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Chapter 32 – Mega Mission

It was spring of 2010, the Rangers learned afterwards, or at least that's what the world thought it to be and they most certainly weren't going to correct them. Of those who remembered Venjix and his take over of Earth, it was only the RPM Rangers, Dr. K and Colonel Truman who had to adjust to remembering the past five years, and having to pretend it never happened. As promised Lightspeed sent over files that their computers suddenly had that told the RPM Rangers exactly what their lives were like in this new world. Apparently, Venjix had existed, and the RPM Rangers had fought him, but he had not destroyed Earth but rather was merely like any other enemy that came and went. Dr. K and Colonel Truman had retained their positions as tech advisor and mentor, though with obvious differences, namely that they weren't trying to protect the last bit of humanity on Earth. There were also ready-made lives for after Venjix. Scott, who had been an Air Force pilot, went back to the Air Force and worked closely with Joel Rawlings as well as his brother. Flynn joined the Silver Guardians, wanting to still help people as he always had, and brought the Guardians to the east coast, leading that outpost of Silver Guardians from Corinth itself.

In this new world, Summer's parents hadn't lost their money, though they had retained their change of heart, but most importantly, Andrews had not lost his life. Although he didn't remember the conversation they'd had when he was helping her reach Corinth, Summer still took great delight in actually being able to show him that she'd changed. Mr. and Mrs. Landsdown also settled a very large sum of money on their daughter telling her to go make her own future, but that they wouldn't let her do so without the means to take care of herself. Summer put a fair bit of that money towards a round the world trip for her, Dillon and Tanaya. All three greatly desired to just feel free for awhile, having felt trapped by Venjix, and Summer having realized how trapped she felt in her old life. Dillon and Tanaya still had little to no memories of before Venjix so didn't know how they felt beforehand, but both were ready to put the past behind them and make new memories. What they'd do when they got back from their world tour none of them knew, but they'd figure it out eventually.

Gem and Gemma joined the local bomb squad, having learned during their time as Rangers that sometimes, a lot of the time, diffusing bombs was better then watching them go off. They did, however, still cater to their love of blowing things up by becoming pyrotechnic experts, their firework displays being some of the best, as well as working on contract with Lightspeed Rescue who hired them to analyze and test the impact of the various, and numerous, explosions that followed the Rangers around. Then there was Ziggy and Dr. K. Ziggy had convinced K to speak with Lightspeed about her time at Alphabet Soup. Captain Mitchell and the Rangers were completely incensed that their government could have done something like that and quickly put a stop to it. Dr. K even got to watch as they hauled in those responsible, including the two who had kidnapped K herself. That gave her the final bit of closure she needed to finally put Alphabet Soup firmly behind her as she made way for her future. She could not remember her family, though Lightspeed had informed her that they'd passed away in a car crash shortly after she was kidnapped as they were out searching for her. K was happy to know that her parents had loved her and searched for her until they died, but with no memories of that life she didn't feel the need to cling to it, even refusing to know what her name had been when Lightspeed found out. Having been called K for so long, but no longer wanting to be called only a letter, she took on a new name, Kate, giving her a better sense of identity, but keeping the sound of what she'd gotten used to being called.

She and Ziggy had both gone to work with the orphanage Ziggy had grown up in. Ziggy loved those kids and Kate found that she too had a fondness for them as they accepted her unconditionally and forced her to loosen up and even have a bit of the childhood she was denied. Still, while Kate like working with the children, playing hide and seek was a far cry from the quantum physics she was used to. So she decided to put her intellect to good use and worked with both Lightspeed and Alpha to improve the Earth's defenses as they worked to ensure nothing like what Venjix had done could ever happen again; they knew full well that if it did, Kira and Connor may not be there to save everyone, so it was far better to prevent it from happening in the first place. Ziggy followed Kate between the orphanage and her work with Alpha and Lightspeed, becoming a kind of assistant, thought he didn't understand ninety-nine percent of what she talked about. He didn't care though. Although he had yet to admit it, he got to spend every day with the woman he loved, and he didn't care where they were or what they did so long as they were together. Kate, who was still getting used to emotion of any kind, did not feel the same as Ziggy, for she didn't really know what love was, but she knew that she had a really hard time picturing a life without Ziggy, and knew she'd miss him a lot if he was gone.

Although it was hard, the RPM team adjusted to their new lives with grace and after a few months settled into them. They'd never forget Venjix, or the real battle they had fought, but life went on and they adjusted, freely admitting that although difficult, they much preferred this life after Venjix over the one they would have had had the other Rangers not escaped Eltar.

