In a distant corner of the Galaxy, on a planet that is overrun with crime. And several agents and criminals belonging to an intergalactic Empire had gathered for a special occasion. At the head of the large table was the head of this crime group. Using the suit of Dogranio Yaboon, this crime boss held out his hands, and various criminals came about to bow down and kiss his hand out of respect. When he was done, the crime boss spoke up. "My fellow crooks, thieves and scumbags of the Vicorleon Crime Family…I have done it. I, Don Dieranno, have found and raided the Legendary Morphin' Vault."

Most of the group started cheering. Though one minor criminal asked: "What's the Morphin' Vault?"

"Oh right, you must be a newbie. Let me explain. Long ago the Morphin' Masters created and experimented with various artifacts. Artifacts that would be used to create Power Ranger groups. But not all artifacts would be used. Several were stored away long ago for safekeeping. But I found it, defeated the Guardian and stole it all. And now, I have a much better use for the treasure…I am handing it out to everyone." Don Dieranno explained. This act caused everyone to cheer.

"Your vaults, implanted inside you as an easy way to hold and protect your loot will now be used to hold these Morphin' Treasure, and tap into their power, allowing us all new abilities. We will be the most prominent evil criminal empire in the universe and all will fear us. No one will get in our way. No cops, no Power rangers, nobody!" More cheering came. "My dear left hand woman and medic, Medeeka, will modify your vaults to safely contain them."

"I'll be glad to help. I have to note though that I'm out of anesthetics, so the process may sting a little. And with little I mean a lot. But the screams and agony will be worth it. For me." Medeeka said. She had the looks of Gauche Re Medou. Some of the cheering died down. "It is a requirement to remain part of the family."

"Pain doesn't scare me. To become the best warrior to better serve the Don, I'll go through a thousand procedures." A brawny monster resembling Destra Majjio said.

"Er…that's real inspiring, Rydant." Don Dieranno said. "Anyhow…I was able to find the Vault after years and get the treasure, but my Twilight years are done. I am getting old. I will not be able to see the full extent of what this treasure can do, to the end. I have led this crime family for centuries, and I'm about to pass the torch. However, I am not going to hand it over to just anyone. That's why every one of you will get a treasure. Go wild, commit a crime. The one whom makes the most impressive crime spree, they will be my successor."

The crowd cheered again, forgetting about the possible painful procedure that has to follow in favor of thinking of the glory of the leadership of the prominent crime family. "Ok, if anyone wants to follow me, I'll make sure you all get to have your torture…I mean pain-mongering I mean procedure. Of course, procedure." Medeeka said.

As she guided a somewhat reluctant group of monsters down her lab, Rydant looked solemnly. "The crime family will not be the same without you, boss."

"Time stops for no one, not even for long lived species like mine. But I lived a good fruitful criminal life. I have a legacy that I'll create, as my actions will live on as the raider of the Morphin' Vault and brought intergalactic crime as we know it to the next millennium." Don Dieranno said.

"And it will be glorious." Rydant said.

"It will be, old friend, it will be.

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"So, it really has happened. The Morphin' Vault has been robbed." Adam Park said. He and Aisha co-led the Space Patrol Alpha, one division of the universal space police, Space Patrol.

"Don Dieranno, one of the biggest crime bosses in the universe. Has his hands on treasure infused with Morphin' Grid Energy. No telling what he can do with those." Aisha said.

"That's worrisome. Of all the things he could have stolen, the contents of the vault are very high up in terms of worst things he could get his hands on." Chaku, Space Sherriff and head of Space Patrol Beta aka the Space Sherrif Corps said.

"We don't even know how he found out about it, only the highest ranks among all Space Patrols know about it, and very few outsiders." Dash Rivett, head of Space Patrol Gamma said.

"You don't suggest one of our own would have spilled the beans?" Commander Fowler Birdie of Space Patrol Delta noted.

"We don't blame anyone. But no security measure is airtight. Double check if anyone among your ranks is bugged, compromised, Manchurian or whatever else." Adam noted.

"I will, though I doubt it's necessary. I only do it because it's procedure." Fowler Birdie said.

"Anyhow, does anyone know how to deal with a bunch of criminals, running around with a Morphin' Vault Treasure inside of a vault implanted in their bodies…which sounds a bit disgusting if you ask me." Chaku said.

"I wish I could help, but I'm still dealing with the N-Droid plague." Dash said. "It's hard enough the buggers can disguise themselves and bend gravity…me and my fellow Riders have their hands full."

