Shane was downstairs, cleaning the house, getting it ready for Jenny's return home from the hospital. Sarah was in her bed upstairs, with her friends by her side to keep her busy.

"Well, I'm glad my big bro is a lot cooler," Brody said with a slight laugh as he pat Levi on the shoulder.

"I can't believe your mom had two kids," Kelly said. "Doesn't that hinder working if you're a prostitute?"

"You really didn't know?" Calvin asked. Sarah looked down at her hands and shrugged.

"I mean… there was a chance."

"You knew?" Hayley frowned.

"Remember Melanie?" Sarah said, and the Rangers nodded their heads. "Well, when I wanted to help her I knew I'd have to understand her. So, instead of going to talk to mom… I went to visit her mom."

"Your mom's mom? Your grandmother?" Preston frowned.

"She told me how mom ended up on the streets and mentioned she came back home once looking for money and that she was pregnant. I thought it might have been with me at first, but Lindsay said it was twenty-five years ago. But she said she didn't know what happened to the baby. Clearly, she lied."

"Clearly?" Levi asked.

"Thomas said he heard about me from her. He knew it was me because of my hoverboard. I told her I would ride it back home when she said she couldn't give me money for a bus. But I didn't know who he was or that he even existed. I just knew it was possible."

There was a pause, then Sarah looked up, "How did you guys figure it out?"

"He asked for Kathryn to be released from prison," Kelly said. "We figured there had to be a connection. Since we didn't know his name, we looked for your mom's associate and through her medical records and prison records and stuff. We found his birth certificate with her name on it and realized it had to be him."

"Oh."

"But he didn't share anything with you?" Kelly asked. "You didn't know he sent the pictures, or that he was breaking your mother out, or that he was calling us?"

"He took pictures," Sarah had a foggy memory of that. "He… he went through my contacts and said something about Jenny but… If I saw him, he hurt or taunted me. He said once he had mom, I could work for the family business."

"Your family is shit," Hayley said.

"They aren't family," Sarah muttered. Brody sat down next to her and wrapped his arm around her.

"You're right," he smiled. "We are. And that's behind us now. You're safe, you're going to heal. In no time, you'll be back at school, back at work…"

"Work?"

"Yeah, the Power Stars," Brody said with a smile and Sarah instantly felt her heart race and her hands start to sweat. The Power Stars! The ones she needed to work on and finish before Madame Oedius showed up. She ones she needed to create to protect her friends. If Madam Oedius returned and she wasn't done, they were all in danger.

She had lost so much time.

"Sarah?" Brody asked when he felt Sarah stiffen up. He snapped his fingers in front of her face and she turned to him. "Hey, are you okay?"

"I… what… what did you say?"

"You'll be back to work on the Power Stars," Brody said and there was that smile again. Sarah frowned. His smile faded. "You know, our Ranger suits. You remember that, right?"

"I… I remember."

"Hey, you're not going to switch our colours up, are you?" Preston asked. "I mean, if we had requests, could you honour it?"

"Huh?" Sarah asked and she could feel the room start to spin and her peripheral vision started to fade. She tried to focus on Preston, but she couldn't hear much over the sound of her heart racing.

"We can make requests?" Calvin said, then turned to Sarah with a smile, "Oh man, because I always thought, as cool as the Ranger suits are, what if we got like… an amor update."

"Amor?" Sarah frowned.

"Armour," Calvin corrected her.

"Talk to them, meu amor." Her father's voice ran in her ears and she grabbed her head.

"Sarah?" Kelly called and sat down next to her, pulling her in close. She wrapped her arms around her girlfriend, then asked the boys to all back off. "Sarah," she whispered. "Sarah, what's going on. You're freaking us out."

"I can't do it," she muttered.

"You can't… can't do what?" Kelly asked, but Sarah shook her head. She pried herself out of Kelly's arms and tried to get up, but as soon as she stood up, she crumbled again. Kelly and Preston caught her and lowered her gently to the floor as Sarah's breathing got heavier. Kelly knelt in front of her, "Sarah, where are you trying to go?"

