Providence Base.

A light aircraft descended to land next to the captured Control Gear, with the passenger disembarking. "Commander Goodman, welcome to Providence Base.", Winda greeted. "Rest assured that everything has been set up for our use."

"I should hope so, given you had time to name it.", Goodman responded. "I hear you've got a new Ranger for your team. Can I see him?"

"I'll see what I can arrange with him.", Winda answered. "For now, I think I should show you the base inside and out."

"As long as there's a half-decent bed in this place, I'll be happy.", Goodman said, to the android's confusion. "Never mind."

Inside the structure, Proton was reviewing the logbooks that had been transported earlier. "So all the children on Earth of a certain age have vanished and there's been no trace of them, even as Gingaku's hold over Earth weakened.", he noted.

"That's pretty much the gist of it.", Slash nodded.

"Yeah, and I nearly joined the rest of them before Yuri made me a Ranger.", Barry added. "Thank god I escaped that fate."

"Yes.", Proton said to himself. "How very fortunate of you."

The small discussion was interrupted by Winda, who was still giving her tour of the base. "And this is one of the living quarters, which is currently being occupied by our newest member…"

"It's you.", Commander Goodman said with shock upon seeing Proton. "I don't know how, but I know for a fact I've seen you before when I was a kid."

"You must be mistaken.", Proton insisted. "Now then Barry. Can I have a word with you?"

"No, I do know you, just not personally.", Goodman insisted. "My brother and I both looked up to you."

"I assure you I've never set foot on Earth before now.", Proton said, somewhat hesitantly. "Now then Barry, let's go." He took the child and left the room.

"Something's up with him.", Slash realised. "He seemed very insistent to deny your story, Commander."

"Plus he's taken Barry off with him to a place I register to be outside the confines of this base.", Winda noted.

"You'd better check him out.", Goodman told them. "Or do you not take orders from me?"

"We'll take this one.", Winda nodded, before grabbing Slash and dragging him out. "Now let's go."

In another room of the Control Gear, the rest of the Rangers were in conference. "All right team, we've successfully liberated Earth from the control of Gingaku, now we need to plan our next move."

"It shouldn't be too difficult to free other planets.", Scales pointed out. "Most of them only have one Controller for the whole planet."

"Right.", Myron nodded. "So I think our main target should be Gingaku himself."

"But that's where we run into problems.", Mila pointed out. "We don't know anything about him, who he is, or what planet he's based on."

"He could be Dark Specter.", Jiro suggested.

"Who?", Yuri, Tarrant and Cobras all said in unison.

"Ya know, Dark Specter. He tried to take over the whole universe a while back, but the Power Rangers stopped him. But there's talk here and there that he reincarnated as Lord Gingaku thanks to a part of him that survived and merged with something else."

Myron simply stared at his friend. "With respect Jiro, that sounds stupid." He then pulled up his own list. "Another thing I think we should prioritise is collecting all the Cosmo Spheres, to maximise our potential power. I've looked over the list myself and Proton made and found that we were missing numbers '13, 14, 33, 36, 38, 40, 45, 54, 73' and '77', in addition to any with a number higher than 89."

"But we don't even know where to start looking for them.", Mila pointed out. She took out the Virgin-51 Sphere she had taken to carrying around. "It was only through frantic searching that we found ones like this." She tapped it on the table, causing a pink energy to burst forth from the Sphere, knocking Mila out and subsuming everyone.

Gingaku Brainworld.

Dark Soul witnessed the energy burst on a map of Earth. "I've found it." He then turned to Gingaku's Three Victorious Generals. "What do you say to launching an attack on the Rangers' base?"

Katseayor fumed. "It's not the Fire Knight, but it'll do for target practice."

Tricerodo giggled. "Well, I'd love to take the chance to beat up those pesky Rangers."

Coiloga was more sceptical. "You really think the Rangers won't fight us off when we get there?"

"I know it.", Dark Soul responded. "The Cosmo Sphere I infected has the ability to make the target more feminine. The virus amplified and expanded its effects to all the Rangers in the vicinity. The Rangers have become so feminine that they won't be able to put up an effective fight."

"Ha. I like the way you think.", Coiloga said, rubbing his claw. "I'll join you in your attack then. It'll be fun to destroy those Rangers while they can't defend themselves."

Providence Base, Earth.

"Mila, are you okay?" Mila woke up to see Scales and Tarrant kneeling over her. "You passed out after banging that Sphere against the table. At least you weren't affected by it.", the former said.

