Timedate 2000 C.E.–

The giant moth screamed in pain as the strange dragon tore at its flesh. The golden beast's eyes glowed with a terrible red light. Its clawed feet stood on the trampled wreckage of a giant machine. It roared in triumph as it reared back to strike a killing blow against the moth. The giant insect suddenly exploded in a burst of light. The dragon screamed in anger, before turning its eyes on to her. Its mouths twisted into a cruel smile.

Miki shot up in her bed with a scream. The remnants of the dream fading around her like a fog. She shook herself and quickly glanced at the clock, 3:33 am. She sighed in relief as she turned on the bedside lamp, satisfied as the light levels changed in the room. She was awake, she was sure of it. She rose and went to the kitchen for some soy milk.
She shivered as her feet left the warm rug of her room and touched the cold blue white checkered tiles of the kitchen. In the pale moon light she padded over to the fridge and pulled out the cardboard carton of milk. Pouring herself a glass and she stood by the window, staring up at the moon.

Suddenly a brilliant flash of light was ejected from the side of the moon. Miki shielded her eyes as the explosion grew brighter than the light of the city. As the light died down Miki felt a shiver run down her spine. Screaming and terror suddenly filled her mind, gasping she dropped her glass to the floor. Staggering towards the counter Miki trust out her left arm grasping blindly for support. Finding none her body crashed to the floor and Miki lay there gasping for breath.

The screaming faded but Miki could not move. Lying on the cold tiles watching the soy milk slowly creep towards her, Miki found a strange sort of peace. The fingerling light of dawn slowly illuminated the kitchen, but still Miki could not move.
At around 6:00 Miki rediscovered her limbs as her alarm blared to life. Pulling herself off of the floor she stumbled into the bathroom and turned on the shower. It was going to be a long day.

"Angle Grove Radio! Its a Stupendous Saturday in Angle Grove. And the big hello goes out to Ernie and the kids at the Angle Grove Youth Center Gym and Juice Bar. Keep those fruit shakes flowin Ernie."

Kimberly scowled in disbelief, Angle Grove Radio was notorious for its poor news coverage but this was a absurd.
A week a go, she had been ripped out her bed at 5:30 by her sobbing mother. Stumbling into the living room, she watched in horror as the news rolled in. The UN Moon Colony had been destroyed, there were no survivors.

Ten Thousand people were dead. One of them was her Father.

As the morning had gone on, the numbness Kimberly felt refused to go away. True, she'd barely known the man, he'd spent more time on space stations than with her, but it was a blow. She was going the Houston Space Academy in sixth months, she was going to follow her father into space. But now she wasn't so sure.

Her mother moved quickly to keep the house running as smoothly as possible. She made breakfast, opened the blinds, and even made Kimberly take a shower. Kim didn't know how her mother could do it, cope with the loss and keep everything moving.
As if sensing her child's confusion Mrs. Hart smiled sadly saying, "We have to keep going dear. Your father wouldn't want us to be crushed by this."
This didn't help Kimberly at all. As the calls started to flood in Kimberly quickly became overwhelmed. She was about to crawl into her room and cry when Trini had saved her.

Her best friend just showed up at the door, her eyes as dark set at Kimberly's. Trini grabbed Kimberly across the threshold and pulling her into a fierce hug.
"I'm so sorry" she whispered. It was only then that Kimberly began to cry, her tears streaming down her face. Trini guided them back to the bedroom where Kimberly had sunk to the floor sobbing.

Trini hadn't asked any questions, or demanded to know how Kimberl was doing, she just sat with her and listened. The rest of that day Kimberly just cried in her room. Trini had stayed for dinner, and then for the night.
That girl was a miracle. Kimberly knew she wouldn't have survived that day, let alone the next week at school, without Trini. When Bulk had had the nerve to ask Kim out on a date so she could 'share all her girly feelings with him', Trini had thrown him across the Juice Bar and told him to buzz off.
The week passed and Kimberly reached a point of fragile stability. She found a strange solace in her school work and gymnastics routine that Kimberly never experienced before. But no matter how much she'd pushed herself and how tired she got, every mourning she still found herself awake, staring at the ceiling at 5:30 am.
She'd been lying in her bed watching the sun start to creep up the sides of her bedroom walls when Trini had called her. "Come to the Juice Bar today."
"I don't thin-"

"I know, I know its been a week." Trini said, "But the guys are worried about you and they want to help! They're your friends too Kimmy. I know things are hard but we're here for you. So come to the juice bar, hang out, and laugh today."
"I'll think about it"
"Good!" Trini said "We'll be here all day."
"Alright, thanks Trini." Kim said.

