Joe is portrayed by Hector Elizondo
Steve is portrayed by Stephen Amell
Robin sighed as she fiddled with a stick, drawing in the ground. Hi, she drew and let out a short humorless laugh.
Some Zorima passed by and she stood up, walking up to the bars of the cell.
"Hey! Let me out!" She ordered, however, the Zorima seemed to laugh at her. "Where's Kibishydesu?"
The Zorima looked at each other and shrugged. Robin rolled her eyes. They're so stupid! She chuckled a bit, Jesse would get along great with them; they're just like him!
The Zorima left, and Robin sighed, sitting back down on the ground. "This sucks!" She told herself. "I wish someone was here. Scott or Spencer, Matt, even Jesse." She sank back against the wall behind her. "How could I even be so stupid to get caught like that? I mean, I haven't been a ranger that long, but... ugh. Now I'm talking to myself."
~PRDS~
*2 Hours Earlier*
Robin sighed as she plopped down next to Spencer, exhausted. She put her head down on the table and already knew the guys were looking at her questioningly.
"Robin? What's up?" Scott inquired.
Robin groaned and pulled her head off of the table. "My dad's been calling me non-stop all night. I know Kyro told him about me leaving, but he still won't leave me alone!"
"Maybe you should answer the phone." Matt suggested. "Then maybe he wouldn't call anymore."
Robin rolled her eyes. "You don't know my father."
"Miss Robin! Miss Robin!" An older man, probably in his late 60s - early 70s, came up to her through the crowds of other students, making some students laugh as Robin groaned in embarrassment. The man was 5'10 with white hair and brown eyes.
"Joe." Robin feigned happiness and smiled. "What are you doing here?"
"Your father asked me if I could come and get you." Joe answered, pointing to a tall man in his late 30s, dressed in a fancy suit, walking towards them. He was 6'1 with brown eyes and hair.
"Dad?" Robin asked, looking slightly horrified.
"Who's that?" Matt asked, gesturing to Joe.
"Ah, I'm her butler." Joe answered for her.
"That's your dad?" Jesse asked. Robin nodded numbly. "No way. That's Steve Smith. He owns Smith Industries. Holy shit, you're rich."
"Robin. I've been looking all over for you. If only you could be as easy to find as Payton." Robin frowned at her father. Payton was her older sister, who also happened to be enrolled in Harvard University studying in business – like their father – something Robin never wanted to do. Robin wanted to be an artist.
"True." Robin said, though she completely disagreed with her father. She hated it when she was compared to her sister, and despite her loving Payton, she envied her harshly. "What are you two doing here?"
"To pull you out of school for the day." Steve answered. "I've asked Joe to direct you to your old room so you may clean it out." He looked at Jesse and Matt. "Who are you friends?"
"Dad, you remember Scott and Spencer." Steve nodded. "This is Matt, my new friend," She gestured to Matt, then to Jesse, "And that is Jesse.. my uh.. not really friend."
Jesse sniggered. "My uhh.. not really friend? That's cute."
"Shut up." Robin snapped, before turning back to her father with a smile.
Steve frowned. "We might have to reteach you some manners, young lady, or it might be.. you know what."
Robin sighed and stood up straight. "Alright, dad, lead the way."
As they left, Jesse shook his head. "I can't believe she's his daughter. That's crazy."
"You're jealous." Scott observed.
"That's for sure. I want that much cash. That's awesome." Jesse agreed. "You've been to her house?" He looked between Scott and Spencer with a sly look.
Spencer shook his head, while Scott buried his face in his hands.
"What?" Jesse asked. "How big is her house?"
"That's what you were asking?" Matt asked with a laugh.
"No, but I do want to know." Jesse smirked.
"It's a mansion." Spencer said. "Really nice place."
Matt frowned. "What did her dad mean by 'or it might be you know what'?"
Scott shrugged. "It's probably nothing."
~PRDS~
"My dad was kidding, right?" Robin asked Joe, glancing back at the butler. "He won't do 'that' will he?"
Joe shrugged. "I don't know. Your father thinks it would be for your own good."
"Do you agree?"
