Power Rangers

Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End

Note: This is my first attempt at a Power Rangers story. This will be my own ideas but using the original group, with a more adult story

The space shuttle Enterprise continued its orbit of the moon, its mission: to collect more moon dust in hopes of finding out if the moon once had an atmosphere

"God I'm bored" Jon sighed

"Come on man, do you realize that we are doing a job that most would dream of?" Sam replied

"You know I heard that we never stepped foot on the moon, that it was all a Hollywood set" Jon said as he gazed out of the small porthole

"That's bullshit and you know it. You've been on the moon before…"

"So? Who's to say that the government hasn't brainwashed us and we are all safe and cozy in a room somewhere"

"You know, I am thinking that you have been up here too long" Sam said as he looked at a picture taped to a control board, it was a picture of his daughter Kimberly, she smiled out at him from the picture and it made his heart drop a little

"Soon baby, soon" Sam muttered

"You say something?" Jon asked

"I said its time for landing procedures, let's do this and go home" Sam said as he flipped some switches for the moon lander

Sam and Jon donned their space suits and waited for the small two-seater lander, to land on the moon. With a bump and a thud they knew that they had landed

"Now remember, grab some dust, wave to the cameras and then back on the ship, we don't want to be out here for long" Sam said

Jon stuck his head out of the airlock and started down the stairs

"Yeah, yeah"

Sam followed in suit

"Jon, I'm not kidding around, we have at least forty five minutes before the moon enters the shadow of the Earth and its going to get cold really quick"

Jon spun around

"You don't think I know that?" he snapped

"Just saying is all" Sam said

The duo split up and started to wander around the surface of the moon, collecting canisters of space dust. Jon mainly walked around and watched Sam do all the work. Suddenly Jon's boot tapped something metal.

"What's this? Hey Sam, you might want to check this out"

Sam stood from the place he was taking samples from

"What is it?"

Jon bent down and began to dig in the dust

"I have no idea, but the damn thing almost tripped me"

Sam walked slowly over to Jon and bent down

"It's probably something that Armstrong and his crew left up here"

Jon ignored Sam and continued to dig

"NO, it can't be, Armstrong and his crew landed on the other side of this rock"

Sam bent down to see that Jon had almost dug the object out; he brushed his hand across the top

"Well what…" he stopped, letting his fingers caress the top "Hey Jon, does this look like writing to you?"

Jon looked over and traced the shapes with his glove

"Yeah it does, you don't think…"

Suddenly a gold glow shot around the brim of the lid, the lid exploded off the top and floated in the zero g

A staff with a half moon shot up out of the container

"God, it feels like a eon since that blasted lid has been off" a voice said from inside

"Well Rita it has almost been…" another voice said

"Finster, did I ask you for a time line?" Rita shot back

"A thousand forgiveness Miss Rita" Finster said

Sam and Jon tumbled back; they could only look in horror as a trio of people rose out of the container. But they weren't people, one was a woman draped in black, carrying the half moon staff, another was blue and reminded Sam of a goblin on the late night movies. The third was the most terrifying of them all; it looked like a dog covered in gold, with golden wings arching out of his back.

The gold one stepped out of the container, stretching its enormous gold wings, dragging a bastard sword

"Milady" it growled "Look" it said as it pointed at the two weary astronauts

Rita stepped out of the container and pushed the gold one out of the way

"We can't be out of the dumpsters longer than five minutes Goldar"

"Milady" Goldar said as he pointed

"What is it?" Rita snapped as her eyes wandered over the two astronauts "Well what do we have here?"

Jon and Sam rose back to their feet, Jon rushed forward

"Please we mean you no harm" he said as he approached the trio

"Goldar…" Rita said softly, his eyes glinting like fire

"Yes" Goldar growled and stepped forward, unsheathing his bastard sword he plunged it into Jon's spacesuit

Jon gulped as a small trickle of blood fell from his lips

Rita looked over to Sam

"Goldar hasn't eaten in almost a millennium"

Sam looked over in horror to see that the one called Goldar had ripped off Jon's helmet and begun bite into his neck, lapping up Jon's blood before it could turn to ice

Rita smiled

"And it has been a while since I used my magic…" she cackled

Sam started to scurry back

He raised a hand

"No, no please. I have a family"

Rita laughed, a high pitched scream of shattered glass

"No, you poor fool, you HAD a family" she said as she lowered her staff, sending out a sort of lighting the flash fried Sam before he could blink

Rita sighed as she stared up at the blue orb

"Where are we Finster?"

