Back at the base, the Rangers sat around the round table in the base while unmorphed with Merlin. Maverick had a troubled look on his face while the others were chatting about random things. "Guys, I want to apologize," Maverick said, catching everyone's attention. "I was not being a good friend, or teammate, especially to you, Luke. We are a team now, and I have to act like it." Maverick turned to Luke. "It is actually thanks to you that we got out of the labyrinth."
"It is?" Luke asked perplexed. "Er, I mean of course it was." he quickly lied, in an attempt to seem cooler. However, he succeeded in fooling no one.
Maverick continued. "You got Romulous to attack, and his sword got stuck in the wall. I noticed that breaking down the wall would be our best chance to escape once I learned his sword could damage the wall like that." Maverick explained, taking a bite of an apple that he brought in from the kitchen.
"But, how did you know that would actually free us, instead of something worse happening?" Luke asked. He leaned his chair back onto its hind legs and had it balanced there.
"Oh, I just….guessed," Maverick explained nonchalantly between bites of the apple. He said it so simply, that you would think it was something a trivial as why he chose to wear a particular shirt. But all of the other Rangers and Merlin turned and looked shocked at him. This also caused Luke to lose his balance, and he slammed onto the floor. His chair crashed down with a loud clang. Luke bolted up while rubbing the back o this head.
"You risked our lives on a guess?" Luke cried out. He clearly was unhappy about this revelation. He wore a look of shock as he stared at Maverick in disbelief. The base had fallen silent at the comment, other than periodic beeps from some of the machinery, the crackling of the torches' flames.
Axel began to snicker. He tried to hide it, but his snickering quickly turned into full-blown laughter. Peter and Gwen joined in on the laughter soon after. Maverick started laughing next, followed by Merlin. Everyone other than Luke was now laughing at the circumstance. Luke looked around at his team as they were all laughing at his freakout.
"Come on guys, this isn't something to laugh about," Luke protested. "We could have died!" Luke seemed to look at Axel somewhat betrayed.
"That's just it," Peter piped in between giggles. "It is just so stupid, that it is funny." Peter continued to laugh after he finished explaining. After a bit, Luke broke down and started laughing along with his team.
After the laughing fit subsided, Maverick held out his hand toward Luke. "I'm sorry I was so rude to you today. Friends?" Maverick said it with a smile. It was the first time any of the team had seen Maverick smile. It was jarring at first, but Luke quickly adapted to it and grabbed Maverick's hand and shook it
"Friends," Luke replied as he shook. The handshake turned into a fist bump. He was happy that Maverick had come around. He felt that when them standing truly united, no one would ever be able to defeat them. Upon Luke's suggestion, the Rangers returned to the pizza parlor to get some food.
Mordred was furious with Romulous. After all, it is his fault that the plan failed. "We had two of the Rangers caught and unable to morph. We were winning and you let them get away!" Mordred's eyes flashed red as Romulous coward before his boss, despite the fact that Romulous towers over Mordred. "At least Bawa didn't fail like you did, you flea-bitten mutt." A ball of energy formed in Mordred's right hand. "Now, get out of my sight." Mordred flung the ball of energy into Romulous and sent him flying away.
Mordred returned to a still image of the Rangers. He stared at it with a menacing look. He eyed each Ranger in the image but lingered the most on Axel. "Next time Rangers, you will lose."