"That's Tyler's dad?" Shelby asked, watching in curiosity as a man only a few years older than herself carefully approached Tyler.

"The energem stopped him from aging," Kendall said. "He bonded with it ten years ago."

"Glad to see that really works," Shelby muttered but couldn't take her eyes off Mr. Navarro. "So, he just... showed up?"

"I've got a lot of questions too," Kendall nodded her head. "But it seems all this time, he was just trying to keep Tyler safe."

"By leaving?"

"Fury was onto him. If Mr. Navarro went home, there's no telling who Fury would have hurt to get the energems. He was trying to protect his family."

"I understand that, but... how would Mr. Navarro know to come here, to talk to you?"

"That... that's a good question," Kendall agreed. It hadn't occurred to her yet that Mr. Navarro had somehow gotten her number, and that he knew to talk to her about the energem, about Fury. Of course, he had seen her energem and she had been trying to search for him. He had come to ask her to stop Tyler from getting any closer to finding him.

Yet, this all seemed too convenient. She excused herself from the lab, leaving behind her energem.

Meanwhile, Tyler was looking to his father. He was still being controlled by his T-Rex spirit, but his gaze was fixated on the man before him. He looked exactly how Tyler remembered him. Not a day older.

The T-Rex clouded his thoughts, maintaining control of his body. Tyler roared loudly, demanding that his father and everyone else in the lab take a step back.

"Son, I know you're in there somewhere," Mr. Navarro said. "I'm sorry I took off. I'll explain it to you, all of it. Just fight this. Come back to us."

Tyler clutched his head. He was fighting the T-Rex spirit and trying to take back control as his father's voice reached him. He couldn't believe his father had come home, that he was standing right in front of him.

"Tyler, I'm home. I'm back now. You're not going to lose me again. Now it's your turn."

Tyler's head nodded slightly before he let out a cry of pain. Shelby had to fight every instinct to jump by his side and hold him, knowing that until Tyler was back in control it was too dangerous to get close. But when the red Ranger powered down and dropped to the floor, she couldn't stop herself.

But she was beaten. Mr. Navarro made it to his son first and took him in his arms. He hugged him tight. Tyler responded in kind, wrapping his arms around his father, around the man he had spent the last ten years looking for.

"Dad, it's really you," he whispered. Mr. Navarro smiled.

"It is. And I'll explain everything, I promise."

"But not now," Shelby said. "Tyler, the others are out fighting and alien. We have to go."

"I can come with..."

"Why don't you watch for now?" Shelby suggested to Mr. Navarro, both because she wasn't sure if he could be of help and because she wanted to break him and Tyler up, just until there was time to get more answers from the aqua Ranger and find out why he had chosen now to come back.

"So you're just going to leave me here? I can fight; I know what I'm doing when I'm transformed."

"It's morphed," Cammy told him and Shelby's head turned to the little girl and her father. A quick glance around the lab reminded her that Kendall had already gone off and she realized that if she let Mr. Navarro stay here, he would be alone with Cammy and Mr. Fisher. She couldn't risk anything happening to them, not until she was sure Mr. Navarro could be trusted.

"Alright, fine," she agreed and saw the look of excitement on Tyler's face when he realized he would get the chance to fight alongside his father. She could only hope her suspicion was wrong and that Tyler's dad was real and he had the best of intentions. She couldn't take it if the red Ranger's dreams were crushed.

-Dino-Charge-

Kendall knew the other Rangers were in battle, but she couldn't bring herself to join them. Mr. Navarro turning up had raised more than a few suspicions. Before she did anything, she wanted to make sure allowing him into the lab and getting close to Tyler wasn't going to end up being a big mistake.

She checked her communicator and saw that Tyler, Shelby, and now the aqua Ranger had joined the battle. The Rangers would call if they truly needed her help, but with seven of them fighting, there was more than enough to fight one monster. She tucked the communicator away and then looked around the forest. She was close to Heckyl's ship. Not so close than she was in danger of being ambushed by all his monsters, but close enough that he would know she was there waiting for him. She could only hope he wouldn't be able to resist turning up.

Heckyl, not Snide. If Snide decided he was making the appearance she was sure to be in plenty of trouble.

"Is it just that you're stupid?" Heckyl's voice said before she saw him stepping out from behind a tree. "Not that I mind your visits, but coming out alone when you know you have something that I want..."

"I left it behind," Kendall said, showing off her empty necklace. "Destroy me if you must, but it won't get you any closer to the energems."

"I can think of other things I want," Heckyl said with a smirk. "So, what brings you by, pretty lady?"

"I want to talk."

"Good, so do I," Heckyl sat down on a fallen tree. "Our last encounter left me a little wounded."

"Not wounded enough," Kendall frowned. "You're still standing."

"I have a good medical team. But you must know I take attacks like those personally. And Snide, well, you're on his bad side too."

"I didn't think he had a good side."

"I'm his good side."

"Hardly."

"You betrayed me," Heckyl growled and felt his temper rising. "Don't pretend like you didn't."

"Fine," Kendall wasn't willing to argue this point over and over again. She knew what Heckyl thought. While he had been manipulating her, it seemed he had also developed feelings for her. He seemed furious that she had chosen to date Chase. He seemed to hate how close she allowed herself to get to the black Ranger when, just several weeks before, he had her under his thumb. She could assume that, like herself, Heckyl had never before felt such strong emotions and was now feeling hurt that Kendall had turned him down.

Of course, being in a relationship with him had never been an option. When they were just friends, Kendall never wanted to go any further. She was looking for a friend, not someone to date. After she found out everything Heckyl had done to hurt, and after seeing how he and Snide had attacked Cammy, she would rather die than consider even entertaining the thought of going on a single date with him.

"Tell me what you know about the aqua Ranger," Kendall asked him.

"He wears aqua coloured spandex," Heckyl said. "He's bonded to the aqua energem. What else can I say?"

"Why you sent him to the museum."

"My dear," Heckyl frowned. "If I knew anything about the aqua Ranger, and if I could tell him what to do, do you really think I would send him to your museum?"

"If this is another trick..."

"If I could get the aqua energem in my hands, I would. And if it were bonded to a Ranger, I wouldn't allow them to walk around. Now, considering I don't have the aqua energem, I assure you, I know nothing about this aqua Ranger you speak of."

"Heckyl, please don't lie to me about this," Kendall said. "It's one thing to mess with me, but if you hurt my Rangers, especially like this..."

"That's your downfall. You care too much for them," Heckyl chuckled. "I knew it the moment I entered your head."

"It'll be your downfall, Heckyl."

"Hand over your energem, and I'll tell you everything there is to know about this aqua Ranger. If I haven't already."

"I don't have it."

"Then I'll need something else," Heckyl said and stroked his chin thoughtfully. "I know. Dump your black Ranger."

"What?"

"Break up with him," Heckyl said. "Make it humiliating, painful. The more it hurts him, the more I'll share."

"You want me to dump Chase?"

"You want to know if the aqua Ranger is a threat, right." Heckyl asked. "After all, who's to say I didn't send him to infiltrate your base? Earn the trust of your other more gullible Rangers?"

"Considering no one but me trusted you, I'd said none are more gullible than me."

"Still, you won't risk it. Especially since it seems this aqua Ranger is already far too close to one of yours," Heckyl said. "Break up with Chase, and I'll tell you everything you need to know."