Julie stared in shocked silence as she watched her teacher try and demorph, only to fail each and every time. Did the amber do something to him?
"Dr. O, I know the suit looks good and all," Kira started, "but quit kidding around."
"I wish I could Kira," the Black Ranger said. "When Trent froze me in that amber, somehow my Dino gem in my morpher must've re-molecularized."
"In other words?" Conner asked, confused.
Hayley sighed. "He's stuck."
"Why can't you just like, take off the helmet?" Julie asked. "Or are you just a walking suit with Dr. O's brain and voice but his body is somewhere else because of the re-molecularization?"
"That's exactly-" Dr. Oliver started, but was interrupted by Hayley pushing her way past the group and back to the computer bank.
"Speaking of Trent," the red head said. "Looks like he's up to no good again."
"I am so over that poser," Conner said angrily.
Dr. O sighed. "Go. I'll see what we can figure out here." He looked to Julie. "Keep your brother on standby, we might need him. He knew all the science behind why he was morphed to look like an adult even though he was just a kid and we might be able to use his knowledge to help in my situation."
The Pink Ranger nodded, "Just say the word Dr. O and he'll be out here."
"Ready?" Conner asked.
"Ready," the others replied, putting their hands over their morphers.
"Dino Thunder, Power Up! Ha!"
By the time they got downtown where Trent and his MegaZord were literally destroying the city, Julie almost vomited at the destruction that they passed. Whole buildings were torn down and the civilians were literally running for their lives while everything burned and crumbled around them.
What happened to the sweet boy who liked to draw superheroes?
The ride to get closer to Trent was bumpy. They had to leave the Raptor Cycles behind because of all the debris so they were riding their Raptor Riders who had a lot more maneuverability but were very shaky.
That might also be one of the reasons that Julie was going to vomit. She had never done well with motion sickness.
"Fire!" Conner commanded as they got close enough.
The quad of Rangers pulled out their blasters and fired them at the MegaZord, not really doing much other than drawing Trent's attention down to them and Julie prepared herself to lunge out of the way at any moment to avoid its giant feet.
"That's enough!" Conner yelled up at their once-friend in the cockpit.
"I'm just getting started," Trent replied.
The Red Ranger sighed. "It's Zord time!"
Julie bit her lip as she watched as her Zord, still attached to Trent's MegaZord, didn't even twitch. The connection between the two of them that she had thought was so deep, was a chasm of emptiness.
Her StegoZord was well and truly gone.
The primary-colored Ranger summoned their Zords and Julie looked down to see her Stego Morper turn into the Parasaur Morpher and sent a silent thanks to Dr. O and Hayley back at the lab before jumping into its cockpit as it formed the left arm of the Thundersaurus MegaZord.
"Make your move," they heard Trent say, confidently.
"What's he up to?" Ethan asked.
"I don't know," Kira said passionately. "But we have to stop him!"
Suddenly, a large length of chain shot out of Trent's MegaZord and flew towards them, wrapping them so tightly that they struggled to get out. "I hate to do this to you," the White Ranger said, you know - like a liar, definitely not hating that he had to do it.
"Conner do something!" Julie begged as she pressed buttons on her console, trying to figure someway to break out.
"We need DinoZord help!" the Red Ranger said.
He pushed a button on his console and Julie felt the CephaloZord and the DimetrodonZord go online and start towards them.
But then, "Perfect."
In horror, Julie watched as two sparkling lights flew out of Trent's MegaZord and went straight to their auxiliary Zords, enveloping them and stopping them in their tracks by placing them in giant barrels.
"What?" Conner asked, stunned. "Let them go!"
"You already took one!" Julie cried out.
"And I'll take them all," Trent replied.
"Trent, you've gotta stop this!" Kira pleaded. "You're out of control!"
The White Ranger snorted, "Looks more like I'm in control."
"What's he gonna do with them?" Ethan asked, worriedly.
"Probably make a bigger MegaZord," Julie said through gritted teeth.
Trent shot a large, purple laser at them that hit directly because they weren't paying attention and the four Rangers cried out as the Thundersaurus MegaZord shook.
By the time it stopped shaking and they looked up, Trent had disappeared – taking their auxiliary Zords with him.
The four Rangers rushed back to the lab, pushing their Raptors as fast at they would go. By the time they slid to a stop and climbed off their Raptors (who were so well-trained that they went straight into their paddocks, thanks Dr. O and Hayley), the red head was already scanning the county to find where their Zords had been taken.
