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Laufwunder
04-29-2009, 06:43 PM
First: I would like to thank the Blanks, Nic, BattleRanger and all the others on this forum for inspiring me in writing this fic.

The process in making this fanfic took a time from about 4 years (from first concept to posting it on a side) so I am really curious about the reaction (or if I gain reaction) from the users traveling in this forum.

Anyway, now to the official part:
I do NOT own Power Rangers and am not willing to take any commercial gain from writing this. Thie Characters, names, some of the places and events are completely fictional, only port of the locations are related with places, existing in real life.

Any named club, brand name or company is property of their rightful owner and is used for commercial success.

No animals were harmed or injured during the making of this fanfiction.

WARNING: This Fanfiction contains small parts of foul language which has been censored by the author!

And now... here is the first episode of my fic. (please Tom and Ryland... show some mercy);)



POWER RANGERS
Shaolin Kung-Fu

Roars and Screams
Part 1
By Laufwunder

“Oh man… the pistons lost again!” Clarence Thomas, who was used just to be called `CT`, said disappointed as he flew over the newspaper with his eyes. CT was nearly 180cm tall. His head shaped short. And just like on every morning, the young African American sat in the kitchen for breakfast.

“And you are wondering, with that coach?” His brother Jule answered from the other side of the table. “So… today begins your last month in high school huh!?” The younger of the two continued while the other laid down the paper.

“Yeah! It doesn’t take long and I will go to college. Or at least… I hope so!” Clarence smiled. He wasn’t sure if he would be accepted on those higher schools he send advertisements to. A lots of moments in the past, he asked himself if he should have continued working harder as a Defensive Back to gain a scholarship. He was good in school, but CT has always been a sceptical one.

“HURRY UP CT OR YOU´LL MISS YOUR BUS!!!” A voice from upstairs rang through the corridor.

The African American realized suddenly that time went fast. ”Yes mom!” He quickly grapped his bag and stood up. “Bye little brother!” With those words, he stormed out of the house.


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A school bust took a halt in front of a station in the middle of Detroit, Michigan. Even in this early hours, the city was already busy. But the only one standing on this station was a tall man with short brown hair wearing a blue T-shirt. The vehicle came into halt in front of him, and he stepped in as soon as the doors opened. His gaze fell directly on a guy in the same age as himself with his hair cut as a buzz cut. The young man was very muscular and had a look on his face like a guy, you wouldn’t like to meet in the dark.

“Hey what’s up?” The newcomer in the bus asked out of the blue and raised his arm. The buzz cut looked up at him and out of the sudden came a friendly smile.

“I’d a rough night; my knee still hurts, but besides… I’m fine.” He answered sarcastically making space for his friend to sit down.

“So first day on College and you don’t take the car? What is with you, you are usually a complete show of?”

“Come on, don’t tease me! The god damn thing died tomorrow.” Christian B. Xero and Daniel Marcus have been best friends for 10 years now. They went to school together and were nearly unable to be broken up. Both decided, besides the calls, to study on a local college instead of leaving the city. “Y’know what I´m wandering about buddy? With ya´ marks ya´ could study on every college or university ya’d want. Why did ya’ stay here with me in this city?” Chris asked while he looked out of the window onto the streets of Motown.”

Dan glanced to the side. “Even with all the problems… no way in hell I would leave this place. Here are my roots.” The bus stopped and the two quickly got out of the vehicle. Daniel was about a head taller than Chris but way skinnier. The two made a picture like Hannibal Smith and B.A. Baracus, The brain and the muscle.

The duo right away entered the main hall of Wayne Conty University of Detroit, where already lots of people wandered around busy to find their class rooms. Chris and Dan just walked around a corner when…

“HEY BIG BUTT!” Chris stopped in his tracks at once with wide open eyes. “How’s it goin´!”

“I didn’t hear that name for years.” He turned around immediately to see a short haired blonde woman slightly grinning at him. “Ya’ got to be kiddin’ me? Katrin!?”

“Hey Chris!” The woman ran up to him taking Chris into a tight hug.

“What… what the hell!?” Both were smiling like the Cheshire cat.

They faced Dan. “Buddy… this is my… old best friend Katrin Shawn out of my childhood days. This is Daniel Marcus, my best piece.” Dan shook her hand with a smile.

“Nice to meet you!” The young woman greeted him. “Well… this is Anja!” A woman with long brown hair stepped beside Katrin. At first, Chris didn’t want to look but as he saw her, his eyes rested like hypnotized on her. “Hello!” He said nervous.

