Chapter 9 Personality Issues

The Common Room was a busy place in the morning. Both squads were sitting down and having breakfast together at one table. They were being very loud as they ate their breakfasts and discussed what they had planned for the day.

"Robert can you pass me the syrup?" Syd called from across the table, as Samantha reached across the table to grab the coffee pot and make herself a good cup of coffee. Jack sneakily stole one of Sky's bacon and placed it on his own plate. Silence fell across the Common Room when the doors opened. Katie stood at the entrance wearing a red uniform and morpher. She silently hobbled over to the couch to sit alone. Her left hand was wrapped in bandages revealing the fact that she was burnt the day before. They all looked at her in silence as she had her back to them all. Bridge slowly got up and quietly grabbed a glass of apple juice, Samantha seeing what he was going to do tried to stop him but she didn't quite grab hold of him before he was out of reach.

"Here, this will make you feel better." Bridge sat down and then handed Katie the glass of juice. She looked at it for a moment before taking it in her hand. She slowly sipped the juice and as she did, everyone got up and sat with her. Though, Bridge and Samantha sat at Katie's sides, as if they were her protectors. Once Katie had finished with her juice Samantha checked on her.

"How do you feel now?" Samantha asked knowing that she wasn't going to get any in-depth answer.

"Okay I guess." Katie shrugged as she answered. After a few moments she struggled to stand, but with some help from Samantha and Bridge, she was on her way. Syd looked sadly at C-squad.

"Will she be okay?" She asked in worry, Robert put on a fake smile.

"With time she'll be fine." He nodded and tried to be positive though both squads was worried about their friend.

Katie made her way to the girl's room for some rest. She typed in the code with her good hand and entered the room. All was quiet till there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Was all Katie could say, Bridge walked into the room to find Katie sitting on her bed.

"Are you feeling Okay? You've been acting weird since….you know." Katie nodded at his question, but never spoke as she crossed her arms and rubbed her upper arms. Bridge sighed, as he knew that something was wrong with her. "Katie? What's wrong?" Bridge asked as he sat down beside her.

"I can't get his anger and hate out of my head. It was as though I could feel his every emotion." Katie said just above a whisper. Bridge gave her one of his genuine kind smiles.

"It'll pass." He slowly placed a hand on hers and the little action caught her off guard. As his eyes caught hers they inched closer, and closer. Their conversation was the last thing on their minds. They had gotten so close that they could feel each other's breath mingling as got closer together. Cautiously, though confidently, their eyes slid shut.

"BEEP! BEEP!" The two then jumped apart as the sound of their morphers beeping at them caught the two off guard. They quickly looked at the little gadgets and immediately ran out the door.

The doors slid open as they ran into the Command Room where the rest of the squads were waiting. Commander Cruger stood in front of everyone.

"Rangers, there have been reports coming in from all around the city of a mysterious alien being chased. The alien could be a Troobian, I want you to investigate."

Somewhere in Newtech City….

A creature with huge ears was running not many people noticed him as his height was right below a human's waist. Sneaking around is his forte, though staying in the shadows and being quiet when he needed to was his downfall. Soon he found a good hiding place hidden from view, and a bonus of his hiding spot was that it was dark, his eyes quickly and easily adjusted since the minimal lighting was what his eyes were adapted for, even though he could see in bright areas without much of a problem. But that was just a defect. His race lived in shadows, they were rarely seen by outsiders, and even rarer was one of them being banished from their home planet.

"KLANG!" The creature kicked a can he quickly turned back towards the entrance of his hideout. As his huge ears caught the sound of the mechanics of robots running in his direction he quickly took off again, clenching a shiny memory card in his hand.

With the Rangers….

"So, we're out here with no clear idea what we're supposed to be looking for." Robert muttered, he didn't mind the missions, but he did mind the fact that they had close to no information to what they were looking for. As they walked around their morphers beeped as their quarry was near. The Rangers walked down an alley to see if it was there, they saw nothing no aliens no monsters, nothing. Until, something grabbed hold of Samantha's legs almost making her fall down, except Sky caught her arm and kept her from falling.

"Hey, if I'm gonna fall, LET ME FALL!" Samantha shouted at Sky. She didn't like the fact that he still thought that Katie and herself didn't belong in the positions that they're in, and she didn't want to seem weak or that she needed someone else to help her out.

"Gee, Samantha, he was only trying to help you. You don't-"
"Whatever." Samantha cut Z off as they had found their quarry. "It's seems we have found our quarry."
"Or it has found you." Jack spoke up, but they didn't have much time to chat as the robot had also found their quarry.

The Krybots stopped when they saw SPD. The Rangers got in their ready positions, except for Samantha since she couldn't do much.