Julie unclipped her helmet and took it off, cradling it under her arm as she stared in shock.
"What's the situation, Hayley?" Dr. O asked.
"It's no good," the other woman said. "He's got them in a force field."
Julie bit her lip, concerned.
"It's not Trent's fault," Kira pleaded. "The Gem is making him this way!"
"I don't care whose fault it is," Conner said, succinctly. "We find a way to deal with him, or things are going to get ugly."
Julie nodded. "Kira, it may be the Gem, but the White Ranger still actively destroyed a huge part of the city just by being a jerk than anything we or one of Mesogog's monsters have done in fights. People's lives are actively at risk now."
"Slow down," Dr. Oliver said. "I was in his shoes once, and I wouldn't be here today if my friends had given up on me."
The Pink Ranger bit her tongue on a reply, knowing full well that the situations were vastly different.
"Okay, so we don't give up yet," Ethan said with a sigh. "But what do we do?"
"Yeah, asking him nicely hasn't exactly worked," Julie added.
"Go back to school," their teacher said. "Keep a low profile. Hayley and I will let you know if anything changes."
The four Rangers reluctantly nodded and turned away.
"Julie?" Dr. O called.
The Pink Ranger stopped and turned back to her teacher. "What's up?"
"Don't tell Justin. We're working on it."
She nodded and followed after her friends.
Julie closed her eyes and stretched as she sat outside during her study period, soaking up the sun before it started to get as cold as Northern California got in the winter. Her sport of choice may deal with being cold, but she still loved the warm feeling of basking in the sun on nice days.
She sighed and looked down at her planner, literally filled to the brim with different sticky notes marking what she needed to do that day, week, and month in order to be able to graduate with the rest of her friends.
She couldn't afford to stay in school an extra year, especially not with Olympic qualifiers, and she didn't have the patience to do homeschooling again.
She yawned right as her communicator beeped. Julie looked around carefully to see if anyone was paying attention before she held it up to her mouth.
"Go for Julie."
"It's Conner. Something happened. Please come."
Julie shoveled her belongings into her overstuffed bag, "Where are you?"
"At the bleachers to the soccer field. There's no practice today so I figured it was safe."
"Safe? For what? What exactly is going on?" she asked as she looked around, still making sure no one was watching her as she started to quickly walk to the other side of the campus.
"Julie please, hurry."
The Pink Ranger sighed as the communicator shut off and picked up speed.
The bleachers to the soccer field were old concrete and generally in disrepair, but still not enough of a hazard for the school to redo. It was also the only covered bleachers in case of rain, which the soccer team were notorious to play in.
She caught sight of Conner running his hands through his hair anxiously and picked up her pace until she was standing next to the boy, putting a hand on his elbow.
"Hey, relax. It's gonna be fine," she said. "Now what happened? Was it-"
Conner grabbed her by the shoulders and physically turned her around and she held in her gasp as she saw the disgruntled form of Trent sitting on the lowest bleacher, his head in his hands.
"Conner!" she hissed through her teeth, slapping him on the chest. "Wha-?"
"We were fighting," the Red Ranger explained, his voice low. "I was holding my own, we both went down. Zeltrax and a new monster appeared and blasted him with something – when he demorphed, he said he was him again."
"He said he was him again?" Julie asked. Conner nodded.
"He's reformed, yeah."
Julie bit her lip and looked from her friend to the boy who used to be their friend anxiously. Was it true? Was whatever he was blasted with enough to turn him normal? She saw that Trent still had his Dino gem around his wrist.
She opened her mouth to say something as the final bell rang.
"Can you stay here and watch him while I go get the others?" Conner asked. Julie nodded, absently as she continued to stare at the supposed reformed Ranger. "Okay, I'll be back quick."
Julie gripped her bags straps tighter in her hand as she stood a significant distance from the other Ranger. She was worried, and she had the right to be.
The only thing she could think about was Stella and what this meant. Would he give her back? Or still keep her? And what about the auxiliary Zords that he just stole?
Would they be an actual team of six? Could she trust him enough to be an actual teammate?
It didn't take long for Conner to flag down the others and Julie turned to them at Kira's gasp.
"It's Trent," Ethan said, awed. "Now I know you're crazy."
"I know dude, but check it out," Conner explained. "He's reformed."
"Really?" Kira asked, hopefully. "Trent? Are you in there?"
