Chapter 5

The rangers raced to their vehicles once they found out where Ziggy was. They couldn't get it out of their mind. He looked so small and broken there on the ground with all those men just…hitting him with whatever they had. Whether it was fist or sticks.

The thought that these men might have deadlier weapons made them all accelerate to get there faster.

They just hoped that they weren't too late by the time they got there.

Dillon was shaking with rage with the thought that his first friend was suffering under the hands of these men with no chance at all to defend himself. It pissed him that these people would actually do this to him when they knew he couldn't do anything about it. Well they weren't going to get away with it. He would tear everybody involved with this even if he had to work his from bottom to top.

As he made a turn another thought came to mind. 'What if he wanted to get caught?' That thought made his blood run cold. His friend just wouldn't give himself up to the mob bosses would he? Could the change really have affected him that much?

'No.' He thought to himself. Ziggy wouldn't do that. It was stupid of him to even think about it.

He noticed that were close to where Ziggy was and hoped to everything that his friend was okay.

Pulling up to the alley he couldn't help but notice the lack of people. The others walked up behind him and surveyed the scene. With his heightened senses he noticed small movement behind a large dumpster. Quickly running over he couldn't help the angry snarl that overtook his face. The others ran towards him and when they were in viewing distance they gasped as they took in the body that lay in front of them.

It wasn't Ziggy. They recognized him as one of the men that were beating him. Scott noticed that Dillon looked like he was ready to kill the already beaten man and quickly ran to hold him back.

Scott could feel Dillon shaking in rage as he held him by the arm. Flynn and Summer were looking the guy over to asses the damage done to this man. From what they could see he only had a couple of bruises and small bump on his head. Other than that he looked like he just need some rest. The bump could be a concussion but nothing to severe.

Flynn and Summer moved away from the man and turned to look at Scott and Dillon to see what they were going to do next.

A beep on their morphers alerted them that Dr. K wanted to talk. Flynn answered.

"Dr. K, watcha got for us?" he asked.

"I reviewed the video that we were watching earlier. That video was captured approximately 15 minutes ago. The camera was than shot. I have been able to establish a link into the cameras of the city and am reviewing them know to see if I can find some more information on the men that were seen attacking Ranger Green. Have you had any luck finding him Rangers?" She responded.

"No, Dr. K. We did however find a man who looked worse for wear. He looked like he was the one that was beaten instead of Ziggy." Flynn answered.

"This is most troubling indeed. All right, rangers see if this man has any information as to why Ranger Green was attacked. In the mean time, I will use the surveillance to see if I can track down Ranger Green's current location." With that she ended that conversation.

The others looked down at the man and wondered what they were missing from this interesting story.

The man let out a groan of pain as he started to come out of unconsciousness. He opened his eyes and looked up at them. As he shifted he groaned again as he accidently-brushed one of his many bruises against the ground.

Summer helped him gently get into a more comfortable position. Once he was settled he looked up and asked with a raspy voice, "Who are you guys?"

"We're here to help but we need to ask you some questions." Summer answered.

"You guys must be talking about Ziggy." He let out through the groans of pain.

"Yea, do you know where he was taken?" Scott asked.

"I don't know much but I heard that they were taking him to the place that started this mess. They said that they would teach him a lesson and it would start with that orphanage." The man with a frown set in his face.

"What happened to you?" Scott asked with a frown on his face as well.

The man sighed as he shifted again.

"I ain't gonna lie. I was beating the kid down just like the others but when I heard what they were going to do to him, I couldn't keep it up. I tried to help him, but it was two of us against eighteen of them. Eventually one of them knocked me out. I don't know what happened after that." He said looking down.

"What orphanage?" Scott asked. He needed to know everything in order to plan a course of action, his mind already making up different tactics for different scenarios.

"The orphanage where he was raised."

"Why would they attack an orphanage?" Scott asked confused?

"Do we really have time for twenty questions?" Dillon asked even more worried about Ziggy now that he knew that those men had him.

"We have to know everything before doing anything Dillon. It wouldn't do us or Ziggy any good if we don't plan something a head of time," Scott answered understanding why he was upset.

"While we're here playing this stupid game of interrogation Ziggy could be out there bleeding to death or worse." Dillon responded worry showing on his face.

The others looked down as they realized the situation that their friend was in.

Scott turned to look at the man and quickly turned to man. He then said, "Tell us everything you know and fast."

The man quickly told them how Ziggy had stolen a total of 5 million dollars worth of medicine from the all of the Cartels. They were all shocked to hear this but they had to worry about that later. The man than went on to say how they found out that he had given that medicine to an orphanage. The Cartels had been pissed, but they then decided that they were going to teach not only Ziggy a lesson, but the whole city that no one steals from the Cartels and thinks that they can reap in the rewards.

The others were mortified that these people would go so far as to attack a group of defenseless children all because of money.

They knew that they had to get to the orphanage before anything bad happened.

Scott than instructed that Summer call an ambulance for the man and then join them when he was okay.

He then looked at Flynn and noticed that most of the time he had kept quiet. He had not time to dwell on that thought and instructed Flynn to call Dr. K to look up the address of the orphanage and the fasted route there.

He then turned to Dillon and noticed that he was shaking with what he could only was rage. Scott sighed as he realized what might happen if he let loose on these men. They would have to bail him out before they could convict of him of multiple accounts of murder.

He smirked and then noticed that Flynn had finished his conversation with Dr. K and with a nod towards Summer they were on their way.

As everyone continued on with their respective task they all had one thing on their mind.

'I hope we're not to late.'