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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Rebecca sat in her Father's study. Chamella had kept impersonating her sister, keeping anyone from suspecting anything was wrong. It made her sick to think what might be happening up on the sick. What annoyed her more was the treatment she'd been getting from one or two members of the team; Ted and Joe had both been giving her the cold shoulder, and Jin... Well, he always gave everyone the cold shoulder, but even he seemed more aloof with her than usual.

It wasn't her fault they were in the situation they were in, and she knew that they knew that really, but it didn't make her feel any better. Only Zara, Alex and Rick weren't giving her a bit of a berth. Granted, Chronus spent all his time at the lab anyway, and even if he didn't, it'd be kind of weird for her to be hanging out with a guy her Dad's age, but even he'd be a welcome sight socially at the moment.

There was a knock at the door, causing her to look up, her face falling further. It was Chamella, still in the form of her sister, wearing a yellow sundress and converse. She smirked as she moved over, pushing Rebecca off the chair forcefully and sitting at the desk, putting her feet up and picking an apple up from the fruit bowl on it.

"Pick yourself up, girl." She said spitefully "You might be my enemy, but I'd hate to think even you're that pathetic."

"What do you want?" Rebecca asked as she got up, moving to the arm chair by the book case and flopping down into it.

"Oh, not a lot. A way to prevent split ends, to have nails that never break. Oh, and the total subjugation or annihilation of your species. Not necessarily in that order." Chamella said, taking a bite from the apple "You're going to help me with one of those things."

"I don't have any ways to prevent you breaking a nail." Rebecca said sardonically "Believe me, I wish I did..."

"Very funny." Chamella said with a laugh "You and your Ranger pals are going to meet me and my master at the abandoned construction yard by the docks tonight. When you do, you'll hand over your morphers and weapons to us, and swear your eternal loyalty. Refuse, and all of you, as well as our hostages, die. Understood, yellow Ranger?"

"Yes..." Rebecca said "I'll talk to them, we'll meet you at the docks, and we'll discuss-"

"We'll discuss your unconditional surrender." Chamella said "And if you're late, the hostages die."

Chamella didn't wait for her to reply before walking out, tossing the half eaten apple in the trash as she went. Rebecca ran her hands through her hair. She didn't know what she could do.

...

"No way!" Jin spat "No way am I giving in to those alien freaks!"

The team stood in the Command Centre with the Professor, discussing Chamella's demands. They'd been debating it for the last half an hour. Needless to say, it wasn't a simple matter to decide.

"It's not that simple." Rick said "They'll kill her sister and the boyfriend if we don't."

"And if we do, the whole planet's screwed." Louis retorted "Look, Rick, we've been friends for years, but this time, we're not on the same side of the debate."

"Chamella seems to have that effect a lot." Zara quipped, getting dirty looks from Louis, Rick and Ted in response "Okay, sorry for trying to lighten the mood..."

"I'm with Jin, we can't give in!" Joe said "They'll just double cross us anyway."

"But they're guaranteed to kill the hostages if we don't comply." Alex said "There's no choice in the matter."

"Alex is right." Chronus spoke up, the others looking at him in shock, as he looked at Ted "If they'd taken you, I wouldn't have stopped at anything to get you back. We have to take the same view point here. Rebecca's family. That means they've taken our own. We can't let them be harmed."

"Theodore?" The Professor asked Ted "You've been abnormally quiet in this."

"Well, we both know what I'm going to say, don't we, Prof?" Ted spat "Why don't you tell the others what's going to happen here? You know, right?"

"No, I don't." The Professor said "I haven't a clue."

"Don't lie!" Ted yelled, slamming his fist down on the console "You told me you were me from the future, you know what this involves!"

The other Rangers, barring Chronus, looked at Ted and the Professor in shock. Finally, Zara spoke up.

"You from the future?" She asked "Seriously?"

"Come on, it's not like it's the weirdest thing we've seen. Besides, it's in my Dad's code name." Ted said "Chrono Ranger. Chrono. Time. He may as well be called the Time Ranger, because his powers are from the future and are the key to the time machine the Professor used to come back. He said it changed after the thing with the spear, that things are different now, but he has to know the solution!"

"I don't, Ted." The Professor said "He's telling the truth about me, I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner, but it wasn't relevant to the situations at the time."

"Relevant?" Louis said "You lied to us about who you are for months and say it wasn't relevant?!"

"You knew..." Alex said, looking to Ted "You knew about this, and you didn't tell us... Didn't tell me?"

"To be fair, I'm more surprised he didn't tell Louis. Told him his last secret." Zara said, folding her arms.

"Well, this is a problem." Jin said "How the hell can we follow a leader into battle when we can't trust him?"

"What?" Ted said "When did this become about me?"

"When isn't it about you?!" Rick spat at him, standing and moving towards him, getting him up against the wall by the collar "Everything you do is about you! It's never about what's best for anyone else!"

"Enough!" Rebecca yelled, moving over to Ted and Rick and pulling Rick off of Ted "You two, opposite sides of the room! Now, I'm not going to dictate our move here, I'm going to say we vote on it. Since the Professor is Ted, that means we know we can't have a tie because there's only nine people here to vote. So, all in favour of surrender?"

