CH 13. DEPARTURE
The rangers stopped in an abandoned building and de-morphed.
"Guys, Jessica's father sacrificed himself to save me. After this is over, I'm getting out of it. I don't think I'm cut out to be a ranger anymore." Kyle said.
"You've come this far and NOW you want to quit? You sound just like my predecessor." Sky said, grabbing Kyle by the collar.
"Fine, if going up against Blackland means dying, win or lose, I'll have a heck of a time." He said, pushing Sky's hand away.
The S.P.D rangers looked at the horde of citizens, Mafbots, and lizard foot soldiers in front of them.
"See you guys on the other side." Kyle said, holding up wristband.
Sky and the others held up their Morphers. "It's been real guys." He said to the others.
"Let's go down fighting." Bridge said. The girls nodded.
"Ready???" Sky shouted.
"Ready!!!" The others shouted.
"S.P.D Emergency!!"
"Quantum Power!!!"
The five rangers dove into the air and morphed. They came back down guns blazing.
"No casualties! Just bring them down!!" Sky shouted, firing his blasters at the Geckoids.
"Easier said than done!!" Z said, dodging the melee attacks of the alien militia. She and Syd blasted the weapons out of their hands.
"Time for the secret weapons." Sky said, holding up his Morpher. "SWAT Mode!"
The four rangers donned their tactical vests and Delta enforcers. They blasted a the alien citizens, rendering them unconscious. Kyle slashed at the Geckoids with his Quantum Defender sword. The lizard men fell to the ground and crumbled.
"So, they are just hollow clones." Kyle said. He looked up and at the end of the street he saw Saurian standing there with two swords drawn.
"Payback time." Kyle said, slashing his way through the horde.
"Come and get me ranger, if you can!" He said, summoning more Geckoids who dog-piled Kyle. Suddenly a blue blade cut through them. It was Sky in his Battlizer cyber mode.
"Get going Kyle! We got this! Go settle the score with Saurian!" Sky said. Kyle hesitated. "I can't just leave you guys here!" He protested.
Sky slashed away the Geckoids and Mafbots.
"I said go. That's an order!" he shouted. Kyle gritted his teeth through his helmet and cut a path through to Saurian.
Kyle ran open to an empty street, with no sign of enemies.
Suddenly a green blur zipped by, slashing him in the chest. Kyle flew into the pile of trash bags nearby.
"Too slow ranger." Saurian said, holding his arm cannon out. He fired at Kyle who dodged in the nick of time.
"Hold still you red moth!" He shouted, shooting at Kyle.
"Quantum Defender!" Kyle grabbed his sidearm and fired at Saurian, who deflected it with his sword.
"Blackland told me you were strong. I was expecting better from you." He said, advancing on Kyle, who glanced to see the rangers were being swamped by Blackland's cronies. Saurian grinned.
"You better stop worrying about them and fend for yourself boy. The cavalry is not coming." He said, pointing his sword at Kyle's chest.
The S.P.D rangers were down and on the defensive. "How bout using the Canine Cannon?" Z suggested. "Too risky, we may take down some innocents with that blast." Sky shouted.
Suddenly laser blasts were fired from behind.
"What?" Bridge said, looking up.
Wes in his Silver Guardian uniform and red beret led a team of Silver Guardians down the alley.
"Dad!!" Sky shouted.
"Charge!" Wes ordered as the Guardians joined the battle, blasting Gekkoids and Mafbots with lasers and hitting alien militia with tranquilizer darts.
Kyle looked back at Saurian. "You were saying?" He grinned. Saurian hissed and attacked.
"Mega Battle, activate!!!" Kyle shouted into his wristband just in time to block the attacks with his Mega Battle armor.
"Let's make this a fair fight." He said, clipping gun swords to his arms. Saurian scowled. "I don't fight fair!" He said, attacking Kyle with his sword. The ranger dodged and defended himself with his gun swords.
"Lasers, fire!!" He shot both lasers at Saurian, knocking him away.
Saurian got up, angry and seeing red.
