Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Power Rangers in Space characters
(except for Amber). Alexis Darling was created by Rachael West and is used
with her permission. This story does not impact her series "Streaks of
Purple". Cora is also my character. The purple and orange essence powers
are mine, but the other essence powers are not, as they are stronger
versions of the original powers. The Wizard is mine, despite the
unoriginal name.
He believed this was destiny that he ran into this box. He couldn't believe that it held all eight of the power coins in it. Although he wondered how it was possible, as last time he heard the actual powers had been taken by Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa, the actual coins crushed in front of some of his friends. But here they were. He took the red coin, pressing it into his palm. "I failed once, I won't do so again." Jason Scott Lee promised to no one.
"I found something!" exclaimed Alpha six. The ex-Space Rangers ran to look over his shoulder as he pointed to the strange readings. "What is it?" Amber asked him. "These readings. They look to be the original powers, only stronger." Alpha told her. "But that's impossible. The powers were absorbed by Zedd, the coins crushed. I was there." Amber replied. "Obviously not." TJ said. "They're showing right here." "Someone should probably check it out." Andros said. "I will." Amber told them, and when no one protested she immediately left the bridge.
Kimberly Ann Hart did another cartwheel across the mat, landing perfectly on her feet. She heard applause and turned to see Cora Jade standing there, wearing her customary smile. "Thanks, but it was nothing." Kimberly assured her. "Nothing?" Cora asked her as she stepped forward. "I can't do that. At least not like you can." "You're just starting." Kimberly assured her friend. "In a few weeks you'll be just as good as I am." "You're just saying that to be nice." Cora responded. "I can be like you in a few years, if I'm lucky and if I practice enough." Kim shrugged. "You're right. But practice is the only way to get better. It took me months to cartwheel in a perfectly straight line. Although you would never know that." Cora took her position on the mat. "Of course, it would have helped if I had been doing gymnastics since I was young." She pointed out taking a few steps forward and doing a well-balanced cartwheel. A slight twist put her half out of the matted area. "Don't worry about it." Kim said as she rushed out to her friend. "Let's try that again, this time I'll stand beside you, and I'll keep my arms to the side of your legs, to stop them from going awry." "Thanks." Cora told her as she took up her position again, but then stopped when she saw someone coming. "But not now. We have company." Kimberly turned and smiled slightly when she saw Jason running up to them. Kimberly also noticed the box in his hand and couldn't help but be curious. "Jason, what's going on?" she asked as he ran up to them. "Look at this." Jason whispered urgently. He opened the box, revealing all eight of the power coins. Kimberly couldn't help but gasp, "Oh, my god." "What?" Cora asked. They didn't respond immediately and she shrugged, about to go back to her exercises when the box fell from his hand and the coins fell to the floor. She rushed to pick up the four coins that rolled her way, and then noticed the symbols on them. Mastodon, Dragonzord, Raptor, Saber tooth Tiger. "Uh, they're collector coins." Kimberly explained hastily as she returned the other four fallen coins to Jason and turned to Cora. But when she did, they noticed the orange streaks flying up her arm. "What?" Cora gasped confused. "The coin must have chosen her." Jason commented. "What do you mean?" Cora asked him. "Jason! Kim!" they heard from behind them and turned to see Amber running toward them. Despite everything Kim couldn't help but take a moment to hug one of her friends, whom she had not seen in years. Amber returned the hug. "What's going on?" Jason showed her the power coins. "I found these." He told her. "It's the old powers." Amber nodded, looking at Cora. "And your friend?" she asked. It took Kim a moment to say it. "She's the orange ranger." "What?" Amber questioned, absolutely surprised. "My words exactly." Cora said.
The Wizard felt the sudden power flow. It felt so familiar, and yet so odd. He couldn't identify why. Since Darkconda was still in Angel Grove, the Wizard sent his Dark Dragon to investigate.
