Hey guys! Sorry I was so late on updating, but here I am! Anyways, I'm typing this on an IPad, so forgive me for spelling errors.

Previously on Power Rangers: Animal Guardians

She sighed. "Well, there was this other ranger, who's supposed to be on this team, but she threatened us with an axe not to come back to her because I guess she likes to fight on her own, and I got mad that she tried to threaten us, and Vi got mad that I got mad."

Roger frowned. "Don't think that this is all that I heard from that, but what do mean another ranger for this team? I thought we were the only ones,"

"No. Alicia didn't tell you?" Roger shook his head. "There are eight pendants, and eight morphers. The only thing is that some of the rangers don't know they're rangers, and some of them aren't able to help yet, or just plain don't want to."

"Well, why don't we tell them and get them to help? I mean, it's not like we couldn't use it."

Maya shrugged. "I don't know, you'd have to ask Alicia or.. Vi," Maya stared off behind him, and Roger turned to see what she was staring at. Standing almost directly behind him was Vi, looking upset.

"What are you doing?" Vi asked, frowning. "I thought you said you would wait outside for me."

Maya gave her a look. "You looked straight at me and walked away, so I came in with them." She gestured to the group. "Why did you walk away?"

"I didn't see you," Vi shook her head. "I left because I was planning to go to the side of the gym where they were selling flowers so I could get you one!" She exclaimed, throwing it to the floor.

"Don't do that!" Maya picked up the flower. "Look, I just thought you had left me because you were angry! That's the only reason I came in."

Roger nodded. "And I offered to dance with her because she was really upset."

"Yeah, well so am I!" Vi growled. "You know what? I am..."

She was cut off by a loud shattering sound and screams. The rangers, Vi, and Maya looked up to see more than half of the roof, which was a skylight was crashing to the floor.

"Run!" Geo exclaimed.

Everyone in the gym was trying to get out of the way, but the glass crashed down before most could get out of the way, including the rangers, Vi, Maya, and Tanzo.

Now

Geo coughed under the rubble and glass, hearing people cry out around him.

"Roger? Cal?" He called, pushing glass off of him. He was a bit scraped up, but nothing too bad. He felt someone trying to help him, and found it was Karma, who he had thrown out of the way when the glass came crashing down. "Are you alright?"

She frowned as she helped him up. "I'm fine. You saved my life! I was worried about you!"

"I'm okay," He assured her. He saw a large bird-like monster struggling to get up. "You need to get out of here,"

"Are you sure? I..."

"Go! I'll help them get out, but it's too dangerous for you!" Geo exclaimed.

Karma nodded, more than a little shaken up. "Okay, if you're sure," She ran out, looking back only once before leaving.

Once she left, Geo dug as calmly as he could under the rubble. He quickly located Cal, who coughed as Geo helped her up. Her pendant was glowing, as was Geo's. "Are you okay?"

She nodded, a bit shocked. "Yeah," She looked around. "You get Roger, I'll get Tanzo!"

He nodded in agreement and the two went their separate ways. Geo stepped carefully on the glass and rubble before he saw a faint black glow from under some of it. He pushed it off of the black ranger before helping him up. "Roger, you good?"

He took a deep breath, dusting himself off. "Yeah, I think so," He looked at his shirt, noticing how it was ripped and dirty. "Good riddance."

He then reached down to help Vi up, who looked stunned. She had a small cut on her cheek, and she held her wrist tightly against her chest. She looked around. "Maya? Maya?" She fell to the floor and began digging through the rubble with her good hand to find her girlfriend.

Meanwhile, Cal saw a faint yellow glow under the rubble. She looked at it warily before removing it carefully, finding the glow emitting from under Tanzo's collar. He coughed and sat up, dusting himself off.

"Whoa, that was crazy," He commented with a laugh.

Cal frowned. "What is that?" She asked, gesturing to his neck.

He looked down at his neck to see a yellow glow. He pulled out a pendant around his neck, which had an elephant on it. Cal stared at it in shock, and watched him look in shock at her pendant also glowing.