Rebecca raised her hand, as did Rick, Zara and Chronus. They looked around the room.

"And opposed?" Chronus asked.

Louis, Alex, Joe and Jin all raised their hands. Everyone in the room looked at Ted.

"You didn't vote." Rebecca asked "Why?"

"He's scared." The Professor answered sincerely "He knows whatever he does could get everyone killed. It was the one thing I was afraid of when I was him, the one thing I worried about. And I only had a team of five. That's where your strength comes from; you have each other."

"Really?" Louis asked "Because right now, this seems like the plot of an Avengers movie."

"More likely Captain America." Jin corrected, shrugging as he said "I do watch movies, you know?"

"We surrender." Ted finally spoke, before smirking "At least, we let them think we do."

"What do you mean?" Alex asked, cocking an eyebrow.

"I've got an idea." Ted said, before looking to Rick and Rebecca "But I need you all to trust me on this one."

...

Ted, Rick, Louis, Rebecca, Zara, Alex, Chronus, Jin and Joe walked through the construction site. Rebecca was holding a sack, ready to hand it's contents over to Chamella and her comrades. Ted pressed a control on his watch.

"Ready, Prof?" He half murmured, keeping it low key.

"Whenever you are." The Professor's response came "Good luck."

"Thanks." Ted said "Let's do this, guys."

Chamella and Komodus teleported in, along with Rektax and about thirty drones. Rektax pointed to the bag.

"Toss it!" He commanded "Now!"

"Give us my sister and her boyfriend first!" Rebecca shot back.

Rektax scoffed as he nodded to Komodus, Rebecca's sister and her boyfriend being teleported to just in front of the Rangers. Rebecca scowled as she tossed the bag at Rektax's feet, before looking to her sister.

"You alright?" She asked, her sister nodding nervously "Okay, get out of here."

"What's going on, Becky." Her sister asked.

"Just go." Rebecca hissed "Please."

"What's this?!" Rektax said as he plunged a hand into the bag, pulling a rectangular object with a timer on it from the bag "You little..."

The device detonated, firing off a number of squibs to stun the Kaltax. As it did, the Rangers pulled their morphers.

"Ready guys?" Rebecca asked, the others nodding, the nine of them calling "Rev Max, Power Up!"

Alex, Chronus, Joe and Jin's suits quickly formed, before Rick, Rebecca, Louis and Zara's formed, and finally, Ted's completed his transformation.

"Chrono Ranger, Power Up!"

"Bronze Ranger, Power Up!"

"Gold Ranger, Power Up!"

"Green Ranger, Power Up!"

"White Ranger, Power Up!"

"Black Ranger, Power Up!"

"Blue Ranger, Power Up!"

"Yellow Ranger, Power Up!"

"Red Ranger, Power Up!"

The nine Rangers struck their poses, a massive explosion erupting behind them. Rektax' sword formed in his hand, with him pointing it at the Rangers.

"Drones, attack!" He yelled, before charging in.

"Over Rev Mode!" Louis, Rick, Rebecca and Zara called, transforming into their powered up mode as their weapons appeared in their hands.

"Paladin Morpher!" Ted called, the red device appearing on his wrist "Red Paladin Ranger!"

He completed his transformation as Rektax reached him, Ted blocking the slash from Rektax' sword with his staff, before parrying the attack away. Meanwhile, Rebecca and Zara had their Rev Defenders pulled as they engaged Chamella, whilst Chronus, Jin and Joe fought Komodus, Rick, Alex and Louis engaging the Drones.

"This ends tonight, Red Ranger!" Rektax growled as he slashed again.

"My sentiments exactly, ugly." Ted retorted, spinning his staff before ramming it forward, the blade going through the side of Rektax's stomach "That has to kill you..."

"Damn it..." Rektax said, staggering back and collapsing into a ball of flames as Ted removed the blade from his stomach.

"The Commander's down!" Chamella yelled "Retreat!"

Chamella and Komodus teleported away, leaving the drones. As they did, Rektax revived, growing to gigantic proportions.

"You guys deal with him!" Alex said, gesturing to the metallic Rangers "We can finish up down here!"

"Rev Max Megazord!" Rick called, pressing two fingers to the side of his helmet.

"Veloci Max Megazord!" Ted called, doing the same.

The two mechs rapidly formed, shaping up opposite their opponent. The Rev Max Megazord advanced, it's saber drawn, taking a slash, only for the attack to be parried and countered so quickly the Rangers didn't even have a chance to react. The Veloci Max charged in, managing to react to the counter just in time to avoid being de-limbed.

"This isn't any good!" Louis said "We're not fast enough!"

"The Veloci Max has enough speed, but it lacks the armour to be able to use it!" Zara commented "Maybe if we bring in the Jet Max, form the Jet Rev-"

"It's not fast enough!" Rebecca said "We need something else!"

"I'm sending a program that may help, Rangers." The Professor's voice came through "Ted, Rick, enact the program."

