So, I'm not sure if I'm going to continue on with this story, but I will if you guys like it, soo... Uh, yeah. Review?
Strangers Like Me ;; Chapter One
She closed her eyes, sighing. It was going to be one of those days, huh? She focused her mind on her bed, opening her eyes long enough to give a quick peace sign, and a "Catch you on the flip side," Before disappearing in a little flash of green, reappearing on her bed, in her small room. She stood up, walking to the closet to change from the skirt, and dress shirt she had to wear to school, to a pair of jeans, and a deep purple long sleeved shirt, grabbing a black vest to put over it, before going to sneak out of her window, so her 'mother' didn't catch her.
"Alexandra!" Her mother called, as soon as she was out the window. She snuck out of the yard, moving towards the road, tugging the vest on as she went. She'd had promised she'd meet Aiden at the park after school, and she always kept her promises. She buttoned the vest as she walked over to the swing set where her and Aiden had first met in grade school, when they were 7 or 8; when life had been easier.
"Hayley!" Aiden called out, running over to the swings as he got to the park, out of breath. Before she could even sit down, Aiden picked her up, and swung her around in a circle, like a little kid.
"Put me down, Aiden!" She squealed, hitting his back when he swung her gently over his shoulder, and walked across the road to the park. "Put. Me. Down!" She grinned, making herself disappear and reappear a few feet away.
"You know," Aiden said, after turning around to find her, "That's really not fair, Hayles," She shrugged, making her way to sit on top of a picnic table.
"Your point? Not my fault I'm a freak," She said, watching as her best friend frowned. "What?" She asked, concerned. She didn't like seeing people upset.
"You're not a freak," Aiden told her, sitting next to her. Hayley laughed,
"Yes, I am, Aiden. When are you going to wake up and see it. I am, and I don't care." Hayley gave him the same little speech she gave him every time he tried to convince her she wasn't a freak. By now, it didn't matter to her, she knew there were others like her, like in SPD, the whole B-Squad was like her! That had always been Hayley Oliver's dream, she wanted to be a Space Patrol Delta Power Ranger; She didn't care what it would take, she wanted to protect people from what ever there was to be protected from.
It was quiet, and kind of freaking Hayley out, so, what was the best way to cheer up her best friend? Ice cream.
"Race you to the ice cream shop, looser pays," She raised an eye, watching as Aiden stood up, waited a second, and took off running down the road.
"Hey! Cheater!" Hayley ran after him, looking around after a second. Where had he gone? "Aiden? Aiden, stop goofing around. You're scaring me, Aiden."
"Looking for him?" Came a voice from behind her, causing Hayley to turn around, freaked out.
"Aiden!" Hayley yelled, watching as the... Thing hurt Aiden.
"Hayley! Hayley, just run!" Hayley shook her head, her red hair getting in her violet eyes.
"No." She said, shaking her head, and taking up a fighting stance, the one she'd used to take while fighting during practice when she'd taken a martial arts class when she was younger. "Let. Him. Go." She demanded, but before she could even take a step, there were five Rangers clad in colourful spandex; the Power Rangers.
"Let him go!" The red Ranger stepped in front of his team, pointing at the alien holding onto Aiden.
"You'll never stop me Rangers," The alien sneered, ordering his foot soldiers' to attack, before disappearing with Aiden.
"Aiden!" Hayley yelled, trying to run forward, but being held back by two yellow Rangers. "Let me go!" She screamed, a tree branch flew out of nowhere, causing the Rangers to let go of her, which gave her enough time to run forward, through the foot soldiers, trying to find her best friend.
"Hey, watch out!" Someone called out to her, and she turned around to see that a few of the rather strange looking foot soldiers coming her way. Her instincts kicked in, and she was suddenly really happy for all those classes her father had wanted her to take.
She'd only knocked over two of the whatever-they-were's when they were gone, and reality sunk in.
"Aiden..." Hayley whispered, sinking to the ground, blinking back the tears that threatened to fall for her missing best friend.
"Power down," She heard come for about five voices, and heard footsteps approaching her. Two girls soon came into her sight, one a blonde, with blue eyes, in pink and black, the other, Hispanic, with darker hair and darker eyes, in yellow and black.
