Part 6
"What the heck is that thing?" Tara said pointing towards the big head in the view screen, with her mouth wide open.
Jarrold and the others took a moment to absorb what they were seeing and then Jarrold stepped up and looked as if he were going to say something to the view screen but realized that it was just a recording and didn't say a word instead he turned and looked at his friends. Tara was behind one of the control panels looking it over intensely. Ashlyn was just standing there looking around taking in the marvels that were around her. Mark and Jason were looking at a console that stood in the center of the room. Bryan stood transfixed at a globe that was in the center the left corner of the room.
Jarrold then looked over at Leslie and watched as she took of her hood and was shocked at what happened next. Aron ran over to the girl and put his hands on her shoulders. "JAYNA!" he shouted, "I've found you."
Leslie looked at him in utter confusion and then pulled away "What are you talking about my names is Leslie" she said.
"Princess are you okay? What happened to you here? Look at your hair." Aron said as he again moved close to her.
Leslie began to get really nervous and ran behind Jarrold grabbing his arm "Jarrold what is he talking about?" she asked.
"I don't know but I'll find out." he told her. Jarrold walked over to Aron and stood face to face with him.
"What's your problem? Why the hell are you trying to scare he like that?"
"What do you mean, what am I doing? That is my fiancée. I've been searching for her for days."
"Well either you've got the wrong girl, she doens't want to have anything to do with you or your out of your mind. Take your pick."
"Are you insulting me?" Aron asked, clenching his fists.
"Look I don't want to do this. I just think that you have the wrong girl." Jarrold said, trying to reason with him.
"I think I would know my fiancee when I see her."
Leslie stepped between the two and placed her hand on each of their sholders. "You guys don't need to fight."
"Jayna what's wrong with you?" Aron asked.
"Look, I'm sorry but I don't know who Jayna is. My name is Leslie." She said drawing her hair behind her left ear.
Aron looked curiosly at her for a moment and then noticed her ears. The were round without the points that typically notated a Keldehan. No, this girl was obviously human. "I'm sorry you look just like her." he said walking away covering his face.
"What's wrong?" Leslie asked. "Where is she?"
Before he could answer Tara made an announcement "Guys I think that I've found something." she said. "Look at that console." indicating the area that Jason and Mark had been inspecting. They all gathered around the panel and Tara pressed a few buttons. The console and the view screen simultaneously came to life.
The head in the view screen began to talk once more. "I am so proud of you my children. You have discovered this, my sanctum in the inner core of the Power Chamber, but unfortunately if you are seeing this message than it may already be to late. A great evil must have come to the Earth if you have found this message my inner sanctum. You must now use the powers that are held here to defeat this threat and bring peace back to your world."
A bright light then filled the room and the console began to glow. "Now take out the Power Coins that were giving to you and raise them into the air."
Everyone reached into their pockets and pulled out the golden coins that they had acquired. Jason, who was holding two coins passed one on to Ashlyn, the only person in the group that didn't have a coin. The eight then raised their coins into the air and seven bright lights each of a different color shot from the view screen and bounced of the coins eventually impacting on seven different points on the console. When each person looked at their coins again they had changed to the color matching the light that had struck their coin. Every ones coin had under gone the transformation except for Jarrolds, whose coin remained the same golden color that it had been. Each person then took a spot in front of the place on the console that matched the color of their coin.
"Your coins now contain the Power of the Titans, and with them you will be the most powerful Rangers ever." the voice continued.
"Ashlyn Starr, you are the Yellow Ranger and will possess the power of the Cheetah swift and courageous."
Ashlyn pointed to herself and began to feel a surge of energy like nothing she ever felt before.
The others stared at her mouths wide open.
"Mark Storm, you were summoned by the Panther and will wield his strength as the Black Ranger." Mark stepped away from the console and felt his body take on a strength that he had never known.
"Leslie Cortez, your grace and beauty have earned you the right to become the Pink Ranger and command the life giving force of the Phoenix."
Leslie felt the energy surge and it made her feel as if she could do anything.
"Bryan Cranston, you call upon the power of the wiley Fox and hence forth be known as the Blue Ranger."
