Fallingstar22-Yep the Colonel will come back to his old self soon, no doubt about that. And don't worry about Dr. K. She'll be just fine.

Meadow-music-Ziggy does have nice moves, thanks for reading

AN: Everyone I like to say again, thanks for reading. Power Rangers does not belong to me.

Chapter 5: Mind Tricks

By Screech04

(Corinth City)

"Well I am finally glad to make your acquaintance Ranger Red. But you can call me Professor Cog." The robot general smiled as he advanced forward followed by his loyal Grinders.

"I don't care what you are! RPM, get in gear!" Scott retorted as his Ranger bio-suit enveloped him, giving him energy and protection from any damage he might take.

"Let's make this interesting Red." Cog snapped back as his two arms and hands formed into two slotted screwdrivers to use as melee weapons "Grinders, assist!" He commanded. The Grinders ran forward weapons swinging.

"Street Saber!" He shouted and parried a strike a Grinder came at him with and countered back with a swing of his own sending the robot back in a shower of sparks. Scott charged towards Cog striking down each robot that got in his way. Bringing his arm out, he went for a wide swing which the Venjix general easily blocked and returned with a slash of his own striking the red ranger across the chest sending him back.

"Nice try Red, but you have to do better than that." Cog stated as his eyes glowed for a few seconds then unleashed a wave of red electric energy beams at the ranger.

"Augh!" Scott groaned as the red electricity shocked him multiple times sending him flying right into an electrical power box.

"Done already Ranger Red? Electro turbines!" Cog exclaimed with glee as multiple glowing energy gears flew out of his body and headed straight towards the red ranger. The first one caught Scott in the leg, the second across the side of his waist, the third across the top of his right arm, and the last one sliced across the side of the red ranger's helmet. The force of each hit send the ranger flying back, sparks emanating from each spot where the gears hit him.

"Dang, I'm losing power." Scott gasped as he struggled to support himself on his Street Saber, the pain from where he was hit getting to him.

"Not done yet, Grinders!" Cog ordered as the Grinders switched their weapons to their blaster modes and fired at their opponent. The lasers found their mark as Scott was knocked off his feet "How about this Ranger Red!" Cog sneered as the barrels on the center gear piece on his chest started glowing and then started firing rapid rivets of energy at the ranger. The furious combined assault of Grinder laser blasts and Cog's rapid energy rivets was too much for the ranger to stand as he fell back from the onslaught as Cog advanced upon him "Give up?"

"Never!" Scott yelled as he pushed himself back onto his feet.

"A pity. Try these!" Cog returned as a trio of black bolts fired from his chest gear and straight into the Red Ranger's, sending the ranger falling back again.

"Not now." Scott groaned as he rolled onto his back from the pain. He felt the energy from the bio-suit give away and thus demorphing him.

"Until next time Ranger Red." Professor Cog called as he turned and walked away with his Grinders following him. Scott could feel unconsciousness coming to claim him as he tried to reach out in a vain effort to stop Cog from leaving. The last thing he saw was a man in a green pilot uniform walking up to him, he seemed so familiar.

"Marcus…" Scott mumbled as unconsciousness overtook him and he blacked out.

(Elsewhere)

"What's the matter Ranger Black? Afraid of harming your poor sister?" Tenaya 7 taunted with an evil smile as she was engaged in a power struggle over Ranker Black's Nitro Sword.

"Shut up!" Dillon yelled in anger as he freed his weapon from Tenaya's grip with hard pull and tried to hit her back in retaliation. His attempt to hit her missed as she back flipped away from him.

"You actually tried to hit me? I'm telling mom." Tenaya continued to taunt him, taking great amusement in his frustration.

"I said shut up!" Dillon growled as he pulled out his Rocket Blaster and fired at her. She easily deflected away as she switched her hand it its blaster function and returned fire. He groaned in pain as he was knocked back.

"You know, I'm almost sad that this has to end." Tenaya stood over him with her blaster pointed at his head.

"Zip Charger!" Summer shouted as she released the tiny remote car and watched it as zoomed through knocking Grinders off their feet before jumping up into the air towards Tenaya.

"Hey watch it!" Tenaya complained as the tiny car zoomed around back and forth around her, jumping up to hit and disorient there. The disorientation caused her to fire blaster shots off. One stray blast hit a fire hydrant making it explode sending water gushing into the air. Another hit a parked truck, sending it flying in a burning mess of what it once was.

"Summer, I got it from here!" Dillon called and watched as Summer nodded and called back the tiny remote car. He aimed his Rocket Blaster and fired at the ground in front of Tenaya. Tenaya screamed as she was knocked onto her back from the explosion that came from the spot Dillon fired at. He switched back to his Nitro Sword and jumped in the air to strike at her.

