The Rangers returned to the school, finding Levi pacing outside. With the school being closed, the main entrances were locked, but having been told to wait there for them, and being unable to find his way inside, he was waiting outside for them. Fortunately, neither students nor staff wanted particularly to be anywhere near the school while it was closed. A student had once overheard Principal Hastings telling another staff member the only reason she was within a hundred miles of the school when she didn't have to be was because her house was less than a hundred miles away! As a result, for once Levi was alone. If even one person saw him, it was likely there'd be a media circus there within five minutes!

As they approached, Brody took the lead as usual. Hayley was holding Calvin's hand, bouncing with excitement, while Sarah was at the back, clutching Preston's arm tightly, and kind of hiding behind him, kind of like she wasn't sure if she should be hiding from him and being unable to stop looking at him. As they approached, Levi stood before Brody, with his hands on his hips.

"You let him get away!" Levi said impatiently. Brody took a deep breath.

"I know..."

"You saw what he did to my brother; he butchered him like a hog!" Levi interrupted him angrily.

"And I can understand your anger! Believe me; he's done a lot more to me and my family." Brody told him. "But...I owed Wrench a favour."

They all just stared at him. Brody gestured to the building.

"We'll speak inside." He told them.

"Well I don't see how we can do that, the door's locked." Levi stated. Brody gestured to him to follow him.

"We're not using the front door." Brody told him. "Prepare to learn Ranger secret number one, where the real doors to the base are!"

Inside the Ranger Base, the Nexus Prism had once more burst into life, but the throwing stars littering the floor, having rebounded off it, indicated that this vision was not to show them access to a new Power Star. This one seemed instead to be some kind of portent, possibly a warning of something coming.

They watched as a ship flew through an asteroid field, blasting boulders the size of skyscrapers apart with ease. The whole thing looked a lot like a lion crouched, ready to pounce.

"Suffering circuits, it's some kind of space ship." Redbot commented. Mick was unusually quiet as he observed it. "It looks like it's from the Lion Galaxy."

"It is." Mick said with a cold note in his tone. Redbot knew that Mick came from the Lion Galaxy, but he never talked much about it. He had been a slave on the Warrior Dome much longer than he or Brody, and they knew that like many slaves he had been sold into service. However, beyond that he refused to discuss the matter.

"What does it mean?" Redbot asked him. Mick took a while to answer.

"I don't know...yet." Mick finally answered. Redbot's sensors were quite advanced, and he could tell between the length of time it took Mick to answer and the tone and stress of his voice he wasn't telling the whole truth. He didn't know why Mick would lie about the ship, which he seemed to recognise, or why he wouldn't be forthcoming about what its appearance likely meant, but he also knew that Mick never said much of anything about the Lion Galaxy, and what happened there. It was unlikely trying to press him on the matter would do any good.

The extractor fan opened up, and Levi stepped in, marvelling at the base he saw before him. The Rangers followed him, watching as he looked around.

"Wow, you guys...you really put together something pretty spectacular here." He complimented them.

"Why? What were you expecting?" Brody asked him.

"Well...not meaning to put you down or anything, but...your teenagers...and you're working as far as I can see with no funding and no outside assistance." Levi replied. "I was expecting more of a club-house than anything else, but this...you have computers and monitors and..."

His words tailed off as he noticed Redbot.

"...one of those things." He replied, approaching Redbot slowly. As he got there, Redbot started to mimic his motions for a bit.

"I'm sorry, can I help you?" Redbot asked, causing Levi to jump. He looked to the others.

"How did you get access to all of this stuff?" He asked them.

"Well, the room is donated...unknown to them of course...by the school Shop Class." Calvin told him. "That over there USED to be the compressor to a paint unit until Victor and Monty got their hands on it. The room's been out of order since then so we've used it as our base."

"The computers are mostly from storage. Whenever the school updates they just throw the old ones into storage." Hayley told him. "Between Sarah and Mick, we can usually build much better computers than are available on the open market anyway."

"Which one is Sarah again?" Levi asked.

"This one back here." Preston told him as Sarah ducked behind him. "Ow, you're gripping a little tight there Sarah!"

"I can't believe you guys have been doin' all this for so long...I just got started a few weeks back." Levi commented.

"Oh, that reminds me! Um...never mind the stars on the floor, I'll clear them up...but the Prism did make two for you." Mick told Levi as he came over to him, rummaging around in his many pockets for them. He pulled out a gold one first. "This is the Storm Star, it'll give you control over wind and lightning! It'll give you a real power boost that should finish off just about anything."

"Well I can't wait to get another crack at that horned guy." Levi told him bluntly. "When I do, he's going to get a taste of this for sure."

"And this, this one is your Zord Star!" Mick said, handing over a brown star. Levi just looked to it. It had an image of his helmet on it.

