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, Cronus and the Professor were created by me.

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Jin and Joe faced down Knighterror and his Buzzers, their weapons drawn. After a moment, Jin turned to the seven Rangers on the floor.

"Get up." He said bluntly "We're taking this guy down!"

"I hate to agree with you." Ted said as he pulled himself up before helping Rebecca to her feet as the other Rangers all helped each other up "But I, uh, agree with you."

"Idiot." Louis said, slapping Ted in the gut "Let's do this!"

"Over Rev mode!" The five core Rangers called, transforming once again before pulling their side arms "Rev Defenders! Blaster mode!"

"Rev Gauntlets!" Jin called "Pulse mode!"

"Rev Blasters!" called Joe as he took aim with his own weapons."

"Rev Shot!" Alex said as she reformed her blaster.

"Chrono Defender!" Cronos said "Blaster mode!"

"Rev Max Cannon!" Ted called, tossing his Defender to Rick as he picked up the Rev Max Cannon "Let's do this guys."

"Ready." Joe said.

"Aim." Added Jin.

"Fire!" Ted yelled, all of them pulling their triggers simultaneously, Knighterror warping away seconds before the blasts made impact, totally annihilating the Buzzers "Damn it! We missed!"

"Yes you did." Came Knighterror's voice from the cliff above them "The first rule of being a General; know when to effect a tactical retreat!"

Knighterror teleported away. As he did, Ted spun, pointing the cannon at Jin and Joe.

"You still trying to kill us?" He asked, his finger on the trigger as he watched Jin and Joe move their right hands to the morphers on their left wrists "What are you doing? That's enough!"

"Power down!" Jin and Joe said together, de-morphing, Jin continuing "I guess we owe you one. You took out those chips with your blast."

"So you're good guys now, right?" Alex asked, raising her own blaster "Only I'd hate to get blood on these lovely suits of ours."

"That's what he said." Joe said, putting his hands up, before putting his left hand down slowly and gently moving Alex's blaster aside "Sorry, that was giving me the creeps, having a gun right in my face."

"Rangers," came the Professor's voice through the comm. line "Get back to base. I need to run some tests on the Gold and Bronze Rangers. And Cronus."

"Got it." Cronus said into his morpher "Come on, let's go."

The nine of them were teleported away in flashes of Red, Blue, Yellow, Black, White, Green, Grey, a Golden Yellow and Golden Red streaks, respectively.

...

Ted stood in the Command Centre, his suit still on while his helmet was sat on the side. His father, Joe and Jin were all on different beds, Alex administering tests through the computer systems, while the Professor supervised, while Rick, Rebecca, Zara and Louis were all out in the canteen area. After a moment, the Professor walked over to Ted.

"We need to talk." He said, gesturing to the door to his office "Follow me."

Ted and the Professor walked through to the office, Ted taking a seat across from the Professor. After the Professor sat down, he began speaking.

"What I'm about to tell you remains between us." He said "The only other person who knows is your father, and that's only because he has involvement in them. So, let me tell you the story. It starts fifteen years from now."

...2030...

The ground shook as the squad of gigantic Buzzers stomped over the ruined city. Rick looked up at the group as they walked over, before raising the silver wrist worn communicator on his arm to his mouth, being careful not to catch the clip on his long, messy hair.

"They've moved on." He said "Strike team, move."

...

Camella stood outside the production plant, where new Buzzers were produced constantly. Since taking over the planet five years ago, they'd set up two dozen of the factories, all across the planet. She looked around the immediate area. She actually appreciated the beauty of the ruined city. It was far more serene than they'd found it seven years ago.

In the distance, she could see a group of people walking towards the place. She pressed a control on the wrist of her armour, zooming in on the group. There were six Humans, four male, two female, all wearing hoods. She zoomed out again, smirking to herself.

As the group got close enough to be in range of hearing one another, the two centre men lowered their hoods, revealing a man with shoulder length black hair, and one with short, spiked brown hair and a goatee, a scar over his left eye.

"We're here to take the facility down." The man with the goatee said "Stand aside."

"Or what?" Camella called back "What are you going to do about it?"

"This." The man with black hair said as both he and the man with the goatee pulled golden octagonal devices "It's morphin' time!"

"Tigerzord!" The man with the goatee called, being hit with white lightning and left in a white bodysuit with gold wrist and shin guards, a black chiest piece with gold shoulder pads and a golden symbol in the centre, and a helmet with a gold trim making a tiger motif, a white sword with a Tiger head at it's hilt on his gold belt "White Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger!"

"Tyrannosaurus!" The other man called, being left in a red body suit with white gloves and boots, diamonds around the boots, the device he'd hand making a buckle on his white belt, a dagger on his left hip whilst a blaster was on his right, an armoured gold chest piece and arm bands being worn with a Tyrannosaurus themed helmet with silver embossed lips on his head "Red Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger!"

"Boring." Camella said "We've done this so many times. Don't you have anything else?"

"How about the rest of us." Said one of the other men, pulling back his hood to reveal a Caucasian man with his head shaved as he raised his arms, where two devices, one silver and gold, the other black with a red crystal, slotting them together "It's morphin' time! Zeo Ranger Three, Blue!"

The man was enveloped in a green energy grid, before having a blue suit quickly materialise on him, a white area on his shoulders, lined with gold, a fully blue helmet on his head with embossed lips and a triangular visor. On his white belt, was a blaster on his left hip and a form of sword on his right.

The other three raised their wrists, revealing silver devices with gyros on them.

