Chapter 6: Rebirth II – Rise of the Black Ranger (Part 1)

Several weeks after David left for Triforia

The Rangers had all been making immense progress in their training, and all becoming skilled fighters.

On a gloriously sunny day in Angel Grove, the Rangers were in the park, surrounded by the highest trees in the city, training harder then they ever had done before.

"Ok guys ready for this?" shouted Nathan

"Ready!" the others said together

Daniel then jumped in the air and kicked Daniel in the chest, pushed himself off and jumped from one to the other to the other, to finish off with a kick square on Chris' chest

Each of the Rangers all fell to the ground, and Nathan landed calmly on the ground. As he stood up be brushed down his Blue training Gi, and turned to the others

"What you think guys?" he asked laughing

The others began to stand up slowly, all looking in agony brushing of their individually coloured Gi's

"I think you need to ease up on your kicks!" shouted Daniel, "We're only training!"

Eve, slowly getting to her feet, brushing herself down looking over her uniform finding several tears in the fabric

"Damn it Nathan!" she yelled "You've gone and ruined my uniform….again!!"

Then, in the distance, there was a flash of light. The Rangers all turned to see what it was, whilst Eve was checking herself for more rips in her uniform

A blast of energy came from the distance and struck Eve in her chest, sending her flying a clear 30 foot

The Rangers all turned in shock, Daniel ran over to Eve, a tear in his eye

"Eve? Eve? Can you hear me?" the teen wept, tears streaming down his face

"Daniel, what's wrong? Is Eve ok?" asked Aimee worried

Daniel ignored her for a minute and closed Eve's eyes and crossed her arms over her chest. He then stood up and wiped the tears from his face

"She's dead!" Daniel stammered, barely holding back the tears

The others were all in shock, Aimee collapsing to the floor crying

Daniel then looked over to the location of the blast, not seeing anyone in the distance, no sign of where the flash came from.

Suddenly he was attacked from behind with a powerful punch, sending him flying back over to the other Rangers. As they helped their leader to get back up, they all looked up and to their amazement the one responsible for the death of the Redheaded Pink Ranger was kitted out in a Black Legend Ranger uniform

"He's a Power Ranger!?!" exclaimed Aimee in shock

"He can't be!" exclaimed Nathan

Daniel brushed off the shock, stood up and staggered forward

"Who the hell are you?" he shouted across to the strange Black Ranger standing in the distance

"I am the Black Ranger!" the voice inside the helmet replied "I will be the one who brings the Power Rangers to their knees!"

"But you're a Power Ranger! You're supposed to protect the innocent and destroy evil! Not destroy the innocent and protect evil!!!" shouted Chris

"Who the hell told you that these powers were meant for helping others and not for your own gain?" quizzed the Evil Ranger

The Rangers looked at each other confused as to how he could be a Ranger and fight for evil

"Our mentor and friend, David! He told us to use our to protect the world from Evil!" exclaimed Aimee

The Evil Ranger looked at them, and began to laugh maniacally

"I know that you guys don't really think like that!" laughed the Black Ranger "I know the darkness that dwells within each of you!"

"You don't know the first thing about us!" exclaimed Chris

"Or about being a Power Ranger!" added Nathan

The Black Ranger with his back to the Rangers calmly turned his head and snapped the rest of his body around to face them

"Don't know you?" he said rhetorically

"Daniel, the Red Ranger. Afraid of leadership, not believing in himself! Nathan, the Blue Ranger. Angry for not being chosen as the Leader and believes that he is the best ranger on the team. Chris, the Green Ranger. The lonely techno-geek, afraid of his own feelings. And last but not least, Aimee the Yellow Ranger. So introverted she can't even see what's right in front of her and afraid of revealing herself to the man she loves!" proclaimed the Black Ranger darkly

The Ranger all slowly became stunned as the mysterious Black Ranger eerily described their own deepest fears and doubts. They all turned to each other, nodded, and snapped into their battle poses

"Ha, you think you can fight me? How pathetic are you puny wimps, I could kill you with breath!" said the Black Ranger with dark confidence

Just then the Rangers felt a massive Earthquake that rocked the entire city causing many of the tall buildings shake and many of the glass panels to fall out causing severe injuries to the citizens. Suddenly a giant monster that looked like a squirrel crossed with a tank appeared from the ground and started to head for the city

The Rangers looked at each other, then looked back over at the Black Ranger

"Sorry dude, but we can't play anymore, we got work to do!" exclaimed Aimee

"Ha, do as you please. Remember that you a Ranger Down, so you can't form the Megazord!" exclaimed the Black Ranger

The Rangers all looked at the evil ranger in shock

"Did you not know about the Megazord? Ha pathetic, you've learnt nothing since you got your zords!" exclaimed the Black Ranger "Now watch this!"