"Not today!" Tenaya growled as she reached out and caught the ranger with her feet and threw him over her. He collided against the side of a parked car, while she vaulted herself back onto her feet. Tenaya immediately turned and fired her blaster in the black ranger's direction

"Activate shield!" He yelled as he projected his invincibility shield in front of him, watching as the first shot bounced off of shield and head towards the sky while the second reflected and hit the pavement behind Tenaya. Tenaya adjusted her aim and fired at the car behind him, sending it into an exploding fireball with car parts and burning debris flying everywhere. Dillon groaned as he was sent tumbling across the pavement, the explosion over his bio-suit's systems and causing him to demorph.

"Now it's time to say goodbye." Tenaya exclaimed as aimed her blaster in his direction. She stopped when a soft melody filled her ears. She looked over and saw a small silver object lying open a few feet away from her. Walking over she knelt down and picked the object up and recognized it as a pocket watch. It had calming and mysteriously soothing effect on her as she looked at the watch with curiosity. The Grinders stopped attacking the other Rangers and looked over at her, wondering why she stopped attacking. The music stopped playing and she closed the watch, as if in her own little world Tenaya turned and started walking away.

"Give that back!" Dillon growled as he got back on his feet and started to run towards her, a Grinder noticed and turned around and fired its blaster weapon. He gritted his teeth in pain and stumbled back as the Grinder's laser shot hit right in his right shoulder.

"Dillon are you ok?" Summer asked as she demorphed and ran up to Dillon seeing him gritting his teeth and holding his left hand over his right shoulder.

"I'm fine, where'd they go?" He looked at her.

"They're long gone lad." Flynn replied as he demorphed as well and walked up.

"Here let me see." Summer grabbed hold of Dillon's hand and pulled it away from his shoulder. She could see not only did the laser burn through his leather jacket and shirt underneath, but there was a very nasty cauterized blaster wound on his shoulder. She also noted that redness was starting to form on the area around it, "Come on we need to have to looked at before it gets infected."

"Great." Dillon grumbled, "Because nothing makes me feel better then being infected by a virus and anything else that exists in this world"

(Corinth Medical Center)

"He should be alright Colonel, apart from bruising that is. Mr. Truman just needs to take an easy for awhile before going into action again. You can see him now if you'd like." Scott slowly opened his eyes as heard a man's voice talking. He looked around his surroundings and found himself in a medical room lying on a hospital bed, his Morpher lying on the table across the room from him.

"Thank you. Hicks, return to your post. Keep me informed." Colonel Truman's voice came in reply and a minute later Scott saw his father walk into the room followed by his assistant Vasquez.

"Dad." Scott greeted his father.

"Scott, you're alright?" Truman asked.

"Yeah dad, it's nothing major." He grimaced a little bit when he tried to shift his body to get more comfortable.

"Well regardless you should get some rest I…" Truman stopped as he pulled out a cell, "Yes this is Truman, go ahead. Affirmative wait for my go, Truman out." the Colonel turned and looked back at his son.

"How's the search going?" Scott asked.

"Fine, we might have a lead where Dr. K might be." Truman replied, "I'm sorry Scott, but I need to go. Vasquez return to control tower." And with that Colonel Truman turned and walked out of the room.

"He might hide it Ranger Series Red, but he was concerned about you." Vasquez said with a small smile as she looked at the Colonel's son.

"That's ok, I'm used to it." Scott returned.

"Scott, Scott are you there?" Summer's voice came from his morphed.

"Uh.." Scott started pointing at him.

"Oh… right." Vasquez stumbled as she realized what he was pointing at. She went over and grabbed the device and placed it in Scott's hand.

"I'm here Summer, go ahead." He replied into it.

"Flynn and me are checking into a lead. We'll notify you once we find out what it is."

"Right, keep me informed." Scott replied as he set the device down.

"I should be returning to the control tower." Vasquez exclaimed when he was finished talking.

"Go ahead I'll be fine." He returned.

"I can stay here if you like, get you something if you need it." She started.

"Vasquez."

"Like if you need a snack or something to drink." She continued.

"Vasquez." He retorted.

"And I can go get the nurse if you need anything as well." Vasquez kept on going.

"Vasquez…"

"Just let me know if you need anything." She continued again.

"Vasquez!" Scott shouted.

"Yes?" She stopped her rambling and looked at him.

"You can go, I'll be fine. Don't worry." He smiled at her.

