Episode 7: Play ball or Fumble

It was just another day of school for the rangers, each one doing their separate classes. All expect Nick that is, he was called out and was walking through the playground. He felt the cool air brush against his face as he walked through the school grounds, making his way towards the school offices, being called up for reasons unknown by him. All he knew was that his principal had a job for him, something about a couple of girls or something on those lines.

Either way he didn't really care, it was better than listening to Zeke and Grady about their theory on Justin being a power ranger.

Entering the building, Nick walked down the hall until he found the principal's office, noticing two girls sitting in the waiting room. One girl's, the brunette that sat further away, face brightened up substantially as Nick walked in, her chocolate brown eyes beaming at him. While the other girl, the blond who was sitting closer to him, wasn't giving the young man the slightest bit of attention, focusing her blue orbs on the mirror she held in her hand and admiring herself while placing on a layer of lipstick.

"Ah, Nick, my trusty companion." There was only one person Nick, or anyone in New York knew that spoke like they were in the Wild West, so he wasn't surprise that he saw Mr. Laritate as he turned around. "I'd like you to meet our newest students Macy Misa and Tawni Hart." Respectably, Nick tilted his head slightly at the waving Macy and the uncaring Tawni. "I want you to saddle up and show them to their lockers and their first period classroom."

"Yeah sure thing Mr. Lariate." Nick replied, watching as Macy practically leaped out of her seat, beaming at him the whole time, her back pack in hand, eagerly waiting for Nick. The only thought that was running through Nick's mind about her was that she's enthusiastic. Too bad the same couldn't be said for the blond, she just sighed in annoyance and lazily stood up and gave Nick the hurry up, annoyed look. "Ok lets go."

After showing them to their lockers and letting them place their bags and whatever they didn't need into them they headed off to their first period class, which so happened to be the same as each other.

"Okay girls here's D7, hope you girls have fun in maths." Nick told them, stopping at the door and turning to face them.

"Whatever." Tawni replied, walking in-between Nick and Macy while doing a manicure, kicking the door open without a care, even with the glare of the teacher. "Can we hurry this up, I have a faecal in an hour."

"Okay, stay away from her and you'll do just fine." Nick said comfortingly noticing the nervous expression that fell upon the once chipper girl.

"Good idea." Nick smiled as a small smile returned to Macy as she chuckled lightly. Taking a peek at the class, she saw her fellow students and the older lady, that had to be the teacher sternly talking to Tawni, who paid no attention to her at the seat she had taken up.

Noticing her nervousness Nick took a peek inside as well; taking a look for a certain person he knew was in this class. His look didn't even last a second, easily spotting the waving brunette. Gesturing with his fingers to come over, Sonny quickly made her way over, sneaking past the outraged teacher.

"Hey Nick." Sonny happily said hugging the quiet boy. "You're ditching class, you must want something." Sonny joked poking Nick in the chest.

"Haha very funny." Nick laughed with her, turning his attention to the new brunette. "This is Macy Misa. She's a new student here and I was hoping you can help her out for this class and show her to her next one."

Sonny turned her vision onto Macy, watching her jump as Sonny looked at her oddly for a second before giving her the biggest, friendliest, and the creepiest smile Macy had ever seen. "Yeah sure, I'll help her out, come one Macy you can sit next to me."

With that said Nick watched Sonny drag away the nervous girl, wondering what fate he just gave to her before walking away, chuckling to himself back to class.


Meanwhile Alex was doing P.E., something she despised probably even more than Rita. But just like always, Alex gave her teacher a fake exception note, which the coach unwilling accepted, knowing full well that she was lying. So there she sat in the stands, still complaining because she had to walk over there and wait until the class was over before she could leave.

"I can't believe you got out of P.E. again Alex." Alex turned her head, which was resting in her arms that were being supported by her knees, lazily to the left, her bored brown eyes staring into the sweaty, smiling face of Harper.

"What's hard to believe? I do that everyday." Alex asked curiously, wondering why her friend is still surprised over such a little thing.

"I know, but you do realize one day you will get caught?" The brunette replied, taking a seat next to her childhood friend.

"What? Come on Harper this is me you're talking about." Alex replied getting a small giggle from the girl.

"I know and it's also you who used every trick in the book and ten that didn't make it." Alex gave the brunette one of her stares, the one that would send even the toughest of warriors, or monsters, running away.

The gym went quiet as the coach left the room to check something, leaving his tired and exhausted students to fall into silence, trying to catch their breath before the coach returned to inflict more torture on them.

"So Alex as you know me, Chad, Grady and Zeke are trying to find out who the power rangers are."

"Yeah, I also know you guys are failing miserably at finding them." Alex smirked, turning her gaze at the group of boys on the opposite side of the gym, waving to the one in the middle that all the other guys were leaning on.

"We think your brother Justin is one of them and we were wonderi…" Harper was cut off short as Alex could no longer hold her laughter back, uncapping her hands from her mouth letting her laughter be heard through out the gym.

"Justin? You're kidding, right? You're talking about a guy who can barely lift a weight let alone throw a punch." Alex said in-between laughs, tears starting to fall from her cheeks and her right hand clutching her stomach while her left arm supported her.

"Um yeah, we were wondering if you won't mind snooping around." Harper replied, sitting on the bench and waiting patiently for an answer from the Hispanic girl.

"Sorry Harper I have better things to do than snoop my brother." Alex replied, getting up and moving away from the bench, still laughing at the fact that those four actually figured out Justin was a ranger and more so at the fact they haven't figure out who the other four rangers.

"But you always snoop around your brother, invading his room, messing around with his life; you made it into an art form." Harper responded, following only a few seconds behind the yellow ranger, looking sceptical and curious as to her friends' weird behaviour.

Stopping in her track Alex quickly turned around to face her friend, clearly uninterested and non-caring of the situation. "I only snoop when there is a point, and I don't believe for a second that Justin could nearly be as cool as a power ranger."

"Please Alex?" Harper pleaded.

Alex snapped around, waving her hands out acting dramatic as she replied. "Oh find I will, only because I want to prove to the world Justin can never be a hero." Harper smiled at this, squealing like a little girl and rushing to her friend.

"Thankyou Alex." Harper wrapped her arms around the brunette, holding her in place as Alex struggled to free herself. "This means so much to me."

"Harper! Harper get off of me or soon I won't be doing nothing other than take a dirt nap." Alex told her over chipper friend, feeling lightheaded and struggling to breathe in Harper's arms, she literally taking Alex's breath away.

"Sorry I'm just so excited that your part of the group." Harper cheered while Alex turned her head to the side, nodding, being use to her friend's over hyper activity.

"Yeah, sure, whatever part of the group." Just as the yellow ranger about to walk off, Alex snapped back around in realization at what she just said, at the same time the school bell decided to ring, screaming. "WHAT! Oh no, I'm not part of your little group."

"Come on Alex, it's so lonely being the only girl in the group." Harper pleaded as the two grabbed their stuff and started heading towards the gym exit.

"Well than why don't you just leave?" Alex retorted.

"Because other than you, Sonny and my future husband to be Justin, hugh Justin…" Harper sighed as she stood in place, dreaming of a future that will never come. Getting annoyed and impatient Alex walked up to her friend and started shaking her, bringing her back to Earth. "What oh right, they're my only friends. I'll hang out with you guys but you also seem to disappear or wonder off somewhere and no one can seem to find you."

Now this was just sad coming from Alex's point of view. They believed Justin was a power ranger, which Alex still didn't understand, since you know, it's Justin. Other than Harper who would guess he's one of them? And yet they haven't figured out that she herself along with Nick, Nico and Sonny are the other rangers and they disappear just as much as Justin. Oh well, who would have figured?

"Yeah, we do do that a lot don't we?" Alex laughed, Harper opened her mouth to reply when a firm, strong, deep, cold voice echoed throughout the gym.

"Russo!" Alex jumped at the mention of her name, knowing only one person who's footsteps sounded like a thunder storm.

"And I might just have to do it again." Alex whispered so that only Harper heard. "Yes Mr. Brown?" Alex asked sweetly and politely while placing an innocent little smile on her face.

"Oh no, not this time. That innocent act may have worked in the past, but not any more Russo." Taken back by the coach, Alex took a quick step backwards. "You're failing P.E. Russo."

"Well that's not much of a surprise. I am already failing English, maths, science, history and geography." Alex replied counting her subjects off with her fingers with a cheerful smile, obviously not noticing the coach's reddening face.

"Not this time Russo, you will pass otherwise you'll have to repeat. You have until the end of this semester to complete your requirements."

"What?" Alex exclaimed, rushing in front of her teacher before he could storm off. "What, you mean a decent score, how am I able to do that in just one week?" The coach smiled at this, getting enjoyment out of what he was about to say.

"Well Russo you were always quick on your feet, start running." The coach laughed as he walked past the shocked brunette as she placed her hand on her forehead, panic written all over her face.

"Oh man, what am I going to do, how am I meant to complete my requirements by the end of this semester?" Harper watched as Alex walked back and forth, either getting close to, or already having a panic attack.

"Alex stop panicking, I'm sure you'll come up with something." Harper tried to comfort her, only failing as Alex twirl around to face her.

"Panicking? I'm not panicking!" Alex yelled before walking back and forth once more, her hands constantly running through her hair. "Oh man, oh man, what am I going to do? Oh man I needed more time."

"For what?"

"TO PANIC!" Alex answered, snapping back around to Harper, showing off her paling face.


At the Luna palace Rita stared down at the yellow ranger through her telescope. "So the yellow ranger is failing P.E. huh?"Rita stated more than asked. "It serves her right for calling me an old hag and ruining my plans."

"My Queen let me go back down to Earth; I'll destroy the powers rangers this time." Goldar proclaimed waving his sword around.

"No, you and the rest of these miserable excuses of monsters haven't even come close to destroying the power rangers, so why in hell would I let you try again?" Rita screamed, hitting the golden monster on the head with her staff.

"What do you suggest my Queen?" Finster asked from the corner he was crowding in, staying at a safe distance from his Queen and her staff. Rita snapped around, a creepy, dark smile forming on the old hag face as she started to chuckle over her evil plan.

"Bring out the book." Goldar, Finster, Baboo and Squatt were all shocked or jumped at the mention of the book. They all knew what she was referring to and it wasn't pretty, even they were afraid of the monsters that were contained in it.

"No not the book." Squatt cried, cowering behind Baboo, shaking in fear for what the book holds.

Rita now stood in front of the still shaking Finster, her face clenching up as her wrinkles became more noticeable, obviously getting frustrated as she tapped her foot on the stone floor impatiently. Adding to the fact was the vein on her forehead looked almost ready to pop.

"Well Finster?"

"Of course my Queen I'll get it right away." Finster stuttered as he hurriedly went into his small lab, quickly grabbing hold of the dusty, brown, hard cover, old book off the top shelf and hurrying back to his Mistress.

Snatching the book out of her minion's hands, Rita swung the book open, taking a gander inside, flipping through the pages and seeking out the best monster for the job. After several minutes of skimming Rita stopped at one, smirking at the picture in front of her.

"That's the one, Centiback is perfect." Rita said, throwing the book toward the startled Finster. He only just managing to catch the book as his Mistress walked past him and into his lab.

"Excellent choice my Queen." Finster replied, afraid to disagree with the powerful witch, following her into his lab before going around the desk and pulling out a clay figure from a box underneath his desk. "He'll be ready in just a moment."

