Part 1
Bryan stood on the roof of the Command Center morphed into the Blue Ranger, but holding his helmet tucked under his arm. Jason had found out what happened to his dad and now he had begun to wonder if he would ever see his family again. His little brother Elliot was safe at their new home in Angel Grove and he knew for a fact that his mother was dead after the Vandairre attack on his old home. They had taking his brother Johnny away. Probably to work somewhere in the sector commanders home until he was ready to be brainwashed and placed in the Vandairre Army as a soldier. If all of this wasn't bad enough Bryan still had to deal with the fact that his father was out there somewhere. He knew that his father was alive. He had talked to him when he found and earned the right to pilot the Fox TitanZord.
His father had assured him that he was okay and that he and Bryans mother were together. Bryan wasn't convinced and wanted to ask more but at the time he was in a hurry to get back and help the other Rangers before Barberon was able to attack again. After Barberon was defeated Bryan had gone back to the spot where he had seen his dad. He had spent days looking for him but couldn't find him. Still the new Blue Ranger hadn't given up hope and knew that he would be with his family again.
He looked down at his FoxZord and marveled at how great it was to be a Power Ranger. Even though Bryan had always wanted to be part of something big but never felt quite right when he was in the Vandairre Military Academy. He had graduated with honors at the top of his class and had even been giving a direct promotion to Lieutenant. He had been placed on the fast track that no human had ever been on. In fact he had never thought that he was going to make it past the rank of mere soldier.
Even after he had been graduated and been given his promotion first assignment Bryan didn't feel right he was in the right place or doing the right thing. It was only after his dad gave him that blank coin and he first entered the Command Center and then Power Chamber that he felt that he was where he belonged. After the giant head appeared and told him that he was to become the Blue Power Ranger and free the Earth.
Bryan could remember how much his heart raced as he saw his plain coin levitate above him and then change color to blue. The a fox appeared on the face and he was bathed in a blue light. When the light died down he found himself transformed into the Blue Power Ranger. Bryan knew that he had found the thing that he was supposed to do. It was the big thing that he felt like he should be part of.
He looked down at his Fox TitanZord once more and smiled "Okay buddy. Go on home. I'm going to head back to the city." FoxZord nodded and turned to walk away. "Power Down!" Bryan said as he placed his arm across his chest and seemingly pulled his uniform off and tossed it into the dimensional void that was stored in when not in use.
Bryan walked down into the Power Chamber and looked around to see if anyone else was around. The only one there was Alpha, who was staring intently at a monitor near one of the stations. Bryan walked casually over to the little robot and looked into the same monitor. "What's going on Alpha?" he asked.
"Hello Bryan. It looks like there is some sort of disturbance near the city of what was once Bakersfield." Alpha responded.
"Is it the Vandairre?" Bryan asked.
"They are not showing up on sensors. Captain Sawyer has taken a team in to investigate." Alpha told him.
"I wonder what she didn't tell me that she was leaving." Bryan said to himself. "I'm going to join up with her."
"Do you want me to call the others?" the little robot asked.
"Naw, if something goes down I'll call you." Bryan assured Alpha. "It's probably nothing. Just Rebecca bringing in more refugees."
"You're probably right." Alpha said. "I'll set the coordinates for their location."
"Thanks buddy." Bryan said as he disappeared in a flash of blue energy.
"This is horrible." Rebecca said as she dug threw the pile of rubble. "I wonder what can cause the type of damage."
Lewis walked over to the Rebecca and touched her on the shoulder. "Captain we found another one." he annouced. "They're digging him out now."
"Good, that makes about twenty-five." Rebecca announced to no one in particular. "Lewis I want you to get a gather a few of the guys and move on to sector delta. See what you guys can find there."
"Yes ma'am." Lewis said with a sharp salute.
Rebecca gave him a half attentive salute and then went back to digging through her pile of rubble. 'This is always the hardest part of the job.' she thought.
A few moments later another one of her troops approached and knelt down next to her without even looking over at him Rebecca spoke "What is it Micheal?" she asked.
