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It Was You All Along

Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers.

Everyone in the gym gasped and cheered as Sky and Tylor engaged in a heated sparring match, many times Sky had the upper hand but Tylor was not going down easy either, when Tylor saw himself losing to Sky he used his powers to visualize which move Sky was gonna use next and countered Sky's attack and kicked Sky causing him to fall back. Z and Bridge's eyes widen.

Sky then gets up and glares at Tylor and says "Use of superpowers inside SPD is prohibited Tylor."

Tylor then replies "But you have no problem when Z uses her powers while training cadets commander."

Z then looks at him "Ty, I only duplicate myself to show how to spar, and many cadets learnt techniques pretty fast when they saw me fighting with my duplicate, including YOU." Z emphasized on the 'you' part.

Z then glares at him and Bridge says "Tylor apologize to the commander."

Tylor then sighs thinking he really went out of line this time and apologizes sincerely to Sky "I'm sorry commander. I went out of line."

Sky then glares at him but still says "Forgiven. Keep your emotions in check Tylor. And if you want to fight with powers we'll do it another day and then we'll see where you stand." Tylor simply looks down.

When Kyle sees everyone staring he says "Hey everyone why don't we get back to working out."

Everyone gets back to their equipments, Bridge gets back to continue sparring with Kyle and Tylor sighs and walks picks up the dumbbells and trains.

Z then looks back at Sky and asks "Sky are you alright?"

Sky simply glares at her "Ofcourse I am Z, you think I won't be alright after sparring with a cadet?"

Z then puts her hands up as if to surrender and says "I was just asking grumpy." and walks towards the treadmill section while removing her music player from her bag. Sky then sighs and continues his workout.

After the very eventful time in the gym, Z walks out of one of the gym bathrooms after having a shower in her uniform, her hair done in french pleats with bangs in the front, she then sees Boom coming with RIC and smiles as RIC comes towards her wagging his tail, she chuckles and bends to pet RIC, and then jokes about something causing Boom to laugh out loud, Tylor sees her and smiles simply thinking about how perfect she is, Sky who was walking with Bridge sees Tylor's face as he stared at Z, Sky couldn't help but feel jealous, he calls out "Cadet Smith."

Tylor snaps out of his daze and rushes to reach the commander and salutes "Yes sir?"

Sky says "At ease. Where's Kyle?"

Tylor opened his mouth to say something but then Kyle said "Here sir." as he saluted.

Sky nodded and looked at Kyle "At ease. I want you and Tylor to go and search Sector V for a criminal named Bradraks."

Bridge looked at him confused and said "Sky..I mean commander...didn't you just..."

Sky gave Bridge a look which indicated him to keep quiet and said "Bridge, you and Sophie will do patrolling in Sector 17."

Bridge smiled at him saying "Commander, you are the best." and saluted and ran finding his girlfriend leaving Sky smiling at his old friend.

Tylor then said "Sir, Bradracks is a big criminal, K and I are new what if we need backup?"

Then Z came and said chirpily, always ready to help "I'll come then if you guys need backup I'm free today anyway!" and went towards the command centre.

Sky rolled his eyes, whether he admitted it or not, he wanted to keep Tylor away from Z, and said turning to the boys "Only if you need backup that is... I'm sure both of you are capable enough to handle Bradracks yourself. Am I right?"

Both boys, happy with the commander's confidence in them said "Yes sir!" saluted and left. Sky then started walking towards the command centre. He saw Z doing something on her computer.

After sometime when Z saw no one but Kat, Sky and herself present in the command centre she whined "How come I don't have any assignments today Sky!? Everyone's out doing something and I'm bored."

Kat smiled, Sky glared at her and said "You want work? Here input these in the mainframe computer."

He said passing her a big file.

She simply rolled her eyes "Excuse me I'm the blue ranger not the Commander's P.A., and I HATE paperwork!" She glared at Sky throwing the file back at him, Sky chuckled as he caught it.

"Fine. You're on D-squad training today."

