After Master Mao's murder a letter had been delivered to Allie Stuart's apartment in Crystal Falls. She had come to Crystal Falls in order to find out more about morphers and how to tune them to animal spirits, but she hadn't been the first one ask about it apparently. She had studied under a former ranger, one of the first in fact who made her a morpher and taught her how to use it.

Apparently Mao had written the letter right before the guardians were chosen telling her to go to study under a Master in Ocean Bluff, but the letter had also come with the news of his death.

Knowing what she had to do she took a few days to get all of her things together and settled her affairs before leaving for Ocean Bluff. She was there to find and join the Power Rangers having been sent by the Order of the Claw Elders to fulfill Master Mao's last wishes and to help the rangers defeat Dai Shi.

Allie was exhausted by the time she reached Ocean Bluff having traveled by train and wanted nothing more than to collapse, but she had a mission. She adjusted her satchel so it didn't dig into her shoulder anymore and walked on.

Allie was wearing a pair of black shorts, a pink long sleeve scooped neck shirt, a black jean vest, around her neck hung a pair of galaxy colored headphones that connected to her I Pod in her pocket, and a pair of black sneakers with a nebula of varying shades of purple magenta and pink hand painted on them that matched her satchel. Strapped to her back was a long object wrapped completely in white cloth hiding whatever it was from view.

Her straight hair reached down to her lower back when loose, was dark brown with pink lowlights and a micro braid on the right side of her head that reached down to her shoulder with a silver fox charm with pink eyes hanging off of it. Her eyes were a bright shade of lavender blue that were darting around herself as she took in her new home.

She played rubbed a brown faux leather cuff bracelet with a silver fox head with pink eyes in the middle that was on her wrist and when activated changed into her morpher which was a cuff bracelet with the head of a pink fox accented in black and white with touches of silver with the Pai Zhuq symbol on a gold disk on its forehead.

Allie looked around the city remembering the directions to JKP and saw the sign pointing in the right direction. She jumped up into the air clapping her hands in excitement ignoring the looks she got from people nearby.

"I'm getting close, yay!" She hurried on her way and really took note of her surroundings. "It really doesn't seem that bad around here, seems like a pretty peaceful place to me." Allie said to herself as she looked around herself. "Maybe the stories were a load of hype."

Screams ripped through the air as crowds of people running as fast as they could in terror came at them trying to escape from the explosions that filled the air as well as a green caterpillar woman with red markings dresses in impressive armor walked down the street flanked by Rinshi.

"You just had to open your big mouth." Allie grumbled to herself as she was a bug woman calling herself Catapilla attacking people, wrapping them in cocoons. The cocoons glowed strangely in sick colors alerting Allie to what they were doing. "Cocoons that absorb their fear. Not cool."

Allie got ready to attack her right arm raised across her chest left hand poised to activate her morpher, but was beaten to the point.

"JUNGLE BEAST, SPIRIT UNLEASHED!"

"Strength of the Tiger! Jungle Fury Red Ranger!"

"Speed of the Cheetah! Jungle Fury Yellow Ranger!"

"Stealth of the Jaguar! Jungle Fury Blue Ranger!"

"The Power Rangers." Allie said as she watched as the rangers attacked the Rinshi and Catapilla with great ferocity trying to bring them down.

"It is no use, my cocoon webs will absorb all of the negativity in this city and Dai Shi will grow even stronger." Catapilla boasted gleefully as he cocoons started to pulse with red and green light.

"Not while we're here." The red ranger said and started to attack even more fiercely now using his Jungle Chucks. The blue ranger and the yellow ranger held off the Rinshi, the blue ranger using his Jungle Tonfas and the yellow ranger using her Jungle Bo.

Allie took the opportunity to run for the cocoons flipping open her butterfly knife and started to cut them open getting the people out as fast as she could.

"Go, get out of here!" Allie was working on the last cocoon when she was seen by the caterpillar woman just as she got the victim out. With a fierce sharp jolt of anger she blew back the red ranger then stalked toward Allie.

"You dare to take my prey." The bug woman hissed as Allie whirled around to face her.

"Get back! Run!" The tiger ranger yelled, but she continued to stare fearlessly up at the caterpillar woman looming over her. The rangers tried to get to her, but the Rinshi held them back.

"Well how dare you attack innocent people?!" Allie snapped back taking a fighting stance. "I'm telling you now worm, I'm not going to let you get away with it."

Catapilla let out an angry yell at the insult and started to attack rapidly putting her on the defensive.

"Since you took what is mine I will take you." Catapilla snarled as they exchanged blows until Allie flipped backwards out of her reach.

"Bring it on freak." Allie said kicking her in the chest.

