By ValerieRichards
Author's note: As I said in the last chapter, I'm going to skip Katastrophe, History and do parts of Missing and Badge. Insomnia will be the next episode I do. I'll also probably skip Resurrection, but I'm not sure yet. I wanted to do something in this chapter; it may be kind of weird, but I thought Jaycen might do it to annoy Sky. You'll see when you start reading. ; )
POV: Jaycen.
Chapter 11
I didn't want to, but Commander Cruger ordered me to stay out for the next mission. I had been told to take a break, that I wasn't in trouble, but he thought I needed some time to myself. He had also let Sam have a week off from his classes and training. During that week, I took him to an amusement park and won him a big, white stuffed bear.
"Sam! Catch" I called one night. He caught what I'd thrown at him with one hand and looked at it. He smiled and even let out a giggle.
"This is so cool! Did you make one for the older me" he asked me grinning. I had sewn a little doll/plushie of what Sky had told me Sam had looked like when they had met him. It had a smaller version of his jeans jacket and red hair. I made a slightly bigger version of it for the older Sam, but his had blonder hair like he did.
"What's..." the older Sam began. He was interrupted by the doll smacking him in the face. He caught it as it was falling to the ground. He looked at it and snickered. His doll had a white shirt with the SPD logo on it and blue jeans.
"I made one of Bridge too" I said holding up the second Bridge doll I had just finished the night before. On the ones of Bridge, I made Bridge's green eyes a little bigger and his mouth was slightly open as if he was about to start talking and he was also grinning from ear to ear. I looked at it and smiled. That fit my best friend almost to a tee. I had also made Bridge; the dolls; small green SPD t-shirts and black pants.
"Is that going to be...Sky" the younger Sam asked laughing as he picked up a doll form that was going to be the second Sky doll. I nodded and turned back to my work on my current version. I had just finished his face and was working on his hands. I had put the look I had seen on Sky for a long time. The doll's eyebrows were pointing towards its blue eyes and its mouth was only a small thin line.
"Here Sammy, look at this" I told him two nights later when I was done with both of them. I showed him one of the dolls. I had made Sky's SPD uniform; he was almost always wearing it; as well as a little book firmly attatched to one of its hands. On the book, I had my amped up sewing machine etch SPD Handbook on the cover. Sam fell into fits of laughter.
"Hey Jayce" Bridge called to me as he passed me to go into his and Sky's room. Sky followed soon after giving me a suspicious look at my grin. I was sitting in the common room that had their quaters connected to it. Mom had come to visit a week earlier, but had left to go back to Silver Hills with dad the day before.
"Kat was a ranger? Cool" I said as Bridge finished telling me about the monster they had stopped. I was waiting for either him or Sky to say something. Sky hadn't even come out of the room yet.
"Oh, by the way, Jayce. Look what I found" Bridge said holding up both the Bridge and Sky dolls I had made and put in their room when they were out. Sky came out of their room just as Bridge held the dolls up. Sky eyed the dolls; his especially; and came over.
"What is that and why is it wearing my uniform? Is that me" he asked as he grabbed it from Bridge's hand. I nearly fell off the couch laughing at his face. It was a mix of curiosity, annoyance, and something else.
"Well, it...he's holding the SPD handbook and he's wearing the suit you wear all the time. Plus, he looks like you do and he even has the same color eyes and hair as you; and he also has the same expression you have some times. It's gotta be you; well a doll that looks like you" Bridge said trying to make Sky's face. I started laughing again at Bridge's imitation. It was perfect!
"Oh my gosh! You have a Sky doll!? It looks so cute! Who made it? I want one of me" Syd said bouncing up to us and taking the doll from Sky. She looked at it and smiled.
"Yeah, it looks perfect. It's definitely Sky for sure" Jack teased taking it from Syd and holding it next to Sky's face. Sky glared at him and Jack and I started laughing. He looked like the doll now!
