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, Rick, Rebecca, Louis and Zara sat in the cockpit of the Veloci Rev Megazord, all of them in Over Rev mode. In front of them, out the front of the main viewer, was a gigantic Komodus. To the left of the Veloci Rev was the Jet Max Megazord, whilst the Battle Max Megazord was to the right. A number of readouts appeared on the viewer.

"Okay guys, by the book." Ted said, pressing a control in front of him "Veloci Rev Megazord, primed for transformation."

"Jet Max Megazord, primed for transformation." Came Alex's voice through the comm. system.

"Battle Max Megazord, transformation ready." Jin's voice came through "Preparing for first stage."

The Battle Max Megazord separated, whilst the Jet Max did the same. The Rocket flew up high, before opening up on top. As it did, the Jet split in half, attaching to the left and right sides of the rocket. The Dump Truck and Dune Buggy sped alongside each other on the ground, the Tank just ahead of them. The Rocket and Jet landed on top of them, the turret from the tank sticking out of the front, whilst the two Helicopters landed on top of each wing of the Jet.

"Battle Jet Combat Deck, transformation complete." Alex said "It's on you guys now, Ted."

"Coming in to complete the sequence." Ted said, keying in several commands as the Veloci Rev launched into the air before landing on the Combat Deck, Alex, Jin and Joe having their chairs come up into the Megazord's cockpit a few seconds later, the eight of them calling "Rev Max Ultrazord, transformation-"

Before they could finish, the lights and readouts cut out, red emergency lighting being the only light source left. Ted slammed his fists down on the console as the image of Komodus disappeared, revealing a bulkhead in front of them.

"Damn it!" He said "It's the same every time! What will it take to make this work?"

"We need more power in the Ultrazord for it to function." Alex said as the eight of them stood up and exited the simulator "Why don't we try it with Ted in his Battilizer?"

"When we do that, the Ultrazord overloads." Jin said, shaking his head "Then when we tried it with Cronus in with us, still not quite enough power."

"I vote we try again." Louis said "Chamella's deadline's almost here and, simply put, we know even the Veloci Rev can't beat Komodus."

"No, The Professor projected it can't beat him." Rick corrected "It might be doable."

"It's not." Cronus said, joining them from an adjacent corridor "I was just running that exact simulation in the secondary simulator. Even if you take him on with all three Megazords, the power levels come out just short."

The nine of them walked into the Command Centre. Ted, Rick, Rebecca, Louis, Zara, Alex, Joe and Jin all powered down, Ted moving over to a computer terminal with Cronus and beginning to go over the data from their respective simulations. Rebecca looked over to them then back to the other six Rangers.

"They okay?" She asked "Cronus seems more distant than usual, and Ted seems less... Chatty, than usual."

"They're on edge." Jin observed, speaking up "Can't say I blame them. Chamella's threat isn't an empty one."

"We don't know that." Zara said "She might be throwing toys out of the pram over her boyfriend's death."

"She's not." Came the voice of the Professor as he walked out of his office "She means business when she makes a threat. Trust me, I know."

He pressed a few controls before a holographic image of a tall figure, wearing metallic gold armour, bright green eyes glowing beneath his visor, and a red cape on his back, with a crown encrusted with red and blue gems on his head. The Professor looked up at the Rangers.

"Ted, Cronus, over here." He said, waiting for Ted and Cronus to join the other seven Rangers "This is Emperor Prothiak. Emperor of the Kaltax Empire, Supreme Commander of their first battalion, and Father of Portax and Rektax."

"Wait, say what?" Joe said, turning to Ted "You're meant to be a Paladin... And killed a prince? That's freaking awesome!"

"It is somewhat." The Professor said with a smirk "You've got further than we did originally, and that's something to be proud of. But we need to fix the Ultrazord problem before the first battalion arrives. Prothiak commands it, with Portax serving as his second in command. When they got to Earth in my timeline, we were essentially beaten, but they made a point of ripping us to shreds in a matter of hours. Earth has had a lot of teams of Power Rangers over the years. At one stage, 18 of them grouped together to fight an Armada, and won. In the original timeline, however, the Kaltax tore apart 18 teams within 18 hours of the first Battalion's arrival. Only small remnants from a few of them were left... The final stand before I came back had the two that most people consider the best, and they got themselves killed."

"So why don't we call them in?" Jin asked "When you're part of a team, part of a squad, you go in to help any other squads in your army. First rule of being a soldier."

"It's not that easy." Cronus said, moving to the right of the Professor and manipulating the controls, bringing up a world map "We can't track them. The records of their whereabouts in this time weren't in what the Professor brought back with him, and simply put, we don't have time to go on the hunt. We've got a read on a team in Amber Beach, but they've got their own problems."

"So we're on our own." Ted said, rolling his eyes "Just peachy..."

"We're a lot of things out there," Rebecca said, putting a hand on Ted's shoulder "alone isn't one of them. When Chamella kidnapped my sister, you guys helped get her back."

"Yeah, we're a team." Rick said with a grin "We can beat these guys. Just because some parallel versions of us never managed it, doesn't mean we won't."

