In Amber Beach, Alessandra was taking a little break from her workout, taking a seat on a multi-gym that wasn't in use while she caught her breath. She was working hard to return to her best after her injury. It wasn't too long ago that she had been put on the shelf by Vinnie's irresponsible and petulant behaviour in their match. It didn't help that one of the opponents that had been lined up for her was a big name on the circuit. Ricochet had worked all over the world, and the word on the scene was that he was already being courted by a number of the big companies. It was always a privilege to work with big names and talented workers, but when it was someone who was already under the microscope of the big leagues, that meant the scouts were keeping a very close eye on all their matches...and that meant anyone they worked with had a real opportunity to be seen!

She was fortunate enough that Carl had managed to get her a part on a small show in a couple of days. It was one thing getting her strength back, but for a match that could easily get her seen by some talent scouts, she needed to be sure she would put on the best performance she possibly could. Chances like this didn't come around very often.

It was a little unfortunate that Koda was out of town. He had called to say that he was needed in the field urgently, and had to leave so quickly he hadn't been able to see her in person. She was a little disappointed that he wouldn't be there to support her in her first match back since the injury, but he had explained that sometimes they would need to leave quickly if news of a find came to them. It was a little upsetting to know, but she didn't really think she could complain since she knew that she was never certain when a booking would take her out of the state at short notice.

"You trying to call him again?" Jack teased her from a corner, where he was teaching one of the younger trainees the finer points of a sleeper hold. You already tried four times! He only left this morning."

"I miss." She told him with a little smile. Jack just sighed.

"Well when you DO get through to him, try to tell him to get his arse back here quick smart." Jack told her. "It's not every day someone gets a chance like we're giving him. If he wants it..."

"He be there." Alessandra sighed, looking to him. "Koda promise. He always keep promise."

She lit up as her phone finally started ringing. Before, for some reason her signal hadn't been able to get through. She had to admit that her phone wasn't the best thing on the market, just what she could afford on her variable income. Eventually, there was a response on the other end.

"Alessandra?" Koda asked. She could hardly contain her joy hearing his voice.

"You not answer when I call before, my call no get through." She said as she finally got an answer.

"Are I in...bad reception." Koda said, remembering the line his friends told him to use. It was something of an "unregistered feature" of the Zords. While the Rangers were inside, their cell phones wouldn't get a signal. While cell phones hadn't existed when the power of the Energems created the Zords, Kendall had hypothesised that they had a kind of psychic defence to try and ward off any signals that may attempt to affect their minds or control them. It wasn't easy to find a way to create communicators that would work within the Zords, but it was one of the early stumbling blocks. Communication in battle was the key to a number of their victories. "How you feel?"

"Tired, I train very hard." She told him. "How you? You find many dinosaurs?"

"Not yet." He told her.

"When you be back?" She asked him. "I miss you."

"I miss too." Koda told her. Just then, her phone started bleeping. She furrowed her brows at the warning.

"Koda, get warning." She told him. His response was cut off before he could answer. "Koda, KODA!"

"You have insufficient credit to complete this call." The automated voice told her. She just stared at her phone in disbelief.

"You done there?" Jack asked her.

"I get cut off." Alessandra told him, checking the credit on her phone. Due to the fact she could never tell from one month to the next exactly how much she would earn, she didn't have a network contract, she used pre-paid credit on a burner phone. She checked, and indeed she didn't have credit. That was to say, she only had a few cents worth of credit on her phone. "I run out of credit."

"Well, I guess that's a lesson in topping up regularly." Jack responded. "Now, if you're done sitting around, could you PLEASE show this muppet how to perform a sunset flip? If he lands on his head one more time he's going to have brains spilling out his ears!"

"I top up two days ago." Alessandra whispered to herself as she furrowed her brows. She always had some credit on her phone, it was important she was able to call back any bookers that tried to contact her. She had put twenty dollars on her phone. How could she have run that out so quickly?

"Alessandra, will you help this kid or not?" Jack asked her. She just sighed and put her phone away, returning to help Jack train the young trainee. It was a puzzle that would have to wait.

