Chapter Ten: The Rescue Part I
"Mike!" Mia and Kevin screamed.
Mia left Kevin's side and ran over to Mike. From what she could tell he was unconscious. She started shaking him in an attempt to wake him up.
"Mike. Mike, wake up! Please!" Mia said as she continued to shake the green ranger.
Kevin managed to crawl over to where Mia and Mike were. He sat up and looked down at his injured friend.
"Mike. Buddy, please wake up." Kevin said.
"Kev. Help me flip him over." Mia demanded.
"Why? Wouldn't it be better to not move him?" Kevin questioned.
"Just trust me." Mia said.
Mia and Kevin very slowly and carefully managed to flip Mike over onto his back without irritating his wounds. Mike then started to stir and he slowly opened his eyes.
"Mike!" Mia exclaimed.
"Mike are you okay?" Kevin asked.
"Considering there are probably millions of pieces of glass piercing my body, not really." Mike replied sarcasticly.
"Sorry. Stupid question." Kevin replied.
"Just a bit." Mike said as he struggled to sit up.
"Mike, stay down. We don't want you hurting yourself more. We need to get this glass out." Mia said calmly.
"How are we gonna do that without bandages, tweezers, or anything?" Kevin asked.
"Here." Dekker said as he offered the blue and pink rangers a roll of bandages, a towel, tweezers, and a bowl of warm water.
"Huh?" Mia and Kevin said at the same time.
"You need these to help your friend, correct?" Dekker asked.
"Yes?" Kevin replied as Dekker once again handed him the supplies, which Kevin gratefuklly accepted.
"Why are you helping us?" Mia asked as she and Kevin took off Mike's shirt to get out all of the broken shards of glass.
"I may look like a monster, but I am still human too. I wish no harm to you." Dekker answered.
"What about Emily? You definitely harmed her." Mia said.
"Her pain was necessary to motivate the red ranger. But trust me, I wish no harm to the yellow ranger." Dekker said.
"Whatever." Mia said as she continued to pull glass out of Mike's arm.
"You do not believe me?" Dekker asked.
"Why would we?" Kevin replied.
"Why else would I let her go home? If I wished her harm I would have kept her here." Dekker asked.
"Maybe her pain bored you. I dunno." Mia replied.
"Hah," Dekker laughed, "if you did not know pain does not bring my joy like it does other Nighlock."
"Whatever you say…" Kevin said.
Mia laughed at the annoyed look on Dekker's face after this statement. Mike noticed it too and was trying to hold back a smile.
"Just help your friend. I must go, Moogers!" Dekker yelled as six moogers appeared to escort the three rangers inside back to their cells.
***Taken***
"Okay Em, here's the plan. Tomorrow you, Jayden, and I will head out. It's a four hour walk out to where they are though." Antonio started.
"But I can't walk four hours." Emily interrupted.
"We know Em. We got it all figured out." Jayden reassured her.
"Anyways! We'll head out to the place where they are. When were within 15 minutes of running distance from there we are gonna drop you off. Then while we're gone you can sent up a camp. We don't know how injured they are so they might need a place to rest and catch their breath. While you're setting up Jayden and I are gonna sneak in, grab them, and sneak back out. We are gonna try as hard as we can to not find Dekker. If we can avoid Dekker we should have no problems. So you know what you gotta do?" Antonio asked.
"Yeah I think so." Emily said.
"You shouldn't be alone for any longer than an hour. Is that gonna be okay?" Jayden asked.
"Yeah. I'll be fine." Emily reassured him.
"Good." Jayden said as he smiled. As much as he hated putting her in possible danger by taking her with, he was glad that he got to spend some more time with her.
"Well, we all better get some rest. We need to leave early tomorrow morning. Goodnight Em." Antonio said as he began walking out of the room. He turned around to see if Jayden was following, but saw the red ranger was still sitting on the bed.
"You coming Jay?" Antonio asked his friend.
"Yeah, I'll be out in a minute. I just want to talk to Em." Jayden replied.
"Okay, don't stay up too late." Antonio said as he walked out of the recovery room.
"Em, I wanted to talk to you about earlier." Jayden started.
"Yes?" Emily asked, while giving him a look telling him to continue.
"I just wanted to tell you, uhh…" Jayden said struggling to get the words out, "I wanted to tell you that I, I really like you, as more then friends." Jayden said, while his face was turning as red as his ranger suit.
"I like you too Jay." Emily said with a smile on her face.
"Really?" Jayden asked surprised.
"Of course." Emily said, her smile growing bigger.
"Then, would you maybe… Wanna go out with me sometime? After we find the others of course." Jayden said nervously.
"I would love to." Emily said happily.
"Great!" Jayden replied happily. "I guess I will see you tomorrow then, Goodnight." Jayden said with a smile as he walked out of the recovery room.
