"Hey Julie? You in there?"

The Pink Ranger shook her head, shaking off the mental repetition of the list of everything that she still had to do as she was wiping down the tables at Cyberspace. She looked up, and around, before catching Conner and Kira looking at her and motioning her over to their table.

She sighed and slung the damp rag over her shoulder, the oversized button up she was wearing was already stained anyway so it honestly didn't make a difference and walked over to her teammates.

"Hey guys," she said. "Do you need something?"

The two other Rangers just looked at her confused, before a crash sounded behind them and they turned to see Ethan, laying on the ground, with a spilled platter of drinks in front of him.

Julie sighed. More messes.

"Clean up on aisle 5," Conner said.

"Yeah," Kira added. "Since when do you work here?" She asked Ethan. "Since when do you both work here?"

"Hayley's really been short-handed since Trent quit," Ethan said, pushing himself to his feet. "Julie and I agreed to help her out for a bit."

"The pocket change doesn't hurt either," Julie said with a grin.

"I guess kicking our butts has kept Trent a little busy these days," Conner said, leaning onto the table and crossing his arms.

Julie threw her rag at Ethan to start cleaning up as the Blue Ranger replied, "No doubt."

"I'm not saying it could be worse," Julie started, "because we all know how that goes. But it definitely could be. At least he's kind of chilled out since the whole fish thingie."

"I'm honestly surprised you remember that," Ethan said. "You've been really out of it the past few weeks, are you sure you're okay?"

Julie waved him off. "I'm fine. Just a little overworked. I bit off more than I could chew with some extra credit and Justin has been making take virtual tours of colleges for after Italy, but I'm all good now."

She should be, anyway. Ethan was right, it was like she had barely been around. Julie knew what had happened, which monsters they fought. She did know that Kira had been brainwashed by a bone at one point and Conner had a crisis over a really bad Japanese television show about them.

She had just been busy.

"Just know, we hold all rights to hold you down and make you take a nap, okay?" Conner said. "We can't afford to be a Ranger down."

She smiled back him, "Aww, you really do like me. But I know you would. What are friends for?"

"I hate to say this," Kira said. "But I think you guys might've been right. Maybe there is no good left in Trent."

"I wish I had the hope that you have in him Kira," Julie replied. "But he's just done so much bad and he still has my Zord."

"And all of the other Zords," Ethan chipped in as he walked by them with a refilled tray.

"And all of the other Zords," Julie conceded. "We'll figure something out though, and soon. Trent can't be evil forever."

"Yeah, he could also die first," Conner added in. The Pink Ranger slapped the back of his head as Kira put her face into her crossed arms on the table. "What? What did I say?"

"Come in Rangers, we got a situation," Dr. O said over their comms a couple of hours later. Julie and Ethan had, thankfully, clocked out already and the four were now lounging on a couple of the couches in Cyberspace. Conner had actually convinced Julie to doze off for a minute, giving her his jacket as a pillow while he and Ethan studied for a Spanish test. "I need you over at the city center right away."

"We're on our way," Conner said as the other three pulled themselves up.

Julie waved goodbye to Hayley with her hand that had the communicator on it so she would know something was up as the four Rangers left the building and went behind an abandoned train across the parking lot. She twisted her neck to pop it as Conner asked, "Ready?"

"Ready," the others replied.

"Dino Thunder, Power Up! Ha!"

"I wonder if it's the thing that looks like a Stormtrooper and a bell pepper had a child," Julie said as they skidded to a stop after finally locating the monster.

Conner sighed in her direction before putting on his 'Red Ranger Voice' for the monster, "All right, creep, we're taking you down!"

"Oh yeah? Says who?" the monster said. Julie tried not to visibly recoil at its face. Were those spider legs attached to its mouth? "Here is a pepper for you!"

He chucked an oversized red pepper that he was holding at the Rangers, but Kira summoned her saber and knocked it back.

"I'm not supposed to have too many spicy foods. Thanks anyway," she said as the pepper hit the monster and exploded.

