The Powers That Be: EJourney

by Dragon Kaiju Prince

Lord Zedd and Emperor Gruumm have reformed the United Alliance of Evil when they have ressurrected nearly every evil villain and monster the Rangers have fought and have stolen much of the Morphing Grid's Power. It is up to the now Power-less Rangers and their new ally, Eric, to regain their lost Ranger Powers, prevent the revival of Dark Specter and stop the UAE once and for all!

1. Return of Evil

Okay, everyone, this is an idea I had for a Power Rangers fan fic that I've had for a long time and really wanted to write. This story acts as a sequel for another story I'm currently writing but hopefully new readers will be able to understand once going on, I hope you enjoy it.

The Powers that Be: Prologue

In the year 2026, technology had advanced a great deal and extraterrestrial beings began to colonize on Earth's surface, living peacefully side by side with its human inhabitants…well…most of the time anyway…Unfortunately with the flow of commerce between Earth and other worlds, criminal activity had also increased. To counter this, the Earth's armed forces founded Space Patrol Delta was founded to counter such threats. SPD was in itself a powerful military and police force that utilized the Universal Morphing Grid's powers to strengthen their forces.

The past year had been very stressful for SPD, the evil alien Emperor Gruumm and his Troobian Empire had lead massive invasions against other worlds, conquering them and plundering them of their resources then destroying them whenever they proved no longer useful. Gruumm had finally set his eyes on Planet Earth, as it was here where Gruumm's archenemy, anthropomorphic dog Anubis "Doggie" Krueger, was stationed as commander over SPD. Gruumm assaulted Earth, rallying the worst alien criminals and mercenaries to his aid to attack SPD and to plunder Earth's resources, but in the end Gruumm and his forces, along with many other non-associating criminals, were defeated and arrested by Kruger and his personal team, the B-Squad.

But something was about to happen that would change not only Earth, but the cosmos as a whole. In the skies above New Tech City, where SPD's main headquarters were situated, a massive vortex appeared in the skies above the city's main prison. It was a wormhole through the space/time continuum and something descended from it. An immensely evil presence had appeared in the city. A being composed of strong, red muscular tissue held together by a silver exoskeleton and tubes. His brain was visible at the crown of a horrid mask composed of a silver mouth plate and red visor. In his hands he held a long silver staff with a letter Z mounted at its top. This was none other than the malevolent Lord Zedd and after traveling through time and space he was ready to put the next step in

The evil overlord glanced at his surroundings, "Hmm…so this is what Angel Grove will be like in twenty years…yuck…the air is too clean and there's not a sign of evil anywhere. It's time I changed that!" Zedd casually strolled up to the prison gates. Security officers quickly arrived, but when they got a good look at their intruder fear struck them. Zedd glared at them, "Fools, I'm the Galactic Overlord of Evil, I have fought the Power Rangers over many lifetimes, do you really think I'm going to surrender to nobodies like you?" Zedd pointed the tip of his staff at the security guards and a stream of electricity poured out from the staff and blasted the security guards. Zedd laughed evilly at how easily he was proceeding.

As he passed through the halls Zedd noticed many of the alien criminals incarcerated in cells. "Hmm…these fools could provide some distraction," the overlord of evil thought to himself and raised his staff again and blasted each cell as he passed by. "I have set you all free, now go and spread evil and chaos throughout the city!" Zedd commanded. The criminals did not need to be told twice and scurried towards the exits. Finally Zedd came upon the two cells that he was looking for. In one cell held an equally evil-looking alien, he had a demonic skull-like face with two broken horns sprouting from each side of his head and had glowing red eyes. It was difficult to tell if he was actually made of bone or if it was his actual flesh. This was the leader of the Troobian Empire, Emperor Gruumm!

In the other cell sat a more unusual-looking alien. He had a bat-like face and a third eye on his forehead, encased in a cylindrical-shaped glass dome with a liquid artificial environment functioning within it as he could not survive in Earth's environment. He wore a long black cape and red and black spandex clothing. This was the alien mercenary Broodwing.

"Greetings Emperor Gruumm and Broodwing. I, Lord Zedd, would like to strike and offer with you in exchange for your freedom!" Zedd announced.

Broodwing quickly sprung to his feet, "Well it's about time, get me out of here!" Broodwing screeched eagerly.

Gruumm had a quite different attitude, turning his head away from the overlord, "Humph, the Emperor of the Troobian Empire does not need the assistance of some petty tyrant, such matters are beneath me!"

Zedd gripped his staff tightly, angered by Gruumm's response. "Be careful how you speak to me, fool! Emperor or not, you should not underestimate my power! Now I would advise you to reconsider my proposition, especially since it involves the conquest of Earth and the destruction of the Power Rangers!" Zedd growled, restraining his anger.

At this the Emperor glanced at Lord Zedd, raising an eyebrow in slight interest. From the cell next door Broodwing piped in, "Even better, I'm on board if you would just let me out!"

"Hmm…well…since you put it that way…I suppose if you have a plan for domination of the world and ridding it of those colored brats, it wouldn't hurt to lend you my aid," Gruumm said calmly, belying his true emotions. Deep down skeleton-like warlord was eager for revenge.

"That's more like it, now, stand back and I will release you," Zedd commanded. Both Broodwing and Gruumm complied. Zedd again pointed the tip of his staff at the two cells and unleashed another powerful magic blast, destroying the bars of the cells. Gruumm and Broodwing emerged from the smoke of the ruined cells. Suddenly the ground shook. Zedd growled in slight irritation, "What under the moon was that?"

Broodwing clasped his hands together, "Hmm…it seems the other prisoners have found the giant robots that were stored beneath the prison."

Gruumm stamped his foot in anger, "Never mind that, I need to get my staff and cycle back, lead me to the armory and I will join you. Zedd grumbled but agreed and the trio of villains headed to the armory and retrieved Gruumm's own staff, a green and black scepter with a crystal at its top.

Gruumm then found his motorcycle, a rusty green bike with laser cannons equipped to it. "This piece of junk is your bike?" Zedd snarled in disgust.

"It may not be the most attractive vehicle, but like myself it is powerful, now move out of the way as I clear a path!" Gruumm boarded his cycle and fired the lasers on his bike at a nearby wall, creating a hole. Gruumm laughed maniacally and zoomed towards the exit.

Broodwing turned to Lord Zedd, "I guess it's time for us to fly," the bat spread his arms and his cape transformed into a pair of leathery wings and he flew after Gruumm.

"Hey! Wait a minute! I hold the keys to our escape! Wait for me!" Lord Zedd shouted as he ran to catch up with them.

"Sir, we have an emergency!" At the SPD Delta Command Base, alarms blared alerting its staff of the chaos that was emerging. At the base's main terminal was one of its senior staffs, Katherine "Kat" Manx. She appeared to be a beautiful young woman, but her feline ears and teeth betrayed her extraterrestrial identity.

"What's the status of the wormhole?" A gruff male voice asked. It was the Supreme Commander of SPD, Anubis Krueger himself. Like Kat he too was an extraterrestrial, he had the head of a canine, covered in blue fur. He wore a black and blue police uniform. On his belt was a scabbard that held his personal weapon, the Shadow Saber.

Kat glanced at her commander and replied, "The wormhole appears to be stabilizing, but I'm afraid another emergency has arisen. There is a commotion at the New Tech City prison, security there has been trounced and many of the prisoners have escaped and are now invading the city.

Krueger growled, "We spent all year rounding up those criminals and all of a sudden this wormhole appears and they begin to escape! Kat, summon the B-Squad, we're going to have to take the fight to them!"

Gruumm stood outside the prison, standing beside a hole Gruumm had created in the wall with his weapons. Moments later Lord Zedd himself came jogging out the same hole, panting all the way. "Blast it…I need to…really get back…into shape…" the overlord panted. The ground once again quaked, gaining Zedd's attention to what Gruumm was looking at. Several giant robots stomped throughout the city.

One giant robot had a triangle-shaped body, blade arms and a shark-like head and was piloted by a vine-like alien criminal, a second was a tank with two large spears at its sides and powered by an enormous turbine and was piloted by the alien criminal Green Eyes, a third was orange and yellow and resembled a toy robot and was piloted by Token, a gray alien with large black eyes, the fourth giant robot was black and gray in color and had a pair of large bat-like ears and fought like a ninja and was piloted by the hairy, purple alien named Wootox, the fifth was orange in color and had drills for fingers and a nose, it was piloted by the green and purple plant-like alien criminal , the sixth was a giant gladiator that wielded a spear in its right hand and a round shield in its left and was piloted by Praxis, an alien that was blue in color and had a star-shaped head, the seventh giant robot was called Marato and it resembled a giant dresser and was piloted by a female alien with spotted eyes, a tiny green alien criminal named Invador piloted a black and white robot with a visor and bulky body and the last was a silver and the last giant robot was a gold angel-like machine that wielded a spear and was piloted by Entangi, an alien criminal made out of poisonous gas.

"Well, this is quite a sight now isn't it?" Zedd commented

"At least they're putting all my well-paid robots to good use, with them distracting SPD, we can make out escape!" Gruumm growled. After saying that Gruumm and Zedd glanced around them, "Where is that overgrown kite, Broodwing, anyway?" Gruumm asked in annoyance.

"RIGHT HERE!" replied Broodwing's voice from an intercom. Out of the ground burst a giant orange drill on tank treads. When it settled into place a ramp opened up on it side, leading to a door inside the drill. "GET IN, QUICKLY!" Broodwing's voice shouted from a speaker inside the drill. Gruumm drove his bike inside with Lord Zedd not far behind. The two of them met Broodwing in the cockpit. "So tell us, oh mighty Lord Zedd, what's your plan?" Broodwing asked.

"I will use the wormhole I created to send us to another point in time." Lord Zedd replied, pointing at the wormhole.

"Time travel never sat well with me," Gruumm commented.

"Well this time I have a plan, just enter the wormhole and we'll be on our way," Zedd commanded.

"As you wish," Broodwing piloted his drill machine into the wormhole. Not far behind several more giant robots that had just arrived followed them into the wormhole as well.

Not long afterward SPD had begun its operation, summoning five giant-sized police vehicles, the Delta Zords, which then combined together to form the Delta Squad Megazord, a giant robot that resembled a robotic police officer. The Delta Base itself also armed itself for battle; several large turrets on its sides began firing massive laser blasts at the robots. The combined might of the Delta Squad Megazord and the Delta Base was able to destroy the giant robots and the B-Squad was able to capture the criminals piloting them, containing them inside cards.

"Sir, we've successfully captured the criminals attacking the city!" Sky Tate, the Red Ranger of B-Squad, reported.

"Well done, Rangers, but that was not all of the criminals that escaped from the prison," Kat explained the situation to the Rangers.

"Not to mention that two of the criminals that escaped were Broodwing and Gruumm, if they are on the loose once again we could have a serious problem on our hands, hopefully we'll be able to capture them before they amass their former strength."

