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Twice Chosen

Gale Hawthorne

How dare she… Gale fumed as he sat in the cave that had become his new home since he became the Green Ranger. She knows what the Capitol have done… she lost her father because of them… and she's defending them?

He wanted to believe that Katniss had just fallen in with a bad group and would realise the truth of the situation, but she'd been going out as the Red Ranger for a few days already and hadn't done anything to actually go after the Capitol. Smashing up a few Peacekeeper bases at least showed she hadn't lost touch with who she was, but if she really cared she'd have been going after the Capitol itself, not dealing with more of its slaves…

But isn't everyone the Capitol's slave right now, Gale?

Yeah… Gale nodded in acknowledgement of his mentor's words. We're all stuck serving their whims… but Katniss is a Ranger; she should have realised-

Too many Rangers adhere to a code that does nothing but convince them they need to serve, Zedd's voice whispered inside Gale's head. You and I recognise that we have the power to rule… which makes it only right that we take that power from our enemies.

Yeah, Gale thought, clenching his fists as he stared out of the cave at the forests of Panem. They'll go down… everyone who's kept us down will lose their power… Katniss will make her team realise the truth once I convince her…

Rue

Rue didn't want to admit it out loud to anyone else, but she was starting to feel increasingly uncomfortable about her own role with the Power Rangers.

It felt childish to say it, when she thought about everything else she had been dealing with over the last few weeks. She had gone from being trapped in the Hunger Games and certain that she would be lucky to live out the next few days once she entered the arena to becoming affiliated with heroes like she had never imagined could exist in the real world. The other former Tributes had never done anything but make her feel welcome even before… what had happened with Rita (she still wasn't sure if she actually remembered anything during… that time…), but the thought of someone else coming into the group…

She understood why Zordon had said she couldn't take the green coin for herself, but it was hard to shake the idea that there was still a difference between being an associate of the Power Rangers and being a Ranger herself. She and the others had all come into this team as part of the same shared experience; if they had to recruit someone else, what guarantee did they have that the new person would go along with the existing dynamic? Rue wasn't even sure how they had all come to agree that Katniss was the leader because she was the Red Ranger, beyond Zordon explaining that was apparently how it worked, but they couldn't guarantee that someone else would just understand that dynamic.

They needed to give the Green Coin to someone so that it didn't end up falling into the wrong hands, but Rue wasn't sure who that could be. She couldn't think of anyone back in her own District she was close enough to that she would trust them with this kind of power, it seemed like Katniss was doubting her own judgement of any possible candidates when her old friend was the reason they were looking for a new Ranger in the first place…

If old friends were out, and obviously strangers weren't an option, Rue wasn't sure who was left as a possible candidate…

Alma Coin

As much as she had appreciated his way of doing things at first, Alma Coin had to face the facts; whatever her initial hopes had been for the Green Ranger, he was rapidly proving himself to be more trouble than she could afford to deal with. The other Rangers might be more cautious and hesitant about their approach in waging war against the Capitol, but at this point the goal should be to make the Capitol look bad and make the alternatives look better. All the Green Ranger was doing right now was making everyone feel terrified at what he might do next; nobody had any faith that he would actually be better if he ended up defeating Snow's government.

The problem was that she didn't know what else she could do about this situation. She had been trying to contact the other Rangers for their own information, but she had to concede that they had no reason to keep in touch with her about something that they probably considered a purely internal matter.

Coin hated this loss of control, but at the same time she knew that she had to face the facts. Whatever tentative plans she had been making to strike back against the Capitol, the appearance of the Power Rangers had ruined any hope of finding someone she could use as a rallying point for a more conventional revolution. At this point, whoever had the allegiance of the Rangers was essentially guaranteed to be the one who won this not-quite-declared war. They might be fighting against the Capitol already, but Coin knew she only had the superficial loyalty of the Rangers at best.

Who this team were, why they had saved the Tributes in the Games, why they had chosen now to get involved in events in Panem… Coin didn't know, and all she could do was try and keep the situation under some form of control. The Rangers had changed the rules by introducing new elements and provoking her and Snow to take action, but if even the Red Ranger objected to the current Green, maybe Coin could offer them an alternative candidate for that green suit of armour. If the other Rangers were desperate enough, they may not even realise that Coin's recommended candidate would be more loyal to her than the other Rangers…

Coriolanus Snow

The only satisfying thing about Snow's state of confusion was that he was fairly sure no other President could have coped with this current situation any better than he was. Not only had Tributes somehow survived the Hunger Games, but now there were elements in play in Panem that nobody had ever experienced before.

He had briefly considered that these 'Rangers' were some new strike force created and deployed by District Thirteen to break their current détente, but he had pushed that idea down soon enough. He didn't doubt that Thirteen were making their own plans for some form of future rebellion, but if they had control of the kind of power demonstrated by these new players they would have actually attacked the Capitol openly.

On the bright side, from everything he had seen of the Rangers so far, there was another way he could deal with this situation. The original five Rangers had made a dramatic impression so far, but with the addition of their green associate, they had compromised their original image and created an opportunity for him to use his own experience against them.

Snow had no idea how such strange outsiders had formed such a flawed view of human civilisation, but he would make it clear to the rest of Panem that the mystery of the Rangers could not be trusted, even before the Green Ranger's current actions were taken into account.