"Help me! Help Butterfingers! Please help me!" The little creature cried looking up at Samantha.

"Get off me!" She shouted trying to pry they annoying little creature off of her legs so she too could fight the Krybots. Katie, Tyler, and Robert all looked back to see Samantha having a fit behind them. Just then, another robot appeared from behind the Krybots.

"Awww…SPD. What a surprise." Katie looked over at Jack, she had seen the grey headed bots before those were Krybots and relatively easy to destroy, but she had never seen an orange spiked one before.
"What is that thing with the Orange Spikes?" Jack quickly answered her; he had forgotten that they have only fought the Krybots, C-squad needed to stay on their toes during this fight.

"That is a Spikebot; they're more dangerous than a Krybot." The Spikebot spoke again, he wanted the little creature preferably alive and if SPD took it with them, well his boss wasn't going to be happy.

"Now hand us the pathetic monster and we'll be on our way." Tyler looked at the Spikebot to Samantha who was still fighting with the creature and back again.

"Not in your life time." Tyler spoke up getting ready for a fight when Samantha finally stood up, the creature was just attached to one of her legs not both, making it so she could stand but still have a difficult time of moving around. Katie looked back at Samantha, knowing that she was not going to be happy, but they need to keep that thing safe.

"You stay here. We'll take care of these guys. You just take care of…..it." Inside Samantha was mad at Katie's decision, but the more she thought about it. It did make more sense to have her out of the fight instead of getting into a heap of trouble. The little creature looked at the Spikebot.

"You Evil and Ugly! I spit on You!" The look on Syd's face said it all; it was a look of 'We are so dead.'

"Attack! And bring the little monster to me dead or alive. And if the Green Ranger won't give him up, then Kill her as well!" Both squads wondered what the little creature had done to get on the Troobian's capture or kill list.

"Damnaigh," Samantha muttered as she tried to grab hold of the freaky creature, so that if they had to make a run for it she could run.

"No!! NO!!!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! MUST PROTECT BUTTERFINGERS!!!!!!!!!!!" The thing screamed at the top of its lungs. Samantha tried to avoid the fight, while prying off the insane freak that wouldn't let go of her.
"Get the HELL OFF OF ME!" Samantha yelled at the top of her lungs.

"Samantha DUCK!" Robert yelled from behind her. She looked up to see a Krybot jumping right at her.

"Oh, Cac!" She did as Robert instructed and ducked as Robert's leg swung over her head and knocked the Krybot over. The Blue Ranger looked at his friend slightly worried that she was going to do something crazy and stupid.

"Are you alright?" Samantha nodded before Robert took off again. B-squad was trying to takeout the Spikebot before it could take Samantha out and the freak with her. Samantha quickly became fed up with it and she was irrated about the fact that everyone else was fighting around her so; she used her power to dispose of the little creature.

The alien fell to the ground in the middle of the fight, where anything could happen. It looked and searched in panic for anything to grab hold of or to climb on to. All it could see was feet all over the place, it ran and darted in every direction to avoid being stepped on or captured. It looked all around in a panic trying to find its green savior. Just then it caught Samantha in the corner of its eyes.

"MINE!!!!!!!!!!" Samantha had no idea that her 'attacker' would come from the ground. The creature smile grew bigger and bigger as it got closer and closer to reaching the Green Ranger. When suddenly someone hit him from the side, it had inadvertently tripped Sky onto his backside. As Sky started to stand again, another person fell on top of his chest causing him to fall back down. He shook his head and saw that it was Samantha who had landed on his chest and was looking back at him. Under the helmet, Sky was blushing a deep, deep red. He could feel the heat rising to his cheeks as he thought, 'It's a good thing that we were powered up or we might have mashed lips or……something.' The thought made him shudder and then again…. 'Stop it Tate! You're better than this!'

Samantha looked at the person that she fell on top of, and at first she thought it was Robert, but then she realized that she had just landed on top of Sky Tate, and once the realization set in she began blushing; 'Sky is strong emotionally and physically…..' Soon she realized what she was thinking, and where she was. 'Oh, cac! I'm in deep now' she thought as she tried her hardest to get off of him, as she almost got off of him, she was pushed back down by the creature that was seriously asking for a death wish, or something.

"Hey! Pervert!" Samantha shouted at Sky, the insult brought him back to reality.

"What?! Who are you calling a pervert? You fell on me!" Samantha was about to say something else when Sky rolled the two of them over so that he was on top of her, making the situation even worse. Samantha began to push Sky off of her; she just wanted to get out of this awkward position. Thankfully the creature had realized that it might get squished so he let go of Samantha and hovered near trying to latch back onto her legs.

