The Technos were still behind them, Calder was certain about that, and he was doing his best to find somewhere that both he and Gem could hide. Looking around, the green ranger was able to, much to his surprise, spot a nearby cave that seemed to be just out of the way enough that the Technos would possibly overlook it. As quickly as he could, Calder carried Gem over to where the cave was and placed her down on the ground when he was far enough in. After he did that he went back to the opening and glanced outside to make sure that the Technos didn't see them, his heart almost stopping when he saw the minions looking around. Pressing himself up against the wall of the cave, the green Cyber Ranger waited until the Technos gave up their search and vanished from his sight. Sighing, he walked back over to where Gem was laying, the female Viralite groaning as he kneeled beside her, opening her eyes to see that she had company.

"Wha…YOU!" she yelped, standing up before collapsing and grabbing a hold of her right ankle, "ow…"

"Are you okay?" Calder asked helping her to sit up against a wall of the cave.

"I'm fine," Gem retorted pulling her arm away from him, "why am I in this cave?"

"You were knocked out and I was helping you, had to hide in here because we had Technos coming after me," the green ranger explained sitting across from her on the other side of the small cave, "You're welcome by the way."

Gem glared at him, getting ready to jump up and attack him, but her ankle sent a sharp jolt of pain through her as she tried to stand again. Groaning, she sat back down and rubbed her ankle, Calder getting up and walking over to her again, holding up his hand to stop her from moving as he knelt beside her. Pulling her boot off, Calder examined her ankle and gently pressed down on it, Gem letting out a yelp of pain before pulling her leg away from him.

"What the heck are you doing?" She asked with a snarl, glaring daggers at him.

"I was double checking to see if your ankle is sprained," he explained looking at her, "it's doesn't look too swollen but we should still wrap it up, just in case."

"And how do you plan on doing that huh?" Gem asked in a slightly irritated tone, "It's not like we have any medical supplies here and…what are you doing?"

Taking off his over shirt, Calder lifted her leg slightly and set it on his so that it was elevated a little bit. Using his shirt he then proceeded to wrap her ankle the best he could, Gem watching him hesitantly as he finished wrapping it up before giving her a lopsided smile.

"There, it's not perfect but, it should work until I can get you back to our headquarters and get better supplies," he said making her raise an eyebrow, "my friends should be able to find me once they get back to headquarters."

"They won't be able too," Gem stated in an annoyed tone.

"And what makes you say that?" The green ranger asked confused.

"This is a magnetic area, there's no way that the rangers are going to be able to find you here, and your morpher will be out of commission for a while too," the purple haired girl explained, "in fact I could probably easily take you out at this very moment."

Trying to stand, Gem got ready to attack the Green Cyber Ranger, but her ankle sent another jolt of pain through her body making her sit back down.

"Yeah good luck with that," Calder remarked with a laugh, "well if my morpher is out for the moment, and the other rangers can't find me here, we better start moving."

"So why are you taking me to your headquarters?" she asked confused.

"We have a medical kit there that I can use in order to wrap this better," Calder explained as he sat down in front of her, making sure to keep her ankle lifted up, "sorry but
I don't think they would be too happy if a Viralite showed up at a hospital."

"And you're not worried that I'll, oh I don't know, destroy your headquarters or tell Alcon where it is so he can send someone to destroy it?" Gem questioned, looking at the green ranger as if he were crazy.

"I don't think you will," Calder replied catching her off guard, "I already said this but, you're different, and I think that you don't want to help a group of villains that are keeping something from you."

Gem didn't reply to that, instead choosing to sit there with her arms crossed over her chest as she watched the green ranger as he rechecked her ankle to make sure the wrap around her ankle was still snug. She found it slightly annoying, that even though they were enemies he was still helping her, that he was willing to lower his guard to a possible attack just because he was putting his trust in her not to hurt him, but at the same time she was touched that he was doing this, that he was putting his trust into her. Shaking her head as she tried to get these thoughts out of her head, Gem returned her attention back to the green Cyber Ranger and tilted her head to the side.

"Why are you doing this anyway?" she asked catching his attention and making them look up.

"Because I want to help you," he replied after a few seconds of silence, "because I believe that you're a good person, you've just been misled."

"And what if you're wrong, what if I'm not a good person?" the female Viralite asked leaning in.

Calder and Gem looked each other in the eyes, neither of them moving as they watched each other, up until a point that Calder gave her another lopsided grin.

"I don't think I am," the green ranger replied before standing up, "now then I think the Technos are gone by now, so why don't we move out."

"You know you could have just left me and had the Technos pick me up," Gem pointed out as he helped her to her feet, the Viralite warrior leaning up against him.

"I could have, but I want to show you that you don't have to be evil, that there is some good in you," Calder pointed out as well making her roll her eyes, "so please let me help you."

"You sound a lot like the Yellow Dino Thunder Ranger," Gem stated, Calder looking over at her.

"You've talked to Kira?" he asked in shock making her laugh.

"No I've only just fought her and your female rangers a couple of weeks ago," she responded making him narrow her eyes, "seriously do you not pay attention, I'm pretty sure that she would have gone back with them and have met you rangers."

Calder stopped and looked at her again, the gears in his head turning as he tried to process what she had just told him.

"Kris and Amy never mentioned meeting her, and they would have if they had met a past ranger," Calder sated frowning, "are you sure that you were fighting Kira?"

"Yes I'm pretty sure I recognized the ranger that escaped from us that I was charged with capturing," she replied deadpanned.

