Shadows of the Past
"Welcome to Bulkimiers!" Bulk exclaimed to the group of demorphed Rangers and, upon seeing who he was greeting, backed up a bit, "Hey Skull...we got SPECIAL company!" "What do ya mean?!" the lankier of the duo shouted back from the upper floor of the resort, "I got things I have to do!" "Well this is more important! Tommy's here!" "WHAT?!" Skull exclaimed rushing over to the railing and falling through it clumsily landing in front of the group in pain from the landing, "Hey Tommy..." "Guys, we need to set up the defense grid," Tommy basically ordered, "there's something very bad happening." "You can handle it can't you? I mean you're an ex-Ranger!" Bulk said attempting to lift the group's spirits, "What could possibly be going on that you can't handle?" "Something possibly worse than when Astronema launched the attack of evil across the entire universe," Adam replied and headed farther into the resort towards the back exit of the building, "Alpha's back at the gym guys, I'll go stay with him there in our own defense grid he's set up, the kids there should be safe as well but I need to make sure and we probably shouldn't all stay in one big group."
"Whoa whoa whoa!" Skull yelped halting everyone, "someone mind telling us, the owners of this fine establishment, what's going on?!" "I'll let everyone know if we get the defense grid up," the Sentinel Knight told him, "Right now this place's protection is top priority." "Yeah yeah," Bulk yawned reaching over the front desk and pressing a few buttons, "It's up, now what's going on?" "Anywhere to sit?" Will asked looking around. "We got a few rooms," Skull told them crossing his arms over his chest, "just promise not to destroy them...whoever you guys are. I'm assuming you're either Rangers or allies of Tommy so I guess you're cool."
"Affirmative," Tommy said and lead the others through a hall which Bulk and Skull followed closely behind the group in, "Now Sentinel, Alpha told me that you said this thing had something to do with Lord Zedd and Queen Rita. That's never any good news." "Correct," he replied as they turned into a room with a couch and a few comfy chairs, "Once everyone's ready I will let you all know what I've figured out." Eagerly the large group diusbanded into smaller packs filling in positions around the lofty room. Ronny and Mack sat together on the couch, Dax and Rose headed for the chairs, the Sentinel Knight got out a mat, and Bulk, Skull, Will, Tommy, and Mr. Hartford merely sat on the floor forming a circle which the Sentinel Knight placed a ring device in the center of. "Is everyone ready?" he asked observing the humans' expressions, Bulk and Skull munching on popcorn eagerly that they had seemingly produced from thin air.
"We need all the information we can get," Will announced sternly, "Of course we're ready." "If you say so," the Sentinel Knight replied and flipped on a screen produced to levitate above the ring as a hologram, "This is a tale of which not many know. I advise you stay silent for this recording and implore that you know that this takes place over ten thousand years ago. The forces of evil, lead by Dark Specter and his armies, are increasing across the universe with Eltar, the home planet of Tommy and Adam's original mentor, Zordon, being nearly the only true sanctuary left for the forces of good." The screen showed a large city which began to zoom towards a tall building.
"Rita!" a handsome human exclaimed wrapping his arms around his love, them both garbed in pure white lab coats, "Zordon's allowed the project to commence! We're taking part in the battle of good and evil!" "That's amazing!" the lustful asian-looking woman replied kissing him on the lips, "And did you talk to him about our um...son?..." "Oh...well...no," he replied embarrassdley, blushing as he did so and letting go of his partner, "You know we aren't supposed to be together at all and smuggling him in here...if Zordon found out about this secret what do you think he'd do to us!?" "Honey!" she moaned wrapping her arms around him, "Zordon is a reasonable leader, unlike my father, he'd understand..." "Miss Rita, Lord Zedd," a rather intelligent looking man wearing spectacles called from behind them, "are you ready for your mission to take place? I promise to take good care of your child." "I'll stay Finster," Rita told him with a doubtful smile, "Zedd has told me he wishes to do this alone, he doesn't want both of us to risk dying."
