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Back at the base, the rangers stood before Commander Crueger. They were worried about Sky and Bridge, but had to update Doggie on the situation at hand.

"Sir, we were not able to capture the person that did this, but we do have some of his men." Jack stared straight ahead.

Crueger nodded. "Today was a close call. If your fellow rangers had not found a way out of the situation from the inside, there is no telling what may have happened out there today. While you all did everything in your power to control the situation, the perpetrator is still at large, so we must stay vigilant."

"Sir, Bridge mentioned that he may know where they will be next." Z hoped they would be able to catch this guy.

Doggie scratched his chin. "Good, when he and Sky are awake you need to find out what they know about this man and create a plan of action to catch him."

"How are they?" Syd looked at Kat.

"Dr. Felix is checking them over now. They both need rest, but they'll be alright. Sky said that they had given Bridge some sort of drug, but he was able to get an antidote in time. If he had waited much longer, I'm not sure he would have been able to get it, but it's doing its job. They should both be awake soon." Kat smiled at the rangers to reassure them.

The rangers nodded and headed out of the Command Center to go wait for Sky and Bridge to wake up. The sooner they talked to their friends, the sooner they would be able to put this whole thing behind them. They waited outside of the infirmary until Dr. Felix came out.

"Cadet Tate is awake now, but I've given him some sedatives for the pain, he may be a little out of it, but you can go in now."

"And Bridge?" Z was hoping he would be awake too.

"Not quite there, but he should be waking up soon as well." The man patted her on the shoulder as they entered the room.

Now that he was not covered in his own blood, Sky looked a little better, but the bruising and swelling was starting to really show now that time had passed. Her perked up a little at the sight of his friends. Jack was the first to speak.

"Hey, buddy, how are you feeling?"

Sky laughed a little and winced. "Probably how I look, but the medicine is helping."

"What happened?" Syd sat down on the end of the bed.

"We went to investigate the noise complaint, but we knew something was wrong as soon as we got there. We were checking the building to see if anyone was there, but it seemed empty. Bridge could feel something was off and did a scan, but before he could tell me what he saw, a bunch of guys jumped us and knocked us out. Next thing I know I wake up alone tied to a chair in one of the rooms. Then this crazy guy comes in for information and tells me Bridge was dying and there were hostages. I wouldn't give anything up, so he had his goons do this a few times." Sky spoke slow trying to remember everything that happened.

"How'd you escape?" Z hated to think of what he had gone through.

Sky shook his head and looked over to the bed next to him. "Bridge. One minute that guy says Bridge doesn't have much time, and the next the guards are unconscious and Bridge is untying me. He knew everything that was going on and was able to steal tranquilizers to knock out that guy's men. We fought them downstairs, but were able to get the hostages out."

"That's sort of amazing." Jack looked over at Bridge's bed as well.

"Someone talking about me?" Bridge mumbled under his breath as he began to stir.

"Bridge!" Z came over to check on him.

Bridge opened his eyes. "Hey. Am I okay?" Before anyone could answer Bridge answered for himself. "I am, good."

"I'm going to go grab Dr. Felix." Syd left the room.

"Sky was just telling us how you saved the day." Jack smiled at him.

Bridge shrugged. "I couldn't catch him though."

Z came closer. "But you got the hostages and Sky out. We were about to trade for you guys."

Syd came back with Dr. Felix, Crueger, and Kat.

"Cadets Tate and Carson, it's good to see you awake." Crueger nodded at the two.

Dr. Felix began checking Bridge over, but the rangers wanted to know how they got out.

"So how did you do it, Bridge?" Jack was eager to understand what went on in the building.

"The guy that did all this was waiting for us. He knew about our abilities, and thought he knew about mine, but he didn't know enough. They put this doctor in with me to pretend and be a captive, but she was working with them. I knew that almost as soon they put her in the room with me. They took my gloves away and gave me a drug which was supposed to lower my control, make me confused so I'd babble them information, but I was able to keep control the entire time. I was able to read Dr. Jackson's mind and aura to tell me what they were doing. She makes chemical based weapons which they want to use to gain control of the city. I was able to get the antidote from her and knock out the guards with the tranquilizers in her bag."

"You did all that?" Syd could not believe it.

Bridge nodded, but noticed the look on Kat's face. "I know what you're thinking Kat, and yeah my abilities are evolving at a rapid pace, but so is my body to withstand the changes. A few months ago this would have overloaded me and there's no telling what would have happened, but I handled it all fine."

"Once you are fully recovered I want to run some tests, just to make sure your body is keeping up with the changes." Kat was still worried.

"Oh! I almost forgot, they thought I didn't know what I knew so I was able to feed them false information without them knowing…"

"What?" Jack was not following.

"I told the doctor that we don't keep heavy weaponry here. It's all in an underground warehouse in Sector 14, and then I pretended that I didn't know what I had said. I think she fell for it."

"Sector 14? You mean where the emergency food stores are kept?" Syd was confused.

Bridge nodded. "The guy in charge will look into it, and when he sees S.P.D. around he won't know there aren't weapons inside. He'll be going there soon though, probably going to hit it since he knows you guys are distracted analyzing what happened."

