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Power Ranger Rewrite: The Zordon Saga

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Starting off, I actually wanted this to be more disconnected from the OG Power Rangers, at least at first.

That means the initial Turbo Rangers lineup is T.J., Justin, Ashley, Carlos & Cassie.

It’s a more personal hero's journey for them, going from rookies in the shadow of the much more famous teams, to the Rangers who are actually publicly known.

Though a lot of that growth will be covered in Turbo, so Andros, Zhane, and Astronema get more time to shine in Space

Turbo

Starting this off with my intention to make this as silly as possible.

At first.

First of all, this series takes place a year or two after the end of Zeo.

The story starts with Lerigot coming to Earth, having escaped the clutches of Divatox, a privateer in the employ of Dark Spectre, seeking his magic to summon the Maligore as a potential host.

She captures his family, but Lerigot escapes with the help of the Storm Blaster and Lightning Cruiser, two sentient cars from a magitek world, bringing along with them a set of Morphers and ‘Power Engine’ from that world which Divatox had bought off the black market.

(“I knew I should have destroyed them while I had the chance!”)

The Turbo Ranger powers are actually the same ones used by the Sentai Turborrangers, who themselves were from the same planet as the cars. (Yes I know there’s a black Turborranger and a green Turbo Ranger, let’s just pretend the Sentai Turborranger was green)

He makes his way to Earth, seeking Zordon, but finds himself in an Angel Grove bereft of Power Rangers.

But his arrival catches the attention of five overbearing, over emotional young humans, TJ, Carlos, Cassie, Ashley, and Justin.

All of the Rangers are aged up a little, with Justin being a young teen while the other four are college aged.

Lacking options, Lerigot gives them the Morphers in order to fend off a Pirahnatron Patrol and hopes they don’t explode.

Despite a steep learning curve, the Turbo Rangers rise to the occasion and foil Divatox’s plan…for now.

In the meantime, Zordon, having left for Eltar, sends Dimitira and Alpha 6 to Earth to oversee these new Rangers, just to make sure that they don’t get killed.

Lerigot and his family leave, but not before leaving the key to Maligore’s prison in Zordon’s collection within the Power Chamber

Shortly after, the Bowzark Space Pirates roll up to confront the Rangers, based more off their Sentai incarnations, including a Zonette separate from Divatox, who of course becomes TJ’s love interest.

For the first part of the series, it’s a lot more light-hearted than mighty morphin rangers, the Bowzacks trying to steal the Storm Blaster, Lightning Cruiser, the Morphers, Dimitria…anything they can get their hands on, really.

The Blue Senturion comes to Earth, briefly becomes a vigilante, and sorta mentors the Rangers between the silliness.

The Phantom Ranger arrives to reclaim the Turbo Ranger powers, but sees that they're capable (enough) and teaches them a little, eventually giving them the Rescue Megazord.

He’s trying so hard to not get attached and failing so miserably.

Also mentoring the Rangers is Rocky, returned to Angel Grove, and inadvertently Bulk & Skull.

Then Divatox returns, Havoc by her side, courtesy of Elgar calling her in.

She’s still perfectly hammy, but she starts sowing distrust amongst the already fractious Bowzacks, enticing them to join Dark Spectre’s ranks, and having the Rangers dispose of them.

Exhaus is captured by the Blue Senturion, and Zonnette agrees to testify against him in return for a reduced sentence, exiting the series…with Dimitria.

But this was what Divatox, and by extension, Dark Spectre’s forces were waiting for.

As they launch their assault on Eltar and allied worlds, Divatox unleashes Goldgoyle, destroying the Turbo Zords and weapons while raiding the Power Chamber, capturing the Power Engine, the sentient cars, and the Key to Maligore’s prison.

The Turbo Rangers arrive and try their best, but they’re overwhelmed and Divatox fulfills her promise to destroy the Turbo Morphers, before finally blowing up the Power Chamber.

What happens next occurs relatively close to canon, with Alpha 6 and the Rangers, sans Justin, headed off into Space with the last remaining artifact in Zordon’s collection: a space shuttle capable of Zord functionality, just in case.

In Space

Compared to the other series, I’m not gonna change much because of how good it is.

We do get a more action-y prologue, showcasing Dark Specter’s forces attacking Eltar, with Astronema and Ecliptor holding Zordon’s power chamber.

Zedd arrives, gloating that Zordon is stuck in his little tube since his back up Power Chamber on Earth is destroyed, and the rangers guarding it were de-powered and (as far as they know) killed.

