Chapter 4: Making an Entrance
(Unknown Location)
Somewhere in an unknown location, Thrax and Rita watch as a group of their followers train. However, their eyes were drawn to a young warrior dressed in clad grey attire mercilessly cutting down her opponents. The young warrior threw the hood to reveal herself as a young girl approximately around the same age as the potentials. From the looks of it she was of Japanese ethnicity. Once Thrax and Rita saw the girl in action they commanded her to stop.
"Who would have thought mother," Thrax replied coldly, "The hope for the Source's second coming has secretly lived on for many years. To think that their existence has been hidden from human history. A fraternity of secret assassins who would have thought? You procured Lokar's progeny from this assassin fraternity?"
"Well she bears the mark, the resemblance of the first progeny. You could say that she is almost like a reincarnation. Too bad it wasn't said for her other half. No spells to keep this girlie in line, except you might want to put a leash on this one. Our procured progeny goes on by instinct. Bred and raised to fight and kill by any means." They smirked in satisfaction after watching the young girl brutally beat an opponent almost to death. "Satsu!"
"Five by five I like to say," Satsu sneered wickedly as the unconscious opponent, "So you hired me and the fraternity because you know of our alliance and pledge to the Source. Who would have thought I was the one that the prophecies talked about? It's a good thing you know you found me. I had the assassins make some good use of the new line of Rangers activated. You got to love the life of the double-edged wouldn't you say? The progeny of the Source, a defiler the natural balance of nature and that of the supernatural. So what happened with the first progeny for that one to fail?"
"Let's just say my dear that where they didn't succeed, it is your destiny to finish what they started. It's about tying up loose ends of the past."
"Impressive but it's not her time yet to make her presence known," Thrax hissed as an assassin appeared, "She's one piece of work wouldn't say? Although I do agree with you that our young Satsu is unpredictable, unstable, and possesses a maniacal edge to her. I like it...better than that pathetic Green Ranger you created once upon a time. However, I think it's time we let those Rangers know that this battle is far from over."
(New York City)
Rosaline headed off to class after another restless night. Ever since she got back from Christmas holidays, she hasn't had much sleep lately. She hoped that the vacation back to Angel would have helped her but only a bit. There were nights she thought she heard voices, had recurring dreams or experience things moving around in her dorm room like someone was trying to communicate with her. She talked to her friends as they too experience the same phenomenons Rosaline was witnessing too. It got harder talking to her parents as it only fueled their worry for her increasingly. Rosaline walked into her lecture class and plopped her head down on the desk when her classmate Christan walked in.
"Didn't sleep well last night?" Christan asked.
"Pretty much, just been overworked and tired due to the new semester," Rosaline replied yawning. "But that's what student life is about isn't it?"
"I'm guessing it's more than just being overworked," he added, "You've been like this since you got back from Christmas holiday. Besides, tonight we have to attend that invitation performance for nationals."
"Yeah it gives me an excuse to wear a dress tonight," Rosaline slightly smiled, "Besides, professor Morrison says it gives us a chance to see who we will competing against this year. Many are saying that Dartmouth is heavy competition."
"Well at least show Morrison that new song you wrote. If you do then there's a chance we'll win nationals this year."
"Unless something happens between now and competition time," Rosaline replied as class was soon going to start.
(Angel Grove, California)
Meanwhile, back in Angel Grove, Kat and Jason came by to visit Tommy and Kimberly at the boarding house. The two of them thought the children could use another play date today. However, the quartet decided to use the visit as a means to discuss possible Power Ranger business again. They were preoccupied to notice that Aaron, Claire and the twins were once again reading from Aaron's new mysterious storybook.
"Aaron's new storybook has a lot of weird pictures in it," Claire replied, "Because we accidentally took it from Uncle Billy's office. However, you have to promise not to say anything to our mommy and daddy about us stealing from Uncle Billy."
"So we can't even tell our parents either?" Hayden asked.
"No because this is a secret adventure book," Aaron said flipping through the pages showing the others. "Look, I don't know what the story is about but there are lots of other stories in here too. This one talks about a mysterious man who doesn't age and how he travels to his mysterious island full of danger. They say the guy is a pirate and his crew are spirits of dead people. So he lures these travellers of the sea to this island to face a challenge. He tells them that they were part of a group of warriors who fought against the bad guys. There is this person in white they believe is trying to seek this special spell that will make them powerful."
"What kind of story is this?" Elena asked curiously, "There's pirates in this story, ghost ships, ghosts, weird islands, assassins, people from the stars. Your storybook has one too many tales in it. How do you know what it is about?"
