Jack couldn't care less about the farm. He had left Ellie to do all the work outside and inside. He knew she could handle it. To him, there was nothing more important that his daughter.

He had no idea what Ellie had done to Emily, but he didn't like it. Emily had been asleep for hours and though the rest looked peaceful, Jack could swear he saw some light bruising had appeared on her skin since she had fallen asleep, as well as a few burns. He trusted Ellie would never hurt their daughter, but he knew the danger of using Symbol Power and couldn't bear the thought of something going wrong. Ellie assured him Emily would be okay and she needed this, but Jack would feel a lot better if he knew something or if there was something he could do to help. After all, the last time Ellie had tried to use Symbol Power to help heal one of their daughters, it had gone terribly wrong.

He sat by Emily's bed and held her hand softly, "Come out of this, Emily. Don't listen to your mother or Mike. You can stay here as long as you need. You'll be okay."

On the surface, Emily looked like she was sound asleep, but her brain hadn't shut off from the moment she had been hit by the Symbol. She had figured out she was reliving some of her worst moments and to pass she needed to figure out the solution or get herself out of trouble. Already she had gotten herself out of the burning house, like that time Dr. Fletcher had locked her in his burning mansion to help her conquer her paralyzing fear of fire. She had escaped from Frankie's closet after he kidnapped her. She had challenged and defeated Dekker, and saved Terran and Serena from him without help from the other Samurai, and she had come face to face with Dayu and destroyed her.

None of those challenges had been easy, and Emily had failed many times, but unlike in the real world, she had redos. Unfortunately, the scenario changed every time she failed, and she would have to come up with a new way of getting herself out of trouble before she could move on.

She was on what she hoped was the last trial, as it seemed to be the toughest. The other Samurai were on the battlefield, facing off against Xandred. Though it was all just a Symbol induced dream, Xandred was just as terrifying and just as powerful as last time, and it would take all the Rangers had to defeat him.

So Emily had tried that. She helped her team defeat him quickly but that hadn't worked. The scenario restarted, she found herself back in the middle of the battle and still trapped in this dream. As it turned out, her defeating Xandred quickly didn't prevent hundreds of people from dying at the hands of the Moogers.

So the second time she left her team to take care of Master Xandred while she took on the Moogers. That ended worse than the first time. Not only did the Moogers still manage to kill hundreds of people and they left Emily severely wounded, but Xandred killed or fatally wounded all her teammates, granting himself victory and power to rule the Netherworld and the human world.

The third time, Emily willed her dream to start before the attack and it did, letting her know she had some level of control. Before the battle began, and even before the Sanzu Water burst through and poisoned the Pacific Ocean, Emily as the yellow Ranger ordered an evacuation of the city. Some people listened, others stayed behind. Those who did died, and while Emily was busy trying to convince the people to leave, her friends took on Xandred and died.

Time after time Emily tried something new. She started from the very beginning, or she put herself at the very end. She went way back in time, prevented Serena from getting sick and then watched as that made very little difference in the fate of the world. No matter what she did, people ended up dying or Xandred and the Nighlok won.

This time, she thought she would distract Xandred and convinced her friends to evacuate the city and save the people. Still people died, but her friends were safe. What truly made this a failure though was that Emily was nowhere near strong enough to take Xandred on by herself. She was killed within moments and had no idea what happened after that, as her dream reset again.

By now, Emily was exhausted. She always came back with the same amount of energy to begin with, but emotionally she was done. Unfortunately, the dream wouldn't stop. People were screaming as they tried to run, kids were crying, and Emily sat in a corner, unable to help while her friends fought Xandred. Now, not only were they a Ranger down, but Emily's misery fed Xandred and made him stronger. This continued through several dreams as Xandred grew even more powerful and took her friends' lives faster and faster. Eventually, the dream ceased to repeat. People tried to run and the Rangers did what they could to stop Xandred. This time, the match was a little more even.

"Emily! Help!" Mike shouted as Xandred beat into him, tearing through the green spandex with his sword. Emily nodded her head, wiped her eyes and morphed. Moping had proven it wouldn't get her out of the dream, but there was no way out. No matter what she did, she ended up failing.

The same thing happened this time, as a stray runaway accidentally found himself on the battlefield and Emily rushed off to save him, putting her own life at risk as she felt something slice into her back and then it all went black for a few moments. When her vision came back to her, she saw she was on Xandred's ship. She didn't know what had happened, but assumed he had won again.

