Meanwhile, back at the ranger's base, the rangers all ran into the living room when they heard the gap sensors ringing loud throughout the house. They all headed for the coffee table that Mentor tapped with his finger pulling up a map of the city.

"Were you able to find them?" Mia asked hopefully.

"If by them you mean Moogers and Scorp than yes." Mentor Ji replied.

"Guess it's up to the four of us to take care of this situation." Mike said with determination.

They then saw Ji shake his head in decline. "No, Mike, Antonio can't go with you either." He said.

"I have to work on fixing Emily's globe. But if you run into trouble just call me and I'll come running." Antonio said, walking forward.

"Then I guess we had better head out." Kevin instructed the team. "We can handle this, we just need to have faith in ourselves."

"Wait!" Ji called out to them, walking over to them holding a small tray that had three cups resting atop it. They were filled to the brim with this thick, nasty-looking green substance. "This time you need to go in prepared."

"Ugh," Mia groaned, "what the heck is that stuff?"

Ji pulled out the glasses and handed one to Mike, Mia and Kevin, who took them with great hesitation. "This is a mixture that I've made to help protect you against Scorp's venom. If he stings you with his stinger, his venom will spread throughout your body until it completely drains you of all your life energy." He explained to them.

Mike looked in disgust at the contents of his cup. "And this goop is able to protect us against it?"

Ji nodded with pride at his working antidote. "Yes, but you must drink the entire thing for it to take effect." He warned them. He looked over at Mike and smirked at how grossed out he was. "Every. Single. Drop."

When he heard that his friends were going to have to drink that substance, Antonio grabbed Emily's globe and began to walk backwards out of the room. "Uh…I'd love to stay and join you for tea time, but I have some work to do!" he claimed, running out of the room before the Mentor made him drink some of that slop as well.

A sudden thought struck Kevin. "Mentor…" he began, "you said that if someone is stung by Scorp's stinger, it rapidly begins to drain their life away…what if Jayden or Emily was stung by it?" he asked in fear for his friends.

Ji sighed and reached for a book that lay on the shelf behind him. "Let's just say that wouldn't be good…but it wouldn't be hopeless." He told them, opening the book to a certain page, showing it to the rangers. On the page was a pure white flower with a black pollen center.

Mia looked at the flower in awe. "Wow, it's so pretty." She commented.

"And effective." Ji added. "The aloe in this flower is very unique. The particles inside of it hold the power to neutralize Scorp's venom completely. The problem is I was only able to find one, and I used all of it to make these potions for you." He explained.

"So, if Jay and Em were stung, all they would have to do is find this flower, crush it up into…this," Mike said, looking at the green goop and cringing, "and they would be able to cure the poison?"

"I'm afraid it's not that simple, Mike." Ji told him. "This flower is exceedingly rare and delicate. If it's treated without the exact tenderness and care it needs, it will wither up and die immediately."

Kevin sighed hard and closed his eyes. "Wow, that's really not good." He said.

"I know—that's why you have to defeat that Nighlok and locate Jayden and Emily as fast as you can." Ji warned them.

"We'll do everything we can to save them, Mentor." Mia assured him.

"But first things first…"Mike hedged, as he and the others all gulped down their antidotes with a hard cringe. "Let's go." The green ranger added in a raspy voice. The rangers all ran out of the house with disgusted looks on their faces.

XXX

In the town square, civilians ran around in fear of the scorpion monster. Scorp laughed as he saw the people scramble about, crashing into one another. "Run away you pathetic humans! Your fear only makes me stronger!" he yelled in delight.

"Hey, sting face!" Kevin called out, firing at the monster with his Hydro Bow, getting his attention.

Scorp turned to his new opponents. "Ahh, the Power Rangers! Just who I wanted to see! Now you call can feel the pain of my sting!" he yelled at them.

"Tell us where our friends are!" Mia demanded. "Make things easy on yourself!"

"Hmmm…let me think…" Scorp answered, feigning thought. "No dice!"

"I guess this means we have to do things the hard way. Ready guys!?" Mike asked his pink and blue teammates.

