Part 1
Ashlyn Starr stood atop a cliff overlooking the city of Angel Grove. She watched as the caravan of trucks, wagons and people on foot made their way across the desert to their new home. A few of them had come ahead a few days before to start clean up to prepare the city for everyone else to move in.
Things had been progressing pretty smoothly for the most part and it had been decided that everyone would populate the center of the city. Shelters and housing had already been established as well as water and power having been restored. Kimberly Hart had been asked by to supervise the intergration of the people into the city and had done well for herself. Ashlyn remembered when she met the former Ranger and they all began to discuss plans for the move. It had been decided that they would start placing people in the homes around her neighborhood and they would branch out from there. Angel Grove highschool and the place once known as Ernies Juice Bar would serve as meeting places and the Rangers had quickly set up a make shift communications network in and around the city.
It was agreed that Captain Sawyers people would also leave the Power Chamber and move into the city, using the old Nasada complex as well as the Angel Grove police department as bases of operations. The Yellow Ranger felt a since of relief knowing that their Command Center would be empty and reserved just for them as it always should have been. Captain Sawyers team would act as the cities official guardians.
Ashlyn turned to walk back to the city when she heard the six toned beep come from her communicator. She placed the device up to her lips "Go ahead this is Ashlyn."
"Is everything okay out there Ashlyn?" came the voice from the other end.
The Rangers had decided to move back into the city as well but to make sure that the Command Center was manned they decided to take shifts. Today was Aron and Taras turn. It didn't surprise anyone that Tara would stay becuase she spent most of her time in the are that seemed to have been designated as her workshop. Even though she didn't like the girl much Ashlyn had to admit that Tara was the smartest person on the team. She had taken to the machinery of the Power Chamber easily and had even went as far as redesigning their weapons to create the Power Blaster.
Taras latest project would probably be the best of all though. A few weeks earlier Jason had stumbled across what appeared to be spare parts in the lower levels of the Power Chamber. After going through the parts the Rangers discovered that they were actually spare parts for a robot. Tara quickly took to the task of putting the parts together and found that with a little work she could build a complete working unit. It almost scared Ashlyn how smart the girl was and on top of that she was one of the best fighters on the team. Now if she would only shut her mouth.
"Everythings okay here. Why something wrong?" she answered after a second.
"I'm not sure yet. Just got a weird scan near your area and was wondering if you check it out." Aron responded.
"Yeah I got it."
"I'll call the others." Aron informed her.
"No need to bother them. I'll check it out and report back in a few minutes." Ashlyn to him. "Probably just a glitch. You know Tara worked on the sensors."
A voice chimed in "I heard that Ashlyn and I'm going to kick your ..."
Aron cut her off before she could finish her sentence. "Acknowlegded. Just let us know what's going on. Command Center out."
Ashlyn looked over her communicator for a moment before heading towards the area that the sensors had registered trouble.
Tara scowled at Aron as she turned around and headed back to her workshop. "I can't believe her nerve." Tara mumbled. "Oh well I have more important things to worry about."
"How's it going with your project?" Aron asked.
Tara stopped and looked at him for a second. "I'm almost done. Most of the the parts were there and what I couldn't find I pulled from other places." she said holding up a few circuit boards from the control panel that she had been tearing apart when Aron called Ashlyn. "Pretty soon we'll have our own robot assistant."
Aron nodded and went back to monitoring the instruments.
Tara shrugged her shoulders and went back to her workshop with the hand full of circuit boards.
Scorpina had only served Emperor Nicandros for a short time but found that being one of his generals had many advantages. The warrior had been given charge of an army of soldiers and been given free reign to wander the universe doing pretty much whatever she saw fit. She of course had chosen to come to earth.
It was this planet that had eluded her former masters several times and had made her lose face among the various warriors of the galaxy. Even after helping to defeat the Power Rangers and capture the Earth she felt she should stay here. Now everything that she had accomplished was coming down around her. The Power Rangers had somehow come back and were threating to undo everything that had been done by the Vandairre.
Scorpina was not about to let that happen if she could stop it and her first step would be to destroy Angel Grove. She figured this would strike a serious blow to the morale of the Rangers and every other human who heard of it.
