A/N I hope this answers the questions that came up in the reviews. Also I don't have a beta, so I'm apologizing in advance for any errors that may be in here. Sorry about the cheesy ending, it is however foreshadowing something much bigger thats going to happen in a later chapter.

The uniforms they found themselves in were skin tight on all five. The boys were dressed in one piece suits in their respective colors, with black stripes running along their waists, legs, arms and a 'v' along their collar. All five also had capes and boots in their colors as well. The girls, instead of having a one piece suit like the boys, had a long top which flared out like a skirt on the bottom, and were wearing tight pants; the blue ranger in silver, and the pink ranger in white. The helmets on the rangers were their colors with their symbols on the helmets.

It was the Hidiacs who attacked first. It was the kind of battle that didn't require any weapons, just the use of arms and legs from all parties. Morticon "stood" off in the distance. From his limited range of sight, due to him not really being there, he saw that it seemed to be a pretty even match. He laughed softy to himself as he realized that when and if one of the Mystic Force broke through the line of Hidiacs and had a clear line to him, they were in for a surprise, for his very presence there was all due to spell created by Koragg, who the Rangers had yet to meet. He saw that the blue ranger, was on the ground, and smiled to himself. His smile didn't last long when two green vines rushed past him to go around the green ranger and into a swarm of about 15 Hidiacs, who consequently disappeared. He couldn't hear what they were saying, as the spell only allowed a hearing range of only about 100 feet or so, and the battle had moved out of that range. The green ranger turned and started towards him, but was met by more Hidiacs. Morticon was pleased.

"Pink is not my favorite color, and it won't be yours either!" Vida said to bunch of Hidiacs, as she waved her morpher, which had turned back to wand, around. She grew fairy wings, rose up into the air, and created a whirlwind which sent a whole bunch of Hidiacs every which way.

"Good job, Sis!" Madison called from behind her sister, "Now it's my turn!"

Madison, upon getting up from the ground, found a pond that had just enough water for her to do some magic of her own. Somehow she knew a spell that would allow her to walk on water. She wondered briefly about that, but decided to ponder later, as she proceeded to walk on water. Madison pulled out her wand, and waved it so that it was like she was pushing the water towards an unsuspecting opponent, which in this case were the Hidiacs who had followed her to the pond. The wave she created hit the Hidiacs full force, and subsequently, they vanished.

Meanwhile, Chip and Bowen were back-to-back, completely surrounded by Hidiacs. Both had their wands out. If only I could turn this into a weapon, thought Chip. His prayers were answered as the wand turned into a crossbow.

"How did you do that?" asked Bowen, turning his head.

Chip shrugged, "I wished it, and it happened."

I wonder, thought Bowen, my magic has never failed me before, why should it now?

He waved his hand over his morpher. He refused to call it a wand, since he had been doing magic without a wand since he could remember. He had to ask his mother later why he needed a wand now. But his effort paid off as it transformed into a sword, his desired weapon of choice.

"Hey!" Bowen exclaimed.

"Niiiice!" said Chip, "shall we show them what were all about?"

Bowen smiled underneath his helmet. He could feel that there was something about Chip, like he knew he could trust him, actually he felt that among the others too, like they could be his friends. He nodded his head, and thrust back into battle. Chip did the same shooting off lightning from his crossbow. A lightning firing crossbow, weird, thought Bowen, as he fought off three Hidiacs. The others soon joined them, working together as a team. For the first time in his life, Bowen felt like he was actually a part of something. Suddenly, he had a clear path to Morticon. He held up his sword and began to rush towards him.

"So the son of the white sorceress finally decides to meet me?" Morticon said as Bowen got closer.

"Yea, and you won't be here for long!" Bowen exclaimed, stopping about 50 feet away from Morticon, who he realized hadn't moved from that one spot since first introducing himself.

Morticon chuckled softly, this was it. "Oh, I'm so scared, Red Ranger."

