==Stanford, California, United States==

Raylan and Tyler brought Emma to their room to rest her up. She was obviously very confused...and drunk. Despite being kidna.'pped, she had no idea what happened to her. Her drink was spiked with some kind of drug that the bartenders used to render her unconscious while they performed their 'initiation'.

"Emma, are you okay?" Raylan asked her, stroking her cheek.

"You look funny." Emma giggled. Whatever was in her drink was still in her system.

"Man, she's completely gone." Tyler sighed. "We're just going to have to let her wait this out."

"She didn't have much to drink, though." Raylan commented.

"But whatever she had to drink overpowered her." Tyler said. "She's going to be gone for a while."

"Fuck, I knew we shouldn't have gone to that party." Raylan groaned. "It's all my fault!"

"Raylan, it's not your fault." Tyler placed his hand on his teammate's shoulder. "Do you want me to call the others down to help out? It's still a Friday night, there are two more days to the weekend, and I'm sure they'd be more than willing to fix a fellow Ranger up."

"That's be great." Raylan sighed and pressed his palm against his face. "I don't even know what to think of this."

"I know, they know exactly who we are." Tyler muttered. "I'm going to go give everyone else a call and see if they can come down." Tyler said and walked to a corner with his phone.

"You're going to be fine." Raylan reassured his girlfriend. "I'm so sorry I took you to that party."

"I've never seen a yellow fork before!" Emma babbled nonsensically.

"I know this sounds mean, but I can't help laughing at you." Raylan chuckled and kissed her cheek.

"That felt like skin." Emma giggled.

"Close enough." Raylan smiled.

To put it plainly, Raylan was horribly stressed out. The enemy was closing in on them, and they still knew absolutely nothing about them. This time, however, they were fighting off humans. Live human beings. Their own kind.

It took an extremely long time, but Raylan and Tyler were finally able to get some amount of sleep. While it wasn't much, it was enough to at least refuel them a bit for the next day. Tyler made calls to all of the other Rangers to get them down there. Tyler checked the time on his Morpher and saw that it was just about time for them to reach.

"Raylan...wake up." he groaned. "They should be here any minute..."

"I'm so tired..." Raylan sat up and scratched his eyes. "I didn't get any sleep at all."

"Yeah, neither did I." Tyler sighed. "Is Emma doing alright?"

"I don't know..." Raylan looked at his girlfriend's face, who was on the same bed as him. "She's still sleeping."

"Whatever she had knocked her out really quick." Tyler commented.

"Emma, wake up." Raylan whispered in her ear. She slowly started to stir.

"Huh...what?" Emma groaned and sat up next to her boyfriend. "How'd I get here?"

"You're back!" Raylan exclaimed and hugged her tightly.

"You're kinda squeezing me." Emma choked until her boyfriend finally let her free.

"Sorry." Raylan apologized. "You were completely out cold last night."

"What are you talking about?" Emma asked. "I thought I only had one cup to drink last night..."

"Yeah, and that one cup was drugged." Raylan told her. "The bartenders were working with the whole 'initiation' thing and targeted you."

"Oh, wow, I definitely missed a lot." Emma laughed. "What happened?"

"The usual, they kidnapped you and we rescued you."

"Did you find anything out?" she asked.

"They call their leader their 'Father'. I found out absolutely nothing else." Raylan explained. "And one of the bartenders got away."

"One? There were two?" Emma asked.

"Yeah, I had to kill the other one." Raylan told her.

"I'm sorry I put you through that crap."

"It was stressful, to say the least." Raylan shrugged. "You really had me worried."

"I figured..." Emma mumbled.

"Even then, the stuff you said last night made me crack the hell up." Raylan smiled.

"What do you mean?"

"You were rambling about how monkeys are painted with butter. Then you went on a tangent about how Finland isn't a real country because Fred Flintstone hadn't conquered it yet."

"Whoa, I must have been completely out." Emma scratched the back of her head.

"It was cute." Raylan kissed her cheek.

"Hey, sorry to ruin your lovefest, but everyone else is here." Tyler broke their moment. "I just got a text from them."

"The others?" Emma asked. "You called them down here?"

"We had no idea what you would be like in the morning." Raylan explained. "We thought it'd be best if we had everyone together for the weekend."

It didn't take long, but the other Rangers were able to get down overnight and book a hotel room for the five that weren't at Stanford. Mike, Shane, and Sydney decided to share rooms while Johnny and Ryleigh stayed together.

To keep their Saturday lively, they directly visited the dorms. Raylan, Emma, and Tyler were able to come downstairs to greet them.

"Hey, glad you guys could make it." Tyler told them. "We solved our little Emma issue, but we still have bigger problems."

"Can we talk about this when we're not in public?" Shane asked. "You're being a bit loud..."

"Yeah, come on in." Tyler brought them into the building and into their dorm room.

"So, what's happening around here?" Mike asked. "I think I'm the only person who isn't familiar with the situation, yet."

"Basically, this group of male students are kidnapping females in an attempt to rape them for some 'initiation'. We have no idea what this initiation is or what it accomplishes, but we know that we have to put a stop to it." Raylan explained. "We've got lives on the stake here."

"What do we know?" Mike asked.

"We know that Emma and I have been kidnapped." Sydney answered. "That's two of the three girls on the team."

"And there's one more..." Johnny mumbled. "Ryleigh..."

"Oh shit." Ryleigh cupped her hand over her mouth. "I'm next!"

"We have to keep a tight watch on her." Raylan instructed his team. "That means nobody can take their eyes off of her. I took my eyes off of Emma for less than a minute and she was gone."

"So we have to babysit her?" Shane asked.

"Pretty much." Tyler nodded. "It's our only option."

"It's a good thing we're all together, then." Emma said.

"Yeah, I think I need the comfort of this whole team." Ryleigh admitted. "I'm feeling really queasy about this all."

"It'll be okay." Johnny pulled her in close.

"I hope so."