Hey guys, here's part 2! Get ready for some interesting stuff to come!

Previously on Power Rangers: Data Surge

In the meantime, Nick and Sam pulled Renee aside while Jordyn went to talk on the phone with Zoe. "So, what's up?" Renee asked.

"There's something we have to talk about," Nick said. "We know about you and Austin."

Renee stared at them in shock, but didn't know what to say. Fortunately for her, the alarm went off before anyone could say anything more.

"We're gonna talk about this later," Nick said. Jordyn ran downstairs and looked at them, and saw Renee glaring at her, though she didn't know why. Nick gestured for her to follow. "Come on, let's go."

~PRDS~

Darry approached the person he was looking for just before he left.

"Call off your minions," He demanded.

He chuckled. "What could you possibly be here for, Darry? To tell me to back off? That's not gonna happen. Did you come here for a death wish?"

Darry shook his head. "I want in,"

The person raised their eyebrows in shock. "Excuse me? That's impossible. You're not exactly the type."

"I'm dead serious. I want in."

He let out a laugh and nodded. "Alright, but I don't trust you. I'll call off my rangers right now, but you have to let me control you."

"What?!" Darry backed up a few steps. "That's not part of the deal."

"I'm gonna have to because I don't trust that you won't turn on me." Darry began to shake his head, but the man snapped his fingers, and Darry stopped and just stood there. "Good, now, if you really want to prove yourself, go out there and fight those rangers. I'll bring mine back once you start."

"Yes, Master Vance," Darry nodded before walking off towards the battle.

Vance leaned back against the wall. "This is gonna be fun, isn't it, Ms. Osborne?"

A woman stood in the shadows. "Of course, Vance."

Vance laughed and walked back inside his lair with her following.

Now

The rangers got to the sight to see Vance's rangers standing there.

"What do you jerks want?" Renee demanded.

Sabrina laughed at her and turned back behind her before facing them. Someone was behind them. "It's not what we want,"

"It's what I want," A voice said coldly.

Sam felt a shiver down her spine. "No way," She whispered. "No,"

The voice laughed. "Oh yes, little sister." Darry said as he came out from behind Vance's team, letting them quickly disappear, leaving just Darry.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Sam yelled. "Are you insane?!"

Darry rolled his eyes. "I think you're the one who's insane," He growled. "You always acting like nothing's wrong when everything is! The only difference is, I figured it out sooner than you ever will."

"Hey, hey, hey," Nick got in between the two, holding his hands out towards them as he saw Sam getting angry. He turned his head towards Darry. "You're out of line,"

Darry grabbed his arm and twisted is hard, making Nick hiss in pain and fall to his knees to avoid braking his elbow from the green ranger's super strength. Darry looked at him with a smirk at how easy it was to subdue him.

"What are you doing?!" Jordyn ran forward to stop him, but Darry backhanded her in the face, knocking her quickly to the ground.

Renee cried out in shock and ran over to help Jordyn, but Darry quickly grabbed her by the neck and hoisted her into the air. She gasped and struggled in his grip, trying to push his hands off, but he held her up like it was nothing.

Sam, meanwhile, was frozen in shock. Despite being one of the smartest people in the world - able to use her mind for things beyond what anyone could fathom - she couldn't understand why Darry would be doing this. She suspected it must be mind control, as Darry would never do anything to hurt his friends or family, but he hadn't been out of the house until now. Then again, he definitely had enough time to get captured or controlled somehow by Vance.

"Sam!" Jordyn yelled as Darry stepped on her back to hold her down. "Help, please!"

When Sam continued to stand like a statue, Nick took Darry's distraction and used his super speed to break out of his grasp and tried to sweep his feet out from under him. Darry, however, used his strength to hold his leg as still as possible, so when Nick kicked at his high speed, a snap was heard.

Nick cried out, holding his ankle in pain as Darry smirked at him. "Nice try," Darry kicked him quickly in the head, knocking him out.

Sam finally screamed in horror and ran forward, trying to throw a punch at her brother, but Darry grabbed her fist with ease and shook his head. "You never listen to me, do you?"

Sam growled under her breath, "I listen a bit better tan you think," She used his hold on her to flip over, grabbing his neck with her ankles, and quickly flipping back, knocking him with her, making him let go of Jordyn and Renee, the latter of which was almost unconscious from lack of air.

The silver ranger quickly stood up and let Darry laugh from the ground. "You definitely have some moves I didn't see before, Sam."

"You better believe it," She muttered, rubbing her hand where he gripped it. "I guess you're the one who never listened to me."

