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Prologue 1 - The Senshi

        Sleep.  To one such as Usagi, it was bliss, because unless you 
have nightmares, precious little can disturb you in your sleep.  Sleep 
was like eating those potato chips.  You can eat just one and you can't 
have just one more minute of sleep.
        Sadly, sleep had to leave.  Usagi opened her eyes slowly and sat 
up.  She smiled as she was completely calm.  A good night's sleep can do 
that to you.
        Then, she calmly turned to her alarm clock which proudly 
displayed the number "8:18".  The feeling of calm vanished quicker than 
bad magician who has p.o.ed his audience.  Usagi screamed, checked her 
alarm clock again, then literally leapt into her school uniform, grabbed 
her school bag, pulled both hangers out of her school uniform and raced 
downstairs and out the door while grabbing the piece of toast that her 
mother was holding out of for her.
        In a blaze of fire and smoke, Usagi dashed to school.  She was 
late again or so she thought.  Little did she know that her mother had 
taken to setting her alarm clock ahead every morning and changing it 
back while she was at school.*

        "I'm impressed, Usagi, you seemed to have been able to get to 
school early every day this week." Mrs. Haruna commended.
        Usagi blinked.  She hadn't even noticed until the tardy bell 
rang that she was indeed early.  She just thanked her good fortune that 
she was getting faster.
        As class started, the students found themselves bored more than 
usual by Mrs. Haruna's lecture.  Ami began typing up a few more reports 
on her Mercury computer.  Makoto found herself studying her hair.  Usagi 
and Naru fell asleep.  Umino searched the internet.  All in all, it was 
a dull day.**

        Minako yawned as she walked up the steps to Rei's temple.  Her 
day had been just as exciting as Usagi's.  Dull.  From the look on Rei's 
face as she neared the top, it was going to get a lot more exciting.
        "What's up, Rei?" Minako asked.
        "Trouble." Rei said.
        "Really?  Cool-OW!" Minako cried.
        Rei looked down at Minako, who was clutching her left ankle.
        "What's wrong?" Rei asked.
        "Nothing much.  I think I just twisted my ankle is all." Minako 
said, standing up and hobbling with Rei to the main building.

        "A new enemy?" Minako asked Ami as Rei bandaged her ankle.
        "Yes." Ami replied, tapping some keys on her Mercury computer.
        She showed the screen to the others.
        "Ami, what's this 'Protect the Innocent, Uphold the Law' stuff?" 
Makoto asked, pointing towards the bottom of the screen.
        "What?  Where?" Ami asked, turning the computer around and 
looking at it.
        Ami looked at the screen for a few seconds, before turning it 
around again.
        "You must be imagining things." Ami said.
        The other four senshi looked at each other before deciding to 
just ignore it.  What they saw was a map of the solar system and there 
was a large number of dots passing the asteroid belt.
        "Ummm, I think we're in trouble." Rei said as she counted the 
dots.
        "No kidding.  18 large craft.  They probably carry upwards of 2 
million soldiers of various semi-magical abilities... each." Ami 
commented.

Prologue 2: The Power Rangers

        "Alpha 5, contact the Rangers immediately." Zordon commanded.
        "Right away, Zordon." Alpha 5, the third generation prototype 
android, replied.  He might've been impressive if his creators weren't 
up to the eighth generation production model already.
        Alpha 5 tapped a random button and spoke, "Rangers, come to the 
Command Center right away."
        The computer, being far more intelligent that Alpha 5, sent the 
message anyway and ignored the self-destruct sequence activation.  Three 
beams of light landed in the command center and formed into Tommy, Trini 
and  Kimberly.
        "Where are Billy, Jason and Zack?" Zordon asked.
        "Um....." the three Rangers said, looking at each other.
        "What is wrong?" Zordon asked.
        "They fell down a stairwell?" Tommy asked.
        "Not AGAIN!" Zordon said, rolling his eyes.
        Yes, the Red, Black and Blue Rangers had been mugged again.

Prologue 3: The Military (taken from the Nameless Saga and the Nameless 
Author who wrote it.  So sorry I couldn't think of anything original to 
put in here.  I'm not worthy!  I'm not worthy! =])

(Scene changes to the inside of an American military 
installation buried deep under Mount Badass, Idaho. Several 
worried looking people in uniforms are tending monitors and 
flocking about a fellow with lots of brass on his collar.)

Scrolling Text: (in a nifty, Tom Clancy-like teletype effect) US 
DEEP SPACE INCURSION PREVENTION INSTALLATION (USDSPI), 
IDAHO, MT. BADASS, 0023 HOURS

Officer 1: (clipped tones) The object has cleared the orbit of Mars, 
sir.

General: Does it conform to the specs of any of the 235 races we 
know of?

