I don't own Power Rangers. Rick, Rebecca, Louis, Zara, Alex, Joe and Jin were created by Jetman21, Thewhatzupwriter26, RushQuake, GoseiShinkenPink, decode9, TimmayIsAwesome and Gadget the Critic, respectively. Ted, Cronos and the Professor were created by me.

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Rick, Louis, Zara and Rebecca walked into the main control room, Rick and Louis half carrying Ted. The Professor was stood there, going over some specifications on a monitor. He was oblivious to the fact that they'd entered.

"We're fine, thanks for asking." Rebecca said as she pulled off her helmet, Rick and Louis putting Ted in one of the chairs and pressing a control, reclining it, the Professor ignoring them "Professor?"

"Hey, she's talking to you!" Rick said, approaching the Professor and reaching out for his shoulder, his hand passing through the Professor "What the hell..."

"It's a hologram." Came Alex's voice as she walked in, powered down "I got back a few minutes ago, I tried talking to him for about two minutes before I realised. I was the one who pulled you back."

"Then where's the Professor?" Zara asked "Alex, you're his assistant, what's going on?"

"I'm as in the dark as you." Alex said, before the system beeped, Alex walking through the hologram to get to the controls, the holographic Professor disappearing as the holographic map appeared "Huh. Guess it can only maintain so many holograms at once."

"What've we got?" Louis asked, before observing the scorpion creature at building size "Oh great..."

"I'll prep the zords for launch." Alex said "The Rev Max Megazord can be operated by the four of you in Over Rev mode."

"You heard the lady." Rick said as they pulled their morphers "Over Rev Mode! Activate!"

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The transport came speeding over the large hill between it and the creature. As it did, the back section opened, deploying the Hummer, Driver, Racer and Cruiser. The five vehicles quickly began their transformation process, forming the Megazord and confronting the creature.

"Let's make this quick!" Rick said to the other three "We haven't ran the Megazord with one of us missing before, so we need to make sure we're fast about it."

The Megazord advanced on the creature, it's sword in hand. The mech slashed at the creature, the blow being blocked by the stinger on the creature's tail. The Megazord staggered back. As it did, there was a roar from above, before the Chrono Megazord descended from above, it's sabre blaster in it's hand, firing on the creature.

"Stop gawking." Came the modulated voice of the Bronze Ranger through the comm. system "Hit it with that sabre of yours!"

"Don't need to tell me twice!" Louis said, the four Rangers in the Rev Max Megazord all saying together "Rev Max Megazord Sabre, full power!"

The mech slashed down on the creature as the Chrono Megazord fired another blast. The combined force of the attacks caused the creature to collapse and explode. As it did, the Chrono Megazord advanced on the Rev Max, taking a slash at it, the Rev Max Megazord sabre blocking the blow but being cut in half in the process.

"We need to fall back!" Zara said "Or we're going to get creamed!"

"Agreed." Rick growled "Retreat."

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The four Rangers walked into the control room. Ted was finally up and about now, de-morphed. He and Alex were at the controls of the Command Centre, running calculations on the screen. There was slightly excited whispering between the two of them.

"Are we interrupting something?" Rebecca said with a laugh, both of them practically jumping out of their skin as she did "What are you guys talking about?"

"We think we've found a weakness in my father's control matrix of the Bronze and Gold Rangers!" Ted said "Of course, we need to find a way to exploit it, but the control signal only works on one frequency."

"Give or take a couple." Alex corrected "Now, we haven't isolated the frequency yet If you guys can do without us for a while longer though, we might be able to."

"They might be able to do without you, Alexandra." Came the voice of the Professor as he entered "But Theodore is going to be needed. Who else is going to pilot the new zord?"

"New Zord?" Ted said excitedly "You mean I'm finally getting my other Zord?!"

"Yes. That's why I was absent from the control room." The Professor said "I had to perform final calibrations on the Veloci Max Flyer."

"So why the hologram?" Zara asked, cocking an eyebrow "Why did you try the whole secrecy thing?"

"I didn't want you to be concerned." The Professor said, pressing a few controls, bringing up the image of a red and silver stealth wing, with a pair of large rocket boosters underneath and a pair of large blasters on top "This is the Veloci Max Flyer. It has two alternative configurations; the torso of the Veloci Max Megazord, as well as it's own mech configuration; the Veloci Max Battlezord."

"So it can be it's own Megazord?" Rick said "How come only Ted gets that?"

"It isn't exactly a Megazord." The Professor said "The Battlezord form is faster, but that speed is gained at the cost of the additional power it would gain from the other zords. It might be able to fight Kaltax creatures, but it won't stand a chance against the Chrono Megazord."

Suddenly, a beeping came from the console. A holographic image came up, displaying the Chrono Megazord, attacking the city. Ted pulled his morpher from his belt.

"Well then, I guess we need to try this out." He said, pressing the control on it "Rev Max, Power Up! Veloci Max Flyer, Online!"

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The Veloci Max Flyer handled like a dream as it flew over the cityscape. Ted looked at his controls. He could see the other four Rangers were about two kilometres behind him in the Lifter, Boat, Moto and Dozer. Ahead of him, with an ETA of about five seconds, was the Chrono Megazord.

He pulled up hard on the controls, going into a steep ascent. As he did, he hit the red button on the controls in front of him. The cockpit folded down, revealing a cylindrical head with a black visor where its eyes would be. The cannons flipped down, going to the side of the newly formed chest to become a pair of arms, whilst the boosters swung down, along with the back end of the flyer, becoming legs. The barrels of the cannons rotated round, revealing a pair of black fists.

