In Mariner Bay hospital, Dr Dana Mitchell was studying up some notes on one of her patients. Since Lightspeed had disbanded, she had been able to devote all her time and attention to her career in medicine. She had always loved treating patients, and seeing them getting better and sending them on their way to pursue their lives was always the most satisfying part of her job. She had loved it so much, and devoted so much of herself to her career that she had a dual speciality in medical and surgical. She had even been approached more than once with the offer of her own Chief of Medicine position in other hospitals, but she had always refused, preferring to devote her time to her patients.

Today, she had a particularly difficult and stressful procedure ahead of her. One of her young patients, a sixteen year old girl was waiting on a heart and lung transplant. Organ transplants were not undertaken lightly, it was often the last resort to improve the quality of life of a patient considerably. The fact that the patient was so young, that she was still a kid, only made her all the more determined to ensure everything went without a hitch.

Another doctor came into the office, causing her to look up from her notes.

"Silver Hills General just called." He told her. "The patient's ready for us."

"The heart...?"

"It's packed up, ready to go." He interrupted her. "The chopper's gassed up and ready to go."

"I guess this is it then." She replied, pulling on a jacket. She took a deep breath as she headed for the door.

"Good luck." He told her. Dana just smiled.

"I don't like to rely on luck...but thanks." She replied as she headed out into the hall. She broke into a run as she saw a med team, carrying a delivery box. They were on the move, and she knew that they didn't have long to make this work. One family had already suffered, but in their suffering, they were offering another kid, someone they had never met a wonderful gift, one that would change her life. Dana caught up to the transport team, and followed them towards the staircase.

Back on The Fancy, Angela was dragging her son through the ship. As soon as she had managed to hot-wire the door, she was sure that Lafitte knew she was loose, and if that was the case, she was sure that he would be doing all he could to retrieve her.

She still had no idea where Joel was, or what he was doing to him, but she was sure of one thing, the only way any of them were going to get off the ship in one piece was if they did something to make it happen themselves.

She turned a corner, only to find her way barred by the Black Lion Warrior. She turned and started running the other way, narrowly avoiding being blasted by one of his attacks as she went.

As she turned another corner, she found her way barred by the Chameleon warrior. She pulled back as the Chameleon Warrior lashed out with its tongue attack.

She looked around for options, finding a door ahead of her. She grabbed Sean, taking him towards it, and looked to the keypad closely. She could see four of the number and 9 were slightly worn. It was a four number code, and each number was only pushed once...that meant there were only 24 possibilities for the correct combination. Frantically, she tried one, only to have it buzz at her.

Angela knew she didn't have long before someone found them. She punched in code after code, trying all the combinations she could think of in succession.

"Damn it, come ON!" She growled as she continued. She tried a few more times, only stopping briefly as she heard armoured boots rounding the corner. As she saw the Black Lion Warrior coming, she realised that if she was going to get away, this was when she needed to do it.

She punched in another code, and the light flashed green, unfortunately as the door opened, wind whipped past, and she was almost pulled out of it. Grabbing the door frame with one hand, and Sean with the other, she looked out in anguish, her last hope dashed as she realised the ship was hovering hundreds, possibly thousands of feet in the air. She knew there was no way that they would ever survive that fall. She was grabbed roughly and thrown against a wall, almost knocking her out there and then. She'd lost her glasses in her impromptu flight, but she was sure her vision would be blurred anyway by the impact. The huge, hulking form of Colo was unmistakable, even with her poor eyesight.

She could hear her son yelling angrily as Colo closed the door and grabbed her by the scruff of the neck, dragging her with him down the hall. Lafitte saw this as he arrived and just chuckled.

"Good work Colo." He said as he bent down, picking up Angela's glasses. He followed them back to the interrogation area.

Dana arrived with the transport team up on the roof of the hospital; they all ducked as they headed for the helicopter. As they made their way towards the chopper though, they all saw something that stopped them in their tracks. The Sentinel Knight, Blue Centurion and Kat Ranger climbed up over the edges of the roof, and headed over, standing in their way.

"Uh...are they...?"

"Somehow I doubt they're the Rangers we want to see." Dana told them. She looked to them as she tried her best to reason with them. "Look, I know why you're here, but we need to deliver this to Silver Hills."

"Dana, what are you doing?" One of the paramedics asked her.

"We need to get this heart to the patient." She told him.

"We also need you!" He told her. "You're performing the surgery!"

"There are other surgeons." She told him. "Please, I don't mind what happens to me, but let my team go with the chest. If they don't..."

"Don't waste your time." Troy told her as he and Orion arrived on the rooftop. "The lights are on, but no-one's home. You can't reason with them."

"Come in here!" Emma beckoned her. Dana could see Carter beside her, waving frantically to her. She and the team quickly ran back for the door as Troy and Orion rushed to the attack, keeping the Ranger puppets off their backs.

"Carter?" Dana asked.

"Yeah, I know, you thought he was..."

