A new story from yours truly. No doubt I'm going to get confused between this one and my other Power Rangers fic because they are both based around Bridge… Ah well, never mind, ay? This one is rather a lot more fun(though probably not laughing worthy at every turn.. just, well. Different chapters will have different amounts of funny (or it feels like they should have) rather then all adventurey and painful. Just go with it for now.. Honest opinions in reviews plzthnx. 3

This is also one of the first stories I've done without writing it out on paper first so… yeah.

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"Kat said the energy spike was from around here somewhere." Z called to the others. She held an energy tracking device in one hand, looking around the rather innocent looking street. It was a little quiet around here but an otherwise pleasant neighbourhood. The five rangers were moving gradually up the street, checking everywhere they could see for a sign of the weird energy spike.

Jack, as usual, had gone further ahead of anyone else, looking under cars and straying into people's gardens with his own energy tracker, apparently unaware of the glares form the house owners.

Sky was walking down the middle of the quiet street, looking suspiciously at anyone that walked past. He pondered the possibility of it being a glitch; there was no sign of the huge readings now, on the tracker or otherwise. There was the odd hotspot being picked up but nothing major.

Syd was disgustedly picking through some dropped garbage with the end of her shoe, having been directed to that area of the road by Jack. The look of utter grossed-outness on her face said more then her whining could manage. "Eww." She muttered as a banana peel stuck itself to her foot. She flicked it off, sighing deeply.

"There's nothing here, you guys."

Bridge had already searched his part of the street. He was now upside-down in a handstand against the wall of a building a little way from the others. Even with all the ideas running into his head from his upside-down position, he couldn't work out what was going on. However, after a moment, he dropped back to his feet. "I've got it! I'll try and find an aura." He declared although his friends appeared to be too far away to notice. Plucking his glove off his hand, he gestured at the street. Immediately, he was engulfed in hundreds of auras, moving about him from the past several days. He squinted a little and Syd noticed from her trash duty.

"Got anything, Bridge?"

"Wait a sec." Bridge stepped towards the middle of the street, aware of the tracker in his hand showing a hotspot nearby. Okay, so the energy thing had been here. Then it moved over there… He followed the aura of the energy. It was odd, something like energy shouldn't feel like this; like a person. He ended up facing a wall. Running his hand over it, he felt a flick of images through his head. Yes. The energy thing had been here.

He was vaguely aware of Syd and Sky behind him now as he crouched down, still trailing his fingers down the wall then touching the floor. He shuffled along in a crouch until he came to the edge of an alleyway. He scuttled down here a little bit, his friends still behind him. "Ahah." He said simply.

Sky immediately comm'd to Jack and Z. "Guys, we've got something."

The two ran over from the various places they had been searching in the street, looking down at Bridge who was poking through some dirt. Something glistened there. A curious expression on his face, he touched it with his gloved hand. Nothing. Z crouched with her energy scanner.

"It's emitting energy pulses. But not the burst we picked up before." She said after a moment. "You found it, Bridge, but can you find out who brought it here and why?"

The green ranger looked at her for a moment before nodding. "I can try." He now went to touch it with his ungloved hand.

There was Gruumm, standing over him, laughing like a lunatic.

"Go. With this plan, we shall be beyond triumphant. Gather them all. Every one. This is the only version of consequence."

Cringing, bowing. "Yes, Emperor, of course."

Now earth and walking along, not a second glance. Yes, here would do. An alleyway. No one in sight. Sitting in the shadows. Drawing on powers created for the very purpose. Designed to work with the crystal.

Yes! It worked! NO. The crystal. It's broken. I'll take what I can. There will be enough in each shard.

Blinding light, a smattering of nerve tingling, not pain but something similar, and then whiteness.

Bridge jerked back to reality suddenly, having flopped back from his crouch so he was now sitting on his butt. The crystal glowed faintly in front of him.

"Something's real weird with that, guys." He said after a moment. No answer. "Guys?" He looked over his shoulder, scrabbling to his feet, "Guuuys?" No one there at all. What was going on? Bridge picked up the crystal and checked his morpher, pinging Jack. No response.

The green ranger replaced his glove and left the alleyway. The street looked a little different. Wasn't that house taller before? Wasn't that car red, not green? He shook himself mentally and physically. There was no trash where Syd had been rifling, no front lawn was unfenced where Jack had been strolling around. The road was busier with traffic. Bridge looked around himself in confusion. Okay, back to SPD. He wondered why they'd left him here and just how long he'd been out, following the thoughts of the one that had brought the crystal here from Gruumm.

Wandering along, he felt a bite in the air, like winter. Real odd, considering it was the height of summer. He zipped his jacket up after a moment, nearly walking into someone as he wasn't looking where he was going.

