In the hangar bay of the Dominion Mothership, Queen Uuhcura was looking up at her son, Kodokor. "How do you feel, my child?", she asked with her usual faux-sweet tone.

"I'm getting better.", came the reply. "Whatever that little man did to me, it's definitely working." Kodokor spoke of Fwelf, who had injected him with nano-machines in order to repair the damage that the Avions' Falcon Megazord had done to his body with its Cryo-Laser. After almost a day, the damage was next to non-existent. "I'm ready to get out there and crush those Flying Rangers and their friends that did this to me."

"Ah yes, the new challengers.", Uuhcura turned and began musing to herself. "I'm sure now that they're survivors of the planet Avion Minor. I didn't expect there to be any survivors left from that planet. But it's merely a minor nuisance. They will fall, just as other planets have done. And when they do, then I shall invite my allies throughout the universe to this p,a net in order to take their share of its resources." She then transformed into her Berserker Mode. "I'm going to view the destruction of Earth as it happens." She then burst out into laughter, as Fwelf looked on, terrified for his life.

Down on Earth, Mark and Lulu were walking back to their house, having spent the night in the Nest. They were now discussing the recent developments. "It's lucky that those Avions showed up when they did, or we'd have been done for.", Lulu said. "Not to mention that their robot is about to help ours stick it to the Dominion."

"I'm still not entirely sure I trust them.", Mark said in response.

Lulu was intrigued. "Really? Why's that?"

"Those faces they're showing us? Aluze admitted that they were simply images they're using to make us let our guard down."

"They've been on our side up to now.", Lulu pointed out.

"That may be, but I never trust someone who won't show me their real self. It just strikes me as bad faith." But before Mark could expand on this, hey saw there was a large crowd in the road to their street. The siblings pushed their way through to the front of the crowd, where they saw a soldier on duty. "You've got to let us through. Our home is through there."

The guard, whose uniform identified him as Private Dawson, shook his head. "Sorry, pal. No civilian gets through without a permit from Corporal Jarvis."

Mark held up his ID. "Pilot Officer Goodman, United States Air Force, on loan to Project: Jetman. This kind of incident is up our alley. Now let us through."

"You may be part of Project Gentleman or whatever, but I'm still not letting you through.", Dawson insisted.

But then Corporal Jarvis walked up to the scene in progress. "That's okay, Private. His clearance is all access." Dawson nodded and stood down. Jarvis then turned towards Mark. "Sorry about Dawson, Pilot Goodman. He's a fairly recent transfer to our unit." He then reached out for a handshake, which was reciprocated. "While the existence of Project: Jetman is an official secret, we've been told to recognise your authority in these kinds of situation."

Mark was curious about what he had said. "Perhaps you could show us the situation up close?"

Jarvis obliged, taking the two into the street. Or rather, what constituted the remains of the street, which had been reduced to rubble. "That monster that attacked yesterday destroyed a great number of peoples' homes as it rampaged. As long as these aliens keep attacking us, the insurance companies won't pay for these people. We're probably going to have to relocate a lot of them."

Lulu began to cry. "This shouldn't have happened. We should've been better than this. We should've stopped that thing when it first appeared."

"We're going to stop it when it next appears.", Mark assured her. He then turned towards Jarvis. "Corporal, tell your superiors that we have a way to defeat that creature when it next appears."

"Why not tell us yourself, Pilot Goodman?" Mark turned towards the two newcomers, both of whom were higher ranked than the Corporal. The more senior of the two held out his hand. "Captain Rolfe. This is my aide Sergeant Brent. We heard you mention a plan to defeat that creature."

"This might not be the best place to discuss that, Captain.", Mark replied. "Perhaps we should move this discussion to our headquarters." He began moving in the direction of the Nest, motioning for Lulu to come along.

However she didn't move closer. "I can't come with you.", Lulu blurted out. "I've got friends elsewhere in the city. I need to make sure they're ok." She then began running in a different direction. "I'll be back when the trouble starts again."

Mark merely sighed. "Teenagers, eh? How did any of us get through that period?"

"I personally spent it in a military school getting over my delinquent behaviour.", Sergeant Brent answered, missing the rhetorical part of the question. "Now then Pilot, you were taking us to your base."

Kodokor stood up, bursting from the equipment attached to him and flying towards the Earth, to continue his rampage.

