"So you just let her walk out of the room with a group of complete strangers!" Jack fumed at the rest of SG1 and Jonas.
Jonas shook his head, "Jack I doubt that there was anything we could have done to stop her. She was well within her own right. SPD are allies of her people, she belonged with them more than she did with us."
General Hammond looked at the team that had just returned from visiting the Special Police. "I have to say I agree with the Colonel on this one."
"Sir with all due respect if you saw what we saw there you would let Tenaya go with them as well. We were in a sophisticated building that could move that was located in a subspace pocket protected by this universal energy and all around us were these aliens and who knows how many live on Earth because outside this building they look just like the rest of us." Sam replied
"And how do we know you haven't been compromised by these aliens Major?" Jack asked
"I don't think you would be able to know sir however I do know that you were recently cloned by the Asguard and that you are afraid of nanobots because of how they aged you."
"The GSA and SPD follow a strict set of rules and I do not believe they would medal with our lives." Daniel replied.
Sam stood up and drew a sketch on the whiteboard, "While with the SPD we learned some interesting things."
General Hammond nodded as Sam began to present her information, "Basically Tenaya told us about how the GSA drew a line across the galaxy in order to seal an evil they faced away from the Goa'uld. Earth is apparently always been an important planet to the GSA because of something they know of as the Universal morphing grid. I still am not clear on what this grid is or what it's supposed to do however we have clarification that the rangers are in fact true; we just can't see them all of the time."
"And do please tell us how we can't see them all the time but we can see damage created by them." Jack leaned back sarcastically, "or at least the victims can remember the damage."
"I was getting to that." Sam explained, "Basically Earth was always a powerful source of this energy so then this line was drawn they used the grid energy and folded it back in on itself looping the energy around Earth. This line now flows over earth and then folds back towards two other planets, whose names were not mentioned, before draping out creating what is now GSA claimed space. This line is heavily defended by the GSA to keep the Goa'uld out and this unknown darkness in."
"The Tok'ra mentioned that the Goa'uld do not acknowledge this GSA as truth." Teal'c asked, "As First Prime I never encountered any of these GSA" Teal'c reasoned
"I guess it is possible that the Goa'uld feared this GSA so much that they now stay away from this line with the exception of Earth." Daniel explained, "The GSA teaches that the energy is so strong that the higher members of the GSA have a hard time existing here on Earth and that they were able to keep this darkness away from Earth so they sat back and monitored the Goa'uld activity with the exception of covert missions where they removed people from Earth on giant ships in order to spread some of the energy around inside their space, but when the Goa'uld left Earth about 3000 years ago they backed away and allowed Earth to sleep as they call it. Recently with this darkness moving in on Earth they have returned by sending rangers to keep the darkness from disabling the energy barrier."
SG1PR
Kim army crawled through a cave behind Trini being careful not to hit her head. They had followed a lead and were now looking for their individual keys that would allow them access to the trunk of keys they had found weeks ago.
Zach yelled back, "I see something just keep coming a few hundred more feet!"
"I did not sign up for this!" Kim groaned as she ducked under another rock before finding the tunnel getting larger. Rising to her knees she began to crawl on her hands and knees.
Trini looked back, "We are almost to the center of this mountain."
"Good I never thought this tunnel would end!" Kim complained as Trini sat up and jumped down a ledge to a plateau ten feet below and Kim quickly followed as they descended further into the cave the two of them stopped when they reached Zach and Jason who stood staring at the sight before them.
Before them lay a bottomless pit that was over twenty feet wide. On the other side was an island with a table set in the middle with five ranger keys set in the middle. Trini knelt down and brushed something off that was covered in dirt.
Dude is that a parrot?" Zach asked looking at the object in Trini's hands
"I think I can fix it." Trini said looking at the circuitry, "the circuitry is very similar to Alpha's and I helped Billy those times we short circuited Alpha."
"What will we do with a robot parrot?" Kim asked
"I assume we will see if it will help us?" Jason said as he handed Trini the small tool kit from his pocket
Trini barely twisted a frayed wire when the bird sprung to life and flapped around the cave. Trini jumped back at the sudden motion as did Kim.
"Who dares wake me up?" the bird screeched
Jason stepped forward, "The GSA has sent us to retrieve the great power that lies just beyond. Will you help us?"
"I will only help you if you take me from here. I have been here for so long that I can't remember how long I slept in this cave." The bird replied
Kim held out her hand, "What do we call you?"
"I am called Navi." The bird announced as it lit upon Kim's arm.
"It is like Circuit." Kim responded as she looked the bird over before explaining, "Circuit was an owl created by the green time force ranger in the year 3000; it could control the time force zords and deploy them to the rangers."