It was only a short walk to the base and he looked up at the towering building. Wow, new paint job. That was quick. He'd have thought it'd take longer to repaint a building like that. He wandered into the building. The foyer was filled with people. Cadets, scientist and others walked too and fro, looking at documents or going to different places. The lab tech were wearing blue lab coats. Bridge frowned but continued, heading for the rec-room. He got some odd looks from people walking past him, several confused expressions and the occasionally suspicious glance.

The rec-room was empty. It was also completely different. It was sterile and white, a few chairs around a TV and some books neatly put into a bookcase. He stared for a long, long time. What was going on? Bridge backed out of the room and straight into someone.

He turned around.

"Who are you, and why are you here?" Jack raised his blaster. He was different. His hair was not in dreads, long but tied back into a pony tail. He had a neat scar cutting down his face, eyes a deep green rather then brown. He wore SPD blue ranger uniform, eyes full of an inner anger Bridge was shocked at.

"Jack?" he asked after a moment, a slow smile spreading over his face. "What's going on? Is it April first? No. It's summer. So if it isn't April fools is this some kind of joke? Your hair. Not that I don't like your hair. Just. Your hair. I mean. And blue ranger? Are you winding up Sky? Because that would be a bit mean…" He trailed off, blabbering when faced with a friend with a laser trained on him.

"I said, who are you? Breaking and entering, impersonating SPD personnel... don't let the charges get any higher then that."

Bridge was getting a bit worried by now. "Uh. Jack. Did you hit your head?"

Jack frowned slightly. "How do you know my name?" he paused. "That's it. You're coming to see the commander. Move." He gestured with the laser.

Bridge was relieved. At least the commander would talk sense, right? He wandered off down the corridor towards the control centre without much prompting, showing he knew the way by himself. He was silent and thoughtful, kind of wishing he'd had the chance to see if toast was still possible from the rec-room.

The control room was more imposing then he remembered. Jack punched in a security code and the door opened. The commander's chair had its back to the door and Jack shut the door behind himself and Bridge. Bridge walked towards the chair.

"Hold it, intruder." Jack held the laser up again and Bridge stopped with a sigh, turning to Jack.

"Is that really needed? I mean, I understand a joke, Jack, but I'm starting to get a little bit offended."

Jack ignored him, looking up at the commander's chair. "Commander, I found this intruder near the rec-room."

The chair turned and, sitting back in it was none other then Kat. But not Kat as Bridge knew her. Her hair was long and straightened, one eyes covered with an eye patch. Her ears were raggedy, like a cat after a fight, her remaining eye not holding that twinkle of fun and kindness that Bridge knew. He just stared.

"Okay okay, I think I know what this is. A dream, right? I have odd dreams all the time. Maybe it's a collective hallucination. I've always wanted to see what those were like. You guys aren't real. Either that or your dream-thoughts. But… No way you're the real deal. Jack would never have such a stupid hair cut, Kat would never get caught poking her eye out, letting alone sitting in Cruger's chair—" Bridge was interrupted.

"Silence." Kat's word cut through the air like a knife. She leaned forwards slightly. "Do not mention that disgusting dog's name in my SPD." She hissed and Bridge quickly shut up. If this was a dream world, he'd play by the rules until he could wake himself up. It seemed Kat was about to give another order when familiar alarms went off. Bridge looked around as screens lit up in the control room. Ah. Bad guys in the city. At least some things didn't change. As Jack and Kat were momentarily distracted, Bridge took the opportunity to pluck his morpher from his belt and hide it in his pocket. The less that Dream-Kat and Dream-Jack knew the better.

Suddenly, the room was busier as 3 others appeared; Syd, Z and Sky. Bridge just stared at them, much as he had at Jack.

Z was wearing SPD red. She didn't look much different but she held herself differently. Syd was still pink ranger but her blonde hair was cropped short, her frame tense. Sky was yellow ranger and looked almost morose. Other then the yellow uniform, he looked the same as before. All three of them eyed him with deep set suspicion, Z showing an anger he'd never seen in her before.

Kat was standing, walking down to the control panel. "It seems that the city is under attack. I want the four of you to go and defend it. The loss of the green ranger will not hold you back. Understand me?" She received a chorus of 'yes ma'am's and she nodded, satisfied. "Jack, leave the intruder with me and go."

The four rangers assembled and morphed silently. No happy faces, no smiling.

Kat nodded briskly. Bridge was wide eyed and somewhat vague as thoughts raced through his mind. Taken somewhere else by the stone, knocked out and dreaming? Collective hallucination, time warp… Vision? If it was a vision… then he was… dead. No green ranger.

Kat spoke now. "Don't let Emperor Cruger take this city, move out!"

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Randomnesss xD I'm going to do a couple of chapters of this then… The story will jump. Dimension hopping excitement for Bridge. What ever will happen next? Where will he end up? Find out next time! REVIEW PLEASE. I'll love you forever.