"They chose me to become the Orange Ranger." Cora said, more to herself than to her two friends and her new acquaintance. "So it seems." Amber said. "Although I'd like to know how these powers could be here." Then she remembered what TJ said about one door closing and another one opening. "But, we could use your help." "What's going on?" Jason asked her. Amber was about to tell them about Darkconda and the way he incapacitated the Astral powers when a loud crashing was heard from outside and the far wall was smashed down. In stepped a large black dragon. "What is that?" Kimberly asked him. "I don't know." Jason told her, reaching and grabbing his coin, then handing Kimberly the Pterodactyl coin. "But I think it's time to morph. You too, Cora." They all took their stance and called out their transformation phrases. "Orange Ranger Power!" "Pink Ranger Power!" "Red Ranger Power!" Cora looked amazed at her new orange suit, the blaster affixed to her hip, and the flow of power through her body. Jason stood in the Red Ranger suit. But Kimberly was not morphed. "What's going on?" Amber asked her. "I don't know." Kimberly told her, and then realized Amber was not morphed. "Why aren't you morphed?" "I can't." Amber said. "Our powers were taken out by Darkconda. I don't know if it's permanent." Jason handed the box to Amber. "Find the holders of the rest of these coins. Send them here. Cora and I will distract this monster." He told them. It took Cora a moment to realize what he said, but after she processed it she just nodded. "Get going." She said. The black dragon blasted at the four teens and Jason moved to prevent it from hitting the two girls. Amber took her hand and ran saying, "I know where to go. The white ranger power was Tommy's." "Only two rangers?" the black dragon monster asked as it stepped into the room. "Let's see what you have."
"I have detected a monster on the surface." Alpha told the rangers. "And there is nothing we can do about it." Ashley said. "I just hope Amber knows what she is doing."
Tommy Oliver watched as Alexis Darling practiced with one of the other trainees, instructing him on the art of kickboxing. She had also helped Tommy out a bit, and he in turn had agreed to help her with her karate. But as he watched her, he also grew worried about his girlfriend Katherine Hillard, who was supposed to join him here after her dance class. It had been fifteen minutes since her class should have gotten out, and she should have been here about five minutes ago. He didn't want to be the type that worried, but it was hard not to. Alexis noticed Tommy staring at the door, and looked at her friend. "Let's call it a day." She told him. He nodded absently and she made her way over to Tommy, taking a moment to grab a towel, wiping the sweat off of her forehead and then put it over her shoulder as she approached Tommy. Tommy noticed her. "Hey, Alexis."
Alexis nodded. "Hey. You looked worried." She voiced. "I am. Kat should have been here by now." He told her. It was then that Kat walked in, with someone else right beside her, and Tommy's worry faded, to be rapidly replaced by shock and happiness when he saw who was with Kat. "Tommy? Hey, man. Kat told me you'd be here but I wasn't sure it was true. Until now." Zack Taylor said as they approached Tommy and Alexis. "Zack? Man is it good to see you, I haven't heard much from you after the peace conference." Tommy said. Kat came beside Tommy and hugged him. "I got out of my dance class and Zack had just come out of another room. We ran right into each other." Kat told Tommy as a smile crossed her face. "When I told him I was coming to meet you he insisted on coming to see if you were here too." "At least it wasn't a bad thing." Alexis told Tommy as she and Zack exchanged a brief hug. Alexis then looked outside and smiled. "And it looks like old home week." She added. Tommy saw Kimberly and Amber come in, and he couldn't help but smile. "You should ask Amber to teach you karate." He told Alexis, but his smile fell as he saw the grim look on the girls face. "Something is wrong." Kimberly barely took time to acknowledge that she was now seeing four of her best friends here. Amber on the other hand came right up to them. "Oh, god. It's nice to see you again, guys." "It's nice to see you too." Kat said, now noticing the look in her eyes. "But this isn't social, is it? What's going on?" "Darkconda drained out powers and now there is a new monster attacking." Amber told them. As she opened the box Kimberly said, "Jason is using the red coin to fight it, and Cora is using the orange coin." She opened her hand and looked at her coin. "Mine won't work." "Jason needs our help." Tommy said as he reached for the white coin. Zack reached for the black coin. Alexis reached for the purple coin. Kat just stood by Amber, feeling helpless. Looking into Kim's eyes, she could see the same helplessness. "It's morphin time!" Tommy called out. "Purple Ranger Power!" "White Ranger Power!" "Black Ranger Power!" Alexis stood there in the Purple Ranger suit, looking like the others except with a gold shield around her chest. Zack stood in his typical Black Ranger suit. Tommy was not morphed. "What happened?" Kat asked as she came to stand by her boyfriend. "I don't know." Tommy told her, looking at his power coin. "That's exactly what happened with my coin." Kimberly added. "We can't stand here, Jason and that other girl could be in trouble." Alexis interrupted them. "How do Zack and I get there?" "Come with me." Amber told her. "I'll teleport you guys there and then I'll join Tommy and the girls here again." They two rangers followed Amber out the door. "Why didn't your coins work?" Kat asked Tommy and Kimberly. "I don't know." Tommy told her. "Wait a second. You were also the Green Ranger." Kimberly realized. "Maybe you should have the green coin instead." "But what about the white coin?" Kat asked her. "And why didn't the pink coin respond to you?"
