Rain: And here I am with a brand new chapter and trust me when I say this. This arc will be a bit tough for a few reasons. So sit back, relax and enjoy!

Mario: Here we go!

*Intro*

(Rita rises up from her canister with her monsters)

"Ah, after Ten-Thousand Years I'm free! It's time to conquer earth!"

(The scene changes from Rita to the Command Center where two streaks of blue lighting hits the sides of an large plasma tube which forms Zordon)

"Alpha, Rita's escaped. Recruit Five Teenagers with Attitude!"

(Scene flashes again to Jason, Kimberly, Billy, Trini and Zack being transported into the Command Center in streaks of Red, Pink, Blue, Yellow and Black and when they appear, streaks of lighting cover their bodies, changing them from their civilian attires into the power rangers.)

(Brief flashes of the Dino Megazord rising from of the ground and a sign that has "Mighty Morphin" On the top in small letters and "Power Rangers" appearing in big bold gold lettering with a lightning bolt between the Words "Power" and "Rangers," the flashes finally stops on the "Power Rangers")

"Go, Go Power Rangers!"

(Shows Jason training with Bruce to The Red Ranger leaping into the air and slashing through the putty's torso, from left shoulder to right hip)

"Go, Go Power Rangers!"

(Shows Trini meditating in the rose garden to the Yellow Ranger punching a putty in the chest before kicking it in its head with a hard kick then scene changes to Zack flipping over a fence of a car dealership to the Black Ranger jumping in the air, spinning in it then slashing his ax straight down the middle of a putty.)

"Go, Go Power Rangers…"

(Shows Kimberly twisting in the air into the palms of her squad mates to The Pink Ranger bending backwards until her hands touched the ground to avoid a strike by a putty then lifted her legs up, kicking the oncoming putty under its chin then scene flashes to Billy working on his computer before scene flashes to show the Blue Ranger giving a double clothesline to two putties that were running side by side.)

"…You Mighty Morphing Power Rangers!"

(The Final scene shows the five rangers standing side by side, With the Black Ranger standing sideways with his arms crossed, the Red Ranger with his arm point pointing in front of his body with his hand balled into a fist, Pink Ranger with her hands shaped as a heart, Yellow with her back turned and her arms crossed with her head looking back and Blue hunched forward with his left arm hanging in front of his body, their respective zords behind them but also a dense green mist seen wrapping around their legs.)

*End Intro*

The legend of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Chapter Eighteen
Meet Katherine Hilliard! Rita's New Plan

The Moon
Rita's Palace
Rita Repulsa
(Theme of Rita's Palace – The Imperial City, Kazas from Legend of the Dragoon)

The body of the Green Dragon Ranger laid before the table with Rita, Finster, Goldar, Swan Song and Knasty Knight standing around it.

It had been a week since Knasty Knight returned from the North Pole with the body of the Green Ranger but they had yet to do anything with it yet.

"Lady Rita…Do you think it is wise for us to awaken him from his spell?" Goldar asked his Empress.

Rita nodded with a determined look on her face. She knew that this was a risk for them to do, especially considering the way they had parted but they knew it had to be done.

Despite getting closer each time to defeating Zordon's pesky warriors, the rangers always seemed to pull Victory out of the jaws of defeat and now she had enough.

It was time to swing the Victories her way.

With a strong grip on her scepter, Rita held it up in the air and said "For 10,000 years after the great war, you have laid dormant within the cold glaciers of the North Pole. But now I, Empress Rita Repulsa have freed you from your prison. Now Ryūjin, Holder of the Dragon Ranger powers, awaken!"

Just as Rita shouted, the ruby within her scepter shined hotter than the brightest sun, causing the three monsters to shield themselves from the fierce light. Just then, red lightning shot out from the ruby and slammed into the golden armored chest of the ranger on the table.

The entire body began to hum as wisps of crimson energy flowed from the aura around the body but then it faded away.

The four around the table waited with bated breath in wonder but after five long minutes, the ranger didn't move, nor did the ranger take a breath.

Rita sat down her scepter and said to Finster "Check if he has a pulse." Finster nodded and placed two fingers against the ranger's neck then at both wrists before shaking his head.

"I'm afraid not lady Rita. It seems the spell did not work," Finster stated with a small sigh. Rita growled and dismissed her scepter and rubbed the bridge of her nose with shut eyes.

"I'm getting a headache," she muttered angrily.

Why hadn't it worked? She had done it correctly, hadn't she?

Rita held up her scepter again and repeated her speech and after another crimson bolt of lightning struck the chest of the ranger, nothing changed.

"No…I cannot believe it didn't work…" Rita muttered but she said "It is no matter. We will have to go to the alternative."

"Clone Dragon coin," Goldar stated while crossing his arms.

"Yes. It'll be significantly weaker but it will strong enough to defeat the rangers. But now we have a new issue…" Rita drifted off but Goldar was quick to continue her words.

