Problems

Jason woke up Tuesday, the day that he would introduce Scott to his friends after school. The thought of how the whole thing would go down somewhat loomed over him. Jason was worried that maybe his friends won't like Scott. He wonders what he would do if they resented the fact that Scott took up so much of his time.

His thoughts then steered into why he wanted them to like Scott some much. But first he had to answer why he was even thinking of Scott so much…well maybe not so much.

There was another person on his mind, the White Rose Ninja.

After Jason got back to Scott in the park, he walked him home. When Jason got to his house, he went to his room and laid down on his bed. Her eyes were the first thing to come to his mind and he'd been thinking about them ever since. But that was last night, and now that this was morning he was thinking about both the ninja and Scott.

Did this mean that Jason was in love with her? Maybe…after all, she seemed to be on his mind a lot. But of course, if that were true, the same logic would apply to Scott as well. After all, his new friend was on Jason's mind just a much as well.

At breakfast, while poking at his eggs, Jason pondered on if there was a difference between liking a friend and being love. Through his musing a question came to mind, one that Kimberly asked him yesterday. "Is he cute?" Jason thought it wouldn't hurt to think about it for a minute.

'Is Scott cute? He might be…course I thought the White Rose was also cute. Actually I thought White Rose was beautiful. But then again, all I really did see were her eyes. Come to think of it, I've never seen Scott's eyes. He's always wearing those big round glass with the different color glass of his.'

Jason continued his thoughts as he walked to school. 'Maybe that's the different between liking a friend and being in love with someone. Scott is cute, definitely, but White Rose is beautiful.' A smile came onto Jason's face, only to fade away quickly. 'Wait a minute. Should I even be think Scott cute at all?' Jason heaved a deep sigh as he starts to feel even more confused than before.

As usual, Jason bumped into Zack for their usual walk to school together. Only today, Jason decided to have some distances between them. When they get to school and to their lockers, they saw something on one of the locker. They could not believe what they were seeing when they looked closer. It was something they've seen it on T.V. many times, but they never thought to ever see it right here in their own school. Someone had vandalized a locker with a permanent marker.

'Go back to the sewers where you belong, rat.' Was written on the locker.

Jaclyn comes up to the locker wearing a black short sleeve shirt, red overalls, and red tennis shoes with black laces. Without even blinking or making any sign that she acknowledges something was there, she opens up the locker like nothing was there. As she closes it, Jaclyn notices that Zack and Jason were still looking at the locker door.

"What's the matter?" Jaclyn asked them.

"Doesn't that upset you?" Jason asked.

"Not really." Jaclyn looks her locker again and then back at Jason. "Should it?"

Kimberly, Tommy, Trini, and Billy come up to join Zack and Jason. "Why don't you do something about it?" Kimberly asked.

Jaclyn looks at them helplessly. "What can I do? I've had this all my life. It's just a waste of time to complain about it and gives them more ammo to use against me. As long as I let it bother me, they'll always win." She shrugs her shoulders. "So I just ignore it."

"Or you're just to scared to do anything about it." The same boy from yesterday said.

"Well maybe I am Fredrick." Jaclyn said sarcastically and puts a hand to her forehead for a dramatic affect. "I'm so scared that I just don't know what to do." She points a thumb at her locker. "I thought you were past writing notes on lockers."

Fredrick pretends to look like he didn't know what she was talking about. "I didn't write it."

"I guess not. But whoever did can't spell sewer." Jaclyn says.

"I spelled it right." Fredrick yelled, then he clasped his hand over his mouth. "Uh…"

"That's ok. I already knew since the marker is still in your pocket." Jaclyn points to the bulge in his right pocket.

"Oh yeah? Well…" Fredrick's face turns red with anger. "You're still a freak." He yells before he runs away.

"See, that wasn't so hard." Kimberly says to Jaclyn. "All you have to do is stand up for yourself and they'll leave you alone."

"That's what you think." Jaclyn mutters as the bell rings.

