So for awhile I was pulling at my hair out trying figure out a way to have the start of this story make sense. Then I remembered a plot point that originally came to my mind for a potential sequel and ever since I've been kicking myself because it would solve my current problem easily and dare I say make for some interesting lore.

Also don't get used to quick updates like this. I had this chapter about two thirds done and I have nothing done for the next one, so there's gonna be a wait.

Setting the Stage

3rd POV

The newly formed team of rangers sat demorphed around a distant part of the woods

Leo sat little ways from the others, staring intently at his quasar saber.

"Well if nobody else is gonna say it I will, that could've gone better." Said Damon.

The others nodded and muttered their agreement. Truth was that they'd escaped by the skin of their teeth, and even then only through pure dumb luck more than anything else.

"I don't know what I expected, but it wasn't that." said Kai.

"Are you alright?" Asked Kendrix sitting beside Leo.

"Today's kinda been a lot." He said and Kendrix nodded in understanding. Holding his saber out he continued. "This was supposed to be Mike's those guys couldn't pull it out but he did."

"It's like we were chosen." Said Maya wistfully.

"Chosen for what? To put on a spandex suit and get superpowers." Asked Damon.

What did they call us when we were suited up. Asked Kai.

"Power Rangers." Answered Kendrix.

"At least now we know why they wanted these swords so badly now." Said Maya speaking up. "That feeling that power it was incredible.

Leo spoke up. Yeah and a lot of good that did us. One guy was enough to beat all of us into the ground.

Rubbing her neck as she talked Kendrix said. "He had plenty of opportunities to kill us he'd really wanted to."

"So you're saying, what?" Asked Damon.

"I don't know, but we need to find out more about these sabers." Said Kendrix.

"And how do you suggest we do that?" Said Leo standing up "The only ones that know anything about them are the aliens, and you think we can just stroll up to them and ask nicely!" He continued voice rising.

"Hay!" Said Kai cutting in.

"Let it go Kai, he just lost his brother." Said putting a hand on his shoulder to stop him.

"So does anybody have any ideas for how we're supposed to just walk back into town with these things." Asked Damon holding his saber out.

As soon as he said that all five quasar sabers blades were rapidly retracted back into they're hilts.

"What? how? why?" Stammered Kai examining his closely.

"So should we head back to the shuttle or head to the landing sight." Asked Maya.

"I say we try get closer to the landing site."Said Leo walking back towards the group.

"The GSA will be looking for the shuttle, and those stingwingers things are probably still trying to find us and will spot it from the air, the shuttle's too big a landmark." Explained Kendrix.

Everyone nodded and got ready to move.

"So think those aliens are still looking for us." Asked Damon.

Leo answered. "I doubt we've seen the last of them."

Percy POV

Furio and I headed down corridor to Scorpius' chamber.

Furio was understandably upset about what had just happened. I'd been stupid enough to fall for a couple of cheap shots and had lost the Quasar Sabers. Letting them fall into someone else's hands. Our odds of survival here weren't great.

"Are you sure that they weren't." Furio started.

"Yes Furio." I snapped I'm sure they were mortals. I said for the umpteenth time as we entered the chamber.

"Lord Scorpius. I said kneeling.

Please don't let him be too mad. I thought.

"Furio how is it that you have allowed the Quasar sabers that we sought for so long to slip through your fingers, and you Perseus." He said turning his attention towards me.

Uh oh.

Quicker than you could blink one of his tentacles was wrapped tightly around my neck.

"All this training we've given you was clearly wasted if you couldn't even defeat your lesser kinsmen."

I managed to crane my head over my shoulder slightly to the corner where Trakeena often hid to watch her fathers proceedings silently trying to convey a message.

Help.

"Come now father you did send Percy down to the surface to help maintain positive relations with earth." She said getting up from her seat walking over to in between me and her father. A simple tap of her finger and Scorpius withdrew his appendage "It's not surprising that he'd continue seeking a less violent solution."

Scorpius growled as he paused to consider that.

Stressful as my relationship with Trakeena could be it certainly had its benefits and this was one of them.

"Hmm. We need to make sure these new power rangers had no official affiliation with Terra Ventures' leadership. Boy go act as my emissary make sure their properly cowed, but don't let them know that your from earth."

Yeah that would go over well.

"Alright." I said standing up. "The colony is due to pass through the rift in a few minutes I'll teleport aboard and give the top brass a scare."

3rd POV

Terra Venture

"Attention passengers" Commander Stanton spoke. "As you may have noticed a few moments ago Terra Venture passed through the wormhole. In just a matter of hours now you will all be on the surface of the new world."

He and his crew all cheered along with the rest of the station at the announcement.

"Umm, commander." A female aide wearing a headset spoke up.

"What is it ensign?" He asked.

