Shelby had done everything she could. She had said everything she had to say. Tyler wasn't responding to any of it. He still believed himself a T-Rex.

"Dammit!" she muttered, turning away from him while he continued to try and bite her. She immediately noticed the disapproving look on Cammy's face and sighed. "I... well... you know what I mean."

"I'm telling Kendall."

"I don't care," Shelby rolled her eyes, casting a quick glance back at Tyler before making her way over to the computers. "It's just my luck that as soon as I get a boyfriend, he's turned into a dinosaur."

"I had a dream once that Kendall turned into Plesio," Cammy said, holding up her stuffed toy. "I still loved her."

"That's a little different," Shelby sighed. She sat next to the little girl. "You can't think of anything we can do for him, can you?"

"Thinking kind of hurts my head still," Cammy looked to Shelby apologetically. The pink Ranger nodded.

"We'll make Heckyl pay for that too," she said. "That's why Kendall came up with the Super Charger in the first place. We need to beat him."

"Anyone hungry?" Mr. Fisher asked, making his way back into the base with two bags of take-out food from the cafe. He had to remember to walk the long way around Tyler as he made his way over to the work station. "Chicken fingers, fries and burgers."

"I can't eat," Shelby said, leaning back in her chair as she continued to watch Tyler. Cammy was quick to grab her chicken fingers. She finally had her appetite back after a couple of weeks of barely eating and couldn't wait to enjoy a good meal. However, just before taking a bite, she noticed that Tyler's movements had changed. He was still trying to break free of the ankle chain, but it seemed he was sniffing the air and eyeing the food before her. She picked up her box of chicken fingers and carefully made her way over.

"Cammy, what are you doing?" her father asked, watching her closely. So long as she stayed out of Tyler's reach, she was safe.

"I think he's hungry," Cammy picked up a chicken and threw it at Tyler. It hit the ground and he lowered his head to devour it. Unfortunately, because of the helmet, he couldn't eat it and was left to peck at the ground uselessly. Cammy started to chuckle as she watched him. "He looks like a big chicken!"

"Cammy, that's not nice," her father said. "You're teasing him."

"But he looks funny!" Cammy said and pointed to Tyler, who continued to try and pick up the chicken finger with his mouth and waving his hands, which he kept close to his chest. "Look, he even thinks he has short arms!"

"Cammy, come back here," her father frowned, but Cammy continued to watch Tyler and threw another piece of chicken at him. The red Ranger forgot all about the piece that lay in front of him and dove to try and eat the new one. Cammy chuckled and was soon joined by Shelby. Mr. Fisher frowned as he turned to the pink Ranger.

"I thought you were worried."

"I am," she nodded. "But... this is kind of funny," she watched Tyler peck away at the meat, trying to devour it, not realizing that with his helmet on, he would never be able to pick it up or eat it. She was still desperate to get Tyler back to normal, but the sight of a human T-Rex trying to eat chicken finger was keeping her entertained for the time being.

Mr. Fisher watched as well. He would admit, were the circumstances not serious, and if Tyler had simply been playing a game of charades, this would have been funny for him too. However, one of the Rangers truly believed he was a dinosaur, four others were off to battle against an alien and his daughter had, for some reason, abandoned her responsibilities for something she claimed was more important.

Yet, Cammy threw another chicken finger for Tyler and she and Shelby laughed as he forgot about the other two and tried to eat the third, still pecking and pushing his face into the ground in the hopes his jaws could pick it up, in spite of the helmet.

Maybe, as Cammy said, they were just used to this kind of stuff happening. Maybe the seriousness of the situation was lost on them.

Maybe it wasn't. Maybe, because this happened more often than he knew they had to find a way to laugh about it. Saving the world, fighting monsters, falling under spells and anything else the bad guys could do had to leave them in a constant state of fear and frustration. Being able to laugh had to mean some kind of release for them.

-Dino-Charge-

Abandoning her responsibilities wasn't something Kendall did... ever. She couldn't remember a time where the Rangers needed her help and she left the lab. She did remember pulling all-nighters, closing down the museum so she could focus and ignoring calls from her parents. Normally, she did everything in her power to be able to help, no matter the cost.

But this was different. The phone call she had received was more important. Mostly because it could possibility help Tyler snap out of his dino-like behaviour.

She stepped into the alley between the museum and the neighbouring shop. She spotted a man, close to her age, standing there waiting for her. She was sure she would need it, but just in case she summoned her Dino Morpher and kept it tucked safely behind her back. It wouldn't be the first time Heckyl had tricked her.