"Pervert! Get off of me!" Sky got off of Samantha, just so when she tried to get back up again the creature threw itself at them, knocking them back down, and leaving Sky on bottom, again.

"Cadet!" Sky yelled trying to gain his composer, it was awkward, but he didn't want to listen to his squad tease him about becoming tangled up with the Cadet he did not like. Samantha looked back the little creature that was attached to her legs once again.

"I really HATE YOU!" She shouted at the creature, Sky called to Samantha again causing her to shift her attention back to him.

"Cadet! GET off of ME!" Samantha looked back at the Blue Ranger she was on, it wasn't helping that he kept on yelling at her, and that the creature was not going to let go of her no matter what she did or tried.

"Shut UP Sky!" Samantha struggled to get back to her feet which were a feat in its self since the creature had once again grabbed hold of one of her legs, making it even more difficult than what it normally would have been. Once she was on her knees, Sky sat up and looked at her, as a Krybot came closer trying to get the creature or kill it and whoever stood in its way.

"You're the Clumsy one who fell on me." Sky spat out, Samantha's eyes narrowed at that and things began elevating as she tried to focus and throw the Krybot into a garbage bin. They both looked up to see both squads just staring at them. 'Great.' They both thought as they knew both squads quite nearly saw or heard the whole thing.

"Yay! Frogger saved Butterfinger!" At that Samantha snapped, it kept her from participating in the fight and it caused her to fall on Sky, it really made her upset.

"No I did not save you, you were a nuisance, and the others saved our buts!" Seeing Samantha suddenly snap everyone slightly edged away, they weren't sure what she would do especially with her telekinesis.

"Hey, Samantha, calm down." Syd tried to calm her down. "Let's just go back and report to Cruger." Watching Samantha treat the creature badly Katie decided that Samantha needed to be yelled at.

"Samantha Joyce McQuade!" Hearing her middle name being used was more than enough to make Samantha shut up, and having it been Katie that used it she decided that she was going to stay silent for the rest of the day. "That is ENOUGH that thing has had a bad enough time without you making it worse."

At SPD Headquarters….

Heading up to the Command Center was difficult for Sky and Samantha; needless to say they were being teased about how they got tangled up. Not to mention they had just realized that the creature is attracted to flashing lights and shiny objects. This was going be oh so much 'fun' talking to Cruger while trying to keep the creature from hitting all of the buttons.

"OOoooh! Shiney!" The creature again tried to escape from Samantha but she had enough for one day, when he wasn't holding onto her leg with a death grip, she held onto his hand with a vice like grip. Samantha pulled and tugged at the creature, it had seen another light beginning to flash.

"Come on!" She dragged the creature across the room, trying to keep up with the squads, and keep the creature moving away from the lights.

"NO, SHINEY!" As they got closer to the Command Room, they started having more problems controlling it. They all passed Boom in the hall heading towards the Command Room also.

"Hey guys! How was it?" Bridge stopped next to his friend, and told him the truth.

"Not well." Then Boom caught a glimpse of the creature attached to Samantha, he took a step backwards he did not want to be around if and when they all got into trouble for bringing it into the base.

"Oooohh, Cruger's going to kill you all." Boom told them and walked the opposite direction of the Command Room, probably for a good reason. As they also passed some of the older Cadets in the halls, some of them called out and taunted the Rangers.

"Dead Rangers Walkin'!" Hearing that made everyone have second thoughts about taking the creature to the Command Room 'It's our funeral' Robert kept on thinking in the back of his head. They opened the Command Room door's and walked in silently.

"Well Cadets has the problem been solved?" Cruger asked never turning around to face them.

"Um, Yes it has been Sir." Jack replied, Samantha glanced at Jack and then looked down at the creature that wanted to run around but seemed to be slightly terrified of the Commander.

"Wait." Samantha said as she got down to Butterfinger's eye level "What's in your hand?" She asked the creature as Cruger turned around to see a Stickyfinger, one of the Galaxies sneakiest creatures.

"My Shiny." Samantha sighed, and thought quickly, 'Shiny, shiny, wait I've got something shiny'.

"Ok, see this?" Samantha pulled one of her necklaces out from under her shirt; it was an Aquitaine necklace that looked as if it had been shined up earlier that day. His eyes followed it as it moved back and forth. She took it off and made a fist around it. "I'll give it to you if you give me what you're holding on to." The creature instantly dropped what he was holding onto the ground and immediately tried to open Samantha's hand. Samantha opened her hand and let it take her necklace that was one of her prized possessions, but she didn't need to think about that. She picked up the object that the creature hand dropped. Katie took it from Samantha and took a look at it.

