The following segment has been taking from the Journal of Randall Welling...
May 12th, 1947
Progress with the reverse engineering is at an utter standstill, there is too much technology, and all it is far more advanced than I can even comprehend. Every time I think I'm about to make a breakthrough I get knocked two steps back.
While we're on the topic of the crashed aircraft I'd like to reflect on the body recovered from the crash. I've heard that it's biology only vaguely resembles our own. Well, I guess that dismisses all the rumors of it being a Soviet. I also hear whispers among my peers that the pilot was a man from another world.
Surely that can't be the case, our universe isn't some H.G Wells novel. I want nothing more than to dismiss these crazy theories and write them off sleep deprived ramblings, yet they do have a point, and I haven't heard anything better...
February 1999
Eddy Winheart was enjoying a nice beer at a local bar when a burly man with tattoos interrupted him.
"I know what you did." The man spat in a drunken voice.
"Then please enlighten me," Eddy replied with a grin.
"You porked my gal!" The man exclaimed.
"Ah," Eddy said with a nod. "You're going to have to remind me who she is, I've had a busy weekend."
"Dallas you dumb cocksucker." The man said as he practically pressed his face into Eddy's.
"Sorry," The glossy eyed boy said to the drunk, "I don't bother asking girls for their names; it tends to imply I want to talk to them again."
The drunk finally had enough, his fist swung towards Eddy, but met open air. The boy had managed to slip away like liquid, he positioned himself behind the man and pushed him over the counter, sending a wave of glass and alcohol crazing against the ground. Eddy then cut his losses and rushed towards the door.
By the time Eddy reached the outside of the bar he began to realize there was a problem forming. Three burly men were blocking his path, and when he turned around to look for some safety within the bar he noticed the two men standing behind him.
Eddy was one cocky bastard, but even he knew his limitations, and the odds weren't looking too good for him. All he could do was throw his hands over his face and wait for the harm to come. That was when it happened, the one event that would send the young man's life spiraling out his own control.
A beam of light struck Eddy, momentarily blinding him and causing to the young man to believe he had just died. When everything returned to normal Eddy found that the five men were all on their backside.
Eddy didn't have time to question this, he simply hopped into his convertible and drove off.
It was early morning and rain was beating down on the small posse as they stood around a small clearing in the middle of the wilderness. Hedda and the dark haired girl led a small army of men clad in gray uniforms to the location the purple robed alien believed the dimensional invaders would arrive at.
"So," Hedda began as he turned to the dark haired girl, "How long have you been running things at Hydra?"
The girl rolled her eyes at Hedda, it was becoming increasingly clear she didn't like him one bit. This actually suited Hedda just fine, the more problems she had with him the easier it will be to betray her. "Twenty years." She said coldly.
"You couldn't have been any older than fifteen." Hedda said, "I didn't know human's matured that fast."
"Well, when everyone else is dead you grow up pretty fast." She said simply.
Before Hedda could inquire anymore the ground began to tremble violently. The gunman armed their assault rifles and waved them randomly around, looking for something to defend themselves against.
The sky turned a murky brown color and was filled with blue lights that danced around like lightning bugs. The blue lights grew closer and closer until it became obvious they were connected to a larger ship. A giant spaceship hung overhead, it's gunmetal surface appeared almost ghostly in the strange brown light.
Hedda merely laughed as the humans around him cowered in fear. This was the day he'd been waiting two decades for, and he was ready to crawl his way back to the top.
Three beams of light shot from the ship and impacted the ground the beams became a fluid liquid that rapidly formed three humanoid figures. Before the humans could even comprehend what was happening the three yellow blobs became completely solid.
The three figures were unlike anything on Earth. One was an onyx colored robot with two red eyes that glowed in the half-light, one was a man wrapped in bulky metal armor, the only visible part of him was a small section of his human face, while the last figure appeared to be a human child.
"Hello!" Hedda began, "We humbly welcome you to Earth." The man opened his mouth to say more but he was suddenly overwhelmed with an unimaginable pain, it spread all around his head and flooded behind his eyes. Hedda fell to the ground, unable to handle the mind-numbing pain.
"I will do the speaking." The man draped in metal armor said with a grin. "We are the Vyram, and we have detected a large amount of energy radiating from this location. We have come to collect said energy."
"What makes you think you can just hop to our world and start demanding stuff?" The dark haired girl asked the Vyram commander.
The Vyram commander glared at the dark haired girl. It was clear he was trying to do the same trick he performed on Hedda, but the girl didn't even flinch, she just glared back at the monster, her dark eyes seemed to stab knives into the armored creature.
"Tell me where a girl as young as yourself earned such resolve." The creature said with a hint of discomfort.
The girl kept her gaze fixed on the Vyram commander, "You want that power source, and I want world domination, I suppose that means we should work out a deal."
The commander laughed, "You want us to work a deal with you?" Why would we ever work with a group of level 1 organisms such as yourself?"
"I might be able to smooth out this deal," Hedda said confidently.
"You hardly make it to level one and one-fifth," The commander said while rolling his eyes.
"I say we work with them." The child said, speaking up for the first time.
