Thanks for the reviews! Here's the new chapter...warning, though, there will be some character death in this chapter and maybe in the chapters coming up. I mean, how can you have an "end of the world" war without death, right? Also, it may be a bit graphic for some people, but I will try to keep that to a minimum. Anyways, I hope you enjoy.


"Hey," Kim said, looking at Kira. "You should rest."

Kira nodded slowly. "Yeah. I know we had stronger powers or whatever, but that really drained me."

Kim smiled. "I know what you mean. It's been so long, I thought I forgot how to be a ranger."

Kira laughed before she stopped and thought for a bit. "I wonder where the guys are."

"Where'd you leave them?"

"Somewhere between Tomorrowland and Fantasyland," she answered. "I didn't really have time to tell them. Trent and Ethan were off getting churros and Conner was using the bathroom."

"Yeah. We didn't tell the others, either."

"I wonder if there's any way we could contact them. At least let them know that we're safe."

Kim raised her eyebrows. "Safe at the moment," she said grimly.

x

"What is this place, anyway?" Adam asked Andros, quietly looking around.

"It's a safe haven," Andros said. "Mayari, Tala, and Apolaki built it themselves. It expands as more people come and what ever we need, it'll give us."

"Oh, that's why it looks bigger than before."

Andros nodded. "And the best part about it is that it's untrackable. It doesn't come up on any sensory devices or anything."

Adam nodded as Andros looked around. He saw before him ten other rangers who looked worn beyond their years.

"Let's get some rest," he said. "We'll need as much energy as we could have." He led the way to the bedroom area and everyone picked out a room to retire for the night.


Aisha shut her phone and looked at Rocky, in the driver's seat. "That was Trini," she informed him. "She asked if we could swing by and pick her and Hayley up. I told her yes."

"Before or after breakfast?"

Aisha rolled her eyes and lightly hit her husband's arm. "Now," she demanded. She looked out the window and shrugged her shoulders. "We're heading in that direction, anyway. And we're almost there."

Rocky grumbled to himself as he stopped in front of Trini's place. Immediately, Trini and Hayley ran out, grinning and waving at them in the car.

"Thanks Rocko," Trini said, climing into the seat behind him.

"You owe me," he teased.

"How about breakfast?"

Rocky grinned at Trini in the mirror. "Ah, Trini Kwan. You always do know the way to my heart."

Trini rolled her eyes and turned her attention to Aisha. "Have you tried Kim, yet?"

Aisha turned around in her seat and nodded. "I didn't get an answer, though."

"Me neither. She must still be asleep."

"Yeah," Aisha turned around again, facing the correct way. "So, what's for breakfast, Trini? Your treat?"

Trini rolled her eyes again. "Okay, but just because I'm in a generous mood..."

Rocky, Hayley, and Aisha laughed.

"Are Jason and the guys up, yet?" Aisha asked.

"Yeah, right!" Trini exclaimed. "When I called after I showered, he and the others were just going to sleep. He said to not expect them before 4."


"Rangers..." A soft voice peacefully woke everyone from their slumber.

Kim half sat up from her bed, rubbing her eyes. She looked around, still not believing that she was there. She dragged herself out into the main room, where everyone else had gathered. The only one who looked completely awake was Bridge, the red ranger from the future.

"I do not wish to wake you," Mayari said. "But she will soon stage her next attack."

Immediately, the twelve rangers woke up.

"Where is..." Adam started.

"What's..." Andros said.

They both fell silent as Mayari raised her hands. "My sources tell me that she is planning to attack Edenoi and Bookala. You must go there." She looked at Andros. "You, TJ, Ashley, Carlos, Cassie, and Zhane will guard Bookala." They nodded and in a flash, they were gone. She turned her attention to Adam. "You will lead Kimberly, Kira, Bridge, Lucas, and Alyssa to Edenoi." They nodded and also disappeared in a flash.


"Okay, so that's four Boston Kreme donuts, three maple-covered, two chocolate-covered, and three glazed?" the cashier at Dunkin' Donuts asked.

Rocky nodded. "And a medium coffee, please."

The cashier nodded and pressed a button. "Anything else?"

"Let me check." Rocky looked toward his left. "Hey girls, you want anything."

Trini pushed Rocky out of the way and placed her own order with the cashier and waited for Aisha and Hayley to give their own orders as well. She pulled out her card once the people behind the counter finished their order.

"Thanks Trini," Hayley said. Aisha and Rocky nodded in agreement.

Trini laughed as she sipped her coffee. "No problem, guys."


"They feel even stronger!" Ashley yelled as she kicked an aswang in the face.

"Hang on, Ash!" Cassie yelled, running to her side.

Andros pulled out his spiral saber and killed the two closest aswangs near him.

Carlos kicked an ekek and cried out in pain as he was attacked by more. TJ ran to Carlos' side and tried to fight off the ekeks, but they overpowered him. Carlos cried out again as he was attacked by more. He tried to stand, but blood was gushing out from his abdomen and his neck.

"We've got to get you back," TJ said, running to Carlos.

"No..." Carlos weakly protested.

"Yes," interrupted Zhane. He grabbed Carlos' arm and yelled out for Mayari. Carlos disappeared and immediately, Zhane and TJ rejoined the fight.


"You okay?" Adam asked Kim, pulling her up from the ground.

"Yes," she nodded. They looked in front of them at a pair of tiyanaks. She looked at him and grinned underneath her helmet. "For old times sake?"

"Sure." Adam and Kim teamed up against the tiyanaks and began to fight them.

Kira jumped over Alyssa and threw off the group of tiyanaks who were attacking her.

"It seems like these things just don't die!" Kira yelled. She used her Ptera Scream, which gave her and Alyssa space from the tiyanaks.

Bridge and Lucas were also helping each other. They were fighting back to back, but did not seem to have the upperhand.

In fact, none of the rangers seemed to have the upperhand.


"Has she answered yet?" Trini asked in exasperation, balancing her phone between her ear and her shoulder while holding her coffee in one hand and a donut in the other. "I'm not getting anything."

"Me neither," Aisha replied.

"Hey, Adam's here!" exclaimed Rocky, pointing to Adam's car.

"I wonder what he's doing here so early," Trini commented.

Rocky swiftly parked Kim's car to the right of Adam's and the four of them proceeded to the house, amidst handfuls of coffee, donuts, and bagels.

Aisha took the keys from Rocky's full hands and located the house key on the key ring. She used it to open the door and walked in first, stepping into something sticky.


"Bridge!" Lucas yelled, watching him fall. The ekek standing above him laughed and licked his lips. Bridge collapsed on the ground, holding his chest. Adam, Kim, Kira, and Alyssa turned at the sound of Lucas' yell. Kira and Alyssa screamed in horror, watching the ekek prepare to eat Bridge.

"NOOO!" Lucas yelled, running towards Bridge and kicking the ekek away.

The ekek jumped back in surprise and looked as if it were getting ready to attack Lucas also. Kira ran up and used her Ptera Scream in the ekek's face, who ran away at the sound. Adam ran and joined Lucas. He knelt next to Bridge and spoke in his ear, listening to Bridge gasp for breath.

"Come on Bridge," he said. "Talk to me. Stay awake."

Kim, Kira, and Alyssa surrounded Lucas, Adam, and Bridge, continuing to fight off the hordes of ekeks, tiyanaks, and aswangs coming their way.

Bridge made a gurgling sound and looked at Adam with tears in his eyes.

"Look at me," Adam said determinedly. "You are going to be fine. You just need a little rest." He looked at Lucas. "Get him out of here."

Lucas nodded. He kneeled behind Bridge and hooked his arms underneath Bridge's. Lucas looked up and yelled for Mayari and in a flash of light, the two of them disappeared.

Adam jumped up and joined the fight again.


"Ew," Aisha said, stepping into a sticky substance on the floor of Kim's house. She looked down at the sticky film covering part of the floor. "Gross. Watch out you guys, it's sticky." She moved carefully so the others could come in, looking at the forgotten bags of McDonald's and the cups of soda on the floor. "Why the hell did they leave this crap here?"