In New Zealand, Koda hung up the phone reluctantly. Chase could see the expression on his face.

"Everything alright mate?" He asked.

"Alessandra, call cut off." Koda told him. "I really miss."

"Look, we'll be heading back soon. You won't be away from her too long." Chase reminded him. "Come on, we need to talk to the new guy."

"He not that new." Koda grunted. Chase just chuckled.

"So says the guy that's older than him by about a hundred thousand years." He reminded him as they headed back to the man camp.

They had returned to Albert's shack out in the woods to discuss how to proceed now that they had found the Purple Energem, and the one it had bonded to. They had known that they were going to New Zealand looking for another Ranger. They didn't really know what to expect when they got there. While they knew that courage was something they valued, no one really knew EXACTLY what each of the Energems was looking for in its host. So far they had a knight, a cave man, a Prince and a farm kid in their line-up. Sometimes the choice was obvious, like when Ivan laid down his life to protect an ungrateful and ignorant prince. Other times, the choice wasn't quite so obvious.

"The giant squid was tearing the ship apart! With all the crushing it was already only half the width of when it started!" Albert relayed one of his stories. Chase and Koda could see the expressions on the faces of the others, and see they were all struggling not to laugh at the wild tales. Even Tyler, the one who had defended Albert the most, clearly was having a little difficulty with the story.

"Really? It had already crushed the ship that much, and it hadn't sunk yet?" Riley replied.

"Well...it sank eventually; I couldn't stop that, that's why you don't see it here among my souvenirs." Albert said in an off-hand way. Riley coughed but the word 'convenient' seemed to escape his lips as he did so. Albert either didn't notice, or didn't pay it any mind. "That's when I realised I had no choice and dove right in to fend it off!"

"So it was strong enough to destroy a ship, and yet you fought it off with your bare hands...before you even had the Energem?" Ivan asked him, leaning his chin on his hand. It was like the time he had heard an old man in his local tavern bragging about the almighty sword he had created in his forge, that could cut through four fully armoured knights in a single stroke. The man had ended up being cut down when someone tested that theory, only to find that the sword was nothing more than a cheap, pig-iron blade that shattered the moment he tried to block an incoming attack. "You are bold indeed."

"Energem, is that what you call this?" He asked, pulling out the Purple Energem. Everyone stopped laughing and their faces became a lot more serious. It wasn't clear whether Albert was genuinely completely out of touch with reality, or if he was just a liar, but the one thing that seemed consistent is that his own words were not reliable on their own. The only part of his wild tales they could verify with anything other than his words was that he had indeed found and bonded to an Energem.

"Yes, that is an Energem." Ivan interjected. He didn't really know what experience the others had with those who peddled in tall tales, but he did know that it was different from his day. In this day and age everyone had cell phones with internet access which meant if they were unsure they could call someone on their bullshit with a ten second Boogle search...or Goggle or...whatever it was, they could search their interweb and find the truth very quickly and easily. In his day, it was important to simply have very good instincts to tell by someone's behaviour and the way they said things if they could be trusted. The man with the pig-iron sword would likely attest to that if he hadn't been cut in half! "It holds power beyond your imagining."

"Oh, I don't doubt it! I broke up a bank robbery once. Ran in without thinking if the man might be armed! I took a shotgun...right here!" He said, recalling his tale as he pointed to his chest. "By the following morning, I didn't have so much as a bruise!"

Riley nudged Ivan under the table and showed him his I-phone below its surface. He had called up the story. There was indeed video evidence of the 'Violet Avenger' being shot in one of his exploits, only to get back up and take the crook down. Riley looked to Albert.

"Well, those space ships you've been seeing belong to those monsters we fought." He explained.

"So Albert, how did you get the Energem anyway?" Shelby asked him.

"Oh, well that was down to Wendy." He told them. They all just looked puzzled. "Wendy is a little girl, belongs to a couple of my friends, she's around here all the time! He's a very spirited little thing, always getting into all kinds of trouble. She's an adventurous little thing, but she never seems to think things through and ends up in all sorts of scrapes."

