Summary: The Rangers rest before the final battle is to begin…

A/N: All stories need a little calm before we get shucked right into the final battle, yes? Well, here this is

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Hayden Christopher James stood on the edge of the cliff that overlooked the expansive sea and cried. The Doctor's words rang through his mind, shattering his dreams of grandeur. "She didn't make it, Sir." He squeezed his eyes shut as the tears trickled down his cheek. "We did everything we could…but I guess she just lost the will to live."

"You're sad, human."

Hayden whirled around and gasped, seeing the Dragon massive eyes peered right at him. He hadn't even heard Dragon approaching.

"Yes, I am." He said simply, turning away. "Heh…I just killed my girlfriend, how do you think I should feel."

"Sad." He answered and laid his head against the ground beside Hayden. "You did what you had to, Master."

Hayden squeezed his fist tightly and then sighed. "Perhaps Dragon, but was there more I could have done?" Yes, there was…he could have stayed in control of the gem…rather then giving into its influential power. He shut his eyes again and the stretched out atop of Dragon's head and stared up the sky. "Dragon, did you, or do you, have family?"

"At one point, Human." Dragon answered, snorting. "They died a long time ago."

Hayden sighed. "Oh…I'm sorry to hear that."

"Think nothing of it, Human." Dragon responded and opened eye, glancing at him. "I lived a happy life with them – I have no regrets." Dragon looked up at the sky now as well. "My son was a ruckus, I swear." His lips curled into a thin smile as he glanced back at Hayden. "Always playful and energetic."

"Sounds like you had a good time with your son." Hayden said, tapping his head lightly.

He snorted in return. "Until Vertox came."

Vertox. Hayden rolled his eyes and then sighed heavily, looking away. Vertox was the whole reason this mess started in the first place. Hayden's life had been normal…all the way up until Vertox had sent the Gold Dino Gem to him…"Vertox, eh? What'd he do?"

"Destroyed my planet and turned my wife and son…" His eyes opened for a moment, gazing half-angrily, half-sadly at him. "…into the Dino Gem you possess now."

Hayden raised his hand, staring at the gem. It was a wonder the gem was so powerful…it was the power of two dragon's combined and compacted into one. Hayden's hand fell and he closed his eyes. No wonder he was so loyal. Hayden rolled onto his side and the tears flowed harder. "Take us home, Dragon…take us home."

Dragon grunted and stood up. Hayden clung tightly to him, curled up. A sphere of golden energy consumed Hayden and Dragon roared before soaring off into the distance. Can't win them all…

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Ethan James stared at the S.P.D morpher for a long moment and then looked at the computer design. Kat sat next to him, frowning deeply. "The Morpher's putting out far too much energy." He said and picked it up. "Another use and it'll short circuit." Kat frowned and shook her head slowly.

"Do you see anyway of improvement?" Kat asked, glancing at the computer screen. The energy output was substantial but so was the attribute enhancement. "Possibly without losing the attribute enhancement?"

Ethan shook his head, rubbing his slightly fuzzed chin. "No, not at all; in fact, if you keep up with this kind of power outage, you'll not only destroy the morpher, but the person who uses it." He glanced at her then the morpher. "The energy transfer that comes from Delta Command-"

"Wait…how do you know about Delta Command?" Kat questioned, her eyes narrowing suspiciously.

Ethan coughed and shook his head. "Trust me when I say it doesn't matter." He stared at her with stern eyes. "Trust me…I doesn't matter."

Kat waved her hands and backed away. "Anyways, as I was saying. The energy transfer from Delta Command is far too much for the morphers circuits to handle." He popped open the back of the morpher, gazing at the circuits and boards. "Yeah, these circuits are shot – fired crispy."

Kat sighed and rubbed her forehead. This was not news she wanted to hear – especially after going through a trial and error test with the morpher itself. "Ethan, is then any possibly way we can force regulate the energy? We could redesign the inner structure, except rather then have the current of energy running through a few miscellaneous wires; the program could divert the energy through many different routes?" She shrugged and tapped a few keys, bringing up several schematics. "I mean these circuits's can handle a great deal of energy…their top of the line from KO-35."

