Power Ranger Cyber #3: into the unknown part 3
Power rangers are the property of saban. Phalanx are the propery of marvel comics (i think).
I would like mention a friend of mine online who helped with some ideas in this story. His screen name is GCL1969. Thanx.
Previously on power rangers Cyber.
"We have to surrender. We'll never get home if we get killed." Jake says then walks into the open with his hands over his head.
The other 4 reluctantly agree and follow suit. The beings thankfully don't blast them to oblivion and instead approach the group and bind them with an energy beam. They are all pulled into one big hole. After a flash of light, Janus finds her strapped to a chair being tortured.
"Aayyeeee." Janus screams.
And now episode 3.
Janus finds her-self floating through space seeing the Milky Way galaxy in the distance.
"It all doesn't make any sense." Janus thinks.
Janus sees earth and tries to reach for it but it keeps pulling away from her.
"No please. I want to go home." Janus thinks frustrated.
The galaxy fades from her vision and is replaced by a cell. She remembers where she is. A captive of the night visitors. Flashes of the tortures come back to her and she shudders.
"Darn it all." A familiar voice says in the next cell.
"Matt? Is that you?" Janus asks.
"Janus?" Matt responds.
"Yes it's me. Thank god you are okay. Have you heard or seen the others?" Janus asks.
"No. I think we are the only prisoners in this block. Or at least the only alive ones." Matt responds.
"Oh don't talk like that." Janus says shivering.
Suddenly an alarm sounds and a bunch of grunts dressed in armor come running down the hall and pass the cells.
"Now what?" Matt asks.
After a long time of fighting sounds a bunch of grunts in different kinds of armor come and unlock the cells. They motion for Janus and Matt to come out and follow them. They feel like they have no choice and follow them.
"Who are you?" Janus asks the grunts.
They don't answer but continue running. After awhile they reach a shuttle bay and the grunts gesture them into the nearest ship.
"But wait. We have other people here." Janus says.
"Janus! I'm here." Joshua yells from inside of the ship.
"Are Cynthia and Jake in there too?" Janus yells out.
"Yeah the gangs all here." Joshua yells.
They all rush into the shuttle and sit down. The shuttle goes through the airlock and they find themselves in space over the planet that they crash-landed on before. The ship enters the planet's atmosphere and flies towards a base and enters it. The shuttle lands in the bay. The grunts gesture for the 5 to follow them out. The 5 follow them into a command center where a figure is standing with its back to them.
"Hello strangers. We have rescued you cause you seem to be enemies of our enemies. A legend foretold of your coming." The figure says.
"Who or what are you?" Matt says.
"We are the Phalanx. A group of cyberorganic beings." The figure responds.
"So what do we have to do with this legend?" Matt asks.
"The legend says is that someday a group of people from far away would come and be worthy to take the cyber power and free our enslaved people from the corrupt core." The general responds.
Meanwhile the three core lords are watching and wondering.
"Could these 5 be the ones?" ONE asks.
"They do come from far away and they are enemies of the corrupt core." TWO responds.
"Have number one test them. That should tell us for sure." THREE says.
"But what if they fail?" TWO asks.
"Then we will have to wait longer." ONE responds.
"Let us hope that they do succeed cause we need help." THREE says.
Meanwhile back at the base the general gets word from the core lords to test the 5.
"My lords tell me that you need to be tested to prove that you are the chosen ones." The general says.
"Hey bring them on. I never let a test faze me." Joshua says.
"You will go first." The general says pointing to Joshua.
Some Phalanx men lead Joshua to a room. Joshua is left there and he stands there waiting.
The room is replaced by Joshua roller blading with his friend. Back when he could do anything.
"Come on Joshua. Let's go down that hill." Jake says.
"It looks a bit dangerous." Young Joshua responds.
"Oh come on. Live a little." Jake says.
They approach the hill but Joshua still holds back.
"Oh come on. Look I will go first to show you it's no trouble." Jake says.
Jake goes down without any problem. Once he reaches the bottom he motions for Joshua to do it. Joshua shrugs and starts his rolling down hill. He is doing fine until he gets distracted and falls on his head and almost breaks his neck. He relives him going to the hospital and hearing the doctor's say that he's darn lucky that he didn't split open his skull or break his neck. The doctor's saying that he can walk but it will be very difficult. The doctor's give him a wheelchair to use until he can walk. Joshua never stopped using it. The empty room comes back and suddenly the wheelchair disappears from beneath Joshua.
"What the?" Joshua yells.
"You can move without that chair. You are not completely paralyzed. Remember?" A voice says.
"I need it." Joshua says almost crying.
"You do not to the point of how you use it. You have become weak by using it all the time." The voice says.
"This is my test. It must be." Joshua thinks.