Mark led Captain Rolfe, Sergeant Brent, Corporal Jarvis and Private Dawson, among other members of the platoon, into the control room of the Nest. The other Rangers and the Avions, along with Commander Gordon were already in the room. "Now guys, I've brought along some members of the regular military to go over the -." He stopped himself in his track when he saw Mary, or rather, Halatia standing in the middle of the room. "What's SHE doing here?", Mark demanded to know.

"You know this woman?", Brent asked.

"All too well.", came Mark's answer. "She used to be part of our group, but she's been compromised by the enemy."

"An enemy I'm just as much against as you are, Mark.", Halatia interrupted. "Uuhcura may have helped make me into the woman I am today, but she still kidnapped me and subjected me to horrible things that the Captain here could probably imagine easily. I want to be there when she goes down, so I've decided to declare a temporary truce with the Commander here."

"Is this true, Commander Gordon?", the Captain turned towards the older woman.

"I can confirm it is.", came the answer. "While Miss James is still under the effects of the torture inflicted on her by the Dominion, she did offer to help us take down the Queen and Kodokor." Jarvis took notice of her use of this name, but didn't think too much of it. A name had probably come up at one point in their battles.

"I don't really care who's working for who.", Private Dawson interjected. "Can we just get to the part where you explain your big plan to defeat Gokibore, or whatever it's name is?"

Gordon took note of this. "Very well, Private Dawson. We'll proceed to 'share our big plan'." She then gestured for everyone to sit down, except for Wayne and Aluze, who began to present a slideshow.

Wayne began with footage of Kodokor taking down the Icarus. "As you can see from this footage, our attack robot, known as the Icarus, while powerful, didn't have the shielding necessary to take down Kodokor when he first appeared."

The footage transitioned to show the Falcon Corde's arrival and subsequent brawl, as Aluze took over. "At which point me and my comrades took over with our war machine, the Falcon Corde. While we were able to cause damage to him and our armour held in the battle, but we didn't have the strength to land the deathblow."

The slide then changed to a set of schematics for a combination of the two robots. "Which is why, with the help of our new colleagues, we've been working on a combination of the two into a super robot, which we have dubbed the Birdonic."

"Named for our ancient deity of vengeance.", Aluze commented.

It was then that Corporal Jarvis put his hand up. "Excuse me, but just who are these people anyway? We have no records of them on our files."

"That is because we do not officially exist on your planet.", Avior stood up to answer him. "We are the last survivors of the planet Avion Minor, which the same force that threatens your world ravaged."

"We came to this planet to avenge what happened to the rest of our people.", Aluze added.

"If you're aliens," Dawson asked, "why do you look human?"

Gliderak stood up. "This is just a disguise. Our real form is apparently too monstrous for you to trust us, so we have to wear these repulsive faces. Personally, I can't bear to spend another minute looking like this."

"Gliderak!", Avior snapped. "Be mindful of our hosts." Gliderak simply sat down, not satisfied with how that conversation had ended.

Halatia then stood up. "To continue where we left off, when Kodokor is destroyed, Queen Uuhcura will come down to exact a terrible vengeance on this planet." She then generated a hologram of Uuhcura from a device in her hand. "While she uses the staff she carries with her as a conduit, a friend of mine assures me that her main power source is the sapphire on her head. If you destroy that, it'll weaken the Queen to the point that you can finish her with the Rover Launcher."

"What will you be doing until then?", Carrie thought to ask. "We can't exactly trust you to just wait around our base while we go out and defeat Kodokor."

Halatia merely smiled. "Don't worry. The minute that the alarm sounds, I'll be out of here along with you. Then, when you defeat Kodokor, I'll take that as my cue to begin our assault on Uuhcura."

As if on cue, an alarm sounded as Caldwell's voice blurted out over the intercom. "Red alert. Red alert. Kodokor has reappeared in the mountains outside Winter Valley. Rangers, prepare to move out."

"We haven't finished with the modifications to the Falcon Corde.", Aluze said. "We still have to upload our program into the computer bank."

"Don't worry.", Steven assured her. "We'll hold off that thing in the Icarus until you guys get there, or my name isn't Steven Hartford."

Hearing this, Private Dawson cried out in anguish, before running out of the room, head in hands. Everyone decided this wasn't important. "I guess I'll be taking my leave now.", Halatia said. "Don't worry, I won't be telling anyone about this place. Your secret is safe for now." With that said, she teleported out.

"Okay, team.", Mark called out. "Let's get to the Vehicles and move out."

"Roger!", the others responded as they followed him to the hangar.

