Disclaimer: I do not in any way shape or form claim to own Power Rangers or Mass Effect. I am just playing around in their sandbox.

Summary: In 2171, the first team of Power Rangers was assembled by Zordon of Eltar to face the evil Rita Repulsa. However, due to a technical malfunction in the Command Center's teleportation grid, six teenagers were teleported to the command center instead of five. In addition to Jason, Zach, Trini, Kimberly and Billy, their long-time friend Jane Shepard was teleported alongside them. Mysteriously, the Red Power coin chose two people and the original team would have two Red Rangers.

Author's note: Jane is from the Earthborn background but she never joined the Reds due to certain things that will become clear later in this story. Also, as will become clear later on, her parents are still alive but they abandoned her and she hates them for it.

Author's note 2: Jane also knows Tommy as they grew up at the same orphanage before Tommy was adopted. Jane is also a touch more ruthless than the rest of the team because she grew up in gang territory and had to make some tough decisions to stay alive.

Author's note 3: Because I'm fairly certain this question will be asked at some point, I will cover it right now. Yes, Jason will become the Red Ranger and Shepard will not be staying on the team for long. She is a senior in High School and will turn 18 very soon at this point and plans to join the military once she is able to do so.

Power Rangers: Mass Effect Edition

Angel Grove, California

It was a week before classes were due to start up at Angel Grove high school and six teens were gathered around a table at Ernie's Youth center. Their names were Kimberly, Zach, Billy, Trini, Jason and Jane. Five of the six had been the best of friends for almost 12 years. While Jane had come in later, they had welcomed her with open arms once she finally found it in her to trust them.

Growing up in the heart of gang territory, Jane Shepard was not one to trust easily and when she first met the group of five that she was now sitting with, she was guarded and untrusting of them and thought that they were just trying to be friendly to her because they wanted to be able to say that they'd befriended the poor kid with the fire hair.

The five of them eventually proved to Jane that their desire to be friends was genuine and that they didn't want anything and since then, the six of them had been inseparable. Jane was their sister in everything but blood and they would truly walk through hell to ensure that she was safe and happy just as she would gladly do the same thing for them. The six of them were as close knit friends as was possible at Angle Grove high.

Jane leaned over and put her arms around Kimberly and Jason. After the shit she went through the night before, she needed the comfort of her friends' presence.

"Is something wrong, Jane?" Jason asked with a concerned glance over at his friends.

Jane sighed, pressing her fingers to her temple. "Ní bheidh Reds Fucking saoire Allie an ifreann ina n-aonar. Tá mé ag dul a ghortú iad. Go holc."

Kim reached over and poked Jane in the arm. "Uh, Jane, can you repeat that in English please? None of us speak Irish, after all."

"Sorry guys. This whole situation has me pretty frustrated and you know me when I'm frustrated." Jane replied, chuckling ruefully. "Anyways, you were asking what was wrong, right? Well, the Reds paid another visit to the orphanage last night and Allie's in a coma now and we don't know when she'll wake up.

The table fell silent at that as everyone contemplated what they'd been told. Jane lived at an orphanage since her parents didn't want anything to do with her, and the feeling was pretty mutual, and Allie was the matron of the orphanage and the closest thing Jane had to a mom. Jane had the bad luck to live in gang territory since she lived on the outskirts of Angel Grove where they were constantly harassing the locals and the police did next to nothing. Trini's parents had tried to adopt Jane more than once but the paperwork had never gone through for some reason or another and it had never happened.

Kim hugged Jane tightly upon hearing that. She hated that her best friend had to go through this just because some bastards thought it'd be a good idea to hit an orphanage. She had contemplated going out there with her friends and giving them a piece of her mind on more than one occasion but Jane always talked them out of it by pointing out that they would probably get killed and it usually ended with her crying that she didn't want to lose her friends which meant that they spent the next hour or so trying to comfort her.

"Oh, Jane. I'm so sorry. Is there anything we can do to help?" asked Trini, leaning over to hug Jane. Jane smiled sadly.

"I wish there was, Tri. But unless one of you guys can magically make Allie wake up again or know the number of a good hitman so I can off the bastard that sent them after us, there really isn't anything.

Everyone fell silent at that, just standing there with Jane and knowing that all they could really do was to be there for her.

After another couple of minutes, Jane stood up. "Well, I'd better get going now. I need to get back to the orphanage and make sure John hasn't managed to burn it down or something. God knows I can't trust him to not fuck it up. I'll see you in class next week." Jane walked away, waving goodbye to her friends as she walked out the door.

-One week later-

Two scouts on the moon were walking along the surface in another exploration run in search of a missing military patrol. Suddenly, one of them saw something shining off in the distance.

Motioning to his partner, the two of them started towards the sight of the strange

glimmer. After a few minutes of travel, they arrived in front of what looked to be a giant

space dumpster. The first astronaut glanced at his partner before reaching for his radio to talk to him.

"Is that a giant space dumpster?" asked the first scout in shock.

"Sure looks like it. Should we open it?" asked the second.

His friend nodded at that. There was a small nagging feeling in the back of his head saying that it was a bad idea to open a random container on the moon but he ignored it. "After all," he reasoned, "What's the worst that could happen?"

The two of them moved over and grabbed the lid by the edges before dragging it off the dumpster.

The moment the lid was clear of the container, several colored lights shot out and began circling their heads before landing several feet away and forming into a number of individuals, some human and others… less so.

The first was a woman wearing a bizarre looking dress, carrying a giant stick with a half- moon on the end of it. Despite her bizarre and ridiculous appearance, there was something about her that made the two astronauts want to run away in terror.

The second figure was a giant being in golden armor with the face of a monkey and a fearsome looking sword. This being was quite obviously a warrior.

The last few figures were a mix of the most bizarre and unbelievable creatures imaginable and none of the astronauts had the slightest clue what they were.

The sight of these figures was more than enough to terrify the two men into flight and they threw caution to the wind and ran for it, hoping to make it to their craft and leave ASAP.

They barely made it twenty feet. The mysterious woman leveled her staff at them and fired a ball of energy. This energy ball slammed into the two astronauts before they could react and incinerated them instantly.

"Well that takes care of that irritation now doesn't it?" she said with a rather twisted smile. "GOLDAR! FINSTER! SQUATT! BABOO!" she screamed, impatiently.

The aforementioned minions dashed up to her to receive their orders.

"Yes, Empress Rita? How may I serve you?" Goldar said in his raspy tone.

"Take Finster, Squatt and Baboo and go through my Lunar Palace. Check and see if anyone has taken up residence there while we've been in that blasted dumpster. Kill anyone you find and start restoring my palace." Rita commanded.

Goldar bowed to his empress before striding off towards the Lunar Palace with his fellow minions in tow.

Rita let out a sinister sounding cackle as her underlings departed. The universe had better watch out.

Rita Repulsa was back and she was gunning for earth once more.

And that's chapter one. I hope I did okay. I never feel all that comfortable with writing and I always seem to find a million and one things wrong with what I do. Please give me some feedback on how you think I am doing. Constructive criticism is very much welcome but if your sole purpose in reviewing is to bitch and whine about how my premise and story sucks, don't expect a response. Finally, I have one line in this chapter from Jane that's in Irish (I'll get into why she speaks Irish later on).

Ní bheidh Reds Fucking saoire Allie an ifreann ina n-aonar. Tá mé ag dul a ghortú iad. Go holc: Fucking Reds won't leave Allie the hell alone. I am going to hurt them. Badly.