Forgotten Innocence

Interlinea, Power Within, bobtherandomguy, and Dragon Ranger

Chapter Two

January 1, 2026

"Rangers, Report to the Command Room." The four veteran rangers (Schuylar Tate, Bridge Carson, Elizabeth Delgado and Sydney Drew) hurried up, slowly followed by Michael Boom, who had recently been given the green rangers powers; following Jack Landors departure, and Sky's and Bridge's promotions. When they got there, Commander Cruger was standing in front of a screen watching something. He turned to them with a small grin. "Looks like you have your work cut out for you. An easy mission again, Rangers. This time it is a Trifornian triple Bank Robber."

Syd commented to the others "I have been to Trifornia, as a child we had a summer home there." So you should understand the problem." Commander Cruger replied. "For those of you that don't know or have forgotten, Trifornians are made up of several personalities, which can split up at times."

He looked at all of them, and grinned. "But you are the ones who saved the world from Grumm. So this should be nothing for you," he added. Sky looked up at Commander Cruger, "Sir we will not disappoint you."

"I'm sure you won't." Commander Cruger replied. "You have your orders, move out." The five rangers saluted and moved out to the deployment bay, where the guys jumped on their motorcycles and the girls into the SPD Jeep. Sirens went on and they moved out to the site.

Several minutes later the 5 young heroes reached the site, where they ran into their mysterious new enemy. The three bank robbers looked at the group and laughed. One of them spoke up "All they have to throw at us is a group of kids?"

Sky looked at them with a stern look. "Obviously you're stupid as well as criminal, and you don't watch the news… We defeated Grumm. SPD 1, Red Ranger!" as the rest of the team stated their ranks the 3 criminals got impatient until one bellowed "You know for as long as it takes you to do all of that we could have taken over half the Milky way." "Yeah." The third spoke up, before drawing a weapon. "That's it, kill them" he yelled.

He fired at Sky, who created a force field, which the blow bounced off of and hit one of the other of the three Criminals. Boom looks at the other "Um guys, it's great that you all got cool powers and stuff, but I'm kinda of defenseless so shouldn't we morph?"

The one holding the gun to the rangers backed off as his bullet came back to bit him in the ass. "Damn it all." he said turning to face the other two. "Don't just stand there like morons, do something." One of them grabbed a girl about their age and tried to threaten her life, when she kicked him in the nuts, and flipped him over her shoulder.

Boom feeling all heroic, ran up and grabbed the man who had been threatening the young lady, then pulled out his morpher and used the judgment scanner, "You stand accused of an act of theft, and assault of pedestrians." The man got really pissed off. He gripped Booms arm and before he could do anything, and threw him has hard as he could. The girl stepped back to let the Rangers do their job. Within a few minutes they had contained the Trifornian Bank Robber, and Sky had called the SPD Medics to take care of Boom. He then turned to the girl and noted her exceptional skills. He motioned for her to come over.

Sky looked at the young girl "That was extraordinary your skills are top notch Space Patrol Delta is always looking for fresh faces" Thank you." she replied walking over to the group. "I just might sign up." She looked them over, and a look crossed her face, that none of them could read. "Where do I sign up?" Bridge spoke, "Just go to the command base in the center of town, there is an applicant office you will of course have to start at D-Squad here tell me your name and I'll send a request to register you."

"I'm Sheria...Sheria Cooper." She replied. She smacked herself upside the head in her mind. Sky thought that she was cute, but he stayed stern. "Um, are you going there now? 'Cause if you are, we might give you a ride." Sheria thought to herself, I can't believe this is happening! My own father is checking me out. That is so far beyond creepy. "Uh sure."

The group returned to their motorcycles or jeep and returned to HQ. Sheria was sitting behind her own father. Soon enough they had arrived at the command base, with the ride being only moderately strange for Sheria. When they actually arrived however, and she thanked them and began to make her way inside, it finally hit her. This place...she had seen it lying in ruins, and yet here it stood, seeming as if it had been there forever. Under its seemingly permanent facade, she saw a shaken country, leaderless rangers, and a much darker time. It gave her the shivers.

Cruger was coming down and noticed Sheria with the Rangers. "Rangers, what is going on?" Z stood up, finally taking notice of her friends, having been in a daze for a while since meeting Sheria. "This is Sheria Cooper, she was being attacked by the Triforians, but she stood up for herself and Sky asked her to join SPD." "Very well. Welcome to SPD, Miss Cooper." He noticed that she looked related to Ranger Delgado, but he said nothing, and moved on.

Sheria noticed the looks, but just said nothing about it. "Thank you, sir. I am sorry that one of your men was injured in helping me, though, and if possible I would like to thank Mr. Boom for jumping to my rescue." "I don't know if that will be possible right now," Cruger replied over his shoulder, "He seemed to have taken quite a bit of damage from that fall. You'll get a chance to speak to him soon, I hope." "It's my fault that he is that way, I'm sorry.I Sheria replied looking down at her feet for a moment before looking back to the rangers. "Would anyone mind showing me around?" she asked. Z smiled, I have some free time now if you like?" Sheria stared at her mother for a couple seconds almost crying and then said, "Thank you." and then under her breath adds another word inaudible to the people in the room.

