The Shooting Star Ship.

The Rangers, now rejoined by their robotic member Tarrant and having added the scientist Corvelia to their crew, were now floating through space. "Okay, Corvelia. We need to know how to get past the barrier around the Darl Nebula.", Proton outlined. "Can you help us?"

"'The Dark Nebula', eh?", Corvelia said, before thinking about it for a few seconds. "The only way the barrier can vanish is when the lights of Cepheus, Andromeda, Cassiopeia and Perseus align perfectly. That will disrupt the radiation that composes the barrier enough to pass through it."

"That could be a problem.", Heath pointed out. "We have no idea when those stars will align next. We can't afford to wait around at the moment."

"And we won't.", Drago assured him. "Legend says that the lights of hose 4 stars were stored within 5 Cosmo Spheres, seemingly to no apparent end. I think we can figure out the real reason for that."

"We have to try and locate them.", Myron stated. "Which is why I've been working on this machine." He went over to one of the terminals and picked up a small controller. "This device will pick up on the Cosmo Spheres that aren't in our custody by using criteria we input."

"Well the criteria should be simple.", Winda pointed out. "We simply need to search for the 4 lights from those constellations."

"Ok then.", Myron pressed a few keys on the device, which caused it to make a "ping" sound. "According to this, there are two within the next 6000 light years. One on the planet Periculum and one on the planet Tategami."

"Planet Tategami?", Yuri thought, a memory flashing into his head. But he shook it off for the moment. "How are we going to handle two at once?"

"That sounds like a bit of a puzzle.", Drago said, thinking before coming up with an idea. "I've got it.", he said as he clicked his fingers. "We each separate into groups consisting of half of our total force. One group will go to Periculum in the Shooting Star, while the other will go on to Tategami."

"Then I volunteer for the second team.", Yuri stated.

As everyone reacted with shock, Heath was the one to put it together. "If I recall correctly, that's where you got attacked by Gingaku. You want to find some answers as to what allowed you to survive, am I correct?"

"That's right.", Yuri said.

"In that case, I'm coming too.", Myron insisted. "It would be interesting to try and find out what that lion who saved you was. And how it was able to inhabit your body."

Planet Kaien, the Lion Galaxy.

But nothing was known of this on the distant planet of Kaien, where the System Controller Balistas, a robotic warrior in armour with a set of rocket launchers on his shoulders, was talking with Princess Viera. While once, she had ruled over the entire system, Balistas had rendered that position little more than a figurehead role. "You have done well, Viera.", Balistas complimented her. "Your order to surrender all weapons has been obeyed."

"Save your praises, Controller.", Viera responded, bitterly. "It was the only way to stop you from destroying them all."

Balistas ignored her, now changing his tact. "But, we need you no more. You are expendable."

Viera was shocked to hear this. "You can't get rid of me.", she insisted. "Weapons or no weapons, my people won't take you executing me lightly. You'll be run out of this system within days."

"Who said anything about execution?", Balistas clicked his fingers, summoning a pair of Neo-Bullroids to take hold of the Princess. "Take her to the modification centre. Let's put that warrior's spirit to some good use." The Bullroids took their hostage away with them, complying with the order. "These new robots Dr. Cerebron built are very handy. Not likely to be tempted by betrayal."

"Don't let yourself get complacent." Balistas turned around to see Coiloga, standing in front of the statue that had that unique glint on its chest. "After all, you never know who might show up."

"I hope that's not a threat.", Balistas said, before the two dropped all pretence of seriousness and greeted each other warmly. "So what brings you to my neck of the universe, you old dog?"

"Actually, I'm here on business.", Coiloga answered him. "The Rangers are certain to come to this planet soon enough. I've also sent my friend to one of your colleagues' planet to prepare another trap."

Planet Tategami, the Lion Galaxy.

Dark Soul came across the Planetary Controller for the world he had landed on. It was a small tentacles being, wearing sunglasses and a hat, operating a human sized body, made of gold and possessing arms with blades on the end and a pair of cannons on the shoulders. "You must be Tenticat, the Controller for the planet Tategami." The alien replied, but it was in a language Dark Soul didn't understand. "Switch on your translator."

