A/N: I'm back b****es (and ba*****s)! Yeah, you guys should know why I've been gone, lol. This chapter's a bit choppy since I haven't written for like three months. Soz :'(

hewhoreaps: Yep, Kira's life is gonna chaaaange!

Jeremy Shane: The usual, thanks as always :)

brankel1: Thanks, lol, glad you liked that 'meanie' bit XD

K-Cat: Neither can I :')

Jezzyhuntress: Well, yes, obviously. I didn't put his name on the filter thingy if he wasn't going to be there :/ It's all up to AquitarStar anyway, I'll put him in when she wants me to.

moustachelover14: Kay, thanks XD

Mikeylacross: THANKS. The awesome idea about Kim and Michael being rangers is totally AquitarStar's clever thinking though :) All I'm doing is applying my writing skills here and managing Kira (and KRENT) XDDDDD

BellaVision: Read on darlin'. (Creepy right?)

It was an average day at the Cyberspace. Ethan's eyes were glued to a video game and Trent was doing his part time job. Conner, Kim and Mike were training and Kira was... missing.

"Hey, I got a big one for you, be careful," Hayley warned as she gave Trent the next order.

"Don't worry, I'll call for back-up if things get ugly," Trent replied playfully, picking the tray up. It only had one drink on it.

"Not so fast," Hayley said, grabbing the drink and putting it in another tray, in the middle of lots of milkshakes. Trent groaned and swapped trays. "Hey, Hayley, do you where Kira is?"

"Kira?" the redhead repeated, thinking of a reasonable reply. Truth was, she knew where Kira was, but it was a secret.

"Yeah, I called her and she says she's been ill these past few days but then again, she manages to show up at school," Trent stated. "It's weird; I think she's avoiding me."

"Why would you think that?" Hayley asked, already knowing the answer. Trent was right. Kira was avoiding him because she was a ranger now. The purple ranger. She was currently undergoing extra training so she could catch up with the others. But she didn't want to drag Trent into her complicated world so she stayed away from him. At least until she got the hang of being a ranger.

"I dunno, maybe she thinks I'm a stalker," Trent mumbled. Poor guy. He had no idea.

"That's not it. She's going through a hard time and she's not really talking to anyone," Hayley lied. "I mean, look at Ethan. They used to hang out here quite a lot together right? Now he's by himself," Hayley gestured towards the game-crazy blue ranger. Luckily, she got away with bending the truth as Trent nodded understandingly.

"I guess so. Thanks, Hayley," he said, flashing her a grin before getting on with his work.

"So where's Ethan?" Michael questioned.

"We should've dragged him from the cybercafé, sorry Doctor M," Kira replied.

"No, it's Ethan's fault not yours guys," Kim stated. "He's been trying to win that game for ages. I bet he's so pre-occupied that he doesn't even know you're the purple ranger yet."

"What's the big deal anyway? I mean, it's just practice," Conner cut in arrogantly.

"Training is just as important as the real deal," Michael told his son. "You never know when you might be attacked." As if on cue, a tyrannodrone appeared out of the blue and kicked him. The others caught Michael before he fell. "See?" Conner sighed, immediately looking sheepish.

"That's enough guys," Kim chided, wondering how father and son could be so alike in stubbornness.

The enemies attacked straight away and the fight seemed a bit harder than usual. Kira stumbled onto her raptor cycle, next to Conner.

"How do you guys feel about a ride in the country?" she asked.

Conner kicked the tyrannodrone off him and replied, "Great day for it!"

"Good idea!" Kim shouted, looking to Michael for approval. He nodded.

"Dino Thunder, power up!" the quartet yelled in unison.

After they morphed, Michael resumed his head to head combat with Zeltrax while the others used their raptor cycles to crush the remaining tyrannodrones. As usual, Zeltrax escaped like a coward when he realised he was alone.

"That was seriously random," Conner commented on the surprise attack.

"It was probably a diversion," Michael concluded. "Kira and Conner, you two go to the cafe and get Ethan. Meet me at the lab. Kim, you come with me."

"Sure," Kim agreed.

"Got it!" Kira replied, running in the direction of the cybercafé to get their geeky teammate.

