AN: I wanted to leave it a bit open for another story in the future. Depending on my creativity and time. I also want to thank everyone who read and reviewed my story. It means alot to me. Thank you.

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***************************Jason's bedroom******************************

Beep Beep Beep!

Grumbling Jason opened his eyes. It was a school day and his alarm was blaring. Hitting his alarm a bit harder than he meant to Jason rubbed at his face. If he didn't get up now there would be no going to school. He was just so tired but he couldn't skip. He had already missed too many days this year. One more unexcused skip and he would have to take summer school. It wasn't his fault that he often had nightmares keeping him from sleeping. His fears of failing as a leader often came out at night.

Popping in a hot shower Jason let his mind wander. Just a year ago he wouldn't be thinking more then what to get for breakfast, homework, karate and girls but now his mind was almost always on the safety of his friends and of the world. Jason let his head lay against the tile, hot water streaming down his back. It was just too much pressure sometimes for a 17 year old to handle. The fate of the world on his and his friend's shoulders, but then he smiled. He wouldn't have it any other way.

"Jason! You're going to be late!" He heard his mother yell from down the hall.

"Coming!" he shouted back, while turning off the water. Dressing in record time he grabbed a pastry square for breakfast and hurried out the door.

********************Angel Grove High School****************************

The end of the day found the rangers around there lockers getting the books and papers they would need for a weekend of homework.

Kimberly yawned covering her mouth. "This has officially been the longest Friday ever." She said looking at Tommy.

"Agreed." he said stifling his own yawn.

"I still can't believe we have to read four chapters in biology this weekend." Jason whined.

"Could be worse," Trini offered. "It could be four chapters worth of calculus homework."

Jason frowned, still very aware that he needed to bring his calculus grade up after that last test.

"Hey guys, have you seen Billy?" Zack asked, arriving at the lockers after the others. "He wasn't in homeroom."

"Not since yesterday when we took Sarah home." Jason said sounding tired.

"Wait, has anyone seen Sarah today?" Tommy asked. Everyone shook their heads.

"Do you think they skipped? That's not like Billy at all." Trini worried.

"Yeah its not." Kimberly added, shaking her head, "You don't think…something bad happened to them?" She whispered the last part. Letting her voice indicate the bad things she was concerned with. The others exchanged glances, knowing exactly was Kimberly was getting at.

No matter how tired he was, Jason felt his leadership instinct kick in. "Come on; let's stop by his house and then Sarah's."

************************On the moon*******************************

"So the power rangers are tired are they? Hm…that gives me an evil idea. FINSTER! I need putties! Lots and Lots of putties!" Queen Rita screamed before returning her attention to the earth. Her long, decorated finger nails scratching into the railing of her balcony. It was so simple. Why hadn't she thought of it before? "Just you wait rangers. Just you wait. I'll destroy you yet." She promised.

***************************Billy's house***************************

"Looks like the garage is open." Zack said as the group approached.

"Yeah but where's Billy?" Trini asked as they went into the garage. Surrounded by all the blinking lights, beakers, chemicals, and electronic equipment it was hard to forget that Billy was so smart. A real genius.

"Well nothing looked broken." Jason remarked. Had there been a fight or struggle at least some stuff should have been knocked over and smashed.

"Oh Hey Guys!" A voice called from behind them. Kimberly jumped with a bit of a yelp grabbing onto Tommy's arm. Billy chuckled, "Sorry Kim." He said sincerely.

"Billy, are you okay?" Trini asked. Billy tilted his head a little at the apparent worry in her voice. "I am functioning within normal parameters." He assured his friends, though unsure as to why they would be concerned.

"You didn't come to school today man and after everything else we were worried." Jason said.

"Yes my tardiness was necessary. I had a particularly interesting invention that needed immediate attention. I just needed to get a chain to complete it." Billy stated, as he held up a delicate jewelry chain and walked past the other towards his desk. "I really like how it turned out." He said holding up a circle shaped teal blue stone about an inch across. It was set in a gold backing with bits of silver wire running across it. The silver wires were bent and against the blue and gold looked almost like flower petals.

"Oh Billy," Trini exclaimed. "It's beautiful."

"I didn't know you made jewelry." Zack said with a nod. "Maybe you can make me something for Angela?"

Kimberly rolled her eyes but said nothing. Poor Zack had enough issues striking out on his own without her adding a comment.

