A/N: Next chapter would be the last one...but I think I'm going to make it a tad bit longer. I'm not so sure just yet so don't get your hopes up! lol. Anywho, thanks again for the lovely reviews...you guys ROCK! Enjoy this one and don't forget to review.
Chapter 18
"How Does It Feel"
"I'm getting a troobian reading, Commander." Kat Manx scans the computers inside the control room as Cruger pulls the emergency alarm. "Suit up, rangers!"
Jack, Sky, Bridge, and Syd rushed out in their ranger uniforms as the guys took their bikes and Syd driving the jeep to the location.
As soon as they arrived just moments after, there were already krybots in sight and Broodwing with two of his monsters he paid to do his dirty work for him.
"What happened to your leader?" Broodwing questions quite dreadfully, followed by an evil laugh once he noticed that there were only four of them. The B-Squad rangers jumped off from their vehicles and face them. "Give it up. You are all completely defenseless without the red ranger!"
"We can still take you on, Broodwing!" The blue ranger exclaims.
"Yeah!" The pink ranger joins in. "Time for some girl power! Ha!" Bridges knelt down as Syd jumped on his shoulder and kicked two of Broodwing's monsters while doing the splits in the air with a front and back kick. She then began to fight them, holding her own for a few food seconds when suddenly the two faced monster used his sword and targeted the pink ranger as sparks started flying with every hit.
"Syd!" Bridge yells out as he comes running to her aid. "Hey! Let her go!"
"If you say so," the two faced-monster tosses Syd towards the green SPD Ranger as the two fell on the ground. The creature then begins laughing evilly. "Pathetic fools!"
"Ow!"
Syd looks down at Bridge while being on top of him. "Thanks for breaking my fall."
He grunted in pain. "Anytime…" He responds as she helps him up.
"So much for girl power without Z around." She sighs.
"It's our turn!" The yellow SPD ranger turns to the one in the blue suit. "You ready, Sky?"
"I'm all over it, Jack! Ha!"
The two were able to fight their way through all the krybots as they began targeting two-faced and totterbug. After taking a few shots, the two were getting the upper hand when suddenly Broodwing interfered bringing more krybots to the scene.
"Oh no!" Syd yelped as more came swarming all over her. "There's just too many of them!"
"Hold on, Syd!" Bridge tries to break free from the mod of krybots but couldn't do so. He took matters to his own hands as he takes out the delta max blasters and uses them on the Krybots. Meanwhile, the pink SPD ranger stumbled to the ground after a hard hit, letting out a groan of frustration.
"That does it!" Syd pushes herself up as she clenches her first together. She was getting fed up with the bad guys overpowering them. More Krybots lined up in front of her. "You want to play rough eh?" The pink ranger takes out the delta max blasters and turns it into a handy laser as she gets into a fighting stance. "Well I'll show you rough! Hiya!"
Sky quickly ducked as two-faced started shooting at him with his very own weaponry. The blue ranger then took out his delta max blasters and begins aiming for the monster when just moments after totterbug kicked the weapon from off his hand and kicked the ranger in the mid section, sending him flying in the air. Jack then takes a shot at them, but end up getting blasted by totterbug's blast as he landed next to Sky.
"Ah, man." He grunted as they struggled to get up. "These guys are tough."
Two-faced and totterbug begin taunting towards their direction. "You give up rangers?"
Just moments after Bridge and Syd were being tossed in the air by the Krybots as they now joined Jack and Sky on the ground.
"Now it's time to finish you all!"
The rangers looked at each other in horror as two-faced raised his sword high and totterbug preparing to blast them with his weapon.
"Goodbye, rangers!"
"Hiya!" A figure, from out of nowhere, jumped in front of the B-Squad rangers and kicked both two-faced and totterbug. "Not so fast, boys!" She landed on the ground as the rangers looked up and gasped. "It's Z!"
"Yes!" They sighed in relief. "You decided to stay!" Sky exclaims in triumph as she looks over her shoulder and smirk.
"I never left."
He furrows his eyebrows in bewilderment behind the helmet. "Huh?"
"What!" Broodwing exclaims as Z, in her civilian form, gets into a fighting stance. He didn't expect another ranger to be a part of his evil plans. Now his chances of defeating SPD once and for all were suddenly out of reach.
"Aw…why the hostility, Broodwing? Don't you miss me?" She said out of sarcasm as a smirk crossed her face. "Let's see how well you can do with the three of me." Z replicated as two of her clones stood beside her in the same stance.
