Normal POV

Traci wakes up the next morning, changes into her training gear, walks over to the desk, picks up her brush to fix her hair, pulls her hair up into a tight bun and puts the brush down. She looks in the mirror. She smiles at her reflection.

Okay, Traci, today you're going to train with the team. Just relax and you'll be fine. Traci thinks.

Traci opens the box with her locket inside. She takes it out and runs her fingers over the charm a few times before putting it back inside, leaving her room, and going to the kitchen. She eats some breakfast and heads outside to train after getting her iPod and the speaker dock. Outside, the others are standing on the porch waiting for her. They hear the front door open. Jayden walks over to her.

"Hey, Traci, are you joining us this morning?" Jayden asks.

"Yes," Traci says.

"What's with the speaker and your iPod?" Mike asks.

"Music helps me focus, and it will make our training more fun," Traci says.

"I doubt you'll be able to spar with anyone if the music is playing," Mike says.

"How about you spar with her, Mike, so we can test your theory?" Jayden asks.

Mike nods and picks up his sword. He walks over to the sparring area and has a confident look on his face. Traci sets up her speakers and chooses the song. Jayden hands her the sword in his hand. She walks over to Mike.

"Jayden, you can press play now," Traci says.

Jayden pressed play, and everyone heard 'Lesson Number One' start to play. When the lyrics say 'Earth,' Traci leaps over Mike's sword when he sweeps it at her feet, 'Sky' After landing, Traci quickly slashes her sword down towards him. 'Day' she moved three steps to the east, 'Night' she moved towards the west. 'Dark' Traci takes two steps back. 'Light' she moves back to her original spot.

'One alone is not enough; you need both together.' She repeats all the moves she did a few seconds ago. 'Winter' Traci steps to the right and attacks. 'Summer' Mike dodges her attack by doing a back flip, 'Moon' Traci waits until his feet are a few inches above the ground. 'Sun' she swipes her sword at his ankles. 'Lesson Number one!' Mike lands on his back a few seconds later. Ji stops the song. Mike gets up and looks over at Traci.

"What's wrong Mike?" Traci asks.

"Nothing that was incredible," Mike says.

"Thanks," Traci says.

Traci walks back over to the others. She hands Jayden her sword. Then she watches the others spar. Twenty minutes later everyone goes inside to cool down. In the city, Negatron begins his attack on the city by insulting the citizens. The Rangers finally make it to the scene. Negatron insults the Rangers one by one.

"Silver Ranger, you'll always be the weak link, and the other rangers know it too," Negatron says.

Traci tries to ignore the nighlok's mean words. She couldn't and flew backward into the wall. She groans when she hits the ground. Negatron knows that Red Ranger has a secret. Traci decides to fight alone against Negatron to prove him wrong, who retreats after the brief battle. Back at the Shiba House, the Rangers discuss their recent failure against Negatron.

"Traci, what got into you out there?" Jayden asks.

"The nighlok said that was the weak link of the team," Traci says.

"That's not true," Jayden says.

"I know, and I want to tell it that it was wrong," Traci says.

"Why didn't you," Mia says.

"I've been good at standing up for myself. The funny thing is I had no problem standing up for other kids who were getting picked on. I guess I am a coward, after all." Traci says sadly.

"Traci, that's not true. Standing up for others and standing up for yourself requires a different kind of courage." Ji says.

"How exactly did you get the bully to leave you alone then?" Mike asks very curiously.

"I had to join his group," Traci says.

"You a bully, I don't believe it," Jayden says.

"I was just the lookout," Traci says.

"Didn't the bully ever have you beat someone up to stay in the group?" Mike asks.

"Yes, he did." Traci sighs. "One day, they had one of the other members doing my job. The leader, Jake, was holding the kid's arms, and another bully, Zack, was holding his feet so he couldn't fight back. I could tell by the look in the kid's eyes that he was utterly terrified. Then Jake told me to punch him."

"Did you hit the kid?" Ji asks.

"No. I still haven't figured out why I couldn't do it." Traci says.

"You probably understood how that kid was feeling since you've been on the other side of that situation before joining the group," Ji says.

"Maybe," Traci says.

"You do have a good heart. I ide you knew what you were about to do was w deep down considering, so you choose not to go down that path." Ji says.

"I guess so, but joining the group was wrong too," Traci says.

"True, but you left the group after that day, didn't you?" Ji asks.

"More like they kicked me out since I didn't beat that kid up," Traci says.

"Why didn't you tell your mom about this?" Mia asks.

