"So we don't know what they may be searching for in the cavern systems," Kendall spoke as she looked over a viewing screen in the base, its connection to Zenowing as the bird looked through something on his own screen. Apparently she had called him at a strange time where he was waiting for someone to arrive from a planet over a different matter, but Zenowing had spoken that they were fine with waiting a bit longer. "Could they be after the Energems?"

"No, with the change in time there should be no reason for any record of them to be on earth unless Keeper is there," Zenowing responded, looking over what they had on their screen. Then, his gaze seemed to turn troubled as he looked over things. "Even the history of Earth hasn't changed all too much in terms of its interactions with space, but I'll look through the databanks on anything that may have happened just in case. I'll also contact Keeper to have him see if he knows anything."

"Thank you Zenowing," was all Kendall had responded before the connection ended. She then looked over the scans of the area as she tried to find something that could explain what the monster was doing here, but nothing seemed to show up at the mountain. It was more than likely due to the magnetic field there, Kendall's mind going back to the time when both Koda and Chase had been kept there by Slammer. "What are they doing over there, though…"

-Outside of Amber Beach Zoo-

"Nathan, I found the trail for the monster in the cavern system," came Zika's voice as the armored warrior stood on a building overlooking the zoo, his gaze on the car that Kendall and the others had returned in that was now parked at the front of the building. "It's as you were afraid of, they found the location of where the seal is."

"It was only a matter of time once they found out the location, Zika," Nathan responded as he knelt down towards the edge, his gaze overlooking the area. "What it holds has its own power that it emanates, so it was foolish for me to even think that placing it under the earth would seal it well enough. What about the other seal further in the mountain?"

"The area's undiscovered save for one Stingwinger that I had chased and destroyed at the entrance, and I don't even think they knew it was here from how they reacted," Zika responded, soon following silence as Nathan's gaze moved to the street. "Do you think the Guardian's prophecy is coming true?"

"Probably, but that's only if they manage to break the seal. We're not out of hope yet."

"Then we have some time to stop them," came Zika's voice as Nathan noticed a beam of light coming down from the sky, a familiar tug hitting his stomach as he instinctively gripped the hilt of his weapon. "This feels like the calm before the battle on Magnus three thousand years ago."

"Here's to hoping that it's only a feeling then," Nathan's gaze then looked over to where the beam was moving towards, the end of the light looking to hit the area he knew the center of town was. "Keep searching for the monster, I'll be busy dealing with some guests in the city."

As Kendall looked through an article on an asteroid landing in the area a week back, her thoughts were interrupted by a light going off on her monitor, signaling multiple alien life forms appearing within the city. Almost immediately, she turned on an intercom that was connected to the transmitters for the other rangers. "Guys, I just got multiple signs of alien DNA within the city plaza," Kendall spoke as she looked over the map of the area, her hands moving to have a camera to the plaza turn on as she looked over the numbers that were appearing on the screen. "Is anyone close by to have a look at it outside of us at the zoo?"

"I'm actually over here right now," came a voice in response, making Kendall sigh in relief as she turned on the camera. As she did, her gaze soon saw what looked to be a swarm of humanoid insects with some kind of stinger for hands. Past them, however, hiding behind one of the walls, was Tyler's father James, his arm raised to speak to the group. "Have you guys seen anything like this before?"

"No, this is something different from what we've faced," Kendall responded as a large blue monster appeared from the center of the swarm, his armor and head making him look robotic as he looked around the area. As he did, he turned to the smaller monsters and seemed to be saying something. "Can you hear what they're saying?"

"He's telling them to cause havoc in the city to draw someone out, starting with taking civilians," James spoke as he started etching closer, only to find two of the monsters to spot him and signal the others to go for him. "And it looks like they spotted me."

-James-

James had started his own run from the creatures as they started moving like a swarm towards him, the others moving towards other civilians that were scattering from the monsters. As he had made a turn, however, he found himself face to face with the robotic monster that had ordered the creatures in the first place, knocking the man back into them as they took hold of him. "Well, you'll make a fine addition to the bait," was all the monster spoke before he signalled the creatures to take James away.

'Great, one of the few times I absolutely need my Energem,' James thought as he was tossed into a group of people, his gaze going upwards as he fell back. As he looked up, however, he thought he noticed a black form moving on the roofs above.

