"Cat, Cat!" Gia rushed out as she leaned over the couch, checking on the teenage girl, gently tapping her cheek to try and bring her round. After their battle with Moltor had ended, Emma and Noah had explained that they had taken Z and Jack somewhere that someone could keep an eye on them while the Rangers tried to stop Moltor from destroying all of Los Angeles. By the time they had left, most of Venice Beach's waterfront lay in ruin, and covered in patches of volcanic rock, but all things considered, they were sure that if it was between cleaning up a beach and rebuilding the city, the authorities would be more than grateful.

As soon as they had arrived, they had found the front door lying open, and Cat lying on the floor unconscious. They knew they had to find the kids, believing them to be the secret to securing the next set of Ranger Keys, but without knowing, REALLY knowing what had happened, they had nowhere to begin the search.

None of that was Gia's first concern though. As soon as she had seen Cat lying on the floor, all thoughts of the keys had gone right out of her head. She had immediately sprung into action, trying to revive her. After satisfying themselves that there was no threat of spinal injury or making anything worse, they had moved her to the couch for comfort. As she started to stir, Gia breathed a noticeable sigh of relief.

"Cat, are you alright?" She asked her. Cat was still trying to get her bearings.

"It's OK, I just have a little head on my bump." She told them. Noah just looked to the others.

"Uh...I can't tell if that's a sign of concussion or not." He remarked. Gia just threw a fist backwards, her eyes never leaving Cat, catching Noah in the knee with a pained yelp.

"Hey, you had us really worried there." Gia told her, moving to help her. "Can you sit up?"

Cat started to sit up, but swayed a little.

"I don't feel so good." She answered.

"What happened?" Gia asked her, checking out the huge bump on her forehead. "Who did this to you?"

"There was this big monkey thing." Cat told her. "He hit me with a cymbal."

"If it was anyone else, I'd say that was the blow to the head talking." Noah stated. Gia just raised a fist, like she was about to hit him again. Noah pulled back and held up his hand in apology. "A monkey...that sounds like..."

"Colo." Troy responded. "And if Colo's been here, then I think it's a fair bet Lafitte was here too."

"And since there's no sign of the kids..." Emma continued, unable to think of what could have happened to them. She turned and looked to Cat. Just then, they all looked around as they heard the door lock tripping. They knew Cat had moved out to LA with her brother, and that he often worked shifts. They had all met him before, so they weren't really worried about him coming in. They just turned their attention back to Cat.

"Cat! I'm back!" A female voice called through, causing all of the Rangers to look up at once. "We had loads of leftovers after the lunch rush, so I have dinner..."

Her words tailed off as she got into the living room, and the bag just slipped out of her hand. She looked to be about the same age as the Rangers and Cat, with long, dark hair. She was wearing tight jeans, white sneakers, and a white denim jacket. She just stared around at the Rangers.

"Um...Hi, we're..."

All of them were suddenly deafened by an ear-splitting scream, following which the mystery girl launched herself at them, hugging all of them tightly. She started to babble out something incoherent, but catching the odd word, they quickly figured out that she had recognised them as the Rangers, probably from all the wanted posters.

"Wow, now that...that was a reaction." Noah said with a smile.

"Dude, when you met Billy, you practically lost your lunch." Noah reminded him, pointing out the fact Jake had no right to judge anyone for nerding out a little when they saw them.

"Dude, the freaking Power Rangers are in our living room!" She rushed out, casting a glance in Cat's direction. "I know you told me you met them, but I thought..."

The new girl suddenly stopped talking as she saw Cat's slightly vacant look, and the large bump, that was starting to approach the size of a ping pong ball on her head. She immediately shoved the Rangers aside as she got onto the couch with Cat, holding her.

"Dude, what happened?" She asked her. Cat just sighed.

"I paid the inevitable price for helping friends." She replied. The girl got up and glared at them.

"Wait...this is your fault?" She asked them. Emma just backed up a little.

"We really didn't mean..."

"What happened? Who did this?" The girl demanded. Troy just approached her slowly, keeping his hands where she could see them.

