Flynn was driving the minibus back to the carnival a short time later. The kids were gaping in awe out of the windows, still completely blown away by the spectacle of the glittering glass and steel metropolis that was Corinth city, hardly able to believe that somewhere like this could possibly exist. They had all been living in the caves and cliffs outside the city since the attacks. It seemed impossible to believe that anywhere could still be in such good repair.

Dillon was sitting silently in the back, wringing his hands tightly, his jaw clenched. He hadn't said a word since Hope had mistaken him for Ziggy and blurted out the fact that he and Tenaya had been in a relationship behind his back. Anger boiled within him. While he liked Ziggy, and considered him in many ways to be his best friend, he couldn't shake the feeling that the Green Ranger had betrayed him.

"Dillon, please say something." Tenaya begged him, laying a hand on his arm gently.

"I'm going to kill him." Dillon muttered.

"Okay, not exactly what I meant." Tenaya replied nervously. "We were going to tell you."

"I'll bet you were." He grumbled. "When were you going to do that exactly? After I'd walked in on you..."

"We just wanted to wait until we could tell you together." Tenaya interrupted him. "We knew you would be surprised, we just wanted to find a way to break it to you gently."

"Tell me in a way that you'd be there to protect him you mean." Dillon replied coldly.

"Dillon, why are you being like this?" She asked him.

"I'm your brother!" He reminded her.

"You only found out you were my brother a little over a week ago!" She snapped back. She looked around to make sure the kids hadn't heard her, but right now they seemed to be too busy looking out the windows of the bus. "It's not like you've been that protective of me. Ziggy's the one that's been taking care of me until..."

"Now I know why!" Dillon snarled. "He just wanted..."

"Dillon..."

"I don't want to hear it Tenaya!" He cut her off. "I'm going to do this!"

Tenaya just shook her head in a defeated manner and made her way to another seat, slumping down into it and buried her face in her hands. Hope came over to her and gently poked her, rousing her attention.

"Did I do something bad?" She asked her, noting that Tenaya seemed to be upset about something.

"No, you weren't to know that wasn't Ziggy." Tenaya replied, patting the seat next to her. Hope jumped up onto the seat next to her. "He's just my older brother."

"Oh!" Hope replied nervously, realising her mistake. "He didn't know did he?"

"Well he does now." Tenaya replied, holding the little girl closely. "I just wish there was some way I could warn Ziggy."

Back at the carnival, the gates had opened, Chas had made his opening speech, and the carnival was now underway. Chas made his way through the crowds, checking that everyone was having a good time.

"This is great; I can't believe everything worked out so well." He told Ziggy as he approached the stage where the Green Ranger was preparing for his magic show.

"Everyone's having a great time. Everyone's really digging deep." He replied, looking out over the crowd as they played games, got their faces painted, and bought food. "The kids really love it."

"Well the twins are a big hit with the kids." Chas commented, pointing over to where Gem and Gemma were having a whale of a time playing with the kids from the orphanage.

"I thought the kids would like them." Ziggy laughed. "They have kind of...a kinship. I knew they'd get along."

"So are you ready to start the show?" Chas asked him. Ziggy nodded in response.

"All my props are set." He replied. "I was just waiting."

"What for?" Chas asked him. Ziggy paused for a second as the minibus arrived.

"There were a couple of other people I wanted here before I started the show." Ziggy informed him. "I just need to go and get my cape. Just relax and watch the show."

Tenaya rushed over to the stage as quickly as she could and leapt up onto it. Ziggy smiled as he saw her.

"I'm so glad you could make it." He rushed out before she could say anything. "Isn't all this great?"

"Ziggy..."

"The kids are having a great time..."

"Ziggy..."

"We're raking in money! Everyone's really digging deep..."

"Ziggy..."

"Hey the show's about to start. Some of my tricks require a volunteer, would you like to help?" He asked her. "

"Ziggy!" She yelled. It was only then that he noticed the panicked tone in her voice, and the look in her eyes. "Ziggy listen to me, something happened at the Garage. Dillon knows about us."

"What?" He asked her as the words sunk in.

"Ziggy, he knows." She replied. "Please just..."

Her words were cut off as Dillon arrived behind her, pulling her aside. He stood over his friend, bearing down on him. Ziggy felt his chest tighten as he looked up at Dillon nervously. Part of him wanted to run, but his feet betrayed him.

"I can help you with your act." Dillon said coldly, staring straight through him angrily. "You need an assistant for your act right? I'll help you. Then afterwards, we can have a little chat."

"Uh...sure, thanks." He stammered in response, looking at Tenaya, hoping for some way to be saved from this situation. Right at that moment, he wished he really could disappear.

Meanwhile, Chas was walking through the crowds, looking around at the people, making sure everything was running smoothly. He blinked a little as the lights started to affect him. For some reason he was getting a little spacey. The noise of the crowd, started to become distorted in his ears, into an unintelligible din.

He looked around, hoping to find somewhere to take a seat, when he saw the Rockets had left the autograph booth, and were now wandering around among the crowd, signing autographs and having pictures taken. Just behind Ryker though, he saw a couple of women huddled around a newspaper. He could see them pointing and laughing, and his muscles tensed.

