Jenny was shaking, she was sweating and she couldn't stop pacing. Drex, the man she had tried to keep away from Sarah, had stormed into her house and taken her daughter and Preston.

Just like that. It had happened so quickly, Jenny wasn't even sure it was real. It had to be a nightmare. However, it if was, Jenny couldn't wake up.

"Is it hot in here?" she finally asked and looked to the team of Rangers. They all shook their heads and looked to her sympathetically. She knew they thought they could understand how powerless she felt right now, but they really couldn't. They had no idea what it felt like in the slightest.

She remembered Sarah coming home from school one day, shortly after she and Bill were engaged. Jenny had just moved in with her fiancé and his nine-year-old daughter. She was unpacking some of her things from their boxes when Sarah stormed into the house and slammed her backpack on the floor. Bill wasn't home and Jenny had never seen the little girl in any state except for happy before. The step-mother to be was already in over her head, and she had barely even moved in.

"Sarah?" she called from the kitchen and stepped out into the hallway. She gasped when she saw Sarah with a dark circle around her eye and on her cheek. From the moment Jenny first met Sarah, she could tell the little girl was tough. When they met, Sarah had earned herself a concussion, so Jenny saw her that night in the hospital. Sarah had already put the pain behind her and was upbeat when Jenny walked in. She spoke confidently to the woman she had never met before. Bill always told Jenny stories of how resilient his daughter was, and how she had a tough and smart head on her shoulders and a kind, open and loving heart.

Fighting didn't seem like Sarah. Losing a fight seemed even less like her.

"What happened?" Jenny asked and inspected Sarah's face, though she wasn't sure what to look for. She never imagined herself having kids and never thought she would have to take care of one.

"People are stupid," Sarah answered plainly and tried to storm off into her room, but Jenny grabbed her arm. She couldn't let Sarah leave like that. She needed more answers for when Bill came home.

"Why are people stupid?" she asked, but Sarah didn't answer. She turned her head away, hiding her bruise and Jenny heard her sniff. She quickly realized this would be the first time she saw her soon-to-be step-daughter cry. She knelt before Sarah, held her gently and made the little girl look to her. "Hey, Sarah, it's okay. You're not in trouble, alright. Why are people stupid?"

Sarah pouted, then sighed. She reached into her bag and took out her toy, "Look what they did to Squishy!"

Squishy was the stuffed unicorn that Sarah liked to carry around with her. Apparently, Bill had bought it for Sarah before he had won custody of her, and he brought it the first day he met her. Sarah had latched onto it, as she had been very scared on that first day, and she had never really let it go since.

She had been so excited that morning when she knew she could bring Squishy to school for Show and Share. She was looking forward to sharing her favourite toy with all her friends at school. She had prepared her presentation the night before, and Jenny remembered watching her go over the presentation again and again, wanting to do well.

Now, Squishy had come home with her white fur covered in mud and a hole along the back. It was nothing the washing machine and a little sewing couldn't fix. However, Sarah's heart was broken.

"They took her and threw her on the field," Sarah said.

"How did you get that black eye?" Jenny asked. Sarah looked up worriedly, like she knew she was going to get in trouble.

"I pushed someone."

"Who?"

"He broke Squishy's neck!" Sarah held up the stuffed toy. To Jenny, there was no broken neck. The toy was just that: a toy. It had no bones, no nerves, no tendons or muscles. There was nothing that could be broken (except, of course, the muddied fur and the tear along the back). "He said unicorns were gay, he threw her in the field, so I pushed him in the mud."

"Sarah…"

"I had to!" Sarah insisted. "Then he punched me!"

"He punched you? Who is he?"

"Jack," Sarah muttered. "I hate Jack!"

"Sarah…"

"I do! I hate him so much! He called me a whore, he broke Squishy's neck, he threw her in the field and he punched me!"

"He did what?" Jenny gasped, and though there wasn't a parenting bone in her, she knew she had to do something he. "He called you a what?"

"A whore," Sarah answered, then looked down sadly at her unicorn. "Jenny, is Squishy dead?"

"Go… do your homework," Jenny said and took Squishy from Sarah. "I… I'll fix this, okay?"

"You can do that?"

"Yeah," Jenny promised. "Just do your homework and… I'll make this better."

Sarah left Squishy with Jenny and raced upstairs. Jenny found her box with her sewing kit and started to work on the hole on the unicorn's back as she searched through Bill's address book for Jack's mother's number. Sarah had just invited her whole class to a birthday party and so Jenny knew she must have it.

She managed to reach Jack's mother, but a solution wasn't found. Jenny explained that Sarah had come home saying Jack had called her a whore, and all Jack's mom had to say about the matter was: "Well, she's the daughter of one. Was Jack really wrong?"

