Chapter 12: The Forgotten Masters

It was a cold November morning in New Harmony, the sky was gray, the air bitter and cold, it was so weird going to school after all that had happened between then and now, going to the Dragon Realms, finding Spyro's long lost son, helping Zen adjust to life here, it seemed my life had become so much more than I ever expected it to be.

So much has changed, but yet the ghosts of what was still linger. The same lonely walk to school I'd always taken, the gentle bustle of a city just waking up, it was oddly refreshing when contrasted with the insane circumstances I had surrounded myself with since becoming the Yellow Electric Ranger. A sense of normalcy was so rare these days, a brief respite from the world threatening insanity of Malefor's war on both realms. I almost miss having my only concern being avoiding Veronica Stone and her lapdogs, something so mundane be the biggest fear on my mind seemed almost laughable in comparison to what I've encountered as a Power Ranger.

However something suddenly broke the quiet serenity of my morning walk, the sounds of a car horn honking, I turned my head to find a familiar looking beat up red pick up truck pulling over next to me, the vehicle came to a slow stop, it's window lowering. Inside was a young man with short brown hair and crystal blue eyes, a soul patch sat on his chin, he wore a dark blue motocross jersey over a pair of black jeans. I knew this person very well, he was my older brother, Ryan, "Hey sis, need a lift?" he asked in a slightly jovial tone.

Ryan was a bit older than I was at twenty one, he had been living out of town for a few years, so seeing him here was strange to say the least. "Ryan? What are you doing here?" I asked, Ryan and I had a pretty good brother sister relationship, he was the typical protective older brother, but he was a good man at heart.

Ryan laughed, "I'm moving back into town, what can I say, I kinda missed quiet old New Harmony a bit," he said, sadly that New Harmony had died when Malefor had awoken, but I couldn't exactly tell him that without outing myself as the Yellow Ranger.

I got into the truck, the fact Ryan still had this old hunk of junk was impressive, it was the first car he'd ever gotten, dad having gotten it second hand from one of his friends on the force. Ryan liked it because the bed of the truck could fit his dirt bike almost perfectly. Motocross had always been a passion of Ryan's, he had hopes of turning pro someday, but hadn't been able to crack the armature circuit yet. "So… what has my baby sister been up to lately?" He asked me as he began to drive me to school.

I sounded with a nervous chuckle, I couldn't tell him what I had been really up to recently, not without surrendering my powers at least. "Nothing much, just the same old same old," I lied. Well not entirely, outside of being a Power Ranger, my life had stayed relatively the same as it always had been, ignored or picked on by my peers, still trying to become the musician I've always wanted to be, it was almost sad how much things had stayed the same since Ryan moved out. "How about you?" I asked, hoping to change the subject eventually, I didn't feel comfortable skirting around my identity as the Yellow Ranger like this.

Ryan oddly seemed to be just as uncomfortable, "Well, nothing much really, I managed to win a race in Stone Canyon the other day, but other than that, nothing really major has been happening with me either," he explained. Something about Ryan's body language seemed to suggest he was hiding something, he seemed to fidget uncomfortably in his seat, like he was holding something in that desperately wanted to come out. "So… I hear that New Harmony has had… monster troubles lately," He said.

Oh god, why did he have to bring it there? "Y… yeah… it's crazy," I said uncomfortably, I was beginning to sweat a little, knowing one wrong slip of the tongue was all it would take to leave the team with no Yellow Ranger. "The school got trashed twice," I added.

Ryan nodded, "I can imagine it must have been intense," he said. He didn't know the half of it, being in the thick of it as Yellow Ranger had made it seem so trivial though, being able to fight it off with my friends had dulled the shock of the city I grew up in being constantly in danger to almost nothing. It wasn't something I'd even considered until now.