"It's not jewelry." Billy explained. "I couldn't sleep last night. I was pondering that we need a better way to keep track of Sarah. It would be foolish to think we could keep her location known every moment of the day. So I made this, it's like our communicators, sort of. It's a location tracker." Billy said proudly as he handed the pendant to Jason.

"A tracker huh?" Jason turned the delicate piece over in his hands before passing it to Trini who then passed it to Zack and so on.

"Yup, this way all we have to do when we want Sarah's location is…well I'll demonstrate." Billy lifted his wrist and clicked his communicator. "Alpha can you please give me the present location of the pendant."

"No problem, it's in your garage about five feet from your current communicator location. Ai yi yi." Alpha said after a moment.

"Thanks Alpha." Billy chuckled a little. "I'm going to activate the emergency function now, so please disregard."

"Emergency function?" Tommy asked. Kimberly was currently holding the pendant.

"Kim, if you would, please press down on the center piece till you hear a click." Kimberly did as Billy said. There was a slight click. "You've now activated the emergency function. An alarm is going off at the command center that Sarah is in need of immediate assistance. Click it again to deactivate."

"It's really great Billy but I do see a problem." Kimberly hesitantly said, handing the pendant back. She did not wanting to rain on her friends good feelings.

"What's that?" Billy asked, turning it over in his hands looking for a flaw.

"Well how you going to give it to her? I mean it's not like her birthday and its not Christmas." Kimberly continued. Billy slipped the pendant on the chain. "I hadn't honestly thought of that."

"It is really nice man, Sarah might, she might read too much into it if you just gave it to her without a reason." Zack offered, rubbing the back of this neck. Billy didn't really have any understanding of girls.

Billy gently fingered the now complete necklace in his hand. "I am open to suggestions." He said quietly.

"Now wait minute guys," Tommy said getting an idea. "CR said he would remove all the memories of the castle and the Tricky Trickster right?"

"Yes, everything after karate practice in the park." Kimberly offered.

"So she should still have her memory of the two putty attacks?" Tommy asked.

"I don't really see where you're going with this." Jason wondered.

"Hey yeah, I get it. So what if instead of one of us giving the necklace to Sarah, a power ranger did?" Zack smiled. "That's brilliant man."

"And we do know enough about her past to pull it off." Trini said.

"Morphenominal! That's a great idea. She would trust a power ranger." Jason smiled.

"How was she at school today?" Billy asked, suddenly feeling a little sad. He knew he wouldn't be the one to give the necklace to Sarah. He couldn't really interact like the others could. His vast intelligence often made him apart from others around him.

"She wasn't at school today." Zack said shaking his head. "We were worried about you guys and thought you might be together."

Billy grabbed a box and carefully put the necklace inside. "We should check up on her."

**********************Bulk's house**********************************

Ding-Dong.

"Coming!" Shouted an older female sing song voice.

"Okay does anyone else think this is like, really weird?" Kimberly asked as they waited for the door to open.

"Affirmative." Billy said shifting nervously on heels. He often stayed as far away from this neighborhood as possible. Bulk had been bullying him since they were kids and even though he was a lot stronger now somehow standing here on Bulk's front step, made Billy feel small all over again.

As the front door opened Billy felt himself gulp. "Oh hello!" said the older woman from inside the doorway. "My little Bulk didn't mention he was going to have playmates over."

"Umm…actually...Ma'am, is Sarah home?" Jason asked, ignoring the way the women's smile faded just a bit. She looked almost disappointed for a moment but it was gone in an instant.

"Of course, you must be those friends she's keeps mentioning. I'm afraid Sarah wasn't feeling very well this morning so I let her stay home from school. She must have picked something up on that field trip. Come in. I'll see if she's awake." Bulk's mother waved for the rangers to come in.

In a moment the teens found themselves standing in Bulk's living room. The room was large and tidy with white walls and white padded wicker old fashioned furniture. A short center table sat in the middle. Just the right hit to constantly be hitting your shins on if you weren't careful. The variety of Hummel figurines, circus clowns and the dolls on the bookcase and shelves was a little unnerving.

"Make yourselves at home. I'll get some snacks." Bulk's mom said as she walked towards the kitchen. Pausing for a moment at the foot of the stairs she yelled up. "SARAH! Are you up!?" the volume of her voice made the rangers wince.

"Well now I know where Bulk gets his voice from." Zack said tugging at his ear.

"I don't know what I was expecting guys, but this is defiantly not it." Jason said making a slow circle and gesturing around him.

"Perhaps this would explain some of Bulk's attributes?" Mainly concerned with being an alpha male." Billy theorized.