"Of course, I'll see you later." She said as she hung up.

Kimberly had put down the phone and just stared at the ceiling. She got out of bed and started to stretch.

Kimberly already knew that she was going to go. Trini was right, it'd be good to get out. But as Kimberly shifted into a full backbend, her palms pressing against her mat accepting her upper body weight, she saw something on her magnetic board.

"He isn't gone." The magnetic letters had been arranged to say. Kimberly flipped into a handstand and vaulted on to her feet before turning to look at the board upright.

"He isn't gone." Kimberly felt numb. What did it mean? She rearranged the letters and headed out for a jog.

And now she was at the juice bar listening to the inane radio jockey talk about fruit shakes. It was a music station of course, but a lot of families in Angel Grove had been affected by the accident. It was the town local radio station for crying out loud and they hadn't said anything!

Kimberly sighed and looked around the center. At least it was good to see her friends.

Jason and Zack were sparing to warm up for their respective classes and Trini was sipping on some sort of green juice working on homework. Billy was off changing for class, Kimberly smiled at that. It was good he was starting to work on some form of Martial Arts, it'd help his confidence. He was a smart kid, but he crumbled if anyone so much as seemed to doubt his ideas.
The cute new boy, Tommy, was here too. Two weeks ago Kimberly had been planning to ask him out, but now she was to tired to even attempt at casually flirting.
Finishing his reps Tommy looked up and flashed a smile at Kimberly. She waved and went back to her book. Trini was right, normal was good.

Miki preferred the sterile corporate towers of Okochi Industries to this place. Hell, she'd even prefer the nuclear wasteland that was Tokyo to this. The Doctor's house was covered in vining roses and Miki freely admitted it was very pretty. The stark contrast of the white house and the red flowers was eye popping, but something about the place made Miki's skin crawl.
As she stood the across the street waiting for the light to change, a chill ran up Miki's spine. Miki felt thousands of tiny eyes examining her, undressing her, analyzing her for any and all weakness. It made her feel like the lab rats the Doctor 'experimented' on.

The light changed and she walked across the street. Miki sighed, pushing her feelings down and out of her mind, at least Mr. Okochi paid her overtime when she worked at the house. Miki had been serving as Dr. Genshiro Shiragami's personal assistant for the past 2 years. It was interesting, if easy work. Starting out Miki thought she'd just get the man's coffee, but he had quickly made her one of his aids. The Doctor taught her how to do everything, from mixing chemicals, to preparing cultures. Miki was practically his principal lab assistant at this point. Not that Miki understood everything they were doing, but it was good to feel valued after a decade of feeling like a burden.

Opening the gate, Miki walked up the cobblestone path to the door. Letting herself in, Miki was greeted by a woman's voice "Good morning Ms. Saegusa." Miki jumped at that. To her shock Asuka Okochi appeared out of the kitchen.
Miki bowed slightly "Good Morning Ms. Okochi" she greeted. Standing in her light grey business suit, The daughter of the Okochi Industries' CEO gave Miki a slight smile.

"There is no need for the formality Ms. Saegusa, I have no formal position in the company after all. I'm here as a favor to my father and to the Doctor. Come and sit with me, Genshiro is still taking his walk." Asuka said.
Following Asuka in to the kitchen Miki eyes quickly flicked up to the picture of Erika that loomed over the doorway. Miki shivered. "Its been 15 years you know." Asuka informed her, "Since she died, I mean. I still can't believe it." Moving over to the table Asuka poured them both two cups of coffee.
"You knew Erika?" Miki asked, sipping her coffee.

"Briefly, we met at the end of University a few months before-" Asuka paused glancing at Miki and then laughed coldly "Well before the end I suppose."

Miki understood what Asuka meant, they were both refugees after all. Most of the Japanese population in Angel Grove was by now. Japan was over, their country had ended in nuclear fire and international indifference. Many of the survivors felt like ghosts living on after the end of their world, stuck in a new one they were unable to comprehend.

"She believed in science." Asuka said between sips of coffee. "Even in the face of a monster awakened by it. In the face of a monster that killed her. Till the end Erika firmly believed there was some good in all of that destruction. So I suppose its fitting her Father's made breakthroughs using Godzilla's cells."

Miki didn't know what to say, so she just stared at her coffee. Just then, the front door click open, the Doctor had returned.

"Did you do it Asuka?" He asked from the hall.

"I did Doctor."

"And?" He inquired coming into the kitchen, "Oh, good morning Miki."

"Good Morning Doctor." Miki said.