"Ready?" Said the remaining man, getting a nod in response "Rev Max, Power Up!"

There was a flash, before the three figures were left in Ranger costumes, the man in White, and the women in Yellow and Black.

"White Ranger, Ready!"

"Yellow Ranger, Ready!"

"Black Ranger, Ready!"

Camella said nothing, simply snapping her fingers. As she did, a group of Buzzers attacked, charging the six Rangers.

"Formation Bravo." The Red Mighty Morphin Ranger said "Go!"

The White Rev Max Ranger and Blue Zeo Rangers both charged forward, the blue Ranger having a pair of hatchets in his hands whilst the white Ranger had his Street Smasher appear in his hands. The two struck at the Buzzers in front of them, whilst the Yellow and Black Rev Max Rangers pulled their Rev Defenders, taking shots at the other Buzzers. Finally, the Red and White Mighty Morphin Rangers leapt forward, beginning to exchange blows with Camella.

"Kind of like the old days, huh Jace?" The White Mighty Morphin Ranger said.

"Almost Tommy, almost." The Red Ranger replied, slashing at Camella with his dagger "It was easier then. We were a lot younger."

"Less chatting, more hacking!" The White Rev Max Ranger called before being ran through with a Buzzer's weapon, collapsing to the floor.

"Louis!" The Black Ranger called, being hit by a blast projected over from Camella and falling to the floor, lifeless.

"Fall back!" The Yellow Ranger yelled, beginning to move back.

"No!" The Blue Zeo Ranger said, finishing taking down his group of Buzzers "We can do this!"

"Rangers, fall back." Came a voice through their comm. links "We can try another day!"

"No, they'll beef up security again!" Yelled Tommy as the Yellow Ranger was pulled out "I swear, if you pull us all out, I'll-"

"No need to resort to threats, Tommy." Came the voice again "If you want to keep going, you can."

Tommy and Jason kept striking at Camella whilst the Blue Zeo Ranger continued to battle Camella. Finally, Jason grabbed Camella in a restraining hold.

"Tommy, hit her now!" He said, seeing his friend hesitate "Do it!"

"I'm sorry..." Tommy said, screaming as he pulled his sword and ran it through both Camella and Jason, watching the two fall to the ground, and falling to his knees, being engulfed in the resulting explosion.

"Tommy and Jason are down!" The Blue Zeo Ranger yelled into his comm. link as he finished taking down the Buzzers "Resistance taken down. Proceeding to complete objective."

"Good, Rocky." Came the voice again "Bring back their coins too. We still need those."

"Copy." Rocky said, grimacing inside his helmet before beginning his task.

...

Rocky teleported into the resistance base in a flash of blue light. The former base of the Rev Max Rangers had seen better days; there were trashed terminals, signs of a destroyed door to the zord bay in the corner. In the centre of the lab was Professor Markus and his son, Ted.

"Good, you got it." Markus said, taking the container Rocky held, removing the power cell inside and hooking it up to a device in the corner "Now, I need the coins."

"Here." Rocky said, withdrawing three coins with engravings of a tyrannosaurus, a dragon's foot and a tiger's claw respectively on each coin, pausing to look at the Tyrannosaurus one "Been a while since I got to stop and look at that one."

"Thanks." Markus said, putting the coins in a clear container in the device, containing four more coins, with engravings of a mastodon, pterodactyl, triceratops and sabre toothed tiger respectively on each one, four red crystals on the outer edges of the device "And finally your fragment of the Zeo crystal."

"Okay." Rocky said with a sigh, removing his crystal from the morpher on his wrist and giving it to Markus "That it?"

"Yes." Markus said, connecting the crystal to the device "Go get some rest."

Rocky walked out. As he did, Ted walked over to his father, a tablet computer in his hand.

"The gate's ready Dad." Ted said, removing his glasses "You sure you want to go through?"

"It has to be me." Markus replied "The Chrono morpher controls the gate and it's sequenced to my DNA."

"I could still use it." Ted said "I'm younger, I can fight more, and-"

"And the radiation you soaked up makes morphing completely unsafe for you. Otherwise, you'd still be in the field!" Markus said "Plus, if you were to get killed... I couldn't forgive myself."

Before Ted could respond, there was a large explosion from the door way, Buzzers charging in and opening fire. As they did, Knighterror entered, slashing down several technicians before aiming his blaster at Markus and firing, bringing the scientist to the floor.

"Dad!" Ted yelled, kneeling beside his father, looking at the device on his wrist with tears in his eyes "I'm sorry. There's no choice now. I can't let them kill you..."

He took the device from Markus' wrist, pressing a control on it, causing an energy portal to appear in front of him, which he leapt through before it collapsed.

...1992...

Ted rolled as he hit the ground. He knew where he would've been brought. He recognised the house; it used to belong to his grandparents, then his father. He'd lived there until he was in his early twenties and the Kaltax had invaded. In the living room, looking much younger, was his father.

"Who are you?" Markus asked, nervous at the apparently magically appeared man in front of him "How did you."

"Hello, Henry." Ted said with a smile "My name's Ted. But you can just call me Professor."

...2015...

Ted sat there, looking gobsmacked. The Professor paused for a moment before speaking again.

"Henry was Cronus. He changed his name then he left, so that he couldn't be traced." The Professor said "And I'm you, Ted. You from the future."

...

So, here's the epilogue for Metallic Menace, which doubles as the second interlude. Where it goes from here will be seen soon, but watch this space. R&R, please, no flames. B.