Later that night, Waspee finally made it back to Dai Shi's temple. He staggered through the temple doors coughing forcefully. Dai Shi looked at the insect from his throne with a strange glance.

"Yuck!! I hate that horrible smoke!" Waspee said coughing again.

Dai Shi stood from his throne and descended the stairs in front of him. He walked over to Waspee and grabbed him by the armor pulling him up to his dace.

"What's going on you pathetic insect?" he asked evilly.

"Whoa, whoa! Calm down Dai Shi! I know this looks bad, but I actually have great news!"

Dai Shi threw the insect off of him. "Spit it out!" he shouted.

"You know how I was able to infect the Red Ranger with my venom?" Waspee asked.

"Get to the point vermin!" Dai Shi sneered back at him.

"Well, it finally took its toll." Waspee continued confidently.

"What're you saying?" Dai Shi asked as a large smile spread across his face.

"Let's just say that he's out of commission, and won't pose as a problem any more." Waspee explained while walking around the room happily.

"Really?" Dai Shi asked with intrigue as he headed back to his throne. "You may not be as incompetent as I thought." He added leaning back.

"And what's more is that most of the city has fallen to me as well!!" Waspee cheered.

"Hmm…" Dai Shi said as he thought over what he had just heard. "Congratulations there Waspee. You've really done well. Now if you could just get rid of the other rangers."

"Shouldn't be a problem!" Waspee said with a salute then turned to leave. "I just gotta hope that they ran out of that smoke." He said quietly to himself, and then he was gone.

"Can you believe that?" Dai Shi asked although no one appeared to be in the room.

Then Camille made herself appear from the wall. She was using her invisible powers this whole time. "No, not really. Do you really think he'll be able to handle the other rangers?" she asked standing beside him.

"Who knows?" Dai Shi said standing to leave. "What matters is that he defeated the Tiger Master. That's all that really matters to me." He said walking for the exit.

"Dai Shi?" Camille called out to him, making him stop.

Dai Shi stopped upon hearing her, but didn't turn around. "What?" he asked with annoyance.

"Why do you hate the red one so much?" She asked.

Dai Shi started walking again as he spoke. "Why not?" he growled, and then left the room as well.

Camille folded her arms. "Hmm…" she thought. "Since he hates Red Ranger so much, I'm sure he'd be pleased if I preyed on his little sweet heart." She said evilly, then turned herself invisible once more.

The next day, Fran and the rangers headed back to work at JKP. They tried desperately not to focus on the fact that one of them was missing, and another was emotionally stressed. Very few customers were there that day, so the workload was a light one. RJ and Lily made pizzas in the kitchen. He felt it best for him to be the one closest to her just in case she had another breakdown. Theo ran the register, and Dominic and Fran bused the tables and served the customers.

While he and Lily made the pizzas, RJ could tell that she was far off in thought. Her eyes were red from crying so much and her smile she usually had was long gone. She was just going through the motions, not focusing at all on what she was doing. RJ just looked at his sad student. He watched her as she used the rolling pin against some dough over and over again. She stared blankly ahead while her mind wandered.

"Are you okay, Lily?" he asked looking at her with concern.

Lily jumped when he spoke to her. She was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't even realize he was even there. She continued to roll the dough faster. "Yeah, fine. Why?" she asked with a phony smile.

"Well, for one thing if you roll out that dough any more we'll have a pancake pizza." He joked.

Lily looked down to see that she had flattened out the dough so much it was almost gone. She sighed and threw the dough forcefully in the trash. She grabbed another ball of dough and slammed it on the rolling board and began to try again. "Sorry, RJ. I was just thinking." She said sadly.

RJ gently grabbed her wrist to make her stop rolling. "Tell me what's one your mind." He said to her sweetly.

"I'm just thinking about something Casey told me before he…" she trailed off.

"Right. What was is it?" he asked.

"He made me promise him that I'd stay away from Waspee. I don't know if I can do that." She said looking to him.

"Why not?" RJ asked.

Lily pounded the table with her fist. "Because I want to destroy him! I want to make him feel as bad as he made Casey and all of those innocent people feel!" she shouted.

RJ placed his hand on her arm again to try and calm her. "Shh…it's okay. That's why we're a team. Dom, Theo and I can handle Waspee. Maybe you should just focus on feeling better yourself right now. But if you want to fight with us, you can. I'm not saying that you should or shouldn't break your promise, but this is about what you feel is right." He explained to her. "Casey just made you promise him that to protect you." He said with a sigh.

"I know." Lily said softly. "I want to keep my promise to him so badly, but I feel like I could really help. He just…means so much to me." She admitted, hanging her head.

"I know." RJ said. "You mean a lot to him too. "Go upstairs and be with him. I'll handle things down here."

"I can't just leave you down here to do all of this by yourself." She said.

"I got it. The others will help me if I need it. Besides, the customer rate has dropped." He insisted. "Please."

Lily smiled at him. "You're so sweet, RJ. Thank you." She said as she removed her apron, then walked to the other side of the counter and hugged him. "You're a great friend."

"Right back at ya, dudette." He chuckled. Then Lily headed up the stairs to see Casey. And RJ headed back to his work, but he still worried that this could only get worse and he'd have no idea how Lily would react. "Come on, Casey…" he said softly to himself. "You have to beat this. Lily won't be able to handle it if you don't."