Tommy and Kimberly walk off in one direction. Trini, Zack, Billy, and Jason go to their class in another. Seeing as she has the same first class they did, Jaclyn follows quietly behind them. In class that day Ms. Applebee decided that each person should make a mailbox for receiving Valentine cards. It would connect to the reading they were doing about how Romeo and Juliet had to relay on Juliet's nurse to carry notes between them.

Ms. Applebee hands everyone a shoebox that was donated from one of the local shoe stores. Everyone, but Jaclyn, worked on his or her box. Jason was deciding what he was going to do when he notice that Jaclyn wasn't going to touch her box. Instead Jaclyn opens her Shakespeare book and started reading the next act.

"Why aren't you making one?" Jason asks.

"Cause I don't want any Valentines." Jaclyn answers.

Jason picks up a pen and starts to draw on his box. "Why not?" He was going to draw pictures of the latest fad, Anime. He was a really good artist, so he had confidence that his box would look nice.

"I really don't want to talk about it." Jaclyn says coldly. "But don't worry, I'll probably have a box come Valentine's Day."

"Sounds like you don't like the holiday." Jason replies just as cold.

"If you were in my shoes, I don't think you would like it much either." Jaclyn sighs.

"I don't really." Jason sighs also. "At least not right now."

"Really?" Jaclyn looks up from her book at him. "A big popular guy like you hates a holiday like this." She has a skeptical look on her face. "You must get at least a hundred Valentines."

"Yeah." Jason sighs again. "But they don't mean anything. They just make you think about how lonely one can get when they haven't found someone."

"Well, you know the saying. 'The most loneliest place, is in the middle of the crowd.'" Jaclyn quotes. "But I can't imagine a guy like you not having someone."

Jason stops drawing and puts his pen down to think about it. "Well…" Two people pop into his head. One he wants to think about and the other one he really doesn't, but ends up doing it anyway. "Sort of…"

"I thought so." Jaclyn goes back to her book. It seems like a hint that she didn't want to talk any more. Not that Jason wanted to keep talking to her anyway. Jaclyn kind of made him feel depress.

English period ends and Jason doesn't see Jaclyn again until after third period, where they have to exchange their books in their lockers. Jaclyn was already at the lockers when Jason comes up. He sees a string attached to a bucket above her locker. Before he can say anything the string is pulled and the bucket tips over. A mixture of water, honey, and stink bombs come splashing down on Jaclyn.

Fredrick comes out and laughs as he watches Jaclyn wipe the liquid out of her eyes. "Ha. That's what you get for embarrassing me like that."

Jason steps in front of Jaclyn as Fredrick starts to approach her. "Get lost." He tells the boy and Fredrick decides it'd be better if he made a quick exit. "Hey, are you alright?" Jason asks as he looks at Jaclyn.

Jaclyn glares at Jason "Do I look like I'm alright?" She wipes the extra liquid off her overalls. "Tell your friend thanks for the advice, but if I had kept my mouth shut I've would have lasted through the school day in the same clothes I came in with." Jaclyn sniffs her arm. "And I wouldn't smell either." She opens her locker to pull out a gym bag. "Now I'll be getting smelly jokes for the rest of the day." The girl slams her locker close, gives Jason another glare, and storms away.

Jason wasn't sure what to say. "Uh…" There was something about the ways she looked at him that got him thinking. 'Those eyes…' He shakes his head. 'No, it can't be.' Jason opens his locker.

Mr. Kaplan sees the bucket and it's spilled contents on the floor. "Now who went and made this mess." He looks at Jason, who was in his locker, and sees the vandalized locker. "And who did this?"

Jason takes his head out of the locker. "Some guy named Fredrick." He replies.

"Why would anyone do such a thing?" Mr. Kaplan has a look of unbelief. "I thought the people of this school would know better." Jason just shrugs. "Well I'll take care of this." The principle says as he storms away.

Jaclyn comes back to the lockers. She was now dressed in a white Chinese t-shirt, black pants, black Chinese shoes, and her hair was pulled back into a braided ponytail. "That won't stop things for long, there are others." She lets out a sigh. "But it will give me a little peace for awhile." Jaclyn looks at Jason. "Thanks. It's not everyday I get someone who is willing to tattle for me." She puts her gym bag away and takes out books for her next class. She gives him a weak smile before leaving for her next class.

