Author's Note: Hello again to all my lovely fans! You have all been so great and also very patient with me. Thank you for all the wonderful reviews and I'd especially like to thank BellaVision. She has given me a new idea for a story we will do together in the near future, and don't worry that means it will be sooner than you expect. She has encouraged step out of my comfort zone and to try new things.

I don't have the title yet but I promise the story will be to your liking. It will open new doors since it's my first story featuring Tommy, Kim, Tori and Blake and its also the first time that I will create a new team of Rangers. So yes, I'm excited but also a bit nervous.

Chapter 14- Family Portrait

Sydney Drew, formerly known as the villain Rogue, sat in her room after receiving some shocking news from Commander Kruger. The day had started out oddly well. She had beaten the record that her teammate had set, meaning she was the fastest cadet in her group. Sky had been jealous at first, but it soon washed away.

"Your parents will be here in a couple of hours." Sydney recalled in her mind.

She had felt numb all over after receiving the news, almost as if someone had thrown her into a pool full of ice, making her unable to speak or express her happiness. But she was not happy, she was ecstatic. She had longed for this moment since she found out the truth of who she really was.

But seeing her parents again also made her feel nervous. She came up with every possible worst-case scenario in her mind. Maybe she was just being negative or paranoid, or both since it had been so long since she'd last seen them. It hurt to think that her parents may not love her after finding out all the things that she did when she was working on Grumm's side. Or maybe they would understand that all those things weren't her fault.

Still, she wasn't about to dive into the very positive end of something she had absolutely no idea of. Because doing that would be like jumping into the sea to go scuba diving without the necessary gear.

The alarm in her morpher made her swim back to reality. She looked at the clock that hung in her wall, it was 10:30. Thirty minutes had passed since Commander Cruger gave her the news and the only thing she had done since then was to take a shower.

She stood up from her bed and made her way back to the girls' bathroom. She shut the door behind her and began making herself presentable. She had never cared about how she looked before. The only look the skeleton allowed her to have was the scary look. And scary wasn't the look she wanted her parents to see her in and so she decided to go in a very different direction in terms of hair and makeup.

She was done just a few minutes before her time was up. She made her way down the stairs in her new dress and high heels she had bought recently. When Sky saw her, he managed to smile a bit. In his eyes, she looked like an angel with no halo or wings.

She giggled when she the Blue Ranger, he was still wearing his uniform. She shook her head and made her away to where he was standing.

"What's so funny?" He said, trying to hide a grin of his own.

"The Commander gave us the day off, Sky. You could at least take that to the dry cleaners. I know you love SPD but you don't have to express it by wearing this" She pointed to the uniform. "every single day."

"I could say the same thing about you."

"Huh?"

"Well, you always wear dresses." She nodded, knowing that Sky had a pretty good point. "That's your uniform, this is mine."

"Ok, you got me. I love dresses just as you love this. There's nothing wrong with a guy being proud of where he works." She paused for a second and then bit her lower lip. "But it would be nice to see you in something different sometime."

The subway came to a halt. From the outside, Syd could make out her parents' faces from the rest. It was incredible she still remembered after such a long time. The Black Crystal, the drug Grumm had used on her, hadn't erased all her memories. She sighed and gripped Sky's hand with her own.

When the doors of the subway opened, Syd sighed and slowly let go of Sky's hand. The petite girl made her way through the crowd when her parents came out. The tall male was just right behind her, following every step she took.

The Pink and the Blue Rangers' faces were shielded by a big crowd. But it didn't last for long; the people began walking away after a couple of minutes. She stared at her parents in disbelief. She pinched herself to make sure she wasn't dreaming.

She took one more step and stood in front of them, a big grin on her face. "Mom? Dad?"

Carter and Dana stared at her for a few seconds, suddenly throwing their luggage to the floor. Her father was the first to run up and hug her. She felt a strange warmth when he did. It was something she hadn't felt for so long. Her mother ran up to her and held Syd's face in her hands. She kissed her cheek and held her daughter in her arms for a few minutes.

"Dana, you're going to leave our daughter without oxygen." The former Red Ranger pleaded to her wife.

"I'm sorry." She smiled and wiped the tears from her eyes. "I'm so happy to see you. We are very sorry that we couldn't find you any sooner."

"Mom, its ok." Syd grinned, it was long since she had said that word to anyone. It felt good. "You couldn't have done anything. I was not being myself and then I began remembering some things that led me here."

"Let's not dwell on the past, Syd." Her father embraced her and then let go. Then she saw something that made her heart melt. Sky was hugging a woman, most likely her mother. Sky's mother took one look at her and hugged her.

"I hope my son has been taking good care of you." Syd giggled and nodded.

