A/N: I'm really sorry about the delay in the updates. i have been really busy, with homework and stuff. but here's another chapter, i finally managed enough time to write and upload it. hope you guys like it.
Ch-10: Tracking
It would've been easy enough to track down Count Time O'clock had the rangers not all had bee busy with DeeZee Vaughn.
It was Ruth who ended up tracking DeeZee, he said, he was last seen at a roadside café with a strange man in a hood. There was a traffic cam which had recorded the whole conversation.
Well, the exchange taking place, for the camera had a glitch and could only record visuals, not the audios.
She showed the footage to the commanders, their young selves, and the squad, which, for now, only included Sam, the Cyro ranger, whose name wasn't known to the younger Sky and Z yet, because the others were either wounded, or in some other part of the galaxy.
They watched as the man pulled down his hood, just for a few seconds, and just like DeeZee, all their mouths flew open. The man in the picture was easily recognizable to all of them, (except Cyro) they had all shared precious moments with him, but none of them could believe what they saw; Least of all, the younger duo.
"is…is…is that Bridge?" Z stuttered.
"yes, that is him all right" older Z scoffed.
"can you believe it, it could've been Sky in that place if you two hadn't had that night watch together?" Sam joked trying to lighten the mood, but it didn't help, rather, it darkened the mood even more.
All of them, just by looking at his face could tell that the man had no soul left, no conscience, no guilt, all there was, was hatred, and cold reasoning, devoid of all warmth, and insensitivity.
"This is the third sighting of Bridge Carson in the last few weeks, he's playing with us." older Sky said, getting up, "we need to get him, show him we can be better."
"what?" younger Sky asked, confused.
"he's challenging us. Whenever there are more than one sightings of him, recorded on a camera, within a short period, it means that he is mocking us, asking us to come after him, or he'd come after us."
"last time we didn't go after him, so he crashed at our house, I don't want that happening again" Z said.
"welll, then what are we waiting for, let's go and get him, track him down, and blow him to shreds!" Cyro said, pumped up,
"not yet, Draco we can't just, bust in there and kill him" older Z said. so Draco, that was Cyro's real name. sky grinned, it kinda rhymed.
"why not?" younger Sky asked.
"partially because we don't know where he is, and partly because both of them feel guilty for driving him mad." Ruth said, dryly.
"I guess she's right" old Sky said.
"of course I'm right, and I think Draco's right, we should determine his location, and blow'em up." Ruth scoffed.
"I find it hard to believe that she isn't your daughter" younger Z looked at both the Skys.
"it can come from the mother you know" younger one defended himself, and his older self.
"okay, that's enough for today, you're all dismissed." Commander Z Tate was irritated.
"yes ma'am" all of them said in unison, and left.
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On their way, Sky and Z from the past caught up with Ruth, Sam and Draco. "What are you guys up to?" he asked, but it was Z who came to the point.
"I know you guys didn't tell them everything. What was it that you're hiding."
"you really think we'd hide anything from our commanders?" Ruth asked, pretending innocence.
"you guys haven't told them you're dating" sky countered.
"okay, you got us there, but what makes you think that we're hiding something related to the mission from them?"
"I know liars when I see them" Z said, crossing her arms.
"okay, fair enough, why do you want to know?" Draco said, moving towards the two.
"we know they have something to hide, we know that you have something to hide, and we know that bridge Carson has something to hide. So we're starting by finding out the secrets." Sky said, looking at Z.
"okay, here's a deal, you tell us your secret, we'll tell you ours."
"you go first" Z said.
"we know bridge Carson's location, the car they were driving, in he video, that one had a traceable number plate, and was tracked to a hilltop villa." Sam said.
"okay, and for our secret, Z and I are officially dating" Sky said, proudly, and they kissed to prove it.
"great, secret for a secret." Draco said, "now, how does Carson look like, that image was quite blurry, let's get a blown up pic."
"I don't see the point, but okay" Ruth said, and spoke for all four of them.
They headed over to the computers room. There was no one in sight. Not even the cadet who had the computer duties. They looked up the chore chart, it was Frederick smith's turn, (that guy's name shows up everywhere sky thought) and he wasn't found. So they just searched the keys, found them on the cabinet. Going through the files they realized that the video clip they had seen, not even tem minutes ago, was not there, apparently, taken down, deleted.
"are you guys thinking what I am thinking?" Z asked.
They all nodded.
"there's someone inside SPD who doesn't want the video to be seen." Sam said.
"check for other videos relating to bridge Carson." Draco said, Ruth followed.
"nope, not a single one."
"you know what this means?" Sky asked.
"bridge Carson has been leading a normal life" Z said,
"being spotted by cameras, and everything, we just don't know that because someone deletes them before we see them" Draco supplemented.
"the three videos we saw were the ones we had gotten our hands on, before the rat did" Sam said, and Ruth continued.
"there's no pattern, there's a villain, a henchman, and a mole"
there was silence as everybody processed the information.
it was Sky who broke the silence, "guys, Friederich is a Jewish name."
Frederick and Friederich, nobody had ever looked up the records.
"and Smith continues to be the most used fake name in the history of fake names" Sam said. There was silence.
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A/N: i looked it up, by the way, Friederich is an actual german name and it is jewish. it's pronounced the same as Frederick.
