Justin sighed as he set down the item that he had been holding onto for ages. He had been essentially alone since countdown. Sure he had had his Dad until he had graduated high school at the age of fourteen but then his Dad had been unable to move with him when he had been accepted to MIT. It had been just him and this girl Rose Ortiz who was younger than he was but smart in all the same ways.

One good thing had come out of being at MIT. Tommy had been nearby studying Paleontology so he had somewhere to go when he needed to reminisce about the good times. It was a night at Tommy's that had gotten him onto this secret career path that he now did on his own time. Tommy had introduced him to Hayley. Hayley was a genius and beautiful but she was so much older than he was and oh so not interested in him. Hayley however was helping Tommy plan out a new team of power rangers. This had surprised Justin but Tommy quickly explained that he had been approached with the idea to use his experience to educate a new team. There had only been one problem with this idea and that was Tommy knew peanuts about the actual morphers technology. Justin had quickly jumped at the chance to help Hayley knowing that it would give him something to do.

After Graduation Justin had quickly applied for his driver's license and registered Storm Blaster so that he could keep his only true partner with him at all times. The four years at MIT had killed him because he had not been able to have Storm Blaster with him. For practical reasons Storm Blaster was not his only car however the garage had been turned into a rather nice apartment for the sentient car.

The next person to approach him had been Andrew Hartford. Andrew had long since been put in charge of protecting the remnants of the Corona Aurora. He was also the current safe keeper of a Genetic remodification device that was kept on Earth. Andrew had learned that some factions of the darkness were going to make a move to get their hands on the Corona so that they could use it to free themselves. But at the prospect of making the morphers he had been stumped so he had brought the plans that had been given him to Justin.

Soon after that a dream had led him to RJ. Upon being asked RJ immediately jumped at the prospect of having a set of morphers. He didn't quite understand why he would need them but felt that it would be a good ace up his sleeve if anything ever happened to Pai Zhua. RJ had asked that the morphers be something unique that wouldn't be cumbersome in a battle. At first he had created a hand control seeing as the Pai Zhua style used a lot of fist techniques. However they had proved hard to get off and on repeatedly and RJ ran pizza shop which he planned on using for a cover. So Justin had scrapped the hand controls for sunglasses but allowed the morphed form to retain the hand controls.

Not too long after that Red Lightning had come to him with the spare Red Turbo morpher. TJ had become too busy to moonlight as a second ranger and he had had to choose. TJ still kept in touch with Justin even though he was supposed to be dead to most people on Earth. But with no partner Red Lightning had come to be with Storm Blaster. Justin had hopes that maybe sometime in the near future someone special would be worthy of partnering with Red Lightning but until that day the red car had taken up shop in the double garage with Storm Blaster.

Upon investigation he found that while there were no spare green, yellow or pink morphers that Lightning had the plans for those morphers. So now Justin sat in his basement hidden from the world trying to recreate the morphers. His biggest challenge was in trying to make the new ones look like the old ones but the quality of material was different here on Earth than it was on Edenoi or any of the other planets that Zordon had had access to.

Life was getting discouraging to him though, and he didn't know if he could keep going without a team for much longer. Rangers were most definitely had a pack mentality, they were much stronger when they had a team. Justin's only teammates were the two sentient cars in his garage and they could only provide so much company.

Justin shook his head and proceeded to pick up his projects when the doorbell rang. Turning on his security camera he was surprised to see two people wearing military uniforms standing at his front door.

SG1PR

Jon threw his book bag onto the kitchen chair. While he liked being able to go back to high school and he was actually making sure he got something out of it this time around he still despised the homework which had gotten harder since he had last been in his shoes. Smiling, he thought of the party that would be following the varsity game on Friday night; and of course of all the cheerleaders.

Dana stepped into the kitchen with a deep sigh, "Jon when you have a moment could you come into the living room? I have something I need to discuss with you before Carter gets home."

Jon followed Dana into the living room with a look of curiosity written all over his face.

Dana nodded, "Jon as you know I have to report your progress with the Air Force on how you are adapting to civilian life not to mention life as a teenager."

Jon nodded, "What is this about?"