Joe stopped what he was doing and stood up straight, waiting for Robin to stop. "No." He answered once she did stop. "He shouldn't send you away like that."
"It would probably be different if my mom stuck around after I was born. Then, maybe, I'd get a better parent and life."
Joe sighed. "Robin, your mother had..."
"Payton met her! Why can't I?"
"Payton is over 18. She had the right to do so on her own grounds."
Robin sighed and shook her head, turning back to cleaning.
Outside her window, Kibishydesu watched her, Candelilla behind him.
"Can you take her?" The general asked, seeing as though Kibishydesu wasn't doing anything.
"Of course. See that," He pointed at Robin, who was hunched over at her desk, looking at herself in the mirror. Joe had left the room, and as soon as he did, Robin began the task she was currently doing. "She acts differently to please others. It's a lazy attempt, but it works."
Candelilla nodded as she saw the monster enter the room.
Robin was distracted from cleaning when Kibishydesu entered her room and grabbed her from behind. He held his hand over her mouth and the other on her neck. She kicked and hit the monster, struggling with all her might, but he wouldn't let go. She bit into his hand, forcing him to let go. She pulled away and spit out the black fluid she assumed was Kibishydesu's blood. He quickly recovered and grabbed her by the hair and slammed her face into the desk two times, forcing her into unconsciousness.
~PRDS~
The guys were sitting in the living room, playing video games on the Xbox when Kyro and Liela came in and turned it off in the middle of their game.
"Hey!" The guys called out, besides Spencer, who had been watching, not playing, in protest.
"What was that for?" Jesse asked.
"An alien was sighted at this location only a few moments ago." Kyro said, bringing up an image on his device.
"That is a nice house." Jesse commented.
"Oh my god, that's Robin's house." Scott frowned.
"Yeah, and look at this footage we found when we hacked into the security camera footage." Liela said, taking the device from Kyro and making the video of Robin's brief struggle with the alien before the alien disappeared with Robin in it's arms.
"Oh shit." Jesse mumbled. He and the other guys frowned deeply.
"Do you know where she is?" Matt asked.
Kyro shook his head. "Unfortunately, not yet. I'll keep searching, and get back to you when I have information."
~PRDS~
As Robin came to, all she felt numb except for her nose, which ached horribly.
"God, what happened?" She asked as she sat up, quickly having to lean back due to the headrush. Then, she remembered. "Great. Now, I'm stuck here."
"Unless your ranger friends can come and save you, however, I highly doubt it." Kibishydesu was standing in front of her cage. "You should really get that nose of yours checked out. It might be broken."
"Let me go!" Robin ordered, standing up and walking over to the bars of the cell. She clutched onto them fiercely and glared at the alien. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Oh please." Kibishydesu rolled his eyes. "We both know you're a ranger, so you can give up the act, Pink."
Robin pouted and crossed her arms. "So what? What do you want me here for?"
"Do draw out the other rangers so I can destroy them." Kibishydesu answered. "That's simply all I want. Of course, I'll destroy you afterwards, but that's only details."
Robin was horrified. Kill the others? What? I mean, sure I only met Matt and I may hate Jesse... Do I? She thought for a moment. Or does he just hate me? Ugh, not the point. I don't want any of them to die!
"You can't do that!" Robin cried as Kibishydesu began to slowly walk away. "Where are you going?"
"To wait outside of the cave for the other rangers to show. Once I'm out in the open, they'll be able to pinpoint my location." Kibishydesu shot her an evil smirk before leaving her alone with a small army of Zorima as the only thing in front of her cage.
~PRDS~
*Now*
Robin was getting increasingly bored. She looked out at the Zorima. "Can I have something to do?" She asked.
The Zorima looked at her and back at each other, seemingly confused. Robin stood up and walked over to the front of her cell. "Anything. Or at least let me have a mirror."
One Zorima broke away from the group and when it came back, it handed her the mirror from her room. They must have stolen it, Robin thought. She looked in the mirror and cringed. Blood was streaked under her nose and on the side of her lip. She wiped some of it away with her cardigan sleeve, but realized that most of it was dry and wouldn't come off.
