Author's Note: All right I'm back with another chapter, I apologise for the wait. I got a little hung up the last time I worked on this chapter. I always meant to update it and it looks as though today is that day! So thanks for being patient. All right let's get to it. Hope you guys enjoy this next installment.

Power Rangers Galactic Storm

Chapter 3

Destiny

With their ship disabled from the strain of traveling at warp speed, the pirates were taking in by the security forces stationed on the last human outpost on Jupiter's moon for interrogation. On Earth three days had passed since the battle between the Samurai Rangers and Venjix's RPM Power Rangers. Since his takeover Venjix had corrupted the RPM subsection of the Morphin Grid along with every other electronic device on Earth giving him absolute reign over the planet. His clash with the last known team of Rangers however came at a heavy price for both sides costing the life of Emily the Yellow Samurai Ranger, along with the Red Samuraizer's powers that was corrupted and destroyed by Venjix. While Venjix himself lost two of his soldiers including his preferred physical form, those of the Red and Green RPM Rangers that were destroyed by Mike and Emily respectively. Using her full Shogun power, Emily damaged the Green Ranger suit housing part of the villain's essence and frying its morpher and engine cell. While an enraged Mike skewered the Red Ranger costume in three places rendering it inoperable for Venjix's energy form. The time had come for Venjix to downmorph himself into his new Ranger form. In truth he could have taken any of the five remaining costumes, it wouldn't have made any difference since they were all part of the same matrix. But Venjix wouldn't settle for a lesser power and instead craved the mantle of power and leadership that was constant amongst all Ranger teams, one befitting the AI's enormous ego the power of the Red Samurai Ranger.

Feeding his viral form into Jayden's morpher during the battle, it was some time before he had assimilated his new powers taking the Samuraizer with him even after crushing it to prevent Jayden from accessing his powers. Only then did Venjix taste the Green Samurai Ranger's blade and his victory over them cut short and his data dispersed with Mike piercing the visor with his spear. Two days would pass before the Red Samurai powers were completely his and he was free to download himself into his new form. Streams of scarlet data scrawled over the Red Ranger's visor as the suit came to life and Venjix was once more free to move on his own only to learn that the Red Ranger's Spin Sword was missing from his hip. The AI hadn't taken into account that Jayden stole the Spin Sword out from under him angering the malevolent ruler to no end. But Venjix had one last trick up his sleeve, after the team had mourned and buried the Yellow Ranger Venjix's troops collected her body and brought it back with them to his castle. There he learned that Emily wasn't truly dead and yet not quite alive. With that spark of life still inside her he ordered the Yellow Ranger to be cybernetically enhanced to be used as his future trump card against the Rangers.

The night of her passing they had Emily's funeral. The service if you could call it that was somber with only the five remaining Rangers in attendance, those they saved from Venjix's attack stood off to the side as the unmorphed team paid tribute to one of their own. Hardly any words were spoken aside from Jayden who broke the silence and did his best to remained strong and delivered a eulogy over the departed. The normally upbeat Rangers were notably and understandably heartbroken as their sobs pierced the veil. Mia and Kevin held each other as she buried her head in his chest and turned and looked back at the mound of dirt that was now their teammate. Kevin himself did his best to remain strong infront of Mia and failed wiping away his tears, while Antonio was crouched down gripping the back of his head as he quietly sobbed as well. Only Mike remained absolutely quiet and detached similar to Jayden. When the Red Ranger delivered the last bit of the eulogy he finally broke down a bit, sniffled and wiped a damp tear from his eye and then concluded the service. Mia broke away from Kevin and collapsed to her knees next to Emily's grave and wept uncontrollably as Jayden placed a strong hand on her shoulder. She looked up at him and could see the pain reflecting in his eyes and pulled her up to her feet a moment later. Kevin patted Antonio on the shoulder still in a crouched fetal position as he looked up at the Blue Ranger and stood up and the two hugged it out giving each other a rough pat on the back. Only Mike remained with the entombed as the witnesses dispersed.

He sat there motionless staring at the grave as if expecting it to move. To see if the granules of dirt would seep as the earth settled and shifted the earth that Emily so richly represented as a Samurai Ranger. He couldn't believe that after all this time, everything they'd been through together that this was how it ends. He could remember the countless times of Emily, her smile lighting up the room, laughing everything seemed better when she was around. Something about her that made his heart feel even lighter than it already was, that no matter what they'd been through at the end of the day they'd be there for each other. And now the kindest, and sweetest of them was gone. Taken from this cruel, uncaring world. Where was the warmth now? The sunshine? The reason to go on living in this twisted dung heap they called the world?

