((With all the things that change within' my Alternate Universes reality I thought a basic timeline of events would be helpful; it details how Venjix became to be as a world conquering virus, how the Venjix Virus ties in with General Venjix from Forever Red, and how the war across time and space got started...Plus a little bit more about Cains background, this Edu-Chapter titled History Lessons MAY contain SPOILERS! Don't read if you want to be surprised.))
Plot Point 1: General Venjix and the Venjix Virus (1996-2002)
In 1996 the Zeo Power Rangers led by Tommy Oliver fought to destroy the Machine Empire; which at the time seemed to be run by the evil King Mondo, however through a covert mission to Mondo's Skybase led in 97 by the then Gold Ranger Jason Lee Scott, it is found that Mondo is merely a puppet owing his allegiance to someone above the Royal House Of Gadgetry.
Once this is discovered the covert group of only 3 rangers, Operation: Zeo (Including: Jason, Tommy and Adam); begin to try to figure out who it is that is really pulling the strings, but their investigation leads to a dead end when the Empire falls into chaos, due in large part to their supposed leader King Mondo's destruction.
It is also in this space of time that a strange rogue splinter faction of the government; known only as Cetra Artec, add a 5 year old child genious (Danielle 'Rose' Kirkland, whom would later be known simply as the Codename: Dr. K) to their rosters. The Cetra group basicly are a school for those whom are deemed to be; of a higher bloodline and smarter than other children of the world, many parents send their children to Cetra Artec not knowing of it's true dark agenda, and how in a few short years they would orchestrate the almost complete destruction of our Planet Earth!
It isn't until the latter part of 2001 that Jason finally with the help of his newly formed Shadow Information Network; figures out exactly who was leading the Machine Empire back during Zeo's run as rangers, he finds information on a General Venjix whom seemed to be Mondo's chief General and Second In Command should something happen to him. This struck Jason as odd because Louie Kaboom had taken Mondo's place after his defeat, and never had any of the Zeo Rangers ever even heard of a General Venjix.
The revelation to the Generals identity came in early 2002 when reports came back from Andros whom was doing spy work for S.I.N; he follows Remnants of the Machine Empire to the Earth's Moon where they planned to dig up Lord Zedd's old Zord, Serpentera. Andros quickly returns to the Astro Megaship Mark 2 and signals Jason that indeed it was General Venjix; he also told that he had overheard General Venjix talking of another plan, something about using Serpentera as a beacon to the Earth's destruction. The former Red Space Ranger reported that Venjix had muttered a date - 3/21/2006, as the day the Earth would begin to fall!
Ten Red Rangers are then assembled by Tommy, Jason and Andros to proceed to the moon and take on the remnants of the Empire; they succeed in defeating all the Generals except Venjix, whom retreats into Serpentera and is able to take off from the moon however, Cole Evans the Red Wild Force Ranger decides that it is best to take him and Serpentera out there on the moon. His reasoning being that if the zord makes it back to Earth then it would be harder to beat, and the destruction that it brought would probably be devastating.
Cole uses his Wild Force Rider to send a feedback pulse from the Dark Zords weaponry back in on itself; thus seemingly destroying both it and Venjix whom was piloting the zord from within' it's control cockpit, the rangers return to Earth thinking the mission is a complete success. That would later turn out to be an Error however.
Plot Point 2: Venjix's Declaration Of War [A Hoax?] (2002-2005)
[Main Ranger Teams Active During Development Of the Venjix Virus]
2002-2003 (Wild Force - The year Cetra Artec aquire General Venjix's body, and begin to reverse engineer him into a computer virus)
2003-2004 (Ninjastorm)
2004-2005 (Dino Thunder)
2005-2006 (? (Unknown)
2006-2007 (Mystic Force - The year the world internet federation reports new apperance of a dangerous virus, they call it the Venjix Virus)
2007-2008 (Operation Overdrive)
2008-2009 (Jungle Fury)
2009-2010 (R.P.M - The year of Venjixs supposed defeat)
Things seemed to be quiet up until a month after the mission to the moon; strange things began to happen all over North America and soon the entire Earth, Cell Phones being rendered in-active for no reason and landline phones shutting off without any warning. The Shadow Information Network soon gets startling information that it is the work of a rogue computer A.I thats being tested, it seems to be the product of a faction within' the U.S Government known as Cetra Artec.
