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| - [[Category:Gold (MMPR Revisited)Silver (Zeo Revisited onwards) Ranger]] "My mission is to protect the Power Rangers. And their quest: To protect the universe from the forces of evil. One goal, one team, known as the Power Rangers." - Alpha 5 stating his mission Alpha 5 (Alpha for short, formal Edenite title: His Royal Highness Prince Alpha of Edenoi) was the robotic assistant to the rangers during Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Revisited and Power Rangers Zeo: Revisited, all the way up to Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: Revisited. Alpha was an extremely important factor in the Power Rangers' battle against evil and acted as a secondary mentor to them, under his friend and father-figure, the wise sage Zordon of Eltar. Alpha would use the exclamation "Ai yi yi" in moments which invoked emotions of any kind, from panic to elation (most commonly panic); in more extreme situations, the exclamation could contain four "yi"'s, five "yi"'s or, in rare cases, six or seven "yi"'s; this has become a well-known catchphrase for him. He worked in the Command Center most of the time, only getting out on a few occasions, and almost always obeyed every command and order that Zordon issued. In the early days of the series he often acted like a younger brother to the Rangers, always wanting to spend time with them and learn things (such as learning "hip-hop-kido" from Zack and martial arts from the others). But as the Rangers grew up, they began to shut him out and ignore him, much to his sadness. In the second season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Revisited, Alpha had three encounters with Lord Zedd's forces. In The Wannabe Ranger, he attempted to assist a little boy lost in Angel Grove Park, whom he befriended, but was attacked by the Primator, a shapeshifting gorilla monster who disguised himself as Billy and tried to trick Alpha into taking him to the Command Center. Alpha activated his self-destruct sequence to protect the Command Center, but seemed unable to deactivate it once the Primator left, and it was necessary for the Rangers do so. Later in the season, he would leave the Command Center to rescue the now-regressed Rangers, who had been trapped within a photograph by the Photomare monster after being regressed into children (only the high school was affected by the regression spell thankfully, and a now-young Jason, Zack and Trini came to assist). In his attempt to capture the photo with his friends and their classmates inside, Alpha was confronted by both Photomare and Goldar, but he was able to freeze both villains with a device of his and escape, but not before telling a now-young Bulk and Skull to head back to the school and inform Ted about the attack. He then teleported to the school and freed the kids, later restoring everyone to their proper age while in the Command Center (although not without great reservation, sadness and hesitation). Next, in The Wedding, he was ambushed by Finster and the Putties as he took a hike outside the Command Center, to calm his circuits over his worrying about the Rangers (who were on a representative vacation to the continent of Australia). Alpha was captured and reprogrammed by Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa, the latter having returned to enact revenge on Zedd for banishing her, into believing the Power Rangers hated and mistreated him, and assisted Zedd and Rita by luring the Rangers into a trap in an abandoned theater (which Finster proceeded to fill with monsters). Alpha also cut the Rangers off from Zordon and the Thunderzords thanks to some clever thinking. When Zordon's pleas for him to stop annoyed and infuriated him, Alpha comically altered Zordon's image (giving him hair and glasses) before shutting Zordon off and up completely, un-anchoring him from our dimension and growing angry and irritated over Zordon's blather. He also encased his love Delta 4 in a force field and made her his prisoner, preventing her from escaping the Command Center and warning the Rangers of Alpha's reprogramming and energy infusion; they were forced to come to the realization of it on their own. The Rangers eventually escaped the theater and purified Alpha, instantly returning him to normal and restoring his true memories of the good times he shared with Zordon and the Rangers. Thanks to their efforts at showing Alpha that Rita and Zedd had filled him with false truths and they still loved him very much, the little robot became himself again. The emperor and empress of evil, disappointed at losing their servant in the young robot, sent their monsters to attack Angel Grove, and the Rangers entered a power struggle with them in the Thunder Megazord before finally destroying them. When they returned to the Center, however, the evil duo gave the Rangers a dire warning: "Mistreat him for real in any way, and he's returning to us!". In the 15th anniversary special, "Once a Ranger", Alpha 5 and Delta 4 appear stored in a box inside a warehouse in Angel Grove, and are reconnected and woken up from 7 years of dreamful sleep by Andrew Hartford and Theodore "Ted" Swanson on the veteran Rangers' suggestion to help restore the Operation Overdrive Power Rangers' link to the Morphin Grid. After Sareena is defeated, Adam recruits him and Delta as employees at his new dojo in Angel Grove. Exactly how Alpha 5 and Delta 4, last seen on Mirinoi with the Galaxy Rangers, wound up asleep in a crate in Angel Grove, is never adequately explained to any degree by any of the Rangers or even by Ted, though Alpha gives an explanation. A few years after that, Alpha temporarily relocates himself to a beachside cave in Harwood County to be the mentor of the Mega Rangers. He serves this position, along with his regular Ranger duties, for two years before teleporting back to Angel Grove to continue his peaceful life there. In-between this and moving to the Astro Megaship, Alpha travels to the year 2025 to visit Newtech City and the SPD Rangers. There, he forms a friendship with Anubis Cruger and Kat Manx. He returns home to the present time, only to return finding out that nearly everyone was killed in a Troobian attack on the Delta Base. He reads a letter from Cmdr. Cruger and Manx detailing these events before returning to the present time. After that, Andros requested that Alpha come aboard the Astro Megaship, mark II, to live. Alpha accepted but under one condition: that his friends and Delta join him. He now lives on the Megaship, but longs to one day return home to Edenoi. He's tender, compassionate, easily terrified, sweet, curious, and charmingly childlike. Who knows how many thousands of years he's been in the service of Zordon, but he still maintains a sort of wonder while looking out at the world. It is possible that in his electronic, mechanical body, there lurks a real, living soul buried deep within him. He is voiced by Richard Horvitz; his suit actor alternates between Romy J. Sharf and Sandi Sellner for the first 85 episodes, then Donene Kistler after episode 86, A Friend in Need.
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