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Ziggy is a bit distracted, and doesn't even see the man at his side until he's dropped another piece of fruit - this one a melon of some sort that splats on the sidewalk, drawing a small groan from him - and the man's nails are digging into the leather of his jacket.

Luckily it's not on the side of his morpher. Well, maybe luckily; the man's grip is exceptionally tight.

"A-ah..." Ziggy glances to his right, blinking dumbly for a moment before he sort of vaguely recognizes the man as the one Dillon met the other day. The one that spoke Italian... no! French. It was French.

Wasn't it?

"Hello?"

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How he manages not to drop the rest of his items is as much a wonder to Enter as anything else, and he raises an eyebrow as he uses his grip to drag the boy around to face him properly.

They are of a height, actually, this human is only just a small fraction smaller than him. Not that it matters.

"Hello." He emphasizes the greeting with a little growl, and finally grows fed up with the makeshift barrier the excess of groceries the boy is carrying makes. He sweeps his free arm across it all, tightens his grip with his other hand and even calls a few cables to help him scatter the groceries good and proper.

"You are a friend of the one called Dillon."

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"Hey!" Ziggy fails a bit, trying to recover his team's breakfast after the man rudely scatters it all over the sidewalk. "Hey what are you..."

Is that... what the hell was that? Some sort of wire? Ziggy blinks a few times, and rubs his eyes with his now free hands. But there's nothing there. Must have been his imagination.

"I am, yeah." Ziggy scowls at the man, crouching down to try and save whatever he can of the food he bought. They don't exactly have an endless supply of yen at their disposal.

Edited Date: 2012-11-05 02:43 am (UTC)

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The boy falls immediately to the pavement to try and gather his scattered groceries. This will not do at all, and he reaches out, both with a hand, and with his cables, to wrap firmly around the boy's wrist, not to mention most of his forearm.

"I would like to see him again. He seems attached to you. I take this to mean you will make good bait."

He twists, sharply, dragging the boys arm around, back, and up. Something gives after a moment, but Enter doesn't need him whole, after all.

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When Dillon had woken up, he'd been told by Scott that Ziggy had gone out to get something to eat. And Dillon knew that Ranger Green was going to go overboard, as he does, so when he set out again to look for Tenaya, he started in the direction of the closet food stands. This way, he could offer Ziggy a hand without making it completely obvious.

Maybe it was the connection of their morphers, maybe it was his hybrid enhanced senses, maybe it was something else entirely but Dillon had a feeling something was wrong about a block before he turned the corner to find Ziggy in the grips of Enter, groceries everywhere.

He immediately fell into an attack position, his eyes narrowing dangerously. "Let him go." Whatever help finding his sister the man had offered before, Dillon didn't care. Ziggy's safety came first.

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There is pressure, and pain, and Ziggy cries out when something pops, and then there's even more pain, so blinding it actually brings tears to his eyes, and it's actually been a long time since that's happened.

His right arm feels wrong, just wrong, and he can't even struggle with it anymore. He doesn't have a clue how he'd morph, even if he broke the stranger's tight hold on that arm.

"D-Dillon..." Ziggy hisses through his teeth, crying out for his partner, even though he probably still back at the apartment...

And then he hears Dillon's voice, and his heart summersaults, and he actually manages a pained laugh, looking back over his shoulder at this obviously evil stranger. "You're screwed."

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"Oh la la." Enter purrs at the boy's confident little jab. He twists his arm once more, then shifts, shoving the boy behind himself to better face what he came for.

"Still looking for your sister, Dillon?" He asked, tilting his head and spreading one hand, smirking. "I can still help you find her..."

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When Dillon catches sight of the tears of pain in Ziggy's eyes, he can't help but let a growl escape. His body was tense with the need to protect his partner, his best friend, especially when Ziggy said his name.

Even if he also inwardly sighed when Ziggy taunted the man currently hurting him. While he appreciated Ziggy's faith in him, he didn't want to see Ziggy get hurt anymore.

"I don't think I want your help anymore." He said, his voice low and dangerous. "Now, let Ziggy go, and I won't have to hurt you."