Trini and Rocky headed straight to kitchen to drop off what they were holding, while Hayley bent down, looking at something.

"I am so going to kill that girl!" Aisha said, wrinkling her nose and picking up one of the McDonald's bags.

"KIM!" she yelled. "THIS IS SO DISGUSTING!" She looked in the bag. "Even more gross," she complained. "They didn't even finish!"

"Wait, 'Sha," Hayley said. She picked something up and held it out for her to see. "Look, Kim and Adams phones were lying down here. Why would they just be down here?"

Aisha nodded, thinking a bit. "Yeah...that's definitely weird. Kim always sleeps with her phone right by her ear. And Adam is barely seen without his." She looked around. "KIM! ADAM!"

Hayley turned to run up the stairs. "I'll see if they're somewhere up here."

Aisha nodded. "I'll check the basement and the studio."


"How are they?" Lucas asked, standing between the two beds that held Carlos and Bridge.

Mayari stood over Carlos, her head close to his own and laid her hands over his heart. She didn't say anything as Lucas nervously paced up and down the short path from the foot of their beds to the head of the beds.

"They'll be fine, though, right?"

Mayari looked up. Lucas noted the grim look in her face.

"No..." he started saying before Mayari even opened her mouth to speak. He shook his head vigorously, looking between her and Carlos. "He'll be fine, right? He's going to be...he's a Power Ranger, he's got to be..."

"He is at peace," Mayari said in her soft, ethereal voice. "Carlos Vallerte is a brave man who is now at peace."

Lucas' breath got caught in his throat as he dropped to the floor, leaning against the bed frame. Tears filled his eyes, as he sat grieving for a man he barely knew.

"What about Bridge?" he choked out.

Although Bridge was a little on the odd side, he felt a certain level of closeness with the red ranger from the future. He kind of reminded Lucas of Trip, with their little oddities and felt like he was an older brother-type figure to him in the short time that they have known each other. Lucas looked up and saw that Mayari standing over Bridge as she had done with Carlos.

She looked at Lucas, who was still sitting on the floor.

"He is alive," she said. "But only just. The red ranger, Bridge Carson, is hanging on by a thread. I will do everything I can, but I am no healer."

"Anything..." Lucas said.

"Trust me, Lucas Kendall."

Lucas nodded as Mayari disappeared.


"Not down there," Aisha said, running up.

"Not upstairs, either," Hayley said, meeting up with Aisha in front of the door.

"Hey," Trini said, sticking her head out from the kitchen. "Jason just called. The guys are gonna go shopping. But he said they don't feel like getting up, so don't expect them till sometime tonight."

Aisha and Hayley looked at each other with worried expressions as they both turned to Trini.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

Aisha and Hayley headed to the ktichen.

"We can't find them," Aisha said.

"Adam and Kim," added Hayley.

Trini furrowed her brow as Rocky looked out the window.

"I don't see them near the pool or anywhere back here," he said.

"Well, where could they be?" Trini asked. "Adam's car is here. You guys had Kim's car..." She took a bite out of her bagel.

"I don't know..." Aisha said. "Do you think we should be worried?"

As Aisha finished speaking, a bright light appeared, making the four of them shield their eyes.

"Your friends are in trouble," a voice from the light said.

"Where are they?" demanded Aisha, covering her eyes.

The light dimmed as it did before and Aisha, Rocky, Trini, and Hayley uncovered their eyes. They saw a faint outline of a face.

"You must come with me," the voice said.

"Why?" Rocky asked defensively. "What have you done with Kim and Adam?"

"They are in trouble, fighting evil forces that threaten to take over the universe." Rocky snapped his head and looked at Aisha quickly, raising his eyebrows. "Please come with me. I fear that the longer we wait..."

"Okay," Trini interrupted. She didn't want to hear the rest of that sentence. Rocky and Aisha nodded in agreement. Hayley looked as if she were unsure of what to do. "Just let us make sure that Kim and Adam are safe."

"That, I cannot guarantee."

In a flash of light, the four of them disappeared.


Lucas barely looked up as Mayari reappeared with four people at her side. He continued to look at Bridge's lifeless body from his spot on the floor. He watched as Bridge's chest, bandaged with an enormous cloth, rise up and down slowly.

Hayley, Trini, Rocky, and Aisha were silent as they watched this young man sat next to his friend. They sensed the gravity of the situation, but did not want to pry.

At the same time, Mayari fully materialized before them. The four gazed at Mayari in awe.

"This is--" Mayari started.

"Lucas Kendall," Hayley interrupted. She looked embarrassed and turned pink and looked away.

At the sound of his name, Lucas finally looked up, acknowledging the presence of the four new people with a nod. He looked back down.

"You're the blue Time Force ranger," Hayley said, regaining her confidence. Trini, Aisha, and Rocky gasped.

Lucas looked up again and nodded.

"So, what exactly is going on?" Aisha asked.

"He's a ranger, too...isn't he?" Trini said softly, feeling tears gather in her eyes.

"There isn't much time," Mayari said. "The fate of the universe and the lives of your friends is at stake."

Trini, Hayley, Aisha, and Rocky looked at Mayari. She once more held out her hands.

"What's that?" Rocky asked, peering into her hands. "Power Coins? I thought those were destroyed and powerless."

"They have been remade," Mayari answered. "The mother of Rita Repulsa has vowed revenge for the turning of her family and is currently taking over the universe. You must stop her."

"I thought Jason said that Andros..." started Aisha.

"There will be time for questions later," Mayari interrupted sternly. "Please," she looked at each of the former rangers. "Rocky DeSantos, Aisha DeSantos, Trini Kwan." She nodded down to her hands.

Rocky reached for a red tyrannosaurus coin and noted the figure of an ape within it. He felt the warmth from the coin and noted the blue outline within it.

Aisha reached for a yellow coin of a sabertooth tiger and a bear.

Trini also reached for a yellow sabertooth tiger coin and gasped as she, Aisha, and Rocky morphed into their old suits. Hayley stood there next to them, speechless with her mouth hanging open.

"Lucas," Mayari said, gently. "You must rejoin the fight."

Lucas stood and nodded, morphing into his blue uniform.

"Lucas, you will return to Edenoi with Aisha." He and Aisha disappeared in a flash of light.

"Rocky, Trini, the two of you will help Andros on Bookala." Immediately, the two of them disappeared at once.

Mayari looked at Hayley. "I know you have been a great help to rangers in the past." Hayley nodded slowly. "I must ask you once again."

"Of course," Hayley said.

Mayari gestured toward the bed next to Bridge. Hayley looked at his face, trying to place where she's seen him.

"Carlos Vallerte," she whispered. "Black space ranger."

Mayari nodded. "We must move him." She looked into Hayley's eyes, which were slowly filling up with tears. "He is now at peace." Mayari gestured to Bridge. "Please." Hayley nodded as she stepped toward Bridge's bed, looking back at Carlos' bed.


Kim threw her hands in front of her face to defend herself from the oncoming aswangs.

They were immediately thrown backward by a familiar-looking yellow ranger.

"You okay, Kim?" the yellow ranger asked.

"Aisha?" Kim asked incredulously.

"Yes," she answered. "How about we destroy these gross-looking bird thingys?"

"Sounds good."

The two of them started to fight as Lucas jumped into the middle of a group of ekeks and proceeded to fight them, venting out his anger and grief.


"What time do you guys want to go?" Jason asked, lying on his couch. "I told Trini to not expect us before dinner." He and the rest of the guys have not even changed out of the clothes they wore to sleep.

Zack shrugged, lying on the floor. "We should probably have breakfast, first?"

"Breakfast?" Billy asked in amusement. "It's nearly two-thirty in the afternoon."

Tommy chuckled at the conversation, holding his cell phone to his ear. "Kim must've been hit pretty hard. She's not answering."

