Author Note: Thank you to all who reviewed! If there's anything I need to work on, please don't be afraid to point it out. I'll gladly fix it. And I am so sorry that it took so long to update! School started, and I got sidetracked, and a lot of other stuff happened.

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I stood for a second or two, looking Prim in the eye. I was counting down in my head, Three, two, one, NOW! I quickly brought up my right gun and pulled the trigger. As I expected, she deflected the bullet.

She came in quickly and tried to knock my left gun free, barely giving me time to move my hand. In response, I kicked her left sword free. It landed in the dirt. Prim then kicked my left gun out of my reach, her sword coming down. I dodged and tried to kick her legs out from under her.

My sister figure's agility came in handy right then. She stood back up quicker than I could move and swung at me. I blocked the blade with my gun as she tried to outpower me. My arms immediately tensed up and resisted it, trying to push harder than her. Neither of us were going to give up.

Our eyes locked, both showing exhaustion. We silently called it a draw, and I struggled to stand up. Prim was breathing hard as she put up the swords. "Okay...let's never...do that again," she managed.

I nodded in agreement. The adrenaline we'd gotten from the practice was gone, but we still needed to get back to her house. Prim and I had to support each other back and collapsed on the couch, trying to catch our breath.

I wiped the sweat off my face. "I have to say, Prim, that you're a much tougher opponent than those metalheads."

She looked over and smiled a little. "Well, you're definitely a lot more skilled than them. Albert Einstein would admire you."

I laughed and leaned back, saying, "Let's rest for the time being. I don't know about you, but I don't really want to be entertainment for the Zangyack." Prim stretched out and headed for the kitchen, probably looking for a snack.

I was so tired that I doze off soon after she left the room.

I only woke up when the alarm started going crazy.

My head shot up as soon as I heard the alarm going off. I looked in my partner's direction as I stood up since she was raiding the kitchen. I wasn't at all surprised. Prim met my gaze and nodded.

We ran out the back door at full speed, reaching the source of the trouble: our training area. I was very confused at this. Since when did they start attacking in this area? I looked to my sister figure and asked, "Why here of all places do you figure?"

She answered simply, "Because we're the lone Gokaigers."

We flipped open our Mobirates and say, "Gokai Change!" and inserted our Ranger Keys. It changed me into Gokai Orange and her into Gokai Gold. Almost immediately, we traded weapons, her gun for my sword.

"Let's make this showy!" she announced, running in to cut them down. I stood at a little of a distance and shot down at least a dozen Gourmin.

Prim defeated the other dozen or so. "Easy."

"And that is the understatement of the century," I replied, turning behind me to make sure there weren't any more waiting to ambush us. She shrugged like it was no big deal. Wait a minute, it wasn't.

We started back to her house. "Now, I have decided something," Prim decided. She got a mischievous glint in her eyes.

"What?" I asked, naturally curious.

What she said next would change my life.

"We need boyfriends." She smirked when I groaned a little. I protested, "I'm fine being single." I already had to fight the Zangyack on a daily basis while keeping it a secret from an overprotective mother and little brother as well as the rest of society. Keeping up a love life on top of that wasn't something I needed to stress over. Especially since...

I tried to keep my memory from straying to that night.

She did the Primrose-like thing to do: ignored that comment. Putting her hair in a low ponytail, she claimed, "I'm gonna to teach you how to do boy fishing. Either way, you will observe me."

I, in return, rolled my eyes. She was going to win the argument anyway. "Fine," I gave in reluctantly.

"Yay!" Prim led the way to a local park, keeping an eye out for a possible lover. It wasn't long before she elbowed me in the arm.

"Sam! He'd be PERFECT!" my sister figure squealed with excitement. I, on the other hand, was still very unsure about this.

My sister figure was pointing at a blonde guy about a head taller than me. He looked normal enough; I didn't see what made her think that he'd be a perfect match for me.