Before any of them could say anything, the sirens began to wale. The Professor pressed a control, causing the Prothiak hologram to disappear, replaced by the image of about twenty drones attacking the plaza. After a second, two more images of the same sight at both city hall and down by the beach appeared.

"Three attacks, great." Ted said "Dad, take Jin and Joe to the plaza. Rebecca, you, Zara and Alex go to city hall. Rick, Louis, you're with me."

The nine Rangers formed up. Joe smirked to the Professor.

"Don't wait up, Prof." He said as the nine of them were teleported to their respective destinations.

...

Rebecca, Zara and Alex materialised outside city hall. As they did, the Drones began to swarm them. Alex flipped backwards, kicking one of the Drones in the face as she did, while Zara and Rebecca went back to back, Rebecca kicking the Drone in front of her whilst Zara punched her opponent in the face.

"Don't waste any time, do they?" Alex said.

"Neither do we." Rebecca said, the three of them forming into a line "Ready girls?"

"Ready!" The other two said as they all pulled their morphers "Rev Max, Power Up!"

The three of them had their Ranger suits appear on them as they struck poses.

"Rev Max Green!"

"Rev Max Black!"

"Rev Max Yellow!"

Zara and Rebecca pulled their Rev Defenders and shifted them to sabre mode while Alex pulled her sabres from her belt. The three of them took swings at the Drones, each of them passing through the Drones, before being hit in the back of the head. After a moment, a cloaked figure in black robes appeared on the building above them.

"I expected better than three little girls." The figure spoke in a deep, modulated voice as he raised his hand "No matter."

A white blast of energy fired from his hand, arching between the three girls as it did. A second later, the three of them disappeared. The figure turned and moved away.

"Three down," It said "Six to go."

...

Jin, Joe and Cronus were already morphed, fighting a group of Drones. As one of them hit Cronus back, taking him to the floor, before Joe and Jin were both staggered back towards him.

"They're stronger than normal." Jin noted.

"Of course they are." Came a modulated voice, a black cloaked figure materialising in front of them "These are a part of the Emperor's personal guard. No ordinary drones. Now, Rangers, time to go."

The figure raised his hand, firing a beam of white energy, the beam hitting the three Rangers and causing them to disappear in a flash.

"Almost done." The figure said as the Drones vanished "How I love illusions that sting..."

...

Ted, Rick and Louis faced down a large swarm of Drones. The three of them were stood in Over Rev mode, having been getting beaten back badly. Ted raised his left arm, the Paladin Morpher appearing on his wrist.

"Paladin Morpher!" He called, pressing the control "Red Paladin Ranger!"

As he began to transform, a white blast hit him, causing him to disappear. As he did, the comm. line went active.

"Louis, Rick, fall back!" Came the voice of the Professor "I'm pulling you out."

The two of them were engulfed in white and blue beams of energy, respectively, before streaking off back to the Command Centre as a black cloaked figure appeared where they had been stood.

...

"What the hell?" Rick said, pulling off his helmet and slamming it down on the console beside him "What happened out there?"

"This happened." The Professor said, pressing a control beside him, causing the holographic image of a black clad armoured figure in a long black cloak to appear "This is Lothius, the first of Prothiak's elite guards. He's a master of trickery, illusions and traps. Those Drones you were fighting? There were about five. He amplified them, generated more."

"Great." Louis said "How do we beat him?"

"That's something I don't know." The Professor admitted "I've got an idea, but it's in early development stages."

"And that is?" Rick asked, the Professor pressing a few controls bringing up holographic displays of Rick and Louis' Ranger suits with the gloves and boots recoloured to match the rest of the suits armoured chest pieces, shin guards and wrist guards, with shoulder pads with drills on them on Louis' suit and grasping claws on Rick's "Rescue Ranger mode?"

"It's something I designed to help with the Ultrazord issue. Using this in conjunction with Ted in Paladin Ranger mode should work, provided the others stay in their base form." The Professor said "Chronus and I have mostly finished the construction of the equipment, but the Rescue morphers are only half done."

"Have we got any way to implement it via our standard morphers?" Louis asked "We've got to get the others back."

"The Rev Morphers aren't designed to channel that kind of energy." The Professor sighed "But maybe... Give me your morphers, I'll get the modifications made."

"Okay." Rick said, before the alarms went off "What's going on?"

The Professor pressed a few commands, a holographic image of a gigantic Drone appearing in the centre of the room.

"It will be one of Lothius' tricks." The Professor warned.

"That can't be a reason not to go." Louis said "We've got to get out there and protect the city!"

The Professor sighed, pressing a few more commands. He pulled a small cylindrical device from the console and handed it to Rick.

"This will let the two of you pilot the Megazord without being morphed, so I have a chance to make the modifications." The Professor said, grimacing as he added "It's only good for one use, you've got about five minutes, ten at most, and any formation other than the standard Rev Max Megazord will deplete the time limit faster."

"Well then, better make it count." Rick said as he and Louis handed their morphers over to the Professor "We need Rev Max Megazord Power, now!"

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So, here's part one of this storyline. Originally, this was going to come AFTER what's next (hence why it took so long, I had to re-write parts to remove references to what's coming) but then I legitimately needed some stuff that's coming in to have the next bit make sense. Yay for continuity! R&R, please, no flames. B.