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AN: Timeline-wise, this is set in the continuity of the 2017 Power Rangers film, but only in the sense that it will feature the Zordon, Rita and Alpha of that version of the franchise; the Rangers of the film won't be appearing here, so just assume that nobody found Rita's body back in the present and she and the Coins remained undiscovered for another couple of centuries. For Panem, this starts early in the Seventy-Fourth Hunger Games and diverges from canon from then.
AN 2: To get this point out of the way straight off, the fact that Elizabeth Banks had a role in both Power Rangers and Hunger Games is going to be nothing more than a detail; nobody will be comparing Rita to Effie at any point (whether because they genuinely look different or just because nobody will ever realise they look so similar, given Effie's various wigs and make-up versus Rita's more twisted appearance, is up to you)
Twice Chosen
When they first found the body lying among their fishing nets, the fishing boat had no reason to believe that they had made anything more than a disturbing but basically familiar discovery.
District Four might be one of the more pleasant Districts in Panem, but the right people weren't blind to the fact that the core problems of Panem remained here just as much as they could be found anywhere else. People could protest against the system and be arrested by Peacekeepers, they could run away and never be found, or they could kill themselves and their bodies only discovered some time later; so long as everyone else didn't follow their example, the Peacekeepers and the higher-ups didn't mind.
Drowning was an obvious option, considering District Four's close proximity to the ocean, but when this body was discovered in the nets it defied most of the obvious clues the boat crew had come to expect when making such a find. The skin was weathered and stretched so tightly against the figure's skeleton that it looked as though everything inside the body had long ago withered down into nothing, but there was no sign that the skin itself had been damaged in any way. The body as a whole appeared intact and a cursory inspection gave no indication that there were any bones broken, and there was no sign of weights or anything that might explain how this figure might have drowned itself. Something around the chest gave the impression that the figure had been female in life, but the legs were pressed so tightly to the chest that it was hard to be certain even of that, and there also seemed to be something in the figure's hand.
In any case, the body had been left in one of the ship's freezer bays as soon as it had been identified, in the hope that keeping it cool would make it easier for the relevant authorities to identify it later. Even with mandatory viewing now in session for most districts, key workers such as the crew were still expected to stick with their arranged schedules even after such a discovery, but the crew called ahead to alert the local Peacekeepers as soon as they were back on course for the shore.
Once they had landed, most of the crew left the ship to take the day's catch to the food processing plants, leaving the boat captain to show the assigned Peacekeeper to the body before he headed off for home himself. In situations like this, there was an unspoken understanding that Peacekeepers would deal with the bodies of these apparent suicides and everyone else would just act like they had never discovered the body.
The Peacekeeper didn't consider the issue particularly important when he first got on board the boat; based on what he'd heard in the crew's original report, he was expecting to find nothing more than another District resident having committed a particularly unconventional form of suicide at the worst. His initial thought upon examining the body was that it was in better shape than he had expected, but he soon became more suspicious when he realised that the body didn't entirely match what he'd been told. It was certainly withered, but the Peacekeeper was certain that he'd been told about an almost skeletal body, and this figure actually seemed to have a little muscle on it, even if clearly wasn't in the best shape…
Noticing a vague green glow tracing along the body's veins, the Peacekeeper turned his attention to tracing the source of the glow. It didn't take long for him to realise that the glow could be traced to a strange green gem surrounded by gold, clasped in the palm of the figure's hand, but before he could do more than pry the fingers away to take a closer look at it, he suddenly felt something grab him by the throat, forcing his helmet upwards. He tried to reach up and activate his helmet's radio, but the figure slammed his head into the ceiling before he could do more than move his arm.
When the boat crew came by the next day and found no trace of the body or the Peacekeeper, none of them thought much about it, assuming that the body had been taken by the Peacekeeper to deal with everything back at their headquarters. It would take months at best before anyone found the Peacekeeper's body in the ocean along the side of where the boat had been docked, and by that point nobody would understand the significance of that particular body in any case.
Had anyone been at the docks that night, someone might have seen a thin figure, clad in fragments of green armour, hurrying deeper into the district, a faint green glow in its hands and an almost feral edge to its manner as it took in its new surroundings.
The crew of the boat would never learn the significance of their role in those events, but in a matter of weeks, all of Panem would be changed by the events of that night.
