Disclaimer: I do not own the recognisible characters. They belong to Disney.

Author's Note: Just before RPM comes the tests. What tests? The RPm team was obviously hand chosen, so, I figured, why not show how. This is how the D-Green (D stands for Dark, because there will be two shades of green on Kaylee's team), Pink and Yellow Rangers. It also give you a little introduction to OC or reinvented characters.

For those of you who hadn't picked up on it yet, Summer McKnight is the same Summer from the series. Faith and I had a what if moment, and it turned into Summer being Kira and Conner's daughter.

Anyways, enjoy this fic. Five chapters of "fun" for the new Rangers.

At eighteen years old, Michael Bradley was fully aware of the dangers out in the real world. Sure he was fresh out of high school, which was the building that kept most teenagers sheltered from the real world, but this Thunder Ninja would spend his evenings watching the news with his parents. He knew that men and women alike were stalked on the street and attacked for no reason. He knew about the lies of the government.

But worst of all, he knew how teenage boys thought. After all, he was one.

"Hey!" Mike yelled, pushing a class-mate away from his cousin as he tried to make moves on her. "Go flirt with someone your own size!"

Summer looked up at her cousin, wondering what was going on in his head. He did not just say that, she mentally sighed.

"Well, I would put the moves of Samantha, but she scares me," the boy laughed, playfully punching Mike in the shoulder. "You get it, right?"

"You mean my other cousin?" Mike frowned. The boy's eyes widened as he gently tapped Mike's shoulder, as if brushing off any trace that his hand was ever there. He then backed away, rubbing the back of his neck.

"She's – uh... she's your cousin?" he asked.

"By law," Mike smirked, wrapping an arm around Summer's shoulders. The small blonde looked up at him and rolled her eyes.

"Dude, I'm totally sorry!" the boy said quickly, stumbling over his own feet as he ran away. "That's just... it's... okay... no... I'll just get on the bu-"

The boy dropped his books on the ground in his pathetic attempt to run away. He quickly picked them up and ran.

Summer looked up at her cousin and punched him in the shoulder. Mike frowned as he looked down at her, "What?"

"He was just about to give me his number!" she growled, stuffing her books in his arms. "You owe me a date."

"Isn't that illegal?" Mike laughed, but regretted it when Summer punched him again. She may not have taken after Kira, but her punches were just as deadly. "Ow. Damn kid. That one hurt."

"I'm two days younger. Does that not register in that cave you call a head?" Summer smirked. "Don't call me a kid."

"Alright, alright..." Mike laughed. He slid his bag off his shoulder and stuffed Summer's books inside. "So, where's the better looking you?"

"In the mirror," Summer smiled. "And I have no idea where Sam is. She said she was going to meet us in the front hall, but she's late... again."

"Who said I'm late?" Samantha, Summer's identical twin sister, laughed as she walked out of the principal's office, holding a letter addressed to Kira and Conner. "Emo-Barbie found a new way to ban music from this school, so I, once again, got to go on a lovely date with the dinosaur."

"Mom and Dad are going to kill you when they find out," Summer laughed, stealing the note from her sister and opening it.

"Hey!" Sam frowned, trying to get it back. "That's confidential!"

"So?" Summer asked, looking up at her sister. "When the hell has that stopped you?"

Sam thought for a moment, her eyes rolling up into her forehead as she did. "You're right. Wow, I almost turned into... Aunt Lily!" Sam froze up for a minute, lost in shock, before snapping out of it to grab her letter back. "Whoa, close call!"

"It's Zwopping time!"

The three teens looked down the hall and saw their youngest cousin coming towards them, carrying her pink bag over her shoulder. The strange part about Kira and Kaylee not being related by blood was that they had given birth to daughters, who looked like they could have been sisters. Hayden had the same blonde hair as her cousins, along with the blue eyes. But whereas Sam and Summer's hair was naturally curly, Hayden's was straight. The sixteen year old was also slightly smaller than average, forcing Mike to be protective of her as well. But his excuse: she was his real cousin.

