Chapter 3

"Thanks Goose for helping me with this paperwork," Doc smiled. "With the warrant we just wrote and the evidence we've both collected this should be enough to get Broscoe put away."

"I still say Walsh should have let me search the apartment with Zach and Niko," Shane frowned.

"Technically you're still on suspension," Doc pointed out. "Walsh just wanted to make sure there were no legal loopholes."

"Isn't searching someone's apartment without a warrant illegal?" Shane asked.

"Read up on your handbook regulations Gooseman," Doc smiled. "The Commander is allowed to personally search any room in BETA Mountain. Technically he's a walking warrant."

"How did he get that written in the charter?" Shane asked.

"I dunno, but I'm hiding my journal in a better location just in case," Doc said.

BOOOOOOOOOM!

"What was that?" Doc sharply turned his head.

"I don't know but it sounded like an explosion!" Shane shouted.

"It came from that way!" Doc dropped the papers he was holding. He and Shane raced towards the sound. "The living quarters!"

"Oh crap you don't think…?" Shane remarked.

"Look!" Doc yelled. There was a huge hole in the wall where a door should have been. Broscoe's apartment was filled with rubble.

"COMMANDER! NIKO! CAPTAIN!" Shane struggled to find his friends through the rubble.

"Over here!" Zach called out under a pile of rubble. Shane and Doc raced to remove it. They quickly found their friends hiding safely under a psychic shield Niko had made.

"Are you all right?" Shane pulled her out.

"We're fine," Niko nodded.

"Ranger Broscoe used his bionics against us," Commander Walsh coughed as he was helped out by Doc and Zach. "Lucky for us Ranger Niko shielded us at the last second."

"Lucky I still had enough power in my charge," Niko said. There was another explosion and the sound of screaming. "Oh no…"

"Commander Walsh! It's Ranger Broscoe! He's gone crazy!" A ranger reported in on Walsh's communicator. "He's…AAAAHHH!"

"Ranger Deralo!" Walsh shouted. "Go! I'll be fine! Go get him!"

The Series Five Rangers raced down the hallway. They saw evidence of Broscoe's rampage. "And I thought you made a lot of holes in the walls Gooseman!" Doc quipped.

"Look!" Niko pointed. The other Series 5.2 Rangers were on the floor. Most of them were knocked out.

"Ooohhh, my head…" Sanders groaned. He was the only one conscious.

"Glenn what happened?" Doc went to his friend's side.

"I don't know," Sanders groaned. "One minute we're just walking down the hallway and the next Broscoe comes charging at us. Screaming his head off on how useless we are and then…Boom! I barely got out of the way. Ohhhh…I did not sign on for this."

"Are they all right?" Zach asked.

"They're just knocked out," Shane and Niko looked them over.

"What's going on Walter?" Sanders asked.

"Broscoe's a thief and a traitor," Doc growled. "Tried to kill Commander Walsh and the others."

"What?" Sander's eyes widened.

"I'll explain later," Doc said as several more Rangers and medics ran up to them.

"Take them to the infirmary," Zach ordered the medics. "The rest of you come with us! Set your blasters on stun!"

"There's another one!" Niko pointed to another body further down. "It's Ranger Deralo!" She ran over to him.

"Is he…?" Zach asked.

"He's dead," Niko checked for a pulse and shook her head.

"And so's Broscoe," Zach growled. "Come on!"

The Rangers raced down the hallway. "Where is he?" Zach yelled.

"Shouldn't be that hard! All we have to do is follow the rubble," Shane growled.

Zach's communicator went off. "Dad! We got trouble in Q-Ball's lab!" Zach Jr. spoke. "Some ranger just burst in and grabbed Q-Ball! He's taken him hostage inside his own lab!"

"Little Zach! Stay away! Stay…" Zach tried to warn his son but the communicator went off the fritz.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

"NO!" Zach yelled and raced to the Lab. It was in ruins. "LITTLE ZACH!"

"I'm over here!" Zach Jr. managed to get out of a large closet. "Buzzwang shoved me in a closet to protect me."

"Be-bo, be-bo…" Buzzwang was in several pieces. "Large slice of pie…"

"Q-Ball!" Niko ran to the scientist who was on the floor.

"I don't feel so good," Q-Ball looked banged up and his left arm was at an odd angle. "Oh my arm! I think it's broken!"

BOOOOOOOOOOM!

"He's tearing this whole mountain apart!" Zach snapped.

"Just burst in here and grabbed one of my inventions," Q-Ball groaned in agony. "If it wasn't for Buzzwang tackling Broscoe I'd be dead right now."

"Boop boop be doop…" Buzzwang said cheerfully. "Oh hello everyone. Has anyone seen my legs?"

"What did he take?" Doc asked.

"It's my latest invention…" Q-Ball coughed. "A portable charger. The idea was that you Galaxy Rangers could charge up on assignment if your implants ran out of power. But I haven't even tested it yet!"

BOOOM!

"Oh great!" Shane growled. "Come on!"

"Little Zach take Q-Ball to the Infirmary and stay with him!" Zach ordered. Then he looked at two rangers who followed him. "Anderson! Hoover! You two help them and try to put Buzzwang back together! The rest of you follow us!"

"He's headed for the hanger bay," Q-Ball told them before they left.

The Rangers ran for the hanger but they were too late. Somehow Broscoe had stolen one of the Interceptors in the hangar and had taken off before anyone could stop him. However several had tried judging by the holes in the walls and the severely injured men and women on the ground.

"How could one ranger do so much damage?" Doc asked. "Oh wait…"

"We need some medics! Right now!" Niko shouted to some of the other Rangers.

"He got away!" Zach pounded the wall with his fist. "That bastard got away!"

