Mason Finley is portrayed by Leo Howard
Andrew Walker is portrayed by Liam Hemsworth
Kristi Aya is portrayed by Bella Thorne
Alice Walker is portrayed by Chloe Grace Mortez
Damon Walker is portrayed by Chris Hemsworth
Scott woke up in a cold sweat, breathless from his dream. He occasionally got a dream about the day he was rejected as a friend from Eddy. Once, the first time he had the dream, he had woken up screaming, but refused to tell anyone about it. He looked at the clock and sighed. It was 5 am, and every time after this dream, he could never bring himself to fall back asleep.
He sat up and climbed tiredly out of bed, pulling on a plain black t-shirt and walking out of his room. He figured he would switch his pajama bottoms out for jeans right before breakfast, something he always did.
He climbed the stairs and came out onto the roof. The sun was just peeking over the horizon, painting the sky a calming orange and yellow. He stared out and admired it's beauty for a few moments before he heard a voice. James' voice to be exact.
"Scott? What are you doing out here this early? You usually do not awaken this early, as I have noticed." James said as he walked forward, joining him at the edge of the roof.
Scott glanced over at the gold ranger and contemplated answering the question truthfully. James knew nothing about him, and it would be slightly awkward revealing this to him. "I just had a bad dream. It's nothing."
"Are you sure? It seems like there is more on your mind." James told him. Scott looked visibly shaken up and seemed weary about telling him why. "I promise I will not tell anyone. I always keep my promises."
Scott sighed. "I just had a dream about my ex-friend who I told something to that he hates me for."
"What did you tell him?" James inquired.
Scott looked James in the eye before he spoke. "I told him that I... Umm.. don't like girls." He answered vaguely.
"Robin is a female. You do not like her?" James looked severely confused.
"No, not like that. I don't like dating girls." Scott clarified.
James raised his eyebrows at the black ranger. It's not that he didn't support homosexuality, but Scott didn't look at all like he would be gay. "I see, however, I do not understand the problem with it."
Scott smiled and nodded in agreement. "Exactly, but, Eddy always found something wrong with it, I guess. He just didn't like it, plain and simple."
The two sat there in silence before Scott broke it. "So what are you doing up at 5 am?" He asked.
James shrugged. "I have always woken up this early in the day. It has given me more time to train and perfect my fighting."
Scott nodded. "I get it. I mean, we all could use a bit more practice."
~PRDS~
"Where are Scott and James?" Robin inquired as she noticed the two were not at breakfast yet. Before anyone could answer her question, however, the two walked in, both fully dressed, and they sat down. "Where were you guys?"
Scott smiled. "We were training and ran a bit late." He looked around. "Spencer leave already?"
Jesse nodded. "Yeah. Reese is getting discharged today and Spencer needed to help him out."
Scott nodded in understanding. He suddenly remembered that Reese knew about their secret and he had promised to tell him if anything happened. "Is he coming back to school?" Scott asked after a moment.
"Not for a few days." Robin answered.
"Yeah, but when he does, Spencer's not gonna let him out of his sight." Jesse responded.
"No kidding." Scott agreed.
~PRDS~
As soon as they got back to the house, Spencer jumped out of the backseat and hurriedly made his way around to the other side, pulling his younger brother, Caleb out first and handing him off to his mom before offering a hand to Reese.
"Spence, I can get out of car by myself." Reese insisted, however, he had been wincing often since they left and it gave him away.
"No way, let me give you a hand." Spencer gently took Reese's arm and once he was on the edge of the seat, he eased him out of the car. Immediately, Spencer pulled Reese's arm around his shoulders and put his arm around his waist, careful of his injury, and steered him inside and helped him onto the couch. Spencer stood in front of him, not knowing what to do now.
"You need anything? Are you hungry? Cold?" Spencer asked. Reese leaned back and winced. "You alright?"
Reese chuckled. "Spencer, I'm okay." He lifted up the edge of a blanket for him to see. "If I was cold, I have this. If I needed some food, I would get up and get some. I am fine." He told him with a smile. "Thanks for the offer, though."
Spencer sat down beside his brother. "I just wanna make sure. I mean, it's your first time home since the accident and anyway, you're not supposed to be up and around."
"Too much. If I'm in pain, I'll stop whatever I'm doing." Reese assured him.
"Reese, you're probably in pain right now." Spencer said, raising an eyebrow.
Reese nodded. "Well, what do you expect? I was stabbed with a sword two months ago. Of course I'm still in pain."
Spencer took out a pill bottle and offered it to him. "Do you need a painkiller?"