The little Goblin took a step forward, holding out a small handheld computer

"If my calculations are correct, carry the two, round off…"

Rita turns and drops the moon end of her wand on the top of Finster's head; the goblin leapt back rubbing his head

"Get on with it" Rita screamed

"Yes, yes of course. It seems that we are on a moon, revolving around a planet called Earth" Finster squeaked

"Earth? What a stupid name for a planet. Wait, I sense something, something that I haven't sensed for an eternity"

"Yes Rita, it appears Zordon has taken residence on that planet" Finster said in a low voice

"Zordon, ZORDON?" Rita roared "Well this must be fate; the man that imprisoned the three of us in this dumpster is here, on that planet"

"It appears to be so" Finster said

Rita rubbed her hands together, like a spider with a bug in her web

"Perfect, then that settles it. We will destroy, this Earth. Finster, create the base for us"

"As you wish" Finster said with a small bow taking a step back

Rita turns to Goldar; the monster was still munching on the flesh of the fallen astronaut

"And Goldar…"

Goldar lifted his head and turns to Rita, blood dripping off his muzzle

"Wipe your mouth pig, we have work to do" Rita said with a look of disgust

Goldar flung the body aside and wiped his mouth

"Yes"

Rita turned her attention back to the blue orb. Soon, she though, soon she would take her revenge out on Zordon, and the miserable excuse for a planet he was on.

Earth-Location Unknown

Zordon was an eon old telepath; his body had died years ago, after his final battle with Rita. Zordon decided it was best to download his consciousness into a computer, located in his base that he had his robot, Alpha 5 create for them to work out of.

But was Zordon a computer? No, when he downloaded his entire being into his base, he had created a giant viewing panel to encase just his head

Right now this container was empty, as Zordon was off-line

There was a faint beeping sound coming from a panel on the computer

"AY YI YI" said a cheerful voice, a door slid open on a far wall, out stepped the android, Alpha 5 "What is all this racket?"

The robot punched a few buttons, behind him a massive globe lit up, he turned towards it. On the globe, it gave a quick recap of the terrible trio as they slaughtered the two astronauts

"Oh no, oh no this is not good, not good at all" the little robot chirped "Zordon, Zordon we have a problem"

Zordon's magnified head slid down in its container

"What is it, Alpha?" Zordon boomed

"It's Rita, Zordon. Rita has escaped" Alpha chattered

"Calm yourself Alpha; we possess five of the six coins…"

"But Zordon, won't that mean that she will try to attack us?"

"No it is time Alpha. It is time for us to end this. I should have known that the container would not hold her forever"

"Well you did stick her in a dumpster"

"Enough Alpha, find us a team to protect the Earth"

Alpha walked back to his command board and started keying in coordinates

"Anyone in particular?" Alpha asked

"We need a team of young adults, ones that could hold their own in a battle"

"So you want teenagers Zordon?"

Zordon fell silent for a second, his computer brain was thinking at an alarming rate, it was true that teenagers had helped him before fight the evil of Rita, but this was a different time now, he had no choice

"Yes Alpha, find me five teenagers with attitudes"

Alpha sighed and went back to his search

"Hopefully they will have a better end than the last team" he said softly

"I heard that" Zordon said

Angel Grove

Kimberly sighed; there was just too much stuff to do in a span of twelve hours, why should she waste most of her day in class if she knew that she was going to be a fashion designer? She raises her brown eyes up to the clock, five till three; the teacher should be winding down about any time. Kimberly raises her head back up and looks around the room, there was Jason and Zack playing paper football, she smiled at them, Jason looked up in time to see her smiling at him and allowed Zack to score a point, she stifles a giggle and turns her head. Over in the corner sat Billy and Trini, writing down notes, Billy scribbling notes down as fast as the teacher could speak, Trini doing the same only now and then casting her eyes over to Billy's notebook.

Kimberly could call herself lucky, her mother was a top model and her father was an astronaut, you could almost say that she had the perfect life. In her house the words no, never meant anything to her, seeing how that both parents would be gone for weeks at a time, entrusting their daughter to handle her own affairs.

Allowing her to grow up is what they called it. So Kim got up each day, worked on her gymnastics at the local gym, came to school, then hung out with the friends she has had since she was in kindergarten

Lucky is the best way to describe her, not only did she get a good set of parents, she also had all her classes with her friends, and on top of that she was beautiful. She had gotten her long auburn hair from her father, and her mother's cheekbones. All the boys wanted to date her, all the girls wanted to be her.

The bell rang, the teacher blabbed on about homework assignments, Kimberly didn't listen, Billy had done her homework for her since they were in the third grade, and the work she did do, he carefully checked over each morning for her. She watched as her class filed out of the room. Kimberly bent down and picked up her pink bag and slung it over her shoulder as she walked to the door.

