Mora skipped into the throne room humming. Gruumm growled as she entered, annoyed at her interruption while he was talking to a general about their new plans. She was always skipping in and out of rooms, playing and singing. Trying to keep his attention on his general, Gruumm had enough with Mora's antics.
"Mora! Go play somewhere else. The adults are busy."
Mora stopped skipping and put on a pouty face. "You know, if you didn't waste your time with those silly plans, the rangers could actually be destroyed."
Gruumm's red eyes glowed brighter. "What?! Do you think you can do better?"
"Duh! Haven't you noticed anything different about the Power Rangers?" Mora crossed her arms. "They all have abilities. Their weaknesses are in their strengths."
"Get to the point, Mora!"
Mora stomped her foot. "I have a plan to get rid of them once and for all." She pulled out her sketch book, Gruumm leaned in to listen to her plan with sudden interest.
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Sky woke up to hear Bridge shuffling around his bed. At first Sky was annoyed for the sudden sounds coming from the other side of the room, but then he realized the Green Ranger was having another nightmare. Sky never knew what to do when this happened. Usually Bridge would shift around, making a few noises here and there until he calmed down, but some nights the nightmares got worse as they went on. On occasion Sky would throw his covers off, and traipse to Bridge's bed to wake him up, but more often than not he waited it out. Tonight, the nightmare seemed to be getting worse, and Sky was about to get out of bed when Bridge shot awake in bed. The sudden action surprised Sky, so he said nothing until Bridge jumped out of bed.
Sky sat up. "Bridge?"
Bridge had sweat dripping from his face, he looked horrified. Without saying anything he jumped from his bed and ran out of the room.
Sky sighed and threw his covers off. He hated when Bridge got like this. Sometimes his abilities seemed to take him over. He ran down the hallway in time to see Bridge go into the Control Room.
"Bridge, what are you doing?"
He watched as Bridge was frantically searching on the computer like he was on a mission. Sky took a breath and walked up to his friend, he put a light hand on his shoulder causing the ranger to jump.
"I had a dream." His eyes were focused on the computer.
"I see that, wanna tell me what it was about?"
Bridge stopped typing. Sky saw that he had pulled up live security camera footage of the park. "There's still time." He turned to Sky." We have to get the others and go!" He pulled out his morpher.
Sky grabbed it." Bridge, stop. Talk to me. What happened, what did you dream about?"
Bridge was shaking. "I saw a little boy; he got attacked. Sky we have to stop it before it's too late."
"Okay, Bridge let's just calm down and think about this."
Bridge was getting irritated. "There's nothing to think about, Sky. I saw him die."
"And I'm sure it was terrible, but that doesn't mean it's going to happen." Sky was trying to get through to him.
Bridge shook his head. "This wasn't just a regular dream. It was different. It's going to happen, and I'm going with or without you."
Sky hated the desperate look plastered on his friend's face. He knew there was no convincing him. "Fine, call the team."
Bridge took his morpher back and soon the team was gathered in the Command Center. They all wanted to know why they were called there.
"Look, before any of you say anything, believe me when I say this is really important, and I know what I'm doing."
Jack shook his head in confusion. "What's going on?"
"I had a dream."
The team groaned.
"Look, I swear this is real, and if we don't stop what's going to happen, a little boy will die. Terribly."
The rangers stared at the Green Ranger. Sky stepped forward and leaned in to talk to his team.
"I know guys, but he's not going to give this up. He's been right before, so I don't see the harm in checking this out."
Jack did not like idea of following a dream, but he sighed and nodded. "Okay, where are we going?"
Bridge clapped his hands together in relief, and ran from the room. The rangers followed. They got into their vehicles and headed towards the park.
On the way to the park, Kat radioed in. "Rangers, what are you doing?"
Jack answered. "Just following a lead. We'll be back soon."
Kat said nothing, but they could almost hear her disapproval. They were already entering the park, so turning back now would be useless. Bridge got off of his bike and took off his glove, scanning the area. Nothing.
"Bridge, there's nothing here." Syd looked around.
"Not yet. Come on." Bridge ran off and the others followed.
They searched the park for over thirty minutes before the others decided the mission was a waste of time. They were all tired, annoyed, and ready to go home.
"Okay Bridge, there's nothing here. We've looked, but I think it's time to get back." Sky was done humoring him.
"Go if you want, but I'm-" Bridge was interrupted by a scream. He took off towards it.
"Bridge wait!" Sky chased after him.
They all followed the source of the scream to find a little boy running through the grass. There were krybots chasing him.
"I told you!" Bridge punched one of the krybots. He knew his dream was real.
