Lightspeed Rescue Power Rangers

The Lightspeed Rangers are a group of people trained to the physical peak of perfection assembled by Captain Mitchell to fight off Diabolico and his demons that have been released into Mariner Bay.

In ancient times, Queen Bansheera and her army of Demons were imprisoned in the Shadow World by the Sorcerer Of The Sands. Hundreds of years later, Captain William Mitchell and his children encountered the spirit of her general after ending up on the side of a cliff due to a car accident. Unable to hold on to both of his children, Mitchell asked Diabolico to save Ryan; the Demon agreed, but took Ryan to raise as his own. Thus alerted to the threat of the Demons, Mitchell founded Lightspeed Rescue and built its headquarters, the Lightspeed Aquabase, underwater due to the Demon race's weakness to water.

After several years, signs of the Demons returning became evident, and Captain Mitchell sent out operatives to gather recruits. In addition to Dana-who had been trained as as an emergency medical technician-Mitchell selected Carter, Chad, Joel and Kelsey to serve as the Lightspeed Rangers. The team fought a number of battles against the Demon forces under Diabolico, gaining new weapons and equipment over time as the Demon threat increased. Eventually, the Titanium Morpher was developed, but proved too dangerous for an ordinary human to use. However, the morpher was then stolen by a very unexpected Titanium Ranger candidate: Mitchell's long-lost son Ryan, who had been raised to believe that his father had abandoned him in favor of Dana.

Ryan fought against the other Rangers for some time, until their heroic efforts and those of his father-as well as the obvious evil of the Demons-began to awaken his inner moral sense. Eventually he joined the other Rangers, and together they succeeded in destroying Diabolico. Unfortunately, his role was quickly assumed by Bansheera's son, who began laying the groundwork for the return of Bansheera herself. During this time, Prince Olympius employed the demon Triskull and his Ghouls to kidnap humans so that their life-force might be drained to restore Bansheera. However, in reality Triskull was working for the space villainess Trakeena, and the Lightspeed Rangers were only able to defeat her with help from the Galaxy Power Rangers.

Diabolico later returned to continue threatening the Rangers as well, and shortly thereafter Bansheera was restored to full life as well. The Rangers continued to battle against them, and eventually destroyed all but Bansheera, Jinxer, and their Batlings. However, the villains managed to destroy several of the Megazords, seizing control of the Lifeforce Megazord and Omega Megazord for use in their ritual to revive the fallen Demons. Fortunately, they were able to thwart Bansheera's plans with help from a repentant Diabolico's spirit, trapping her in the Shadow World yet again. The Aquabase and all the Megazords were destroyed, but the Rangers' powers remained active.

Some time later, the Demoness Vypra returned from the grave in a plan to unleash a Super Demon named Quarganon. Unable to retrieve it herself, she joined forces with Ransik and his force of Ransik's Mutants. As such, the Lightspeed Rangers reunited and joined forces with the Time Force Power Rangers in order to vanquish their united foes.

After that, Carter would join a team of Veteran Red Rangers in order to thwart a Machine Empire operation on the moon.

The Lightspeed Rangers returned as part of the army of Legendary Rangers that helped the Mega Rangers defeat the Warstar Armada once and for all, fighting in a huge battle against hundreds of X Borgs and dozens of Bruisers.

**Known Rangers**

* Lightspeed Red - Carter Grayson
* Lightspeed Blue - Chad Lee
* Lightspeed Green - Joel Rawlings
* Lightspeed Yellow - Kelsey Winslow
* Lightspeed Pink - Dana Mitchell
* Lightspeed Titanium - Carter Grayson --> Ryan Mitchell

**Equipment**

Rescue MorpherV-LancerThermo BlasterRescue BirdTitanium Laser
* The Rescue Morphers were developed and built by Miss Fairweather and the Lightspeed organization and were the first morphers created solely by Earth technology without the help of alien beings or mysticism. After crying out "Lightspeed, Rescue!" the Rangers would press a hidden button, opening the antenna panel/cover on their morphers to reveal a screen from which each Ranger's morphing shield shot out and melds over each Ranger's body to form the suit; a gas mask would be lifted up, then the visors would slam shut after each gas mask was fitted. Each morpher also contains a keypad which allows the Morpher to act as a communicator. Two red lights appeared on the side which light up when acting as either function.

* Stolen by Ryan Mitchell, this advanced prototype morpher was too dangerous to be used by any of the other Lightspeed Rangers. The circuitry of this morpher was stated to be too powerful for an ordinary human. This was shown when Carter attempted to morph with the Titanium Morpher, it nearly killed him. How Ryan was able to endure its circuitry was never elaborated. Ryan was prevented from using his morpher for a time, when Diabolico cursed him with a cobra tattoo that threatened to climb further up his back each time he morphed, until finally it would reach his neck and kill him. It was only after a means was found to remove the curse that Ryan could return to his duty as the Titanium Ranger. Although originally intending to return their morphers once Mariner Bay was secure, the Lightspeed Rangers chose to remain active for some time afterwards. What ultimately became of the Lightspeed morphers and technology is unknown; however, Ryan did use the Titanium Morpher again in Time for Lightspeed to aid his fellow Lightspeed Rangers (who used their Rescue Morphers), as well as the Time Force Rangers, in defeating the undead Vypra. He used it again when he fought the army of X-Borgs with his team.

* *Rescue Blaster* - Each of these standard Ranger sidearms features a Baton Mode and a Blaster Mode. In addition, the handle can be detached and combined with either a V-Lancer or the Rescuebird (with the separate components or for the Unilaser form). The Blaster Grips are also used for the Lightspeed Rangers to control their Zords.

* *V-Lancers* - Weapons used by the Lightspeed Rangers. They have two modes: a blaster mode (with an attached Blaster Grip) and a lance mode. The V-Lancers were created by Ms. Fairweather to fight Ryan while he was on Diabolico's side. When used together, they create the Spectra Blast finishing attack. A boomerang can also be detached from the "V" portion of the weapon.

* The *Thermo Blasters* were created by Ms. Fairweather. They fire intense, concentrated blasts of heat, and can be powered up by attaching a Battle Booster to it and extending the barrel; a different mode is when the "booster" piece attached to the bottom of the handle is inserted into the space at the top where the Battle Booster goes. The Thermo Blasters were first used against the Freezard monster. There are five differently colored blasters, one for each Ranger. This blaster is also used by Zoey in Beast Morphers Season 2 Evox Unleashed.

* The *Rescue Bird* was the combined set of weapons used by the Lightspeed Rangers. It launches from the top of the Train Bay and can fly to the Rangers on command. It can also be reconfigured into the Unilaser (which uses a Blaster Grip as the trigger) which can fire a powerful beam that can destroy demons. When separated, each weapon must be attached to a Blaster Grip. (The visor schematics for the RescueBird gave different names for the components; they were the Claw Anchor, Build Discharger, Wing r, Beak Driller and Tail Injector; these may have been internal codenames.}

* As *Titanium Ranger*, Ryan wields the Titanium Laser, which has proven to be more powerful than even the Rescuebird. It can transform into a battle axe, which is capable of absorbing and redirecting energy blasts.