Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers RPM, Power Rangers Samurai or any property derivative from them.


Almost a day had passed since Scott had left to chase Cog to another dimension. Thankfully there had been no attacks on the city shields. Like most downtimes between monster attacks, the RPM Rangers found themselves in the Garage. Part literal garage, part clubhouse, part scientific lab; the rangers made good use of their downtime by busying themselves with other activities to relax or unwind.

Unlike the rest of the rangers, Dr. K used her free time to do more work. Currently in the lab with the twins, the doctor was typing away on the keyboard trying to solve her current problem at hand. Ever since they had forced Scott to go on a solo journey to another dimension, Dr. K had been trying to work on more Engine Cells. Due to needing to power the dimensional tracks with other Engine Cells, the rest of the team had not been able to join Scott in another dimension. Thus, the three former Alphabet Soup subjects had taking to trying to creating spare Engine Cells to prevent the same situation from happening again. Unfortunately, they had hit the same problem when they had first tried way before the Rangers Series had existed: The Morphing Grid.

Despite Dr. K's boast on her technological know-how, the Morphing Grid was still an incompletely understood object even if they knew its origins. When they had discovered the ability of the Grid to power their technology, they had encountered a specific limitation. Each major power source, in this case the Engine Cells, could only function if they operated on different frequencies. Much like how different stations on the radio operated on different bands. Though being a secret organization, Dr. K did not have a radio to draw this inspiration from, instead she drew it from the different colors of light she saw which brightened her bleak room. Thus, each frequency was based on different colors in the visible spectrum of light.

When they had tried creating back-ups Engine Cells before, both Engine Cells of the same color started resonating violently until they corroded the physical containers at best, or exploded at worst. Spares were no longer created and each Engine Cell created was now attuned to different colors. They had tried to push it as close as possible with Red and Crimson, or Blue and Cyan but no progress had been made with same frequency Engine Cells. Three blank Engine Cells lay powerless on the lab table frustrated Dr. K but it was thanks to the working on the Morphing Grid that she noticed an anomaly.

"Strange…"

"Something connected with-"

"-the Engine Cell, Dr. K?"

"No, still no change on those. Strange is this anomaly in the morphing grid that just appeared." Dr. K put up a map of the city with a dot on a location showing the anomaly's position. Before she could elaborate or analyze this phenomenon, an alarm rang out indicating a message from the head of Corinth Security.

The rest of the rangers, familiar with the alarm that rang through the base, gathered to the lab to see the what the message was about. On the screen was an image of Colonel Truman looking a picture of authority in his military uniform. He was also the father of Scott, Ranger Red who was now in another dimension.

"Colonel Truman," Summer greeted. "There been attack on the shield?"

"No, which makes this monster attack strange." the colonel answered. "No reported breaches in the shield but an attack has just occurred at the Waterworks Plant. There are reports of a monster and an attachment as usual, but the group has been specifically identified as 'not-Grinders'."

"Not-Grinders?" Dillon asked in disbelief.

"Whatever it is we still have to stop them." Summer injected.

The rest of the rangers followed and left in their respective vehicles. Summer on her bike, Dillon and Ziggy in the Black Mustang, and Flynn and the twins inside the blue jeep. As they left Dr. K had a worried look as she pulled up the work she was doing before the call came. The strange anomaly of the Morphing Grid had manifested in the physical space as well: The Water Works District


The Rangers disembarked from their vehicles and ran deeper inside the waterworks district. True to the report, there was a monster and a group of mooks inside the waterworks. The report was also true about….

"Yep those are definitely not 'not-Grinders'." Ziggy pointed out the obvious.

"Well, that definitely isn't a 'not-an-Attack-bot'." Dillon commented.

While the attack-bots had come in different forms from silly to terrifying, they were obviously mechanical with the metallic body structure and robotic movements. The monster in front of them was obviously organic, or something close to organic. It was covered in red fur and covered in bone like protrusions, with the major protrusion looking like shark's jaw ready to bite someone's head off.

"I'm definitely not a robot you miserable humans!." the monster shouted at them. "I'm Sharkjaw, the Nylock who's going to destroy the rangers of this dimension!"

"You want Rangers? We're right here!" Summer countered back. "Ready guys?"

