Power Rangers Digi Cosmos

One Thing Leads to Another

"I'm sorry but what basis do you have for choosing me in particular? I mean if what I know now is true, then you could have chosen so many other people to do this job!" Rex Talbot was still getting to grips with what he had just heard. Zordon, the defender of good who was apparently destroyed to eradicate evil from this galaxy, was alive. He and sensei Watanabee had just teleported Rocky DeSantos, Adam Park, Tori Hanson, Blake Bradley and himself into a command centre of sorts; and to cap it all, asked them to become power rangers!

"Yes, we could have chosen anybody to be a ranger. But with Ooze attacking you and you knowing the true past identities of the others, we decided to chose you. You have all the qualities of a great leader..."

"Yeah I can see it now, me being just 19 telling two 23 year olds and two 20 year olds what to do. Like that's going to work!"

"Listen to me young one, little mouse maybe small, but it can scare an elephant if needs be." Sensei's words drifted in like a soothing breeze. Rocky, as usual, was having a hard time sorting his head out.

"So that means..."

Adam sighed heavily and began, "It means that though you may think of yourself as being too young for the job, you have already gained our respect so are up to the task!"

Rex moved off the console he had been leaning on and walked into the centre of the room. He clenched his fist and shoved it in front of him. "But I'll only do it if you all help me. You have experience which I don't; I will come to rely on that a lot!"

Adam was the first to walk over and laid his hand, palm downwards, on top of Rex's. He nodded, and Rex knew that Adam was telling him that he trusted him to do the job. Next Rocky moved to the centre and laid his hand on Adam's.

"I think I speak for the both of us when I say, you can always count on us."

"I agree, let's show that Ooze whose boss!" Blake had joined in on this Hallmark moment.

"Hate to break this up guys but we got company. Ooze is in town and painting it purple!" Tori turned to face the four guys and sighed. "If we're done with the male bonding can we go, like, save the day?"

"Yeah sure, Tor!" Rocky lead the others to stand in front of Zordon in a line.

"Ummm... Zordon? How do we use these digitisers?" Rex knew that he wasn't the only one not to know how to do it!

"Just say the words DIGI MORPH DATA DOWNLOAD! The rest will come from your heart."

"Ok, let's fly!" With that the five young adults fragmented themselves and reappeared at the exact co-ordinates alpha had given them. Burnt cars, broken shop windows and scared people greeted them.

"Take a wild guess?"

"No need to Rocky. Come on!" Blake had started running in the direction where people were coming from. The other rangers gave chase, past screaming kids and frightened parents.

They soon made it to the beach, which was unusually deserted save for one purple man.

"Run, you incompetent fools. No one can stop Ivan Ooze from ruling the world, not even the great Zordon himself."

"Wrong!" Ivan spun around to see the five rangers standing in front of him. "You didn't forget about us now did you? That was you're second mistake!"

"Oh, and I guess you're going to tell me what my first was?"

"Yeah, attacking me," Rex said as he stepped in front and centre. "Ready guys?"

"Ready!" The other four exclaimed.

"Just do what I do!" Rex reached for his digitiser with his right hand, and brought it to his face.

PRE-MORPHING SEQUENCE

"DIGI..."

He then flipped it open and dropped it to his right leg.

"MORPH…"

He crossed his hands in front of his face (left over right, palms to face) then immediately dropped it to his heart.

"DATA..."

Rex then reversed his hands (Palms away from face) and extended them until they locked.

"DOWNLOAD!"

MORPHING SEQUENCE

A rectangle outline, which is curved at every edge, shoots out of the digitiser, whilst red binary numbers cover Rex's body bar his head. He then raises the digitiser to the sky and the numbers turn into a bright flash of red light. As the flash dies down he folds his arms over his chest (like Hunter's stance in PRNS); the light being replaced by a suit of red top with white 'matrix style' numbers dropping from the white "v" around his neck. The sleeves are red all the way around the elbows and gloves, with silver trimming underneath. The trousers were tight fitting, and were pure red save for the belt that was white gold. The boots were white with red binary numbers in 'matrix style'. Finally the rectangular visor came back and lay on top of his face and, as he smirked, a flash of bright red covered his whole face and the rest of the helmet was formed. The space where his mouth should go was silver whilst everything else was in red with a few white numbers streaking to the back.

