A/N: For those of you who absolutely loved my Sing AU story 'Power Rangers: Ninja Strike', then boy are you guys in for one heck of a treat! This is the sequel! This story will be slightly different from the last one. How you ask? The villain is not original, I will be using an old Power Rangers villain from a previous season, and the backstory as to what happened in the past will be different. This also has characters from 'Rock Dog' in here too, as well as a character from 'Power Rangers: Turbo'. Now, without further ado, let's begin. Enjoy!
For many years after the dinosaurs went extinct, the planet Earth was a desolate wasteland. The entire planet was rock, grass, mountains, lakes, and oceans for one whole century of nothing but silence. One day, a colony of beings from another world had landed on Earth, in an effort to make a new home for themselves after the destruction of their own planet. These aliens were known as the Corinthians, and they had traveled for lightyears on end, spending day after day in hyper-sleep until they found an uninhabited planet to make their new home. With them, they brought many advanced forms of technology and methods of building onto the planet. It took five years for them to build their home, a great city, much like the ones they had back on their world. The King of the Corinthians had declared that it be named after the planet they had lost eons ago. And the great city of Corinth was now completed.
As the years went by, the King of Corinth had decided that the city be under the protection of seven mighty warriors. So he assembled seven Corinthians who were the highest ranking soldiers of Corinth's royal guard, including his own daughter, the princess of Corinth herself, Dimitria, and her brother, Prince Venjix. The King had bestowed upon them powers that had been contained for millenia inside an ancient artifact that was considered to be the crown jewel of the Corinthian race, the Zeo crystal.
The seven warriors were given powerful armor made from an indestructible mineral that would bare the strength of quartz, but would be as light as a feather. Each of the sets of armor carried a unique set of powers that would aid them in battle, and had a different color to each one. These colors were Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Pink, Silver, and Gold. Dimitria was the carrier of the Pink armor, and Venjix was the carrier of the Gold. They were also gifted colossal assault vehicles known as Zords, which could aid them in battle against gigantic enemies if needed. These Zords took the shapes of a Moai, a Dogu, A Sphinx, a Taurus, a Phoenix, a Pyramid, and a Dragon. And with these incredible powers, weapons, Zords, and armor, they became Earth's first generation of guardians known as Power Rangers.
As the years passed, Prince Venjix began to have delusions. The power that came with being a Power Ranger went to his head the more he used them, and began presenting ideas to his own father that they should be expanding their empire with these powers that were given to them instead of using them to protect the weak. Disgusted, the King demanded that Venjix hand over the Gold Ranger powers, for he did not deserve them if all he saw them for was as a tool for destruction. In anger, Venjix slaughtered his father by stabbing him in the chest repeatedly. Dimitria and the other rangers battled Venjix to avenge her father and their King. Their battle took them to the wastelands outside the city. The battle left Venjix fatally wounded, his limbs dismembered, his vital organs such as his brain, heart, and lungs severely damaged, his voicebox damaged, and vision nearly damaged to the point where he was almost blind. When Venjix fell, his own sister stripped him of his Gold Ranger powers and returned them to the Zeo crystal where they would be kept for all time until a new Gold Ranger was chosen.
Venjix was left for dead and the Power Rangers returned to Corinth to mourn the death of their King. Dimitria was crowned the new Queen of Corinth, and swore that their city would not crumble before those who would seek to destroy it. Despite the fact that Venjix was on the verge of death, his limbless and damaged body managed to survive five days until someone came and found him. It was King Mondo, the King of the Machine Empire, the kingdom that was responsible for the destruction of their old planet. King Mondo ordered that Venjix be taken aboard his ship.