"Curse you, ranger!!!" Kyle flew in on his wings and grabbed Saurian, lifting into the air.
"Put me down you pathetic human." He shouted.
"You got it." Kyle said, smashing Saurian through a few buildings and dropping him through the top of a skyscraper. Saurian fell through 20 floors before finally hitting the bottom.
Kyle landed outside. "Time to end this." He said, putting his gun swords together, making a big red light blade.
Saurian stood up slowly, staggering.
"I won't go down fighting ranger!" He said. Kyle stabbed him with the hot red blade, right down the middle.
Saurian spit out green blood.
"You've gotten strong fire ranger. I'm glad to fall by your blade. But your world will fall by Blackland's hand." He said, laughing before falling over and exploding.
"I hate bounty hunters." Kyle said, powering down from his Mega Battle.
The Guardians managed to help the rangers get back in the fight but more alien soldiers came out of the woodwork and attacked.
"We can't shoot them!" Sky said. Wes fought them off best he could. "Any more bright ideas?" He asked. Suddenly a huge flying machine shot over them.
"Wait, that's…" Bridge said, looking up. It was the Delta Runner 2 flying above the city.
"Who the heck is flying that?" Syd shouted. A voice came over the communicators. "I got a solution to the weather we're having."
It was Jack.
Sky grabbed his Morpher and replied. "Jack, what are you doing?"
"You scratch that and I'll come after you." Bridge added. Jack laughed and began to fly in circles, slowly at first, but soon picking up momentum. The Mirage left the air and began to suck up in a vortex.
Wes looked up. "Why does that look so familiar?" he said to himself.
The alien citizens soon came top their senses, dropping their random weapons and looked around, with no memory of what happened.
"He saved our lives, again." Sky said.
Bridge smirked. "He's quite the guy."
The girls both sighed in relief.
"Thank god that's over!" Syd exclaimed. Suddenly the sky went black and the Reptilia ship descended.
"You had to say it." Z muttered to Syd. Kyle rejoined the others to make sure they were okay.
"Uncle Wes, I knew you-" Wes cut him off/
"I don't think now is the time for gratitude." He said, pointing. A beam shot down and Blackland descended.
"Ssss.P.D!!! You have sssstood in my way long enough! Now I will do what my minions could never do and finish you."
Kyle looked at the others and then back at Blackland. "You guys hang back. This one is mine." He said. Suddenly someone put a hand on his shoulder. It was Eric.
"Dad….what are you doing here?" Kyle said. Eric looked at them and then Kyle.
"Don't do this on your own son. If you turn down your friends, you are doomed to be alone." He said.
Kyle nodded. "Your call leader boy." He said to Sky.
"Rangers, lets move out." Sky said. The five rangers walked toward Blackland ready to fight.
Blackland twirled his cane. "Letsss go!" He beckoned.
The rangers attacked with their Delta enforcers and circled around him. Blackland swatted Bridge with his cane and sent him crashing into a sheet metal door. He grabbed Syd and blasted Z into a window.
"Let go you gecko." Syd shouted, squirming. Blackland threw her into a lamp post.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Sky said to Kyle, who nodded.
"Battlizer, sonic mode!"
"Mega Battle!"
The two rangers donned their battle armor and attack Blackland, who dodged.
Sky slashed fiery waves at Blackland, who jumped in the air and stabbed him in the chest with the pointy end.
Sky yelped in pain and fell down to the ground and out of morphed and battlized form.
"Sky! That's it. You're mine!" Kyle said, spinning and slashing at Blackland, who blocked with his cane. When he saw his opening he dug his claws into Kyle's body, who froze and screamed out of pain.
"You are weak and pathetic!" Blackland said, blasting Kyle away. He too fell out of both forms.
All the rangers were scattered around Blackland, de-morphed and defeated.
"Now for your preciousssss city." Blackland said, removing his mutant patch, showing his DNA. He began to grow.
"Oh no!" Kyle said, getting up slowly. He went to talk into his wristband until someone came running up.
"No Kyle!" It was Eric, and Taylor was with him.
