Antonio had left without a word, Mentor had disappeared like usual, and Jayden had snuck off somewhere while the other three Rangers were distracted trying to get Emily to open the door.

Mike was sitting on the floor with his back against the door. He would knock occasionally on the door and beg Emily to let him in, but she hadn't so far, and Mike had a feeling she wouldn't unlock the door anytime soon. If he wanted, he could easily bust the door wide open, but he risked scaring his girlfriend further and he didn't want that.

Kevin sat down on the other side of the hall. He was staring at the door. He knew all about what had happened to him with the Water Stone, and he had a feeling that whatever happened to Emily was caused by the Earth Stone, but he didn't know how. Jayden had promised him they had fixed everything. He told Kevin that he and Mentor had figured it out. If that was true, which Kevin wanted to believe it was because Jayden wouldn't lie about something like that, there was no good reason why Emily would be so terrified.

But there always was a good reason. Emily was a trusting person. She had trusted Dekker long ago, and the man had nearly beat her to death only a few months before that. If Emily couldn't trust someone, they were either a monster, or something really bad had happened.

Mia was pacing back and forth, her cell phone pressed against the side of her face. Scruffy was pacing with her, curious as to why Emily had run away from him when all he wanted to do was protect her. He thought he had seen Mike attacking her, so he kept his distance from the green Ranger, but Mia was still okay in his eyes.

Mia groaned and pulled the phone away from her face. She glared at the screen, hit a few buttons, and put the phone back to her ear.

"Pick up! Pick up! Pick up!"

"Nothing?" Kevin asked his fiancée. Mia sighed and shook her head.

"She must be sleeping or training or… what time is it over there?"

"Nine in the morning," Mike muttered. He knocked on the door again, "Emily, please! We're not going to hurt you! We just want to help."

There was no answer, just like every time before. Mike was starting to wonder if maybe Emily had snuck out.

"Nine?" Mia asked. She redialled her phone and paced back and forth as it rang, "C'mon, Serena, why are you ignoring me? Why would I be calling you unless something was wrong with your sister?"

"You might want to wait for her to pick up before you start talking to her," Kevin said to his fiancée. "Conversations usually work a lot better when the other person knows they're part of one."

"Shut up," Mia snapped and Kevin knew she meant nothing by it. Like himself, she was stressed.

Finally the ringing on the other end stopped and Mia heard a tired voice answer the phone.

"The first morning where I can sleep in and you ruin it. What do you want?"

"Call your sister," Mia demanded. "Something happened and she won't… hello?" Mia pulled the phone away from her face and stared at it, "She hung up on me."

The sound of a phone ringing could be heard on the other side of the door.

"No she didn't," Kevin said.

Mike felt a little better when he heard Emily's phone ringing. She didn't go anywhere without it, which meant she was still in the room.

The phone kept ringing and ringing though until suddenly it stopped. There was a moment of silence before Mia's phone started ringing. The pink Ranger answered it quickly.

"Anything?"

"Nope."

Mia's shoulders fell sadly. Kevin smiled softly.

"Maybe she just doesn't recognise the number," he suggested. Mia glanced at him and shook his head.

"Serena's name comes up on the screen," she said. "There is no mistaking that."

"Maybe she fell asleep," Mike looked to Mia, "Tell Serena to try again."

Mia did as she was told, and when Emily's phone started ringing on the other side of the door, she took a seat next to Kevin. She leaned into him and rested her head on his shoulder.

"Something happened."

"I know that," Mike sighed. He knocked on the door again, hoping that if Emily was sleeping it would wake her up and she would talk to her sister. "Question is: what?"

"Jayden and Antonio took her to program the Stone, right?" Kevin asked and Mike nodded. "Maybe that's what happened. Maybe it wasn't fixed like they thought."

"You mean another problem?" Mia groaned. "This Black Box isn't worth all this. First you, now Emy."

"Whatever happened, keep Antonio and Jayden away from me if you want them to live," Mike growled and continued knocking.