Elsewhere, Halatia returned to Galvahex. "They seemed to be in agreement with my plan. All we need to do is get into position." She then activated her sceptre, transforming into her armour. Then she noticed the elephant in the room. "Where did Algrin go?"

"He left this message.", was Galvahex's answer. "'Your plan is foolish, human. I shall take the new robot that appeared and use it to exact revenge against both the Queen and the Flying Rangers. Then I shall use it to make this planet kneel down to me. Muhahaha." The laughter part of the message was particularly monotone.

Halatia growled at this. "The fool. We can't stand a chance of defeating Uuhcura unless the Rangers are able to use that robot. We have to stop him before he does something foolish."

In the town, Kodokor was once more marching through the streets, leaving destruction in his wake.

Lulu was nowhere near his, as she continued to look for her friends. "Come on, girls. You can't have gone anywhere outside of town this quickly.", she said to herself. Then, as if fate itself was trying to help her, she saw the two of them being accosted by a pair of muggers. In particular, Matt and Eddie. "Oh no."

"Don't move, pretty ladies.", Matt yelled as he swung his switchblade around. "Just give us everything you have and we'll let you go."

Lila was obviously scared of the situation. "Why are you doing this? We don't have much on us."

"Because of the big demon that appeared and wrecked half the city yesterday.", Eddie answered. "We figured that we might as well take what we can, since the world is doomed anyway."

Lulu couldn't just sit back and watch anymore. "Hey, you two. Back off the girls.", she yelled angrily.

This caused everyone to turn towards her. "Lulu!", Sasha called out. "Get away from here, or they'll go after you two."

"Oh, but I want them to come after me.", she replied in a deliberately cocky tone.

"Ooh, it's not everyday the victims ask to be robbed.", Matt said enthusiastically as he approached his new target. "This'll be the easiest defenceless victim anyone's ever mugged."

Lulu simply smiled almost sadistically. "Oh I'm not going to be defenceless again.", she said thinking back to her childhood encounter with Dolan, the Dominion's advance agent. "Not now, not ever." She then reached for her change bracelet. "Let's Fly!"

With a flash, Lulu morphed into the Blue Ranger and pulled out her Wing Saber. "Your little knife is cute. Want to compare it to mine?"

Matt and Eddie were now terrified. "Nah, we're fine.", Matt said as he dashed off away from the scene.

Eddie was quick to follow. "I think I here my mother calling."

Lila and Sasha were both astonished by what had just happened. "Lulu? What happened to you?"

Lulu then realised that this would get awkward. "I'm sorry, girls. I wanted to tell you about my new job, but I've been sworn to secrecy. All I can say is that you should get out of town soon. It's not safe anymore."

Before the conversation could continue, the Icarus Bomber appeared overhead. The other 4 Rangers were already inside. "Blue, we've got trouble.", Mark radioed. "We need to head out and stop Kodokor."

"Understood.", Lulu radioed in response. "I'm sorry.", she said to her friends before teleporting up to join the rest of her team. The Bomber then flew towards the mountains, transforming into the Megazord along the way.

At the Nest, the Falcon Corde was preparing to take off. "All systems clear for takeoff.", Aluze announced. "Standby."

Get Set, Ready? Dashing! Dashing! Dashing!

"Alright, let's go.", Avior announced as he flipped the ignition.

Goooo! F-F-F-Falcon!

However, the Falcon Corde did not make it very far before being shot down by Algrin and crashing into a quarry. "I'll be taking your ship now, Avion scum.", he declared.

"Over my dead body.", Avior said as he moved to attack the exiled Viscount.

"That's the general idea.", Algrin smiled as he cut down his opponent.

"No!", Aluze and Gliderak both called as they went to tend to their injured leader, Algrin took advantage of the distraction to steal the Falcon Corde and fly out towards the battle between the Icarus and Kodokor was taking place. "Oh no, we needed that to win.", Gliderak called out.

"We can't focus on getting it back now.", Aluze insisted. "We need to focus on getting our leader back to health."

"No.", Avior wheezed out. "It's too late for me. But it's not too late for the people of this planet. You need to ensure that the Rangers are able to form the Birdonic Ultrazord."

"I will, Master.", Gliderak nodded, now showing little of his mildly brash nature. He then turned and set off running. "If I'm going to face off against one of the Dominion's top dogs, then I'm going to do so with my own face." He then transformed back into his true appearance, resembling a humanoid bird in a blue space-age suit.

