Chosen by the Cosmos

Jacky, Maya, and the Interstellar Fluff is the first episode of the Power Rangers Astral Knights part of the PRAK-STPC plot swap.

Summary
Jacky Starr and Maya Tate are high school juniors who love space! One night, as Maya was drawing some constellations, she met a mysterious little alien. She and Jacky got warped to space for a little bit before waking up the next morning, thinking it was all a dream. But it wasn't so, so Jacky proceeds to name the little alien "Cyrus". The duo meet two aliens, "Spark Chen" and Serakis, who came to Earth from Lacera to find Cyrus, but a bad alien, Kuroden, had followed them, got Cyrus first. At the shock of this, Jacky and Maya become the Red and Pink Rangers to protect Fuwa.

Major Events

 * This is the first episode of the PRAK-STPC Plot Swap.
 * The core Rangers debut, but Travis and Amy have cameos.
 * Maya and Jacky make their Ranger form debuts.
 * Spark makes his first major appearance.
 * Cyrus and Serakis debut.
 * Some members of the Star Deities (Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra & Capricorn) appear in Cyrus's dream, revealing that Cyrus was sent to Earth as their "last hope".
 * Cyrus turns Maya's notebook into the Astral Codex.

Synopsis
One night in the city of Coastal View, Maya Tate is in her room with Jackson "Jacky" Starr, looking at the stars and drawing them in her notebook. Suddenly, she sees a shooting star and gets a vision of a fluffball-like alien. Inspired, Maya connects the stars she drew with lines, creating her own constellation depicting the creature. The notebook then floats into the air and glows, and the creature comes out into the real world. He's an energetic animal with the ability to fly, and he speaks English. Maya is shocked at first, but she quickly becomes ecstatic to see a real alien. The fluffball then summons a star-shaped portal in Maya's room, sucking the three of them into space. Maya and Jacky are amazed. Plus, they're magically able to breathe since the fluffball is in their arms. As they are floating along, Maya and Jacky see a heart-shaped planet coated in darkness. However, before Jacky can find out what exactly the planet is, he wakes up the next morning. At first, Jacky thinks that the encounter with the fluffball was a dream. Then, he sees the creature floating around in his room. The fluffball flies out of Jacky's window, and Jacky immediately goes to chase after him.

However, Jacky is stopped by his stern grandfather, who wants to know why Jacky isn't politely greeting him and is instead running off who knows where. To his dismay, Jacky's mother and grandmother, are perfectly fine with Jacky wanting to go outside, as they understand the energy that comes from having a wonderful dream. Jacky's grandmother even packs a lunchbox for him.

Maya sets off on her bike and stops by a planetarium owned by an elderly friend of hers, Camden Galilei. He was the one who gave her the notebook she was drawing in last night. She asks if the notebook is magic, and he says that it's just an ordinary notebook she got so she could draw out her huge imagination. Maya then leaves to continue pursuing her fluffball friend, bids farewell to the planetarium owner, and crosses paths with Jacky.

Before long, the two run out of energy due to not eating breakfast (Maya) and not taking a nap after school (Jacky) and have to take a break. Maya and Jacky pull one donut each out of their lunchboxes. The fluffball then flies toward Jacky, attracted by his maple-glazed donut. Jacky teaches the creature some words, such as "Maya", "Jacky" and "donut", which the mouse echoes. Maya then feeds him the donut and decides to name him Cyrus. Cyrus is delighted by his new name.

Cyrus then falls asleep on top of Jacky and dreams about the Star Deities, the gods and godesses who sent him to Earth. Specifically, Leo told Cyrus that he was their only hope. Cyrus then wakes up and senses that an alien spaceship is being chased by other malevolent ships. To rescue them, Cyrus opens another portal, enabling the spaceship to land on Earth. Out of the spaceship comes a Lacertan suffering from motion sickness and a smaller, floating alien who speaks English. At first, the two aliens are horrified to find that they've been discovered by Terrans, but they've calmed down a bit when it turns out that Jacky and Maya are amazed by their presence rather than afraid. Maya tries to communicate with the aliens, but she finds that the humanoid alien speaks another language. Nonetheless, Maya is able to communicate Jacky's and her own names to the alien, and he replies with his name, Spark. The other alien introduces himself as Serakis and says that he and Spark have been looking for a little fluffy creature. Jacky shows him Cyrus and asks if he's the one they're looking for. Serakis is angered to find that Maya named him despite him already having a name: Cyralis Shinerain Cometfluff XV. Jacky says that Cyrus's real name is too long, and Cyrus is happy to be referred to as Cyrus. Serakis gives in.

Then, the ships that were pursuing Spark and Serakis appear, and an alien named Kuroden emerges from one of them. Spark, Serakis, and Cyrus are scared, but Jacky is feeling determined to kick alien ass, and Maya is overjoyed to see another alien. Due to a translator device around his neck, Kuroden is able to speak in English. He says that his organization, the Darkrain, aim to take Cyrus and use his power to conquer the universe. Spark and Serakis take Cyrus aboard their ship and flee for safety. As they go into space, they seem to have escaped the Darkdrones. They're then shocked to notice that Maya snuck aboard the spaceship before they took off.

Shortly, the Darkrain catch up with the ship. They blow a hole in the ship's window, causing the air to be sucked out into the vacuum of space. When Cyrus is sucked out, Maya and Jacky jump after him despite a warning from Serakis. Serakis then inflates himself to plug the hole in the window, keeping some of the air from leaving.

Just like in Maya's dream, Jacky and Maya can breathe in space when they hold Cyrus. Kuroden tells Jacky to give Cyrus up because he needs her power. Jacky protests that Cyrus is not an item and that he will protect him. Meanwhile, Maya charges at Kuroden and gets kicked very hard. This determination causes two Stellar Color Pens and two Astral Knight Morphers to appear in front of Jacky and Maya. They insert their pens into their cuff-like morphers and find themselves morphing. In the end, Jacky and Maya have morphed into the Astral Knights of Quasars and Stars (the Red and Pink Rangers, repectively).

The Rangers are shocked at first, but they quickly gets their minds together. As this happens, numerous suited Darkrain minions, called Darkdrones, charge them. At this moment, the Rangers fight the Darkdrones, and win despite them being outnumbered and being in the zero-gravity environment of space.

Cyrus, Jacky and Maya board the ship, and they, Spark, and Serakis are happy to have succeeded. Jacky thanks the other four and holds Spark's hands, telling him that he'd like to become one of his friends. Cyrus then kisses the teens' hands, enabling Jacky, Maya and Spark to communicate with each other. Cyrus is then tired, so he transforms Maya's notebook into a magical book called the Astral Codex and goes inside of it to sleep. They don't have long to celebrate this, however. The ship is badly damaged and is falling back towards Earth. Two humans, Travis Reyes-Hernandez and Amy Park, see this and confuse it for a shooting star. The episode ends with the spaceship crashing into a mountain.