Hey guys, sorry I'm a week late! If you read my other story, Power Rangers: Data Surge, you'll already know this, but last weekend was my birthday, and I was busy all weekend. Not only that, but I've been having some pretty severe emotional problems, and have been having problems with that as well. I'm back now, though, so let's get into it!

Ginger is portrayed by Danneel Ackles


Previously on Power Rangers: Animal Guardians

Ben left the room and Alicia walked back over to the room. "So, you brought us here for what exactly?" Roger asked, raising an eyebrow.

Alicia sighed. "Okay, look, two years ago, I assume you three saw the monsters and the power rangers that stopped them, right?" They nodded. "Well they were chosen because of a curse that was put on them because of a half-human/half-alien hybrid that lived among us for many years. The thing is, when the powers were made, it was unclear if they would work properly, if at all, so we made other powers, but they were lost, and then the powers did work so we didn't exactly think we needed them. But then, the aliens came back, and morphers were made to accommodate the powers that were lost as they were sort of located."

"What does this have to do with us?" Geo asked.

"Those pendants have bonded with you, and those pendants are the key to the power of the animal guardians, or you three." Alicia said.

Cal was the first to put two and two together. "You're say you want us to be power rangers?"

Alicia nodded. "That's exactly what I'm saying. You three are the only ones who can do it. So what do you say? Will you three become power rangers?"

Now

The three looked amongst each other, not saying anything.

Alicia sat down in a chair near them and sighed. "I know this is a lot to take in, but a decision has to be made. Those creatures will be back, and you three are the only ones that can stop them."

"Oh yeah, no pressure there." Roger rolled his eyes.

"I'm sorry, but it's true. No one else can do it, the pendants have already bonded with you." Alicia responded.

"What if we're not good enough?" Cal asked, frowning.

Geo felt a pang of sadness in his chest at her question. It was true - they might not be good enough to do it. If he couldn't do it, what was the point? Failure was not an option here, and he had almost been killed today.

"Fighting with a ranger suit is a lot different than fighting without it. You'll get good fast with it, and my husband Ben will teach you how to be good without it. I can't promise that you'll never get hurt, and I can't really promise anything close to that, but its worth it to save the world, trust me on that."

"We don't really have a choice do we?" Roger asked.

Alicia sighed. "You do, but if you choose not to, a lot of people will get hurt."

"I'll try it, but that's a not guarantee that I'll stay." Roger said.

"That's all I can ask, thank you." Alicia smiled, handing him a morpher, which was similar to a watch, and had a slot in the side of it. "You are the black ranger with the power of the bear, and to morph, you put your pendant in there."

"I'll do it too." Cal nodded.

Alicia handed her a morpher as well. "You are the blue ranger with the power of the gorilla."

Everyone looked to Geo now, wondering what he was thinking. "I'll try, but like Roger said, no promises."

Alicia smiled brightly as she handed the final morpher to Geo. "You are the red ranger with the power of the eagle." She looked at all of them. "I know this is hard, but I hope you all choose to stay."

They said nothing. Roger was the first to stand. "Well, I'm gonna call my brother to pick me up. Bye." He left.

Cal and Geo sat on the couch a bit uncomfortably. "Do you two have any way to get home?"

"My mom is at work." Cal responded.

"Same." Geo nodded.

"I can give you guys a lift, if you'd like," Alicia offered. She turned to Vi. "You too."

Vi shook her head. "No, no, no; I'll stay here."

"Vi..." Alicia sighed.

"She should stay here, Alicia." A new voice responded. It was none other than Ginger. She was a bit tall, standing at 5'7 with auburn hair and brown eyes. She wore a maroon cardigan over a white tank top, blue jean capri's, and black flats. "I need her help."

"With what exactly?" Alicia raised her eyebrow.

Ginger shrugged. "I just do. Come on, Vi."

"Vi, don't." Alicia put her hands on her hips.

Vi gestured to Ginger. "Sorry, Alicia, Ginger needs me." Ginger chuckled and led her off towards the other room.

Alicia sighed loudly in exasperation. "Alright guys, come on. I'll take you home."

~PRAG~

"Are you alright?" Chris asked when they got home. They hadn't talked very much on the car ride back, though it was obvious Chris was concerned for his brother.

Roger shrugged. "I guess."

"What the hell happened, anyway? You weren't involved were you?" Chris asked as they both got out of the car. Roger didn't respond as he unlocked the front door. "Roger, talk to me! I'm your brother, you can tell me."

Roger opened the door and turned around irritatedly. "Why are you asking so many questions? I'm fine, alright. Get off my back, Chris."

Chris frowned. "Roger, I'm just trying to be a good brother. I don't see what your problem is."

