Normal POV
The Rangers are in the middle of battling the third nighlok attack for the day. The rangers are doing well expect the silver ranger. Tracy begins to get tired, and her symbol power is weakening too. The moogers keep coming in droves. She has no choice but to break out the penguin disk. She puts it on her spin sword then spins it. Her sword turns into two small weapons, but they are just as powerful as the original leopard spear. She defeats some of the moogers, but it isn't enough.
"This isn't cutting it. Time to show these moogers my new move. Leopard sabers icicle barrage." Tracy says.
The icicles swirl around her a few times before they fly straight as arrows towards the moogers. The moogers are defeated as soon as the icicles hit them. The other rangers rush over to their fellow ranger.
"Tracy, when did you master that disk?" Kevin asks.
"I'll tell you later," Tracy answers.
"Well, silver samurai you just got lucky." The nighlok says.
"Why don't you give up nighlok? There are seven of us and only one of you." Mike says.
"Mike don't jinx us again. Remember what happened the last time you said that." Tracy tells him.
"Oh right sorry" Mike apologizes.
"So is the silver shrimp going to hurt me with little icicles? Wow, I'm so scared." The nighlok taunts.
Antonio looks over at Tracy and sees her tighten her grasp on her weapons. She is starting to get upset about what the nighlok just said.
"I'll show you how strong the shrimp is, nighlok," Tracy says.
"Tracy calm down. This is exactly what it wants you to do." Antonio warns her.
She readies her icicle barrage again. It is too late. She already launched her attack. The icicles are about to hit the nighlok, but the nighlok unleashes its special attack. It sends the icicles back towards Tracy with even more power.
"Tracy, look out" Antonio shouts.
He runs over and pushes her out of the way to take the full force of the attack. A few seconds later Antonio falls to the ground demorphed. Tracy, demorphed, runs over to Antonio and tries to wake him up. "Antonio can you hear me?" she asks. Antonio didn't make a sound. Tracy's heart sank.
"Good job, silver ranger, you just injured your fellow ranger." the nighlok says as it laughs evilly.
"Tracy, you look after Antonio. We'll handle the nighlok." Jayden says.
She nods and sits next to Antonio. She sets his head in her lap and does her best not to cry her eyes out. The nighlok dries out a few minutes later, and the other demorph then run back over to Tracy and Antonio.
Jayden wanted to ask Tracy how his best friend is doing. He sees the tears rolling down her cheeks and splashing down onto Antonio's face. He bends down and places his hand on her shoulder. She looks over at him.
"Don't worry Tracy Antonio is going to be just fine." He tells her.
"How do you know that Jayden?" she asks.
"Just trust me on this one, ok?" He answers.
She nods and wipes the tears from her eyes. Kevin and Mike bend down to put Antonio's arms on their shoulders. They slowly get to their feet and begin to head back home.
Jayden's POV
Ji watches us walk in the front gate. He tells Kevin and Mike to take Antonio to his room. Emily, Mia, JI, and I follow them. Kevin and Mike place Antonio in his bed.
"How bad are his injuries JI?" I ask.
"They're not too serious. Antonio should be back on his feet in a few days." Ji replies.
"That's good," I say.
"How did this happen?" JI asks.
"Tracy launched her symbol power at the nighlok, and it reversed her attack back towards her. Antonio pushed her out of the way to take the hit for her." I answer.
Tracy is standing in the door and is refusing to come in the room. Ji asks Tracy to get the first aid kit. She turns around to go to the kitchen to get the first aid kit. Mia follows behind her to get some water so JI can clean the wounds. Mia returns with a bowl of water, a damp washcloth, and the first aid kit.
"Where is Tracy?" I ask Mia.
"Tracy said that she was just going to the back garden to clear her head," she replies.
"Tracy must think what happen to Antonio was all her fault," Emily says.
"Yes Emily, it looks that way," I say.
"So what do we do Jayden?" Mike asks.
"I don't know Mike," I answer.
Ji starts to patch up Antonio's wounds. Once JI finishes, he leaves the room to talk to Tracy.
JI's POV
I walk to the back garden and find Tracy sitting on the bench holding the penguin disk in her left hand. I walk up to her and place my hand on her shoulder. Tracy says looks up at me.
"So you have mastered the penguin disk?" I ask her.
"Yes but now I wish I hadn't," she replies.
She tosses the disc into the bushes. I walk over to the bushes, pick it up and dust it off then walk back over to Tracy. I place the disc back into her hand.
"You shouldn't blame yourself for what happened to Antonio. It wasn't your fault." I tell her.