“Hi, what’s up?” A few moment s of nearly embarrassing silence followed before Katrin spoke up again.

“So you guys have already something to do after school?”

“Yeah uhm… actually we wanted to play a game of basketball in the afternoon. Do you want to come?” The buzz cut answered not sure what to think of that idea.

“No, thanks but… this ain´t exactly what we had in mind for spending our spare time.”

Inside Chris was a mixture of disappointment and release. “Well then… we see ya´ maybe tomorrow.”


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At the same time, a giant starship was entering the solar-system. Besides the black metal that built the outer skin of the vessel, were various blue lights lightening the outside giving the craft a dangerous look. It had an enormous length with large wing typed parts at each side of the vessel. The back part was connected to the front with a long corridor which brought the men on board up to the bridge. The bridge itself was the hugest and busiest room on the ship. Most members of the crew had suits with blue torsos and black arm parts. Their faces were also pitch black with red eyes. When thy opened their mouths, blue light shined out of them.

“Sir! We have reached the optimal position for entering an orbit to earth!” One of the pilots said saluting. And with that came a figure out of the shadows which looked nearly exactly like the crew. But with a difference, he had some strange looking ears, like a mixture of bat-ears and those of a Shepard. His body was clearly bigger then a human.

“Excellent, it won’t take long and all in the galaxy will know that if Dark Specter would have send me on the mission to catch the Space Rangers instead of Astronema, he would still be wandering among the stars. But soon I will conquer earth after all.” The commander of the ship grinned.

“I have a question!” An alien with a robotic kind of body called from a distance. Its head was the only part on his body that seemed to be organic.

“And what the hell might that be?!” The commander replied annoyed.

“Why are we still scanning for Ranger energies? The power rangers disappeared from earth.”

“The galaxy Rangers are maybe wandering around space. But I know this Zordon and his brat. I am not willing to underestimate my enemy. You may never know if there’s something left. A crystal or some morphers or whatever these geeks worked for this giant floating head!”

“Sir! We detected six energy signals from the northern hemisphere of the planet.” A crew member sitting on the left yelled out. Immediately the commander glanced at his second in command, standing behind him.

“See… I hate it when I’m right!” He smiled totally persuaded by his superior intellect. “Track down the precise location and inform me on every development at once! The commander walked out of the bridge smirking to himself, “The days of earth are counted!”


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Chris and Marcus had a normal morning and were now playing on a yard not far away from college. It was a calm place where not many people were around usually. “Oh you have to be faster than that!” Chris mocked as he made a fake trying to trick his friend. And it really worked. He headed directly for a slam dunk.

“Oh I am!” As Chris was about to get the ball in, Daniel appeared in front of him and blocked his friend so hard that he fell to the ground with the ball rolling away.

“Damn! That’s the second time today!”

“Like I said, It ain´t just a question of muscle and strength. It’s also in the head!” Chris grasped Dans hand and stood up.

“Hey you two! Do you wanna´ play a game?” Both looked at a young African American in about their age. To his right was a small guy with a pistons shirt. His hair was dyed blond in a slight way and was hold out of his face with a sweat band.

“Okay! I’m cool with it!” Chris replied.

The other duo walked up to the two shaking their hand. “I’m Clarence, you can call me CT if you want! This is Alex!”

“Hi, you can call me Schick!”

“Schick? Why’s that?” Chris asked and raised an eyebrow of confusion.

“That’s a German word for nice or beauty. My ancestors came from Germany.

“Well I’m Chris, this is Daniel.”

“Nice meetin´ ya´!” CT threw the ball back to them.“Lets play!”

Soon the four had an intense match going on. The prize was a free lunch. At the score of 10-9 advantage for CT and Alex., Daniel blocked an important throw.

“You know what nickname I gained over the years? People used to call me the m***********. Because I was able to spoil everybody’s fun!” With a complicated move, he smoked Schick and headed straight for the basket. But in the last second, CT stole the ball in a very easy way. He passed it in the air so Alex could catch it in the air making alley up goal.

“Oh s***… now that’s what I’m talking about”, CT called out loud in joy. With that the game was over and the four gathered around in the middle of the field.

“Well… you guys gave us some hard challenge, maybe we can do this more often, especially with an outcoming like this.” Alex laughed to the outside.

