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Ben nodded in response while Zaine teleported him back to the janitors' closet where he last teleported from. Ben's head started to pound. He has no idea what exactly is going on but he has to help out with getting rid of the Zangyack.

He looked at the briefcase Zaine gave to him. It had the Project Pirate symbol on it and as expected, the five original Project Pirate ranger keys were inside. Now all he has to do is convince Troy, Dylan, Lexi, Johnny and Blair that they are the only ones who can activate these ranger keys. He just hopes it's not going to hard.

Ben walked out of the janitors' closet and headed down to the cafeteria. It seems like it's still lunch time. What Ben never had seen before is the fact that all of his friends are seated separately and in their respective cliques. Blair's clique was seated in the middle of the cafeteria. Troy's jock friends were seated surrounding them while Lexi is seated on the table right behind Troy's along with her soccer mates. He managed to spot Johnny at the corner, chatting up with some of people.

Ben then saw Dylan walking with holding his tray.

"Dylan!" he called out.

Dylan turned and looked at him, "What do you want?" he questioned.

"I want to talk to you," Ben responded.

"Check it out people, looks like Dylan is taking the goofy new kid under his wing," Kyle pointed to everyone in the cafeteria. The students then started laughing and talking about it. Dylan took a deep breath started walking to a table right by the window.

"Hey new kid, you'd have a better chance getting a dog to talk then have Dylan Affleck give you the time of day," Lexi shouted at Ben.

Not from what I remembered…Ben thought. Dylan was never cold since he met him. That's because Dylan was already friends with the rest of them. How is he going to convince the gang that they are Power Rangers when he can barely make a single conversation with them?

Troy suddenly stood in front of him with a tray in his hand, "Hey new kid, sit with me," he said. However, it sounded more like an order.

Before Ben could respond, Troy pulled Ben by his shirt to a table where they both sat. Ben sat awkwardly as Troy starts eating in front of him.

"Is there a particular reason for me to sit here with you?" Ben asked him.

"One sec," Troy said while he takes a bit out of his burger. Even though Ben is somehow trapped in another universe, Troy is still Troy. Food always comes before anything else for him. Troy wiped his mouth and drank some water before speaking, "What's your deal?" Troy questioned him.

"What do you mean?" Ben asked him back.

"All day I've seen you trying to talk to me, Dylan, Lexi Ryan, Blair Reynolds and even Johnny Matthews," Troy accused. "What's your game?"

"If I tell you, you have to believe me," Ben said to him.

"Ok…" Troy replied skeptically before taking another bite out of his burger.

"All of you guys are Power Rangers of Project Pirate. Well yesterday you are but I don't know why today you're not," Ben explained to him.

Troy almost choked when he heard the sentence, "Power Rangers? Me and the names I just mentioned just now? You do know that there are no more Power Rangers right? And there's certainly no such thing as Project Pirate Power Rangers; whatever that means."

Ben had it. He couldn't take it anymore. Why won't anyone remember about being Power Rangers? Ben stood up sharply and started to make his way out of the cafeteria. He however forgot the Project Pirate briefcase and Troy got up as well to give it to him.

"Ben, you forgot this," Troy said as he threw the briefcase to him.

Ben didn't manage to catch it and the briefcase ends up hitting the person standing in front of at the time, Lexi. Lexi turned to Troy and had an evil glare to her face. She took the soccer ball from her friend's hand and kicked it to Troy's direction. Troy dodged the ball with his lunch tray and the ball landed at Blair's lunch table where the food were scattered all over her and bounced to somewhere else.

The ball continued to travel back to Lexi and Ben's direction but they ducked and it hits Johnny, causing him to fall inside the trash can. Somehow, Dylan managed to catch the ball with his hands.

"Soccer balls are meant for the field. Not to show off," Dylan said to Lexi while tossing the ball back to Lexi.

"YOU SOCCER FREAK! Look what you did to me!" Blair shouted at Lexi angrily while she stomps in front of Lexi with foot bits in her hair and chili on her used-to-be clean cheerleading outfit. "I have a pep rally after school today. I can't cheer with a dirty uniform!"