The alien pressed a button. "Sorry. Indeed, I am the one known as Tenticat.", came the answer. "And you are the Mouth of Gingaku, otherwise known as Dark Soul. What brings you to this world?"

"The Power Rangers.", was Dark Soul's answer. "I know they will be coming here to search for a valuable item that could bring down our empire. Including your planet."

Tenticat pressed his translator again. "Don't worry about that. I keep all valuable objects on this planet close to me. As for the Power Rangers, I will deal with them when they alive." He hit his chest. "Arrive. Apologies, my translator has some bugs."

"Good to hear.", Dark Soul said. "And another thing. When they arrive, the Red Ranger is mine for the taking, while you can get to take the rest out."

Soon enough, the Rangers sent their main party to the planet. This consisted of Yuri, Myron, Jiro, Tarrant, Mila, Slash and Heath. "Alright, this scanner says that the Cosmo Sphere is nearby.", Myron said. Then the machine pinged again. "That's funny, it's saying that there's three separate Cosmo Sphere signals nearby, and one of them's moving."

"What does that mean?", Tarrant asked.

"More than likely that someone has already taken what we're looking for.", Slash answered him. "Or one of the others that Myron just picked up."

But Yuri wasn't paying attention to this, instead staring off at the nearby woods. Mila took notice of this. "Something on your mind, Yuri?", she asked.

"This is where I woke up in the aftermath.", Yuri said solemnly. "I was woken up by a farmer, all memory of the past gone from my mind."

As if on cue, a middle-aged man came out of the nearby shack and saw Yuri. "Hey, I know you.", he said excitedly, catching everyone's attention. "You're that displaced Earther is found a few years ago."

Yuri went over to embrace the man. "Yeah, that's me. It's good to see you again… what's your name?"

"Cules.", the man replied. "I assume you were unlucky in finding the way back to Earth then?"

"No, he was successful.", Heath clarified. "He's here with us on business. We're looking for something from off-world that's on this planet. Could you help us?"

Cules thought upon it for a few minutes and then came up with an answer. "Can't say I've much to share with you. There was the ship up in orbit crashing down in the woods a few months back, followed by the shooting star that came down in the same area a few weeks later."

"You've been a great help.", Jiro said to him. "Well, I guess we're going for a walk in the woods."

"Indeed.", Myron answered him. "And hopefully, we can at finally learn something about what happened to Yuri's friend Gregory.", he thought.

Elsewhere, Tenticat was greeted by a red-skinned, snarling lion-like Beast. It had pawed feet, a pair of bladed arms that connected to its shoulders, a set of yellow shoulder pads and the head was in a permanent snarl, with a bone in its mouth and purple hair. "Consider this my gift to you.", a message from Balistas played. "Something to help with your Ranger problem."

"Thank you, Master.", Tenticat said. "Now to go hunting."

The Rangers had gone into the woods and were now looking around. "Anything on your thingy yet?", Jiro asked. "My feet aren't killing me."

"Maybe if you wore shoes.", Myron chided him. "And no, nothing has popped up. But I'll make sure you're the first to know when I get something."

It was at that moment that Yuri began to convulse. "The thing in my head.", he managed to get out as everyone watched. "It's waking up." The his head dropped, before rising again with a set of familiar glowing eyes.

"So this is Yuri's possessed state.", Heath said with some intrigue. "I've never seen it up close before."

"Must… reunite… as one.", the presence said as it dragged Yuri off into a different part of the woods.

"Yuri, wait.", Heath called out, taking off after him. Before the others could follow, they were attacked by Tenticat and his group of Detainers and Commanagas.

Tenticat made a boast towards his enemies, but none of them seemed to understand him. "Sorry. I have a habit of speaking without my translator.", he said with his translator on this time. "I was among that I have you now." Then he noticed something. "Where's your red friend?"

"You just missed him.", Myron answered. "And don't ask where he is now, because even I don't know."

"No matter. I was only told to deal with you fools and save him for someone else." Tenticat pointed at the Rangers. "Servants. Destroy them!"

The Rangers engaged in battle with the Detainers, each pulling out their Cosmo Spheres and summoning their Morphers. "Cosmic Energy, Unleash!", the Rangers all said in sequence.

