Power Rangers: Tech Support
A totally non-serious look at Ninja Storm. Written by Tiggs Panther

Standard disclaimers apply.

2 - The Power Behind the Power

On reflection, Cam often wondered exactly how much effort the people of Blue Bay Harbor thought went into making sure the Power Rangers were able to beat back Lothor time after time. For that matter, he wondered if any "Ranger-protected" city realised what happened behind the scenes.

In recent weeks the Power Rangers had been recognised for keeping the streets of Blue Bay Harbor safe from destruction-by-giant-alien.
But who managed to code up several new nick-of-time Power Spheres - at the expense of a possible bout of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?

The Rangers had been congratulated for bouncing back from near defeat a few days previously, kicking alien butt again within hours.
But who'd been the one to manage to change the charred and overloaded mass of electronics back into fully-functional Morphers?

Time after time the Rangers would manage to show up at any given crisis, usually before it escalated to something too far out-of-control.
But who was it spending every waking hour sat at the screens of Ninja-Ops? (And who had programmed the auto-monitor to allow him to get a few hours sleep and the off half-hour out of Ops?)

Right now Cam was stuck in the middle of trying to code up some optimisations for the Wind Rangers' Ninja-Swords. Lothor's goons were getting stronger, and the Rangers could use every bit of help they could get.
Sure, the Rangers new (mostly) how much effort he put into keeping them tooled up. But the average citizen didn't have a clue.

It wasn't that he wanted any recognition. Not really, anyway. He wasn't doing this for glory, he just wanted to be helpful. But people saw the Power Rangers. They didn't see the repair work, the R&D, the caffeine-fueled all-nighters. They just saw that every time the Rangers called on their powers, things happened.

Technical Support truly was a thankless task at times. That, at least, the five Rangers understood to a degree. It wasn't as if they were recognised out of costume for what they'd done. They'd saved the city (and the world) more times than they liked to count, and people out in the city still just saw "a skater, three bikers, and some surfer-chick."

Not really a far cry from "the guy in glasses that no-one really notices."

Just another in my infrequent looks at Cam's life as the Tech-guy in PRNS.
When you're a techie, and things just work, no-one ever knows what you've done to keep it that way except those that work closest to you.