"Why did we retreat!" Neow grabs Eric and lifts him slightly off the ground by his red hyper force suit. "It's disgraceful to ever show your back to the enemy!"

"Yeah!" Lisa angrily puffs out her cheeks from underneath her pink suit. "We were just about to make a comeback!"

Before Eric has a chance to answer the ship is attacked from the outside causing sirens and flashing red lights to flicker. Marcellus, Sabrina, and Alpha 55 come running in the meeting room.

"Ayaya, what happened?! Our shields have dropped to fifty-five percent!" Aphla 55 panics as she opens up multiple displays with critical markers on them.

The ship is attacked once again, rocking back and forth like a boat hit by a violent storm. "Alpha 55 open up visuals on the outside and see what we're dealing with!" Eric commands as he grips on to a nearby armbar to keep his balance.

Alpha 55's camera scans all of Angel Grove before zooming in on the cloaked figure shooting out a bolt of lightning. Sparks fly before everything goes completely dark. "Ayaya! Our main power has gone offline!"

"Switch over to backup reserves now!" Eric shouts.

"He's still following us!" Lisa punches the air. "He made a huge mistake! Let's fire the cannons at him!"

"We're way too close to the city!" Marcellus interrupts. "We'll injure innocent civilians!"

"I'll go back down there and finish this once and for all!" Neow materializes his spear.

Eric grabs Neow's arm and yanks his cheetah-like face close to his. "You will pilot the ship! Maneuver in a way where he can't easily hit us! The controls are similar to the training simulators at the academy!"

Neow looks deep into Eric's blue eyes before biting his tongue. "If things go south I'm ramming the ship into him!"

"Just leave!" Eric points to the cockpit of the ship. He then makes a sharp turn to Lisa. "You! Go to the engine room and make sure it doesn't suffer irreversible damage!"

"I see you're trusting a real genius with the important task!" Lisa looks over to Sabrina before running to the engine room.

"Alpha 55 make sure she doesn't make things worse." Eric gestures his thumb at the direction Lisa went.

Sabrina crosses her arms and taps her foot. "Why are you sending her. I've spent the last day studying the hyperdrive!"

Eric takes a deep breath. "I needed them out the way so I can think!"

"We're a team, let's brainstorm together!" Marcellus puts his hand on Eric's stiff shoulder. "You said you were studying the specs of the morphers, any weapons that can do damage?"

"Each of us can control an elemental property along with our own unique weapons, but from experience, the leader is not affected by them." Eric presses a button on his morpher to equip his gauntlets. "Our most powerful weapon is the hyper force vortex blaster which requires at least three of us to hold it."

Sabrina glances over the virtual specs of the hyper force blaster. "Looks like it has the same power output as our upgraded vortex blaster we made at the academy."

"And that got swatted away like a fly." Marcellus gives a disgruntled look.

"But it seems we can channel our elemental properties to the weapons," Sabrina announces causing Eric to look at the image in shock. "It doesn't outright say it, but they were designed that way.

"Check your data and see what your element is!" Eric pulls out his crimson red card. "Mine is fire."

"Wind," Sabrina holds her card next to Eric's.

"And lightning!" Marcellus follows Sabrina's lead putting all the cards together. "If we use our powers on the vortex blaster we'll pack a hell of a punch!"

"Who knows if this will harm the alliance leader." Eric holds his head up with determination. "But at the very least we can make a distraction and get us somewhere safe!"

"Sounds good to me!" Marcellus slides his card into his morpher. "HyperForce! Blue! Ready! POWER UP!" He holds his Morpher center to his chest as it glows brighter and materializes onto him a suit made from particles. Marcellus is now wearing a navy blue and black suit with a dragon-like helmet and the time force emblem on his belt.

Sabrina lets out a sly chuckle. "HyperForce! Yellow! Ready! POWER UP!" A yellow bumblebee suit materializes on her, the helmet resembling an eagle.

Eric opens up the ship's hatch."Let's initiate the plan!"