"Agreed," the wizard told them, and began walking towards another room, "Goldar wishes to accompany him though at least." "Ah Goldar, always so loyal," Zedd sighed shaking his head and smiling at Rita, "Fine, he can come. Rita...please don't tell Zordon about our son..." "I won't if you don't want me too," she assured him hugging tighter before letting go and fetching his silver skull shaped war helmet, "my alien lover can't go off into battle without this." "Correct," he laughed reached for it surprised when Rita pulled it back a bit. Continuing to reach for it he eventually found his lips pressed up against Rita's not realizing the trap she'd laid out for him, but enjoying it fully. "Ahem," Zordon's voice echoed from the entrance of the room causing the two to separate in surprising speed, "Zedd, I just came to wish you good luck on your expedition and hope all goes well." "It will sir," he replied saluting the sage and standing up, "I was just about to get my armor on." "Very good," Zordon laughed and walked out the way he had come in, "take all the time you two wish."
Blushing the two turned to each other and kissed quickly again. "I gotta get going honey," Zedd told his companion smiling, "I'll come back, just take care of Thrax alright?" "Ok dear," she agreed and rested her head on his shoulder. Slowly Zedd pulled away and retreated to a room opposite of the entrance coming back out a few moments later dressed I silver skeletal looking armour. "I need my head piece now if I may." Delicately, as if fearing to hurt even a hair on Zedd's head, Rita placed the skull-resembling piece on her lover's head giving him the full appearance of the intelligent warlord he had been known as, striking fear into the hearts of Dark Specter's forces. "We will be back by tomorrow," he assured her and walked out with a golden armored and winged warrior following him.
"Wait...Zedd and Rita were friends with Zordon?!" Tommy exclaimed. "Thrax was good?!" Dax exclaimed bewildered almost falling out of his chair. "Zedd was assigned to develop super soldiers that were efficient that would be known as the Power Rangers," the Sentinel Knight explained while Bulk and Skull scrounged around for more popcorn, "Zordon had already had Rangers created before but needed a power source that more easily connect them to the Universal Power Grid resulting in less casualties." "What was the power source before that?" Tommy asked curiously. "Something much more powerful but not as long lasting..." Sentinel replied as the screen switched views.
"Master!" Goldar called out dragging a large container that was vibrating intensely, "we have captured it! The day is ours!" "Excellent," Zedd replied patting Goldar on the back causing him to collapse onto the ground in pain unexpectedly, "Er...rest up soldier." "Why did you want this creature?" Goldar moaned rolling over, "I thought we were supposed to destroy Specter's armada..." "That was just a facade for what I was really trying to get done," Zedd explained sitting down next to his soldier, "You see me and Rita have been observing Dark Specter's armadas lately and have seen this one creature that's been able to wipe out entire cities with its power leading this division of Specter's forces which we attacked. We simply told Zordon that we were going to destroy this armada when in reality we were planning to capture this beast and use its powers in the Power Ranger Program. It seems to produce unlimited energy!"
"Excellent thinking my lord!" Goldar congratulated sitting up, "Though it did end up wiping out basically our entire army..." "It's a needed loss, they can be replaced," Zedd assured his warrior and took hold of the container holding their prey, "Right now though, we must get this back to Eltar!" "But I can't help but wonder sire, why not just tell Zordon what you're doing?" "I'm afraid that he would not approve," Zedd told him as he closed his eyes, "capturing a creature to take from it is just about as bad as what Dark Specter's troops can do in many Eltarians' eyes, it would make us no better than our enemies and we need all the support we can get, especially what Rita's dad, under Specter's influence, did to our homeworld!" "Agreed..." Goldar trailed off as he fell asleep exhausted on the dusty ground of what had been a battlefield.
"That was Goldar..." Tommy muttered astounded, "Are you sure you have the right recordings? These guys are nothing like the monsters we faced." "Positive," the Sentinel Knight sighed putting a finger to his forehead, "Just keep watching...you'll see what happens." "Wait up," Skull suddenly commanded pointing a finger at the screen, "That was Lord Zedd!" "Duh you bozo!" Bulk chimed in bopping him on the head, "Wait...that's Lord Zedd?! I mean sure he has the same armor but its not all veiny or anything underneath it! It's like some black suit with him as a human inside!" "Keep watching..." the Sentinel Knight repeated as the screen flipped to a futuristic looking court room.