It was then that the White Ranger finally stood up and Julie couldn't help but take a subtle step back.
"Hey," he said. "It's really me."
"One of Mesogog's monster attacks backfired," Conner explained.
"I think he released the Dino gem's hold," Trent explained, a smile on his face.
The group were quiet for a minute before Ethan finally said, "That doesn't make a whole lot of sense."
"Guys look," Trent started. "I'm really sorry for everything I've done to you. You gotta believe it wasn't me." He sighed. "If there's anything I can do to make it up to you…"
"Oh, I have a list," Julie started. "Starting with my Zord."
"How about returning all of our Zords, for starts?" Ethan said, cutting her a look. She narrowed her eyes at the Blue Ranger as Trent let out a puff of a laugh.
"Meet me in the warehouse district this afternoon," he said. "I'll give you back your Zords. Especially the StegoZord." Trent smiled at them. "And I might have a little peace offering, as well."
The four Rangers looked at each other in various stages of acceptance, before agreeing.
"I'm not sure this is a good idea," Julie said, as they morphed and climbed onto their Raptor Cycles later that afternoon. "What if he's lying? I want Stella back more than anything but-"
"I believe him," Kira said. "If Trent says he's reformed, he's reformed."
Julie tried not to make a remark about how of course the other girl would believe anything he said, but held it down. She looked over at Conner and Ethan who were decidedly not looking at her, even though she knew they were both just as wary.
They were putting all of their eggs into this one basket and she felt like she was the only one that could see all of the holes.
"Be careful," Dr. O said as he climbed onto the back of Conner's Cycle. "We don't know what he's got. The main goal is to get the Zords. If he starts acting weird, get out fast."
The four Rangers nodded and started up their Cycles before the back door of the lab opened and they rode out.
It had been Julie's idea for them to morph before they got there, just in case, and the others reluctantly did so. She would've thought that, with how skeptical Conner and Ethan had been that they would be all for it, but Conner, specifically, seemed to want to present a united front of acceptance after what Dr. Oliver said.
But she just couldn't. Not until Trent proved himself.
Thankfully the warehouse district was on the edge of town so it didn't take them long to get there, riding into the open hanger doors of the one that Trent had specified to them before he left. Julie caught sight of him sitting on a bunch of boxes, out of the way.
"Hey! Over here!" Trent called, waving his hand in the air.
The four pulled their bikes to a stop and climbed off, meeting the unmorphed White Ranger in the middle of the warehouse.
"I hope you don't mind," Dr. Oliver said. "I tagged along, just in case."
"Dr. Oliver," Trent said, holding out his hand to shake the other man's. "You're okay."
"More or less," their teacher replied.
"I hate to get right to the point," Ethan started. "But I don't see any Zords around here."
"And I don't feel my connection to the StegoZord," Julie added, crossing her arms.
Trent, however, didn't seem phased by them. "I thought we'd start with the peace offering I promised first." He turned around and walked away.
Julie gulped and looked at the others, confused, as Trent walked over to where a tarp was covering something and ripped it away to reveal an ATV that looked like it could've belonged to Dr. O. It was heavy-duty and sturdy, the opposite of their Raptor Cycles.
The boys made noises of appreciation once it was unveiled, but Julie still kept her eyes on Trent, waiting for the Zords.
"I figured you guys could use the help against Mesogog," Trent explained. "Who wants to try it out?"
"Make way," Ethan said, pushing through to the front, but was stopped by Dr. O placing a hand on his shoulder.
"Sorry Ethan," their teacher said. "I think it's better if I try it first."
Julie couldn't help but roll her eyes as she watched their teammate walk up to the person who used to be/could still very well be their enemy to look at the new vehicle. She couldn't hear much of what he said as he inspected it and then got on it, relaxing into the seat.
"12-stroke engine?" she heard Dr. O asked.
Trent nodded. "Yeah, it sure is."
Dr. O's head jerked up quick. "They don't make 12-stroke engines, Trent."
Julie gasped as Trent's face twisted in a way that it hadn't been and his voice deepened into that of the White Ranger as he turned to Dr. O, "And Mesogog doesn't make monsters that turn people nice, either."
"No!" the other Rangers screamed out as Trent struck out at Dr. O and rolled over a crate and kicked something on the back of the ATV, causing its wheels to start to spin and sending him forward.
"It's a trap!" Dr. Oliver cried out as he gripped onto the handlebars to avoid falling off.
