[tempest]

After watching Power/Rangers, I started thinking what a gritty Power Rangers version of ToqGer would be and I finally thought of something. I just wanted to share my idea here:

This Power Rangers series stars 5 teenagers who have tragically died in a train accident when it derailed killing many people inside. Their souls are tansported to a train in purgatory. They try to escape, but the train compartments go on forever and there's no way out. The conductor, who only communicates via intercom and then later via tv screen tells them he chose them to become rangers. The rangers have to fight evil monsters that have somehow escaped from hell and bring them back to hell. Here's The catch though, every time they go out to fight monsters, he brings them back to life (because the monsters are in the mortal world), therefore the rangers must always mull over running away and going back to their way of life (and life) or fight to save the day at the expense of their own lives. In order for the rangers to morph, they must commit suicide by jumping in front of oncoming trains. Their souls transfer to their ranger suits and after fighting, go back to purgatory (the train). The big plot twist is that the rangers never died from the train accident, they're all in a coma with their souls stuck between life and death. The reason why they're able to go to the world of the living to fight was that their souls become momentarily corporeal. The conductor doesn't tell them all this, therefore unnecessarily giving them conflict between fighting and running away because if they try to run away, their souls disappear forever if they don't go back to the train, hence the momentarily. At the end of it all, the conductor tells them the reason he chose them was because he knew they wouldn't abandon other people who are in danger and are brave enough to fight even if it meant sacrificing their lives in the process.

-The 6th ranger is a railroad track worker who was hit by a train and died. His soul went straight to hell and became a servant of the big bad guy. After all is said and done though, it turns out he died saving his buddies, but he can't remember that because the big bad guy erased his memories and the reason he went straight to hell was because the big bad guy dragged him there knowing he would be useful to him.