Cora jumped over to try and tackle the monster, but he caught her in mid air and tossed her aside. Jason rose to his feet and called out for the Power Sword. It appeared in his hand and he charged at the monster, swinging his sword. The dragon monster caught the sword and kicked Jason in the stomach, then released the sword as he went flying backward. "Okay, you're getting on my nerves." Cora told the monster. She swung a kick at him but she caught her leg. "You're not the quickest ranger, now are you?" he asked her. Which was when the monster was kicked in the chest, and Cora noticed it was the Black Ranger who kicked him. Just before she fell backward and was caught by the Purple Ranger. "Zack!" Jason called as he joined them. "Alexis! It's great to see you again." "It's great to see you too." Alexis told him as she helped Cora up and Zack came over to them. "The white coin refused Tommy for some reason though." "Just like the pink one refused Kimberly." Cora said. "Now that makes no sense." Zack said as he raised his blaster. "Two, four or ten. It doesn't matter. I'll destroy you all." The black dragon informed the rangers as he began to approach the four rangers.
"I sent them to the battle." Amber told her as she came up to Tommy and the other girls. "But if you can't use the white coin and Kim can't use the pink coin, we're short five rangers." "Let me try the Green Coin. I was the Green ranger first." Tommy said. Amber nodded and they exchanged the white coin for the green coin and then he called out, "Green Ranger Power!" Tommy stood there, morphed into the ensemble of the green ranger. "We need to go help the others." Kat said, then stopped. "Or at least you do." "I'll have Alpha teleport you to the battle, and rest of us to the Megaship so we can figure out what is going on." Amber said.
And so we have the start of the team. Jason is the Red Ranger (again), Zack is the Black Ranger, Cora is the Orange Ranger, Alexis is the Purple Ranger, and Tommy is the Green Ranger. Who is the Blue Ranger? Who is the Yellow Ranger? And how come the pink coin refuses to accept Kimberly as the Pink Ranger? All those answers and more, in the next chapter.
He believed this was destiny that he ran into this box. He couldn't believe that it held all eight of the power coins in it. Although he wondered how it was possible, as last time he heard the actual powers had been taken by Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa, the actual coins crushed in front of some of his friends. But here they were. He took the red coin, pressing it into his palm. "I failed once, I won't do so again." Jason Scott Lee promised to no one.
"I found something!" exclaimed Alpha six. The ex-Space Rangers ran to look over his shoulder as he pointed to the strange readings. "What is it?" Amber asked him. "These readings. They look to be the original powers, only stronger." Alpha told her. "But that's impossible. The powers were absorbed by Zedd, the coins crushed. I was there." Amber replied. "Obviously not." TJ said. "They're showing right here." "Someone should probably check it out." Andros said. "I will." Amber told them, and when no one protested she immediately left the bridge.
