Hey guys, here's the next chapter! Sorry it took a while, but I've been working on my other story to get it finished so I can focus on other and new projects. Updates may be a bit crazy during that time, but I'll definitely be working to get them out whenever I can.

Belladonna is portrayed by Jana Kramer

Dan is portrayed by Damon Wayans Jr

Last time on Power Rangers Emergency Responders

The chief rangers arrived back at the base, finding Sera pacing around and Masters sitting at the computer.

"What's going on?" Tori asked, looking them over. "Is there a mission for us or something? We can still go, we're not too banged up."

Sera looked guiltily at them. "Actually, someone else already handled it. Four somebody's, to be exact," She bit her lip. "Talk to Masters about it!" She said, going back to sit at the computer, making Masters give her a look.

"Great; thank you, Sera," Masters muttered, standing up and walking over to them. "Okay, look, guys, just you four aren't enough to do this job, so I've allowed Lia to finally appoint a lieutenant squad. They've caught Lara Letford, and they're bringing her in right now."

"What?!"

Now

"I can't believe this," Tori paced around as the four chief rangers had holed up in Taz's lab. "Masters let Lia make her own team." She shook her head, turning to the other rangers. "We're supposed to be the only team. We worked so hard to earn this, and now the lieutenant squad is going to win one battle and take over? I don't think so."

Joey gave her a look. "You know, I never took you for the jealous type."

Tori glared at him. "I'm not," She ground out. "I worked so hard to get this job - I worked my ass off doing the best I could do and I earned it! I had to solve more cases than anyone else, and I did it. They solve one case - our case - and they get our job? No, I refuse to except that. We're going to finish what we started."

Taz frowned. "But the case is already solved."

"Not completely," Tori said. "Lara has a partner, and there's still a criminal out on the loose. This is our case, and we have to solve it."

"Let's at least wait until tomorrow," Sean sighed, leaning back. Since they came back from the hospital, he had changed into his everyday outfit, consisting of a black t-shirt, black loose jeans, and blue converse. "I already got shot at today, and I don't think it would be good to go out without a new bulletproof vest, which I'm getting tomorrow."

Tori raised an eyebrow. "Who said you're gonna get shot at?" She asked. "But, it doesn't matter. You can stay back and question the two criminals Sera brought in. I'm gonna go see where Lara Letford has gotten off to."

"And what do we do?" Joey asked, standing up with Taz.

She shrugged. "You two can look into George's records to see if there's anything we can use to find him efficiently. The sooner we catch him, the better."

Sean and Joey left promptly, but Taz stopped Tori on her way out, grabbing her arm. "What's your problem with the lieutenants, anyways? This can't just be because they took our case or anything. I mean, you and I both know that we could always use extra help."

Tori pulled her arm out of Taz's grasp. "More people means more room for error. Error means cases go cold, and when cases go cold, people get hurt. I'm not letting people get hurt."

"But, Tori..."

"Leave it alone, Taz," Tori demanded coldly. "Seriously."

Before Taz could say anything else, Tori quickly left the room, ignoring anyone in her way.

- Cue Opening -

George walked down the street, looking around with a smirk on his face. He was free from prison the same day he got in. He was quite proud of himself for avoiding arrest so far, and escaping, despite the fact that Lara had released him.

The difference between himself and Lara was that she got caught, and he didn't.

He walked into the crime-ridden neighborhood where he knew Silas' place was. Once he got to the abandoned apartment building Silas lived in, he put his hand on the pocketknife resting in his pants pocket, and entered carefully.

George got up to the top fairly easily, which surprised him. When he got to the top, he was even more surprised to find Silas waiting for him.

Silas shook his head at him. "George, you can take your hand away from that knife in your pocket; it's rude to try and attack someone in their own home."

"I wasn't going to," George rolled his eyes. "It was for protection in case of your men,"

"Of course it was," Silas smirked. "So, how did you get out, exactly? It was Lara, wasn't it?"

