3 long months of abandonment, has this story received. *tear*
I think you lot deserve the next chapter at least, right? I hand wrote it all and just never typed it up. (You can blame college for that...)
Thank you to the 3 that left reviews for chapter 7. Love you loads :D
And so...
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Every minute more the drive to the beach took, Bridge's apprehension rose. It was so extremely risky but he had to fight and he had to win. He only hoped it wasn't too late.
He pulled up a little way from the cave, drawing the blasters and walking cautiously up the beach.
Ah, so you did come.
Great, his cover blown already.
You're too late. Broodwing is already here to take your friends to Gruumm. The Emperor is most please, especially now he can exact his revenge on Cruger.
The Other was just visible at the mouth of the cave, watching the green ranger's approach.
"Stupid ranger." He said aloud as Bridge got close enough to hear.
Bridge paused a dozen feet away, if not more. The Other's current body was tall, powerful and obviously from a rather feral species. It had long claws on it's fingers, fangs dripping from it's jaw. It was practically armoured and all the bits that were not were heavily furred, or feathered. It was hard to tell.
"Ah, I forget this is the first time ypou have seen mu current body." The Other grinned, exposing even more teeth, if that were possible. He took a step forwards and Bridge snapped up the blasters to a firing position, his shoulder hurting in protest. The Other paused.
"So you know what it takes for me to switch host? Very well. Just got to force you to still then." He looked over his shoulder.
"Banshu! Bring me a ranger would you? Any one will do."He called, rather too calmly.
Bridge started forwards then stopped as he remembered he couldn't physically attack his foe. "Let them go!" He shouted, then fired once. The Other took the laser blast, unmoving as Banshu appeared with Z in tow. She was unmorphed and looked slightly battered and bruised.
Bridge was some what unused to duel blasters but he trained one on each of the criminals anyway, looking between them and very unsure what to do.
"Let her go!" He didn't know what else he could have said. It sounded so corny.
"Bridge! What the hell are you doing here?! Go back to SPD!" Z tried to pull away from Banshu but he tightened his grip on her arm. The Other looked between them.
"I'm not a completely unreasonable being. A straight swap will suffice. Yellow ranger for green." He grinned again now, loving it as Bridge visibly squirmed.
"Don't, Bridge." Z looked straight at him now and her expression gave the green ranger an idea. He slowly holstered one laser; a mock show of faith.
"Alright. Okay." He said eventually. Banshu relaxed slightly. Z must have felt it as she dropped forwards and her eyes flashes yellow as she cloned. The three Z's took Banshu down in a single synchronised kick, then two of the three continued to fight as the third went to Bridge.
"Blaster?" She asked and bridge gave her the one he was holding, drawing the second again. They aimed again towards the criminals but the other had gone. Banshu knocked the one remaining Z clone to the floor and it vanished. He looked up to find two blasters on him and two very irritated rangers.
"You're under arrest for attacking SPD officers, murder, theft, assault and uh... loads of other really bad stuff. Judgement mode!" Bridge declared.
"What?! No!" Banshu protested as Bridge held up his morpher in judgement mode. Then the bird laughed it's mocking, cawing laugh. "This doesn't change a thing. My friend has taken your friends to Gruumm and you, my green friend, will be taken as a new host for my Other."
Bridge tried to ignore him as the red cross showed. "Guilty. Like. Really guilty. No suprises there." He said after a moment's pause, trying to ignore the laughter that rang in his ears.
"Blaster time?" Z suggested and Bridge nodded.
The shot hit the bird straight and there was a small tongue of fire before the containment card clattered to the sands.
Up on Gruumm's ship, the Other howled.
Bridge went to pick up the card but ended up sitting next to it instead. Z eventually crouched next to him.
"Long couple of days, huh?" He said after a moment.
"You can say that again." She replied.
"Long couple of days—Oh right. Saying. Not literally." He paused. "I never thought I'd say this but I wish I wasn't morphed."
Z nodded sympathetically. "Let's go back to base and see what Kat says." She stood and offered her hand. Bridge took it and she helped him up as he picked the containment card from the sand.
"One day, a really large amount to go."
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All done. A short one, I know, but the next bit fits better if this bit ends here... if that makes sense? Read and review, my lovelies! :sD
