Chapter 4
Chapter 4
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Bridge stood up and walked over the computer screen which was now displaying everything from personal logs to highly classed information. "How did you do that?" Bridge asked as he and the other rangers looked at Isinia with a look of awe and reverence on his face. Isinia laughed.
"I created the code." She said growing more amused as their faces reached a greater level of shock.
"But how..." Sky managed to stutter out.
"Rangers, Anna was the scientist but I was the head engineer. That's why I attended the academy, and that's how I first met Doggie. I was in training as a mechanic and he was a cadet. " By now Bridge had turned his attention to the files and was eagerly sifting through them.
"If you were an engineer then why don't you help out Kat?" Syd asked growing more curious by the second.
"Because it isn't my place." Isinia explained gently. "Kat is the scientist and the engineer here. She knows she can come to me for help or advice, but she also knows that I'm not a threat to her job. Just because Doggie is the commander doesn't mean I can do whatever I want." Syd was about to ask another question but Bridge interrupted her.
"Isinia who else had access to these files besides you?" He was looking at a particular file trying to detach a hidden file from behind it.
"No one." Isinia said startled. "We were evacuating the base because of a wave of oncoming toobians. Our defenses had been pummeled for months on end and had finally collapsed. I had already sent my students away with anything the troobians might use against us and was in the process of setting the code so they couldn't use our own technology against us. There was only one other Sirrian there, Jetral. He refused to leave without me. I got the code set and grabbed a repair and medical kit and we started running. The troobians had breached the front doors so we were forced to take a rear exit. I heard someone shout so I stopped and started to turn around. I think I saw another Sirrian but I'm not sure, I felt like my head exploded then everything went black. When I came to I was in a cell with Grumm standing over me." Isinia shivered at the memory.
Flashback
"Isinia we have to go! They're at the front doors!"
"You go! If I don't get this code set we're gonna be easy targets!"
"Hell no! I leave you and you get hurt Doggie will have my head!"
"Done, now lets move!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
"Jetrel did you..."
Grumm standing over her, smiling. "Welcome to my home..."
His evil laugh ringing in her ears long after he had gone. A sign of things to come...
She shook her head to clear the memories.
"Isinia do you think Jetrel..." Z faded out the question not wanting to accuse someone she didn't even know. Isinia sighed.
"I don't know. At first I swore up and down that he could never do something like that, But after twelve years of thinking about it I'm not so sure."
"Whoa." Bridge said as he finally brought up the hidden file. It was a reconsigns file on Sirrius. As he pulled up the screen and set the first file to play. An image of two Sirrians arguing appeared. When the image cleared they could see a younger version of Isinia yelling at a gray, angry looking male Sirrian. They appeared to be in a workshop The real Isinia let out a quiet growl.
"I'm telling you, its not stable!" The young Isinia yelled.
"Well I say it is!" The male responded yelling just as loudly.
"Rat, you idiot! If you turn that thing on you'll blow the base of the face of Sirrius!" The male seemed to think a moment.
"Fine. I'll trash it on one condition."
"And what might that be?"
"You don't go out with Simion tonight." The younger Isinia looked startled.
"Why?"
"Because that's what it will take for me to trash my project."
"Fine! I'll tell him something came up." She glared at him. "You owe me big." The younger Isinia walked away growling. When she was gone another male Sirrian with dark red skin entered the lab.
"Dude, next time you need some one to piss off Icy don't come to me." Rat said leaning against a desk and letting out the breath he didn't know he'd been holding. The second Sirrian just chuckled.
"Well it was the only way to stop her from going out with Simion tonight." The second Sirrian replied.
"And we couldn't just tell her he is using her, why?"
"If I told you Morgan was using you your first reaction would be..."
"What the hell have you been drinking?"
"Exactly we have to let her find out herself, plus knowing Icy she probably would've knocked you on your ass." He said laughing.
"I thought she was going to anyway." The second Sirrian looked thoughtful. "What if I asked you to piss off Gwen?" Rat looked horrified.
"Dude! I don't have a death wish! You seriously must be drinking some strong stuff if you want me to do that!" The other Sirrian laughed and held up his hands to fend off Rat who was coming towards him.
"I was just kidding!"