"I didn't hear anything." Asuka said. "To me they were just roses Doctor. I could ask someone else from institute to come and try if you'd like."

Doctor Shiragami shook his head, "No, no. That's quite alright." he mumbled walking over to Asuka. Taking her hands in his own, he said "Thank you for indulging a lonely old man my dear."

Asuka smiled. "Of course Doctor." She assured him before stating, "Well I should get going. The kids have been restless since the explosion last week. That amount of sudden death really shook some of the more sensitive ones. There were a few psychic scientists up there, several of the children latched on to them in their final moments. So the colonists' deaths invaded the kid's nightmares. Can you imagine?"

Dr. Shiragami was shaking his head, "I couldn't even begin to. Well I won't keep you. Enjoy your day Ms. Okochi."

Asuka nodded and turned towards the front hallway. Stopping in front of Miki, she winked before whispering "I'll be seeing you."

A strange was to say goodbye Miki thought, but she quickly smiled and wished Asuka farewell. As the CEO apparent was showed herself out, Miki turned to Dr. Shiragami inquiring "What's on the menu today Doctor?"

The broadcast came out of nowhere, reaching everywhere and, strangely, everything. Television, Movies, Radios, Walkmans, the glass windows of shops, and later there were even a few reports of it coming from people's mirrors.
For those that saw her, A woman with hair like pair of horns, wearing an orange dress adorned with a gigantic black collar and blue spiked fringe appeared. She laughed and then began to screech "People of Earth, you have 24 hours to turn over your protector Zordon to me. Or I will destroy you. To prove I mean business I have something to show you."
The broadcast cut to a view of an island. "This," the woman cackled, "Is Mt. Mihara. The prison of your planet's infamous Godzilla. If there is no compliance I will release him in 12 hours. In 24 hours I will execute the prisoners from your fallen moon colony. In 26 hours my armada will invade Earth"
The transmission cut to a cell filled with cowering human prisoners. The image jumped back to the woman, "You have been warned. If you resist you will be crushed. If you fight back you will be hunted down with out mercy. This invasion has as already begun. My agents are amongst you, they are all around you. You cannot win. You cannot escape. Your only chance is hand Zordon over to me or face annihilation."

And then she vanished.

Colonel Goro Gondo was having a terrible day. That was a lie, all of Gondo's days were terrible, in truth he was having horrifying day.

The coffee machine was broken, the printer had been out of ink, he'd been informed their funding was being cut by another 2%, and the Mt. Mihara Base had been overthrown by his own subordinates. He didn't know which was worse really.

Gondo had been sitting at his desk, reading an unsettling report on seismic activity indicating that Godzilla was awake, when the broadcast had happened. At first, Gondo had written it off as some sort of prank, after all who would intentionally wear that ugly of a dress, but then several of his employees had opened fire on him.

Gondo ducked beneath his desk and demanded to know what was going on, he received another hail of bullets in response. "Screw this," Gondo said, grabbing his pistol, he rolled into a crouch and balancing on the balls of his feet. Peering over his desk Gondo could see his three assailants. They weren't paying attention to him, or to anything really, just kind of staring into space. Gondo didn't care, aiming for their knees he knocked out two of the men. The third attacker, Pvt. Greaves, attempted to retaliate but Gondo shot his right knee.

Gondo grabbed his desk phone, marveling that it was still intact as he quickly punched in the panic code. Staying crouched he bolted towards the door and looked around, no one was there.

"Weird" Gondo muttered to himself. Suddenly the alarm blared, the base's lights shifting to red. Gondo broke into a full run towards the control center.

"Warning Warning" The Pre-programed PA system blared "Mt. Mihara base is under attack. All hands to battle stations. Repeat: The base in under attack-" Suddenly the entire mountain shook. Gondo stopped in his tracks, praying it wasn't an eruption. To his strange relief the corridor behind him exploded instead. An attack he could deal with, he didn't have the energy for Godzilla today. He ran, the control center doors appearing as he turned right. There was another explosion, but as far as Gondo could tell it was on the other side of the base. He reached the doors and swiped his card. For a brief terrifying moment nothing happened, then the lock clicked open and Gondo was in.

The room was empty, again. Gondo dashed towards the window, looking out on to the volcano containing his charge. For a moment, Gondo thought he had lost his mind, he rubbed his eyes and looked again in disbelief. There were two flying saucers hovering above the mountain.

Gondo reached for the emergency phone with a direct line to HQ. It rang only once before a voice replied "The Emergency Beacon's been running for 5 mintues what is going on!"

"Mt. Mihara base is under attack! We're under attack by-" Colonel Gondo was interrupted by a sharp blow to the head. He dropped forward on to the counter.

