Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers Megaforce. This story is fan-made.

Author's Note: This is not where the Megaforce series starts. If you want to read the series without getting lost, I suggest you read my stories in the order they appear:

No To Date Nights - The Party Night - Project Partners - Megaforce: Lives Behind The Masks - Prom Night - A Trip To Remember - First Meetings - Something She Loves – Protective Morans – Samurai In Harwood County – Rainy Days – Luck Had Nothing To Do With It – Ranger Support – Parents and Children – Hero Without The Spandex – Emma's Night – Emma's Mother – Bait And Switch – After Death – A Stormy Day – A Date For Tensou – A Mother's Advice – Mending Fences – Executioner Named Revenge –Those Three Words – On The Fourth Day – Babysitting – Tiger- A Fresh Start – On the Mountains – Looking Ahead – The Rangers' Recovery – Daughter's Nightmare – Megaforce: With Great Power –Cookies – The Babysitters: Jake and Gia – Better Off With The Burrows – A Hard Journey – The Messenger – Megaforce: The Invasion Arrives – Learning To See – Sight Unseen

"Ow!"

"I'm sorry," Jake said. "Just, hold still."

"OW!"

"Sorry," Jake said again. He set the cotton ball down and looked Gia in the eyes. He couldn't believe the deep colour of the bruise Cliff had left on her face or just how bad the swelling had gotten in only a matter of hours. "I just want to clean it out."

"It's fine," Gia told him and moved away, hugging Kitten to her chest. Jake shook his head.

"It's not fine. Just... tell me again what this game is."

"He's coming after you," Gia whispered. "He knows to get through you to get to me and... that's what he's going to do. But he's not just going to go through you..."

"He can't."

"Jake."

"He can't. He won't," Jake took Gia in his arms and hugged her. Gia wasn't reassured at all. She pulled away from Jake and shook her head.

"He can follow me."

"How?"

"My heart," Gia looked down at her chest. "It's Robo-Knight technology. It's the same as Cliff's. Vrak's using that to keep tabs on me. Where I go, who I'm with. Cliff's going to use that. I can't..."

"He's not going to hurt you," Jake assured her but Gia punched the bed.

"He's threatened you and Emma!"

"He's only trying to scare you."

"Well, it's working," Gia muttered. She sighed loudly, "He's strong, Jake."

"You're stronger. Gia, look at everything you have..."

"He's going to take that away."

"You're talking like he's already won," Jake shook his head. "Gia, he's got nothing on you..."

"No, he's got everything! He knows everything! Even when I think I've finally gotten away from him, he knows how to come back. I can't leave the ship, Jake!"

"We'll find a way around that."

"How? By ripping my heart out of my chest! They can track it! They know...!"

"Tensou built Robo-Knight. He can find a way to block their signal, or change the code or the programming or something computer smart to keep us all safe," Jake took Gia's hands in his and held them softly. He looked to her with a smile, "Hey, we're in this together. All of us. If Cliff wants to hurt you or any of us, he's going to have to go through the whole team. Maybe even all the Rangers."

Jake kissed the side of her face gently and then got out of her bed, "Maybe the swelling's just gone to your brain. Get some rest and I'm sure you'll feel better in a couple of hours."

Gia sighed, but Jake had never steered her wrong before. Knowing the others were safe on the ship and that they had no reason to leave for the rest of the day, Gia put her head down on her pillow and closed her eyes. While she could hear some noise from the deck, for the most part, the room was eerily silent.

Until she could hear her heartbeat. It was an unusual sound, and had been since Tensou had given her the robotic heart. However, this sound was different from all the others. This sound was almost like someone was talking to her. She reached across to the night table and turned on the fan to drown out the noise. It only got louder. Gia realized it wasn't her heart beat that was haunting her. There was actual sound coming from her heart.

Be mine.

Be mine.

Be mine.

You're mine.

She gasped and sat up in bed in a cold sweat. Her heart was talking to her, but there was no way that was true. She turned on the light and checked her bracelet. It was supposed to beep if the heart was encountering a problem or beginning to malfunction, but so far everything seemed to be in working order. Gia assumed this was just her mind and her fears playing up on her and so tried to calm herself down. She put her head back down on the pillow and focused on listening to the sound of the fan rather than her heart.

Unfortunately, that was easier said than done. Every time her heart pounded she heard, in Cliff's voice, be mine.

Be mine.

You're mine.

She sat up again, gasping and once more covered in a cold sweat. She turned off the fan and then put her head in her hands. She breathed deeply and tried to listen only to the inhale and exhale.

Only the beat of her heart was stronger, faster: BE MINE! BE MINE! BE MINE! YOU'RE MINE!

"Stop it!" she screamed and grabbed her shirt over her heart as the voice got louder and louder. She doubled over in bed, crying out again for it to stop. Suddenly, the light came on as her friends rushed into her room. Jake and Emma sat down right next to her, holding her.

"Take it out!" she shouted and started scratching at her chest, as if trying to dig her heart out herself. "Take it out!"

"Take what out?"

"It's his heart! I don't want it!"

"Gia," Emma shook her head and hugged her best friend. "Cliff can't hurt you."

"He is! He's here!" Gia screamed. "I can't get away! Take it out!"

"Taking your heart out will kill you," Jake told her. "Gia, we can't do that. But Cliff's not here. He's not going to get you."

"We share a heart!" Gia screamed. "I don't want it!"

"Okay, okay," Emma nodded her head. She looked to Jake desperately and shrugged her shoulders, "I'll talk to Tensou, alright."

Emma got up to leave and Noah followed her out. On the deck he grabbed her arm and stopped her in her tracks. He shook his head.

"Robo-Knight's spare was the only heart we had," he said. "Nothing else is going to be strong enough to replace it unless we actually get a human heart."

"What else are we going to do, Noah? This is getting to her."

"You said there was some swelling, right?"

"Have you not seen her?" Emma crossed her arms. "Gia would have been better off fighting that ghost monster one on one than Cliff."

"Right, but she did face Cliff and he knocked her around pretty hard. It's not pretty, but it's common with concussions for people to act a little..."

"Crazy?"

"Your words, not mine," Noah held up his hand. "Look, I'm all for keeping her calm. We'll let her rest and wait for the swelling to go down a little more before we actually start looking into putting a new heart in her chest. She barely survived the last operation. I'm not doing another one just because this is a Robo-Heart and Cliff's the Robo-Knight."

"So what do we do in the meantime?" Emma asked.

Noah nudged her back to the room, "Tell her you talked to Tensou and he's got another heart for her."

"She won't believe that."

"She's asking us to take her heart out," Noah said. "She might be willing to believe we're getting it done now. Tell her we've got a new heart for her, but she needs to rest up."

"So, lie? Just straight up, flat out lie?"

"Yes."

"This better work," Emma muttered as she walked back to the bedroom.