-C/K-

Three years passed quickly, far too quickly as far as some people were concerned. Due to their time spent on Eltar Kira had missed six months of school, even with her and Connor's power having taken the memories of the last five years away, the RPM Rangers' battle was over, and people's mind, and the records, showed that it was spring of 2010, the end of Kira's sophomore year, when she'd only had two months of school before leaving for Eltar. As such she had to repeat tenth grade, her absence, and her father's, having been explained to the people of Reefside High as a family emergency; thankfully no one asked what emergency could have taken over six months. This meant that Kira did not graduate high school until three years after Venjix was destroyed. That time passed fast for the Olivers. Eric was now newly turned eight and would be heading into second grade in the fall, while his sister had just graduated high school and was preparing to head to UCLA. She and Connor were moving to Los Angeles allowing Connor to finally take the LA Galaxy up on their offer for a spot on their team, while Kira would go to college. She was taking a general Bachelor's of Arts, really not sure what she wanted to do with her life, though no one doubted for a minute that she would eventually end up doing some kind of humanitarian work, or end up in a high ranking position in the newly amalgamated Lightspeed Rescue and Silver Guardians, the name of which escaped her, though truthfully she hadn't really bothered to learn it knowing they'd shortly become Space Patrol Delta, for Kira's personality, and the life she'd led, would allow for nothing less then for her to spend the rest of her life helping people in some way. But, while she sorted things out, she'd get her degree and was even, much to her and her family's amusement, taking Power Rangers Studies as one of her electives. The course was essentially a philosophy course but specifically related to the Rangers. It touched on the Rangers' purpose, if they'd actually helped Earth or were responsible for the monsters' presence, where their powers came from, and if that amount of power should remain in their hands, the hands of mostly unknown people, or if it should be given to all of Earth. Kira was greatly looking forward to that class, and was using it as a learning opportunity for all Rangers to learn what people thought of them, as well as if the events her generation had grown up with had opened or closed peoples' minds towards things they didn't really understand and that were different; she remembered her aunt and uncles telling her about the Peace Conference and why they'd left and wanted to know if in almost ten years, peoples' opinions had changed.

The move to L.A. took place shortly after graduation for Connor began training in mid July. None of the parents were too happy about them moving in with each other, Connor's parents because Kira was just out of high school while their son was not, even though they'd been informed shortly after Kira's eighteenth birthday that the two were mates; though not much more then that was explained, only the bare minimum to keep Connor's parents happy. Kira's parents really didn't have a good reason for not wanting them to move in together, so they grudgingly gave their permission, though neither Kira nor Connor had asked for it. Taking Jefferson with them, for the cat would allow nothing less even if they wanted to leave him behind, they moved into a relatively nice apartment for their ages and given that it was technically their first home together, a fact both of them had to admit they kind of liked, all thanks to Connor's significantly raised salary as he was now a major league soccer player, and a highly sought after one at that. He was by no means making the millions that former L.A. Galaxy, and soccer legend, David Beckham was making, far from it, but it was more then enough for a better apartment then he had had in Reefside. It was also enough for both of them to live comfortably on for the time being, though Kira didn't like Connor paying for everything and so dipped into her savings to help out, which truthfully didn't put a dent in it. Kira was not a materialistic person and so almost all the money she'd gotten over the years for birthdays and Christmases from her numerous aunts and uncles, as well as the huge amount of babysitting she did for them all, went into her savings. With the large number of aunts and uncles she had, there was always one cousin or another to be babysat, and if not them, then family friends in the form of other Rangers. Kira had watched the future S.P.D. Rangers more then once, which was slightly weird for her, but weird or not, all of it meant that she was as set financially as any new high school graduate could be.

Almost a year passed in which Kira, Connor and their families settled into their new routine. During that year, and the three before it since Venjix was destroyed, two more teams of Rangers joined the Power Ranger Family, though those teams were unaware of this for they had yet to meet any of the veteran Rangers. The Samurai Rangers and Megaforce Rangers fought their villains bravely and the Samurai Rangers became the first team since the Turbo Rangers to continue their fight for longer then a year, gaining new enemies and new powers, though their transition was more subtle, their arch-enemy being the same and their powers not making them a new team of Rangers, but rather Super Samurai Rangers. But while the Samurai Rangers were the first in many years to continue their fight beyond the standard year, it didn't look like they'd be the last. Shortly after Kira's nineteenth birthday, and after three years of relative peace, as sad as it was that the veteran Rangers considered it peaceful if one team of Rangers were enough to handle their villain, everything went to hell.

It started out pretty innocuously. The Rangers naturally kept up with the happenings of anything attacking Earth and so knew instantly when the Samurai Rangers' battle started and ended, and when the Megaforce Rangers' battle began and then got worse.

