A Fan Fictional Story: Based on a true dream
I'm the SPD yellow ranger. My name is Elizabeth Delgado, but you can call me Z. I'm part of the Space Patrol Delta B squad along with my long time friend Jack, who now is SPD's red ranger. We joined the other B squad team (Sky-blue ranger, Bridge-green ranger, and Syd-pink ranger) not to long ago. Together we fight to protect the Earth against Grumm, a space nasty. Although Jack is our leader, we have the aid and assistance of Commander Doggie Cruger and Kat, his assistance.
We just finished defeating Sinuku, a monster we defeated earlier but had recently escaped one of SPD's prisons by switching bodies with one of the guards. Sky had been his target the first time, so he was more aware of his tactics. The monster didn't have a chance.
Commander Cruger thought it wise that we skip a late night assimilation session and relax. I retreated into the lounge room along with Jack and Sky. Syd had plans tonight. She was going to attend a fashion show with her fashion mogul mother. She left the command room as soon at Cruger dismissed us to go to our room and get ready. Bridge volunteered to be her fashion critic and help her pick out something. At first it was insulting that she didn't ask me, but then what would I know about what to wear at a fashion show.
I was sitting in the holographic green lounge room catching up on the rules and regulations of SPD, when Syd came in announcing her presents.
"Well what do you think?"
I looked up over the edge of my book to look. Syd looked stylish in her pink sparkling dress. Jack and Sky eyes were eyeballing her with flirty smiles.
"Oh, please," I muttered in my book.
"Wait! You'll love this. Bridge!" she called.
Bridge came in dressed in red fur boas and a black multi-beaded dress. Jack, who was sitting down, got up and started circling Bridge.
"Have you ever considered modeling, because you are just so cute?"
Everyone starting laughing. Bridge began to turn bright red.
" What size shoes do you wear, Bridge?" Jack continued. "We can find some nice pumps to go with your lovely ensemble."
The laughing continued. Even Sky, who's serious about everything, is laughing at Bridge's getup. I, on the other hand, feel like I'm in a whole other universe. I'm in the same room but feel like I'm on another planet. Sky takes a glance over at me and notices it too. I'm frozen on the cozy red couch in the lounge. The book still in my hands. My eyes starring, blankly. This feeling is draining me somehow, making me paranoid.
Sky comes over and touches me on the shoulder. Suddenly, I'm back in the room. The feeling is gone and I'm aware of what is going on in the room.
"Are you alright?" Sky ask. "You don't seem your active self."
That draws everyone's attention towards me. I shake off his concern.
"I'm fine," I casually answer. "I just need some fresh air."
I put my book down and leave to go outside.
It's relaxing outside. A nice cool airy breeze brushes back my hair. The night's full moon giving the clouds a bluish glow in the sky. I sat down on the fountain outside the building. Something was still wrong. I got up and looked around. It was quiet. Nothing but shadows. Wait. My eyes caught something move. A flickering shadow.
It wasn't the average monster that appeared. It's beam was so intense, I couldn't make out its form. It spoke in a deep, throaty voice telling me that it had come for me and only me.
"Why- Who are you?" I asked shaky, trying to sound unafraid.
I sort of remembered—seeing him in a previous battle before– Dead. Was he suppose to be dead? No, locked up somewhere.
"It doesn't matter how I've returned Z," he tells me.
He can read my thoughts! He's broke out to seek vengeance on me and I walked right out here to make it easier on him.
"Just as well. Your friends would have been in the way…"
"Shut-up. Stop talking to me." I cover my ears wanting to block out his words.
"It wouldn't have bothered me to kill a couple more," he spoke inside my mind.
His voice just as cruel and menacing as if he spoke aloud.
"Men. Women. Children. Do you know how many I've had to kill to get to you? Feed off their energy to survive. Because of you."
His voice was starting to throb as it boomed deeply in my head. "No, you are the monster!" I screamed.
"Something wrong, Elizabeth? Seeing yellow?"
