"This isn't the forest." Annaka stated very obviously when she and Neri entered an abandoned army base out in mountains of Canada.

"No Annaka, it isn't. We've had to relocate after you and your team kept going there." Neri stated with slight resentment.

The base itself was very well hidden; the entrance disguised within two trees. Very clever but when she went inside, the place was empty. It had clearly been a very recent relocation from the forest. Their footsteps echoed through the long corridor. Neri was in front guiding her then she heard another pair of footsteps walking in the opposite direction. Ivar came into view with a wide smile on his face.

"Grandmother and niece. Welcome." He greeted hugging Neri, very awkwardly Annaka noted, and then looked over at Annaka herself, "I'm so glad you're here. We are going to have so much fun.

The Jr defenders would never find her in this base. Annaka instantly regretted not shouting over to the new Pink Defender that she was in Pearl Canyon and looking for Kyle.

~Ooooo~

"What in an Eagle's name is that?" Danny asked as Jack held up a very small ear piece between his index and middle finger. The trio had returned to DC 1 where Danny was introduced to his new pride and joy DC 3. The Jr defender had taken great interest in it and hadn't left it since they arrived hence why the three of them were sitting in its cockpit observing Jack's new software.

"It's an earpiece." Jack stated looking at it gleefully. It wasn't the first piece of technology Jack had created but it was the first one that had successfully worked.

"We can see that." Kyle said, "Why?"

"Well, it's yours Kyle. It's so that I can lead you and advise when attackers and Ivar come knocking. That is what you want isn't it?"

"Of course it is. I just thought that you both would fight the attackers with me."

"We would love to but I'm still not 100%." Danny replied, "And Jack has more trust issues.

"They're not trust issues. Luke knew that both you and Zsa-Zsa were alive and he didn't tell Kyle. I get that he might have assumed that he would know but it must have been obvious when he actually met Kyle that he didn't."

"Can we remember that Kyle is in the room?" The yellow defender interrupted, "So you're keeping an eye on Luke. I thought he mentored your parents?"

"Yeah and look what happened there." Jack said, "Plus he disappeared after all of the Lionheart fiasco was over."

"To be fair, I thought that Charles told him to." Danny replied, "Isn't that how you got the Jungle Gems?"

Kyle nodded then looked at Jack seeing if he was going to reconsider but the eldest Jr defender looked stubborn. He wanted to know more about Luke. He was friends with Harvey but that didn't make him bad. Everyone is friends with someone before they become a villain. It's just luck. Kyle even debated whether Harvey would recognise Luke at all. The yellow defender then turned his attention back to his two friends, who seemed pre-occupied with their minds. It was obvious Danny was trying to remember parts of his life but Jack...Jack had nothing to pre-occupy his mind with.

"You okay Jack?" Kyle asked gently.

"Yeah, it's nothing just thinking."

"About?" Kyle asked gaining the attention of Danny.

"Ivar, I guess. We had these powers, you know the JCD powers and we could have used them to benefit the world, to save it and to save people but instead we use them to go after some rogue Viking who has no idea how to let go of the past. It just seems a waste of a good thing."

"I know what you mean. Maybe we should try to help people out." Kyle suggested.

"You don't have to do that Kyle. It's not your fault the world is a crappy place." Jack said.

Kyle raised his eyebrows, for as long as he had known Jack, he had not sworn once however when he looked over at Danny, he didn't seem phased. Perhaps more went on behind closed doors than the yellow defender realised. Never the less, the leader continued, "Everything in this world is so messed up. Look at all the technology we have and all we do with it is make larger and wider iPhones. There still isn't a cure for Cancer and people are still dying in accidents- nature or not."

"The worlds always going to be messed up Jack." Danny said entering the conversation, "When I was lost, I saw things that I had never seen before and realised things. You told me about Ivar and co and the first thought I had was, what kind of mad man goes after a bunch of teenagers?"

