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Blood was dripping onto the floor. Just like the last time he was in this situation, Sky stayed conscious through the entire beating. He could not face the Green Ranger, he could not look at him while he was punching him over and over again. Sky did not want see his friend like that; he knew Bridge had no control, and did not want to remember the look on his face while someone had control over his body.

"Wooo! That was fun." Bridge let out a long breath and shook his right hand. "I guess I really did a number on your ranger…that hurt, but you know all about the pain I caused him don't you? You're the one that had to unscrew my handy work from each limb weren't you? You have nightmares, you blame yourself."

"Shut up, you don't get to be in his memories like that, not after what you did."

"There's that passion I remember, such loyalty for your friends. You'd do anything to save him wouldn't you?"

Sky finally looked up, glaring at the man wearing Bridge's face. "What's the point of all this?"

"Oh, this? The beatings you mean?" Bridge shrugged. "Besides the fact that I'm just enjoying myself, and I want to cause as much damage to Green as possible, I'm stalling."

Sky was confused. "Stalling for what?"

"The other day we were all fighting that monster, the one that Bridge just happened to get carded before he had time to jump into a big robot. You saw the pause in the fight, I know you did clever one."

"So?"

"So, Bridge was getting into the monster's head. Stopped him from moving, and started to go deep into his mind, and wow that guy was a great General. He had so many battle plans, some of which I've decided to take for myself. I've always wanted power, and now that I have a willing host that is more powerful than…well really anything else, I can go against Gruumm and take this planet for myself."

"You'll kill Bridge trying to do that."

Bridge just shrugged. "We'll see won't we?"

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"Let me talk to Basta." Z looked at Commander Crueger.

"Cadet Delgado?"

"None of this makes sense right now, but he was the one to break into here, so I want to talk to him, figure out exactly what he knows so we can start straightening this out."

Crueger thought for a moment before nodding. "Alright, see what you can find out."

Z waited for the guards to bring Basta into an interrogation room. Once they did, she entered and sat down across from the criminal.

"I don't get it." Z crossed her arms and leaned back in her chair. "You've managed to weasel out of S.P.D's fingertips for a while, but then you decide to break in just to steal a few weapons?"

Basta shrugged. "I guess I was pushing my luck. You had the crystal, I needed it."

"Then why the other stuff?"

"I was already sending a guy in, might as well get him to take whatever he could carry."

"So where are all the other weapons?"

Basta smirked. "Wouldn't you like to know."

"Yeah, I would like to know. As a matter of fact, I want to know every detail of how you got a guy in S.P.D. undetected." Z eyed the man trying to get something out of him.

Basta stayed silent.

"We already caught you in the act, so there's no harm in you telling me more about that night. Speaking of that night, where were you before you came here?"

"At my bar." Basta rolled his eyes and decided to go on. "I had been planning this for a while was meeting my guy there, the one I sent in to steal your stuff."

"So how did you find out about the crystal?"

"I have my messengers; they keep me up to date on any and all valuable transactions."

"Okay, so you're at the bar, talking with your guy and you decide to tag along to our base instead of sending another lackey, because?" Z shrugged.

Basta stared at her for a moment. "Because I wanted to make sure it got done right."

"Yeah, but you've always trusted your guys with your dirty work before, that's why we've never been able to catch you. So this time was different, why?"

Basta shrugged. "It just was."

"But that crystal is powerful sure, but if you trusted someone to break in to our facility, which is surrounded by cameras and guards and cadets, why not just let him bring it back to your bar himself. Why be outside waiting?"

Z noticed the sweat beginning to bead on Basta's head.

"Unless there is something you aren't telling me." Z kept prodding.

"Listen here, I knew what I was doing, so I don't need you accusing me of something else."

Z shook her head. "Not accusing you of anything else, just want to know why you came here yourself."

Basta seemed confused at this question. He pinched the bridge of his nose, the frustration clear on his face. Z watched him as he struggled with himself over the very simple question. Then something happened that worried her. Blood began to drip out of Basta's nose, and he seemed like he was in pain at the memories. Z got up and sent a medic in to check on him while she went back to talk to the rest of the team who had been watching from the other room.

"What was that all about?" Syd asked as Z walked in.

Z sighed. "Nothing good, he can't talk about why he was here that night, because he wasn't here that night."

"What do you mean? He says he was, not to mention the witness." Jack was not following.

"No, they only thought Basta was here. Someone put those memories in their heads, and I think we all know there is only one person capable of doing that." Z's face darkened.

"You think Bridge did this? Can he even do something like that?" Jack was not sure if he could believe her.