Ethan frowned, looking at the schematic's and then to the morpher itself. "That's risky as well. One faulty energy transfer and you could end up blowing yourself up, or worse, short circuiting morpher during a crucial battle."

Kat hissed lowly and angrily. "We've got to do something to get these morphers working right, if S.P.D has any chance of getting off the ground…"

"But it's the only plan we have that stands any chance." Ethan said, looking at the morpher. "You have a maximum charge running through two circuits. If we can duplicate the design, we can add an extra two circuit's into it…that way, we can regulate a maximum influx under four strain's rather then two. It's splitting the power into fourth's, rather then halves."

"That means it keeps the full energy output plus the attribute increase…" Kat said, tapping her chin. "Boss wants two different morpher designs though – one for D through A squads and then one for the S-Squad." She glanced at him, and frowned seeing the confused look. "S-Squad is the absolute elite…if they can't beat the monster, then your proper-fucked."

Ethan ahed and then looked down at the morpher, studying it's schematics. "Is that the reason why you asked if we could increase the attribute outage without increasing the energy output?" He questioned, glancing at her. She nodded and leaned back in her chair. "Well, its possible…we'd have to find a balance between attribute and energy out put, and then tweak it to the point where the energy starts to rise. Whatever that limit is…well…that's your limit. So it's doubtful it'd be much more of an increase; perhaps a few points at the most."

"Hmm…" Kat glanced at the schematic's on the screen then closed her eyes. "What if we developed a new power for the second morpher?"

Ethan arched a brow. "That could take years."

Kat shook her head. "Not necessarily. Duplicating the Morphing Grid's energy took me only a several month's." She tapped a few keys and the schematic's faded into another document. "I can have headquarters send out a team of scientists and we can begin work on new source right away."

"Kat, I can understand the duplication of the Morphing Grid; that's one thing. Be we are talking about creating an entirely new ranger source. That's a completely different and out-of-our-hands project." Ethan said, arching a brow. "Be realistic here; where and how would we start?"

"With the Morphing Grid, of course." Kat countered, grinning. "We can expand and manipulate its power rather then completely create a new power."

"Hmm…this project is going to be a big one." He sighed, rubbing his forehead. "How long have you been working on this?"

Kat smiled lightly and shrugged. "Since '93, I think. Earth's Delta Command, Zords and such are built…the only thing left is the Squad's morphers. Member's have already been selected…" Now she looked nervous.

"Who are the members?" Ethan placed the morpher together and tossed it onto the desk. He leaned back and folded his hands together.

"Well…there's not many S-Squad members right now…but there's Wesley Collin's as the Red Ranger…Lisa Tiger as Nova Ranger. A-Squad's Red Ranger is Samantha James, Blue Ranger is Chester Collins, Pink Ranger is Cassidy Collins, and the Yellow Ranger is Jasper Anshi." She leaned back in her chair, frowning. "We're currently training Squads, B, C and D."

"Have they been exposed to Range energy yet?" Ethan asked, staring at the ceiling for a moment. What if…

"Yes. Wesley is a give in, being the Time Force Ranger. Lisa and Tetsu are currently on KO-35 being trained for S-Quad." She shrugged. "Why?"

"I was thinking, rather then creating an energy new energy, why don't we duplicate the design of a currently established S-Squad morpher? This way, rather then trying to develop a new power source, we can simply increase the power outage. I mean, the more power we work with, the higher the actual attribute-to-energy limit increases. Rather then a few point's of an increase now, we could have double digit increases."

Kat nodded and tapped a few keys again. The screen faded to reveal another schematic. "Yeah…we can duplicate this, sure."

The Morpher was an unusual design; it was long, about a good four inches long with looked like…a bike handle on the side. In the upper middle was a gauge that determined which skill was being used and beneath it was the button to activate the morpher. All in all, the morpher was a very sleek design.

"Why do you need a second set of morphers, anyway?" Ethan asked, arching a brow.

