Power Rangers: A Legend Retold

Megazord

The school bell sounded at Angel Groove high for lunch, each door in the corridors opened and the mass of students walked out.

Billy walked from his favourite class, science, with Trini. Since they had moved here two weeks ago now and they not seen or heard from Lord Zedd or Zordon. In the mean time a social order had begun to form in the group. Billy and Trini spent a lot of time together, Zack and Jason had connected and Kimberly kind of went in between while of course bonding with the other girl in Trini. Their experiences together made what would have been cultural barriers non existent and they had all become friends.

Billy and Trini walked into the lunch room and straight into two fellow students who they were fast becoming familiar with. Their full first names for Bulkmire and Skullovich, but they preferred to be called Bulk and Skull. All the Rangers could think of was they sounded like names for one of Zedd's soldiers.

"He dweeb, I think its time we finished our little chat" grunted Bulk, a heavyset punk.

"Yeah" added Skull, a skinny smart ass, he always did that.

"Maybe later" replied Billy and went to walk around them

Bulk simply walked back in his way.

"No" he smiled "now."
"Leave him alone" spoke up Trini.

"Who asked you dweebet?"Bulk sneered at her.

"Yeah, who asked you?" Skull added again.

Over already sitting at a dinning table were Jason, Zack and Kimberly. Jason looked up noticing the commotion at the door.

"Thats it. I warned those two yesterday. I'm going to go do something about this!" Jason scowled standing.

"Jace! Zordon said not to use our powers for personal gain" Zack stood opposite.

"Who said anything about powers" Jason smiled and walked toward the door.

Before he got there however Trini had already taken care of it, giving Bulk a strong kick where a man would rather not be kicked and watched him go down before looking at Skull with "go ahead" look in her eyes. Skull simply quickly picked up Bulk and took off.

"Thanks Trini" Billy smiled "without my... you know what... I am not much good at physical combat."

"Well maybe we could teach you, Jason's almost a black belt" she offered as Jason walked up.

"You okay Billy?" He asked his friend, acting like the protective leader he was becoming.

"Yeah. I really wish I could do what you guys do without my...P O W E R S" Billy replied.

"I was saying maybe you could put in a word down at the youth centre or something, you could have a Karate class of your own" Trini explained to Jason.

"Me a shensi? I dunno" Jason shrugged.

"Look, me and you have a background in martial arts but the rest of them need these skills, one day we may not have our powers to protect us" Trini told him.

"Your right" Jason nodded "I'll have a word with the centre. For now lets just have lunch alright?"
"Okay" Trini smiled.

They walked over to the others and sat at the table. Jason knew Trini was right, they were warriors now and they couldn't rely too much on their powers.

***

Lord Zedd walked down the corridors of his new command base, his men saluting him as he passed. He reached the brig, or "dungeon" as it was know, door and waited as the guards saluted and opened it.

As the door opened and he walked into the dark room lit only by the light from the cell and the red forcefield in front of it.

"You asked for me Bandora" he said, irritation in his voice.

Bandora stood and came to the edge of her cell.

"I did my Lord. What is your next move?" She asked.

"Why should I tell you?" Zedd hissed.

"Because I know you failed just like I did, even with all your resources, you failed" she smirked.

"Silence you impotent wretch! I will have you executed if you talk to me like that again!" Zedd snapped back.

"I meant no disrespect my Lord" she bowed "I only meant to state the facts so we may learn from our mistakes. Let me form a foolproof plan to defeat these warriors that are causing us such trouble and I promise you it will work."

"Hm" Zedd grunted "and what would you want in return?"

"Just my old life back in service of you my Lord" she nodded.

Zedd looked into her eyes, he knew she meant what she said. He also knew of her true aspirations to overthrown him, a good trait to be sure.

"I will have someone bring you a pad to make your proposal to me. In the meantime" he said as he walked over, pressed the panel and opened the door to the corridor "we will do things my way."

"Of course..." she nodded as he left before adding "brute force without tactics. How very emperor like."

***

Zedd walked onto his command deck and past Goldar.

"How much longer?" He asked the golden warrior as he sat.

"Five more hours at that most and we will be ready my Lord" Goldar bowed.

"Good. Five more hours and this ship will be a towering battle suit the likes of which any galaxy has never seen before. We will destroy the human protectors and their weapons one by one."

