Mal opened her eyes and let out a small yell of alarm as she saw Reviveslime right front of her. When she tried to move she found herself bound, and that was when she remembered the predicament that she, her boyfriend Ben, and the rest of her team were in. Chad had sent someone to kidnap her team and then lured her and Ben into a fight they had lost.
"I'm glad to see that you're awake, daughter of Maleficent." Reviveslime said. "We're rather eager to get this party started."
She saw her other friends starting to wake as well. She wasn't sure when her team had been knocked out but knew it could have been any time after she and Ben had been. She saw Ben look at her. "Sorry Mal. I should have known better to turn my back on Chad, even if it was to check on you." He said softly.
"Your heart was in the right place." Mal replied with a small smile.
"Soon his heart will be in a better place." Chad said with a smirk, still in this dark armor. "Outside of his body and in my hands."
"Not the least bit disgusting." Audrey noted with disgust.
It was then they noticed the black clad figures with their own colors permeating their helmets and chests. "Who are they?" Carlos asked.
The yellow one stepped forward. "We are your end ranger." They were a bit surprised to discover this one sounded like a female despite Carlos being a male.
"It's about time that we finally get to tear a helpless ranger limb from limb." The blue one stated as he reached up to grab Evie's chin hard and forced her to look at him. It was another oddity to them that the blue one was male when Evie was a female.
The red one stepped toward Audrey. "I've been told to make your death as painful as possible." This one also sounded like a man despite Audrey being a female. "Considering my history with red rangers, I'll gladly make it so."
"I won't fail this time." Said the pink one, who sounded female at least, just like Lonnie. "I came so close to ending one pink ranger, it'll be a pleasure to finish some semblance of what I started."
"And you're mine." The black one said to Jay.
Reviveslime laughed. "We're going to have a good old time with you fools." He gloated.
The seven villains started to approach the bound team when laser blasts halted their approach. They turned to see seven figures in the distance. One in red, one in yellow, one in pink, one in blue, one in black, one in silver and one in purple.
"Not them again." Growled Psycho Yellow venomously.
Psycho Red glared with the same amount of hate. "The Space Rangers." He spat with equal venom.
A/N: Like the Psycho Rangers I do not own the Space Ranger, except for the purple space ranger who I named Amber. I will try to explain her history as best I can.
The seven warriors had been unconscious for over an hour after their defeat. Things can change in that time frame, and not just in their world. A theory state that some worlds run close together and as Evie, Doug or Jane would relate that meant the barriers that separated the world of Auradon from Zordon's world had to be pretty thin. The Psycho Ranger's presence was also a good indication of that.
It was also thin enough for Alpha 7 to receive the unexpected signal from the nearly forgotten world of Auradon. Though Zordon had helped in that dimension not long before being trapped in a time warp by the evil empress Rita Repulsa and had in fact left several things designed to help in case evil surfaced there, events in their world had spiraled to the point that became a distant memory.
Everything from Rita's reappearance and choosing the first five ranger's in Earth's recent history to the rise of the green ranger, the arrival of Lord Zedd who forced the end of the green and beginning of the white, the marriage of Rita to Lord Zedd and subsequent appearance of her brother Rito Revolto and father Master Vile, the arrival of the Machine Empire and the destruction of the original powers, transitioning from Zeo to Turbo, and then getting the space powers when the United Alliance of Evil led by Dark Specter started to make its move, and the power holder's transitioning as well until newer powers led to new Rangers instead of moving with them. This inevitably created more rangers in the galaxy, but with one or two unique exceptions none of them would be able to lay claim to the experiences possessed by the veteran rangers.
So it was a surprise when Alpha 7 received the message from a place relegated to the back of his memory circuits, left over from the memories of his predecessor Alpha 5. But thanks to that knowledge he knew what that meant. He was startled to discover that somehow the Psycho Rangers had resurfaced again despite their destruction at the hands of the Space and Galaxy Rangers on Terra Venture a long time ago. And so he called in the people with the most experience dealing with them.
The first to arrive were Andros and Ashley Hammond, the red and yellow space rangers. That came as no surprise since both lived on the Astro Megaship Mark II. Although they got back to Earth or KO-35 whenever they could they tended to think of this ship as their home. They had gotten married on said ship a little over a year ago.
