Bridge felt light-headed as he heard someone tapping into his mind. His eyes widened and he felt the horrible pain again, the splitting headache, the searing sensation of someone peeling his brain out. This was the third time in one hour, he couldn't stand it, he was about to crash, just crash, but Grumm wasn't letting him.
His scream echoed off the walls as he struggled against the chains. His ripped shirt revealed his pale, smooth flesh. His gloves were torn away and lay on the ground, his pants were ripped to almost shreds. He was on the verge of feeling true death, the eternal sleep that people often wanted so badly, but not Bridge, not once... Until the moment he met Grumm's mighty psychic fist.
Deeper into his mind, Grumm was probing deep into the depths of the young Ranger's mind, almost scrambling him. He was searching when his voice came back to Bridge. "I'm about to launch my final attack, like Master requested, and destroy the SPD Base, and, thanks to you, I'll be able to do that."
'Why?'
"Who's that!" Grumm pulled back so quickly that the chained Bridge could all but scream so loudly that it reached the space just beyond the ship. "Who was that! Who was that woman!"
"I..." Bridge was trying to breath, but was failing misserably. He was crying from the pain, his body shook as his arms were hoisted off the ground by the chains once more. He knew he was probably going to die here, in this room, in this darkness, with his torn cloths, without his best friend, and all because someone wanted to be higher than someone else or because someone wanted to crush someone else's powerful grasp. "...I d-don't know." Bridge's head fell to his chest and he felt his body shake slightly as blood spilled from his lips and splattered onto the floor.
"Launch the attack on SPD Base! Now!"
"Sky." Bridge softly called the name of his best friend as he felt his body being dragged away by Mora's cold hands. He was going somewhere, but he didn't want to know, so he closed his eyes and fell asleep once more.
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The sirens were going off, cadets were running a-muck, Kat and Boom were trying to find Crugger, who was seated in the Comand Center, his morpher laying on the ground beside his chair. Grumm had fifty-thousand leauges of Krybots headed this way and the Rangers were no where to be found, and so was one of the most honored sabers.
Crugger bent down and picked up his morpher. He was all that stood between Grumm and world domination, alone... Or so he thought.
"Doggie?"
"Kat."
"I was able to restart my morpher, but it only lasts a few hours at most. Since we are the only two Ranger's left, we need to fight together, right?"
"Very well, suite up, we need to be ready for anything at this rate."
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Sky ran along a small path to a space transport that Cam had put together. He jumped up and landed in the cockpit beside Cam. "Let's go, already!"
"We need to wait until he launches the first attack," Cam said. "Besides, someone once told me, 'If it's a false alarm, that makes you the weakling, not the enime', and it's held true in my case." Cam smiled so warmly. "Squee told me that when she was a small girl and I couldn't believe that someone as sweet as her could say something so wisely. I'm sure no one here will miss her. She wasn't ever missed by anyone, not even her own mother missed her when we left her for adoption. It took my heart and soul to watch her grow up the way she did... Where no one loves her more than I do."
The whole earth seemed to shake as a huge explosion went off. Cam and Sky did all they could to hold on to their seats as they were rocked with the quake.
Cam hit the intercom. "Z! Syd! Prepare for launch! Jack, strap in, up there, it's going to be a bumpy ride. Ready, Sky?"
"As ready as possible." Sky snapped his buckle in. "I hope Crugger and Kat can hold the fort back at Base." He grabbed his steering wheel and began to move it forward, giving them lift into the air. "I know those two, they won't go down without a fight, no matter what."
"Then no worries or regrets if we die?"
"Nope."
"Then we go to victory!"
"Or to our doom," Jack replied.
"Think possitive, Jack, my lad." Cam smiled. "You four might want to morph, give me time to find Bridge and get him up and going, kay? Kay." Cam put the pedal to the medal and they were speeding off into space to hunt down Grumm and his captive.
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Bridge felt himself being crammed into a capsule when he woke and realized he was being launched into space in such a small capsule that he might not last more than an hour. He shut his eyes tight and didn't look up into the black velvet strewn with glittering specs. He knew what was waiting for him, a death alone, and in the cold.
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THUNK!
"What was that!" Sky demanded.
Syd's voice came out over the intercom. "BRIDGE!"
"We hit a bridge? Out here?" Cam asked.
"No, no, NO! Carson! He just floated past us!"
"Grab him!"
"I'm trying! Stop the ship, goddamnit!"
"Hey!"
