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AN: Power Rangers does not belong to me.

Chapter 2: Kilobyte's Ambush

By Screech04

The drive back to the garage was a mostly quiet affair. Summer glanced over to see Dillon gripping the steering wheel tightly. He also took no notice that was Summer was glancing over at him, being too lost in thoughts of what Tenaya 7 had told him earlier in the park. He kept looking straight ahead following behind Scott's vehicle as they made another turn that led straight back into the garage.

"Well that was easier then expected." Ziggy exclaimed as he climbed out after Summer did, "What do you think Dillon?"

"It did seem kind of odd for it just to be a simple Grinder attack, usually Venjix would of sent one of his Attack Bots along with Tenaya." Summer added in, noticing Dillon giving a sudden shake of his head when she mentioned Tenaya.

"Well it can't be helped now. Come on, smoothies are on me." Flynn replied with enthusiasm when he said the word 'smoothies'. Scott just shrugged his shoulders and followed Flynn, Ziggy bounced along behind humming some tune. Dillon walked up to the side of the stairwell that led up to their individual rooms and rested one hand against the railing and leaned against it. The expression on his face showed that he was lost in thought.

"There's no way it can be true." Dillon mumbled to himself and shook his head again trying to get rid of what Tenaya had told him out of his head. He didn't notice when Summer came up next to him and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"No way what can be true?" Summer inquired as she looked up into Dillon's eyes trying to find the reason on what was making him act this way.

"It's nothing Summer." He replied as he lightly shook her hand from his shoulder and started to make his way up the stairs to the room he shared with Ziggy. He wasn't ready to tell her or anyone of what Tenaya told him, he couldn't tell anyone because he couldn't believe it himself. Summer glanced up at Dillon's retreating form with a saddened expression.

"You don't always have to face things alone." She said in a soft whisper as she turned and went to join Scott, Flynn, and Ziggy for smoothies.

(Venjix Palace)

"Well bravo, bravo Tenaya 7. You actually managed to accomplish an assignment for once." Kilobyte stated in a sarcastic manner as he was slowly clapping his hands.

"Well you'd be surprised what I can actually do." She retorted as she glared back at the general, not liking the way he stared her down.

"Satisfactory work Tenaya 7." Venjix's red eye glowed as it stared down at her. Tenaya smiled at the approval Venjix and glanced at Kilobyte with a smug grin. As if daring him to try and talk down to her especially after Venjix praised her work.

"Well it wasn't that hard. It's kind of easy to manipulate someone when you tell them the exact thing they don't expect to hear, but secretly want to hear." She replied, "It won't be long til all off Subject D44's walls and defenses close in on him."

"Indeed." Kilobyte stepped forward, "Commander I have a suggestion. I've wandered the wastes for so long, I've been left in a dry spell. With your permission, I would like to meet these Rangers myself." He finished as he separated his head from his body and knocked the sand out from within his head.

"Yeah I would like to see that happen, watch you come crawling back wires hanging when you underestimate them." Tenaya hissed, her dislike of Kilobyte obviously showing.

"Quiet dear, the adults are talking." Kilobyte retorted back to Tenaya then glanced around the chamber before bringing his attention back on her, "This has seen better days. Now be a sweetheart and clean this up. I'm sure even a Generation 7 would know how to clean." He smiled as Tenaya's expression became one of pure outrage as she moved forward, but was stopped as Shifter and Crunch were holding her back. Tenaya was mumbling swears and curses as Shifter held a hand over her mouth to prevent her from saying them out loud.

"Permission granted Kilobyte. Do as you please." Venjix stated, ending the standoff between its two generals. Kilobyte bowled in respect to Venjix and smiled at Tenaya before turning and walking away.

"I hate that guy." Tenaya grumbled as she shook herself out of Shifter and Crunch's grasps. Her eyes widened when she saw an object come flying her way. She held her hands up in defense waiting for the impact, but felt a light object in her hands. Opening her eyes Tenaya saw she was holding a broom.

"Be sure to not to miss any spots dear." Kilobyte poked his head back into the chamber, "Believe me I'll know."

(The Garage)

"Still up in his room." Scott asked as lined his shot up and took it. Satisfied that one of his striped pool balls fell into one of the table's pockets.

"Yeah he is." Summer sighed as she looked back up to where Dillon's room was. Multiple times now she had gotten up to check on him and to see if he wanted to talk. But it was only silence that responder to her as gave up on any attempts to get him to open up and tell her what was eating him so bad.

"I'd say give the man some space." Flynn replied as he watched Scott miss the pool ball that he was aiming for and got up from the stool he was sitting on to take his shot, "The lad will tell us when he's ready."

