Emma immediately sprang into action, turning Gavin on his side and reaching for a pillow to cushion his head. When she had tried to learn more about basic medical care, her class taught her what to do in the event of a seizure. She frantically tried to remember everything, and once Gavin's seizure had stilled, she dialed 911 immediately. Gavin had never seized before, but with the extent of his tumor and his condition, Emma was honestly surprised it hadn't happened sooner.
Still, it was extremely stressful for her to teleport straight into the middle of a seizure. She was so worried as she rode in the back of the ambulance that, in her haste, she didn't notify her teammates what was going on.
Meanwhile, in Troy's house, he paced his room with worry. He knew Emma would be teleported straight home after leaving the Command Center, but he still wanted to make sure she made it safely. With them being the last two, he wanted to be sure nothing happened. He was the leader of the team, and felt it was his responsibility to keep his rangers safe. He felt horrible for letting Emma be the one to go alone. Troy had texted multiple times and called, but there was radio silence on the other end. This was extremely unlike Emma.
His worry clouded his judgement and he broke every single rule the team had come up with at lunch. Troy threw on a jacket and some sweats and started running to her house. If there was trouble, then it would be especially bad since he knew Gavin would be home at this hour. If Vrak didn't already know about Gavin and how he could be exploited to get to Emma, he would surely know now.
Troy pumped his legs as fast as they could go, but when he arrived at the house, he found the front door unlocked. His stomach turned. He entered cautiously and morphed just in case. His worry escalated even further when after a thorough search of the house, he still came up empty. As he went back downstairs and attempted to contact his teammates, he was met with Vrak in the kitchen.
Vrak immediately shot at Troy's hand and knocked his morpher free before he could send out a distress signal. He rushed past Troy and kicked it far away.
"My research indicates this is the pink ranger's house, so imagine my surprise when I teleport in and find the red ranger already morphed. Where is she?"
Troy ground his teeth in anger. "I should be asking you that."
Vrak laughed. "I don't have her, despite what you may think. I came here to get her, but it appears I've lost her signal. She's nowhere near. But I found you, and that's equally worth it."
The red ranger seethed. "Cut the crap, Vrak. We know what you're up to. Stop playing games and fight like a real warrior. Trying to study us and find our weaknesses, and picking us off, is a coward's way to fight."
The alien once again laughed in his face. "And whoever said I wasn't a coward?" He blasted at Troy, and it connected. The red ranger went reeling back and smashed into Emma's kitchen cupboards. As he started to pick himself up and fight back, Vrak kicked him in the stomach.
"Stay down. I have a pink ranger to find."
Troy tried to get up and chase after him, but Vrak had already teleported out. He ran for his morpher and called the rest of the team. "Guys, we have a situation."
A short time later, everyone aside from Emma was assembled in the pink ranger's living room. Gia was pacing nervously. "Vrak didn't have her, but he would have found her by now. But it doesn't make any sense. Why would she just go completely missing if Vrak didn't take her? And if he had found her, why haven't we gotten a distress signal from her yet?"
Jake looked around. "And where is Gavin?"
Troy shook his head. "I have a bad feeling about this. I don't know what's going on, and Emma could be anywhere. But Vrak has gotten to all four of us now, and he's looking for Emma, so he won't want to attack us. That means we can split up. Gia and I will look on the east side of town, Noah and Jake take the west. Keep your morphers on and close in case one of us needs to call or report."
The rest of the rangers nodded and teleported out. Troy asked Tensou to track Emma's morpher, but for some reason, his sensors indicated her morpher was turned off. The red ranger sighed. "Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe that means Vrak can't track her either."
Gia clenched her fist nervously. "Let's hope. Come on, let's start looking."
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With all the stress of Gavin seizing and being rushed to the ER, Emma was not in her right mind. The events of the day had completely taken a back seat, and her worry for Gavin was put at the forefront. He had just gotten out of his initial examination and had been admitted to the observation section of the hospital. Emma sat by her brother's bedside and held his hand as she waited for him to wake up. She was at least grateful that they were lucky enough to land a single. Emma wasn't sure she wanted to be stuck in a hospital room where Gavin had a roommate.
The doctor explained that the tumor was expanding and cutting off most of the blood circulation to select areas of his brain. When the blood supply gets cut off like that, it tends to cause minor seizures. It wasn't killing him yet, but if it worsened, it could. For now, the seizure was a warning sign. Emma was worried because his condition kept worsening, and got lost in thought as she pondered what they were going to do about it. If they could even do anything at all.
She was jolted from her thoughts as her morpher beeped. She had left it in her bag and placed it on the table opposite the bed. Mentally, she kicked herself for forgetting to update her team and figured she should call them.
As she stood to cross the room and get it, Vrak appeared in front of her.