"Well sir, there's somebody on the coms demanding to speak with you."

"Who?" He asked.

"He's refusing to say sir, and I can't tell where the signal is coming from either." She said Pulling off her headphones and handing them to the commander.

Putting them on and adjusting the mouthpiece he spoke. "This is commander Stanton here, to whom am I speaking?"

Commander. A voice crackled in his ears. You and I need to talk, meet me in the main conference room.

"Talk? about what?" Asked Stanton.

"Recent…" the voice paused here as if choosing his next words carefully. "Events and how they will affect you, me, your people, and lord Scorpius."

Paling, Stanton quickly took the headset off and practically shoved it back into the ensign's hands.

"Where are you going commander?" Asked another officer.

"Urgent business." He called over his shoulder as he rushed to the door. Almost sprinting down the hall towards the conference room.

Throwing the doors open Stanton was surprised to see a college age kid in blue jeans and a black leather jacket that looked a size or two large on him sitting at the head of the table with his feet up on the table.

"What too casual." He asked standing up and gesturing to the jacket.

"Your the ambassador?" He asked slowly.

"Yes. we need discuss what happened on surface, and I do sincerely apologize for my... militaristic counterpart Furio."

"For the moment Stanton had to proceed very carefully not quite believing that this was the ambassador and suspecting he was being conned, but on the other hand if it was the ambassador Stanton couldn't afford to a offend him. But you look human." Stanton asked hesitantly.

Hook line and sinker. Thought Percy. "I'm able to disguise myself as other species."

"But why would you take such a young appearance." Stanton asked slowly.

"This would be my age in earth years,"

It was easy to see the gears in Stanton's head turning, still trying to figure out whether or not he was being punked.

Yeah you'll think I'm young and probably don't what I'm doing. Go ah underestimate me. I spend most of my time with one of, if not the best manipulator in this galaxy. Thought Percy.

"Your minds are easily influenced to see what another wants you to." Said Percy. "Let me let me show you."

Letting out a long exhale the kid snapped his fingers and he and the office disappeared to be replaced with a forest. He could hear birds chirping the water in the brook. He was reaching out to touch an oak tree when he heard the ambassador snap his fingers again he found himself back in the conference room, staring face to face with the kid Stanton was now very sure was indeed the real ambassador.

"Now as I said we have much discuss."

"Furio report."

"The humans have passed through the portal Scorpius."

"More worms to get in the way." Scorpius replied. "Furio you will recover the Quasar sabers and destroy the ones who've taken them from me."

"By your will sire." The general answered.

Unfortunately we can't be overt without offending our new, diplomatic ties. Said Scorpius as though the idea disgusted him.

"I understand my lord but why are you concerning your self with the opinions of lesser beings." Asked Furio.

If we're going to be competing with power rangers for the artifacts on this planet. Make sure that those beasts are placed under heavy guard. As for the humans you know the reason. We must proceed with caution here. Growled Scorpius. Especially as we must be negotiable with Olympus. For now.

Percy POV

Terra Venture began to split into two parts the domed city would be landed on the surface while the engines and space station would remain in orbit to relay transmissions from the surface back to earth it was an engineering marvel. I could tell that Hephaestus had had a hand in its construction it was the only explanation for this project being completed in only two years, even with all the earths nations working together.

Turning back to Stanton I listened to what he was saying

"So your honestly saying that you're people believe in magic." He said.

A little fear of the unknown can make people uneasy and malleable. I thought thinking back to Trakeena's advice.

"My people? I think you've got it wrong." I said sidestepping the magic question. Those of us who serve Scorpius we're from all over. Scorpius' empire is made up of countless planets and species. he's had us all looking for the Quasar sabers for quite awhile now only to have them slip through our fingers."

"Several hours ago people who were supposed to be onboard this colony found their way to Mirinoi and managed to escape with the Quasar sabers."

"And I take it you hold us responsible." Asked Stanton.

"No but if Scorpius had his way he'd rain fire and brimstone on the ones responsible, me on the other hand given the limited info that they had I'd have done the same in their place."

"So then what do you want?" Asked Stanton.

"Me personally? a lot of things I'm not likely to get. What I'm here for now is too see if these rangers had any official ties. With your rank you'd know about it but given your surprise I think it's safe to say that's not the case.

"So what happens now?"

"I don't know. But you and I both know that sooner or later people will be after those sabers." And with that happy thought I teleported away leaving the commander digest everything I'd told him.

I appeared back in my quarters onboard the Scorpion Stinger.

"So how did it go?" asked Trakeena peeling away from the wall.

"About how'd you'd expect." I said. "But I wanted to ask you something."

"Oh?" She asked raising an eyebrow.

"Back during the battle Furio mentioned something about old stories about these power rangers?" I questioned.

"Bah that's more myth and legend than actual history." She mocked.

