Previously: Zack struggles with school, football, work, and being a ranger which causes him to neglect all of them. However things turn left when he doesn't show up to a battle and Nadia and Chase get their asses handed to them. Star has a vision of Leo (Nadia's Not-So-Secret admirer) dying and has to figure out a way to save him. And after a fight with Star, Becky forced Nadia to choose a side.
Zack sighed as he sat down. He was currently at the base, and the only people here were himself and Lenora. He was still upset that Nadia refused to speak to him. Star couldn't even look at him, on second thought, she never looked at him in the first place.
"Is there a problem Zack?" Lenora asked.
Zack sighed. "I messed up. I didn't show up to a battle when my team needed me."
"Yeah they really needed you there, they were brutally destroyed." Lenora sighed.
Zack frowned. "Aren't you supposed to say, 'it's not your fault Zack and I know you can be a hero'?"
"Why lie to you? It is your fault. You neglected your responsibilities, and as a result your teammates were beaten to a pulp. What time is it, I need a drink?" Lenora sighed.
"You are definitely not what I pictured for a ranger mentor." Zack said raising an eyebrow.
"Oh that reminds me, guests are going to be coming here." Lenora said.
"Guests?" He said raising an eyebrow.
Suddenly a portal appeared and three boys stepped out. The first was Chinese with long black hair tied into a ponytail, and had brown eyes. He wore crimson robes and black sandals.
The other boy had black hair, sky blue eyes, and pale skin. He had the body of a football player and wore a white hoodie and some jeans.
The last boy had blond hair, brown eyes, and wore a red collared shirt and kkakis.
"Zack meet the Aang the Crimson Ranger of the Zodiac Rangers, Zach the white ranger for the Greek Heroes, and lastly Alex the red Ranger for the Defenders." Lenora said.
Zack raised an eyebrow. "Why are they here?"
"Well I figured since you suck at being a leader these boys can help you, have fun boys, and don't drink my good liquor." Lenora then left the room.
Zack turned to the boys. "So…how are you guys."
"Good." Alex said. "Well except for the fact my team was nearly beaten to death by this group called the Seven Sins."
Zack raised an eyebrow. "Oh…sorry."
"I'm pretty good. Except for the fact my brother tried to kill himself, my girlfriend found out that I cheated on her, and I'm finally talking to my father again." Zach sighed.
"Well I'm actually good." Aang said. "Well I can barely control my team, and we basically have days to gather up new rangers so everyone on Earth doesn't die."
"And you guys are supposed to be helping ME?" Zack asked.
"Well most of the time I'm a good leader." Zach said.
"I think I'm a pretty good leader. Everyone on my time listens to me. Well at least for ranger related stuff, anything other than that, they laugh at me." Alex said.
Suddenly Zack was wondering if his life was really that bad. "My problem is that I have a lot going on. I have to work, do school, do football, spend time with my family, and save the world. I mean can't you guys cover a bigger region that just your town? It would really make my life easier." Zack sighed.
Zach laughed. "I'm barely protecting my town, we are one monster attack away from all of us dying."
"Yeah just protecting Diablo is a task." Alex revealed.
"We suck as motivational speakers." Aang observed.
Alex stepped forward. "Anyway, I know it's difficult and you probably want to do it all, but honestly…you can't. Being a ranger is going to become your life, there are always going to be times where you have to put other stuff on the back burner."
Zack sighed. "You don't understand, I have to do it all, it helps me pay pills and gives me a chance to go to college, which can give a better life for my…little sister."
"What about your parents?" Zach asked.
"They died in car accident, and luckily I'm eighteen so she can stay with me and not grow up in some foster home." Zack sighed.
"Yeah good idea, been there done that, that system is exhausting." Alex sighed.
"Have you tried talking to your teammates, maybe they can help?" Aang suggested.
"They won't even speak to me." Zack sighed.
Zach pointed to someone behind him. "There's one right there." He said.
Zack turned around and saw Nadia. The pink ranger quickly turned and ran off. Zack groaned and chased after her.
"Nadia wait." He said.
Nadia stopped and turned around to face Zack. "What do you want?"
"I want you to talk to me, to stop treating me like I'm invisible." Zack pleaded.
"I wish you were invisible." Nadia snapped.
Zack stopped her and sighed. He began to explain his entire situation to her and her face softened.
"Why didn't you tell me?" She asked.
"I don't know." He sighed.
Nadia hugged him. "I'm sorry about your parents."
"It's fine, it's not your fault." He sighed.
Just then Star walked in and smirked. "Why does it feel like I just walked in on my parents having sex?"
Nadia and Zack blushed and turned away. She chuckled and moved past them. She stopped as she felt another headache coming on. She collapsed to ground and screamed in pain. Zack and Nadia ran over to her, and checked to see what was wrong.
Star was in the middle of town. She saw the power rangers, only they were different. Their body types were different.