We soon arrived at the school, "Well, here we are, I might drop by the house later, it'll be nice to catch up with you and dad," he said before letting me out, part of me just wanted to bolt out of the truck, leave this awkward situation in my dust. But if I did that, Ryan would definitely suspect something… so I left, saying goodbye to my older brother, trying to sound as normal as I could before heading into the building.

Later…

New Harmony High School, Cafeteria…

During the time between arriving to school and first period, there was a certain window where you could get breakfast from the cafeteria, most people used this time to chat with friends in the cafeteria, while others used it to catch up on a missed breakfast and brave the cafeteria food. I was currently in the former category, looking to discuss things with the other rangers.

It took almost no time at all for me to find the three boys, "Hey Jess, you're here a lot earlier than usual, you book it to school today or something?" Kevin asked, I was usually pretty late arriving due to walking instead of driving or taking the bus like the other three.

I sat at the lunch table, "Yeah, my brother picked me up," I said, Kevin and Dylan seemed confused, it was only now I realized I had never mentioned Ryan to Kevin or Dylan, Dean knew I had an older brother because we'd known each other so long so his lack of surprise was expected. "I have an older brother, he moved out a few years ago, but he apparently decided to move back to New Harmony," I explained.

"Man, it's felt like forever since I last saw Ryan," commented Dean, "How is he? Doing good I hope," he added.

I sighed, "Yeah, but for some reason, when I asked him he seemed a bit… off, like he was hiding something," I explained.

Kevin grew a toothy grin, "Maybe he's a secret sixth Power Ranger?" He said mockingly, wiggling his fingers and making spooky ghost noises. God Kevin is such a child, there was no way Spyro would have recruited Ryan without telling me first… right? I know I shouldn't be taking something that Kevin clearly meant as a joke seriously, but it kinda fit, I was awkward during that ride for the same exact reasons after all, but it was absurd, there's no way Spyro would make new rangers without telling any of us.

Dylan bopped Kevin in the back of the head, "Knock it off dude, he was probably just worried of upsetting Jess, I mean… he doesn't know she's a Power Ranger, and having monsters attack the school from a civilian's perspective is probably pretty traumatic," He explained, that had to be it, Ryan knew I had never exactly been the bravest of souls, perhaps he was just afraid he might cause me to have some post traumatic stress or something?

Kevin laughed, "Relax oh mighty leader, I'm just messing around," Kevin waved off, "Besides, I think five is a pretty good number all things considered," he added. "Speaking of, how's kitty boy doing?" He asked me.

I almost didn't want to bring up Zen, the poor thing has had to hide himself in my basement for a few days now, he insisted he didn't mind, but I could see it in his eyes he hated it. "He's… adjusting," I said, "He's been staying in my basement, dad's rarely home so hiding him hasn't been much of an issue yet," I added. I really hated locking the poor cheetah in my dank, dark basement, but it was the only place I could keep him that would be even semi comfortable for him during these colder months.

Kevin snickered, "I'm surprised you've been able to keep him in there, dude's not exactly the most cooperative kitty cat," he commented.

Strangely Zenith has never objected to hiding all that much, he's certainly questioned it, but he's never given me a hard time over it or anything. Although I did get the impression that he couldn't wait for all this to be over so he could return to his village.

However, before we could discuss things further, our morphers suddenly came alive, a hologram projection of Spyro appeared from them, "Rangers, Malefor has sent another monster to Downtown New Harmony," He explained.

Another monster? This early in the day? I guess Malefor was hoping we'd be too tired to fight his monsters this time? Whatever, time to get to work. We all rose from our seats and left the cafeteria, once we were in a spot alone, we began our morphing sequence.

"Legendary Dragon! Power of Green Earth!"

"Legendary Dragon! Power of Yellow Electricity!"

"Legendary Dragon! Power of Blue Ice!"

"Legendary Dragon! Power of Red Fire!"