"Right then, Stingwingers, that should be enough people," the monster spoke as it directed the creatures to stop grabbing people. James kept that name to note as he looked over the surrounding area, his gaze only met by around twenty of the creatures the monster called Stingwingers as they moved to the front of them. "Alright, here's how it's going to be; we know that there's someone in this area that's holding the knowledge of what we want. We'll give you to the count of five to come out and save these people, otherwise, we'll start taking out these prisoners of ours."

James just looked to the monster confused as he lifted his communicator to his mouth. "Do you think he means the Energems," James mumbled as he saw the monster directing the Stingwingers to completely circle the group of civilians.

"I don't know, but even then he shouldn't know we even knew about them," Kendall responded as James picked himself up, his thoughts going through stepping forward or not. "Don't try anything reckless."

"If I don't then there will be people hurt here," James countered as he prepared to step forward. Before he could, however, a series of green laser bolts came from the roof above the encirclement, blasting back the Stingwingers and the monster as an armored figure landed in front of the group, a black blaster in his hands that matched the patterns of his armor.

"All of you, get to safety now," was all the warrior spoke as he turned his head to them, starting the civilians on running again as he turned back to the monster. "You will not touch these people while I'm here, Brunt."

"Well, if it isn't the person I wanted to find," was all the monster spoke as he looked to the warrior, James moving with the crowd before he went back to hiding behind somewhere. "The Great Magna Defender of Magnus."

"Of Earth, my predecessor still remains on his own planet," the warrior corrected as he put his blaster at his side, its shape seeming to morph as he looked at the Stingwingers surrounding him. "What are you doing here, Scorpius has been gone for three thousand years."

"No thanks to you and that book you used," Brunt responded as he waved his hand towards the warrior, his minions now fully surrounding the two and making it harder for James to discern the look of the warrior in the look. "So why don't you tell me where it is and we can call it a day."

"It bears too much power to simply hand it to the forces of evil," was all the Magna Defender spoke as he grabbed his blaster again, this time drawing a sword from it as he pointed it towards Brunt. "If you want the location of the book so bad, you'll have to beat it out of me."

"Just what I was hoping for," was all Brunt responded before a sword appeared in his hand. "Stingwingers!"

At that response, the monsters swarmed the warrior, and James was fully prepared to jump in to help him even without an Energem. What shocked him, however, was when the warrior seemed to move at incredible speeds with his weapon, his armor seeming to take no damage as he braced into each attack from the Stingwingers. "Kendall, are you seeing this," James spoke as he watched the warrior jump out of the encirclement and move back to attack the group of creatures. "Just who is this guy?"

"I have no idea, but at least we know they aren't here for the Energems," Kendall responded as the Magna Defender sheathed his sword, it's form changing back to it's blaster form as he shot through the entourage with one quick pump of the weapon. after three shots of his weapon, however, he had soon taken care of all of them, leaving him and Brunt.

"I'll give you one chance Brunt," the Magna Defender spoke as he placed his blaster at his side, the monster backing away as if hesitating at the warrior before him. "Give up your search for the book, or be destroyed."

"Never," shouted the monster as they charged the warrior, simply making the Magna Defender sigh as they slacked their stance. James watched in astonishment as Brunt swung their blade down on the warrior, only for the Magna Defender to lift up his left arm and block the blade's path before he drew his sword, slashing through the monster twice before he jumped up, slashing down with what looked to be black lightning coming out of the blade as it cut through Brunt a final time.

"Foolish," was all the Magna Defender spoke as he turned from the monster, sheathing his weapon as multiple blasts came out of Brunt as they fell backwards. Then, with a large explosion as the warrior walked away, the monster was gone.

"This is unbelievable," James spoke as he looked at the remains of the battle. "Kendall, how's the response from Zenowing going?"

"Still nothing," Kendall responded, her voice sounding troubled. "However, it's pretty obvious that whatever we stumbled upon has some significance for those two."

With that spoken James took one last look at where the Magna Defender was, only to see them jump up in the air onto one of the roofs. "Either way, I think we'll be seeing more action than we have for a while," James spoke as he turned off his communicator, soon moving back to find what he had been looking for in the plaza before this all happened.

-Outer Space, within Earth's Orbit-

Deep within the throne room of a scorpion-like space ship, a single monster that looked to be a cyborg with red parts rising around his head paced impatiently as he watched the destruction of Brunt and his Stingwingers again from a viewing screen. "He was a fool to waste the Stingwingers like this," the monster spoke as he looked at the screen again, watching the fight from the beginning as the Magna Defender landed. Beside him, another monster that was red with a claw on his left hand and a full set of hair worked on the screen. "I told him to capture the Magna Defender by surprise, not draw him out into a fight. Do we have any intel on what he may look like under that armor, Radster?"

