Chapter 1: The New Squad

It was a warm sunny day in Baltimore MD, year 2010. Aliens had began to come to Earth, some peaceful, some not. It was an alien robbery in a warehouse that was being thwarted by a new police force: Space Patrol Delta. A young man walked in. He is Andrew Hammond, the son of Red Astro Ranger Andros, and the 2nd Yellow Turbo, and Yellow Astro Ranger Ashley Hammond (they used Ashley's lat name). He was an arrogant young man, and all of SPD knew it. He walked farther into the warehouse and made his presence known.

ANDREW " Freeze! SPD! You are all under arrest!"

The aliens looked up in shock, as they grabbed their blasters and began firing at him. He managed to doge them all, but he hit his head on a pipe jumping out of the way. He fell behind a crate as the rest of his team came in; Roger Tate, the teams basic second in command, though they considered him their leader, Tarant Fang, a spider-like humanoid, whom everyone was scared of at first, but grew to accept him like a brother, Maran Crinder, a Triforian with blue hair, and Allison Hammond, Andrew's sister. She looked very much like her mother as Andrew did their father. After rushing over to the unconscious Andrew, Roger looked up at the team.

ROGER " Ok, Andrews unconscious yet again. We need a plan."

ALLISON " I have a plan. We each go to the four corners of the room and surround them. That should make the catch and arrests easier."

ROGER " That sounds like a good plan to me, how about you two?"

TARANT " Sounds good."

MORAN " Lets do it!"

The four of them rushed to each corner of the room, and came out with their blasters drawn, as Robbie spoke.

ROGER " Perhaps you didn't understand before, you all are under arrest. Place your hands on top of your heads now and come quietly. We don't want any trouble here."

The aliens looked up again and began firing, they four of them hid behind their crates. The aliens then stopped and went after Moran and Allison. Roger and Tarant rushed after them, tackling two of the aliens, and placing handcuffs on them. The girls managed to hold their own against the other two aliens and the four were placed back to back. Smiling, the four congratulated each other on a job well done when Andrew got up.

ANDREW " Ok lets get these guys….."

He stopped when he saw his team and the four aliens. He quickly smiled.

ANDREW " I knew I trained you four well. This is the reason why I am squad leader, and soon to be Red Ranger."

Roger stepped forward, having heard that Andrew was going to be Red Ranger for too long.

ROGER " You didn't teach us anything, and you may not get Red Ranger, we voted yesterday and Commander Hoot didn't tell us yet."

Andrew walked forward, with an anger glowing in his eyes. He stopped face to face with Roger.

ANDREW " I will ask you to not challenge my authority, Blue boy."

The other three groaned. They knew Andrew wanted to be Red Ranger badly, but they all had voted Roger for Red Ranger. He could actually get the team to work together, whereas Andrew couldn't.

Just then the scenery began to fade into a simulation room, the aliens turned into the 4 D-Squad cadets. Just then Commander Hoot walked in to the simulation.

COMMANDER HOOT " Cadets Tate, and Hammond stand down!"

The tow boys quickly got out of each others faces and stood at attention towards their commander. Commander Hoot was and owl humanoid, and was very tough, but fair. He knew these 5 cadets like the back of his hand. He also grew tired of Andrews constant arrogance, and obsession of wanting to be the Red Ranger. Hoot also knew that cadets Fang, Crinder, and Hammond, Andrews own sister, had voted Roger Red Ranger, Andrew voted himself Red Ranger, and Roger had voted Allison as Red Ranger. He had decided it was enough and was going to take each cadet and question them that day. He looked at them, and directly at Roger and Andrew.

COMMANDER HOOT " Cadet Tate is right Hammond, no one is definitely picked as Red Ranger. I will be briefing you on what you think of each person you voted for as your leader. Mind you, now that you have picked, you have to be truthful of why you want them as Red Ranger. Once your Red Ranger is picked, he will then pick the other remaining Rangers colors. Dismissed!"

The 5 saluted him and walked away to their rooms.

Commander Hoot first brought in Allison.

HOOT " Alright Allison, you picked cadet Tate as Red Ranger. Why not your brother?

ALLISON " Well my brother is too arrogant and cocky, he never listens to what the team has to say, and he has us stay back while he goes in first, never calls us for back up, and whatever work we do, he takes all the credit. Roger is the exact opposite. He listens to what he have to say, and actually uses out plans into use."

HOOT " Alright, and like your brother, do you want to follow in your mothers footsteps and be the Yellow Ranger?"

ALLISON " Eh. Not really. I would like to be Pink."

HOOT " Alright. Dismissed!"

Command Hoot had brought in Moran and Tarant, and they both had said the same thing about Roger and Andrew. They both had also said about their colors is that Moran wanted to be Yellow, and Tarant wanted to be Green or Blue. Hoot then brought in Robbie for his questioning.

HOOT " Ok Tate, why did you vote cadet Allison for Red Ranger?"

ROGER " She has good strategies in battle, and I really think it would be good for Andrews ego if his sister became the Red Ranger."

HOOT " Would you follow her into battle?"

ROGER " I wouldn't have voted for her if I wouldn't follow her."

HOOT " Now if you had to pick a color, what would it be?"

ROGER " Probably Blue. If Andrew made Red Ranger, the others would need to follow someone's lead if something were to happen to him."

HOOT " Well Tate, I have looked and talked to Allison, Moran, and Tarant. They all voted you for Red Ranger."

ROGER " Really?"

HOOT " Yes. Dismissed."

Andrew had walked into the mess room after his briefing. It hadn't gone so well. He refused to be any other color but Red, and Commander Hoot did not like that. He also told Andrew of the other votes for Red Ranger. Andrew got angry when he was other others sitting around playing card and having fun.

ANDREW " Do you all think this is funny?"

They looked up startled. Andrew looked at his sister.

ANDREW " You didn't even vote your own brother as Red Ranger?"

ALLISON "I, um.."

Roger stood up in Allison's defense. It wasn't fair that he started on her because she hadn't voted him Red Ranger.

ROGER " What is your problem dude? We all had our choice in voting for Red Ranger and it wasn't you. Big whoop. All Ranger colors are important to the team!"

Angry tears began forming in Andrews eyes as Roger spoke. He knew Roger was right, but it was his dream to be like his father, even though his father had said that a Ranger color is only a color, and that he would be proud of him no matter what color he was.

ANDREW " Listen Tate, I don't want to hear it. All I have to say is there is no way I will never be your second in command, or your Blue Ranger!"

Andrew stormed out of the room. They other four looked at each other in silence, while the A-Squad looked at them in pity. Robbie then looked at Tarant and broke the silence.

ROGER " Luckily I chose you as Blue Ranger."