Disclaimer: I own nothing contained in this story exept the OC, all rights to super sentai belong to Toei Company, Power Ranger is a trademark of Hasbro inc.
Chapter 1 : The black cross invades
Liam couldn't believe all that had happened over the last 24 hours, over the last few months even if he was honest.
First the black cross army had revealed itself to the world, a terrorist organisation led by the black cross fürher. Their goal is to take over the planet using their army of brainwashed and cybernetically enhance human test-subjects known as Zolders.
In response to this new massive threat the UN created EAGLE. A group of researchers and fighters designed pursue a new means of fighting this new and weird threat. For not only did the black cross use Zolders but a whole host of monsters called masks, far more powerful than the Zolders.
Despite being only 17, Liam Devitt, had been recruited to EAGLE UK, due to his skills in the martial art of capoeira. Liam had been moved to London where he had started training to take down the black cross.
Fat lot of good that did he thought to himself glumly, barely a month after he had arrived, the black cross had attacked his base, led by a monster called gold mask, a monster wearing a black robe and a golden mask, wielding a scythe that he used with deadly accuracy. They had slaughtered the entire base, Liam had been the only survivor, somehow
He had walked among the ruins of the base, seeing the bodies of his dead comrades, when an EAGLE craft landed and took him to their last remaining base in Japan, apparently the attack on Liam's base had been part of larger coordinated attack on all of EAGLE, Japan had only survived due to the fact that they had not been found.
And so here he waited for his new commander to arrive, with all that remained of EAGLE, 5 teenagers who looked around the same age a Liam, Earth was so screwed.
As images of his dead companions flashed through Liam's head, an older Japanese man entered wearing the garb of an EAGLE commander.
"Hello soldiers, I am commander Edogawa, the leader of this base. As I'm sure you are aware the black cross has destroyed most of our bases around the world, only you five survived, to make things worse this is not a combat station but a research station, we have not a single soldier among us, except two guards, who a are in no way capable of defending us from the black cross. I do however have some good news; we aren't out of the fight just yet".
At these words Liam perked up, what could he possibly mean. Almost all their forces were dead. How could they stand against the black cross army just them?
"Here in EAGLE Japan, we have been experimenting with something called the morphing grid, a bio-electronic field, present all around us. This field contains immense power, and we have found a way to tap into this power, a procedure which will allow you to access power you could only dream of, the power to defeat the black cross. Should you accept, you will become Power Rangers."
"What do you mean procedure? Why doesn't everyone get this procedure, if it'll make us so powerful?" questioned one of the survivors, a tanned boy, with short blonde hair and intense green eyes
"Good questions Niall, for the procedure you will be placed in a container which will be flooded with morphing energy, which will allow you to access you ranger forms, it might be slightly painful but without major danger, as for everyone getting this procedure, I don't understand the specifics but the technology used will only access a small section of the morphing grid, this section has limited levels or wavelengths. And only one person may access a wavelength. The section of the grid we have access to contains 5 wavelengths, thus we may only create five rangers, you five to be precise".
Niall nodded seeming satisfied.
"If there are no other questions, I will introduce you all before taking you to the container", there were no further questions, "excellent, then first may I present Niall, from EAGLE Australia, specialised in armed combat, he shall be Red One, the leader of your team", the boy who had spoken previously raised a hand in acknowledgement, "next Astrid from EAGLE Europe, specialised in marksmanship, you shall be Blue Two,", a short, pale girl with silver hair stood up, nodded then sat down, " Marco, from EAGLE south America, specialised in bo-jutsu, you shall be Yellow Three," a big brown skinned boy raised his hand, he was completely bald, and heavily muscled, "Molly, from EAGLE USA, explosive specialist, you will be Pink Four", a brown haired girl wearing glasses and with a slightly crazy glint in her eye nodded at the room, " and last but not least Liam, from EAGLE UK, hand-to-hand specialist you shall be Black Five." Liam nodded at the group.
