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Infections and Romance
"They were melting and were burning." Doggie repeated what Kat had just told him and all the rangers who had just been called in to hear what Kat, Dr. Felix and the scientists and doctors had figured out.
"Yes. None of them were in the same place for any of the victims." Kat looked down, "Sir," she looked back at Doggie, "They're dead."
"Dead?"
"Yes, all of them are dead. They died within an hour since they were…infected."
"So it was a virus?" Sky asked.
"A virus of some sort. We're still running tests on it to try and figure out more. We do know, because of what happened to that woman that it can spread through touch, but that's about it."
"Alright, go and figure out all you can from it."
Kat nodded and left the Command Center. Doggie looked at the rangers, "There's not much that can be done right now, be prepared for anything. Dismissed."
The rangers gave the salute and exited the room. "Can you guys believe that?" Devon asked, "Pretty freaky."
"Yeah I wonder where it came from."
Devon looked at Bridge, "You think it didn't come from Earth?"
"Well it would make sense."
"Maybe it's just a new virus."
"I don't know Devon; I think Bridge has a good point." Z said as she turned towards him.
"Alright, suppose it did come from off Earth, how do we track it?"
"By questioning all those prisoners we have." Sky said finally speaking, "We have 15 of them."
"Sky, we might not be able to." The yellow ranger said looking up at Sky.
"We're going to have to."
"Kat took them, and after seeing what came out of their guns…" Z didn't really need to go no further as even Sky realized what she meant.
"Can't we try and figure out about the aliens?" Asked Bridge.
Devon smiled, "That's a good idea. They have shots of the aliens, we could figure out if there's any connection with them and the humans from Earth, and if they're all from Earth."
Sky nodded, "That sounds like a plan. Let's go talk to Kat." And with that the four headed off to Kat's lab.
Hours later all four rangers had gathered in the Rec Room exhausted from the extensive study. "Nothing." Bridge said as he sat on the couch. "I couldn't find anything in common about their planets. None of them are even in the same area."
"That's alright, all evidence shows that these are good people." Z replied while rolling her eyes.
"They attacked the bank and stole some money. I looked at the report and they didn't steal anything."
"Nothing at all?" Devon asked.
"No." Sky was quiet for a minute before speaking again, "You don't think they put the virus in that bank, do you?"
"If they put it in the bank, those people will have become infected and brought it home." Z replied.
"Hang on guys," Bridge said sitting up a bit straighter, "Think about it. There was all the shooting and the explosion. Yet not everyone was infected."
"So you mean that can't just put it in the air to spread?" The green ranger asked Bridge.
"I don't think so."
"So what's the point of the virus? Did they accidentally have it? Or…" Z shook her head as she fell silent along with her other companions.
"I bet it was planned. It just didn't do them much good." Sky said.
"Unless they wanted to be in a card." Said the blue ranger.
The other three rangers gave him a look and then Devon spoke up, "Maybe we should try and see if there's a cure."
"Kat and her team are studying it, there's not much we can do right now." Sky said.
"Alright. Fine." Devon threw his hands up, "So now what? We wait?"
"There's not much else to do." Z said.
"They're right." Bridge said looking at Devon who exhaled and leaned back in his seat.
Syd sat on her couch watching the news. They were discussing the events from earlier. She wondered how those people were. Looking at the time she grew worried when she hadn't heard anything yet. That had to be it. It was terrifying just like they said. But how they were going to stop them when they were able to use the air to infect people…
Syd stopped and went back in the news. They were shooting guns, but they weren't normal guns, something from the guns had infiltrated those people's systems causing them to receive the virus. Although they hadn't counted on it being spread simply by touching the person. Breathing out Syd cocked her head to the side as she watched the medics cleaning up the mess. They were calling it a gas explosion. Right, like that would cause someone's skin to…Syd shuddered just thinking about it.
Turning off the TV she got ready for bed. Just as she was laying down in her bed and ready to go to sleep her phone rang.
Without looking at the name she picked it up, "Yes?"
"Oh good. I was afraid that you were going to be asleep."
"Martin? What's this all about?"
"Look. The cameras caught you."
"Well of course, they tend to do that."
"No, I mean on the news."
"Well we were there, remember?"
"I know. But…look I think now would be a good time."
"Good time?"
"There is a good chance that we will find reporters outside the studio tomorrow."
"Martin, please just get to the point. It's late and I'm tired."
"Alright. Tomorrow Tomas is going to come and pick you up and you guys are going to seen coming together."
"Tomorrow!? Martin, I haven't…well I can't…why tomorrow?"
"Because of what happened."
"No, that'll look like we've been sleeping together and we haven't even gone out on a proper date. Well so to speak."
"Well then fine, if you don't like that idea, here's another. When they come up and start asking questions you can answer a few of them and then Tomas will come and whisk you away."
"Whisk me away?"
"Yes."
"To the studio?"
"Look it'll get people starting on about it again."
"I don't really want to play up what happened yesterday."
"Syd, look this will be best for the movie."
"Martin…" Syd stopped and realized that she needed to get close to Tomas and this would help her. "Alright, he can come and whisk me away alright?"
"Perfect, I'll call and let his agent know."
"Great."
After hanging up Syd ended up not going to sleep for a while. Her mind raced with thoughts of that virus, those people, Tomas, the movie, Z, Sky, Bridge, Devon, Tomas, Bridge and how he would see her soon…until she finally fell into a light sleep.
