Chapter I: Contact
Angel Grove, California.
2015 A.C.

In the midst of the urban chaos, between skyscrapers and apartment buildings, large crowds of people crossed the streets while dozens of cars swell the highways with the sound of engines and furious horns. It's rush hour in Angel Grove, a growing metropolis located two hours from the city of Los Angeles. A city characterized by its relaxed lifestyle, beautiful landscapes and its united community. Among the crowds crossing downtown at a hasty pace, two teenagers; a boy and a girl were chatting vividly as they dodged the packs of people that surrounded them.

"C'mon Billy don't worry about it, we'll make it in time." Said one of the teenagers; a beautiful Asian girl with a slim figure and a lovely smile. As both crossed the crowded streets, finally escaping from the turbid heart of the city, the two headed toward the Angel Grove main park at a more relaxed pace, enjoying the scenery as they crossed it.

"I know tri, it's just… I promised Ernie I would help him setup the whole thing before the launch." Said the blond young man as he adjusted his glasses, his expression reflecting a slight concern. Trini paused for a moment and put her right hand on Billy's shoulder

"Jason's already there, I'm sure he'll give Ernie a hand." She said.

"That's what I'm afraid of…" Billy said while gazing up into the sky.

Only a few blocks away, on the outskirts of the main is where the Youth Center is located; the de facto place to hang out if you are a teenager; Large spaces with tables to hang out with a Gym packed with an excellent kitchen and juice bar, all of it complemented beautifully with neon lights decorations, pastel color painted walls and intricate Hawaiian illustrations, what else can be said about it? It's a hot place, and its owner Ernie was a beloved and respected member of the community.

"So, what's the big fuss about this launch thing anyways?" Said a black haired muscular teenager while screwing a TV mount against a wall.

"Are you serious man?" The heavyweight Ernie said to the teen while passing him a screwdriver. The young man just looked at Ernie with a blank expression, blinking a few times in the process.

"C'mon Jase! It's the first manned mission to the moon in 40 years! It's been all over the news for the last month." Ernie said out loud while waving his arms in the air.

"I've been kind of out of the loop lately buddy, too busy training for the martial arts tournament… but anyways, 40 years? Holy shit, that a lot of time! Why is that?"

"I don't know Jase, no official explanation, they just stopped doing lunar missions." Ernie calmly said as he helped Jason lift a big 50-inch TV.

"Interesting…" Jason said as both carefully placed the television in its place and screwed it on the mount. As they finished all the work, Jason stared at his screwdriver for a moment, his thoughts drifting apart when he suddenly felt a heavy hand on his shoulder.

"You okay kiddo?"

"Yeah, I'm just a bit anxious about this whole tournament thing."

"Why is that? You're pretty good at it."

"I know, but Ryan won first place last year… and I was looking forward to compete against him this year too, but he moved back to his hometown as soon as he graduated."

"Cross World City it's not that far you know."

"I know Ernie… we stay in touch and all, we're friends after all. But I can't help myself but wonder every fucking time, what new face will kick my ass this year?! What if I'm not good enough…"

"Ok, listen man, you are right… you are not good enough". Ernie replied with a serious expression, upon hearing this, Jason face almost dropped all the way to the floor.

"You are better than good enough, you will kick ass and you will win when the day comes! don't worry about it kiddo, just believe in yourself."

"You are right man, I can do this! Thanks a lot Ernie."

"Glad to help man, now let's try this baby!" The large man said as he pressed the red button on the remote control, followed by a blue screen with white text that read "No Input Detected."

"I think we better wait for Billy." Said a very serious looking Ernie.

"Yeah…"

At the same time, inside a huge scientific facility located just outside of Angel Grove, those same words also flickered on a Computer screen.

"There's no signal coming through…" Said a middle-aged woman as she unscrewed a Terminal behind that screen. "Hey Mac! Come over, I need your help, there's no input on this thing!" The woman yelled as she struggled to remove the metal casing on the terminal.

"Woah! Woah! Woah! What the hell are you doing Sarah?! You don't need to break the fucking thing apart!" a tall middle-aged man sporting a beard said hurriedly as he tried to stop Sarah from destroying the terminal.

"Yes, I do Mac, There's no Input on this thing!"

"What do you mean by no Input?" he asked confused.

"Exactly that."

"But that's… not possible, the input is directly soldered to the logic board." Mac said as he finished helping his colleague to remove the metal casings on the Terminal; exposing a huge green piece of plastic PCB full of cables and electronic components which proceeded to examine it carefully, on the surface the words "PROPERTY OF NASADA" could be read in a bright yellow text.

"Okay the input chip should be…" he used his index finger to guide himself on the complex circuits, until he noticed an empty space were said component should be located, upon closer examination he noticed, some black spots on the board.

"What the hell?!" Mac exclaimed in frustration. "Someone unsoldered the input, and did a very sloppy job by the way" The young scientist placed his hands on his hip. "I can fix this, but this can only mean one thing…." He added.

"Someone tried to sabotage the Emergency Communications." Sarah concluded.