Bowen felt the power of fire running through his body. He held up his sword, as he began to glow with the embers of fire all around him. "Power of the Phoenix!" he cried as he jumped towards Morticon, hoping to score a direct hit, but instead of hitting Morticon, Bowen sailed right through him, and hit something metal instead, knocking him backwards, back in front of Morticon.

The others who finally defeated all the rest of the Hidiacs ran towards Morticon, and the purple clad something, who was carrying a shield, the metal that Bowen hit. "Your! your just a hologram!" Bowen yelled.

"Good for you to finally notice," Morticon began, "now before I take my leave of you, allow me to introduce Koragg, the Knight Wolf, who is responsible for me being here today!"

"Koragg?" Xander whispered to Vida who was right next to him.

"I don't know," she whispered back, as the projection of Morticon vanished into the air.

"It is my duty to the master to destroy you," Koragg said angrily.

Bowen, who still hadn't gotten up from the ground stared up at Koragg. There was something about him that Bowen couldn't look away from, for the more he looked at Koragg, the more familiar he felt; from the purple and silver clad armor, to the silverish wolves on his shoulder, and the sword and shield he was carrying. But that was impossible, this was the first time that Bowen had ever met Koragg, and he had a very strong feeling it wasn't going to be the last.

"Not before we destroy you!" Bowen said getting up, holding his sword up in front of him.

Koragg looked at the red ranger. "I'm not going to fight you today, there's no honor in fighting tired opponents," Koragg said addressing the five of them.

"Honor?!" Bowen yelled at Koragg, first Morticon not being there, now this? These past few minutes have been the most confusing of his life.

"Some other time, Red Ranger," Koragg said, as a purple circle appeared beneath his feet, and he sunk into it, and disappeared.

"Does this count as a victory?" a female voice came from behind Bowen.

He turned around, noticing for the first time the other four. It was Madison who had spoken, as she was the one closest to him. "I'm not a hundred percent sure, that Koragg guy…"

"He was cool!" Chip said out of the blue.

Vida smacked him from behind causing his helmet to wobble around his head. "He wouldn't fight you, Bowen, why?" Vida asked.

"I have no idea. We should go ask my mom, hopefully she has more answers than questions," he answered as he started to head in the direction of Rootcore.

Xander, who had been surprisingly quiet during the whole event, noticed that they had one slight problem. "Bowen!" he yelled, freezing Bowen in his tracks.

"How exactly do we get out of these uniforms? I mean we can't exactly go work with them, as cool as they are."

Bowen turned around. "Uh, well," he stumbled, "I actually have no idea. This is as new to me as it is to you."

"There's got to be a way!" Vida said, running over to Bowen, "I mean we somehow knew what to say to get into them, and we have to know how to get out of them."

Chip, Madison, and Xander came right behind Vida. All five were thinking, how were they going to get out of this. "Shouldn't it be as easy as saying 'power down'?" Madison asked, as the blue uniform around her melted away revealing her in her other new uniform.

"Good going, Maddie!" Xander said. "Power down!" The green uniform vanished from Xander.

The other three repeated the line and their uniforms disappeared. "That was amazing!" Chip said.

"You said it!" Vida said jumping in the air, as they started to head towards Rootcore.

When Rootcore was in the distance, Bowen stopped, causing the other four to walk into him. "Thanks Bowen!" Vida said nastily.

"Well so-orry! I didn't know I needed a stop sign when I'm walking," he said turning around causing Vida to grunt. "I just wanted to say that today I felt like I was apart of something. Something cool, and amazing. I want to thank all of you."

Chip moved towards Bowen. "No problem, man, anytime," he said clasping a hand on Bowen's shoulder.

"Thanks Chip, you don't know how much that means to me," Bowen said with a small smile.

"It was fun, even if Koragg or whatever his name is chickened out," Xander said from behind Madison who was behind Vida, "your cool, mate."