“No problem! Now please… let’s get over with this!” Chris mumbled while advising the rest to follow him. Dan stayed a few meters away to pack in all the stuff they had with them. He Is a good… but he has a talent to get his ass whooped anytime! He thought as…

“Iiiiiiiiii!” He shook up and glanced around the places hectically. The shriek or at least what he thought it would be, sounded like it was directly beside his ears. Like the scream of a large bird. But his eyes could see nothing, even in the sky.

“What’s wrong with you?” His friend asked and padded him on the shoulder. Concern sounded off in his voice.

“Didn’t you hear that?”

“Hear what?”

“The eagle that was screaming just a few seconds ago? No way in hell you could have missed that!” Dan gestured heavy not knowing to do.

“I didn’t hear anything. Besides, I dunno` what’s so special about an eagle screaming.” Chris glances were locked on him, he had one eyebrow raised not really what should expect right now.

“An eagle? In this city? Not really! And besides that, it was so loud that I could swear it must have been directly down here on the ground.”

Chris gaze was now a mixture of suspicious and not taking him serious. “Man I hope that the lunch from the mess doesn’t hav´ this affect on me too.” Chris walked back to the other two, leaving Daniel behind still wondering.


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On the starship in space, the crew was still on a large search. But certainly unimpressed from it were two Aliens observing the whole scene. One of them was the one that had the conversation with the commander of the ship. The other one was an alien of the same species, but he had grey robotic skin than a black like his comrade. His head was the same type. Only with the difference that he had light red skin than his partner. They both sat on a table taking a drink.

“Crogon is really obsessed of finding these rangerlike energy signatures isn’t he?!” His comrade leaned back in his chair.

“Stay calm Hidragon, Crogon’s father was under the troops that were killed as The red space ranger killed Zordon to defeat us all.” The one answered.

“I just hope that we can conquer this planet quick so we can leave soon.” In a sudden, the speaker cracked and Crogon’s voice sounded off.

“BARKONAL, HIDRAGON… REPORT TO BRIDGE IMMIDIATLY!!!” They hectically rushed up from their seats and ran out of the room. Minutes later, both generals arrived and saluted towards their commander.

“We detected the signatures in the northern part of the so called `American continent`. I want you to put together a squad and get rid of them.” Crogon commanded giving a bunch of keys to the two.

“I’ll do it Sir!” Hidragon said heading directly running out of the room.

“You think that this will be enough?” Barkonal asked sceptical.

“No… but at least we can try it!” He smirked evil.


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“Yeah… I know that sounds strange. But I swear to god that I heard what I heard.” Daniel was curious about that incident and didn’t talk about anything else. Katrin was listening carefully.

“Listen, I do believe that you would never lie or making up things. But if there would have really been such a loud scream, than the others should have heard this too.” They wandered through a corridor at the university.

“I will go back to that field today to see if I find something out. Will you come with me?”

Katrin was a little bit confused, sure she didn’t knew him that well that she would go with him. But in some way, she was interested in what made the guy act like that. “Okay we both will search the place for anything weird this afternoon, if that’s making you feel better.” She finally replied.

Dan smiled a bit, “thank you!”


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At another school, sports were on schedule. Alex was preparing for a 100m sprint in athletics. Usually for him, this was something for him to worry about. He indeed was a good athlete but not really in running. Short after he was ready, the trainer lifted the starting pistol. “READY… SET… GO!”The eight competitors exploded out of their starting blocks. And as he expected, Alex was falling behind soon.

I knew this was going on be like this. Alright stay calm… breath… you need the points… go harder! He pressed all his power into his steps to get forward. And in fact, he was winning ground. He left the others behind like they were running in slow motion. It was a feeling of unbelief as he crossed the finish line first.

“Man that was awesome!” CT approached him directly. “I thought that you weren’t good at running over all this years.” He noted by padding Alex on the shoulder. Alex himself was no bit out of air. But the only thing that was more suspicious than that race was the strange fizzling in his ears which even got louder while CT walked away from him.

What the hell is this? It sounded like a creature or at least that was what he thought. What a sec… what did Daniel say yesterday? It seems that he somehow infected me!? Not a realistic way to describe but a possibility.


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Barkonal and Hidragon entered a room on the ship, that had lots of large tables in it loaded with small bottles. There was one only for bottles with blue liquid. Another had various on it. “Do you know what Rita Repulsa had as an advantage compared to the other villains?” Barkonal asked.