As he drifted into unconsciousness he heard a voice mutter "Looks like your lines been cut Colonel."

Kimberly sat in the youth center staring at the TV. Her father could have been in that cell. He could be alive. Trini and the others were staring at her, she could feel their eyes crawling all over her. It was like they wanted her to start crying, or screaming, or something, Kimberly hated it.

"Fascinating!" Billy said breaking the silence "A massively distributed communication utilizing all of the spectrums of light!"

"Billy!" Trini said rebuking him sharply, but Kimberly burst out laughing.

"A woman with horn hair just told us she plans to unleash Godzilla and you pick out the only potentially positive thing." Kimberly said pausing as another peel of laugher rippled from her mouth, "Billy your wonderful."

"Thank you?" Billy replied with bewilderment. Suddenly the building started shaking violently.

"Earthquake!" Ernie shouted. "Everybody out!" The center quickly became a flurry of movement between running teens and falling debris, but yet Kimberly couldn't move.

"I can't move!" Zach shouted.

"Me neither!" Trini replied

"Something tells me this is no earthquake!" Billy said

"This is too weird" Kimberly cried.

"Everybody hold on!" Jason yelled.

Suddenly the five teens were enveloped in light. Kimberly felt like her body was being stretched out, like a piece of elastic as the world around her became a technicolor whorl .

Suddenly she was standing in a dark cavernous room staring at massive head floating in a tube.

"Well this isn't exactly the mall is it?" She whispered to herself.

"Your right, this place is magnificent" Bill said walking up to what seemed to be a control panel.

"Greetings Humans!" The tube head exclaimed.

"Who are you?" Jason asked

"And like what are you?" Kimberly added.

"I am Zordon"

"That person the hair horn lady is looking for?" Zach said.

"You mean Rita Repulsa." Zordon said, "She is an alien sorcerous long thought to be defeated. It seems she has survived and has set her sights on this planet."

"But why does she want you" Trini asked.

"Because I-or rather you- have the power to stop her. You've been chose to form an elite team to battle Rita and her minions." Zordon said. "Each of you will be given access to incredible powers drawn from the ancient dinosaurs of this planet!" Suddenly there was a flash and a small gold and black box appeared in each of the teens hands. "These are your power morphers! When in danger raise them to the sky calling the name of your dinosaur and you will morph into a formidable fighting force known to one and all as the Power Rangers!

"Jason you will be given the power of the Tyrannosaurus as the Red Ranger! Zach you will gain power from the Mastodon as the Black Ranger. Kimberly you will derive your strength from the Pterodactyl as the Pink Ranger. Trini you will call upon the powers of the Sabertooth Tiger as the Yellow Ranger. Billy you will utilize the force of the Triceratops as the Blue Ranger."

"Power Morphers? Rangers? You know what?" Zach said turning for the door, "This is too weird for me. Its been real but I gotta go."

"Yeah" Trini added following Zach out.

"Jason, Kimberly, Billy?" Zach asked, "You coming?"

Jason paused for a minute, "Yeah." he muttered. As the other four headed towards the door Kimberly stood at the counter staring up at Zordon.

"She has my father." Kimberly whispered "If I do this, could I save him?"

"I can't promise that" Zordon replied.

Kimbelry felt Trini's hand on her shoulder. "This is too weird Kimmy, lets go"

"Yeah" Kimberly whispered and turned towards the door.

"Very well. May the power protect you" Zordon pronounced.

"He could've sent us home at least." Zach muttered as they stared out the seemingly unending desert surrounding Zordon's base. "Or at least told us how to get there."

"Come on" Kimberly said, "We'd better start walking."

The group trudged down the jagged cliff face on what seemed like a path. As they reached the bottom Jason glanced back "We shouldn't have left. He chose us to save the world, I say we do it."

Kimberly rolled her eyes.

"You think we could?" Trini asked.

"Guys, you don't even know what your talking about. We were taking to a giant head." Zach shouted from the back.

"But he's telling the truth! We all saw that woman, we've all heard about the...the" Jason paused looking over sheepishly at Kimberly, she stared back. "Well you know" he muttered.

"And what? Become superheroes?" Zach's laugh was cut off by a explosion off to his left. The teens screamed and scattered as bunch grey men jumped in front of them. "Look out!" Zach shouted as two of the creatures lunged at Kimberly.

She rolled out of the way, but another two grabbed her from behind.

"Zach!" Jason shouted backing towards his friend.