Calder looked at her confused for a second before shaking his head and narrowing his eyes, questions as to why the girls wouldn't tell them why wouldn't tell them about Kira running through his head as they started back towards the Cyber Drive Headquarters.

-Cyber Drive-

Conner didn't think he could ever be more relieved than when he saw four of the rangers walking into the Headquarters, the only thing that could have made this better was if all of them were there. He had watched the fight against Cyber Fire and the other Viralites, had watched as the evil ranger managed to defeat them once again, causing all of them to demorph as they got knocked away from the area, and had watched as they got out of there as fast as they could before the Technos could find them. The only issue at the time was that Calder was busy fighting Gem and he had no idea as to where the green ranger could be at the moment.

"Where's Calder, did he get out?" Amy asked frowning as she noticed that that green ranger wasn't there.

"I'm not sure, he was fighting Gem when Cyber Fire's attack knocked you guys away," Conner answered bringing up a map of Reefside, "we're scanning the area but it seems he's found an area that has a high magnetic pressure, well that or he's just up and disappeared."

"So Calder is missing, meaning we're now down one ranger, and Cyber Fire just managed to beat us yet again," Merrick mumbled as he sat down.

"I have a feeling that he's just going to keep getting stronger too," Kris stated as she helped the yellow ranger with a particularly bad cut she had, "and if he does keep getting stronger, I don't see how we're going to beat him."

"We need to find out who he is," Drake said as he paced back and forth.

"That's easier said than done though Drake," Conner remarked making the red ranger stop, "sometimes there's a tell as to who the evil ranger could be, other times there isn't."

Turning to the computer he brought up two files, one of the Dino Thunder rangers fighting the evil white ranger, the video switching over to Trent not long after he got the white dino gem. The other video showed Tommy getting captured by Rita and turning into the evil green ranger, then of him talking to Kimberly after they figured out he was the green ranger.

"When Tommy was captured and made the evil green ranger, his personality changed drastically, it was easy to see that something was wrong, though the rangers couldn't see it," Conner explained, "with Trent, at the very beginning we couldn't see much of a difference up until the end and that was when we knew he was the white ranger."

"So what you're saying is that even if we try to find him, we may or may not be able to tell who he is?" Kris summed up, the older red ranger nodding.

"I'm saying it might be difficult, but don't give up," Conner said standing up, "try to think, has there been anyone that seems to be acting different now than when you first met them?"

"Not that I know of," Amy said frowning, "and no one who comes to Cyberspace seems to be acting out of the ordinary."

"So we have no leads," Merrick groaned leaning back where he was sitting, "great."

"That's okay we need focus on finding Calder then," Drake said leaning forward so his elbows were resting on his knees, "we'll head back to where we just were, hopefully he hasn't gone too far away."

"While you guys do that, I'll stay down here and see what I can find out about our new ranger and possibly where Calder is," Conner said as the rangers who sat down stood up to get going, "I'll contact you if I figure anything out."

"Thanks Conner, alright guys let go," Drake ordered as the team ran out of their headquarters.

"Oh I hope the rangers manage to find Calder before the Viralites do," Alpha stated holding his head.

"So do I Alpha, so do I," Conner replied as he started to scan the city for Calder.

-Cyber Drive-

Trey groaned as he hit the ground, his head hurting more than before as he looked up and noticed that he was back in the techno looking place he was take to after he was attacked by that strange looking monster. Standing up he looked around trying to gain some sense of where exactly he was and if it was possible that he would be able to get out of there. Just as he was about to move though, he felt something on his right wrist and heard the jingle of chains. Looking to his wrist, he saw that he as chained to the floor, the chain long enough for his to move around a little but not too much more. On his left wrist though was something that he was sure wasn't there before, a metallic gleam shine due to the pulses of data going through the walls it was a slender rectangle that slanted inwards on the side facing his body before leveling out again, the coloring on it black and red. On the top was three buttons, one with a helmet on it, one with what looked to be a train, and one that was blank, on the side that was facing away with him was a small slot. Seeing the slot, Trey pulled out the memory chip that was in his pocket, and slipped it in, the chip glowing slightly before the buttons lit up.

"Okay that's weird," Trey muttered looking at it, "wonder what would happen if I pressed this button."

Pressing the blank button, he waited for something to happen, frowning as nothing around him seemed to change. He then pressed the button with the train on it, and again nothing happened, causing Trey to get frustrated as he went to the last button. Just before he was about to press it though a dark grey hand grabbed a hold of his wrist and pulled it away, tossing Trey to the side and bumping the memory chip out of the slot. Looking up, Trey noticed two figures standing before him, one of them he recalled be the one who attacked him and brought him to this place the first time, the other one he noticed was wearing an old western cowboy attire, and a poncho.

"Who are you two?" Trey asked standing up again, "And why am I here?"

"Ah believe ya asked that the last time as well," Scores replied as he picked up the memory chip, "allow me ta refresh that memory of yours, ya see the Commander was getting frustrated with those blasted Cyber Rangers foiling his plans ta derezz your planet."

"Yeah well that's the power rangers for you, always making sure that the Earth isn't destroyed by evil people like you," Trey said with a shrug, "still not answering my questions though."

Kicking Trey in the gut, Scores watched as he fell to the ground before stepping on his chest to keep him there.

"As ah was say'n, after we lost to those varmints one to many times, we managed to come across something ta even the playing field," Scores continued, putting pressure on to Trey's chest, "so we created our own ranger ta defeat them once and for all."