“No… actually not!”

“She didn’t have to waste space for her army. She just made them out of clay.” The red black skinned alien picked up one of the bottles just before spreading the liquid over the whole floor. Soon, huge bubbles formed on the surface before seconds later, large creatures arise from the liquid. Like Crogon, their torso was blue with black arm parts.

“Alright you maggots!” The General called up like a military sergeant. “The commander wants you to find the possible Rangers and get them out of way as soon as possible.”

Without saying s or signs of respond, the group left the room.

“Are we sure of the location?” Hidragon whispered his friend into its ear.

Barkonal simply turned to him. “Sure we do! United States! Detroit Michigan!”



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CT had agreed to meet with Chris at a small restaurant in the closer area of CT´s School. From the place he was looking at the place was his new found friend freeze standing on the sideway. He quickly decided to walk straight up to him. Chris gaze was tensed and his ears were locked on the surroundings.

“Hey… what’s up?” Like a gumball, Chris jumped high up into the air, totally shocked of the sudden loud noise.

“WHAT THE HELL! CT… how could ya’?”

“How could I what?”

“How could ya’ sneak up on me like that?” The young white man was curious about his new friend. Some sort of shock stood in his eyes like he never expected to be surprised like that.

“What are you talking about? I just up to you over the street normal.” Chris and CT looked at each other for a long moment.

“IT CAN`T BE!!!” Both shouted out at the same time.

“Do ya’ think that here’s something goin’ on that we’re completely not aware of?” Chris opened the door of the restaurant with wide open eyes. CT followed him with the same amazed face expression.

“First Daniel! Than Schick, and now you and me! Do you see any chance in HELL that this is nothing to WORRY about?” Chris already knew the answer of that question. “What did you hear?” The African American went on.

“Ya’d never believe me that! It sounded like some sort of a dragon.” He stared down on the table. “And ya’?”

“I heard something like a big cat. Some sort of a puma.” CT grasped the card. “And what now?”

“We’ll go on like nothing happened. If ya’ve a better idea, please tell me!!”


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“Well… here it is!” Dan called as he and Katrin sat down on a bench aside the basketball field.

“I know I asked you this before but… what exactly was so odd on that incident?” The blonde female asked while Dan picked out a spyglass looking at the tops of some of the buildings.

“Normally, free eagles don’t live in a big city like this; mostly they built their nests on high mountains or on slippy cliffs where they are safe from enemies.” He then mustered a large trash can in the near.

“But it could have although be an animal of a near eagle farm?” Katrin couldn’t imagine why Dan was so serious about clearing this up.

“I looked around in the phone book. There is none in the near. And mostly, they don’t let them out in the city.” For an hour Dan received one low blow after another. Finally he was persuaded of giving up. “Okay that’s it, I’m outta here!”

Katrin was surprised as she heard what Dan was about to do. “Wait a second! About half an hour ago you told me that giving up isn’t an option for you.

Daniel was putting his stuff back into the bag. “Well… I was wrong, I’m not really used to be wrong or to fail. Gosh! Why am I even bothering?” Katrin did not want to ask any further. The two soon reached the fence that surrounded the field. But as they wanted to walk through the door, blue light blocked their way.

“WHAT THE HELL!” Katrin called as about ten blue and black Aliens jumped over the fence and surrounded the two.

“What are these freaks?” Dan walked harsh backwards.

“More interesting is… what do they want from us?” Without any warning, the aliens attacked. Daniel could barely block a strike, but received a hard kick into the stomach. Katrin on the other side ran up to a bench trying to get lose of those freaks. But before she could get on top of it, she was kicked into the back and landed on the ground. Two, grasped her by the arms to throw her a few yards through the air.

Daniel was also grasped at the back by one alien while another one punched him, than they tossed him away. Both humans landed beside each other crawling in pain. “Now that’s something that I didn’t expect when I woke up this morning!” Daniel said.

“Don’t tell me!” Katrin replied. The two had to watch how they were cornered by the aliens, nearly helpless to fight back.



To be continued…

Duke Org: Zen-Aku
04-30-2009, 10:26 AM
I'm sorry i didn't get to read the entire post but from the looks of it you could really use a beta reader, just to get some of the grammatical mistakes out of the way, which in turn makes it easier to read. From what i read it looks like you have your characters thought out fairly well, i can see you spent some time on it. I'll come back to this within a few hours to tell you what i think.

