Here's the last update for a little while, May is really hectic for me with school and stuff…
It had been nearly an hour and Sam was rhythmically beating his head against the back of the tree he was tied too. Bridge had gotten bored with "Bottles of beer" and had moved onto "The song that never ends"…
"Come on Sam, sing along! This is the song that never ends, it goes on and on my frie-" Bridge insisted and sang as his badge went off, wiggling a hand free he answered it, "Bridge Carson here, go ahead."
"Bridge, I need the rangers back,"
Bridge frowned, "Sky, I told you I can't- nice suit," he cut himself off as he looked down at the badge to see his friend in a black ranger outfit, "It's very flattering…" realizing that probably wasn't the best thing he added "what's wrong?"
"Containment card break on IO, I'm over my head in false alarms and actual ones. A few of the others are here helping, including Jack, but it's hard…and there's a problem even bigger than all that…"
"What?"
"Well…okay, I was off fighting this pig monster, I barely got it contained when Z came running over saying Mora and three other monsters are holding Sydney hostage…they've got her here in the mall, we can't take all these Krybots and three monsters…no matter how dysfunctional" he sounded defeated," I need my rangers back…"
Bridge thought for a moment as he untied himself, "Hostage how?"
"Just have her with them, we can't get through all of them…"
Sam could practically see a light bulb go on in Bridge's head, "Alright, I'll get you your rangers back…but here's the plan, come on Sam, pay attention, this involves you too. It involves you telling them a lot of stuff though, things they're not aware of right now." He beamed "Heck, this is better than the plan I have now…had earlier, I mean do you really believe-"
"Get to the point!" Sky snapped over the communicator.
"If this plan works you owe us dinner," Bridge reminded Sam then focused back on the communicator "Alright, here's what we do, but we'll need to pick up a few things from my house first…"
Back with the other rangers Boom was beginning to wonder what exactly was running through their heads. Boom had set up a trap he'd read about in a really old history textbook, one where you tied a rope and lured a rabbit or small animal in it. When the trap was sprung, the poor animal would be hanging upside down from the trap…
That was currently where Mimi was…
"Stop laughing!" she demanded and pouted as Chris and Andre attempted to stop, but didn't have any luck. It was just too funny.
"Seems fairly primitive," Nova snorted, "I can hardly see Carson putting it up."
"And who would've taken Omega and him anyways?" Drew sighed having lapsed back from calling the other officer Sam after about an hour of his disappearance, "they're both capable fighters…"
"Weird electric wire head guy?" Chris suggested, "I mean, he did just kind of appear and disappear, maybe he's a native or something…"
A harsh beeping sound was heard causing all of the rangers to spin around to see where it was coming from. It sounded like a morpher, but none of them had one…so that made no sense. They stopped looking when Mimi began complaining that she wasn't feeling too good. Nova looked around, bent down and picked something up. She went over to where Mimi was and it was revealed she'd picked up a sharp looking rock. She began sawing at the rope.
Boom clicked the button on his communicator to silence it. He glanced down to read the text message displayed in the screen. A small smile played on his lips.
This was going to be good.
Chris and Andre caught on to what Nova was doing and moved into position underneath Mimi to help her down when the rope was severed. It took a few minutes and the beeping continued. Beth and Drew spread out to search for the source.
It was a few minutes later when Nova finally managed to cut Mimi down from the tree. Andre and Chris caught her and got her on her feet safely.
"Uh…thanks…"
At that moment Sam and Bridge seemingly materialized out of nowhere in front of them.
"Ow," Sam groaned, "pain…"
"Sorry, I forgot it's a little weird if you're not used to it," Bridge replied
The other rangers froze.
Where'd they come from?
"What the he-" Nova began but caught herself, "Commander, what's going on?"
"Slight change of plans," Bridge announced.
"I want a vacation," Sam grumbled under his breath brushing off his uniform and cursing it for being partially white, "these last few months have been ridiculous! Why do they send every misfit team here? Can't I get one only slightly dysfunctional team?"
The five B-Squad rangers raised their eyebrows as they began to pick up on the last few words of Sam's mini rant, which of course made no sense to them whatsoever…
"Holy! You did it again! The random appearing and disappearing!" Beth partially exclaimed, partially accused as Boom stepped out of his hiding place, "AH!" she shrieked breaking her calm demeanour "Another one!"
"What wrong?" Boom asked in concern.
"Containment break on IO," Bridge sighed, "they need help. I'm going; you guys are going to stay here with Boom and finish your training okay? You're no help to Earth if you're going to get caught in trees-"
Mimi flushed at the remark and looked down at her feet shamefully.
"But Commander-" Drew began but stopped when Bridge gave him a 'glare of doom'.
"You are to stay here, you too Sam," Bridge sighed looking behind him to where Sam was standing and winking at the younger man who nodded as though the gesture had not occurred, "this is too dangerous if you guys can't even pass a simple test."
The rangers looked down embarrassed.
"Alright, Sammy, rangers, see you later" Bridge said then called, "S.P.D. Emergency!" and strangely not using the normal hand motion. In an instant he was surrounded by bright light and jumped over the tree line, out of sight before they even saw his suit secure into place .
There was an awkward silence as each ranger tried to decide on what would be the best way to break the silence.
"Who are you?" Andre asked pointing at Boom and frowning at the new arrival.
"Well I-"
Suddenly Boom disappeared.
Nova's eyes bulged, "What did you just do?"
"Where did you come from?"
"Why does he call you Sammy?"
Sam frowned and looked down sadly, "Alright, look, they haven't been one hundred percent honest with all of you-"
"I knew it!" Chris proclaimed smugly
Sam ignored him and continued "look, Carson, Tate, those guys, they got me into the Gold Badge program, I owe them a lot…and…well I heard Mora, that girl who helped Grumm out was one of the escapees. They're going to need help…"
Silence then…
"What else are you hiding? What did you do to the poor guy?" Chris snapped angrily. He'd called it! No gold badge could be trusted.
A sly grin broke onto Sam's face, changing his demeanour instantly, "Well, I do know something you don't know, and I wouldn't be able to tell you if Boom was here. As for where he went? He's fine."
Pause
"What do you know?" Andre demanded eagerly.
Sam smirked, "I know how we can get your morphers back and keep them reinstated, all coming out like perfect little rangers in Sky's…err Tate's eyes and getting us off of this planet in the next few hours."
"How do we know you're not lying?" Chris snorted folding his arms across his chest.
"Don't worry about that," Sam replied winking at Beth who's face had lit up like a Christmas tree, "Just trust me."
