I Don't own anything except Grand Moff Houston, the Earth Space Fleet, BJ, Marc, Jen, and Steve. Any relation to the events of Sept. 11, 2001 is pure fiction.
Power Rangers In Space
The Empire Strikes Back-Setting 3 years after CtoD (Sept. 12, 2001)
"I was supposed to have that yesterday." Captain James Rommel pointed at the intelligence reports on the seven rangers.
"I went to school with this girl. She was the school tramp." Kate pointed out Jen. "Somedays I think she tried to hide Khayman from me."
"Admiral Psycho wants everyone on the Knight Hammer for a briefing. We have discussed it."
"I'm done with these four." She handed him Jason, Tina, Nick, and Steve.
"The others?"
"I'll send them over."
"Meaning I'll never see them."
"Well, Needa dropped them off late on the Whirlwind."
"Sleep well?"
"I had the felling I was moved during the night and..." Jen stopped. "I think I dated you when you first got here. You're picking up where things left off." Steve was standing nearby.
"I remember those nights we spent in BJ's old car joyriding around drinking, causing trouble, using BJ's Jedi powers to get out of being arrested, and just having fun." Steve left.
"What happended to that car?"
"I gave it to Marc when I got the jeep, and he traded it in for a new car." BJ shifted Jen who had sat next to him.
"It's too sudden for both of us."
"What is?"
"You know."
"Oh, that."
"Enlighten Marc." BJ turned to see Marc standing in the doorway staring at them.
"I don't want to leave you kids alone. Unsupervised, so 3PO's in charge of you two." Marc headed for the door. "Ma, don't forget your Bloomie's card." They left.
"He is a nitwit."
"Look it up, you see Piett's picture not his." C-3PO came up to them.
"Excuse me sir, but perhaps you should take steps before you commit this action. I mean after all you have three kids already, do you really want more? But it isn't my place to interfere, even though Marcus said I could if I had to. But after all I'm only a droid and can't pull people apart like Wookies have been known to do. I better check in on the children, Jake has been very active lately. Maybe he went to sleep, but that child never goes to sleep it seems. Middle of the night I found him eating ice cream on the kitchen floor. The other boy maybe throwing up again and the girl maybe trying on Mrs. Jacobs' cosmetics again. But you never know with children even though I helped raise the Solo children while R2 was off having fun with the Jedi students."
"Shut up, 3PO."
"Get lost." He left.
"I just don't know yet."
"Take your time." BJ kissed her neck.
"You know how this works. Sign it."
"Why do you do this to me?"
"Why. You know why. Yokas knows why. Steven and Marcus know why. BJ knows why."
"Can't you pick on Davis?"
"Davis may be mouthy, but he is not C-3PO mouthy." A TIE fighter flew by. Both Jason and Bosco paid it no mind. Faith Yokas came up.
"Did you two see that TIE Fighter?"
"I was busy talking to Sergeant Twit."
"That will be noted."
"Hey shut up or I'll..." Bosco grabbed his throat and began choking.
"Darth Vader punished his officers that way. It's not SOP but it will work."
"I'll stop." Bosco dropped to the ground. Jason turned to his driver. "Follow that TIE Fighter."
"I'm telling Swersky about that."
"What's Swersky going to do? He might just think you did that to get out of signing that rep."
"I hope that TIE blows you up."
"Bosco, you are going to attract TIE Fighters."
"Our scout ship has sighted the Phantom Ranger, Ma'am. But, he is in the presence of civilians and we cannot risk..."
"Civilians and asteroids do not concern me, Admiral. I want that Ranger and the other Rangers, not excuses."
"Yes, Ma'am." Houston picked up Piett's file and read the part written by one Doctor Emil Skoda who had classified him as Emotionally Disturbed. Piett thought of himself as the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler. Houston noted that this could mean Piett was defective in some way, perhaps he would use that to his advantage if it didn't get him killed or locked up first. Houston turned to her comlink. "Kitchen, send me up some lunch and it better not be fish or liver, or I'm locking Piett in there with you, and have someone tell Cruz to report to me."
"Boscorelli, did you try and fake choking to get out of signing this?" Lt. Swersky asked him.
"I believe that Sergeant Christopher tried somehow to strangle me in a fashion used by Darth Vader on his officers."
"Yokas?"
