Space patrol delta were an intergalactic police force with bases on various worlds, they had created dozens of ranger powers that were used in defence of the universe. Earth was home to a group of SPD rangers known as beta squad who had been the ones to defeat the expansion of the Empire of Grumm by fending off attack after attack by the foul beast until he was finally defeated.

The newly appointed commander of the Earth branch had called his old team into the command centre of the base. He didn't say a word to them, just sat their silently as the monitors began to display a video message. It was Kendrix , pleading for reinforcements as people around her were slaughtered. The message came to an abrupt end as Kendrix morphed ready to mount one last stand.

"I've been ordered to ignore the message" The commander responded. His old team mates shocked at the decision. "SPD HQ believes that there is no-one left to rescue."

"How long ago?" Bridge asked.

"An hour." Sky replied.

"We're going." The three rangers said simultaneously.

"I can't guarantee you'll we'll be able to get you out if everything goes pear shaped." Sky continued.

Several hours passed before the SPD Beta squad arrived at the location where the Lost Galaxy Rangers had been destroyed. Only a few mechanical foot soldiers patrolled the grounds looking for any survivors. Their spaceship landed in a fairly central park but before they could open the doors the few foot soldiers that remained were heading their way.

"You much for stealth" Syd said.

"We weren't going for stealthy." Bridge replied.

"SPD Emergancy" the three shouted morphing into their respective colours. Red for Bridge, Pink of Syd and Yellow for Zee. The doors opened and the three of them ran out slashing and blast at the robots, easily over powering the small number. What they didn't notice however was the magnificent Lord Zedd that stood atop a nearby building watching them, he had already defeated 5 rangers this day how hard would 3 more be?

Zedd had rarely fought his enemies by himself, preferring to send his minions and monsters in to do his bidding. But perhaps that what had caused all his defeats, the incompetence of his underlings. He would battle these rangers himself; there were a mere three of them how badly could it go?

The three SPD rangers had regrouped, having defeated all of the foot soldiers that had attacked them. They didn't know where to search for survivor. It was clear from the message that the building they transmitted from was being overrun. It wasn't wise to spilt up in this unfamiliar city but they didn't have time to decide what way to go or where to search.

Three lightning bolts struck around the rangers sending them flying back. Zedd did not stop his assault there as he fired another bolt straight into the Pink Ranger's chest forcefully demorphering her. Zedd wasn't quick enough to avoid to stop Bridge from shooting his Delta Enforcers at the mad Lord. The Lord with his renewed power was easily able to deflect the repeated blasts.

"Any idea who he is?" Zee asked as she transformed into SWAT mode to fire even more blasts at the Lord.

"No idea, but we're going to need something big." Bridge replied.

"RIC!" Syd shouted barely able to stand, "Use the battliser!"

Although the rangers were able to avoid the repeated strikes of lightning that Zedd could launch they weren't landing a scratch on him. He would tire much quicker than them. Bridge had no choice he had to use the Battliser for the first time since he had become SPD Red. RIC rushed from the ship to transform into the battle armour, he was almost close enough in fact when he was shot by lightning from Zedd's staff. The robotic dog exploded into hundreds of pieces.

"I remember when Power Rangers were cool!" Zedd exclaimed as he launched another attack, but this time his attack wasn't aimed at the active rangers but at their already injured friend. She was able to avoid one but not them all. Repeated strikes of electricity coursed through her body, scorching her SPD uniform. No-one could have survived the assault.

"NO!" Bridge shouted as he ran toward Zedd blasting at him with his Delta Enforcers. Zedd slammed his staff down against the building's roof sending arcs of electricity up around him , protecting him from the blasts of energy coming at him, and down the sides of the building causing even more damage to the already damaged building.

Then in a flash of red light he was gone. The rangers looked around quickly searching for their enemy but just as the Yellow SPD ranger turned around he appeared in front of her knocking her a side with his staff. She lay there as he moved his staff toward her ready to strike her down like the Pink ranger before her. Electricity began to build in the silver staff, a powerful blast building at the tip but before he could fire Bridge blasted him causing him to spin round and fire the blast at him.

As the electricity hit the Red SPD ranger he demorphed and disintegrated near instantly, leaving the Yellow Ranger there alone against the big bad Lord. She blasted Zedd in the back but the damage to him was minimal. He turned around slowly, very slowly in fact allowing her to stand up and face her assassin. She knew she couldn't defeat him, she knew that she wasn't going to survive.

With the defeat of the SPD rangers the shadow appears once more. In the deepest depths of space, on a planet over which orbited an SPD outpost inhabited by some of the most experienced SPD officers in the universe. It was on this planet that many of the spoils of war were kept, safe from the evils that would seek them out, but not from the shadow.

The shadow had bypassed all security on the base and had entered the vault undetected to claim the sword of one of the most feared emperors in all of history. An emperor that had nearly conquered the known universe. The shadow clutched the sword as his darkness expanded over the sword. He stepped back for a second as a new shadow extended from the blade. Grumm was reborn. In seeing the shadow Grumm did not say a word but instead kneeled to the presence of one of the most ancient beings in the universe.