"Zord, that's...one of those big robot things?" He asked. The Rangers just nodded. "Wow! I can't wait to find out what my Zord is!"

"Well, you're going to have to for a little while yet." Calvin told him. "There are kind of a few rules we have to follow."

"The first is that no one can know what we're doing here. We have to keep our identities secret, even from those we care about." Brody told him. "Now, I know by now Tom's probably figured all this out, so..."

"It's fine, I'll make sure it doesn't go any further." Levi sighed as he thought about it. "It's my fault he got dragged into this in the first place. I asked him to keep my Power Star for safe keeping. I didn't have room in my pockets for it. If I'd just held onto it, none of this would have happened."

"If I can make a recommendation." Mick said, reaching over and taking Levi's hat. He popped the Power Star inside, and then put it back on Levi's head. The singer just shook his head.

"Now why didn't I think of that?" He muttered.

"The second rule is you can't use your powers for personal gain." Brody told him. "We're here to help others, not ourselves."

"It's alright; you won't be seeing the Gold Ranger on any album covers any time soon." Levi assured them.

"And lastly, you can never escalate a fight unless your opponent forces you to." Brody told him. "Those Zords are cool, but they do cause a fair bit of property damage, so..."

"Right, got it. Only bring out the Zords if the bad guys go all Godzilla on us." Levi interrupted him. The Rangers all stared at him. "What? Because I'm a cowboy I'm not allowed to know about old Japanese monster movies? That's bordering on racist you know!"

"So...how did you get your Power Star?" Levi heard a voice say. He had to look around to see where it came from, but seeing a rather nervous looking Sarah in the background, he had to presume it was her.

"Yeah, the last time we saw it; it was still inside the Ninja Nexus Prism." Brody told him. He gestured to himself, Preston and Sarah. "It flew away from the three of us with the Gold Power Star inside, and then when it landed in front of them, it was gone." He gestured to Calvin and Hayley.

Levi grabbed a seat and sat down, preparing to explain what he knew.

"Well, the thing is, a few months back I went to my cabin outside of town to work on material for my new album." Levi started to explain. "Sometimes I find it hard to concentrate if too much is going on, so every now and then I'll just go somewhere I can be alone, away from all the distractions so that I can concentrate on my work."

He cast his mind back, thinking about his time there. Once he had escaped from the Warrior Dome, he had returned to the cabin, where the familiar environment and possessions had started to kick-start a lot of his memories. It was one of a few such places Levi liked to go to whenever he needed some quiet time to work on writing away from the constant distraction of interviews, fan events and suchlike. If he didn't make a schedule for himself, in order to promote him, Tom could easily have every hour of his day filled by 7:30 in the morning!

"I was at my cabin, sitting by a lake, working on stuff for my new album, when this big crystal thing fell out of the sky. That thing!" He said, pointing to the Nexus Prism. "It came up to me like it was alive. Inside, the Gold Power Star was glowing, like it was calling to me! I don't know how I knew I could do it, but I reached inside and I took it. As soon as I had, the crystal...the Nexus Prism...took off again."

"That was when it must have come to find us." Calvin surmised.

"So what happened after that?" Hayley asked him. Levi thought back to it.

"I barely had the Power Star in my hands, before the next thing I know; some of those robot things grabbed me. I tried to fight them off, but there were too many and they caught me by surprise. Then, one of those monsters came. It was some woman with robes...she looked like a fox."

"Madame Odious." Mick, Redbot and Brody chorused together.

"She's always up to something." Brody commented. "I knew this didn't feel like Ripcon's playbook."

"She kept me prisoner on the Warrior Dome space ship." Levi told them. "I think she wanted to learn about my powers, maybe use them herself. She locked me into some machine, stuck me in some kind of helmet that messed with my mind. I thought I was done for, like she was going to drive me insane. By the time I was freed by your Zord, I didn't know who I was or where I was from, all I knew was that I had to get off the ship and that the Power Star could give me the power to do it."

"She scrambled your brain?" Preston asked.

"Believe me, when I got out of there, I couldn't have told you anything about myself. I was just lucky I had my wallet and a rental receipt for my cabin. I had no idea who I was or where I lived. Once a cab driver took me out there and I saw all my stuff, my memories all started to fit back together. I figured out who I was, and that's when I called Tom and told him I was ready to return."

"Wow, no wonder it took you a while to resurface." Preston said with a shudder.

"I feel bad for having Tom hold the Gold Power Star. Poor guy never knew what he was holding." Levi said sadly. "I never knew how far they'd be willing to go to get it, and me back."

"We're glad to have you as a team-mate." Brody answered. "If any of this should have taught us anything, it's exactly why they all need to be stopped."