"Take this." The bug woman hit her hard with a double attack making her slide back on the ground, but she maintained her vertical position her hands covering her wound where she was hit.

"How about we take this up a notch?" Allie asked with a glare as she held up her arm with her bracelet gleaming on her wrist.

'Jungle Beast Spirit Unleashed!' She shouted as she held out her bracelet which changed into her morpher while moving through her kata. A pink light enveloped Allie and disbursed to revealed Allie in her ranger form.

'With the Agility of the Fox, Jungle Fury Fox Ranger!' She posed in her ranger uniform as the Rangers and the bad guys stared at her in shock.

Her uniform consisted of black pants with the inner part pink and a black ribbon with pink accents tied around her right thigh, there was a black v shaped line around her waist, pink top in the shape of a sleeveless backless halter top lined in black and black in back, black claw mark over her chest, black from her shoulder to her gloves, v shaped pink lines around her upper arms elbows and wrists, a black collar, and black boots with three pink lines just below the top and one around the ankles. Her black helmet was in the shape of a fox head with pink whiskers on either side of her face and pink accents.

"Another ranger, disgusting!" Camille sneered as she decided to stay back and see what this ranger could do. "Dai Shi is not going to like this."

"You will fall." Catapilla yelled then attacked, but Allie evaded the attacks easily.

"Jungle Chain." Allie called out and a silver chain with pink, white, and black cloths at the end appeared in her hands.

Allie started to move rapidly spinning her chain expertly easily cutting the spider's web before it could touch them then shot her chain out wrapping it around the catapillars neck and then stepped on the chain forcing her to the ground.

"You cannot treat me like this, I am Catapilla." Catapilla yelled.

"You're a splatter on the front of a newspaper." Allie replied kicking Catapilla back then pulled her back toward herself, raising hand up ready to punch her.

"Call to the beast inside, Calling out the Fox." Her fox spirit enveloped Allie fist. "Animal Spirit Fox Strike."

The punch struck the Catapillar in the chest once again sending her back straight into a concrete wall cracking it and she exploded on impact. Allie twirled the chain around in an impressive spinning figure eight allowing it to wrap around her chest then pointed at the Rinshi causing them to flinch back.

"Who's next?" Allie asked evenly. The Rinshi disappeared along with Camille quickly leaving behind the surprised power rangers. "That's what I thought."

"That was amazing." The red ranger said as he and the others ran over to her.

"Thanks." Allie replied hands on her hips. "All in the wrist."

"How?" Lily asked.

"You're not the only ones that can tap into the morphing grid." Allie said with a shrug. "Plus in never hurts to know the right people."

"But who are you?" The blue ranger asked.

"I'd love to do introductions, but we have bigger things to deal with right now." Allie said as they all looked to where Catapilla reappeared much bigger than before. "Like that."

"Right, we got this." The red ranger said.

"Animal Spirits Unite." Allie watched in awe as the team formed their mega-zord. "Jungle Pride Mega-Zord."

She watched as the battle raged until the rangers were trapped in the cocoon webbing struggling to get out with Catapilla going in for the kill.

"I think I should give them a hand." Allie said to herself with a smile.

"Animal Spirit Unite." Allie said calling for her animal zord. She jumped into her fox zord which was colored mainly black with pink accents and touches of silver with bright hot pink eyes. The zord ripped apart the cocooning before joining with the mega-zord as the breast plate. "Jungle Pride Super Mega-Zord!"

"Mind if I drop in?" Allie asked as she joined the other rangers in the control room.

"Not at all." The Red ranger said.

"Anything to bring this monster down." The Blue ranger said.

"Let's see what our new zord can do now." The Yellow ranger said.

"How about the Jungle Chain." Allie said and called forth her chain dart.

"Awesome." The rangers said.

"Let's finish her off." The red ranger said. "Ready?"

"Ready." The others replied.

"Jungle Fury Savage Spin!" They called out spinning rapidly with the chain in hand striking down Catapilla turning her to dust.

"That was awesome." The yellow ranger said with a cheer as the zord wrapped the chai around its chest.

"I think this is going to be the start of an awesome friendship!" Allie said as she shared a high five with the red ranger.

"You bet." The red ranger said.

"Shouldn't we take her to RJ before we decide anything major?" The blue ranger questioned.

"RJ?" Allie questioned.

"He's our master and your new master." The red ranger answered.

"Well let's go." Allie said as they powered down and landed on the street below. "I'm Allie Stuart by the way."

"I'm Casey Rhodes, this is Lily Chilman and Theo Martin." Casey introduced them.

"Oh yeah, I heard about you from one of my friends at the academy. You're the one that stood up to Jarred when he was picking on that cub." Allie said with a smile. "That was way cool."