Jason spends the entire month after Operation: Forever Red trying to discover who Cetra Artec are; he follows a money trail and finds that they paid and commisoned a strange secret orginazation (The Order) to develop the Prototype Venjix Virus, he also learns that all of this was ordered by the President a coupla days after the mission to the moon. Apparently that was why Operation: Forever Red was funded by the government, they let the Rangers defeat Venjix and his Generals, once they were out of the way and the Rangers had returned to Earth the government led an expedition to the moon: It was then that they got their hands on a small part of Serpentera's control panel, which had been infected and inhabited by General Venjix's A.I.
It wasn't clear however how the government reverse engineered Venjix so quickly; taking his physical body and doing away with it opting to turn his intelligence into that of a computer virus, this process should have taken longer but was done in a matter of days. Jason uses his Shadow alter-ego to try an find out how this could be, however his contacts within' the government soon cut him off as such he soon has no more information coming in from government affairs.
Carter Grayson of Lightspeed Rescue is one of the first rangers to hear Venjix's declaration of war; "I am venjix, your world as you know it has which fourth ceased to exsist; I am taking over your defense systems and communication networks, soon I will be the sole commander of all your armies and the supreme commander of your robotic arsenals, your world is now my world, and your time is now over!"
Once Venjix's declaration is made however nothing else is heard for a long while; the Wild Force rangers continue battling Master Org and his minions for the duration of 2002 into early 2003.
In early 2003 Tommy Oliver moves from Angel Grove to Reefside; it is during the next year (2004) that he and his new team of Rangers dubbed Dino Thunder, fight Mesogog and his minions trying to stop Mesogog from turning the world back into a prehistoric era, it is also during the next year (2005) that the government finds and disposes of a traitor in their midst.
Sometime in 2005 the government also leaks information about the Venjix Virus declaration of war in 2002 being a hoax; they say that it was a computer hacker trying to scare the world, many people not in the know believe this and allow the thought of Venjix to slip out of their minds, not knowing that in reality the declaration was certainly real and that the government were covering their tracks.
In 2002 Venjix did declare his goals and told everyone that "Your world is now my world, and your time is now over!", this was the real Venjix speaking but he was merely in a prototype state, he sent the message out but being that he was then at the mercy of the leaders of Cetra Artec he had no way of escaping their computer network.
Cetra Artec begin to finalize Project: Venjix during the last few months of 2005 handing the project over to their brightest subject, a 14 year old Dr. K whom then begins to rework the base of the code, much of it was already there being that it was once General Venjix. Dr. K goes along with Cetra Artec's wishes making Venjix into an unstoppable computer virus, it is at this time that she begins having her doubts about releasing something like this into the world, but she also knew that her masters in Cetra would kill her if she didn't.
Plot Point 3: Venjix's Rise To Power (2006-2009)
Then the day that Andros had predicted nearly 4 years prior hit; 3/21/2006, this was near the Beginning of the Mystic Force rangers battles against Koragg and Octomus, on this day the newly comissioned (By the government) world internet federation quickly revealed to the public that they had spotted a new computer worm, they dubbed it the Venjix Virus. A few days prior Dr. K had shut down all Firewall blocks which were holding Venjix inside the Cetra Artec compound, this allowed him to break free onto the internet; within' a few days Venjix had projected himself into millions of computers worldwide, however he opted to begin his take over covertly; wanting to keep his growth a secret, until the time was right to begin his attacks.
2006 was relatively quiet as the major brunt of Venjixs attacks were those aimed at automated factories and warehouses; he also took over power plants and a few communication networks, this was all done under the guise of Cetra Artec as they had programed thier command keys into his baseline code, which is why it didn't alarm anyone as it looked as though Cetra had merely needed these structures for some experiment or another. Operation: Forever Red and a team of other still active ranger cells around the U.S however, were not fooled by a longshot.
In the early days of 2007 an un-corrupted branch of the U.S Military's specialy designed InteraTech Labs in a joint venture with Lightspeed Rescue; announces that it has found a way to repower any rangers powers whom have lost them, the catch being that it can only be used on a person once which means, if that person losses the power again the process will not work a second time. A month later Cetra Artec request and recieve every blueprint that the joint venture had produced (This was of course Venjix); he then uses this information to begin crafting a way to inhabit even non-technologicaly powered Morphers, this would almost certainly give him control of the person wearing the ranger suit. (He would later go on to use this control against RPM, using a combination of the Venjix Network Hardware in Dillon and a fragment of the Venjix Virus implanted in Dillons Morpher.)