He reflected on the grave and the Spin Sword that now marked her resting place, he sighed and bowed his head and felt as though a black hole had formed within his chest. How long will it be before they replace her? A week? A month? Will they even suggest it? Or will they be too horrified by the notion and vehemently tear it down citing that she's too special to be replaced? That there'll never be another Yellow Samurai, and what of Jayden without his powers he's as good as dead against Venjix's forces. For some reason the toxic atmosphere had no effect on them, it may have been because Mia cast a sealing power spell that allowed them to thrive, like an invisible aura that shielded them from the effects. How much longer until they were all deceased? What will happen to the world then? The more he thought about it the more he focused on Emily's sword. If Venjix's forces knew where her body was, they might try and do things with it. Worse yet he may try to claim her Spin Sword as a prize and that was just something he wouldn't allow. For the sanctity of her mortal remains he knew what had to be done.

"Sorry Emily." He said loosening the sword from its earthly post. And turned back to her tomb.

"I promise I'll take care of It." he said, the Green Ranger sighed and knelt down.

"Look…Em…I'm only doing this to keep you safe. I'm not disrespecting you I just…don't want anything else to happen to you. I'm pretty messed up as it is. And…I'd just feel better taking your sword with me. I hope you can forgive me Emily. I love you, I'll always love you." he told her gently touching the dirt and stood up.

The Green Ranger took her sword and sheathed it behind his backpack next to his own as he joined the other Rangers. From a distance behind a large hill a platoon of Grinders watched silently and came out with shovels as soon as the coast was clear.

Back on the space station Cory, Kaitlyn, Noah and Boss Grotham found themselves handcuffed in a small white interrogation room surrounded by at least twenty guards with assault rifles and the more alien crewmates lining the walls with the guards watching them all like hawks. The room was deathly quiet and all that was heard was a single cough. An iron door slid open as two men one older nearing his fifties, and a younger one in his twenties came in and stood before them. The elder officer made a visual sweep of the room seeing all the monstrous crewmembers before turning his attention to the three humans and their leader strapped by their wrists to the table before them.

"Good evening, my name is Commander Scott Eisling the person in charge of this space station this is the chief of security for Humanity Outpost-1 Corporal Isaac Istobaff. The man you first encountered on your vessel. So now that we have formalities taken care of I must ask you. What are you doing out here? Which one of you is in charge of this crew?" the commander asked leaning his weight against the table.

The eldest pirate cleared his throat sitting on the far left hand side of the table.

"That would be me. Admiral Grotham at your service commander. You see it's a funny thing you should see us. We were traveling through warp space when our engines suffered a meltdown during the jump. The fact that we wound up here is purely coincidental." He assured them. But the commander wasn't buying it.

"Corporal Istobaff." He said turning towards the blonde officer.

"We did a sweep of the ship and their engines appear to sustained some damage. And there was no power onboard the vessel." The chief of security told him as the commander looked back at the crew.

"So your story checks out, however that does not make you a welcome presence on this ship." The commander replied.

"Trust me we're as surprised as you are." Cory interrupted earning a glare from the commander and corporal as the former got in his face.

"Your human correct?" the old man inquired.

"Um…yeah?" the younger captain said uncomfortably.

"How did you wind up with pirates?" the commander asked.

The trio and admiral all looked at each other as one of them sighed and answered.

"We were orphaned in space, Grotham came along and raised us as his own and we grew up on his ship. You satisfied?" Cory asked the commander.

The Commander looked back at them rather puzzled and couldn't believe what he heard.

"How did you wind up in space? Where at?" he inquired further.

"Same way the rest of you did, our colony split apart from the rest of the ships escaping Earth and according to Grotham we drifted off in space for a while. Then his ship came and raided our colony destroying a large portion of it. …Only did he discover the three of us since we were kids. He said he was horrified at what he'd done and took us in as our own. Thought we were among the last humans for a long while…we've been with Grotham ever since." Cory told him.

The commander was even more stunned by this revelation and was forced to sit down infront of them before turning his attention to their leader. The pirate admiral though his facial features couldn't change sat quietly before the Commander Eisling.