"Yes," He nodded. "But she was captured by the rangers."

Silas' face changed to a surprised look. "Did she really?"

"Of course she did," A new, female voice said. A young woman with tanned skin, brown hair, and light brown eyes stepped out of the darkness. Besides the hair and eye color differences, she looked just like a slightly older version or Lara. She wore a tight, black leather body suit with tall, high-heeled boots. "Not that I wanted her to, but I did expect it."

George looked her up and down. "Belladonna Letford? I haven't seen you in years."

Belladonna smirked. "Obviously not. I've been in a bit of hiding; letting Lara get more of the attention."

"You purposefully got your sister caught?" George asked, raising an eyebrow.

She shook her head. "Not at all, but I did let her take all of the credit for crimes I committed." Belladonna smirked. "Hey, I don't necessarily feel like getting caught, but you might."

George chuckled. "And, why would I want that?"

"Because, if you don't attempt to overtake the rangers to get my sister back," Belladonna moved faster than he could see and pinned him to the wall very quickly. "I'll kill you, and we both know that I have more than enough power to do it."

George tried, and failed, to shoved Belladonna off of him. "I'll see you coming."

Belladonna almost laughed. "Oh please. Your powers are about as useless as you, but I have a feeling you still might be able to put up a fight against the rangers. I guess we'll see, won't we? Second time's the charm, right?" She patted him on the cheek with a smirk. "Right."

She dropped him to the ground and stalked off to the backroom, rubbing her hand across Silas' chest as she did so, attracting his attention.

"Why do you have her here?" George asked, standing to his feet.

Silas smirked, walking backwards towards the back room. "She's my right-hand woman; one of my 'men.'"

George watched him turn with grace and enter the back room, before shaking his head and leaving. Like she can tell me what to do. It's time to finish what I started. He thought as he was leaving.

- PRER -

Nikki and Autumn sat in the interrogation room, Autumn giving Lara a check over, even though she would try to harm her every time Autumn would attempt to fix her up.

"You know, the harder you make this, the longer and worse your sentence is gonna be." Nikki pointed out from across the table.

Lara rolled her eyes. "Like I care. I'm already going on a life sentence, so why does it even matter?"

Nikki nodded. "That could be true. We might be able to strike you a deal if you tell us who you were working with, and why exactly you both killed Lugh Schaal."

"He made a deal, and didn't follow through with it. That's what he gets for not paying." Lara shrugged, crossing her arms and leaning back uncomfortably in the chair.

Autumn sat back in her own chair as well. "So, you killed him for that?"

Lara looked between the two, "I don't even know who you people are. Aren't you supposed to introduce yourself and offer me a lawyer or something?"

"I'm detective Nicole Keegan, and this is my associate, Autumn DeWitt," Nikki told her. "You do have the right to a lawyer, if you want one. I doubt it would help, though."

"But I do have the right to one, which means I'm gonna take the opportunity in front of me," Lara said. "Wouldn't you, if you were in my position?"

"Probably not," Nikki shook her head. "Why would I need a lawyer if I wasn't guilty? Besides, in your case, we already know you're guilty."

Lara raised an eyebrow. "With what evidence?"

"Witnesses, your power matches up to the murder victims death, etc." Nikki shrugged.

She crossed her arms and leaned forward. "Then why am I here?"

The door opened, and Tori stepped into the room with a man next to her, attracting all of their attentions. "Because, we want to know a bit of information about your partner." She gestured to the man next to her, who had dark features and a very professional suit on. "I'm lead detective Victoria Fray, and this is Daniel Jordan, your lawyer, since you were asking about it."

Nikki stood up. "Tori, what the hell are you doing? This is our investigation."

Tori smirked. "No, it's not, and it never has been. This is our investigation, and you will treat it as such. I'd like you to leave while I talk to my suspect."

"This is ridiculous." Nikki gestured for Autumn to follow her, "Come on, we have to go."