"I'm not sure but I know it's worth the adventure," Aaron said staring at his parents, "I wish sometimes the stories in the book were real. I would have loads of fun instead of always waiting for my mom and dad to spend time with us. They always work a lot and they're in the business of helping superheroes but they're not. I want an adventure like the ones the Power Rangers. Maybe this book is about them but I don't know." He then turned to his little sister. "Do you think mom and dad ever met the Power Rangers?"
"I know mommy and daddy say that exist," Claire replied staring at their parents, "How about Elena, Hayden? Do you think our mommies and daddies met the Power Rangers?"
"Maybe Aaron's storybook is about the Power Rangers," Hayden added, "Do you think those stories are real?"
"Well if Rosaline and the others are Power Rangers then our parents must at least know who they are," Elena said, "Especially Uncle Billy if he works with NASADA on all those top secret projects. Besides, mom and dad also have that special lab downstairs that they always lock up."
While the kids were in the living room reading Aaron's storybook, their parents were in the dining room looking at the young little children. It amused them hearing the children talk about the Power Rangers. However, there was still the uncertainty of knowing the possibility that their children will end up in the same position one day like Rosaline and her friends.
"So has anyone heard from Zack lately?" Tommy asked, "The last I heard he was heading to Seattle to visit Allison."
"Well Zack is dealing with some personal issues right now," Jason replied, "He got a call Angela and insisting that Allison lives with him for awhile in Angel Grove. Zack wants to reconnect with his daughter and the divorce was a hard time for him after Angela remarried and moved to Seattle with their daughter. Recently, from what Zack said him and Angela are reworking their custody agreement in which they share joint custody of Allison."
"It's going to be hard for Allison living bi-city between her mom and dad," Kimberly replied referring to her parents' divorce, "When my folks split up Kenny and I got shipped during the weekends, holidays and the summers between our parents house. When dad moved out of state and relocated to Connecticut with his new wife, our parents got into a heated argument about how the custody arrangement will work out. In the end, mom got full custody of us and we only spent summers with dad and rotating on holidays."
"It's fortunate that our kids have the opportunity to grow up in a stable household environment," Kat said looking at Aaron. "Our son seems to be invested in that old storybook of his. Aaron says he got it at a book fair at the library." She suddenly turned to Tommy and Kimberly and eyed Jason. "Should Jason and I be worried about Aaron?"
"What are you two talking about?" Tommy asked with a bit of worry for his friends.
"Is something the matter with Aaron?" Kimberly asked.
"Do the twins ever talk about a few problems that our son has been having at school?" Jason asked curiously, "Well they're relatively the same age and they're in the same class. Last week Aaron was upset with Kat and I for missing his soccer game. It just so happened we ended up teleporting to Westbury to check up on Bianca and her Wicca training. The coven took her in as an apprentice, the first Necromancer in their coven in over 250 years. Long story short we missed his game, our son got upset and asked why we went to Claire's Christmas recital but not his soccer game."
"Claire understands the stuff we do but as parents we feel that we can't tell them the whole truth," Kat sighed. "We can't risk putting them in danger. The twins have an idea because of Rosaline, but Aaron, Claire and Sophie...how do you tell your children that we were Power Rangers. There's that given chance it's going to happen to them too and it scares us. So we told them half a truth."
"Wait a second, you never told your children about your past as Power Rangers?" Kimberly asked surprised, "The twins broke into the Command Center downstairs one day by accident and we revealed the truth to them. We told them everything, including the fact we're Rangers. They're insightful children whether you tell them the truth or not, they'll learn it eventually and all we can do is be prepared and protect our children with our lives. They're part of that future legacy we created months ago."
(London, England)
It was a ordinary night out of the town for Penny as she arrived with her father to attend another political state dinner. So far the night was like any other political event that included mingling with various members of parliament and their families. For most formal dinners the dress code was very classy and formal which including a evening gown dress and tuxedos. Penny stared at the clock in the main lobby hoping Desmond will show up. After all, she convinced her father to let her boyfriend be her plus one.
Something was amiss in the air as her friends will say when she spotted Desmond in the crowd in a tuxedo. He made his way from the refreshments table to meet his girlfriend during the party. With discretion he gently took hold of Penny's hand guiding her away from the crowd.
"Listen we have to get out of here," Desmond whispered, "Someone is watching us according to Bianca. I don't know what the hell is going on but I got a text from Virgil at UCLA. Those same white ninja type dudes that attacked in Beijing and Rome are somewhere in this party. They crashed Virgil's open mic night at UCLA but he got out and teleported to the boarding house. Bi is going to make her way here but we have to move fast. The others in our group...these guys are targeting us for a specific reason."