'After I finish here I'm going to track down Jason. I know he's responsible for this somehow.' she thought to herself. 'No I better take care of him first. I can't have him running to the rescue at the last minute.' The Scorpian Queen took one last look across the desert before heading in the direction that she felt Jason was in.
Emperor Nicandros looked over his new captive with a broad smile. "So the infamous Tommy Oliver is now in my dungeon." he circled the one time White Ranger slowly and then once again stopped in front of him. "The White Ranger is now in my hands. I didn't think that this day would ever come."
Tommy lifted his head slightly. "Give up Nicandros. You're going to lose."
"Against those kids that you've put together. I don't think so Tommy." Nicandros laughed. "They'll be as easy to defeat as you were."
"Apparently Barberon didn't think so." Tommy mocked. "And you're going down soon." Tommy then lifted his head a bit more and spit in the emperors face.
A scowl came across Nicandros face as his wiped Tommy spit from it. He then back handed the former Power Ranger almost causing his head to spin around. "Tommy we are going to be together for a long time. We shouldn't have any animosity towards each other."
"Nicandros when I get out of this I'm going to choke you to death with my bare hands for what you've done." Tommy swore as the blood rolled down the side of his lip.
Nicandros leaned in close to Tommys ear. "Yes we will be getting really close Tommy." he whispered. The emperor then unleashed a powerful blow to his foes stomach and turned around to walk out of the door.
Jason Scott surveyed the area. He hadn't returned to his home in many years and was sad to see the condition that it was in. The one thing that did make him happy was the fact that people were starting to move back into the abandoned city.
Angel Grove had been a happy place for the first years of Jasons life. That was until Rita Repulsa had escaped from her space dumpster and let out a rain of terror that the Earth had never seen. Jason remembered the day that day very well. He and his friends had been in the juice bar and were planning on going to see a movie. He himself was going to do something that he had wanted to do for years and ask his bestfriend Trini to the school dance. But that was all ruined when Jason and Kimberly and their three friends found themselves teleported to the Command Center and told that they were to become the Power Rangers.
Each one had a different reaction. Zack laughed it off and couldn't believe what he was seeing. Kimberly didn't seem to really care and thought that someone else should do it, while Billy was more interested in the technology that was present around him. Only He and Trini seemed interested in helping. Nonetheless Zordon gave them all Power Morphers and they all left the Command Center.
On their way home they were attacked by creatures that they later found out to be putties and were forced to use the morphers that Zordon and his assistant Alpha 5 had given them. They found themselves teleported to Angel Grove where they made their made the announcement that they were the Power Rangers and that they would be there to protect the world.
That had been years ago and many different Power Rangers had come and gone in that time. Jason had even come back himself twice. First to help out when an alien Ranger from another world had been injured. Jason took the opportunity to become the Gold Ranger. However the powers were not meant for a human and everyone found that the powers as well as Jasons life force were quickly slipping away. The real owner of the Gold Ranger powers returned and took the power back just in time to save Jasons life.
Jason lived happily for a while and even started to date a girl that he went to school with. He tried to live a normal life and tried to stay away from the life of a Ranger but was drawn back in when he and Kimberly (who was on her way to visit) were kidnapped by a space pirate named Divatox.
Divatox attempted to use Jason and Kimberly as an offering to a demon that she wanted to wed but the Rangers, who had recently undergone a power change showed up and defeated Divatox. Jason returned to Angel Grove and finished out the rest of the year in highschool and then went away to college.
While Jason had always been a good student he realized that he college wasn't for him and after a year returned to Angel Grove to open a dojo with Rocky, the person that Jason had given his original powers to. Jason married Emily after another year and the two were really happy. Then evil beings started to show up again but this time around the world. Jasons first instinct was to go offer his help but Emily refused to let him. She told him that he had done his part and that it was time for someone else to take over. After a time Jason could no longer agree with her and offered his help to rebuild the Command Center and start a new team of Rangers to help with the teams that were being overwhelmed.