"Poor Tran." The man said in the sing-song voice, "You don't understand what you're talking about."
"I do understand what I'm talking about." The child insisted, "I want to play with the beings of this world." A weird smile formed around the kid's mouth, "Especially her." The boy said and pointed at the dark haired girl.
The strange robot nodded at the boy's comment, "I've scanned this girl, she's different…" The robot took a step closer to the girl, his eyes began to glow with an even stronger intensity. "I'm detecting a high level an unknown energy from inside of this girl. It seems related to energy we've been tracking, but only distantly so."
"So this girl is related to this energy phenomenon…" The Vyram commander said with a raised eyebrow, "What an interesting development." The man draped in silver armor extended his hand towards the girl and gently caressed her face. She endured this approach but her scowl was fowl. "Tell me, human, what is your name?"
"Viper." The girl spat.
The man grinned, "Well...Viper, you can call me Court Radiguet, I am the leader of the Vyram and master of the entirety of the Back Dimensions." Radiguet extended his arm toward the black metal monster, "This is my loyal robotic servant, Grey," He then moved to the child, "And this is Tran, he may seem small and incompetent, but he definitely comes in handy."
Viper nodded, "As I said before, my name is Viper. I work for an organization named Hydra, and our ultimate goal is global domination."
"Global domination?" Radiguet asked with a smile, "We can have that done in a week."
"Is that an offer?" Viper asked.
"Yes." Radiguet said, "I do decree that Vyram and Hydra are now in accordance to one another!"
Viper carried a snake like look on her flawless face, "Good, because we've tracked down a part of the energy signal you came here for, let's test out our new alliance."
Eddy Winheart was cruising down the road in his black convertible. He kept the radio blaring, and AC DC echoed all around him. A sly grin was on his face as he winked at a girl walking along the sidewalk with her boyfriend. The girl blushed, which gained an extremely pissed off look from her boyfriend.
Eddy's night plans consisted of going around to a few bars, picking up a pretty girl and seeing where that led him. Unfortunately, for him, that plan was halted by the gunmetal colored ship that had suddenly appeared overhead.
Eddy stopped his car and gawked at the machine, he hadn't seen anything like it before. It was probably aliens, they had a history of showing up pretty frequently nowadays. He should have taken it as a cue to speed up and get the hell out of there, but amazement kept him locked in place.
Bright yellow orbs suddenly fell from the ship. They bounced on the ground a few moments before sinking into the Earth. Eddy was incredibly confused by this, that is until the faceless black monsters sprouted from the ground.
When the monsters started approaching Eddy he realized it was time to keep moving. He tried to drive past them, hoping they weren't actually after him. This theory was quickly extinguished when one of the creatures jumped on the hood of his car.
Eddy tried to swerve around the monsters but they quickly surrounded him, making it impossible for him to move at all. One of the creatures tried to reach at Eddy through the side of convertible, but a quick blow to the head knocked the creature down. Eddy was still panicking, he didn't know what to do. He could only fight the monsters off for so long.
"Hey!" A voice yelled from behind the creatures. "Need some help?" Eddy pinpointed the voice and found it belonged to a man no older than twenty-five his short blond hair and uniform gave off the impression of a soldier, but his face was young and unscarred.
"Maybe." Eddy called back, "Do you got any backup?"
The boy smiled, "I don't need any." He lifted his arm to reveal a triangular device on his wrist. He pressed a button on his device and small wings shot from the sides, giving the impression of a strange airplane. The boy's body was covered in red energy. When the energy subsided a figure clad in red.
His armor was red and white with a bird shaped emblem on his chest and a helmet that resembled the head of a hawk. The armored warrior opened his arms and wings extended down, he then jumped into the air and glided over the monsters. He landed on top of Eddy's car and armed a sword.
"I can't do this alone." The red warrior said as he slashed into an oncoming monster.
"Well, what should I do?" Eddy asked the man.
The armored warrior dropped something onto Eddy's lap. The young man examined it, he'd been given a device similar to what the red warrior had. "Help me fight." The red armored man said.
Eddy quickly strapped the device onto his wrist, he was mostly controlled by adrenaline as he pressed the button and found himself enveloped by a strange energy. He was filled with a similar sensation as what he felt at the bar, only this seemed more natural and controlled.
Eddy was then covered in armor similar to the red's, only his was black and his helmet resembled a condor. "I gotta say my suit looks a little better than yours does." He said smugly.
Eddy felt a tremendous power overwhelm him as he fought the monsters, his moments were much more precise and quick with this armor on, yet it felt as natural as a second skin. He dodged one of the creatures and did a jump kick that knocked it back into the crowd.
"Pretty impressive." The Red warrior said.
"I've had my fair share of street fighting," The Black warrior replied.
It wasn't too long before the warrior defeated all of the monsters, after that the two of them powered down their armor and stared at one another.
"This won't be the only attack." The man who had introduced himself as Victor told Eddy, "The world needs us, the world needs Power Rangers."
"Power Rangers?" Eddy asked, "I thought those guys retired after the last big invasion."
"We have to be the next Power Rangers." Victor said, "There are three others like us, they have the Morphing energy inside of them if all five of us work together we can stop this."
