The first instalment of the Power Rangers Redverse written by Mad Red X 12, using suit designs from Himitsu Sentai Gorenger. Planet Eltar is a world where science and magic mingle together in a harmonious society, but trouble soon brews as their allies on Edenoi mysteriously cease communication. The Eltarians are confused as to this, but do not send communication units to investigate in the hopes of receiving word from Edenoi soon. After several months of silence, a single Edenoite technician limps to Eltar with terrible news - a evil morphological being named Ivan Ooze has taken over the planet!
Ivan Ooze is a evil creature made entirely of the purple substance known as "The Ooze", who has mysteriously emerged from nowhere and has already conquered several galaxies by enslaving their entire populations, now setting his sights upon the Shishi System that Eltar and Edenoi inhabit. He is able to produce limitless amounts of The Ooze to create his own Oozemen foot soldiers and Ooze Creature generals as his army, and to make matters worse, his marriage to Princess Bansheera of the Psyma Family grants him great armies of Demons at his command. Knowing that the Eltarian's magic and energy based powers will be naught on Ivan's forces, the lead scientist and wizard of Eltar, Barza, begins searching for a way to protect the various galaxies from the evil tyrant and his brainwashed army. During his travels, he stumbles upon a ancient temple and discovers ancient plans known as "Project Power Ranger", a plan to devise bio-armour that can be instantly summoned and removed at will, protect the wearer from all harm and grant them the power to destroy all that is evil. The Eltarian government accepts that this is their last choice, but the question is: Who is worthy of becoming one of the six planned super-soldier Power Rangers?
To prepare for this, Barza begins to train every guard in the hopes of that six of them will graduate and become the Power Rangers. However, Ivan and Bansheera have thought ahead and launch a massive attack upon the training facility, killing every guard. When Barza returns, he finds that the only surviving guard is his own son Zordon, who survived the attack by playing dead. With no other option, Barza bestows his son and Half-Hazardian granddaughter Dimitria with Power Ranger abilities, and uses a forbidden spell to recruit four champions to join them as Power Rangers. This spell brings to them Dulcea, a fierce female warrior from the jungle planet Phaedos; Lerigot, a light-hearted teenage wizard of the people of Yatheral; Ninjor, a mysterious and unusual space travelling cyborg ninja of unknown origin; and Zedd, named so by Zordon, a quiet and curious member of the newly evolved race of "humans" who hail from the barely acknowledged backwater planet Earth. The six use their "morphers" for the first time when Ivan launches another attack, and manage to repel it.
With this team being revealed to the galaxy, Ivan swears to destroy them and take over Eltar first for this action. Aided by a team of Eltarian scientists, wizards and engineers and operating out of the underwater Eltar Aquabase that also deters the hydrophobic Ivan and Bansheera from directly attacking the base, the Rangers must bond as a team and stop Ivan Ooze before he can gain complete control of the universe.
The Rangers of Eltar:
- Zordon/Red Ranger: The Hero, son of Barza and only survivor of the Eltar Guard, which were all slaughtered by Ivan's first attack, which he only survived by Playing Possum. An overprotective dad who possesses a Chronic Hero Syndrome and a Complexity Addiction and frequently forgets that some situations are No Place for a Warrior.
- Ninjor/Blue Ranger: The Smart Guy, a robot ninja of unknown origin (not even he knows where he came from) travelling the universe in his temple before being called to help on Eltar. A hyperactive Large Ham who is Allergic to Routine and tends to be a Competition Freak.
- Dulcea/Yellow Ranger: The Big Girl, a master warrior from the jungle planet Phados. Ill-tempered, too prideful to accept sympathy, Cannot Convey Sarcasm, cannot spit out her feelings for Zordon and so acts rude towards him, and is a heroic Blood Knight note .
- Dimitria/Pink Ranger: The Heart, Zordon's half Eltarian half Hazardian daughter from a previous relationship who grows into a adult when morphing. The residential Dandere who Does Not Know How to Say "Thanks" and has a Fear of Thunder.