"Yeah, you never do because you're amazing at everything." Roger snapped, storming through the fancy house and up to his room where he locked the door and huffed as he sat down at his desk.

He proceeded to pull out a notebook and flipped through it. Almost all of the pages were filled with not only ideas for writing, but writing itself. He had always kept his various notebooks away from his family, knowing they wouldn't approve of his passion for writing.

He quickly located a blank page and began to write out his feelings.

Downstairs, Chris sighed as he sat down at the kitchen table, feeling a headache come on as it had been happening lately after encounters like that with his brother. He knew part of his brother's problem, but he couldn't help his own success, and he wasn't going to jeopardize it for his brother to be happy.

He stood up and walked over to the couch to lay down. He had been studying a lot lately, and decided he might as well take a break to sleep.

~PRAG~

When Cal arrived home, she found her mother waiting for her with a worried expression on her face.

"Oh, Cal, you're here!" Rebecca Campbell stood and quickly engulfed her daughter in a hug. She had tears streaming down her face as she buried it into her daughter's shoulder. Rebecca had blonde hair and blue eyes identical to her daughter, and was only a bit taller than her at 5'5. She wore a very professional outfit - a black blazer over a white blouse that was tucked into a black waist-high pencil skirt and black heels.

"Hi, mom." Cal hugged her mother back tightly.

Her mom pulled back while still holding her shoulders as she looked her over. "Are you alright? I was worried sick!"

Cal nodded. "I'm okay, I promise."

Rebecca moved her hands to grasp her daughter's face. She tilted her head down and kissed her on the forehead. "I'm so glad you're okay."

"Thanks, mom." Cal smiled.

Rebecca looked over at a picture of her late husband. "I was so worried."

Cal followed her mother's glance and her heart ached at the picture of her father. "Don't worry, mom. Nothing will happen to us. I promise."

She held a teary smile. "You have your father's heart."

Cal touched the pendant around her neck, tears also forming in her eyes, "Thank you so much, mom."

~PRAG~

Geo wasn't surprised to find that when he arrived home, his mother wasn't there. She worked as a nurse at the local hospital, and since there was an attack, she must have been busier than ever.

He shut the door behind him and set his things by the door with a sigh. He walked into the small living room and grabbed a book called 'A Killer In My Head' by Sipho M . Simelane off of the shelf.

He sat down in a nearby chair and began to read when the phone rang. He sighed and put his book face down, open to his page, and picked up the phone.

"Hello?" He said.

"Geo? Are you alright?" It was his mother, Ashley Costello, calling from the hospital.

"Yeah, I'm okay, mom." Geo nodded even though she couldn't see him.

"I heard about the attack at the school; there are so many students here that are hurt - it's unbelievable." His mother told him. "I was so worried when I hadn't heard from you."

Geo smiled fondly. "I'm alright, really. Is Eli or Robby there?" He asked, wondering about his friends. He hadn't seen or heard from them since before school even started.

"I don't think so. I don't see any of your friends here, thank goodness."

Geo sighed in relief. "That's great. What time do you think you'll be home?"

He heard Ashley sigh from the other end. "Probably not for a while. I'm sorry I wasn't there when you got home, but because of the attack on the school, they called me in even earlier than usual. Tomorrow I'll leave around four like usual and make you dinner, but I left a few bucks on the table for you to go out and grab something for today."

Geo chuckled. "You, my mother, gave me money for fast food?"

"Not necessarily fast food. You could go to the store and buy a salad or something." She corrected.

"Alright, thanks mom. I'll see you tomorrow, I'm guessing," Geo said.

She sighed again. "Probably. I'll be home past midnight. Alright, I have to go, but I love you, sweetie."

"Love you too, mom." He smiled. "Bye." He put the phone down and went in the kitchen, finding a ten dollar bill on the table. He picked it up as he got another phone call, this time on his cellphone.

"Hello?" He answered.

"Geo?" It was Cal's voice coming through the line. He was a bit startled. He had no idea how she had gotten her number. "Sorry to bother you, I know your friend Robby and asked him for your number. I was hoping we could all meet up."

"All of us? Including Roger?" Geo asked.

"If that's not a problem. I think we should get to know each other a bit better."

Geo sighed. "I guess, but I don't know how to get ahold of him."

Cal was silent for a moment. "I'll figure it out, just meet me at Carlyle's Diner."

"Alright." Geo pursed his lips. He wasn't really in the mood, but he wanted to be nice. "See you there."

~PRAG~

When Cal had called, Roger was a bit more than surprised, having never met her before that day and never given her his number. She told him she had gotten it from one of his friends, though it was still a bit strange.

He sighed and closed his notebook, having almost filled up an entire new page before she called. He put the notebook back in it's place and grabbed a few dollars out of his wallet before leaving his room and shutting the door behind him.