"What are these things?" Gia asked as she and the other, now Super Megaforce, Rangers squared off against some unknown monsters who all looked alike.

"They definitely don't look like something Vekar cooked up." Jake added. The monsters they fought were grey from head to toe who looked like their faces had been moulded from some kind of clay.

"They're definitely ugly though." Emma muttered.

"They're ugly?" Noah cried, pointing behind the troop of monsters and up to the top of a nearby building. The Rangers turned and looked upwards and sure enough there was another monster, this one probably the ugliest they'd seen, though he certainly wasn't a foot soldier as these mass produced grey things seemed to be.

"Who is he?" Gia wondered.

"We sure it's a he and not an it?" Jake asked. The monster certainly didn't give any sign of humanity, let alone gender, but for the sake of the argument they'd call him a he, and he wore a type of armour over a body that looked like it had been turned inside out. His head had horns that curled downwards and half of his face looked mutated while the other half was covered in what looked like a cowcatcher from an old fashioned steam engine, and he carried a silver staff with a Z at the top.

"Whoever he is, let's take him down!" Troy said, pulling out his Morpher.

"Right!" The others responded, falling in line behind their Red Ranger.

"Go Go Megaforce!" They cried as one, inserting their Power Cards into their Morphers and closing them up, initiating the morphing sequence. Now morphed, they fought off the foot soldiers easily enough and then turned their sights on the ugly monster with the staff who was leading the foot soldiers. It became clear very fast that they were out of their league with this guy and so called on their new Super Megaforce powers, inserting the Ranger Keys into their new Morphers.

"Super Mega Mode!" The fight barely evened up with their knew powers and the Rangers were considering going to Legendary Ranger Mode when it seemed that someone got there first.

"Thrax!" A voice shouted as two Rangers, a Yellow and a Red, ran into the clearing and stopped in front of the Megaforce Rangers.

"You!" The monster name Thrax snarled.

"That's right." The Yellow Ranger snapped. "And you're through!"

"To the contrary, Yellow Ranger, this battle is far from over!" Thrax launched on the attack and the Rangers fought back, the two of them making more headway then all five Megaforce Rangers had.

"Ptera Grips!"

"Tyranno Staff!" The two Rangers called on their weapons and levelled them at Thrax waiting for his next moved.

"I will return!" Thrax snarled, making his move a retreat. When he was gone, the two Rangers sent their weapons back to where they came from and turned to face the other Rangers.

"Power down!" The two cried, their suits disappearing to reveal a tall man in his mid to late twenties and a short woman in her late teens or early twenties. Deciding the best course of action was to greet the newcomers and find out what the hell was going on, Troy led the way over and was the first of his team to power down.

"Thanks. Whoever you are."

"I'm Kira." The woman greeted. "This is Connor."

"It's nice to meet you guys, and we do have a lot to talk about." Connor said. "But here isn't the place. Police and emergency crews will being showing up soon."

"We know where to go." Troy said and motioned the two Rangers to follow him and the other Megaforce Rangers. They led them into the woods where they entered a portal that took them to the Megaforce Rangers command centre, which was essentially a cave.

"Woah." Kira muttered seeing all the mini statues of every Ranger to ever exist on a shelf that went around the entire room.

"Those are our Ranger Keys." Noah explained.

"Ranger Keys?" Kira and Connor asked, confused.

"Yeah, they let us morph into the Ranger of whichever Key we use." Emma added. Kira and Connor shared a look as if to say 'are they crazy?' but kept any thoughts on that to themselves.

"Welcome back Rangers." A voice and everyone looked down to see a robot, about knee height, rolling around. "I see you brought some friends."

"Hey Tensou." Gia said. "Yes, this is Kira and Connor, they're Power Rangers. Guys this is Tensou, he's our tech advisor and companion to Gosei."

"Gosei?" They both asked.

"Welcome Rangers." A deep voice spoke from across the room and Kira and Connor turned towards it, their eyes going wide upon seeing what it was. "I am Gosei."

"That tiki warrior mask is talking." Kira muttered.

"That's what I said when we first met Gosei." Jake said with a laugh. "But he's cool."

"Weirder things have happened." Connor reminded his mate, who couldn't deny that fact.

"What do you know of what is going on?" Gosei asked. "We have not encountered that particular being before."

"We have-"

"She has." Connor corrected.

"Once." Kira finished as if Connor had never spoken. "His name is Thrax. He attacked Earth six years ago but myself and some other Rangers were able to push him back. He escaped, swearing he'd get revenge."

"Nothing new there." Connor imputed.