"I'd say a…..four Gig memory card." Katie analyzed the object rather quickly as, Robert poked at it.

"What's it for?" At that both squads stared at him, either he was being stupid, or he truly didn't know what a memory card is.

"Storing memory." Bridge answered, being shocked that Robert had no idea what a memory card is or does, kept him from explaining how it stored memory and why it stored memory.

"Even I know that." Syd spoke up, being one of the least tech savvy on both squads suddenly felt a bit smarter.

"I know that, but what's on it." Robert replied, everyone thought for a minute each forming their own assumption.

"Where did it come from is the question." Sky stated as they all stared at the object, C-squad was just hoping that they were wrong and that they didn't know whom the card belonged to.

"Hey, little creature, can you tell us where you got that memory card?" Z asked the creature hoping for a semi intelligent answer, that could help them figure out where and whom it was stolen from.

"Acquired from creepy guy with shiny eyes." His answer confused everyone, it was so vague and there were many people who are creepy, but the shiny eyes was the confusing part, how could someone have shiny eyes.

Cruger gave a low growl as he shook his head, "Kat will analyze the card. As for you all, do something with the Stickyfingers and get to bed". They all turned to leave when Cruger stopped Katie, "Cadet Davis, you wait for a minute". The black haired girl answered, as far as she knew she hadn't done anything wrong. Well besides that before the fight she slightly noticed that the creature's hand was in a fist as if it was holding onto something.

"Yes Sir?" Cruger looked at her, and informed her about something that she might or might know of.

"As Red Ranger is it your job to report all information. Do not make your fellow Cadets do the work for you. You have night duty tonight. Dismissed."

Common Room….

The rangers all took a closer look at their new little alien friend. Commander Cruger wanted them to do something with the little guy, but if they threw him out, Krybots would get him. If they put him in a containment card, they'd never get him to shut up, and putting him a holding cell might be a bad idea as well.

"What is he?" Robert asked getting just a little too close. It reached up and took Robert's badge that glinted in the light of the room, off of his uniform. "Hey!" Tyler shrugged, as it began admiring the badge and tried to get it to reflect the light again.

"A deformed elf." Tyler had never seen Harry Potter but he had seen the previews there was a creature off of those movies that resembled it, but then again there was Star Wars, and Yoda. The creature seemed to be a cross between a creature from Harry Potter and Yoda. Z giggled, as she explained the creature to them, there was times that she couldn't tell that they were from the past, but when something like this happens it made her giggle.

"No, he's a Stickyfinger. They're known for stealing things from others. Cruger doesn't want him around because they take things." Samantha looked at the Stickyfinger as he played with his new treasure, true it was an annoyance, but having a creature like that on their side could prove to be a good thing.

"What's his name?" The Stickyfinger quickly answered, without looking up at the people who were talking about him, he was too busy trying to catch the light and make the badge shiny again.

"Butterfingers! Me Butterfingers! I drop too may treasures, no Stickyfingers like me. Me outcast." Katie walked in to see them all huddled around the monster, or creature she haven't decided which it was yet.

"Hey…" Katie spoke as she sat down and kept her eyes on the creature as it played with someone's badge.

"Katie, can we keep him please?" Samantha begged and begged, she tried to make the pouting face that everyone told her she had when she wanted some coffee or dark chocolate, and needless to say it didn't quite work. Her friend backed away, as she realized that they might just get a 'pet'.

"I thought you hate him?" Katie made a valid point and as she made it Samantha shrugged, as Robert then spoke up, he knew that it would be bad news if they let him out of the base, well that was if it didn't attach itself to Samantha again.

"He has nowhere to go." Katie sighed she knew that she also needed the okay from B-squad if it stayed.

"Well what does B-squad have to say about it?" B-squad kept out of the conversation fully knowing that the Stickyfingers was most likely going to stay.

"As long as he's not staying in my room I'm fine with him staying." Syd spoke up it was dirty and slightly smelly. Plus it wasn't her idea to keep him, so it wasn't going to come near her room. Z nodded her head in agreement with her roommate, she too didn't mind it staying but it was C-squad who wanted it to stay so one of them should keep it in their room.

"I don't want him in my room." Jack stated right off the bat he agreed with Syd as long as the creature wasn't in his room he was fine with it staying, Bridge thought for a second and then spoke up.

"Well, it can't stay in Syd, and Z's room, because Syd doesn't want him to stay in their room. Jack doesn't want him. Sky," Bridge slightly looked at his roommate, who just crossed his arms and scowled, "does not want him to be near him. Well that leaves C-squad." Everyone was confused for a second and as they realized and understood what he was saying, Tyler spoke up.