"And we are dealing with another crime group, and I need all Space Sheriffs on deck for this one." Chaku said.

"And S.P.D. is still busy cleaning up after Squid Ink Inc, and keeping riots in safehavens like New Tech City contained." Birdie added.

"Luckily we have a solution." Adam noted. "It appears they only took most of the treasure. But a select few treasures were able to be recovered by S.P.A. and repurposed." Adam noted.

"It seems the Space Patrol will have a new Ranger team joining ranks. And with Morphers and Zords repurposed from the recovered Morphin' Vault treasures, they are the perfect counter to these criminals." Aisha added.

"That's only a handful against an entire criminal Empire." Chaku said.

"Shouldn't be casting stones, Rangers, Riders and Space Sheriffs, only a few of us, but we still stand up against massive evil villain groups." Dash said.

"Got me there." Chaku said.

"Though while the new Alpha Squad is taking care of it for now, whenever something comes up, I want to ask you to keep your eyes open and as soon if you can spare someone to provide some assistance." Adam said.

"We will." Commander Birdie said.

"This is it for now. If anything comes up, we'll notify the rest of you. I call this meeting of Heads of the united Space patrol to an end." Adam says. As the other Space Patrol chapter heads left, Adam and Aisha spoke under them. "What are your impressions?"

"Birdie is an old featherduster with a stick up his…" Aisha said.

"Not that." Adam noted; trying to hide a smirk. "The whole situation."

"I don't want to believe Space Patrol has any leaks or bad eggs, but that'd be too hopeful. I just hope the Alpha Squad can contain the situation before it gets out of hand." Aisha said. "And I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried for Sean." Aisha said.

"He's like us, he is brave and strong. Admittingly a bit hot-headed. Don't know where he got it from…" Adam said. "Anyhow, he's in good hands. He has a good team behind him."

"I sure hope so." Aisha said.

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

A figure in a white spandex, gloves and boots, as well as golden chest armor and a helmet, themed after a lock and key, and a key-shaped weapon, was being tended to by a trio of people. "I wish it didn't need to fall to you, but I have failed myself and cannot retrieve the treasures. So, I ask of you, my apprentices, to return the Morphin' Vault Treasures."

"But Master, we haven't finished our training yet." A young human-looking man in red robes said. He wore a badge with the lock and key symbol, in the style of the Guardian's armor.

"I think that you're ready. At this point, only a bit of field experience would be needed. I wish I had a bit more time. But I am ashamed that I allowed my defeat and lose the treasures…" the Guardian sighed.

"It's not your fault, master. That crime boss played dirty." The second one, an alien girl said. She appeared largely human but instead of hair she had something resembling pangonlin scales on her head, and the parts of her arms that the yellow robes didn't cover, were covered with smaller scales too.

"You rest and recover your strength, master. Allow us to take back the Treasures." The third, another human looking young man in blue robes said. Like the other two he had a badge with the same symbol.

"Caelum…" the guardian turned to the young man in red. "Fera…" then to the young woman in yellow. "Isaac…" to the young man in blue. "I am providing you with the tools you need to recover them. You will be not mere Guardians, you'll be Power Rangers." He waved his hand and three devices appeared out of thin air, which the three took out of the air. "These are the only treasures I was able to save. Use them well. You have to stealthy, crafty to recover them. You have to be like Shadows, Phantoms…"

"Don't trust anyone else. Only trained protectors like us can safely contain these treasures…" the Guardian said as he pulled out a book. "These will be able to temporarily contain the treasures, until we're able to repair the vault and transport it somewhere else."

"No one? What about the other Power Rangers? And isn't Space Patrol after them too?" Caelum asked curiously.

"As much good as they do, they are too distracted with other things. Even so, few of them had the location yet the Vicorleon Crime Family found us. Either there are traitors or the secret was stolen from them. I cannot put my faith in them at the moment." The Guardian said.

"Isn't there a chance that you will?" Fera asked. "I kind of like the other Rangers. They are so colorful and cool and have awesome mecha and…wait, we're Rangers too, we'll have cool colorful costumes and Zords too."

"Focus, Fera." Caelum said, though not harshly, but concerned looking.

"Right, sorry." Fera said.

"I might be willing to give them another chance. If I have a chance to talk it out and see if we can reach an understanding. But not now, not until I've recovered, and not until they have proven that they can deal with the Vicorleons." The Guardian said.

