"Is he okay?"

Julie bit her lip as she stared at the form of their teacher and mentor literally incased in a human-sized block of amber as Hayley ran a scanner over it multiple times. Someone should've gone with him to retrieve the scanner they had left at the warehouse, maybe then this wouldn't have happened.

"This internal scan should be able to tell us more," Hayley responded, resigned. The older woman didn't outwardly seem very worried, but Julie knew her enough at this point that she could see the stress in her body from how stiffly she was holding herself.

"What's the deal?" Kira asked. "Is he frozen or something?"

"Not exactly," Hayley sighed. "It's more like he's fossilized, fused into this amber-like substance."

"I knew he liked dinosaurs, but this is taking it to a whole new level," Julie said, staring at the still form of Dr. Oliver. Was he okay in there?

Conner crossed his arms and she could see the tension in his shoulders. "Can you get him out?"

Hayley shook her head. "Too risky. He's able to stay alive in there, but I'd hate to think what would happen if I broke him out."

"A paleontologist turned into a fossil," Ethan said. "The White Ranger's got a great sense of humor."

"Well personally I've had enough of him," Kira said.

Conner nodded, "Let's find out who this guy is and deal with him. Now."

"But what are we going to do about Dr. O?" Julie asked. "We can't just, I don't know, leave him like this?"

"He should be fine," Hayley explained, placing a hand on her shoulder. "And, as of right now, there's nothing we can do."

"So, we just find the White Ranger and make him to fix it!" Ethan said.

'That hasn't exactly gone their way before,' Julie couldn't help but think, but she kept her thoughts quiet. Everyone worried in their own ways.

Hayley had to leave the lab and Dr. Oliver to go to work, so the teenagers decided they would try and figure out where and who exactly the White Ranger was.

"We're getting nowhere," Julie said as they walked through the warehouse where Dr. Oliver was frozen. Ethan had suggested to backtrack to all of the spots any of them had every fought the White Ranger to try and find some clues to his identity and, while it as a great idea in theory, they hadn't had any luck.

"Maybe we need to go to where there are a lot of people," Kira suggested. "Didn't Dr. O try and blend in with everyone else when he was an evil Ranger? That might be what he's doing."

"Yeah!" Conner said. "We just have to look for anyone acting strange."

"Easier said than done," Ethan added, but agreed.

The four climbed into Conner's small car and rode around town for a couple of hours, but still didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Reefside looked exactly the same as it always did, minus the part of the city that had been destroyed during the White Ranger's Zord battle. Even then, the construction crews were working quickly and effectively and nothing looked out of the ordinary.

"Maybe Hayley's got some ideas," Ethan suggested as they walked into Cyberspace, defeated. Julie was almost tempted to call Justin and ask if he knew what to do, but then that would mean explaining the fact that her brother's old teammate was now a fossil and they had decided to keep that on the down low for now.

"Yeah, but it looks like she's kinda busy right now," Kira said as she looked around the café that was absolutely packed with people. Hayley, herself, was behind the counter and didn't even look up to see who had just walked in she was so busy.

"Well, let's hit the streets again," Conner said. "We might've missed something. It's not like the White Ranger's just going to walk in here."

Suddenly, Trent pushed between Conner and Kira and Julie rose her eyebrows in concern. He still didn't look good.

"Hey Trent," Kira said, hopeful.

"Hey," the other boy replied, not even making eye contact as he continued through the crowd. Julie placed a hand on the other girl's shoulder. She couldn't believe that she had almost forgotten the crush the Yellow Ranger had on their classmate.

It must be killing her to see him like this.

The four of them leaned up against the counter where Hayley was working, waiting for the older woman to maybe get some time in between customers to give them any kind of idea on what to go on.

"Grab a tray," Julie heard Hayley say to Trent.

"I can't, I'm quitting," the boy replied.

The four Rangers turned to him, gobsmacked. Julie's jaw actually dropped.

"Why?" Hayley asked, scoffing. "In trouble with your dad again?"

She didn't hear anything else he said as he followed Hayley back and forth as she tried to serve all of the customers until he came to a stop next to them again and said, "I'm sorry" before walking away.

Kira got up to follow him and Julie slid into the girl's vacated seat.

