"I'm going to neuter that damn dog!" Sky fumed as he, Z, and Jack made their way to the scene of the fight in the Delta Cruiser. Cruger was supposed to be some master tactician, so one could imagine his surprise when, coming in from a routine training exercise with two of his friends, he found that Bridge and Syd had been sent out to deal with a disturbance in the industrial district.

Normally, that would've been all well and good. Sure, his boyfriend was aloof as they came – maybe even a little more so – but he could handle himself in a fight. Syd, too. It wasn't until he'd seen the CCTV footage and gotten the full story that he'd worked himself into a fury.

Cruger hadn't just sent them out to deal with a disturbance; no, that damn canine had sent two rangers out to deal with thirty krybots, at least. The fight hadn't gotten too far underway by the time Cruger called on them for reinforcements, but it was still enough to leave Sky's gut churning at the thought of his Bridge trying to deal with that many krybots.

"Easy, man!" Jack practically yelped from the passenger seat. He was holding onto the roll bar as if his life depended on it. Then again, with the way Sky was taking those turns, maybe it did. "We're not gonna be much help to Bridge or Syd if you wreck the cruiser!"

As much as he hated to admit it, Jack had a point. Easing up off the gas pedal – if only a little – he slowed to a slightly-less-suicidal speed of eighty-five in the sixty-five mph zone. They were only a few blocks away from the distress signal, and the GPS was beeping furiously. Their destination was a concrete opening, nestled between two old, abandoned warehouses.

Sky slammed on the breaks when they reached it, shifting the cruiser into park as he leapt out of it. It hadn't even slowed to a stop before Sky was on the ground, and Jack and Z weren't far behind him.

They'd only just set foot on the trash-covered tarmac when Syd came stumbling over to them. She was holding her shoulder and crouching like she'd just been hit, and a glance a little ways ahead of her revealed a set of possible suspects for the hit.

"Are you okay?" Jack asked, steadying his friend. They weren't morphed, and Syd's face was covered in dirt.

All the same, she straightened and nodded. Whatever the hit must have been that sent her stumbling, it didn't seem to have been all that bad.

"Where's Bridge?" Sky demanded, and if he sounded harsh, it was unintentional. He was just worried. Normally, Bridge was smack dab in the middle of the fight.

Out of breath, Syd replied, "These guys here are only a few of them. Most of the krybots are over behind those shipping containers over there. Bridge is over there with—"

The heavy clangs of thick, hollow metal echoed between the warehouses. It sounded suspiciously like bodies hitting those same shipping containers, and the Rangers started to run towards the sound.

They made it to the end of one of the shipping containers when something green and airborne caught their attention. With a cry that sounded equal parts surprised and pained, Bridge came flying at them. He hit the ground a few meters in front of them, before anyone could make it there to catch him, and he went down hard.

Sky was at his side in seconds, a hand between his shoulder blades helping him up. "I can't leave you alone for a minute, can I?" he asked. He hoped the prod would hide the concern in his voice, but knowing Bridge, it probably didn't. Even with his gloves on, Bridge was the most empathetic person Sky had ever met.

Bridge smiled brightly, though it looked to be thinly concealing a wince. "I thought I was doing pretty well there, Sky. The whole flying thing was just part of a brilliant master plan I was about to set in motion. I guess I won't be needing it now, though, since you guys are here and all."

"Guess not," Sky said, and stood. He offered Bridge a hand, which the younger Ranger took, and hauled him to his feet.

He may not have been psychometric or anything like Bridge was, but Sky knew his boyfriend enough to know that he was hurting. Whether it was that last attempt at flight, or the rest of the battle, Sky couldn't be sure, but he was definitely feeling the hurt.

The krybots were converging on them as Sky and Bridge took their places in the line-up. At the front, Jack stared firmly ahead. "Let's show these guys what we can really do," he said. They all took that as their cue, and one by one, they morphed.

Law be damned, these were just krybots, and they'd hurt Bridge.

Sky took no prisoners.