"He is not staying in our room Robert." He took Robert's badge away from Butterfingers, causing the Stickyfingers to cross his arms and start to pout. Samantha and Katie looked at each other.

"Please?" Samantha asked, trying not to beg which was also not working.

"Fine, but you're separating the bunk beds." Katie wasn't too pleased that the Stickyfingers was going to stay with them, but there was no other alternative. 'Great.' Sky thought he wanted that creature to leave especially after the embarrassing moment it had put him in.

Night Duty….

Katie sat up in the Command Room watching the screen flash and makes an occasional beeping noise. Watching the computer screens made her feel sleepy, thankfully before anyone came in she heard something that did not belong anywhere near the Command Room.

"Ooh! Shiney! Bright Light! Bright Light!" A very soft voice spoke as Katie caught the glimpse of light shining off of some big eyes. 'Great.' She thought, 'I'm in trouble and have to stay up on Night Duty when Samantha's 'pet' just has to show up.'

"Butterfingers!" Katie shouted just enough to startle the creature, but quiet enough for no one else outside of the Command Room to hear. The creature stopped in its tracks and looked around and saw Katie glaring at him with her arms crossed. Butterfingers tried to grin, but it came out as a very guilty smile across his face.

"Hi," She began to tap her foot in irritation as she glared down upon him.

"You're NOT supposed to be here." She was not happy, 'What am I now his 'babysitter?' Stupid, freaky alien creature.' In response Butterfinger pointed to one of the control panels.

"Pretty Lights, Shiny Lights."

Samantha's and Katie's Room……

Samantha sat on her bed, she had finally separated the bunk beds, and she separated them without having to ask anyone for help. Needless to say, she was proud of her accomplishment.

"Butterfingers." There was just silence, there was not a sound to be heard. "Butterfingers?" She looked at a clock near one of the beds, it said 8:30. "Damnaigh, of course he has to run around. I am gonna get into so much trouble." Samantha sighed and left her room, hoping that the Stickyfinger hasn't done something that was going to get him into trouble or even worse her because she kept him as a pet.

She quickly walked down the hall hoping that it only went into the Common Room. As she entered the room she only saw B-squad. Sighing she just had to force herself to up to them and ask.

"Have any of you guys seen Butterfingers?"
"You lost him." Sky spoke up before anyone else could say anything, he did not want that creature in the base, having the creature in the base heightened the risk of something irreversible happening. Irritated Samantha threw out a comeback.

"You're implying that I have misplaced him, which is impossible considering that he does have a mind of his own and is not a doll. And if you haven't seen him, you could have said so, instead of being all high and mighty. Sracadh." Everyone looked at Samantha puzzled after she said yet another word in what they suspected was Irish, and probably was rude.

"Hey, both of you cool down. And dude what did you just say?" Jack stood up between the two before a fight broke out. Samantha calmly looked at Jack before answering.

"Sracadh, means Jerk." She turned and began to leave before pissing Sky off even more. "Though there are many more words I can use to describe Sky, and they all are very crude and rude." She walked out and as the doors to the Common Room shut she heard all of B-squad talking.

B-squad in the Common Room….

"She has hit the nail on the head." Z spoke up chuckling, almost everyone was laughing, except for Sky he did not find the situation as funny as they did.

"You do need to chill." Jack spoke up knowing that they were just making Sky even more pissed off.

"Yeah, take a chill pill." Syd giggled, this was just too funny a younger cadet, a girl at that stood up to Sky, and even if she didn't tell him to stick it where the sun don't shine, she got her point across quite nicely.

"Very funny. Rules and regulations are there for us to follow and McQuade tends to break quite nearly all of them or she bends them to breaking point." Sky lectured, even though he knew that they have bent most of the rules themselves.

"But there are also rules that are meant to be broken, because if they aren't then something catastrophic could happen. Like ancient religions thought that the world was flat till an explorer proved them wrong, and that caused expansion of the known world. And through that more places became populated lowering some of the population in other areas and then we get people thinking more and creating different ways to transport…."

"Bridge!" Sky growled.

"So what, do you want us to start talking about you and Samantha? Again?" Syd asked, grinning.

"Yeah, I like that topic, it's so juicy." Z sat up eagerly, this is a juicy topic and Sky seemed to get really uncomfortable whenever it was brought up. Not to mention it was fun to see him get all irritated with all of the gossip that she and Syd enjoyed.

"Ooh! Sky's cranky!" Syd laughed, as they all watched Sky leave the Common Room.

Katie on Night Watch…..

Butterfingers was not going to leave and she really wanted to toss him out of the room. She walked over and grabbed his hand that was pointing towards the bright lights.