March, 21st. 2007 (3/21/2007 - Exactly 1 year after the W.I.F announces the apperance of the Venjix Virus) was when it became absolutely clear that Venjix wasn't playing around; and that his goal was the complete and utter annhilation of the human race, he begins a series of attacks, all designed to weaken the U.S Military to a state where they would have no choice than to surrender. Active Ranger Cells with restored powers all over North America try to oppose Venjix's forces; they are successfull in keeping his forces held back for awhile limiting his conquest to the Eastern half of the United States, it is during this time that military leaders find the Utopian city of Corinth, it was designed and built by the real Cetra Artec almost 4 years before the rise of Venjix.
A few forces headed by Colonel Mason Truman and supported by Eagles 1 & 2 begin escourting surviving citizens to Corinth City; Dr. K having escaped the clutches of Cetra Artec is now helping run and maintain Corinth, she sends out a general repeating message across the vast wastelands urging people to retreat to the domed city of Corinth, it is this message that will eventually lead to Dillon discovering Corinth City and becoming the Ranger Operator Series Black.
Eagles 1 & 2 report back to Colonel Truman; telling him that Corinth City seems to be deserted with no signs of Cetra Agents or Venjix anywhere, it is at this time that the Colonel decides to begin Lockdown protocols and orders the last leg of their journey to commence, it takes them a few months (The Beginning of 2008) to arrive in Corinth however by now Venjix is onto their plans and reacts accordingly.
Venjix sends a brunt of his forces that were attacking Angel Grove to Corinth; their mission is simply to disrupt Colonel Trumans attempts to use Corinth as a safe haven, it is at this time that Dr. K reveals research she had done 3 years prior to the Venjix Virus attack to Colonel Truman, the Ranger Prototype Series Covert Infantry Bio-Suits.
Truman decides to institute RPM as Corinths resident team of Rangers, picking Flynn McAllistair, Summer Landsdown and his own son Scott Truman as the initial Ranger Operators. The Green and Black Operator Suits are left inactive, awaiting the time that candidates can be chosen to join the team.
Flynn (Ranger Blue), Summer (Ranger Yellow) and Scott (Ranger Red) begin the fight against Venjix using their Ranger powers to hold off his forces; they fight for nearly a year with Corinths Military forces as backup before Venjix goes quiet, Colonel Truman figures it must be a trick and keeps everyone (RPM Included) on high alert, he also speeds up the process on a R&D project that Dr. K and the cities scientific team were working on,.a Defense Shield which would stop Venjix Forces from being able to enter the city.
Plot Point 4: Venjix At Full Strength (2009-2010)
By the start of 2009 Corinth is litterly filling up as citizens hear K's message and come to Corinth for refuge; Flynn takes out a bus every week trying to find citizens whom are retreating to Corinth (Leading many people to start calling his bus route the "Road To Corinth"), Scott and Summer also lead Covert Incursions into dense Venjix controlled territory looking for survivors.
Early into the year Eagles 1 & 2 (Marcus and Scott Truman) are helping people get to Corinth before the Defense Shield is activated; Eagle 1 is shot down and Eagle 2 barely makes it back to Corinth even with his Ranger Powers, before the Shield can be activated Venjix resumes his attacks bareing down on Corinth City with everything he can.
Scott later reports to his dad Colonel Truman the revelation that Marcus didn't survive the crash; both Scott and Colonel Truman are devastated but must let their feelings go for the time being, the needs of Corinth City becoming paramount as Venjix's Forces breach the West Corridor aptly refered to as Zone Delta.
Ziggy Grover and Dillon arrive in Corinth City in time to see the 3 RPM Rangers taking on one of Venjix's Monsters; Dillon hops out of the car and begins to lend a helping hand in the fight, it isn't until after the Monster is defeated that the rangers findout that Dillon has internal Venjix Hardware throughout his body. They swiftly arrest Dillon and Ziggy just as the Defense Shield becomes active.
Midway through 2010 is when RPM finally deals a crippling blow to Venjix and seemingly defeats him; his Venjix Network crumbles without his input and peace seems to be within' grasp, the RPM Rangers spread out across Corinth and defeat any Grinders left over from the final battle. Once this is done the RPM Powers are fused into an Energy Cannon and given to Scott, he then takes the Cannon to a Remote location and destroys what is identified as the last remaining Venjix Era Robotic Factor, with the destruction of this factory complete Venjix Forces can no longer be built.
