"Where are they?!", Tann screamed a she crashed his way through the doors of the facility known as the Nest. "The Hadaruga's sinal definitely came from this position. If not the Rangers, one of their support staff should be here."

It was Galvahex who answered that question. "If nothing else, the Rangers are resourceful. It is doubtful they would simply sit idly by while we prepare to instigate a massive attack on their headquarters. It seems likely that they took advantage of our distraction to escape elsewhere."

"But where?", Tann yelled. "Where could those fools have relocated to that eluded our detection?" He had turned around to address this question to Halatia.

"If I knew the answer to that, you'd be there right now crushing them beneath your heel.", was the woman's answer.

Before the Emperor could get any angrier, he received a message. It was from Fwelf, the ship's former junior technical officer, since reassigned elsewhere. "My Lord, we have completed work on the special project and the humans have been moved to the appropriate position you ordered."

Tann smiled at this news. "Ah, excellent. Then we should be able to crush this planet within hours."

But Fwelf merely shook his head. "Actually no. Even with the help of the human workers, we have barely enough power to move an arm, let alone launch it across space. We can teleport it to you, but you'll have to fuel it up yourself." With that said, he signed off.

Tann was angry, but he didn't show it well. "Since we have an army of Bio-Roids and U-Clones here already, we may as well use it. Send them out into the city to gather civilians."

"Are you sure?", Galvahex asked. "An Attack on the populace would likely draw more attention from the Rangers."

"Just do it!", the Emperor yelled. Both of the subordinates took a step backwards and nodded, before leaving with the gathered army. "And while I AM here, I might as well secure the security recordings before razing this place."

Elsewhere, in the meeting room of the Lowfall Apartments building, Mark Goodman had assembled the Flying Ranger team, consisting of his sister Lulu, Dr. Wayne Burley, Medical Officer Caroline Brown, Marvin Hinton (alias Steven Hartford), Group captain June Gordon (recently revealed as the alien known as Jangar), Edward Ratcliffe and Jimmy Caldwell. Also present were their other alien allies Gliderak and Aluze, plus regular military members Captain Rolfe, Sergeant Rolfe, Corporal Jarvis and Private Dawson among others. It was Wayne out of all the assembled personnel who asked Mark the question on everyone's lips. "Why did you choose this place for us to meet?"

"That is a good question.", came the reply. "The answer is that after looking over the air base 5 times, I found it was missing two things. A place to monitor activity in the city and a half-decent meeting place. Then I realised that the place where I was staying had a large room that could effectively double as both. Namely, this room."

"It certainly seems like a good place for both.", Carrie said. "But aren't you worried that we might be discovered by someone walking in by accident?"

"Not gonna happen.", Captain Rolfe said. "At the rate of which the attacks are increasing in scope and severity, the President has given us orders to evacuate the whole civilian population after the next incident."

"Plus we've persuaded the manager to keep anyone from coming into the room when we're using it.", Lulu added.

Steven was intrigued. "How did you explain the whole -?"

"Leroy knows.", Mark interrupted to answer the question. "I told him.", he added to avoid any more complicated explanations.

"Well if all that's in order, we should get down to business.", Gordon said. "Now then, I'm sure that you all have a few questions."

"That's the understatement of the millennium.", Private Dawson pointed out. "I mean, you seem to be a normal Vietnam vet and now it turns out you're an alien? I'm not even sure where to begin with that."

"Indeed.", Aluze nodded. "You came to our planet, provided us with a few basic weapons and then fled through space, eventually ending up here. I would be grateful to know how that happened."

"The answer to that, is actually very simple, if we go back to my time on Avion Minor.", came the reply from Gordon, or rather Jangar. "While I was there, I went out to face an army that was marching on a town of farmers. While waiting for an ambush, I overheard a pair of grunts talking about Uuhcura's next target."

"I assume you're referring to Earth.", Mark guessed.

"Exactly. Against my better judgment, I left those villagers to their fate and made my way to Earth. However, on the way I collided with a satellite being launched into the atmosphere. I crash-landed in the South Korean jungle, where I was sighted by the US Army, in particular Colonel Alex."