"What do I do?" I whispered, not having a clue how to approach him without looking like an idiot. The sane part of my brain kept asking me, Why am I doing this? I kept answering it, No clue.

With no warning, Prim shoved me into him from behind, nearly knocking him (and me) down on the sidewalk. He stumbled a bit while I nearly faceplant into the ground from the force.

"Oh...hi," he said, surprised as he caught me and helped me regain my balance. "Are you alright?"

I wanted to die from embarrassment then and there. "Yes," I stuttered out, probably blushing like crazy. "I'm sorry."

"It's OK." He didn't sound angry or upset even though I thought he would be. Despite that, I couldn't bring myself to look in his eyes. "What's your name?"

"Samantha. What's yours?" Man, I wanted to crawl into a hole and die from pure embarrassment. He probably thought I was a clumsy freak by then.

"Don, but my friends call me Hakase," he responded.

"Nice to meet you, Hakase," I said softly, giving a small and nervous smile. He smiled back. "You seem...nervous," he said a little slowly like he was trying to find the right words.

My face felt hotter than ever. "I'm just not normally in this kind of situation. I learned in school to keep my head down and not draw attention to myself to avoid being picked on. I…haven't made many friends because I never really fit in, so I get nervous meeting new people," I explained shyly.

"That sounds a lot like me," Hakase admitted, "but you seem like a good person."

I looked him in the eyes for the first time. "Really? You do, too."

He looked at me straight in the eye. Direct eye contact within the first five minutes? I must've been doing really good. "I try to be."

We started walking side-by-side down the sidewalk, and I felt something stir inside me. I was starting to have a crush on Hakase.

Damn it. Why me?

Prim's Point of View

I can't help but smirk at my younger sister and giggle lightly to myself. She has a lot to learn about flirting, but it's working for the blonde, so she'd be occupied for a while, at least. Turning on my heel, I headed down the street, deciding to try and find some guy to flirt with. Sam will NOT be the only one out of us two with a boyfriend, damn it!

At first, I wondered if I just ran into a wall or lightpole. Then I realized what I'd just hit was a chest.

A VERY solid chest.

"Hey!" I complained with a glare, looking up to see the guy from earlier, even though he wasn't that much taller than me. "Watch where you're walking, buddy!"

"Why don't you watch where YOU'RE going, pipsqueak?" he smirked, and I scowled.

"What are you doing here?"

"What are YOU doing here?" he countered, his smirk only growing larger, as does my temper.

"I know how to read," I snipped, and as he rolled his eyes, continuing to smirk that smirk of his.

I began trying to push him out of my way. "Cocky, are you? Move it!"

"Why don't you?" he chuckled shortly, looking amused at my failed attempt of getting him out of my way as he pushed me out his way with almost no effort, it seemed.

Now I was furious, "Did you serious just do that? You seriously just did that!"

Glaring deeply as he chuckled, I balled my hand into a fist and punched him as hard as I could in his stomach. Instantly, he put his hand in his pocket as a warning, and I did the same. I had a feeling deep in my gut that he's feeling something that can be used as a weapon, but that didn't really scare me as I gripped my Ranger Key.

And simply because we're in public and I was not about to blow my secret indentity to everyone, I snarled, "Let's take this elsewhere."

Samantha's Point of View

I was really enjoying spending time with Hakase. He and I were so much alike that I was beginning to question if we were distant cousins or something.

As always in life, though, good things never last.

My Mobirate alarm decided then was a perfect moment to start going wild. My first thought was, Oh, shit. Not now...

Not wanting to expose my secret identity to him, I kept it in my pocket for the time being and said as quickly as I could, "I have to go, Hakase. I'm really sorry." I then ran toward the woods, the quickest way to Prim's house from the park. To my surprise, he follows.

"It could be dangerous," I confessed. He, however, said, "I'm used to it."

Okay? I asked myself, confused. No ordinary person would say that if they were told something may be dangerous. I let him follow me all the way to our training area where we were met by a sight that stopped us in our tracks.