The trio's morphers glow their respective colors as the Hyperforce vortex blaster appears in front of them. Eric holds the trigger while Marcellus and Sabrina hold the sides. Eric aims to the best of his ability with the wind from the open hatchet blowing fiercely against the rangers.

"Hold steady! Aim! FIRE!" The usual grey vortex blaster becomes red, blue and yellow as a fire vortex coated in lightning shoots out the weapon with great force. The Rangers are knocked back as the blast tears through the clouds in its path.

The alliance leader holds up his hand to block the attack per usual, but he's met with a surprise when his arm becomes engulfed in flames. "Insolent fools!" He shouts in agony.

"Guys we did some damage!" Eric says as he attempts to stand back up, but his knees quickly give out on him.

"Hey Eric, I don't feel so good." Marcellus lays sprawled out on the floor.

"Our suits are losing their luster, and they're beginning to fade." Sabrina looks over her body.

"Come on! One more shot and we could end this!" Eric grabs onto the railing and pulls himself up with all his might. "This could be our only chance!"

Marcellus slides himself up using the wall. "You're right. It's now or never!"

Sabrina grabs onto Marcellus's shoulder to lift herself. "One last shot!"

"Hold steady! Aim! FIRE!" The second blast demorphs the group as it leaves the ship much smaller than its predecessor but still powerful none the less.

Instead of blocking, the alliance leader shoots a bolt of lightning at the flaming vortex. The two attacks clash mid-air holding still for only a split second before the hyper force blast rips through the lightning and hits the alliance leader dead center. "I won't forget this!" He coughs up a significant amount of blood. His eyes glow red before disappearing into thin air without a trace.

Eric slams the button to close the hatch. "Alpha 55 whatever power we have left, use it to cloak the ship and then submerge it into a large body of water for extra precautions." He orders before slipping unconscious.

Eric shoots awake from his healing pod breathing heavily and looking frantically around the room before letting out a sigh of relief. "We survived..."

"Rise and shine leader!" Marcellus happily smiles as he holds up a plate with baked fish, vegetables, a bowl of rice, and soup. "I realized when I woke up that you didn't get any breakfast the other day so you must be starving! Today's menu is a Japanese style dish!"

Eric stepped out the healing pod and walked past Marcellus. "We need a team meeting."

Marcellus grabs Eric by the collar. "Not until you have breakfast!" He forcibly shoves a piece of fish in his mouth.

"I don't-"

Eric doesn't finish his sentence before Marcellus starts shoving rice and vegetables down his throat. "And now we're done!" The blue ranger smiles as he washes down the meal with soup.

Eric angrily wipes his mouth and glares at Marcellus. "Let's go."

Everyone sits around the meeting table tension filling the room. "The damages done to the ship are severe. The time circuits are blown, and the engine is dead. Soda do you think yourself and Alpha 55 could handle repairs?" Eric wonders.

Sabrina crosses her legs. "We need supplies, and I don't think 1994 will have anything that could help?"

"Ayaya! There's a supply room on the ship!" Alpha 55 informs. "Although it may not have everything we need, we could go out and find items to melt and mold into parts!"

Eric leans forward and holds up his intertwined fingers in front of his mouth. "Soda, you and Alpha 55 do what you can with the supplies you do have on hand."

"Got it, boss." Sabrina sarcastically says as she heads to the engine room with Alpha 55 waddling behind her.

"Marcellus I need you to get large metal materials from Angel Grove!" Eric says. "Your best bet will be a junkyard. I'll have Alpha 55 make some currency for you."

"Aye Aye Captain!" Marcellus jokingly salutes as he goes to get changed in 20th-century clothing.

"What about us!" Lisa points to herself, and Neow feeling left out of the meeting.

"I was just about to get to you two." Eric taps the table with his finger. "Take off your morphers now. You're both confined to your quarters until further notice."

"What, why!" Lisa clenches her wrist and twists her body to hide the morpher from Eric.

