A sense of worry was around the group of rangers sat in Tommy's living room taking in what Kim and Kira had told them. Not only had Trent threaten that their group was going down but he was sure in the fact that they wouldn't be able to beat the surprise that Messagog had for them. Conner was leaning against the wall near the back door and to Kira's surprise he wasn't saying anything, he wasn't being cocky like he normally was, he just took in the information with a calm demeanor. Kira frowned as she watched the normally talkative red ranger stand there with a serious look to him and it was almost frightening to the yellow ranger. Kim, sensing that Kira was somewhat worried, placed her hand on Kira's shoulder and pulled her into a hug before seeing Jason's looking of confusion.

"What I can't hug my daughter?"

"Daughter?" Jason asked smirking, "I don't know if you know this Kim but Kira's last name isn't Hart."

"Actually according to these documents it is," Kim said pulling out the adoption papers.

"Not that this isn't interesting," Rocky interrupting looking up from his cup of tea, "but can we get back to the task at hand, we need to find a way to beat these evil rangers."

"Conner do have anything to add?" Tommy asked looking at the boy.

"…I've already talked to Trent, in one month we're meeting at the beach near Mariner Bay and fighting there," Conner said pushing himself off the wall, "a fight…till the death."

"WHAT?!" Kira yelled standing up, "Are you crazy Conner, you can't really be considering this."

Conner didn't reply and instead turned to face the blackened landscape of the back lawn of Tommy's house. The memory was all too clear in his mind about his talk with Trent before he got the call to meet at Dr. O's house.

Flashback

Conner was walking down the road towards a nearby convenient store when he felt like something was off. Looking around he at first couldn't tell if there was anything out of the ordinary and decided it was nothing. However turning back around he came face to face with none other than Trent who was just standing there, hands in his pocket, smirking at him. Narrowing his eyes, Conner started to debate if he should morph or not but didn't seeing as Trent himself wasn't morphed.

"What do you want Trent?" Conner asked tilting his head to the side.

"You know you should show this side more often Conner, the dumb jock persona isn't really you is it?" Trent said smirking.

"Cut the bull shit and tell me why you're here," Conner said getting slightly annoyed.

"Alright then I'll cut to chase," Trent said stepping out of the shadow, "we both know that we want each other dead, so I'll propose a deal."

"A deal?" Conner said his eyes narrowing again.

"Yes, in one month you and I will fight…to the death, at the shore in Mariner Bay, no help, just you and me," the white ranger said turning away, "winner, gets to keep his life."

"What makes you think that I would agree to this?" Conner growled.

"It's a chance to get rid of me," Trent said nonchalantly, "and I know you want that."

Conner stood there clenching his fist when he remembered that it would do him no good to lose his temper and turned away. It was clear that Trent was at least somewhat trying to provoke him but he would wait till the right time in order to take him down.

"So then we have a deal?" Trent asked walking up behind him.

"Fine I'll see you in a month," Conner agreed before walking leaving Trent there smirking.

End FB

"You can't do this Conner," Kira said grabbing his wrist.

"I don't really have a choice Kira," Conner retorted not noticing Jason standing up.

"I'm with Kira on this one rookie," Jason said folding his arms over his chest, "fighting this guy won't do you do any good."

"Don't call me a rookie," Conner said losing his temper, "don't think that just because you're the original red ranger that you're better than anyone else."

"Conner that's enough," Tommy said frowning.

"I'm sorry Tommy but this is something I have to do and no one, not you, not Kira, not anyone, will stop me," Conner hissed turning away from the group, "I'm sorry that this isn't what you want to hear but still it's something I need to do."

With that Conner stormed past the stunned black ranger followed quickly behind a near hysteric yellow ranger attempting to calm him down and get him to stay. The sound of the door slamming did nothing but reassure Ethan that this was really happening, that his friend was walking out the door turning his back on the team and going solo just so that he got a shot at taking Trent down. Standing up to run after him Ethan felt his heart drop into his stomach as Kira walked back into the house with tears falling down her cheeks before she ran over to Kim and hugged her just allowing all of those said tears to fall freely. Nearly collapsing on the chair the younger blue ranger didn't even notice Rocky walk up to him and place his hand on his shoulder till said ranger spoke up.

"So…what do we do now?"

"What we always do," Tommy muttered not taking his eyes off the two girls in the recliner, "we fight, and hopefully once Conner calms down he'll come back."

Meanwhile in Messagog's Island Fortress, Trent was smirking as he walked down the hallway to tell Messagog what had come from the dinosaur's plan. Being evil himself Trent had no intentions on going to the fight alone, oh he would make it look like he was alone but there would be a monster and some Tyrannodrones ready to go. It was at that point that he heard screams of pain coming from the control room and, getting close enough to see and use his dino ability, he looked into the room to see what was happening. There in the center of the room was Kat, on her knees, clutching her head in pain as Messagog paced around her. Off to the side stood Erica, formally Elsa, standing there with a terrified look and wincing whenever Kat let out a scream.

"I gave you a simple task, to destroy the pink ranger, and you lose," Messagog said freeing Kat from her torture, "how did you lose?"

"She…she saw through my ability master," Kat whimpered, trembling but not daring to stand up, "I was using the yellow ranger but then she shot at me and I lost my concentration.

"Excuses," Messagog hissed attacking her mind again.

Trent couldn't help but to smirk as he watched Kat get tortured, ever since she showed up Messagog had her bossing Trent around and he was starting to lose what little patients he had with her. Finally Kat collapsed and Messagog turned on Erica who merely whimpered and cowered in her corner not knowing what to expect.

"And you," Messagog hissed walking up to her, "why haven't you destroyed the red and yellow ranger's relationship yet?"

"I…I haven't saw…an opportunity sir," Erica squeaked.

"Then find one, once their relationship is all but terminated then the team won't stand a chance," Messagog commanded turning away.

Trent didn't stick around to hear the rest of his master rant and instead decided that he would keep his plans to himself. He didn't want Kat to get let off the hook because of a chance that the red ranger might be destroyed, no he'll let this act play on and keep his secrets and once the rangers were destroyed then he would work on getting rid of the annoying purple ranger.