Hey guys, sorry I was gone for so long! The holidays were busy and getting back to school was time consuming, but I'm free now so here's the next chapter! Oh, and Happy New Year to all of you guys! Hope you like this chapter!

Brett was walking to school alone, looking ahead of him at Brian, who was walking with a new girl that he liked and has offered to walk her to class. Brett stayed quite a ways behind them, but was smirking slightly to himself.

"What are you looking at?" A feminine voice said from behind him, and he turned to see Molly walking up to him, her hand holding the strap of her purse on her shoulder as she matched his pace and began to walk at his side.

He gestured ahead, "You see them?" Molly looked ahead and nodded. "That's my brother and a girl he likes. I'm just seeing where he's at with her."

Molly chuckled, "You're watching your brother flirt with a girl?"

"Well, when you put it like that I sound like a creep," Brett joked. "He told me not to bother them, so I'm not, but I'm still interesting in seeing what's going on. It's a little funny how awkward they are."

She nodded in understanding, "I see, so you're watching to see if there's anything you can tease him on later," He looked at her with a strange look, and she elaborated, "I have two older sisters, and they used to do that when I first started dating. They would tease me, but it was never in bad nature. They don't do it too much anymore."

Brett noticed her frown, and was a bit confused. "So, you're upset that they don't tease you anymore?"

Molly gave him a look, "No, I'm not upset about that. I just.. my sisters aren't really around all too much anymore. Sally's in college and Tammy's gonna graduate so she's gonna leave too." She looked down. "I guess I just miss them."

"Oh," Brett had sobered from his usual jokester attitude, knowing it would be too far to comment on that. "Well, I'm sure they don't mean to leave you out or anything. It's not personal,"

She looked up at him, a bit shocked he would comment. "Yeah, you're right. I just wish things were different, but it's okay." Molly quickly said.

Brett nodded. "Sentimental much?"

Molly elbowed him in the side as he chuckled. "Shut up," She rolled her eyes, before pulling her phone out to check the time. "Oh shit, we're late. We should hurry. I think Adrianne wants to talk to us."

"Okay," He sighed obnoxiously. "I guess I'll just have to be a creep later."

She shook her head and gestured for him to follow her. "Come on."

As she and Brett cut through the grass and walked quickly towards their class, the girl that was walking with Brian looked over at them and smirked slightly. She looked at Brian, feigning a sweet look. "Hey Brian?"

"Yeah, Nimue?" He looked over at her, a little nervous look on his face.

Nimue stopped him from walking and looked him over. "I know we've only known each other for a few days, but I really like you," She told him, making him smile. She reached forward and took his hand gently. "Is this okay?"

He nodded. "Yeah, sure. Why wouldn't it be?"

"Well, some people don't like it when I hold their hands," She responded, giving him a strange look.

Brian frowned. "Really? I don't see why,"

"It might be because of this," Nimue wrenched his arm up at an unnatural angle making him cry out in pain, her eyes flashing dangerously. "You see what I mean?"

- Cue Opening -

Molly and Brett made it into class a few minutes late, finding the other rangers and Adrianne sitting in their seats, obviously waiting for them by the looks on their faces.

Brett chuckled nervously under their stares. "What? You've never seen two people as good looking as us before?"

Molly's face went red as she glared at Brett. "Ignore him. Sorry we're late."

Adrianne gestured forward, "It's alright, please take a seat."

"What's going on?" Doug asked, sitting a bit forward in his seat with a worried look on his face.

"I..." Adrianne sighed. "You rangers are obviously very new at this, with only two destroyed dark warriors under your belts, and I feel that you guys need more information and more training to really gain an upper edge."

John frowned. "What do you mean?"

"The dark warriors are a very dangerous bunch," Adrianne explained. "I've known Jetta for a very long time. She and her people attacked my home, disgraced some of us to be like her."

Jessie tilted her head to the side as she thought for a moment. "What do you mean? How did she disgrace your people?"