He walked downstairs, and was even more surprised to find his brother fast asleep on the couch. Chris rarely got much sleep, and was up most of the time studying, so it was very shocking for Roger.

He walked over to him and shook him by the shoulder. Chris' eyes opened a crack and peered up at him sleepily. "Can I borrow the car? I need to meet some friends to... study."

Chris nodded tiredly and gestured to the table where the keys were before turning over and going back to sleep. Roger frowned, but chose to ignore it as lack of sleep.

Roger left his house in the car and made his way over to Carlyle's, where he found Cal and Geo already waiting for him.

"Hey, Roger." Cal smiled as she offered him a seat, which he took.

"Hey." He responded as he sat. "So what is this about?"

Geo also looked to Cal as Roger said this. "Well, I was hoping now that we're a team..."

"We're not a team," Roger shook his head. "Not yet. I'm not sure if I have time for this, and even if I do, my brother's not just gonna let me leave whenever I want to."

"Same - about the time thing. I have hockey and school work, I'm not sure if this'll work out." Geo said.

Cal frowned. "But guys, we have to save the world. No other people can."

Roger rolled his eyes. "That's probably just something that lady said. We don't even know her - she could be some freak! I don't trust her."

"I highly doubt that." Geo muttered. "But I do agree about the fact that we don't know her. She could be lying."

"You don't know that." Cal scolded.

"Well you don't know that she's not." Roger retorted.

Suddenly, before anyone else could respond, their pendants began to warm up, and the morphers on their wrists beeped like a text message. Alicia's face appeared on the screen.

"There's a fight at forth and Pearl." Then, her face disappeared.

The three looked around and then quickly stood. They walked out of the diner before running towards the location. When they got there, they felt a little less than confident.

Standing before them was a group of Chimera standing menacingly in front of a monster that looked like a giant Panda, and held a bamboo stick as a weapon.

"What do we do?" Roger asked, looking over at Geo and Cal.

Just as he said that, their pendants began to glow and visions of what they had to do filled their heads.

Panda watched them with mild interest. She just wanted to destroy them and get it over with. She put her bamboo stick up in the air. "Destroy them!" She yelled. The Chimera began to run forward but were thrown back quickly when the three took their pendants off and held them up in the air, causing them to glow and release a surge of power.

"Animal Guardians, Arise!" They yelled in unison.

The new rangers brought the arm with the morpher up in front of the and quickly stuck the pendant in the slot, having the black rope being sucked in as well. They felt the surge of power go into them and overtake their bodies. Warm air surrounded them starting at their wrists and soon their whole bodies. They could see their suits forming like colored dust around them, red for Geo, black for Roger, and blue for Cal.

"Power of the Eagle!" Geo shouted, raising his fist in the air.

"Power of the Bear!" Roger yelled.

"Power of the Gorilla!" Cal yelled.

"Power Rangers," Something similar to an explosion occurred behind them in their individual colors. "Animal Guardians!"

The three looked at themselves in awe.

Geo had a red ranger suit with a complete white torso starting around his neck, shoulders, and waist as well as white cuffs around his gloves and boots. He had a bronze colored belt that cut off the white coloring around his waist that held an average size sword on the right and a blaster on the left. There was small bronze colored ring on each of his upper arms. His helmet had a silver mouth guard, black visor, and a bronze design of the face of an eagle. There was also a small circle on his the upper left side of his chest with eight colors in it - red, black, blue, yellow, pink, crimson, silver, and teal, in that order.

Roger had a black ranger suit that was similar to Geo's, though it had the face of a bear on his helmet instead of an eagle. He also had a sword and blaster hanging on his belt.

Cal's suit was blue, and also similar to Geo's, though her's had a white skirt that went to her upper thigh from her waist high belt and had a gorilla's face on her helmet rather than an eagle or bear. She had a sword and blaster as well.

"Are you guys ready for this?" Geo asked, looking at the two.

"No," Roger shook his head. "But, I'm already here so I might as well."

Cal nodded shakily.

"Alright. Let's do this!"

The three pulled out their swords and charged at the Chimera.

Geo jumped in and kicked and punched Chimera, even grabbing one of their swords and stabbing another in the head with it. One of the Chimera grabbed him by the waist but he shoved it off and threw it into a group of others. He grabbed another one of the Chimera and angrily threw it into a nearby car, setting off the alarm. "Sorry!" He yelled to the owner, though he or she was nowhere in sight. He grabbed one and flipped it hard onto the ground, smashing the ground and making ripples all around him, causing them to fall.

Roger flipped over a Chimera, kicking its head into the ground in the process before jumping back up and coming down to punch a Chimera hard in the chest. He grabbed one nearby and swung it around, smashing it into many others before throwing it to the side.

