While Kevin and Mia were enjoying their movie, Emily was having a hard time in her sleep. After having been awoken by the loud music from the DVD player, Emily realised she was alone in her bed and Mike was in the other room. That was too far away as far as she was concerned, especially once her dreams began to wander.

It was the perfect day in her dreams. She was back at home, her real home, with her sister, her parents, and her friends were there with her. She was showing them around the farm. The barn she used to play in with her sister, the fields where she used to run around in until she would be too tired to walk all the way back home. Usually, when she tired herself out like that, Serena would carry her back to the patio of the house and set her on the swinging bench. While Emily would catch her breath, Serena would go inside and bring out a special frozen treat to help cool Emily down.

She relieved those memories as she told her friends all about her childhood and they listened with interest. But her dream changed when she brought them inside the house to meet her sister. She led them to Serena's room, which unfortunately had turned into more of a hospital room than a bedroom over the years. She saw Serena was resting under the blankets and motioned for her friends to wait by the door while she tried to awaken her sister.

She approached the bed and pulled down the blankets. At that moment, Serena jumped from the bed and lunged at Emily. The yellow Ranger screamed as she hit the floor and she felt the weight of her sister on top of her. When she looked up, she saw Serena was no longer her sister. Her flesh was peeling away from her body, her eyes were rolled up, there was blood dripping from nearly every part of her face and body.

"Z…Z…Zom…" the word couldn't come out of Emily's mouth as she stared up at her Zombie sister. She did, however, find the strength to push Serena off and run over to her friends. She threw herself into Mike's arms. She felt his grip tighten around her, but not in the usual way. When she looked up she realised why.

"ZOMBIE!" she screamed just as Mike tried to bite her.

-Samurai-

Emily jolted out of her dream and threw herself off the bed in the process. She spread her arms out in the fall, hitting the lamp on her side table before she and the lamp landed with a thud. The only death was the light bulb, which shattered into pieces as soon as it hit the ground.

"Emily!" Mia cried after witnessing her roommate's sudden fall. Both she and Kevin pushed the DVD player aside and jumped out of bed to help their youngest friend. The bedroom door swung open as Mike, Jayden and Mentor rushed in.

"We heard a crash!"

"Everything's fine," Kevin assured his friends and Mentor as he started picking up the broken pieces of the lightbulb and set the lamp back on the table. Meanwhile, Mia was sitting with Emily, trying to get the yellow Ranger to calm down and open her eyes.

"What happened?" Mentor asked as he surveyed the room. Emily's side was a mess, and Mia's bed looked as if someone had spent hours jumping on it. Not to mention the portable DVD player that was sitting dangerously close to the side of the bed and looked about ready to fall.

Mike didn't bother himself with the room as he hurried over to Emily and tried to help Mia calm her down. As the pink and green Ranger did this, and Mentor helped with the mess, Jayden furrowed his brow and watched Kevin. He didn't remember seeing the blue Ranger in the hallway on the way over, and everyone knew the girls well enough to know that it was unlikely Mia was the cause of the crash, which only led Jayden to believe that Mike would have run the fastest to the girls' bedroom, not Kevin.

"When did you…?"

"She'll need a new bulb," Kevin interrupted his leader before the question could be asked. Jayden kept his eye on Kevin for a moment before he left the room in search of a new lightbulb for Emily's lamp.

Kevin let out a sigh before turning to face Mia and the two exchanged a look of relief. They were going to be asked some questions once everything calmed down, and while they had nothing to hide it was still going to be awkward.

Mentor finished with the mess and walked over to Emily. He helped her to her feet and led her to the door.

"Maybe some hot chocolate and a talk will help you," he suggested.

The Rangers all gathered in the common room and took their seats. Mike decided though that he would sit with Emily and pulled her onto his lap. She nestled into his arms and buried herself away. She wouldn't even come out when Mentor started handing the Rangers their hot chocolates.

"She won't drink it without mini-marshmallows," Mike informed his mentor, "The rainbow kind with extra yellow… I bought some last time Kevin and I went grocery shopping."

Mentor nodded and went to retrieve the rainbow marshmallows.

"So…" Kevin started awkwardly, unsure of how to get a conversation started in this type of situation. Like most of the other Rangers he had never had a little sibling and the only time he had to deal with the after-nightmare-midnight-talk was when he was the young boy who had the nightmare. "What… uh…"

"Was it zombies?" Mia asked while glaring at Mike, "I knew seeing a zombie movie was a bad idea."

"Hey, she was perfectly fine when I put her to bed," Mike frowned but quickly glanced down at Emily, "Unless…"

He trailed off, hoping Emily would provide him with an answer but she didn't. She didn't pull her head out or even move a muscle. She was frozen stiff. Mike kissed her sympathetically on top of her head and rubbed circles on her back.

Mentor returned with the bag of rainbow mini-marshmallows.

Mia grabbed the bag and tried to rip it open so she could fill up Emily's drink with mini-marshmallows. The bag was stubborn though and didn't open until Mia let her guard down. At that point, it popped open and mini-marshmallows flew in every direction. Thankfully, many of them landed in Emily's mug, and most of the ones that did were yellow.

"Well… that didn't go as planned," Mia chuckled while Kevin picked a marshmallow from her hair and ate it.

"These are good!"

"You got one in my drink," Jayden frowned as he glared at the floating marshmallow in his drink.