After School…

Jason sat nervously with his friends at one of the round tables in the Youth Center; Scott was an hour late. Tommy was on his right and Zack was on his left. Going from Tommy's right around the table was Kimberly, Trini, and Billy. Jason bounced his right knee as he saw his friends look to him to for the reason of this delay, but he has none to give.

Feeling the pressure, Jason stood up. "I think…I'll wait outside to see if he's coming." He starts for the door out.

"Or maybe he just doesn't want to meet us." Tommy stated irritable. "What did you tell him about us? Something that would scare him off from us?"

Jason stopped and looked at Tommy with surprise. "No. Of course not." He started looking around the room. "Don't worry he'll come." Soon Jason spied Scott enter through the entrance where the gym was. "In fact there he is."

Scott was wearing a red sweatshirt, red sweat pants, his regular shoes and hat. However, this time he wore green round shades. The boy looked around the place, taking in the sights. In looking for the group he was to meet, Scott makes eye contact with Jason.

Did Jason's heart just skip a beat? He pretends that he didn't feel anything and waves Scott over to them. Scott waves back before jogging up to the group.

"Guys, this is Scott." Jason starts the introduction with Tommy and goes until he ends with Zack. In return, Scott gives a shy wave.

"I didn't know the Lennon look was coming back." Tommy retorts as he looks at Scott's shades.

Scott's face turns a slight pink with embarrassment. "I…I think round shades are pretty cool." He replies timidly.

"Don't worry about that." Jason says as he moves his chair closer to Zack and pulls a chair between him and Tommy. "He's just giving you a hard time." Tommy raises an eyebrow as Scott sits between them.

"So tell us about yourself." Kimberly says to Scott.

"Uh…" Scott rubs his neck nervously. "W…what do you want to know?" He gives a silly grin.

"How about what grade you're in?" Kimberly asked.

Scott fiddles with his fingers. "T…tenth."

"What school are you going to?" Zack asked.

"Uh…Edison High?" Scott sounded really unsure.

"What are your diversions?" Billy asked.

Scott scrunched up his nose and his eyebrows popped up over his shade. It was obvious he didn't know what he was just asked.

"What are your hobbies?" Trini translates for him.

Scott shrugged slightly. "Martial arts…I guess." Everyone got the feeling that he wasn't really going to look at them.

Jason speaks up. "Scott is great at martial arts." He turns to Tommy. "I think you would have a tough time keeping up with him. I know I do."

"Really." Tommy looks Scott up and down. "He doesn't look like he has much to take me on." He says stiffly.

"Why don't you two spar a little?" Jason suggested. "That way you can see what I mean."

"Do you think that's a really good idea?" Scott looked at Jason. "Maybe I shouldn't."

"Use to having someone go easy on you?" Tommy chided. "I mean it's obviously that the only way you're getting the best of Jason, is that he's gone easy on you."

"No. That isn't true." Scott looks at Jason closely. "Is it?"

"Of course not." Jason tells him. "You're good." He looks pass Scott at Tommy with a bit of a glare. "If he doesn't want to spar, he doesn't want to. Don't bully him into it. What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing." Tommy snorted as he glared back.

"Please don't fight with each other." Scott scoots back from the table. "Maybe sparring a little won't hurt." He gets up.

"Maybe." Tommy jumps up from his chair. "Lets go." Tommy storms out to the mats with Scott jogging behind him. 'Could use this to relieve some steam...maybe solve a certain problem.' Tommy chuckles to himself. Jason follows the both of them, feeling a bit of worry.

Tommy strikes a defensive pose. "Time to see what you got." He waves a forefinger up and down at Scott. "You might want to take off that hat and those kooky glasses before we go."

"I'll be ok." Scott says quietly. "After all, it's just a little sparing."