Not long afterwards TJ Johnson and Cassie Chan, the blue and pink space rangers, showed up. They were working at the same school together, TJ as a gym teacher and baseball coach and Cassie as a music teacher. TJ was dating a woman while Cassie remained single, her friends teased that she was still pining for the Phantom Ranger, something she didn't deny nearly as vehemently as one would expect.
Next was Carlos Vallerte, the black space ranger. He was a soccer coach for his step daughter's soccer league.
The next one in was Amber, the purple space ranger and the only person who could lay claim to being in active service longer than Tommy Oliver. While she had become Zordon's purple ranger months after Tommy had become the green ranger she had also been a ranger when Tommy had lost his green ranger powers the first time and in the brief time after losing his powers the second time before becoming the white ranger.
She had also been the only veteran ranger to stay on after TJ, Cassie, Carlos and Ashley had been selected to take Tommy, Kat, Adam and Tanya's places as Turbo Rangers. That was because Amber had declared to Zordon and Dimitria she was not ready to retire from ranger services and thought it would be wise to help guide the next line of the power rangers. They had agreed to her request. This also meant that she had been present when Divatox destroyed the power chamber and destroyed the turbo powers. She too had followed her friends into space.
Finally arriving was Zhane, the silver space ranger. With him was Karone, Andros's little sister who had once been the princess of darkness Astronema, abducted when she was young and raised to be evil before falling for Zhane and learning who Andros was. After the United Alliance of Evil had been destroyed she would later become the second Pink Galaxy Ranger, the last time a ranger would be replaced on active duty.
"What's going on Alpha?" Ashley asked him. It hadn't been that long since the ranger's had united together to help the Megaforce Rangers stop the Armada's invasion. None of them had hung up their powers yet, and in fact the Quasarsaber, the source of the Galaxy Ranger powers, could be seen on a holder on Karone's back.
"You guys might want to sit down, this is a long story." Alpha told them. The eight rangers exchanged looks and then did as he suggested. "I've received a distress signal just now."
"I didn't see one come in." Amber voiced. She had been on the bridge for her watch when Alpha had called them in.
"That's because it wouldn't come through there." Alpha replied. "It came in through a circuit node in my systems, which was left over from my predecessors." He was moving to one of the consoles. "It came from a world parallel to ours called Auradon, and apparently the Psycho Rangers are there now."
"What?" Cassie asked, feeling a little panic. She had nearly lost her life to Psycho Pink, and for months they had all felt Karone's predecessor Kendrix Morgan had lost her life to Psycho Pink. "How is that possible?"
"I don't know yet." Alpha told her gently. "But the Rangers of that world are in danger now because of them." Thanks to his communication with Fairy Godmother he now knew as much about the Auradon Rangers and Ben as she did. He in fact brought up their images and their corresponding Ranger colors.
"They're the rangers I take it." Zhane guessed.
"They are. This is Ben, the son of Belle and Adam, once known as the Beast. This is Audrey, daughter of Phillip and Aurora, once known as Sleeping Beauty. This is Lonnie, daughter of Mulan and Li Shang. This is Carlos, son of Cruella Devil, this is Evie, daughter of the Evil Queen sometimes known as Grimholde, this is Jay, son of Jafar, and this is Mal, daughter of Maleficent and leader of this ranger team." Alpha introduced.
"Wait." TJ said in shock. "That…seems…those names belong to fairy tales."
Being formerly evil, Karone was full of knowledge most others didn't know or refused to know. "Even fairy tales have a basis in reality guys."
"I can accept that." Ashley said simply. "But how did children of villains, especially two of the more renounced ones, become power rangers, champions for good?"
"For them, when the fairy tales as you call them, come to an end the villains were eventually exiled to a place they called The Isle of the Lost. When Belle married her prince he united the kingdoms into the United States of Auradon." Alpha explained to them now. "Recently Ben became king and he sought to give the next generation a chance. Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos are the first run for that experiment."
"It must have worked well for them to become rangers." Cassie said with some awe.
Andros stood up now. "I won't pretend to understand your world's fairy tales." He said as he looked to the five terran rangers. "But we all know the Psycho Rangers. If they've learned their fighting styles then they are in danger."
"We can't forget they abducted the Galaxy Rangers, except for Leo." Karone added.