Meanwhile, Algrin found his way to the battlefield for the Icarus' showdown with the Prince. "An open pasture. The perfect place to bury my enemies. Initiating Falcon Megazord transformation."

Transfalcon!

The transformation complete, Algrin then proceeded to attack the Icarus with his new toy.

"What's going on with the Falcon?", Mark asked as the cockpit was buffeted. "You guys do know who your enemy is, don't you?"

"Oh I do, human.", Algrin replied. "I'm merely taking out my minor obstacles before my major ones."

Everyone was shocked to see Algrin in the cockpit. "Where did he come from?", Steven asked.

But no-one had time to answer the question, as the Falcon continued its vicious attack on the Icarus. Uuhcura looked on from the nearby gravel pit. "Well, well. I didn't expect this to happen. Perhaps Algrin would be a good ally to take over the Earth. If he would fall in line."

"I'll start my destruction with Winter Valley.", Algrin gloated. "And then, this entire planet!"

"End of the line, Algrin!", Gliderak called out as he burst into the control room and began a sword fight with the mad Viscount. "I'll keep him busy, you complete the combination.", he called out over the monitor. Sure enough he managed to fight off Algrin for a while, before he got knocked down.

"Fine then, I'll let you have this one, Rangers.", Algrin said. "After all, I've noticed my real enemy is nearby. Real nearby." He then leaped out of the cockpit to face Queen Uuhcura on the ground.

Mark ignored this, instead doing as Gliderak advised them to and commencing their new combination. "Commencing linkup now!"

Miracle Falcombine!

Ultimate Action Shift, On! Hawk Flier! Condor Zoom! Owl Jet! Swan Sonic! Swallow Plane! Falcon Corde! Birdonic Ultrazord! Take Off! Go, go, GO!

"Where does the Commander come up with these names?", Steven asked.

"Not a clue.", Wayne replied. "I just program the thing."

The Icarus detached it's arms and legs, as the Falcon pulled itself apart. The arms and legs of the two robots connected to each other, as the Hawk component slid into the centre of the Falcon's chest. Then the head of the Avion's mecha slid over the top of the Icarus head to form a helmet.

"Birdonic Ultrazord, assembly complete!", the team all called out, except Lulu. She had gone to check on Gliderak in the corridors of the robot.

"Are you okay?", she asked.

"It'll take a lot more than that to kill me.", he insisted. "Now get back to your team."

The fight against Kodokor then resumed. "Just because you're much bigger now, doesn't mean things will be different."

However, they were drastically different. Kodokor could now do very little to scratch his opponent, which effortlessly walked through the explosions he caused. Even trying to fly into it head first did more damage to Kodokor himself than it did the Ultrazord.

"Wing Cross Shoot!" The Ultrazord fired a beam from its eyes which knocked Kodokor back. "Now then, let's end this thing once and for all.", Mark declared, activating their new finisher. "Black Hole Crusher!"

The Ultrazord fired two spheres of energy, a blue and a red, at Kodokor. Their combined force ended up crushing Kodokor's body until it exploded. "Mother, I'm sorry.", he called out before his death.

"No!", Uuhcura called out in anger. "Those humans will pay for what they did to my son. All of them will be crushed."

"Indeed, my Queen.", Algrin said as he leaped in. "But not by you. I'll be taking your throne for myself."

The Queen laughed at this. "You are but one man, who failed to take me down before. Where as I can call upon whatever help I want. Now revive, Mutabrid, Kodokor, Betadron!" With a flash from her staff, she revived the hybridised remains of Kuroden and Aobrix, her own son who had just been defeated and the messenger she had used to announce her initial arrival.

"Oh he's not alone." A whip came out and knocked the revived combatants back. Uuhcura looked up to see Halatia and Galvahex. "You've annoyed a lot of the wrong people, Uuhcura. And now we want to join in the revenge."

Then 4 of the 5 Rangers (Wayne was taking the Ultrazord back to base with Gliderak) jumped in to join the battle. "Even if our motives don't exactly align.", Carrie called out.

"You think this makes a difference?", Uuhcura snarled. "I'll merely wipe all of you out at once!" Sure enough, the revivals simply split their focus between the three rogue Dominion commanders, while Uuhcura merely kept the Rangers at bay with her psychic powers. Then Carrie noticed a gem on top of the Queen's head and remembered something Halatia said earlier.

'…her main power source is the sapphire on her head. If you destroy that, it'll weaken the Queen….'