"She's probably still asleep," Jason said. "You know how that girl could spend an entire day asleep."

"I'm hungry," Zack said.

"So get something to eat," said Jason.

Zack turned over to look at Jason. "You're such a bad host. Kim's so much better."

Jason shrugged his shoulders. "So?" He grinned. "You know you guys have been over way too much to be treated like a guest in this house. In Kim's house, too, for that matter. Get whatever you want. You know where the kitchen's at."

"I just don't feel like it." Zack straightened up on the floor and exhaled in relief. "I'm way too comfortable."

"Me too," Billy and Tommy said.

Jason just laughed to himself.


"They're too strong!" Andros yelled to Zhane and TJ. "Do you think we should go back?"

TJ kicked an ekek and turned back to Andros. He shrugged quickly and turned around to continue fighting. Andros watched as Cassie and Ashley tried to take a tiyanak down. He winced and dropped to his knees, using his spiral saber to slice through the legs of an ekek. He looked to his side and saw the red and yellow ranger who have come to their aid. He frowned and tried to get up to help them as he watched them get taken down. He looked to his side as he stood and screamed out in agony as he watched Zhane fall, blood coming out from the left side of his body.

The seven rangers disappeared in a flash of light.


"You guys okay?" Adam asked as he and the other rangers were circled in. They stood side by side, in their own small circle, facing the enemies.

"There's too many of them," Kira said. She took a small step forward and used her Ptera Scream, but it didn't seem to faze them, only making them stop until she finished before advancing.

"We've got to bring them down!" Lucas said, anger evident in his voice. He positioned himself to run, but a split second before he moved, he and the others disappeared.


Hayley jumped from Bridge's bedside as she saw a flash of light and heard the sound of bodies coming from the main room. She glanced at Bridge, still lying peacefully asleep, and listened to the cries and murmurs of pain from the other room. She looked out and saw Lucas heading toward her. She stepped aside to allow him access to the room. Andros was kneeling at Zhane's side, holding a towel to his side to mop up the blood and hold pressure to him.

"Andros..." Hayley said softly. "Bring him in here..."

Andros, TJ, and Rocky bent down to pick Zhane up and move him to the room Hayley was standing in. She gestured to the newly made bed where Carlos once lay and the three guys gently placed Zhane on the bed. Trini ran into the room and helped Hayley with Zhane. Hayley looked at them and nodded for them to leave the room.

Before leaving, TJ swiftly looked around and saw Bridge. He frowned and looked around some more.

"Hayley?" he started. Andros and Rocky looked back. Lucas glanced over, in curiousity. "What are you doing here?" he looked around again. "And where's Carlos?"

Hayley and Lucas glanced at each other quickly and Lucas gave Hayley the slightest shake of his head. Hayley looked at TJ, Rocky, and Andros and gave them a tight-lipped smile, then turned her attention to Zhane.

x

Adam, Kim, and Aisha sat on the couch, next to each other and proceeded to tell Aisha what's been going on. Rocky saw this and squeezed onto the couch, holding Aisha's hand. Cassie, Ashley, Kira, and Alyssa spoke with each other in a hushed conversation on the other side of the room. TJ and Andros hovered around the doorway, keeping on eye on Zhane and Bridge, and the other on the rest of the rangers.

"That's horrible," Aisha was saying. Rocky grimly nodded, putting his arm around Aisha and holding her close. "I can't believe that."

Kim nodded, exhaling and leaning back on the couch. She closed her eyes.

"So, who's that in there?" Rocky asked, pointing to the room.

"That's Bridge Carson, the red ranger from the future that I told you guys about," Adam said, standing up and wiping his hands on his pants. "I should go see how he's doing."

Rocky nodded and lightly tapped Adam on the back as he walked away. Aisha shook her head sadly and leaned against Rocky.

Nobody jumped as Mayari appeared before them in a beam of light, accompanied by even more people. Nobody also noticed that the room changed with them within it to accommodate the growing number of people in the room.

"Kira, what's going on?"

Kira turned away from her conversation and looked at the new bodies that filled the room. "Trent? Conner? Ethan? What are you guys--"

"We heard that you guys nearly got killed."

"I think we'd all like to know what's been going on," Z Delgado said. "There are some serious future complications here. Where's Bridge?"

"How...who are you?" Kim asked as she opened her eyes, looking at the pretty brunette.

"I'm Z. And this is Syd," she said pointing to the blonde girl to her left. "We're from the future, we work with Bridge. Where is he? There's something wrong, isn't there?"

Andros nodded and just pointed to the room. Z and Syd looked at each other and ran into the room.

"Rangers...I called upon more to aid you."

"It's still not enough..." Andros said slowly and painfully. "I don't know how we can take them...it seems like they're getting stronger by the second." He exhaled slowly. "And Zhane...and Carlos..." He looked at Mayari. "Where is he, anyway? We'd like to see him, talk to him."

Mayari looked at him and didn't say anything for the longest time. She looked at TJ, Ashley, and Cassie. Everyone sensed that something was wrong and the space rangers stood closer together. Adam walked out of the room and took his place next to Kim.

"What's going on?" he asked, whispering in her ear. She shrugged in response, but sat up a bit higher and leaned in closer to Adam.

Mayari took a deep breath. "It pains me to say this...but..."

"Where is he?" Andros asked again.

"The black ranger, Carlos Vallerte has...passed on..."

Ashley and Cassie started to cry. TJ looked around, with an angry look in his eyes. He started shaking as he felt the tears well up in his eyes.

"What do you mean, 'passed on'?" Andros looked in Mayari's eyes, pleading with her.

"He is at peace, red ranger."

Andros looked at Ashley, Cassie, and TJ. He started hyperventilating as tears streamed down his face. Ashley put her arms around him and hugged him closely.

Kim started to softly cry, with Adam rubbing her shoulder. Kira looked down from her whispered conversations with her former teammates, with tears welling up in her eyes. Alyssa looked on as well, tears also forming in her eyes.

There was barely a dry eye in sight and Mayari looked sadly upon them all.

"I wish there was some way I could make the pain go away...but death is a natural part of life, rangers," she said in her ethereal voice. "Carlos Vallerte has fought bravely during his time as a Power Ranger. Always willing to take a chance and help others."

"How's Bridge?" Kim said, softly. "Is he..." She didn't finish her question as another round of sobs overtook her.

"He is stable," Mayari answered.

"We want to see him," Cassie said through her tears. She wiped her face on the sleeve of her shirt and took TJ and Ashley's hands. "We want to see him."

Mayari nodded. "Of course, rangers. Please come this way."

The four remaining space rangers held on to each other as they followed Mayari to where Carlos' body was.

The remaining rangers looked at each other in disbelief, wiping tears from their eyes.

"I can't..." Kira choked out. "Being a ranger...it always seemed like...you could somehow cheat death...at the end of the day...it always seemed like we were safe. We were fine." Trent enveloped her in his arms and she started to cry again.

Adam wiped his face and stood up, gently pushing Kim away from him. Aisha put her arms around Kim as the two of them hugged each other.

"We've got to stop this. Or else there'll be more deaths," Adam said. "And Rita's mother has not even turned her attention to Earth. She is destroying all of these other planets and saving her big attack for Earth. There's no saying how many more..."

"Please don't say it," Kim pleaded, tears still in her eyes. "Just don't say it..."

Adam looked at her sadly and sighed. "We've got to do something. For Carlos. For Bridge. For Zhane. For all of us and for all of our families and friends down on Earth. For the rest of the citizens of the other planets out here. We've got to do something."

Conner raised his hand slowly. "Sorry, Adam, but...exactly what is going on? We get this mysterious message saying that Kira's in trouble..."

Adam sighed again and told him, Trent, and Ethan what was going on. In the medical room, Lucas was doing the same with Hayley, Trini, Z, and Syd.

"Our sensors for Bridge were flying off the wall and we knew something was wrong," Z was saying.

"And when we were going to fly out to the future, the light thing comes to us," Syd continued.