Autumn stood up, but, instead of following Nikki out, she stopped in front of Tori, holding her hand out. "Hey, I'm Autumn. The red lieutenant ranger."

"Well, good luck with that," Tori ignored her hand, walking past her. "I'd like you both to leave now."

"Come on, Autumn. Isn't she so nice?" Nikki said sarcastically, pulling her out dejectedly. "We should go check on Sophie and Andi. They must be hurting." She said quickly.

Autumn looked in the window as Tori was talking to Lara. "Actually, I was thinking we could go figure out what's going on with George Tucker. I know it's important for you to check on your friends, though, if you'd rather do that. I don't mind going alone."

Nikki gestured to the lab, where Jason was typing on the computer, oblivious to their presence. "I really should go, but you can take Jason with you. He really gets a lot of experience out on the field," She said sarcastically. "I don't know how he can stay in that lab all day - I always like to be on the move, you know."

Autumn chuckled. "Yeah, I know what you mean." She smiled as Nikki patted her on the back and left. She then opened the door to the lab, startling Jason in his seat. She laughed a bit. "Sorry, did I scare you?"

"No, of course not," He said, trying to act nonchalant as he picked himself up from the chair he was sitting in and stood to talk to her. "So umm.. what's up?"

She gestured out. "Nikki's going to see how Andi and Sophie are doing, and I thought you could come with me to see about George Tucker."

Jason frowned. "Weren't you guys interrogating Lara Letford?"

"Yeah, but Victoria came in and took over." Autumn shrugged. "I guess that means George Tucker is fair game, then. You gonna come?"

He shrugged awkwardly. "Oh, I don't know.. I mean, I'm more of a lab rat, you know? I'd probably just slow you down."

"No you wouldn't," Autumn chuckled, waving him off. "You did a pretty good job fighting out there today already. Besides, I need help if I'm gonna catch this guy. Will you help me?"

"Well, since you asked," Jason smirked, trying to crack a joke, and Autumn chuckled lightly.

"Thank you. Let's go figure out where they are." Autumn smiled.

- PRER -

Sophie grimaced as she rubbed the bridge of her nose, willing her headache to go away, even though she knew it was a waste of time to do so. She had an IV in her hand, feeding her pain meds, but it wasn't helping to take away the pain completely.

She heard footsteps approaching and looked up to see Owen coming into the room with a coffee cup in hand. "I know this probably won't help, but I brought some coffee," He said, handing her the warm cup, which she eagerly took.

"You're a life saver." She said as she sipped at the warm liquid. "I needed this badly."

Owen chuckled. "Truth be told, I'm not really a fan of coffee. Even if I was, it might look weird to the staff if I was getting two, especially if you're not supposed to be drinking it," He winked at her, and she winked back. "So, how are you feeling?"

"I have a massive headache, but the doctor says I'll be fine and back to work by next week. Andi too," She observed him, frowning. "Are you okay, Owen? You're being really quiet, and you're never like that."

"Yeah," Owen shrugged. "I guess. I just.. Today has been a long day. I'm not used to so much activity, you know?"

"I get it," Sophie nodded. "You know, if you ever need to talk about it, you can. I'm here for you."

He chuckled. "Thanks, Soph, but I'm good. I just need to go home and unwind. Play some GTA, relax. Simple stuff."

"You do know that you're twenty years old, right?" Sophie laughed.

"Yeah, what about it?" Owen crossed his arms.

Sophie raised an eyebrow. "Well, it's just that I don't know how many twenty year old's that still live with their parents and play video games in their free time. I mean, if you were in college or something, I'd get it, but you're not. Did you even go to college?"

"No," Owen rolled his eyes. "I wasn't really into school or anything. I mean, I had to go to fire training, but that's it. I didn't even really want to be a firemen, to be honest. I wanted to design video games."

She scoffed. "Of course you did. What inspired you to become a firemen, then?"

He rubbed his arm uncomfortably. "Personal stuff." He shrugged. "Don't worry about it."

