Erica winced as a cold droplet hit her forehead forcing her to look up at the sky to see a mass of black clouds above them. Looking back at the flash of red and white it was all she could do not to scream out due to her predicament. Conner and Trent have been fighting for the past ten minutes and the two didn't seem like they were going to be finishing up anytime soon as Trent smashed Conner into a tree. Watching as Conner struggled to stand Erica felt her tears mingle with the raindrops falling down her face before she couldn't help it anymore, she collapsed on to her knees and started crying.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry," she kept whimpering catching Kira's attention.

The yellow ranger felt bad about turning her back on Erica but how could she trust her after she betrayed them. Okay so maybe she didn't betray them per say and from what Trent said she wasn't wanting to do her assignment. Kneeling down next to Erica Kira placed her hand on Erica's shoulder to catch her attention before she took her helmet off. Erica's were now red and puffy and Kira felt her heart ache for the misled girl.

"Erica, look I shouldn't have…"

"No Kira it was my fault, I should have told you from the beginning but…it's Messagog he was going to kill me if I didn't do as he said," Erica muttered before there was a loud clap of thunder.

Kira gave her a small hug before turning her attention back to the young man that held her heart. Conner and Trent were clashing and fighting like the warriors they were made to be. Conner dodged one of Trent's attacks and kicked off a tree so that he flipped over Trent and landed near the pond. Pulling out his Thundermax Saber, Conner ran forward and attacked Trent before bringing his leg up and kicked Trent in his side forcing him to stumble backwards. Dodging the next attack from Trent, Conner switched his sword into blaster mode and fired some shots at his opponent only for him to dodge it and send some energy arrows back at him. Feeling the attack hit him Conner flew back into the pond and was about to get up when he felt a hand wrap around his throat.

"What's the matter McKnight I know you're not getting tired yet so why don't you fight back?" Trent yelled throwing Conner over to where the other three were.

"Conner!" Kira yelled running over to him, "Conner are you alright?"

"I'm fine Kira, but I want you and Ethan to get Erica and get out," Conner order standing up, "as for me I have a white ranger to take care of, SUPER DINO MODE!"

Kira was now faced with conflicting emotions as she watch Conner continued with his fight against Trent. She knew that she should take Erica and run but her heart was telling her to stay and make sure that Conner would be okay. Thankfully her prays were answered and as she saw four different colored figures run up to them. The pink claded one running straight over to her and looking at her in shock when she noticed that she didn't have her helmet on before noticing Erica on the ground, a near emotional wreck.

"What happened here?" Tommy asked kneeling beside them.

"Long story short, Erica knew that we were the rangers and was being used by Messagog to destroy mine and Conner's relationship," Kira muttered as she didn't take her eyes off Conner.

"Alright you guys take care of her while me, Rocky, and Ethan help Conner," Jason said turning towards the younger red ranger.

"He won't let you help," Kira said looking down "this is the battle they've been waiting for."

Kim could feel Tommy tense up next to her and looked over to see that the black ranger's attention was captured by the fight going on in front of them. To her it seemed so evenly matched, both rangers were using raw power to over throw the other and matching each other's moves. Kim was so enthralled that she barely heard Erica's scream and, when she turned around, she saw Lotrax attacking them. Grabbing both Erica and Kira, the pink ranger pushed them out of the way before dodging the attack herself. Landing on her feet Kim pulled out her power bow and fired some arrows at Lotrax before pulling out her Thundermax Blaster and firing some more. Meanwhile while the others were fighting Lotrax, Conner was continuing his fight with Trent and managing to push him back into a corner. He was starting to feel tired and he knew that no matter what, if he didn't finish this in a little while then neither of them would be walking out of this fight alive.

"Kim watch out," Tommy yelled as the two of them dodged and energy blast, "well this is going to be fun."

"Tommy why don't you guys do that super dino mode thing that Conner is doing?" Kim yelled from her position from behind a car.

"Great idea Kim," Tommy responded, "Ethan, Kira lets go super dino now."

The three rangers went into super dino mode catching Lotrax off guard enough so that they could get in a great amount of damage done to their foe. The others three all ran in and attempted to help their friends not noticing Zeltrax appearing behind Erica and grabbing her before vanishing. Hearing Erica scream, Kira turned around in just enough time to see Zeltrax grabbing her friend and, suddenly afraid, she ran forward to help her.

"I don't think so little ranger," Zeltrax said pulling out his sword and using his energy attack her.

Kira screamed as she was sent flying, catching Kim's attention and making her turn around to see Kira hit the ground hard, but not hard enough to demorph her. A sudden feeling of anger over came the four older rangers and Jason let out an almost feral growl. He was fed up with these cheating ingrates and he wanted to do was take down the ones that hurt his friends. Feeling a sudden surge of energy Jason let out a yell catching everyone off guard.

"ANCIENT POWER!"

Much to Tommy's surprise Jason's outfit, much like when they go super dino mode, changed but instead of getting the spikes like their power up his outfit now resembled his original outfit. Instead of the side detail the original diamonds were there but the power coins weren't, and the helmet now looked more to the originals now. Rocky and Kim looked on in amazement before deciding to try that move out themselves, and standing side by side cried out.

"ANCIENT POWER!"

Soon their outfits changed and they, like Jason, had their new outfits and abilities ready to take on Lotrax. The five rangers ran forward and, catching Lotrax off guard let out a barge of attacks forcing Lotrax towards the pond and Trent. After pushing the monster back far enough Jason kicked the monster in the chest and sent it flying into the water before being forced to demorph along with Kim and Rocky for using too much energy. Lotrax, standing up, looked over at them before turning towards where Trent and Conner was before vanishing. Wondering what was going on, Tommy and the other turned to see a surprising sight, Trent demorphing and falling backwards into the pond. Kira's eyes widened as she watched Conner demorph and kneel over Trent leaning into talk to the evil ranger. Walking over to Conner, the yellow ranger could tell that he was visibly shaken by what was happening and, looking down, she could tell why, Trent Fernandez was dead. Hugging Conner, Kira did all she could in order to calm him down but it was hard doing so when everything was coming down around them. Her new friend that she had, needed to talk to was captured and Messagog was going to do God knows what to her, and now Trent, a possible ally was now dead right in front of them.

"Conner what happened?" Tommy asked walking over to the two.

"Trent…I…I killed him," Conner muttered not looking up, "I…I didn't mean to Dr. O I really didn't but we were fighting and it…it just happened."

Tommy looked over at Jason and nodded before motioning for the others to leave so that the three of them could talk. Kim, helping Kira up, motion for Ethan to follow as Rocky followed in pursuit. Sitting down next to Conner on the other side, Jason looked over at Trent before leaning in and closing the white ranger's eyes.

"Conner if you want to talk about it I…"

"I didn't mean to do it Dr. O I really didn't," Conner said on the verge of tears.

"Don't take it to heart kid," Jason said patting his back, "things happen that we can't control."

"But I…"

"Conner stop," Tommy said stopping him, "we know that you're startled by this and it's okay but don't let it over take you, Trent was working for Messagog and he knew what he was doing like Jason said things happen and we can't control it so the best thing to do is just push it from your mind and mourn in your heart but you'll need to be ready for the next fight."

Conner didn't say anything after that and just let the two older rangers lead him to the others. Walking straight into Kira's arms Conner couldn't think about any other place he would rather be and, climbing into his car he watched as Kira climbed in the passenger and one thought ran through his mind, it was going to be a long night.