Lucas nodded. "And...it's...getting harder to fight them." He looked off, not concentrating on anything in particular. "This last battle...it really..." He gestured down to Bridge and Zhane in the bed next to him. "And Carlos..." Lucas' throat closed up again as he felt tears rushing to his eyes.

"What happened?" Syd asked gently. Trini looked at Lucas, also. Hayley started to feel tears well up in her eyes.

"Carlos...he...I think the battle was too much. There were too many of them...we could barely take them on Edenoi, and they couldn't take them on Bookala, either..." He exhaled and continued to stare off. "I don't exactly know what happened...but...we got here...and Bridge was bleeding everywhere. Carlos was too. There was so much blood I couldn't tell if it were Bridge's or Carlos' or even mine. I don't think any of us got out cleanly." He felt the tears start to fall down his cheeks and didn't move to wipe them. "Carlos...he...he was a Power Ranger. Power Rangers aren't supposed to get hurt. They aren't supposed to feel any pain or anything. They're supposed to save the day. They're not supposed to get whooped on all these times. They're not supposed to die."

At these last words, Trini's, Z's, and Syd's breath got caught in their throat. The tears that were threatening to fall in Hayley's eyes broke through and were streaming down her face. Lucas saw his own tears dripping onto Bridge's face.

"And there's no way to kill them?" Trent asked, his arm still around Kira.

Adam shrugged. "We could kill them, but there are just too many."

"I wish Dr. O was here," Conner said to Ethan in a low voice.

"Me too," Kim said.

"I wish we had a chance," Adam said.

"We do have a chance," Aisha protested. She stood up and faced Adam and the rest of the rangers. "We wouldn't be here if we don't, right? We could do it, we've done it before."

"I don't think it's ever been this bad before," Rocky said.

Adam shook his head to agree. "We couldn't defend Edenoi. We couldn't defend Bookala. We couldn't defend any of the other planets that were taken over. How are we going to defend the rest of the universe, not to mention Earth?"

Trent, Kira, Conner, Ethan, and Alyssa looked on between the older rangers.

"But we could still do it," Aisha said. She looked at Kim for support. "We've battled through monsters, putties, Rita and Zedd, we could do this."

Kim nodded a bit. "We've lost our powers before and had to fight without them. We've lost our zords. And we've always come back."

"Yeah, Adam," Kira said. "We could do it together."

Adam glanced helplessly at the room that housed an ill Bridge and Zhane. He and Rocky looked at each other.

"You," Kira continued. "Kim, Rocky, Aisha, me, Trent, Conner, Ethan, Alyssa, Trini, Lucas, Andros, Ashley, Cassie, TJ, Z, Syd. We're still here. We've still got a reason to fight. And if there are any other former rangers who want to help also, all the better for us. We're here together. And we'll be together."

Adam nodded wordlessly at Kira, who gave him a small smile. Kim stood up and hugged Adam.

"I wonder if there's some way we could contact some of the other former rangers," Rocky said.

Adam shrugged. "I don't know. It seems like we've all gotten here through Mayari."

"Then let's ask her," Aisha said. She looked at Conner, Ethan, and Trent. "And the three of you need your new Power Coins."

"Power Coins?" Conner scoffed. "That's so old. Didn't the very first team use that?"

Kim looked at Conner sternly. "I am part of the first team. What are you trying to say?"

Conner put his hands up in mock surrender. "Nothing. Just meant that it's always good to go back to the old ways. Before I had super speed."

Kira laughed and hit Conner across his arm.


"Are you done yet?" Tommy yelled, banging on the door to the bathroom. "You take longer getting ready than Kimberly."

"Patience, my friend, patience," Zack said, calmly walking out of the bathroom. "It's all yours."

"I just need to wash my hands of this mousse."

"Well, it's still all yours."

"I'm hungry," Zack said walking into the living room, where Billy was patiently waiting and Jason was lacing up his shoes.

"So get something to eat," Jason said.

"I would, but there's a problem." Jason looked at him with an amused expression. "You have no food!"

"Oh yeah!" Jason said. "Tommy and I were supposed to go grocery shopping."

"Oh...how nice."

"Relax, Zack, we'll just grab something on the way out."

Billy looked at his friends and laughed. "Do you guys think something's going on?" he asked suddenly.

"What do you mean?" Jason said.

"I mean, nobody's answering." He held up his cell phone. "I've tried Hayles, Trini, Aisha, Rocky, Kim, Adam...but I'm getting nothing."

Jason shrugged. "I wouldn't think much of it. Maybe they're out and forgot their phones. Maybe they're playing music loud and can't hear it. Maybe they're out by the pool. Or maybe they're in the studio with Kim. There's a no cell phone rule down there."

Billy nodded. "I just can't help, but have the strangest feeling."

"Just forget about it, Billy," Zack advised. "It's probably nothing."

"I hope so."

"Tommy, come on!" Jason yelled. "We've already wasted more than half the day...it's almost 7!"

"Yeah, we've got to grab some dinner!" added Zack. "Even though we barely didn't even have breakfast and lunch yet!"

Tommy ran out of the bathroom, wiping his hands on a paper towel. "All right, guys, I'm out. Let's go."


"Is there any way we could get in touch with them?" Adam asked Mayari, with the rest of the rangers behind him, nodding their heads.

"I will do the best that I can, but there is never a guarantee," she answered. "Some, I cannot find. Some are difficult to locate and others do not wish to be located. But rangers, I will do what I can."

"Thank you."

Mayari nodded and disappeared in a flash of light.

"Do you think she could find all of them?" Rocky asked.

"She found us, right?" Adam said.

"Yeah, but you had active powers."

"And now you do." Adam looked at his best friend and grinned. He elbowed Rocky and nodded toward the newly restored red, blue, and white dino rangers as well as the newly restored pink and yellow SPD rangers. "Feels good, doesn't it?"

They grinned and nodded as they looked up.

"I can't wait to morph!" Ethan exclaimed.

Aisha laughed and nodded.

"Yeah, it feels good until you start fighting those things," Kim said. "Then it hurts like nothing else. And that's when they start running at you. Some of them have wings and some can stab you, using just their arms...and they all have red eyes. They're freakin scary."

"And they all feast on human flesh," Kira added, disgusted.

Syd shuddered. "I think I could wait to see these things."

"You'll be fine," Z said as she clapped Syd on the back.

"I'm tired," Kim said, closing her eyes and leaning against the couch.

Aisha looked at her, concerned. "You should go get some rest." Kim nodded slowly. "I don't even know why you came...right after you got hit by the volleyball..."

"Did I tell you that it was a mild concussion?" Aisha shook her head. "Oh, well it was a mild concussion and my eye is fine."

Aisha shook her head. "Kim...it's dangerous out there. One blow to the head..."

"I know, 'Sha," Kim whispered. "One blow and--"

"You could either lose your sight or worse--" added Rocky in a whisper.

"Your life," Adam contributed, also in a whisper.

Kim opened her eyes at them. "Look guys, I really, really appreciate the worrying, but...I know. I know what I was getting into. And I wanted to come. I know what could happen. Please, guys..."

"Okay," Adam said with finality. "But one move out there..."

"You're coming right back," Rocky said. Aisha nodded.

"Got it," Kim said. She looked at Kira, talking to her friends and smiled. "When I first touched that Power Coin, I felt different." She looked at Rocky, Aisha, and Adam. "Like I was never in that accident. My body felt almost brand new."

Adam smiled and sat next to Kim, putting his arm around her. "And I hope it stays like that. You worry us, Kim."

"I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault." He smiled and kissed her cheek. "I want to worry about you."

Aisha smiled and rubbed Kim's shoulder. Rocky nodded in agreement.

Adam looked around. "Come on, guys. I think we all need some sleep."


"Still no answer," Tommy said. "What do you guys want to do?"

Jason furrowed his brow. "I wonder where they're at. None of them are answering. That's a little weird."

