(cmar) Thanks once more from the bottom of my heart. Sorry about the format problem but I've already corrected it, the "flat" "apartment" thing has also been fixed. Thanks for letting me know.

'Derek, you were so cool back there!' Issac exclaimed as he gave me a playful punch on the chest.

We were at the park, and I had just defeated another member of the Insectron Clan. Now that my friends knew my secret, it was now a way for them to be nice by saying how cool or good I was. Not that I don't appreciate it, but after a while, it gets kinda annoying.

'Yeah, yeah.' I laughed. 'Thanks.'

'By the way,' Tina asked, 'How does that Panther Booster or whatever work? What does it do anyway?'

I smiled a little to myself; Tina really is a want-to-know-it-all. 'Well, there are these special cards which come out of my buckle.' I explained. 'Once these cards are inserted into the booster, it will be able to enhance my abilities like speed or endurance.'

'How many cards do you have in total?' Issac piped in.

'I dunno, the number of cards I get increase by my experience.' I grinned as I stood up. 'Anyways, I have to get going guys, there's still this project I have to finish. See ya!'

'Derek!' my mom called out from the kitchen as soon as I stepped into my apartment. 'There's a mail for you on the table.'

'Thanks!' I called back as I headed over to the living room and picked up the letter. Immediately I teared it open and peered into the contents.

My screams must've been so loud that even Mars could hear it!

'Son, what's wrong?' My mom yelled as she ran from the kitchen.

'I got it!' I yelled, waving the letter like a lunatic.

'Got what?' Mom asked, completely confused with a frown on her face.

My eyes shone brightly as I continued. 'You that 2-week scholarship course I applied for? Well, they accepted me.'

Now it was mom's turn to look excitied. 'That's wonderful! I'm so proud of you son. Where are you going to then?'

I looked at the letter again. 'Blue Bay.' I answered. 'I heard that it's this really great place.'

'So when will you be going?'

'Um. a week later.'

Mom smiled. 'Then you'd better get ready.'

A week passed by real quick, and here I was now: Blue Bay International Airport. Streams of golden sunlight greeted me as I stepped out of the building. Everything was so beautiful, so full of energy!

After a half-hour drive. I arrived at the house of my hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Jelkinson. They were really nice people and their house was breath taking as well, with a complete sea-view and everything.

'Derek,' Mr. Jelkinson said while we had dinner, 'You'll be having your classes at Blue Bay High School until the afternoon. Unless the school had planned any activites for you, I hope that you'll come back right away. You know, with Blue Bay's current monster problems, it's not quite safe.'

I nodded my head. 'No problem, I understand. So these monsters, do they appear often?' I just had to know more about them; perhaps they had a connection with the Insectoid Clan?

'Well, not always. But from time to time.' Mrs. Jelkinson replied. 'Luckily there are the Power Rangers here, or else this place would have been destroyed a long time ago.'

My head jerked up at the mention of the Power Rangers. 'They are another reason why I was so excited about coming here, they are so cool. I just wish I'd have a chance to meet them.'

Mr. Jelkinson grinned at me. 'You'd better hope not, cause whenever the Rangers are near, trouble will also be some place around.'

The remaining part of dinner ended in laughter. Here I lay now, in my room. Excited to be in a place where another team of Rangers were, and excited to be going to school tomorrow. And maybe, just a little scared.

The next morning, Mr. Jelkinson drove me to Blue Bay High School. 'Well, this is where I say good bye.' He told me as the car pulled into the praking lot. 'Have fun, I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself. See you after school!'

'Bye, Mr. Jelkinson. Thanks for the ride.' I said as I got off and headed inside the school. I was almost near the entrance when some guy came zooming by on a skateboard, almost knocking me over.

'Woah, sorry man!' he apologized as he expertly skidded to a halt and leapt off the board. 'Are you ok?'

'Yep, no problem.' I said as I took a closer look at him. He was tall, way taller than I was, with a well-built body and bulging muscles. And the strangest thing was: He was almost wearing red all over. 'You're really good.' I complied, flashing him a grin.

'No way!' He joked. 'Hey, I haven't seen you around before, you new around here or what?'

'Oh, I'm the exchange student from Hong Kong and starting today. The name's Derek. Derek Ho.' I said as I offered my hand.

