Karakasa (Mighty Morphin Season 3 alternate timeline)

''Author's note: This takes place in an alternate universe where more monster battles happen during the Master Vile and metallic armor arc. All of the Kakuranger monsters are used. This one retains her Japanese name and is only the second form of the monster (the one that fought the Megazords), with the Saban reason being they couldn't work around the Kakuranger footage. I imagine a situation where she's turned good based on a plot that runs like a cross between Auric the Conquerer and brainwashed Kat and Tommy.''

Karakasa is a monster from season 3 of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers who appeared during the Master Vile story arc and is the reason Finster stopped making monsters and went into retirement. Unbeknownst to many, the Master Vile arc spanned what would normally be an entire season, over the Rangers' summer vacation mostly, with most of the battles missing.

Back in season 2, when Finster was preparing Rita's love potion for Zedd, he spilled some of the ingredients into some of his monster making clay. He had intended to throw out the contaminated clay but forgot about it. After the Rangers got their Ninja Powers, Finster created a traffic signal monster to do battle with them, but he used the contaminated clay. The potion gave it a conscience so when it encountered Vampirus, upon finding out its intent, engaged in a heated battle with it and both sides took severe damage with Vampirus losing one of his eyes but reigning victorious. That's why Ninjor was able to handle him so easily despite Finster being horrified by the monster.

Fast forward to Master Vile's arrival, Blue Globbor was defeated partly by luck (and unbeknownst to the Rangers, the eclipse spell being lifted only made the monster vulnerable, attacking Master Vile is what weakened him). Finster had promised to make his best monster yet, a beautiful and graceful but ruthless and mean monster named Karakasa, based off of the Japanese legend of the youki of the same name, but with a few improvements. Unfortunately, Finster inadvertently grabbed the contaminated clay and used the clay where the most love potion ingredients had sunken in. He created the monster who popped out, not ready to fight, but politely introducing herself "Hi, my name is Karakasa, pleased to meet you". Zedd and Rita pull Finster aside and tell him they know the clay was the contaminated clay he promised to throw out. They conspired a plan to lie to poor Karakasa to avoid the traffic signal monster incident all over again. They decided to make her think the Power Rangers were a group of ruthless villains.

Karakasa walked over, asking them what they were talking about, they explained that the Power Rangers had killed a bunch of Finster's other monsters and do this routinely. Karakasa is horrified and assumes the Power Rangers to be supervillains, as they continue to feed her more propaganda about their Megazords destroying buildings, their leader trapping Rita in a space dumpster, and how they nearly killed Rita's brother Rito, she became more distraught and angry, wanting to go down to Earth to do battle with these Power Rangers in order to stop them.

On Earth she walked around sniffing flowers and appreciating nature's beauty. She tried chatting with people but they all screamed and ran away. Confused by this, Karakasa walked up to someone (Lt. Stone) and asked what's going on. Stone grabbed a nearby baseball bat and yelled at her to back off. Karakasa slowly backed away and hurt by this, she started to cry. Stone said "wow, I can't believe that actually worked" and found it amusing that he was able to bring a monster to tears, not knowing of her non-evil status. Her crying ceased the second the Power Rangers arrived. She was visibly terrified, to the confusion of the Rangers, but she summoned up the courage to attack them, fueled by the rage she felt at what they had done to what she believed were innocent monsters like her. She was actually winning but showed her girly side when knocked over complained about her dress getting dirty, to the confusion of the rangers (who would mock her for that). They got out their power weapons for the first time since season 2 and when Adam nearly hit her in the face she covered her face and screamed then pleaded not to be hit in the face. Tommy asked "Why? Your face is just as ugly either way" which made Karakasa start to cry. She told them that they were horrible mean people, then dejectedly says maybe he's right and she wishes she was pretty. The Rangers are taken aback by this and in shock,feeling a little bad, Tommy apologizes and tells her she's actually very pretty and it was just trash talk. She starts to feel a little better and is confused, wondering why these awful Power Rangers were being nice to her. She runs off as the Power Rangers go to the command center to regroup.

"I don't understand. The monster, it doesn't seem all that evil, just confused. I kind of feel bad for it" Katherine said. Zordon instructed the Rangers to observe the viewing globe, explaining that this monster is Karakasa, based on a monster from Japanese folklore, despite bearing very little resemblance to one. "I've never seen a monster cry before" Adam said. "I did, there was one called Fang, he was addicted to gooney bird eggs, which Rita used to manipulate him. Jason tried explaining we didn't have the eggs but he didn't listen and we had to destroy him". Tommy agreed in that he too remembered the monster. "Now that you mention it, she seemed to be afraid of us at first. Usually that only happens when we point the Power Blaster or Power Cannon at them. But she didn't seem to have any motivation. Maybe she's just an evil monster with vanity issues" Aisha said. "She actually stopped fighting and begged me not to hit her in the face" Adam said, with Alpha remembering Lipsyncher. "Yeah but she didn't exactly run off and cry" Tommy said