"Soccer freak? You didn't look good in that cheer uniform in the first place you stupid cheerleader," Lexi retorted back. She then took a milkshake from a student nearby and spill it all over Blair's head.

Blair then snatched a fork and stabbed it in Lexi's soccer ball. Soon a food fight started among the rest of the student. Ben tried to run for cover while chasing after the briefcase that the students kept kicking away from him. He then bumped into Johnny who unfortunately fell inside the dumpster.

"I'm so sorry," Ben apologized.

"It's ok…just help me get out of this," Johnny said to him while struggling to get out of the dumpster.

Ben managed to pull Johnny out with all his strength and Johnny ended up hitting Dylan who bumped into Troy who were trying to stop the fight between Lexi and Blair. They end up going backwards and bumped into the Oakville Heights' High iconic statue of the first principal for the school. The statue then fell down on the floor and broke, stopping all the food fights.

In good timing, the current principal, Mr. Finch arrived only to see the scene that just unfold in front of him.

"What is the meaning of this? Did I ever authorize you to have a food fight?!" questioned Mr. Finch. He then turned his attention to the five teenagers who were on the floor. "You five, to detention immediately!"

"DETENTION?!" the five of them said in unison.

"OUT!" he ordered and they obeyed.

"As for the rest of you. No one leaves this cafeteria until this place is spotless! Get to work now!" Mr. Finch ordered again before he left the premises.

Nothing can go right! Ben thought. However when he thinks about it, the five of them are going to be in the same room. Maybe this is his chance to really convince them what is going on. He just hopes it works this time.


In the detention room, Mr. Finch entered to see the five teenagers responsible for the destruction of the statue who were all sitting separately from one another, covered with lunch food. Ben followed closely behind and waited outside the room.

"Principal Finch, this must be some kind of mistake, I don't belong here," Blair said.

"Every student who broke a school rule, or in your case, broke an iconic statue deserves to get 3 months detention," Mr. Finch responded.

"3 months?!" Johnny and Lexi exclaimed.

"That's right and I'm calling your parents for the damages that you five rotten kids have done," Mr. Finch replied. "All of you will stay here in this room until sun down."

"But there's a pep rally for the upcoming sports events after school. Some of us are involved in it," Lexi pointed out.

"Sun down means sun down. All of you would have to stay here in this room. No exceptions," Mr. Finch ordered.

"But I'm captain of the cheerleading team. I need to be there!" Blair protested.

"Not another word little missy or it's 4 months detention for you," Mr. Finch said as he left the room. Blair took her seat at the front. Mr. Finch left the room and saw Ben outside.

"What are you doing here young man? Get to the cafeteria. Like I said, no one leaves until the cafeteria is spotless," Mr. Finch said while pulling Ben away from the detention room much to his protest.

The room was silent for over three hours. The five of them couldn't believe that they were stuck in the room with people they barely even know. Blair however have been trying to talk to Troy but she couldn't bring herself to say a word to him. Suddenly she heard some music outside. She got up and looked out of the window.

Troy got up as well and stood beside her while looking out and Lexi did soon after. Blair then saw the cheerleading routine that she choreographed. All of her cheerleading friends and the Glossy Posse looked like they are having the time of their lives.

"I should've been there and now I'm stuck in a room and covered with food," Blair said, pouting.

"Blame Mr. Jock-head here," Lexi said turning to Troy.

Troy looked at her skeptically, "How is this my fault exactly?" he questioned her. "If I remembered quietly, it's your soccer ball that caused all of this."

"Well I would still have it if someone hadn't stabbed it with a fork," Lexi responded looking at Blair.

"I wouldn't need to stab it if you would just keep that thing in the supply closet like any other balls," Blair retaliated. "Am I right?" Blair asked Johnny and Dylan who were sitting at the back.

