Operation Beast

Disclaimer: OC's are mine!

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Please don't bug me about this. I have been asked to bring back Haydon.

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Inside the city of Coral Harbor, a car sat in a garage as it faced the street with the trunk open and the garage to the duplex is open. Haydon Mitchell grunted as she pulled out a duffel bag from the trunk of her car.

Captain William Mitchell walked up to her. "Are you ready to go?" He asked her. "You can't be late."

"My car is still loaded down."

"We'll take mine."

Haydon pushes her duffle bag back into her trunk and closes the door. "I'm ready then." She said with a nod.

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16 year old Lyric Romero hurried walked through the main hall of Grid Battleforce, holding papers in her arms as she moves. She rounds a corner and crashes into somebody and she fell to the floor.

"Oh!" The man she crashed into, turned to her.

"I'm so sorry!" Lyric apologizes as she sits up and the man knelt down to help her gather her papers.

"It's ok." He helps hands her the papers that had fluttered near him.

"Thank you." Lyric thanked as she took the papers back, the man held out his hand for her when she took his offered hand, he pulled her up.

"We're looking for Commander Shaw." He told her as Lyric hugged her papers. "She's expecting us."

"The Commander's busy at the moment, but let me see where she is." Lyric said with a nod. "May I ask who's asking for her?"

"Captain Mitchell from Lightspeed Rescue."

Lyric's eyes grew. "Ok, ok." She said quickly. "I'll go get her right away!" With that she turns and hurries down a corridor and disappears around a corner.

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Inside a lab, Commander Shaw and the city's Mayor stood in a room when the door slides open to reveal Lyric hurried in.

"Miss. Romero, good timing." Commander Shaw said as she turns to her.

"Commander Shaw, Mr. Mayor." Lyric nods to each of them. "Um, Commander. Captain Mitchell from Lightspeed Rescue is in the lobby."

"Lightspeed Rescue?" The Mayor asks. "He was in charge of that program in Mariner Bay. He's a long way from home."

"His youngest just transferred here." Commander Shaw explained. "She's going to be apart of this program."

"Interesting."

"Mayor, why don't you come with me?" Commander Shaw asks, she turns. "Romero, stay here with Nate."

"Yes ma'am." Lyric nods.

Lyric and Nate Silva watch as the two leave the room. Nate waits until the door closes before turning to the girl beside him. "So, Lyric. How are you finding Grid Battleforce?" He asks.

She turns to him. "I like it. Definitely different then Summer Cove."

Nate nods. "Good, good." He said just as the doors slide open to reveal Commander Shaw, the Mayor, Captain Mitchell and Haydon Mitchell walked in.

"What you're about to see is classified." Commander Shaw told the three. "Forget what you've heard, Mr. Mayor. Morph X will do a lot more then power the city's lights and automobiles."

Nate nods. "The master computer controls the entire system." He explained. "When you activate the Morph X Tower network for the first time, the Morph X will flow in."

"Then, it'll flow into our four subjects." Lyric continued. "Mutating their DNA."

"Mutating into what?" Mayor Daniels ask, confused.

"Into our secret weapons." Commander Shaw gestured to one of the screens, and the Mayor's eyes grew.

"You're creating Power Rangers?" He asked with realization.

"Forgive me if I'm stepping over the line, Commander." Haydon said, making the Commander turn to her. "Don't you need access the morphing grind?"

"Haydon." Her father gave her a warning look.

"It's alright, Captain." Commander Shaw reassured.

"The Morphin Grind is tricky." Lyric said with a nod. "Especially since Zordon's death back in 1998, but that hasn't stopped more Power Ranger teams from showing up all over California."

"The mutation should work perfectly with teenagers." Commander Shaw continued. "And our top four cadets have proven they have the courage and fighting skill it takes.

"We've developed special equipment: Beast X Blasters, Beast X Sabers, Beast X Morphers. And … Morph X Keys." Nate gestured to the equipment on the table. "These transporters can send anything to anywhere." Nate hands a small crystal device to Daniels, and walked over to a computer. "Wait till you see this." He activated a program, and the saber that was hovering between two of the crystals vanished.

The Mayor was astonished. "Where'd it go?" He asked.

"Exactly whee I sent it." Nate hold out his hand, and the saber appeared.

"Very impressive."

"Young man, you might just be as smarter as Angela Fairweather." Captain Mitchell said, impressed.