"That's where I come in," Pop-up said bouncing over to them, "I was tasked with finding the perfect candidate to become our ranger and help up destroy the power rangers, and that's when I found you."

"That's cute guys really it is," Trey said grinning at them, "but unfortunately I don't help people who are trying to destroy my world, and I defiantly would help you guys destroy the power rangers."

"It's too late to deny us boy," Alcon roared as both he and Digi walked in, "you've already helped us defeat those pesk a couple of times already."

Pushing Scores off of him, Alcon pulled Trey up by the front of his shirt and pushed him against the wall, Trey pushing himself off before facing the group of monsters in front of him.

"You're lying, I would never help you and I wouldn't dream of attacking the rangers," he retorted defiantly.

"Oh but it's true," Digi said as he took the memory chip from Scores, "this Cyber Key has been modified so that when you morphed you would obey us, it took me a while but I was finally able to corrupt the programing in it to a point that we could forcefully morph you and summon you whenever the Commander wanted, up until now you have been tapping into the power of the morphing grid with the Cyber Fire Key but now that I created you Fire Connector you'll be able to tap into even more power and we'll have more control over you with this little control chip."

"But it seems that we have to go further than that now don't we?" Commander Alcon questioned as Digi placed a small white chip on the Cyber Key, "Seeing as you have managed to defeat the rangers twice but still not destroy them I'll personally see that you don't fail me again."

"What makes you think I'll agree huh?" Trey asked glaring at the armor cladded commander in front of him.

"Oh you won't have a choice," Alcon replied grabbing his wrist before taking the Cyber Key from Digi, "once I place the Cyber Key in and activate it you'll obey my every command, even when you aren't morphed."

Putting the Cyber Key into the morpher, Commander Alcon pressed down on the button with the helmet on it, crimson lightning starting to shot off of Trey as the Commander backed up. Holding on to his wrist, Trey backed up as he screamed out as the lightning coming off of him started to intensify before a crimson energy engulfed him. As the energy died down, Cyber Fire stood there, looking around at the others before flicking his wrist and breaking the cuff that was holding him there. Rubbing his wrist, he looked over at Alcon and demorphed, Trey's eyes now giving off a faint crimson glow to them.

"So then," he said smirking, "which ranger do you want me to take out first?"

-Cyber Drive-

Having searched for their lost teammate, the rangers returned down heartened as they found nothing that could possibly tell them where Calder could have disappeared to. Conner, having just left to go pick something up from someone he said could help them, tried to assure them that Calder would come back, that it was hard to take out a ranger, but they were still worried.

"The scanner is still going, but something is blocking it from locating him," Alpha explained as Drake and Kris tried to help him.

"This is ridicules, I have no idea what I'm looking at here," Kris groaned as she looked at the computer screen.

"We have to keep looking Calder's out there and I hate to find out what would happen if Cyber Fire got a hold of him," Drake replied as the backdoor to the headquarters opened up.

"While I'm glad I'm your top priority, you can stop looking for me," Calder said walking in, Gem still limping beside him.

Seeing one of their enemies walking in with their teammates, the ranger all got into fighting stances, Calder quickly holding up the hand not supporting her to stop them.

"It's okay she won't attack," he explained, noticing none of his teammates relaxing, "she sprained her ankle and I promised that I would fix it up for her."

"Calder she's a Viralite," Amy said pointing at her.

"Thanks sweetheart I'm sure none of us here knew that," Gem retorted sarcastically.

"Gem be nice," Calder warned, making her roll her eyes, "Alpha do you mind getting me the medical kit?"

"Oh I don't like this," Alpha said walking off to get what the green ranger asked for.

"Calder are you sure about this?" Drake asked, keeping his gaze on the female warrior.

"Look I know this isn't the best idea," Calder said sitting her down, "but I promised her that I would help her and I plan on keeping my promise."

The rangers looked at each other, unassured of what was going to happen, but in silent acceptance they nodded and turned to look at Calder and Gem.

"Alright Calder, we'll respect your promise," Drake agreed making him smile.

"But if she steps out of line then we're taking her out," Merrick stated making Gem roll her eyes again.

"Don't worry I'll keep my hands clean," she replied making the blue ranger glare at her, "and I promise not to tell the Viralites where your base is, one good deed deserves another I guess."

"See Gem you are a good person," Calder said smiling at her, taking the medical kit from Alpha as he returned.

"Don't look into it too much Cyber Green," Gem said with a huff.

"So now that Calder's back we can try to figure out who Cyber Fire is," Amy suggested making Calder look over at her and Kris.

"Gem do you have any idea who Cyber Fire is?" Kris asked looking at the purple haired girl.

"Even if I did Cyber Pink why would I want to tell you?" Gem challenged making Kris frown, "besides I never saw him when he wasn't morphed."

"Alright then so back to square one," Drake stated shoving his hands into his pockets, "we need to figure out who Cyber Fire is so that way we can try to break their control over him."

"Speaking of things we don't know," Calder said standing up and turning to face them, "Kris, Amy do you two have anything to tell us?"

The two female rangers looked at each other confused, the boys looking at them before turning back to Calder.

"What do you mean Calder?" Kris asked not catching on.

"Maybe the fact that you guys met Kira and didn't tell any of us," Calder stated, the girls' eyes widening as they finally caught on with what he was saying.

Drake and Merrick looked at each other in confusion before turning back to Calder, the red ranger speaking up in the girls' defense.

"Calder, Kira has been captured, and even if she wasn't she would have come straight to where Conner was," Drake explained making Gem chuckle, "and what are you laughing about?"

