Earth Orbit, Katseayor's Ship.

Katseayor was greeted by another alien. This one had green skin, with red claws and spikes, sporting long hair and wielding a bident (a trident with two prongs). "I hope you've made progress, or I would've left you in that prison.", Katseayor told him.

"Relax your head, man.", the alien responded. "I managed to get two of the Power Rangers captured in my belly. I would've gotten a third, but he escaped while I was taking the orange guy."

"Two is definitely a good start to your mission.", Katseayor nodded. "And one of them is the Orange Ranger, on top of that. Who is the other?"

"I think it was the black one.", the alien answered, opening up his mouth to show the insides. Sure enough, Myron and Tarrant were standing around in a pool of liquid. "I i'n't i'e't em a' ou e'es'ed."

"Hey, let us out out of here.", Tarrant called out. "Wherever here is. It's really cold."

"We're inside someone's stomach.", Myron pointed out. "The fact we haven't been subjected to worse than being swallowed tells me that he has something worse in store for the whole Ranger team. And that includes Proton."

"Oh you have no idea.", Katseayor said as he listened to their conversation. The miniaturisation process had made it so they couldn't hear his voice, because of the different frequency pitches. "Now then, prepare to locate and capture the others, Goatron."

The alien, Goatron, nodded as he closed his mouth. "It will be done, Lord Katseayor." He saluted and then teleported out.

Providence Base.

Yuri was pacing up and down the main control room. "He's been doing that for hours.", Jiro noted. "How is he not tired?"

"It's probably the other entity within him.", Cobras suggested. "It is giving him the energy to keep up his continuous walking."

"It's called 'pacing'", Mila pointed out. "And we all want to know why."

"Myron's group hasn't come back from their mission yet.", Yuri answered. "And with Proton still being a rogue element at this time, we can't really afford to lose anyone."

"I agree.", Drago nodded. "Whatever that light resulted in should've been a simple search-and-retrieve mission. Myron, Tarrant and Scales should be back here by now."

As if on cue, Scales came bursting through the door. "Monster… eaten… Myron and Tarrant…", he managed to splutter out.

"Take it easy.", Winda urged him, grabbing a hold of his chest and uprighting him. "Now then. Compute calmly and logically. What happened to the others?"

"We were attacked.", Scales answered. "Just as we'd found the source of the light, a new Cosmo Sphere, something in the shadows attacked us. It grabbed Tarrant and swallowed him whole before we could figure out what it was. Then Myron urged me to get away as it got him too. I barely made it back here."

"Sounds like Gingaku's unleashed a new warrior to fight us.", Slash suggested.

"Which means we need to all get out there and take him out to free Myron and Tarrant.", Barry added.

"Yeah, so let's mobilise everyone we have, even Proton.", Scales suggested. Then he looked around the room and found there was one absence. "Where is Proton by the way?"

"He walked out earlier.", Commander Goodman answered. "Said he 'didn't need anyone else dragging him down'."

Yuri sighed. "Of all the times for him to leave… I'm going to find him. You guys try and find this new enemy." With that said, he ran out of the room.

Everyone was silent for a second. "Well, you heard him.", Drago said to break the silence. Let's find this new threat and take them down."

"That doesn't sound easy.", Jiro pointed out. "We don't even know what this guy looks like. How do we find him?"

"The answer to that is simple.", Winda answered. "We don't find him, he finds us."

Newinthal.

Proton was sitting outside of a mini-mall, drinking a soda from a fast-food place. "This place sure has changed since I was last here.", he noted as he sucked juice from his straw. "This place used to be a cafe with very good coffee."

An old man tutted and sat down with him. "The cafe that was here was smashed up 35 years ago.", the man said. "You don't look old enough to have been around back then."

"I have my means of looking younger.", Proton responded. "Whenever I was down, I used to come to the cafe so I could think. And lately, I've been feeling really down."

"Oh really?" Proton and the old man turned around to see Yuri standing there. "I guess the old saying is true in your case. You can't really go home again once you leave, Kyle." He could see the shock on the Fire Knight's face. "Winda explained the story you told her and Slash in Russia to us. I know everything about your story."

Proton sighed as he saw Yuri, especially since he realised that he now had no reason to keep his motives to himself. "Well, you might as well join me. You are part of my problems, so I should explain things to you."

"So it's really none of my business.", the old man commented as he stood up. "I'll leave you two to talk things out" with that, he was gone.

Yuri then looked at the menu nearby. "Well if you're going to tell me your story, should I place an order?"