"I can tell you what happened next.", Steven said taking over. "He led a special group, consisting of myself and the real June Gordon into the jungle to find the ship. However, in the process we discover Alex's real motivation for the salvage mission: trying to find something to overthrow the world's governments. When we found Jangar in there, the Colonel tried to kill her, but I intervened. In the process, I was thrown into what I know now was the ship's warp drive and ended up 22 years and several thousand miles away, with no memory of what happened beforehand."

"That's simply because the warp drive wasn't made to be entered like that.", Gordon said resuming the explanation. "Anyway, the real June Gordon died taking a shot aimed at me. In order to repay her for her kindness, and to continue helping this planet defend itself, I assumed her face and then began working on what would be known as the Flying Rangers. I based the idea off of legends I had heard about the legendary heroes of the universe from my mother. In your language, their name translates as "Power Rangers."

Lulu thought about that name. "I think that Kuroden creep might have mentioned something about "Power Rangers", but he never elaborated on it in detail."

"They're a pretty big deal in the rest of the Galaxy. But on this planet, I had to come up with the "Flying Rangers" moniker to get the project taken seriously. I even had to leave the word "Megazord" off the names of the plans for our giant robots."

"So that's where that word comes from.", Steven said, in a tone that invoked "Oh, so that's how it works."

Mark then decided to ask a question. "You've done so much to protect planets you have no reason to protect? Why do it?"

At this, Gordon hung her head. "Because my planet Avion Major was lost to the Dominion. Since then, I've been trying to make sure that other planets avoid that fate."

Before the conversation could continue further, a beeping sound came from a small computer that Caldwell and Ratcliffe were monitoring. "Captain, there's a large concentration of enemy troops in the city."

"Bio-Roids or U-Clones?", Carrie asked.

"Both.", came Ratcliffe's response. "They're attacking civilians and teleporting out with them."

"Alright team, let's move out.", Mark instructed. The other Rangers nodded and left the room.

"Don't let them take all the credit.", Captain Rolfe told his men. "We need to go out and do what we can."

"Sir!" The rest of the soldiers saluted and moved out under their captain's orders.

"I just hope everyone makes it out of this.", Gordon said to the two Avions.

Aboard his ship, Tann was admiring his new weapon. It was a giant robot, about the same size as the Icarus and the Falcon, but with twice as much power as both. It was covered in spikes and generally looked intimidating. "Soon, my creation. The Flying Rangers will fall before your might."

As he walked away, Algrin watched, accompanied by Galvahex and Halatia. "Let the baby have his bottle.", Algrin said mockingly. "Thanks to the security recordings from the Rangers' former headquarters, I have discovered that there is a surviving Keiam on the Ranger's support team."

"But how?", Galvahex asked. "The planet of Avion Major was sterilised of all living matter when they became too much of a liability. You and I were both there, Lord Algrin."

"I know that, you fool.", Algrin snapped. "But in my travels, I acquired a parasite that could destroy the DNA of Avion system inhabitants completely. And it can track, sneak in and take out the Keiam without being detected. Come forth, my Mekros" (note: pronounced mee-crows)

A leech-like creature with twin drills on its arms emerged from the ground snarling. It nodded in response to its given task and teleported out, in search of its prey.

In the city, the Rangers were dealing with the enemy troops rounding up the citizens. "What do you think's brought about this attack?", Steven asked as he slashed at a few Bio-Roids, escorting the children they were menacing to safety.

In order to deal more effectively with the problem, the 5 had gone off on their own to cover more ground. As such, all responses were over their communicators. "Who knows?", was Carrie's response. "Given that they've never been this aggressive before, I assume that Tann must have something big planned."

"But what could require this many people?", Lulu said, as she took out some U-Clones with her Hyper Cannon.

"Best guess is something really terrible, if it requires this many people.", Wayne answered as he delivered a Sky-Enforcer aided, tachyon powered punch, which blew up the Bio-Roid it hit.

"Whatever it is, we have to make sure they don't succeed.", Mark said as he slashed his group of combatants. "Unless it's already too late."

Elsewhere in the city, the Mekros, having shifted to a much smaller size, flew through the city in search of its target, looking out for the scent of a Keiam. She may have cloaked herself, but it could make out the distinct whiff of the species, coming from a block of apartments. It flew in, finding its target, flying inside her body and striking.