"We need to report this now."

Back at the Youth Center, Jason was walking down the hall heading toward the rear exit of the building. Passing through the lockers, he stopped a moment in front of his own. "Of course I can do it" Jason muttered to himself. The teenager placed his backpack inside the locker, approached the exit and opened the door. It was at that moment, that he noticed someone standing against the outside wall.

"Hey man! What you doing?" Said Jason.

Immediately a young African American teenager jumped out of surprise, almost falling to the ground as he began to cough quite loudly. Jason just laughed at him and noticed he was holding a very suspicious looking cigarette.

"Shit Jase! Y-You almost scared me to death!" The boy exclaimed as soon as he recovered his breath, he was wearing a black t-shirt tight denim jeans and a flat top haircut.

"Zack, are you really going to watch the launch totally stoned?" Jason asked while pretending to make his most serious looking face.

"Why not? It's more entertaining this way." The young man smiled as he offered the Joint to Jason

"Can't argue with that, heh."

Jason took the cigarette and inhaled some smoke, coughing between exhalations his eyes began to turn red. Both teens chatted and laughed for what seemed hours to them, but in reality barely 15 minutes had passed since. The happy exchange was interrupted by two figures approaching at the distance.

"Hey look, Billy and Tri are here." Zack said while pointing at them

"Shit, I'm totally stoned right now dude!" Jason said with a face that showed a mixture of concern and joy, along with a pair of eyes redder than blood. Noticing this, Zack tried his best not to laugh his ass off at the situation. "Don't worry man, I'll do the talking you just smile and nod."

Walking from the park, Billy and Trini approached them both carrying big smiles, "Hey guys," said Trini first, "Sorry for the delay, Downtown is total chaos right now."

"The chances of arriving on time were very low." Billy added.

"Do not worry guys, you both arrive just in time" Said Zack with an odd smile.
Trini observed her two friends a moment, there was something strange about them. Jason was strangely silent and Zack seemed too cheerful, well more than usual anyways.

"And what are you doing out here, by the way?" Trini asked Jason curiously.

"That reminds me!" interrupted Zack. "Ernie needs your help Billy, right Jason?"

Jason just smiled and nodded a couple of times.

"We better go inside then." Billy said and the group proceeded to enter the building.
Upon entering Jason and Zack went ahead to the bar, Trini stared at them and then turned to Billy.

"Are those two...?" She vaguely asked

"Totally." Billy replied chuckling, he then headed toward the back of the bar to help Ernie with his tech problems as the rest took a seat on the opposite side. People were slowly coming through the front door and in short time the place was packed, teenagers for the most part, but families with young children were there as well.
In the midst of the crowd a young teenager stood out above the rest with her bright pink jacket; a gorgeous girl with short Brown hair and a very athletic figure, around her were a group of around 6 teenagers talking to her very enthusiastically.

"So, tell us Kim, are you going to get us another medal this year?" Said one the teenagers

"I'm still not sure if I'll register again this year to be honest" Kimberly replied without showing any excitement.

"What?! B-But Kim! You are the best gymnastic in the whole city, I mean… it's your future!"

"That's what everyone keeps telling me…" Kimberly said seriously as she avoided the confused looks of the group, she turned her gaze at no particular place and her mind began to wander, the voices around her turning to mere background noise. Suddenly feeling quite uncomfortable, she stood up from the table and a group of four teenagers sitting at the bar in front of her caught her attention. Feeling quite nostalgic she remembered a time when she and they were close friends. Before she ruined everything with her stupid ego… now they treated each other as mere acquaintances, now in instead all she had was this bunch of flatterers who hardly knew her or understood her. Success and popularity came so quickly, she didn't realize that the only thing she really achieved was distancing from her true friends. She had become someone she didn't recognize anymore; a vain, selfish and inconsiderate person.
However, life always finds a way to make you see your mistakes, whether you like it or not.

"I'm gonna go over there, see you all around… I guess…" She said as she approached the bar ignoring all the complaints coming from the group of people around her. As she came close to the bar her heart began to accelerate, her face had a slightly nervous look, but in reality, she was terrified. Before she could notice she was already standing behind them. She began to fight the urge to just turn around and scape, but deep down she knew she couldn't do that, it was now or never. Kimberly closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

"Hey guys…" Kim modestly said while holding her hands behind her.
Upon hearing her voice the group turned around immediately, observing her with surprise, especially Jason and Zack who seemed unable to formulate words.

"Hey you… it's been a long time isn't it?" Trini said with a serious expression as she crossed her arms in front of her.

"What brings you here Kim?" Billy added

"Listen… I…" Kim closed her eyes and sighed "I'm sorry ok? I'm Sorry I've been such a bitch since I won that stupid tournament, I mean… I…" she paused "What happened to us?"

"You stopped talking to us for being such lame geeks…" Billy interrupted with a nostalgic look on his face.

"That's not how it happened!" she said hurriedly, tears threatening to come out of her eyes.

"Your words, not ours Kim." Zack said matter of factly.

