Saint's Hill

"Hoo, hoo, hoo," chuckled Owlmer as he descended from behind the man and landed on the right hand-rail of the bridge. He cocked his head, staring at Deacon with his big, golden eyes.. This guy is supposed to be a Power Ranger? he though to himself silently, He looks like someone dropped a mop on his head.

"Wuzzup?" Owlmer greeted him loudly. "Name's Owlmer. Are you Deacon Thomas?"

Owlmer closed his eyes and put a wing over his face. "That's always the first thing they say," he muttered, "'You can talk?' 'Owls can't talk!' 'How did you learn to talk!' on and on and on--"

He looked up at the human. "Yes, I can talk. It's a long, uncomfortable story, and it's not what I'm here for.

This city is going to get attack--SCRAAAWWWW!"

Owlmer flapped his wings hastily when the stranger touched him. He flew to the other side of the bridge and started screeching at the newcomer.

"Well then! I will take that as a yes!" Rick yelled and started walking away from the talking owl. "I wonder who at this school is going to be a new power ranger." He said and banged his metal stick on the ground and waited for something to happen.

Owlmer shook his head. "Odin's beard, what's his problem?" he uttered quietly.

"Uh, anyway, yes, I am the great and powerful Owlmer! Oooh!" He waved his wings at the football player for dramatic effect. "I have come to deliver a warning and," another dramatic pause, "an invitation.

I come on a half, er on behalf of the wizard Yolzor. Evil forces are soon to ascend on this city, and we need you to join a new team of Power Rangers!"

Deacon's jaw fell open as the owl complained about the apparently blatantly obvious question he asked. "My bad, homie. I don't meet many talking animals in this town." The cocky young man replied.

The owl looked to the indignant Deacon with a sigh "Yes, I can talk. It's a long, uncomfortable story, and it's not what I'm here for.... This city is going to get attack--SCRAAAWWWW!" Suddenly a strange man pounced from no where, snatching the owl up in his greedy paws before asking if it had anything to do with Power Rangers. In another flash the man had dropped the owl, walking away as if he was uninterested in the whole scenario, thwacking a metal rod against the ground in various places like some kind of maniac.

"What the...?" Deacon scratched his head, brow crinkling in confusion "I must be dreaming. Crazy dudes keep popping out of the bushes." He mumbled to himself.

The owl shook his head, ruffling his feathers in an annoyed manner. "What's his problem?"

"His problem? I'm the one talking to a bird." Deacon countered.

"Uh, anyway, yes, I am the great and powerful Owlmer! Oooh!" The owl lifted his wings sashaying to and fro like a magician "I have come to deliver a warning and," another dramatic pause, "an invitation: I come on a half, er on behalf of the wizard Yolzor. Evil forces are soon to ascend on this city, and we need you to join a new team of Power Rangers!"

The football player gave the owl a skeptical look, "Me? Are you serious?" After a moment of silence the wide infectious grin took over his face, crinkling the corners of his eyes and revealing a set of perfectly groomed teeth. (Years of braces had paid off) "Where do I sign?" Deacon laughed boisterously at his own joke, before pausing to think his face becoming more serious "I don't have to miss practice do I? Coach would destroy me."

"You might miss practice once or twice," conceded Owlmer, although he did not actually know what Deacon was talking about. "But it's for a good cause!"

The bird shrugged dismissively. "'Course, if you don't wanna' do it, we could find someone else."

Just then, what sounded like a loud jet-plane boombed overhead. It was no Earthly aircraft, though, as anyone who looked could plainly see. It was a massive saucer.

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Aboard the saucer, Trechera was shouting orders. "Stop us over their capitol building!"

The helmsman pointed out fearfully that he did not know which one that was. Trechera glared at him and said, "It will be the most opulent-looking one, of course. Idiot."

The helmsman nodded, "Of course, Your Majesty." He tapped some buttons, and the starship came to a halt over what he assumed to be the capitol building.

It was not the capitol building. City Hall was actually a demure, one-story structure downtown; the monolithic brick building the saucer came to a halt over was actually the Math & Sciences Building at the local college.

A hatch opened up in the belly of the saucer, and dozens of creatures leaped out of it, seeming to be unphased by their fall to the ground. They were pale, vaguely humanoid creatures, with no mouths and bright red eyes. They ran about on all fours like gorrillas. The students and faculty who had been enjoying an afternoon on the lawn in front of the building panicked, screaming and running either as far away as they could or inside to what they hoped was safety.

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From where they stood Owlmer, Deacon, Lottie, and Rick could not see what sort of chaos the attack was causing, but they clearly saw the saucer hovering over the college and the invaders dropping down from it.

"Aw, nuts, I'm too late!" Owlmer moaned as he lifted himself into the air. "Listen, go to Ministries Church, you know where that is, right?"

Most people in Saint's Hill knew where that was. The old, gothic building stood on the edge of town, abandoned for years. It was one of those places that everybody knew about, but no-one went to. "Get there, and shout 'Power Ranger!' Everything will be clear then."

With that, Owlmer flew off.

"Of course the football star gets to be a power ranger, what about the metal shop kids?" Rick muttered and carried the metal rod to the Church and climbed up to the very top and saw a lot of creepy looking monsters look up at him with there weapons in hand.

"Aww man I want to see this awesome fight go down, and maybe I could say that thing, oh what was it?" He thought and started to climb down and walked over to the church that the owl told that jock about and walked in just in time for someone to yell, Power Rangers Oh darn another Power Ranger rookie. Rick thought and thought about those words. "Power Ranger." He said softly and cracked his neck making a very loud popping noise.