"Is he okay?" she asked. "Quitting? That's not a very Trent-like thing to do."

"For real," Ethan said. "I mean, I know his dad's kind of psycho, and has tried to make him quit before but this?"

Julie chewed on her lip in thought, but dismissed it quickly. There was no chance, right? She could definitely see that Trent's personality had changed drastically in such a short amount of time, but she could have sworn that she had seen Trent during one of their fights with the White Ranger.

Right?

She shook the thoughts aside, placing them on the back burner. It wasn't even a complete thought and they had other things to worry about.

Mainly, finding the actual White Ranger and getting him to free Dr. Oliver.

"Excuse me! Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the scoop of the century!"

Julie groaned and almost slammed her head down on the countertop as Cassidy strolled into the café. Ethan laughed and patted her on the back.

"Come on, your favorite person requests an audience," he said, standing up. Conner followed his example and Julie felt like she had no choice but to follow.

"I know better reporters who have more talent in their pinky finger than she does in her entire body," Julie said, standing in between the two boys with her arms crossed.

"Shush," Conner said, elbowing her.

Cassidy, at that point, cleared the girls who were sitting on the stage off and climbed up onto it. She stepped up to the mic and Julie cringed at the reverb.

"-And as my faithful core audience, I wanted to share it with you guys first," the bubbly girl said.

"What do you think this is about?" Ethan asked, a grin on his face.

"It could honestly be anything," Julie replied. "Maybe Randall is a hero again?"

"Maybe she's decided to run for Queen?" Kira said, as she and Trent wandered over to them.

Julie snorted as Cassidy continued, "I have uncovered the identity of the one and only White Ranger. And any minute now, my assistant Devin is going to come through that door with videotape evidence!"

The Rangers all looked at each other in shock. There was no way, right? How could Cassidy have done what they couldn't?

"You don't think…" Conner started. Julie scoffed in reply.

"No way," she said. "There's seriously no way. I mean, first of all, how?"

"But what if she's right?" Ethan asked. "Devin does always have his camera."

They all turned towards the red double doors, waiting for Devin to walk in because clearly Cassidy had cued him, but they didn't open.

"Any minute," the girl on stage said. Julie felt her heartrate calm down.

Of course, they didn't have any evidence.

The crowd had literally all stopped what they were doing and were now looking back and forth between Cassidy and the door, in silence, until a disheveled Devin burst through the door.

"Oh, oh Cass! I'm here!" he said, running towards her. "Sorry I'm late!"

He pushed through the crowd and climbed up on stage with her and Julie grabbed both of the boys tightly by the elbow. This was either going to solve all of their problems or be completely embarrassing for the other girl and the Pink Ranger didn't know which one she wanted more.

"This'll be good," Conner muttered to her.

"Devin, where's your camera?" Cassidy said, a little away from the mic but it still managed to carry through the crowded space.

Devin smiled and waved to the crowd before turning to Cassidy with a frown and saying something that nobody could hear, despite Julie stressing her hearing.

"-Only if you don't have it."

"We're waiting!" Julie called as Devin leaned to whisper something in the girl's ear. Ethan elbowed her. "What? She said she had what the people wanted. I'm a people and I want it."

Cassidy sighed as soon as Devin finished talking and turned back to the mic, the peppiness in her voice now seemed forced.

"Ladies and gentlemen," she started. "It appears that the White Ranger is…."

Julie and the others exchanged looks, Ethan's jaw dropping.

"Taped on a camera that Devin stupidly loaned his sister," the crowd groaned in unison and turned away from here and Julie couldn't help but let out a laugh, blocking out the rest of what she said.

"See? There was no way," she said. "Something wacky is going to happen and we'll later find out that his sister taped over the footage of the White Ranger or something and we'll be back at square one."

"You do seem to have her pegged really well, huh?" Conner asked, a smirk on his face. Julie laughed.

"She's like a cartoon character," she said.

"Hey, did you guys see where Trent went?" Kira asked. "He was going to tell me something but disappeared."

"Nah, we were too busy listening to Julie make fun of Cassidy," Ethan said.

"Sorry Kira," she said, shrugging. She went to open her mouth to say something else, but their communicators beeped.