A week after the factory is destroyed the last remaining Grinders & Attacks Bots are defeated; the former RPM Rangers hold a big celebration declaring victory against Venjix and his Network of destruction, it is on this day that for the first time in almost a year and a half, Corinths Defense Shield is deactivated for the last time and Colonel Truman officialy lowers their Venjix Alert Status to Green...Meaning that the Venjix Threat was finally over! Or Is It?
Near the end of 2010 Unbeknownst to either Colonel Truman or the former RPM Rangers Venjix had infected an old Power Morpher; it looks like it may be from the MMPR Era as the Power Coin has a streak running down it and a symbol of a King Cobra Snake in the centerpiece. Venjix hides here in an abandoned forgotten relic in a forgotten place of the past until which time he will rise up, and he knows if he strikes again the Earth will not stand a chance!
Plot Point 5: Post Venjix Era [P.V.E] (2010-2025)
With 2010 coming to a close RPM have now basicly given up their powers in sacrifice to destroy Venjixs Forces; however a new villain known only as Cain attacks Corinth City, no one knows where he came from but everyone knows he means business when he starts targeting anyone within' his path. Speeding up development Dr. K rebuilds the RPM Operator Suits and gives them to the Rangers, she however doesn't have enough time to re-create their weapons or Zords and as such the power suits are all they have. The newly reformed RPM do battle with Cain however he quickly gains the upper hand.
Ranger Operator Series Yellow (Summer) tries to hold Cain off from attacking a small child whom had been caught in the crossfire; this was when Cain used the distraction of the child to deal a fatal blow to the Yellow Ranger, Ziggy runs in and tries his best to fight the Monster but he too is gravely wounded, it is at this time Scott makes the decision to retreat and they pull back before they all succomb to Cains attacks.
Ziggy begins to make a recovery but Summer doesn't survive her injuries as to much damage had been done from Cains Masamune Sword; the rangers hold a memorial the next day that is attended by many former rangers, including Veterans Tommy Oliver, Jason Lee Scott and Adam Park (The original Operation: Zeo; whom had exposed Venjix for what he really was wayback in 1997). The Memorial is also being held to celebrate those rangers which had died in the Venjix Virus' attack; there were many casulties but vigilence is the price we pay everyday for freedom, those deaths were not in vain.
13 years have passed and the year is now 2024; the Earth has had a smooth rebuilding process with the help of the intergalactic space force known as Space Patrol Delta, it's Earth headquarters is stationed in the S.P.D Run and Maintained city of New Tech, the Earth Branch is headed up by Doggie Cruger and has as it's rangers the toughest of the tough...The A-Squad.
It is in 2025 that the evil Troobian Emperor Grumm attacks the Earth seeing it as a weak target; he had been monitoring the Venjix Virus for quiet sometime laying in wait for it to weaken humans, he would then swoop in and finish the job conquering the Earth in the name of the Troobian Empire. However, when S.P.D rendered it's aid to the Earth in 2020 Grumm hesitated and waited nearly 5 more years before commencing his attack.
In the last part of the year Grumm is defeated and peace restored to the Earth once again however it wouldn't be for long; Cain whom had been in hiding for nearly 13 years returns to wreck havoc on New Tech City, he however doesn't realize that even he's a target now as a greater threat than he looms over the Earth...Getting stronger and stronger with every passing day, waiting for his chance to exact a gruesome and in his mind deserved retribution on those he deemed to be his worst enemy!
Plot Point 6: The Rise Of The Bloodhounds (2041-2043)
Cain by this time has been imprisoned in a Containment Card by Space Patrol Delta and is no longer a Threat; however another surge of Venjix Network Grinders have been found on the outskirts of the Corinth City ruins, which had been deserted in 2032. They are quickly taken out by S.P.D's C-Squad Rangers but the question remains, how did they get there? Under special orders from S.P.D High Command Lieutenant Samuel Collins (Omega Ranger); is given a mission to covertly infiltrate a Communication Station which had stopped functioning days before, he is to ascertain how and why neither the base nor it's staff were reporting their status. Sam reports back a week after his mission had began and gives command the startling news they didn't want to hear, it seems the Venjix Virus has taken over the station and may have a direct link to S.P.D's own central computer system and their vast ranger archives.
