Chase, Riley, Koda and Shelby arrived at the shopping complex, skidding their Dino Cycles to a halt. Chase set up his kick-stand, resting his bike on it as he got off, pulling out his Dino Blaster. It was late; the stores were already closed, so at least they didn't have to worry about civilian casualties. He checked the reading on his Dino Com.

"The energy signatures are still spiking, they're here somewhere." He reminded the others.

"Yeah, but where?" Riley asked.

"It'd be a simple search if we could split up." Shelby said nervously. "But if they can still make clones, we can't risk splitting up."

"Alright, then we stick close." Chase answered. He pointed down a path. "We'll go this way."

As they left, they didn't notice Poisandra peeking over the railing of a walkway just above them. Fury and her copy monster were with her, together with a few more Viviks. They had learned from the battle with Tyler that giving Viviks the appearance and weapons of the Rangers didn't make them as deadly as them.

"So, you actually managed to draw them here." Fury sneered. "I guess you finally did something right."

"I've done more in a day than you did in millions of years Fury!" She huffed in response, cradling the E-tracer. "Now, while I figure out how this thing works, how about you do something useful and take care of the Rangers?"

"You wanted this to be your show, YOU can deal with it." He said gruffly as he walked away. She just giggled in response.

"Cry baby." She commented. "He just can't take it that I'm about to show him up. As for YOU!"

She pointed to the copy monster, a wicked smirk crossing her face.

"I have a little job for you!"

"Really?" He asked. "I thought my clones were useless..."

"Only when the Rangers figure out they're clones." She answered. "Here's what I want you to do."

She whispered in his ear, at which he nodded in understanding.

"I can do that." He replied. "But it won't work if they're all together. It'll be a little suspicious if another Blue Ranger turns up when they're standing right with him."

"Leave that to me." She answered. She looked down, seeing the Rangers coming back into the main courtyard. She leapt up onto the guard rail, balancing precariously on it, looking down on the Rangers.

"YOO HOO! Are you looking for someone?" She asked. The Rangers all looked up to her.

"SomeTHING actually." Chase corrected her. "You have something that belongs to us."

"You stole the Energems from my precious Sledgeums first." She answered. "But if you want your little doohickey back, you can always come and get it!"

With that, she let out a hellish shriek, and unleashed a massive energy wave straight at the Rangers.

"LOOK OUT!" Chase called out, at which they all ran and dived for cover. Poisandra kept up the barrage for a while, forcing them all to hide. Chase kept his Dino Blaster close, waiting for an opportunity to return fire. However, by the time the dust settled, he realised a more immediate problem. Valuing their lives over sticking together, the Rangers had been forced to split up. Now, he had no idea where they were. He pulled out his Dino Comm.

"Shelby, are you there?" He asked. He got only static. "Koda, Riley?" He got the same result. It dawned on him that Poisandra must somehow be blocking their communications. Now her plan made sense. The Rangers had been split up. She still had the means to make clones. Now, they were all isolated in the mall, with no idea if anyone they ran across was a friend or foe.

"She might be completely batshit, but she's smart." Chase commented, pulling himself to his feet. "Here's hoping we're smarter."

In another part of the mall, Poisandra skipped gleefully to a corner, where Wrench and Curio were waiting. Poisandra, while completely insane, was not stupid. However, even she appreciated that figuring out how a device as complex as the E-tracer worked was beyond her capabilities. That was what Wrench was for. She set it down in front of him.

"Well, I've done all the HARD work." She shrieked. "GET ON WITH IT!"

"Right away mistress." He replied, beginning to get to work. He smirked as he saw the machine asking for a PIN code and cracked his fingers. "A PIN code, that's so quaint! They really think that will keep me out."

In another part of the complex, Sledge had gone off to sulk. He could hardly believe that Poisandra had come up with a plan that was so close to success. Not only was she moments away from activating the E-Tracer and tracking down the Gold Energem, but it looked like into the bargain she could bring down the Rangers. She had thrown them completely into disarray, and with the Rangers scattered, and a new set of clones unleashed, there was a chance the Rangers could be isolated and brought down one by one.

"I can't believe that heart-shaped nitwit is so close." He growled, starting at a steel statue in his path. With a huge yell, he swung his sword, slicing it neatly in half from hip to shoulder. It slid off the diagonal and crashed to the ground.

