Author: Jadelyn Ja Lee
Story: Through Her Eyes
Disclaimer: I own no one.
Time Frame: During Missing
Summary: AJ's father was the greatest ranger ever….now she's taking on the mantle he gave up. Power Rangers SPD.
Author Notes: Enjoy!
Z: Piggy! Bridge was taken by Bork, okay? He's in a lot of danger.
Piggy: sarcastically Oh, no. Not Bridge. He's the one of you I dislike the least.
"Woah!" JDS yelled as he fell to the ground. AJ smirked down at her twin brother.
"Give up?" She asked curiously. JD looked at her with a smile eerily reminiscent of there father during his evil green days.
"Never!" he told her, flipping to his feet. As the twins threw punches, kicks, and wisecracks at each other, they barely noticed when B Squad walked in.
"Wow. When you said AJ was really good, you weren't kidding." Jack commented to the blue ranger. Sky smiled.
"She has to teach me some of those moves." Z declared as she watched the science technician kick the cadet to the ground. Syd nodded.
"JD's been teaching me some moves but I didn't realize AJ could too." The pink ranger commented. Jack looked over at her.
"JD's been teaching you some moves?" he asked, annoyed. Syd nodded absently, watching the twins pummel each other.
"Me and Bridge, yeah." Jack sat back watching JD with a frown on his face.
"Ranger to the command central, rangers to the command center immediately!" Kat called over the intercom. AJ and JD froze and looked over at B squad. Without a word, the seven rangers ran from the gym.
From behind Sky, AJ watched, bemusedly as Bridge went mission impossible on them. She joined the rangers as Bridge ballet'd across the grounds on the wagon.
"Okay, we don't have to do that, do we?" Z asked worriedly. Jack stared at them.
"Uh….no." he replied. Z nodded.
"Good." She said, heading after the erstwhile green ranger. Chuckling, AJ followed.
"You know," Bridge commented. "I heard this Bork is wanted on like a bazillion planets."
"Oh really, that many?" AJ asked, amused. Bridge looked at her and tilted his head.
"Okay, maybe only like ten." He admitted.
As the rangers split up, AJ stared put a gloved hand on Sky's arm.
"I'm going to keep on eye on Bridge." She told him before running after the green ranger. With a sigh, Sky hurried after Jack.
"Okay, what just happened here?" AJ asked as she and Bridge came upon Bork. The blue heads were nowhere to be seen.
"I gave them a warning." Bork replied.
"But…you were surrounded by blue heads." Bridge said, trying to grasp what had happened. AJ stepped forward.
"Troobians or not, it is illegal to vaporize anything without prior permission." She told the pink-clothed villain, mentally grumbling at how silly that sounded even to her.
"Heh! Those laws are for children. I am the ultimate master." Bork told them. AJ scoffed.
"Of what, what not to wear to make an evil impression? My dad didn't even have a villains outfit besides his suit and he was scarier than you." She commented.
"Well, unfortunately, you're still under arrest." Bridge told him, ignoring AJ's insult. Bork looked down.
"Then, my new friends, I must give you what I gave the others. Ha!" he yelled, jumping towards them. Startled, AJ and Bridge hurriedly brought up their weapons to block him and a furious battle began. As Bork stalked Bridge, he didn't notice AJ pull out her lunar blades and form them into the crescent chakram.
"Yo Bork!" AJ yelled, showing off her chakram. He turned around in surprise. "Master this!" As the chakram bounced off Bork repeatedly, AJ ran over to Bridge.
"Are you okay" she asked worriedly. He nodded.
"Yeah, just fine." He grunted, standing up.
"Now that, that makes me mad." Bork commented, attacking the two with an even greater force. Despite their training, both Bridge and AJ were thrown and demorphed. AJ grabbed her chest, heaving, as Bork grabbed her and Bridge.
"Yes, two power rangers will do quite nicely." He said, throwing them to the ground. Before Bork came after them again, AJ was able to unclip her morpher and throw it a few feet away. Bork didn't notice. The next thing AJ saw was blackness.
"Sir, AJ's morpher was found on the site. She must have left it there on purpose." Kat told Cruger back at base. Cruger nodded while Sky and Jack looked worried.
"She knows how bad ranger technology in the hands of evil can be. She wanted to prevent that." He replied. Sky swallowed.
"Sir, I take full responsibility. I was the one who gave the order to split up." Jack told him. Shaking his head, Sky stepped forward.
"I was the one who suggested it. If I hadn't, Jack may not have ordered it." He argued. Cruger sighed.
"It was a good idea. Our job is dangerous, we all know that. We will find them both." He promised.
"Sir, I'd like to go searching for them." Jack asked. Sky stepped forward.
"I'll go too." Cruger shook his head.
"Jack, you will search for Bridge and AJ. Sky, you will lead the rangers in finding Bork." He ordered. "No arguments."
Scowling, Sky followed Jack from the command center. "Jack!"
"Yeah?" Jack asked, turning around.
"Find them. I can't lose them." Sky asked worriedly. Jack nodded.