***

Jason walked into the Ranger's apartment and smiled as he saw Kimberly and Zack in the lounge. Zack was sat watched TV while Kimberly stood at the open plan kitchen table,dressed to impress.

"Hey" he said as he entered.

"Hey Jace" called back Zack.

"Hey" nodded Kimberly as she passed him on the way to her bag on the chair.

"Good news. You have all enrolled in Jason Lee Scott's new Karate class" he announced.

"Awesome" grinned Zack.

"Yeah, sounds good" added Kim.

"Hey Kim" Jason said turning to her "you want to go get something to eat or something? Nothing special..."

"Sorry Jace I got plans" she cut him off quickly and closed her bag.

"Oh, ok" He replied off guard "anyone I know?"
"No, a guy from my old school. He's not far away so we thought we might give it a shot and see how it goes" Kim told him.

"Oh right, well...have fun" he smiled.

"Thanks" Kimberly smiled back quickly and walked out the front door.

Jason crashed next to Zack on the other sofa "man, that one crashed and burned."

"Don't sweat it man" said Zack turning to him "way I see it you are better off not involved with anyone on the team anyway. Encase you have to, you know, order us into tough situations."
"Yeah" Jason nodded "yeah, maybe your right."

He didn't mean it.

***

Serpentera flew toward Earth like a predator stalking its prey. On board Zedd ordered a full stop as they reached orbit. It had taken a couple of Earth weeks to make the changes to Serpentera giving it three separate forms to take. It had taken all of the bases man power to get it done this fast even with their technology.
"Take us to mode two" Zedd ordered.

"Flight battle mode now!" Called out Goldar reiterating the order.

Serpentera's metals moaned with stress and screeched as its hull began to change shape. The spikes compacted to form a narrow, rectangular form. Its aft section now resembling a tail. Zedd had ordered this mode for easy flight in Earths atmosphere, he also wanted it to bring fright into any human who saw it. Like a monster from the shadow land of childhood nightmares it would make the weak fools cower before it. If Zedd's face were exposed he would have been smiling.

Finally the front of the hull fell away to form a dragon head. Perfect for what he needed. He had searched long and hard in his scans of human culture until the Chinese art showed him their mythical dragons. He didn't know how or why but he felt a connection to these dragons as if they called to him, a face of his power. It also resembled his enemies weapons and that he knew would disturb them greatly, take them off their guard.

"Take us down and attack any human city you find" Zedd ordered "we need to get their attention."

***

Kimberly was shown to her table glad she had over dressed now she had seen the restaurant. The waiter showed her and Tommy to their seats and left them with the menus. They ordered their drinks, still soft due to their age, and looked at the menu and each other.

"So" he sighed setting the book down "Glad you could come. I was crushed when I heard you were moving."

"Luckily near by though" she smiled back nervously.

"Yeah" he smiled himself "well now were here we can finally talk..."

"Yeah" Kim nodded and then heard it. Her communicator that Alpha and Billy had designed.

She closed her eyes as Tommy began to speak and sighed in deep annoyance before standing.

"...Hey, where you going?"
"My phone its ringing" she replied "back in a sec."

"Oh ok" he replied as she walked off.

Kimberly walked outside and around the corner, out of the way of the crowd and pressed the watch like device on her wrist.

"What is it?" She almost snapped.

"Kim we have trouble. Zedd is attacking again and this time he's not taking any chances" she heard Jason's voice.

"Now?!" She now was snapping with anger.

"Yes. Billy fitted these things with teleporters. We will meet you at the Command Centre. Out."

She didn't know what to do but slammed her fist against the wall in rage. 'Why now? Of all nights he attacks tonight!' she though as she walked back inside.

She walked up to the table and noticed Tommy's smile. Why her, why did this life choose her? They could of been together by now if this hadn't happened to her. She had a mind to tell Zordon and the world to go fuck themselves but knew she couldn't and wouldn't.

The drinks had just arrived as she came back.

"Hey, the drinks arrived. You ready to order?" He asked her and then noticed her face "whats wrong?"

"I'm sorry, an emergency has come up. I am so sorry Tommy but I have to go" she told him almost in tears.

"I see" he replied and lowered his head.

When he looked back up his eyes told her he knew this was not some family thing. Did he thing she had had second thoughts?

"I promise I will make it up to you, we can do this again soon" she almost pleaded.

