#1 - Race of Rangers, Part I

Synopsis: When an evil entity named Kalabar prepares to use the power of five stolen Legacy Rings to create his own team of evil Power Rangers, the true guardian of the Rings comes forward to battle with Kalabar and reclaim what is his.

Episode In Review:

Deep within a forest in the deserted kingdom of Kataluxya stands a beautiful temple. Once upon a time, this kingdom was a great nation among magical nations (among which is the land of Leanbow, Udonna, and Bowen), but the forces of evil are never easily suppressed, and Kataluxya found herself under attack by an enemy named Kalabar. With the might of his Vong armies, the population of the kingdom were either destroyed or banished. Following the destruction, Kalabar himself mysteriously disappeared.

As this story begins, Master Zerin (one of the Kataluxyan refugees) returns to the Temple with his teenage son Corin. Meanwhile, Kalabar has returned, and he is wielding the power of five Legacy Rings which he stole upon his earlier siege of the kingdom. However, he finds himself unable to hold the full power alone. He thus concludes he must select five candidates to wield the power of the Rings. Observing Kalabar's actions from the Kataluxyan Temple, Zerin prepares himself and, wielding his own Legacy Ring (for the Rings were stolen from him), challenges Kalabar to battle. Zerin activates his Legacy Ring, morphing into the Legacy Guardian Ranger. For the most part, Kalabar and Zerin are evenly matched and engage in a fierce battle, until Kalabar summons the power of his five Rings and concentrates it into a blaze of power, which he fires at the Guardian Ranger. The blast causes Zerin to demorph and fall unconscious. Kalabar, pleased at the seemed destruction of Master Zerin, disappears.

#2 - Race of Rangers, Part II

Synopsis: Zerin has successfully recovered the Legacy Rings, but at the expense of his powers as the Guardian Legacy Ranger. Now, the heirs to the Legacy Rings must step forward to defend the world from the evil of Kalabar.

Episode In Review:

Corin finds his father knocked out on the battlefield and takes him back inside the Temple. When Zerin finally comes to, he reveals Kalabar's folly in using the power of the Rings to attack him, as doing so enabled Zerin to repossess the five Legacy Rings! Sadly, the Guardian Ranger power was destroyed, and Zerin's own Legacy Ring is now a mere relic. Zerin tells his son to locate "the descendants of Locke."

In the meantime, twenty miles east of Kataluxya in the city of Brighton, seventeen-year old Jimmy Peakes and his younger brother Kevin meet up for lunch upon getting out of class. Jimmy and Kevin are clearly very close as they playfully tease one another and punch each other on the shoulder, and it is clear that Kevin looks up to his older brother. But when they open the doors and step into the lunch room, they are startled when they find themselves in the Kataluxyan Temple. Zerin rises and welcomes the brothers (Corin is in a different part of the Temple). He tells them the history of the Kingdom of Kataluxya: Kalabar's initial attack and stealing of the Legacy Rings, his destruction of the kingdom, and, more recently, Kalabar's battle with Zerin.

Zerin explains that he took back the five Legacy Rings: red, blue, green, white, and pink; and that, should Jimmy and Kevin accept, they are the heirs to the Red and Blue Legacy Rings. Both boys feel a stirring within them; they know, without knowing how, that the power of the Rings is for them, and to a certain sense, is in them. Jimmy willingly steps forward and is given the Red Legacy Ring. Kevin, however, is not so sure. The brothers have a quiet yet tense argument as Jimmy urges Kevin to do the responsible thing. Finally, Kevin steps forward and is given the Blue Legacy Ring. They morph into their Ranger forms and receive their first training session with Master (for so he is now) Zerin. He tells them that, over time, their powers will grow strong as their Legacy Rings charge to their fullest potential.

KEVIN: "Look, Jimmy, this isn't our fight. I don't want anything to do with it."
JIMMY: "Don't do that, Kevin. You felt it inside, didn't you. I know you did." KEVIN simply sighs, avoiding JIMMY's eyes. "Come on, Kevin, it's time you took responsibility for something."
ZERIN: "Kalabar is not yet aware that the Red and Blue Rings have been activated. But he shall soon know, my friends. We must be prepared."