I don't own Power Rangers. Rick, Rebecca, Louis and Zara were created by Jetman21, Thewhatzupwriter26, RushQuake and GoseiShinkenPink, respectively. Ted and the Professor were created by me. I am also happy to announce the winning Sixth Ranger candidates (yes, it's plural, there are going to be two extra rangers as well) are Alex by decode9 (Green Ranger), Joe by TimmayIsAwesome (Gold Ranger) and Jin, submitted by a Guest (If you know who submitted the character, please PM me) (Bronze Ranger).
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Rebecca revved her yellow and black dirt bike as she launched over the dirt mound on the track. As she hit the ground, she revved the engine once more, the front wall of the bike kicking up as she did. She brought the wheel down before accelerating, leaning into the corner as it came.
She could see the finish line ahead. If she crossed that in the top three, she qualified for the tournament. She leant forward, feeling the drag decrease. As she was about to cross the finish line, she saw a black and green mass speed past her, crossing the finish line first.
Rebecca skidded to a halt, pulling off her helmet and throwing it at the ground in annoyance. She hadn't lost in a very long time, and couldn't say she'd missed the feeling. She looked at the person who'd beat her, watching as they removed the helmet, revealing the rider to be a girl her age, slightly taller than her with long blonde hair in a braid.
"Good game." The girl said as she walked over, holding out a hand to Rebecca "I'm Alex."
"Rebecca." Rebecca said her name with a hint of annoyance in her voice "I've never seen you around here before?"
"I'm new in town." Alex said "My dad likes to keep moving a lot."
"Wow, I bet your mom must be really understanding." Rebecca said.
"Uhm, I guess you could say that." Alex said, her expression faltering "Though it's kind of hard not to be understanding when you're dead..."
Rebecca froze. She'd really stuck her foot in it now. However, before she could apologise, she heard her morpher beep.
"Wow, I'm sorry." Rebecca said, shifting awkwardly "I, uh, have a call to take, but I'll see you around."
"Okay." Alex said, smiling "Nice to have met you."
Rebecca nodded with an awkward smile before jogging off, raising her morpher to her face.
"What's going on, Professor?" She asked, getting a garbled response "Professor?"
Rebecca looked around, making sure no one was looking before hitting the teleportation control on her morpher, being swept up in a beam of yellow energy.
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Rebecca materialised in the lab. It looked deserted. After a moment, Ted and Rick both teleported in.
"Where's the Prof?" Ted asked "Don't tell me he's shrank himself down into a guinea pig. Again..."
"Guinea pig?" Rebecca said, cocking an eyebrow "That sounds stupid, even by the standards of what we do."
"I've heard of weirder." Rick said "Like someone claiming a dog gave them orders."
"Now that is stupid." Ted said, before their morphers beeped "Go ahead."
"Ahh, Theodore, good, are the others with you?" Came the voice of the Professor.
"Rick and Rebecca are, I don't know about Louis and Zara." Ted replied "What's up?"
"It's nothing to worry about, Theodore." The Professor replied "I'm currently in one of the secondary labs. My new assistant is to be teleporting in shortly. She has a presentation for us."
"We're on our way." Ted said, putting his morpher back in his pocket "We need to go to one of the secondary labs. Don't worry, there are only... A few of them..."
Ted didn't give them a chance to reply before walking out of the large automated doors, followed by Rebecca and Rick.
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Ted, Rebecca and Rick all walked into the secondary lab. It was the fifth one they'd checked. Fortunately the Professor was actually in this one, along with Zara and Louis, as well as;
"Alex?" Rebecca said, cocking an eyebrow "You're the new assistant?"
"Yes, I am." Alex grinned, walking over to Ted and Rick, shaking both of their hands enthusiastically "I'm Alex, nice to meet you. Me and Rebecca here met at the track earlier. Which one's the Red Ranger?"
"That'd be me, the one in red." Ted said, tugging his shirt collar to emphasise the colour "So, what've you got to show us?"
"Not you." She said "Well, that is, there's one thing to show you, but then there's something else that's just for the other four."
The five Rangers looked between each other, then the Professor, and finally, back to Alex, who was playing with controls. After a moment, she flipped a switch, causing a holographic projection of five motorcycles to come up. They, for the most part, looked like dirt bikes, with the headlight assemblies coming from super bikes. However, they had blasters either side of the tops of the forks. The five bikes were colour coded to the Rangers' respective colours, along with numbers on the sides of the gas tanks; 1 for Red, 2 for Yellow, 3 for Blue, 4 for Black and 5 for White.