'Hey, nice to meet you. I'm Shane Clarke.' He replied extending his hand also and shook mine. 'Hey, how bout taking you to the principal, I think you'll need to see him first.'

'Sure, sounds great.'

So the two of us headed down the hallway and after a couple of turns, arrived at the Principals' Office. I knocked and opened the door.

'Ah, Derek! Glad you could find your way here.' The Principal, Mr. Charter boomed as he walked over to me.

'I got a little help.' I said, nodding my head over to Shane.

Mr. Charter nodded his head. 'Shane, I was just looking for you. You're assigned to be taking care of Derek for these two weeks. You know, show him around, make sure he feels comfortable.'

'No problem, count on me!' Shane laughed.

'Well, the two of you might want to get going, don't be late for your first class.' Mr. Charter said. 'Derek, hope you'll enjoy your stay here.'

'I'm sure I will, thanks.' I said.

Shane and I walked through the hallway again as we approached the classroom.

'Dude, there you are!' A boy yelled out to Shane as soon as he opened the door, he had medium length hair, a goofy grin plastered onto his face, and same as Shane, wearing almost the same color all over. In this case, yellow.

'Morning Shane.' A blonde girl greeted as she walked over with the boy.

'Hey guys!' Shane waved.

'Who's this?' The yellow boy asked as he nodded at me.

Shane looked at me. 'Oh, this is Derek. He's that exchange student from Hong Kong and will be staying here for about two weeks. I'm gonna be keeping an eye on him.' Then he turned towards me. 'Derek, these are my friends. Waldo Brooks.'

I dunno why, but the yellow boy had a look of slight anger when his name was mentioned.

'Please,' He said as I shook his hand. 'Call me Dustin, I hate the name Waldo!'

'Hey, no problem!' I grinned.

'And this is Tori Hanson.' Shane continued.

'Nice to meet you. Hope you'll have fun here.' The girl smiled.

I nodded my head. 'I'm sure I will.'

The rest of the day was spent in happiness. Knowing a few friends here was definitely something great, and Shane, Tori and Dustin were all very nice. After a few hours, school was finally over.

'Hey Derek,' Dustin said as I slinged on my backpack. 'Want to go to the mall?'

'Great idea, let's go!'

On our way to the mall, we started talking about the monsters and attacks.

'It must be hard to keep on studying when there are all these monster constantly attacking.' I said.

Tori nodded her head in agreement. 'Yeah, and those guys have really bad timing.'

'Tori's r- '

Dustin's words were cut off when a beeping sound started. Somehow, the beeping was somehow similar to that of my own morpher's.

'Derek, I forgot something back at school. Just go to the mall first, we'll meet you up later.' Shane said as the three of them turned away.

'Hey, hang on a sec.' I yelled as I ran after them, but they were nowhere to be seen. 'That's weird, where'd they go?' I thought.

Suddenly, my ninja senses alerted me with a disturbance nearby. 'But this is not your area. Why should you help? This city has their own team of protectors.' My inner self told me. Somehow, I lost that argument as I hid in a corner and changed into my ninja uniform.

Quick as a flash, I headed over to the place of disturbance: some sort of park. A battle was already raging there, three Power Rangers in red, yellow and blue were already fighting with some sort of car-like monster and a team of monster ninjas.

Somehow, the three of them were no match for the monster as they fell to the ground after an explosion. Just as the monsters started to close in, three other rangers jumped onto the scene. A green one, and another red and blue.

'You guys all right?' The red one asked as he helped the fallen rangers up.

'Ah, you're all here! Time to finish you off.' The monster yelled as energy bulbs dispatched from its body and surrounded the rangers as they yelled in pain.

There was no other option left, I had to help the rangers. Without thinking twice, I leapt out of the bush. 'Hey, hold it right there!' I yelled.

'Who the heck are you?' the monster roared.

I thrusted out the Hurricane Morpher. 'You want to find out? Tornado Storm, Ranger Form!' In a blinding flash, I was transformed into the Hurricane Ranger as I took my fighting stance.

'What?' I heard the rangers yell through their pain. 'Another ranger?'

Sorry to take so long to update, but I've been busy over here. Don't worry, I'll update again soon!