"Hayden, for the last time, you did not get the Zwopping gene," Samantha laughed, shaking her head.

"I can still try," Hayden smiled. "After all, I did get dad's power, and some of my mom's. Who's to say I'm not the special child?"

Three hands shot up into the air as the eighteen year olds looked down at their cousin.

"Sorry Kiddo, you're nothing much," Summer laughed.

"Hey, why can you call her kiddo, but I can't call you kid?" Mike frowned.

"Um, she's two years younger than us!" Summer reminded the boy. "That qualifies as a kid."

"This kid isn't afraid to kick your asses!" Hayden frowned, looking up at all her cousins.

"That's only because your ass can heal!" Sam said. "Which would be awesome, but I don't want to see it... that's just... eww."

Michael looked up at the clock hanging off the side of the wall. "Three o'clock. Time to get some of Aunt Kaylee's yummy cookies."

All three girls exchanged looks as they followed their older cousin.

"Mike, you're not secretly three, are you?" Sam asked, slapping the Thunder Ninja on the back of the head.

"Nope, but my sister is."

"Elena's eight, stupid," Summer gently reminded her cousin. "And in case you forgot, Jason's eleven, so you can't use him either."

"And, we're going to my house because my mom has some super secret mission for us," Hayden smiled. "But then again... last time she said that she made us test Uncle Blake's vegetable surprise."

Immediately, all four teens began gagging as they remembering the meal Blake had made for Kaylee.

"Dude, my dad was probably trying to kill your mom, Hay," Mike laughed. "He's still scared of her."

"He should be," Hayden smirked, "He stole Aunt Tori from my mom and unoed her duo. And worst of all, he didn't even try to fix her broken duo by adding another uno. He just left her unoed on the streets without her other uno."

"I hate it when you go all Kaylee speak on me," Mike frowned, reaching into his bag and pulling out a book with a green and yellow cover.

"Uno, page six in the Kaylee speak dictionary," Summer smiled, helping her cousin out. "If you don't know what it means by now, then you're hopeless."

"He'll always be hopeless," Sam smirked. "He was born that way. That's why he's too chicken shit to ask a girl to prom."

"Yeah!" Mike agreed, putting his face right in front of Summer's. "Wait... wait a... dude! Not cool!"

Sam pointed to her cousin as she looked over at her twin. "You see what I mean. If it were up to him to stop Venjix, the world as we know it would be destroyed."

"The world as we know it was destroyed," Summer frowned. "Three years ago. That's why Aunt Kaylee's been hiding from us and working on those morphers."

"I hope I get one," Hayden smiled. Her cousins looked over at her, giving her surprised looks.

"Do you really want to get in the way of big, bad and ugly?" Sam frowned, "Power Rangers? Seriously?"

"Hey, my mom was the all time legend! If I don't get Zwop, I wanna be a Ranger."

Sam slapped her hand to her forehead as she sighed. "Is it too late to sign up with Venjix?"

"Have a little faith, Sammy," Summer smiled. "I'm sure Hayden can kick robo-ass."

"What about me?" Mike asked. "If you remember, I took you all on, and won."

"Yeah, that wasn't fair." Sam frowned. "You had a motive."

"A sandwich," Summer laughed. "You kicked our asses, for a sandwich."

"That was a good sandwich," Mike recalled, rubbing his stomach as he started to drool.

"So a sandwich is worth more to you then our asses?" Sam glared at her cousin. Mike frowned at her, leaning close to make sure the people around couldn't hear him.

"Well, thanks to the Ninja Family bonding thing I can't hit on your asses, so yes, sandwich means the world to me, and you're asses are worth as much as a mule's."

"I've seen some mule's with valuable asses," Hayden laughed. "There's one in gold in the museum!"

"Did you just say we're an ass' ass?" Summer frowned, turning to the boy.

"No," Mike smiled. "I said you're worth as much as an ass' ass."

