A/N: Here we are! The start of a new Power Rangers story after a short break from writing Ranger stories. This is a sort of unofficial sequel to Power Rangers Revisioned Seasons 1-3, so if you want to read it, you can, but it will not be required to understand this story. This story can be read entirely as a standalone from the rest of the universe it inhabits.

With that said, I hope you all enjoy the start to this new adventure! Reviews & feedback are very appreciated!

Power Rangers: Aura Masters

Episode 1

"Aura Power, Part 1"

A man in a white tuxedo stands alone in the midst of a battlefield. All around him lays destruction and friends that he's lost. He looks up seeing a nightmarish beast beginning to break out from the ground as tentacles start to wrap around the man. He panics and tries to push and pull or do whatever he can, but it's too late and the man is killed.

"NO!" The same man awakes in his bedroom sweating profusely, this man is Zeppeli Bamba and he has witnessed the future again. The man shakes out of fear for this vision he has been continuing to have. "Sixth day in a row…" He looks around before pushing himself out of the bed. Zeppeli brushes back his black hair and stands up before heading out the door. As he leaves the room, he's met by a well put together man dressed in a black suit and tie with white gloves. "Spencer, I'm going to be out again today. Please tend to the garden."

"Yes sir, and where shall you be going?" Spencer asks while walking alongside Zeppeli as they start to head towards the door. Zeppeli reaches out and grabs a white hat off the hat stand.

"I don't know, but I feel something changing. The wheels of fate have begun to turn for this world again just as it did back then." Zeppeli takes the hat with him into a dressing hall where he grabs a white tux off the hanger.

"Begun to turn towards what sir?" Spencer was afraid of asking as he's seen his master do things considered superhuman and the world is on edge for the fallout of the invasion earlier last year in 2018.

"A doomsday clock for humanity Spencer. One that I stopped many years ago and has been reawakened. By what? I'm unsure, but I will discover what's going on." Zeppeli looks back after changing and sees Spencer visibly distraught with Zeppeli placing a hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry old friend,"

"Worry? I never would dream of it sir." Spencer puts on a brave face in front of his master, but Zeppeli just smiles as he places his hat on his head. He walks past him and out the door looking out from the top of the mountain peek at the fog-covered city down below.

Meanwhile in this city, a heart pounds from the brunt force of an attack hitting his face. He wipes his mouth off a little as a devilish grin appears on him.

"That all you got? I said one free punch, not a one free wet noodle." He takes his red jacket off and flings it into the air with his opponent looking up for just a second to look at it. It was all over after that as the heated individual slams his fist into the attacker breaking his nose and sending him spiraling into the concrete. The various friends of the young man who was now unconscious begin to crowd around him.

"The hell is this guy?!" One of them shouts aloud as the man grins and grabs his coat before it hits the ground.

"My name is Jayden Turner, I like kicking the crap out of disrespectful nobodies. Wanna go a round?" Jayden puts up his hands playfully as the scared men grab their friend and run off revealing a bleeding younger kid laying on the ground. Jayden walks over and crouches down. "They won't be bothering you anymore,"

"Th-thank you…" The kid pushes up his glasses and begins to let out a few exhales preventing himself from hyperventilating.

"What's your name?" Jayden asks while helping the kid up and onto his feet.

"I-Isaiah," He replies in a soft voice while sort've looking down as though he was ashamed.

"Well Isaiah, you should never feel ashamed to lose a fight. The only time you should feel ashamed is when you let them affect you. They feed off your sorrow." Jayden gives Isaiah a genuine and non-devilish smile. "I've got your back next time, so keep your head up."

Isaiah looks up at Jayden and begins to crack a smile before nodding. "Thank you!" He then runs off leaving Jayden alone. Jayden smiles for a second before taking out his phone and checking the time.

"9:30!? Ah crap, Ally is gonna kill me!" Jayden quickly grabs his bag and runs off in a hurry. Jayden runs back towards the high school not even sure why it's open considering classes don't start for another week. He finally makes it to the front of the theater department with a Hispanic girl standing there in front looking around with a worried expression. Jayden puts up his arm waving at her. "Yo, Ally!"

The girl turns and breathes a sigh of relief as Jayden walks over before suddenly unleashing a punch straight into his arm. "What do you have me waiting for!? Auditions are in 5 minutes! Come on!" Ally grabs a hold of his arm and runs into the theatre building just as the last audition in line begins to wrap up.

"I can't believe I got wrapped into watching her audition," Jayden thinks back to the week before when she had cornered and bribed him if he would come to her audition this Friday. Ally let's go and runs over to the stage where she starts to get her things together. Jayden takes a seat on one of the front rows as relatively nobody is there aside from theatre personnel and those bored with their summer vacation.