The red ranger was a girl and the green ranger was a guy. She also noticed that team had a gold and black ranger. Also the pink ranger didn't have Nadia's thin frame. This was an entirely different ranger team. She looked around and noticed that the people running around were wearing clothes that weren't of this time period.
"Star what did you see?" Lenora asked.
She was trying to shake the girl awake and Star was groaning. She looked around, what had she seen? Was it possible that she could see the past, and not just the future?
"All I saw was Tigro fighting the rangers again." She lied.
Star looked at Lenora and sighed. "It's weird how you've had these morphers all this time, and you haven't found people worthy until now." She said.
Lenora shrugged. "I guess, but there hasn't been a ranger team before this one."
Star knew what she saw. That vision was definitely in the past. Which means that Lenora was lying to her. Which means she had something to hide. Star was going to figure out what happened to those rangers. Her thoughts were interrupted by a loud alarm going off.
"The Rangers should get ready it looks like Tigro is back." Lenora said.
Star nodded and waited for her to leave. Suddenly she looked at Lenora differently. She didn't like the person she was seeing.
"So kiddo how is school going?" Hermione's uncle asked.
The girl shrugged. She didn't have any friends and Becky went out of her way to bully her, so right now school wasn't going great. Plus most kids had their own cars to drive to school, and weren't getting dropped off by their legal guardians.
Becky always made sure to laugh at her as she hopped out her uncle's van. They soon showed up and pulled into the parking lot. She hopped out of the car and gasped at what she saw. A large tiger monster was in the parking lot.
"What in the world?" She asked.
"Where are the power rangers?" He hissed.
"Up your ass!" Nadia screamed as she appeared behind him in her ranger armor.
She fired off a wave of lava that doused the monster. It hissed and turned back to her.
"Do you plan to loose again pink ranger?" He asked.
"No, she doesn't!" Chase yelled as he flung a car at Tigro.
Tigro sliced it in half with ease and turned to Chase. "Is that the best you got?"
"Nope, this is." Chase smirked.
He used his powers to yank the axe out of his hands and hurled it to the sun. He then ripped a stop sign from the earth and threw it at Tigro. The monster growled and caught the stop sign with ease and hurled back at him. Chase grunted as he used all of his might to deflect the stop sign.
Lenora watched the entire fight and her eyes darted between the rangers and Leo and Hermione. She smiled.
"Yellow Jupiter and Green Earth, looks like I found my new rangers." Lenora smiled.
"Wait, stop something is going to happen to that kid." Star whispered.
Lenora jumped and looked behind her. "When did you get here?"
"Twenty minutes ago. Anyway, I have a vision of that kid dying. So you got any ideas how to stop it?" Star asked.
Lenora paused, she was obviously puzzles by this. She then smiled.
"We give him the means to defend himself." Lenora smiled as she held up the yellow morpher.
"It's pretty convenient he just happens to be the chosen one." Star observed.
"Don't question the universe." Lenora snapped.
"The universe is full of bullshit, I should be questioning it more often." Star said.
"This is why you aren't a ranger!" Lenora said.
"No, that's because the universe knows I'll knock it out if it even thinks of putting me in spandex." Star shot back.
"We are wasting time!" Lenora yelled as she ran over to Leo and Hermione.
Star rolled her eyes. "Humanity is screwed."
Lenora ran up to Hermione and Leo. "Do you want to help the rangers?"
"Um…I guess." Hermione said nervously.
Leo raised an eyebrow. "Who are you?"
"I am Lenora, and you must chose quick, do you chose to help save the day and become a Power Ranger, or live the rest of your pathetic human lives in peace?"
"You mean I get to become a superhero? Sweet!" Leo grabbed the morpher and held it up in the sky.
"Okay magic cell phone turn me into a superhero." Leo waited but nothing happened.
He frowned. "This is what I get for listening to crazy old ladies."
"Listen ma'am you seem very nice, but I'm not the superhero type." Hermione sighed.
Lenora pointed to the battle, which Nadia and Chase were currently loosing.
"If the rangers don't have all the help they can possibly get, millions of people on Earth will die, the others will be enslaved." Lenora said. "You friends, your family, all of them will be gone, unless you step up."
Hermione sighed and grabbed the green morpher.
"So, what happens now?" Hermione asked.
"All you have to do is say Unleash the Stars, Hermione press the number four and Leo you will press five." Lenora instructed.
Hermione held up her morpher and pressed the number four.
"Unleash the stars!"
Leo pressed the number four and yelled. "Unleash the Stars!"
Morphing Sequence Activated
Hermione was in the mountains and was surrounded by a cloud of green smoke. The smoke faded away revealing green spandex, white gloves and a skirt, and on her visor was a leaf.
"Green Ranger of Earth!" Hermione yelled.
Leo was on Jupiter and surrounded by thousands of lightning bolts. A cloud of yellow smoke wrapped around him, and when the smoke faded away it revealed a yellow suit with the symbol of Jupiter on his visor.
"Yellow Ranger of Jupiter!"
Morphing Sequence Over
Hermione and Leo ran over to help Nadia and Chase. Nadia and Chase looked over in surprise.