Meanwhile in the Year 2005

"Chan, you're always the one to crash the party!" Drago said, almost welcoming Jackie Chan's arrival. The museum transformed into a warzone, the American Dragon Team joined forces with Section 13 to battle the Hunts Clan while all three forces dealt with Drago and his posse. Amidst the turmoil no one noticed the ghostly claw reaching out from the shrine where the Dino Gems had originally been placed. The spiritual appendage pulled its host from the rock, a ghostly creature without shape or mass that drifted away unseen. Just as the spirit floated past Eric, the young dragon felt a chill in the air, and it was like the chill one gets from a sudden breeze or from the air conditioner, this was different, he felt it in his soul. Eric glanced around him trying to discern the source. Just as quickly as Eric felt the chill was gone, not able to find the source Eric shrugged his shoulders and prepared for the coming brawl.

The spirit made its way over the Pacific Ocean and to an island where the ruins of a laboratory stood. "My base could use some sprucing," Using its psychic powers the spirit restored the building to its former glory and entered. Upon entering the main lab the spirit regained its physical form. The creature was a hybrid of human and dinosaur; it had the head of a predatory dinosaur, scaly skin and clawed hands, but stood upright and wore clothing like a human and it wore a black lab coat. It was none other than Mesogog himself.

The saurian villain's eyes scanned the room and came upon a class container filled with green fluid. Inside the container was a tiny man, garbed in black centipede-themed ninja garb, this was Lothor, the former leader of the Space Ninja Army. "There you are," Mesogog hissed as he picked up the container. He then moved to a machine that stood in the corner of the room. It was a chamber with revolving doors and almost every machine in the room was connected to it. This was the Geno-Randomizer, a device that could collect DNA samples and used them to create monstrous mutations. Mesogog had previously used this machine to create monsters to help him take over the Earth.

Mesogog typed a few keys on a nearby pad which caused the machine's doors to open. He then placed Lothor's container inside the machine and typed a few more keys, the doors closed and the Geno-Randomizer hummed to life. Smoke vented out of the machine to alert its use. After about a minute the machine's doors opened and smoke flooded out of the machine and Lothor, now in full human size stomped angrily out of the machine. The ninja master of the dark arts gritted his teeth and glared at Mesogog. "You…" he growled, clenching his fists.

"Do not be fooled, Lothor, I am not the same Mesogog that shrank you and encased you in that jar, I am a clone," Mesogog announced.

"I don't care how many of you there are, one Mesogog is too many and I plan to make you lizards lounge!" Lothor shouted angrily. He paused a moment when the realization of his words hit him. "Wow…that was very cheesy, who's writing this story?"

"Enough!" Mesogog snarled, "Before you consider destroying me I have a proposition, one that can benefit us both in realizing our goals."

"The other Mesogog said the same thing, how do I know you aren't going to turn against me too?" Lothor asked.

A glint appeared in Mesogog's eye, "Can you really afford to pass up a chance to finally rid the universe of the Power Rangers?" asked Mesogog.

Lothor growled in defeat, Mesogog had him stumped, "Well, you have a point; I can never resist punishing superheroes that wear many colors."

"Then come along." After that a small green wormhole, roughly the size of a pumpkin, appeared behind Mesogog "This invisi-portal should take you to your destination," Mesogog explained, motioning to the wormhole.

"Aren't you coming?" Lothor asked.

"There are some matters that I must attend to first," Mesogog replied.

"You're not coming through the same portal I'm about to enter, that's a bad sign, this better not be a trap or so help me I'll come back and find you and make a new pair of leather boots!" Lothor threatened.

"Duly noted," Lothor then extended his hand towards the portal, which immediately sucked him in and disappeared. Another invisi-portal appeared next to Mesogog. "I better make this quick, I really despise the cold." Mesogog then entered the new invisi-portal. On the other side Mesogog arrived in a cavern of ice. "So, this was Flurious' lair, could use some sprucing up!" The dinosaur-man scanned the floor quickly, hoping to end his search immediately. Nearby he found a horned helmet encrusted in ice, it was the villain Moltor's helmet. "Yes, this is what I was looking for," he hissed as he snatched up the helmet. With his prize in hand he leapt back into the invisi-portal he originally created.

In another location beyond time and space Broodwing marched towards an enormous temple the Temple of Power. Behind him he lead a small battalion of monsters, criminals that he and Lord Zedd had freed from SPD's prison in the year 2025 as well as Time Force's prison in the year 3000. Among this group were among those that served the Troobian Empire, they included a red-skinned alien wearing white space-armor named Valko, who was known for destroying entire worlds. Others from the Troobian Empire was a cobalt-colored alien with spiky hair named Mysticon, as well as Mysticon's assistant, a large green lizard-like alien named Al and a muscular, red-skinned demonic alien named alien named Demondor. Along with them were the four X-Vault prisoners from Time Force's prison: One was a tall spiky mutant, the right half of his body was red while the other half was white, in his right hand he carried a jagged sword while in his left he carried a laser rifle, this was the criminal Vexicon. Another was a tall, brown ogre with a mushroom-shaped head and antennae, it was the criminal Univolt. Another prisoner with them was a fat, hairy creature named Hairball and the last as a gray, insect-like mutant with sharp, needle-like teeth and wielded a sword: Venomark, a deadly mutant whose bite could deliver a potent and painful toxin.

Long ago Zordon and other powerful heroes of good created the Universal Morphing Grid, an enormous network that distributed power, energy and information across the universe and was the very source of power for all morphers used by individuals to become Power Rangers. This place, the Temple of Power, was the wellspring of the Morphing Grid where all dormant and active Ranger powers rested.

"We're here," Broodwing announced, "within this temple lay the dormant powers of the Morphing Grid and on this day that power will be ours!" The small but powerful group of criminals cheered.

From out of the temple streaked two beams of light that landed in front of the group of monsters. The silver light materialized into a fit warrior that wore silver and white spandex armor, this was the Omega Ranger, the guardian of the Temple of Power. The gold beam of light materialized into a knight wearing golden and black armor and wore a red cape, this was the Sentinel Knight. The two warriors stood in defiance of Broodwing and the other criminals. "So, the welcoming committee has arrived," Broodwing snickered sarcastically.

"Yes, and you are certainly most unwelcome to this sacred place, leave at once!" The Sentinel Knight ordered. Broodwing said nothing and pointed his clawed hand at the two warriors and fired an electrical charge at them but the two deflected the blast with their armor. "It looks like we'll have to do this hard way."

"Attack!" The eight criminals charged at the two guardians and the two factions engaged in a martial arts brawl.

Being seasoned warriors the Omega Ranger and Sentinel Knight were able to hold them off. "Omega Ranger, be careful, the only one we should worry about is Venomark, his bite can pierce your armor and infect you, I'll deal with the mutants as my armor is more durable," the Knight suggested

"Good idea," the Omega Ranger slashed his sword at the two brothers then charged at Valko, who parried his strike with his scissor-like gauntlet. Vexicon and Univolt aimed their weapons at the Sentinel Knight and fired but the knight deflected their attacks and charged at them. He delivered a sucker punch to Vexicon, sending the villain reeling and delivered a roundhouse kick to Univolt, gaining a similar result. While this was going on Broodwing opened his bat-like wings and flew up the stairs and into the Temple of Power.

The Omega Ranger delivered a swift barrage of punches against Al and Valko. Not able to withstand the Ranger's attack, the two fainted and their bodies glowed and reverted their bodies into the containment cards they were originally encased in. Just before fainting Valko growled, "It's a good thing I came with a backup plan just in case I'm defeated, take this Ranger," Valko then took out a small device and pressed a red button before he too fell and exploded and reverted back into a containment card. Nearby the Sentinel Knight slashed Univolt with his sword, this was too much for the mutant to handle. When defeated, mutants shrunk down to the size of an action figure for easier containment, this too happened to Univolt.

Venomark leapt on the Sentinel Knight and attempted to bite him, but the mutant's needle-like fangs could not pierce the knight's armor. "Drat! I can't bite you!" The mutant then spotted the Omega Range fighting, "maybe I'll have better luck against him!" Venomark then leapt off the Knight and headed for the Omega Ranger.

"No!" The Sentinel Knight pursued Venomark.

"Hey, focus on what you're doing!" Hairball grunted as he aimed his bazooka at the knight and fired a missile. Just in time the knight saw the bazooka missile and did a back flip kick, sending the missile into Venomark, the mutant was dispatched.

"Hey, boss, I think it's time we upped the stakes against these guys," Demondor growled to Mysticon.

"Good idea, you soften them up for a bit while I summon the robot Broodwing sold me," Mysticon replied as he scurried away. The next moment Demondor received a powerful punch from the Sentinel Knight, defeating him and transforming him into a card.

"Well, it looks like that guy may have the right idea, let's get serious!" Vexicon said removing the tab covering up his mutant DNA, this allowed him to grow to gigantic size as well. The other mutants also removed their tags and grew to giant size. Nearby another giant form appeared. It was an enormous white and gold-colored knight that carried a round shield and spear, basically a re-colored version of the gladiator robot that Praxis piloted when Lord Zedd freed Gruumm and Broodwing from SPD's prison.

"This doesn't look good," the Omega Ranger said.

"It looks like we'll have to even the odds!" The Sentinel Knight said in agreement and with that he transformed into golden light that expanded to giant size, the Knight's light turned into a giant golden sword, the golden sword Excelsior. The sword was controlled by the will of the Sentinel Knight and could fly; it first locked onto the Cannon Gladiator robot and flew at it. The giant robot fired a multitude of lasers at the sword but this did nothing to stop the sword's trajectory. The sword rammed right through the robot, destroying it and defeating its pilot. The sword then flew at Venomark and Hairball, slicing through the two mutants and defeating them, shrinking them down to their action-figure size. When the sword flew at Vexicon the giant mutant parried the sword with his own and deflected the golden sword, causing it to crash into the ground. The giant golden sword transformed into a giant, muscular version of the Sentinel Knight. The knight faced Vexicon just in time to block the mutant's sword attack.

Inside the Temple of Power Broodwing and a group of his foot soldiers, the gray colored robots known as Krybots, scoured the halls. On neatly arranged pedestals sat various crystals, each containing a generation's worth of the Morphing Grid's power, each generation of Power Rangers drew on these crystals to fuel their power. "Yes, this is just what we've been looking for, Krybots, begin excavating!" The Krybots went to work, plucking the crystals off their pedestals and gently placed them in cases brought specifically for this mission. Broodwing could hear the progress of the battle outside and the sounds of explosions the battle caused. "Quickly, we don't have much time, we must collect as much of the Ranger power as we can!"

Vexicon aimed his rifle at the Sentinel Knight and fired a round of laser blasts but the knight was able to collect the blasts in his hands and then hurled the gathered energy back at him and stunning him. The X-Vault prisoner glared down at the Sentinel Knight. Vexicon pointed his rifle at the knight and continually fired his rounds at him but the Knight charged forward, deflecting the laser bullets. When the Knight came close enough Vexicon swung his sword, slashing at the knight several times but the Knight parried each of Vexicon's blows. After another slash of Vexicon's sword, the Sentinel Knight saw an opening and delivered a sucker punch into the mutant's chin, causing him to stagger backwards a few steps. Finally the Knight summoned his power and delivered a one-two punch from each hand and a roundhouse kick from each leg, each exertion of muscles sent an energy wave from the Knight's limbs that smashed into Vexicon. The mutant cried out in pain, his energy completely spent causing him to revert into a figurine.

