Ch.1 A Christmas of Green and Red

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11:59 PM PST, December 24th, 2032 a hazy green light would rain over a majority of the galaxy the rays could be seen from the northernmost point on Earth to the southernmost point of Mirinoi. From the deepest oceans of Aquitar to the tallest palace of Triforia. To many across the galaxy, this would be seen as one of the most beautiful sights they had ever laid their eyes on. Parents woke their children up in the dead of night just so that they could get a glimpse of something never before seen. Even wrongdoers mid crime couldn't help but stare in awe.

However, that moment of bliss would be short-lived as in just a few short hours the galaxy would be plunged into one of the longest, bloodiest wars to ever scar the face of the galaxy. Eight short hours after the hazy rays had enveloped the skies of multiple planets, those very same planets would find an armada on the fringe of their borders the likes of which they had never seen before. Despite this looming threat, there was no immediate outcry. The people of the galaxy knew that their protectors would step up just as they always had, the Power Rangers would save the day.

Seconds would turn into minutes, would turn into hours, would turn into days but the Power Rangers never came.

From the northernmost point on Earth to the southernmost point of Mirinoi. From the deepest oceans of Aquitar to the tallest palace of Triforia. Morphers everywhere lay dormant, it didn't take long for the Rangers to realize that the Green hazy light that had shone on the eve of Christmas had completely cut them off from the Morphing Grid. And, all records of the technology they had developed to tap into it had vanished. In one fell swoop, the power rangers that span the galaxy were left powerless. Government of the worlds clambered to handled the threats on their own even going as far as to create an Alliance between worlds to fend off this unparalleled threat but, losing battle after battle all hope seemed lost, the Empire was too powerful.

It wasn't until Tommy Oliver rallied all the rangers he could for last gigantic push, powers or not. Many agreed to join him on the frontlines, some took up valuable positions in the rear, and some resolved to protect their families, but all knew it was suicide, During the ensuing battle many rangers would suffer grave injuries many more would perish. None would surrender.

After a year of battles, a decisive victory would be won on the outskirts of the Empire's borders. The Red Galaxy Ranger Leo would give his life to expose a weakness that the Alliance could exploit. However, it was obvious that if the fighting continued who the victor was going to be. As a self-proclaimed show of mercy, the Empire would offer an uneasy treaty to the Alliance. Tired of the seemingly endless fighting the Alliance begrudgingly accepted. That's where our story begins.

7 years later

A young man looks out the window of the spacecraft. Below him a blue Marble flowing in the endless blackness of space. "That's Earth!" the young man hears from an approaching voice. As his eyes slowly move to see the origin of this voice he leans back into his chair. Unsurprisingly, it was Damon Henderson (Green Galaxy Ranger). The young man nods then moves his gaze back out of the window. Damon is confused, "I thought you'd be a little more excited to be here, after all, you fought so hard to... A lot of people your age will never get the chance."Damon seats down in the seat next to him. Over fifty candidates from all over Mirinoi and you were the ones who came out on top." The boy shrugs the expression in his eyes telling Damon that being excited was the last thing on his mind. Damon eases a little closer and whispers, "It's okay to relax a little." The young man's eyes grow wide as if Damon had read his mind.

Damon returned to his seat as the landing sequence began.

Before they knew it they were at the former base of the lightspeed rescue rangers. It was a bit under kept from its heyday but it worked for what it was needed for. As the exit ramp of the ship opened up. A nice looking lady stood to wait eagerly to meet the ship's occupants. "Ms. Fairweather," Damon said with a smile.

She stops him with an intimidating smile, "Damon... you know it's Dr. Rawlings." She looks to the young man at his side, a spark ignites in her eyes if only for a moment. "And you" she smiles, "you must be our new black ranger."

She takes note of his dark skin and faded hair. He had deep brown eyes that looked a bit tired that seemed as if they had seen so much of the galaxy's darkness it saddens her. No one this young should see life in such away.

"...Yeh," he answers hesitantly.

"I'm Dr. Rawlings." She extends her hand, "Do you have a name?"

"Roy, Roy Freeman"

"Well, you'll be glad to know that the majority of your data has already been imprinted into you Morpher because we had the Mirinoi government send us everything we needed to make this procedure as quick and easy as possible. We only need one more component." She looks at Damon Henderson, "I assume you have it?"