"So how do we defeat him? And what does he want?" Noah asked.

"He wants what every other evil being who attacks this planet wants. To kill us and rule it all." Connor said.

"So he's no different from the others." Troy concluded. "So we'll defeat him like the others."

"It's not gonna be that easy." Kira said. "Thrax is extremely powerful and he wouldn't have returned until he could pretty much guarantee his victory."

"He certainly got the worst parts of his parents." Connor muttered. He'd never met them personally, but he knew them through stories and Kira's memories.

"His parents?" Emma asked. "That thing has parents?"

"Every living being has parents." Kira answered. "Thrax wasn't born evil, he was turned, so we can't just destroy him, we have to find a way to bring him back. But Connor's right, he did get the worst bits of his parents. They were evil too at one point. You may remember them from your childhood, or the news, or history lessons or something, as Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd. The very first enemies of the Original Power Rangers."

"Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa?" Gosei asked, recognition in his voice.

"You know Rita and Zedd?" Kira asked.

"Not personally no, but my mentor, Zordon, did." Gosei answered. "Zordon was an intergalactic being from-"

"Eltar, who alongside his robotic companion, Alpha 5, created the Morphing Grid, and subsequently, the Power Rangers." Kira finished.

"How do you know Zordon?" Gosei asked.

"I grew up around him. My parents are the Original Pink and White Rangers…I used to call him grandpa…" Connor wrapped an arm around his mate as memories of Zordon swam through her.

"Used to?" breathed Gosei unbelievingly.

"He was destroyed. He sacrificed himself to save the universe back in 1998." Gosei was silent and Kira groaned in realization. "You didn't know…" It wasn't a question.

"Zordon placed me here as a secondary guardian of Earth. I slept for centuries awaiting the time when I would be needed and have only awoken some months ago." Kira and Connor were silent for a moment but both ultimately agreed on the best course of action.

"Maybe it'll be better to hear this from a friend." Kira muttered. "Alpha come in."

"Go ahead Kira." He answered seconds later.

"Can you teleport to my location? Please?" Alpha did not respond but a grey beam of teleportation entered the cave command centre not long after.

"Alpha!" Both Gosei and Tensou cried, seeing their old friend.

"Gosei! Tensou! Aye yai yai!" The Eltarian robot cried, seeing these two once again. "You have awoken!"

"He's the mentor of the Megaforce Rangers." Kira said, coming up beside her friend. "And he's just found out Zordon's gone. But doesn't know how."

"Oh…aye yai yai…" This one was much more subdued and Kira and Connor motioned for the Megaforce Rangers to follow them outside.

"We'll give them some time alone." Connor explained.

"But what happened?" Gia asked. "Gosei's always spoken of Zordon. He had no idea he was…well…dead…"

"Back in 1998, Astronema didn't just attack Earth, but the entire universe." Kira said with a sigh. "That battle would have been lost if Zordon hadn't have sacrificed himself. His pure energy was the only thing strong enough to defeat our enemies and stop an even worse genocide then had already happened."

"So what's your story?" Jake asked. "You said you called Zordon grandpa?" Kira laughed at that, her memories of the morphological being leaving The Countdown behind and becoming happier.

"Yeah. He was like a father to the Original Rangers. My parents had me when they were still Rangers so I spent a lot of time in the Command Centre with Zordon and Alpha. I remember they made me an indoor jungle gym for my birthday one year so I wouldn't be bored when my parents went to fight." Kira smiled at that, remembering the jungle gym had existed, if not any specifics about it. "Zordon died when I was really young, but he was family." The Megaforce Rangers nodded and they sat in silence for a moment before Kira and Connor asked them for their story; how they became Rangers and who their enemies were. They talked outside, looking out over the ocean from the island the Megaforce command centre was on, until the alarms blared. With practiced ease, all seven Rangers jumped up and ran back inside.

"Thrax is attacking the city." Gosei explained. "Alpha has returned to the Command Centre to monitor the situation."

"Let's go!" Connor said, activating his Morpher, Kira doing the same right along side him.

"Dino Thunder, Power Up!" The two cried, Kira foregoing her Jungle Fury Ranger form for the moment. If Thrax was as powerful as they thought, she might need her stronger form later, and it was better not to show their entire arsenal at once.

"Go Go Megaforce! Super Mega Mode!" The other Rangers cried moments after them. Tensou then teleported them all back downtown where they were confronted by more of those grey monsters.

"These things are getting on my nerve." Jake muttered.

"They're called Putties." Kira called from not far away. "They were the foot soldiers of choice for Thrax's parents."

"Doesn't mean they're not pissing me off!"