It was so late that it started to turn dark. Jason, Tommy, Billy, and Zack spent the rest of their afternoon walking around the mall, holding their small amount of shopping bags.

"You guys just wanna grab a pizza and some movies?" Zack asked.

"Sounds like a plan," Tommy said. "I'll just leave another message for Kim, though." He pulled out his phone and walked off, holding it up to his ear.

The four guys headed toward the car and Billy looked up at the sky.

"Whoa, guys, look!" Billy pointed up toward the sky. Zack, Jason, and Tommy, who was still on the phone, looked up.

"I didn't see anything," Jason said.

"Me neither," Zack said.

"I swear I saw something. Like a flash or something." Billy looked up and squinted his eyes. "It looks like it's coming from the direction of...I think that's Liaria. I can't be too sure, though."

Zack and Jason looked up again and still didn't see anything.

"Sorry, man," Jason said.

"Still nothing," completed Zack.

"What?" Tommy asked. He looked up at the sky.

"I thought I saw a flash or something coming from the direction of Liaria," Billy said.

Tommy thought back to his last week of classes and remembered seeing a flash. "Hey, I saw something like that, too! It was during one of my finals."

"During one of your finals?" Zack asked. "It was probably just a reflection of light or something."

"Yeah," Jason added. "After all, you are a science teacher now."

Tommy furrowed his brow. "I don't know..." He looked meaningful at Billy. "I wonder what it is, though."

Hours later, the four of them were still lazing around the living of Jason and Tommy's. The spent the evening and early morning eating pizza and watching movies. Movies that they have already watched and knew all of the lines to.

"Pizza is always the best," Tommy said, stuffing another slice into face.

"I'm getting a little worried," Billy said. "We haven't heard from the others all day."

Jason shrugged. "I'm sure they'll find some way to talk to us if they really wanted to. Maybe they all got together and said for none of them to answer our phone calls."

"And besides," Zack said nonchalantly, "how much trouble can they get into anyway? We know Kim's fine. Adam's looking after her."

"The others probably are, too," Jason added.

"And," continued Zack. "I miss it being just us guys. Almost as if--"

"As if you're the black ranger again?" Tommy said. "And Jason's red, Billy's blue, and I'm--"

"Which one is it?" Jason said with a wry smile. "Green? Maybe it's white."

"I think Kimberly did like white a lot," Zack said, laughing.

"But green was when they met."

"And tried to kill us!"

Tommy rolled his eyes and looked at Billy. "Anyways, Billy."

Billy started laughing.

"Pop in another movie."

Billy was still laughing as he opened the DVD player.


The next day, a new beam of light appeared in the main room. Everything was silent and still, for everyone was still asleep.

"Rangers!" A deep, full, and unfamiliar voice made all the rangers jump up from their beds. They ran from their rooms and met up in the main area. "The mother of Rita Repulsa has chosen a new place to attack." Everyone looked at each other, not recognizing who was speaking. A bright light appeared and a tall, robust figure materialized. "I am Apolaki, god of the sun. She has chosen four planets: Liaria, Sirius, Rashon, and Triforia. She has already taken the majority of the citizens of Liaria and Triforia captive."

Adam nodded and stood. In a flash, he, Kim, Alyssa, and Ethan disappeared to Liaria.

"This is where Lerigot's from, right?" Kim asked. "Remember him?"

Adam nodded beneath his helmet. "Yeah. I hope he's okay."

"They saved me that time. Him and his wife."

Adam looked over at Kim and smiled a smile that she couldn't see. He rubbed her shoulders. "I hope you guys are ready." He raised his Power Axe. "Cuz here the

Kim nodded and raised her Power Bow.

Ethan raised his Thundermax Saber and held his Tricera Shield close to him.

Alyssa nodded and raised her arms, in preparation for the oncoming tiyanaks headed for her.


Rocky, Kira, Trent, and Aisha landed on Triforia, morphed.

"I wonder where Trey is," Rocky said.

"I don't know," Kira said. "She's been fighting here on Triforia for a long time. She went back here three times. I don't know where he could be unless he's holding everyone off by himself."

"I hope so," Aisha said.

"Get ready, guys!" Trent yelled as he saw a stampede coming toward him. "Ughh...you didn't say gross-looking they were."

"Yes, we did," Kira said, getting into her battle stance. When they were close enough, she leaned forward and used her Ptera Scream, giving the rangers a bit more time.


Lucas, Conner, Trini, Z and Syd appeared on Sirius.

"Wow," Z said, looking down. "This is great."

"I hope it stays that way," Trini said, looking around. She didn't see a sign of the aswangs, tiyanaks, and ekeks yet. "Everyone, stay on guard."

"This is Doggie's planet, isn't it?" Syd said to Z, who nodded. "Do you think we'll see him?"

Z shrugged.

"Is that them?" Conner asked, looking up at the sky. "Flying down here at us."

Lucas nodded and clenched his fists. "That's them."

"All right," Conner said. "Let's get ready."

"Oh yeah," Lucas said, stepping up in front of the rest of his group. "I'm ready."


"I know you have suffered a great loss," Apolaki said to the remaining four rangers. "But our duty continues."

Andros nodded stiffly. He, Ashley, Cassie, and TJ disappeared in a flash of light to Rashon.

"Let's pull ourselves together, you guys," TJ said, every word sounding as if it caused him pain. "We've got to remember why we became rangers in the first place."

Ashley nodded and put an hand on Andros' arm.

"We could do it," Cassie said in a broken voice.

"For Carlos," Ashley said. "And Zhane. He'll be back with us in no time."

Andros nodded as if it were painful and pulled out his spiral saber. He yelled in frustration, anger, and grief and ran at the first ekeks who ran towards him.


Kim took out a handful of ekeks with her Power Bow and proceeded to use it as a sort of dagger, digging it through the hearts of different creatures. She felt a bit better than she did earlier, but still thought that they were greatly outnumbered.

"Hang on, Alyssa!" Kim yelled as she watched the white ranger get taken over by tiyanaks. Kim swiftly did a series of backflips to kick away the tiyanaks and held out her hand to grab Alyssa from the crowd.

"Thanks Kim!"

"Don't worry about it." Kim resumed her place against the ekeks and quickly glanced around. She couldn't see Ethan or Adam, but she could hear them. Kim jumped and kicked an ekek squarely in the chest, which created a sort of dominoe effect with the two behind him. She ducked just in time to dodge a punch headed for her face.


"There are too many again!" Kira yelled. "I don't know if I could..." She yelled as she fell to the ground, holding her arm.

"KIRA!!" Trent yelled, running to her side.

They heard a cackling next to them and saw an ekek get ready to jump on Kira. Trent blocked Kira from the attack and took the force full on his back. He fell with a yell and Kira cried out. She looked at the surrounding ekeks, still holding her arm and used her Ptera Scream. She knelt next to Trent, who was not moving and felt around for a pulse. She used another Ptera Scream as the ekeks grew closer. They only moved back a couple of steps before advancing again. Kira breathed a sigh of relief as she located a faint, but steady pulse.

"ROCKY!" Kira yelled. Rocky glanced at Kira. "I'm bringing Trent back." Rocky quickly nodded and barely paid attention as Kira cried out for Mayari and disappeared.

They landed with a thud in the medical room and Hayley jumped at the sight of an unconscious Trent and a barely conscious Kira.

"Help him," she said, holding her arm. "I'm fine."

Using all her might, and all the strength she could muster, Hayley and Kira lifted Trent on the third bed that appeared on the other side of Bridge. Kira collapsed in a chair that was set up next to the bed. Hayley immediately checked for a pulse and checked his airways. She hooked him up to a bunch of machines, the same ones that Bridge and Zhane were hooked up to, and Kira listened as she heard a steady beep. When she finished looking at Trent, she turned to Kira.

"He's stable," Hayley said. Kira exhaled in relief. "He wasn't as badly as these two, but his injuries can still be dangerous." Kira nodded. "Now, what about you?"

