Conner sat in the office of Cyberspace, his eyes trained on the picture of the Dino Thunder team not long after they had beaten Messagog. His thought began to drift back to the time he was a ranger, when he led the team into the fight. He'd be the first to admit he missed those days, longed to be dressed in red and fighting, but he knew that there came a time that each team must step down for the next. Though if everything was heading in the direction he thought it was then the Cyber Drive team might have one more chapter to add to the ever growing history of the power rangers. The former ranger then looked to the next picture, this one showing the Cyber Drive rangers at the park not long after Jenna and Trey joined their group.

Jenna. Now that was a whole new story that he had just been brought up to speed on. It was a surprise to hear that they had met one of the three creators of the Viralites, even more so to hear the other two were Drake's parents. But what really caught the two veteran rangers off guard, albeit only slightly, was that Jenna and Drake were twins. Then to make matters even worse Jenna was taken by Scores back to the Cyber World, back to Alcon. Conner could only imagine what Drake was going through, a reason the team elected to allow Kris to go check on him. He couldn't even bring himself to think of what Jenna was going through.

As the former red ranger sat there trying to gather his thoughts he heard the dot to the office open up. Looking up he saw Merrick walking in, splashes of water staining his blue shirt and a rag hanging around his neck.

"We got the café clean," the blue ranger informed him.

"Thanks Merrick," Conner muttered with a nod, "any word from Drake?"

"I think Kris is still talking to him," he replied with a shrug, walking in and closing the door with his foot.

He walked over to the other chair, normally reserved for Kira, and took a seat. Conner took this time to gauge the blue ranger's body language and noticed that he seemed to be carrying a heavy burden. Not that it was out of the ordinary for a teen ranger to have that kind of air to them, but this seemed different from the normal way the rangers carried themselves.

"Everything okay Merrick?" Conner asked turning to fully face the younger ranger.

"Yeah why do you ask?" the blue ranger asked frowning.

"No reason really, you just seemed to be thinking about something important," the team's mentor pointed out leaning back in his chair, "you need to talk about something?"

Merrick didn't respond, instead choosing to looking at the ground and fiddle with the morpher on his wrist. Thoughts of his family moving to Mirinoi, leaving his friends and his place as a ranger raced through his mind as he tried to bring himself to tell the former ranger. He didn't want to leave his friends, and he had a responsibility as a ranger, but he couldn't bring himself to leave his family either. Of course he could have very well asked Calder's family if he could stay with him but he didn't want to just throw that at them with the move scheduled to be the middle of the next week, approximately two weeks before school started.

"My...my family is moving," Merrick finally brought himself to say, Conner looking at him with the same expression of that of an understanding teacher, "and it's not one of those moves that I could easily be able to join the rangers if they needed me."

"I'm sorry to hear that Merrick, it can't be easy to move that far away from your friends and especially with this being your senior year of high school," Conner offered rubbing the back of his neck, "so I'm guessing that you haven't told the others."

"That obvious huh?" he muttered in response clenching his fist.

"It's not hard to see the pain in your expression Merrick," Conner said standing up and walking around the desk, "and I understand that it's hard, but sometimes these choices come up."

"I want to go with them," Merrick explained shaking his head, "they're my parents after and and I can't leave them but…"

"But at the same time you can't bring yourself to leave your friends," Conner concluded leaning back against the front of the desk.

"Yeah…"

"Well Merrick I wish I could tell you that there's a right answer but unfortunately it ultimately comes down to what you believe to be the right one," Conner told him, making the blue ranger sigh in frustration.

"Then what am I supposed to do then, huh?" Merrick yelled in anger, "I can't just leave the team, leave my friends to fight, especially when they just kidnapped Jenna!"

"Merrick, I want you to listen to what I'm about to tell you," the former red ranger said sternly, placing his hand on his shoulder, "when some of the original rangers had to come to a decision to leave the team Zordon didn't stop them, and I'm not going to stop you, this is your decision to make and if you believe your place is with your parents then that's okay."

"...but what can I do, you told us that the Cyber Keys and the Cyber Connectors are bonded to our DNA how can I just hand it over to someone else?" Merrick asked trembling.

Conner didn't reply, instead he looked over to the file that he had on the desk, a file filled with information about the Primordial Crystal that Tommy had gathered along with what Calder and Jenna had obtained. Glancing back at the younger blue ranger, Conner could see that Merrick was looking just as lost as he had when he had to chose between soccer and being a ranger.

"I'm not going to tell you that everything is going to work out perfectly Merrick," he told the younger ranger.

Merrick looked up at this, fixing Conner with a confusion as the older ranger grinned at him.

"Just let me know what you decided to do okay."

"Yeah," Merrick muttered, his shoulders lowering a bit as he headed back to the main area of the cafe.

"And Merrick," Conner called out making him stop, "you're a good ranger Merrick and we would hate to lose you, but like I told you, you need to do what you think is right okay?"

"Yeah, thanks Conner I got some thinking I need to do," the blue ranger said grinning at their mentor.

As Merrick closed the door behind him and stood there for a moment, looking around the closed cyber cafe and spotting the others. Over in the corner of the cafe by the stage was Kira and Amy, the two yellows seemingly in a conversation of their own, of what Merrick didn't know. Over at one of the tables near the TVs was Calder on his laptop, with Trey next to him watching at the green ranger worked. If he was correct then the red and pink ranger were down in the team's headquarters talking with each other, the only one that wasn't there, much to everyone's dismay, was Jenna. Pushing that dark thought to the back of his mind Merrick headed towards the kitchen and pulled out his cell phone, quickly dialing a number and holding it to his ear. After a few rings the person on the other end finally picked up, Merrick taking a deep breath to ready himself.

"Merrick what can I do for you?"

"Dad I want to talk to you about moving to Mirinoi."