Edited Date: 2012-11-07 02:24 pm (UTC)

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Ziggy yelps again when the man, creature, thing, yanks on his arm again with the strange cables extending from his sleeve. He stumbles when he's dragged back behind him, trying again to move his arm, with little result.

"As if you'd actually help us, you're obviously the bad guy here." Ziggy's words are tight and pained, despite the bravado he's trying to feign.

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Enter laughs, but it's short lived and replaced quickly by his much more typical stoic stare.

"That's too bad, Ranger Black." He purrs. Research was fairly simple, particularly when one's self-proclaimed sister had a perfectly valid resource now at her disposal. "Because I don't think you're bound to find anyone else who knows where she is."

He raises an eyebrow at the demand, and then smirks. Another wrench of the wispy boy's arm drags him around to the side and then back, and with preternatural ease, he kicks the boy in the chest to send him sprawling.

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"So you know who we are. Big deal." Dillon said, not fazed at all by Enter calling him by his ranger color. It wasn't like all of Corinth didn't know who they were and what purpose did they have for keeping their identities secret here? "You know I can make you pay if you hurt him."

But then he understood what Enter was implying. Now, Dillon was angry even as a cold chill ran down his spine. "Where is she? Tell me and I might let you walk out of here on your own."

As conflicted as he was now that Enter had indicated he knew where Tenaya was, he couldn't stand by and let him hurt Ziggy. With a roar of frustration, Dillon attacked the moment Enter kicked Ziggy away.

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"Oh la la!" Dillon's anger was precisely what Enter was hoping for. Surely this might be a mistake, the goading him on and trying to get him to attack. But really, how else is he going to manage what he has in mind?

"I'm afraid I haven't a clue where she could be at this very moment. You would have to as ma sœur about that one. , I'm sorry, my sister."

A cold smirk crosses his face as Dillon growls and launches himself closer in attack. He drops out of the overworld, teleporting through the subdimension to come up behind Dillon once his balance is off, and more, with a tiny device between his fingers, the self-same model Escape had used to update and improve the poor lost sister in question.

Stronger than he looks, he wraps a width of cable around Dillon at chest level and pulls him off balance. "Non, non, non, that's no way to get information."

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I do like this ability to teleport.

I materialise in front of Ranger Black, and smile at him. My headpiece is back in place, but it now has a Vaglass symbol at the centre. Representing my new master.

"He wants information, Enter?" I ask idly.

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When Enter disappeared in front of him, Dillon couldn't stop his forward motion. But before he could skid to a halt, he was pulled off balance by the cables that had wrapped around him. He flexed every muscle in his body and used every bit of hybrid strength he could muster but he couldn't seem to make them budge.

He barely managed to keep his feet when someone teleported in front of him. Dillon looked up...and gaped. "Tenaya?!"

In an instant, he knew something was wrong, and he glared over his shoulder at Enter. "What have you done to her!?"

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Ziggy hates himself.

He's failing more miserably than he ever has before. All because of his damn limp arm. Probably a dislocated shoulder, which isn't really his fault, but still.

He feels like shit for just watching Dillon fight.

As the fight, what it is, escalates, Ziggy tries with all his might to move his arm. But it's like pulling his own teeth out, the pain is too intense, and his arm won't respond anyway.

It's when Tenaya fucking teleports in front of Dillon, wearing her old headpiece, that he drives himself even harder. It's when Dillon reacts so strongly that Ziggy bring his morpher up and works the switch with his teeth.

"RPM." Gasp. Sigh. Pant. "G-get in gear."

The suits does little to help his arm, but it does give him the strength to stand again. And he somehow manages to twist his wrist enough so that he can press the button to activate his own teleportation ability with his tongue.

He overshoots a little, landing just behind Tenaya. "Shit, shit."

"Tenaya!" Ziggy regains his wits, focusing on the scene. "What's happened to you!?"

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"Bon, bon, bon!" Enter laughs when the devil herself shows up, looking positively...

Useful.