Finster hurried along, not wanting to displease his Queen, placing the clay statue into a rather dusty, old machine. Pressing a few buttons, a knob and pulling a lever, the machine started to work, bringing the clay statue inside. It seemed to be working at first but after a loud metallic bang, steam started to escape the giant machine, hiding it from view.

"What? Finster what's going on?" Rita cried, dashing out of the room in a speed that no one could imagine she could reach.

"The machine is malfunctioning." Finster replied, running out of the lab only mere seconds after Rita.

"Well fix it! Fix it! Fix it!... FIX IT!"

"I'll try my Queen but it could take awhile." He replied rushing back into the steamed room, hearing Rita's cry of annoyance.

Being that it was lunch time, all the students roamed free among school campus, chilling out with friends, having a laugh and cat


ching up on the latest gossip. It was definitely a normal day and a normal day at Tribeca Prep wouldn't be classified as normal unless a scheme of Alex Russo's is at work.

Getting the bad news from her gym teacher, Alex had quickly went to work scheming the demise of the gym, only focusing on that one goal during her previous classes. She was now pacing back and forth under the school shelter knowing full well of the observing Nick Lucas, who sat only meters away finishing off his sandwich.

"Ok what if I infest the gym with rats?" Alex exclaimed excitedly, stopping in her track, twirling on her heels to face the grinning Nick.

"Haha yeah right, like you put in that much effort." Sad to say Nick had a point and Alex knew this.

"Yeah that's a lot of work." She replied, shrugging at her own thoughts before returning to her pacing. But that didn't last long for in a matter of seconds she twirled around once again at Nick. "Ok then how about if I break my arm?"

"Then you wouldn't be able to draw."

"Oh god forbid that." Nick chuckled with amusement as she grabbed her arm protectively, clenching onto it as if it was life or death, her face paling at the thought of such a thing, after all, not being able to draw is a fate worst then death to her.

"You know you could actually do the work and pass PE." Nick said, taking a moment to look at the blank look that formed on the brunette's face before continuing. "Sorry, don't know what I was thinking."

"Oh I know, I'll stink bomb the place." Alex exclaimed, finally coming to a decision, her brown orbs beaming at Nick which slowly turned questionable as she watched the smirking Nick get up and leave. "Hey Nick where are you going?"

"I'm going to see Zordon during the break and get as far as I possibly can before you put your plan into action." Nick replied turning to face her, smiling as she shrugged with a cheerful smile on her face, her voice sounding like that of a child.

"Ok bye." Continuing his walk to find shelter from the people's eyes, Nick could only smile at his waving friend, waving back to her before turning his head back in front of him.


Meanwhile, just outside of the hall, Sonny stood waiting by the bulletin board, awaiting the casting of their next play. Her hopes were surely on the leading character, she had practiced for it since the second the scripts came out for students. But that's not to say she would be outraged or upset if she got the supporting or an understudy role, she truly wouldn't care too much, as long as she had some part in the play, she would be happy.

"Come on, Come on." Sonny said impatiently, tapping her foot on the floor repeatedly, clenching her face, getting tired of waiting.

"In a hurry for your dreams to crush and burn." Twirling around on her heels, Sonny's gaze fell on the new blond haired girl that she had a rough introduction with. From her first experience with the girl she could tell Tawni was an all about herself person, not caring of her consequences or others. "You differently didn't get my vote for this play."

"Hey I'm a good enough actresses and I know I can get a part in this play, I just want to know what part that is." Sonny exclaimed defensively.

"If you ask me, your performance is amateur at best." Tawni smirked, watching as Sonny's once cheerful smile turned into a annoyed frown. From her earlier conversation with the girl Tawni quickly learned how to set off the nicest, kindest, loving girl you'll ever meet into the warrior that she claimed to be, something the blond easily amused herself with.

"Hey I'm not an amateur."

"You could have fooled me." Sonny glared at the laughing blond. There was little that could get her worked up and of course the blond had noticed some of it in their previous conversation.

"Girls, girls don't fight over the Chad." Neither girl could resist the urge to roll their eyes at the obnoxious, self-centred blond that is known throughout school as Chad. "There's plenty of me to go around."

"What are you talking about, we weren't talking about you?" It was obvious to the feminine blond that the brunette was getting frustrated as she snapped at the new blond.

"Yeah you were, or why else would you fight over the main role." Chad asked, raising an eyebrow at the brunette. "You want to kiss me again."

"What? No I don't!" Her face reddened, arguing with the blond, not noticing Tawni's raised eyebrow in interest, a plan quickly forming in her head.

"Uh-huh."

"Na-uh."

"Uh-huh."

"Na-uh." This went on for awhile to the annoyance of Tawni, but on the bright side she did learn a little from this idiotic debate.

"Alright already, this fight isn't even good enough to bring out the popcorn." The two immediately stopped at the blond's outburst, staring at her with curious eyes. "Just admit that you like each other."

"What no, no…" The two said quickly, both trying to deny that comment, but failing miserably.

"Oh, then you wouldn't mind if I asked him out."

"What!" The two cried in union before all eyes went onto Sonny. Noticing their looks were one her, Sonny shook her head, her face reddening once again, looking unsure saying. "I mean, no, of cause you can."

"Well then will you go out with me?" Tawni asked in a sweet voice, laughing in her head as she watched Chad sweat at the question.

"Umm… ye-ah sure." Chad stated at the blond.

"Good pick me up at 7 on Saturday and we'll go out to the movies, see ya Chad" Chad face reddened as Tawni kissed him on the cheek and left the other two behind, her evil grin only rivalling to that of Rita's.

"I really hate her."

"Wooo…" Was all Chad said before collapsing to the ground with a dreamy look on his face while Sonny rolled her eyes in annoyance at the blond teen.


Making her way through the hall, Macy examined the doors, desperately trying to locate the gym. Having to be in a new environment, struggling to make friends, trying to understand what her teachers were talking about, not learning any of this stuff before and trying to get use to how this school runs, since everyone here was odd in their own ways, Macy needed to find the one thing that brought joy to her other than her old friends, something to distract her and bring some form of comfort back to her.

Finally, after wondering for who knew how long, Macy sighed with content, smiling at the gym. Taking a whiff of sweaty gym socks and sneakers she couldn't hold back the smile that spread across her face. Even though this place stunk or how much it changed, the gym would always be like a second home to her.

While in her own little world, Macy would have never thought that a new friend was on her way. Hearing the double door squeaked open, Macy snapped her eyes open and find her gaze resting on a brunette wearing a yellow, V collar tank top, with a blue short sleeved shirt underneath and ripped jeans. "Oh hello" The newcomer said, holding small containers in her hands, somewhat shocked by the other girl presences.

"Hi." Macy replied, staring at the suspicious girl in front of her, eyeing the small containers the other girl hold.

"Hi." You could actually feel the awkward silence that filled the room as the two girls stared at one another.

"What do you got there?" Macy asked, breaking the silence, gesturing towards the brunette's hands. Alex causally looked down at her hands before looking back up at the other brunette.

"Nothing."

"Really because they look like stink bombs." Macy pointed out, walking closer to the girl in question.

"What no they not stink bombs, what gave you that idea?" Alex asked, eyes shifting side to side as the other girl got close enough to snatch one out of her hands, eyeing the container for a while before placing it in front of the brunettes face.

"I don't know, maybe the labelling." Alex couldn't hold back a nervous chuckle, not believing she was already caught out. 'Man I'm getting rusty.'

"You're not going to tell are you? Because I'm still on thin ice since the time I pied the Superintendant." Alex questioned, not so much worried about getting in trouble or expelled or whatever but worried about getting another lecture from her Principal, her parents, Justin and worst of all Zordon. For a floating head in a tube he can be more terrifying then Rita when he wants to be, and he does that with just a stern look on his face. Yet she still found it quite amusing since he had that stern look mixing with that calm, comforting, warm voice of his. She couldn't help but laugh and be nervous at the same time when he's like that.

"You must be Alex Russo." Macy summed up, remembering all the stories she had heard throughout the school in the morning.

"I see my reputation process me." Alex smiled proudly.

"Of course, for the whole morning I've just been hearing stories of all the stuff you do to the school." Macy laughed at the proud look on the other girl face. "Why are you going to stink the gym out?"

"Because I couldn't infest this place with rats."

"Ok, why were you going to do that?"

"Long story short I'm failing PE." Alex replied placing the stink bombs around the gym, getting them ready to be opened.

"Ok why don't I help you? I can help you pass." Alex stared at the girl, stopping what she was doing for a split second before laughing at what Macy had said, before calming down again and pouting.

"But that sounds like work, so I'm good with stinking out the gym."

"But you'll still have to do PE and they'll either do it outside or in a stinky gym. SO you'll wound up back at the beginning and so by letting me help you right now, you'll be doing less work. And I would also appreciate it if the gym doesn't smell."

"Helping someone for your own benefit, you got my respect ahhh…?" Alex said, stopping herself as she realized that she didn't know the new girl's name.

"Macy."

"Well Macy you got yourself a deal." Alex smiled walking up to the brunette. "You know, I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship."


With the final alarm from the school bell the students rushed out of their classes, bolting to wherever they had to go to. While some went to shopping, or to the park and even went to their sport practices, Justin rushed to his family's substation on Waverly Place, not wanting another stern talking to about lacking in his duties at the substation.

So here he was going back and forth from the counter to the kitchen and to a certain table before repeating the progress. He had only started just ten minutes ago and already working up quite the sweat from the ongoing customers. Once he took one person's order and brought their meal or beverage back to the customer's table, two more hungry or thirsty customers would be shouting for him to get over to them.

After finishing his last order, Justin sighed with relief when he noticed all of the tables were full with happy eating or drinking kids, teens and adults. His blue eyes quickly did a quick scan around the gym seeing it was not in use, again he was pleased with this because it meant he could hang out by the counter and relax a bit.

Walking behind the counter, Justin leaned over the wooden bench having his head resting in his hands as his elbow supported his head on the counter. It felt likes years as he waited for another customer, but it seemed like the afternoon rush had came to a halt which again actually upset the blue ranger. Yes, he loves his breaks and just like his siblings, he'd rather not be working but if he had to work he'd rather have something to do to pass the time than of just standing there until five.

Thankfully that was when Nico decided to make his appearance, walking through the double doors wearing black pants and tank top with a blue bag by his side. Justin watched in wonder as Nico made his way over to the counter, his big goofy grin on his face.

"Hey Justin, parents making you work again?" Nico asked placing his bag on the stool in front of the counter before going behind the counter and grabbing a bottle of water out of the fridge they kept just below it while also placing a few coins by the cash registers.

"Yeah, I'm working till five." Justin replied, placing the coins inside the cash register, not caring that Nico had just went around the counter and grabbed the bottle of water; it was a daily event with their fellow rangers.

"Oh man, I was going to see if you wanted to spar with me." Nico moaned, sitting down to a stool next to his bag, taking a sip of his drink while turning visibly upset that he couldn't train.

"Why did you want to spar?" Justin asked, wondering why the black ranger just suddenly wanted to spar with him after all these years of knowing him.

"Well it's like Nick said, we need to pick up our game, we need to train and practise for Rita's next monster." Nico replied, getting a quick flashback of Tripent, shivering at the thought of being eaten. "I don't want what happened with Tripent or Chaossaurus happening again. Some of us almost die in those battles."

Justin nodded, understanding what Nico was getting at. They had many close calls in the few battles they'd had and the monsters grow stronger every day.

"Hey guys do you guys have any eggs?" The two young warriors turned around to face the source of the familiar voice, rotating themselves to set their eyes on no one other than Max Russo.

