Power Rangers:

Legacy.

Chapter Three.

Kendrix Morgan sighed heavily as she watched the computer crash for the eighth time since it tried to translate text of the galaxy book, they really needed to invest in better tech. She had applied for better computers a half dozen times but her research wasn't seen as a priority by the government who ran Mirinoi, they were so busy focusing on making sure that the planet was kept running that they didn't see how valuable her research was.

They said that the galaxy book had served it's purpose, some even suggested that it might be better to destroy it. Those people remembered what the galaxy book had done to them, how it had catapulted them halfway across the universe and they had all nearly died.

She wasn't blind to the dangers, it was why she had volunteered to lead the project on her own, but it always seemed that everyone else was blind to the opportunities that the book presented to them. They still knew so little about it but it held so power that it could advance them, could protect them from any threats.

With a sigh she took off her glasses and rubbed at her eyes, it felt like days since she had any sleep. It may actually have been now that she thought of it, she certainly couldn't remember the last time she had left the lab. She couldn't remember the last time she had seen any of her friends.

The mere thought of them caused her to sigh sadly, They had been so close for such a long time but after they had arrived on Mirinoi and placed their quasar sabres back into the rock from where they had come from, it had felt like the end of an era for them but so many had said it was a new era for her, after all it had brought her back to life.

None was sure quite how she had managed that, the leading theory was that lifeforce had been stored in her quasar sabre and when they had placed back in the stone the release of energy which had restored Mirinoi back to normal had restored her to life. Assuming she had been dead to start with and there had been debate about that, all things considered Kendrix suppoused she was lucky that she hadn't been stuck in a lab and poked and prodded for the rest of her new life.

She missed Maya, she had been the cloesest to her aside from Leo but she had pretty much re-joined her people as she had been acting as an ambassador for the colony to make sure that there weren't any problems between the colony settlers and the natives.

They had to be careful, no one wanted to end up on the wrong side of history. She missed Damon but he had gotten married, Amy her name was and she was really sweet from what Kendrix could remember of her but it had been ages since she had seen her, she had to miss the wedding as she had been so busy the night before translating a certain section of the book that she had been too tired to attend, she hadn't spoken to Kai for a long time either, he had been busy helping to govern the new colony, the last that she had heard he had taken over from Commander Stanton in leading the government after the old man had decided to retire.

Kendrix couldn't blame him for wanting to retire, setting up an entirely new government on an alien world without any oversight from Earth was not the most relaxing of tasks, she wouldn't be able to handle it. She was barely handling what she was doing at the moment.

She missed Leo. Before everything had happened she had hoped that maybe they could have been something more than friends but she hadn't seen him socially in a very long time, he had been named as head of the colony's militia forces with Mike acting as his second in command, Leo leading them had made him even more experienced than Mike in a lot of matters and while the position had been offered to him he had given it to Leo with barely a second thought.

From the few reports that her relatively meagre clearance level had allowed her to access, which she had to admit was a bitter pill for her to swallow as how many times had she protected all the people of Terra Venture when she had still been a power ranger? Didn't she deserve a higher clearance level, of course she hadn't actually taken out her quasar saber from the stone since that incident with Trakenna and the Power Rangers from Lightspeed Rescue.

She wondered what was going on with them at the minute, they hadn't had a lot of time to actually bond with their fellow rangers due to the crisis at hand and Carter having to babysit that little girl who Kendrix had to admit had a voice that made her ears want to bleed, and that was putting it nicely.

She had to wonder if they were still active back on Earth, she had to imagine so as the amount of times that Earth was attacked it would probably need a squad of power rangers on permanent stand by, of course Lightspeed had been independent of any sort of government entity but, and maybe it was cynical of her, she got the feeling that no government would want a team of superheroes acting on their soil without trying to assert some sort of authority on them, they didn't live in a comic book.

Kendrix sighed in frustration, she pushed herself back from her desk and stood up from her chair before walking over to the coffee machine in the corner. The coffee wasn't very good, in fact it wasn't even actually coffee. It was some sort of synthetic product that Kendrix was fairly certain that no human was actually meant to drink, but it was the best they had and it hadn't killed her yet.

Leaving the machine to make it's sludge Kendrix walked back over to the computer and glanced over at the status bar, the computer had almost finished rebooting but that did little to help her mood at the moment. She hadn't saved when the computer decided to crash on her and that meant that she had to redo an entire hour's worth of work. She sighed and rubbed at her eyes.

"Forget it." She saved what she had done up to now and turned the computer off before she shrugged her lab coat off and stood up, turning the light of the lab off before stepping outside and making her way to the exit of the lab.

Just as she was about to sign out, Kendrix let out a sigh and shut her eyes when she realised that she had left her bag back in the lab. She had just pushed open the door and reached out without thinking to touch the light when she realised that the lab was not empty. A figure was standing in front of her computer and it's arm was through the screen, the screen was still whole. The figure's hand was phasing through the glass and veins of light were running up their arm and Kendrix know that it was absorbing the data held within.

Kendrix stared at it for a few moments longer before she let her fingers slip away from the light switch and began to edge over to the security alarm that was set up in the corner of her office. As soon as she pressed it the entire lab would go on complete lockdown and every security officer in the entire complex would rush to her location and if the creature could teleport, that would do not good for it as the entire lab was a teleport dead zone, meaning the creature must have snuck in another way.