"You are going to leave." Katie thought quickly trying to think of something that would make the Stickyfinger stay away from the Command Room. "Because you don't want to be caught in here by Cruger, Kat or B-squad, they would make you leave Frogger and you would be all alone outside where those Robots could get you." Katie was thankful that she was good at reverse psychology. If Butterfinger's eyes could pop out of his head they would have already popped out. That was all it took to send the creature running out of the Command Room.

In the halls….

Samantha had visited Robert, and Tyler when she told them that Butterfingers had ran off they laughed and told her to check anywhere that had bright lights. After giving the finger to the boys she left them laughing about the creature running around the base, and that Samantha was going to get into trouble if he touched any of the 'bright lights'.

"Bómánta beag créatúr." Samantha muttered in Irish as she tried to use her telepathy to find the creature before it did something stupid.

"What are you muttering about Cadet?" Sky asked as he walked around a corner to hear and see Samantha. Being pulled out of her efforts to use her telepathy to find the creature she looked up to see Sky.

"Nothing." She said rolling her eyes, out of all of the people living at the SPD why did she just have to run into Sky. Before an argument could erupt something came running down the hall.

"Frogger!" Butterfingers couldn't slow down enough before latching onto Samantha's legs, causing her to fall on top of Sky once again. He looked up at Samantha, well this was unexpected.

"Hi." That was all he could say, Samantha shook her head as she tried to stand or at least sit upright. Sky then noticed the Stickyfinger. "Butterfingers! What are you doing?" Butterfingers tried to hide behind Samantha as she finally was able to sit upright, near Sky.

"Nothing. Butterfingers try to go back to room." Sky took a deep breath, trying to stay relatively calm.

"Go, Now!" Butterfingers let go of Samantha and ran down the hall and back into the girls' room. Samantha looked at Sky and crossed her arms. "So that's what you were doing?"

"Duh." Samantha said as she looked at him 'I hope no one saw that' she thought, knowing someone probably did see. Sky got up and offered a hand to Samantha.

"Here" Samantha looked at his hand and then shoved it away.

"No, no I can get up myself." She said as she stood up. "No, offense but I don't like having people helping me out when I can do something by myself." Sky looked at her with confusion on his face.

"So you prefer to have everything to be harder than it needs to be?" Shaking her head Samantha knew he didn't understand.

"If I took the easy path, then I wouldn't be headstrong or stubborn. And every team needs someone that's stubborn and headstrong." Sky's eyebrow rose, he knew he was stubborn and yes it is a useful trait when it wasn't directed towards his team. Samantha's morpher buzzed as she took it out of its case on her left sleeve she noticed that it was Katie. "Yeah?" Samantha asked.

"My ring, I thought I was wearing it but it's now gone." Katie started rambling, worried that she would never see it again, Samantha waited till Katie had stopped rambling.

"Katie, was Butterfingers there?" Sky was listening and hearing Samantha deduct what could have happened.

"Yeah, but I scared him off using Reverse Psychology." Katie explained, as Samantha realized that Butterfingers probably did steal it.

"Okay, I'll go and check it out. He probably 'acquired' it from you. I'll get it and take it to you." Samantha quickly was able to get Katie to calm down.

"Okay. Thank you. And Sis, it's my cop ring." Katie explained Samantha's eyes grew huge, if Butterfingers stole that ring he was as good as dead. Sky looked at Samantha in confusion, Katie had a cop ring what was that supposed to mean.

"Okay Green out."

"Red out." Sky waited till Samantha had put her morpher away.

"Katie has a cop ring." Samantha looked at him with confusion on her face. And saw confusion on her face.

"Yeah, is there a question in that?" Samantha asked Sky, as she began to walk towards her room.

"Yes there is Cadet." Samantha rolled her eyes as he called her 'Cadet' once again. "How could Katie possibly have a cop ring, only Cops have those." Samantha laughed at him.

"First, you've got to stop calling me 'Cadet' I have a name and I'd rather be called by my name. Second, if Katie wants you to know about her she'd tell you. Third, I'm not going to tell you much of anything about my Sister unless she has told me that I can." Samantha had gotten near her room, when Sky just couldn't keep his mouth shut.

"Cadet, I asked you a question and I want an answer." Samantha turned her head to look at him, as she glared she threw a punch and hit Sky in the jaw.

"My name is Samantha. And I did answer your damnaigh question; it just wasn't the answer you wanted." Samantha opened the door to her room and slammed it in Sky's stunned face. He stood there for a second looking at the door, he was just trying to be nice. 'Arg, Girls are a mystery.' He thought as he turned and left for his room.

