A.N. I'm going away for a week so you'll have to wait for the rest. Hopefully, that will give me time to finish the last two parts. Thanks to all the reviewers and readers.

"Oof." The air was pushed out of TJ's lungs by the lucky punch of a quantron. Knowing that they wouldn't give him any time to recover, he crouched down and did a sweeping kick that knocked the quantrons surrounding him off their feet. He got back up in time to see Ashley sliced by Ecliptor. He rushed forward to keep Ecliptor distracted while Carlos got Ashley out of the way.

Blocking Ecliptor's swings, TJ managed to get in a few hits with his Astral Axe, but a swift kick from Ecliptor knocked him onto his back. He saw the sword coming down at him before he had a chance to leap up or role out of the way, but the sword never reached him. Half way there it hit against the Super Silverisor. TJ glanced over at his silver friend, as Zhane did a quick upward cut which flung Ecliptor away from them.

"Zhane…" grumbled TJ as the silver ranger helped him up.  "You shouldn't be here."

"I'm fine," said Zhane, but TJ could hear that he was already breathing heavily and he knew that only the strength of the power was holding him up.

"You're as bad as Andros," commented TJ.

"Not that any of us stay in the med bay as long as we should," pointed out Cassie as she joined them.

"Rangers!" shouted Ecliptor as he charged towards them.

TJ and Cassie went to face him telling Zhane to stay back. Zhane looked around and was glad to see that Ashley was back up and apparently hadn't been hurt too badly. She and Carlos were facing off against the still large number of quantrons. He headed over to help them.

Suddenly he felt metallic hands on his shoulders. Remembering what had happened to Andros, he acted. He stopped them from bringing him to the ground by throwing his weight forward; then, he struck one with his elbow knocking it off his left shoulder. He was about to throw the others off when he felt the pressure of something slam around his wrist. It burned. It burned right through his armor causing him to demorph. He fell forward, his body spasmming. He didn't pay any attention to what was going on around him, but as he suddenly fell forward, he felt Andros' mind slip away from his as the link broke.

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"No!"

Alpha jumped and so would have Deca if she could. Andros thrashed around, tears and sweats pouring down his flushed face. Alpha tried to hold Andros down as he lashed out knocking down nearby instruments.

Suddenly, the cries and moans were silenced and Andros stopped shaking. His body went limp like a broken doll, before suddenly tensing as he sat up. 

"Andros?" asked Alpha, but he got no reply. "Andros!"

"Andros is being controlled by the Shadorian Shackles," said Deca.

"Something must have happened to Zhane."

Meanwhile, Andros was stiffly walking out of the med bay. Alpha hurried after him. He caught up to Andros in the corridor. Squeezing past him, Alpha blocked Andros' way to the rest of the ship.

"Fight it, Andros," pleaded Alpha, but as he looked up into Andros' eyes, he saw that though Andros was conscious, he wasn't really there. Alpha didn't have a chance to say anything more before Andros slammed him against the wall. Alpha slid to the floor, his circuits shaken by the impact. As he sat there cursing his inability to fight as well as the rangers, he saw Andros move towards the bridge.