"You got it." Rick said with a grin, as he and Ted both said in their cockpits "Veloci Rev Megazord, transform!"

The two Megazords stood up, before separating into their components. The cruiser and speeder sped along, the truck coming up behind them, the moto and lifter directly behind it. The moto pivoted, the wheels ending up directly on the rear of the truck, the body pivoting and acting as a fulcrum to rotate to truck up onto the speeder and cruiser, their wheels retracting into their body as the lifter attached to the top, forming a mid section as the claw detached, the front of the moto detaching and splitting in half. Next, the boat also split in half, the thrusters detaching from the back of it. The front end of the two halves rotated, attaching to the halves of the moto's front end.

Meanwhile, the missile rack on the boat's thrusters split in half, with the block attaching to the moto's body, with a half of the missile rack on each hip. As it did, the driver split in half, the front end attaching to the left side of the boat and back end attaching to the right side. A moment later, fists emerged from each end, the claw attaching to the left side. The flyer went into a dive bomb, the cockpit detaching and spinning before attaching to the underside of the flyer, forming a chest section. It descended, landing on top of the lifter. As it did, the two halves of the boat joined onto each shoulder, a head emerging from the top of the jet, a black visor over the silver head, with gold, embossed lips on the mouthpiece. Finally, the sides of the truck detached, forming the megazord's saber, as the flyer's cannons came over the shoulders of the mech.

"Veloci Rev Megazord, power up!" The five Rangers called as the Megazord formed up into a fighting stance.

Rektax began to advance on the Megazord. As he did, the Megazord moved it's arms aside, firing the missile racks and shoulder cannons simultaneously, staggering the Kaltax Commander. Inside the cockpit, the console beside Zara sparked, causing her and Rick to lean back away from the terminal.

"The Zord's weapons are channelling more power than they're designed for!" Zara said, reading her terminal "We fire another shot like that, he won't need to destroy us, we'll have done it for him!"

"Okay, new plan." Ted said, pausing "Anyone got a plan?"

"Yeah, I do." Louis said "We go John McClane on him. Namely, overkill to the max."

The other four Rangers paused for a moment, before looking at the display in front of them. Then, they began working the controls. The Megazord slashed it's sword at Rektax, breaking his weapon, before it ran the sword through the Kaltax Commander. As it did, the weapons began charging again, along with the gear symbol on the chest of the Megazord.

"Time to end this." Ted said, smirking inside his helmet as he yelled "Yippi-ki-yay-"

The next word was drowned out by the sound of the Megazord firing it's weapons, eviscerating Rektax. When the smoke cleared, the Megazord slowly lowered it's arms by it's sides, standing victorious.

...

The Rangers and the Professor stood around the Command Centre, the Professor pouring out glasses of champagne for himself, Jin and Chronus, whilst Rebecca, Alex, Zara, Louis, Rick and Joe stood with their cokes, Ted stood there without a drink.

"You sure you don't want one?" Alex teased, holding a coke out to him.

"No." Ted pouted, nodding to the champagne "I want some of that."

"You're too young!" Chronus chastised "You might be the team leader, but I'm your Father!"

"Mom would let me..." Ted moaned, finally accepting the coke from Alex "Thanks."

"Well, congratulations." The Professor said "You've done it. With Rektax gone, the invasion is essentially done. Komodus and Chamella might still be out there, but they'll be lying low. Which means now it's time to take the battle to them."

"You're kidding, right?" Jin asked "You're saying we were holding off just to wait until he was dead and gone?!"

"And until my sister was rescued." Rebecca said, looking around the team "Thanks for that, guys."

"You're welcome." Rick said, smiling at her "I've always got your back. I mean, uh, we've always, uh, that is to say-"

"Shut up." She said with a laugh before kissing him, Ted and Joe struggling not to laugh at them "What're you two sniggering about?"

"Nothing..." Joe lied, before turning to Louis "You owe us twenty bucks."

"Each." Ted pointed out, before the computer began beeping "Uh, is that meant to be doing that?"

Chronus moved to the console, pressing a command. A hologram appeared in the centre of the room, Chamella stood in the middle of the image.

"Is this thing on?" She asked, apparently realising her error after she said it "Oh great, bad start to it... People of Earth! I am Chamella, Commander in the Army of the Kaltax Empire. Today, your Power Rangers launched an unprovoked attack on us and our late Commander, the great Rektax. This shall not stand. I am contacting you all across every channel you have, to inform you that your resistance, futile as it has been, is coming to an end. In one of your weeks, our leader, the great Emperor Prothiak, and his elite guard, shall arrive in your system. When they do, if your governments do not give their unconditional surrender, we will begin destroying cities, starting with, what's the first one on the list? Angel Grove. Funny, I seem to remember hearing that name somewhere. Oh well, probably nothing. You have one week to decide. And Power Rangers, I know you're watching this. I want you to know that soon, very soon, I shall be among those walking over your broken bodies, and the people of this world will see you for the pathetic children you are."

The line went dead. The Rangers all looked to the Professor, who knocked back his drink.

"Well then," He said "I guess the battle's just beginning."