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Tori managed to roll herself on her back, her breaths coming in strangled gasps. She couldn't even scream anymore, the pain stole her screams from her throat. She almost wished she was back when her energy was being drained, it hurt less than this pain. Fire and ice were burning through her veins, battling for control. Her hands were contorted into tight fists, the knuckles white.

"Tor?" Shane was inching his way towards her. He tried to wobble to his feet, but he had tipped forward, unable to find his balance. The world had yet to stop moving back and forth like a sick amusement ride. It was obvious that Motodrone's hit had done some serious damage to his head. Hunter, Cam and Dustin were still crumpled, not moving, where Motodrone had left them. He would check on them next. "Tori, focus on me." He pulled her head into his lap, her eyes were rolling back into her head, her breath coming in tiny gasps.

"Tori?" Hunter was struggling to get to his feet. He limped slowly towards the two, half falling down next to Tori. She was panting hard, her lips were slowly taking on a bluish hue. Hunter winced when he heard the gargling noise in the back of Tori's throat. "It's going to be okay." He tried to comfort her, afraid to touch her. He hated seeing the desperate look in her eyes, not even able to imagine the pain that she must be in.

"We need to get her back to Ninja Ops." Shane sounded panicked as he scrambled to get to his feet under him. With each passing moment that Motodrone was still breathing, he grew angrier. Motodrone was scum and didn't deserve to live. Dustin was still out cold, but he was breathing evenly. Shane called to Cam to let him know what was coming. Hunter was able to throw Dustin over his shoulder and Shane picked up Tori and they streaked back to Ninja Ops.

Tori whimpered as her body started to shake as Shane carried her into Ninja Ops. "She's having a seizure, lay her on her side and don't touch her!" Cam yelled from where he was taking Dustin's pulse.

"Tori, just hang on." Shane pleaded, he carefully laid her on the ground, unable to do anything except listen to her strangled screams as her body shook uncontrollably. Shane felt like an eternity had gone by before her body finally relaxed into the ground.

"Tori, if you can hear me, we're going to help you." Shane said loudly. The shakes started to slow down. He stroked Tori's hair. Blake looked on in horror, frozen a few feet away from Tori. Blake recovered and inched himself closer to Tori, tears forming in the corners of his eyes.

"Shane, Hunter, I'm going to need all the help I can get." Cam said, snapping the two out of their trance-like state. Hunter turned to look at Cam, scared of who Motodrone would hurt next. Motodrone had shown he could take anybody he wanted and wasn't scared to hurt them. It could be any of them and they were three times more vulnerable.

"I need you to put these on Dustin's chest, there is a diagram on the back of the machine." Cam tossed Hunter a box full of electrodes. Hunter nodded as he caught the box and dumped the box out on the bed, then flipped over the box to follow the directions.

"Shane, keep doing what you're doing," Shane nodded and focused back on Tori. "I'm going to intubate you Tori, I'm going to do the best I can not to hurt you." Cam's voice took on a gentler tone. He carefully tilted her head back, spraying her throat with a numbing spray before gently, but quickly pushing the tube down her throat. Even though this was only the second time he had done this, he felt like he had done it way too many times. He watched with relief as her oxygen levels started to level off.

"What happened?" Blake finally spoke up, it looked like it was taking all of his will power not to cry. He had propped himself up onto his elbows. He was still in a lot of pain but he needed to see what was happening with Tori and the rest of his team.

"Motodrone has some new device. I believe it is attached to Tori's life force in some way." Cam said, not able to suppress a shudder. He pulled a beautiful knitted turquoise blanket over her, being careful of all the tubes and walked over to Dustin. His neck was covered in nasty-colored bruises, that were shaped exactly like hand prints. He shuddered at the thought that Motodrone's hands were the last ones that had touched Dustin's neck.

"Will Dustin be okay?" Hunter helped Cam attach the rest of the monitoring equipment onto Dustin's fingers and arms. He groaned and mumbled something, but his eyes never opened. While Motodrone hadn't succeeded in completely cutting off Dustin's windpipe, he had done some serious damage.