Scott stands a couple yards from Tommy with his hands crossed behind his back. He stares at Tommy with a blank look. Or it is assume that it was a blank look due to the fact that his shades make it so nobody could tell for sure. In the meantime, Jason sits on the window seat near them and watches closely to see what was to happen.

"You call that a martial art stance?" Tommy laughs. "I thought you were suppose to be good." Scott makes no move. "Alright, here I come." Tommy charges at Scott, throwing a right punch at him.

Scott jumps up with his legs tucked under him. Tommy looks up and quickly kicks up, but Scott separates his legs into a spilt to avoid the kick. He lands in front of Tommy and gives a slight smile. Tommy glares at him as he gives a right punch. Scott tilts a little to the left, having the punch barely missing his head. Tommy throws a left punch and Scott tilts a little to the right to avoid it. Getting frustrated, Tommy drops down to sweep kick Scott's feet out from under him. Scott brings is hands out from behind his back and jump over Tommy, using Tommy's shoulders as leverage to help him flip over.

Tommy gets back up at the same time Scott lands behind him. Scott drops down and, with the use of his right foot, kicks the back of Tommy's knees. While Tommy was surprise by his knees being buckled, causing him to become unbalance, Scott stands up and grabs Tommy's shoulders. He pulls the guy in green down onto the mat and delievers a mock punch to Tommy's stomach.

Scott looks down at him, a hand behind his head. "I…I guess I won?" Afterwards he turns to look at Jason, almost like he was looking for approval from him.

Jason comes over. "Not bad huh?" He and Scott do a high five before he holds a hand out to help Tommy up.

Tommy hits Jason's hand away from him and jumps back to his feet. "Let's go again. That was just a warm up." He tells Scott angrily and then goes back to where he stood before.

Scott nods slowly. "Uh…ok." He looks at Jason, who just shrugs.

Jason goes back to where he was sitting, while Scott goes back to his spot. Again he stands with his hand behind his back and stares blankly at Tommy.

"Get ready." Tommy says before he charges at Scott.

Tommy sends a blur of punches at Scott. The shade-wearing boy blocks each punch, but is pushed to the edge of the mat in the process. Tommy does a roundhouse kick, so Scott had to duck down and rolls to the opposite side of the mat. The shade-wearing boy straightens up in time to see Tommy charging at him with a right punch aimed for his face. Scott sidesteps out of Tommy's way as fast as he can, but one of his feet still stays out. Tommy trips over the foot when he swings the punch at Scott and the boy in green falls flat on the mat. Angrier than ever, Tommy jumps back onto his feet.

"I think this starting to get serious." Scott says, before he had to duck a kick that Tommy was sending his way. "Hold on…I think we need to calm down." Scott puts his hands up in a time-out sign.

Tommy ignores him the sign given to him. He grabs Scott's right wrist tightly and turns his back to the boy. Then Tommy elbows Scott hard in the stomach before flip him over his shoulder, slamming the shade-wearing boy to the mat. If the air wasn't knocked out of Scott from the elbowing, it was now from being slammed onto the mat and he cough for air.

"Amazing." Tommy says, looking down at Scott. "After all that, those glasses and that hat stay on him."

Scott sits up as he continues to cough for air. Tears are streaking down his face from his choking. He yanks his wrist free from Tommy's grip and looks at it while he rubs his back. Tommy had such a hold on Scott, that there were red fingers and nail marks in his skin.

Jason comes running over to him. "Hey are you ok?" He asked as he helped Scott to his feet.

"Oh sure." Scott says sarcastically. "My back hurt, my stomach hurts, my lungs hurt, and my wrist hurts. I'm just fine." He waves Jason's hand away from him. "I thought this was sparing, not a real fighting." Scott finally stops coughing, but he was still finding it a little hard to breath.

"Tommy," Jason grabs the green man's arm and drags him over to the other side of the mat, "what is your problem?"

Tommy pretends to look like he felt bad. "Oh, did I hurt you're little friend?"

"How many times do I have to apologize for standing you up like I did?" Jason asked angrily. "Ok, so I've been spending a lot of time with Scott. Doesn't mean you have to take it out on him."