"The doctor gave me one when he gave that to you guys." Reese said, snatching it out of his hands.
Spencer out his hands up in surrender. "Jeez."
"Look, I just don't feel comfortable..." He trailed off, looking off to the side.
Spencer sighed. "Comfortable seeing me holding a bottle of pills. I know." He finished for him. "I'm sorry, Reese. Seeing you laying in the hospital made me realize what it was like for you when I was in there and I'm really sorry."
Reese shook his head and turned back to him, putting a hand on his shoulder. "No, I'm sorry. I should've paid more attention back then. If I did, maybe I could've prevented it."
"Reese, it's not your fault." Spencer assured him right when his morpher beeped. He looked to his brother who was looking at him expectantly.
"You gonna get that, Spence?" Reese asked.
"Uhh... Yeah. I'll be back." Spencer nodded quickly before he ran out of the house.
~PRDS~
Scott was walking to school alone that morning as he had forgotten something at AD and was forced to go back and get it. Suddenly, he stopped in his tracks by what he saw.
"Eddy?" He whispered under his breath, and he knew it was him. Same hair, same eyes, same everything, just older. He was walking into Sol Valley High. Scott knew he had seen someone who looked like him a couple times around school, but now he was positive that it was him.
He quickly ran behind the building and breathed in deeply, remembering everything about his old friend. He felt a few stray tears make their way down his face as he slid down the wall and hit the back of his head on it.
"I'm so stupid. How could I have thought I would never see him again? How could I have been so ignorant?" He put his head in his hands as his morpher beeped.
He stood up and ran away quickly to the battle sight.
~PRDS~
The rangers had all met on the way there and now stood in front of Doronbosu as he was sending Zorima away with people.
"Rangers! Its so great to finally meet you!" Doronbosu cackled evilly. "Have you come to play?"
"In your dreams. Ready?" Matt said.
"Ready."
"Dino Squad, Power Up!"
"Power of the Tyrannosaurus!"
"Power of the Parasaurolophus!" Scott sounded dejected, even as he did this.
"Power of the Stegosaurus!"
"Power of the Velociraptor!"
"Power of the Triceratops!"
"Power of the Pterodactyl!"
The six drew their weapons and ran forward just as Zorima stepped in front of the alien. Scott, Spencer, Jesse, and Robin were fighting the Zorima while James and Matt rushed through the crowd of foot soldiers and made a beeline for Doronbosu.
Jesse and Robin were back to back, slashing at the Zorima in front of them. Robin was suddenly pulled forward by one, which allowed her to destroy more in the process. Jesse was struck in the back and thrown down, causing many Zorima to come up to him and surround him, leaving him with only his sword to defend himself.
"Jesse!" Robin cried as she slammed two Zorima together and ran forward. She pulled a few off of him and blasted the rest. He helped him up. "Are you alright?" She asked, worried for his wellbeing.
He nodded. "I'm fine, trust me."
The two pointed their blasters at more Zorima, and blasted them.
Scott and Spencer, meanwhile, were having their own problems. Spencer was pinned down, like Jesse was, and Scott was being held by Zorima. The problem was: Scott wasn't fighting back. He seemed in denial and slightly traumatized.
"Scott! I could use a bit of help!" Spencer called over to him as a Zorima held it's sword threateningly at his neck.
Seeing as Scott wasn't going to help him, Spencer kneed the Zorima, throwing it off of him and into others, and flipped up, into the air and then landed on his feet in the middle of them. He spun around with his blaster and destroyed the ones around him before grabbing his sword and running over to help Scott.
He took out his sword and began fighting off the multiple Zorima surrounding the black ranger, but Scott didn't even try to help. He seemed lost in thought. Spencer pulled the remain Zorima away from his friend and blasted them out of existence.
"Scott? Are you alright?" Spencer asked as the black ranger fell to his knees. "What's wrong?" He began to pull Scott to his feet when something threw him off balance, sending him and Scott crashing to the floor.
Doronbosu was standing over them menacingly. Spencer looked over, seeing Matt and James demorphed and being dragged away from the battle by Zorima.
"What are you doing to them?" Spencer growled as threateningly as he could. "Let them go."
"Don't worry. You can have them back once you destroy me and find out where I'm taking them." Doronbosu answered with a smirk. "That is, if you can do either of those before I destroy you."
Spencer then glanced over to Robin and Jesse, who still had their hands full with Zorima. He looked back over at Scott, who was now staring up at Doronbosu, almost blankly. "Scott." Spencer said, shaking in the black ranger slightly.
"What's wrong with him?" Doronbosu laughed. "Have a defective teammate, blue ranger?"