The second we transformed we were teleported to the scene of the attack, there we found the monster in question, it was some kind of sheep creature from the looks of things in dark armor with a triangle on the belly, it looked to be wearing a hat made of tin foil and a pair of red goggles. "Alright monster!" Dylan called to the beast, "You're done terrorizing these people! Leave now or else!" He threatened.

The creature turned to us with a manic look upon it's face, "Power Rangers?! Just more puppets of the human government man! You're all just cogs in the machine!" It began to ramble, none of us quite knew how to respond, the sheep produced some kind of blaster rifle, firing it right at us, we all just barely managed to dodge the shot, "You won't steal my thoughts you government drones! I'm gonna wake up this whole city! Then they'll see the truth you're trying to hide!" It continued to rant, sounding like a crazed conspiracy theorist.

Just what kind of insane monster had Malefor dreamed up this time? I began to put the pieces together, it was a sheep, it had a tinfoil hat on it's head, it was ranting about the government, this was a conspiracy theorist monster wasn't it? Of all the things to base your monster on… you go with crazed nut bars that think the government is out to get them? Points for creativity I guess but still… why?

Dylan rose to his feet, "Okay guys, weapons out! it's time to sheer this sheep!" he said, we all summoned our weapons and charged the crazed sheep.

The sheep, true to it's inspiration, instantly grew skittish and began blasting it's rifle wildly, taking out a lamp post, a bench, and somehow managing to score a shot on Kevin, who began to tumble backwards until slamming into a nearby fountain. I quickly changed course, rushing over to Kevin. "Kevin are you okay?" I asked.

Kevin groaned as he got up, "Ow… man that thing sure packs a punch," he groaned.

"NO!" screamed the sheep, "You all just want to make me another cog in the machine! You can't hiiiide what's insiiiide!" It yelled before I suddenly felt something very hot strike my back, sparks flew as I twirled helplessly through the air before landing in the fountain, my suit was now drenched, letting me know these ranger suits were not waterproof.

I turned my head to see Dylan and Dean both trying to fight the loony lamb, taking swings with their weapons as the sheep tried to smack them away with it's gun, "You can't beat me you drones! I can see through you and their lies! The earth is flat! Lizard people control the government! CHEMTRAILS! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!" The sheep screamed as he blasted Dylan and Dean away. This was bordering on absurdist parody at this point, was Malefor trying to mock people now? Or was this just the crazed theorists final form? I didn't know for sure, and quite frankly, I didn't really care, this thing was a threat to innocent people and needed to be taken down!

We just kept trying to fight this thing, even Kevin and I managed to recover from the shots and began to take swings at the manic sheep, all while it continued to ramble about the Illuminati, chemtrails, and mind control. This would be kinda funny if it weren't so irritating. I just wanted to shut this stupid sheep up already! However, try as we might, the sheep just kept going, blasting us away again.

We all flew backwards from the blast, landing painfully on the concrete ground. As we all groaned trying to get up, I managed to just now realize that Zenith wasn't here, surely Spyro contacted him right? I doubt even Zenith could fight this stupid sheep off, but having an extra ranger was at least something. "You see?! You Power Rangers can't fight the truth! After I destroy you, I'm going to expose all of your human government's secrets!" The sheep cackled, I really want to know who designs these stupid monsters so I can strangle them right now… ugh…

"TIDAL WAVE!"

Suddenly the sheep was swept away by a giant wave of all things, none of us knew what or how this happened, but at least it got the stupid sheep to shut up for five seconds. Suddenly three figures leaped over our heads, one black, one white, one dark blue, the three figures landed revealing what they were to us.

They were Power Rangers.

Their suits were a lot like our own, only they had small golden shoulder pads and the parts that were gold on our suits were silver on theirs, where the hell did these new Power Rangers even come from?

The black one looked male, he carried a scythe in his hands, his helmet was of a gaunt looking dragon's head, red eyes stuck out brightly from the dark black helmet, which looked like the dragon depicted was wearing some kind of skull mask which also stuck out from the otherwise black helmet, the head spikes and horn details were barely noticeable on the helmet as they shared it's dark color. The symbol on his chest resembled a warped version of Zen's crest, as if someone had taken it off Zen's chest and crushed it in their hands.