"Did I…?"

Jason just nodded, while the rest just stared at her in silence.

"Listen… I understand if you don't want to talk to me anymore… I just wanted to apologize for giving you guys such a hard time, you don't deserve that… and… I deserve this… being alone… I deserve this for not knowing how to value my friends, I'm so sorry…"

She just stared at the ground wanting to be swallowed right there, slowly sobbing with tears flowing through her cheeks. She was about to turn around and scape the Youth Center, when the small group hugged her.

"It's Okay Kim." Jason said with a bright smile.

"We're not mad at you." Billy added.

"But I guess this make you a lame geek too." Zack cheerfully said as he began to laugh.

Suddenly everyone started laughing at the comment, keeping the hug.

The group remained like that for a few minutes and once the hug was over, Kimberly finally looked up and she noticed something.

"Jason, have you been crying?" Kim asked confused

"Uhm ... no."

"This is alarming, I must ask for your total confidentiality in this matter…" Said an Old man behind a large office desk "At least until we identify the saboteur… we need to gather the list of all the people who had access to the communications room in the last 48 hours." The man concluded; he was sporting a military uniform with several medals hanging from his chest, in front of him were Mac and Sarah.

"Yes, sir" Both exclaimed in unison.

"Dismissed." And with that both scientist proceeded to leave the room, and headed toward the main laboratory.

"General Norquist sure looks very calm about this whole thing." Mac whispered as he looked around the corridor, making sure no one nearby could hear them.

"I'm not so sure about that…" Sarah mentioned while both continued walking towards the laboratory "Anyway… we need that list. Can you get it?"

"Yeah, I have Clearance so leave it to me, whoever is trying to sabotage our communications won't get away with it." Upon entering the lab, Mac took a seat in front of a large computer, he began to type his username and started searching through the access list.

"Hmm ... this is strange, according to the report… three days ago our emergency terminal performed the regular tests perfectly… it seems only three people have entered the room since that day."

"Who?" Sarah said with concern as she looked at the screen.

Mac sighed and pointed to three entries on the screen.

"General Norquist recorded two entries and two exits two days ago, Captain William Mitchell also registered two entries and two exits, the same day, same hour, both went in together... nothing out of the ordinary, but this is what worries me, yesterday at noon… Karl Ziktor registered one entrance, but there is no record that he ever left the room..."

"Karl Ziktor? From Ziktor Industries? His company is one of the major investors, he is part of the board of directors too... why sabotage your own money? Makes no sense." Sarah began to pace in circles, trying to make sense of what she had just heard, the situation was not only alarming, now it had also become a mystery.

"I know, but check this out, there is a record of a board meeting... right at noon, at the exact same time Mr. Ziktor registered his entrance to the Com Room."

"Do you think someone could have stolen his access card?" She asked puzzled.

"Maybe, but we are talking about S01 level access, an access card and retina verification are needed."

"Check the security video Mac."

Mac proceeded to search for the Security video Archives on the Computer, after some minutes of typing, he stopped examined the screen, and pressed the "Enter" Key, what followed was a video showing the Communication Room, completely empty and functional until at exactly at 12:00PM. At this time all the lights on the room began to flicker, followed by the front door opening, and immediately a bunch of video static filled the screen until the video froze with an unrecognizable glitched image.

"This isn't good." Sarah stated with a concerned expression.

"Not at all."

Both scientists observed the image on the monitor, unaware of the catastrophic events that would unfold thanks to the Pandora's box that they were about to open.

"A scholarship at the Charterville Earth Academy? Kim that sounds incredible! It's a great opportunity." Billy said with excitement. The young group were drinking milkshakes and chatting at the bar.

"Yeah, they think I have potential for the Pan Global Games." Kim said looking straight at her milkshake.

"Are you enrolling?" Billy asked cautiously, for he had noticed the serious expression on Kimberly's face.

"I'm not sure yet." She sighed

"Why?" Billy asked confused as the rest watched carefully the exchange

"Because gymnastics doesn't make me happy."

The group was silent for a few minutes after hearing this. It was something they did not expect to hear, and Kimberly always showed a great passion for being a gymnast.

"Follow your heart no matter what, Kim." Trini said as she took Kim hand. "You don't have to do anything you don't want to." Kim just nodded and gave them a big smile

"Hey look! The Launch is about to start." Zack interrupted "Oh man this is so exciting!" he added

Immediately the whole bar approached the huge television screen, the emotion was immense and you could feel it in the air. On the screen two presenters were introducing the mission to the public; thanking the people involved in the project, and explaining the technical specifications of the spacecraft.

"Definitely, this ship has the latest technology." Said one of the presenters

"The best of the best, David." The other presenter replied.

"It's correct! Just like our two astronauts: Commander Aoki Toshikazu and Commander of modular pilot Harry Stanton"

Two pictures were shown on the screen, one of the commander Toshikazu; a middle-aged Asian man, black hair with some gray hair and a very serious expression. On the other side, the photo of Commander Stanton showed a Caucasian man in his 30's and with a more relaxed face.
The crowd at the youth center watched carefully the information on the screen, looking forward to the countdown.