When Venjix awoke, he felt different. King Mondo's robotic servants had given him prosthetic limbs and organs. His voice-box had been replaced with a mechanical one, and his eyes were replaced with robotic prosthetics. Also included was a series of small thin tubes that pumped several painkilling medications throughout his body. His brain was now nothing but a computer surrounded by brain matter, microchips, and wires. And covering every last part of his body was an armored shell made out of lightweight titanium, matted with black armored alloy plates. And covering his disfigured face was a helmet with dark red tinted hexagon eyes for visors, and three sets of rectangular breathing vents for left and right sides of where his mouth would be, and above the eyes were two silver tubular mandibles much like an insect's. Grateful for restoring his body, Venjix pledged his allegiance to King Mondo, and was named his head general.
For the next ten years, the newly christened General Venjix had assisted King Mondo into building a Zord of his own to outbest the Zeo-Zords, and destroy the Power Rangers who protected Corinth. This Zord was constructed to look like a combination of a large wingless dragon and a sea-serpent. It was the exact same size as the Zeo-Zords combined, but could breathe fire and lightning, shoot deadly projectiles out of it's fingertips, fire laser beams out of a large brick red gemstone in it's chest, and use it's tail like a drill. They dubbed this Zord, Serpentera.
One more year after the creation of Serpentera, King Mondo lead an attack on Corinth, with Venjix as his guide to detecting all the weak points and flaws in Corinth's structure. Venjix lead the ground forces into battle and destroyed Corinth, using Serpentera and all it's capabilities to make the entire city nothing stone stone ruins. When he was done with the city, he slaughtered every last one of it's citizens, one by one. He showed no mercy to neither the men, women, or children of Corinth and granted them slow and painful deaths at the blade of his sword.
When he faced his former fellow ranger brethren, he slaughtered them as well. He was too strong for them to handle, all except one. Queen Dimitria, who remained the Pink Ranger even after the time of her father's death was the only Power Ranger remaining. She engaged her brother in battle, and overpowered him. It had then occurred to Venjix that he had only one weakness, despite all his new body could allow him to do, the only thing that could defeat him was a Power Ranger.
After Venjix fell in battle, Dimitria turned to face King Mondo himself, who demanded she surrender. Dimitria refused to do as the foul mechanical King demanded, and engaged him in battle. All of King Mondo's servants gathered in a large crowd around the two of them as they dueled. It was in the very moment when the battle started to grow more fiery and intense, that Dimitria disarmed King Mondo of his staff with her power sword by slicing right through his hands and wrists. Once her foe was unarmed, Dimitria slashed her blade across King Mondo's throat, removing his head in front of his subjects.
In the very moment of his King's death, Venjix immediately took command of the Machine Empire as it's Steward and ordered that they all retreat into space. Venjix and his subject fled, swearing revenge on the world that cast him out, leaving behind only one thing... Serpentera. After she achieved victory over killing King Mondo, she ran to her fallen rangers and took their powers back before they could die with them, sealing them back in the Zeo crystal, which managed to stay in-tact during the horrendous attack on the city.
Dimitria hid Serpentera deep in the depths of the ocean, where she new Venjix would never think to look. Once she had successfully hid Serpentera away, she had designed a holographic map and disguised it as a Rosetta stone which was marked top to bottom with runes of the Corinthian's ancient language. Once she had sealed the map inside the stone, she took the Zeo crystal and fled to a large cave, hidden underneath the city. She had turned the entire cave into a sanctuary to honor the memory of her fallen Power Rangers. She built statues which looked exactly like the rangers' armor, and sealed her own Pink Ranger powers in the crystal. Once the sanctuary was completed, she transferred her own consciousness inside the crystal. Now, with her spirit surrounded by the statues of her fallen ranger brothers and sisters, she rested for millenia. Many archaeologists have searched the ruins of Corinth for the sanctuary but found nothing, but Rosetta Stone containing the map to Serpentera.
-Many Years Later-
-One Year after the defeat of Ferra-Khan-
(Normal P.O.V.)