"Thank you, sir." Nate beamed.

"So if someone or something comes to steal our Morph X, we'll be ready." Commander Shaw explained more.

"I sincerely hope you're right." Mayor Daniels nodded, he looked around the room and spotted four scanners nearby. "Can I meet your team?" He asked as he started towards them, but the Commander quickly blocked his path.

"I'm sorry." She stopped him as he looked surprised. "Their identities must remain secret." She told him. "I'm sure you understand. The Mayor nodded slowly, but his gaze stayed on the four.

"Of course."

"Mr. Mayor." His secretary finally spoke. "The ceremony begins soon." She reminds, making him look at her then to the Commander.

"Good luck, Commander." He nodded to her, which she returned. "Nate."

The genius nods with a smile. "Thank you, sir."

"Captain." Daniels nods to Mitchell, who nods.

"Mayor."

The Mayor leaves the room.

Nate walks back to one of the computers. "The cerebral scan is complete." He tells the Commander.

"Good. Get the Cadets into position." Commander Shaw turns to Lyric. The scanners lift to reveal Blaze, Roxy, Ravi, and Kya Romero.

"Time to suit up." Nate smiled at them.

"Seriously? Them?" Devon Daniels, the Mayor's son, scoffs as he watches the four climb off the scanners. The shelf rattled, and he cried out and crashed to the floor.

"Who in the?" Commander Shaw whirled around when Devon crashes into the barrels and scrambled back to his feet. "Show me your clearance badge!" She orders once she spotted him.

"He doesn't work here." Blaze growled, recognizing Devon.

"He's the Mayor's son." Lyric added when Haydon grabs Devon from behind and pins his arms behind his back as she forced him to his knees.

"Excuse me?!" The anger is obvious and ready to explode in Commander Shaw.

"Sorry, my dad said he had a meeting, and, well … I just wanted to try out the simulator, so." Devon lamely tried to explain.

"We don't have time for this right now." Ravi warns.

"Hold him in detention." Commander Shaw ordered, as the guards grabbed a hold of Devon, Haydon stepped to the side, the guards nod to her and she nods back.

"Wait!" Devon protested. "There's something in your computer network, a virus maybe!" He struggled against the guards. Nate and Lyric looked at each other, before they immediately walk back over to the computer. "I'm telling you, I saw an avatar." He pleaded as he's met with several disbelief looks. "It was this totally creepy snake! It moved in the system like it was alive!" He shouts as Roxy looked up at the canister of the Morph X, Blaze just folds his arms looking amused.

"The firewall is up and secure." Nate dismissed the claim.

"Yeah, all systems are in the green." Lyric added. "Why would we believe a trespasser?" She asks.

"It's already inside!" Devon shouts.

"Young man, I think we've heard enough." Captain Mitchell told him, making Davon look at him.

"But."-

"Take him out of here." Commander Shaw ordered.

"You've gotta believe me!" Devon shouts as he's dragged out of the room.

Lyric looked worried. "Commander." She starts, making Shaw turn to her.

"Lyric, I promise and assure you that you're cousin and the others will be fine."

Lyric swallowed hared with a nod.

Commander Shaw turns to Nate. "Run a full check on the computer system." She whispered to him.

"We don't have much time." He reminds her, earning a stern look.

"Then do it quickly."

"Yes ma'am." He nods, immediately launching a search.

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Kya Romero was completely and totally nervous as she was just seconds away of becoming the Pink Ranger. Just like her mom! She was super excited and completely nervous. "Blaze." She caught his arm, and he turns to her. "Do you?" She tried. "The Mayor's son, what … what he said." She said nervously.

"You seriously don't believe what that loser said, do you?" He asked, before he wrapped his arm around her. "Everything's gonna be fine." He hugged her to his side.

"But."-

"Kya, relax." He tried to sooth, leading her to the chambers.

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"Morph X entering the system." One of the scientists said, watching the levels rising. They looked up to see the glowing green liquid flow through the pipes and reach the four chambers where the four cadets stood.

"Begin Morph X DNA reconstruction. Subjects locked into neural aligners." Nate spoke as the Morph X began to fill the containers over their heads. "Phenomenal! It's working!" He beamed.

"It really is." Lyric nods, but she jumps when an alarm starts to blare.

"Wait!" The other scientist's eyes grow. "The system's detecting a foreign virus." He warns.