"Unless something else comes up I guess" he replied in a tone that almost broke her.

"No, look I do really like you its just..."

"Look if you need to go just go" he cut in and stood.

She watched him walk out of the place and felt as if every eye in the restaurant was looking at her. Being a Power Ranger and have love life just didn't seem to mix.

***

Kimberly teleported in a shimmer of pink light, a personal touch, how cute. She was almost in tears now standing in the main chamber of the Command Centre as Zordon explained the situation.

"He has modified his ship to take a mode not unlike you Zords" he explained as they watched the screen, showing footage taken in Tokyo were the dragon like ship was attacking "we also believe he may have found a way to transform it into a large version of the battle suits he deployed in your last encounter. This Rangers is the main battle that will sway the war for Earths survival. What was left of Tokyo after the last attack will be destroyed if you do not hurry Rangers."
"Man" Zack shook his head "even our Zords wont scratch that thing."

"If we work together we can do it, we have to" Jason replied.

"No Jason" Zordon said "I am afraid your Zords as they are will not be enough."

"Then what will?" Asked Trini.

"If you will look at the screen" Zordon instructed "we have begun translating the logs Jason found from the previous Red Ranger and we have discovered that you can modify your coins into crystals and use them to bring you Zords together as one powerful weapon."

A simulation played out on the screen showing the five Zords coming together to form the huge humanoid Zord.

"Whoah!" Exclaimed Zack "Like a Mega Zord."

"Indeed Zack" Zordon nodded "a Megazord. We are not sure of its true name but that seems as good as any."

Jason turned back to the others and Zordon as the screen went dark.

"You can show us how to do this?"He asked.

"Just take your coin out and pull from it as if your extending it from what we understand" Alpha cut in.

"Alright then" Jason replied "lets do this. Everyone ready? Kim you ok?"

The others all nodded and looked over at the down Kimberly who also gave a weak nod.

"Right then. Lets morph!" Jason cried out.

"Masterdon!"

"Pteryadactyl!"

"Triceratops!"

"Sabretooth Tiger!"

"Tyrannosaurus!"

***

They all were standing a few miles from the Command Centre ready to call there Zords.

"Zordon says if we just call out in earshot of out communicators it should work" Billy told Jason.

"Right, lets do this in the usual order. Don't want to confuse them" Jason said to the others "Zack."

"Right" Zack nodded before calling out "Masterdon power up!"

Kim was next "Pteryadactyl come to me!"

"Triceratops battle ready!" Billy called.

"Sabretooth Tiger online!" Trini cried out and turned to Jason.

"Tyrannosaurus power up now!" Jason called last.

Within moments the ground rumbled as the Zords appeared from the hangar they had been kept in. The Rangers each got into their craft and took them to the sky, headed for Tokyo.

***

As the flew faster than any Earth plane high above the clouds they chatted on the intercom.
"Well from what I'm told they are space ready" Billy replied to Zack's query.

"Awesome!" Exclaimed Zack "maybe the stars need some Zack power."

"Zack power" Jason burst out laughing.

"Wow Zack you really love yourself don't you?" Trini replied.

They all laughed but Kimberly. Jason looked out of his cockpit window and over at the lit up cockpit head of the Pteryadactyl.

"Hey Kim, sorry about you missing your date" Jason tried to break the ice.

"Yeah sure" she sighed back.

"I'm sure you can get raincheck, do it tomorrow or something" Trini offered.

"No. Thanks to this all that is through" she responded to her.

They all just sat back uncomfortably until Billy broke the silence.

"Well were here" he told the others.

"Right" replied Jason getting down to business "lets do this."

The Zords landed on the outskirts of Tokyo hoping to draw Zedd out from the main city.

***

Lord Zedd looked on from his command deck as the Zords landed.

"Finally!" He growled "take us to them and switch to main battle mode."

The crew responded and commenced the sequence. Serpentera flew from the main skyline of Tokyo out to the open area where the Zords now were.

***

"It worked!" Billy called out to the others.

"I don't like this. He didn't exactly put up a fight coming out here, I think this was bait" Jason replied.

"Guys" Trini cut in "look."

They looked on as the dragon now changed shape transforming into a biped battle suit just as Zord said it would. It was huge towering over the mountains in the skyline. It looked like large black and grey samurai with what was once the dragons head now forming its own with the jaw dropped down and face on the underside, the top of head now serving as a battle helmet.