"Yeah, I wonder why she likes it around here so much." Riley whispered to Ivan. The knight just nodded, agreeing that she probably just got overly excited by the old man's wild tales and looked for adventure herself, even if she was too young to realise the danger she could put herself in out in the wilderness.

"She went up those mountains there looking for Bigfoot." He explained, pointing to some mountains a little way off. "Lord knows why, everyone knows Bigfoot prefer lower ground, especially in winter. It's far too cold up there...she got caught in a massive blizzard. The local rescue teams called off the search, but I know these mountains like the back of my hand. I went after her."

"You went up there, after a little girl...in the middle of winter?" Chase asked him. The others all looked to him. "It's not sunny all the time; in winter it gets really cold...New Zealand has some amazing snow-boarding."

"Well, I just packed my bag and went right on up there after her!" Albert told them as he thought about that day. "When I found her, she was alive, but only barely. Poor little thing was frozen, she'd passed out...if I had got there any later she'd never have made it. But when I was wrapping her up to take her down, wondering how I was ever going to get her all the way down that mountain by myself, that's when I saw it."

"The Energem was up a mountain?" Shelby asked. This part of the story didn't seem to make much sense. The Purple Energem was inhabited by the spirit of a Plesiosaur, which was a water-lizard. Generally, Energems were found in the remains of the dinosaurs that had been bonded to them. She just started trying to think. "Maybe with some tectonic plate shifts and..."

"No, that's the thing; it wasn't even on the mountain!" Albert informed them. "I just saw an intense purple light erupting from that lake, right over there!"

They all followed his arm as he pointed.

"The next thing I know, this thing flew right into my hand!" Albert told them. "It was strange, I felt an intense rush...I started seeing images of Tanifa. Next thing I know, I feel stronger than I've ever felt! I barely even remember the journey down the mountain, but I carried Wendy in my arms, barely feeling a thing, and before I knew it, we were back down on the ground! I hadn't felt so amazing...well...ever!"

"So, you found the Energem, and you've been using it to help people ever since." Tyler surmised.

"Well, yes." He replied. "I started off small, purse snatchers and bike thieves, but then I started getting into some more serious situations. Before I knew it, I was in all the papers. Aukland's answer to Batman they said...whatever that is."

"Well, now you're in a much more serious game." Ivan told him. "Those creatures, the ones that want that Energem won't stop until they get it, and they'll go through anyone they have to in the process."

"You mean...I'm the reason they're even here?" Albert asked, looking horrified. Riley pointed to the Energem in his hand.

"They want to steal that Energem and use it for evil." He explained. "With that powering their weapons, there's no telling what they could do."

"I just wanted to do good deeds for my town!" Albert told them, staring at the Energem in his hand, his voice losing a lot of its usual bluster. "I had no idea it would bring this kind of trouble."

"Albert, we're a team for a reason. Any one of us on our own could be picked off. It's a bloody miracle you haven't been already." Chase assured him. "I'm a kiwi too. You don't know how much I miss it. But the safest thing you could do would be to come with us."

"Come with...you mean leave New Zealand?" He asked.

"If you come with us, then there'll be nothing here for Fury and his friends." Shelby explained to him, seeing the thought of leaving was unsettling for him. The camp might not have looked like much, but it was clear it was home for the old man. "They'll lose interest and follow us."

"I've...I've never even left the North Islands." He stammered. Tyler put his arm around him, holding him tightly.

"Well, think about it this way! When you got that Energem all you wanted was to do good deeds for Aukland." He reminded him excitedly. "Now you get to do good deeds for the entire world!" Albert forced a smile.

"Yes, that sounds like a grand adventure!" He concluded, looking at the Energem as his voice tailed off. "A grand adventure indeed."

Meanwhile, back at the theatre, Fury and Meteor had returned, and were in a foul mood given the recent arrival of the Rangers. They had hoped that they would be able to get the Purple Energem before the Rangers would even realise it had been found. Now that they were also here in New Zealand, matters had been complicated further.