He’s taken to the planet Cimmeria, but before the ship jumps into lightspeed, a familiar cloaked stranger sneaks aboard.

Divatox arrives and summons Maligore, allowing Dark Spectre to take its body.

When Andros first meets the Rangers, there’s initially some friction because they’re not the Power Rangers of Earth, who all seem to have disappeared.

The Rangers of Karovia (KO-35) are basically their version of Lightspeed Rescue, technologically created morphers and zords meant to act as a deep space rescue force, though as Dark Spector’s forces moved in, increasingly became freedom fighters and straight up combatants.

Andros and Zhane are on-and-off romantic, but Karovians are a lot cooler with polyamory, so Andros also has feelings for Ashley, and when Zhane wakes up and sees the chemistry between the two is just like ‘sweet! Girlfriend-in-law!

The Psycho Rangers are the twisted spirits of Power Rangers who turned evil (Like Psycho Green), practically insane at this point via the processes uses to make them monsters.

The Z-Wave does not wipe out all evil, but purges the evildoers who had tied their power to Dark Spector so intricately. All the minions and monsters die, as does Rito, being an undead being of Dark Magic, several others are given forceful adjustments to their point of view, and Zedd and Rita (Now Mistress Vile, as her father’s successor) barely survive do to Zedd’s…precautions.

The Rita Putty from MMPR is hit by the wave just outside of a little town called Briarwood, and is saved by a comforting voice, and the feeling of comforting magic...

Divatox and Elgar get those forceful adjustments, but that doesn’t mean they won’t return to their dastardly ways.

But still, the day is saved, and perhaps most importantly, the Astro Ranger’s identities are known, which has gotta have repercussions for the future.

#Power Rangers #PR136 #Power Rangers Turbo #Power Rangers In Space

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miraculousdeservesbetter2024 · 2 years

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Ok…how about Zoenette? Betrayal. “You tricked me…”

“It’s the only way that I could of gotten the earrings, Marinette. I’m…”

She catched herself before saying sorry. She doesn’t even know that “sorry” would work. After all, she basically lead Marinette on for months. Zoe was working undercover for Gabriel, or should she say Monarch now. It was his plan all along. His backup plan that he never mentioned to anybody until now. Zoe’s true purpose was to help this man at his true time of need one day. Gabriel finally acted on this since Zoe finally found out the truth…

Zoe attempted to walk away, with bee miraculous equipped and the earrings in pocket, but she suddenly felt a hand pulling her back by her wrist. Zoe looked back to find Marinette holding her back.

“Let go, Marinette.” Zoe said with a stern face.

“Don’t make this even harder than it has to be-”

“And then what, HUH??? Your going to go back to him and be released from existence!? Because that’s EXACTLY what’s going to happen if you walk away right now!”

Zoe froze and looked at Marinette with a look of stock at her statement. She then thought:

“Is..is she right?”

Is he going to do that? Monarch found out Ladybug’s identity a while ago. Instead of going straight to Marinette for her earrings or using Adrien, he and Natalie decided the best strategy was to use Zoe Lee, since it was more discreet and Zoe knew the truth.

The plan was simple enough: Zoe gets closer to Marinette, steal her earrings, and after everything’s done, she has served her purpose. So…that’s it? She’s just done and will be released from existence, just like Marinette said?

NO. She’s lying. She has to be. Lying to stall.

Zoe pulled away Marinette’s hand in anger.

“And what do you know!? You couldn’t even find out that Adrien was a sentimonster!”

Zoe turned her back on Marinette. She continued.

“You…don’t know the situation. He’s merciless, but…he cares. At least enough to not break his deal…with her.”

“With who?” Marinette asked.

Zoe quickly turned back to Marinette in a look of anger. Then she answered Marinette’s question with two simple words.

“My mother.”

“What???” Marinette said as her eyes widen and her pupils shrunk.

“…My mother…and him…they have a soft spot for each other. I can tell. At least from what I heard from her. My mom wanted to start over in New York, so she left Andre and Chloe behind to start another life. Only thing is…she wanted a child more than anything to be like her or to do what she says, or both. She wanted a child to make her proud, since Chloe seemed like such a chore to her.”

“The only thing is…my mom couldn’t have children anymore. She was…infertile. It was so bad…it took a toll on her apparently to the point that she left her husband behind. To leave Chloe behind…”

A tear released from Zoe’s right eye. Before it left her face, Zoe quickly wiped it away. Zoe continued her story.

