin and finally Kenji threw himself into the mix all of them tried to pummel Havoc down. They were making progress until he started to just swat them away. He freed himself and that was when something strange happened. General Havoc's sword holding hand was fading.

"Am I the only one who sees that?" Kenji asked.

"No… he's fading…" Madeline exclaimed.

His's sword fell from his fading hand and cluttered to the ground. The General clutched at his phantom like appendage and he stumbled back. The dissolving was spreading through his body and appeared to be leaking his dark energy. He raised his communicator to his face with his unfaded hand.

"Fixenstein. Teleport me out now!"

"Not a chance Havoc!" Justin screamed as he rushed forward and shot at Havoc. The blasts passed straight through Havoc's body without doing him any damage. The weakened General shook his head in amusement of Justin's vain efforts as the young Ranger fired repeated at the fading monstrosity.

"Nice try little boy blue,"

Energy surrounded his enemy and Justin could only continue futile his assault on Havoc until he had been teleported away. The Blue Ranger fell to one knee and his breath was rapid and horse. He looked up to the sky and watched as Havoc's energy trail got farther and farther away until it blinked out of existence.

---

Havoc dragged himself through the bridge of his ship his body was weak and failing him fast. His eye scanned around the ship in search of Fixenstein his technical genius and the machine that had created most of his latest War Machines.

"Fixenstein! Fixenstein I need you!" Havoc leant against a wall as Fixenstein lowered himself down from the darkness above his General's head. Fixenstein's was a machine with his upper body appearing skeletal in its design, Its limbs were long and thin and its head bared a resemblance to a skull with glowing red eyes. A huge set of wires trained down its spine and the cables mixed in with the lower have of Fixenstein's body which was made up with ciols and robotic retracting crane mechanisms that linked into the wall. Fixenstein was linked to the ship and railings were built into the roof and walls to allow him to travel all over the vessel. Fixenstein's cold metal fingers wrapped around his General's arms as he lifted him from the wall.

"You said I would be fine now! You said I would need no more treatments!"

"I'm sorry my General. I believed that a jolt from the morphers we added to the Regenerator would be enough to stabilize your form,"

"Obviously not, prepare the machine. I need another dose of energy,"

"Yes sir"

Fixenstein's eyes changed to a dark blue as he sent a signal through the ship to prepare the Regenerator. The machine lit up and Havoc was placed in the chamber of the device. The Regenerator was a huge construct that took up a section of Havoc's ship. It had been fixed into his ship so that Havoc could always get an extra dose of power when he needed to be stabilized. He had much to thank this device and Fixenstein for but things were not perfect. It reached up through the chamber like a grand church organ mixed with a Giant computer bank. A large metal set of doors allowed entry and exit from the strange device

"The treatment will take some time my lord. You have wasted much of your strength,"

"How long?" Havoc asked bitterly.

"A few hours,"

The General grabbed his engineer by the neck. "That is too long" His voice appeared calm but there was a quiet anger to it that worried Fixenstein.

"I'm sorry but without this treatment you will dissipate into nothingness," The General released Fixenstein's neck and the Engineer swooped back as the doors to the chamber closed. The General watched his tech expert with a cold glare. He had been promised that the extra connection the Space Rangers morphers gave would finally stabilize his form. He had felt strong again and he had let that go to his head, A General should not have to take to the battlefield himself. He would signal for a Squadron to ready themselves he would have those morphers one way or another.

---

It was about an hour and a half before Justin and his temporary team had found Doctor Tommy Oliver. He had been taken to the hospital to treat his head wound but after a few examinations they concluded there was no serious threat to his health and discharged him. He was in no state to drive so Justin drove Tommy's car back with him in the passenger seat. Claire and Kenji were in the back seats but they had remained silent for most of the journey so far. Kenji stolen the occasional glance at the clueless Claire as she stared out the window at the forest. It had taken them a bit of coaxing but Justin convinced Madeline and Drake to follow in Storm Blaster. The Jeep was in control and it obviously was a little unnerving even after all they had seen today. Justin glanced back at the Passengers.

"How you feeling Tommy," He enquired.

"I'll let you know when the car stops spinning," Tommy dryly replied.

"How about you Kenji and…" There was an awkward silence as Justin blanked on her name. It wasn't a great sign that he couldn't remember the name of one of the people he had been fighting beside a few moments ago.

"Claire… My names Claire," She meekly responded.