Ally gets herself situated when the Director of the musical calls her out. "I've been working so hard for this, you can do it." Ally walks out onto the stage and looks out at the audience. Ally opens her mouth as a sudden trembling and rumbling can be heard stopping her. "What…?"

Jayden gets out of his seat looking around confused, "What was that?!"

"Are you going to start?" The Director looks at her with a very unbothered attitude. This was Mrs. Richard's regular outlook, but Ally just looked at her confused.

"Did… did you not here that just now?" Ally asks now completely out of the theatre headspace.

"Hear what Ms. Mendizabal? If you're here to waste my time, then get off the stage." Mrs. Richards was getting really heated as she stands up out of her seat. Ally looks over at Jayden who was just as confused as her.

"O-of course not Mrs. Richards!" Ally regains her composure and opens her mouth with an intense melody following as she starts her song. The crowd was captivated by her song, including Jayden who stared with a wonder.

"I never knew she could sing like this…" Jayden thought to himself thinking back to the many years he's known Alejandra, or Ally as she likes to be called. However, Jayden's gaze is broken as the door to the theatre swings open with a man in a white tux, Zeppeli, standing there with a worried expression written on his face. "Real fancy type, why is he here?"

Just as Jayden thinks those words, another tremor begins to occur except this time the physical shaking of the building can be felt by everyone as screams can be heard. Jayden looks over to Ally who had made her way to the top of the ladder for her piece with it beginning to shake. Jayden watches in horror as the ladder falls forward with Ally bracing herself. The ladder slams into the ground, but Ally doesn't feel a thing. She opens her eyes to see Zeppeli holding her before setting her down. "Who…?"

"Ally!" Jayden runs over putting himself between Zeppeli and Ally. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine Jayden, but who is this guy? What's going on?" Ally looked up at the man who didn't even acknowledge the two of them as he just looks around.

"I don't know, but you heard that rumbling tremor sound right?" Jayden asks with Ally nodding making Zeppeli turn his head to the two.

"You… heard that?" Zeppeli looked at the two with an odd amazement on his face. The tremors shaking the building begin to slow down and then suddenly stop leaving a bunch of frightened theatre crew on the floor.

"Yeah, but why didn't anybody else hear it?" Ally slowly gets up off the ground as Zeppeli and Jayden help her to her feet.

"These two were able to hear the seal breaking…" Zeppeli looks at both with a level of confusion as Ally and Jayden just look at one another. Suddenly, Mrs. Richards comes from behind and puts her hand on Ally's shoulder.

"Oh, Mrs. Richards! Do you want me to continue cause I-" Ally could go on, but Mrs. Richards puts up her hand to silence Ally.

"Ally, you have a call back. Make sure you're here next Friday." Mrs. Richards walks off with Ally is disbelief with her turning to Jayden.

"Good job," Jayden puts up a thumb as the two fist bump, but Jayden's mind couldn't be happy her for in the moment. He felt off about the whole thing, like something was around the corner waiting for him. He turns to talk to Zeppeli, but he's nowhere to be seen. "Where's that white tux guy?"

"He just sorta walked off. You really spaced out there for a second, are you okay?" Ally asks Jayden who looks at her and nods.

"I'm sure it's nothing, just have a bad a feeling about those tremors." Jayden admits to her as the two begin walking towards the outside.

Meanwhile outside the school, a girl works tirelessly inside an automotive shop for her internship. Finally coming out for air, the girl's yellow shirt was now covered in black oil stains which she sighs at.

"Hey Dad, I'm taking five!" The girl calls out to her Father with a grunt being all the acknowledgement she needs as she heads out the door. The girl heads over to her car and lays her back against it with a loud sigh. "I'm so out of it. I just feel… off." She repeats to herself trying to work up the courage to go back inside.

"Woah, long time no see!" A familiar voice calls out to the girl who turns to her left to see a guy in a black shirt with jeans walking towards her. The girl immediately knows who he is, Cain Wester, the star quarterback of the city's football team. This would normally be a nice surprise, but considering his company it's not quite.

"You know her Cain?" One of Cain's teammates asks curiously as he nods.

"Gentlemen this is Megan Northcutt, my good old childhood friend. We go way back, right Megan?" Cain turns to Megan expecting an answer, but she just stays silent. "Anywaaays, we were just headed to Cody's house for some liquid refreshments. Wanna join?"

"You're 17, what are you doing with alcohol?" Megan asks with Cain just rolling his eyes.

"A simple no would be fine," Cain winks at Megan who groans as him and the rest of his friends walk past her. However, as they do Megan begins to hear a distant rumbling from the ground.