The lines of light on it's arms began to retreat back into the computer and Kendrix know that it must have found what it was looking for, before the creature could retract it's arm however, Kendrix lunged for the button and slammed her palm down on to the alarm button. Instead of the sound of sirens shirking in her ears and the sound of bulkheads coming slamming down, she was met with an almost deafening silence. The alarm had been disabled.

She spun around and felt her stomach drop when she saw the creature staring at her, it's features were obscured by a hood but she could hear it's breathing from where she stood, a horrible rasping sound like someone had swallowed broken glass and a low, clicking noise. They stared at one another for a few moments, neither of them moving and Kendrix wondered for a moment if perhaps it was just as afraid as she was.

And then every single window in the lab shattered and Kendrix was thrown to her feet, a wave of heat irradiating from outside and flooding the room like it was the middle of summer. Her ears were ringing and suddenly she felt as if she wanted to vomit but she managed to hold her lunch down and she pushed herself up to her feet before she turned her head to look towards the windows.

The figure was gone, the teleport dead zone must have been breached by the attack and off in the distance, towards the city. The horizon glowed a flickering orange and screams were being carried towards her by the wind. Dread was growing in her more and more, and at that moment she knew what it was that she had to do. Kendrix turned and ran out of the lab and made her way back towards the entrance, as she ran through the long corridors she noticed that ever window had been shattered.

The security station just before the entrance was abandoned and Kendrix didn't really want to think about what had happened to the guards and thus she quickly punched in the access code for the door. With a hiss of air they slid open and she ran out in the bitter night air, for a moment all she wanted to do was run towards the city. Once a ranger, always a ranger after all.

But she would be no use to anyone if she didn't have her powers, she was never the best fighter of her group and she had more often relied on ranged attacks, most of her fighting skills had been a part of the suit. Unmorphed she could hold her own, but not like Kai, Leo or Maya could. Thankfully, the lab wasn't that far from the clearing where the Quasar Sabers had been set in the stone.

As she approached the clearing, she knew that she could hear fighting. She pushed through trees and had to jump back when Damon stumbled back, morphed and parrying the blows of a lizard man thing with a razor sharp sword in it's claws. Kendrix was about to go and help him when she heard a scream and turned her head to see Maya and Kai, both morphed, being thrown through the air. A reptile creature that was larger than all the others by a head letting out a horrible laugh as they fell to the ground.

Leo was behind it and swung his sword at the creature's head but it didn't make contact as the creature brought up it's arm and a metal bracer that encircled it's wrist and it's forearm blocked the blade before a large scythe shaped blade shot out and struck Leo so hard that he went flying back, landing hard against the trunk of a tree.

Kendrix let out a cry and glanced towards the stone, and realised with a shock that her Quasar Saber wasn't in the stone. But someone wielding it was fighting, was morphed into her ranger suit.

Karone.

Her replacement rushed over to Leo and helped him to his feet and stood in front of him, her sword held out ready to block any blows that the monster would land on him. Kendrix hated her in that moment and for a moment she couldn't move as she watched the monster move towards them. She came back to her senses once she saw the reptile man lifting it's bladed bracer once again.

She was half way to them when she heard Maya crying out for her to run and Kai and Damon trying to break away from their fights to try and get to her and get her away. How had this happened? She may not have been the best fighter, but she had never depended on the others so much as to make them think she was helpless, but then how long had it been since that thing with Trakeena?

The reptile swung at her head and she ducked just in time to stop herself from losing it, her leg coming up in a side sweep to try and knock it over but it felt like she had just kicked a tire, and for all the good it had done her. The monster simply laughed and raised it's bladed arm again and Kendrix just barely rolled out of the way as it buried into the soft dirt of the ground.

It pulled it back up and plunged it down and Kendrix barely managed to dodge each time, the last time she felt it slicing through the fabric of her uniform and down to her skin, she could feel the blood dripping down her back and the pain itself threw her into a spasm. She didn't have time to dodge this time and if it weren't for Karone coming to block the blow, then it would have been the end for her.

Kendrix tried to stumble up to her feet but try as she might the pain in her back was too much and she was forced to crawl away as she watched Karone and the lizard man traded blows with one another. Karone was fast and she was strong but the monster was faster and stronger. His blade sliced across her chest and sparks flew in the air as Karone let out a cry.

The creature hit her again, this time across the belly and another shower of sparks illuminated the small clearing, her Quasar Saber went flying and buried itself in the ground, not a foot away from where Kendrix was sitting. Another cry erupted from Karone as she was hit again, fell to the ground and a flash of light signified that she had demorphed.

Kendrix grit her teeth and reached out, wrapping her fingers around the hilt of the sword and pushed herself to her feet. She held it up and with a scream, charged the creature, holding her sword out in front of her. The monster let out a terrible scream when her Saber pierced it's side. It had been one of the worst sounds that she had ever heard in her entire life.

It's heavy arm swung out and took Kendrix in the side of the head and knocked her to the ground, from the ringing in her head she had to assume that she was suffering from at least a concussion. Of course that was the least of her problems as the creature stood above her, it's blade raised to plunge down on her. Kendrix could hear screaming and fighting and she raised her saber in an attempt to block it, but deep down in herself she knew that it would work.

It plunged it's blade down, there was a flash of green light and Kendrix knew no more.

End of Chapter Three.

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