"We have new teammates." Chase said.
"Really, I didn't notice." Nadia said.
"Don't worry pretty lady in pink I got this." Leo smiled.
Nadia froze when she realized she recognized that voice. "Leo, YOU'RE THE yellow power ranger?"
Leo stopped and turned to Nadia. "Nadia?" He said surprised.
"Can we focus on the secret identity thing, after we destroy Tigro." Chase groaned.
"Flower Storm!" Hermione yelled.
A swarm of razor sharp flower petals were flung at Tigro. The monster grunted as the flowers sliced his skin. He growled and tossed Hermione aside.
"Is that the best you got?" He hissed.
"Not at all, Thunderclap!" Leo yelled.
He released a lightning bolt shaped like a fist and it smashed into Tigro.
Tigro growled and hopped up and hurled his axe at Leo.
"Coach can I talk to you about something?" Zack asked.
The coach nodded and stood up. "What's the matter son?"
Zack sighed. "This is going to be hard for me to say, believe me, but I can't be on the football team." Zack sighed.
The coach froze, however he quickly chuckled. "Very funny Zack."
"I'm not joking, I have too much on my plate with work, school, and other arrangements, I can't be on the team." Zack said.
"I'm sure we can make this work." The coach pleaded.
"Believe me coach, I thought of every possible solution, sometimes you can't have it all." Zack sighed.
Zack walked away and held his head down. He was going to miss being on the team. His morpher buzzed and he looked down and nodded. He knew what he had to do.
Leo yelped as he jumped out of the way of Tigro's claws.
"Calm down kitty kitty, no need to get jumpy." Leo gulped.
Tigro hissed and tackled Leo. Leo screamed as he was roughly pinned down.
"Lightning Bomb!" Leo screamed.
Leo released a wave of electricity from his body that threw Tigro back. Tigro groaned as he smashed into a car.
"I got him!" Hermione yelled.
"Vines of Kindness!" She yelled.
Vines shot out of her gloves and wrapped around Tigro. The green ranger strained to keep the monster captive.
"He's getting harder to hold." Hermonie yelled.
"Don't worry, I'll handle this." Zack said from behind them.
Everyone turned to see the red ranger standing behind them.
"About damn time." Nadia groaned.
Zack put his hands together and yelled. "Mars Avalance!"
He yelled as thousands of boulders smashed into Tigro. Tigro screamed in pain as he was crushed by the wave of rocks. All the rangers sighed in relief and turned to Zack.
"Thanks Red." Leo said.
He looked at the green and yellow rangers. "When did we get new teammates?"
"You missed a lot." Chase smirked.
Soon reporters were rushing over to see the new rangers.
"Everyone play it cool." Zack smiled.
The five rangers turned to see the reporter running over.
"My name is Alison Lane, and I'm live at Star Falls, it's time to meet the new team of Power Rangers."
"I'm the leader, nice to meet you ma'am." Zack said.
Nadia stepped in front. "I am the pink ranger aka the most important one, plus I'm really stylish."
"And I'm the yellow ranger, I already have a series of action figures and a movie deal with Marvel, not with DC, because let's get real do they even have a cinematic universe at this point?" Leo chuckled.
Nadia elbowed him. "Stop hogging the camera. My friend is kidder, he does not have any of those things."
"By friend, she means boyfriend." Leo smiled.
"I really don't." Nadia said.
Hermione decided to step forward and take the attention off of them. "Um…hi, I'm the green ranger."
Chase stepped forward. "I'm second in command, the silver ranger."
"We are the Galactic Squad."
Zack was relieved when he made it to his apartment complex. It was a long day and he needed to unwind. He climbed up the stairs and made his way to his apartment. He knocked at the door and an Mrs. Grier opened it. She was a sweet old lady who lived a floor below his and didn't mind watching Sarah.
"Hi, ma'am." Zack said.
"Hello Zack, I tried to get her to fall asleep, but I guess she just really missed you." She sighed.
Zack shook his head. "Don't worry it's fine."
Mrs. Grier left and Zack heard crying. He ran to Sarah's room and instantly picked her up and held her to her chest.
"Ssh, it's okay Sarah." Zack said as he kissed her forehead. "Daddy's here."
Emily angrily marched over to Lenora's house and began to bang on the door. Lenora opened it and looked at Emily.
"Hello Emily, what do I owe the pleasure?" Lenora smirked.
"Tell me you're not doing it again, mom." Emily yelled.
Lenora rolled her eyes. She already knew what Emily was talking about. "Cosmos is rising and we need new rangers to defeat him."
"After what happened to last team, you're willing to risk innocent teenagers lives again?" Emily hissed.
Lenora rolled her eyes. "It's for the good of the galaxy, you may not understand, but you can't stop Emily."
Emily growled and stomped off. "We're not done with this discussion."
Next: Nadia wrestles with caring about what people think about her, both Zack and Leo plan to ask Nadia out, Becky wonders why Chase doesn't spend time with her anymore.
