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Genesis of the RangersTwo figures stand beside the Lake of Misery, each one holds a parchment, one parchment is green the other is white. Each figure is dressed in robes that correspond to the colour of the paper they hold. They are the ancient Oracles of Eltar, a world many billions of miles away from Earth, they are flanked by guardians, the Eltar Rangers, who have protected their world from harm. Each one is clad in armour of a different colour, one red, one blue, one yellow, one pink, and one black, and armed with a Power Weapon. They have fled to the lake to protect the Earth Prophecies, the parchments the oracles hold, the evil Major Zedd is desperately seeking the prophecies as the legend claims that the holder of the parchments will hold the fate of the universe in their hands. Zedd is a red skinned humanoid in silver armour, he has cut a swath through half the known universe since dispatching the being that created him, Eltar is his latest target. The guardians are able to defeat the evil doer's minions with relative ease but now they face the most powerful of the villains, Zedd himself, this they find more difficult, he is a disciple of the staff, and also a sorcerer.
Soon Zedd is forced back, until he beats a retreat, the Rangers give chase. The Rangers catch up to him just outside of his base, he has stopped running, turned and drives his staff into the ground. The Rangers unite their weapons and fire a beam of energy intent on taking Zedd out. The Major places his hand on the Z-shape at the top of his staff, a blue disc appears in front of the villain absorbing the blast and then shatters.
"My turn," Major Zedd laughs before firing a blast of energy, which scatters the heroes. He then begins to chant "forces of evil unimaginable, I call apon you this day to scatter the five heroes before me. Send them across the universe to protect the oracles no more." A purple wave of energy sweeps around the small clearing passing through the Rangers and they disappear. Zedd's face contorts into an evil smile, now nothing can stop him from taking the prophecies.
He returns to the banks of the lake where the Oracles were waiting to hear that it was safe once more, they had never known their Rangers fail before, so they were confident that it wouldn't take long. They were right about it not taking long, but the result wasn't the one they were expecting, Major Zedd was once more bearing down on them.
"I would suggest you step away from them," a voice boomed from behind, Zedd turns to see the Phantom Ranger, the leader of the Rangers, stood watching him, his gun trained on the villain.
"I should have known that you'd have been here to help your father," Zedd mocks, "but it will do you know good. The Earth Prophecies will be mine." A blast of energy from Zedd knocks the Phantom Ranger back. "I destroyed Dark Spectre, the creature that made me what I am today, without a second thought, do you think I will hesitate in destroying you."
The Ranger gets back to his feet and is attacked by a group of Putties, rolling across the ground and picking up his blaster, and fires at one of the clay monsters he faces. When the blast hits the Putty it freezes and then shatters, the others continue to advance on the hero ready to put an end to his do-gooding.
As this is going on Major Zedd is menacingly moving towards the Oracles. The Oracle in green uses his latent sorcery to form bottles around the scrolls and throws them into the Lake of Misery. Zedd howls with rage before racing into the waters after the scrolls. Moments later the Phantom Ranger is beside the Oracles, concerned that Zedd will recover the prophecies.
"That's the strange thing about the Lake of Misery," the green clad soothsayer began sagely, "it alters anything that enters into the water. It alters its mind, body and soul, the bottles I conjured were made of the only material that the waters can not affect, they are safe and beyond the reach of any one."
"Thanks dad," the Ranger replies, "but what will happen to
the Major?"
"Who can say," said the woman in white, "if he stays in the water too long he
will cease to be, but if he escapes he will be completely unrecognisable." The trio
then begins to walk back to the main city of Eltar.
Soon at the shores of the Lake of Misery, the leaders of the armies of Major Zedd and his allies wait to see the fate of the villain. They have seen no sign of him since he entered the waters and they are about to give up the search, it is then that the waters in the lake ripple and a figure rises onto the shore. The evil creatures know that this is the man that entered the waters as Major Zedd, but he has changed.
