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AN: I couldn't think up of a title for Chapter 3 so I left it as is, thanks for reading. Power Rangers does not belong to me.

Chapter 3

By Screech04

(Wasteland)

The plains, valleys, and hills of the wasteland were mostly quiet as two fast flying vehicles were zooming across in search of their target. They were the Falcon Zord and Tiger Jet, personal zords of Gem and Gemma. The Gold and Silver Rangers were sent out by Summer and Dr. K in search of Dillon and Ziggy. The two had failed to report in with their investigation of the distress signal call in the junkyard for some time and it had gotten the rest of the team that something may have happened to them. As time passed without any word from the two boys, Summer was getting more and more anxious and impatient pacing across the garage in her worry. Scott growing tired of watching Summer pace back and forth had asked Dr. K if they could go out and search for them. Dr. K had agreed to send out a search party, compromising that it would be best to send Gem and Gemma as their zords could fly and could get to the junkyard faster then any ground based vehicle could.

"Gem, Gemma have you found any sign of Dillon or Ranger Series Green?" Dr. K spoke through their zords' communication system.

"Not yet but we'll keep-" Gem started.

"- an eye out for them." Gemma finished. The Falcon Zord and Tiger Jet reached the junkyard and started a search by hovering around the perimeter edges of the junkyard. Piles of ruined vehicles, machinery, buildings, and remnants of what the world was before Venjix took over rested all over the junkyard.

Down on the junkyard floor, Ziggy was still shaking Dillon in trying to get him to wake up. While searching for the source of a distress signal call, they were ambushed by a Venjix general that was went by the name of Kilobyte. The battle had been fierce, but the two teamed up in taking down the robot general til he retreated. The victory was short lived as Ziggy found his friend on the ground unconscious.

"Dillon, come on get up. Who else am I going to show my new shadow puppets to?" Ziggy groaned as prodded Dillon to try and wake him up. It was all in vain though as the black ranger still laid down on the ground not moving. He looked up as he heard familiar sounds enter his ears, the source of the sounds soon revealed themselves as the Falcon Zord and Tiger Jet came in his direction and were hovering above him. It was a welcome sight for Ziggy as the two zords made to land, then they could get Dillon some help once they got back into Corinth.

(Venjix Palace)

Kilobyte was leaning against a railing as he watched with his remaining good eye some of his master's robot minions construct him a new replacement arm after he lost his original one against the green ranger. Other Grinders were currently working on fixing his broken eye after the black ranger had shot him right in the face. He growled a sigh of annoyance, clearly he had underestimated his opponents. A mistake he would not make twice was something he would make sure of. Kilobyte turned his head and saw Tenaya 7 come walking up.

"I'd take it your little experiment didn't go according to plan." She asked with a raised eyebrow.

"If you're here to gloat, I'm afraid I don't have the time." Kilobyte replied as his shifted a little as the replacement arm was connected into place into the socket on his body. He soon regained vision in both eyes as the Grinders finished fixing his broken eye.

"If I was here to gloat, I would make it clear that I was." She retorted and took a step back as Kilobyte stood up from where he was leaning against the railing. He took a few minutes to ensure the ocular settings for his eyes were correct before giving his replacement arm a test run, finding it in working order he smiled.

"Ahh perfect." He then glared over at Tenaya before walking towards, each step he took forward she took one step backwards until she had her back against the wall, "Now for the matter at hand, I believe I did say I did not like cheap shots."

"Whatever do you mean?" Tenaya asked innocently.

"Don't play coy, you're not as innocent as you're making yourself out to be. I know it was you that took the shot at me which gave them Rangers their advantage attack over me."

"I have no idea what you're talking about. Besides you have no proof I was there." She continued to play innocence.

"Do you honestly expect me to believe that?" He sneered as he pulled out his rifle blaster and aimed it at her. It was fully charged and with a single press of the trigger, Kilobyte could easily vaporize Tenaya in an instant.

"I don't think master Venjix would be happy with you if you vaporized me." Was her only reply. Kilobyte reflected on this for a moment before lowering his weapon.

"You can only hide behind master Venjix for so long. And when he has no longer any need or use for you, then don't count yourself so lucky." He sneered again before turning and started walking off, "Regardless of my performance, the Rangers are going to be down one soon."

"What do you mean?" She inquired.

"The Black Ranger took a rather nasty hit from my rifle blaster. I doubt he'll ever wake up again." He turned and looked back at her, "And if does wake up, then I'll just have to try harder next time."

"You are to leave him alone!" Tenaya yelled out loud, then jumped back surprised by her own outburst.

"Feeling sentimental Tenaya?" Kilobyte inquired.

"No!" She recovered herself, "You can whatever you like with the other Power Rangers, but leave Subject D44 out of it." Surprising herself again, she was confused on why she was defending him. He was her enemy, not her ally so why was she defending him.

"Very well, but he if gets in my way. Then my finger might just get a little itchy." Kilobyte replied as he held his rifle blaster and emphasized by wiggling his finger that was in the trigger grip of his weapon. He then turned and walked away leaving Tenaya once again confused on why she had defended D44 from Kilobyte so fiercely.

(The Garage)

With a groan Dillon opened his eyes, he looked around to get a bearing of where he was. It took him a few seconds to recognize that he was in Dr. K's lab currently lying on one of her examination tables.

He got up and walked out of the lab where he saw Dr. K and Ziggy waiting out near the entrance to her lab. They jumped when they saw the Black Ranger standing there awake and walking to them.