Joshua slowly pulls himself forward. Ahead of him he sees two items appear. On one side is his wheelchair. On the other side is a strange device. The wheelchair is closer.
"I know the solution is not to go for the wheelchair." Joshua says to himself.
He starts to crawl towards the strange device. Suddenly the ground raises up and become steps. Ones too steep for him to crawl up.
"Oh come on. What is this?" Joshua asks.
"You must use your legs again." The voice responds.
Joshua slowly gets up on his knees and shakily stands on his legs. He almost falls down several times. He finds that he can't remember how to walk. He determinedly remembers how and takes it one step at a time and very slowly. At the top he collapses with exhaustion. He cries out after he sees that the device seems just as far as it was before he went up the stairs. He crawls again but the device gets further and further away.
"Darn it." Joshua yells out in frustration.
"You must walk before you can fight." The voice says.
Joshua once again stands up and shakily walks towards the device. The device now gets closer and closer until he can reach out for it.
After he grabs it the voice says, "Congratulations! You deserve the device you now hold in your hand. Raise it to the sky and yell cyber ranger gamma."
Joshua shrugs and raises up the device and yells, "Cyber ranger gamma!"
A metamorphosis begins as a black skin begins to cover him starting with the feet. When it reaches the head it covers from the back to the face. The resulting transformation leaves Joshua in the form of a figure with a skintight suit on his body. His head is normal looking with slits for nose holes and eye windows in the shape of his eyes. Joshua starts to walk forward and does a double take when he realizes how easy he can.
"I can walk again." Joshua yells.
"Yes the cyber suit bypasses the weakness of your body." The voice says. "Now say power down."
"Power down." Joshua says.
When the skin pulls away from him he finds that he now has a metallic suit on him and he can still walk but with a little effort. But not as much as before.
"What's this?" Joshua asks.
"It is a bio suit that will help you walk but will not let you be lazy like your old chair." The voice responds.
"This is so cool." Joshua says happily while running around the room and jumping.
"Be careful. The suit can be damaged and become inoperable." The voice says.
Joshua calms down and nods.
"Your test is over. You may now return to wait for you other friends." The voice says.
Meanwhile in another room, Jake is waiting for his test to begin. After a flash of light he finds himself in a car with two other men. After a short time he realizes that he is looking at himself and his dad in the front seat.
"What's going on here?" Jake thinks.
Jake looks in the window and sees his sister's reflection. He yells briefly in surprise. His dad looks back at him and he realizes that he heard him. Pretty soon he realizes that he is reliving the night that he got in a car wreck while driving recklessly. The same wreck that killed his father and sister.
"No. No!" Jake screams.
"What's wrong dear?" his father asks.
"You have to stop Jake. You are gonna kill us." Jake screams to himself.
"You can't tell me how to drive. We need to make it to the concert in 5 minutes." Jake says.
"You are driving too fast. Let me drive. I have more experience." The father says.
"Look. I said I know what I am doing. God it's bad enough that I have a backseat driver. Do I have to have a front-seat driver also?" Jake says angrily.
The car approaches a changing light to red.
"Hold on I think I can make it." Jake says then floors the accelerator.
"NO!!!!!" the sister/Jake screams.
The car is struck on the passenger side by a car going through a green light. Jake reels from horror as he sees the side of the car coming at him. The same one that crushed and killed his sister. But just before it hits him, his vision flashes with light again and he finds himself back in the room. Jake doesn't realize that he is actually crying until tears hit the ground.
"You never forgave yourself for that did you." A voice asks.
"Of course not. How could I forgive myself for murdering my father and sister." Jake says crying.
Suddenly his father appears in front of him.
"Hello son." His father says.
"I'm so sorry I killed you. I shouldn't of drove so recklessly." Jake says.
"Yes you shouldn't of. But you shouldn't let that one disaster rule your life." The father says.
"I never figured out why I survived and you two didn't. The paramedics said that I was saved by one inch of space between me and the crumpled metal." Jake says.
"Fate has its reasons and we aren't always meant to know the reasons. Now go and do what you must do." The father says.
Jake walks forward and slowly puts his arms around his father and hugs him.
"Goodbye father. I promise that I will make you proud of me." Jake says.
"You already have." The father says.
The dad disappears and in his place is another strange device.
"Congratulations. Pick up the device and say cyber ranger beta." The voice says.
"This is for you dad. Cyber ranger beta." Jake says.
The same black skin surrounds him and Jake becomes a ranger.
"I finally know why I survived. To be a hero." Jake says.
In another room Cynthia awaits her test. A scene of her mountain climbing replaces the room. She almost stumbles with the surprise but catches herself. She looks around to see if she recognizes the area.
"Where am I?" Cynthia wonders.
She starts to climb up when her hook pulls from the face and she finds herself clinging for her life on the rock face.