Bryan felt electricity surge and course through his body and had to take a deep breath. The face then turned to look at Aron.
"Aron you are strong yet stubborn and thus have earned the right to hold the power of the Bull and become the Red Ranger."
Aron stood still and soaked in the power the was entering his body.
"Tara Scott, young and often irrational but at the same time valiant and noble, you will become the first Purple Ranger and call upon the power of the Dragon."
Tara smiled to herself and then felt a jolt of power that almost knocked her down.
"Jason Oliver like your father you have honor and like your namesake you are brave and strong. You Jason shall carry on your fathers legacy and become the White Ranger and command the power of the Lynx."
Jason looked down to see that he was wearing the armor of the White Ranger and knew that his dad would be proud.
"Now go free your world from the evil that has invaded it. The fate of the Earth lies in your hands my children, my Power Rangers. Go now and let the power protect you."
The face disappeared and the view screen went dark leaving the newly formed team of Power Rangers to stand and look at each other in amazement.
Each looked at each the others imagining what they must have looked like in their own armor. They could feel of their new powers coursing inside of them.
Jarrold observed his sister and their friends in their Ranger uniforms. The uniforms each looked similar except for the colors and the fact that the the girls all had skirts. Each uniform had a vest that also seemed like it was some sort of armor. The white knee-high boots and the white elbow length gloves also caught his attention.
Tara walked over to her brother and removed her helmet. "Jarrold I'm sorry, I mean are you okay." she asked.
The globe came to life and projected what seemed to be a holographic picture of the battle that was raging outside into the air. The rebels was losing badly and Captain Sawyer was laying half conscious on a gurney. The squad was being pushed back and was beaten to the point of almost having no troops that could fight. Things looked hopeless for them.
"Don't' worry about me, I probably wasn't meant to be a Power Ranger anyway, You guys have to get out there and help those kids before they get slaughtered." Jarrold said. The others nodded and ran towards the door, only taken a moment to look back at Jarrold for another moment before heading through the door which slid open for them. The newest team of Rangers ran down the cooridor and on to the battlefield.
The battlefield became quiet as everyone stared at the seven people walking out of the building.
Captain Sawyer raised her head and looked to see what had caused everything to stand still. Then she began to smile at what she saw "The Power Rangers" she said as looked watched the multi-colored warriors exit the building. Captain Sawyer stood up and grabbed a sword from one of her nearby troops and raised it in the air.
The Vandairre began to run at the Rangers. The Purple Ranger was the first to react. She leapt onto the air over the head of the White Ranger, grabbed one of the Vandairre soldiers by the arm, pulled him over, landed on tip of her left foot in a crouch and swept the legs of another soldiers.
The Black Ranger was the next to move. He ran towards the Vandairre an grabbed one of them in a headlock, he then jumped up executing a back flip finally ashe landed he kicked the disoriented soldier in the back, causing him to fall into another soldier. This caused a chain reaction that knocked over three others. The Captain Sawyers troops began to laugh.
White Ranger performed a spin kick on one Vandairre knocking him out cold he then charged and used his body as a spear, sending another flying into the air in a spin and landing hard on the ground.
One of the soldiers ran at the Pink Ranger but she was to fast and moved to the side lifting her leg and catching him in the chest sending him spiraling into the ground. "That'll to you to attack a lady." she said. Beneath her helmet Leslie smiled. As far back as she could remember she had never been much of a fighter but now with these new powers she felt invincible. Another soldier tried to grab her but she was to fast for him also and grabbed his arm, tossing him over her shoulder into another soldier.
Three of the soldiers were having a rough time fighting the Yellow Ranger. Her speed was just amazing. One soldier tried to hit her with his sword she quickly ducked behind another soldier who was hit by the blow. The attack split the soldiers helmet and caused him to turn to dust and crumble. He frowned at his mistake and tried to attack her again, this time she ran around him in circles punching and kicking him until he finally passed out. The third soldier pulled out a rifle and aimed it at her but she caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of her eye and leapt in air with blinding speed and landed behind him. She tapped him on the shoulder and when he turned around she punched him in the mouth. "Don't you know it's not nice to point guns at people you jerk?" she said.
