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AN: Thanks to Z-King for reminding me that I hadn't done one of these chapters for a while; when he questioned what Snow thought of recent events, now seemed as good a time as any to offer a new look at what Panem thinks of what the Rangers have been doing recently.

Twice Chosen

Prim

Prim had no idea what her sister was doing these days, and every day it seemed as though the world just became even more complicated. The news that Katniss and others were alive was at least a better outcome for the Hunger Games than she could have expected, but she wasn't clear why Katniss and her new friends (Katniss wouldn't have been that comfortable talking with people if they weren't her friends) weren't coming home already. The Rangers had been doing a lot of damage to the Capitol's forces, even if most of that was because of the Green Ranger they'd been fighting… and Prim didn't even know what to think of that whole situation.

Her mother, her teachers and her friends' parents were all just as confused as she and her friends, so at least she was fairly sure nobody was doing that thing where everybody felt that the children were too young to understand what was going on, but that just meant that she knew nobody could help her find the answers. The latest news broadcasts she'd seen seemed to confirm that there was a new Green Ranger who was on their team, so that seemed like good news, but Prim wondered how the Rangers had managed to choose someone else for that kind of responsibility.

And then there was everything with Gale right now; after he'd spent the last few days going missing for some reason he hadn't shared with anyone, he was back at his home, and didn't even seem to know what he'd been up to himself. Gale had at least apologised to her for leaving like that and made it clear he wouldn't have abandoned her on his own, but Prim knew that he mainly did that because he wanted to keep his promise to Katniss rather than being seriously concerned about Prim herself.

Ever since Katniss had been reaped, it felt like Prim's world was changing in ways she couldn't understand, and those changes just kept getting bigger and bigger…

Finnick Odair

As much as Finnick wanted to feel hopeful about the future with the Rangers involved, he wasn't sure how to cope with the recent turn of events. He was fully prepared to acknowledge that they probably weren't responsible for whatever had brought in this new monster he'd heard about from the recent battle in District Ten, but at the same time he couldn't ignore that the world had become a lot more complicated since the Rangers made an appearance.

The thing that interested Finnick the most right now, however, was the appearance of the new Green Ranger. He appreciated that he had no clear evidence for his own theory about the new player's identity, but the fact that Johanna Mason had suddenly become even harder to reach at the same time as the Rangers got a new Green Ranger who was clearly female…

Maybe other people wouldn't make the leap, but he liked to think he was one of the few people who knew Johanna well enough to see why she might have joined the team despite her apparent personal issues.

He might not know exactly how the Rangers had gotten their powers and where these rumoured monsters had come from, but whatever their wider agenda was, his meeting with the Ranger at least left him with a sense that he could trust them. He might only have theories about who they were under those helmets, but he would admit that he'd only been giving advice to Thirteen so far because they were at least potentially better than the Capitol. When the Rangers assured him that they didn't want to take power themselves, something told him that they were honest.

He wasn't sure what they were going to do after the Capitol had been dealt with, but Finnick could appreciate people who expressed opposition to a corrupt regime and didn't want to take power themselves afterwards…

Alma Coin

Coin was unsure how she should feel about the recent turn of events. She had been quick to acknowledge that the Green Ranger's destructive rampage against the Capitol didn't help her District's efforts to present themselves as worthy successors to the Capitol's power, and she could at least appreciate that it was better for the Rangers to be working together as a united front, but that still left her facing the frustrating questions about her erstwhile 'allies'. She had no way of knowing who they had chosen to become the new Green Ranger, and that particular shift at least assured her that they had taken the initial threat seriously it also made it clear that she had no real 'control' over the Rangers.

Even if a part of her was relieved that she didn't have to put her people at risk confronting the Capitol, she also knew that they couldn't rely on the Rangers doing things the way they should be done. If District Thirteen was going to take power later they had to do something to show they were actually better than the existing rulers, but so far the Rangers were the only ones doing the work. Add in these rumours about how there were other monsters showing up around Panem in the last few days, and the Rangers' presence had very clearly thrown off her existing plans even if she knew that she couldn't actually do anything about that.

Her own forces could at least continue their current plans to stage some form of coup in Panem, but if this was going to work, she had to be seen actively doing something. The Rangers would almost certainly reject any claim that she had anything to do with their activities, and right now people were more interested in these reports of monsters showing up around Panem than anything anyone else might do, so striking a target now wouldn't do any good. She had to get back in contact with them and work out some way to coordinate their efforts again without making it obvious that she was trying to take charge again, but that would depend on the Rangers sharing more about whatever they were currently dealing with…

Coriolanus Snow

A part of Snow appreciated the unconventional chaos of the last few weeks since the conclusion of the Hunger Games. The routine of the Games at least allowed him a degree of predictability where he didn't have to worry about anything more than enjoying the spectacle with the rest of the rabble most of the time, but ever since the Power Rangers had made their debut he had to deal with the pleasure of something unexpected and the challenge of a threat he couldn't predict.

He would have liked to dismiss them as naïve children who simply didn't understand the realities of the world, but while he was fairly sure they were young, they were also powerful enough that they were a significant threat to his regime. He couldn't hope to control them without knowing more about who they were and how they had such powers in the first place, and he couldn't afford to try and turn public opinion against them when the Rangers were clearly needed to face the latest monsters coming out of nowhere. As much as Snow would have liked to blame the Rangers for these new threats, there was no sense blaming his enemies when he didn't have an alternate means of fighting such threats available. His attempt to compromise the Rangers' public image had fallen apart now that the Green Ranger was clearly now on their side, particularly when it was obviously a woman in that suit rather than the original male Ranger, so he had no way to compromise the public's faith in the Rangers without putting everything he'd built at risk.

For the moment, his only plan was to keep an eye on the Rangers, monitor their actions, and wait for the moment when he could regain control of the situation. The Rangers were powerful, but they were fundamentally impulsive who clearly cared more about 'doing the right thing', which meant they would inevitably make a mistake somewhere along the line and give him the chance to reinforce how his own authority was what was best for Panem.

Unfortunately, if Snow wished to ensure that he was able to justify his own power once that took place, he had to find some way to determine what the Rangers were currently dealing with in the first place. These latest monsters were obviously a threat, but even with all the other changes that had taken place in Panem recently, he doubted that such creatures showing up so shortly after the Rangers was a pure coincidence. There was some underlying plan behind this recent development that he had to determine, but the real question was if he would work that plan out before the Rangers had made too great an impression on the public for him to preserve the status quo…