"Help!" The boy was being cornered by a blue head.
"Got 'em." Z jumped towards the blue head and blasted him in the back. She grabbed the little boy. "It's okay, you're safe now, we've-" Z gasped.
As the rangers were fighting off the krybots, they did not notice what was happening behind them. Bridge sensed something was off, so he turned to see Z standing in shock at the little boy from his dream. The boy whose tiny arm was now a long jagged sword sticking into Z's stomach.
"What? No!" Bridge watched in horror as the boy grew into a large monster. He laughed as he pulled the sword out of Z, and she fell to her knees. The others had noticed what had happened now. Jack ran over and caught Z before she collapsed to the ground.
He put his hand on her stomach to try and slow the bleeding. "We have to get her back to the base!"
The others sprang into action, as Bridge stared in horror at the scene before him.
The monster laughed. "Did you like my trick?"
Bridge looked at the others, they had not heard the monster speak. He was inside Bridge's head, but how?
The monster laughed again, but this time spoke allowed. "Get them!"
The krybots all charged towards the rangers, but they knew they did not have time for a fight when Z was in critical condition. Jack was already running with Z strung across his arms. Sky had to grab Bridge and pull him along, the Green Ranger was in a daze of confusion.
"Come on!"
They all ran back to their vehicles. "See you soon Green Ranger." Bridge shut his eyes as he ran, nothing made sense anymore.
Jack radioed over the Com-link. "Kat! Z's been stabbed, meet us outside, we're on our way."
"Right." They could hear the worry in her voice.
As soon as they pulled up, Kat and a medical team met them outside with a stretcher. Jack placed Z on it, who black out on the way, and rushed her away to Med Bay. Jack and Syd followed close behind, while Bridge stood outside, still in shock of the events that unfolded. Events that he caused.
Cruger growled over the Com. "Rangers, report to the Command Center, now."
Sky sighed. "Bridge we have to go." He led Bridge inside.
Once they were all in the Command Center they all stood in a line with their heads down. Cruger glared at the four of them. "Would someone please explain to me what happened out there?"
No one wanted to answer, but all eyes glanced in Bridge's direction.
"Why is Cadet Delgado in critical care? Someone answer me!"
The rangers jumped at his outburst, and Jack stepped forward. "It's my fault sir, I listened to a lead I should have investigated."
"No Jack, I convinced you to go." Sky stood forward.
Syd looked at the two, but said nothing. Bridge, however, stood back anger present on his face.
"Don't try to cover up what this really is. Neither of you are to blame. It was my dream. I made everyone go there. I let that thing get into my head and hurt Z." Bridge was shaking in self-loathing.
"Cadet Carson?" Cruger glared at the Green Ranger.
He met the Commander's eyes. "I had a dream, sir. I thought…"
"Obviously you thought wrong cadet. You should have consulted the team, and not have jumped into the situation so rapidly. It was careless and could cost Cadet Delgado her life."
Bridge looked to the ground, tears filled his eyes.
"It won't happen again, sir."
"See that it doesn't. Dismissed." Cruger shook his head as he paced away from the rangers.
Bridge ran out of the room. He continued until he found and empty hallway and punched the wall. He growled out in anger, and sunk to the ground. "How could I be so stupid?" He slammed his head against the wall. He always thought he could trust himself and his instincts, but now nothing was how it should be.
"Hahaha, I thought that worked out brilliantly."
Bridge's eyes widened. He let his guard down, and now that monster was in his thoughts again. "Get out of my head."
"But it's so fun in here. We could make a good team you and I."
"Leave me alone." Bridge concentrated hard enough to push the monster out of his head.
He stayed in the hallway, unmoving, for a long time. He did not even notice when Sky had sat down next to him.
"You can't blame yourself for what happened."
Bridge scoffed. "Can't I? I should have seen through it, I should have known. Looking back there were so many things wrong, but I thought I could trust myself."
"You couldn't have known. You dreamed something terrible and wanted to stop it. No one can blame you for that. Besides it's not like all the dream didn't happen. Part of it did."
"Yeah, but somehow they implanted that dream. Gruumm must have somehow created a monster with psychic abilities. If it was able to get in my head once, it can again. This isn't the last we've heard from him." Bridge pulled his knees up to his chest.
Sky had no idea what to say to him. He did all he could to try and alleviate the blame Bridge had, but the Green Ranger would not accept it. Bridge's world was crashing down because of one mistake, but it was enough to make him rethink everything he ever believed in. Sky just hoped Bridge was strong enough for when this monster struck again. He did not want to see anyone else fall because of it.
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AN: Thanks for reading! Hope you all enjoyed the first chapter!
