Lunch time at Summer Cove High was usually a much more chaotic time than now. It was still noisy, but instead of laughter, conversations, yelling, raucous high-jinks as students blew off steam over their lunch, the only thing that could be heard throughout the entire school was a lot of bleeps and bloops.

Victor would normally be much happier about the fact he got served so quickly. Normally the queue for the canteen would have been almost out the door by now, but today he was able to walk straight up to the counter. He checked over his order, furrowing his brows. Victor was a slightly above-average student, easily a B+ average much to everyone's shock, but more than anything he was a star athlete. He was on more than a few teams and had a full-on training and diet plan arranged to maximise his performance and bring trophies to the school. As the dinner lady slapped a bowl on his place and carelessly ladled stew onto it...of which about maybe seventy percent made it into the bowl and the rest splattering onto the tray since she wasn't even looking, he had a feeling she wasn't paying the slightest bit of attention. The other clue was the Game Goblin unit in her other hand.

"Uh...I think you got this wrong." He stated. "My nutritionist specifically said..."

"That's the order, take it or leave it." The woman behind the counter said without looking up from the screen. Victor wanted to protest, but he somehow doubted it would do any good since the other three canteen workers were also playing the game. One of them didn't even seem to notice the soup was starting to boil over the edge of the pot. Shaking his head, he made his way back towards his table as Clint, the security guard, stopped by him.

"Clint, are there rules against playing games in school?" He asked.

"Only if they're gambling games since we don't have a gaming licence." Clint told him with a beaming smile. Victor just looked to him a little curiously.

"What are you so happy about?" He asked.

"Are you kidding? This is a dream come true! Look at it!" Clint said, panning his hand across the room. "No one running in the halls, no one littering, no one swearing, no one fighting...I wish this game had dropped ages ago! I'm having the easiest shift of my life!"

"Aren't you worried about...?"

"Hey, I usually go through about three of these a week." Clint told him, holding up his citation pad. "I signed this one out today and I haven't had to write a single one! If this keeps up I might just have the perfect school!"

"Yeah, perfect." He sighed.

"You're not a fan of games I take it?" Clint asked. Victor just scoffed.

"Are you kidding? I have a life!" Victor answered as he went back to his table. There, Monty was busy on a Game Goblin of his own.

"Not you too!" Victor moaned. Monty didn't answer though. Feeling rather lonely despite being in a room full of people, Victor brought out his phone and started some browsing.

"Three minute abs? Seen it! Ultimate Quads Blast? PFFT! I could do that in my sleep!" He said, scrolling through some videos. He suddenly hit a news pop-up, which caught his attention. It was an image of the Summer Cove Police Department building, which appeared to be almost completely consumed in flames.

"Our main story again, the Summer Cove Police Department has been the latest victim of a vicious attack by the unrelenting Psycho Green Ranger." The reporter stated. "What has shocked the city though is that the attack has been revealed to be an act of one of their own! Noted officer Trevor Marx is revealed in this exclusive footage to be the true identity of the Psycho Green Ranger!"

"WHAT?" Trevor screamed, unable to believe it. He looked around, but his outburst, which was enough to be heard throughout the entire school didn't register as so much as a blip on the radar for his fellow students. The only response he heard was when someone squealed in delight and said something about hitting level 7.

Victor had met Trevor a few times in his life. Trevor and his father had been friends in Afghanistan, and after Victor's father died, he had made a point of looking out for his family as his friend had asked. Most recently, Trevor had pulled in a lot of favours to get personally involved in the case when Victor was found in possession of human growth hormone and faced expulsion. Trevor had done virtually everything he could to help prove Victor's innocence. Victor couldn't bring himself to believe Trevor was capable of such things, even when he saw the footage of him transforming.

"The attack has miraculously resulted in no fatalities, but with dozens of officers in critical condition, it is unknown how long this may remain the case." The reporter continued. "The department has issued a city-wide APB for Officer Marx, and has advised the public not to try and confront him and to consider him armed and extremely dangerous!"

"Monty, have you seen this?" Victor asked. Monty just grunted. Losing his patience, Victor grabbed the Game Goblin and ripped it from his hands.

"HEY!" Monty protested.

"MONTY! Look at this!" Victor said, showing him the phone. Monty saw it, but he didn't believe it. It was down to Trevor that Victor was still enrolled at the school. He stared at him.

"He's Psycho Green?" Monty asked. "But...but...he's..."

"I know, but that's why they need to hear about it!" Victor told him, looking around. "Where are they?"

"I think they train at lunch times." Monty stated. "In the yard out behind the shop class."

"Right, come on!" Victor said. He noticed Monty wasn't moving. "Monty?"

"Well...it doesn't really take TWO of us to deliver a message does it?" Monty asked, reaching out for his Game Goblin. "So if you could just..."

"Oh for the love of...COME ON!" Victor snapped, walking off.