She sighed and sat back. She heard ruckus from outside and smiled in relief. The other rangers had arrived. Then again, Kibishydesu was pretty strong and planning to kill them. She saw the Zorima all distracted by the battle and threw her mirror on the hard ground, shattering it.
"I guess that's seven years of bad luck." She muttered. "But it's good luck now." She grabbed a large, sharp part of the broken mirror and began filing at the bars with it.
~PRDS~
Back at AD, Liela was getting impatient. "Where's Robin?" She asked for the fifth time, seeing Matt and Scott get thrown back by Kibishydesu.
"Patience, Liela." Kyro told her. "Robin will be saved."
She nodded. Under her breath she whispered, "Come on, Robin. Your spirit's ready for you."
~PRDS~
Robin sighed and threw the shard at the wall in frustration of getting no where. "I wish I had my spirit. It could get me out of this mess."
She heard a voice inside her head, Robin, unlock your spirit. Just do what you saw Matt do and yell for it.
Robin hesitated for a moment, before taking a deep breath. "Tricera Spirit!" She yelled, and, as she had hoped, a ghostly, pink version of the Triceratops appeared, disintegrating the bars on the cage, freeing her.
"Yes!" She smiled, but it soon vanished as she saw the Zorima in the cave.
"Dino Squad, Power Up! Power of the Triceratops!" She took out her sword and immediately struck down some Zorima.
~PRDS~
Outside, Scott and Spencer were once again thrown off of their feet as Jesse and Matt summoned up enough strength the get back up. Scott pushed himself up onto his elbows and willed himself not to demorph. He glanced over at the blue ranger, who, while he was still morphed, made no move to get up, nor did he show signs of doing so soon.
"Spencer?" Scott asked through clenched teeth.
Spencer rolled over, clutching his ribs tightly. He breathed deeply, wincing at the pain. "Yeah?"
"You alright?"
Spencer shook his head. "No, what about you?"
Scott let out a hollow laugh. "Me neither." He reached out and grabbed their swords, throwing Spencer his. The blue ranger seemed disoriented, as he reached out for the sword too late. He pushed himself up and grabbed his sword, and the two stood up as Jesse and Matt were thrown back once again.
"You guys alright?" Spencer asked.
Neither guy responded, so Scott and Spencer forced themselves to run forward, Kibishydesu blasted them back, making them demorph and land a few feet away from Jesse and Matt.
The red ranger stood, but his leg collapsed under him and he was forced to demorph.
Jesse, seeing as though he was the only one left capable of saving Robin and defeating the alien, stood. He took out his blaster, but right as he was about to attack, the pink ranger ran out of the cave and struck Kibishydesu with her sword before running over to Jesse.
"The guys...?" Robin asked.
"Too hurt to fight now." Jesse interrupted with an answer. "Wanna tag-team him?"
Robin raised an eyebrow under her helmet but nodded. "Sure." She held up her sword as Jesse held his blaster.
"Here." Jesse handed her the blaster. "Let me see your sword."
They switched weapons and ran forward, Robin shooting out blasts to deflect Kibishydesu's own blasts. Jesse ran faster and slashed Kibishydesu and backed up, allowing Robin to jump onto and flip off of his shoulder, her blasting Kibishydesu back into the ground.
"Nice." Jesse complemented as the switched weapons. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Kibishydesu get up and shoot a blast at Robin. He pushed her out of the way and was blasted back, skidding to a stop in the dirt a few feet away. He was demorphed upon impact.
He groaned and tried to prop himself up, but moaned in pain and fell back into the dirt. A pink helmet came into his line of vision and he felt himself being propped up by Robin.
"Jesse?" Robin asked. She sounds worried, Jesse thought, I thought she hated me. Maybe not. Then again, it could just be the fact that I saved her. It'll probably go back to normal later.
"Huh?" He asked, looking up at her.
"Are you alright? What'd you do that for, you idiot? You were barely holding onto your morph to begin with!" Robin exclaimed.
"Exactly. If you were hit, I wouldn't be able to hold him off." Jesse explained, blinking away the blackness that threatened to swallow up his vision. "Help me up. I'm gonna use my spirit."
"What?" Robin was taken back. "You're barely conscious!"
"Not true, now help me up." Jesse demanded.