Late at night, at the bus stop, a young Tibetan Mastiff dog was just getting off. His name was Bodi, and it was his first time in the city. Bodi's eyes were chocolate brown, while his fur was light brown, and the fur that went from his lower jaw to his belly was a tan-ish color. His clothes were a green, dark green, and white wool ski-hat, a light blue nomadic shirt with white trim surrounding the collar and going down his stomach, and light red pants with no shoes, leaving him bare-pawed. He was inspired to come to the city to become a musician after hearing the music of rock and roll legend; Angus Scattergood on the radio. He even converted a traditional draymin and converted it into a conventional Western guitar by adding more strings made of yarn to it. Bodi couldn't feel more excited than he was right now, today was his first day at making his dream come true.
"Wow, it's so much bigger than I thought it would be" Bodi whispered to himself in awe. He saw all kinds of neon billboards, stores, and restaurants all over the place.
"This place is huge, look at all the animals living here" Bodi said to himself in awe once more while crossing the street when the others weren't, looking up at a large billboard for a place called the 'Moon Theater' instead of looking where he was walking. His attention was caught then a taxi passed by and honking at them.
"We have traffic laws for a reason, moron!" the taxi driver shouted before he honked at the mastiff again.
"Sorry!" he called out before running to the other side and continuing to walk. Once he got to the other side of the sidewalk, Bodi's ears perked underneath his wool cap when he heard someone screaming. He turned to a local laundromat to see the washing machines transforming into robotic soldiers with the circular door-block in the middle of their chests, and having glowing red visors as well as four arms.
"Run!" a voice screamed. It was a female fox wearing only a gray hoodie and black leggings as well as a plaid skirt and combat boots. Bodi saw that these robotic beasts were attacking her, while she stood helplessly against the wall next to the exit of a department store. Bodi then picked up his guitar off his back and began to hold it like a baseball bat, to use it as a weapon and run over in front of her.
"Hey!" he shouted, getting the attention of the robot. When Bodi was in front of the robot, it began to make pinching motions with it's four hands like a lobster.
"Leave her alone!" he screamed before he whacked the robot in the face. The robot didn't even flinch. The next time Bodi tried to hit the robot, it caught the guitar in mid-swing and ripped it to pieces right in front of him and then pushed him up against the wall with the fox.
"Please, help!" the fox shouted in fright. Bodi was shaking and whimpering like a lost little puppy. He felt like this was the day he was going to die, and that he'd never get to see his dream of becoming a musician come true.
On top of one of the buildings, watching over the attack stood six animals. Johnny Ulver, Rosita Marsh, Ash Rockwell, Gunter Moscovitz, Meena Cushing, and Mike O'Malley. To the city they appeared to be normal animalian citizens of their city, but in secret, they were the city's protectors, the Power Rangers. Ever since they were chosen by the legendary interdimensional warrior, Ninjor and defeated the power-crazed former student of Ninjor, Ferra-Khan together, they had been protecting their city from out of the ordinary threats that not even the police could handle.
"Another killer appliance attack?" Ash, the White Ranger asked.
"This has gotta be the fifth one this month" Meena, the Yellow Ranger replied.
"I know, these things just don't die" Johnny, the Red Ranger and the leader of the Power Rangers pointed out. Mike, the Black Ranger looked over at the front of the store where Bodi and the fox were pinned against.
"Guys, down there. We've got prisoners. They kinda look like kids" said Mike.
"They are kids, Mike" Ash said with an irritated voice.
"Teenagers actually, maybe somewhere near seventeen or eighteen" Gunter, the Blue Ranger replied to the others.
"They look so scared, we gotta help them!" said Rosita, the Pink Ranger in a motherly and concerned tone of voice.
"Johnny, you got a plan?" Meena asked.
"Just take them out and rescue those animals. Keep in mind, these ones aren't like the other ones so be prepared for the unexpected" the gorilla responded.
"And what do we do if there's another big one like last time?" Rosita asked.