"What about my father? I can't just disappear again what do I tell him?" Penny argued. "This a high profiled political party there is a chance they'll suspect a terrorist attack!"
"You see that guy at the refreshments table?" they eyed suspiciously at one of the waiters for the party. "I've worked a lot of catering parties back in the day and I know the requirements of the job. There's something suspicious about him. I told your father and that guy has been eying your dad the entire night. If you want to keep him safe along with your family and the other parliament members we have to move discreetly towards the exit. Your dad knows that's why I sneaked in through the back door to get you out."
"He's probably suspecting some wracked out assassination attempt? So...we teleport to Angel Grove again? If they're attacking our core group because we're the first of the original potentials then..."
As the couple made their way to the exit, a sudden commotion broke out in the grand hall. Suddenly, a strange group of people dressed in eerie black and white assassin type attire (AN: kind of looks like the assassin costumes from Assassin's Creed) appeared in the building. In the midst of the commotion, all the guests started fleeing the party as Penny desperately tried to seek out her father. They spotted Mr. Winslow as he simply yelled to Desmond to get Penny away from the party.
Once they made it out to the main street, they were confronted by the group of ninja assassin type people. The two could definitely tell they were human, but they had some sort of special powers. The two of them tried to fight off the assailants as best as they could but they proved to be too much to handle. As they were about to finish Penny and Desmond off, a sudden magical bolt struck them as Bianca appeared to subdue them unconscious for a few moments.
"We got to move now guys!" Bianca said getting her friends out of line sight, "That spell isn't strong enough but we got a one hour head start away from these guys! We need to go to Angel Grove right now and get some help!"
"Someone wants us dead huh?" Desmond sighed as the trio hit their communicators to contact the veterans. "Hello? Can anyone hear us! This is Desmond, Penny and Bianca in London! There has been an attack at a political party tonight! We need you to teleport us back to Angel Grove. Someone is out to get our heads!"
(The Boarding House)
"Hello? Can anyone hear us! This is Desmond, Penny and Bianca in London! There has been an attack at a political party tonight! We need you to teleport us back to Angel Grove. Someone is out to get our heads!" It was the transmission from Desmond's communicator Tommy and Kimberly heard in the Command Center. They contacted their friends to help teleport the original potentials back to the boarding house. They already managed to teleport Virgil, Penny, Desmond, Bianca and Quincy to the boarding house to keep them out of harm's way.
"What the hell was that noise outside?" Kimberly asked as Trini and Billy access the computer. "Oh shit Chan and Shi-Ann are outside with those ninja assassin wannabes!"
"Oh shit...I don't believe this," Adam said in shock staring at who was leading the attack in front of the boarding, "Guys, get our original potentials out of there. Looks like we just our next challenge, Rita and Zedd's little spawn of evil, Thrax."
"Kat, we need you to cast that sanctuary spell right now and get the little children into the panic room right now!" Tommy ordered as he went to retrieve the power morphers, "Jason, Adam, Rocky, Kim, Aisha we're heading outside to personally introduce ourselves to Thrax! Billy, Trini work on getting Aidan and Rosaline back to Angel Grove now! The time has come for them and most certainly Thrax is throwing a challenge to them."
"I'm right on it Tommy," Billy replied, "I set the coordinates to Aidan's communicator to extract Rosaline from New York. Don't worry I ensure pal that your daughter has all the protection she needs."
(New York City)
Rosaline didn't know how her night suddenly turned into a warzone? One minute she was attending a invitational performance for upcoming national show choir competition. The next minute, she finds tonight's performance crashed by a bunch of assassin type warriors who mercilessly opened fire on the crowd. They were being commanded by one particular hooded warrior in a clad gray attire.
Despite wearing her best formal attire, Rosaline quickly bolted out of the theater hoping to attract the pursuers away. It was obvious they were looking for her. "Don't confront the one in gray!" For a second she thought she heard Silas or Abigail's voices speaking to her. "There is dark magic and power surrounding the one in gray. Rosaline, runaway now! Don't worry a guardian has been watching over you!"
"Rosaline! Rosaline where are you?" Minutes later, Aidan teleported and materialized in the back alley of the theater Rosaline was at. She saw Aidan materialize looking for her and quickly ran towards her friend. "Rosaline are you alright?"
"What the hell is happening? My gosh please don't tell me the others..." Rosaline said trying to catch her breath, "Aidan tell me that our friends are okay and not experience an unholy appearance by that some demented cult of ninja assassin type dudes..."
