Author's Note: Alright, so I have big plans coming up for season 2. It's not all going to be about Tommy. This is Molly's story. Also we are going to have a new ally...you may have seen him before. That's all you need to know...so the rangers are not just getting 1 new ranger in season 2...but 2. Yes...that's right...2. Now here is the new chapter. And also welcome to my new readers who are reading this and thanks for adding it to your alerts list. And also thanks to my beta writer who is helping me again.

I was currently at the Youth Center sitting down at one of the tables. I see Trini nearby talking to someone.

She was wearing this black suit. I smile at her as she looks over my way…continuing on doing my project.

I had about two clear boxes on top of my table and a few tools. I was currently making these beaded bracelets. In 1 box…I had a lot of real colorful beads…and the other one I had wires for my bracelet…even some charms…crimp plier.

So far I've made like 10 beaded bracelets.

I'm thinking about selling them if people are interested in them.

I continue putting on the beads onto the wire.

"Hey, Molly."

I look up to see Kimberly and everyone else in front of my table.

"Hey." I say to her.

"Mind if we sit here?" Zack asks.

"Sure." I said. "Knock yourself out."

"What is up with all these beads?" Jason asks as they all sit down around me.

"I'm making beaded bracelets." I answer. "Look inside…I've made about 10 so far.

They look inside the box and see what I did.

"Whoa…these are pretty." Kimberly says as she holds a pink one up. "Can I have this one?"

"Yeah sure." I said.

"What are you doing?" Jason asks.

"I'm thinking of making beaded bracelets so I can sell them." I said. "You know, like open up a small beaded bracelet thing."

"That's so cool." Kimberly says.

"Yup." I said as I continue on making my next bracelet.

"Like a jewelry business?" Billy asks.

"Exactly." I said.

"Beauty and brains." Jason says. "Wow…my girl sure has it all."

"Um…thanks." I say to him as I continue on my project hoping he didn't notice me blushing.

"We're going to get some sodas." Zack says. "Want one?"

"Yeah." I said. "Thanks."

"I'll go with you Zack." Kimberly says.

She gets up and follows him.

Jason reaches inside a box and takes a red and green bracelet out.

"It actually looks good." Jason says.

"And look at this blue one." Billy says as he holds one up. "You know, you can make a lot of money by selling these."

"How much are we talking?" I ask him.

"How much do you want to price them?" Billy asks.

"Like around $8-13." I answer. "But if I can make even more extravagant ones…I could charge like 15 and up for them."

"Wow." Jason says. "You've really thought this through."

"I know." I said. "I'm a genius."

"You are." Jason says.

"I need a break." I said. "I've been doing this all morning."

I put a box onto the floor and Jason puts the other one down.

"Man, Trini's really looking good." I hear Zack saying as I turn around.

"She's been practicing hard with Master Lee." Kimberly says.

"We may all have to learn this praying Mantis technique if we want to keep up with her." Jason says.

"You know, it does actually seem kind of cool." I said.

"Yeah it does." Jason says.

"Don't any of you kick my boxes." I said as I saw how close Zack was to my boxes .

Zack puts my drink down in front of me and steps away from the boxes.

"We got it Molly." Zack says.

I see Trini walk over to us with this plastic bug plastic cage with something inside of it.

"Hey guys." Trini says.

"Hi Trini." I said.

"Yuck." Zack says. "How can you stand to be near this thing?"

He quickly passes the plastic cage to me.

"Awww…what a cute bug." I said as I look at it.

"An excellent example of mantis religiosa." Billy says as he passes it to Kimberly.

"I have to study it for my next kung fu lesson." Trini says.

"Whoa! Double duty." Kimberly says. "Math and kung fu homework."

"That's a bit of an overkill…don't you think so?" I asked.

"This is really cool." Jason says as he looks at the bug inside. "But why did you decided to learn this new kung fu?"

"I think the real reason I like it is that it emphasizes fairness, the honor of playing fair…and never cheating in a competition." Trini explains. "That's a real challenge to live up to."

"You're not the only bug fu expert in town anymore." Bulk says as he enters the Youth Center with Skull in tow. They both had helmets on their heads. "My partner and I are the newest—and only masters of the mystical cockroach…Kung Fu."

They took out a jar that had bugs inside…and not just any bugs…but cockroaches.

"Now that's disgusting." I say out loud.

"Not more bugs." Zack says.

