Falling From Grace Chapter 6: Fate of Us All, a power rangers fanfic

Falling From Grace

Chapter 6 – Fate of Us All...

The rangers all walked together through the carnival and as they did something caught the eye of the green ranger.

"Guys," Bridge said, stopping his walk. They all looked at him and looked towards where his gaze landed. Syd gasped. Z gaped. Sky got teary eyed. Jack's eyes went wide. "Did anyone bring their morpher?"

"No... I thought Jack did," Syd said.

"Me too," Z nodded.

"I thought Sky did," Jack admitted.

"Well... no... it was our day off..." Sky shrugged.

"What do we do?" the pink ranger asked, trying so hard not to cry as she looked at the nightmare she'd had for months.

"We better head back," the red leader commanded.

"Right!" they all exclaimed and raced to the SPD jeep.

I've given up on giving up slowly, I'm blending in so
You won't even know me apart from this whole world that shares my fate
This one last bullet you mention is my one last shot at redemption
because I know to live you must give your life away

Jack and Sky took the front seats, while Z and Syd sat in the back. Sky turned the radio on to hear the news.

"...New Tech has been under the torture of Gruumm for several hours now. And one question comes to every citizen's mind... 'where are the Power Rangers'? Commander Anubis Cruger has reported almost all SPD is either dead or injured..."

"TURN IT OFF!" Z yelled. "NOW DAMNIT!" Syd held onto her girlfriend to calm her down as she cried.

Sky turned it off. Jack took his hand in comfort. His blue eyes looked into dark brown ones, breaking the red ranger's heart. He focused back on the road.

Syd held Z tightly.

After what seemed like an eternity, the rangers found themselves driving through a demolished New Tech City. As they looked around, driving down the street, they all unleashed silent tears of horrification.

Z replicated out and disappeared from Syd's arms.

"Z!" Syd screamed. "Stop the car!" Jack stopped and Syd ran after her. "Z!"

And I've been housing all this doubt and insecurity and
I've been locked inside that house all the while you hold the key
And I've been dying to get out and that might be the death of me
And even though, there's no way in knowing where to go, promise I'm going because

Z ran around, "Sam? Sam, c'mon! Don't be playin' me!" She ran to a pile of cadet bodies and threw them around to find Sam.

After awhile of searching she found him. His tiny body stained with innocent blood. She ran her fingertips over the slice on his neck and then placed her hand on the hole jutted into his stomach. She started to cry seeing the little boy die this way. She kissed his cheek. "Sam..." tears trailed down her face and she shoved her head against his chest. She wanted to hear his heartbeat. Feel his arms hug her. Tell her it was a joke and that he was there. But he couldn't ---- Sam was dead.

Syd, Jack, Sky, and Bridge ran up behind Z. She kneeled there, cradling Sam in her arms.

"It's like he's almost here..." she said softly through clenched teeth.

"We found Kat and DC..." Bridge started.

Z looked up with hopeful teary eyes, "And?"

"They're dead, Z..." Sky informed.

Z looked away, "Oh..."

Syd kneeled next to her, "Everything will be okay, Z. I swear... This will all end well..." She kissed her significant other's forehead as her eyes drifted to the blood and ash covered floor and more tears poured. The pink clad girl pulled the yellow ranger in her arms, trying her best to comfort her.

I gotta get outta here
I'm stuck inside this rut that I fell into by mistake
I gotta get outta here
And I'm begging you, I'm begging you, I'm begging you to be my escape.

Sky and Jack sat next to Syd and Bridge by the fire they had made, holding hands as Z sharpened a stick with a rock. She had stopped crying and had the look of death in her eyes, but was still very much alive.

"Z, please?" Syd begged. "Come and sit with me..."

"Not until that monster is killed!" she snapped at her girlfriend. "When I see him fall, I will gladly join the four of you... Until then..."

Z started walking off.

"Z!" she screamed. She stood up and watched her girlfriend walk away with tears in her eyes. "Z-EEEEEEEEEE! God!" She growled and kicked the ambers of the fire nearby her foot. She started to cry as she let out a shriek of aggravation.

"Syd..." Bridge started.

"NO!" she exclaimed. "I'm not letting her go alone! I love her! I can't live without her! And I. Hate. You. Bridge Carson!" She ran after her girlfriend to safe her.

"What did you do?" Sky demanded.

"Nothing..." Bridge huffed. Jack rolled his eyes and dragged both his boyfriend and friend with him to the girls.

I'm giving up on doing this alone now
Cause I've failed and I'm ready to be shown how
He's told me the way and I'm trying to get there
And this life sentence that I'm serving
I admit that I'm every bit deserving
But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair

Z stood near the cliff by the Pacific Ocean. "GRUUMM! YOU WANT SOMEONE! TAKE ME!"

Morgana appeared behind Z. She lifted her sword and raised it above the yellow ranger's body. She swung it down, when Z ducked, rolling out of the way.

"Where's Gruumm?" She demanded, pulling her blaster out of her bag and shot at Morgana.

"Your little commander killed him. Then I killed your Doggie!" Morgana cackled, shooting back and throwing a dagger past the brunette SPD officer.

"Z!" a high-pitched, female voice called. She looked over her shoulder.