"What do you want eggs for..." Nico started before realization hit him. His face lost colour as his eyes widened to the point where they looked like they were about to pop out of their sockets. Snapping back to his senses and quickly pointing at the young teenager, Max almost jumped in fright at the stern, serious look Nico was giving him. "No egg battles!"

Raising an eyebrow, Justin's curiosity reached its peak. He had never heard about the egg battles and to see Nico freaking over it just made him curious as to what happened. He was even about to ask when Nico beat him to it.

"I swore to never speak of it again." Nico answered the unspoken question before turning back to the fifteen year old boy. "No egg battles, I'm still finding eggs in places since last time and that was almost a year ago."

"But it won't be as messy this time." Max replied pouting, crossing his arms across his chest, upset that he was denied his egg battle.

"Hey I know, Nico is dying to spar with someone, why don't you give it a shot?" Justin asked, trying to change the subject and to make sure Max didn't try and commence with his egg battle. As Justin expected Max quickly dropped his idea, what he didn't expect was Max smiling mischievously, chuckling evilly or pressing his fingers together repeatedly in a Mr. Burns, from the Simpsons, manner.

"I'm ok with that." Nico and Justin shared an odd, curious glance at one another before passing the look over to Max mischievous smiling face.

"Ok than." Nico replied, keeping an eye on the young boy, staying cautious, fully aware that Max was up to no good. The two teenagers made their way over to the blue mats, Nico, already ready, placed himself into an angle as he placed his left leg in front of the other.

In the meantime Max unzipped his white jacket, discarding it onto the floor beside the mats so it wouldn't restrict any movement. Max stretched out his body a bit so his green tank top could fall back into place before he too went into a stance of his own.

The whole substation appeared to be silent; all attention was being directed at the two, unmoving, quiet teenagers. Neither one budged an inch or blinks an eye; they just continue to stand there, observing one another.

Growing weary with the staring contest, Max sprinted towards Nico, charging in at full speed, only just diving to the ground, sliding on his knees and dodging Nico's outstretched right leg as he spun his whole body around on the balls of his feet. Gliding past the black ranger, Max brought his arm to the side, using Nico's unguarded leg as support to twist his body around and an emergency break at the same time forcing Nico to slip and land on his back.

No one was more shocked than Justin at what had unfolded, he was so out of it that he never heard the painful, loud groan of his best friend. No one was able to move, too stunned at what they just observed. They didn't even allow themselves to blink, finding it difficult to register what happen.

"So I guess I win?" Max asked, crawling over to the still groaning ranger, his mischievous smirk never leaving his face as he stared at the clenching face of Nico.

"I wouldn't count on it." Nico replied, opening one of his eyes before flipping over to his gut, lifted his whole body off the ground with his hand and swung his legs around his body, gaining momentum. Max shot backwards, missing a blow to the head but was tripped before he could get up probably, landing on his own back with a small grunt slipping out of his lips.

Struggling to sit back up, his face now copying that of Nico's, he opened one of his eyes while using one of his hands supported him up to only be amazed when he saw a proud Nico standing before him. Max smirked at his brothers friend before saying. "Sweet move but let me show you my own style."

Managing to get up onto his feet with a back flip, he swiped his nose with his thumb while smirking, giving him more of an arrogant appearance. Without any warning, whatsoever, Max charged at Nico with his fierce battle cry, attacking none stop, throwing blow after blow after blow.

With Max not appearing to be slowing down, if anything he was getting faster, Nico knew he was in trouble. He had already built up a sweat knocking the young teenager down the first time and he was only fighting Max! Nico couldn't describe how useless he felt as Max continued his random assault.

Whenever Max looked like he was about to throw a punch he would lash out with his leg, if he looked like he was going to attack with his leg he would try and ram the older teenager. Like Nico thought moments ago, Max just fought purely on instincts and reflexes, there was no strategy involved with it, no clever planning, he just rolled with whatever felt right at the moment. And it was because of this Nico couldn't predict Max's next move and therefore always leaving himself defenceless.

No longer able to handle the clenching pain that ran up and down his sides, chest and back, Nico plummeted to the ground, skidding to the side as Max leg collided with his hip.

"I knew I would win, now if you excuse me I'm going to the school to find some more eggs." Max wondered off, leaving the groaning, curled up Nico on the mats, making his way over to the front doors of the substation and grabbing his bike, planning on going to the school cafeteria to check if they could spare any eggs. After Max left Justin rushed to his friend side and knelt beside him.

"Dude you just got beaten by my little brother." Justin said, feeling a mix of shock at the sudden twist of events and amusement that Nico got beaten by his youngest sibling, trying to hide his laughter, but not succeeding as he cracked up a bit helping Nico sit up.

"Man you try taking him on!" Nico retorted, struggling to stand back up, feeling every inch of his body where Max had kicked, punched, rammed and even flicked, yes flicked, which is pretty much every where expect for in between the legs and face, ached like hell.

"Taking who on?" Nico and Justin jumped at the familiar voice, not expecting someone to be eaves dropping or communicating with them. Turing their heads to the side and upwards, the young warriors stared in unbelief at the source of the voice, eyes wide as shock overcame them. "Guys are you ok?"

"JOE! I can't belief it is, it really you?" Justin was the first to speak since Nico was concentrating more on his wounds than his long time friend because of Justin hitting him in the gut which had Nico biting his tongue to hold back the agonizing scream of pain that consumed his entire body.

"I thought Nick said you were living with your mother? Why are you here?" Nico asked, trying to hold back his murderous thoughts towards Justin, especially when Justin sprang up and accidently whacked Nico in one of the few places, his face, where Max actually left alone which than forced Nico back down to the mat.

"I was but I figured that my darling little brother Nick would be missing me so I came up, but I'm only here for three months." Joe replied, holding out his hand out to Nico, offering to help him up which Nico gladly went to take, but never got the chance thanks to a hyped up Justin.

"Come on Joe I just got halo, I know you want to play that, come on it'll feel like old times." Justin encouraged, swiping Joe's hand away from Nico and dragging him up stairs with a yelp from the new comer.

"Yeah don't mind me, I'll be perfectly fine sitting here!" Nico yelled sarcastically after the two sighing in disbelief, growling at Justin. As he turned his head around and spotted a knife, he stared at it as if it held all the answers to life. Picking the object up, Nico glanced at his reflection and the shimmering lights that went down to the point.

Turning his gaze at the stairs and back to the knife, Nico let his dark thoughts cloud his mind before saying. "Another day my old friend, but don't worry we'll get him." Even though he didn't show it, Nico got creeped out just by his own voice while glaring up stairs.


In the comfort and safety of his own backyard, standing near the pool and the bushes by the fence, Nick stood up straight in a strong, solid stance, eyes close, both hands having a firm grip on the power sword, sweat dripping off his face. Having gone to Zordon earlier that morning Nick was determined to learn the full control of his coin powers.

Why was he holding his sword in the open without being suited up in his backyard where his neighbours could see him you ask? Well, his next door neighbours were never home til late and none of them seemed to come out in their backyard where they would actually have a view of him. And as for his family well, his parents are divorced with his mother living in San Francisco with his older brother Joe. Kevin had moved out ages ago and lived in New York as well but, he never comes over unless he calls first, making sure someone is home, and his father should be at work right now. So he saw this as the perfect time to practice with his sword play.

He was placing a lot of focus onto his sword. It was a struggle keeping it in existence when he wasn't suited up, so it was a bit taxing on his energy, especially since his body wasn't used to the strain of the energy he was drawing from the blade.

Snapping his eyes open, Nick quickly moved, swinging his sword from left to right, every movement designed to strike. Sonny had once watched him practice in his backyard before and had mention that the way he fights is one of aggression. Every time he moves his sword his intention is always inflicting as much damage as he possibly can. He definitely was an offensive fighter. What amazed the girl when she was saying this was that he had no form of defence, but his offensive style makes up for that.

"Nick!" Jumping in fright Nick released his gripped on the sword as he spun around, the sword being flung into the pool, making a giant splash as it collided with the water, sinking to the bottom of the depths.

"Oh there you are Nick." Nick spun around, face pale, as he stared at his father with stunned eyes. His father slid the window door open, entering the backyard, wearing a black blazer and pants with a blue button up shirt on, with a weird, questionable look on his face. "What was that?"

"What was what?" Nick asked, feeling his sweat fall from his forehead down to his jaw, nervous as to what his father saw.

"The thing you just threw into the pool." His father asked, trying to look over his son shoulder, only for Nick to keep on getting in the way.

"It was nothing Dad, just a ball." Nick lied, feeling his gut turn and twist. Nick never was the one to lie and especially to his father, so lying to him right now brought guilt to the boy.

"Why did you put a ball into the pool?"

"Because I kicked it."

"Oh ok." Mr. Lucas replied, satisfied with the answer given, nodding his head and taking a step back from his son. "Oh, have you seen Joe?"

"Joe's here?"

"That answers that." His father replied to the startle Nick.


"Finster where is my monster!" Rita shouted, storming into Finster Lab, her footsteps echoing into the hollow hall. Unexpected to Rita, when she slammed the door open she came face to face with Centiback, an insect/ human/ football player monster. His entire body had insectoid legs coming out of it while he also had brick red chest plats and pointing shoulder guards protecting his upper body. Meanwhile protecting his head he had a brick red helmet with a white strap going down the middle. He also wore white long pants and held a giant football.

"My Queen may I reintroduce Centiback." Finster stated, placing his fingers together, smiling as he saw the wicked grin that spread across his Mistress face.

"Good work Finster, he is absolutely horrible." Rita chuckled to herself, touching the monster's well developed muscles.

"Thank you for noticing. HEY YOU MAGGOT, DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY!" Centiback yelled, excusing himself as he rushed down the hall like a speeding bullet and shoved Goldar to the ground.

"What the! How dare youuu!" Goldar yelled about to get up and slash at whoever knocked him down, only to be stopped as Centiback stomped his foot down on the golden warrior back, pushing him to the ground.

"That's one down! Let see nineteen more you pathetic excuse of a monster." It wasn't much surprise about Centiback's true nature; it was actually what Rita was hoping for as she smiled at the scene before while stepping past the two.

"Now let's see." Rita hummed to herself, stepping towards her telescope and staring down at the Earth, more specifically New York. She had been watching over New York and the rangers for some time now while waiting for her monster to finish, viewing the world for any potential humans to hold the green ranger power coin.

The evil sorceress first thought of Max Russo for being the younger sibling of the yellow and blue rangers, Alex and Justin Russo, but after seeing him in a trash can looking for eggs for reasons unknown she had decided to go against her earlier observation.

She had later found another child, a boy with blond hair and blue eyes, she believed they call him Chad, but she wasn't sure nor cared about his name, only that he and the pink ranger, Sonny Monroe, shared similar feelings for one another, even though neither could admit it. Rita had a feeling she could use him, the question is, is he an impressive fighter?

About to give the order to Centiback to test the boy, Rita stopped in mid thought observing the boy that was with the blue and black rangers. She quickly took note of the fact that he had similarity to the red ranger, Nick Lucas. Rita also caught sight of his more developed muscles that he wasn't trying to hide. After trying to hear what they were saying, the old hag smiled with interest learning he was indeed related to the red ranger.

"Two interesting portfolios, either one will make an excellent green ranger." Rita snapped, the wicked smile telling her minions that her plan was about to proceed. "Centiback take an army of putties and test Chad and this Joe person and while you are down there destroy the power rangers."

"Anything you say coach." Centiback replied, getting off the enraged golden warrior, smirking underneath the helmet.

"Start with Chad and the pink ranger and don't worry about the other rangers interfering, I'll distract them." Rita told her monster.