The white one was clearly female, she held two bladed tonfa in her hands, the poles of which contained little air holes as if it were a flute. The helmet depicted a rather majestic looking dragon, with golden horns that curved inwards into a spiral. Pink head spikes ran down the helmet with two golden eyes sitting underneath. The ranger's crest was a straight up spiral pattern, like a twister or gust of wind.

The dark blue one was a male, he had a pair of nunchaku tucked under his arm which had a clear aquatic motif. The helmet continued the aquatic motif as the headspikes were more like fins in a bright sea green color which matched the eyes and the slick horns, his symbol was a wave shape.

These new rangers stood before the rambling sheep, "What's this?! More of the Illuminati's henchmen?! You can't stop the truth! NONE OF YOU CAN!" Screamed the sheep.

The dark blue ranger then took a few steps forward, "We're your worst nightmare creep..." He said in a voice I kind of recognized but couldn't place it, the dark blue ranger then began to pose, "Power of the raging tides! Dragon Master! NAVY RANGER!" He called, striking a pose and naming himself as the Navy Ranger.

The white ranger then began to step forward, "And we're here take ya down you overgrown sheep!" she said in a clear Irish accent, "Power of the howling winds! Dragon Master! WHITE RANGER!" She said, striking her own pose.

Then the black one stepped forward, "So you'd better give up now sheep boy, before things get ugly," He said with a cool confidence, "Power of the encompassing darkness! Dragon Master! BLACK RANGER!" He called, twirling his scythe around before posing with it.

The three new rangers held the pose for a while, before the Navy Ranger, who seemed to be the leader of the three, stood up straight, "We are the forgotten Dragon Master Power Rangers! Last chance to surrender, or we'll show you what real power is!" He said, it was bothering me so badly how much I recognized the voice of the Navy Ranger, but I couldn't seem to figure out where I've heard it before.

The sheep panicked, blasting wildly at the new trio, he missed, causing an explosion to go off just behind them of which they had zero reaction to. "Wrong move sheep boy, bring 'em together guys!" said Navy Ranger.

The three rangers then began to combine their weapons, the Black Ranger twisted the handle of his scythe, making it take on a blaster like shape, "Scythe of Darkness!" He called before tossing it into the air.

The White Ranger twirled her tonfa, said tonfa making a whistling sound as she did so before she tossed them into the air, "Tonfa of Wind!" she called as the weapons clicked on both sides of the scythe.

Finally, the Navy Ranger began to twirl his nunchaku around, "Nunchaku of Water!" he called before the weapon fell into his hands and he slammed the nunchaku onto the top, forming a blaster.

The three rangers all gathered around the weapon, the white and black rangers both grabbing opposite ends "Dragon Master Mega Blaster! FIRE!" they all called before the blaster blew the sheep away, the sheep screamed one last time about chemtrails before exploding like a fireworks display.

Me and my friends all got up, not sure what to make of the new team, the three new rangers disassembling their blaster back into the individual weapons. Kevin naturally was the first to try to speak to the new rangers, "The big purple guy didn't mention a new batch of rangers, but you guys really-" He began before he suddenly found himself on the business end of Black Ranger's scythe, confused Kevin held his hands up and tried to back away.

"Oh we know exactly who you're working for you fake rangers!" said Navy Ranger. "As for the "big purple guy", you can tell him he didn't get control of all the Power Rangers!" He said, oh no… these rangers weren't of Spyro's creation were they? "Dragon Master Rangers! Let's take these wannabe's out!" Navy Ranger suddenly said.

Before we could even react the Dragon Master Rangers began their assault. Dylan and Kevin tried to fight off Navy Ranger, Dean defended himself against the Black Ranger, and I was left with the White Ranger to deal with.