Tommy glares at Jason. "Sounds like he's your new best friend."

"Is that what this is all about?" Jason glares back. "Let me remind you that Zack was my best friend before I met you and I'm still best friends with him when I became one with you. Just because I met someone new doesn't mean I'm going to over look others."

"Feels like it." Tommy says.

"Get a clue and have an attitude check." Jason gets in his face. "To think I was telling Scott about how great a friend you were. He was so worried about making the right impression and I told him not to worry about it." Jason growls. "Now thanks to you, I look like a liar." Jason turns away from Tommy. "I'll tell you what, when you can stop acting like a selfish brat you can come find me." He was going to go to Scott, but Scott was no longer around.

Zack and the other came over when Jason and Tommy started to fight. "He left while you two were fighting." Zack told them. "When you two started yelling, Scott had this ashamed look on his face before he ran out of here."

"It almost looks like he wanted to cry." Kimberly put a finger to her cheek. "Or was he already crying?"

"Thanks a lot." Jason says coldly to Tommy. "You know, I just wanted you to meet him and like him. But I guess that was too much to ask." He storms out of the Youth Center.

"I think you were a little hard on Scott." Trini said to Tommy.

"Yeah." Kimberly nodded. "I know he took up a lot of Jason's time, but it was because he didn't know us and we didn't know him. I guess you should have given him a chance."

"What is this?" Tommy looks at them all with shock look on his face. "Gain up on Tommy Day now?"

"We weren't the ones who beat up Scott and made him run away." Kimberly says.

Tommy opened his mouth to say something, but he stops. He rubs the back of his head as he thought about how he acted. "Maybe…maybe your right." He sighed. "I'll talk to Jason when he had time to cool off."

On the Moon…

"Oh, what is this?" Rita looks through her telescope. "Looks likes the rangers are having problems." She turns to Goldar. "This is great. We now had an advantage."

"My queen, what do you mean?" Goldar asks as he waves his sword. "Even if we come out with a good monster, they still have that new ally to mess things up."

"Ah, that little brat can do nothing but wear herself out fighting for them." Rita says as she goes to the back room. "So long as the rangers are not working together, she will not get the power she needs to do those attacks. She will lose energy, leaving herself open."

"And with herself open she will be destroyed, leaving the rangers without any extra protection." Goldar says. "My queen that's brilliant."

"Exactly." Rita screeches at the old alien. "Finster, make me a monster. One that will wear that little ninja into nothing."

"Yes my queen." Finster nods. "Coming right up." And in a couple of minutes he holds up his finished work. "Here it is. I call it Multilope." He sets the clay figure on the conveyor belt and pulls the handle. Out of the tube pops a triple headed, six arms, two-legged Jackalope. "This will keep the ranges and their ninja busy."

"Really?" Rita looks at the monster skeptically. "How?"

"It is quite simple my queen." Finster laughs. "In order to destroy it, they must cut all its limbs and heads off. If they fail to do so, they will just grow back. And should they try cutting him in half, he will just multiply."

"Brilliant." Rita laughs. "Send him to Earth right way."

Meanwhile…

(Knock, knock) "Hello Catherine, is Scott home?" Jason asked.

"Yes." Catherine looks at him. "Did something happen?"

"Yeah…" Jason rubs his head embarrassed. "Look, I'm sorry about that."

"So am I, cause Scott asked not to see you for a while." Catherine tells him.

"Oh." Jason felt a little bad and a little angry. However, Jason didn't have time to dwell on it though, because his communicator went off. "I've got to go." He runs to his house; lucky for him that his parents weren't home. "What is it Zordon?"

"Rita has sent another monster to attack Angel Grove. Teleport to the park immediately." Zordon tells him.

"I'm on my way." Jason puts a hand behind his back. "It's morphin time. Tyrannosaur!" Instantly he was teleported to the park where the others were. "Whoa, is that thing ugly."

"Isn't it though?" Tommy says, but Jason ignores him. "Hey, look. I'm sorry, but we can't fight with each other right now. We have a monster to fight."

"Whatever." Jason pulls out his power sword and charges at the monster.