"I was just doing what was right." Casey replied with a shrug.

"Doesn't make it any less cool." Allie said.

"What brings you to Ocean Bluff?" Theo asked.

"I was sent by the Order of the Claw Elders to help, but also to be trained by Master RJ. It was all in a letter Master Mao was going to send me found amongst his things that he never got to send." Allie said with a shrug. "That's really all they told me other than about Dai Shi escaping."

"You seem a little old to not be a master yet." Theo pointed out then received a smack upside the head from Lily.

"It's ok, I'm twenty five. I wanted to get my formal education first and went to college until I graduated when I was twenty two." Allie explained.

"Wow you're almost RJ's age." Theo said and got another smack. "Ow!"

"It's not nice to discuss age with a woman." Lily chided him.

"It's ok, I get asked about my age a lot." Allie waved it off.

"Let's get back to JKP and introduce you to RJ." Lily said with a smile as she looped her arms through Allie's. "I personally am glad to have another girl on the team. Girl talk with Theo and Casey is just not cutting it."

"Hey!" Theo and Casey called out indignantly as the followed the laughing gielrs down the street.

-0-

"You guys get to live above a pizza place, awesome!" Allie said as they walked into JKP straight through the kitchen and up the stairs. "In case you can't guess, I am a major pizza fiend. Best food there is in the world, you can do anything with pizza, breakfast lunch dinner and even dessert."

"Wow, you're almost as bad as RJ." Casey commented.

"I think it sounds interesting." Lily said as they walked into the main room. "Round the clock pizza, RJ may like that idea."

"This is your place?" Allie asked with wide eyes as they looked around what seemed to be a combination gymnasium, game room, and living room with a kitchen thrown in. "So cool."

"Yeah, it's a great place to live." Casey said as Allie walked over to the TV's and was about to set down in a green armchair.

"DON'T!" The Rangers all shouted making her pause in a hovering sitting position right over the chair.

"What? Am I on a bomb or something?" Allie asked as she slowly straightened back up.

"No, it's just that that's RJ's chair and he doesn't like anyone sitting in it." Lily explained.

"Oh, ok." Allie replied with a shrug as she walked back over to them. "Territorial type, got it."

"Ah, the new recruit, I was told you'd be coming today and already off to a running start." RJ said as he walked in. Instantly Allie noticed how cute he was then quickly shook her head of her thoughts.

"Master." Allie said bowing respectfully.

"Oh, you don't need to do that, just call me RJ." He said with a cheerful smile. "Welcome to the team."

"Thanks for having me." Allie said returning his smile. "I'm Allie Stuart."

"Good to meet you. Now what were you saying about Round the Clock Pizza?" He asked having picked up the conversation as they had been walking up the stairs.

"Oh yeah, ever since I was a little girl I was coming up with crazy pizza toppings. Candy pizza for kids, egg and bacon pizza for breakfast, cinnamon bun pizza for dessert with extra icing, I tried all sorts of things." Allie listed off thoughtfully.

"Allie Stuart, I believe this is the start of a wonderful friendship." RJ said with a smile as he slung his arm around her.

"Sounds good to me." Allie replied brightly.

"Hey Allie, you play? Theo asked as he picked up a basketball and started to dribble.

"A little." Allie said.

"You any good?" Casey asked. Allie smirked as she darted over gracefully stealing the ball from Theo and making a three point shot

"A bit." Allie said grabbing the ball again dribbling the ball between her legs.

"Hey, how about doubles?" Theo offered. "Guys against girls?"

Lily and Allie shared a look.

"You're on." They said together and started to play as RJ took his seat in his favorite chair watching as his students played.

-0-

Theo and Lily were showing Allie around the restaurant showing her how to work things worked. They had just started on the register when the bell rang and a girl walked in in full JKP uniform.

"Hi." The girl said upon seeing them.

"Oh Allie, this is Fran, Fran this is our newest team member Allie." Lily introduced them.

"Oh cool, welcome to Jungle Karma Pizza." Fran said shaking her hand.

"Nice to meet you Fran." Allie replied smiling cheerfully.

"It's going to be so nice with the extra help. The others are always running off at the worst times." Fran said. Allie glanced over and saw Theo and Lily exchange a guilty look.

"Oh?" Allie said a little weakly knowing why the disappeared and that she would be doing the same. The rest of the day was spent showing Allie the ropes of JKP and what she should be doing when she had her first full day the next day.

"Well it was nice meeting you, but I have to head home." Fran said as she grabbed her things.

"It was really nice to meet you." Allie said.

"You to." Fran replied. "See you guys tomorrow."

Fran left just as a UPS guy walked in with a large box, a smaller box, and an acoustic/ electric guitar in its case on top of a trunk on a dolly.

