"Guys, something is wrong," Elle said the next morning when they met up for breakfast.
"What do you mean?" Raven asked quietly.
"Ok, last night we were fighting," Aiden admitted, "and it was the weirdest thing, I made a storm cloud in her dorm room. It was a mess to clean up, I'm not sure how it happened."
"I noticed something weird too," Jack confessed, "I wanted something that was in my fridge, well the fridge opened itself and the drink floated to me."
"Maybe the rings gave us weird powers?" Elle suggested.
"What powers do we have then? I haven't done anything weird yet," Raven told Elle.
Before Elle could respond, the rings started speaking, "I need you at the university track."
"He can tell us the answers," Aiden concluded, and the group started running toward the track.
When they arrived they saw the same hooded figure fighting off what looked like half people half goat creatures.
"Whoa, what is going on?" Jack asked.
"Who are you?" Elle asked the figure.
The cloak flew off, revealing a guy, not much older than them with long dark hair.
"I've seen you before!" Aiden announced, "Aren't you an RA?"
After beating the last of the goat creatures down, the guy turned to them, "Yes I am an RA, my name is Tommy Oliver," he put his hand out to the others to greet them.
"What are those things?" Raven asked him.
"They are called Faun; they were created a long time ago and are very mystical creatures. However, they have been taken over and used for evil. I can tell you more about the rings, and the creatures, if you come to my dorm," Tommy suggested.
The group followed Tommy to his dorm room which happened to be a few floors above Jacks room. When they walked in it looked like a normal room, just like everyone else had. He pulled out a table and they all sat around it waiting for him to speak. He had a desktop computer which he sat in front of.
"Ok, as I said before, I'm Tommy Oliver," he started, "don't worry about introductions, I already know who you are. I got your information from the schools computers."
Aiden was about to interrupt when Elle smacked his arm to shut him up.
Tommy continued, "Now these rings give you access to the morphing grid. You guys are now power rangers. I'm sure you've heard of them before. There have been multiple teams at this point saving the galaxy, but it is a lot of tough work. I would know, I've been a ranger before," Tommy pulled up a picture on his computer, "I've worked with many great people over the past few years, and I even had retired from being a ranger. However, I heard about a new villain, Lucifer. Now, if any of you know about mythology, you've heard of Cerberus, a three headed dog," the group nodded in understanding, "Lucifer, is a Cerberus."
"And you want us to defeat him?" Aiden asked laughing in shock.
"I know, with you four fighting, along with me, we can defeat him, and his cronies," Tommy concluded.
"There are more people than just him and the faun?" Elle asked.
Tommy nodded, "They are his followers, who will fight for him until we can get the upper hand to fight him ourselves."
"What about these powers?" Raven asked wondering about the weird things that happened to Aiden and Jack.
"Right, each of us has been given powers from the morphing grid. It is not based on what color your suit is, it's based on your DNA. It causes a mutation in your DNA which permanently gives you these powers whether you have the rings on or not. Because of that, however, I cannot tell you what your powers will be, but we can figure them out together. I have thermokinesis, which can control heat."
"How can that help us fight these creatures?" Jack asked.
"Put your hand out," Tommy suggested, and when he did, Jack jumped back in shock.
"Oww."
"I can heat things up a few hundred degrees, leaving them burnt and in pain," Tommy mentioned, "That was only about 150."
"Can't we just fight everything by burning them to death then?" Aiden asked.
Tommy shook his head, "We can only use the powers in small doses, especially if you haven't trained them yet. It starts draining you, making you weak. You can improve your powers, to do more, but we can't push them too far, or it will drain your life force entirely. It's like anything else, the more you do something the better you get, the more you use your powers, the stronger they will be and longer you can use them."
"Maybe it's better we don't know what our powers are," Elle suggested to Raven afraid of draining her life force.
"Maybe mine is telekinesis. I brought a drink to me last night," Jack wondered aloud, trying to bring a notebook closer to him, it started slowly, but it slid across the table into his hand.
"I made a rain storm in her dorm room," Aiden confessed to Tommy.
"You might have weather controlling capabilities," Tommy suggested.
"What about us?" Raven asked pointing to herself and Elle.
"The powers will come to you when you need them," Tommy assured them.
The whole group felt a little uneasy about having to save the world, but they had the power, they'd find a way to do it.
"I can teach you how to morph when we need to. If you need to call me, press this," he showed a stone on the ring. The top stone had a symbol, and the color that they would morph. There were stones on each side, one being the one to call, and the other, he hadn't mentioned yet.
They each went on their way, classes to go to, dorm rooms to clean, but they thought about these new powers all day, and wondered what kinds of things they would be able to do.