"I wanted to handle it on my own. Trust me. If my mom had gotten involved, she would have made things worse than they already were. Plus, my dad thought that I was a disappointment. I didn't want my mom to be ashamed of me too." Traci says.

"How can you call yourself a samurai when you do something like that?" Kevin snaps.

"I'm not proud of the decision, but you don't have to be so mean to me for one mistake I made when I was thirteen. I thought teammates are supposed to support one another, not tear them down." Traci says tearfully.

She gets up from her chair and runs out of the room. Jayden starts to stare Kevin down with a disappointing glance.

"Kevin, that was a little harsh. She was thirteen then. When you're that age, Kevin, you tend to do a few things you aren't proud of." Ji says.

"I know, but..." Kevin says

"No buts, Kevin, you need to apologize," Jayden says.

Kevin nods. He gets up from his chair. He walks to Traci's room. He stands outside the door and feels terrible when he hears Traci crying on the other side.

"Traci, can I talk to you?" Kevin asks knocking on the door.

"Why," Traci asks lifting her heads off the pillow. "You thought of something else to say to make feel even worse?" She snaps through her tears.

"No, I wanted to apologize," Kevin says.

"I don't want to hear it." Traci snaps.

She puts her head down on her pillow and continues to cry into her pillow. A few seconds later the gap sensor goes off. She lifts her d again. She takes a tissue out of the box on her nightstand. She wipes away her tears and throws it away after blowing her nose. She walks over to the door and opens it.

"You heard the gap sensor, didn't you?" Traci snaps

"Yes," Kevin says.

"Are you going to move then," Traci snaps.

Kevin moves to his left. Traci walks past him rolling her eyes. Kevin follows behind her. After Ji tells them where the nighlok attack was, they head out. Meanwhile, Negatron continues his attack on the city. The Rangers enter the scene and morph into action.

"Hey, nighlok didn't your mom ever tell you if you can't say something nice then you shouldn't say anything at all,"Traci says.

"No, moogers attack," Negatron says.

The Rangers use their weapons against the swarm of Moogers. Traci charges in toward the Nighlok, who struggles to insult her.

"Face it, Silver Ranger, you're never going to be as strong as your mom," Negatron says.

Traci slowly lowers her frostbite staff down to her side. Kevin runs up and fires his Hydro Bow at the nighlok.

"Traci, don't listen to him. You are as strong as your mom. You're even stronger. You mastered the disk that even she couldn't." Kevin says.

"You're right, and thanks. I'm sorry about before," Traci says.

"It's okay. I was out of line. How about silencing this nighlok for good?" Kevin says.

"With pleasure," Traci says.

Traci takes out her samuraizer.

"Symbol power, hail," Traci says.

The hail stones fly through the air and land in the nighlok's mouth.

"Well, nighlok, I have a few things I want to say to you. They aren't very nice, so I won't say them. I will say this, though. Frostbite staff, Ice symbol strike." Traci says.

The team regroups in front of her, Jayden his holding his fire smasher in cannon blast mode.

"I think we should use your Leopard disk, this time," Jayden says.

'Okay," Traci says.

The Rangers defeat Negatron with the 5 Disc Leopard Cannon. Negatron grows into his large form. The Rangers summon their zords and form the Samurai Megazord. Negatron blasts the Megazord with his Eye attack. The Megazord responds with a Combo Attack.

"Traci, join us," Jayden says.

"You got it," Traci says.

Traci's leopard zord combined with the Samurai Megazord to create the ice storm megazord. The claws from her zord become spikes on the shield. The sword has a snowflake pattern, and the blade is the same color as Traci's zord. She moves her megablade upward in her panel. The spikes on the shield were sent flying towards the nighlok.

"Nice shot," Mike says.

"Thanks, so how about we finish the is battle up all ready," Traci says.

"Sounds good to me," Jayden says.

The team activates their Mega blade and slashes them through the air in front of them. The ice storm Megazord's final strike activates, and several huge hailstones appear along with a blizzard. The attack hits Negatron. He falls over and explodes.

"Samurai Rangers, Victory is ours," Jayden says.

"I did it, I..." Traci says.

The Rangers hear a thump as Traci's body hits the floor. The group turns to their left and sees Traci. Kevin goes over to her and tries to wake her up.

"Traci, we won. Wake up," Kevin says.

The group walks home through the park. Kevin is carrying Traci on his back.

"Traci was incredible today," Kevin says.

"Yes, her mom would be proud if she saw her in action," Mia says.

The group hears an ice cream truck driving up.

"The ice cream song sound so much better than the gap sensor," Mike says.