Jason helped to research and form a new team of Power Rangers and they acted as backup for the other ranger team when things got rough. But then things changed. Emperor Nicandros appeared with a fleet of warships and an army of warriors. These new inexperienced rangers proved no match for the raw power that was being used by the Vandairre and quickly fell. One by one ranger team were falling so Jason had no choice but to ask for the help of old friends. Tommy, Kimberly, Kat, Adam, Tanya, they all returned one by one until each of the rangers that Jason had worked with were back. The first order of business was to reach Billy who was now living on Aquitar. When Billy heard the news of what was happening on earth he returned home and with knowledge of the Morphin Grid and details found in the Power Chamber he was able to recontruct the turbo powers. This time with 6 rangers. Tommy led the team as the Red Ranger and Jason served as second in command as the Black Ranger.
Jason thought back to those times and tried to make himself forget how one by one his friends had been injured and died. He remembered Adam being hurt and Zack filling in for him as the Green Ranger. Then Kat died and Tommy went off the deep end. He managed to find the last remaining Power Coin. His original coin that had been reengergized and given to a clone of himself. The coin had been left with the clone when he traveled back in time and passed through the generations until it reached a museum in England.
After retrieving the Dragon Coin Tommy was let go of his Turbo power and once again became the Green Ranger. But now he was dark and thought of nothing but revenge. Sometimes his pursuit was so driving that he forgot about the one family member that he had left his young son Jason.
Jason remembered the day that it happened. He remembered looking at Tommys red Turbo Morpher and Key then lifting them into the air and calling out "Red Lightening Turbo Power!!!" His own Black morpher fell to the ground as he became the Red Ranger for the first time in a long time. He remembered having to act quickly and only made his way to Tommy with seconds to spare. Tommy had summoned the Dragon Zord and was planning on using it to Destroy the Vandairre commandship but all of the Rangers knew that it was a suicide mission. 'Bro I can't let you do this' Jason told him as he pulled the Power Coin from the Green Rangers morpher. 'This is for your own good. Turbo Lightning Sword.' and with once swipe Jason destroyed the last of the Power Coins. Causing Tommy to return to his unmorphed state.
Jason then took the Dragon Dagger from the shocked former Green Ranger and returned the Dragon Zord to the sea. Jason would soon come to regret his decision becuase soon after the Rangers were forced to surrender or Nicandros had threatened to destroy the planet as he had Edenoi.
Jason snapped out of his daydream and realized that he was in the city. 'I have to get to Tommys and tell him the news' he thought to himself as he ran towards Tommys house. Jason was sure that Tommy would still live there.
It was starting to get dark out and Ashlyn had wandered farther away from the city than she had planned to. There had been no sign of trouble and she was starting to wonder if the signal that the Power Chamber had detected really was a result of a screw up on Taras part. She had just decided to turn back and return home when she saw something out of the corner of her eye.
Ashlyn scanned the area slightly and then continued on as if she hadn't seen anything. The Yellow Ranger walked a few more feet and then turned around when she heard a noise coming from behind her. She quickly spun around to be met with a person that she had hoped not to run into again anytime soon.
"Hello Ashlyn, or should I say Yellow Ranger?" Scorpina hissed.
"What do you want Scorpina?" Ashlyn asked as she assumed a fighting stance.
"What I want is to destroy Zordons legacy once and for all." Scorpina answered. "I think I'll start with you."
"Come on Scorpina we've done this song and dance before and you are never able to beat me." Ashlyn taunted.
"Human if it was not for the interference of that accursed ex-power ranger you would have been dead the last time we met. But this time Jason is not here to stop me and this is nothing to stop me from killing you." with the Scorpina lifted her sword as if to swing at Ashlyn.
Ashlyn started to roll to the side but quickly realized that Scorpina was not trying to hit her. The sword struck the ground and there was brilliant flash of light.
Ashlyn felt a sharp pain on her side as she rolled over and stood up. She was slightly groggy and felt as though she had been asleep for hours. The Yellow Ranger looked around to examine her surroundings. It appeared that she was in a dungeon of some kind. It was a dimly lit room with no light coming in from the outside. In fact the room was lit totally by hundreds of candles.
The Yellow Ranger turned to get her bearings. 'Where the hell am I?' She thought. She lifted her communicator up and hit the button to activate it. "Power Chamber this is Ashlyn, do you read me?" she said into the device.
When nothing but static returned she hit the button to activate the teleporter. For a brief second she felt as though her molecules were starting to disassociate but the sensation ended and she found herself still standing in the dark room. "What the hell is going on?"