"Are you rangers?" Navi asked
Trini nodded, "We served Earth under Zordon, but now we are on a mission to gather together the ultimate power so that we might win the war for the GSA."
"You served Zordon surely you must be pure of heart." The bird flew across the crevice and returned to them the keys however it held onto the blue key and refused to let it go. "I will only give the fifth key to the blue ranger."
"He has not awakened yet however we are going to get him once we leave this cave." Jason nodded as Zach started to lead them through the tunnel that they have come through.
Navi stopped them and flew to a ledge that he perched on and suddenly the cave wall behind them opened up revealing stairs that formed into the rock back up to the surface. "Two of you must remain here until the other two return with your fifth teammate. It is the only way to judge your true hearts.
Jason nodded, "Trini and Kim you two should go, the SGC already knows your faces." Jason nodded
Kim and Trini started to step forward before Kim turned, "Jason we can't just leave you and Zach here!"
"You have to go get Billy we all can't leave until there are five of us." Zach responded as he pushed Kim towards the steps.
Kim and Trini nodded and they ran up the steps refusing to look back at their friends who were remaining behind. They ran into the campsite and Trini quickly grabbed four devices from her bag.
"Kim put this on" Trini threw an arm band at Kim
Kim held it for a moment, "what is this?"
"It's a personal shield. We are going to need them if we go into the SGC." Trini replied as she slipped an identical one over her arm.
"The SGC has an impenetrable shield over the stargate we won't get through if that is what you are planning on doing." Kim said as they ran for the stargate.
"We have permission to use it and we were told where to find these a while back." Trini explained, "This device is an automatic dialer, it is programmed to take us to earth and then return us to our point of origin." Trini then held up a second device, "This one sends a disruption code which will disable all tech on the other side of the gate that might interfere with gate travel."
Trini pressed a button on the automatic dialer and the gate powered up with a splash of water. Kim breathed in she had never seen a stargate turn on with her own eyes before but Trini seemed a little calmer about the effects.
Kim turned to Trini as she pointed the disruption beam at the stargate, "Do you think it will work?"
Trini took Kim's hand, "I don't know but I guess there is only one way to find out!"
SG1PR
Teal'c walked the corridors of the SGC with Bra'tac and his son Ry'ac when Jack's voice carried out from Sam's lab, "Carter, don't go selling out on me for those Tabloids!"
"Father what is a tabloid?" Ry'ac asked looking up at Teal'c for clarification he had always heard strange things coming from the Tau'ri's mouths but this had to be among the strangest.
Teal'c looked at his son and back to his Bra'tac and seeing similar interest Teal'c began to tell them, "A tabloid is a form of media here. O'Neill doesn't like this form of news because he says it is all lies and fiction."
"Tell me Teal'c what do you think of these tabloids?" Bra'tac asked Teal'c while laying an arm on Teal'c's shoulder.
"I find them useful for a good read as well as informing me on the true nature of what is known as Hollywood's elite. Many Tau'ri worship these 'stars' yet every night they live very poor lives and cause much drama and not the entertainment that the Tau'ri watch on TV." Teal'c described as they headed towards Sam's lab, "Since discovering the tabloids I read them to remind me that the Tau'ri are not perfect. However Colonel O'Neill is talking about a specific column in many tabloids that irks him most of all and that is the topic of a group that calls themselves the power rangers."
Coming into Sam's lab she stood there with a large chart pinned to an easel. On the chart were different columns representing different towns and the reported ranger teams that came from each town. Under the ranger teams were a separate section for GSA members.
Under the New Tech city column were pictures of the B squad cadets plus Jack.
"T, tell Carter that just because a group of police cadets know a big blue dog to which I believe you were probably drugged with something that doesn't make them part of a fictional group of super heroes!" Jack protested as he threw his arms up.
"Sir you weren't there, you have no idea what we say and I think just because of everything we saw and that they were introduced as B-squad cadet ranger makes them the most plausible choice." Sam shook her head as she pulled out a few more pictures.
"I have to agree with Major Carter as I did witness what she saw." Teal'c nodded his head as he picked up a folder from the desk.
"Your all imposters!" Jack cried, "They replaced you while you were at SPD just to get under my skin!"
"No, sir I don't think the GSA would do that. Not now that we know they have a rule to stay out of other people's business. I think if they were going to spy on us they would simply put one of their own here in the SGC. They seem to have the ability and lack of a paper trail able to do such a thing." Sam shook her head.
Bra'tac looked intrigued, "What is this GSA that you talk about?"
"They are a powerful space alliance that long ago won a huge war against the Goa'uld but now they hide behind a mysterious line in space in which Earth seems to be a focal point. Teal'c has already informed us that he knew nothing about the GSA prior to us tripping over them. The Tok'Ra told us that many Goa'uld have written the memories out of their genetic lineage." Sam said as she pointed to a star map that had the supposed energy barrier.