"There was no Psycho Purple." Amber reminded them. Since her skills had come from a number of sources her style was generally unpredictable and hence it became impossible for Astronema to create a purple psycho. "And there was no Psycho Silver either." That had made a difference in their fights.
"I don't have the details but apparently a dark knight and a slime monster are with them right now." Alpha informed them.
"More distraction." Zhane translated.
The seven space rangers exchanged glances. "How do we there?" Carlos asked Alpha.
"This is where the most recent mission will come in handy." Karone said. "We took that Iconian Gateway from the Borax and now we can use that to get to Auradon and help them."
"We will help them." Andros said. He looked to his younger sister. "You should stay her Karone. If this is part of something larger you need to be able to go to your team at a moment's notice." She hesitated a moment before understanding her brother's point and nodding.
They made their way to the cargo bay area. Alpha activated the doorway device that shifted from Earth, to Aquitar, to two planets of unknown origin, and then finally to Auradon. "Let's rocket!" Andros announced. The seven rangers activated their astro morphers and morphed before stepping through the portal.
"More rangers?" Chad asked incredulously. "How is that possible?"
"They're not from your world, boy." Psycho Black told him simply. "They're from ours."
Amber took out her weapons, the solar sais. When Zordon had made her a power ranger so long ago, she had discovered a special ability. These days' abilities seemed to come with the ranger territory, but at that time it was unheard of. Now she intended to use that ability to help free the Auradon Rangers. She gathered up a stream of lighting and unleashed it. The Psycho's dodged it as did Reviveslime. Chad ducked under it, falling to the ground.
It struck the posts and upended them, freeing the six rangers and the knight.
"No." Chad gasped.
Jay gave him a nasty look. "Remember what I said I'd do if I got my hands on you." He taunted.
"You're not getting away from me that easily." Psycho Black reminded him.
The seven rangers' bypassed their adversaries to land by the teens. "Thanks for helping us escape." Ben said to the Red Ranger.
"Anytime. Ranger's stick together." Andros told him. It was a bit of surprise to the Auradon Rangers to hear a male voice from a red ranger.
"Let's get to work." Mal said after exchanging a high five with Evie. The six rangers pulled out their iPhones, input their numbers and transformed as Ben summoned his shield and sword and combined them to activate his powers. They stood side by side with their counterparts.
"Doesn't this look familiar?" Psycho Red asked mockingly. "We stood like this on Terra Venture, so long ago."
"And this won't play out any differently than it did then." Andros vowed as he stood by Audrey.
TJ stood by Evie. Carlos stood by Jay. Ashley stood by Carlos. Cassie stood by Lonnie. Zhane stood by Ben. Amber stood by Mal.
Chad hesitated at what seemed to be a superior force. "Do we still attack?" He wondered.
Reviveslime answered that question as he summoned soldier's up. "Destroy all Power Rangers." He ordered. With that Chad and the monsters started their attack.
"Watch the blade arm." Jay advised Carlos as he struck one down with his scimitar.
"Got it." Carlos replied as he summoned his lunar lance, blocking the attack and striking two of them down.
Psycho Black moved in and tried to hit Jay but Carlos blocked with his lance. Jay moved in and slashed him with his scimitar. Carlos then kicked him in the chest hard.
Cassie used her satellite stunner to blast incoming soldiers. Psycho Pink jumped over them to attack her old nemesis when Lonnie got in the way and slashed her with her tessens. They both kicked her hard as they moved to deal with more soldiers.
Psycho Blue unleashed a stream of energy at TJ but Evie got in the way with her mirror shield, collecting the energy and deflecting it back. Psycho Blue jumped out of the way even as it took out a bunch of soldiers. Psycho Blue intended to attack Evie but TJ leapt off of her shoulders with his astral axe and struck him down.
The yellow rangers were doing the same thing as the pink rangers. Ashley was using her star slinger to take out soldiers while Carlos was working in close range and intercepted Psycho Yellow as she moved in to attack Ashley.
Psycho Red had his sword out and was clashing with Andros and his spiral saber. "I'd rather tear your head from your body any day." He said as he swung.
Andros dodged and struck back only to get blocked. "The feeling's not really mutual." He remarked.