"Ok, Cole, they just informed me that everything is ready." Said David, the presenter

"This means it's time for the countdown." Cole responded.

From the bar the group of friends counted in unison along with the crowd:
"5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... LAUNCH!" and everyone waved their hands in excitement.
On the screen you could see the great spaceship taking off towards the skies, crossing the clouds and atmosphere.

Inside the ship, things were running perfectly, the astronauts were quite satisfied with the information on their consoles.

"We are going at a stable speed; this beauty should reach the moon in about 15 minutes." Commander Stanton said without taking his eyes off his console.

"Perfect Harry, let's try to continue like this."

With each second the ship went deeper into the cold emptiness of outer space, little by little the astronauts could observe the shape of the moon becoming bigger and once they were close enough the ship began to make the landing maneuvers.
Once the ship landed, both astronauts began working on their consoles, entering information, access codes and other requirements for the mission.

"The emergency communications are active, full oxygen reserve, we have enough fuel for the return trip, and the surface is quite favorable for exploration." Commander Toshikazu said when he finished entering the information.

"Then what are we waiting for?" The young astronaut said with excitement.

The two cosmonauts put on their suits and decided to go outside in order to start the mission. As they explored the surface and went into rocky lunar plains, both men began to feel an indescribable aura surrounding them; as if guided by an urgent instinct, they broke their reconnaissance route and headed towards a strange rock formation west of their landing location. As they approached the formation, a bright red flash caught the attention of the astronauts, causing them to hurry their phase, once they were close enough to their new destination they realized they weren't looking at a rock formation at all, it looked like some sort of ancient entrance buried on the ground. Both went closer and noticed with a huge stone cover with beautiful decorations and incrustations on the top and a red gem right in the middle that stood out above all.
Immediately both men were possessed by an impulse and rushed to place their hands on the cover. They tried to move it with all their strength, however it remained motionless.
"AGAIN" Harry shouted at all lungs and both charged with all their might, but this time the gem emitted rays of red electricity around them, and upon making contact with the astronauts it endowed them with superhuman strength for a brief moment, but long enough to finally move the Stone. Both pushed with more strength and the more they pushed the object, more rays violently emanated from the gem. The eyes of both Astronauts began to glow a blood red and finally they were able to uncover a section of the entrance.
The ground beneath his feet began to rumble, and a metallic ringing sound began to reverberate around them as a huge purple flash emanated from the mysterious object.
The two astronauts walked away and watched in horror as the stone lid exploded in front of them in a thousand pieces. The Astronauts were completely immobile, trying to process what they were witnessing when a strong and sinister scream took them out of the trance they were in.

They watched in horror a woman wearing a strange armor emerging from the entrance they had just opened, she was followed by a group of hideous looking creatures.

"AAAAAAH! IM FINALLY FREE!" exclaimed the now free sorceress as hundreds of rays of purple electricity continued to emanate from the object.
Beside her they were: Colonel Goldar; a Blue skinned humanoid warrior with a face characterized by a mixture of feline factions and simians wearing a golden armor. Finster, a mysterious scientist with the complexion of a humanoid Scottish terrier. Commander Squatt, a great humanoid warthog with blue skin and shiny silver armor. And the Strategist, Baboo a tall, slim, black, vampiric creature, that resembles a cross between a monkey and a bat with a crippled wing.

"I guess I should thank you for my freedom" The mysterious woman told the two astronauts as she pointed her index finger directly at them.
They remained immobile, only one of them, Harry could exclaim a couple of words.

"Who are you?" he said in a trembling voice

"I am Rita Repulsa, kneel before my greatness or face your doom." But the astronauts were too terrified to heed the demands of the evil sorceress.

"KNEEL NOW." Goldar exclaimed in anger as he drew his sword and struck the ground, creating flashes of electricity that caused the astronauts to kneel in pain.

"Baboo… how long?" Rita asked, never taking her eyes off the beautiful blue planet in front of her.

"5000 earth years have passed, that's 50 Zekters out of this system." Baboo read from a device he held in his hand.

"The most attractive aspect of this system… turned against us… Zordon knew this and gave him too much time to prepare." Goldar added between his teeth and with clear irritation in his voice.

"Let's see how far these inferior creatures have advanced in 5000 thousand years ... It's time to conquer the earth!" Rita said while holding a dangerous smile.
The lunar soil began to tremble with fury as an enormous construction slowly emerged from the ground. Once it had risen completely, from the highest point of the tower, a purple energy projectile was fired into the void of space, imploding in a Psychedelic show of colors, shapes and distortions, creating a multicolored cloud that quickly spread above them, creating what looked like a multicolored moon sky.

"The artificial atmosphere is complete." Finster read from the same device that Baboo held. "Your palace is ready my empress… the conquest can begin."

"Good." The Empress smiled.