"Victor, at least let me get to level 5." Monty pleaded as he followed him. "Victor...VICTOR!"

Meanwhile, in the shop class, the Rangers had changed into their training uniforms and Brody was just writing down some ideas on a dry-wipe board for them.

"Alright, so today I was thinking we could go through some balance drills and..." He turned around to find Calvin, Hayley and Sarah all playing their Game Goblins. Mick just shook his head.

"Come on guys, seriously?" Brody asked.

"Those guys are into that too?" Mick asked him.

"Obsessed with it would be a more accurate description." Brody said as Hayley let out a squeal of delight, punching the air in celebration. "You've been having problems too?"

"Are you kidding? I've already confiscated four today." Mick told him. "Kids are playing with them in class. I had to save one kid who was about to end up with a few fingers short of a full ten because he wasn't paying attention to the saw he was using. He just complained I stopped him getting a power-up!"

"That game's getting out of hand." Brody muttered. "I mean, I know people have a right to play games but it's like it's taking over everything. I wish Preston had never given us those stupid things."

"Um...Brody? Where is Preston?" Mick asked. It was only then that Brody looked around and realised the Blue Ranger was nowhere to be seen.

"This is ridiculous." Brody said, going over to Sarah and snatching the Game Goblin from her.

"HEY!" She screamed. "Give that back! I was about to get to level..."

"I don't care!" Brody snapped. "Neither will Odious! Come on guys, we have to train!"

"Yeah, yeah, sure." Calvin said, waving him off. "Just right after I get this..."

"Guys, seriously, we need to train!" Brody told them. "What would happen if Odious was to attack us right...?"

He tailed off as he noticed the Game Goblin starting to glow.

"...now?" He asked. The rest of the team noticed their Game Goblins were also glowing. Victor and Monty burst in just as they were staring at the game units.

"GUYS!" He called out. "You will not believe..."

Just then, there was a blinding flash, and the Rangers all disappeared before their very eyes. The Game Goblins fell to the ground where they had been standing. Monty took his back from Victor and threw it as far away as he could.

"Either they're getting REALLY good at that whole ninja-vanish thing, or that's not meant to happen!" Victor stated. Mick picked up one of the Game Goblins and looked into it, seeing some very familiar looking new characters.

"They've...they've been sucked into the game!" Mick stammered. He spun around to Victor and Monty. "We need to find the others. You two go and see if you can find Preston. I'll try and call Levi."

"Sure, whatever it takes." Victor told him with a nod. With that, they both ran out of the room. Mick got onto the phone, dialling Levi. "Come on Levi, pick up!"

Up on the Warrior Dome, a huge cheer went up from the audience as they watched the Rangers getting sucked into the games. Cosmo twirled his cane as he strode up to the edge of the stage.

"Well, what do you think about THAT folks?" He asked, turning his attention to the screen. "Game Goblin, what can we expect from you?"

"All those kids playing have given me enough energy to suck all of the Rangers into my game world!" He declared. "All except for the Blue Ranger! He's playing so well he's giving me more than enough power to destroy all of his friends! By the time he realises they're gone, I'll have destroyed them all!"

Trevor, still being controlled by Psycho Green, arrived at the school. After levelling the Police Department, something he did more out of fun than anything else, he had reasoned it was best to hit the Rangers before they had a chance to come after him. While it had been fun to watch the pitiful efforts of the police to try and stop him, he was under little doubt that the news would have spread, which meant in the not too distant future the Rangers would probably know about Trevor. That meant he didn't have long left where he could press the advantage.

In his last battle he had revealed Hayley's identity. Knowing that, he was certain that if he assumed the others were her friends, those same ones that she always hung around with at school and went everywhere else with, he was probably on the right track. He had dim memories of his own previous life back on Xyberia, where he had a similar group of friends until he turned on them. It was a pattern that seemed to repeat with the Rangers. It made them remarkably predictable.

He went through the doors, coming in where Clint was doing his patrols of the corridors. Clint was watching the news, and saw Trevor's face on the screen. He could hardly believe it when he saw him walking in the door.

"Hi! How can I help you officer?" Clint asked him nervously. Trevor just stared straight at him.

"I'm looking for my step-daughter." He told him. "If you'll excuse me..."

"Sir...I'm afraid I have to sign you in." Clint said. Trevor just turned on his heel, coming towards him.

"What?" He asked.

"I...need you to sign the visitor log." Clint told him.

"You don't think you can make an exception for a fellow officer of the law?" Trevor asked him. Clint gulped.

"I'm...I'm afraid not." He told him, scrambling around for the register while he tried to think of ways he could stall for time or alert some help. "Um...I just need you to sign..."

Trevor grabbed him by the shirt, lifting him off the ground with one hand as his eyes started glowing green. He gave him a sinister grin.

"Are you sure you need that signature?" He asked. Clint started shaking his head. "Good choice!"

