"Alright, come at me." Gray dared Natsu with the gang at the Mystic Star. Now that they're rangers, they need to hone their fighting skills. Natsu and Gray were using the gym area as a little sparing. Natsu started out with some spin kicks that Gray avoided. Gray tried hitting Natsu, but Natsu grabbed him and flipped him over.

"Nice moves." Lucy said as she walked over.

"Just got lucky." Gray said.

"Yeah. That's it." Natsu said with sarcasm.

"Mind if I give it a try?" Lucy asked, but neither of them were sure. "What? Don't tell me it's because I'm a girl."

"Alright. What's the worst that can happen?" Natsu said as the two scared off against each other. Natsu was the first to make a move, but Lucy outmaneuvered him as she grabbed him by the back of his shirt and tripped him up.

"Whoops." Lucy said.

"Not bad, but not good." Natsu said as he grabbed her arms and had her pinned down.

"Careful. You two are pretty close. This is a public place, not a make-out place." Gray said. Both of them realized how close they were and moved back from each other. With all the fun they were having, none of them noticed the blonde man in a suit coming in.

"Lucy!" Luc noticed the man and she was shocked beyond belief.

"Dad?!" Lucy said.

"Dad?" The guys questioned.

"Dad, what are you doing here?" Lucy asked.

"I came here to take you home."

"What!?" Lucy said.

"What's going on over here?" Erza asked as she, Gajeel, and Mira came over.

"Lucy's claiming this guy is her Dad and he's saying he's taking her home." Gray said.

"This is Jude Heartfilia. Dad, I'm not going home." Lucy said.

"Yes, you are." Jude said. "I already have staff at your Aunt Anna's and is packing your stuff. You're coming home." He didn't even stay so he and Lucy could talk about this. Lucy wasn't liking this and neither were the others.

…

Keyes

Keyes was looking around Magnolia. He was trying to find something that he could change into an etherious to destroy the rangers.

"The human's world seems to be as weak as the humans themselves." Keyes said. "What else to be expected from the ruling race of this world?" He looked around to try and find something. He looked up and saw a spider on a web with it wrapping a fly in its webs. "Hello, little arachnid friend." He held up his hand and the spider crawled on it. "The spider weaves its webs and traps it's victims by draining the fuel of their life. You will be useful." He held his staff over it and the spider was given power into it and it transformed. It jumped out of his hand and turned into its new form in a human shape with a large spider abdomen for a back. A spider with its back legs as human legs, the front two legs used like arms, and the others hanging on its sides with an X on top of it's back.

"Whoa! I actually have arms and legs. I'm even taller."

"I welcome you, Spiderrot." Keyes said. "I've taken your spider abilities and filled them with etherious power. You don't have waste time with webs when you can drain the life force out of your victims with just a bite. In exchange, Master Mard Geer wants you to destroy the Power Rangers."

"You got it." Spiderrot said. "I'm going to have one heck of a meal."

….

Mystic Star

After seeing Lucy's father, she decided to tell the others about what's going on. It wasn't something she was proud of, but she felt like being caught in a web herself.

"So what's your Dad's deal?" Gray asked.

"He and I never got on the same page." Lucy said. "He always tried to run my life the way he wanted to. He cares more about his business. Things got even harder when my Mom passed away. So one day I decided enough was enough. I ran away from the mansion I grew up in and came here to live with my Aunt Anna."

"Mansion? You mean you're rich?" Gajeel said, but Erza hit him for missing the point.

"Lucy, if you don't want to leave, just tell your Dad." Natsu said.

"It's not that easy. He doesn't take no for an answer." Lucy said. "I'm sorry guys, but I better get going. He's probably waiting for me at my Aunt's."

"Guys!" Mirajane said as she came running to them with urgent news. "Mavis just contacted me. Another monster has appeared."

"But what about my Dad? He's going to get real mad at me if I don't show." Lucy said.

"Go deal with your Dad. We'll take care of this." Natsu said as all of them headed out. Lucy hated that she had to bail on her friends, but it needed to be done.

….

Spiderrot

People were running fear from Spiderrot. He was trying to bring out the rangers and actually felt offended when people called out "spider!"

"Isn't a little stereotypical to fear me just because I'm a spider?" Spiderrot said.

"Hold it right there." He turned around and was faced with the four rangers.

"You must be the rangers." Spiderrot said.

"And you must be a big ugly bug for us to squish." Gray said.

