Shannon Kassandra Kaze looked hopelessly at the rapidly darkening sky from her spacious apartment in downtown Angel Grove.
The Rangers seemed to be lost. Forever.
But a thought occurred to her. Many, many times beforehand, before the Rangers had disappeared off the face of the earth, it seemed that recently, she felt something inside of her that wouldn't reveal itself to her until a day like this occurred.
Seeing the Quatro-Fighters coming in, seeming to destroy everything in range with their large ray cannons, she felt hopeless, until an sudden, almost familiar instinct surged through her. Instinctively twisting both of her wrists, white Zeonizers, with a flash of brilliant white, appeared on her wrists.
Bringing them together, she yelled, "Zeo Ranger VI, White!"
A white flash of light consumed her and disappeared, leaving Shannon in a almost-completely white version of the Red Zeo Ranger, except that it had a skirt and the features were defiantly female.
She thrust her right fist in the air, yelling purely on instinct, "I call upon the power of the Arctic Star!"
In a few seconds, a white Zord, reminiscent of Tommy's Red BattleZord, only white and even more bigger, appeared, streaking towards Shannon in a blaze of white light.
She leapt into her Zord and prepared to do battle.
***
We finally landed on Earth.
Still morphed, I saw a White ZeoZord, battling with some of Astronema's fighters.
"Is that the Gold Ranger?" I asked, turning towards Tommy.
Tommy shook his head. "Gold Ranger always used a black and gold Zord in battle. That Zord looks strangely like my BattleZord, except it's white."
"Never heard of a White Zeo Ranger," I said. "Do you think that might be…?"
"Yes," Tommy instinctively replied.
"Let's go," I said. "Dulcea, when our morphing capabilities were restored, does that mean our original Zords were too?"
Dulcea looked troubled. "I believe so. Every Ranger has their Zords returned, if their power was destroyed. I suggest you try out your NinjaZords first. I will go back to the Power Chamber and try to restore Alpha."
She teleported out in a silver streak.
"Okay," Tommy said, "NinjaZords, Power Up!"
We immediately took the Power Morphers off our waist and thrust them together, forming a circle. Fifteen flashes of yellow light jutted out from the coins and formed the Monolith interface. The interface floated off above us and exploded into fifteen fragments.
The fragments formed into our NinjaZords, coming towards us.
"Power Rangers Power Up!" we cried, lifting off the ground and teleporting into our respective Zord.
"Let's assemble the Ninja MegaZord!" I cried.
Tommy, flying by in his newly redesigned red FalconZord, said in the private intercom in my helmet, "No!"
"Why?"
"Each Ranger team's NinjaZords can form into a separate Ninja MegaZord. If the battle escalates, we can form the three separate MegaZords into one big powerful Super Ninja MegaZord!"
"Okay, let's do it," yelled T.J., "Tommy, you and the others use the Super Zeo MegaZord and help White Ranger fend off the monsters. As for the rest of us, you know what to do!"
"Got it!"
***
After a huge battle, after which we had barely won, we finally met up with the White Zeo Ranger.
We cautiously surrounded the Zeo Ranger. It was apparent that it was female, rigged with a short skirt on her costume, and her Zeo armor looked remarkably like Tommy's, only it was white and she clutched a large, pearl-white scepter, topped with a large, star-shaped diamond.
"Who are you?" Tommy asked her.
"Promise you won't tell anybody else?" replied the unfamiliar female voice.
"Zeo VI, discharge!" the Ranger yelled.
In a flash of white lightning and a burst of thunder, the Zeo Ranger de-morphed, revealing a shapely Caucasian woman with long, curly brown hair and bright blue eyes.
"Shannon Kaze?" Tommy asked in disbelief. We then de-morphed too, revealing our identities.
"Yeah, Tommy, it is me, ol' Shannon," Shannon replied playfully.
"How come you didn't tell us earlier?" Tommy said, hugging her and extricating himself politely.
Shannon shyly shrugged. "I only learned who I really was, only two hours earlier. I didn't know that I even had special powers, let alone Ranger powers. It seemed that my mind kept this secret from me for nineteen years. Besides being a Power Ranger, I am the guardian of the White Zeo Crystal and that I wield special powers, which means I am a Power Ranger with magic powers."
Tommy reeled back. "I guess that's a lot to handle."
Be beep beepbeep beep. Our communicators sounded out the familiar, six-tone melody.
Tommy warily lifted his mouth and said, "Tommy here."
"Tommy?" sounded Dulcea's voice. "Come here to the Power Station immediately. There is two more Rangers, except they don't look our Earth-based Rangers."
"Okay. We'll be there."
