A/N- wow guys…yeah I know its been a while, but I'm FINALLY updating.
A/N #2- Ok, I got a new computer so I can't change this very easily, but I know I keep saying that the teens are like 14 or so, but lets say that instead that they are actually around 15, meaning that the triplets just turned 15….ok? Also, in the fall, the rangers will start their sophomore year of high school.
When Old Meets New…
"Zordon, you still haven't answered my question. Where's Max?" Kim asked with an extremely worried voice.
"KIM, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE DOING ALL WE CAN TO FIND HER. ALPHA IS WORKING ON TRACKING HER THROUGH THE MORPHING GRID." Zordon answered.
With Max, (where ever that is)……
"Whoa, where the heck am I?" Max wondered out loud as she looked around to see herself in a strange room.
No sooner had she spoken, a very freaky looking woman appeared. Due to her completely weird look, Max knew it could only be one person, Zimitria.
"As, so I see that you have found your way to my Ranger Prison on the star Delmed." Zimitria said while her Plengua's got the hint and finished chaining Max to the wall.
"Right. Well it was a lovely visit, but if you don't mind, I would love to go back home now." Max resoponded, hoping that by faking happiness, she could manage to get out of the prison before anything horrible happened.
"Uh uh. Not so fast. You will be staying here until my little plan has unfolded completely. And look, I even put a monitor in so that you could see how your pathetic friends do in their battles against me. Let's just put it this way- you get to see the end of your era." Zimitria said smugly.
Oh joy! Max thought as she realized that she may not leave anytime soon. And as time was slowly passing for her, she thought that maybe staying there wasn't going to be so bad after all…
At the Command Center…
"So everyone understands the plan, right?" Jason questioned as he looked at the worried faces of all the rangers, new and old.
Murmurs of yeah, and uh huh could be heard, but no one was really in the mood to say too much.
"Alright then, let's go cream this freak," Jase responded, getting the new rangers into morphing position.
"It's Morphin' Time!" the rangers yelled together.
"The Eagle" started Kyle, who morphed in a flash of white.
"The Ape" yelled Jason followed by a flash of red.
"The Elephant" announced Luke followed by a flash of blue.
"The Giraffe" called Jeremy then being consumed by a flash of black.
"The Lion" screamed Trevor followed by a flash of green.
"The Panther" cried Natalie covered by a flash of purple.
"The Dolphin" finished Crystal, mophing in a flash of yellow.
"Wow, I did not know they could do that!" Rocky exclaimed as he tried to lighten the mood.
"Well I guess we're up," Aisha said slowly.
"Zeo ranger I- PINK!" Kat started.
"Zeo ranger II- YELLOW!" Aisha called.
"Zeo ranger III- BLUE!" Rocky exclaimed.
"Zeo ranger IV- GREEN!" Angela added.
"Zeo ranger V- RED!" Jason shouted.
"Zeo ranger VI- BLACK!" Zack bellowed.
"Zeo ranger VII- PURPLE!" Emily finished.
"Ready?" Tommy solemnly asked as he turned to see nods in resonse.
"Shift into Turbo!" The Five remaining adults called.
Once all of the rangers were morphed, they split into their families so that they could work to find Max. Little did they know that she was very easily found.
With Max…
"Ok, so can I leave NOW?" Max asked the Plenguas's for the fifth time in the past three minutes. As soon as she said this, Zimitria appeared.
"You can leave, under one condition. What is your mission?"
Without any hesitation, Max answered, "to turn the rangers against each other." And Max meant it.
"Alright then, you are free to go," Zimitria responded with a smirk on her face.
Max was automatically teleported to the center of the park. Her anklet was still in place (on her ankle, DUH!) and was now glowing even more than before. The families hadn't originally thought to look in the park, so when Max was first teleported there with the Plengua's, the rangers didn't know it until Zordon told them so.
"Guys! Look! There she is!" Tommy yelled as he ran to his daughter.
"Alright, so just let her go, and no one will get hurt!" Crys screamed as the rangers neared the Plengua's holding Max.
To add to the moment, Zimitria decided to make an appearance in the sky.
"Yeah, like I'm just going to hand her over to you guys! Dream on!" Zimitria said to the rangers below her. "Plengua's attack!" She cried next.