"Mr. Navarro?" she called and the man looked to her, nodding his head. She approached him, but made sure to keep a couple of feet distance between them. If this was a trick or a trap, she wanted to be ready to fight back.

"You're Kendall Morgan?" he asked her, looking her up and down. Kendall nodded her head.

"You're Tyler's father..."

"Shh," Mr. Navarro said and glanced around the alley. Kendall thought this was odd, but then again, Tyler was in her secret lab under the museum and acting like a T-Rex.

"You know your son's been looking for you," Kendall said but again Mr. Navarro hushed her and looked around worriedly.

"Is there somewhere safer we can talk?"

"That depends on why you're here," she said. "What are you looking for?"

"You have to stop looking for me," Mr. Navarro told her with a stern look and then lowered his voice. "I know all about how you're working with my son. I know he's looking for me. But it needs to stop. I need you to convince him it's over."

"I'm sorry, what?" Kendall frowned and felt her blood was starting to boil. She and Tyler had always had their missing fathers in common. While it had caused them to butt heads a few times, it also meant they understood what it was like to have a parent suddenly disappear from their lives. However, while Kendall lived on with the hope of never seeing her father again, Tyler was desperate to find his. He had spent the last ten years of his life searching for any sign of his father's whereabouts and clinging on to the tiniest shred of hope that he was still alive. He spoke fondly of his father and had convinced himself that his father didn't leave him intentionally.

Tyler had put all his resources into rescuing his father. And now, as it turned out, Mr. Navarro didn't want to be found. For Kendall, Tyler's father was starting to remind her too much of her own father.

She didn't want Tyler, or anyone, to hurt the way she had.

"He's your son," she spoke, not paying any attention to how desperate he was for her to lower her voice and the way he kept looking over his shoulder in a panic. "And he's been looking everywhere for you, waiting for you to come home. And you just want to..."

"I don't want to, but I have to," Mr. Navarro said as he reached into his pocket. Kendall saw him pull out the aqua energem and she looked back up at him. He sighed. "I found this ten years ago on an expedition. I know you know what it is."

"You do," Kendall asked. She knew once the energems were bonded, they led their hosts to where they needed to be. Fortunately, they were always needed at the museum, where Keeper was waiting for them and where Kendall had designed the lab to keep them out of Sledge's and now Heckyl and Snide's hands. It had been a huge mystery why the aqua Ranger, despite being bonded with an energem had never turned up. Now that she knew the aqua Ranger had been Mr. Navarro all along, Kendall was curious more than ever.

Mr. Navarro pointed to the energem around her neck. In her rush to meet him, Kendall had taken her energem but once again forgot to tuck it inside her shirt.

"You're the purple Ranger, aren't you?" Mr. Navarro asked her. "Part of the team that fights Fury and those other monsters."

"So you did know about us."

"For a few months, now," Mr. Navarro said. "And I promise, I was trying to meet you Rangers, but I kept being led here by my energem and... I saw Tyler worked in the cafe. With Fury after me, I... I couldn't lead him right to my son. I'm sorry."

"What?" Kendall frowned.

"The day I found this," Mr. Navarro held up his energem, "This cat-like monster, Fury, came after me. On and off he's been tracking me down, trying to get me to hand it over. I've morphed and I've been able to hold him off so far, but a few times I've come close to being killed."

"You can't take on Fury by yourself."

"I also couldn't bring him home," Mr. Navarro said. "When I first found the energem, Fury was following me closely. If I went home, if I saw my son, I'm worried about what could have happened to him or my wife. I couldn't put them in danger. The safest thing I could do was... disappear."

Kendall eased up on her anger a bit. Mr. Navarro had caused his son a lot of pain by disappearing but she could understand his reason for it. Fury wasn't as ruthless as Snide had proven to be, but she was sure, if it came down to obtaining and energem, he wouldn't hesitate to rip apart a father and son.

And if it was true that Mr. Navarro had found his energem ten years ago then Tyler would have only been a boy, right around Cammy's age. He hadn't yet bonded to an energem. Only Koda and Ivan were, and they had been trapped in a block of ice and Fury respectively.

Mr. Navarro had nowhere to go and no one to turn to. His best choice was also the hardest one. He had to leave.

"Fury's not come after me in a while," Mr. Navarro said. "But just in case he does, I don't want Tyler getting caught up in this. Please, Ms. Morgan, you have to stop him from looking for me. He's safest if he doesn't know."

"Actually," Kendall said and gestured to the museum. "There's something you need to see."