The Rangers quickly discovering how strong their powers made them and were taking advantage of them as well as they could. Jarrold looked through the globe wishing that he could help but know that the others were better suited to handling this now that they were the Power Rangers. As he continued to watchthe battle he noticed something coming in from behind them. They were to distracted to notice but the thing looked like it could chew them up with no problems. "Damn they don't see that thing coming at them." Jarrold said nervously. He quickly looked over the controls on several panels andfound one labeled communications. He hit the button and spoke. "Rangers there's something big coming in from behind you." he said hoping that they got themessage.
There was silence for a moment and then he heard a voice come in "Command Center, this is White Ranger we see it thanks." Jason responded.
Jarrold turned to the viewing globe and saw the Rangers all turn to face the massive troop tank like object. The White Ranger jumped at the tank and reached into the air summoning up a large white curved blade from what appeared out of thin air. He landed on and brought the weapon down on top of the tank causing sparks to fly from it. The tank stopped and turned quickly, shaking the White Ranger off.
The Blue Ranger moved in next calling forth his weapon and a giant blue axe. He swung the axe at the tank and hit it causing more sparks to flyleaving only a few scratches but otherwise causing no serious damage. A gun came out from the side of the machine and fired at Blue hitting him in the chest armor. Even though the armor protected him the blast was still strong enough to knock him out cold.
The tank started to move towards the Blue Ranger and The Purple Ranger leapt towards it. She called on her weapon, a purple bow. Pulling back on the area that would normally contain a bowstring she summoned up bolts of energy and hit the tank on one of the treads sending it into a spin. Purple quickly capitalized on her advantage and fired several more shots at the tank. The other rangers joined in, each reaching forward and pulling out an energy pistol. All of the Rangers fired their weapons simultaneously and hit the machine tearing it to shreds.
The Vandairre soldiers stood in shock of what the Rangers had done. The Rangers started to walk away from the scraped tank when the Vandairre soldiers began to cheer. The Rangers turned around and stood frozen in surprise as the tank that they had just destroyed began to change shape. It grew and the treads turned sideways revealing a pair of legs, which it stood up on. Then the main body of the tank flipped down with the top half turned around and lowered revealing a head. The tanks cannon slid down over the right shoulder and fired a shot knocking the Black Ranger out. The Red Ranger grabbed the Black Ranger andstarted to run out of the way.
The Pink Ranger stood in front of them and fired her blaster trying to distract the metal monster. The robo-tank fired at her but the Yellow Ranger ran in a grabbed her just before the blast hit. Aron called forth his weapons, a pair of red sais and charged at the robo-tank. The tank intercepted him before he could get close and fired its cannon hitting himin the chest leaving his chest armor scorched and smoking. Red fell over and his sais disappeared.
White picked him up and through him over his shoulder "Rangers we need to regroup" he called out. The other Rangers that were left standing gathered near the White Ranger and pulled out their blasters firing. The robo-tank easily shrugged off the blasts and fired its cannon at the group sending them flying in all directions.
Jarrold looked into the globe and began to pound on the control panel. "There's got to be something I can do." he said. The view screen once again came to life and the head appeared. Jarrold turned around to see what was happening. The head looked at him and began to speak.
"Jarrold Scott, you must go save your friends." the head said.
"But how?" Jarrold asked "They were chosen to be Power Rangers."
Jarrolds coin began to glow and rose up out of his pocket the view screen lightup a brilliant green light, which sent a pulse through the coin changing the color of the coin from gold to green. The coin began to fall and Jarrold caught it. "Jarrold place your power coin in the receptacle." the head said. Jarrold turned around and watched as the console split in two, another piece elevated from the center and the coin flow from Jarrolds hand towards the new object that stood in the center. Jarrold approached the device and it bathed him in green light. "Jarrold Scott, within you lays a heart of strength and true virtue. You will lead this new team as the Green Ranger and possess the power of the Eagle." Jarrold felt his body begin to glow with energy and looked at his hands,which were now covered, in white gloves. He imagined that his suit looked similar to the others but in green. The new Green Ranger looked into the viewing globe.