Ashlyn quickly realized that she was in trouble and reached behind her back."It's Morphin Time." she called out. When her Power Morpher didn't appear she know that she was deep into it.
"Is this what your looking for?" Scorpina asked laughingly.
Ashlyn turned around to see that the Scorpian warrior was holding her Morpher and Coin up. "Give those to me!" she shouted.
"Now, now Ashlyn. We wouldn't wanted you to have an unfair advantage in our fight would we?"
"Oh well, I don't need to morph to kick your sorry butt Scorpina." With that the two ladies charged into fight.
"Tara I think that we have a problem here." Aron said looking puzzeled at the screen.
"Why, what's going on?" the girl asked, popping her head from behind the door that led to her work area.
"Well I was just about to check in on Ashlyn to make sure that everything was okay. Right as I activated the communicator her signal disappeared from the sensors."
Tara came completely out of the room and walked over to the terminal that Aron was standing at. "Okay maybe there's some kind of interference. Let me take a look at it."
Aron stepped back from the terminal and watched as the young girl began pressing buttons. Tara stopped and looked at the instrument for a second and then crossed her arms angrily. Aron moved closer to her "What's going on?" he asked.
"I checked for any interference and the for jamming but couldn't find anything so I thought that maybe it was an equipment problem."
"So that's what it is then? An equipment problem." Aron put in.
"Let me finish!" Tara snapped. Aron was a little taken back by the tone in her voice. "As I was saying, I thought that maybe there was some kind of equipment issue so I tried to lock onto the others. They all came up. I tried Ashlyn one more time but still didn't get anything." Tara was anxious to get it out but found that she couldn't help but explain everything. "After a few more tests I found a weird energy. It looks similar to the energy that we leave behind when we teleport. Similar but not exact."
"So you're saying that Ashlyn was teleported somewhere?" Aron questioned.
"Exactly but there's no way in hell that I can track her down at the moment."
"we better call the others in. This is bad."
Tara nodded her head and reached for the communications panel.
Jason leaned around the corner and looked down the street. He couldn't believe how many people were in the city. 'What the hell is going on here?' he asked himself. 'The only people that should be here are Tommy, Kim and Jason. Oh well Tommy can explain when I get there.'
The former Power Ranger finally arrived on the street that Tommy had lived on and nervously approached the house that his best friend lived in. As he approached the door he heard the sounds of voices coming from inside. Taking a peak through the door revealed 3 silouttes.
Jason knocked on the door and was greeted by a small girl "Hello." he said. The girl looked at him for a moment and then waved. 'Did Tommy and Kim have kid?' he asked himself. "Are your mommy and daddy home?" he asked.
"Kimmie who is it?" came the voice of an older boy.
'That must be Tommys son' Jason thought to himself.
"I don't know. He said he's looking for my mommy and daddy though." Kimmie answered.
A young man of about 17 years old came to the door and stepped between Jason and Kimmie. "Can I help you?" the young man asked.
Jason extended his hand "You got big. How are you Jason? I'm looking for your dad."
"I'm not Jason, I'm Bryan a friend of his and his dad isn't here right now but I can get his mom."
"Sorry about that. So Kim is around huh? Alright could you get her for me." The young man nodded his head and turned around to get Kimberly.
After a moment Bryan returned with Kimberly whose eyes went wide as she realized that she was looking at Jason Oliver. One for her bestfriends in the world. She ran over to her former teammate and put her arms around his neck and pulled him down for a big hug. Jason picked her up and spun her around for a second then put her down. 'Man she's just as beautiful as I remember.' A broad smile came across Jasons face and he once again hugged the small framed Kimberly Ann Hart. After a moment he put her down again and stepped back. "Jason where have you been?" she asked.
"Long story, I'll explain everything when Tommy gets here." Jason answered.
"That's another long story that I'll tell you about after I put the kids down." Kimberly said.
Jason nodded and then turned to Bryan and looked at him as if in realization of some large fact. "Bryan" he said in a low voice, then his eyes lit up. "Bryan Cranston. Are you Will Cranstons son?" he asked the young man.
Kimberly stopped in her tracks and turned around to wait for the answer. I hadn't donned on her but she did recognize a little of her childhood friend in the look of the teen.