"Syd! No!" Z screeched. She raced towards Syd throwing her out of the way and to the ground. The long dagger dug into her stomach, gutting her hard as she fell to the rocky ground.

"Z!" Syd screamed. She ran to her girlfriend and took her in her arms. "Z? Z, can you hear me?"

"And then... there was one..." Morgana swung her sword around and was about to dashed Syd across with it, when several bullets hit her in the chest, making her fall to the ground dead.

Cause I've been housing all this doubt and insecurity and
I've been locked inside that house all the while you hold the key
And I've been dying to get out and that might be the death of me
And even though, there's no way in knowing where to go, promise I'm going because

Sky, Jack, and Bridge kneeled next to Syd and Z.

"Is she okay?" Sky asked in concern.

"Z?" Syd's voice cracked. "Baby, please? Answer me! Please?" She kissed Z's forehead.

"It's... so cold, Syd..." came Z's whisper of a voice. She was turning a pale gray tone and her body was going limb as blood poured from the wound in her stomach. "I love you..." her voice faded as her eyes rolled to the back of her head. Syd started to sob, cradling Z's head in her arms. Her tears rolled onto Z's face.

I gotta get outta here
Cause I'm afraid that this complacency is something I can't shake
I gotta get outta here
And I'm begging you, I'm begging you, I'm begging you to be my escape.

Bridge looked up and his mouth dropped. He tapped Sky's shoulder and the blue and red rangers looked up.

"Syd..." Sky started. Syd ignored him. "Syd." He tapped her spine.

"Leave me..." Syd cried.

"No! Syd, look!" Jack exclaimed.

Syd looked up and gasped at the sight before her.

"Syd!"

She stood up and ran into the arms of Kat and Cruger. They held her and she sobbed in their embrace.

"Oh my god! I thought you guys were lost forever!" she cried.

"Oh, Syd," Kat chuckled.

"SPD's back then?" Jack asked.

"Yes it is, Cadet Landors," Cruger assured. The six of them exchanged hugs and tears for awhile.

I am a hostage to my own humanity
Self detained and forced to live in this mess I've made
And all I'm asking is for you to do what you can with me
But I can't ask you to give what You already gave

"C'mon, Syd!" Sam exclaimed, dragging her outside of SPD.

Syd laughed as she passed by her boyfriend and friends with a quick wave of her hand. They raced after Syd and Sam. Syd picked up Sam and carried him as she ran, both of them screaming as they were chased by Sky, Jack, and Bridge.

"Ahhhhh!" Syd screamed as Bridge's hands wrapped around her waist and Jack took Sam.

"There we go!" Jack said, putting Sam on Sky's shoulders. He and his boyfriend shared a kiss.

Syd grinned at Bridge and they kissed as well.

Her sadly gaze drifted to a stone behind all four boys when they parted. She got tears in her eyes and covered her face.

"What is it, Syd?" Bridge asked. Syd pointed to the stone behind them. They all turned around.

"It's been two years," Sky gaped.

"That long?" Jack questioned.

"Yup," Sky assured. Sam squirmed to get down and Sky placed him on the ground.

"Syd?" Sam said. "You look like you need a hug..." He stretched his arms out and Syd smiled, reaching down and embracing with the young boy. She kissed his cheek.

"In desperate need," she smiled softly, wiping her eyes as they separated.

Bridge wrapped his arms around her waist, "I'm sorry, Syd... I know how much you hate the memory of..."

"I don't hate the memories... almost all of them I love... except for..." she trailed off and the tears spilled like Niagara Falls. "I'm sorry." She pulled away from Bridge and covered her face, getting on her knees. She crawled over to the stone and her hands reached for the chiseled gray stone made two years ago.

I've gotta get outta here
I'm stuck inside this rut that I fell into by mistake
I've gotta get outta here
And I'm begging you, I'm begging you, I'm begging
You to be my escape.

She collapsed against the stone, pressing her forehead against it and clouds conquered the sun's bright rays. She clutched to the stone, tears springing from her eyes. Arms wrapped around her waist and she gazed into heavenly eyes.

"I'll never leave you... I'm always here... My love," the heavenly figure assured.

"Z? Don't leave me! ZZZZZZZZZZ!"

Her head lifted from the stone and she gasped.

"Syd... c'mon... it's about to rain!" Bridge called. Sam, Jack, and Sky were already running into the SPD Academy.

Syd crawled about a foot away from the stone and gazed at it with wonder, "Yeah, just let me get another look..."

Bridge kneeled next to her and took her hand to give her strength and comfort. She leaned her head on his shoulder and he kissed the side of her temple.

She sighed, "Let's go inside, Babe."

"'Kay, Sweetheart," he answered. He started to leave and she lingered slowly behind, gazing over her shoulder at the stone as she did so.

I fought you for so long
I should have let you win
Oh how we regret those things we do
And all I was trying to do was save my own skin
But so were you

Elizabeth Renee Delgado

July 18, 2007 – September 06, 2027

Friend, Sister, and Ranger

MAY THE POWER PROTECT YOU

So were you...

AN: This isthe end of "Falling From Grace". I'm not sure if I want to make a sequel, but I'm thinking about it. Thank you for reading. Now... please review! (Relient K's song "Be My Escape is not mine, nor are the characters.)