Other then that keep up the good work i love to read fics from new writers just because there are gaps of time in between my favourite fics.

Laufwunder
04-30-2009, 11:18 AM
I'm sorry i didn't get to read the entire post but from the looks of it you could really use a beta reader, just to get some of the grammatical mistakes out of the way, which in turn makes it easier to read. From what i read it looks like you have your characters thought out fairly well, i can see you spent some time on it. I'll come back to this within a few hours to tell you what i think.

Other then that keep up the good work i love to read fics from new writers just because there are gaps of time in between my favourite fics.

Thanks for your honesty!

Spelling and grammar have always been my biggest problem in school, even though I had English as main course (It's not my home language).

I see if I can find a beta for the future!

Laufwunder
05-03-2009, 06:43 PM
Episodes

E01 – Roars and screams Pt.1 (http://www.rangerboard.com/showpost.php?p=3128540&postcount=1)
E02 – Roars and Screams Pt.2 (http://www.rangerboard.com/showpost.php?p=3131834&postcount=4)
E03 – Gigantic Triumph
E04 – No nice kid
E05 – red with brave
E06 – A question of reflexes
E07 – In the heat of the night
E08 – A big jump
E09 – Family matters
E10 – Stonage times
E11 – National Broadcasting Crogon
E12 – A not so fine neighbourhood
E13 – Tiger and Dragon part 1
E14 – Tiger and Dragon part 2
E15 – A small Step
E16 – Little trouble in Big Joe´ Pt.1
E17 – Little trouble in Big Joe´ Pt.2
E18 – Barkonals Way
E19 – Red with Rage
E20 – Question of Leadership
E21 – Between a Viper and a Cobra
E22 – That’s the way it goes
E23 – Conflict with siblings Pt.1
E24 – Conflict with siblings Pt.2
E25 – Conflict with siblings Pt.3
E26 – Galactical Kung Fu
E27 – The Mummy Pt.1
E28 – The Mummy Pt.2
E29 – The Mummy Pt.3
E30 – The Mummy Pt.4
E31 – The Mummy Pt.5





POWER RANGERS
Shoalin Kung-Fu

Roars and Screams
Part 2
By Laufwunder

Daniel and Katrin crawled up to a wall in desperation to get away from the aliens who still came closer. “What are we going to do now?” Katrin said holding her right knee.

“I have no idea.” Daniel rubbed his chest in pain. One of those creatures put out something that looked really close to an electric stick. “This could hurt!” He was already felt his body struck with electricity. He could feel it, but this was different, seconds later light covered the two.

“W-what the…?!” They were lifted up and teleported just before the evil guys could stroke down. Even though, they didn’t have any emotions. They were stunned or at least that what you could call it.

And right in that moment, Hidragon stepped out of a shadow. “YOU IDIOTS! You lost them.” He drew a blaster and blew two of them away. “Go and find the others.” The troops moved out fast while Hidragon breathed heavily from the anger rush he had seconds ago. “Crogon will rip me apart!” In a red light he vanished.


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Katrin and Daniel landed hard on a ground again, surrounded by darkness. “This is getting weirder and weirder!” Daniel said as he slowly got back to his feet.

“I hate to say it but… I’m really scared.” The girl beside him mentioned. A green and black flash of light filled the area making them both shook up.

“Oh… come on move! You’re standing on my feet!” A male voice sounded in the dark.

“And your hand is in a really uncomfortable place!” Another answered.

“CT! Alex! Is that you?” Daniel asked hoping to hatch something. Right behind them was a yellow light. “Where am I?”

Katrin directly recognized the voice. “Anja… Anja… hold on I’m coming! “Immediately she moved towards her friend.

“Dan!? Great… now I’m starting to hear voices!” Alex called holding out his hand to see if there was anything he could orientate himself. Somehow Dan reached the two and helped them getting back up. “What the hell is going on here?” He asked.

“I don’t know! Is everything ok with you?” CT replied glancing into the direction he thought he heard Anja and Katrin calling.

“Yeah, we’re both ok!” Katrin replied. “Damn! What is this place?” Right in that moment, another beam appeared. This time it was a red one coming from the roof. It stopped half way to the ground and turned out. The next thing the five heard was a body hitting the floor right in front of them.

“What the f***! Am I in the wrong movie?”

“No, not you too Chris!?” Dan gasped as he searched for his best friend. “Wow, do I’ve luck that I can’t see anythin’!” He said ironically.

