A/N: I wrote this chapter to procrastinate on my chores...ironic.

Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers.

In the heat of noon, Mia scrubs the training pad with a mop. Mike wanders outside and sits on a bench in the shade, watching her, with a smug grin on his face. She glares at him, but continues her task. She turns her chair to mop the other side of the training pad, but ends up knocking over the bucket of soapy water instead.

"That's one way to clean it!" Mike jokes. Mia sighs, rolls to an easel, and draws the symbol for wind with a spare paint brush, and points it at the training pad. A gust of wind dries the pad in seconds. Without saying a word, Mia picks up the bucket and the mop, and pushes herself inside.

"What?" Mike yells, "You mess up and now you're giving me the silent treatment?"

As she wheels herself to the supply closet, she stops in the laundry room and switches Kevin's laundry from the wash to the dryer. Jayden stomps in holding a piece of pink fabric in his hands. "Seriously?" he whines, "I am not the pink ranger. I don't wear pink. This shirt, and several others, were white yesterday."

"Aside from your jeans and a couple of flannels, you only wear red and white. I have seven people's laundry to do, plus an innumerable amount of other chores. I am sorry that there was a mixup, but it's not my fault that all of your socks are red. It was inevitable." she retorts as she grabs the mop and bucket once more and pushes past him. Ji intercepts her on her way to the supply closet.

"The dishes have not been washed or put away," he announces.

"They put them in the sink, which I can't reach. I also can't reach the cabinets, and without my morpher, I can't fly the plates into their places," Mia answers.

"Figure it out," he demands. He turns and walks away without another word. Mia returns the mop and bucket to the supply closet and heads to the kitchen. She sits in front of the sink for several minutes as if she could mentally force the dishes to wash, dry, and put themselves away. She then looks at her chair and lifts herself onto one of the arm rests. Clutching the counter with her left hand, she reaches for a plate in the sink. Unbalanced, she shakily places it onto the counter, and then reaches for a second. As she places this one on the counter, her chair tips and she falls onto the ground. The plate shatters as they simultaneously land. In an attempt to sit up, she cuts her forearm on one of the shards and falls back to the ground. As Mia holds her wounded arm close, tears begin to stream down her face.

The rangers rush into the kitchen and stop when they see her. Ji pushes past the rangers with a first aid kit in hand. He gently washes her wound and then dresses it. He then tries to check to As Ji packs up the first aid kit, Mike lifts up her chair and places it away from the ceramic shards in order to prevent her wheels from popping. Jayden picks Mia up and places her in her chair.

"I...I can't do this anymore," she hics.

"It's only been a week of chores so far," Mike jokes. Emily jabs him in the stomach with her elbow.

"Nah...not that," Mia explains, "I want my le...legs back."

"Oh, Mia," Jayden sighs. He hugs her tight and she limply grips his shoulders as she sobs into his shirt.

"I'm so...so tired of the bus lady ignoring me...me because she is too lazy to lower the wheelchair ramp. I am tired of nah...not being able to go places because they don't have a ramp. I am tired of having to si...sit here and wait for you guys to get home from a fight, not be...being able to do anything to help. And I am especially tired of people treating me like a...a child just because of my chair!" Jayden holds her tighter and rubs her back, his hand disappearing and returning as it runs below and above her injury. "Cam and Terry left when I failed at the duel, that dumb detective is going to put an innocent man in jail just to close a case, and Ryan's facial recognition search came up with nothing! I am useless, worthless, and I'm so tired of all of this!"

"I think you have had a long day," Ji begins patting her shoulder. "Why don't you go lie down for a while." Jayden lets Mia slip out of his arms as Emily walks behind her. Emily grabs the handles on Mia's chair and pushes her into her room. Mia looks at her bed, then back at her arm, then leans back in her chair.

Emily sees this and asks, "Do you...um...want me to…" Mia shakes her head. Emily leans onto Mia's bed and stares at her feet. After a long moment of silence, Emily whispers, "You're not worthless."

"Hm?" Mia asks.

"You're not worthless, or useless, or anything less," Emily states, louder. "You just have to do things differently, that's all."

"It didn't hit me until Ji took my morpher away," Mia begins. "I mean, I guess I realized it a little in rehab, but at that point everything was so surreal, it was like a bad dream. Then, when I got back, I kind of had a purpose as team nurse, so I didn't think about it. When I started to, Mike, Antonio, and I began our project, so I pushed it aside. Once that got shot down, I started to notice it again, but I was training, and my mom and I decided to do a little detective work, and I forgot about it again. The moment Ji took my morpher away, it hit me like a ton of bricks."

"What hit you?" Emily asks.

"I am never going to walk again," Mia responds solemnly, "I am going to sit in this chair for the rest of my life and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it."

"So."

"So, what?" Mia asks.

"So, what are you going to do about it?" Emily responds.

Bitterly, Mia laughs, "I don't know, Em. Even if they let me off chore duty, they are never going to let me be a ranger again. I should have seen that coming. Ji was just looking for an excuse to take away my morpher, and I handed him one on a silver platter. My mom wants me to help her investigate this case to get closure or something like that, and then go back home to a normal life. The funny thing is, I don't even know what a normal life is anymore."

"There are things you can do around here aside from being a ranger."

"I can't stand playing nurse," Mia sighs, "It kills me to have to wait around for you guys to come back from battle. I don't know how Ji does it."

Emily agrees, "Neither do I."

"We never did defeat Regnessap, did we?" Mia asks.

"Nope," Emily sighs, "I'd actually forgotten about him. That's the monster that started this whole mess, right?"

"One of them," Mia agrees.

"So, Mia, what are you going to do?" Emily asks once more.

"I don't know."

A/N: Funny story about how I came up with the name Regnessap for the monster of this story. I was writing the first chapter on a plane ride and I could not think of the name for the monster. I looked around the plane for inspiration, but came up with nothing. Defeated and bored, I pulled out that little safety guide in the back of all of the seats. I read the word passenger and it hit me. Passenger backwards is Regnessap. Has no meaning whatsoever to the story, I just thought it sounded like a power rangers villain.