"Ready!" Mia and Kevin answered in unison, the three of them pulling out their samurai morphers.

"Samraizers! Go, go samurai! Hyah!" they called out, sketching their power symbols into the air before them in a few quick strokes. Then with one quick smack, their symbols covered them, turning them into their ranger forms. "Samurai rangers, ready!" they concluded, getting into their battle stances.

"You rangers are so foolish! Once you feel my sting, you'll be begging for mercy!" Scorp laughed, pointing at the rangers. He leapt forward and began to rapidly sting the three rangers with his silver tail, much to his dismay, his stinger just bounced right off of them. "What!? Why didn't my venom infect you!?" he screamed at the rangers.

Mia pulled out her Sky Fan, preparing to strike. "Let's just say we've done our homework on your little stinger, Scorp! Now tell us where we can find our friends!"

"I'll never submit to you rangers!" Scorp growled, beginning to throw quick punches and kicks at the rangers anyways. Mia then swung her Sky Fan at the monster, hitting him hard across the chest, bringing him to the ground.

"Forest Spear!" Mike yelled, summoning his long weapon into his hands, aiming it right in the Nighlok's face. "The lady asked you a question! Now spill it!"

XXX

In the One Way Forest, the sun was starting to set fast. Jayden and Emily saw their surroundings slowly getting darker and darker. What little sun they could see hid and danced from tree to tree. Jayden was trailing slowly behind Emily, who was already walking slow as to not get too far ahead of him. She was desperate to find a safe area to rest, for she knew Jayden's condition was worsening with each passing minute.

"Emily…" she heard him say in a voice that was barely audible. When she looked at him she saw that he was sweating and breathing to an extreme extent. She watched as he fell hard to the ground, shaking like a leaf.

"Jayden!" she cried out, running to him.

"I-I'm fr-freezing." He said, shivering so hard it was almost like a seizure.

Without a second thought, she ripped her jacket from her own body and covered him with it. It wasn't remotely cold outside, it was actually still quite warm and muggy given the time of the day. She knew that the venom from Scorp was to blame. She went to touch his forehead to see if he had a fever. "Oh my God, Jayden, you're on fire." She said nervously. She looked at the Red Ranger in her arms helplessly. She didn't know what to do. With no way out of the forest and no way to get a hold of their Mentor, she had no idea how to get Jayden the help he needed. Right now all she knew was she needed to keep him from freezing. "I'm going to make you a fire, okay? There's broken branches scattered all over this area, I'll be back in a few minutes." She told him in a sweet and soothing voice, laying his head gently on her backpack to use as a pillow. She pulled his morpher from his pocket and placed it next to him. "Call me if you need me. I'll hurry." She told him.

As she began to run to get some firewood, she heard Jayden call out to her. "Emily!" he yelled with a forced and weakened smile. "Th-thank you."

Emily returned about two minutes later, which to Jayden felt like two hours. She ran up next to him carrying a huge armful of branches and twigs. "How are you holding up, Jay?" she asked him. He said no words in response, just continued shivering and nodded his head so he wouldn't have to speak. His eyes were tightly closed, trying to focus on something other than the pain. This made her prepare the fire even faster. Once she had a bed of branches and twigs for the fire to begin, she then furiously began to run two sticks together. To her delight she saw a spark flicker. She blew some air onto it to fan it out and before she knew it, she and Jayden had a small campfire. "You should warm up soon." She said, sitting next to him.

"That's g-good to hear." He answered weakly.

"Here." She said, tucking in her jacket around him tighter. As she went to touch his head again, she was scared to feel that his temperature was still sky high. "You still have a very high fever, Jayden." She said in worry.

"It'll pass." He answered between breaths.

"You need a cold compress." She said softly. She looked to her left and saw a small pond. She then ripped off a piece of her shirt and dipped it into the cool water. Once it was cool enough, she went to place it on Jayden's forehead. She felt herself staring at Jayden in pure sadness. "I am so sorry. All of this happened to you because I didn't follow your orders."