Adrianne swallowed hard. "She turned some of us into dark warriors - sapping our light energy to turn us against ourselves. Unfortunately for her, it didn't make us evil, just disgraced and without our powers to fight her."

Doug looked sympathetically at her. "That's horrible."

"Yes," Adrianne nodded. "My home planet is no longer fueled by love, happiness, peace, or light. It's contaminated by darkness and hatred, and my people are dying because of it. That is why this began. Earth is next in Jetta's plan."

John sighed angrily, "And that's why we're gonna stop her. She doesn't just get to ruin people's lives and get away with it."

Molly had a thoughtful look on her face, "So, how'd you get to Earth?"

"I overheard her speaking to her general, Senka," Adrianne told them. "She was telling him of her plan to do the same thing to Earth, so I stole one of the dark warrior fleet ships to escape to Earth to find people to protect it."

Brett crossed his arms. "Well, how did you know we were the ones?"

Adrianne gestured to their crystals. "Those crystals chose you for a reason. You must be descendants of light warriors somehow. I've heard stories of light warriors leaving my home planet to populate other planets with their own to protect them, though I'm unsure if that's the truth."

"Descendants?" Jessie frowned. "But wouldn't that mean that our parents were light warriors or something?"

"Not necessarily," Adrianne responded. "It could mean your very distant ancestors for all we know."

"Wait, wouldn't that mean that all of our family members were the same as us?" Molly asked. "Like, our siblings and parents would be descendants too, wouldn't they?"

Adrianne shrugged noncommittally. "I'm unsure of how it would combine with human genetics. It may be a dormant gene until it's activated by crystals similar to your own." She opened her mouth to say more when she was cut off by their morphers beeping. She immediately stood and rushed over to her computer, and frowned deeply. "It seems there's a battle in the park nearby,"

The rangers stood, and Brett made a face. "You mean the one across the street?"

"Yes," Adrianne nodded. "Be careful."

"Will do," John assured her as the rangers sneaked out of the portable and ran towards the sight of the battle.

- PRRF -

Across the street in the park, Nimue had transformed into a grown woman with long white hair, dark eyes, and ghostly pale skin. She wore Grecian warrior attire and had a long staff in her hands.

She was also surrounded by a small army of Zilla and had one of the footsoldiers holding Brian back from running. He stared up at her defiantly, his arm obviously broken and he had a few bruises on his face, but he seemed fine beside that.

Nimue made a face, crossing her arms impatiently. "Where are those damn rangers?" She growled out. "I've been waiting for too long."

"What the hell are you and what are you doing?!" Brian demanded, not trying to show his fear to her.

The dark warrior whipped around and grabbed him by the face, staring at him angrily as he glared back at her. "Did I say you could talk, boy?" She let go of his face and back handed him just in time to hear a voice behind her.

"Hey!" John exclaimed, he and the other rangers lined up behind her.

When she turned around, Brett looked at her face and immediately recognized the features, despite her looking much older. He looked behind her at the person she held captive, not seeing his face for a moment because of Nimue's backhand causing his face to tilt down. The boy tilted his back up and Brett became immediately furious when he saw his face. "Brian?" He said quietly, attracting the attention of the others. "Brian!" He yelled, glaring at Nimue. "Let him go."

Doug frowned as he turned to Brett. "Who is that?"

Nimue gave Brett a sly look, "Oh, I see that I was correct. Brian here is the little brother of a light warrior," Her look changed to an intense stare. "You."

"I swear to God," Brett shook his head. "I said let him go, or I'll kill you."

Jessie looked at him worriedly, "Brett, calm down. We'll save him."

Brett ignored her. "Let him go," He ground out through clenched teeth. "Last chance."

Nimue smirked, "Oh, I'm shaking." She said sarcastically.

"Rainbow Fighters, Fight the Darkness!" Brett yelled, immediately morphing, and shocking Brian, who was watching everything. "Orange Fighter!"