Bra'tac pointed to a place on the line, "I don't know if this helps you or not but there was this one time while I was still a young Jaffa. Apohis' ship stood off against an unknown enemy the two ships seemed to stare each other down but neither fired a shot eventually Apohis just backed away. Many Jaffa were beaten for questioning why we didn't engage."
"You are all crazy, I tell you!" Jack waved his hands about
Sam pinned a picture of Kim, Trini, Billy, Zach and Jason to the board under Angel Grove.
"Did we not clear Dr. Cranston from the list?" Teal'c asked.
"Knowing the rules that we now know I think that we might have just not asked the right questions. And besides I believe that if he isn't a part he at least knows more than he was telling us." Sam explained, "Anyways this list is just a brainstorm to see if we can figure out who the other rangers are."
Daniel walked in with a folder and held out a few pictures, "I dug up some more group photos of Kim and her friends."
Jack took the photos, "These are just pictures of a group of teenagers."
Daniel took the pictures back, "I think that there might be something more there. Look at this first picture you have a group of six tight knit friends." He showed the first picture, "Now the day Trini Kwan, Jason Scott and Zach Taylor left for the peace summit there is a photo dated the next day with three new teens in Kim's photo wearing the same colors as Trini, Jason and Zach."
Jack shrugged, "So she had more than five friends, it is high school and she was popular."
"These three new teens were not present in any photos prior to Trini leaving and the very next day they appear in photos. If Kim had been friends with these three new people there should be pictures of them." Daniel nodded, "There are many other pictures similar to this in which within a day or two of someone leaving town a new person is added to the group and they look as if they have been friends forever."
Sam flipped through the pictures gleaned from Angel Grove and Kimberly Hart's records. "Do you have any names?"
Daniel handed Sam a list as well as pictures of each individual, "Their names are Aisha, Adam, Rocky, Katherine, Tanya, Justin."
Jack saw the picture of Justin, "You are accusing a thirteen year old boy of being a ranger?"
Daniel shook his head, "Actually he was twelve."
"That is just my point, he was so young." Jack ranted as he looked at the picture
"Well he had an IQ off the scale and was already a Junior in high school." Daniel shrugged, "If he wasn't fighting maybe the GSA was using him because of his IQ. I can also indirectly connect Dr. Cranston to Ashley Hammond via Justin Stewart."
Sam looked at the pictures and noted that while Billy wasn't with the group anymore having reportedly graduated from high school Justin had hung with many of the same friends that Billy had and then suddenly one day he was hanging out with Ashley and her friends. Sam added Ashley and her group of friends to the chart with a nod.
"There is more here that I can directly connect to the power rangers in Angel Grove." Daniel began as he pulled out a picture of Tommy Oliver, "Tommy Oliver graduated from Angel Grove in 1994 He then raced stock cars for his uncle for a while before ending up at MIT which was a bit surprising considering he didn't have the best GPA. After graduating in record time with his Doctorate, this guy was able to pull off incredible amounts of college courses he sort of disappeared into the obscure only to resurface in Reefside as a science teacher." Daniel pulled out a picture, "notice anything familiar about his paleontology club?"
Sam looked at the picture and recognized Kira Ford but then noted that like in all of Kim's pictures each teen wore a separate color that wasn't repeated in anyone else in the club.
Daniel added, "Also note that the club didn't form until after mysterious heroes in spandex appeared and saved the town from rampaging dinosaur robots."
"You do realize that you sound very ridiculous right now right Daniel!" Jack practically yelled, "I mean Dinosaur robots, really!"
Taylor stepped into the lab, "I came to say farewell and Thank you for everything."
Teal'c tilted his head, "Major Earhardt you are just going on your first mission with SG-20."
Taylor shook her head, "No I don't think I will be because I need to do something." Taylor walked up to the bulletin board and pinned her picture under the column for Turtle Cove.
Jack shook his head and ripped the picture down, "Not you as well!"
Taylor reached into her pocket and produced a yellow glass orb, "I cannot tell you if what you have is right or wrong but I can at least give you my name. If you think to the names the Wild force rangers called themselves I think my identity will be made clear."
"Yellow Eagle." Teal'c said flatly
Jack snatched it from her hands and looked at it, "I see these in all the gift shops it is a little plastic figurine fused inside a glass ball." Jack handed it over to Sam. "You do realize this is a court martial worthy offense."
Sam went to take it however just as her fingers touched the edge there was a yellow energy discharge that was very small but Sam jumped away from it.