"I don't know," Trini said picking up the closest doll. "There kind of cute."

"Yeah in a creepy, going to get in your sleep, kind of way." Zack frowned as Trini held the doll towards him.

"Shhh…not so loud." Kimberly scolded.

"Here you go kids, homemade chocolate chip cookies and milk." Bulk's mother said placing an overflowing tray on the short center table. "My Bulkie loves these I must make five dozen a week. Now what's keeping her? SARAH!"

Tommy nearly chocked on a piece of cookie at that surprise from another shout but other than that the cookies were really good.

"I'm coming!" A voice called back from upstairs, not nearly as loud. There was the sound of a door opening followed by footsteps as Sarah came halfway down the stairs. She had not noticed her friends sitting in the living room but they had noticed her. Zack immediately had to stifle a laugh with help from Trini who smacked him in the arm. Billy turned away blushing a bit. Jason and Tommy, after having a glimpse of Sarah, decided to occupy their eyes on the mountain of cookies before them. Sarah was still in her pajamas. Nothing outlandish, the pink hello kitty tank top and matching short bottoms were pretty adorable but a bit revealing.

"Really dear, still in your pajamas? You should have at least gotten dressed for your company." Sarah's Aunt Mary chastised from the bottom of the stairs.

"Company?" Sarah asked turning her head toward the living room. Her eyes went wide and with an "Eep!" she turned back and ran up the stairs.

"Oh don't mind her, she'll be down in a minute." Mary said, wandering back towards the kitchen.

About ten minutes later Sarah came back down the stairs. Mumbling an apology and blushing a little.

"So…um…you guys want to go to the park or something." Sarah said a little louder. It was obvious Sarah was feeling uncomfortable.

"Yeah, that's fine." Jason said with a nod. The others agreed.

"Oh Sarah are you going out?" Her Aunt Mary said coming back into the room. "Here's some cash, you have a good time with your friends. I'm so proud of you." Mary patted Sarah on the cheek ignoring the teens embarrassment.

As soon as the front door was shut Zack started laughing. "Oh man, your Aunt, is she always so funny?"

"Shut up Zack." The cold bite in Sarah's voice abruptly stopped his laughter. Seeing the hurt look on his face Sarah let out a sigh. "I'm sorry," She said honestly "it's just, stressful enough as it is, you know?" She asked.

"Are you feeling better?" Trini asked as the group walked towards the juice bar. "You're Aunt said you weren't feeling good."

"I woke up kind of sore this morning and I had a really weird dream with a laughing clown last night. There were other fuzzy images to but I'm not sure if they were scary or not. That's why I didn't want to be in the living room. All those dolls just staring." Sarah shivered. "I saw a creepy old black and white movie with dolls like that once."

"That came to life and got you in your sleep?" Zack interjected. Distracting Sarah from the looks her friends shared.

"You saw it to?" Sarah asked and then giggled. "It was so silly now that I think of it but it scared me as a kid." Zack came forward and linked her arm in his, leading her a bit forward from the group.

"Well CR said memory removal wasn't perfect." Tommy whispered once he was sure Sarah could not hear him.

"And as long as we don't bring anything up it will be nothing more than a bad dream." Kimberly added.

"So um…whose going to give her the necklace?" Billy asked still feeling a bit sad as he held up the box.

"I will." Jason said, either missing or ignoring the sadness in Billy's voice. "She should know and trust the red ranger." Jason felt a bit confident. The red ranger, and the others had been seen on TV.

Billy handed over the box without another word of argument and Kimberly gave him a pat on the back.

"Sarah said she was worried the monsters were targeting her on the night I walked her home. After the second attack in the park." Tommy mentioned.

"What are you going to say to her?" Trini asked.

Jason nodded, "Don't worry I'll think up something good and truthful to say."

*********************Youth center**************************

Billy watched as Jason, Zack, Kimberly, Tommy, Trini and Sarah went to play pool at one of the tables. He never minded sitting out of this activity, not because his friends did not want him but because his advanced ability to calculate mathematics took the real fun out of the game.

He felt a hand on his shoulder. "Hey Kim." he said looking up, he was unable to hide the slight sadness in his voice.

Kimberly sat down next to him. "You know Billy, Jason would let you be the one to give it to Sarah. I mean you worked, like, really hard on it."

"No Kim, its okay. I mean...Jason's the leader and he has a way with words I don't have." Billy said matter of fact.

"Billy, you always say the right thing when its needed." Kimberly smiled at him. He knew she was referring to the few times growing up when she was the one with a problem and not him. Billy had always been a comforting and steady force in Kimberly's like and vice versa.