"Finding the one worthy of the coin…"

Rita nodded and turned to both Swan Song and Knasty Knight and said "Listen, Goldar and I will be searching for our ranger. You two will be battling the rangers. How the two of you do this, I do not care. I want it done."

Knasty Knight and Swan Song glanced at each other before the two nodded to Rita and bowed as well.

"It will be done," The two said in unison.

Rita nodded and walked off with Goldar following behind her.

Swan Song immediately turned to his partner and said "Listen, I don't like this anymore than you do but if we are going to get this done, we will need to work together."

Knasty Knight growled and moved away from the shape-shifter and said "I don't need your help. I can do this on my own."

Swan Song scoffed at his words and replied "Look how well that turned out. You failed your mission."

"And you didn't?" Knasty Knight replied scathingly. "My mission was postponed due to interference by his escape. You wound up nearly killed by the enraged Yellow Ranger."

"And yet I nearly got two rangers to kill each other," Swan Song retorted calmly. "The fact is, we managed to nearly kill two rangers. If we work together, we can scratch out the word "nearly" and just kill."

Knasty Knight remained silent for a moment before he nodded. "You are right…So what is the plan?"

Swan Song smirked.

Angel Grove
Angel Grove Juice Bar
Power Rangers
(Theme of Angel Grove Juice Bar – Want to be close from Persona 3)

"Here you are Jason. Four Ernie's specials with four strawberry smoothies on the side!"

Jason nodded and thanked Ernie while taking the large saucer filled with food and drinks back to the table where Billy, Kimberly and Trini sat.

"And here we are," Jason announced as he sat the saucer down in the middle of the table. Once he sat down, the four of them wasted no time in grabbing their plates and smoothies and chowing down.

"So Billy, how are Adonis and April doing?" Jason asked curiously.

"They are going great. I was invited to his birthday party this weekend," Billy replied with a small smile.

Zordon was originally disappointed that Billy's plan involved April finding out about them being rangers and at first opted to erase their memories but then decided to speak to the teens himself.

Needless to say, April and Adonis were awed into silence by the sight of Zordon. Once it wore off, the two swore to not only keep the secret but they would help the rangers any way they could.

Billy also noticed that since their battle, he actually found himself generally enjoying the company of both Adonis and April, who have decided to cling to him as a friend in April's case and a friendly rival in Adonis'.

"That's great!" Kimberly replied happily for her friend. Outside of their group, Billy didn't have a lot of friends so while she didn't like Adonis too much due to him actively trying to hurt Billy, it was nice to see Billy having more friends.

"I agree. I just hope we can start defeating monsters again instead of humans within monsters…" Trini added with a sigh.

"Or humans within ranger suits," Kimberly said, a hint of sly tone in her voice.

Trini gritted her teeth at Kimberly's comment but willed herself to remain silent, opting to ignore the Pink Ranger.

Billy gave Kimberly a look before he said "I just hope we get a small break before the next big thing begins."

The three rangers nodded in agreement and took a drink of their smoothies in near unison. Once they were finished, Jason turned to Billy and asked "Any word on Kat's arrival?"

Billy shook his head then leaned back in his chair and said "Not yet…I hope she shows up soon. I'm very interested in her."

Kimberly paused and glanced at Billy and saw the wistful look on his face and couldn't help but scrunch up her nose a bit.

Kimberly didn't have a problem with Billy wanting to meet his pen-pal but to see that look on his face made her feel strange in the chest but she couldn't explain what it was.

Jason couldn't stop them grin on his face as a question appeared in his head. "Even if she's as ugly as Goldar?" Jason asked playfully.

Billy laughed.

Despite all of the letters the two had sent, Billy always forgot to send a picture of himself and he never bought up asking for a picture of her. But despite this, Billy didn't care what she looked like.

All he knew was that he could not get her out of his mind and the thought of finally being able to meet her after all this time was exciting.

If anything, the fact he didn't know what she looked like made his interest in her double. He just hoped he wasn't hyping up their meeting too much.

"Even if she looked like Goldar," Billy replied with another laugh, causing Jason to clap his shoulder.

"That's my boy. It's all about the inside, not the outside," Jason stated with a wide grin on his face, clearly proud of Billy's reply.

Just as Jason finished his sentence, Zack came bursting through the door with a large smirk on his face.

"Guys! You will not believe it!" Zack yelled as he leapt over Trini's chair and landed on Jason's lap, causing the two rangers to blink in surprise but Jason grinned while Trini frowned.

"Uh Zack," Trini started while smoothing out her hair, which became messy due to Zack's leap above her seconds before. "Did you forget our agreement?" She asked with narrowed eyes.

Zack shook his head and replied "No, I didn't forget but I have something to tell you guys and it couldn't wait until later. I hope you don't mind the one-time breach in agreement."

"Ok…So spill," Jason said quickly, wanting to stop the intense glaring contest that he was sure Zack and Trini would enter. "And get off my lap," Jason added, his mind now reminding him that Zack was snuggled up comfortably on his lap.

Zack stuck out his tongue with a playful grin. "You weren't saying that last night Jase. Why must you play with my heart so much?"