"I'll find them Sky. We're not going to lose either one of them." He promised. "Find Bork."
The two rangers nodded to each other and went their separate ways, both realizing that they had finally found something they agreed on.
Bridge and AJ.
"Bridge?" AJ groaned as she woke up. The green ranger looked over at her worriedly.
"You're awake!" he exclaimed. She gingerly sat up.
"Where are we?" she asked, taking in their surroundings. Bridge shrugged.
"No idea. Do you remember anything about what happened?" he asked. She frowned.
"We found Bork and got our asses kicked." She replied. He nodded.
"Yeah, that about sums it up. Do you have your morpher? Mine's smashed." He asked. She shook her head.
"I threw it a few feet away before I blacked out. I didn't want Bork to get his hands on it." She answered. Bridge sighed.
"I was afraid of that."
"What I'm about to tell you Piggy is top secret. You don't say a word." Z told the trouble-maker. Piggy tried looking innocent. He failed.
"Moi?" he asked.
"Piggy!" Z warned. She sighed. "Bridge and AJ were taken by Bork. Okay, they're in a lot of danger."
"Oh no, not Bridge. He's the one of you I dislike the least." He commented flippantly, turning around a running into Sky. The blue ranger looked down menacingly at the proprietor.
"Yeah, well what about my sister, AJ? I can guarantee that if she's not found, my father is going to be pretty pissed." JD promised. Piggy looked at him, confused.
"And why should I be afraid of your father?" he asked somewhat cockily. Sky locked eyes with JD who nodded.
"Because her father is Tommy Oliver." Sky told him angrily. Piggy blinked, his self confidence deflating.
"The original evil green ranger?" he asked worriedly. JD nodded.
"And the white tiger, white falcon, red zeo, red turbo, and black dino ranger. Now, do you have any information?" JD asked. Piggy swallowed, glancing between the blue and solar rangers. A vision of a multi-colored ranger kicking his ass made him shudder.
"Uh…alright. Word on the street is Bork hangs out around dock nineteen." He whispered. Z stepped into his face.
"Dock nineteen?" she asked. Piggy nodded.
"Yeah." Z stared past him at Sky who was looking murderously at Piggy's back.
"Got it. Thanks Piggy."
"There we go." Bridge muttered as he and AJ gently put his morpher back together. IT beeped almost instantly. They stood up.
"Jack? Jack?" Bridge asked. "Are you there? Jack? Can you read me?"
"Bridge! Are you alright? Where are you? Is AJ with you?" Jack answered. Bridge looked around.
"In a room. And AJ's fine." He replied.
"Could you be a little more specific?" Jack asked.
"I'm afraid not. There's a small grail in the ceiling but no windows and no doors. If there was a door, we could just walk through it and if their was a window we could just—"
"Bridge!" AJ interrupted just as Jack broke in.
"I got the point. You've gotta give me something. Anything." Jack told him. AJ grabbed the communicator.
"Jack? It's AJ. We've heard a few sounds since we've been here." She told them, looking at Bridge.
"There's a church bell." He offered.
"Sound of a train." She added.
"Then another train. Then another train. Then another train. Then another train. Then another—" Bridge said.
"Bridge! NewTech City Train Station. Near a church." Jack figured out. Bridge smiled.
"Jack, you are good. Oh! I also heard a fog horn. And the sound of a buzzer." The green ranger said. "Sort of like ehhhh, ehhhh. Wait. I just heard a growl."
"Bridge, that was your stomach." AJ pointed out. Bridge smiled sheepishly.
"I'm a little hungry." He said. Jack repeated what they heard and cut the channel. Bridge looked at AJ.
"I feel better. Do you feel better?" he asked. She nodded, bemused.
"I'd feel even more better if we were out of here." She told him.
"Oh well, nothing to do now but to sit back, relax and take it easy." Bridge answered, leaning against the wall. The wall began to move. The green and lunar rangers looked at the wall in surprise, looked at each other, and then looked back at the wall.
"Uh oh."
"Sky!" Jack called through the communicator. Sky stepped away from the fight.
"Now is not a good time Jack." He answered, fending off an attack by Bork.
"Just thought you should know I talked to them. I'm going to their location now." The red ranger told him. Sky grinned.
"Thanks. I'll let the others know. Gotta go!" he told Jack before jumping back in the fray.
"Bridge! Keep pushing!" AJ ground out as they kept the walls from crunching them like bugs. Just then Salene appeared.
"I've been looking everywhere for you!" she exclaimed and then took in their predicament. "Ohhhhh, this is bad."
"Ya think!" AJ exclaimed. Salene frowned and looked up.
"I'll see where you are and get help. Hold tight." The goddess incarnate told her with just a touch of worry. AJ grimaced.
"Not really a problem!"
"Jack!" Salene called, appearing next to him. He swerved slightly, taking in the black-haired woman next to him.
"Who are you?" he shouted.
"Salene. I know where AJ and Bridge are. We have to hurry." She told him. Jack, taking a leap of faith, nodded.
"Where to?"
