Hi, everybody! Here's another chapter! This one isn't based off an episode, and is gonna include a certain, long-awaited cameo. This is a chapter I've been looking forward to writing for a long time. Thank you so much to Ten Duel Commandments, Disneyfan10, FallenArcana, and brankel1 for your lovely comments. I hope you all enjoy the chapter!

Angel Grove, California

"That's a new kick," Jason Scott said, blocking a kick from his best friend, Tommy Oliver.

"Rocky figured it out," Tommy said, trying the move again. This time, he hit Jason's leg, and the former Red Ranger fell on his back.

"I'll have to have him teach it to me," Jason said, rolling back onto his hands and then pushing himself up onto his feet.

"I think Adam's already working on a variation of it," Tommy added, and he threw a punch that Jason easily blocked.

Jason chuckled. "Of course he is," he said. "I swear, he's always trying to create moves out of other moves."

Tommy shrugged, "He's a sixth degree black belt, and a former Ranger, I'd be surprised if he wasn't constantly trying to do that."

Jason agreed. They sparred in silence for a few moments, and then Jason smiled.

"You know what I miss? Putties," Jason said. "They were a great warmup before the actual monsters. I kinda wish Zedd and Rita would have just sent the putties on occasion, that would have been a fantastic workout."

"I know what you mean," Tommy said. "Andi's gotta be heaven in Blue Bay Harbor right now."

"What do you mean?" Jason asked, pausing.

Tommy's eyes widened as he realized what he had just said, what he had just possibly revealed.

"Well, there's a Power Ranger team in Blue Bay Harbor, right? The foot soldiers, Kelzaks I think they're called, they look like Putties. Wouldn't surprise me if Andi tried to take a few of them on, she loved fighting Putties," Tommy said, trying to make his voice as even as he could.

Jason stared at him, his eyes narrowed.

"She's a Power Ranger, isn't she." It was more of a statement than a question, and Tommy stared at his best friend, unsure of what to say. After a few seconds, Jason nodded his head. "I need to get to Blue Bay Harbor."

Before Tommy could stop him, Jason had picked up his duffle bag, and walked out of the dojo.

"Shit."

Blue Bay Harbor, California

"How on earth do you read so much?"

Andi glanced up from her book to see Kelly looking at her, an amused smile on the redhead's face. The White Ranger shrugged.

"I don't know, it's something I've always enjoyed," she answered.

"I've just never seen someone read as much as you do," Kelly said. "First Stephen King's It, and now you're onto The Lord of the Rings? Those aren't easy books to read."

Andi shrugged again and closed her book- The Two Towers. "I had a bet with a friend on who would finish It first. I won, he actually still owes me a cake. Lord of the Rings is just something I've always wanted to read."

Kelly smiled at her employee. "Well, when you finish Return of the King, I have a book I think you'll like. In the meantime, when you clock in, in a few, I have a bike for you to fix, I'm pretty sure the piston needs to be replaced. But that's pretty much all I have if you want to spend the rest of the shift at the tracks."

"Alright, I'll look at it as soon as I clock in," Andi responded, and Kelly, satisfied, walked away. Andi smiled and opened her book again, easily finding her place again. Tori appeared, then, and sat down across from her to work on homework. She had only been reading for a couple minutes when her phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Hey, uh, Andi? You might wanna hide," Tommy's voice said on the other said.

"…Why?" Andi dared to ask.

"I kinda maybe let it slip to Jason that you're a Ranger," Tommy said; he sounded sheepish, but that didn't stop Andi's heart from beginning to race. "I don't think he's mad, or anything, but he said something about driving up to Blue Bay Harbor."

"Tommy, I'm gonna need you to back up for a second," Andi said, sitting up in her chair. Tori, recognizing the name Tommy, looked up. "What do you mean by 'I kinda maybe let it slip'?" she asked. "You promised me you wouldn't tell him." Tori's eyes widened.

"It was an accident!" Tommy exclaimed, "We were talking about the fun times we had as Rangers, and it just slipped!"

"Tommy," Andi said sternly, "What. Did you say. To my brother."

Tommy remained silent for longer than Andi was comfortable with, and she met Tori's curious gaze.

"Tommy."

