Power Rangers Thunder Force #1 Double helix Chapter 1: Infection.

Time: 1993

In space far away from earth, a bunch of beings wait and ponder.

"Darn it. The cycle has begun again. We cannot let them get to the cosmic ascension or we won't stand a
chance." One says.

"Maybe the barrier has weakened enough." Two says.

The third one reaches out towards the barrier but it shocks him back.

"Nope it's as strong as it ever was." Three says.

"Perhaps the disgraced one will do the job for us." One says.

Somewhere in space a rip opens up and out comes a bunch of strange looking orbs.

And now for the premiere of Power Rangers Thunder Force…

In space a ship of explorers is flying around. Their leader is a humanoid called Thunder.

"Sir we are approaching a new system. I am detecting intelligent life on the third planet from the sun." The
scanning officer says.

"Good. I think we should go check it out." Thunder says.

Thunder stretches and begins to yawn.

"I am gonna go take a nap. If you need me then contact me." Thunder says.

"Yes sir." The communication officer says.

"Pleasant dreams." Turlok says.

Thunder enters his quarters and lies down.

"Lights low." Thunder says.

The lights go down to dim. Thunder closes his eyes. But his dreams are anything but pleasant. He dreams
of planets burning from actions that he made. People yelling and screaming just before they burn up.
Thunder finds himself floating in space alone.

"Where am I?" Thunder asks.

"Where you can help me." A voice responds.

"Who are you? Where are you?" Thunder asks looking around.

"I am the one that can give you great power and grant any wish you have. But first you must do something
for me." The voice responds.

Something gives Thunder a bad feeling about this something.

"What do you want me to do?" Thunder asks.

"Just go to these coordinates and I will tell you more." The voice says.

A group of alien coordinates flash across space. Thunder wakes up with a start in cold sweat. He returns to
the bridge.

"Sir? I wasn't expecting you for awhile now. Is something wrong?" Turlok asks.

"We need to turn back and go to a certain set of coordinates." Thunder responds.

"But the planet we were heading towards." Turlok starts to say.

"Will have to wait. What is waiting for us at these coordinates may be more important right now." Thunder
says.

Thunder walks over and gives the navigation officer the new coordinates.

"There's nothing their sir." The navigation officer says confused.

"There will be." Thunder says.

He goes back to sit in his chair. Turlok looks at Thunder strangely. After about a half an hour the ship
arrives at the coordinates.

"There's still nothing here." The navigation officer says.

Thunder doesn't respond cause he is already in communication with the mysterious voice.

"Ah good. I knew you'd come." The voice says.

A bunch of orbs appear in front of Thunder.

"What are these?" Thunder asks looking at the orbs.

"These are my children. I want you to take these to the third planet from the sun of the system you were
headed towards. Then I want you to send them down to the planet." The voice says.

"May I ask what these will do on the planet?" Thunder asks.

"Your place is not to ask but to do as I say." The voice responds angrily.

The orbs merge with Thunder and he closes his eyes for a moment. When they are open, they are glowing
with energy.

"It will be done." Thunder says.

Thunder finds himself back on the bridge with everybody including Turlok looking on with concern.

"Sir?" The navigation officer asks.

"Huh? I'm sorry what did you say." Thunder responds.

"I said that there is still nothing here." The navigation officer says.

"Check again." Thunder says.

The navigator officer shakes his head but looks anyway.

"No way. Those orbs weren't there before." The navigator says.

"Take those into our shuttle bay and then head for that third planet from the sun again." Thunder says.

"What would these orbs have to do with our exploration and finding treasure." Turlok asks apprehensively.

"They will get us to the ultimate treasure." Thunder responds.

Turlok looks at some other officers and they all slowly approach Thunder.

"We have decided that you are not fit to command again. I am worried about your mental state. I ask you
to step down peacefully." Turlok says drawing his weapon.

Thunder reaches out his hand and throws the officers against the wall violently. Turlok fires on Thunder
but a strange energy shield around him absorbs it. Thunder reaches out for Turlok and grabs his head. He
drains Turlok of all his energy.

"I'm sorry I had to do that but you will come around someday to my way of thinking." Thunder says.

The other officers don't even dare to stand up. The navigator shakily plots a course for earth. An hour
later they approach the earth.

"Sir I am picking up satellites." The scanning officer says.

"Put up a dampening field so that they can't detect us." Thunder says.

The officer nods and does it.