"Give me your hand." A voice says above her.
Cynthia looks up and sees a man reaching down for her. She reaches up her hand to grab his. But suddenly his face changes to someone else. Someone that she has been having nightmares of for years.
"No! No! Get away from me." Cynthia screams.
"Trust me. I'm the only way you are gonna survive." The man says.
"No!" Cynthia says then screams as she falls to her death.
But before she hits the ground she finds herself back in the empty room.
"Why didn't you accept the help of that man or almost any men in your life." The voice asks.
"No. No! It's too painful to remember." Cynthia yells.
"Why did you accept help until the face changes. What difference was there between the first man and the second man?" the voice asks.
"He's bad. He would of hurt me." Cynthia says crying.
"Why do you think that? Has he hurt you before." The voice asks.
"He raped me. Left me for dead." Cynthia says.
"What other men have made you like this?" The voice asks.
"My dad. He would beat my mother till she was unconscious. One day she never woke up after being beaten." Cynthia says crying.
"Because of those two men, you stamped all men as bad. Not to be trusted. But you will need to trust men to survive what will come." The voice says.
A vision comes up with the face that she thought was her rapist. She sees that instead he saved her from death.
"He saved me?" Cynthia asks.
"Yes a man saved your life." The voice says.
The rock face comes back into view and she is once again hanging for her life and the same face is beckoning for her to grab on. She shakily grabs onto his hand and he pulls her up.
"Here is a pack with rations. You are probably hungry and thirsty from that climb." The man says.
"Not really." Cynthia starts to say until she sees a strange device in the bag instead of rations. She takes it out and the room once again replaces the rock face.
"You have passed. Take that device and say cyber ranger delta." The voice says.
"Cyber ranger delta." Cynthia says then changes the same way.
In yet another room, Janus waits her trial.
A hospital room replaces the room.
"No! Not this. It took me years to get over this." Janus says.
A younger Janus is standing over a young man in bed with tubes hooked up and a monitor.
"I'm sure that they will find a cure for you Billy." Young Janus says.
The man smiles in his bed but then goes into a coughing fit.
"You just keep on being a good sister to me and that will be enough I am sure." The brother says.
The room shifts to a scene of chaos as the alarms are going off with a code blue. The doctor's come rushing in and tell Janus to leave and they will do all they can. Young Janus leaves crying. The scene shifts once again to Janus and her family crying over their son who is now in a coma and has hardly any chance of coming out of it. The scene fades into the empty room again.
"Why did you not want to witness that again?" The voice asks.
"Because I couldn't save him. No matter how smart I was. All that was worthless when it came to saving his life." Janus says crying.
"It made you realize that you can't do everything. No one person can do everything. That's why there are teams and not individuals that save people more." The voice says.
"I wasted 6 months of my life waiting by that bed for him to come out of that coma. I never left his side. Wracked my brain trying to figure a way to save him. I became so desperate that I prayed for a miracle. Yeah that's right, a scientist praying. But nothing happened until 6 months later when he came out of it just for enough time to say goodbye before he flat-lined." Janus says.
"So you learned that smarts and science can't save everybody. You have 4 others that need your help." The voice says.
"I can't figure out how we ever got here. How are am I gonna help them return home?" Janus asks.
"Not that. You and your friends are about to go on a journey to save a race. Members of the team will be needed for their own reasons. You will be." The voice says.
"For my smarts?" Janus interrupts.
"Among other things yes." The voice responds.
"But what if my smarts aren't enough?" Janus asks.
"Then you have other things. Understanding and compassion. You don't give up easily." The voice says.
The scene returns to the room where her brother is just coming out of his coma.
"Hey sis. How long have I been out?" The brother asks smiling.
"Oh my god. It's been like 6 months." Young Janus says.
"Hey I always was lazy and liked to sleep in." The brother says laughing.
"Hey hold on. I am gonna call the nurse and mom and dad." Janus says excited
"There's no time for that. It's time for me to go. I was just allowed one more brief moment of life to tell you something." The brother says.
"What? No! It can't be. Your okay now right?" Janus asks.
"Listen little sister. Don't give up on life or science just cause you couldn't save me. Please take this for me and save others." The brother says.
In his hand is yet another strange device.
"What is this?" Janus says confused.
As soon as she grabs the device, the hospital room disappears and is replaced again by the empty room but she is still holding the device.
"Good job. Now say cyber ranger omega." The voice says.
Janus looks confused but says, "cyber ranger omega."
After she undergoes the same transformation as the others she looks around.
"So is this what you meant by being part of a team?" Janus asks.
"Yes. Go now and wait for the others. It is almost finished." The voice says.
Finally in the other room Matt awaits his trial. The room is replaced by a living room. A young Matt runs into it.
