It was finally Friday for the Megaforce rangers. After a long week of school, they finally had an enjoyable weekend to look forward to. All five rangers had planned to meet up after class to go to Ernie's BrainFreeze so they could hang out.

Meanwhile, Emma was walking down the school halls alone and felt a little nervous when she saw numerous eyes staring at her.

"Hey! If you're going to stare at something, then how about you stare at my fist? It's about to end up on someone's face if you keep giving my friend those weird looks." Gia threatened as she caught up to Emma. After Gia's threat everyone looked away in fear and went back to their own business.

"Thanks Gia." The story of Emma's abusive father had gone viral on the news. Even though she refused to talk to any reporters, the news would still make up crazy things just to get views. They would lie and say things like Emma shot the gun to defend herself, or that she went crazy after getting abused. Of course Emma and her friends knew the truth, but not everyone was there to witness the incident. Unfortunately, these lies earned Emma a few unwanted stares from some people.

"You alright?" asked Gia.

"Yeah, they don't bother me as much anymore. It's just weird." Emma said honestly. "So are we still on for Ernie's?"

"I promised I would meet up with Jake to come up with some new strategies. Apparently Gosei said that Jake and I were like partners because we both control the land. If we're partners then we're going to have to know what we're doing. Do you mind if…."

"Go for it." Emma shrugged her shoulders.

"Are you going to be okay? I know how some of the others students are treating you like you're an outcast. I don't want to leave you."

"Just go Gia." Emma chuckled and gave her friend a light push. "I'll be fine. A few stares aren't going to kill me."

"We'll meet you up at BrainFreeze, I promise!" Gia turned around and walked off looking for Jake.

-Unexpected Enemies-

After a few minutes of searching for Jake, she finally caught him walking right outside of the school.

"Hey!" Jake waved and greeted Gia with a smile.

"Ready to go?" asked Gia as she walked beside him

"Yup." And with that, they started walking to Ernie's.

"Maybe we can talk about our new strategies on our way to Ernie's BrainFreeze. If we walk there, then that should give us enough time to discuss everything."

"Sure." And with that, they started walking to Ernie's.

Can I help you carry your bag or anything?" Jake stuck out his hand offering his help.

"Jake," Gia groaned. "I already said that we're strictly friends. I'm not looking for a relationship right now."

"I know." Jake smiled. "But I can still be a kind friend."

"Fine." Gia handed over her backpack to Gia. "Just don't give me special attention alright? I don't need the others to think we're more than just teammates."

"Look Gia, I don't want to seem like I'm pushing it or anything. I was just trying to do a nice thing for a friend. If Emma was here, then I would probably do the same thing."

"What about the guys?"

"They're guys." Jake smirked. "They can carry their own stuff."

"Oh, and us girls can't? What're you trying to say Holling?"

"I didn't mean it like that!" Jake shot up his hands in defence.

"So what did you mean?" Now it was Gia's turn to smirk as she watched how nervous Jake was.

"Well… I meant…Uhh…"

"Relax; I was just messing with you." Gia laughed. "It's not like I'm going to take something like that seriously." Jake breathed a sigh a relief and put his hand on his neck in relief.

"Anyways, let's talk about what we're really supposed to. I noticed we're all getting better individually, but I think our teamwork could do better. I was hoping to explain one of my ideas to you so you could help me explain it to the others."

Jake nodded his head and focused on Gia's words.

"Since Emma and Noah have the long range weapons, I was thinking that they could attack first. It'll injure the enemy and distract it long enough for you and me to pin down the monster."

"Uhh Gia."

You could use your snake axe and I could use my tiger claw to hold the monster still.

"Gia…"

Then, Troy could use his dragon sword to finish off the monster easily."

"Gia!" Gia finally turned and glared at Jake. "What! I was trying to explain my idea."

Jake grabbed Gia's shoulders and faced her towards the dozens of loogies.

Gia's eyes widened. "Oh…"

"I'll call the others." Jake said as he grabbed his morpher.

"Oh no you won't!" Suddenly, Jake's morpher was ripped out of his hands by a mysterious monster. "What the…"

"It's morphin' time!" Gia morphed into her yellow Megaforce suit and tried her best to defend against the swarm of loogies.

At first, it was easy to defend herself and Jake, but more and more loogies kept taking place of the ones Gia defeated. When she killed two loogies, four more would just take its place. It was proving to overwhelm the single ranger. Gia tried her best to fend them off, but she wasn't sure how much longer she could handle it. She would call the others for help, but she was a little bit busy trying to save her own life along with Jake's.

"Loogies! Cease fire!"

"Woah!" Jake was roughly grabbed by the new monster. "Let me go!"

Gia heard Jake's plea and turned around. The enemy couldn't see it, but Gia was glaring furiously at the blue monster. Her anger only grew once she recognized the alien.

"Let him go Vrak!" yelled a furious Gia.

"Come peacefully to me now, or else your precious black ranger will be the one to pay." Vrak threatened as he pointed his sword to Jake's neck.

"Don't do it Gia!" cried Jake.

"Shut up you filthy human!" Vrak kept his grip on Jake and gave him a firm punch to the stomach, causing the black ranger to double over in pain. Before Jake could get back up, Vrak pointed his sword to Jake's neck once again. Vrak looked over to Gia, waiting impatiently for an answer.

"I don't have all day!" Vrak pointed the tip of his sword closer to Jake.

Gia clutched her tiger claw tighter, but couldn't take the risk. Gia let out a frustrated cry and demorphed, dropping her morpher on the ground.

"Loogies, grab them!" Vrak commanded. And in one swift motion, Jake and Gia were grabbed aggressively by their arms. Vrak walked over to Gia's fallen morpher and picked it up with a smile.

"Two down, three more to go." Vrak and his new prisoners were then swiftly teleported away in a dark blue light.