"Oh it's just hilarious to see you fighting," she stated with a grin, "Dino Thunder Yellow managed to escape just a little bit after your team was formed, I would know I was tasked with finding her not long ago and fought both her and you two over there a couple of weeks ago."

Not believing what they were hearing, Drake and Merrick turned to the girls, both of them having a 'we've been caught' look to them, not helping their situation. Walking over to them, Drake placed his hand on Kris's shoulder, making her look up at him.

"Kris is…is this true?" Drake asked in shock.

"I…we wanted to tell you but…"

"We had to keep it a secret," Amy answered making them look over at her, "Kira asked us to."

"Amy one of our main goals to save the past rangers," Merrick pointed out shaking his head, "don't you think that we might have wanted to know that another past ranger was free?"

"Kira said she had to do something, and that she would join us when she finished," Amy retorted turning to face the blue ranger and pointing at Gem, "she was trying to figure out what was up with her!"

"The fact of the matter is you should have told us that Kira was free, secret or not," Calder said making the yellow ranger glare at him, "we're a team we shouldn't keep secrets from each other."

"Look I know we should have told you, but Kira asked us not to okay, she said that once she managed to figure out what was up with Gem then she would join us," Amy explained getting irritated, "you can't really fault us for this can you?"

"No we're not," Drake promised looking at the yellow ranger, "I don't want this team to fall apart because of one secret, we're power rangers, and more than that we're a family."

"We really are sorry Drake," Kris muttered, her shoulders falling slightly, "we didn't want to keep this a secret from you guys."

"I'm sorry too, I jumped the gun on this," Calder apologized rubbing his forehead, "I guess it was just the fact that you would keep something this big from us got to me."

Amy took a deep breath to calm herself, happy to know that the team had, hesitantly, accepted their apology and though she hated to admit it, she knew they were right, they should have told the others about Kira. Watching the rangers, Gem was amazed that they were able to solve this problem so quickly, faster than she would have thought possible. What surprised her the most though was Cyber Red acting so calm. When she had first started fighting him, he had been hot headed and merely jumped into a fight without considering what he was up against, but now he was listening to the other rangers and thinking things through.

"Alright then, let's split up and see if we can find anything about Cyber Fire," Drake ordered, the other rangers nodding, "Kris you're with me, we'll go check out the business district, Amy and Merrick I want you two to go and search downtown, Calder…"

"I'll do what I can from here," Calder said with a nod, "someone's got to watch Gem and since I'm the one who brought her here it might as well be me."

"Okay keep us posted," Drake said nodding back, "if Cyber Fire or any other Viralite shows up, contact the others."

"Right," Amy and Merrick said before heading out.

As the team split up to go search the city for clues as to who Cyber Fire could be, Gem watched them, wondering what just happened. Her thoughts were quickly brought back to her current situation as she felt Calder take his shirt off her ankle and noticed him opening the medical kit beside him.

"Alpha I need you to start up a scan of the city, set it to look for anything that might be connected to the morphing grid," Calder said looking over at Alpha, "maybe if we can pinpoint that we can find the person who's using the Cyber Fire Key."

"I'm on it Calder," Alpha said walking over to the computer.

"What…just happened?" Gem muttered as Calder continued to wrap her leg.

"What are you talking about Gem?" the green ranger asked not looking up.

"I figured that their little secret would have turned the team against them," the purple haired girl said frowning slightly, "instead you all seemed to mend that problem quickly, quicker than I thought possible."

"We're a team, and Drake's right, we shouldn't let secrets tear us apart," Calder said finally looking up at her, "honestly we're you trying to turn us against the girls?"

"I'm a Viralite, it's my job to defeat you power rangers by any means necessary," Gem pointed out making Calder shake his head.

"I keep tell you that you don't have to be the bad guy just because you're with them," the green ranger explained once again as he stood up, "look while we're here, let me run an experiment on you, I have a feeling that you're not who you really say you are."

"And why would I let you run an experiment on me, I can't even stand Digi's experiments," Gem challenged, glaring at him again.

"Because I can see it in your eyes, you want to know why you're so different from the other Viralites," he pointed out with a grin, "might as well figure it out while we're here."

Sitting there, Gem mulled over the thoughts running through her mind, trying to come up with a good reason as to why he shouldn't run an experiment on her. But he was right, she had been trying to figure out what Alcon was hiding from her for a while now and she wasn't getting anywhere with it, so why not let Cyber Green try.

"Fine but don't try anything funny Cyber Green," Gem stated making him smile.

"Don't worry I won't," he said as started getting things ready, "oh and by the way, my name is Calder."

-Cyber Fire-

Amy and Merrick arrived downtown after about ten minutes of walking, the two rangers watching other people as they walked by. Stepping up onto a ledge Amy eyes scanned over the people walking pass her, while Merrick did the same from ground level. As the two rangers looked around, Amy started to walk around, not seeing a banana peel on the ledge she was standing on, making her slip as she stepped on it. As she feel though she was quickly caught before she hit the ground, Amy looking up to see Trey holding her with a grin.

"You need to be just a bit more careful if you're going to be walking around up there," Trey teased as he set her down on her feet.

"Yeah guess I should be," Amy said as Merrick ran over to her, "at least you were here to catch me though."

"Yeah guess you were lucky," Trey replied as he glanced over at Merrick.

"Amy are you okay?" Merrick asked as he stopped next to her.

"Yeah I'm fine, Trey was here to catch me oddly enough," the yellow ranger said smiling, "oh right you two haven't met yet, Merrick this is Trey, Trey this is Merrick."