"You are gonna do what I say." His dad says angrily.
"No! It's always what you want me to do. You don't care what I want to do." Young Matt says.
"Of course I don't want you to a loner biker that roams the country. I want you to have a purpose in life." The dad says.
"I don't care if you and your father where in the military. I don't want to be for any reason. But especially not for that reason. I want to forge my own path. Not follow the same path my ancestors have." Matt says.
"I just want you to do a safer job with a purpose." The dad yells.
"Safer? Have you seen the number of people that die in a war." Matt asks.
"Just cause you join doesn't mean you will have to go to war. Even if you do you might survive. I did." The dad responds.
"Yeah but granddad didn't." Matt says.
His dad winces and his eyes grow cold and he says, "You know that I don't like to talk about that."
"Fine then I won't talk at all." Matt says then starts heading for the front door.
"You walk out that door and you never come back." The dad yells.
Matt doesn't even break his stride as he walks out the front door and slams it. His dad cries as he hears the motorcycle engine start and pull away. The scene fades and the room bare room appears.
"Why did you rebel against your dad?" The voice asks.
"Ever since I was a baby he plotted my future as if It was not my own. He wanted to relive his childhood and then young adulthood through me." Matt responds.
"What happened after you left?" The voice says.
"I got a letter saying that he had a stroke and was crippled. He asked for me and I never came back." Matt says grimacing.
"You wonder if your leaving him on a dangerous life is what caused the stroke." The voice says.
"I didn't care. But part of me always wondered. I just buried that part so it wouldn't affect me." Matt says.
"But it did affect you. You did join the military." The voice says.
"I did it to help other people. Not for my family. I refused to do it for them." Matt says.
A figure in a wheelchair appears in the room. Matt realizes it's his father.
"Son." His father says.
"I'm sorry if I caused your stroke." Matt says.
"No you didn't. It was inevitable. With my lifestyle and stuff. It wasn't your fault. You helped my recovery though when I found out that you had chosen to become special ops." The dad says.
Matt wipes tears from his eyes.
"There's something you must know. I wasn't trying to relive my childhood and beyond through you. I was trying to keep you from having the same childhood that I had. You see I was a rebel at first too. Almost lost my life because of it. I was frightened when I saw you going down the same path as me." The dad says.
"Really?" Matt asks.
"Yes I am glad to see you chose the right path anyway." The dad responds.
Matt wipes some more tears from his face. When his hand pulls away from his eyes he sees that his father is gone. In his place is another device. He walks forward and takes it.
"You are the chosen one. Take this and say cyber ranger alpha." The voice says.
"Cyber ranger alpha." Matt says that then he goes through the same transformation.
"You will be the leader of this team. I sense great strength in you." The voice says.
"What? I can't be a leader." Matt says.
"But you already hold the most powerful cyber power of them all. You are destined to be the leader." The voice says.
"Okay but I don't think you know what you are doing." Matt says shrugging.
Meanwhile in a unknown location a single core system lies in a room watching the rangers get their powers.
"Cyber rangers? Why does that sound so familiar? particularly. The ranger part?" The dark core ponders.
A grunt comes running in.
"My lord. What do you want us to do about this new threat?" The grunt asks.
"Send some quarks down there. Let's see just how powerful these new toys of those fools are." The dark core responds.
The grunt nods then runs off. Meanwhile back on the planet the rangers are all outside wondering what to do next.
"I can't believe it. We're all part of a team." Jake says.
Suddenly a familiar hole appears and a bunch of quarks come through.
"Oh man." Cynthia whines.
"Wait we can beat them this time. We have the power." Matt says.
A fight ensues with the rangers trading blows with the quarks.
"We need weapons." Jake says.
"Your weapons are part of you. Just will them into existence." The voice says.
All five rangers concentrate and blasters appear in their hands.
"All right now that's more like it." Jake yells.
The rangers make short work of the quarks with the blasters and continuing to fight hand to hand. One by one the quarks wink out of existence. The rangers all high five each other.
"Yeah we rock!" Jake yells.
"Do not get too cocky. Those were merely the foot soldiers of the dark core. He will no doubt send something more powerful now." The voice says.
Sure enough at the dark core base the dark core is angry.
"So they think they are so good are they. Send in Rexor. That will teach them a lesson or two." Dark Core says angrily.
The general takes a grunt and throws him into the molding chamber and closes the door. He enters a card with the name Rexor on it then throws the switch.
"Excellent. Now we will see just how good these fools are." Dark Core says.
The ranger partying is interrupted by the appearance of Rexor. He looks like a monstrous dinosaur with short stubby hands like a t-rex. As well as large sharp teeth. The rangers start firing but soon realize that their blasters are worthless.
"Now what do we do?" Jake says.
To be continued.