"You don't think…"

The Blue Ranger shook his head. "No, there's no way. Hayley wrote a program to send out an alert whenever the White Ranger's energy signature was tracked to somewhere in town. Dr. O should still be in amber."

Julie sighed but followed the others out to track down the elusive White Ranger. They needed their fifth Ranger back.

"Hold it right there!" Conner yelled as they rode up on their Raptor Cycles to see an honestly terrifying scene in front of them. The White Ranger was fighting both Elsa and Zeltrax and, seemingly, getting the upper hand.

This wasn't good.

"Great, that's all we need," Elsa lamented. The four ignored her and climbed off their bikes and ran over to the action.

"Whoa," Ethan said. "Whose side do we take?"

"The less evil side?" Julie suggested.

"Which one's 'less?'" Kira asked.

"Good question," Conner said, confused.

Elsa scoffed. "We'll make it easy for you!" The White Ranger moved towards both of Mesogog's goons like he was about to attack them, but the woman lifted her sword into the air and disappeared into an Invisiportal.

Leaving the White Ranger's attention focused exclusively on them.

"If you had any sense, you'd run too," the evil Ranger said, pointing his sword at them.

"Dream on," Kira said, pointing at him. Julie quietly sighed but got into fighting position.

Of course, they didn't have any sense.

"Let's do it!" Conner ordered, summoning his saber. Julie and the others summoned their main weapons and jumped into the fray.

Conner's strikes didn't do much – the White Ranger blocked both of his hits and then slashed at him, knocking him away. Kira jumped in with her Ptera Grips and, when she went to hit him, he used his sword to block both at the same time and pushed her up against a nearby wall.

"Had enough?" he asked.

"Hardly," Kira replied. Julie's jaw then dropped as she yelled, "Super Dino Mode!" and transformed.

The white diamonds along the seams of the uniform hardened and grew, becoming actual armor and little spikes grew on the back of the Yellow Ranger's boots. She also had fabric appear underneath her arms, connecting to her sides like wings.

Nothing could stop her then.

She sliced out at the White Ranger knocking him back. He rolled on the ground for a bit before standing, immediately on the defensive, but Kira wasted no time and jumped up, flying.

"Did we know she could do that?" Julie asked, helping Conner up. The Red Ranger shook his head.

"I didn't get wings when I went Super Dino Mode," he said. "So not fair."

"T-rex's don't have wings," Ethan added.

Kira, still flying, latched her feet to the shoulders of the White Ranger and dragged him across the empty lot they had found him in, just high enough off the ground that he was kicking the air trying to wiggle out.

She lost her grip on him after running him into a chain-link fence and Julie cheered as fell and landed hard on the ground.

"You'll pay for that!" he yelled.

The Yellow Ranger had turned around and started flying back at him, but he summoned his laser arrows and fired them at her, knocking her out of the sky.

She lost her Super Dino Mode as she fell to the ground and the other three jumped in front of her.

"Lasers, fire!" they shouted, pulling their blasters out of their belt.

Julie didn't know how, but instead of literally any of their hits landing, the White Ranger knocked all of their blasts back at them which sent them flying.

"That's enough," Kira said, forcing herself to her feet. She ran towards the White Ranger who only blocked her hits before holding her so that her arm was twisted behind her.

"You're a little out of your league, don't you think?" he asked. He sent her flying, Kira landing on the ground ten feet away from him. "See my point?"

He summoned his laser arrows again and Julie let out a scream as the full force of the attack was focused on Kira who was thrown forward into the air by the blows as they hit her and landed behind her.

When she hit the ground, she demorphed.

"You'll pay for that!" Julie yelled at him, leading the boys into an attack. She went to kick him, but he grabbed her leg and knocked it away before slicing her with his sword and she fell to the ground.

"I never did like the color yellow," the White Ranger said once he had easily dealt with both Conner and Ethan. He stalked towards Kira's defenseless, unmorphed form and bent down. Julie couldn't hear what he said to her, but he quickly grabbed her by the arm and pulled her up into a sitting position, his fist raised in the air.

And then he stopped.

"Kira?" Julie heard him say and she quickly pulled herself to her feet as the White Ranger stepped away, clutching his helmet.