"I'll admit I've done some unsavory things in me past but when I came across those three I promised me self I wouldn't harm another. It's not something I like talking about." Grotham replied.

"So you're wanted for mass murder and numerous other atrocities." The commander replied sternly.

"Aye…" Grotham muttered as the commander stood up.

"I see, and you've no doubt corrupted these people as pirates." He retorted venomously.

"That's not an entirely fair assumption commander." Cory said as Eisling turned and faced him.

"Oh?" he said unimpressed.

"This man has done more for us than anyone else. He's like a father to us…and he raised us right. With morals and everything else humanity stands for." he said standing up but was forced back to his seat by a guard behind him.

"We're thieves and outlaws…but we aren't monsters." Cory said adamantly all the while the commander and corporal Isaac stood over them. The captain of the guard leaned over and whispered in the commander's ear.

"So what do you think we should do with them?" Isaac asked. The commander sighed mulling over it.

"I'm not sure." He replied with arms folded.

"I suggest we turn them over to S.P.D." Isaac offered as their heads all jerked up.

"There only problem is there aren't any S.P.D. posts in this part of the galaxy. It'll take some time before they get here." The commander replied. The four pirates narrowed their eyes at the pair and growled to which Isaac raised an eyebrow and smirked slightly at their discomfort.

By now a large crowd had gathered outside the interrogation chamber questioning the fate of the pirates inside. A few others had access to the in-room security camera and viewed it on a few transparent tablets like devices and hovered around curiously listening in. Among them was a young female science officer with long dark hair and glasses, wearing a pink close fitting long sleeved shirt and black pants as she stood next to one of the participants holding the device and was joined by her younger sister who had fair hair and looked to be about 11 or 12.

"What are they saying?" the younger sister asked the older. The elder sister sighed and twisted her features lightly before answering.

"They're trying to figure out what they're going to do with them." she explained.

"I heard one of them mention S.P.D." a plump older woman with short curly hair replied over her shoulder.

"What's S.P.D?" the little girl asked.

"They're space police Lauren, now please." Alisha said pressing her fingers to her lips silencing her little sister as they listened in.

"Well what choice do we have commander? We cant keep them all on this ship and as much as I hate to say it. We cant them let freeze and die on their own ship." Issac said looking specifically back at the human pirates who glared back at the officer. The commander hummed as he stood with his hands behind his back.

"You may be right corporal. And according to the space charter we cannot house them in inhumane conditions. Very well, summon S.P.D. and lock them in the brig for the night. They should be here in a few hours with a patrol ship if the warp gates aren't cluttered with traffic." the commander told him as the corporal smiled surely.

"Yes sir." he replied as he turned back to the captives.

"Let's go." he said as the guards undid their table shackles and led them out of the room with Corporal Istobaff following close behind. While the rest of the guards took care of the alien crew members.

The door slid open a moment later as citizens stepped back clearing as much a path as possible while Cory, Noah and Kaitlyn were paraded out like animals as those that saw them looked at them with disdain that they would dare betray their own race and side with pirates. Cory looked back at the onlookers. It was the first time in years he had seen another human being other than his siblings and friends and hanged his head as he was escorted down to the brig. His sister and brother feeling no pride in themselves as they followed close behind as Grotham and his boys brought up the rear and were led single file down the hall.

"What are they going to do with them?" Lauren asked.

"Their going to put them in jail until the police arrive." Alisha told her sister. But Lauren was even more worried about the three people she saw being led out.

"But why are they with them?" she asked.

"Who?" Alisha questioned looking down at her.

"Those three people that are with them. The girl and the two boys." Lauren asked as her older sister stood behind her and shook her head.

"I don't know." the bespectacled brunette told her.

"Will they be punished too?" Lauren asked looking up at her.

"Well...they are pirates." she reminded her as Lauren looked back at the group of pirates.

"I don't know if that's fair." she said.

"I know sis, but that's the path they chose." Alisha told her as they caught a fleeting glance of the three human pirates.