"Yeah, the others aren't looking too good after that burst.", Tarrant added.

Mila immediately darted up. "What happened to the others?" When she looked around, she found out for herself. All of them now had longer hair and different chests. "Oh no, they all turned into women.", she moaned.

"I don't know, it's not too bad.", Yuri pointed out. "I don't even have to change my name, since Yuri works for both genders. If only I had some clothes that fit me better."

"Hey, how come you guys weren't affected by the energy burst?", Jiro asked.

"Well, Tarrant and I are robots, so we're going to be unaffected, since we don't have genders to change.", Scales suggested. "And since Mila is already a woman, she was immune to the pulse."

Myron, or as Mila had decided to mentally call her, Myra, inspected the Cosmo Sphere. "I doubt it was a malfunction of the Sphere. More likely someone tampered with it to create the pulse. I should study it, try to find a way to reverse this."

"You do that, My.", Mila said, deciding to give her a pet name to avoid slipping. "Anyway Yuri, you were talking about getting new clothes? Because I think a few places have reopened recently."

Central Europe.

Proton and Barry walked into an alley. "Did we have to come all the way out here?", the latter asked. "Surely you could've just told me what you wanted to know back at Providence?"

"I needed to be somewhere totally confidential.", Proton insisted, as he put his hand on the kid's neck. "Now then, do you have your Cosmo Spheres, like I requested?"

Barry took out the Cub-11 and Bear-22 Spheres from his pocket. "Sure, but why were you so keen to make sure I had them."

Proton then grabbed the two Spheres, pocketed them and started yelling. "Gingaku, there's a loose child wandering your alleyways. Come and pick him up to take him to wherever you take them." Before Barry could say anything, he was taken away by a pair of Detainers, who threw a sack over his head and carried him off.

"Barry!" Proton turned around to see Winda and Slash running over to him. The latter then grabbed him by the neck. "Ok bud, what's the big idea? I thought you were on our side and you go and hand over one of us to the enemy?"

"Cool your jets, big boy.", Proton said as he freed himself. "You don't think I wouldn't make sure Barry was tagged with a homing beacon?" Sure enough, he pulled out a device, which had a moving red dot on a screen. "I needed a way to find the captured children and noticed that most of the disappearances happened around this area of the world. And this wicked cool device uses bleeding edge gear to locate a target anywhere."

"Even in a secure facility that wasn't meant to be known about.", Winda realised. "But why wouldn't you tell us about this before executing your plan?"

"I've never had to consult with others before doing anything.", Proton answered as his device pinged. "Outrageous. Barry's been taken to a place in Russia called Norilsk. This mission just became mad difficult."

"I assume you'll be undertaking this part of your mission alone as well.", Slash said bitterly.

"Not at all.", Proton insisted. "My days as a solo act are so 87. You're both coming with me, so I can understand you better."

"'Outrageous', 'so 87', Proton's language seems more strange than most speakers.", Winda thought to herself as they set off.

The High Street.

Yuri came out of a shop, wearing a hat, a red jacket and a new shirt. "What do you think? Does this really match my new self?", she asked.

"I suppose it does.", Mila answered. She too had come out in a new outfit, consisting of a green blouse, with black trousers and a hoodie mixing the two colours. "Now then, where do we go next?" Before she could receive an answer, she saw a ship flying overhead. "Oh no."

"What's 'oh no' mean?", Yuri asked.

"That's ship's from Gingaku. And it's heading for Providence.", Mila responded. "We need to go. Now."

Underneath Norilsk, Russia.

Proton's trio emerged to find themselves in a fully-built town, with an artificial skyline and massive lighting. "All this seems elaborate for a hidden facility.", Slash pointed out. "They've even got a Dark Gear, for crying out loud."

"Well, the town above us is very uninhabitable.", Winda pointed out. "They may have built this town as a replacement."

"That's all stellar, but it's not why we're here.", Proton pointed out. "We're here to find out what they're up to with those kids." His machine pinged again. "Ah, it seems they took Barry into that building over there." He pointed to an ominous looking facility right in front of them.

"And I suppose we're going to just walk in there through the front door.", Slash suggested sarcastically.

As it turns out, they went in through the back door, making their way to the records vault. They were viewed on a screen by a figure with a long neck, blue, white and purple skin, a motor-board and a tie on his body. He was carrying a staff. "So, we have some truants in the record room. I'd better give them detention."

"No", the image of Gingaku appeared via hologram. "I'll deal with them myself. You get outside and wait."

Outside Providence Base.