“So she went to the only person that she knew that could fix that…She went to him. She asked him for his help and he agreed…on the condition that he gets something in return, and she agreed. So that was that. With his mysterious “miraculous” power, from a jewel brooch, he was able to grant her wish. He created a being out of the magic of the peacock miraculous…a…baby.”

“It was a sentimonster, as he called it. From that day forth, that baby was raised in a life of wealth and fame..but with no friends. No friends, but with a promise to get the ladybug and the cat miraculouses when that day came. The baby was sort of like a backup plan. She didn’t know this though, not until she went snooping into something that her nose didn’t belong one day…”

“Zoe, I…” Marinette didn’t know what to say.

Could this be the reason why she moved to Paris? Because the plan was finally setting into motion? How long did Zoe even KNEW about the miraculouses??? How much did she knew about the miraculouses!?

“It was then that the baby knew she was a sentimonster…and that baby is…”

“I DON’T CARE!”

Zoe looked back at Marinette, turning around to face her.

“I don’t care where you came from, who are your parents, your reasons for living, or that your a sentimonster!” Marinette shouted. Tears start to form in her eyes as she looked at the blonde. Zoe stared at her in disbelief.

“I…I LOVED YOU ZOE! I…still do!”

Zoe’s pupils shrunk.

“But you need to understand that Monarch doesn’t! He’ll use you to get what he wants and then throw you away like your garbage. Your nothing to him! And not your mother nor anyone else is going to change that-”

“Shu-Shut UP!” Zoe bald up her fists.

Is…Marinette right? Is she really just a pawn to Monarch? Does she exist to just be a pawn and to be all what “Chloe isn’t”? Did she tell Marinette to shut up because she’s wrong, or she herself wants to believe that she is, even though she’s right? She doesn’t want to believe it, but she’s starting to believe that she has no choice. She’s the sentimonster, not Chloe…

Zoe grew angry, frustrated. She finally spoke out after long thought.

“You don’t get it, do you!? I’m angry! I’m angry at my “mother”! She never told me this! No one who did knew never did! I don’t even know who I am anymore! I’m angry at eveyone!”

“I don’t even think I’ve ever been this angry. The ONE TIME that I’ve ever been this angry was how horribly my mom treats Chloe…how she tries to make ME the child that Chloe never was to her! I’m….I’M TIRED OF BEING NICE!” Zoe continued as she took a step closer.

“But none of that matters does it!? It never did because…I’m not even human! So what good am I if I can’t do the very thing that I was created to do!? It doesn’t matter if your right or not, Marinette!”

Marinette’s heart shank as she heard the pain in Zoe’s voice. Her heart felt heavy and her eyes filled up with more tears.

“Zoe…I get it. I get your pain and I get what your saying, but what do YOU want, Zoe!? So that’s it? Your going to let other people control your life and how you feel? So you haven’t felt anything for anyone or anything ever since you’ve existed?”

“What about Chloe?”

“What about Andre?”

“Everyone at school?”

“….Me?”

Zoe stayed silent.

“I get that your angry, but that’s more of a reason why that you need to decide what you want Zoe! Your not alone, just like how Adrien wasn’t…! You have friends and people who care about you! You don’t want to hurt them do you???”

Zoe grunted as she squeezed her eyes closed. “I…no! I don’t…I don’t know….”.

Zoe started to release all of her tears, letting them run down her rose tainted cheeks. She doesn’t THINK that she wants to hurt them. Similar to Adrien, It was never in her nature to hold such malice intent in her heart against people for long. She…liked her life ever since she moved to Paris.

Despite her mother making her a model in New York, she barley made an effort to truly know her daughter despite her whole intentions of having another baby. She just wanted to know the person that SHE wanted her to be, or the person that she COULD be. It’s like she was only there to be her reflection and nothing more. School was no better.

People were so mean to her at her old school. They put freaking cockroaches in her locker. It gotten so bad to the point where she thought that she had to lie to be accepted. That she had to be something that she’s not to be liked. When she moved to Paris, she thought the very same thing because of expectations that her sister expected from her.

But then…she met the others.

She met Marinette.

They showed her that she could make friends, that she could be happy, if she just be herself. Yes, there are mean and selfish people in the world, but not everybody.

She was…happy.

However…could she ever be happy ever again since everything that happened?

She betrayed her friends.

She betrayed her.

How does she know that they will accept her back? And Marinette…what about her? The girl that she liked…the girl that she…

Loved?

How could ANYONE forgive her after this!? They complain about Chloe siding with Hawkmoth, but she herself toyed with people’s feelings to get the miraculouses. She manipulated them. She stabbed them in the back. If they gave up on Chloe, what makes her think that they will give her a chance?