Johnny hesitated but eventually said something, "All gym equipment are required to be returned to the supply closet unless an authorized personnel gave permission to bring it out."

"See, James agrees with me," Blair gloated.

"His name is Jeremy," Lexi gloated back.

"My name is Johnny," Johnny corrected both of them. "And I don't want to be here as much as any of you."

"Well technically it's your fault too," Lexi said. "You're the one crash into us when we broke the statue."

"I didn't mean to! I was stuck in a trash can and the only reason I was stuck was because some guy bumped into me and it's unfair how he is not in this room right now," Johnny replied.

"Who's the guy that bumped into you?" Troy inquired.

Before Johnny could respond, Blair's phone beeped and she opened a picture message, "I can't believe the Glossy Posse are having fun without me."

"Some friends they are," Dylan mumbled.

Blair turned her attention to Dylan, "Excuse me?"

"They're using you," Dylan answered.

"What are you talking about?"

"Do you really think those girls you hang out are really your friends? Don't they tell you what to do and always get you in trouble? They're just using you for your popularity for their own gain but you're too stuck up to see it," Dylan responded.

"Stuck up? You don't think I knew that already? I know they're using me," Blair said to him challengingly.

"Then why do you keep being friends with them?" Dylan questioned.

"So I don't end up being a loner like you," Blair answered coldly.

"Wait a minute, so you're saying you rather have a bunch of friends who use you instead of being a friendless loser? I pity you," Lexi said to her.

Troy then felt the need to step up, "Who are you to pity? If anyone needs a pity, it's you."

"And why would that be necessary?"

"How well do you know your boyfriend Kyle?" Troy questioned her while giving her a smirk on his face.

"What are you getting at Evans?" Lexi asked him back.

"Did you know your boyfriend Kyle has girlfriends other than you?" Troy finally said.

"What?"

"He has been bragging about the different girls he has been with for the past few weeks. It's getting annoying," Dylan added.

"You're lying. He said he doesn't do that anymore," Lexi responded.

"Why would we bother lying about Kyle?" Dylan questioned her back.

Blair stood up again and looked out of the window and smiled to herself, "Lexi, if you don't believe them. Why don't you see it for yourself?"

Lexi walked towards where Blair is looking at and saw Kyle putting his arms over another girl. She couldn't believe it. She knew Kyle was an ass but she thought he changed after the first time they broke up. Lexi couldn't help but feel regret and stupid to be told by some people who she barely knows.

"You really didn't know?" Blair asked her. "He's been flirting with the girl population of this school. He tried asking me out five times just this month. How oblivious can you be?"

Lexi had it, "At least I'm not a prude. When was the last time you had a date?"

Blair raised her eyebrow challengingly. What Lexi said surprisingly didn't hurt her at all, "I rather be prude than experience what you have you have to go through. Isn't this like your fifth failed relationship?"

"What are you saying?" Lexi questioned her.

"I'm saying that you should take it easy. This is the second time he cheated on you. I don't even get why you got back together with him. You can do way better than him," Blair replied.

"You just sounded like you care. Who knew the ice queen had a warm heart," Dylan said.

"It's better than keeping it to yourself. She won't become a loner like you," Troy spoke to him.

"Like you know the first thing about friendship. Some friend you turn out to be. Leaving your best friend in the dust because of your newfound popularity and taking advantage of it," Dylan responded to him. "But I must say, I am surprised how you decided to tell Lexi about Kyle. I thought you two were best friends."

"Just because I am on the same team as Kyle doesn't mean we're best friends. Kyle and I are just teammates and I am nothing like him," Troy debated.

"Can we not mention that name in this room please? I feel the need to jump out of this window and land on top of him," Lexi said.

The room fell silent and the five of them avoided eye contact with one another until Johnny spoke up, "Why does this feel like The Breakfast Club?" he joked. "A jock, a loner, a girl jock, a cheerleader and a nobody."

Blair giggled, "You shouldn't be hard on yourself. I was a nobody too. Sometimes I feel like going back to being a nobody. Less peer pressure."