"Well how are you both?"

"I'm good. Sore all over from the beating Captain Killcrazy gave me but good. So when did the school upgrade from hall monitors to Power Rangers," Kenji asked. Justin chuckled a bit but felt a sharp pain edge through his chest when he did. His rib still felt like it was on fire. He had gotten it checked out in the hospital along with the others and his chest was bandaged under his clothes. His rib wasn't broken like he had expected just very badly bruised but the same could be said for the rest of his body. The four younger teens had gotten roughed up as well but were in a better state than Justin or Tommy.

"So… are we super heroes now?" Claire mused aloud.

"I guess, are the Power Rangers counted as super heroes…?" Kenji joined in.

"Do we have powers outside the suit things?!"

"No… No you don't have powers outside your suits," Justin cut in at this point. He didn't need them trying to lift his car later and getting themselves hurt.

"Why not?" Claire asked somewhat deflated.

"Yeah shouldn't our DNA or something be muddled up," Kenji added

"Well you guys don't have powers outside the suits," Tommy slipped in.

"Not now Tommy, Look the morpher is connected to this thing called the Morphing Grid. The morpher is linked to it and Channels it into forming the suit. Can this wait, explaining exactly how it works could take a while," The questions were beginning to get on Justin's nerves. Explaining it all was very complex and it had taken him a while to fully understand it.

"So we're like Iron man?" Kenji asked

"No… I think it's more like Green Lantern. With the ring linked to the power battery creating shapes based on the users imagination. The morphing grid bases our suits on the template that the morpher has coded within it or something like that."

Justin glanced back in the rear view mirror at Claire. "That's actually a really good analogy. That's actually quite close to it,"

Kenji gave Claire a blank expression and she laughed nervously before breaking eye contact with him. She looked at the rear view mirror and saw that Justin still had an impressed look on his face.

The group arrived at Doctor Oliver's house a few minutes later. The occupants Dr Oliver's car seemed to be in much better spirits than Drake and Madeline. They had apparently not spoken to each much on the journey over. This continued into the house as they clearly avoided engaging in conversation with each other and sat at opposite ends of any room they ended up in. Doctor Oliver had taken them to the lab hidden under his house which had been the main command center for the Dino Thunder rangers not too long ago. His students seems shocked that their teacher had this place hidden but Justin was just impressed and admired all the tech especially the large computer that was available. He didn't have much stuff to play around with back home so he already saw the opportunity to create things. Eventually the others pestered Justin and Tommy into talking about their careers as Rangers. Tommy had forced the teens to promise that this information would never leave this room and for now they had no choice but to trust them at their word. They summarised greatly but Tommy's tale still took a while longer than Justin's giving him time to play around with the computer database. He scanned through the designs of the Dino morphers and was impressed on the level of engineering that went into it. Justin occasionally listened in to see what part of the story Tommy was on but spent most of his time eagerly absorbing information from the computer. He was in his element which was comforting.

---

Back on his ship Havoc stumbled out of his Regenerator. His strength had returned for the most part but he would need time to settle down. He called Fixenstein who rushed to his General's side to check his conditions with many forms of scanning equipment. Havoc swatted him away barely containing his frustration with the failings of his chief engineer. His body had stopped fading and leaking energy like it always did after treatments. He couldn't help but be relieved each time it succeeded. He grabbed Fixenstein by the shoulder and pulled him close.

"What is the location of the Rangers?"

"We… don't know,"

"How can you not know?"

"I lost track of them while setting up the Regenerator,"

"Create a monster for me then, Attack the city and smoke them out. I need their morphers," Havoc let go of his assistant and made his way to the bridge of his ship.

"Sir the machine is low on Strength. We need to give it time to recharge,"

"Fixenstein push the machine and produce me a monster. This is a war man and these morphers will ensure my complete and total domination,"

"Yes my lord," Fixenstein mumbled as he got ready to power up his machine. He selected the first few energy residue signatures that the machine picked up and jumbled them together to create something new. It drained more power from the ship causing lights to flicker wildly. The Space morphers linked to the machine gave a dull glow as more of their strength was sapped. It was dangerous to drain power from the main ships cells so quickly and a panel of the Regenerator blew up and began to blaze madly. Fixenstein swung over and attempted to repair it but most of the damage was already done. The chamber doors opened and a new monster stepped out, It was not as powerful as he hopped but it was the best he could do. The machine was drained of strength and forcefully recharging it too quickly would be too dangerous now. He could risk completely destroying all the ships systems so this monster would have to do. It was a bulky creature that seemed to move slowly but what it lacked in speed it made up for in fire power. One hand and lower arm was a Gatling gun with most of its upper torso filled with missiles that it could shoot out at will. Its face appeared to be an emotionless metal mask and the rest of its body seemed too modelled after a tank and was green and silver.

