On the Mafia planetoid, Bovile observed as Viperior, inside his Cobra Ship, departed to return home to his conquered planet Asmodeum. Now alone on the planet, following Technorg's body having gone inert the other day and been left standing in place, Bovile went over to a hidden array in his private room, pulling a lever and pressing a button to bring the machine to life, as a wavelength appeared on a holographic machine. "Ah Bovile, my most faithful disciple.", a voice came fro the other side, the voice of the Galactic Mafia's Boss. "How goes our current operations?"

"We lost a lot of good men following the Galactic Police raiding our warehouses following your sentencing.", Bovile answered. "We're down to only three Made Monsters to set up our new operations on Earth."

"Only three.", the Boss mused. "Depending on how much progress they achieve, we might just set up operations and resume our search for Team Boonboomger and the Solar Element. Which three remain in our reach?"

"Roadhound, Technorg and Viperior.", Bovile answered.

On Earth, at the secret base beneath the Kent house, Kit was being sat down along with George, Anna and Bobby. "I can understand you wanting to educate the new kids, but why us?", Anna asked.

"I realised that I never quite informed you of who we're actually fighting against.", Mover answered. "And only Bobby and Kit have met the Star Kats, so this will be educational to both pairs."

"After all, who knows when the Galactic Mafia will take us seriously enough to send down the big guns?", Lee pointed out. "Knowing your enemy can't hurt."

Mover then commenced the slideshow, with a slide focused on the Star Kats. "The Star Kats aren't officially or knowingly part of the Mafia. But that just makes them more openly destructive, as they think they're free to engage in wanton destruction to expand their territory in an intergalactic turf war with their rivals." He then changed slides to focus on the individual members. "Grillion is the driver of the trio. He used to be a trucker until his vehicle was towed, and he decided to turn his efforts to more evil ambitions. Kitten Pryde, or K.P to everyone who wants to save time, is the planner of the group, a former heiress who
left that stuffy life behind her for a freer, crime-based lifestyle. She has possession of an Overclock Key that creates Automobeasts out of random objects. And the last member of the group is Meowbile. I don't know much about him, but from what we've seen, he can absorb the energy from the destroyed Automobeasts, and when it's exposed to the energies of the Hyper Dimensional Road, ejecting that energy reconstitutes the monster it came from."

"Well that's just the guys we know, and they can be a handful on their own.", George spoke up. "So the actual Space Mob must really be a threat."

"You'd be right.", Mover nodded. "Above the Star Kats are the Made Monsters, but only three remain at large as of right now. First and most notable is Roadhound…"

At the Mafia Planetoid, Bovile was giving a similar rundown to the Boss to remind him of their minions' capabilities. "Roadhound was a veteran of the 35th Hyperwarp Campaign, until his squad left him for dead. After that, he used his expert tactical skills to organise the gang wars in Andromeda and arrange them in favour of the Star Kats. His managing to do this in relative obscurity attracted our attention and secured him a rank." He then turned the screen over to their next member. "Technorg was created 300 years ago by an alien species who never expanded into space while they existed. They created it to monitor their population and find ways to efficiently allocate resources in response to growth/decreases. But there was an issue…"

Back on Earth, Mover's slideshow was covering the same subject. "They didn't program their creation with the necessary compassion and regard for life. So it decided to control population growth through culls at regular intervals. But the computer knew it would face resistance that the planet's leader would encourage. So it turned the leader into a cyborg body for it to inhabit. But this failed to curb unrest in the way it intended, so Technorg decided the most efficient course of action was to end the population problem be ending the population."

"How horrible.", Bobby said, clearly revolted.

"Sounds like the Mafia saw how a rogue computer program could be of use and recruited it right after.", Kit surmised. "Now then, who's the last of the three?"

Mover then changed the slide to show the snake-esque member of the Galactic Mafia. "That would by Viperior, he's an Asmodean from the planet Asmodeum…"

Bovile continued with his own presentation. "Don't let his robotic appearance fool you. Viperior wears an exoskeleton to account for his lack of limbs beyond a lower jaw. Viperior's voice allows him to convince anyone he talks to to obey him through subliminal suggestions. At least 10 worlds we've conquered were because of his unique skills."

