Normally Kelly wasn't supposed to go near the ninja Academy, but she couldn't find Dustin anywhere. The Storm had closed a long time ago and she had made it her first priority to go talk to him and let him know he was still very important to her. Shane was worried that all this attention went to his head and that he was using the attention to fill a void that had been missing since Kelly's little high school story had surfaced.

She remembered how to get the forest just outside the Academy just fine, now all she needed to do was find her little brother. She carefully hopped over and ducked under branches and spun around the trees until she saw him sitting alone on a rock. She shoved her hands in her pockets as she walked over to him.

"Shane tells me you had a phofne interview," she whispered. Dustin turned, looking up at her for a moment.

"What are you doing here?"

"Do you want to talk?"

"Are Leanne and Tori busy?"

"Yes, but that's not the point. I came out here to find you. I think it's time we had that talk."

"Look," Dustin got up from the rock. "It's cool, Kel. It's something personal and you don't want to tell me. I'm not going to force you."

"And you're not forcing me," Kelly reached out, touching Dustin's arm. "It's come to my attention that I haven't been treating you the way I should."

"You've been treating me fine, Kel. I don't have a problem with that."

"No, I haven't," Kelly said. "Dustin, you're one of my oldest friends, which is a little sad on my part but it's true. And as my best friend, you're entitled to know what's going on in my life, even if it is personal. I just couldn't tell you because I was… embarrassed?"

"I don't want you to feel embarrassed around me, Kel. If you don't want to tell me then…"

"If you ask Leanne, she'll tell you I was raped," Kelly interrupted before Dustin could protest again. "If you ask me, I'll tell you I made a stupid mistake in high school that's haunted me to this very day."

"You… you were raped?"

"I let a guy have what he wanted," Kelly nodded. "He convinced me to go to a party, he got me drunk, we spent the night doing… stuff, and I ran out of the bedroom without my pride, respect or dignity."

"Who did this to you?" Dustin growled, his fists clenched. He was looking around the forest, almost like Drew would come out from behind a tree and accept the beating that was coming his way. Kelly took his hands and smiled.

"Now you know what's been bugging me," she said. "And you know why it was so hard to tell you, or any of the guys. Well, that and… I don't want to go to see a crazy doctor. The more you guys all knew, the more you would be able to help Tori and Leanne convince me to go."

"Maybe you should, Kel," Dustin nodded. Kelly rolled her eyes and sat on the rock.

"Just like that…"

"I don't mean you're crazy, because, dude, you're not… well, trying to run the store on your own while we go out and save the world, that's a little crazy, probably even crazier than trying to save the world because some customers are just so frustrating and you can't punch…"

"Your point, Dustin?" Kelly asked. Dustin sat down beside her on the rock, taking her hands.

"These therapists guys, they know what they're doing. They've seen this a million times…"

"Sadly."

"Yeah… They would know how to help you so you're not scared anymore. You are scared, right?"

Kelly shrugged, "I don't know. Not so much anymore. I talked to Hunter, not about this, but about freaking out at dinner. I trust him now. I no longer feel like what happened between me and Drew will happen between me and him, you know?"

"So, you do like Hunter," Dustin smirked. Kelly smiled and shrugged playfully.

"I don't know."

"Dude, you do! I knew you liked him. No one brings someone up in a conversation that much if they really hated him."

"It was that obvious, huh?"

"Well, I don't know about the other guys, but I saw it."

"Tori and Leanne see it too," Kelly said.

"Yeah, but they're girls. They don't count."

"Whatever you say," Kelly laughed. Dustin's morpher suddenly went off, interrupting their talk. Dustin looked down and sighed deeply.

"That's probably the Slob Goblin, I've got to go."

"Slob Goblin?" Kelly frowned.

"Yeah, he's the monster I met up with earlier in the park. He ran off before I could finish him. I guess he's back."

Before Dustin left Kelly grabbed his arm. She knew he loved all the attention he was getting from the city, and somewhere, deep inside him, he would be thinking about going solo to maybe hold onto that attention. Hopefully, now that she had sorted things out with Dustin, whatever he felt like he was missing was finally back, and the Rangers would work as a team again.

"Hey, yellow," she said. "Don't forget to call your team. He could be dangerous."

Dustin nodded, "Got it, Kel. Thanks!"

Kelly watched him leave and waited until he was far enough before pulling out her cell phone. There was one more thing she had to fix so the Rangers could finally relax and life for them could go back to normal.

As normal as it got for six teenagers fighting evil alien ninjas while wearing tight, rainbow-coloured spandex and who wielded the elemental powers of Air, Earth, Water and Thunder.