She was good, her punches and kicks were difficult for me to keep up with, "What's the matter lass? Never fought an Irishwoman before?" She asked before scoring a hard kick to my abdomen, forcing me to stumble backwards. "That's a shame, cause I'm about to blow you away! WIND BURST!" She called as she swung her tonfa in an "x" pattern, sending a huge gust of wind right at me and I suddenly found myself literally blown away, sailing across the air uncontrollably. I did everything I could to try to stop my momentum but wound up cracking my back against a lamppost with a loud, painful clang.

The White Ranger gently floated down in front of me, "How'd ya like that ride lass? Didn't seem to be much fun from your end I must admit, but I'm having a blast," she said in a rather chipper tone. She was clearly having a good time, I couldn't say the same for myself, my back hurt like hell, I could barely move, and even if I could, how could I counter her wind attacks? I didn't know, but I wasn't about to die here, so I quickly did a rising spin kick, catching White Ranger completely off guard and knocking her to the ground.

I quickly drew my daggers, "Don't count me out yet wind bag!" I said before I began to charge my electricity into my daggers, "ELECTRIC SLASH!" I called as I swiped my daggers in an "x" pattern, zapping the hapless ranger.

My back was in so much pain right now, I'd hate to think how much worse it would have been unmorphed but it was clear I couldn't play around with these jerks. The White Ranger quickly got back to her feet, throwing several punches and kicks at me, I blocked each one, however when I tried to retaliate with a high kick to her head, she caught my leg and flipped me over, "Purple boy didn't train ya very well did he? You fight like a child!" She taunted me before clocking me in the head with her tonfa, making a loud clack sound as it bounced off my plastic helmet, the force alone sent ripples of pain throughout my skull, any harder and I might have gotten a concussion!

I managed to get a look around, the others weren't doing so well either, Navy Ranger was blasting Dylan and Kevin away with a strong water jet, and Dean was getting slashed all over by Black Ranger's scythe! This was becoming hopeless, these new rangers were good! Really good! How were we going to beat them?

"AETHER SLASH!"

Suddenly bolts of Aether came raining down on the three new rangers, Zenith landing in his Purple Ranger form, "The purple dragon said there was a monster attack! Why are you guys being attacked by other rangers?" He asked me as he helped me to my feet.

Man was I glad to see Zen right now! "I don't know, we were fighting the monster, but then these jokers showed up, destroyed the monster, then just attacked us out of nowhere!" I explained. Speaking of, the Master Rangers slowly began to rise to their feet, Navy Ranger staring daggers at Zenith from under the visor of his helmet, "Go ahead and pretend you won today! Malefor will never win! You can tell him that next time you see him!" Said Navy Ranger before the three suddenly teleported away.

All five of us just stared at the spot the Master Rangers once stood, that last comment… it seemed to suggest that they for whatever reason thought we were Malefor's rangers, or at least, that's what I got from it. "Who were those guys?" Kevin asked.

Dylan shook his head, "I have no idea, but we should inform Spyro about this, maybe he'll have some insight into who these rangers are," he suggested, it was a sound idea, I wanted to know what was going on, and more importantly, who those rangers were underneath those helmets. I felt like I knew the Navy Ranger from somewhere… but where?

Later…

Dragon Temple…

We had all warped to the Dragon Temple, there we found Spyro staring at the Pool of Visions with a confused look on his face, he then suddenly turned to us, "I assume you're here to ask where those new rangers came from?" He asked, apparently he had been watching the whole thing. We all nodded, "Sadly, I don't have an answer for you guys, I've never seen those rangers before, I had always intended there to be only four, no offense Zenith," Spyro said.

Dylan stepped forward, "Water, darkness, wind, are those even dragon elements? I thought it was just fire, ice, earth, and electricity?" he asked, it was a question I had as well, Spyro had said purple dragons could use all four elements, but if that were the case, how could there be three more?