"I could ask you the same thing, I guess," He commented, gesturing to her pendant.

Cal continued to stare in shock, tapping Geo on the shoulder. He turned around and followed her line of vision to see what she was looking at. He, and Roger, also stared in shock.

"Vi," Roger said distractedly.

Vi paused in her digging to look over, and her eyes widened. "Oh my god," She looked down, seeing Maya's arm coming into view, and back over at Tanzo's glowing pendant. "We need to uhh.. call Alicia."

"On it," Geo whispered, turning around to talk into his morpher. While he talked, he also watched the monster behind him, which seemed quite injured.

"What is going on?" Tanzo asked, as Vi began to dig once again.

Roger chuckled nervously, trying to act nonchalant. "Long story, we'll explain later." He looked behind him, seeing the monster almost get up. "We have something more serious to deal with right now."

"What is that thing?" Tanzo stood up, staring at the creature in shock.

Cal looked back at him, a bit unsure of how to answer his question. "Umm.. an alien," She chuckled nervously.

"Look," Geo put his hands up as Tanzo opened his mouth to speak again. "We don't have time for this. We'll explain later."

Roger shrugged. "Not like I didn't just say that," He muttered under his breath.

"Ready?" Geo asked, taking his pendant off.

"Ready," Cal and Roger took their's off as well.

"Animal Guardians, Arise!"

"Power of the Eagle!"

"Power of the Bear!"

"Power of the Gorilla!"

Crow stood up and squawked loudly at them. "You'll never beat me, Power Rangers!"

They drew their weapons, but Crow flapped his wings and rose above them, flying through them and knocking them over. They cried out in pain, and Tanzo stared in shock when Crow rounded on him.

"You have a pendant!" Crow screeched. "Give it here!"

Tanzo grabbed onto his pendant and squeezed it tight. "Never you overgrown chicken!"

Crow flew at him, but Tanzo ducked and grabbed onto the alien's feet and dragged it down. Crow cried out in anger.

The rangers stood up and blocked him off. "I think you should go outside, Tanzo." Geo commented, pushing him back as Crow tried to stand up.

"But, I..."

"Just wait for us outside." Roger said, pushing him back as well.

The rangers rushed at Crow again while Vi finally pulled Maya out of the rubble. Maya was a bit bruised up, but what was really concerning was the large gash on her head that caused her to be unconscious.

"Maya!" Vi shook her shoulders, but the girl didn't wake up.

"She doesn't look good," Tanzo commented from behind her.

Vi glared. "I can see that." She growled through gritted teeth. She pressed a few buttons on a bracelet around her wrist and she and Maya disappeared into thin air.

Tanzo stared at the spot they were once in, before walking out, taking one last glance at the rangers before deciding what he was going to do.

Meanwhile, the rangers continued to fight Crow. As Geo was thrown back, Cal tried to land a hit on the bird-like alien, but Crow launched himself up into the air and disappeared before they could do anything.

Roger helped Geo up and stared up out of the broken ceiling. "He'll be back."

"Definitely." Cal nodded.

The three demorphed. "Our parents are probably freaking out right now. This has to be all over the news," Geo muttered.

Roger rolled his eyes. "I'd be surprised if my parents found out about this," He scoffed.

"What about your brother?" Cal asked a bit distractedly as she stared out of the glass doors of the gym.

He shrugged. "My brother isn't big on watching any kind of TV, even if it's the news."

"Are you sure?" Cal gestured outside, where Roger could see Tanzo talking to Chris.

"No way," Roger frowned. "I told him I would call him when I needed to be picked up." He saw Cal and Geo giving him a look. "I know how to drive, but he needed the car for something tonight, and 'cause he's older he gets priority."

Geo nodded. "I see." He gestured towards the doors. "I guess we have to go outside."

"But, what if people saw?" Cal said, stopping the two. "I mean, we literally just morphed and unmorphed in public."

