Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers Megaforce. This story is fan-made.

Author's Note: This is not where the Megaforce series starts. If you want to read the series without getting lost, I suggest you read my stories in the order they appear:

No To Date Nights - The Party Night - Project Partners - Megaforce: Lives Behind The Masks - Prom Night - A Trip To Remember - First Meetings - Something She Loves – Protective Morans – Samurai In Harwood County – Rainy Days – Luck Had Nothing To Do With It – Ranger Support – Parents and Children – Hero Without The Spandex – Emma's Night – Emma's Mother – Bait And Switch – After Death – A Stormy Day – A Date For Tensou – A Mother's Advice – Mending Fences – Executioner Named Revenge –Those Three Words – On The Fourth Day – Babysitting – Tiger- A Fresh Start – On the Mountains – Looking Ahead

It felt good to be back on the soccer field. With only a few games left in the season, Jake was glad he was able to play. He was still a little beat up from his visit to the future, but he could play through the bruising. It wasn't like he hadn't done so before. While soccer was supposed to be a non-contact sport, a little pushing and shoving was allowed, not to mention the misdirected kicks to the legs when fighting over the ball.

"Holling," he heard his Coach call and turned to the sidelines. The game hadn't started yet. He and the team were just practicing together before the game to get warmed up and figure out some strategies. It was good to know the field they were going to play on. He hurried over to meet up with his coach.

Coach McKnight was one of the best in the business. He had a passion for soccer that was unmatched, and before he started coaching full time he had played soccer professionally. His teams were always well known and his players had the best chance of moving along in their athletic careers. Moreover, he taught his players excellent values that could be used off the field, such as teamwork, respect, and commitment. These were skills Jake were sure he had learned from his time as a Ranger.

Coach McKnight, to Jake's surprised, was a former red Ranger. He had led the team of Dino Thunder Rangers in Reefside mostly during the 2003-2004 school year, where they had fought again Mesogog's team of mutated dinosaur like monsters and protected the world from returning back to the prehistoric era. Jake felt lucky his former coach knew the struggles of balancing school work with Ranger duties and soccer, which meant he usually had a free pass when he had to skip out on training or even games to save the world. However, it wasn't something they talked about often, just when Coach McKnight seemed to sense that there was something occupying Jake's thoughts.

"Where's Gia?" he asked Jake and the black Ranger signaled for them to start walking around the field. Coach McKnight followed him.

"The latest attack almost got her killed," he said. "She's in the hospital recovering."

"Is it bad?"

"Not as bad as we thought it was," Jake let out a relieved sigh. "It's still pretty bad, though."

"She's missing the quarter finals," Coach nodded his head. "It's got to be pretty bad. I guess this game we're playing without a good luck charm."

"I feel pretty lucky," Jake shrugged his shoulders. "Don't worry, Coach, it's not going to bother me. I want to win this game. Gotta bring her back some good news, right?"

Coach McKnight smiled and nodded his head. He gave Jake a little pat on the shoulder before sending him back off to the field. He felt bad for Jake, and for the Megaforce team. It seemed over the years, the monsters were getting stronger. Conner remembered having some scares during his time as a Ranger. He and his teammates had been knocked around pretty badly, and he remembered making a few trips to the doctor and a couple of visits to the emergency room, but it seemed Gia was staying there for a while. That had never happened to him or his teammates.

He pulled out his cell phone, "Yo, Ethan, you busy right now? I've got a little job for you to do down at the hospital."

-Megaforce-

Gia opened her eyes suddenly and felt she had to catch her breath. She hated this about sleeping. She hated how the nightmares forced her to relieve her painful past. She hated how she could never leave anything behind.

She didn't know the details of her death, as the others called it, but she had heard about what had happened, and it seemed her subconscious remembered it very clearly. In her nightmare, she had been trapped in a room on fire, unable to move, with a monster standing over her. He was laughing maniacally as she burned and refused to listen to her screams for help. Now that she was awake, she figured the monster was Vrak, and the fire had something to do with the burn on her back, but it still wasn't something she wanted to see again, even in a dream. It all felt very real.