Audrey shot an arrow out and struck Psycho Red in the shoulder. Lightning quick the female red ranger moved in and struck him with the edges of her bow in rapid succession. "You're not leaving me out of the fight just because I'm a girl, are you?" She chided.
"I hear someone else would like to finish you off." Psycho Red stated as he moved in to strike her though Andros blocked it and kicked him back.
He switched his spiral saber to booster mode. "Whoever that is will have to wait." Andros stated and then he shot at Psycho Red, along with Audrey unleashing another arrow at him. He fell back hard.
"That was your lightning strike?" Mal asked Amber as the two of them fought with the soldiers. "I have to say I think even my mom would be impressed by that."
"I don't know if I should be honored or not." Amber said with a small laugh as she took out some soldier's with her daggers.
Reviveslime flew toward them and slashed them both hard. "These soldiers are one thing, but now you have to deal with me." He said and looked to Mal. "And you know how impossible it is to deal with me."
"He's tougher than he looks." Mal warned Amber.
"Let's see how tough he really is then." Amber declared. She twirled her sais around and then gathered energy into her sais as she wound them together and shot out a huge solar beam right at Reviveslime. He tried to fly up but the purple space ranger simply angled the blast and followed him. It struck and he exploded in a puddle of slime. She looked to Mal. "Think that did it?" She asked.
Mal shrugged. "I don't know if he's gone forever, but I certainly think that he's out of this fight." She said gleefully. "So let's see what we can do to help our friends out."
Chad swung at Ben and he blocked it. He got ready to ram his shield into his former friend when Zhane intercepted and kicked him back. The silver ranger then charged him with his super silverizer and Chad blocked that only for Ben to leap over and strike him hard in the chest.
Chad unleashed a blast of energy from his sword that sent Ben and Zhane falling back hard. He moved in to stab Ben but was intercepted by Mal and her staff. She kicked him back hard. "I won't let you hurt anyone Chad." She stated.
The Psycho Rangers each blasted their targeted rangers and the ten of them landed hard. The five Psychos gathered together again. "We told you that we could defeat all ten of you." Psycho Red stated. They started to charge forward for a further assault when lighting struck all around them and sent them back instead.
When they looked up the rangers were recovering. Amber was helping Cassie and Lonnie to their feet. "Forget about that little spark?" She asked the Psycho Rangers. "Sorry, but unlike the first time Darkconda isn't here to keep me away from this fight."
Ben and Zhane were on either side of Mal now. "Go help the others." Ben said to Zhane. "We've got him."
Zhane nodded. "Alright." He relented and went to join his team and the Auradon Rangers.
"I never thought we'd bond by fighting." Mal said to Ben. "And especially not against Chad."
"You never know." Ben agreed with a shrug. Then the two of them went at Chad.
Zhane joined the rest of the team. "So how do we finish this off?" He asked.
"If you guys have a weapons combination, we could probably do it together." Carlos said to them.
TJ nodded. "I think we can do it." He said with a laugh.
Amber looked to Zhane. "Then let's give them the time they need to do it." She said. The silver ranger nodded and together the two of them charge the five Psycho Rangers.
TJ, Carlos, Ashly and Cassie brought their weapons to form the Quadrablastser. Standing beside them was Andros with his boosted spiral saber. Behind them Audrey, Lonnie and Evie stood side by side. Jay and Carlos got on their shoulders and then they formed their blasters. The two groups of rangers unleashed their attack and trailing right behind was the Auradon Triangle Blast. The five attacks combined struck the Psycho Rangers and caused a huge explosion as they seemed to be destroyed.
Chad heard the explosion and made the mistake of turning his head to see what happened. Mal and Ben struck him at the same time and he fell back hard, rolling a little before coming to a stop. He looked to see the fourteen warriors assembled and looking at him.
"You want to try us out now?" Lonnie asked him.
"I still owe you." Jay said. "But at the moment I'd make the exception if it allowed us to put you in your place."
Chad seriously doubted that the new rangers would stay around forever. He stood up slowly and said, "This isn't over Ben. You and your friends, including my little ex over there, will pay for everything." He then vanished.
They couldn't quite help it. Jordan, Jane and Doug stared in amazement as the fight concluded with thirteen power rangers and the knight standing in triumph. "That was cool." Jordan finally got out.
"Where did they come from?" Doug asked.