The Black Ranger started to make Ninja hand gestures, moving his hands in symbol like patterns

"I call forth from the Darkness, rise Ninja Shogun Zords!!" exclaimed the Black Ranger loudly

The Rangers were all shocked when as the Black suit enemy summoned zords that looked like their own but jet black

"How do you have those?" asked Aimee demandingly

"You have zords, so why wouldn't I?" quizzed the Black Ranger sarcastically

With that the Black Ranger disappeared in a flash of dark light. Inside the cockpit of the main Zord there are black panelled walls, with many consoles all with flashing lights of different colours

"Ok posers, no its time to see how a professional does it!" exclaimed the Black Ranger

His 5 zords all moved towards the monster, each attacking with devastating blows, causing massive damage, leaving the monster writhing on the floor in agony.

"I thought we we're meant to be on the same side?" quizzed the Monster

The Black Ranger walked his massive Zord over to the monster, knelt down beside him and whispered

"We are on the same side, but I'm having too much fun hurting people today!"

The Zord then stood up and walked back to join the rest of them

"Megazord Transformation!" exclaimed the Black Ranger

With that command and a few button presses on the flashing controls, the 5 massive machines began to come together in formation, each changing their shape and interlocking to form the Dark Ninja Shogun Megazord

"See Rangers, this is what your missing out on!" laughed the Black Ranger

The Megazord then draw its sword, which instantly burst into flame, and struck the monster slicing it in half, and causing it to explode in the process

The Rangers we're all stood around in shock, jaws dropped at the sight of this new Ranger, which powers that seemed to shadow their own

"Rangers, we will meet again, you can count on it!" exclaimed the Black Ranger

With that all of the Black Rangers Zords disappeared. The Rangers looked around them, noticing all of the destruction that had befallen the once beautiful city of Angel Grove. All of the glass dome buildings had been shattered, several of the spires had been snapped in half, and hundreds of innocent civilians were all lying on the ground in writhing in pain, with medical personnel attempting to treat them.

Nathan turned to Daniel and shoved him to the ground, and shouted

"What the hell are we going to do now? You meant to be the leader, so lead us!"

Daniel, struggling to get back up

"You're the one who thinks that he would make a better leader then me!"

As he got to his feet he reciprocated with a hard shove on Nathan

"If you think that you would make such a good leader, why don't you come up with a plan to defeat the Black Ranger?"

The pair then started to square up to each other, getting ready to fight, when Aimee ran over and split the two up

"You guys are meant to be best friends! Why the hell are you fighting each other?"

"Aimee's right guys!" Chris chipped in "The Black Ranger said what he said to try to confuse us, and get us to be at each others throats!"

Beep Beep The familiar noise of the Rangers communicators went off

"What is it Billy?" asked Daniel looking down at his wrist

"I've got some interesting information on that Black Ranger that you guys just fought!" he exclaimed

The Rangers all looked at each other with shock and delight, then went back to looking at their communicators

"We'll teleport to the Power Chamber now" said Daniel

And with that the 5 disappeared in 5 bright flashes of coloured light

Moments later they reappeared in the high tech, brightly lit Power Chamber

"Ok Billy, were here. What do you know about this Black Ranger?" quizzed Nathan demandingly

Billy walked over to the Rangers with a worried look on his face

"Billy? What's wrong? You ok?" asked Aimee

Billy looked up at the team, and with a tear in his eye he said

"We know who the Black Ranger is!"

The Rangers all looked at Billy, mouths wide open. After they composed themselves

"Who?" the Rangers all asked together

Billy Replied "Its……"

To Be Continued