Carrie then levelled her Beak Blaster at the Queen's head. "Let's see how tough you are without your sapphire.", she called out as she fired. The blast hit the gem head on, shattering it.

"No!", the Queen called out as the psychic influence wore off and the revived combatants vanished, as did the Queen's staff. Then Galvahex pulled out his Gatling Laser. "You can't attack me, robot! You're programmed to obey orders."

"Yes. Orders from Algrin, not you." Galvahex then wasted no time in firing at the Queen, disorientating her.

Then Wayne returned by way of the Condor Zoom. "Don't leave me out of the fun." He then delivered a flurry of slashes to Uuhcura knocking her even further back and disorientating her significantly.

"Okay, let's finish this.", Mark said. "Rover Launcher!"

Cannon Mode! Red Black Yellow White Blue Charge! All Charge, Combine! Full Power!

"This is impossible.", Uuhcura yelled. "I was supposed to take your world. You're not supposed to win!"

"Viva la Revolution.", Mark commented as he pressed the button. "Fire!"

Maximum Firebird Bombardment!

The huge fireball hit its target, leaving behind a smoking corpse. "Did we do it?", Lulu asked. "Is she…?"

"Oh she's done for, alright.", Algrin said. He then launched a beam from his hand at the Rangers sending them flying. "Fortunately, I've decided to spare you her fate for now. But our association is hereby concluded. Next time, we will not be so lenient." He then cut open a portal with his sword, through which he, Halatia and Galvahex exited the scene.

Some time later, the Rangers were escorted by Gliderak to Avior, who had now reverted to his true form and was now visibly weak. "I'm sorry, there was nothing I could do.", Aluze stated. "He doesn't have a lot of time left."

"Don't apologise.", Avior wheezed out. "I'm an old man, I was going to go out anyway, either through natural causes or trying to see my vendetta through to the end. I knew that you and Gliderak would be the future of our species. I want you to live your lives away from this battle, making use of your time."

"We will, Master.", Gliderak said. "To tell the truth, revenge has brought our species nothing but misfortune. We've been lucky so far, but one day, our species will end with us unless we do something." He then took Aluze into his arm and led her away. "Keep the Falcon.", he called back to the Rangers. "It'll be a lot more useful to you then it was to us." With that, he two Avions left, departing for whatever road the wind would take them on.

Avior then took Mark close to him, whispering something to him. "Your Commander isn't being honest with you. Everything she's told you about herself is a lie. That's not even her real face." With that, he let out a harsh breath and his head fell back.

"What is she then?", Mark asked. "Avior, who is she really?"

"Mark, he's gone.", Carrie said solemnly. "I'm not even sure what he was saying had any real basis. Let's go home."

But as they went back to the Nest, Mark thought about what had been said to him. He knew it was the truth, something deep down was telling him that. There was something wrong with Gordon. And he had every intention of finding out what it was.

That night, Mark led Lulu to the penthouse where his girlfriend Mary lived while on Earth. "Luckily, Mary always said that if I needed to, then I could stay over here. She even gave me my own key."

"Well that was nice of her.", Lulu replied. "Just as it was nice of the Vice-President to promote you to a Flying Officer. Not to mention making the Commander a Group captain. I wish I was in the Air Force for real, so I could get a promotion."

Mark smiled. "Well, it was only right. We did take out one of the enemy's leaders and her trump card. Even if we're a secret organisation, we still have the right to be rewarded every now and again." He then unlocked the door. "We may have put Algrin back in charge of the invasion, but we're definitely stronger now. Whatever he throws at us, we'll keep bouncing back." He then led his sister is die what would be their home for the foreseeable future.

In deep space, Sir Tann was getting frustrated with the progress of his ship. "How much further to Earth?", he yelled.

"We're still three weeks away from the planet.", Cannant informed him. "We'd be there sooner if we'd chosen a ship with a hyperdrive."

"There weren't any that could house this capacity in our armada." Tann was referring to both the humans that he had taken with him to serve as both a guide and a design team for his new weapon and the grunts that he had taken as security, one of whom came in to the room.

"Sir, we've received news from Earth. Queen Uuhcura is dead, slain by the Flying Rangers.", the grunt blurted out.

"What?", Tann yelled, before developing a smile on his face, which degenerated into laughter. "The Queen is dead. My sister, the Queen, is dead."

Cannant picked up on the point he was making and bowed. "Long live the King!"

New competition. The next person to post a review gets the chance to name the 4 military characters featured here, as while they are intended to be recurring, i do not have first names for them.