"You better sleep with one eye open, Bradley," Summer threatened. But due to the fact that she had to stand on her toes to make direct eye contact with him, the threat lost its value.

"I blame mom," Sam stated as her sister dropped back down to her regular height. "She just had to be short."

"Um, hello!" Hayden frowned. "At least you're dad reached six feet!"

"DOOMED!" Sam and Summer both teased, poking their cousin in the ribs.

-----The-Rebellion-Begins-----

"Mom! We're home!" Hayden called, dropping her bag by the door. She walked into the living room, with her cousins behind her, and saw her mother, her Aunt Kira and a group of strangers sitting on her couch. "And we're not alone?"

"Girls, take a seat," Kaylee smiled as the furious foursome, as they were still called, sat down on the ground, leaning on the coffee table for back support. Mike looked up at his aunt and crossed his arms.

"Do I look like a girl?" he frowned.

"Well, kinda," Kaylee smirked. Mike's jaw dropped as he gave his Aunt a hurt look. "Sorry kiddo."

"So, who are they?" Sam asked, pointing over her shoulder to the kids sitting on the couch. "And why is the ugly one sitting in my spot?"

Kira rolled her eyes. "They're the other team."

"Other team?" Mike frowned. "Aunt Kira, did my mom give you surfing lessons again? Did you hit your head on a rock? I told her not to put you on a surfboard, but she insists..."

"No, I didn't go surfing," Kira snapped, shutting her nephew up. "With Venjix having control over the world's communication, power and defence system via our city, we need a new team of Rangers."

"YES!" Mike smiled, pumping his fists in the air, nearly punching the twins as he did. "I always knew I was going to be a Ranger."

Samantha and Summer both punched Mike's sides, making him lower his hands.

"Sorry," he whispered. "The couch is a lot roomier."

He shot at glance at the four kids sitting on the couch, eyeing the one girl in his spot. His glare turned into a smile though when he realised she was cute. He turned back to his cousins and smiled.

"Dude, her ass is worth more than a sandwich!" he commented.

Kira looked over at Kaylee and frowned. Though she didn't know what Mike meant with his comment, she knew he was hitting on the girl indirectly. "He is so not Tori's kid."

"Unfortunately, he is," Kaylee groaned. "I was there when he," Kaylee made a popping noise with her mouth, "out. It's forever burned in my brain along with his parent's wedding day... oh, and the twin's birthday... that was loud."

It was Hayden's turn to look over at the kids on the couch. She counted them, stopping for a second when her eye caught the eye of the boy sitting in her spot.

"But mom," Hayden spoke up, turning back to her mother. "There are eight of us. I thought you said ranger teams usually only start off with a maximum of six people."

"Yes," Kaylee smiled. "That's why these guys are going to challenge you for the spandex."

"If this is a wedgie kinda suit, they can keep it," Hayden frowned.

"Kids, stand up," Kaylee ordered. The furious foursome and their opponents all stood up as Kaylee turned on her TV, showing off the RPM uniforms. "I have already chosen an RPM Red, Black and Blue, but I still need a few more Rangers before we challenge Venjix."

"Mom, there's two green suits," Hayden pointed out. "I know it's your colour, but seriously?"

"Mike and Nathanial are going to be competing for the darker one," Kaylee smiled, putting her hand on Nathanial's shoulder. Hayden looked over and realised her cousin was going to be fighting against her new crush.

Oh shit, she thought.

"Hayden, you and Chloe are going to be competing for RPM Pink," Kira smiled, pointing to the only girl. Chloe was slightly taller than Hayden, and her appearance was the complete opposite. She had dark hair and dark brown eyes. She also wasn't as tiny as Hayden was. She wasn't overweight at all, but she had a bigger built than the sixteen year old.

"We're not going to fist fight, are we?" Hayden asked, only to remember her power. "Oh! No wait! Lets!"

"Hayden!" Kira scolded. "We're sending the eight off you out to the jungle. One team is going to be with me, and the other with Kaylee."

"Whichever team can work together and overcome the challenges will get to wear the Ranger suits." Kaylee continued.