"It sounds logical. Wait and see approach, see how it plays out, taking few risks as possible." Isaac noted.

"We'll make sure that the Treasures are safely recovered, Master." Caelum said. "We won't disappoint you."

"I could never be disappointed in you, my students." The Guardian said.

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"The Vicorleone Crime Family. One of the biggest and prominent crime families in the universe. Despite that they were never the threat that needed Ranger-level interference. But with the Morphin' Vault Treasure in hands, we need Rangers to handle them." Adam Park told the new recruits.

"Agent Sean Park!" Aisha said as she turned to a young African-American human man in a police uniform with red accents.

"Agent Jaunt!" she turned next to an officer with green hair in a short ponytail and a gem in his forehead. He was clearly Xybrian. He also had green accents on his suit.

"Agent Harper Rose." Next was a young woman with pink accents on her suit. Her hair was black, reaching neck length with blonde tips.

"You are chosen to be our task force to deal with it. Despite the theft on the Morphin' Vault's content, we were able to recover a relic, and based on that we were able to develop an arsenal for you guys. Scooter, bring them in." Aisha called out.

A robot came in with a suitcase (Jim Carter from Lupinranger vs. Patranger). "I have the goods right here, Mr. and Mrs. Park." He put the suitcase down, opened up and inside were some blaster/Morphers and miniature vehicles. "Alongside the new Alpha Squad Patroller Zords…don't worry, they get bigger, they are just in compact mode."

"We humbly accept this duty. I promise we won't rest until this threat is dealt with." Sean said as he took the Morpher and saluted.

"Dude…" Jaunt whispered to him. "They're your parents, you don't need to act so stiff."

"Professionalism." Sean whispered back through his teeth.

"So with this weapon I become a Power Rangers police fighting alien monsters whom use magical treasure to gain superpowers." Harper said in a dry tone. "I can't believe my life has come to a point where that sentence makes perfect sense."

"I know, isn't it great?" Jaunt said.

"Why do Power Rangers always end up the quirky ones?" Adam asked Aisha.

"Most talented people are. Also, makes them fun and interesting." Aisha said.

"Wait, does that mean we're quirky too?" Adam asked.

"You tell me." Aisha shrugged.

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Hands up everyone, this is a stick-up!" a monster resembling Garatt Nargo said.

"Er…dude, you forgot a weapon?" one of the people in the bank said.

"Oh, I don't need a weapon…" he said as he his hands lit on fire. He then threw a fireball at a nearby potted plant, turning it to dust. Everyone immediately got his hands up. "That's it. Hey, Croaker, your turn!"

"Leave it to me, Scratchit." A frog monster (Ruratta Gerou) said as he moved to the bank vault door. He touched it as the vault on his body glowed, and it unlocked. "Thanks to the Coding Cube in my vault, no lock stand up to me."

"I kind of like what my Pyre Emblem gives me." Scratchit said as he juggled fireballs in his hand. "But they both serve us right. Now, let's get the dough." They went inside the vault and grabbed as many bags as they could. "I'm happy to have four arms." Scratchit said.

"I do too, what you can do with them…" Croaker said.

"Save that for home, when we celebrate the fact that we are now stinkin' rich and the boss will recognize us as successors. We'll be the ultimate crime power couple." Scratchit said as they walked out of the bank with their loot.

"And maybe now we're financially stable we can think about starting a family." Craoker said.

"I'm not ready for kids, I told you so." Scratchit said.

"Then when are you?" Croaker asked.

"I dunno!" Scratchit said, before their escape route got blocked. The Alpha Squad stood there, their weapons/Morphers aimed at them. "What? Pigs?"

"S.P.A. Croaker and Scratchit of the Vicorleon Crime Family. You are under arrest for murder, theft and robbery. Drop the loot and put your hands up. All of them." Sean said.

"What bank still holds physical money, shouldn't that be digital?" Jaunt asked.

"Not the time." Harper said, dryly.

"Oh, and what are you going to do about it?" Croaker taunted.

"Let's show you. It's morphin' time!" Sean said.

They pulled out their miniature Patroller Zords and inserted them in the Morpher. "S.P.A., Squad Away!" In their Morphin Sequence their Zords shot out and enlarged, drove around on a colorful background. They stopped right behind their respective Ranger. The police symbol emblazed on them came off, spun around the Rangers to form their suits, before attaching to their face and forming a helmet.

