The Ranger's Initiative

by Lawliet Veneziano

After many years of being protectors now the Rangers are being hunted, and the only ones who can save them are a mismatched and unlikely group. But with the public against them, the military after them, and even their own wanting them taken in, can a group of mismatched ex-Rangers really save the world and their friends? Or will they fail even to save themselves?

1. Prologue

It started with a child. The child was not truly special, just a child of parents who loved him, had a few good friends and a few bad grades; he was average, just like any other kid in the world, another person on the earth, another soul, another existence. But everything started with him and in that way he became important, he became special and he caused every event that followed after.

He had died; death itself is not a special event though his parents and his friends and their parents and the teachers who knew him thought it very important. They mourned and yet found their emotions mixed and uncertain. He had died and it had been a special death; in the city a battle had occurred, as they had many times, as they had in other cities in other times. And it was the battle that took his life; the average boy ran through the streets in search of his parents, his mother, his father, alone among the crowd. The crowd scattered as crashes were heard and as early darkness fell the boy was overtaken and suddenly debris came down and gone was the boy.

Some thought to argue; there were two contenders, the monster trying to destroy and kill everything, and the protectors in their metal giant trying to save and protect the city. And either could have done, could have been to blame, and they were loathe to blame those who protected of taking an innocent life. But the protectors did not come forward, did not defend themselves, and speculation flew. People talked and gossiped and fear set in and suddenly questions once left unquestioned before were buzzing with life.

It was then that the man came into the picture. His name was Astor Morgan and he was a politician, and it was he who created the Initiative; to the public he spoke with careful words, alluring phrases. He spoke of the fear, the questions, and he spoke of how to solve these, to bring to light the truth. He crooned and promised; he appealed to questions with promises of answer, he responded to fear with bravado. The people, the parents and friends and teachers and those who didn't know or like the kid, listened and fell under the spell. It took only a few months for the Power Rangers Initiative to pass, and as they were rounded up, starting with the current team, the people watched in happiness. Answers to the mysteries, an end to the creeping anxieties.

There was one fault though, a single problem; they never should have gone to Reefside.