The Ninja Encounter

The Ninja Encounter is a three-part episode in the second season of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

Plot
Tommy, Kimberly, and Billy meet Rocky, Adam, and Aisha while rescuing a baby from falling off a cliff. Later that week, they watched the newcomers win a ninja tournament against a team of undefeated, yet cocky champions.

Lord Zedd was interested in recruiting the champions because of their evil qualities, but when he learned that the other side won the tournament, he decided to recruit them instead. He sent Goldar and a plutoon of putties to kidnap the three kids and their teacher, Mr. Anderson. Tommy, Kimberly, and Billy tried to save them, but were unsucessful.

Afterwards, the rangers (all six of them) had to balance rescuing the four civilians with fighting a monster that was attacking Angel Grove. They managed to defeat the monster and save the hostages at the very last second, but as Billy was wrestling with Zedd's evil snake, he was bitten on the neck. Tommy and Kimberly had to get Billy's helmet off to avoid him suffocating. However, unbeknownst to them, Rocky, Adam, and Aisha were watching on from the entrance to the cave, and inadvertently learned the identities of the Power Rangers.

Back at the Command Center, Rocky, Adam, and Aisha learned of the identities of the red, black, and yellow rangers as well, and took an oath to never reveal the Power Rangers' identities.

Trivia

 * First appearance of Rocky, Adam and Aisha who would assist the Rangers behind the scenes before going on to replace Jason, Zack and Trini as the Red, Black and Yellow Rangers respectively.
 * First episode to use archive footage of Jason, Zack and Trini from previous episodes to hide the fact that their actors had already left the show before proper departure scenes could be filmed.
 * To match the archive footage (from when he was the Green Ranger), Tommy wears green clothes despite now being the White Ranger.
 * At some points you can see the Original Megazord from Season 1 in footage.

Cast

 * Jason David Frank as Tommy Oliver (White Ranger)
 * Austin St. John as Jason Lee-Scott (Red Ranger) (archive footage)
 * Walter Jones as Zack Taylor (Black Ranger) (archive footage)
 * David Yost as Billy Cranston (Blue Ranger)
 * Thuy Trang as Trini Kwan (Yellow Ranger) (archive footage)
 * Amy Jo Johnson as Kimberly Hart (Pink Ranger)
 * Steve Cardenas as Rocky DeSantos (uncredited)
 * Karan Ashley as Aisha Campbell (uncredited)
 * Johnny Yong Bosch as Adam Park (uncredited)
 * Paul Schrier as Bulk
 * Jason Narvy as Skull
 * [Timothy Guest as Mr. Anderson
 * [David Fielding]] as Zordon
 * Robert L. Manahan as Zordon (voice)
 * Romy J. Sharf as Alpha 5
 * Richard Steven Horwitz as Alpha 5 (voice)
 * Ed Neil as Lord Zedd
 * Robert Axelrod as Lord Zedd (voice)
 * Danny Wayne Stallcup as Goldar
 * Kerrigan Mahan as Goldar (voice)

Zords

 * Thunder Megazord
 * White Tigerzord