Power Rangers: A Legend Retold

The Chosen Part 3

Jason slid back the door into the lounge area in the living quarters section of the Commander Centre. As he did he spoke up to the group.

"Alright, who's next?" He called to them.

"I'll go" replied Trini and walked past him with a nod.

Jason sat on one of sofas next to Billy and lent back.

"Your folks buy it?" Billy asked.

"Yeah," Jason replied "I told them I was staying at Andrew's and called Andrew to tell him to back me up if they called. You?"

"Oh, I don't know if they brought it but I said I was...at a...you know. A convention. Told them school was out" Billy said still timid toward them all.

"Ah" he nodded "well I hope there is a school to go back to."

Zack walked back in "Man, that things hard enough just to configure to a standard outward dialling phone."
"Its quite simple once you know what you doing" Billy spoke up but quickly shut up as he got looks.

"Well...whose gone now?" Zack asked Jason.

"Trini."

"Hell no!" They heard Kim exclaim behind them.

"What?" Asked Jason turning around to face her.

Kimberly was at a computer that had been configured for human interface. It wasn't Dell but it was usable. She currently had the information of the coins and the device Zordon was creating in front of her.

"Have you read this?" She asked them "it says its called a 'morpher'cause it will somehow 'morph"'us with our animal. Ew, I don't know about you guys but I am not turning into a part lizard."

"It means you will just draw the creatures power with the suit it will create" responded Billy and pushed up his glasses "I did some reading myself on what Zordon predicted would happen."

"Just a suit?"she asked.

"Just a suit" Billy repeated.

"No scales?"

Billy laughed somewhat "no scales."

"Fine, but if I grow scales and wings I will use them to beat on your ass Billy" Kim said and turned back to the screen.

Trini walked back through the door with a sigh "That was fun."

"Trini?" Asked Jason.

"Chinese parents. Not very understanding on the whole sudden disappearance thing" she replied, sitting.

"You know Im glad I got my story covered with my cave visit. Just hope they don't call my cell" Kimberly said and held up her phone "no signal."

"Tell you what guys" said Zack "you would think in hundreds of years they would have at least had more than enough time to not have to work on these 'morphers' last minuet."

"They have been trying Zack" replied Billy "but without a coin sample they had no way of knowing if they were close or way off the mark."

"I just hope they hurry" adds Jason "I got a feeling somethings about to go down."

***

Bandora walked threw the venting gas in the run down corridor on her less than stellar ship to the bay where the drop ship was located.

As she walked into the bay she could only smile seeing her stone army lined up in single file, so unified, so non sentient. Weapons for her command. Before them stood the golden armoured warriors of the rest of empires troops on board and at the head of those Goldar and Scorpina.

"Are you men ready Goldar?"

"They are Bandora. We will start with a place the species on this planet call Washington D.C. It seems to be the head of there strongest militant nation. We will then move on to Tokyo, Moscow and Hong Kong before holding the smaller nations to their knees as we always did in old days" Goldar reported.

"Well remember Goldar, this isn't the old days. I wouldn't put it past Zordon to try something so keep an eye out for strong resistance" She replied.

"We will conquer and destroy Commander!" Snaps Scorpina.

"Be sure that you do" Bandora responds coldly.

Goldar turned to the troops. The Golem soldiers were grey in colour with black markings, looking at them you would almost think they were alive. All they were however were cannon fodder, a last resort for the Empire. This was such a emergency for Bandora, not to mention a chance for this crew to get back in favour with their Emperor.

"This should be a walkover but don't hesitate to destroy any hostile targets. Move out!" Goldar barked at them.

They all headed filed into the drop ship, once inside the back door closed and the engines roared to life.

As Bandora walked back onto her Bridge a crewman reported.

"We have got a message back from Lord Zedd Mistress. He is on his way and he says he will be most displeased if we do not have the planet on its knees by time he gets here" the Commander reported.

"Then its a good job it will be" remarks Bandora sitting back.

***

Within minutes the nicknamed "Putties", Golem soldiers, were filing out and attacking the Pentagon in full force. With another few minutes the defence grid was smashed and they had entry.

Goldar and Scorpina stepped from the drop ship and looked out into the late morning sky.

"Fresh air at last" he smiled.

"Its too blue" scoffed Scorpina.

He looked at her before being distracted by heavy weapons fire at their ship. Tanks. Four to be exact closing on their position as above fighters gave air support.

