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A/N: This takes place only days after "Endings part 2"


New Tech City, California 2025 AD

Z opened her eyes slowly, but her vision was blurry and there was a throbbing pain in her head. She tried to sit up, but lost control of her motor functions, collapsing back onto the bed. She tried to get a look around, attempting to figure out where she was. As best she could tell, it was the infirmary in SPD headquarters, but there was no way to be sure. There were wires connected to her chest, and as far as she could tell, to her arms as well. She tried to recall the events leading up to her arriving there, but her mind was drawing a blank.

'There was a light. And I saw someone…' she thought, but as quickly as the memory came to her, it was gone again. In fact, the harder she tried to remember anything, the less she could recall.

Just then, she felt a hand on her shoulder, followed by the soft tone of a familiar voice. "Delgado, can you hear me? Elizabeth? Z?" It was Kat Manx, resident genius. Z tried to respond, but couldn't muster up the strength for her mouth to move. Still, Kat noticed she was struggling. "Just relax, you've been through enough. You need to get some rest."

There was no use arguing the point, considering that she couldn't even gather the energy to say anything. With that in mind, Z simply closed her eyes, allowing herself to drift off to sleep.


She sat up all at once in a cold sweat, the sheets clinging to her. She was up for fast that she fell off the examining table, but she was able to land on her feet and regain her composure, getting a look at her surroundings. 'SPD infirmary,' she thought to herself, recognizing the place. She quickly snatched the wires connected to her, walking around the room, trying to shake off the disorientation.

"The anomaly!" she said out loud, recalling the details leading up to that moment. "Oh my God, Syd."

"Sydney is fine, its you we're worried about," a voice said.

She turned around as Kat walked into the room with a clipboard in hand and a confused look on her face.

"Kat, what's going on? What happened to me?"

"The anomaly you encountered fundamentally altered your DNA on a quantum cellular level. Because of your genetic mutations, there was an unforeseen effect," she told her.

"Okay Kat, this time in English," she requested.

Kat simply stepped aside, allowing her to get a good look at what was behind her.

She glanced down, amazed at what she saw.

"Oh my God, its me," she sighed. She glanced down, getting a closer look. Every detail, every aspect, every nuance was completely the same. It was almost like looking into a mirror. Her eyes lit up slightly, attempting to recombine with the replicant, but no luck. "Kat, what's going on?"

"The anomaly combined your genetic mutations with your ranger energy and fused them on a multi-phasic level."

"But it's just a replicant, right?"

"It may have started that way, but I've ran every test I know how. In every way, its you," Kat told her.

"Its not possible. I'm me…" she paused. "Wait, am I me, or am I the replicant?" she asked, fearful of the answer Kat was going to give her.

"Again, everything was replicated when you came in contact with the anomaly. Both of you, in essence, are you."

"But which is us is the original?"

"There is no way to be sure, at least not yet."

She sat down on the edge of the examining table, attempting to come to terms with what was happening. In most cases, her replicants, while they looked exactly like her, had no real consciousness of their own. They were able to fight, to anticipate and react, but only for a limited time. They didn't speak, and she always assumed that they simply couldn't, but now…

"So what happens now?"

"I've alerted Commander Cruger to the situation. When Z… the other Z wakes up, we'll try to determine what happens next," Kat told her.

Just then, the doors to the infirmary slid open as Syd walked in with flowers in hand. "Good, you're awake. I just came by to check on you and make sure…" she paused as she noticed another Z laying on an examining table a few feet away. She dropped the flowers, and the vase they were in shattered. "What the… who is… I mean, what is…"

"There are two of me… us," Z sighed.

"But how?"

"You want Kat to give you all the techno babble, or do you wanna just deal with the fact that there are two?" Z asked.

Before she could respond, Z… the other Z, sat up in a cold sweat, nearly falling off the examining table. She glanced around the room, amazed as what she saw. "Oh my God, its me," she quickly turned to Kat. "Kat, what's going on?"

"The anomaly combined your genetic mutations with your ranger energy and fused them on a multi-phasic level," she repeated.

"But it's just a replicant, right?" she asked.

The other Z took a step forward. "I was just about to ask you the same thing."

Now, the two of them were face to face, staring at one another.

"You're the replicant," they said in unison, then paused.

"No, you are!" they said again, completely in sync.

"That's not possible. I'm the real me," they both said.

"This is getting us nowhere," Kat walked over to them, stepping in-between them. "Like I said, both of you are you, as far as I can tell. I have no way of knowing which of you is the original, and which of you was the replicant. The two of you share the same DNA, the same genetic structure, the same memories, everything. You are you, both of you."

"But," Syd chimed in, taking a step forward. "Wouldn't the real Z be the one who could replicate again?"

"Good idea," Z's eyes lit up as she attempted to replicate, but nothing happened.

"I knew it, I'm the real me," the other said.

"Can you replicate?" Kat asked her.

"Of course," her eyes lit up as she tried to replicate as well, but with no luck.

"Well, that didn't really work out," Syd sighed.

"What about our morphers? Even if this energy anomaly thing did bond with my DNA, it couldn't have duplicated my morpher. Whichever one of us has the active morphing is the real me," Z said.

"Good idea, let me see your morphers," both of them removed their morphers from their hip, handing it to Kat. Kat took a moment to examine them. "Whatever happened when you encountered that anomaly fused your morphers, neither one of them are active. My best guess is that the anomaly's power was amplified by your morpher energy, allowing it to do … whatever it did to you. They're both useless."

"So we're no closer to knowing which one of us are real," Z sighed.

The doors to the infirmary slid open as Bridge walked into the room with a cheerful look on his face. "Hey Z, I wanted to see if…" he looked over at Z, then at the other Z, then at Kat, who had a confused look on her face. "Well, this is interesting. What happened?"

"The anomaly combined my genetic mutations with my ranger energy and fused them on a multi-phasic level," both the Zs said in unison, each with a tone of frustration in their voice.

"That was going to be my first guess. So, how are we…"

"We don't know how we're going to fix it yet, I'm going to get to work on it as soon as possible," Kat said.

"I was just going to ask how we were going to tell them apart? Maybe one of them could wear a bell or something," he said.

"Bridge!" they both groaned, then looked at one another.

"The best thing for us to do right now is to determine how this happened, then try to reverse it. Z… both of you, you should remain here while I run my tests. Syd, Bridge, I'm sure the commander could use your help in the command center trying to track down this anomaly. Inform the commander that I'll report to him as soon as I have any significant information to pass along," Kat said.

"Yes ma'am," the two of them said, saluting Kat before they walked out the room.

Z turned to her counterpart. "So, wanna play cards?"