"He must have been choking on his lunch. He did shove a great amount of food into his mouth a one point."
"I mean it. He stared at me with some possessed look in his eyes, and I began choking."
"You mean like Darth Vader?" Faith began laughing as Marc came up.
"See, even Faith doesn't believe you."
"You put him up to this."
"Actually, Vader would have killed you."
"He is going to get his someday." Swersky returned.
"Has anyone seen Sergeant Cruz?"
"She was near the spot where Bosco was choking. Then she disappeared."
"General."
"Yes, Cruz." "Add this to the Phantom Ranger's file. I believe that he maybe a Jedi Knight."
"Thank you, Cruz. Grand Moff Houston wishes to talk to you about something."
"She didn't say?"
"I heard it from Piett and he isn't all there in the head."
"She didn't tell you directly?"
"No." The ship's PA crackled. "Cruz to Grand Moff Houston's office." Cruz left confused followed by an even more confused General Veers.
Jen stirred to find the face of a little boy staring her in the face. BJ walked up to her.
"Jake, go give 3PO a full maintenance check." C-3PO squealed and tried to run as fast as his droid legs could carry him, but little Jake was faster and caught the droid trying to hide in the coat closet.
"Cute kid."
"His brother is on a waiting list for numerous organs. Jake will be starting school in about a week. That should give 3PO some rest." Jake carried a squirming 3PO across the room.
"On the back balcony."
"Oh, the horrors of it all."
"See if you can make him talk a lot less."
"I don't find that very amusing."
"Without 3PO, he'd be bored."
"So 3PO's like a new toy to him?"
"Pretty much."
"Where's R2?" On that R2-D2 rolled out of the hallway carrying drinks for them.
"Trying to get me drunk so you can have your way tonight?"
"You sure you aren't Jedi?"
"Too much time spent around Charles Caiman."
"What happened to him?"
"Marc and Steve arrested him on unpaid parking tickets and his wife won't bail him out, according to Kyp who was in there because some cop, Boscorelli was being a jerk."
"Bosco can be that way at times. I heard from Marc that Jason Christopher tried out the 'Vader Correctional System' on him today." Jen inched closer to him. He had changed and she could adjust as long as Jake was kept busy with maintenance checks on 3PO and the Empire preoccupied with other matters, she could live in peace.
Power Rangers In Space
The Empire Strikes Back-Setting 3 years after CtoD (Sept. 12, 2001)
"I was supposed to have that yesterday." Captain James Rommel pointed at the intelligence reports on the seven rangers.
"I went to school with this girl. She was the school tramp." Kate pointed out Jen. "Somedays I think she tried to hide Khayman from me."
"Admiral Psycho wants everyone on the Knight Hammer for a briefing. We have discussed it."
"I'm done with these four." She handed him Jason, Tina, Nick, and Steve.
"The others?"
"I'll send them over."
"Meaning I'll never see them."
"Well, Needa dropped them off late on the Whirlwind."
"Sleep well?"
"I had the felling I was moved during the night and..." Jen stopped. "I think I dated you when you first got here. You're picking up where things left off." Steve was standing nearby.
"I remember those nights we spent in BJ's old car joyriding around drinking, causing trouble, using BJ's Jedi powers to get out of being arrested, and just having fun." Steve left.
"What happended to that car?"
"I gave it to Marc when I got the jeep, and he traded it in for a new car." BJ shifted Jen who had sat next to him.
"It's too sudden for both of us."
"What is?"
"You know."
"Oh, that."
"Enlighten Marc." BJ turned to see Marc standing in the doorway staring at them.
"I don't want to leave you kids alone. Unsupervised, so 3PO's in charge of you two." Marc headed for the door. "Ma, don't forget your Bloomie's card." They left.
"He is a nitwit."
"Look it up, you see Piett's picture not his." C-3PO came up to them.
"Excuse me sir, but perhaps you should take steps before you commit this action. I mean after all you have three kids already, do you really want more? But it isn't my place to interfere, even though Marcus said I could if I had to. But after all I'm only a droid and can't pull people apart like Wookies have been known to do. I better check in on the children, Jake has been very active lately. Maybe he went to sleep, but that child never goes to sleep it seems. Middle of the night I found him eating ice cream on the kitchen floor. The other boy maybe throwing up again and the girl maybe trying on Mrs. Jacobs' cosmetics again. But you never know with children even though I helped raise the Solo children while R2 was off having fun with the Jedi students."