"Ethan, you sure you know how to lock up...?" Hayley questioned rather than stated, as she was about to leave the cybercafé.

"Yeah, no problem. As soon as I get this dude, I'm outta here," Ethan reassured her. "And thanks." Hayley turned around and rolled her eyes, quite amused at his behaviour.

"I know I'm gonna regret this," she said, sighing and walking off.

The blue ranger chuckled and cheekily waved at her retreating back. When she was out of sight, he pulled out a device and plugged into the keyboard.

"Yeah, baby, come to papa!" he sang, with a massive grin on his face. It looked like his lips were going to rip. "Just a few more seconds and I'll have the code!"

All of a sudden, his device was hit by a laser and the computer screen began to emit blue waves. Before he knew it, he was absorbed into his game. Literally.

"You think he's still here?" Conner asked Kira, as they got closer to the door of the cybercafé.

"Let's find out," Kira chirped.

Stopping by the door and peering inside the windows, the pair saw no one there. They were about to enter and investigate further, when they heard a villainous laugh. You know, like those ones that you hear in the movies. The rangers whipped around to see another one of Mesogog's freaky creations.

"Oh great," Conner grumbled.

"If you're looking for your friend, you're too late. Unless you want to join him!" it crooned in its deep, garbled voice. Kira and Conner wasted no time in battling it.

"Dad, we found one of Mesogog's buddies, but no Ethan," Conner spoke to his father, through his morpher.

"But Kim's saying she's getting a reading on him," he heard Michael reply, before talking to Kim. "Keep looking while she pinpoints the signal."

"Easy for him to say," Conner complained, just barely dodging a deadly laser beam.

"Hey Kira, I think you should search for him inside. He should be there, according to his morpher's signal," Kim suggested via morpher, as Kira and her teammate were thrown onto some crates.

"Now would be a really good time to find Ethan!" the latter exclaimed, panting and trying to catch his breath.

"See if you can draw his fire, I'll check inside," Kira quipped.

"Check fast, I don't know how long I'll be able to hold him off," Conner replied.

"Okay, here," she said, creating an illusion of herself which distracted the monster. Conner nodded at her in appreciation and kicked the monster whilst Kira went inside.

"Ethan?" she called, as she reached his favourite spot/computer. The half fried device caught Kira's attention. "What's this?" The purple ranger didn't have time to react as she was sucked into the computer.

Ethan was chucked on the ground by the black and white triptoids. Kira fell out of the sky and landed next to him, with a loud thud.

"Huh?" she grunted, completely confused like he had been a while ago.

"Welcome to my world," he simply said.

"I don't suppose you know how to get out of here?" Kira implored, as the pair of them got on their feet.

"I don't even know how I got in," Ethan panicked. Once again, the triptoids attacked them. It was futile. Ethan and Kira were standing back-to-back, the former trembling and the latter racking her brains. That was odd. Ethan was usually the brainy one but it seemed like he lost his brain just like he lost the game.

"Have you tried morphing?" Kira inquired.

"What will that do?" Ethan murmured nervously.

"Keep us alive long enough to figure a way out."

"Good enough for me," the blue ranger was about to morph but stopped. "But what about you?" Kim was right; Ethan had been so interested in his game that he had no idea what had been going on around him.

"Just do it!" Kira ordered. Ethan nodded like a child who got told off.

"Dino Thunder power up, ha!" they shrieked in union. Ethan was shocked.

"You're-you're a ranger?" he stated the obvious. He continued to stare at her a bit longer but then began to brag, "Yes! I knew it! I knew you'd be the purple ranger!" Ethan's joy was short-lived as he was hit in the gut by one of the triptoid's... sticks.

"Oh, Ethan..." Kira sighed, defeating the triptoid that had attacked him. Now they were in the middle of the triptoids' circle.

"Kira, wanna go for a spin?" Ethan asked.

"You got it!" she agreed, grabbing his hands. He spun her around so she could kick their surrounding enemies.

Meanwhile, Conner was still fighting with the same freak he and Kira were fighting before. He was about to morph but the freak blasted him through the door and into the cybercafé. Thankfully, he was hurled onto Ethan's device, which reversed its earlier actions.

