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PANEL representatives have concluded that there is no longer a risk to the world and on an even greater scale the universe from any new evil legions for the foreseeable future due to the action of PANEL Rangers. Their findings have been turned over to the United States Department of Defense, for further confirmation of the findings to be as stated. This message is to be destroyed upon reading.
Head PANEL Official-
Thomas C. Oliver
PANEL Officials-
Kimberly Hart-Oliver
Jason L. Scott
Trini Kwan-Scott
Rocky Desantos
Aisha Desantos
T.J. Johnson
Andros
PANEL Consultants-
Adam Park
Katherine Hilliard-Cranston
Billy Cranston
Tanya Sloan
Cassie Chan
Ashley Hammond
Justin Stewart
Carlos Vallertes
As well as several members from other various ranger teams, who wish to keep their names out of a memo that will surely not be destroyed, because of the idiotic government policies, which include a need of paper trail for everything that it works on, even if the matter is said to be top secret.
PANEL Chosen Power Rangers-
*Madeline Andrews- Leader, White Ranger
* Maddox Oliver-2nd in Command, Red Ranger (Of no relation to Thomas J. Oliver or Kimberly-Hart Oliver)
Garrett Rapier-Blue Ranger
*Samuel Williams- Black Ranger
BethAnn Hollis-Pink Ranger
*Indicates Military Services Members who have served as PANEL rangers, their records are to not show any affiliation with the PANEL according to Article 5.4B of the PANEL conception manual of guidelines, provided by the United States Armed Forces.
The Power rangers Against New Evil Legions, henceforth known merely as PANEL, was formed by the United States government in the fall of 2005, after the last ranger team appeared on the North American continent as a means to gather knowledge of issues that might again make the need for rangers imminent. Officials dug through years of paperwork to confirm the identities the Power Ranger�s and which rangers had the merit to be placed on the PANEL. Eight Power Rangers now sit on the PANEL with access to all rangers of the past without having to disclose their identities to the government unless they are listed as a PANEL consultant, which are only listed under the person�s knowledge and agreement.
The PANEL�s first mission was to determine exactly how much danger the Earth was in on a relative scale compared to the past from the evil beings that exist to try to take out our home. Very little had been done until this point to try to confirm or deny any new activity and the following two years were spent going through data and formulating a statistical layout for all senior government officials to review and come to their own basic conclusion as to what action should be taken. The PANEL was only to be used as an informational resource until a specific time when it would become necessary for there to be rangers again.
The senior government officials looked over the paperwork for over six months, most of which confused them to the point that they had to have a ranger there to interpret it all for them. After long consideration the plan to procure rangers was approved and thus the PANEL Power Rangers (known to the general public as the Elemental Force) was formed. This is their story.
Spring 2008
Undisclosed Location, California
�Good morning, Dr. Oliver,� Madeline Andrews said as she walked into his dojo for one of her weekly torture sessions. This was the one thing that saved her from having an emotional breakdown right now and she was grateful that she had been able to find this place. She had never thought that she would get back into martial arts after joining the military, but now it was the one thing that allowed her to have a normal day.
�Sgt. Andrews,� Tommy said, curtly, as he continued talking to his wife. They both looked extremely tense, but that was not too out of the ordinary. They had looked like they were worried about things for months now and she was sure that that was not healthy for Kim right now.
�They want Power Rangers by the end of the week Tommy,� Kim said as Tommy merely nodded. He knew that all too well, but he didn�t want to have to talk to them about it. He didn�t see why it was even necessary to get a ranger team when the Earth had not been attacked yet. Sure they knew that it was imminent, but the rangers didn�t do it like this, they waited until they were attacked and then they went out and got rangers. The people that they were working for now were messing up their entire system of being rangers.
�Sgt. Andrews is the first on my list, Kim, along with two other military members that Jason and Rocky are obtaining as we speak. The other two are civilian, so we�ll have to hope that the others can convince them, although they both seemed to like the idea,� Tommy said as Madeline walked back into the room and Kim raised her eyebrows at him wondering when he was going to get a move on about all of this. They didn�t exactly have a whole lot of time left to waste, considering what would happen to them if they did not meet the expectations that they were being placed on them. �Don�t look at me like that.�
�Yeah, do what you have to do and you won�t have to worry about my looks anymore,� Kim said as Tommy just shook his head and walked towards Madeline with a communicator in one hand and a power coin in the other. He could only pray that she would not chunk them back at her when she saw what it was and he told her exactly what was going on.
�Hey, Tommy,� Madeline said as she continued to stretch and he tossed the two items to her. �Nice, a watch and a ratty old coin, who are they for?�
�You,� Tommy said as Madeline looked over at Kim hoping the older woman would deny it. She would be thankful if it would be denied. Things definitely did not seem like they were going to go well at all.
�What is it?� Madeline asked, picking the coin up and it glowed white as Tommy and Kim smiled. They both knew that this was exactly what would happen when the right person took the coin and they had only hoped that they had picked the right person for each coin. �Um...what�s going on here?�
�You�ve been chosen by the PANEL to become a Power Ranger, the government already knows and agrees to your appointment, so it will not interfere with your service. We want you to be the leader,� Tommy said as Madeline dropped both items and Tommy smiled. He had expected this much from her, at the very least, when he dropped that particular bombshell on her.
�Panel?� How long have I been pegged for this?� Madeline asked looking Tommy directly in the eyes. She wanted to see if he was lying. She knew that his eyes would give him away, or so Kim said.
