Power Rangers

Lost Souls

Episode 2

First Test

Part 2

Beck stopped speaking when he heard the scream. The eyes of the three went wide. Beck started running toward the sound and shouted, "Follow me! The others may be in danger!" "The others?" Farek asked as he obeyed the command, with Praxis right behind. "What others?" Beck yelled, "I'll explain later!" Through the forest they ran, until they came to a small clearing, where a girl from a hunting family (Beck recognized her as Xiann) and Roziam the daughter of the Eastian Village Leader were fighting or trying to fight what looked like metal ghosts.

Beck knew what to do on instinct; he pulled off his robes to reveal a fighting suit with a sword on his hip and pulled out the sword. Using his training he swung the sword back and forth taking out the metal ghosts right and left. Farek was stunned for a moment and then grabbed a broken off tree branch and attacked the things. Praxis jumped in immediately with a humongous rock, which he used to knock out several of the things. It wasn't easy, but together they took out each one, one by one.

Meanwhile, in a ship far about the darkened sky where they fought, a cloaked figure monitored the fight, nodding in approval. In a wheezy voice, the figure said, "Yes, yes, even without training, or powerful suits, they fight well, and their teamwork is excellent. I do believe I will choose them, if they make it to the spot. But I must remember that this is only a fight for basic survival, not for anything else. I have to remember that they must pass the Test first."

At the same time, aboard another ship nearby, an evil woman named Morgana, stalked to the viewing screen, and glared at it watching the battle below, her evil foot soldiers, the Rozombs, defeated one by one, by the cursed ones. "No! This can't be!" She screeched. Back in the old days, when she and Grumm attacked Earth, the Krybots hadn't been defeated so easily in the beginning by the "Most Famous Squad", for even that squad had problems at the beginning and throughout the first year they fought. And they had weapons and training while these five warriors obviously had neither, and none of them had ever known any of the others well. So how could this be? How did her Robot Zombies fail? And how would she fulfill her end of the bargain?

When all the metal ghosts were defeated, the five stood back and watched as the metal broke apart and released their spirits, who just happened to be the spirits of Sirian warriors fallen in the great battle for Sirius, a millennium ago. They had been of a race no longer in existence; the last one, Commander Cruger of Earth Division SPD, had to have died over six centuries ago. To the ancestors of Farek, Beck, Praxis, Xiann, Roziam, and the others of Sirius Colony, it had been said by the Rainbow Team, which included Commander Cruger, "You will remain living simple lives on Sirius in exile until the day, that your goodness and bravery match those that came before." Namely, it was the Sirians.

Immediately, Beck understood what had happened. Someone had enslaved their spirits. Beck fell to his knees and motioned for the others to do the same, which they were already doing from instinct. As they did, the spirits of the warriors moved toward them. The one that seemed to be the leader spoke to them. "What has happened to us, young aliens?"

Beck spoke forth, "O brave ones, many years ago you fought endlessly for your world. O fallen ones, you fought until the bitter end, yet all was lost, for only two of your kind survived. O good ones, Anubis Doggie Cruger lived on to be become the Commander of the team that later defeated the evil one, and his wife Isinyia Cruger, though she lived in captivity for a long time. O honored ones, we are but the descendents of sinful humans, exiled here, until the day when our goodness and bravery match that of yours." "Alas, you tell the truth, young one. We will leave you be," the leader of the Sirians replied, and they vanished from the group's sight.

The group rose to their feet. "Wowza," Roziam said quietly. Xiann turned to Beck. "Do the legends speak of spirits being enslaved?" "No, Xiann they do not, but they do speak of something happening tonight." He pulled out the scroll that had his notes upon. "This message was written in serious code. The temple was unable to decode it until tonight. It reads thus;

"'We will return in exactly 714 years. Five young warriors will be led to the Forgotten Capitol of Sirius. They will become the Rainbow Team on the night of a triple lunar eclipse. They will be tested for the redemption of all.'"

The entire team was completely silent as they looked toward the sky that was dotted with many stars in the unusually dark sky. All three moons were blotted out by the shadow of Sirius.

Moragana "So now you know. Heheheh. Now you can't escape."

On the other ship, the wheezy voice said, "It is time for the test."

As the group looked toward the sky, a ship flashed across the sky. It crashed nearby in the Forbidden City. There was an explosion and the ground shook. Burning cinders flew through the air and landed near them. Praxis panicked and started to run, sending fear through all of them. They began to flee, until Roziam said, "What if there injured people in there?" Beck stopped. "You are right, Roziam. As the head priest's son, I must help them." Farek turned. "It would be the right thing to do." Praxis affirmed it. Xiann "Let's go."

This time they ran in the other direction, toward the crash. Finding themselves within the Forbidden City, they stared in awe at the metal ruins of buildings that once stretched to the sky. They could not stare long though, for the crash was ahead them. Glowing red metal was every where. Fires burned brightly.

And there in the center of the crash were two aliens, one that was similar to a deer doe and the other to a stallion, each unconscious. The team rushed forward to help. Kneeling before them they began to dress wounds, when the aliens vanished. Xiann startled, said, "What in the world?"

A humongous shadow fell upon them. Looking up, they saw what could only be a spaceship passing over.

To Be Continued…