"Alpha Squad…Ranger 1!" Sean said, now a red police-themed Ranger.

"Alpha Squad…Ranger 2!" Jaunt said, now a green Ranger.

"Alpha Squad…Ranger 3!" Harper said, now a Pink Ranger.

"Power Rangers Alpha Squad!"

"Oh…Power Rangers." Croaker noted.

"I think we both know what to do now…" Scratchit said. He then shot a fireball from his mouth, at the feet of the Rangers to distract them. "Run!" they high tailed it out of there.

"Not so fast, I'm short and pudgy, not a very fit runner." Croaker said.

"But I love that you're short and pudgy, you're huggable." Scratchit said.

"Save the sweet talk for when we're alone." Croaker said, part annoyed and part delighted.

"Stop it right there." They found themselves stumbling in another trio. This time they were the Guardian's Rangers, only they were masks now to hide their facial features.

"Out of the way, you three. We're having Rangers on our tail." Scratchit said.

"Now, that's too bad…" Caelum said.

"Because it happens to be…" Isaac said.

"We're kind of Rangers too…" Fera said, all three pulled out their blaster/Morphers.

"What?" Croaker and Scratchit both said at the same time.

The trio put jet-like miniature Zords on top of their Morpher weapons and turned the dials on top. "Phantom Rise." The three said as they fired.

In their Morphing sequence the Zords they injected shot off and grew until they were giant sized and flew above the three. They projected a beam of light in their respective color downwards, as the light particles formed a suit. Then an emblem shot down from the beam of light, attaching to their heads to form Helmets.

"Red Phantom Ranger." Caelum said.

"Blue Phantom Ranger." Isaac noted.

"Yellow Phantom Ranger." Fera said.

"Power Rangers Phantom Force!" they all said.

"Oh come on! These Rangers keep popping up. We already got three new teams in the past few week." Croaker said.

"Are they breeding or something?" Scratchit asked.

"Hand over the Morphin' Vault treasures or things get ugly." Isaac said as they aimed their weapons.

"Heck no, I can shoot fireballs now. Not giving that up." Scratchit said.

"I can open locks. Doesn't sound fancy, but pretty useful." Croaker said.

"Stop right there, thieves!" now the Alpha Patrol Rangers were back and had caught up. "Stop…oh?" they then noticed the Phantom Rangers. "Other Rangers?" Sean asked.

"Did HQ send reinforcements without us knowing? I thought they'd have enough fate to let us do the first mission on our own." Jaunt asked.

"We're not with the Space Patrols." Caelum noted.

"Yeah, we're our own team." Fera said.

"We're the Phantom Force." Isaac noted.

"Well, since you're here, can you help us round up these chumps so we can put them in jail and recover the stolen goods?" Harper asked.

"Love to." Fera said.

"But we'll be taken the Morphin' Vault treasure." Caelum said.

"How do you know about the Treasure?" Sean asked. "And those Morphers…where did you get them?" He noticed both team's morphers are alike.

"I was about to ask you the same thing." Caelum asked.

"Ours was reverse engineered from a Morphin' Vault Relic." Jaunt said.

"Jaunt, you shouldn't have told her that." Harper groaned.

"Oh, hence they look like ours, they also came from the Vault." Fera said.

"Fera!" Isaac and Caelum said.

"Oops, my bad." Fera said, rubbing the back of her head.

"How did you gain access to the Vault? Did you steal from it too?" Sean asked.

"How dare you? You accuse me while you took a vault relic and copied it." Caelum said.

"The vault was busted, and the Guardian's gone, we had to take it somewhere safe. And now we can use it to secure the other Treasures." Jaunt argued.

"That is our job. SO stand aside so that we can take the treasures back." Isaac said.

"Oh no, you're interfering with S.P.A. business, explain yourselves!" Harper said.

"We don't have to explain ourselves." Isaac noted.

"If you don't get out of our way, we can charge you with obstruction of justice." Sean said.

"We have our own mission, for a greater good. Stay out of our way." Caelum said. The two groups stared each other down.

Croaker and Scratchit tried to sneak away, but both Ranger teams shot at their feet and they back off. They looked at both sides. Great, the two Ranger teams were going to fight and they would be caught in between. They could only hope for the best and hoped that they didn't end up like Swiss cheese. "Fine then, both of them want to mess with us? Mugleys, come forth!" Scratchit said and Footsoldiers looking like Porderman rose up.