Geo looked back behind them and saw back doors. "There are some other people in here so we can go out the back door, hopefully without anyone noticing."

The three sneaked to the back doors and around to the front.

"Cal!"

Cal turned suddenly in time to have her mother barrel into her for a hug. "Thank god you're alright!"

Geo's mother was close behind her, and pulled Geo in close. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," Geo nodded. "When did you get here?"

"Rebecca and I were going to grab some late dinner after I got off of work but we heard about the attack and came to see if you guys were okay," Ashley responded.

Roger watched them with pursed lips. It disappointed him that his parents weren't there for him like Geo and Cal's mothers were. He looked over and saw his brother still talking to Tanzo and had a small smile. Even though he and his brother weren't close, he was still glad he had him around.

He gestured towards them. "I'm gonna go over there," He told Geo and Cal, and walked over to the two. "I didn't know you knew each other."

Chris and Tanzo turned around, and Chris looked relieved. "You alright?"

Roger nodded. "So.. how do you two know each other?" He asked, a bit confused.

"Tanzo is Dr. Tachibana's son," Chris explained. "Remember?"

Roger scoffed. "How could I forget?"

Chris gave him a look, and Roger looked away. Chris smiled awkwardly at Tanzo, "We're gonna get going."

"Cal will call you tomorrow with details," Roger mumbled to Tanzo as his brother pulled him away.

"That was rude," Chris commented as they walked across the street to the car.

Roger rolled his eyes. "You're the one who lied to me."

"It's not that important, Roger," Chris sighed. "I'm..."

Roger rounded on his brother outside of their car. "I'd like to beg to differ," He growled. "This thing could kill you, you know? It's your heart! But it's obviously not important enough to tell me, so whatever." Roger walked around the car before turning towards him once more. "By the way, if it wasn't important, then why would you have gone to the hospital a few weeks ago?"

Roger got in the car and slammed the door, while Chris also got in the car. He sighed and stopped before he turned the key. "I'm sorry."

The black ranger frowned and slowly looked over at him. Chris looked down guiltily and Roger sighed. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"It's not important why," He responded.

"You said mom has it too," Roger continued, as if his brother said nothing. "Did she tell you not to say anything?"

Chris turned the key in the car. He began to drive away and didn't reply to Roger's question.

~Cue Opening~

Meanwhile, Vi waited anxiously outside of the infirmary, waiting for any news on Maya. Vi had already gotten checked over for injuries, and luckily only had a minor fracture in her wrist. Maya, on the other hand, was bleeding and unconscious, which wasn't good.

"Vi," Ginger came around the corner from the kitchen. Vi ran into her arms and let Ginger hug her tightly. "Are you alright?"

Vi pulled away from her and nodded. "I'm okay, just worried about Maya."

"You know she's sorry, right?" Ginger said after a moment of silence.

Vi sighed. "I know, but it's just hard. I mean, first we have some scheduling problems, and we hardly have time to spend together. Then there's this,"

Ginger frowned. "What?"

"I mean, I love her, but she has an attitude. It maybe wouldn't be a problem if we weren't doing what we do, but when you work with hostile creatures and people you can't act like that! Don't get me wrong, she doesn't act like that with me, but I'm worried she's gonna get someone else or herself hurt by mouthing off to someone she shouldn't!" Vi explained.

"Do you really love her?" Ginger asked.

Vi nodded. "Of course, but this isn't a good time for us. I wish it was different, but it isn't. Do you get it?"

Ginger sighed. "Yes, but if you love her then why should it matter? You should make it work,"

"I just need a break to think this over, Ginger." Vi told her.

Ginger opened her mouth to respond when Alicia came out of the infirmary. She turned to Vi, "Maya will be fine. She has a few stitches, and a pretty bad concussion, but within two or so weeks she should be back to normal."

"She needs to go home, get some rest," Vi said, a bit sadly. "Can you or Ben take her? I need some time alone,"

Alicia looked at her sympathetically and nodded. "Yeah, I'll make sure she get's there safely."