With their last opponent defeated the Omega Ranger withdrew some items, cryonic-containers for all four mutants that they battled and a briefcase to store the rest of the criminals' cards in. "Good job, we did it!" Omega Ranger shouted triumphantly. The Sentinel Knight nodded in agreement and gave the Ranger a thumbs-up. Suddenly the ground began to quake. Nearby an enormous fissure opened up in the ground and a colossal metal spherical creature emerged, this was Goradon, a cybernetic beast that Valko summoned at the last second before being defeated.

Goradon was an enormous creature, much larger than any of the giant mutants and robots that the Sentinel Knight and Omega Ranger had been fighting. The beast's ravenous maw made up most of its body while six clawed tentacles emerged from its sides. Goradon roared viciously and eyed the broken remains of the Robot of Destruction. The Sentinel Knight charged into battle against the giant cyborg, launching a barrage of punches and kicks at it but Goradon's metallic hide endured each blow. Goradon let out an annoyed grunt and turned towards the Knight and roared. The beast whipped its tentacles, bashing the Sentinel Knight before snatching him up in its claws. Goradon sent an electrical surge through its tendrils and into the Knight, electrocuting him before tossing his weakened form aside like a giant ragdoll.

"Sentinel Knight!" Omega Ranger cried out in worry. Goradon turned toward the Robot of Destruction and snatched up the giant machine in its claws and began devouring it. "There must be a way to stop Goradon…" Omega Ranger wondered to himself. As a guardian of the Ranger powers he was familiar with the exploits of those who wielded them. Omega recalled the time when the SPD Rangers fought Goradon, they needed to shut down the creature's power source in order to defeat it, but Goradon didn't seem to have an exterior power source this time. "Well, I guess these calls for an inside job!" The Omega Ranger leapt up onto the Robot of Destructions remains and jumped into Goradon's massive mouth. Once inside the Omega Ranger scanned his environment, seeing how Goradon's inner mechanisms worked. Unsheathing his sword, the Omega Ranger sliced through the cyborg's innards until he finally reached its nerve center. "All right, I have to give it all I've got!" The Omega Ranger focused his power into his arms and his weapon and slashed through the wires and circuits that served as Goradon's nerve system.

Outside Goradon roared in pain while its movements became jerky. The Sentinel Knight began to recover from his thrashing just in time to see small explosions rock Goradon's body. The Knight rose to his feet and delivered a hefty punch into Goradon's body, this time smashing a huge hole in the beast's frame. Reaching inside the Sentinel Knight retrieved the Omega Ranger and dashed to safety as Goradon was engulfed in a massive explosion. "That was too close," the Sentinel Knight exclaimed.

The Omega Ranger nodded in agreement, "Yes, but now we have to stop the one pulling he strings!" The knight nodded and with that the two transformed into beams of light and zoomed back into the temple. When they arrived they saw Broodwing and a group of Krybots place some of the power crystals that contained the Ranger powers in a special briefcase. "Stop, Broodwing, those powers are not meant for the likes of you!"

"I've been promised a generous pay if I deliver these to my charge, so I'm not letting these go," Broodwing then reached into his cloak and pulled out an orange spiked ball, "but as a consolation prize, let me offer you this!" The alien criminal then tossed the ball, which then split apart and became another group of Krybots, these ones had orange body and were more heavily armored and had spiky heads. "Deal with them while I make my escape," Broodwing ordered as he snatched up the briefcase and flew down the halls.

The two guardians called out for him to stop but the group of Krybots blocked their path, "You're not going anywhere!" Broodwing made his way out of the temple and to his armored drill vehicle that was parked outside. The Omega Ranger and Sentinel Knight quickly dispatched the Krybots but just as they made it outside it was too late, Broodwing's drill machine disappeared into a magical portal.

"This is certainly bad news, if an evil such as Broodwing were able to harness the powers of the Morphing Grid, the results would be catastrophic."

Long ago when Zordon created the Morphing Grid, those who wielded its powers cursed their enemies, the United Alliance of Evil, who drew their power from the depths of Hell. The curse bound these evil beings to a particular region of underworld known sometimes as the Shadow World. The foul spirits of all the monsters and minions that served under the UAE were cast into this place. Powerful generals and warlords of the UAE sought to open passage ways into the Shadow World to resurrect their fallen minions to serve their purposes. Outside of Blue Bay Harbor, California there lay one such passage known as the Abyss of Evil, an immensely deep and hidden pit that lead all the way down into the depths of the underworld. To make sure know evil would come from the Abyss the Morphing Masters, ancient warriors who first wielded the Morphing Grid's powers to become Power Rangers, established the Wind and Thunder Ninja Academies in what is now Blue Bay Harbor. But both schools could never predict what would happen soon.

In a green field outside of Blue Bay Harbor lay the Abyss of Evil, but the deep cavern had closed and sealed up since the last time it had opened about a year or so ago. At where the sealed entrance of the abyss gathered some of the survivors of the UAE, among them were Lord Zedd, Mesogog, Lothor and Emperor Gruumm along with some newcomers. One of the villains gathered was Zedd's father-in-law, Master Vile. Vile was a tall black and gold demon that wore a black cloak and spectacles, had a skull-like face and bat-like ears, he carried a wand and had snakes wriggling under his cloak, another newcomer was Zedd's brother-in-law and Vile's son, Rito Revolto. Rito was a bizarre-looking humanoid skeleton that wore an army helmet and carried a bone sword, half of his body was bone white and the other was military camouflage.

Another newcomer was a silly-looking half-man, half-fly with a pointy nose and wore goggles, this was Jinxer, one of the demons that served Queen Bansheera, along with Jinxer was another demon that served Bansheera's demons, a human-like demon that wore Greco-roman armor, one half was clean and polished while the other half looked decrepit and decayed, a rhinoceros-like monster's head was mounted on his left shoulder, this creature was simply known as the Gatekeeper of the Shadow World. The last newcomer there was Moltor, an ancient half-human, half-dragon creature. Moltor appeared human in many ways but had red, scaly dragon skin and claws, he wore red armor and had a Viking-like helmet while a backpack with a pair of swords sheathed inside.

"I just received word from Broodwing, he says he will join us shortly," Gruumm announced.

"Good, as we wait we can begin our meeting!" Zedd replied.

"Zedd, you incompetent tin-head, what is this plan of yours?" Master Vile grunted impatiently.

"Yeah, Ed, what's with all the secrecy?" Rito piped in.

Zedd clenched his fist angrily at his father and brother in law, exasperated by Rito's stupidity and Vile's condescending attitude towards him. "My brothers in ill will and survivors of Z-wave," Zedd began, "I have invited you all here because we all share common goals: we all seek the domination of the galaxy, and most of all we seek the destruction of the Power Rangers!" After Zedd finished his sentence his Z-staff sparked with passionate energy, fueled by Zedd's hatred of the Power Rangers from even mentioning them.

"Too true, Lord Zedd," Jinxer piped in, "those power punks have been a thorn in our sides for far too long!" All the other villains nodded in agreement.

"Yes they have, little fly man, but I have come up with a grand scheme, one that could finally rid us of them once and for all!" Zedd boldly proclaimed. With this the other villains had mixed reactions, Rito and Jinxer gasped in surprise while Master Vile and Lothor stroked their chins in intrigue, Mesogog stood unfazed.

"Tell me something, Lord Zedd," Gruumm started, "how do you propose to put an end to the Rangers? My entire empire waged war with SPD for just over a year and we found no success, even after my grand plan fell into place."

"I am well aware of you exploits, Troobian Emperor," Lord Zedd replied, "I've traveled through the time-stream and have watched each and every one of you wage war against them, but you must remember that the majority of your forces were battling SPD in another galaxy while you required the help of common criminals and thugs to attack Earth," Zedd retorted, he then turned towards the others, "although our powers are indeed mighty individually, we still could not defeat the Rangers, but should we unite our already formidable powers I'm sure we can win!"

"Now wait a minute!" Moltor butted in, "Your son, Thrax, preached the same sermons to my brother and me and to several other villains we were with, and it didn't work the last time, what makes you think YOU can succeed, old man?"

"And for that matter, if you could travel through time, why couldn't you have just erased the Rangers from history?" Master Vile asked

Zedd groaned, "My son, Thrax, was a bubble-head, a pest, his ambition to follow in my footsteps was admirable but he obviously got his brains from his Uncle Rito."

Rito couldn't help but smile and scratched the back of his head sheepishly, "Aww gee thanks, Ed, that statement really means a lot to me."

Zedd groaned, "As I was saying, we will not only unite together, but to also all of our past forces to combat the Rangers, that is why I have brought you here, to the Abyss of Evil, a passage way to the netherworld where all of our fallen minions were cast into when they were destroyed.

"So you plan to resurrect all of our monsters and soldiers," Lothor stated, "no offense, Zedd, but I already tried this plan, and it didn't work so well."

"Perhaps, but there is more to my plan than just resurrecting all of our past minions and generals," Lord Zedd started to explain, "I plan to resurrect the Great Monarch of All Evil himself!"

Master Vile gasped as he was the only villain present old and wise enough to understand Zedd's meaning, "You plan to bring back the Dark Specter himself? Is such a thing even possible?"

"I believe it is, but like I said before, we're all going to need to work together in order to pull this off, but as of right now our powers can only tap into the upper layers of the abyss, we cannot penetrate the lower layers where the Dark Specter's spirit dwells, we will need to open up the abyss partially to allow some of our armies to come forth, then we can begin gathering enough power to accomplish this."

"So, that's why you had me collect the Ranger powers," the villains turned just in time to see Broodwing stroll into the area.

"Not exactly, the reason we need the Ranger powers is to strengthen our own troops and to weaken the Rangers, we will need even more power to do this," Lord Zedd continued, "our power grows from humanity's fear of us, and I know just who can fully exploit this." Lord Zedd then turned his attention to where the Abyss of Evil was sealed. "So I ask you, my fellow doers of evil, will you help me?"

The other villains turned to one another, whispering amongst themselves. The first one to speak up was Master Vile, "Zedd, I still think you are an incompetent fool, but these are desperate times that we face; I must see to it that this plan of yours succeeds."

Rito immediately stepped forward after Vile spoke, "I'm with you, dad, and I'm with you Eddy, if you think this plan will work I'm behind you!"

The other villains again whispered amongst themselves, some of them nodding in agreement. "I don't know much about what you are talking about," Moltor began, "but if you have a plan that may rid us of the Power Rangers then count me in!" The other villains nodded in agreement.

Lord Zedd was very pleased by this outcome, "Yes, you've made a very wise choice, my friends, now, focus all of your evil energy on seal and let us open the Abyss of Evil!"