"Mom, Dad, what are you doing here?" Kyle shouted, trying to get them out of there.
Blackland began destroying the city.
"I need to call the Q-Rex…." Kyle sank to one knee, still in pain from the fights before.
"He's got internal injuries." Taylor said, examining him.
"I'm fine!" Kyle said, trying to get up again before she stopped him.
"You don't spend years in the Air Force without learning something about human injuries." She said, putting pressure on his bleeding cuts.
"This is MY fight." Eric said, grabbing the Quantum Morpher off Kyle, who grabbed at it.
"G-give it back!" Kyle said.
Eric pushed at the button and de-activated the voice lock. "Please enter identification." The computer voice said.
"Dad, don't!" Kyle pleaded. "Eric, do you have to do this?" Taylor asked. Eric nodded slowly. "He started this battle, and I'm going to finish it."
Taylor stood up and kissed Eric.
"Come back alive." She said. He smirked. "You know me Taylor, I get the job done."
He held up his wrist. "Quantum Power!!!" He shouted, becoming the Quantum Ranger once more.
"Q-Rex, arise!!" He commanded. The Q-Rex arose from the ground and screeched its ear splitting shriek.
Eric jumped on board and headed for Blackland.
"Pitiful ranger, you sssstill refuse to surrender!!" Blackland shouted, firing laser blasts from his cane at the dino mecha.
"Q-Rex, fire!" He said, the Q-Rex fired its huge shoulder blasters at Blackland, throwing him back.
"Curse you! Now I ssshall do what reptiles do best!" He said, splitting into five.
The five Blacklands began to gang up on the Q-Rex.
Eric fell back. "This is NOT what I had in mind." Suddenly, like clockwork, laser blasts fired from behind.
It was the SWAT Megazord and the Delta Command Megazord.
"We got you covered!" Sky said, shooting at two of the Blacklands. Delta Command fired its huge panel laser at two more.
"You think thissss is all I have??" He shouted, he suddenly brought out ten more clones, which took out both S.P.D Megazords.
"This is not happening!" Eric muttered. He looked down at the Q-Rex. "Only one thing left to do." He said.
Eric set the Trixyrium crystal to the highest it will go.
Wes ran up. "Eric no!! That crystal isn't meant to have that much power!!! It'll blow!!!"
Eric looked down at Taylor and Kyle.
"Goodbye Taylor, I'll always love you. Goodbye Kyle, I'm proud of you." He said.
Taylor ran towards the Q-Rex as it walked toward the Blacklands. Wes grabbed her and held her back.
"No, it's too dangerous!" He said.
The Q-Rex glowed bright, ready to go off like a nuke. Blackland reformed back into one. "I won't let you!" He shouted, aiming at it to destroy it.
Suddenly the SWAT Megazord flew towards Blackland and Q-Rex, grabbing them both and flying into the air, dropping Blackland and Q-Rex on top of each other. It was Kyle in the pilot's seat.
Eric looked up. "Kyle!! What are doing?" He shouted.
"Doing what I've always wanted to, help you fight. Now get out of there before the Zord explodes!" He said, taking them out of the atmosphere. Eric sat inside the Q-Rex and patted the console.
"It was fun old friend." He said. Kyle shed a tear inside his helmet.
"I love you dad." He said.
"I know son, now throw us! Now!" He said.
The Q-Rex exploded with Blackland in a megaton blast in space.
Taylor fell to her knees and sobbed. "I can't believe he's gone." She sobbed. The other rangers ran up to her and Wes.
The SWAT Megazord landed and Kyle joined up with them.
"How did you learn how to fly the Megazord?" Sky shouted. Kyle scratched his head. "I play a lot of videogames." He said.
Taylor wiped her eyes. "I can't believe he's gone." She said. All this time one of the Mafbots crawled towards them and took aim.
It fired and hit Taylor square in the back. She sank to the ground.
"Mom!!!" Kyle shouted, catching her. Wes shot the Mafbot in the head, destroying it. Sky called for an ambulance.
Taylor looked up at Kyle. "My son…." She mused.
