Shelby jumped awake, moving her head from where it was resting on Riley's stomach. Koda was on the other side of the downed ranger.

Chase landed at the bottom of the slide, a wide grin on his lips.

"Hey guys, just grabbing my skateboard." The Kiwi frowned as he picked up said object, wiping the dust away. "I'll see you later, I've got a date with Kaylee." And before any of them could say anything the brunette was gone.

Shelby stood and ran, following the black ranger out of the museum, catching him just before he could hop on his board.

"Kaylee? Kaylee? What about Riley?" She stressed, looking at him like he was crazy. Something flickered over Chase's face, his eyes seeming to glow a different colour, it was subtle, but it was there.

"What about him?" And she watched as he wheeled away.

The pink ranger stomped her foot in frustration and made her way inside where the others were beginning to gather.

"Something's wrong with Chase, it was like he couldn't care less about Riley and he's going on a date with Kaylee but when I tried to talk him out of it, it was like he was in a trance or being possessed." She ran her hand through her hair while all of them looked dismayed and confused.

"Wait, Kaylee is his ex-girlfriend right?" Casey asked with a frown as they nodded. "Short blond hair and blue eyes?" Again they nodded. "She bumped into Chase when we were at the park and he was gripping his wrist like she'd hurt it."

It was Kendall who frowned, eyebrows creased as she thought, suddenly she grabbed a scanner and began running it over the prone ranger.

The purple ranger gasped when it suddenly beeped as she ran the device over his left forearm and disappeared only to re-appear with a scalpel and they all looked at her like she was crazy, a few of them crying out.

"Trust me, I wouldn't do this if I didn't need to." She assured, taking a deep breath before she leaned down, gently and evenly pressing the blade into Riley's skin, blood welling up almost instantly.

Kendall pressed until she felt the hard something inside the skin which was luckily only a few millimetres. She took a pair of tweezers and gripped the small rod that was buried there, sliding it out of the flesh, feeling her stomach turn slightly and she absently wondered if she was pale.

Her worries stopped as she heard the deep even breath, so different from the shallow, barely there wisps that had haunted them all this past week.

They all looked up as emerald eyes opened and Tina Griffin let out a sob and dived at her son, hugging him close while the youngest ranger looked completely bemused before things slowly started filtering in.

He swallowed harshly, flinching slightly when Kendall pressed a bandage over his arm.

"How long was I out, I remember Chase talking to me but..." He trailed off seeing how worn out everybody appeared. Seeing his cousin there as well, he knew the answer wouldn't be good.

"Ten days." Shelby spoke and he felt slightly numb as he wrapped his good arm around his Mom. The bandage on his arm had long since been fixed into place when she let go and he was suddenly in Tyler's arms and he hugged back without hesitation, he couldn't imagine how terrifying that must have been for him.

It wasn't long before all of the Dino Charge rangers had hugged him, even Kendall, as well as Casey and green eyes flickered around the room, confused and worried.

"Where's Chase?" All of them stopped and looked at him so Cam took over.

"We think, like with you, Kaylee planted something under his skin, he seems to only care about her now." The samurai explained and they all watched with wide eyes as Riley all but bolted up and started to climb off the table.

Ivan and Tyler grabbed him to stop him.

"Wow calm down, we'll fix this, it's okay." Tyler shushed.

"Indeed sir Riley, we will rescue sir Chase from that harpies clutches." Ivan told him firmly but the green ranger was already shaking his head.

"No don't you see it!" They all looked at him blankly making him groan. "Kaylee can't have done this on her own, she needed help and who else would want Chase vulnerable?"

And piece by piece it clicked into place and suddenly the whole team was scrambling, Riley almost rolled his eyes but couldn't blame them, they'd all been so panicked about him they didn't really have space to worry about Chase, okay maybe he blamed them a little but this was Chase.

It took him time to finally worm his way out of their grip and to leave the base, energem in hand. Admittedly the first thing he did was take the quickest shower of his life and brush his teeth because he felt disgusting, before he went to find his boyfriend, he knew exactly where Kaylee would have taken him.

Kaylee laughed, grinning form ear to ear from her place on Chase's arm as they left the space museum. It had been perfect, just like old times before that little Southern slut had dragged him away from her. Chase had paid for lunch and even bought her a new book on astronomy by her favourite writer.

"Well, well, it looked like my plan worked perfectly." Poisandra appeared with Curio at her side, clapping her hands together.

Chase perked up, moving to fight but the blond girl grabbed his wrist.

"It's okay Poisandra is a friend." She told him with a smile and Chase stared at her in horror but slowly nodded, everything in him warring about what to do.

"So that's where you got the implants from." Riley walked froward, gain the attention of all three of them. "I have to say it was pretty ingenious, I never would have suspect it was Kaylee when she scratched my arm, who ever expects the human?"

Poisandra gasped, looking the green ranger over with surprise because the green ranger looked like pure sex. The ranger was wearing tight form fitting jeans and riding boots that made his legs look as if they went for miles and the dark green shirt he wore left his shoulders bare, his lithe frame on display, accented by the simple black choker around his throat.

He could feel Chase's eyes on him, tracking his every movement just like he wanted because it was one thing to put someone to sleep, it was completely another to mess with their emotions. Chase's emotions were heat and longing and Riley smirked to himself even as Kaylee glared at him.

"Chase, get rid of him." The girl snarled pushing the ranger forward and smirking her self as the black rangers blaster appeared in his hand.