"Alright guys" Jason sighed "lets bring them together! God I hope this works."

Jason took the coin from his morpher, lifted it and pulled just as Alpha had said.

They each did the same and watched in wonder as crystals of each of their colours formed.

Jason looked for what could be the key hole, saw it and jabbed the crystal into it. As they others all did the same they heard as a single male computer voice spoke.

"Transformation sequence has been initiated" the voice echoed to them all.

Jason looked on in awe as the other Zords rose up and began to change.

***

"Ready to attack my Lord" reported the tactical offer on the Serpentera.

"Wait!" Zedd held up his hand "what are they doing?"

Zedd lent forward and looked out himself as the Zords began to change form.

"Tooshay" Zedd rumbled as he watched.

***

First the Sabretooth Tiger and and Triceratops pulled their extremities and folded, the heads facing forward and the main section now vertical. Legs. Next Tyrannosaurus took to the air, folding its own arms in and its legs down to its thighs which came down and connected which Trini and Billy's Zords. The main body. Zack's Masterdon broken in two, its head module breaking off and taking off back to base unneeded. The remaining body came in behind the Tyrannosaur its back legs becoming hands and attaching to the shoulders of Jason's Zord. Arms.

Billy,Trini and Zack and their chairs were now all in a large cockpit that was situated behind the main Tyrannosaurus head. Finally Kimberly came in as the T-Rex head broke away and dropped into a compartment of the main body revealing a new humanoid head with yellow eyes and a mouth is where the others now were. The Pteryadactyl spun around folding in its wings and head, connecting to the main body to form a chest plate. On the humanoid head the parts that were once the Tyrannosaurus's horns now swung around and made the crown like helmet complete. The "Megazord" came to life as its eyes flashed and power came on. As Kim's chair came through into the command cockpit the male computer now spoke.

"Sequence complete. Battle mode activated!"

"We gotta change that to say Megazord" Zack spoke up.

Jason ignored him noticing he was the main pilot, Billy on engineering, Trini on scanners, Zack on Tactical and Kimberly Co-pilot.

The Megazord walked forward now almost on par with Serpentera. Serpentera was the first on the attack bringing around its massive arms for a punch which Zack blocked with Megazords own arm. He then pulled back the fist and slammed it full speed into the alien ship. Serpentera reacted giving a reverse arm blow to the head of Megazord which they were not quick enough to block. It then outspread its arms and fired a beam of light from the red diamond shaped centre of the chest. It hit will full force knocking Megazord flying back, crashing down onto the ground. As Jason and Kim rushed to pull them up Lord Zedd opened an audio channel.

"You humans and your ancient weapons are no match for me and my Serpentera. Give up and I may spare your lives warriors" Zedd's voice echoed around the cockpit.

Megazord stood up straight and then brought it to a fighting stance.

"Not a chance you alien bastard" replied Jason "Earth wont just lay down for you, and the names Power Rangers."

The listened as his laugh rumbled.

"'Power Rangers' huh? Well 'Power Rangers' I hope you enjoy pain because I got plenty of it waiting in my torture chambers" Zedd replied.

"Someone shut him up please" called back Kimberly.

"Done" replied billy as he closed the channel.

"Thankyou" Kimberly sighed.

Zedd wasted no time, Serpentera fired again sending them back down, sparks flying in the cockpit.

"We need a weapon! A sword or somthing!" Jason cried out.

As if by response a giant sword fell from the sky. Jason looked on wide eyed.

"I guess this thing works like our suits" Jason shook his head.

They rolled missing another shot from the Serpentera and grabbing the sword, pulling it up and ready for battle. Jason took Megazord to the air as Zack brought the sword up for the attack. As they landed they slashed the sword full force, destroying the chest piece and sending Serpentera down with a massive explosion.

"Yeah! Not so out matched now huh?!" Cried out Zack with pumped fists.

***

"We can not take another hit from their sword my Lord!" Goldar told Zedd "It is made of a metal and power source the likes of which we have never seen."

"Then we will make the odds even in our own territory. Take us up!" Zedd ordered "put me through to the heros."

Zedd lent forward as Serpentera took to the sky once again taking its dragon form. His com officer nodded to him that he was on.