A sigh. "Jason remembered something from our Ranger days, about how he missed having putties around to punch because they were such good workouts, and it, it just slipped!"

"What did you say?"

"I said, 'I bet Andi's in heaven up in Blue Bay Harbor with those Kelzaks' and he asked what I meant by that, and I said that, you know, you live up there now, it's possible you ran into some, and Jason said 'she's a Power Ranger, isn't she' and I didn't answer him which apparently was the bad answer, because he took it as a yes."

"Okay, um, he knows. That's fine, I… I needed to tell him eventually. This is fine," Andi said, although her voice shook. "How long ago did he leave?"

"About five minutes ago," Tommy said. "I'm sorry, Andi, it honestly just slipped out."

"It's fine," she repeated. "Okay, um, thanks for the warning, bye."

Andi hung up the phone before Tommy could say anything else, and she stared at the screen for a moment, unsure of what to do.

"Andi?"

Looking up in surprise, Andi found Tori staring at her.

"I take it Jason knows?"

Andi nodded, numbly. "Tommy let it slip," she said. "God, and I was going to tell him!"

"Look, he was bound to find out eventually," Tori said. "I know right now isn't ideal, but what's done is done. So start your shift, do what you need to do, and when Jason gets here, talk to him calmly and rationally."

"Yeah," Andi said, taking a deep breath, "Yeah, calmly and rationally. I can do that. I mean, he's just my brother," she starting to freak out, "My brother the first Red Power Ranger on earth! This is fine! This is totally fine!"

"Andi! Andi, you need to calm down," Tori said, leaning forward to grab her best friend's shoulders. "Come on, you need fresh air, let's go!"

Standing up, the Blue Ranger pushed Andi towards the door, passing Hunter and Blake as she did.

"Hey, is she alright?" Tori heard Hunter ask.

"She's fine! Girl stuff!" Tori called back, pushing Andi out the door.

The rush of fresh air hit Andi in the face, and she took deep breaths, calming down.

"Okay. I'm okay. Jason will be here in three hours, I have three hours to figure out what I'm going to say. Tommy said he didn't seem mad, so maybe he isn't."

"I'm sure he's not," Tori said. "Maybe he's coming down here to throw you a party!"

Andi looked at Tori with a very dry look in her eyes. "Yeah, I don't think he's gonna throw me a party."

"I'm just being optimistic," the Blue Ranger said.

"I know," the White Ranger responded. "God, what am I supposed to say to him?"

"You'll figure it out, Andi," Tori said softly.

Andi looked at her, and a tiny smile curled one corner of her lips up. "Thank you, Tori. For calming me down."

Tori smiled widely. "No problem!" she chirped, bringing Andi in for a hug. The White Ranger hugged her back, and then released her with a sigh.

"I need to start my shift. I sooner I can get the piston changed on a bike in there, the sooner I can get to tracks, get some practice in, and hide from Jason."

"You can't hide from him forever," Tori said gently.

"I know," Andi replied. Taking a deep breath, she went into the store. Hunter had started working, standing behind the counter, but he looked at her as soon as she walked in.

"Hey, you okay?" the blonde asked, leaning on his forearms on the counter.

"I'm fine," Andi said, sending a weak smile to the Crimson Ranger.

"You sure?"

"I'm sure," she replied.

Hunter stared after her, worry in his gaze.

Tori came up to the counter, then, watching as Andi disappeared into the back.

"She's not okay," Hunter said, "Is she?"

Tori shook her head. "She will be, just some family stuff," she said.

Hunter merely frowned.

…

Changing the piston on the bike didn't take very long, but the tire change because one of them was half way to being flat as a pancake made the bike take longer to fix than Andi was comfortable with. By the time she finished, it had been an hour and a half.

With a sigh, Andi walked over to the counter where Hunter was taking care of a customer. "You have any clean rags back there, mine's covered in oil," she said, holding her oil-covered hands away from her white t-shirt.

"Yeah, here," he said, grabbing one from behind him and handing it to her.

"Thanks," she said, quickly grabbing it to wipe her hands off. The once light yellow rag quickly had brown streaks going through it as she wiped the oil off her hands. "Man, how that guy didn't know his tire was flat is a mystery to me."

"Could he not feel it?" Hunter questioned, leaning back. He'd finished with his customer right after handing her the rag, and now leaned back against the back counter.