"No, it won't take very long.", Proton said. "Like you probably found out, my real name is Kyle Jennings and I originally was an astronaut from Earth who encountered Gingaku and found a Cosmo Sphere, a lot like you, Yuri. But what I didn't tell you is how I left the planet and came to be known as 'Proton'. As I'd managed to give my attackers the slip, I made my way back to the shuttle I had taken off in, intending to use it to return to Earth. But when I got there, I found a scavenger trying to dismantle it. He was a birdman, wearing a green cloak. When I spoke with him, he told me his name was Corvin and he was looking for a purpose as he travelled the stars, taking parts he needed for his ship from others. He gave me the name "Proton", having seen it on the engines of my shuttle and mistaken it for my, as he put it, 'designation'. Before I could clean up the misunderstanding, the Cosmo Sphere I had found bathed my shuttle in energy, turning it into what you know as the Fire Voyager and creating the Fire Satelite and Mega Base as support. Corvin was impressed with this and offered to tag along with me."

"And I assume that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.", Yuri asked.

"You assume correctly.", Proton nodded. "We shared our stories of our respective homes - he came from a place called the Crow Nebula, or something. We also worked together on constructing the Galaxy Saber so I could use it to switch my transformation on and off, as it were. We also collected Cosmo Spheres and fought against Orbis and his gang for a while. But then, we had our final battle.

Unknown Planet, the Edge of Space. 40 years ago.

I woke up in a cavern where I saw Corvin arranging our Cosmo Spheres on an altair. "What happened?", I asked, struggling for breath. "Did we win?"

"We won.", Corvin assured me. "Orbis has been put paid to. But he was only a small fry. His organisation is going to attack and conquer the universe, at least that's what the old legends say."

"Then we're making preparations to fight him off?", I wheezed.

"Kind of.", Corvin answered. "The prophecy said that eleven would rise up to face the threat, but a twelfth and final chosen one would be required to achieve total victory. Since you likely don't have the lifespan to wait until Gingaku launches their assault, I'm placing you in a form of stasis that only another with a Cosmo Sphere can reverse. I'm also going to be programming the Fire Voyager with the coordinates for this planet, uncharted and on the edge of known space, to lead them here."

"It'll be a bit of a pain to hide that huge shuttle, plus you're going to have to tell someone about it's whereabouts.", I pointed out. And someone is going to figure it out."

"Already taken care of. I've transformed the Fire Voyager into a regular space ship, stored within a new Cosmo Sphere that I've broken down to store as energy between three existing blank Cosmo Spheres. I've planned on hiding places for two of them, hiding maps to them in two others of the three. I'm then going to hide the third and tell someone I trust of its location. Nothing can possibly go wrong."

"Well then, I guess this is goodbye.", I said as the stasis began to take hold.

"No, we'll see each other again someday. But for now, I'm going to say 'farewell'. And with that, the stasis fully took hold, and I knew nothing until your friends found and released me.

"I think I recognise a guy matching Corvin's description.", Yuri realised. "He appeared to me when I looked at the third of the three Cosmo Spheres we used to find you. But we didn't find the Sphere he didn't leave a map to. Rather, it came to us in the mouth of a Terrorvore, which is kind of like an organic version of that robot worm you fought recently."

"That's not reassuring.", Proton noted. "After I woke up, I mostly let Corvin slip my mind for the time I was awake for the first time in decades. But then Katseayor reminded me of him in our last battle, and I realised I'd ignored him, possibly allowing Gingaku to capture him and do who-only-knows-what to him. And that was clouding my judgement as I fought in that battle. Like you said, he was alive long enough to hide two of the Spheres in his intended location, but I don't know about where he could be now."

"I know the feeling.", Yuri nodded. "I'm still no closer to finding out about my friend Gregory's whereabouts than when I started searching for him."

"Then how about you find out?" Proton and Yuri turned around to see Katseayor, accompanied by a group of Detainers. "I'll capture you both and put you where you can see your friends extensively."

"Not a chance, moustache.", Yuri declared. "We're going to choose to fight you off, along with your goon squad." He began fighting off the Detainers with hand to hand moves.

Proton smiled at this. "I like this guy. He reminds me a lot of me.", he said to Katseayor as he joined the fight.

Elsewhere on Earth.

Drago and the other remaining Rangers had morphed and were standing around looking. "Are you really so sure that this guy will show up if he knows we're standing around?", Mila asked.

"It's the best method we can think of.", Winda radioed from the air. "And I'm keeping an eye out so I can pinpoint his exact position when he gets one of you."

"How very reassuring.", Cobras said dryly. As if on cue, the tendrils appeared from the shadows and grabbed onto him, dragging him towards them. "Help, I'm under attack."

"Hang on buddy, I'll save you.", Scales called out as he grabbed onto Cobras' legs, trying to pull him back. While he did succeed in revealing their attacker, Goatron merely used the momentum to devour both the Gold and Silver Rangers.

