Pain radiated from her head, down her neck and back as Oedius smashed her into the wall. There was barely time to catch her breath, and Kelly heard a scream, before the pain was back. Something wet dribbled down her back. Based on the pain, Kelly could only imagine it was blood.

Oedius' laugh was haunting, and the green Ranger wanted to refuse letting that be the last sound she heard. Unfortunately, it wasn't up to her. As the pain became too much, the darkness took over.

From there, it was only flashes of her life that she could see and bits of sound, like pieces of a broken recording. She remembered being a child and hearing her parents speak poorly of a woman of colour, simply because of the colour of her skin. Kelly remembered feeling an ache in her bones as she was forced to agree with her parents.

She remembered her parents and their friends having dinner together, discussing one of her mother's coworkers, who had just gotten engaged to his fiancé. Both couples had been invited to the engagement party and neither were planning to attend. In fact, they were planning on freezing out the man who had once been their good friend, simply because he had fallen in love with another man, rather than a woman.

Kelly remembered discovering her own sexuality. She remembered needing desperately to talk to someone about it. However, her parents had already voiced their disdain for her "kind" around her, and she feared that if she brought it up to them, they would do like they had done to Eric and freeze her out.

She remembered being outed at school, and outing Sarah. She remembered the day her father had found out and kicked her out. She remembered meeting the Fosters and for once, feeling safe in her own skin. She remembered that feeling of falling more and more in love with Sarah and the feeling of having good, trustworthy friends. She remembered becoming the pink Ranger for a time, before settling in as green.

Oedius' laugh was back again. It started off as a booming noise, then slowly faded into the distance, replaced by the sound of something beeping. Was it her alarm? Was she late for school?

She woke with a start, gasping for breath and, thinking she was late, turned her head to her alarm clock. As she opened her eyes, she realized she wasn't at home, in her bed. Instead, she was somewhere strange. Fortunately, the face she woke up to wasn't strange at all. Kelly smiled as Sarah lifted her head from the side of the bed. Relief washed over her girlfriend's face.

"You're awake!" she called out and there were footsteps that seemed to come closer. Kelly smiled and nodded her head.

"I am."

"How do you spell your name?" Sarah asked and Kelly chuckled. She couldn't quite recall what had put her in this bed, or why she wasn't in her own bed, but the pounding headache and the slight panic from her girlfriend told her that something serious had happened.

"K-E-L-L-Y," she answered her, then chuckled when Sarah realized she had no idea if that was right or not. She strained herself to think, since Kelly's name wasn't that tough to spell, but the letters jumbled up inside her head. She couldn't even recall what a K would look like, never mind if it was the letter that went at the start of her name.

"Is that right?" she asked and looked around the room. Someone must have nodded, but Kelly didn't check. She didn't want to take her eyes off Sarah.

At least, not until a man leaned over her. She didn't recognize him, not even a little, but since Sarah seemed to trust him, Kelly didn't let herself worry about it. "How are you feeling?" he asked her.

"My head hurts a bit," Kelly said. "Otherwise… okay, I guess."

"Do you remember what happened?" Hayley asked. Kelly turned her head the other way and saw the rest of her friends standing there with Hayley.

"Vaguely… I think. Oedius did this, right?"

"You took a few pretty good hits to the head," the man leaning over her said. "The headache doesn't surprise me."

"Does anything else hurt?" Sarah asked. Kelly shook her head.

"Not really. But… uh… where am I?"

"Ninja Ops," Calvin answered, with a bit of excitement in his voice. "It's at the Wind Ninja Academy. You know, where Mr. Romero trained."

Shane cleared his throat and looked to Calvin, who nodded as he nervously scratched the back of his neck.

"Right, and where Shane is a Ninja Master."

"I could be a Ninja Master too," Dane defended. "I just… left to train my kids my own way."

"I train my kid my way," Tori responded with a bit of a cheeky smirk. "I'm still a Ninja Master."

"Yeah but… I didn't want the fear of a Ninja warrior coming from the sky and abducting us again."

"How did that work out," Shane chuckled and then gestured to Brody and Levi.

"I just felt like the better choice for my family was…"

"We're just teasing you," Shane said with a laugh. "But this is my turf. You know, since you walked away."

"Okay, I have some work to do," Cam stated and he moved away from Kelly for a moment and turned to the others in the room. "And I think we all know by now I work better when there's no one else around."