"Naturally," Damon assures her motioning toward the briefcase in his hand.

"Fantastic." She exclaims, "Right this way."

The two follow her down a hallway of cold steel on the face of everyone in the corridor a feeling of dread and in there hands weapons at the ready. If there was ever a time to feel like you weren't being told something this was it. Damon stops her.

"Dr. Rawlings, what's going on?"

She turns bad to him and lets out a deep sigh as she picks up the pace. "This way."

She explains, "No less than 24 hours ago our satellites picked an anomaly hovering in orbit."

"Well, maybe it's a Mirinoi or an Aquitar vessel, I mean it can't be... The Treaty"

"As part of the Alliance Mirinoi and Aquitar vessels are allowed to freely enter Earth's atmosphere as they please, makes trading easier that way. On top of that other planets in the alliance are reporting the same thing... we need rangers more than ever."

As they make it to the lab Dr. Rawlings motions for Damon to hand her the briefcase, he does her one better and opens it himself to offer her the contents inside it. It was the Green Quasar Saber. She can see the curiosity in Roy's eyes as she explains.

"On that day, when we were cut off from the morphing grid not only was the links severed but also all data we had on how to access it was lost as well. To this day we have no idea how the Empire managed this feat. And to figure out how to reconnect to the grid from scratch would take decades. And, we don't have decades... So, we developed a little short cut. A way to access a dormant link that once existed to power our new pseudo morphers. I have no how stable the link is going to be or if these new rangers will be anywhere near as powerful as the rangers of the past, but it should work in theory."

Roy sees her connect the Quasar Saber up to a mysterious machine before being motioned into a nearby waiting room. There he sees a guy around his own age as well an older officer resting patiently. Roy takes a seat as far away from two as possible. Not too long after Damon enters walks up to the older officer and shakes his hand, he then motions Roy to come and do the same. Roy begrudgingly moves to do so.

"Roy this is Eric the Red Quantum Ranger, Like me, he is here to hopefully provide his link to the morphing grid"

Eric quickly waves the praise away, "Ah, that old Quantum Morpher doesn't even work anymore, it was either that this or the dumpster."

"Which means this means this must be the new blue ranger." Damon smiles eyeing the young man in Eric's company.

"This is my son Neo." Eric explained, next to him was a young man around Roy's age he had short black hair with sincere brown eyes." he's dad didn't make it during the war and I've been taking care of him ever since."Eric and Damon continued to talk about the good ole' days and even some days that were not so good.

"You must be a new ranger too." Neo said, expending his hand to Roy, "Let's save as many people as we can together."

Before he realized what he had done Roy knocked his hand away. "Why should I care? There was nobody there to protect us!" Roy catches himself and calmly begins to elaborate, "There is only one thing in this galaxy that I need to save." he eyes fall to the ground.

Suddenly the alarm goes off as the distance sound of an explosion can be heard. The Rangers realizing what was going on quickly make their way to Dr. Rawlings and the prototype Morphers. As they approach through the dust and dirt the see robot in lab standing over Dr. Rawlings. His Skin was silver steel his head was pointed in three directions with a smile seemingly craved into it and he wore orange armor with black spandex underneath.

He laughed "Ha Ha Ha! Attempting to access the morphing grid in any way is a violation of the treaty. Looks like punishment is in order." he picks Dr. Rawlings off the ground.

She hisses, "What choice did you give us despite having the signed the treaty you never stopped attacking us. You violated the treaty, not us."

"Those are some bold accusations you have there. but unless you can provide any proof you're better off shutting your mouth," he says as he throws her into a nearby wall.

"yah!" Was all the robot heard before both Neo and Roy sent a flying kick into his chest sending him flying back.

"This way Doc," Neo instructed her to leave as Roy kept his eye on the enemy. Coughing she motioned them towards the morphers in the distance. Quickly Neo dawned his own and tossed the other to Roy. The Morphers were Black and worn on the wrist, however, they were in two parts connected by a thin black wire that made it look like they were wearing two watches are once.

"You Ready?" Neo yelled.

"Do you even need to ask?"

"Heroic Force! Blue Ranger Power!"

"Heroic Force! Black Ranger Power!"

As a flash enveloped their bodies the robot covered his eyes.