"I am Evox!" A talking snake appeared on the computer screen, eyes glowed bright as it laughed.

"What?" A shocked and stunned Lyric stepped backwards, bumping into Nate.

"The Morphin Grid will be mine!" Evox declares as the Morph X turns purple.

"That virus! It's infecting the Morph X!" He realized with horror.

"Nate, abort the Morph Sequence!" Commander Shaw ordered, Nate quickly went to work trying to shut down the system.

"This is Commander Shaw!" Commander Shaw's voice blared through the base. "All non essential personal, evacuate!" Her order echos, and everyone began to leave as Nate moves quickly. Lyric just stands there, stunned.

"Nothing! The system's not responding!" The other scientist warns as he works with Nate to try and stop it.

"I can't stop the Morph!" Nate panicked, he turns to see Lyric just standing there staring at the chambers. "Lyric!" He up to her. "Lyric!" He grabs her arm whirls her around so she's facing him. "I need you!"

She rapidly blinked. "R-right." She quickly collects herself. "Right." She races to a computer and starts to search. "That virus has deadlocked any way of stopping the sequence!" She rushes up to Nate. "What do we do!?"

"I - don't know! All the failsafes were programmed in here! And they've all been cut off!" He exclaimed, before there was a thud nearby. Looking up, their eyes grew as they saw Blaze on the ground, unconscious, while a flickering person of him stood in crimson armor. He smirked as he stepped out of the chamber and pulled on the cat like helmet.

"Stop right there!" The guards warned as they pulled their blasters, but before they could aim, Blaze blasted them with purple energy and they crashed into a wall, not moving. Nate and the other scientist ducked behind the counters. Lyric froze as she saw how dangerous he looked, her eyes leaned on Kya. Roxy suddenly collapsed, leaving a virtual copy.

"Pathetic human." She was already wearing her helmet, with glowing yellow eyes. "We Avatars serve Evox now!" Roxy declares as she walked over to Blaze, who laughed darkly.

"Kya! No!" Lyric cried as her cousin collapsed and a copy now stood with dark pink, almost purple armor.

"What's wrong, cousin?" Kya asked as she moved to stand on the other side of Roxy. "Cat got your tongue? How about a hug for your sweet cousin?" She laughed.

"You're just a carbon copy!" Lyric took a step backwards. "All three of you!"

"Then you're jealous." Kya scuffed. "You've always been jealous!" Suddenly a blast shot out behind Lyric and hit the cables that connected to the chambers. Ravi fell to one knee, but didn't look harmed.

"What?"

"No!"

"How?"

Devon stood, holding a blaster that one of the guards had dropped.

"You!" Roxy shot her own blaster at Devon, whose eyes widened. He rolled along the floor to dodge the shots. "You'll pay for interfering!"

"Leave him alone!" Lyric cried, charging at Roxy and thunder kicking her. Roxy landed on the floor near Nate, who scrambled away from her.

"Brat!" Kya aims her blaster at Lyric, only for a trolley to crash into her. The blonde who shoved it fell backwards from the force, and Blaze growled.

"Big mistake, laundry girl!" He hold out a hand to call on a sword, rushing at her, Zoey swung the cart again, but he shoved it away.

"Look out!" Haydon suddenly yells, tackling Zoey to the floor.

"Get away from him!" Lyric rams into Blaze before he could hit Devon. As he regains himself, Blaze is kicked in the back, who looked furious. Ravi and Zoey starts to fight Roxy, while Devon and Blaze resume their fight from before.

Lyric and Kya circled each other, sizing each other up. "Come on, Lyric." Kya growled. "You don't have the guts to hurt your own family."

"You're not my cousin."

Kya laughed before charging forward and swinging a punch. Lyric backflips before swinging her leg hard at the Avatar, who caught her leg, Kya kicks her before double kicking her and Lyric is thrown backwards and lands hard on her back.

"Too easy." Kya sneers as she stalks up to Lyric. Suddenly a morphed Haydon jumps in, delivering a strong power house kick to Kya, knocking her back.

Devon hurries over to Lyric. "You ok?" He asks as he helps her up.

"I think so." She said as she leans on him, and Haydon turns to them.

"Come on!" She guides them away, but Blaze blocks their path.

Nate watched from where he was, his eyes wide behind his glasses as he watches the chaos.

"Enough!" Roxy hold out an arm, and wires shot out to wrap around the four, holding them in place. "The Morphin Grid will finally belong to Evox!" She declares with a laugh.

