Ricardo Medina Jr.

Several college students embark on a summer of sun and fun, but find that their adventure turns eerily macabre when dark and ancient forces propel them into a sinister enclave peopled by human, night-stalking, ravenous flesh-eaters whose wit and seemingly benign exteriors hide dreadful and deadly secrets that border on the supernatural.

Laura Baxter is a young woman, literally a "sleeping beauty," who suffers from a medical condition called "parasomnia." A childhood accident victim, she is actually sleeping her life away, awakening briefly on rare occasions. Art student Danny Sloan falls in love with her, unaware that her hospital neighbor, a terrifying mass murderer and mesmerist named Byron Volpe has other, more sinister plans.

"From the day I was born I had to fight to survive. I fought everyone and everything that came in front of me. On the streets, confessions are made in Blood. They say that when you confess your sins, only then can you be redeemed. This is my redemption. This is my confession." (Eddie Castillo 2005)

While fighting Cole, Master Org realizes that there something about him that connects his past that remains to be the last puzzle of a "Revenge" mission years ago, so eventually he had a General Org to awake a very dangerous and powerful Duke Org to help take down the Rangers, Zen Aku. Upon returning after 3000 years, Zen Aku begins to showed some unique traits of him compared to other Orgs, such as having his own Zords and Megazord, while doing so steals some of the Rangers' Zords.

Cole leaves his home in the Amazon jungle in search of his destiny, carrying his mysterious Red Animal Crystal, a symbol whose meaning he doesn't yet understand. Finding himself in the Animarium, a magical kingdom hidden in the sky, Cole is befriended by giant animals -- the Wild Zords. Their king, Red Lion, tells Cole that his Red Crystal links them, and Princess Shayla tells him that he has been chosen to lead the Rangers. As Danny, Max, Alyssa, and Taylor show Cole their Animal Crystals, Cole realizes he is indeed a Ranger. Repeating the "Wild Access!" call, Cole morphs into Red Ranger and joins the others in a fight against Plugma Org and Turbine Org, who are terrorizing the city.

Five Ancient Zords are discovered by each of the Rangers. Alyssa discovered the Elephant Zord through a Field-trip for her college, Max discovered the Giraffe Zord through a nightmare of the Rangers being destroyed, Taylor discovered the White Bear and Black Bear Zord through two twins she discovered breaking into a Air Force, and Cole discovered the Gorilla Zord while on his search for the Soul Bird to restore his Lion Zord. But while this going on, Master Org attempts to steal these Zords before the Rangers can.