Jason walked into the Youth Center the next day after school feeling better. He had, of course, gone to school that day but he was happy to go to the Youth Center and hang out.

He found Tommy and Rocky sparring on a mat in the center of the Youth Center. He took a seat at the table that Kat and Tanya were sitting in and turned the chair around to face the sparring.

"Hey Jason." Adam said joining them. "You want to spar?"

"Yeah sounds good." Jason said getting up from the table and going to the locker room to change. The locker room was empty when he entered it. He picked his usual locker and changed. He locked the locker and left the room.

"You ready?" He asked coming up to him. He chuckled when he saw Adam jump. "Sorry man." He apologized.

"No problem." Adam put the juice he had been drinking and he and Jason started sparring. Jason didn't have very many opportunities to spar with Adam and he was enjoying the chance. Adam had certainly improved.

The sparring ended and they joined their friends at a table. Jason started towel drying his face and stopped as he looked at the towel. There was blood on it.

He ran a hand over his face trying to find any wound that he didn't know about but couldn't find any. "Guys am I bleeding?"

Kat grabbed his hands and looked at his face. "Not that I see. Why?"

"Look at..." He trailed off. He looked at the towel and there was no sign of blood on it. "Never mind." He said. "I thought I saw blood on the towel."

Their communicators went off.

They got up from their tables and went to their usual corner to contact Zordon.

"We read you Zordon." Tommy answered.

"RANGERS YOU MUST COME UP TO THE POWER CHAMBER. GASKET HAS SENT DOWN A ROBOT."

They went to teleport and Jason's communicator didn't work. Tommy's sparked. Adam, Rocky, Tanya, and Kat all disappeared.

"Guess it's not just mine." Tommy said with a shrug.

"You know there's something not right about all of this." He said to Tommy.

They disappeared in a flash of light.

Gasket wanted to throw something. How could this possibly be happening? Nothing he had planned worked the way it should. If they had, he wouldn't have to be worrying about the Gold Ranger..

"What's the matter Gasket?" Sprocket asked in his whiney voice.

"It's not working!" He said slamming a cell door. "He will not give in."

"Maybe your plan doesn't work." Sprocket suggested.

"It works fine. There's something wrong." He walked past his little brother and into the throne room for where he could view the Earth. He looked down and didn't see the Rangers. They were most likely in the Power Chamber and he wasn't able to view that. He'd have to wait until they left. Nothing was going according to plan and it was starting to make him mad. He was going to prove he was the rightful King of the Machine Empire no matter what the cost.

The Power Rangers were not going to win.