"Not for long," Walsh growled as he walked up to them. "Good news Gooseman. You're off desk duty. You and the other rangers recharge and get Broscoe!"

"The ship he stole just went into hyperspace," Shane said. "He could be anywhere by now."

"Then I'd start looking anywhere if I were you," Walsh told him. "Because if Broscoe gets away this could seriously jeopardize all the Galaxy Rangers!"


It wasn't long before the evening news reported on Broscoe's escape. "Destruction and death visited BETA Mountain today as one of the new Galaxy Rangers, Broderick Broscoe went renegade and caused serious damage," A reporter spoke.

"Here it comes," Walsh growled. He and Garson were in an office watching the news. "It always amazes me how they find out these things so fast."

"We have that stooge Wheiner to thank for this," Garson growled. "I just found out he had an informant ready for an occasion such as this."

"Wheiner…" Walsh growled.

"Trust me Walsh, I am starting to seriously consider having Wheiner whacked," Garson growled. "Officially I can't do it but I am considering it."

"Unlike an earlier incident in the Series Five Program two years ago, this renegade ranger is not perpetrating a hoax in order to play a part in a sting operation," The reporter said. "During his escape attempt Broscoe killed two fellow Galaxy Rangers and seriously injured several others. He is considered armed and extremely dangerous. No word yet…"

CLICK!

"Great the new Series Five point Two Rangers haven't even been in place a month and already we've got one rotten apple running loose!" Walsh barked as he shut off the Tri-D. "With a portable charger no less! I knew it was a mistake to give that man a badge!"

"I admit Walsh, you were right," Vice President Garson sighed. "I take responsibility but not the blame. I recommended an extensive review to the Board of Leaders for that man but they insisted on putting him through."

"You could have tried a lot harder," Walsh growled.

"Do not place all of this on me! You broke precedent for regulations when you got Gooseman accepted into the Academy!" Garson snapped.

"This is not about Gooseman," Walsh told him. "I checked through Broscoe's files and I found that he didn't fulfill half of the requirements needed to become a Galaxy Ranger! He didn't even have a recent psychological profile before an implant was shoved into his head!"

"All right! In hindsight I know I should have fought harder to keep Broscoe off but he knows people and I had to do a lot of favors!" Garson groaned. "One good thing about this is that a lot of his powerful friends have now abandoned him."

"It's not just Broscoe I have reservations on," Walsh told him. "That team of 5.2 Rangers was hand picked by the Board of Leaders and thrown together because of a lot of backroom favors and it shows!"

"Walsh you had no choice but to accept the team that was given to you," Garson said. "You know that. This was a direct mandate from the Board of Leaders themselves. Even Premier Dutch put his stamp of approval on that team."

"Yes but it will be my Galaxy Rangers that gets the ax if we don't capture Broscoe," Walsh snapped.

"So I suggest that you stop complaining and start tracking them down!" Garson said.

"Oh I will," Walsh got in his face. "But I am not going to stop complaining. You and the other Board members will keep hearing about this so that a debacle like this never happens again! That I promise you!" Walsh stormed out.

Garson growled. He pressed a button. "Send them in."

Captain Ares and the rest of the Series 5.2 Rangers walked in and stood in a line. "Sir…" Ares began but a glare from Garson cut him off.

"Well you lot have certainly screwed things up haven't you?" Garson snarled. "You're supposed to replace the Series Five Team! But all you've done is give Walsh even more reasons to keep them on! And now we have no choice but to put up with them for even longer than we planned on!"

"It's not our fault that Broscoe went rogue," Troy said stiffly. "I even warned you about him."

"Picked that up with your psychic abilities did you?" Sanders sneered.

"Even a fool as blind as you could have seen that if you focused on your job instead of trying to get a promotion," Doreen glared at him. "I've always felt your desire for Captain Ares' job!"

"You are not the only one," Ares glared at Sanders. "But for a moment I'm tempted to let him have it!"

"If you do not cease your bickering I will let all of you have it!" Katya snapped. "We are supposed to be discussing solutions to our situation, not going around blaming ourselves like spoiled children!"

"Finally, someone with sense around here!" Garson snarled. "Perhaps I should have put you in charge of this group seeing that Captain Ares can barely do so!" Ares said nothing but gave Katya a death glare.

"Isn't there some kind of tracking device or something in the implants that can help us find him or something?" Doreen asked. "I mean Q-Ball did make the implants so he must have designed some kind of fail safe system, right?"

"You would think that but no, that little idea never even occurred to that scatterbrain Q-Ball!" Garson sighed. "Of course the original implants were commissioned in a hurry shortly after our first encounter with the Queen of the Crown. It was decided that if any Galaxy Ranger went rogue at the very least all we would have to do is wait for his charge to run out."

"Or have Hartford short circuit the implant," Sanders spoke up. "That was his primary function if the Supertrooper went out of control?"

"That was the idea if any of the rangers went out of control," Garson told him. "And that is your function as well Sanders."

"Ironic that you'd have to do it to one of us before the Supertrooper or that Niko freak," Ares growled. "Especially since Broscoe got that portable charger!"

"I don't trust Gooseman or Niko either but at least I have the brains to keep my mouth shut!" Sanders snapped. "You couldn't just feign civility or something?"

"You should listen to your men Ares," Garson agreed. "Sanders is right. Remember, Gooseman and that Niko girl are only tools for our purposes. But they are useful tools which is more than I can say for your team right now!"

"Sir, what are our orders?" Troy asked, purposely keeping quiet that he was a psychic as well.

"Get Broscoe before the Series Five Rangers do," Garson ordered. "But I want him alive. Understand?"

"So you only want his brain half fried," Sanders smirked. "A little late for that."

"Just get him," Garson snarled. "Or Broscoe won't be the only one fried!"

And the hunt is on! But who will get to Broscoe first? Find out next time!