Welcome to Gaia! ::

This is where missions are dealt out to cadets and even the staff. This is a special room within the Admiral's office and is often referred to as the 'War Room' of the Academy. Lining the walls, for the most part, are numerous monitors each with a designated planet and satellite feed. On the ground level are computer systems that help pinpoint anything to an exact point. Manning each station were robots that looked somewhat like Alpha 5 In the center of the room is a massive ovular table with multiple rather comfy seats evenly spaced apart with a decal of the Power Rangers logo located at dead center.

Ayame was the first to arrive. She wore her normal cadet uniform, mines the jacket. Which she had left in her dorm room.

Zale walked in a moment later wearing a fifth year cadet uniform. 'Least I'm being sent out for once.' he thought as he moved to a wall and waited.'

"Weird huh?" OJ said to Andrea as he arrived with Cosmo. "I guess since there's so many of us, it's bound to happen that a few of us are gonna get called in." He said. "Hey Ayame and Zale." He said before Noah crashed into him. "And hey Noah.." He said before getting up.

"Hey OJ!" Noah said happily. "WHOA! Zale! I can't believe we get to go on a mission together." He said smiling.

"Sure hope we'll be back before Hana's birthday." Cosmo said as he sighed softly looking around for who would show up.

"Zero Alpha reporting for duty." A male standing at six feet and six inches said as he saluted. His upper body was like a rabbit's while his lower half was that of a wolf's. His dark indigo fur almost appeared black in the lighting while his brown eyes appeared to be hidden under his platinum hair with bangs covering part of his right eye. Obviously, he was one of the children born from Delta and Omega. "It is good to see many of you." He said looking around the room.

"I hope I am not late." Triana said as she arrived.

"They would not start without us." Archer said as he entered following Triana. For an Alpha, Archer was more human in appearance than animal. His skin was along the same lines of his mother while his eyes resembled more of his father. Though he possessed human ears, he also possessed a canine tail looking much like his father's. His hair was the same length as his mother's but was green much like his father's fur. For anyone who could not tell, Archer was the son of Lucky and Trini. "Greetings everyone."

"Is everyone here?" Chase asked as he entered with Cassidy, Zedd, and Cain.

"I think Hera's the only one missing sir." OJ said.

"I can't tell you yet sis." Cosmo said teasingly as he smiled at his sister.

"Yup. Sims are one thing, but an actual mission is always another story.

"There you are Gerald. Looks like you'll be the leader for this team." Cassidy said smiling at him.

"Whoa! So didn't need to hear that." Triana said blushing as she looked at Hera.

"Glad you could make it sis." OJ said to Hera.

"You're welcome Gerald. And you can call me Cassidy like everyone else."

"I'm sorry, but I can't. You know I like surprising you." Cosmo said smiling.

"Alright. Now that everyone is here, we can go on with the mission briefing." Chase said after clearing his throat. "This mission, like all others, will be a test of your abilities and teamwork skills. Some of you may have never worked together before. Some of you may have never met before. And some of you may not like each other, I dunno. But you are all here to work as a team to help protect those that need protection from the forces of evil. This time, we have received a distress call from a planet called Bounty. We know very little of this planet except that it is mostly forested on land. Along with this, there are humanoid beings living amongst theses forests. It appears that they have recently come under numerous attacks by another alien race known as the Volgara who are allied with the Dantarion race."

"Basically, what we do know about the Dantarions is that they look like creatures out of those Godzilla movies." Cassidy said. "From what we received in th distress transmission, the Volgara have been using warp or 'phantom' technology to travel instantaneously from their homeplanet to Bounty. Once on Bounty, the Volgara attack the cities and destroy the forests, you know, usual evil alien stuff. However, the planet has but three defenders who have defeated the Volgara at every turn...that is except for now. Now that the Volgara have stopped sending their scouts, they've been sending their soldiers in to remove all in their path. Furthermore, they have been attacking in more than one place which means that the three defenders are up the creek without a paddle. The military forces on the planet are....oh c'mon, this is pretty much exactly like any other giant monster movie, the military is completely f'ing worthless in every possible way. Best they can do is evacuate people."

"Aaaaanyways...this is where we come into the picture. And by 'we' we mean you guys." Chase said. "Your job will be to assist the defenders of Bounty from this invasion. This may, in fact, end up as a war between Bounty and the Volgara home planet. SPD has also informed us that they too will send a couple teams to assist in the matter so you are not alone. If the mission conditions worsen, then another team will be sent to assist you if not rotate you guys out of there."

"No way sir. We'll see it through to the end." OJ said. "No way I'm gonna run when the goin' gets tough. It'd be an embarrassment to the heroes of the Rhapian Liberation War."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Noah said. "You mean we're being sent in to help put an end to a war that is basically about to begin?"

"Somewhat yeah." Cassidy said.

"Will there be giant robo action?"

"Well the Volgara do use giant robots for their attacks."

"I am so in."

"Your secondary mission will be to capture a live Volgara and/or one of their mechs. We know very little about these beings and capturing them alive would be helpful to understand them. Though a dead one may also be helpful as well." Cassidy said. "Any more questions or concerns?"

"Well if there machines can't we just. I don't know take the memory core instead?"

"Is it wise for us to do that?" Ayame asked.

Andrea says, "Yeah, how do we keep Dantarions from attacking us. How do we keep them from contacting any of our enemies and dragging us futhur down the dark road? WHen did we become the the Nazi Axis of Evil?"

"Andrea....you're making me want to punch you so badly for that last remark..." Cassidy growled shaking.

"Me too. That was just so wrong..." Zero said shaking his head.

"Calm down Cass. You too Zero." OJ said sighing. "That's the way things are Andrea. Where there's evil, we Rangers are sent there to stop it. Where one evil is stopped, another appears. it's all about balance and since we can't destroy evil without destroying good, our place is to defend those that need our help. We aren't the military so get that through your head sister. We're simply a defense force that gets sent out to aid the defenseless and the weak."

"Anyways, what Ranger Powers are we taking for this mission?" Archer asked.

"We figured that it would be best to take the Zeo powers for one group due to the Super Zeo Zords and their ability to act as individuals outside of the Megazord formation. The second group will be using the Mystic Force Powers, again for their individual zord combat capabilities." Cassidy said.

"Okay. So the first six get Zeo and the others get Mystic. Fine by me." Cosmo said. "I love magic."

"Ayame. Since you're the odd Ranger out, you will be utilizing a different Ranger power that your father developed long ago. You will be the Serpent Ranger. Your zord will be Serpenterra. It has been modified to support its own Megazord form for close range combat. Coincidentally, you will all be traveling on the Serpenterra." Chase said.