Jake stared down at his hands as he sat by himself up in the crow's nest. While he knew he would never hurt Gia, he couldn't help but feel like he had done wrong by her. By not giving her the space and reassurance she needed when she called for milk, he felt just a mean and nasty as Cliff.

The door opened up. Orion climbed into the crow's nest and looked to Jake sympathetically, "You had to do it."

"That doesn't make it any easier," he said.

"Once we get Gia back, I'm sure she'll understand. She's stubborn, but she's not stupid."

"I know. I'm still worried," Jake sighed. He looked up at Orion, "How are the tests?"

"All have come up normal."

"Seriously?"

"Tensou's looking deeper. He's looking for anything out of the ordinary beyond just vitals and scans."

"How is everything coming up normal?"

"Maybe this attack goes deeper than the others?" Orion suggested. "Maybe one of the brothers found a way to keep their... whatever from being detected. You know, to destroy us from the inside out."

"It sounds like a Vrak plan. And making Gia his target again..."

"Hey, we've figured everything else out, right? We'll figure this one out. Gia's going to be fine."

"I hope so."

Orion nodded his head and gave Jake a comforting pat on the shoulder before he climbed back down to the deck. As he hopped off the ladder, he saw Rebecca coming out of his room. He knew she had just put Ryan down for a second nap.

"How's the kid?"

"She's fine. Hopefully she's a little less fussy when she wakes up. My ears can't handle all the screaming."

"We'll try to keep her happy," Orion promised. Rebecca sighed loudly.

"Hopefully we figure out what's up. This wasn't the homecoming I was expecting."

"Homecoming?"

"Yeah. A celebration for coming home."

"You were gone a day," Orion chuckled.

"Um, yeah, but it was a journey to better myself as a human being. Those are deep."

"I used to work in the mines for weeks and then come home to screaming brothers and sisters."

"Sucks for you. I was expected a big celebration and dinner."

"Humans are spoiled," Orion muttered under his breath. Rebecca smirked.

"I heard that."

-Megaforce-

Below deck, Tensou had finished with his tests and was waiting for the second round of results to come through. While he worked away on his computer, Emma sat by the examination table where Gia lay. She hadn't yet come to since Noah had sedated her, but to avoid her running off or freaking out on one of the others, Tensou had to restrain her. Emma knew it wasn't likely Tensou find the cause and cure for her behaviour before the drugs wore off, but she hoped he would. She knew a part of her would never forgive herself if Gia found herself once again held against her will by her own friends.

However, the most important thing was Gia's health. Emma was willing to go to great lengths to take care of her best friend, and knew Tensou wouldn't do anything to hurt her. He wouldn't dare. After all, despite Vanessa being in a committed relationship, Tensou still had a huge crush on her. He knew how much Vanessa cared for Gia and so did everything he could to keep her safe. Emma had noticed that Tensou would often spend more time caring for Gia's injuries than he would the others, and often panicked a lot more over Gia than anyone else. Considering it hadn't yet cost the others an arm or a leg, everyone found it to be quite comical.

This time, it worked to their advantage. Emma knew Tensou would work tirelessly to find out what had gotten into the yellow Ranger and how to stop it hurting her further. Emma just had to trust that by the time it was all over, her relationship with Gia wouldn't be too badly severed.

Emma looked up when she heard a little moan. She saw Gia was starting to come too and braced herself for her reaction. Gia tried to bring her hand up to rub her eyes, but quickly found it was restrained to the side of the examination table. She groaned, dropped her head back in the pillow her friends had left for her and rolled her eyes, "Great. Now I'm a fucking lunatic."

Emma didn't want to say anything. There really wasn't anything to say. She hoped that if she just sat there quietly and answered any questions Gia had, she could keep her best friend calm. However, the questions never came. Gia never even seemed to acknowledge Emma was in the room. When Gia was more alert, she simply turned her head over to where Tensou was working and spoke to him.

"So how bad do they think I've lost it?" she asked him. Tensou turned to her with a sigh.

"My scans don't show anything yet, but you can ask Emma yourself."

Gia huffed, rolled her eyes and turned her head away from Tensou. Emma thought Gia was giving her the silent treatment. She thought she had pissed her off to the point where she would pretend Emma wasn't even in the room. Gia would often do so when she got angry. The cold shoulder, the silent treatment, pretending the person she was angry with was dead to her, they were all Gia's strategies, and Emma was scared Gia was employing them all at once this time. She reached out her hand and was just about to apologize to Gia when she felt the yellow Ranger jump again. It happened just after Emma's hand touched Gia's.

"Who's there?" Gia asked. She looked down at her hand and then around the room. "Tensou, who the hell is here?"

"Emma," Tensou answered, like it was obvious, and it was. "She's been here the whole time."

"Emma's not here, Tensou," Gia growled. "Can you just stop with the act?"

"She's right there! Emma, tell her," Tensou said. Emma chose silence. Something was weird and she wanted to figure out what. Tensou rolled over to her. "Emma, tell her you're there!"

Emma didn't say anything. She shook her head and looked down at Gia. Now it was Tensou's turn to get frustrated.

"Emma! Talk to her! Let her know you're here! Come on, what's gotten into you?"

"No one's there, Tensou," Gia argued with him. "And whatever trick you're playing..."

"It's not a trick. She's there! Look!" Tensou said and poked Emma in the leg. Emma didn't make a sound. Gia raised an eyebrow.

"What am I looking at? If you're the guy who's supposed to fix me from whatever, maybe we need to check your programming."

"But she's there!"

"No one's there!" Gia screamed. Emma gasped loudly as the solution finally dawned on her, startling both Gia and Tensou.