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Chapter 2

Lilly looked at her cousin, mouth open, "You're a Power Ranger?"

"I was… when I was your age… I gave up my powers so I could go train to be in the Olympics," said Kimberly.

"So, what does any of this have to do with us?" asked Oliver.

"You three are going to have to become Power Rangers."

"Former Power Ranger say what?" said the three teenagers together.

"How on earth are we going to be Power Rangers?" asked Miley.

Just then the doorbell rang, "I'll get it," said Kimberly, she opened the door and smiled, "Great you're here, come in…" The teens looked and saw a man with short brown hair and a woman with long blond hair. "Jason and Kat, this is Miley, Lilly, and Oliver. Miley, Lilly, and Oliver, this is Jason and Katherine Scott, they will be helping me mentor you guys. Katherine will be our technical advisor and Jason will be in charge of your martial arts training."

"Martial arts training?" asked Oliver.

"On an almost daily basis, Empress Kale will be sending down some monster and Dragotrons to attack Malibu, and you're going to have to know how to defend yourself," said Jason.

The teens looked at each other and then Miley motioned for the three of them to huddle up. The teens talked while the adults just watched. then Miley said, "OK… We're in…"

Kimberly smiled, "Great. Let's go down to the Command Center and we'll give you you're morphers."

Jason walked over to the bookcase and pressed in the book marked, Gymnastics: Theory and Practice. The case opened up to reveal a staircase. The teens followed the adults down to the Command Center. There really wasn't too much to the Command Center, just large open space in the middle was a circle of panels with all sorts of computer screens and buttons there was also a large screen on the wall on the opposite side of the room from the stairs.

The teens looked around, "Wow…" said Lilly, "Like something out of Star Trek."

"May I have your Jewels?" asked Kat, with her Australian accent. The teens handed her the Jewels and Kat left for a few moments.

"What is this place?" asked Miley.

"This is our base of operations, we can keep watch of the whole Malibu area from this room," said Kimberly.

"What about the rest of the world?" asked Oliver.

"Well," said Jason, "the bad guys always seem to focus there attacks on the city that the Power Rangers call home."

The teens nodded and then Kat came back carrying three cell phones, one red, one yellow and one blue, "These are your morphers/communicators." Kat handed Lilly the yellow morpher, "Lilly, you're the Yellow Ranger, and you're Jewel is the Heartstone."

Kat handed Oliver the blue phone, "Oliver, you're the Blue Ranger, and you're Jewel is the Moonstone."

Then, Kat handed Miley the red phone, "Miley, you're the Red Ranger, and you're Jewel is the Sunstone. Plus, since you're the Red Ranger, that makes you the leader of the Power Rangers."

"Katherine say what?" said Miley.

"It's tradition," said Jason, "The Red Ranger has always been the leader of each team of Power Rangers."

"Not always…" said Kimberly.

"OK, not always, but most of the time."

"Plus," added Kimberly, "You're the first female Red Ranger."

Miley looked at her morpher and then she looked at her friends, "You guys cool with me being the leader?"

Lilly smiled, "Absolutely."

Oliver nodded, "We wouldn't have it any other way."

Miley smiled and then Kat continued, "OK, to communicate with each other and us, press the button on the left side of the morpher, and say the name of the person you want to talk to into the speaker on the top of the morpher. To morph, you press the button on the right side of the morpher and say 'By the power of the…' and then you say the name of your Jewel. Why don't you try it out?"

Miley nodded, "OK, you guys ready?"

"Ready." replied Lilly and Oliver.

"By the power of the Heartstone."

"By the power of the Moonstone."

"By the power of the Sunstone."

Then a bright light filled the Command Center and where the teens once stood, three Power Rangers stood. Their uniforms were similar the uniforms of the original Rangers, except, on each Rangers chest was a black circle and in the circle was a outline in gold of each Ranger's Jewel.

"Wow," said Lilly, "This is amazing…"

"I feel like I could run a marathon," said Miley.

"I've never felt like this in my life," said Oliver.

The three adults smiled thinking about their days as Power Rangers, "That's the power of the Jewels," said Kimberly, "When you're morphed, you'll be much stronger, faster, and have more energy than normal."