Mila and Yuri arrived in time to see the attackers clearly. "That is definitely Dark Soul.", Mila realised. "But who are the other three?"

"Even if we knew, I don't think we can take them on our own.", Yuri pointed out. "We should call in the others."

"Good idea.", Mila brought up her communicator. "Guys, I'd hate to alarm you, but we've got an invasion on our hands. We need to get out here and stop it."

"We're aware of that, Mila.", Tarrant responded. "We've just got a problem on our hands here."

"What kind of a problem?", Mila asked with some frustration.

"The ones affected by that pulse, they're refusing to fight.", Scales answered. "Well, Myron is still in his…her lab working on a reversal, so we didn't ask them. But everyone else has become afraid to fight."

Mila sighed. "This is all we need. You two and I will have to do."

"Don't sell yourself short.", Dark Soul called out. "We'll take out the rest of them at the same time we deal with you."

Underneath Norilsk.

Proton and his group were looking over the books in the record room. "This gym curriculum is pretty spaz.", Proton announced. "Heavy lifting, whipping, raising pick axes. This sounds more like slavery training."

"That's not all.", Winda pointed out. "I'm browsing this history book and it's nothing but the victories accomplished by villains, with none of their defeats recorded at all. For instance, it points out that Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd captured the Shogunzords, the Pink Ninja Power Coin and the sage known as Ninjor, but no mention is made of the original Power Rangers taking all of that back from them."

"But of course, my dear server.", the voice of Gingaku echoed, before a hologram of the man himself appeared. "We can't have our future workforce rising up against us. Any story saying that the universe's protectors won is now a rumour."

"I know that voice.", Proton thought to himself, before preparing himself to say something about it."

"So, you must be Lord Gingaku.", Slash said first. "I never thought I'd meet you."

Proton laughed. "'Lord Gingaku'? Is that what you're calling yourself now? You must be really desperate to get away from the pain of me beating you."

Winda was shocked to hear this. "Proton, do you know Gingaku?"

"Know him? I know your real name, Gingaku. Or should I call you by something more familiar: Orbis?"

Gingaku laughed. "You dare mock me for using a false identity? You're certainly one to talk, Kyle."

Slash and Winda were shocked to hear this. "What's he talking about? Why did he call you 'Kyle'?", the former asked.

Proton sighed. "Ok, I'll spill it, but only to you two. My real name is Kyle Jennings. Forty years ago, I was sent into space in order to investigate a mysterious planet that astrologers wanted to learn more about. To avoid panicking the public, I was sent up in secret with no fanfare. On that planet, I found the Firebird-12 Cosmo Sphere. But that wasn't the only thing I found there."

"Yes.", Gingaku continued. "He found me, then just a humble warrior within Gingaku, along with my brother Deimos, who your friend Drago recently made short work of. We had taken our combined forces to the planet in search of a Cosmo Sphere, so that we may harness its power."

"You didn't do a good job dealing with me.", Proton stated. "The Cosmo Sphere, merged with my space suit, turning me into the Fire Knight. I crafted the Galaxy Saber out of a stone and used it to cripple Deimos and make quick work of your big guy. I left the planet, but Orbis pursued me throughout the universe, accompanied by a group of three. After many confrontations, I managed to destroy him for good, but I heard that my power would still be needed in the future. So I had my body sealed away until I was needed again." He turned back towards the hologram of his old enemy. "What about you, how are you still alive, kicking and in charge of the universe?"

"Your attack may have injured me, but I lived.", came the response. "I wanted revenge, but I couldn't find you. So I turned my attention to something I had intended for a long time; seizing control of Gingaku and then the universe. The skills I had acquired in our battles allowed me to achieve the first objective, and I now had the resources for the second. It took years of meticulous planning, but I was able to achieve total control of the universe, able to control the order of living beings, stabilising the universe from self-destruction."

"You stabilised nothing.", Slash yelled. "You took everyone's freedoms from them, just like your doing with these kids here."

"Ah, but I'm not in charge of educating these children.", Gingaku pointed out. "That would be my mandatory education controller, Struct. He's waiting for you outside, if you want to deal with him and save these children."

"Challenge accepted.", Proton stated. "Let's go."

The three ran outside, where they saw Struct, standing there waiting. "So you're the legendary Fire Knight, huh?", Struct declared. "And two of the Power Rangers. Defeating you three will be an honour."

"That is if you can defeat us.", Proton told him. "Galaxy Saber!" The image of a Firebird flew up to him, taking the form of his shield, with a sword in it. He then pulled out his Cosmo Sphere and aligned it. "Set!" He inserted the Sphere into the hilt of the sword. "Rise!" He held down of the trigger of the sword.