"You don't understand though! With this new power we can defeat Dark Specter and anything that gets in our way!" the unmasked Lord Zedd pleaded with the people in the court room. Below his face was indeed his traditional armored outfit, however he still had his skin and hair and everything and beneath the metal skeleton lay a sheet of temperature-proof black material instead of exposed muscles and veins. "Please! Just give it a chance! I was in charge of finding a new power source for our armed forces!" "I am sorry," said the wizard off a few people down to the right of the Sentinel Knight, "But as head of the division I can not allow this Zedd." "But Zordon! This will give us the chance we need to turn the tide against Dark Specter! You trusted me in the past, why not now?!"
Zordon looked down the rows of participating members in the case receiving disagreeing shaking heads from the Magna Defender, Ninjor, Dimitria, and a few others. "I am sorry once more Zedd but you must understand, even with that power it is too much, we can not chance it." "But Zordon-" "I'm sorry Zedd," the wizard interrupted putting a hand up, "But it's final, the power source is to be disposed of, that's final." Letting out a scream of rage Zedd threw his mask to the ground of courtroom, shattering it a bit, "Mark my words Zordon, you will regret not taking my side someday, Dark Specter will kill us all if we don't do something and soon!" With a huff the alien lord stomped out of the courtroom as the Sentinel Knight looked at Zordon who had his head hung in thought and stress.
As the court room began to disperse with an atmosphere of guilt flowing through it Zordon walked through the hall Zedd had fled into with Dimitria at his side. "We are glad you could come," Zordon told her as they trekked down the corridor looking for the accused warlord, "With the forces of evil ever growing everyone's constantly on edge now. You always were a figure of hope and a good companion on the battlefield as well as in politics." "I'm more than happy to join you old friend," the goddess-looking human replied smiling, "Me and my sister's mother was just recently influenced by Dark Specter and with it, the rest of our planet. We came here hoping to find shelter. It's as if the entire galaxy's turning in on itself though, the spread of evil doesn't seem like it will ever end."
"We have been trying to find ways to fight back, the latest project being the Power Rangers which Rita and Zedd have been the leaders of," Zordon explained while they rounded a corner, "Warriors connected to a grid of nigh limitless power essentially making them super-humans equipped with various weapons imbedded into their outfit's coding process. Zedd, I found out, planned to use a creature that had been leading Dark Specter's forces against us's power to create the way to better connect to the Power Grid." "There have been Power Rangers without the connection?" Dimitria asked curiously. "Yes," the wizard replied gravely, "One being my son even." "But I thought you said-" "The creature's power BETTER connects them to the Power Grid," Zordon stated closing his eyes, "Normal humans can already do that with the use of morphing devices we have created, however, without the use of some external item linking them to the Grid their energy depletes unbelievably fast and, if in Ranger form for too long without an item to link them, results in even death."
"Then your son..." "No, he's alive, but can't ever function properly again," Zordon told her as they came to the doorway of Rita and Zedd's experimentation quarters, "Now then, to make sure it's dismantled." "I would not do that if I were you," came Zedd's confident voice from the other side of the door as it slid open, "You may change your mind when you see your son." Instantly Zedd hung suspended in the air by Zordon's magic which he conducted with his staff, "What have you done with him?!" "Ack! Something you'd much enjoy!" Zedd gasped flailing himself uselessly about in the air as he tried to get free while Dimitria tried desperately to get the wizard to lower the warlord. "Dad?" came a voice from farther into the room. Hesitantly Zordon levitated Zedd back to the ground and walked in spotting, in the corner of the room, a man-sized humanoid cloaked in black and silvery armor with a pitch black visor covering his face, "Son?" "Allow me to introduce the first successful Power Ranger," Zedd announced massaging his neck, "the Phantom Ranger!"
