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Loneliness
Kira's POV
It has been a long time since I have seen anyone that I really wanted to see around me, besides Trent and Ethan, although they are not much help. They are even beginning to try my nerves, but getting along with each other is the only way that we will survive. Ever since we landed in this hell hole, things have gone straight downhill for us, not that we really expected it to get any better while we were here, but one can always hope. We hoped that it wouldn't be as miserable as it is, but that is beginning to fade away as well.
They took away our morphers and our communicators on the first day, not that this is abnormal, according to what Dr. O told us about them being captured in the past. It is that we just all have the feeling that they have removed the dino gems and are trying to de-bond them from our bodies, hoping to make us weak. The only reason we can tell that that might be going on, is because we are all getting increasingly weak, which means their plan is working.
They have been feeding us, which was a concern as we had heard the horror stories of having to go several days without meals or any water. We knew from those stories that these people mean business and anything that could weaken us is to their advantage, but it seems that they want to keep us as mentally stable as possible, for some odd reason. If they decide that they want to turn us evil, us being stable will be an advantage to how well that will work, although that may mean we will be able to fight it off, on some unknown level.
Enough about that crap, there are other things that are on my mind right now. Well, actually it's not things, it's a person that is on my mind right now. I know that it seems crazy, but I feel as if Conner is here with us, although I know he is not, I know he is on that ship coming to rescue us. I know that he is safe with the rest of the rangers, wherever that happens to be at the moment is still a question though.
It's just odd some of the dreams that I have had in this place, I can never say that I have had dreams like this before, even when I first got my powers and started feeling the connection to the other rangers. I just don't know what they might mean. I dreamt that Conner was on the ship and was upset about something, I couldn't figure out what, but he seemed as if he was hearing things and I can only pray that Lord Zedd is not trying to mess with his mind. I know that he has so much stress on him right now that it might really cause him to have a mental breakdown. I know that he doesn't need to go through something like that right now and I know that if he is not careful, he may put himself into a position where that is the only option. I just hope that the others have noticed how fragile he is right now.
I guess that I never wanted to admit that I was falling for Conner, but I saw it happening right in front of me, and I didn't realize all of the things that I was doing as well. I thought that it was just one sided for a long time, then I took a good look at myself, I was leading it on and enjoying it as well. It's odd how much those little things mean to you when the are suddenly gone from your daily life. I now understand why Dr. O and Kim freak out each time the other disappears.
Conner would give me these looks after a battle where I had been hit particularly hard, as if he was silently asking me if I was all right and I would just nod, understanding what it meant, but thinking it was just friendliness and the ranger connection. Or some afternoon, he'd just walk me home, for no real reason other than he just wanted to talk about how things were going at school or about something that he was doing that weekend, which was something I usually wound up doing with him, even while I was dating Trent. Trent was always working at Hayley's and the two of us just found things to do.
I didn't think that I would really be friends with these people once I was done with being a ranger. I had never talked to them befoer I became a ranger, so why would I want to when I left? I know that that is not the case now. I can't imagine my life without them and I hope that I will be able to get back to Conner in one piece, so I can tell him how I feel, as I have held it back for such a long time, without even knowing it was there.
"Mornin' Sunshine," Kira said brightly, as Ethan tried to blink away the sleep as he woke up to another dark and dismal morning in their dungeon of despair. He had stopped hoping that it was only a dream after the second night, it was too real for him to continue to hope something that unrealistic.
Kira had taken on the job as the official to keep their spirits up, no matter what happened to them while they were here. They had, had almost everything taken away from them, but as long as they were together, they would be able to fight back whatever came towards them or at least that was what they hoped would happen. They didn't know how they would do without their powers against these creatures and they weren't exactly sure that they wanted to try their luck against them anytime soon. They wanted to know that help was near-by before they tried anything too drastic.
"What is so good about today, Kira that you are so chipper?" Ethan asked as he looked over at her and tried to stretch out his back, which caught in a position that pained him more than usual.
The floors here were not exactly ideal to sleep on, but they were just happy that they could sleep without worrying about someone coming in and attacking them. It seemed that they wanted to lure the other rangers in and then try to do something to them, instead of the ones that they had. It seemed as if they knew it would hurt the rangers more if they were mere minutes late, not days late, although they wanted to survive this ordeal. They knew that no other rangers had been lost and they did not want to be the first on that list.
"We're alive," Kira said as she reached over and rubbed Ethan's back so that he would be able to move around without too much pain. She had woken up with a similar cramp, but he seemed to be suffering more than she was with his cramp, but that might have been because there was someone else awake, besides him. "And they are one day closer to getting here. You can't tell me that is not good news."
"Yeah, but how do we know that they are even coming after us? Are we really worth the risk of all of them possibly being killed? Dr. O and Kim have a baby, I don't think they are really going to be that willing to risk their lives for us. I mean, they don't want to get killed and miss the life that they could have had. It wouldn't make any sense for them to do that," Ethan said as Kira gave him a harsh look. She knew that they were coming to help get them out of this place. They had traveled for three days to get to Trini and she was sure that they would travel as long as necessary to get them out of this hellhole un-scarred. It was their mission, they just had to hold on until they were able to get there.
"Trust me, they are coming after us and we just have to be patient and wait. They are going to need as much help as they can get from us when they come to get us," Kira said as Trent rolled over and looked up to see the two of them talking. They had long since stopped trying to listen to any other conversations that were going on in this place and they just focused on keeping each other in good spirits, which happened to be a full time job.
"Well, I just hope that they will leave us alone as long as that takes," Trent said as Kira nodded her head in agreement. If these beings decided that they needed to aggravate them, they might have to try something crazy, which could make the rangers' trip worthless with the possible consequences.