Eddy removed his wrist device and dropped it on the ground. "Sorry, but I'll pass." He said simply, "Being a Power Ranger doesn't fit in my schedule."
"You can't be serious!" Victor exclaimed, "There are legitimate human lives on the line here."
Eddy shrugged, "Not my problem. Find someone else to replace me."
Before Victor could reply Eddy already started his engine and drove off.
"I can't believe him!" Victor said from inside of the break room with a towel over his shoulders as he tried to recover from his battle with those strange monsters.
"He'll come around." Nick Fury said. "If we're lucky." He added under his breath.
"He's a selfish jackass!" Victor exclaimed. "Why doesn't he understand what's at stake here?"
"Not everyone was raised like you Victor," Fury said, "You can't just assume someone's personality from one interaction."
Victor remained silent as the tension in the room grew. In a way, he knew that Nick Fury was right, and Victor knew he should trust his superiors judgment , but he couldn't calm the fire in his chest.
"I have something to help you calm yourself." Fury said and threw down a file, "We've tracked another potential location for you to check out."
Victor took the file and nodded, "Yes sir."
Victor pulled into the wide driveway that led to a giant victorian styled mansion. He exited his car and walked across the gravel drive. He wouldn't admit it, but Victor was incredibly nervous, he didn't really have the confidence that he could actually convince someone to join the team, especially after what happened with Eddy.
Victor gained enough nerve to knock on the door, and much to his surprise a young looking girl opened the door. She smiled at Victor, the sight gave the young Ranger a strange feeling in his chest.
"Hello, what do you want?" The girl asked politely.
"I… uh I," Victor stuttered. "I work for S.H.I.E.L.D," he managed to choke out, "I'm looking for someone, has anyone at this household witnessed any strange lightning or something of the sort?"
The girl nodded, "You better come in."
The strange girl carefully led Victor through her giant house. The entire place was well kept, but it was utterly empty. Pictures of the girl along with two adults Victor guessed were her parents lined the walls. She led Victor to the study and they both sat down in comfy leather chairs.
"My dad is a famous writer." The girl explained. "Steve Kling."
"Your dad is Steve Kling?" Victor exclaimed, there was about a dozen of his best sellers at S.H.I.E.L.D, Victor's father had collected most of them.
The girl blushed, "My mom and dad are out on tour, I haven't seen them in three months."
"Sounds lonely," Victor commented, he supposed he could relate to her feeling both of his parents had been missing for twenty years.
"About the strange lightning." The girl said, "What does it mean?"
Victor took a deep breath and explained the situation. The girl nodded and looked as if she believed just about half of what was said. After Victor spoke the girl's eyes began to glimmer, "Does this mean you're trying to make me a Power Ranger?"
"Well…" Victor stuttered, "Yes."
The girl beamed with excitement, "I've always wanted to be a Power Ranger!" She exclaimed.
"That's good." Victor stuttered, he couldn't believe how easy that was. "We'll take you to S.H.I.E.L.D and we'll talk more there."
Court Radiguet and Viper stood inside the Commander's office at Hydra Island, the Vyram leader held a very potent frown on his face. "It seems we're going to be forced to take a more drastic defence against the humans." He said.
Viper nodded, "I couldn't agree more. I've already begun preparations."
A Japanese man in his late forties stepped into the office, his hair was gelled back and he was dressed in a leather jacket. The man flashed a grin at Viper. "It's been awhile, how's the crime game?"
"Still pays," Viper said coldly.
"Excuse me." Radiguet said as he glared at the new figure, "Who is this man?"
"Oh sorry," The Japanese man said, "I didn't realize I was interrupting a costume party, my name is Shin Kazamatsuri, I've worked with Hydra in the past and dear Viper here has asked for my services again."
"And what can you do?" Radiguet asked.
"Oh, I forgot to mention that part," Shin said with a sly smile. The Japanese man held out his arms as his eyes shifted to a soil blood red color. He then removed all of his clothes and set them neatly in a pile. His muscles began to grow substantially and his body began to take on a slimy pale texture, the color changed from white to green as claws and other sharp tools sprouted along his hands and arms. When the transformation was complete Shin had become a green grasshopper-like humanoid.
"Interesting…" Count Radiguet said. "This planet seems to be full of surprises."
Hedda stepped into the room, following behind him was a small posse of armed guards. He seemed scared to be so close to the Vyram, yet he put on some distant type of mask. "I've used my person connected to our dimensions energy field to track the location of another one of the energy signals."
"I've already tracked her." Count Radiguet said dismissively, "And she's with that pesky Red warrior."
"Not her sir." Hedda said, "I've tracked a newer signal, this one is a few miles out from the city limits, on a small family farm."
"We'll begin our siege as soon as possible." Radiguet said, "For the time being I must prepare among my fellow Vyram." The Vyram Commander was quickly enveloped in yellow light before fading into nothing.
A/N: Hopefully you're enjoying this story so far. It has come to my attention that this should be a crossover, so it will be moved to the crossover section in approximately 24 hours. On another note what heroes/villains from the Marvel Universe would you like to see in this fic, I'd like to get an idea on whose popular.