- Lerigot/Green Ranger: The Heart, a teenage Black Mage from the desert planet Yatherel. Skilled, but Naive, Literal-Minded and a sufferer of a Inferiority Superiority Complex; a Running Gag is that his spells frequently tend to backfire in comical ways that typically get him hurt or embarassed.
- Zedd/Shadow Ranger: The Lancer, a primitive "human" from the barely acknowledged backwater planet Earth. Given how young his race is, he has little knowledge of the universe and spends most of his time just marvelling at everything.
Their Allies are:
- Barza: The Mentor, Zordon's father and Dimitria's grandfather, as well as the leader of Project Power Ranger.
- Axis: The Sole Survivor of a massacre on Edenoi and a major technician on the Eltar Aquabase.
- Gosei:
And they're up against:
- Ivan Ooze: The Big Bad of the series, a living construct of the Ooze, a destructive and all-consuming gooey substance that was formed from the death of a black hole. The self-proclaimed "Scourge of the Universe", Ivan has one goal in mind: conquest.
- Princess Bansheera: The Dragon, the eldest demon princess of the royal Psyma family and the wife of Ivan.
- Oozemen: Ivan's Mooks, less intelligent Ooze constructs with zombie-like mannerisms whose main strength is their numbers.
- Zolders: Black Star's Mooks, homunculi who possess more intelligence and combat prowess than the Oozemen but are not as expendable as the former.
Recurring Power Rangers Redverse Tropes:
- All Your Colors Combined
- All Your Powers Combined
- Big Bad: Ivan Ooze for the first season before being defeated, whereupon Vahil and the Black Star King take over as Big Bad for the second season. However, Ivan returns and swings back into the Big Bad role for the remaining two seasons.
- Big Good: Barza.
- By the Power of Grayskull!: (Colour) RANGER, GO!
- Calling Your Attacks
- Cool Bike / Cool Sidecar: The Three Machines, which are three motorcycles driven by Zordon, Lerigot and Ninjor which have sidecars for Zedd, Dimitria and Dulcea respectively.
- Finishing Move: Three, in fact:
- Ranger Storm: The Rangers pull out a soccer ball and kick it between them, charging up energy within it, before Zordon kicks it at the enemy.
- Ranger Hurricane:
- Ranger Bomber:
- Home Base: The Eltar Aquabase, which was specifically chosen because both Ivan and Bansheera can't take water. The Rangers also have a secondary Elaborate Underground Base underneath the coffee shop Snack Gon. Later in the series the Eltar Battle Tank serves as a tertiary Homebase.
- Humongous Mecha:
- Combining Mecha:
- Zord Jet + Zord Rocket + Zord Tank + Zord Racer + Zord Beast = Eltar Megazord
- Combining Mecha:
- Mooks: Oozemen in the first season, Zolders in the second, and both in the third and fourth.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Tropes specific to Ancient Guardians:
- Blob Monster: Ivan Ooze is a living construct of The Ooze, and the Oozemen are made from it.
- Butt-Monkey: Oh, Lerigot...
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- The series has a overall much lighter tone than the Darker and Edgier sequels, and is overall the closest in the Redverse in tone to an actual Power Rangers or Super Sentai series.
- The first season of the series didn't even have Zords - those weren't introduced until the second season, whereas in every other Redverse instalment, the Zords are always introduced within the first 6-12 episodes. The closest things to a Zord featured in the season are the Eltar Battle Tank and Eltar Battle Jet.
- Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Dulcea, being from a Proud Warrior Race, is the team's Big Girl, an expert warrior, and a decent tactician when needed. That being said, she's completely incapable of reading or writing (despite Phaedos using the Eltarian language), basic counting, solving the most basic riddles, or making food by herself.
- Second Love: Dulcea eventually becomes this to Zordon.
- Slime, Snails, and Mutant Tails: The Oozemen, which are basically semi-sentient purple ooze given humanoid form.
- Super Hero Origin: Part of the point of the series is Zordon's Character Development from an insecure, immature novice into a legendary warrior of justice and the franchise's Big Good.
- The Quiet One: Zedd, who spends most of his time in a state of stunned silence at the fantastical things that seem mundane to the other characters. When he does speak, it's usually to pass his Simpleminded Wisdom onto the others.