Next week is the thrilling conclusion to the series premiere
Power rangers are the property of saban. Phalanx are the propery of marvel comics (i think).
I would like mention a friend of mine online who helped with some ideas in this story. His screen name is GCL1969. Thanx.
Previously on power rangers Cyber.
"We have to surrender. We'll never get home if we get killed." Jake says then walks into the open with his hands over his head.
The other 4 reluctantly agree and follow suit. The beings thankfully don't blast them to oblivion and instead approach the group and bind them with an energy beam. They are all pulled into one big hole. After a flash of light, Janus finds her strapped to a chair being tortured.
"Aayyeeee." Janus screams.
And now episode 3.
Janus finds her-self floating through space seeing the Milky Way galaxy in the distance.
"It all doesn't make any sense." Janus thinks.
Janus sees earth and tries to reach for it but it keeps pulling away from her.
"No please. I want to go home." Janus thinks frustrated.
The galaxy fades from her vision and is replaced by a cell. She remembers where she is. A captive of the night visitors. Flashes of the tortures come back to her and she shudders.
"Darn it all." A familiar voice says in the next cell.
"Matt? Is that you?" Janus asks.
"Janus?" Matt responds.
"Yes it's me. Thank god you are okay. Have you heard or seen the others?" Janus asks.
"No. I think we are the only prisoners in this block. Or at least the only alive ones." Matt responds.
"Oh don't talk like that." Janus says shivering.
Suddenly an alarm sounds and a bunch of grunts dressed in armor come running down the hall and pass the cells.
"Now what?" Matt asks.
After a long time of fighting sounds a bunch of grunts in different kinds of armor come and unlock the cells. They motion for Janus and Matt to come out and follow them. They feel like they have no choice and follow them.
"Who are you?" Janus asks the grunts.
They don't answer but continue running. After awhile they reach a shuttle bay and the grunts gesture them into the nearest ship.
"But wait. We have other people here." Janus says.
"Janus! I'm here." Joshua yells from inside of the ship.
"Are Cynthia and Jake in there too?" Janus yells out.
"Yeah the gangs all here." Joshua yells.
They all rush into the shuttle and sit down. The shuttle goes through the airlock and they find themselves in space over the planet that they crash-landed on before. The ship enters the planet's atmosphere and flies towards a base and enters it. The shuttle lands in the bay. The grunts gesture for the 5 to follow them out. The 5 follow them into a command center where a figure is standing with its back to them.
"Hello strangers. We have rescued you cause you seem to be enemies of our enemies. A legend foretold of your coming." The figure says.
"Who or what are you?" Matt says.
"We are the Phalanx. A group of cyberorganic beings." The figure responds.
"So what do we have to do with this legend?" Matt asks.
"The legend says is that someday a group of people from far away would come and be worthy to take the cyber power and free our enslaved people from the corrupt core." The general responds.
Meanwhile the three core lords are watching and wondering.
"Could these 5 be the ones?" ONE asks.
"They do come from far away and they are enemies of the corrupt core." TWO responds.
"Have number one test them. That should tell us for sure." THREE says.
"But what if they fail?" TWO asks.
"Then we will have to wait longer." ONE responds.
"Let us hope that they do succeed cause we need help." THREE says.
Meanwhile back at the base the general gets word from the core lords to test the 5.
"My lords tell me that you need to be tested to prove that you are the chosen ones." The general says.
"Hey bring them on. I never let a test faze me." Joshua says.
"You will go first." The general says pointing to Joshua.
Some Phalanx men lead Joshua to a room. Joshua is left there and he stands there waiting.
The room is replaced by Joshua roller blading with his friend. Back when he could do anything.
"Come on Joshua. Let's go down that hill." Jake says.
"It looks a bit dangerous." Young Joshua responds.
"Oh come on. Live a little." Jake says.
They approach the hill but Joshua still holds back.
"Oh come on. Look I will go first to show you it's no trouble." Jake says.
Jake goes down without any problem. Once he reaches the bottom he motions for Joshua to do it. Joshua shrugs and starts his rolling down hill. He is doing fine until he gets distracted and falls on his head and almost breaks his neck. He relives him going to the hospital and hearing the doctor's say that he's darn lucky that he didn't split open his skull or break his neck. The doctor's saying that he can walk but it will be very difficult. The doctor's give him a wheelchair to use until he can walk. Joshua never stopped using it. The empty room comes back and suddenly the wheelchair disappears from beneath Joshua.
"What the?" Joshua yells.
"You can move without that chair. You are not completely paralyzed. Remember?" A voice says.
"I need it." Joshua says almost crying.
"You do not to the point of how you use it. You have become weak by using it all the time." The voice says.
"This is my test. It must be." Joshua thinks.