"Hey," The girl in pink said, "Are you okay? Did they hurt you?" Hayley shook her head, suddenly wishing she was home again, wishing she'd just teleport home, but, Hayley wouldn't, she was face to face with the police, she couldn't, even if she really wanted to.
"They didn't hurt me." She said, looking up, sure her face was tear stained, since the tears weren't going to listen. "They took Aiden." She told them, since they clearly didn't realize how much that was going to haunt her for the rest of her life. It was her idea to race to the ice cream place, she could have kept him from being taken. She could have saved him.
"Aiden who?" One of the boys asked, one in red, with sandy blonde hair.
"Aiden Burns," Hayley said, her eyes growing wide. What the hell was she going to tell his mother.
"What's your name?" The girl in yellow asked, looking Hayley over, making sure she wasn't hurt.
"Hay – Alexandra Scott." She shook her head, brushing her red hair away from her face again, "My birth name is Alexandra Scott, but I go by Hayley Oliver." She said, looking down at the ground. She'd never actually understood why she'd taken up her adoptive mother's name after she'd been ditched with the foster mother she was with now, but, she figured it was just to remember her, which could totally explain why she'd changed her middle name to Tommy.
When Hayley looked up, she saw the guy in red looking to the guy in blue, who shrugged, and looked to the guy in green, who looked out of place, and looked at the three girls on the ground.
"Uh, Hayley, do you know your dad's name?" The girl in yellow asked. Hayley nodded.
"Yeah, Thomas. Mom always used to call him Tommy, though, and his old students, Ethan, Trent, Kira and Conner always called him Dr. O when even they visited." She said. The girl in yellow nodded to the girl in pink. "He's not my real dad," Hayley said quickly, "Mom and him adopted me when I was 3, I lived with them until stupid foster care took me away last month." And on my 17th birthday no doubt.
"We're going to have to take you back to SPD HQ to get a statement about your friend Mr. Burns being taken." The man in red said. Hayley nodded, starting to get up. She noticed she was missing one of her flip flops, and shook her head at her shoe, and without thinking, made it float over, plucking it out of the air, like it happened everyday, which it did. She fixed it, and looked up, seeing five somewhat confused and in shock heroes looking at her like she was an Org or like she was Lord Zedd.
"What?" She asked, looking behind her, in case they weren't actually looking at her. It took her a minute before she got it. "Oh... That, yeah. It's not a big deal." She said, shrugged, taking a few steps forward. "You guys coming?"
Power Rangers Space Patrol Delta
"Commander," Sky said to Doggie, "I think we may have found her. Dr. Oliver's daughter." Sky watched as the dogs head turned to face the Red Ranger, his eyes full of interest.
"You do, cadet?" Doggie asked, continuing after a 'Yes, sir.' "Why do you say that?"
"Well, sir, she has told us her father's name was Tommy, but she believes he's not her real father. Also, she had demonstrated telekinesis." Sky added the last part, hopping it would add to the argument he was trying to make. As much as he hated to admit it, he would be glad to have this girl, Hayley Oliver, join his team.
"I would like to speak to Miss. Oliver, cadet." Doggie told Sky. Sky nodded, saluting, and turning to leave. He really hoped she was the girl they were looking for.
"Yes, sir."
Meanwhile Syd and Z were talking to Hayley in their room, trying to figure out where she'd gotten her power, and what the extent of it was.
Syd watched as Hayley shifted uncomfortably on the bed across from her and Z. They'd been trying since they got her back to SPD to get something out of her that would explain... Anything.
"So, uh, when was the last time you say your parents?" Syd asked, which earned an elbow in the side from Z. "What?" She hissed. Z shook her head, "Oh.."
"It's fine. Dad's my science teacher at school, so I see him everyday anyway." Hayley said, "Well, most days. And I stop by mom's cafe all the time. I work there."
Syd was about to ask another question when there came a knock on the door.
"Syd? Z? Doggie wants to speak to Hayley." Hayley stood up, thankful to get out of the room with Syd and Z, not that she didn't like them, but all the questions were annoying, but at least they'd avoided talking about Aiden.
"So, uh, who's Doggie?" Hayley looked over at Sky, a confused look on her face.
