While the others tried to salvage what they could from the ruins of the Shiba House, Emily stood over the injured. Mike was taking another nap, finding there was nothing better to do while he was stuck on his stomach. Kevin and Ji were also asleep, which was for the best for them. They weren't making much sense. Emily was sure they had taken a hard hit to the head. Kevin and Ji did seem to remember who everyone was, and what had happened to the Shiba House was slowly coming back to them, but they were completely unaware of what was going on. For the most part, when they were awake, they would stare up at the roof of the tent and wonder why the sky was green. Kevin was convinced Mike had changed the colour of the sky.

Jayden helped Serena, James, and Antonio with the wreck. He was tired and could barely walk, having used up quite a bit of his own energy to save Emily, but he wouldn't let that knock him down. Like every other time he had been weakened, he planned on powering through it. He was good at doing so now, especially because he was more open to taking advice from the others. While they did the heavy lifting, he sat on the sidelines and told them where the more important items or documents could be buried.

Serena also couldn't do too much heavy lifting, but the rubble was mostly dirt and stones so she used symbol power where it was needed. Occasionally, she would get up and hop around on one leg to bring James and Antonio some water. It was getting really, really hot out, and those boys were really their only hope in case of another attack. Serena, James, and Antonio hadn't yet shared the news of a possible second attack, though. They had no idea when it was coming, if it was really coming, or what to expect. All they could do was make sure the team was strong enough to handle it.

Though everyone else showed signs that they were okay, or would be okay, Mia's condition hadn't changed. She lay completely still, barely breathing, just like when Emily had found her.

"At least Ji and Kevin remember who we are, what colour the sky should be, and what green looks like," Emily muttered as she looked over to the sleeping men. She turned her attention back to Mia and took the pink Ranger's hand gently, "C'mon, Mia, wake up. You're stronger than this. You can't die just because rocks magically started to fall from the sky."

Storm came over and crawled up on Emily's lap, seeing her mistress was upset. Emily gave the dog a hug and then gently put her on Mia's stomach. Storm started to whimper. She missed Mia too.

"You're making the dog cry. It's not nice to make cute things cry, Mia. People go aww and want to kill the things that make the cute ones cry."

There was no response from Mia. Emily pulled her legs into her chest and rested her chin on her knees. She hated this. She really hated this. She had already been forced to watch one sister slowly slip away. She couldn't do this again.

"Kevin would be here, you know," she whispered, "but he's kind of loopy right now. This morning, Antonio brought back some fish, and instead of eating it he studied it until he came up with a snack idea: Goldfish crackers. He was heartbroken when I told him that had already been invented. Then he came up with Cheesy Trout Chips. The idea just wasn't as appealing. He remembers you though, and he's always asking for you. We tell him you just fell asleep. If he was that upset over the goldfish idea, I don't want to know what'll happen if he finds out you won't wake up."

Emily sat in the silence and waited for a response that wouldn't come. Then she sighed loudly.

"This is the part where you wake up and tell me Cheesy Trout Chips actually sounds good."

Emily waited for an answer still, and was disappointed to get nothing. Her chin started to quiver. She sat up on her knees and leaned over Mia's body. She opened Mia's eye with her finger, hoping it would wake her up. It didn't do anything. She tried opening both of them. She plugged Mia's nose, hoping to get her body to instinctively start flailing, but nothing happened fast enough. Emily didn't want Mia to suffocate, so she let the pink Ranger breathe again and tried something else. She took Mia's hand, her index finger specifically, and put it up one nostril.

"Ew, Mia, don't be so disgusting."

Mia still didn't say or do anything. She allowed Emily to mess around.

Mike was awake from his nap and watched as Emily tried in vain to wake her pink Ranger sister. Had it not been so serious, he would have laughed at Emily's childish antics. He remembered trying something similar with his dad one day when he was just a boy.

But childish antics and tears were not a good combination for Emily. It was her screaming for help. The more Emily started to act like a child, the more vulnerable she was feeling and the more protection and comfort she needed. Mike wanted to get up, and managed to get onto his hands and knees, but his back still hurt too much. He fell back onto his stomach and started to call for Serena.