"You know my dad?" Bryan and Elliot both asked at the same time.
"Why didn't I pick up on it before." Kimberly said. "Of course your Billys sons."
"Your dad was very close to us when we were growing up." Jason responded.
Bryan reached forward and finally extended his hand to Jason. The older man took his hand and shook it enthusiastically. "It's good to meet one of dad friends."
Jason looked down and caught a glimpse of the silver communicator with blue trim. Once again a broad smile came accross Jasons face as he realized that he was standing with a Power Ranger. "You must know Jason, Tara, Leslie and Ashlyn." he commented.
"How do you know them?" Bryan asked curiously.
"I think that we all have some things to talk about." Jason said with a wink.
"Yeah I think so to." Bryan agreed.
"Had enough Ashlyn?" Scorpina taunted as she shoved Ashlyn into a wall.
"Oh what? You haven't done anything." Ashlyn retorted. "And plus I haven't kicked your butt yet." Ashlyn knew just as well as Scorpina did that her bravado was just a ruse. The Yellow Ranger had realized from the beginning that she couldn't beat Scorpina without her morpher unless the older more experienced warrior made a drastic mistake.
"Not so tough without your little toy are you Ashlyn?" Scorpina snarled.
"Still tough enough to take you out."
"Oh I seriously doubt that. You see without your morpher or your friends to save you there is absolutely no way that you can beat me. I know it and you know it. So why don't you just give up and let me destroy you. Save us both a hassle.
Ashlyn ducked under the blow that Scorpina had sent her way only to be caught by a roundhouse kick in the end. The Yellow Ranger stumbled backwards and tripped, sprawling to the ground. Before she could recover Scorpina was on top of her and hoisted her in the air by her neck. "I changed my mind. I think I'll kill you later. I want to have some more fun with you first." She then punched the girl in the face sending her into unconciousness.
Kimberly walked down the stairs and looked took a seat next to Jason. "Finally got them to sleep." she said.
Jason smiled at the former Pink Ranger "Your daughter is very cute." he said.
Kimberly almost laughed "Kimmies not my daughter. Her parents were taking away by the Vandairre so I'm keeping and eye on them."
"Oh." Jason blushed in embarrasment over his mistake. "So where is Tommy? I have some news for him."
"I have some bad news Jase." Kimberly lowered her head. "Goldar came back and ambushed Tommy and Jason. He took Tommy but Jason got away."
"Now the monkey is back in the picture? Damn." Jason responded. "I should have come sooner."
Bryan looked at the two with interest before saying anything. "So how do you know my dad?" he asked.
"Oh that's and easy one Blue Ranger." Jason said with a wink.
"What do you mean Blue Ranger?" Bryan said trying to feign ignorance as to what Jason was talking about.
"It's okay I assume you took the Power Coin that your dad was holding and found the Power Chamber."
"How do you know that?" Bryan asked. "And how do you know Jarrold, Tara, Ashlyn and Leslie?"
"Very simple. If I'm right they should also be Power Rangers." Jason said confidently.
"Okay how do you know all of this?"
Kim smiled at Bryans uncomfortableness as she sat back in her seat.
"I'm the one that gave Jarrold and Tara their Power Coins."
Bryans mouth dropped.
Kim stood up and walked over to stand next to Jason "You're looking at Jason Lee Scott. The original Red Ranger."
Bryans communicator beeped.
"So what does my dad have to do with this?" Bryan asked.
"Billy never told you? Kimberly here was the Pink Ranger, Tommy was the Green Ranger and your dad was the..."
"Blue Ranger." Bryan chimed in "That explains why he had the Power Coin." Bryans Communicator beeped a second time.
"Are you going to answer your communicator?" Jason asked.
Bryan reached down to answer it. "This is Bryan, what's up?"
"We need you at Power Chamber immediately." came Taras voice.
"Is everyone else there?" he asked.
"Everyone but Ashlyn, I'll explain when you get here." Tara answered.
"I'm on my way in and I'm bringing company." with that he looked over to Jason and held out his hand.
The two looked over at Kimberly as Jason took the new Blue Rangers hand. She smiled and nodded, then with a streak of blue and another of gray the two men teleported off to the Power Chamber.