Welcome, welcome to another of my overly random stories
Welcome, welcome to another of my overly random stories. Much MUCH Bridge whumping. I'm so overly mean when it comes to these kinds of stories. I'll have to write another, nicer one for poor Bridge at some point, won't I? D;
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The robot took out a small building now, a huge metallic claw slicing through the stone like it was butter. Time seemed to stand still as bricks and metal tumbled into the streets below, citizens of New Tech City feeling for their lives, having left their homes behind them.
That is what had happened in the time it had taken for the megazord to combine. Sure, the robot was taken out quickly once the thing was assembled and online but it wasn't quickly enough.
Bridge sat on his bed. Well, sat was a loose application of the word. It was more of a shoulder stand, his legs resting on the wall. Surely Kat could come up with a way of the megazord forming faster? Maybe he could play with the electronics a little, fiddle with the systems... If he broke them, Kat could fix them. Sure, they wouldn't have the zords for a few days but that wouldn't matter. It was all for the greater good.
Sky came into the room at that moment and, even with his empathy powers suppressed by his gloves, Bridge read a huge wave of boredom from Sky. Unusual seeing as Sky's shielding often made it hard to read him.
"Hey Sky." He said after a moment, waving from his upside down position. This unbalanced him and he flopped to his side on the bed, staring curiously at his friend. Sky went and sat down on his own bed and frowned, silent. Bridge was about to comment further when the alarms went off. Sky almost smiled.
"Duty calls."
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The rest of the team were already assembled by the time Bridge and Sky got there. Kat was waiting for them with the commander. Cruger look even more stern then usual if that were possible. Kat stepped forwards to speak, and gestured to the screen. It showed a map of the city, 5 separate points highlighted and flashing, several of them slowly moving but one completely still.
"Rangers, there's no where near enough time for a long briefing. Five separate attacks throughout the city, no idea what any of them are." She nodded to Cruger who stood firmly, his hands behind his back.
"You heard her, Rangers. Move out."
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The Rangers split up, as was necessary to tackle all five enemies at the same time. They had each got tracking with them for the criminals they sought, which showed the general area. Once in, they'd have to look around themselves (unless the enemy chose to attack them first).
In their respective locations, Jack and Syd stumbled across their enemies first… blue head krybots. Well, at least they weren't the top lot of Gruumm's minions.
Syd got into the fighting first of the rangers, launching a surprise kick from behind the blue head. She drew her sword fluidly, the inner circuitry of the robot sharply exposed as she sent two quick slashes across its torso.
Its retort was a flurry of attacks, each of them dodged and the final one neatly vaulted. Syd came down on the other side of the bad guy, a final swing of the sword neatly rendering the 'bot offline.
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At the near same moment, Jack finished his own blue-head foe, a quick set of bursts from his duel blasters making the thing fizzle into a heap then explode loudly.
"Easy." Jack said smugly. But he spoke too soon as the comms crackled into life. Z's words were laced with her concentration on fighting, pauses obvious where she was too busy to even speak.
"Need… Backup!" She all but shouted, a laser blast heard in the background. No sooner had she spoke then Sky too spoke up.
"I could use a hand as well." He said, his voice also broken into bits by the mob he faced.
Jack made a decision. "Syd, go to Z, I'll go to Sky." He said this over the comms so the others would hear. "And Bridge, be careful." He added, knowing the green ranger was rather prone to getting into weird situations, before heading quickly towards Sky, as fast as he could manage.
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Bridge was all alone. He hadn't seen any sign of any enemy and hadn't even morphed yet. He frowned slightly at the tracker in his hand. The guy was around here somewhere, right? It was confusing times like this when he needed a handstand and a piece of toast. After a moment, he pulled off a glove and checked the auras left in the air around him. Gesturing broadly, he saw the somewhat faded shape of a criminal.
"Ah, there you are." He said with a smile, pocketing the tracker and drawing his blaster, one hand still ungloved so he could continue to track the guy. The aura grew stronger as he moved after it, the colour of it feeing tingly as he walked through it a couple of times. It was virtually abandoned around here, it seemed. He couldn't pick up any auras except the crooks. That wasn't good. He paused and peered round a corner, suddenly more wary. Shuffling over to the next corner, he peered around again. It was now that Jack's message reached him and he listened to it.