"I never did like spiders. Let's get him!" Gajeel said as all of them went to attack. Gajeel tried a kick, but Spiderrot pushed him out of the way. Gray tried a few hits, but Spiderrot slashed against him. Erza rolled under his attack and kicked him back.

"I thought you guys would put up more of a fight." Spiderrot said.

"You asked for it." Natsu said as he jumped and tried to kick him, but Spiderrot moved away. Natsu swung his arm back, but Spiderrot grabbed a hold of it and held him down. Spiderrot sunk his teeth in his arm and Natsu could feel his energy being drained. Spiderrot pushed his body of the way and a light came out of him and he ate it. Natsu demorphed and was unconscious.

"Yummy!" Spiderrot said.

"Natsu!" Erza called out.

"What did you do to him?!" Gray said as he tried to hit him, but Spiderrot blocked it and grabbed a hold of him.

"Same thing I'm doing to you." Spiderrot said as he bit Gray's shoulder and Gray felt his energy being drained as well. Spiderrot pushed Gray away and the same happened to him.

"Gray, no! You're going to pay for that." Erza said.

"I don't think so." Spiderrot said and shot out webs from his mouth. He ensnared Gajeel and Erza together and had them stick. They tried to get out, but the threads were too strong. "I can't get free."

"Me either." Gajeel said. Spiderrot walked over to them to finish his meal.

"I got a nice meal out of this." Spiderrot said as he sank his teeth in both of them and drained their life fore out of both of them as well. "I thought the rangers would be more of a challenge. Too bad." He left the four of them there and now Lucy was their only chance.

…..

The Cube

Spiderrot made his way to the cube and reported in. He claimed he beat all the rangers and Mard Geer and the others were quite pleased with this.

"I did it. I got all of them." Spiderrot said.

"Excellent work." Mard Geer said.

"You sure you got all the rangers?" Tempester asked. Having faced them for a moment himself, he had an idea to what they could do.

"Yes. We must be certain that all of the colored heroes have met their end." Keyes said.

"I think so." Spiderrot said.

"You 'think'? You must be certain." Kyoka said.

"Did you get all five of them or not?" Mard Geer asked and that's where Spiderrot was seeing the problem.

"Wait. 'Five'? I only got….four of them." Spiderrot said and the pleasure went to anger.

"Which one did you not get?" Mard Geer asked.

"Well….I got red, blue, yellow, and black." Spiderrot said.

"You didn't get the pink ranger." Kyoka said as she grabbed him by the head. "Get back down there and don't come back until you get the last one." She shoved him out and he got running so he does not get like a lady that mad.

….

Lucy

Lucy watched as some men were moving some of her stuff out of her Aunt's home. She tried talking to her father, but Jude wouldn't listen. Anna, who looked a lot like Lucy, was trying to speak to Jude about this.

"Jude, you can't do this." Anna said as they walked out. "If Lucy doesn't want to leave, you have no right to force her."

"My decision is final. Lucy is coming home." Jude said.

"Dad, please. I want to stay here." Lucy said, but Jude was too stubborn.

"Lucy, I'm not hearing another word about this." Jude said. "I need someone to take over my business in the future and that's going to be you. Go pack the last of your things." Jude walked away to make sure they had everything.

"I'm sorry, Lucy." Anna said. "Layla warned me how stubborn he is. I never knew what my younger sister saw in him." Lucy could see no way for her to get out of this. She heard her morpher go off and backed away to answer it. She pulled it out and made it look like she was on the phone.

"Hello?" Lucy said.

'Lucy, the other rangers are down.' Mirajane said on the other line. After the battle, the other rangers were teleported back to the base and were trying to be treated.

"What happened?" Lucy asked.

'This spider etherious has the ability to capture a person's life force when he bites them.' Mirajane said. 'Mavis is doing what she can, but it doesn't seem like her magic can revive them. You're the only one left. Lucy, you need to do something.'

"Lucy, it's time to go." Jude said as Lucy hanged up.

"Dad, I can't. My friends need me at the moment." Lucy said.

"Lucy, you can call all these friends of yours when we are home." Jude said. "We're leaving now. Get in the car and let's go." Lucy might have backed down from him before, but not this time when so many are in trouble.

"No. My friends need my help and I'm going to help them." Lucy said and took off.

"Lucy! Lucy, you come back here!" Jude called out, but Lucy was the one this time who just kept going and wouldn't listen.

….