"Jarrold your friends need you, go help them Green Ranger and let the power protect you." Jarrold ran towards the door as Zordon watched his newest team leader leave a smile came appeared as he faded away.
Green Ranger ran through the door and everyone on the battlefield stared at the newest Ranger. Several soldiers decided to test their luck and ran at him he quickly took them down and made his to friends. "There's a Green Ranger?" Leslie said.
"Is that you Jarrold?" Tara asked.
The Green Ranger nodded his head and then turned around and looked over the field. "You guys take it easy" he said, "I'll handle this". The Green Ranger ran off and began his attack on the robo-tank. First he pulled out his blaster, which was larger than that of the other Rangers and fired several shots at the machine. He then jumped up and reached behind his back pulling out large weapon.
"Storm Sword!" the Green Ranger shouted. Everyone was in awe of this weapon it was massive sword connected to another smaller sword by a four foot long staff. He landed on top of the robo-tank bringing his weapon down on its arm taken it off with one swipe. He then jumped off performing a backflip bringing his weapon into a spin that took of the tanks other arm. The young troops and the other Rangers as well as the Vandairre soldiers stood mouths wide open at what he did next. The two ends of weapon slid together with the staff disappearing in the sword handles. The weapon was now one smaller sword that was even more intimidating. The Green Ranger ran at the robo-tank and the tank fired its cannon at him. Green brought his sword up and blocked the shot sending it flying back at the robo-tank. The blast hit the robo-tank sending sparks flying out of the machine. Green than went into a full speed run at the machine, his sword started to glow and he pulled the weapon apart at the handle making two separate swords out of it. "Thunder Slice!" The Green Ranger yelled and then brought both swords across slicing the robo-tank in two. The two parts fell over in opposite directions. Each half exploded sending shards into the air in brilliant spray of light and debris.
Green then turned and faced the Vandairre soldiers. They all looked around for a moment and then ran off dropping their weapons.
The Rangers walked through Captain Sawyer's squad and looked around taking afew moments to observe the children that were fighting so hard to free the planet. Green walked over to Captain Sawyer "Captain we're going to do everything we can to free this planet. I want you to have this," he said pulling out a silver bracelet and handing it her. "This is a communicator, if you need us just call." Green then turned around, looked at the others and with an unspoken word told the them to follow him. The Rangers gathered around their leader and raising their hands in the air disappeared in a stream of multi colored light.
"Captain now that we have the Power Rangers are we going to win?" asked one of the troops.
"I think so Michael. Now that there back there's hope for the world."
"That was amazing" Leslie said as the Rangers rematerialized in the Power Chamber. "First we become the Power Rangers and then Jarrold becomes the Green Ranger."
"Yeah that was cool and everything, but who was the bald head and how did he know to leave us that message?" Tara wondered.
"I don't know but these powers he gave us are great." Ashlyn returned enthusiastically.
Jarrold removed his helmet and looked at the others. "Well now that's over we have a lot of things to do." He walked over to the view screen and rested his arm on the side of the control panel. "We have to get this place in order if we're going to use it as our base. Also I want to invite Captain Sawyer and her squad to use this the outer area as their headquarters." Blue pulled his helmet off and stared at the others.
"Captain Sawyer" he said "Man how are we going to explain wherewe were." Bryan said.
"Yeah Jarrold we can't just tell everyone that we're the Power Rangers." Ashlyn added.
"Well that settles it. From now on we're the only ones that can know who the Power Rangers are." Jarrold said. The others all looked at him and nodded in agreement.
The Rangers all put their hands out placing them on top of each other "POWER RANGERS!!!" they shouted throwing their hands in the air.
"Emperor I have a report from planet Earth." Vaard said as he entered Emperor Nicandros new throne room on the world of Keldeha.
"Did they capture the princess, Vaard?" Nicandros asked.
"No Majesty it's nothing that good. The Power Rangers have somehow returned." he answered trembling.
"Well it's looks like I'll have to destroy them again." the Emperor said with an evil grin. "Prepare my flagship for departure to Earth. I want you to send in Barbaron."