Inside her room, Samantha leaned up against the door. 'Why does he not understand that I'm not going to tell secrets or information that's not mine to give?' She shook her head.

"Butterfingers!" She hollered. And in response Butterfingers crawled out from underneath her bed.

"Frogger! Spooky cranky blue guy isn't here?" He asked as he looked around.

"No, but Katie is very upset. Do you know why she's upset?" Butterfingers became all shifty and uncomfortable.

"No…." Samantha saw that one of his hands were in a fist, getting down to his level she grinned as she spoke.

"Well, I think you do. What's in your hand?" Butterfingers looked down at his hand and realized that he still had it in his hand, shamefully he held his hand up and opened it for Samantha. She sighed as she took Katie's ring out of his hand.

"Thank you. Now I'll be back, don't leave this room." Butterfingers shook his head agreeing that he was not going to leave the room as she left to return the ring to its owner.

Samantha was walking down the hall to the Command Room, when Robert saw Samantha pass by his room, he looked at Tyler and gave him a grin.

"If she hurts you, I'm not going to help." Tyler told his friend knowing exactly what was going through his mind.

"Aw, but Tyler, it's going to be so much fun. And she wouldn't hurt me." Robert tried to encourage Tyler to join him even though he knew that he wasn't going to.

"Don't worry I'll be right next to you laughing when you do get hurt." He told Robert as Robert left their room to tease Samantha.

"Hey, Samantha, so how was your trip?" Robert asked as he caught up with her. Samantha barely looked at him as she kept on walking; she had no idea about what he was talking about, and she probably didn't want to know.

"Whatever." She answered, Robert almost started laughing this was going to be so much fun to see how long it took till he pushed her buttons.

"You, know this afternoon with Sky." Samantha almost stopped in her tracks 'Great not now, I don't want to talk about this. I hope he didn't see what else had happened.' She thought to herself. She wasn't the only one that had nearly stopped in their tracks. Sky was following her to find out about Katie's ring. And unknown to them all Bridge was following Sky trying to find out who or what his roommate was spying on.

"What do you think?" Robert smirked at Samantha's short answer; it gave him the opening he wanted.

"I think you liked it." He answered not even glancing at Samantha as she slowed down and slightly blushed.

"Robert, don't you have somewhere else to be?" Samantha asked as she regained her composure.

"No." He answered looking at Samantha.

"Well I suggest that you find somewhere else to be." Samantha's tone was threatening and Robert knew he had made her angry and he did get an answer he wanted, well in a way he did.

"Okay, but you should go to bed soon." He told her as he left, as he walked down the hall he saw Sky.

"Hey, Sky what's up?" Robert asked when he got close enough to talk to him. "Why are you stalking Samantha?"
"I'm not stalking, I want to find out information about that ring she's returning to Katie." He answered defensively.

"What Katie's Cop ring? She never takes that ring off." Robert answered, then he looked confused, "Why wasn't she wearing it?"

"No, it was stolen by the Stickyfinger. Hey, do you know the story behind the ring?" Sky asked Robert; who held his hands up and took a step away from Sky.

"Hey, you know it was nice knowing you. That's one can of worms you don't want to open." He told Sky as he walked back to his room. Sky watched Robert with confusion on his face for a second and then went back to following Samantha. Soon Bridge had just had enough.

"Sky what are you doing following Samantha?" Sky jumped when he heard Bridge's voice.

"She's returning Katie a cop ring, and I want to find out how and why she got it." Sky answered as Bridge shook his head at his friend.

"You know Samantha will throw you across the room. And it's Katie's business. If she wants us to know about it she'll tell us. There are things that they don't want us to know about them, and we've got things that they don't want to know about us. Like your dad, I can tell you don't want to tell them about him." Bridge knew that he just pissed Sky off.

"Bridge." Sky began, but Bridge stopped him.

"I know you didn't want to hear that but when she wants us to know she'll tell us." Bridge convinced his friend.

"Okay, fine." Sky crossed his arms and walked in the opposite direction from the Command Room with Bridge in tow.

Command Room…..

Samantha walked in and saw Katie across the room sitting down watching the screen flash. Chuckling she went on over and sat down.

"Here ya go. Butterfingers did have it." Samantha said as she handed the ring to Katie who took it and put it back on her finger.

"I can't lose this." She muttered as he looked at it on her finger.

"And Sky was asking about your ring. I didn't tell him but I think he was trying to follow me to find out more about it." Samantha told Katie as she sat back and watched her to see what her reaction was going to be. Katie looked down at the ring on her middle finger.

"If they found out, I don't know what I'd do. What they'd do." She spoke softly. Samantha sighed.