"What is that?" Megan questions herself as she looks over at Cain and his friends to see they notice anything. Cain looks back at her with a weirdly confused look, but just laughs with his friends as he continues to walk. "Can nobody else hear this?" The rumbling begins to become more intense as the physical buildings and cars around her begin to shake.

"MOVE!" Megan looks downs the sidewalk to see a man in white talking Cain to the ground as falling debris crashing around the two.

"Cain-?" Megan runs over in a hurry finding Cain's friends having barely missed the debris with Cain and the man in white trapped under some. Megan frantically begins to grab at the debris. "Come on! We need to get them-" Suddenly, the rocks begins to lift up despite Megan no longer pulling them upwards.

"I-I have it," The man in white, Zeppeli, retorts under the rubble as he suddenly pushes it off him with Cain sitting there completely unharmed.

"How did you do that?" Cain asks in shock as he was unable to even budge the rock. Zeppeli ignores him and looks at Megan.

"You heard it too, didn't you?" Zeppeli asks with Megan looking at him confused.

"The tremors? It was a little hard to miss." Megan comments as her Father comes running out of the workshop and embraces her.

"Are you okay? I was worried something happened-." Megan's Father looks at the debris with wide eyes and then at Zeppeli. "What's going on?"

"I'm afraid I have the answer to that," Zeppeli comments aloud as all eyes turn to him.

"There he is!" Jayden suddenly calls out from the end of the sidewalk with Ally. The two run down the sidewalk seeing the fallen debris. "Stop running off, we want some answers!"

"I'm afraid that will have to wait," Zeppeli tells him, but before Jayden can grab Zeppeli Cain steps between the two and pushes him back.

"Back off, this guy just saved my life." Cain defends Zeppeli with Jayden looking over at Ally for a second.

"He saved my life too, but I still want answers." Ally groans as Zeppeli suddenly falls to one knee with a shocked expression.

"Another cry out… larger than before." Zeppeli mutters to himself as Cain kneels down to check on him. Zeppeli however suddenly pushes him off and takes off running.

"No you don't!" Jayden runs after him with Cain and Ally hot on their heels leaving Megan who looks back at her Dad.

"I-I think I need to go with them. I can't explain it." Megan struggles with this feeling when her Father suddenly pats her head.

"Go, but be safe." He tells her with Megan looking back at him with a determined look before running after the others. The Dad then turns to Cain's friends. "So… wanna help clean this up?"

Meanwhile at the starting line of a track field, a young man stretches his legs as he looks forward towards his goal. He starts to get into a running stance and pulls his head up.

"Focus…" The man says in his head as he suddenly takes off running as fast as he can towards the goal. "Focus…" He continues to think as the force he pushes into his legs causes him to go faster as he pushes himself. "Focus-" As he thinks that, a splitting noise hits him and causes him to trip and fall over tumbling across the ground and cutting up his skin. He holds his ears as the sound persists giving him the biggest headache. Suddenly, he feels two hands touch him and he opens his eyes to see Zeppeli kneeling there. "P-please help… me."

"This shouldn't be happening. This type of reaction is unheard of. To be so sensitive to an Aura disturbance…" Zeppeli grits his teeth as he grabs onto the boy's head and a glowing blue energy flowing out of his hand and into the boy.

"There he is!" Jayden calls out running over with Cain, Ally and Megan who let out a sigh of relief that the running is over.

"It's that noise again…" Cain thinks aloud as the others look at each other with confusion.

"Be quiet! I need to focus!" Zeppeli shouts at the four of them as he continues to pour this blue energy into the boy with the noise getting quieter and quieter for him. The boy then lets go of his ears as the sound becomes nothing more than a distant rumbling for him. Zeppeli lets out a sigh of exhaustion as he falls back. "It's done… are you okay?"

"I think so… what was that?" The boy asks still shaking a little from the experience.

"That's what we're trying to figure out from this guy, but he just keeps on avoiding it." Jayden complains as the shaking begins again except it starts to become more intense as the ground starts to crack apart.

"That isn't good… right?" Megan asks as Zeppeli slowly gets up and shakes his head.

"The seal is broken…" Zeppeli's eyes are wide with fear as the ground in front of them begins to sink and crack apart. A purple energy begins to swirl around the hole molding together as a portal is formed.

"Definitely not good," Ally looks at Megan with a bit of a shrug. As the portal crackles with it's purple energy, a physical hand begins push out of the portal grabbing onto the grass and pulling itself up. Everyone looks on in fear as what stand before them can only be called a monster. It's arms are covered in a bone like material that strafes up and down the chest and back and across the face.