On the other side of the cosmos one of the most feared empires in the galaxy encroached upon the sector where the pirates were last seen. The very same group that Boss Grotham was doing business with when they recovered the Cursed Dagger of Shinzo from the planet Revnetor as a large black warship came into view, its size so massive that the whole could not be seen at first and was revealed to be the size of a small planet. And appeared to be a fortress driven by two colossal artificial war horses that were part of the ship's design. The two massive steeds' foremost bodies were shunted out the front of the warship and crafted as though they were galloping with thin metal spirals for their manes and each with a single cannon placed in the center of their chests, behind these majestic beasts was the ship's ensign which appeared to be an enormous lavender shield with a white ornate coat of arms that was a cross between a fleur-de-lis and a highly stylized skull with downward sloping horns, with the fortress sitting directly behind the empire's seal. And was the dreaded Colossus Imperial Warhorse the flagship of the Malevolotti Empire, conqueror of twenty-seven galaxies. And one of the most ruthless and despotic regencies in existence It's coat of arms which along with the aforementioned seal included two humanoid dragons standing on opposite ends of the shield, one black and holding the blade end of a sword, and one blue clutching a rifle, with one foot lifted up as they stood on a ribbon supporting the dragons' weight with smaller heraldic symbols along the top and bottom of the shield were the empire's true coat of arms. The very center of which, the skull showed the face of their master Lord Infernus.

At the heart of the ship and seated on his throne was Infernus' son and commander of the Malevolotti Army, Apollyon. A garish creature dressed from head to toe in white. Apollyon was the first and only son of the emperor and responsible for the Malevolotti's many conquests. Appolyon was a humanoid being with a metallic face and sweeping hair, and a white ornate helmet with blue avian wings and a large white horn in the center, resembling a captain's hat. He wore a long flowing robe with large blue feathered shoulders, high collar, blue neckerchief with gold streaming tassels that shielded his white razor tipped fingers, with ornate ceremonial body armor over his chest with miniature head-like busts that fastened his coat, the lower half of which came down to his knees, continuing the blue feather motif on the tail of his jacket, white pants with gray diamond stitched highlights ran down the sides, and white pointed boots that came up to his knees as Apollyon held a golden pocket watch.

"He should have been back by now. What in the galaxy is keeping him?" the commander wondered impatiently.

"Maybe something came up." one of his grunts said. Apollyon threw the creature across the room as sparks flew from his chest.

"Of course something came up you twit! If I want your opinion Ragnarok I'll ask. What I want to know is where in blazes is he?" Apollyon asked stepping down from his throne and throwing Ragnarok even further as Ragnarok yelled.

"Sir Grotham's last known location was on a desert planet that was raided by S.P.D. and entered hyperspace as they fled." one of his guards told him.

"Has anyone deciphered their exit point?" he asked the guard while returning to his throne.

"Yes sir they landed in the Milky Way Galaxy next to a gas planet called Jupiter." the guard replied as Apollyon smirked.

"Good. Set a course for Jupiter." he ordered as he took his seat.

"Yes commander." the sentry replied as he went about.

"Things are about to get quite hot for old Grotham. If he thinks he can keep what is rightfully mine, he's got another thing coming. No man escapes with their tribute to me if they expect to live." he said.

Back on the space station the scientist sat at his work station mulling over the Ranger Keys he created. The toys of his childhood now imbued with the powers of the Morphing Grid. In conjunction with the stylized phone shaped morpher he had built from scratch and what he considered to be the last great hope for humanity. The scientist in a moment of sadness, thinking of all they had lost pressed the Legacy Morpher against his forehead clutching the White Ranger key in his left hand and raised his head with a look of anger and determination. It's time they took back their world. William slammed shut the treasure chest and taking it and the morphers with him to confront the human pirates.

Author's Note: All right so what did you think of that? I know I'm sorry I thought I was going to get to cover the new team, but I was afraid that it ran too long. Anyway as some of you may have noticed, I'm bringing in more Sentai material as I always intended. I wanted to make my adaptation of Gokaiger unique so it wouldn't seem like I was ripping it off. Anyway to answer your questions, my response is 'yes'. The Malevolotti Empire are in fact Space Empire Zangyack from Gokaiger. Malevolotti being a combination of the words 'malevolent' and 'Illuminati' hence literally 'Evil Illuminati' which is the name I had chosen some time ago. And Apollyon is in fact Warz Gill the lead villain from Gokaiger as some of you have noticed by his description. Apollyon is actually a Greek Biblical name meaning 'Destroyer' since Warz Gill means 'Beyond Evil' in Japanese according to the Power Rangers Wikia entry. Which was a name a friend perscribed for a character in another story a few years ago. And there's something of a naming theme among villains. I'm feeling pretty good about this, showing everyone my 'A' Game and to prove that I can write circles around Saban. Anyway that's all for now. Let me know what you think. Gooooooookaiger.

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