 This article is about an organization in Power Rangers Beast Morphers.
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Grid Battleforce Logo
Headquarters.
Grid Battleforce is an non-government organization created to use Morph-X as an energy source and to protect the Morphin Grid from Evox. Its primary headquarters is located in Coral Harbor although it is based worldwide which doubles as the base of the Beast Morphers Rangers.
History
Prior to the series
Grid Battleforce was originally just a handful of workers headed by Commander Shaw and Nate Silva. With them and thier small team of researchers and scientists, they mined the Morphin Grid and were able to create a substance known as Morph-X which could be used as a universal energy source. Grid Battleforce was founded in order to manufacture house, control, and protect this precious energy source. 
TV STORY-Beasts Unleashed
Season 1
The Beast Morphers Rangers were formed by Commander Shaw in order to act as the ultimate protectors of the precious substance. The original three cadets were going to be her son Ravi, Blaze, and Roxy (who was also Ravi's girlfriend although the two broke up due to rules at the organisation). However, on the day that the group was supposed to be given thier Ranger powers, a cobra like being infected the Morph-X and created two evil avatars which put Blaze and Roxy into comas. Ravi was saved by the mayors son Devon and Zoey Reeves, a laundry girl who became the new Power Rangers and managed to transport the new avatars and thier master into a different dimension. TV STORY-Beasts Unleashed
When in the Cyber Dimension, the Cybervillains met it's ruler, Scrozzle, who originally planned on killing them but was recruited by Evox. With his technology, they began sending monsters made out of objects (known as Robotrons) and giant monsters infused with the Robotron data )known as Gigadrones) to Earth. Luckily, Nate and the other Grid Battleforce employees had created three special Zords piloted by humanoid robots known as Beast Bots for just such an occasion. TV STORY-Evox's Revenge
During the battle with Slicerdrone, Devon was able to disable it with a stab through the face and Grid Battleforce were able to capture it. TV STORY-Taking Care of Business
With the permission of General Burke, Commander Shaw's superior, they transported it using the Chopper Zord to a secure hangar where they squired data that would lead to the creation of the Beast-X Megazord which was first used when Roxy's avatar and Meltatron freed Slicerdrone from the hangar and teamed up with Meltadrone to try and kill the Rangers although this failed. TV STORY-Hangar Heist
Eventually, Evox and his cronies built a massive gateway to Earth known as the Cybergate for the Evox virus to enter a new robot body (built from pieces that Scrozzle acquired over the last few battles). The villains captured a truckload of Morph-X using the Tronics and Vacuutron and captured Nate so that he wouldn't interfere. However, he managed to free himself and his interfering with the transfer lead to the creation of Steel, the new beast Bot and Nate's brother of sorts. Together, they destroyed Vacuutron whilst the Beast-X Megazzord made short work of Vacuudrone. TV STORY-The Cybergate Opens
During the events of the first season, Grid Battleforce was only actually ever invaded once by Clonetron who posed as Steel and then Nate before eventually being destroyed. TV STORY-Real Steel
After the death of Tubatron, , Nate and Zoey work at interviewing a candidate named Megan to see if she is worthy of being Nate’s lab assistant. Nate mentions to Megan that he is working on building new equipment such as the new Cheetah Claws for Devon. Megan responds with criticism when she sees Ben and Betty testing the Cheetah Claws in front of her, leaving Nate and Zoey hesitant to hire her for the job. Megan leaves and she vows to become Nate’s new lab assistant when she sees him and Zoey become hesitant about her as more candidates enter the lab for interviews. Eventually, wanting the position of lab assistant desperately, Megan happened to discover Nate and Zoey at a theatre and recovered them on her phone. She later confronted Zoey and tried to blackmail her into She later sabotaged the Cheetah Claws as revenge but this was later undone and was used to kill Tubatron 2.0. Meghan was then fired by Commander Shaw for sabotage, blackmail, lying and deception. TV STORY-Sound and Fury
Scrozzle made an attempt to brainwash the Rangers into the characters they were dressed up as to prevent them from interfering with him and Spiketron stealing a truck of Morph-X. In spite of his successful brainwashing, Ravi was able to un-do the mind control and they stopped both Spiketron and Spikedrone. TV STORY-Hypnotic Halloween
However, shortly after the first encounter with Scrozzle's first creation Vargoyle, Grid Battkeforce entered a crisis since the villain planted Memory Pulsators around the city and activated them which allowed Blaze and Roxy to enter the base as thier human counterparts since everyone only remembered events before the series proper. Although Vargoyle was killed by Devon's Beast-X Cannon and Steel smashed the Memory Pulsators, the avatars managed to escape with some . TV STORY-Rewriting History
Not long after, implied to be the next day, the Rangers were sent to escort a van shipment of Mega Transporters. However, the villains were after them and Scrozzle deployed a GIgadrone to distract four Rangers whilst Roxy took on Ravi. Although Roxy is killed by Ravi later on, Blaze managed to escape with some Mega Transporters which they soon used to transport an entire Morph-X Tower into the Cyber Dimension so that they would have enough to allow Evox to enter a physical form. TV STORY-Target Tower
Grid Battleforce decided to send the Rangers to the Cyber Dimension, having gotten the dimensional coordinates when Devon was kidnapped and forced into the dimension, and formed the hew Beast-X Ultrazord. The new Megazord was strong enough to destroy an army of Gigadrones but destroyed by an energy blast from Evox in his new physical form. In spite of the loss of all but the Racer Zord, the destruction of Blaze and his Megazord within the Morph-X Tower led to the dimension being wiped out and Evox seemingly killed with no one aware that he now resided within Mayor Daniels. The only villain still at large was Scrozzle who managed to telport himself and the Robotron-Maker out of the dimension after Nate shot him in the back with his Striker Morpher. TV STORY-Evox Upgraded
Around Christmas time, Scrozzle decided to attack the city with an army of Tronics and the new Robotron, Infernotron as revenge for what they did to the Cyber Dimension. Although it failed and the Robotron was destroyed, he managed to trap the Rangers in Chsistmas ornaments and later deployed in Infernodrone to drain more Morph-X. However, the Racer Zord (piloted by Cruise with the other two Zords piloted by Jax and Smash) managed to destroy the Gigadrone and seemingly kill Scrozzle and the Rangers were freed from the ornaments.
