Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to Power Rangers: (Super) Samurai. This is purely fan-made.

One thing Serena hated about the words "I'll be right back" was that they were usually a lie.

She had gone to the store with Mike and Kevin. The house was running low on a few supplies and Serena figured taking the prank mastermind out of the house would prevent anymore chaos from starting while she was gone.

They needed to pick up honey. When Mia and Kevin had covered Emily in honey they had been really generous with the amount they used. Serena was still laughing in her head at Mia and Kevin's revenge ideas for Goldfish, Pooh-Bear, and Honeybee. Antonio had been forced to wash Serena's sheets by hand, which the Samurai had sprinkled in cornstarch to help Mia get a more comfort, with nothing more than the bathroom sink, laundry detergent and a toothbrush. His task had taken him a few hours to complete, and by the end of it he had sworn to leave Mia alone until her sunburn healed.

Mike had received a different punishment. With symbol power, Kevin made a Winnie-the- Pooh costume for Mike, and he was forced to wear it until Mia's sunburn healed. Just to make sure he wouldn't slip out of it, Kevin secured the zipper so Mike couldn't undo it. Only Kevin knew how to get it to slide back down so Mike could be freed, and the only time the blue Ranger would allow Pooh-Bear out of his costume was for bathroom breaks.

The costume was complete with a hat, leaving only Mike's face exposed, slippers for Mike's feet, and mittens, and Mike needed to wear all of it, all the time.

So when Serena and Kevin took him out in public, he covered himself up by borrowing one of Ji's kimonos. With the hat, the mittens, and slippers he still looked like Winnie-the-Pooh, but for some reason, Winnie-the-Pooh wearing a kimono was less embarrassing for Mike.

While Kevin and Mike were left in the store to pick up a decent supply of honey (with Kevin forcing Mike to carry the bottles of honey for humour's sake), Serena had gone across the street to the pharmacy, hoping she could pick up a few supplies for the first aid-kit Ji kept handy, as well as a few creams for Mia's sunburn. Though she loved seeing Mike walk around as Winnie-the-Pooh, she did want to see the end to Mia's suffering. It was also a little weird seeing her sister cuddling and kissing Winnie-the-Pooh in a not-so-innocent way.

She told Mike and Antonio she would be right back and had gone just to cross the street. Fate was not on her side.

After picking up the supplies for the first aid kit, as well as a cream that promised to relieve pain from sunburns, Serena was distracted by the birthday cards. Her father's birthday was coming up, and though there was a no-contact rule, she thought her father would still appreciate receiving a card from his two daughters, and she would sign Terran's name as well, though he wasn't living with her. As she pulled out a card with a chipmunk on the front, a man walked up behind her. She made nothing of it.

"Cute," he said to her when he saw her choice of cars. Serena put it back.

"It's for my father. Cute isn't really his thing."

She picked out another card, this one had a picture of a tractor on the front. As she was about to open it, the man beside her grabbed her arm.

"You and I need to talk."

Serena dropped the card and reached for her Samuraizer. She grabbed it, but the man grabbed her wrist. He squeezed tightly, forcing her to let it go. Serena looked up and gasped.

"Son of a bitch…"

"We saw what you did to Serrator," Dekker whispered as he started pushing Serena towards the back exit.

"I'll do it to you," Serena growled as she struggled to get away. She didn't want to draw any attention to herself, but she didn't want Dekker to have his way. Serena tried to pull her arms free while glaring at Dekker, "Unlike Serrator, I know you have a heart."

Making sure no one had seen him; Dekker pushed Serena to the door. He held her tight so she wouldn't get away, and then reached out, pretending like he was going to open the door. Instead, a red glow appeared in the crack and Serena knew what would come next. She closed her eyes and braced herself to travel through the gap.

Moments after Serena disappeared, a group of boys walked by the cards, with one of the boys accidentally kicking her Samuraizer. He looked down to see what his foot had touched and furrowed his brow. He reached to pick it up, calling his friends over.

