Part 1
Things had been going so well for the resistance in the last few days. They had gotten a new base of operations and the Vandairre had been handed their first real defeat. They had also aquired the weapons that the fleeing Vandairre soldiers had left behind.
Rebecca was even happy for the most part, she had been grateful when Bryan had showed up. She hadn't had anyone her own age to talk to in a long time but just one short day after meeting Bryan her squad had meet the others. She was still trying to figure out what to make of them but over all they were a good group.
She found that Jarrold was kind of uptight and didn't talk much but the others seemed inclined to do what he said even though most of them had just met a few days before to her he seemed like a natural leader. Jason and Jarrold seemed to be best friends and were constantly out along with Mark exploring the area.
She also noticed that the girl Leslie seemed to take great pleasure in being with Jarrold which seemed to annoy him to no end.
Tara and Ashlyn were another matter all together, those two were constantly at each others throats. Rebecca admired Tara for the fact that even though she was the youngest of the group she stood her ground against the older and and more experienced Ashlyn. Rebecca had her doubts that if the two ever did come to blows that Ashlyn would stand much of a chance anyway.
The next person that Rebbeca had observed was Aron, he didn't talk or smile much which led her to the impression that the young man was very sad, almost lonely and was looking for something that he didn't think that he would ever find. She could also tell that he was hiding something but had no idea what it could be.
Her new lieutenant had taken to hanging out with this group and seemed as though he belonged with them from the beginning. She was sure that if circumstances were different these same people would have some how found each other and been friends. They were all to close for that not to have happened. These new friends were all good people and she was glad to have them around.
All of that was good but most importantly the Power Rangers had returned and for the first time in a while it looked like the resistance had a chance of winning the war. After the way that they dealt with those soldiers Rebecca was sure that the Vandairre were in serious trouble.
The Rangers were simply amazing and on top of everything they had offered her squad a place in their headquarters. The first night there the Rangers had thrown the troops a big party and helped them settle in.
The only rule that they had was that no on was allowed in the inner rooms of the chamber something to which the Captain quickly agreed.
Rebecca walked down the long corridor searching what would be her home for at least a little while dreaming of the day when the Rangers would free the Earth.
"Go to hell Ashlyn" Tara shouted as she stood face to face with the taller girl. "We've only known each other for a few days and already I want to knock your teeth out.
"You're welcome to try squirt." Ashlyn teased, getting in Taras face.
"You don't want me to do that. You'll regret it."
"Try me" Ashlyn growled at the shorter girl. When it became apparent that neither of them would back down Mark stepped in and grabbed Taras arm.
"Okay Tara you made your point, just let it go." Mark said.
Tara answered him by placing her hand on his arm and leaning forward while pulling, causing the well intentioned young man to be tossed to the floor. Both girls then looked at him and glared "Stay out of it!" they both shouted.
Mark groaned and then got up and walked away. "I wish they would stop that." he said to Jason.
"I know, they've been at it for days." Jason returned. "Jarrold can't you do something?" he asked, looking at the team leader.
"I'm not getting in the middle of that, you, saw what happened to Mark." Jarrold laughed "Do you think I want to get the same thing." he said indicating the battling girls. "Besides I think that I found something in the computers that might come in handy and I want to check it out some more."
Tara stopped and looked at her big brother seeming to completely forget about her conflict with Ashlyn. "What'd you find big brother?" she asked.
Jarrold looked at her and then at the others. "Everyone should see this." he said. The others all gathered around the terminal and looked at the screen.
"What are those things?" Aron asked.
"Their called Zords" Jason told the others, who all turned to look a him.
"Zords?" Leslie questioned "what do they do?" she moved closer to Jarrold to look over his shoulder and the view screen. Jarrold stepped away a few feet and got an annoyed look on his face.
Leslie simply shrugged her shoulders and walked away. 'Why doesn't he like me?' she asked herself as she looked over and saw him looking the terminal and also taking a few quick peeks at Ashlyn. 'What does she have that I don't?.
Aron had walked away from the group also and stood on the other side of the room watching Leslie 'she looks so much like Jayna. I could have sworn it was her. I need to go for a walk.' Aron slowly turned and walked through the same large doors that they had all originally come through.
Sirens started blaring and the room lite up. The Rangers quickly looked around the room to find the source of the confusion until their eyes finally came to rest on the viewing globe. The globe came to life in their presence, projecting the image of a large village into the center of the room.