"Your quick thinking in the midst of a crisis is admiral." Crueger was impressed with Bridge. "Rangers I want you to go stake the warehouse out and try to bring this criminal in, but go with caution, we cannot have another incident like earlier today occur."

Jack, Syd, and Z saluted. "Yes sir!"

"In the meantime you two still need to get some rest. We will leave you to it." Crueger motioned for Kat to go first out of the room.

Once the rangers arrived near the warehouse, they went into a building across the street to stake it out. Just like Bridge had said, about two hours later a van pulled up outside the building. A thermal scan revealed seven people inside. It was not long before they got out and went inside the building. Jack, Syd, and Z took that as their cue to follow them in. They got into S.W.A.T mode and stormed the building.

"Hold it right there!" Jack pointed his Delta Enforcer at the men.

They seven men did not listen and rushed at the rangers with their laserss pointed. They all shot at the three, but each ranger was able to avoid the attack with ease. The men got a few good hits in, but for Jack, Syd, and Z, this was personal. They took down each man, and got them surrounded. After they were found guilty, the rangers carded them.

"I don't think the leader was here." Syd un-morphed and looked at her friends.

Z did the same. "Maybe one of these goons will tell us what we need to know."

Back at the base, Sky was trying to get some rest, but could not manage to get to sleep. His whole body hurt and his mind was racing about the events from earlier. He looked over at Bridge whose eyes were closed, but his face was a little scrunched up.

"You awake?"

Bridge opened his eyes looking at the ceiling. "Yeah, head's pounding too much."

"Everything finally catching up?"

"I guess so, but I feel a lot better than before."

"Well you aren't throwing up blood, so I'd say that's an improvement." Sky sighed. "I don't think I told you thanks yet, you know for saving me and everyone else."

"You would have done the same thing if you could have. I was just able, so I did."

"We almost died and thanks to you we didn't, you were a hero out there today Bridge."

Bridge smiled a little. "Thanks. I'm just glad the guy that planned all this didn't understand how my abilities worked. If he had, then we probably would be dead right now"

"I can't believe he had been watching all of us for so long and we had no idea." Sky shook his head.

"Yeah, he had a plan for all of us, but he's not going to give up until he's caught, and now he's just going to get mad if they catch his men and bring them in. This isn't the last we've heard of this guy."

"We'll get 'em Bridge, don't worry."

The next day, Dr. Felix released Bridge and Sky from the infirmary with orders to take it easy. They headed into the Rec-Room where the other rangers were. Syd smiled at the two.

"Glad you see you guys out of bed."

Sky lowered himself with caution, holding his ribs. "Yeah, only to be sent to the couch."

"You're not in any condition to fight yet, just give it time." Jack could see the pain on Sky's face.

"None of those goons are talking." Z looked at Bridge who made his way to the bean bag chair.

"Even if they wanted to talk, I'm not sure what good it would do. That guy wouldn't even tell them his name, so I highly doubt he'd let them know where he was hiding at." Bridge had tried to get that information out of Dr. Jackson with no luck.

"We'll find him." Jack assured the others.

"I don't' think we'll be able to find him unless he wants to be found." Although it sounded like a guess, Bridge was certain of this fact.

The rangers stayed with Bridge and Sky for the rest of the day. They talked about what had happened a little bit, but then they veered off onto other topics, which relieved the two. They did not want to dwell on the past if they could help it.

That night Bridge and Sky went to their room to try and get some sleep. It was the first time they had been alone to really process what had happened. When they were in the infirmary, they were so out of it sleeping was not much of a problem, but now they were both finding it difficult.

Sky could hear Bridge tossing and turning in his bed. If it were not for the pain he was still in, he would have been too.

"Can't sleep either?"

The noises on Bridge's side of the room stopped. "No."

"I'm not usually one to talk about stuff, but maybe we need to."

Bridge sighed. "What's there to talk about? We almost died, but we didn't and now we're here like none of it happened."

"But it did happen, and yeah we were both really close to being ended. That's kind of a big deal don't you think?"

"It's a huge deal, but we survived. Everyone survived. I'd say that's an accomplishment."

Sky shifted a little. "But that creep is still out there, and even though we have most if not all his men, he's still got whatever he was working on before."

"He's definitely a threat." Bridge agreed. "He's not working with Gruumm, which means sooner or later we may have to fight on double fronts."

"If we ever get to go back in the field."

Bridge smiled a little. "It's only been a day Sky. Your swelling hasn't even gone all the way down yet."

"I know, I just hate sitting around doing nothing." Sky sighed.

"Kat said as soon as we are well rested and pass our psych evaluations, we can go back." Bridge moaned a little. "I hate psych evaluations, I never know what they are going to think. The way I talk, the way my mind works, I always think they are going to call me crazy and kick me off the squad."

"That won't happen. You've done these things more than anyone, so you'll be fine." Sky laughed a little.

"Hey!" Bridge threw a pillow at Sky.

"Ow, you can't throw stuff at a wounded comrade."

"I think I already did." Bridge laughed.

The boys felt better as the night went on, and were able to get to sleep. Sky slept for most of the night, but Bridge kept getting woken up by the same strange dream. He could not process it yet, but a bad feeling was beginning to develop in the pit of his stomach.

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