Conner stood up and watched in confusion as Kira and Ethan appeared, with a bunch of black and white foot soldiers he'd never seen before. "What the- huh?"

The others stopped (even the baddies) to scan the room, thoroughly perplexed, before resuming their battle.

"What's going on?" Conner inquired.

"Don't ask," the purple ranger simply responded, as she punched a white triptoid.

The blue ranger flung a black triptoid over the counter and into the stools – the very same stools that Hayley had carefully put away.

"Oh man, Hayley's seriously gonna lose it!" he screamed.

"Morph and meet us outside, okay?" Kira told Conner.

"Gladly," he concurred.

"I'll see if I can get access by linking into our main power supply," Hayley informed Michael, who was sat next to her at the main computer. He turned around to face the others.

Mike started with a sigh before speaking, "So let me get this straight. You were so caught up in a video game, that you let a monster sneak up behind you." Beldorf the wizard was behind the rangers, playing with his wand. Ethan's mistake had caused this.

"It's a pretty tight game Doctor M," Ethan lamely defended himself, earning amused looks from his teammates.

"You have to keep this game in your head at all times!" Michael scolded, without raising his voice too much.

"Hey guys," Kim took over for him. "I know it can be difficult and dangerous too. And that's why-" she was cut off; her lips had disappeared! Michael was beyond pissed at this point.

"Ethan!" he bellowed. Said boy turned around to face the wizard.

"Beldorf!" he squeaked. "Give Kim her mouth back!"

"Killjoy!" Beldorf muttered under his breath before undoing his magic.

"Okay? Let's not do that again," Kim finished explaining. She hadn't even realised that her mouth had vanished and returned again.

"I'm really sorry Doctor M," Ethan apologised.

"I know," Michael replied.

"I've definitely learnt my lesson."

"You know, this might not be a total loss," Hayley spoke up, spinning her chair around to face the rangers.

"What do you mean?" Michael asked, turning to face her.

"That's creature's energy left a residual power pulse. If I recalibrate the settings I might be able to use this thing," she gestured towards Ethan's cheating device. "To send Beldorf back." Conner was totally puzzled whilst Kim got up and searched for something on the computer.

"You mean I did something right?" Ethan implored proudly.

"You may have gotten lucky," Michael corrected. "Kim, have you found the monster's signal yet?"

"Yep," Kim replied.

"Kira, can you stay here and keep an eye on Beldorf?" Michael requested. Kira nodded.

"Why doesn't Kira have to battle? Doesn't she have a biozord?" Ethan asked as they ran outside, ready to battle.

"It's not that. She has the Cephlazord, but she can't form a megazord with our biozords, so she needs more biozords of her own to form her own megazord," Kim explained.

"Dude, even I knew that," Conner boasted, smirking. He received glares from all of them.

After sending Beldorf back into the game, Hayley, Kira and Ethan witnessed Devin and Cassidy fall out of the sky... or ceiling rather. Cassidy was wearing a pink dress and silver headdress covered in brown stuff which they liked to think was mud.

"Great entrance," Ethan droned.

"Now Your Highness," Devin started but was cut off.

"Stop with your Highness stuff already? I am sick of being the Queen! I am dirty and I smell like some kind of animal! Oh Devin, I smell!" she cried like a pathetic child.

"Come here," Devin pulled her in for a hug, trying to comfort her. But he backed away when he caught a whiff of her awful scent. "It's okay!"

Conner and Trent strolled in, laughing at the pair of idiots. Well, at least, Trent was. Conner still appeared to be as clueless as always.

"So what's the deal? Did you get the secret code and win the game?" Trent asked Ethan. "Not exactly. You'd better get me a tall smoothie - it's gonna be a long day!" Everyone laughed.

"Just don't push me with your chair this time," Trent warned.

"Of course not," Ethan replied. No. This time, he was going to push a certain purple ranger into Trent instead...

A/N: Hope it wasn't too bad. There weren't that many opportunities to add originality in this particular episode/chapter. And I hope none of you are mad for the delay - read my profile to find out what's been up these past three months.