Officer 2: No sir. We've never seen anything like it. Should I have 
the fleet move out from behind Venus?

General: We don't have a fleet behind Venus, soldier.

Officer 2: Yes we... oh, I see. Quite right, Sir.

General: (irritated) No, I'm not being subtle! We don't have a fleet!

Officer 2: If you say so, General.

Officer 1: (bending over a monitor) Object trajectory will bring it 
to somewhere in the eastern Pacific, General.

General: Right. Get me ComPac on the horn, I want to speak to 
CINCPac.

Officer 3: ComPac is being repainted, General, and CINCPac is in 
labor at the moment.

General: (incredulous) Admiral Arthur MacMarlon is in _labor_, 
soldier? Are you aware of the penalties for drug abuse on duty?

Officer 3: (apologetically) He took a goodwill tour to China about 
a year ago, and was visiting these cursed springs....

General: (disgusted) The NinComPac.

Officer 1: (straightening) Sir! Object trajectory will bring it to... 
Juuban District, Tokyo, Japan.

General: (disappointed) Oh. Okay, cancel alert status.

Officer 1: Sir?

General: (shrugging) Juuban gets aliens every year or two. Nothing 
to worry about. (turns to Officer 2) Now... care to tell me about 
this battle fleet we have off Venus?

Officer 2: (unruffled) Like the General said, we don't have any 
battle fleet off Venus.

General: Grrrrrr......

(Fade to black.)

Prologue 4: The First Insert

        "Welcome to the jungle, we got fun and games, we got everything 
you want, so...blahblahblahblahblahblah....Welcome to the jungle-aw why 
do I even try?" he asked himself before taking another shot of beer.
        Driving down a road for hours on end with no one to talk to can 
make anyone act funny.  He could've sworn that the last three people he 
hit were characters from South Park.  He drove on.  Right into a 
lake.***
        Then, he noticed someone knocking on the window.  He looked over 
at the Police officer.
        "You drunk?" The officer asked.
        "How many sober people do you see drive into a lake in the 
middle of the day?" he asked sardonically.
        "You'd be amazed.  Just don't start any trouble and I won't even 
bother giving you a ticket." The officer said as she was feeling good 
that day.
        The tow truck arrived in two minutes and pulled his car out of 
the lake.
        "Okay, sparky, no more drinking and driving and I'll let it 
pass." She told him.
        "Right.  No more winking and diving." He replied as his drunken 
haze began clearing.
        "Ha.  Ha." the officer said humorlessly before turning to the 
tow truck driver, "Tow the car to the nearest hotel.  I'll follow you."
        As the car was towed by the truck, the officer pulled him into 
her car and put him into the back seat.  He struggled for a few seconds 
before slumping over and falling asleep.

        He woke up and looked at the alarm clock.  He blinked.  Since 
when did he have an alarm clock?
        "Good morning.  You feeling better?" she asked.
        "Um, yeah.  Uh, I didn't get raging drunk and drive into a lake, 
did I?" He asked.
        "Yeah, you did.  Your car's been cleaned for free.  By the way, 
I never caught your name." she said.
        "Ben.  You?" he asked.
        "Sarah." she replied.****
        They shook hands.
        "Um, where am I?" Ben asked.
        "Angel Grove." Sarah replied.
        Ben blinked.  Wasn't that the same city as that sentai Zyu 
Rangers or whatever it was?
        "Oh, and here are your gold coins.  They must've fallen out of 
your pocket." She said, handing him two coins.
        One had a stegasaurus on it.  The other had a diplosaurus on it.
        [The hell?  These look like those cheesy power coins.  Heh.  
Wonder if I could transform?] Ben thought.
        "Um, here, why don't you hold on to this one?  As thanks for 
helping me out?" Ben asked, handing her the diplosaurus coin.
        "I really shouldn't.....but what the heck?" she asked, taking 
the coin.
        Suddenly, they were enveloped in beams of light and were carried 
off.

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        Well, that's all I've got as a starter.  Remember, things don't 
have to make sense....much.  Just have fun with it, okay?

* - I believe the school day in Japan starts at 7:30, but I'm not clear.  
Usagi probably wakes up at about 7:26 and it probably takes her about 5 
minutes to get to school.  At least, that's my opinion.

** - Rei and Minako do NOT attend the same school as Usagi, Makoto and 
Ami, unlike what you think or have seen in the "The Venus 5" (BTW, GET 
YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER!).

*** - You don't have to get THIS elaborate, but it's nice to be 
ridiculous.

**** - Hey, in Sentai, the police are always kinder than they would be 
in real life.  In spades.  If I recall, there was a few times when I saw 
them get a few speeding tickets and get out of them.

        A-kun, signing off, cause if I don't, I'll get whapped over the 
head with a lead pipe.

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