"They're fine your parents contacted the veterans and are teleporting everyone to the boarding house," Aidan said, "It's us in particular, the first original potentials these jokers are after. I think they mentioned about some dude named Thrax and those people gate crashing are in cohorts with this Thrax guy. We need to get to Angel Grove right now before..."
A few of their pursuers started chasing Aidan and Rosaline down the alley but Rosaline's wardrobe was causing slight problems for her. However, one of the pursuers manage to catch up to Rosaline and grab her by the neck as the rest restrained Aidan. As they were about to strike down Rosaline, a blaster shot ran in the alley as two more shots were fired striking down the assassins.
"Billy, Trini...it's Christan I secured the songbird," they heard their rescuer reply surprisingly on a communicator, "Don't worry, those assassin dudes are subdued for awhile. We're ready for teleport." Rosaline looked up surprised to find Christan in the alleyway holding what resembled a Power Blaster.
"Christan? Tell me I'm not dreaming this," Rosaline replied looking surprised, "Okay, you have a Power Blaster, a communicator and somehow you know Billy and Trini. I'm trying to analyze the situation here. First of all, who are heck are you and how do did you come into contact with..."
"Look we don't have time and I only stunned those guys for a least a good few hours. Right now we need to move," Christan ordered preparing for teleportation. "Both of you need to come with me if you want to live. I'll answer all your questions in regards to how I know you're all Power Rangers, how I ended up watching over you in New York, and how I ended up following in my sister Abigail's footsteps." With that the three of them teleported away from the alley way.
(The Battle)
The Rangers continued to battle Thrax and his forces outside the house after they retrieved Chan and Shi-Ann. Outside, Tommy led the others against Thrax and his assassins and started battling them. Kat, Billy, Trini and Tanya served as back up to dispatching any intruders breaking into the house. Kat used her magic to cast a powerful sanctuary spell to protect everyone in the house. The fight continued outside as Thrax took on the six remaining original Power Rangers.
"I must be blessed to meet the legendary Tommy Oliver," Thrax mocked watching Tommy fighting, "My mother's evil Green Ranger what a big whoop! What happened to you man? Did you happen to start losing that edge of yours?" He taunted looking at Kim. "I see you lost your spunk once you shacked up with the little pink princess here. The pink crane to your white falcon how ironic."
"So what makes Zedd and Rita's little spawn of evil any different than the rest?" Tommy snapped making his way towards Thrax.
"Well with me unlike my parents, I have class, I have chrism, a little spunk you like to call it," Thrax taunted as Tommy and Kimberly started attacking him and taunted with emphasis, "From all the myths I heard about the so called legendary Wings of Fate I like to see what you two are made of! The ones who rewrote fate and destiny. Tell me something heroes, do you know what happens when you tempt the hands of fate and destiny?"
"You know us, we're not advocates for the whole fate and destiny thing," Kimberly smirked attacking Thrax. "Your folks had our number for years they couldn't get the job done. So junior, what makes you think you're up for the job?"
Moments later, Aidan, Christan and Rosaline suddenly teleported in front of the house. However the sight of Rosaline somehow caught Thrax's attention. "My oh my, what a predicament this is. The offspring of the Wings of Fate, the little prodigal daughter."
"Something tells me you're Thrax!" Rosaline said in a defensive tone, "Thought you make a entrance by giving us a 2.0 attack?"
"On the contrary I think this game has become a little more interesting!" Thrax smirked wickedly sneering. "You see deary you think I wanted an audience with the prodigal Original Power Rangers of Zordon's team not really. No disrespect to underestimate the originators of Power. Fasten your seat belts folks the ride only just begun." he taunted as he disappeared with his forces and called off the attack.
Everyone rushed back inside the house and all reconvened in the living room. Once the originals powered down, the other ten people representing the future Power Rangers eyed their mentors suspiciously. It felt like deja vu all over again reminding them of their first time the Dark Judges came to the house with Lord Zedd and took Kimberly.
"Are the children safe?" Tommy quietly asked.
"The children are with Tanya and it's needless to say our kids know what we do for a living," Jason replied. "We got who we needed."
"Okay so anyone want to explain to us why are suddenly feeling a sense of deja vu all over again?" Rosaline asked, "That guy didn't come for formal chit chat. He got what he wanted...us back in town. It's us he's calling out isn't he? Whatever is happening right now all the weird and wacky he's in the center of it isn't he?"
"Congratulations you just figured out," Kimberly said taking a deep breath. "Obviously Thrax just threw down a challenge to us. The question is...are you guys ready to take the mantle?"