Power Rangers: Spinjitzu

Episode 11: Unappreciated

After calling LJ useless, resulting in him going for a walk, Cole inadvertently gets him and a new friend he meets in the park in trouble with one of Samukai's monsters.

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Outside the monastery, Kai, Jay, Zane, Nya and Wu watch LJ, in a training gi with a green belt, swings a kendo stick at Cole, who is also in his gi, as he held his wooden hammer before blocking LJ's strike, then turned his hammer downward to block another strike and then raised it to the right to block another one before preparing to strike him from the right. LJ quickly blocked it as Cole raised it high and tried to strike, but LJ quickly blocked it. "Come on, Cole." He said, swinging his kendo stick to try and strike Cole, but he blocks it before moving it back. "Show this new Ranger a move or two." Cole swings his hammer to hit LJ from behind, but he moves his arms over his head for the kendo stick to block the hammer and raises it up to force the hammer back.

Cole then moved the hammer downward from the left before LJ blocked it as well and he moved his hammer forward, behind LJ's right leg and pulled it, knocking him onto the ground and land on his back. "LJ!" Kai, Jay, Zane and Nya yelled.

LJ breathed heavily as he soon felt some sweat dripping from his forehead. "Get up." Cole said. "I said, get up!"

"Cole, training is over for the day." Wu said as he came up to LJ.

"You said half an hour, this was only 20."

"That's enough!" Wu immediately helped LJ up. "You okay, Junior?"

"Yeah." LJ said before walking away to head inside as Cole glared at him.

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Several minutes later, the Rangers were having lunch in the kitchen while waiting for LJ. "Don't you think you were a little hard on LJ, Cole?" Nya asked.

"So what if I was?" Cole asked. "He needed to learn a hard lesson in being a Ranger."

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In the hallway, LJ was putting his jacket on as he walked over to the kitchen. "He's only just been a Ranger for a few days, he was like me when I started out." Kai said.

"But, how did he even get to the same size as me when he morphed?"

"We don't really know." Zane said. "It must be something in the morphing progress."

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In the kitchen, LJ was still listening as he starting to feel offended by Cole's comments. "And about this morning, how he didn't even manage to avoid my mallet counter."

"He's still in training." Kai said. "He hasn't been fighting much since Darkley's."

"A lot can happen past that time, I mean, is that little runt even strong enough to be a Power Ranger, when he can't even stay on his own two feet in training?"

"Cole, shush!" Nya whispered, noticing LJ was near the door.

"We should've sent him to jail in the first place when we first took him after we defeated him."

"Cole, stop." Zane said as he and Jay notice LJ at the door.

"Or better yet, he shouldn't have set his father free in the first place!"

"COLE!" They all yelled.

"He's standing right behind me, isn't he?" He turned around, only to see that LJ had just taken off.

"You idiot." Jay said.

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At the monastery steps, LJ runs down the steps as he sheds a tear. "Useless, am I?" He asked. "I'll show him."