"What...did...you...do to him?" Zordon growled lowly turning around to Zedd and pointing his staff between the warlord's eyes. "We saved his life," Rita interrupted walking up behind the Phantom Ranger, "Half of him was stuck in our realm while half of him was one with the Power Grid from extended exposure to being in Ranger form when he agreed to be a test subject of the program originally." "But...he seems fine now," Dimitria responded with Zordon turning back around to look at the Phantom Ranger once more, "What did you do?" "Unfortunately some vital parts of him were lost," the woman told them, "but, using the specimen Zedd brought back's power, we were able to create a gem to replace his heart that connected him directly into the Power Grid while keeping him in reality. He is a living being once again as long as he has that gem in him. However, he is in constant Ranger mode as a result of the Power Gem and also has unbelievable abilities that he can use including cloaking completely from the naked eye."
"Astounding..." Zordon murmured, "Son...are you...ok with this?" "You realize that since you're allowing us to do this procedure to create the Phantom Ranger you're also agreeing to allow us to use this method in the Ranger Program. Of course it will be on a much smaller scale than what we did to your son but you're allowing it," Rita told the group after the Phantom Ranger had nodded. "What?!" the Ranger exclaimed spinning around and pointing his gun at the alien queen, "This was to save my life!" "How's it any different?" Rita asked smiling, "It's only fair to do it to anyone else willing to go through with it if we're allowed to do it to you."
"I sense great pain," Dimitria informed them looking towards a wall on the opposite end of the room. "That would be the specimen we synthesized the power from." Zedd chuckled lightly walking towards the door in the wall they had all turned their attention to, "Follow me." Uneasily Divatox and Zordon followed the high held aliens into a room full of glowing green vats and a huge metal container in the center of the room with a single window on the front of it as well as windows on the walls of the room. "What is that thing?" Dimitria asked horrified as she gazed at the vaguely Dark Specter resembling humanoid dragon-like creature suspended in liquid in the container with various wires hooked up to it. "That," Rita declared approaching it, "Is what we like to call Dark Soul. It has the unnatural ability of drawing its power directly from the Universal Power Grid itself. Only beings that Dark Specter has influenced thus far other than the failed attempts at the Power Rangers and Dark Specter himself have this unique attribute to them."
"Indeed," Zedd continued, "this being in particular is directly linked to the Power Grid, more-so than anything I and Rita have observed thus far in our studies. It's as if it's a portion of the Power Grid in a physical form. It's energy supply is that of the Power Grid's and it never tires, it's perfect!" "Zedd," Zordon muttered lightly behind him as Zedd's face became plastered with a grin of delight, "hand over your child and dismantle dispose of this thing." "WHAT?!" Rita and Zedd cried spinning around only to see Zordon's staff in front of them in defense, "You're to be disbanded from the functions of this project to work on something else of your choosing. Your son will be taken care of directly by us, you have my promise." "You can't do this!" Zedd roared and thrust out his scepter from behind his back as he charged forth dodging a stun blast from the wizard's staff, "We worked so hard for you to stop Dark Specter and this is how you treat us!" "You didn't follow procedures," Zordon yelled back blocking a slash from the deadly Z formation at the head of his opponent's weapon, "and you hid secrets from us that you should have told us about! We will not allow such a vile being to be our power source nor will we allow a creature to suffer so badly intentionally for our benefit!" "He's our son!" Zedd replied unlocking his weapon from Zordon's staff and sending a blast of blood red electricity at him, "You have no right to take him away! Maybe we'd be ok with you stopping the project, maybe! But not our son!"
With ease Zordon bounced the attack back at Zedd electrocuting him and sending him to the ground writhing in pain. "Zordon!" Rita cried out, "Stop it!" "He did it to himself," he replied walking back towards the exit of the room, "Have that thing dismantled and the power source wiped out with in the next day." Rita collapsed to the floor next to Zedd cradling him in her arms as Dimitria and Zordon left. "Rita..." he moaned. "Yes love?..." "Start up the Power Gem making process..."
"I guess this is where they start becoming evil..." Tommy sighed closing his eyes while the screen began to change. "Not true," the Sentinel Knight announced shaking his head, "I remember this next part like it was yesterday, I was training Moltar and Flurious in the Eltarian Training Facility when the speakers echoed across the various facilities of the planet the dreaded origin of the Power Rangers..." "I thought the Power Rangers were supposed to be good," Dax commented quietly. "Doesn't mean what spawned them is. You're still innocent...a quality that I wish all had the leisure of keeping with them," the Sentinel Knight responded as the screen finished its transition.