"So in other words, our organisation is down to its strongest and most determined members.", the Boss surmised. "You'd better ensure they're as capable as they present themselves, or I will be most disappointed when I get out." The communication ended.

"I will make sure, Boss.", Bovile nervously saluted. He then reset the communicator and reactivated it. "Attention, all Made Monsters. Orders from above indicate that you should prioritise Earth. Do you copy?"

"I already got the just of that when you sent me on the way to that water ball.", Roadhound was the first to respond. "Give it a few more days, and I should make planet fall."

"Roadhound planetfall: redundant.", Technorg joined the conversation. "I have already transmitted myself into an Earth-constructed temporary body to make preparations to control Earth operations."

"You weren't ordered to go to that planet, Technorg.", Bovile radioed. "But right now, I might as well send your main body to the planet via one-way teleportation. On the condition you defer to Roadhound when he arrives."

"This is why I stay so far away in space from my fellow minions.", Viperior radioed in. "So don't so much as attempt to summon me to Earth until my presence is necessary." He then hung up.

"New instructions: accepted.", Technorg nodded as they hung up the call. "Alternate interpretation. Wait for Roadhound to assume command, then usurp control."

Back at the Ranger base, the presentation had concluded. "So, what do I do now?", Kit asked. "Are you going to kill me, mind wipe me, recruit me as a Ranger?"

"I don't know.", George asked. "Do you want to be a Power Ranger particularly? Because we do have another Morpher in development."

"No, I don't think I'm that desperate.", Kit answered him. "But I have been thinking I should help you in some way. Maybe I'll become a Ranger, maybe I won't. But right now, it's not on my priorities list." He then turned and began to walk out. "Don't worry, this isn't goodbye. I'll keep your secret and I'm on call if you need me."

With him gone, the mood of the room turned pensive. "So are we going to go after him?", Anna asked.

"He'll make his choice soon enough.", Lee answered her. "He's just nervous right now. We all were when we started out. Even me. For now, let's just get some sleep. We all have work to get to in the morning."

A few months ago.

Lee was out in the woods, on a hike he'd been planning for a while. He'd called in sick so he could do it during the week, due to the weather forecast for the weekend calling for hail. While he was approaching the part of the woods that the local scout group often used for their camp outs, he saw that his brother was there. Lee cursed himself for not paying any mind to Gordon's mention that he was going on a company retreat that week. Evidently, they had made their way to the woods, and Lee knew that if he was seen, then his cover would be blown and he could be fired. So he turned around and made a dash for a deeper section of the woods that wasn't often visited. As he descended, he saw a flash in front of his eyes, before several tress were suddenly blown over and on fire. A croaky, mechanical voice filled the air. "Help me…"

Lee went closer to where the burnt trees were at their highest volume and found a cloaked figure with wires poking out from his chest. "You're a robot?", he asked.

"Not entirely.", the figure answered as he coughed. "I'm a biomechanoid. Born of naturally occurring gears and pulleys that evolved similarly to your microbes."

"Yeah, well I wouldn't stick around if I were you.", Lee advised him. "I'm not sure a robotic looking alien crashing in the middle of the woods would attract anything other than suspicion of another invasion."

"There is another invasion coming. From the Galactic Mafia.", the robotic man almost yelled. "I guess you and I will have to work to stop then, if I'm to take your advice and stay secret."

"Come on then, I'll take you somewhere you can get fixed up, Mr…" Lee then realised they hadn't introduced themselves to each other formally. "I never got your name. I'm Leon Kent, but you can call me Lee."

"I'm designated M0-VR.", the cloaked Mechanoid answered. "But like you, I can take on another name if it would be easier to say."

"We'll workshop something.", was Lee's response, as he realised they were about to begin a beautiful friendship.

The Present Day

George woke up in his bedroom, to find that Mover"s smaller module was on his desk, with a note tied to it. "Good morning to you, Lee.", he said as he turned a light on and opened the envelope.

George, my work at the embassy requires me to help mediate talks between the Heirs to the thrones of Europe for their new environmental initiative. So I'll be unavailable for the next 36 hours, and that means someone else will need to pilot Mover in the event a giant monster shows up. Try not to have fun without me.