His yellow beam grew bigger and brighter. I dashed back inside. I'm shaking. My nerves are shot. I'm shivering as if I woke up from a bad nightmare. All the lights are off at the lower level entrance except upstairs which is dimly lit by fluorescent lighting. I can see Sky patrolling the hallway. I run up the stairs, screaming about the monster outside that escaped. Sky stops and turns back around. I feel so weak and shaky I collapse when I reach the second floor. Sky catches me before I hit the floor.
"Sky, he's outside. He's waiting for me. I don't know why," I weakly explain.
"Tic-Toc, Z. Trying to delay the envitable?" I bury my head against his chest.
"My head- He's in my head," I cried.
"I'm going to call for help." He pulled out his communicator, but I stop him before he calls.
"No, you can't. I have to fight him-It's my fight-I have to take him alone."
He looks at me like I'm delirious. Jack comes walking down the hallway towards us. He's either woken up because of the commotion I started in the hallway or he probably was protrolling the hallways as well.
"Z, what are you doing out on the hallways?" I pull him aside into a nearby room where I can talk to him alone. Just as I close the door, Syd and Bridge come running down the hall. Jack rests a hand on my shoulder.
"What's up with you, Z?"
"We've been friends for a long time, Jake," I started. He nods his head in agreement.
I take a deep breath.
"And you know me better than anyone…"
"What's the point you're trying to make?"
I look him in the eyes at the moment and ask," Let me do this on my own."
His morpher goes off. He snatches it from his belt.
"Go ahead, Kat."
"We have an alien beam outside of the base. I'm picking up massive energy. Cruger wants you on it immediately."
"Right away," he responses. He looks at me like he isn't sure that he can agree with what I asked him to do. Just as he is about to consider it, the door is jerked open by Sky, who has been listening in on our conversation. Syd and Bridge are not too far off.
"Cruger wants us to handle it as a team." He gallantly argues.
"This isn't your fight. It's mine," I counter.
"She's in no condition to take on this alien by herself."
"I have to be the one he fights or else he'll continue to hurt other until I do."
"If you go out there now, he'll kill you and continue to harm others. It isn't in a criminal's code to keep his word." Sky was arguing with Jack to not let me go out there (as if I wasn't standing there), but it was out of his hands because Jack knew me. I was going to do it whether he ordered me to go or not.
"Alright, Z. You got five minutes."
Sky looked deep at me with those serious blue eyes of his and I saw that he was concerned and worried about me. He was scared for me. I looked away and ran back outside to face the beaming monster.
"How sentimental. A touching moment. Ended so soon." The monster taunted.
"You won't be around to soon either.- SPD, Emergency!"
I was about to morph in my ranger suit when he hit me with this powerful heat-invisible wave that sent me flying backwards slamming me into an orange car, badly denting it with my own body. I painfully picked myself up to my feet as he approached me. I blocked his attack with my arms crossed. Kicked, ducked his attack, went for a hit, and kicked. I'm about to hit him again when he gives me a powerful blow to the stomach that sends me flying again, smashing into a nearby dumpster that knocks over on impact. I can't move. I can't pick myself up again. I can't hear him anymore because my head is spinning so fast. I regret not asking for my team's help. Then Commander Cougar looms over me.
"Hold on, Miss Delgado." He had morphed into Shadow ranger.
"I couldn't do it," I say, softly. I doubt he heard them.
"You can rest now."
He scoops me up in his arms and picks me up out of the sprawled trash. I can see the red ranger beating the bright light out of this monster. Blue ranger shoots him with his blaster. The monster's beam fires one explosive blast sending everyone to the ground. He doesn't give the rangers enough time to get up before firing another one. Sam or SPD Omega ranger comes to the rescue on his unicycle. Red ranger calls for the battlizer. Sonic mode. Full power. Omega ranger goes in for a hard punch and jumps from behind to finish him. The beam burst followed by an intense aftershock. Cruger dropped to his knees and bends over me to shield me from it. I wouldn't feel a thing because I was already unconscious.