"Fool." Multilope says, soundig like three voices at once. "You think one little sword will destroy me?" With all six arms, Multilope grabs Jason's arms as soon as the ranger gets close. "I have the strength triple of you." He squeezes Jason's arms together.

Jason tries to wiggle lose. "Grrr…"

"Don't worry Jas. I'm coming." Zack yells as he brings out his power axe and jumps at the monster. He brings the axe down and cuts off four of the six arms, leaving Jason still being held with the last two arms. The black ranger goes to cuts the last two arms off when he was punched away by a re-grown arm. "What the?" Zack watches as three other arms grow back.

"You think it's that easy?" Multilope asked while he put his four newly grown arms around the red ranger and squeezes him again. Jason's ribs sounded like they were going to crack under the pressure.

Kimberly jumps up into the air. "Then try this on for size." The pink ranger yells as she fires an arrow at the right head of the monster. The arrow sinks in and the monster's head explodes. "Alright."

Multilope laughs. "Wrong again pink one." His right head re-grows. "Give it up."

"Power Biathlete!" All of the rangers, except for Tommy and Jason, glow the color of their suits. The glowing lights fly into a Biathlete that comes flying from the trees. "Friendship Cut!"

The Biathlete flies at Jason and the monster. It goes up and then immediately comes back down, slicing down between the two beings. Jason remains unharmed, while Multilope's six arms get cut. With nothing holding him, Jason falls to the ground, breathing hard.

The White Rose jumps out from behind some bushes. "You ok?" She asks, while catching her weapon and landing next to him.

"Yes, I'm just fine." Jason looks up at her and knows that his heart definitely skipped a beat.

White Rose looked a little shaky to him and for some reason it worried him. But Jason didn't have time to figure out what could be the cause, because something else was grabbing at his attention.

Multilope laughs, as his arms grow back. "You won't be find for long." Lasers shoot out of its horns.

"It would figure he would have a power like that too." Jason says as he grabs the ninja and jumps out of the way.

"So what do we do?" Trini asks as she and the other rangers run over to them. "It seems that every time we cut something off, it grows back."

"So lets cut it down the middle." Zack says as he jumps at the monster with his axe above his head. The black ranger comes down with it at the middle head and splits it exactly in half. "That should do it." He dusts the blade of axe off.

"Not quite. Look." Kimberly says. The two halves stand up and re-grow their missing sides. "Now there are two of them."

"But two is not enough." Multilope says. "How about we double it again." One grabs Zack's axe from him and the other grabs Jason's fallen sword. They slice each other in half. Now there were four of them. "More." They all shout and two more were sliced to make four more. Now there were eight of them.

"If he keeps this up there will soon be an army." Trini says.

"We must cease the multiplication before they reach a monster magnitude." Billy says.

"Yeah, but how?" Tommy asked.

"I have the answer." Alpha said through the communicator. "And it's a obvious one too."

"Well, what is it?" Zack asked.

"Cut off all its limbs and heads." Alpha says.

"Easier said than done." Zack laughs. "There are eight of them. You have to times all the heads and limbs together. We'll never cut them all off before they grow back."

"Uh…you forget." Jason points at the White Rose Ninja. "We have her." He looks at the ninja. "Can you do it?"

White Rose nods. "Yes." She takes a deep breath and brings her Biathlete up above her head. "Multiple Biathletes," Again each ranger, save for Jason and Tommy, glow. The lights go into her weapon as she throws it, "Power Cut!"

The Biathlete flies above the eight monsters and split into eighteen Biathletes. Two fly down, one levels at the monsters' head and the other one levels at the monsters' leg. The two weapons cut horizontally, taking off the head and legs. The other sixteen divided two per monster. The weapons fly down vertically, cutting off all the arms. Next they all come back to make three Biathletes and cut the monsters' bodies right through their middles, causing them to explode. Then the three Biathletes become one again as it flew back to the White Rose's hand.

However, the weapon never makes back to her. Instead it vanishes from the air and a moon shape necklace appeared around White Rose's neck. She puts a hand on the necklace for a second before passing out.