"Me too," Kira said, as they heard the door open and they went quiet, not knowing who might be coming in to see them. They had been lucky enough to avoid seeing Lord Zedd, Mesogogg, or Rita, but they feared that they would have to see them before their stay here was over.
The Command Center
"Shh, Angie, it's alright," Ally said as she rocked Angie back and forth trying to get her crying to cease. She had been very fussy the last few days and from what Alpha could tell, it was because of some odd phenomenon that none of them knew existed. It seemed that Kim's powers had still interacted with Angie, despite everything that they did and she was now going through withdrawal, which they did not know how to treat. They didn't know how to treat the rangers' withdrawal and they were not going to begin to experiment on a baby. They just had to watch her and if things began to become more severe, then they would take her to see Tanya, although Tanya could probably do nothing about it. "Can't we do anything?"
"No, I'm afraid we can't. She's too young to give the normal treatments, and those don't even help that much, but I think that she'll be fine when Kim and Tommy get back. It will probably be mostly over by then," Alpha said as Kat and Hayley glanced over at Angie who certainly did not seem to be all right, right now. She had not quit crying since her parents had left and they were only hoping that she would cry herself out soon, but they had hoped the same thing over the last two days. She was miserable, to say the least and there was nothing that they could do about it.
"Should we tell them? You know that they would want to know that this was going on," Ally said, as she walked around the command center trying to calm Angie, although it seemed that was going to be nearly impossible. She thought that Tommy and Kim should at the least know what was going on, so that they would be prepared, although others did not agree with her thinking. They had enough to worry about and bringing up that Angie was not doing well would not help them at all.
"No, they have enough to worry about without us telling them that their child is suffering from withdrawal of some sort. There is nothing that they can do and there is nothing that we can do to help besides try to comfort her," Alpha said, as he knew that telling Kim would cause her to break down and there was really no telling what Tommy would do if they told him. He was not in a very stable state right now and Alpha knew better than to push his luck at keeping it that way.
"Alright, well, we might as well contact them and tell them what we have found out," Hayley said as she headed to the screen as it sprang to life. She was sure that she must be imagining it, but it seemed that Billy, Tommy, and Kim were all crowded around the screen, trying to disperse a secret between themselves.
"Hayley, I have a question for Alpha," Billy said, as he looked at her and had to mentally slap himself for thinking the thoughts that were running through his mind. They were on a mission and his focus was supposed to be on that, but one look at her made him forget everything that he was supposed to be doing right now. Why had this had to come at such an inconvenient time?
"What's your question, Billy?" Alpha asked, as he scooted Hayley out of the way, as he picked up on the fact that Billy was barely able to stutter out the sentence at hand with her in front of the screen.
"Alpha, is there anyway that you could teleport someone out of the mission if things were to go bad for them?" Billy asked, as Kim and Tommy stood behind him, waiting to tell him the news. They had talked to him the night before about the situation that might arise between Jason and Trini and they were trying to prevent any problems.
"Yes, but it would take a great deal of power away from the rest of you for a short while. Why do you ask?" Alpha asked, as Kim and Tommy exchanged a glance before allowing Billy to answer the question with the knowledge that he knew.
"No reason, I was just making sure in case someone was injured by Lord Zedd's puddy patrol," Billy said lamely, as he looked again at Hayley before saying good-bye. He knew that they would not be in contact with them again and it was not going to be very pleasant to those aboard to find that out. "I'll talk to you after we have defeated them."
"Billy…" Hayley said as the image cut out and she went to reach for the button to re-signal them, but Alpha promptly stopped her. There was a reason that he had cut out so quickly and Alpha was sure that it meant that he could no longer take the sight of Hayley, knowing that he would not see her in person for several more days.
"Hayley, don't worry about him. He has to deal with being away from you in his own way," Alpha said, as she went and sat down next to Ally, who was trying to rock Angie back to sleep, although she was struggling just to get her to quit crying.
"Billy," Kim said breathlessly as she looked over at Tommy, not knowing what they should, or even could say at the moment.
"Yes, Kim," Billy said and after a short while of no response, he continued. "I assume that you have come in here to tell me some vital news. If my assumption is incorrect, I'd like to be informed of why your presence is necessary."
"She is, Billy," Tommy said simply, as he carefully watched Kim.
He had heard the crying in the background and he was not sure that it was a good thing. He just hoped that Angie was tired and that they were trying to get her to go to sleep. If it was something worse than that, they could not handle it right now. That was why Alpha had not talked to them, he could never lie to them as well as some of the others, it was not in his programming to do such a thing.
"You're sure?" Billy asked, as he looked at the door. There was not much protection from the others hearing if they wished to find out about what was going on.
"Three tests, Billy. All positive," Kim said, as she handed the pregnancy tests over to Billy, who was able to see the blue line without a problem. They all knew what it meant, but they didn't know how they were going to address the situation.
"Damn," Billy muttered, as he watched Kim cringe from his choice of words. She knew just how bad it was because he had been forced to curse. "And we can't tell him, can we?"
"It's not our business to tell, Billy, but I'm going to talk to her. Maybe I'll be able to talk her into telling him," Kim said, although her hope was fading fast. She knew that Trini could be stubborn and she could only hope that she had not made herself determined to not tell Jason. If she had, then they were not going to be able to change her mind.
"You can try Kim, but I don't even know if you will be able to change her mind," Billy said, as he had the feeling that she had already decided what she was going to do. It was not comforting to know that, but at least they had an idea of exactly what they would be trying to cover up once they got out there. It was not going to be easy and they all did not like facing that fact right now. There was way too much at stake for important things to go unsaid.