"Captain Sawyer a few of the guys were wondering if we could take could take one of the transports to the other side of town and look around." the young man asked.
"I don't know Mike. I would prefer that we didn't split that far apart. We don't know what's out there." Rebecca told him.
"But Captain Sawyer we can get more done if split up." Micheal argued.
Rebecca calmy stood up and slowly turned to the young man. Her eyes grew narrowed and focused in on him. "I said that we are going to stay together." she snarled. "Now I hope that there are no more questions."
The young man put his head down and turned to walked away. "You need to stop pushing us so hard." he said in a low voice as he walked off to join the others.
Beckys shoulders slumped down. Micheal had never said anything like that before, but maybe he was right. She had been pushing them much harder than usual. Maybe it was due to the fact that the Power Rangers were back and she actually realized that they had a chance of winning the war. Or maybe it was the fact that she needed to prove something to herself. She wasn't exactly sure why she was driving them so hard but she knew that they had to help out in anyway possible and right now this was the best thing that they could do.
Bryan materialized in what looked like an abandoned warehouse. He didn't want to appear in a place where someone might see him materialize. He had already been having a tough time explaining he absences and was sure that at least a few people were beginning to suspect his involvement with the Power Rangers, at least on some level.
He had found himself slightly upset by the fact that Becky had taken the team out and not even left a message. She had normally made a habit of informing the Power Rangers of her missions. It wasn't something that she didn't have to do, but on the other hand it allowed the Rangers to assist when it was necessary.
Bryan stood still and listened for a while. He was trying to see if he coulde hear any voices that would tell him where Becky and the others were. The city had been attacked recently and just because Alpha was not able to detect Vandairre soldiers didn't mean that there weren't any.
As he rounded a corner Bryan could hear voices. He stopped and assumed a fighting stance then waited for for whoever it was to come around. The voices appeared to get closer and as soon as a person rounded the corner Bryan let out a side kick that would have proven devastating had he not pulled back at the last possible moment.
Micheal stood in utter shock as he watched Bryan slowly lower his leg. The young man didn't know what to say. He surely didn't expect to see Bryan here, much less almost have his head taken off by him.
"Sorry about that." Bryan said.
Micheal nodded "What are you doing here?" he asked suspiciously.
"Looking for you guys." Bryan responded. "Where's Becky?"
"I don't think you want to bother her right now." Chris, the young man that was walking with Micheal replied.
"Yeah she's not in the best of moods right now." Micheal added.
"I'll take my chances, now where is she?" Bryan asked.
Micheal and Chris could tell that the senior officer was losing his patience and decided not to put up anymore of an argument. "She's over there." he answered, pointing back to the direction that he and Chris had just come from.
"Thanks." Bryan said as he walked by the two boys.
Becky continued to dig through the piles upon piles of rubble, searching for any signs of survivors of the latest Vandairre attack. She found it frustrating that even though the Power Rangers were back in the picture the Vandairre continued these acts of destruction. To make it worse the Rangers always reacted to the attacks and never really struct out at the enemy. She couldn't understand why the Earths heros never went after the Vandairre and put an end to their occupation of Earth once and for all. Becky lifted her head and spun around with her weapon as she heard someone walking through the rubble behind her. "What are you doing here?" she asked harshly as she lowered her pistol.
"The question might be what are you doing here?" Bryan responded equally as harshly.
"If I recall I am the commander of this unit Lieutenant!" Becky said almost at a low roar.
"And if I recall you asked me to be your second in command. And it is generally excepted that the Commander keeps her second in command informed of decisions unless there is a specific reason no to." Bryan threw back at her.
"Well as you can see the Vandairre attacked and we are looking for survivors." Becky said as she turned back to her pile of rubble.
Bryan decided that battling with her wasn't got them anywhere so he moved in beside her and started moving the rubble aside also. "Well at least let me give you a hand."
Neither of them noticed the sinister cloud of smoke rolling in from behind.