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"This cave is giving me the creeps," Jeanie said. They been walking in it for quite some time now and the sunlight filtering through the entrance was beginning to die down. "Should have brought a torchlight."

"Should have," Eva agreed with her, fighting to see anything in the darkness beyond.

"Are you sure you can't pick up anything from the rocks?" Jay asked her for what seemed like the twentieth time.

"Yeah, I am. This place has probably not been touched in what, a millennia at the least? So I can't pick up anything from the cave walls. My Power only extends to a few hours. Not even a full day," she added.

"Sorry. Just checking."

"Again?" Trev asked in a slightly irritated voice.

"Fine. I'll stop," Jay muttered.

"I feel like we've been walking in this place for ages…" Ris sighed. "I'm bored."

"Big surprise." Jeanie said in a dry voice.

"Guys…" David resisted the urge to rub at his temples. Now he knew why his parents had hated taking him and his sister on road trips when they were younger. "This is not the time to be fighting, okay? Let's just find the zords and get out of here."

"Whoa. Got a bit of a problem here guys," Trev called. He was in front of everyone else.

"What's up?" David asked, catching up to him.

"Is it my imagination…or are there three tunnels?"

Ris squinted hard. "Yeah…I see them to."

"Crap," Jay said. "We're screwed."

"Which tunnel?" Jeanie wondered. "Eenie, meenie, minie, mo anyone?"

"Ha ha Jeanie," Jay replied sarcastically.

"Eva?" David asked. "Do you think you can…?"

"I can try," she replied, moving in front of the others to touch the tunnel entrances. "But I can't promise anything."

She pressed her hand against the cool stone and found nothing. Groping through the darkness, she found the other tunnel and was nearly blown off her feet. "Whoa! Okay." She blinked though there had been no sudden flash of light; though her eyes didn't feel dry at all. "Okay."

"You got something?" Jay asked eagerly.

"Have I ever." She grinned. "This one guys." She held out her hand and someone's caught it. Thus joined, they continued down the tunnel.

"How'd you know?" David asked. "I mean, you tried the others right? How did you know it was this one?"

"I only tried one other one," she corrected. "And I'm guessing it's because of some pretty powerful magic the centaur left lying around for me to find. That's the only explanation I can think of."

"Seems the centaur thought of everything," Jeanie said in a dry voice.

"Looks it," Ris said in a gleeful voice. It echoed, indicating the tunnel had opened up to something larger. "Cool! Echo!"

Her voice ricocheted around them, making her grin as light suddenly appeared. One by one, torches hanging on the walls of a massive cavern lit themselves. "Whoa…" Jay stared with wide eyes at the sight before them.

"Beyond cool," was all Jeanie could manage.

Because, in front of them, were the six zords they'd seen on Dayton's screen.

Easily eighty feet long from nose to tail, there was the red dragon lying directly in front of them, with thin metal wings folded on its back and long golden claws. There was the unicorn in pink, looking fiercer than any unicorn in fairy tails, with a glinting horn spiralling out of its brow. The centaur stood next to it; half man, half horse. The man's features were hidden by a helmet, done in silver and green, with only its eyes showing through a long gap. The minotaur, with its bull's head, looked like the most powerful with black metal glinting dully in the flickering light. The griffin was beside it, with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion, in light blue, its lion's claws extended. And hovering over them all, the yellow phoenix, with fluttering wings that hardly looked like metal, a long elegant neck and beak, its body looking like gold.

Ris was the first to break the reverent silence that had fallen the Rangers. "We found them!" She screamed, jumping up and down and pumping her arms in the air. "We did it! We got the zords!"

"Yes!" Pumping his fists in the air as well, Jay's grin threatened to split his face.

Jeanie broke into a wide grin and flung her arm around Trev's shoulders. "Looks like we did it cuz."

"Yeah," he grinned at her and secured an arm around her waist. "We did."

David was – as usual – the first to sober. "Come on guys. Who knows how much time's passed?"

"Right. Okay…" Jeanie stared at the zords. "Now what?"

"Damned if I know," Trev said.

"Aren't we meant to activate them or something?" Ris said. "Like by calling them, like in dad's comics?"

"Oh yeah, what're we supposed to say?" Jay asked. "Black Minotaur Zord?"

As if answer, the minotaur zord raised stirred slightly but didn't much change it position. However, it was enough for Jay to cry out; "Holy crap!" and take a quick hop back.

David grinned. "Looks it." He braced his legs and crossed his arm over his chest. In a flash, the red and silver wristband he wore transformed into his morpher. "Ready?"

"Ready!"

"Dragon Rider, Ranger Form!"

"Griffin Rider, Ranger Form!"

"Unicorn Rider, Ranger Form!"

"Phoenix Rider, Ranger Form!"