"Really? I thought girls like you would love being in the school's A-list?" Troy asked her.

"I do but it takes a lot more effort for girls than guys. You have to try so much harder than everyone else and it can be exhausting. Sometimes I find myself wishing to just blend in the lockers but I know I can't do that," Blair replied.

"Why not?" Troy inquired.

Blair was about to reply but she knew she couldn't. It's too much of a risk. She might blurt out that it was all because of Troy that she couldn't go back to being a nobody. Lexi however had always knew why. Blair did it for Troy.

"Let me guess, you want to get a guy's attention," Lexi guessed coyly. "You don't have to try too hard, cheerleader. I'm doing well aren't I? I'm not that popular like you but I can get guys to like me. Sure I got cheated on by the same guy twice but I date more guys that you."

"Whatever, you wouldn't understand even if I told," Blair.

Suddenly the detention door opened widely and the five of them saw a student entering and closing the door behind him while checking to see if there was anyone who saw him. Troy immediately recognized the student. It was Ben.

"Can we help you?" Troy asked him.

"You've been following all of us all day," Dylan added.

"And you're the one that got us in trouble for breaking the statue!" Johnny accused.

"I know and I'm so sorry but it's a good thing too," Ben responded.

"How is this a good thing?" Blair questioned him.

"Look, just please listen to me," Ben replied and he put the Project Pirate briefcase on the teacher's desk to open it and show the five of them what was in it.

"What are those?" Johnny inquired.

"These are ranger keys. You use it to become Power Rangers of Project Pirate," Ben explained. The five of them in the room gaped at his statement. They weren't sure how to respond.

"I'm sorry I must have ketchup in my ear. Did you say Power Rangers?" Dylan asked him.

"This isn't a joke at all. I don't know how but I came from a parallel universe from this. From where I come from, we are all a team of Power Rangers and we fight against the Zangyack Empire together," Ben continued explaining.

"Please tell me this is some sort of prank," Blair said.

"Wait rewind. Power Rangers do exist, I believe that. I've seen it but there's no Zangyack Empire anymore. The Earth has been saved for a while. The Power Rangers fought them last year," Troy said to him.

"Yes and all the Power Rangers sacrificed their powers during that time too. All of them apparently lost their lives in the process," Johnny added.

Ben froze, "Wait, what?"

"That's right. All the Power Rangers seemed to disappear after that. Many believe that they really did lose their lives to make sure Earth is saved. There are no more Power Rangers," Blair informed him. "You really didn't know?"

Ben shook his head but he had to keep himself calmed, "Look, the Zangyack Empire is coming back and since these are the only source of Power Rangers to the morphing grid, this is the only way we can stop them."

"Whoa, wait. Us?" Lexi exclaimed.

"You're the only one who can use these keys," Ben reasoned with her.

"How do we know we can trust you?" Dylan questioned him.

Before he could answer Dylan, the ground suddenly shook and the lights flickered on and off. Something was off. Soon, the sky started to turn grey. Looking out of the window, the six teenagers saw that the sky was not only covered by dark clouds but also by Zangyack Space Ships.

"What's going on?" Lexi asked in fright.

Each of the Zangyack Space Ships then descended their Goumins. Some of them even landed on school grounds, attacking the students who were outside. Two Sugomin then emerged from the ceiling as the six teenagers look at it in shock.

"By any chance they are friend of yours, Ben?" Blair asked him. The two Sugomins then blasted energy beams at the six teenagers to which they managed to dodge.

"I take that as a no," Johnny responded for Ben.

"Let's get out of here!" Troy told the rest. He then pushed the desks to the Sugomin while the others head out and he followed soon after.

The six continued running while dodging every single Goumins that were in their way. While Ben lead the way, Troy and Dylan unintentionally teamed up to get rid of the Goumins that were chasing after them at the back. While running, the six of them found themselves in a dead end. They were soon surrounded by Goumins and no where to run.

"I never thought I'd ever be involved in an alien invasion. I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing," Johnny said.