"I believe with a little help, he's going to be fine." Cam set an oxygen mask on Dustin's pale face. Dustin had little sweat beads forming and was grunting with his effort to breath. Cam could only imagine the damage that had been done but he didn't want to intubate him unless it became absolutely necessary. "Pull that blanket up." Cam pointed to the end of the bed and Hunter nodded, grabbing the blanket. Hunter had a look of incredible worry on him as he looked at Dustin. Dustin had become one of his best friends and it was so hard to see him in pain.

"What do we do now?" Shane spoke up, from where he sitting at the head of Tori's bed. The tube that was in her mouth made him sick. He wanted to pulverize Motodrone into the ground.

"We wait." Cam said, his face set grimly. Time would tell if Tori could withstand the pain from the seizures and if Dustin's neck would swell anymore. This was the worst kind of waiting game.

"Where did Motodrone disappear too?" Cam pushed himself back from where he had been bent over his computer screen, combing over the city with a fine-tooth comb. He didn't know if it was possible to be more frustrated then he was.

"You'll find him." Hunter said quietly, from where he was dabbing ointment onto his brother's back. The cuts were still the angry red and were still oozing blood. He was beginning to wonder if Motodrone had done something that affected how the wounds healed. He wanted to scratch Motodrone's eyes out, but that wouldn't even be close to enough punishment for what Motodrone had done.

"Thanks." Cam replied just as quietly, he wished he could just run out of here and scream. Dustin was still unconscious and Tori had already had three seizures. She was deteriorating quickly and everyone knew that if Motodrone wasn't destroyed soon, Tori would die. Cam was terrified they were going to loose her.

"What's that noise?" Shane looked up, there was a strange beeping noise. "It's the television." Cam, Hunter, Shane, and Blake looked to the screen, flinching when Motodrone's face, once again, appeared on their computer screens.

"Tsk, tsk rangers, it seems like you guys are down to half of your team." His voice was oozing with false sympathy. "As I'm sure you have noticed, Tori is doing rather, rather poorly." He made a fake face of sympathy. "This device is draining her life energy and before too long, she will die." He laughed. "Catch me if you can." He was taunting them, daring them to come and find him as the screens turned back to the pages that Cam had had pulled up before.

"We're going to catch you and you're going to regret ever hearing of the Power Rangers." Hunter growled, storming from the room. The other three boys flinched when they heard the loud scream of anger and pain, but they knew that he needed to let out all of the frustration that had built up inside. Hunter knew not to go outside without

"Cam." The hoarse voice spoke up, causing Shane and Cam to jump and run towards Dustin, who was starting to try to push himself up into a sitting position. He winced as the pain increased in his head. "Wh-what happened?"

"Motodrone tried to strangle you." Cam said as he looked carefully into Dustin's eyes. "How do you feel?" The bruises on his neck had turned into a mottled collection of colors. It looked like a little bit of the swelling was starting to go down.

"Like a eighteen wheeler ran over me, then backed up and ran me over again." He gave a half-smile, his voice was still raspy, but he pulled the oxygen mask off of his face. "I'm good." He said, offering the mask to Cam, who took it and placed it on the table next to Dustin. "What about To-" His voice died in his throat when he laid eyes on Tori.

"Sh-She's hanging in here." Cam looked at Tori. She had progressively gotten paler, her hair was matted to her face in sweat and her hands were still trembling.

"Have you found Motodrone yet?" Dustin asked, carefully touching his fingers to his neck, feeling the damage with a pained expression on his face. He closed his eyes and he could see Motodrone's ugly face as he wrapped his hands around Dustin's neck.

"We're still looking." Cam hated that he didn't have any better news for Dustin. Dustin tried to look understanding, but he couldn't hide the disappointment in his eyes. He wanted to help tear Motodrone apart, limb from limb. "We're going to hunt him down."

"Can I lay next to Tori?" Dustin looked up at Cam with pleading eyes. Cam nodded and waved Shane over. Together they lifted the bed and placed it closer to Tori.

"How did this happen?" Dustin said in a desolate tone as he looked at Tori. If they didn't take Motodrone out, they would be a five member team permanently. Dustin reached his arm out and grabbed Tori's hand.