Lord Zedd pointed the tip of his Z-Staff at the ground, Master Vile did the same with his wand and Emperor Gruumm did the same with his staff while Rito pointed the tip of his sword while Jinxer pointed his cane, each villain unleashed a stream of energy from their respective weapons. While they did this, Lothor focused his jiujutsu power and summoned his own energy from his hands while Mesogog sent a stream of mental energy at the seal. This combination of powers slammed into the seal. The ground began to quake and an enormous crevice opened up in the ground, this was the entrance to the Abyss of Evil. The crevice opened into a deep pit with lavender toxic gases wafting from it. Several phantoms emerged from the abyss and transformed into various monsters, these were some of the monsters from Lothor's Evil Space Ninja Army.

Suddenly four thin, wire-like tendrils extended from the abyss and clutched onto the mouth of the crevice. "Pull me out, pull me out!" a feminine, screeching voiced shouted.

"Could it be?" Jinxer and the Gatekeeper ran to the crevice and grabbed the tendrils and pulled. The tentacles were the fingers of a new demon that emerged from the abyss. The demon was feminine in appearance with a wicked fanged mouth and two large horns extending from her head. "Oh my, it is you, Queen Bansheera!" Jinxer shouted almost joyfully.

"Welcome, queen of the demons," Lord Zedd proclaimed, "your assistance will greatly be appreciated!"

"Hmm…Lothor's Evil Space Ninja Army seems impressive," Mesogog said, "but I believed that our army would be…larger…"

"If it's an army you want…" Queen Bansheera shrieked, "allow me to assist you!" The queen demon's body began to glow with energy and the energy diverted from her and transformed into three new demons, one was a tall golden devil with a skull-like face for a body and curving horns around his cone-shaped head and carried a staff with a skull-like design at its top, this was Diabolico. Another demon had a blue, muscular body and a white pair of horns on his head and carried at two-pronged staff, this was Loki, an earth-based demon. The last demon was a half-human, half-dragon hybrid; he had a white face, glowing green eyes, green gems on the side of his neck and a golden breastplate with a red star embedded in its center, the dragon also carried a staff with a blade at each end, this was the Dragon Prince of Fire, Olympius.

"Okay, so we have a few more monsters, but it's going to take a lot more than that to defeat the Power Rangers," Master Vile stated.

"We'll be getting to that part soon enough," Lord Zedd replied, he then peered into the abyss' dark depths, "we call upon the Master of the Underworld!"

Within the depths the image of a truly evil and grotesque monster appeared, it was a black and red fallen-angel like being that had a skull-like face and black tendrils for wings. "Who calls upon me?"

"Master of the Underworld, we humbly request that you relinquish the spirit of Dai Shi from your dark depths so that he may help us fulfill our plans to fully open the abyss."

The monster in the abyss hissed, "Very well, Dai Shi's spirit will be returned to the world above, but in return you must find a way to open another door into my domain. The Forces of Darkness and the Pantheon of Terror, my followers, will need a way to escape the Underworld and return to the surface to wreak vengeance on those that offended us!" With that the Master's image disappeared.

Within moments another phantom arose from the abyss, it was a golden dragon-like spirit that hovered in the air above. "Who has called the King of Beasts back into this world?"

"Dai Shi, enemy of humanity, we ask for your aid in the war against the Power Rangers, as a tribute to you we offer you the powers of the Animal Spirits that the Rangers used against you!" Lord Zedd proclaimed.

Gruumm glanced back at Broodwing, "I believe that's your cue." Broodwing stepped forward and opened the briefcase, revealing its contents. Dai Shi peered inside and eyed the various crystals that stored the Ranger powers of the past.

"Yes, this power will definitely be useful to me," Dai Shi opened his draconic maw and began swallowing up some of the Ranger power for himself. "I will now bestow the power on the Animal Spirits upon my followers, the Rinshi, as well as my more powerful followers: the three Overlords and the Phantom Beasts!" Dai Shi then summoned a bolt of lightning that streaked down into the abyss, summoning even more phantoms, the phantoms then materialized, the majority of them transformed into gray, humanoid creatures, these were the Rinshi, Dai Shi's foot-soldiers, some of them wielded the powers of the animal spirits and thus transformed into animal-like monsters. Three of the phantoms materialized into statues, one statue was of a half-man, half-bird warrior that wielded a halberd, and this was the Sky Overlord Carnisoar. The second statue resembled a woman that wore priestess robes and had a jellyfish theme about her, her name was Jellica. The last statue resembled a very muscular demon with the images of grizzly bears carved into the shoulders of his armor, his name was Grizzaka. Behind the three overlords materialized into four more terracotta statues, these statues resembled a combination of beetles and humans, they were the Phantom Guards. Eleven more phantoms emerged from the abyss and transformed into eleven green eye-like orbs that landed in the hands of the statues of the three Overlords and the four Phantom Guards, these were the Crystal Eyes that contained the spirits of the Phantom Beasts.

Dai Shi's spirit rumbled viciously, the dragon spirit turned towards his army of monsters, "Go, my followers, prepare my palace for my arrival, and take the Overlords and the Phantom Beasts with you to prepare for my ultimate arrival!" with that Dai Shi jetted into the skies, disappearing from sight.

Not long after that another portal appeared nearby and a new villainous being appeared, he was a black-colored demon with gears coming out of his body in various places; this was the Time Demon, Chronos. "Lord Zedd, I bring you news," Chronos said in a somewhat comical voice.

"Ah, yes, my time-traveling friend, Chronos, what is it?" Lord Zedd asked.

"Your plan is quite impressive, but there are some complications that I must address."

"Complications, you say?" Lord Zedd asked indignantly.

"I should have known your plan had flaws to it," Master Vile rebuked while Lord Zedd clutched his staff tightly.

Without another word Chronos swiped his hand in the air creating a window in time that showed an image from another part of time and space. In the image a reddish-colored humanoid dragon stood at the top of a hill where the wreckage of an ancient but highly-advanced building lay. The dragon held up a magnificently shining sword into the air. "I know that place," Lord Zedd interrupted, "that is where Zordon's Command Center once stood, and that word, it's the Sword of Light, the same weapon Zordon used to transfer power to his teenagers, but who is that dragon?" At the dragon's feet a pedestal magically appeared with a slot at its top. The dragon then plunged the sword of light's blade into the pedestal. The ground began to shake around the hill and the pieces of the Command Center glowed with energy and floated into the air, reassembling themselves into their original form of the Command Center in all its glory.

"I've received visions like this, apparently this creature poses a threat to us as he will come to possess the power to restore the Ranger Powers to the Morphing Grid and to the ones that once wielded them," Chronos explained.

Lord Zedd growled angrily and slammed his staff into the ground, "Who is this creature? He must pay for his foolishness."

"I do not know his name, he has only been known as the Dragon Prince."

At that both Moltor and Olympius growled angrily, "Dragon Prince? Him? Preposterous!" Moltor growled angrily. "I am a Dragon King, Creator of the Lava Lizard and the Wicked Dragon Tribe! This whelp is nothing compared to me!"

"I am a true prince among dragons, if this foolish interloper believes himself to be a dragon prince he shall surely be punished!" Olympius growled before turning to Queen Bansheera, "Mother, this dragon must suffer for his insolence, allow me to punish him!"

Bansheera nodded her head, "Very well, my son, if he is a friend to the Power Rangers then he is an enemy to us, go now and take our monsters with you, they will surely be useful to you."

Olympius smiled wickedly, "Thank you, mother. Jinxer, Gatekeeper, come with me!" With that Olympius and the rest of the demons departed. The dozens of seething, raging monsters followed the demon prince as they disappeared in teleportation. After Olympius left Moltor also began to depart. "Where do you think you're going?" Mesogog asked.

"I'm going to see if I can find a way to increase our numbers, and I think I know how," with that said the fire-elemental wielder also teleported away.

Chronos then turned to Lord Zedd, "I have my own plans, but I must require the use of some associates of ours, traitors to our order."

"That won't be a problem," Mesogog stepped forward, "I've brought two warriors to help you with that task." After he said that two new monsters appeared, they were twin monsters, both had metallic bodies and sword-like blades for hands, the only difference between them was that one of the monsters was silver in color while the other was gold. "I created Slice…" Mesogog motioned to the silver monster, "and Dice…" then he motioned to the gold monster, "using two of Finster's old clay monster models, I modified their DNA to be receptive to great powers and are skilled warriors among warriors."

"Good, so they can loot out the traitors and this enemy dragon, and while they're doing that I have some associates who are taking care of business elsewhere in the galaxy."

"Very well," Lord Zedd began, "soon we will be able to resurrect Dark Specter, but our powers have not yet reached a level sufficient enough to revive him, for now we should go into hiding and prepare for our final goal," Zedd turned one last time to his fellow villains, "To the Rule of the Dark Specter!"

The other villains replied, "To the Rule of the Dark Specter!" With that all of them went their separate ways.

Unbeknownst to the villains their entire meeting was being watched. From within the Temple of Power the Omega Ranger and the Sentinel Knight both watched the meeting from a viewing globe deep within the halls of the temple. "This is bad news indeed, with Dai Shi acquiring the Animal Spirits the Animarium in Turtle Cove is sure to plummet and the rest of the world is in potential danger from this new massive army of monsters," the Omega Ranger said.

"Indeed, but from what I've heard there is hope, we have to find out more about this mysterious sword-wielding dragon," the Sentinel Knight replied.

Suddenly the viewing globe became misty and a deep voice echoed from it, "Omega Ranger, Sentinel Knight."

"Who's there? How do you know of us?" asked the Omega Ranger.

"That voice…" the Sentinel Knight became tense, "could it be?"

The mists in the viewing globe parted to reveal a starry sky, standing within the image was the figure of a sage-like man wearing a white robe and carried a staff; he had a strong face with no hair. "I must speak with you both."

Both the Omega Ranger and Sentinel Knight stared at the image in awe, "It can't be…Zordon?"

The man smiled and nodded his head, "Yes, it is I, Zordon of Eltar."

"But how can this be? We thought your life faded when Andros shattered your energy tube and released your energy across the galaxy?" exclaimed the Omega Ranger.

"It is true, my mortal life has ended, I now speak to you from a much better place to bring important news and foretell crucial events," Zordon replied.

"Tell us, great wizard," the Sentinel Knight asked, "what information do you have for us?"

Zordon closed his eyes and lowered his head solemnly, "There is a great war coming, a war that not only threatens our galaxy but every realm in existence."

Both the Sentinel Knight and Omega Ranger were taken aback, "That's terrible? But can Lord Zedd and his army of evil truly be so powerful?"

Zordon shook his head, "Zedd and his fellow Alliance of Evil are a major threat to be sure, but they are only part of a great catastrophic scheme set in motion by the Evil One."

"The 'Evil One'?" asked the Omega Ranger, "you mean the Monarch of Evil, Dark Specter?"

"No, the TRUE Evil One goes by many names, but compared to this Father of Lies the Dark Specter is merely a small flare in the cosmos, no, the Father of Lies is the source of all evil in the cosmos and he manipulates the hearts and minds of those who hold even the smallest amount of darkness within.

"But we must not concern ourselves with this calamity; we must focus on the problem going on in our realm. Fortunately, just as the Sentinel Knight has said, there is hope, a dimension-traveling hero is going to come and help restore all of the Ranger powers and fight against the many evil forces that are being resurrected."

"You mean the dragon that wields the Sword of Light?" asked the Sentinel Knight.