Inside the NASADA facilities everyone was in a state on panic and chaos. The moment the crew noticed the two astronauts changed their exploration route, the communication with them was lost. Many began to worry once the communication was lost; assuming that they had fallen in one of the many lunar craters, but fortunately, emergency communications were activated automatically after the third failed contact attempt. However, nothing could have prepared them for the horrors they would witness through the emergency video and audio feed.
The images that were shown on the screen challenged any logical explanation and showed a horrifying truth: not only we are not alone, we currently were the targets of intergalactic conquest.
As they watched on the video how the palace emerges from the moon as the mysterious witch moves her scepter while reciting strange words, the video is filled with static and then ends. After this the room is submerged in silence until someone breaks it by screaming:

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!"

"We need to contact the president, immediately." Another one added.

The Room once again was filled with panic, nobody knew what to do.

Mac, Sarah and General Norquist proceeded to leave the room and headed towards to the general's office in a hurry, once inside, mac finally breaks his posture and exclaims:

"What the hell just happened?! Did we just condemn the earth? Shit! Shit! Mac cursed nervously while walking in circles inside the office.

"MAC, you need to calm down!" Sarah exclaimed as she held mac arms, in an attempt to stop him from panicking even more, her hands also trembling.

"Enough. You both need to calm down." The general said calmly. "We need to contact the president and the intelligence agencies, let's hope they can help us figure out this mess."

"What about Mr. Ziktor?" Sarah asked

"What about him?"

"We suspect was the one that stole the Emergency Com chip, but we have no way of proving it tough." Mac replied, the nervousness still evident in his voice. "And now this happens…"

"We will deal with him later, it's not a priority right now."

"Roger."

The General took a seat at his desk, took the phone and as he was about to dial the sound of hurried steps caught his attention, at which point a scientist suddenly entered to his office, his face pale.

"Sir, several unidentified objects are heading towards the earth… T-They are heading to the Capitals and the biggest cities in the world… one in heading towards the center of Angel Grove at high speed… we estimate an impact in 10 minutes!" The young man said horrified.

"My God ..." was the only thing the general could say after dropping the phone to the ground, the cold tone of the line being the only sound in the room.

Back at the Youth Center the people were having a good time, what they had seen on television showed something different from what as was about to happen, it showed a successful launch and landing operations and the transmission ended there, returning to the usual programming. Quite a few people left the youth Center after this, despite this, the place was still quite full.
Ernie was at the bar serving drinks, when he noticed two figures at the back of the room, a voluptuous teenager and a slimmer one, both dressed in leather jackets with several studs, showing off a very Punk appearance. They were Bulk and Skull, who were known to be local bullies and occasionally buffoons. Ernie approached them with a somewhat angered expression.

"Listen…" He sighed "I told you that I did not want to see you again unless you pay for the cake you spoiled last week." He told them with his arms crossed.

"Hey! Take it easy man!" Bull said lifting his both arms in surrender.

"it's okay bro… we're sorry, here's the money, we just came to hang out for a bit." Said Skull; the thinnest as he give Ernie a couple of bills.

"Everything's cool now Ernie?" Said Bull

"Ok guys, I see that you have kept your word… you surprised me to be honest, very well done." Ernie was about to invite them to the bar, when the ground began to tremble violently.
Small pieces of the roof began to fall to the floor and immediately, Jason and his friends approached Ernie.

"Ernie, we have to get people out." Jason exclaimed with concern.

"Right! Ok guys, help me evacuate please." Ernie said hurriedly and turned his gaze to his left side. "Bull, Skull, I need you ..." but before he could finish the sentence, the huge sound of an explosion echoed and boomed everywhere.

"EVERYBODY OUTSIDE!" Zack shouted immediately. "NOW!"

Zack and Jason positioned themselves in the main exits to help the traffic flow, Trini and Billy went to the back exit to do the same job, while Kimberly Ernie helped the children.
Bull and Skull helped to stand up those who fell in-between all the chaos.
Once everyone was outside the premises they looked in terror smoke coming from the heart of the city.

"Terrorists?" Skull asked worried.

"Let's pray to God that it's not like that." Ernie answered.

"Ok guys, we should go to downtown." Jason said with determination.

"Jason! NO! Are you crazy?" Ernie almost screamed "It's very dangerous, leave that to the authorities."

"Ernie, there must be people in need of help! We cannot stay here and do nothing, what if the authorities can't help everybody?"

"Jason is right Ernie, it's our civil duty to help." Billy said

"Count with me." Said Zack

"With me too." Said Trini

"I'm going too." Kimberly said.

"You are all crazy! Skull! Let's go!" Bull exclaimed with anger in his voice, he took a visibly shaken Skull by the arm and disappeared into the crowd.

The young group began to run towards downtown, and as they crossed the park toward downtown they noticed people running in the opposite direction.

"That's a lot of people running away" Trini said with concerned look.

