When Scott and the others made it to the plains, it was so dark they could barely see. What they could see was three shadowy figures they knew to be Shifter, Dillon and the prisoner. As they got a better view of them, they saw that Dillon had a tight grip on the captive's arm.

"Nice of you to join us, rangers." Dillon said in a feigned evil voice and a forced smirk. He retracted his helmet to show his friends that he wasn't a prisoner of the virus, at least not yet.

Scott walked closer to his friend in black. He couldn't tell who the captive was that he had a hold on, but it was his top priority to save him. "Just give us the prisoner and we'll be on our way." He said.

"You'll have to fight us first!" Shifter chimed in, jumping forward. "Right, Black Ranger?" he asked, looking towards Dillon.

Dillon just looked at the bot with resentment. What answer he had to say and wanted to say were two completely different things. He just looked to his ranger pals sadly and simply said, "Yes."

"We're really getting tired of fighting you, mate!" Flynn joined in, stepping beside Scott, trying to hide the fact that he and his friends knew the truth.

"Yeah! You spend more time fighting us than helping us!" Ziggy yelled. Dillon had no clue that Ziggy and the others were really trying to help him, so he turned to the one person he knew he could get an answer from. He looked to the Yellow Ranger to see if she would join in on bashing him, she didn't. She just looked at him with sad eyes, knowing this wasn't what he wanted.

"I'm so sorry." He mouthed to her so Shifter couldn't see. "I love you." Summer nodded in response. And that, in it's discreet way, told him she loved him to. She hated seeing the hurt in his eyes, and couldn't bear to lead him to believe she hated him.

"Let's get this battle started!!" Shifter called out, jumping in front of the rangers.

Scott just shook his head. "If it's a battle they want, it's a battle they'll get." He said, he and his teammates pulling out their morphers and activating them.

"RPM—Get in gear!" the four called out, morphing into their ranger forms.

Dillon just brought his helmet back over his face. "Surrender your weapons, and we'll hand over the prisoner." He offered them. The rangers looked at one another with worry and confusion, they had no idea what to do, so they went to their team leader.

"What'll it be?" Shifter asked, trying to hurry them along.

"You heard the man." Scott said. "Let's hand over our weapons." He said, pulling out his Street Saber.

"What?!" Ziggy yelled in disbelief. "It's our weapons—our weapons!"

"We don't have a choice Ziggy…we have too." Scott said, turning to the Green Ranger. Ziggy hoped that it wasn't his imagination that Scott's tone indicated that he had a plan. And with that, the rangers through their weapons forward, Street Saber, Turbo Cannon, Zip Charger, Turbo Axe, Nitro Swords and Blasters in all.

"A deal's a deal." Dillon said coldly, throwing the prisoner forward and over to the rangers.

Keeping his end of the deal, the prisoner kept his face hidden. Scott grabbed the captive as soon as he could. "Are you okay?" he asked.

The prisoner just nodded quickly, not wanting to reveal his voice. He simply opened his cloak to reveal the Nitro Blaster that Dillon had planted there. Scott wanted to stay as discreet as possible when he took it and the darkness of the field helped. Then when he saw Shifter going for their weapons, he began rapidly firing at him, throwing the attack-bot backwards. And when the rangers saw their chance, ran forward and collected their weapons once again.

"YOU?!" Shifter screamed, pointing at the Black Ranger. "You betrayed us! I hope you liked seeing your parents, because it was the last time!" then began to teleport away.

"No!!" Dillon screamed back. "Get back here!" he yelled, running after him. He grabbed onto Shifter and teleported away with him. The two were gone in a flash.

"No!" Summer cried, trying to run after them, but she couldn't, they were long gone. She hated that she had Dillon right in front of her, and now he was gone again. She couldn't believe it. She retracted her helmet and called his name out once more.

"Summer, get back here!" Flynn called out to her, pulling her backwards, away from any source of danger. "If he wants to save his parents, we have to let him!" he told her.

"But he doesn't have enough time!" Summer cried, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"I know." Flynn admitted to her softly. "I know, but this is what he wants to do. We have to be thankful that he was able to save at least one person."

"Yeah, and speaking of which…who is the prisoner?" Ziggy asked, looking at the person in the cloak.