"Nuh-uh, Furio, he vanished from our screens soon after beating Brunt," the monster responded to his master, his only hand changing the view of the screen before it came to a cavern system, where they watched a starfish type monster run out in a hurry. "But, it seems Starcog has managed to escape the other Defender, Uh-huh."

"Get him on the ship then, before they find him," Furio spoke as he lifted his sword onto his shoulder, soon hearing confirmation from Radster as he watched the monster disappear in a flash of lightning. The next second, the creature was in front of him in a panicked state, looking around shocked as Furio walked up to him. "Report, Starcog."

"Furio," was all the monster spoke, as if in relief as it stood at attention. "I think I found the area the book is kept, sir, but it seems that it's blocked by some kind of gate. I couldn't open it with any attack and was seeing if I could dig through from another way before I was stopped by several humans."

"Not to mention after catching the attention of the son of the Magna Defender," was all Furio spoke as he looked back to the screen, soon seeing Zika walk out of the cave looking around. His gaze then went to the red line that encircled his gem, a symbol that separated him from his father when he had first arrived onto the battlefield as another of the planet Magnus' protectors. "So it's sealed behind a gate, then. So we'll simply have to search for a key."

"But surely they had to have sent it off the planet, wouldn't they," Starcog spoke before Furio pushed Radster away from the viewing screen, soon grabbing Starcog and placing him at it as the monster looked at him confused.

"Search through the caverns for the seal you've found, quickly," Furio spat out, soon followed by a rapid movement of the screen as Starcog went through searching for the gate in question. Furio watched intently as they took every turn and maneuver, soon stopping before a gate that covered the entire cavern at one turn. What was more interesting to him, however, was the green gem that was inlaid on the gate. Soon he had his mind go through his memories, remembering a gate he had seen centuries before in his search to free his master. "That gate is one that's indestructible to us, sure, but its creator cannot move the key too far away from it without both disintegrating. It's here on the planet. Radster, have the Stingwingers to search around the planet, and make sure they aren't noticed."

"Of course, Furio," was all Radster spoke before he moved to go and inform the creatures of their orders, Starcog in the meantime looking at Furio confused.

"How do you know so much about the door," Starcog asked as Furio moved to a throne at the center of the room, sitting down in it as he looked at the screen, watching the Magna Defender land beside Zika. "I don't think we've ever seen something like this during our invasion on Magnus."

"That's because it's a different ability than those used by the warriors of Magnus," Furio responded as he looked to the door, his gaze trailing the inscriptions upon it. "That door is made through the Magna Defender's power, but the origins of the writing on the door come from the secrets of the Galaxy Book."

-Zika-

"I'm sorry, my friend," Was all Zika spoke as the other warrior walked to the area the footprints stopped, kneeling down as he noticed several leaves looked to have been blasted back from the area. "It looks like they were keeping tabs on the cavern for the moment they left it."

"Neither of us knew how close they were being monitored, if anything it's my fault for leaving the entrance unguarded," Nathan spoke as he stood up from his spot, looking back to Zika in a way that almost reminded the other of his father. "It just goes to show that I have a lot to learn on being as great of a warrior as your father."

"I'd say you're doing pretty well, from what I heard on our coms," Zika spoke as Nathan walked over to the edge of the cavern, sitting down as the other moved to sit beside him. "On the plus side, at least they don't have the key yet."

"For now," Nathan agreed, his helmet turning to look at Zika as the other adjusted themself. "If it's alright, I'd like you to go make sure that they don't find that key any time soon."

"Sounds fair, you'll probably be busy with the remnants of Scorpius' minions trying to break into the doorway through you," Zika spoke, his gaze now looking back to the cavern before he looked to Nathan, looking to change the subject. "How's Eric's life going?"

"He's currently taking care of his brother, who's down with a case of food poisoning," Nathan responded as he pulled up one of his knees, resting his arm on it as he looked out to the forest that surrounded the cavern. "All goes well, he should be back to work tomorrow. If his brother is still feeling ill though, he'll probably call in to take care of him."