"You ready?" Conner asked.

"Oh, yeah," Ethan replied, cracking his knuckles.

"He asked for it," Julie added. Maybe they had a chance since he was distracted.

"Super Dino Mode!" the three yelled.

Julie felt pure Power surge through her body, and she reveled in the feeling. Just like Kira, the white diamonds on the seams of her suit hardened and grew, turning from diamond shaped to look like the plates on the Stegosaurus' back, fully covering her in armor.

When she finished transforming, she didn't even glance at the boys before jumping into the fight – feeling safer than she had ever felt.

The three morphed Rangers knocked the White Ranger away from Kira and engaged him in a fight that he definitely wasn't prepared for, but Julie didn't look the gift horse in the mouth.

Conner kicked and knocked him away while Ethan got a running start and jumped off a bunch of shipping crates and crashed down into him, his shoulder spikes larger than all of theirs combined. When the Blue Ranger moved out of the way, Julie charged at the White Ranger, lowering her head and running straight into him and knocked him about ten feet back.

Conner jumped off a large, metal container and twisted in mid-air, kicking the White Ranger and slicing at him with the spikes on the back of his boot and causing his suit to start sparking, which Julie knew was the end of the fight.

The White Ranger fell to the ground and the three Rangers in Super Dino Mode glowed their respective colors and their additions faded away.

"I'll be back," the White Ranger said, struggling to his feet. He turned around and ran off, jumping onto the nearby building and running away.

"Power Down," Conner said, Ethan and Julie following his example. The Pink Ranger, however, couldn't help but jump up and down with a bright grin on his face.

"Did we just beat him?" she asked, excited. "Was that, literally, something that just happened?"

The three ran over to Kira who was still on the ground and helped her struggled to her feet.

"Are you okay?" Ethan asked.

"Yeah," the Yellow Ranger said. "I'll be fine." She stepped forward, wobbling slightly and looked to where the White Ranger disappeared in silence.

Something had happened when the White Ranger had gone over to her, Julie realized, and she didn't know if it was good or not.

"You're kidding me," Julie said, staring gobsmacked at Kira who just dropped the bomb to end all bombs.

"Trent? Oh, there's no way," Ethan said.

Hayley was just staring blankly ahead, occasionally glancing over at the fossilized form of Dr. Oliver while Conner was angrily pacing back and forth.

Julie honestly didn't know what to think.

"Nice," Conner said, practically spitting he was so angry. "Pretending to be our friend one minute, and then kicking our butts the next." He ran both hands through his hair and let out an angry sigh. "I can't believe I fell for it."

"I told you he can't help it!" Kira argued, defending Trent. "The Gem is too powerful."

"It doesn't look good, Kira," Julie said, crossing her arms.

"Yeah, stop defending him," Conner added, turning away.

Julie could see that the Yellow Ranger was about to flip but she didn't know how she could salvage this situation. Was this what the original Rangers felt like when they found out Dr. O was the evil Green Ranger? Or when they found out that it was Kat that stole the Pink Power Coin?

And everything worked out with them, right? But this? This just seemed way too much to handle.

"I'm with Conner on this one," Ethan said, speaking up. "I mean, look at what he did to Dr. O!"

Kira turned and followed where Ethan was pointing to look at their fossilized teammate before turning to Hayley, speaking directly to her for the first time.

"Hayley, he needs our help," she pleaded. "Surely there's-"

"I don't know if there's anything I can do," the red headed woman finally said, shaking herself out of a stupor. "But I'll try."

"Hey, don't go without us," Conner said, grabbing her arm as she went to turn and walk out. "I got some stuff I'd like to say to that guy."

"No doubt," Ethan replied before following them out.

As everyone started to leave the basement, Julie bit her lip and looking back at their mentor and teammate. She could stay here, monitor the town cameras-

"I know the White Ranger scares you," Conner said, coming back down to get her. "But it's just Trent, we can take him."

She shook her head, "But we've only managed to beat him once and we were in Super Dino Mode and he had just had a realization that Kira was Kira and the evil gem's Power was starting to break." Julie took a deep breath.