Joshua slowly pulls himself forward. Ahead of him he sees two items appear. On one side is his wheelchair. On the other side is a strange device. The wheelchair is closer.
"I know the solution is not to go for the wheelchair." Joshua says to himself.
He starts to crawl towards the strange device. Suddenly the ground raises up and become steps. Ones too steep for him to crawl up.
"Oh come on. What is this?" Joshua asks.
"You must use your legs again." The voice responds.
Joshua slowly gets up on his knees and shakily stands on his legs. He almost falls down several times. He finds that he can't remember how to walk. He determinedly remembers how and takes it one step at a time and very slowly. At the top he collapses with exhaustion. He cries out after he sees that the device seems just as far as it was before he went up the stairs. He crawls again but the device gets further and further away.
"Darn it." Joshua yells out in frustration.
"You must walk before you can fight." The voice says.
Joshua once again stands up and shakily walks towards the device. The device now gets closer and closer until he can reach out for it.
After he grabs it the voice says, "Congratulations! You deserve the device you now hold in your hand. Raise it to the sky and yell cyber ranger gamma."
Joshua shrugs and raises up the device and yells, "Cyber ranger gamma!"
A metamorphosis begins as a black skin begins to cover him starting with the feet. When it reaches the head it covers from the back to the face. The resulting transformation leaves Joshua in the form of a figure with a skintight suit on his body. His head is normal looking with slits for nose holes and eye windows in the shape of his eyes. Joshua starts to walk forward and does a double take when he realizes how easy he can.
"I can walk again." Joshua yells.
"Yes the cyber suit bypasses the weakness of your body." The voice says. "Now say power down."
"Power down." Joshua says.
When the skin pulls away from him he finds that he now has a metallic suit on him and he can still walk but with a little effort. But not as much as before.
"What's this?" Joshua asks.
"It is a bio suit that will help you walk but will not let you be lazy like your old chair." The voice responds.
"This is so cool." Joshua says happily while running around the room and jumping.
"Be careful. The suit can be damaged and become inoperable." The voice says.
Joshua calms down and nods.
"Your test is over. You may now return to wait for you other friends." The voice says.
Meanwhile in another room, Jake is waiting for his test to begin. After a flash of light he finds himself in a car with two other men. After a short time he realizes that he is looking at himself and his dad in the front seat.
"What's going on here?" Jake thinks.
Jake looks in the window and sees his sister's reflection. He yells briefly in surprise. His dad looks back at him and he realizes that he heard him. Pretty soon he realizes that he is reliving the night that he got in a car wreck while driving recklessly. The same wreck that killed his father and sister.
"No. No!" Jake screams.
"What's wrong dear?" his father asks.
"You have to stop Jake. You are gonna kill us." Jake screams to himself.
"You can't tell me how to drive. We need to make it to the concert in 5 minutes." Jake says.
"You are driving too fast. Let me drive. I have more experience." The father says.
"Look. I said I know what I am doing. God it's bad enough that I have a backseat driver. Do I have to have a front-seat driver also?" Jake says angrily.
The car approaches a changing light to red.
"Hold on I think I can make it." Jake says then floors the accelerator.
"NO!!!!!" the sister/Jake screams.
The car is struck on the passenger side by a car going through a green light. Jake reels from horror as he sees the side of the car coming at him. The same one that crushed and killed his sister. But just before it hits him, his vision flashes with light again and he finds himself back in the room. Jake doesn't realize that he is actually crying until tears hit the ground.
"You never forgave yourself for that did you." A voice asks.
"Of course not. How could I forgive myself for murdering my father and sister." Jake says crying.
Suddenly his father appears in front of him.
"Hello son." His father says.
"I'm so sorry I killed you. I shouldn't of drove so recklessly." Jake says.
"Yes you shouldn't of. But you shouldn't let that one disaster rule your life." The father says.
"I never figured out why I survived and you two didn't. The paramedics said that I was saved by one inch of space between me and the crumpled metal." Jake says.
"Fate has its reasons and we aren't always meant to know the reasons. Now go and do what you must do." The father says.
Jake walks forward and slowly puts his arms around his father and hugs him.
"Goodbye father. I promise that I will make you proud of me." Jake says.
"You already have." The father says.
The dad disappears and in his place is another strange device.
"Congratulations. Pick up the device and say cyber ranger beta." The voice says.
"This is for you dad. Cyber ranger beta." Jake says.
The same black skin surrounds him and Jake becomes a ranger.
"I finally know why I survived. To be a hero." Jake says.
In another room Cynthia awaits her test. A scene of her mountain climbing replaces the room. She almost stumbles with the surprise but catches herself. She looks around to see if she recognizes the area.
"Where am I?" Cynthia wonders.
She starts to climb up when her hook pulls from the face and she finds herself clinging for her life on the rock face.