"Because I don't need people who let their emotions get in the way of battle on my team!" Eric sits backs in his chair and crosses his arms. "This isn't a game, and this isn't for your own personal gain either! We're here to protect the timeline under the orders of Jen Scotts."

Neow sets his morpher on the table causing Lisa to look on in disbelief. "You're right. I let my anger get the best of me. I may need time to myself so that I can think and clear my head." The cheetah alien gets up and heads to his room.

Tears could be seen in Lisa's eyes as she reluctantly takes off her morpher as well, sulking behind Neow without saying a word.

Eric lets out a heavy sigh. "Now all that's left is to try and communicate with the time force. We need more supplies if we're going to survive this journey, just in case we land somewhere without tech." The red ranger says to himself.

-A few days later-

"Soda, look what I got!" Marcellus gleefully hides a brown paper bag behind his back.

"It better be more supplies," Sabrina says as she continues to work on repairs.

"Even better!" Marcellus touches Sabrina's cheek with a cold mountain dew. "The guy at the store says this is like really hard to come by."

Sabrina's eyes begin to sparkle as she snatches the drink from Marcellus's hand. "Mountain dew red! It was released around the same time as diet mountain dew in 1988 but was discontinued the same year!"

"I'm glad you like it! I bought a whole bunch!" Marcellus sets down 4 cases of the red liquid. "Well, I'll leave you alone now."

"Wait!" Sabrina grabs Marcellus by his hand and yanks him down next to her. "Take a seat. I needed a break."

"That's cool!" Marcellus adjusts himself to sit more comfortably. "What's on your mind?"

"I've been working on a power knob for the hyper force blaster to control the energy output we give out, on top of repairs to the ship." Sabrina rubs the heavy black bags under her eyes. "This way we won't be completely drained and helpless and can make consecutive attacks if necessary."

"Wow, you're amazing Soda! If it's you I'm sure its possible!" Marcellus sheepishly scratches the back of his head. "All I've been doing is going to a bunch of retro restaurants! Yeah, we can make the food here, but handmade things are always so much better!"

"I need a test subject though," Sabrina takes a sip of her mountain dew red. "They'll constantly be drained of there energy and could go unconscious for days at a time, but I don't think anyone would agree to that."

A single bead of sweat rolls down Marcellus's face. "I'll... volunteer since it's critical to our mission."

"Really!" Sabrina smiles as she gets very close to Marcellus's face. "Most people when I point out the risks of an experiment back down! You're a real upstanding guy!"

"I know you'll try your best to minimize any affects it has on me." Marcellus swallows a large lump in his throat.

"Oh heavens no! Science is only improved upon through risks and sacrifices!" Sabrina hands Marcellus one of the mountain dew reds. "But I'll make it worth your wild test subject! You can have some of my mountain dew whenever you want!"

"Thanks... I'll try only to take a few since I know you like them." Marcellus hesitantly accepts the drink from Sabrina.

"Oh, oh! Can we start now!" Sabrina excitedly shakes Marcellus from side to side.

"Uh..." before Marcellus could answer Eric walks in the room. "Oh thank goodness your here! Please tell me you have a mission for us!" The blue ranger crawls over to his leader and grabs him by his pants leg.

Eric looks down at Marcellus and shakes him off. "We've detected energies similar to that of the alliance leader in the Angels Grove's library."

Sabrina stands up and wipes off her bottom. "How are we going to tackle the situation?"

"He may be still injured from our last battle, but that's just hopeful thinking." Eric shakes his head. "But I won't pass up the opportunity if he is, so we'll perform recon. We're going in morphed, surround the area, and see what's going on. I'll give you a signal if we're clear to attack."

"Mission accepted!" Marcellus cracks his knuckles. "Let's get moving!"

"HyperForce! Ready! POWER UP!" The trio says in unison flooding the room in bright yellow, red, and blue lights.

When the three arrive at the library, something is obviously amiss. There isn't a person in site, and the area is coated in a dense fog.

"What's going on?" Marcellus asks. "It was clear skies just a second ago?"

