It was a bright sunny day at the Shiba household and the samurai rangers were outside training like they usually do. Mike was busy practicing sword work with Mia, Kevin training alongside them, and Jayden and Emily were working on the red ranger's symbol power. Meanwhile Mentor Ji was standing on the sidelines watching them when Antonio came running in like a bat out of hell.
"Hey Mentor Ji there's someone outside looking for Jayden," Antonio said panting trying to catch his breath.
"What?" Ji replied looking at the gold ranger.
"What's going on?" Jayden asked walking up.
"Someone is outside waiting for you," Antonio said making Jayden's eyes narrow.
Walking towards the front of the house Jayden saw that Emily was following close behind him with a curious look. Opening the front gate the red samurai ranger saw a man that looked about a year older than him, wearing a red tank top standing next to a girl wearing a yellow blouse. The man looked up and took saw the group coming over before pushing himself off of his car and looking Jayden over.
"Jayden Shiba?" He asked as the girl stood up beside him.
"Yeah that's me who are you?" Jayden asked as the others joined him.
"My name is Conner Olivers," Conner said taking his sun glasses off, "I came here to request your help on a mission."
The group along with Conner and the other girl, who they later found out was Kira, and moved into the living room so that they could talk in private. Looking around Conner saw Mentor Ji walk in and spot him before stopping and looking him over real quick.
"Hello I am Mentor Ji who are you?" Ji asked shaking Conner's hand.
"Conner Oliver, I came here to talk to the red samurai ranger," Conner said looking over at Jayden, "If we may sit down."
Jayden nodded and sat down where he was facing Conner who was now sitting down next to Kira. Looking around Conner took in the faces of all of the samurai rangers before deciding how to go about his mission at hand. He was there to recruit Jayden in a mission that his father didn't even give him a lot of information on to begin with. So how the hell was he suppose to try to recruit him?
"So what do you need to talk about?" Jayden asked not taking his eyes off of Conner.
"Well first off I assume you would like to know how you are rangers," Conner replied leaning forward, "that's because me and my girlfriend are both former rangers ourselves."
"So why are you here?" Kevin asked walking around the couch.
"Like Conner said before, we're here to request Jayden's help for a mission," Kira said finally speaking up.
"What kind of mission," Emily asked tilting her head to the side.
"I'm sorry but I don't have that kind of information, I'm not the coordinator of the whole thing," Conner said shaking his head, "What I can tell you is we need your help Jayden."
"Alright then I'll do what I can," Jayden replied standing up.
"Good then we leave as soon as you are ready to go," Conner said shaking Jayden's hand.
"Then let us get packed," Kevin said turning around.
"No," Conner said stopping the blue ranger, "I should have said this earlier but it's a red only mission."
The samurai rangers all looked around somewhat uncomfortable with the fact that their red ranger was going to go on a mission without them. It was then that Jayden decided that he should speak up but Mentor beat him to it.
"I'm sorry but we're not so sure that we should let Jayden go on this mission seeing as he's important to beating Master Xandred," Mentor said as Conner stood up.
"I understand that but we need all the help we can get with this mission," Conner replied looking at Mentor, "rest assure that there will be more rangers there and we'll make sure that Jayden is safe."
"I'm going," Jayden said standing up.
"Jayden please think this over what if something happens to you?" Emily asked grabbing a hold of his arm.
"I'll be fine Emily," Jayden said smirking at her.
Conner, along with Kira and Jayden now, left the Shiba household so that they could reach their next destination, Reefside. But unbeknownst to them, a certain yellow samurai had snuck into the truck of the car and was hiding in hopes that she could see what Jayden would be doing. When the car finally stopped and Emily was sure that it was parked she used her symbol power to open the trunk only to find Jayden and Conner standing there. Conner didn't look like he cared but Jayden on the other hand looked hurt and betrayed at what she did. Getting out of the car Emily looked down at the ground not wanting to look into Jayden's eyes.
"Emily what the hell I trusted you to stay at the house," Jayden said making her tense up.
"I'm sorry Jay but I just wanted to know what you…"
"Not that this isn't important but we need to get inside, Kira take Emily with you," Conner said turning around, "come on Jayden we need to go."
Jayden followed and the two walked inside to find out what was going on and what their mission would be. Kira could tell that her fellow yellow ranger was on the verge of tears and, her older sister instincts kicking in, she walked over to her and gave her a hug to calm her down. After the younger yellow ranger finished crying the two made their way behind the house where a mass a pink and a couple of yellows were. One of the older ones wearing pink looked up when she heard their footsteps and smiled when the two came into view. Standing up she made her way over to them and gave Kira a big hug before doing the same to Emily startling her a little bit.
"Emily this is Kimberly Oliver, mother pink, wife of Thomas Oliver, mother of Conner and hopefully my soon to be mother-in-law," Kira said smiling at Kim.
"Emily it's nice to meet you, but I thought that this was a red only mission?" Kim said looking at Kira.
"It is Emily is a hitch hiker," Kira said patting her on the back, "and her red ranger is kind of mad so she's a little upset."
"Oh don't worry about him sweet heart sit down and I'll get you a drink," Kim said walking off.
Emily follow close behind Kira and the two sat down in a couple of chairs next to where Kim was sitting near the pool. Looking around the Emily could tell that none of the women here were red rangers and asked Kira why there were all here. Kira opened her mouth to answer but another woman beat her to the punch…
"Because we're either married too or dating one of the reds," a woman in pink said smiling at her, "My name is Cassie Johnson, I'm the wife of Tj the red turbo ranger."
"Nice to meet you I'm Emily I'm the yellow samurai ranger," Emily said as Kim came back with a couple of drinks.
"Well then Kira, why don't you introduce Emily to the others," Kim said making Kira smile and take a hold Emily's hand to talk to the others.
Meanwhile inside the house Jayden was being introduced to the others thanks to Conner who seemed to know just about everyone there. He said that it was because they all come over to his father's house every now and then to talk to him and Jayden did argue with that. Finally just when he thought it was over an older man in a red t-shirt walked up to them and looked Jayden over.
"So this is the rookie?" the man asked looking at Conner.
"Yep," Conner replied shaking his hand.
"I'm sorry but I'm not a rookie," Jayden said glaring.
"Kid to me you're a rookie," the man said looking at him.
"Jayden I wouldn't argue if I were you," Conner said placing his hand on Jayden's shoulder, "this is Jason Lee Scott, the first ever red ranger."
That shut Jayden up quickly making the others laugh a little bit when a couch caught their attention as a man with short black hair and a red shirt stood there in the door way. The room seemed to grow quiet and Jayden looked at Conner wanting to know who that man was.
"That's Dr. Tommy Oliver, he's a legend, ranger of four colors and more important to me, my mentor teammate…and dad," Conner said surprising Jayden.
"I'm glad you came again on such short notice," Tommy said walking over to them, "you know that I wouldn't do such a think unless it's really important."
"So what is it this time Tommy?" Jason asked looking at his long time friend.
"Something that I hoped wouldn't happen," Tommy said turning on a holo-projector that Andros had set up earlier.
The group looked at the image in front of them and Conner tensed up when they saw a picture of all of Zeltrax in the middle of the projection.