The Red Ranger placed a hand on her shoulder, "Okay, then we'll just have to figure out a new way, but Jules, we can do it. I promise."

The Pink Ranger sighed before nodding. A bright smile spread across Conner's face.

"Now come on, it's really creepy down here with just Dr. O."

Thankfully, Kira had said that she had left Trent not far from the lab and they ran the entire way there. Hayley had even managed to mostly keep up with them in an exhibition of her willpower to fix this thing and get Dr. Oliver back to normal.

However, the bench where Kira said she had found him was empty.

"No! He was supposed to wait right here!" she said.

The Yellow Ranger ran up to it and picked up the White Ranger's (now that was hard to get used to thinking) sketchbook, looking at it as if it would give her all the answers as to where he went.

"There's a surprise," Ethan said, sarcastically. "He lied to us. Again."

"Kira I'm telling you, Trent can't be trusted," Conner said.

Julie sighed, "I hate to agree with them, you know I do, but they're right."

Kira looked at them crestfallen, cradling the forgotten sketchbook in her arms. Julie walked up to her and wrapped the other girl in a tight hug.

"I know it's hard to believe," she whispered to the other girl. "But right now, we have no other options. We can't trust Trent, especially since he's the White Ranger. That could change, it has with other evil Rangers in the past, but for now? Kira, he fossilized Dr. Oliver. Trent is the bad guy."

The Yellow Ranger sighed and nodded, before following them back to the lab.

They ran back to the lab to see if the White Ranger was out causing chaos since he had disappeared on them, Kira trailing behind and Julie kept turning back to watch the other girl and make sure she stayed with them and didn't go off to find Trent.

When they got back, Julie anxiously fiddled with her phone.

The Rangers and Hayley had come to an agreement that they wouldn't tell anyone about Dr. O's newfound hobby as a museum exhibit and it was killing Julie to not tell her brother or their mentor's past teammates.

That also meant that she couldn't tell them about Trent being the White Ranger, because he was the one who fossilized Dr. O, even though they had all had experiences with past evil Rangers and could definitely help with figuring out how to turn Trent not-evil and maybe even how to free Dr. Oliver.

"I'm picking up the White Ranger's signal," Hayley said. "He's back."

The four Rangers ran towards the computers from four different corners of the lab, so entrenched in their own thoughts. They watched on the screens as the White Ranger summoned his DragoZord and the StegoZord and Julie felt her heart wrench as she watched the two Zords form into the Dino StegoZord MegaZord.

"Great. Major MegaZord action right off the bat," Ethan groaned.

"Poor Stella," Julie said, reaching out towards the screen. "We'll save you."

"This might be a good time to use a new DinoZord," Hayley interjected. "I know it's not the StegoZord, but-"

Julie sighed. "No, I know. Okay."

"Let's do it," Conner said.

The four Rangers moved towards the middle of the lab away from the computer bank and Dr. O. Julie held her morpher up, ready to go, but Conner stopped in his tracks.

"Wait," he said, turning and speaking to Kira directly. "We have to do whatever it takes to stop Trent. You know that, right?"

The two stared at each other for an uncomfortably long minute before the Yellow Ranger gave a succinct nod.

"Dino Thunder, Power Up! Ha!"

Julie hated sitting on the sidelines, waiting for the Thundersaurus MegaZord to fully form before Hayley said over the comms, "You're a go Julie. AnkyloZord."

The Pink Ranger looked down at her morpher to see the familiar head of her pink StegoZord turn orange while the AnkyloZord burrowed its way up out of the ground.

It was very flat, with a heavily armored back and a long tail with a weapon shaped into a sharp poing on the end of it and Julie jumped into the cockpit, feeling the confusion and then quick acceptance of the DinoZord as they joined together.

"You ready AnkyloZord?" she asked it before turning to the others. "Let's do this!"

"A new DinoZord, eh?" the White Ranger said, his voice carrying from his MegaZord. "I'll have to add it to my collection."

"I don't think so!" Conner yelled.

"Not this time, bucko," Julie replied, gritting her teeth, and holding tight to the controls.