Spencer kicked Doronbosu's legs out and sent him to the ground before he got up and stood over him with his blaster in hand. However, Spencer didn't have the blaster trained on the alien anymore. The alien had disappeared into thin air.
"Where is...?" Spencer was cut off by a harsh blow to the ribs as Doronbosu reappeared. Spencer groaned and forced himself to look back up at him. "What the hell?" He muttered through gritted teeth.
"You rangers didn't know I could turn invisible, did you?"
Spencer was in pain, but pushed through it and blasted Doronbosu back as he came too close to him.
"Help!" Robin's voice was heard as she was getting dragged away by Zorima. She was unmorphed. Jesse, who was still morphed, caled out to her, but he was being held back by Zorima.
Doronbosu, on the other hand, seemed to have a severe burn on his face, even for an alien, and stood up, holding half of his face. "I need to take care of my wounds. I'll be back rangers."
He and the Zorima disappeared. Jesse demorphed and pounded the ground very hard with his fist, unfortunately making him cry out in pain when he hit the wrong spot.
Spencer and Scott demorphed next and Spencer was giving Scott a look.
~PRDS~
"What were you thinking?" Kyro scolded Scott as he was wrapping Jesse's wrist in bandages. "Three of the rangers got captured and these two are hurt."
"We can still fight." Spencer retorted as he pulled his shirt on over the wrapping on his chest. He grabbed his jacket and pulled it back on as well. "Call if anything happens. I gotta get back."
"Alright. Be back before 11." Kyro told him as he opened the door.
"No problem." Spencer nodded, closing the door behind him.
"You," He said, looking at Jesse. "Are not fighting with that hand."
"What? It can't be that bad." Jesse said, pulling his wrist away from Kyro and turned it, making a burst of pain climb up his arm. "Or not. What happened?"
"You hit these two knuckles," He told him, pointing to the pinky and ring finger knuckles. "And if you hit those two hard, it can cause a broken wrist."
"No way. You've got to be kidding, right?" Jesse asked as Kyro finally finished wrapping his wrist tightly.
"No. I'll put the cast on later." Kyro answered, before walking over to Scott. "You have to fight. I don't care how upset you are today, you're fighting."
"Kyro, I..."
"Don't 'Kyro' me. What you did was unacceptable." He shook his head. "Do you guys wanna hear the list of people I got so far?"
"List of people?" Scott asked, looking confused.
"If you were paying attention to the battle, people were getting kidnapped. Now, here's what I got so far. Matt, James, and Robin, obviously, and I got few others too. Namely Mason Finley, Andrew Walker, Kristi Aya, and Edward Stone, but that's only from your school. Do you know any of them?" He inquired, noticing how Scott's head snapped up as he said that.
"Edward Stone." Scott nodded. "He used to be my best friend and he dumped me because I'm gay. I just saw him for the first time since then today."
They were silent for a minute before Jesse spoke up to change the subject. "Mason and Kristi are dating. They're cool, I guess. Andrew is Mr. Walker's younger brother and Alice's older brother. I don't know any of them too well, but I've met them."
Kyro nodded and turned to Scott. "Is that why you were like that? Because of Edward?"
Scott nodded. "Yeah."
"Well, I hope that doesn't jeopardize the mission, because you're gonna have to save him with the others."
"What?" Scott asked, looking almost offended. "Please tell me you're kidding."
"Your job is to save people, not letting your feelings about them get in the way of that. If you can't do that, then you're not meant to be a ranger." Kyro told him.
~PRDS~
When Spencer got back to his house, he noticed that his parent's car was gone and so was Caleb, meaning Reese was home alone. He walked into the house and saw that Reese wasn't on the couch.
"Reese?" He asked, hoping for an answer.
"In the kitchen." Reese's voice answered.
Spencer walked into the kitchen, seeing Reese making a sandwich on the counter. He was standing and seemed stable on his feet, but Spencer was concerned he might collapse. "Hey, Spence, what's up? That was a long phone call." He gave Spencer a look that he couldn't read.
"Yeah, I had to grab something for my friend. What are you doing?" Spencer asked.
Reese smirked. "Uhh.. making a sandwich. What does it look like?"
Spencer shrugged slightly. "You feeling alright?"
Reese sighed and rolled his eyes. "Spencer, you were gone for 45 minutes. Nothing's gonna happened to me. I'm okay."
"I just wanted to make sure." Spencer told him, leaning against the counter. He leaned in too fast and bumped his injured ribs on it and winced. Reese now looked concerned.
"You okay, Spence?" Reese asked. "Did something happen?"
