Author's Note: Co-written with SunsetBabe17!

Disclaimer: Don't own anything belonging to PR!

Kim ran her hand over the beam in the corner of the room, her once favored piece of equipment. Her brown eyes searched the gymnasium further, taking it all in bathed in the remaining glow of the setting sun filtering in through the many windows lining the walls. It was perfect. Not as fancy and spacious as the gym in Florida where she trained with Coach Schmidt, but larger and more gymnast-friendly than her lonely beam at Ernie's juice bar.

It was in need of a good cleaning though. The gym had been abandoned by its previous owner for a couple of years. The owner had been unable to sell at a decent price because of the poor state of the real estate business. So it had just been sitting here, waiting for one Kimberly Hart to stumble upon it and bring it back to life.

Or so she liked to think.

Glaring florescent lights broke into her thoughts as they lit up the room from above her. Billy stood in the doorway, one hand on the light switch. Blue eyes roved around the room… his eyes met Kim's in surprise.

"This is what you wanted to show me?"

Kim nodded excitedly, a large grin splitting her face.

"It's my new gym!" She announced, clapping her hands together in front of her face.

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The group raced outside after hearing the ear piercing scream. Andy burst through the doors and was immediately hit by a Melissa missile.

"Whoa, we've gotta stop meeting like this," Andy chuckled as Melissa once again landed on top of him.

"Shut up," Melissa groaned and then slapped his chest as he laughed even harder.

"Hey you two, we could really use some help here!" Christopher shouted as he, Connor, Rachel, Charissa, and Jace fought the ugly creatures.

Melissa quickly rolled off of Andy and then helped him up as they began fighting back to back.

"What are these things?" Christopher gasped as he was knocked to the ground by a single punch.

"No clue!" Jace shouted as he narrowly avoided the razor sharp teeth of one as it tried to chow down on his arm. In reality, he realized that these were probably foot soldiers of King Scion but he wasn't about to tell a civilian that. They resembled crocodiles (or maybe alligators but who really knew the difference, maybe he would ask Billy about it later), only on 2 feet. He racked his memory trying to remember if Dulcea had mentioned them, especially anything concerning a weakness. All he could recall though was that King Scion wasn't supposed to be here yet. They were supposed to have more time before all this.

"Maybe you and Connor should go call for help, I think you're the fastest runners here," Jace really wanted to morph.

"And leave you guys here to fight these goons? No way!" Christopher was not leaving his younger sister.

"Yeah, you guys need us!"

"Oomph," Charissa went flying as she caught a tail to the midsection. Rachel ran to cover her from the oncoming foot soldier. So as she was down she decided to call for help, "How does this thing work?" She pressed several buttons in panic and frustration.

"Hello," she started as the voice came through finally.

"Trouble, Cyberspace," was all Charissa managed to get out as the brunette in red, Connor if she remembered quickly made his way to check on her since she had been laying on the cold concrete for a bit too long.

"You ok?"

"Yeah, fine. Just had to catch my breath. Watch out!" This time she ducked the swinging tail as it came at her with Connor who quickly jumped up and counterattacked with a roundhouse kick.

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Kim jumped, startled as the watch on her wrist rang out that old familiar six toned beep. Good thing she had remembered to strap her new communicator onto her wrist this morning, she was no longer used to wearing a watch anymore, but she was sure it would come back to her.

"Hello?" Billy moved close to her to listen in.

"Trouble, Cyberspace!" the voice crackled and faded out.

Kim turned to Billy eyebrow raised.

"They're in Cyberspace!" Billy exclaimed in wonder and astonishment.

"No silly," Kim playfully smacked her old friend's arm, "didn't Charissa mention working at some place called Cyberspace?"

"Oh correct, Haley's Cyberspace," Billy said with a hint of disappointment.

"Know where it is?"

"I have a global positioning system."

Billy pulled the car into the café's parking lot. The two sat there for a couple seconds before he turned to Kim, "Well," he gestured to the fight, "Aren't you going to aid them?"

"Not yet," she shook her head in the negative, "I want to observe them first, see how they fight."

"How very…scientific of you."

"You must be rubbing off on me." Kim shot him a smile and turned back to the fight.

Andy was currently helping Melissa up from the ground, leaving his back wide open as a tail smashed into him and the duo both ended up on the unforgiving ground.

Rachel and Charissa were tag teaming a creature. Rachel was trying to distract it as Charissa came up from behind, but she must not have been very stealthy as the creature quickly swiveled around smacking Rachel with its tail and slashing Charissa with its claws. Charissa cried out and grabbed her arm in pain as Rachel tumbled to the ground, gasping for air.