"Huh. Some joke."
The screen faded out. All the rangers looked at Isinia expectantly. She sighed. "The first male I was arguing with was Jarat. He was studying fighting and mechanics. The second male was Capiem. He was studying medicine and he over heard Simion boasting to his friends. He got Rat to make up a plan that was so wrong in its design I wouldn't let him carry it out. Then I got into the yelling match with him and cayos followed. It took me a week to find out Simion was using me. After that I bought Rat the best tools around as a thank you gift."
"What happend to Simion?" Syd asked, curious about how Sirrians broke up.
"I punched the little weasel in the jaw so hard that I cracked it. I told him if he got within a hundred feet of me ever again I'd crack his skull instead of his jaw." She said smiling at the grim memory.
"You cracked his jaw because he dumped you?" Sky asked a little nervous.
"No, actually that was how I dumped him. When I was young I was extremely picky about who I went out with. Simion and his friends knew this so they made a bet to see how long he could lead me on. I over heard them talking about it and confronted him. The end result of that confrontation was him sitting on the floor holding his face." Isinia grew thoughtful. "Its odd that the spy saw that."
"What do you mean?" Z asked, confused.
"Well the incident with Simion took place right before Doggie and I started dating. We had been dating two years when he proposed and it took half a year to plan our wedding. We had our fifth anniversary during the war, so that means the spy had been watching us at least seven or eight years. What I don't understand is how he blended in with us so well. Everyone knew everyone, that's just how we were. An outsider would have had to done considerable studying to be able to live among us for a short period of time without being found out."
"Maybe the other files will tell us more." Bridge said as he started the next file. The image took a minute to focus, when it did the rangers could see the younger version of Isinia they had seen earlier. This time she was sitting at a desk working on a model of a zord in what appeared to be a lab. The rangers were startled to see a younger version of their commander enter and walk over to her.
"The answer is still no, Anubis." The younger Isinia said without looking up from her work.
"Whoa. Calm down now, I just wanted to talk." The younger version of Anubis said as he sat down beside her. "What are you working on?" Isinia sighed as she set down the tool she was working with.
"Its a new zord design. The old ones are slow and have very little fire power or protective armor. This one will keep you and all the other fighters from being fried." She reached down to pick up the tool she had set down. She frowned and looked down finding it was no longer there. She looked at Anubis. "Alright you little thief, give it here."
"What are you talking about?" He said innocently.
"Anubis what will it take to get you to leave me alone?" She said as she grew more frustrated.
"Give me chance. One date." He said quickly as he studied her face.
"Why so you can win the bet?" She answered in disgust.
"No." He said firmly. "Not all males are like Simion and his crowd." He added gently. "Please just give me a chance to prove it to you."
"Fine. One date." She said in defeat. "Now will you please give me my burner?" Anubis grinned as he handed it to her.
"Meet me by the front doors at six. See you then." He winked at her as he walked away. She rolled her eyes at him.
Instead of stopping the file as he had done previously Bridge decided to let them play on. The new file came up and showed the lab from the previous one. It was empty except for a single red and white flower laying on the desk Isinia had been working at before.
Isinia walked in and moved towards her work station. She noticed the flower on the desk and picked it up. There was a note under the it.
I enjoyed last night. Please meet me for lunch in the mess hall at noon.
-Anubis
Isinia smiled. "Icy what are you doing?" A dark golden Sirrian asked as she entered the lab.
"Anubis left this." She said holding up the rose. "He wants me to meet him in the mess hall for lunch."
"Are you going?" The other Sirrian asked as she walked over and leaned on the desk Isinia was standing in front of.
"What would you do Anna?"
"I would go. Anubis seems like a nice guy. His cousin has been telling me about him on our dates. I don't think you have to worry about him hurting you." Anna smiled. "You never know, you two might be ment for each other." Isinia rolled her eyes.
"Enough about me, hows your love life going?" She asked as she sat down behind the desk. Anna's smile grew more intense.
"Sy is wonderful! We've been dating for almost a year and we only seem to grow closer!" She sighed. "Life is good." Isinia smiled at her friends excitement.
"Its starting to look that way."
Bridge let the next file play. This time there was no picture only sound.
