For the second time that evening, Jordan's phone rang. Aside from the occasional call from his parents, Jordan never heard his phone ring. He wanted to ignore it. The first call of the evening had left him with an ill feeling, but something enticed him to answer it. As he lay in bed with Emma he whispered for her to be quiet and put the phone on speaker. If whoever was on the other line was bad news, he wanted her to know about it. He wasn't too much of a man to admit he needed his fiancée's protection.

"Hello?"

"Jordan?" it was a woman's voice this time.

"This is he," Jordan answered. Emma looked up at him with a frown but dared not speak. She was dead to the world. Only a handful of people knew she was still alive, and all but three of those people were with her in the command center.

"I'm Lily Chilman," the voice said. "Look, I know this might sound crazy. Trust me, if I were you I probably wouldn't believe it myself but we need your help."

"Who is this?" Jordan asked. He had a name, but he didn't know anyone by the name of Lily Chilman.

"I'm Lily. I'm a waitress I guess at Jungle Karma Pizza."

"You guess?"

"Look, my job's not important," Lily said. "My daughter's missing."

"What am I supposed to do about that?" Jordan asked. He felt like an ass. He was good friends with the Power Rangers and wanted to be a police officer. A missing girl concerned him but he wasn't going to let himself be fooled. The last person to get a call from outside had been Gia, and her arm was still in a sling for falling for it.

"She went missing today at the zoo," Lily explained. "I was dropping her off with her father just a couple of hours ago when she disappeared."

"The zoo's been closed for longer than that," Jordan shook his head. "Look, I'm sorry, but I don't know what I can do..."

"She was lost in the tiger's cage. Jordan, please. Her father says he saw your girlfriend at the zoo and he needs her help. Her and the rest of your friends."

"My friends are dead."

"He says he saw them. He knows it was them."

Emma covered the mouth piece, "Gosei assured us no one would recognize us," she whispered. "He's not exactly the first guy I'd turn to with a secret, but he wouldn't lie about that. How could this guy remember seeing us?"

Jordan shrugged. "Look, Lady, I don't know who you are but you're kind of freaking me out..."

"Please! Please, Jordan, don't hang up! I get this might be upsetting to you but if you know anything about where your friends might be..."

"I told you, my friends are dead," Jordan grumbled. "Please don't call again."

"Jordan, they aren't dead. Please. My little girl's only three and the tigers didn't get her. Something else did. We think it was an alien, like the ones that killed your friend."

"I'm hanging up."

"No! Please, Jordan. I'm begging you. Please, you're the only one who can save her."

"I can't take this," Emma shook her head as the woman's cries tugged on her heartstrings. She grabbed the phone from her fiancé's hands, "Hello?"

"Hello? Who is this?"

"Jordan's friend. Where do you want to meet?"

"The zoo. Meet us right outside the zoo," Lily answered. "Please, we'll explain everything to Jordan when he's here."

"We won't be long," Emma promised and then hung up the phone. Jordan looked to her.

"Emma, this could be a trap. Remember your idiot best friend?"

"She's talking about a kid."

"What does anything think I can do about that?" Jordan asked. "Emma, I want to help, but the people coming after us are going to do exactly this to draw us out."

"We're not going in alone," Emma threw away the blankets, "Come on, let's get the others."

-Megaforce-

Casey waited with Lily just outside the zoo for Jordan and his friend to show up. The former yellow Ranger had been convincing enough to get them to consider helping and Casey knew that if there was any chance of getting his daughter home safe this was it. He couldn't blow it. Like Lily kept repeating – this was not the time to let his daughter down.

Not that he ever did. He was often home late and out the door early in the morning, but he always made time for his daughter. He wouldn't work the weekends he had her and would often just be late picking her up from JKP, like this very time. His job was demanding but he never let it get in the way of being a good father. His little girl adored him and always looked forward to weekends with him. However, he knew it was frustrating for Lily to have to wait for him all the time, and explain to Ava that daddy wasn't forgetting about her. Casey was trying to work on being more punctual after work, but no matter how much he tried, he couldn't seem to keep his eyes on the clock. And he couldn't dream of cutting work early. His students needed him. The tigers needed him, and his daughter needed him to work entire days so that when she came to visit, she didn't sleep in a cardboard box on the side of the street.

It was getting late. The sun was already close to setting and it was getting to be quite dark. The zoo kept very few lights on at night so as not to disturb the animals. But finally, Casey saw several figures walking up and assumed one of them had to be Jordan. As they got closer, he recognized them as the Megaforce Rangers, and the one boy he didn't have a picture of he assumed had to be Jordan. Considering they were alive, contrary to popular belief, Casey and Lily both assumed Jordan knew their secret and decided to introduce themselves as who they really were.

"We weren't sure you were going to show," Casey offered his hand. "I'm Casey Rhodes. This is my teammate Lily."

"Whoa, teammate?" Gia asked. A recent self-demotion on Troy's part made her leader, and as leader, as soon as she heard about the phone calls to Jordan she knew she had to step up at this meeting. "You zookeepers call each other teammates?"

"I'm not just a zookeeper," Casey smirked and he could once again sense the tiger spirit coming from the yellow Ranger. "I'm a Pai Zhuq Master."

"I could use some pie right now," Jake whispered to Noah. The blue Ranger ignored his best friend and stepped forward.

"Wait? Pai Zhuq? As in the Order of the Claw? The Jungle Fury Rangers?" he turned to glance momentarily at Gia, "Bet you didn't know that."

Gia shook her head. She looked to Casey and Lily, "If you're really Power Rangers..."

"We are," Casey and Lily held out the Solar Morphers and then showed the Rangers their Master Stripes.

"Look, we'd love to explain this," Lily stated, "But the story about our daughter is true. She was playing with the tigers when all of a sudden she wasn't there."

"My tiger animal spirit was supposed to keep her safe," Casey said. "None of the other tigers dare to approach her when he's watching her, but something got by him. Something strong."

"It had to be," Lily nodded. "We think it's one of those aliens. Dai Shi and his monsters were defeated a long time ago."

"Dai Shi?" Emma asked.

"Their Vekar," Noah answered her. "The Jungle Fury Rangers fought in Ocean Bluff against Dai Shi and his forces back in 2008. They used animal spirits and different kung fu styles to beat their opponents. I've got to say, animal spirits are pretty amazing."

"Why would Vekar want your daughter?" Gia asked. "He's all about conquering the Earth. A little kid... how that's going to help him?"

"Remember, Gia, Vrak went after Quinn," Jake pointed out. "He wanted to use her powers for himself. Vekar did just kidnap Lauren for her powers. Maybe he saw the kid and decided to try again."

"Does your daughter have powers?" Gia asked Casey and Lily. Casey nodded his head.

"She took after me with the Tiger Spirit. She's still young. She's barely tapped into her powers yet, but when she's really scared she can call it."

"I guess that's what Vekar wants then," Gia stated. She looked to her teammates for confirmation and then nodded to Casey and Lily. "We can go back to the command center. We got on board Vekar's ship once. If your daughter is up there, we'll do it again."