"Arthur fired a missile at the Castle with the intention to kill me." Kyle said, "That's when it I actually decided I didn't want to be leader. That's when I realised how much danger I was in and how alone I was. I mean, Danny's right, what kind of mad man goes after a 14 year old kid and tries to kill him? What have I ever done to Arthur?"

"You're a threat." Jack explained, "You had the a fifth of the Lionheart power still and when we met Arthur, he used the Lionheart power then got defeated by it. He knows how much of a threat that was to him and so decided to attack you to lessen the threat of death."

"Even if I did still have the Lionheart power, I wouldn't waste it on him." Kyle said, "He's only one head of the monster."

"One head out of many and you know what they say; when one head is cut, two more grow back." Danny stated.

~Ooooo~

"Go over to him." Zsa-Zsa exclaimed pushing Danny towards the hospital chairs but the green defender stood still not wanting to move. He looked back over to Kyle who then left. His eyes skidded over to his friend.

"What about Josh?"

"What about him?"

"He's not exactly green defender material!"

"Just because he's not running around or playing a prank, the triceratops is meant to be filled with knowledge."

"I had knowledge!"

"Yeah." Zsa-Zsa said very unconvincingly, "Very little."

"Thanks and anyway, I don't want to stalk him. Your successor is stuck in bed. You know where to find her."

"You're not stalking him. He won't even know your there."

"That's the definition of a stalker!"

"Danny!"

"Fine! I'll stalk Josh." Danny said giving up, "You're only a year and fraction older than me."

"I'm still older!"

"Leave me to do my stalking alone." Danny said following Josh.

"Not a chance. You'll mess it up somehow."

~Ooooo~

"When can I play again?" Lustenema asked aggressively but with slight innocence to Ivar, "I never get to play. Those two over there take all the fun."

"Maybe because we've never failed." Harvey retorted however he gained himself a snicker from Ivar.

"You both of the literal image of failure." He told them then faced Lustenema, "You, my dear, will be playing a lot from now on. You're definitely more powerful than those two over there so there is a chance that the defenders will be defeated once and for all."

"What about your brother?" Lustenema asked, "Your youngest one? How are you going to break him?"

Ivar gazed back up at Lustenema with a smirk on his face. His youngest brother was not going to be a threat anytime soon in fact, Ivar had him wrapped around his thumb, "Well Lustenema, I have something precious of his. He won't risk me hurting it for some petite revenge."

"Where is your niece anyway?"

"Somewhere. She's not coming back for a while." Ivar replied smiling, "Anyway, she was weak. She thought love was strength. She thought she could thrive off the love of her parents, friends and that boyfriend of hers. Love is weakness. Love tampers with your judgement. Love makes it easier for you to be manipulated."

Lustenema nodded in agreement. She often found herself doing that, after all Ivar was not a man you'd disagree with but something was bugging Lustenema, "What was your niece's name?"

The question wasn't completely out of the blue. Ivar did speak about his niece regularly but he never spoke of her name. It was like if he said it then she would appear. Ivar paused at what he was currently doing; the base fell unusually quiet as the silent hum of the computer did in fact go silent. The villain thought that she had gone too far, even she wasn't safe from Ivar's wrath but to her surprise, he continued with his activity of searching the internet when he replied.

"Annaka, her name was Annaka."

~Ooooo~

"See, he's helping that girl." Zsa-Zsa pointed out (quite literally) to Danny.

The pair was stood in the middle of the chaotic hospital corridor. It was quite unbelievable how quickly a hospital could fill up due to one slightly major earthquake. The former green ranger has already stated the obvious that Pearl Canyon can't get earthquakes due to its location so was now pondering how it started. Zsa-Zsa already had an idea but didn't want to share it. She had an idea that Jack may be the cause but her and Danny may be the reason. The former blue defender turned her attention back to her cousin, who was looking down the hospital corridors at the doors. She signed and continued to speak,

"She'll be alright, they both will be. Even if they did make it back the Castle, I doubt it would collapse on them."

