Author's Note: One of my favorite episodes. I like this one. I can't have Molly all mopey and stuff about her mom all the time...so she hangs with her friends in this one.

It was nighttime now and normally I would be at home doing some homework but not tonight…tonight, I was helping out my friends getting ready for Zack's surprise birthday party, which was tomorrow.

"Why couldn't we just have had made a cake the old fashioned way?" I ask my uncle as we walk over to this Cake-O-matic machine that Billy had brought over.

"It will be less work that way." Ernie answers. "Less clean up."

I put up both my hands and walk away.

Billy was dancing around listening to some music. Trini was painting Happy Birthday onto this banner…and Kimberly was blowing up balloons.

"You're right Kimberly!" Billy shouts as he dances around. "The performers assembled to create this harmonious tune transcend all predecessors to this genre of music."

Kimberly and I looked at each other confused.

"Translation, please?" Kimberly asks.

"He likes the music." Trini says.

"Only you can speak Billy." I said.

She smiles and gets backs to her work.

"Billy!" I hear uncle Ernie shouting. "Billy! You gotta help me!"

I get up from my seat and walk back to Ernie. The cake was turning into blue slush inside the machine. Ernie opens it up and starts trying to clean it up.

"Come on, help me out Molly." Ernie says.

"You were saying?" I asked.

He begins calling for Billy but he was too busy listening to the music he was listening to. So Kim had to break it up.

The blue stuff was getting all over me. Ernie falls down and I gasped.

"Uncle Ernie." I said. "Come on."

Billy comes over and turns off the machine.

Ernie had blue cake mix all over him.

"I guess I still got to work the kinks out of this thing." Billy says to us.

"Yeah, look what it did to Uncle Ernie." I said.

"Sorry." Billy says.

"I hate machines." Ernie says as more blue cake mix falls on top of him.

"Let me help you up and I'll take you to the bathroom so you can clean up." I say to him.

I help him stand up and help him over to the bathroom.

"I can take it from here, thanks kid." Ernie says.

"Yeah, sure." I said.

After he cleans up he comes back out and looks good as new.

"How's it going Billy?" Kimberly asks as she gets on top of the counter.

"Did you fix it?" I asked.

"I fail to ascertain why this appliance isn't working." Billy explains. "I mean, the molecular mix re-arranger's still intact."

"Problems?"

I see Jason had arrived with two paint cans in his hands.

"The cake-o-matic that Billy built for Zack's surprise party, it went on warpath." Ernie says. "Nearly drowned me in cake mix."

I giggled.

"Should have listened to me." I said.

Uncle Ernie gives me a look.

"Listen Ernie, I wanted to thank you for keeping the place open late tonight." Jason says. " So we could decorate for Zack's birthday party."

"Boy, is he going to be surprised." Ernie says. "And speaking of surprises! You guys will never guess what I found about the power rangers."

"The power who?" Billy asks.

"The superheroes with large dinozords?" Ernie asks.

"Doesn't ring a bell." I said.

"The one's with the colored costumes." Jason guesses.

"That's them." Ernie says. "What they'll do for Angel Grove…what Batman has done for Gotham city."

"I think I've seen them on TV." Jason says.

"Oh have you now?" I asked him as I smile at him.

"Yeah." Jason says. "What have you heard?"

"I've heard they're regular humans, just like you and me." Ernie says.

"Well, you know, I heard they were space aliens." Jason says. "From a distant planet."

"Aliens?" Ernie asks.

"You know, we should keep this space alien stuff under our hats." Jason says. "We wouldn't wanna panic anybody."

"Aliens, woah, this is big." Ernie says as he walks away.

"Space Aliens?" I asked him.

"I had to think of something." Jason says.

"Well, well, well."

I turn my head to see Bulk and Skull had entered the Youth Center.

"If it isn't the nerd patrol from Angel Grove high." Bulk says.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

"Uh, this place is closed fellas." Billy says.

"Yeah, to nerds like you." Bulk says to him.

"Why don't you get out of here?" I asked. "No one invited you."

Bulk carries Billy and places him onto the counter.

"Hey Bulky, look at what we have here." Skull says as he holds up the sign that Trini had been working on.

Trini tries to take it but Skull moves it away.

"Whoa!" Skull says. "Oops…a birthday party. Awwww!"

"Yeah, well we would have invited you, but animals aren't allowed." Kimberly says.

"More like Neanderthals." I said.

Kimberly laughs.

"Good one Molly." She says to me.

Then Bulk blows his nose onto the sign and Skull just laughs.

"Party's over kids." Bulk says.

"Hey, I worked a long time on that." Trini says.

