"The only thing I am sure of is that if you take your chain off, you will surrender yourself to serve Venjix."

"Can't you give me an anti-virus thing like you do for Dillon?" Ziggy was pacing back and forth anxiously, trying to think of a way to fix this.

"His body is made of components that are purely Venjix hardware and are generation seven, which my program is strong enough for now to contain. The nanites in your body seem to be a low generation but the virus itself that was placed into the bots seems different. It'll take a couple of days but I can develop an anti-virus for it."

"Can't you destroy them for good?" Summer asked

Dr. K hesitated. "I could since it's not as extensive as Dillon's situation but it will take a week or so to develop a vaccine that can destroy the nanites without ultimately affecting the DNA and without risk of killing Ranger Green."

With that, Dillon lost his cool and started quickly advancing toward Dr. K. As a caution, Scott and Flynn held him back." Call him that again and see what happens. Do you really not give a flying hell about him that you can't say his name? Why don't you just call us by our numbers since that's all we are to you?"

Summer stood before him to block his way. "Don't do this." She pleaded.

Dr. K lowered her head, looking at Ziggy. Ziggy exchanged the glance with her, his expression questioning her and even seemed slightly hurt. She composed herself and walked off. "Get out of my lab, Ranger Series Black." Her words had taken on a more icy tone.

"What did you say?" Dillon hadn't been expecting that one. Scott and Flynn removed their hold on him and looked to the doctor strangely. Summer looked over her shoulder. Ziggy's eyes widened a bit at this.

"You've been instigating quite a deal around here as of recently. Col. Truman and I have noticed this and he has asked me to take further action if needed. I suggest you do not test me or him." Dr. K kept her back to all of them throughout speaking to him.

"You need me. You said it yourself no one else can handle the morpher." He was determined now to call her bluff.

"You remember the Whale Zord, do you not? How it was originally the Doomsday machine for Venjix?"

No one spoke so she continued. "Now let's say if I were to alter that code to tailor a hybrid such as your self. The anti-virus I supplement you with now is keeping the virus from spreading. I could easily convert my codes into something similar to what I did to the Whale Zord except it would make you an empty shell. No virus or trace of machine life within you since it would completely shut everything down and take your human life with it. Not only would it stop you from causing harm to anyone permanently but it would release you from the morpher. Considering there are three more rangers than when you first were given the morpher, I'd say your loss could be made possible if you keep pushing your limits. Let it also be known if I truly disliked you, you wouldn't be standing here."

The others stared incredulously at her. Dillon was at a loss of words but knew she wasn't lying. And all the same, he'd surely never find his sister if he falls to the Venjix virus which without Dr. K's uploads, he'd already have lost control. He decided to walk away before he regretted opening his mouth again.

"Ranger Black?" Dillon stopped in his steps, his back remained facing Dr. K. "The confrontations you've been creating are wasting your time and ours. If impatience and restless are getting to you, deal with it a different way."

Dillon continued on his way. Dr. K took a deep breath of relief, glad he didn't persist in arguing with her. "I think the rest of you should leave for the night as well."

Scott, Summer and Flynn looked to each other reluctantly. Flynn left first, followed by Scott and then Summer. Looking to escape the current awkwardness that hung in the air, Ziggy stood up and clapped his hands once before pointing to the others.

"Sounds good to me!"

"Not you, Ranger Green. I still have more tests to run if I want to get started on the anti-virus."

He frowned at the now closed automated doors and placed his attention back to Dr. K, who was typing away at her computer. Then the candy mix on the side table caught his eye. He didn't think she'd miss a candy or two.

"That's mine."

Ziggy froze in mid reach wondering if she had eyes behind her head. "I'm hungry, Doc. Unless I can go to the kitchen and..."

Dr. K looked over shoulder briefly. "Fine."

"Dr. K?" He called but she only ignored him.

He turned her around in time to see a tear fall from her eyelid and down the side of her face. "You're crying?"

"I should have never sought out my escape. My own selfish need for freedom is destroying all your lives." She turned away from him and kept her eyes as steady and focused possible on the screen before her.

"But then I would have never met you. You saved me from the Cartels!" He reasoned, trying to get her to see a bright side. "I'd be dead if it weren't for you."

"That was caused by your own foolish choice to join a mob."

"I might have made some bad choices but I made up for it by risking my life in saving those kids lives. Just like how you are making up for your mistakes now by protecting the city."