"I'm fine, Hayley," Kira siad, still holding her arm. "Just look after Trent. And Bridge and Zhane."

Hayley frowned as she knelt in front of Kira and took her arm gently. Kira winced and shut her mouth, trying to not cry out in pain. "I think it's broken," Hayley said. "I don't really know how to make casts, but let's try, shall we?"

Kira, too tired to argue, allowed Hayley to lead her from the chair to the other side of the room, where there seemed to be supplies. Hayley wrapped her arm in some form of plaster and put a sling around her.

"Stay off of it, okay?"

Kira nodded and resumed her place next to Trent.

"Please be okay," she whispered as she took his hand into hers.


Billy looked around the room, opening his eyes sleepily. He looked at Jason, lying asleep on the couch, Tommy was on the other couch, with his mouth wide open, and Zack was once again on the floor, facing away from everyone.

He gave a small smile and stood up, careful to not step on Zack. He turned off the television, the DVD player, and the light and settled back to where he was lying down and went back to sleep.


"All right!" Z yelled, throwing a fist in the air. She kicked another tiyanak in the chest and it was thrown backward. She and Syd teamed up to take down another tiyanak.

Lucas looked around quickly. He noticed that many of the creatures were flying away, but he didn't want to claim victory yet. He knew that the citizens of Sirius were also fighting alongside the rangers, but he didn't want to look around, for fear of the number of dead bodies he would see. He heard loud cheering coming from behind him and turned to look at the sound. Lucas quickly scanned what he could see around him and he noticed that there were no more tiyanaks, ekeks, and aswangs in sight. He hoped this meant that there were no more on the planet. He didn't join in on the celebration yet, for fear of a surprise attack.

After three minutes, there was still no attack, and he pulled aside the rangers. "We have to go help the others." Trini, Conner, Z and Syd nodded. "Trini and I will go to Triforia. Z, Syd, you guys go to Rashon. Conner, head to Liaria." The rangers nodded and looked up, and disappeared in a beam of light.


Rocky glanced quickly at the blue ranger who appeared next to him. "Thanks for the help, but...it seems a bit overrun here," he said quickly. "Trent went down and Kira took him back. And we don't want anymore..."

Lucas nodded quickly.

The two of them looked at the two yellow rangers, fighting against the tiyanaks. Lucas looked around and saw that every inch was covered in an aswang, an ekek, or a tiyanak that looked like they were clamoring to get a bite of him. He nodded at Rocky.

"We need to get out of here while we still can," Rocky said. Lucas nodded again. "Go to Rashon with Trini. Aisha and I will go to Liaria."

They nodded to each other and disappeared in flashes of light.


Andros seemed to think that fighting was very therapeutic. He killed countless tiyanaks, ekeks, and aswangs, not keeping count. All he had on his mind was Carlos and Zhane and vowed to fight for them. In the brief seconds that he looked at the rest of his team, they all seemed to be fighting an extra hundred percent. He didn't even look surprised when he saw a new yellow and pink ranger join his team in fighting. Nor was he surprised when another blue ranger and yellow ranger appeared and started fighting. His mind was on his friends and he wanted to hurt as many of the enemy that he could.


Adam kicked a tiyanak and jumped over him to punch an ekek. Rocky ran up next to him as the two of them combined their weapons and killed the tiyanak and the ekek.

"Thanks, man," Adam said, running into another direction.

"No problem," Rocky said as he swiftly headed toward Aisha, who was fighting a pair of tiyanaks.

Adam and Kim stood back to back, fighting four aswangs. Kim held her Power Bow up and used it as a type of shield. "Who's here?" she asked.

"Rocky and Aisha, I saw," Adam answered. "And I think I saw Conner, down there with Ethan." He quickly pointed to a spot to the right of them.

Kim nodded. She glanced quickly around and saw Alyssa surrounded by a group of ekeks. "I'll go help her." She ran in the direction of Alyssa and jumped to get into the middle of the circle. Alyssa quickly turned her body to fight of an aswang to her right and didn't notice when an aswang behind her flew forward and plunged an arm through her back, underneath her left shoulder.

Kim screamed as she landed and fought off the aswangs, who were approaching Alyssa with a hungry sort of look. One of them was even licking their lips. She killed through the first round of aswangs and looked ahead, but didn't see Alyssa. She jumped again and this time, landed in front of Alyssa's body, lying face down on the floor, unmorphed. Kim kicked away the aswangs and stood over Alyssa's body, protecting it from any more harm. She yelled for Adam, who came running along swiftly, with Rocky and Aisha in sight. Kim heard Aisha gasp and saw them fight off the rest of the aswangs surrounding them. Kim knelt next to Alyssa's body and pulled out the forgotten arm from her back, slowly. She held her breath as she slowly turned Alyssa over, so her head was lying in her lap. She looked up and noticed Conner and Ethan running in to join the fight and saw that the five of them still surrounded Kim and Alyssa. She looked down at Alyssa, whose eyes were still open. Kim forced a smile and moved her hand around Alyssa's neck to feel a pulse. She put another hand on Alyssa's back, supporting her and putting pressure on the wound. Kim felt tears well up in her eyes as she struggled to feel a pulse. She put her head down close to Alyssa's mouth and couldn't hear her breathing. "Come on..." she whispered, forcefully. Kim gently placed Alyssa on the ground and looked up briefly to see the other rangers still in front of her. She placed her hands on her chest in an attempt to perform CPR and cried out in horror as she saw blood coming out from her chest, noticing that the aswang's arm plunged fully through her body. Tears fell from Kim's face as she sobbed loudly and held Alyssa to her chest. Kim looked down and saw the blood that covered the front of her body. Adam glanced back and felt his breath get caught in his throat.

He looked at his Rocky, Aisha, and Conner and said in a swift moment, "Let's go." Immediately, he, Rocky, Aisha, Ethan, Conner, Kim, and Alyssa disappeared in a flash of light.

They landed on the floor of the main room, with a thud, not expecting to land so soon.

Kira, hearing the sound, rose from her seat in the medical room, and ran out, holding her arm. "What happened?" She looked around quickly at the sad faces. "Who..." Kira cried out in horror as she saw Kim on the floor, holding Alyssa. She couldn't tell if Kim was the one bleeding or not, but she could see Alyssa's lifeless eyes. Kira, stood there, shocked and speechless. She barely made a move as Aisha knelt down next to Kim to pry her from Alyssa's body.

"Come on, Kim..." Aisha said softly. "There's nothing else you can do." When Kim wouldn't budge, she looked at Adam and Rocky.

Adam knelt down and took Kim's arms and put them around himself. Rocky stood behind her and the two of them helped her stand up while Aisha gently placed Alyssa's body on the floor and put two fingers on her eyelids and gently closed them. Conner walked over to Kira and pulled her into a hug.

"What happened?" he asked, gesturing toward her arm.

She shook her head, still looking at Alyssa. "I'm fine..."

Mayari appeared before them, three people with her. She immediately looked at Alyssa's body and Aisha on the floor. The gazes of the people with her followed.

The one dressed in yellow cried out in sorrow and fell to the floor, throwing herself next to Alyssa's body and cradling her body in her lap. Aisha stood up slowly and gave a small smile as she moved to stand with her own friends.

"Come on, Kim, let's get you cleaned up," she said, pulling the pink ranger from Adam's grasp.

Kim shook her head, looking at the new people who have joined them. She looked at Mayari and waited.

Mayari saw her expectant stare and opened her mouth to speak. "This is Wes Collins, red Time Force ranger, and Eric Meyers, quantum Time Force ranger." She looked sadly at the girl in yellow on the floor. "And this is Taylor Earhardt..."

"Alyssa's best friend," Eric added softly, pain evident in his voice. He knelt down next to Taylor and pulled her into his arms. Taylor, still sobbing uncontrollably, allowed him to envelope her.

Wes looked at the other rangers and gave a cross between a smile and a frown.

"How are Andros and the others doing?" Adam asked.

