Jackson Grove

Jackson Grove is Phantom Red of the Phantom Rangers. He is their leader and eventually becomes the second in command to Hexagon Red, Bristol Rogers.

Childhood
Being African-American in New Orleans almost always means you are below the poverty line. Not for Jackson. He was in a more caring and successful environment, but still took everything for granted that he had. He often gave back to the less fortunate.

His mother died of breast cancer when he was about 12. He often traded things with others to get a little extra saved for him so he could get into a good college.

He became a peer mediator and helped Turin adjust to a new school in their Freshmen year. At that point, Jason Scott asked them to help him protect the Lupin Collection from the forces of evil and become the best ranger team in history for their efforts.

As a Ranger
He thought he was destined to be the leader, but Jason wanted his daughter, Chelsea, to see if she could by killing Tommy Oliver and getting the Hexagon Plans. Billy, however, got the plans before she could, which led to fighting between Billy's joint-venture with the Mitchell's and his team.

When Billy was dying, Dana and Jason thought about uniting their teams to better save the world. Billy also said it was destiny for sons and daughters should be an example to love each other, not destroy the destiny of their brethin.

Some time later, a ranger with a similar design to his showed, Titanium Knight. He was a work of Alex Fierro and his alliance. He would later find out it Darwin Scott, Chelsea's older brother and true user of the Phantom Red powers. When he became good, he unlocked a new mode: Light Rail Gold.

They were able to bring down the Alliance once and for all and forever immortalize ranger history in the Hexagon located in Welch, West Virginia. Jackson felt that if he could help bring such an impoverished state such as West Virginia into a more well off place, they would need to focus on landmarks and specializations, rather than get people "stuck [there]" as Jeannette Walls repeated in her memoir.

Coaster Force vs Hexagon
Shortly afterward, Jackson wondered if Alex had more up his slevee. They heard that the Boma Mines in Battle Mountain, California had fallen to a quartet: Bella/Son of Beast, Jackson "Blackjack" Chamberlain, Chess "Wild One" Watkins, and Wyatt "Gold Digger" Dempsey.

The Phantom Rangers decided to investigate and had a brief duel {in flashback} with Bella before they chased them from Battle Mountain to Provo, Utah, where they shook the White Walkers off to the South (ending up chasing the Coaster Force-Nitro to Cedar Point).

They were able to call the Darwin and the Hexagon Rangers back from College to help track the Boma Down, eventually watching the Coaster War unfold.

They briefly talked to the rangers at the end and took Bella's head to be examined at Lightspeed, which proved her to be created by Alex Fierro, not Jeff Richard like the others. This also inferred Blackjack, Chess, and Wyatt were also created by Fierro.

Dana had been reading papers about a team in Japan called Jet Sentai Arrowman and asked if the rangers could investigate them. Jackson called Peter Ishitori, Coaster Force Orange, to see if they could find Jeff in Japan. He obliged and the Coaster Force, Nitro, Hexagon, and Phantom Rangers began a quest to Tokyo where they met Jeff, who was not only a tech-but Jet Green/Eagle of the Arrowmen.

Personality
Jackson is considerate, frugal, helpful, and at times sensitive. He is often called a savant as he can get his points across with minimal dialogue.

Phantom Red

 * Phantom Pistol
 * Jet Zord
 * Phantom Rapier
 * Phantom Claw
 * Appearances: Hexagon 1-28, Coaster Force vs Hexagon