A/N: Behold, the sequel to Dino Charged Samurai! This is an idea I've had for quite a while, and I really like it. Keep in mind, however, that this is fanmade and is in no way part of any canon series.

Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers, sadly. Saban does. I just own the story plot.

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"Just as Emily heads to the Shiba House for some answers, some guy named Phillip takes off with the Gold Energem."

Power Rangers: Dino Charge

Episode 2: Only Human

Chapter 5: The Real Prince of Zandar

It was Saturday, the day of the Zandar Treasures Expo. If it weren't for the fact that the Stone of Zandar was actually the Gold Energem, the Rangers normally wouldn't have anything to worry about.

Shelby sighed in frustration as Tyler and Chase entered the base. "I am really not looking forward to today," she complained.

"Neither am I," Kendall agreed, "but we have to, so let's get it done and over with."

"Where Emily?" Koda asked when he noticed one person missing.

"She said she had something important to take care of," Riley repeated what Emily told him. "If we need her for Ranger stuff, all we need to do is call her."

"It's okay," Tyler reassured them. "We can carry on without her. All we have to do is watch over the Gold Energem until the Expo is over."

Sounded easy enough…

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Eyes on Kevin, Mike. Outwit him and win.

Kevin and Mike were currently sparring, with Jii and the other Samurai Rangers watching. The loser had to do the dishes after dinner tonight.

After a few jabs at each other, even with his creative wits, Mike knew he was going to lose.

"Switch to your right foot, Mike."

It was like an angel from heaven had spoken to him. He followed her advice, not questioning anything. The switched stance allowed Mike to easily take down Kevin, which really surprised the Blue Samurai. (Yay! Mike won!)

"3, 2, 1, and he's down!" Antonio counted. "Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new dojo champion!"

Kevin groaned as Mike celebrated. "That doesn't count! You had help, Mike. You cheated."

Mike stopped dancing for a moment. "Oh, so I wasn't the only one who heard that?"

"Of course not," said the voice again. "I'm not a ghost. Besides, technically, it's not cheating if I'm no longer a Samurai Ranger."

Mike, Kevin, and Antonio turned around in time to see Mia tightly hug the owner of the mysterious, yet heavenly voice.

"Emily! I missed you!" Mia squealed, before the former Yellow Ranger let go and turned to give hugs to Jayden and Lauren.

"It's great to see you all again," Emily replied after hugging the other three, Mike the longest and tightest. "But I do have important stuff to do. Mentor, you have that information I requested?"

"Yes," Jii replied, taking some books of the shelf. "Now you explained having questions that only these books could answer. You mind explaining?"

Emily hesitated before pulling out the Aqua Energem from underneath her shirt. "Why not? After all, you guys are involved too." She held up the Energem in the palm of her hand. "The Energems are a part of our history too."

"What?"

"How?"

"The Sir Ivan story, the Stone of Zandar is the Gold Energem." There was a silence, filled with surprise and some confusion, so Emily continued. "I know. That was our initial reaction too." Emily took a deep breath. "I think the Nighlock at least know that the Energems exist." (It was only a theory, but that's why she was here, to test it out and find worthy evidence.)

It was Kevin who spoke next. "But how can you be certain of this? It's an interesting theory, but where's your proof?" He was sure the others agreed with him, Jayden and Lauren especially. (And he was right.)

Yet, Emily already had an answer. "It does appear to be just a regular story on the surface, but when you think about it, the story takes place in 13th century Zandar, in Europe. The only characters mentioned are young prince Colin, Sir Ivan, and a cloaked figure, with a lightning-brandished sword." (Emily couldn't help but get a strange feeling when she mentioned the third character, but she quickly shrugged it off.) "No Nighlock or Samurai Ranger is mentioned, because it takes place 400 years before the Grand Shogun first met Master Xandred. So why is this mentioned in ancient Samurai Ranger history, our history, if we have nothing to do with it?"

The group was quiet, processing that. "She's got a point," Mike told the others. "It wouldn't be in our history if we or the Nighlock weren't involved in some way or another."

Emily mentally thanked Mike for agreeing with her, before continuing, "And then I remembered that the story, when I first read it, was being told from the view of a witness, someone who was there, like a first person narrative or something. It certainly starts that way, but then it just cuts off, like there's a missing page, or a piece of the puzzle we don't have."

