Disclaimer: I don't own Power Rangers, or anything that comes along with them. All I own is Khyla and everything that encompasses her. With that said, on we go!

Authors Note: Martieal, thank you so so so much for reviewing! You seriously made my day. For a little while I was actually thinking about removing the story, but since someone is reading it, I decided to leave it up and continue it. If you are reading it, and you haven't posted a review, please do, because it makes me happy and makes me feel like I have a purpose in writing. Thanks y'all, and on with chapter 4!

Breaking Ground

Chapter 4 : Situating, Decorating, and Altercating

Sky's POV

As he watched Syd explain the gist of things to Khyla from his doorframe, he felt intrigued by the new girl they were supposed to be protecting. Granted, he still thought their new mission to be childish, but there was something about her that sparked his interest. Something that hadn't happened since he first came to the academy so many years ago. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Syd walk towards him, a half smile on her face. He pushed himself off of the doorframe, and walked back into his room, finding Bridge in his usual handstand position against the wall, and Jack sitting on Bridges bed, talking with him. Sky headed over to his side of the room and sat on his bed as the doors to their room opened and Syd walked through, followed shortly after by Z.

"So what do you all think of this new girl?" Z asked with mild interest. A large smile broke out on both Bridges and Jacks faces, as they looked at eachother and shared a small laugh. "What?"

"She's hot." Jack said simply. "Man, if I had known that we would be watching over a girl who looked that good, I wouldn't have been dreading this so much. I'm actually kinda looking forward to spending some quality time with Miss Gabrey."

"Oh shut up Jack, you know that if you touched her, her father would kick your ass to hell and back without blinking an eye." Z chided.

"What Daddy doesn't know won't hurt him." Jack said mischeviously. Z picked up a pillow that was laying on the floor and threw it at him. He shrunk back to try and minimize the attack, and laughed. "Z, I was just kidding, you know, trying to get a rise out of you." He said, setting the pillow aside. She looked at him skeptically.

"Although, she is very physically attractive." Bridge commented, "And from what I've seen, she has a pretty good personality and disposition."

"And she's really hot." Jack commented again.

"Come on you guys," Syd said with a small frown "you should get to know her, she's a really sweet girl. And she dresses really well, too. I should ask her what she thinks of my new shoes." Z rolled her eyes.

"She seems like a pretty cool chick. I can't really say yet, but at the moment I think I could hang out with her without tossing my cookies from over-girliness." She added. "What about you Sky? You have yet to add to the conversation about our lovely Miss Khyla Gabrey." Sky looked at her with his trademark cocked eyebrow, and a look that clearly conveyed that she drop the subject.

"Oh come on Sky," Syd chimed in, "you must have some thoughts on the girl. I saw you watching me explain stuff to her." Sky sighed and rolled his eyes.

"I think that this whole assignment is childish, and a waste of time. Granted, she may be an okay girl, but her 'attractiveness' has nothing to do with us getting our job done. All she's going to do is be a distraction to what we need to accomplish." The assembled party sat for a moment before bursting into laughter.

"Quit being such a hard-ass Sky, it's really not that big of a deal. All we have to do is make sure she doesn't get killed or kidnapped, the whole deal with Phylia ends, she goes home, we're done. Think of it as a patience and tolerance development crash course. Now, who's up for some light ball?" Z asked, pushing herself off of her chair.

"I'm game." Bridge stated, falling haphazardly off the wall, causing the others to chuckle at his antics.

"Me too." Jack said amid laughter, standing from Bridges bed.

"I could go for that." Sky said disinterestedly.

"Syd?" Z asked expectantly.

"I need to go speak with Kat about something, you guys go on ahead, I'll catch up later."

"Suit yourself." Z said with a shrug, before heading out the door to the light ball sanctuary, the boys following behind her.

Khyla's POV

Unpacking was tedious. Being the fashionista she liked to portray herself to be, she had brought two rather large suitcases full of designer clothing that would make a famous person jealous, and a whole suitcase only for her shoes. The only problem, was trying to find a place to put everything. Since the Cadets at the academy really only wore two things, their uniforms and their training clothes, to say that their closet space was limited would be an understatement. It almost didn't exist. By the time she was finished, the titanium alloy rod that held the hangers was bowing down slightly, her drawers were stuffed to maximum capacity to where she could barely open and close them, and she had to stack her shoes on top of one another to get them all to fit. Decorating, however, was another story.

The room, to be frank, was horribly boring. There was the door that slid open, which she could admit was pretty cool, but that was the main perk of the room. The window, if you would call it that, was situated directly across from the door. Her "bed" was in the corner of the room, which looked to be a tall rectangular block with a mattress situated within it and was the size of a double. Definitely not the King size gelatin bed she was used to at home. She cocked an eyebrow; this place was in need of some serious decorating, and she hardly had any supplies with which to do it. She had bought a few magazines in the space-port for the trip over here, but that was in no way shape or form enough to give life to the drab walls around her. She had pictures of her friends from both Phylia and earth, which consisted mainly of sons and daughters of other political figures that had been sent there, and offspring of her fathers friends. What she lacked were things to put them up with, and a few more magazines to cut apart wouldn't hurt too badly either.