"These are your Rev Max Cycles." Alex said "I'd like to take the credit for them, but the Professor was the primary developer. I just came in at the end."
"You're too modest, Alexandria. I'd designed the bikes, but over the last week, Alexandria sourced the components and assembled them." The Professor said "She also increased the fuel efficiency versus my original specifications."
"So, wait, we get these things?" Zara asked, cocking an eyebrow "What are they for? We teleport?"
"If that goes down, barring taking the zords out, you're stuck." Alex replied "Now you're not."
"Those things are absolutely beautiful!" Rebecca said "When do we get to try them out?"
"Once we've finished putting the final touches on." The Professor replied "At the moment, those blasters are only aesthetic additions."
"Okay, you said there were two things." Louis asked, folding his arms over his chest "What are the second things?"
"Glad you asked." Alex said, beaming as she pressed a few controls, looking awkwardly at Ted "Once again, sorry you don't have one. If it helps, only one is finished."
The projection flickered and was replaced by the image of the zord hangar. First the sensor inside moved along the five zords, before reaching the intended targets; four new vehicles. There was a large yellow motorcycle, around the size of the hummer, a cockpit visible above the headlights, twin blasters on either side of the front wheel. Beside that was a half completed blue bulldozer with a closing pick up point, tank treads visible on one side, whilst they had yet to be assembled on the other. Next was a large white forklift, the forks visibly claw shaped with what looked like a pincer on them. Finally, in a pool of water beside that, was a large black speed boat, a half assembled twelve shooter missile rack at the back end of the boat.
"These are Rev Zords six through nine." Alex said "Each serves a different purpose. The motorcycle can become a saw blade arm, the bulldozer can become a claw arm, the forklift adds a bladed foot for added offensive ability and the speedboat can replace the speeder to allow the megazord aquatic capabilities."
"So I'm the only one without another zord?" Ted asked, sounding slightly irritated "How come? I can't imagine any of those use the transport to move into the field?"
"We're working out the kinks." The Professor said "Have faith, Theodore."
"I do. In you." Ted said, before turning and walking out.
"Was it something I said?" Alex asked.
"Theodore will be fine." The Professor assured her "Just give him time."
Before anyone could say anything else, the alarm began blaring. The hologram was replaced with a projection of the city map, which zoomed in on a flashing red dot on the outskirts by the bike track. Stood there were a group of Buzzers, and in the centre of them was a large, black figure, spikes on it's shoulder, a blade extending from it's right forearm, the head appearing to be a spiked motorcycle helmet with skull decals.
"The four of you, go." The Professor said "I'll send Theodore along to help as soon as possible."
"Got it." Louis said, pulling his morpher as the other three Rangers did the same "Ready?"
"You're in for a treat here." The Professor said to Alex quietly.
"Ready!" The other three Rangers all said, as the four of them ran their morphers down their arms "Rev Max, Power Up!"
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Louis, Zara, Rick and Rebecca all leapt over one another as they teleported into the area, standing facing down the motorcycle creature.
"What do we call you?" Louis asked, folding his arms "Chopper?"
"That'll do..." The creature said, it's tone mechanical and menacing "Buzzers, attack!"
The Buzzers charged the four Rangers, Louis and Rebecca rolling under the attack and charging Chopper, their Street Smasher and Axel Staff drawn, beginning to attack the creature, whilst Rick and Zara fought off the Buzzers with their Engine Blaster and Piston Kama. The four Rangers were holding their own, but not really making any head way.
Zara slashed a pair of the Buzzers back, Rick in turn blasting them, before spinning on his heel and blasting two more. Meanwhile, Louis and Rebecca brought their weapons down on Chopper. Chopper staggered back, before a revving sound came from Chooper's arm, the blade beginning to vibrate as the creature slashed down on Louis and Rebecca, sending them flying. As it did, the Buzzers grabbed Rick and Zara, tossing them into the two Rangers on the ground.
The four Rangers scrambled to get together, facing down Chopper and the half dozen remaining Buzzers. As the creatures approached, there was a loud revving coming from over the ridge behind them, causing the creatures to turn in time to see Ted come flying over it on his cycle, red bolts firing from the blasters on the bike, taking out the Buzzers, as the bike made contact with Chopper, flipping up in the air as Ted flipped off of it, morphing as he did.