"No idea," Andi answered. She set the rag down on the counter and ran a hand through her hair, snagging her hair band and pulling it out. As her hair fell down her back, Andi was quick to grab half of it and start braiding it. "I'm gonna head to the tracks, will you and Blake be okay here?"

"We'll be fine," Hunter said, "Want me to meet you out there when I get off? Work on your speed a little?"

"That would be awesome," Andi agreed. Pulling a bobbi pin out of her pocket, Hunter watched as she pinned the braid she'd just finished to her head, and then began braiding the other half.

"Hey, are you sure you're okay?" Hunter asked, and she looked at him, an extra bobbi pin sticking out of her mouth.

"Yeah!" she exclaimed around the pin, finally reaching up to grab it as she finished the second braid. "I'm… a lot better now than I was 90 minutes ago."

"What happened?"

Andi sighed, allowing her eyebrows to raise for a second before falling. "Tommy let slip to Jason about me, being a Ranger. And now he's on his way here. I'm hoping that running off to the tracks will throw him off my trail for a little bit, I have about an hour until he gets here."

"So that's why you were freaking out earlier?"

"Sadly," Andi said. "Look, if he comes here, then just tell him I'm at the tracks," she said. "I have to face him eventually, anyways."

"You sure?" he asked, eyebrow raised.

"I'm sure." She looked at him, and it hit Hunter right then just how beautiful she was. Her bright green eyes were looking at him filled with gratitude, her black hair pinned back to her head in two braids. He could see the chain that her purple coin hung from, the coin itself tucked under her white shirt. How she'd managed to fix a bike without getting any oil on her shirt managed to surprise him every time he witnessed it. Finally, there was a small smear of oil on her chin.

"Okay," he finally said. Andi smiled, and then surprised him by leaning over the counter to kiss his cheek.

"I'll see you later," she said, backing off.

"Yeah…" Hunter said, his cheeks reddening. "No problem."

She smiled at him, a brighter smile than he'd received earlier, and then she left.

…

This is taking too long, Andi thought. He should be here by now.

Leaning back on her bike, Andi looked around. All she could see what other riders, most of them heading for the race tracks. It seemed like most of the riders in Blue Bay Harbor were racers, with only a few freestylers. Angel Grove was more half and half. Sighing, Andi started her bike again and headed to the freestyle track, intent on going through it again. She had a new trick she was trying to perfect, something that would hopefully send her to the Action Games 8 months away. It was a variant of a 360 that had never been seen before, as the 360 was usually just one turn. She was trying to make it into a 1080.

Going through the track, she finally hit the biggest- and final- jump where she'd be able to pull it off, and pulled the handlebars to the side. She got through two full rolls, doing what she had dubbed the Side Roll. Landing was rough, and she wobbled. Something in her engine didn't sound right, and she suspected she jostled something in the landing, but just managed to finish the track.

Getting off the bike, Andi leaned down to check the engine, and immediately saw the problem; the bottom end would have to be completely rebuilt, and the front axle wasn't looking great, either. She'd have to fix all of it, and she wasn't looking forward to it.

"Damn it," she mumbled. She'd have to take it to Kelly's to fix it, and now her ride with Hunter later would have to be postponed.

"You're still trying to do that 360 variant?"

"Well, if I don't, someone else will do it first, and we can't have that," Andi answered, not looking behind her.

"No, we cannot," the man behind her mumbled, and Andi smiled slightly, finally reaching her trailer.

"What can I help you with, Jase?" Andi asked, finally turning to look at her brother. He looked the same as he did the last time she'd seen him, brown hair just long enough to run his fingers through, red shirt, jeans, tennis shoes.

"That really how you're gonna great your big brother after not seeing him for several months?"

"I don't know," Andi answered. "You gonna yell at me?"

"You going to give me a reason to?"

"Figured you already had one, if the conversation I had with Tommy earlier was anything to go by."

"Nah, I'm not mad about that," Jason said. "Wondering why you kept it from me, yeah, but I'm not mad."

Andi narrowed her eyes at him. "Really."

"I'm not mad, Andi, I swear."

Andi looked at her brother suspiciously, but he seemed to be telling the truth, so she finally allowed an actual smile to take over her face and hugged her older brother.