"Hey guys!" They looked over to the doorway to see Nikki entering the room with flowers in hand. She put them next to Sophie's bed and smiled brightly. "Soph, you doing good? How are they treating you here? If they're treating you bad, you're gonna let me know, right?" She joked, nudging her as she sat down.

Sophie laughed. "I'm okay, and they're treating me fine, thank you," She nudged her back. "Did you go see Andi?"

Nikki nodded. "Yeah, but she fell asleep before I could even finish speaking. I hope it wasn't my story that put her out," She chuckled.

Owen gave her a look. "Weren't you supposed to be questioning criminals or something?"

"Autumn and Jason are handling it. They're going to find George Tucker, one of the criminals that got out because of Lara." Nikki told him.

He let out a laugh. "You must be joking. You let the newbie and the squint to go out and catch a dangerous criminal on their own? Why would you do that?"

"Oh yeah, I was totally joking. Couldn't you hear it in my voice?" She said sarcastically. "I left because I wanted to see how Sophie and Andi were doing, obviously. Besides, I have faith in Autumn and Jason. They can handle it, and, if they need backup, they'll call."

- PRER -

"Wasn't that a bit wrong?" Jason asked as Autumn was taking him to the address of George Tucker's mother. "Tricking Joey and Taz to give you the address and information?"

Autumn shrugged as they walked down the street. "Maybe, but we have to do what we have to do. If they're already on Lara's case, they should focus. Meanwhile, we can talk to.. Anne Tucker."

Jason straightened out his shirt awkwardly. "So, what do say?"

As they approached the house, Autumn put a hand across his chest to stop him. "We have to handle this smoothly and with care, alright? Since it's his mother, she may be hiding something for him." Jason nodded and they entered the yard, where they found an older woman spraying her garden. When a neighborhood cat got close, she sprayed it as well.

"Get out of here, you rat!" She exclaimed as the cat ran off, soaked with water.

Autumn approached the woman, Jason staying behind a bit. "Anne Tucker?" She asked, talking over the spray of the water.

The woman turned around, shooting them both daggers. "Yes, what do you want?" She asked gruffly, putting a hand on her hip and turning her water off.

"I'm Autumn DeWitt, and this is my partner Jason..." She turned back, raising her eyebrows at him.

"Johston," He practically exclaimed, once he got her look. "Jason Johston."

Autumn nodded awkwardly and smiled nonchalantly at Anne. "Yes, and we're with the Emergency Responders government agency, investigating your son, George's, case."

"George?" Anne nodded, pursing her lips. "Yeah, I should've figured he would get in trouble again."

Autumn frowned. "Why would you say that?"

Anne sighed. "George has had quite a bit of trouble since his father passed away. He used to be a straight A honor student, and then my husband.. passed, and George began to act out. I suppose that it was his way of coping, and, no matter what I did, I could never get through to him. He wouldn't let me." She rubbed a hand over her tired face. "What's he done?"

"He escaped from a holding cell after committing an assault on a man named..." Autumn looked down at the paper, and frowned deeply. "Charles Tucker."

The woman looked down at the ground. "That's George's older brother - on his father's side, that is. When I met Roy, he already had a son, who was Charlie. Sweet kid; I have no idea why he would attack him."

Jason stepped forward, trying to appear as if he knew what he was doing. "So," He cleared his throat. "Umm.. what motives could there have been?"

Anne gave him a look. "I just said that I don't know why George would attack him."

"What Jason meant to say," Autumn pushed him back a bit. "Was more along the lines of, 'did they get along as children?'"

She raised her eyebrows. "Oh, yes. The only time they wouldn't was when George would get a bit jealous of Charlie," Anne chuckled in remembrance. "While George was always a good student and a smart kid, Charlie always seemed to overshadow him, you know? He had more friends, better grades, in a sport.. George would always feel like he wasn't good enough, compared to his brother."