Leslie stared at the projection. It looked vaguely familiar but she couldn't put her finger on where she had seen it before.
The scene shifted quickly and and the hologram became filled with Vandairre soldiers who were mercilessly attacking the place. In the background the rangers could see what looked like a large fire blazing through the city.
Jarrold turned around to look at his team, "We have to get those people out of there." he said.
"We have to stop this" Mark said as he watched the carnage.
"Yeah let's go, the Vandairre can't get away with doing this anymore." Bryan added.
"Alright we're on it." Jarrold said looking around at everyone. "We'll go in unmorphed and try to get as many people out of there as we can before we fight. Let's go."
Jason looked around to see if he could in everyones mood. This would be only the second time they had done this he for one ws nervous. He noticed Aron wasn't there. 'Must have slipped out before the sirens went off.' "Jarrold better call Aron. He left a few minutes ago."
Jarrold nodded and then lifted his wrist communicator. "Aron are you there?" Jarrold said into the device.
After a few seconds of silence there was an answer. "I'm here." Aron said.
"Good we have an emergency. The Vandairre are attacking a village near here and we need to help those people." Jarrold said, trying his best to explain the sitution quickly.
"On my way." was Arons reply. When the large door opened Aron was met by the lights and sirens that the others hadn't figured out how to deactivate yet.
Tara looked Aron over noticing that he looked slightly upset about something and reminded herself to ask him about it later.
"Lets go." Jarrold said while taking his place in front of the console that had just a week ago powered their coins and gave them the ability to morph. The others followed suit. Each taking a place near the color that represented them.
They all placed their hands on the panel and in a flash of light they were gone.
"Look at this place, it's a mess." Jason said as he and the other rangers landed and began to look around at the battered town.
The towns people were running around in a state of total panic as their town was burning down around them. The Vandairre were chasing the people shooting them indiscrimently.
Aron had a look of recognition on his face that Jarrold couldn't ignore. "What's wrong Aron, have you been here before?" he asked.
Aron didn't answer, instead he looked around frantically and when one of the townspeople ran near him he grabbed the mans arm "Where are Jen and Kari?!" he shouted to the man who in reply trembled. Aron pushed the man away and started running towards a house that was a few yards away. Jarrold motioned for Tara to follow him. When they made it to the house Aron kicked in the door and saw a soldier holding a little girl under his arm. Aron immediately ran at the soldier who turned around as if expecting him to be there. Aron froze in his tracks as he recognized him as the soldier that he had fought the other day.
"Put her down or I'll..." Aron started.
"Or you'll what? Die maybe" the soldier mocked.
"Big man picking on a little girl." Aron returned. "Well I guess that's at about your level. I mean I did kick your sorry butt the other day."
"Show me what you got." the soldier said dropping the little girl to the ground with a hard thud.
This made Aron mad and he charged at the soldier, who was ready and pulled out a knife.
Tara was standing at the door and saw the knife come out. She reacted quickly and tackled Aron before he could make it to the soldier. Aron got stood up and glared at her then turned just in time to see the knife coming at his face. He ducked under the knife but it caught him on the back of his ear cutting his head band off and drawing blood.
Aron responded by grabbing the soldiers arm and pulling him forward while at the same time bringing his left leg back into the soldiers right knee. There was an ear shattering crunch and the soldier fell on has back grabbing his now broken knee. Aron moved in closer to finish him off but heard the click of an energy rifle. He dove to the ground in just enough time to avoid getting his head blown off by another soldier that had just entered the tiny house. He spun around to see where the shot had come from and saw Tara battling three Vandairre soldiers.
"Come on we have to get out of here." she said.
"Take Kari and go, I'll hold them off!" Aron shouted to her.
Tara nodded and grabbed the girls arm. The two ran out of the door and were gone. Aron satisfied that the two girls were out of the house and safe, decided that it was time to cut loose. He ran at one of the soldiers and give him a quick kick to the chin then, spinning around he grabbed another by the arm and pulled him hard, flinging him into the air and into a wall on the other side of the room.
The third soldier pulled out a torch and fired it, causing the room to burst into flames. Aron heard a scream come from the back room. He quickly punched the soldier with torch in the face causing him to lose his balance. He then kicked him in the head. When the soldier dropped Aron ran into the back room and saw two more soldiers trying to grab Jen. She was doing her best to fight them off but they were to strong and starting to overpower her.
The new Red Ranger came in with a flying kick and caught one of the back of his head causing him to flip over. The other soldier saw this and jumped out of the nearby window.