"Correct, he will soon receive the Sword of Light and with it reclaim and restore the Ranger powers and build the biggest Power Ranger army the world has ever seen, hopefully this will be enough to save our world and put an end to the United Alliance of Evil once and for all."

The Powers That Be Chapter 1: The Invasion and Journey Begin

Around the world many great catastrophes were going on. The United Alliance of Evil had arisen once more and was once again delving in its own dark designs. In Silver Hills Broodwing lead an army of mutants into the city and combated its own military force, the Silver Guardians. Although several mutants, including Klawlox, Geymark, Reihou and Artilicon, were defeated by the leaders of the Silver Guardians: Wes the Red Time Force Ranger and Eric the Quantum Ranger, the Guardians suffered greatly. Broodwing's objective was to retrieve the broken remains of the robotic genius Frax and with the help of specially trained mutants like Serpicon and Izout he was successful in retrieving them. With some help of the other villains, Frax was rebuilt and was charged with a massive construction project: rebuilding the Machine Empire on the moon.

Lothor was successful summoning all of his Evil Space Ninja Army and many of Mesogog's mutations from the Abyss of Evil but because of the massive expulsion of evil spirits the abyss became unstable and became closed for an unspecified amount of time. To compensate for this Queen Bansheera and her demons were able to rebuild the queen's palace in Mariner Bay. From her palace Queen Bansheera opened the Tomb of Forever where the spirits of many monsters and demons that served the UAE were sealed away in the netherworld and were freed into the world once more.

Dai Shi, the Infinite Dragon leader of the Rinshi, assaulted the Animarium and captured the Animal Crystals of the Wild Zords, thereby retrieving their powers and transferred them to his minions, the Rinshi Beasts. And around the world, reformed members of the UAE were found and captured. Choobozo, the younger brother of Choobo, captured Jindrax and Toxica while they were traveling the world while the two Dark Messengers, Mikela and Voffa, journeyed to the various Ninja Academies and wiped them out, capturing Lothor's nieces Mara and Kapri in the process, while Mesogog newest monster generals, Slice and Dice, captured Itassis the Sphinx and Matoombo the Titan who were living peaceful lives with the citizens of Briarwood. The Fear Cats were also reborn as this devious race of demonic felines possessed nine lives which allowed them to revive a certain number of times after dying.

But the UAE s influence was not only felt on Earth. After he himself was rebuilt, Frax quickly got to work rebuilding the members of the Machine Empire. Mondo, the king of the Machine Empire, was among the first to be rebuilt and under his supervision, his family was also rebuilt, as well as their closest servants. Soon the Empire had a large army of Machine Monsters. As his first proclamation after being rebuilt, Mondo declared war on the peaceful planet of Triforia, the home of Trey the Gold Zeo Ranger, who had battled the Machine Empire years ago. Zurgain of the Evil Space Ninja Army began of large-scale construction project of his own, rebuilding his various giant robots. Soon Lothor's forces had overrun the city Blue Bay Harbor. It wouldn't be long before Mesogog would be joining them in the nearby city of Reef Side.

On the Planet Mirinoi the Pirate Prince Gregory, a friend of Captain Mutiny and a servant of Scorpius, had invaded the planet and using his special life-jewel he revived Scorpius, Mutiny and nearly all of their followers. Not only that but they had taken many of the settlers on Mirinoi captive and were devising ways of sacrificing these people to revive Captain Mutiny's pet monster, the Daitanix Titan Saur. Despite Gregory's jewel's power it could not restore Daitanix to life.

Cronos teleported to the outskirts of San Angeles where the final battle for the Corona Aurora was fought. In one hand he carried a silver briefcase while in the other he carried a bizarre hourglass-like device of his own design. Cronos visually scanned the area, and then placed the hourglass-like device on a specific spot on the ground. This was the exact spot where Flurious was destroyed by the Operation Overdrive Rangers in 2007. Next Cronos opened the briefcase; inside there were three fist-sized gyro-engines. "Flurious was truly a powerful warrior, especially since he was directly exposed to the power of the Corona Aurora, so it will take a great deal of power to revive him," Cronos spoke to himself as he placed the three gyro-engines into three slots on the hourglass-like object. Immediately the engines began spinning, powering the device. Inside the hourglass the sand at the bottom of the container suddenly sprang to the top as if turned over, then began falling back into the bottom half. "When the sand runs out," Cronos began, "Flurious will live once more."

Meanwhile, in his fortress, Lothor was taking one of his "power naps", having been mentally drained from the events. While asleep he dreamt, he stood before his throne while his minions danced joyously around it. Suddenly his minions began fading out of sight and a new shape appeared on his throne. The shape was an enormous demon with a long black and red centipede-like body and red curving horns around his head. "Greetings, Kia," the demon whispered softly. Lothor was at first irritated that anyone would dare sit on his throne, but at the same time he was in awe of the being and surprised that it knew his true name. "I am the Ancient Evil Warrior whom you have named yourself after, I am the original Lothor."

"Well, since we're through with the formalities, might I ask what you want?" Lothor formerly known as Kia asked impatiently.

The original Lothor chuckled. "You desire great power, Kia, and I'm willing to make a deal with you to get it."

"I'm listening."

"My spirit is trapped within the Abyss of Evil, free me from its depths and the power will be yours." Lothor explained.

"This Abyss of Evil has been sealed up since all of our followers escaped, how do you expect me to free you if I can't even open it?" Kia asked.

"You will have to sacrifice great power to open it; you must sacrifice the energies of all of your Evil Space Ninja Army to open the Abyss."

"Sacrifice them? But we worked so hard to open the Abyss and get them all back!"

"Ah, but with the power that I will grant you won't even need an army, YOU will be the army!"

Kia thought for a long moment, the idea of becoming as powerful as an entire army of ninjas appealed to him, "All right, but it will take some time before I can open the abyss," Kia explained.

Lothor nodded, "Time is a small matter to immortals, although I must say it is insufferable dwelling in this pit, get to it."

Back in San Angeles, the sand in Cronos' hourglass device had finally run out. Next the three gyro-engines glowed with blue energy that drifted into the air and combined in one spot. The Energy crackled with blue, cold electricity and converged on itself to form a human-sized shape. The shape coalesced and transformed into the dreaded warlord Flurious. Flurious appeared as a middle-aged man with a white mustache but his skin was blue and cold as ice and had frozen crystals sprouting from the crown of his head. He wore a black, white and blue vest and in his right hand he carried at crystalline mace with spikes. In his chest the three gyro-engines surged, sustaining Flurious' life.

Flurious stretched and groaned, as if coming out a deep sleep. "So I've escaped the frozen clutches of the grave?" Flurious commented.

Cronos approached Flurious, pleased to see his device work, "Flurious, I am pleased that you have returned."

Flurious glanced calmly at Cronos, "And who might you be?"

"I am Cronos, the Demon of Time, with the power of my device and your three surviving Gyro-Engines I was able to resurrect you."

Flurious simply scratched his chin, "Well you have my thanks, but for what purpose would you want to resurrect me?"

"One reason was to test my device and with the help of your gyro-engines it succeeded," Cronos explained pointing to the three gyro-engines in Flurious' chest, "but I also need your help, Lord Zedd is gathering an army of evil to combat and have vengeance on the Power Rangers, and we need your help, with your tactical and combat skills and to your knowledge of the Gyro-Engine technology you will be a great asset to our cause, will you help us?"

Flurious grinned, "You were right to find me, and if it means revenge against the Power Rangers I won't give you the cold shoulder." With that Cronos and Flurious teleported away to begin laying out their plans.

Eric had been resting and relaxing but suddenly he found himself floating amongst the stars in space. The young dragon pondered to himself if this was real or if this was a vision or dream? Eric was surprised to find that he could breathe, so this couldn't possibly be the outer space he knew for the vacuum of space would steal his breath. Not only that but he felt a strange feeling of warmth and peace, completely unlike anything he ever felt before. At the same time, however, he recognized familiar planets like Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, as well as the Sun and Moon, the very same celestial bodies that existed in his own Solar System.

"Welcome, young dragon," said a deep, resonating voice. Eric turned to see an elderly man with a bald head wearing a white robe and carrying a scepter. "You have nothing to fear, you are in no danger here," said the old man, a kind smile on his face.

Eric felt the natural urge to bombard the old man with questions, "Who are you, and where are we?"

The old man gestured to the space around him, "To you what you see resembles the Milky Way Galaxy, but it is in fact a vision of Paradise itself, since you have not yet died and been resurrected in The Lord's glory, you are not yet permitted to gaze upon Paradise in its true glory, therefore The Lord has granted you an unclear image, I believe this image is based on a poem written by a Dante Alighieri," the man explained, "as for who I am, my name is Zordon."

Eric was stunned, "Zordon? You mean the mentor of the Power Rangers?"

"Yes, I am one and the same."

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Zordon, but I must ask, why have you brought me here?" Eric asked.

Zordon waved his scepter in front of Eric, creating a viewing window into another world. "Eric, it is important that you listen to me carefully," Zordon began. Inside the window Eric could see many monsters and villainous beings at work, terrorizing the innocent, building weapons of war and other acts of evil. "As we speak the United Alliance of Evil, the sworn enemies of those who wield the powers of the Morphing Grid, are restoring as much of their former power as they can and plans to wage war against the universe," the scene changed to show the spirit of Dai Shi transferring the stolen powers to his minions, the Rinshi Beasts, allowing them to take on animal-like form and drawing powers from the Animal Spirits and the Morphing grid. The scene again shifted to show many former Power Rangers in civilian form and reformed members of the UAE being captured and placed in an elaborate machine; the machine consisted of an enormous glass cylinder with a laser projector hovering above it, the projector fired a black beam of light into the cylinder, this machine was the UAE's "Evilizer" machine. The scene once again changed to show the now evil Rangers and villains misusing their powers. "Already many former Power Rangers who have had been under the influence of evil have been captured a forced to serve the forces of evil against their will," Zordon continued to explain.

The viewing portal dissipated, leaving nothing but empty space. "Eric, the universe is in peril, the Alliance is becoming more powerful and this is only just the beginning, they seek to open the Gates to the Underworld and resurrect all of their defeated forces, including their master," said Zordon.

"But Zordon, the Power Rangers have always been able to conquer the Forces of Evil; surely they can do it again?" Eric asked.

"It is true, to be a Power Ranger it takes a great deal of courage and the will to endure and it's because of these qualities that have guided the Rangers to many battles and many victories," Zordon explained, "but one thing that the Rangers had an advantage over their enemies was that the Alliance's members have always been divided, fortunately its members have hardly been able to see eye to eye and so the possibility of more than one evil group to unite has been low, but if they were unite it would prove to be disastrous, the last time the UAE united nearly succeeded in conquering the Earth and many other planets and galaxies, if Andros had not shattered my energy tube the Alliance would a dominant force in the universe."

"So what can be done, Zordon?" asked Eric.

"Just as the UAE proved to be a force to be reckoned with when they have united as one against their enemies, the Power Rangers have also proven to prevail when they have banded together, and fortunately there is a way to rescue those who have been captured by the sway of evil and to restore all the Powers that have been lost over time and stolen by the enemy, but I need your help, Eric, I am unable to carry out this goal because I am deceased" Zordon continued to explain.