Autumn nodded. "Do you happen to know where Charlie might be at this moment?"

Anne gestured towards the city. "He's still at the hospital, to the best of my knowledge. If he's not there, he's probably at his job or home. I'll get you the addresses if you'd like."

"We would appreciate that, thank you." Autumn smiled as Anne walked into her house. She turned back towards Jason. "That wasn't too hard." She smirked. "Next stop, Charlie Tucker."

- PRER -

Owen and Nikki stood out in the hall, waiting while the doctor gave Sophie a one-over to make sure she was recovering properly. While they did so, Nikki smirked towards Owen, and he raised an eyebrow at her.

"What?" He smirked back.

Nikki chuckled. "So, what's going on with you and Sophie?" She crossed her arms, nudging him with her elbow. "You guys together or something?"

Owen nearly scoffed, but settled for laughing instead. "Not even close. Sophie's like a sister to me." He gave her a flirty look. "Why, you jealous or something?"

She shoved him with a laugh. "Shut up, Owen!" She exclaimed, causing a few of the staff to give them looks to be quiet. She hit him after they left. "You just got me in trouble!" She whispered, trying to stifle back the rest of her laughs.

"What are they gonna do?" He waved them off. "We're power rangers, they can't kick us out."

She shook her head at him, still smiling. "That kind of thinking is exactly what would get us in trouble and kicked out." She chuckled. "You're such a stook."

"A what?" He gave her a strange look.

"I mean, an idiot," She blushed in embarrassment. "Sorry, I..." She trailed off, which was unusual for Nikki, who usually had everything to say.

Owen frowned. "No, what'd you say? I'm a 'stook?'"

"Yeah," Nikki sighed. "It's nothing, just slang."

"I've never heard it before."

"Probably because you've never been to Ireland," She muttered under her breath, before looking up at him. "It's from where I come from." She said.

He nodded in understanding. "Okay. What's wrong with that?"

"What do you mean?" Nikki frowned at him, uncrossing her arms.

Owen chuckled. "Well, why are you afraid of talking in the way of the people from.. where ever you're from? I mean, you said sorry because you said something you're used to, which is pointless, because there's no reason to not embrace who you are. If I were you, that's all I would do."

Nikki gave him a strange look. "Really?"

"Oh yeah - you're great!" He nudged her. "Why would you wanna hide all of that greatness?"

"That's..." Nikki began to respond, when their morphers beeped. She immediately brought the device up to her lips. "Autumn?"

"It's me," Autumn said. "We've checked around George's victim's work and home, but he wasn't there. We think he's at the hospital, and that George is headed your way. Be careful, we're on our way over to help out!"

Nikki looked to Owen and nodded. "On it." She gestured out. "Let's do this."

- PRER -

Tori and Dan came out of the interrogation room, and Tori leaned against a table in the viewing room opposite of the interrogation room. She peered up at the man, who had sighed and rubbed his face tiredly with his hand.

"I'm guessing you're positive you don't have a case." Tori crossed her arms and smirked at him. "That's what you get for regularly defending criminals that are usually guilty, Dan."

Dan rolled his eyes. "I became a lawyer to help people, but someone needed to do this job, and I had all the experience they needed, so I was hired. You've known me for longer than anyone else here, so you should know that by now."

Tori gave him a look. "Sorry I don't keep up with your personal opinions." She muttered. "That's not the point, though. I need to know what you're getting from this. Obviously, she's guilty, but we want to know more information and you and I both know she won't give it to us."

"Hey, I want to get the information out of her as much as you do, but I have to do right by my client," Dan defended. "It's my job."

She scoffed. "So, you're gonna let her remain silent and potentially have more people killed by her partner."

"Maybe her partner won't work without her." He suggested.

"Okay, sure," Tori rolled her eyes. "Whatever helps you sleep at night, you know."

"Tori!" Suddenly, Joey, Sean, and Taz burst into the room, pushing past Dan. "We have a bit of problem," Sean said, giving a side glare to Joey and Taz.

