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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Ted and Cronus walked across the grassy countryside. They were roughly two hundred metres from Stonehenge and, the scanners in their morphers were picking up massive power readings. The historical site had to be the location for what they were looking for.

Ted was slightly concerned. If they didn't find the other two segments of the spear, he could kiss his powers goodbye. If what the Professor had told him was true, he'd already failed once. He wasn't going to do so again.

"Why have we done this on foot again?" Ted asked "We've worked out where it is, why don't we just have the Professor teleport us there?"

"The teleportation system doesn't do long range well. It'll need time to recharge, which will then let it take us to the Arctic." Cronus said "Trust me, I helped build it."

"Good to know." Ted said "Okay, why didn't we bring my motorcycle?"

"You didn't bring it." Cronus said with a small laugh Once we get there, we'll rest before we start trying to find the segment."

"Good." Ted said, laughing before he said "Race you, Dad!"

Ted ran off ahead. Cronus shook his head before chasing after his son. This was going to be a long day.

...

Ted and Cronus walked around Stonehenge. They were looking for something, anything out of the ordinary. So far, there was nothing, besides the ridiculously large energy levels. Ted pulled the black leather jacket he wore close; it had to be less than ten degrees. Going from California weather to UK weather was not agreeing with him.

He sighed and sat down on the altar in the centre of the structure. It didn't feel right. Everything else was cold, but the stone he'd sat on was warm. He held his morpher against the stone; the readings had spiked.

Whatever they were looking for, he was sat right on top of it.

"Dad!" He yelled "Over here!"

Cronus began walking over. As he did, there was a flash of green lightning as a group of Buzzers were teleported in, along with Knighterror. The Kaltax General stepped forward, brandishing his sword.

"The artefact is ours." Knighterror said "I claim it in the name of the Kaltax Empire!"

"And I tell you to kiss my butt in the name of the Power Rangers." Ted said with a smirk "Ready Dad?"

"Oh yeah." Cronus said, raising his own morpher, both of them going through their respective motions as they called "Rev Max, Power Up!"

"Red Rev Max Ranger!" Ted called, stood there wearing Cronus' shield, pressing the control on his morpher to engage Over Rev Mode "Maximum Over Rev Mode!"

"Chrono Ranger!" Cronus called, pulling his Chrono Defender "You go after Knighterror. I'll deal with the Buzzers!"

Ted charged forward, pulling his Rev Protector and shifting it to saber mode as he jumped into the air, slashing down on Knighterror and finding his strike blocked. Knighterror kicked Ted in the gut, staggering him, Ted barely raising his own weapon in time to block Knighhterror's next slash. Meanwhile, Cronus was blasting the Buzzers away as they charged him, pistol whipping them if they got too close.

"Give it up, Rangers!" Knighterror said "Let us get the artefact, and I'll let you walk away. If not, well, what kind of General would I be if I allowed my enemies to defy me and live to tell about it?"

"We could do that. Or I could say this." Ted said, hitting the ground and swinging his leg under Knighterror's before standing up and shifting his Rev Protector into blaster mode, taking aim as he said "Yippi Ki Yae, Mother-"

"Language!" Cronus said, distracting Ted just long enough for Knighterror to blast him in the chest "Ted!"

"Time to go, Red Ranger." Knighterror said, taking aim at Ted's head before pausing "Damn. Apparently, I have somewhere else to be. We'll have to take a rain check on your destruction."

Knighterror and the Buzzers teleported away. Ted pulled himself to his feet with some help from Cronus, the pair of them de-morphing.

"What do you think he meant by 'somewhere else to be?'" Cronus said, cocking an eyebrow.

"Never mind that. Don't cut me off in the middle of quoting Die Hard!" Ted said "Seriously, I was about to do Die Hard; do you know how many guys would kill to do that?"

"We need to discuss your priorities sometime, son." Cronus said, shaking his head "Come on, let's find this artefact."

...

Alex, Jin and Joe were teleported to the centre of town. Apparently, Knighterror had been sighted at one end of town, whilst there'd been a strange energy spike at the end they'd been sent to.

"I don't see anything." Jin said "I thought I told you guys only to call me if it was important?"

"We need to work on your people skills." Joe smirked to himself "Girl calls, you come. Or were you born boring?"

"Who are you calling boring?" Jin snapped.

"Well, you are a history teacher." Joe quipped "Not like you're teaching something cool, like rocket science."