"I am Tankatron,"

"Yes, yes, yes. You'll do for now," Fixenstein opened communications with the bridge. Havoc had made it to the bridge by the time that Fixenstein had contacted him, He had tried to search for the rangers himself but didn't have much luck. He needed more information and if this attempt at capturing the Rangers failed he would have to gather intelligence. He'd have to consider bringing in some of his top men.

"Is it finished?"

"Yes sir, however the machine is drained of strength and now damaged by surges from unsafely boosting power. I think it might have damaged some of the ships other systems. I can't promise you any more monsters for a while,"

"Fix it as soon as you can,"

Havoc sat down at the command chair staring out at the Earth. He had let his frustration over victory being snatched away get the better of him. That would cost him time but that was something to think about later. He could see which of his Warriors he could call from the front lines later if he needed to. He heard the shrill voice of Fixenstein asking him what he wanted to do next.

"Send it down then. Let us see how good the enemy really is,"

---

Tommy's story was interrupted by the sounds of an Alarm ringing out through the lab. Justin jumped slightly as a video feed showing Tankatron wandering through the streets firing rockets at people. The crowd was running in every direction to get away from them. It was complete anarchy as the other rushed over to see what was going on. Justin got up from his seat.

"Alright that's not good. Break time's over I guess. Kenji give your morpher to Tommy,"

"Hey wait?! Why, Was I not good enough or something?" Kenji was obviously feeling a little offended that he had been asked to give up his morpher so soon.

"No. Tommy's got a lot more experience that you,"

"You can have mine if you want. I just want to get out of here," Drake muttered to himself.

"Tommy do you think you and I could handle this one alone?"

"Maybe but it could be handy to have some extra hands along,"

Justin looked back to the group and sighed to himself. He didn't want to be mean but they weren't exactly the best candidates that they could have gotten. They had proved that some of them could fight but they all seemed to have personal disagreements that could get in the way. Tommy seemed to understand what this look meant and spoke up again.

"Alright, I want you all to keep an eye on the video footage. If it seems like we're struggling too much then you can work out between yourselves who will come and help. For now Justin and I will try and handle this. You ready Justin?"

Justin let out a sigh of relief as he got ready to morph. He had avoided being the bad guy with the group and also kept them away from the battlefield. A win/win situation in his mind. He heard Tommy cry out the familiar phrase that started off their morphing sequence and performed the rest. His body was surrounded in energy and his Blue Ranger form stood there once more. He turned to Tommy and was surprised to find him still in his civilian mode.

"Something wrong?"

"Not sure hold on let me try again," Tommy said. "Shift into Turbo!" Tommy preformed the stance as normal and went through the motions as though he had never stopped using the Turbo Powers. He inserted the key into the morpher and turned it before returning his hands to his sides. Justin noted the strange lack of Red energy that flowed from his hands.

"Red Lighting Turbo Power!"

Still nothing happened and Justin and Tommy exchanged confused words as the students looked on bemused. Justin asked Drake for his Morpher and they repeated the process but still nothing happened. Kenji then tried with Drake's Morpher but he didn't have any more luck than Tommy. The girls handed over their morphers as well allowing the elder to try them all in turn. For some reason none of them appeared to work for the Veteran Ranger. Justin began theorising that the other Morphers must have been damaged somehow. Following that line of thinking Tommy tested out an idea. He handed the morphers back to each of the teens in turn, He made sure to give them the morpher they had used in the fight against Havoc. Tommy lined the Teens up and stood in front of them.

"I want you all to try to morph again,"

The teens seemed a perplexed at this request but Kenji stood forward somewhat gingerly.

"Ready?" He asked the others. The slowly nodded in return.

"Shift into Turbo!" Immediately there was a huge difference as the morphers glowed with their colours briefly. The four went through the morph and things surprisingly happened as they should. They were all morphed again only adding questions to the pile. The sounds of explosions coming from the live recording brought them back to reality.

"Right, there's no time to sort this out now. Justin looks like you've got a new team for now. You're in charge."