Jii quickly cut in, carrying the book that contained the Sir Ivan story. (It was torn and tattered, the oldest book in the library.) "I may have just found it. The account was told by Juuzou, a Shiba Clan servant. He was en route back to Japan after delivering a message to an ally in Britain. Juuzou ends the story by describing a second encounter."

Still relishing in the awe of the gold light that had surrounded him, Sir Ivan held his sword in front of him, ready to fight and defend Prince Colin. The figure took off his cloak, revealing an enraged Fury. "If I can't have it, no one else can!"

Fury opened up his chest and gold energy chains erupted and tangled themselves all around Ivan and began dragging Ivan slowly towards him.

Another flash of gold shone brightly amongst the trees and before Juuzou knew it, the young knight was gone.

But Fury had seemingly lost whatever he was fighting the knight over. "Oh no! Where is it?! Where'd it go?"

By the river, just narrowly out of sight, Prince Colin's weak hand wrapped around the glowing, golden crystal.

"Have you lost something?" Fury turned around to see a short, octopus like monster, with a staff. "I can help you find it."

"No thanks! Now get lost, Noodle Face!"

"I am Octoroo, second-in-command to the Nighlock Army, and the brains behind Master Xandred's operation. My army of Nighlock can easily find what it is you are looking for."

"What's in it for you?"

"I get half of what we help you find."

Fury simply laughed it off. "You really think I'm going to share my treasures with you?"

Octoroo, if he could show it, smiled evilly. "Then I'll take it all."

This was when Fury became angry. "Is that a threat, shrimp?"

"I'm a squid, actually, and you're going to regret crossing me." Octoroo was quiet, but he was mad.

Juuzou took no chances with sticking around. He quickly ran from his hiding spot behind the bushes, he had to report this to his lord, the head of the Shiba Clan. There have been some sightings of these Nighlock in Japan before, that's why the Shiba Clan exists, but to see them in any country besides Japan was unsettling.

Juuzou was about to disappear altogether and avoid getting in the middle of the fierce fight that had just broken out between Octoroo and Fury.

But Prince Colin was still here, still lying by the river. Juuzou couldn't just leave the boy behind.

Before Colin passed out, he saw a Japanese man lean over him and ask him which direction his home was. Colin weakly raised a fist, the one which held the gold crystal, and pointed a shaky finger to his right.

Prince Colin never knew the man who saved him and took him back to the castle of Zandar that day, but without him, Zandar wouldn't have had also received the legendary Stone of Zandar.

"This story tells us that Emily is correct. The Nighlock do know the Energems exist, because Octoroo was a witness. And we know the same information because of Juuzou."

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Tyler looked on the current situation with mixed feelings. One side of his mind was confused. The other side was repeating "Uh-oh" over and over.

"Excuse me," Kendall stepped up and spoke to the man, politely but meaning business. "I am the museum director. Just what do you think you're doing?"

The man was currently having his henchmen take all of the items in the expo here.

"I'm taking what belongs to me," the man replied. Tyler wasn't sure whether or not he liked this guy.

Riley stepped forward. "Hey, whoa, whoa, no, that's impossible, 'cause these belong to the royal family…" He trailed off, everything finally making sense. "Ohh…"

But the others were still confused. So the man continued, "Starting to get the picture, aren't we? Allow me to introduce myself. I am Prince Phillip III of Zandar, the real prince, unlike the imposters that have been masquerading around here." As he held up a picture from the fake press conference a couple days ago, his eyes finally set on Tyler and Shelby. "Wait a moment. This is you two, isn't it?"

Tyler had no idea was to say, and Shelby was speechless, so he muttered, "Uh, uh…"

"It's a wonder anyone would have mistaken you for a prince," Phillip darkly replied.

Okay, um. Ouch. That actually really hurt. And it wasn't even his idea.

"But you have it all wrong. First of all, it wasn't our idea–" Shelby began.

"It was mine," Tyler interrupted, and Shelby gave him a stare that was filled with…confusion, betrayal, and sadness, he thought. It was too mixed up to really tell for sure. "It was my idea. If you must punish anyone, let it be me."

