Tensou rolled over from the blue and yellow ranger's beds to report back to Troy.

"I sedated them so they wouldn't wake, and removed their chips. They had already broken Metal Alice's control at least emotionally, so I'm not too worried about any kind of brain damage. We'll just have to wait and see. Though I'm not sure how much they'll remember of their time under her control."

Troy sighed and looked to the floor. Though Jake had reassured him multiple times that this wasn't his fault, he couldn't help but feel a pang of guilt looking at his friends. "Thanks, Tensou. I'm still not even sure how they were able to break free in the first place."

Gosei's eyes lit up. "I believe Metal Alice realized the dangers of the tablet getting into your hands after the first altercation. She must have elected to leave it at their base, thinking it posed less risk. The signal still was able to control the blue and yellow ranger, but it was weakened by the distance, which must have been what allowed the black and pink rangers to get through to them and break the control."

As soon as Gosei finished, Gia began to stir. She tried to put her hand to her head to stop the pounding headache, but found she couldn't move her arm. She looked down and found that her right hand was cuffed to a rail by her bed. "What the hell is this?"

Troy walked over with Tensou, who started examining her pupils to see if she had any unforeseen brain damage. "Do you remember what happened?"

Gia kept pulling her hand against the cuff. "No... What-" She stopped as memories started to hit her all at once. "Emma! Oh god, what have I done?"

By this time, Noah started waking up and found he was restrained in a similar way. Upon Gia's realization of what had happened, she started struggling even harder against her handcuff. "Let me go! I need to see her. I need to make sure she's okay and apologize."

Jake walked into the room at that moment. He had been staying with the Goodall siblings, trying to make sure Emma was okay, but when he heard commotion he made his way over to see what was going on. When he saw Gia was alert and seemingly okay, he rushed over and pulled her into a hug. "Gia, I'm so glad you're back."

The yellow ranger felt the warm arms envelop her, and her worries about Emma were forgotten for just a moment. She hugged him back and dissolved into tears. "Jake... I'm so sorry. I knew what was happening, but I couldn't stop it. I was just watching myself hurt you. Are you okay? I was trying so hard to break out, but I couldn't."

The black ranger gave her a small squeeze. "I'm fine, nothing that I haven't felt before. Don't worry."

Gia kept pulling against her cuff, and everyone decided that the two rangers were really free from control and could be released. Noah stood up and exchanged apologies with Jake as well. He had come so close to watching his best friend die, by his own hands.

While Jake assured him that everything was okay, Gia quickly ran out of the room in search of Emma. She needed to see for herself that she was okay. The last memory Gia had was her choking Emma, and she wouldn't be able to live with herself unless she found out what happened. The moment that Gia broke free of the control, she looked down at her hands and was horrified by what she had almost done.

In a frenzy, she searched every room of the Command Center and came up empty. She became even more frantic and inconsolable until Jake came out to find her. He looked in the room the siblings had been in just moments before, but couldn't find either of them.

Gia panicked even more when she saw the look of confusion cross his face. "Where are they, Jake? Please tell me you know where they are."

"Look, I'm sure they're fine. I was just with them and both of them were alive and well. I don't know where they are, but they couldn't have gone far. Maybe they went for some fresh air and are just outside."

The yellow ranger practically dragged Jake out by the arm to go in search of them.

Meanwhile back at the Goodall house, Gavin was fussing over his sister. "You know, Gia is probably really worried about you. I'm sure she's blaming herself. You should talk to her."

They were in Gavin's bathroom, trying to get her a little cleaned up. Emma looked in the mirror and saw the damage to her neck. There were hand imprints completely around her neck, and the bruising was starting to look really bad. Her neck was an assortment of different purples, blues, and blacks, and she also had multiple marks on her face where she had been struck during their fight.

"Are you kidding? She's going to freak out when she sees what I look like. That's not going to help at all. I think I should hold off on seeing her for a couple days at least until my neck looks slightly better." Gavin sighed and left for a minute, before returning with some ice. He gently walked his big sister to his bed to sit, and slowly placed the ice against her throat.

He really had no idea how to take care of her, but he hoped it would at least help the bruising go down.

"When are you going to stop scaring me like this? I swear, I thought my heart was going to give out while I watched."

Emma turned to him. "Yeah, and that's when you decided to be a genius and teleport into a dangerous battlefield for no reason."

Gavin felt himself heating up slightly. "For no reason? Seeing you being choked to death is plenty enough to warrant that. Plus, you are the one who had Tensou make me a communicator in case of an emergency."

"Yeah, to get yourself away from danger. Not to run towards it! Are you crazy? Any number of things could have happened if Troy hadn't have gotten us out in time. You could have succumbed to the stress and seized, causing permanent brain damage and irreversibly harming your recovery from your tumor. We didn't know what was going on with Gia, either. She could have turned on you and killed you. Or Metal Alice could have seen you and taken you away to Vrak. What then?"

"Anything would have been better than watching your best friend choke the life out of you! I saved your life by tackling her off of you. One more second and you would have been out. You're lucky I came when I did!"

"I'd rather die than put you in harm's way! Why can't you understand that?" Emma tried to calm herself down by taking a deep breath. Neither of them had realized they were yelling. She wasn't really upset with her brother, but knowing what could have happened to him scared her. Especially with Vrak targeting him, she wanted to keep him as far away from any kind of battle as possible.

"I do understand, Emma. I understand that better than anybody because I feel the same way. I am the one who wouldn't be able to live with myself if I had just sat back in the Command Center twiddling my thumbs, while you were being killed in front of my eyes. I'd rather get hurt than watch something happen to you. Maybe you play hero and save everyone else's lives while they sit back and watch you take that risk, but I knew I could help you. I knew I needed to, or else you would die. Do you even understand that, Emma? You could have died. How can you be upset with me for saving you when you would have done the exact same thing for me?You're so obsessed with keeping me safe that you've lost yourself."

Overcome with emotion, Gavin dropped the ice onto the bed next to his sister and stormed out.

Emma watched him leave, and dropped her head into her hands.