"He did get in Edwards head to kill him. It's really not that unbelievable that he could get into other people's heads and plant a false memory." Syd realized that Bridge really could be behind this.

"This is Bridge we're talking about here, he would never do that." Jack did not want to believe it.

"Bridge wouldn't no, but what if he somehow absorbed some of Edward's feelings? Maybe he's doing these things because he has been swayed by what that creep was thinking. We all saw what he did to Bridge. He was a very disturbed and bad person. Bridge could just be getting some of the residual energy off of him after being in his mind." Z felt like her theory may be out there, but she also felt like she was onto something.

"If Bridge is thinking like that guy, then Sky could be in real trouble. He may have taken that collar to try and use it on him. We need to figure out where they could be." Jack was really starting to worry about his teammates.

Syd bit her lip. "Okay, but where do we start? Bridge and Sky disappeared from the security cameras, and their morphers are offline. We don't have a way to track them. Where would Bridge take them?"

Z shook her head. "It's not where Bridge would take them, it's where Edward would."

"So we go back to the three places we know Edward has been." Jack knew it would not be that easy.

"It's worth a shot, we don't have any other leads besides that." Z shrugged.

"I want to say split up, but if this is some kind of trap then we could all be in a lot more danger." Jack did not want to waste time that Sky or Bridge did not have.

"We can turn on the body cams in your suits, that way if something catches any of you by surprise it will alert the rest of us." Kat knew sending them by themselves was risky, but she knew time was precious as well.

"Good idea." Jack nodded. "Okay, Syd why don't you go to the hostage building, Z head to the medical facility, and I'll check out the basement."

Z gave him a look. "Are you sure?"

"Yeah, it'll be alright." Jack knew that was the most likely place for Bridge to be, but he hated to think what he could walk into.

"Rangers be careful, and remember although Bridge is still a Ranger, he may not be in his right mind. Do want you must to bring him and Sky in safely."

"Yes sir!" The Rangers saluted and ran out of the Command Center.

The three split up and headed to their assigned place to search for their lost friends. Syd went to the building where everything started. She remembered how lost they felt that day, sitting just yards away from her friend, unable to help him.. If it were not for Bridge, that day could have gone a lot differently for everyone involved. Syd approached the building with extreme caution, knowing a trap could be lying in wait for her. As she moved in the building, she checked every corner for signs of anyone or anything. She had only entered the building briefly when she realized she was on her own, and now she could feel the empty eeriness inside the large place. She made her way up the stairs and into the room she assumed Bridge had been kept in when they were taken. He had described it to the team, all Syd could think about was how close he and Sky were to dying in that place. Syd found no signs of anything new, so she made her way down the hall and found the room Sky had been kept. The chair he had been tied to was still in the middle of the room, and the ropes were still on the ground. Syd found nothing helpful in the entire building so she moved on.

Z had made her way into the laboratory they had so hoped to find Bridge at the first time around. Instead they found the dead doctor Jackson. Most of the things out of the lab were taken back to S.P.D. since it had been a crime scene, and most of the chemicals there were extremely hazardous. There was not much to look at after they had cleared the place, but Z did find a few papers strung around the room. She began to look through them in hopes of finding a clue to Bridge and Sky's whereabouts.

While Z and Syd were out searching the places they were assigned, Jack made his way to the underground room Edward had tortured Bridge in. He hated the thought of going back there, but he hoped that maybe that was where the two missing rangers were. When he opened the door to the big room, Jack searched for the lights and turned them on. Empty. There was no sign of anyone since they had rescued Bridge. Jack still decided to check the place out just in case, so he walked up to, what was left of the contraption created by Edward. Jack made sure to step around the blood stain still on the floor. There was still broken glass everywhere from the lights, some had been picked up by the crime unit when they retrieved Edward's body, but some still remained.

Jack stared out at the room from in front of the contraption. He could only imagine what it was like for Bridge while he was being kept there. When the Rangers got him out of there, Jack had processed so much in such a short time, he did not get a chance to really get a sense of that place. The fear that must have been coursing through the Green Ranger was strong; Jack did not have to have Bridge's abilities to feel that. If he really did somehow get taken over by Edward, then Bridge was extremely dangerous right now. If Edward was capable of pulling off everything he did, then they could all be in a lot of trouble. He shook his head, not wanting to think about the events that took place in that room not long ago. He did not want to think how one life was ended, while the other was changed forever. Jack did not want to believe his friend was capable of such horrors, or did he want to believe that the same horrors that happened to him, could be happening to Sky. The longer Jack stayed in there, the more he wanted to leave. He needed to get back to the base so they could find their friends, he had a feeling time was running out.

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