It was early in the morning when a general assembly was called at the Pha Zui Academy. There were more than a few bleary eyes amongst the students when Sensei Casey began his speech, "I'm here to address the rumours of a number of people disappearing around the world", he began, "unfortunately they are true".
There was a general murmuring from the assembled students, "What about SPD?" a voice called out. Casey looked into the crowd and found Jayden Shiba standing with his arms crossed. Next to him was his older sister, Lauren, "Have our old team been affected too?" Lauren added.
"Please, those morons couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag", Jayden snorted, much to the amusement of everyone around him.
Casey sighed and gazed at the Shiba siblings. " Jayden i know your not very bright. I've warned you before about showing others the proper respect", Casey scolded, "and to answer your question Lauren, I have no news either way". As Jayden rolled his eyes, Casey thought what a waste of talent the blonde haired man was. He was twenty years old, well past the normal graduation age, but his attitude. Pushing this aside, Casey continued his address, "We've increased security around the Academy, so rest assured that nothing will happen to you".
"Oh yes they were truly great guard dogs", a voice called out from the back of the group. Standing brazenly in the open was the orchestrator of the attacks, "Took me a while to dispose of them, let me tell you".
"Who are you", Casey hissed, "what's happened to my students?"
" I am Lady Mordred" Mordred chuckled loudly, "Oh them, I paid them off. They're probably half way to Mexico by now", she paused for a moment and grinned broadly, "I kid", her face turned serious, "they're dead". From the crowd, Jayden was about to burst to the front to attack, "A new challenger", Mordred looked at an imaginary watch on her wrist, "well I've got a minute free, might as well keep myself warm".
Jayden and Lauren charged forward with their Spin swords ready to attack. They swung them in unison towards Mordred but to their shock, she simply grabbed the blades with her bare hands, "Please, the adults are talking", Mordred smirked and tossed the Shiba Siblings over her shoulder.
"You won't get away with this", Casey bellowed and blasted the empress with his tiger spirit.
"Who's going to stop me", Mordred chuckled, "the Mystic Rangers have fallen and by now Time Force, Lightspeed and SPD should have as well". She deflected the attack away.
"Fuck you", Jayden roared as he used his sword to drag himself to his feet.
"Damn I forgot about you two", Mordred pouted. The Shiba's were a little unsteady but they weren't going down without a fight, "I suppose the polite thing to do would be to kill you", she began to create an energy orb in his hand, "I'll make this quick".
Mordred tossed the blast towards the Shiba's but her shock, something incepted it. Standing protectively in front of the siblings was another power ranger. His gold shield on his torso took the hit, "Get behind me", the ranger said to the Shiba's.
"Three of you", Mordred chuckled, "well this won't do my evil reputation any good at all".
"Sorry Mordred", the ranger began, "I've got plans for these two". He flicked something towards his feet and in a flash, the trio had disappeared in a beam of light. Mordred stared at the spot where they had been standing for a few moments before roaring in anger.
Some time later, the mystic force rangers, walked into the Command. Claire walked up to Vida, and hugged her, "You OK?"
"Yeah…" said Vida, "I'm fine…" The Rangers made there way to the control panels pulled out chairs and sat down, they all had dejected looks on their faces. Claire looked at them and said, "And what's wrong?"
"Its just that… We lost…our powers" said Madison.
"We let you all down," said Chip .
"Lost?" said Vida, "How can you say we've lost."
"But, we cant stop Mordred or protect the city now," said Nick.
"We may have lost our powers but were still rangers, plus we don't have to protect the city," said Xander.
"He's right," said Daggeron, "And, we have you three to defend our planet."
Demi, Ruby and Jessi all nodded.
" Me and Chip will stay here and help mentor them" Daggeron said
" I will give you hand when i can i have the Rock emporium to run " Xander said
" Me and Vida will help with the Rock emporium ' Madison said
" Im off to see my parents " Nick said " See if they anything "
All the rangers nodded and soon it was just Claire and the new rangers left in Root core.
