The first thing Emma did was position herself in front of her brother. Vrak had come to attack them in the hospital, and he was especially vulnerable. If it meant saving his life, Emma would gladly take a blast unmorphed. Vrak kept his blaster trained on the two as he started inching his way towards the beeping morpher.
He gestured to the boy on the bed. "And who might this be?"
Emma glared with a fury and hatred she had never felt before. "Get the hell out, Vrak."
"Oh, but now I'm curious. I have only watched the other four, I was just getting to you. I don't know much about you yet. So I ask again, who is this boy?" As he said this, he grabbed Emma's bag and rifled through until he found the morpher. Mid-ring, he shut it off. "Looks like your friends won't be able to track you or come to help. It's just you, me, and him."
The pink ranger stood her ground and continued to rotate so that she was consistently in between the blaster and her brother. "You haven't actually hurt any of us yet. I know you're just trying to get into our heads. Well, congratulations. You're in mine. You can unsuccessfully blast me once, teleport out, and go now."
Vrak laughed. "Well hold on now. That would just be no fun." He summoned a device, and continued to threaten the siblings with one hand, as he hacked the hospital database with another.
He typed in the room number, and immediately all of Gavin's information came up. He read it off the screen. "Gavin Goodall. First admitted for treatment of a neuroblastoma. Transferred from Paris Medical Facility. Doctors unenthusiastic about his chances of survival. Recently admitted to Observation for a seizure. Son to Benjamin and Olivia Goodall, and brother to Emma Goodall."
He smiled as he looked at the boy. "Brother, you say? I have been trying to study everything I could about the human race through you five rangers. I have been watching and trying to see your mannerisms and moves. But biological testing could be interesting. Just studying your social behaviors is not enough for what I have planned. It says here your brother should have died years ago. It's miraculous he's even still breathing. This is a sickness that not many overcome, and he has had it since he was a baby and lived until now. I would like to know why. That could give me the key to defeating you rangers, or I could use the research and testing to make myself stronger."
Fear flooded Emma's body as she realized Gavin was now a target, even more so than she was. Before Vrak could free his hand of his device, she did the only thing she could think of. She ran and tackled him away from the bed. Vrak was so startled that he stumbled back with the momentum. As he tried to recover, Emma quickly ran for her morpher and got it back online. She immediately morphed and sent a distress signal.
The other four rangers were notified by Tensou as soon as the morpher had been turned back on, and started running to the location of the signal. A pit settled in Gia's stomach as they turned and made for the signal. If the siblings were at the hospital when Vrak found them, something was seriously wrong.
Emma fought with unprecedented strength. All she had to do was see Vrak threatening Gavin and it was the end of the line for her. Vrak had never gone toe-to-toe with one of the rangers for this long in close combat. He always would have bested them by now. The pink ranger was giving him an unexpected run for his money, and he didn't like it.
All of the commotion in the room prompted security to come to Emma's floor. They kicked the door open only to see a power ranger already in combat with an alien. They tried to help by shooting Vrak with their bullets, but of course, the bullets bounced off harmlessly. All Vrak had to do was spin around and aim his blaster at them before they took off running. They decided if a power ranger was already there, they were not needed.
Gavin's mind was returning slowly to consciousness, but it was a little foggy. However, the second he heard bullets going off around him, he jolted awake and was not greeted with a pleasant sight by any means. Emma was locked in combat with Vrak by herself, and it didn't look like she could hold on for much longer. He had no idea how long the battle had been going on for, but she was wearing herself thin and he could tell.
He didn't want his sister to have to keep glancing at him and worrying about him getting hit by collateral damage, so he got up and hid behind the bed. His body wasn't quite ready to move yet though, so what he hoped would be a quick movement into hiding ended up being more of a slow motion roll off the bed. Out of the corner of her eye, Emma saw movement from her brother and was extremely relieved to know he was awake and okay. She decided she could celebrate another time, though.
Vrak saw movement too, and decided to take his shot. Emma was momentarily distracted by her brother's awakening, so he managed to power up his blaster and it connected. Emma was sent reeling back and crashed hard into Gavin's heart monitor. Sparks flew as she slammed hard into the machine. She powered down upon impact and clutched her stomach in agonizing pain. Gavin saw the hit his sister just took and rushed over to make sure she was okay.
Emma saw Vrak aim his blaster again, and pushed her brother back, trying to stand in front of him. The urgency of the situation allowed her body to move, but the pain she was feeling stopped her from getting where she wanted to go. She was only able to get up halfway and somewhat shield him before she heard a blast. Emma braced herself, but didn't feel any impact.
She tentatively looked up and saw the rangers firing at Vrak from outside the room. Noah landed a shot with his Bowgun and Vrak was sent flying. He landed close to Emma. Her body screamed in protest, but she had so much adrenaline pumping through her that she was able to ignore it momentarily. Emma lunged for Vrak's blaster, still unmorphed, and tried to strip it from him. She knew as soon as he lost it, he'd leave. And if he didn't, he would at least be much easier to take down.
She successfully managed to bat it away but before she could get far, Vrak struck his leg out and kicked at her knee with every last ounce of strength he could muster. Everyone heard the resounding crack as Emma went down hard, and she screamed in pain. Gia lost all semblance of control when she saw her friend go down, and charged straight into the room to run at Vrak. With the bed, Gavin, and Emma already in there, the room was extremely cramped and didn't allow for a lot of movement.
Gia didn't care, though. She plowed straight through the excess machines and pushed aside the chairs as she tried to get to Vrak. He knew the yellow ranger could finish him since he was without his blaster, so right as she was about to reach him, he teleported away just in time.
The yellow ranger used every single colorful word in her vocabulary before she slammed the floor and screamed in frustration. She heard Gavin cry out for his sister, and was reminded that Emma needed help. Everyone ran into the room and converged on the siblings to make sure they were okay. Emma was writhing in pain at her obviously broken leg. Her knee had been completely blown out, and in an attempt to break her fall, she had dislocated her wrist and shoulder.
Some of the doctors had come out behind their cover to check on the patients in the room and upon seeing her injuries, insisted she get treated. Emma, despite all the pain she was in, knew that wouldn't be possible. They were barely making enough to scrape by for Gavin's treatments. She looked pleadingly at Gia and tried to communicate that she needed Tensou instead.
The yellow ranger looked to the doctors and shook her head. "I'll take it from here." With that, she teleported herself and the rest of the rangers out of the room.
Gavin was left to stare blankly at the spot where his sister had been, and his heart raced. His blood pressure and heart rate had skyrocketed upon being under attack and watching Emma get hurt protecting him, and that put his body under extreme duress.
He felt himself blacking out and collapsing to the floor. The last thing he heard was a doctor screaming.
"I need help! He's seizing!"