"Orange Cosmic Ranger!"

"Blue Cosmic Ranger!"

"Black Cosmic Ranger!"

"Green Cosmic Ranger!"

"Yellow Cosmic Ranger!"

The Rangers then resumed their battle, making short work of the Detainers and Commanagas. "Very well, then.", Tenticat said, flexing his arms. "I'll deal with you myself." He then engaged the Rangers in battle.

Elsewhere in the woods, Heath had lost Yuri. "I think I'm lost.", he said to himself. "If only I could find something -." He stopped as he saw a crashed shuttle in a crater. "Familiar." He went into the ship, stopping when he heard a "chink" beneath his foot. He looked down to see a Cosmo Sphere, trapped beneath a branch. As he removed the branch, the Sphere flew off on its own. He dismissed this and pressed on into the bowels of the shuttle.

Elsewhere, Yuri's controlled body stumbled through the woods, coming across a small stone sticking out of the ground. "It is here.", the voice said. "Must reunite." The image of the lion warrior flashed over Yuri's body, before separating and entering the stone. The stone rose from the ground, exposing itself as a small statue of a lion, which shattered to reveal a white and red lion, which was moving.

Yuri then regained consciousness. "What happened? Where am I?", he asked. He then noticed the small lion hopping around. "Is that… you?", he asked, noting the lion's resemblance to the warrior within his mind's armour.

As if to answer his question, the lion nodded, creating a new Cosmo Sphere in Yuri's hand. It had a gold frame, a similar image to Yuri's Lion-01 Sphere and the number "77". "This is Leo-77.", the voice came from the Lion. "It will allow you to harness my power." Yuri nodded, inserting the Sphere into his Morpher and pressing it backwards. This caused the Lion to transform into a cannon. It was at that point that the lion creature Tenticat commanded made its entrance, attacking Yuri.

Yuri pulled his Lion-01 Sphere out and morphed with it. "Cosmic Energy, Unleash!" He knocked the creature back with his Cosmo Saber and aimed the cannon at the beast, placing the Leo-77 Sphere on it. "Penta Blaster, Fire!" He fired a warning shot at the creature, causing it to flee.

"Good work, Yuri.", the lion's voice continued. "Now hurry, your allies are in danger."

Yuri, while shocked to hear this, set off running in the direction he saw his footprints coming from.

Elsewhere, the Rangers were fighting a losing battle against Tenticat. "Ha ha, you fools.", he gloated. "Nothing can save you now."

It was at that point that the Cosmo Sphere that Heath had found flew in and knocked the Planetary Controller aside. It then flew into Myron's Morpher, activating itself and summoning a familiar chest plate. "Aye, it's good to be back and out of that thing.", Pegasus said. "Do you know how uncomfortable it is to be trapped for months in the same place?"

"Pegasus?", Slash said with confusion. "So this is where you came to when you left us."

"I was wondering why Pegasus-33 wasn't in my collection.", Myron said. "But I didn't expect to find out why by having the answer appear on my chest."

"Yeah, I came to this dump to find Astral Leo based on where I sensed his energy.", Pegasus replied. "But the trail went dead here and I ended up trapped until a few minutes ago. Then I sensed you guys were near and went to help."

"You can receive all the help you want.", Tenticat declared. "It won't make a difference to me in taking you down." He began charging towards them.

However, he was shot back by an arriving Yuri. "Guys, you won't believe what I found."

"I assume it's that cannon that you're holding.", Mila said. "Is that what the lion was after."

"Yeah, I think it's his body.", Yuri said. "He gave me a Cosmo Sphere that can control it." He held up the Leo-77 Sphere for all to see.

Tenticat merely growled at this. He tried to utter a curse to them, but the blast had damaged his translator, knocking a vital component out. He decided it was no matter and grew to giant size.

"Use my Power once more.", the voice of the Lion came from the Sphere. "Call a Zord with me."

"Ok.", Yuri said with confusion, inserting the Sphere and pressing it to the side. "Summon Zord… I think?"

