Chapter 2

Red Origin

Well guys, it's time to get to chapter 2 of this fic. But first... On to the reviews.

DragonEmperor999: Yeah. I wanted to make it the case to help with something I plan later down the line.

LegionaireBlaze: You forgot Shadow, Cat, and Nova.

1049: I always thought so too.

jster1983: Well, like you said, a lot can change in ten years.

Unity123: I'm not gonna give anything away as to who I plan to make the Gold Ranger.

ssnoah4: I'm not gonna give anything away. But I do have a plan for Lily.

Darkvader94: On the Sky front, it was basically just momentary denial. In regards to the Morphing sequence, it was just a choice I made. I hope you can forgive that.

And now... Let's kick it up!

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In a hanger located in the back of the Delta base five multicolored bipedal robots were having work done on them as the A-Squad Red Ranger was watching the progress.

"Getting some new upgrades to the Riot Zords?" Lincoln asked as Charlie turned around to face him.

"Well, well. If it isn't the great Red Ranger of B-Squad." Charlie said in a joking tone. "Seriously, good job on that fight." She said before popping Lincoln a light one in the shoulder.

"Thanks. I just wish I knew what was up with those bots." Lincoln said with his hand on his chin.

"Your team is going to get briefed on the situation after we leave. All I can tell you right now is things are bad. That's why the Riot Zords are being outfitted with space flight upgrades." Charlie explained.

"How worries should I be?" Lincoln asked with a light chuckle.

"You've got a good team behind you. You've got nothing to worry about." Charlie said, gaining a smile from Lincoln. "And you also have this." She said, handing him a box.

"No way. This can't be what I think it is." Lincoln said in shock as he looked at the contents of the box.

"Oh it can be, buddy." Charlie said with a chuckle.

"But there were only twelve known pieces of this and they were all used three thousand years ago." Lincoln breathlessly said.

"Some cave divers found a few of these a couple months ago. You said you needed the best for your little pet project and this is the best.

"Well, I owe you big time for this one." Lincoln said as he closed the case. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have a very uncomfortable story to tell my team." He said.

"Gonna finally tell them about your folks?" Charlie asked, gaining a nod from Lincoln. "Well good luck." She said as Lincoln began walking. "Oh and Lincoln." She said before Lincoln stopped and turned back to face her. "In case I don't see you before we ship out. Make sure we have a planet to come back to." She said as Lincoln walked back to her and the two Red Rangers shared a hand clasp.

(In Syd's room)

"Hey, sorry if I'm intruding on your space." Ronnie Anne said as she placed her luggage on the bed on what was now her side of the room.

"No problem. It might be nice to have a roommate." Syd said before she began to smirk. "So, I'm picking up some history between you and our fearless leader." She said, getting a whispering laugh from the Yellow Ranger.

"We uh... We knew each other when we were kids. I had a pretty big crush on him. But we never went anywhere with it." Ronnie Anne said, thinking fondly back to her youth.

"Why not? There's clearly something there on Lincoln's end too." Syd said with a curious expression on her face.

"Well, it mostly came down to the fact that neither of us were keen on a relationship started by Lincoln's sister threatening to beat the piss out of him." Ronnie Anne said with a bit of venom at mentioning that aspect of her relationship with Lincoln.

"Wait. Lincoln has a sister?" Syd asked in surprise.

"You don't know a lot about him do ya?" Ronnie Anne rhetorically asked with an eye brow raised.

"He doesn't talk about a lot from before he joined S.P.D." Syd replied before both of their Morphers began beeping and the two of them switched them to Phone mode and answered.

"B-Squad, report to the rec room. There are some things I need to brief you on." Lincoln said from over the coms before the girls grabbed their new jackets which matched their colors and left the room.

(In the rec room)

Lincoln sat on the couch while he reassembled his blasters after cleaning them. He had just finished putting them back together and activating a function on his Morpher to make them disappear in a flash of red when all four of the other Rangers walked in.

"Hey, Lincoln. What did you need to talk about?" Bridge said as he and Syd sat down in recliners near the couch, Ronnie Anne sat down next to Lincoln and a still upset Sky leaned against the wall.