Jason couldn't help but shake his head at the puppy dog eyes Zack was giving him and almost scoffed when Zack added a small whimper.

"Such a dork," Jason responded with a laugh before he shoved the snickering Zack from his lap.

"Stop messing with Jase and tell us what's up Z'," Kimberly admonished with a light smack on the Black ranger's shoulder.

Zack got up on his feet and pulled a spare chair in between Jason and Kimberly and said "Well, you guys remember how I had to take my cousin Alpha from the airport today?"

Jason, Billy and Kimberly nodded at this.

"Well while I was there, I bumped into a cute little number. She was waiting for her parents, who were in the bathroom. We got to talking for quite a while when we happened to get to if she knew anyone here."

Zack then paused enough to snag a few fries from Billy's plate, making his friend to smile and share the plate with him.

"Thanks buddy. So turns out, she did happen to know someone up here so I asks the girl what her friend's name was and let's just say…I was surprised at who she was looking for," Zack finished, after swallowing his fries.

"Get to the point, who was she looking for?" Trini asked impatiently, causing Kimberly's eyes to narrow at her.

"Well…She should be coming in right now to answer that," Zack answered and not a second later, the Juice Bar door opened and the five watched as a platinum blonde haired female walked into the area, her sea blue eyes soaking in the sight of the juice bar.

Zack quickly got up from his chair and rushed to the teenager that just entered and began to chat with her, all while the four looked on.

"Zack wasn't lying. She is a cute little number," Jason admitted before he shrugged. She was pretty and if he was into blond girls, he would definitely be over there introducing himself to her.

"That black and purple sundress doesn't hide her curves at all," Kimberly said, admiring the female's good choice in dresses.

"I'm a little jealous I didn't think of wearing a sundress…" Kimberly added with a sullen look, not liking the fact she decided to wear a pink tank top with jean short shorts.

"She's ok," Trini added while sipping her smoothie once again.

"She is…Wow…" Billy murmured softly in awe, unable to keep his eyes away from her. Kimberly couldn't help but frown a bit at Billy's awed look.

She had never seen

The rangers watched as Zack and the girl walked towards the table and then the two stopped before the group of four, Zack said "Mr. Billy Cranston…May I introduce to you, A miss Katherine Hillard."

Billy's eyes widened while the remaining three rangers' jaw dropped in shock.

The three rangers watched as Billy stood up from his chair and felt his face heat up a bit from the look Kat was giving him.

"H-Hi…" Billy stuttered out shyly.

A large smile appeared on Kat's face before Billy found himself in a tight embrace from the Australian female. "It's about damn time I get to see your face," Kat said while squeezing tighter, excitement in her voice.

Billy blinked but then he smiled and returned her hug, all while the smirking Zack nodded his head in approval.

Kat separated herself from the Billy and said "Who would have thought that I would find you so soon after I landed."

"Well…I was curious to know when you would arrive but I wasn't expecting today of all days for it to happen," Billy replied while adjusting his glasses, something they all knew he did when he was flustered.

"Truth is, I wasn't expecting to be on the first flight out here but my parents were in such a rush to start their new job," Kat explained before she said "Now I already met the super awesome Zack Taylor…"

Zack couldn't help but smile at the title.

"…Do you mind introducing me to the rest of your friends?" Kat finished, her eyes glittering with happiness which left Billy breathless.

"S-Sure…" Billy replied with a stammer before he shook his head, adjusted his glasses and motioned to Trini and said "This is Trini Kwan. The resident martial arts master."

Trini raised her cup to Kat and said "It's nice to meet you."

Billy then moved his hand to Jason and said "This is Jason Lee Scott, the leader of our group."

Jason shook his head, flustered from the title of "leader" and replied "It's nice to meet you Kat but I can't claim the title of leader. We don't need a leader in this group. We're all equals here."

Billy smiled widely when he motioned his hand to Kimberly and said "And this is-"

Unlike Jason and Trini, Kimberly stood up and put on her best smile as she held out her and said "I'm Kimberly Ann Hart. Cheer Captain of the Angel Grove Saints and Billy's best friend."

Katherine's hand clasped Kimberly's own and gripped it slightly as she said "It's nice to meet you, Kimberly."

"Likewise…" Kimberly replied with narrowed eyes, returning the squeeze.

Billy, Zack, Trini and Jason traded subtle looks as the two girls stared each other down, totally aware of the sudden tense feeling in the room.

The Moon
Rita's Palace
Rita Repulsa
(Theme of Rita's Palace – The Imperial City, Kazas from Legend of the Dragoon)

"So that is your plan?" Knasty Knight asked, his eyes focused on the image of Kimberly and Katherine staring each other down.

Swan Song nodded and crossed his arms. "Oh yes. And trust me when I say...This will be far too easy…"

Rain: And that is the start of this saga, the Pink with Envy arc. How will things progress during this. Only one way to find out is to tune into the next chapter. Until then…

Mario: See you next time.