"Right, I've got these two." Zach replied, blocking a punch from one of the grey creatures. He counter with a round house kick but the creature was seemingly unfazed. Zach tried throwing a quick jab at its abdomen, but it felt like he'd punched a wall. He moved back, shaking his hand out, glancing over at Jason, he saw his friend wasn't fairing much better.

Three of the creatures had ganged up on Jason and were cornering him. Trini was holding her own for now, but another creature was charging her from behind. Kimberly and Billy had been tossed into a corner and were being guarded by two of the grey men.

Zach suddenly felt a hand grab his collar and toss him. He was flung through the air, crashing into Jason.

Suddenly out of no where Kimberly roared "Pterodactyl" There was a flash of light as Kimberly was suddenly transformed. She was wearing a pink jumpsuit with pink and white boots, gloves, and helmet. Kimberly gave her friends a thumbs up before delivering a swift punch to one of the creatures standing over Billy. The creature fell backwards into another one, Kimberly pressed her advantage, leaping into the air and drop kicking the two creatures.

"She did it." Jason exclaimed before shouting "Tyrannous!" in a flash he transformed wearing a red uniform similar to Kimberly's. "Mastodon!" "Sabertooth Tiger!" "Triceratops!" the other three shouted each emerging from their transformation in black, yellow, and blue uniforms respectively.

"This is incredible!" Kimberly shouted as the other four joined her. They made quick work of the remaining back of grey creatures, who scrambled away from the rangers. Vanishing as quickly as they had come.

Suddenly there was a horrible cackle. "So! You've chosen to fight, have you?" The five turned around to see Rita Repulsa standing atop rock. "Good, I was worried Zordon was just going to give himself up."

"Of course we're fighting!" Kimberly shouted.

"That's right!" Jason added moving to Kimberly side.

"Because Earth is our Home!" Billy declared

"Because we're the Power Rangers!" Trini exclaimed.

"That's right, and Power Rangers never surrender!" Zach finished. The air was filled with a sudden burst of energy as the five stood together. After a brief moment the energy crackled and burst forth in a large explosion behind them.

"So he's using Rangers again. Typical" Rita jeered rolling her eyes "And of course you're teenagers. They're always teenagers. No matter, I don't really intend on bothering with you. Earth is ripe with so many delicious Kaiju just waiting to be unleashed. You can't possibly win" Rita cackled at that whilst raising her hands. Her arms were suddenly a blaze in crackling purple electricity.

"Till next time my dear rangers! Zemloshoni Shana!" She crowed. There flash of blinding purple light as sound like nails scraped across steel burst through the desert.

As the light dimmed the Rangers saw that Rita had disappeared.

"Lets go back" Jason said, turning to find Kimberly had already set off toward the command center.

High above the Pacific a single plane rocketed quietly through the night. Captain Mako Mori and her squad sat in their halo suits awaiting the rapidly approaching jump point.

"You've only got one shot at this Mako" Commander Stacker had told her, "Secure the base, stop Godzilla's release, and get Colonel Gondo out if you can."

"Anything else Sir?" She'd asked

"Come back alive." He answered.

Mako was jolted from her memories as the pilot announced one minute to drop. She stood

"I don't need to tell you what's at stake here. You all lived through that hell same as me. We will stop a Return Scenario at all costs, is that clear?"

"Yes Ma'am!" The marines cried in unison.

"Now entering Jump Zone. Repeat now entering Jump Zone. Prepare for drop." declared the pilot.

"Alright everyone!" Mako barked. "We've got a job to do."

The Marine's leapt to their feet, falling in behind Mako. The plane's sirens blared as the cargo bay light's switched to red. The rear door of the plane swung open and Mako caught a glimpse of the pacific ocean looming beneath the cloud layer.

"GO GO GO!" The pilot shouted.

Mako took one last breath before she broke into a sprint and leapt out into the sweet bliss of free fall. Streamlining her body Mako shot through the air like a bullet towards Mt. Mihara. "Don't die on me Gondo" she whispered.

In the blue white UV light of Dr. Shiragami's Lab, a plant grew. Its tall stem crowned with a single bud. Suddenly the bud twitched and the leaves peeled back as the petals of a beautiful pink rose began to spiral outwards. As the flower opened to its fullest, there was a soft sight, almost like someone breathing in their sleep.

The plant breathed and the plant understood.

Though it's mind was hazy, and the world unclear, the plant knew that time was coming. Its terrible birth was almost at hand. But not yet, it still had to grow

As its flower opened to its largest extent, a single word drifted through its mind Asuka it whispered to itself.

Another soft sigh filled the room, as the plant stretched its tendrils. Soon it would be time. Soon She would be free.

Asuka, I need you.