"I think it's time I told you guys about how I came to the academy." Lincoln said as Syd, Bridge, and even Sky put their attention on him, all of them knowing how close to the chest Lincoln had always kept that, to the point they weren't even sure if Cruger knew.

"My story begins in a small town in Michigan called Royal woods." Lincoln began. "I was the exact middle child of a family with eleven kids." He said, getting surprised looks from everyone but Ronnie Anne.

"Now, as you can imagine in a family that big, it can be easy for one of the kids to end up feeling lost in the shuffle. In my family that was me and that all came to a head one day when my sister had a baseball game."

"What do you mean?" Syd asked.

"Well, at the time, I was feeling burned out from always going to whatever events my sisters were doing. Mostly because I was so busy supporting their dreams, I never had time to find mine." Lincoln said with his head starting to lower.

"I'm sorry, buddy. That must have been rough." Bridge said in an extremely sympathetic voice.

"It was. That's why I think I made the incredibly stupid decision I did." Lincoln said, gaining raised brows from the other Rangers. " I went to the game and my sister absolutely choked and since it was the first game of hers I had been to... she blamed me for it." He said, clenching his fists at the memory.

"Wait. You said you made a stupid decision. All I'm hearing is Lynn being a bitch." Ronnie Anne said.

"Well, after the game, she started convincing everyone of the same... with my help." Lincoln said with a sigh. "I just wanted some time to my self so I caused a couple 'accidents' to help with Lynn's claims. But it back fired." Lincoln said as he got to the turning point of the story.

"My folks stopped letting me eat meals with them, they went on day trips without me, and they sealed off my room, forcing me to sleep in the back yard." Lincoln said. "It finally got to the point I had to come clean. But they didn't believe me so I had to steel the costume for the baseball teams mascot and show that it was me after my sister won the next game to prove I wasn't bad luck." He said.

"Sounds like things worked pretty well. Syd said before Lincoln shook his head.

"Wrong, Syd. That's when things got worse." Lincoln said as his hands began to tighten again. "My family decided that I was only bad luck if I wasn't in the mascot costume. So I had to where it everywhere... including the beach.

"Oh no." Ronnie Anne said, knowing exactly where the story was going.

(Flashback)

Lincoln, was still feeling a little frustrated at being forced to wear the mascot costume. But it beat his family treating him like a leper so he rolled with it. That is until he started sweating. Lincoln's breathing started to become more and more strained.

Lincoln thought, if he could just take the head off for a moment and catch his breath, he'd be okay.

"Oh no you don't." Said a brunette girl with her hair done up in a ponytail who ran up to Lincoln and grabbed his right wrist. "We can't have you being bad luck again. The whole thing stays." She said.

"Lynn, I can't..." Lincoln tried to say before Lynn pointed over to a van where her baseball bat was seated next to the window.

Reluctantly, Lincoln lowered his other arm as Lynn went back to horsing around with the rest of the Loud family, leaving Lincoln to watch as he quickly began losing the strength to breath and his vision became increasingly blurred until finally, Lincoln fell to the ground unconscious.

(End Flashback)

"Next thing I remember, I woke in the hospital four days later." Lincoln said.

"So that's how it happened." Ronnie Anne whispered, having known about Lincoln's collapse from from her mother, who had been one of the ones to treat Lincoln after it happened.

"That's awful. But what does it have to do with you joining S.P.D" Syd asked.

"Well, Royal Woods wasn't exactly good to me. I only had a few friends, I got picked on by most people including my teachers, and that's not even getting in to the fact that most people there were just rock stupid." Lincoln said, gaining a shrug from Ronnie Anne. "And when I woke up it all just hit me at once. Every bruise. Every insult. Every humiliation. I couldn't take it anymore." He said.

(Flashback)

Lincoln was lying in a hospital bed, thinking about how even after he 'made amends' with his family they could still be so uncaring as to let him almost die of a heat stroke. Honestly, he began to think that Lynn would have tried to convince the paramedics not to cut that damned costume off of him. Once that though started to fester, everything just snapped for Lincoln.