"Are you ok Jen?" Aron asked.
Jen responded by running over to her friend and hugging him "I'm fine now that you're here" she answered. Then see got a worried look "have you seen Kari?" she asked almost frantically.
"She's fine. I sent her off with a friend of mine." Aron reassured the upset mother. "Now let's get out of here and get you two together."
Leslie looked around in horror at the things that were going on around her. She had never seen anything like this, all the blood, burning buildings and people were making her ears ring and her head hurt. She felt as if she were going to be sick and knowing that she was no fighter she did her best to stay near Jarrold and Jason.
Jarrold was now becoming annoyed by her being so close by. He wished that he had left her behind, she was just getting in the way. She couldn't even fight to defend herself, let alone someone else.
The team leader was now seriously wondering why she was choosen to be a Ranger and wished that that there was someone else in her place. Still she was a ranger now and maybe he should give her a chance, besides he didn't give her the powers so how could he say that she had no place on the team.
Ashlyn on the other hand was an excellent fighter and he couldn't see anyone else being on the Yellow Ranger. Jarrold didn't know what it was about her that attracted him, but he did appreciate more then just her fighting skills.
Ashlyn kicked the soldier in the leg and he went down as she executed a back kick on another that was trying to sneak up behind her. She looked over her shoulder and saw Tara running hand and hand with a small girl. She also noticed that a soldier was running behind the two holding a nasty looking sword. Thinking quickly she picked up a rock. Even though she didn't really like Tara, the younger girl was now her team mate and even she didn't deserve to be caught at the end of a Vandairre sword. Ashlyn throw the rock hitting the soldier in the head.
He turned around to see where the attack had come from and when he looked back was kicked in the ribs by Tara. This was enough to cause him to double over and grab his bruised his rib, dropping his sword in the process.
Tara picked the weapon and hit him in the head with it, splitting his helmet in half turning him into a pile of dust.
"WOW, how'd you do that?" Kari asked kicking the dust pile.
"I don't know it's like their made out of dirt or something." Tara answered. She then grabbed Kari by the hand, looked at the dust pile one last time and the two ran off "Thanks" she called out to Ashlyn.
'Did the brat say thanks?' Ashlyn asked herself with a smile. 'Well I quess there's a first time for everything.' she then turned around and ran after another soldier.
Mark came out of the building glad that no one was in there. He saw Aron across the way and started moving towards his new friend and his companion. They saw him coming and ran towards him but before they could cross the way an there was an explosion that throw all three in different directions.
Aron got up, rubbed his head and looked around to see if he could find Jen. She was about twenty feet away, still unconcious with two soldiers moving towards her. He started to run towards her but then caught a glimpse Mark laying on the ground in the same situation.
Leslie looked over and saw that her team mates were in trouble and tried to get Jarrolds attention, when he didn't respond she decided that the only thing that she could do would be to help them herself. The unmorphed Pink Ranger picked up a sword that was laying on the ground nearby. The weapon felt like it weighed a ton but seeing her friends in trouble gave her the strength to lift it. She made it to the Jen and when Aron saw this he ran to help Mark.
Leslie raised the sword and took a swing at one of the soldiers. He easily blocked the blow and slapped the sword out of her hand, laughing as he did it. He then kicked her in the stomach causing her to double over.
Ashlyn looked over her shoulder and saw Leslie laying on the ground clutching her stomach with a soldier standing over to her. Ashlyn reached behind her back to grab her morpher but didn't pull it out when she saw Bryan tackle Leslies attacker from behind .
The Yellow Ranger felt something grab her by the back of her hair and pull her to the side. She and managed to get a glimpse of the tall man that was pulling her hair and lost all control of herself and began to punch him repeatedly until he wasn't moving.
Another soldier kicked her in the back of her head knocking her down. He then grabbed her hair and lifted her into the air by it. Ashlyn screamed in pain and tried to kick her way free but he slapped he and throw her to the ground, recovering by placing his massive hands around her neck.
Leslie ran to Ashlyns aid with Jen in tow to help but were both slapped away. Jen fell back hitting the back of her head against a wall and passed out.
Tara saw this and lept towards the soldier executing a jump kick. She hit him in the back but he didn't budge. Ashlyn was now on the verge of blacking out when the others ran up and stood in front of the soldier.
"Let her go!" Jarrold ordered.
"And who exactly is going to make me?" the soldier mocked.