"I haven't seen her. That's all." Danny replied solemnly but then a smiled crept on his face, "Yeah. Annaka will be alright, she's strong."

Zsa-Zsa nodded in agreement then looked over at Josh and smirked slightly, "See he's definitely a defender."

"There's no doubt about that but it's just…whether he suits being green. I mean green defenders are, you know, slightly cuckoo."

"My mum's a green defender."

"Is that Kyle?" Danny asked pointing to a random person, who was absolutely not Kyle. Zsa-Zsa raised her eyebrow at her cousin but decided to let the family insult slide. After all, they would be stuck with one another for quite a while."

The pair looked back over to Josh and discovered that he had disappeared. Looking at each other, concerned, the pair walked down the corridor and into the overcrowded reception area of the hospital. Zsa-Zsa scanned the room and located Josh with Kyle. Grabbing Danny's hand, much to his surprise, she pulled him across and stood behind Josh and the girl. Due to the loud noise, neither Danny nor Zsa-Zsa could hear what they were saying then to their shock, left the little girl unattended while they ran outside. Locking eye contact and facial expressions with each other, the pair was horrified at the prospect of what Kyle had done. They had taught him better than this.

A few seconds later though, the yellow and green dino defenders entered the hospital and causing everyone's attention to divert to the injured little girl. Zsa-Zsa smirked at Kyle's plan. She had taught him well. Once the doctor took the little girl away, Danny noticed that the two defenders had become bombarded with people asking questions about relatives. Poor Josh looked out of his depth especially when Kyle said something to him. Using all of the evidence that he had seen, Danny finally admitted to himself that maybe Josh wasn't such a bad green defender after all.

"You'll be fine." Danny told Josh trying to reassure the boy the best he could, "You'll be a great defender."

~Ooooo~

"Kyle?" Luke shouted from the control room of DC 1, "Attackers have been located by the shopping mall."

Jack through the ear piece over to Kyle, who caught it then placed it in his ear before exiting DC 3. His team were waiting at the bottom of the loading ramp of the Bear themed defender craft. It then hit Kyle, that this was the first time that he had saw them since splitting up with the Attackers. Was this how it was going to be? Would they never spend any time with each other? Only a few months ago were they spending 2 to 3 nights round one of their houses. The yellow defender looked back at his team. He wasn't going to let this one split up as well.

"Anyone got the exact co-ordinates?" He asked joining the group. Silently, Josh handed the phone over to him, "Okay. Let's go."

"Isn't Jack or Danny coming?" Zoey asked rather surprised. To be fair, she did have a good reason for asking that question, since there return, they had been going to a lot of fights.

"I can always call them." Kyle replied.

Drake, Josh and Zoey nodded and ran ahead. Kyle ran with them until he realised that Amy wasn't running with them. He skidded around to face her, "Amy?"

She looked up at him, with an uncertain look on her face.

"What is it?" Kyle asked confused and concerned.

"Nothing." She replied as she started walking but Kyle grabbed her arm causing her to holt in her tracks.

"What is it?" He asked again softer.

"We all used to be so close." She started. It was a relief to Kyle that he wasn't the only one having those thoughts, "And now… I don't know, it's like…we used to be close. You and I."

Kyle knew it was true; they used to be very close. The pair would tell each other anything. Drake was the one that he wold turn to for a laugh, Josh for adventure, Zoey for her opinion of the matter and Amy for her advice and friendship. What had happened? Now, Kyle assumed he went to Jack and Danny for these things but thinking about it, he didn't. He went to Jack and Danny for familiarity, leadership and because they were all those things. Each defender had inherited humour, adventure, opinion and friendship into their personality so where did that leave his new friends?

"Kyle, what are you doing?" Jack hissed in his ear, "Attackers, town, now."

The yellow Gorilla looked back at Amy and indicated that they should go after the others, "Jungle Gems! Let history unfold!"