"Voy a tener dos cucharadas de chocolate con gotas, por favor," Traci says as her eyes shoot open.

"You know how to speak Spanish?" Kevin asks.

"Yes, and sorry I was dreaming that I was visiting my uncle Jorge, who lives in Mexico," Traci says.

"What did you just say?" Kevin asks.

"I said I wanted two scoops of chocolate with sprinkles, please," Traci says.

"Got it," Kevin says.

"The truck is about to pass us," Mia says.

"Kevin, how about you put me down, so we can chase after it," Traci says.

Kevin smiles and bends down to let Traci hop off his back. Then they chase after the truck yelling at the driver and telling him to stop. After it comes to a complete stop the group got their cones and paid for them; they walk over to a bench to enjoy them.

"Mike, you aren't going to share yours with Rocky again are you?" Traci jokes

"If Rocky is a squirrel. No, I'm not going to share my cone with him." Mike says.

"Okay, just checking," Traci says.

Traci starts to eat her cone. She is going so fast that she gets a brain freeze after her tenth lick, stops eating her cone, rolls her tongue into a ball, and then presses it to the roof of her mouth. A few seconds later her brain freeze is gone, so she continues to eat her cone slowly to prevent another one from happening.

They act as a real friend should, but I'm unsure if I can trust them. How do I know they're not pretending to be my friends or just doing it because they have to since we are a team? Traci thinks.

Mike looks over at Traci. He notices that she is deep in thought about something.

"Hey, Traci, what are you thinking about?" Mike asks.

"Just that we should get home soon so we won't miss dinner." Traci lies.

Jayden could tell by how quickly she came up with her response that she was lying about what was really on her mind. He decided that he would talk to her one-on-one when they got home. They get up off the bench and throw their napkins away. Then the team starts walking back to the house, and ten minutes later, they arrive at the house.

"Guys, Traci and I will meet you inside. I want to talk to her alone." Jayden says in a serious tone.

The others nod and continue to walk into the house. Traci turns around to face Jayden.

"What's wrong?" Traci asks.

"What was on your mind earlier?" Jayden asks.

"Why do you want to know?" Traci asks in a defensive tone.

"Since I could tell that what you told Mike was a lie." Jayden answers.

"Fine, I'm not sure if I can trust the others yet," Traci says honestly.

"Why would you be having doubts? We're a team," Jayden says.

"Like I told JI, I met Victoria Hurst in middle school. I trusted her and told her things I never told anyone else. One day I found out she had told Jake. He used those things to spread vicious rumors about me around the school. I don't want to go through that again." Traci says.

"Traci, I promise you that won't happen," Jayden says.

"How can you be so sure," Traci asks skeptically of his last statement.

"I just do," Jayden says.

"Please, you're just saying all this because you're the leader." Traci snaps.

"No, I'm saying this because we're friends," Jayden says.

"I'm sorry, but playing together a few times as kids didn't mean that we were friends. Someday  when I know I can trust them, I'll consider the rest of the team my friends." Traci says.

"Tracy, remember you trusted me with your secret, so that means something, right?" Jayden asks.

"Yes, it simply means you've earned my trust, that's all," Traci says.

She turns around and runs into the house. Jayden runs after her. He catches up to her in time to have her bedroom door slammed in his face. Then he hears Traci lock the door.

"Traci, please open the door," Jayden says as he frantically turns the knob.

"No, leave me alone," Traci snaps.

Jayden tries three more times to get Traci to let him in. After she shouts for him to go away and she doesn't want to talk to him anymore, He turns around and a walk away to give her time to cool down and decides to try again later. On the other side of the door, Traci walks over to her bed. She does a belly flop after she puts her glasses on the nightstand and screams in her pillow. Afterward, she slowly lifts her head.

"I should apologize to Jayden," Traci says.

Traci still feels worn out from fighting Negatron. She lays her head back on her pillow again and drifts to sleep. Twenty minutes later, she wakes up, picks up her glasses, and goes over to her desk to fix her pillow head. Then she goes to the door, unlocks it, and goes to the kitchen. When she enters, Jayden walks over to her.

"Jayden, I'm sorry about before. I shouldn't have run off like that," Traci says.

"It's okay. I should have let you come to me when you were ready to talk about your feelings towards us becoming your friends." Jayden says in an understanding tone.

"True, but I need to let down my guard a bit. I know it will help everyone, especially in the field." Traci says.

"Yes, but you don't have to lower your shield so suddenly, you know. Trust me; you can lower it at the speed you're comfortable with, deal." Jayden says.

"Deal," Traci says.