Taylor whispered, "it is true you have the ability Colonel to be a ranger. Eagle has just proven that. Only people capable of being a ranger can touch the spirits of the Earth. I understand if you want to throw me in jail and court martial me I came here for that reason however know that I am just simply a human being who trusts the Earth."
Jack pushed her away and handed back her knick knack, "Get out of here before I change my mind."
Taylor smiled and nodded as she left the lab.
Sam and Daniel also nodded they felt it was best after all. If they kept her secret she wouldn't need to leave. She was as she said a human being and they couldn't very well punish her for that. A least not when there wasn't anything concrete to hit her with.
Taylor had been gone from the lab for about five minutes when the alarms went off in the base. Instinctively all members of SG1 bolted for the gate room. Not having anything else to do Bra'tac and Ry'ac followed behind.
In the control room General Hammond was already standing watching as the Gate appeared to have a meltdown. The Gate had been dialed in with an incoming wormhole however when they had tried to close the iris the gate started freaking out and the iris slowly opened back up.
The General called for reinforcements to shoot anything that came through the gate. Every other time aside from the Nox or the Tollan that this had happened it had never been good.
Two women walked through the Stargate and proceeded to walk down the ramp however the snipers started shooting but the weapons proved ineffective as the two visitors appeared to be shielded.
Sam leaned forward, "Is that?"
Jack shook his head, "Oh hell it had better not be."
Bra'tac watched as the two walked down the ramp and noted that both of them seemed familiar to SG1.
General Hammond called for a cease fire and SG1 ran into the gate room.
Bra'tac stood with General Hammond and noted the two women's clothes which were loose fitting dark colored pants and a neutral colored peasant shirt. Over the outfit the each wore a loose fitting long coat one wore pink while the other wore yellow.
Sam looked at the one in pink, "I thought the GSA didn't use the stargates anymore?"
The girl in yellow nodded, "This was a special case so we used the tools to get us here."
Jack nodded, "Trini, don't think we know that you are somehow a runaway and that you somehow got through the stargate. Maybe the NID took you."
The girl in yellow looked at the girl in pink, "who are the NID?"
The girl in pink looked up from what she was looking at in her hands, "Colonel I know that you are very wary of our mission however I think you need to open your eyes just a little bit and stop seeing the world through your dark lenses they are making you blind."
Trini nodded, "Kim is correct, You are going to need to accept that this world isn't the world that you thought it was."
Kim held a small band to her mouth, "Are you ready or what? We don't have all day."
SG1 stood at alert not knowing what was going to happen as the Gate suddenly timed out and shut off. To their surprise Dr. Cranston came running into the gate room.
Billy looked at Sam, "I am sorry to say that I haven't finished my analysis of the last set of data from P3X-29N1."
Jack pointed at Billy, "You told us you weren't involved with this group of crazies."
Billy shook his head, "You didn't ask the right questions and technically you asked if I had noticed anything different about Kim, I said no because I was the same as she was. You also asked me if I worked for the GSA when I was 15 technically we didn't know about the GSA back then because our only concern was to protect Earth at all costs."
Sam pointed out, "Jonas asked if you were a ranger."
Billy laughed, "And I said that rangers were supposed to be good fighters, Lucky for myself I am an excellent fighter."
"Did you not say that you had two left feet?" Teal'c asked of Billy
Billy and Kim laughed before Kim replied, "He does have two left feet but that is what makes him a good fighter in his case. His opponent never knows which direction he is going to go in or favor."
Billy looked at Trini, "You have come for me earlier than I planned."
Kim laid her hand on Billy's shoulder, "There was a slight change of plans which forced us to call on you a bit early."
Trini pulled out a small box from her pocket and pressed her finger into it causing the gate to activate without dialing out.
Hammond leaned over Harriman, "What just happened?"
Sargent Harriman looked over the equipment, "I don't know but we are showing an outgoing wormhole. The computer is displaying all the coordinates for an established connection to a previously unknown world. The coordinates are not in any of or dialing systems."
Billy started walking up the ramp with Kim and Trini when Trini turned to face SG1 and General Hammond, "Don't attempt to follow. The gate will be deactivated once we are on the other side so that you will be unable to follow." She disappeared through the gate with Billy and Kim following close behind.
Jack returned to the control room spinning his finger around his ear, "Everyone is crazy and they are feeding off of this whole power ranger thing."
General Hammond shook his head, "I am starting to believe this might be much bigger than we anticipated it to be. I want you to search Dr. Cranston's house and bring back anything that might give us proof."
AN: I want to note that I actually hate tabloids and I agree more with O'Neill about them. Just to make my point clear. I am only using them in this story because I felt that in a world where rangers are a huge secret there would be something on them in there while the rest of the media shuns them.