"Not even our visors can see through the fog!" Sabrina scans the area constantly adjusting the visual settings in her helmet. "This isn't normal! It may be a trap!"

"I'll go in first." Eric readies his blaster. "If I don't come out in ten minutes head to the ship and devise another plan with the others." The fog begins to thicken as he enters the library.

"This is getting bad. I can barely see in front of me!" Marcellus waves his hand in his face.

"What was that? You're breaking up!" Sabrina taps the side of her helmet where her ear would be.

"Static!" Eric clicks his tongue. A book falls, and he immediately points his weapon at the direction of the sound. "Who's there?!"

"Eric I'm sorry." Neow limbs towards his leader bloodied and battered.

"Neow! I thought I thought I said you're on quarters until further notice!" Eric runs over to his teammate.

"I thought I could change your mind." Neow falls into his leader's arms. "I thought I could still fight."

"Save your strength. We'll talk about this when we get back to the ship." Eric lifts Neow on his shoulder.

"I didn't want to die like this." Neow's eyes slowly close. "There was so much more I wanted to do." He mutters before his body goes completely limp.

"Neow... Neow, wake up! This isn't time to be sleeping!" Eric shakes the cheetah-like alien's body to no response.

"Huh, when did Neow get here?" Sabrina taps her helmet. "Eric what's going on?!"

"Your friend is gone, and you soon will follow." The cloaked figure appears out of seemingly nowhere thanks to the fog.

"The alliance leader!" Sabrina holds up her blaster. "You've completely healed!"

"Your attacks only did temporary damage, but I won't let it happen again." The cloaked figure holds up his arm, charging up electricity in the palm of his hand.

"We'll see about that!" Sabrina morpher glows yellow as the hyper force blaster appears in front of her. She struggles to lift the heavy machine by herself but somehow manages. "I haven't tested it yet but better now than never!"

"Hmmm, that weapon again! You'll fall like all the others because of it!" The alliance leader slowly walks forward without fear.

"Stay back!" Sabrina pulls the trigger but instead of the weapon firing it short circuits and falls to the ground. "What! What happened?!"

"Your allies also relied on that machine in an attempt to stop me, but the results were the same." The alliance leader picks up the vortex blaster and tosses it to the side. "They wasted their last breaths uselessly pulling the trigger."

"No.. the others are already-"

"Dead!" The alliance leader finishes Sabrina's sentence with his menacing voice.

"It's all my fault!" Sabrina clutches her head in a panic. "If I hadn't tried to make these stupid modifications!"

"Yo Soda, what's going on!" Marcellus shouts into his helmet. "You sound weird!"

"Why?" A female voice says from within the fog.

"Who's there?!" Marcellus turns around.

Lisa drags her feet with tears in her eyes. "Why do you still get to be a ranger while I don't!"

"Lisa what are you doing here, it's dangerous! You need to get out!" Marcellus rushes over to the young woman.

Lisa pushes Marcellus away. "You're a coward who was afraid to even become a ranger!" She says with venom in her voice as she glares at the young man.

"I-"

"Give me your morpher!" Lisa lunges at Marcellus before he has a chance to respond. "I deserve it more than you!"

Marcellus kicks off Lisa and aims his blaster at her. "I don't know who you are, but Lisa would never say anything like that!"

"What do you know about me!" Lisa screams. "I'm just a classmate who you barely gave the time of day to until now!"

"You're right. I don't know her all too well." Marcellus lowers his blaster with doubt. "But unlike the other students who looked at Kyle and me with disgust or irritation, I always saw out the corner of my eye that Lisa was watching us with a smile."

"I never-"

"Don't you ever disrespect the kind person she is by saying such careless words!" Marcellus yells. "I may fear that this is something she would say... but it's all in my head! You're nothing more than my doubts manifested! I may not believe in myself but I know she always will, and that's good enough for me!"

"No!" Fake Lisa cries as Marcellus fires his blaster causing her to shatter like glass.

"If you did something, it made me realize to check up on her to see how she's taking the morpher situation," Marcellus says as the fog clears ever so slightly. He's now able to see a yellow silhouette kneeling on the ground. "Soda!"