"Agreed!" Connor grumbled. The number of Putties overwhelmed them, especially when Thrax joined the fight, heading straight for Kira.

"I think it's time we take it up a notch guys!" Troy yelled to his teammates.

"Oh yeah!" Said Noah. "Now you'll get to see our Legendary Mode!" He told Kira and Connor as the five Megaforce Rangers fell in line with Troy. Kira and Connor kept fighting Thrax, Connor having come to help his mate, but also kept an eye on the Rangers, wondering how this was going to work.

"Legendary Ranger Mode!" They called together, each pulling out one of the mini Ranger figurines that turned into keys, which they inserted into their Morphers. When they turned the Keys, the Megaforce Rangers were engulfed in coloured light which dissipated to reveal the Jungle Fury Rangers.

"Ok now this is really weird!" Kira muttered, seeing her Ranger form when she most certainly wasn't inside the suit. The Megaforce Rangers fought the Putties for awhile, coming out on top until they decided to group them together and called on the Claw Cannon, only to discover it didn't work.

"Idiots." Kira mumbled telling Connor to keep Thrax busy as she went to the Megaforce Rangers' aid.

"Power down!" Kira stood in front of them outside of the suit, not taking her eyes of the group of Putties ahead. "You showed me your Legendary Mode, let me show you a real Jungle Fury Ranger!" She pulled out her Solar Morpher and put the sunglasses on, bringing her right arm across her chest, her hand in the shape of a claw, in the ready formation.

"Jungle Beast, Spirit Unleashed!" Kira morphed and ran at the Putties, calling on her Jungle Bo as she went. It didn't take long for them to fall and for Kira to turn her sights on Thrax. With Connor's help, the two pushed him back once again, but this time he wasn't going to leave without taunted them a bit, which truthfully Kira was thankful for, as taunting usually meant they'd learn some valuable information.

"You will never win, Rangers! This war is far from over and the Putties are only the beginning!"

"What are you talking about, Thrax?" Connor yelled.

"You think you can defeat evil, well evil can never be defeated! We shall only rise up again stronger then ever!" He laughed evilly and Kira and Connor shared a sinking feeling in their gut. "I will return, and I shall bring some old friends with me! This is the beginning of the end for you, and for goodness itself! Hahahaha!" That sinking feeling they had was cemented then and when Thrax disappeared, the Rangers immediately teleported back to the Megaforce Rangers Command Centre.

"This is bad," Connor mumbled. "This is really really bad."

"What's really bad?" Troy asked.

"Thrax has resurrected all the evil we've ever fought." Kira answered.

"What?!"

"How's that possible?" Emma asked.

"I don't know, but we're going to find out." Kira and Connor nodded to each other and headed for the cave's entrance.

"If he's bringing our old enemies back we're gonna need everyone in on this." Connor said to his mate.

"I know." Kira mumbled.

"Wait!" Gia cried. "Where are you going?"

"To get help." Kira answered as they momentarily paused in the entranceway.

"Look, for now don't do anything unless absolutely necessary." Said Connor. "If Thrax returns with old enemies, you'll have no idea how to fight them, and your powers will be next to useless."

"Then we'll just use our Legendary Mode and fight them as the Rangers they fought before." Noah said but Kira vigorously shook her head.

"Whatever you do, don't use your Legendary Mode." She practically begged.

"Why not?" Jake asked.

"Because they're not what you think they are. Look, we'll explain when we get back, but right now we have to go call in reinforcements."

"We promise everything will make sense." Connor added.

"But promise us you won't use those powers." Kira stared them down until they promised and realizing she and Connor were going to leave them all incredibly confused, she decided to give them a dose of reality to think on while they were gone. "This battle is going to be bigger then anything any of us have ever fought. Bigger even then Astronema's near take over fifteen years ago. As of this moment, the universe is at war, and Earth is about to become the primary battle ground."

A/N - This is the beginning of the final arch of this story. Do not fear though, there are still many chapters to come! The Legendary War has begun and each chapter from here till the all Ranger battle will be a tribute to each team of Rangers. Which is why there's many chapters cause there's like 20 teams of Rangers or something like that. This is what I believe the new season of Super Megaforce should be doing, and while in a way they are with their Legendary Mode, they got very few Rangers to return so they couldn't do it properly.

That being said I have not watched more then the first half of the first episode of Megaforce, that 12 minutes was enough to turn me off the season (mainly due to their not so subtle attempt to copy Mighty Morphin'), though I've googled plot and such. The Megaforce Rangers will not be taking on a huge role, and if I get things wrong with character or what not I apologize. Same holds true for Samurai.

Review please!