Jarrold looked around and when he was satisfied that there were no more towns people around he turned back to the soldier and gave him a dirty look "We are." he said.
The soldier stared at group for a moment and then began to laugh "You don't stand a chance against me, you have no idea what you children are dealing with here." the soldier told them.
"Let her go" Jarrold repeated.
"Yeah buddy, you better do it because we're the Power Rangers." Mark said pointing at the soldier.
"The Power Rangers huh. You kids really have no idea what your doing, do you?" The soldier said, throwing Ashlyn at them and then charged directly at Jarrold, running him into the ground. He then turned around and faced them again.
There was a stand off for a moment and as the soldiers features started to change. His uniform melted away and the team could now see that he was muscular with blue skin. His helmet then melted away revealing long bright blonde hair. The warrior then reached forward and a large silver hammer appeared in his hand.
Jason helped Jarrold up and the team surrounded the two of them. Jarrold gave a nodd and the eight Rangers charged at the warrior. With a few kicks and chops he sent them flying through the air, scattered in all directions. "No humans can defeat me." he said. "I told you that you don't know what you're dealing with, I am the most powerful warrior in the Vandairre Empire."
The team regrouped around Jarrold and he stepped forward. "We'll just see about that." he reached behind his back grabbing his Power Morpher. The others took this as their cue and followed his actions. "It's Morphin Time!" he shouted.
One by one the Rangers pulled out their morphers and held the devices in front of themselves.
"Fox!" Bryan called and was tranformed into the Blue Ranger.
"Cheetah!" yelled Ashlyn as she was transformed into the Yellow Ranger.
"Panther!" cried Mark as he donned the costume and armor of the Black Ranger.
"Lynx!" said Jason as became the White Ranger.
"Dragon!" Tara said becoming the Purple Ranger.
"Bull!" shouted Aron, who was now standing there as the Red Ranger.
"Phoenix!" Leslie said, as she began her transformation into the Pink Ranger.
"Eagle!" shouted Jarrold. He now stood morphed as the Green Ranger.
The Rangers all gathered around their leader and he looked over his team. "No, it looks like you don't know who you're messing with." Green told the warrior.
"So it looks like there are more Power Rangers here. But I thought that they would have sent in more than a bunch of punk kids to do the job."
"Well now you've got to deal with us."
"No matter I will destroy you just as easily as I defeated the other Rangers, so swears Barberon."
"You're welcome to try you stinking alien!" Bryan shouted at him.
Aron looked at the Blue Ranger from beneath hs helmet, he could certainly understand why the others hated aliens he was sure that if he was in their position that he would feel the same way. But what would they do if they found out that he was from another planet. The Red Ranger trembled at the thought.
Blue Ranger ran at the alien and punched him, which had little or no effect and was batted away as if he were a fly.
Black Ranger didn't have much more luck and was sent flying through a wall for his effort in trying to kick the warrior.
Red tried to play it safe by pulling out his blaster and firing. Barberon countered by lifting his hammer and blocking the shot and reflecting it back towards Red leaving a burn mark on his chest plate and sending him into a spin.
Purple ran to the Red Ranger and helped him back up. She looked at her friend with sympathy. At first he didn't understand why she was looking at him like that then he remembered that she had been there when he lost his head band and must have seen his ears and blood. Then that comment that Bryan had made must have drawn out sympathy for him. "Please don't tell anyone Tara" pleaded Aron.
"Aron we're you're friends you can trust us." Tara said.
"You heard what Bryan said about aliens. What if everyone else feels the same way? Please keep this a secret." he begged.
"I won't say anything but they'll find out eventually. You can't hide the truth from your friends forever." the younger Ranger told her friend.
The two got up to rejoin the battle and Green meet them and helped the limping Red Ranger to the others. Red stood on his own and looked Barberon "It's gonna be harder than that to get rid of us" he said.
"We don't have time for this." Green said "Call out the weapons."
"Right!" all of the others shouted at once. Turning around reaching forward and pulling out their weapons.
"Plasma Bow!" said Purple.
"Earth Axe!" said Blue.
"Flame Sais!" said Red.
"Earth Sword!" said Yellow.
"Ice Blade!" said White.
"Elemental Staff!" said Black.
"Storm Sword!" said Green.
All of the Rangers pulled out their weapons, except for for Pink who couldn't quit figure out how they had done it. In stead she pulled out her blaster.