"Nah, its really okay." Billy assured again. Kimberly didn't really believe him but since it was her turn to shoot she left it at that.

***************************Sarah's house, 10pm*******************

"Thanks for walking me back Jason." Sarah said as they reached her front door.

"No problem, just wanted to make sure you got back safe, no clay faced monsters or anything." he said with a teasing smiled. She smiled back.

"See you tomorrow?" She asked opening the front door.

"Can't I have homework. Maybe Sunday." He said.

As soon as the front door closed Jason bolted towards the grove of trees Tommy had indicated as a safe spot to morph. Quietly Jason became the red ranger and teleported into Sarah's room. Now he just had to wait for her to come upstairs.

"Hey your home late." Bulk called from in front of the TV eating some popcorn. It was his favorite late night Friday movie of the week. Sometimes Sarah would watch with him but she just wasn't interested in fake monsters anymore. She had seen real ones.

"Now Bulk, sweetie, Sarah was out with her friends." His mother said, her knitting needles clinking softly. "Did you have a good time dear?" Mary asked.

"Yeah it was a lot of fun," Sarah said with a yawn. "I'm going to head to bed now."

"Night Kid," Bulk called as his movie came back on.

"Sweet dreams dear." said her Aunt.

Climbing up the stairs, Sarah turned the nob and entered her room. Thankful that her Aunt Mary had given her free reign to redo it as she wanted. It was the only place in this house that felt really hers. As she closed the door with a click she was suddenly aware of another presence behind her. A shadow loomed over her and Sarah opened her mouth to scream when a hand, covered by a white glove, landed firmly over her mouth. Another arm pinned her arms around her waist. Whoever held her captive now was being careful of her safety. Her nose was not covered at all and the grip on her body, while tight, was not hurting her or restricting her breathing.

"Don't scream, I mean you no harm." A gentle, but authoritative male voice spoke. The grip on Sarah's body loosed a little allowing her to turn her head and look at the speaker. Once Jason saw she did not appear hysterical, he let her go and backed a few steps away.

"You...You're the red power ranger." Sarah said in amazement.

"I am." he said pulling out her desk chair, turning it around he sat down facing her. "Have a seat Sarah." he gestured towards her bed.

Sarah sat at the foot of her bed. "How do you know my name?" She asked.

"I'm a power ranger, I know these things." Jason assured, "I also know you've been having trouble with monsters."

"Yes," Sarah nodded, "The creepy clay monsters, Putties my friends called them. They attacked me twice and really hurt my friend Billy once." Sarah looked at her hands on her lap.

"Don't be sad, that was not your fault. I know you feel like the monster are targeting you." Jason said, smiling a little under his mask as he saw her mouth open with wonder at his knowledge. "Sometimes for reasons we don't fully understand, the monsters like the look of certain people, but you don't need to be afraid anymore." Jason stood and approached her. Holding out the little box he waited for her to take it.

"Oh, its beautiful," Sarah gazed at the shiny blue necklace in the box. "but...I don't understand."

Gently Jason took the box away and pulled out the necklace. "May I?" He asked, at her nod he careful fastened the necklace around her neck. "This is a very special necklace. If you are ever in trouble, real trouble. Just push the center blue stone." Sarah held the pendant up. "Go on." The red ranger prompted. Sarah pushed, it was hard to move at first, but then there was an audible click.

Beep, beep beep beep, Beep.

Sarah's eyes shot up towards the red ranger standing in front of her. She...she knew that sound from some place. But Where?

"Disregard Alpha," The red ranger spoke into his head set before returning his attention towards the girl on the bed. "Push it again to deactivate." He said, Sarah complied.

"Wow," She said, touching the pendant around her neck.

The red ranger came closer and knelt in front of her. His face almost level with hers. "Now Sarah this is the most important part. You must never tell anyone what this necklace does, alright? If people knew you had a way to contact the power rangers they might take it from you, hurting you in the process. Understand?"

"I understand, I won't tell anyone. I promise." Sarah crossed her heart and Jason felt the tiniest of crystal sounds resonate in his power coin. She would keep her word.

Forgetting for a moment he was appearing as the red ranger, Jason stood and ruffled her hair. Sarah blinked, feeling a strange deja vu but it was gone in an instant.

"I have to go now, but we will always be near. May the power protect you." He said before teleporting away.

Sarah flopped back onto her bed. "Wow," she mumbled to herself holding the pendant gently in her hand, "just...wow."

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