"I'll get the bubble wrap," Gia said as Preston set Sarah down on the couch. He didn't have to lift her shirt to see the burn on her back looked bad. Most of her shirt had been burned through, leaving little of it left and exposing her skin directly to the heat during the attack. He knew his best friend had done the right thing, protecting the boy, and he knew Sarah was right to show up to the battle. She had been closer to the scene that the others, and Venoma, unlike most other monsters, had decided to pass the time by physically attacking people, not just scaring them off. No deaths had been recorded yet, and Preston was sure that wouldn't change, but there were people who had been injured. By arriving early, Sarah had helped to keep the numbers down.

Still, he wished she hadn't come. She didn't have her Power Star and so was vulnerable to all attacks. He knew she was lucky that it hadn't been worse.

"Bubble wrap?" Sarah asked. "At least I can still walk."

Gia looked to the brace on her leg. She was still recovering from Oedius' attack and needed her crutches to get around. It hadn't slowed her down at all, but she couldn't call on her powers if they were needed. Though Sarah would be in a lot of pain, at least she could still fight.

"Point taken."

"I'll clean you up," Preston said. "But it's going to hurt."

"That's fine," Sarah nodded. Preston grabbed the first aid kit, taking out what he needed. As he did, he looked over to Sarah.

"You shouldn't have been out there."

"If I didn't go, people would have asked where I was," Sarah told him.

"You lost your powers."

"And we're trying to prove to people we're here to protect them."

"As Rangers."

"Our reputation isn't more important than our lives," Preston reminded her. "Sarah, you're lucky this didn't end worse, especially with your head. I'd rather do damage control than bury you."

"I saved that boy."

"Yeah… but…" Preston trailed off, unsure if he should say what was on his mind. He hoped that cleaning out Sarah's wound would be enough of a distraction when he heard her hiss painfully, but it wasn't.

"But…"

"But… the monster did shoot at the crowd because you were there. That boy wouldn't have been in danger if…"

"Are you kidding me?" Sarah asked. She turned her back to Preston, so she could face him, forcing him to stop caring for her burns. "When I got there, she was shooting at everyone and anyone! That boy could have been hurt worse if it wasn't for me!"

"No… I know, but…"

"And I left when you arrived. I didn't fight Venoma myself when you were there."

"But you stayed."

"I wasn't about to let people hang around the monster and get hurt."

"But you did," Preston said. He could see Sarah was getting worked up, though he hadn't meant to offend her. He only wanted to keep her safe. "Look, Sarah, I…"

"We have a weird situation!" Kelly called out as she and the other Rangers returned to the base from the fight. She led the way, followed by Calvin, then Hayley with Brody and Levi.

"I'll say," Preston muttered. He looked to his friends. At first glance, he didn't see anything out of the ordinary. They all looked well, fortunately. However, the longer he watched them, the more he noticed that something did seem off. Normally, after a fight, Calvin and Hayley were all over each other, making sure the other was okay. Especially after a difficult battle, it could leave everyone else feeling a bit awkward to be in the same room. Today, though, that wasn't the case. Hayley couldn't be bothered with Calvin because she was so busy with the brothers, while Calvin kept insisting on checking out Kelly. "What's with them?"

"Yellow arrows are bombs. Pink arrows are cupid arrows," Hayley said.

"We think blue are just regular arrows with a monster-kick," Kelly added.

"Are you sure you're okay, my sweet?" Calvin asked her. Preston frowned deeply hearing this. While Calvin and Hayley were always holding each other in some way, and sometimes did like to use pet names, Calvin seemed to be going over the top. His hands started to massage Kelly's shoulders and he sounded completely head over the heels for the green Ranger.

"Cupid arrows, huh?" Sarah asked as she watched the yellow Ranger touch her girlfriend.

"Calvin's in love with me and the Romero boys are in love with Hayley," Kelly explained.

"Calvin's in love with you?" Preston chuckled. Sarah wasn't as amused. Though she knew Calvin couldn't help it if he was under a spell, she still made her way between him and her girlfriend and smacked his hands away from her shoulders.

"Ow!"

"Mine," Sarah warned him.

"He doesn't understand the whole lesbian concept," Kelly nodded.

"They don't care for anything but their feelings," Hayley said. She gave Brody and Levi a dangerous look after insisting she was fine and didn't need them to look after her. "We're lucky Venoma took off when she did. It's a major distraction."

"They can't fight?" Sarah asked.

"Technically they can, I guess," Hayley nodded. "They would just rather…"

"I saw her first!" Levi said as he pushed his brother to the side. Brody looked angry.

"Technically, I saw her first!"

"Yeah, well, I love her more."

"I love her more, and I'll prove it!" Brody turned to Hayley. "You stay right there, my love. I'll be right back with a special gift, just for you!"

Brody started to Levi the base, but Levi grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him back.

"No, I'll get you a very special gift!"

"It won't be better than mine!"

"I don't think it's a good idea if you go anywhere," Sarah told them. "How about you stay and make Hayley a gift. From the heart?"

"Make her something?" Levi asked, stroking his chin. He gave a little nod. "I have the perfect idea!"

"I do too!" Brody said. While Levi rushed over to his guitar in the corner of the room, Brody went to Mick. He pushed his mentor aside and took some of the scrap pieces of super Ninja Steel.

"Uh…"

"I just need to borrow this," Brody insisted. Mick looked to the others. Sarah shrugged.

"It'll keep him busy. As long as, he doesn't throw it into the Prism, we can always reuse it."

Mick nodded. It was better than the boys leaving when they clearly weren't in the right mind to look after themselves.