"Veloci Max Battlezord, transformation complete!" Ted said, pressing a few controls, bringing the mech down to face the Chrono Megazord "Give it up, Dad!"

"Sorry, he's not here." Came the voice of the Gold Ranger.

"But we are." Added the Bronze Ranger "Think fast, Red Ranger!"

The Chrono Megazord raised it's weapon, firing at the Battlezord. As the blast was about to hit, the Battlezord took off, dodging the blast. As it did, the other four Rangers arrived in their respective zords. Ted hit a control, triggering a spinning kick from the Battlezord that staggered the Chrono Megazord.

"Okay, while they're on the back foot, let's do this!" Ted said, hitting the control above him "Veloci Max Megazord!"

The Battlezord launched into the air. As it did, the two arms detached, the cannons on the end detaching from the main body before the rest of the arms combined, a handle coming out in the middle, a blade deploying along the front, joining into a hand guard. As it did, the bottom of the legs, formed by the boosters, detached, returning to their original configuration and attaching to the back of the torso, leaving a gap in the middle of them. The other four zords formed their limb forms they usually went into for the Rev Max Megazord, attaching to their respective positions, the cannon and jet from the boat attaching between the two boosters, the cannon over it's left shoulder, whilst the two cannons from the jet attached to the right shoulder. Finally, the Battlezord head opened up, revealing a silver face with embossed lips and glowing green eyes.

"Veloci Max Megazord, online!" The five Rangers called as Rick, Rebecca, Louis and Zara all entered the cockpit and the Megazord caught it's staff.

The Veloci Max Megazord began to walk towards the Chrono Megazord, before a blast of energy was fired from the Chrono Megazord's weapons. The Veloci Max Megazord fired return blasts from it's own cannons, cancelling out the blast from the Chrono Megazord. As it did, the five Rangers began to key in controls, modulating the power channels throughout the mech.

"I'm giving us full weapons power." Rebecca said.

"Thrusters online." Zara said, keying in her own controls.

"Everything's locked up, we can finish this." Rick said.

"So let's do it then!" Louis blurted out.

"Agreed." Ted said, the five of them calling "Veloci Max Megazord staff! Maximum Velocity Slash!"

The Veloci Max Megazord charged forward, the staff held out in front of it, the thrusters on the back propelling it forward. The staff was glowing with red, blue, yellow, black and white energy. As it reached the other mech, it slashed, causing the rocket in the centre to begin to collapse before exploding, the Dune Buggy and Dump Truck being hurled from the blast, before retreating.

"And that, Rangers," Ted said, jumping up and punching the air "is how we rev it up!"

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The five Rangers walked into the control room of the Command Centre, de-morphed and laughing jovially. The Professor and Alex were still going over the results Ted and Alex had got earlier.

"Well done, Rangers." The Professor said to the five teens "I'm proud of you. However, the work's not done yet. We need to re-group, plan our next move carefully."

"What are you talking about?" Ted said "Prof, we just destroyed the Chrono Megazord. I say we take the fight to them now!"

"I hate to agree with Ted, but he's right." Rick said "We've got them on the back foot, if we're going to strike back, it has to be now!"

"And if the Kaltax attack while you're doing that?" The Professor said "What then?"

"Then we stop them." Zara said "Professor, we can win this."

"The Professor's right." Alex said, stepping forward "The data doesn't correlate. We can't fight a war on two fronts. Cronos and his 'Mineral Rangers' will be back eventually, yes, but we can plan an attack against them while they rebuild, and keep defending against the Kaltax in the meantime."

"We'll talk about this later." The Professor said "Take a break, all of you. You've earned it."

Rick, Louis, Zara and Rebecca walked out. The Professor looked at Ted and Alex for a moment.

"I said all of you." He said, before smiling at them "I've got some personal projects that I need to work on."

"We can help with that." Ted said, smirking "Come on, I've missed all the sciencey stuff."

"You need rest." The Professor said, pausing before reaching into his back pocket and pulling out a couple of crumpled bills and holding them out to Ted "Tell you what, you and Alexandra go get yourselves a burger, play some games in an arcade, be teenagers. Then you can come help."

"You know what, forget it." Ted said, his expression suddenly one of anger "I know when I'm not wanted."

He walked out, turning the corner before slamming his fist against the wall. He didn't want to go and grab a burger and play House of the Dead. He wanted to work on stuff in the lab, to do something good. After a moment, Alex came round the corner, stopping in front of him.

"Okay, what was that all about?" She asked "I get it, your Dad's responsible for those two but-"

"That's not it, Alex." He said "Trust me, I've got other stakes in this."

"Like what?" She said, trying to catch his gaze and noting when he avoided it "Ted? What's up?"

"This is my fault." Ted finally spoke "All of it. Everything we've come up against, everything the Kaltax have thrown at us. They came here because I detected their fleet. They'd decided we were primitive, and I didn't like it. I sent them a message, showing them just how advanced we are. That's why they're here. It's my fault."

"Ted... Oh my god..." She said "And the Professor?"

"He knows. That's why he re-activated his Ranger project." Ted said, sighing "I should go back in there. Apologise to him.

Alex smiled at him, pecked him on the cheek then walked away. He turned and headed back to the lab, finding the door didn't open for him. He paused for a moment before beginning to punch in the emergency override code for the door locks. Finally, there was a click and the door opened, leaving Ted to gasp.

The Professor was stood in the room, wearing what looked like one of the morphers on a strap on his wrist. In front of him, conversing, was Cronos.

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Dun dun DUN! Here's part two of four of this arc, and it's ending will have repercussions that will last well beyond it. R&R, please, no flames. B.