He ran forward before anyone could stop him, forcing the others to morph and run after him.

Brett ran through the Zilla that tried to stop him from getting to Nimue and immediately went in with his sword, slashing it at her every chance he got. She held him off with her staff, knocking back every attempt he made to cut her with his weapon. He caught her on the arm with it and she hissed in pain, grabbing forward and clasping her hand over his own, trying to pull the sword out of his hands.

He growled under his breath and fought with her over his weapon. He used his other hand to pull out his blaster and shot it forward, knocking them both back since they were at so close of a distance. Brett was a bit winded, but jumped to his feet as he saw Nimue already up.

She rushed forward and grabbed him by the neck, attempting to lift him up and choke him, but he hit her in the head with the hilt of his sword, making her fall onto her knee and put her hand up to her head, feeling blood dripping from a cut.

Nimue glared fiercely up at him and lunged forward tackling him to the ground and punching him in the face every chance she got.

From afar, Molly and Jessie were fighting off Zilla in one group, while John and Doug were fighting off the others. Doug saw the two groups of footsoldiers coming closer and ended up turning around and slashing one down immediately with his sword, startling Molly, who was about to do the same thing.

"Go help Brett," He told her, and she nodded, running off to the side to assist the orange ranger, who was being continuously punched over and over by Nimue.

Molly stood a bit away from the two and shot her blaster at Nimue, knocking her off Brett and giving him a chance to regain his bearings to get back in the fight, now assisted by the yellow ranger.

Jessie, meanwhile, broke away from the fight and slashed down the Zilla that were holding Brian captive and kneeled next to him. "Are you alright?"

Brian looked up at her from his position on the ground, "Jessie," He said, a bit stunned by what was going on.

"Come on," Jessie helped him to his feet. "We have to get you to safety." She looked over and saw a bunch of police cars sitting out on the street, blocking off the fight from any civilians. "Okay, run over there alright. Hurry."

He looked at her. "What about you? And Brett?" Brian seemed to try to look behind her to see him.

"We'll handle it." Jessie assure him. "Go over there and get help, we'll meet you there."

"Okay." Brian nodded, sprinting towards the police as Jessie ran back into the battle.

Molly and Brett stood strong in front of Nimue, who was struggling to get up after their last attack on her. She glared hatefully at them. "You'll never beat me rangers."

Brett clenched his fists. "We'll see about that." He turned to Molly. "Let's do it."

"Agreed," Molly nodded.

The two ran forward with their swords drawn and ran by her, slashing at her sides when she wasn't prepared. Then, they turned around and immediately shot their blasters at her. Nimue fell to the ground, trying to get back up, when three other shots hit her from the front, making her fall back and explode immediately.

Brett watched the explosion, his expression hard under his helmet and his fists still clenched at his sides.

The yellow ranger looked up at him. "Brett? Are you alright?"

He turned around and saw the others come up to them. "Where is he?"

"Brian's over with the police. He'll be fine." Jessie assured him. "We need to get back to class before anyone notices we're gone."

Brett shook his head, but was dragged away by the others towards the classroom.

- PRRF -

Later, after the school was cleared and everyone was sent home for the day, Brett was sitting worriedly in the hospital, waiting for someone to say something about his brother. With him was Jessie, who didn't have to go home immediately and also was worried about her cousin.

She looked over at Brett, who she was sitting next to. "He'll be fine. I saw him right before he went to get help and it looked like he just had a few bruises and a hurt arm."

Brett turned to her. "Are you sure?"

"Yeah." Jessie nodded, before frowning. "You know, I've never seen you like this before. You never really get that angry or anything."

He crossed his arms, "Yeah, well, it's not everyday that one of your family members or friends get attacked by evil warriors who want to strip the world of everything good," Brett drawled.

Jessie sighed, "I guess that's true."

