POWER RANGERS: STAR FORCE
"Connor! Are you up, son? You'd better get up and get ready, if we're to make it to the site by eight." The loud voice coming through the crack in his bedroom door said. A prone form lay on the full sized bed with sheets twisted about its body. The body rolled over onto its back and replied.
"Yeah, yeah, I hear you. I'm up, already." He young man named Connor Fairlane, unwrapped himself from his sheets and moved to sit on the edge of his bed. He sat there for a few minutes to get his bearings and then headed for the bathroom that was conveniently adjoined to his bedroom.
"Connor! Are you ready yet, son." It had been almost thirty minutes since he called for his son the last time and Michael Fairlane was afraid they wouldn't make it to his job on time for Father and Son Day.
"I'm ready. I'm ready." The youth yelled as he bounded down the stairs wearing his usual red T-shirt and black jeans. He made a straight beeline to the kitchen. He jostled the hair of his little sister and slapped the back of his little brother's head just to make sure he knew his place.
"MOM!" They both yelled out at the same time just as Connor sat down at the table. His father gave him a look and then stood up.
"Hurry up. We're running a little late." His father told him as he kissed his wife on the cheek and headed for the garage door.
"Awww, man." Was Connor's reply as he scooped up the toast, scrambled eggs, and bacon on his plate into a sandwich. He quickly grabbed a juice out of the fridge and went over to kiss his mother goodbye.
"Be good honey. This means a lot to your father." She told him as she received his kiss and washed the morning dishes at the same time.
"I know. I'll do my best. At least I'm out of school for the day." He told her with a wry smile and hurried out the door.
He hated this. If this wasn't to please the old man. Every year, his father dragged him to this Father and Son Day at his job. His father was a foreman at the new Delta Springs mall construction site a few miles outside of town. The construction had not been to long started and they were in the midst of digging the area for the underground parking garage. Right now, he was being led around by one of his dad's underlings on a tour of the area they selected for the garage. The guy, named Ted, was going on about the machinery they used and following the blueprints exactly or there could be a disaster.
Connor had found the information lesson boring. Unfortunately, it was not something his dad had not told him a hundred times. The only reason his dad was not the tour guide this time was because there was a situation on the other side of the pit. Something having to do with one of the machines running into something and his dad was called over to have a look. Connor and his guide were heading back that way when they heard screaming.
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A few minutes earlier, in a secret lair inside the nearby Delta Mountain. A tall, dark and slender being with two large horns that curved inward toward each other scanned the city for something important. He was black skinned with purple highlights on certain areas of his body. His eyes were red in contrast to the rest of his body and his mouth was full of fangs leaving no doubt to what he was. He stood on a raised platform that surrounded what looked like a well in the middle of the cave-like room. He watched the dark water in the well as it showed him some human workers who were about to unearth something of great interest.
"Axrom!" The eight-foot monster called with urgency in his voice. A moment later and a flash of red lightning brought forth a monster that looked like a Minotaur on steroids.
"Yes, Master Pirahnus." The bull-man monster replied and bowed deeply.
"I have a job for you. Go down to the new construction site just outside of town and destroy the last one of them. If they can not get their hands on it, then they will never be at full strength and can never defeat me." Pirahnus told his minion without turning his gaze from the well.
"Yes, my master. It shall be done." Axrom bowed again and then teleported away in another flash of red lightning.
"Soon the Rangers will be no more than an annoyance and the Daemons shall rule this planet with an iron grip. Hahahahahahahahaha!" The master of the Daemons said to no one but himself and let out an evil cackle.
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One by one, screaming workers ran by him until he was standing there alone. Ted who has seen enough horror movies to that he should not ask questions, bolted when the second man ran by. Connor was brave, but a curious type of person so he moved slowly, but quickly to the part of the pit where the commotion was taking place. What he saw, was something out of a television show. Skeletons like creatures were attacking the workers who worked this side of the pit. The creatures looked like men dressed in bad skeleton costumes except for their heads. Their skulls appeared to be the real deal down to the empty eye sockets, but they were not most frightening of the monsters. There was a large half-man, half bull monster with huge horns and carrying a big axe that seemed to be in command of the smaller skeleton warriors. It seemed to be yelling at someone in the corner when it snatched the person up and lifted the individual into the air with one hand above his hand.