"If you want to end this once and for all humans follow us" Zedd sneered "and if you don't I will fire on every city from orbit killing millions of you people 'Power Rangers'."

***

They all looked at each other watching as Serpentera disappeared into the clouds.

"It could be trap" warned Zack.

"We haven't got a choice. Strap in" Jason replied.

They all nodded and Jason took Megazord to the air. They were pushed back in their seats as the main boasters fired and took them up and through the clouds.

The Rangers looked out in awe and wonder as they cleared Earths atmosphere into space. They felt weightlessness overtake them, becoming as light as a feather. Jason looked to the side at the now beautiful blue orb that was their planet. For that moment they forgot what they were there to do.

"I never thought I would get here" Billy voice cracked as he had as tear in his eye.

Trini reached over to him and held his hand, the two looked at each other for a moment and then once again took it all in.

"Come on guys" Jason interrupted "we got a job to do."

They stopped near the moon, Serpentera was no where to be found.

"Maybe he gave up" said Trini.

"Not likely" responded Jason.

They all snapped out of it as from behind the moon the dragon came at them full force.

"They must have hid from our sensors behind the moon!" Called out Billy.
Before they could react Serpentera passed them firing everything she had and slashing with its side as it passed, turning and heading back for more.

In Megazords cockpit alarms sounded and sparks flew, lights flickering.
"We are taking damage!" Bill reported.

"Zack. Get ready to strike with that sword" Jason ordered.

"Right!" Zack nodded back.

Serpentera came in for a second attack. This time they took Megazord in evasives avoiding as much of the fire as they could. As it passed they brought down the large sword slicing right into the main body of the dragon.

***

Damage alerts wailed as Zedd picked himself up from the floor. Goldar came to help but Zedd pushed him off.

"Bring us around and fire all we got!" Zedd shouted in rage.

"My lord we must retreat!" Goldar pleaded.

"No! I said fire damn you! Now!"

They obeyed of course and came around again firing all weapons. The crew watched in terror as again Megazord got in another critical strike.

The back section of the command deck exploded, officers sent flying as beams and plating fell. Zedd himself was thrown forward, a section of plating falling directly on him.

"My Lord!" Called out Goldar running toward his fallen master.

Four men, some of them injured themselves, helped lift the beam off of Zedd. Medical teams rushed over to his aid. He was alive but in a bad state. It was now up to Goldar to take command.

"Get us back to base!" Goldar ordered and took the command chair.
"Aye General!" Replied the pilot.

Vengeance would have to wait another day. They had lost.

***

The Power Rangers looked on as Serpentera retreated and took to faster than light speed.

"Lets go finish them!" Zack said.

"No!" Replied Jason "we would never catch them. Lets just hope that Lord Zedd gets it now and leaves us alone."

"I doubt it" Trini sighed.

"Well for now" Jason breathed a sigh of relief "its over. Well done guys I'm proud of you all."

Small talk once again started up and Jason turned them around headed for home.

***

Goldar opened the door to the dungeon and groaned. He didn't want to do this. He walked up to Bandora's cell and pressed the panel deactivating the force field.

Bandora sat up from her typing on the pad wide eyed.

"Whats going on?" She demanded.

"Lord Zedd is mortaly injured and despite my best judgement you are the highest ranking commander here. You are now incharge" Goldar growled and bowed "Empress."

Bandora stood walking over to him with a huge smile on her face.

"You may rise" she grinned for ear to ear.

"Lord Zedd said you had a plan Empress" Goldar said as he straightened.

"Indeed I have. Take me to it" Bandora instructed.

"'It' my Queen?" Goldar frowned.

"Yes Goldar. It. You know what I'm taking about so don't toy with me" She glared at him.

"At once my Queen" he bowed and motioned for her to follow

Goldar took her to a chamber, locked down on high security, cut off from the rest of the base. He opened it with the combination he had been given as secuirty chief.

Bandora smiled and walked in, over to a box on the centre table and picked it up. She opened the lid and inside was the sixth power coin. She laughed, her plan was perfect.

"You see Goldar we have always been at a disadvantage. They know so much about us and we so little about them. That is going to change and I will take from them the one main thing they really on. Zordon. And it will be done by one of there own."

END

Next Time: An Interlude as the Rangers listen to the logs of the former Red Ranger and discover the origins of their power in "Legend of the Zyu Warriors."