The strange thing that happened could only be described as an out of body experience. Really. I was standing there looking at my limply body in Commander Cruger's arms. "No!" I screamed.
"This did not happen to me. It couldn't be real."
Everyone demorphed and came rushing over to Commander Cruger. I knew it had to be real when Bridge passed through me.
"Z!" Jack called.
"Kat, sent for the ambulance immediately," Cruger ordered with urgency.
"Right away, sir," came her response from the communicator.
Everyone was looking somberly at my body. Tears were falling down Syd's face. She turned away.
"I'm sorry," she sobbed.
Jack took her in his arms and comfort her in his hold.
The ambulance approached. Two men in black uniforms rush out with a stretcher. This must be SPD's own because they have SPD embroidered on their uniform and a silver SPD badge on the jacket of their uniform. Command Cruger places me on the stretcher as they place an oxygen mask over my face. It has a strange effect on me. The ghost me could actually feel it.
Maybe, I can still be revived.
I looked over at Sky. I could see he was trying so hard not to cry. He looked as if he was guilty for all this. He let me go and this is what happens. I reached out to touch his face when suddenly the earth started to tremble so hard that I could feel it. Where the monster was defeated the ground crumbled into a large hole.
"The fights not over. You two get her out of here. The rest of you take care of the disturbance." Everyone nodded in agreement and ran off to see what was going on. Commander Cruger stopped Sky just as he was about to leave.
"Except you, Sky. I want you with the ambulance."
"Yes, sir."
Cruger ran off to join the others, morphing to Shadow ranger.
"Let's go!" One of the men cried. Sky ran beside the stretcher as I was rushed inside the ambulance. I watched as the two men closed the doors behind them and the ambulance speeded off. We had to be reunited or else I wouldn't be able to wake up and I felt that I didn't have must time left. The alien beam had grown into an oversized sun. No time to watch a zord fight. I started to run after the ambulance.
"Wait!" I called after it. That wasn't going to work. The ambulance was to far away by now and THEY COULDN'T HAVE HEARD ME ANYWAY-NO ONE COULD. I had to get off the ground. Could I at least fly? I concentrated on being off the ground. I need to be off the ground. I opened my eyes. I was hovering off the ground in the middle of the road. A cruiser was coming down the road fast. I know it was going to pass through me and everything, but old habit dies hard. I flowed up out of the way, barely missing it.
"I've got to get control of this now," I tell myself.
I calmed down and focused on where I needed to go.
Suddenly I was up in the air, tumbling out of the way of buildings. I was going so fast, I couldn't control where I was going. Something was doing that for me, as long as I kept my focus on where I needed to be.
Which room did they put in me? I wouldn't have time to search all the rooms. I zoomed through the front entrance.
"Stop!"
Whatever had control of me abruptly left leaving me to stop myself. I tumbled halfway through the front desk.
I got up. I take one good look at the nurse and have this feeling she's not going to let me see my other half. The woman looks worn out already. She's talking to this woman that is asking her how to give her son a pill.
"Lady, I don't have much time. I've got to see a patient that just got here. It's urgent that I see her," I explain hurriedly.
The woman holds up her finger.
"I'll be with you in a minute."
I look around to see if she's talking to anyone else. There were others in the waiting room, but no one near the front desk.
"You- You can see me?"
She puts her finger to her lips to shush me. I don't have time to question how she can see me. I start to grow cold and my feet began to slowly disappear. I reach for the phone.
"Let me talk to her. I might can help you."
She looks at me like I'm kidding.
"No joke. Give me the phone," I press, urgently.
She hands me the phone. "If you can get her off the phone, I'll talk to you. But only if you can."
I'm running out of time. My legs are dissolving into nothing. I can feel it. The lady on the phone is explaining her situation in long, vivid details about doing everything to get her son to take a pill. Once she quiets, I yell at her to slip it in his food. All of this complaining was over getting a kid to take a pill. I would have given back the phone except I had no hands.
