CaptainManbeard

Power Rangers: Scarab Squad

Just gonna drop this here XD.

Power Rangers: Scarab Squad

My CS is up and ready to be looked over whenever you get the chance

@Keyblade87

Looks good! And I think it's pretty cool that we have Colton and Willa on the same team again XD.

Power Rangers: Scarab Squad

ARC I

WRATH OF THE DARK RANGER

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Cranston Manor
Angel Grove - Los Angeles, California, USA
Friday (Mid Afternoon), September 15th, 2023

As the front gate to the estate slid open, a silver Hummer EV packed with six teenagers passed through and began ascending the long circular driveway to the second floor platform. Behind the wheel was Zeek Cranston, one of his friends in the passenger seat, and then four others crammed in the back despite it only having seatbelts for three. This was a fairly normal occurrence though anytime they went somewhere together, like to the mall or the beach. In this instance, they had all just finished classes at Angel Grove High School and Zeek had invited everyone over to hang out.

“See? I told you guys Angus McSix was dope as hell!” he insisted as the music played through the speakers of the vehicle. He was moving his head along with the beat and drumming on the steering wheel with his thumbs as they came to a halt.

“Dad’s still in Egypt, Mom’s gonna be working super late at the station, and Billy is at a technical conference in Switzerland. So, that means we have the run of the place,” he explained with a grin as the six of them headed inside and grabbed some snacks from the kitchen.

After a few hours of them playing video games, listening to music, and goofing around in the living room, Zeek finally worked up the courage to tell them the real reason he had invited them over. “Hey guys, can you pause that for a sec? I have something important I need to tell you…”

Once he had their attention, he took a deep breath, and then blurted out, “I’m the Power Ranger! It’s me! I’m him, I mean. I’m the Power Ranger…” After a moment of silence, his friends began laughing hysterically, thinking he was joking. He frowned, and then stood up straight as a dark tar-like substance made up of millions of nanobots began oozing out of the pores on the back of his neck and crawling around his face and body, moving and shifting, encasing him in a suit of black and red beetle-like armor. Throughout the process, scarlet electricity crackled all around him.

“I told you,” he said in a mechanized voice that sounded almost alien as they all stared at him in shock. “I’m the Power Ranger. And I need your help…” He depowered his suit and left the room for a minute, returning with a large backpack. He opened it and dumped it upside down on the coffee table, and several robotic beetles of different colors poured out.

“I call them the Scarabs. They’re weird alien robot things that must have been locked away in a chamber in Egypt. They must have cloaked themselves and stowed away in my bags when I came back home. The red one bonded with me by force and its AI system tried to take over my mind, but I fought back and gained control over it instead. I learned to navigate the alien software and was able to hack into these other Scarabs and reprogram their AI systems as well so that they are subservient to the host.”

He let out a big sigh and then continued. “But unfortunately, the Black Scarab got away before I could make any alterations, and it bonded with a woman who became the Dark Ranger. I don’t know her real identity yet, but she’s been creating an army of organic-cybernetic hybrid monsters and… I need help. I trust you all more than anyone else, and I know this is a lot to ask, but I’d like you to bond with Scarabs as well to help me defeat her… The AI will be completely subservient to you, I’ve removed all traces of the old programming.”

The room was silent for a long moment. “If you choose to accept this responsibility, just pick a Scarab off the table and place it on the back of your neck. It houses a pocket dimension within its power core where it keeps a supply of nano-mass, which is where the suit and generated weapons come from. Once you are fully bonded, you will see a heads-up display and a user interface within your visual field, which I’ve already translated into English. There are schematics for various energy-based abilities, flight, and weapons, but once you adapt some, you’ll be able to shape the nano-mass by just thinking about it. I know this is all a lot, but… Oh shit!”

He snapped his head around and looked out the window as at least two dozen flying bug monsters descended from the sky down onto the outer deck of the mansion. They were each carrying what looked like cyborg werewolves, and began setting them down.

“Shit!” Zeek cried out as the wolf monsters began shooting orange rapid-fire energy bolts from their shoulder-mounted laser cannons. “Get down!”

The glass wall facing the deck shattered, sending shards flying into the living room. The flying bugs then descended lower and began firing out bolts of green lightning towards the teens, blasting furniture instead as they dove for cover.

“Shit! She must have been spying on me somehow and wants to stop me from recruiting any new hosts!” Zeek cursed as he deployed his suit once more. He then turned and yelled to his friends. “They’re going to try and kill you before you can bond to the Scarabs! I’m sorry I put you in this situation, but I need your help! I can’t defeat them all alone! Please consider making the bond!”

And with that, he powered up his jetpack, a pair of red bug wings emerged, he began hovering, and then dove out onto the deck. He materialized two katana-like blades in his hands and began spinning and twirling around in the air as he sliced up a few of the flying bugs, morphing his swords into a shield whenever he needed to deflect an incoming blast.