"Oh, I'll take the pleasure of it, alright," Phillip continued. "But one step at a time. I am taking all of these treasures back to Zandar with me. You better beg for mercy," he directed the last part at Tyler. "Masquerading as a royal member of Zandar is a federal offense in our country."

Phillip turned to leave, the gold Energem in hand, but he was stopped by Koda, who was eating an apple, in his bare feet.

"Please, wait. Please leave crystal…"

"Bare feet. And a half eaten apple…?" Phillip paused. "Were you born in a cave?"

"No, born on mammoth hunt," and once again, Koda missed the point. "Mother could not make it home cave."

The other Rangers tried to hide their rolling eyes and soft snickers.

"It matters not," Phillip announced. "I will be taking my leave now."

Tyler and the others followed him outside, all the way to his care, but that was where they were forced to just watch.

"H-He can't really do that, can he?" Shelby asked Kendall. They had just lost the Gold Energem and got busted for the undercover mission. That and the expo was officially over. That was a triple bust.

"He is the Prince of Zandar," Kendall shrugged, before she noticed something. "Wait a minute…"

Thankfully, she wasn't the only one who saw those seaweed-heads following the Prince's car.

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"Hang on," Emily paused Jii as the man re-read the story for the fourth time. Kevin, Antonio, and Mike groaned.

"Emily, there's nothing else left to analyze. We've gone through the entire thing three times already," Kevin tried to reason with her.

"If you want to go do something else, Kevin, feel free. But if you staying, then shush," but she ignored him. "Mentor, please repeat the paragraph you just finished."

"Of course," Jii took a quiet, deep breath before reciting, "'One moment Sir Ivan was there, but in two flashes of gold, the first of them spreading all throughout his body, he was gone. The lion creature laughed evilly, as if he had known where the Knight had gone, but he apparently had made a mistake. He tried searching for the gold crystal, but he could not find it.'"

"And stop," Emily gently ordered, raising up a hand.

"Why?" Antonio asked. "What did that mean?"

Kevin merely shrugged.

Realization and reality were tag-teaming and ganging up on Emily right now. "It means that the golden entity trapped Fury is not Tyler's dad at all. It's Sir Ivan! And Fury was using Ivan to charge to Ptera Charger, but only the Gold Energem can do that, and we have it. Unless…"

Emily was getting somewhere, Mia could tell, so the older girl urged her to continue, "Unless what?"

Emily snapped her fingers. "Of course! Sir Ivan bonded with the Gold Energem! Everything makes a lot more sense now!"

But Jayden gently cut in, trying to calm her down, "Em, you're jumping to conclusions way too quickly." ("Thank you," Kevin cut in.) "How can you be sure that he's your Gold Ranger?"

"'In two flashes of gold, the first of them spreading all throughout his body'," Emily quoted directly from the text. "That's generally what happens when someone bonds to an Energem. Don't believe me? Ask Mike. He was there when I bonded with mine."

No one could deny this, so it left a slightly uncomfortable silence. Fortunately, it was broken by Emily's Dino Com going off.

Emily quickly answered. Any other time, they would have used her cell-phone. The Dino Com meant emergencies. "Hello?"

"Get back to the base, Emily, right now!" Kendall ordered. "We have crisis."

Emily sighed. "Did Chase almost set the kitchen on fire again?"

"No, much worse."

By the tone of Kendall's voice, it was definitely serious. As in 'the Energems are in danger' serious. "Okay, what happened?" Emily asked, as she began to gather up all of her stuff.

"The real prince of Zandar has the Gold Energem and is being attacked by Sledge's minions! The others need your help!" Kendall said, rather quickly.

Emily paused, sharing a blank, then shocked, and then shocked and scared stare with the others. "Sorry, Miss Morgan, but I think you lost me at 'the real prince of Zandar'."

To Be Continued...

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Note: Yes, I know James Navarro, AKA Tyler's dad, has been confirmed as the Aqua Ranger. Okay, I know. So, please stop telling me about that. Trust me, I'm still going to include James, but in a different role.

A/N: Do review, please. If you guys have any ideas you want me to consider adding, please PM me. A preview for the next chapter:

Chapter 6: "Pteradactyl, Power Ranger Gold!"

"Once Emily hears of an emergency, she has no choice but to go – Oooo, he's so sparkly!"