Infinite Sky

By: AsTheWheelWills

Disclaimer: I don't own them. The Power Rangers. Never have, never will. Well except for that one night in Las Vegas with those two hookers, the Satanist and the Iranian priest. That was one crazy Yom Kippur!

Warning: Little bit of Bad language. Little bit of Slash, Bridge and Sky namely or Skidge as I've taken to calling it. Not my fault they're cute together. And character death.

Note: Yes I think Sky thinks like this.

Universe 1

"Are you sure about this Sky?" the worry on Syd's face is clear as Kat straps the machine on to me. It's meant for closing worm holes and the like, but Kat's reversed it's capabilities to open them now. I nod, I'm definite about this. "Remember Cadet Tate, take back a Dithonium Crystal and nothing else." Commander Anubis "Doggie" Cruger instructs. I just shake my head. "Commander, I don't mean to insult your intelligence but only an idiot would think that's all I'm going to try to bring back." He looks on the verge of a growl for a few seconds, but then nods solemnly. He was expecting this. "Remember not to interact too much with anything there." Kat advises. "If there is a there." I mumble to myself. Kat has changed this thing so it will open up portal's to other dimensions. Supposedly. There's not much time for testing, so I'm the guinea pig. Doesn't matter much, I think, if I didn't try this we'll be dead anyway.

It all started when this Dithonium crystal was supposed to be delivered to SPD headquarters, to then be escorted by B-squad, to a nearby hospital, where technicians were standing by to install it into the hospital mainframe, making it technically the most advanced hospital on the planet. See the crystal acts a lot like plutonium or uranium, or any of the other nuclear elements, only without any of the waste and bi-products, or possible harmful side effects of use. And it's self renewing. And whatever it's powering it grows into and makes better like a living organism. So not much like nuclear power actually.The greatest power source in the known universe. It made the planet of origin Dithon, originally a small farming planet, the planet with the most powerful and economically prosperous place anywhere. It's found in every crevice on the planet's surface. And every year they hold a draw to give, actually give away a few small pieces to hospitals around the galaxy, and this year Millennium general happened to get lucky. Well almost.

It was obvious Grumm would want the crystal. He would have attacked Dithon itself, according to Cruger, only everything, specifically the planet's defences were powered by the crystals. I'm not sure and alliance of every planet from here to KO-35, or even Miranoi, could actually invade the planet successfully. So obviously the Troobians weren't about to try that. So we, we being the B-squad, Z, Syd, Jack, Bridge and I, along with what must been half the municipal police, were charged to protect this spectacular specimen of geological triumph. Grumm didn't stand a chance right?

Well wrong. Grumm attacked like always with those heaps of bolts he likes to call krybots, with a few blue and orange heads thrown in for good measure. And of course we kick butt. Until it comes to Mora's newest invention, which seems to appear out of nowhere. The thing is huge, tentacles, gapingly huge mouth with rows of sharp teeth, laser cannons instead of arms, ability to move at super fast speeds, you name it. She had really out done herself on this one. Even S.W.A.T mode wasn't going to be enough to deal with this thing. I wish we could just have pulled out the zords and stepped on him, but of course we can't escalate a fight, that's the ranger code. But if I had known what was going to happen I would have broken the code without a second thought.

Long story short, he got the crystal, and vanished, to power some new weapon Grumm is building, no doubt. And we have to stand against it somehow. So we had to fight fire with fire.We could try convincing every trillionaire on the planet to pull together and see if we could buy a hunk of the stupid rock, but frankly I don't see that working for some reason. So instead Kat came up with this idea. Send one of us to an alternate dimension, where the crystal isn't gone, and this time get it, for our defence against whatever this weapon is going to be. And after much consideration, I volunteered.

"You should start out just in front of the Academy in each alternate. You can't spend too much time in any one place, because of power limitations, so I've specified the machine to activate every hour.. It's hard to say whether that's too little or too much but you have to make do. An alarm will ring to warn you about five minutes before hand, okay? This button should open a way back home." I try to ignore her use of the word "should". "Right, are you ready?" Kat asks, now done attaching the machine to me. It not huge, barely visible once I put my jacket over it. I just nod my reply. Jack, Syd, Z, and the Commander wish me luck as Kat turns the device on And suddenly everything around me just flashes .