"Right, let's do it!" The other rangers assumed the morphing position and went into their own morphing sequences. They are basically the same as Rex's bar a few slight exceptions:

Tori had blue binary numbers and blue costume, and goes into her ninja storm stance. Before she dons her helmet, she looks dead straight as if to say 'come get me boys, if you dare!'

Blake has yellow numbers and costume and goes into his ninja storm stance. Before he dons his helmet he winks.

Adam has green numbers and costume and goes into Shane's ninja storm stance. Before he dons his helmet he does a smouldering pose.

Rocky has black binary numbers and costume, and goes into Dustin's ninja storm stance! Before he dons his helmet he growls.

As the smoke cleared, the five rangers stepped forth and assumed a ready stance. Ivan however was not amused.

"You think that is supposed to scare me, amateurs."

"No, not really; but then this is going to hurt you a heck of a lot more than it will hurt us!" Rocky drew his cyber sword and went into attack Ooze, with the other rangers following suit.

"Come now, you're not serious!"

"Cyber Sword Earth; Full Power Stone Slash!" Rocky's sword turned into a pillar of rock and was brought down hard on top of Ooze's head!

"Cyber Sword Water; Full Power Surging Slash!"

"Cyber Sword Wind; Full Power Storm Slash!"

"Cyber Sword Thunder; Full Power Shocking Slash!"

"Cyber Sword Fire; Full Power Scorching Slash!"

The five attacks combined and caused a mighty explosion. However, it seemed that Ooze wasn't exactly alone as first thought, as four figures edged forward. One was definitely Ooze but the rest were a mystery. "You got lucky this time rangers, but next time I'll have your heads!" With that, and a flash of lilac thunder, the four figures were gone.

Rocky kicked harshly at the sand, "Damn he got a way!"

"He was only toying with us, he'll be back!" Blake tried to assure Rocky that their job wasn't finished yet. Rex was strangely silent, and then he shook his head. He was alive? No way it wasn't him!

"Power down!" The rangers went back into their beachwear from that morning.

"Rangers, well done in your first encounter with Ooze! However as Blake rightly pointed out he will be back and you must be ready."

"So what are you trying to say to us Sensei, IN OUR MINDS?" No matter how many times Sensei used his ninja powers Tori wasn't fully comfortable with it. Especially as most of her thoughts were of the intimate raunchy variety!

"I'm saying that you should all stay in the tri-city area. Find one place to stay and use it as a base."

Rocky started, "Well, I would help out here but unfortunately my mum doesn't have space for all my sisters let alone five of my friends."

"And, as Rocky will testify, my parents hate my guts so no hope there!" Adam looked at the sand and started to draw images in the sand using his toe, that was until Rocky grabbed in a headlock and started giving him the mother of all niggles. Blake turned his attention away from the best friends to view his girlfriend and raised his eyebrow. "Well we know my situation, and since I just arrived that leaves only..."

Tori interjected, "Don't look at me I have no money to put you all up."

"I do," whispered Rex. This caused all the rest of the rangers to turn to him with questioning expression. "You all can crash at my penthouse apartment. It has enough rooms." He started to walk down the beach.

"Ummm..." Blake scratched his head before continuing, "Why didn't you tell us that you had a penthouse before?"

Rex paused, "There's a lot I haven't said about myself, for important reasons. Especially about my past and my family."

"Try us; we won't look at you differently." Rocky placed his hand on Rex's shoulder but he shrugged it off.

"You will, you may not want to but you will. You will because you will wonder if I'm the one with an ulterior motive." He started to run off, so as not to allow the others to see his eyes going misty eyed.

Adam spoke up, "What are you talking about?"

"…I thought that all my family were dead but they're not!" Rex kneeled into the ground and started sobbing. Rocky slid over and hugged the younger ranger who turned into the more muscled guy and let out everything that was bottled up inside him. "I thought...they were all ...dead, but...but...one of those figures. Is… (Cough)... is my father!" Rex cried hard into Rocky's chest, Rocky exchanged gazes with Adam, Blake and Tori. And just like that things did a complete 180 flip!