"Dad?" Connor mumbled to himself and instinctively got to his feet. All the fear that had been welling up inside him quickly vanished when he saw his father in danger. His mind was made up.
"DAD!" Connor yelled as he ran towards the monsters.
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At the bottom of Shining Lake on the other side of town, an alarm went off alerting the computer called Gem that trouble was at hand. Trouble had been escalating these last few months since the Daemons had resurfaced and they were getting stronger with every attack. Gem quickly pinpointed the disturbance and opened the COM Channel.
"Mike...Terrance...Julie...Wanda...you're needed. I'm sending teleport coordinates, now." The recognized voices chimed in over the speakers.
"Mike here. I'm on it."
"Terrance online... Let's get it on."
"Julie here... Be there in a sec."
"Wanda's ready. Teleporting, now."
Gem knew her team would do everything in their power to stop the Daemon that was terrorizing the city. Just as she was calculating possible outcomes. Her sensors notified her of a power source emanating from near the disturbance. This maybe the break they were looking for.
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Connor ran toward the monster holding his father, who seemed to have passed out from the ordeal. The skeleton warriors tried to create a wall to stop him, but he kept running to the last second and leaped over them doing a front flip and landing behind them. He jumped to his feet quickly and took a few more steps before doing a jump kick that hit the monster holding his dad in the back right between the shoulder blades. Axrom dropped the man and turned around to see who would dare attack him. As the bull monster turned around, Connor did a side roll to get out of his path and quickly grabbed his father to lead him away.
"Who did that?" Axrom whirled back around to see another taking away the prisoner he was interrogating. He lifted his axe and pointed it toward them.
"I'm not done with you, human." Axrom fired a stream of red energy that headed straight for Connor and his father.
Just as it was about to hit him, it was deflected back at the daemon.
"Arrrggh...who did that? You!" Axrom screamed holding his chest and holding up his axe at the ready.
"That's right. Us! Power Rangers: Star Force." The warrior clad in blue stated to the monster and they all shifted to fighting stances. On his left side was a female warrior in yellow and to his right were two more. One female in white and another male in black were also there. Connor gazed at them in awe. Power Rangers. He thought to himself. Their uniforms were a mesh of flexible tights and armor. They wore helmets with star-shaped and tinted visors outlined in gold. The same symbol appeared dead center on their chests, but filled in with the color gold. Gold bands wrapped around their biceps and thighs. A belt encircled their waists connecting with a gold star in the middle of their waist and a holstered weapon hung from the right hip of each of them. The warriors white gloves and perspective colored boots were trimmed with gold. As he was looking them over, the female in white turned to him for a moment and spoke.
"Get him to safety, we'll handle Axrom." She told him. Connor nodded and after a couple of seconds turned to carry his father through the maze of scaffolding.
"Now Axrom, You have to deal with us." The Black Ranger stated as they all turned to each other and nodded then rushed toward the Daemon.
"I'd be glad to. Skellons...attack!" The Skellons, not too smart, were busying looking for the boy whom they were blocking and disappeared. When they heard the command to attack, which was all the initiative they needed to turn their attention to the Rangers.
As the melee commenced, Connor led his father towards the far side of the pit where an elevator was located. He could still hear the shouts and grunts from the battle as he moved further away. His father was still unconscious, and not being a small man, Connor had to stop and catch his breath. He sat his father down next container of debris pulled from the digging area. Slowly standing back up, he gazed out over the container to see if he had been followed and something shiny caught his eye. He reached into the dumpster and brushed away the dirt to reveal a plain silver colored square box with nothing particularly special about it. He could see how it was passed over as trash. As curious as ever, he opened the box and inside lay a red crystal in the shape of a star and outlined in gold. No sooner than he picked it up to look at it, it glowed for just an instant and transformed into some sort of device.