"Nice to finally meet you," Merrick said holding out his hand.

"You too," Trey said shaking it, squeezing his hand a bit tightly, "so what are you two doing downtown?"

"Nothing really," Merrick replied shoving his hands into his pockets, "Cyberspace isn't that busy so Conner let a few of us go a bit early."

"Is that so, that's a bit hard to believe," Trey said, one of his brows raised, "from what Amy told me, that place is one of the most popular places for teens to hang out."

"Yeah well middle of the week things typically slow down," Merrick stated narrowing his eyes slightly.

Trey didn't say anything, instead just giving them a small nod of the head before turning his attention to Amy, the yellow ranger giving him a smile. It felt almost too easy for him, and if he really wanted to he could take the two of them out with no issues, but he knew he had to wait for the perfect moment. Glancing over to Merrick out of the corner of his eye, Trey could tell that Merrick seemed on edge, and that wasn't good for him or for his plans to destroy the Cyber Rangers. Acting quickly, he gave them a wide grin and rubbed the back of his head, letting out a small laugh as he did so.

"Guess there are still somethings left to learn about this place," Trey said with a chuckle, noticing Merrick relaxing a little bit, "anyways Amy, I was wonder if maybe you would like to hang out tomorrow, if you can that is."

"Sure I would love to," Amy said smiling brightly, "how about we meet at Cyberspace at noon?"

"Great, I'll be there," the burnet boy said smirking, turning to Merrick, "hope we get to meet again."

Merrick nodded, Trey taking that as his cue to leave, patting Amy on the shoulder as he walked passed her. As he turned the corner, he stopped and smirked as he pulled out a tracking device that Digi made for him. Digi theorized that if he was able to place a small beacon that he created on one of the rangers, something he just did with Cyber Yellow, then if one of the rangers contacted her from, or if she went to, their headquarters then they would be able to locate it. In all honesty the first thought was a long shot, they had no clue if or when one of the rangers would contact her from the headquarters, but it was worth the shot if they could locate their base of operations.

"Thank you Cyber Yellow," Trey said as he put the tracker up, "I'll have to make sure to take you down quickly for unknowingly helping me."

-Cyber Drive-

"You know, I kind of wished that we had a better clue on who it was we're looking for," Kris stated as they looked around the business area of Reefside, "I mean I understand that we're looking for someone who's acting out of the ordinary but that's like looking for a needle in a haystack."

"It does seem like we have a herculean task in front of us," Drake commented as he took his sun glasses off, "honestly I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't find anything."

"It feels like people are staring at us too," the pink ranger said as she glanced around to see if anyone was looking, "it's kind of unnerving."

Drake did the same, glancing around and noticing that at least a couple of elderly couples were looking at them, the couples smiling at them before continuing on their way. He couldn't find anyone who seemed to be looking at them with malicious intent; however, and this did nothing to help him relax.

"We should try looking somewhere else, I don't think we're going to find anything here," the red ranger said as he hung his sun glasses off the front of his shirt.

Kris nodded and followed Drake as they made their way through the busy street, trying not to draw any attention to themselves. Making it out of the crowd of people on their way to lunch, the two rangers looked around to see if there was any place else that caught their attention for them to go look through.

"I'm still not convinced that we're just going to stumble across who Cyber Fire will be," Kris said as they continued down the street, "I mean it does seem like a bit of a stretch that he's just going to come out and tell us who he is."

"Doesn't mean we shouldn't try, in the mean time we should also look out for Kira, we need to try to get her to join us so that we have another past ranger to help teach us," Drake muttered, Kris looking at the ground a with a downcast expression as he does.

"Yeah I guess we should," Kris replied not looking up.

Stopping his in tracks, Drake looked back at the pink ranger and noticed that she was upset. Placing his hand on her shoulder to stop her, Drake gave her a lopsided grin as she looked up at him, making her blush slightly.

"Hey don't let what happened get you down, yeah we were upset that you and Amy didn't tell us about Kira but it's okay," the red ranger said lifting her spirit a little, "we'll find her again and try to get her to come with us the next time."

Kris nodded, now feeling slightly better knowing that Drake wasn't mad at her, and this put a small spring in her step as they started up their search again. Just as they were about to head towards another area though the sounds of explosions and screams filled the air, the two rangers looking at each other before running off to see what was going on.

"That's right you humans, run away like the cowards you are," Pop-up taunted as he sent some more exploding ads out, Technos all around him attacking humans.

"Oh great just what we need," Kris groaned as they saw the Viralite, "think we should morph?"

"Not just yet," the red ranger replied, bringing up his morpher, "Alpha, Calder, Pop-up is in the shopping district."

"Yeah I noticed, the alarm just went off," Calder replied, "I'll get a hold of Merrick and Amy, we'll get there as fast as we can."

Another scream was heard, Drake and Kris noticing that a mother and her little boy was being attack by some Technos. Jumping into action, the two rangers pushed back the Technos, catching Pop-up's attention as Drake got into a fighting stance and Kris turned to face the two that they just saved.

"Are you alright?" Kris asked as the woman nodded, holding her son close to her.

"Yes, thank you so much," she replied trembling a little bit, "I haven't been this scared since that dinosaur hybrid thing attacked us when the Dino Thunder rangers were here."

"You're save now, but you need to take your son and go, we'll hold them off," the pink ranger said giving her a thumbs up.

"Of course," she said picking up her son and running off, "thank you again."