***Taken***
"Mike, how are you feeling?" Kevin worriedly asked.
"Better, now that all that glass is out of me." Mike said.
"I'm just glad you're okay." Mia said.
"Me too." Mike said as he yawned.
"We should all get some sleep. Just cause Dekker's gone doesn't mean that he isn't coming back." Mia said.
"You're right. Let's hope that they find us soon. I don't know how much longer I can last before I explode." Kevin complained.
"Same here dude. They'll find us soon. And hopefully when they do they bring medicine, these cuts are starting to hurt." Mike said.
"Starting?" Kevin and Mia said at the same time.
"You know what I mean." Mike said as he closed his eyes and fell asleep.
***Taken***
"Em! Wake up, it's time to go." Jayden said as he shook Emily awake.
"Huh?" Emily said as she opened her eyes.
"Let's go. We gotta go get the others." Jayden said.
"Oh yeah. Lemme just get dressed and I'll be out, okay?" Emily said as she sat up in bed.
"Okay, me and Antonio will be waiting outside." Jayden said as he left her room.
Emily got up slowly and got dressed. It was still hard because of all her injuries, but she managed to do it. Emily walked outside to see Jayden and Antonio waiting for her, along with a white horse.
"What's with the horse guys?" Emily asked, clearly confused.
"You said you didn't want to walk right?" Jayden said.
"Yeah?" Emily said as she nodded her head.
"Then hop on. You can just ride him the whole way. Pretty smart, huh?" Antonio joked.
"Very." Emily laughed.
Jayden helped Emily up onto the horse and made sure she was steady before he let go of her. Emily noticed Jayden was reluctant to let go and she smiled.
"Well, let's get going!" Antonio said as the three headed out into the forest.
Most of the walk to the prison was quiet, only talking to ask if anyone needed a break or if Emily was okay. Jayden was holding onto the horse the whole way, making sure he stayed calm and didn't dart off. He didn't doubt Emily knew how to ride a horse, she often talked about growing up on a farm and owning many horses, but Jayden knew she couldn't very well ride in her condition.
After about three hours of a walk, Antonio spoke up, "Hey guys, looks like we're almost there."
"Thank goodness. I can only walk so much." Jayden said.
"So where are you guys gonna drop me off?" Emily asked.
"Wherever seems like a good place." Antonio responded.
"Glad to know you thought this out." Emily replied sarcastically.
"Stop your complaining, little miss I'm-to-injured-to-walk." Antonio joked.
"Would you like to be beaten by a psychotic Nighlock and then walk four hours?" Emily replied.
"Okay, you win." Antonio said.
"Hey, this seems like a good place to set up camp." Jayden interrupted.
"Good as we're going to find." Antonio said.
"Here Em, lemme help you down." Jayden said as he helped Emily off of her horse.
"So what exactly do you guys want me to do again?" Emily asked as Jayden set her down on the ground.
"Just make a tent or something and start up a fire. You can use symbol power for the tent. And as long as you get some wood I'm sure Jay can make a fire when we get back." Antonio responded.
"Just make sure to be careful. Don't use up too much energy." Jayden said.
"I won't. Good luck guys!" Emily said as the boys turned to walk away.
Before Jayden left he looked at Emily, "Stay safe.".
"You too." Emily replied as she kissed Jayden on the cheek.
Jayden blushed as Emily kissed him. He then turned and walked away to join Antonio.
"Let's get goin bud. The sooner we get the others, the sooner you can get back to your little girlfriend." Antonio teased his friend.
"Whatever." Jayden said as he laughed off his friend's teasing.
***Taken***
Emily watched as Jayden and Antonio rushed away. She was now left alone in the forest, while she was injured. 'Well this is great' Emily thought to herself as she went over and sat down on a fallen log.
"Might as well get started on that tent." Emily said as she grabbed her samuraizer out of her pocket. She traced a symbol and two pieces of ground rose up from the ground and met at the top, making the shape of tent.
"Now to get some fire wood I guess." Emily sighed as she walked around picking up sticks from the ground.
"You'd think that your team would be a little more protective of you considering you were recently missing and injured." Dekker said as he came out from behind a tree.
"What do you want?" Emily said as she slowly backed away from the half Nighlock.
"Can't I have a nice chat with you without wanting something?" Dekker asked.
"No, you can't. Now why aren't you chasing Jayden down so you can get your ultimate duel?" Emily asked, putting air quotes around 'ultimate duel'.
"Because, I know that he's currently too distracted. I only realized this fault in my plan recently, but I have a new plan now." Dekker said with an evil smirk on his face.
"And what plan is that?" Emily asked.
"You'll see. Just come with me." Dekker said, gesturing for her to follow.
"No. Never." Emily said shaking her head.
"Now that, is your first mistake." Dekker said as he grabbed Emily and flung her over his shoulder.