"Why is Sky trying to look like that doll? Who made that, that's great work" Z added walking over. Sky rolled his eyes, but grabbed the doll back. Bridge held his.
"You're a pain; you know that" Sky sent to me. He gave me a look from where he was standing. The others were too busy looking at the doll to notice.
"I've got one too! I like mine! Whoever made it is good...and sneaky" he pipped up tracing the mouth and smiling. Syd reached over and took Sky's doll from his hand again. Sky yelped in surprise.
"I like the little handbook Sky's holding" Syd said fingering the book in the doll's hand. I had made the handbook before I began both Sams' dolls. Mom had been good with the needle and thread and stuff like this and I took after her. He took the doll back from Syd; making the others look at him.
"Hey! Jayce probably worked hard on this" he said defensively. The others turned to me. I shrugged my shoulders and smiled. Bridge turned to me and smiled like his doll.
"Wow Jayce! This is awesome! I love it! Thanks" he said pulling me into a hug so quick, I nearly squeaked in surprise. After he let go, Syd pounced on me. Bridge ran his hand over the doll again and hugged it tightly.
"Can you make one for me Jaycen? Please? You don't have to do it right now, but I want one! They're so cute! Can mine have a dress? Oh, and some other clothes too? Please" she asked me. I laughed and told her I could do that. Jack and Z; surprisingly; also asked me to make one of themselves for them.
"You should show them ours mom" Sam said from the door. I looked over at him and he nodded. The younger Sam had already let me borrow his. I pulled out both of their's and Syd squealed a little and took them.
"This is really good Jaycen" Z commented as she took the younger Sam's doll. Jack, Z, and Syd didn't call me Jayce like the others, but I guessed it was because we weren't that close. I took out the first one I ever made; my doll. Sky laughed at my doll's outfit. I had made my favorite outfit; a gold, low cut t-shirt, blue jeans, and long black boots with no heels. He thought I looked weird in that outfit. My doll had black eyeliner and had gold eye shadow like I wore everyday.
"You made one of yourself" Bridge said happily grabbing mine and having it 'talk' to his. I rolled my eyes, but smiled. I turned to Sky and told him about my two extras. Bridge and Sky both blinked.
"Why would I throw it out? I like it Jayce" he said giving me a quick kiss on my forehead before going to his room quickly. Bridge continued to stare at me; my doll and his in each of his hands. He shrugged and went back to having them talk while Syd began to tell me about the outfits she wanted me to make. The next week passed with not many arrests and no attacks from Grumm. Then, one night, I had dream.
"Jayce! Be careful! Bork put me in a room; I don't know where it is, but the walls are moving! I heard a church bell, a train, fog horn, and buzzer...Jayce! He's behind you! LOOK OUT" Bridge yelled to me. I looked to Bridge's voice and saw the walls squash Bridge as he he continued talking and felt someone behind me. I spun around and saw a flattened Bridge and jumped.
"Mom? Mom! MOM" a voice yelled making me shoot up in bed. I saw both Sams looking at me worriedly. I was sweating and I climbed out of bed. I pulled a robe on and paded out of the apartment with my key and a quick 'I need to go out' to both Sams. I walked around in the dark halls until I reached my destination. The door swished open.
"Ugh, Jayce" Sky's tired voice asked through the darkness. I padded in without asking if I could come in and moved towards the opposite bed from Sky's. The little green eyes and wide smile of Bridge's doll peeked out from over his arm.
"Thank you" I whispered quietly. I heard two feet hit the ground behind me and a form loomed behind me. I knew who it was though; I didn't have to worry about being attacked. My heart was still pounding in my chest.
"Jayce, what happened? What's wrong" Sky's voice piped up again; this time closer, but still as tired. Bridge turned over and moaned. I kept staring at Bridge. I gulped.