Cal jumped back as a Chimera swung its sword at her, then flipped backwards over one behind her, landing on one's shoulders. She gripped its head tight with her feet and did another flip to throw it to the ground before landing gracefully herself. Another one swung its sword at her and she caught it on her wrists. "Ah!" She winced as she felt the sword very clearly. She threw it back and kicked it in the chest.

"How do you use this thing?" Roger muttered looking around his blaster. He soon found the trigger and pulled it, unleashing a powerful blast that almost knock him down. "Whoa, that's strong!"

Cal watched him do as such, and pulled out her blaster as well. She knew how to use it due to her using the Chimera's blaster back at the school. She blasted a Chimera back, and chuckled nervously. "This thing is really powerful,"

Geo, meanwhile, decided to go straight in for Panda. He flipped over a Chimera and pulled his sword out. He brought it down on Panda's head, making her fall back. She growled and stood up, swinging her bamboo staff at him.

He ducked under it when it swung and his head and jumped when it swung at his feet. He then grabbed it as she tried to swing it at his torso and pulled it out of her hands. He snapped it over his knee and threw the two pieces to the side.

"You're gonna pay for that, you worthless human!" Panda yelled, slamming her foot down on the ground, sending shock waves across the ground and made him fall.

"Geo!" Cal cried as she and Roger ran over, helping him up.

Geo, Roger, and Cal stood in front of the alien, glaring. Cal and Roger had their blasters, and Geo had his sword.

"Ready?" Geo asked, looking at the two.

They nodded, and Cal and Roger shot a blast at the same time. Geo jumped up with his sword and slammed his sword into the blast, shooting it even faster at Panda, and hitting her straight on.

"No!" She cried out as she exploded from the impact.

The rangers stood in awe after it was over. They put their swords and blasters back in their holsters and was about to pull the small piece of string that held their pendants out of their morphers to demorph, but they suddenly disappeared in a flurry of what looked like colorful dust.

They reappeared in the same building as before.

"Welcome back to Ranger Ops!" Vi greeted them. "By the way, don't demorph in public, it's better to keep your identities secret."

Roger rolled his eyes. "'Ranger Ops?'"

"That's what I call this place. It's easier than saying 'Alicia and Ben's house.'"

Geo shook his head. "How did we get here, exactly? We were just in the middle of town!"

Vi chuckled and nodded. "I know. I transported you guys here."

"You did it!" Alicia exclaimed as she ran into the room. "You destroyed your first alien!" She hugged all three of them before backing away. "So, are you guys gonna stay?"

"Absolutely..." Cal nodded.

"... Not." Roger shook his head, taking off his pendant and morpher, offering it back to her. "I really don't have time for this. I would like to go to Harvard or something, and this isn't helping."

Geo took his off as well. "Yeah, I don't think I can do this either."

Alicia did not take the morphers or pendants. "Keep them. I can't give them to anyone else, and I have a feeling you'll change your mind."

Roger scoffed. "Good luck with that, and good luck with this whole thing. I'll see you guys around, I guess."

He put his morpher and pendant on and left, and Geo, without saying anything, slipped his pendant and morpher on before leaving as well. It was now only Vi, Alicia, and Cal.

Alicia put a hand on Cal's shoulder, seeing her look a bit nervous. "Don't worry, they'll be back. You'll be fine." She smiled. "In the meantime, let's get you caught up on current events."

~PRAG~

Meanwhile, on the Animali ship, Terra growled with fury and rage.

"There are new rangers?! How could this be?!" She screamed. She stormed pasted her generals and the rest of the army and over to the prison where Riana and Julie were. "Did you know about this?!"

"How did you not?" Riana rolled her eyes. "If you don't snap out of this, they're going to destroy you! It's a matter of time, Terra! See through my father's spell!"

Terra grabbed her arm through the grates in the door and pulled her towards her so her face was almost touching the door. "I don't care what you say. There is no spell, and I will be the one to destroy them, not the other way around!"

She shoved her back to the ground. "You'll never win, Terra. Never!"

"We'll just have to see about that, won't we?" She cackled as she walked away.


Next time on Power Rangers Animal Guardians: Cal, Vi, and Alicia try to convince Roger and Geo to help, though it may prove to be a challenge.

So, I'm not sure if I will be able to update this weekend due to Thanksgiving, which sucks because as you can tell I'm already behind on my writing, but I will try!

Also, if you have time, please leave a review! I really didn't quite get the response I thought I would (though that might be because I overplay my writing a bit in my head), and I'm hoping that some more of you would leave a review for me! I do appreciate the reviews I did get, though, from DreamStar14 (Cal's creator), Ranger Red 2.0 (Robby's creator), and Impala67 (Vi's creator), so thank you guys so so much!

Until next time!

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