"I'll teach her," the younger Dimitria-looking woman exclaimed as she marched through the halls towards Zedd and Rita's quarters, "That twin sister of mine isn't going to stop me from seeing what all the great commotion is about!" After Dimitria had left with Zordon from the experimentation room they had prohibited anyone from visiting Rita and Zedd until they were properly attended to. About twenty one hours had passed since that moment and, upon finding out that the leaders of the Power Ranger Project were leaving their positions, Divatox immediately made them the target of her interests. "Just what could they have done to piss Zordon and my sister of all people off like that?"
Giggling, the girl slipped into the encased room which she, sadly, found to be barren. "Wonder where they could be..." she muttered and began walking around and looking through other rooms. "HEY!" a young cute boy about her age exclaimed tackling her to the ground as she entered his room, "what are you doing here?! You're not taking me away from my parents!" "What are you talking about?" Divatox asked in a dull irritated voice, "I'm looking for whatever Rita and Zedd are working on, I want in on what everyone's making a big deal over!" "Dark Soul?" he suggested getting off her and helping her up, "That's the thing my parents are getting in deep trouble for." "Then that's it!" Divatox exclaimed hugging him, "Where is it? If you tell me me'll do you a favor..." "What favor?..." Thrax asked eyeing her suspiciously. "Well...whatever a guy wants a girl to do for them of course," she replied winking and stepping back a bit.
"Whatever," Thrax replied shaking his head and heading back out to the main room of the facility, "Not like it matters if you see it or not, mommy and daddy are in as much trouble as possible anyhow." Eagerly the girl followed the boy through a door opposite of the entrance to the room and watched as it hissed open. "What is all this?" Divatox asked stepping gingerly into the metal room and observing the scenery, "it's like something out of a mad scientist's novel." "Son!" Zedd exclaimed surprised and alert, "What are you doing here and...who's with you?!" "I have no idea," Thrax replied nervously and stepped aside for his father to examine her, "She just wanted to see what was up with your laboratory experiment." "Who are you?" Zedd hissed, his eyes slits as he bent down a bit to be at the girl's eye level. "My name's Divatox," she replied a bit scared, "I just wanted to see what this thing was...my sister isn't letting anyone come to see any of you so naturally I wanted to know what was going on..."
"Zedd!" Rita screamed from a console she was operating, "The energy output is far too much!" "Damn it! Shut it off!" "It won't go off!" she screamed back and began to run to her husband, "the force is far too much! It won't shut off!" "RITA!!" Before she could turn around she could already hear the glass crack with the creature stirring ferociously inside. "Mistress Rita!" Finster cried rushing in to tackle her out of the way, "Look out!" BOOM!! The entire container for the creature imploded expelling vile energy and smoke throughout the room encasing everyone present within it as Goldar too rushed in.
Violently Zedd, Rita, Divatox, Finster, and Goldar all began to spasm and shudder with little-to-no control of their movements. Zedd could feel his flesh and temperature black suit being blasted into oblivion leaving his veins to encase his structure with his skeletal armor becoming his body and face. Rita likewise felt her lab coat shred and age as she took on a more sinister female form with her her aging to grey in seconds. Divatox and Thrax as well could sense their bodies changing. The girl opened her mouth to scream producing a new lengthy lizard-like tounge as her body became more curvy and seductive and her finger nails becoming like razor blades. Horns began to shoot forth from Thrax's temples with his own miniature version of his dad's suit warping to become his new skin. Unable to help, Goldar and Finster were transformed as well with the hulking gold armored soldier taking shape of a hideous beast beneath his armor while Finster grew into a white sage-like creature that appeared timid but loyal to his mistress.