As he fired, the lion grew to giant size. Then the Rangers, except Myron, were surrounded by their cockpits. Yuri's was now gold, to match with Leo-77. The Lion Zord appeared, with the cockpits plugging into their usual slots and the Leo Zord attached its parts onto the Lion Zord. "Now I am complete once more.", the lion declared. "I am Astral Leo!"

"Wow, this is cool.", Yuri said as he had Astral Leo attack a now-airborne Tenticat.

From the ground, Myron and Pegasus watched the battle. "So Astral Leo was the presence inside Yuri all along.", Myron noted. "Fascinating."

Suddenly, he was attacked by Dark Soul. "It won't make a difference.", the masked warrior declared. "I'm still going to crush him with my bare hands."

"You'll have to go through us, bub.", Pegasus responded. "Er, you okay letting me take you for a spin, pal?"

"You know it.", Myron said as he leapt towards the enemy, engaging him in a sword fight with his Cosmonata.

"Let's see if we can make this a Megazord.", Yuri said, pulling his Sphere towards him. "Astral Leo, transform!" The rest of the Zord bodies appeared, with Yellow becoming the right arm, Green becoming the left arm, Black becoming the right leg and Blue becoming the left leg. The Megazord now had a golden chest, a result of Leo-77's power, and had a cannon in it's right appendage and a different head, with a more knight-like appearance. "Astral Leo Megazord, ready!"

Tenticat continued to fly towards the Rangers, but was repelled by shots from their new cannon. "You will not harm them.", Astral Leo's voice boomed. Eventually, Tenticat took a hit during the dogfight and began to shudder.

"We're gonna put this cat out.", Jiro said. He then raised his leg, kicking the enemy back.

However, Tenticat rose once more. He barked an order, which summoned a fleet of Gingaku fighters. The Megazord was knocked back, to which Tenticat laughed inanely.

"Oh no you don't.", Yuri said. "Astral Cannon, fire!" He pulled his Cosmo Sphere backwards, unleashing a flurry of shots that took out much of the fleet.

Tenticat growled even more at this, speaking once more in his own tongue. He then leapt off his robot body and onto Astral Leo's head, squeezing it with his tentacles.

"Get off us, you freak.", Mila said as she pushed her tongue to knock him off.

"It's time to end this.", Yuri said, preparing the final attack. "Astral Projection Break!"

Astral Leo charged his cannon and fired at the opponent. "Evil, begone!", Astral Leo declared.

Tenticat, body and all, was struck by the beam, cursing the Rangers with his final breath as he exploded.

"This Space is ours!", the 5 Rangers and Astral Leo all declared.

On the ground, Myron was still battling with Dark Soul, neither able to get the advantage. "You're good.", Myron admitted, as he pulled out his Unicorn-27 Sphere. "But I'm better." He inserted the Sphere, activating it. "Plus Up! Double Pegasus Mode!" He summoned his horn arm, using it to ram into Dark Soul and knock him down.

However, Dark Soul wouldn't stay down. "You think you're going to bring me down?", he growled as he ran forward with his sword. "I won't rest until the Red Ranger lies defeated at my feet. And nothing is going to stop me! NOTHING!"

Dark Soul was shot back by the other Rangers, returned from their battle in Astral Leo. "If you want me creep, then you'll get me.", Yuri said as he pulled out his Big Bang Sphere, activating it and inserting it into his Morpher. "Big Bang Energy, Unleash!" He transformed into his Super mode. "The Warrior of Light, Big Bang Ranger!"

"Nice suit, but it won't save you.", Dark Soul growled as he charged forth to battle his hated enemy.

Yuri called up Jiro's Cosmo Claw and clashed with his enemy's sword. Yuri then spun the wheel on his Sphere. "Lupus Werewolf Scratch!" He crashed his weapon into his opponent's, breaking it. He then called up Tarrant's Cosmo Axe and brought crashing down on his opponent's mask shattering it. However, before he could strike again, Yuri took a good look at the face beneath the mask and stopped. "No, it can't be…"

"Oh but it is.", Dark Soul said. "What's the matter, Yuri? Aren't you going to finish me off? I am your enemy."

"I…can't."

"Why not?", Slash asked. "Yuri, what's wrong?"

"Hasn't he told you about me?", Dark Soul said with a smile on his face. "I'm his old friend, Gregory."