"I can't be the only one thinking this is a job for the Power Rangers, right?" The boy asks aloud.

"The Power Rangers haven't been seen in a year um… what's your name?" Jayden asks curiously.

"Oh, Paris. Paris Parker." Paris and Jayden turn back to the matter at hand as more hands reach out of the portal and pull themselves up.

"What are these things?" Megan asks as more begin to crawl their way out of the portal.

"I don't care, they're going back where they came from!" Cain shouts before rushing ahead and charging at the weird monsters.

"You idiot, stop!" Jayden calls out as Cain gets closer and the monsters pull out a lance looking weapon. Cain just barely manages to duck under the lance attack from the nearest enemy before swinging his arm around to clothesline the monster.

"Mr. white tuxedo guy, you need to give us some answers!" Ally demands grabbing the man by the collar.

"Those things are Onyx Soldiers, working under an Emperor that is more brutal and way more cunning than any threat the Earth has faced." Zeppeli gulps as he stands back up just as Cain is thrown back by the other Onyx Soldiers onto the ground. "You five have an ability inside known as Aura, and if you don't tap into that power, we're all doomed." Zeppeli reaches into his coat and takes out five wrist braces with a large 'A' on the top and color-coded buttons on the front. One being red, another black, as well as blue, yellow, and pink. "I need you five to become Power Rangers,"

The five teens look at the braces before Jayden let's out a bit of a chuckle. "You're kidding right?" Zeppeli stares at him an unmoving expression of fear. "Oh…"

"I know I just got here, but come on we're not qualified! The Power Rangers are aliens or something that had training, we're just normal people." Paris airs his doubts with Zeppeli cracking a grin. However, that grin disappears as the portal begins to swell with more power.

"The Power Rangers of Earth are just regular people like you, they didn't know how to fight or be heroes before they become Rangers, but they still fought. I need that same bravery from each of you right now." Zeppeli looks back as a giant claw reaches out from the portal. "Please, we don't have much time."

"I'm in," Ally says grabbing the pink wrist brace and placing it on her wrist with it wrapping around her securely.

"Ally! You gotta be-" Jayden thinks for a second and looks back over at the monsters. "Ah, what the hell. Only live once and all that." Jayden grabs the red brace and locks it onto his wrist.

"Whatever I gotta do to smash those things, I'm in too." Cain grabs the black brace and places it on his wrist.

"Not like we have much of a choice," Paris grabs the blue brace and attaches it to his wrist.

"A chance to be a Power Ranger? I'm in too." Megan excitedly grabs the yellow brace and places it on her wrist.

"Thank you all. All you have to do is say 'Aura Power, Charge' and press the button on your Morphers." Zeppeli explains as he steps away from the five teens. Jayden takes a step forward looking at the brace before everybody takes a step forward.

"This is weird and I think it's a bit ridiculous, but I'm not going to let you have your way!" Jayden declares looking at the others who nod at him. "Let's do it then."

"Aura Power, Charge!" The teens click the button on the Morpher as they feel a sudden surge of energy from within them. Blue energy suddenly comes out of their bodies coating them completely in it as the suits form around them and attach themselves.

"I-It actually worked…" Paris says in a bit of disbelief as he looks at his new blue suit.

"I'm going to honest, I wasn't entirely sure we weren't being pranked until right now." Ally admits holding up her hand to see through her helmet.

"I'm a Power Ranger…" Megan simply smiles behind the helmet as she strikes a pose which everybody just sorta stares at her for. "…what?"

"Please focus at the task at hand," Zeppeli says a bit annoyed with the scattered brained behavior of the new Rangers.

"Right… let's kick some Onyx!" Jayden charges forward excitedly twisting his body around in a jump with him slamming his leg into one of the soldiers which sends them flying backwards. Cain charges past him grabbing two of the soldiers and throwing them back into the portal which hits the claw trying to reach in from the other side. The rest of the Onyx Soldiers grip their lances and charge at the Rangers.

Paris just narrowly dodges a strike from one of the lances that suddenly shoots out a beam of energy that explodes behind him. Paris then unleashes a knee into the soldier's stomach and then a flurry of punches sending it back and causing it to dissipate into black smoke. "Hey guys!"

Ally is being pushed back by one of the soldiers when she looks over, "What is it?"

"Hit them enough and they poof into smoke!" Paris quickly drops to the ground as more blaster fire from the lance is shot at him.

"Simple enough," Megan groans as she trips up one of the soldiers and uses it's own lance to stab into it causing it dissipate into smoke. The portal begins to swell power once again as the claw hand reaches out and pulls on the ground with a terrifying creature making it's way out. Looking more like a skeleton, the head of this new monster was literally just a skull of some unidentifiable animal. It's body was absolutely jacked with muscles and it's arms were creepily slender with large claws at the ends of each hand.