Trent's MegaZord reached out and grabbed onto the tail of the AnkyloZord while the Tricera arm of the Thundersaurus MegaZord reached out and grabbed onto the head and Julie let out a groan as the two MegaZords lifted the AnkyloZord hundreds of feet in the air and started playing tug of war with it.

"I'm getting tired of this," she said. "AnkyloZord, get out!"

The AnkyloZord bit the Tricera arm, causing the Thundersaurus MegaZord to fall back and, at the same time, started to spin its tail to knock the enemy MegaZord loose as well. It landed on the ground with a thud, but on it's feet even though it seemed to knock the two MegaZords on their sides.

"Sorry guys!" Julie called.

The MegaZords quickly got up and started fighting each other, but the Dino StegoZord MegaZord clearly had the upperhand.

"Let's do this, AnkyloZord," Julie said. "Fire!"

The back armor of the orange Zord started spinning rapidly as it curled its tail up and fired the projectile at the end towards Trent's MegaZord right as it was about to hit the fallen Thundersaurus MegaZord and knocked it back.

"What are you guys waiting for?" Hayley asked over the comms. "AnkyloZord may be small but check out his power."

"AnkyloZord Weapon Formation!" The Rangers shouted in unison.

The TriceraZord arm fell away and the AnkyloZord's tail straightened into a spear and it's armored back became almost shieldlike and rested on the shoulder of the Zord.

Julie felt a surge of energy as she joined into the MegaZord cockpit, having missed it greatly.

"Miss me?" she asked.

"Let's go! Formation complete!"

The tail and the armored plate started spinning independently of each other and Julie grinned inside her helmet, glad to be back in the action.

Julie didn't have much time to get used to being in the main cockpit of the MegaZord as Trent unleashed a barrage of lasers at them.

"Deflect!" Julie yelled, pushing a button on her control panel.

Instead of being hit directly by the lasers, as they had been in the past, the MegaZord turned to the side and the spinning armor plate of the Ankylo arm reflected the laser blasts back at Trent, which he clearly wasn't expecting so he didn't defend himself.

The MegaZord ran forward and swiped at Trent with the spinning Ankylo arm, knocking him to the side. The White Ranger was completely on the defensive, his MegaZord struggling to stand up. Even though she had lost most of her connection with the StegoZord since it was stolen, Julie still couldn't help but send thankful thoughts at it for keeping him unsteady.

"Thundersaurus MegaZord!" the Rangers shouted. "Double Drill Attack!"

The MegaZord raised the Tyranno and Ankylo arms to the sky and they both started spinning rapidly in both directions before hitting Trent, once, twice, and knocking him back. They reared the Ankylo arm back and jabbed it, it's weapon on the end hitting Trent's MegaZord straight in the chest and sending him flying and crashing to the ground.

Trent got back up and said, "Don't think this is over!"

Julie braced herself for some new thing, some new weapon, but instead of attacking them Trent and his MegaZord completely disappeared, running away from the fight.

"So, Julie, are you ready for your competition?"

Julie looked up from her notes to see Conner staring at her from one of the couches of Cyberspace. Ethan was too involved in his gaming magazine to care about his surroundings and Kira had disappeared quickly after the fight and Julie had hoped that she didn't go to find Trent.

She sighed, "As ready as I'll ever be."

Her first-time skating in public since her accident had come quicker than she had even thought. She was leaving in two days for Germany, halfway around the world, to compete against people who she had known since she was in junior competitions, only now they were practically adults who had all seen her rise and fall.

"You'll have to record the whole thing" Hayley said, coming over to them and wiping down a table. "I bet Tommy would like to see it whenever he…"

Julie nodded. "Of course! Justin will want to have a whole party whenever we get back," she said. "He may not know anything about figure skating, but he's been the most supportive big brother a girl could ask for. It might've been because I made his flash cards for him when we were kids and quizzed him on them every night, but still."

"And the Astro Rangers can teleport you back?" Ethan asked, bringing up their previous talks. "Just in case the White Ranger comes calling?"

She nodded. "100%. And Kat will be house sitting for us, and she has her Zeonizers so, if something happens, you can get in touch with her and she can be right there."

The Blue Ranger nodded and turned back to his magazine, finally accepting the contingency plan upon contingency plan that she had created to keep them safe.

She had a medal to win, after all.