" I feel bad for them" Demi said
Jessi nodded " Yea me too"
Just then, alarms went off, Claire presses some buttons and downtown comes into view, a bunch of Drones are attacking people and causing chaos
The attack was taking place in downtown Briarwood. There were several residential properties nestling between a few local shops. The usually quiet roads were echoing to the sounds of terror as the residents ran through the streets as another platoon of Drones destroyed everything in sight.
A small pop echoed from a small alley as Demi , Ruby and Jessi landed in a heap, "That was unpleasant", Demi groaned, "why is teleportation horribly uncomfortable?" It felt like their entire bodies had been stretched from head to toe as they were pulled into the air before being dumped back on the ground.
Ruby quickly got to her feet and peeked around the corner. Fortunately all the residents had managed to escape the area. Swallowing their fear and summoning that famous Power ranger courage, the trio stepped out into the main street as confidently as they could, "Hold it right there", Demi called out. The Drones immediately turned around to face the trio and began moving towards them, "I did not think that through", he sighed.
"We can do this", Jessi tried to rally them.
"Don't really have much choice do we", Ruby grumbled.
The trio flicked their left wrist and the morpher appeared attaching the small folded up figure " Its morphin time", they called in unison and spun the the figure around on the morpher. " Dragon Knights"
Almost instantly there was a bright flash of light, blinding the Drones. When the light cleared, three colourfully suited warriors stood opposite them. The bottom half of the suits were one solid colour. The rangers chests were silver with with black markings forming what looks like teeth, the sleeves were all one colour, a gold coloured belt where their swords hung from. Like the boots, the gloved were the same colours as the suit with a silver cuffs. Finally the three new rangers wore helmets that were themed after a different magical creature, all had the visor designed after a knight's.
"Time to die ", Ruby said cracking her knuckles
"Not sure if I'm a fan of this", the pink ranger groaned. Jessi tugged on the helm of a small white skirt, trying to make it more comfortable.
"Alright", Demi, the red ranger, began, "now what". Silence descended amongst the trio, none of them knew how to use any of the weapons.
The Drones though weren't going to wait for the trio to decide and charged towards them. The footsoldiers aimed a punch in his direction. Demi was able to dodge the attack but his weak counter punch didn't to a lot of damage, "Erm, little help", he cried.
"Busy right now", Jessi responded as she nervously backed away from a couple of Drones. The Drone jumped towards her and Jessi shrieked with surprise. She sidestepped the attack and used the momentum of the creature to thrown it into a nearby building, "Hey I actually did it", but her celebration was premature. Another Drone kicked her in the side, sending her tumbling to the ground.
As the battle continued on the ground, a couple of people had hidden up one of the trees in the park. They were observing the first outing of the Dragon Knight rangers with mixed feelings. The first was Master Ji. The other was Lauren. Underneath her robe she wore a white patterned t-shirt, green jeans and a pair of white trainers, "Those are the Power Rangers", she sighed, "they're useless".
"Unfortunately", Ji replied. "I'm afraid that you and Jayden will have to pick up the slack it seems".
"But do we have?" the girl complained, "I'd rather not join their team".
"The universe works in mysterious ways", Ji answered, Lauren snorted in reply and continued to watch the battle, " I will save them this time" Lauren said as they watched the rangers run around like headless chickens.
She could've jumped in at any time in the last few minutes but if she was honest, she was enjoying watching the Drones kick them around a bit. Finally she decided to take pity on them, "Careful", Jessi cried as Ruby destroyed another building with a wild slash, "we're meant to stop things from getting destroyed, not cause them ourselves".
Suddenly the rangers and the Drones were pushed back as someone landed between them. The trio could only watch as the figure charged her sword with green energy and slashed the Drones destroying them all.
" Awesome " Demi said running upto the new ranger only to be kicked back into Jessi and Ruby
" I saved you this time but it wont happen again" the green ranger said before teleporting.
The trio looked on
" Wow " Ruby said.