Coughing and hacking, the now transformed humanoids stood up looking themselves over. "What has happened to us?!" Goldar roareddd viciously and spun around drawing a demonic blade to strike down whatever had caused the sudden disruption, "Who did this?!" "Goldar, if I may, I believe it was science experiment our dear hire-ups were dealing with," Finster answered looking towards the now wrecked container. "Ah yes," Lord Zedd hissed, his blood red visor glowing evilly, "I can feel it, it's very energy coursing through my now exposed veins!" "I have no idea what the hell happened," Divatox remarked standing up, her clothes now draped over her curvacious figure in shreds, "But I like it!"
"Security crew to the Power Ranger Development facility!" came Alpha's voice over the speakers of the various facilities on the planet Eltar, "Repeat, Security crew to the Power Ranger Development facility!" "Shut your trap robo boy!" Rita laughed firing her now moon-shaped staff's energy at the speaker in the room shattering it to bits. Just then the group turned towards the center of the smoke that was still spewing forth from the wrecked container as a roar echoed viciously from within it. "No!" Goldar hollered, "It's free!" "What do you have to fear?" Zedd laughed and peered into the smoke, "We have it's powers! What can it possibly do to us?!" "Zedd," Rita said holding up a box, "I got the Power Coins we turned the gems into!" "What about the other gems?" Finster asked worriedly. "Forget about the other gems!" Zedd hollered grabbing the box, "With these coins we ourselves can make the strongest warriors ever to take down anything in our path! For the glory of Dark Specter!"
"Halt!" the Sentinel Knight commanded as he lead a platoon of personnel armed with laser guns and prototype Ranger armor, "what the hell?..." "Hello there Sentinel!" Zedd laughed firing a blast of red electricity from his staff at the warrior, "To what do we oh the meeting of our newfound enemies with us?" "Fire!" Sentinel ordered the troops as he blasted the electricity back at Zedd only for him to catch it in his hand, curl it into a ball, and throw it back at him smashing him through a wall into the room beyond. "Goldar," Zedd laughed, "have some fun with their leader!" "With pleasure my highest of evil!" The troops began firing upon the now demonic humanoids with all the firepower they could as Goldar flew through the hole that had been made by the Sentinel Knight. "Andros look out!" one of the men cried out as Zedd shot a bolt of electricity at one of the younger troops and tackled him out of the way of the blast, "GYAH!!"
Suddenly Goldar was thrown back into the room by two figures cloaked in dark armor. "You alright sir?" Flurious asked helping the Sentinel Knight to his feet so they could join in the battle with Moltar already charging into the room while Zordon followed close behind. "What in the universe is going on here?!" the wizard barked thrusting his staff forward and blasting the evil-doers backwards slamming them into a wall. Just then the creature inside the smoke roared again and a pillar of plasma shot forth from it annihilating half of the troops present as well as severely injuring the villains on the other side of the room. Spotting the box in Zedd's hand Zordon levitated it over to himself as the creature's flames engulfed the group of evil. "Not so fast!" Divatox yelped slicing a small part of the box off with one of her fingernails, it landing in Zedd's lap as he finally quenched the flames. "Ack!" he cried holding the portion of the box up spotting a green glowing coin inside, "Well...it's better than nothing!"
Spotting a glow in the smoke once more, Zedd leapt into it and tackled the creature out pinning it to the ground while the Sentinel Knight kicked it over the head sending both the monster and Zedd flying into a room beyond with a space dumpster inside it. "Ugh..." he moaned and shook his head before spotting a dumpster and kicking the stunned creature into it, "Night night!" Before the creature could do anything more the demonic warlord shot a bolt of red lightning at a slot on the canister sealing it with his life force. "I want in on this action too honey!" Rita laughed zapping her own life force into it with her own scepter. "Don't forget me!" Thrax exclaimed tumbling into the room and zapping his life force onto it as a lock, "I can't have that monster getting in our way!" "And last but not least," Zedd laughed taking a redish lava-looking rock formation out from behind his back which he had been storing and zapping its energy into a fourth lock on the lid of the canister, "the life force of your own master!"