Mayari nodded. "They are doing very well. Sirius has been saved. And the rangers have the upperhand in Rashon."

"We should go help them," Rocky said. Adam nodded. Mayari looked at them and waved her hands. Only Rocky, Adam, Ethan, and Conner disappeared.

"What about us?" Aisha asked.

Mayari looked at Aisha and nodded to Kim, who still seemed in shock. "You must help your friend." Aisha nodded and looked at Kira, who hurried over.

"What happened?" Kira whispered to Aisha, helping Kim into a chair. The two of them took seat next to Kim, forming a triangle.

Aisha shrugged her shoulders.

"I saw it..." Kim said slowly. "I could've helped, but...I don't know. I should've done something. If I didn't wait...she's still be alive."

Kira and Aisha looked at each other with wide eyes.

"Those things move fast, Kim," Kira said, in a consoling voice. "There's no way this is your fault."

"Yeah, she's right, girl," Aisha added.

Kim shook her head, staring straight ahead. "I saw it, though," Kim continued. She accepted the cup of water that Kira forced into her hands. "She's a white tiger...her uniform was white and pink..."

"Kim, this isn't your fault," Aisha said. She looked at Kira, noticing the sling for the first time. "What happened to you?"

Kim immediately snapped out of her trance and looked at Kira in worry.

"I'm fine," Kira assured. "Just a little..."

Aisha furrowed her brow.

"Broken..." Kira continued. She looked thoughtful. "I'm worried about Trent, though. He--"

"Fine." A voice interrupted their conversation and the three of them looked up and saw Trent standing before them. Kira jumped up and gave her as tight a hug as she could with one arm. "I'm fine..my back's still a little sore."

"How are the others?" Kim asked, looking off at Wes, Eric, Taylor, and Alyssa's body.

"Both of them are still out of it, but Hayley said they're looking stable. Bridge has gotten some coloring back in his face and even moved a bit. Zhane still looks pretty bad, but Hayley said he seems to be getting there, so..." Trent shrugged. Everyone was silent for a bit. "So...who are they?" Trent nodded to the three new people who were talking to Mayari. Taylor still seemed to be holding onto Alyssa's body.


"DON'T MESS WITH MY FRIENDS!" Andros yelled, looking up as the aswangs flew away. He looked at the rangers next to him. "That's Rashon. How did things go on Liaria?"

Adam winced as he and the others powered down. "Not good...Alyssa...she..."

Andros looked deeply in his eyes as Cassie, Ashley, and TJ crowded next to him.

"Alyssa..." Adam continued. "She...died..."

Andros' face turned into stone as Cassie and Ashley burst into tears. TJ frowned and clapped a hand on Adam's and Andros' shoulders. Lucas pushed his way forward and searched through Adam's face. Adam looked at him, tears forming in his own eyes. He shook his head as Lucas' eyes filled with tears as well. Nobody said a word as the rangers silently grieved for one of their own. Then, one by one, everybody disappeared, on their way back to the others. Syd and Z disappeared first, eager to see how Bridge was doing. Lucas disappeared next, followed by the space rangers and Conner and Ethan. Trini, Adam, and Rocky looked at each other.

Trini looked around and held out her arms. She shook her head. "All of this devastation. All of the deaths. We're not the only ones dying here. It's a universal thing."

"And who knows when she'll turn her target to Earth," Rocky said softly.

"If I die," Trini said, tears filling her eyes. "Please...let Jason know that I love him. And I will always love him."

"Don't talk like that, Trini," Adam said. He put his arm around her and gestured around. "You're gonna tell him that yourself. And whenever the two of you finally get married...we'll all think back on this and remember how we fought to change the world for a better place."

"But that's two rangers down, Adam," she said. "We've been here...it feels like forever, but it's only been a short time. And you, you and Kim, and Aisha, and everybody...we all look like we've been to hell and back. And I bet we still have a long way to go."

"You've gotta believe that we can defeat them," Rocky said. "We've done it before. As teenagers...we could do it again. Little steps." He spread his arm around. "Look, we protected Rashon. It's time we do the same around the universe."

"But still..." Trini's voice started to break. "Carlos...and Alyssa...I know I just met them, but...we're all rangers. We're all a big family."

Rocky and Adam nodded.

"I just wish Zordon were here," she continued, putting her hands up to wipe the tears from her eyes. She looked at Zordon, noticing the blood staining the front of his shirt. "What happened?"

Adam looked down quickly. "Oh, it's not mine. It must've gotten on me from Kim." Trini's eyes widened and filled with tears that threatened to fall. Adam shook his head quickly. "No, no, no...she was the one holding Alyssa..." Trini tightened her lips. "Let's get back, okay. There are new rangers there. Wes and Eric...they're Silver Guardians, from Time Force. Jason told us about them. He met them at the moon mission. And Taylor...she's...she's a yellow ranger...with Alyssa..." Adam looked at Trini and Rocky. "Let's go..."

Trini and Rocky nodded and the three of them disappeared in a flash.

When they returned, they noticed the appearance of more people. A person dressed in red, a girl in light blue, another in an official-looking uniform, and another girl dressed in pink, hugging Andros were talking to Mayari. Kim, Aisha, Kira, Ethan, Trent, and Conner stood off to the side, whispering amongst themselves. Trini, Rocky, and Adam joined them. TJ, Ashley, and Cassie were all in the medical room, hovering over Zhane, while Z and Syd were doing the same over Bridge's bed. Lucas was deep in conversation with Wes and Eric was sitting on the couch, holding Taylor in his arms as he consoled her quietly.

"Adam!" Tori Hanson, the girl dressed in light blue greeted him with a small smile. She hugged him briefly before introducing herself to the other rangers.

"Glad you're here," Kira said.

Tori nodded. "Glad to be here. I just wish..." She looked around. "It was a bit earlier." She gestured back to the group she was standing with. "Mayari was briefing us on what's been going on."

"Was she the one who brought you guys?" Aisha asked.

Tori nodded again. "She brought me back. Came to me and told me..trouble and stuff like that." She pointed to the one dressed in red. "Mack and his dad picked up on weird vibes. That's what he said. And then Mayari came to him. And that's Sky Tate," she pointed to the guy wearing the uniform, still talking to Mayari. "He picked up on weird things going on, too, so he came back. He's from the future."

Adam nodded. "With Bridge, right?"

"Yeah," Tori answered. "The one who got promoted...he even brought the blue SPD morpher with him so he could morph." She looked back and pointed again. "And Karone...she's been fighting these things for a long time, too. I think the rest of her team..." she suddenly looked very sad.

The rest of the group fell silent, not knowing what to say. Kim felt tears growing behind her eyes again. She couldn't remember the last time she cried like this. She felt Aisha put an arm around her and leaned her head on her shoulder.

Rocky looked at Taylor. "How's she holding up?"

"Not good," Kim answered softly. "She refused to let Mayari move Alyssa to the other room, where Carlos was, and screamed when she finally took her body away. It was so heartbreaking," she said, tears filling her eyes again.

Nobody looked twice when Mayari suddenly disappeared.


Tommy awoke to the smell of bacon and eggs drifting in to the living room from the kitchen. He looked around and saw Zack still fast asleep on the floor. Tommy got off of the couch and stretched, reaching his arms high over his head. He headed for the bathroom and when he finished, he went into the kitchen, where he was greeted by Jason and Billy.

"Hey!" Jason called, standing at the stove. "Decided to have real breakfast today." He nodded toward Billy, sitting at the kitchen table. "Get a plate and pull up a chair."

Tommy heard a cackling sound and saw Jason put more bacon in the pan. He sat down next to Billy and helped himself to the eggs and bacon that were sitting on the table. He stood and put two slices of bread in the toaster and poured himself a cup of coffee as he waited for his bread.

"So, let's hang out with the girls, today," Jason said, pulling up the chair next to Tommy. "I kinda miss them."

Billy and Tommy laughed amidst their full mouths and nodded.