Mia's phone rang again and the pink Ranger answered it, "Nothing?"

"I'm starting to worry," Serena said. "Why won't she answer?"

"I don't know."

"Someone check up on her, please," Serena asked. "If I don't hear anything from her before tomorrow, I'm arming Dekker with all the swords in this Temple and he's coming after you to figure out what happened."

"Send him after Jayden and Antonio," Mia muttered. "They're the last ones who saw her."

"Keep her safe," Serena's tone told Mia she was serious. "I trust you, Mia. Anything happens to her, I'm coming after you."

"I'll call if anything happens," Mia nodded her head and then hung up the phone. She handed it to Kevin and reached into her hair. She pulled out a hairpin and made her way to the door.

"What are you doing?" Mike asked. He saw Mia was trying to pick the lock, but he wanted to know why she was trying to get into the room. They were supposed to wait for Emily.

The lock clicked and Mia opened the door slightly. Kevin and Mike looked amazed.

"Where did you learn that?" Kevin asked his fiancée. Mia shrugged.

"My grandmother locked up a lot of valuables. The older she got, the more she started forgetting where she left her keys."

"Thank you, grandma pink," Mike whispered. He peeked inside the room to check up on Emily first. No matter what, he didn't want to scare his girlfriend. He saw her curled up in a ball against the wall and called her name softly.

Scruffy tried running into the room to protect Emily and comfort her, but Mike grabbed his collar and pulled him away. Scruffy didn't know it, but he would only scare Emily by running up to her. He held back the whimpering dog as Mia and Kevin walked quietly into the room. It was one of Mentor's studies, one the Rangers never used. It had bookshelves, a desk and a big, comfortable chair that threatened to swallow even the biggest of people in its fluffy cushion.

Kevin silently walked over to the bookshelf. At the bottom was a little storage unit. When he first arrived at the Shiba House he had used this room to study, but stopped when he really started to bond with his teammates. He remembered storing a blanket in the bottom of the bookshelf and he went to get it for Emily.

Mia checked up on her yellow teammate. She knelt down beside Emily and brushed the hair away from her face gently so as not to startle the young Samurai. Emily didn't move. Mia saw her eyes were closed and figured she had fallen asleep.

Mike stepped into the room after putting Scruffy outside to keep him from startling Emily. It hadn't been easy walking the protective dog to the front of the house, but Mike had wrestled with slightly bigger dogs and made it out alive. Scruffy wasn't a problem for him.

He walked into the room and fell beside Mia and Emily. He reached for his girlfriend but Mia shook her head.

"She's sleeping," she told Mike. "If you wake her up she'll probably just get scared again."

"I'm not going to hurt her," Mike said. He reached again but Mia slapped his hand away.

"I know that. She might not."

"Here," Kevin draped the blanket over his little sister to keep her warm and feeling safe. The blanket would let Emily know someone had come into the room, but they hadn't harmed her. He hoped it would help Emily learn to trust them all again. When the blanket was around Emily, Kevin looked at Mike and Mia, "We should leave her."

"No," Mike shook his head. "I'm staying here."

"Wait for her in the hall, Mike. You'll freak her out if…"

"Emily's not scared of me!"

"Something happened, Mike," Kevin tried to keep his voice low, unlike Mike, so he wouldn't wake up and scare Emily. "She needs to be alone."

"You don't have a clue what she needs!" Mike shouted.

Mia had no choice. She pulled out her Samuraizer and traced a symbol in the air. Suddenly, Mike and Kevin were both blown out of the room. She looked at Emily, stroked her cheek gently, and then went outside with the boys. She shut the door behind her.

"It stays closed," she glared at Mike and then turned to Kevin, "but we keep it unlocked. Is that a plan?"

"Yeah," Mike and Kevin nodded. Mia smiled slightly.

"Good. Either of you want to help me make her something to eat. Hopefully we can get it to her before she wakes up."

"Hopefully she eats," Kevin muttered, "If she doesn't trust us, why would she trust our food?