"I'm such an idiot! I should have trusted Lisa with the modifications!" Sabrina's eyes widen as she catches what she just said. "Trust Lisa with the modifications? That idiot who can't even follow instructions!"

"That's a little harsh isn't it." Marcellus gives a weary chuckle as he scratches his cheek.

"I've seen her work, all she does is go through trial and error! She has more failures than success!" Sabrina picks up the vortex blaster and rips the dial off. "I almost forgot what it feels like to fail it's been so long, but that's also apart of science. Trial, error, risk, and sacrifices! If this doesn't work, I'll make it better than before!"

"You fool!" The alliance leader jumps at Sabrina, but she's able to pull the trigger in time, blasting off a powerful tornado that shatters the enemy like glass.

"Looks like I took a page out of that idiot's book." Sabrina punches Marcellus on the shoulder. "You have a lot of work ahead of you test subject!"

"Great." Marcellus rolls his eyes from beneath his mask as the fog becomes even thinner than before. "We better try and find our fearless leader."

"Agreed!" Sabrina nods.

"Is this what a dead body feels like?" Eric stares blankly at Neow. "No, it's not the same... but I can still feel it, the weight of all their lives in my hands. I'm responsible because I'm the one who dragged them on the ship that day. I may not have wanted to be the leader, but it may have been fate. I must lead them properly, so this doesn't happen, even if they hate me for it. I'll carry this memory as a constant reminder if I don't."

"Captain!" Marcellus shouts as the fake Neow shatters in Eric's hands causing the fog to disappear.

"I thought I told you two to head back to the ship if I didn't return!" Eric snarls.

"We didn't mean to. We just ended up here after getting caught in the illusion." Marcellus defends himself.

"So it wasn't just me." Eric looks at his hand before clenching his fist. "Good job on breaking the illusions."

"Ayaya, rangers are you there!" Alpha 55 cries into the mic.

"What's going on Alpha?" Eric responds.

"Oh thank heavens, I lost communication with you a while ago!" Relief could be heard in Alpha 55's voice. "I was worried since the morphers you gave me started emitting an eerie black mist."

Eric looks down at his morpher doing exactly what Alpha 55 described. "What is this?"

"While I was running test, I've discovered that it has traces of mind control! Which is why I tried contacting you, but there was no response!" Alpha 55 explains.

"Our morphers aren't producing any black mist." Sabrina looks at her wrist. "It's safe to assume only the three of you who came in contact with the alliance leader were infected."

Marcellus snaps his fingers. "Maybe that's why the teachers at the academy were acting weird! This black gunk infected them!"

"Look! I think it's the power rangers!" A young girl shouts as she walks into the library.

"Looks like the library is open now." Sabrina sarcastically states.

"We can discuss all this later! Let's head back to the ship for now!" Eric says as he and the other two rangers jump out the nearest window.

The trio doesn't get far before they're stopped by Red, Black, and Yellow rangers with dinosaur style helmets.

"Where are you going phoneys!" The female yellow ranger with the helmet of a saber tooth tiger points at the group.

"You trapped the wrong ones in your island of illusions!" The black male ranger crosses his arms his helmet resembling that of a mastodon.

"Tell your Master Lokar that the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers have no doubts to be exploited!" The red ranger pulls out his sword and gets into a battle stance. His helmet resembling a tyrannosaurus rex

"This recon mission just went from bad to worse," Eric says as he takes a step back.

I have to apologize for taking so long on this chapter and thank everyone who waited so patiently on it. I'll try my best to crank out episodes more often because I know I personally hate to wait.

Anyway for those of you who have watched HyperForce what do you think of the changes I made to the story! I'm trying my best to diverge because that's what fanfic is all about making your own story and being as creative as possible!

I'm sorry to say that Oc submissions are closed. You all have such great ideas, so it pains me to say that but if I ever do need more characters I know the Power ranger community will churn out quality content without hesitation.