"Hang on a sec," Jason said, upon hearing the familiar tone of his cell phone. He stood and reached behind Tommy to grab his phone and briefly looked at the caller id screen. "It's Amy." Jason furrowed his brow and flipped open his phone. "Hey, what's up?" Jason was silent as he listened to Amy speak. "I don't know...we didn't hear anything, either." He was silent again as he took a bite of bacon. "No...we didn't see them yesterday." He looked at Tommy and Billy, each of them listening to Jason. "Why don't you head over here. We've got some breakfast." He sat down again. "Great, see you in a few."

Jason flipped his phone close and set it on the table before taking a sip of his coffee. "That was Amy."

Tommy and Billy nodded, waiting for Jason to continue.

"She hasn't heard from Adam or Kim or Aisha or Trini..." Jason furrowed his brow again. "I wonder why...I told her to head over here, though..."

"Do you think it has anything to do with that--" started Billy. Tommy looked at him quickly, formulating his own questions.

"I'm not sure," Jason answered. He picked up his phone and dialed Trini's number. He closed it when he didn't get an answer.

Tommy followed suit and picked up his phone to call Kim. Billy copied them and called Hayley. Both of them closed their phones as they also did not receive an answer.

"Weird," Tommy said.

"I'll try Adam," Jason said, dialing his phone again. Tommy copied him, calling Rocky and Billy called Aisha. The three of them shut their phones as they again did not receive an answer.

"Something's going on..." Billy said. "This isn't like them, right? Hayley always answers whenever I call."

Jason nodded. "The others do, too...or we get a phone call back, right away."

"I have a feeling that it has something to do with that flash of light I saw," Tommy said.

Billy nodded. "I had been picking up on odd energies coming from the skies."

"When was the last time you contacted Aquitar?"

Billy pursed his lips and thought as he sighed. "Probably more than seven or eight months ago. I haven't heard from them for a long time. Andros, too."

"What's going on, guys?" Zack asked as he yawned and stretched, taking a seat at the table next to Billy. He grabbed a plate and began to pile it with the rest of the bacon and eggs that he saw on the table. He stood and poured himself a cup of coffee and resumed his seat at the table.

"Something's up with the others," Tommy answered.

"What do you mean?" Zack took a bite out of his eggs.

Tommy proceeded to tell him what they knew when they were interrupted by the doorbell. Jason stood to answer it as Tommy continued. Amy stood in the doorway, soaking in every word of what she heard. When Tommy saw her, he repeated what he had told Zack before Amy arrived.


"Rangers..." Mayari said as she reappeared in the main room. Immediately, conversation ceased. Ashley, TJ, Cassie, Syd, Z, and Hayley ran out from the medical room. Syd and Z ran to Sky and gave him a big hug. Ashley, TJ, and Cassie joined Karone and Andros while Hayley joined her own friends across the room. She briefly looked at Taylor sadly before standing next to Aisha. "It seems that the time has come for the evil empress to throw her attention to Earth." A series of worried looks came across every single person's face.

"When?" Adam asked.

"We do not know. But we received a message from her concerning her wish to attack Earth." Mayari looked at each of the rangers and Hayley standing before her. "We must be ready for that moment when it comes." She looked at the newer rangers that joined and once more held out her hands. "We have seen evil and we have seen death. Let us fight for our friends and the future."

Sky looked at Syd and Z and stepped forward. Karone followed suit, as well as Mack and Tori. Wes stood from his spot and Eric joined him, pulling Taylor up as well.

Mayari nodded toward her hands and the familiar Power Coins appeared. Sky stepped forward again and took a solid blue coin, complete with an SPD insignia. Karone took a pink coin, with the image of a Quasar Saber embedded into it. Mack reached for a red coin and Tori took a light blue coin. Wes and Eric reached for similar-looking coins, both red with a Time Force insiginia. Taylor grabbed a yellow coin with an eagle shown through it.

"You must be prepared."

Sky, Karone, Mack, Tori, Wes, Eric, and Taylor returned to their places. Mayari surveyed the rangers before her and looked at each of them deeply. She nodded as she disappeared.

Hayley ran back to the medical room as she heard a sound. She stuck her head out and looked at Sky, Syd, and Z and grinned. "It looks like Bridge is waking up!" she exclaimed. Immediately, the three rangers from the future followed Hayley and ran into the room. The other rangers hung back in the main room, once more talking amongst themselves.

Andros and TJ joined Adam, Kim, Aisha, Rocky, Trini, Kira, Trent, Conner, and Ethan.

"This is still not enough," Andros said quietly. "We are going to be run through. And when she attacks Earth...I almost don't want..."

"How do you know?" Kira said. Andros looked at her, curiously. "You keep saying that it's not enough."

"That's because it's not," he protested.

"What if it is?" She gestured around. "We've got newer powers, more rangers. What if we can take her?"

"Kira," he started. "I don't want anymore..."

"Isn't that what the greatest stories are made of? If we-" she gestured around the room "-all stick together, I think we can take her."

"One problem," Andros stated.

"What?" Kira asked defiantly.

"We're not a hundred percent," Adam answered. "You're hurt."

"I could still fight."

"No. You're hurt." Adam looked at Trent. "Trent. Bridge, Zhane. And we don't want anymore.."

"You don't want anymore what? I knew what I was signing up for. We all did."

"Kira..." Kim started. "I think they're just saying that we need more time. More time to heal, more time to regroup, and more time to find more former rangers to help out."

"And then there's that problem that we don't know when she's going to attack Earth," Aisha added.

"And she's petty," Andros said. "When she makes her attack on Earth, she will not only just attack Earth and declare war on the planet, but she will declare war on the rangers. The forces of good is what took away her family. How would you feel if your family were taken away?" He looked straight at Kira. "She wants you and the rest of us to feel the pain that she's felt. She wants everyone in the universe to feel the pain that she's felt."

"And that just excuses her?"

"No, it doesn't. It merely makes her more evil than anyone we have ever possibly fought. She wants world domination. She wants to take over the universe. That's normal for the bad guy, is it not? But she wants us to feel the same pain that she has felt. She is going to aim for you and and the rest of us."

"How does she know who we are?"

"How do any of them find out who we are? The point is: she knows who we are. And when she turns her attack to Earth, first she'll go for the places that are important to you. Then she'll hit your family. Your friends. And everyone who you hold close. She will capture them and torture you, maybe even them, too, with the pain she inflicts on them. And when she feels it's enough, she won't hesitate to kill them in front of you. She doesn't care. She doesn't have a heart. She only wants to inflict pain on you, your family, and anybody and anywhere else you think is special to you."

At the end of Andros' speech, he headed off. Kira looked down with tears in her eyes.


Amy looked at the rest of the guys sitting at the table. "So...what...are you guys going to do?"

Tommy shrugged. "I don't know..."

"You guys have to do something! You used to be Power Rangers!"

"It's hard...when we have no idea what took them or what is going on."

Billy opened his mouth to speak, but covered his eyes at the appearance of a bright light in the kitchen. Immediately, Amy, Tommy, Jason, and Zack followed suit.

"Your friends are, for the moment, fine."

"They're fine?" Jason said, protectively, still shielding his eyes. "Then where are they? Did you take them somewhere?"

"Yes." The light dimmed a bit and an outline of a face was seen through the light. Billy, Amy, Tommy, Jason, and Zack uncovered their eyes. They all immediately stood up and Jason pushed Amy behind him.

"Where are they?" he demanded again.

"The universe is under threat. I am asking that you are willing to help."

"Of course," Jason, Billy, Tommy, and Zack said immediately. Amy stood speechless behind Jason. Jason looked at Tommy with a worried expression.

Mayari looked at Amy. "Do not be afraid."

"I want to come, too," she replied.

"AMY!" Four voices said simultaneously.

"They're my friends, too. And I want to come."

Mayari gave a slight nod and five of them disappeared in a flash of light.


There's the next chapter. Let me know what you think!