Chapter 6: Intense Training, Talon, and Detono

Its been about four days since Luna's attacker appeared and they now had a lead on who she was. Syd went to main S.P.D. prison to question Mora about her family and it was clear that she had a younger sister.

Now that they had a possible suspect on the attacks in the other galaxies, the question is was she alone?

It is Luna's first day out the infirmary from the attack and she walks in the command center her uniform fully on, her hair is hanging down to her knees, and she is wearing the hair rings her father gave her for her birthday.

Everyone was shocked from the change in Luna, she was a selfish disobedient kid anymore, Chase walked up to her to touch her forehead, but she backed away still not liking when someone is in her personal space. " Hey I'm just checking to see if you're not sick because you're acting a bit different. And what are these in your hair?"

" It's rings for the parts of my hair that out in front, because my hair is so long and trying to separate the parts that go along with my bangs, I've been keeping my hair in a ponytail. But father bought me these and because of me being a brat I never wore them."

Chase looked up at the ceiling in a thinking phase, when he was about to start babbling like his father when Luna cut him off, " Don't you dare start with your weird babbling."

And she walked to her seat, sat and took a book from her pocket. Anubis looked up at his daughter fanning herself, since she doesn't take the heat very well, so he got up and walked towards her. She looked up, " What's wrong dad?" He didn't say anything, he unzipped her jumpsuit and let it fall off her shoulders like she had it before, " I don't like to see my kids uncomfortable." With that he just walked back to his chair and looked through some paperwork.

There hasn't been much activity going on since the early mornings so Sky decides to have the cadets go through some intensive training.

Both A and B-Squad met their commander, supreme commander, Kat, Boom and his daughter Mina both just got back from vacation the day before out on the field.

This was going to be a more field day training. Sky led his team their first obstacle, " Cadets, your training today will be much more serious and complex. After what happened to your fellow ranger a few days ago, this new threat seems a lot more challenging than before. So first you will do a 5 mile run leading up to the rope swings, and what kids like to call monkey bars, you will also be practicing your jumps, so I had the space between platforms spread out more and also the wall climb which is about 30 ft tall. There will be times where you will not be able to morph so putting some strength and passing your body's limits is key in this training. I will also like to add, Nate why are you lined up with my cadets?" Sky turned to look at Nate standing right next to Luna.

" Hey, I came to see how, my lovely Luna was doing. Seems she's doing just fine, I also heard some others talking about how her demeanor has changed so," Nate tried to lean into Luna and give her a hug, but she punched him in the stomach for invading her personal space. " My whole demeanor hasn't changed, I still don't like people in my personal space." She said to Nate. " That's my girl, strong and mysterious."

" I'm also not your girl," she faced her commander, but Nate saw a smile creep across her face and maybe a hint of her blushing.

The team had unlimited time to complete the course, the over-all time it took for the whole team to complete will be the limit they will have next time.

They all took their marks and Sky shot the starter pistol for them to start.

Because of Luna's bloodline of Kat she's able to run much faster than the rest of her team without trying or sometimes noticing. In just minutes Luna made it to the rope swing when everyone else was still at the half way mark of the track, she backed up a bit and took her running start. It's been a few months since she did this type of training and the rope swings are much harder for some reason. Her team had just made it to the ropes and coming up on an atv was Nate rooting her on.

She swung across avoiding the makeshift spike pit below her to the other side, now it was Luna's favorite as a kid she enjoyed the monkey bars. Instead of one at a time, she crawled along the bars upside down, everyone was really surprised at how well she maneuvered through the course, even Anubis and Kat were in shock.

She came to the end of the bars and next it was the jumps, this part she felt like teamwork was needed and so she waited for everyone else. Mirage was the first to arrive, " Why did you stop, you know you're gonna need a lot of speed for this?" She looked at her sister. " Well I thought we can pull off a team effort for this one." Luna replied.

Oxion ran up to them with Chase and Daryl behind him, " Why you two stopped, we aren't finished with the course."

" Well, Mr. Red, I just thought we can do a team effort for this one. Look how far the platforms are between each other. We can give each other a lift." Luna explained to her leader.

Everyone agreed with the idea and other cadets in training seem to be watching them. They jumped onto the first platform and got into formation, Chase was the first to helped over, than Mirage, Daryl, Oxion, and with Luna's cat-like reflexes she was able to leap forward enough to get caught. This pattern continued throughout the course until they got to their final leap, this was much further than the rest and would need a lot more strength to throw someone across. They successfully did their routine formation, but Luna was the last to have to jump, she didn't think about this one as they all thought the platforms were the same distance.

She was thinking of many solutions that could help her and that's when Maltrix came into play, " I have an idea, remember what I said about helping you control your abilities? Well you can use one of the other advantages it has or I have or… you know what I mean. You can teleport short distances if you think about where you want to land, well it's more of a light speed thing. Try it."

Luna thought about what Maltrix had said and it was the only thing that sounded like it made sense. So she took her running start and bolted, made one great leap once she was half way, she focused on the next platform and a light surrounded her as she zapped across.

Everyone had their mouths dropped to the ground as she regained a composure. " Wow that was awesome." She had a big smile on her face and ran to her team. " What are you guys gaping at let's get to the final part."

She ran ahead of them to the 30 foot wall. Now one thing that Luna does not take kindly is heights and this was really high to her. Everyone else ran pass her and began climbing, " It's okay Luna, it's not that bad if you were to fall just morph to break it. That way the damage won't be too bad." She talked to herself the whole way through the final obstacle.

