(Dillon's POV)

Typical attack-bot. Wanting nothing more than to destroy us and Corinth. It was nothing of my interest. What concerned me at the moment was who was with the attack-bot. Tenaya. She looked nothing like she did a few days ago. The softness in her face had faded into nothing more than a cold stare. We were so close to having one another back in each other's lives, only to have it ripped from beneath us.

She wanted to fight me. Like something inside her craved to. She seemed so drawn to me, not like she was before. Venjix had totally changed her programming, totally erasing any love she used to have for me. She was just a puppet now, where no amount of love could get through to her. I knew it was only a matter of time before I ended up this way as well.

Before I knew it, she was darting at me, throwing punches at me so fast that I was barely able to deflect them. The only clear thought in my head at the moment was 'Don't her her'. She fought me so fast and brutally. I strove to keep up, but to no avail.

"Tenaya!" I screamed as I continued to dodge her punches coming at my face. "You have to stop this! You're my sister!" When she heard my words, she halted for a moment.

"I am Tenaya 15. Human Infiltration Attack-bot. Venjix is my master and you must be destroyed." she said in a highly electronic voice. There was no warmness in her voice like there once was. And before I knew it, she was throwing more punches at me. She was relentless in wanting me gone. I looked in her face to see if there was anything of my sister--but there wasn't. Only…emptiness.

"But you don't have to work for Venjix!" I screamed at her. "You could come back to the Garage and be a family with me and the rangers! We're all each other has!"

"I have what I need--Venjix." she told me simply.

"What about this?" I asked, my voice softening. I reached into my pocket and pulled out my pocket watch. I slid my key into the slot, the sad melody began to play. I looked to her to see if it was getting to her in any way--but it wasn't.

"Human trinkets mean nothing to me." she said with disinterest. This watch was nothing more than a piece of metal to her. Then, in one swift motion, she smacked the watch from my hands. I watched it roll to the ground. I didn't care. I just wanted my sister back.

"Tenaya…please." I said, almost pleading to her at this point. She was silent. I didn't know what she was going to do next.

She just glared at me. She looked so angry with me, she wanted nothing to do with anything other than Venjix. My eyes widened when I saw her rising her two gun-like fingers and aiming them at me. Before I knew it, she fired it. I tried to flip out of it's range, but the blast hit me anyways. I fell face down on the cold concrete, unable to move a muscle. But to be honest, I didn't want to. Maybe things would work out for everyone if she annihilated me right here. As I saw her begin to fire again, I saw six colorful figures jump in front of me in my defense. The rangers all had their weapons drawn, ready to parry her shots at any given moment.

"Leave now, Tenaya!" Scott warned her, his Nitro Blaster drawn like the others. "Don't make us fire!"

"Don't!" I yelled as loud as I could, finding the strength to stand. I pulled back on Scott's arm because if he didn't fire, neither would the rest of the team.

Tenaya just looked at us and scoffed. She knew she was outnumbered and didn't stand a chance. Scott and the others had already taken out her attack-bot crony, and they weren't afraid to take her down next.

"This isn't over." she warned us. "I will be back." Then she stormed off. Gone once again. I felt Summer hanging on to me so I wouldn't fall. Normally one blast wouldn't have done me in so much, but I did nothing to defend myself--not if it meant hurting Tenaya.

"Are you okay, Dillon?" Summer asked, I didn't know if she meant emotionally or physically, but for both the answer was no. In not wanting to injure my sister I was putting the whole team in danger. I was between a rock and a hard place. It was like they were minus one ranger while Tenaya was around, because all I wanted to do when she was around was beg her to come back.

"You really fell down--"

"And went BOOM!!" Gem and Gemma said, finishing one another's thoughts and sentences. They jumped about, mimicking the explosion and giving one another a high-five. Any battle that had an sort of explosion was a good one for them.

"Yeah." I answered, dusting myself off. "I'm fine. What happened with the attack-bot?" I asked, impressed with how quickly they were able to bring it down.

"He's long gone." Scott answered proudly, placing his blaster back in the holster.

"We took it out while you were battling Tenaya. You seemed really wrapped up with her. Guess you didn't notice." Flynn explained.

Hearing this surprised me. I couldn't believe that I was so concerned about my sister that I didn't help my team when they needed me. She knew that I'd only be concerned about her wellbeing no matter how many attack-bots were out there. Tenaya had done just what Venjix wanted her to do--preoccupied me.

"Sorry." I told them sadly. I was just lucky that this particular attack-bot wasn't potentially dangerous. Because if they were destroyed because I failed to help them, it would be no different than destroying them myself.

"Hey, don't sweat it." Ziggy told me cheerfully. "I mean, it can't be that easy having to fight your sister every time we get called out." I felt him pat my shoulder in a friendly manner.