Darry chuckled and jumped up from the ground so hard that he made ripples in the ground around him, making Sam fall over. He stood over her. "So, this is it, isn't it, little sister?"

Sam glared up at him. "You can kill me if you want, but don't you dare call me 'little sister,'" She sneered, tapping into her powers a bit as an experiment. "You are not my big brother, because I know he'd never let this happen,"

Darry's expression changed for a moment and he grimaced in pain, "What the hell did you say?"

"You heard me. My big brother would never let this happen. He could never hurt me, Austin, or our friends." Sam repeated, a little slower this time.

The green ranger shook his head in pain. "You.. you're.. I..." He stuttered. He stopped shaking his head for a moment of clarity. "Sam? What's..."

"Get off of her!" Jordyn yelled as she and Renee rushed at Darry to knock him away from Sam, ignoring her warnings to stop.

Darry growled and grabbed them both before slamming them hard into the ground. Now, all three core rangers were out, leaving Sam alone.

"No!" She yelled as he did so, causing her to look up at her like a ferocious animal. "Please, leave us alone!" Sam cried, scooting away from him in genuine fear.

Something registered in Darry's head - through the mind control - that his baby sister was afraid of him. That was never and would never be okay. Vance, who was watching the fight on a big screen in his lair, noticed this, and called for him to come back, making Darry run the opposite way.

Sam sat up on her knees, hyperventilating. Her heart and mind were racing, and she felt very off-put by what just happened. A groan startled her out of her stupor and forced her to run over to Renee and Jordyn, who were moving weakly in pain.

~Cue Opening~

Zoe was walking around campus, waiting for a call back from Jordyn, when she saw River pacing on the phone a little away from her. Zoe quickly hid behind a nearby wall to listen to her.

"This is River Osbourne, yes." She nodded. "You want me to do that?" She chuckled. "I definitely wouldn't mind. As long as I get paid, I'll do anything. Yes, even kill someone," She laughed.

Zoe gasped and got out of there as quickly as possible, trying to get far away enough to call Jordyn. She pulled her phone out, gasping in shock as she shakily pressed the buttons. As she was about to finish, she felt someone tap her on the shoulder. She turned to see River standing there, and nearly screamed.

River frowned. "What's wrong, Zoe?"

"Wha.. what do you mean?" Zoe stuttered, ready to press call at any time.

She chuckled. "Well, I just saw you running for your life back there, and I just wanted to make sure you were okay,"

Zoe chuckled nervously along with her. "Oh, I'm fine. I just... wanted to get over her quickly."

"Why?"

She shrugged. "To be alone so I can call my girlfriend."

River smiled. "Really? You know, I've had a girlfriend before too. I remember it was like..." She was cut off when Zoe's phone rang, and Zoe saw it was Jordyn's number.

"Oh, Jordyn's calling, so I have to.. you know," She gestured away from River. River nodded and walked away to allow her privacy and Zoe answered. "Thank god you called."

"Not so much," Sam's voice came through the speaker instead of Jordyn's. "Jordyn's injured, along with Renee and Nick. I thought you'd want to know."

Zoe nodded, even though Sam couldn't see her. "Oh my god, thank you for calling." Zoe said, worriedly. "She'll be okay, right?"

"Yeah, she'll be fine, but she's resting for now."

Zoe heard Sam say something else, and knew she was about to hang up. "Hold on, I have to tell you something," Zoe interrupted her. "I think River is evil or something."

"River?"

"Yeah, you know, River Osbourne? Your brother's girlfriend?" Zoe nodded.

"I'll look into it, but I have to go. If you want to come and check on Jordyn, feel free."

Sam hung up on her before she could say anything else, and Zoe decided it would be safest to get off campus at this point, unaware whether or not River had heard her.

~PRDS~

After Sam hung up on Zoe, she put Jordyn's phone next to her bed in the infirmary and went upstairs towards Austin's room. She opened the door to find him staring in the mirror at his chest, which he unbandaged. A mass of dark bruises covered his chest and side. It wasn't pretty.

Even as she closed the door behind her, he seemed quite focused on himself.

"Austin?" She asked, coming up beside him.

"It hurts," He commented absentmindedly.

She frowned. "Do you want some painkillers? I can get Liela or someone..."

"Not this," He shook his head as he gestured to the bruises. "I mean, yeah, they do, but that's not what I mean." Sam looked at her brother sympathetically. "I've been ignoring it all of this time but today made me realize it. This hurts. It hurts worse than getting stabbed did. I was shutting myself out because of how much it hurt, and now others are hurt because of it. Renee's gonna lose her boyfriend because of me, Darry went to Vance because of me, and now the others are injured. How could I have messed up so badly, Sam?"