"Well one thing's for certain, he's going to have his hands full either way," Zika responded as he looked up to the sky. "You're certain you don't want the Ranger's help with the matter on the book? If you actually ask them, then I'm sure that-"

"I won't let this world's fate be placed in the hands of people who can't even protect their own city," Nathan interrupted, making Zika look over to him as the warrior rested his head against the rocks behind him. "They had amp opportunity to show up when the monster attacked, and yet they did nothing when lives were on the line."

"To be fair, you had arrived right at the moment there was trouble so you didn't give them any time to start heading over there," Zika spoke, soon picking himself up as he looked down at Nathan. "Regardless, I've spent enough time here. I can't let my father defend our planet all alone, after all."

"Fair enough," Nathan responded as he kept his gaze up in the sky, making Zika sigh as he turned to leave. "Be careful on the way back, there's no telling where the remnants of Scorpius' army are up there."

"Got it, and you be careful over here," Zika responded as he raised his hand in farewell, soon moving deeper into the forest surrounding the cave before he vanished. At the same time, Nathan closed his eyes as he found his mind wandering back into older memories. As he did so, his free hand moved up onto an engraving that rested on his right pauldron, a design given to him which could only be found on the book sealed away.

"I may need to call him for advice, though he may not like how I'll call him."

-Kendall, Dino Lab-

Kendall had been looking over the footage from earlier in the day when Keeper had appeared, his gaze worried as Kendall ran up to him. "I heard about the trouble from Zenowing," Keeper spoke as he looked to the scientist, Kendall looking confused as the guardian moved to look at the viewing screen. "As well as the appearance of another warrior."

"Someone called the Magna Defender by the monster that attacked," Kendall responded as she changed the screen to where it was on the holo map, showing the warrior in question as they were in mid slash amidst an army of enemies. "Do you know who they are?"

"A guardian of a distant planet, one who is sworn to fight against the forces of evil similar to the Power Rangers," Keeper spoke as he looked over the armor, his voice almost sounding reminiscent. "It was thanks to one of them that I was able to escape from Sledge with the Energems before I made it to Earth, though I'm more surprised that there's one here."

"He's apparently protecting a book from the monsters he's fighting here," Kendall spoke as she pulled up a visual of a Stingwinger, making Keeper tilt his head towards it confused. "The monster he destroyed called them Stingwingers."

"They were the foot soldiers of a warlord known as Scorpius who was bent on taking over the universe thousands of years ago," Keeper spoke as he looked over the creature. "However, during an invasion on the Magna Defenders homeworld he had vanished, taking a large part of his army with him. It was said that a warrior bearing the armor of the current Magna Defender descended upon the battlefield, and had used some power to seal them away."

"Seems like the book is connected to it," Kendall spoke as she looked to Keeper. "There was another alien that had been spotted at the mountains near one of the caverns that led to the system where Koda and Chase were kept by Slammer. Do you think it could be there?"

"If it is, that would explain why this Magna Defender is here," Keeper spoke as he pulled out a case, looking over to Kendall. "If the Magna Defender is having to protect something from the remnants of that warlord, then you can expect that it is something of unprecedented power. If that is the case, however, then you will all need these."

With that spoken, Keeper opened the case, revealing seven tubes that looked similar to Dino Chargers, yet they each glowed with a different color that was respective of the Rangers Kendall knew were on the planet. "I've worked on these Energizers for several years with Zenowing in the event you may need the Energems again and I'm unable to take them to you," Keeper spoke as Kendall picked up the purple Dino Charger, her gaze overlooking it as Keeper Continued. "They have a direct connection to the Energems and will allow you to morph as well as you could've with them."

"Incredible," Kendall spoke, placing the Dino Charger back in the case as she picked up her Dino Comm. "Guys, you'll want to come to the lab. Keeper's come here with a few gifts."

...You guys see what I mean when I say that this thing has been in my head for too long? I mean, sure this thing feels stupidly rushed on my part, and I'm more than likely going to edit it as time goes on, but the fact of the matter is that apparently I've had this on my mind a stupid amount more than stuff I've been working on for years. Regardless of the matter, though, I still plan on working on both chapters since I've noticed gaps and changes in the spacing that the document editor puts in when I put them in the document manager.

...Crap, I'm already thinking of editing it while I'm still needing to finish stuff for my other stories. This one's going to be a trip...

Either way, feel free to give your thoughts on how it's looking so far and I hope you like the story because while I'm gripey over the fact that I'm finally writing this, I won't deny that I've had fun thinking through it over the past year.