Spyro sighed, "That… I can answer," he said, "It was something Terrador once told me about, the three forgotten masters," He continued, "You see, fire, ice, earth, and electricity are what we dragons know as the four basic elements, but there are many others, some only accessible to purple dragons, others within rare breeds of dragons, the three elements you saw in those new rangers were of the latter category," he explained. "These elements just like any other, had their own guardians, these were the lost masters, Oberon, Frosch, and Excedra, the wind, water, and darkness guardians respectively," he continued.

Three more guardians? How did we not know about this? "These three disappeared during the first stages of the war against Malefor, their elements lost to time, whoever made these rangers somehow accessed their dragon spirits, and used them to create a new team of Power Rangers, who that is or for what purpose they felt the need to create them for I have no clue, but it's clear we need to find out soon, we can't have these new rangers keep attacking you three like this," He explained. "I want you three to stay in the temple until you recover, I don't want to risk these "Master Rangers" coming after you again," Spyro ordered us before turning to leave, "Now if you'll excuse me, I have something that requires my attention," He said before leaving.

What that could be I had no clue, I was more concerned with what I had just learned, how could there be more guardians than the ones me and my friends had? "In my defense Jessica, I had no clue the forgotten masters would play any sort of role in this battle," Volteer explained. Seemingly under the impression I was upset with him or something, "Oh I know you aren't Jessica, but I still felt an explanation was prudent," He said.

I began to walk into an empty hall, sitting myself down, my back was killing me, that collision with the lamppost had taken a lot more of a toll on me than I thought, hopefully I'd be okay in time to be there when Ryan came to a visit, "Jessica… if I may…" Volteer said, "I know you won't want to hear this, but we cannot ignore the timing of your brother's arrival and the appearance of these "Master Rangers", I theorize that they may be in fact… connected," He said, was he implying Ryan was one of the master rangers?! No… that's impossible! Ryan wouldn't do that to me! "I know it's hard to digest Jessica, but it is a possibility we cannot ignore," He said, I knew he was probably right, but the very thought of fighting my own brother wasn't sitting well with me at all. I know Ryan wouldn't hurt me, he'd know it was me under that helmet! He knew my voice!

But Volteer had a point, Ryan returning to New Harmony around the same time that these Master Rangers showed up was too convenient to ignore, "Perhaps this is a good thing Jessica? If one of these rangers is your brother, perhaps you would be able to reason with him? I don't think these master rangers are evil, just mislead, you heard what the Navy Ranger said before departing, perhaps he believes that you are of Malefor's creation?" He theorized. He was right, Ryan was a reasonable guy, if he was under one of those helmets, I could reason with him.

But that was assuming Ryan even was one of the rangers… which I was kind of hoping he wasn't… because if I couldn't reason with them… I would have to fight him…

Meanwhile…

Unknown Location…

Well that didn't go well, we had those fake rangers on the ropes! That was, until their purple friend showed up! I thought master said there were only four? Why would she not tell us of a fifth? The three of us found the cave we usually operated out of, just on the outskirts of New Harmony, "Hey..." Said the Black Ranger, "You doing okay Navy? You look a bit out of sorts," he asked me.

I shook my head, "I dunno… something about this doesn't seem to add up," I said, it wasn't just the Purple Ranger, it was also something about the yellow one, her voice, it sounded so familiar, but I couldn't place it. "And you don't need to call me Navy when we're in private Travis," I said before removing my helmet, "You can call me Ryan here," I added.

The other two removed their helmets, the black ranger was a young half Asian boy named Travis McCoy, he was an aspiring rock star, he was in a garage band named Obsidian, kind of serendipitous given his ranger color. He was half Korean on his mother's side, hence his very Irish last name, but he certainly resembled his Korean mother more than his father, his hair was jet black and semi long, he had his father's blue eyes though.

