Jai got Ira from Mrs. Hendricks's house. They walked back to the apartment where Jai started making pasta or dinner.

"Hey Ira, want to help me stir the pasta?"

Ira nodded and laughed as she came up to Jai. He took her hand and helped her stir it slowly; making sure that she wouldn't get hurt.

After they ate dinner, he walked Ira back to her room after helping her bathe and brush her teeth. He tucked her in and read her favorite story, The Little Mermaid.

Ira fell asleep by the time he finished his book. He tucked the blanket around her before moving next to her. He kissed her head and turned off the light. He lightly stroked her hair and waited for her breathing to even out.

"Sweet dreams, Ira. I'll protect you from all the bad ones. I promise."


Jai ran back to the site after he dropped Ira off with Mrs. Hendricks. They came up with a new schedule since Jai had an extra job he was working before the night shift. Ira would be staying with Mrs. Hendricks on the nights that he was working. Hopefully on the nights he wasn't working, he could be home by 7.

He reached the cliff to find the other five waiting for him.

"How did you know I would come?" Jai asked.

Jason smirked at him. "Didn't know. Just hoped."

Jai nodded and jumped down the cliff with the other five right behind him.


"You need to follow the three rules to being a Power Ranger. You must never use your powers for personal gain. You must never escalate a fight, unless your enemy forces you to. And you must never reveal your identity. Ever."

Jai raised an eyebrow and looked at Zack who just chuckled back.

"To assume your ranger identities you need to morph. Have any of you morphed before?"

"Yes, but only in the shower." Zack sassed making everyone laugh.

"Okay, okay, let's step into the footprints, please. Let's try this.' Alpha 5 said.

"Standing in this circle as a team, you can easily connect to the morphing grid. Do you feel it?" Zordon asked.

"Yeah they do." Alpha 5 said.

"No, not feeling it." Zack said.

"You need to morph to get your armor." Zordon said.

"I knew it! We do get armor. Jason! We get armor!" Billy said.

"Cool! When do you give us the armor?" Zack asked.

"You already have it inside of you. You bring it out by connecting to each other and connecting to the Morphing grid. Bury your minds and focus. Power Rangers were a legion of warriors sworn to protect life." Zordon said.

"Yes!" Alpha 5 exclaimed.

"You must become those warriors." Zordon said.

"Become the warriors!" Alpha 5 screamed.

The air started to circle around them and the ship started shaking, but nothing happened. It ended as soon as it started.

"What? What? Did it work?" Kimberly asked.

"Alpha 5, why they didn't they morph?" Zordon asked.

"I do not know, sir. It is disturbing. Very disturbing. Might take some time." Alpha answered.

"We don't have time!"

"If they can't morph, what are we supposed to do?"

"They will have to train without armor, they need to prepare."

"Without armor? Sir that will be very painful."

"Take them down to the pit."

Alpha 5 sighed heavily and turned to the six.

"Alright follow me. We are going to the pit."

"Jason, I don't want to find out what the pit is." Billy said.


They all followed Alpha 5 out of the ship and into another part of the cave.

"So, This is the pit. It's nice, right?" Alpha said.

"Alpha 5, begin the exercise." Zordon requested.

"Sorry, guys."

"What exercise?" Jason asked.

"Chill out dude." Zack said.

Rocks starred moving from the ground and were put together to form ugly looking creatures.

"These creatures before you are simulations of Rita's army. They are called putun. You must get to them to get to her."

"No, no, no, Jason." Billy said as they walked closer.

"Relax, guys. It's a hologram, like video games. Look." Zack said before he was punched into a wall 20 feet away.

"Strong ass hologram." Billy said.

Jai grimaced when Zack hit the rock.

"Not a video game." Zack said.

"No shit, dipstick." Jai laughed with Trini.

"This is why you must morph into your armor. If Rita becomes strong enough to build her army, it will be the beginning of the end. Rangers, welcome to training." Zordon said.

"I'm so excited you guys are back. Aim for the center." Alpha 5 said as Jason was getting ready to attack. When he failed, Alpha 5 sighed. "One more time."