Julie and the others threw themselves out of the path of the ATV as it drove straight for them, but she didn't have time to look at where Dr. O had gone because they needed to do something about Trent.
"Dr. O!" Conner shouted after their teacher before turning to Trent. "You'll pay for this!"
The White Ranger whistled and an almost identical ATV, except in the colors of the White Ranger, rolled up.
"No way," Ethan said, his jaw dropped.
"Later, suckers," Trent said with a smirk before he jumped, morphed in midair, and landed in the seat of his ATV.
"Stop!" Conner called out as Trent raced past them, they went to go after him as an Invisiportal opened up in the middle of the warehouse, dropping a truly terrifying monster and a hoard of Tyranno Drones in front of them.
"Not so fast!" the monster said, waggling his finger. "You're not going anywhere!"
"Try and stop us," the Red Ranger replied. "Come on guys!"
All four ran back to their Cycles, the speed necessary to catch up to Dr. O and Trent once they beat the monster.
Julie had only just thrown her leg over the bike as the monster shouted, "Attack!" And the Drones rushed forward.
Even with the limited space of the warehouse, the Rangers easily had the upper hand on their bikes – crossing paths with each other and different groups of Drones and firing their lasers at the Drones. They had to make sharp turns, but with the maneuverability of the cycles it was easy.
"Out of the pan and into the fryer!" Julie said as she turned towards the monster once all the Drones had moved out of the way. She revved her engine and burst forward, only for the monster to hold up a satellite dish and fire a red laser at her.
She screamed as she was thrown off her Cycle and landed in a big pile of shipping crates, watching as her Cycle lost control without its rider and ran headfirst into a wall, exploding.
From the ground, Julie watched as Ethan and Kira, as a pair, tried to take the monster only to get shot by the same laser. She pulled herself up and ran to the Yellow Ranger as their bikes were destroyed, only for Conner to attempt the same thing.
With the same results.
"Conner!" Julie called as the three others limped over to their leader.
"Are you okay?" Kira asked, barely holding herself up.
"Is that all you god?" the monster asked, smugly.
A rush of energy burst through her and Julie, along with the others, turned towards the monster and shouted, "Super Dino Mode!"
The Pink Ranger flexed as she felt the armored plates cover her body, welcoming the increase in stamina from the upgrade.
"Super what?" the monster, asked confused, as the four Rangers ran straight towards him. "Attack!"
But he was interrupted as Conner literally jump kicked him in the face.
Julie tried to keep up with what her teammates were doing as she faced down her own group of Tyranno Drones.
She tucked her head down and ran straight at the Drones, full on tackling two down the ground before she rolled and popped back up to her feet. Julie jumped as high as she could and flipped backwards, only to teleport in front of another Drone and came down, hard, with a powerful axe kick from the momentum.
In their Super Dino Mode, the Rangers easily defeated the Drones and Julie watched with pleasure as they disappeared back into an Invisiportal.
"Your bikes are history!" the monster gloated. "We're through here, bye!"
Julie ran towards him, as if to stop him disappearing into an Invisiportal, only for the monster to turn and get hit by lasers as Dr. Oliver, on his ATV, rode into the warehouse.
"Go, Dr. O!" Conner cheered.
The Black Ranger skidded to a stop in front of them and climbed off, "Talk about a wild ride."
"Glad you're okay!" Kira said as the quad of teenagers ran around to join up beside him.
"Later days!" the monster shouted, holding his satellite dish in the air and disappearing into an Invisiportal-
Right as Trent rolled into the warehouse as well, coming to a stop right where the monster had been.
Here they go.
"I see my friends have been keeping you busy," he said, skidding to a stop. He climbed off his ATV. "Someone's been careless with their toys."
"You're making a mistake Trent," Dr. O said, stepping forward. "Don't trust Mesogog."
"Who says I do?" the White Ranger interrupted. "I got what I wanted. Goodbye Rangers."
He went to turn away.
"Give me back my Zord!" Julie yelled after him. She went to run forward, but Ethan held her back.
"Say goodbye to it, and them, too," Trent said, laughing evilly.
"Trent! Don't do this!" Dr. O pleaded as the White Ranger got back on his vehicle as he continued to laugh.
But he didn't listen, saying "I'm outta here!" and peeling out of the warehouse.
Julie screamed. "That jerk!"
"Can we go over this again?" Conner asked for what felt like the hundredth time once they got back to the lab. "Trent made a deal with Mesogog, pretending to let Insectollite turn him back into himself as a way of tricking us into taking the rigged ATV?"
