"I can't believe I'm finally meeting you," Conner grinned, walking over to stand in front of Zordon, "and all those times that I thought about it, all of those questions that I thought I would have, all of them...it's like I can't even bring myself to ask them."
"There is no need to feel nervous Conner, I myself feel honored to meet a ranger such as yourself," Zordon remarked with a nod, Conner rubbing the back of his neck embarrassed.
"Wait wait wait," Trini interjected, "if Conner never even met you and he's not even from this world, how do you know him?"
"It is through the power of the morphing grid that I am able to stay connected to all ranger teams," Zordon explained, "be they of this earth or any other."
The group, minus Conner who was smirking, all looked at the floating head in shock. Never in their wildest dreams have they ever thought about meeting a being such as the one in front of them.
"So if you know me, then you know why I'm here," Conner said folding his arms over his chest.
"Indeed Conner, I am sorry to see that you're powers were taken by Goldar but the power you seek is indeed here," Zordon assured him, Kimberly tilting her head to the side in confusion.
"What is he talking about Conner?"
Conner sighed, turning around to face the team as he ran through how best to tell them in his mind.
"Back in my world, for the sake of keeping things simple we'll call it Earth-1," Conner explained, "a monster named Goldar was taken from the past, your Earth-1 counterparts' past, and was given some kind of gem that took my team's powers."
Billy nodded his head, understanding what Conner was saying as the others have him blank looks.
"Um, there are like other versions of us?" Kimberly asked frowning, "I would like to think I'm one of a kind."
"Yeah sorry but this is starting to make less sense than before," Jason muttered shaking his head.
"Actually it makes perfect sense," Billy spoke up, "the idea of a parallel world, as well as traveling bergen them, is becoming a big topic in the scientific community, do you happen to have a blackboard I could write on?"
"We have something even better," Alpha remarked, walking away and then coming back with a clear board, markers lining the bottom.
Walking over to it, Billy picked up a blue marker, creating a circle with it on the board before doing the same with the red maker.
"You see there's a theory that there are multiple worlds out there, too keep up with what Conner was saying we'll call his earth, the red one, Earth-1, while our Earth here is Earth-2."
Billy quickly drew some more circles around the two larger circles, the others walking over to get a closer look.
"These here are the other Earths that surround us, Earth-3, Earth-4, and so on until infinity, all of them the same and at the same time, all of them having the potential to be different from our world."
"Like my world having rangers and your's not," Conner pointed out.
"Exactly," Billy agreed putting the marker down, "the thing I'm having a problem understanding is how you were able to come from your Earth to ours."
"The morphing grid is a source of immense power, so it would not be out of the question for it to allow Conner to traverse between our worlds," Zordon's voice echoed the group looking back over to him.
"Okay so I'll accept you coming from a different world, I'll accept that in your world we were super heroes fighting monsters," Zack said shaking his head, "but why does your Earth get to be Earth-1."
"Is that really important Zack?" Jason asked looking at his hip hop friend.
"I'm just curious as to why his Earth is Earth-1."
"Anyway, after Goldar stole my team's power, and knocked me out, I was confronted by the original white ranger and told to go to the command center on Earth-1, where I was sent here," Conner finished up, "what I wasn't expecting was that there wouldn't be power rangers where showed up."
"I can't believe someone would give Goldar that kind of power," Alpha fussed holding his head.
"If Goldar holds the power of the morphing grid, even just a small portion of it, then he'll be able to use that power to cause untold destruction," Zordon spoke up, Conner nodding in agreement.
"He wants to take the power that he stole from us and go back to his time to use against the original rangers," Conner explained folding his arms over his chest, "if he does that then there's no telling what kind of damage he'd cause to my timeline."
"This is indeed troubling news and all the more reason for you to obtain the power that you seek," Zordon said sagely.
"Okay time out, what's this power that he keeps talking about?" Trini questioned, "I mean I get that it's suppose to be part of this power ranger stuff you keep talking about but…"
"The power that we keep referencing is what's known as the white tiger coin," Conner replied turning to face her, "originally created by Zordon and Alpha when...when you guys were down one ranger and Lord Zedd started to become a problem."
"So like, what makes it so special?" Kim asked frowning, "can't you get any of the powers and go back to save your friends?"
"The white tiger coin is...well without getting into too much detail it's important to me."
No further explanation was needed, at least for Kimberly who smiled and hugged him. Tommy grinned and shook his head, walking over and patting Conner on the shoulder.
"Alright then if this is that important to you then it's important to us," the boy in green promised, Conner chuckling in response.
"You just met me though."
"That doesn't matter," Jason spoke up, "you opened our eyes to this whole new world, so if you need this power to protect your friends then we'll help you get it."
"Your loyalty to your friends is admirable Jason, but the search for the power they Conner is seeking won't take you far," Zordon informed them, "the white tiger coin as well as the other power coins are here in the Command Center."
"All of them?" Conner asked amazed.
"All seven of them," Alpha confirmed, Conner grinning.
"All seven of them, including the dragonzord coin?"