Everyone was eager to try, so Jai sat on the side to see how far they would get. He studies how the holograms would attack and their fighting styles.

He laughed when he saw Trini put Zack in a headlock and Kimberly flip Jason onto his back.

Zack looked at Jai. "You think you can do better?"

Jai raised an eyebrow and took his jacket off. He moved to the center of the room where the holograms are. The four were still standing there.

"Master Jai, let me get rid of the other t-" Alpha began to say but was interrupted.

"No that's fine Al. Leave them there." Jai said.

Jason, Kimberly, Zack, and Billy, and Trini stood to the side.

"He's going to get pummeled." Zack said.

However, Jason could see something different in Jai's eyes.

"This should be interesting." Jason said.

Jai eyed his opponents and waited for them to move first. As soon as the first one moved, Jai began running to them. He punched the first one while sliding under him between the legs. That made it fall down in pain. He kicked the second one from beneath his feet and made him fall down. The third one took a swing at him, but he moved to the side, grabbed his waist, and suplexed him making the creature shatter in many rocks. The fourth one snuck up behind Jai and punched him in the side. Jai jumped out of the way of the second punch to avoid being knocked out. He rolled on his side and got in his fighting stance. The creature and him had a showdown before running towards each other. It tried punching Jai, but he ducked and slid between its legs. He turned around quickly and got on his back, placing one hand on its jaw and the other on the opposite side. He quickly snapped its neck, making the creature crumble to the ground.

He looked behind him to see the shocked faces of his fellow rangers.

He turned back to Alpha 5. "You Al, you got some water?"

"Uh, yes. In the ship."

Jai got his jacket and passed Zack on his way going to the ship.

Kimberly looked at Jason. "Well, he's full of surprises."

The rest of them got back to training. Jai even heard Alpha 5 mentioning that they could be murdered.


The next day, two more fishermen died. After school, Jai got to the training late, and found Zack and Jason fighting.

"What's going on?"

"Apparently, Zack got his zord and almost killed us." Trini said.

"His what?" Jai asked.

"Long story." Kimberly said.

Right when Zack and Jason were about to fight, Jai stepped forward, but Kimberly and Trini held him back.

Billy got in between them and suddenly, where Billy was standing, was a Blue suited ranger. But as quick as he morphed, the suit vanished.

"All of you. In the chamber, now."

Everyone went into the chamber, only to be faced with a furious Zordon.

"Do you know what it means to be a ranger? Do you know what those colors represent?"

Everyone was stunned into silence.

"Red shows leadership. Blue shows loyalty. Yellow shows intelligence. Black shows strength. Pink shows health. White shows purity. But none of you knows what it means to be a ranger. None of you are worthy!"

Jai had enough. "SHUT UP!"

Zordon was even taken back by his volume.

"We're kids. The coins chose us only because we were there. They chose us by coincidence, but we aren't giving up. We're here everyday busting our ass, getting kicked, punched, and fucking shitted on because we are trying to believe what you have here is rel. We are trying to believe that we can save the world. We looked up to you, trying to figure out how to please you, but let me tell you one thing Zordon? You and me, the rest of us, are completely different. You're a coward. You're behind that wall. We are here."

Jai stepped away as he was about to walkout. He turned around at the last second and faced Zordon.

"You don't think we have people we want to save?" Jai asked in a much softer tone.

The other five were still stunned at him yelling at Zordon.

"You don't think we have parents, brothers, sister, friends, uncles, grandparents, neighbors, and an entire town to save. Zordon, we are trying. But you need to remember, we are just kids."

Jai walked everyone but Jason behind him. They got out of the cave and started hiking down until Zack stopped them.

"I'm gonna stay up here tonight. I have some food. I'm gonna make a fire."

"I'm down." Trini said.

Billy and Kimberly walked behind them. Zack turned around for Jai.

"You coming?"

Jai looked at his phone and saw that Ira had fallen asleep. Mrs. Hendricks said that she and her husband could keep her for the night. They already had enough of her clothes and she was comfortable, so Jai responded ok to her text.

"Yeah, I'm down."


Jai sat down as they passed a bottle of whiskey around. Billy had his first sip and they all congratulated him.