"OK, let's all just calm down for a minute, we don't want any more trouble." Troy assured her. "I'm Troy, this is..."

"I know who you are; I have all your wanted posters!" The girl snapped at him, crossing her arms defiantly.

"Tamsin..."

"Not now Cat!" The girl interrupted her. "So what gives? What are you doing here?"

"What are we...?" Gia asked, beginning to find the girl's aggressive stance wearing by now. "What are YOU doing here?"

"I live here!" Tamsin responded sharply. "Now since Cat was fine when I left this morning, and now she looks like someone tried to hit a home run with her head, and the only thing that's different is you're here...I'm guessing that this is something to do with you!"

"We didn't hurt Cat." Emma assured her. "But...um...I guess we might have had something to do with it."

Tamsin just sat on the couch with Cat, her arms crossed defiantly.

"Well why don't you just explain it to me?" She suggested. "And I suggest you do it before I consider calling that fugitive hotline. I've seen the posters so many times I have the number memorised."

Troy looked around, and finding a chair, he pulled it up and looked to Tamsin as he tried to find a way to explain, hoping that Cat could still tell them something that could help them find the missing kids.

Meanwhile, elsewhere, Jack and Z were sitting in a grossly ornate room within Lafitte's ship. It was set up as a dining room, and looked like it had been set up for some kind of dignitary. Lafitte had brought them here, and then disappeared, locking them inside. Z was sitting in the corner, with her arms wrapped around herself, while Jack paced around the room, inspecting every inch of it for an escape route. He made his way towards one of the sides, and stuck his head straight through the wall.

"Jack, will you stop that?" Z told him as he carried on. One of the things they had bonded over, one of the reasons they were such close friends was the fact that they were both different. Neither of them knew why, but they had always been able to do things that other people couldn't. Z had, from a young age, been able to create other copies of herself, meaning she could quite literally be in more than one place at a time. Jack on the other hand was able to move through solid objects. Both of them had found these abilities quite useful on the streets, but it wasn't something they advertised. Even among societies outcasts, they knew they were different, even from the others in the camp that had become part of their community. Neither of them were keen to find out the answer to the question, where did the outcast's outcasts go?

"Z, I'm working here." Jack told her as he pulled his head back in. He wasn't so much worried about an escape route for himself. His ability had proven more than a little useful in his short life already. Supermarkets and restaurants had a lot of food that was all too easy to take when it didn't matter if they locked the doors at night. His concern was finding a way both of them could escape. While Z's abilities did have their uses, she couldn't walk through walls like he could. Even if he did get away, he'd have to find a way to unlock the door for her. Leaving her behind, the only one that was just like him, was not an option.

"Jack, we can't let him know about us!" Z told him. "If he knows..."

"Well, I'm not really keen on waiting around to find out what he wants!" Jack interrupted her. He came over to Z's side, holding her. "Look, I'm trying to find a way out, for both of us."

The door opened, and they both jumped to their feet as Lafitte walked in. He had a huge smile on his face as he came in.

"Alright, what do you want creep?" Jack yelled at him.

"Why...I only wanted to talk to you." He answered. "My name is Lafitte, this is my ship, The Fancy. I believe we can help each other out."

"Yeah right, because we have so much of value." Jack sneered at him. Lafitte snapped his fingers, at which Colo came in; carrying the bags of loot they had taken from the beach. Colo placed them down on the floor.

"Hey, that stuff's ours!" Jack protested. Lafitte just looked to them sceptically.

"Somehow I doubt that." He told them. "I only took it so that I could have a look through what you have here. I didn't find what I was looking for."

"Great, so let us go then!" Z told him.

"Not quite yet." He responded. "You see, you might not have what I want in your possessions, but that doesn't mean you don't know where it is."

"Do we look like we have anything of value?" Z asked him. "Please, just let us go!"

"I think you misunderstand my intentions." Lafitte continued, placing a hand on top of her head, stroking her hair. "Do you believe I wish to steal from you?"

"You're a pirate right?" Jack asked him.