George sighed. "I'm not even qualified to drive a real big rig.", he thought to himself. "Maybe I could palm this off on Anna somehow."

Out in the streets, Kit was walking to his job in construction, hoping to see what this week's assignment was. "Maybe I could be a Ranger. After all, they're currently a man short. But I'm not that good in a fight." He then saw some people walking into a restaurant with a waiter holding up a grand opening sign. A familiar waiter at that. "Isn't that one of the Mafia's goons? I'd better check it out."

As he moved towards the building, he saw that another greeter at the door was Grillion dressed in a tuxedo, complete with Meowbile wearing a bow tie mounted on his staff. "Welcome to Ristorante Kater! Home of the newest most experimental food in this spiral of the Milky Way.", Grillion announced.

Inside the restaurant, the waiting staff consisted of more Robolts, while over in the corner was what looked like a steel statue of an ape, with a crab hidden in its face with an upper half made up of various neon signs, depicting worlds like "Welcome" and "Hobby", along with what looked like a squid. Kitten Pryde then appeared in a female waiter's outfit. "Ah, another customer.", she said to Kit, clearly not recognising him from their failed Zord catcher plot. "I'll show you to your seat."

"No, that won't be necessary.", Kit answered. "I just came in here to use your phone." It was a passable excuse, since all 4 Rangers had given him their individual phone numbers, and he'd been in enough of a rush to get out he'd forgotten his own phone. He thus ran to a phone he'd sighted on the wall, picking it up and dialling Bobby's number. "This is an urgent message for the Power Rangers. There's a new restaurant being run by the Star Kats on Stern Street. Get them over here now-."

He was pulled away by what had appeared to be a statue, but was now very apparently a monster in disguise, presumably to work security. "Boss, I found a spy for the Power Rangers.", he growled as he threw Kit towards the Star Kats.

"They're working with human agents now?", Grillion questioned. "That seems weird."

"Very strange.", Meowbile nodded in agreement.

K.P on the other hand was livid. "I'm not going to let those spandex suited party poopers ruin our attempts at fame and fortune."

"We're a little late for that.", the monster pointed out. "But at least we have a hostage we can use."

K.P calmed down upon hearing this. "Douton, you're actually right. We do have the ball in our net."

"I think you mean 'court'.", Meowbile commented.

"Regardless, we're going to win this time for sure.", K.P announced. "I can feel it in my tight fitting waitress uniform."

At the Drive-In, George had successfully convinced Anna to take up the Trailer module. "I can understand Lee wanting to make sure one of us could call Mover while he was away.", Anna said. "But why would he ask you to give it to me? Why not simply leave it where I could find it?"

"Who knows?", George shrugged. "He did have to leave in a bit of a hurry."

Then, both of their Morphers appeared on their wrists, with the call function activated. But this time, it was Bobby on the other end. "Guys, I got a call from Kit. I think he got into trouble involving the Star Kats."

"Well for a guy who didn't want to join us, he's doing a good job getting involved in our business.", George commented. "Where did he call from?"

"I didn't quite hear where he said, but the trace indicates a restaurant on Stern Street.", Bobby answered. "One that just opened."

"That shouldn't be hard to find.", Anna said into the communicator. "We'll meet you there." She then yelled out to Mrs. Riley. "I'll be taking a lunch break." This was their agreed upon code for Ranger business.

"Be back soon as you can.", Mrs. Riley called back as the two Rangers ran outside.

Once outside, George and Anna moved to the side of the building, before removing the Morphers from their holders, before pressing down on the pedals three times. "Ready, Set, Morph!" They then span the wheels, completing their transformation and donning their Ranger suits. They then pressed on their pedals once more. "Acceleration Boost!" They then entered hyper speed, moving through the city in the blink of an eye.

At the police station, Bobby was about to head out and join them, only to run into one of the department's rising detectives, Anya Case. "Peeler, I need you to help me interview a suspect in that cannibalism case."

"No time.", Bobby called out. "I'm taking a break." He continued running, going out the door.