"I TOLD you, I can't take my turn yet!" She told him. "I told you I'd be ready..."

"I think they've just bumped up the timetable." Emma told her, drawing her sword. She sliced off Dana's tracking bracelet.

"This heart has to get to Silver hills within a couple of hours or it'll be no good!" Dana told them. "We've waited months for this, if we miss this window, who knows when we'll get another chance?"

Emma took a look, and suddenly noticed the transport box. She knew that Dana was right about that. Her own experience with hospitals wasn't a happy one. By the time her mother's cancer was diagnosed, it had already spread, and so there was nothing they could do. However, she had known a few people who were on the transplant list. Some people could wait, months, even years for the organs they needed. As much as they were desperate to get to get the Ranger Keys, she didn't see why some innocent patient had to pay the price to make that happen.

She took her morpher and smiled.

"Alright, listen very carefully." She told them. "I've got an idea, and it'll need all of us to make it work."

Back on the Red Galleon, Noah was working hard on his computer, trying to find any sign of The Fancy. He had tried pretty much everything he could think of, looking for abnormal head signatures, radio signals, everything! He threw the mouse into the screen in anger.

"God Damn it!" He yelled. Kelsey looked to him as she came over.

"What is it?" She asked as Chad, Gia and Jake circled around behind him, crowding around.

"I've tried everything I can think of!" He yelled as he gestured wildly to the screen. "His cloaking device is too good, it hides everything! Sonics, thermal scan, radar...it's like the ship isn't even there!"

"Well, maybe you should look for something that isn't there." Jake suggested with a shrug. Everyone just stared at him. "Well, if we can't find what IS there..."

"Jake, you've said some random stuff in your time, but..."

"Jake, you are a GENIUS!" Noah called out as he went back to the computer.

"What? What did I say?" Jake asked him.

"He's masked his radio signals, buffered the sound made by his engines, hidden his heat signature...he's even bending radar signals to hide himself right?" Noah asked. "What's the one thing he can't change?"

They all stared at him blankly.

"He can't hide his ship's physical mass! He can't hide the space it takes up!" Noah told them. "What happens when you drop something in a body of water?"

"The water displaces." Gia answered. "It moves out of the way, making the water level rise by a factor equivalent to the space taken up by the object."

"Air does the same thing." Noah responded. "It's subtle, it's not as obvious, but air currents change to accommodate solid objects...so if I set to scanning the air currents and atmospheric pressure, and I cross reference the schematics for the size and shape of The Fancy..."

"You can look for a space in the air currents that's the same shape as his ship!" Gia called out, smiling as she hugged him. "Noah, that's brilliant!"

"Thank Jake; he's the one that gave me the idea." He responded. Everyone looked to Jake, who gave them a bright smile.

"I'm a genius." He said, adopting a cocky stance. Gia just rolled her eyes.

"Whatever, let's just get ready." Noah replied. "Lafitte's still got a whole ship full of trouble waiting for us."

Back on The Fancy, Colo dragged Angela and Sean into the interrogation room, to where Joel was still being held fast by the Shadow Ranger. He saw Colo dragging them in. He threw Sean down on the floor, at which he ran immediately to Joel's side.

"Dad!" He screamed out.

"Sean!" He yelled in response, grabbing his son as he came to his side.

"Now, doesn't that just warm your heart?" He asked. "The family all reunited."

"Let them go Lafitte." Joel told him. "They've got nothing to do with this."

"Now, you see...I DID believe that, but not anymore." He told him. "You see, the security system in this ship is quite advanced. It's not just anyone that could circumvent it."

He immediately started to search her roughly. Joel protested, but was silenced by a sharp blow across the back of the neck. Lafitte found Angela's tool kit and smiled.

"Well well, it looks like you married her for more than just her looks." Lafitte commented. "I'm guessing you didn't exactly meet over the internet."

"I was the tech expert at Lightspeed Command." She informed Lafitte. "We met during Joel's tenure."

"And you really fell...for that?" Lafitte asked, flicking a thumb in Joel's direction. Angela just glared at him hatefully.

"He's worth a hundred of you!" She stated angrily. He just smiled.

"Oh well, there's no accounting for taste I suppose." He said with a shrug. "Still, you do present me with a dilemma. Now that I've seen what you're capable of, how can I leave you unattended? I wouldn't want to risk you trying to escape again."

"Just let her go Lafitte." Joel begged him. "Please, she's no threat to you."

"Well, she certainly won't be soon." Lafitte said with a sick smile as he went to her, seeing the way Joel looked at her. He couldn't believe he hadn't thought of it before. He needed leverage to convince Joel to tell him where his Ranger Key was, and now he was sure he had found it. He took one of Angela's hands and inspected it.

"You have beautiful hands, very talented too." He complimented her, before placing it in one of Colo's massive hands. "Colo, if you could be so kind as to crush this."