"Now put the ship down as close to the atmosphere as we can and eject the orbs in the cargo bay." Thunder
says.

Meanwhile down on earth the rangers are fighting their very first battle against Moldar.

"Power sword." Jason says.

The power sword powers up and lights up with its own inner light.

"Yeah haven't seen the last of Moldar." Moldar says then disappears.

Meanwhile, unknown to the rangers, a bunch of orbs are falling to the earth. Landing in the angel grove
area. Afterwards the rangers are gathered at the command center. Zordon has just told them the rules.

"Power rangers." They all yell doing a jumping high five.

Suddenly the alarm goes off.

"Oh no. What now." Zack asks.

"Scanners are showing a couple of monsters." Alpha says.

"Oh man. We just fought a monster. Is there any end?" Kimberly asks.

"Approach the viewing globe." Zordon says.

On screen a bunch of strange mutant creatures appear. They are all slimy and parts of their skins are
drooping and almost falling off.

"Oh god that's disgusting." Trini says.

"Those monsters aren't giving off any kind of readings that match Rita's." Alpha says.

"I sense a different kind of evil power at work here." Zordon says.

"Another one. Man I am still getting used to one evil force to defeat." Zack says.

"Well what are we waiting for? Let's go get them before they do some real damage." Jason says.

They all morph again.

"We are gonna continue to scan them. I have a strange feeling about these mutants. We will contact you if
we come up with anything." Alpha says.

"How? We don't have any communicators yet." Billy asks.

"I will send Alpha after you with any info." Zordon says.

"Back to action." Jason says.

They all disappear and reappear nearby the mutants.

"Okay fun times over. The power rangers are here." Jason says.

The mutants turn towards the rangers and answer by firing beams from their eyes.

"Looks like they think the fun's just beginning." Zack says.

The rangers attack the mutants. One ranger to a mutant. They don't have much of a trouble beating them
up and defeating them.

"No. The children are being destroyed." Thunder says.

"Just fire your weapons on them. I modified them so it won't kill them." The voice says.

"Fire all weapons on the creatures down there." Thunder orders.

"Finally. You've come to your senses." The weapons officer says.

A beam of energy shoots from the ship and hits the mutants. Instead of destroying them they join together
into one big mutant and grow big.

"We need the megazord." Jason yells.

Five zords come out of nowhere and the rangers jump into each of their own. Each zord fires its weapons
on the mutant but they have no effect.

"We need the megazord." Jason yells.

The five zords join together and become a tank with treads. Each zord fires weapons from their faces but it
still does no good.

"Megazord fighting mode." Jason yells.

"Megazord sequence has been initiated." A voice in the zords says.

The tank reforms and stands up to become a fighting standing robot.

"Power sword." Jason says.

"Wait a minute. The scans are showing a very similar reading to humans." Alpha says.

"Could they be humans that were turned into mutants somehow?" Zordon wonders.

"Aye aye aye. How can they defeat that monster without destroying the humans?" Alpha asks.

"I have data in the database about a antiviral weapon that may work. Access it and send it down to the
rangers immediately." Zordon responds.

Alpha accesses the data and then disappears. On the battlefield he appears in the megazord.

"Alpha? What are you doing here?" Jason asks startled.

"Don't use the sword. Those are probably humans that have been mutated. I have brought an antiviral
program that might work." Alpha responds.

Jason takes the disk and inserts it into the console.

"Initiating program and powering up the sword." Jason says.

Outside the sword glows once again with it's own inner light. The megazord slices down through the
monster with the sword and the monster disassembles and changes back into five humans who look around
confused.

"Yeah we did it. Thanx Alpha." Zack says.

Later on the rangers gather around in the command center.

"Zordon. Did you ever figure out where that monster came from?" Zack asks.

"No. But I still sense a very powerful evil behind this. The evil isn't ready to show itself. But it will show
itself in time." Zordon says.

"Good. One evil is too much right now." Zack says.

Meanwhile Thunder is back in the empty space realm floating around.

"You are happy? But you lost your children." Thunder asks.

"Those were merely rejects. My real child is still inside an unsuspecting human. In seven years my child
will be born." The voice responds.

"Such a long period to wait." Thunder says.

"Yes but it will be worth it." The voice says.

Thunder disappears.

"Yes. Seven years to wait. But I have been waiting for this moment for billions of years. In seven years
my child will bring fire down upon that puny planet. He will pave the way for my return and the end of all
things. People will come to fear the name of Astayanax." The voice says.

To be continued…


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