"Reese, did you hear what I told you when you were unconscious a few days ago?" Spencer asked instead of answering.
Reese sighed and bit his lip. "If you're asking if I heard that you were the blue ranger, then yeah, I did." Spencer gave a sheepish smile as Reese continued. "And in the dream world, in the midst of people, I bumped into Scott and your new friend James, and they told me everything. So yeah, I know."
Spencer breathed out in relief. "Great, now I don't have to hide it from you. I just came back from a battle."
"I guessed that." Reese nodded. "Did you get hurt?"
Spencer nodded and pulled up his shirt slightly to reveal the bandages to his brother. "Spence." He said worriedly.
"It's okay. Just some bruised ribs. Should be healed up in a few days." Spencer assured him. "Don't worry about me. You need to worry about yourself right now."
"How could I not worry, Spencer? You're a power ranger. You risk your life daily."
"Weekly, actually."
"Whatever. It doesn't stop me from worrying." Reese said. "You're my little brother. I have to worry you."
Spencer gave him a small smile as the two embraced. They broke apart a few moments later and Reese patted Spencer's arm. "No matter how much I worry, I know you're doing good. I'm proud of you."
"Thanks Reese. I thought I should tell you that I live with the other rangers, too, but I'll come over everyday, keep you posted."
"Thanks Spence."
~PRDS~
The alarm beeped in AD, alerting Scott to the location of the people. "You found them?" Scott asked, raising an eyebrow at Kyro.
"Yes. I sent the location to your morpher. Go, and don't let your feelings get in the way of saving the people." Kyro warned him.
"I wont." Scott nodded as he ran out of AD and to the location. Spencer met him outside of the cave they arrived at.
"It's always a cave." Spencer commented.
"No kidding." Scott nodded. "Ready?"
"Ready."
"Dino Squad, Power Up!"
"Power of the Parasaurolophus!"
"Power of the Stegosaurus!"
The two drew their sword and nodded to each other. "Let's go."
They went in carefully, making sure not to make too much noise so they could get the people out before they fought. However, as usual, luck wasn't on their side and they were spotted by Doronbosu. Half of his face was still scorched and blackened.
"You and your defective friend again? You will feel my wrath this time, blue ranger!" Doronbosu promised, lunging for Spencer. Scott interfered and blasted Doronbosu out of the cave to make it safer for the captured people.
They rushed at Doronbosu as he did the same to them but Doronbosu caught them and pushed them back before flipping them into the air and onto the ground. Suddenly, Zorima came out of the cave and began advancing on the two downed rangers. Jesse, who wasn't supposed to be there, jumped up and landed in front of the two, but not before kicking a Zorima down.
"Jesse, what are you doing? Your wrist is broken, you shouldn't be fighting!" Scott said. Jesse was now sporting a white cast that went stopped just before his elbow.
"I can fight with one arm." Jesse smirked before whipping out his morpher. "Dino Squad, Power Up! Power of the Velociraptor!"
While Jesse took care of the Zorima, Scott and Spencer pulled themselves up and advanced on Doronbosu. Doronbosu quickly ran over and grabbed Scott's arm, tripping him to make him fall, and holding his arm behind his back. He kicked out Spencer's feet as well, making him crash hard into the ground.
He picked up Scott above his head and threw him into a nearby tree. He picked up Spencer by the leg and spun around before throwing him into Scott, who was just getting up. The two boys crashed to the ground and laid on the ground for a few moments, wincing every once and a while.
Jesse pushed a Zorima to the ground and did a one handed cartwheel over him, kicking down two Zorima in the process. He swung his left hand into a Zorima's chest, throwing it back into a few others.
Suddenly, another one grabbed him and forced him to the ground. Fighting the Zorima alone and with one hand was getting harder by the minute as they surrounded him and began to bring their swords down. Jesse put his arms up, left above the right, and caught the swords. He gasped in pain as the swords hit, causing his left arm and push back on his broken wrist.
He kicked up at a few of them and hit some on his left by swinging his fist out at their legs. His right wrist screamed in protest as what he did let the Zorima's swords to dig into his wrist a bit. He turned to the side and kicked the rest of their feet out before making his way to his feet.
Scott then crouched down and tackled the alien's legs, forcing both of them into the ground as Scott pounded on the burnt side of his face. The alien turned invisible, and Scott was confused.
Jesse helped Spencer up and the two ran over and pulled Scott off of the aground and stood together with their blasters trained in different directions.
Suddenly, he appeared in Spencer's line of view. Spencer shot a blast out at him, but he disappeared before it reached him.