"I will let you handle the aircraft my dear. I will take the armoured vehicles" Goldar says to her.

"This going to be fun" she replied with a smile.

With that he retracted his wings and took flight as she pushed off and did the same. Goldar withdrew his sword made of metals and energy that would most certainly destroy the human craft. As a tank aimed he came down on it slicing it in two and totalling it before turning his attention to the second.

Meanwhile Scorpina was now using her gravity boots to hover high above ground and a personal forcefield to deflect their bullets.

"Hahaha" she laughed as the bullets bounced off of her "my turn."

She withdrew her long scorpion like whip, swung and wrapped it around a plane, tugging at it and brining it smashing to the ground in dazzling explosion.

"This is fun. Whose next?" she smiled devilishly.

Soldiers filed out of the base but we killed instantly by the aliens and their drones.

Thirty minutes had passed and the site looked like a graveyard with smoke, screaming and blazes as far as the eye could see. With the Pentagon secure and the second wave arriving most of the alien forces turned their attention to the main city. In words of Zedd himself "Innocents must die for a planet to feel pain." And that they did as Golem's and Repulsa fighters overran the main city slaughtering anything that moved.

***

Back at the Commander Centre the teenaged heros looked on as the screens of the main chamber were showing various world new reports.

"It is conclusive" said one female reporter in the heart of Washington, explosions and death covering her backdrop "we are not alone and may God help us all."

Her words of peril turned to a scream as an explosion took up the screen and then static.

"We...will uh give you more as get it..." said the Anchorman as he tried to cover for the news station.

"Why are the killing innocent people?" cried Trini as tears streamed down her face watching.

"Zedd's forces have no mercy Trini my dear" spoke Zordon in a solemn tone.

Jason slammed his fist on the console "Shit!" Before walking up to Zordon "we have to do something."

"You will Jason. Alpha, give them their morphers" Zordon ordered.

"But Zordon! We haven't tested them" Alpha pleaded.

"This would seem as good a time as any. We can not afford to wait" Zordon replied.

"Aye Zordon" said Alpha and walked out of the room and before long came back holding hexagon shaped devices.

"Here" Alpha said giving them each one and pointing to the centre of Billy's "place your coins here and it should power them."

They nodded and clipped the coins into the slots. As they did the devices began to glow their respective colours.

"Each of you have been given a colour that best represents your beast and yourselves" spoke Zordon "Trini you are yellow, the colour of hope. Zack, you are black the colour of power. Billy you are blue the colour of peace. Kimberly you are Pink the colour of love and compassion. Finally Jason, you are red the colour of Courage. Now I believe the correct term you people use is 'good luck'."

They nod to him before starring down at their morphers. Jason was the one to speak.

"Um...how do they work?" He asked feeling stupid for asking.

"Raise them high and call them name of your creature. If we have designed them properly the coins should do the rest" Zordon answered.

"Alright..."Jason replied, taking a deep breath and raising the morpher to chest level with his hands and encouraging the others to do the same.

Jason closed his eyes tight and almost seemed to be moving away from the device,scared of it as he finally was about to speak but was beaten to it by the others. Zack was the first.

"Masterdon!" He called.

Kimberly was next, if scared to death "Pteryadactyl!"

"Triceratops" called out Billy sheepishly.

"Sabretooth Tiger!" Jason heard Trini say.

Jason was the last and tried to ignore the sounds and warm glows of light behind him "Tyrannosaurus!"

He was about to add "Rex" to the end before he was beaten to it by the morpher activating on his last syllable. He opened his eyes and watched as the Command Centre faded away to a red glowing light. He couldn't move but could hear his breath loudly, the beating drum of his heart. He looked over at his arm and watched it be slowly transformed and engulfed by red armour and white armour. He felt the armour rushing up his body, it quickly past his chest, his neck and then all went dark as it covered his head. There was what seemed like seconds of blackness, his breathing all that let him know he was still alive, until finally his vision returned. But his vision was letter boxed,red and orange tainted and filled with what looked like a crosshair surrounded by boxes tracking the environment.

He just stood there for a moment not wanting to move before he heard Billy's voice.

"Jason! You ok?" He heard as clear as day but get fizzled at the start and end as if by radio.