"Just do it! He's just out of reach!"
"Reverse!"
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Four voices chorused as the whole ship went into a sudden reverse, it made Sky wonder if Cam had ever manuvered in large veichles. "Stop that!" Sky said, hitting Cam's wrists. "You plan ta kill us, too!"
"Nope, I was evading fire and obeying and order." Cam smiled. "Two birds, one stone."
"Ouvei." Sky's fingers pressed into his forehead and he shook his head. "Got him yet?"
"We're boarding him now!" Z said in a happy tone.
Cam wheeled the ship around and headed back to earth as the other four rearranged themselves again, after another crazy shift.
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"Finger lasers!" Crugger couldn't figure out why, but these Krybots were so hard to destroy. They would regain their balance as soon as they were able, even if they were missing a few parts.
Down below, Kat was defending some of the young escaping cadets. She kept fighting Krybots after Krybots, but she couldn't stop the constant flow.
Crugger was beging to loose power. He was completely useless. He couldn't fight back, he was on the verge of giving up when a huge blast of a laser caught his attention. Kat looked up to the skies where the blast had come from.
There was the SWAT Megazord. Bridge's voice resonated from it. "That's far enough, Troobian troops!" He landed and began to squash the Krybots by stepping on them. "Bridge is back in the house!"
Sky jumped into action along with the other Rangers. Cam simply watched from the small space transport with a smirk. "If only Squee could finally wake to see the one she loves one last time. Poor girl. No one's going to miss her, like always." His face suddenly became oddly sternly-angrily-happy. "Use the dang amulet, boy! It may be a one-time use, but it's worth it, dangnamit!"
Sky ripped the amulet off his neck and held it up to the heavens. "Samurai Storm! Ninja Form!" He transformed, his blue SPD mixing with the green Samurai Star. His helment visor became a strip of black strewn across a helmet that had a green strip down the middle with a white SPD badge sitting in the middle. His uniform was almost the same, the only difference was the design. The gloves were blue, the boots were blue, there were blue sleeves, but everything else was green, with a black Samurai Star beneath the SPD mascot on his chest.
"SPD Samurai Ranger!" Sky lunged into battle, with his bare fists. He sent a huge wave of aqua marine energy through the air and cleared a huge path between Kat and the cadets and the Krybots. He gave Kat the thumbs up. "All clear!" He held his hand out parallell to the ground. "Samurai Blaster!" He used the Krybot's heads as practice for his moving target shot. He felt so much energy going through his veins, he couldn't help but let it do it's bidding in his body.
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The battle was over, Grumm lost to the SPD Samurai Ranger. Sky was out of energy by that time, when all that lay before the base was a chasotic scene. Smoke rose from burning Krybots,Ranger's wounds were blown open, bits and pieces of the Delta Base Megazord lay scattered around. Cam was no where to be found, neither was Rain or Squee.
Sky lay there staring at the sun set painted skies. Two shooting stars went off together and he made a wish on them both. He realized he hadn't done that in so long he couldn't remember what his silly five-year-old wish he'd made. He made a wish that he could meet Squee again someday and the other was that he and Bridge would never have an argument or be higher than the other in each other's eye.
"Sky," Bridge playfully dropped a Krybot head on Sky's head as he said his friend's name. "Didyou wish on the twin stars just now?"
"Yeah."
"What'd you wish for?"
"To see Squee someday and that we don't fight each other the way we sometimes do."
"HEY!"
"What?"
"You wished the same as me!"
"Think we'll see Squee again?"
"Fo' sure, man!"
"Don't say that." Sky sat up.
"Why not?"
"Doesn't sound like you."
"Bridge Carson!"
"Yeep." Bridge turned to the voice and saw Crugger. "Sir!"
"I demote you back to Green Ranger of B-Squad, since that's where you seem the most comfortable." Crugger held out the SPD 3 morpher. "I'll trade you the Green for the Red."
Bridge traded, but his mouth didn't close. "I-I don't know what to say!"
"Then just say, 'yessir'!" Kat said with a laugh.
"Y..." Bridge swallowed a lump in his throat. "YESSIR!" He, for the first time, hugged both Crugger and Kat. "Thankies, thankies, thankies!" He smiled widely and let them go and ran to tell Sky, who was off on the side talking with Jack,the news, and did ajump and hug to his friend.
Kat looked at Crugger and smiled. "I still think your cute." She quickly walked away to join the other Rangers as Crugger stood there stunned.