A frustrated Case leaned against the window. "He's been cutting out for the last few days. Where is he going?", she wondered. "And why is Commissioner Wheeler ok with it?"

She then opened the window to get some air, looking down to see Bobby holding out a strange device and saying "Ready! Set! Morph!", before transforming into the Black Ranger and vanishing after he touched his axe.

"No way!", Anya Case gasped, before catching herself before she could blurt anything out. "Officer Peeler is a Power Ranger?", she thought. "I'll need to tell the Commissioner."

At the Ristorante Kater, the three Rangers arrived. "Hey, where's Lee?", Bobby thought to ask.

"He got caught up in another commitment at the embassy.", was George's answer. "And yes, that is where he works."

"Meaning that we've got no leader for the next day or two.", Anna added. "But I don't think we'll need one to take down these guys."

The three walked up to the door, where Grillion and Meowbile were situated, with the two getting scared. "C-can we help you?", Grillion asked, scared for his life.

"Don't worry, this won't affect your Michelin Star rating.", George commented as he and the others pulled out their weapons, pointing them at the pair. "We just want to talk to the entire staff for a standard issue interrogation."

As if on cue, K.P emerged. "Ok, I think I'm going to need help preparing the food with the increase in…" Then she saw just who was standing there. "Ah, the Power Rangers, this is an honour. May I take your -."

"Drop the act, Kitten.", Anna stated coldly. "We know who you are, so there's no point pretending otherwise."

The demeanours of the three changed in an instant. "Well in that case, you're in danger.", K.P announced.

"Because you've never seen anything stranger.", Grillion added.

Both threw off their outfits, with Meowbile shaking off the bow tie. "The Playful Minx, Kitten Pryde!"

"And the liveliest of the live, Grillion!"

"Goin' for the Green, Meowbile!"

K.P and Grillion then entered a waltzing pose. "For those tired of this and that…"

The three then struck a pose. "You can count upon the Star Kats!"

"Okay, now let's cut to the chase.", Bobby said as he began tapping his Stick Saber. He knew the Star Kats had lost to it twice now, and that kind of defeat left a psychological scar. "Where's the guy you captured? Our informant?"

K.P merely laughed at this. "We'll keep that as our little secret so you can't touch us, no matter how much you want to."

"Yes, we'll never let it slip that he's at the cave underneath this building.", Grillion added, before realising his mistake and catching himself. "Oh dear."

"Ya did it now, pipe head.", Meowbile gulped.

"Thank you for that information, we'll show you out.", George said as he and the others inisitsted their attacks, sending the the aliens flying far away.

"We're out in the litter!", the Star Kats called out as they disappeared into the distance.

"Well you heard the man, let's head for the underground cavern.", George said as he led the others on.

Within a few seconds, the Rangers made their way into the caverns and found Kit tied up against the wall. "Kit!", Bobby called out as he ran towards his friend.

"No wait! It's a trap!", Kit called out.

Sure enough, Douton appeared to launch a pair of bolas that tied up Anna and George, holding them down. "Well now I can fill my purpose and destroy you Rangers.", he announced, as he realised something. "Where's the Red one?"

"He's not here.", Bobby answered as he switched the Stick Saber to sword mode. "I'll have to do." He tried swinging the weapon, only to be blocked by Douton's left hand, before the monster threw a kick and knocked him aside.

Then Bobby was caught by pincers that emerged from the monster's face, one of which began pounding at Douton's foe. "What's the matter? Don't you want to cut to the point?" Douton then threw Bobby to one side, with the Ranger landing on his back and rolling over. "You can't deny I'm a glow up compared to the other guys."

Bobby quickly pulled himself up. "I'm about to punch your lights out." He then started throwing energy waves with his axe, which Douton dodged for two, before launching his own beam at the third. Bobby took the opportunity to run through the flames generated by the clash to deliver a direct hit that knocked the monster back.

Douton then fell victims to multiple strikes from the Stick Saber. "Ow, this really hurts.", he whined.

"Monster up and deal with it." Bobby blocked a punch Douton threw at him. He then threw the monster around to his other side, before kicking him back.