"See I told you he'd be fine Ranger Series Green, you were worrying for nothing." Dr. K pointed out to Ziggy

"Well excuse me for caring." Ziggy replied back with a shrug.

"What happened to me?" Dillon groaned shaking one of his arms, he felt a bit of pain and ache in it.

"You took a very heavy blow to the chest, that and other injuries you received led up to your state of unconsciousness after the pumped up adrenaline in your system faded away. Due to this I recommended to Scott on taking you off active duty, your team leader agreed with my decision." Despite the serious look and tone that came from Dr. K, she knew that Dillon would do everything in his power to defy that order especially if it came from Scott. Scott and Dillon didn't always see eye to eye when it came to Dillon turned and started walking out of the garage.

"Where are you going?" Ziggy asked.

"I'm going for a walk." He replied back.

"Why?" Ziggy asked again.

"To clear my head." Dillon finished as he walked out of the garage. He kept walking, ignoring the glances were people were giving him or the cautioned looks on their faces when they stepped aside to let him pass. Passing news stands, hot dog vendors, alleyways, parked cars, and the occasional stray dog he found his way towards a small yet familiar recreational park with a pond. He walked to the edge of the pond and picked up a few stones on the ground and started skipping them across the pond. Dillon thought back to the first time he visited this park during the tour the rest of the team was giving him, it was before he decided to join the fight to save humanity. He closed his eyes as memories of that day came back to him.

"Corinth City, it's a self-sustained, self contained living environment. Everything's recycled, everything's programmed." Summer explained as she walked alongside Dillon in the park with Scott and Flynn following behind them.

"I know what you're trying to do." He stated as he gave a slight glance towards her before turning his attention back forward. You're trying to show what it is I've be fighting to protect."

"I'm trying to show you why it's worth fighting for." She replied back looking over at him as she stated this.

"You're trying to make me care." Dillon sent back to her as he continued walking.

"I do care." He whispered silently opening his eyes as he skipped another rock and watched it bounce across the pond.

"Thought I might find you here." A friendly familiar female voice came to his ears and he turned to see Summer walking up to him.

"How'd you find me?" He asked.

"Ziggy, I asked him where you were and he told me you went for a walk. And through process of elimination I figured you would come here." Summer replied.

"You know you sounded just like Dr. K right there." Dillon joked and smiled. His smile was contagious as Summer's face broke out into a grin and the two shared a laugh as came up and joined him in skipping rocks. "Something tells me my whereabouts is not the thing you wanted to talk about." He stated and watched as she sighed and her shoulders lowered a bit with the sigh.

"Ziggy said he heard you talking to yourself when you were in that junkyard finding the distress signal. You kept going on that wouldn't believe it and that she couldn't be your sister. Who's she?" Summer inquired. She saw that her question made Dillon react defensively as he turned away from here.

"No one, it's no one." He replied back as he focused on looking anywhere but at her. He jumped a little bit when he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Dillon I know you like to do things on your own, but you can't keep doing this. Pushing people away when the only want to help." She said softly. His breathing got heavy as his thoughts turned onto a similar conversation he had with her not that long ago.

The factory was coming apart around them as he continued walking past fallen and burning debris with her following behind him. A beam from above came falling to the ground in a messy crash. He looked to Summer and saw her shaking her head.

"Dillon no! If we don't get out of here now." She started.

"You're right, you need to go." He replied back. Dillon turned around to continue, until he felt her grab his arm and pull back a little bit.

"I'm not leaving here without you." She pleaded, a bit of a stubborn tone in her voice.

"Why are you always trying to save me?" He yelled at her, frustrated that she was doing this.

"Because you're worth saving." She replied back to him.

"That day, you said I was worth saving. Do you still believe that?" Dillon turned and asked her.

"Yeah I do. I wouldn't lie about that." She replied back in a soft voice. He turned his head and looked away from her.

"You remember the other day when the Grinders attacked the park?" Dillon asked and he didn't have to look to know Summer was nodding her remembrance of it, "Well Tenaya was there and I chased after her. We got into the old routine of trading kicks and blows and…" He stopped, unsure if he should continue.

"And what?" Summer reached out and grabbed Dillon's hand, giving it a squeeze to encourage him to continue.

"I had her beaten, and then she asks me a question I didn't expect to hear. She asked me if I would really destroy my own sister. She stated that she was my sister and I didn't want to believe it calling her a liar. I could've finished her off and then we wouldn't have to worry about her anymore, but I couldn't because she pulled that on me." Dillon explained as he looked back at her, "That's why I went out to investigate that distress signal in the junkyard. I was holding onto the hope that Tenaya was wrong and that she wasn't my sister. That my sister had escaped the factory, but now I'm not so sure.

"Do you…do you honestly think that Tenaya could be your sister?" Summer asked and watched as his eyes traveled down to look at the ground

"I don't know, part of me doesn't want to believe her." He replied.

"And the other part?" She asked already knowing what the answer would be as his eyes looked up and straight into hers

"The other part of me does believe her, that she is my sister." Dillon sighed and rubbed his forehead. A brief silence was brought between the two of them as the only noises were of the wind blowing and birds chirping. The silence was broken as both Dillon and Summer's morphers started beeping, Summer brought hers up.

"What is it?" She asked.

"Summer, Dillon we need you back at the garage now!" Flynn's voice replied back to her.

"Why what is it?" Summer asked again.

"It's Dr. K. She's being arrested for treason."

So another chapter finished. Yeah I took some dialogue from the episodes 'Rain' and 'Belly of the Beast'. I hoped you guys all liked reading this one.