June 26 8:00 a.m.
"You're awake!" Erika shouted as she ran into the hospital room, she didn't even bother to realize that Jenna and Vert were actually still asleep. She led everyone else into the hospital room.
"What?" Jenna asked as she bolted awake.
Vert himself awoke with a start as he heard Erika and the other came into the room.
"You're awake!" Erika shouted again, this time she was a tad less enthusiasm. She was still full of excitement as she practically jumped into the bed with Jenna to give her a hug.
"You look like a puppy at Christmas," Jenna said with a smile.
"Hey, we were all worried about you," Erika said as she pulled Zane up next to her.
"What happened?" A.J. asked he moved up front to see Jenna. He was worried about the girl who was basically his younger sister.
"I don't know?" Jenna said as she tried to remember what happened. "I mean I remember being at Zeke's and then nothing." She4 decided to keep the part about blacking out and hearing voices to herself. She didn't want her friends so worry even more about. She also didn't want them to think that she was going crazy because of the stress.
"Are you going to tell them?" Rawkus asked as he stood in the Hub beside Sage. They were both watching the simulation run of the sun and moon. They watched as the computer created an eclipse.
"They can't know that tonight is an eclipse," Sage said in fear. She had been dreading this day for so long. She never wanted her friends to have to deal with storm shocks and eclipses at the same time again.
"You doubt them?" Rawkus challenged. "We are not supposed to be interfering in their destiny."
"They are my family!" Sage shouted at Rawkus in rage.
"She is destined to become one of them, you cannot protect her!" Rawkus challenged. He did not like this anymore than Sage did, but he could not interfere. He had to uphold balance.
"If she goes, the balance will be forever tipped against the Battle Force Five," Sage said. No one can know what the future holds, but Sage knew how much Jenna meant to Vert and the others. In fact, the young blond was growing on her.
"Tell them so that way they can be warned," Rawkus said as he turned to leave the Hub. "But if you warn them, they will try everything to protect her. The whole world could be doomed."
"What am I supposed to do?" Sage asked as she tried to desperately find another alternative.
"Hope that his predictions are wrong," Rawkus said as he disappeared from the Hub.
11:15 a.m.
"Finally," Jenna said as she emerged from the bathroom fully dressed in her normal clothes. "I am so ready to get out of here."
"Let's go, Vert is handling the paperwork," Erika laughed.
"I am sorry, but you are not a parent or a guardian of her," a nurse said as she stood there talking to Vert.
"I'm her older brother," Vert tried to reason. He was holding back his temper. He knew that the nurse was just doing her job.
"I understand that, but she is a minor and only a parent can sign the discharge papers," the nurse, a young brunette, restated.
"Our mom is five hours away, and our dad is over in Europe, there is no one close enough to sign her out," Vert lied. He couldn't tell the nurse that his dad was on another planet without them trying to lock him up for being crazy.
"Then she will have to come and sign the papers, but I am sorry," the young nurse said. She was not about to lose her job for some kids.
"I'll sign the papers," said a male voice from behind Vert.
"And you are?" the nurse asked as she looked at the man.
"Their father. My trip got over early and one of their friends called and told me that my daughter was here," Jack said as he walked up to the counter.
"Dad?" Jenna choked out in surprise.
"Hey sweetheart," Jack said as he glanced over at his daughter as he was signing the papers.
"How did you get here?" Jenna asked as the four of them exited the hospital.
"I got a call from A.J. last night telling me what happened. So I spent all morning talking with Sage about temporarily deactivating the tracker. It's not permanently disabled yet," Jack explained as he they all headed towards their vehicles.
"Oh," Jenna said disappointedly. She was hoping that her father would be able to stay for a while.
"It's going to be okay. Sage and your friend Tezz are working on it so that way I can get home," Jack smiled to reassure his daughter.
Jenna smiled back. Sure she was heartbroken, but her dad was trying to get home as soon as he could. "Where's my bike?" Jenna asked as she looked around the parking lot.
"Back at the Hub," Vert answered. "After you blacked out, I had the others take it back to the Hub with them."
"Come on kiddo, I'll give you a ride," Jack said as he walked over to his car.
"How long are you able to stay?" Jenna asked as she got into her dad's car.
"I have to leave by tomorrow morning at the very latest," Jack explained as he started up his car.
"So what's the plan?" Jenna asked as she got out of her dad's car.
"The doctors want to make sure that you take it easy for the next couple of days," Vert said sternly as he got out of the Saber.
"Fine," Jenna huffed as she refused to look at her older brother. She knew he was right, but still didn't mean she had to agree with him. She was feeling antsy after her short stay in the hospital.
"We could have a movie marathon," Erika stated as she exited the Roadmaster.
"Yes!" Jenna said excitedly. "Star Wars movie marathon!" Jenna shouted as she ran to her room to go get her DVD set. It was one of the things that she had gotten for her birthday. She had gotten the complete collector's edition of each one of the seven movies.
"What's up with her?" Sharron asked as the rest of them all walked towards the rec room.
"Movie marathon," Erika said simply.