She pulled out her phone and dialled the number for Blue Bay Harbour's most popular newspaper.

"Hello? Blue Bay Press? You'll never guess what I saw in the park. The Power Rangers are back together! Hurry up and go check it out!"

-Storm-Chargers-

The following morning Kelly was first out of bed. She was careful not to wake Leanne when she crawled out (she really needed to buy her that bed soon), and she was careful not to wake Tori as she fixed herself a pot of coffee.

She took her coffee downstairs to watch TV. The shop was closed today so Kelly could have a little vacation time, so she didn't have to worry about getting ready on time to open up. She could keep the blinds shut and the door locked while she relaxed on her orange couches with her coffee and a newspaper in hand.

She smiled when she saw the front cover of the newspaper. Because she had tipped off reporters, many photographers and journalists were around while the Rangers fought off the Slob Goblin. The Rangers had all been interviewed and confirmed to reporters and the citizens that they were never going to disband, and no one was going solo. Everything was going to go back to its regular routine. A monster would show up and all six Rangers would come and save the day. The news and the interviews filled up the entire front page, while everything else about the city was on the inside.

The door to Storm Chargers opened when Dustin came in. He had his key on him and twirled it around, whistling a tune. Kelly looked up when she heard the bell, but saw it was Dustin and went back to reading.

Dustin forgot to lock the door behind him when he came in. Normally he arrived just before the store was due to open and never needed to lock.

Kelly flipped her newspaper around, "I see Yellow's not going solo anymore."

"Yeah, you should have seen it. There were tons of reporters after the fight. It was crazy."

"You think they'll leave you alone now that there's not interesting scoop anymore."

"Hopefully," Dustin chuckled. "I don't want to deal with fame every again. It's too complicated."

Shane came into the store. He found the door unlocked, so he didn't bother to lock it up when he came in. He walked over to the counter, tapping on it happily. Kelly shushed him.

"The girls are still sleeping!"

"Then they won't get to see this!" Shane smiled, pulling a magazine out from his sweater pocket. Dustin smiled, taking it from his hands. "You know that reporter from that skate park?"

"Dude, I apologized for that already. Don't make me say it again," Dustin groaned.

"No. Now that the Yellow Ranger is old news, she's published an article on me! She had all the pictures set up, and after the battle I caught up with her at the park. Well, actually, she sought me out! It was magical!"

"Are you turning on us, Shane?" Kelly chuckled. "Magical?"

"You would know what I meant if you were ever famous," Shane smirked. Dustin tapped him on the back.

"Yeah, but dude, I have been famous, and I never said magical."

"Well, whatever you want to call it, that's what it was."

"Old?"

"Boring?"

"Misrepresenting?"

"Oh, good one, Kel."

"You guys suck," Shane grumbled as he headed to the back in search of food. "Anything to eat?"

"There are some leftover pop tarts," Kelly called. Shane shook his head and grabbed some fruit from the mini-fridge.

"Sugar makes me hyper."

"Yeah, and dude, you don't want to see him when he's hyper," Dustin nodded.

"You know, Dustin, at one point, you're going to have to realise that I'm not a dude," Kelly chuckled. "Neither is Tori… and before you start calling her dude too, Leanne's also not a dude."

"What are you talking about?" Dustin asked. Kelly's jaw dropped.

"You mean you don't know?"

Dustin shook his head. Kelly frowned, "You call everyone dude. It's like, the only word you know."

"Dude, I never say dude."

"You just did! Twice!"

"Whatever, dude."

"Again!"

"Maybe you need to get your ears checked, dude," Dustin began to chuckle. He couldn't hold it in anymore. Kelly frowned. If he wasn't across the store she would kick him.

"Now you're just doing it to piss me off," she frowned. "Let me drink my coffee and read the rest of my newspaper in peace."

Dustin nodded, pulling an invisible zipper across his lips as Shane tossed him an apple before running upstairs to scare the girls awake. As Dustin took the first bite, he walked over to the couches.

"So, have you thought about therapy?" he asked, as carefully as he could. Kelly glared up at him.

"This is why I didn't want to tell anyone. They'll think I'm crazy and I need to be send to the coocoo doctor."

"If you admit to being crazy, you won't be crazy," Dustin told her. "Real whackos have no idea they're whackos."

"And you're basing this hypothesis off of all your knowledge in psychology?"

"My dad took Tori to see her therapist one day, because her parents were fighting, and I was forced to tag along. There were a lot of interesting magazines in the waiting room."