Suddenly an arm shot out, blocking her attempt to leave

"Well what do we have here Skull?" a voice said

Kimberly sighed

"I don't know Bulky, what DO we have?" Skull chirped with an annoying little laugh

Annoying, Kimberly thought, annoying was chalk on a blackboard, this was ear drum rupturing

"Come you guys, I want to go home" Kimberly said with another sigh

Bulk moved his massive arm out of the way and stepped through the door, massive was not the word to describe Bulk, his name said it all, Skull on the other hand was the exact opposite, rail thin with a multitude of earrings stretched across his face. Both were dressed as if they were roadies for an old hair band from the eighties.

"You can go, once you tell me what you are doing tonight" Bulk said with a grin

"Nothing with you" Kimberly said as she took a step to move around Bulk

Skull laughed and Kimberly winced

"She told you, eh Bulkie? Skull chirped

Bulk shot Skull a look that could melt the ice caps as he punched Skull's arm

"Shut up Skull" Bulk growled, then he turned back to Kimberly and put on a smile for her "Come on Kimberly what are you doing tonight? And you can't give me that lame excuse of washing your hair, you did that last night"

Kimberly sniffed the air

"Well Bulk, that's because some people take a shower more than once a month"

Kimberly snaked her way around Bulk and out the door, Bulk grabbed her arm and spun Kimberly around

"Now see what you have made me do?" he growled "No I am not letting go until you say that you'll go to the movies with me"

"Bulk, let me go" Kimberly wined as she tried to pull away

"Not until you say you will go…"

A hand falls down and claps Bulk on the shoulder, Jason peered his head around Bulk

"Is there a problem Kim?"

Kimberly was lucky; three of her friends knew martial arts, while she had trained in gymnastics since she was little, only Billy had devoted his time to the books.

Kimberly smiled; Jason was a third degree black-belt in Hapkido, a form of martial arts

"Jason…" Kimberly said as she pulled away from Bulk's grasp "How very nice to see you"

A sudden urge overcame Kimberly, she really wanted to show Bulk and Skull what she thought of them, but she silenced that beast before it was too late as she turned and walked away

Jason walked around Bulk and looked him dead in the eyes

"For the last time Bulk, the lady isn't interested, so back off"

Bulk and Skull began to walk backwards very slowly

"We'll see Jason; it'll happen Kimberly, once your little ninja friend isn't around"

Kimberly turned and extended her middle finger of her right hand, she smiled as she licked the tip of it with her tongue. Jason walked up beside her as the bully's walked away. Kimberly turned and wrapped her arms around Jason's neck, which was a stretch as she was about a foot shorter than he, she pecked his cheek lightly

"My hero" she said with a smile

Jason blushed and smiled as well

"Anytime Kim, come on the guys are waiting for us"

Lucky was the best word to describe Kimberly

Outside Kimberly and Jason met back up with their friends

"So, was it Bulk and Skull again?" Zack asked

Zack was an interesting guy; he had basically created his own fighting style by mixing street dancing and Jeet Kun Do, the style of martial arts that Bruce Lee created. It was something to see when Zack was dancing, to see his ebony muscles tense in the dance floor lights.

But when you have a close group of friends like Kimberly had, there are bound to be problems. The five of them were the same age of sixteen, so hormones were the very worst of their problems. Billy had a crush on Trini, who in turn had a crush on Zack, and Jason had a crush on Kimberly, and Kimberly, Kimberly was the only one that didn't have a crush, she had shown no interest in the boys at their school, she preferred to watch old Cary Grant movies by herself, and wonder what it would be like to live back in the old days.

"Earth to Kim" Zack said with a smile as he waved his hand in front of her eyes "You daydreaming already, school's out baby and the weekend is right around the corner"

Billy stepped up, as always constantly pushing his glasses up his nose

"But Ms. Applewood has given four chapters to read" he said quietly

"So? That shit can be done Sunday night" Zack said throwing his hands up "What we need to do is par-tay"

Kimberly sighed and ran a hand through her hair

"Yeah I could seriously go for some partying"

Trini smiled

"We could all crash at your house tonight"

Kimberly threw up her hands

"Oh no, you can but the guys can't. Mom and Dad should be home some time this weekend, and then Mom's off to Paris for a month"

Jason looked down

"Well I do have an early training session tomorrow, but I can hang out for a little while"

Billy smiled

"I know, let's go to the Ernie's and get some juice then we will decide"

"Sounds like a plan…then we will get down to some…ow" Zack said, holding his head