�The moment you walked in and showed potential. I know being a ranger probably is not very high on your list, but we were given the ability to search through all the branches of the military and you and two others were selected, as well as two civilians,� Tommy said as Madeline just shook her head. This was absolutely crazy. There was no such thing as Power Rangers. She knew enough about the system to know that much to be true. They had to just be a myth that was kept alive for children and Tommy just had to be pulling her leg about being a ranger. �By the way, you control the power and how much you use and how it comes out of you. You are the human element.�
�Can I just think about this at work?� Madeline asked as she stood up and looked between Kim and Tommy. She suddenly did not need to do any sort of karate. She needed to go for a long walk, away from here, and think all of this crap out.
�You can think, but you�ve been chosen, there is not much you can do about it right now,� Tommy said as Madeline slipped the communicator on and slipped the coin in her pocket.
�That first day was rough,� Madeline remarked to the government official that came to interview her, as well as her colleagues. They did not know much about why they were being interviewed, although they had put more together over the last few days that they had been together, isolated from the rest of the world and especially from contacting their mentors. They could figure that it had to have something to do with them, but they couldn�t see how that could be the truth, considering everything that their mentors had done for them, but that was just in their opinion. Very few people were able to see exactly what the mentors did and although there had been times that they had questioned their actions, they knew that they had done the best that they could, otherwise they would not be sitting there today.
�The first week is more like it,� Maddox said as Madeline nodded. The two of them wound up out ranking a Lieutenant as rangers, but they still had to answer to him in their regular job. It was definitely something that took some getting used to and some very tense conversations with supervision so that they did not kill each other.
�There were some interesting concepts that we had to learn to live with,� Sam said as they looked over at him. They both had to keep their mouths shut or they were going to say something that would surely get them kicked out of the building before they even truly got started. �Thank goodness our days as rangers are over.�
�Don�t the three of you get started,� BethAnn said as the interviewer looked over at her, surprised by her heavy Australian accent. He had assumed that all of the rangers were American, but he was obviously wrong in that assumption as she was the first to speak with a foreign accent and he was still not sure if she was the only one. �We�re here to go over the experience, not fight about who was in charge and why some of us think that they would have been better in those particular positions.�
�Well, I guess we need to go to the first fight at the base then,� Madeline said as Maddox and Sam nodded in agreement. Their introduction to the ranger world was something that they would never forget for the rest of their lives.
Madeline drove through the base on her way to class. She had never imagined the welcome she had gotten at the dojo this morning from Tommy. She wondered who the others might be, why she was chosen and so many other things that she was sure that she would never get an answer for. She, however, did not have the time to luxuriously think about all of the possibilities and try to narrow it down. She knew that as soon as she rounded the corner and entered the lower part of the base.
�Crap,� Madeline said as she reached over for her hat and top, but she was pulled out of her car by Maddox before she was able to throw either on.
�Nice, isn�t it? Do you have any idea how much trouble we are in here?� Maddox asked as Madeline looked over at him startled that he was talking to her like he knew exactly what was going on. �They said that you would be here, I just had to find you.�
�What�s going on, why are you...� Madeline began to ask as he looked over at her, which made her realize what he must be. She had never thought that he would be pulled into this as well. He had always been in good shape, but he had never been the aggressive type, now he was a ranger and had to fight whatever the hell these things were that were attacking them.
�Yeah, I�m the fire element, so wind and water must be around here somewhere,� Maddox said, sarcastically, as the two of them began to fight as several of the other people ran for their cars or at least the gates where it seemed that the creature was not even attempting to attack. They wanted to get out of there as quickly as possible and honestly the rangers did not blame them.
�Don�t joke like that,� Madeline said as Maddox looked over at her.
�Who said I was joking?� Maddox asked as the two of them continued to do heavy damage, along with one other man. He looked vaguely familiar, but they were not paying too much attention to him, considering what they were facing. �What do you guess he is?�
�Darkness,� Madeline said after a moment of thought and then went back to her work. However, they were being overwhelmed and she felt something building inside of her and finally out of frustration threw her arms out to release the energy and watched as every being that was not a Power Ranger fell to the ground.
�What the hell was that?� Lt. Samuel Williams yelled as he approached the others who looked over at him, bewildered, as they now realized exactly who he was and wondered why in the world he was picked to be a Power Ranger. �Statute of Secrecy! Don�t you know a damn thing?�
�No sir, we don�t. I guess you were given the manual this morning and managed to read it before you came in to work today,� Madeline said as Tommy landed next to her and looked around at them. He had not expected to have to take on a fight so soon.
�Don�t ever call him sir again,� Tommy said as Madeline just looked at him. She had never thought that she would hear those words, but now she had and she wondered how long it would be before Lt. Williams exploded. �You are in charge here, so get used to it. This is not the military, although I don�t know what Jason told you to get you to take that.�
�Funny, I�m sure that the government would not agree to a finely trained officer such as myself...� Sam began as Tommy glared over at him and he promptly clamped his mouth shut. He only thought that Jason was tough, but this man struck fear into his heart unlike no other. He could almost feel the energy it was taking for him to hold himself back and that was something that took years to perfect before anyone else would feel it. He knew, he had tried to become that way and no one really was concerned when he said or did something ridiculous.
�You can�t bull shit your way out of things with me like you have with so many others,� Tommy said as he looked him straight in the eyes. �I�ve see you at times that they haven�t and I�m not impressed. This is my job to choose and they thought you would be wonderful and told me you had to come, so I had to take you. So trust me, you�ve got to prove yourself before we�ll even let you in the field.�
�I like this guy,� Maddox said as Madeline smiled over at him. This was why Rocky fought so hard for him. He could see things that the others couldn�t and he was likely to just smile and shake his head if something was wrong. They needed that balance as Madeline and Sam were likely to be at each other�s throats for the next several weeks until things had gotten settled down some.
�We need to get going,� Tommy said again as he pulled up his sleeve. �Just hold the buttons and you�ll get there.�
�I�ll prove myself,� Sam said as Madeline and Maddox left. They were going to have a lot of fun watching all of this.