"Oh man, this is good," Gia chuckled from the kitchen table. She had been watching the whole thing, not bothering to interfere because there was nothing she could do anyway. "I have to tell Serena about this."

"Why do neither of you off to help when we're in trouble?" Hayley asked.

"We already did the monster spell thing," Gia shrugged. "Your turn to figure it out."

"Kelly," Calvin said with a loving smile. "Do you want me to make you a special gift."

"I like girls," Kelly insisted, but Calvin's smile only brightened.

"Me too! We have so much in common!"

"That's the only thing we have in common!" Kelly cried out, then rolled her eyes and looked to her friends.

"Isn't she adorable when she's mad?" Calvin asked them, still smiling lovingly. "Don't worry, baby. Your gift will be so perfect, it'll make Hayley jealous!"

"Whatever," Kelly rolled her eyes as Calvin rushed over to the worktable to get started on his present.

"Hayley's probably already jealous," Preston said with a chuckle, but the white Ranger responded with a shrug. Preston frowned. "Really? Not even a little bit?"

"He's hitting on a lesbian. It's not like it'll go anywhere," Hayley said. "Besides, it's just a spell. It's not like he actually has feelings for Kelly."

"He doesn't have to lay it on so thick," Sarah muttered. At that point, Kelly looked up at her.

"Though, speaking of girlfriends, I want to know why mine decided to show up to the battlefield."

"I already explained this to Preston. I could get there first and…"

"You could have been killed," Kelly said. "If Venoma's arrow had hit you."

"I'm fine!"

"You're bleeding through your shirt!" Kelly said and pointed to a red stain at the top of Sarah's shoulder. Sarah looked down at it, then back to her girlfriend.

"Okay, technically there's so little left of my shirt that I'm not actually bleeding through it…"

"Don't try to defend yourself, kid," Gia shook her head. "Trust me, when your friends are mad at you, nothing's going to change their mind."

"They are right, though," Mick added. He had been kicked away from the worktable by Brody and Calvin as they worked so had nothing to do. "You shouldn't have gone out there."

"But Mick…"

"Sarah, you lost your Power Star. If Venoma's aim had been a little better, or if your friends were late, this could have ended a lot worse."

"So, now that I'm a known Ranger, but don't have my powers, I'm supposed to just sit back and let people get hurt?"

"No, but…"

"I'm trying to convince people that I'm looking out for their best interests. I want them to know that the Rangers and I are good people, with or without our powers. I can't do that if I don't show up to keep them safe."

"But that's not what you're doing," RedBot announced as he turned on the TV. "You're going to want to watch this."

Hayley, Kelly, Preston and Sarah recognized the man being interviewed by a reported as the father of the boy Sarah saved. They listened as he went on talking about the battle – how Sarah showed up to the fight and how that resulted in his son being in harm's way.

"She put my little boy in danger," the man said. "Powers or no, these Rangers are trouble! They don't care about us, or our safety."

"Ignore the fact that, instead of running when you had a chance, you stayed at the fight to tell me that," Sarah muttered. She looked to her friends. "If he had taken off as soon as I showed up, or when I told everyone to run, Venoma would have shot that arrow and I would have been the only target!"

"That's not how everyone sees it," RedBot said.

"That's what happened!" Sarah grabbed her head in frustration, then saw the garbage can and kicked it over with a yell. "God, I hate this!"

"Sarah…" Kelly said.

"No matter what I do, I'm the bad guy!" Sarah shouted. "We have literal monsters running around, and I'm the one the city thinks is dangerous? I even show up to protect them after I lose my powers, nearly died protecting a kid whose father left him in harm's way, and I'm still the bad guy?"

"Sarah, calm down…"

"Meanwhile, I'm stuck living in Ninja Ops, right after my whole life gets turned around? It's not fair!"

"Sarah!"

"It's… it's not…" Sarah's yelling stopped as the room started to spin for a moment. She couldn't find a way to steady herself but fortunately Preston was quickly by her side. He grabbed her and held her steady as Kelly continued to call Sarah's name, but there was no response.

"Seizure?" Gia asked. Hayley nodded her head.

"Looks like."

As Kelly and Preston concerned themselves with Sarah, waiting for her to come to again so they could be sure she was okay, Gia got to her feet to talk with the others.

"We should work on a way to get the pink Star back," she said. "Then we don't have to worry about this."

"Oedius has it," Hayley shook her head. "And if she's proven anything, it's that we don't want to take her on when we're short even a single Ranger."

"She has a nasty habit of winning," Kelly muttered.

"She is tough," Gia conceded. She couldn't really argue that point while she was still sporting a brace from her previous encounter with Oedius. "But we have to do something. Sarah's right. People are criticizing her no matter what she does. At least with powers, she can keep them safe without worrying too much about injury."

"Or death."

"What if we had something that could help change public opinion?" a new voice asked. Hayley, Mick, RedBot and Gia all turned to the door, but Gi was the only one to smile as she recognized the man standing before her.

"Dr. Oliver."

"It's been a while," Tommy smiled, seeing his former student. "Miss me?"

"Not really," Gia shrugged her shoulders. That was when she noticed the confused looks coming from the others. She gestured to Tommy. "Ninjas, meet Dr. Oliver. He's… well, legendary."

"Dr. Oliver?"

"Never heard of him," Mick shook his head.

"Legendary in the Ranger world," Gia chuckled. "He was green, white, red and black."

"You were all those colours?" Hayley asked him, and Tommy nodded.

"It's a bit of a long story, which we don't have time for right now," Tommy said as he held up his phone. "What if, instead, I told you about footage that just might change enough people's mind to sway public opinion?"