Eric was perplexed, "Why was I chosen for this task?"

"Eric, The Lord has many wonderful plans in store for you, He has chosen you specifically for this quest because of your knowledge of the rich history of the wars between the Power Rangers and the United Alliance of Evil and because you yourself have many of the qualities of a Ranger," Zordon answered.

The ancient sage's reply filled Eric with a warm sense of pride and he couldn't help but to give a sheepish, humble smile, "Well…I…thank you," Eric stuttered, "What do I need to do?"

Zordon pointed his scepter at the space in between them a bright golden light shone from the tip of his scepter and floated in the air. The light transformed into a solid shape, taking the form of a long sword with a golden jeweled hilt. "This is the Sword of Light, it has a powerful direct connection to the Morphing Grid itself, this sword was used to transfer Ranger powers from one individual to another, I used this sword in 1993 to transfer Jason, Trini and Zack's powers to their successors: Rocky, Aisha and Adam. But this sword also has other abilities besides transferring powers; it can also be used to draw on the powers of the Morphing Grid to re-energize exhausted Ranger powers and can use the same power to purify or destroy monsters and other members of the Alliance." The Sword of Light floated away from Zordon and into Eric's hands, "In order to defeat the United Alliance of Evil you must reclaim the stolen powers and rescue those who have fallen victim to the Alliance's corrupted powers, you will need to restore every lost Ranger Power and rally all Rangers to your cause."

"All right, Zordon, what is the first step that I must take?"

"You must use the Sword's power to rebuild and restore the Command Center in Angel Grove."

"How do I find the Command Center?" Eric asked.

"Find Tommy Oliver, he has many contacts with many other former Rangers and knows the location of the Command Center, I will send you to Tommy's current location," the viewing portal again appeared in between them.

In the viewing portal they saw an image of a young man in his late twenties or early thirties in battle against a monster. The young man appeared to be of Native American decent, had a goatee and wore black clothes, there was no doubt that this young man was Dr. Thomas Oliver, a veteran Power Ranger. The monster he was fighting appeared to be a humanoid dragon-like creature that appeared to be a mutated version of a White Ranger suit. The monster's face looked like a deformed, mutated version of a Rangers' helmet, had white armor, black spikes and blades jutting out from its arms, legs and shoulders and had black claws on its hands and feet and a large blue crystal sticking out of its stomach. This was one of Mesogog's creations, a monster clone of the White Dino Thunder Ranger and one of Eric's favorite monsters: the White Terrorsaurus. The two opponents were fighting outside the Museum of Natural History in New York City. Tommy was a veteran to fighting monsters and was a skilled mix martial artist and so he was able to defend himself against the monster but the White Terrorsaurus' power drew from the Morphing Grid itself and the creature possessed super strength and speed that it used to dodge and counter Tommy's moves.

"It appears that Tommy is in combat against one of the Alliance's monsters, you must hurry to his aid, Tommy is powerless against the Terrorsaurus, I will send you there," the viewing portal grew in size so it was large enough for Eric to step through.

"I'm on my way, Zordon, but before I go I must ask you something, you said that God had special plans for me, do you know what they are?" Eric asked.

"As you humans like to say 'God works in mysterious ways' and He only reveals what He feels is relevant to his followers, I do not know what exactly what He has in store for you," Zordon began, "I can only tell you that The Lord has chosen you for a key role in the Primordial War between Heaven and Hell, Good and Evil, and the quest to restore the Morphing Grid's power is just a stepping stone in your journey to become the great person and warrior you are destined to become." Again Eric felt warmth fill him. "Now hurry!" Eric then stepped through the portal.

When Eric stepped out of the portal, right in front of the two opponents. Tommy spotted Eric approaching, "Oh man, not another freak to deal with," he groaned.

"Dr. Oliver, watch out!" Eric shouted. Just as Eric shouted this Dr. Oliver rolled out of the way of the monster, allowing Eric to spit a fireball at the White Terrorsaurus, stunning the creature. "What the?" The Terrorsaurus snarled in confusion. Eric leapt at the Terrorsaurus and slashed the monster with the Sword of Light. "What are you doing? You're on my side!" the Terrorsaurus growled.

"Wrong!" Eric bashed the Terrorsaurus with his tail, causing him to skid back.

"You traitor!" The White Terrorsaurus lunged at Eric thrusting the black blades on its arms while Eric parried the attacks with the Sword of Light. Dr. Oliver was in shock at what he was seeing: two dragon-like monsters fighting each other with blades, claws and fangs. Eric delivered a powerful punch to the Terrorsaurus causing the monster to skid backwards a few feet. The Terrorsaurus growled as energy built up inside its body and electricity sparked from its eyes, arms and the crystal in its stomach. "Terrorsaurus laser!" The monster shot orange electrical energy from its hands at Eric. The attack caught the young dragon by surprise and launched him backwards off his feet. Eric got back on his feet just in time to dodge another of the Terrorsaurus' lasers. Eric ran to dodge a series of laser blasts from the monster. As he was running the Terrorsaurus used its speed to intercept Eric and slashed him with his claws.

Dr. Oliver saw that Eric was wielding the Sword of Light, an artifact of good power, and realized that Eric was not one of the United Alliance of Evil's monsters. Knowing this, Dr. Oliver had to help somehow. He knew from experience with fighting the Terrorsaurus that the creature's crystal is where much of its power was stored. "Aim for the crystal in its stomach!" Dr. Oliver shouted.

"What?" Eric asked.

"The crystal in its stomach is its weak spot, hit it there!"

Eric turned to the Terrorsaurus again. "Terrorsaurus Laser!" The White Terrorsaurus sent another blast at Eric. At the same time the dragon fired a heat beam from his mouth, which collided with the Terrorsaurus' laser. For a few moments the two beams pushed against each other until they caused a small surge of power that caused an explosion of sparks that threw the two opponents back. Eric quickly recovered and used this opportunity to attack the Terrorsaurus while it was still stunned and slashed the creature's crystal, shattering the tip. The White Terrorsaurus shrieked in pain as its powers surged and small explosions sparked its body. From out of the crystal emerged five small colorful lights: one red, one blue, one yellow, one black and one white. The lights landed on the ground and took on the form of five small gems of their corresponding colors. Eric recognized them immediately as the Dino Gems.

"Quick! Grab the Dino Gems!" Dr. Oliver shouted. Eric rushed and began collecting them off the ground. He snatched up the Red, Blue and Yellow Dino Gems. Just as he was grabbing the Black Dino Gem he saw out of the corner of his eye the White Terrorsaurus recovering and re-absorbing the White Dino Gem.

The Terrorsaurus growled in a mix of pain and anger, "You may have won for now, but I'll be back for the rest of the Dino Gems later!" The Terrorsaurus roared and used his super speed to flee the scene.

Eric breathed a sigh of relief, the battle having drained him. He was forced to use the Sword of Light as a walking stick, Eric turned back towards Dr. Oliver. "Dr. Tommy Oliver, I need your help."

Tommy told Eric how he was becoming increasingly aware of the situation with the United Alliance of Evil's rise back into power and so decided to go back to the Museum of Natural History to get back the Dino Gems, but he arrived just in time to see the White Terrorsaurus break into the museum and absorb the gems. Tommy was attempting to take back the gems when Eric arrived on the scene. Eric explained his mission to Tommy who agreed to help him.

Dr. Oliver took Eric with him back to Reef Side where they could meet up with the rest of the Dino Thunder Rangers and Haley. Eric was excited to meet them as the stories about the Dino Thunder Power Rangers were among his favorites. Eric got to meet Connor McKnight the Red Ranger, a young man about the same age as him, he was a tall and thin young man with brown hair and wore a red soccer uniform. Ethan James was the Blue Ranger and was a young African American man, slightly shorter than Connor and was an expert with computers and technology. Kira Ford was the Yellow Ranger She was a young lady with long, brown curly hair and wore yellow clothing and was an aspiring musician. Finally there was Trent Fernandez the White Ranger, a young Hispanic man who wore white and black clothes and was an aspiring comic book artist. Haley was Dr. Oliver's close friend who helped develop the Dino Thunder technology.

Dr. Oliver and Eric explained their situation to them as best they could and they all agreed to go together to Angel Grove where the Command Center once stood and with the Dino Gems that Eric was able to recover from the White Terrorsaurus Haley and Dr. Oliver were able to restore the Dino Thunder powers they once had. The team prepared for their trip and packed their supplies in the Triceramax Command Center, an enormous red and yellow truck designed by Haley and was originally used to raid Mesogog's fortress. Now it only seemed right to use it with so many people going on the trip and with so many supplies they needed to bring.

Once the team reached Angel Grove they took the Triceramax Command Center off the road and headed for the desert region outside its boundaries where the Command Center once stood. About ten minutes into their trip their journey was interrupted by an unwelcome arrival. A green portal, one of Mesogog's Invisi-portals, appeared in the air not far ahead of them. Out from the portal appeared a myriad of ten monsters, but these weren't just any monsters; these were among the toughest generals among the different factions of the United Alliance of Evil.

Tommy was able to recognize the first two of the generals: One was a griffin-like creature that had a lion-like face, black feathered wings, wore gold armor and wielded a sword. This was none other than Goldar, Lord Zedd's most loyal henchman. Along with Goldar was a bulky skeleton monster who wore an army helmet, the right half of his body was a normal bone-white color while the left matched his helmet and was camouflage-colored and he carried a sword made of bones, this was Rito Revolto, Lord Zedd's brother-in-law and henchman.

Another general that Tommy recognized was a pink-colored goblin with a stupid grin on his face and wielded a sword made of playing cards and was named Elgar, Divatox's nephew and minion.

There was another pair of generals with them. One was a black-colored humanoid robot with green trimmings and red eyes and wielded a jagged sword and wore a small red cape, this was Ecliptor, one of the most feared generals among the UAE. Along with Ecliptor was his reluctant partner, Darkonda, a wicked creature that had black and red skin, spikes on his head and an evil grin with vicious yellow eyes. Darkonda wore an orange trench coat and held a thing dagger that could transform into a sword. These five generals were among those few factions of the UAE that remained united before the Alliance was disbanded in 1998.

The remaining five made their presence known after the disbanding. The first of these was a vaguely insect-like creature who wore shades, had mostly black skin with red and gold trimmings and wore a leather jacket with matching colors. He rode a motorcycle of matching colors and had a pistol in a holster on his belt. This was Villamax, a particularly honorable rogue warrior that served under Trakeena.

Another general wore green samurai like armor with black, red and gold trimmings and had round shoulder pads that had the hilts of a pair of swords sticking out from them. This was Zurgain, Lothor's most loyal general. With Zurgain was another one of Lothor's generals. He had a shark-like face, wore silver and black armor and had a black cape and had a scabbard with a long, jagged sword. This was Vexacus, a particularly treacherous general.

The next general was one that Haley and the Dino Thunder Rangers easily recognized. This general wore black knight-like cybernetic armor, had four blue eye-like designs on his helmet and a silver part at the crown of the helmet that resembled a brain. In his left hand this general carried a silver shield while in the right he held an enormous silver axe and had a blue saber strapped to his back. This was Zeltrax, a former general to Mesogog and Tommy's hated enemy.