"Oh, alright sure." Vasquez blushed, her cheeks reddening. With a nod to the Colonel's son she turned and started her way back to the control tower. Scott sighed as he leaned his back on the bed's pillow.

"Still want to live forever little brother?" A voice came to Scott's ears making him jump up. It was a voice he hadn't heard in well over a year.

"Marcus?" Scott looked over and saw his older brother standing the doorway, "Is it really you?"

"In the flesh." Marcus smiled as he walked over to the side of the bed.

"How are you alive? Does dad know?" Scott asked, astonished that his brother was here alive and well.

"We'll talk about later, but right now I need your help. Can I count on you?" Marcus asked.

"Of course, just let me get dressed." Scott said as he climbed out of the bed. He took a few minutes in getting dressed and followed Marcus out of his hospital room. What he failed to notice when he was leaving the injured and knocked out doctors, nurses, and orderlies scattered around on the floor and hallways.

(Sulfred Mountain Range)

"Are you sure this is where the signal came from?" Ziggy asked as he walked with Flynn and Summer across a grass clearing with the starting of a forest in front of them.

"Aye I checked the signal location twice." Flynn replied.

"Hey guys." A male voice called out.

"Over here." A female voice joined in. The three turned to the source of the voice and saw Gem and Gemma smiling, laughing, and running towards them.

"Gem, Gemma you guys are ok." Flynn stated.

"Of course nothing-"

"-can get to us." Gemma finished with a smile.

"And Dr. K, she is ok?" Summer asked.

"Of course." Gem replied.

"Follow us." Gemma returned. The three rangers followed the twins into the forest through a hiking path. About a mile in the twins broke off from the trail and walked down into the brush of the forest.

"Where are they leading us?" Ziggy asked.

"Come on, it's not far now." Gemma replied to him as they continued walking. Eventually they came upon an entrance to a cave. Entering the cave they kept walking in until they reached an opened room in the cave where tables and computers were set up.

"What is this place?" Flynn inquired.

"Rangers welcome, I'm glad you picked on Gem and Gemma's signal." An all too familiar voice came to their ears. Stepping out from behind a pillar was Dr. K holding a notebook, "To answer your question Ranger Series Blue, this is an old dumping ground for Alphabet Soup technology. Colonel Truman stumbled upon this place which led to the call for my arrest.

"Are you sure being here is the safest place?"

"By my estimates it should be. The reasonable thought would be I would hide somewhere within the city, not out here. Hiding out here is not the only reason I'm here." Dr. K explained.

"So what's out here?" Ziggy asked. Dr. K sighed and pointed towards one end of the cave. In it was a long machine that resembled prehistoric animals.

"It looks like a train." Flynn pointed out.

"I'd like to present to you the Paleozord. It was constructed during the earlier stages of Project Ranger. Unfortunately we couldn't sync it up with the energy bio-field due to it being based off extinct creatures." Dr. K continued.

"Extinct, as in like dinosaurs?" Ziggy inquired.

"I believe that was what I was implying Ranger Series Green." Dr. K nodded her head then looked over at Summer and Flynn, "Where are Ranger Series Red and Black?"

(Corinth Control Tower)

Vasquez was working by herself in the control tower, all seemed quiet as the city's shield and power systems were running at full power. She looked up from where she was working and saw the Colonel's son Scott walk into the room enveloped in his Ranger bio-suit.

"Ranger Red what can I do for you?" She asked with a small smile, hoping she wasn't blushing. Even though she was only a couple years older, she admitted to herself that she found the Colonel's son attractive. Though she would never admit that out loud. Her eyes widened when she saw what was standing behind the red ranger and reached down for her blaster pistol. Scott was faster on the draw as he pulled out his Nitro Blaster and shot at Vasquez. She cried out in pain and crumbled to the floor holding the side of her waist, that was where the blaster shot hit her.

"Ok Marcus, do what you need to do." Scott turned and looked at Marcus.

"You just wait right there." Marcus replied and he walked up to the Colonel's desk and started typing on the Colonel's keyboard. From where Vasquez could see, the intruder was hacking and downloading the components that would be able to allow someone to raise or lower the shields from a remote location, "Got it, ok Scott let's go." Marcus looked back over at Scott and the two left the control tower. Vasquez still laid crumpled on the floor, tears coming from her eyes at the pain she was feeling. Not only physical pain, but emotional pain as well. In her mind she was asking herself on why Ranger Red would do that and also why he call the intruder by his older brother's name.