Justin wanted to object but Tommy cut him off. There was no time to argue. "Get out there. Take Storm Blaster. Won't be a lot of space but it's the best option you got," He turned to the gathered teens. "I'm sorry to say this but we'll need your help for a bit longer," Everyone but Drake agreed right away to help but even he gave in after he stared at the computer and seen people in danger running for their lives. Justin led the team out as Tommy watched. He stood in silence for a second before sitting down on his chair to monitor events; He would just have to hope that they could pull things together and destroy the monster. It was a horrible experience to be sat at the side lines feeling like there was nothing you could do to help.

---

The drive had been uncomfortable but after a few minutes they made their way into the city centre. From there it had taken them only a few seconds to work out where the monster was. It wasn't trying to keep quiet and it was obvious to Justin at least that they were being led out into a confrontation. Justin spotted the monster and floored the gas petal of Storm Blaster making a mad charge to it. Tankatron spotted them too early and fired out a barrage of missiles that blasted Storm Blaster through the air. The Rangers were forced to leap from the Jeep before it broke through a wall. The regrouped and Justin took the lead summoning his Auto Blaster and returning fire. They followed his example and they made a charge at Tankatron. They needed to get closer so that it couldn't hit them with its rockets without damaging itself. The Rangers didn't get very far before the monsters Gatling arm was raised and they were riddled with energy blasts knocking them down. They didn't have a lot of time so they forced themselves back up. Storm Blaster however was tipped over and had been covered in rubble preventing the Rangers from accessing it.

"Alright plan A is out. Rangers Scramble," Justin ordered. They all took off in different directions making it more difficult for Tankatron to hit the Team. Justin ran to a nearby wall jumping into the air and then kicking off it to launch himself at the creature. He fired his blaster but when he got to close the monster simply slapped him away with its free hand. Claire was caught by another strike of its Gatling gun when she instinctively tried to rescue him. Drake grabbed a piece of concrete debris that had once been part of a wall and flung it right at its head. The creature backed up away while Drake grabbed whatever else he could find and started flinging them at it. He then spotted a metal beam and with effort lifted it from the ground he tried to slam into the creatures side but it blocked it and fired a missile regardless of the danger to itself. Drake was violently thrown through the air until he collided with the ground causing a heavy thud. Kenji had used this opportunity to get in close and was now punching into the side of the Monster with his fists. Its side were hard and every punch hurt but he kept it up and it started to let out gasps of pain. Justin by this stage had gotten back into the fray and the two of them dodged the wild swings of the monster while kicking and punching any area they could reach. Tankatron leapt up trying to get away from them when it received a kick to the back from Madeline. It then tried to focus its attack on her but she gave it a quick succession of swing kicks that knocked it back into Justin and Kenji.

"There's a present for you boys!" She gleefully quipped after she knocked the tank like monster back to them.

They forced the monster to turn around and started pummelling its chest as while Madeline gave a jump kick to its back. This slammed the Monster into their fists harder, knocking the creature down. It took this opportunity and fired a quick spray of blasts at the three forcing them to give the creature some space. However its onslaught of bullet like blasts was cut short as Claire slashed down on its arm with her Turbo Blade. Claire struck the arm again and again as hard as she could before slashing the beasts face. It clutched at its face which had now received a massive scar and tried to fire again. It realized however that its Gatling arm had been damaged beyond use and was forced to take another wave of slashes from the Yellow Ranger. Claire herself let out little whelps of surprised every time she slashed the monster and occasionally hesitated expecting the monster to take a shot at her. The other took this chance to check on Drake and pull him off the ground. Kenji grabbed him by the shoulder but his hand was roughly thrown off by Green Ranger.

"I don't need your help you waster," He bitterly hissed as he got to his feet. Kenji felt his face heat up and his temper flared for a second before he pushed Drake back up against the wall.1

"Hey! You want to do this? I'll show you how much you need my help if you keep calling me a waster" Drake pushed him back and laughed in his face. Madeline shook her head their immature little ego bashing was getting too much for her too take.

"Drake you could start a fight over anything. He was helping you jerk,"

"Hey keep out of this Pom Pom. This is between me and your lover boy,"

"What did you say!?" That had hit a nerve and gotten a big reaction. Now Madeline was pushing up against Kenji and Justin had to get between them all and push them apart.

"Quiet the lot of you! Argue about this later,"

"He started it," Kenji said punching Drake's chest almost starting the brawl all over.

