Disclaimers: the characters are part of a television show called Power rangers lightspeed rescue. They do not belong to me
Notes: I am changing certain parts of the first two chapters of this story so hopefully it won't seemed so rushed
Cobras embrace
Captain Mitchell walked into his office with the rangers following closely behind him. Captain Mitchell went straight to his desk and sat down. The rangers sat on the remaining chairs, which currently gathered in a semi-circle around the Captain Mitchell's desk.
"Hey dad what's this," asked Dana as she picked up an unusual looking gold colored disk of the desk.
"I don't know, I can't recall seeing it here before. Lets see what's on this disk shall we," said the captain as he took the disk from Dana's hand and put it into the video player.
Hey
I was going to send you a letter, but I've never had been good at writing letters. There was never much need to write when I was with Diabolico so I thought I would send you a video disk instead. It seems like the better option.
You have no idea how weird or how hard it is to talk to a camera, but once you start talking its not so bad. You're most probably asking yourself why would I go to the trouble of leaving a disk on your desk, when I'm on the base. I'm not on the base anymore. I left two days ago. I bet you haven't even noticed that I have gone. You can all get pissed at me later on, but I need to tell you something very important. I'm dying. That wasn't so hard to say as I thought it would be. I'm dying and there's no cure for the illness I have. I guess I should explain things in more detail.
Do you remember the cobra tattoo I had on my back. there was more than one. When I defeated the cobra in a fight and my tattoo disappeared. I thought I was finally free from his clutches. I thought I could continue to fight on the side of good. I thought my new life on the side of good had just begun. I should have known better. There are no happy endings in real life. Real life is full of endless pain and unforgiving misery. Although the cobra disappeared from my back, there was a cobra that couldn't be seen. This is the cobra that has left its fatal mark on me. It is the cobra which has dealt me the deathblow. When I joined the battle with the other rangers after defeating the cobra, that is the moment the hidden cobra dealt its hand. Before you ask the cobra is no longer with me, it has done the job it was left there to do. It's just me now. I really should have known that Diabolico would never let me walk away that easily. The first cobra was to easy a defeat. Now that second cobra has left its mark, I will never get to live my life in full. I will never long enough to fight on the side of good.
I left the base as I didn't want to be surrounded by friends and family as I lay dying. I've lived a lonely life, why should my death be any different. I don't mean to sound cruel but I have never known what it is like to have a family and friends. I don't what it is like to have people trust you. I have spent most of my life with evil, so it's hard to trust people. I do love you and Dana, but I find it so hard to express those sort of feelings. I can't spend the rest of my days with people who don't trust me completely. I can't stay with people I don't know well and people I just don't trust. If I was with you now as I was telling you this, you would all pity me. The rangers would look at me with nothing but sympathy. I would gradually be ignored as I reminded everyone of a past evil they wanted to forget. I would prefer to die alone, than with people who see me like that. Dad I guess that baseball game is out of the picture now. Never mind, you still have Dana and the other rangers. Oh, don't worry dad about any medical attention I'm receiving. I've found a hospice. It's a nice enough place.
Dad please don't come looking for me. Just keep the memory you have of me as a child. I know I don't belong with you or Dana as a brother or a son that part of me died years ago. When I die I've arranged for someone at the hospice to tell you. I have to trust someone enough, so that you can at least have the chance to see me when I'm dead. The only regrets I have is that I didn't get to experience a normal childhood. That I'll never know what it is like to be part of a family and to have friends who trust you completely.
I'm so sorry that I didn't have the courage to stay with you but I don't belong with you anymore. I have never really been a part of the Mitchell or the rangers team. I just don't know what a family life is like. I don't really recall any memories of my life before Diabolico. The rangers, well i was never really a part of that team. I was stone cold evil before I joined the rangers. I know that the rangers and many people on the base still see me as being evil. No one wants to believe that i am good.
Ryan went silent for a moment and bowed his head. When he looked back up to continue speaking he had tears running down both sides of his face.
I love you dad and I'll miss you all.
The screen then went blank.
The rangers and captain Mitchell sat in the room in a stunned silence.
"We have to find him," said captain Mitchell breaking the painful silence.
Just a few minutes after he had finished speaking a petty officer came running into the captain's office.
"Captain Mitchell, I have an urgent message for you," said the flustered young man.
"Well; what does this message say," snapped the captain. He couldn't face dealing with anything else at the moment. He didn't want to deal with another question from another officer or any kind of base personal that wanted to ask about the rangers last mission. At the moment he was more concerned about his son.
"Sir its just says the following," said the petty officer taking a breath.
"We require captain Mitchell's and the power rangers presence at the Marian hospice," said the man.
"Does it say anything else," asked Dana. She was eager for anymore information about her son.
"No that's the entire message says sir," said the man.
"Dismissed," said captain Mitchell to the man.
The petty officer gave a quick salute and walked back out of the office and back towards his workstation.
Captain Mitchell turned to look at each of the rangers and as he spoke to them all his voice wavered with a barely contained grief.
"It appears that someone has found Ryan for us," said Captain Mitchell