Kimberly Ann Hart did another cartwheel across the mat, landing perfectly on her feet. She heard applause and turned to see Cora Jade standing there, wearing her customary smile. "Thanks, but it was nothing." Kimberly assured her. "Nothing?" Cora asked her as she stepped forward. "I can't do that. At least not like you can." "You're just starting." Kimberly assured her friend. "In a few weeks you'll be just as good as I am." "You're just saying that to be nice." Cora responded. "I can be like you in a few years, if I'm lucky and if I practice enough." Kim shrugged. "You're right. But practice is the only way to get better. It took me months to cartwheel in a perfectly straight line. Although you would never know that." Cora took her position on the mat. "Of course, it would have helped if I had been doing gymnastics since I was young." She pointed out taking a few steps forward and doing a well-balanced cartwheel. A slight twist put her half out of the matted area. "Don't worry about it." Kim said as she rushed out to her friend. "Let's try that again, this time I'll stand beside you, and I'll keep my arms to the side of your legs, to stop them from going awry." "Thanks." Cora told her as she took up her position again, but then stopped when she saw someone coming. "But not now. We have company." Kimberly turned and smiled slightly when she saw Jason running up to them. Kimberly also noticed the box in his hand and couldn't help but be curious. "Jason, what's going on?" she asked as he ran up to them. "Look at this." Jason whispered urgently. He opened the box, revealing all eight of the power coins. Kimberly couldn't help but gasp, "Oh, my god." "What?" Cora asked. They didn't respond immediately and she shrugged, about to go back to her exercises when the box fell from his hand and the coins fell to the floor. She rushed to pick up the four coins that rolled her way, and then noticed the symbols on them. Mastodon, Dragonzord, Raptor, Saber tooth Tiger. "Uh, they're collector coins." Kimberly explained hastily as she returned the other four fallen coins to Jason and turned to Cora. But when she did, they noticed the orange streaks flying up her arm. "What?" Cora gasped confused. "The coin must have chosen her." Jason commented. "What do you mean?" Cora asked him. "Jason! Kim!" they heard from behind them and turned to see Amber running toward them. Despite everything Kim couldn't help but take a moment to hug one of her friends, whom she had not seen in years. Amber returned the hug. "What's going on?" Jason showed her the power coins. "I found these." He told her. "It's the old powers." Amber nodded, looking at Cora. "And your friend?" she asked. It took Kim a moment to say it. "She's the orange ranger." "What?" Amber questioned, absolutely surprised. "My words exactly." Cora said.
The Wizard felt the sudden power flow. It felt so familiar, and yet so odd. He couldn't identify why. Since Darkconda was still in Angel Grove, the Wizard sent his Dark Dragon to investigate.
"They chose me to become the Orange Ranger." Cora said, more to herself than to her two friends and her new acquaintance. "So it seems." Amber said. "Although I'd like to know how these powers could be here." Then she remembered what TJ said about one door closing and another one opening. "But, we could use your help." "What's going on?" Jason asked her. Amber was about to tell them about Darkconda and the way he incapacitated the Astral powers when a loud crashing was heard from outside and the far wall was smashed down. In stepped a large black dragon. "What is that?" Kimberly asked him. "I don't know." Jason told her, reaching and grabbing his coin, then handing Kimberly the Pterodactyl coin. "But I think it's time to morph. You too, Cora." They all took their stance and called out their transformation phrases. "Orange Ranger Power!" "Pink Ranger Power!" "Red Ranger Power!" Cora looked amazed at her new orange suit, the blaster affixed to her hip, and the flow of power through her body. Jason stood in the Red Ranger suit. But Kimberly was not morphed. "What's going on?" Amber asked her. "I don't know." Kimberly told her, and then realized Amber was not morphed. "Why aren't you morphed?" "I can't." Amber said. "Our powers were taken out by Darkconda. I don't know if it's permanent." Jason handed the box to Amber. "Find the holders of the rest of these coins. Send them here. Cora and I will distract this monster." He told them. It took Cora a moment to realize what he said, but after she processed it she just nodded. "Get going." She said. The black dragon blasted at the four teens and Jason moved to prevent it from hitting the two girls. Amber took her hand and ran saying, "I know where to go. The white ranger power was Tommy's." "Only two rangers?" the black dragon monster asked as it stepped into the room. "Let's see what you have."
"I have detected a monster on the surface." Alpha told the rangers. "And there is nothing we can do about it." Ashley said. "I just hope Amber knows what she is doing."
Tommy Oliver watched as Alexis Darling practiced with one of the other trainees, instructing him on the art of kickboxing. She had also helped Tommy out a bit, and he in turn had agreed to help her with her karate. But as he watched her, he also grew worried about his girlfriend Katherine Hillard, who was supposed to join him here after her dance class. It had been fifteen minutes since her class should have gotten out, and she should have been here about five minutes ago. He didn't want to be the type that worried, but it was hard not to. Alexis noticed Tommy staring at the door, and looked at her friend. "Let's call it a day." She told him. He nodded absently and she made her way over to Tommy, taking a moment to grab a towel, wiping the sweat off of her forehead and then put it over her shoulder as she approached Tommy. Tommy noticed her. "Hey, Alexis."