"This is so unlike me, but…" Madison pushed her sister out of the way causing her to fall onto the forest floor. She walked right in front of Bowen grabbing both of his hands in her own, "you are definitely my teammate, Bowen, even if we do come from different worlds, I am happy and proud to be on the same team as you."

He smiled at her, "Thanks, Madison," Bowen whispered.

"Call me Maddie," she said smiling back and dropping his hands. "Do you have anything to say, Vida?" She called back to her sister who had gotten up.

Vida just gave Bowen a look. She felt like she couldn't trust him yet. Bowen shrugged at her, and turned towards Rootcore with three of his teammates, (friends?) by his side.

Meanwhile…

"Why didn't you fight them, Koragg?" asked a very angry Morticon, "you had them just where I put them, and then you walk away?"

"There is no honor in fighting worn out opponents," Koragg responded.

"You and your honor, strange that the Master hasn't finished you off yet," Morticon responed.

Koragg said nothing and walked away. If only Morticon knew the real reason why didn't fight. There was something about the red ranger, if only he knew what. He felt drawn to the boy, it was almost like his magic was reaching out to Koragg for a reason beyond what Koragg could understand. There was definitely a connection between the two of them, and Koragg wasn't going to stop until he knew what exactly that connection was…

Back at Rootcore

"Good job, Rangers!" Udonna said as the group walked in, "I see that you are starting to come together as a team."

Bowen looked at his mother. Something just made a lot of sense then and there. "You knew! You knew all along that I was going to be apart of this, now I know why you always had me training!" He cried and screamed at his mother.

The other four looked at Bowen. Vida was beginning to understand the mysterious Nick or whatever his name was, a little bit better. She was always having arguments with her father, since her and Maddie seemed to have an opposite situation with their parents than Bowen. Their mother was an alcoholic who left the family when Vida and Maddie were three, leaving them with their overprotective father. Vida was the rebellious one, who one day when they were twelve, Vida firmly put her foot down on having to dress the same as her sister, and have the same hair style that their father always insisted that they have. It caused a long fight with him, which finally opened his eyes to that Vida and Maddie were two separate people with their own separate lives, and they were growing up. She has been fighting with her father ever since over stupidity. It seemed that Udonna had been pushing Bowen to train for something most of his life, and it seemed like she kept it from him, making him angry at not knowing why. At least Vida knew why her father was the way he was, he was afraid of his little girls turning into alcoholics, and Vida couldn't blame him.

"Your right, Bowen," Udonna said, knocking Vida out of her daydream, "I did know, and I did hold it from you. I wanted you to grow up carefree, and not have this burden on your shoulders."

"Burden, what burden?" Bowen asked, as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"The burden of your father's legacy." That got Bowen's and the rest of the ranger's attention.

"My father?" Bowen questioned.

"Leanbow considered being the leader of the Mystic Ranger's a burden on his family, and on himself. The war took a lot out of him, and he would come home after every battle hurt, tired, and dirty. But he loved you Bowen, he loved you very much, and always found a moment just to spend time with you."

Tears fell from Udonna's eyes. "I've never seen you cry before," Bowen said.

"I hoped you never would," his mother said.

Chip felt very out of place right then. He turned around to look at Xander who was standing on his left, and Madison who was on his right, and next to her was her sister. "Maybe we should come back tomorrow," Chip said suddenly, interrupting the mother/son moment.

"Maybe that would be good," said Madison, "after everyone has had a chance to process everything that's happened today."

Xander nodded his head in agreement. He was already exhausted and it was only 3 pm. 3 pm?!

"Uh, I just realized something," Xander said.

"What?" asked Vida.

"Two words, Rock. Porium."

"Toby!" Chip, Madison, Vida and Xander said together.

"We are really in for it," Madison said.

"Rock Porium?" Udonna said, in between a few stray tears.

"Its where they work, Mom." Bowen said, "I'm the one's who brought you here, at least let me show you out."