"I don't care who started it! Stop it now we have a job to do and…" Justin was cut off though by the sounds of Claire yelling in pain. She toppled through the air towards them and landed at the arguing group's feet. Justin and Kenji lifted her back to her usual upright position but it wasn't long before they saw Tankatron prepare for its next attack. It fired out a wave of missiles and the team didn't have enough time to dodge taking the full brunt of the attack. They tried to force themselves up but another wave hit them and knocked the wall down on top of them.

"Ha ha! These punks were no match for my array of weapons,"

With enormous strain they started freeing themselves from the rubble. The concrete hit the ground with a heavy thud but they steeled themselves for the next barrage. The Monster needed to reload and soon a new set of missiles slid out of the slots that made up most of the monsters chest. This was when Justin was struck with a flash of inspiration that could save their lives. He summoned his Hand Blasters.

"Shoot the missiles!"

"What?" A slightly dazed Claire asked

"Shoot the missiles before he fires them, Do it!"

The team finally caught on to what Justin was saying and resummoned their fire arms. Each of them focused taking aim on a different missile and began firing as many shots as they could. It fired out its rockets but this time the Rangers blasts caused them to detonate far too early and blow up in their owner's face. A huge section of its body was blown open but it wouldn't give up yet. It charged at the rangers giving a more physical attempt a try. The Rangers pelted forward to meet it. They had the numbers to their advantage and even though they weren't all working well with each other they were winning. Kenji spotted Claire's Turbo Blade which had been knocked from her hand earlier and lifted for it. He stabbed the blade into its large open wound and forced it in deep. Tankatron backed away and weakly summoned a Rocket from the one slot that was still in a decent condition. The Rangers spotted this from a mile off and all focused their blasts on this sole rocket. The creature let out a huge no of defeat as this final explosion sealed its fate and started a chain reaction throughout its body. It fell to the ground and at the very moment it made contact it exploded as the Turbo Rangers watched on. They waited for a moment to make sure that it was really gone and when the smoke and fire cleared they saw that its body had been totally destroyed. They turned to see citizens starting to come out of their hiding spots to see the Rangers. Justin gave them all a small wave and looked back to see that the others were a little surprised to being openly praised by the people they protected. They awkwardly waved at the crowd before Justin pulled them away to help get Storm Blaster from the rumble. They'd first have to search for anyone that may have been trapped and then they had to get back to base with Tommy. Their day wasn't quite over yet.

---

It was a few hours before the team managed to return to Tommy's home. The monster had caused a lot of mayhem in its short existence and the Rangers had found themselves enlisted in the search for missing civilians. Luckily there were no major causalities from the battle and the news reports featuring the Rangers heroics had been very favourable. They had seemed to miss the part were four of the Rangers had stopped mid fight to bicker and almost gotten killed. Doctor Oliver had noticed it but kept quiet, from the looks of the team as they came in it would do nothing to help the underlining tension between certain members of the group.

"Hey Tommy, We're home." Justin seemed the most optimistic of the group but it was hard to tell how much of that was fake.

The team sat down around their little command center and at first no one said a word. However the silence was finally broke by Drake.

"So what does this mean?"

"It means were Power Rangers, Guardians of the Planet… you know all that stuff." Kenji was the most happy about this turn of events. His anger seemed to have subsided a lot just from getting the chance to be a Ranger.

"So we're stuck like this?" Drake asked turning to Justin and Tommy, Seemingly ignoring Kenji.

Justin turned to Tommy hoping for an explanation but the Veteran had none to give. "It seems that way Drake. Look I know for a lot of you this isn't ideal but the world is in danger. General Havoc wants these morphers and he'll be willing to do anything to get his hands on them."

"Well why don't we just give them to him. He'll leave if he gets them right?" Drake cut in aggressively.

"We don't know what exactly Havoc wants these morphers for but we know it's bad news. He won't stop once he has them. He'll keep going until he has conquered the entire universe or someone stops him. For whatever reason you four are now the only people that can use these morphers and that means we need you."

A quiet little voice spoke up from the corner unexpectedly. "What do you need us to do?" It was Claire who was hugging her legs to her chest defensively as she sat on the floor.

"We need you to become the New Turbo Rangers and fight to stop Havoc. It'll be tough, it'll be hard and gruelling but the World needs you… So what do you say?"