Alexis nodded. "Hey. You looked worried." She voiced. "I am. Kat should have been here by now." He told her. It was then that Kat walked in, with someone else right beside her, and Tommy's worry faded, to be rapidly replaced by shock and happiness when he saw who was with Kat. "Tommy? Hey, man. Kat told me you'd be here but I wasn't sure it was true. Until now." Zack Taylor said as they approached Tommy and Alexis. "Zack? Man is it good to see you, I haven't heard much from you after the peace conference." Tommy said. Kat came beside Tommy and hugged him. "I got out of my dance class and Zack had just come out of another room. We ran right into each other." Kat told Tommy as a smile crossed her face. "When I told him I was coming to meet you he insisted on coming to see if you were here too." "At least it wasn't a bad thing." Alexis told Tommy as she and Zack exchanged a brief hug. Alexis then looked outside and smiled. "And it looks like old home week." She added. Tommy saw Kimberly and Amber come in, and he couldn't help but smile. "You should ask Amber to teach you karate." He told Alexis, but his smile fell as he saw the grim look on the girls face. "Something is wrong." Kimberly barely took time to acknowledge that she was now seeing four of her best friends here. Amber on the other hand came right up to them. "Oh, god. It's nice to see you again, guys." "It's nice to see you too." Kat said, now noticing the look in her eyes. "But this isn't social, is it? What's going on?" "Darkconda drained out powers and now there is a new monster attacking." Amber told them. As she opened the box Kimberly said, "Jason is using the red coin to fight it, and Cora is using the orange coin." She opened her hand and looked at her coin. "Mine won't work." "Jason needs our help." Tommy said as he reached for the white coin. Zack reached for the black coin. Alexis reached for the purple coin. Kat just stood by Amber, feeling helpless. Looking into Kim's eyes, she could see the same helplessness. "It's morphin time!" Tommy called out. "Purple Ranger Power!" "White Ranger Power!" "Black Ranger Power!" Alexis stood there in the Purple Ranger suit, looking like the others except with a gold shield around her chest. Zack stood in his typical Black Ranger suit. Tommy was not morphed. "What happened?" Kat asked as she came to stand by her boyfriend. "I don't know." Tommy told her, looking at his power coin. "That's exactly what happened with my coin." Kimberly added. "We can't stand here, Jason and that other girl could be in trouble." Alexis interrupted them. "How do Zack and I get there?" "Come with me." Amber told her. "I'll teleport you guys there and then I'll join Tommy and the girls here again." They two rangers followed Amber out the door. "Why didn't your coins work?" Kat asked Tommy and Kimberly. "I don't know." Tommy told her. "Wait a second. You were also the Green Ranger." Kimberly realized. "Maybe you should have the green coin instead." "But what about the white coin?" Kat asked her. "And why didn't the pink coin respond to you?"
Cora jumped over to try and tackle the monster, but he caught her in mid air and tossed her aside. Jason rose to his feet and called out for the Power Sword. It appeared in his hand and he charged at the monster, swinging his sword. The dragon monster caught the sword and kicked Jason in the stomach, then released the sword as he went flying backward. "Okay, you're getting on my nerves." Cora told the monster. She swung a kick at him but she caught her leg. "You're not the quickest ranger, now are you?" he asked her. Which was when the monster was kicked in the chest, and Cora noticed it was the Black Ranger who kicked him. Just before she fell backward and was caught by the Purple Ranger. "Zack!" Jason called as he joined them. "Alexis! It's great to see you again." "It's great to see you too." Alexis told him as she helped Cora up and Zack came over to them. "The white coin refused Tommy for some reason though." "Just like the pink one refused Kimberly." Cora said. "Now that makes no sense." Zack said as he raised his blaster. "Two, four or ten. It doesn't matter. I'll destroy you all." The black dragon informed the rangers as he began to approach the four rangers.
"I sent them to the battle." Amber told her as she came up to Tommy and the other girls. "But if you can't use the white coin and Kim can't use the pink coin, we're short five rangers." "Let me try the Green Coin. I was the Green ranger first." Tommy said. Amber nodded and they exchanged the white coin for the green coin and then he called out, "Green Ranger Power!" Tommy stood there, morphed into the ensemble of the green ranger. "We need to go help the others." Kat said, then stopped. "Or at least you do." "I'll have Alpha teleport you to the battle, and rest of us to the Megaship so we can figure out what is going on." Amber said.
And so we have the start of the team. Jason is the Red Ranger (again), Zack is the Black Ranger, Cora is the Orange Ranger, Alexis is the Purple Ranger, and Tommy is the Green Ranger. Who is the Blue Ranger? Who is the Yellow Ranger? And how come the pink coin refuses to accept Kimberly as the Pink Ranger? All those answers and more, in the next chapter.
