Troy and Noah were carefully hiding behind an abandoned building's wall, just out of Jake's line of sight. They were surprised to see him separated from the others, but gratefully accepted it. This would make it a lot easier for them to extract him without much trouble.

Noah gave a silent nod to Troy, picked up a decently sized rock from the ground, and threw it at the building that was next to theirs. Jake seemed to pick up on the noise and got up. He made his way over to the building where the rock was thrown and cautiously inspected the area. While Jake's back was turned, Troy cautiously tip toed his way over to Jake to knock him out. His years of karate gave him the knowledge of where to knock someone out without hurting them too much. He had hit the pressure point at the side of Jake's neck and watched him drop to the ground.

Noah ran over to Troy and helped him drag Jake to the side before anyone could see them. So far, things were going just as planned. Hopefully things would stay that way. Troy held on to Jake and the three of them teleported into the command center. As soon as they got there, they gently laid down Jake and strapped him to a table. Noah hated the idea of trapping his best friend, but it was for the best. He would rather see his friend upset instead of seeing him dead.

"Tensou," Noah said. "Is the cure ready?"

"It sure is." Tensou appeared beside the boys with the small syringe in his little robotic hands. Troy and Jake watched as Tensou pressed the needle into Jake's arm. Minutes passed, but nothing had happened.

"Why isn't it working? Why isn't he waking up?" Troy looked at Tensou and spoke with a slight frustrated tone in in his voice.

"He'll be out for a few more minutes. It's just part of the antidote."

"Every minute we wait here is a minute wasted."

"We need to be smart Troy." Noah said. "We have Jake now. Once he wakes up, we'll give him a quick check up and then get out of here. We can't afford to fail this time and you know it. Jake will pull through soon."

Just then, Jake started to stir. The first thing he noticed was his hand strapped to a table, so he started to panic.

"What the hell!" Jake yelled while fighting through the restraints. The last thing that he clearly remembered was being held by Vrak. He didn't want his last few moments to be spent as some creepy experiment.

Noah ran over to his best friend in an attempt to calm him down. He could already see that his friend was back and smiled. Jake saw Noah appear and started to calm down slowly.

"You're alright Jake." Noah smiled. "Tensou is just going to run a few tests to make sure it's really you."

"Of course it's me." Jake rolled his eyes. "Who else would it be?"

"He's all clear." Tensou said. He started to undo the bonds holding Jake and then wheeled away to his console.

"Are you okay?"

"Peachy." Jake held his head with his hands and looked to his friends. "Can someone explain why my head hurts so much?"

"We were hoping that you would tell us."

"Last thing I remember is getting captured by Vrak. He took us to some isolated cave. He put some weird thing on Gia's neck and that's the last thing I can clearly remember. There's a few blurs of fighting against you guys, but I can't really remember all of it yet."

"So Tensou was right." Jake faced Noah and gave him a curious look. "You two were brainwashed by Vrak due to the effects of the chip."

"The chip?" Jake put his hand against the back of his neck where the chip used to be. However, when he placed his hand in the there, he felt nothing.

"We injected the cure into you. The best way to get rid of a virus was to counter it with another one, so that's exactly what we did." Noah opened up his palm and inside was Vrak's chip. "Once we injected it into you, it fell off."

"Wait a second. Us two.." Jake started to recall Noah's previous statement. "Me and… GIA!" Jake's eyes widened in fear. "What happened to her? Is she here? Is she okay?

Troy and Noah looked to each other nervously and scratched their heads. "Well… Gia is still under Vrak's control."

Jake groaned in frustration. "This is all my fault." He paced around the command center and ran his hand through his hair. "Gia wouldn't have gotten captured if I had just held on tightly to my morpher. If I did, then that ugly blue faced monster wouldn't have overpowered us."

Noah placed his hand on his friend's shoulders and gave him a small comforting smile. "It'll be okay buddy. We'll get them back."

"Them?" Jake questioned. He looked around and only then had he noticed that Emma was missing also. In fact, he hadn't seen her ever since he woke up in the command center. "Did Vrak get her too?"

"We're not really sure. It's a long story."

Troy was off in the corner tapping his foot impatiently. He was glad that Jake was okay, but they had more important things to attend to. He stepped forward and was about to say something, but Gosei beat him to it.

"Rangers," Gosei spoke. "There's a radioactive signal coming from the location you just came from. Tensou, can you scan what that may be?"

"Oh no no no no no." Tensou continued to press a few more buttons on the computer before a screen came up.

Three gasps were heard as the sight of a bomb appeared on a screen. What was even worse was that they saw that the counter didn't have much time left.