Conner and Julie looked at each other, amazed at the other girl's athleticism as Conner started clapping. Has Kira played a sport before? She had been good with the tennis rackets and the Donkeyvac a couple of months ago, after all.

Or maybe it was just a food thing.

"Then how about some seafood?" the monster asked, its red eyes glowing as he pulled a bunch of clamshells from somewhere. "This is what I call shell-shocked!"

"Seriously?" Julie asked as Ethan pulled out his saber and sliced all of the shells that were thrown in half before they could even get close to them, the remnants clattering on the floor.

"You'll pay for that!"

"Tricera Shield!" Ethan yelled.

"That's what I was waiting for!" the monster said. "Now here's my secret power."

The four Rangers watched as typed at a few keys on the computer piece on his arm before shouting, "Copy… Tricera Shield!"

Julie was briefly blinded by a bright light, but as soon as it cleared, the monster was holding an exact copy of Ethan's shield.

"No way!" the Blue Ranger said, confused.

There wasn't much he could do as the monster pointed the tip of the shield at Ethan and fired its laser at him, knocking him to the ground. The others ran up to him and Kira and Conner helped up as Julie stood guard, watching to see what the monster would do next.

"That's it!" Conner said. "Tyranno Staff!"

"Ptera Grips!"

"Oh no."

"Copy!" the monster yelled.

She watched as copies of both of their weapons appeared in the monster's hands and moved her hand away from her belt where she was about to summon her own axe.

They shouldn't give him any more ammunition.

"He copied our weapons!" Conner said, surprised.

"That's cheating!" Kira yelled.

"It's one of Mesogog's goons," Julie replied, pulling Ethan up to his feet. "What did you expect? It to play fair?"

The monster then scuffed its foot on the floor and ran at them, catching them off guard. Kira tried to block with her grips, but was knocked back by the monster's copy of them. The same thing happened to Conner – he was thrown back from the force of the copied staff.

Julie groaned and dropped into a fighting stance, trying to figure out how she could take him with just her fists and without any of her weapons. Could he copy the sabers? The blasters?

"Julie!"

"I know, I'm not going to," she yelled back to Kira.

"Copy!"

"Hi, I'm the Pink Ranger. Aren't I cute?"

Julie grabbed at her throat. "My voice!"

"Ooh that's cold," Ethan said.

"That's enough!" Conner replied, pushing himself to his feet, ready to try and attack despite the fact that the monster had his weapon.

The monster laughed. "I agree! I have more important things to copy. See ya!" And then he ran off as the other three were trying to regain their footing.

"How are we gonna beat this guy?" Ethan asked.

"We start by finding him," Kira insisted.

"The signals coming from right around here," Conner said as they pulled off to a semi-wooded area. Julie swung her leg off her Raptor Cycle and looked around, trying to see if she could spot the monster.

"Then where is he?" Kira asked.

A laugh. "Looking for me?"

The four Rangers jumped around to see the copy monster. They immediately dropped into a fighting stance as he said, "I was picking peppers!" and threw two of his pepper bombs at them, causing them to roll out of the way or be hit by the exploding produce.

"Careful!" Ethan cautioned. "Remember, he can copy our weapons."

"How do we fight him?" Kira asked.

Julie nodded. "It's not like we can get close enough to hit him with our fists.

"I've got it!" Conner said. "We close up the head of the Z-Rex Blaster, he makes a copy of it, and it explodes."

"Sneaky, I like it," Ethan said.

"Wow that's actually a really good plan," the Pink Ranger added, sort of surprised.

"Let's do it!"

"Are you done with your meeting over there?" the monster asked.

Conner held up his finger at the monster and if they weren't in the middle of a fight, Julie would have fallen over laughing by now. "Just a minute!" The Red Ranger replied.

Before they even started putting their weapons together, he made sure to close the Tyranno head at the front of their blaster. Maybe this could actually work.

"Z-Rex Blaster!"