"I wanted Earth to have its own S-Squad base as well, considering the frequency of attacks here." Kat frowned and lowered her head with a sigh. "It's not needed…but encouraged. I'm beginning to think it'd be easier to just let Headquarters deal with the training of S-Squad."

"Perhaps." Ethan said, rubbing his chin. "Well, let's run with the duplication of the S-Squad Morpher…or at least its technological aspects. It can easily be altered into a much more current version for standard Delta Morphers. We may even be able to get a finished product before the end comes."

Kat smiled bleakly then nodded. "Alright Ethan, let's try it your way." She said and let out a breath. "Let's try it your way."

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Conner and Kira lay sprawled out in the grass, staring up at the ever looming trees. Blake was laying atop of Conner, asleep, and hand one protective, fatherly arm draped across him – as if he was shielding him from something. Kira smiled, glancing down at her son, then to Conner as she rolled to her side. Conner returned the gazed and smiled. But Kira's fell as she looked down at her son again.

"Kira, honey, what's wrong?" Conner asked, his brows furrowing. "Is something bothering you?"

Kira sighed, her fingers running slowly across Blake's forehead as he cooed. "Conner, what if we don't live through this? I mean…who will take care of Blake?"

"…we can send him to S.P.D." He countered after a moment, frowning.

She punched his arm hard. "Conner McKnight!" She growled, her eyes narrowing. "That's not very reassuring…"

"What do you want me to say?" He said softly and winced as he shifted his arm. She still had a helluva punch. "That we're going to live through this fight to come home to our children?"

"It'd help…" She answered and shifted her eyes to Blake.

"Well I can't say that, Kira." He said and raised his wounded arm to cheek, brushing it softly. She slipped her hand into his and she kissed the back of it softly, teasingly. "I can't say that because out of all the Rangers here…only two of them have fought Darius…one he thoroughly obliterated…and the other he apparently was playing with."

"Well…at least if we do die…they'll be in good hands." Kira sighed and curled closer to him. "Space Patrol Delta? I never envisioned our son become a cop…"

"I do." He replied honestly, staring up at the trees. "Hell, generally when Rangers have kids…their kids become rangers."

"Think Wes' kid will become a Ranger?" Kira asked, glancing up at him. "I know Wes and Jen split up a while back, but their son is pretty into the whole Power Ranger thing…especially with the police aspect of it."

"Little Chester Collins? No…" Conner shook his head and laughed. "I could see him being a cop…you know, an S.P.D Subdivision, but an actual S.P.D Ranger?" He shook his head again. "Nah…Chester doesn't seem like that kind of person. He's too cool, too reserved something like S.P.D."

"I don't know…" Kira smiled and poked his head. "He's certainly interested enough in Time Force…"

"Well look at them!" Conner said excitedly, baring his familiar, toothy grin. "How can you not be interested in Time Force? I mean, come on…they capture criminals that cross over through time! How cool is that!"

She socked his shoulder lightly and then frowned. "Quite…or you'll wake the little one." Conner flinched and looked down at Blake as he cooed – fast, fast asleep.

"Naw…I don't think you could wake him even if you wanted…" He said and smiled, feeling Kira nuzzle her head against his shoulder.

"He has your looks, Conner." She said, glancing up at him. "Your handsome dimples." She grinned and reached up to pinch one, but he caught her hand mid-air.

"But he has your eyes, my sweet…" He said and kissed the back of her hand so very gently. Kira smiled and curled closer to Conner for his oh so protective warmth. Her eyes fluttered shut and without knowing it…she was fast asleep…

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Serenity's bright blue eyes shined up at Tommy as she jumped up and down, trying to reach for the peanut butter and jelly sandwich he was making for her. A firm, but gentle hand fell onto her head to stop her from jumping…but it certainly didn't stop her hands from greedily reaching for it. Tommy grabbed them and leaned down, giving her tiny fingers a kiss. "Why don't you go ask your mother if she wants one as well?"

"Okay!" Serenity giggled and rushed out of the kitchen.