Slash and Winda pulled out their Cosmo Spheres and aligned them. "It's Morphing Time!" They summoned their Morphers and inserted their Spheres into them.

"Change!", Proton announced as he pulled his sword out from his shield. Fire emitted from the blade, surrounding him and turning him into the Fire Knight.

"Cosmic Energy, Unleash!" Winda and Slash pushed their Spheres forward and fired, turning into their Ranger forms.

"Agility of the Eagle, Pink Ranger!"

"Blade of the Swordfish, Yellow Ranger!"

"The Burning Challenger! Fire Knight!"

"I'll give you a warning.", Proton told Struct as he raised his sword. "One of us won't be leaving here alive."

Winda flew overhead and fired at Struct, weakening him. "Take this.", she declared.

Proton then grabbed the fiend between both parts of his weapon. "This is for all the children you captured." He threw him forward. Then Winda landed next to him. "Not bad, for a robot that wasn't intended for combat, you're quite a fierce warrior."

"Believe me, I've defied all expectations.", Winda saluted him.

"I've got some moves too.", Slash said as he fired at Struct using his Morpher.

"Not bad.", Proton said as he stepped forward, placing his sword back into the shield. "It's time we finished this." He pressed down on the trigger again. "Galaxy Saber!"

Slash and Winda put their Cosmo Spheres onto their weapons. "This is bad.", Struct realised.

"Burning Caliber!"

"Cosmic Energy Strike!"

The two attacks his Struct straight on, destroying him. However, he revived thanks to a growth implant. "You're all getting detention." The nearby Dark Gear transformed into a Gearoid. "And I've brought a helper along."

Proton then heard a beeping. "It's fully charged.", he said before holding his shield out and pressing the trigger. "Voyager, Unlock!" As he pulled the sword out, the Cosmo Sphere began spinning rapidly as the flying boat came into view. The boat fired missiles at the two opponents, sending them flying. "Transform! Fire Voyager!" The boat then separated into a satellite, a shuttle and a launch bay. "Say hello to the Fire Voyager!" Proton summoned a giant Cosmo Sphere around himself, that connected to the shuttle, which docked with the launch bay. "Take Off!" The shuttle launched from the moving bay, spreading its wings and flying into space, where it flew inside the satellite as Proton pressed the button and pulled his sword out. "Fire Voyager, Combination Sequence!" The sides of the satellite folded down and turned into arms, with the jets opening up into legs. The robot summoned a pair of swords to its hands as a faceplate opened. "I think I'll call this… the Fire Voyager Megazord."

Slash was surprised by this. "I don't believe it. Did you know that boat was a Zord?"

"I had my theories, but wasn't certain.", came the answer from Winda.

Struct and the Gearoid recovered in time to see their opponent bearing down on them. "Prepare for a giant sized takedown.", Proton declared as the Fire Voyager brandished its swords. Both opponents ran forward, only to be made quick work of, thanks to the twin swords and the jets on its feet.

"Protect me.", Struct said to the Gearoid as he shoved it in front of him.

"That won't save you.", Proton stated as he pressed his trigger again. "Burning Transmission Strike!" The robot channelled the fire into its swords from it arms and sliced at the two villains.

However, Struct survived the attack. "I'm still going to punish you for that.", he said as he a beam from his staff. However, the satellite portion detached from the Fire Voyager and reflected the beam back at him, before restraining him. "This isn't fair."

"You don't deserve fair.", Proton declared as he pointed his sword, causing the shuttle to crash into Struct. "Burning Crash!"

"Class dismissed.", Struct declared as he exploded.

"Now that was hot.", Proton stated as he returned the sword to its hilt.

It was at that point that Slash and Winda received a message on their communicators. "Where are you guys?", Mila's voice practically shouted. "We're under attack from Gingaku and most of us are out of action."

"We'd better find Barry.", Winda suggested. "And free all the other children while we're at it."

Providence Base, London.

Mila, Tarrant and Scales were facing down the three that Dark Soul had brought with him. "You're pretty strong.", Mila said as she grappled with the female of the three. "Stronger than the average Gingaku goons."

"Yeah.", Tarrant huffed as he grappled with the one with the ball-and-chain arm. "Who are you guys?"

The third one, who was making short work of Scales, laughed. "I guess our reputation doesn't proceed us, my fellow Victorious Generals. Let's introduce ourselves. Centre Victorious General, Coiloga!"