"Maybe you should stop coming to battles that deal with Tenaya." Scott said suddenly. His voice was cold and angry. I wasn't surprised after what I had done, and the fact that we never got along.

"What?" I scoffed. "I have to!" I didn't care if Scott was Team Leader or not, he wasn't going to keep me away from my sister.

"She's keeping you from doing your job, Dillon--that's a problem. Every time you come face to face with her, you freeze. It's like you shut down or something." he snapped at me.

"I can't hurt her, Scott. She's my sister!" I yelled, trying to remind him what I had been fighting for this whole time.

"I'm not asking you to hurt her, I'm asking her to stay away from her, at least in battle." Scott said. The entire team was silent. They knew better than to argue with Scott's orders. And who knows? Maybe they agreed with him.

"I can't! Not until she knows the truth! I can't just stand by and watch her be Venjix's pawn!" I yelled even louder. I couldn't believe what he was asking. I couldn't stay away from her. I had to save her from Venjix, before I was controlled myself.

"You're too emotionally involved in this. And when you're distracted, that makes you a target." Scott went on, growing more irritated with this subject matter the more we spoke of it.

"We just don't want you to get hurt." Summer said in a gentle voice. I couldn't believe that she agreed with Scott on a matter this serious.

"So you want me to just give up on her?" I asked coldly, shooting harsh glances at me team. I was hurt that it had come to this.

"No." Flynn jumped in. "But we don't want you giving up on yourself either." I was a little stunned that Flynn had a sentimental side to him. It made me think that my team really did have my best interest at heart.

"And who knows, maybe Doctor K will think of something in the mean time." Ziggy interjected, trying to boost my confidence that much more. And it worked, it was my team's words that kept me from unleashing. Even giving up. And I finally snapped out of it.

"So what do you---"

"Say, Ranger Black?" Gem and Gemma asked me, their cheerful disposition making me crack a smile.

I let out a hard sigh. "Fine." I answered. "Just promise me one thing."

"Name it." Scott said.

"Don't hurt her." I asked of them. "She's not herself."

"Fine. We'll hold her off without harm, but I can't make any promises if she hurts anyone." Scott warned me, letting me know how things were straight off. I knew deep down that he was doing what was best for the team and Corinth, but to me, it felt like he couldn't care less about Tenaya.

"We'll figure it out so it doesn't have to come to that." I said, determined not to give up on Tenaya, no matter my friends wanted to or not.

"Let's hope so." Scott answered with a nod. "Come on, team. Let's go." he said, heading to his car. We all did the same as we set our sights for the Garage. I hoped Ziggy wouldn't want to talk in the car. I felt bad for ignoring him, but I had a lot to think about.

XXX

I was fighting them. All of them. Scott, Flynn, Ziggy, Gem, Gemma, even Summer. They were all screaming at me to stop but I wouldn't…I couldn't. I was overthrowing all of them with ease. It was as if I was throwing dolls around the room. When all of them were lying helpless on the ground, I looked down at them.

'Stop this!' I was screaming at myself from the inside. But I had no control over any part of my body. All of my movements were being controlled by something I didn't know. The next thing I felt was my hand on my Rocket Blaster. I pulled it from it's holster and aimed it at the six people I used to call my friends.

"Dillon, you have to stop this!" Scott groaned as he tried to push himself from the floor without success.

"We're--"

"Your friends!" Gem and Gemma cried out, still talking in near unison, even in a horrible moment like this.

"You can't just blast us into crisps!!" Ziggy yelled in a full fledged panic, squirming on the floor for any means of escape.

"Get control of yourself!" Flynn screamed at me as the others did.

"Look inside yourself! You don't want to do this!" Summer cried out.

Little did they know, I was fighting harder than I ever could to stop, but my body wouldn't let me. I wanted to save my team from this. I wanted to save them from myself.

But no matter how much I fought, whoever was controlling me was bound and determined to have my friends destroyed. I just kept ignoring their pleas and aimed my large blaster at them, one at a time. As if I was trying to decide who to annihilate first.

Just as I pulled the trigger, I felt myself waking up from a deep sleep screaming.

I couldn't breathe. I felt like I was being suffocated. My body was drenched in sweat from head to toe. I sat there for a moment, trying to calm down, trying to catch my breath or at least steady it. When I looked down at my hands, I saw that they were clenched in tight fists. I just looked at them in horror as I slowly tried to relax them. I was shaking.

Was this my future? Were my friends going to be inevitably destroyed by my hand? I'd been having these nightmares for weeks and they were slowly getting worse. But something was different about this one. This time, when I destroyed my friends, I had to watch, fighting to gain control and stop myself.

I just sat there for a few minutes, trying to let this horrible feeling pass. "What am I going to do?" I asked myself in my silent room. At this point, since Doctor K didn't have a cure for me, there was nothing left to do except…wait.