"Rangers to the lab." Dr. K's voice rang through the garage. The trio dropped what they were doing and rush to the lab already finding Ziggy, Gem and Gemma there. A minute after they arrived, Dillon arrived into the lab moving to stand as far away from Summer as possible. Dr. K looked up from her screen and turned to face her team.

"You're all here, good. We've received a distress signal coming out from the wasteland. She pressed a button on her keyboard as the screen showed an overhead image of Corinth then slowly moving away from the city and towards a space of ground that was outlined with jagged hexagons and triangles.

"We've routed the location as old junkyard located not far from marker three." The voice and image of Colonel Mason Truman appeared on Dr. K's screen, "Somewhere in there is the distress signal emanating from."

"Well what's it saying?" Flynn asked.

"The same repeated words; escaped and factory." Colonel Truman replied.

"The tone of the voice is soft, but definitely female." Dr. K added in looking back and forth from the Colonel to the Rangers. She noticed that Dillon perked up when she mentioned the soft female voice that was identified.

"It could be Dillon's sister sending the distress call." Summer piped in seeing the look in Dillon's eyes.

"But his sister is blind. How can she do that?" Ziggy asked back.

"You'd be surprised on what blind people can pull off in extreme situations Ranger Series Green." Dr. K asked back.

"Unfortunately I cannot sacrifice the manpower to go out and investigate the distress call. I leave that to you doctor." Truman stated.

"Understood Colonel." Dr. K nodded and watched as Colonel Truman disappeared from her screen. She then turned to look at her team, "Now who will…"

"I'll go." Dillon interrupted Dr. K before she could finish, "I'll go check it out."

"Very well, would anyone like to go with him?" Dr. K looked at the rest of the team. Summer stepped forward, but Ziggy jumped in front of her.

"I'll go with him." Ziggy replied with an eager smile.

"Ok Ranger Series Green, then it's settled." Dr. K finished and turned back to her computer, "I'll set up everything so you'll be able to leave the city. Dillon turned and headed back into the garage when he felt a hand grab one of his and stopped him. He turned and saw that it was Summer that stopped him.

"You're going to need additional help, especially if it's a trap." She stated with a concerned voice.

"I'll be fine. Plus I got Ziggy and his shadow puppets." He joked as looked away, "Besides you're needed here. If something happens to the city, then you'll be to protect it."

"Okay." Summer replied sadly as she reluctantly let go of Dillon's hand and watched as he and Ziggy jumped into Dillon's vehicle and long after it sped off and out of the garage.

(Wasteland)

"Okay the shields are down, move on through." The Corinth soldier motioned with his arm, Dillon nodded and drove through the gate and straight in the unwelcoming wasteland that surrounded them. The car kept at a decent pace as it drove across the sand dunes to the junkyard where the distress signal was coming from. Occasionally they pass by an abandoned building or derelict cars left by to just rot away.

"You think she's there?" Ziggy asked as he looked over to where Dillon kept his concentration on driving to the junkyard.

"No idea." was Dillon's only reply as he kept driving. He had been hoping that it would actually be sister and not just Tenaya 7 there ready to play mind games with him again. They passed through a ruined fenced gate which was presumably the entrance to the junkyard, pulling up to and stopping in front of a broken utility shed.

"Did I ever mention how I much I regretted agreeing to coming with you." Ziggy exclaimed as he looked around him. The junkyard was making him uneasy, it was too easy for an attack to come at them from all directions.

"Quiet." Dillon shushed Ziggy then looked around, "You hear that?" Ziggy looked around listening before nodding his head.

"Sounds like a woman's voice." Ziggy returned. Dillon nodded as he took off in the direction for the voice with Ziggy following not that far behind. They turned around the corner of a blasted out power station as they looked down at an old cassette tape player that was linked to a transmitter console.

"She's not here!" He growled as he kicked the transmitter console, watching as it tumbled across the ground breaking into pieces. He then turned his rage on the cassette player, stomping on it repeatedly. He kept growing more angry with each stomp, Tenaya 7's words coming into his ears once more telling him that she was his sister. Ziggy could only watch shock, jumping from each other stomp Dillon made into the player.

"She can't be right. I can't believe it, I won't. Tenaya is not my sister!" Dillon collapsed onto his knees as he pounded the ground with his fist breathing heavily.

"Well looked on what I walked into." A new voice brought Dillon out of his pained fury and he stood up and turned to look at the source of the new voice. A dark black robot with red highlights on parts of his body was walking towards them, its red eyes glowing brightly.

"What are you supposed to be, one of Venjix's Attack Bots?" Ziggy asked.

"Don't compare me to those riff raff you been fighting so far." The new arrival announced, "I am one of my commander's greatest generals." He pulled out what appeared to be a rifle and aimed it at the two humans, "But you can call me Kilobyte." And when the name 'Kilobyte' came out of the robot's mouth, he fired his rifle at the two humans.