Turning around to face the Viralite, Kris got into a fighting stance as well, Pop-up laughing as more Technos showed up.

"So there's only two of you this time huh?" He asked pointing at them, "And if I remember you two are the ones who almost got me the first time we fought."

"You would be right ugly," Drake commented clenching his fist, "and you're not getting away this time."

"We'll just see about that, Technos attack!"

The Viralite minions jumped into actions, surrounding the two rangers before attacking them. Grabbing the wrist of the one attacking him, Drake twisted it to where the Techno's hand was now behind its back, the red ranger pushing him away before sweep kicking another one that was trying to flank him. Going from a back flip to jumping over the Technos attacking her, Kris was quick to spin kick all the three in front of her, knocking them down before two others grabbed a hold of her arms. Pushing herself up off the ground, Kris started to spin in between them, pushing them forward a little bit before landing and using her momentum to flip them on to the ground.

"Kris, up and over," Drake said catching the pink ranger's attention.

Heading over toward the red ranger, she jumped over him as he ducked, opening up one of the Technos that was about to attack him and allowing her to kick it in the chest and knock it into some of the other Technos.

"This is getting ridiculous," Pop-up said as he watched the minions getting defeated, "never send in a Techno to do a Viralite's job."

Walking over to where the rangers were fighting the Technos, Pop-up grabbed a hold of Drake and punched him in the gut.

"Come on Cyber Red show me what you got," He taunted tossing him to the side.

"Careful what you ask for," Drake stated attacking him.

Going into a spin kick, Drake missed as Pop-up went under his leg, coming up to smack him in the side and knock him away. Stumbling, the red Cyber Ranger was quickly attacked again as their Viralite opponent grabbed a hold of him and lifted him off the ground, dropping him down so his back hit Pop-up's knee.

"Drake!" Kris yelled seeing the red ranger hit the ground.

Pushing the Technos out of her way, Kris ran over and jumped into the air, kicking Pop-up in his chest and knocking him back. Turning around, she helped Drake up, the red ranger groaning a bit as he got to his feet.

"You okay?" She asked looking up at him.

"Yeah I'm fine," he replied giving her a thumbs up.

"You rangers are starting to get annoying," Pop-up said standing up, "I think it's time that I finished you off."

"Don't forget about us," a female yelled catching Pop-up off guard.

Flanking him, Merrick and Calder grabbed a hold of his arms, Amy jump kicking him, knocking him to the ground again as the boys let go of him.

"Hey guys," Calder said as they ran over to Drake and Kris.

"Man am I glad you guys are here," Drake said high fiving Merrick.

"Yeah we got here as fast as we could when Alpha contacted us," Merrick said turning to Calder, "but what about Gem, did you just leave her back at Headquarters?"

"Alpha's watching her at the moment, but she promised that she would attack our base," the green ranger promised.

"And you're positive we can trust her?" Amy asked unassured.

"Let's give her the benefit of the doubt," Kris said standing up for Calder, "if she says she won't then I say we trust that she'll keep her word."

"We'll discuss this later, right now let's focus on Pop-up," Drake said turning towards where the Viralite was standing up.

"Argh, so annoying I can't stand you power pesk," Pop-up complained, waving his arms all around.

"I say we morph and take care of one of our Viralite problems," Merrick suggested as the team lined up.

"I was just about to say the same thing," Drake said pulling out his Cyber Key, "You guys ready?"

"Ready!" the team responded pulling out their Cyber Keys.

"CYBER DRIVE, GET CONNECT!"

"Dialing…" Drake called out as he morphed, running his thumb over the top of his visor, "Cyber Drive…RED!"

"Dialing…" Amy called morphing, holding up the back of her right hand over the helmet's mouth piece, "Cyber Drive…YELLOW!"

"Dialing…" Merrick called as he morphed, "getting into a fighting stance, "Cyber Drive…BLUE!"

"Dialing…" Kris called out as she morphed, running her right hand from the left side of her belt to her right, "Cyber Drive…PINK!"

"Dialing…" Calder called out as he morphed, bumping his fist together then pumping his right fist into the air, "Cyber Drive…GREEN!"

"Cyber Drive Rangers, Connected!"

"You don't scare me," Pop-up stated as he fired off some of his ads at them.

"Take him down rangers," Cyber Red ordered, the team jumping out of the way of the attack.

Jumping over the attack, Kris and Amy landed in front of Pop-up, the two girls pulling out their Cyber Sabers and striking him on both the front and the backside. As the female rangers finished their attack, Pop-up attempted to attack as well only to be stopped when Merrick and Calder fired their blasters as him. Stumbling back, the shield headed Viralite noticed that the red ranger was now in front of him, wielding both of his swords as he attacked his opponent.

"Keep attacking me all you want power punk," Pop-up said as he moved out of the way of the two swords, "it won't matter when Cyber Fire gets here to finish you off."

"Even if we can't beat your evil ranger yet, we're still going to defeat you," Drake claimed as he managed to land an attack.

"That's right, if we can get rid of one of our Viralite problems then it will make our job easier," Calder said as he attacked with his Cyber Axe.

"And we'll just continue to grow stronger until we can beat Cyber Fire," Kris stated as she fired her arrows at him.

The rangers continued their attack on Pop-up, the shield Viralite having a hard time creating ads to attack them. In an effort to get the rangers away from him, Pop-up created some ads to surround him and made them explode when they were close enough, the rangers backing stumbling away from the attack, Amy and Calder hitting the ground, Kris and Merrick helping them up.