Zack mocked Zordon as he was building the fire.

"'If I weren't stuck in this wall, I would eat that junk food.'"

Jason joined them later.

"What happened back there?" Zack asked.

"Nothing, don't worry about it." Jason answered. "Billy, how'd you do it? How'd you morph?"

"I don't know." Billy answered.

"What do you guys thinking about when you are trying to morph?"

"'You must shade your masks to wear this armor.'" Kimberly said.

"'Think only of each other and the morphing grid will open to you'". Billy said after Kimberly.

"Yeah, that's better." She said.

"Or maybe it's Cause we don't know each other. Maybe that's why we can't morph." Zack suddenly said.

"Okay." Kimberly said.

"No, I am serious, let's do this for real. I am Zack and I am a Power Ranger." Zack said making everyone laugh.

"Hi, Zack." Trini and Billy said.

"Truth, I live in the Melody mobile home park. It's just my mum and me. And my mom? My mom is the best!" Zack yelled. But he started tearing up. "But my Mom. She's sick. I do what I can, but I'm scared. Sometimes I get too scared to stay the night because I'm afraid she can't make it. And if she goes... When she goes... I got nobody else. Look. I think being with you guys is good for me." Zack admitted.

"Let's do that. Let's tell our secrets it will help us." Billy said next. "Okay, I got a secret. I like country music." He made everyone laugh.

"What?" Jai asked.

"As a matter of fact, I love country music. And I don't, I don't miss my dad that much I mean coming to the mine with him was all I had. But, coming to the mine with you guys is just as good. Yeah." Billy said.

"Biggest secret is why're you in detention?" Jason asked.

"I blew up my lunch box." Billy said.

"What?" Trini asked.

"But it was an accident."

"What?" Kimberly asked next.

"Of course." Jai remarked.

"My lunch box was in my locker boom goes the lunch box, in detention goes Billy. But let's not forget that Kimberly Hart was also in detention too." Billy said.

"Not tonight. Skip me." Kimberly said.

"What about you dude? Why don't you tell us who you really are?" Zack asked Jason.

"Because everyone knows exactly who I am." Jason answered.

"Okay." Zack said satisfied with the answer. "What about you, crazy girl?"

"I could tell you anything and you would have to believe me." Trini said.

"Okay." Zack said, not relenting.

"I'm the new girl. Always. Three schools in three years. I like it that way, you know, it's just easier. Nobody ever has to get to know me. My parents don't have to worry about my relationships." Trini began.

"Boyfriend troubles?" Zack asked.

"Yeah. Boyfriend troubles." Trini sarcastically remarked.

"Girlfriend troubles?" Zack asked, making Jai smack his own forehead due to Zack's stupidity.

"My family is so normal. Too normal. They believe in labels. They would like for me to... dress differently. Talk more. Have the kinds of friends they want me to have. I don't know how to tell them what's really going on with me." Trini said, making everyone quiet.

"I never said any of this out loud." She added.

"Well, it's cool. You with us now." Billy said.

"Am I? What does that mean? When all this is over? Are we Power Rangers or? Are we friends?"

Jason turned to Jai and noticed he didn't say anything.

"What about you, Jai?"

Jai turned his head to Jason.

"Who are you? Why were you in detention?"

Everyone looked at Jai.

Jai started laughing. Jason and the others looked at him like he was crazy.

"Colt, you know, the guy you slapped? He grabbed my sister's drawing out of my locker. I stared him down, Principal found us, next thing I know, I'm in detention for not going to class on time."

He paused and looked at everyone.

"My sister, Ira." Jai said absently while looking at the fire. "The most wonderful person in this world. Her soul is so pure; I just… want to protect her from the outside world forever."

Everyone was even more confused.

"She's autistic. Been diagnosed since she was a year and a half. I've been taking care of her ever since. It'll be eleven years in two months. I've worked everywhere in this city and saved up to buy a one bedroom apartment near the rich community, so that she will be safe. She goes to a special school that helps her improve her skills, but that costs money. So I work any kind of job, to help her." Jai said.