"We need to get back there now!" Troy barked. In an instant, the three boys were morphed and disappeared from the command center.

Jake led the two other boys to the bomb's location. As soon they got there, Noah got to work on deactivating the bomb. They looked at the timer and saw that it only had ten minutes left. He didn't know how to work around the alien technology, but he knew enough to get his way around it.

"I'm not familiar with this kind of technology. It might take me a few minutes until I can deactivate."

"Well you better work fast." Troy said as he got into a fighting stance. Gia and Emma had shown up and looked ready for another fight. "Jake and I will protect you while you take care of the bomb. Just focus on that, it's our top priority."

"No one here is getting out alive." Gia yelled. She charged at Jake and morphed at the same time. Before anyone could do anything, Jake and Gia were already locked into a fierce battle.

"So you're back on the goody two-shoes side, huh?" Gia taunted as she swiped at him with her tiger claw.

"I'm back where I belong." Jake blocked her weapon with his own and pushed hers away. "It's where you belong too."

Gia merely scoffed at his response and darted towards him with great speed. When she got closer to him, she kicked up some sand towards Jake's face. Jake was grateful for his helmet because it prevented the sand from getting to his eyes, but by the time the sand cleared, Gia was gone. Suddenly, Jake felt a strong pain hit his back which caused him to fall forward with a cry.

Before he could get up, Gia kicked him on his side. To add to that, Gia pulled out her blaster and shot several rounds at Jake. Luckily, Jake rolled out of the way just in the nick of time.

From the ground, Jake looked at Gia with a frown underneath his helmet. He thought that he would have the advantage with his strength, but found it hard to get the upper hand. Of course Jake didn't really want to hurt Gia, but this was getting ridiculous. Gia was fighting with anger that matched his strength, but still had enough sense to fight smartly.

Jake looked at the counter and groaned. He had no time for this. He would have to find a way to overpower her in one move. He got up slowly and charged forward once again.

On the other hand, Troy was having a bit more luck with Emma. He no longer held the same restraints he had held earlier. This time, he was going all out. Emma struggled to keep up with him and wasn't sure how much longer she could keep up.

Troy managed to get an opening and kicked Emma to the ground. While she was on the ground, he summoned his sword and slashed at her. Her morpher fell from her belt and Troy stepped on it. Emma grabbed her shoulder and released a small whimper of pain. Immediately, Troy had regretted his actions

He took a small step forward. "Emma, I'm so…"

"Troy!" Both Jake and Noah yelled. They saw the unnecessary move Troy did and rushed to him. Jake kicked Gia down and ran over to Troy while Noah made his way over too. What Troy did was definitely uncalled for. She was already on the ground; there was no need to take it any further.

While Jake and Noah were busy with Troy, Emma saw this as an opportunity for them to escape. She looked at the countdown and saw that they were down to five minutes. She silently slid herself closer to the boys and in one sudden motion, pressed the teleportation button on all of their morphers. They were practically out of time. At least this way, the boys would be safe.

She ran to Gia and helped her up from the ground. Gia demorphed and glared at her friend. She angrily jabbed her finger at Emma's chest. "That wasn't what Vrak wanted. We were supposed to keep them occupied here! What do you think you were doing?"

"Saving your life." Emma muttered. At this point, she didn't know what else to do, so she went with her last option.

"What…" Before Gia could finish her sentence, Emma pulled out a small blue syringe and jabbed in into her friend's arm. Gia eye's slowly closed and then slumped forward into Emma's arms. Emma carefully took her into her arms and grabbed her morpher. She pressed the teleportation button, but nothing happened.

"Shit! Shit! Shit!" Her only way out must have gotten damaged when Troy stepped on her morpher. With no other options left, Emma placed Gia on her back and slowly got up. Emma beyond tired and hurt, but nothing else would hurt as much as losing her friend, especially if it was on her watch

"What have you been eating?" Emma muttered. She managed to get up with Gia on her back and took once last glance at the bomb. No one was around the area, so she didn't have to worry about getting any civilians out. She had three minutes. Three minutes to get as far away as possible. She kept a count in her head so she could precisely time when the explosion would occur. And with two tired legs, she sprinted away as fast as she possibly could.

Time passed and Emma knew that the bomb would go off soon.

Three.

Emma prayed to whatever god was out there that they would be safe. If she didn't survive, then she wanted Gia to at least be alive.

Two.

She used whatever energy she had left and made one last rapid dash.

One.

She placed herself so Gia was on the ground while Emma was on top of her. She covered her as much as she could and closed her eyes as the explosion went off.