"Thanks," Vi nodded. "I think I should get home,"

"I can take you," Ben offered from behind her.

Alicia crossed her arms at him. "We only have one car,"

"Oh well," Ben shrugged. "Vi and I will sit up front and you and Maya can go in the back,"

Alicia frowned. "Excuse me?"

Vi put her hands up. "If it's the fastest way, then let's just go,"

Ben smirked at Alicia as Vi passed by him towards the outdoors. Maya walked very slowly out of the infirmary, shielding her eyes from the light as good as possible.

"Are we going?" Maya asked, wincing from all of the light.

Ben walked over and shielded her from the light, and made sure she was steady. "Yeah, we are."

He walked Maya out while Alicia groaned. "I'm so mad at him," She growled.

"Why?" Ginger asked, frowning.

"I want kids eventually, but Ben doesn't," Alicia sighed.

Ginger chuckled. "Alicia, he's 21 years old. It's probably not that he doesn't want to have kids as much as the idea of having kids scares him. You just need to give him some time."

Alicia looked at the ground. She knew Ginger was right. "Yeah, you're probably right,"

"Probably? Sweetie, I know." She smiled. "I may only have one kid, but I know this stuff."

Alicia nodded. "Okay," She looked up at Ginger. "I'm gonna talk to him about it,"

"Good idea." Ginger watched her leave and smiled to herself. She took out a locket from under her shirt and opened it, a picture of her son Keith as a baby, and his senior portrait. "I miss you," She touched the picture. "I can't wait until you come home."

~PRAG~

The next day, Cal walked over to the diner, where she asked Tanzo to meet her. She hoped that he hadn't been too scared off by the previous night to show up, and thankfully, he wasn't. A few moments after she showed up, Tanzo quickly joined her.

"So, what's going on?" Tanzo asked, a smile on his face. Cal thought it was strange that, no matter what, Tanzo seemed to have a smile on his face. Despite the strangeness of it, she also found in comforting. The other rangers, including herself, weren't extremely optimist, so this kind of optimism was nice to be around.

"I've asked Roger and Geo to meet us at our base, which is where I'll be taking you," She led him outside, where she parked her mother's car. She gestured for him to get in the passengers seat while she got in the drivers seat. She started driving. "I'm surprised you even showed up," She said as they drove towards Ranger Ops.

He chuckled. "Why is that?"

"Well, most people would've freaked out about finding out they're one of the only people left on Earth to save it from a race of evil aliens," Cal responded with a smirk.

Tanzo smiled. "Well, I guess I'm not most people,"

Cal pulled up outside of the building. "I guess not," She said as she parked and exited her car to see Geo just arriving as well. "Hey," She greeted.

"Hey," Geo nodded at her, and then looked to Tanzo, "Have you filled him in yet, or...?"

Cal shook her head. "I wanted to wait for all of us to be here,"

"And we are," Roger said as he walked up to them. He patted Tanzo on the back. "Welcome to Ranger Ops,"

Tanzo looked up at the building in awe and smiled. "This is amazing!" He cried. "This is your base?!"

"Our base, now," Cal smiled as the three led their newest member into the building.

"This is even better in here!" Tanzo said, staring up at the high ceilings and beautiful, pure white decor.

"Thank you," Alicia smiled as she came in and sat in a chair facing the couch. "I designed it myself." Tanzo looked over at her, startled out of his stupor. "I'm Alicia, your mentor of sorts," She held a hand out to shake his.

Tanzo shook her hand. "Tanzo," He replied.

"So, I hear you have a pendant," Alicia said, gesturing for him to sit down on the couch in front of her, which he quickly did. "Which one is it?"

"Umm..." Tanzo looked down at his. "There's an elephant on it,"

Alicia nodded and pulled out a morpher, handing it to him. "You are the yellow ranger, with the obvious power of the elephant."

"So, I'm really a power ranger?" Tanzo laughed in shock. "That's great!"