"Yes, Aunt Jen. But I still have a problem. I can't get him to take that uniform off." Sky glared at her and she just shrugged. "I guess you can get the boy out of the Academy but you can't get the Academy out of the boy."

"He gets that stubbornness from me. I'll make sure he buys some clothes." Jen hugged Syd and parted ways after a couple of minutes. The former Time Force Ranger went out to have lunch with Sky to give Sydney a few hours with her parents.

And without another word, Dana, Carter and Sydney went up the stairs. Sydney looked around for a place they could talk privately without being interrupted. The Rec Room was empty since it was Saturday and most cadets went out on the afternoons. She sat down on the couch and her parents sat in a pair of chairs in front of her.

She swallowed hard and took a deep breath. "You must have seen me in the news. Sky told me that they aired some footage of me, or Rogue or whatever, fighting against the Rangers."

"We did see the footage. They way you fought against them was amazing, you seemed to have years of training." Carter cleared his throat and continued. "When I first saw you, I thought you looked like Dana so much. At first, I thought it was only a coincidence that a human was working for Grumm. But then, when we received that call, we just knew it was you. It had to be you."

"Well, it wasn't exactly me who fought against the Rangers. It was me but I was under the influence of Grumm's manipulation and of something much stronger than that." She responded, trying to stay calm. Talking about what the skeleton had done to her was not easy.

"I wasn't being myself at the time. I had no idea of what I was doing. I just wish it hadn't taken me this long to figure out who I really was, or am at the moment."

"We know it wasn't you." Her mother stared at her and then stood up. She sat down besides her daughter and held her hand. The strange warmth washed all over Syd's body again.

"I'm so glad to see you. You have no idea of how long I had to wait to see your faces again." The Pink Ranger answered with a tear-filled voice. She closed her eyes and bit her lower lip, letting a few tears roll down her eyes. She felt so weird, though, she had never cried because she was happy. She usually cried when she was angry, hurt or sad.

Crying because she was happy was an unfamiliar feeling for her. Her mother asked if something was wrong, but she simply shook her head and hugged her mother. A wave of relief washed all over her. And she realized this was the first time she had ever been truly happy in her new life.

After a few hours of just sitting, eating and talking with her parents in the quiet of the Rec Room, the halls began to fill with cadets again. And a few minutes after Syd hugged her mom and goodbye, Sky burst through the doors, looking for her.

"'Sup, Syd?" Sydney giggled and pinched herself to make sure she was hearing what she thought had come out of Sky's mouth.

"I'm not acknowledging that." She answered with a grin on her face.

"Jack, Bridge and Z said it would blow your mind away." She giggled again. This was the first time she had ever heard Sky agreeing with his team.

"Consider my mind blown. Then put back together and blown again."

"I thought chicks digged when guys talked like that." She shook her head and sat down.

"In the past century maybe." She stood up and put her hand in his. "In this century, I like guys just like you. You don't need to act like that around me. I like you just the way you are. Is that cheesy?"

"Very," He laughed just as the other Rangers entered the room. "But, I knew you had a soft center."

Z gagged behind them and mimicked their moves. "Oh Sky, I love it when you laugh!" The Pink Ranger crossed her arms and shook her head.

"Did you brainwash him?" Bridge asked, reading his aura just to make sure that it was team mate in front of him.

"No, my charm's all natural." She responded simply and took her hand away from Sky's grip.

"Well, you know what they say: There is always a first time for everything." Jack told them.

"Oh, trust me, this day has been full of first times, all right." Syd sat down and stifled a yawn. She was a bit tired after all the emotions she had experienced today. "I'm off to sleep, guys.

And just as she was about to walk away, the alarms around the base went off. She groaned and ran to the Command Center as fast as she could. She took her heels off to pick up speed. She caught her breath just before she entered. She rolled her eyes, of course her squad was already there.

She stood besides them, trying to look normal. She hid her heels behind her back and stood barefoot besides Sky, who compared to her, was a giant.

"Miss Drew, may I ask why you are barefoot?" Cruger asked as he looked at her bare feet and manicured toes.

"Would it help if I said that an alien devoured my heels?" She threw the heels to the farthest wall and shrugged. The other Rangers laughed and she added this as an other first time to her list.

Cruger growled and shook his head. "Well, we have other things to deal with besides heel-devouring aliens. There's a disturbance at the park. All of you suit up and go check it out."

Jack, Sky Bridge and Z stretched their arm forward and all said the same phrase before transforming to their Ranger suits. Syd took out her morpher and had no idea of what to do.

"Speaking of first times." She muttered to herself and observed it again trying to figure out a way to activate her suit.