Power Rangers: Legacy

Chapter Two

Cassie.

Cassie smiled brightly as she handed a box of food, water and medical supplies over to the father of three. "Now, remember that you have to make these supplies last, the cargo ship isn't going to be here for another week."

It took the translator circuits inside her morpher a few minutes to translate the clicks and chirps that made up the man's language but it was clearly message of gratitude for all she was doing, Cassie smiled and sent the man, and his three small children off on their way. Thankfully, they were the last people in line which was good as the hanger bay of the Astro megaship 2 was finally empty.

Cassie took a clapboard off of the top of an empty cargo container and began to tick everything off, they had stayed on this planet longer than they normally would have, nearly a month, but the planet had suffered a great deal of damage and so many lives had been destroyed that Cassie and the other space rangers couldn't just leave as they were so they had chosen to stay and help to make sure that the hardest hit would be able to survive until aid come.

The planet had been small and had a very small defence force, so when an invasion force almost as large as the alliance of evil had attacked the rangers had responded to the distress call and came to save the day. Of course even they couldn't fight off a major invasion force overnight with just the six of them so they had actually stayed on the planet for two weeks to help fight it off.

It had been a gruelling two weeks, and they had all nearly been killed more than once and the things they had all seen during those two weeks...Cassie figured that she wouldn't be able to get a good night's sleep for a long time.

"That the last of it?" A voice from behind her asked and Cassie looked up to see Zhane approaching, his hands stuffed lazily into the pockets of his trousers, the man's youthful eyes were tired looking, Cassie had never seen him like this. "Where's everyone else?"

"Carlos, TJ and Andros are trying to help rebuild the school and Ashley's helping out in the hospital." The small town they were currently helping out in had been one of the hardest hit, half it's population had been wiped out and so much of it's local infrastructure had been ruined, if they hadn't been ferrying supplies from one of the large cities nearby then Cassie didn't even want to think about how bad it might be.

"Guess I'll go and help the guys out, you going to check on Ash?" He asked as he stepped down the loading ramp into the thick jungle, when he saw Cassie he nodded he did a two finger salute and walked off into the jungle, in the direction of the school.

Cassie finished ticking things off of the list and started to make her way to the hospital, it was a fairly long walk on it's own but the thick jungle foliage made it even longer than it would be. By the time she made it to the hospital the sky was already starting to turn a dark orange colour. There were a few people hanging around outside the entrance and some of them waved their two-pronged hands at her in greeting and Cassie waved back with a small smile on her face.

It was more than a little odd to have their identities as rangers know to almost an entire planet, it was true that during the alliance's invasion they were forced to reveal their identities to stop their forces from hurting any of the civilians but they hadn't stayed on Earth long enough to really take any of it in but she was glad enough for that, she didn't think she would be able to take the constant fame and admiration.

Her dream of being a singer almost seemed like it belonged to an entirely different person now, being a ranger all these years had changed. She was a different person then, she wondered if her parents would even recognise her anymore.

When was the last time she had even seen her parents? When was the last time she had thought about them? When was the last time she had even thought about Earth let alone thought about going back? What happened to that girl who had come into Angel Grove on a bus? Deep down inside herself she knew the answer a long time ago.

She was an utterly different person now, that Cassie Chan was long gone. But, that thought didn't make her sad, looking back on herself she wasn't that fond of who she had been, this is what her experiences had made her and she was proud of who she was.

She began to make her way to hospital entrance, but she didn't make it inside as an explosion shattered one of the upstairs windows, screams filled the air along with thick black smoke and shreds of burning paper and slivers of glass began to fall to the ground. "Ashley!" The shriek erupted from her mouth as she thought about Ash, her best friend laying on the ground, her body broken and skin charred.

The sound of desperate chirping broke her out of her stupor, there were people who needed her help and she couldn't focus on Ashley at the moment. She couldn't allow herself to be selfish, she was a power ranger.

Cassie ran to the one closest near her, a female with a beautiful dark pink thorax and beautiful gossamer wings, so much like a butterflies, she was clutching her leg and Cassie knelt down next to her. "It's alright ma'am, I'm going to look after you." She said as she reached down to move her hands out of the way. "I just need to take a look at that wound."

And then, the woman began to laugh. Loudly. Almost manically.

"It's going to be alright-" Cassie attempted to sooth but suddenly the woman turned into a pink blur and disappeared, reappearing on the other side of the little clearing, standing up right with a grin on her face. "What the-?"

"Don't you recognise me, Pink Ranger?" The insect woman asked with a manic grin on her face before she started to laugh again, that terrible laugh, that familiar laugh...that psychotic laugh.

No.

The woman glowed pink and her features blurred and her visage fell away, replaced with a demon straight out of her worse nightmares, a monster she thought she had been rid of long ago.

"Pyscho Pink." Cassie breathed in disbelief as she got to her feet, gazing at her pale reflection in the monster's dark visor. "This...This isn't possible."

"Don't you know the old saying, Pink Ranger? You can't keep a good pyscho down!" The Pyscho Ranger threw out her hand and Cassie rolled to the side as a blast of electricity struck the ground where she had been standing, turning the grass black.