(Venjix Palace)

Tenaya 7 watched the open pocket watch in her hand as it played the soft melody over and over again. It had a calming effect as she listened to the melody play. It was as if nothing else in the world mattered except for the melody that came from this pocket watch. She was brought back to reality when the melody stopped abruptly and instantly.

"Why did it stop playing?" She asked as she picked it up. Tenaya closed it and opened it back up in hopes of hearing the melody, but no music ever came. Her frustration was building as hit it against the side of a wall to make it start playing, but like previous attempts the melody never played. Tenaya threw it across the room in frustration. And then it dawned on her, the pocket watch belong to Ranger Black. He knew how to make it work, how to make it play that melody. She smiled as a plan formed in her mind on getting the chance to hear the melody again. Whether he liked it or not, she would force him to fix the watch so she could hear the melody again.

(The Garage)

Dillon groaned in frustration. This waiting around and waiting for his injury to heal was only adding to his boredom and frustration. He looked down at the gauze patch on his shoulder and peeled a little bit off to see what the wound look like. He smiled as it mostly was healed, however there was still a lot of redness on the skin.

"Extra strength, improved reflexes, and accelerated healing capabilities. Is there anything he doesn't have." Dillon chuckled at the remark Flynn made about what the mechanical implants gave to the black ranger's body. His frustration getting the better of him, Dillon threw on a new shirt and grabbed his jacket and started to make his way out of the garage. Once he reached the bottom of the stairs, he looked over and his eyes narrowed. Standing at the entrance was Tenaya 7 and she was holding his pocket watch in her hand, occasionally tossing it up and down in her hand.

"That's mine!" He growled as he made to charge towards her when he felt a sharp prick in his neck. His hand reached to where he felt the pain in his neck and found a syringe dart, he pulled it out. However his vision was starting to give away and started to feel himself lose balance. Dillon turned and saw General Crunch laughing and point saying, "I got you. I got you." He crumpled on the floor as blackness overtook him. Tenaya came over and looked down at him.

"Nighty night Ranger Black." She said.

(Elsewhere)

"Marcus where are we going?" Scott asked as they were walking through an open field.

"Not far now little brother." Was Marcus' reply. They came upon a parked military truck that rested in the middle of the road.

"Ok so what are we doing here?" Scott looked around wondering why his older brother would lead him to this area.

"Nice to see you again Ranger Red!" Professor Cog stepped out behind the truck.

"Cog!" Scott growled as he got ready to charge at the Venjix general then stopped when he saw Marcus calmly walk up to Cog.

"Here you go Professor Cog, as promised." Marcus stated as he handed the general a USB flash drive.

"Marcus what's going on?" Scott asked, completely shocked.

"Thank you for your help Red! And you I think you lived out your usefulness!" Cog turned to Marcus, "Gatling Rivets!"

"No!" Scott yelled as he watched Cog fire hundreds of energy rivet rounds at Marcus, each one hitting their mark. He watched his older brother fall back in a huge shower of sparks as burn marks covered his body, "Marcus!" Scott ran up to his brother and picked him in his arms, trying to get him up, "Not like this." He cried as the realization that Marcus was dead again came to him.

"How'd you like my Hypno-Bolts Ranger Red?" Cog taunted as he gazed at the flash drive, finally the ability to remotely take down Corinth's shields were in his hands.

"What are you talking about?" Scott asked in anger, looking at the general with a dark glare.

"Did you really think you're with your brother the whole time?" Cog returned. Scott looked back down at Marcus and recoiled back in horror. Instead of his dead brother being in his arms, it was the destroyed chassis of a Grinder. Realization came to him, he was never with Marcus at all. He was with a Grinder the whole time, Professor Cog had tricked him into thinking it was Marcus. But it couldn't of been Marcus, because his older brother was dead.

"Oh no." Scott whispered as another realization came to him. In the control tower, he remembered that a Grinder was in there. It tried to pull its blaster weapon on him, but he was faster on the draw and fired at it. Back at the hospital he remembered Vasquez telling him she was returning to the control tower. He had fired his Nitro Blaster not at a Grinder, but at Vasquez and now she could be seriously injured or worse.

"They're quite of a genius design if I do say so myself." Cog smiled. Scott stood up and glared at the Venjix general. Rage built up in him, he was going make Cog pay for what he did. Make Cog pay for making him hurt Vasquez and by using a figment of his older brother Marcus on him. Scott pulled out his morphed and engine cell.

"You're going to pay for what you did Cog! RPM, Get In Gear!"

AN: Well that's another chapter done. I'm trying to focus and make a reasoning on why Scott would go after Professor Cog by himself in the Samurai special 'Clash of the Red Rangers'. What'd you guys think? Let me know.