"I know. But if and when they find out, I don't think that most of them would be too judgmental. But if you tell them, and mind you I'm not telling you to or not to, they might understand why you didn't want to be a ranger." Samantha braced herself knowing that she was walking on thin ice, and if she said something that was taken in the wrong way the next day would be a long day. After a few moments of silence Samantha spoke up. "I'm gonna head on over to our room. I don't want to get you in trouble." Samantha got up began to leave the room and Katie to her thoughts. Katie looked up and smiled at her Sister.

"Okay good night Sis." As the door slid shut Katie returned to her work, if being bored was work.

The Next Morning ….

Everyone woke up and got ready for the next day's activities, and Sky was still trying to find out about Katie's ring without actually asking her. So he walked on over to Tyler, trying to keep from making the young Yellow Ranger suspicious of his actions.

"Hey Tyler, what's up with Katie and her 'cop ring'? What's so important about it?" Tyler looked up at Sky, he knew that he hadn't asked Katie, but he has only asked Samantha and Robert, and now him.

"What you haven't asked Katie?" Tyler asked arching an eyebrow and as Sky shook his head no, he looked at Tyler for an answer. Tyler sighed, if he said too much he was going to have his ass handed to him. "Well all I can tell you is that it's kinda like a family heirloom, but you've got to ask Katie to get more than that." Sky sat back in his seat, feeling defeated. He wanted to know, maybe it was something that wasn't supposed to be on SPD campus, he just didn't know.

"Woah, Bob come look at this!" Samantha halfway shouted to Robert. He came on over and looked at what Samantha was showing him.

"Awww! She's sleeping." Robert said, as they both looked at her. Samantha sat down next to Katie wondering why she fell asleep in the Common Room, but what needed to happen was someone to wake Katie up.

"Sis," Samantha softly said as she shook Katie awake. "Kat it's morning you need to get up." Katie sat up although groggy.

"I wake." Samantha and Robert both chuckled.

"We can see that." Robert told her as he sat down next to her.

"You're still a bit sleepy, I'll make some coffee." Samantha said as she walked over to where the coffee was kept.

"Sam! I want some!" Robert hollered at her, and Samantha just waved him off. And then she just realized what he had said.

"NO! No Coffee for you Bob! It's bad enough we let you drink Mt. Dew!" Samantha hollered back making the entire C-squad laugh.

That Afternoon…..

Everyone was doing their own thing; Katie was at the outdoor shooting range practice, Robert was in a room that was recording his every move and his objective was to control his power enough so that he could not be detected in the room, Samantha was down in the weight room lifting weights with telekinesis, and Tyler was on the track trying to get faster.

Bridge walked around most of the base trying to find Katie, and when he couldn't he went to talk to Samantha, she seemed to know where Katie was almost all of the time.

"Hey, Samantha where's Katie?" Bridge asked Katie's roommate, as she lifted weights without touching them.

"Um, I think she's at the outdoor range." Samantha answered, "But I'm not One hundred percent sure though."

"Okay thanks!" Bridge turned and left, and as he left Samantha nearly dropped the weights and as she lifted them back up, she wondered what he was going to talk Katie to.

Bridge stood a bit away from Katie and watched her as he built up his nerve. 'I can do this, come on Bridge just tell her how you feel' he thought to himself, 'I can't do it.' He turned to leave but he stopped himself. 'Okay, I'm just a little nervous that's all.' He turned back around and saw Katie looking back at him.

"Hi Bridge." Katie said as she saw him staring at her. Bridge blushed at the sight of her looking at him. Her dark hair and soft complexion gave her a soft glow. "What's wrong?" She asked.

"Hunh? What do you mean?"

"You were staring out into space, the look on your face was funny." She answered, she would of giggled if it wasn't for all of the anger still lingering in her head from Bronx.

"Oh, well, I wanted to tell you something." Katie walked over to Bridge.

"Ok, what is it?" Katie was really curious on what he wanted to talk to her about, especially after the look she had just seen on his face. Bridge took a deep breath before he spoke.

"Katie, I don't know if it was when I first saw you or when I found you. " He began to try to figure out whether or not he found Katie or saw her.

"Okay, I understand. Go on." Katie encouraged him after he got him to stop rambling about deciding about whether or not he found or saw her. He looked her in the eye and.

"Well, I love you." After he said that he slightly shuffled his feet, afraid that he was going to be rejected. Katie blushed a deep, deep red, 'He…he loves me?' She noticed that he was waiting for the rejection.

"Bridge?" He looked up to see her just a few inches away from him.

"Yeah?" Katie blushed even more.

"….I…..I love you too." They both leaned in and kissed, the sun setting behind the trees gave them an ethereal look.