"Red Ranger, ready!" He called as he landed beside the other Rangers "Like the bike, guys?"
"That's cool!" Rick said, looking at the bike "Did you need to throw it like that though?"
"Relax, that thing's a beast! It can take it!" Rebecca said, excited "I just wish you'd brought mine too!"
"Don't be an idiot, you can only ride one at a time." Louis said, slapping Rebecca on the back of the head.
"Uh, guys, monster's still here." Zara noted, pointing at Chopper, who had stood up and was slowly advancing.
"Right!" Rebecca said "Let's-"
"Ahem, I think this is my line." Ted said, putting a hand on her shoulder as all their weapons appeared in their hands "Let's put them together!"
"Rev Max Cannon!" The five Rangers called as they assembled the cannon, taking their positions.
"Ready." Rebecca said.
"Aim." Rick added.
"Fire!" Ted yelled, pulling the trigger, a large blast firing from the cannon and hitting Chopper, who fell to the floor in a ball of flames.
The Rangers whooped, before the figure of Chopper rose, beginning to grow. The five Rangers shook their heads before Rebecca pulled her morpher.
"Alex," She said "send in the Megazord!"
"You got it." Alex's voice came through as the morpher beeped.
The zords came flying over the hill, quickly assembling into the Megazord as the Rangers jumped inside. The Megazord pulled it's sword, taking a slash at Chopper, only to have the blade stopped and flipped out of it's hand by the vibrating blade on Chopper's arm.
"Damnit, we've lost the saber!" Zara said.
"He's attacking!" Louis exclaimed, as he saw Chopper raise the arm with the blade.
"Everyone, hang on!" Ted yelled as the blade made contact, the Megazord falling to the ground, the Rev Truck being detached from the Megazord "Oh that's not good!"
"We're down to one arm!" Rick said as the Megazord slowly picked itself up "I don't know what we can do!"
"I do!" Rebecca said, pressing the communications console "Alex, send in the motorcycle zord!"
"Rev Moto, coming in!" Alex said, moments before the yellow motorcycle zord came flying over the ridge "Hope you like it!"
"Rev Max Megazord," Rebecca said "Cutter mode!"
The Moto came flying at the Megazord, before kicking it's front wheel up and beginning to flip. As it did, the back wheel rotated in relation to the rest of the body, connecting to the shoulder where the truck had gone, before the cockpit moved up on a swing arm, becoming a shoulder pad, the front wheel having blades come out of it, becoming a large buzz saw.
"Rev Max Megazord," Ted called "Moto Buzz Attack!"
The Megazord charged Chopper, the saw blade beginning to spin at high speed as the back wheel that had became the shoulder started to spin, causing the arm to spin at a speed equal to the saw blade, the blade making contact with Chopper, slicing off the blade on the creatures arm before causing the monster to explode in a ball of flames.
"And-" Ted began.
"-That's how we rev it up, Rangers!" Rebecca interjected, jumping up and punching the air as Ted folded his arms indignantly "Yeah!"
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Rebecca came flying over the ridge on her dirt bike. She was in the tournament final, against three other racers; some guy in silver, Alex and some guy on a red bike. As she cleared the ridge, she saw the finish line fast approaching, right as Alex and the guy in red pulled alongside.
Alex and the guy in red looked between each other, nodding at each other before pulling back, Rebecca crossing the finish line, followed closely by Alex and the guy in red, as the crowd cheered. A second later, the guy in silver crossed the finish line.
Rebecca pulled up to the side, Louis, Zara and Rick all running over to congratulate her. As they did, Alex and the guy in red pulled alongside, the guy in red removing his helmet to reveal the grinning face of Ted.
"Thought I'd join you in the competition, get some practice for that cycle!" He said with a grin, looking over Rebecca's head at the guy in silver, who simply rode off.
"What're you looking at?" She asked, trying to see what he was looking at but just missing the guy.
"No one. I'll be right back." Ted said, climbing off the bike and walking over the Alex "Well, we've got our answer."
"I noticed." Alex said "When are you going to tell them he was here?"
"I'm not." Ted said, looking back at the team "The Professor can explain to them what Chronus was doing here when he explains it to me."
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So, that's chapter 4. Sorry it was a little shorter than the last, but I wanted to keep momentum up. R&R, please, no flames. B.