She’s worse than they claimed Chloe to be. Chloe had it harder than she did thought, as so she thought…she still has a chance to change because she’s just 14. There’s a silver lighting at the end of her tunnel.

But herself? She’s literally a monster. A sentimonster. They will never forgive her.

They will never forgive a monster like her.

She doesn’t have anything left at this point…but her mother and Monarch. They are all that she has left now. She’s a semtimonster, and sentimonsters are meant to obey…Some of her anger slowly channels towards herself.

“Zoe, come on! Let’s fix this together! All this mayhem, this destruction, the end of the world!? You don’t want that do you???”

Zoe slowly looked up and locked eyes with Marinette. Her eyes looked slightly soulless.

“Like I’ve said, Marinette. It doesn’t matter what I want anymore. In fact, like I’ve said, it never really did matter. I’m a sentimonster and that’s all that I’ll ever be…”

Zoe’s voiced slightly cracked.

“Monarch will get his Earrings and that’s the way that it’s going to be. There’s no use trying. He’s going to win either way….” Zoe continued.

“Maybe in a better world, maybe in another time…there will be a us?”

Zoe forced a painful smile, trying to look on the bright side of the situation, trying to hold back more tears.

“Zoe! Don’t! Please! We can still fix this! It’s not too late to do the right thing! You can still be with us! With me! It will be ok!” Marinette extended out her hand, hoping that Zoe will grab it as a sign of hope.

Zoe started to walk towards Marinette. She stopped in front of her and leaned in, going onto her knees. She started to lean in towards Marinette. Zoe kept a stern and dangerous look…

Marinette hold her hand back, slightly flinching and closing her eyes, fearing of what Zoe’s next move was going to be. She knew that she wasn’t going to grab her hand. What could she possibly do now that she hasn’t done!?

Then suddenly, Zoe put her right hand on the side of Marinette face, then Marinete felt something pressed up against her lips…

Zoe kissed her.

She then used her other hand to hold Marinette’s face in for a more heartfelt kiss. More like a goodbye kiss?

Marinette opened her eyes quickly as she tries to grasp the situation at hand. When she realized what Zoe was doing, she…relaxed a bit? She closed her eyes slightly, wanting to just melt away in the moment between the girl that she liked. She thought that she liked Adrien, maybe she still does? But Marinette knew that she liked Zoe Lee. Maybe even love?

Yeah….love.

But…deep down…Marinette knows that she shouldn’t be enjoying this as much as she should. This might be the end, and the end of Zoe Lee.

Zoe leaned back as soon as she was done kissing Marinette. With her hands still on her cheeks.

“Zoe…I…don’t understan-”

“I love you too, Marinette.” Zoe said, interrupting Marinette.

“In fact…I always did. Ever since I met you, I liked you.”

Marinette was almost lost for words.

“Zoe…I-”

“But some things aren’t meant to be.” Zoe countined.

“You don’t have to lie to me anymore, because you like Adrien, remember?” Zoe forced a smile again to hide her true pain. She suddenly pulled her in for one final hug.

“It will be ok, Marinette. Maybe one day, in some crazy way in another world, we’ll meet again. Hawkmoth will create another world, and maybe all this pain will go away, right? You don’t have to be Ladybug anymore, maybe I’ll be human, and maybe we can be happy with all of our friends, even Chloe!”

Zoe paused, and then continued.

“And maybe there CAN be a…us? But for now, this is our reality...”

Zoe broke their hug, rising up from the ground in which Marinette laid, holding onto Marinette’s hands until she finally let go.

“Goodbye, Marinette. Thanks for being my friend. I hope we meet again someday, ok?” One last tear finally ran down Zoe’s face until she finally turned around, walking towards Monarch, her creator’s destination to meet up with him.

“Zoe! Don’t go! It doesn’t have to be way! We can stop this-”

Marinette tripped on the broken street around her. She was too weak to get back up. Tears filled her eyes as she looked up at Zoe’s figure, as it slowly started to fade away.

“Zoe, please…”

Zoe looked back, smiling slightly until she continued to walk away from the girl that she loved…

“ZOOOEEEE!!!!” Marinette shouted.

She continued to look at Zoe from afar until she couldn’t see her anymore…

Marinette banged on the pavement under her with both of bald up fists. She dropped her head, as she started to hysterically cry, in the broken city around her…

Miraculous Ladybug AU where Zoe was a sentimonster.

Send me a writing prompt idea.

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