"Wha...? Jayce? What's wrong? Jayce is attacking us" Bridge asked Sky sleepily. He rubbed his eyes. A moment later, his green eyes looked up at me. A pair of strong arms wrapped themselves around me.
"Jayce, are you ok" Sky asked. I didn't move or even say anything. I was still running through my nightmare again and again. Bridge sat up and then stood up a moment later. He began to tip backwards, but caught himself. He placed his gloved hands on my arms.
"Jayce, did you have a nightmare" he asked me rubbing his eyes again. He looked at me and I nodded after a minute. I have very few nightmares, but when I do, they're usually really bad. I had needed Sam; the older one; to sleep in the same bed as me for a couple of nights after we were kidnapped.
"I'm sorry Bridge" I apologized. Bridge shook his head; he knew about my nightmares. I had one at his house once when we were young during a sleepover and Bridge needed to sleep in the same room as me.
"Uh uh. Don't be. Stay here" he mumbled. He went to put me in his bed while he moved to the floor. I stopped him and took the floor and laid there. Bridge looked at me once to make sure I was ok and feel asleep. Sky followed a minute later and I did as well a couple minutes after Sky. I thought I heard the swish of the common room doors, but I was probably imagining it. The next day, we were sent to look for Bork.
"Follow me" Bridge called. He hoped onto a nearby box, over a road block, back onto the box he hoped off of, and onto a cart while sticking his leg up behind him. I let out a small snicker. I was stil nervous, but Bridge's antics helped a little. Sky sighed and rubbed his head.
"Ok, we don't have to do that; do we" Z asked looking between me and Jack we both shook our heads. She sighed in relief. I wanted to say that Sky had to do it, but kept myself quiet.
"No sign of Bork, Commander" Sky reported. I felt my stomach do a couple of flips again. I stood next to Bridge. Did I have a premonition dream; as Bridge called it. I wasn't psychic, but still; it could happen to others. Couldn't it?
"Right" everyone said when Jack said that we'd split up. Bridge and Sky went together while Sam followed Z and I teamed up with Jack. As we searched the area, Jack turned to me.
"Are you alright" he asked me. I glanced to him and then back at my surroundings. I was on edge. Bork might kidnap my best friend and kill him.
"Uh, not really. I had a dream with Bork and Bridge" I confessed to Jack. Cruger heard what I had said and sent word to Bridge to be careful. If anything, we didn't want to repeat what happened with the three aliens. About a half hour later, Bridge wasn't responding and was missing.
"The suggestion and the order were good ones" Cruger told Sky and Jack as they both took responsibility for Bridge's disappearance. I was pacing behind the two of them and was probably wearing a hole in the floor.
"Sir, I should've gone with him. I had a dream that Bridge was going to be in trouble; I should've known" I said stopping for a moment. I began again until Cruger cleared his throat.
"Cadet, how were you supposed to know that it was going to happen for sure" he asked me. I looked down at my feet. I didn't have an answer, but I still felt guilty.
"I'll go" Jack volunteered when Commander Cruger mentioned that we needed to take action. Sky volunteered as well and I looked over at him. He was worried like I was. I stepped up.
"Commander, I should go. I think I know where he is. I can get to him faster than the others can with my bike" I said. Jack and Sky looked at me. I told the three of them about my dream, but not what Bridge had said in my dream. Cruger nodded.
"Go, and don't come back without him" he told me. I nodded, saluted to him, and teleported to my bike already morphed. There was no time to waste and I took off. I'm coming Bridge! I'm not going to lose you this time I thought as I pushed my bike to the limit.
"Jack? Jack" I heard from inside my helmet a while later. I gasped and nearly fell of my bike at the sound of his voice. He was ok!
"Bridge! It's Jaycen, I'm headed towards you! You heard a church bell, train, fog horn and buzzer right" I asked him. There was a silence on the other side and I thought he was hurt for a moment.