"And I'm living proof that myths and legends can be all too real." I countered.

Trakeena smirked, seemingly at me making a good point. "Alright, the basic story is that thousands of years ago they were great warriors who could tap into an inter-dimensional energy source."

"Yeah that makes about as much sense as anything. But what I want to know is why aren't there more rangers running around out there right now?" I continued.

Trakeena shrugged. "The story most people believe is that Lord Zedd managed to wipe them all out back in the day."

I jumped at hearing that name. I didn't know many galactic figures but Zedd I knew. A legendary tyrant from thousands of years ago who used magic to create an army of monsters to conquer and destroy countless planets in his path, ruling over a vast swath of the galaxy with an iron fist for millennia.

What can I say, when your forced to join a space warlord's army at gunpoint you learn things.

"Wait second!" I said coming back to reality. "Are you saying that Zedd made it point to hunt down these guys down."

"Do I look like a historian to you." Trakeena said with a growing scowl. "Not many records from that era survived nobody knows."

I sighed and leaned against the wall. Unable to shake the uneasy feeling I had.

3rd POV

Elsewhere?

"At long last the old pattern can begin again." Someone spoke.

Seven figures each wearing a different color of armor sat on thrones in a semicircle. There was was an eighth throne cracked and broken. It's owner having long ago betrayed the others, yet had faired the worst out of all of them perishing millennia ago.

The aforementioned thrones sat high in the air, over looking what appeared to be a massive electronic circuit the size of a football field. Hours ago it had been cold and gray but now it was slowly returning to life crackling with different colors of energy. Red, blue, yellow, green, and pink.

"For now." Said the one in yellow.

"The situation is still far too precarious." Said Blue.

"It cost us all of our remaining energy and then some to get even this far." Said Green.

"Opening a wormhole to the lost galaxy was no easy task. Getting worthy humans to the quasar sabers should've been a simple matter by comparison." Said Black.

"Your plan had better work stranger." Spoke Red an edge to his voice.

The group turned their full attention to their guest.

The ninth throne among them that he sat on seemed to have been formed from human bodies even now their faces pulsed and writhed in silent agony.

The owner of this chair was no less peculiar. At first glance one might of thought he was a normal human man in black cloak. But humans didn't have stars shining from the black pits of their eyes.

"This grid of yours is now and forever your plan and your plan alone, I've merely given it a much needed breath of new life. Helping you find your much needed Power Rangers." He spoke.

"We've spent over two galactic rotations following your advice. Nudging events on your world, so that we might find worthy champions. But the fight on Mirinoi spent the last of the our remaining power keeping the ones we selected alive." Explained Red.

"And thats far more than you'd have without me." Growled the stranger.

"That means less than nothing if these whelps don't survive long enough." Said Gold.

"Scorpius can and will kill the rangers, and with our influence exhausted there's nothing more we can do." Said Pink.

"So would you have preferred another faction?" Challenged Black. "It wasn't really plausible to get that lazy oaf and his warriors involved. But one of the empires maybe? Perhaps a pirate group or the Reich."

"Ah but that's where young mister Jackson comes in. He afflicts his so called allies with something that has brought low many a empire." Said the Stranger.

"Which is?" Asked Yellow.

"A conscience." He answered with a smirk.

"So that's why you insisted that he be sent into space and not become a ranger." Said Red slowly.

Grin widening the stranger answered. "An insurance policy, to keep the big bad bugs from annihilating your team and the colony from orbit."

"I still say that he would've made a perfect ranger." Said Green.

"Enough!" Shouted Gold. We can continue this bickering all we like but it won't change anything.

"The fact is that it will be weeks at best but more likely months until we again have the strength to influence the the physical plain." Said Blue

"Then we can't do anything right now but wait and hope for the best." Said Pink.

"That's all we've done since we were sealed down here by those two wretches." Argued Black.

"But now you actually have reason to think that your lot will improve." Spoke the outsider.

"You never did tell us why you agreed to help with our plan." Questioned Pink.

"It's rather simple honestly" He answered. "Like you I just want a blank canvas that I can use to make a better world. Your plan just provides me the means to wipe the slate clean."

So at long last I can proudly say that the first arc of this story is finished. It's been a long and I'll admit bumpy road but we're here. I can also safely say that we have a lot more questions than answers at this point, rest assured those questions will all be answered, sooner or later.

Also I'm trying to figure out a pseudonym Percy can use. Like ambassador blank? I was thinking Deus but I'd like to hear your thoughts.

[Arc 1 Prologue and Quasar Quest]

Arc 2 New Heroes on the Block

As the new Galaxy rangers explore their new found powers they must also work to uncover Scorpius ulterior motives.

Arc 3 Magna Defender

Arc 4 Diplomacy

Spoilers past this point.