Jenny had to spend the next ten minutes arguing with Jack's mother until she eventually just hung up. She hadn't been able to change Jack's mother's mind or get an apology. She knew it wasn't Sarah's biggest concern. All she wanted was for Squishy to be good as new.

Sarah's mother was not Sarah's fault. Nor was it something that would ever define Sarah. Bill had worked hard to make sure of that and Jenny didn't want to see his work go to waste. Nor could she ever imagine allowing Sarah to believe that she was a whore, for any reason.

Yet, she couldn't stop it. She couldn't stop what other people would think, and she couldn't keep the kids at school from calling Sarah names.

She told Bill about it when he came home. He seemed to know who to contact to be sure this wouldn't happen again and Jenny felt helpless as she watched him fight for Sarah. It was a battle she felt she already should have fought and won.

Then, she looked to Squishy, who sat on the counter. Her back was fixed and there was no more hole, but she was still covered in mud.

Jenny didn't know what to do about the name calling at school, but she had promised Sarah she would fix Squishy. She ran the unicorn through the wash and then presented her, looking just like new, to her step-daughter. Sarah's eyes lit up.

Maybe she couldn't stop the name-calling at school. And she didn't know what she would do if Sarah ever found out the truth about her mother. Maybe she would never get this parenting thing right. But, dammit, giving Sarah back her beloved toy felt good.

Back in the present, Jenny shook her head, ridding herself of those thoughts of powerlessness. She wasn't a Ranger, but it wasn't like her only option was to sit on her butt and hope Sarah returned safely. The small act of returning a clean and intact Squishy had brightened Sarah's mood on the worst of days.

Jenny could do something small. It would make the difference.

"Drex didn't have armour," Jenny said to the Rangers. They turned to her. "When he broke in and locked me in the bathroom, he didn't have armour."

"He had armour?" Brody asked.

"Green armour," Kelly nodded. "Like… serious heavy-duty stuff."

"I heard Madam Oedius' voice," Jenny continued. "I couldn't see her, because I was on the other side of the door, but she was here. She gave him that armour. If we take it away from him, maybe… maybe that's all we need."

"How do we take his armour?" Levi asked. "Like, sneak in and take it all without him noticing or…"

"It must be one piece," Jenny said. "Preston, Sarah and Kelly weren't here long after Madam Oedius left and that blaster just appeared in his hand. It's got to be… like… powers or something."

"Like the Power Stars?" Kelly asked and held up Sarah's. "Like how the Ranger suit is armour?"

"Maybe," Jenny nodded. "Just… try to take that away from him. Maybe, without his armour, he's useless against Rangers."

"Worth a shot," Hayley said and the boys and Kelly nodded.

-Ninja-Steel-

Preston looked up at his restraints. His cuffs were secured to a chain over his head and even when he pulled as hard as he could, he wasn't able to free himself. The cuffs were locked tight.

"Remind me why we just gave up again?" he asked and turned to Sarah, who was still struggling with her restraints. She eventually gave up, then turned to Preston.

"I couldn't let him hurt mom or Kelly," she said. "We have a chance."

"Right," Preston nodded. His attention shifted to the door of his and Sarah's cell as Drex walked in. His armour was gone, but there was little the Rangers could do to him now.

"Just here for your Power Stars," Drex said. "It's all Madam Oedius wants. Once she has them, you're disposable."

"Great," Preston muttered as Drex quickly pat him down, found his Power Star in his pocket and took it. Then Drex moved onto Sarah and he eyed the pink Ranger for a moment before he started to pat her down.

"HEY!" Sarah shouted as Drex moved down her body slowly. "You aren't going to find it there!"

"I can't be too careful, babe," Drex told her. "Madam Oedius said once she's done with you, I can do whatever I want."

Sarah felt Drex's hands moved down to her butt and pulled against her chains. Really, that was where she had put the Power Star, so he wasn't wrong to check, but since it wasn't there anymore, and it was obvious the Power Star wasn't there, Sarah didn't like how long his hands lingered.

"It's not there. Move on," Sarah growled and then was slapped so hard, Preston winced.

"You can't do that!" he shouted.

Drex finished patting Sarah down, but since he found no Power Star, he tried again. His hands lingered in the same places as before and when Sarah protested again, she was hit.

"Stop it!" Preston called out, but Drex only told him to shut up. He looked to Sarah, "Where's the fucking star?"

"I don't have it," she answered.

"Where did you put it?" he asked and looked around the cell. "Come on, bitch, Madam Oedius isn't going to be happy with either of us if I only have one Star."

"I don't have it," Sarah answered again. Drex growled loudly, then stormed off. Preston turned to Sarah.

"Are you okay?" he asked.

"How long before the others get here?"

"I… I don't know," Preston said. "As soon as they can, though. Why?"

"Because I don't think he's going to wait like he did last time," Sarah looked to Preston sadly. He frowned.

"Wait? Wait for what?" he asked, but Sarah just looked to him. "Oh…"