"It does not compare." She replied bitterly. "Keeping kids alive will just make sure the population of the city expands ever so slightly over the next couple generations. Keeping the human race alive requires a constant and daily struggle that eats away at my consciousness when I realize one day Venjix might win in spite of all my best efforts. Dillon's not just being irrational; he's slowly becoming immune to my anti-virus uploads meaning it's a matter of possibly days before he falls under Venjix control again and risks all of our safety. I was in the process of making a new program to upload into him when Tenaya 7 attacked. Now I have two infected rangers harvesting Venjix within the city walls and...."

Ziggy's embrace had caught her off guard. It brought on memories when she had praised all the rangers but him in spite of Ziggy being the only one who wanted to hug her first. The first one who wanted to be her friend and not just someone she helped defend the city with when all she did was nit pick at him and put him down. It was always him.

"What are you doing, Ranger Green?" She didn't even know how to react to this sudden gesture. She hated how she felt oddly comforted by his actions and removed herself from his hold, stepping away.

"Wha…why? It's not like I'm contagious!"

"I appreciate your care and concern and I apologize for burdening you with my emotions." She stated almost as if they were trivial facts and continued back to her computer. 'I'll be commencing tests shortly."

Ziggy just stared at her in disbelief.

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"You guys I'm worried about Dillon."

"When aren't you, lass?"

Summer didn't respond as took a seat on one of the stools while Flynn started collecting fruit and removed the milk from the fridge.

Scott seemed amused at how much Flynn made smoothies. "Does diabetes run in your family by any chance?"

Flynn yanked a carton of ice cream from the freezer, thinking about it. "No, why?"

Summer smiled at Scott's question and waited for Flynn to finish so she wouldn't be interrupted by the blender. "Dillon's been acting weird lately and now Ziggy is infected with a different strain. What if the virus takes them over at the same time?"

"Ziggy's covered with that device around his neck for now. Dillon on the other hand almost punched Scott today. I had to hold him back."

Scott whirled his car keys around his finger with an annoyed look. "You should have let him. Maybe I'd finally make him understand that I lead the team and don't give orders for the hell of it. I'm so sick of him stalking around here like he's the only one who lost someone to Venjix." He gripped his keys tight and hopped off the stool, right into

Tenaya 7.

"Hello, Rangers." Summer turned around and hopped off the stool. Flynn looked up from the counter. Tenaya advanced upon the three as Scott backed himself away from her. "Let's keep this short and sweet for now, hmm? Where's Ranger Green?"

"How in the world does she keep getting into the city anyway?" Flynn questioned to no one in particular.

"Ready?" Summer held her phone up swiftly to the side of her face before the guys followed suit. "Ready!"

"Ready." Tenaya repeated smugly as she watched them activate their bio suits and attacked in the middle of their suits forming to their bodies. The three lit up in bright energy matching their suits, crying out in agony. Scott's suit malfunctioned and sent him sprawling into the counter by the sink. Summer clutched her injured arm and doubled over, the stool that had been behind her crashing down onto her. Flynn tried to withstand the pain but fell onto his knees with a harsh thud and passed out.

Tenaya laughed to herself and turned around only to have Dillon's fist make impact on her visor. She screeched in pain as she engaged in battle with him, glaring at him through her cracked visor.

...........

Ziggy jerked his head toward the door. "What was that?" Dr. K looked to the surveillance monitors and suddenly felt sick watching the damage Tenaya had caused. "Stay here." She ordered as she grabbed her violin off the table and ran.

He ran to the screen and saw Tenaya and Dillon fighting and the other rangers out cold. "Where are the boom happy twins in all this?" At the far corner of the screen, he saw Dr. K crouched down. She was plugging her violin into the outlet.

Tenaya jump kicked Dillon in the chest sending him backwards and felt pride in her handiwork on all the rangers. "I so should have done this a long time ago." Dillon sat up and pushed himself to fight her again when he was interrupted by a strong wave of melodic music.

Tenaya 7 cringed, covering her ears. "Not this time!" Her fingers lit up, charging energy as she struggled against the horrid sounds. Dr. K went on fiercely playing, trying to hide her fear of it not being enough.

"No!" Dillon reached out but did nothing. He suddenly seemed confused that he didn't want to get up and protect Dr. K. A faint monotonous voice was urging him to help Tenaya instead.

Tenaya 7 smirked. "Not even your rangers want to save you, huh Dr. K? I should just end your miserable life myself." She then made no delay in opening fire.

A/N: I attempted to make some sort of "trailer" for my fan fiction:

…………on youtube add to the url: watch?v=3F2tCXeDtYs …………………