"I prefer the term Privateer, but you get the idea." Lafitte carried on, removing his hand from Z's hair. He looked to it, and started casually wiping off his hand on his coat. "Nothing you have here interests me, and by the looks of you, you need this more than those people on the beach do. If their possessions were that important to them, they'd have taken them with them right?"

"Right." Jack agreed. "So...if you don't want that stuff, what do you want?"

Lafitte reached into his coat, and pulled out the Silver Space key, showing it to them. He allowed them to get a really close look at it.

"I am something of a collector. I'm looking for items that look a lot like this." He explained, seeing the way the kids' eyes lit up. He could see the recognition in them, and knew he had hit pay dirt. They definitely knew where the Ranger Keys were. "I believe you might have seen something like these."

"Well, we..."

"Well, maybe we have, maybe we haven't." Jack said, giving him a little smirk as he sat down in a chair, looking to Lafitte. "That all depends on what you can do for us."

"I see we have an understanding." Lafitte responded, pulling up a chair and taking a seat. "I can see that you are in, shall we say...an unfortunate financial situation. I have something I'm looking for that you can help me find. How about we see if we can't find a way for both of us to get something we want?"

"Jack..."

"Let's just say I knew where you could find some of those Power Ranger toy things." Jack stated. "What's it worth to you?"

Lafitte took off a ring, and placed it on the table in front of Jack. The young boy just looked to it and up to him.

"I'm prepared to be generous." Lafitte told him. "That ring is most valuable..."

"Not to me it's not!" Jack snapped at him. "You think I can eat that? Can I walk into a supermarket and spend that? I don't think so!"

"I believe there are places you can trade it for..."

"A pawn shop?" Jack said sceptically. "Dude, I'm 10! Do you really think a pawn shop would give me a single cent for that? They'd take it off me and call the cops!"

"Well, how about we talk about what I can offer you then?" Lafitte suggested, starting to lose a little patience with the children. "I will give you cash for every key you have. Does 100,000 dollars apiece sound good to you?"

Jack almost fell out of his chair as Lafitte said this. He tried to maintain his cool, but this guy was offering 500,000 dollars for a bunch of stupid, worthless toys that Z had found lying around in the city. For handing over a bunch of junk, he would bring home enough money to feed the whole camp for years! Z saw the look in Jack's eyes, and could see where his thoughts were going.

"Can we talk about it?" Z asked him. Lafitte just got up from his chair.

"Of course you can." He said regally. "Colo, go and get them some refreshments while they discuss matters."

He looked down to them and removed his hat as he bowed.

"I will leave you in Colo's care." He told them as the hulking monkey left the room. "Just let him know when you are ready to discuss terms and I will be back."

As he left, locking the door behind him, Jack just went to Z, and held out his hand.

"Give them to me..."

"Jack..."

"Z, I said give them here!" Jack reiterated. "Did you hear what he said?"

"Jack, they're mine!" Z told him.

"Z, they're stupid toys!" Jack told her. "If we give them to him we'll be rich! We'll take a fortune back to the camp! We'll be heroes!"

"Think about it Jack, if they're so worthless, why is he offering so much for them?" Z asked him. "Also, hello, he kind of kidnapped us! What makes you think he'll give us that money when we do give them to him?"

"What choice do we have Z?" He asked her.

"Jack...something doesn't feel right about this." Z reiterated. "I just don't think we can trust this guy. What's to stop him taking us out when he has them?"

Jack thought about it for a moment. She had made some convincing points, things that had kind of crossed his mind, but the thought of all that money had blinded him for a moment. Z had pretty good instincts about people, and he wasn't about to start doubting her now. If he wanted a way out of this, he needed to be smart. He took her hand and looked into her eyes.

"Z, follow my lead." He told her. Z just nodded in understanding. As Colo came back with some food, Jack tapped his arm.

"Tell your boss we want to talk." Jack instructed him. "We're ready to make a deal."