"Look out!" Dillon yelled as he tackled Ziggy to the ground, watching as the orange energy shot that Kilobyte fired fly over impacting into a truck leaving a reddened charred hole in the side of the truck.

The two Rangers got and faced Kilobyte reaching for their morphers.

"RPM. Get In Gear!" They both shouted and their Ranger outfits enveloped them.

"Well now, that's more like it!" Kilobyte chuckled as he put away his rifle weapon and pulled out what appeared to be a sword and charged towards the two.

"Nitro Blasters." They both called switching them into their saber modes. Dillon and Ziggy started making swings and strikes with the sabers, but Kilobyte easily parried both Rangers' attacks with relative ease.

"You're making this too easy, it's almost boring me." Kilobyte taunted as he countered Ziggy's strike and slashed him across the chest. Dillon saw Ziggy fly back in a shower of sparks before turning back as he was put on the defensive as Kilobyte came at him with a furious combination of swings, slashes, and thrusts. It took everything he had to keep up with the robot general's attacks, only managing to score a single hit on Kilobyte's right arm before going on the defensive again.

"Dillon!" Ziggy shouted as he got back and rejoined in trying to get Kilobyte's offensive off Dillon. Though he was nowhere near as good as Dillon in parrying Kilobyte's sword attacks, he could tell by Dillon's movements that he was grateful for Ziggy being there to help him.

"I grow tired of playing games." Kilobyte grunted as he spun around and slashed Ziggy down the back and did another spin of catching Dillon off guard with a diagonal slash across the chest. Both rangers flew off in a flurry of sparks, "Good bye!" Kilobyte exclaimed as he pulled out his rifle and fired at both of his foes. The energy shots hit their mark as Ziggy went flying and collided with a lamppost while Dillon slammed into the side of an overturned bulldozer.

"We're outmatched." Ziggy yelled as he slowly got up, groaning as his body was feeling the pain of being slashed and thrown around.

"You think? Throw me your blaster!" Dillon retorted switching his weapon back to blaster mode. Ziggy copied the motion and tossed his weapon over to Dillon and pulled out his Turbo Axe, "Let's go!" He shouted as he ran towards Kilobyte dual wielding the Nitro Blasters.

"You've become an annoyance." Kilobyte grunted as he repelled the rapid firing lasers coming in his direction, only wincing when some of them got through his defenses. He charged forward to slash only for the Black Ranger to flip over the robot. At the height of the flip, Dillon aimed the blasters downward and fired.

"You like that!" Dillon shouted as he kept firing nonstop at Kilobyte.

"Enough of this!" Kilobyte raised his rifle and fired, the energy blast hit the Black Ranger straight in the chest sending him crashing onto the ground, "At first I thought I would have fun with you, but now this has gone too long!" Kilobyte stepped forward, stomping hard on the ranger's chest. He raised his rifle and blindly fired in the direction Ziggy was in.

"Oh man." Ziggy groaned as he dived for cover from the energy blasts coming in his direction. He watched in horror as Kilobyte kept stomping on his friend while energy blasts from the rifle kept coming in his direction. Off in the distance, a long figure was watching the battle.

"I know he said he didn't like cheap shots, but when have I ever been one to listen." She smiled and changed her hand into its blaster function and fired. Tenaya's blast hit its mark as Kilobyte reared back in pain and the blast hit his back.

"Turbo Axe!" Ziggy shouted running forward, bringing down the axe on Kilobyte's left arm slicing it off.

"Argh you!" Kilobyte growled stumbling back away from Dillon.

"Rocket Blaster!" Dillon shouted taking advantage of Kilobyte being distracted by his severed arm. He aimed and fired multiple blasts, each one hitting their sending the robot general flying back.

"I don't believe this, this is not going to exactly how I planned." Kilobyte snarled as he stood back and turned his head to face the Rangers, "You are going to…" Kilobyte didn't have a chance to finish as he was sent back when a purple laser blast hit right in the face. He groaned holding his face with his remaining working hand.

"No way!" Ziggy exclaimed, astonished that Kilobyte had survived a direct head shot from Dillon's Rocket Blaster. Kilobyte pulled his hand away and glared at the Rangers. From what Ziggy could see, the right side of Kilobyte's face was soldered and his right eye was hanging loosely out of the socket by only a few sparkling wires.

"Looks like I am finished for today, but mark my words. We aren't finished, not by a long shot!" With a sudden explosions of dust and sand, the robot general was gone.

"Woo way to go Dillon!" Ziggy shouted as he jumped into the air before demorphing. He then turned Dillon's direction only to find lying on the ground not moving, "Dillon!" He ran forward and knelt down, shaking his friend in trying to get up to wake up. "Come on Dillon, wake up!" He yelled.

Well there's that for now until the next update. I hoped you enjoyed this.