We're Not Responsible

Chapter 2 – Past Killing Part One...

A thirty-five year old woman with long brunette curls ran through a dark alley in the middle of the night. She tripped and a hand reached out for her. She looked up, "Skylar?" "Hey, Elizabeth." She smiled and his hand turned into a force field. Then all of a sudden she was lifted into the air. She looked below her. Bridge, Sydney, and Jack were also standing beneath her. "Wha... what's going on?" "Hang on," Bridge said. She screamed as she was thrown high in the air then dropped a thousand feet. And...

Elizabeth sighed in relief as she realized it was a dream, sitting up in her commanding chair next to Anubis's. She felt like she would cry. It had been eighteen years since she had cried and that was the day her supposedly called friends abandoned her.

They weren't even her friends. They were masters of disguise. People who made it seem like they were her friends, made her lose her guard, picked her up, and threw her off SPD when the time was just right. Her dream. She had had that dream for years and it never got any better. Just worse. Last time she was last heard Bridge's voice. Now she was being thrown in the air and dropped.

"Z?" She looked up, "Doctor Manx... I..." "I heard you scream, are you alright?" Katherine asked, going over to the young Lieutenant. She removed the ear length bangs in front of Elizabeth's face, "Sweetie, what's wrong?" Elizabeth got up, "Nothing." She went over and pulled her SPD saber off the wall. Katherine crossed arms over her chest, "I've heard that nothing and that's a something-nothing, not a nothing-nothing. Talk to me, Hun." "It was about the others. Nothing important," Elizabeth shrugged it off. Kat walked over and touched Elizabeth's shoulder, "I think its important to you." Elizabeth nodded, "Sort of... Doctor Manx, please leave me alone." "Z, if you try using your saber again you'll hurt yourself." "I'll be fine, Katherine!" she snapped. Katherine left, but lingered in the hallway near the closeddoor.

Elizabeth lifted her saber up in the airand swung around, lifting her sword higher. She gasped, dropping the saber and grabbing her left should in pain. She collapsed. Katherine raced back in and check Elizabeth, "What did I tell you, Elizabeth? Don't play with the sword. But no one listens to the doctor! Of course not!"

"DELGADO! MANX!" Both looked up at Anubis. "Shit," Elizabeth whispered right as everything went black.

Elizabeth lay in the infirmary, white robe and all. Anubis was watching her sleep as Katherine checked all the machines. Elizabeth was in a sleep that was hard to wake from. Katherine sighed, "She pinched another never. Every time she uses that thing she get worse and worse, Anubis." She had stopped calling him Doggie the day Bridge, Sydney, Jack, and Skylar left the academy. "It's her own choice. She's a Lieutenant now and sheshould realize what she can and cannot do!" he argued on Elizabeth's responsibilities. "She's still young! She doesn't know what's going on! She's torn, Anubis! And it's your fault entirely!" "My fault! What did I do?" he wondered. "You let them all go! Sydney, Skylar, Bridge, Jack! Any of those names ring a bell? Huh? Huh. HUH!" she yelled.

Suddenly smoke filled the air. "What the..." Anubis trailed off as he and Katherine collapsed to the ground in a deep sleep. Evil cackling filled the air.

Elizabeth jolted up in the bed and looked around the room. "Anubis? Katherine?" She got up and the IV fell out. "Damnit!" she hissed, grabbing the side of her hospital gown and holding it to the bleeding prick in her arm. She looked around the room in panic, tears in her eyes.

She saw a purple note on the side table and picked it up.

Lieutenant Delgado,

If you ever want your precious Commander and Doctor back, you must give yourself up and die for them. If not they will die within the next week. Seven days, Lieutenant. Seven days. And don't even bother trying those dorky communicator-thingamabobs. I have removed all communication with the three of you. They're not even held in the same place. Seven. Days.

Sincerely your evilest,

Morgana

Elizabeth crinkled the piece of paper in her hand and glared at nothing as fell from her eyes. She stormed her way into Katherine's lab and pulled out four files. Sydney Drew. Bridge Carson. Jack Landers. Skylar Tate. She started typing up letters and automatically sending them, tears silently falling out of her eyes the whole time. Her heart was aching and her makeup was ruined, but she needed to reach her "friends" or else she may lose Doctor Katherine and Commander Anubis. The questions were... Would the letters make it in time? And would the other former rangers respond? What was she going to do?