"So how do we go back to normal?" asked Miley.

"Just press the button on your morpher again and say, 'Power Down.'" replied Kat.

"OK," said Miley.

"Power Down," the three rangers said in unison, and the teens returned to their normal selves.

"OK," said Kimberly, "Now that you are Rangers, there are three rules you must follow or you will risk losing the protection of the Power."

"Never use your Powers for personal gain," said Kat.

"Never escalate a battle unless your forced to," said Jason.

"And finally, no one can know you are the Power Rangers," said Kim, "Understand?" the Rangers nodded and Kimberly continued, "Good, now we'll meet back here at 9 tomorrow morning and we'll start your training." The teens agreed and left.

That night, Kimberly laid asleep in her bed when a noise from woke her up… "Ugh, what did that cat get into now?" The cat she was referring to was her female gray tiger cat, Furball. Kim climbed out of bed, pulled on her pink robe and then headed downstairs. When she was about halfway down she heard heavy footsteps walking across the floor of her living room. She quietly snuck down the stairs and barely contained the gasp that tried to come out of her mouth. In her living room was a large creature. He was about 6' tall and weighed about 300 lbs. He had the head of a red dragon, and body of a bodybuilder, except for the hands which where dragon-like. He also had a pair of wings coming out of his back. The armor he was wearing was painted red and he had a sword in a sheath, attached to his belt. With him were two smaller creatures, they were both green, had the heads and hands of dragons, and the body of a man.

Kimberly knew what she had to do, she had to get a hold of Jason, she turned to rush back upstairs and found herself face to face with two more of the green creatures, and screamed, she tried to fight them off but they were much tougher than the Putties she use to fight when she was a Power Ranger. The two creatures grabbed her and took her into the living room and showed her to the red creature.

The red creature smiled and spoke, "Good work, Dragotrons… It's nice to meet you Miss Hart… My name is Grim and I work for Empress Kale of Avalon… I believe you have something that belongs to her…"

Kimberly struggled in the arms of the two Dragotrons that held her, "The Crown Jewels don't belong to her… "

Grim laughed, pulled his sword out of his sheath, and placed the blade up against Kimberly's neck, "Are you sure about that?"

Kimberly gulped and looked Grim square in the eyes…

The next morning, Miley, Lilly and Oliver arrived at Kimberly's house, and rang the doorbell, only to have Jason answer it, "Great, you're all here… Come in…"

The teens walked inside and saw the whole living room in disarray, "What happened?" asked Miley.

"We're pretty sure Kale sent down some of her minions to search the house for the Crown Jewels," said Kat, as she was holding Furball.

"Where's my cousin?" asked Lilly.

Jason and Kat looked at each other, and Jason said, "We don't know… The house was like this when we got here… But we have to assume that Kale has both Kim and the Crown Jewels."

"Great," said Oliver, "Our first day as Power Rangers is looking like it's going to be our last…"

"Not necessarily," said Kat, "Kale might have Kim and the Crown Jewels… But she doesn't have this…" Kat then pulled a large key with a red jewel at the top, out of her pocket.

"What's that?" asked Miley.

"This is Merlin's Key. It's the only way to open the case the Crown Jewels are in," just then they heard a beeping noise.

"What's that?" asked Lilly.

"Incoming transmission…" said Jason, "Come on let's head down to the Command Center."

When they got downstairs, Kat pull a chair out of from one of the consoles, sat down and started to press buttons, "Who's the message from Kat?" asked her husband.

"Empress Kale… It's not a live messages but a recording on a loop…" replied the blond Australian.

"Put it on the View Screen."

Kat pressed some buttons and a image of the brunette Empress appeared and spoke, "Hello, Power Rangers… As you may know, I have both Kimberly Hart and The Crown Jewels of Avalon. But, you have the key to the Jewel Box. If you come to my ship, and give me the key I will return Miss Hart to you. You have until 11:00 AM your time to make your decision."

Then, the screen went dark, Lilly looked at her best friend, and asked, "What do we do, Miley?"

Miley looked at her friend, and said, "I don't know…" Then she looked at the view screen, "Give me a minute…"