"Time to power up," Drake said as he pulled out a Cyber Chip, "Download, Saber Gear! Cyber Red, Saber Mode!"

"Wait what's going on here?" Pop-up asked as he noticed Drake's armor.

"Activate jets!" Drake ordered, his jets turning on.

Flying forward, the red ranger catching the Viralite off guard as he brought his swords up in the x formation. This attack hit with enough force that Pop-up was knocked a few feet into the air, Drake following quickly behind him as he slashed his weapons upwards, and then back down, knocking Pop-up back down on to the ground.

"What hit me?" Pop-up asked as he stood back up, not noticing the rangers regroup and pull out summon their Cyber Weapons.

"Let's bring them together," Drake ordered, the team forming the Cyber Cannon.

"H-hey wait just a minute," Pop-up yelped backing up, "that didn't work the last time remember."

"We'll just see if it works this time then," Drake stated as the cannon started charging up.

"Ready…"

"Aim…"

"Fire!" Drake yelled pulling the trigger.

The blast shot forward and struck true, Pop-up trying to block it as best as he could to no avail.

"No this can't be happening!" Pop-up yelled as the attack broke through and shot through his chest, the Viralite falling to his knees before exploding.

As the Viralite exploded, Cyber Fire watched from afar, chuckling as the shield Viralite was derezzed. The program had worked better than Digi had expected, and the Viralite scientist was able to locate the Cyber Drive Headquarters. He wanted to go and take out the rangers, but Cyber Fire had his mission and started off towards where the Digi told him that the head was located, the destruction of their base on primary goal. In the Cyber World, Alcon yelled out in fury as he stood up from his throne, storming down the stairs.

"Blast those rangers I'll have them destroyed no matter what," he yelled pushing Digi to the side, "Activate Project: Increase!"

The beam of data struck where Pop-up was just standing, reforming the Viralite and causing him to grown to an enormous size.

"And here comes to boom!" Pop-up yelled as he reformed, laughing.

"Whoa," the rangers yelped as they stumbled back from the small tremor of the giant Viralite's footsteps.

"Let's call the zords," Drake said as the rangers pulled out their memory chip.

"Cyber Riders, Download."

"Red Racer, online."

"Blue Flyer, online."

"Green Rover, online."

"Yellow Dozer, online."

"Pink Cruiser, online."

"Cyber Riders Combine!" they called out as they plugged their memory chip in to their control board, "Cyber Max Megazord ready!"

"Time to place some BIG ads," Pop-up said as he created some of his ads, firing them at the Cyber Max Megazord.

"Data Shield, Download, Cyber Spear, Download!" the rangers ordered, their arsenal appearing on their megazord.

Lifting up the shield, the megazord blocked the attack, pushing forward and getting close enough to attack Pop-up with the Cyber Spear.

"Ow! That hurt!" Pop-up complained as the attack hit, "Let's see how you handle this, Ad Buster!"

As three large ads appeared, the rangers' eyes widened as they looked of a clearing they could use to escape the attack. They had to move quickly though as Pop-up grabbed a hold of them, wanting to make sure that the rangers didn't get away from the attack.

"We can't move," Calder stated as the megazord was shaken by their Viralite shook the large combination of mechs.

"Pop-up is going to keep a hold of us until those things blow," Kris mentioned, trying to break her zord loose from their opponent.

"I have an idea," Amy said with a slight grin, "and it's a good one."

"Um…alright, do it," Drake said confused as he looked at the yellow ranger.

"Let's have some fun," Cyber Yellow said, smashing a glass panel next to her, hitting the button inside.

Bringing its knee up, the Cyber Max megazord kneed Pop-up in the gut and the smashed its shield into him, knocking him back as he yelped in pain. Moving away from the attack, the megazord managed to escape the explosion, Pop-up not being so lucky.

"You rangers are starting to make me mad!" Pop-up yelled in frustration.

"I believe it's time to end this," Drake said bringing up his right fist, "what you guys say?"

"Right," Kris and Calder said mimicking his movement.

"Totally," Amy and Merrick agreed.

"Cyber Max Megazord, Data Strike!"

"Not again!" Pop-up complained as the attack hit him, causing him to explode and derezz, this wasn't suppose to happen!"

As Pop-up exploded, the megazord turned away from him as the rangers cheered and high fived each other, Drake rubbing his thumb over the top of his visor.

"Cyber Rangers, he's been disconnected!"

-Cyber Drive-

Conner smirked as he watched the fight on the computer screen in front of him, Alpha happily cheering next to him as the ranger managed to defeat Pop-up, and Gem watching from where she was sitting. He was proud of his team, they were growing stronger by the day and he knew that the past rangers would have been proud of them if they saw what they were managing to accomplish. As the former red ranger stood up, he stopped and his muscles tensed as he heard the sound of someone entering the basement. Knowing that the rangers couldn't have made it back in that short amount of time, he quickly grabbed a hold of Alpha and pulled both him and Gem out of sight, peeking out just enough to see what was going on but not to be spotted. Much to his surprise Cyber Fire appeared at the back entrance, the evil ranger looking around to make sure that no one was here.

"Heh, looks like the readings were right after all," Cyber Fire said walking in, "and now to get down to business."

Walking over to the computer, Cyber Fire brought up the command panel and pulled out a data chip that Digi created to start a virus to destroy the rangers' computer and base. Just as he was about to put the chip in though, someone grabbed his wrist and pulled him away from the computer with a quick twist, Cyber Fire being thrown to the side. Looking up, he saw Conner standing there, staring at him as if he was sizing him up before a fight.