“I’m glad that you two are together again but… could someone tell me why we all have been brought here!” Alex asked confused.

“I don’t know what or who. The only thing that I remember is that we were attacked by some weird creatures… and… they were about to kill us when…”

“I brought you here!” An echoing voice hulled through the place. And seconds later, everything was lighted by candles and oil lamps. In front of the group, stood something that looked like a ghost. The figure had an Asian look, Chinese to be exactly. All six of them were stunned and frightened at the same time.

“My name is Shifu Ling Wong Shen. And I have a special offer to bring up to you.” Chris stopped right in front of the man who just introduced himself.

“So… you’re the one that needs to be taught a lesson here.” Chris ran up to him like a torero loosing control. But the Asian blocked him and came back with a quick strike to the stomach. The young man fell onto the floor crawling in pain.

“With no doubt, you are brave. They made the right choice.”

Chris was confused as were the others. “What is this all about?” CT came walking beside his friend.

“You are all brought here for a certain reason. A very special situation is coming up. The fate of earth is at stake and you are the only ones that can stop the upcoming threat.”

Now the group checked nothing. How could they be responsible for earth’s sake? “What are you talking about?!” Alex and Anja called in union.

“For that… I have to tell you the whole story.”


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“Before they could get them, they were teleported.” Hidragon kneed down before his superior in shame.

“So they are going to be made power Rangers after all.” Crogon said and watched out of the ship into space. “Well… this is something that we could have avoided, but that the chances for that were not too good.”

“So what are we gonna’ do?”

Crogon looked sharp at his general like he couldn’t believe what he just said. “Send out the Crogorians! Sooner or later, the power rangers have to crawl out of their holes.”


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“And so the power rangers defeated the Machine Empire.” Ling finished one part of his story while the others sat in a half circle around the Asian man.

“Amazing story! Sell that to a studio and you might have a gold legging goose in the TV business.” Alex mentioned.

“Schick! I don’t think that someone who seems to be a ghost would make up such a story.” The blonde woman answered while CT gave him a slap on the back head.

“May I continue?!” Ling gestured unimpressed by Alex. “Well… as the space pirate Divatox tried to conquer universe. Zordon created the turbo powers to form a new elite force to defend earth. But even as Zordon was pretty sure that the Rangers would be able to stop Divatox, he knew that the fate of the universe would not be on earth but in space.”

“Now that is all fascinating, but where do we fit in?” Chris interfered.

“I was just about to get to that point. By the time, the power coins and the Zeo crystals were made, Zordon and Ninjor although created another power source. These were the souls of the animals of the Shaolin Kung Fu.

“Shaolin Kung Fu?!?” All six asked out loud at the same time. In that moment Ling mumbled something in Chinese and the lights turned higher. Now they saw that the place, they were at, was a temple, a huge one. The walls were decorated with Chinese symbols. Beneath those stood statues of animals. On one side was another statue of Buddha. It seemed like a shrine. On the opposite was a podium with a box standing on a stone table, surrounded by another six tables in a half circle.

“In the 12th century, the famous shaolin box-master Bai Yu Feng extended the shaolin art on an inimitable way. By adopting and imitating the techniques and movements of five animal styles. The Snake, the tiger, the panther, the crane and the dragon. Later on, another technique was created: The eagle claw! These six styles were used as ideas for the powers.” He made short pause. “Zordon opened the box three years ago to unleash the souls of the animals and to make sure that they will find the right person to fit to.”

Slowly Chris, CT and the others began to understand where this conversation was going.

“Bai Yu Feng thought that by learning the animal’s movements. They would learn some of their abilities.”

Daniel suddenly shook up. “Now I get it! The animals’ sound that I heard was a message from my fitting animal soul.” Ling nodded in agreement.

“What I don’t understand is… why the six of us? I mean… there are over six billion people on this planet, why has it to be us?” Katrin rubbed her head while she walked up to a statue.

”The souls do not only choose the quality. The five animal styles can be used as one, or as a single style. But the more effective method is the united one. So the souls search for the character that fits best to the whole group.”

Now Alex stood up. “So this is the reason… you see… Chris and Daniel are closest friends. I and CT are closest friends. Anja and Katrin are closest friends. Katrin has been very close with Chris and Anja… well at least she went to our school. So we all have something in common.” The group realized that there might be some logic in all of the short events.

“Now if you would please follow me, you will now receive your ranger powers.” The monk walked up on the podium but saw the others still standing where they had been before. “What is it?” The Chinese asked.