"Back before she was defeated Rita Repulsa held the power of the dragonzord and it was after a intense battle with her were we able to obtain the dragonzord coin from her," the mentor figure explain, "it has been with the others, absorbing the power of good inside them to become purified."
"Whoa, okay so let's recap here," Conner muttered, "Rita Repulsa is defeated, not sealed away on the moon, but defeated?"
"That is correct, the original group who fought alongside both Rita and Zordon were able to defeat her and retake her power coin," Alpha said, Conner's eyes going wide.
"W-wait, what do you mean they fought alongside both Zordon and Rita?"
"It pains me to say it but when the power of the morphing grid was first discovered it was decided that it would be given to seven warriors to be used to protect the universe," Zordon said, Conner hearing a bit of regret in his voice, "among the seven were me and Rita."
"But Rita is a sorceress not a warrior," Conner interjected, "or at least she was in Earth-1."
"Rita used her magic to fight alongside us and protect the innocent when we first obtained this power," Alpha informed them shaking his head.
"So what happened?" Tommy asked frowning.
"She let the power get to her," Conner replied shaking his head, "that's how it usually starts."
Turning back to look at Zordon, Conner took a deep breath and looked up at the disembodied head.
"Zordon, if you have the power coins here, is there anyway that I could convince you to allow me to borrow the white tiger coin?"
"Unfortunately that is no way feat Conner," Zordon replied apologetically, "the power coins are currently dormant as there has been no threat powerful enough to warrant their use."
"And you can't just activate one of them?" the boy fun another works asked confused.
"The power coins, as you're probably aware, are objects of great power to be used in a time of crisis," Alpha stated.
"Well what if I took it back to my Earth?" Conner suggested, "we're currently fighting someone so would that work?"
"That could work," Billy mumbled as he processed the information they were learning, "you did say that these power coins were to be used in a time of crisis, and if his Earth is in one then that would meet the qualification."
"A wise observation Billy," Zordon praised with a nod, "it is possible that if you were to take the white tiger coin to your Earth that it would work."
"Why do I feel like there's a but coming?" Trini huffed placing her hands on her hips.
"But there is no guarantee that it would work," Zordon concluded, "while it is the same, just like the your two Earths our different, the morphing grid is different on every Earth as well."
This peeked Billy's curiosity, the genius of the group looking up when he heard Zordon.
"How would the morphing grid be different between our worlds? You yourself said that it was because of it that you were able to see the other Earths."
"The morphing grid has to adapt to each Earth in order for the rangers of that universe to be at their full potential."
"It may take a while, but I'm sure that we can tap into the morphing grid and look at Conner's Earth to see just how different the morphing grids are," Alpha promised, "the key is we would need something that was connected to the morphing grid from Earth-1."
The teens frowned, Conner looking down at his left wrist and clenching his fist as he took off his morpher and held it out to Alpha.
"This my Dino Morpher," he explained to the robot, "this is what allowed my team to morph back on Earth-1."
"Wait I thought you were wearing a bracelet with that Dino Gem thing," Kim stated, "so what's this?"
"Like I said, this is my Dino Morpher, the dino gem you saw earlier is what gave us our powers, both as rangers and as civilians."
Looking back over to Alpha, Conner grinned,
"So should that work?"
"This will be perfect Conner," Alpha replied walking over to the computer panel and placing it on a scanner.
"And be careful with that please, my mentor will kick my ass if something happens to it," Conner pleaded making the others laugh.
"So then what can we do now?" Trini asked looking around, "I mean according to...the giant floating head, this Rita person is gone and all you need is the white tiger coin."
"Yeah so why bring us here?" Jason asked, his eyebrow going up a bit.
"I wanted you guys to know about the power that you're missing," Conner admitted, "because I believe that if the situation demands it, you guys will become legends."
"As do I," Zordon commented, "I can see that you six have traits that put you above others, traits that would make you worthy of the title of power rangers."
"So you said something about you having powers as both a ranger and civilian, what do you mean by that?" Zack asked Conner.
"Well as a ranger you have the basic enhanced endurance, and strength," Conner told them, "But sometimes there will be team that have what is known as civilian powers, my team is one of them."
"Okay so basic superhero powers," Tommy nodded, "what's your civilian power?"
"I have super speed."
"So what you're like the Flash?" Zack chuckled, "that's the craziest thing I've heard."
"Is it now?" Conner asked grinning.
"Yep."
"Then how did I pants you without you noticing?"
Zack looked down and, true to Conner's word, his pants were around his ankles. This made the boys laugh as the girls covered their eyes, Zack reaching down to pull his pants up.
"Okay, okay I believe you have super speed," he grumbled, "just, please don't do that again."
"Deal," Conner said shaking his hand.
The group laughed, Zordon himself even chuckling when the sirens started to go off. The group looked around confused as Conner ran over to Alpha and looked over at a glass ball.
"What's going on?" the red ranger asked as Alpha scurried around.
"Please observe the Viewing Globe," Zordon insisted, the rest of the group walking over to stand next to Conner.
The picture started to become clear, and Conner's eyes widened as he saw who was attacking.
"Okay so um...who is that?" Kim asked frowning.
"That," Conner gulped as he trembled, "would be Lord Zedd."