Before either of them could speak again, the doctor came out of the room and stopped in front of them. "Well, Brian's going to be just fine." She assured them as they stood to talk to her. "He has a few bad bruises on his face, a slight concussion, though nothing to get up in arms about, and a fractured wrist. He should heal up rather quickly." She looked at Brett, "Are your parents here?"

He shook his head. "No, they're stuck at work. They said they'd get here as soon as they could, though."

"Well, Brian can't be discharged until a parent gets here, but you're free to wait here with him until they get here." The doctor told them. "Just let me know when they get here."

Jessie nodded. "Alright, thank you." She said as the doctor walked off down the hall to attend to her other patients. She looked at Brett. "I'll stay out here and wait for your parents."

Brett smiled gratefully. "Thanks." He went in the room to see Brian sitting on an exam table, looking on his phone. He had a black cast on his arm and a butterfly bandage over a small cut on his cheek where a deep bruise was. "Hey," Brett said, announcing his presence.

Brian looked up from his phone and gave Brett a look, "So, if I didn't find out today, were you ever gonna tell me about being a ranger?"

"Honestly?" Brett crossed his arms and sat in a chair next to the exam table, "Probably not,"

He frowned. "You don't trust me?"

"It has nothing to do with that," Brett told him. "I do trust you, but I'm not allowed to tell anyone about this. It's a rule. Besides, I don't want you involved in this. Look at you."

"I'm fine," Brian responded. "So I have a broken arm and my head hurts. Is that supposed to mean that I'm suddenly just gonna die because I know you're a ranger? No. All it means is that I can help you if something happens. Like, say you get hurt and have to hide it from mom and dad," He said. "I could help you."

Brett crossed his arms. "This is serious. You could've been hurt way worse, or even died."

"Yeah, it could've. That's not what happened, though." Brian commented. "You killed that monster and saved my life. I'm okay, and I'm gonna try to stay away from all and every monster possible from now on. And by the way, stop being so serious. It's freaking me out," He joked, though Brett wasn't all too amused.

"This isn't funny."

Brian sighed, "I'm not saying it is, just that you need to calm down." He carefully got down from the exam table, and steadied himself after he was a bit dizzy from his concussion. "You see me? I am fine. It's over."

Brett took a deep breath and nodded. "I know, I know. I just.. something like that has never happened before."

"Aw, were you worried about me?" Brian jibed, smirking slightly.

The orange ranger looked up at him with a hard look, before it softened and he settled on a smirk. "You wish."

Brian snorted, "No, I know you were. You were pissed."

Brett shook his head. "I don't know what you're talking about."

From outside the room, Jessie could hear them joking around and laughing, and smiled to herself. It's gonna be fine, She thought to herself. Just fine.

- PRRF -

The next day, when Brett got to school, he found all of the other rangers and Adrianne all already there, as if they had been waiting for him. He stopped just after he walked in the door, smirking slightly.

"You guys waiting for me or something?" He asked. "Cause I don't mind too much if you start without me."

Doug watched him as he sat down, "How's your brother?"

Brett looked at all of them. "Is that why you were waiting for me? Well, don't worry that much - he's fine. Gonna be out of school for a few days cause of the concussion, but he's okay."

"That's good," Adrianne sighed in relief. "I heard about what happened and was worried about you."

He frowned. "About me? Why?"

"Well, he's your brother," John explained. "If something bad happened to him that would really mess you up, plus you were so angry yesterday."

"Yeah, I was," Brett crossed his arms, leaning back in his seat. "No one should mess with my friends or family. That's going way too far."

"Okay," Adrianne smiled. "I'm glad everything's alright. Since it is, we should get to work. I have a project for you guys."

Jessie stood up to hand out a paper to John and Doug, and one to Brett and Molly. "It's a partner project," She told them as she gave it to them.

Both groups read the instructions and started to get to work, with Molly noticing Brett was still a bit distracted, and kept looking like he was very stressed, as evident when he rubbed his eyes tiredly.