Emily was ignoring everything around her except for Mia. The world could have been burning around her and she wouldn't notice. She grabbed Mia's chin and pulled her lips apart, trying to make her talk.

"I'll wake up in a minute, Em. I'm enjoying my nap. You know how I like to sleep."

Mia still didn't move. Emily decided to stop with the face and moved down her body to her stomach. She poked Mia's belly button. Mia hated when people poked her belly button.

"Pillsbury!" she poked over and over again but there was nothing. She sang the theme to jaws and then dropped her head into Mia's stomach. Mia was afraid of sharks.

She made ribbit noises and pressed her two fingers against Mia's lips, telling her she was kissing a frog. She pretended to chew gum loudly in Mia's ear.

Nothing worked. Nothing woke her up. By now Emily was in tears.

Serena heard Mike's calls and noticed her sister desperately trying to wake Mia, but with the broken ankle she couldn't do anything. Instead, she turned to James and called his name. She pointed him in Emily's direction. James sighed and knew what he had to do.

"Leave her alone, Emily," he grabbed Emily's arm gently and pulled her up to her feet. Emily whined for him to let go but he didn't. She decided to play jelly baby and let herself go. James grabbed her with both hands, lifting her up. "Terran plays this game too when I take him away from his toys. Don't think you've got me."

"Don't touch me!" Emily gave up playing jelly baby and started to fight against James' grasp. She tried to pull his hands away and then when that didn't work she started to punch the back of his hand and his wrist. That still didn't work.

"OW!" she started to cry out. "OW! You're hurting me!"

"She's fine," Serena insisted. She knew James would never hurt Emily. He had no reason to do so. She figured Emily maybe felt a little pain because of her cuts and bruises, but it wasn't enough to really hurt her.

James finally lifted Emily off the ground and walked her over to the bench where Serena was sitting. He put her down next to her sister, thinking it was what Emily needed, but as soon as he let go, and before Serena could grab her, Emily got up and ran back over to Mia.

"This game's not funny anymore!" Emily screamed loudly and raised her fist to punch Mia in the chest. James raced over and caught her arm in time to stop the punch. This time he pulled her away from Mia roughly and dragged her back to the bench. Halfway there, Emily did something that made him stop. She pulled his arm to her mouth and bit him. Even Storm, who had been watching fearfully, knew that was bad.

"EMILY!" James shouted and ripped his arm away from Emily. He thought she would run back to Mia as he nursed his hand, but she flopped onto the ground, on her stomach, and just lay there.

"James," Mike called and when James looked over he gestured to the blanket that was draped over him. James nodded his head, wiped his hand on his pants (fortunately the skin hadn't broken) and took the blanket from Mike. He wrapped it around Emily and promised everything would be okay. Then he picked her up and carried her over to Serena. He set her down in her sister's lap. Then he went back to work, joining Antonio on the ruins of the Shiba House. Antonio pointed to his hand.

"That'll leave a pretty bad bruise."

James shrugged, "It's what you have to put up with when your little sister is nicknamed Monster."

"She has a point, though," Antonio looked over to the tent, where he could see Mia was still… sleeping, "She was rescued before us and she's still not awake."

"She'll wake up when she wakes up," James insisted.

"She'll die when she dies."

"Antonio…"

"You know it's possible," Antonio muttered. He reached into his back pocket and pulled out the Samuraizer, "Whatever. I did what I could with it. You might be able to get the spandex on, but I can't promise it'll adjust to you perfectly."

"What does that mean?"

"You might have a skirt."

"Seriously?"

"At least the helmet will work just fine," Antonio chuckled and put the Samuraizer in James's hand, "No one will know you're actually a man."

James breathed out a sigh, "Well, I guess it could be worse. I could be stuck with the skirt and I could be dating Mia."

"If that had happened, I would have kept the skirt on purpose," Antonio chuckled. James rolled his eyes but laughed with him. He needed a laugh. He needed a little fun. Staying strong wasn't easy.

Suddenly, the laughter stopped completely for Antonio. From over the edge of the gate, Antonio could see a massive tidal wave headed straight for the house. His laughter and the fear in his eyes alerted James that there was something wrong. The coach turned around and saw the tidal wave. Before it crashed down, he had time to get out one question.

"Isn't the ocean in the other direction?"