It was early in the morning and Troy was surprised to see Noah sleeping in the command center. In fact, he himself had just woken up not too long ago. He pretty much threw on some clothes, grabbed a breakfast bar, and raced out of the house to deal with their latest problem. He was exhausted from the lack of sleep, but he wouldn't allow that to stop him

Troy walked towards Noah to wake him up. He had no idea why Noah was really here, but decided to not question it. Knowing Noah and his scientific self, Troy assumed that he had been working on a project with Tensou like usual. All Troy wanted was to make sure that Noah knew the plan for the next upcoming battle. However, that didn't mean that he couldn't have a little fun. With a devious smirk, Troy poked his friend several times before he slowly stirred awake. Noah was completely unaware that Troy was behind him and wiped his face with his hands. Noah vaguely remembered falling asleep in the command center after a late night of working with Tensou. He peeled his face off from the table and checked the time.

'Shit! I'm going to be late for school!" Noah cried. He quickly grabbed his stuff and was about to race out of the command center, but paused after hearing a voice.

"Umm, blue ranger, it's Sunday." Gosei spoke. "I believe what you humans call school is not open today"

"Great, now you decide to be awake." Noah mumbled. His face slightly turned red from the embarrassment due to the fact that an alien plastered onto the wall had to remind him that he didn't have to go to school.

Noah turned back around and saw Troy. "Oh uhh, Troy... you're here." Just when he thought that things couldn't be more awkward, the world quickly proved him wrong. Troy just had to be there. Well, at least that meant that he didn't have to go to school.

"Well, I was the one who woke you up." Troy smirked. "Someone had to do it, so… do you always drool?"

Noah face palmed himself and groaned. He didn't always drool, but it would happen occasionally. Of course this just had to be one of the days. "Don't you dare mention this to any of the others. I think I had an enough embarrassment to last me awhile."

Troy shook his head and chuckled. "Hey, I'm not the one who tried running out the door to get to school. I know that you love school and all, but do you really wanna go that badly on a Sunday?"

"Am I ever going to live this down?"

"Not anytime soon."

Noah rolled his eyes. "This is what I get for making friends."

"That's what friends are for."

"Give me a break. I stayed up all night helping Tensou with the antidotes. At least cut me a little slack, I'm tired!"

"Fine, I'll stop. We have more important things to discuss anyways." Troy's demeanor quickly changed to a serious one. He thought of the reason why he went to the command center in the first place. "We need to get them back."

"Woah, bipolar much?"

"No more time for joking. Let's get to work."

Noah pouted and crossed his arms. "I think I like the other Troy better."

"Too bad, this Troy wants to get to work now. We need to get our friends back."

"Well, no dip Sherlock. Isn't that what we've been trying to do?"

"Just listen to my plan…"

-Unexpected Enemies-

Jake, Gia, and Emma were literally in the middle of nowhere. Vrak had already sent them to the isolated location with the radioactive bomb. Certain that the other rangers would show up soon, Vrak had ordered them to initiate the countdown.

Emma's heart raced every time she looked at the countdown. According to the timer, they only had one hour until the bomb exploded. In other words, they had one hour to get themselves out of this little predicament. Emma knew that the bomb was programmed to explode in only one mile radius, but that wasn't small enough for her taste. The bomb's radius was short, but the impact would be dangerously strong. Emma was hoping that they had a plan because she was starting to run out of ideas. She had no idea what to do at this point. Vrak was still watching them, so she wouldn't be able to give them the cure without him knowing. If he found out, then he would surely send Gia and Jake back. Then, Vrak would know about her "betrayal" therefore, she wouldn't be able to save them from the inside. However, she couldn't leave them to potentially die in the explosion either, she wouldn't allow it. At this point, she just had to trust in her teammates.

Emma took a deep breath and looked to her friends sitting next to her. The three of them were carefully searching for any sights of Noah and Troy. Vrak wanted them to guard the bomb so they wouldn't have a chance to deactivate it. Emma paused for a moment, thought about her options, and shook her head. If there was a slight chance that she could talk them out of it, then she would need to take it. She was out of choices at this point

"Do you think we'll be able to escape?"

Jake rolled his eyes at what seemed like a silly question. "Of course we will. Master Vrak will probably tell us a quick escape route before the bomb goes off. He would never do anything to hurt us."

"But what if he doesn't? What if he expects us to get out on our own?

"Don't you have any faith?"

"I'm just saying…" Emma shrugged her shoulders. "We may need to find our own way out. Maybe we should just go now."

"No!" Gia stood up and looked down at Emma with anger in her eyes. "You already saw how furious Vrak got when I asked questions. It was my mistake and I should have just listened to him in the first place. I shouldn't have disobeyed his orders, and you won't either. We're staying here and it's final!"

"I'm just trying to look out for us."

"Then that's your mistake. All I care about is me and Vrak. I don't care about you and you!" Gia sneered as she pointed to Jake and Emma. She grabbed her morpher and stomped away to keep watch on the other side.

"Whatever. You're all just a pain in my ass." Jake scoffed and walked to opposite side of Gia's position.

Emma cursed under her breath. "Well that went well."