Jace jumped over the tail of one and smacked its snout as it completed its turn. He then kicked it in the side but didn't retract fast enough as his leg was grabbed in the creature's tiny, but muscular arms. Jace's eyes widened in surprise as he hobbled on one foot, desperately trying to tug his leg out of the creature's grasp. He flew through the air as the creature spun and let him loose. He toppled into Andy and Melissa who were just getting up from their recent meeting with the concrete. They became a trio of tangled limbs as they scrambled to get back to their feet.

Then, her gaze fell on two boys she didn't recognize. One was merely using evasive maneuvers and occasionally throwing rocks at the creature as if he was afraid to get too close.

The last boy was a blur of red as he swiftly dispatched the one he was fighting with a side kick and ran to cover the trio on the ground as two of the creatures advanced on them. He gained their attention as he punched one in the midsection and ducked out of the way of the oncoming tail and the tail smacked the other in the snout, knocking it off balance and he knocked it to the ground by sweeping its legs out from under it.

Before her Rangers got hurt any worse than they already were, Kim morphed and jumped from the car.

She was a pink blur, tossing the creatures aside as she threw punches and kicks every which way and back flipped to avoid the deadly tails.

By the time she was through with them, the crocodile-esque monsters were groaning as they slowly got back to their feet and made a stumbling retreat. Kim beat a hasty retreat as well.

"What was that?" Christopher looked on awestruck as the pink blur vanished.

Connor ignored his friend's question, brows furrowed as he looked into the distance trying to catch glimpse of pink.

"No clue," but as the five of them stood up they gave each other knowing looks behind the two boys' backs.

The seven of them headed back into the café, bruised and bloody.

"Hey Haley mind if we borrow your first aid kit?" Charissa plopped into a stool in front of the counter and smiled at her boss.

Haley gave them a once over and quickly rushed to grab her first aid kit, "What happened?" she handed the kit to her waitress.

"Uh," No one really knew how to explain what had just happened, but Christopher soon launched into a full on explanation, eager to share his tale of heroism.

Haley shot Connor a puzzled look who nodded and Haley frowned, worried that a new evil was in town.

"Here let me help you," Connor grabbed the bandages from Rachel as she struggled to reach the cuts on her back. He quickly cleaned them out and bandaged them with an experienced hand from his Ranger days.

"We should probably get going," Jace stood up and headed for the exit.

Charissa stood up and began to tie her apron back on when a hand stopped her, "I think you've had enough excitement for one day. Go home and get some rest Charissa I can handle it."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, now go," Haley ushered her employee out the door.

"Thanks!" She ran to catch up with the others before they left without her.

"Hey guys, wait up!" Charissa grabbed her ribs as she realized running probably wasn't a good idea, as it jostled her bruised ribs.

"Don't you have work?" Melissa asked wondering what her friend was doing there.

"Haley let me go. To go home and rest," Charissa laughed along with the others, knowing that they were not going home to rest.

When they arrived at Kim's house, she led them to the pool house were they found Billy sitting in front of what appeared to be a computer, typing away.

"So?" Kim asked her old friend as the teens sat on the couches across the room.

"Everything appears normal, no signs of supernatural activity," Billy swiveled his chair around to face the new Power Rangers while Kim leaned against the console noting how tired they looked.

"What were those things?" Jace decided to get right to the point.

"After searching through the databanks, we have discovered the identity of the creatures that you just faced off with," Billy began to explain before Kim cut him off, not wanting to sit through Billy's long explanation and then having to repeat themselves after the teens fell asleep half way through it.

"Long story short, those were King Scion's foot soldiers: Crocs. Basically crocodiles with some enhancements."

Jace nodded, that answered his earlier question and confirmed his fears, "So what are they doing here now?"

Kim turned to Billy, "It appears that King Scion was testing Earth's defenses. His ship is still light years away."

"And we sure showed them," Charissa rolled her eyes sarcastically and leaned back into the couch in defeat.

"Yeah, some Power Rangers we are," Melissa agreed with her teammate.

"Hey now," Kim needed to boost her team's morale or they were toast before they even started, "we still have time. You guys are just new and inexperienced. I know we didn't win our first battle against our evil's foot soldiers. We had to morph which you guys didn't have the option to do since there were innocents around. Everyone has a rough time when they are first starting out."

"Really?" Andy looked skeptical and Kim ignored the fact that her team had it a bit easier since some of them were into martial arts and already knew how to fight.

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Haley walked back behind the counter and gave Connor a pointed look.

"Uh, I should probably go too," Connor patted Christopher on the back, "See ya around dude."

Once he was safe in his car, Connor dialed a familiar number on his phone.

"Hey Dr. O," Connor leaned back in his seat; this was going to be one long conversation.