"Yes, it was Ji. If I hadn't let my emotions get the best of me Antonio wouldn't be hurt right now." Tracy says.
She gets to her feet quickly. I try to get her to forgive herself for what happened, but all my attempts fail. She walks back inside the house to find a small box for the disk. Once she finds one, she slowly opens the box and places it inside. She closes the lid, hands it to me, runs to her bedroom, and slams the door shut.
Normal POV
Three days go by, and Antonio is strong enough to get out of bed. He walks out of his room and down the hall to the living room. Jayden says tell Antonio it's good to see him back on his feet again. He notices that his girlfriend isn't there.
"Where's Tracy?" he asks.
"She's still held up in her room. We've tried to get her to come out, but no luck. She won't even let anyone come in either." Jayden answers.
"Yeah on top of that she hasn't eaten anything in the past few days," Emily adds.
"I think she is acting like a big baby." Kevin rings in.
"Come on Kev. She's just upset about what happened. Try to cut her some slack. I mean she worked so hard to master that disk. Then, the first time she used it on the field her one of her best friends gets hurt." Mia says standing up for her friend.
"That's true, but that still doesn't mean she has to beat herself up for it," Kevin says.
"Well, I think she believes it was all her fault that I got hurt. If she only listened to me, I won't even had gotten hurt in the first place." Antonio says.
"Antonio, how did you know that?" Jayden asks.
"He is her boyfriend after all." Mike answers.
"Yes Mike I am her boyfriend, but I'm still her friend too." Antonio reminds him.
"Then why don't you try to get her to come out of her room," Mike suggests.
Antonio nods and leaves the room to head towards Tracy's bedroom. JI follows him with a tray of food.
Tracy's POV
I'm sitting in the far corner of my room. I leave my door open a crack. I hear someone knock on it a few seconds later. Antonio asks if he and Mentor can come in. I say yes. Antonio and Mentor slowly enter the room. Ji sets the tray of food on the desk and leaves so we can have some privacy. Antonio walks over and sits down next to me on the floor.
"Tracy, the others told me that you hadn't eaten anything in the past few days. Why would you do something so dangerous? You know that you can't survive long without food." Antonio reminds me.
"I know Tony. I wasn't hungry, that's all." I tell him.
"I'm not going to fall for that excuse angel. The real reason why you haven't eaten is you felt guilty about what happened to me." Antonio says.
"Right as usual Tony, I wouldn't be upset if you hated me or never wanted to speak to me again," I say.
"I would never do that to you. Before you pass out, can you please eat something?" Antonio asks.
I nod. Antonio gets up and walks over to the desk. He sits back down again and sets the tray next to him. He hands the sandwich. I take it from his hand. A few minutes later I finish everything on the tray.
"Can you do me one more favor?" Antonio asks.
"Sure, Tony," I say.
"Could you come out of your room so that the others can see that you're all right," Antonio says.
I nod and start to get to my feet. Then we walk to the living room.
Normal POV
Mike jokes that it Looks like Antonio worked his magic as he sees Antonio and Tracy enter the room. They walk over to a chair, and they sit down. Tracy sits down in Antonio's lap.
"Tracy if you mind me asking, why did you get so upset when that nighlok called you a shrimp?" Jayden asks.
"Because that's what all the bigger kids would call me when I was a kid." Tracy answers.
"Did you get picked on a lot as a kid?" Jayden asks.
"Yes, and to add insult to injury I couldn't be who I wanted to be either," she says.
"What do you mean?" Emily asks.
"The teachers were always comparing me to my brother. The coach for the school softball team would never pick me just because I was smaller than the other girls," she replies.
"So, you have never been on a team before?" Kevin asks.
"I was on the swim team up till my junior of high school." She answers.
"Why didn't you tell us before?" Kevin asks.
"Well, you never asked," she answers.
"Were you a good swimmer?" Kevin asks.
"My last year on the team the coach said we wouldn't have made it to the regional meet if it wasn't for me," she answers.
Kevin asks how did the team do. Tracy says that the team would have won first place, but they lost by a quarter of a second. Kevin tells her that second place is good too especially at the regional meet.
"Why did you quit?" Jayden asks.
"I had to choose my senior year it was between the swim team or working a paid internship at the veterinary clinic in town," she answers.
"I'm guessing that you choose the internship?" Mike asks.
"I did both, but halfway through the season I had to pick one," she answers.
"So you pick the internship," Kevin says.
She nods. They get back on track a few minutes later, and the other rangers tell her that she has done a great job as a ranger. She thanks them for everything they said on her behalf.