It was way past midnight, but Troy couldn't fall asleep yet. His mind was racing everywhere. He was worried for his friends, but at the same time, he felt anger. He was angry at himself for not being able to do anything to save his friends. He was even angrier at the fact that Emma had gone off on her own. He hated this feeling of confusion, was he supposed to trust her, or not? In fact, did she not trust him enough to tell him what she was going to do?

Troy groaned and flopped onto his bed. He wiped his face with his hands and sighed. He was angry, but he would hold that all in for later. For now, he needed to get his team back together as a whole. He needed a plan.

He thought back to the two previous fights and tried to think about what he did wrong. During the first fight, Emma and Troy had split up and picked their respective opponent. It didn't end so well, but then again, they were caught off guard. During the second fight, Noah and Troy had separated and tried their best to handle their opponent. Like the first one, it didn't end up so well either. Suddenly, it all clicked in Troy's head. The common factor between the two fights was that they split up. Obviously, it didn't work, so that must mean that they needed to handle the next clash a different way. Instead of dividing themselves up, they needed to focus on one person and work together to take that person down. Once that person was down, they would take him or her, and bring them back to the command center. If Tensou was able to make an antidote before, surely he could make it again.

The only question left was, who were they were going to get first, and how? Emma was a no go because he wasn't sure where she stood at the moment. If Emma was faking the entire thing, then he wouldn't have to worry about her just yet. Troy thought about targeting Gia; after all, she is the team's second in command. However, Troy was starting to think about the long run. Gia would be an important asset, but right now, the team needed strength. The odds weren't in their favor due to the fact that it's a two versus three match. Troy and Noah were only outnumbered by one, but that could still make a big difference. Troy's came to the final decision of targeting and capturing Jake. Right now, Troy and Noah needed more strength and firepower, so Jake would be the obvious choice. After all, he's probably the physically the strongest person on the team. With Jake back on their side, it would be much easier to get back Gia and Emma.

Now, Troy just had to figure out how the heck he was going to do all of this. After a few moments of thinking, Troy had an idea. Noah and Troy would have to isolate Jake and quickly knock him out. If worse comes to worse, Noah could use his bow gun to keep the girls away while Troy took on Jake in a single duel. Then again, Troy also didn't know what Vrak had planned. There were so many possibilities that could potentially happen. Troy just guessed that he would have to make the final decision on how to get Jake once he saw the situation and assessed it.

Troy looked to the side of his bed and saw his alarm clock sitting on his little side table. Once again, he groaned at the sight of the time. It was almost two in the morning. He didn't think that his late night thoughts would eat up this much of his sleep time. Troy took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and slowly drifted into slumber.

-Unexpected Enemies-

Just like Troy, Noah couldn't catch any sleep either. He had been laying in bed for the past hour. All he did was stare at the empty ceiling while getting lost in thought. A few of his first real friends were in the hands of the enemy. He had just fought and knocked out his best friend, granted that it was only a swift chop that hit the pressure point between his head and neck. Nevertheless, this whole thing felt strange to him.

This whole time, Noah had been trying to tell Troy that things were going to be alright; however, Noah was just as worried. He perfectly understood Troy's pain because he felt the same exact thing. He felt horrible for fighting his friends. He felt like he had failed his friends, especially his best friend, Jake. He felt like they were counting on him, but couldn't do anything.

Noah looked to the other side of his room where his morpher was laying on his desk and sighed. "Am I really cut out for this?"

Noah knew that he was physically the weakest person on the team. Growing up, Noah wasn't really into sports. He was the type of kid that would sit inside and do homework while all the other kids played games outside. Instead of running around, he would read books. Sure he made it up with his smarts, but what good was that on the battlefield? He would fight with everything he had, but he wasn't sure if that was going to be enough. What was he going to do, think his way out of the situation?

"Wait a second.." Noah whispered to himself. "Maybe that isn't such a bad idea."

Noah quietly peeled himself out of his bed, careful to not make any noise so his parent's wouldn't wake up. He tip toed to his morpher and teleported to the command center. As usual, Gosei's face was unlit and Tensou was in his own corner working on some project.

"Blue ranger, what are you doing here?" Tensou had seen him teleport in and was shocked. He read his internal clock and saw that it was extremely late; most humans would be sleeping by now. Unlike him, humans required sleep in order to get rest so that they'll function properly later.

"Couldn't sleep. Can I help you with anything?" Noah knew that he wasn't going to be able to sleep, so he decided to use his time more wisely. Noah loved working on experiments. He loved the science of things and figuring out how it worked. Sometimes, he would even force Jake to be his test subject time to time. He wasn't sure how useful he would be on the battlefield, so he decided to work on something he knew he could do. Noah knew that he wasn't useless, but he wanted to do more. He wanted to feel like he did something more.

"Well, I was about to make another antidote just in case you guys needed it. I'm warning you, it'll take some time. I still need to gather the materials and the process to make it quite lengthy."

"That's fine." Noah smiled as he walked over to the little robot. "Maybe it'll go by faster if we work together."