"Nightmare?" Emma was still beside her on the chair. She hadn't left the room. While her mother and Mrs. Goodall were coming and going, depending on the time of day, Emma couldn't be moved. Gia hadn't quite been asleep when she heard her best friend yelling at a nurse who politely asked her to leave and give Gia some time to rest up.

"Yeah," she nodded her head. Just then, there was a knock at the door. Gia figured it was just the nurse and the doctor. It was about time they check the burn on her back and change the bandage, but instead saw a man walking in. He looked a lot like Noah in his blue polo, glasses, and a laptop bag hanging off his shoulder. Surely, he wasn't a doctor or a nurse, but he did look very familiar.

"Who are you?" Emma asked. The man turned to the girls and smiled. He pointed to Gia.

"Gia Moran, right?"

"Yeah…"

"Ethan James. I'm a friend of Conner's. Well, you know him better as Coach McKnight."

"Why are you here?"

"Your friend Jake has a soccer game, right?" Ethan walked up to the TV and started to work on it, much like Noah did when Mrs. Moran asked him to come by and figure out why the TV kept changing channels without anyone asking it to.

"Yeah. I wished him good luck. Stupid doctors won't let me go…"

"You don't have to," in a flash, the TV was showing an image of the soccer field. Gia recognized Jake's team's jerseys and game Ethan a very curious, but very thankful look.

"How did you do that?"

"Modern technology," Ethan smirked. "I've got cameras set up around the field so you can watch the game. It's feeding the video to my laptop, and I'm feeding it to the TV. Now you don't have to miss a second."

"The game's started," Emma pointed out. Ethan looked to the screen and then scratched his head.

"Oops. I guess I was lost for a little longer than I thought. I'll just text Conner and see what the score is. You two can watch the game."

Gia nodded and her eyes were focused on the screen as Jake took the ball from one of his opponents and dribbled with it up the field. Emma, meanwhile, got up from her seat and joined Ethan by his laptop.

"What exactly is going on?" she asked. Ethan finished typing up his message and then looked at her with a shrug.

"Letting your friend watch the game. You know, it's the quarter finals. It's a pretty important game… I've been told."

"So you program the TV to watch the game?"

Ethan nodded his head, "It was Conner's idea. Apparently Gia's a good luck charm for the team. Conner likes having her around, the guys seem to always be asking after her if she doesn't show up, and I think you and I both know Jake loves it when she can watch him play."

"YES!" Gia suddenly cried from the bed. "Go Jake!"

"Score's now 1-0 for Harwood," Ethan smirked. "Look, I'm just here to help. You can borrow my laptop until the end of the game. Just don't touch anything on it. Or the laptop itself."

"Alright," Emma said as Ethan walked for the door, "Um… thank you."

"Anything for fellow Rangers," Ethan said before he left. Emma's jaw dropped for a moment until she recognized him. She had been to Dr. Oliver's home, and in his basement he had something of a command center for her and her teammates. They hadn't needed to use it yet, but they had gotten some information from it regarding the Dino Thunder Rangers. Jake's coach, Conner McKnight, had been the red Ranger. Dr. Oliver had been black, as well as many other colours before that, Kira Ford had been the yellow Ranger, and now she remembered Ethan, the blue.

"HEY! Are you blind, ref? Thank you!" Gia called out and Emma snapped out of her thoughts and turned around to see Gia enjoying the game. She smiled as she walked back over to the chair and had a seat.

"How's it going?"

"Fine. Jake's got a goal already, so we're off to a good start," Gia smiled. "Now it's a free kick because some idiot thought he could get away with tackling Jake."

"What's a free kick?" Emma asked. She had watched some of Jake's games, and knew the basic rules of soccer, but not enough to follow a game flawlessly. Gia had picked up on a lot of the language since she started going to the games with Jake, and naturally, picked up on it easily.

"It's to restart the game after a foul," Gia said. "It's awarded to the opposing team from the player who committed the foul. In this case, it's Jake's chance to kick the ball without someone going after him."

"So, it's literally a free kick?" Emma asked. "Now I feel kind of stupid."

"Don't ask about direct or indirect, then," Gia smirked. "I felt like a real idiot then."

Emma chuckled and nodded her head before turning to the TV to watch the rest of the game.