"Shut up, 3PO."
"Get lost." He left.
"I just don't know yet."
"Take your time." BJ kissed her neck.
"You know how this works. Sign it."
"Why do you do this to me?"
"Why. You know why. Yokas knows why. Steven and Marcus know why. BJ knows why."
"Can't you pick on Davis?"
"Davis may be mouthy, but he is not C-3PO mouthy." A TIE fighter flew by. Both Jason and Bosco paid it no mind. Faith Yokas came up.
"Did you two see that TIE Fighter?"
"I was busy talking to Sergeant Twit."
"That will be noted."
"Hey shut up or I'll..." Bosco grabbed his throat and began choking.
"Darth Vader punished his officers that way. It's not SOP but it will work."
"I'll stop." Bosco dropped to the ground. Jason turned to his driver. "Follow that TIE Fighter."
"I'm telling Swersky about that."
"What's Swersky going to do? He might just think you did that to get out of signing that rep."
"I hope that TIE blows you up."
"Bosco, you are going to attract TIE Fighters."
"Our scout ship has sighted the Phantom Ranger, Ma'am. But, he is in the presence of civilians and we cannot risk..."
"Civilians and asteroids do not concern me, Admiral. I want that Ranger and the other Rangers, not excuses."
"Yes, Ma'am." Houston picked up Piett's file and read the part written by one Doctor Emil Skoda who had classified him as Emotionally Disturbed. Piett thought of himself as the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler. Houston noted that this could mean Piett was defective in some way, perhaps he would use that to his advantage if it didn't get him killed or locked up first. Houston turned to her comlink. "Kitchen, send me up some lunch and it better not be fish or liver, or I'm locking Piett in there with you, and have someone tell Cruz to report to me."
"Boscorelli, did you try and fake choking to get out of signing this?" Lt. Swersky asked him.
"I believe that Sergeant Christopher tried somehow to strangle me in a fashion used by Darth Vader on his officers."
"Yokas?"
"He must have been choking on his lunch. He did shove a great amount of food into his mouth a one point."
"I mean it. He stared at me with some possessed look in his eyes, and I began choking."
"You mean like Darth Vader?" Faith began laughing as Marc came up.
"See, even Faith doesn't believe you."
"You put him up to this."
"Actually, Vader would have killed you."
"He is going to get his someday." Swersky returned.
"Has anyone seen Sergeant Cruz?"
"She was near the spot where Bosco was choking. Then she disappeared."
"General."
"Yes, Cruz." "Add this to the Phantom Ranger's file. I believe that he maybe a Jedi Knight."
"Thank you, Cruz. Grand Moff Houston wishes to talk to you about something."
"She didn't say?"
"I heard it from Piett and he isn't all there in the head."
"She didn't tell you directly?"
"No." The ship's PA crackled. "Cruz to Grand Moff Houston's office." Cruz left confused followed by an even more confused General Veers.
Jen stirred to find the face of a little boy staring her in the face. BJ walked up to her.
"Jake, go give 3PO a full maintenance check." C-3PO squealed and tried to run as fast as his droid legs could carry him, but little Jake was faster and caught the droid trying to hide in the coat closet.
"Cute kid."
"His brother is on a waiting list for numerous organs. Jake will be starting school in about a week. That should give 3PO some rest." Jake carried a squirming 3PO across the room.
"On the back balcony."
"Oh, the horrors of it all."
"See if you can make him talk a lot less."
"I don't find that very amusing."
"Without 3PO, he'd be bored."
"So 3PO's like a new toy to him?"
"Pretty much."
"Where's R2?" On that R2-D2 rolled out of the hallway carrying drinks for them.
"Trying to get me drunk so you can have your way tonight?"
"You sure you aren't Jedi?"
"Too much time spent around Charles Caiman."
"What happened to him?"
"Marc and Steve arrested him on unpaid parking tickets and his wife won't bail him out, according to Kyp who was in there because some cop, Boscorelli was being a jerk."
"Bosco can be that way at times. I heard from Marc that Jason Christopher tried out the 'Vader Correctional System' on him today." Jen inched closer to him. He had changed and she could adjust as long as Jake was kept busy with maintenance checks on 3PO and the Empire preoccupied with other matters, she could live in peace.