Weeks go by, Eltar begins to rebuild it's cities while the Oracles continue to search for the Rangers, all they have discovered so far is that they have been flung across the galaxies. It is now that an assault is led against the planet, an assault like no other, it featured an army of monsters all of which were grown to giant size, the devastation was on a scale never before imaginable. The Phantom Ranger did what he could, but he was just one man, even his giant warrior robot named The Phantomzord, was pushed to its limits. Soon the army of darkness has the two things it was looking for, the Phantom Ranger, and the Oracle in green, taking them back to the ancient spacecraft that Major Zedd had used.
The two Eltarians were chained to the dungeon wall, the giant machine had its secrets ripped from its guts circuit at a time, to be used to create monsters machines of war of their own. Soon the lieutenant of Major Zedd's armies was face to face with the heroes, mocking them as the ship departed for Earth, the only other place it was possible to find prophecies that may let them conquer the universe. The Oracle challenges the witch, saying that Major Zedd is no more, the quest that these monstrosities are on is a pointless one.
"Firstly," a voice the Oracle recognised boomed, "you are right, Major Zedd was left at the bottom of the accursed lake on your planet, for I am now Lord Zedd, and as for being pointless, no Zordon, it is anything but pointless." The figure steps up to the Oracle, he has been changed physically, the armour he wore is now fused to his body in places and burned away in others, his skin, muscle and bone have merged into one hardened exoskeleton. His mind also seems to have been twisted making him even more ruthless and evil, his soul is all but dried up. "You shall survive long enough to see my final victory then I will take from you what you took from me." He laughs maniacally before leaving the father and son to contemplate their fate.
The ship continues its journey towards the Earth, entering the system of the star named Sol.
"Dad, I'm sorry," the Phantom Ranger said to the Oracle. His father was unsure what he meant, "I'm sorry I couldn't be a better Ranger and stopped this menace back on Eltar. If I could have then maybe we wouldn't be trapped here now."
The Oracle smiled at his child before telling him, "my son, I am proud as any father could be for what you've done and what you will do. The Earth prophecies spoke of the great cataclysm, the battle that is to come and how the legacy of the Rangers will be fulfilled, we both play a part in that. Now perhaps its time we began to try and escape." With that he griped the chain holding him to the ceiling, green energy travelled into it and the metal turned to powder. He did the same to his sons bonds as well and suddenly they were ready to try and bring an end to this revamped villain, or at least they would be when the Ranger had activated his armour that was stored within his soul.
"It's morphing time," he called and the armoured spandex covered his body.
On the bridge one of the crew, a small blue skinned creature named Squat, noted a powerful supply of energy was coming from a section of Earth. Zedd realised that this was the nexus were the prophecies could be rediscovered ordering co-ordinates set for this place. The officer setting the co-ordinates discovers a second point of energy. Zedd tells them that he will look into that personally before turning into a vapour and travels to the location of the energy readings, leaving the witchy woman in charge. Zedd's monkey like warrior general and chief bodyguard is grudging of his master's choice.
Suddenly the door burst open and the two prisoners step into the room the Phantom Ranger wielding his blaster. The warrior ran to face the Ranger and was quickly struck down, a stray blast in the battle strikes the main console, and it explodes, leaving the ship to plummet towards the Earth. The evil beings on board the craft rush to the escape hatches, escaping in pods to the rock caught in the gravitational pull of the planet, were they find a palace in a patch of inhabitable land. It even has its own atmosphere, created by a device in the palace.
The two creatures from Eltar could not get to the pods in time to escape, the only chance they had was to try and rechannel some of the momentum. The Phantom Ranger managed to turn off the engine, but they had been caught by the gravity field of the planet, they were still hurtling towards the Earth, it seemed nothing could save them.
The young British lad sat bolt upright in his bed wondering what this strange dream meant for his journey to the United States of America, to the Californian city of Angel Grove.