He sat down hard on his bed, putting his head in his hands in despair. Sam sat beside him and wrapped an arm around him. "It's not your fault, Austin. You're hurting. Don't blame yourself for that. Even so, all we can do now is work on solving these problems. We can deal with the Renee problem later, cause we need to focus on Darry now."

"Is he okay?" Austin asked. "Did he get hurt against you guys?"

Sam shook her head. "He's fine besides the mind control. He may have went to Vance by choice, but anything he's doing now isn't."

Austin sighed. "I can't believe I drove him to this."

"Hey, Darry's been hurting too, Austin." Sam told him. "He'll never get over what happened. He constantly worries about us, and if he's doing good enough. No matter how many times we tell him, he'll still never think that he is. He only went to Vance because of his hurt, not because of what you may have done."

"Yeah, but I caused part of his hurt," Austin responded. "Anything he does is because of me."

Sam rubbed her hand on his back comfortingly. "That's not true, Austin. Darry made his decision by himself."

Austin stood up and pushed away from her, despite jarring his ribs. "How can you say that, Sam? After what I've done? After who I've become?" He turned away from her. "I'm disgusting."

Sam stood up as well and wrapped her arms around her older brother. "No, you're not. You're still Austin Taylor. You're still my brother, and still Darry's. We can fix this."

"How?"

The alarm blared, and Sam pulled away from him. She opened the door to his room, and gestured out. "We're gonna go get our big brother back."

Austin gave her a small smile. "Yeah, we are. Let's do this."

~PRDS~

Vance stood in his throne room in front of his rangers. He smiled at them, "I'd like you guys to meet my new right-hand woman," Ms. Osborne came out of the shadows to stand next to him, though her face was obscured by a white cloak she wore. "This is Ms. Osborne."

"So?" Sabrina crossed her arms, looking up at Ms. Osborne with a bored look. "What makes her so special?"

Ms. Osborne put her hand out at the ground around Sabrina, making ghostly beings rise around her and grab her despite her protests and struggle. "I think you should speak to me with a little more respect,"

"How did you do that?" Levi demanded.

"Ms. Osborne here is a goddess," Vance smiled proudly.

Royal looked skeptically at them. "Oh yeah? What kind of goddess?"

Ms. Osborne turned to him with a look. "I'm the Roman goddess of magic and necromancy, Trivia, though I generally don't go by that name."

"Are we supposed to be impressed?" Elias chuckled.

Trivia didn't even look at him and snapped her fingers. His eyes rolled back in his head and he slumped to the ground unconscious. "Maybe,"

"What did you do to him?!" Dee screeched, staring in shock at Elias.

Trivia shrugged. "That's not important - he'll be fine in a few minutes. Now, does anyone else want to make a comment?"

The rangers were silent. Vance gestured to her. "Isn't she great?"

~PRDS~

"Hey, Darry!" Sam called as she came up behind him destroying someone's car and watching as people ran in fear from him.

Darry turned slowly around and smirked as he found her to be alone, with none of the other rangers in sight. "I'm surprised you showed up alone. Where are the others? Oh, right," He chuckled. "Do you really think you can take me on alone, Sammy?"

Sam shook her head. "No, I don't."

The green ranger frowned. "Then why did you come alone?"

"She didn't," A low, angry voice said from behind him.

Darry laughed and turned around to see Austin behind him. "Oh, did you finally decide to come out of hiding, Austin? I'm very shocked." He smirked. "What exactly are the two of you gonna do?"

Austin put his hands together and began to collect energy in them. Darry shrugged. "Yeah, you could do that for a bit, but you and I both know you can't just keep doing that, or else your weaknesses will come into play,"

"I don't need to keep doing it," Austin told him. "I don't plan to kill you. We're bringing you back."

Darry's face changed for a moment, and Austin could see the Sam was trying to manipulate the mind control that was already put on his mind. Darry shook his head to shake it off, but Sam kept insisting it change.

"Let.. me.. GO!" Darry yelled, stomping his foot hard on the ground, making Sam lose her focus and fall, and also making Austin drop his energy ball, and made him fall over as well.

Sam looked over towards Austin worriedly as Darry breathed deeply and practically shook with rage. "Darry?" Austin whispered, in case Darry wasn't in his right mind. He definitely didn't want Darry's attention on Sam, as she was the only one who could completely break Vance's influence on the green ranger.

Darry turned to him in a fierce rage, his eyes and arms glowing an eerie green as he stormed over to Austin, making cracks in the ground as he did so, and grabbed Austin by the neck and lifted him before slamming him hard back into the ground and holding him down there.