"It's good to see you, Jase," she said.

"You too, Andi," Jason replied, hugging his baby sister to him tightly. When he let her go, he held her at an arm's length to look her over. In her motocross gear, he couldn't tell much, but she did look like she'd put on a little more muscle. Her face, streaked with dirt, had lost that last bit of baby fat she'd still had when she left Angel Grove four months previously.

"You look good," he finally said, pleased that his sister seemed to be doing well. "I only caught a couple fights on TV, but you seem to be doing well."

"I'm surprised you didn't recognize my fighting style," Andi admitted, "Tommy, Adam, and Rocky all did, and then called me." She thought about it for a second. "Actually, Tommy and Adam called me, Rocky showed up at my door. I'm pretty sure Tommy was more upset that I stole his color than he was that I was a Ranger."

Jason laughed, "Yeah, that sounds like Tommy," he said, "But he stole my color first, so it serves him right."

Andi smiled, but before she could respond, a group of Kelzaks appeared, flanked by a monster.

"Kelzaks," she said, "Why'd you have to appear now?" she asked, easily falling into a defensive position.

"Lothor has requested your presence, Red Ranger!" the monster exclaimed, ignoring Andi.

"And if I refuse?" Jason called back, eyes not leaving the monster. It looked like a gorilla, with dark fur covering it's skin, armor, and a sword sheathed on its back.

"You don't have a choice!" the monster yelled. "Kelzaks, attack!"

The Kelzaks swarmed them, and Andi and Jason shared a look. With a single nod, they met the challenge head on. Even with two, experienced fighters, one current Ranger, one former, the Kelzaks managed to swarm them, with way too many for just two of them to take on.

When the two got thrown back several feet, Andi deemed it time to call for help.

"Hey Cam, think you send me some help at the tracks? We got Kelzaks and a gorilla looking thing here," she said into her morpher, staring at the Kelzaks.

"Yeah, I figured," Cam said. "I'll call the others. Who's that with you, by the way?"

"My brother," Andi said, kind of sheepishly. She kicked away a Kelzak when it got too close to her. "When'll the others be here?"

"They're on their way, be careful!"

"You know I will, Cam! Thanks!" With that, she lowered her wrist and got back into the fight.

"Hey, did someone call for a monkey wrangler!" called a voice, and Andi looked up.

"Guys!" she called.

"Hey, Andi, Cam called! Said you needed a little help," Shane said, getting right into the fight. The others were all with him.

"Looks like your team showed up just in time!" Jason said, punching away a Kelzak that tried to grab him.

"Oh, yeah, guys, this is Jason, Jason, this is the guys!" Andi introduced quickly, ducking under a high kick.

"Dude! You're an original Ranger!" Dustin exclaimed in amazement.

"Not the time, Dustin!" Tori exclaimed.

"Yeah, fight now, fanboy later," Blake said.

"Right, right, sorry," Dustin said.

Hunter shook his head at the Yellow Ranger, and fought his way to Andi's side.

"You okay?" he asked the White Ranger, ending up back to back with her.

"I've been better," she answered, "Glad you guys are here!" she spun away from him to roundhouse kick a Kelzak in the face.

Once the Kelzaks were defeated, the Rangers and Jason met back up.

"You guys are good," Jason said approvingly.

"Hey! You didn't forget about me, did you?!" the gorilla monster shouted.

"You know we didn't!" Andi shouted back. "It's Morphin' Time, guys!"

"Ninja Storm!"

"Winter Storm!"

"Thunder Storm!"

"Ranger Form, HA!"

"Power of Air!"

"Earth!"

"Water!"

"Power of Thunder!"

"Power of Winter!"

"I'm going to leave you guys to it," Jason said, running out of the way of his siter and her team.

"Alright, Gorilla Head, what does Lothor want with my brother?!" Andi demanded, taking a step forward.

"Easy!" the gorilla laughed. "He's a former Ranger! He has more experience than all of you! He could crush you!"

"Hey! Former Rangers are off limits!" Shane exclaimed, and the team seemed to take this as their call to action, and they all rushed forward.

"Ninja Sword!" they all called, and soon the gorilla monster had six swords to dodge, which wasn't very easy. He managed to fight them off individually, but when they teamed up, it became harder.