Glancing around the room, he decided that with a little work, it could become livable. The window was a good shape that could easily be adorned by brightly colored curtains draped in a good way. The door was metal, so magnets could easily be placed on it, and there was enough clearance between the doors and the door frame that they wouldn't slide off every time the door opened. Some throw pillows would go well on her bed, and would do a great job of keeping Tammy, her stuffed hippopotamus company while she was off doing whatever it was. The lamps that they gave you were not only hideous, but the light that they provided was incorrigible. She had a mission to make this room hers, and she needed to do it fast to keep her from going insane with boredom. Deciding that S.P.D. headquarters probably wouldn't have a shop of any kind on the premises, she elected to take a little trip into town to find what she needed to give her room some personality.

Hoping Sydney wasn't busy, she walked to the room that had a pink stripe on one side of the door, and a yellow stripe on the other, and knocked softly. Hearing nothing, she decided to be daring, and open the door. She pushed the button and found the room to be empty. Damn, she thought to herself. Neither Syd nor Z were there, the only two that she could think of that could possibly enjoy the prospect of going shopping. Slightly saddened, and very disheartened, Khyla retreated back to her room. She sat on the crimson silk sheets her father had used as a bribe to get her to come back to earth with him. She wouldn't deny it, leaving the embassy had been hard, everything she knew was there. Sure, she had been to earth on vacations and such, and with her father when he was going to be gone for an extended period of time, but Phylia was home to her. She had grown up there, her life was there…well, it used to be. She sighed with boredom and discontent, not particularly wanting to be in her room, but not particularly wanting to break the rules on her first day.

"UGH! I have to get out of this room!" She exclaimed to herself. Setting Tammy down, and pushing herself up off her bed, she walked out the door hoping to find something to do, or someone to come with her on her mission to decorate her room. God this sucks, she thought to herself. It was hard enough on Phylia having Caden follow me around 24/7, but at least he was always around, now it's like I have to search for my freaking guards! What in the Sam Hell is this galaxy coming to? She didn't have to look too hard. A few turns down some random hallways, since she still had no idea where she was going, and she heard people inside a room, playing some sort of game. Being brave, she decided to head inside and check it out. As the door opened, and the scene laid out in front of her, she was quite impressed. She didn't know that people on earth had even heard of lightball, and here were a few of the B-Squad cadets engaged in a very serious game, playing quite well.

She sat and watched them for a few minutes. They used all kinds of acrobatics, and gymnastics that she never would have thought to use during the game. Finally, Bridge noticed her presence in the room, held the game ball in his hand, and smiled at her.

"Hey Khyla." He said, waving at her goofily.

"Hey guys." She said, walking farther into the room, her thumbs jammed into her front pockets.

"What's up?" Z asked with a smile.

"Nothing really, just a little bored, and in need of something to do." She replied.

"You could play with us." Jack said hopefully.

"Eeeh, lightball's not really my thing. I was actually wondering if you guys knew where Syd was. I kinda wanted to know if she wanted to go on a shopping excursion with me to find decorations for my room."

"I think she went to talk to Kat and Commander Cruger about something but I'd be happy to go with you if you needed to leave the premises." Bridge offered excitedly.

"Bridge," Sky started. "You hate shopping." He said obviously.

"But Khyla said she needed to leave, and as her appointed guardians, it is our duty to make sure that she is not only protected, but happy while being protected." Sky looked at him strangely. "It's in the handbook." He said, casting his eyes downward.

"If you don't want to, it's okay, I just kinda need to give my room personality. The whole gray wall thing just isn't doing it for me, you know?"

"Actually no, but that's beside the point." Sky said, rather rudely. Khyla raised her eyebrows at him. Sure she had met her share of rude people in her lifetime, but none that attacked her personally without knowing her.

"Well, BRIDGE," Khyla said accentuating his name while keeping Sky under her stern gaze, "I would appreciate it very much if you would come with me. I only need to pick up a few things. But if shopping's not your thing, then I can just go grab Syd and ask her to come with."

"Sydney, is busy" Sky retorted, "As we told you previously."

"Well since it's obvious that you don't want to help me, Mr. Tate," she shot back cocking one of her eyebrows at him "Then this really doesn't concern you." He walked towards her, anger etched all over his face.

"As my charge, Miss Gabrey, it constantly concerns me what you are doing, when you are doing it, and who you are doing it with." He said.

"And as your Charge, then it is your responsibility to escort me in what I want to do, when I want to do it, and where I want to do it. And since you've been such an amazing helper, why don't you come along and go shopping with us." Khyla said dangerously.

"Because, you're not going shopping. We need to stay here and fulfill our duties as Power Rangers." Khyla narrowed her eyes dangerously at him, standing close to him, and looking up into his face. Even his towering height wouldn't make her back down.

"I'm not a Power Ranger Sky, I'm the fucking Ambassadors daughter. You were assigned to be my guardian. Now, I'm not sure If you know how that works, but it means that you follow me around, 24/7, whatever, wherever, whenever. You don't call the shots, I do. And if you have a problem with that, I would be more than happy to give my father a call, and have him talk to your commander to straighten things out." Skys eyes widened at the big threats that were coming out of this small girl. Getting in more trouble with Cruger was something that he couldn't afford, and he could find nothing in his brain that could respond to her comments. He remained silent, which to Khyla signaled both surrender, and defeat. "Excellent." She said backing off. "Now, I'll go get my bag, and we'll be off." She raised her eyebrow dangerously once more, sending a glare in Sky's direction before she walked off.

"Dude…" Jack said, his tone surprised. "Did you get told or what?"