"You can say that again!" Levi answered. "You don't need to worry, as long as those freaks are around, you can count on the Gold Ranger."

"I can't believe we actually get to fight alongside THE Levi Weston!" Hayley said excitedly.

"Hey, I can't believe I get to fight alongside THE Power Rangers!" Levi responded in kind. "Oh, that reminds me, Brody, I owe you for your day as my bodyguard."

"WHAT?" Preston, Hayley, Calvin and Sarah all yelled.

"Uh...yeah, remember that job I said I had?" Brody asked. "Levi asked me to be a bodyguard."

"And all he asked for in return was backstage passes for him and his friends." Levi answered, pulling the passes out of his pocket. "Five passes, just as promised."

There were squeals of delight as they came to take the passes, but it was interrupted as they heard a thud in the background. They all turned to see Sarah lying unconscious on the floor.

"What...what happened is she OK?" Levi asked.

"I think she might just be a little overwhelmed." Hayley commented. Levi went over to Sarah, lifting her up a little. She started to stir in his arms.

"Did I fall asleep in the lab again?" She muttered. "You guys are not going to believe the dream I had..."

"I think I just might little lady." Levi said with a smile. Sarah mumbled out something incomprehensible before falling limp in his arms once more.

The following day, back at the shopping mall, crowds gathered as Levi once again called a meet-and-greet for his fans. Normally he'd do the announcement the same day, but with the attacks, the area had been locked down and no one in particular had been in much of a hurry to return.

Now though, it seemed that enthusiasm was as high as ever. With the exception of the Rangers, most of them had even dressed up in their costumes again for the occasion. The Rangers had already made an agreement with Levi that none of them would be eligible for the free pass. Not only did they have their own passes, it also didn't seem fair to take one from another fan.

Tom got a cheer as he came to the table. It was clear he was hurting, not that anyone would blame him, but he took his commitment to Levi so seriously that even in spite of Ripcon's torture, he was back on his feet as quickly as he could be. He came to the table and took up the microphone.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we're so glad to see how many of you are here today. It speaks volumes to how much you love Levi, and believe me we are all so grateful." Tom told them. "Now, without further ado, here he is, Levi Weston!"

As the crowd applauded, Sarah felt a pair of arms wrap around her. The familiar woollen jumper gave away that it was Preston.

"Preston, what are you doing?" She asked.

"Oh, I know you can get a little overwhelmed at these things." He teased her.

"Shut up." She whispered.

"I just wanted to make sure you didn't hurt yourself..."

"Shut up!"

"I mean, the ground here is awfully hard and I know how you get around Lev...OW!" He quickly let go as Sarah stomped on his foot, but the distinct shade of pink in her cheeks was a dead give-away. As Levi approached the table, he picked up the microphone.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, before we go any further, I have an announcement to make." Levi told them. "As my brother Tom said, how many of you are here today speaks volumes of how much you love me, and believe me, the feeling is mutual. However, the actions of some of you to help each other and keep each other safe speaks volumes to how much you care about each other too. In particular, two young men went to great lengths to evacuate as many of you as possible. That is why I am proud to give two back stage passes to Victor Vincent and Montgomery Williams!"

The crowd erupted in applause hearing this. The Rangers joined in too. While Victor and Monty could be irritating and more than a little thoughtless, they had gone out of their way to help people escape when the attack came. Everyone looked around, Levi included as they waited for them to come and get their passes. Unfortunately, there was no sign of them. Tom whispered something in Levi's ear.

"Um...OK, I've just been advised they're still in the hospital, so we'll get word to them how they can collect their passes. I think we can all agree they deserve them." Levi continued. "Now, without further ado, the winner of my costume contest! Well, I have to say you all went way out of your way and it was a little difficult to decide, but one really did stand out to me. I'd like to award this pass to my 'biggest fan' Mary Masterson!"

They heard a screech that was so loud and piercing, it split the crowd. They all turned to see a young girl, maybe only about eleven years old, dressed in a white body-suit, with a large fan strapped to her back, and a sign declaring her 'Levi's BIGGEST Fan' taped to her chest. She ran the full length of the courtyard as Levi gestured her forward, leaping into his arms as he hugged her tightly. The whole crowd applauded as he spun her around, before posing with her for pictures as he handed her the pass.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, my biggest fan!" He told them, posing for the cameras. The team could all see Brody looking at him and could guess that this had to seem a lot like the creatures he had seen at the Warrior Dome.

"I guess now we know why you had such a chip on your shoulder about celebrities." Hayley remarked.

"Celebrities aren't so bad." Brody said with a smile as he saw the look on Mary's face as Levi spoke to her about the arrangements for her backstage meeting with him. The little girl looked like every Christmas and Birthday in her life had all fallen on the same day. "Some people use their fame to make the world a better place, and that's just fine with me."