"Minotaur Rider, Ranger Form!"

"Centaur Rider, Ranger Form!"

There was a flash and where six ordinary teenagers had stood were now six colourfully suited superheroes. Clad in all red, David took a step forward. "Pray this works guys," he muttered before lifting a fist in the air. "Red Dragon Zord!"

At that, the Red Dragon lifted its head. Its eyes flashed to life, glowing gold. With a low rumble, it got to its feet, which were easily ten feet long themselves. It lengthened its neck and raised its pointed muzzle to the roof of the cavern. And it let out a loud below that shook the ground under the Rangers.

"Yes!" With an exuberant squeal, Ris hugged her cousin until their helmets bumped. "You did it."

Grinning madly behind his visor, he looked at the others. "Your turn."

Jay threw back his head. "Black Minotaur Zord!"

The Black Minotaur snorted and shook his head. A foot pawing at the ground much like a bull's would, it raised its magnificent head with its huge curling horns and let out a below as its eyes shone gold against the black. "Yes!" He pumped his fists in the air again.

"Yellow Phoenix Zord!" Ris called, practically dancing on the spot.

At that, the Yellow Phoenix came to life, its wide wings fanning the air slowly as it extended its neck and let loose an eerie musical call of its own. Its eyes blazed gold, matching its metal frame and it began to fly, looping lazy circles above the other Zords.

Trev raised his fist. "Green Centaur Zord!"

The Green Centaur's eyes blinked open, flashing as golden as the Dragon's. Its horse's body shifted, hooves prancing on the ground and making it rumble. Then it lifted a fist, raised its chin, imitating Trev's move, and let out a loud cry. "Cool," he decided.

Jeanie was next; "Pink Unicorn Zord!"

The Pink Unicorn shook its head, and stomped its hooves in reply to her yell. Then it bent back its head and let out a piercing neigh, raising its front hooves up to pound the air. Its eyes snapped open and were golden.

Lastly, Eva called for her zord. "Blue Griffin Zord!"

To answer, the Blue Griffin lifted its head and let out an eagle's screech, followed by a lion's roar. Spreading its wings, it shot up into the air to follow the Phoenix's flight, its eyes shining pure gold, its lion's front paws slashing at the air, its tail swinging in tandem.

Staring at the sight before them, the Rangers couldn't help but burst into mad laughter. "We did it!" Ris cried out again. "We really did do it!"

"All right guys," David. "Let's go save the city." And, with a huge leap that only Power Rangers are capable of, he jumped into his Zord.

With wide grins no one could see behind the opaque visors, his team mates followed suit. "Whoa!" Eva cried, her eyes widening at her cockpit. Done in silver with blue lines running across it in strange patterns that matched the ones on her wristband-cum-morpher, there was no seat or controls. Instead, she was suspended in mid air. Moving her legs, she felt the Griffin's legs move and had to grin. "These are, without a doubt," she decided, "the coolest zords ever."

"Hell yeah," Jay agreed. He flexed his muscles and laughed when he heard the slight grind of the Minotaur's metal muscles doing likewise.

"Enough fooling around," David said, suddenly all business. He commanded the Red Dragon Zord to rise until it hovered beneath the Phoenix and Griffin but above the others. "Uh…how do we get out of here?" Jeanie asked.

Ris was the first to answer. "Blast out of course," she said with a wild laugh. "Yellow Phoenix, Nova Flame!"

With that supernatural musical cry, the Phoenix opened its beak and a column of yellow blazing fire erupted from it. Eva swore as she and the Blue Griffin swung round in the air to dodge it. "Sorry!" Ris called.

Sunlight streamed in through the hole the Phoenix had created. "Well…I guess that's the way out," David said.

"Wait!" Jeanie called before he could go through. "What about the rest of us who don't have wings?"

"Erm…jump?" Trev suggested before doing just that. With one great leap, the Centaur soared through the hole, it's torso leaning forwards to get more aerodynamic. David followed, with Eva and Ris sweeping through straight after.

"Ladies first?" Jay asked, laughter evident in his voice.

"Oh, definitely." With a grin of her own, Jeanie closed her eyes and imagined herself as the Unicorn, jumping like a show horse through the hole. Then, she let out a wild whoop as she felt the Unicorn do just that. "Way cool!"

"You sound just like Ris," Trev said with a laugh. The other Zords waited outside, Eva and Ris in the Phoenix and Griffin Zords respectively wheeling above.

David whooped himself as Jay in the Black Minotaur Zord came crashing through. "Way to use you head Jay," Jeanie laughed.

"Come on guys! Time to save the day!" David called as his Dragon Zord took to the air.

Jeanie rolled her eyes and the Unicorn did the same. "How much do you wanna bet he's always wanted to say that?"