"Hey, I'll tell you what, babe…what do you say I help you paint another one after we've done having a little…fun?" Skull asks.

Trini pushes Skull backwards onto piles of paint and he falls.

Kimberly and I start laughing.

Bulk walks over to her and unpops her balloon right in her face.

"Someone ought to let the air out of you." Jason says.

Bulk charges over to Jason but Jason leaps out of the way and Bulk hits his head onto a gold pole. He was dizzy and then he falls back unto this box that had Kimberly's balloons inside. Some of them had popped.

"My balloons!" Kimberly says.

Skull charges at Jason this time…and he also runs into the gold pole.

I laugh and so does Billy.

Skull comes at Billy and Billy just in time opens the cake o matic machine and makes Skull get inside. Skull was now covered in cake mix.

"I hate party crashers." I hear Kimberly saying.

"Maybe I should call the police." I threaten them as I hold the phone. Everyone looks at me. "Let's see what they have to say about it."

"Alright, we're gone." Bulk says as he and Skull leave.

"Thanks for stopping by!" I yelled as I walk to the door after them. "Don't come back!"

"Her proficiency with complex illustrated characterizations is quite impressive isn't it?" I hear Billy asking as I walk back to Jason and the others.

"What did he say?" Jason asked as he looked confused. He looked cute confused.

He turns to Kim.

"Don't look at me." Kimberly says. "I don't speak Billy."

"He said I draw a good cartoon." Trini says. "Thanks Billy!"

I see Jason putting on a party hat.

"We've got all the balloons blown up, the banner's are made." Kimberly says. "What else is left to do?"

"I think we're about done." Jason says.

"Well all we have left to accomplish now is just make sure that Zack doesn't find out about the planned festivities prematurely." Billy says.

"Hey, you guys." Ernie says out of breath. "I just saw Zack pass by my office window!"

"Uh oh." I said.

"I think he's headed this way." Ernie says.

We all start cleaning up the place. Very fast…and then we hide under the counter.

I hear humming.

"Hey Ernie, what's with the late hours?" I hear Zack asking.

"Just catching up on some work, Zack." Ernie answers. "And I'm all by myself too, see?"

"Yeah, right." Zack says. "Trini's mom told me the gang might be here…so I just came down to see if I saw them."

"Nope." Ernie says. "I haven't seen anyone. "There's just me, my stack of papers, my bowl of popcorn, a few tables, a couple of chairs…"

"I get the picture, I get the picture." Zack says.

"Yeah, you get the picture." Ernie says.

"Listen, if the gang comes around, tell them I'm lookin' for them, okay?" Zack asks.

"Sure, sure…no problem." Ernie says.

"I wonder where they disappeared to." I hear Zack say. "I'll see you Ernie."

"Take it easy, Zack." Ernie says. "Okay, the coast is clear."

We all came up from behind the counter.

"Whew!" Kimberly says. "That was way too close."

"So now, what do we do?" I asked.

"We all go home and rest up." Jason answers.

"And make sure that Zack doesn't find out." Trini says.

"You mean lie?" I asked.

"Exactly." Jason says.

"But I hate lying." I said. "I have never lied before."

"Don't think of it as lying." Billy says. "Just think of staying away from the truth."

"Or try to avoid Zack tomorrow." Kimberly says.

"Alright guys, time to go home." Jason says. "Hey Molly, do you need a ride?"

I look at him and then at Ernie.

"Well uncle Ernie was going to take me home." I said.

"Why don't you go off with Jason?" Ernie asks. "I'll be good."

"Well alright then." I said.

"Come on." Jason says.

We all go our separate ways into the parking lot and I get into Jason's car. He gets on the other side and he begins to drive me home.

"What's your address?" Jason asks.

"It's 435 Court Place." I answered.

"So, how's your mom doing?" He asked.

"She's fine." I said. "For now…I did some research on this cancer thing…and she's not expected to survive that long…I'm scared."

"Look, everything will be alright." Jason says. "You'll still have your step dad, Fred, uncle Ernie and us…so you won't be all alone."

"But it's my mom." I said. "I love her, you know?"

"I know." Jason says. "But think, she'll be going to a better place."

"I guess you're right." I said.

We finally arrived at my address and I unbuckle my seat belt.

"See you tomorrow?" I asked him.

"You bet." Jason says as he smiles at me.

"Have a good night." I said as I get out of the car.

"You too." Jason says. "Say hello to your family for me."

"Sure." I said.

It was just your average day at school the next day…I met up with the others at school and we walk by Zack.

"Hey Zack, what's up?" Jason asks.

"Yeah, right." Zack says as he walks away from us.