Universe 2

I blink, trying to remove the red spots from my field of vision. Well at least I'm still in existence. I'm left hoping the light isn't that bright every time, it actually stung. I look around. I am outside the academy, just like Kat said. Nothing seems out of the ordinary, as far as I can see. I run over to a stand a buy a newspaper, reading through it in , taking around ten minutes checking it quickly if there is any stories about the crystal coming to town. There isn't. Instead, there is a news article detailing the SPD's incompetence in allowing a monster attack to shatter it. Great, what do I do for the next fifty minutes? I decide to go into the base. No one should think that strange, as long as I don't run into myself. I never realised how long it takes, to get from the lower to the upper levels. And I have to go slowly to make sure I don't get caught by my doppelganger. I look around cautiously as I head toward the rec room, I am not eager to meet myself, so I peek in carefully before entering, making sure that I'm not present. And I'm not. But he is.

Once my eyes fall on the green ranger, Bridge standing on his head, my breath hitches. He's alive here. I knew he mightn't be dead in every place I visited, but still to see him alive and well, it's a a shock to the senses. Yes, it's been three days since I last saw Bridge. See when we were fighting Mora's creature, the thing was far more powerful than we expected, more powerful than anything Mora ever created. We weren't doing that badly, taking as many hits as we gave. But then he turned those cannons on me. And fired. Only the shot never hit me. Because Bridge jumped in front of it, to save me, killing himself in the process. The post mortem showed he had early throat cancer as well. Life's screwy like that sometimes

Bridge hears my gasp, and notices my presence, rolling forward to sit on the couch. "Hey Sky." he smiles. He takes a bit of toast of a plate on the table in front of him. "Is everything okay?" the surprise must be showing on my face, but it's hard to change that, hard to answer him even.. "Eh...um...Yeah. Yeah everything's fine Bridge." I choke out, sitting down, unable to draw my eyes off him. Maybe that sounds a little strange, but when you attend the funeral of a close friend and see them alive and well a few days later, it's a bit of a mind blower.

Then I remember the reason I'm here suddenly, and, though I yearn to just have a conversation with Bridge again, any stupid little conversation, but I push ahead with my job anyway. "So Bridge. Eh, any news on the Dithonian crystal?" Bridge looks at me surprised. "Other than that we splintered it into a million pieces , None as far as I know. Well there is the media making out that it was all our fault, but you know that. Sky, are you feeling alright?" he asks worriedly. "I'm fine." I reply. "Cause you don't look so good. You're really pale, like you've seen a ghost. Have you, cause my Uncle Marv said he had, but really it was just a stroke. Some kind of pressure on one of his brain lobes. Are you having a stroke?" I feel like laughing and hugging him, he's the same old Bridge no matter what the universe. I just shake my head smiling. But then the alarm begins to beep.."What was that?" he asks , curious. Actually an hour doesn't seem like enough anymore "Nothing. Bridge I gotta go." I've got a infinity of universes to look through. "But , look, I just want to say that I don't mean half the things I say about you like calling you weird." Then I rethink that. "Actually I do, but in a good way. You're a really good friend Bridge" I say, heading for the door. "Thanks ...I think. Maybe you running a fever, you don't sound like yourself." I just shake my head as I walk out the door.

Thinking it over, I figure out why it's an hour that Kat has set it too. As I had said to Doggie, I wanted to take Bridge back with me. Or more precisely a Bridge. She knew that if the crystal was gone or stolen or whatever, that I would find out pretty quickly. And that would give me some time to talk to Bridge at least. If I found out it had just arrived, the next fifty five minutes should be more than enough time to get it. I consider how exactly I can convince Bridge to come with me from his own universe and back into mine but before I can come up with anything near a logical answer, I'm gone.


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