Julie grunted as she balanced the weight of the Blaster on her shoulders as she heard the monster shout, "Copy!"

"Here it comes guys," Conner muttered.

"Z-Rex Blaster, ready to go! Oh, wait, I almost forgot," the monster then reached up and opened the mouth of the blaster.

"Oh no!"

"Now it's ready. Fire!"

In all of their afterschool Ranger training with Dr. O, they had never even thought about using their Z-Rex Blaster against each other. It would have been almost impossible to try, as it needed all four of their weapons to put it together and use.

Julie regretted not even attempting to however as they were hit with the blast of the Z-Rex Blaster and blown backwards into the river behind them.

No wonder they had shredded monsters to pieces with it.

The Pink Ranger tried her best to shake the water off of herself and clear off her visor as the monster said, "Now get up so I can blast you again!"

Then, "I don't think so!" Dr. Oliver had shown up!

"Another one?" the monster asked confused.

Before they could warn him, Dr. Oliver summoned his staff to try and fight the monster, but yelled "Blade Strike!" before it could copy the Black Ranger's weapon, stabbing his staff into the ground and sending a blast at the monster.

"Guys!" He yelled, running over to the four Rangers as they tried to gain their footing in the slippery riverbed. "Watch out!"

"I'll take one of those," she heard the monster say. Then, just as quickly, "Brachio Staff! Blade Strike!" and the monster sent the same blast at the five Rangers who were in the water, sending them flying once more.

"This is getting old," Julie said as she tried to wipe the water from her visor with her wet gloves. "Is there anything he can't copy?"

All of the Rangers were afraid to summon any weapons, wondering if it was going to come back to bite them, so they tried to fight the monster hand to hand, but that somehow, turned out even worse.

Julie lay on her back in the clearing, looking up at the sky after being thrown for what felt like the ten thousandth time and wondering if this fight would ever end, if it could even end as Conner was thrown into a tree.

"How's the dirt taste?" the monster asked, laughing.

The Red Ranger struggled to his feet, panting the whole time and Julie tried to follow his example, but the monster's sudden screams of pain startled her.

She looked up and saw that, amazingly, Trent had come in on his ATV and was now firing on the monster and Julie groaned.

"Are we gonna have to fight him now too?" Ethan asked from a couple of feet over as he pushed himself in a sitting position. "I don't think I have it in me."

The five Rangers, however, stood up and stood in a line – watching as the evil Ranger turned back around and skidded to a stop, jumping off the ATV.

"Looks like you could use a little help," he said.

Julie blinked in surprise as Trent pulled out his sword and did his normal speed run/slicing attack with his feather sword on the monster instead of them this time, causing it to spark. He went to hit it directly, but the monster pulled a copy of Trent's sword out and blocked his strike, guarding against the White Ranger and knocking him back.

"Should we do something?" Julie asked. Dr. O shook his head.

"Let's see how this plays out."

"Did you hear his voice?" Kira asked. "That sounded like Trent, not the robotic, evil Ranger."

"Don't get your hopes up," Conner said. "Remember what happened last time he pretended to be good?"

The five nodded at each other before turning back to the fight, watching as the monster did the same attack that Trent had just done on him – knocking him away and sending him into a tree.

"I wonder which side he's on now," Conner asked.

"It's always his own," Julie argued.

"Is that all you got?" the monster asked the White Ranger.

He stood up and brushed himself off, "Actually no. Super Dino Mode!"

"Oh great," Ethan said with a sigh. "He gets one too?"

As he transformed, Julie couldn't help but think about how bad this could go for them, knowing he's reached whatever breaking point it was that unlocked his Super Dino Mode and, when he stopped, Julie felt faint.

The black marks on the seams of his uniform, his shoulder plate, and his boots all grew to be about one and a half feet long and he grew jagged talons on his gloves. He looked very pointy and very painful and the Pink Ranger spotted two, no three, ways he could use it against them and cause them a world of hurt.