"Sorry, but unless you're one of the good guys, I can't allow you be here," Conner said making Cyber Fire laugh.

"And I'm sorry too," he stated pulling out his Cyber Gun, "sorry that you were here."

Firing his weapon, Cyber Fire was surprised when the older male dodged the attack and, at the same time, got in close enough to attack him. Grabbing his shoulder, Conner brought him in closer, punching him in the stomach a few times before letting him go and spin kicking him in the side of the head. Switching his Cyber Gun to saber mode, Cyber Fire attacked again, only for Conner to duck underneath the blade and knee him, making the evil ranger double over as he held his gut.

"Sorry kid but you're not a match for a veteran who's trained under the greatest rangers there is," Conner said as he stopped Cyber Fire next attack, "so why don't you just give up now."

"In your dreams," the evil ranger retorted slashing at him again.

Watching the two go at it, Gem was amazed at just what the former ranger was capable of doing. She knew he was good, having fought him before, but the amount of skills that he was showing went even beyond her expectation, making her wonder if he was holding back when he was fighting her as he was escaping the Viralites' hold.

"Wow, he's good," Gem muttered as she watched him.

"Of course, he's trained under both Tommy and Jason to make sure that he was the best ranger he could be," Alpha explained to the female Viralite.

"Even still, he wouldn't be able to defeat Cyber Fire," Gem muttered looking at the ground, "Cyber Fire was created using energy from some of the past sixth rangers, he incredibly strong, but maybe…maybe we can stop him from destroying this place."

"Gem?" Alpha asked looking at the purple haired girl, Gem sneaking out from where they were hiding.

Lowering himself to the ground, the former red ranger sweep kicked Cyber Fire, knocking him on to his back before flipping and drop kicking him. Rolling out of the way, Cyber Fire got back up and switched his weapon back into gun mode, firing it at the red ranger, knowing that he would dodge. His plan worked and some of the equipment for the computers were blasted as Conner moved out of the way.

"Dang it," Conner groaned as he realized what happened, "okay enough fooling around."

"Is that so?" Cyber Fire asked amused, "by all means don't hold back for me."

Just as Conner was about to attack, he noticed that Gem standing behind Cyber Fire, the female Viralite summoning her daggers and attacking from behind. Getting attacked from behind, Cyber Fire turned to see Gem standing there ready to attack again if she had too.

"You?" Cyber Fire asked in shock.

"Yeah I'm just as surprised as you," Gem muttered, "but I think Cyber Green is right, I don't have to be evil, and neither do you."

"Ha, that's funny, why would I want to be good?" Cyber Fire asked pointing his gun at her.

"Because you're a ranger," Conner said standing up, "and no matter how they started, a power ranger always fights for good in the end."

"That's where you're wrong," the evil ranger said pointing his gun at him now.

"I think hear something," the group heard Drake say, followed by the sound of multiple people running towards them.

"Looks like my times up," Cyber Fire said putting up his gun, "and when Commander Alcon hears that you stopped me, you're going to wish you were never created."

As the Cyber Ranger ran into the main area of their base, they noticed Cyber Fire disappearing, Conner and Gem standing on either side of him, just as he was vanishing though, he turned his head towards the rangers.

"And the next time we meet Cyber Rangers, will be the last time," he said as he disappeared in a stream of data.

Staring at where Cyber Fire was just standing, the rangers were shocked that one of their deadliest enemies had managed to locate where their base was, making them wonder if there would be another attack in the future. Walking over to Gem, Conner places his hand on her shoulder, making her look up at him in shock to notice that he was smiling at her, giving the female Viralite a quick nod.

"Does someone want to tell us what just happened?" Kris asked confused.

"It looks like the Viralites know where we're stationed now, meaning that we need to up our security," Conner explained as he walked over to the rangers, "but the question is how they found us."

Gem walked over the Calder, the green ranger smiling at her when she noticing something on the back of Amy's shirt collar. Reaching out, she grabbed the back of Amy's shirt, startling the rangers when she pulled something off of her and held up a small circular device.

"I think Digi had a hand in this," she said as the rangers looked at it, "not sure how it works exactly, but this is defiantly something he would come up with."

"But how did that get on the back of my shirt?" Amy asked confused.

"Not sure, but someone managed to get it on you, did you bump into anyone today?" Conner asked, Cyber Yellow frowning as she replayed the day in her mind.

"Yeah I bumped into a few people today, being on crowded streets after all, oh and Trey caught me when I fell down," she replied.

"Trey?" the ranger mentor asked.

"He's a new guy here in town," Drake explained, Conner narrowing his eyes.

"I see, well then I think we need to keep a closer watch for who Cyber Fire really is then," Conner said placing his hand on Gem's shoulder again, "but for now, it looks like we have a new ally, what do you say Gem?"

The female Viralite looked up at Conner again, then over to the rangers, all of them waiting for her answer, and Calder giving her another big smile. She wasn't sure if this was a good idea, in fact if things didn't work out, Alcon was going to destroy her no matter what she said, but she was certain that she was going to get more answers with the rangers then she was with the Viralites. Closing her eyes, she came up with her answer and gave them a nod.

"Yeah, I'll do whatever I can to help you rangers," she said the ranger cheering as Kris gave her a hug.

Author Note: The part where the megazord kneed Pop-up was a tribute to the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers Movie, for those of you who didn't get it. Looks like Gem has joined the rangers but who is she really? And will the rangers be able to defeat Cyber Fire? The answers will come later on in Power Rangers Cyber Drive!