Rocky had a bad feeling about this. He looked at Tanya for some kind of support but she remained unreadable. Something about her time as a spokeswoman had given her spectacular control over her facial expressions.

"Hayley said she couldn't identify the energy signal," Rocky said out loud, "Don't you think that's a little weird?"

Adam shrugged, "We've been doing this a lot longer than she has, odds are we probably won't be too surprised."

"Don't say that," Tanya muttered, "For the love of God don't say that."

"You must be the Power Rangers!" A booming voice called to the three, "I've been expecting you."

The three turned and caught sight of the strange purple wizard.

"Ugh," Tanya spat, "They sure aren't getting any prettier."

Rocky grinned and armed his Zeonizer, "So are you gonna tell us who you are? Or is that gonna wait until after we kick your butt?"

"I wouldn't be so cocky," the wizard muttered. He threw out his hand and leaked small dribbles of purple slime from his fingertips that splattered against the ground. From there the slime grew and morphed into warrior styled clones of the wizard. "I am Ivan Ooze." He proclaimed, "The Disciple of Destruction!"

The Oozemen charged and the three Rangers morphed.


Hayley watched as the three Zeo Rangers fought against the Oozemen. It seemed that Ivan's grunts were definitely more of a threat then the standard Tyrannodrones. They were stronger, more ruthless, even able to withstand multiple attacks from each of the Ranger's main weapons.

Hayley looked down at Red Zeonizer on the table and frowned. She knew that it was best for her to stay as their eye and ears but she also knew she had the power to fight.

Was it a power or a responsibility?

A tap of footsteps echoed into the room. "Shouldn't you be out there?" She asked.

"I can't," Trent said with his head down.

"What do you mean?"

"I can't sell the company," He proclaimed in a deflated tone.

Hayley watched as a pair of Oozemen crowded around Zeo Green and began to pound into him.

"Yeah?" Hayley asked. "Are you sure that's the most important things going on right now?"

"I mean my dad worked his whole life to get the company going," Trent explained, "Don't you think that selling it would be disrespectful?"

"I don't think I'm the one to be making that decision," Hayley said, "And I also think you should probably be looking over at the monitor."

Trent looked at the screen and frowned. "Shit…"

The three Zeo Rangers were on the ground as Ivan Ooze stood over them.

The wizard's smile made Hayley's blood run cold.


Adam grunted and held his bruised rib. How had things turned sour so quickly?

Ivan Ooze was supposed to be another lacky, and they had been smashing guys like him for about a decade now.

So how had he managed to overpower them so easily?

"I'm impressed that Zordon managed to split the Zeo Crystal into an entire Ranger team," Ivan Ooze said. "Unfortunately it still won't be enough power."

"Luckily they have back up," Trent said as he stepped into the battlefield. Following behind him was Eric Myers.

"I'd throw out a few one liners myself," Eric said, "But I'm saving my energy for when I kick your ass."

"White Ranger, Dino Power!"

"Quantum Power!"

"Listen to me closely, kid," Eric barked, "Don't do anything crazy."

Before the White Ranger could nod the Oozemen were upon them.

Trent's Draco Saber sliced right through the Oozemen, but as soon as it left their slimy body they would easily recover.

"These guys are really something," Eric said and threw a blob of purple slime off his hand.

"If that 'something' happens to be disgusting, I can agree" The White Ranger muttered.

"Two more?" Ivan Ooze muttered casually, "That's good, I was worried things were going to get boring."

"Hardly," The White Ranger spat.

For a brief moment there was a visible gap in the Oozeclones and Ivan Ooze was completely unprotected.

Trent didn't think twice before rushing to take advantage of the moment. He charged for the slimy wizard. His body was a blur of motion as he sped past the oblivious soldiers.

His Draco Saber swung down at an almost undetectable speed.

But Ivan still caught it.

The purple wizard looked down at Trent and laughed. "You're brash, I'll give you that. Just remember, there's a reason brash is only a letter off from trash."

A stray red energy blast seared into Ivan's side. He scowled and looked at cloaked figure wielding an energy pistol.

"If you can't tell I'm in the middle of something," the wizard barked. "If you want to be annihilated so bad you'll have to wait your turn."

Ivan Ooze turned his back on the cloaked figure, but it simply fired again.

"I don't think you understand," Ivan said, "I'm the Ooze guru, the slime king, the Disciple of Destruction. Who the hell do you think you are?"

There was a surprising amount of tension floating in the air.

Adam felt a sinking feeling, knowing that whoever the cloaked warrior was probably had no idea what they were getting into.

Out from behind them stepped another figure. This one seemed bulkier and more intimidating.

"Since you both wasted so much time on an introduction you better make it worth it," Ivan Ooze spat.

Then the bulkier of the two drew a Power Morpher.

"It's Morphin' Time!" The cloaked figure called before being enveloped in a bright light. "Tyrannosaurus!"

The Red Ranger wasted no time and rushed at Ivan Ooze with his Power Sword raised. His cloaked companion stuck to the shadows and offered support with his energy blaster.

The Red Ranger swung down and managed to slice a large gash across Ivan's side. The wizard dropped the White Ranger as he screamed in frustration.