"Give me your hand." A voice says above her.
Cynthia looks up and sees a man reaching down for her. She reaches up her hand to grab his. But suddenly his face changes to someone else. Someone that she has been having nightmares of for years.
"No! No! Get away from me." Cynthia screams.
"Trust me. I'm the only way you are gonna survive." The man says.
"No!" Cynthia says then screams as she falls to her death.
But before she hits the ground she finds herself back in the empty room.
"Why didn't you accept the help of that man or almost any men in your life." The voice asks.
"No. No! It's too painful to remember." Cynthia yells.
"Why did you accept help until the face changes. What difference was there between the first man and the second man?" the voice asks.
"He's bad. He would of hurt me." Cynthia says crying.
"Why do you think that? Has he hurt you before." The voice asks.
"He raped me. Left me for dead." Cynthia says.
"What other men have made you like this?" The voice asks.
"My dad. He would beat my mother till she was unconscious. One day she never woke up after being beaten." Cynthia says crying.
"Because of those two men, you stamped all men as bad. Not to be trusted. But you will need to trust men to survive what will come." The voice says.
A vision comes up with the face that she thought was her rapist. She sees that instead he saved her from death.
"He saved me?" Cynthia asks.
"Yes a man saved your life." The voice says.
The rock face comes back into view and she is once again hanging for her life and the same face is beckoning for her to grab on. She shakily grabs onto his hand and he pulls her up.
"Here is a pack with rations. You are probably hungry and thirsty from that climb." The man says.
"Not really." Cynthia starts to say until she sees a strange device in the bag instead of rations. She takes it out and the room once again replaces the rock face.
"You have passed. Take that device and say cyber ranger delta." The voice says.
"Cyber ranger delta." Cynthia says then changes the same way.
In yet another room, Janus waits her trial.
A hospital room replaces the room.
"No! Not this. It took me years to get over this." Janus says.
A younger Janus is standing over a young man in bed with tubes hooked up and a monitor.
"I'm sure that they will find a cure for you Billy." Young Janus says.
The man smiles in his bed but then goes into a coughing fit.
"You just keep on being a good sister to me and that will be enough I am sure." The brother says.
The room shifts to a scene of chaos as the alarms are going off with a code blue. The doctor's come rushing in and tell Janus to leave and they will do all they can. Young Janus leaves crying. The scene shifts once again to Janus and her family crying over their son who is now in a coma and has hardly any chance of coming out of it. The scene fades into the empty room again.
"Why did you not want to witness that again?" The voice asks.
"Because I couldn't save him. No matter how smart I was. All that was worthless when it came to saving his life." Janus says crying.
"It made you realize that you can't do everything. No one person can do everything. That's why there are teams and not individuals that save people more." The voice says.
"I wasted 6 months of my life waiting by that bed for him to come out of that coma. I never left his side. Wracked my brain trying to figure a way to save him. I became so desperate that I prayed for a miracle. Yeah that's right, a scientist praying. But nothing happened until 6 months later when he came out of it just for enough time to say goodbye before he flat-lined." Janus says.
"So you learned that smarts and science can't save everybody. You have 4 others that need your help." The voice says.
"I can't figure out how we ever got here. How are am I gonna help them return home?" Janus asks.
"Not that. You and your friends are about to go on a journey to save a race. Members of the team will be needed for their own reasons. You will be." The voice says.
"For my smarts?" Janus interrupts.
"Among other things yes." The voice responds.
"But what if my smarts aren't enough?" Janus asks.
"Then you have other things. Understanding and compassion. You don't give up easily." The voice says.
The scene returns to the room where her brother is just coming out of his coma.
"Hey sis. How long have I been out?" The brother asks smiling.
"Oh my god. It's been like 6 months." Young Janus says.
"Hey I always was lazy and liked to sleep in." The brother says laughing.
"Hey hold on. I am gonna call the nurse and mom and dad." Janus says excited
"There's no time for that. It's time for me to go. I was just allowed one more brief moment of life to tell you something." The brother says.
"What? No! It can't be. Your okay now right?" Janus asks.
"Listen little sister. Don't give up on life or science just cause you couldn't save me. Please take this for me and save others." The brother says.
In his hand is yet another strange device.
"What is this?" Janus says confused.
As soon as she grabs the device, the hospital room disappears and is replaced again by the empty room but she is still holding the device.
"Good job. Now say cyber ranger omega." The voice says.
Janus looks confused but says, "cyber ranger omega."
After she undergoes the same transformation as the others she looks around.
"So is this what you meant by being part of a team?" Janus asks.
"Yes. Go now and wait for the others. It is almost finished." The voice says.
Finally in the other room Matt awaits his trial. The room is replaced by a living room. A young Matt runs into it.
"You are gonna do what I say." His dad says angrily.