"Do you want more?" Mia asked as she collected the scattered marshmallows from her lap, her seat, and even in her shirt. She then tossed her handful at Jayden's face, "Here, it's on me."

"You guys are wasting perfectly good marshmallow," Kevin complained. He was collecting as many as he could so he could eat them. He also dumped a few in his hot-chocolate before taking a sip. He discovered the mushy candy only added to the goodness of the hot-chocolate. His eyes widened in delight.

"You know, it's not often I fill my drinks or cover anything in candy, but when it's good… it's good!"

"You've never put marshmallows in your drink?" Mia asked him. Everyone had tried it at least once! Of course, knowing Kevin's crazy Samurai/swimmer diet, she wasn't all that surprised by the revelation.

Jayden chuckled and shook his head before he turned to Emily, "You might want to start drinking yours, Em, before Kevin really loses it and steals your hot-chocolate."

"I wouldn't…" Kevin took another sip, "Okay… I might."

Mike reached over and grabbed Emily's mug from the table. He held it close to her face, hoping that would pull her out of her shell. Emily only shook her head and buried herself deeper. Mike was starting to wonder if there was a hole or something in his chest. She seemed to be getting smaller, and there was only so much room on his lap.

"Em…"

He sighed and handed her mug to Jayden, certain it would be safe and warm with the fire Samurai. He wrapped her tightly in his arms.

"It was Zombies, wasn't it?" he asked her and the room fell silent as everyone waited for a reply. They heard a faint muffle coming from Mike's chest, and he leaned in closer to where he thought her mouth was and asked her to repeat what she had just said.

Another muffle was heard and Mike was the only one who understood. He whispered something back to her before kissing her cheek. After that, Emily uncurled herself slightly and looked at her friends. At this point Jayden offered her her mug back. Emily accepted it gratefully and took a sip from it.

"So it was a nightmare, right?" Kevin asked and Emily nodded her head.

"Yeah, it was."

"What was it about?" Mia asked carefully. Emily quickly looked at Mike who nodded. She bit her lip as she answered.

"It's a little silly, really."

"Em, if it's got you scared it's not silly," Mia assured her, "Silly was Mike taking you to a horror movie."

"Probably not my smartest move," Mike admitted with a chuckle. He nudged Emily, "C'mon, tell them. For the most part, it's pretty funny."

"Uh… well…" Emily picked a mini-marshmallow from her hot-chocolate, "You guys were zombies and tried to eat me."

"We tried to eat you?" Kevin laughed, "Yeah, because if we had to eat anyone it would be you."

"Hey, she is the sweetest," Mike smirked and kissed her neck to prove it. Emily giggled and squirmed when he also started to tickle her. Jayden grabbed the hot-chocolate from her hand before she spilt the warm drink all over herself.

"Okay, okay, that's enough of the cute stuff," Kevin said as he looked away, trying not to throw up his hot-chocolate and mini-marshmallows. Mike ceased with the kisses and tickles.

"So, I guess we were successful zombies," he grinned, "I mean, we were scary, right?"

"Very scary," Emily nodded.

"But, you know zombies aren't real, right?" Mia asked her little sister. "I mean, monsters, demons… we fight those… those are real, but zombies? No way!"

"I know," Emily smiled, "And anyways, now that I think about it, if zombies were real, we could stop them anyways, right?"

"Definitely," Jayden nodded, "If we can handle a Nighlok, we can surely stop a zombie."

"Good."

-Samurai-

Once the hot-chocolates were done and the mini-marshmallows were cleaned (Kevin and Emily had finished them all off) the Rangers were once again tired enough to go back to sleep.

After getting Emily back to bed, Mike walked to his room and crawled into bed. But before his head hit the pillow he glanced at Kevin.

"So, uh, I noticed you weren't in bed when I woke up," Mike smirked, "And you were in Em and Mia's room pretty quickly…"

"I thought something happened to Mia," Kevin shrugged as he lied, "I… I mean, I was worried and…"

"Yeah, because we all know how often Mia falls out of bed or knocks stuff over… oh wait, sorry, I'm mistaking Mia for Emily…" Mike shook his head, "Look, whatever dude, I get a feeling I don't want to know."

"We weren't doing anything," Kevin frowned. "I mean… you know... I was up already… I couldn't sleep."

"Yeah… goodnight, lover-boy."

Over in the girl's room, Mia twisted the new bulb into Emily's lamp and was blinded when she accidentally turned on the light. Emily chuckled as Mia rubbed her eyes.

"Wow, first the marshmallows, now the lamp. I think you're contagious."

"Mia, would you mind leaving the lights turned on?" Emily asked. "I know zombies aren't real but…"

"Sure thing, Emy," Mia nodded. She put the lamp down and started back to her bed but was stopped when Emily grabbed her hand.

"Even sick people don't turn into zombie-like monsters, right?"

"Not that I know," Mia shook her head, "Why?"

"Um… well…" Emily shrugged her shoulders and sat back down in her bed. She pulled the blankets over her legs, "Never mind. It's a stupid question. Zombies aren't real."

Mia sighed before glancing over at the DVD player which was still on her bed. She turned back to Emily for a moment before grabbing the DVD player and carrying it over to Emily's bed. She crawled in beside her friend.

"How about we get your mind off the zombies?" she hit play and the movie started again from the start.

"The Hero's Bride!" Emily smiled. "I love this movie!"