Despite everything he was doing for the people of Corinth, despite putting together the carnival, and the game the following day, many of them were still more interested in the unsubstantiated rumours that the baby his fiancée was carrying was not his.

He spun around, seeing more and more people with newspapers, all looking over between himself, Brie and Ryker, and could almost swear he heard every venomous whisper. He clamped his hands tightly over his ears as his brain was assaulted on all sides by laughter, taunting him. It was all he could hear. Brie came to his side as she saw the pained look on his face.

"Chas, what's wrong?" She asked him, cradling him gently.

"They're all laughing at me." He whispered. "Can't you hear it? They're all laughing at me!"

"Chas, what are you talking about?" She asked him, looking around.

"All of them!" He called out, flailing his arms wildly. He was already beginning to attract some attention. "They're all laughing at us! They're all talking behind our backs!"

"Chas, they're laughing because they're having a good time." Brie told him. "What's wrong with you? Why are you acting this way?"

"I know I'm having a good time." Ryker chipped in as he came over, grabbing Brie by the arm and pulling her away from Chas. "It's just like old times isn't it?"

"In your dreams slimeball!" She screamed, trying to pull out of his grip.

"You know there's no reason the fun has to end when the carnival packs up." He said as he raised his eyebrows, taunting Chas. "Maybe we can go somewhere and..."

Chas by this time had heard more than enough, and he saw red. Something inside him just snapped, and before he knew what was happening, He had grabbed Ryker into a double-leg pickup and smashed him to the ground, before grabbing his hair and starting to rain right fists down on him aggressively. Ryker covered his face as much as he could while Chas started hammering into him.

"Ryker!" One of his team mates called, rushing forward, driving a hard knee into Chas' face and knocking him off their captain. Ryker leapt back to the attack, hooking him into a leg lock, cinching his leg tightly while he hammered into his injured thigh with his elbow. Chas screamed in pain as he tried to break free, throwing fists wherever he could land them, but having no effect.

"Break it up!" Ziggy yelled as he charged off the stage, playing cards from his latest conjuring trick scattering in all directions as he joined the scuffle. Dillon quickly joined him, pulling Ryker off Chas. The Rockets quickly backed off as the other Rangers came into view.

"So much for this being a friendly match," Ryker laughed as he straightened himself out. The soldiers had arrived to break up the commotion, and the Rockets were in no hurry to risk anything else happening. "We'll see you at the stadium tomorrow Winchester!"

They turned and left the Carnival, laughing and joking as they went. Chas continued to writhe in pain on the ground.

"Chas, what the hell were you thinking?" Brie yelled at him, checking over him. "You know he was just baiting you."

"I couldn't take it anymore." He replied. "I just couldn't listen to him saying those things about you."

"I think we should get him out of here." Summer chipped in, looking around at the crowd that was forming. "We don't need to attract any more attention to ourselves."

"Just get me to the doctor's office." Chas instructed them as he was helped to his feet, and helped to walk away.

"Chas, you can't possibly be thinking of competing in that game tomorrow." Brie questioned him. "You can hardly walk!"

"I'll be fine, I promise." He assured her. "Besides, I've already agreed to it. I can't back out now; too many people are counting on me."

"But Chas..."

"Just get me to the doctor's office." He interrupted her. "I'll be fine."

As Chas was led away, Flynn held up his hands.

"OK folks, the show's over!" He called out. "Everyone just get back to the fair. There's still plenty of time before it ends."

The citizens started to slowly file away from the scene of the fight, and while the mood had noticeably changed, the stall owners were more than happy to keep going.

"Are you sure that was a great idea?" Scott asked him.

"There's no reason to let the whole day be a washout." Flynn replied. "People came here to have fun. Let's make the best of it."

As the people dispersed, Gem and Gemma led the kids away to play some more games. Ziggy looked up at Dillon a little nervously.

"Thanks for that." Ziggy finally managed to say. "Chas was really in trouble."

"I just wanted some dessert." He replied. Ziggy laughed a little as he finally got the significance of what he had said. He had made the same excuse after saving Ziggy from the other inmates when they were in prison together. It was kind of his way of saying that he couldn't just stand back and watch someone being hurt like that.

"Look, Dillon. This thing between me and Tenaya..."

"Ziggy, what the hell did you think you were doing?" He asked him. "She's my sister!"

"None of us knew that when she came to us." Ziggy reminded him. "It wouldn't have made a difference though."

"You're going to have to repeat that." Dillon said coldly. "I'd suggest you do so before I tear your head off."

"I haven't been taking advantage of her." Ziggy told him. "It's been happening for a while. I've seen a lot in her that I really like, even before she came to us. I could see the good in her, even when we were fighting against her."

"Ziggy, she was our prisoner." He reminded him. "For the first couple of days she was quadriplegic. She was in a wheelchair for weeks."

"I cared for her all that time." Ziggy told him. "Over that time, I saw so much in her that I liked. I found out that we had a lot in common."

"She was here as our prisoner." Dillon repeated. "What did you do? Hit on her while she was chained to a chair?"