"There's no use running away from them. We have to fight them," Troy said to everyone.

"Fight these things?" Lexi echoed.

"He's right. Goumins won't stand down unless we fight," Ben said.

"But none of us know how to fight alien creatures," Blair debated.

"We have to do anyways. Whatever it takes to get them to stop following us around," Dylan said.

"Guys, we don't have to be skilled in fighting to fight against these things. If we really want to win against them, we will have to do whatever we can to stop them. We just have to be creative," Troy concluded.

"Like how?" Dylan, Lexi, Johnny and Blair asked.

Troy looked around their area and saw a rubber hose on the Goumins feet. He had an idea. He pulled the hose tightly, making the Goumins fall to the ground. Dylan caught his drift and took the other end of the hose and tied the Goumins together.

"Cool. Now what?" Lexi asked.

"Now this," Ben responded and took his morpher and ranger key and got ready to morph. "IT'S MORPHIN' TIME!" He then morphed into the silver pirate ranger and together changed his signature Star Spear to Star Blaster Mode. He executed full power and blasts the Goumins, thus defeating them.

"That was awesome! I want to kick some butt too!" Lexi exclaimed.

More Goumins started falling in and everyone tried their best to fight them. Troy did his best outsmarting the Goumins with his fighting techniques. While Dylan and Lexi fought with all their might. Blair managed to dodged all the hits quickly using her gymnastic/cheerleading moves without injuring herself. Johnny on the other hand resorted to just throwing random objects at the Goumins to defend himself.

Lexi and Dylan found some drama props of samurai swords and used it to fight the Goumins.

"These swords are good for a bunch of props," Lexi commented.

"I guess it is a good idea of the student council for putting more budget on the drama department this year," Dylan added. He then helped to hit the Goumin who was trying to get Lexi from the back.

Lexi turned around and noticed, "Thanks! You're not so bad, Affleck."

"You're not so bad yourself, Ryan," Dylan replied.

In the hallways, Blair tried her best to outrun the Goumins and she found herself bumping into Troy. They both found themselves surrounded. A Goumin then tried to hit Troy but Blair noticed and pushed Troy away.

"Thanks," Troy said to her.

"No problem," Blair replied.

"I know this may not be the right time to say this but I think you look cute in your cheerleading uniform right now," Troy said to her suddenly. "I always thought it looked cute on you honestly."

Blair was too stunned but managed to answer, "Thank you."

"Now flip!" Troy instructed her. Blair realized what he was doing and she somersault backwards to avoid the blasts coming from the Goumins.

"Looks like we're even now," Blair said.

Johnny and Ben headed towards one of the labs. An idea struck in Johnny's mind and he quickly when to get all the right chemicals for his plan.

"What are you doing?" Ben asked him.

"Trust me. It's going to work," Johnny replied to him distractingly.

"What's going to work?" Ben asked again.

Goumins then started to break the door open and then Johnny threw a beaker at them, melting the Goumins. Ben was very impressed. Who knew they could be defeated by Science.

"Nice work," Ben praised.

"It was nothing," Johnny shrugged and high fived Ben.

The fight soon let outside the school and the six saw an action commander upon them.

"What is the meaning of this? A Power Ranger? I thought they were gone for good," said the action commander.

"Well looks like you're wrong," Ben replied and he jumped into action to fight the action commander while the others continued fighting the Goumins.

"You pathetic ranger won't stand a chance against me. I was chosen as an action commander for a reason. You will pay for your defiance towards the Zangyack Empire just like all the other Power Rangers," the action commander sneered at Ben. He then shoved Ben hardly on to the wall, making Ben drop his morpher. The action commander stepped on the morpher and causes Ben to demorph and he soon lost consciousness. The action commander then decided to take this an advantage and to kill Ben.

Troy, upon seeing this, didn't care if the action commander was big, strong and scary. He kicked the action commander hardly. Dylan, Lexi and Blair helped to fire the fireworks that were supposed to go off in the pep rally to the action commander. Johnny then picked up the Project Pirate briefcase.