The last general was among the most powerful. He wore violet and silver armor with gold trimmings and a gold 'W' design on his chest. His helmet had a vicious design of a black face visor with silver, purple and gold trimmings and on his shoulder pads were designed to resemble silver wolf heads. In his left hand he carried a violet and silver shield with a red eye within the center and had a scabbard for his matching sword strapped on the backside of the shield. This was Koragg the Knight Wolf, the magical knight of the Underworld.

The ten generals stood in defiance against the Rangers and their truck. Tommy groaned, "Aww man, haven't we had to deal with enough freaks for one day?"

"Hey, hey, Tommy Boy, we know you're in there, come on out so we can see you," Rito said waving in an almost friendly manner.

Everyone reluctantly stepped out of the vehicle, "what do you guys want?" Connor boldly shouted.

"We've been sent by the Honorable Lord Zedd to retrieve two of you who have at one time embraced the side of evil," Goldar growled.

"Embraced the side of evil?" asked Haley.

"He must be talking about me and Trent," Tommy concluded, "when I was first a Power Ranger Rita controlled me while Trent was controlled by the evil encoding on the White Dino Gem."

"Well we're not going to let you lay a hand on them!" Kira announced bravely.

"Aww isn't that cute, the little girl thinks they stand a chance against us, let's get them!" Elgar shouted.

"I wish to battle the strongest among you," Koragg announced as he calmly pulled his sword from its scabbard and pointed it at Tommy, "You are a veteran to the battlefield, I wish to do battle with you, Dr. Oliver."

"NO!" Zeltrax shoved Koragg aside, "Dr. Tommy Oliver is mine and mine alone, and you stay out of my way!" Zeltrax raised his axe high into the air and charged at Tommy.

Zurgain growled impatiently, "This was not part of the plan! We were all supposed to work together!"

"Well, I guess this is our cue, guys, let's go!" Rito led his fellow warriors into battle. The only three who did not participate were Ecliptor, Darkonda and Vexacus, "I don't know about you, but I'm going to wait until our 'friends' have softened them up a bit before I join in," Darkonda commented.

"For once I agree, finally someone who thinks intelligently for once," Vexacus said in agreement. Ecliptor said nothing as he watched and monitored the situation.

"I guess we have no choice but to fight guys," Tommy said, "Are you ready?"

"Ready!" In unison Connor, Ethan, Kira and Tommy all flashed their Dino Morphers on their wrists, Connor's morpher took on the appearance of a Red Tyrannosaurus Rex's face, Ethan's took on the form of a Blue Triceratops' face, Kira's took on the from of yellow Pteranodon's face while Tommy's took on the form of a black and gold Brachiosaurus' face. Eric's heart beat with excitement. He had always been a fan of the Dino Thunder Power Rangers and was now witnessing four of them morphing before his very eyes! All four of them shouted together, "Dino Thunder, Power Up!" All four of them posed together and then pressed a button on their morphers allowing them to transform into their Ranger form. Energy formed around their bodies and transformed into their Ranger suits before more energy formed around their heads to form their helmets. Each Ranger's suits were the same colors as their morphers and their helmets took on the face design of the dinosaur their morpher was designed.

Now that they were morphed the Rangers jumped into action. Even Trent, who was at the moment powerless and Eric, joined them in battle. Zeltrax immediately targeted Tommy and the two of them clashed. Since Tommy was not available for battle, Koragg decided to battle Connor, the Red Ranger, in battle. Connor quickly drew out his Tyranno-Staff and began attacking the Knight Wolf.

Villamax pulled his motorcycle in front of Ethan, "I understand you're pretty good with a bike?" asked Villamax.

The Blue Ranger was a little surprised by this question. "I've been know for some skills, yes," Ethan answered after recalling his times piloting the Hovercraft Cycle.

"Then I challenge you to a joust of bikes, do you accept?"

Again Ethan was surprised, but accepted his challenge. Ethan lifted his morpher closer to his face and dialed in a set of commands into it before yelling out his voice command, "Hovercraft Cycle, Activate!" A digital projection of a blue, human-sized Velociraptor appeared from Ethan's morpher, it was the Blue Ranger's Raptor Rider, the raptor then transformed into a blue motorcycle with the design of a Triceratops' head, the Hovercraft Cycle. The digital image then grew in size and then materialized into an actual cycle. Ethan climbed aboard and revved the engines. The two warriors drove towards each other; Ethan fired the Cycle's lasers at Villamax and his bike while Villamax pulled out his pistol and fired at Ethan.

Zurgain targeted Kira first, the samurai-like warrior pulled out the swords encased in his shoulder pads. Zurgain swung his swords at Kira, who used her acrobatic skills to dodge them. Kira summoned her Ptera-Grips, a pair of dagger-like weapons shaped like a Pteranodon's head, just like her morpher. Kira was much faster than the clunky Zurgain and was able to parry his swords with her Ptera-Grips.

Elgar attempted to attack Trent, seeing him as an easy target without his powers, the pink goblin-like alien swung his card sword at Trent but he easily dodged Elgar's clumsy attacks. Trent countered with a series of martial arts moves before delivering a strong punch to Elgar's face, sending the alien mutant sprawling. After that Rito and Goldar stepped in front of him. "Stand back, rookie, let us show you how it's done," Rito said to Elgar.

The two generals swung their respective swords at Trent, who was just able to dodge the attacks directed at him fortunately Trent had natural agility which at one time had been enhanced by the White Dino Gem. Despite this Trent still had trouble staying one step ahead of the two monsters' attacks. "Two against one?" Trent asked, "That doesn't seem like a fair fight."

Goldar grinned in amusement, "We're monsters, we don't fight fair," he said as he swung his sword at Trent again. The two monsters swung their swords at the same time at Trent. This time was not fast enough to dodge.

Fortunately the blade of the Sword of Light blocked Rito and Goldar's swords and parried. Eric stood in front of Trent, "How about you fight someone more evenly matched?" Eric asked. Rito swung his sword at Eric, who blocked his attack easily with the Sword of Light, then elbowed Rito in the chest, causing him to stagger back. That move left some slight discomfort in Eric's elbow since Rito was composed entirely of bones. Goldar lunged at Eric with his own sword but Eric blocked his attack as well and this time delivering a kick to Goldar's stomach, causing him to stagger back. This attack also pained Eric since Goldar's armor was composed of tempered gold.

Rito staggered back to his feet, "Hmm, this is going to be tougher than I thought," the skeleton warrior grunted.

"Be careful, Rito," Goldar warned, "He's using the Sword of Light to attack us and it's enhancing his power!"

As always Rito gave Goldar a confused look, "Sword of Light? What are you talking about, Goldie? I don't care about some piece of rusted junk; I'm going to make him into a shish kabob!" Rito again charged at Eric who again parried Rito's attack and then slashed the skeleton with the Sword with a charged slash. Rito staggered backwards in pain as the energy from blade surged over him causing various small explosions of sparks to ripple across him. Goldar leapt into the air and lunged at Eric but his attack was also parried and Eric slashed him horizontally in the stomach causing a small explosion of sparks and knocked the griffin knight to the ground. Both Rito and Goldar staggered back to their feet. "Okay, now I'm mad, let's get serious now, Goldie!" Rito said and Goldar nodded in agreement. Rito extended his left hand at Eric and fired a laser from it while Goldar flung a fireball from his own hand. Eric swung the Sword of Light and caught the two attacks in the Sword's energy vortex and then hurled it right back at them, striking the ground at their feet and sending the two monster generals hurtling through the air and landed comically on top of Elgar. This left the three of them too weak to fight.

Eric turned to Trent and extended a clawed hand, "Are you all right, Trent?" Eric asked.

Trent nodded and took Eric's hand and was helped back to his feet, "Yeah, I'm okay, thanks for your help I almost thought I was done for there."

That was when Ecliptor joined the battle, calmly striding in front of Eric and Trent, "Your powers are impressive, you've proven to be a skilled warrior, so much that I have no choice but interfere in this fight," Ecliptor drew out his sword, it was a wicked blade, one edge of the blade had jagged edges like a saw and its hilt had the design of a crescent moon and pointed it at the two. "But I have no desire to fight you, dragon warrior, this is business between the United Alliance of Evil and the Power Rangers surrender the Sword of Light over to us and leave now while you still can or else I will be forced to destroy you!"

Trent and Eric posed and readied themselves for battle, "Forget that, I'm not abandoning my friends, the Power Rangers," Eric said.

Ecliptor sighed, "Very well, prepare to face your doom," Ecliptor then shed his red cape then powered up into a new form with a slightly more muscular form and a large spike coming from his right shoulder.

Eric looked towards Trent, "I'm a little tuckered out from that last fight can you lend me a hand?" Eric asked, hesitant to put his new friend in danger.

Trent nodded, "No sweat, with the two of us fighting him we can take him." The two heroes charged at Ecliptor.

Nearby the other Dino Rangers fought against their respective foes. Kira performed a spinning jump slash attack on Zurgain, causing the cybernetic samurai to stagger back from the energy unleashed from the attack. Villamax and Ethan continued to joust on their bikes. The bullets from Villamax's pistol did little to even dent Ethan's Hovercraft Cycle. The Hovercraft Cycle on the other hand unleashed powerful lasers. With several well-aimed shots Ethan aimed directly at Villamax's cycle, causing it to malfunction and explode, launching the warrior into the air and land with a painful thud. Villamax struggled to his feet. Ethan parked the Hovercraft Cycle and pulled out his Tricera-Shield, an enormous oval shield designed to match his suit's Triceratops theme.

"Have you had enough yet?" Ethan asked.

Villamax groaned in discomfort, "You are a skilled biker, Blue Ranger, a salute you," he answered.

Ethan nodded and replied, "Thanks, you're not bad yourself."

Villamax looked at his pistol for a moment and saw that he was out of bullets and discarded it. "Unfortunately I cannot continue our battle, I am currently unarmed whereas you do have a weapon," Villamax bowed his head, "surely an honorable warrior like yourself would not stoop so low as to strike an unarmed opponent?"

Ethan again was surprised by this particular alien general, never before had any monster shown such nobility and valor and so Ethan stood down. Nearby Connor was not doing well against Koragg. The only thing keeping the Knight Wolf's sword from slicing into Connor was the Red Ranger's Tyranno-Staff, a white staff with a red Tyrannosaurus' head at one end. Koragg glowered down at Connor, "You are too weak to face me, you aren't worth my time," Koragg growled.