Trini went to his side as Zack went to his knees

"What's wrong Zack?" she asked

"I don't know, my head…it feels like" Zack began

But before Zack could finish his sentence he was gone in a black glow of light

"Whoa" Trini said as she stumbled back

Jason scanned the air

"Where did he…"

Suddenly Jason was gone in a red streak of light

"Ok now this is getting weird" Kimberly said, her eyes scanning the parking lot, there wasn't a soul in the nearby area

"It seems to me that they…" Billy began but before he could end his thought he disappeared in a streak of blue light

"What's going on?" Kimberly called out as she reached for Trini's hand, but as she closed her around Trini's, Trini was gone is a flash of yellow light

Kimberly stumbled back, falling down. Her mind raced, all her friends had disappeared. Ok calm down Kim, she thought, this is probably one of those hidden camera shows, you know you don't want to look like a fool on national television

Then she felt it, it was like a tingle at the bottom of her feet, slowly rising to her head

And in a flash of pink light

Kimberly was gone

Across the parking lot Bulk and Skull watched the whole thing

"Where did those freaks go?" Bulk asked as he took another drag of his cigarette

"I don't know Bulk" Skull replied

"I wasn't asking you numbnuts" Bulk said as he walked over to where the group had been standing

He circled the area, and stuck a toe in, nope he was still there. With an evil smile he pushed Skull in; Skull stumbled and fell on his face

Nope, Skull was still there as well

"Where did they go?" Bulk thought aloud

Meanwhile…

Kimberly landed on a hard smooth floor. She clenched her eyes closed as tightly as she could, not wanting to open them in case she was onboard an alien spacecraft, where the aliens would rape her and make her the mother of alien offspring

"Kimberly? Kimberly are you all right?" she heard a voice said, it almost sounded like Jason

A warm hand touched her cheek, Kimberly's eyes snapped open. She was in a large darkened room; small pin pricks of light filled the room like a disco as they moved around the room

Kimberly got to her feet and brushed her legs off, she looked around the room. They were all there, she sighed in relief

"Where are we" she asked, her eyes wide in fear

"I don't know" Jason said as he wrapped an arm around her shoulder, Kimberly shrugged it off as she stepped forward surveying the room

"Greetings" a voice chirped from the darkness

The group spun around to see Alpha 5 standing behind them

They all stood in a shocked silence. Billy took a step forward and let his eyes wander across the robot

"It appears to be a fully functional automaton"

He turned with a wide grin on his face to see a sea of blank stares coming from his friends

He gulped

"It's a robot"

Alpha took another step forward

"We like to be called androids" the little red and silver robot said as it walked to another computer board

The group kinda shooed Billy, as if they were saying for him to talk to it some more

Bully gulped

"Um, excuse me, android…"

Alpha turned to Billy

"My name is Alpha 5, but you can call me Alpha for short"

Billy nodded

"Ok, Alpha, did your bring us here?"

"Yes, I used the teleporter to bring you all here"

"Ok Alpha, why?" Billy asked

"Because I asked him to" a voice boomed from the darkness

Billy jumped a little as the floating face of Zordon lowered into his tube

"Greetings, my name is Zordon, it seems that you have already met Alpha. We have brought you here today…"

Zack stepped forward

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, now there is a giant floating head?"

"If you would settle down, I will explain myself" Zordon said as Zack took a step back and looked up into the crystal that Zordon floated in

"As I said before, my name is Zordon. I have brought you here for a great purpose. Almost a millennium ago, Alpha and I along with a five teenagers, not unlike yourself, ended a reign of terror. This terror had a name, Rita, she was a sorceress who was bent on universal destruction, along with her minions Goldar and Finster, she destroyed numerous worlds and their inhabnants. Our final battle was fought on this planet; both of our respected sides had lost most of their troops. The final battle, was a coin toss"

"Wait, you mean to tell me that the battle for the galaxy was determined by a coin toss?" Zack asked

"Yes, but not just any coins were used. Six power coins were used…"

"Who created these power coins?" Billy asked

"Both Rita and I, but now is not the time for that story. Six power coins were used; the victor would send the loser in to a container for all of eternity"

"Well it looks like you won" Jason said

"Indeed, in the end I won five of the coins, and Rita only won one. Now the impossible has happened, Rita has escaped and the universe is in peril once more"

"What does this have to do with us?" Trini asked

"You five have been chosen to protect the Earth" Zordon said

"Great, and I was looking forward to an easy weekend" Kimberly said with a sigh

Next up

Power Coins

Just remember that I am gonna change the hell out of this, no more campiness, serious and mature much like the original show. Please review and let me know what you think

Till Then

I remain

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