Julie sighed, angrily as she leaned against the wall. "And also promising that he would give us our Zords back."
"I can't believe he made a deal with Mesogog," Kira said, upset. "That is a new low."
"And risky," Ethan added. "Trent was supposed to beat us. Mesogog's not gonna be happy."
"Lighting the candle at both ends," Dr. Oliver started. "The White Ranger's bound to get burned."
"And I think I know how to get the fire going," Hayley interrupted, standing up and joining their little powwow.
"The ray used by Insectollite destroyed your energy shields," she explained. "I bet if you could get that creep to aim his energy buster at the Zords…"
"We could break through Trent's shield around them!" Kira finished.
Julie looked up, hopeful, as Ethan started to speak, "Okay, small problem. How's Trent gonna feel about all this?"
"Every trap needs its bait," Hayley said, firmly.
"Trent! Where are you?" Kira called once they got back to the warehouse district which seemed to be the White Ranger's usual hideout.
"We gotta talk, bro," Conner said.
"I have some words for you dude," Julie yelled out, angrily.
"Trent!" Ethan shouted.
"You made a deal with Mesogog," Dr. O said. "Now it's time you made one with us."
Julie clenched her fists as she looked around, trying to spot the White Ranger who could camouflage himself, only for him to pop out behind a corner.
Everything stopped, for a minute, before both groups charged at each other. Trent however, used his speed and sliced at them, knocking them away from each other.
He pulled Conner to the side and Julie tried to go forward, but Dr. O held her back.
"You wanted to see me?" he asked, his sword at Conner's neck.
"We wanted to make a deal of our own," the Red Ranger said, his voice firm.
Trent scoffed, "I don't make deals with posers."
"Take that back!" Conner yelled out as he threw Trent's sword off of him and struck out. The White Ranger dodged out of the way both from Conner's punch and his leg swipe, using his shoulder as a launchpad where he landed a few feet away from them on a tall edge of a building.
"You just won't learn, will you?" he asked, putting his sword over his shoulder.
"Learn what?" Conner asked as the other four Rangers ran up behind him.
"The White Ranger always wins," Trent declared. He swung his sword and disappeared right as the communicators started beeping.
"Go," Dr. O said.
"It's working," Hayley replied. "The monster is back on the other side of the warehouse."
"Got it," the Black Ranger said.
The five Rangers looked at each other and nodded as Conner said, "Come on!" and ran to the other side of the warehouse, trying to get the jump on the monster.
"There he is!"
It was like an old western duel, Julie couldn't help but note as the five Rangers stood at one end of an alleyway and the monster at the other.
"Outta my way," the monster said. "I've been sent to get the White one!"
Instead of replying with words, the Rangers ran forward to attack. It dodged Conner and Dr. O's attacks easily, but Julie landed a solid punch. Conner went to kick him again, but was thrown away, as Ethan and Kira used the monster's distraction to kick him in the chest and send him back.
"Sabers!" the five Rangers said, summoning their swords.
However, the monster sent a laser burst at them, sending them flying.
"Brachio Staff! Energy orb!" Dr. O yelled. He stood quickly and formed a perfect circle with his staff. "You're going down."
Julie watched from her spot on the ground as their teacher sent the energy orb at the monster, hitting it directly and causing it to burst into sparks. She wondered if that was too much.
"Let's help him out guys," Conner directed. "Tyranno Staff!"
"Stego Axe!"
"Tricera Shield!"
"Ptera Grips!"
Kira leaped forward first, using her grips to grab onto the monster and swing herself around him. Conner thrust his staff into the ground next, using it as a base as he spun around it in circles – hitting the monster at least ten times.
Julie held the base of her axe with both hands and started spinning like a top, bumping into the monster with every blow as Ethan ran forward and stabbed the monster with the bottom of his shield and hoisting it up into the air.
"Go for a spin?" he yelled as he used the momentum to spin the monster like pizza dough.
"Let me down!" the monster cried out.
Ethan shrugged, "Okay." And threw him.
The monster landed on the ground in what looked like a painful way as the five Rangers surrounded him.
"That got him," Ethan cheered, fist pumping.
"Help me load him up," Dr. O instructed. The Rangers nodded at him, remembering the plan.