"Don't worry Rita I won't be flogged in the first half of the game, lets go you worthless maggots!" He yelled at the putties that gathered behind him moments ago and teleported down to Earth, leaving Rita with her evil smile and a growling Goldar.


Underneath a giant oak tree in the park, protected by the sun thanks for the leaves casting a giant shadow Sonny and Chad sat happily, reading every line and every page of the script that was given to them earlier in the day.

Both teenagers were given the lead roles, Sonny was given the part of Cleopatra, a part she would have died for. As soon as she heard the school was putting on the play she had quickly went and study her lines, which she was amazed she actually had free time to do so when balancing it with school and Rita. But none the less she manage to squeeze it in and cheered when all that hard work paid off.

Sonny glanced over to the blond who sat only a few steps away, knowing he was getting to know his lines and what he had to act out. Chad was playing Anthony who, she blushed at the thought of it, she kissed in act four, scene fifteen. Shaking her head, catching her train of thought before it got out of hand and gave more details, Sonny couldn't actually believe where her thoughts were just a moment ago, or for the fact she could feel her face heating up. She wouldn't be surprised if she found out she was blushing from the heat that generated on her face.

'By the end of the week you're going to fall in love with me, like all of my other leading ladies. After we kiss you will be hooked.' Hearing his obnoxious voice in her head, remembering what he had told her during the Three Musketeers, she shook her head once again and gazed over at Chad as if in a trance.

The pink warrior didn't snap out of it until the third time Chad spoke her name, once again shaking her head. "What?" She asked giving Chad her full attention, staring at his face, uncertain of why he was staring at her that way..

"I ask which part you wanted to start off with. Are you ok?" Chad asked, his voice filled with concern.

"Oh right, yeah I'm fine." Sonny replied nervously, casting her head downwards and to the side, using her hair to hide the fact that she was blushing. "I guess I'd like to do act four, scene fifteen."

"Ha I knew it." Chad exclaimed, this redirected Sonny's attention back to him, clenching her face in wonder, about to say something but was beaten to the punch. "I knew you liked me." Chad responded, nodding his head with a grin.

"What? No, no I don't!" Sonny retorted quickly which made Chad smile grow bigger.

"Yeah you do."

"No I don't." The argument could have lasted forever between the two but didn't thanks to a sudden blur hitting the Earth causing an explosion.

"Hello weaklings the Coach is back!" Centiback laughed as he climbed out of the crater he had just formed, chuckling at the shocked and terrified expressions that showed on Sonny, Chad and every other bystander. "And I brought my team along too." Everyone in the surrounding area screamed in fright, fleeing for their lives as a puff of grey energy formed and took the shape of an army of putties.


Elsewhere, a similar event was happening on Waverly Street, a puff of grey energy formed in the streets and took the form of the putties, all of them tipping over stands, all shoving people to the ground while making their way to the substation.

Meanwhile the boys watched the screen with interest as a small explosion consumed Justin character. "Haha I win again." Joe exclaimed jumping out of his seat, punching the air.

"Oh come on, one more go?" A frustrated Justin replied, yanking his hair out after his third lose in a row, not believing he'd gotten beaten by Joe that many times. "I know I can defeat you."

"In your dreams." Justin's eyes twitched at the smug look that was on his old friend's face. "You'll never beat me."

"Yes I can! I can beat anyone in a video game!" Justin yelled stomping his foot into the ground as he got to one knee and a fist in the air.

"No you can't! You can't defeat me." Joe replied, laughing until his lungs couldn't take it anymore and made him go into a coughing fit. Recovering quickly, Joe snapped his head upwards and glared at Justin. "And I'll be happy to prove it any time any where."

Nico, who stood quietly over at the fridge, sighed in annoyance before smacking his face with his hand, not believing what the two were fighting about and the fact he was friends with the both of them. "I don't believe I know either one of you."

Nico was about to walk over to the two and bang their heads in, but stopped immediately, face paling as he heard the passing screams of the innocents coming from the streets below. Nico moved his head to the side, looking out the balcony's see through door, but only for a second. Hearing the shattering windows and terrified screams of the customers downstairs, Nico sprang into action, dashing down the spiral staircase, with Joe and Justin hurrying along after the black ranger.

Once they were down the three watched in horror as the Putties tipped over tables, smashed windows and threw the chairs at the customers.

"ARGH MONSTERS!" Joe cried, deciding now to freeze in place by fear, blocking Justin way from getting off the stair case.

"Come on we have to help them!" Nico yelled, rushing into battle, kicking the closest putty in the back and sending him toppling over a still standing table.


In the meantime Max continued to ride on his bike, smiling carelessly as he turned a corner into an alley, not expecting a grey, humanoid, clay creature to back hand his bike and sending him skidding to a wall.

"What the? Did anyone get that bus?" Max asked as he shook his head, struggling to get up to his feet, even falling back down after getting up to quickly. After a second try, only managing to get on all fours, Max stopped, seeing a grey boot or foot, he wasn't sure, getting in his line of sight. Looking skywards Max gasped at what he saw, slowly getting up again.

"blupblip." One of the putties said, stalking closer to Max while the others stayed back and watched the boy, curious and confused more than ever by the smile that appeared on Max face as he stood up.

"Hey are you guys friends with my brother Justin?" Max asked, watching as the one in the lead scratched his head. Waiting for awhile and getting no response Max continued. "I was just wondering because you're all dull, boring and I can't understand a thing you're saying, just like my brother." Max cheerfully replied.

Baffled by the young Russo, the putties just stood there, eyeing each other, scratching their heads an raising their hands up in an 'I don't know' gesture.

"Oh wait I know you guys." Max made them jumped as he pointed his finger at them. "You're the alien invaders on TV. What are you doing here?"

The closest just scratched its head before leaping at the brunette, throwing a fist at Max. Catching a glimpse of the fist, Max swayed to the right, dodging the blow to the head while at the same time he spun on his heel and kneed the Putty in the back, forcibly and painfully knocking it into the brick wall.

"Wow, and everyone's scared of you?" Max asked, watching amusedly as the Putty fell to the ground. "They obviously don't know you to well."


"Good my plan is working like a char… What the hell are they doing?" Rita screamed seeing a group of her putties surrounding the young Russo child. "How did they end up there, I sent them to the track field not to that idiot little brat!"

"My Queen, one of the putties threw out its hand during the teleportation and knocked them off course." Goldar explained, waiting for Rita to react, who blinked blankly several times before screaming.

"HOW IN HELL DID THAT HAPPEN! THEY WERE NOTHING BUT LITTLE PARTICULES!" Every monster, putty and the entire moon shook at Rita's outburst, as steam shot out of her reddening face. "Idiots, YOU CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON THEM TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE AT THE WORST POSSIBLE TIMES!"

Goldar went over to Rita's telescope seeing the idiotic clay heads surrounding the young Russo boy, only to stare in amazement as Max manage to defeat the clay warrior "My Queen you might want to see this." Goldar said moving away so Rita could have a look, only to smile, seeing Max kick a putty in the chest before doing a round house kick to another putty's head.

"Well, well, I may have underestimated this child." Rita smiled as she pulled away from the telescope. "Tell Centiback to go test the boy after he's done."


The alarms went off in the command centre at Rita's latest work. Like usual, Alpha ran in circles throughout the command centre, his arms waving back and forth as he fearfully said, "AYIYIYIYIYI!" Stopping only when Zordon's face appeared in the blue tube in front of him, Alpha dashed in front of the console. "Zordon what do we do, Rita's putties are attacking the city and to make things worst she is using the book again."

"I know Alpha." Zordon replied calmly, trying to keep a straight face as he viewed New York and notice that most of the rangers were occupied with putties, and in Sonny's case, the Centiback monster. "Alpha tell Nick and Alex to head to the back street near their school and than try to get to Sonny when they can."

"Roger that Zordon." Zordon watched with fear and worry as Alpha started to press away, trying to get into contact with the other two rangers, hoping that they were ready to face a monster that came from the book of shadows. He really wish he had more time, to raise them or at least give them more time to learn and grow and gain more experience, but sadly this was not the case and now he had to hope the rangers make it through to the end. "Let the power protect you."


Alex went limped as she fell onto the gym floor, sweat pouring off of her. With Macy's help she had soon learned that she wasn't built to play with a ball, for the first few minutes sure but a whole game, there was no way. Breathing heavily, Alex reopened her closed eyes as she looked up at Macy at the sound of her voice.

"Well we learn that you won't past making those teams." Macy started, holding a notepad and pin, crossing something off, most likely the sport they had just tried. "Well it's time to go onto long jump."

Alex moaned at that, she could feel her body ache from their previous attempts to find a sport for her. She was pretty sure at the end of all this she'd be one of the fittest people on the world.

"Come time to get up, you had your five minute break." Alex moaned in annoyances as she reclosed her eyes and placed her left wrist on her forehead about to comply when her communicator went active, making her jump up, staring blankly at the watch on her wrist. "What was that?"

"It's just my alarm." Alex lied, shooting up and grabbing her stuff. "I forgot I had to work this afternoon, so how about we do this again tomorrow ok? Ok see ya." Was all Alex said as she rushed out of the gym leaving a startled and confused Macy behind.

Finding a nice spot to talk in private Alex activated her communicator. "What's up Zordon?"

"Rita has send a new monster down to Earth with an army of putties. Sonny, Justin, and Nico are fighting valiantly as we speak." A deep, wise, calm voice replied over the communicator.

"So you want me to go help them." Alex stated getting ready to teleport out.

"Yes but not straight away, Rita's putties have cornered Max in alley near your location, I have already alerted Nick but he may need your help."

"Got it, it's morphin time! Sabre-Tooth Tiger!"


Sonny whined when her back collided with the tree trunk, slowly sliding down until she was sitting down, clenching her stomach from the earlier assault by the putties. Sonny tiredly tried to get back onto her feet, using the tree behind her as a leaning post, however her bruised and injured body refused to stay stable combined with her lack of energy, she fell to her knees and hands. Her breathing was heavy and dry; she could also feel the red liquid roam down her left arm, her wound opening up again, while also dripping onto her shirt.

"Give up you maggot, there's no way you can defeat us." Centiback said walking toward the glaring brunette, now standing in front of the putties.

"What do you want with us?" Sonny asked, knowing full well that if he wanted her dead he could have done so ages ago, being outnumbered and all.

"Well Rita sent me to recruit some new faces, including the maggot over here." Centiback replied gesturing towards Chad who was held up and still by two putties. Sonny smiled a bit seeing he still didn't have a scratch on him before turning her glare back on the monster as he started to speak once again. "And Rita pacifically stated no GIRLS!"

Sonny bolted towards the monster, fully intent on ramming him, than planning to take out the putties that held Chad so he could get away and she could morph. But even if she could do all that, she knew she still couldn't win this fight, she wasn't even sure she'd be able to break Chad out, all she knew was she had to try.

Sonny charged at him, using all the strength she could muster getting close to him, already to shoulder bar him, nonetheless, despite all her effort, in one blink of an eye, Centiback threw the large football at the pink warrior, it bouncing off her shoulder. At first Sonny thought nothing had happened and continued to run but just than, when she placed her foot down she felt it, a rushed of dark energy transpired through her body and the next thing she knew was darkness.

"Well that was easy." As Chad watched Centiback picked up the pink football where Sonny used to be, his eyes felt like they were about to pop out. He wanted to scream, he wanted to panic, he wanted to run but something in his body wasn't letting him, he was frozen in time, fear overwhelming his entire being. "It's try out time you maggot, let see what you got… other than a girly scream."