He turned, finding himself able to move more flexibly than if his was wearing his jeans and t-shirt. Through the visor he saw the others and gasped, watching them also looked themselves and each other over. They were dressed head to toe in armour, each of their colour as best he could tell through his thing. On their heads were helmets designed as if to represent their creature and on the centre of their chest was a golden,larger version of their power coins. He looked down at himself and noticed he was the same, rubbing his hands over the T-Rex symbol on his chest.

"I'm fine" he finally answered.

"You can turn that off Jason" said Alpha turning to him, he swore the little droid was happy in his tone. Almost Proud.

"Huh?" Was all he managed.

"You have the tracking mode on your visor" Alpha replied "you can turn it to normal vision."

"How?" Jason asked, arms outstretched.

"Think about it and the suit will do it. You work together as one" Alpha told him.

Jason nodded and cleared his mind, thinking only about normal vision. It did it! He was now looking at the others as he was before he used the morpher.

They all looked at each other and then back to Zordon who was smiling.

"Forgive me" his voice boomed "but I have long waited for this day. We both have."

"Will this suit give us strength?" Asked Billy.

"Strength, agility, technique. Just move to fight and the suit will guide you. Soon you will come to know it as a limb" Zordon replied.

Jason stood taking it all in before looking over at the news reports, they were getting worse.

"What about these weapons you said you were looking for?" He asked.

"When we find them we will tell you" Zordon said "for now. Your planet needs you."

"Then lets do it" Jason nodded.

"This way then" Spoke Alpha and walked up the walkway "to the transporter."

They all followed in single file as Zordon looked on. As Billy and Jason took the rear they turned to each other.

"You look good" Billy said.

"You too man. Lets just hope its as easy to get off when we need a bathroom break" Jason replied.

Billy chuckled as they made their way up the walkway to the transporter room.

***

Washington was a desolate wreck of chaos. It was almost completely destroyed. Buildings crumbling, blazes raging. The scene was almost biblical as five flickers of light formed into the five newly assembled defenders of Earth.

As the beam wore off they took a look around at the chaos before them.

"Holy shit" Zack said looking at what used to be a city.

"You said it" replied Jason.

They were taken out of it as from the wreckage a group of about twenty Golem soldiers emerged. The five of them stood almost on automation in fighting stances.

"Time to see what this power can do" Jason spoke to them "move out!"

With that team ran at the enemy force full speed. Jason barely pushed with his foot and was airborne. This suit and power of not only body but mind was difficult to get used to. Before he knew it he was descending on the enemy soldiers. He was just thinking 'we need weapons' when a sword formed from red light in his hand. 'I like this suit."

He brought the weapon in front of him and down in a slashing movement, decapitating one of drones. It feel, its open neck oozing a grey concrete like substance. Jason looked up at the others and noticed they had weapons to. Zack had a large rifle that seemed to also be an axe. Kimberly has a bow and arrow and was using it like a pro marksmen. Billy had two strange looking lance like daggers and Trini had smaller, but sharper, daggers of her own.

Kimberly looked up from her last target and noticed one heading straight for billy with a stone sword. She raised her bow, turned on her scanner and crosshair, aimed perfectly, pulled back the arrow and watched as it took flight glowing her colour pink in the air before lodging itself perfectly in the centre of the golem's skull. It fell lifeless as Billy looked back at it before nodding thanks in her direction. He then quickly turned his attention to an oncoming soldier and slashed neatly, crossing the lance and watching the golem fall to pieces at his feet.

Trini meanwhile glided her daggers like she had used them all her life. Spinning in perfect and yet not excessive form to take down two targets.

From the sidelines of the battle a commanding golden armoured warrior looked on before activating as lifting his wrist communicator to his lips.

"General, I think you better get here. We have a problem. I think Zordon has used the power coins."

Goldar meanwhile had the Pentagon General by his tie, blood showing various wounds.

"You will tell your 'President' to surrender" Goldar growled as he got the message.

"What is it Kang?" He demanded dropping the General to the office floor "don't be absurd Kang he would never...unless they aren't weapons of mass destruction."

"They look to be some sort of power that some humans have activated. I have never seen warriors fight this well. They have taken out of whole squadron of putties" Kang replied.

"I'm on my way" Goldar growled and marched for the door, turning to Scorpina as he did "take over here."

She nodded and walked slowly, deliberately toward the fallen General.

"Now" she spoke in a amused tone, lifting him by his collar "where were we."