"Hey, that's not fair!"
"There are more of you than there are of us." Bridge exclaims as the rest of them begin to rise up. "So technically you guys weren't being fair first. I mean if you think about it—
"Oh boy," Syd murmured as Bridge continues on.
"There was only like four of us and then there was you, the dude with two scary looking faces, the bug, and like twenty krybots." He turns away from Broodwing to face the others. "That's not fair right?"
Z rolls her eyes. "Anyways, I think we should get back to business here, Bridge."
"Got cha."
"Hiya!" Z and her duplicates began to take on Broodwing, two-faced, and totterbug leaving the others with krybots to handle. During the fight, it was Broodwing versus Z as he blocked one of her shots and flipped her to the ground. However, the cadet flipped back up and leg sweeps Broodwing, putting all her energy into this fight with kicks and punches coming at his way. Z had so much anger in her, part of it had to do with revenge of what Broodwing tried to do to her, but did to Sky instead.
Z dominated the fight for a moment but was suddenly losing that energy and focus she had initially as Broodwing gets back in to it.
"AHH!" She grunted in pain as he pulled her hair, but with her flexibility, she was able to kick him from behind to break free from his grip.
Breathing heavily, Z as one again immediately took out an SPD morpher from her belt, ready to take it to the next level.
"SPD, Emergency!"
Troobians retreated as the B-Squad rangers returned to SPD in the control center after a successful battle with Commander Cruger and Kat Manx in the room
"Good job, rangers. I'm very proud of you." Commander Cruger announces as they all exchange looks with rewarding smiles on their faces. "You are finally working together as a team. I can't be anymore proud. Congratulations."
"Yeah!" Jack chuckled. "Thanks to my girl, Z right here." He places an arm around her as she smiles in pleased embarrassment.
"Did you see how scared they looked as soon as Z busts out the red suit and the delta blasters?" Bridge questioned quite enthusiastically.
"Yeah, they were running scared." Syd chuckled at the thought as they began walking out of the control center after being dismissed by the big blue dog.
Jack, Bridge, Z, and Syd were constantly talking about what happened that day when suddenly silence lingered in the air as soon as Sky stood in front of their leader. Jack, Bridge, and Syd exchanged worried looks. Ever since Z showed up to the scene, they noticed Sky's silence, and at that moment, his expression was almost blank that it was difficult to know what he was thinking.
The tension between Sky and Z was so thick as Jack, Bridge, and Syd hold their breathes. Everytime it was the two of them, it seemed as though they were gonna go at it with each other.
"So this was all a set up." Sky stared deeply into her eyes, the tone of his voice indicated that he was rather upset about it. "You never left SPD did you?"
Z bit her lip. "No," she lets out a sigh, "I never did."
"So you lied to me." Sky averts from her gaze while letting out a pathetic chuckle. "Wow," he rubs his eyes, shaking his head at the same time, "I feel such an idiot."
"Don't be. I did it for a reason. And it's not to make you feel like an idiot, Sky." She tells him. "I did it because I thought you need to learn a lesson here. And it worked didn't it? I mean the talk we had yesterday…it showed me a different side of you. The one I missed."
"But you lied to me, Z." He retorts. "You made me feel like crap for the past week because of you!"
"How do you think that made me feel when you lied to me!" She argues back.
His lips slightly parted. "Whoa, now. Is that what it's all about?" He questioned. "Were you trying to get back at me?"
"No!" She yells out of frustration. "You're missing the whole point!"
"Whatever." He narrows his eyes at her. "It makes perfect sense."
Z scoffs as she watches Sky walk out. "UGH! I can't believe the nerve of that guy!" The cadet lets out a heavy groan as she begins marching off towards the opposite direction, leaving the others behind.
The three just exchange puzzled looks, nodding their heads in disappointment. It was as though they have to go through the tension again and live with it.
"Not again." Cadet Landors grunted. "Just when I thought things were gonna get better..."
"Those two have some serious issues…" Syd commented as Jack and Bridge nodded their heads in agreement.
"Ooh yeahh."
There was a moment of silence for it was now just the three of them in the hallway.
"So…" Jack suddenly breaks the silence, "who's up for a game of lightball?"
"I am!" Bridge and Syd chorused in unison as they began to walk towards the common room.
A/N:Dun. Dun. Dun. lol. Alright,let me know what's on your mind.