We stop by Kimberly's locker.

"What's wrong with him?" Jason asks.

"Yeah, he didn't look too happy." I said.

"He thinks we forgot his birthday." Kimberly says.

"He'll be ok." Trini says.

"You guys, he seemed really bummed." Kimberly says. "Do you think the surprise party's a good idea?"

"Of course." Billy answers. "I mean his feeling of disappoint right now will only serve as his enjoyment later on."

"Yeah, I mean, he's gonna be so surprised later, we're gonna have to pull him off the ceiling." Jason said. "He'll be ok until then."

"I hope so." I said.

"You're right." Kimberly says. "Bye you guys."

The bell rings.

"Bye." I say to her as we all head off to our classes.

After school was over, the five of us were making our way to the Youth Center when our communicator beeps.

"What's up Zordon?" Jason asks.

"Zack is in trouble." Zordon says. "Rita has sent of her creatures to attack him…he needs help fast."

"We're on our way." Jason says. "Come on guys, it's morphin' time."

"Pterodactyl!"

"Triceratops!"

"Saber-toothed tiger!"

"Plesiosaurus!"

"Tyrannosaurus!"

"Hyah!"

We arrived at Zack's location.

"Back off!" Jason shouts.

The monster growls and starts attacking us.

The monster slashes Jason and he falls down.

"Jason, you all right?" Zack asks as we all regrouped.

"I am, but check out the sword." Jason says.

"He ruined our weapons." Trini says.

Yeah, my power blades were ruined.

"This is not good." Billy says.

"What do we do now?" Kimberly asks.

The monster growls and blasts at us and we all fall down.

"This is one nasty knight." I said.

"Rangers!" Jason shouts. "Blade blasters up! Let's bring them together."

We get into pyramid formation and blast at the monster but he somehow ends up deflecting it and throws it back at us.

"Ha!" Rita yells. 'Take that, wise guys!"

She makes the Knight big.

"Tyrannosaurus dinozord power…now!" Jason shouted.

"Mastodon power!" Zack yells. "Let's toast this dude."

"Triceratops power!" Billy shouts.

"Saber-toothed tiger power!" Trini shouted.

"Plesiosaurus power!" I shout after her.

Kimberly calls her zord next

Al of our zords run side by side together…well mine fly besides Kim's.

"Let's go!" Jason yells.

We all jump into our zords.

"Power rangers, synch up!" Jason orders.

"2, 1…mark." We all say as I put my power crystal into the megazord dashboard.

"Let's get him!" Jason yells.

Their zords get into tank mode.

"Activating Plesio Megazord." I said.

Plesio Megazord Activated

My zord had now become a megazord.

My zord starts fighting with the knight but it slashes me with his sword.

"Aaah!" I yelled as a few electricity bits flew around me.

Their tank mode had stood up and now our megazords were ready to fight this knight. Then they also start fighting.

"Zordon! We need the power sword now!" Jason shouted.

They start fighting again.

"Oh, man! He fried the power sword!" Jason shouted.

The monster growls and comes at us again and hits us. The ranger's megazord falls down.

"Hang on you guys!" I yelled as I blasted at him…but he stayed put. He blasts my megazord and I go crashing down.

What?

Soon the megazord of the other rangers' get back up.

"Hey, wait a second!" The knight yells.

The power sword was good as new. They must have done something right.

In a few seconds, he gets destroyed. Their megazord helps my megazord back up.

"Thanks guys." I say to them.

After it was all over…we all go get ready for Zack's party. Then we take him to the Youth Center when it turned dark.

"I still don't know why we have to be here." Zack says as we entered the dark Youth Center.

The lights were off.

"Wait, why is it so dark in here?" Zack asked. "Where's Ernie?"

"SURPRISE!"

The lights turned on.

Zack was surprised.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZACK!" Ernie and a few people from school shouted.

"Happy Birthday!" Kimberly says.

Zack turns around and gives us all hugs.

"Awww man." Zack said.

We all say Happy Birthday to him.

"You thought we forgot, didn't you?" Jason asks.

"Yeah, I was bumming." Zack says.

"Sorry Zack." I said. "We had to keep it all a secret."

"This is so cool, you guys." Zack says. "Thanks…Hey, what's that noise?"

"Oh, not again." Ernie says.

He rushes over to the cake o matic machine.

"Awww, I thought this thing was fixed." He says as he hits the machine on the side.

"Let's party everyone." Jason says.

"Yeah." Zack says.

"Come on." Jason says as he leads me to the dance floor.

We all start dancing with each other and had a great time. Zack had a great night. I was happy for him.