Trevor threw him into a plaster wall, tossing him straight through it with ease. Clint lay motionless on the other side. Trevor just turned and headed through the school, looking around for any signs of where the Rangers were. When he saw a sign for the shop class, he smiled, turning to follow the corridor.

Sarah, Calvin, Brody and Hayley all appeared, tumbling to the ground, completely unaware of what had happened to them. As they got up, dusting themselves off, they all started looking around.

"OK, that was weird." Calvin stated. "Where are we?"

"I don't know. I don't recognise this part of the city." Sarah replied. "Wherever it is, it seems to be deserted."

"That's really weird. When is the city ever deserted?" Hayley asked. "I mean, I know it's a weekday and everything but usually there are some people moving about wouldn't you think?"

"Guys, I'm not so sure we are in the city." Brody told them.

"What makes you say that?" Calvin asked him.

"Oh, a couple of little things." He told them. "Like that."

He pointed into the distance where there was a castle sitting on the horizon. A moment later a spider the size of a go-kart scurried past.

"And that." He stated. Hayley noticed something and gestured the team to follow her. When they got to the end of the street, there was a large, golden coin about the size of a manhole cover just hanging, spinning in the air. She reached out to touch it, at which it disappeared, and they heard a bleep, followed by the number 100 in bright red figures blinking in the air for a moment before disappearing.

"Does this all seem familiar to anyone else?" Hayley asked. Sarah and Calvin nodded, but Brody didn't he just shrugged.

"So, where are we?" He asked.

"I'm not sure I want to say it." Hayley told him. "It sounds a little silly when I say it in my head..."

"I wouldn't be so sure about that!" Calvin said, pointing behind her. She turned around, at which she saw a cute, green little creature scurrying into view. It was only about waist-high, and had a rather adorable little grin on its face.

"GAME GOBLIN?" Sarah, Calvin and Hayley all chorused.

"So, we're in the game?" Brody asked. "So what do we do?"

"Isn't it obvious? Clearly we're meant to win the game!" Hayley told them, heading over to Game Goblin. "Isn't that right little guy?"

"Hayley, what are you doing?" Brody asked.

"He's the hero of this game right?" She asked. "If anyone knows where the end is, he will!"

"Hayley, maybe you shouldn't be so quick to trust..."

"Oh come on Brody, this adorable little guy..."

"I'd listen to your friend if I was you!" A deep, guttural growl said. Hayley turned around in time to watch Game Goblin growing to almost seven feet in height, and his face turning into a horrible, bestial snarl. She started to back away quickly.

"Uh...OK, that's considerably less cute!" She stated. Game Goblin started laughing as some numbers appeared around him. They all watched as an energy bar appeared next to him and started to rise.

"Your friends in the real world are playing like their lives depend on it and they're giving me energy!" He told them. "With every passing moment I become stronger!"

"Then I say we don't give him too many more moments!" Brody announced as they pulled out their morphers. "NINJA SPIN!"

In the workshop, Mick was still trying and failing to reach Levi. He had since abandoned trying to phone him, there was any number of reasons he wouldn't answer his phone, but now he was using the Ninja-Comm and he still wasn't getting an answer.

"Come on Levi, you know better than this!" He said as he tried to reach him. He looked to one of the games, seeing the Rangers battling Game Goblin. It was now obvious it had been a trap all along. He'd heard through the grapevine that someone had just been giving the games away. While providing free teasers and demos was hardly a new concept, most companies weren't in the habit of giving away whole games for free. Loss-leaders were common in gaming, but fundamentally it was a business which meant that somewhere along the line they were driven by making money. Giving away the games for free didn't seem like a good way of making that happen. Now it made sense, someone wanted to make sure the Rangers got their hands on those games, and what better way to entice them than something for free?

He was still trying to raise him when he turned around, seeing Trevor standing in the doorway. He pulled his Ninja-Comm behind his back.

"Officer Marx!" He greeted him as innocently as he could. "Um...what can I do for you?"

"Where are they?" He asked.

"They?" Mick asked. "Oh, Hayley and her friends? I'm sure they're around here somewhere..."

"The Rangers!" He demanded. "Where are they?"

"The...the Rangers?" Mick asked tentatively. "I have no idea! I mean, they just show up when the monsters attack and..."

"Don't patronise me." Trevor stated, his eyes glowing green. "You wouldn't want to see the university re-visited in a school full of students would you?"

"You...you're..."

Trevor seized him by the throat and rammed him against the wall.

"WHERE ARE THEY?" He roared. Mick's eyes flicked involuntarily towards the game. Looking to it, Trevor released him and made his way over. He picked it up, at which it started glowing.

"There you are!" He said as his armour started to form up around him, before in a flash of light, he disappeared into the game. Mick pulled out his cell phone, this time dialling Victor.

"Victor, its Mick. We need to find Preston and Levi now!" He told him. "Things just got a whole lot worse!"