Serena woke up by the table holding her sister's dead body. Doctors had done very little to revive her, but they had done more than what they could. Serena didn't blame them for giving up only minutes after starting. Emily had died on the scene.

Once they finished with her body, the doctors gave Serena a chance to say goodbye to Emily. Serena took it, and spent the entire night talking to her sister's dead body, apologizing again and again for all the stupid little mistakes that never should have been made – like this very one. She didn't want Emily to go to a better place. She wanted her sister to have the best life here on earth, with her friends and family. Once again, Serena's stupidity had cost Emily.

Finally able to peel herself away, Serena picked up Storm from the front lobby (the reception was glad the dog was gone. Storm was only inside the building because Serena had snapped). Taking the bus, and ignoring the stares from others because of the blood one her shirt and her pants, Serena finally made it onto the path that led to the Shiba House. There, she dragged her feet and slowly walked home.

When she got home, she didn't bother announcing it, like everyone normally did. She took Storm's collar off and then forced herself to walk the rest of the way to the common room. There, she sat down on Emily's stool and hugged her knees to her chest. She would have cried, but she had done so much of that at the hospital that her body was done. Never before had she felt this run-down.

"Here," Mia handed Serena a pair of yellow pyjamas, "You should get changed."

Serena looked up and then shook her head. In spite of how stiff and dirty and smelly her clothes were now, they were all she had left of Emily. This was Emily's blood – a part of Emily – Serena wouldn't part from it.

"C'mon, Serena. It's a big accident, I know. It's sad, but this stuff happens," Mia sat down next to Serena, "I'll admit, the girl looked a lot like your sister and that probably freaks you out but…"

"It was Emily," Serena frowned at Mia, "What the hell is wrong with you? My sister just died! Our sister just died!"

"Serena…"

"This is her fucking blood!" Serena screamed and gestured to her shirt. "I watched it happen! I was there! I left the house with her! How can you not…?"

"Okay, okay," Mia pulled Serena into a hug, "Okay, shh, I get it."

Serena wanted to pull away, furious with Mia for what she had said, but she couldn't. Now that Emily was gone, Mia was the only sister she had left. Serena hugged Mia tight and then fell asleep in her arms.

When she woke up, she was in her room. She had a quick look around and saw she had been changed into her pyjamas – hopefully by Mia. When she sat up, she saw Storm sitting on the bed. The dog rushed over to her and jumped into her arms for a hug. Storm seemed to be the only one who understood what happened.

"Emily got the life you wanted."

Serena dropped Storm and stared at the small dog, "Excuse me?"

"I bent reality a little bit. Technically, I shouldn't be here."

"What?" Serena rubbed her eyes and then hit the side of her head a couple of times. She had to be dreaming. "You're a dog…"

"I'm the symbol. Well, a part of the symbol," Storm sat down at the foot of the bed and looked Serena in the eyes, "You don't think a symbol this powerful wouldn't come without a little bit of instructions, do you?"

"Instructions?"

"I'm your guide dog!" Storm bounced a little with excitement. "I'll explain to you what's going on, and I'll let you know when it's time to make a choice. This symbol does have an undo."

"I want it," Serena didn't hesitate. She didn't care what the symbol could do anymore; it wasn't worth losing her sister. Storm shook her head.

"You can't undo it now, it's just the start. You need to live out this life for a few days. I'm here to make sure you live it out right."

"What do you mean?"

"This is the other life. This is what would have happened if you never got sick and Emily never had to take your place."

"That's what I wished for?"

"That's what you got. You didn't wish for it. Do I look like a genie to you?"

Serena shrugged her shoulders, "My sister's dead but no one remembers her, and now I'm having a conversation with a dog. Excuse me for mistaking you for a genie."

"Your sister isn't dead," Storm answered with a little smile, "In this life, she never came to the Shiba House, and therefore wasn't in the city when the accident happened. You were walking me when you saw a girl, who looked a lot like Emily, get hit by a car. It'll look like Emily to you, but to the rest of the world she's Katie Stone."

"Stone?"

"I'm not good with last names, okay. Besides, I thought it would be funny because, you know, you're earth and…"

"Just, shut up and tell me where my sister is. If that car hit Katie, then what happened to Emily?"

"She's back at your farm, living the normal life. She just graduated high school and is now enjoying her last summer before college starts."

"Can I go see her?"

"I've already made it happen," Storm smirked. "You've gone off the deep end, according to the others, so right now, they're in the common room having a discussion on whether or not it's safe to go to your farm for a few days."

"They… they are?"

"They can't have their yellow Ranger going bat-shit crazy because some girl who looked like her sister just died," Storm chuckled. "Taking you to the farm so you can see for yourself Emily's safe and sound is the best thing they can do for you."

"Wait, yellow Ranger? I'm white."

Storm started to whine and buried her face in her paws, "Humans are so dense. You think too much."

"Storm…"

"You're yellow. Everything here is different. Emily never took your place."

"So what does that mean?"

"There is no white Ranger. In fact, there's no gold, either. Without Emily around, Antonio didn't get the pep talk that convinced him to try and earn his place on the team. He left town."

"What?"