This comment made Connor angry. "I'll show you who's weak!" With a free hand Connor reached for his Thunder Max Saber in blaster mode and shot at Koragg, who in turn lifted his shield to block and Koragg let up on his strength on his sword hand. Connor used this to slip out from beneath the two pinned weapons. He then signaled to Ethan and Kira, "Guys, it's time I go Triassic!" Ethan and Kira joined up with him. Connor intended to initiate his "Triassic Mode", a powered up version of his Red Ranger power that wields the Sword and Shield of Triumph, a Shield that was designed to resemble a red, black and gold Styracosaurus head with a sword's blade embedded in the back. The only requirement was that Kira and Ethan needed to transfer some of their own power to Connor. His fellow Dino Rangers stood beside Connor and blue and yellow energy transferred to the Sword and Shield of Triumph and then twirled around Connor. The energy added new blue and gold trimmings to his Ranger suit and added gold frames to his helmet and shoulder pads. "All right, Koragg, you're in for it now!" Connor, now as the new Triassic Ranger, charged at Koragg. The two warriors slashed with their swords and parried their attacks with their shields.

As the Triassic Ranger, Connor proved to be a far greater challenge for Koragg. "Hmm, perhaps I underestimated you, Red Warrior," Koragg commented, "perhaps I should step up the stakes," from Koragg's shield the Eye of the Master opened up and launched magical energy wolf heads at Connor with the knight's shout of "Wolf Attack!"

Connor summoned the energy from the Shield of Triumph and slashed through the wolf heads before charging at Koragg again, the two warriors continued fighting with their swords.

Nearby Trent and Eric were holding their own against Ecliptor. Trent's agility allowed him to deliver some pinpoint strikes at Ecliptor while Eric was able to use the distraction to smash the robot warrior with energy slashes from the Sword of Light. Ecliptor staggered back from one such attack. Ecliptor was slightly tired, Eric and Trent proved to be worthy opponents, but Eric and Trent were also very tired, especially from all the fighting that they had been through. That was when Darkonda finally joined the battle. He turned to Ecliptor, "Thanks for softening them up for me, Ecliptor, I'll take it from here," the bounty hunter cackled and ran at Eric and Trent. Eric attempted to attack Darkonda but the alien bounty hunter was full of energy and too quick and easily dispatched him. Darkonda then rushed at Trent and was able to capture him in his own grip and held his dagger at Trent's throat. "Now listen up, we were ordered to bring our targets back alive, but that doesn't mean we don't have to hurt them to do it," Darkonda snickered at Eric, "Don't take another step or I'm going to slice up your friend like the ham from a Pudgy Pig."

Nearby Tommy had the upper hand against Zeltrax but then Vexacus joined the battle and slashed Tommy from behind, weakening him, now both Vexacus and Zeltrax had Tommy pinned under their weapons. Zurgain saw how the villains seemed to be ready to destroy their prey. "Generals, generals, please, we must stick to the plan, and we have to take Dr. Oliver and the White Dino Ranger alive!"

Zeltrax glared angrily at Zurgain, "SILENCE!" Zeltrax then fired a blue laser from his sword at Zurgain, zapping the alien general, "I will do this my way!" Zeltrax continued his assault on Tommy. Zurgain began to falter; his suit was malfunctioning as sparks came out of him.

The battles were interrupted from laser fire from the Triceramax Command Center. Haley was manning the cannons of the command center and blasted Zeltrax and Darkonda, freeing their captives from their grips. Darkonda was sent flying and he dropped his sword which landed near Villamax, who claimed it himself. Now that he had a weapon he continued his battle with Ethan. When Darkonda got to his feet next to Ecliptor, "I seem to be lacking here, Ecliptor old buddy, I think it's time we combined our strength again," after saying that a tentacle came out from the palm of Darkonda's right hand and latched into Ecliptor's back.

"No! Not again!" Ecliptor groaned. Darkonda laughed wickedly as his energy and body were being transferred from his end of the tentacle and into Ecliptor. Ecliptor then glowed with strange energy and transformed into a new form. This new form was a combination of both Darkonda and Ecliptor. He had Darkonda's face and clothing, but he had Ecliptor's hair and body armor in various place.

"Behold the return of Darkcliptor!" The new fusion creature laughed and spoke in Darkonda's voice, revealing Darkonda to be the dominant side in their fusion. Darkcliptor rushed at Eric and slashed him with Ecliptor's sword. Eric found some renewed strength and fought against Darkcliptor. Nearby Elgar recovered from his wounds and rushed at Kira, again thinking he had an easy target, but the Yellow Ranger held her own against him. With Kira, Ethan, Connor and Eric all distracted with their various foes the generals took this opportunity to strike. Vexacus rushed at Trent and was able to capture him while nearby Rito and Goldar, who recovered from their ordeal as well, helped Zeltrax contain Tommy.

Zurgain saw his fellow generals and regrouped with Vexacus, Zeltrax, Rito and Goldar. "Okay, we have our targets, let's go!" With Tommy and Trent collected the villains prepared for departure. Nearby Eric saw what was going on and attempted to rush to their aid but Darkcliptor stopped him. Having had enough of his foe Eric summoned one last burst of energy to deliver an energy slice to Darkcliptor, engulfing him in an explosion. The attack also seemed to separate Darkonda and Ecliptor and the two generals went sprawling.

"Eric, you must listen to me," Tommy shouted, "You must get to the Command Center, and once you do, you and Haley have to contact all the other Rangers, it's our only hope!"

"What about you?"

"Don't worry about us, Eric," Trent shouted, "We know you'll be able to save us and all the other captured Rangers."

"Now go!" Tommy shouted just as an Invisi-Portal opened above them and swallowed them up.

"Dr. O! TRENT! NO!" Connor was anguished when he saw his teacher and mentor and one of his closest friends being dragged through the portal. He glared angrily at Koragg and summoned an extra powerful energy slice just as Eric had done to Darkcliptor, the attack was enough to cause Koragg to falter. Then something strange happened. Koragg's body flashed and inside Koragg Connor saw the body of a young man around his age inside him. Around the young man was a shadowy aura that took on the form of a fallen angel with a red and black skeletal body and many tentacles. Connor instinctively slashed the shadowy spirit from the young man's body.

The demon shrieked and growled, "This host body has failed me, and it's time for me to find a new host!" The demon then disappeared and Koragg the Knight Wolf also disappeared, leaving only the young man he saw within the armor.

Villamax saw his allies retreat and withdrew from his battle from Ethan, "Our mission is complete, there is no more reason for us to fight, and I am going to withdraw!" The remaining generals regrouped. When Darkonda saw the Villamax had his sword he snatched it out of his grip. The remaining Rangers de-morphed and rushed to Connor's aid in helping the young man within Koragg's armor. The young man had tanned skin and dark-colored hair and he wore what looked like a uniform from Hogwarts, except made of leather and was red and black in color. Haley recognized the young man as Nick Russell, also known as Bowen, the Red Mystic Force Power Ranger.

When Nick came to he explained his situation to the other Rangers. Apparently the spirit of N Ma, the Master of the Underworld, had entered the realm of the living and had possessed him, transforming him into Koragg the Knight Wolf just like he did before the final battle between the Master and the Mystic Force Rangers. When Connor injured the Koragg armor and attacked N Ma it freed Nick from his possession. The weary group continued their journey to the Command Center. They finally made it to the plateau where the Command Center once stood and made their arduous climb to the top.

The group looked around, unsure what to do. Suddenly light came from the Sword of Light and struck the ground nearby and a panel wit ha slot appeared from the ground. "I don't know why, but I have a feeling this is the spot where Zordon's energy tube once stood, and I'm supposed to place the Sword here," and Eric did just that, he placed the Sword of Light in the slot on top of the panel. When the Sword was placed a large shockwave of white light flashed from the Sword and over the terrain. Pieces of the once destroyed magically reappeared and began reassembling all around them, the Command Center was back!

Around the Sword of Light the paneled materialized and took on the shape of a glass cylinder, the all-too-familiar energy tube that once stood in the Command Center and housed Zordon's being, proving Eric's theory to be correct. The group was in awe at the mechanics and the miraculous reconstruction of the Command Center. "You have done well, Eric," a deep voice emanated from the Energy Tube as Zordon's face materialized within it.

"Zordon? But I thought you were in Paradise?" Eric asked. Haley and the Rangers were surprised at what they were seeing, they all knew that Zordon had perished when his Energy Tube was smashed all those years ago.

"I am still dwelling in Paradise, Eric, fortunately The Lord has allowed me a very brief connection with the Earth to speak with you and to guide you on your mission.

"Now we have much to discuss, behold the Viewing Globe." Behind the Rangers a large glass sphere, the Viewing Globe, materialized behind them, this glass ball-like device was used to project images of the past and present situations all around the galaxy and was now projecting the chaos that was going on in the world already. In the viewing globe Haley, Eric and the Rangers beheld many other captured Rangers who were forced into the service of evil and of many monsters stealing away other Ranger Powers. "The world is in chaos, Rangers, many of your comrades have fallen and have been brainwashed into doing the evil will of the United Alliance of Evil. Not only that but the Alliance has stolen many Ranger powers, weapons and Zords and are now using them against the world they have fought so hard to protect.

"When the Sword of Light was placed here, it released an energy wave that has re-energized all the past Ranger Powers so that they may be used once again and it has revived and awakened many of the Wild Zords and Dino Zords that have either been destroyed or lay dormant." Zordon went on to explain that the first Zords in existence, the Power Animals (the Wild Zords, Dino Zords and Galactabeasts), were all originally living creatures that were chosen and imbued with power from the Morphing Grid and absorbed minerals from the Earth to aid the Morphing Masters, the very first Power Rangers, in their fight against evil. Many of the animal-themed Zords and Megazords that Zordon, Tommy and others built were based on the anatomy of the original Power Animals. The energy wave that was released from the Sword of Light would now revive and awaken the Dino Zords and summon them into this world and awaken many others of the Wild Zords. Zordon also explained that the Sword of Light needed to remain in the tube in order for it to fully recharge its power after such a large release of energy.

"My friends, you must go and rescue the Rangers that have been brainwashed and retrieve the stolen Ranger Powers and slowly weaken the Alliance's strength. This will in no means be an easy mission, but if you want to rescue your friends and comrades and protect the world you must do everything you can to complete this mission."

"I don't know about you but I'm worried about Dr. O and Trent, we have to save them," Kira stated and the others nodded in agreement.

"And Rangers, once you have retrieved all of the Rangers Powers and rescued your comrades, even more Rangers will need to be recruited in order to utilize the full Morphing Grid's power and you will need this extra power to combat the Alliance of Evil." The heroes knew what they had to do. "I will not be able to contact you again for some time Rangers, so I wish you the best of luck, and may the Power and The Lord of that Power, protect you." With that Zordon's image disappeared from the Energy Tube.

Everyone sighed as the weight of the situation donned on them. "Hmm…I seem to be without a weapon with the Sword of Light in place," Eric said in a somewhat joking tone, but also allude to the fact that he needed a new weapon.

"Here, take my Thunder Max Saber," Connor said, placing his weapon in Eric's hand, "I already have my Tyranno-Staff and my Sword and Shield of Triumph, I think I have plenty of weapons," Connor explained.

"Wow! Thanks, Connor," Eric exclaimed.

"Wow, Connor, I've never seen this generous side to you before," Kira said jokingly.

"You've come a long way my friend," Ethan joined in. Haley and the three Dino Thunder Rangers laughed. Eric gave them all a sad smile.

"All right, guys, we know what we must do: we have to rescue our friends and take back the powers that the Alliance has stolen, let's move!

To Be Continued