(Zack)
I walked down the steps, towards the floor of the detention room and let my steps be heavy to announce my arrival in an obnoxious way. I saw Trini and Kimberly snicker a little while looking at each other and Jason tried to hide his smiled by shaking his head. Billy didn't look up, as he was writing something in his notebook attentively.
"Zack Taylor…" The teacher overseeing detention said slowly. "One minute and you would've been late."
I smirked a little and stopped dramatically midway down the steps. "Well it's a good thing last night I told myself 'Zack Taylor, you make sure you set your alarm one minute early to get to detention and make yourself a better you,'" I said back and the teacher just gave a flat smile and marked something on his clipboard while my team, as well as a few other detention-goers, couldn't help but laugh a little.
I grabbed a chair off of the desk near the back of the detention room and turned it around, plopping down in it and resting my arms on top of the back of it. I set my chin on my arms and closed my eyes. They weren't shut for more than a few seconds before I instinctively shot my arm up and caught a piece of paper, my eyes opening as well. I looked around, trying to see who threw it and saw that Jason was the one who threw it since he was looking to me, waiting for me to open it. I kept my eyes on him as I unfolded it and then shifted my eyes to the paper and read it with my head still facing Jason's direction.
'Any luck on finding Green?'
I glanced up to him and slightly shook my head. It had been three days, four including today, since Zordon told us to keep an eye out for who the Green Ranger could be and I hadn't seen anything so far. He motioned to Kimberly with his eyes and I looked from Jason to the teacher. He was reading a book and I quickly flung the paper to Kim and she caught it, looking over. I nodded to Jason and he looked to her as she read the paper. She looked back up and shook her head. Instead of throwing it, she just reached over to the side and tossed it onto Billy's desk. He put his notebook down and read the note, looking to Kimberly. She tilted her head towards Jason and Billy shook his head at Jason. Billy then looked to me and was about to throw it, but the sound of another set of steps coming down the stairs caused him to stop and all of us to look at who was coming down. He wore a white jacket with blue jeans and white and green shoes and hustled down the steps.
"Tommy Oliver," the teacher said, his head towards the student coming down the stairs.
"Sorry, I'm late aren't I?"
"You are, and you were late last week when you didn't even show up," the teacher replied and Tommy gave a timid smile.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Harrison, my car wasn't working last week but it is this-"
"Save the excuses and have a seat, Mr. Oliver," the teacher interrupted and Tommy gave another timid smile smile and nodded.
"Yes sir," he said and sat down at a desk with a chair already down just a bit in front of me and to the right. I looked back to Billy and he quickly passed the note to Trini who caught it between her index and middle fingers. She looked to Jason and also shook her head. Jason rolled his eyes and leaned back in his chair, obviously not happy with the lack of progress. I rolled my eyes back, despite nobody being able to see my frustration since everyone sat in front of me.
Who was he to get mad at us?
I let my chin fall onto my arms once again and shut my eyes, staying this way for the rest of detention.
An hour later, Mr. Harrison dismissed us and I quickly stood up, getting off of the chair and hustling up the steps with the rest of the students in detention. I exited the school and saw Kimberly already waiting for the rest of us. I walked over to her and the rest of the team came up to us just a moment later.
"Let's go," Jason said and I scoffed.
"Where, dude?"
"Where do you think?" He said and started to walk at a brisk pace to his truck. I looked back to the rest of them and they all shrugged. I turned back to Jason and jogged to catch up with him. "We gotta see if Zordon has any ideas."
"Ideas about what?" I asked and Jason stopped, turning to me.
"What do you mean 'about what?' It's been half a week and we got nothing on who-" Jason started to say in a raised and angry voice, but stopped and looked over to the kids exiting the school. He lowered his voice. "On who the Green Ranger is."
"It's not the worst thing in the world if we don't find him right away," Trini said and I stuck my arm out towards her in agreement.
"Thank you!" I looked back to Jason. "J, you gotta chill, man. It's not easy finding a needle in a haystack and I just started going back to school. I know almost no one here, buddy. And I don't think the rest of them," I said and motioned to the rest of the team. "Really know what to look for yet."
"We just need to be patient. Zordon said we will know when we find him or her," Billy mentioned and Jason folded his arms over his chest and looked to the side, taking a breath.
"We can't be taking our sweet time when some kid has the Coin," he hissed quietly, looking back over to us. "What if that dumbass bully from detention has it?" He asked, looking at Billy and then turned to Kim. "Or Amanda Clark?"
"What's wrong with Amanda Clark?" I asked, picking up on something Jason dropped. Whether it was intentional or not, Jason just basically told us there was some sort of bad blood between Kim and Amanda. I haven't gone to school for a while, but I did know they were friends.
We all looked over to Kim whose face turned pale and stiff as she kept her glance on Jason. She tried to stifle her sigh, but we all noticed it and she looked down at the ground and swallowed heavily.
"We need to find who has the coin," Jason firmly said, slightly changing the subject to a more general statement. "We can't have some idiot running around with it."
"Ok...well Zordon said we need to look for signs, right?" Trini reminded us and I laughed, everyone's eyes on me after my chuckle.
"I still don't even really know what that means," I admitted and saw Tommy walking towards his car out of the corner of my eye. I grinned and motioned to Tommy and the rest of the team subtly looked over to him. "Oliver's shoes are green. That a good enough sign, bossman?" I joked and Jason's serious and unentertained gaze darted towards me and my smirk turned to a frown almost immediately. "Fine, what do you want us to do?"
"Pay attention to your surroundings and stop slacking off," Jason answered and stormed off to his car. We all exchanged glances with each other, ranging from worried to annoyed.
"For real," I said as we watched his truck pull out of the spot and exited the school parking lot. "What's his deal?"
"He's just on edge. The whole not knowing who has the Green Coin and if people are going to come after the Crystal. I know I am," Kimberly answered and saw her parents car. She started to walk towards it before turning back to the rest of us. "I'll talk to him later and reason with him."
The remaining three of us watched Kimberly enter the car and the car drove off. I looked back to Billy and Trini and stuck my hands in my pockets.
"You guys wanna hang out?" I asked and Billy shook his head.
"Can't. I gotta finish up working on something for Alpha."
He headed to where his mom was parked and I looked to Trini.
"Looks like it's just you and I, Crazy Girl. Whaddya say?"
"Alright, let's go do something. Didn't really wanna head home today anyways," she said with a small smile and I smiled back.
We headed to my car and she entered, as did I, and I gave her a bit of a baffled look. "You don't need to call your parents or something? Let them know they don't need to pick you up from detention?"
"Oh, they don't know I'm in detention," she replied nonchalantly. I was taken aback a bit and kept my baffled expression turned to her. She caught it and spoke again. "What?"
"Your parents don't know you come here? They knew you skipped school, right? They didn't realize you'd get detention for that?" I asked and Trini nodded.
"I told them I got off with a warning and told them I was hanging out with friends this morning," she said, giving me a shrew smile and I smiled back, shaking my head.
"Crazy Girl strikes again," I boomed in a loud, deep voice, trying to sound like an announcer. "This time, she's lying to her own parents!"
"It's not a lie, you guys are my friends and we hung out." She shrugged. "It was just hanging out at detention. Anyway, telling them I now have friends got them off my back, but of course they wanna meet all of you like I'm some kind of five year old."
"Well you got the height of a five year old, so…"
She gave me a sarcastic glare and shook her head with a scoff. "Clever. Well now we need to go train so I can kick your ass."
"Heh," I mumbled and lowered my voice. "In your dreams, Crazy Girl."