"Ready, guys?" Shane called.

"Yeah!"

"You know it!"

"Let's do this!"

"Alright, let's put 'em together!"

"Thunder Storm Canon!"

"Ready, aim, FIRE!"

The strong blast was all it took to destroy the gorilla monster, but, before the Rangers could celebrate, as usual, a large scroll appeared and unrolled.

"Hey Cam, I think it's Zord time!" Andi said, staring up at the skyscraper-sized gorilla.

"On their way!"

With a grin, Andi jumped up into her Zord, and they quickly formed the Thunderzord Megazord.

Their sword was all it took to destroy the gorilla monster for good, and in a few well-placed strikes, he was gone for good.

…

After the battle, the Rangers met up at Ninja Ops. Andi was the last to arrive, Jason right behind.

"Hey guys," she said, getting everyone's attention. "Jason, this is Hunter, Blake, Shane, Dustin, Tori, our tech guy, Cam, and Sensei," she said. "Everybody, this is Jason. My brother."

"The first Red Ranger!" Dustin exclaimed.

During the battle, Shane had been filled with adrenaline, but now, he was not. And so, the Red Ranger, facing his predecessor, and the very first Red Ranger of Earth, hit the ground in the dead faint.

"Um… Is he okay?" Jason asked after a moment.

Everyone just stared at Shane's prone body, unsure of what to do.

"So!" Tori finally exclaimed.

…

Later that night, Andi let Jason into her apartment, walking in after him.

"Sorry about them," Andi said, brushing her hair out of her face. "I guess I should have known, Shane fainted at meeting Rocky, too," she said.

"Nah, it's okay," Jason said. "Once he woke up, he seemed okay. A good Red. Although having two Reds and two Blues seems to be kinda weird."

"Hunter's technically Crimson, and Blake's Navy," Andi said with a shrug. "Shane's the leader, but he and Hunter tend to co-lead sometimes."

Jason nodded, looking around her apartment in interest. The small apartment was very… Andi, with mismatched furniture, and pictures and a few prints and paintings on her walls. She had a book shelf, as well, crammed with all sorts of books.

"Your team's pretty good," he said. "But I still have one question." He turned to face her.

"You're wondering why I never told you," Andi guessed, not meeting her brother's eyes.

"Why didn't you?" he asked after a moment of silence.

Andi's eyebrows went up for only a second before falling and she took a deep breath, finally meeting his brown eyes. "Jase, you're a Red Ranger. You're an Original Ranger. I've never beaten you in a spar. For as long as I can remember, I've always wondered in the back of my mind if I'd ever be able to live up to that legacy. My own fighting is nowhere near as good as yours, and I compare myself to you every time I fight. I didn't tell anybody, because I didn't want to be compared to you. And I'm sorry about that, I am, but now you know, and I'm just confused as to why you're not angry at me. Because even I know that I deserve your anger."

Jason took this all in, and then nodded his head. "You're right," he said. "I do have every right to be mad at you. You knew from the beginning that I was a Ranger, and yet I only found out that you've been one for the past four months, today. I'd be correct to be furious with you. But I'm not."

"You're not," Andi said flatly.

"I'm not," he repeated. "Because you're my little sister. And I get it. You didn't ask for the Power, just like none of us do. And you were doing what you thought was best, right?" she nodded. "Exactly."

"What are you trying to say, Jase?" Andi asked.

"I'm saying that I understand why you didn't say anything to any of us." Jason said.

Andi looked at him. "I never thought I'd get powers," she admitted, "and then Lothor attacked my academy, and took all of the students. He took Sensei Mako. He still has them and the students and sensei's of the Wind, Thunder, and Fire academies as well, and we're fighting our hardest to get them back. Whether I live up to you at this point or not, I'm doing what I have to do to get them back."

Jason looked at her, impressed. "You're doing this for all the right reasons, Andrea Scott, don't think you're not. And I'm proud of you. Zordon would be proud of you."

Andi smiled, feeling tears enter her eyes. Andi wasn't a crier, but this was something that any of them would cry at.

"Thanks," she said quietly.

Jason smiled, and brought his sister into a hug.

"Seriously though, Rocky knew before me?"

Andi laughed.