Venjix now with the information of all known ranger teams (Which he had stolen from Space Patrol Delta) begins Research on a long forgotten Human R&D Project; this Project was started in late 2000 by the people of Nasada and would have been a Timegate, it would allow Zords, Weapons even Aircrafts to go back or forward to any point of time the user saw fit. A prototype was built and stored in a Nasada hanger near Marinor Bay, however unable to gain information of that Prototype, Venjix ops to build his own which he estimated would take nearly 2 years to complete and would be done in late 2043.
Two years pass by however everything is quiet and people have forgotten about the Venjix Virus; everyone is living happy peaceful lives around the world, this is due in large part to Venjix playing it safe and keeping his attacks to a bare minimum. He has begun building the Time Gate in a remote part of the world, stationing many of his Forces near it as to protect it should it be discovered. Upon it's completion Venjix will use it to send his forces to different points in time, their mission will be to destroy anyone whom had a hand in stopping his victory from taking place in 2010, and with the information he had gained two years prior he had knowledge of every Ranger Team across almost every era!
The present Commander of S.P.D's Earth Branch; Commander Shawn McKnight comissions a new militia of fighters that will spread across all points in linear time; they are known as the Bloodhounds and will be the first team of Rangers to have Time Travel Technology, this Technology would later go on to be the backbone of a future ranger orginazation known as Time Force. (Which is what one of the Bloodhounds will go on to found.)
Plot Point 7: Time Travel (1994)
Squad Delta of the Bloodhounds detect an anomoly coming from the year 1994 (2 Years before Operation: Zeo learns of General Venjix); they proceed to this point in time and commence their mission being careful not to be seen, however their journey into the Command Center is found out by the original team of Power Rangers. The Bloodhounds had reinforced Zordons energy shield and deactivated Alpha until Zordon returns, so that neither of them would be Infected by the Venjix Forces that had come to this time.
Upon recieving a communicaton from Zordon; prior to the arrival of the Bloodhounds, the original rangers teleport to the Command Center, Billy is able to findout about the Bloodhounds presence only a few minutes before. This leads to Jason and the others wondering just what was going on, as the Command Center looked as if it had been shut down.
Jasper Munroe, Michael McKnight and Samuel Collins (The Bloodhounds Squad Delta) teleport to the Angel Grove City Park having picked up a Venjix Networks Signal; they begin their mission again to find and disable the Grinders and Attack Bots that Venjix had sent here via the Timegate, it is at this time that they Engage the Venjix Attack Party hoping that the rangers of this time don't interfere.
Once their mission is complete they return to an empty Command Center and reactivate the controls also returning Zordon to this time period; with Zordon back Squad Delta returns to 2043 and await thier next mission, which unbeknownst to them at the time would be a personal one for Lieutenant McKnight.
Plot Point 8: Time For, Time Force! (2099-3000)
Preparations had begun in early 2099 for a new agency to take over for the now outdated Space Patrol Delta; it would be staffed with Time Officers whom could better handle Venjix's foray's across Time and Space, which were still going on at this point and were once again draining the Earth of it's resources, however Venjix had another more sinister attack in mind.
In 2100 Venjix infects an old Military compound hidden deep within' the Earths crust; it was an old Project: Cetra Underground Nuclear Silo with a large payload of Nukes, Venjix begins preping these ICBM Missiles for launch and within a week they are ready. He targets cities in the United States, Canada and Great Britain...The three leading members of Space Patrol Delta's Earth Branch!
On July 11th, 2100 Venjix launches the missiles unleashing massive amounts of radiation across the globe; it is this radiation that creates the mutant population as they are mutated humans, created from the radiation that now covers much of the Eastern part of the United States and parts of Canada.
By 3000 Time Force has been up and running as S.P.D's Replacement for quite some time and has it's own team of Time Force Officers and Rangers; the radiation unleashed by the Venjix Virus has disapated in many areas, however much of the planet is still considered No-Go Zones.
The Time Force Rangers begin their mission to the past in order to bring an escaped criminal (Ransik) back to justice; they are also on a mission to find and stop Venjix Network Attack Parties from attacking key points in time, Captain Logan fears that even today Venjix may be out there...Somewhere, waiting for just the right moment to strike as a Computer Virus in cyberspace cannot die.