Cassie glanced at it before she got to her feet and glanced around at the rest of the civilians. "Get out of here! All of you!" The people began to stagger to their feet some helping others to get away from the area.

"Good, I just love having you all to myself." Pyscho Pink said as she crossed her arms, her synthesized voice sounded mocking.

"Well then, today's your lucky day." Cassie said with grim smirk as she raised her arm and flipped open the lid of her astro mopher. "Let's Rocket It!" She hit three buttons in rapid section and yelled as she morphed, the change barely even felt strange to her as the bright pink uniform appeared over her. "Pink Space Ranger!"

Pyscho Pink let out another yell and threw out a blast of lightning towards Cassie but she jumped out of the way and drew her blaster and returned fire but the evil ranger jumped out of the way and summoned her dark bow into her hands and shot two energy arrows at her, striking Cassie who fell with a scream as sparks shot off of her as she fell to the ground.

Pyscho Pink laughed and began to walk towards Cassie slowly, clearly enjoying her fear. Cassie tried to get to her feet but she couldn't, her body spasms in pain and kept her down on the ground. The Pyscho reached down and hauled Cassie up by her neck. "You're mine!" She shouted as she placed her hand over Cassie's helmet and Cassie screamed as she felt her energy being drained and Pyscho Pink tearing into her mind.

A scream broke Pyscho Pink's concentration and Cassie took the opportunity to kick her away. from the broken window Ashley, already morphed, fell through the window and landed hard on the ground, Cassie got to her feet and ran over to Ashley and helped to her feet. "Ashley! We have to get out of here-"

A blast of lightning struck the two rangers and threw them apart with a scream, Cassie glanced at who had thrown the blast and it wasn't Pyscho Pink, she would almost welcome that.

It was Pyscho Yellow.

"Star Slinger!" Ashley shouted as she used her weapon to blast away the yellow pyscho and then turned it on Pyscho Pink who was just getting to her feet. "Cassie, go and get the others."

"No way! There's no way I am leaving you here on you're own!" Cassie said as she glanced between her friend and the Pyschos who were already getting back to their feet.

Ashley didn't look at Cassie as she kept her Star Slinger trained on the Pyschos. "Cassie, if they are here and alive then that means the other Pyschos are as well, the other's are going to need your help. I've got these two."

Cassie bit her lip before she nodded. "Right, take care of them and I'll be back before you know it." She turned and with a great deal of regret, bolted towards the jungle.

"I don't think so!" Pyscho Pink shouted as she jumped to her feet, dodging as Ashley tried to hit her with her weapon and followed Cassie into the jungle as Pyscho Yellow attacked Ashley.

Cassie thankfully was more used to the jungle's foliage and thus was able to keep ahead of her Pyscho counterpart and thankfully the thick leaves meant that the Pyscho couldn't get a clear line of sight with her bow. After a long, terrifying run through the jungle with Pyscho Pink's laughter constantly on her feet, she managed to reach the large clearing which held the school.

Andros was using his Sprial Saber to block and trade blows with Pyscho Red, T.J swung his axe to try and hit Pyscho Blue who simply dodged and laughed, as if it was amusing to him before using his dark axe to hit T.J who called out in pain before he fell to the ground, Pyscho Black was simply walling on Carlos, not even giving him a chance to summon his weapon, simply hitting and throwing him around.

Zhane was fighting as well but he wasn't fighting a Pyscho, he was fighting a group of lizard men armed with swords, they clearly weren't as dangerous as the Pyschos but the fact he was fighting the group on his own meant he was outnumbered. Cassie began to run forward, unsure of who to help first but she didn't even mange to take more than two steps before Pyscho Pink tackled her down to the ground.

Cassie tried to get her off but she couldn't properly move, Pyscho Pink hauled her up and held her tight while having her right arm pinned against her back. The air shimmered and Pyscho Yellow appeared holding Ashley while laughing. She then threw Ashley into the middle of the battle.

"Let me go! Let me go!" Cassie shouted as she to break out of Pyscho Pink's hold, but she couldn't, the Pyscho was far stronger than she was and she could only watch as her friends were beaten on.

The four Pyschos laughed and threw out their hands, sending blasts of lightening striking all four rangers so hard that when they fell to the ground, they demorphed and they were covered with burns, Zhane was hit being hit so hard by the lizard men's swords that he demorphed as well. Pyscho Red drew his sword and began to walk towards the wounded group. "Let's end this."

"No!" Cassie shouted, violently shoving her head back, head-butting Pyscho Pink and running towards the others, she had to stop them.

"I don't think so! Pyscho Bow!" Pyscho Pink summoned her bow and readied herself to fire an arrow but before she could let it fly she disappeared in a flash of green light. "What! What is this!?"

It wasn't just the disappearance of Cassie that made her say that, the other Pyscho's were frozen as were the rangers on the ground, the only things that weren't frozen were the lizard men who looked confused as to why there weapons couldn't hurt the frozen people on the ground below. "Back to the ship!" Pyscho Pink shouted at the soldiers. "Your damn empress better have an explanation for this!"

End of chapter Two


(I always liked the idea of the space rangers traveling the galaxy and helping people whenever they can. Please review, favourite and follow if you enjoyed.)