"I need my own prize!" He commented, looking out over the road leading up to the mall. He could see the Red Ranger racing towards them and smiled. "The Red Ranger! Perfect!"

Before Tyler could reach the mall, Fury unleashed a hail of lightning straight at his jeep. Tyler barely managed to swerve to avoid it as Fury leapt from his vantage point, swooping in on him.

"Look at what the cat caught!" He growled, rushing towards him. Tyler pulled into a guard, seeing Fury coming for him. While he knew his friends would probably need him, Fury wasn't going to let this drop.

"You haven't caught me yet!" Tyler responded as he dodged his first attack.

Meanwhile, back in the mall, Riley made his way through the food court, when he heard a noise coming from one of the stands. He looked up to see Koda struggling under a shelving unit.

"KODA!" He called out, leaping over the counter. He put down his Dino Sabre, and braced to help lift the shelving unit off Koda. "What happened?"

"Bad guys attack from behind." Koda told him. "Get trapped under here."

"Don't worry Koda; we'll have you out in a minute." Riley assured him as he started to lift the shelf. Koda slid out from under it, at which Riley set it back down. "Are you alright? Can you move?"

"Sore, but can walk." Koda answered, taking Riley's Dino Sabre and using it to help him to his feet. "We stick together."

"Good idea Koda." Riley agreed. "With these clones around, we can't be too careful."

As he was about to leave the restaurant though, Riley noticed something odd. All over the floor were numerous burger boxes. That much wasn't really a surprise; he imagined a number of them were knocked on the floor from the heating lamps when Koda was blasted through them. The thing that didn't make much sense though...

He ducked just in time as Koda came for him, swiping in an attempt to take off his head! He kicked Koda into a wall, before pulling out his Dino Blaster and blasting him, turning him into a thick green goo on the wall. He put his blaster away.

"Koda would never be able to resist seeing that many burgers unattended." Riley commented, retrieving his sabre. "I need to find the others."

Poisandra paced impatiently, while Wrench worked on the E-Tracer. Her copy monster was overseeing the efforts of his clones to confuse and disorientate the Rangers, leaving her with nothing to worry about but figuring out how to track down the Ptera Zord, or the Gold Energem.

"I thought you knew what you were doing!" She protested petulantly. "What is taking you so long?"

"These things are delicate, it's not like cracking open a walnut." He told her. Just then, the screen brought up a display. He smiled. "See, what did I tell you? No problem!"

"Well, hurry up and get it working then!" She shrieked. Wrench dialled in on the energy signatures of the Gold Energem. He looked baffled as he got the results back though.

"What?" She asked. "What is it?"

"I have more than one signal." He told her.

"Of course, you have the Energem and the Zord!" She reminded him.

"But...I have three signals!" He informed her. "And one of them is...right here in the mall!"

"WHAT?" She asked him. "Are you sure you're using this thing right?"

"There's no mistake about it. Three signals!" He told her. "The weakest one is here in the mall!"

"Well...it's the Zord we're really interested in, go for the strongest signal!" She told him. "We can find the others later!"

Elsewhere, Tyler was in a deadly battle with Fury, barely able to keep pace with the vicious monster. He could hardly believe how powerful he was. He was strong, that much was obvious, but he was also insanely fast and agile. Worst of all, he was an amazing swordsman. His technique was virtually flawless. There was no let up at all in his assault, leaving Tyler with barely any time to think, never mind morph or mount any form of realistic retaliation.

He tried to grab Fury' sword arm, to isolate his weapon and keep it away from him, but Fury managed to throw him off. As he rolled away, getting some distance, he saw Fury bending down, picking up something from the ground.

"What do we have here?" Fury asked. Tyler saw him picking up his bracelet. It was only then that he realised it had come off as Fury threw him away. "Well well, this certainly brings back some memories."

"So you did know my dad!" Tyler surmised. Fury just looked to him, throwing the bracelet over his shoulder.