"We'll just use the Megazord for that one. Right now, the only priority we should be having are rescuing those animals and destroying those drones" Johnny said.
"Right" Ash said before she pulled out her power morpher, which was a trapezoid-shaped belt buckle with curved edges and had a gold coin with a falcon etched into it in the center and the entire buckle was white. Everyone else did the same with their morphers, only theirs were different colors and had etchings of an Ape, a Bear, a Wolf, A Crane, and a Frog.
"It's Morphin' Time!" they all said in unison.
(Start playing 'Go Go Power Rangers' by the Power Rangers orchestra as you read this next part of the chapter, but start playing it at the 0:37 time mark)
"White Ranger Power!" Ash said, holding up her morpher and activating her White Ranger suit.
"Black Ranger Power!" said Mike before holding up his morpher and activating his own Black Ranger armor.
"Pink Ranger Power!" shouted Rosita when she put up her morpher in front of her and summoning her Pink Ranger armor onto her body.
"Blue Ranger Power!" Gunter followed, his own Blue Ranger suit clinging to his body once his morpher was held up and activated.
"Yellow Ranger Power!" chanted Meena as she held up her morpher and called forth her Yellow Ranger suit.
"Red Ranger Power!" Johnny finally said, activating his own Red Ranger suit when he held up his morpher. Once all ranger suits were activated and on the bodies of each ranger, they jumped off the edge of the tall building and landed safely on their feet in front of the robots. Normally an animal jumping from heights that high would break a bone, but due to their powers, their bones were reinforced and managed to score a safe landed.
"Don't know if you ugly heaps of metal got the memo, but laundry night's not until Saturday!" Rosita said to the menacing washing machine robots.
"So go back to whatever department store you came from and sit down on the clearance shelves!" Mike added. The other animals who were in panic before were now cheering at the sight of the Power Rangers. the fox sighed and smiled in relief, knowing that they were safe now, while Bodi was still shaking and still didn't know what was going on or why this was happening.
"Let's send these hunks of junk to the scrap yard, guys" Johnny said before extending his arm out along with the others.
"Engage power swords!" they chanted, and into their hands formed their power swords which glowed light blue like Bodi's shirt. Once armed, the rangers engaged in combat with the mechanical menaces and began chopping their arms, heads, and midsections off, as well as shooting laser stars from their gauntlets to blow them up.
"Now that's what I'm talking about! Go rangers!" the fox cheered. Bodi looked to the fox with a look of confusion on his face.
"Wait, what did you call them?" asked Bodi. She turned to Bodi and spoke to him.
"Rangers, you know... Power Rangers?" asked the fox rhetorically.
"What are Power Rangers?" he asked. Her face turned from a smile to an annoyed look.
"You're serious right now? You've seriously never heard of the Power Rangers?" the fox asked.
"Look, I really don't know anything about all this big city stuff, I'm kinda new here" Bodi said in his defense.
"Oh, well in that case... name's Darma" she said, extending her paw to Bodi.
"I'm Bodi" he responded.
"Nice to meet you. Now if you don't mind, I'd like to kick back and enjoy the show" Darma said as she continued to watch the Power Rangers fight the evil robot laundry machines. Bodi watched with her and his eyes were wide in amazement and his face adorned a wide smile. He was in awe as he watched the rangers battle this mechanical foe.
"This. Is. Awesome" Bodi muttered.
(You can stop playing the song now)
A/N: There you all go, chapter one of 'Power Rangers: Zeo' now we know all about who our main villain is, General Venjix, and the history of the ancient Power Rangers of Corinth, the Zeo crystal, Serpentera, the Machine Empire, and Dimitria. Bodi has also arrived in the city and just learned who the Power Rangers are, and he has just officially become a Power Rangers fan-dog. In the next chapter, the fight continues. By the way, Bodi and Darma are the character from 'Rock Dog' that I said would be in this story in case some of you were wondering. More to come in the next update. Please review, thanks!