"They begged me to spare you," Xandred scoffed before something stung Emily's back and she fell forward, off whatever she had been sitting on. As she tried to get up, she noticed she had landed next to a flute.

"Well?" Xandred cried in fury, "My headache is not getting any better!"

Emily grabbed the flute and looked at it while Xandred look to her expectantly. She wasn't sure what to do, but remembered Dayu used to play her Shamisen for Xandred and thought that was worth a shot. She blew the first note into her flute and Xandred seemed to relax just a bit.

Outside her dreams, Emily's father clutched her hand tightly as more scars and bruises covered his daughter's body and more and more he saw painful or hurt expressions on her face. Jack couldn't take it anymore and tried to wake her.

"Emily, it's all just a dream. Wake up, sweetheart. You're okay."

Back inside, Emily was pulled from her dream and sent right back to the beginning. The very beginning. Kevin, Mia, and Mike were beside her, and then Emily looked over, following the sounds of the hooves on cement.

"Lauren?" she gasped, seeing it was Lauren on the horse, not Jayden. Lauren gave her a bit of a look and then huffed. She hopped off her horse and looked at Emily.

"I could have sworn…"

"Serena's ill," Emily blurted out this time and Lauren nodded her head.

"It's not ideal, but I guess it's all we've got," she reached into one of the bags on the horse's saddle and pulled out a Samuraizer. Emily remembered there was a battle going on in the city. She had arrived right in the middle of it.

This time, it seemed she had arrived earlier. She accepted her Samuraizer quickly, turned around to run to the fight, and then gasped as Tooya, the Nighlok, killed a child and then spotted the Rangers.

"That'll happen," Lauren assured the Samurai just before the dream ended again and Emily was in another time. It was even further back in the past as Emily found herself staring up at what could only be Mia and Kevin in their very early teens, and what was possibly just a twelve year old Mike.

"I'm mighty green!" his voice squeaked, indicating it hadn't dropped at all. He was just a kid.

Emily's eyes widened again. She was only eight. She had been called into battle much earlier this time. But before Lauren or Jayden could turn up, she was ready to fight. She knew where the Nighlok was and raced away to defeat him before he could harm anyone. She was too slow, though. The city had cleared out quickly, but a Mooger jumped out at her and killed her instantly – before she could receive her Samuraizer.

The dream reset again, taking her farther back into the past where she found herself at the Shiba House. Her mother, much younger in age, walked right through her. Emily technically wasn't there. But when she saw what her mother was holding in her arms, she saw why. She was just a baby. Instead of staying home with her father, it seemed her mother had taken her along to the Shiba House.

"I did it!" Jayden's father suddenly ran into the common room with the biggest smile on his face. Emily noticed he ran to two little kids who she recognized as Jayden and Lauren and he took them both in his arms, "You'll never believe what I finally managed to master!"

"But you said it couldn't be done," Patrick looked up from his book, "You said there wasn't enough time."

"I don't know how I did it, but I did. I've got the Sealing Power! It's completed!"

As he said that, the Gap Sensor went off. Ellie put baby Emily in Lauren's arms and the previous generation raced off to their final battle. Emily stepped outside with them and watched. While Donny stayed back, his team charged the approaching army of Moogers and Nighloks. Emily could see him getting closer and closer to completing the Symbol and the aim was perfect to hit Xandred. But just before it was complete, a stray fireball from the mouth of a Spitfang was shot his way. Emily watched in horror as the Symbol was complete and shot in return, but Ellie jumped in front of Donny to protect him from the blast.

The Sealing Symbol worked to seal Xandred and the Nighlok away for good, and the fireball killed Ellie, burning her alive in seconds. Donny was covered, but the Sealing Symbol took a lot of energy, and it seemed the injuries he had sustained on top of him using up all his energy on the Symbol were too much. They were both dead.

"NO!" Emily screamed and shook her head as she was taken out of the dream and back on the battle field with her team, where they had faced Xandred for the last time. Emily fell to her knees and cried loudly. She was distracted long enough to be killed, but the dream reset quickly.

No matter what she did, no matter what ended up happening, someone always got hurt. Someone always died.

She beat her fists into the Earth, "Why can't I win? There's got to be a way."

She got up and tried again – but to no avail.