"Now," Alicia put her hands out to get his attention. "There's a major rule you need to know,"

Tanzo nodded. "Okay, what?"

"You cannot, under almost any circumstances, tell anyone you're a ranger," Alicia warned him. "This is to ensure the safety of not only yourself, but others."

"Okay, sure," He smiled. "This is gonna be so fun!"

Geo frowned in distaste, "Being a power ranger isn't about fun," He said. "We have to be serious and save lives."

Tanzo laughed. "You're just a stick in the mud. You can have fun with almost anything," He shrugged. "You just have to make it happen."

The red ranger rolled his eyes, "I don't think you..."

"Let's not fight," Cal put herself between the two. "Tanzo literally just joined the team. Let's just be glad that there's another ranger to help us,"

"Speaking of which," Roger interjected. "Maya told me that..."

Roger was cut off by the alarm. Ginger ran out of the monitoring room, "There's an attack on the city square! Giant monster!"

"Giant?" Geo asked, frowning. "I thought they only got big when we destroyed them,"

Ginger shrugged. "I guess not,"

The rangers stood up, Geo stopped Tanzo for a moment. "We're gonna go there and call for our zords. Just follow our lead."

"For sure," Tanzo nodded.

~PRAG~

Vi got to Ranger Ops as soon as she heard about the attack on the city. She ran into the monitoring room, only to find Maya sitting there with a pair of sunglasses on, watching the monster until the rangers got there.

She was about to walk out when Maya's voice stopped her. "I know you're there, Vi," She said.

"Why are you here?" Vi asked, after she took a deep breath. "You should be resting,"

Maya shrugged. "That's what everybody says," She muttered. "Anyway, it doesn't matter because I'm here."

"Okay," Vi nodded. "Well, how do you feel?"

"Like I have a bad concussion and stitches in my head," Maya retorted.

Vi felt bad. She needed time to think things over, but she really didn't want to hurt Maya. "Maya, you know I just need time to figure this all out, right? Just time to be alone for a while,"

"You're breaking up with me," Maya concluded.

"No!" Vi exclaimed. "I don't want that,"

Maya scoffed. "Doesn't seem like it,"

Vi looked sadly at her. "I'm sorry."

"No, I am," Maya growled, turning slowly to face her. "I don't want to be stuck to you if there's nothing to be stuck to. I think that we should just end it before anyone gets hurt,"

Vi was shocked. "What? Maya, I..."

"Vi, you probably would have ended it anyways," Maya said. "I think we should see other people, and maybe, if it doesn't work out, we could get coffee or something," She rolled her eyes.

Vi felt like she was going to cry. She ran out of the room and into the living room, where Alicia and Ben were talking. "Vi?" Alicia asked, standing up. "What's wrong?"

The girl threw herself into Alicia's arms. "Maya broke up with me!"

Alicia put her arms around her in shock. She never thought this could happen. "Oh my god," She breathed out. "I'm so sorry, Vi. I really am."

~PRAG~

Meanwhile, Tanzo watch the rangers form their megazord before doing anything. Then, it was time for action. He ripped his pendant off and stuck it in his morpher, feeling a warmth surround him. His suit began to form from yellow dust surround his body.

"Animal Guardians, Arise!" He called out. "Power of the Elephant!"

His suit was similar to Geo and Roger's, though his helmet had the head of an elephant, and his belt held a blaster and sword. He looked down at himself.

"Amazing!" He exclaimed. He then looked up and put his hand towards the sky. "Elephant Zord, Awaken!"

The yellow Elephant zord ran in, Tanzo leaping up to be in it's cockpit. He looked out and saw the whole city below him. "This is incredible!"

"Yeah, it is," Geo's voice came through his zord. "But we don't have time to enjoy the view. Join us!"

"How?" Tanzo asked, looking amongst the buttons.

"Tanzo can't join you guys," Maya's voice now came in. "His zord is supposed to join with the Flamingo Zord to create another megazord. It's not compatible with yours,"

"Damn it," Geo muttered under his breath, looking out at Tanzo's zord.

