Kelly leaned into Hunter with a mug of coffee in her hands. It was early morning, the first morning in the new house, and the small family was getting themselves into a regular routine. Hunter would be awake early and would start on coffee and breakfast while Kelly got the kids out of bed and helped Libby get ready for the day.

Alex would walk out of his room and go straight to the couch. He would sit, with his arms resting on his knees, and he would stare at the TV while moving his thumbs. It was a strange morning ritual.

"What's he doing?" she asked her boyfriend. Hunter shook his head and shrugged.

"I have no clue," he turned to Kelly, "He takes after you, though. Crazy."

Kelly hit Hunter on the arm before calling to Alex, "Whatcha doing, kid?"

"Making a point," Alex answered. "I need video games!"

"I told you, once school breaks for summer," Kelly frowned. She turned to the stairs as Libby walked down and quickly noticed the girl had put her shirt on backwards. She tilted her head sideways and laughed, "Libs."

"What?" Libby asked. Kelly pointed to her shirt and Libby looked down. "Oh… I couldn't figure it out."

"Come here," Kelly pulled Libby's arms out of the sleeves and quickly spun the shirt around so it was on the right way. She guided Libby's arms back through the sleeves and smiled, "You'll get the hang of this, trust me."

"Most teenage girls your age know too much about clothes," Hunter nodded.

Libby sat down at the table, "What's age?"

"Uh," Hunter frowned and quickly looked to Kelly for help. Kelly shrugged.

"Before the whole incident you were seventeen," Kelly answered. "Now, um, I guess you're still seventeen. That's an age..."

Libby shook her head, "That means nothing to me."

"Live a year, then you'll understand," Hunter laughed. He opened the fridge now that everyone was downstairs for breakfast but noticed it was empty. After all the furniture shopping they had done, they had forgotten to pick up groceries. "Well, the fridge is still clean."

"What?" Alex turned around on the couch and looked at his two "parents". "No… there's no food?"

"None," Hunter shook his head sadly. He opened the fridge again, hoping maybe magic did exist. "Yep… nothing."

"We're going to starve!" Alex cried out as he slid off the couch and landed on the floor. "How is there no food? How do we have a fridge and no food?"

"The one detail we overlooked," Kelly sighed. Thankfully she was already dressed and ready to step out into the world. She grabbed her bag from the closet, "I'll run out and do some groceries. You guys can wait a little while, can't you?"

"No," Hunter and Alex both answered. Libby shrugged.

Kelly rolled her eyes, "Why is the reborn child the easiest to take care of? I'll be back in an hour or so. Just… eat each other or something if you're that hungry."

Kelly walked out the door and the three remaining housemates exchanged looks.

"Um, was she serious?" Libby asked.

Alex shrugged, "No idea… but I say we eat Hunter first!"

"Hey! Whoa!"

"Sorry," Alex shrugged, "You're daddy. It's your job to provide for us kids."

"She wasn't serious," Hunter assured Libby when he saw a disgusted look on her face. He then turned to Alex, "And no eating me! We'll wait!"

"Hungry!" Alex called. He held his mouth open, indicating his point.

"Okay, okay… um… there's gum in my jacket…"

Alex didn't need to be told twice. Gum wasn't food, but it was close enough. He jumped up from the floor and raced over to the closet to pick through Hunter's pockets.

-Fight-Flight-

Kelly wasn't sure how other families did it with only one shopping cart as she piled in the groceries and lugged the metallic cart around the store. It didn't seem like it would hold enough to feed a hungry teenager and the two kids.

Of course, most families didn't have a completely empty fridge. Kelly was grabbing everything from the shelves and sticking it into her cart.

There was no way she was getting out of here without some kind of assistance.

In fact, there was no way she was getting to the next aisle without another shopping cart in tow. Hers was already full.

"I should have brought someone with me," Kelly moaned before noticing a store employee pushing a cart. Her eyes widened and she rushed over. She pointed to the cart, "Do you mind?"

"Go ahead," the employee smiled; relieved he didn't have to push the cart any further. Kelly grinned happily as she pulled this one behind her and pushed the other cart. It was difficult with only one hand, but Kelly managed.

"Some poor cashier is going to hate me," Kelly whispered to herself as she started loading the dairy products into her second cart. She was just finding room for the multiple cartons of eggs when she heard a loud scream coming from the front of the store. Terrified, but also curious, Kelly left her cart and darted down the aisle to the front of the store, where she noticed a flood of Grinders taking orders from what appeared to be a well groomed robot.

"Master Venjix would like them all!" the robot shouted as Grinders started grabbing as many people as possible. Kelly realised she was in trouble and tried to search for a way out. Even if the Rangers arrived, there were so many Grinders in the store that it was very likely they succeeded in kidnapping a bunch of humans.

She found an emergency fire exit on the side of the store and started making her way over. She was only a few feet away when she noticed she wasn't the only one who had seen the door. A young man and women were also running this way. The young man seemed to be clutching onto the young girl and leading her, while she demanded her tell her what was going on.

