Disclaimer: I own Melanie. I don't own any one from SPD. I did tweak the characters to make the story work, but for the most part they are still the same characters. I know I am making Syd seem weak, but don't worry, the strong Syd we know will be back and strong again.

Chapter 24: Melanie at SPD

Sky saw Melanie outside the infirmary hugging Z.

"Syd, hun, I have to go check something with the commander and get some water and an apple. Do you need anything?"

"Water and Peanuts, please Sky"

"I'll get them"

"I am going back to sleep until you come back"

"Okay, sleep tight, princess"

Sky shut off the light and put the emergency button next to her and then he turned the television to a music station that she listens to and pulled her blanket up and left the room.

"Well, Sky, why were you in the infirmary? You are not sick are you?" Z asked shocked to see Sky coming out.

"It is not me"

Z interrupted Sky with "Oh, Sorry, how rude of me. Sky Tate meet Melanie Grant, Melanie Grant meet Sky Tate." Z did not know that they already knew each other since Melanie broke up with Sky right before they met Jack and Z.

"Pleasure to meet you Sky"

"Melanie, Cut the crap"

"Sky! Melanie is my best friend next to Jack and Syd, and you can't talk…"

"Oh, yes, I can talk to her like that"

"Can not"

"Can and that is because before you interrupt Melanie is the same Melanie that I told you about. This is my ex-girlfriend, and I have reason to believe that she put my current girlfriend in the condition that she is in"

"Sky, you don't have a girlfriend"

"Yes I do, and we need to speak in private"

"Okay, be right back Melanie"

With a sly look on her face, Melanie said "Take your time." Melanie heard talk from two cadets about Syd being in the infirmary again.

"Sky, Melanie was my friend probably before and after you guys broke up. Wait a minute, did you say girlfriend"

"Yeah? So?"

"Who?"

"Syd"

"Our pink ranger Syd. Bubbly, blond Syd, That Syd?"

"Yes z, we didn't want anyone to really know about it. She already has problems with cadets saying she doesn't belong, we didn't want them to say that the only reason that she got anything was because she was sleeping with me."

"Finally, congrats, wait what condition and what does Melanie have to do with it?"

"Syd is in the infirmary with a broken ankle and femur."

Before Sky could finish his answer they heard the alarm going off from the infirmary.

"Where's Melanie? Oh, No! Syd!"

"Sky, what is going on?"

When Sky and Z got in the infirmary, they saw Kat and Dr. Tyler helping Syd breathe because Dr. Felix got called away. They also saw Melanie with two cadets and a pillow on the ground directly in front of her.

"Oh my god, she tried to smother Syd."

"No, Z, I would never, you know I would never hurt someone that you love. If anything I would be helping her. "

"Z, you're not telling me that you are listening and believing her."

"I don't know, Sky"

Directly after Z said that Cruger walked in and immediately thought exactly what happened was what Sky had said before.

"Cadets, Take her to a holding cell."

"What? Why? For What?"

"For endangering a SPD officer's life"

"Commander, Are you sure? What proof do we have?"

"Do it cadets, that is an order"

"Ms. Delgado, You do not question my orders in front of cadets, is that understood?"

"Yes, Commander. I'm sorry, I know I should not have done that, but it is hard not to look out for my friend"

"Z"

"What"

"Do you realize that you just admitted something and contradicted yourself in the same sentence?"

"How Sky?"

"You said that Syd was your friend and Melanie is your friend. You were looking out for Melanie and didn't look after Syd. I know what that is like, but sometimes you have to pick one, and more often than not, we tend to protect the one that hurts us in the end"

"You're right. I did. I also saw what I wanted to see not the truth."

"Doggie,…Sky if you want to take my place, I'm sure Syd would like that better if you were near her, besides Dr. Tyler can help her if she needs it, also the Commander needs to know something."

After Kat left Syd in Sky's and Z's care, she told Anubis what she had just witnessed.

"Doggie, I saw that girl try and smother Syd. Here watch this; RIC caught the whole thing on video."

Anubis knew that he had to show the rangers and get the restraining order put on fast; especially since they couldn't prove that Melanie put Syd in the infirmary. He looked at his rangers and smiled when he saw Sky on the next bed rolled near Syd and holding her hand and Z sitting in the recliner chair near the other two rangers. Both Syd and Sky were asleep. One probably was out by a sedative and one just tired, so Cruger had to wake him.

"Sky, Z, I have received proof and new evidence that will help in two ways. It will help by helping us know who did it and also it will help you Z, know who is the one that you should look out for."

The commander had RIC play the video that he made and sure enough standing over Syd was…

A/N: I know, but read on, you know that you want to. Review please.