"Emperor Grumm, I have been watching the female as you have directed. It is pointless, she is young and worthless. Let me do something meaningful." A gravely voice said.
"No. I have been to the future and I have seen. This female will become one of the most brilliant minds produced by Sirrius. When I attack Sirrius for its resources I want her. She will be the key for putting it all together." Grumm's voice said.
"Yes master." The first voice replied.
As Bridge paused the files Isinia stood up and walked across the room. He had been watching her all along and she never knew. She took a deep breath resisted the urge to run and find Anubis so she could bury her face in his shoulder and cry. "Isinia are you ok?" Z asked. She was growing worried about the female Sirrian.
"I'll be fine Z." Isinia said as she walked back over to stand beside Bridge. "Let's finish these files." Bridge started the next file. An image of the younger version of their commander appeared. He was wearing a black dress uniform and holding Isinia's hands. She was wearing a silver dress with an SPD badge pinned to the right side of it. They were both standing in front a console in what seemed to be a command center. An older black Sirrian was standing behind them. The rangers guessed that this was the commander. As the screen widened out the rangers could see that it was, in fact a command center and it was packed with Sirrians and other aliens.
"I now pronounce you husband and wife. Anubis kiss your bride." The Commander said. Anubis smiled as he stepped close and kissed Isinia long and deep while the other beings in the command center cheered. As they broke apart he picked her up and carried her out the command center. The entire group proceeded to an open field out side the command center. The field was on the edge of a lake and was packed with Sirrians, Felines, and many other species who began cheering at the sight of Anubis holding Isinia. Music started playing as he set her down. "Want to dance?" He asked his new wife as he held out his hand. She smiled and took it.
"I'd love to." They walked in the direction of the music.
Bridge stopped the files. Isinia smiled sadly. "That was the happiest day of our lives." She said.
"Why did you two go to that field?" Syd asked. Isinia looked at her.
"Sirrians loved to have an excuse for a feast. When Anubis and I got married everyone in the base gathered together. There was dancing, and music, and food and everyone had a great time. When the sun went down bonfires were lit and the fun went on into the night. When people got tiered they left. Everyone thing was perfect." She explained in a voice filled with longing. "But we need to finish those files." Bridge started the next one. At first the rangers thought that it was their commander who knelt if front of a huge monument that stood in the foyer of the Sirrian base. As the light got better they could see that the Sirrian was actually a female, and that her skin had a red tint to it along with the dark blue. Their commander entered looking tiered and worn out.
"Gwen..." He started.
"Why Anubis?" She interrupted him. "Why did they have to kill him? First Anna and Sy then the boys...Now Tobias." She stopped her throat choked with tears. "Kill me." She whispered. "Please brother, I can't bear the pain."
"I can't do that Gwen." He said as he walked forward. "If you die think of what it will do to mother and father. They already lost two of their children, and now they have lost someone they see as a son." He paused as he knelt beside her and pulled her into his embrace. "Please don't leave me. I need you" He said softly as she sobbed into his chest.
Bridge let the next file play. As it began the rangers could see Grumm standing over the still body of Isinia.
"Well done, Astrix." he said.
"Thank you master." The gravelly voice replied. "Master, how do you plan on making her serve you? She is strong willed. Se won't be easy to conquer." Grumm smiled.
"Someone can only be sent to the brink of death so many times before they break." He replied laughing.
Isinia reached over and stopped the file. "I'm sorry rangers but you'll have to go through these files without me." The rangers could see the haunted look in her eyes.
"It's ok." Bridge said as he stood up from his chair. "You were a big help." She smiled at him.
"Thanks Bridge." As she left Bridge took off his glove and read her aura. He was stunned by what he saw and felt. Raw emotion were rolling off of her. Pain and fear, sadness and desperation, hope and longing.
"Bridge, you ok?" Sky asked as he waved his hand in front of his friend's face. Bridge blinked.
"Guys, there is no way Isinia could have been the spy." Referring to their earlier conversation where they had been discusing the probability of her being the spy. He sat down to finish going through the files. They had less than four hours before Mirage used her spy again.
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In the next chapters, the spy is reveled and Commander Cruger nearly loses the one thing keeping him sane as Mirage pushes him to the edge.