The White Ranger was a fiery red head named Kate Peterson, she was an exchange student from Ireland, a bit of a daredevil too, she was right at home being the Wind Ranger, flying around, she was full of life and when not in fight, one of the nicest girl's you'd ever meet. "Be easy on him Ryan, he is the newest one out of the three of us," she explained.

I chuckled, "Noted, but we should report our encounter to the master regardless, she'll want to know we encountered other Power Rangers," I said, with that, the three of us entered the cave, up until we came up to what appeared to be a wall of rock, but I knew better, pulling on one of the rocks activated a secret door, revealing an ancient temple.

"Back so soon?" Our master called from another room, "I expected Malefor's monster to put up at least somewhat of a fight," She added.

I sighed, "It wasn't the only thing we encountered master," I said, "We… we encountered other rangers… ones using the base elements you said Spyro used to create the first batch of morphers, we tried to fight them, but a purple one managed to get the better of us and forced us to retreat," I explained.

I heard a soft growl come from the other room, "That bastard… he actually did it… he perverted Spyro's work to serve his own twisted needs," she snarled, "No matter, we'll deal with those fake Power Rangers eventually," She said, "Oh and one more thing," She said before entering the room.

The dragon that we had called master for months now stepped into the room, she was black as the very shadows she emerged from, she was an older dragon, with eyes sagging slightly from age, her figure was slender and sleek, her horns white and slick, her eyes a piercing emerald color. She wore a silver choker around her neck, with matching bracelets around all for of her legs. Her underbelly was a deep, rose color, which matched her wings. Her tail blade was sharp, almost metallic looking.

The dragon stared me right in the eyes, "You know I hate being called "Master", it makes it sound like I'm your slave driver," She said, "Please, just call me Cynder," She added with a slight smirk…

A/N: How's that for a chapter ending? Looks like we found out what Cynder's been up to since Spyro disappeared, but what exactly does this mean for our heroes? Will Jess be able to reason with her brother? And who exactly are the Forgotten Masters? Stay Tuned.

I'd like to take this time to thank User "Gargantua Dragon" for offering his dragon OC's for my stupid crossover story, yes kids, these mysterious "Lost Masters" are not of my creation (try not to hide your shock too much), normally I try to avoid using other people's characters since I'm always terrified I'll get them wrong, but I have to admit, while I had always planned for Cynder to have her own Power Rangers, I had no plans as to what said rangers would be, and when Gargantua here offered me his own cast of guardians, I decided "hey, what's the worst that can happen right?"

So thanks Gargantua Dragon, I hope to god I don't mess up your characters too badly, he did give me some backstory for them, but I decided to save that aspect for a letter time, good mystery keeps people reading ya know.

Gargantua did also give me two humans to use for the Black and White Rangers, but I ultimately decided against it for similar reasons stated earlier, (you know, the whole "don't wanna screw up your ocs" thing?) besides, I need at least some aspects of this team to be mine, otherwise I might look like a hack or something (what do you mean I'm already a hack?) But I appreciate the effort regardless.

Needless to say, I appreciate it when my readers offer their suggestions, it makes my stories feel like a community effort. So if anyone here has their own suggestions, feel free to PM me or post them in the comments (Although, I'd rather you did it through PMs so I can actually respond, god I hate Fanfiction's comment system, it's like the communication equivalent of Russian Roulette, you never know if you'll be able to respond or not!)

But I doubt I'll be adding any more rangers, eight is already a pretty high number and I get kinda overwhelmed when I have too many cooks in the kitchen if you catch my drift.

And yes, I did kinda steal the idea of "Conspirisheep" from the Boom Comics Power Rangers comics (which if you're a Power Rangers fanatic like I am, you should definitely read, they are awesome), I thought the idea was hilarious and wanted to try my hand at it, I think it's fine here since he clearly isn't the focus and I already set a precedent for ripping off monster designs (Isn't that right Loudmouth?) I promise I'll be more original with monsters in the future I just wanted to have some fun with the concept is all.