Power Rangers: Digital Cosmos

The Start of a New Era

"Let me get this straight, this is the same Rocky who was in that photo you showed me?" Blake was having a hard time understanding how the two former best friends, Adam and Rocky, had been able to miss each other for so long. "And he was here in P.B. all this time?"

"It's not that simple Rex," Adam tried to explain. "I was busy with filming and I didn't know he was here..."

"And I was busy with both my karate club and my lifeguard duties. Had I had known that Frog boy was here I sill wouldn't have been able to see him." Rocky sniggered at the reference to Adam's ninjetti power.

"Well at least I wasn't clumsy like you, monkey breath!" This caused both Rocky and, astonishingly, Adam to laugh uncontrollably, which meant that Rex felt out of the loop!

"What's so funny?"

"Oh, don't worry 'bout it," Rocky said whilst giving Adam a huge hug. "It's a private joke from ages ago!"

"Well when the two of you return from the land of the wacko, I'll be setting up on the beach. 'K?" Rex didn't allow time for recognition or an answer as he made his way, with most of Adam, Blake and his gear, to the beach. He chose a perfect spot shaded by some rocks and was about to call the rest when a flash of purple appeared before him, knocking him onto the sand.

"What the fuck?"

"The question's not what the fuck, you pathetic teen, but WHO the fuck! Hahahahhahahahaha!" Before he had the chance to respond, the shadow of a man appeared in front of him. "I am Ivan Ooze. Welcome to your nightmare!"

"Hey, you," said Blake.

"Hello," Tori said in an unusually seductive voice before snaking her hands around Blake's shoulders. "Guess how much I missed you?"

"I'd rather let you show me!" Blake replied playfully, abroad grin spreading across his face.

"Oh, I'll show you all right baby," and with that Tori claimed Blake's lips in a soft and gentle kiss. Almost simultaneously, both of them opened their mouths to deepen the kiss; Blake using his tongue to reacquaint himself with Tori's mouth.

"Only that much then, Tor?"

"Blake, you know I'm just warming up," Tori shot back as she leaned forward for another kiss. It was at that time that Blake noticed a definitive change in the atmosphere; it was almost as if the air around them was being charged.

"Do you feel that?"

"Yeah, I do; but we will have to deal with that later." Blake managed a small smile; maybe he was just feeling the attraction between himself and Tori. As he leaned in for another snog session he heard a cry that sounded familiar.

"What was that?" Blake pulled away from another lip lock to inspect the beach.

"I didn't hear anything, maybe you should cut down on the motor-cross thin..."

"GET AWAY FROM ME!" They both looked at each other with horror on their faces.

"REX!" They both rushed for the door and opened it just as Rocky was coming up the ramp. The door opened out hitting Rocky on the head and sending him flying down the ramp.

"OWWWW that hurt!" Adam helped Rocky to his feet before turning back to lovers.

"Guess you guys heard Rex too. We best move now!" The four young adults ran in the direction the screams were coming from. When they got there, Blake and Tori saw Rex being suspended by what seemed to be purple streaks of lightning. Adam and Rocky on the other hand did a double take at whom they saw!

"Ivan Ooze!"

"Who?" Blake and Tori looked for confirmation from the two older men.

"Ivan Ooze: purple, evil, made from some sort of pus-like substance."

"Eewww," Tori exclaimed "Gross!"

"Tell me 'bout it. Last time we fought it got messy, real messy!" Adam relived that event when he was a power ranger, alongside Rocky, fighting the good fight.

"Wait," Blake's mind was going into overdrive. "I heard 'bout this in the orphanage. The power rangers defeated Ivan Ooze. But you just said 'last time we fought'… Wait," Blake said as everything began to fall into place. "Which means...you both were power rangers?"

"Now, let's not go around keeping secrets, Blake Bradley! You didn't tell them that you and Tori were both Ninja Storm Rangers!" Ivan released Rex and started advancing on the four former rangers.

"…Wait ...all four of you ...at one time or the other were...Po...power rangers?" Blake had managed to land on his feet but still struggled to remain standing.

"You're still standing, well take this!" And with that Ooze shot another pulse of lightning at Rex. This time Rex jumped out of the way and sprang into action he ran at Ooze jumped then did a 360 kick to his head before landing on the other side. "Well, I see you can fight then!"

" You just blindsided me, that's all… I'm not completely defenceless you fucking bastard!"

"Well you soon will be; meet my children! SLIMERS," 10 purple creatures that resembled Ooze appeared, "Attack! I've got things to do!"

"What do we do now?" Adam enquired.

"Don't ask me, I'm the clumsy Ape. You're the intelligent Frog!" Rocky retorted.

"Hey this is not the time to be having a lover's tiff!" Rex exclaimed.

"What do you mean by that, Rex?" Rocky asked

"Nothing," interjected Adam before glaring at the African American and growling, "Not funny, Rex!"

"Listen, we're going to have to put aside our differences and…"

"Tor, not now!" Blake interjected.