Z then whined almost making a crying face "I did training yesterday!"

Sky then shot back "It's an order Cadet Delgado, I'm the commander not the blue ranger's P.A."

Kat laughed and Z then growled getting annoyed and stormed out of the commander.

After she left both Sky and Kat laughed and Sky said "I love being commander."

Kat rolled her eyes still smiling "Yeah yeah, you say it everyday, I still remember the time when you first joined SPD and in your first drill you fell in the pile of mud." Kat said laughing.

Sky's face completely fell as he complained "Kaaat, would you ever let me forget it!"

Kat winked at him "Never." Sky glared at her and went on to do his work.

Z then went to the field for her training with the D-squad cadets, they were already present and were talking and chatting amongst themselves none noticing that Z had come.

She then took their report file and studied it while saying "Settle down cadets." And when some of them still didn't stop talking she looked up from the file towards them and shouted "Cadets! Attention!"

All the cadets stood in that position not moving an inch. Z then saw Sam and smiled towards the boy and he smiled back. Z then summoned her duplicate and started teaching them many fighting techniques as they saw both Z's fighting they got a clear idea, then they were paired up and made to fight, Z observing them closely.

Sky saw her teaching them from the command centre windows and smiled when suddenly he heard a crash and ran towards the computer screen, Kat who was closely monitoring the fight in front of her gasped when she saw the monster hit a powerful blast causing both Tylor and Kyle to degrade from SWAT mode, and said "Tylor and Kyle are in trouble Sky, they fought hard but even in SWAT mode Bradracks is too tough for them, I'll tell Z to join them."

She was about to connect Z when Sky said "No wait!"

Kat looked at him confused, Sky then said "I'll go, Z is training the d-squad cadets."

"But Sky she wanted to..."

Sky cut Kat off and said "I know what I'm doing Kat" and rushed out.

In Sector V, both Tylor and Kyle were hit hard and both fell on the ground demorphing while falling. Just then they saw the shadow ranger come... Sky then hit Bradracks hard with his shadow saber and continued fighting valiantly, Bradracks was already tired fighting Tylor and Kyle, so it was easy for Sky to finish the deal.

When Bradracks was contained, Sky demorphed and rushed towards the Smith brothers both injured badly and groaning in pain, Sky then removed his morpher and said "Kat send in the SPD ambulance, Tylor and Kyle are serious!"

Kat replied "It's on its way Sky, it should reach any moment."

Just then a gray ambulance with SPD logo screeched to a halt in front of him and both the Smith brothers were taken in, Sky ran to get on his shadow patrol cycle.

In the infirmary, both the brothers were being treated, as Sophie put a bandaid on Sky's arm, Z and Bridge were simply sitting and thinking.

Sophie then asked "Why didn't they call for help? Bridge and I were patrolling and Z was in the academy! We could have easily helped!"

Z replied "That's what I was thinking. Maybe they were trying to prove to Sky that they are worthy to be rangers."

Sky felt guilty and thought 'Shit I just put both of them in danger, I was about to send Bridge, Z and Tylor to contain Bradracks, but I didn't. Why am i so jealous of Tylor? And I knew they would need backup but I gave them false hope that both of them could contain Bradracks. Next time I will not let my emotions get the better of me.'

With this Sky looked towards Z and found Z already looking towards him, she asked "Everything alright Sky?"

Sky shooked his head and said "No. I made wrong decisions and Tylor and Kyle had to pay for it."

Bridge just looked down and sighed and Z was about say something to console Sky, just then came and said "Both of them are out of danger but I am afraid they need complete bedrest for atleast a week to recover."

Sky nodded "Sure anything Dr."

then left telling them to meet the guys the next day as they are sleeping. Sky immediately left the infirmary, Z saw this and was about to follow him when Bridge stopped her and said "I know you and Sky are bestfriends now and I hate you for that."

Z chuckled, he smiled and continued "But right now I think I should see him." Z nodded and Bridge then kissed Sophie and ran after Sky.