Outside Angel Grove Three Days Ago

Tommy

I stared at the map and looked up. The Command Center, or what was left of it was there. Destroyed years ago by a then enemy, now reformed friend, Devatox. How it had changed. I thought back to when I was a Ranger, from the Mighty Morphin, to Zeo, and then Finally a Turbo Ranger. Later I returned with the Mantle of a Dino Ranger. I had had worn many different colors over the years. Now I had returned to see if I could find something that I had thought lost. The power coins and the remaining Zeo Morphers. I had mine still with me. Unlike the others I never put it up. I thought that it might be needed one day.

Jason had a fake coin made. Only good for a few uses, but for now it would work for him if he got into any trouble back in town. With me was a group of new Rangers. The Mystic Force. They were young and brash, but had fought hard and had recently regained their powers. Their help would be needed. Kira, Connor, and Ethan also had their powers. I knew how. The SPD commander had restored their abilities to them when they had gone to the future. He told me I needed to know this because apparently it was important for our future. Now I understood why, with only a select few Rangers still with their powers on Earth or in this time they would all be needed. Retrieving the power coins and the zeo morphers were a must do for the upcoming events that I wanted to take place.

"So that's where you older Rangers had your little pow-wows?" asked the Mystic Red Ranger, Nick, "Seems like it's nothing but rubble now."

I looked over at him. He had a hell of a lot to learn. One thing was that our leader had once called that place home and now he was dead and a lot of evil in the universe did not exist now because of it. Still he was right. The base's glory days had passed.

"Yeah that's it Nick," I responded not taking my eyes off of the destroyed building. So much had happened there. Now it was nothing. Hopefully my info from Ninjor was good. He had told me that after we had received our Zeo powers that Zordon had implored him to make three more sets of power coins: one for the Dino Zords, one for the Thunder Zords, and One for the Ninja and Shogan Zords. Ninjor said he and that Zordon told him they would only be used for Emergencies. The time we lived in definitely counted.

I had heard Zordon say that to many of the same color of Ranger was dangerous on the Morphing Grid, however that had changed since the destruction of the Grid. Now it was safe and necessary to have more than one Ranger of the same color.

"Dr. Oliver are you sure that this place is safe," Vida, the Mystic Pink Ranger asked, "I mean it looks all rickety."
We had just entered the confined area of the old center and entered the remeiants of the Power Chamber. I pulled out a device that Billy had made for me to detect the coins and Morphers.

"Vida, I'm not sure," I answered calmly, "However right now it is necessary for us to look for this."

Xander, our Green Ranger of the group, spoke up, "I don't see why we need you old folks to take on these Rangers. Your powers are nothing special. We could handle it ourselves. No Dino. No Zeo, None of them."

I looked over at him and shot back, "Because the last time you and your group took on the Warrior Rangers you got you asses kicked."

They all seemed taken aback, but it was true. They had all but one of their friends killed and Daggeron and Udona, the two more experienced members of the group had been killed making sure they could live to see another day. Now they were here. Following me. None of them knew what they were doing, but they were Rangers, and they were fighting with us. They had a right to be here.

The Scanner went off and I followed it. There was a small door in the wall. I opened it and a saw them. The Four Zeo Morphers and Eighteen different Classic Morphers. I had found what we need it.

I gathered them up and put them in a bag saying, "Let's go troops."

That's when I heard it. The sound of metal passing through flesh. I heard a yell of pain and turned around to see Xander power down with and Ax running down his shoulder. It was pulled out and he fell to the ground. Blood runs on the ground and He quits breathing. Dead.

"Hello Dr. Oliver," comes and fimilar voice.

The Others stared at Xander's body for a moment then charged. I didn't have time to worn them. They charged and the monster ran them through one at a time. All of them dead; without even and shread of mercey. I saw the clear view of the monster. Zeltrax. I was surprised. I shouldn't have been, but I was. He had been destroyed so many times before and now he had returned. He looked as he did before his transformation . Still clad in black armor. He was powerful and smart. Now he had killed an entire group of rangers.

"Zeltrax," I started, "How could you?"

He started at me for a moment then replied, "Easy, I don't care. Unlike you Tommy, I do not value human life. It is all simply worthless to me"

I looked into my bag and pulled out the White Morpher. I hoped it worked. Though I was not found of this group, they did not deserve to die the way they did. They, for all of their flaws, were good people. They had fought great evil and had done what many Ranger Groups before had done, saved the planet. They deserved better than this. They deserved to be avenged. And this was the tool to do it.

"Your going to regret this Zeltrax," I said coldly. I then shouted, "IT"S MORPHING TIME. WHITE RANGER POWER!"

The armor came on me. Like all of the other transformations that had happened lately the uniform had changed. Not only did I have the golden shield, but it was now a type of metal. A piece of armor ran down my left shoulder and arm and turned into a gauntlet. Two leg gauntlets were also now attached to my uniform.

Zeltrax looked at me amazed at what he saw. I pulled out Saba, my sword and looked at it.

"You ready to come out of retirement old friend?" I asked.

He opened his eyes for the first time in nearly twenty years and responded, "Oh yes sir."

With that I charged Zeltrax and sliced into his armor. I went in for another slice which he tried to block. Without hesitation his ax broke in half and his arm followed with it. He drew his sword and tried to get a stabbing blow on me, but I dodged out of the way and sliced down his back.

"Give up Smitty. You're not going to win," I said, "You never have, and you never will."

He turned and with out saying a word charged me. I placed my sword in an under handed position and pierced straight through his armor. He stopped dead in his tracks then did something I did not expect to hear. He laughed.

"What have you got to laugh at Smitty," I asked, "It seems to me you pretty well fucked."

He had to be smiling under his helmet when he said, "Easy I was only sent here to distract you. There is a bomb set in this place to go off. You're never going to make it out of here alive and I'll be rebuilt. I will have gotten my revenge and you will no longer be around."

I looked behind me and pulled my sword out. He made a noise of being in pain after I did that. I looked at him and pushed a button on my helmet. The bottom part around my mouth moved away.

"Your boss won't rebuild a failure," I replied. With that I pushed a button on my old communicater and teleported away thinking, 'bet you never expected that asshole.'