"What work?" Sarah asked as the others started to follow Cam's orders. They had all been around Ninja Ops long enough now that they knew Cam could get a little cranky while he worked, and it was best not to bother him. Sarah, though, didn't want to leave just yet.

"I just want to make sure there's no neurological impairments," Cam explained.

"Like epilepsy?"

"Sarah, I'll be fine," Kelly assured her girlfriend, squeezing her hand gently for comfort. "I feel fine."

"I did too," Sarah reminded her. "Until… you know, mom's rushing me to the doctor because I had a seizure."

"I know," Kelly said. "I remember."

"If there's something wrong, I'll find it," Cam promised Sarah, then Kelly. "Once we know what we're dealing with, we'll be better able to treat it. Hopefully, though, we're out of the woods."

"Come on, Sarah," Shane said as he gently held his niece and started to guide her to the stairs. "Let's let Cam work. The sooner her finishes, the sooner I can take you home."

"But…"

"Your mother's worried. How about we give her a call and let her know Kelly's awake?" Shane suggested. At least making the call would buy Cam a little time to do his work before the pink Ranger came back.

-Ninja-Steel-

In Summer Cove, Jenny breathed a huge sigh of relief as she hung up the phone. Sarah had called her with an update, and while she had pretended she wasn't still worried about Kelly's condition, her heart had been racing and she found herself needing to take a seat. Though she knew Kelly was now awake and seemed to be doing well, they weren't quite out of the woods yet. If Sarah had taught her anything, it was that head injuries could be unpredictable. Sarah's first seizure didn't occur until over a week after her last accident, and even with Viera's intervention, Sarah was still epileptic and still couldn't read or write because of her brain injuries.

"Everything okay?" Aaron asked as he came into the room. He had no idea about anything going on with the girls. When he had gotten home from work the night before, Jenny had told him that the girls were staying over at the Romero's with the other boys. It was the best cover she could think of because if Aaron did need to call to check in on the girls, and reached out to Brody and Levi's father, Dane would understand the situation and maintain the lie.

Jenny didn't like to call it a lie, but she couldn't deny that she was lying to Aaron. She felt badly for it. After all, he had just lost his wife, and didn't completely understand the circumstances around her death. Now, little did he know that his daughter's health was also on the line.

As much as she knew it wasn't right to lie, and that if he ever did find out the truth, he might get angry, Jenny did kind of wish she was in his place. She had a lot less questions for Sarah now that she knew she and her friends were the Power Rangers, but there was a lot more stress. She knew her daughter put her life on the line a few times a week to protect the city. It was a heavy burden to bare and though Jenny was grateful that she had the opportunity to help and to make life a little easier for the teenagers keeping the planet safe, it was a lot easier to worry about her daughter coming in after curfew than to know it was her running towards the monster, instead of away.

"Yeah, everything's fine," Jenny told him. "That was just Sarah calling to tell me they're going to stay with Brody and Levi for another night."

"Again?"

"It's a close-knit group," Jenny said, though she couldn't help but understand Aaron's frustrations. This would be the second night in a row he didn't see his daughters at all. "I guess they're just having fun."

"I don't remember hanging out with my friends this much, though," Aaron said skeptically. Jenny shrugged her shoulders.

"The Romero's do live out in the country," she remarked. "And I know Dane likes to keep to himself, mostly. The kids are probably enjoying a little freedom. It's probably good for Hayley and Kelly, too. No one's got parents to worry about right now, so it might feel a little normal, right now."

"You think?"

"Sarah spent a lot of time with the group after her father passed," Jenny said, intentionally omitting that the reason was because they were the Power Rangers, and they needed to train and bond in order to do their jobs properly. "She adjusted pretty well to life without him, so I guess it helped."

"Well, Hayley hasn't called me to say anything."

"Sarah called me," Jenny said. "She probably assumed I'd tell you."

"Right," Aaron nodded his head. "But if the girls try to stay another night, can you ask them to come home. As therapeutic as it might be for them to stay away from me, I think it would help us adjust to have some family time."

Jenny couldn't help but agree. Her time with Sarah after Bill's death had been a huge help for both. They had been able to talk about what they would want and need from each other moving forward and had been able to set the tone for how their new, smaller family would move on comfortably. Unfortunately, with a head injury, it was guaranteed that Kelly could come home and act like nothing had happened.

"I'll do what I can. Teenage girls are pretty notorious for not listening to their parents, though," she added, just in case the girls couldn't come home. Aaron nodded.

"They are, but our girls are good.