Hi Everyone.

Well, I've sure fallen short on my updates and what I've promised you fans. Lots of stuff with work and outside learning has just come up, and I'm trying to balance out my new schedule and still stay "untired" to write the story, but it has been a time, but I'm so sorry for not updating earlier. Also, I know I promised drafts of the Ranger cards a month or so ago. Well...InDesign has decided to not update despite all my attempts to fix it, so I have 5/6 drafts done that just need some touch-up. I will be fixing it this week and getting the cards up to speed by next week; that is my goal. I will get this episode finished before April is out, though, and I thank you so much for your continued interest. Stay morphinomenal!

The unnerving silence was broken, just as Blue Ranger's back could've been when one of Dredwing's victims spilled from his bed and took him to the ground. The hero had bolted to the first vampire he saw move, but restraining him did no good. Another infected person joined him, doing her best to bring her brand new fangs to Tracey's throat.

"Blue!" Pink Ranger cried, rushing to his aid. She pushed a third vampire back into her bed and lunged downward, wrenching one of the enemies away from the Blue Ranger. The snarling female craned her neck in vain, trying to bite Lia. Flecks of spit and black poison flew from her mouth and onto Lia's visor, but the Ranger hoisted her up and pinned her to the wall, spearing one of her arrows into the back of her gown and through the wall. While Lia was helping him, Tracey had rolled over and escaped his attacker, coming to his feet only to execute an inside block to deter another one.

"You okay?" he asked Lia, who was trying to wrestle down a thrashing, fanged boy.

"Yes," she replied, her tone not as aggressive as before. "We just have to…"

The Pink Ranger halted her speech as a blurry shape moved out of the room. The male vampire that had assaulted Blue Ranger pushed off of the ground and tried to follow, but was caught by the duo by his ankles.

"Drag him back in!" Tracey implored. Lurching, the two pulled the hissing victim back, but the Rangers were interrupted by the little boy piling onto them and scraping his fangs across their necks. Energy sparked from their bodies along with groans, but they held onto the one target and tried to shake off the other.

"Rangers! I'm coming!" Doctor Jumah shouted. He shut and locked the door behind him and stumbled near the entrance of the next room.

"Don't let these people near you, doctor! They've turned into vampires!" Tracey cautioned. He and Lia pulled back the thrashing man, his nails grating the floor. Tracey rolled over and pushed him through the air and to the wall with his feet while Lia bounded off the ground with the child in her arms, holding him at arm's length.

One of the male victims ambled over from the middle of the room only to be locked up by the Blue Ranger's right arm and the Pink Ranger's left arm. As he struggled to break free, Jumah stepped up to see what he could do. At that moment, the woman pinned to the wall finally thrashed free, her gown tearing from where the Ptera Bow arrow had hooked her. She snarled and dove under Tracey's legs, immediately sinking her teeth into the doctor's leg. Doctor Jumah screamed, buckling as he plummeted to the floor, but the vampire drug her fangs back, tearing fabric and flesh filling her maw with blood.

"No!" Blue Ranger cried. Both he and his partner rebuffed the man they had in their arms and, straining to do so, Pink Ranger shoved the child into his body. Tracey then swept low and wrenched the biting woman from the physician's leg. The transformed human hissed and backhanded Tracey in the side of his helmet, rocking him back a little.

"That's it!" Lia roared. She whipped around and lunged at the vampire, diving her fist right into her mouth again, again, and again until she whacked her head into the wall outside and crumpled to the ground. She stared at her white-gloved fist for a second, now smeared red and black, and she dove to pull Jumah from the fray.

"We've got to close this wound…" she let out, compressing the tear on the doctor's leg with her clean hand. "We're going to do it."

Meanwhile, a glimmer of blue light broke the darkness, followed by the sound of rushing wind and beastly screeches. Tracey was slowly backing out of the room, assailing the room of bloodsuckers with his Dino Crystal's Sandstorm Cyclone.

"Lock the…lock the door…" Jumah choked out. He reached into his pocket and threw the Blue Ranger a key, which he used to shutter everyone inside the room. The doctor coughed and groaned, which brought the Rangers down to his level.

"You're going to be okay, Doctor Jumah," Blue Ranger assured, waving over a couple of nurses who came out of hiding in the other rooms. He wanted to say more, but another horrifying thought kept him silent.

Jumah shook his head, gasping and wincing with almost every breath, and with each breath came pounding on the door.

"We must secure the rest of the hospital," he managed to say. "These victims must not reach anybody else inside."

"Alpha, send me another one of those bandages," Pink Ranger ordered, speaking into her Wrist Communicator. A few seconds later, a white sizzle of light brought her a small metal box. She opened it and drew out one of ten of the same bandages that Misty had affixed to her own bite.

"You'll have to just put this on part of the bite and dress the rest, but it'll slow the effects of the venom," Lia explained, handing one of the adhesives to one of the nurses and the box of spares to the other.

Tracey snapped out of his train of thought when Lia spoke. "I guess Alpha and Zordon have been hard at work with the first aid," he said.

Lia scoffed, resuming a standing position and drawing her Blade Blaster. "Yeah, but there's not enough to go around this hospital, let alone the whole island."

"Right," Tracey replied, getting to his feet and letting the nurses tend to the doctor. "But we've at least got some more help out there. We have to call the others."

Lia turned her back to Tracey and took off down the hall, closing and locking doors. "You do that!" she yelled. "I'll check out these rooms!"

"Wait, Pink!" her fellow hero protested, but she paid him no mind. "So much for her calming down during this spell," he told himself, barely hearing himself over the noises behind him. As he turned on his Communicator, Blue Ranger stopped again, the terrible thought from before coming back to mind.

If the victims are rising here, it's probably happening everywhere else, and that's where my dad is…