"Are you okay?" She asked, their conversation private with the amount of talking being done by the other four people in the room.

Brett looked at her, realizing she had noticed his actions. "Honestly? Yesterday was one of the scariest days of my life." He admitted, "I mean, I've always just taking having a brother for granted and never thought anything of it, but look at what happened. How would you feel if that was one of your sisters?"

"Horrible," Molly responded. "I don't know how well you get along with your brother, but, whether you do or not, you'd never want anything bad to happen to them."

He nodded. "Exactly."

She frowned slightly, "Why didn't you say that earlier?" Molly asked. "Why say that you were okay?"

"Because I am," Brett told her. "I am fine, I just.. was worried yesterday." He gave her a look. "Anyways, I would never lie. If I was feeling horrible, I would say I was. I don't lie, not even to make others feel better. I hate it when people do that."

Molly rubbed her arm awkwardly, "Oh, I didn't know that."

Brett noticed her reaction and chuckled. "Why do you look like that? We've only known each other for a two weeks, I doubt you've already lied to me."

She stopped her action immediately and gave him a look, "I was only doing that because I didn't know what else to say." Molly told him, playing off her reaction.

"If you say so," Brett shrugged. "I think you just did that cause you're weird."

Molly glared at him. "No, I'm not."

"Sure," Brett chuckled, getting elbowed by the yellow ranger in the process.

From her desk, Adrianne watched them interact and had a small smile on her face. She looked over to Jessie, who was also looking at them. "Chemistry, huh?"

Jessie turned to her and nodded, a similar smile on her face. "Definitely."

- PRRF -

Jetta growled as she re-watched the footage of Nimue getting destroyed by the rangers. She shook her head, pacing across the room for a moment before grabbing the viewing screen and ripped it off of the ceiling, throwing it to the side so hard that it got stuck in the metal walls of the ship.

Fuscienne stood by nervously, watching her angry reaction to what was happening. "My liege, it's alright. We have other warriors to fight the rangers. Nimue wasn't even that good."

The dark queen looked at her general, tilting her head to the side. "I have an idea." She suddenly announced.

"What is it?" Fuscienne asked.

Jetta grabbed her by the shoulders, as if she was very excited with her. "Grab the yellow ranger when she goes home tomorrow. I would like to have a few words with her."

Fuscienne was taken aback. "You want to bring a ranger here?"

"No," Jetta shook her head, looking at her like it was obvious. "We're taking her to a warehouse. I want to tell her the truth about Adrianne."

Next time on Power Rangers Rainbow Fighters: Molly is kidnapped by Jetta and is told more about what happened between her and Adrianne. Meanwhile, the other rangers work hard to find her location.

Next Chapter Title: Origins

This chapter is a bit rushed, but I hope it was still good for you guys! I really enjoyed writing this chapter, and I'm looking forward to the next one where I get into Adrianne and Jetta's origins, as well as showing a few more light and dark warriors you haven't seen yet.

I'm gonna be updating Earth Defenders as soon as I get that chapter done, which will probably be within the next two or three days. I'm finally accustomed to being back at school and having that effecting my schedule, so hopefully I'll get back on track and you'll get chapters faster than I've been posting them. I hope you guys understand what's been going on, and I'm sorry about taking so long!

Oh, and I also have a poll on my page if you haven't voted yet! It's asking about which of my series is your favorite, but I'm might take it down in a few days after I update Earth Defenders because I have an idea for a different poll for you guys.

Here's the list for the next 5 upcoming chapters.

Ep 5: Alone - Doug focused chapter.

Ep 6: Treat Yourself - Jessie focused chapter.

Ep 7: Too Far Part I - Brett and Molly focused chapter. Introduction of new characters.

Ep 8: Too Far Part II - Brett and Molly focused chapter. New rangers!

Ep 9: Pressure - John focused chapter.

I hope you guys liked it! I'll see you with the next chapter soon!

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