"This is the weirdest cell phone I've ever seen," he said, showing his friends. He opened it, only to confuse himself even more when he saw the cellphone looked like a paintbrush. "Artists, huh?"

"Let me see," his friend grabbed the phone from his hand and started pressing all the buttons; "I can't do anything. The phone's locked. I can't dial numbers or anything. It's useless."

Another boy took the phone from his hand. He fiddled around with it. "Without unlocking it, you can dial the numbers programmed."

"The phone is useless," the second boy said, "We might as well return it. Maybe there's a reward for it. Who do we call?"

The other boys started snickering, "It's a real toss-up. Should we call Aquablue, Goldfish, Honeybee, Hot-Stuff, Momma Pink, or Pooh-Bear?"

"Artists," the one boy rolled his eyes.

"Call Hot-Stuff," another boy suggested. "Maybe we'll get a reward."

"Dude, we have no idea who the phone belongs to. Call Momma Pink, at least we'll know that's a woman."

"It's probably this guy's mom or something. No way," the boy started to call the number for Hot-Stuff.

-Samurai-

Jayden was outside training when his Samuraizer went off inside the house. Emily walked by and saw Jayden was getting a call from Serena. She figured he wouldn't mind it if she answered the call for him. After all, Serena was her sister.

"Hello?" she answered and started making her way to the door.

"Hey, Hot-Stuff," the voice, male, on the other end greeted her. Emily froze. The voice didn't sound threatening. It sounded like it belonged to a kid even younger than herself, but it was still a problem for two reasons: one: this was Serena's Samuraizer. Only she should be making calls. Two: whoever this kid was, he had no right calling her Hot-Stuff.

"Who is this?"

"We found your friend's phone," the kid answered. "We're at the pharmacy on Wilson Road if you wanted to come pick it up."

Emily was too smart to fall for this. After Frankie, she knew better than to meet with a teenage boy alone, especially when she knew he wasn't alone. He had said "we", meaning he was with a group.

"I'll be right there," Emily smirked, "Thanks, a lot."

"So, you got a name or should I just keep calling you Hot-Stuff."

"Jayden," Emily answered, "Call me Jayden."

She hung up the phone and skipped outside, "Jayden! Serena lost her Samuraizer and some kids found it. I told them you would go pick it up."

"She what?" Jayden frowned, "She knows better than to lose her Samuraizer."

"I know," Emily nodded her head. "You go pick it up from the boys before they start messing around with it. I'll call Kevin and Mike. Hopefully she's still with them."

-Samurai-

Serena hadn't traveled through a Gap in so long that she had forgotten just how bad it felt. She landed ungracefully on a hard, cement floor and was pulled back to her feet before she could get her bearings. She was pushed into a room and she heard a door closing behind her. She spun around and began pounding on the door until she recognized where she was. The door was completely sealed off. There was no light from outside that came into the room. The only light Serena was from a flashlight that had been left in the middle of the room. As far as Serena could see, the room was completely sealed off. Not a crack in sight. There was no escape, and there was no way anyone, including a Nighlok, could get in unless they came through the sealed off door.

Serena began to tremble as she walked over to the flashlight and she recognized it instantly. It was the flashlight Dekker had stolen from Emily. She knelt down to pick it up, and saw something else that was familiar: Emily's pictures. One was a picture of Serena and Emily from years before, and the other was a picture of the six Samurai Rangers and Ji. Both pictures were in the frames Mia had bought Emily for her seventeenth birthday.

Beside the flashlight and the pictures was a note. With a shaky hand, Serena lifted the note.

"Recognize the prison? I left you a few things from home. Hopefully you feel a little more comfortable.

"We saw what you did to Serrator. Unfortunately, you haven't managed to kill him, but that's the closest anyone's come in centuries. We'll need your help. We want him gone just as much as you do, so do as you're told, and when training is done, we'll consider sparing your life.

"Dayu."