"Now that the introductions are done, come with me please, I will lead you to the morphing container".
The container turned out to be a large cylinder, 3 meters tall and with a 2-meter diameter, next to it were two scientists with white lab coats standing next to a panel of buttons, screens, and levers. As the group approached, the container split open, leaving an access big enough for someone to enter.
Commander Edogawa stopped before the container, "Here we are, if you are all ready, we will start with you Niall".
Niall looked doubtful and pretty scared but nodded anyway and took a deep breath and stepped into the machine. The opening closed behind him, sealing him in.
The commander nodded at the scientists who immediately started working at their control station. From the outside nothing seemed to be happening, but a minute later the cylinder opened to reveal someone in red form fitting combat armour with a red cape, a helmet with a huge visor and 1 on it, as well a yellow V over his chest.
"This is awesome" said Niall's voice, coming from the helmet, "I feel so much more powerful, I think we might just be able to kick the black cross's masked behind with this".
After a successful first try, the others followed quickly, Astrid becoming the blue ranger, Marco the yellow and Molly the pink, until finally it was Liam's turn, to transform into what appeared to be a superhero.
He stepped into the cylinder, which dutifully enclosed about him. The inside of the container was very modern, a white light shone down, illuminating the space, on the wall were dozens of circular panels, that started glowing, emitting a low hum. Immediately Liam could feel himself getting stronger, he could feel the armour growing on his body, then he heard sparks and people shouting, from the outside. Suddenly the light turned of with a blast of sparks, momentarily blinding Liam.
The circular panels from which his newfound power had been coming from, exploded outwards, shards of glass, slicing through Liam's body leaving bloody gashes. Yet the power did not stop coming, but rather intensified, crashing into Liam's body slamming him against the side of the container. He felt like he was being ripped apart as energy pulled and pushed him in every direction.
Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, the machined stopped, and Liam's battered, and bleeding body crumpled to the ground. As the container opened the commander rushed in and dragged Liam out. He appeared to be screaming something, but Liam couldn't make out what it was.
The commander laid him down on the ground, around him the four rangers looked on, no emotion visible due to the helmets, but their position showed worry.
Suddenly a surge of energy passed through Liam, his pain melting away like snow in the rain. He stood up hesitantly not sure if his legs would hold him, but they held steady.
He looked up and saw everyone looking at him in shock.
"Wasn't he supposed to be the black ranger?" asked Astrid.
Confused Liam looked down and found to his shock that he was not only wearing power ranger armour but instead of the black colour he was expecting to see, his costume was green. He managed a small smile that nobody saw then collapsed, falling into unconsciousness.
He woke up a day later with a start. In front of him the commander leapt up from his chair with a start.
"Liam, are you ok, you gave us all quite the fright yesterday" asked the commander
"I'm fine, surprisingly so, I was slashed to pieces before, what happened? What time is it? Why I am I green instead of black? Where am I? Where's my suit?"
"Relax Liam, I'll answer all your questions, when you went into the machine, it sort of overloaded, we were lucky I didn't explode, as to why it overloaded, the main theory is that it simply couldn't handle so much energy going through it with such short breaks to cool down. The time is 16:27, you have been out cold for almost 26 hours. As to why your suit is green and not black, we don't really know, is seems the amount of energy that surged through you affected the composition of the morphing grid, or at least the part of it we have access too, and modified the wavelength you were supposed to access, changing it from black to green. You are currently in our medical room and your suit is inside you, or rather you have the ability to apply it to yourself using the energy you now have access too. Any other question?"