"Right Victorious General, Tricerodo!", the female announced herself.

The third and last remaining member went next. "Left Victorious General, Katseayor!"

"The three of us are second only to Gingaku himself in terms of strength.", Coiloga declared. "You don't stand a chance." The three fired their beams at the Rangers, blowing them back.

Yuri watched all this from the side. "I have to get in there.", she thought. "They need my help."

But as she rant to help her friends, she was blocked by Dark Soul. "Don't even think about it, Red Ranger. While your friends could be wiped out by the plague for all I care, your end will be at my hand." He swung his sword at the woman, causing her to spin out of the way. "And don't even think about trying to morph.", he said as she pulled out her Cosmo Sphere. "The virus I infected your Cosmo Sphere with not just amplified its effect on all of you, but it also blocked off your ability to Morph."

"It was you.", Yuri realised. "You did this to us."

"Yes, I infected your Virgin-51 Sphere with a virus back on the Oblivion Cosmos.", Dark Soul declared as he kicked his opponent down and raised his sword. "And it's finally allowed me to get my revenge on you."

"I wouldn't be so sure." Dark Soul turned to his left, to see a woman that the Rangers recognised as Myron. She was now sporting glasses and had replaced her suit jacket with a lab coat. "I've been looking at your little virus and I think I've worked out the cure.", she Calle donut, as she pulled out a small gun like contraption. "Let's just hope this works." She fired at Yuri, causing her to be surrounded by blue smoke, which cleared quickly, showing Yuri had returned to his normal gender. "It works.", Myron said incredulously.

"Thank goodness.", Mila wheezed. "Now, Myra, can you get it to the others?" Myron was confused by the name, but she nodded and went to tend to the others.

Yuri then pulled out his Cosmo Sphere. "Now that I'm back to normal, then that means that I'm not stuck as a human." He aligned his Sphere and morphed into the Red Ranger, summoning his Cosmo Saber. "Let's dance, Dark Soul."

"No, it can't be.", Dark Soul cried out as he found himself on the losing end of a sword battle. "I was supposed to emerge as the victor, not you." As his sword was knocked out of his hand, he called out to the others. "We're pulling out now. This plan is a failure." He teleported out.

"Oh really, that's a shame.", Tricerodo pouted. "I was looking forward to playing with these Rangers more." She teleported out as well.

"Pfft. I've seen all I need to see.", Katseayor said as he prepared to teleport out. "And I'm not impressed." He then vanished as well.

But Coiloga didn't join them in retreating. Instead, he turned to Yuri. "Well then, Red Ranger. You could've just lost and made this easy on yourself. Instead, you made us have to do this the hard way."

Yuri had a flash of recognition, dropping his sword and stating, with sudden realisation. "You were there."

"Yes I was.", Coiloga said as he raised his claw. However he was knocked back by a shot.

"If you want to take down Yuri, you go through us." Coiloga turned to see the team of Proton, Slash, Winda and Barry standing to his left.

"And us.", he turned again to see the now restored male Rangers standing there, accompanied by the three that had fought so hard for their friends.

"12 against 1. That's not very fair, is it?", Coiloga stated. "I'll be going now, but I will return and raze this planet. Be assured of that." With that, he teleported away.

"What happened while we were out?", Slash asked.

"Don't ask.", Drago said. "Just know that I've got a surplus of brownies that'll last us a few weeks."

"They're actually pretty good.", Jiro attested.

"At least you're had some good memories.", Cobras said with some resentment. "I'm not going to get over the fact I put makeup on."

"And I'm not sure I can actually pull this look off.", Yuri said about his new clothes.

"I don't know, you make it look pretty good.", Mila said playfully. She hen turned to the impromptu away team. "What about you? Did you get up to much?"

"Oh not much, really.", Proton stated. "We just found where the children of Earth had been taken, released them from captivity and took care of the last trace of Gingaku on Earth."

"We also found out Gingaku's true identity.", Winda added, to everyone's shock.

Planetary Orbit.

Katseayor was in conference with Gingaku, who had recalled the others back to him. "So, can I depend on you to defeat the Rangers and the Fire Knight?", the warlord asked.

"As I served you in our old battles, I serve you now.", Katseayor stated. "And about my request?"

"I'll have Cerebron see to it.", Gingaku nodded. "It will arrive at your location within two days."

"Good.", Katseayor declared, as he shut off the communication. "Very soon now, the Rangers and the Fire Knight will be nothing more than a memory. I am nearly ready to take my revenge."