"You know I'll always have your back Tommy." Justin said standing tall next to his friend. He felt bad for letting Tommy handle the speech on his own entirely and felt like he should have said something. It was difficult though he'd spent so much time looking up to people like Tommy, TJ or his Dad. He always deferred to someone in times of stress and he'd never really had to deal with being in charge of a group of people. He had always been the youngest and always relied on a certain degree of the strength from his older friends. Justin looked at the other in turn hoping that they'd make the right choices.

Kenji was the first to react standing up with a strangely confidant look in his eyes. "So you're saying I'll get to fight stuff like that again…" When the two senior Rangers responded in affirmative he continued. "Then heck Yeah I'm in. I'm ready to Rock."

Madeline made a musical hum to herself before finally shrugging. "My heart is still pounding against my chest, I haven't felt excitement like this in a long time… Sure. You want me, you got me. Now you better hope you can handle me." There was a mischievous glint in her eyes and she winked at Justin for a second. From the corner of her eye she noticed that Claire had glared at her for it for just a second.

Claire didn't get up from her seat but her darted from person to person erratically as she tried to work out what to say. Finally her eyes settled on Justin who gave her an encouraging smile. She nodded gently. "Yes… I mean yes I'll help." She paused for a brief second and then added "In any way I can."

"Oh finally got your tongue back?"

"Pom Pom leave her be." Kenji rushed to defend Claire who didn't seem to be able to find her voice against Madeline.

"Enough," Tommy cut in before turning his attention to Drake.

The final young man met the gaze of each of them in turn. His gaze was strong and cold but there were signs that there was an internal struggle going on within. Finally after a few moments he spoke up. "No… No…" He looked harshly at Tommy and Justin. "I'm not going to join your privately little army and throw away my life! If you lot want to do it FINE!" He said as he stormed off towards the door. Justin was about to stop him before Tommy grabbed his arm. Justin turned to see Tommy shaking his head and motioned to let Drake leave. The door slammed and left an echo in the now dead silent room.

"What a team, what a team. Barely holding it together." Madeline commented seemingly amused by Drake outburst. "Well I better get moving, this isn't really my crowd to hang with. Call me if you need any help but don't think this means we're all besties now." She says with a faked smile slipping out of the room not long after Drake. Silence returned to the people left in the room.

"Give them time." Tommy suddenly said. "Not every group gels together right away."

"Yeah…" Justin says weakly looking for strength in his friend's fatherly gaze. A hand was set on his shoulder firmly. "You're their leader now Justin. You'll need to pull them together. You'll just need to give Drake some time to rethink things. Throw me over your morpher. We'll see whats what and then we can work on a way of fixing it." The Blue Ranger merely nodded in response. Summoning his morpher and handing it to Tommy who went to work. Kenji and Claire still remained in the hideout looking a bit awkward and out of place. Justin approached them cautiously and tried to seem a little more confident than he really was. "You two did well out there."

"Really?" Kenji inquired almost innocently.

"Yeah, bit of room to improve but that's the same for everyone. Seems like I'm going to be in charge of you guys, I hope I can count on your support."

"Hey I thought the Red Guy was supposed to be in charge." He sounded a little disappointed.

"Usually is. But I've got the most experience here by a few years."

"Pulling Rank on me so soon?" Kenji replied with cocky defiance.

"Hey, give it time. Who knows maybe you will become the leader." The instance after he said that Justin regretted it. It had made him sound weak and gave away that he already doubted his own ability to lead.

"I think either of you would do fine…Maybe Kenji you could be like your second in command." Claire finally piped up. The two others turned to look at her, which made her eyes widen a little from surprise. "You could be the Spock to his Kirk… Well Kenji gets on more like Kirk so maybe the Riker to Justin's Picard. The Wolverine to his Cyclops. The Ironman to his Captain America… the colours even match in that case." She stopped when she realised that she had started to ramble and beamed at the two.

"Yeah." Kenji paused for a second as he thought. "I can work with that for now"

"Awesome." Justin extended a hand to them both. "Welcome aboard. I hope we'll become good friends."

Claire took his hand gently and shook it. Doing her best to hide her embarrassment at shaking his hand. Kenji took his hand more forcefully. "Don't push it just yet." He said jokingly. "And don't worry about Drake. He's a jerk, We won't need him."

"I'm not so sure. I think we'll need everyone we can get… I just hope I can get through to them." Justin mused quietly.