"Why fight it?" Blaze stood beside her.

"The end is near." Kya laughed.

Suddenly two shots rang out and a piece of metal on top of the chamber came crashing down, snapping through wiring that held them prisoner.

"What?"

"No!" Blaze growled, and a moment later a burst of energy filled the room.

"Initating Morph Sequence." The computer's announcement came, before a green light appeared above the four swirling and hiding them from view. The green then changed to Red, Blue, Yellow and Pink before fading to reveal the four morphed.

"What just happened?" Devon asked, confused.

"They've morphed into Power Rangers!" Roxy growled.

"Whoa, she's right!" Devon exclaimed as he looked at the others with him. "You're the Yellow Ranger!" He points at Zoey.

"No way! Don't look now, but you're the Red Ranger." She points at him, who looked down at himself. Lyric did looked down at herself seeing the pink shirt and coat with black leggings and pink and black boots.

"I don't know who you are, or what you are, but you're not Kya, or Roxy or Blaze!" Ravi declares as he walked towards the two. Devon, Zoey and Lyric stood around him.

"Master of the obvious." Roxy drawled.

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From another room Commander Shaw, and Captain Mitchell watch as a new fight broke out, Haydon tried to nurse some of the guards.

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Kya lay unconscious as a lid of stasis chamber moved to cover her. Once it hissed, closing tight, the beep of her steady heart rate joined Blaze and Roxy's. Lyric stood, watching her cousin. Tears stung Lyric's eyes. "I'll save you, Kya." She whispered brokenly. "I promise." She wipes her eyes before taking a few deep breaths, and walked out of the room.

"Hi." Zoey smiled as Lyric joined her and Devon. "Thanks for helping us back there." Not making a comment on Lyric's red eyes.

"Yeah." Devon smiles. "Thanks."

Ravi walks over to them. "Nate says if it wasn't for you guys, I'd be an Avatar too. "Thank you."

"I'm just sorry that we couldn't help them." Zoe told him, looking over to the three chambers. Ravi nods, before turning to Devon.

"You're the guy that Blaze was hassling at the gym. I'm sorry, I should've jumped in and."-

"No sweat man." Devon stopped the apology with a smile. "I can take care of myself." He said confidently, and Ravi's smile returned.

"So I've noticed. I'm Ravi." He properly introduced himself.

"Devon." The two shook hands.

"And I'm Zoey." She shook their hands, before they all turned to the other quieter girl.

"You're Lyric Romero." Ravi guessed. "Levi Weston's daughter."

"That's me." She smiles.

Devon's eyes nearly pop out of his head. "Whoa!"

"Nate, report."

The group turns as the doors slid open and Commander Shaw walks in.

"Their bodies are perfectly healthy, but their brains are functioning as if they're in a deep sleep." Nate explained as he walked over as he tried to wake the three. "From what I can tell, the virus duplicated them, creating … essentially their evil twins." He tried to explain, making Commander Shaw frown.

"So how do we wake them?"

"Blaze and his Avatar, Roxy and her Avatar and Kya and her Avatar … they're linked through the Morphin Grid." Nate continued to explain with worry. "Meaning that as long as their Avatars are awake, our friends will be asleep."

"So the only way to wake them."-

"Is to destroy their Avatars." Devon finished for Lyric, and Nate nodded.

"Affirmative." Nate turns back to the Commander. "Even though I've spent their Avatars to a different dimension, they're intelligent. They'll find a way back here."

"That's why we have you four." Commander Shaw turns to the four. "The Power Rangers, to protect the Morphin Grid."

"You can count on me mom - I mean … Commander Shaw." Ravi went red with his slip. His mother modded, before turning to the others.

"Zoey, Devon, Lyric, the Morph X has combined your DNA with Cheetah DNA, Jackrabbit DNA and Tiger DNA. You are the Red, Yellow and Pink Power Rangers." She tells them.

The three were quiet for a long moment, until Zoey broke it.

"Roxy should be here to protect the city herself, but until she can … I'm proud to take her place."

"My family has been through so much over the years." Lyric added. "My mom saved her cousin, now it's my turn to save my own cousin."

"This isn't what I expected when I woke up this morning." Devon admits, laughing a little. "But it is pretty cool. Whatever I can do, I'm in."

"Very good." Commander Shaw nods, she takes in her new Rangers.