"Guys maybe if we use these, we can have more power to defeat him," Johnny suggested while holding out the green ranger key.

Ben slowly regained his consciousness but he wasn't able to move. However, he was able to see what was going on with his friends.

"Become a Power Ranger huh? I'm in," Lexi agreed while taking the yellow ranger key as if by nature.

Dylan then took the blue ranger key and Blair took the pink. Troy then took the red one together with the morpher. All of them got into position and stood in front of the action commander.

"We may not be sure what is going on here but we know we have the right to defeat you," Troy said.

"You made a big mistake coming back to Earth again," Dylan continued.

"What are you going to do about it?" the action commander challenged.

Lexi held up her yellow ranger key, "We, as Power Rangers will defeat you no matter how hard you try to stop us."

"Beings like you don't deserve to live. Together we will fight as one to avenge for the other Power Rangers and put a stop to your doings," Johnny added.

"As Power Rangers, we will sworn to fight evil that dares to takeover Earth. After all, Power Rangers are heroes and heroes will never surrender!" Blair contined.

Ben smiled as the five of them morphed together and started fighting as a team. It's incredible to see how all of them could work together even though in this universe, they aren't friends to begin with. Ben then felt his body being shaken and then he started hearing voices calling after his name.

Ben! Dude, wake up!

That sounded like Troy. But Troy is way over there.

BEN! WAKE UP YOU LAZY PIG!

Lexi, don't call him a pig.

Could you act like a proper girl for once?

That sounded like Lexi, Blair and Dylan.

I have an idea, let's use Troy's shoe to wake him up.

He heard Johnny's voice said. He then started to smell something stinky. He closed his eyes and opened them again. This time, he wasn't at school. He was at home. He sat up and saw his friends all staring at him.

"It actually worked," Johnny marveled.

It was all a dream? But it was so real. Ben thought.

"It was all Johnny's idea," Blair said to him and Troy took back his shoe to wear it back.

"I told you guys that it will become useful one day," Troy grinned.

"Whoa, I just had the weirdest dream ever! All of us was there. You guys weren't friends and there was a Zangyack Invasion but there wasn't any more Power Rangers," Ben said quickly.

"Slow down there bucko. It was just a dream. I guess you did take it hard of what we said to you yesterday," Lexi said.

"Actually, it didn't," Ben replied.

"What do you mean?" Dylan asked.

"Well, it made me see how each of you guys appreciated each other's friendship and all of your bonds together. I guess Troy's right. It is your destiny to be friends because it is our destiny to become Power Rangers," Ben answered.

Everyone turned to each other in confusion but just chose to shrug it off. "I like the part of me being right though," Troy said. "Anyways, I guess we're sorry for scaring you yesterday."

"Enough of this mushy stuff. Let's all head out. Since Ben is the last to wake up this time, he has to pay for lunch," Dylan said and everyone agreed.

Ben then started debating how unfair it was. But inside his heart, he was just happy that his friends are together again. This is the picture he first saw of them and he doesn't want it to ever change.


So sorry for the delay for this chapter. I know you guys are expecting a Zangyack going through Ben's dream and all but since it's a fun-shot, I chose it to be more light-hearted and fun.

Anyways, after tallying the votes for the other fun shot story, the next fun shot would be:

Well actually, there was a tie as I had some people vote via Private Message as well. It's a tie between Camping with the rangers (Option 2) or Beach party with the rangers (Option 5)

So, I'm going to have all of you to revote between Option 2 and 5 in the review section and I will start on the next fun shot soon.

On important note

I have made a decision to rewrite the beginnings of Project Pirate. I'm going to of course made some changes to the beginnings of the story. Some changes that will be made would be some of the character's personality and the parts of the storyline as well. Now I haven't started yet but I will try to get on it. For as for now, Project Pirate will be 'under construction'. I will update all of you when I had replaced some of the chapters already.

Anyways, thanks for reading and please review!