"Big deal," the monster said before shooting of a purple blast, something they hadn't seen before and Julie wondered who he had copied it from. Trent easily dodged the blast as the monster said, "Bye now!" and laughed.

"We're not done yet!" Trent said as he legitimately flew across the forest clearing, his talon hands to his side. He put them together and stabbed straight into the monster like one of his own arrows did into them. His momentum picked the monster up off of its feet and pinned him up against a tree about twenty years away.

"Should we do something now?" Kira asked once they got too far out of hearing range.

"I think he's got it," Julie said, crossing her arms. "We should honestly pack it in now, ya know, before he decides to turn on us."

They heard the monster shout, "I thought we were on the same side!" and Trent replied, "Not anymore!"

"Is this another trick?" Conner asked.

"Weird," Ethan added.

They watched from a distance as Trent pulled his stabby claws out of the monster and walked away from it exploding, looking cool, if not still extremely evil because of the spikes.

The sky got dark. "Oh. Here it grows."

The monster grew reformed and grew thirty stories, yelling, "Copy this, Rangers!"

Dr. O wasted no time. "Brachio!"

Conner, Ethan, and Kira jumped into their Zords and quickly formed the Thundersaurus MegaZord while Julie stared across the clearing at Trent with her arms still crossed, waiting to see what he would do.

If he was really on their side now, he'd release her Zord, right?

She turned to say something to Dr. Oliver about using one of the auxiliary Zords, but before she could he was knocked to the ground. Julie shouted as Zeltrax appeared literally out of nowhere and pointed a sword at the Black Ranger.

"Get back, Zeltrax!" Trent yelled, using his quill sword to block the attack.

She couldn't even blink before Trent knocked the robotic man back and into the dirt.

"What's going on?" Dr. O asked the White Ranger, who ignored him in favor of running at Mesogog's main goon.

Julie pulled her teacher to his feet as they stood and switched between watching the fight on the ground and the fight in the MegaZord, ready to step in if they needed to in either one.

"Okay," Dr. O said brushing himself off. "Now I'm really confused."

"That makes two of us," the Pink Ranger replied, watching the evenly matched fight between their two enemies.

The monster was throwing exploding peppers at their teammates as Zeltrax and the White Ranger traded laser blasts, leaving Julie and Dr. Oliver in the middle of the two fights and not really able to do anything, which was not a position either Ranger liked to be in.

Thankfully, Dr. O was prepared as Trent was thrown over near them and jumped into the fight. Julie helped the White Ranger to his feet and he immediately jumped back in. Julie sighed and summoned her saber, ready to help if needed.

But it looked like the Black and White Rangers had it covered as Zeltrax tried to jump and do a double kick at Dr. Oliver, but Trent did his own double kick and knocked Zeltrax out of the fight and onto the ground.

"You will pay dearly for that, traitor," Zeltrax said as he lifted his sword and summoned an Invisiportal and disappeared.

As soon as he was gone, Trent turned to them. "Are you okay?" he asked Dr. Oliver.

"What do you want?" the Black Ranger asked him.

Instead of replying, Trent powered down and unmorphed before walking over to them.

Julie dropped into a fighting stance as Dr. O held his hands out, "Stop right there!"

Surpringly, he stopped. "Dr. Oliver," Trent started. "You've gotta listen to me."

"We really don't," Julie replied, ready to fight. She barely heard the summons for the AnkyloZord, but she noticed her morpher change. She looked to her teammate, "Do you think you need backup for him?"

The Black Ranger paused for a moment before he shook his head, "Go. Help them."

She nodded and, with one last look at Trent – just daring him to try something, jumped into the cockpit of the AnkyloZord as it joined up with the Thundersaurus MegaZord.

"How are things down there?" Conner asked as she locked in.

"I literally don't even know what just happened," she said. "I'll tell you everything as soon as we beat this guy."

The monster fired its laser at the MegaZord, but they blocked it and sent it straight back to him with the spinning AnkyloZord arm.

Before the monster could regain its bearings, the Rangers shouted, "Double Drill Attack!"