"Yellow Gorilla!"

"Blue Elephant!"

"Red Monkey!"

"Green Giraffe!"

"Pink Hyena!"

With a summer salt through the air, the defenders landed by the mall. The sound of destruction was close by along with the sound of a female evil laugh. Kyle and the team rushed around the corner and immediately crashed into the attackers with fists and kicks. Lustenema twirled around in shock and surprise at the sight of her attackers being fought again. The yellow one was occupied with two at once and was winning however his fighting routine was always the same: kick, punch, and jump then repeat. She could take him down.

The blue one also had a routine and Lustenema noticed how gentle she was. This defender style was more of a lover than a fighter which could easily be used as an advantage as well as the green defenders fighting style of panic and throws of a fist at the attackers. However the pink defender and the red defender were more spontaneous in their fighting style. It would take more analysing to figure out how to defeat them but she needed more time and more footage.

Each attacker held a secret camera in their chest which recorded every fight that has happened with the defenders. After every battle Lustenema herself watched it to see if there were any patterns in the fighting skills hence how she figured out yellow, blue and green's. She glanced over at the yellow defender again. His hand was pressed against the right side of his helmet like he was talking through an ear piece. The evil villainess crouched down and hid behind the old metal dustbins trying to listen into his conversation.

"Yeah, we should be back on DC1 soon. These ones are dropping like flies."

Lustenema smiled then closed her eyes. In most villains' cases they would need to find the enemy base but in her's, once she knew the location, she could easily teleport there. With a flash of red light, only seen by Kyle but he thought nothing of it, she found herself in the control room of DC1. She reopened her eyes and smirked. Slowly, she walked around the room, tracing every bit of furniture with her finger before leaving the room and quite literally bumping into Danny.

"Lustenema?" Danny asked confused and shocked about how she had found the Defender Craft and why she was here.

Knowing that he was going to ruin everything, Lustenema shut her eyes one again, grabbed hold of the former green defender and teleported out.

Fifteen minutes later, no one was any the wiser. Jack had assumed that Dann had gone out for a sugar shop, as he liked to call it and Kyle had been caught up with trying to rekindle his friendship with his team mates that he hadn't even spoken to Danny or Jack since he got back. Instead, he went into the living room where his team mates were finishing off the movie they had begun earlier.

"Lilo and Stitch?" Kyle asked in slight disbelief, "Is this what you've been doing the whole time I've was with Jack and Danny?"

"Shush, we're getting to the emotional part." Drake whispered.

"Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind."

The others stared out the TV with tears brimming in their eyes but Kyle turned away looked at DC 1s cockpit where Jack was sitting trying to locate Danny and Lustenema. The realisation then hit him like a bucket full of ice cold water after one of the former green defenders pranks. The Jr defenders weren't team mates. They were family. That's why he was so angry and upset. Not because he lost his friends but because he lost family and in family, no one gets left behind…but Kyle did.

~Ooooo~

Lustenema had fallen to his left side and was moaning; to be fair they had both fallen two feet. This is why he hated teleportation. Danny tilted his head to face her and to his surprise, she leant up, took off her face mask and threw it onto the grass. Her legs were slightly bent and she held her right hand against her forehand as if she was frightened of something. Danny leant up and gently touched her shoulder causing Lustenema to remove her hand in anger and looked at Danny eye to eye. His hand suddenly left her shoulder in surprise and shock.

"If you wanted to go out with me?"

"At least you remembered kind of."

"Actually, you're not a bad boyfriend as everyone makes out you are."

"I love you."

Danny slowly lifted his left hand off of the grass and gently traced his index and middle finger alone Lustenema's annoyed face. He had once searched up for definition of soulmate, out of curiosity because he always thought that once he found her nothing would change his feelings. He always knew that they would be suited to one another and that they would always find each other because that's what always happened. No matter how far away Danny always found his girlfriend.

"Annaka?"