Tori looked at the two as she responded, "What kind of a problem?"

Joey sighed. "We might have accidentally given George Tucker's information off to the lieutenants," He admitted. "But I swear we didn't know it was them! We thought they were interns going to deliver it to you!"

"That's what they told us," Taz nodded in agreement.

Tori clenched her fists in anger. "It doesn't matter how it happened - we have to get to their location and show them who's boss, understood?" She looked to Sean. "Can you come?"

"Yeah, I guess I'm ready for another fight, as long as this one doesn't involve me getting shot," He joked, but Tori just glared at him. "Sorry. We should go."

"Yes, we should," Tori nodded. "Come on."

She and the chiefs pushed past Dan once more, and ran out of the room, heading for the hospital.

- PRER -

Nikki and Owen rushed down the halls in the hospital, when an alarm suddenly went off. They looked around in shock, seeing all of the windows suddenly have a metal guarding go over them, and the elevator was closed off.

"What's going on?" Owen asked, looking to Nikki in shock.

Nikki was, for once, speechless. "I.. I don't know. Maybe this is what happens when there's an attack? I've never had this happen before!"

Owen nodded. "Okay, so how are we gonna get to the attack?"

"The stairs!" Nikki pointed forward, showing an emergency exit through the stairs. They looked up, seeing a large metal door slowly beginning to close. "Go!"

The two ran forward, ducking into the stairs before the door closed. Once they got past the door, they held their morphers out. "Ready?" Nikki asked, looking to Owen.

"Ready."

"Emergency Responders, Get Into Action!" They exclaimed together.

"Yellow Lieutenant Ranger!"

"Green Lieutenant Ranger!"

After morphing, Nikki gestured down. "Let's go."

Unbeknownst to the two, Autumn and Jason were also in the staircase, held off by the metal doors keeping them in; the only way out being the hospital exit. They had also tackled George into the stairs with them to fight back without harming any patients.

George shoved them back, growling low in his throat. "Like I didn't see you two coming. I was prepared for this," He reached across his body with his right hand, pulling a large knife out of a holster on his belt.

"Think carefully about what you're doing, George," Autumn pulled out a nightstick from her belt, as did Jason. "You can come with us without all of this drama. We don't want anybody to get hurt here."

He shook his head. "I'd never go without a fight." Suddenly, he looked up before anyone could do anything. He looked to them. "I guess I'd better work fast."

Jason and Autumn exchanged confused looks through their visors as George ran forward to attack them. Autumn jumped back from the large curved knife he swung at her, it narrowly missing her abdomen.

"Jason, these suits are bullet and knife proof right?" She asked, looking over to him as George elbowed him to the floor.

He nodded. "Technically, but it's complicated. Once a bullet or a knife passes through, the protective fibers can become useless. As well as certain knifes and guns being so powerful that they can make it through on the first try..."

Autumn hit the knife away from her with the nightstick. "Okay, I get it!" She exclaimed, cutting him off.

George grabbed her nightstick with one hand and tried to stab at her with the other, but the knife became stuck in her suit. She looked down in shock, and then groaned in pain when George punched her hard in the stomach.

She grabbed the knife and pulled it out of her suit, falling to the ground in pain and clutching her side while George stole it back from her. "Thanks for this back, red," He smirked, turning towards Jason. He stabbed at him, but Jason jumped back away from the weapon.

He knocked back at George's hand, but the criminal refused to drop the knife, despite Jason's best efforts to knock it out of his hand.

"Guys!" Nikki and Owen jumped over the railing to get down the last flight of stairs to meet them at floor they were on. Nikki immediately jumped into action, kicking at George's back to knock him into the rail, and almost forced him to drop his weapon.

The man turned back to them, ducking under a punch from Nikki and drop-kicking her to the floor. Owen ran in next, grabbing his hand to force the knife out of it when George kicked him in the shin, allowing him to take back control of the knife.