"Perhaps I should tie you up like your friends.", Douton growled as he launched bonds similar to what he fired, lassoing one of them around Bobby's left arm, and the other around his right. "And I think you're in for quite a shock now!" He sent electrical energy down the ropes to attack his enemy.

But Bobby managed to stay standing. "Eveyone's depending on me to save them. I can't let them down." He did a backwards flip, sending energy wheels towards his captor, that knocked the ropes out of his arms, before hitting Douton again at full force. Both then captured Douton between them, floating him towards Bobby as he pressed down on the pedal of his Siren Morpher mounted on his Stick Saber. "Stick Axe Slash!" As the tires dissipated, Bobby slammed the weapon onto Douton, before doing a front flip to hit once more, wounding him.

"Looks like I've been dimmed.", Douton cried out as he exploded.

With the monster gone, his bonds vanished, allowing everyone to go free. "So I guess that next up for you is the giant monster battle.", Kit surmised. "Looks like we'll have to table me giving you my decision."

"I'm fine with that.", Anna said as she initiated the call function on her Morpher. "Mom, get ready for a Zord launch."

"Stop calling me that.", Mover answered. "Though I will do it, but not because you asked me to."

A few minutes later, both Mover and Meowbile had done their usual act, with the former facing down a giant Douton. "Police Pursuit Megazord, moving out!"

"Time for us to dim the lights.", Douton announced as he turned the sky from blue to black.

"Your mood lighting can't save you from me.", Mover declared as he pointed the guns created from Vision Van as Bobby piloted.

"We can't miss in this light.", Bobby announced as he had Mover leap to the side as he fired the weapons. But Douton very narrowly managed to dodge every shot.

"That was good, but time I turn up the brightness to full.", Douton declared as he generated giant neon images of a crab, a cat, a ghost and a Robolt, which crashed into Mover.

Inside the cockpits, the three Rangers were buffeted. "Hang in there, guys.", Mover called out as he was buffeted by the light images.

"And now it's time to heat things up!", Douton growled as he launched a flame attack from his mouth.

Mover was knocked back by this attack, but recovered quickly. "It's time we cut this guy's juice.", he decided.

"Good luck with that!", Douton announced as he launched the attack.

Bobby then had an idea. "Let's try spinning. He can't hit us if we're constantly moving."

"Good idea.", Mover nodded as he began spinning around at Bobby's inout, deflecting the light images and sending them flying to where he could shoot and destroy them.

"Oh no, I get billed for damaged lights.", Douton bemoaned.

"It's time we made you blackout.", Bobby said as he pressed the trigger three times as Mover moved his guns into position.

"Fire!", the three Rangers announced in unison.

"Rapid Fire Artillery!" Mover fired his cannons at Mover enough to wound him, before putting them in holsters on his leg.

"Hello darkness, my old friend.", Douton cried out as he fell down and exploded, with Mover turning around as the sky returned to normal.

At the police station, Detective Case ran into the Commissioner's office. "Didn't anyone ever tell you to knock?", Peter Wheeler asked, frustrated.

"Sorry, Sir. But I think this is slightly urgent.", Case said, out of breath. "Officer Peeler is the Black Power Ranger. I saw him change a few minutes ago."

Wheeler was not as concerned as she thought he'd be. "Oh I know that.", he stated bluntly.

Detective Case was shocked to hear this. "You do? How long have you known? And how did you find out?"

Wheeler sighed. "I think you'll have to sit down, and I'll have to call someone in."

Back at the base, Kit was meeting with the three Rangers. "So I've thought it over and… my answer is yes. I'd like to become a Power Ranger."

The Rangers weren't shocked by the statement, merely nodding in understanding. "Well, if it's what you want.", Mover said, breaking the silence. "But unfortunately, I haven't actually finished building the final Morpher. So you'll have to wait a while to get into action."

"Meaning that we're still on 3-4 members for now.", Anna surmised. "Great."

"I can live with that.", Kit said. "For now, I'll just help out whatever ways I can, such as finding any tips, acquiring any materials…"

"We get the picture.", George interrupted.

Bobby then went forward and initiated a hand shake. "Welcome aboard."

Kit reciprocated the gesture. "Glad to be aboard."