"Please pace yourself, Ranger Green." Dr. K instructed Ziggy after he stood up, full of energy. He only waved her off about it. "I'm fine, doc!" He suddenly stared at her, remembering. "And you did it again! When we were out fighting the grinders, you called out everyone's names except mine! Why ca..?"

Dr. K pulled him backwards by the arm briskly. "You are NOT fine." Ziggy glanced down at her grip on his arm and she quickly reacted by letting go and retreating to her computer. "If it is what I think it is, you and even possibly the whole city could be in serious danger."

His energetic nature was knocked down a bit by this. "How?"

"Ziggy, are you alright?"

Doctor K ignored Scott and Flynn's entrance and continued. "After you were attacked, your morpher was reset. Since it functions by bonding with your DNA, the morpher is set by default to reset itself once it no longer recognizes its operator."

"Meaning?" Ziggy pressed, not understand fully.

"According to your morpher's reactions, you don't exist."

"It thinks he's dead?" Flynn questioned, staring at Ziggy.

"That would be so except this is obviously not the case. After conducting some tests, it seems he has incomplete forms of nanites circulating in his blood. They seem to be what's causing extreme changes in your DNA."

Ziggy gripped at his other arm with growing panic. "So what's going to happen to me? Am I going to end up as some evil attack bot or something?"

"Wait, 'incomplete forms'? What do you mean?" Scott asked.

A low beep sounded off in which Ziggy frantically grabbed at the clasp on the back of his chain. "It's got me! It's got me! Get it off!"

"Ranger Green stop! I've connected a device to the short chain you wear around your neck. The nanites appear incomplete in their programming because they are wandering aimlessly throughout your body where only if they access your mind do they activate. If one were to gain access, you would eventually lose control of your own body."

"So you stopped them just in time and your device thingy is protecting me, right?" Ziggy looked to her hopefully.

"Negative. They have made brief contact and began their process but the device is keeping them at bay. It's just enough to keep you from becoming a source for Venjix to use but not enough for you to remain as a Ranger.

This wasn't sitting well with Ziggy. He sat down slowly, letting himself grasp all of this. He repeated his earlier question to her. "So what's going to happen to me?"

……………………………….

"Dillon…"

Summer leaned against the fridge with a worried glance as she watched him search the kitchen cabinets. Her right arm was wrapped in a tight bandage between her elbow and wrist.

"You got to be kidding me…" He muttered as he closed one set of doors and opened another.

"If you're looking for your car keys, Gem and Gemma took those too."

Dillon glanced over to her. "Actually I'm looking for something to eat." He turned and grabbed the fridge handle. Summer stepped back allowing him to cautiously open the fridge. "All I see are smoothie ingredients and junk food lately."

"You know, lately you've been sort of…" She looked for the right word. "..irritated with us lately."

Dillon pushed the door shut and sat on a stool. He flipped his pocket watch open, allowing its music to play. "No matter how many times I open this, it doesn't answer any of my questions." He looked into Summer's eyes after she had clasped her hands around his, holding the watch with him.

"You have to trust in all of us to help you."

Dillon leaned back, pulling his hands from her grasp. "Even if the virus takes over completely and all I think of is destroying you? Would you all still help me then?" He put the watch away and got up from the table without looking at her.

"I would. Even if you don't trust in the others, trust in me."

Dillon looked at her injured arm and followed to her hand holding the cuff of his jacket. He reached to touch the side of her face when they saw Gem enter the kitchen. Summer let go at once. Dillon's arm shot down to his side, his fist clenched.

"Hey guys just want to tell you Ziggy's awake! You left before we could tell you!" Gem smiled at Dillon.

Dillon gave him a quick glance and walked off toward Doctor K's lab. "At least I stayed dry this time." He muttered under his breath. Summer watched him walk off. Gem looked from Dillon to Summer. "Did I interrupt something?"

Summer shook her head. "We were just talking." And she left it like that, following Dillon to go see Ziggy.

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"Update me on your progress Tenaya 7." Venjix demanded.

Tenaya 7 stood before her creator deciding how to go about explaining herself. Her plan caught a snag once she found that a strange firewall had been placed against the nanites she infected the green ranger with.

"I managed to overpower the rangers and fully complete my attack on one of them. That doctor of theirs has done something to prevent full infection from my nanites so it will be a while longer before Ranger Series Green joins us." She noticed Venjix's light growing brighter in anger and quickly added "I have, however managed to take his morpher entirely offline so they're now short one ranger."

"And tell me. Why have you not yet destroyed this doctor?"

Tenaya stared from side to side slowly. "I have made attempts in the past but I—"

"Failed!" General Crunch finished, laughing at her.

Tenaya raised her arm to activate the attachment on her hand to destroy the nuisance once and for all but Venjix silenced the both of them.

"These nanites you have infected the ranger with, have you pre-programmed them with commands?"

Tenaya lowered her arm. "I wanted to control the ranger's actions myself and have direct communication and access to the nanites."

"As soon as you remove the firewall that is protecting him, have his first order be to destroy the rangers' mentor."