Sarah didn't answer. She had to focus on taking in deep breathes, but it wasn't enough. The room was spinning, she felt so weak, she was dying.

She had to be dying.

"Sarah, what's going on?" Kelly asked, but Sarah couldn't explain it. Physically, she could barely breathe, but even if she could, she wouldn't know what to say. "Sarah?"

"Move. Move!" Jenny shouted as she burst into the room. She almost shoved Kelly out of the way when she saw her daughter on the floor. She knew what this was. "Sarah, breathe. Just focus on breathing."

Sarah nodded her head and tried.

"Good, good," Jenny smiled when she could see Sarah's breaths were improving. "You're okay, kid. I'm here now. What do you need?"

"I… I can't."

"You can tell me," Jenny assured her.

"The… the Power Stars," Sarah whispered and looked hurt as she spoke.

"You can tell me, Sarah," Jenny promised her again.

"I… I can't do them."

"It's okay," Jenny said and pulled Sarah in for a tight hug as she daughter started to calm. "It's okay, Sarah. That's okay."

"I'm sorry," she whispered, but Jenny shook her head.

"Don't be. You did you best."

-Ninja-Steel-

Mick looked to Jenny in absolute confusion. This had to be the heart attack talking.

"You're banning it?"

"She's not working on those Power Stars," Jenny stated firmly. She wouldn't waver. Sarah had been crying out for help, Jenny wouldn't let it go unanswered. As soon as she came home and heard Kelly asking Sarah to tell her what was wrong, she knew there was trouble. When she walked into her daughter's room and saw her, a crumbled, panic mess, on the floor, she knew she needed to act.

Sarah was strong – fearless, even. Obstacles never stood in her way, and if she had a fault, it would be overconfidence.

For her to have a panic attack over a task meant it far exceeded Sarah's limits. And with the weight of the world on her shoulders, and Sarah's stubbornness to solve any problem she was faced with, Jenny knew she needed to step in on her daughter's behalf.

"Ranger work is banned. She's not helping set up a new base, she's not working on the Power Stars. If Madam Oedius comes back and you need her, she'll be ready for you then, but until that happens, Sarah is back to being a regular kid. She goes to high school, she hangs out with her friends, that's it."

"But if Madam Oedius comes back…"

"You'll figure something out," Jenny insisted to Brody. "The Prism came to you when you needed to fight Galvanax and his crew. Something's bound to pop up if Madam Oedius shows up."

"We don't know that," Mick shook his head, but Jenny growled at him. Mick took a step back. He knew building six Power Stars was a big ask, and when Sarah left school the day of her abduction, he and Serena had already assumed the task was too daunting even for her. However, to hear that she was outright banned from being part of Ranger business unless necessary was a shock.

"Maybe there is a compromise?" Brody suggested. "I mean, none of us can do what she can and…"

"Sarah can't do this, that's the point," Jenny said. "She's done her best. She's given this project her all. There's nothing more she can do."

"But…"

"Brody, she was kidnapped, held captive and beaten by her long-lost creep of a brother, and she's on the floor in tears because of a stupid star," Jenny said and pointed up to the second floor of the house.

"It was a lot of pressure," Serena admitted, then looked to the Rangers, "You're not completely helpless, though. Sarah gave this her best shot. The best thing we can do now is the same. You may not have Powers, but you are still the Ninja Rangers.

"2.0," Shane coughed. Serena rolled her eyes.

"Fine, whatever. You guys are still Ninjas. You can still fight. Maybe it'll be harder without powers, but there is something we can do."

"I threw my morpher into the ocean and never got it back," Gia stated. "When a new threat presented itself, so did new powers."

"Sarah's your friend, your girlfriend and your student," Jenny said. "Right now, at least, she's a Ranger last."