Having seemingly seen the last of Evox and his forces, Grid Battleforce became inert like it used to be and the Rangers returned to thier ordinary lives. TV STORY-Scrozzle's Revenge
Season 2
In the year in between Seasons 1 and 2, Grid Battleforce had remained vigilant but slightly more lax with the Rangers still training thier marksmanship and sword-play but none of it seeming to matter anymore. However, it was soon revealed during a camping trip that Scrozzle had survived and Evox was back. Although they managed to kill Drilltron 2.0 and destroy Drilldrone 2.0, Scrozzle escaped with the Morph-X spillage and the organisation once again became defensive. TV STORY-Believe It or Not
After Trappertron captured Blaze and Roxy in a cage, Scrozzle scanned them and created robotic duplicates of thier avatar forms (now called Robo-Roxy and Robo-Blaze). Although they were finished off by the Beast-X Ultra Blaster, Beast-X Blasters and Striker Morphers, Scozz revealed that he could continue putting them into new bodies as many times as Evox wished. TV STORY-Save Our Shores
Keytron was was sent into Grid Battleforce as a human named Pierre to destroy the base with explosive paint but he failed. TV STORY-Artist Anonymous
Eventually, Controlatron was able to fully take control of Nate and brought him to the Cyber Dimension to create a program to take control of a special new Zord Mayor Daniels/Evox knew was being made (since he was funding it). Although Nate was freed and both Controlatron and Controladrone were destroyed, the program remained. TV STORY-The Blame Game
A few days later, General Burke and Mayor Daniels/Evox revealed to Grid Battleforce that they had created a new Zord called the Beast-X King Zord. This severely annoyed Commander Shaw since she considered it a liability to thier safety due to Evox and the Rangers were equally surprised to find that Meghan was the head designer on the new Zord, having been hiredby Burke due to her striking intelligence. She showed off her creation to the Rangers, Mayor Daniels/Evox, Commander Shaw, and General Burke but Robo-Roxy and Robo-Blaze were able to use a virus-infused dart to take control over it which panicked the Grid Battleforce top brass. Eventually however, they managed to bring it back under thier control with the Beast-X King Ultra Bow at which point Devon used it's Battle Mode to destroy Robo-Blaze and his rebuilt Megazord. rehired Megan and General Burke gave them permission to use it in thier battles. TV STORY-Beast King Rampage
Members
Main Base
- Commander Shaw - Head Commander
- General Burke - General
- Grid Battleforce Guardians - Soldiers
- Nate Silva - Head Researcher, Gold Ranger
- Ravi Shaw - Cadet/Blue Ranger
- Zoey Reeves - Cadet/Yellow Ranger, Laundry Girl (Formerly)
- Devon Daniels - Red Ranger
Beast Bots
- Cruise - Cheetah Beast Bot
- Smash - Gorilla Beast Bot
- Jax - Jackrabbit Beast Bot
- Steel - Beetle Beast Bot, Silver Ranger
Security
- Betty Burke - Cadet/Security Officer
- Ben Burke - Cadet/Security Officer
- Cole - He was fired at first but he was later rehired, his current job is unknown.
Inactive
Other
- Megan - Zord Maintenance, Lab Assistant (Fired due to tampering with the Cheetah Claws), Beast-X King Zord's Engineer (Rehired)
Gallery
Special-Ops Hangar
The Special-Ops Hangar is a secret Hangar located in the woods to the west of Coral Harbour used by General Burke. He gives the Rangers, Nate and Commander Shaw access to use it for their needs. It was temporarily used to house Slicerdrone but it was destroyed when the Gigadrone was freed by Roxy's avatar and Meltatron, blasting apart the opening and caving in the roof. It only appears as the titular primary setting of the episode "Hangar Heist."
Pine Ridge Woods
- These woods are rarely seen in of themselves and originally were not used by Grid Battleforce since they belonged to Evox/Mayor Daniels and General Burke to build the Beast-X King Zord. With the organisation's acquisition of the Beast-X King Zord, these woods are now their property.
Notes
- The reason for Grid Battleforce existing at all is because the Zords have the GB logo (standing for "Go-Busters|, the counterpart to Beast Morphers) all over them and Hasbro could not just reshoot the cockpit shots seeing as all of the primary Ranger Zords have the logo plastered all over them.
- Although never stated in the show, the organisation appears to be paramilitary in nature seeing as most other types of organisation do not have generals as part of the staff.
See Also
- Energy Management Center - Super Sentai counterpart in Go-Busters. See comparison page.