Kelly pushed the door and held it open while waving the boy and girl over. The boy thanked her and made sure the girl was through the door first.

When the girl was out, he insisted Kelly go through the door first. Kelly wasn't going to refuse. The less they argued about courtesy, the faster they would all leave. But just as she stepped outside, she heard another scream. She barely had time to figure out what it was before feeling something hit her over the head.

-Fight-Flight-

Scott, Summer, Flynn and Tori ran as quickly as they could to the grocery store, very frustrated. Somehow, an army of Grinders managed to infiltrate the city without setting off any alarms until they had arrived at their destination. Thankfully, they had decided against spreading out, making it easier for the Rangers to find them all, but it also made them suspicious. They must have come for a reason.

Tori stopped dead in her tracks when she saw the Grinders were leading civilians away from the grocery store and into giant trucks.

"How did no one pick up on that?" Flynn asked as he too noticed the trucks, "Don't they just scream creepy to you guys?"

"Let's just stop them before they can take any more people," Scott ordered. He pulled out his morpher and looked at Tori. She nodded.

"Ninja storm! Ranger form!"

"RPM get in gear!"

Once morphed, the Rangers jumped into action. The RPM Rangers went after their usual opponents, the Grinders, while Tori searched through the crowd of robots for the big, bad monster leading them.

"Kilobyte," she growled when she finally spotted him. He turned around.

"Aw, the blue Ranger," he said before pushing back what should have been hair, had he not been a robot, "So nice to finally meet you again."

"What do you want with these people?" Tori demanded.

"Master Venjix needs them as test subjects. He's going to build the perfect robot!"

"Not on my watch! Power of water!"

-Fight-Flight-

When Kelly came to, the first thing she heard was the sound of Grinders creaking as they moved. She could felt herself bouncing, as if driving down a bumpy road. She opened her eyes and saw one of the Grinders was standing over her and staring down. Scared, Kelly looked around, hoping she could find out where she was.

She saw she was inside a moving truck, which explained the bouncing. And she could also see that she was lying at the very back of the truck. On one side of her was the boy she had helped at the grocery store. He wasn't looking at her, though. He was turned and facing the girl he had been with. He was explaining to her everything that was going on.

On her other side, Kelly saw the truck was wide open. If she could roll past the Grinder, she could roll right out of the truck and hopefully make it back to the dome on the horizon before it disappeared from sight. She could barely feel the rest of her body, but used whatever power she still had to force herself to roll.

The Grinder standing over her quickly placed his foot on her side to keep her from rolling anymore, but Kelly's lower body fell out of the truck and her feet began to drag on the ground. She grabbed the Grinder's leg with her hands when suddenly she felt one of her legs getting caught on something on the ground and she was pulled right out of the truck, taking the Grinder with her.

She hit the ground hard and rolled. Had her body not been partially numb from whatever the robots had done to her, she would have really been in pain. She let go of the Grinder and watched as the truck drove away.

The Grinder, still intact, looked to Kelly before he turned to look at the fleeing truck. Quickly making his decision, he started running after the truck. He let out little robotic beeps as he did, which Kelly imagined meant: "Wait up!"

With the Grinder gone, Kelly had one less thing to worry about. She struggled to sit up, thankful that whatever the robots had injected her with wasn't powerful enough to keep her sedated completely. She looked down at her hands and noticed there was a needle stuck into the back of her hand and it was attached to a long tube that was ripped at the end.

Kelly pulled the needle from her hand and rubbed the spot where it had been inserted, hoping now the drugs would begin to wear off.

Until then, Kelly knew she was too weak to move. It had taken all her strength just to roll out of the truck. There was no way she was going to be able to walk back to the city until she was feeling a little less dizzy.

To add to her already sickly feeling, Kelly's stomach rumbled loudly.

"I'm hungry," she moaned as she dropped back into the dirt and laid there."

-Fight-Flight-

"Grinders are easier to fight when they are distracted," Summer called out as she ripped a young boy from a Grinder's arms and then kicked the Grinder in the chest, sending him to the ground. She held onto the boy and looked around. She couldn't set him down. Surely another Grinder would pick him up and she would be right back where she started.

"We've got enough!" she heard Kilobyte shout and the Grinders suddenly dropped everything and everyone they were holding before running off and following Kilobyte.

Summer turned to her teammates with a look. They both shrugged. They were just as confused as she was.

Tori approached them, "I don't like what just happened," she frowned.

"Neither do I," Summer nodded in agreement as she shifted the boy from one hip to the other. He was terrified and clung to her desperately.

"Maybe Dr. K's figured something out," Scott suggested. "Should we head back, or go after them?"

"There's too many of them," Tori sighed. "I wish we didn't have to do this, but we're going to have to leave them until we know what the hell's going on."

"Alright," Flynn nodded, "Let's pack up and head back!"

"Mommy!" the kid shouted and held his hands out as an older woman ran over and grabbed him from Summer's arms. She thanked Summer and the other Rangers before walking away with her boy.

"Now let's go," Summer said.