The putties threw their captor onto the ground watching him with interest as he stood up, shaking with fear the whole time. Centiback shook his head in disapproval before motioning with his fingers to the putties to get this show on the road.

Two putties charged forward, dashing towards the young blond. Managing to block the first punch by throwing his arm up in front of his face, feeling his body sliding back slowly from the putty's force, Chad ended up letting his body slide along the ground until he got into a stance, stopping the putty in its tracks. He lashed out his arm, sending the putty's fist to the side, making it lose balance and stumble towards the blond. Seeing the other putty rushing over Chad acted fast, kicking the putty in the gut and sent him tumbling over its own kind.

"Ha take that, now bring back Sonny!" Chad demanded, leaping forward pulling back a fist, all attention on hitting the freak of nature. Sadly though Chad never got the chance. Out of nowhere a grey blur past him, tackling the spirited blond to the ground with ease.

Chad struggled against the putty and grunted when a new one came over and started to kick his ribs, roaring in pain, losing the strength to fight against his holders. "Tsk Tsk, I was hoping for better." Chad opened one of his clenched eyes and shook with fear as Centiback hovered above him, football in hand. "Oh well I guess I have to go to the next one." With that Centiback dropped the football, laughing in enjoyment as the ball fell onto Chad face and even more when the blond turned into a ball.


Nico, Justin and Joe were still having trouble in Waverly Place. The substation was like a warzone with the toppled over tables, chairs, food and drinks. This was truly proving to be a difficult battle for the boys, especially since neither Justin nor Nico could morph, not with all the bystanders.

Theresa and Jerry ducked behind the counter, their heads occasionally sticking up to see the progress and the damage of their store, but other than the few tables and chairs and the once in awhile sound of breaking windows, all they could see was a crowd of grey figures.

Sometime during the fight Nico had gotten separated from Justin and Joe, most likely rushing into the fray. The African-American danced around the putties, quickly side stepping or spinning out of the way before the putties could land a blow. He kept his moves up, moving the bystanders away from the putties while dodging the putties' attacks on him by either guiding their attacks to their fellow comrades or planting his own blow on them with ease.

Justin on the other hand, stood with the cowering Joe behind the stair case, trying to make sure his friend and the older brother of Nick was safe, which was a real challenge. Justin kept on moving in front of Joe, blocking any fist or kick that came his way.

Justin blocked as a putty kicked him, blocking with his arm. Pushing the leg off of him, Justin thrust forward, ramming his fist into the putty jaw smirking as the grey creature fell to the floor. His smirk falling at the sight of another two rushing putties, Justin mouthed 'clever' before he stood in front of Joe once again ignoring all the other cries for help.

In the corner near the door a group of putties gathered around a young woman and her four year old daughter, both cowering at the putties in fear. The two screamed in panic, backing away as far as they could until they felt the wall as one of the three putties reached out to grab the young girl. A moment before it could grab the young blond the putty was jerked backwards, feeling someone kicking its heels before collapsing on a toppled over table.

Freaking out the other two remain putties spun around, waving their hands outwards, coming face to face with the depowered black ranger. Gaining back its confidents, the putty closest to the door charged at the smirking Nico. Keeping his cool despite the threat, Nico wrapped his foot around one of the few remaining standing seats and flung it forward, chuckling as the putty stumble over it and face planted on the floor.

His face going straight once again leapt over one of the fallen tables that sat in between him and the putty and did a round house kick to it chest, sending him crushing into a wall.

"Get out of here quickly." Nico ordered the young crying girl and the pale faced mother. "Now I'll hold them off as long as I can." Nico retold them more comfortingly, getting a nodded from the terrified mother who scooped up her daughter and rushed out the door.

Barely having time, Nico leapt backwards, spinning in mid air before landing on the only standing table, the fist that was aimed for his head just missing with the putty who threw it ramming into the table and back off, clenching its gut. Watching the putty get its second win and rushing back towards him, Nico Jumped off the table and landing on the opposite side of it to the putty, kicking the table, letting it flip and crush into the grey, mindless, clay warrior.

Taking a breath, the fight finally getting to him, Nico scanned the substation, thankful that everyone other then Justin, Joe and the Russo parents, who ran into the freezer for safety, were the only remaining people in the substation. He also took note that there wasn't as many putties now as there was before, which was a good thing.

"Nico help!" Nico snapped back into action, hearing Justin plea, he raced towards the stair case, seeing a few putties managing to grab his arms, holding Justin back while Joe was being pick up by the remaining putties. Nico pulled back his fist before bringing it forward, hitting the closest putty in the face, knocking him into its comrade, forcing the two to let go of Justin.

"You okay Justin?" Nico asked, taking a second to side glance concernedly at his friend before eyeing the putties, watching as a group drew closer to them, while the other group ran for the doors with the struggling, panicking Joe.

"Yeah but where's Joe?" Justin quickly asked, standing beside the black ranger and going into a fighting stance.

"Going out the door."

"What? Joe!" Justin yelled, barging through the crowd of putties, leaving the stunned, blinking black ranger behind. Not bothering to listen to his friend's cry, after Nico snapped back to his senses, Justin charged for the screaming Joe.

Panicking over his friend, being blinded by that one fact, Justin never noticed the intimating red figure that stepped to the side of the putties. Using the cliché evil laughter, Centiback threw his ball at Justin. The energy generating within immediately acted once it rammed into the chest of the blue ranger.

Blue energy engulfed the boy as he was thrown back by the force of the ball. "ARGH I'M SHRINKING!" Justin screamed, not caring about the blue energy engulfing him without the use of his morpher but the shrinking bit. Nico gawked at the sight before him, Justin's body just didn't shrink but also change shape and once the blue glow ended; two footballs rebounded off the floor before settling down upon the ground.

Registering what happen, Nico glanced around the store, the Russo parents still not budging out of the freezer, Joe being taken outside and out of view which only leaves him, the remaining putties that stay around and Centiback. Taking a step back, underneath the staircase, hidden by all outsiders, his eyes piercing the evil, laughing monster before him, Nico reached for his back pocket and brought out his morpher, already feeling the warmth and comfort his powers seemed to give him.

"Mastodon!" In a flash of black energy Nico transformed into his alter ego, the black ranger. However, unlike all the other times where the black light died after his transformation, this time the black light, still encasing Nico, flew out from the staircase and vanished in thin air, startling the centipede – football player monster.

"WHAT!" Eyes popping out of their sockets, Centiback stared back, eyes shifting from side to side, trying to track the missing ranger. Not realizing he left himself wide open for an attack.

Centiback's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates as the black energy reformed in front of him, frightened as the black light faded away and Nico took its place.

"Power axe!" Axe in hand and over his head with one furious battle cry, Nico brought his axe down on top of Centiback's head, a black vertical slash of energy staying in existence down Centiback body, a lingering line proving to the world that his attack went through.

"AAARRRRR!" Nico sprang backwards, landing a few meters away from the stumbling backwards, intimidating monster.

"Haha and people say I'm an idiot." Nico laughed proud of the success of his earlier move, shifting the axe in his hands as he smiled victoriously behind the mask.

"That's because you are." Centiback retorted regaining his ground, and bulking out his muscles while scanning the area for his spiked football, spotting it a little off to the side in-between him and the ranger. Following Centiback's gaze, puzzled for what the monster was looking for, Nice eyed the two footballs on the floor.

Memories flooding back to him, fear building as his face started to pale, his body reacted instantly without any commands, both he and Centiback raced towards the football in an epic sprint, the winner deciding the other's fate.

It was obvious to Nico that Centiback would be the one to take hold of the ball, he was always a good foot closer to the ball them himself. Thinking at the last second, Nico leapt off the ground, doing a barrel roll in mid air, using his axe like a bat and smashed it against the football, watching it soar through the substation as it made its way back to the cooler room door.

"NNNOOO!" Centiback screamed stopping in his tracks for a second before making his way over to the door only to be stopped by the black ranger as he swung his axe from Centiback's left and rammed Centiback in the gut, making him stumble backwards again.

"Open your eyes and look at who's winning." Nico smirked smugly underneath his helmet, starting to get overconfident. "I'm no idiot."

"Just because you're good with an axe doesn't mean you're smart." Centiback pointed out. "And your forgetting I'm not the only player here today."

Instantly hearing his smug voice, Nico twirled around on the spot, spinning on his heel and watched as the spiked football flew at him, nudging against his shoulder. The last thing Nico saw before blacking out, which irritated him, was the waving putty.

"Hmm... at least the maggot put up more of fight then the last two." Twisting around, Centiback stared at the other group of putties who had let go of Joe and was now kicking his curled up form. "Another worthless maggot, man Rita has to give me a raise." With a shake of his head, Centiback picked up his ball and walked towards Joe with full intention of giving him the same fate of the others.


Max ducked under a roundhouse kick then sprang skywards, fist pulled back before thrusting it upwards, driving his fist into the putty's chin while spinning around in midair and lashing out with his leg to alter the path on an incoming fist.

"You want some more, come on bet ya can't, bet ya can't." Max repeated himself, going into a stance similar to a boxer, shifting his footing every two second, confusing the putties. "Let me show you what Uncle Ernesto and Uncle Kelbo taught me. Be threatened by my limited knowledge of kick boxing."

Examining the alley Max smiled at his accomplishment, seeing only a handful of putties left. He watched carefully as a putty ran towards him, gaining its courage to fight the young Russo. Max focused on the putty watching it came closer, still in his stance.

"Oh forget this." Max said once the putty came in arm's length swinging his arm out to the side, hoping to knock over the brunette. Smirking at this, Max raised his arm blocking the swinging arm. A moment after smirking at the stunned putty, Max kicked its shin forcing it back, using the distance that he made to leap off the ground and colliding both his feet into the putty's chest, increasing his acceleration backwards and making it trip over some boxes.

"Ha take that." Max boasted, sitting up. Too distracted by his success, he missed the other putties circling around him, quickly latching onto his arms and pulling him up. "What the, hey let me go, I call foul play."

"Hi-yaaaa!" In union the red and yellow rangers fell from the heavens and kicked two putties off to the side. Twisting their bodies around, the two tore up the alley that was in-between them and Max, storming up to the now shaking and frightened putties. Closing the gap, Nick jumped off the ground, flying towards the putty on the left of Max, placing a powerful blow to the putty's elbow, kicking it upwards, and detaching it from Max arm. Not stopping their Nick continued to fly upwards, spinning in midair, twisting his body sideways, slamming his foot into the chest of the putty and sending him flying into the wall behind him, causing a loud, thunderous bang afterwards before once again twisting his body to land on his feet.

Meanwhile Alex did a karate chop on the putty's arm. Feeling the pain and force of the blow the putty immediately let go of the young Russo and moved his arm back, not having time to block as the yellow ranger jumped up and rammed her white boot into its face forcing it back.

"Hey Ma—kid are you alright?" Alex asked placing a comforting arm on the boy's shoulders, worry and panic in her voice as she stared him in the eyes behind her mask.

"Yeah I'm fine, I had it all under control." Max boasted, shoving away Alex arms as she giggled at him, her worry and panic dying down a bit.

"Well it looked like to me you were a bit tied up." Nick commented, taking a second glance at the boy before his eyes focusing on the regrouping putties. "Hey Al-yellow ranger get Ma… I mean the kid to safety, I'll handle the putties." Nick ordered not catching what Max had just said, knowing the boy he was guessing he was going to do to the putties.

"What? Are you sure?" Alex asked her tone shifting again to that of worry while forcing Max behind her.