"Aw man, I was doing so good as a hidden threat.", Goatron bemoaned. "Now y'all can see my face."

Drago took one look at Goatron and had a moment of recognition. "I know that guy. You were in the cell with me on Matoine."

"Yes, I also recognise his face from that prison.", Winda noted, scanning her databanks. "According to the prison files, prisoner Goatron was locked away for 20 years for eating the Vegan Ambassador 3 years ago."

"Yeah, let's just say that I'm also an important member of Gingaku.", Goatron said, as if someone had asked "how did you get out of jail?". "My boss had me released to deal with you Rangers. He wanted me to devour all of you and I intend to finish that job." He reached out his tendrils again, grabbing Jiro, Winda and Barry, pulling them into his mouth.

Mila and Slash ran up to Goatron, locking their weapons with his. "Drago, get out of here.", Slash urged.

"I can't just leave you to him.", Drago insisted.

"Yes you can.", Mila responded. "Find Yuri and Proton. They're the only ones other than you that can defeat him. Don't argue with us. Go."

Drago thought for a moment and then nodded. "Alright." He summoned his Dragon Zord and flew off, while Goatron devoured the last two Rangers, laughing as he did so.

Inside Goatron's Stomach.

Tarrant noticed Jiro, Winda and Barry joining the 4 that were already there. "It seems like the others got captured too."

"Not all of us.", Barry pointed out. "Drago, Mila and Slash are…" Mila and Slash came down as well. "Okay, just Drago is still out there."

Myron wasn't reassured. "I doubt that he can make much of a difference by himself."

"Which is why we told him what to do.", Slash pointed out. "He's going to find Yuri and Proton to get their help."

"Not a particularly reassuring thought.", Winda commented.

Newinthal, USA.

Elsewhere, Yuri and Proton had made short work of the Detainers. "Give it up, Katseayor.", Yuri declared. "You can't beat us with these guys."

"I'm not trying to defeat you with those.", Katseayor laughed. "I've just been distracting you so that my servant can devour your friends."

"What?", Proton exclaimed. Katseayor threw his ball at the open opponent, but Yuri retaliated using the Defend-21 Cosmo Sphere. "By this point, only you two should be left."

"You'd be wrong to think that." Drago leapt down, firing at Katseayor with his Dragon Staff in rifle mode. "Bad news. That servant of his got the others. And all I could do was get away to find you."

"And you didn't do much to hide.", Goatron declared as he jumped down. "I've got 9 of those Power Rangers captured and ready for transport to Lord Gingaku.", he said to Katseayor.

"Then all you have to do is get these three.", Katseayor pointed.

"Gentlemen, let's put paid to these three.", Proton declared. "Galaxy Saber!" His Morpher appeared in his hand.

"It's Morphing Time!", Yuri and Drago declared, the former summoning his Cosmo Morpher. The three then prepped their Cosmo Spheres and inserted them into their respective Morphers. "Cosmic Energy, Unleash!"

"Charge Up!"

"Rise! Change!"

The three were then morphed into the Red Ranger, the Dragon Ranger and the Fire Knight. "Hat won't save you from sharing your friends' fate.", Katseayor declared as he and Goatron fired at the three.

"Defend-24, activate!", Yuri declared, inserting the Cosmo Sphere into his Morpher and using it to protect them. "Cosmo Saber!" He released an energy wave which hit Goatron, knocking him back.

"Why you.", Katseayor declared.

"Nice job, Yuri. I'll take it from here.", Proton stated as he leapt in front of his ally.

"Hey, what happened to working together?", Yuri asked as he put his elbow on Proton's shoulder.

"Sorry, force of habit.", Proton answered as Katseayor fired at them. "Nice try, fish face.", he declared as he blocked the shot with his shield and fired a shot from the bottom of the shield.

"Let's do it together this time.", Yuri said as the two ran forward, delivering slashes to their enemy.

"Let me in on the fun.", Drago said as he ran forward and began grappling with Katseayor. "You guys take Goatron."

"You're not gonna do it easier than Ol' Drago says it.", Goatron declared, tapping his chest, before firing a shot from his bident.

However, the two shrugged off the hit. "Yuri, we're going to take this slime down and free the captives within his chest. Let's go." The two ran forward and began delivering simultaneous slashes, that were blocked by Goatron's bident. Eventually, the two scored a hit to their opponent by hitting him in the chest at the same time.

"Time to power up.", Yuri said, inserting the Dual Sphere's "Moon" end into his Morpher. "Hyper Plus Up!" He transformed into the Lunar Red Ranger, successfully blocking and evading all the hits Goatron tried to make, while getting in his own, more powerful ones. He then pressed the top of the Dual Sphere. "Eclipse Attack!" He fired his shot at Goatron, knocking him down. Then he reverted to his normal form. "Now let's finish this."