In the city, Corporal Jarvis led his squad into battle with a group of Bio-Roids. "Okay troops, make sure to take out as many enemy combatants as possible.", the Corporal commanded. The troops complied unloading their rifles at the Bio-Roids, cutting them down. However, when faced with the U-Clones, their ammo proved ineffective. "Keep firing.", Jarvis yelled.

"It's no good.", said one of the troops. "Weapons are ineffective." Before anything else could be done to rectify this, the U-Clones overwhelmed and captured the entire squad.

Elsewhere, Carrie had just finished taking down another group of Bio-Roids, when she received a call on her communicator. "Alright Captain, what is it this time? A giant tomato terrorising children?"

But the voice on the other end wasn't Gordon's. Nor was it Ratcliffe's or Caldwell's. It was Aluze's. "White Ranger, Jangar has been struck down by an unknown force. We need you to help discover the cause and cure it."

Carrie was shocked to hear this. "Get her to the air base. There's a medical centre, where I'll meet up with you. Over and out." Having signed off, Carrie then proceeded to call the other Rangers. "Guys, there's something wrong with the Commander. You'll have to make do without me for a while."

Later, at the air base, Carrie had placed Jangar, now reverted back to her natural appearance, under an x-ray. "This is going to be difficult, since I don't really know much about the Group captain's physiology.", she told them. As the x-rays printed, she say a black dot within the pelvic region. "Is this normal for people in your star system?"

"It isn't.", Aluze assured her. "If anything, it's a parasite that's taking her apart from within. And given the symptoms, only one fits the bill."

Gliderak nodded. "A Mekros. They almost wiped out Avion Minor thousands of years ago, but we were able to find an paracide that could wipe them out. Unfortunately, the formula for it is lost to the ages."

"You mean there's no way for us to save her life?", Carrie asked.

Aluze had an idea. "When we were working on the Falcon Corde, she had to repair microcircuits that were normally inaccessible. So we had a shrinking ray created to handle those repairs. We might have one still stored away in the ship, but it's too risky."

"Why? Surely anything that can be done is worth trying."

"Because the effect is temporary. After a few minutes, the shrunken object returns to normal and will explode if it doesn't have enough room to do so within a 3 kilometre radius. There's no guarantee that you'll find the Mekros before you return to normal.", Aluze informed her.

Hearing that, Carrie had an idea. "A normal human might not be able to find it, but what about a giant robot? Could we send the Icarus in there to find and remove the Mekros?"

Aluze bought about this. "Theoretically, it's possible. But we'd need to make sure that Jangar is outside when the Icarus returns to normal size. Otherwise your friends will really be done for."

"We can handle that easily enough.", Carrie assured her, as she opened her communicator. "I just need to let the others know about the plan."

Onboard the ship, Tann noticed the Rangers retreating from town. "What's brought about this retreat?"

Halatia decided to answer him. "Algrin said he was going to release a parasite to target someone in their ranks. They must have discovered what happened and gone to help. Should I order the Bio-Roids to destroy them?"

Tann thought for a moment, then replied. "No, my new weapon will see to their destruction. Especially since we've collected more than enough humans for it." He noticed his underling's confused face. "You must be wondering what we need all these humans for. Well my dear, I suppose I owe you that much. They were your people after all."

The Emperor then pressed a button on his gauntlet, teleporting the two into a chamber. In the chamber were multiple humans, some of whom Mary recognised from the crew of Space Station Garuda, like Lefee and van Lyden. Others were the people taken from the city, such as Corporal Jarvis' squad. "What're all these people for?", asked "Halatia".

"Why to power the robot of course.", Tann answered her. "On your planet, they have an expression, don't they? 'Giving your life for the cause'? Well these people will give their life essence to power up my new robot. With this added power, it shall be twice as strong as the Icarus robot, with none of the weaknesses."

Mary gulped at hearing this. "Do you have a name for this robot?", she asked.

"Indeed I do. Just as you named the Ranger's mighty robot the Icarus, after one who touched the heavens, I have chosen a name from one who entered the depths of the underworld and lived to tell the tale. My robot is known as 'Orpheus'."

Down on Earth, Mark, Wayne, Steven and Lulu had assembled and entered the Icarus as the shrinking ray was prepared. "So do you guys know what the plan is?"