Tommy smiled softly and shook his head. He placed the two halves of the bread together and he looked up to see Serenity peeked out from around the corner. Tommy smiled again, holding his hand. Serenity nodded and help up to fingers. Tommy smiled wider and handed the sandwich to his daughter. "One for you…" He began and pulled out two more pieces of bread. "And one for mommy…"

"Thomas Oliver! Don't you dare put that peanut butter crap on my bread!" Kimberly wailed from the living room.

Tommy looked down at Serenity and then winked. "We won't, Mommy…" They said together then snicker.

"Thomas Oliver, Serenity Oliver! I swear if I find peanut butter on my sandwich…" Kimberly's voice sounded threatening. "Someone is going to beating shoe for dinner!"

"…" Tommy just couldn't resist and his grin widened. "As long as it's not your running sneakers, it's okay with me."

He heard something hit the wall and he just grinned. He had a pretty good idea at what it was – her fist. But, he could only grin, for she knew she had to put up with it. This was his gentle, non-painful way of revenge for what she'd done to him so many years ago. They both accepted that and dealt with it.

He spread the jelly onto the bread, meshed the two pieces together and flopped it onto the plate. Ladies and Gentleman, here was Dr. Thomas Oliver's full course meal – a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich. How intriguing…

He let out a sigh, turned and handed it Serenity. "Take this into mommy, I'll be in with the drinks." He said and Serenity snatched it from his hands and rushed into the room. Tommy wanted to go to the refrigerator, but something told him to just wait. So he did. He waited…and waited…and waited. Ten seconds later the front door tore open and Trent walked in with Anton, chattering away.

Wait. Anton?

"Anton!"

Anton whirled around and arched a brow. "Hello, Tommy." He said and moved into the kitchen. He met Tommy's extended hand with a friendly smile. "Sorry I've been gone so long…" He said and glanced back at Trent. "Had some rather unexpected business."

Tommy smiled and shook his head. "It's okay, Anton…as long as you are safe…"He gathered his friend into a gentleman's hug. "Nothing else matters…"

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Anubis "Doggie" Kruger stood in an awe at the massive dog-like structure. Behind him were several hundred cadets – five of them in their respective colors; red, blue, pink, yellow and black. Anubis Kruger, Commander of Earth's S.P.D – Special Police Deltaranger – Command Center, smiled widely. Today was a special day. Today was the day that would mark the birth of Special Police Deltaranger Earth Unit. Anubis lowered his head for a moment, making a silent prayer and then turned to his squad.

"A-Squad, step forward!" Anubis growled, folding his arms behind his back.

The Five Rangers stepped forward and fell into the all to familiar horizontal salute. Anubis smiled thinly, nodding his head lightly. "Rangers…today is another mark in history." He said and moved forward, standing before the Female Red Ranger…Charlie Shan. "And from this day forward, we shall make history."

The crowd erupted with a crisp, loud "YES, SIR!" Anubis smiled.

"Today, with the birth of Space Police Deltaranger on Earth, will make a new beginning in this world's long, ripe history: Aliens and Humans shall live together, as one! They shall co-exist, live the same lives, work the same job's…" He moved down the line, gazing at his rangers and to the cadets behind them. He stopped at Kain, A-Squad Black and turned, moving slowly up the steps.

"Cadets!" Anubis shouted as he whirled around. He raised his hands in the air and A-Squad turned, facing the crowd of hundreds. "These five humans and alien's alike shall be Earths first A-Squad!" Cheers…cheers and more cheers. Anubis looked around at the cadets, seeing some anxiously talking to each other, excited about the prospect of alien's living among them. But A-Squad…A-Squad looked cold and bitter – exactly as he had trained them. Anubis…smiled. "And Cadets…" Everyone straightened now, going silent. "Welcome home…"

And the crowd roared…

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A/N: Sorry it took so long getting this up, but between a combination of writers-block and lack of Power Rangers has made it very hard to write. Anyway, this chapter is finally done. I hope you all liked the small little "Who's doing what" scene's, as the Prt. 2 shall focus on well…several different groups – Hayden/Dragon, Anubis/S.P.D and Ethan/Kat. Next chapter will be much longer and I hope it won't take me as long to get it up. Read and Review as usual!

May the Powers Protect You.