And it would devolve into a three way brawl.

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Good news…we got the treasures back from those two crooks." Caelum said meeting with the Guardian again. They showed the book with the image of the treasures inside.

"Good news, we got the crooks captured but the other Rangers got the treasures." Sean said as they handed two tiny blue cubes with the shrunken down Croaker and Scratchit inside.

"Though we got in a bit of a fight." Both Caelum and Sean said simultaneously to respectively the Guardian and the Parks.

"Oh drat. I had hoped that it hadn't come to this. I had hoped for a wait and see approach…" the Guardian said.

"…we still could have learned something from them, they seem to know about the Vault and its contents." Adam pointed out.

"While I want to play it safe due to suspecting the Space patrol has leaks or a double agent…I don't want to complete write out the honest members." The Guardian continued to explain.

"If the Guardian is still alive and out there, we would like to work with him. This is his specialty after all." Aisha said.

"I know things got heated…" the Guardian said.

"Both sides had their faults." Adam said.

"But you shouldn't be fighting each other." Adam, Aisha and Guardian said at the same time as their students.

"Both you and the other team were young…" Aisha said.

"And with a lot to learn…" the Guardian continued, having a similar speech to his students.

"But next time, try to bury the hatchet and reach a middle ground." Once again the Parks and the Guardians finished at once.

"I'm sorry Mom, Dad…I focused too much on the mission, and got a tunnel vision…" Sean said.

"I'm sorry Master, the mission was on our mind and we kind of forgot our ability to compromise." Caelum said.

"But we'll do better next time!" both Ranger teams said to their mentors.

"I don't think you're bad kids or students. You successfully retrieved the treasures." The Guardian said.

"You aren't bad kids or officers, you arrested these two crooks." Aisha said as she held up the two cubes.

"Let us out!" the two crooks inside squeaked as if on helium.

"You still have a lot to learn." The Guardian said.

"You still have room to grow." Adam said.

"In life nothing goes to plan, only thing you can do…Is get better." Both Parks and the guardians said. "But you know what to do next.

Both teams nodded as they were sure what to do now. They got off to a bad start and between the two teams things would be rough. But after this, when the two teams grow as people and as warriors, they would come together to form an even better team. But that story is best told further another day.

NOTES

The final team I adapt in aftermath of the Cosmic Fury. Even if it was only because Cosmic Fury used two monster suits.

Honestly, I wish I could have done more with it, but my ideas weren't as strong and largely improvised. Hope in future updates to expand it more.

I hoped I was able to create something familiar but also different enough for the story.

The Morphin' Vault Guardian is an original concept. I thought of him at first as a human like alien but I like the thought of him as an original Ranger-like ally, like the Ninjor or Auric only without counterpart and recovering.

As for the villains. Don Dieranno is Don, plus 'die' and 'tyranno'. Dogranio had a tyrannosaur theme.

Medeeka is from medic. Which Gauche was.

Rydant is a corruption of 'Right hand' as he is the right hand man like Destra was.

Mugleys is four fold: Mugshot, mook, ugly and mugging.

I haven't revealed it in the story yet, but Caelum is from KO-35 and Isaac is a cyborg like SPD's Sophie. Jaunt is of course Xybrian but Harper and Sean are human. Fera is an original species of alien. Wanted to make it varied.

And of course due to Adam and Aisha's role in SPA made them share Hilltop's role, and bring in the Jim Carter robot as Scooter. And again a kid of previous rangers as a new gen Ranger with Sean Park.

Since there was a Space Patrol Delta, and as Once and Always confiremd Space Patrol Alpha, there must be a Beta and Gamma. So I was able to come up with fun ideas what the other factions would be. So I settled as the Patrangers as Alpha, Beta and Gamma are the Space Sherriffs and Kamen Rider Drive, and Delta, you already know.

I didn't plan on adapting more Riders for Ameritoku but it was right there for the establishing. I may focus more on Power Rangers but down the line I want to see if I can pilot AMeritoku adaptations of Riders.

But not for now, taking a break after this from Shards of teh Grid to focus on my other works. But hope this past week you enjoyed all the little pilots.

Also, since the Lupinranger treasure are homage to past Sentai arsenal, I thought them relics of the Morphin' masters of the past would make a great ref.

Anyhow, thanks for following this for the past week, I was on a roll. Hope you enjoy and after my break I hope that when I come back, I will see what else I can think off.