Once they reached downtown they observed an enormous rock about 80 feet high with a perfect circumference that had impacted on the main avenue. The object looked like a meteorite with large amounts of hot smoke emanating from it. The object was inside a deep crater along with debris and many destroyed cars surrounding it. Inside the cars were dismembered corpses, in some of them entire families, It truly was a horrific sight. The teenagers froze upon witnessing the scene and in short time the people formed a large crowd around it. A few Minutes passed by and the rock began to vibrate violently, deforming in impossible ways, as if it was made of some sort of clay. Lightning began to surround the object as strange and hideous figures were forming on its surface, they began to take the form of deformed faces and silhouettes, as if trying to escape from the inside.

"It's Moving!" A young man exclaimed and all the people took a few steps back in fear. But before anyone could get away at a safe distance, hot clay projectiles began to launch from the giant object in all possible directions, some falling on people, trapping them in mounds upon making contact with the strange material. In a matter of seconds the mounds began to deform, taking the shape of grotesque gray humanoid creatures with penetrating red eyes and deformed faces devoid of expression or emotion, some of them mixed with parts of the pavement creating armor and weapons made of rock witch give them a gloomy look. The ones that came into contact with people suffered a more grotesque fate, as the strange material merged with them into abominable creature's part clay part bloodied flesh. Once the creatures gained form, this Golem army moved forward and began to rampage the city, destroying vehicles, premises and buildings. Everyone began to flee in terror as the Golems began to brutally attack the pedestrians standing by. The five teenagers were stupefied at the scene, it was horrifying.

Jason broke the trance, and with a heartbreaking scream full of anger, ran towards a group of three Golems that were about to crush a little girl. He gathered his strength, jumped in direction of a vehicle took impulse and with a flying kick he attacked the monsters, destroying the head of one of them, and sending the two remaining to the floor. Jason could barely take a breath as a Golem surprised him from behind, hitting him in the back and throwing him to the ground. Jason shrieked in pain as he spat some blood on the floor and noticed a steel bar next to him, he immediately took it and jumping up, hit the golem with all his strength right into the chest of the creature, breaking it in several pieces.

Zack ran to help Jason, took a steel rod from the ground as well and used it to break the arm of a Golem, then with a full force kick he broke the leg of the creature, leaving it motionless on the ground. Zack then turned toward Jason's and saw two Golems charging towards him.
"Jason be careful!" he exclaimed, but in that moment he watched Trini and Kimberly wielding similar steel rods beat the creatures fiercely until they dismembered them.
Jason panted in exhaustion, his hand was bruised and soaked in blood. He looked up and saw that although they had destroyed a few of the Golems, there were still dozens around.

"I think we should go, Ernie was right, this is too much." Jason said between gasps.

"Where is Billy?!" Trini exclaimed as she looked around looking for her friend.

Suddenly the sounds of sirens and gunshots echoed the chaotic streets, making the Golems turn and run towards the opposite direction. Dozens of soldiers and policemen were firing mercilessly at the creatures, some of them began to crumble from the gunshots, while others managed to get close enough to viciously dismember some soldiers. The teenagers ducked to avoid the bullets that were impacting everywhere.

"WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE!" Kimberly screamed with despair.

The teenagers got up and ran with their heads down, trying to get away from the combat zone. Jason turned back once more and watched a Golem jumping in the direction of a soldier holding a grenade in his hands.

Jason was about to scream, when the sound of the explosion filled the whole place as hundreds of pieces of debris began to fall from the sky.

Amid the chaos, the group heard a loud horn behind them, and saw Billy driving towards them a silver Type 1 Volkswagen.

"ENTER!" Billy shouted to his friends once he was close enough "NOW!"

The group nodded and entered the vehicle immediately, Billy accelerated as much as he could and they left downtown within a few minutes. Once out of danger, the young blonde could calm down for a bit and think about what had just happened.

"What the fuck was that?!" Billy almost screamed.

Meanwhile deep into the California desert, lays the Command Center; a complex underground fortress, fed by the nucleus of the Eltarian Intergalactic Ship where the conscience of Zordon was stored, his base of operations.

"Rita has been freed Alpha." Said a giant Holographic Face "Her conquest has already begun."

"Ayi-yi Zordon, this happened much sooner than expected." Said Alpha 5, the little robot and right hand of the wise Eltarian. "We have not chosen our warriors yet." Alpha said while working on the main computer.

"I've already have, Alpha, Look at the Viewing Globe."

Alpha turned his gaze towards a round object in the background; a giant crystal sphere. Inside it, images of the invasion in Angel grove were played, but especially it showed a group of five brave young people fighting with all their strength against the Golems.

"Impressive" said the robot with a lot of emotion.

"We need locate them immediately, the situation is urgent."

"Triangulating location..." said the robot as he typed some commands on his console deck.
"I found them! They are on the outskirts of Angel Grove, they seem to have stopped moving."

"Bring them, teleport them now."

"Roger Boss!"

Five energy flashes of Red, Blue, Yellow, Black and Pink appeared in the middle of the command center, and five teenagers materialized along with it.
"Where the fuck did you get a car, Billy?" Trini asked confused
"I stole it natura ... wait, where are we ?!" Billy suddenly looked around, at first in confusion, but that feeling immediately became fascination as he saw the incredible technology surrounding him. The rest looked around just confused.