"Ziggy would never do that, and you know it!" Tenaya roared as she interjected herself into the argument. "He never did anything that I didn't invite. He never did anything when I wasn't able to refuse."

"So he just manipulated you?" Dillon asked her. Tenaya slapped him hard.

"You have no right to say anything like that about him!" She snarled. "We both started to have feelings for each other. We love each other."

"Tenaya..."

"Dillon for the love of God, stop the whole psycho big brother crap!" She interrupted him. "You only found out you were my brother a bit over a week ago! I was doing just fine without you!"

"Yeah, you were doing just fine." He said sarcastically. "You just spent months as Venjix's slave, you managed to get yourself almost killed by it more than once and...Oh yeah...you also managed to get kidnapped and tortured by another infiltration unit that was intent on killing you until I..."

"We!" Ziggy corrected him. "We saved her."

"Dillon, we know hardly anything about each other anymore." She told him frankly. "From the few memories we do have, I can tell we were close once. I can feel that, I know I trusted you implicitly..."

"And I took care of you." He interrupted her. "I looked after you."

"So what the hell have I been doing?" Ziggy snapped, suddenly finding a confidence he never usually had in Dillon's presence. "You never gave a damn about Tenaya all that time she was in Dr. K's lab. You never even looked at her!"

"Careful Ziggy..."

"What are you going to do? Beat me up? I don't care!" He continued to rant. "You only cared once Dr. K told you who she was. You know what you did? You shoved me aside! It was like nothing I did for her mattered to you. You didn't care how I felt about her. You never even asked if I wanted to step aside. Hell, you never once even said thank you!"

Dillon stopped as he heard this. He had to admit that this was true. Ziggy had done everything for her.

"Ziggy was the first one to see any good in me. He was the one that made me choose to turn from Venjix. He was the one that trusted the good in me so much that he put the orphanage, the only family he has at risk!" She told him. As Dillon slumped onto a bench, Tenaya sat next to him and put her arm around him, holding him warmly. "I love knowing that I have a family, and while it is a little awkward, I love getting to know you but you have to accept that I'm not a kid. I'm not a helpless little girl that needs her brother to fight her battles for her. I have my own life and I can make my own decisions."

"I'm sorry; I just don't know how to take this." He told her. "When I look at you, the only memory I have is taking care of you. I just can't get that out of my head."

"We're still trying to figure out where we stand as siblings." She reminded him. "In the meantime, you have to trust my judgement. If nothing else, this is Ziggy we're talking about. He's your best friend. Do you really think he'd do anything to hurt me?"

Dillon looked at Ziggy, having finally felt the aggression passing, and could at last look at him logically. She was right about that much, Ziggy was his best friend. He had been the first one to trust Dillon and accept him completely. He was the kindest and most honourable person he knew. As much as he hated the thought of his sister being taken advantage of, in the cold light of day, it didn't sound like something Ziggy would do. He would never do anything to hurt anyone intentionally, least of all someone he loved. He stood up and looked at Ziggy. Tenaya was about to get between them, but Ziggy gestured to her to stay out of it. He knew Dillon had something to say.

"I guess I'd have had a hard time accepting anyone with her. At least it's you and not some creep." He told him. "I just have a couple of ground rules."

As Tenaya shifted in her seat, Ziggy again gestured to her to stay out of it.

"First, you take care of her. If you break her heart, I'll break your legs." Dillon stated.

"You don't have to worry; I would never do anything to hurt her." Ziggy replied gently.

"Second. While I can just about accept this, it's still messing up my head. For the sake of my sanity, spare me the details alright?" He asked them. "I really don't need to hear it."

"That's a deal." Ziggy replied. He opened his arms for a hug, but Dillon just extended a hand for a handshake. Ziggy figured this was the best he was going to get under the circumstances and accepted it.

"Treat her well." Dillon told him. At that, Tenaya could no longer contain herself and threw herself into his arms, kissing her boyfriend enthusiastically. Dillon just shook his head and walked away, muttering to himself.

"I hope I don't live to regret this." He mumbled as he left. As Tenaya finally released him, Ziggy smiled at her.

"I have a surprise for you." He told her. He pulled a small key out of his pocket. "Dr. K and I have been talking and we think you've proven you can be trusted."

"You mean..."

Ziggy took her hand, lifting up her wrist, and unlocked the restraining bracelet, removing it from her wrist. Tenaya smiled at him.

"I trust you." He told her, putting it away. "Now, do you want to do that again?"

Tenaya pulled him into a long, passionate kiss that made the rest of the world disappear. It was only interrupted as Ziggy parted from her, yelping in pain. His eyes were wide.

"Another wedgie?" He asked her.

"Sorry, I couldn't resist." She told him. "Anyway, how about we go and do the rest of that magic show. I promise I'll let you saw me in half."

Ziggy laughed and wrapped his arm around her as they made their way back to the stage. He couldn't help being happy about the way things had gone down. Now they no longer had to hide how they felt about each other. The others would likely be surprised, but they had already crossed the biggest hurdle. Now that Dillon knew and had accepted it, they had each other to rely on as they faced the others.