"I am getting to that point;" Dana said sadly, "Basically the Air Force thinks that while you are doing really well in our house that you could be doing far better. Not to mention that they ideally want you far from your other self as possible."

"So I am being moved to another Foster home?" Jon asked as he took a deep breath knowing that this was something that was going to happen.

"That is what was suggested. It was originally thought that maybe Carter and I would be able to become your legal guardians and we would move with you to another part of the country." Dana explained, "However they think you could do better with another family."

"I understand; I am just glad that you don't want to give me up. I have kind of grown to like you two. You are not like most foster parents that you read about." Jon nodded as he stood to go pack his bags.

Dana held out her hand, "I would wait before you do anything rash Jon. Carter has an idea and the Air Force has already tentatively approved the idea."

Jon turned around and sat on the couch and waited for Carter to get home.

Carted walked into the living room and saw the two glum faces staring back at him, "You started to tell him?"

Dana nodded, "I had to tell him part of it but I wanted you to explain your idea."

Carter set his jacket on the arm of the couch, "I was asked my opinion on the progress you have made in our house and I felt that the only thing that is holding you back is that you have to listen to an authority figure all of the time. I know because of whatever reason I cannot know your files are sealed with the Air Force and I don't believe moving you to another family will help with this issue."

"I would agree with that, Jon nodded, "I have had to be very independent throughout my entire childhood."

Dana smirked and Jon knew it was because Dana knew the full story.

Carter continued, "My theory and solution is not to put you with another family but to send you to boarding school."

Jon shot forward, "Boarding school is for those really smart kids who excel in their studies. I am just an average student who hasn't been to school in years."

Dana held out her hand, "Jon you are very intelligent and I agree with Carter boarding school could be very beneficial to you. You would be able to be in charge of yourself and you would get some of the best education possible."

Carter nodded, "The Air Force at first denied this request because boarding schools are private and are not funded with tax dollars. However if you agree to let us adopt you we are very willing to fund your entire tuition to the school that we are thinking of."

Jon shook his head as he thought about what was being asked of him. He could get out of the awkward situation of having to be in a family all the time but he would have to agree to be adopted by the Grayson's in order to do this.

Dana stood up, "I have to get ready to go to work, why don't you sleep on this and then we can discuss it over breakfast in the morning."

Jon nodded his head before absently walking out of the living room and into the kitchen. Taking his book bag he went up to his room forgetting about the snack that he had been thinking about the entire walk from school.

Dana poked her head in after knocking, "Jon can I come in?"

Jon nodded as he looked at Dana, "Yes I was just studying for my history exam."

Dana leaned against the desk, "Jon, I am not trying to push this on you but I would like you to think about the fact that I know you miss having a true last name."

Jon nodded when he had been given this new identity he had had O'Neill stripped from him and the last name of Smith had been put in its place as a place holder.

"I have already looked into the legalities of this matter and if you take our last name of Grayson then there no reason why can't be called Jack again of that is what you want." Dana explained with a nod as she set down a pamphlet, "I will leave you with the school pamphlet do you can look it over."

As Dana walked out of the room Jon called out, "I think it would be too confusing to call myself Jack."

Jon picked up the pamphlet and looked over the cover. The school was called Thunder Bay Academy and it was in the mountains to the south of Blue Bay Harbor in Stone Canyon. Jon smiled he had no connections with that area of California although he had to admit the town sounded familiar.

Turning to his computer he searched Blue Bay Harbor and Stone Canyon and all at once his decision was made, He could go to any old public school and have cheerleaders or he could go to boarding school be on his own and have cheerleaders as well as Surfer girls in bikini's.

SG1PR

Sam led Justin on a tour of the SGC. While Justin a more on the Technical side of science than Billy had been he had been recruited to fill in Billy's position. Sam had been the one to reveal whose position he was taken and the expression had been mildly surprised at the fact that Billy had worked here. Justin had been worried when he had been told that Billy had moved to another base but not overly so that gave off the impression that he had known the other man very well.