"You know me, guys. I'm totally with the careful thing. Unless I'm not being careful. Then I suppose you could say I wasn't careful but careless—" He was cut off as he heard a noise. Now he had his morpher in his ungloved hand and it felt weird. His mind occasionally brought pictures of Kat making the final adjustments to it, Cruger picking it up to peer at it curiously… He quickly restored his glove and the images faded.
Picking up where he left off, except now with his morpher and his blaster in his hands, he turned down a small alley that led to the backdoor of a warehouse. The Green Ranger edged carefully down this narrow place, barely wide enough for 3 people to stand side by side, going to remove his glove and get the general aura from the door itself.
This was a mistake.
The very creature he'd been tracking chose this moment to throw itself down from the roof of the building to Bridge's left. The ranger dodged but was caught by an arm, slammed down by the sheer weight of it to the concrete. At least he had his morpher in hand… A flash of green and he suddenly felt a little more able to deal with the situation. A scything talon came towards him but he grabbed it and managed to push the foot aside, rolling away and righting himself. Seriously not enough room here.
"This is too easy, Ranger." The alien cawed in a crow like voice. "Not a challenge. My luck to get stuck with the most useless of the five. Ah well, easy pickings."
Bridge sighed inwardly. Trust his luck to be stuck with this bird-brain to fight. He wondered what his friends had gotten into, hoped that Z and Sky were okay. Bridge suddenly realised he'd forgotten to breath while thinking and took a breath, bracing himself into a fighting stance.
"More fight then I expected. But no one defeats Banshu!" The thing bristled, clacking an oversized beak with a terrible hook to it. It's black eyes stared straight at Bridge but he couldn't take his eyes off the beak. He wondered if the criminal could open walnuts like a parrot.
"You're under arrest!" He said suddenly. "Or going to be arrested. Why do people say 'under'? Maybe it should be—No wait. Stop distracting me." He shook his head. "Come quietly and… there will be no fighting?" He doubted this would sound like a good thing to the bird. Banshu clicked it's beak again then lunged forwards. Bridge blocked the first punch and was relieved for a moment. This wasn't too bad. He nearly got caught by the second punch, then neatly blocked the third. It was the sudden, taloned kicked that slammed him back to reality and he went flying, smashing into a stack of crates that had been near the warehouse door. Cornered, winded and downed, he quickly tried to regain his footing.
Banshu stalked over to him, cackling, and reached down, picking up the struggling ranger by his neck. Bridge clawed at the hand around his throat, unable to say anything and therefore unable to call for help. He stopped clawing after a moment and went to draw his sword, hanging by his neck and one arm for a moment until he delivered a slash to the creature's stomach. A horrible shriek made his blood run cold then Banshu threw him against the further wall with all it's strength.
The hit against the wall demorphed him and he landed with a thud, feeling bruises starting all over his body. He struggled up for the third.. or was it forth? Time and grabbed his morpher from where it lay a couple of feeta way.
"Guys! I seriously need some help--" He croaked into the comms, deciding he could really sue some toast after this. Banshu was back, leering over him with glee and Bridge all but curled up and awaited more punishment. He'd try and block what he could but the bird was just so strong.
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Jack hung back as Sky tackled waves of krybots, seemingly appearing from no where. He caught Bridge's message. Worried, but still a leader, he threw himself back into the fight at the Blue Ranger's side.
"Sky, go after Bridge, I'll stay here." He all but shouted, dancing around a krybot and blasting it away before jumping over it and taking out another. The blue ranger nodded simply and turned and ran, straight for his bike to get to Bridge as quickly as he could.
"Don't worry, Buddy. I'm on my way!"
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Chapter one done. Bwaaaaaaah, I feel uber sorry for Bridge now. I;m so nasty TT; Ah well. R&R plzthnx. Also… if you have any ideas for the future of this story, please let me know! I have a vague idea what I want to do but I always like other people's perspectives!