The sun was setting at they climbed onto the backs of their Raptors, their Cycles were still down for the count even though Hayley was working on them as fast as they could. Thankfully, they kept up easily with Dr. O's new ATV (even with the added passenger of Insectollite) as they rode through the forest to where they had tracked that Trent was keeping the auxiliary Zords.
Julie pushed Stella to the side. They still hadn't found he was keeping her.
"Come on, faster boy!" Conner called to his Raptor.
"You got this!" Julie said, cheering her's on.
"We're coming Zords," Kira added.
"We'll never make it," Ethan said, looking back at their teacher.
"We have to," Dr. O said, firmly.
The sun had completely set as they sent Dr. O and Insectollite forwards, the first stage of the plan.
"I don't like this," Julie said, gripping tightly to the reins of her Raptor.
"Everything will be fine," Conner said. "Just trust-"
There was a loud explosion that shook the ground so bad they could barely stand.
"Come on!" Conner commanded, getting off his Raptor. The four Rangers stumbled through the dark on already shaky ground to join back up with Dr. O.
"Oh no!" Kira called as they caught sight of the giant dust cloud where the auxiliary Zords had once been.
"It can't be," Dr. Oliver said, stunned.
Two roars sounded and the auxiliary Zords walked out of the fog. Julie let out a relieved laugh.
"They made it!" she said.
"They survived!" Ethan added.
The ground started shaking again and Julie tried to figure out where it was coming from this time but couldn't see anything through the thick trees and smoke.
"Over there!" Ethan cried out, pointing. She turned to see Trent's MegaZord standing opposite the auxiliary Zords.
"DinoZords, attach."
Julie's jaw dropped as the MegaZord's arms fell off and were replaced by both the CephaloZord and the DimetrodonZord – giving Trent's MegaZord a punching arm and a saw arm. She couldn't help but gulp.
"Our Zords, they've switched teams!" Conner said, just as aghast.
"It's another trick," Dr. O insisted.
Trent laughed. "I thought they'd make a nice addition to my collection."
"Why can't you collect stamps or something!" Julie yelled.
However, he ignored her. "The starfish device was just to reprogram them to obey me."
"You're not gonna get away with this," Dr. O said. "Brachio!" He called into his morpher.
Julie stayed on the ground with Dr. O as the other three Rangers jumped into their Zords to form the Thundersaurus MegaZord and face off against Trent in the dark. If she had the ability to, she would be biting her nails from the stress.
"Let's make him pay," she heard Conner say.
"You can't afford it," Trent replied. He used the Cephalo arm to punch the MegaZord once, twice, three times, knocking it off balance without her there with the StegoZord to steady them.
"DimetroZord, Saw Blade!" the White Ranger said.
Julie let out a scream, but Dr. Oliver held her back from rushing into the fight.
Trent's next attack was enough to destabilize the Thundersaurus MegaZord and knocking it to the ground.
"Dr. O, what can we do?" she asked as the two groups of Rangers in the MegaZords argued back and forth.
The Black Ranger shook his head. "Nothing right now, we don't want to chance him taking another one of the auxiliary Zords."
Julie watched in horror as Trent lifted the DimetroZord arm, as if he were going to slice the Zords apart, only to be hit from behind as Insectollite showed back up – but thirty stories tall. She gripped their teacher's arm tight as she jumped, excitedly.
"I'm back!" the monster called out with a laugh.
However, it didn't last long as Trent sent his Drago Winger at him, hitting him in the chest. Insectollite fell to the ground and exploded into pieces.
"Another day, Rangers," Trent said, dissolving into sparkles.
Julie groaned, "How does he do that?!"
"Trent has got some nerve," Kira said the next morning as they gathered in the lab, exhausted. Julie yawned and slumped onto Conner who was also only barely holding himself in a sitting position. She had been up for over twenty-four hours now and she was tired.
"Why can't he just give up?" Ethan asked, laying his head on Julie's lap. The Pink Ranger gave his head a couple of pats before leaning her head against Conner's shoulder.
"Good thing I never give up," Hayley said, wiping oil off her hands as she walked in front of the sleepy Ranger pile. "Your bikes are fixed."
"Hayley I could kiss you," Julie mumbled.
"Yeah, you're the best," Conner added.
"Just don't do it again, okay?" the red head instructed. "And, as an added bonus, I reprogrammed the ATV. It should come in handy."
Dr. Oliver turned to them from where he had been pacing for the past hour. "We're gonna need all the help we can get. If Trent and Mesogog team up for good, we're gonna have a real battle on our hands."