"Come on Alex they're just putties, nothing I can't handle." Nick smiled behind his mask at the yellow ranger, having his head to the side so he could keep track of the putties and see Alex at the same time. At a hesitant nod with her head, feeling some comfort at Nick's playful and confident attitude towards the matter. "Besides I know you would want to make sure he gets out of here."

Alex turned her head towards Max at Nick's gesture with his head, knowing he was right, she did wanted to make sure Max was safe and sound, after all he is her younger brother and without him it's just Justin and no offense to him but she couldn't be around him for too long.

"Alright, but you better leave some of these bone heads for me." Nick chuckled at Alex, nodding his head in agreement. Knowing he'd be fine, Alex grabbed Max's hand and ran out of the alley, forcibly dragging him out with her.

Hearing their footsteps slowly become silent and a group of rushing footsteps becoming louder, Nick turned his eyes back to the charging putties, fuelling his rage; Nick gave them a mighty death look that would have brought Rita herself to shame.

Raising his right hand over to his left shoulder, red energy starting to gather and take form, Nick leapt off the ground, bolting towards the putties, shouting a warrior battle cry. Bringing his arm down in a diagonal motion, his power sword cut through the air as it came back into existence. The blade shined with a red glow as it slashed down the first row of putties with ease, the three putties instantly bursting into grey energy, while their comrades was thrown back a few steps by the red ranger attack.

"That was easy." Nick mused, trying to hide the tiredness and stress that fell onto his body from his last attack. All the putties stared at Nick in pure shock, fear clenching its claws into the clay warrior invaders.

Nick started to make his way towards the trembling clay warriors, breaking into a run as the putties stood up straight and charged him again. Keeping a straight face underneath his helmet, placing both hands on the sword, Nick placed the sword down by his left leg as he twisted his body so he could do a forward motion as he leapt of the ground doing a diagonal slash again going from lower left to over his right shoulder, knocking two of the putties down before twisting around horizontally slashing the putties that got behind him and was planning on attacking him.

The putties soon learned when fighting the famous red ranger that Nick rarely gave up the assault, always swinging his sword around or kicking and once and awhile back handing them. He never stopped, not even for a second and every move was always accurate. Every time he left himself open he would use the momentum from his earlier attack to cover up his back.

It was clear to all that the putties wouldn't win against Nick; he was past their level of skill, even more so then the other rangers. As Nick sliced another putty through the gut, he was quickly distracted as something flickered at the corner of his eyes. Seeing something large with spikes on it was on a direct course for him, Nick twirled around, leapt to the ground into a barrel roll then shot up with his sword uppercutting the red clad warrior, making him stumble backwards a few steps.

Eyes budging out, Nick leapt backwards, getting some distance in between him and his new opponent, only to find he didn't leapt fast enough as a red fist, with the force of a truck, crashed into his stomach, driving the air out of his lungs as Nick crushed landed into a wall. Losing the feeling in his feet, he fell to the ground, dropping the power sword and listening to it clatter away.

"So you're the red ranger? How pitiful, the red ranger is said to be the warrior of the rangers yet the black one put up more of a fight." Centiback laughed not bothering to focus on Nick just yet.

He soon went into a coughing fit, going onto all fours to help stabilizing himself, upset with himself that he let a monster get the better of him. 'Black one? Don't tell me he already gotten to Nico and wait wasn't Sonny fighting this guy? And Justin was hanging out with Nico so what happen to him?' Nick panicked at the mention of his friend's name, 'It's just like last time, a teammate out and me getting my butt kick after one attack.' Nick thought to himself. 'He's even stronger then the last one, I don't think we can win...'Shaking his head getting rid of his doubts, Nick glared upwards at the approaching, towering, evil laughing red clad monster. 'No I can't think like that, we can win this fight, all I need is a little help. Come on Alex I need you.'

Reaching out for his sword, Nick grabbed onto the hilt, pushing himself back up with a little support from his sword and glared at the monster. "What have you done to my friends?" Nick demanded, anger, hatred and firmness mixing in his tone, making the boy seem horrifying, even to Centiback.

Despite his new found fear for the red ranger Centiback continued to look strong, never budging or losing his ground, hiding his fear with his macho tough guy act. His mind quickly went back to the question that was asked, bringing joy and bravely back to the helmet wearing insect as he click his fingers together. Soon the alley was crowded again as new putties join the ranks as frontline solders, each one holding a ball.

At first Nick didn't see nothing too special about the balls, they were all roughly the same size and shape of a regular football. It was when he took a better look is when he noticed how they all had a face of one of his friends on them.

"They are all right here, safe and sound for now." Centiback taunted, enraging the already outraged red ranger. The already tight grip Nick had on his sword only increased as his rage started to build up, his hands actually going a pale white underneath his spandex.

'He turns them into balls.' Nick summed up. 'I don't know how he turned them into balls, but I have a feeling it has something to do with that.' Nick glared at the football that a putty had pick up and place in the monster hands.

"Your time is up red ranger hahaha!"


Alex hurried Max along, dragging him away from the fight. Checking around the area, Alex smile to see this part of town hadn't been torn to pieces yet by the putties and turned to face Max.

"You should be safe here, go back home." Alex told the brunette and started to make her way back to the fight.

"But you might need me." Max replied stepping forward and getting older sister to turn around to face him. "Besides an alien invasion sounds cool, especially if you're one of the people that stop it."

"No it's not, an alien invasion is bad and... who am I kidding I love this life." After breaking character, Alex shook her head to get focused again. "Listen it's not safe over there so stay away, I mean it." Alex couldn't help but laugh in her head, if only her mother was here to witness this, she'd be proud and telling her she's becoming a mature young lady.

"Now back up I'm going to teleport." Alex placed her hands on her morpher, about to teleport when suddenly a thought went through her mind, making her stop and think for second. "Why didn't I just teleport us out of there, it would have quicker and less effort... oh well."

Just as Alex was encased with a yellow glow Max quickly leapt forward, wrapping his arms her waist, a sudden shout of surprise escaping Alex's mouth as the two teleported away from their location and back into the alley.

Appearing back in the alley Max let go of his grip on the yellow ranger, absolutely amazed at the wild ride, not even caring about the scowling yellow ranger beside him.

"MAX!" Alex started, not caring about her secret identity at the moment, arms cross and tapping her foot impatiently, waiting for his comment knowing he will say something in a second or two and won't bother to listen to her scolding to him.

"Wow that was AWESOME! That was so cool! Wait... wait." In Max's mind that was the coolest ride he ever been on, the speed that he was going at with his sister put all rollercoasters to shame, it even made him vomit a bit in his mouth for a split second. "Okay I'm good."

"MAX I told you to stay back THERE." Alex said emphasising the 'there' part.

"Well I always see you guys fly around like that and I wanted to try it." Max answered, blinking several times before cheerfully saying. "Can we go again?"

"Umm... no." Alex replied sternly.

"Oh come on please? I'll do anyth..." Alex ended up not listening to her younger brother going into her own line of thoughts. 'Ok I'll teleport him to the substation where he'll be safe and then come back here to help Nick... Nick... NICK!' Her memories flooding back to her fearless leader, her eyes shifting side to side, back and forth, trying to locate any signs of the red spandex clad hero or any of the putties.

Having a heart attack as her terror took over her whole body, Alex's body shook at this point of time. "Ni- Red Ranger!" Alex cried out, not getting any responds from the young swordsmen. "Red Ranger are you ok? Where are you? Red Ranger!"

Alex was definitely worried now; afraid her friend had once again fallen into another dimension, fighting the golden baboon in a fight to the death match.

"DUCK!" Alex and Max twirled on their heels at the rapidly approaching red ranger, watching him leap off the ground and brought his arms up, forcing the other two to fall from his weight and crush landed on the cement, just dodging a spike football.

"Ni-red ranger you're okay." Alex cheered wrapping her arms around the red ranger neck bringing him closer to her. "Thank god I thought I'd lost you again."

"Yellow ranger this isn't the time, Rita sent a new monster to Earth that's already gotten to the other rangers." Pulling away, Alex stared out through her helmet to look at Nick, startled by the new information.

"What?" Alex pretty much shouted, her heart attack returning as fear overwhelmed her as sprung upwards into a sitting position. Hearing footsteps the three teenagers turned their heads to see Centiback creep up.

"Great the all the maggots are here, that makes my job that much easier." He laughed as the putties with the footballs appeared behind him.

Alex couldn't believe what she saw, her teammates, her friends, her family were all balls. She sat there, deep in her own little world, with her walls closing in on her, until she snapped. "You'll pay for that. Power daggers!"

Alex charged forward, moving faster than ever before, shocking not just Nick and Max but the monster and the putties. Her speed was unbelievable for someone her age and even more so to those who knew the girl. It was kind of hard to believe she was failing P.E. if she could move that fast.

Centiback brought his right arm to his shoulder and charged forward, trying to backhand the yellow ranger only for said ranger to duck under the blow, easily avoiding his giant armoured arm, and sidestep to the right, jabbing one of her daggers into the back of the monster's knee. A smile spreading across her face as the monster screamed in agony.

"WHY YOU PATHIC MAGGOT!" Centiback screamed spinning around, doing a roundhouse kick to Alex's side. The pain that radiated from that blow was more than enough to send Alex soaring into a wall, clenching her side in pain. "I WON'T EVEN BOTHER TURNING YOU INTO A BALL GIRL! I'LL JUST DESTROY YOU RIGHT HERE!"

Charging once again towards the wounded, tense yellow ranger as she tried to get up, glaring daggers at the monster, Centiback smirked as he pulled back a fist, ready to finish this only to be denied by the red ranger. Jumping in-between the two, Nick raised his sword above his head; the silver blade of the mighty sword shimmered with red energy once again. His body screamed in anguished, as he gathered the power of his coin and focused it into his sword. He could feel his body being torn apart, his muscles ache and tighten at the raw power. Seeing he no longer had anytime left to draw in more power, Nick brought his sword down slicing through the monster, blowing him off his feet and fling back to where he came, a bit fazed after the attack, at the same moment as Nick fell to his knees before collapsing to the ground, his power almost completely drained.

"Alex, I'm afraid you have to save the day by yourself from here on out." Nick whispered, not managing to gather the strength needed to talk louder, observing the yellow ranger as she moved closer slowly, still in shock of what she had just witness. "It's going to be hard but I know you can do it."

"Nick no!" Alex yelled, rushing to his side and turning him over so he was on his back and had his head resting on her lap. "I can't do this alone, I need you, and I need the others."

"I have enough strength to do one more attack like that but my body need to rest for awhile so I'm just a burden to you right now. Alex you can do this I believe in you." Nick replied, Alex started to tear up, lost for words and not paying attention to the air born projectile aiming for her. Seeing the object fly closer, Nick used all the strength he could muster at that moment and pushed Alex back while sitting up feeling the ball collide with his shoulder.

"You can do it Alex." With that last pit of encouragement, Nick flashed red and turned into a football in front of Alex. Picking up the red ball, Alex let her tears falls, feeling helpless and doubtful. She had no idea why Nick had that much faith in her, after all if he couldn't defeat this monster alone what hope did she had?

Max, spending his unnoticed time creeping behind the putties, snatched the blue and pink balls from the first putty's hands, yanking them away. Knowing full well the putty wasn't just going to let him take them away Max leapt off the ground did a quick round housekick to its head, knocking it out. With a proud, smug look on his face as he started to taunt it, he failed to take notice of the putty with the black ball coming up behind him.