"He's the commander of SPD's Earth Base, he wishes to talk to you about a few things I'm not quite clear about." Sky explained, not very well, mind you. Hayley nodded, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear, trying to keep it out of the way.
It was a very quiet – And thankfully short – walk to Commander Doggie Cruger's office. There were a few people staring at Hayley, but she'd gotten used to that at school, and it had stopped bugging her, for the most part. Most people just stared for a moment, wondering who she was, before going back to work.
Sky knocked on the door, and Hayley stood kind of awkwardly behind him, waiting for this to get over, so she could go home.
"Commander, you requested to speak to Ms. Oliver." Sky said, nudging Hayley forward a little bit.
Not knowing what to do, Hayley did the only thing she was certain wouldn't be stupid. She smiled, and said a very quiet, "Sir," Although she hadn't been sure what to expect of the commander, she wasn't expecting a... dog? Yeah, a dog.
"Ms. Oliver," Doggie said, kindly, which seemed just a little strange for a person – Er, dog – of his size, "Cadet Tate seems to think that you are the daughter of Thomas Oliver, is this true?" Hayley nodded, before realizing she should actually speak.
"Yes, but, he's my adopted dad. Him and mom adopted me when I was three, that's what they told me, anyways." She shrugged, not understanding what the big deal was about her and her dad, or her mom for that matter. Doggie nodded, glancing over at a woman with cat ears, whom Hayley hadn't noticed before, she was pretty, Hayley noted.
"Adopted, you say. Well, Dr. Manx and I have reason to believe otherwise." Hayley tilted her head to the side, confused.
"What?" She asked, abruptly, "With all due respect, sir, I know I'm adopted. My mom, Hayley, told me she couldn't have children, some side effect of some accident a few years before I was even born, so how I could I not be adopted?" Hayley crossed her arms, ignoring the look she was getting from Sky.
"Sir," Sky said, a little annoyed, Hayley knew.
"It's fine, cadet. She has every reason to be confused, and angry." Hayley huffed; She wasn't angry, confused, yes, angry, no, annoyed was more like it. "Ms. Oliv–" Hayley had to cut him off.
"Sir, can you please call me Hayley, when you say Ms. Oliver, I want to look for Mom." She said, uncrossing her arms, her voice softer than it had been moments before.
"Yes, Hayley, then," Doggie said, almost wanting to laugh. It wouldn't make a difference, sooner or later, it would be cadet, and cadet Oliver, anyway. "Your father was one of the people to help start SPD, there was an accident in which Dr. Manx, a few of our cadets parents were in. It altered their DNA, which in turn made their children different. Like Sky, you have a power, am I correct?" Hayley nodded, and just to show what it was, since it was totally confusing to explain it all, levitated a pen that had fallen off Doggie's desk back into the pencil holder.
"It's kind of a long story of what I can do." Hayley said, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear again. "I can teleport myself, I can levitate things, and I get glimpses of the future, like pictures, colours, or words in my head." She admitted the last part hastily. She didn't like that part, it annoyed her to no end, since she would only see certain things, and half the stuff she saw was never any help to what was actually happening in her life.
"I see," Was all Doggie said, and Hayley didn't even want to know what Sky was thinking; She just didn't.
"If it's all the same to you, sir, would I be able to go home anytime soon, I'm sure Anne is getting worried." Hayley was trying to keep the sarcasm out of her voice, knowing Anne wouldn't care if she'd died if it meant not having to do anything about her. Hayley had, loads of times, considered just going home, home with her mom and dad, her parents, not some old drunk lady who social services was sure was a better mother than her own.
Sky gave Doggie a look that almost said Are you going to ask her? Before glancing over at Hayley, and then forward again.
"I'm afraid not, it seems Ms. Fox was arrested earlier for drunken driving, which means, as of now, you have no place to go." Doggie said, no sympathy in his voice, "But, I have been trying to find a permanent fifth member of B-Squad, as George is just a temporary, as of now." Hayley raised an eyebrow.
"What, you want me?" She asked, pointing to herself, unsure of what was really being asked. When Doggie nodded; She wanted to smile, and say, "No freaken way," But, instead, nodded. "If it'll get Aiden back, I'll do it."