"I haven't seen that armor in quite sometime," Ivan marveled with a nostalgic smile. "Unfortunately it doesn't look as flattering on you."

"Can it Slime Brain!" The Red Ranger shouted and swung his sword down again.

Ivan Ooze caught the blade with little trouble. "You got lucky the first time, don't think you can keep hitting me." The wizard ripped the Power Sword from his hand and tossed it across the street.

The White Ranger jumped in for support but Ivan easily knocked him away with a bolt of purple lighting. "You too? I thought we had already talked about this."

Ivan stood calm and confident. The shock of the Red Ranger's arrival had worn off and He had shifted back into his cocky self.

Then another figure appeared out of the woodwork. No, like literally out of thin air.

"I swear how many of you punks are there?" Ivan Ooze asked.

"Just me, for now." The figure said. Instead of being cloaked they wore a leather ninja uniform.

Adam was actually kinda jealous. His ninja outfit seemed like a pair of pajamas in comparison to that suit.

Ivan looked around himself. He was actually surrounded. Sure, only two of them were Rangers but the others seemed to be competent fighters themselves.

"We'll talk again when you guys wanna play fair," Ivan Ooze proclaimed and disappeared in a flash of purple lightning.

The Red Ranger turned to Trent and the Zeo Rangers. "I'm sorry we had to have such a rushed introductions."

Adam suddenly realized he knew that voice. "It can't be…"

The Red armor melted away and the figure lifted his hood. "Well who else would be sporting that old suit, I mean Rocky's right there."

Jason Lee Scott smiled.

The Zeo Rangers demorphed and rushed to their old friend. During the Machine Empire's campaign he had temporarily taken the mantle of the Gold Ranger.

"I see…" the other cloaked figure said. "Not even single face excited to see me." He pulled down his hood and it was none other than Zack Taylor.

"Where have you guys been?" Rocky asked.

"Well that's sort of a long story," Jason said.

"Yeah," Zack agreed, "Not to mention it's kinda top secret. So maybe we could talk about somewhere more discreet."

"Yeah," Jason said, "But before that we should probably introduce our other friend."

"Oh yeah," Zack said. "I actually forgot about you."

"No worries," she said, "I'm a ninja, that's kinda the job."

She ripped off her uniform and revealed her beautiful tanned form.

Adam was actually breathless.

"This is Tori Hanson. Water ninja of the Wind Ninja Academy."

"And former Blue Ranger," she said with a smirk.

"No kidding?" Adam said with a smirk. "I didn't they had girl Blue Rangers."

"Is that suppose to mean something?" Tori asked with a side glare at the Green Ranger.

"No,no. I mean, I think it's cool."

Tori just rolled her eyes.

"So you wanna tell us what all this about?" Tanya asked. "Why all the secrets and robes?"

"Let me handle that," Zack said with a smile. He reached into his pocket and drew an I.D badge. "Jason and I are members of the Intergalactic Surveillance and Extraterrestrial Response Force. I.S.E.R.F for short."

"So what, like Men in Black?" Rocky asked.

"Yeah," Zack said with an even wider grin. "Something like that."

"So that brings us to the next question," Tanya asked. "What are you guys doing here?"

"The government has been doing experiments themselves, but with the Morphing Grid and anything else they can get a hold of," Jason explained, "and they've noticed something that I'm sure you guys have already noticed."

"Like the fact there's a giant hole in the universe," Zack said.

"Wait, what?" Adam asked.

"You guys didn't know?" Jason asked, "Our guys have been tracking it for a while now. It's just gotten big enough to swallow the M-51 galaxy.

Adam's inside were quickly turned to slush. "You guys better go talk to Hayley."


When the purple guy stepped into the room Ethan knew something was horribly wrong. It wasn't the sheer power and arrogance the wizard carried. Instead it was the pale, terrified expression on Billy's face.

"Ivan Ooze…" Billy muttered to himself.

The new creature turned to Billy and smiled. "An educated chap, I love a good scholar!"

"How are you here? Zordon locked you away ten thousand years ago."

"I was starting to get claustrophobic, and I ran out of shows to watch," the wizard said.

"Why'd you come down here?" Billy asked. He had pushed his nearly complete contraption into the shadows and Ethan could see him glance at it from the corner of his eye.

"I heard you come from a parallel reality. Isn't that exciting? In all of my time as a cosmic troublemaker that hadn't been possible. Someone messed up real bad, and it seems as if the universe itself is getting ready for one big reboot."

"Even you can realize why we need to find a way to fix that," Billy said.

"Quite the contrary," Ivan Ooze said. "Right now I'm just a morphological lifeform, but if this Lord Drakkon guy can do what he plans I can become a God."

"You're insane!"

Ivan Ooze shrugged, "It just comes with the territory." The wizard strolled out of the room.

Billy stared at Ethan with a look of pure terror. "We're out of time. We have to get out of here tonight."

A/N: It's been a long time since I updated this story, so here you go (: I actually have a decent amount of backlog on it that I stumbled upon it while looking for inspiration. I think I might come back to a this AU for my next story.