==Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation==

Exo launched Ryleigh and Tyler several feet apart as he ran into them. The two staggered to their feet and wiped the dust off of themselves. They looked at Exo and held their morphers out.

"It's morphin' time!" they both chanted, morphing into their Ranger suits.

"If you couldn't stand a chance against Morokei, what makes you think you can stand up to me?" Exo asked tauntingly. "I'll finish you two off."

"No you won't!" Ryleigh shouted, lunging into him.

Exo stumbled backwards and Tyler ran up behind him to kick him forwards. Ryleigh knocked his head with her elbow and kicked him to the ground.

"You're stronger than I thought." Exo said. "Stubborn humans, this won't be long."

"We're stronger than you." Tyler replied. "And smarter."

"We'll see how smart you are when you try to survive in maximum radiation!"

Exo levitated to a platform in the factory and grabbed onto a pedestal. He pressed a large red button on the center of a pedestal, sounding an alarm throughout the whole factory.

"Feim zii!" he finally shouted as he left the scene.

Tyler frantically looked around the area. "He's going to blow this place up!" he exclaimed.

"Yeah, I think we know that. We should be more focused on finding a way out!" Ryleigh replied.

The two of them started to dart around the factory looking for any emergency exits, but everything seemed to be barred. Tyler tried to kick down a metal door, but the Russian government didn't want anybody to forcefully enter the factory and made it almost impervious to damage.

"Dyesyat, dyevyat, vosyem..." a robotic female voice started to count down from ten in Russian.

"It's gonna blow!" Ryleigh exclaimed.

"Brace for impact!" Tyler replied.

"Tree, dva..." the voice counted. "Adeen!" it finally reached one.

The entire nuclear plant was detonated in a blinding flash.


==BN-350, Aktau, Kazakhstan==

Gia fell hard on her back, but managed to be cushioned by something. After scratching the pain out of her head, she looked at the humanoid mass that lay under her.

"Jake?" she asked after recognizing his signature sweatshirt.

"Yeah." he choked his words and she finally got off him. "Thanks for getting off."

"Sorry." she dusted her clothes off. "Where the hell are we?"

Gia and Jake had a good look around the area. They were still shaken up after the deaths of their teammates and the fact that they were randomly being teleported from place to place. Wherever they were was eerily abandoned and sent chills down their spines. There was absolutely no noise anywhere in the building and dust was floating everywhere.

"You're asking me where we are?" Jake asked. "I'd be damned if I could even read these signs."

"It's a good thing we have at least one brain in this place." Gia fired back.

"What do you mean by that?"

Gia sighed and pointed to the large signs on the wall. It didn't take a degree in foreign languages to know what the yellow and black signs meant.

"I see hazard signs everywhere." Gia answered. "Take a look around, we're in a nuclear reactor."

"Is that a good thing?" Jake asked.

"Does a blaring yellow exclamation mark look like a good thing?" Gia facepalmed. "I'd do some looking around if I were you, we have work to do here."

"I can't read this foreign crap." Jake stated after examining the walls. "What the hell does this even mean?"

"I have some knowledge of Cyrillic." Gia walked over to the wall and read what Jake looked at.

She pointed to each character and squinted her eyes. Somewhere in her brain was a faint knowing of the Cyrillic writing, something she learned from her short trip to Ukraine weeks back when they were doing foreign touring.

"What does it say?" Jake asked.

"BH-bіr ekі zero." Gia answered.

"Does it look like I know what that means?"

"Stop being so snappy. It translates roughly to BN-350."

"I'm the one who's snappy? You're the one-"

"Shut it." Gia threatened. "Let's just get out of here."

Jake quietly followed Gia through an unlit hallway which was falling into disrepair. They knew that the place hadn't been used for at least a few years, and they intended to keep it that way. Messing with a place like a nuclear reactor could result in death, and they weren't prepared to face anything like that.

Gia slowly led Jake to a door at the end of the hallway. She crept in front of it and gently turned the doorknob to look at what was on the other side. All that was heard afterwards was a roar and a blinding flash was emitted.


==Frozen hut in the Moldovan wilderness==

Chase opened his eyes suddenly and found himself lying on an icy floor in a wooden lodge. As his sight started coming back to him, he recognized Sydney was passed out right in front of him. He kneeled by her and shook her awake.

"You need to wake up!" Chase yelled in her ear.

"What's going on?" Sydney groaned as she managed to pull herself off the ground. "And why is it so cold in here?"

"I...I really have no idea. But it is really cold in here." Chase started to rub his arms to warm up.

"And where are we?" she asked.

"I wish I knew, but it looks like we're going to have to find out on our own."

