Troy and Emma were roaming around the streets and going door to door to ask people if they've seen Gia or Jake. Unfortunately, no one knew where they were at or where they could be. They searched for hours, but had no luck whatsoever. Time was passing by, and the night was approaching soon.

"Emma, I think we need to head back." said Troy.

"We can't give up yet! They might be relying on us!" Emma in the other direction and continued to search the streets.

"It's already getting dark. We probably only have an hour or two left before it gets pitch black."

"Then I'll keep looking all night. The darkness isn't going to scare me when we have two of our friends missing." said a worried Emma.

Troy sighed knowing that arguing would do nothing. He just hoped that they would find something soon, or else he would be forced to take Emma home. He couldn't afford to have another teammate go missing."

"Troy! I found something!" Troy shifted his attention to Emma and stood behind her.

"Whose is that?"

"It's Gia and Jake's backpack." Emma held up the yellow and grey backpacks to show Troy, and then quickly rummaged through it. "Their morphers aren't in here either."

"Wait a second, if they're morphers aren't in their backpacks, then their morphers might be on them. If they have their morphers with them, then…"

"Tensou could track them down that way." Emma finished.

"Emma, could you…"

"I'm already on it." Emma pulled out her morpher and contacted Tensou. She held it out and put the device on speaker. "Tensou, we have an idea. Instead of trying to find where Gia and Jake were last seen, try tracking them through their morphers."

On the other end, the little robot face palmed himself with his robotic hands and then rolled his eyes. "How did I not think of that? Gee, I'm supposed to be a super computer robot, and I couldn't even think of that?"

"Sometimes you just have to think simple." Noah shrugged his shoulders and then typed away on the computer.

"Can you track them down?" asked Troy.

"I already got it." responded Noah. He looked closer at the results and then gave a confused look. "Um… according to these results, they should be right behind you."

"What? That can't be…."

Suddenly, Troy was interrupted when two quick shots were blasted at their feet.

"What the hell?" Troy and Emma turned around and saw an un-morphed Gia and Jake training their blasters on them.

"Gia…?" Emma took a small step forward, but Gia responded by shooting at her feet again.

When Emma looked at her friend's eyes they seemed different. It was like Gia was there, but she wasn't there at the same time. She knew Gia would rather die than to double-cross her best friend. Emma knew all of this, but she couldn't figure out why she would do something like this. Something must've happened.

Meanwhile, Troy was just as confused. The rangers only knew each other for a few months, but he couldn't imagine any one of them betraying each other. Jake was best friends with Noah, and Gia was best friends with Emma. They were all friends, and had shown time and time again that they were loyal to one another. Hell, Gia even took charge when he got too tired to fight in the megazord. It didn't add up.

"Gia, Jake…" Troy raised his hands to show she meant no harm. "Put the guns down."

"No." Gia smirked and then fired at Troy. Luckily, Troy had enough sense to move out of the way just in time.

"Hey, slow down there." Jake stuck out his arm to block Gia and then faced her. "Master Vrak ordered us to take them back alive, remember? He won't be very pleased if they had a hole through their heads."

"Fine." Gia grumbled and put down her blaster.

"Master?" Emma questioned.

"Vrak?" Troy added.

Emma and Troy looked at each other, not knowing what to do. Jake and Gia were walking towards them with the intent look of fighting. Neither of them wanted to hurt their friends, but they had to get to the bottom of things. Troy trusted that Emma could use her care for her friends to fuel herself in the soon to be fight, but it was still risky. He knew that he was the best fighter on the team, but Jake and Gia were easily the second strongest. He took a deep breath and then charged for Jake, knowing that Emma would want to be the one to handle her best friend.

Troy ran up to Jake and threw a hesitant punch. Jake easily caught his fist and twisted Troy's arm behind his back. Troy let out a cry of pain, but then shifted his weight to his farthest leg to kick Jake backwards. Jake responded by rushing towards Troy, ready to throw a fury of punches.

Troy knew he was a good fighter and that he was pretty strong, but he also knew that Jake was physically stronger. The only problem was that Jake was a little sloppy when it came to technique. Troy silently thanked his parents for enrolling him in a martial arts class. Those lessons were proving to be paying off because Troy now had the endurance, strength, and technique; All of which he needed for this fight.

Troy carefully watched Jake run to him, and didn't bother moving. In one motion, he stepped to the side and swept kicked the black ranger.

"Looks like we're gonna have to do it the hard way." Jake growled as he picked himself off the ground. He reached inside his pocket and grabbed his morpher. "It's morphin' time." Jake morphed into his Megaforce suit and charged Troy once again."

"Go go Megaforce!" Troy called. He morphed just in time to block Jake's snake axe with his dragon sword.

On the other side of the street, Emma was still trying to talk some sense into her friend.

"This isn't you Gia!" Emma protested as she walked up to her friend. She couldn't hurt Gia after everything she's done for her. However, that doesn't mean she was going to give up on finding out what happened to her.

