A/N: HEY GUYS! SO SORRY FOR THE LONG UPDATE! I HAD TO MOVE RECENTLY AND HAVEN'T HAD TIME TO UPDATE! I HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS NEXT CHAPTER, AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO GUESSED WHO THE WARRIOR IS… YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE!
Syd fell onto the park bench with Bridge, Z, and Jack following.
A few days had passed since Taylor's arrival and the rangers had been put through the ringer. Sky and AJ were the only ones that seemed to be keeping up with the Lieutenant.
Taylor grinned as she saw her offspring and their teammates. She had been hard on them the last few days. Mainly because she had a feeling Grumm was up to something. There hadn't been an attack...
Sky grinned as he saw Syd dump her water bottle over her head. Her tight ponytail hung limply behind her as she tossed it back.
Ani grinned. She could tell that Sky was in love with her, whether he admitted it or not. She grabbed one of the bottles near Syd and took a swig. She felt a pair of eyes on her and caught Jack staring.
She quickly turned away, but Taylor caught the look the Red Ranger was giving her daughter…
"So Lieutenant, when are you going back to Silver Hills?" Bridge asked suddenly.
"Ready to be rid of me so soon?" Taylor retorted.
"No… what I meant was… when do you plan of heading home? Well, I don't know where you're home is, but-"
Taylor held her hand up. "I understand cadet… I'll be heading home tomorrow." She stopped and looked at Z and Jack. "However, I would like a word with Cadets Landors and Delgado before I leave."
Jack and Z both wondered if they had done anything wrong, but before they could answer, a blast hit the ground near Taylor, sending her flying.
"No!" Sky and Ani shouted at the same time. The others were too busy with the small army of Krybots that appeared to ask what was going on.
The twins ran to their mother and helped her rise. "Are you alright?" Sky asked immediately.
Taylor nodded. "Go. Help your team," she said.
"We're not leaving you!" Ani cried as a Purple beam appeared, revealing Morgana.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" she asked menacingly. "A nice little family reunion? Too bad daddy couldn't make it!"
Sky stood in front of hi mother and sister, holding his morpher at the ready.
'Ani, get Mum out of here!' he shouted to her in his head.
'I'm not going to leave you here!' Ani cried back.
"Just go!" he shouted. Ani angrily obeyed and she and Taylor ran back towards the base.
"Sky!" Syd shouted as Sky went down hard. She ran over to him and helped him to stand, being followed by the others.
"Don't you have anything better to do today?" Z said to Morgana.
"Actually I do… I just wanted confirmation, and thanks to you," she said looking at Sky, "I have it." She disappeared and the others stared at Sky.
"What did she mean by that?" Jack asked.
Sky shook his head as he leaned on Syd slightly for support. "I'll explain when we get back to base…"
About an hour later, Sky was sitting in the Rec room with Ani and the others. Taylor was talking to Cruger and Kat about the information Morgana had received, and now the twins knew they had to come clean with their teammates.
"Alright," Jack began. "Start talking."
Ani glared at Jack. Who the hell was he to tell her what to do? She was his superior officer… and his eyes were hypnotic to her… his face…
Ani mentally shook herself and refocused.
"Morgana said something about a 'family reunion'," Z began. "So what does that make Lieutenant Meyers?"
"Our mother," Ani said at last. "She's our mother." The four faces in the room were skewed a bit as they put things together.
"But your last name is Tate," Jack pointed out.
"Good call," Ani said sarcastically. Jack stared at her… and couldn't look away.
Sky then went into the story of them being abducted, and their parents involvement in SPD from the beginning. He told them everything up until the day his father left them…
"So this whole time… you've been lying to us?" Syd asked Sky.
"It was for protection Syd," Ani explained. "If Grumm found out about who we really were before you guys got your morphers then we'd all be in danger."
"I knew your aura felt familiar," Bridge said. "I recognized you from school all that time ago."
Ani smiled. "Yeah Bridge… you and Syd both," she said.
Syd stood. She was a little taken back by the fact that Sky hadn't told her about any of this. She began to walk out…
"Syd?" Sky asked. "Where-?"
"I just… need to let this sink in ok?" she said gently. Sky accepted this and sank into his chair.
"Anything else we should know?" Jack asked with his arms crossed. He hated secrets. They were supposed to be a team!
"We have two little brothers," Sky said. "Collin and Lucas."
"Do they have powers too?" Bridge asked excitedly.
"Yeah. Collin's empathic and Lucas gets these… visions sometimes." Bridge grinned.
"I think I'd like to meet them sometime… of course, that is if they ever come here, which would be kind of difficult seeing as they don't live here…"
"Bridge!" They all said at once. The Green Ranger stopped and, thankfully, RIC entered and Bridge was occupied with him for the time being.
They all sat in silence for a long time before Z spoke up to Ani. "So the reason you treated me like shit was because you were supposed to be the yellow ranger," she stated.
Ani nodded her head slowly. "Yeah… sorry about that, but you have to understand. I was away for years thinking that I'd come back here and become a ranger like my parents. It was more of a shock than anything."
Z understood a little, but there was something else that was bothering her… Jack too.
"So your mother worked with our parents then?" he asked.
"Yeah," Sky replied. "She and my father did, for a little while."
"And I'd like to speak to the two of you about that," Taylor said as she entered. "Alone please."
Bridge, Ani, and Sky knew that she meant business and they followed orders. Taylor sat across from Jack and Z and couldn't help the small smile that appeared on her face.
"Your parents, Jack, were experts in molecular structures… they were two of the nicest people I've ever met. You're mother was carrying you around the same time as I was pregnant with Sky and Ani," she said softly.
"Your mother and I talked about names and pretty much everything else about being pregnant… she was a very good friend and your father was very kind to all of us."
Jack was silent through the little speech. He had never heard any stories about his parents. They left him with a family friend while they went on a trip…
"They told me at the orphanage that my parents had been missionaries," he said.
"They were… for SPD…" Taylor said softly. "After we finished the morphers, we all sort of went on with our lives…"
Jack was at a loss. He would speak to Cruger about this. "Thank you for telling me this," he said as he rose. Both Taylor and Z knew were he was going…
Taylor sat in silence with Z… her teammate's daughter…
"What do you remember Z?" Taylor asked.
For some reason, Z felt extremely comfortable around Taylor…
"I was ten when my mother passed away… there was no family or anything so they sent me to an orphanage… then I ran away and met Jack," she said.
"Did your mother ever tell you about your father?"
"She told me his name was Danny and that he loved flowers and the Earth… he died before I was even born… he never knew me."
Taylor thought she saw tears forming, but Z kept them in. "Kendall never told you about him being a ranger did she?"
Z's head snapped up. Taylor was for real… she really knew her family…
"He… he was a ranger?" she asked nervously.
"One of the best… he was the Black ranger on my team… the Wildforce Team."
The tears formed and fell from Z's eyes. No one had ever told her much about her father, now there was someone who could tell her whatever she wanted… she had a family again…
From high in space, Grumm's 'warrior' watched the scene from the park over and over again…
Something about the three people Morgana attacked seemed familiar to him… but how?