The MegaZord lifted both of its arms, the Tyranno arm and the Ankylo arm, and they started spinning in opposite directions before they slashed once, twice, three, four times – hitting the monster on each strike.

The Copy Monster stumbled and exploded as he fell to the ground.

Julie just wondered how Dr. O and Trent were doing.

"Anyone know why Dr. O wanted us to meet him here?" Ethan asked as he pulled down on the Dino jaw that gave them entrance to the lab from the Murder Caves.

"I just want to know why we couldn't come in through his house like civilized people," Julie couldn't help but say.

"He said something about a big surprise," Kira said with a shrug as the doorway started to open.

Revealing Trent, standing in the middle of the lab.

"Hey guys," he said.

The four Rangers immediately dropped into fighting stances. Julie's mind was racing, how did he get in? But Trent put his hands up, placatingly.

"How did you get in here?" Conner asked, his voice dripping with venom as none of them relaxed their stances.

"I let him in," Dr. Oliver said, spinning around in his computer chair.

"Excuse me?" Julie asked. "But he's-"

"On our side now," Dr. O interrupted.

Ethan scoffed. "Yeah right. Every time we hear that, he burns us. Why should we believe him now?"

Julie hadn't really noticed how she, Conner, and Ethan kept to one side while Kira walked on the other – Trent separating the two groups, until then. Her heart hurt for the other girl, who was still desperately trying to find a shred of hope that Trent was actually good.

"Because," Dr. O started. "He saved my life."

"Is that true?" Conner asked, turning to the boy in white.

Trent nodded. "Yeah." He sighed. "I'm in control of the Dino Gem now."

"And we've heard that before," Julie replied, crossing her arms. "How can we know for sure?"

"I want to use it to fight with you," Trent explained.

"And you have been fighting with us," Ethan replied. "You've fought with us all over town."

The White Ranger sighed. "I mean, fight on your team. Against Mesogog."

Julie crossed her arms as Dr. Oliver said, "I wouldn't have brought him here if I didn't think he was telling the truth." He sighed. "But only you can decide whether or not you trust him."

All of the Rangers exchanged glances and Julie knew exactly where this was going, even if she didn't want it to.

"Well, if Dr. O's down with it," Ethan suggested. "Then I guess I'm onboard, too."

"Yeah," Conner said, raising his eyebrows and looking at Trent skeptically. "I guess we got no choice, considering I'm kinda tired of fighting you."

Julie stayed silent, hoping her face showed her complete and utter disdain at the idea, but she knew when she was outnumbered.

Trent, however, let out a relieved sigh and turned towards Kira who he had honestly hurt the most with his actions and walked over to her, but Julie knew she was going to crumble like a dry cake when she glimpsed the little smile on her face.

"Look, I know I got a lot to make up for," Trent started, facing the Yellow Ranger, "But I promise, this time I won't let you down."

"Well, I guess everyone deserves one last chance," Kira replied.

Julie held in her groan, staying silent as she was clearly overruled by every other Ranger.

"But isn't there a rule that says newbie Rangers have to wash all the Zords?" Kira added.

She could hear the smirk in Ethan's voice as he replied, "Oh hey, I forgot about that rule."

"Except the StegoZord," Julie said. "No one is getting near Stella anymore, except me. Capiche?"

"The Zords?" Trent asked, a smile on his face and completely ignoring Julie which did not bode well for their relationship, but she would let it slide for now. "But they're gigantic."

The others loaded him up with cleaning supplies and Julie couldn't help but smirk as she handed him a particularly large bottle of cleaner and watched as his arm sunk under the unexpected weight.

"Yeah they are," Conner conceded, "So, better get started."

"There's some dirt in a lot of the cracks," Julie said, baring her teeth in a grin. "I mean, since you knocked them into the ground so good, after all."

The other three Rangers grinned as Trent shuffled off towards their Zord bay, but Julie stayed still, her arms crossed, and shouted after him, "Remember! Don't touch Stella."