"How about we tag team him again?" Robin asked as she helped him stand. He immediately swayed violently and dropped to his knees, but Robin held him up on his knees and kneeled next to him.
"What are you talking about?" Jesse asked, frowning.
"I got spirit. It helped me break out." Robin answered. "Are you ready?"
Jesse shook his head. "No, but it's not gonna get any better, so lets just get it over with."
"You rangers are amusing. Knowing you can't do it, yet you continue with your futile efforts." Kibishydesu laughed.
"That's what you think." Jesse responded through clenched teeth.
"We can do anything." Robin added.
"Velociraptor Spirit!"
"Tricera Spirit!"
The velociraptor and triceratops spirits rushed forward, destroying the alien.
Jesse, exhausted, finally let the darkness take over as he heard Robin calling his name.
~PRDS~
Later, after Robin's nose was checked, and was, in fact, broken, and she had cleared things up with her father, she came back to AD and looked at the guys through the window in the door. It was the only window in the whole room.
"Kyro's planning to make the infirmary walls glass, you know." Liela said as she came up behind Robin. "Then you can see how they would be doing without having to stay at this crappy little thing."
Robin smiled. "That's great."
Liela searched Robin's face, finding no genuine happiness. "Are you alright? Is something on your mind?"
"Well, I just.. I guess I feel bad." Robin admitted.
"About what?"
"Well for starters, I don't know who gave me my spirit, and I can't thank them. And, well.. I feel bad that Jesse got hurt defending me. I mean, things'll probably go back to normal pretty soon between us, but he was so nice to me after everything."
Liela smiled. "That's because, despite what you and Jesse have relationship wise, he thinks of you as a friend. A best friend even. You should consider that when you talk to him. Oh and, you're welcome."
"What?" Robin asked.
"Your spirit. I gave it to you." Liela answered.
Robin opened her mouth, but before she could speak, Kyro came out of the infirmary. "They saw you out here and are wondering if you were going to go 'hang out' with them."
Robin nodded. "I'll go in in a minute." Kyro nodded and walked off towards the kitchen.
"I should go start on dinner." Liela said. "Don't wanna keep Kyro waiting."
"Thanks." Robin smiled, and walked into the infirmary. Matt was reading a book for language arts, Spencer and Jesse had their eyes closed, though Robin knew they weren't asleep, and Scott was sitting up, drawing. "What are you drawing?" She asked, coming up to Scott. She and Scott had met for the first time in art class, and had been friends ever since.
Scott pulled his drawing away, startled. "Huh? Oh nothing."
"Oh, top secret, huh?" She asked.
"Yeah, sorry." Scott smiled.
"It's all good." She sat down in a chair in between Jesse's and Spencer's beds, who were in the middle. Jesse and Spencer were looking at her, along with Matt and Scott.
"How are you guys feeling?" She asked, concerned.
"I don't think I want to answer that." Jesse muttered, groaning as he tried to pull himself into a sitting position. Normally, Robin wouldn't help, however she did, and also helped Spencer up after. This shocked Scott and Spencer when she actually helped Jesse.
"Spencer, how about you?"
Spencer shrugged. "I've had worse, but this is pretty bad. Never broken a rib before, but now that I have, I know that you guys would hate it."
"How many are broken?" Matt asked, peering over at him.
Spencer shrugged. "Kyro said three."
Robin grimaced. "Scott?"
"Probably better than them." Scott answered. "Matt?"
"Same." He said. "My ankle's sprained badly, but nothing too serious." He then looked at Jesse and Robin. "I saw you two work together. It was nice, considering most of the time I see you guys arguing."
"It was nothing." Jesse said, casting a smile at Robin. "Besides, she's not that bad to work with anyway."
Robin reached over and gently swatted him. "Neither are you." She smiled. "Neither are you." She repeated under her breath.
Next time on Power Rangers Dino Squad: When Scott's jealousy of the other rangers' spirits get in the way of a battle, Scott leaves without his morpher and finds refuge at a family friend's house. Meanwhile, the other rangers have to do with a doppelganger of Scott. Also, Scott gets his spirit when he reveals a secret about himself that none of the others knew.
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