"This place is incredible…" Zack said in awe.

"Welcome." the strong voice of Zordon made them turn immediately. "I know this must be very confusing for you, but I need you to listen carefully to my words." He continued

"My name is Zordon of Eltar, I am an Intergalactic sage and I have lived on this planet for the last six thousand years… secretly protecting it from the forces of evil which abound in the infinite cosmos. I know this must be hard to understand, but believe me when I tell you that this is something of vital importance for you and your planet." Zordon paused for a moment, observing the young group.

"Five thousand years ago, this planet was the object of conquest by the evil sorceress Rita Repulsa, she and her allies covet the great riches that your planet possesses, but above all, the power that you humans carry within. With her immense power, Rita began her conquest and at first managed to enslave many tribes… however, before this threat, the first empires of the planet formed an alliance. They gave me their best warriors so that I could train them, together form an army and thus fight against this evil. Among hundreds of warriors I chose five whose courage, skill, intelligence, but above all passion, stood out among the rest. To these five warriors, I granted them a power older than humanity itself. They became the guardians of the planet and together; after long battles, defeated Rita and her army. I personally managed to trap her and imprison her on the moon, but I paid a high price for it… I lost my physical body. At the time I never thought that humans would advance by themselves until reaching the stars so fast. Unfortunately, as a result of this, Rita Repulsa was released from her prison and has launched her first attack against the planet, as you already experienced. I had been observing you for quite some time and your brave actions today have impressed me. I have chosen you five, to morph into a force known all as the Power Rangers, defenders of this planet, and as such will be given access to extraordinary powers drawn from the ancient Guardian Beasts, with this power you will defeat the evil forces that threaten the planet." Zordon paused again, the room was completely silent, and the teenagers looked at him in amazement

"Do you accept this responsibility?" he finished.

Jason observed his bloody fist, remembering what had just happened, the chaos, blood and corpses under the rubble flooding his head. The young man fell in the realization that he could have died, and his friends too. He was too reckless. His fist began to tremble and tears escaped his eyes, this was not fair, he thought. But now he also knew, that this was only the beginning, they would not stop. Jason thought about his parents, his sister… what would become of them? No matter how hard it was, no matter how much it hurt, he knew that he had to take responsibility, because at that moment his love was greater than fear.

"I Accept" Jason said and took a step forward.

Zack observed Jason alarmed, was he crazy? They just barely came out alive from that disaster, and he already wanted to enlist in a war? That's work for the army… but then something came back to his mind, he remembered that horrifying image of a Golem crushing the face of a young military man. They just could not fight with so many creatures, nobody on earth could, and we are talking about magic and ancient creatures.
"I don't know, bro, I ..." Zack raised his head and looked Zordon in the eye. This giant head, he told them he can fight back. That we can fight back… we are the chosen ones. It's time to fight fire with fire, he thought. Zack felt his body fill with courage, took a long sigh and took a step forward with Jason.

"I also accept."

"What are you doing?" Kimberly exclaimed.

"The right thing." Jason answered.

Kimberly looked at Jason and Zack, then at Zordon and finally looked at Trini, who also looked back at her. Kimberly could see sadness in her eyes, the same very same thing she was feeling right now. Kim smiled and took the hand of her friend, Trini smiled back, and gave each other a big hug.

"We can do this" Trini whispered. Kimberly sighed and released the hug, loved women looked into each other's eyes and nodded.

"We accept" They said both at the same time.
The four teenagers turned to see Billy, who had his hands in the pockets of his overalls.

"Believe me guys, I'd love to accept, but let's face it, I'm not a warrior…" he said.

"Billy." Zordon said "To be a warrior is not only to possess physical strength, I have chosen you for your outstanding abilities and intellect, which will be indispensable in this struggle, this does not mean that I doubt your physical abilities, because I have full confidence that with time and training, you will become a great fighter as well."

"Ok, I'm in… I accept." Billy smiled and took a step forward.

"Jason, bold and powerful, you shall command the Tyrannosaurus Guardian Beast."

"Zachary, clever and brave, you shall command the Mastodon Guardian Beast."

"Kimberly, graceful and smart, the Pterodactyl Guardian Beast shall be yours."

"Billy, patient and wise, you shall command the powerful Triceratops Guardian Beast."

"Trini, fearless and agile, the Sabre-toothed Tiger Guardian Beast will be under your command."

Once Zordon said this, a small gold coin appeared on the hand of each of the Power Rangers, in that moment the five teenagers felt an immense energy run through their veins. All their injuries healed in matter of seconds while their bodies emanated an aura of their corresponding color.

"These are your Power Coins, your connection with the Might of the Guardian Beasts, and the Morphing Grid." Zordon said. "In a moment, my partner Alpha 5, will bring to you the Power Morphers, these devices will allow you to channel the energy of the Power Coins and use the Power of the Grid to morph."