"I could if I wanted to." Jin said "I was training to be a rocket test pilot before all this stuff started. I graduated university at 16, I could easily teach rocket science."

"Boys!" Alex said, stepping between the two of them "Are you done? Good. Now let's find what the signal was, ok? Jin, you check the left, I'll go right, Joe, you go straight ahead."

"Shouldn't I be in charge?" Jin asked, smirking inside his helmet.

"Call me when you've been doing the whole Power Ranger thing longer than me." Alex said, turning and walking off where she'd said she was going "Meet back here in ten minutes."

...

Alex walked down the alley, her visor running scans of the environment. The energy signature was definitely there, but she couldn't see anything. She turned around as the readings spiked, being startled to see Jin stood there.

"Crap!" She said "Didn't anyone ever tell you not to sneak up on people? You scared me half to death."

Jin didn't respond, instead swinging a punch at her, Alex being caught off guard and knocked into the wall behind her. As she stood up, Jin seemed to disappear into thin air, with no signs of him teleporting.

"What the hell?" She said, observing her HUD "The readings are off the scale..."

...

Joe looked around, picking up the lid of a bin and checking inside. No sign of any kind of energy in there. It had been worth a shot.

"Joe," Came Alex's voice though the communications system "something weird just happened. The readings spiked, then Jin showed up, hit me and disappeared again. Then they spiked even higher. Watch your back."

"No problem." Joe said as he turned around, seeing Alex stood there "I told you, it's not a problem, I'll watch my back."

Alex didn't reply to his comment, Joe ducking under her strike as she swung for him, seeing an energy spike on his HUD. As Alex swung again, he blocked, swinging back.

"What's got into you?" He asked as she blocked his hit "I knew we had tension going on, but I thought it was a whole different kind of tension."

He made a grab for Alex, getting her into a restraining hold. A moment later, she disappeared, leaving Joe grabbing thin air.

"Alex, what the hell?" He said, engaging the communication system in his helmet "Why'd you do that?"

"What are you talking about?" Came her reply.

"You just attacked me then teleported away!" He said "Hold on... You said Jin attacked you?"

...

Jin walked across the food court cautiously. He'd been monitoring the radio chatter between Joe and Alex, and didn't like what he'd heard. Of course, he wasn't about to chip in and open himself up to a sneak attack. He worked better alone anyway.

As he neared the apparent location of the readings his HUD was picking up, he looked around. There wasn't any sign of anything. He walked into the middle of the area, nearly slipping on something.

He looked down. It was something wet and plastic. He stepped back; an X. He hesitated for a second before leaping backwards, narrowly avoiding being hit by a large energy burst.

He looked up at it's source, seeing a black humanoid figure, covered in silver spikes with white trim all over the reptilian scales over it's form. It fired another blast at Jin, this one making contact. As he looked up, the figure disappeared into thin air. A moment later, Joe and Alex came running round opposite corners.

"Are you okay?" Alex said, looking between the two guys "I heard someone shooting!"

"I'm fine." Jin said, his tone aloof "Some kind of spiked alien. Nearly caught me off guard."

"Glad it didn't." Alex said "It looks like something keeps attacking us while posing as us. Why didn't it pose as one of us for you though? Joe, any ideas?"

"None." Joe's voice came through the communications channel "Give me a minute, I'll be right there!"

"What are you talking-" Alex began, looking at the Gold Ranger in front of her "Oh boy..."

"Oh boy is right!" The Gold Ranger said, it's voice high pitched and hissing as it punched her in the gut before kicking Jin in the chest, sending him flying backwards "See you soon!"

The Gold Ranger disappeared as Joe came running round the corner, arriving just in time to apparently see himself disappearing. He moved over to Jin, helping him up.

"What the hell is going on?" Joe asked, before being hit in the back by a blast of energy, the black and white figure stood there again "Talk about a sucker punch!"

"Who are you?" Jin demanded, his gauntlets materialising on his hands over his gloves.

"You can call me Komodus." The figure said, warping away, seconds before a copy of the Blue Ranger appeared behind Jin, slamming him down into the floor, continuing "Or the Blue Ranger!"

Alex spun round, having her spinning kick caught by the Blue Ranger, who disappeared, causing her to fall to the floor. The three Rangers stood up as Rick, Rebecca, Louis and Zara teleported in.

"What's going on?" Rick asked "We were fighting Knighterror, then he teleported away when we went Over Rev, and the Professor told us to come here."