Later on…

It was getting towards midnight at headquarters, and most of the Cadets were sound asleep, save one. Sheria was still awake, thinking about this afternoon. She was touched by what Boom did, but he shouldn't have done that. She felt responsible, and wanted to set things right. She just had to talk to him NOW.

Sheria walked down to the med bay, where Boom lay on a bed, fast asleep. She sat down in a chair next to him. She started to say something, but no words came out of her mouth. Instead, she bagan to weep silently, for she had seen a great deal of death lately... Too much. If Boom died from this, she would never forgive herself. She had come to stop the dying from happening, especially that of Jack, her elder brother, by two years, and Zor, her special friend. Now she had almost caused the dying. Boom awoke and heard her.

If Boom died now, Bang wouldn't have been born, and one of her best friends would be lost for all time. She cried harder at the thought. She had grown up feeling close to all her team like a family. A shaking hand of Boom reached up and touched her shoulder. She looked down to see him looking at her.

"I'm sorry if i woke you." she said softly trying with all her might to stop crying but she couldn't seem to get her act right. He pried his jaws apart, "What'z wong, Zheria?" "I just come to say, i was sorry about earlier, she told him. He smiled. She got up to walk away, when a holo-pic-ablum fell out of her pocket. It activated and showed her team in uniform, Jack, her brother, looking exactly like Sky but with darker hair, and skin, like her own, in red, she in blue, Zor in green, Leslie in yellow, Bang in pink, looking like his father, Sam, and Lisa, in theirs. All were smiling.

Boom looked down at the Holo-pic for a moment, confused about what he as seeing. "Zheia." he spoke up. Sheria gulped. She then realized it was too late, and that she needed to talk. "My name is Sheria Tate. I was born in the year 2029 to Sky and Z. My older brother, Jack, was born in 2027. In 2030, Sky was made Supreme Commander. A year later, Z was killed in the line of duty. Unable to raise 2 young children, do his duties and cope with her death, he asked Jack and Allie to adopt us, and they did. Later in 2042, Jack, my brother joined SPD. I joined in 2044. Later, we both made made B-Squad, under Commander Carson, along with, Zor Cranston, son of Billy and Cestria, Leslie Drew, your son, Bang, Sam, and Lisa."

"You've got to be joking," he said looking over at her, but once his eyes met hers he knew she wasn't. "So let me guess, you come here to stop something, or change something?" She looked away, horrors unveiling in her eyes. She nodded. "It was awful. It starts in a few days. An accomplice of Grumm, we never found out whom, replicated a morpher for every suit and every ranger that ever existed. It took him or her about fourteen years to complete. We didn't know until it was too late. The accomplice took them to Grumm, who had escaped from prison. Grumm then kidnapped from time every single Ranger that ever existed before SPD, just after their change, or retirement, at the peak or their power and experiance, and convinced that SPD had conquered the world and that civilians were actually our foot soldiers..." Her voice broke and she could not go on...

"So how coming back this far, help with what is going on in your time?" Boom asked. "Because it starts soon. But let me continue. They rampaged New Tech City, killing everyone in their path, though five knew the truth and protected me. They were unable to get to the others. Jack and the others are... dead. Even Bang, your son, dead at fifteen. All in horrible ways. The personnel of SPD on Earth and the inhabitants of New Tech City were massacred, slaughtered. Earth was conquered. Soon after, all morphers went dead, due to overload of the Morphing Grid. There will never again be Power Rangers. The five that refused to fight refused to fight, saved me from the slaughter. Dr. Tommy Oliver who knew because, the team-up was never erased from his memory, Andros who led the beginning of more SPD's, his sister Karone who believed him, Jen, who studied SPD in her Ranger History Major, and Cole who searched our hearts for the Truth helped me, and told me what I needed to do. Grumm then erased the memories of the Rangers (after telling them the truth, and cackling evilly) and sent them back through time. My genetic ability is Time Shifts. I can shift back and forth through time, but usually only a few seconds, mins, or days at the most. When I realized I needed to go far enough back to actually make a difference, and not just watch the entire thing happen all over again, I put forth all of my energy and prayed that it would be enough. It took me back to a few days ago, and knocked me out," she sighed. "My power is burned out for now, and maybe for ever, who knows? All I know is that I won't be going back anytime soon..."

"Ok, that's just scary." Boom replied. "Is their anything, I can do to help?" he asked trying to sit up. Sheria bit her lip. "Well actually two things. I am not sure if I can ask the first of you..." "Try me." Boom replied moving his hand a little, telling her to sit back down. Well, the story goes that Grumm's accomplice was given his own her own suit, the A-Squad Ranger Red suit to be exact, and that that was how he or she knocked out all of the guards every time. I won't be able to go up against the accomplice like this, and my own suit has been destroyed..."

"So what you're telling me is, you need a ranger power..." Boom thought for a moment before handing her, his. "I'm not going to need this for a while." Sheria nodded. "Thank you so much. Now the other thing is a bit more personal... Father, I, I mean Sky, has been checking me out all day, it seems he might have a crush on me. This makes for awkward moments.. if you could.. well, you get the gist..." "Yeah I see what you mean. Don't worry I'll take care of Sky." Boom replied with a laugh.