Well timed, that. He makes a note to ask Escape whether she was sent, or whether she is just good enough to show up when and where she's needed.

"I have done nothing to your petite soeur. That would be the work of my own, you know, I said that."

Enter laughs again, but it cuts short when the bratty spastic one intervenes. Again.

"Oh la la, so le vert has tricks, does he?" He scowls, but he seems preoccupied with Vaglass' newest addition and he leaves them be, turning his attention back to his own prey.

"Surely you want to be with her again. This can be arranged very easily, Dillon. You have all the necessary technology already locked away inside, don't you?"

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Ranger Black gives her a look, and outwardly she merely smiles.

Inwardly, she calls his name.

"They fixed me, brother," she says patiently. "I've been so lost, since you freed me from Venjix. Did you know that? Missing a purpose, a reason for existing. I've tried to hide it, but it's been getting harder," she saunters up to him, hands behind her back, "and harder."

Ah. The small one. He appears... hurt. "Ranger Green. I'm better, now. Faster. Stronger. Don't worry about me."

A smile. "There's no point. If I decide to come after you, you won't even see me."

She brightens as Enter mentions transforming Dillon.

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If anything, the cables around him was just making him angrier. He couldn't move, couldn't react, couldn't help Ziggy who was obviously hurting and couldn't shake his sister to get her to see that they were doing the same thing to her that Venjix had. Hell, he couldn't even morph, his arms pinned to his sides so he could reach across and work the switch.

The fact Ziggy was able to morph was a bit of a relief, as Dillon didn't want him to get hurt anymore then he already was. The Biosuit couldn't protect from all harm but it did well enough. The fact he engaged Tenaya, who seemed to be back to her Venjix strength, was a little more worrying. Still, he couldn't help but feel proud for his partner for not giving up.

While he was aware of Ziggy and Tenaya, his main attention was on Enter. Not only because he had Dillon trapped in cables but also because it kept the creep's attention off Ziggy and Tenaya. "Not on your life. You obviously didn't do enough research if you think either of us would willingly let you use us like Venjix did. I'll give you a hint: We beat him and we'll beat you. You can't control her forever!"

He didn't even bother trying to appeal to Tenaya or do much to acknowledge her after the occasional glance. He knew what she was saying was from whatever they had done to her, whatever virus they were using to control her this time. Though, he couldn't help the spike of fear in his stomach, the same that had been there whenever the Venjix virus had increased in his body. His worst fear was being controlled and he knew it was hers as well.

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Escape teleports in just behind the green one, moving quickly to catch him in her arms. She slides one arm tightly around his middle, pining his undamaged arm to his side. Gog hangs lazily, but threateningly in that hand.

With her other arm she brings Magog up and tucks the tip of it right up beneath his chin, right where his helmet meets his suit. The boy struggles in her grasp, but it's useless. It would be useless even if he were at full strength.

"Black one, you should probably cooperate with your sister and my niichan." She shoves her gun upward against the boy's neck. "Or I'll blow your dear partner's head off."

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Enter turned the little device over in his fingers while Dillon raged, smirking all the while. A manual override, a reactivation of the virus lying dormant within him, really quite simple. Perhaps his self-proclaimed sister deserves more credit than he usually gives her.

Either way, the data collected from this exercise will be more than worth it.

"You would do well not to associate Vaglass with this Venjix of yours. You see, the difference lies with me entirely."

Escape appears to threaten the obnoxious green boy and Enter almost laughs at her impeccable timing.

"Well, and her, I suppose."

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"You don't want Ranger Green hurt," Tenaya tells Ranger Black, seriously, earnestly, perfectly reasonably. She knows he'll agree with that. "Just submit, brother."

She strolls over next to Escape, smiling at her, then takes Ranger Green's helmet in her hands. "Whether his neck is snapped, or his head is blown off, he'll still be dead. Brother, just surrender. Serve Papa, as we do."

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The sight of the woman threatening Ziggy overwhelmed Dillon with the need to get to and protect his friend. A need that came from both heart and soul, though he didn't have the concentration to realize it at the moment. He fought the cables as hard as he could, Tenaya threatening to snap Ziggy's neck only adding to the horror, before he let himself come to a horrible conclusion. The only way he could save Ziggy was to let them convert him, just as they had Tenaya.