White and Black ran at Barberon and swung their weapons at him, Barberon ducked under the attacks and swung his hammer at White hitting him in his chest armor. He then turned around performing a spin kicked that nailed the Black Ranger in the chest knocking the wind out of him.
"Don't you guys get it, you can't beat me." Barberon taunted.
"You think so huh?" Green said, lifting his weapon in the air.
"Now you're in for it pal." said Purple, as aimed her bow at their opponent.
Green Ranger nodded at his purple clad sister "THUNDER STORM!" he shouted. Bolts of green energy lanced out from the weapon towards Barberon.
"PLASMA ARROW!" exclaimed the Purple Ranger as she fired the purple plasma energy that powered her weapon.
The two blasts merged together and stuck Barberon causing him to explode in a cloud of smoke and fire. "He's not as tough as he sounded" Purple said.
"You have no idea how tough I am." came Barberons voice from within the flames.
The Rangers all turned to look and saw Barberon standing there. He pulled something off of the belt that he was wearing and dropped it on the ground. A green slime like substance flowed from the object onto Barberons leg and up the length of his body.
"Guys this is not good, we're gonna be in trouble." White said.
Barberons body began to expand and grow and then he changed shape with blue tentacles appearing on his back, gold spikes on his head and a second hammer appearing in his other hand.
"I think our problem just got a lot bigger" Purple said. The others looked at her and groaned at the attempt at a joke.
"Are all of the towns people clear?" Green asked.
"Yeah, the towns been completely evacuated." Pink answered.
"Good then we're out of here too." said Green "Let's teleport."
The Rangers all reached into the air and in an instant were teleported away.
When they materialized the Rangers found themselves in the now familiar Command Center, with their helmets sitting in the various positions around the console. Blue walked over to the communications control and activated it. "Captain Sawyer. This is the Blue Ranger do you read me?"
"I read you Rangers." came the response over loud speakers. "What can I do for you.?"
"We were just in a battle and need you to pick up and escort the survivors to a safe spot."
"No problem, where are they?" Captain Sawyer returned.
"I'm sending the coordinates now." Blue said.
"Got them and we're on it. Captain Saywer out."
"Good that's taken care of. Now what are we going to do about that big jerk?"
"Well there's only one thing that we can do?" Jarrold said.
Jason stepped forward knowing exactly what his friend was thinking. "The Zords." he said.
"We need all the help we can get and those Zords are the answer." Jarrold told them.
"Then let's get to em before the creep Barberon attacks another village." Tara spoke up.
"There's a problem with that."
"What kind of problem?" Mark asked.
"The Zords were hidden away by the last group of Rangers so Emperor Nicandros couldn't find them." Jason said.
"How'd you know that?" Ashlyn questioned.
"Didn't you pay attention stupid, the bald guy said his dad was a Power Ranger." Tara said, glaring at Ashlyn.
"Actually all three of my parents were Rangers."
The others all looked at Jason "All three" they said simultaneously.
"Long story, I'll tell you about later."
"Why don't we just ask your parents where they hid those Zords?" Leslie suggested.
Jarrold looked over at her. 'Maybe she is good for something after all' he thought. "Good idea Leslie, plus I'd like to meet the orignals anyway."
"It's settled then but only three of us go." Jason said.
"It's your call Jason, who's going?" Jarrold asked his best friend.
"Well, you're the team leader and my best friend so you're in, and then we'll take Leslie with us because I think she'd like to meet my mom." Jason told them, secretly smiling to himself. He knew how Leslie felt about Jarrold and thought that maybe by getting them alone that his friend would give her half a chance. He couldn't see why the team leader was so hard on the girl, she was sweet and beautiful and besides that Ashlyn wasn't paying him any attention so why couldn't he see how poor Lelsie must've felt at his rejections.
Leslie looked over to Jason , telling him thank you with her eyes and then she turned to face Jarrold and with a smile walked past him heading towards her quarters. "I better get some things ready" she said.
"Some things!" Jarrold exclaimed.
"Calm down bro, it is a two day walk." Jason told them.
Jarrold looked at Jason then at Leslie 'Damn a two day walk with her, I don't know if I'm going to survive' "Well I guess I better get somethings together myself."
Jason and Leslie shot each other a look and then each walked over to their seperate quarters giggling.
After they left the room the other Rangers began to laugh at them. 'What are they lauging at?' Jarrold wondered to himself as he walked down to his room.
'Mom and dad are gonna be proud of me' Jason thought to himself. He smiled 'this is gonna be cool.'