"I should have known you were his son, with those pathetic fighting skills!" He taunted Tyler. This was exactly the wrong thing to do though. Tyler had suspected that Fury had something to do with his dad's disappearance, ever since he had seen the sketches in his father's journals, and read the accounts of being stalked by a monster. He didn't know exactly what had happened to his father, but now, he knew for a fact that Fury had been responsible for it. He had heard it right from Fury's own mouth.

He summoned forth his Dino Sabre and attacked Fury in frenzy, quickly putting the monster under pressure. Fury was quickly on the defensive, realising he now had a very real fight on his hands.

Back in the mall, Chase rounded a corner, coming into the main area. He ran into Shelby on the way.

"Chase, it's me!" She told him. He still looked sceptical. Shelby took a deep breath. "I helped you defeat Spellbinder by shoving a skateboard under your feet. You have the attention span of a flea, but you're able to focus when you're on your board."

"When I used my 'cut to the Chase' line, you just asked me if that line works on New Zealand girls." He responded, putting his blaster away. "I ran into a Riley clone a little while back."

"It was Tyler for me." She responded. Chase just smiled.

"And how exactly did you figure out it wasn't the real one?" He asked her. Shelby was about to answer, but was interrupted as Riley came into view. He held his hands up as they both turned their blasters on him.

"I was always on Chase's case about training more often." Riley told them. Finally, Koda arrived on the scene.

"Koda once attacked by very angry squirrel." He told them. Chase breathed a sigh of relief.

"Alright, so we all know we are who we say we are." Chase responded. "That's one problem dealt with."

"Maybe not for long." Riley grumbled as the copy monster turned up with another team of clones, armed and ready for battle. "So what's the plan hot shot?"

"Stick to your own colour." Chase told them. "There's less chance of confusion if we fight ourselves."

"In the absence of a better plan, I guess we go for it." Shelby agreed as they all rushed to the attack.

Back at his own battle, Fury was beginning to struggle against Tyler. He had underestimated him terribly. Tyler's anger fuelled him, giving him a strength that Fury hadn't bargained on. He barely made it out of the way as Tyler brought down his Dino Sabre in a destructive arc, almost cutting a car clean in half. Fury looked up at him from the ground as Tyler levelled the point his way.

"What did you do to my father?" Tyler asked him, the rage obvious in his voice. His search had been a long one, and now, now he finally had the one creature in existence that might be able to give him direct answers as to exactly what had happened to his father. He knew he probably wouldn't like the answer, but one way or another, he just had to know. "TELL ME!"

"Your father..." He started to stammer out. Unfortunately, right then, at exactly the wrong moment, Tyler's Dino Comm burst into life. It was Kendall, having finally managed to break through the scrambling signal.

"Tyler, are you there yet?" She asked. "I'm sensing a lot of power from the area! The Rangers need your help!"

"Kendall..."

"Tyler, they need the Dino Spike!" Kendall told him. "They can't beat that monster without you!"

Tyler wanted to stay, but he knew he had a responsibility to his friends. He couldn't leave them in the lurch. Fury was a distraction; he had been going to help his friends when he got side-tracked.

But he was so close; Fury was just about to tell him what he wanted to know. He was seconds away from getting the answers he needed. Tyler's indecision, his moment where he tried to decide if he could gain the information before heading off to help the others was all Fury needed to turn the tables. He sent Tyler flying, getting back to his feet, before levelling his sword for Tyler.

"Now to finish you!" Fury roared, rushing straight for him. Tyler shut his eyes, awaiting the final blow, but it never came. He heard Fury screaming in agony, and finally managed to open his eyes.

He couldn't for the life of him understand what he was seeing. A gold energy field was expanding out of his chest, like it was trying to come out. At first he wondered if it was an attack, but seeing the pain he was in, and the way he flailed around, it was clear he couldn't control it.

"What's happening to me?" Fury asked. Tyler just looked on. In the energy field, he could almost swear he saw the shape of a human head and shoulders.

"What...what is that?" Tyler mused. Fury continued to scream out, clutching at it, like he was trying to shove the energy back inside with his bare hands.

"I am IN CONTROL!" He called out. Tyler once more considered staying, but when his Dino Comm bleeped again, he realised his friends needed him more, and that his answers would have to wait. As Fury fell to his knees, struggling to regain control, he realised this was his best chance to leave and took off, running for the mall, hoping that Fury really was in as much pain as it seemed.