Dillon closed his eyes and stopped fighting. "I surrender," he growled out softly, hating to admit defeat and to cover his fear. "Let him go and I'll do whatever you want." Living his own worst fear would be hell, but worth it, if it meant Ziggy was safe.

But he also had faith that as long as Ziggy was still alive, he'd find a way to save both siblings from Vaglass' control. His partner would not let him down. It was a small comfort, but comfort all the same.

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As a group, they seem to have discovered Dillon's weak point, such as it is. His preoccupation with protecting his sister seems only to go so far when his darling little flaily boyfriend is under greater danger.

"Trés bien!" He says, about as ecstatically as he can, which is to say not terribly much. He sounds happy, anyway, and he makes a point to pat Dillon on the cheek. "Not that you would have won anyway, but it's nice to know we have such an efficient means to control you should you start to rebel later..."

He leaves this pronouncement hanging in the air as he flips the device once more between his fingers before pressing it deftly to the back of Dillon's neck, right at the base of his skull.

Provided the thing works properly, and as efficiently as his sister's original prototype had (and it should, seeing as he constructed it based on her plans, and he is nothing if not better than her at least), they will certainly be a group of four quite shortly.

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It wasn't so much protecting Ziggy as much this was the best way for the other RPM ranger to find out what was going on and find a way to rescue the two hybrid siblings. Or so Dillon was telling himself and ignoring anything else.

Dillon's glare at the pat on his cheek would have melted steel but he made himself not react otherwise. He didn't want to encourage any of them to hurt Ziggy now that he'd given in. Even if wanted to protest what Enter was implying.

He felt the device touch him in the back of the neck, instinctively tensing as he waited for the change to take place.

It wasn't a sudden change per say, more like he was loosing control of his body piece by piece as the Venjix virus within his hybrid parts was awaken and mutated. Changed to serve a different master. Enter had improved the process, Dillon felt no pain, at least physically. Only the mental fear and pain as his body and mind were taken out of his control.

Sometime during the process, Dillon's eyes had closed. When he opened them, it was obvious the transformation had taken hold as his expression twisted into a downright arrogant smirk.

"Much better."

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"Dillon, no!" Ziggy shouts, practically screams, at his partner when he agrees to their deal.

He struggles, strains against the women holding him back. The one he doesn't know laughs, shrill and piecing, and tightens her grip around his middle, nearly crushing all the air from his lungs.

I'm not worth it, Dillon.

He can't watch as the device is pressed to Dillon's neck, as the change happens. As his friend slides away from him, back into darkness. He closes his eyes inside his helmet, fighting back tears.

Something inside him breaks when Dillon speaks, his voice wrong and hollow and not Dillon.

After a swift kick to the back, Ziggy is let go to crumble to the pavement. Vaguely aware of the woman that was holding him as she steps over him.

He opens his eyes in time to see her slide an arm around Tenaya's waist, and that would chill him for the bone if he wasn't already numb from... from Dillon...

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The cables were useless now and Dillon shrugged them off. He rolled his shoulders and stretched, as if trying out his body for the first time. And in fact it was, the first time he'd been consciously aware while all of his circuit were active. And he couldn't have felt better.

Except the inner part of him that was screaming in resigned frustration.

His smirk still in place, he walked over and crouched next to the downed Green Ranger. He flicked the switch on the morpher, causing the suit to disappear, then reached down and lifted Ziggy's chin so he could look him in the eyes. "Pathetic. To think, I cared about such a pitiful creature. But I suppose I should be thanking you. Those misguided 'feelings' lead me to this and I have never felt better. So, I will give you this, since I hate being in debt to anyone."

Then he leaned down and kissed Ziggy softly, almost lovingly. Which was contrasted sharply when he shoved Ziggy's head away as he stood. "As an added bonus, we'll spare you. Have fun explaining to the others how you failed." Then with laugh, Dillon turned back to join his new family.

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