"My arms are about to snap!" AJ exclaimed.
"Keep pushing AJ! Jack'll get here soon." He encouraged.
"Can you go and get them out?" Jack asked worriedly when he saw the krybots. Salene shook her head.
"I'm a spirit. I can't touch humans." She explained. Jack cursed.
"I gotta do this the hard way." He declared, getting up.
"Oh no!" Z shouted as Bork jumped into the giant zord. JD grabbed his communicator.
"Kat, I need the Solar warrior!" he called.
"It's on its way." She promised. A few minutes later the gold zord ran into view. With a growl, JD jumped inside.
"Alright bozo, no one messes with my sister and gets away with it!"
"Uh, Jack, we have about thirty seconds left. Get your butt over here!" AJ yelled into the communicator.
"I'm here!" Jack replied from above their heads. She looked up and grinned.
"Get Bridge out of here!" She told him and he nodded. Jack grabbed Bridge and pulled him to safety. With the little energy she had left, AJ jumped up and grabbed Bridge and Jack's hands. They pulled her up just in time. She stared at the two pieces of concrete now smashed together.
"I'm never stepping on bug's again, no matter how icky they are." she swore and Jack and Bridge chuckled.
"Are you guys okay?" the red ranger asked. Bridge frowned.
"My morpher's broke." He told him. A woof caught their attention and RIC came running up. He dropped two morphers to the ground. AJ smiled when she saw the green and silver lining.
"Thanks pup." She rubbed his head and then stood with Bridge. She glanced at him.
"Ready?" she asked. He nodded.
"SPD, Emergency!"
JD was getting his assed kicked and there was really nothing Sky or the girls could do. As the Bork-driven zord smashed into the solar warrior, the four rangers heard a very welcomed voice.
"Yo bozo, get away from my brother!" AJ yelled, pushing thrusters to the max and slamming into the zord. A minute later the monster was hit with a barrage of fire as the SWAT Flyers flew into view. AJ glanced at her brother's zord as B Squad began megazord transformation.
"Let's do it!" they yelled together, initiating their own megazord sequence.
Facing two megazord's manned by some very unhappy rangers, Bork didn't stand a chance.
"Man, we are so late." AJ muttered as she and JD ran into the command center and stood at attention.
"Reporting in." They shouted. Cruger nodded to them then turned to the red ranger.
"Jack, your determination to find your fellow rangers was extraordinary. " Cruger told him. Jack grinned as Cruger turned to the smiling blue ranger.
"Sky, your leadership of the rangers was exemplary." He informed him. Sky glanced at Jack and nodded as Cruger turned to the smiling green ranger.
"Bridge, your coolness under duress was inspiring." He told him. Bridge smiled and shrugged as Cruger went to the yellow ranger.
"Z, you have truly become a selfless member of our team." She was told. Z smiled as Cruger went to the pink ranger.
"Syd, your fighting skills are honed to perfection." He admitted. Sydney beamed as Cruger turned to the twins.
"JD, you may have been a ranger on KO35, but you have become a part of our team." He informed the solar ranger. JD nodded happily as Cruger turned to AJ with a sigh. She looked down at her shoes.
"Let me guess, 'AJ, you need to stop getting kidnapped by Gruumm's men?'" she asked in a resigned tone. The rangers, Kat, and Cruger all chuckled.
"AJ, you have the spirit of a true ranger." He corrected her. She looked up and smiled, pleased, as Cruger stepped back to address the entire team.
"Good job rangers. We have come so far, yet the real test still lies ahead. Enjoy your time off." He informed them. They nodded.
"Yes sir!"
"So you nearly got squished like a bug?" Zoë asked for the tenth time. AJ nodded, eyeing the stack of reports she had to go through. She switched the phone to the other ear and picked one up.
"Yeah. Me and Bridge had fun." She told her sarcastically. Zoë snickered.
"I'm sure you did." The sixteen year old said. AJ smiled.
"So what's up with you and Cade?" she asked.
"Dad went out on a date." Zoë offered, trying (and succeeding) in diverting her sister's attention from the sixteen year olds love life.
"He did?" she asked, surprised. "Go Dad. Do you know who it was?" She asked, scanning a pad.
"Dr. Manx."
End Notes: I know there was a lot more dialogue in this chapter than previous ones so I have a poll—do you like this kinda chapter (with actual show dialogue) or the ones I've been writing before (with the plot and very little show dialogue)? Let me know.
I will finish THE this summer and I'm gonna try and get to chapter 25 before I leave school (which will give me six chapters to write at home). My original goal was to finish this before I went home but I have finals next week plus I have to pack up all my stuff. Not easy when you consider how much stuff I collected in one school year (how much stuff I lost too; I still can't find my favorite pair of jeans and they went missing over spring break…I have this really bad feeling I left them in New Orleans.)
I want to get this finished before my Archaeological Field School begins because I'll be camping out and will have no computer access (granted, the school is like a five minute walk from my house, but still…).
I'm still looking for someone to write a CSI crossover with Power Rangers. If you're interested, drop me a line.