"That is a very sad story," Kelly frowned. "What made you stop reading?"

"Ha-ha," Dustin frowned. "The point is you're not crazy if you go to see a therapist. How about one session? I won't tell anyone you went and I'll figure out some way to get Leanne and Tori off your back."

"What if I don't go and you get a raise?"

"How much of a raise?"

"One million dollars!"

"One session, I get Tori and Leanne off your back and I'll run out and get Leanne's bed right now."

"You don't want the raise?"

"Please, Kel, this place isn't even worth a million dollars."

"Yeah, that was a little high, wasn't it?" Kelly said. Dustin gave her the best puppy face he could muster, and Kelly fell victim when she looked up at him and saw it. She groaned loudly as she set her coffee and newspaper down, "Fine. I'll go. But you owe me a vacation day."

"Wait, right now? Don't you need to…?"

"Leanne said I could talk to Sensei Watanabe. That's what I'm going to do. I'm not going to pay a lunatic doctor just so I can rant about my life story, when I don't even want to in the first place."

There was a scream from upstairs. Shane had finally woken up the girls. Dustin shook his head.

"Alright, you go do that, and I'll get Leanne her bed as soon as I rescue Shane from whatever torture Tori and Leanne are going to think of."

"Deal," Kelly nodded.

Dustin bolted up the stairs and Kelly grabbed her car keys. She didn't need to get changed out of her pyjamas if she was just going to see Sensei. No one would be able to tell while she was sitting in her car, and Sensei was a freaking guinea pig.

She skimmed through her keys to try and find the one that locked the front door of the store when someone stepped in. Kelly looked up, realising Shane or Dustin forgot to lock.

"I'm sorry, sir, the store's closed… Drew?"

Drew smiled as he looked down, "Hey, Kelly right? God, it's been forever! How have you been?"

Kelly froze up completely while Drew wrapped his arms around her in a hug. She could barely say anything, never mind scream. She was completely terrified.

Drew didn't notice the odd silence. He looked around the store with a huge smile on his face.

"So, you own this place? That's wicked! I've been looking for a cool sport's shop. I just moved back from Reefside and boy is it boring up there!"

Kelly remained silent. Her eyes locked on Drew.

"How long has it been, Kel? I think the last time we saw each other was the after party in my senior year. I can barely remember that night, I got so drunk! But I do remember you looked so beautiful in that dress you wore… you're actually still very beautiful after all these years."

Drew pulled out a pen from his pocket and grabbed Kelly's hand.

"This is my number. That last digit is either a 3 or a 2, I can't quite remember. It's a new house. Give me a call if you want to catch up some time. And if you don't, I know where you work! Catch you later, Kel!"

Drew left the store just as Hunter walked in. Drew smiled politely while Hunter looked at him strangely. No customers were supposed to be visiting. The store was closed.

Hunter when to turn his confused gaze to Kelly when he noticed she was standing in the middle of the way, completely stiff. He reached out to poke her.

"Yo, Kel, you okay?"

Dustin came back downstairs after having rescued Shane from Leanne and Tori's revenge and notice Hunter trying to snap Kelly out of a trance. He rushed over to her, afraid Hunter may have said something about therapy, or afraid he found out about her secret.

Suddenly, Kelly pointed to the man walking to his car.

"That's Drew," she said in a very low voice.

"Who is Drew?" Hunter asked her.

"He's the guy."

"What guy?" Dustin frowned.

"The guy from the party…"

Hunter didn't understand, but Dustin did. His blood started to boil the moment he realised who Drew was. He looked to Hunter.

"You take care of her," he told the older man. "I have something I need to do."

Hunter wrapped his arms around Kelly, not too sure what to do. He led her over to the couch, thinking maybe getting Drew out of her sight might help.

Outside, Dustin stomped across the parking lot. Just before Drew got in his car, he heard his name being called. He turned around and saw Dustin marching over.

"Do you need something, little man?" he asked. "Do we know each other? Wait, let me guess, you're Sasha's little…"

Drew was cut off when Dustin's fist met his face, knocking him to the ground a few feet away. This man may have been just under 10 years older than Dustin, but he was no match for the angry earth Ninja.

"You little piece of shit," Dustin growled, kicking Drew in the stomach before walking off. Drew coughed and waited to catch his breath before getting up. He leaned against his car.

"What the hell did I do to piss him off?" he asked. He saw Dustin going back into Storm Chargers and frowned. Did Kelly send him out? Why would she do that?

He kicked his own tire before stuffing his car keys in his jacket. He was going to settle this once and for all. No one punched Andrew Colt and walked off scot-free.