He then appeared in Jesse's direction. The green ranger didn't hesitate to blast him, but he disappeared again. The recoil of the blast made Jesse gasp in pain and fall on one knee as the pain in his wrist flared up even worse.
Doronbosu appeared in front of Scott, but again he disappeared as Scott fired at him.
"He's just playing a game with us. We have to outsmart him." Spencer whispered to them as Jesse stood back up, cradling his wrist to his chest.
Spencer and Jesse watched their sides, and didn't see Doronbosu appear behind them. Scott sensed the impending danger and quickly flipped up above Spencer and Jesse, and fired at the unsuspecting alien. Doronbosu exploded and Jesse and Spencer gaped at the black ranger.
"How did you know he was gonna be there?" Jesse asked.
"He had appeared in every direction except that one. He wasn't going to appear in front of one of us again, especially knowing that we wouldn't hesitate to destroy him." Scott answered proudly. "Lets go free the people. I can see their families already coming around."
The two looked and saw that he was right. Families were coming around to the area looking at them and began asking various questions as the three walked past them.
"Stay here." Spencer ordered, disguising his voice in case anyone he knew was there. "We'll get your relatives and friends out as quickly as possible. The other rangers are inside right now trying to get them out."
"Stay in front to make sure no one interferes." Scott whispered to him. He nodded and Scott and Jesse ran into the cave and immediately went to the large cage keeping them in.
Jesse threw the key to Scott from where he found it and Scott opened the door, letting many people run out from the cave. Robin immediately rushed over to Jesse, seeing him holding his wrist in pain. "Are you alright?" He nodded.
Matt and James walked out slowly, both sporting injuries from the fight. "Guys, morph. It'll be suspicious if they see you walking out with us."
"Yeah, but wont they notice that we just appeared out of nowhere?" Matt asked.
"No, Spencer told them the other rangers were inside trying to get the people out." Jesse told them.
The three nodded. "Dino Squad, Power Up!"
They walked out of the cave and met Spencer. They all looked around at the people they recognized. Mason and Kristi were talking together. Mason had almost shoulder length brown hair and brown eyes while Kristi had long ginger colored hair and brown eyes. They kissed and waved to the rangers in appreciation.
The rangers then looked at Andrew, Alice, and Damon Walker. They all had blonde hair and blue eyes, but Andrew was the only one with actual short hair while Alice and Damon had medium length hair. They were hugging before they walked up to the rangers.
"Thank you, rangers, for saving my brother." Damon said gratefully.
"It was no problem. It's all in a days work." Matt told him. Damon nodded and lead his siblings away as Scott spotted Eddy walking away from the battle scene, looking shaken.
~PRDS~
An hour later, while the rangers had gone home, Scott walked to the park where he had told Eddy everything and had been yelled at for it. He sat down on the same swing, despite him being a bit too large to actually swing on it.
"Scott? Scott Thomas?" Scott froze at hearing this voice. It was Eddy's voice.
Scott looked at him. He was standing a little ways away from him, still looking shaken up about everything. He had a black eye and a cut on his lip, making him think that he had fought back when the Zorima captured him.
"Edward." Scott said, not knowing what else to say. He remember Eddy not wanting him to cal him by his nickname, but that was always how he spoke of him.
"What are you doing here?" Eddy asked, avoiding Scott's eyes.
"Free country; I can sit where I want." Scott answered simply. He wasn't angry, but he wanted Eddy to know how much he had hurt him. "What happened to you?"
Eddy was quiet for a moment before he answered. "The alien kidnapped me and I was saved by the Power Rangers an hour ago."
"Alright." Scott really had nothing else to say. "I have to go. I'll see you at school."
"Not really. I'm moving. My parents don't think it's safe here, but the Power Rangers keep us save, right?" Eddy gave him a look he couldn't decipher and he frowned.
"What do you mean?" Scott asked.
"I heard the black ranger talking, and I could tell it was you." Eddy said, not accusingly.
Scott rolled his eyes. "It's not me."
"It is, and I wanted to thank you and tell you that I'm not going to tell anyone your secret." Eddy assured him.
"It's not, and even if I was the black ranger, I wouldn't trust you not to tell." Scott said. "Bye."
Eddy nodded silently and sat down on the swing. "Bye, Scott."
Next time on Power Rangers Dino Squad: Matt's father gets a new girlfriend that makes him wary of leaving his father alone, but when he finds out she's a past ranger, he gives her the yellow ranger morpher to help them defeat a difficult monster, but the catch? She can only morph one time. Meanwhile, Spencer keeps a close eye on Reese now that he's back in school.