"I can't believe we got a project on our first day!" Calvin grumbled as he carried his lunch over to the table and sat down with Hayley. "I mean, where's the build up?"

"Senior year," Hayley said. "At least it's not bad."

"Not bad?" Kelly frowned. "Uh, I don't have a technical bone in my body. How the hell am I supposed to come up with a technology that will benefit society?"

"Maybe Preston and Brody have some ideas?" Hayley suggested and looked to the two Rangers Kelly had been partnered up with. It was luck that the Rangers ended up with each other as partners in Mrs. Finch's name draw, but luck wouldn't take them much further than that. "I mean, Brody did work on Galvanax's ship for ten years with Mick."

"Your team wouldn't happen to have any spare ideas, would you?" Kelly asked and her focus turned to Sarah and Calvin. "I mean, between an engineer and a mechanic, building a piece of technology will be a breeze."

"Yeah, but the two-thousand-word paper on how it'll benefit modern day society will not," Hayley said. "That's something a writer might enjoy."

"I do have a way with words," Kelly agreed.

"What if we make this interesting?" Brody asked as he sat down. "The team who gets the best grade… gets to…"

"The others have to wear their colours for a whole week," Preston said as he joined. "Kelly and Hayley swap, Calvin and I swap and Brody and Sarah swap."

"Wait, I get pink?"

"What's wrong with pink?" Sarah frowned as she looked to Brody. "Are you not man enough to wear it?"

"I'm man enough," Brody crossed his arms over his chest as he smirked playfully at Sarah. "But I'm not going to have to, because we're getting an A+."

"Wait, what do we do if we get the same grade?" Calvin asked. "How do we determine the winner then?"

"Whoever finished first," Hayley stated. "The team who does the best project in the shortest amount of time, wins."

"But you need to get the higher mark," Preston agreed. "Not just finish first. Deal?"

"Deal," the Rangers all nodded, then shook their heads. Preston, Brody and Kelly then got up from the table to start discussing ideas, leaving Hayley, Calvin and Sarah to talk at the table. Sarah smiled as she reached into her bag and took out her notebook.

"Fortunately for us, we've got a head start. Any one of these projects can get us an A."

Hayley grabbed the book and opened to a random page, "Uh, a human mute button?"

"Whoops," Sarah said and snatched the book back as her face turned red. "Sorry. My mom's been driving me a little nuts lately. Any one but that."

Calvin took her book this time and opened it to another page. He frowned as he looked to it, "Is this a doomsday device?"

"Okay, I'll pick the project," Sarah said and snatched her book back again. She flipped to one of her older ideas and showed the picture to Calvin and Hayley. "Here, perfect. Healthy cookies. You put healthy food in on one side, and a delicious, healthy cookie comes out on the other."

"Do you think we can actually build that?" Calvin asked and Sarah nodded confidently.

"I can build everything in there."

"The doomsday device?" Hayley frowned.

Sarah turned a light shade of pink as she nodded slowly. "Uh, yeah, well… the mind goes to dark places when it's… broken. Don't worry, I have no intention on building an actual doomsday device."

-Ninja-Steel-

Kelly, Preston and Brody brought their work up to the library, believing they could work in peace there. They sat at an empty table and Kelly brought out her notebook.

"Okay, any ideas for a device we can build?"

Preston and Brody exchanged glances, then shook their heads. It wasn't for a lack of imagination that they had no ideas, but unlike Sarah and Calvin, no one on the team was technically inclined. They couldn't build something complex. While that wouldn't keep them from winning the bet and getting a good mark, it did pose a bit of a challenge.

"Sarah always starts her ideas by thinking of a problem," Preston pointed out. "She came up with the idea for her hoverboard when she needed to get around the city, but couldn't drive and he dad wouldn't let her take the bus."

"And she made the holo-clones so she could be in four clubs at once," Brody nodded. "So we just need a problem."

"We have one," Kelly stated. "No freaking clue what we're doing."

"Okay… well maybe we don't have to reinvent the wheel. What is something we all have a hard time with every day?"

"Getting out of bed," Kelly grumbled. "You know, even a futon feels like heaven when your alarm clock buzzes in the morning."

"Getting up does suck," Preston agreed. "So, what can we design that will help make that easier?"

"How will that help society?"

"People might not be as grumpy in the morning. You aren't late to school or work. More time getting ready…"

"I'll write the paper," Kelly insisted. "Don't worry about that. I can bullshit my way through any paper if I have enough motivation for it. We just need the idea."

"So what will help make getting out of bed easier?" Preston asked. There was a silence for a moment as the trio thought. Then Kelly shrugged.

"I mean, I don't want to leave my bed in the morning because it's so comfortable. What if we found a way to make it uncomfortable?"

"How is that going to help make mornings easier? Won't people just be grumpy because they woke up on the wrong side of the bed?"

"Maybe the morning isn't the way to go," Brody suggested. "There's got to be some other problem we can solve."

"Excuse me," a girl said as she approached the table, looking a little nervous. None of the three knew who she was, but Brody and Preston felt like they had seen her before. "You guys don't happen to know a Sarah, do you?"

"Sarah?" Kelly asked, then nodded her head. "We know her."

"Do you know where she is?"

"Who are you?" Kelly decided to ask. She had never seen this girl before. Her clothes didn't suit her at all, she seemed scared of her own shadow and she looked a little ill.

"I'm Melanie," she answered. "I was told Sarah goes here and… I just wanted to see if I could find her."

"She's in the cafeteria," Kelly answered. "Pink shirt, probably working on a sketch or something with Hayley and Calvin – uh, white and yellow shirts. They'll be easy to spot."

"Thanks," the girl smiled, though it was hardly noticeable, and then walked away. The three looked to each other with a little shrug and then went back to their notes.

"Okay, so a problem to solve," Preston said to get his mind back on track. Suddenly, Kelly jumped up.

"Sarah!"

"Uh?"

"Oh, we're so getting an A with this," Kelly smirked. "Sarah is our problem."

"Nice way to speak about your girlfriend," Preston chuckled. "Does she know that's what you think of her?"

Kelly gave him a quick glare, then shook her head. "All we need it a device that will help Sarah read or write. Like how the phone can read texts or you can use the mic. But this can be for stuff like textbooks and tests and stuff."

"How are we going to do that?" Preston frowned.

"Maybe… maybe we can ask Mick's help?"

"Uh, is that cheating?" Brody asked. "I mean, if I couldn't use my data com to answer questions in class, I'm pretty sure using a mechanical specialist is cheating on a project."

"Not to mention our bet."

"So we'll bump our grade down by half a point for cheating on the bet," Kelly said. "You guys, I really think this is the idea we should go with."

"And you're not biased at all?" Brody asked. "This has nothing to do with you being Sarah's scribe for the rest of her life."

"Whoa, slow down on the commitment there, buddy," Kelly put her hand up. "But no, this has nothing to do with helping Sarah. It's about… helping Sarah. So she doesn't have to rely on us for homework and stuff."

"You think we can do it?"

"We'll design it, build it, write the paper. I mean, people around the world struggle with dyslexia, dysgraphia and all that stuff. The paper will write itself, we'll get an A on that for sure. Mick will just help us figure out how to get the parts working. Come on, guys, it's worth risking the bet, right?"

Preston and Brody looked to each other for just a moment, then they nodded their heads. "Alright, we'll bump our final grade down half a point. You realize that pretty much guarantees we'll lose, right? I mean, the others are probably already halfway done."

"I know, I know," Kelly nodded. "But this is going to be so awesome!"