"Get inside Gordon's body, find this parasite and get it out into the open so we can destroy it.", Steven said.

"It's not exactly a hard plan to remember.", Lulu added.

Wayne was next to chip in. "I have one question. What aren't you going with us to stop this thing?"

"I need to stay out here and monitor your position.", was Carrie's answer. "As soon as you get it out of the Group captain's body, I'll join you in the Falcon."

"I think we've got everything in order now.", Mark said over the radio. "Commence the shrinking process."

"Roger.", Aluze replied as she operated the machine. "Directing device towards target. Commencing miniaturisation process in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Process beginning." The shrinking machine hit the Icarus, reducing it to a smaller size.

Gliderak then scooped up the tiny Icarus into a hypodermic needle and injected it into the bloodstream of Jangar. "Okay, they're inside her body. What do we do now?"

"Now, you two have to get her outside so they can escape.", Carrie instructed. "I'll stay here and monitor their progress from here."

Inside Gordon's body, the Icarus made its way through the blood towards the site where they had registered the parasite. "Alright, it's just up ahead.", Mark told the others. "Be ready for anything."

As the Icarus continued its search, it was ambushed by the Mekros, which plunged its drills into the robot's back, buffeting everyone. "I wasn't ready for that.", Lulu said sheepishly.

The two faced off, with the Mekros launching a bolt of thunder from its mouth, which buffeted them further. "We need to finish this thing fast.", Mark stated. "Icarus Saber!"

The robot tied striking its opponent with its main weapon, only to be met with nothing for their efforts. "He deflected all of them.", Steven announced.

"More likely the Icarus Saber wasn't made to be used in this environment.", Wayne noted.

Mekros continued its attack, knocking the Icarus out of the bloodstream, through a green-coloured artery into the stomach. "You can't say I'm not keeping up with my biology lessons in all this.", Lulu commented.

"Alright, where are we?", Mark asked.

Outside the Icarus, the robot's shell started to dissolve. "I'd say we're in the stomach.", Wayne said in response. "And we're the food."

"Let's get out of here before we end up coming out the wrong end of the body.", Steven said. The Icarus then pushed its way out of the stomach back towards the area of the bloodstream where Mekros was still waiting for them. The fight resumed, with Mekros grabbing the robot and draining its energy.

"We don't have much power left.", Lulu reported.

"Don't worry, we're about to teleport out, hopefully with this thing in toll.", Steven assured her.

Out in the city, Gliderak and Aluze had moved the prone body of Jangar to the abandoned mall. "What do we do now?", asked Gliderak.

"Now, we wait.", responded Aluze.

As she finished saying this, the Icarus teleported out and resumed normal size in the middle of the city. But Mekros had followed them out and was still draining energy. "We're about to go down.", Lulu reported. And sure enough, they did.

Algrin appeared in the city next to the two Avions. "This is better than I imagined. I set out to eliminate the Keiam and I end up defeating the Flying Rangers."

As the Mekros advanced on its prey to finish the 4, it was intercepted by a flying kick delivered by the Falcon Megazord. Inside, Carrie radioed a message to the others. "Sorry I'm late. But I'm about to show this freak not to mess with us or our friends."

Algrin growled at this. "Looks like I'll have to wait for the next time.", he said as he teleported out.

After a prolonged fight in her favour, Carrie hit the Mekros with the Birdonic Maser and then jumped into the air. "Scratch Break!" The Falcon initiated its finishing move, destroying the parasite once and for all. "Now that was a close one."

On the ground, Gordon woke up and resumed her human form. "What happened? The last thing I remember I think I was stung by a bee." The two Avions jumped for joy to see their legendary saviour was okay.

However, the Rangers were in less of a celebratory mood, noting the sudden appearance of thunderclouds on the horizon. "Something big is waiting to happen.", Mark said. "I can feel it."

Aboard the ship, Algrin fumed over his latest defeat as Tann approached. "Chin up, soldier. Thanks to your efforts, Orpheus is complete and ready to move out." As he said this, the super robot stood above them, framed in the shadows.

And in the city, a newcomer appeared, as if out of thin air. He knew he had one objective to complete. To save the world by disposing of the Flying Rangers.