“We’re discussing this.” They moved into a circle. “Alright… before anyone is forced to a decision he or she doesn’t want to make… who’s in?” Chris asked into the round.

“I don’t know this is a really big responsibility.” CT commended before Alex grasped the word.

“I’m in!”

All looked surprised. “Yeah, I know that I was the most sceptical… but he convinced me. And sure… this is a big responsibility. But on the other hand, these souls have chosen us because they think we can take that.” That was a good argument.

“The fact that this all has happened between the last two days does really make me feel that this is something that could make us special. I’m with you!” Daniel answered. “Chris?”

“I’d never let ya’ down bro!” Chris and Daniel clutched their fists together.

“You know, these guys really kicked my butt. And I would like to give them something back.” Katrin said and couldn’t resist a smile.

“If you all agree, I will of course follow.” CT went in.

“Anja!?” Katrin asked as she saw the indecision in her face.

“I don’t know. I mean… I don’t think that I can do it. It’s not that I’m scared but…”

“Hey… stay calm, I don’t want you to do what you don’t want but… they have chosen us to protect earth. And this is something that we can only do together.” Katrin laid one hand on her shoulder.

“Don’t worry! We’ll all help ya’!” Chris added and offered a hand to her. She smiled and laid hers on his soon joined by the others. “OKAY LING! We’ll do it!”



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Lot’s of Crogorians were hunting people through the streets. Phone cells and other things got blown up. And in the middle of it stood Hidragon. “Come on… burn down everything.” He laughed

“Have you found the rangers yet?” Crogon’s voice sounded through a communicator.

“No not ye! It’s like they have been swallowed by earths ground.” The general answered.

“Keep searching; tear down the whole city if you have to. Sooner or later they have to react.”

“Understood! Go YOU MAGGOTS!! MAKE A BIG BUNCH OF ASH OUT OF THIS PLACE!!”



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“Now… you shall receive your powers!” The six common rangers stood in a row while Ling stood on the podium. “Who wants to go first?” The Chinese monk asked.

In that moment, Chris stepped forward. “ME!”

“What sound did you hear?”

“I heard some sort of a dragon!”

”Ahhh… the dragon! Take the third place from the right out of your view. In case of you, you will be the red dragon ranger. Your special ability is higher body strength and nearly complete resistance against temperatures and your skin is covered with some sort of scales that makes you hart to be wound.” Chris followed the orders Ling made.

The next one was CT that stepped forward. “I heard the sound of a big cat!”

“The panther! Take the place to the left of Chris. Your ability will be stealth walking and a better see ability in the dark.” CT nodded.

Daniel came forward. “I heard an eagle!”

“Take the position on the left outside. Your ability will be a sharper view and higher jump ability.”

Now Anja stepped up. “A Tiger!”

“You will take the place left next to Chris. Your ability will be higher body senses and a higher body control.”

The next one was Alex! “As for me, it was a snake.”

“The place on the right outside will be yours. As snake you will have a higher speed and a better agility.”

The only one left was Katrin “Than you have to be the crane. Take the place between CT and Daniel. Your ability will be also a higher body control and the ability to stay higher in the air, a smoother walk and to stand longer and higher in the air.”

“Now, all stood in their position and waited for the next step. “Now take the stones that are stuck in front of you out of the larger stone.”

As they began to touch it, the stones began to glow in different colours. Then golden light hilled the bodies of the rangers and disappeared as fast as it appeared. The six then found some strange looking things on their right arm.

“These are your morphers. I f you have to, just flip over the middle part so that the red button lies on your flat hand. Than punch your fist on the button into your hand while saying Shaolin Kung Fu and your morphers will be activated.

Alex and Chris looked at each other. “Ya’ ain’t got somethin’ better than that?” They said simultaneously and giggled.

“And how do we learn to fight?” Katrin asked.

“Your animal souls provided you with the instincts to learn and master Kung-Fu in high speed. There rest will depend on the training you will go through over the next month. Trust your animal souls and you will know what to do.”

“Hope you’re right!” Chris said and holds his morpher so that it flipped. “You guys READY?”

“READY!” The others responded.

“SHAOLIN KUNG FU!”
“Dragon red!”
“Panther black!”
“Eagle blue!”
“Tiger yellow!”
“Snake green!”
“Crane pink!”

They were surrounded by light and teleported away.