"How do I come with you?" Shannon asked shyly.
"Take my hand," offered Tommy, "and prepare yourself."
Shannon took Tommy's hand eagerly and carefully squeezed it.
***
We reformed back into ourselves once we had reached the Command Center. But, it was bigger and updated. The computer consoles were renovated and much bigger.
There stood Zordon's empty plasma tube, and Dulcea was there, in her Silver Ninja garb, putting the finishing touches on Alpha.
"There you are," she said, standing up. "He should be functioning properly."
She flipped a switch on the back of Alpha, and Alpha jerked back to life.
"Ay-yi-yi!" he squealed, turning around and looking at the rest of us. "Thank you, Dulcea."
Dulcea bowed and smiled. "You are very welcome, Alpha 5."
"Now, what about the Rangers you told us about? Are they here?" I asked.
"Yes." Dulcea took a wristband device from her hand, flipped open a secret keypad on the device, and pressed a few buttons. With a flash of gleaming silver and flaming red, the Rangers teleported in.
Dulcea was right. The Earth Rangers looked nothing like this. Obviously, they were Alien Rangers, like the Aquitar Rangers, with even more advanced technology, it seemed.
They had no special armor, they looked plainly like spandex, and a thin band of white crossed their chests with five colored squares. The Red Ranger had five Ranger oriented squares; black, yellow, red, pink, and blue, while the Silver Ranger had the same five green squares of an electric, vivid green.
Their helmet eyepieces, were like narrowed, triangular fish tails, except the Red and Silver Rangers had a different design of fish tail. On top of the narrow triangular eyepiece was a small symbol that resembled a tiny yellow back of a closed envelope. The exact same triangular symbol, only bigger, was their belt buckles, also.
"You must be the leader," inquired Red Ranger. "Are you Tommy, leader of these Rangers?"
"Yes," answered Tommy.
"Then, we have some grave news for you: Zordon has been captured and Dark Specter is slowly draining him of power. We have come to aid you in the fight against Dark Specter and henchwoman, Astronema, and to free Zordon."
A long silence followed this statement.
"Well," Tommy said, his voice strained, "you are most welcome. Do you have any other Rangers with you?"
"We have four other Ranger powers, but, other than that, no more Rangers," clarified Silver Ranger. "We were thinking that four of your Rangers might choose their own replacements and take on the black, blue, yellow, and pink powers. They are more powerful and advanced than Zordon's Ranger powers."
T.J., now unmorphed looked at Carlos, Ashley, and Cassie. They both nodded.
"My friends and I"-he said, pointing out Cassie, Ashley, Carlos, and finally pointing to himself-"wish to accept the Ranger powers."
"I can store away the Turbo Powers for safekeeping, until you four have chosen your replacements," Alpha offered. "Are you sure you want to accept this charge?"
They nodded in agreement.
"Please give you Turbo Powers to me," Alpha said, bringing our a nondescript black box.
T.J., Ashley, Cassie, and Carlos twisted their wrists, summoning their Morphers, that were now a golden coin in the middle of the morpher. To my astonishment, when the morphers touched Alpha's mechanical hands, they immediately changed shape, changing back into the original Turbo Morphers and Keys.
"Why did the morphers change?" I asked Alpha. "The Turbo Powers are now just one of a material form of the Ninja Power. They can't revert back, since the Turbo Powers were destroyed."
"Let me recall," Alpha said, carefully storing the morphers away, "what Zordon told me, when the Ninja Power has no owner, it recalls the Power in which the original power came from, and temporarily restores it in that shape, until the Power can be passed on to new holders."
"What about the Turbo Zords?"
"They are permanently restored and are now augmented with the Ninja Power," Alpha said. "Also, I have uploaded the White Zeo Crystal to this sector of the Morphin Grid. Now, a White Turbo Ranger can be formed. They are completely separated, and the White Turbo Ranger will be powered by the power of Ninja."
"Like us?" I asked excitedly.
"Exactly."
"You must hurry with getting your replacements," Red Ranger explained to the now-former Turbo Rangers, "Astronema is planning, and we must get all the Rangers that we can to help us find Zordon before he is completely drained."
"I know five candidates for the Turbo Powers," I offered.
"Then you must get them," Silver Ranger said.
I nodded and with a twinkling, disappeared in a flash of blue.
Note: This is the end of A Flash of Blue series. I'm planning
a crossover series continuing off A Flash of Blue, and I would like
some ideas for some crossover shows, books, movies, etc. I'm inclined to
insert Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, Animorphs,
maybe even Sailor Moon. Please be so kind as to review my fiction
and include some of your ideas in your review and the rest in an e-mail.
---M.C.