"They came from a world parallel to ours." They heard Fairy Godmother say from behind them. "The one that Zordon originally came from." She walked over to join the three teens at the command consoles. "After you told me our team had been captured, I used a hidden app on my phone that contacted his assistant, a robot named Alpha, who in turn must have told Zordon, and sent these rangers."
From the helmet intercom the seven warrior's listened in. "Is that true?" Audrey asked them.
"Not exactly." Andros said solemnly. After all these years what Zordon had instructed him to do in order to prevent the United Alliance of Evil from winning and taking over their part of the galaxy, the Alpha Quadrant, still haunted him. "Zordon is dead, he sacrificed himself a while ago to save the…our universe."
They heard a slight gasp of shock from Fairy Godmother, the only one among them to have known Zordon. They could imagine Jane hugging her mother right now.
Mal looked around at the seven rangers. "Looks like he left a fine legacy." She stated.
"And he continues to do so." Amber replied as she stood in front of Mal now. "Further proving that even those who aren't necessarily good to start with can always find their way."
Audrey wondered what the purple space ranger meant by further proving but didn't get the chance to ask.
"Again, thank you all for what you did." Ben said. "There was no way we could have gotten out of this without you."
"I think you could have." TJ said to the young king. "But sometimes it's nice to be able to rely on others to give you a helping hand."
As each of the Auradon Rangers faced their Space Ranger counterparts, as Ben faced Zhane, the fourteen heroes reached out clasped hands.
"Good luck." Amber said to Mal. "Just remember, if you need us just let Fairy Godmother know and we'll come running."
Mal nodded, a smile on her lips as well. "Thank you. And the same goes for you, just tell us how we can come to you and we'll help you anytime you need it."
"So the ranger's that defeated the Psycho Rangers , not once but twice, returned a third time to stop them." Paradias mused. "Some would consider this an irony and hope the third time would be the charm."
"What do we do now?" Chad asked. "The Psychos were destroyed and Reviveslime is gone now as well."
"Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated." They heard as the door to the bridge opened and the blue slime genera l walked in. "Very exaggerated."
"We will do what we always do, what we must." Paradias said to the dark knight. "We will move on until we find a plan that works."
After seeing off the Space Rangers through what they called an Iconian gateway they arrived back at the command center where Jane, Doug and Jordan greeted them happily. "I am so glad you're okay." Jane said. "I was all but kicking myself for not being able to find a solution to help you."
"Hey like TJ said, sometimes it's nice not to have to do all of the work yourself." Carlos said as he impulsively wrapped an arm around her. "How weird was it to have two Carlos's at the same time?" He asked.
"Kind of weird." Evie agreed with a small laugh.
Jay laughed too. "Yeah, but at least theirs isn't the litter of the bunch." He joked and then gave his friend a light punch on the arm. He then looked to Audrey. "Are you okay?" He asked her.
Audrey nodded. "Yeah. I'm okay." She said though she reached her hand up to touch her face where Chad had hit her. "He really needs to get over himself." She said with sigh.
"If he could do that we wouldn't be fighting him right now." Ben reminded his best friend.
Mal looked to Fairy Godmother. "Hey, I'm sorry about what happened to Zordon." The purple haired girl said to their mentor. "It sounded like you were pretty fond of him."
"He died for what he believed in." Fairy Godmother said with a sad smile. "It's the best any of us can hope for if we can't have a long life." She looked to the teens. "And speaking of living life, I believe all of you had later afternoon activities scheduled. You should go do so now while the dust settles."
"We can still get our late snack." Ben said to Mal.
"Sounds good." She said.
"I've already missed by hip hop club today." Lonnie said with a shrug.
"Come on and join us then." Jay said to Lonnie, and the brunette princess nodded in agreement. "We'll go and hang out in the commons or something."
"Mind if I come with too?" Jordan asked. "I'm sure Ally and Aziz have finished up by now." The three rangers nodded in agreement.
Carlos and Jane were already moving off toward one of the consoles.
"Think that water is gone?" Evie asked Doug.
He nodded. "Yeah, probably. But we can always get more, that won't ruin our experiment."
And so the seven warriors and their three allies moved out of the command center to live their lives before the next attack. No one said it but each of them realized they felt a little better though knowing that they were not the only ones out there fighting the good fight as power rangers.