"Took the words right out of my mouth.", Proton stated, placing his Galaxy Saber back in the shield. "Galaxy Saber, Charge!"

"Lion-01, set!", Yuri inserted his Cosmo Sphere onto his Cosmo Saber. Proton pulled his weapon out and the two performed their combined attack. "Cosmic…"

"…Burning…"

"…Impact!" The two ran forward, slashing at Goatron one more time, destroying him.

"Now I know how that ambassador felt.", Goatron stated as he exploded, releasing his prisoners.

"Thank goodness we got out of there.", Jiro commented. "The smell was becoming unbearable."

"Don't you lick yourself regularly?", Slash answered him.

Mila took note of their saviours "I'm more surprised that those two worked together."

"Turns out, we have a lot more in common than you think.", Yuri said, as he held his hand out.

"Us astronauts have to stick together.", Proton said as he reciprocated the high-five.

Katseayor stopped his fight to pay attention to the scene. "I won't allow this to be the end. Goatron, get back in the fight."

Goatron's growth implant exploded, reviving Goatron as a giant. "I've got a giant sized appetite now.", he declared.

Before anyone could react properly, Myron ran forward. "We picked this up just before he caught us.", he said, giving Yuri the Cosmo Sphere he had picked up. "I think it'll allow you to control all the Zords at once."

"We'll worry about that later.", Proton said as he summoned the Fire Voyager. "Voyager, Take Off!" The Shuttle appeared and blasted off. "Voyager, fire!" He shot his lasers at Goatron, knocking him back.

"I won't let you win again.", Katseayor declared, knocking Drago aside and growing to giant size as well. "Take this.", he said, throwing his ball at the Voyager, which went down.

"Let's try this thing out.", Yuri said as he activated the new Cosmo Sphere. "Summon Zords!" In addition to his Lion Zord, which quickly flew to match the Fire Voyager, they found themselves surrounded by the other 10 Cosmo Spheres.

"Looks like its time to bring our strengths together.", Proton said. "All Zords, Combine!"

The Fire Voyager broke apart, with the thrusters splitting in two and connecting as arms to the Lion Zord in Megazord mode, with the top half and the Fire Satellite becoming a backpack and chest piece. Then the Fire Base became legs, with the Yellow, Green, Black and Blue Spheres assuming their limbs' usual position. Then the other 6 Spheres attached to the extended arms, shoulders and legs. Gold and Silver went to the right and left legs, Pink and Orange went to the right and left arms while the Dragon and Sky Spheres became the right and left shoulders. The Lion head vanished, with a new, star shaped head replacing it, which the Firebird Sphere landed on, revealing a face. "Zodiac Megazord, ready!"

"That's amazing.", Mila exclaimed. "Did you know the 12 Zords had this power, Myron?"

"I can't say I did.", Myron answered. "But in all honesty, I can't wait to get in that robot." He said that last part with a smile, which surprised everyone.

"Yuri, you drive, I'll shoot.", Proton stated.

"I've got it.", Yuri replied as he moved the Megazord forward.

"That won't save you.", Katseayor declared as he and Goatron fired on the Zodiac Megazord, which shrugged off the damage, before beating the two back with its arms alone. Eventually, it knocked its opponents into each other.

"Time we finished this.", Yuri said.

"Right you are.", Proton said, preparing his weapon.

"Twelve Star Supernova!"

"Protect em you fool.", Katseayor yelled, pushing Goatron forward. The Megazord fired beams from its arms, which hit Goatron while missing Katseayor entirely.

"Not cool man.", Goatron said as he fell over, while Katseayor teleported away, leaving behind one last message.

"You haven't seen the last of me. I'll be back."

"This Space is ours.", the two Rangers declared as their new Megazord stood tall.

Gingaku Brainworld.

Katseayor stumbled through a hallway, to be met by Coiloga. "Gingaku isn't happy about what you did to your own man.", Coiloga said. "Or that you allowed the Rangers to get that new power."

"Silence!", Katseayor growled. "I have my reputation as a strong warrior to uphold."

"Not for much longer.", Coiloga laughed. "You've failed to defeat the Rangers with 4 warriors so far and its only been a day since you were put on the job. If you don't succeed in your next mission, you won't be allowed to come back here at all."

"I won't let that happen.", Katseayor declared. "The next time I face the Rangers, I will win. And I know the perfect planet to locate the final showdown."

Providence Base.

In a private lab, something began to form on the table, as a nearby figure, who had been unconscious for days, began to stir.