AN: This is my second Challenge from astrum-faith. Now let me say about the challenges: I amnot out of ideas I just wonder what others might want to read. This is an exercise in writing and a bit of a stress reliever for me. Sometimes it's hard to convince myself to start writing so I use the challenges as motivation. Thank you to Kat Ranger for the Review and I have an interesting interpretation of your challenge. So here is Bridge.
Thread 006: Bridge's Voices
Sing to me of all your days and let your voice be lifted by the wind it might just overcome the whispers...
He talks constantly letting whatever he comes up with just roll right out of his mouth. He doesn't care what others think of him it's what he needs to do if he talks then he can't hear them. No one else has any idea what it's like to have them follow you every where. To hear them in your dreams and when you are awake. It never stops ever... day after day, night after night they are constantly with him the voices are everywhere. The older ones say it's because he's so young and with more training he'll be fine. As he grows and works very hard on his training and they start to fade. As he becomes a teenager the shouting becomes whispers and the whispers become murmurs that fade into the background of the day. His constant chatter fades but the effect of sometimes stating the obvious and simple answers remains because he's done it for so long it has become an action of comfort. He finds it even more comfortable after he leaves home. Though he can still to this very day feel his family's love. He feels it all the time, they're feelings are in the gloves they gave him just before he left to join the S.P.D. He wears them constantly because he misses his parents and his siblings. His oldest brother would always allow him to talk and never say anything bad or make fun of him. His father's and brother's like him had powers but were not as strong as his but it helped them understand his need for talking. They spent so much time together it was hard for the boy to leave. However, his family put their love into the gloves and so he keeps them never trading them for another pair and always knows they are there for him. He had a few friends at school and such but they never stayed if they could be friends with the more popular kids and so Bridge was often left alone. He would sometimes pretend to be confused just to get a laugh out of the ones who did talk to him and it was a habit that stuck.
Meeting Sky for the first time was an... experience. It felt like a bucket of ice water being dumped on him. Though after a few weeks of working with Sky, Bridge saw through the icy exterior and into the heart they lie underneath. He was driven by an intensity to match himself up to his father and a drive to be as good as a man as his father... Bridge had not meant to learn what drove Sky but one day he did. It had been an innocent question he and Syd had been trading stories about their fathers he kind of knew Sky's father had been apart of S.P.D. but hadn't really KNOWN anything. Bridge joined because he had learn innocently enough that his power could help people and it made him feel good to help people. The result of an innocent question had been a HUGE mess but in the end it brought the three closer together. It made them closer thus making them stronger and so together they rose through the Ranks of the S.P.D. He had been at the academy the longest and had worked very hard. His best friend having just left and having him put on a team with Bridge did not make for a good week for him. That didn't help Bridge and Sky's relationship at first.
When he first meet Syd it was something else entirely she was a flurry of emotions. She seemed very "Self-Centered" on the outside but on the inside she had a heart of gold you just had to stay in the same room long enough to see it. Her parents gave her "everything" she wanted, love and affection but in the end she felt alone being an only child. Like he and Sky her powers made her outsider, all the other kids didn't want to be her friend because they liked her, but because she had money. That fact made her have a very lonely childhood and that was something both Sky and Bridge could understand. Syd though was full of life always going on about something being upbeat, and optimistic. She had a stubborn streak like there was no tomorrow. He would sit and watch her and Sky clash because it was the best form of entertainment. She was one of the few who could take his bit of rambling and turn it into a simply strait forward sentence. He didn't really have any friends outside his family and since his parents and siblings could understand him easily he never really learned to talk strait only to ramble in circles and a combination of his powers and theirs would allow him to get his point across. She was just like one of his sisters and they had made a formidable team.
He had to admit Boom was probably the only other person who really understood him and his love of computers. However, it was great to have someone who would just sit and talk to him as if he was another normal person and it was wonderful. They would sit and talk for hours about nothing and everything. Every time he felt down about being a student Boom would help him see that he wasn't as bad off as he thought. He would amp up his self confidence and it was great to be treated like anyone else. He had never met someone so clumsy but that was part of Boom being... well Boom.
He had been at the academy for five years where as Sky had been there most of his life being one of the youngest to be accepted. Syd had come along and they were still getting to know each other when they had been promoted to B squad and that day he was on cloud nine all day being boosted by Syd and Sky's emotions as well. They had banded together and were able to use their powers in combination to become a undeniably stoppable team. He could even explain how happy he was when they were promoted to active status and then to get their morphers had him bouncing off the walls all that night. He was sure Sky was really going to strangle him after the second time he had struck a conversation related to being them becoming a power ranger that day and he kept it up all night long. It was amazing that Sky didn't kill him.
When he saw her...Elizabeth Delgado... his heart skipped a beat. When they came face to face to fight he really didn't want to have to fight her. However, she and Jack didn't give them a choice and so they fought. He was extremely happy to see her on the training grounds he couldn't help but speak out even to the annoyance of Sky. He couldn't help but enjoy the fact she asked questions and gave a serious effort to learn things about S.P.D. Sometimes he would get a smile from her that he knew was only for him and he enjoy it more than 'buttery' toast. He loved that she had a big heart and was willing to help someone no matter the cost to herself. She was the first between her and Jack to understand that sometimes it was hard for him to physically interact with out people. He was so attracted to her that at times couldn't help himself but want to be close to her. Like when he would sit and watch her read while eating his 'buttery' toast two things he enjoyed more than anything. As far as 'buttery' toast there were at times she would take a piece and eat one herself he was happy she was willing to enjoy something with him. He was glad that he had gotten to meet her and enjoyed spending time with her when he could. She even was willing to sit and listen to him and Boom talk about computers for hours. He knew that he really should act before he lost her to someone else.
Then there was Jack... he could from the beginning sense there was something beside genetic powers about Jack that was important. He wasn't stealing things for himself and especially after he returned to help them against the Krybots Bridge could see that there was something more to him that meets the eye. Personally he could have knocked Sky out for being a pain about the fact they were thieves but that was Sky. He was glad when Cruger showed up and stopped Sky. However, Jack had proven that he really wants to lead the team even if he does make mistakes from time to time it was apart of being human. He and Jack stood on uneven but stable ground. Jack didn't always know what to do with him but he had learned quickly to trust Bridge and Bridge's instincts no matter how weird he got. He was quickly becoming a big brother to him and somehow it didn't hurt his relationship with his brother at home and Bridge revelled in it.
However, in the end they were mere humans even with their genetic powers and that's why they were currently getting their butts kicked. Bridge was all for NOT trying to take down the big ugly thing walking their way. He couldn't help it after the Sergent's Krybots he was just exhausted. He didn't want to argue anymore with anybody as he had been with Sky. He was mentally exhausted, his body hurt it was not just from battling Grumm's forces. It's from the stress lately having everything all tight and cramped and pushing people to their limits and it was getting hard to take. He hoped that somehow here on this crazy planet they could get it together and finally start working together as a team again... soon. They made it easier to bear the voices that followed him no matter how loud the voices were screaming. After all no matter what he did they were his friends and no matter how much they stressed him out he was their friend as well.
"Ready" Jack
commanded, and the others responded with "Ready!!"
"Ready"
He stated unenthusiastically... this was going to hurt a lot. At least here on this planet there were no voices to scream at him.
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There my Bridge Request... it wasn't what I was going for at
first but I like it.
What do you think
good? Bad? could be better?
Cheers!
