Chapter One
One year later.
Location: Paris, France.
Night.
Trini teleports into a violent scene.
Mobs of people are wrecking havoc upon the city.
Cars are being overturn, shop windows are being shattered, and fires are being ignited both figuratively and physically.
She rushes into action.
A Power Ranger is not a foreign sight to this mob.
The news has spoken of such an enforcer.
They are somewhat terrified at the sight.
Yet not all run.
Some stay, the more radical of the bunch.
And these few extremists wield their machine guns.
The bullets bounce off her armor.
She runs at them.
The crowd disperses into the night.
She rounds them up.
Quite a normal night for her with this ethically defeated population called the human race.
The effects of Zedd's invasion and the public's introduction to the Power Rangers have created a dangerously unstable post-apocalyptic civilization.
The rangers have been at a constant effort to reform the race.
But they have made very little progress.
As the human race is an extremely paranoid people that have adopted a negative attitude towards the Power Ranges.
There argument being that the rangers are an unnecessary violent force that thrives on human suffering.
The single world government collapsed the very day it was established and the separate nations of the Earth have re-formed.
The Power Rangers are coercing the governments of the world to unite once again.
Stating that as a unified people they have a much greater chance of salvation.
Earths leading counties are close to an agreement.
Things are dark.
But the light is not to far ahead.
/com-transmission/tommy-trini/"Satilite feed has detected an alien presence in the Arctic territory."/com-transmission/tommy-trini/
/com-transmission/trini-tommy/"I'm a little occupied right now. Go ahead and check it out."/com-transmission/trini-tommy/
/com-transmission/tommy-trini/"Affirmative. Shouldn't be anything to worry about."/com-transmission/tommy-trini/
Location: The Arctic.
Tommy is welcomed by the harsh weather conditions of the region.
Cold wet hail is whipped across his face by the violent winds.
He is not harmed by such vigorous conditions though.
His suit being highly effective in protecting his cyberneticlly altered body.
He treks through the snow-coverd terrain to the metal craft only a few hundred kilometers away.
As Tommy approaches the alien machine he realizes that it's not a friendly.
An enormous robotic warrior.
Tommy:"O shit!"
A few hundred bullets exit the soldier's sidearm and are sprayed in Tommy's direction.
Six shards of alien metal penetrate through the green ranger armor.
Tommy screams in pain as he hits the cold snow floor.
/com-transmission/tommy-trini/"Backup! Now!"/com-transmission/tommy-trini/
He calls for his battle rifle.
Tommy:"Son of a bitch!"
Blood pours out of Tommy's shoulder.
He leaps into the air and pulls the trigger to his cannon.
Bursts off three bullets bunch through his attackers chest.
It walks right through it.
Tommy then unsheathes his sword.
Tommy shouts:"This is not my end!"
And the great warrior charges at his enemy.
Before he reaches his target a missile collides into the machine's side tearing through it and exploding.
Metal is flung at Tommy.
He is hit with a chunk of flaming debris.
Trini rushes to him.
Tommy screams to let her no he's still alive.
Trini pries him free.
Tommy:"Are there more?"
Trini:"I don't know."
She turns around while reloading her rocket launcher.
Trini:"Stay here."
Tommy:"Hurry, I'm loosing a lot of blood here."
She sprints forward.
Here radar on her H.U.D. (heads-up-display) shows no contacts.
But her senses tell her otherwise.
As she runs a grenade combusts under her.
Trini is hurled into the air at an incredible force as her armor shatters.
The cold winds light her senses up.
She injects a stimulant into her veins.
Now her rage is flying.
Trini:"Show yourself!"
Bullets are shot at her.
She dives out of the way and draws her shotgun.
Trini:"I got you now."
The yellow ranger sprints in that direction.
Her eyes catch the sight of a running robotic beast.
She pursues.
The machine halts and fires more bullets at her.
She breaks into a slide and pumps her shotgun as she blasts her victim with her own weapon.
It falls.
This one still in one piece.
She interrogates.
Trini:"Who sent you?"
Robot:"The Cloud of The Machine Empire will consume you. There is no escaping the power of King Mondo."
Trini is unable to control her stimulated rage.
She slams her fist through the robot's skull.
Trini:"Fuck King Mondo!"
She then runs back to Tommy.
He is in shock.
Trini:"O God."
She grabs him and the teleport back to the Command Center.
Location: Command Center: Lower Levels Section 3B: Infirmary.
The Command Center was rebuilt just as the rangers had said.
Tommy lies unconscious inside a medical tank.
Trini:"Rest up pal. you'll need it."
She falls asleep on the floor next to his tank.
Hours later.
//log.on/yellow/trini/02/ Tommy wakes me up. Med. tank must've healed his bullet wounds. /log.off/yellow/trini/02/
Tommy:"So what was that thing?"
Trini:"I can barely remember. Those stimulants are way to strong. I lost all sense of myself."
Tommy:"They're meant to do that. That's why they're called, Battle Stimulants."
Trini:"Well your modified injections are too strong."
Tommy:"Forget the Stims. Tell me about the machine."
Trini:"Mentioned the Machine Empire."
Tommy:"From the Eltarian-Machine War?"
Trini:"Apparently."
Tommy:"They're back."
Trini:"Yea."
Tommy takes a deep breath and coughs.
Trini:"You need more time in the tank."
Tommy:"I know, but not until you tell me more."
Trini:"There isn't anymore to tell. The Machine Empire is coming. Who knows how long they'll take to get here. But they're coming. To wipe us out."
Tommy coughs again, this time a glob of blood squirts out.
Trini:"You need to get back in that tank.
She forces him into the tank.
//log.on/yellow/trini/02/ The Machine Empire. We're not capable of defending against it. We are just too weak. We'll need help. /log.off/yellow/trini/02/