"No! They have to find their way out by themselves," Udonna said, "Do you think that you can be here early tomorrow. I have so much to show you, and there's so much for you to learn that will help you defeat Morticon and the forces of the Underworld."

The Rock Porium employees looked at each other. "I don't know about you, but I'm in. Those uniforms were totally cool, and shooting lightning out of a crossbow was totally cool!" Chip said.

"I'm in too, vine power is my kind of thing!" Xander said, his accent very prevalent, which caused Maddie and Vida to share a giggle.

"Even though I hate pink, wind power is my thing," Vida said, smiling at Bowen for the first time.

"I guess I'm with you too, water power seems to be my thing, and I'll be fighting alongside my friends and sister," replied Madison who also smiled at Bowen.

"It's settled then," Udonna said, "we'll see you here tomorrow?"

All four nodded their heads. "Good, remember the trees are your passage," Udonna said.

"Bye!" said Xander as he led the four of them out, Vida being last.

When he was sure they were out of site, Bowen sat down at the chair closest to him, which happened to be in front of his symbol. He was quiet for a few seconds. "Mom, you owe it to me to tell me the truth. How did we know how to do that?"

"In order to prevent me from saying the same story twice, I'll wait till tomorrow to say it."

"Aw, come on, Mom." Bowen said.

Suddenly a light gush of wind came through Rootcore, and bringing in with it, was the new Pink Ranger.

"Back so soon?" Bowen asked when she finally noticed him on the chair.

She flashed him a look. "The reason why I came back is that I wanted to say that I'm sorry for acting so rudely towards you. As my sister would say, this is totally not like me, but I want to be part of the team, and being part of the team requires accepting all members no matter how different they may be."

Bowen just stared at her. "Are you saying what I think your trying to say?" He asked very coldly.

Vida nodded. "Can we start over? And put this behind us? Please?"

Udonna had long since moved to bookcase against the far wall from where the conversation was taking place. She picked up a box that was very dear to her, and it was time that Bowen knew what was inside of it. Turning around she saw that Vida was trying to apologize; she only hoped Bowen would accept it. They needed to be a team, and she knew her son, so much like Leanbow, would not be very forgiving. Leanbow, once betrayed or hurt wouldn't even look at the person doing the betraying for a very long time. She turned her gaze over to Bowen, who for the second time that day was involved in a staring contest with the Pink Ranger. He stood up and walked around the table to where Vida was. He held out his hand.

"Hey, my name is Bowen, I kind of live here," he joked.

She grabbed his hand. "Hey I'm Vida, I live somewhere over there," she said pointing at a wall with her other hand.

"I'm really sorry for lying to you before, its just…"

Vida held up her hand, "Don't worry about it. I saw why you did it, its in the past."

"Thank you, Vida," Bowen whispered to her looking into her brown eyes.

"Hey, you're my teammate, we have to work together!" she replied with a laugh in which Bowen joined in on. "Hey I have to get back to work, see you tomorrow?"

"Yep, I'll be here," Bowen said, as she walked back out of Rootcore.

"I wonder what caused that change of heart, she hated me this morning," Bowen said, knowing that his mother was still in the room.

"Magic works in mysterious ways, Bowen. You, out of everyone should know that."

"I know, its just for the first time in my life, I feel like I'm part of something, something big, and it feels good inside."

"I know, Bowen. Maybe they'll even become your friends."

"Maybe."

Udonna smiled. "Why don't you go find your cousin, I'm not sure where she went, I'll start dinner, and tomorrow I'll answer all the questions that you and your team may have."

Bowen walked to the door of Rootcore, but before he exited, he turned around and ran to his mother and hugged her.

"What was that for?" she asked shocked that her son hugged her, he hadn't done that in a very long time.

"Does a guy need a reason to hug his mother?" Bowen asked with a smile as he went to go find his cousin.

Udonna shook her head with a smile and went to go cook dinner…

I probably won't be able to get another chapter in until Sunday at the earliest. Going away for the weekend.