"Leave it to me!" Cain shouts confidently as he charges at this new opponent. As he rams into the beast, he quickly realizes he's making no ground as it just looks at him unmoved.

"They send a child to beat me? Are these the mighty Power Rangers we were told to be worried about?" The monster reaches down and grabs Cain by the back before quickly tossing him like he's nothing straight through the ground creating a large crater where he lands.

"Cain!" Megan calls out running over to him as he tries to pick himself up out of the dirt.

"You guys need to be careful! This is the power of a lieutenant from the Onyx Empire!" Zeppeli warns as he has his own fight against a group of soldiers.

"Zeppeli… nice to see you again. Surprised you're still alive." The monster taunts as suddenly Jayden runs up from behind and tries to slam his fists into the monster's back. The monster groans as he reaches around to grab Jayden. However, as he does Ally jumps in from the side to deliver a kick sending him stumbling away. "More gnats,"

"Just hit him while he's off-" Paris tries to give more battle advice when he's suddenly blasted by the soldiers and grabbed by the monster who begins to squeeze.

"New guy!" Ally can't help herself as she grabs one of the fallen lances and throws it at the monster with it shocking the monster on contact.

"I-it's…" Paris lets out a hoarse cough. "…Paris." Ally goes to apologize, but is punched from behind by the monster being sent into the dirt just as Paris is kicked by the monster.

"Inexperience gnats, you aren't worthy of those powers you hold." The monster claims as Jayden and Megan are the only two Rangers standing with the other three injured and struggling to stand.

"I'm a Power Ranger, I won't let you do this to my teammates!" Megan charges forward only to be held back by Jayden.

"Calm down fangirl, we need a plan." Jayden groans with Megan reluctantly nodding. Jayden looks down at his Morpher finding a second button which he pushes.

"Aura Sword, Active!" The Morpher announces as a crimson blade forms in Jayden's hand. Megan follows in his footsteps pushing the button.

"Aura Rotor, Active!" A weird top like object appears in Megan's hand with her looking at it confused. The two Rangers look at each other and then at the enemy which had regrouped. Still with 10 to possibly 15 Onyx Soldiers and the lieutenant, the two grit their teeth.

"It's been nice knowing for like the 15 minutes I have…" Jayden chuckles as he gets into a fighting stance with his new sword.

"Same, and hey, at least we're going out swinging." Megan relents realizing it's nearly hopeless. Thoughts race through her head about her family and she gets a determined look. The two charge into the soldiers with Jayden wildly slashing at them in a fury. Megan unsure of what to do with her weapon just smacks against the soldiers at every opportunity.

"They have spirit, but spirit isn't enough to oppose the great Emperor." The monster thinks to itself as it walks forward towards the last two Rangers. Suddenly a whip wraps around the monster's arm pulling it away from the two Rangers.

"Aura Whip, Active!"

"We're not done yet!" Ally shouts holding the whip as she suddenly swings upwards cracking it against the monster's skull.

"Ally…" Jayden mutters in surprise as he's hit back by the soldiers only for the soldiers to suddenly be smacked back by a staff.

"Aura Rod, Active!" Cain stands there in a defensive stance hitting the soldiers away from Jayden and Megan who breathe a sigh of relief.

"This won't help you!" The monster shouts smashing it's claws into the ground which upheavals a large portion of it sending it towards the Rangers.

"Aura Tonfas, Active!" Paris leaps out in front slamming the tonfas into the rubble with a blast of energy coming out of the tonfas on contact which breaks it apart harmlessly.

The five Rangers finally regroup together with the soldiers destroyed and the lieutenant now the sole focus of the group.

"You got far, but you won't get any farther!" The monster declares as it reaches onto it's back and rips off a patch on it's back. The patch was some sort of release of energy as the monster begins to expand and grow. The Rangers back up as the monster grows to sizes undreamt of, being easily 20 stories tall.

"Um… how do we deal with that?" Paris just sort of points at the large creature as a realization sets in that they aren't ready for this level of combat.

The journey for these five Rangers have begun, a tale of destiny and fate intertwined with the threats of the shadows below. What remains of this story? Find out next time on Power Rangers: Aura Masters!

A/N: Thank you so much for reading the first chapter of Power Rangers: Aura Masters! I hope you'll feel encouraged to leave your thoughts on this new story in the review section, I love getting to read reviews! This series will be updated pretty oddly, so you might want to follow in order to keep track of when it updates. Thank you again and it feels good to be back!