Back in the apartment, Troy had just finished giving Tamsin and Cat a rundown of what was going on. He explained about Jordan creating their new powers and equipment, the powers housed in the Ranger Keys, and finally their suspicions that Jack and Z had a set of keys because a clue from Tensou seemed to suggest that they might one day be Rangers themselves. As he finished his story, Cat and Tamsin just stared at him.

"Tensou's a parrot now?" Cat asked, raising a small smile from Gia. The fact that was the part of the story that stuck out in Cat's mind was just like her.

"So these kids have super powerful Ranger Keys, you already knew this psycho was after them...and you brought them here?" Tamsin asked them. Emma just sighed. When she said it like that, it did sound pretty irresponsible.

"We didn't know what else to do." Emma told her. "We couldn't take them back to the battle..."

"So you put a Cat's life, someone you call a friend in danger..."

"Tamsin, please." Cat begged her. "It wasn't just their fault. I agreed to help."

"Yeah, of course you did." Tamsin said somewhat coldly. Gia was about to put a hand on her shoulder, but Tamsin just pulled away, glaring at her angrily. "I wouldn't expect anything less from Cat, but you guys...? You took advantage..."

"Look we feel bad, and if there was another choice, we'd have taken it." Noah told her. "But right now, two kids need our help, and if they know where the keys..."

"The keys, you said they were like little figurines right?" Cat asked. Gia showed Cat her Corsair Ranger Key. Cat just nodded. "I know exactly where they are. Z had them."

"What?" Jake asked. "She..."

"She was playing with them earlier, she thinks they're toys." Cat informed them. "She seemed pretty attached to them."

"If I know anything about kids and their toys, if they're attached to them, they'll do anything to keep them." Jake responded. "Maybe she hasn't given them to Lafitte."

"Now the only problem is how do we find them?" Troy asked.

"If they're trying to run away from Lafitte, where's the one place they're likely to go?" Noah asked them. "Home!"

"Noah, they're homeless!" Jake reminded him.

"Yeah, but...they were at the beach, they have to have somewhere they stay nearby. Cat, do you know anywhere nearby a lot of homeless people gather?"

"There's a camp by the overpass." Tamsin suggested. "But if this Lafitte guy has them, why would they go there?"

"It's somewhere to start at least." Troy answered. "Thanks for your help Cat."

"Sorry about...well..." Noah stammered as they headed for the door.

"Hope your head feels better." Jake told her.

"It really was good to see you." Emma said sheepishly. Gia paused for a moment, just looking to Cat. A part of her wanted to stay, but she knew that right now she didn't have a choice. Unable to say anything to her, Gia just headed for the door, closing it behind her. Tamsin got up from the couch, running a hand over Cat's shoulder.

"I'll get the first aid kit." She told her as she left. Cat just sat on the couch, taking her stuffed dragon Huffy from behind a cushion, and hugged it tightly.

On The Fancy, Lafitte came back into the room, where Jack and Z were waiting for him. He could see them standing together in a show of strength. Despite their young age, they clearly understood the concept of trying to maintain an air of strength in an uneasy situation.

"So, you wanted to talk?" He asked. Jack just looked to him.

"We have five of those figurine things you're looking for." Jack told him. Lafitte just smiled.

"Splendid. Then that will be five hundred thousand." He told them, holding out his hand. "Now, if you wouldn't mind..."

"Whoa, not so fast fancy pants." Z told him. "It occurs to me, we're still on your ship. We're a long way from home. What's to stop you from dumping us the second we tell you where they are?"

"You think I'm lying to you?" Lafitte asked them. Jack just grinned.

"I think anyone that shows off his wealth like this when he stole it all is dishonest by nature." Jack told him.

"What do you propose?" Lafitte asked them.

"Take us back to the camp; it's just at the overpass." Z told him. "When we get there, we'll take you to the keys."

"In the meantime, start counting the cash." Jack told him. Lafitte just nodded and turned on his heel, walking out the room with Colo. As he closed and locked the door behind him, he let out a sigh.

"I really do hate children." He breathed. "Still...I won't have to put up with them much longer. Guard the door Colo. Make sure they don't try to get up to anything."