Sam grimaced to herself while Justin was very well aware that the SGC knew about the GSA he was not aware that his identity had been leaked. Both she and Daniel had been against this plan but people had suggested it knowing there had been at least one mole in the SGC from the GSA. Justin had been picked because of his achievements in academia as well as his lone wolf status among the ranger world. All the others with known identities had teams and would have been hard to sway. Jack of course had recommended this but he also disregarded Taylor as a ranger. Sam and Daniel weren't making that mistake of looking a gift horse in the mouth and had been watching her. The Air Force was using Justin to try and trap any other member of the GSA which Sam felt was going to end poorly given the fact that Taylor had definitely not indicated that there were any others among the base nor did her interactions demonstrate that she knew anyone other than Eric Myers. But then again nor did Billy's interactions with anyone indicate that he had known even about Taylor or vice versa. Sam wondered how deep the communication ran among rangers.

Justin sighed easily somehow everything seemed right here at the SGC like he was supposed to be here and somehow the members of the SGC seemed almost like a team. He knew he had to be careful because they did know about the GSA and he knew he recognized a few other rangers wandering around. He had heard through the chatter in the morphing grid that Billy had left Earth once again. But to know that once again he was replacing the older genius was a little bittersweet. He had a group of people who respected his genius again but it had been at the expense of Billy.

Justin followed Sam into her lab and while her back was turned he grimaced briefly but quickly covered it up when he noticed that they had Billy's Triceratops morpher. He knew that they couldn't do anything with it as it was broken but it was still worrisome that they had something with such a power level available. Although Justin schemed if he could get a scan of the device he might be able to create a new morpher for the powers and working at the SGC might just give him the opportunity to do just that. He also wondered if this was how they had figured out that Colonel O'Neill's clone was capable of being a ranger.

Justin smiled at that thought. It had been discovered that Jack was capable of being a ranger but then he frowned; the GSA was interested in studying Jack's ability through his clone Jon. What if somehow the SGC had been informed of his identity and they were using him to get to other rangers. Mentally slapping himself he told himself not to worry and that he could handle anything that happened here.

Daniel walked over to Justin, "What do you think of this place?"

Justin smiled, "This place is amazing, to think that the government has been hiding a project as amazing as this is astounding. If I had known I would have been onboard years ago."

"Really because I thought you only just graduated from school?" Jack asked as he watched the younger scientist.

Justin pointed to his head, "Hello Genius here, I am not chop liver and if I had wanted to I probably could have finished school earlier than I did. My friend Rose who is younger than I am has done three times as much schooling than I have. I only muddled through school as I have because I had nowhere to be."

Jack looked confused but shook it off, "He is way too smart for me."

Daniel nodded, "Yes Jack, he is way too smart for you." Daniel turned to Justin, "I am curious though to know what it was like being a child prodigy and going to high school when you were only twelve?"

Justin shrugged, "Well to be honest I didn't know of my heightened intellect until I was twelve and they decided to test me when I was placed in a group home in Angel Grove. People always assumed that up till then I caused trouble for my teachers because I was in the Foster care system moving from family to family."

"Do you not have a family Dr. Justin Stewart?" Teal'c inquired

"I do have a father however for much of my childhood he was declared an unfit guardian because my mother's death hit him really hard." Justin explained, "I had been placed in the group home in Angel Grove in an attempt to place me back with him and luckily it worked out partially because the figured out that I wasn't a problem child just an extremely smart one."

"I am familiar with this Foster system but I was unaware that a parent could have their children removed from their care." Teal'c asked

Jack nodded, "Yes the State can remove a child who is being harmed and place them into the Foster Care system. Most of the children in the system are not orphans they are just children who have been wronged. There are good points and bad points to the system but all children deserve at least the right to grow up in a safe environment if they can't have a loving family of their own."

Daniel shrugged feeling a little uncomfortable by the topic on hand and noted that Justin looked uneasy as well. Discussing foster care experiences were never easy so he decided to intervene, "As intriguing as this topic is do you think we could change it and maybe introduce Justin here to his job?"

Justin nodded, "That would be an excellent idea. I just love discussing my less than ideal childhood but I much rather talking about my job and task expectations."

SG1PR

Jon walked around the campus at Thunder Bay academy. Dana and Carter had brought him up for a tour and while it wasn't certain it was looking very promising about him being able to start there as soon as the adoption was finalized. The pictures had not done the school justice as it sat at the edge of a mountain range overlooking the ocean. The waves were huge and there were tons of girls in bikinis. While the school didn't actually offer Surfing classes they did offer Motocross and even had its own professional track.

