Normal POV
Tracy and Antonio head to English. They walk in the room. Antonio sits down at his desk. Traci walks over to the teacher's desk. Traci hands her overdue assignments to Mrs. Caldwell. She thanks her. Traci goes to her desk and sits down. The bell rings a few seconds later.
After Mrs. Caldwell takes attendance, she tells the class that they're starting the unit on poetry. The class groans. Traci is happy because this is another outlet for her to express all her different emotions she is feeling about the remarriage. Mrs. Caldwell passes out the handout on haiku.
Fifteen minutes later Mrs. Caldwell finished her lecture. The rest of the class period the students write their poems. Traci's poem is about how her father treated her. When everyone finished writing their poems, the teacher asks a few students to read what they wrote. Traci slides down in her desk trying to avoid Mrs. Caldwell's line of vision.
Mrs. Caldwell knew how talented Traci is. A few seconds later she asks Traci to read her poem. Traci slowly sits back up in her seat. She tries to fake a sore throat to get out of it.
"Sorry Traci, I'm not going to fall for that. Will you please read your poem to the class?" Mrs. Caldwell says.
Traci stands up slowly. She clears the lump in her throat. Before she reads her poem, Traci glances over at Antonio. He mouths you can do this. She smiles and looks back at her paper.
"what's a father's love
my father called me a failure
who knows that feeling," Traci says.
The class claps as she sits down. Traci realized that no one laughed because she read her poem slow to avoid messing up. Mrs. Caldwell could tell by how Traci was trying to her voice from breaking while she read her poem. She asks the class to turn in their poems. The school bell rings two minutes later. Traci gathers her things, and power walks out of the room.
"Traci, can I talk to you for a minute?" Mrs. Caldwell asks.
Traci walks over to her. She is incredibly nervous.
"I know you're going to say that my poem was terrible, right?" Traci asks.
"No Traci, it was excellent. I wanted to enter it in the school's poetry contest." Mrs. Caldwell answers.
Traci tries to convince her to enter someone else's. She was positive that the judges wouldn't pick her poem. The teacher reminds her that she shouldn't talk about herself that. Traci knew the teacher was right.
"Traci you're a talented girl. I believe that the world deserves to see that too." Mrs. Caldwell says.
Traci tells Mrs. Caldwell that she can enter her poem in the contest. Then she leaves the room and heads to art class. After she gave her painting to the art teacher Traci goes to her easel. She opens up the pad and starts drawing. She begins to sketch her mom and Wyatt in the foreground. In the background, she draws her face several times with different facial expressions. She finished drawing the outline twenty minutes later. Then she takes out a box of colored pencils. She starts to add more details as she colors it in. She puts them when the school bell rings thirty minutes later. She puts the pencils away, tears the page off, and closes the pad.
She leaves the room to meet up with the gang. Traci walks out the front door to the school.
"What did Mrs. Caldwell wanted to ask you," Antonio asks.
"She wanted to enter my haiku in the school's poetry contest. The art teacher wanted to do the something with my painting." Traci answers.
"That's great," Antonio says.
"How about we head to Ernie's brain freeze?" Jake asks.
Traci says that sounds good. Then she hears the Megaforce ranger's morphers go off. Traci moans.
"Rangers, there is an attack at the quarry." Tensou says.
"We're on our way," Troy says.
Troy and the others rush off. Traci tries to follow them. Antonio stops her. He tells her that she should head home.
"Come on Antonio, I'll be careful," Traci says.
He reminds her that she hasn't been in battle in two weeks. He didn't know how her body would react to using a lot of her symbol power all at once. Traci knew that he made a good point.
"Ok, I'm going. Promise me the next time there is an attack you'll let me slice some x Borgs." Traci says.
Antonio says he will. He races off to catch up with the others. Traci heads back to the house. Meanwhile, Troy and others get to the quarry they see an army of x Borgs and a monster from the Armada. Antonio rushes up a few seconds later.
"Hello Rangers, six of you won't help you against me." The monster says.
"I hate to tell you this monster, but I'm not a Megaforce Ranger." Antonio says.
The Rangers morph. The monster sees the five Megaforce Rangers and the gold samurai ranger. It wasn't impressed, so it orders the x Borgs to attack. The Rangers charge in towards them. Antonio uses his Barracuda Blade and his incredible speed to take down the x Borgs. The Rangers regroup after they destroy all the robots.
"Antonio, that was so cool. Traci wasn't kidding your attacks are fast as lightning." Jake says.
Antonio thanks him for the compliment. The monster repeats himself by saying that Antonio won't help them defeat him. Jake tells him that they're going to make him eat those words. The six Rangers charge in towards the monster.
Traci's POV
I'm walking through the forest. I get about halfway when I start to get a strange feeling that someone was watching me/ following me. I reach into my jacket pocket. I wrap my fingers around my morpher. A sudden strong breeze blows through the trees. After it dies down, I use my left hand to fix my hair. I turn around and see three nighloks standing in front of me. One of them looks like Johnny in his nighlok form. I whip out my morpher and activate the spin sword symbol.
"Hello Ranger, I thought you would like to meet my parents." Johnny says.