---

Drake continued to storm off down the road. It was a long walk before he'd make it back home but he couldn't stick being around those maniacs any longer. They wanted him to risk his life fighting their battle? It was ridiculous, all because this stupid thing had gotten itself damaged. He looked down at this wrist to see the communicator that replaced the clunky box of a morpher whenever it was hidden. Justin had told them all the function of the device and for a brief moment he considered throwing it into the bushes. They wouldn't be able to ring him up to try and rope him into their battles. It wouldn't be his problem then and General Whatever and his forced could do whatever they wanted with it. He wasn't going to end up like his brother. Being dragged into other people's problems and schemes until there was no escape from all the trouble that was caused. His train of thoughts where scattered when someone ran up and slapped the back of his head. He turned ready to hit whoever it was until he recognized Madeline's face.

"Oh what do you want? Hasn't today already been bad enough?" He asked going back to blazing down the road.

"Still the same old Drake then. Running away whenever any problems rears their ugly head."

Drake remained silent as he continued to walk down the road.

"So that's it then. Not even going to really try and talk to me?"

"Nothing to say after this long, you and I are over and that's it. Don't think this ridiculous situation is going to change that."

"Wouldn't dream of it, we'll be walking for a while but I'll still rather hang out with your cold self than with the Weirdo Brigade. I'll help them but only because I'm pretty sure they can't handle it without me." She continued the thought after pondering. "I'd probably do better fighting on my own anyways."

Drake didn't respond to her comment and just kept his pace. He didn't even look at her as he walked getting an exasperated groan from Madeline in response. "Well this is gonna be a fun walk."

---

High above the infighting of this new team of Rangers sat the silent figure of Havoc who tapped impatiently on the arm of his chair. He waited for Fixenstein to give him a report on how long repairs to the ship would take. It seemed as though the damage was more extreme than they first suspected and the surges had spread through a number of the ships major functions. They had been unable to patch the Regenerator into the ships laser canons to enlarge their monster and attempting to just caused more system failures. Their observations units were out too, forcing them to rely on the CCTV footage from the city to witness the battle between the Rangers and his latest soldier. The results had been less than satisfactory and this Rookie team with an incompetent leader had dispatched his warrior. Havoc didn't consider this the worse loss as this soldier obviously wasn't to his Armies standard. It did however mean that they had lost sight of the Rangers after the battle allowing them to slink back under whatever rock they called home. Finally there was distortion from the radio as Fixenstein turned it on.

"Report." Havoc said coldly to his engineer. Obviously in no mood to hear more bad news, unfortunately that was all Fixenstein had to give him.

"The Damage to the Regenerator sir is severe. We won't be able to enlarge any monsters for a while and you'll have to go without treatment for a few weeks."

"So that means I am confined to the ship." He added, His fury hidden under a cool tone.

"Yes my General. Any direct confrontation between you and the Rangers is not advised. It would excite your condition more and we wouldn't be able to restore you safely but I will be able to create monsters for you..." There was silence between the two and Fixenstein took this as a sign to continue his report.

"The Observation equipment is also down sir. It will make it much more difficult to track the progress of the Rangers and will make Intel harder to come by."

"How long before you can fix it."

"The damage was severe my General. It will be weeks before I can have this ship running at full capacity again… I did however manage to get through to your forces Sir. They'll be sending through reinforcements. Waves of Chromites, and more powerful soldiers whenever we can get our teleporter calibrated for the long distance"

"Well that is something. What of my Majors?"

"Their assaults are going as planned. They will return to your side as soon as their missions are completed."

"Good. Good. This is a setback but not one we won't recover from. I have made an impression upon these Rangers even if it was somewhat diminished by this blasted condition of mine playing up. We do not have the element of surprise. There are however many other tactics I can use to break these Rangers. Their union is weak, their trust can be broken. I will have their Morphers and I shall obtain my prize…"

Havoc got up and began pacing around his bridge. "I believe my condition may have more side effects that we originally anticipated. My anger is becoming more difficult to control. I do not want this becoming my downfall. Look into it. That will be all Fixenstein"

"Yes my General."

Havoc went back to pacing the bridge of his ship before striding over to look at the planet below him. Soon this planet and all others would kneel before his might. He didn't care how long it took, he was a military minded man. He could wait as long as it took, plan as much as he needed to until everything fell to his army. He took out his sword and sat back down on his chair.

"Yes… soon it shall all be mine."