"Hey I just think we need to gel that's all!"

"Oooh! Bright idea! If we separate them their power might decreases since they were made from one main source. So by pulling them away from the main one, perhaps they will lose their powers!"

"See sometimes the ape does think!"

"Only when I'm near my frog prince...umm." Both Adam and Rocky went bright red!

"…Okay, this is SO going to be sorted after we deal with these umm ...slimers. Question is who is head slime?"

"Um...Rex I think the one with the spikes and shit might be a lucky guess!"

"Well, it's mine! Deal with the rest!" Rex ran straight for it and rugby tackled it hard to the ground. The others started fighting and were doing really well. Rocky was fending off three at once; Adam was jumping over his and clashing heads together via his feet; Tory and Blake used their ninja powers to fry 4 into the water whilst Rex was using his knowledge of tae kwon do to kick about the one he was facing. Turning kick into reverse turning kick, to double bandals, finishing up with a flaming back kick, which sent the slime into the rocks with a splat! Minutes later the young adults had finished off all of them.

"Are monsters always this sweat inducing?" Rex took of the red t-shirt he was wearing to reveal a 6-pack to die for! His feet were in the water as the others noticed that one of his trainers was gone, burnt to a crisp in the fight.

"Yes, but we use to have our powers to help!" Tori was trying to get the slime out of her hair.

"Anyway, I think you may have caused the lead one to go splat a bit too much, Rex," remarked Adam as he held up the ooze-covered picnic basket.

"Hey, don't throw that away," Rocky said whilst reaching over to grab the ooze-covered food. He promptly proceeded to scuff the whole lot.

"Word of advice, food is still food to great ape, no matter how soiled!" The other four laughed at the sight of Rocky and his ooze covered face. Just then Rex's phone rang.

"Holla, holla!"

"Stand by for transportation!" A metallic voice on the other side echoed.

"Stand by for what?"

"Hey, what's up," Tori asked.

"I was just asked to 'stand by for transportation', that's whassup!"

"Umm, so what's up with your hand?" Rocky pointed an ooze-covered finger at Rex's body that was covered in red binary numbers.

"Freaky, but beats me!" Then all of a sudden, Rex started fragmenting at his fingertips and toes in shards of fire. "What's happening to me!"

"Don't know but you're not the only one!" Blake was right; his whole body was covered in yellow binary numbers and fragmenting into static discharges. Tori was covered in blue binary numbers, Adam in green whilst Rocky was covered in black. All of them were starting to fragment. When they were fully reassembled they were in what Rocky and Adam remembered as the command centre. Tori and Blake saw the familiar staff of sensei Watanabee whilst Rex just looked in awe of what he saw.

"Greetings Adam and Rocky," a floating head appeared in a cylindrical tube. "It has been a long time."

"Zordon," the two rangers exclaimed. The two rushed up to the tube and fired loads of questions at him.

"Likewise, Blake and Tori, it is an honour to see two of my top students again." Blake and Tori bowed before their former sensei. Rex was just wandering around doing his own thing when a robot taped him on the shoulder making him jump. "Do not be alarmed, my name is Alpha 7."

"You're the one who phoned me. Why? I don't understand."

"Now that Ivan Ooze is back," began Sensei Watanabee, "the earth needs protecting from his evil."

"He seems to have targeted you, young Dexter, with much anger," added Alpha, "the reason for this is quite unclear."

"Now that he is a threat, we must stop him at all costs," interjected Zordon.

"So that means what exactly?"

"Rocky you could give my student Dustin a run for his money in the, how you say, klutz department!" The other four laughed at the sensei's words.

"Maybe this will help jog your memories," alpha said as he went to a console and pressed a few keys. Out of the tube, which housed Zordon, 5 morphers shaped as state of the art flip-phones. There was one for each colour of binary numbers that covered the five. One in red, one in blue, one yellow, one green and finally one black.

"Rocky: strong as an ape, who takes life at his own pace. Take the black digitiser.

Adam: agile as a frog, intelligent like a wolf. Take the green digitiser.

Tori: graceful as a dolphin, sensible and serene. Take the blue digitiser.

Blake: Tough as a beetle, faster than lightning. Take the yellow digitiser.

Finally Rex: Powerful as a dragon, courageous as a lion, free spirited like the phoenix. Take the red digitiser."

At Sensei Watanabee's the five young adults took the digitisers. "But," said Rocky, "I still don't get it, you're trying to..."

"You can't be serious, can you...?" Adam was sceptical.

Tori joked, "I think they're seriously putting too much pressure on my serene head!"

"You want us five to stop Ivan Ooze, and be the defenders of good. Again," Blake enquired.

"Those four I get, they've done it before and proved themselves. But you want me, a relative nobody, to lead a group of older kids," Blake was starting to realise the gravity of what Alpha 7, Sensei Watanabee and Zordon were saying.

"You want me to be the leader of a new breed of POWER RANGERS!"

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