B-squad all stood tall as Sky graded them and looked at the time they completed, " The team is pretty fast, it took 20 mins for you all to get across for first time rangers. Luna you showed a great deal of athleticism except on the last part you froze once you got to it, I suggest you control your fear of heights when you go a bit higher. But also, what you did on the second to last obstacle, it's something we haven't seen before."

Anubis also put his input in, " Yes that was something, how did you come up to something like that?"

" Well, Maltrix told me to try it she said it'll be part of my training to control my abilities."

Luna explained. They all looked at Luna confused, " What, it's nothing special. Let's continue because

dinner will be soon and I want to get some homework done."

For the final part of training is the sparring match between rangers, since it was only five of them, Sky

decided to spar with Luna.

She dodged every blow he came at her with and she was able to make quick blows of her own, but one

attack caught her off guard. Sky's hand was about to lay a blow in her chest area and a flashback played

from when that Moran woman nearly killed her from an attack to the chest.

Luna was frozen in fear. Sky stopped what her was doing and looked at Luna, she stood doing nothing

and without warning she passed out.

Luna awoke in her and Mirage's room confused of why she was in there. Than she remembered the

training and her freak out. She got out of bed and walked to the command center, Sky and her father

were there working late as usual.

They both looked up to see who entered the room, Sky was the first to speak, " How are you feeling, gave me quite a scare earlier."

" I'm doing fine as usual, but what happened earlier? Why was I in my bed?" Anubis explained, " You froze in the middle of a sparring match between you and Commander Tate here and than you just passed out. We don't know the reason, I carried you back to your room and had Mirage check up on you throughout the day."

Of course Luna was confused, she shrugged her shoulders (a sign if she doesn't remember anything she doesn't bother with it) and started to head back to her room when the alarms blared.

She ran to the console to see what was causing the disturbance and from the satellite a warehouse facility was being robbed. The other rangers came running in, " Cadets, I want you to investigate a robbery at the warehouse in Zone A. Suit up!" Commanded Sky.

They all got into a lined formation and in unison yelled, " SPD EMERGENCY!"

They all arrived at the warehouse, but it seemed quiet like the satellite was off and needed maintenance. Out of nowhere the rangers were attacked and out came the robbers. Luna recognized the female as Moran, the woman who attacked her days ago, next to her were two other people. One of them looked like a bat with a fish bowl on his head and the other looked like some type of demon alien.

" Is this the bunch working for the imbeciles that took father?" One of the guys asked. " It is Talon. Hello again little lady, it seems you're up and about again. Ready for another round?"

Luna backed away a little warning her team about the device on the woman's hand, " Moran, Talon are these new toys we get to play with?" Asked the other male. " Why yes, Detono. Let's have some fun with them and hurry back to the ship." Replied Moran. " But I would like to fight the girl."

The rangers took their stances and charged in for the fight. Luna didn't want to fight Moran and did whatever she could to avoid her, Oxion and Daryl were fighting Detono, but were having trouble sense he was much bigger than the both of them, Luna and Chase were fighting Talon and Mirage was fighting Moran.

Their opponents put up a good fight, Moran beat Mirage and was heading straight for Luna and Chase, she fought along her companion to bring the duo down. Oxion and Daryl weren't having much luck with their fight and were defeated. Detono went to help out his friends and just to speed up the process they combined their strength together and sent a shock at the group, it missed Luna, but Chase was flying back from the impact. In a matter of seconds Moran was on Luna grabbing her by the neck. " Awww, come now is that all you got little girl? Aren't you a power ranger, I was expecting a little bit more." Moran raised the same arm she used last time to incapacitate Luna. Luna demorphed in a panic, she had tears running down her face and Moran saw the fear.

She broke down even more as her cried echoed in the emptiness, before Moran could do anything she was shot and dropped Luna.

Talon and Detono ran to her side and they quickly teleported back to their ship. Luna was in a heap on the ground, crying, the rangers didn't know what was going on. They quickly headed back to base to give their report.

On the enemy ship, Moran and Talon were waiting for Detono to unveil the contents of their little prize from earth. " It seems we made a great score, this is some strong metal. If I can get some more supplies I can make some great weaponry. We can actually use it to get into the base itself and destroy them from the inside." Explained Detono. " Moran walked to him and picked up a piece of metal. " If we get inside, I hack into the database and see where our family is hidden. But this is Steel metal, it's one of the strongest, but it's not enough. Earth is home to many metals and we need three others to make our weapon strong enough and durable to penetrate the building. We'll need more of this steel too a lot more. I know someone who can get more of these." She smiled to herself as she planned the process of how they will go about collecting their materials.

Back at the base, A-squad, B-squad, Anubis, Sky and Kat were discussing Luna's condition. Her behavior has been out of the ordinary and she isn't willing to talk to anyone about it. " Why has she become so sensitive when fighting all of a sudden?" Asked Anubis. " It is odd, she's usually ready to fight," Said Daryl.

" Maybe we shouldn't be too forward with it. I think she'll come around if we ease her into it." Said Mirage. " I can see how difficult that'll become already." Said Z. " First we should have Chase and Bridge read her auras every now and than." Said Syd. " We're down for that." Replied Chase.

" She already doesn't like being followed as it is, but we have no other choice. Doggie we'll have to keep an extra close eye on her." Kat noted. " Indeed, we can't have her freaking out like that again. Mirage you can go now and be with her, no matter what you two still need to be on your toes." Ordered Anubis.

Mirage did the SPD salute, " Yes sir." And headed to her room. " Everyone else let's turn in and deal with this later." Ordered Sky. They all saluted and left the command center.

Sky, Anubis, and Kat looked at each other with worried looks.