"Don't talk, just wait for the paramedics." Kyle said, comforting her. She put a hand on his cheek.
"Let me join your father." She said, and with that her hand fell, she was gone.
Kyle screamed out in anguish, losing both his parents again. The other rangers just stood there.
Two weeks later a funeral was held for both Eric and Taylor. Wes and Kyle both spoke at the graves.
"Eric, you were my best friend, and even though my fellow rangers came and went, you were always there. Ever since high school we watched out for one another. Taylor, you were everything to Eric. You were the one to tame him when no other woman could. I'll miss you both very much.
"Mom, Dad, I only had a short time to know who you really were, but I'm glad I did before you were gone. I'll never forget how you told me that being a ranger meant people before yourself. I know I never will get out of your shadow Dad, but now…I don't need to anymore. I'll always love you both."
The rangers and Jessica were both there, putting yellow and red wreaths of flowers on the respective graves.
The next day, at Delta Command, Kyle came into Cruger's office.
"I have my resignation here sir. I'm sure you want this for letting my parents die." Kyle said.
Cruger looked up.
"Will you go back to the Silver Guardians?" He asked. Kyle scratched his head and nodded.
"Well we have some news for you." He said, pointing to the door. Wes came in with some signed papers.
"Uncle Wes?" Kyle said. He nodded.
"As of now, the Silver Guardians will merge with S.P.D." He said. Kyle couldn't believe what he heard.
Cruger tore up the letter. "I have a better idea." He said.
The other rangers waited in the game room for Cruger to introduce the new member of the team.
"I can't believe Kyle quit." Bridge said. Z looked up. "It seems like only yesterday he joined the team." She said.
"I know, who would've guessed both his parents were once rangers?" Syd said. Bridge sighed. "Well, the Commander knows best. Let's treat the new guy like we would Kyle." He said, the others nodded.
Cruger finally walked in.
"Rangers, let me introduce the new ranger to the team." He said. In walked Kyle with an S.P.D outfit on.
"I thought you quit." Bridge said, surprised.
"I'm not so easy to get rid of I guess." Kyle joked. Kat gave Kyle his S.P.D badge and gun.
"Congratulations Kyle Myers, you are the new Green Ranger." She said. Kyle tore the black patch off his jacket to reveal the green star.
"Now your team is whole again." Cruger said.
"Just remember, being green is actually easy, because once I heard this song, sung by a puppet, and well…" Bridge trailed off, the others rolling their eyes. Kyle looked at him like he was nuts.
Suddenly an alert went off.
"Looks like we don't have time to break you in slowly." Z said. "Hurry rangers, the city needs you." Cruger ordered.
"Wait wait wait!!" Jessica said, running in wearing an S.P.D lab coat.
"I took her on as an intern in the lab." Kat said, surprising Kyle. Jessica ran over and kissed Kyle.
"For luck." She said, winking. Kyle blushed.
Sky rolled his eyes. "Come on lover boy." He said, grabbing his badge, the others did as well.
"Ready?" He said. "Ready!!" The others said in unison.
"S.P.D Emergency."
Epilogue
Wes sat at Bio-Labs and worked on signing paperwork. He looked at the framed picture of his friends. He stared at Jen.
"Mr. Collins, the wormhole is ready." Dr Zaskin said. Wes looked up. They went inside and looked at the man-made wormhole in the lab.
"I hope you know what your doing Zaskin." Wes said. The doctor put a hand on his shoulder. "I've done enough research on the crystal to control the portal. It only took me 22 years." He said.
The hole began to grow.
"It's not stabilizing sir!!" the assistant said, typing at the computer. The hole began to crackle with thunder.
"Shut it down!! Now!!!" Zaskin shouted.
Wes said nothing as he ran and jumped through the portal.
"Mr. Collins!!!" Zaskin shouted. The hole finally closed and Wes was nowhere to be found.
Wes woke up around flying cars and giant buildings.
He saw two cars pull up that had the Time Force symbol on the doors.
"I'm home." He said, smiling.