"Let's kick some arse!" Flynn answered while the rest of the rangers got into fighting stances.

"Moogers attack!" Sharkjaw commanded the mooks.

Moogers and rangers charged at each other. The Moogers were like Grinders in being easy to anticipate their attacks. Even if they were less robotic and predictable, dodging the mooks' sword attacks were something rangers did on a regular basis. Countering with kicks and punches, Moogers were starting to fall one-by-one. It was looking to be a relatively easy until the Rangers started noticing a specific effect every time they hit a monster.

"Ouch, ouch!" Ziggy wrung his hand after punching another Mooger. "It stings hitting them!"

Even Dillion, the least emotional of them started complaining about the stinging sensation on his hands as well. Gem and Gemma were better off with their track suits and gloves covering majority of their skin, but what did manage to get on their skin also stung.

"They're coated by some-" Gem started as he elbowed a Mooger in the face.

"-liquid based acid!" Gemma finished as she thrust kicked the same Mooger in the stomach.

"Not much left. Try to hold out as long as you can." Summer instructed while she kicked another Mooger down. More kicks were used as their shoes provided better protection than exposed hands. Thankfully there weren't many Moogers left and the rangers finished up before the stinging started to become a hindrance. Flynn, however, wasn't having an easy time.

While the rest of the team took care of the Moogers, Flynn had gone after Sharkjaw himself. The monster also had the same sting-inducing coating but unlike the mooks, was smarter and way faster. It was also fond of using a highspeed spinning attack which Flynn could barely defend against. A swipe from Sharkjaw knocked Flynn back and the team regrouped upon his position.

"Even Rangers from this dimension are no match for me!"

"Looks like we need for power for this one, laddies." Flynn demonstrated by pulling out his Engine Cell. The rest followed by pulling out their respective Engine Cells and inserting them in their morphers.

"RPM! Get in gear!"

One transformation montage, epic posing and awesome explosion later, the transformed team stood decked in their RPM uniforms; Blue, Yellow, Black, Green, Gold and Silver forms ready to fight. Seeing as how punches and kicks weren't helping them earlier, the rangers skipped hand-to-hand combat and went straight to their weapons.

"Nitro Saber!"

"Cloud Hatchets!"

The rangers attacked with their weapons but the Sharkjaw was deceptively fast for his bulky form. The monster dodged sword strikes and counter attacked with punches, which thankfully did not sting like before. Their suits providing better protection from the acidic like substance. Unfortunately, unless they could hit the fast monsters, their weapons weren't as effective as they should have been.

However, rangers were used to fighting monsters and, soon, they had managed to surround the monster preventing his speed from fleeing. This was no hindrance for Sharkjaw though. If he was surrounded by rangers, then it would mean he could just attack on all sides. As Rangers Blue, Yellow, Green, and Black slashed with their Nitro Sabers simultaneously from different sides. The attacks would leave no room for Sharkjaw to dodge and unable to block all the attacks.

Instead of dodging or blocking, Sharkjaw spun like a top on steroids. Four Nitro Sabers met one hyper-spinning monster as the Rangers grunted as the force of the blow threatened to blow them back. The spin was too strong and four rangers were knocked back.

"Oh boy…" Ziggy observed as their Nitrosabers had snapped and the ends smoking.

"Too slow Rangers!"

Sharkjaw blurred and attacked the two remaining Rangers. Sparks flew from Gold and Silver suits as the monster attacked Gem and Gemma, knocking them down as well.

"This guy's way faster than the usual attack-bot."

"I think a Time Burst should be able to do the trick." Flynn suggested as everyone was slowly picking themselves up.

"I'm too fast for you to catch me-Urk!"

Sharkjaw's speech was interrupted as he suddenly started graying as if he was losing color. It seemed rather painful for him as Sharkjaw acted more injured to it than any attack the Rangers had inflicted on the monster.

"You got lucky this time! I'll be back to finish you off."

The rangers were surprised as a gap on a wall glowed red and the monsters was seemingly sucked inside. No trace of the Moogers were left as well, leaving the Rangers in an empty Waterworks Park. Whatever they had just fought wasn't their usual foe. If it didn't come from Venjix, where did it come from?