"NO!" Joel called out, struggling to get loose, only to be held fast. Angela could feel Colo's grip tightening on her hand, becoming painful. She started to scream out in pain, long before she heard the first bone break. "No, stop, please!"

"I'm afraid your lovely wife is simply too dangerous to be left on my ship." He told him. "Now the other one Colo."

"No, please don't!" Joel screamed as Colo released Angela's hand, which hung limply, uselessly and grabbed her other hand. "Please, I'll give you what you want!"

"Joel, no!" Angela sobbed. "Please, don't, if you..."

Her words were cut off as Lafitte brought the back of his hand across her face. Only Colo's grip on her hand stopped her hitting the floor as he hauled her back up. He just smiled.

"I think you may have just made the first smart decision you've made since you got here." Lafitte told him.

"Touch her or my son again, and you'll never know where that key is." Joel told them. Lafitte just laughed.

"You wish to parlay?" He asked. He just shrugged. "Alright, I'll humour you, what are your terms?"

"Angela and Sean are to be released, safely and with no further harm...in Mariner Bay...On the ground and somewhere that is safe where they can get help!" Joel stated. He hated having to submit, but he knew that it was likely Lafitte was going to kill them all once he had what he wanted. He had seen 'Pirates of the Caribbean' enough times to make sure he was very specific about where and when they would be released. "Once they're off the ship, I'll tell you where the key is."

"Very well." Lafitte told him. "Colo, release the woman."

Colo released Angela, at which she fell to her knees, cradling her ruined hand gently. Joel came to her side as the Shadow Ranger and Wolf Warrior released him.

"Keep an eye on them this time." Lafitte instructed his puppets. "I don't want any more screw ups. Colo, come with me."

With that, he left the room. Joel just held Angela as she looked up to him in horror.

"How are you?" He asked her.

"My...my fingers, they're all broken." She confirmed. "Joel, what have you done?"

"The only thing I could." He sighed. "As long as you and Sean are safe, that's all that matters."

Back at the hospital, Troy and Orion were busy fighting with the Ranger puppets, when the door to the hospital opened. They watched as Dana, Emma and the other paramedics were led out of the door, their hands in the air in submission. Troy looked to Orion and gestured to him to stop as they saw the Magna Defender bringing up the rear.

"Troy, I'm sorry." Emma told him. "I tried to stop him, I did..."

"It's alright Emma." Troy answered. "We'll get you out of this."

"No, I will." Dana replied. "We know what you want...I promise I'll give it to you, but we need to let this heart get out of here."

"I know you want to help this kid, but if Lafitte gets that key..."

"Then you can get it back!" Dana snapped. "This kid might not get another chance!"

Troy stopped to ponder his position for a minute. He always had to make difficult choices in his position as Red Ranger. It seemed like he was constantly making decisions where he would have to sacrifice someone for the sake of the world. He had thought initially that this was one such choice, and while he didn't WANT to risk the health of some stranger, he also knew the potential harm Lafitte could do with another Ranger Key. As he considered his position though, he could only think that Dana had a point. If they did take her Ranger key, then they could always try to retrieve it another day. It wasn't as though forcing Dana to choose between one of her patients and the Rangers was going to convince her to give up the location of the key, even if they did win.

Troy dropped his weapons and gestured to Orion to do the same. The Magna Defender snapped some shackles onto Dana's wrists, and led her to where the other Ranger Puppets were standing.

"We'll get you back." Troy told her.

"Just...get that kid the heart." She replied as they all disappeared. Orion picked up his Silver Spear.

"We can't let him get away with this!" He yelled.

"Its fine, we'll come back for her." Troy sighed as he gestured to the transport team to get onto the helicopter. "For now, all we can do is take victory where we can find it."

As they were about to go, he saw Emma running and getting onto the helicopter. He just looked to her curiously.

"Emma, where are you going?" He asked her. "We've done our part. We've got to find Lafitte and that key..."

"You mean this key?" She replied, throwing Troy the Pink Lightspeed key. Troy looked to the key, and then back to Emma as he realised something was off.

"Wait...how...?"

With that, there was a flash of light and Emma changed into Dana. She just smiled at them.

"Emma's a very brave girl." She told him. "She was willing to risk herself for someone she hasn't even met."

"But how?" Orion asked.

"The Mystic Force powers!" Troy rushed out. "She used the magic to glamour both of you and make you look like each other."

"Something like that." She answered. "Anyway, we should be going, this heart needs to be in Silver Hills soon."

With that, the helicopter took off, leaving Orion and Troy on the room, pondering their next move. It was only as they did, that Orion suddenly realised something else was off with that whole scene.

"The Magna Defender...we got that key! Carter took him out at the graveyard!" He called out. "And where's Carter?"

"Why do I get the feeling this is all part of the plan?" Troy asked.

"I can see why you feel so strongly for Emma." Orion commented. Troy just nodded. "She's very brave."

"I know she is." Troy replied. "Sometimes she's too brave for her own good."