"Just one, what do you mean modified its wavelength"
"I'll explain it to you the way it was explained to me, if you want more details, I advise you to seek out one of our researchers. Imagine squares all parallel to one another, but all separated by a certain distance from the ground, one is a meter above ground another at 2 meters and so on. The tower all these squares create are the section of the morphing grid we have access to, and each square represents an energy that a single person can tap into to become a ranger. Its distance from the ground affecting the colour of the ranger as well as individual power such as weapons. Now during the overload that happened during your transformation, you reached you square, the black square if you will, but the energy that went through you returned to the grid and moved the square to a new distance from the ground, changing from, lets say 5m to 4.5m, meaning that its "colour" changed, not only that but your weapon will have changed, we will discover a lot when you enter combat situations."
"I think I get it, or at least a vague idea of what happened, what happened to the others?"
"They're fine, they are in the ranger quarters, waiting for you, so we can start your training, for you to control your powers."
Suddenly an alarm went off. The commander looks at Liam. "Never mind, if you can stand follow me". And he leapt up and ran
Liam leapt out of the bed he was lying in and set off after the commander, feeling surprisingly good for someone who had just woken up from a 26hours black out. He followed the commander through the base to the control room. Its big monitor showing an image that froze Liam's blood. Gold mask, the monster that had killed his friends and destroyed his base, had captured a bus full of children, along with a group of Zolders. The map showing their location to be but a few miles away in the centre of Tokyo.
Behind him the rest of the rangers arrived. Their eyes quickly turned to the monitor.
"He's trying to bait us out" said the commander through gritted teeth.
"We don't have a choice", replied Niall, "we have these powers to save lives, and to defeat the black cross. We have to go get him"
"Fine" replied the commander, "take the motorcycles, there should be one for each of you, they should get you there fast enough". The rangers ran off.
"Liam wait, this dagger appeared with you suit but never disappeared when you demorphed, take it, it may come in handy".
Liam nodded taking the dagger the commander was offering him, without really looking at it, before racing of after the others.
Minutes later the rangers arrived on location. Leaping of their bikes and starting running down the street towards the masked monster, Niall in the middle, the rest spread out around him, Liam, on his far-left side next to Astrid. On the other side Marco and Molly.
Gold mask saw their approach and positioned himself in front of them blocking their access to the bus.
"Sooooooo this is all the mighty EAGLE could muster to fight me, five pathetic teenagers, I needn't bother myself with you, Zolders".
At the monster's call, the leather clad henchmen, ran past him, charging the rangers.
"Ready" called out Niall
"Ready" responded the others
Liam focused inside of himself, and felt his ranger power, calling it out. Immediately he felt his armour growing around his body, and his strength increasing. He opened his eyes to see the others had morphed as well. As one they charged to meet the enemy head on.
Liam met the first Zolder in front of him with a kick to the face, crashing though the minion nose and sending it flying into one of its friends, before quickly crouching down and taking another's legs out from under it. Leaping the fallen minion, he unleashed an elbow to the side of the head of the next Zolder, on the impact he felt skull give way as his elbow plunged into the henchman grey matter.
Having no time to think on what had just happened Liam had to block a pair of kicks from two more Zolders, he quickly dispatched of them with a cartwheel kick, bones crunching beneath the power of his blows.
Around him he noticed the other rangers dispatching their enemies with the same ruthless efficiency. The last Zolder launched himself desperately at Liam, who met it with a roundhouse kick that collapsed the minion's neck into his body.
Slightly sickened by what had just happened, Liam joined the other rangers, as they lined up to face the monster in front of them. Gold mask just laughed at them.
"Ohhh so you think that you kill a few puny ants, and suddenly your worthy of fighting me, well come on then".
Liam didn't need telling twice he ran forward, his team mates calling him, back but he ignored them, gold mask swung his scythe, but Liam rolled under it, leaping up behind the monster and aimed a kick at the monster now exposed golden head. But before he could make contact the handle of the scythe caught him in the stomach, sending flying backwards, colliding with the bus, making a large dent in its side.
"Next" laughed the monster
Liam groaned at the pain in his abdomen and back, before looking up and seeing the rest of the rangers reach up to their helmets and remove an external visor transforming into weapons. He felt up to his own visor and came away with what looked like a modern slingshot.
