Mia stared at the paper in her hand, "Worthy?"

"Yeah," Emily nodded her head. "The yellow Ranger wanted someone worthy of the responsibility of protecting the stone. I guess, because the symbol's so strong, the more they've mastered their symbol, the less likely they are to lose it to the Nighlok."

"And Mentor Ji thinks you're ready?" Mia asked. She looked at her yellow friend sympathetically, "No offense, Em, you're good with your symbol power, but you haven't quite mastered it yet. None of us really have."

"I know, I know," Emily said, "but if I can just focus I know I can do it! Mentor said you would be able to help me. He said with the cast you're useless and this would be something for you to do."

"He said I was…" Mia growled, narrowed her eyes, and hopped off the stool to grab her notebook and a pen. Kevin, who had been sitting on the couch reading a book, looked over at Emily while Mia was gone.

"Did Mentor really call Mia useless?"

Emily shook her head, "No. He said she was probably feeling useless. This'll get her more motivated to help me out, though."

Kevin chuckled, "You can be a manipulative little thing, can't you?"

Emily grinned and bounced on her stool as Mia returned, "Maybe."

"Alright," Mia said, taking a seat next to Emily. She placed the notebook on the table so Emily could begin tracing her symbols. She slipped Mentor Ji's already traced symbol under a single sheet of paper and looked to Emily, "We'll start easy. You'll just trace Mentor's symbol over and over again until you think you've got it, alright?"

"Okay," Emily nodded. While she was busy doing that, Mia looked over at Kevin.

"I'm not useless…"

"Of course not," Kevin agreed with her. He rubbed his stomach with his hand, "Hey, Mia, are you hungry?"

"No, why?"

"I am."

"So?"

"You know what, never mind. You probably won't be able to do it with the cast on anyways."

Mia frowned and crossed her good arm over her broken one.

"Can't do what?"

"I was going to ask if you could get the cookies for me, seeing as I have no idea where they are, but you probably won't be able to open the packaging," Kevin slowly started to get off the couch, "Don't worry, I'll get them."

"I can get cookies," Mia huffed and quickly left the room to prove she wasn't completely useless again. Emily looked up from her work and fixed a curious look on Kevin.

"The cookies are where they always are," she told him. "You're the one who decided we would put them there."

"I know," Kevin winked, "but I don't want her feeling useless."

"You're sneaky too!" Emily giggled. Kevin pointed to the notebook.

"Do your homework, Em," he told her, trying to stay serious. He turned to the kitchen, "Hey, Mia, you wouldn't be able to pour a glass of milk for me, would you? It's fine if you can't. I can eat the cookies dry."

"I can pour milk," Mia muttered back.

"Cookies and milk?" Emily shook her head and chuckled, "Now you're just being mean."

"Emy, want cookies while I'm up?" Mia called.

Emily didn't hesitate to answer, "Yes please!"

-Samurai-

Studying with Mia went long into the night. Manipulating her had stopped after the milk and cookies.

Emily didn't mind the long hours. Neither did Mia. The pink Ranger knew how to make studying fun for the younger Samurai and even put a few jokes and pranks in along the way. Poor Jayden had no idea what hit him when he walked by the common room while Mia and Emily were taking a five minutes break and they decided he would be the perfect victim for Emily to learn how to concentrate her sandstorm powers into a remote and very specific location. Emily was still giggling when she thought about the prank. She was surprised at just how much sand Jayden's pants could hold.

But they had the most fun when they had to practice the worthy symbol with the Samuraizer. If Emily couldn't draw the symbol properly, it would backfire against her and Emily would have to react quickly to avoid getting smacked in the face by the worthy symbol. It was like a single player game of dodge ball which Emily had perfected much faster than she did the worthy symbol. Though, every time she avoided a symbol, she always let out a squeak, squeal, howl or yelp when the symbol flew towards her face. Mia never knew what to exact from the yellow Ranger and Emily was enjoying her game of symbol-dodge ball.

Finally, at the stroke of midnight, the two girls were exhausted and passed out on the stools and the couch. Kevin and Mike, who were both getting ready for bed at this time, found them sleeping and chuckled.

"You know, when the Samurai thing is done Mia should be a teacher," Mike suggested to Kevin as he walked over to Emily and scooped her up in his arms. "I don't think I've ever had that much fun while learning. If she had been my teacher I totally would have finished high school."

"I'm sure Mia was enjoying herself just as much as Emily," Kevin commented, careful not to hurt his fiancée's arm as he picked her up. "She hates the fact that she has to sit out during training. This was good for her too."

"I wonder what's inside that Black Box," Mike said. "Hopefully Antonio can crack it soon."

"It's probably some red Ranger power up," Kevin shrugged his shoulders. "I wouldn't get too excited."

"So… wait. We all work hard and risk our lives for this Black Box and Jayden might be the only one able to use it?"

"We'll see what happens," Kevin chuckled as he reached his and Mia's bedroom. "Goodnight, Mike."

"Goodnight."