"I got a delivery for…Allie Stuart." The UPS guy read off his clipboard.

"Oh that's me." Allie said excitedly as she ran over to the man and signed the paper.

"Thanks." He said before he left.

"What is this?" Casey asked as he and RJ walked into the room.

"My trunk full of my things, you know, clothes, personal affects, toiletries, that sort of stuff, and my Odyssey Innovative Designs Flight Zone Glide-Style Pioneer DDJ-SX / S1 / T1 Controller Case, then there's my guitars and my portable amp." Allie said in excitement as she tore open her box revealing her DJ equipment and the other her small amp.

"You're a DJ?!" Lily asked in excitement.

"Yep and a singer." Allie said proudly. "DJ Vulpes, that's me."

"Vulpes, the genus word meaning True Fox." RJ commented, making Allie look at him in surprise.

"Not a lot of people get that." Allie said with a smile.

"That is so awesome, I'm a dancer myself." Lily said as she looked over the equipment.

"Coolness, you can try out my music." Allie said as she opened up the silver and black case checking over her equipment.

"I just had a brain storm." RJ said as he walked over to them. "How would you like to provide JKP with awesome DJ tunes in the evenings for the night crowds?"

"Really?! You'd let me do that?" Allie said looking up at him wide eyed. She had had the worst time finding gigs in the Crystal Falls area, this was a big break for her.

"Sure, it'd be great for business and sounds like fun." RJ replied then was nearly knocked down when Allie shot up and hugged him making him blush. "Whoah."

"You are the best thing since sliced bread." Allie said in excitement. "Thank you, thank you, thank you…"

"No prob." RJ said hugging her back feeling his heart stutter a bit much to his surprise.

"Lily, think you can help me make a playlist? See what groves can get people to show off their moves." Allie asked releasing RJ and looking to the yellow ranger.

"Of course, we'll have this place rocking in no time." Lily said. "But first let's get you set up in your room."

"Sweet." Allie said as she went to grab her trunk, but RJ beat her to it.

"We'll get this, you guys go ahead." RJ said with a large smile.

"Thanks." Allie said with a bright smile before she followed Lily up to her room the guys following with her things.

"I hope you don't mind sharing." Lily said.

"Not at all, this is great." Allie replied happily as they went into the room and the guys dropped off her stuff.

"Hey, what's this?" Casey asked picking up the wrapped object off her bed, puling the wrapping off to reveal a nine ring broadsword, but without the rings leaving nine holes along the sword blade. The handle was black and pink the blade silver with a fox engraved in it.

"That is the Vulpes Master Blade. Something Master Mao gave me a long time ago." Allie answered as she took the blade from Casey.

"But why didn't you use it in the battle?" Lily asked as they looked over the impressive blade.

"You see these holes along the top, well this is a nine ring broadsword, but long ago during the beast wars the rings were separated from the sword to keep them safe from Dai Shi because its power was so great they feared that if he had it all would have been truly lost." Allie began to explain running her hand carefully along the blade. "To use the sword without the rings is very dangerous."

"Why? What makes the rings so important?" Theo asked.

"This blade is all about harmony of the body between the mind, heart, and spirit. The rings represent those harmonies. Without them the blade is unbalanced and therefore dangerous." Allie replied with a wince.

"Dangerous how?" RJ asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I used it once thinking I could master it without the rings against Master Mao's orders." Allie replied setting the blade back onto the bed then raised the right side of her shirt revealing a jagged scar that wrapped around her side. "That's how I got this little beauty when the blade backlashed. It very nearly killed me."

"So no using the blade without the rings got it." Lily said wincing at the scar.

"Where are the rings?" Theo asked.

"I have no idea. Master Mao said I'd find them when I became a Master of my spirit." Allie said once again picking up the blade and wrapping it up. "Until then I need a safe place to keep this baby. It may be incomplete, but it is still a powerful weapon."

"I know just where to put it." RJ said holding out his hands. Allie looked up at him her eyes boring into his. "No worries, you can trust me."

"It's not that, it's just hard to let go of something you've been guarding your whole life." Allie said and handed the sword to him with an apologetic smile.

"I totally understand." RJ said as he led them out of the room and into the main room. He walked up to a cabinet on the far side of the room and kneeled down in front of it. He took a key out of his pocket and opened a long thin drawer then placed the sword inside locking it back up. "Here." RJ stood up handing Allie the key. "You can still guard it, but you don't have to carry it around with you all the time."

"Thank you." Allie said taking the key holding it tightly in her hands.

"Now how about we properly welcome Allie to the team." RJ said once again taking the lead down to the kitchen where they grabbed some pizza and drinks then continued out to a table where they spent the rest of the night getting to know Allie and she them.