"Great, they get staffs, whips and bombs, and I get a slingshot, well let's see what this thing can do". He levelled it at the monster, pulled back the empty holder and fired.
A laser beam shot out, colliding with the back of gold mask's head, causing him to stagger forward. "Cool" thought Liam.
The momentary distraction that his slingshot caused was all the other rangers needed to close the distance and attack the monster, and it wasn't long before a full-on battle was going on. Liam joined in leaping of the monster's head and firing two shots into its head and receiving a small blow to the head for his trouble.
All around him, his team was delivering solid blows to the monster, but receiving hits themselves. Molly, received the worst of it, receiving a scythe blow right to the side of the head, sending her smashing through one of the building next to them. A blow that took her out of the fight for the present.
With the pink ranger gone, the other four quickly put a strategy in place, agreed upon by almost telepathic agreement. Astrid and Liam took a step back, using their ranged weapons to harass the monster while Niall and Marco used the now freed up battle area to be able to dodge and deliver more powerful blows.
Using this technique, it wasn't long before gold mask had to back away, they were winning and to make thing even better the pink ranger was climbing out of the rubble, battered and bruised but ready to end the fight.
As she crawled out, Liam and Astrid fired twin shots into the monster's eyes, blinding it momentarily allowing Marco and Niall, to do a combined strike against the creature sending it flying.
"We need to combine our forces if we want to take out this freak" said the red ranger.
"I know and I've got an idea, everyone put your power in this ball" said the pink ranger withdrawing a white football.
The rangers gathered around it, and did as she asked, the ball turning from white into a veritable rainbow of colour.
As they did this, gold mask got back to his feet, and started advancing on the rangers.
"Now" cried the pink ranger tossing the ball into the air, as she did Niall, Astrid and Liam, leapt into the sky and together kicked the ball straight at gold mask.
The resulting explosion shook the entire street, breaking most of the windows. The rangers themselves were almost pushed back.
Yet as the smoke cleared, they could see gold mask was still alive, his robe in tatters, and his golden face badly cracked, but still very much alive.
"Gods, what is gonna kill this thing" asked Molly, as the rangers starred at the monster.
Without even thinking, Liam dropped his slingshot, and withdrew the dagger that the commander had given to him, and advanced on the staggering gold mask, who fell to his knees before the green ranger. He opened his mouth to speak, but before he could Liam drove his blade straight into gold masks head, piercing his golden mask. As he withdrew his dagger, gold mask fell to his side, finally dead. "Take that you son of a bitch"
"We did it" exclaimed the yellow ranger.
It was the day after the battle, and the rangers had recovered after all but passing out from exhaustion after they got back to base. Though they still nursed a fair few bruises all over their bodies.
"Good work team" said their commander, "I'd say that was an excellent first fight, I am very proud of you, and I'm sure your fallen comrades would be too, but we a far from the end of this war, training starts in two hours. Dismissed"
The rangers fell out into the mess hall to have some breakfast. Sitting at the same table, the previous battle having forged a friendship that might have taken months to achieve had they not shared such an experience.
"What I want to know is what the hell was that dagger you used Liam, and why didn't you start with that?" asked Astrid.
"I don't know" answered Liam, withdrawing the blade in question, "it stayed after my first morphing, no one knows where it came from, as to why I didn't use it, I didn't remember I had it with me until in plunged into gold masks skull."
"I'm just glad you have it for when we need it next time" said Molly.
"Me too, especially when certain people seem to have a tendency for going through walls" said Niall, nudging Molly.
They all laughed, feeling in high spirits after their first victory, despite all they had lost.
Deep in the black cross castle, the black cross fürher crushed the Zolder, who had told him of gold mask's defeat. He glared at the remaining henchmen in front of him
"So, they want a war do they, fetch the rest of the five"