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“Keep moving!” Hidragon screamed. But before he could go on, the ground behind him exploded. “WHAT THE HELL!”

“Your days are counted!” A voice shouted.

“Who are you?” The dust cleared and six stood in front of him. Their armour (movie-like) had a coloured torso (red, black etc.) with white arm parts and legs. The gloves had the same colour than the upper body and had black parts on the knuckles. So were the shoes. Also everybody had elbow and knee pads covering the half of them. The helmet was designed like the head of the animals they had as symbols (mix from wild force and SPD).

“Let me introduce us… we’re the Power Rangers! And you are?” Chris countered.

“I am…!”

“IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO YOU ARE!” Alex Schick interrupted him.

Chris immediately turned to the side watching surprised. “Seems like ya’re already figured out the thing with the one-liners?”

“How dare you, you insect? Crogorians attack!” The aliens responded and ran in full man strength at the Rangers.

“Alright guys… this is our first battle. Let’s make it look like we know what we’re doing!” They all went into a fighting stance as the soldiers approached them.

Chris jumped with a side roll over two. He blocked a strike and kicked one directly on the chin. Another alien came with a kick, but Chris ducked before making a quick strike to the groin. Another one was sneaking up behind him. In the last second, the red Ranger heard it and sends an elbow into the aliens face before he lasted in a heroic pose!”

CT rolled down between two others, only to take one out by a swift kick while standing on one knee. A strike to the stomach before he rolled over a back of a Crogorian and kicked both down at the same time.

“How’d ya do that?” Chris asked as he jumped with a back flip beside CT.

“I don’t know… I just did it.”

“WHOA LOOK AT ME!” Both turned to the side to see Alex fighting with five Crogorians. One after another of them was kicked and taken out. He just knocked out the last one and turned into the basic stance. “Ha… Jackie Chan, eat your heart out!”

“Hey guys! Do you remember me?” Katrin called as she jumped form a tree facing three of the alien soldiers. With a spin kick, the first one was taken out. The other two were attacking her, but Katrin made a sidekick while holding the other one and threw her over her shoulder. She ducked herself as Anja jumped over her back followed by two of them.

The first faced her but she blocked its attack, Anja faked a right hand but came with a front kick. A sweep to the leg followed and she made an elbow into ones stomach. “Hey Daniel! Need a hand!” She called out and holds her hands like she was building a räuberleiter.

The blue ranger used her hands as a ramp and came with a sidekick crashing into two minions. With a spin kick, the next one was finished while the rest formatted them behind Hidragon with threatening body languages.

“I don’t know what just happened, but I fell like I could rip out trees.” Katrin said clenching her fists together. “And now that we took out your sweet little darlings, what about going into twelve rounds with Mohammed Power Rangers?”

Hidragon stepped a bit forward. “Not today Power Rangers!” With white light he vanished.

“Yeah! Come back when you got a better plan and more skills!”


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Hidragon punched his fists into a LCD screen. “These Power Rangers made the Crogorians look like fools.”

But Crogon came already walking beside him. “Like I said... you can never be complete safe and sure about what these Rangers are capable of. But it was almost like it was going to happen!" His voice was clear and calm.

Again Hidragon was hitting something in the room. “We should send out the next troop to finish hem right away.”

But Crogon waved with his hand. “Be patient! Rome wasn’t built on one day. And at the end, those with the longer breath will win!” Even in this lost he was calm and smiling. “The war about earth has only just begun!”


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“Congratulations to your first victory, but I’m sure that this won’t be the last battle to fight.” All six Rangers stood up in one line, their helmets held under their arms. “Combined with your responsibilities and abilities come a few rules that you have to respect. Number one, only use your powers to defend... never to attack. Number two; don’t use your powers for personal gain. Only when the world is in danger. And third, don’t tell anybody that you’re a Power Ranger; leave your identities in secret. “And now, I... Shifu Doo Ling welcomes you... Christian B. Xero, Clarence Thomas Wallace, Daniel Marcus, Katrin Shwan, Anja Williams and Alexander Schlicke into the Power Ranger family. May the power protect you!”


“THANKS!” All of the young humans responded while they showed the pride in their eyes.

“It doesn’t matter who you are?” Chris asked as he glanced to his left and pressed his hands into his hip.

“Yeah! So?” Alex answered.

“Nothing!” The red Ranger shook his head.

The six gathered around in a circle as they put their hands together. “POWER RANGERS!”