Power Rangers: Scarab Squad

Sorry the IC is not up yet, so many fucking distractions the last few days, lol. I just recently started a fantasy choose-your-own-adventure series on TikTok and it's been getting a lot of traction and taking up a lot of my time. I'll embed a YT vid where I compiled the first three parts, though there are eight parts currently up on TikTok.



IC should be up soon. Also, just to clarify, I am locating Angel Grove in place of Pacific Palisades, a large neighborhood in the Westside region of Los Angeles. So, basically, in this world Pacific Palisades does not exist and Angel Grove instead sits in its geographic location. Below I will link a video showing the mansion Zeek lives in, which is owned by his tech billionaire uncle, Billy Cranston (yes I am stealing his name and visage from MMPR XD). The video also gives some good views of the geographic area we'll be using as Angel Grove.

Power Rangers: Scarab Squad

Here's a blank one, just hit quote and then copy and paste it with the codes and everything into a word doc, fill out your own info, and then paste it in the CS thread whenever you're ready XD. I just left the color codes for Fire Brick in there, so just replace that with a text color closely related to your Scarab color.

Character Name

Character Name

Age: xx
Birthday: xx
Height: xx
Body Type: xx
Eyes: xx
Hair: xx
Pronouns: xx
Orientation: xx

Voice

Coming soon...

Musical Theme

Coming soon...

Personality

Coming soon...

Talents & Skills

Coming soon...

Biography

Coming soon...

Power Rangers: Scarab Squad

Looks good! Something came up, but I'm finally able to sit down at my computer uninterrupted so I'm working on the intro post now. I'm just gonna make it a shorter one to get the RP moving.

Power Rangers: Scarab Squad

My char sheets are done, IC post should be along tomorrow.

Power Rangers: Scarab Squad

Sorry it took so long, main thread is up. I still need to finish my characters and the intro post, but I got my partial sheets up. I figured there is no need for a powers section since all our suits are pretty similar, and Zeek will explain how they work during the intro post.

https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/190450-power-rangers-scarab-squad/ooc

Power Rangers: Scarab Squad

Zeek Cranston

Abraham “Zeek” Cranston

Age: 17
Birthday: July 29th
Height: 6’3”
Body Type: Athletic
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Dark Brown
Pronouns: He/His
Orientation: Heterosexual

Voice

Musical Theme

Personality

Zeek can be a bit cocky when it comes to anything hacking-related, and has an obvious anti-establishment mentality. He does have a strong sense of justice, but sometimes that puts him at odds with the law. He has a kind heart and a charismatic flair, and will always stand up to bullies.

Talents & Skills

Software Engineering/Programming
Hacking
Mixed Martial Arts (various styles)
Singing/Guitar/Drums
Polylingual

Biography

Zeek’s parents weren’t around a lot during his early childhood, as his father was an overseas archeologist and his mother worked long hours as a forensic scientist with the LAPD. Because of this, he spent a lot of time around his Uncle Billy, who ran a company called CranstonTech. This is what sparked his early interest in computers.

His first username online was ZeekTheSleek9000, and all his friends started calling him Zeek instead of Abraham and it just kind of stuck. As he grew older, he began delving into hacking and had a few encounters with law enforcement.

When he was twelve, he spent a Summer in juvenile detention for hacking into the server used by a group of local politicians and leaking some compromising information found within. While it was later used as evidence in a criminal trial against the politicians, Zeek still technically broke the law to leak it.

Since then he has been back to juvenile detention multiple times, always for something he views as the greater good and which often results in indictments or resignations of corrupt individuals.

His antics and wise-cracking attitude have often earned him the ire of bullies in school, so he began learning a variety of martial arts to defend himself.

He spent a few weeks visiting his father in Egypt during the Summer before his senior year of high school, where the cloaked Scarabs stowed away in his bags, and the rest is history.

Iris Hassanfield

Iris Hassanfield

Age: 29
Birthday: May 1st
Height: 5’7”
Body Type: Athletic
Eyes: Green
Hair: Dark Brown
Pronouns: She/Her
Orientation: Pansexual

Voice

Delilah Briarwood

Musical Theme

Personality

Iris used to be a somewhat kind person, but after being forced to bond with the Black Scarab against her will, her old personality was completely absorbed into the AI, forming a newer, darker, sadistic persona. She can mimic her old self for the sake of keeping her new powers a secret from associates, but the new Iris is pure evil.

Talents & Skills

Mixed Martial Arts
Expert Marksmanship
Expert Investigative Intuition
Expert Pilot

Biography

Iris enlisted in the Air Force right out of high school, serving as a pilot for a few years. After returning home from active duty, she joined the LAPD as a patrol officer while attending night school to earn a degree in criminal justice. This eventually opened the door for her to become a homicide detective.

Her life was going just the way she wanted it to when one day the Black Scarab came crawling up to her while she was jogging in a park. After being forcibly bonded, she became what the media labeled as the Dark Ranger, and any trace of the old Iris seemed completely gone.

Power Rangers: Scarab Squad

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