Seeing this, something in Alex seemed to break, her anger replacing her sadness, her doubts dissolving into nothing as she was blinded by rage. Advancing forward Alex acted on nothing but instincts and kicked the putty in the gut, forcing it back a good few meters and making it let go of the ball which she happily took before passing it and the red ball off to Max.

"It's time for you to go." Raising her left arm and removing part her glove so she could get to her communicator, "Zordon, Alpha teleport Max to the command centre, it's an emergency."

"Roger that Alex." Was the reply as Max was consumed in a grey energy and teleported off to the command centre, Alex only just catching Max saying, "Your name is Alex? No way, I have a sister named Alex."

The remaining putties were terrified, shaking in their boots just as Alex snapped around, knowing, even though they couldn't see it behind the mask, that she was giving them the death glare, which even made it more frighting when her daggers reappeared in her hands.

"Die." With that Alex jolted towards the clay warriors, closing the gape in mere seconds, brought her daggers before her in an x like position just in front of her chest and thrust out, bringing her daggers to her side as she went past the first putty, snatching the Chad football away from it as it dissolved into grey energy. Feeling the ball slip out of her arms, as it was teleported out, she figured Zordon and Alpha were behind that.

Not halting, or slowing down Alex dashed off to the one with Joe, placing her right, bent arm in from of her chest, while the other, bended behind her back. The putty never saw what was coming as Alex leapt off the ground spinning her body and lashing out with both her daggers as she spread out her arms.

She landed securely behind the putty, placing all her weight on to her right foot with her right arm stretched out beside her while her left was just in front of her. Her death glare never left her face, not even when she heard the putty burst into grey energy.

"No one messes with my friends." Alex statted, the few still standing putties backing away slowly, feeling the atmosphere drop a few degrees around the dagger wielding, yellow ranger. Taking her chance, Alex let her daggers disappear in bright yellow flashes of light and bent down to collect the last ball before teleporting out of there before anything else happened, just as Centiback came back into consciousness.

"What the? What hit me?" The monster groaned as he stepped back up to his feet, a hand to his head as he shook his body in an attempt to relieve the pain, failing to notice his prey was gone.

Checking around the back alley, he saw only the trembling putties. No balls, no yellow ranger, no nothing. Not knowing what else to do Centiback yelled out his complaint. "What, she left and stole the balls, that bad sportsmanship! Well we just have to go to the locker room and plan out her demise."


In the Command Centre Alpha stood by the five, different, coloured balls, holding a weird scanner over top of them, not really paying any attention to the amazed young Russo. He was absolutely amazed not just because of a robot, not because, and in his words, a cool crib, but because of the floating head in a test tube.

Zordon had told Max limited info about where he was and whenever Max brought about the rangers he had told him they are trying to save the world for you and everyone else. He had then teleported Max back in an isolated area, being the school. He then closed his eyes as if in a mediative position as he waited for the yellow ranger.

Sensing the aura of the yellow power, Zordon snapped his eyes open as a yellow light entered the Command Centre and died out leaving Alex in its place, her once terrifying, angered, dangerous self long gone and her heartache and tears of pain back.

"Alpha! How are the others?" Alex asked, jogging over to the android as she placed the last ball down with the others and took off her helmet, letting her hair fall into her face.

"Not good I'm afraid; I can't seem to figure out how to change them back to normal." Alpha replied sadly to the dark haired girl. "The energy waves and dark magic mixing in with it is hard to decipher."

All hope being shred away from her, her tears fell more freely as she stared at the motionless balls, knowing full well that Zordon and Alpha were watching her with sorrowful eyes. Even though she had Zordon and Alpha, she never felt this lonely before, something she despised for all her life with a passionate hatred. She hated feeling like this; she had always tried to fit in at school, making friends with unlikely people just so she would never feel this way again. And now the one thing she hated the most was what she had to do: go back out there, fighting by herself for the first time against an opponent far stronger than anyone else she had met, well other then Rita of course.

Shaking her head, she knew she had to go out and fight, with or without the others; it's what they would have wanted. They and the rest of the world were all counting on her. 'No pressure there.' She mused, just before her thoughts flooded back to Nick in the alley. 'I can do this.'

Placing her hands on the red football, a single tear fell from her face as she whispered. "I promise you , I will win and I will heal you all, somehow." And just like that, as the tear hit the ball, her coin reacted, flashing yellow for only a second, but that quickly got the young warrior princess' attention. A thought occurred as she watched it glow. Newfound hope and joy replenished the yellow ranger as she shot around to face Zordon.

"Zordon, what about the power coin?" Zordon quickly went in thought getting her hint. "It's like you said once, they're a form of light energy connected to the morphin grid, could it be possible to break the spell with that?"

Zordon gave this some deep thought, there was no doubt in his mind that she wouldn't be able to do it, but what was getting to him was that her lack of control and experience. She might be drained of her strength if not go into a coma, either way she wouldn't have the necessary strength to fight Centiback. "Yes thanks to your coin you and you alone have the ability to heal your friends, but by doing so you and your coin can be drained of your energy and the cost could very well take your life."

"It's a risk we've got to take." He only needed a glance to see the determination, the fire that burned within her eyes, the look she gives when she makes up her mind about something. Zordon knew there was no stopping her now even if he refused to agree.

Not getting any form of disagreement from the giant floating head Alex turned around, closed her eyes and placed the red ball with the rest of them.

"Okay how do I do this?"

"First channel your power into your hands and let it build until it has nowhere else to go but out." Doing as Zordon said, Alex placed her hands out towards the balls, channelling the power from her coin into her hands. Feeling the warmth and comfort that came from generating her power but at the same time feeling a bit tired, she released the energy around the four rangers' balls, planning on doing the other two after the fight to conserve her strength.

Even though only a couple of minutes passed, it felt like hours to the yellow ranger, trying desperately to hold onto her power while concentrating it to the other rangers. She was relieved as a dark mist burst out of the balls and released four different coloured lights as the rangers went back to normal and stood around the control panel. Nick and Nico took off their helmets for some ventilation.

"Wow, what just happen?" Sonny asked, stumbling backwards for a second before catching herself, not realizing where she was until after.

"Guys you're ok." Alex started, first cheerful and full of energy, leaping for them only to quickly lose her strength as she suddenly felt drained, almost plummeting to the ground only to be caught by the pink ranger.

"Wow Alex are you ok?" Sonny asked worriedly, help supporting her friend up as Alex nodded her head to answer.

"I'll be fine in a minute, just need to adjust." Alex said just over a whisper as she leaned against Sonny, noticing the dry up blood stain, yet not a wound on her.

"Alex has used her power to bring you back to normal rangers, drawing on more of the morphin grid power then she is used to." Zordon explained, sensing the confusion among the group. Zordon than examined each ranger as they stared up at him wonder, his eyes not stopping until they settled on Nick, who stay back from the group leaning on the control panel.

"So you're saying if we used more of the grid powers then we usually do we'll end up drained?" Justin asked, getting a nod by the giant blue head. "Ok listen up everyone; no one is ever to do that again." Justin ordered stepping in front of everyone and pointed at them sternly. "That's an order."

"No Justin they should channel more power out of the coin." Alpha spoke up moving towards Justin in his usual pace.

"What?" Justin asked with a raised eyebrow before getting a stern look on him again and brought his hands out. "Alpha, Zordon said it drains us of our power so we should never do it so we have more power to fight with and so it'll be less threatening. Right Zordon?" Justin asked smugly, hands on his hip as he brought out his chest.

"I'll have to disagree with you Justin." Watching Justin snap around, confused at what he meant and even yelled out WHAT! Zordon continue. "It is true you are drained if you used too much of the coin, you may even die if you absorb too much of it. But the more you use the coin power the more your body and mind can handle, you just need to know your limitations. And it's good to start now for future battles when you need more power then you have right now."

"Okay, now that's settle, Zordon what's up with Rita's new monster, it's even stronger then the last one." Nico asked the question that went through all of the rangers' minds sometime today.

"Yes Nico, Centiback is different to the last monster and all those that came before it." Making sure all the rangers were listening Zordon continued. "The Centiback monster is an especially fiendish creation; he is one of Rita's elite warriors, coming from her books of monsters."

"Book of monster?" Justin questioned in unbelief. "She has a whole book of them?"

"Yes. Rangers you'll all be required for this battle." The rangers faces seemed to pale at the news, all eyes going onto Alex, who blink several times before smiling.

"Ooohh, are you all admiring me?" Sweat dropping at Alex reaction, the rangers chuckled a bit at Alex's humour, well the majority of them anyway, the only exception being Justin, all knowing full well that she knew why they were all staring at her.

"Stop kidding around Alex, you in no condition to fight." Justin barked.

"Justin I'll fight if I have to, besides Nick was worst then me." Alex retorted, all eyes going to the silent red ranger, having been standing a little away from the group up till now.

"Yeah, but I feel and look a lot better then you now." Nick commented turning his head upwards towards Zordon in question. "Why is that Zordon, I've used the coin power twice now?"

"You can thanks Alex for that, when bringing you back to normal, she also healed your wounds and restore a bit of your strength at the cost of her own, which is why she as drained as she is right now." Zordon inform them.

Nick opened his mouth, about to say something when he was quickly interrupted by the alarms and flashing lights.

"Ayiyiyiyi! The monster is back in the park and brought out the putties with him." Alpha panicked, his arms and head waving back and forth as he stared into the viewing globe.

"Alex, Nick stay back as long as you can and rangers, be careful and let the power protect you." The rangers nodded their heads as Nick stepped forward holding his helmet in one hand and his morpher with the other rangers following his lead before shouting.

"Back to action!"


All of New York was in a panic; putties roamed the streets coming from the park, the citizens running out of fear, screaming at the top of their lungs as they were abused by the putties. Bins, chairs, bikes, everything that could go flying or be knocked over did as while car and building windows were smashed, shards of glass falling everywhere.

It was pure havoc and chaos and Centiback just stood their in the centre of the park amusedly, waiting for the yellow ranger to return, his dark heart desiring the yellow ranger demise.

"This should get the brat's attention." Centiback said smugly as he stared at the mayhem. "No hero can just sit on the sidelines for too long hahaha!" On queue, a variety of different coloured laser shot the footballer down, sending him back a few meters. "What the? Who's there?"

"What? Already forgotten about us?"

"Well we haven't forgotten about you."

Centiback squinted his eyes, trying to see through the dust cloud that was created by the blast and covered his line of sight. he only saw five shaded and blurry figures in it. As the dust cloud vanished with the wind Centiback's eyes practically popped out of his eyes sockets as he found himself facing the five rangers.

"But how, you were all turned into balls? How could you break free of my spell?" Centiback asked, getting back to his feet, shaking in surprise.

"Haha obviously this guy hasn't done his homework." Nico mused taking a casual step forward towards the monster. "We're the power rangers."

"I know who you are, I was sent to destroy you!" Centiback shouted, getting back up with aid from the putties, all of them returning back to the pack to help in the fight.

"Well then you should know we'll never give up!" Justin shouted vehemently. "And you'll also know how this game is going to play out."

"Yeah with me on top haha!"

"Pees get low." An women whispered, ducking underneath a bush with a microphone in hand, placing a forcible hand on her partner with the video camera down to the ground. "Keep filming no matter what."

"Yeeeaah, he hasn't done his homework." Sonny teased, placing her arm on Nick's shoulder as she laughed at the now steaming monsters.

"Well then maybe we should do a recourse." Nick replied, the other rangers smirking behind their masks, eager to finish this fight.