"Let's find out." Scott said, removing the hood from the person's head. He fell to his knees when he saw who it was. He thought the darkness was playing a trick on him at first, but upon further observation, he knew, without a doubt, who it was. "Marcus?" he asked in disbelief with a large smile.

Marcus nodded with a smile of his own. "Yeah, little brother. I'm back." He said happily. Then the two brothers hugged one another harder than they ever had. A lot of questions had to be answered, but all that mattered in this moment was that Scott's brother was alive—alive and back home.

Scott immediately rushed his brother back to the Garage to see if his brother had any serious injuries from working so long for Venjix. His bright red car screeched to a halt when he got there and he went around to help Marcus out of the back seat.

"Come on, bro," he said, helping him out of the car, "let's get you checked out." Once Marcus was out of the car, he began to bring him to Doctor K, because he knew that if Marcus did in fact have anything serious, she'd know what.

"Scott, I'm telling you, I'm fine." Marcus assured him. "All that's wrong with me is a twisted ankle and a twinge of dehydration."

"Then let us get you some crutches and glass of water." Ziggy said, "Doctor K!" he called out. But the next person that entered the room wasn't the doctor. It was Taryn with a hopeful look on her face.

"Dillon!" Taryn yelled excitedly as she bolted into the room. The smile fell from her face when she saw no sigh of Dillon or her parents with the rangers.

"Um…no." Ziggy told her sadly. He felt terrible. He never meant to get her excited that they were back. He kicked himself over and over.

"Dillon…" Summer began, steeping forward, "Dillon went back to the Venjix barricades with Shifter. He trying to save your parents." She explained sadly, placing a hand on her head.

"Oh." Taryn said softly. This was the exact news she didn't want to hear right now.

After a moment of somber silence, Doctor K ran into the room as well. The haste in Ziggy's voice concerned her, and wanted to make sure everything was as it should be. "What? What is it?" she asked quickly. She got her answer when she looked over at Scott and saw his brother sitting next to him. She had never meet Marcus in person, but based on the battle records she kept, she'd know his face anywhere. "Is that…?"

"Yeah!" Scott answered happily, patting his brother's shoulder. "My brother, he's alive!"

"That's…that's wonderful!" she said in amazement. She knew how distraught Scott was about losing his brother in battle, he even blamed himself for everything, but now that he was alive and well, she thought maybe Scott could finally be happy again. "But that means…" she began.

"I survived my bird's crashing." Marcus answered for her. "Exactly." He continued with a smile.

"We can talk about all of that later, right now you need to let Doctor K have a look at you." Summer said in a firm but kind voice. She hated how Scott was when he thought Marcus was dead, and she wanted him to be in the best shape he could.

"Ooh, you better watch out there little bro, you may have another team leader on your hands." Marcus joked.

"Summer hates seeing people in distress." Scott answered, smiling at the Yellow Ranger. "Now, let's get you back to the infirmary. Doctor K will have you as good as new in no time." He said, patting his brother on the back once more.

"Guess it couldn't hurt to be taken care of by someone other than Venjix for a change." Marcus joked. Then as he, Scott and Doctor K made their way to the infirmary, the doctor stopped for a moment.

"So, Marcus, who's responsible for brining you back to your brother? I know you're probably eternally grateful to them." She said, helping Scott escort Marcus back to the infirmary.

"I'm not really sure. I've never seen him before. All I know was he was a ranger dressed in black and that's it." Marcus explained.

Doctor K couldn't help but stop when she heard the answer she did. She thought the virus would have over taken Dillon for sure by now, but now she knew she was wrong. Dillon really was faking being evil in the last battle and risked everything he had to save Scott's brother.

"It's true…" Scott told her. "Dillon saved him. He knew that Shifter was going to take all of our weapons, so he planted his only blaster on Marcus so that we could ambush him." the look on the Red Ranger's face fell a bit somber, he really cared about Dillon, as a matter of fact he was his brother when he thought he didn't have one, and he hoped that he was alright given all that he had done for him.

After a few moments of still being silent, Doctor K finally found the words she needed. "Wow, how…heroic." She said with shock in her voice. This made her feel even worse for her and Dillon's argument earlier. She just hoped she get the chance to tell him what he really meant to her and the team before it was too late.