Skull gets behind Kimberly and I.

"Don't come near me with that thing." I say to him.

"Want to date a cockroach Fu master, babe?" Skull asks Kimberly.

"Uh…I don't date bugs." Kimberly replies.

"Skull, there's no such thing as cockroach Kung Fu." Trini says.

"There is now." Bulk says.

"Yeah." Skull says. "Want to see."

"I don't think I want to." I said.

"Were we asking you?" Skull asks me.

"Hey, don't talk to her like that." Jason says.

He puts the jar of cockroaches onto the table and walks backwards with Bulk. They both start doing these weird moves.

"We'd love to see more…but we have to go to the library." Jason says as he picks up his books from the table. "You staying Molly?"

"Yeah." I answered. "Going to work on more bead bracelets."

"Alright, see you later then." Jason says as he kisses me on my lips and walks away.

Billy, Zack, Kimberly and Jason all leave. I decided to stay at the Youth Center to work on my jewelry project.

"Hey, I'm going to the park to practice more Kung Fu." Trini says.

"Ok." I said. "Have fun."

Trini soon leaves after that…and I was now alone.

About thirty minutes later…my communicator beeps. I sighed. I picked up my boxes and carry them over to Ernie.

"Hey Ernie, can you watch my boxes for me?" I ask him.

"Sure thing Molly." Ernie answers.

"Thanks." I say to him.

My communicator beeps again.

"What's that?" Ernie asks me.

"An alert for me to go walk my dog." I lie.

"Oh…ok." Ernie says as he carries my boxes to the backroom. "I'll keep these in the back so no one can touch them."

My communicator beeps yet again.

Alright, already. I'm going.

I walk out of the room to an empty hallway.

"I read you Zordon." I said.

"Teleport to the park, Trini needs your help." Zordon says.

"Alright." I said. "It's morphin' time!"

"Plesiosaurus!"

I arrive at the park with the others and they were also morphed.

"Don't worry Trini, we're here." Jason says as we see Trini on the floor.

"What is this?" The monster asks.

"We're here to mangle you. Mantis." Jason says.

"Wait, Jason…we must be careful of his Kung Fu." Trini says.

"You called your friends." The Mantis says as it disappears and reappears again. "It's not a fair fight…you have no honor."

The Mantis disappears completely.

"He's right." Trini says. "I'm afraid."

We all end up at the command center.

"Trini, don't be so hard on yourself." Kimberly says. "We're going to get the Mantis."

"I know, but wouldn't it have been more honorable just to face him alone?" Trini asks.

"Hey, it was a monster bug." Zack says. "No way."

"Yeah…we wouldn't let you go at it alone." I said. "It'd be too dangerous."

"Alpha, what information do we have regarding Rita's Mantis?" Zordon asks.

"I'll punch it up on the viewing globe." Alpha answers.

I turn around with the others to see what was going on with this Mantis monster.

"He's an expert at praying Mantis Kung Fu." Alpha explains. "He's very dangerous."

"Perhaps he challenged Trini because she's the Kung Fu expert." Billy says.

"If the Mantis takes her out, he'll have an easy time with us." Kimberly says.

"I'll put in some extra practice." Trini says. "So the next time that Mantis shows up, I'll be ready."

"And we'll nail him." Jason says.

I was now in my room in my house. I had a lot of boxes on my bed. All for my supplies for making my bead bracelets.

"Hey Molly!"

I look up from my bed to find Fred by my door with Kimberly, Zack, Billy and Jason.

"Your friends are here." Fred says.

"Hey, what are you guys doing here?" I ask them.

Fred leaves us.

"We wanted to stop by and see if you want to come to the Youth Center with us." Jason says.

"You in?" Zack asks.

"Sure." I said as I get up from my bed. "I need a break anyways."

I put the box aside and walked over to them.

"Wow…your room is a mess." Kimberly says as she looks inside.

"Well I hadn't really had a chance to clean it." I say to her. "I'll clean it up later."

"Let's go." Zack says.

"We're going to check if Trini's still there." Kimberly says as we make our way to the Youth Center. We go in and see if we can find her but she was nowhere in sight.

"I wonder where she is." I said.

"Hey, Ernie, where's Trini?" Zack shouts at him.

"Yeah." Ernie says. "She got this note…then left."

He shows us this note that was on the counter. I walk towards the counter with the others.

"Thanks." Kimberly says as she takes it from him.