Chase braced through the bitter cold and looked around the frozen room. The first thing he observed was that it looked like he was in a basement. He also noticed that there were wooden crates stacked against the walls. The last thing he noticed was a wooden door barred by a steel plank.

"I think we should look through these boxes." Sydney suggested. "There's no sense trying to open the door, it's sealed shut."

"Good idea." Chase agreed. "You take the boxes to our left and I'll get the ones to the right."

Sydney nodded and started digging through the crates. She found nothing of interest other than old documents and creepy pictures from years ago.

"How's your search going?" she asked Chase from across the room.

"It's not going great. All I can find are useless papers that I can't seem to read." Chase answered. "How about yours?"

"I think I'm finding the same crap that you are."

Chase and Sydney kept digging through the boxes and seemed to hit a dead end. Everything they dug through was almost identical, not providing any information on where they were or what they were supposed to do.

"So...I'm sorry about Alli..." Sydney finally broke the silence.

"It's..." Chase tried to talk. It was hard trying to speak about something so delicate. "It's...it's...really hard for me. I know I'm only in high school, but I've never felt so passionate about someone before. You know what I mean?"

"Oh, I know exactly what you mean." Sydney replied. "I haven't told many people this, but I had a thing for Shane." she confessed. "I knew he was married and all, but I stayed single for a reason. All those paparazzi could start whatever the hell they wanted about me, I just wanted Shane."

"I'm sorry to hear that."

"I was with him the day he died. I actually watched him die."

"I...I can feel your pain. I know what it feels like to have someone you love go away like that."

"I know that you know, that's why I'm talking to you. I want to know if you're okay. I want to know if it's possible to move past it."

"I guess you can put it that way." Chase sighed. "It's really hard to move past it, but it's something that people have to do."

"How so?"

"I have to look at it from the perspective of someone trying to get stronger through this. I can't dwell in the past. What's happened has happened, and there's no changing it. If I want things to go smoother, I have to forget about everything. Now, that doesn't mean I'll ever forget about Alli, it just means that I'll have to forget about the grief I felt."

"That's...that's great advice." Sydney barely smiled. "I guess I have to take after that."

"Anyways, we should keep looking."


==Somewhere in Uzbekistan==

Emma finally spotted a large metal building far in the distance. She could see the blatant hazard signs around the area and immediately identified it as a nuclear reactor. She took a deep breath and walked towards the eerily abandoned nuclear plant.

Since Uzbekistan was granted freedom from the Soviet Union in 1991, all nuclear operations in the area were halted. However, the government secretly kept the reactors up in case such massive power was ever needed in the future. As a result, the wyrms were able to find out about it and put it to use without the government's knowledge.

Once Emma reached the gates of the reactor, she knew she would have to stop there. There would be no possible way of entering without sounding off some sort of alarm, so she had to break in. She didn't want to morph as her morpher would emit some sort of energy which would exert force on whatever security system was outside of the reactor.

She spotted a long and broken cable to her side and picked up an end with a plug on it. She took the plug and shoved it into a rock that was lying nearby. Once she had her tool made, she threw as much as possible of it onto a small spire to the side of the reactor. She climbed up the cable until she was finally able to reach the top.

At the top of the spire, the nuclear reactor was easily accessible. All she had to do was pull the cable up one last time, hurl it against a weak looking wall, and hope that it would manage to break through. Hoping for the best, she threw her cable at the reactor, tearing a small hole open. The cable extended out, creating some sort of wire leading inside. She picked up a small amount of scrap metal that was lying on top of the spire and formed a small triangle out of it. Once she had it looped around her cable, she held onto it and zip-lined her way inside.

She lost her grip of the metal triangle and fell. Fortunately, she was far inside the reactor, making her fall somewhat worthwhile. When she came to her senses, she had a good look around the area. The place was falling into massive disrepair, meaning that she wouldn't be able to find anything useful inside.

"You've come for us." she heard raspy voices whisper.

"Who's there?" she cried out. "Show yourself!"

"You can't see us..." the voices answered.

"Then what are you?"

"Us? We're only the bane of your existence. We have you surrounded. Give up, already."


==Underground Temple, Saudi Arabia==

Odahviing landed Raylan outside the hole in the middle of the desert that led into the temple. He knew from that point he would have to be the one fighting his own battles.

"Thanks for the ride, bud." Raylan patted Odahviing's head.

"It is no problem, Dovahkiin. I must leave now, but I wish you the best of luck." the dragon replied as he flew away.

Raylan sighed and jumped into the hole. Everything from that point on would be a risk. He was in no shape to fight anything, so he would have to go undetected.

This was the fight for his life.