Zack looked at him with understanding. Jason was curious.

"What kind of jobs?"

Jai chuckled. "Uh... construction, mining, bartending, waiter, busboy, hotel desk, janitor, gas station, mechanic, bouncer, oh, and there was this one job where I had to babysit kids like Ira. Oh my god, it was the best day of my life."

"You do this and still go to school?" Kimberly asked.

"Yeah. I can't afford a car yet, but I'm close. Until then, Ira and I walk. And she loves to walk. She holds my hand and swings it up and down the entire way. She points out all the animals she sees and the different people." Jai sighed.

"What about your parents?" Billy asked.

Jai scoffed. "Piece of shits abandoned us when I was seven. We've been on our own since."

Everybody was stunned.

"I try, you know? I try to be so strong that she doesn't need to feel any kind of sadness."

Trini got up and sat next to Jai while Zack did the same on his other side.

"But that doesn't mean I'm not scared. Until this day, I didn't cry. Not one single day, because if I cry, then I can't protect Ira. And I have to protect her. There will be no reason for her to even have one scratch on her or one single tear fall out of her eye." Jai said sadly and angrily.

"But that doesn't mean I'm not human." Jai said, as he couldn't stop the tears. He looked down at his feet and away from everyone.

"What did I do, man? Was it me? Am I horrible to be with? If that's the case, they should have kept Ira. They could have helped her. They could have insurance to buy those costly medications and had enough money to get a car so I don't have to wake her up an extra hour in the morning."

Jai looked at everyone before asking the one question that broke all of their hearts.

"How could they not want us?" He whispered before sobbing. Jason came up to his side and pulled him into a hug. Trini held onto his hand. Zack put an arm on his shoulder. Billy came up behind Jai and hugged him from the back. Kimberly stood in shock, not knowing how to react.

Jai just sobbed. He let every feeling that he had for the past eleven years. He let out everything.

Jai opened his apartment door. He sat down and looked at the pictures around his apartment of him and his sister. He started cleaning up. Once he was done, he got down to business. He took off his shirt and started his workout: 10 sets of 25 pushups, 50 crunches, 20 squats, 20 20-dumbbells, and 3 sets of 1000 jump roping.

This workout he did every night helped him relax. It forced him to wind down and sleep.

Just as he was finishing his workout, he got a text from Trini to meet up at the football field.

He got his shirt and jacket and left the apartment.

Jai arrived at the field at the same time as everyone else.

"So we all get the same text. So where is she?" Kimberly asked.

"I'm here!" Trini said. "Look. Rita came to my house tonight."

"What?" Kimberly asked in shock.

"Yeah, she's real. Insane." Trini said as she moved her hair to show her scratch marks. "She nearly killed me. She's trying to get me to join her. She said she'd spare my life if I kept a secret."

"What secret?" Zack asked.

"At dawn, the destruction of Angel Grove begins."

"This is real. This is the end." Kimberly said in fear.

"No, it's not. Where is she?" Jason asked.

"She said to me hear what the dead ships live." Trini answered.

"That's the boatyard by the docks, right? Let's go!" Jason said.

No one moved.

"Are you serious? No one?" Jason asked.

"Jason. We are not even power rangers yet." Trini said.

"I say we go back to Zordon." Billy interrupted.

"Okay, the only reason Zordon wanted us to become Power Rangers... Is so that he can come back to life." Jason said angrily.

"What makes you say that?" Billy asked.

Jai scoffed.

"Because he told me." Jason said.

"Wait, so all this a lie?" Billy asked.

"Of course it was a lie, Billy. We failed. Let's stop being delusional about being a team of superheroes. We are all screw-ups. And as much as I hate this scrubby bullshit town... I don't want to just sit around and watch it die okay? Let's go and do the one thing that's been asked of us and kill Rita." Jason said.

"You know this is really a bad idea, right?" Kimberly asked.

"The worst. Let's vote. Shove hands. Let's do it." Jason said.

Trini put her hand up first. Kimberly next. Zack put his hand up and Billy did too. Everyone was looking at Jai. He put his hand up too.

"Let's go kick some ass." Jai said.