"When Antonio was refused to be a Samurai by Jayden, Mike and Emily went to talk to him and Emily used her story of how she wasn't supposed to be a Ranger either to boost his spirits. Without her, it was just Mike trying to get Antonio to try and win Jayden's heart and he failed miserably. With only one Samurai willing to accept him, Antonio didn't think it was worth it. He left town broken-hearted and there was no gold Ranger."

"But without Antonio…"

"He brought the Octozord back, so you do have that, but there's no Clawzord, no Black Box, no Lightzord…"

"Yeah, I get it," Serena sighed. "So Antonio's gone?"

"Yep. And you never started a relationship with Dekker."

"Really?" Serena asked hopefully. Maybe this could be good.

"He never had to heal you from your illness, because you were never sick. And your duties as yellow Ranger meant you could never be the Elder Guardian at the Tengen Gate, which is where your relationship blossomed. You know him only as your opponent."

"I can…"

"But, if you were never at the Tengen Gate, and if you were never in a relationship with Dekker, then Terran was never born."

"How do you know Terran?" Serena looked to Storm strangely. "You can't know about him. You've never met him."

"I'm a talking dog, Serena. Give me a few liberties."

Serena nodded her head and finally the words sunk in. She didn't have a son, "Wait! Terran…"

"Doesn't exist. Dekker never healed you, you never got to know him to be anything more than the whacko who wanted to duel Jayden. You never started a relationship with him, never slept with him, and therefore, you never conceived Terran. You can bring him up all you like, but the team already thinks you're losing it. We don't want you ending up in a psychiatric hospital."

"So Terran…"

"Never was," Storm nodded. "And because Terran never was, you never needed a job, you never worked at the school, and you never met James."

Serena felt her heart shattering to pieces. Emily wasn't dead anymore, but her son and James were both out of her life. It had never occurred to her just how much her sister had given her. Though her own actions had led to Terran's birth and her meeting and falling in love with James, Storm was right – they had all come from Emily.

"It's not all bad," Storm shrugged, "You don't know Jayden's secret."

"How do you…?"

"Talking dog."

"Right…"

"Jayden told you his secret because of what he did to Emily with her Earth Stone when the Black Box needed to be programed. No Emily, no Antonio, no Black Box, no Earth Stone, no shattered trust, no truth and no need for you to hide anything from the Rangers."

"Is the truth still the truth here, though?"

"Of course. Whether or not you or Emily had turned up, Jayden was always going to have a secret."

"What else should I know about?"

"You'll see," Storm jumped off the bed, "We should probably go interrupt the talk now. I'm sure they're about ready to decide to go to the farm."

Serena nodded her head and followed the dog to the common room. Halfway there she stopped.

"Wait, if Emily's not around, why are you…?"

"I bent reality a little bit. I'm your dog. But Scruffy never existed. Well, he did, but he never lived here. He's with another family."

"Oh," Serena looked down at her feet the rest of the way to the common room. Scruffy was alive here.

"Serena, are you feeling better?" Mia was instantly on her feet and gently guided Serena over to Emily's stool – though Serena now understood it was her stool. Serena nodded her head.

Jayden gave Serena a look. It wasn't soft and gentle. It was more… distant. From his look, she could tell he cared about his team, but not like before.

"You've been away from home for a long time. I understand that. Normally, I wouldn't allow this, but the others have all agreed that after what happened, you need this. We're going to visit your family on the farm. You need to see for yourself that that girl was not Emily."

"She looked so much like her," Serena muttered, knowing she had to play the part now. Though there was no denying she had seen Emily get hit by the car and she had watched Emily die, in this world, it was just a look-a-like.

"You need to know, contact with your family will put them in serious danger."

"I know."

"We'll get packed then, I guess," Kevin shrugged his shoulders and got up. He was followed by the others as they went to pack their suitcases for the trip. Serena got up as well and walked to her room with Storm.

Storm jumped up on her bed as Serena pulled out a suitcase from the closet.

"I'm going to warn you now, this is the best I could do."

"What do you mean?" Serena turned to the dog, "What's wrong?"

"You want Emily to be the same person. I can't make her the same person and change everything about how she grew up. She had a point the other day. That's impossible, even for a talking dog."

"So, what does that mean?"

"Emily will be the sister you know. She'll be all smiles, like you want, like she usually is, but this world is different."

"The whole point of this world is for her to have a better life."

"Was it really Emily who needed the better life?" Storm asked and lay down on the bed. "She told you the other day she was happy. She told you she loved the life she had. She may have had a few hardships on the way, but they gave her everything she ever hoped for. I can't really improve on that."

"She also told Mia I neglected her."

"No she didn't. She said that, for a while, you were too busy to play with her. Which is true. You were. I couldn't change that, either. You're the family Samurai. You needed all the training you could get."

"If you didn't change that…"

"I changed the fact that you never got sick. Emily never needed to start training to take your place. Emily never took your place. Her life is different because your life is different."

"What?"

"There was nothing wrong with her life, Serena. The faults came from you. I can't fix what wasn't broken. No symbol, no matter how powerful, can fix what isn't broken."

"And that means?"

"This is your alternate life, Serena. They are your insecurities, after all."