Alpha 5 entered the room after Zordon's words carrying a wooden chest in his hands, the Power Rangers observed him with amazement. "Take them." Alpha said as he opened the chest, inside were the Power Morphers; silver-colored devices, with a circular compartment in the middle. Each one took a Morpher and introduced its Power Coin on it. In doing so, the devices were illuminated revealing a brilliant neon-like finish, each with its distinctive color.

"To morph, you need to take your Morpher with both hands to channel your vital energy… raise it in front of you and say the name of your guardian beast… once you Morph, your mind will gain access to the Ancient Knowledge that lies in the Morphin Grid. This will allow you to pilot the fighting force machines called Zords." The Power Rangers looked at their Morphers and nodded at Zordon.

"It's Morphin' time!" Alpha Exclaimed.

The teenagers looked at each other, and nodded. They took the Morphers with both hands and followed the instructions that were given to them.

"Mastodon!"

"Pterodactyl!"

"Triceratops!"

"Saber-Toothed Tiger!"

"Tyrannosaurus!"

At that moment the Power Rangers were born. In an instant the minds of each one of them were filled with Ancient wisdom, Combat tactics, and knowledge regarding their Powers, the Zords among many other things. Once the transformation was finished, the young teenagers were wearing a shining armor which seemed to be made of a very resistant but flexible metal material that provided protection in the extremities, shoulders and part of the chest. Underneath this was an unknown material that looked like a semi-scaly cloth with a glitter similar to metallic spandex. In the center of the chest adorning the armor beautifully was a golden medallion; each with the image of its corresponding Guardian Beast. Each armor shone with distinctive color along with beautiful diamond shaped silver decorations on the chest, arms and boots with the Power Morpher resting in the center of the belt. The armor also had a Helmet accompanying it, each of them reflecting the face of his Guardian beast.

"Alpha will now teleport you to Downtown Angel Grove, you mission is to repel the Golem Invasion." Zordon exclaimed and the rangers nodded in response.

"Now, Go Power Rangers!" Alpha exclaimed.

Once again a bright light enveloped them and within seconds, they were back in Downtown Angel Grove, only this time they were ready to fight.

On the opposite side of the main avenue was the army of Golems, still in battle with the armed forces, and it was more than evident that the Golems were gaining the upper hand.

"Okay rangers! I'll take care of the front while you cover the sides." Said Jason through the communicator inside his helmet.

The Rangers advanced together with Jason leading the front. They took direct momentum from the floor and jumped into the golems, destroying several of them by landing on them. Debris and parts of the Golems were scattered in the air. Each punch and kick was enough to crush a golem, it was like hitting a drywall for them now. Trini and Kimberly covered the left side, while Zack and Billy the right side, the Rangers fought hand to hand against the packs of Golems. Meanwhile, Jason took his Blade Blaster and shot against a crowd of Golems in front of him, destroying at least 15 Golems in the process. The Armed Forces took advantage of the help, and began to pick up their wounded men and retreated from the field.

Jason felt incredible with all this power at his fingertips. He could feel every bit of it running through his body like electricity, driving him to fight harder and harder. The Power Rangers continued to fight fiercely until only a few Golems remained; realizing they had lost the battle, the creatures retreated and disappeared in a purple flash of light.

"Did we won?" Zack asked confused.

"Rangers, Rita has withdrawn her armies from the rest of the cities around the world, be careful" Zordon told them through the communicator.

The sky of Angel Grove suddenly became cloudy, and in the clouds appeared the image of Rita Repulsa, this same image would also be seen in all the major cities and capitals of the world.
"People of Earth, my name is Rita Repulsa, Dark sorceress, Daughter of Master Vile the Conqueror, Empresses of this Galaxy and General of the Black Army of the United Alliance, and as such, I claim this Planet as part of the Dark Empire." She paused for a moment. "By decree of galactic law… I may grant you 48 of your Earth hours to present a formal and peaceful surrender..."

Rita smiled and changed her expression of seriousness to one of incredible evil "However, today you have shown me that you are able to defend yourself and therefore your species represent an threat to the Empire." On the clouds images of the Power Rangers fighting the Golems appeared. "A threat that must be dominated immediately! Listen carefully humans... do not expect truce or mercy! This is total war! And you can thank the Power Rangers for this! AHAHAHAHA!"

The image disappeared from the sky, and in the distance, they heard the roaring sound of giant steps. The rangers were teleported to the top of one of the buildings in downtown where they could see the mountains in the distance. But could not see the source of the rumbling sound.
"Hey guys, I think you should turn around here." Billy said, and when the others turned around, they could see in the distance a colossal figure approaching:
Wearing a golden armor, the gigantic Goldar was approaching the city.

"I think we're in trouble" Zack said as he swallowed.

"Nothing we cannot handle" Said Jason smiling behind that Helmet.

AN: Ok so I finally got around publishing the first chapter, it had been spinning on my head for the past months, but finally got to down to actually writing it last week, English is not my native Language so there may be some errors here and there I probably missed. Anyway, Hope you enjoyed it, and please review. Expect Next chapter Next month or probably sooner.