"Keep your eyes on everyone." Jin said "If you lose track of any of the group for even a second, it might not be them you're looking at when you find them again."

"What are you talking a-" Zara began, being cut off as she was hit in the back by what appeared to be the Red Ranger, looking up at her attacker "Ted?"

"Not quite my dear." The Red Ranger replied, grappling with Louis as he shifted his appearance to Louis' Ranger form.

"Which one do we attack?" Joe said, pulling his Rev Blasters and taking aim at both White Rangers.

"Him!" One of the two White Rangers said, the pair moving around too much for anyone to tell which one had said it.

"I think I know which one it is!" Joe said, taking aim and firing at one of the White Rangers, taking him to the floor "Got him!"

"Yes you did!" The White Ranger that remained standing hissed before firing a blast of purple energy from his left hand at Joe "Shame you hit the wrong one!"

The six remaining Rangers tried to keep track of Komodus, only for him to vanish. Their communications system beeped.

"What is it?" Rick said, putting two fingers to his ear.

"The energy readings in the area are returning to normal." The Professor's voice came "I don't know why, but he was called back. What's the team's status?"

"We got schooled." Louis said as he was helped up by Rebecca "Didn't help that someone shot me instead of him!"

"Oh, I'm sorry, why don't you try having two identical targets next time, see how you do!" Joe snapped, squaring up to Louis.

"Boys! Enough!" Rebecca said "Come on, let's get back to base. We can figure out a way to fight this guy later."

The seven Rangers teleported away, not noticing the figure hiding in the shadows, watching them.

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Ted and Cronus sat on the central stone at Stonehenge. They'd looked everywhere, and there was no sign of the artefact. Ted sighed as he laid down, looking up at the stars.

"We're never going to find it." He said "If it were here, we would've found it by now!"

"We'll find it." Cronus said, withdrawing a couple of sandwiches from his backpack and offering one to Ted "Hungry?"

"For once, no." Ted said, pausing "Come to think of it, I haven't been for a while. Since yesterday."

"When you had that power surge?" Cronus asked.

"Yeah." Ted said "Something's going on with me, Dad. I don't know what, but something."

Ted looked at the stars. As he did, he felt like he was floating, the world slipping away around him. At first he figured he was just falling asleep. After a moment, he realised he actually was floating. He looked down, seeing himself lying on the stone, eyes closed, while Cronus sat eating his sandwich.

"Why do you seek the spear?" Came a deep, booming voice around him, startling him.

"What the hell?" Ted said, before pausing to consider "Oh, I'm dreaming."

"Why do you seek the spear?" Came the voice again, this time it's tone a little less friendly.

"Ok, I'll play along." Ted said "I need it, so that I can stabilise my Ranger powers, so that I can keep helping kick the Kaltax's but. Otherwise, there's a good chance we'll be stuck in a time loop, ending in me coming back in time in, I think it was 15 years he said, and doing all this over again."

"What would you do once your quest was complete?" The voice asked him.

"I don't know." Ted said, pausing "I guess the whole reason we're fighting is so that, when all is said and done, we can hang up the morphers and go back to a normal life."

"You do not seek the spear for glory nor power over man." Came the voice "You are worthy to climb the stones for the fragment."

Ted was left confused by this statement as he felt himself lowering down towards the ground.

...

Ted bolted upright, Cronus looking at him in surprise. He stood up, moving over to one of the outside pillars. He couldn't believe he hadn't thought of it before. If you were going to hide some kind of powerful artefact, you wouldn't leave it where anyone could find it.

He climbed up the stone, looking up. Sure enough, he could see, slowly lowering itself, a red staff, about the length of his Transport Sabre, with a golden handle about halfway down it. As the staff got within reach, Ted reached out, his fingers grazing it as he felt himself losing balance.

"Oh shit!" He said, pulling his morpher as he began to fall "Rev Max, Power Up!"

He morphed in the split second it took him to fall to the floor, feeling something warm fall on top of him. He opened his eyes, seeing the staff laying on his chest. He began laughing.

"What's so funny?" Cronus said "You could've broken your neck! Why did you do that?"

"I had a dream." Ted said, still laughing to himself.

It was a nervous laugh. His dream had said he was worthy. Sure, it could just be a dream. But it was too much of a coincidence for his liking, and he was slightly worried about what he might've just gotten himself into.

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So, that's part two of three of Paladin's Quest. Next Chapter will introduce the completed Paladin's Spear and reveal the power it possesses. R&R, please, no flames. B.