Jason catches her. "Rose!"

"Oooh." White Rose groans.

"I got you." Jason picks her up. "Let's get out of here." He turns to walk away.

"But Jason, we need to talk." Tommy says to him.

"I don't want to talk to you right now." Jason said coldly. He hits his morpher so he could teleport with the ninja elsewhere.

"Jason!" Tommy yells as the red ranger teleports away. "Grrr…honestly."

"You said it before," Kimberly puts a hand on the green ranger's shoulder, "he just needs a little time."

On the Moon…

Rita screamed at Finster. "It didn't work."

"That's cause we need something to turn all the rangers." Goldar says.

"I'll come up with another plan." Rita screeches at the Earth. "Just you wait."

Back on Earth…

A red light appears on the cliff overlooking the beach. A deep sigh escapes White Rose's lips as she starts to wake up.

Jason looks down at her. "Hey, are you ok?"

"Yeah." White Rose sighs again. "That last attack took more out of me than I thought. Is there something wrong between you and your friends?"

Before Jason could answer a digital stream appear next to him. "Huh?" Jason looks as something appears in the stream.

The stream disappears to show the robot dog from 'Doctor Who'. (Green pyramid like body with flat top. A square pad with square buttons of many colors, ten buttons by ten buttons. Head is green and shaped like a squared with a rectangle attached to it. The rectangle part is its nose and rectangle radar dishes are its ears. The eyes were one long computer screen from one side of the head to the other.)

"Are you ok mistress?" A digital voice says.

White Rose could tell Jason was confused. "The last 'Protector' was very smart and had a love for Sci-Fi. He especially liked Dr. Who. So he made the robot dog that was on the show." She looked down at the robotic dog. "I'm fine K-9, thanks for checking up."

"That is my job mistress." K-9 scans Jason. "No malfunctions mistress."

"What do you mean by that?" Jason asked.

"It means that there was nothing wrong with your powers to keep from transferring." White Rose explained as she motioned to be put down. "Did you and your friends have a fight?"

Jason puts her down. "Uh…yeah."

White Rose sits on the cliffs edge and so does Jason, K-9 rolls up behind them. Even though the electronic dog set him off a bit, Jason scoots a little closer to White Rose and slowly puts his hand on hers. She turns to look at him with surprise.

'Those beautiful brown eyes again.' Jason thinks.

This time he was determined to put them to memory. They were the only hint as to who she would be without the ninja suit.

"Well I hope that things will work out between you and your friends." White Rose tells him. "Or I'll won't be much help the next time." She gives his hand an affectionate squeeze.

"Mistress will not come if her life is in danger." K-9 tells him.

White Rose snaps at the electronic dog. "That's not true." She turns back to Jason. "I'll come when I can, but not if I prove to be more of a problem than a solution." She stands up.

Jason jumps up and grabbed her shoulders. "Wait, do you have to go?"

K-9 comes between Jason and White Rose. A little satellite dish comes out of his nose. "Unhand the mistress, or be…"

White Rose looks down at K-9 and nods. "It's ok." She then looks back up at Jason. "Yes. I need to rest for when the next battle will come." White Rose gently takes his hands off her. "I'll be watching for next time." She takes a step back to leave, but suddenly jumps forward to hug him.

Jason blushes as she does and slowly brings his arms up to hugs her back. If only he didn't have that stupid helmet on and she didn't have her mask, they could kiss. 'She's the one…she has to be.' He thinks. 'I can just feel it.'

After a few seconds White Rose lets him go and steps back again. "I hope to be back sometime. And, with hope, it won't be cause you life is in danger." She smiles and gives him a wink before she disappears in a blizzard of white rose petals.

"Goodbye ranger." K-9 says.

"You know, I have a friend who would find you fascinating." Jason says as he sees the digital stream comes back to teleport the robot dog after White Rose. "Maybe you should come after one of the battles to meet him."

"Perhaps, some time." K-9 says before he disappeared in the stream and stream flew away.

Jason lets out a deep sigh as he de-morphs and goes home.