So as all but two Plenguas attacked all of the rangers, Tommy and Kim worked together to try to make their way over to Max. As soon as they reached her she and the two Plenguas disappeared in a flash of silver.
"No! We were so close!" Kim cried as she leaned on her husband for support.
"Zimitria! We've had enough of this! What do we have to do to get our daughter back?" Tommy shouted to the sky.
"You think I'm going to tell you? HA! You will just have to wait and see!" Zimitria cackled to the rangers and vanished in another flash.
Since the Plenguas were still there, the rangers had to stay and finish them up.
Back at Delmed…
"What was that about? Why couldn't I have stayed on Earth and helped you with your mission?" Max asked as soon as she got back to the prison.
"You will see why I did that later. Just stay here until I call upon you again," Zimitria responded.
Max just sighed and sat back down on the floor, watching the monitor with her family and friends fighting the Plenguas.
The Command Center…
"Zordon! We saw her! Have you found where she is?" Kyle babbled once he had teleported to the Command Center.
"CALM DOWN RANGERS! ALPHA IS STILL TRYING TO TRACK MAX, BUT IT IS HARD BECAUSE SHE HAS NOT MORPHED LATELY. WE WILL NOTIFY YOU ONCE WE CAN FIND HER SIGNAL, BUT BE PREPARED AT ALL TIMES." Zordon answered.
"Ay yai yai! I found her!" Alpha exclaimed not even two seconds later.
"Where is she?" Jase asked while pushing to the front of the group.
"She has been located on the star Delmed. I have also found traces of Zimitria there." Alpha happily said, but the last part was pretty obvious to the rangers.
"Alpha, have you found a way to be able to teleport her home?" When Billy saw this as a no, he offered to help trace her signal and a path that could be used to bring her home.
Later that day (still July 10th)
On Delmed…
"I will finally let you go. Do you remember what you must do?" Zimitria asked Max.
"Yes. I will go to Angel Grove, act as if nothing is wrong, and then when they least expect it, I will carry out your plan!" Max responded in a very monotone voice.
With that being said, Max was teleported to outside the Command Center, alone.
"RANGERS, LOOK TO THE VIEWING GLOBE. MAX IS BACK ON EARTH!" Zordon announced as all the rangers crowded around the viewing globe to see Max being teleported to the ground.
Whoa… that was definitely interesting Max thought as she shook her heard and got ready to teleport to the Command Center. In a flash of bright pink, Max finally was back in the Command Center.
"MAX, IT IS GOOD TO HAVE YOU BACK," Zordon affirmed.
"Yeah, it's good to be back!" Max said brightly. I wonder how long I'm going to have to keep this act up for Max thought as her parents and siblings came to hug her.
The rangers decided to call it a night and they all teleported to the dance studio.
"We were all SO worried about you!" Natalie gushed.
"Yeah, we had no idea if you were all right or not!" Angela added.
It seemed weird that no one had noticed her anklet yet, but then again it was probably just because they were all so happy to see her safe.
July 11th, 10:55 Am
At the Dojo…
"Why am I not surprised that you guys are the new rangers?" Jason said while smiling at the teens.
"Ha, see, Jason and I were right!" Rocky said triumphantly.
"I was quite surprised at first," Billy admitted.
"I guess we're just carrying on the tradition, huh?" Jeremy added
"We're just going to be in the park again," Luke told Jason, Rocky, and Billy as Crys and Jase went to tell Tommy and Kim where they were going.
At the park, like Zimitria said, a troop of Plenguas attacked the teens, with the Speaker Monster right behind them. Max just went along fighting, but she really did not fight like she used to. Soon, the parents were called in for back up.
"Wow, this guy is pretty strong!" Emily cried over the blasting of the horrible music from the monster.
As the monster was defeated on the ground and in the process of growing, Max slipped away from the group and waited for her OK from Zimitria. Once she, and she alone, heard it, Max did not board her Hawk Zord and instead got ready to carry out Zimitria's orders.
"Max, what are you doing?" Jase cried over the intercom.
"I just need to go do something real quick! I promise I'll be back in enough time to help you guys defeat this guy!" Max called back.
"Max wait!" Kim cried from her zord, but before Kim could finish what she was saying, Max was already teleporting away from the park.
"Ok then. Let's see what I need to do here exactly." Max quietly said aloud once she got to her destination- the center of the city of Angel Grove.