The school even offered a year round option for students. While it encouraged students to go visit family during the summer they provided a lot of opportunities for students to try things they would never get to do otherwise like backpacking through the Rockies or rock climbing in the Grand Canyon. Senior students could even tackle Mount Everest. All of this seemed easy compared to going through the stargate but he wasn't going to complain.

Jon's heart stopped when he saw a very familiar man approach Dana and Carter. He groaned as he realized his Stalker had followed him here.

Dana turned to Jon, "Jon we didn't want to make a big deal before but this is Hunter Bradley he is the interim headmaster here. When we were first thinking about boarding school as an option for you, we asked him to come observe you to see if you would be a good fit for his school."

Jon let out a sigh of relief when he realized that this man had not been stalking him but observing him. "It is a pleasure to meet you." He greeted the man who was definitely too young to be a headmaster even from the eyes of a fifteen year old.

Carter explained, "Hunter's family has been involved with this school since it was founded and the previous headmaster passed away unexpectedly a few years ago Hunter was available to fill in. Thunder Bay has high expectations for their faculty and students which is why Hunter has been interim for so long.

Hunter nodded, "If you come here as a student you will be expected to call me Sensei Bradley even though that makes me sound old it is the expectations of the school. Why don't you come take a walk with me Jon and we will discuss your potential future at Thunder Bay."

Jon looked around, "I don't know much about admission interviews but aren't we supposed to sit in your stuffy office with you behind a huge hardwood desk staring me down making me feel uncomfortable?"

"I don't sit behind my desk much and neither did my headmaster. For as long as I have been aware the headmaster at Thunder Bay has always been hands on with the students. We have a very formal relationship but we are always outdoors. You will find that many of your classes will leave the classroom in all types of weather to increase your learning experience." Hunter explained as they walked across the campus.

Jon just nodded as he walked with Hunter but stopped when they reached a large field.

Hunter nodded, "This is the biggest thing about Thunder Bay and the one area that you didn't quite meet up to expectations with."

Jon gulped he of course knew hand to hand combat through his military training but to see an entire field of students practicing martial arts made him uneasy. He had of course read that the school was an academy for students who excelled in Martial arts however he hadn't expected to see an entire class period devoted purely to sparring.

"I saw enough of your ability to believe that you would catch up quickly in this one area," Hunter announced, "and I believe you would be a very good candidate for the school."

Jon nodded his head reluctantly, "How much emphasis do you put on the martial arts?"

Hunter thought for a moment, "Quite a bit, students put in probably close to forty hours a week towards their training and that does not include their schooling or extra-curricular activities. We also put a very heavy focus on our education because without a good education we believe our students won't be able to go anywhere in life."

Jon nodded to that information and he knew he didn't have a problem with that because he definitely did want to make it different this time around.

Hunter paused before looking at Jon again, "I need you to know one other thing, and that is if this gets too much for you, you can't just try to get yourself kicked out. We are not quick to expel around here and if you try to get yourself expelled you might just find yourself pulling extra chores and or training. It is of Thunder Bay's belief that behavioral problems can be trained out of a person. I can attest to that as well, if it hadn't been for the standards this school holds I probably would be locked up in prison because any other school wouldn't have worked with me."

"I think I get it, this is a martial arts school and fighting while not condoned will not earn me a ticket out of here also I will have to keep my grades up," Jon nodded to show that he understood the rules.

Hunter nodded, "Welcome to Thunder Bay, well as soon as the paperwork is complete you can start here. We don't normally do mid semester transfers here but you are caught up in all of your classes and I am eager to get you here to have you begin working on your martial arts."

Jon shook Hunter's hand, "I look forward to starting here Sensei Bradley."

AN: So I was looking at my timeline while planning out this chapter and I realized that it is highly ridiculous that Tommy had his Doctorate in Dino Thunder even under the normal timeline. Justin and Billy are plausible given their high IQ but it is still ridiculous but I will keep going with it because this is just fiction but oh the little errors you find.