She opens up the letter and begins to read it.

"Trini, meet me at the quarry for some special training…Master Lee."

"Something's up." I said.

"Why there?" Jason asks. "We should check this out."

The five us leave the Youth Center to go to the quarry.

"The old quarry is right over there!" Billy shouts as we all head down there.

"Let's go." Jason says.

"Be on guard everyone." I said.

We follow Billy to the old quarry but then get stopped by putties.

"Look!" Jason shouted.

I look up to see the putties arrive and surround us.

"Oh no, putties!" Kimberly says.

"Let's take these beasts!" Zack shouted.

"Spread out!" Jason orders

We all go in different directions and start fighting the putties.

Jason's communicator beeps.

"We read you Zordon." Jason says.

"Trini's on trouble and needs your help at the quarry." Zordon says.

"We've got to get to Trini!" Kimberly says.

"Let's squash that bug." Zack says.

"It's morphin' time!" Jason shouts.

"Mastodon!"

"Pterodactyl!"

"Triceratops!"

"Plesiosaurus!"

"Tyrannosaurus!"

We arrived to Trini's just in time.

"Now, it's a fair fight Mantis." Trini says as we get behind her.

"Aaaah!" The Mantis groans out.

Kimberly starts shooting her bow at it.

We all start attacking the Mantis. Then a few seconds later, it grows.

"I'm going to make bug juice out of you!" The Mantis shouts at us.

"Alright…we need dinozord power, right now!" Jason yells.

We jump into them as soon as they arrive.

"Rangers, log on!" Jason orders.

"Zack here, ready to jam!" Zack says.

"Billy here, system's nominal!" Billy shouts.

"Trini here, ready to rock!" Trini shouted.

"Molly here, ready to squash this bug!" I yelled.

"Let's munch this Mantis!" Kimberly says.

"Rangers, power up your crystals!" Jason orders.

We do as ordered.

"Morphin!" Jason says.

We start getting our zord ready for the Megazord Plesio mode.

"Megazord, eh?" The Mantis asks. "That just means more for me to Mangle."

The Mantis gets into this weird position.

"Trini, what's he doing?" Jason asks.

"The Mantis will concentrate his energies for a quick single blow." Trini answers.

"Let's do it!" Zack yells.

"Yeah, let's take him out." I said.

"Watch his footwork." Trini says.

"We're ready for him." Jason says.

The Mantis jumps up and starts attacking our zord.

"Power Sword!" Jason shouted.

The power sword soon comes down and we begin fighting the Mantis again.

"Let's take this bug down!" Jason shouted.

"Hi-yah!"

The Mantis finally gets destroyed by a slash from the power sword.

Back at the command center. ..

"Good work, power rangers." Zordon says. "And Trini, you did the honorable thing…you tried to be fair."

"Thanks Zordon." Trini says.

"It's not your fault Rita cheats." Kimberly says.

"Least all your practicing paid off." Billy says.

"You were great Trini." I said.

"Hey, we're team mates." Jason says. "We'll always be there to watch your back."

"I know." Trini says. "You guys are the best."

"Besides, we showed Rita we're not afraid of her big bug." Zack says.

He shudders and we all laugh.

We go to the Youth Center. I was working behind the counter and I was watching the news with my friends…they were talking about us again.

Trini was off practicing again with Master Lee.

"So Molly, where are your bead boxes?" Kimberly asks me.

"They're at home." I answer. "I've been doing it all morning…but I'm going to continue making them tonight."

"Hey yo, can I get a banana smoothie please?" This guy asks me.

"Sure." I said.

I began making the kid his smoothie while the others walk over to see Trini.

I finish the smoothie and gave it to the guy. He hands me $5.

"Gather round, gather round!" I hear Bulk's voice.

What are they up to now?

I walk over to where the others were and continue to watch Bulk and Skull.

"And see just how powerful cockroach Kung Fu is." Bulk announces.

They began doing these really weird moves again. Bulk flips Skull onto his back.

"And now, for our top secret…roach rendezvous." Bulk says.

"Cockroach power!" They both shout.

They both knock their foreheads against each other.

They both end up on the floor and the cockroaches get loose.

"Get 'em off me!" Bulk shouts. "Get 'em off me!"

My friends and I start laughing.

"Movie?" I ask Jason.

"Movie." He agrees. "Later guys."

He throws his arm around my shoulders and we both leave the Youth Center.