"Oh yeah I'm in with that. I'm the black Morphin Ranger." Nico said cutting the air with his hand before going into a pose, leaving all the rangers and Centiback standing there in question. Shrugging at the black ranger, letting out a small laugh, Sonny started to twirl her body before getting to her pose.

"I'm the Pink Morphin Ranger!"

"Blue Morphin ranger!" Justin shouted, twisting his arms around each other before having them position like horns.

"Yellow Morphin Ranger!"

"Red Morphin Rangers!" Nick yelled. "And we're the Morphin Power Rangers!" They all screamed in union, a multiply coloured explosion appearing behind the five rangers as they all finished their posing, as if they needed the extra attention.

Nico and Justin's gazed diverted away from the monster and putties, observing the explosion, awed at the sight before them as questions quickly overflowed in Nico's head, which wasn't hard, it is Nico.

"That was cool! Did you see that boom, it was like..." Justin exclaimed in a child like wonder. His arms waving in the wind while Nico was wooing.

"How did that happen?" Nico asked, summing up the questions that was going through the ranger's head.

Not redirecting their sights, keeping their vision on the monster and putties the whole time, the others didn't really pay any real attention to the two.

"I don't know, but it make us looks cool and you're ruining it." Alex commented, not budging as she scowled the boys. The two shut up at that, once again looking professional while eyeballing the monster ahead of them.

"You may have won the first half but we always make a comeback." Nick shouted, filled with confidents.

"You maggot I've already won both rounds, we are now going into overtime. Putties attack!" Centiback yelled back raising his fist forward as the putties advanced.

"Ready guys?" Nick asked pulling out his blade blaster, the others following his example, setting up their weapons, all aiming for the charging putties, hearing them all say ready before saying one more thing before blasting the enemy. "Fire!"

The ranger let the beams fly, blasting the putties down. One by one the putties fell, each one bursting into grey energy as the lasers collided with them. Soon learning their attempts were futile, the putties started to circle around the rangers, hoping to gain the upper hand only for them to form a circle and blast away the army until there were none standing.

"Well that was easy." Nico summed up, shrugging as he set his eyes back on the monster. "Looks like time is up and we're on the winning side."

"Don't get cocky ranger, the game isn't over just yet." Centiback smirked as he dropped kick his football and laughed evilly as he watched the ball fly up and descending back down towards the group of rangers.

"Guys we should move." Justin panicked, backing away slowly as he watched the ball descend, the other rangers moving a step back as well.

"No guys, I have a better idea." Nick replied getting questionable looks from the others. Raising his arms, still holding his blaster, Nick aimed for the approaching object, the others getting the idea and follow suited. "Fire!" Nick commanded again, the combined blasts of the five rangers ploughing into the spiked football and destroying it within seconds, stunning the monster.

"Rita I think I can use some assistance down here!" Centiback screamed, snapping out of his disbelief.

Hearing her monster cry Rita threw down her staff to the Earth, where it crash landed and zapped the monster, everyone hearing her voice booming around them. "Make my monster grow!"

"Haha now this game got interesting." Centiback laughed as he grew giant size, staring down at New York city and its inhabitants.

"We need dino zord power now!" The rangers yelled to the sky, raising their hands as they summoned their mechanical beasts.

The red tyrannosaurus roared, dashing out of his cave, surrounded by mountains. He raced off towards his partner before teleporting.

The sabre-tooth tiger gave out a roar as it leapt out of the lake, sprinting to her partner in New York, to give her assistance.

The desert was no longer silent as the triceratops sprang to life, shaking the sand off before going towards his partner.

In the uninhabited valley the pterodactyl spread out her white and pink wings, thrilled to fly once again, and sped off to where she was needed.

The mastodon came to life, lifting itself from the snow, singing his favourite tone, not caring he was covered in snow as he teleported to his partner.

The rangers jumped into their zords as they teleported not too far away from them, each making their way to the cockpit.

The five rangers pressed a button and the zords all roared with excitement as they became one. The tyrannosaurus leapt off the ground, his legs and tail combining with his back and arms going inside his chest. The sabre-tooth tiger bounced off the ground, her tail shooting off as her legs went inside her body and connected to the tyrannosaurus, becoming the megazord's right arm, her tail becoming the Megazord's sword. The triceratops than leapt off, his legs going inside his body and became the left arm. The Mastodon's back opened up and the bottom of him twisted around to the back, once again twisting so it was now legs. The Tyrannosaurus attached to the mastodon, his head acting like a belt. The Pterodactyl screeched one last time as she connected to the back, her wings slightly tuck in. The tyrannosaurus head went down and became his chest revealing a red humanoid head. The pterodactyl head popped off the zord and became a black and white, with pink markings, helmet for the Megazord.

"Dino Megazord online!" The five rangers shouted, all of them sitting in the cockpit, all sitting in their usual spot, the Dino Megazord getting into a fighting position.

"Hahaha! That piece of junk won't defeat me." Centiback laughed surging forward at the rangers, his fist pulled back ready to strike, the Dino Megazord mirroring his action. The rangers threw their triceratops fist, colliding with Centiback's and forcing the two to step backwards.

Not giving in, the rangers advance, trying to strike down the football monster with their sword, hoping to slice him in two, startled when Centiback jumped over the blade.

Smirking at his chance, as the rangers left their back unguarded, Centiback rammed his fist into the rangers' back before they could twirl around. Still having a leg up on the unstable rangers Centiback drop kicked them to the ground, hearing a giant metallic bang as they crash landed.

"Man we're getting creamed." Justin said frustratedly as he struggled to stay in his seat, thanks for the zord being capsized at the moment.

"Well then, you know our saying, when it going to gets tough, the tough gets tougher." Sonny retorted, hitting buttons to help the Megazord get up.

"Hahaha! Overtime is almost up in my favour rangers, any last requests?" Centiback asked, loaming over the down zord.

"Yeah one comes to mind." Nick shouted, quickly steering the machine as the Megazord's head snapped up to glare at the monster. "Have a nice fall." The Megazord quickly kicked the monster in its shin, forcing it back a few metres and falling forward.

Quickly rolling away, the Megazord watched as the monster face planted into the ground. This gave the rangers time to get back to their feet and got the zord back into a fighting position, watching as the monster struggled to his feet.

"It's time to end this." Nick proclaimed. Joining in all the rangers yelled. "Power sabre!" Raising the sword above their heads, energy flowed through the sword to the very tip, a bright display of colours flashing out of the sword as it charged up. Charging in on the just up and stunned monster, the Megazord brought the rainbow coloured sword down, watching it as it sliced through the monster cutting him in half before exploding.

As the monster exploded, the Megazord turned away, standing up straight, acting as if nothing was happening and looking awesome while the rangers cheered in victory, hugging each other and throwing their fists into the air.


For once, after a long battle, the Luna Palace did not shake from Rita's outrage. In fact it was quite peaceful on the moon as the evil witch grinned down to the Earth.

"I don't get it she lost and she's smiling what's that about Baboo?" Squatt asked Baboo, turning his head up to the blue alien just in time to see Baboo ram his fist into his head. "Oww, what was that for?"

"Shhh you, I don't want the Queen to yell and scream her head off again, otherwise I'll get a headache and I just got over my last one." Baboo answered, the two blue aliens shutting up when they heard their mistress speak, looking through her telescope.

"I may have lost this battle rangers, but I've gain all the Intel that I need." Rita laughed, watching the youngest Russo boy jump onto Joe's back wrestling Joe to the floor. "And with it, I'll shall rule the world"


During their lunch break the next day Alex, Macy and the rest of the rangers, besides Nick went out to the tracks, Nico, Sonny, Justin and Macy all standing at the start of the tracks, watching Alex speed around the oval shaped field, causally looking at the stopwatch in the brunette's hands from time to time.

Sweat drops fell off of Alex's face and fell either onto her or onto the track, her legs starting to feel as if they were going to fail on her any moment, her body still weakened from yesterday when she used her coin power to heal the other rangers.

But despite how tired and out of breath she felt she continued to run as fast as she could, wanting to get a good time on this run. She didn't think about how sore her body felt, nor how it increased with every step, she was determine to finish what she started, not stopping until she realized she ran past her cheering friends.

Slowing down until she made a complete stop, Alex sat down to catch her breath, before laying down on the tracks with her eyes close. "So how was that?" She asked when she heard the cheering voices of her friends right next to her as their footsteps seemed to disappear, figuring they were standing around her.

"That was incredible Alex you broken the male school track record!" Macy screamed beside her, sitting down next to the tired girl and passing her her bottle of water, helping her sit up as she sculled the cold drink down.

"Really? Will that give me a passing grade?" Alex pretty much spat out, quickly swallowing her mouth full.

"If you join the team for the rest of the year." Justin commented smiling down at his sister as her brown orbs stared up at him, giving her a questionable look as she started to pout.

"Oh, I was hoping I passed it breaking the record."

"Well have a look on the bright side Alex you'll past and won't have to repeat." Sonny jumped in, her smile beaming down at the now smiling brunette.

"Yay I'm going to past!" Alex cheered pumping her fist into the air in victory.

"Yeah way to go Alex." Nico cheered. "Five second dance party." Nico enounced starting to dance on the spot with a giant smile on his face, while the others laughed at him while saying no, or stop that kiddingly.

Turning her head to the side, seeing something approaching from the corner of her eyes, Alex's eyes landed on the grinning Nick. Overjoyed that she wouldn't have to repeat, she forgot about her tired and sore body as she leapt off the ground and back onto her feet as she rushed over at Nick jumping on him once she reached him, hugging the brunette. "Hey Nick I'm going to past PE!" She screamed into his ears, a small chuckle coming from him in return.

"Really that's great Alex, I knew you would if you put your mind to it." Nick replied, placing her back down smiling back at the overjoyed girl, while watching the others come up to them.

"Yeah and a lot of the thanks goes to Macy..." Alex smiled, gesturing to Macy, her smile vanishing in an instant when she saw the dreamy, out of it look on the girl's face. "Macy are you ok?" She asked waving her hand in front of the brunette's face, trying to get her attention and bring her back to reality.

"Hhhhh-hi." She stated, taking a few steps towards Nick before accidentally stepping on his foot.

"Hi, ow!" He yelled, Macy quickly stepping off his foot in guilt.

"Sorry, sorry." She repeated herself, taking a few steps back, tripping over Nico's foot making him say ow in response before balancing herself and accidently wracking Justin in the face with the stopwatch.

"Ow!" The two cried in union as Macy stepped out of the circle.

"Sorry." Macy repeated to the three injured boys, her gaze turning towards the giggling Sonny and the laughing Alex who had walked up beside her and hugged the girl.

"Yup this is going to be a beautiful friendship." Alex said as Macy returns the hug, burying her head in Alex's dark hair, hiding her crimson red blush that spread across her face, hiding it from the others.


And there we have it, the rangers are starting to act like a team and a few of them have even step up to a newer level. And with both Joe and Chad failing the test, Rita chosen Max to be her next green ranger.

Sorry I know I said I'll have it up earlier but I kept on rewriting it, and kept on changing the plot and trying to place all these different things into the story. For you see this is the final part of the five bright lights arc and meant to set up everything for the evil green ranger arc. Alex learning of all her healing abilities with her coin, Nico becoming more focus and becoming abetter fighter, Tawni ect.

Anyway since this is the first ending of the first arc, FINALLY! I like to thank all of you readers so far, I hope you liking my story and i appreciate the reviews. I'd like to thank my editor Typhoonboom08 for checking over my work and I'd like to say thanks again to Slothkeeper for the ideas with Tawni.

And the next episode will be call… Mean And Green

Until next time guys :) cya