"Zedd!" Zordon yelled charging into the room avoiding a blast of electricity as the leader of the band of evil turned around and knocking his scepter out of his hand with his staff, "Stop!" "Attack!" The beings of evil descended upon the wizard as his own troops came fending them off until Zedd launched the dumpster into outer space and gave the order to fall back. "Where are we going?" asked Rita while they ran through the corridors of the facilities of Eltar. "The space deck of course!" Zedd replied causing them to round a corner while avoiding laser fire. "Aiyaiyaiyaiyai!" Alpha 5 chirped shaking his head module in frustration at the lock on the space deck door, "We really need to get better means of security." "Got that right," hissed Zedd from behind him. Stammering the small humanoid robot with a saucer-shaped head turned around and looked up. "Boo." "AIYAIYAIYAIYAI!!" Alpha practically screamed and hobbled off as fast as he possibly could leaving the villains laughing and giving them the opportunity to blast the door open.
"Everyone, aboard the largest ship!" Zedd commanded which his family and their minions obediently followed the order of, "Where are you going?" "I have my own sect of evil I have to attend to," Divatox informed them with a grin and hopped in her own private vessel," I'm sure we'll see each other again." Without any further words the two ships launched off from the facilities, wrecking various equipment and structures in the process, and fled into outer space.
"That would make the best movie ever! I mean it had monsters and love and death and...I'll shut up now..." Dax murmured blushing upon seeing everyone's eyes turn to him in embarrassment and shame. "Were those coins that Zordon got from Zedd-" "Yes Tommy," the Setinel Knight answered before he could even finish asking the question, "they were the Power Coins of the first true Power Rangers of Earth from Angel Grove. And yes, the green one Zedd took was the one Rita used on you." "I thought Zedd hated Rita," Skull nudged in confused. "After becoming evil, whenever Rita disobeyed Zedd's orders he...dealt very harshly with her damaging their relationship. I of course followed Thrax as he helped take more of the universe for the forces of evil ultimately ending with him meeting a similar fate to his mom before she landed on the moon of Earth," the Knight informed as he stood up and stretched.
"What happened to the Power Gems that they didn't take with them?" Mr. Hartford asked raising his hand, "I'm assuming they left some behind." "Ah yes," the story "teller" laughed nervously patting the back of his own head, "Well, some went towards Ranger equipment but most of them well...you know the Aurora Corona's gems?..." "We've been collecting Power Gems your saying?" Will said, his eyes wide as dinner plates. "After Moltar and Flurious found out what Power Gems were capable of they immediately took the opportunity they saw at hand and tried to steal them." "So...this creature is after the Power Gems that these old bad guys took from it when creating the Power Rangers?" Mack realized aloud getting a nod from the Sentinel Knight's head. "It can also absorb any external powers linking another creature to the Universal Power Grid. It is potentially unstoppable. Basically, if it's allowed to feed off everything that has a connection to the Grid you will be having to fight the Grid itself if you wish to stay alive."
"Hold up hold up!" Bulk suddenly yelled standing up and flailing his arms around, "There ain't no war happening in this resort!" "There is most certainly going to be deadly ordeals taking place," the Sentinel Knight informed everyone, "People will be dying, there will be word all over the media. The chaos will be just to draw the Rangers out into the open and once it has all the power it needs it will do away with this planet and move onto another." "As in kill everyone?" Skull gulped. "Exactly," the Sentinel Knight confirmed nodding his head, "I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but we have to get help from outside of earth. Eltar is where we're going to go." "Eltar?!" they all exclaimed. Suddenly the television came on. "Oops," Skull murmured, "sat on the control...oh my lord..." Plastered on the television screen was a reporter showing a map of Angel Grove and San Angeles showing numerous marks on the maps flashing red. "Today, over one thousand people have been killed in mass murders of seemingly no reason," he explained pointing to a picture of a mother laying dead in the streets with burn marks all over her body, "from what appear to be Power Rangers."
Well, hope everyone enjoyed this chapter! And so the plot thickens and yeah...I did lots of research on things from the Power Rangers universe and looked back over tons of old episodes as well as new ones. Trying to get everything to fit just right in this in an interesting way. Well, hope you enjoyed and hope that you keep coming back for more! Read and review if you want, constructive critism is greatly appreciated.