"Why didn't you ask Ryan to join?" Samantha asked, realising Ryan Bradley, Hunter's son, wasn't a part of the group. She had other "cousins" as well, but the five of them were the oldest and at the right age for Power Rangers.

"I did, but Zack beat him and earned his spot with Nathan, Chloe and Alexander," Kaylee smiled. "Ryan's a little... well he's a mini Hunter."

"You do remember he's my cousin," Mike laughed.

"Yeah, but that because of Blake, so I don't give a damn," Kaylee smirked.

Walking over to the fireplace, Kaylee's expression changed back to serious as she finished explaining. "Just because you are two different teams, doesn't mean you can't work together. In the end, I might choose you for your teamwork, and not your victories."

Kaylee shot a quick look at Sam as she said this. "Remember, your enemy's enemy is your friend. Do not underestimate your foes in this world. They can kill you."

"Except for Hayden," Summer smiled, grabbing her cousin's hand and snapping it in two. Kira looked away in disgust, trying to keep her lunch down. "They'll just keep beating her wondering why she won't die."

"Shut up!" Hayden frowned, shaking her broken hand to get it to heal faster.

"So, when do we leave?" Alex asked, looking over at the furious foursome and smirking menacingly. "Cause the faster we beat these pathetic kids, the fast I get to wear the RPM suits."

Kira frowned at the boy. "You do remember that those pathetic kids are my daughters?"

"Oh, I know," Alex said.

Kaylee grabbed Kira's arm, before the brunet injured Alex. "Alexander, Chloe, Zack and Nathan, you'll be on my team. Mike, Sam, Sum and Hayden, you'll be with Kira. Keep in mind, we can't help you. We're just observing you."

Kaylee reached into the fireplace, pulling out a brick. Hayden titled her head to the side as she watched her mother take the house apart, one brick at a time. Suddenly, there was a green glow as a portal opened.

"You have way too much time on your hands Aunt Kayl," Mike frowned. He protectively put his hands in front of his cousins as he took a step back.

"On the other side of this not-an-invisaportal is the jungle where we'll be spending the next few days," Kaylee smiled. She looked over at Kira and nodded before disappearing into the portal.

"MOM!" Hayden yelled, stepping forward, hoping to stop her mom, but it was too late. She turned to Kira and frowned. "The hell did she zwop too?"

"The Jungle, did you not listen?" Kira smiled. She put her hands on Hayden's shoulder, then pushed the blonde into the portal. Once Hayden was gone, she turned to the seven other kids. "Who's next?"

"Did you just push Hayden into the green portal of doom?" Summer asked.

"Yeah!" Kira laughed. "She made a funny noise when she left. Wanna hear?"

Summer looked over at her sister, then walked up beside her mom. She looked over at the portal before her mother pushed her in.

"Wow, you guys are gullible," Kira laughed.

-----The-Rebellion-Begins-----

Once Kira appeared from the portal, Kaylee pulled out a set of walkie-talkies. She offered it to Kira, but Mike snatched it away.

"Awesome! Walkie-talkies!" he giggled. "Aunt Kaylee, can you hear me? Aunt Kaylee?"

Kaylee brought her talkie up to her mouth and frowned. "Hand it over." She said, her voice coming out of Mike's talkie.

"Aw, man," he frowned.

"Good job," Zack laughed. "You're totally fit to wear the RPM Green."

Nathanial turned to his friend and whacked him over the head. "Be nice," he frowned.

"Kira," Kaylee whispered, "Use this to tell me how the kids are doing. If all goes well, you'll get a yellow and I'll have my core Rangers."

Kira nodded, gathering her kids as she started her walk into the jungle.

About half a mile in, she grabbed her talkie from her bag and pushed the button.

"Already?" Kaylee's voice came on the other end.

"You did tell my girls that only one of them was going to be RPM Yellow, right?" she asked.

"No, you did."

"Oh shit," Kira sighed, stuffing her talkie back into her bag.