Roger looked over at him. "What are we gonna do?"

Geo shrugged. "We just have to fight as good as we can until we get the Flamingo Zord, I guess,"

"I got this, guys," Tanzo's voice came through. "Don't worry."

"What is he doing?" Cal asked, as Tanzo moved his zord forward.

Crow tried to take off flying but the Elephant zord lifted onto it's hind legs and grabbed it, pulling it back down with a force that created a small earthquake around them.

"Tanzo, be careful!" Geo warned. "We can't destroy the city!"

Tanzo laughed from the other side. "Don't worry about it, I got him for you," He told them. "Get your sword; I'll hold him down."

"He's got a point," Roger pressed in the command for the sword, as did Cal.

Geo sighed and did the same, allowing the sword to be launched into their megazord's hand. Crow took off again, pulling the Elephant zord with it. Tanzo laughed in fear and the ranger watched Crow try to leave Earth.

"We have to stop him, Geo!" Cal cried.

Geo slammed his hand down on the command for the megazord to fly with his Eagle zord's wings, and the megazord took off after the alien. Once they got close behind it, they quickly stuck the sword through Crow, who, despite his best efforts to escape still, eventually stopped and exploded, sending the zords hurtling back towards the Earth's surface.

The three core rangers stopped their megazord with the Eagle zord's wings, but Tanzo's zord kept falling back.

"He'll die if we don't stop it!" Roger exclaimed.

Geo nodded and the megazord flew quickly towards the Elephant zord, grabbing it and stopping it just before it hit the ground. The rangers sighed in relief.

"Tanzo," Geo called. "You okay?"

"Are you kidding?!" Tanzo exclaimed. "That. Was. Amazing!"

The three other rangers looked amongst each other in shock. "Did he just say...?" Roger asked.

Cal nodded. "He did."

Geo sighed. "Let's just get back."

~PRAG~

When the rangers got back, Alicia and Vi were waiting for them in the living room, Vi's eyes a bit tear stained. "What happened?" Cal asked, sitting on the seat closest to Vi while the guys sat on the couch.

"It's not important right now," Vi wiped another tear away. "You guys got a new ranger," She held her hand out. "I know we sort of already met, but I'm Vi. Alicia's intern."

Tanzo shook her hand enthusiastically. "Tanzo,"

"Speaking of new rangers," Roger said, before Alicia or Vi could say anything. "I was gonna say this earlier but, Maya told me that there are more ranger than just us, including Tanzo. There are eight in all, I think she said."

Alicia sighed. "Yes, but, like Tanzo, one of the remaining four doesn't know, and the other three are a mystery. We have no leads, and nothing enough to track them off of as the pendants usually only work in the presence of a morpher."

"So, if one of us got close to another ranger, their pendant could light up?" Geo asked.

"Technically," Alicia nodded slowly. "But, most of the time it has to be their own morpher, or when they're in danger."

Cal frowned. "You have no idea where any of these people are?"

"Sort of," Alicia sighed once more. "It's complicated. Either way, you four should be on the lookout for any of these new rangers. We're gonna need them,"

Next time on Power Rangers Animal Guardians: While on the lookout for any new rangers, Geo finds the Flamingo Guardian in his new English partner, though she seems to want nothing to do with it. Meanwhile, in an effort to make Maya jealous, Vi goes out of her way to get a date. However, when Maya hears of Vi's search, she tries to get one of her own.

The next chapter will definitely not take a month to write, I promise! Also, as you can see above, the next chapter features the next ranger, which means a new cover photo, and the next opening! They will be released in the next chapter, as will the update of the character bios with the new character (Tanzo's was just added).

Also, this may not make a difference until later, but Ginger's son, Keith (the Ancient Animals red ranger) has a new actor as I made a very short (and poor) opening for that story, though I couldn't find any videos for this original actor. The new actor is Robert Pattinson, and I will update that in the old story as well.

Anyways, thank you guys so much for reading, and as always, review and let me know what you thought!

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