"No! It's always what you want me to do. You don't care what I want to do." Young Matt says.
"Of course I don't want you to a loner biker that roams the country. I want you to have a purpose in life." The dad says.
"I don't care if you and your father where in the military. I don't want to be for any reason. But especially not for that reason. I want to forge my own path. Not follow the same path my ancestors have." Matt says.
"I just want you to do a safer job with a purpose." The dad yells.
"Safer? Have you seen the number of people that die in a war." Matt asks.
"Just cause you join doesn't mean you will have to go to war. Even if you do you might survive. I did." The dad responds.
"Yeah but granddad didn't." Matt says.
His dad winces and his eyes grow cold and he says, "You know that I don't like to talk about that."
"Fine then I won't talk at all." Matt says then starts heading for the front door.
"You walk out that door and you never come back." The dad yells.
Matt doesn't even break his stride as he walks out the front door and slams it. His dad cries as he hears the motorcycle engine start and pull away. The scene fades and the room bare room appears.
"Why did you rebel against your dad?" The voice asks.
"Ever since I was a baby he plotted my future as if It was not my own. He wanted to relive his childhood and then young adulthood through me." Matt responds.
"What happened after you left?" The voice says.
"I got a letter saying that he had a stroke and was crippled. He asked for me and I never came back." Matt says grimacing.
"You wonder if your leaving him on a dangerous life is what caused the stroke." The voice says.
"I didn't care. But part of me always wondered. I just buried that part so it wouldn't affect me." Matt says.
"But it did affect you. You did join the military." The voice says.
"I did it to help other people. Not for my family. I refused to do it for them." Matt says.
A figure in a wheelchair appears in the room. Matt realizes it's his father.
"Son." His father says.
"I'm sorry if I caused your stroke." Matt says.
"No you didn't. It was inevitable. With my lifestyle and stuff. It wasn't your fault. You helped my recovery though when I found out that you had chosen to become special ops." The dad says.
Matt wipes tears from his eyes.
"There's something you must know. I wasn't trying to relive my childhood and beyond through you. I was trying to keep you from having the same childhood that I had. You see I was a rebel at first too. Almost lost my life because of it. I was frightened when I saw you going down the same path as me." The dad says.
"Really?" Matt asks.
"Yes I am glad to see you chose the right path anyway." The dad responds.
Matt wipes some more tears from his face. When his hand pulls away from his eyes he sees that his father is gone. In his place is another device. He walks forward and takes it.
"You are the chosen one. Take this and say cyber ranger alpha." The voice says.
"Cyber ranger alpha." Matt says that then he goes through the same transformation.
"You will be the leader of this team. I sense great strength in you." The voice says.
"What? I can't be a leader." Matt says.
"But you already hold the most powerful cyber power of them all. You are destined to be the leader." The voice says.
"Okay but I don't think you know what you are doing." Matt says shrugging.
Meanwhile in a unknown location a single core system lies in a room watching the rangers get their powers.
"Cyber rangers? Why does that sound so familiar? particularly. The ranger part?" The dark core ponders.
A grunt comes running in.
"My lord. What do you want us to do about this new threat?" The grunt asks.
"Send some quarks down there. Let's see just how powerful these new toys of those fools are." The dark core responds.
The grunt nods then runs off. Meanwhile back on the planet the rangers are all outside wondering what to do next.
"I can't believe it. We're all part of a team." Jake says.
Suddenly a familiar hole appears and a bunch of quarks come through.
"Oh man." Cynthia whines.
"Wait we can beat them this time. We have the power." Matt says.
A fight ensues with the rangers trading blows with the quarks.
"We need weapons." Jake says.
"Your weapons are part of you. Just will them into existence." The voice says.
All five rangers concentrate and blasters appear in their hands.
"All right now that's more like it." Jake yells.
The rangers make short work of the quarks with the blasters and continuing to fight hand to hand. One by one the quarks wink out of existence. The rangers all high five each other.
"Yeah we rock!" Jake yells.
"Do not get too cocky. Those were merely the foot soldiers of the dark core. He will no doubt send something more powerful now." The voice says.
Sure enough at the dark core base the dark core is angry.
"So they think they are so good are they. Send in Rexor. That will teach them a lesson or two." Dark Core says angrily.
The general takes a grunt and throws him into the molding chamber and closes the door. He enters a card with the name Rexor on it then throws the switch.
"Excellent. Now we will see just how good these fools are." Dark Core says.
The ranger partying is interrupted by the appearance of Rexor. He looks like a monstrous dinosaur with short stubby hands like a t-rex. As well as large sharp teeth. The rangers start firing but soon realize that their blasters are worthless.
"Now what do we do?" Jake says.
To be continued.
Next week is the thrilling conclusion to the series premiere