Austin struggled to push Darry off of him so he could breathe properly. Darry shoved his elbow down into Austin's already broken ribs, making all of the air Austin had left in his lungs leave, making him gasp for air. He remembered why he was supposed to be on bed rest, and realized that he could feel something weighing his lungs down, worrying him deeply.

"Darry, please," Austin rasped. "Don't do this." He gasped out.

Darry looked at him with a hard, confused look on his face as if he knew what he was doing, but didn't know why or how to stop it.

Sam sat up on her knees and used her powers to try to tap into Darry's head again. Her head was pounding, and her vision was going black around the edges from the exertion. Darry hissed in pain and gripped his head with his free hand before swinging it around and slamming it into Sam's shoulder, knocking her down and throwing her shoulder out of it's socket.

She cried out in pain and hit the ground hard, making Austin struggle harder to get out of his brother's grasp. He used one of his hands to make an energy ball and threw it into Darry's face, knocking him off with a few burns.

Austin gasped in air like a newborn who had never taken a breath before now.

Despite the pain she was in, Sam took this opportunity to finally fully take over Vance's hold. Darry sat up straight and didn't move as Sam took control of him instead, before letting it go, making him fall over unconscious.

Sam crawled past him towards Austin who had curled in on his side, coughing and struggling to breathe. She patted him on the back and he spit blood out of his mouth.

"We need to get back to the command center," Sam told him.

He nodded shakily. "Ye..yeah we do."

Darry suddenly groaned and sat up. "What happened?"

Sam and Austin looked over at him, unaware of how to respond to him. "What?" Sam asked hesitantly after a moment.

"What happened?" Darry rubbed his head. "I feel like I just got hit in the head by a..." He trailed off as he saw the two. "Oh my god," He rushed forward to help them. "Sam, Austin, what the hell happened? Who did this?"

He helped them up and held them close.

"Darry, you..." Austin was cut off when he started to cough again.

"Tell me later, we need to get back to the command center," Darry said.

Darry helped Austin walk while Sam walked a bit behind them, shocked at how easily Darry came back to normal, and also shocked that Darry forgot what happened. She had a feeling it wouldn't be very good when Darry found out what happened.

Also as she walked behind them, she felt a pair of eyes on her and saw a female figure back away into the shadows.

~Flashback~

"Hold on, I have to tell you something," Zoe told her, just as Sam wanted to hang up. "I think River is evil or something."

"River?" Sam asked, a bit confused.

"Yeah, you know, River Osbourne? Your brother's girlfriend?" Zoe said.

Sam of course knew who she was talking about, but it was a bit confusing to hear. River seemed nice enough, even though Sam had only really met her once, and it was hard to believe Darry couldn't know about it if it was like that.

Sam would definitely consider this though. Since Zoe knew about this stuff, she was a reliable source when it came to seeing evil things.

"I'll look into it, but I have to go. If you want to come and check on Jordyn, feel free."

~End of Flashback~

Darry sat inside the infirmary with Sam - the silver ranger had a sling on the arm with her dislocated shoulder - waiting for any news on the others. They had found out that Renee went to Robbie and Josh's house to talk to the latter about what she did. Jordyn, meanwhile, was still resting, and Nick had recently woken up.

Nick groaned as he pushed himself up, and he looked over to see Sam, and was shocked to see Darry sitting there.

"Darry," He said in a bit of shock and a hint of fear. "I'm.. glad you're.. back?" He said awkwardly.

Darry frowned. "What?"

"From being under control," Nick frowned in confusion in response.

Darry stared at him in shock and then at Sam. It all suddenly came rushing back to him. "Oh my god."

Sam put her hands out at him. "Darry, it's not a big deal. I promise, it's okay."

Darry backed away from her as if she would get hurt if she got near him. "I hurt you guys?"

"It'll be okay," Sam stood up to comfort him, but he continued to back away.

The green ranger shook his head. "No, I'm gonna.. I'm gonna go."

"Go where?" Sam demanded. "You can't go back there!"

"I won't," Darry looked down, not being able to even look at her. "I'll just go upstairs, but I can't be around you guys right now, I'm sorry."

Sam watched him leave and took a deep breath. "Damn it."

Next time on Power Rangers Data Surge: Elias and Royal team up to take down the rangers while their still weakened. Meanwhile, Darry struggles with what he did and wonders if he's fit to be a ranger.

Okay, so I've actually figured out that there are only six chapter left in this story, which would definitely not get the rangers to summer, but I will get them to Christmas break.

I will hopefully start writing the next chapter of Animal Guardians soon so expect that coming up!

Thanks for reading guys! As usual, I appreciate your feedback!

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