As Dr. Rawlings was being escorted away by Eric and Damon she kept trying to speak every other breath only able to get a single would out every time "We... Failed... We... Failed..."

After they were some distance away Eric Finally asked her to elaborate, "What do you mean we failed?"

Letting out one last cough to get her lungs ready she began to explain, "I wasn't able to transfer the link to the morphing grid into the pseudo morphers." Try as a might there no longer a link in the Quaser Saber or the Quantum Morpher their just hunks of metal now."

"That means their in there fighting with nothing right now?"

She shakes her head, "The Psuedo Morpher will still allow them to suit up but they won't be near as strong as Power Rangers with connection to the grid. If we're lucky they'll hold out long enough for help to arrive."

"And if we're not?" Damon interrupted. She simply looked longingly into a nearby fire. That silence was all Damon and Eric need to see before they spring into action.

"What do you think you're doing? without your powers, you won't last a second against him."

"That may be." Eric explained, "But as long as we have an opportunity to help that's what we're gonna do."

"But..." Dr. Rawlings started.

"It's what Joel would do," Damon exclaimed pushing her voice back into her throat.

As the light faded from the transformation Neo and Roy could feel a rush of power surge through them they were in skintight mostly black uniforms with slightly hardened armor on the boots, shoulders, and thighs. A skin-tight chest plate covered their upper body from the shoulders to the just above the belly bottom. Their gauntlets were armored around the forearm with the black of the undersuit showing on the palm of the hand to the forearm as well as the gap between the fingers. Their helmets had a black visor and a metallic plate in front of the mouth, Silver designs separated the individual section of the helmet. With eyes just above the visor.

There was the only problem with their transformation, they were both gray. Their suits had no color aside from the super fiscal designs on their helmets you could hardly tell them apart.

As the robot got back on his feet he rushed the two new rangers, who brace themselves for the impact. But even together they were no match. The both flew to the nearby wall. "Somehow this isn't as easy as I'd imagined," Neo exclaimed.

"What'd you imagine?" Roy asked sarcastically.

"I don't know... Donkey kong."

The Robot pulled out a dagger, "It's time that I ended you two." in a quick motion he sliced at the rangers sending them to the floor once again once the blade made contact with their suits.

"Ha Ha Ha! I thought rangers were supposed to be tough!" the robot laughed, "I'll be sure to get promoted after my victory." he laughter stops once he sees the two rangers making their way to their feet. "Tenacity is sooo... illogical. The galaxy will be better off without illogical being like you tainting her."

"I'll get up as many times as it takes" Roy explained. "Until she's safe."

"I'm gonna save hundreds of people." Neo said, "hundred of thousands. As many as I have to until I repay that debt."

The determination in each of their voices inspired the other if only to take one more step it was enough for the two to start to respect one another.

"Roy!"

"Neo!"

The two heard voice approach from the distance."Dad!"

"Damon! What are you doing here? You stand no chance against this guy you'll only get in the way."

"As much as I'd hate to admit it, dad, he has a point. You need to get to safety!"

"You trying to tell your old man what to do?" Eric interrupted, "If I wanna help my son, then darn it I'm gonna help him. Have I ever let you down before. Neo shakes his head, "and I'm not starting now."

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"Roy," Damon started, "I know I haven't been there for you as much as I should have when you're father died... and I know the only reason you became a ranger was to protect your sister. And I wanted to help your dream come true. Even now I refuse to let anything happen to you until your dream becomes a reality."As the two old ranger approach and put their hands on the shoulder pads of the new rangers a dramatic reaction occurs inside their Morpher forcing them to dimorph. The two rangers look at each other then back at the enemy before them.

"Let's do it right this time!" Neo yells.

"I guess that's better than asking a dumb question..." Roy smirks.

"Heroic Force! Red Quantum Ranger!"

"Heroic Force! Green Galactic Ranger!"

It was similar in appearance to what had happened before only this time their colors were very much present. Their boots, gauntlets, chest plates, and helmets all showed their colors prominently. The gloves and boots of the green ranger had black zig-zag lines in them similar to the lines on the lost galaxy ranger suits. While the red rangers had jagged triangles on his gauntlets and boots like the design on the quantum ranger helmet.

"Green? Red Ranger?"Finally catching up Dr. Rawlings elaborates, "I see, so the dormant connection to the morphing grid isn't in the morphers, they're in the rangers!"