"Yeah, how'd you know" he asked. I knew where he was and I was getting closer. I told him how I knew and that I was on my way. I had seen the place in my dream and I needed to get there quickly. As soon as I got there, krybots were waiting for me.
"Oh come on" I yelled. I sighed and revved the engine before speeding off towards the metal foot soilders of Grumms. Bridge needed me and I wasn't going to let him die. I battled with the krybots for a couple of minutes before I just decided to shoot them and run them over with my bike. I saw a box with some pieces of plywood on them; a perfect ramp to jump the fence. I was glad none of my parents were here to see what I was going to do; they'd have a heart attack and commit felony murder. Turning around, I got into position. I sped at the krybots and shot at them and jumped the fence perfectly.
"Good, because I'd say I've got twenty seconds left" Bridge said after I told him I was almost there. I held the handle bars of my bike with my knees and used my blaster to shoot at it while using the ones on my bike as well. Adrenaline gave me extra stregnth, so I used it. I jumped the crumpled wall and jumped off my bike.
"Bridge! Take my hand" I yelled to him after I smashed the floor. I had heard something moving under me and knew I was right above Bridge. I yanked him out just as the walls smashed together. It would've been nice to be able to use my teleportation power, but I couldn't from surpressing it too long. I sighed. The dream didn't come true.
"Thanks Jayce" Bridge said as I brought him over to my bike. I picked him up off the ground from where he fell and pulled him into a tight hug. I clung to him; happy that he was safe.
"Are you alright" I asked him pulling away a little. He nodded, but took out his morpher. I yanked him into a hug again and he dropped his broken morpher. I felt his arms wrap around me.
"Jayce" he asked. Before I could say anything, I was interrupted by a loud barking; RIC. Bridge pulled away and bent down as RIC came over.
"Good dog" I said as RIC dropped a morpher into Bridge's hand. He looked up at me and smiled. I smiled back and watched as he stood up and morphed. We hurried back to base and got into our zords; Bridge into his SWAT fighter. I hurried to Sam and caught him as he was coming back towards me. The monster went to shoot us, but the flyers got to the monster first.
"The flyers" Sam yelled as we watched them transform into the SWAT megazord. I watched them fight from my megazord; my heart was still pounding in my chest. The rangers brought him up to space and I gladly stayed down with Sam. Bork would be Bridge's to contain and I thought I heard him do just that. We met back up in the command center; Sam being the last to enter. Cruger went down the line we were in and complimented us.
"Jaycen, your determination and courage to find your fellow ranger was exemplary" he said when he got to me. I smiled. When he finished, he called me to him. I blinked as he told me that he had been the one to follow me to Sky and Bridge's room; and that, while it was normally prohibited, he allowed it since he knew about my nightmare. I sighed. I wasn't going to get punished.
"Jayce" Bridge called as he saw me walk out of the commnd center. He'd apparently been waiting for me this entire time. I almost had a flashback to when I had tried to talk to Sam about the reason behind his apology.
"Is everything ok" I asked him worriedly. He cocked an eyebrow before he realized what I was talking about. He assured me that he was fine.
"Jayce, was that what your nightmare was about" he asked. I looked at the ground, but nodded. I told him about the whole dream. Bridge stopped me and pulled me into a hug. We stayed like that for a moment before he told me not to be afraid to tell him if I had a dream like that again. We grabbed my doll and his and Sky's and sat in their common room playing with the dolls. We may have looked immature, but neither of cared; we needed to let loose.
Ok, so I've decided that History and Wormhole won't happen. I'm planning something WAY bigger for next chapter; a large team up between multiple teams. I agreed with others when I saw that Tommy was stuck in his suit in Wormhole and wasn't even in History, so I'm going to add him in my story. Him and another legendary ranger. Also, I wanted Sky and Jaycen to have another connection to the Power Rangers. You'll see next chapter. ;) Also, the next chapter is somewhat of a song chapter. Only the end has part of a song I like and it fits what's coming up.