"Movie marathon?" Zoom asked as he popped his head up from the couch he was laying on. He and several others were sprawled out on several of the couches, bored out of their minds. "I'll make popcorn," he shouted as he dashed for the kitchen.
Soon everyone was seated all around the rec room. Each had their own big bowl of popcorn and were waiting eagerly to start the first Star Wars movie.
"Hey someone pass the salt," Zane said as he and Erika were sitting side by side, sharing a blanket, ready to watch the movie.
Vert chuckled lightly as he passed the salt to Zoom's younger brother. What made him chuckle was the fact that he was very clearly trying to nonchalantly put his arm around Erika. She seemed to sense his motives and readjusted herself to allow the younger Takazumi to put his arm around her.
Vert then casted his gaze over to Sharron and Devin. A.J. had told him about how he had caught the two of them holding hands the other day. Now they were both sitting beside each other with at least a foot between them. They wanted to sit next to each other, but didn't want their brothers to know about them yet. Vert smiled softly at them.
Then there was his sister who was settling down between Marken and Jonathon. Both boys were pining over his younger sister. Part of him wanted march up to them and tell them to scoot at least five feet away from her, the other part felt sorry for the two boys. Both were clearly trying to compete for his sister's attention but yet she was being oblivious to them. He noticed as she smiled brightly to both of the boys as the movie began.
'Oh, young love,' Vert thought to himself as the opening music started to play. Things were going to get really interesting real soon he thought as the words on the screen scrolled by. He was snapped out of his thinking as he heard at least three of his friends quote the opening lines.
"You okay?" Agura asked as she snuggled up against him.
"Yep," Vert whispered as he kissed the top of his girlfriend's head.
6:47 p.m.
"We should get pizza," Spinner said as the third movie ended.
"Agreed!" Zoom said as he stood up to stretch his legs.
"I'll call Zeke's if someone else goes and picks them up," Vert offered as he pulled out his cell phone.
"Not it!" came from everyone's mouth at almost the exact same time.
"You're it big brother," Sharron said in a sing song voice as she heard her brother finish last.
"No I was not last!" Stanford tried to explain. "Someone else must have been last?"
"You get to go get the pizzas dude," Zoom said happily.
"But I'll miss the movie," Stanford tried to reason.
"We won't start the next movie until you get back," Jenna tried to assure the Brit.
"But, can't someone else go get the pizzas?" Stanford practically whined.
"You were last, you get to go get the pizzas," Spinner stated.
"I'll pay someone else to go do it," Stanford shouted, he was hoping to entice someone else to still go.
"Why don't you use that money and pay for the pizzas instead of putting them on my tab," Vert said with a raised eyebrow as he hung up the phone.
Stanford chuckle nervously before running to the Reverb.
"We should start the next movie," Erika grumbled as she shifted positions against Zane.
"I promised him that we wouldn't," Jenna said as she put in the next movie. She wanted to get it all ready so that way when Stanford got back they could go ahead and start it.
A half an hour later, Stanford finally returned to the Hub with the eight pizzas that Vert had ordered.
"You could have told me that you ordered so many," Stanford huffed as he set the pizzas down on their ping pong table.
"You never asked, you just ran away when I suggested you paying," Vert smirked as he took a slice of cheese pizza.
Rolling his eyes, Stanford snatched a piece of pizza and walked over to his spot.
"Finally, now we can start the next movie," Jenna said as she hit the play button on the remote in her hand.
11:54 p.m.
"Storm shock alert!" came Sage's panicked voice over the speakers of the Hub. She was trying her hardest to keep her voice level.
"Buster, Roadmaster, Reverb, and Phantom are with me," Vert said as he stood up and ran towards the Saber. He and the others had been about half way through the sixth Star Wars movie.
"Team be on alert. Tonight is another eclipse," Sage told the team that was racing towards the open storm shock. She closed her eyes with dread as she watched her friends leave the safety of their base.
"Ok, you know the drill," Vert said as he mentally cursed. He was hoping that there would be more time before their siblings had to go to the negative Shadow verse.
Not even a minute after the first portal closed, another one opened.
"Storm shock alert," Sage said as dread took complete control over her voice. Wasting no more time she raced from screen to screen trying to find a way to shut down the second portal.
"Eclipse, Titan, Tangler, and Chopper let's go," Jenna ordered as she raced towards the Firebird. 'This is my chance,' Jenna thought excitedly as she hopped onto the Firebird.
"Jenna, the doctors told you to take it easy," Jack said as he also raced into the main hanger.
"I'll be fine," Jenna assured her dad.
"Jenna are you sure about this?" A.J. asked, giving voice to everyone concern. His eyes were silently pleading with Jenna not to go. But she either didn't see them or didn't care.
"Yes," she said determinedly. This was her first mission being leader, and she wasn't going to let anyone down or sit it out. "Let's move," she ordered.
"Jonathon, please come to the main room of the Hub," Sage ordered as she watched Jenna and her team race out of the Hub.
"She's going to be fine," Jack said as he tried to comfort the remaining team members.
"I truly hope so," Sage said as she hung her head.