George smirked at him as Owen stood up tall and tried to come at him, but he swung the knife at Owen's side and, instead of stabbing it in like he did to Autumn, curved it in. When Owen gasped in pain and his eyes widened under his visor, George knew it went in.

The other lieutenants looked up in shock as the green ranger demorphed with the knife still embedded in his side, deeper than the others thought was possible with their protective suits.

"Oh my god!" Nikki exclaimed, running forward with Jason to catch the Owen as he fell to the ground, George laughing, ignoring the fact that he didn't have his knife anymore.

Autumn suddenly tackled George to the ground, holding him on his back with handcuffs tightly closing around his wrists. He smirked up at her from the ground.

"Well, I guess that was worth it, huh?" George asked.

The red ranger growled, slamming him onto the ground. "Shut the fuck up." She looked over at the other rangers, who had demorphed as well. Nikki had pulled the knife out and was holding her hands tightly against the wound in Owen's side, trying to stem the bleeding. Autumn put her morpher to her lips. "The hospital can get back from lock-down. We have the criminal in custody, and we need medical attention immediately."

Within a minute or so, the metal doors slid back up into their slots, and doctor's rushed in, checking them all over while some of them whisked Owen away. Autumn demorphed and pulled George up to his feet, holding onto his handcuffs with a death grip, as Nikki took of her bloody gloves and Jason held the bloody knife with caution.

They waited for the doctors to exit, and were surprised to see the chiefs, Masters, and Lia standing there.

Nikki chuckled nervously, though she was in a very serious mood. "Hey guys. What's up?"

The group in front of them all gave them looks, while Lia walked forward to looked them over. "You guys caught George Tucker," She said, sounding a bit shocked.

"Yeah," Autumn nodded, gesturing to the man she was holding with handcuffs. "As you can see." She said, sounding a bit detached.

Master sighed. "It took us almost a month to catch him the first time we heard of him." He looked at the chiefs before looking at the lieutenants. "Wow." Was all he could say.

"It's not that impressive," Jason shrugged, uncomfortable with all of the limelight on them.

"Oh, but it is," Lia told them, shaking her head with a smile, before turning to Masters. "Still think we don't need them?" She asked, crossing her arms.

"Just bring him in for questioning," Masters muttered.

Nikki scoffed. "What about Owen? We're not gonna just leave until we know how he is."

Autumn nodded. "I agree. We'll be there to question George later - after we make sure Owen's gonna be alright."

"Definitely." Jason agreed, standing with the two as Autumn handed George off to Lia.

Lia took George and turned to Masters. "They'll be there to question him later. You guys should go back to ER, because they're staying."

"We can't just hold off an investigation because of one injury," Tori interjected, but Masters put his hand up.

"We're going. This is their investigation now - officially." Masters nodded to Lia. "Don't make me regret letting you have them,"

Lia smirked. "I don't think you will."

Next time on Power Rangers Emergency Responders: Tori becomes increasingly on edge as Autumn gets an award for stopping George, and, while the others are distracted with other things, decides to go off on her own to solve a murder.

Next Chapter Title: Award

I know this took almost a month to get out, but I definitely didn't forget about this story! I'm really enjoying writing this so far, but I've been sidetracked with my other story, which I'm trying to finish before the end of the month, so updates may be far and few in between.

Also, I thought that I should mention that, since the villains and criminals are technically human, the fights won't be as brutal as it would be if they were fighting monsters. Oh, and that a lot of these chapters may carry on into the next one, due to the way this series is laid out.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and I hope you'll like the next one! Since I might be leave you guys off for a while again, here's the lineup for the next five chapters (after the one I described above).

Ep 7: Partner - Autumn focused chapter.

Ep 8: Junior - Sean and Taz focused chapter.

Ep 9: Second In Command - Jason focused chapter.

Ep 10: Owen's Success - Owen focused chapter.

Ep 11: Home Is Where The Heart Is - Joey focused chapter.

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