I was disappearing rapidly. I'd failed two times. The only image my mind could think of was Sky's guilt-ridden fac.
"I'm sorry too, Sky," I cried as I vanished.
I blacked out.
Beep. Beep. Beep.
What's that noise?
Drip, Drip, Drip.
I slowly jawed open my eyes. The light stung my eyes close. I open them again and they adjusted to the light in the room. I was lying in a hospital bed in a naturally sunlit room, covered in blue sheets. The noise I heard was the IV bag. I'm alive. I caught something in the corner of my eyes and look over to my right. Sky is sitting in a chair next to the bed. It looks like he hasn't gotten any sleep. He's reading a book, probably something SPD related. He looks over at me and notices that I'm awake.
"You're up." I smile. "So you notice," I say, my voice croaky. He puts his book on my bed stand.
"I can't hear him anymore."
"He's one monster we didn't confine."
"Awe, you did that for me." He smiled too and lowered his head to hide it.
"See, I got you to smile." He got up and brushed off his pants.
"Well, I better tell the others that you're awake." He started to leave.
"Wait." He stopped by the door and turns.
"You were with me the whole time, weren't you?"
"Commander Cruger's orders," he said, his back turned. He was about to leave again when I multiplied myself in front of him.
"I've been through a lot within the last– I don't know how many days. The least you can do is tell me the truth." He turned around, walked to the bed, and bent down beside the bed so I wouldn't strain my neck looking up at him. He did something that surprise me. He took my hand in his and stroked the back of it with his thumb.
"My dad gave his life protecting other. He was a great ranger and an even better friend. If his team could have done anything to prevent what happened, they would have. I didn't want what happen to him to happen to you. Not if I could help it.- You're not only my partner, you are my friend." I gave his hand a gentle squeeze.
Commander Cruger came in and cleared his throat to announce his presence. Sky swiftly turned around and saluted.
"At ease, cadet." Kat came in behind him with a vase of flowers.
"How are you feeling today?" She asked.
"Alive," I breathed.
She came over to the bed and kissed my forehead.
"I'm glad to see that you are." She said, placing the flowers on the bed stand.
"Thank you."
"I was just about to- um– tell the others when you came in," said Sky.
Kat looked over her shoulder at him and smiled.
"I'm sure you were," said Cruger. He saluted.
"Thanks again, Sky," I said softly. He turned to acknowledge my gratitude and left. Commander Cruger sat at the side of my bed.
"Miss Delgado, may I ask why you wanted to fight that L5 alien alone?"
"Commander, don't-"," Kat interjected. It was okay.
"Sir, he was only after me. I thought if I gave him what he wanted, he wouldn't harm others. – I know it sounds stupid, but I could read his motives somehow and I knew that he wasn't bluffing about why he was there."
"Do you know why he may have been after you?" Kat questioned. I shook my head. "Not me in particular."
"Well, I'm glad that you are here with us again." He said, patting my head. I heard Ric, the mechanical dog, barking outside my room.
"Do you mind a few more guests?" Jack, Bridge, and Syd were standing in the doorway. I smiled. I painfully sat up in the bed and waved for them to come in. Jack crossed the room and gave me a careful hug followed next by Syd and Bridge.
"Here," said Syd, handing me a fluffy velour teddy bear.
"Someone to keep you company."
"Thanks."
"I checked the room," said Bridge. Everyone looked puzzling in his direction.
"No evil presences to disturb you. The nurse is a whole other vibe that I'm still investigating." Syd rolled her eyes.
"Sometimes I think you are a different species altogether."
"Alright, let clear out so Miss Delgado can get her rest."
"If I was a different species what would I be?" Bridge continued.
"How should I know? I'm guessing a bug." Syd replied.
Jack waved goodbye.
I was alone. The room was quiet again. My cheeks were wet. I touched them with my fingertips. I didn't realize I had started crying. "Alive, more like useless."
Useless…
To Be Continued…