The Park

"Where are you?" Lucy said as she was calling out for Spiderrot to show himself. "Get out here, spider and give me back my friends."

"Up here!" Spiderrot jumped down from a tree and landed across from her. "So you must be the last ranger. Once I have your life force, I'll have a whole set."

"I don't think so." Lucy said as she pulled out her morpher. "Magical Energy, Unleash!" She morphed and tried fighting on her own. Spiderrot swung his arms, but Lucy flipped back and kicked him in the chest. Lucy grabbed a hold of him. She started driving her knee into his stomach. "Spit….them…..out!"

"You'll have to do better than that." Spiderrot said as he pushed her off and slashed against her. Spiderrot was a tough one and Lucy is facing this foe all on her own.

…

Rangers' Base

Mavis was using her magic to try and get the other rangers to wake up. Mirajane was trying to analyze a way for them to beat Spiderrot.

"It's no good." Mavis said. "Without their life force, my magic has nothing to flourish with."

"Hold on." Mirajane said as she finished her analysis. "I think I just found a way that might help us."

…..

Lucy

Lucy was struggling to fight off against Spiderrot herself. Spiderrot slashed against her and got a hold of him with him ready to take a bit out of her.

"Don't worry. Once your energy begins to drain, it won't hurt." Spiderrot said.

"Don't think so." Lucy said as she got her arm free and pounded him across the face. She kicked him in the gut and jumped back to gain some distance to form a plan.

'Lucy!' Mira said through communication. 'Lucy, you need to strike the X on his back. It's the only way to free the other rangers.'

"Got it." Lucy said.

"Time to catch my meal." Spiderrot said as he shot out his web, but Lucy jumped over it and was right over him with her spotting the X.

"Magic Light Whip!" Lucy used her whip and lashed right on the spot.

"No, not there." Spiderrot said as he was beginning to feel sick to his stomach. "I don't feel so well." He tried to hold it in, but couldn't hold it in and upchucked all the life force he swallowed. The life force found its way back to the others and they were all awake. "Aw man. I feel sick."

"It's about to get worse for you." Lucy said as she powered up her whip. "Stellar Lashing!" She lashed her whip around and landed each strike. Spiderrot couldn't hold out anymore.

"I'm squashed!" Spiderrot said as he ended up getting destroyed.

"Good riddance." Lucy said.

"It's not over yet." Keyes said as he arrived.

"Not you again." Lucy said.

"Breath of demon and spirits of sake, make this minion reawake!" Keyes unleashed the dark cloud and revived Spiderrot as a giant.

"Lucy!" She looked and saw the others morphed to help her.

"You did it!" Erza said.

"Thanks for helping us." Natsu said.

"No problem. Now let's finish this spider." Lucy said.

"Magic Zords!" They called upon their zords and all of them combined together "Magic Megazord!" The megazord was fully formed and ready to crush that spider.

"Weave your way out of this." Spiderrot said. He shot out webs around and the megazord was caught in it.

"These webs are strong." Gray said.

"We've got to get out." Lucy said as they tried to get themselves free. Spiderrot grabbed a hold of them and sink his teeth again as he tried to drain them of their power. "He's draining our power. We've got to do something."

"The Magic Sword!" Gray suggested.

"Good idea." Natsu said. They called upon the zord and sliced free with Spiderrot getting slashed. They slashed against Spiderrot and pushed him back.

"Magic Slash!" They built up power in the sword and slashed down on him.

"Oh man. Here comes that bad feeling again." Spiderrot said as he collapsed and was destroyed. All of them were glad of their victory, but this might have been Lucy's last mission.

…

Lucy

"Here goes." Lucy said as she braced herself. After the battle, she went home to confront her father. She took a deep breath and rounded the corner, but there wasn't a sign of her father anywhere.

"Lucy!" Anna called out as Lucy headed up. "There you are. Are you alright? You just took off."

"I had to help my friends with something. Where's my Dad?" Lucy asked. Anna handed over a letter. Lucy took it and read it.

"Lucy, I'm sorry I couldn't be there in person, but I had an important matter that couldn't wait. After you left, Ann and I had a little talk. When I saw you run off like that, I actually saw a bit of your mother. You remind me so much of her and I realized that she would want you to be happy. So I've decided that you can stay where you're really happy. I love you, Lucy. Never forget that."

"It seems like even stubborn men have their shining moments." Anna said. Lucy was so scared and now she's so happy. With high hopes and feeling free now that things will get better for her, she's actually waiting for when she sees her father again.