On the moon, Rita and Zedd mocked Finster for his monster being such a wimp that the Power Rangers made her cry. He then repeated a sentiment from season 2, "enough of this foolish vanity! I know how to stop that miserable creature from complaining". Him and Rita were about to grow the monster when Master Vile arrived and inquired about their latest monster. They explained her origins in mythology, Vile was impressed until he found out she's just an umbrella girl. "An umbrella? What's she going to do? Keep the Rangers dry?" They lied and painted her to be evil but added the kernel of truth that she wanted to avenge Globbor's death. Impressed again, Vile heads to Earth, meets with her and explains he's Rita's father. He uses lightning to grow the both of them, the Power Rangers arrive at a canyon where snow flurries are falling, they summon their zords, Ninjor arrives and Karakasa charges in to attack both the Ninja Megazord and Ninjor. Vile attacks and after they fall, Karakasa out of nowhere makes a comment about Super Mario Bros, which she had played not long before the battle. The Rangers are confused but summon the Shogun Megazord and the Falconzord arrives, Karakasa is in shock as they form the Shogun MegFalconzord, she hides behind Master Vile, who takes the brunt of the blast and comments that he doesn't want to stick around for them to form the Shogun Ultrazord and disappears. Karakasa notices he's gone, is called a coward by Ninjor, she cracks a joke about Ninjor who goes into battle mode. Karakasa is terrified, covers her face and pleads for him not to hit her in the face, he aims to her midsection with the energy disc, she yells in pain and the Ninja Megazord double punches her. She goes flying, gets up and laments that her dress is dirty and asks why they did that. Rocky shot back that she attacked them, to which she concedes makes sense. She falls over, explodes and is seemingly defeated but actually was just reduced back to smaller size. The Rangers leave their zords and tell the shaken Karakasa to leave, which she does. Back on the moon, she overhears Rita and Zedd talking about destroying Angel Grove. She comments that it makes them just as bad as the Power Rangers, they don't care, they say, and explain they're evil and that's what they do. "So, there's no good guys? Karakasa asks in shock. "Fraid not" Rito says "Although the Power Rangers..." "Zip it bone boy" Rita says. Karakasa just backs off and eavesdrops, learning just how evil they are.

Karakasa returns to Earth and asks to talk with the Power Rangers, who luckily are still there along with Ninjor. "You again. Haven't you had enough?" Tommy asked. To his surprises she said yes, she has, she doesn't want to fight, she realized she was fighting on the side of evil, asking them why they destroyed so many monsters, they explained that they had to because they were evil and bent on destruction. After explaining herself that she was lied to and having the record set straight, Karakasa is horrified that she was aiding the forces of evil and apologized profusely, asking if the Rangers can forgive her, which they do. It turns out she's actually a very nice person (or monster) but has proven herself to be easily manipulated. Karakasa expresses the desire to do some good in the world. She notices a little girl crying and walks over asking what's wrong. The girl explains that other kids don't want to play with her which makes Karakasa sad, she then explains that people are cruel to her too, running away and screaming when she talks to them. "But why? You're so nice" the girl says. Karakasa says "It's because people see me and think I'm one of those monsters who wants to destroy the city. They think I look really scary or something". "But you're so pretty" the child says, Karakasa is thankful and beams with a smile. This would begin the friendship of Karakasa with the Power Rangers, the citizens of Angel Grove, and with Zordon and Alpha. Billy contacted Zordon and asked for permission to bring "a friend" into the command center, they granted the request, when she arrived Alpha initially panicked but they explained she's good and they just had a misunderstanding. She's NOT part of Rita and Zedd's army. She was quite impressed with meeting them and seeing the Command Center, while talking with them. Zordon declared her an ally and made her take the same oath that the Power Rangers took on day 1.

Karakasa proved to be a great ally, socially awkward but friendly and well-meaning. She slowly integrated into Angel Grove seamlessly and even hung out at the Juice Bar, Bulk and Skull even became friendly with her. At one point she even went on a date with one of the Juice Bar patrons, the guy who took over teaching Jason's karate class, he didn't care that she resembled one of Rita and Zedd's monsters, he thought she was pretty and a nice person which is why he said "yes" when she asked him out on a date. Unfortunately it eventually ended but it did last into the next school year. She helped the Rangers both directly and indirectly against Rita and Zedd's monsters, almost acting as an 8th Power Ranger (with Ninjor as the 7th). Her most important achievements were aiding in Professor Longnose's defeat, telling Ninjor how to defeat Bullflighter (AKA Hunghorn), figuring out the key to making the Rangers immune to Dischordia's singing spell (allowing them to win with the zords), keeping Steamy Meanie busy while the Rangers froze him solid, and thwarting Master Vile's orb of doom. After the orb of doom was defeated, Lord Zedd and Rita began focusing their attacks on Karakasa after Master Vile left. What in the original timeline was Billy's age restore device was a device used to help repair the morphing grid, which was in danger of overloading, unfortunately Zedd turned it into Slotsky, who managed to trap the Rangers and steal their power coins which Zedd destroyed. Karakasa tried to stop him but it was all in vain as she was zapped by Zedd's staff and injured enough she had to be taken to the command center.

Luckily, Karakasa was fine but the Rangers weren't so lucky, They had to search for the Zeo Crystals while the Alien Rangers took their place. Karakasa aided the Alien Rangers against Slotsky and helped turn the tide, and cheered them on as they won with their battle borgs. In the following battle, she attempted to aid them against the Barbaric Brothers, who quickly made short work of her, she quickly retreated, the brothers were destroyed by the Shogun Megazord, but after that Karakasa was done fighting and lived as a normal citizen of Angel Grove. Luckily the attacks on her stopped as they were busy with the Alien Rangers and the Machine Empire had no idea who she was, so she was able to help out on the side. However, by Turbo, she was no longer involved with the Power Rangers directly but remained friends with them, and even continued dating more human men.

Karakasa survived the purification wave when Zordon sacrificed his life at the end of In Space's "Countdown To Destruction". She survived as a monster because she was already good as a monster and thus already pure.