"Just hurry up and come with me peacefully. I'll knock you out as painlessly as possible. It'll make things a lot easier for me." Gia rolled her eyes and then knocked Emma to the ground.

Emma shook her head and got back up. "What happened to you? You never showed up at Ernie's, something must've happened between that time and now."

"Master Vrak taught us how to have real fun. We'll continue to enjoy serving him as his slaves. You can too if you just come with me now. Soon enough, we'll capture you anyways, might as well make it easier for yourself."

"Master? Slave? That blue piece of crap isn't your master, he's the enemy!"

"Don't you dare talk about him like that!" Gia yelled as she kicked Emma in the stomach.

"He did something to you Gia!" Emma ran up to Gia and engulfed her in a hug. "You're not his slave, you're Gia Moran. The same Gia Moran who loves her friends, family, swimming, teasing people, and kicking alien ass." Emma opened her eyes and saw something on the back of Gia's neck. She couldn't recognize it, but she was pretty sure that it wasn't there before.

Suddenly, Emma was shoved off and then pushed to the ground. She looked up to see Gia standing over her. Emma got back up again, but was then hit with multiple punches, slaps, and kicks. However, Emma made no attempt to even block them.

By now, Emma was starting to get covered by cuts and bruises, but she continued to get up every time she was knocked down. Next thing she knew, she was thrown on top of a trash can.

"Come on, get back up." Gia roughly pulled Emma up by her shirt. "Why aren't you fighting back?"

"I'm not fighting my best friend. I know she's still in there."

"Sorry honey, she's not home right now." Gia let go of Emma and then jabbed her in the stomach. As a result, Emma fell down and clutched her stomach.

"I'm getting tired of this." Gia morphed into the yellow ranger. "Master Vrak never said that I didn't have to bring you back uninjured."

Gia stood over Emma and was ready to deliver the final strike.

"Emma, no!" Troy screamed when he saw what was about to happen. He ran as fast as he could to her, but was then tackled and pinned down by Jake.

"Have a nice nap pink ranger." Gia called upon her tiger claw and held it over Emma's face.

Emma didn't even flinch and just uttered one phrase. "You're the only family I have left. I know you won't hurt me, after all, we're sisters."

Gia's tiger claw was only inches away from Emma when she suddenly paused. For a moment, Emma could see her real friend inside the helmet and it gave her hope that her friend was still there.

Suddenly, a stream of blue knocked Gia and Jake off their feet unto the ground. Everyone looked over, and saw a morphed Noah holding his shark bow gun. Emma looked back to her friend and saw that the real Gia was gone again.

Jake quickly ran to Gia's side and was about to get back into the action until a hand touched him. Gia grabbed his shoulder and pulled him back.

"We need to retreat. We can't beat them when there is three of them and only two of us."

"But we were so close. We can still take them on…"

"Now Jake." Gia's tone of voice was firm, and not to be questioned

He let out an angry mumble and then teleported away in a blue streak of light.

"Thanks for the save."

"What just happened?" asked Noah as he helped Troy up.

"I have no idea." Troy demorphed and walked, or rather limped, towards Emma. He expected her to be horrified, but then saw the look on her face. She seemed determined about something.

"You alright?" Troy extended his hand to help her up.

"Yeah." Emma gratefully took his hand and slowly got up.

"Why didn't you morph?"

"I needed Gia to see my real face. Something happened to her, and I don't think some girl in a pink costume would help Gia recognize me. Plus, I wasn't going to hurt my best friend. She's still in there, she could've finished me off, but she managed to stop herself."

"That doesn't mean that they're not dangerous." said Troy. "Look at what Gia did to you." He then pointed to the numerous new injuries Emma gained against her one-sided fight.

"What're you trying to say Troy?" asked Noah.

"I'm just saying that we need to be careful. We don't know what happened to them."

"But they would never do something like this." said Noah

"They just did. Look, I get that they're you best friends and all, but you just saw them attack us." Troy hated to be so harsh, but it was a fact. Gia and Jake attacked them because of orders from Vrak. Obviously Vrak had something to do with it, but he couldn't be too sure if they were doing it against their will or not. He wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, but he couldn't take the risk, especially when Vrak was involved.

"What if they're doing it against they're will?"

"What if they aren't?"

"They would never side with Vrak in their right mind." Noah frowned deeply at the red ranger.

"I'm just calling it as I see it, okay? I get he's your best friend…"

"I trust him with my life."

"Okay that's fine, but we still don't know what happened. Just… at least until then, please be careful.

"Fine." Noah sighed. He understood what Troy was saying, but he didn't know Jake like he did. He had full faith in his friend, so seeing him do what he just did was shocking. However, he trusted that there was a logical explanation behind it. For now, Noah would listen to Troy and try his best to find out what exactly happened.

"Wait a second." Noah looked around. "Where did Emma go?"