One thing about Lincoln that many underestimated was just how cunning he could be. As such sneaking out of the hospital and back to the Loud House. Luckily for him, now one was there so it was a simple matter of grabbing a grappling hook he had hidden in the crawl space of the house and busting in his bed room window to grab some clothes and his emergency food and cash.

After retrieving his supplies, Lincoln went to the bus station to get the first bus out of Royal Woods and for whatever reason. Call fate, karma or even the word Lincoln hated most, luck, the earliest bus was going strait to Newtech city.

After a few hours, Lincoln finally found himself in the city would call home. He had no idea where he would go or what he would do. But somehow knew that he was supposed to be there.

As if the universe itself was telling Lincoln he was right, an alarm went off and he heard someone shouting at a theif who was running at Lincoln. Without thinking about it, Lincoln rammed his shoulder in to the alien, making him fall down.

"Why you little." The alien said as a blade grew out of his arm and he sliced down at Lincoln only for the white haired boy to suddenly gain access to his powers and sink in to the shadows before a blast came out of nowhere a blast came from an inch in front of the alien's face as he turned to see the A-Squad.

"Hold it right there." Charlie said as she stepped forward, holding out her own red and black version of the S.P.D Morpher. "You are charged with grand larceny, assault, and attempted murder. Judgment!" She called as a timing ring appeared around the alien as a green circle and a red X appeared on either side of him. After ten seconds the X and circle flashing between the alien and on Charlie's Morpher until finally settling on the X.

"Guilty!" All five A-Squad members said before the alien shot an energy slash out of his blade before trying to run only for Lincoln to reach up from inside the shadows and grabbed his leg, gripping him up long enough for Charlie to get up and use her Morpher to shoot a blast at the aliens, shrinking him down and putting him in a confinement card.

"Hey, kid." Charlie said to Lincoln as he came out of the ground. "Mind handing that to me?" She asked before Lincoln picked up the card and ran it over to her. "Thanks for the help, kid." Charlie said before patting Lincoln on the shoulder.

"N-no problem. I'm Lincoln." He said as the A-Squad all took their helmets off, revealing the heads of the Rangers and the fact that the Blue Ranger was an alien.

"I'm Charlie. This is Rachel, Cliff, Ivan, Beevor." She said pointing at the Pink, Green, Yellow, and Blue Rangers respectively.

(End Flashback)

"After that everything just fell in to place. In thanks for my help, I got a tour of the S.P.D base. Once Cruger found out I didn't have a place to go, I was aloud to stay in the HQ while S.P.D funded my schooling until I turned seventeen and officially entered the academy." Lincoln finished the story, none of the others being able to get anything more than a 'wow' out.

'Next I see Lori or any of them, I'm going beat the absolute crap out of them.' Ronnie Anne thought.

"So, now that you guys know everything, do you trust me to lead you?" Lincoln asked, hiding how nervous he was of the answer.

"Always." Ronnie Anne said without hesitation as she put her hand on his shoulder.

"I'll follow you too." Syd said with a gentle smile.

"Me three." Bridge said before leaning over and giving Lincoln a fist bump.

"Sky?" Lincoln asked as he looked up at the Blue Ranger.

"Being able to go through something like that... and come out the way you did." Sky said in a silent contemplative tone. "Yeah. Yeah, I think I can be okay following you." He said before Lincoln stood up and walked up to Sky before the two of them shared in a hand clasp.

"Alright then." Lincoln said with a smile before walking to the door of the rec room. "Then let's get down to the training grounds. I want the average time for this squad on course three to be one minute twenty seconds. Is that clear?" He asked in authoritative tone.

"Yes sir!" All four Rangers said with a salute before they all left the room, passing by Comander Cruger and Kat.

"I think those five will make a great team." Kat said with a smile.

"So do I, Dr. Manx. So do I." Cruger said as a glimmer of pride came through from his voice as he watched the Rangers go off to start training.

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Well, there you go guys. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Now before I get questions about Sky. He's still going to resentful about not being picked to be Red. But he's having worked with Lincoln for some time, he's won't be as standoffish with him as he was with Jack. Well anyway, until next time and always... Keep on keeping on.