"I take it you still don't have a Purple Energem?" Wrench asked them. Fury just grabbed him, slamming him against a wall.

"At least I'm actually doing something productive!" He yelled at him. "The rest of the Rangers are here!"

"Really? You didn't foresee that coming?" Wrench asked him sarcastically as Fury gripped his throat...or at least where his throat SHOULD be. One thing that Fury never factored in when he was threatening Wrench was that he was now a cyborg. Choking him didn't really work considering his neck was now armoured metal as opposed to a squishy, fleshy windpipe like it was in other creatures. "That blonde scientist of theirs may only be human, but she isn't a complete mush-brained primitive."

"I believe her creations have defeated yours a few times." Fury said, releasing Wrench. "What's your record again?"

"Anyway, that's why I haven't exactly been doing nothing here." Wrench told him. "And now, it's finally ready!"

"I'll believe that when I see it." Fury responded. Rather than continue with some childish verbal sparring, Wrench just activated his reanimation device, putting in a couple of samples. Fury just stood and watched.

"So, will we need a mop this time?" He asked. However, he came up off the wall he was leaning on as he saw some shapes starting to glow and appear. Before long, there were screams, but it wasn't like the screams he had heard before, the anguished screams of a creature only barely with the self-awareness to know it was suffering, but actual creatures. Wrench turned off the power as the two creatures appeared, and collapsed onto their knees, smoke rising from them. Wrench came over to them and hauled them up.

"I believe you have already met Ice-Age and Stingrage?" He asked. Fury just came over, looking to both creatures as he inspected Wrench's work. It was remarkable. Both creatures had been completely destroyed by the Rangers, both before his very eyes. Yet, with a few DNA samples from their remains, Wrench had actually managed to clone them. Fury smiled.

"I apologise Wrench, you haven't been wasting your time after all." Fury responded as he stood before the creatures. "Now, tell me, how would you like revenge on the ones that killed you?"

Back in Amber Beach, Alessandra had finally gotten back to her cheap motel room, after picking up some more credit on her phone. However she was still puzzled by how she had managed to run out her credit so quickly. It wasn't as though she was calling a lot of people, it had only been two days, and in that time she'd had a short conversation with a booker, and her call to Koda that had been cut off.

She cursed in her native tongue as she was forced to endure the on-hold music, thankful that customer service was a toll-free number. She'd been on hold for quite some time. Eventually, she got through.

"Customer Service, how may I help you?" The woman asked.

"You rip me off!" She yelled down the phone.

"Please calm down madam..."

"I buy credit two days ago!" She protested.

"I can see that madam, but your credit ran out." The lady said matter-of-factly.

"HOW?" Alessandra demanded. "I only make two calls!"

"Yes, I can see that here, one to an AT&T number registered to San Francisco..."

"Yes, and one to my boyfriend!" Alessandra snapped. The operator tapped a few keys.

"Yes madam, and with international connection charges..."

"In...international conn..." She stammered, trying to get her head around what she was being told. She knew Koda was going on a trip, but now she was told he had left the country? "International Connection?"

"Yes, with the international connection fee, the cost per minute..."

"I...where I call?" Alessandra asked her. The operator just sighed and checked the screen.

"The cell phone number you called is showing as being traced to New Zealand." The operator told her. "If you are likely to make many international calls, we have a range of packages..."

Alessandra had heard enough though and just hung up. She was completely confused. Koda had told her he was going out of town, but she imagined that meant he was leaving the city, possibly even the state. He certainly hadn't told her he was leaving the country!

"New Zealand?" She asked. "Why Koda go New Zealand?"

She then checked the time on her phone, and another thought occurred to her. The cell phone company had said he was IN New Zealand. He had only called her the day before to tell her he was leaving. She had never been herself, but she knew from others that flights to New Zealand generally took the better part of a full day. He could only have been gone a few hours before she had called him. How did he get there so fast?