Jayden weakly went to place his hand on her knee. "It's alright, Emily. You followed your instincts, that's never the wrong thing to do." He told her. She jumped when she heard him groan loudly and grab his side. She couldn't stand it anymore.

"I'm sorry, Jayden, but I have to take a look." She told him, hating to go against his wishes. "I may be able to help."

Jayden took a few deep breaths before he finally gave in. "Alright." He submitted, pulling her jacket off of him.

Emily then carefully raised Jayden's red shirt and looked at his wound. She now knew what was ailing him so horribly. "Oh…" she said looking at it closely.

"What is it?" Jayden asked her.

"A part of Scorp's stinger is stuck in your side. That's why you're in so much pain." She told him.

"What do we do?" he asked her.

"In need something to get it out but I don't—" she began when a thought hit her. She reached into her hair and pulled out a beak-shaped clip that resembled a pair of tweezers. "I could use this to get it out but…" she said, looking to him, knowing that what she was about to do was going to be extremely difficult on the both of them.

Jayden looked at her with a serious expression, trying to hide his own fear. "You have to do it, Emily. I'll get through it." He told her. He could tell she was terrified to cause him any more pain than he was already in.

Emily gulped and ran the tips of the clip onto the fire to sterilize it. "Okay. I'll get it out as quickly as I can. I've done a lot worse than this before when I was taking care of my sister." She said, hoping to calm his nerves, not to mention hers.

"Go for it." He said, mustering a small smile at her.

"Just close your eyes and try only to focus on the sound of my voice." She instructed him.

Jayden nodded and braced himself, closing his eyes. "Wh-where did you learn your m-medical skills?"

Emily looked to his wound and began her work. "Well, when my sister Serena fell ill I wanted to do everything I could to help her recover. So, I threw myself into the medical field, studying everything I could day and night." She told him. She located the stinger and pinched the clip around it and pull it out.

"Ahh!" Jayden screamed in anguish, breathing even harder.

"Stay with me, Jayden!" She said in a firm voice, "It's almost over."

"Were you…able to help her?" he asked in a strained voice.

Emily shook her head sadly. "Not enough. I mean she got a little better over the next few months but she was still too sick to be the Yellow Ranger. So…I took her place and told her I'd try to do my best to be as good as she would be. She had an incredible knack for fighting and her instincts were superb. That's why I'm so self conscious about myself, I…feel like I took this chance away from her." She said sadly.

Jayden placed his hand on her arm gently. "You did what y-you had to do. I think you're a better ranger than her…you have to follow your own path—n-not someone else's." he told her with a weakened smile. "I'm glad that it was you that became the Yellow Ranger."

She smiled softly at him. "Thank you, Jayden." A second later she yanked the stinger out in one swift motion, Jayden crying out loudly. She immediately put pressure on the wound. "It's over, Jayden. I got it out, you did fantastic." She said, stroking his forehead.

"Thank…you…" he said weakly.

"Are you alright?" she asked, expecting him to look better than he did. As she pet his forehead, she felt that he still had a high fever. "You're still burning up." She flipped the cold compress onto the other cooler side and put it back on his head. "The venom must've reached your bloodstream. And there's only one way I know to neutralize it."

"And how's that?" he asked her.

"There's a rare flower in a forest that is pure white with a black center. It's said that if you can handle it gently enough, you can make an antidote for almost anything." She explained. "But it's very rare."

"Well, let's go take a look for it." He said, "I don't want this Nighlok to hurt any more people." With that he tried to stand, but his body immediately punished him for doing so, forcing him back down.

"No, Jayden. I have to do this myself." She told him, covering his body back up.

"N-no." Jayden protested. "You might get hurt too."

Emily smiled at his sweetness. "I'll be fine. After all you're one of my mentor's too and you taught me to follow my instincts. That's what I'm going to do." She said.

"Please…" Jayden heaved. "Be careful."

"You got it." She said kindly back to him. Then she ran off as fast as she could in search of this unique flower. Jayden watched her run away, wanting nothing more than to go after her and keep her safe