Disclaimer: Don't own it, never will.
Warning: Slash! Bridge/Sky. Rather A/U. Omega Ranger left after helping them against Devastation.
A/N: I'm baaaaaccckkk! The response to Jealousy was so good, I just had to update on it! I'm doing it off the top of my head again because that is what makes life so grand! Polls for the coupling of my next slash are still open and will be till the end of my fic. Also, the winner will be announced in my profile.
I honestly don't know what is wrong with me that I start writing fics at one a.m
Also I'm changing the rating to M, just to be safe.
Thanks to Purpleleopard for being the first to review and all the others as well.
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It had been a month since Bridge had been sent to the infirmary and since he and Sky had confessed their feelings to each other. The Ranger healing was helping in the ankle injury, but the Green Ranger was still on light duty for a month. Sky had been instructed to keep an eye on him and that meant the two of them had a lot of 'alone' time. Which they happily took advantage off.
"Sky, come on! Cruger will have our heads if we're late for the meeting!" Bridge groaned as he tried to roll Sky off him from where the two were lounging about on the bed.
"Calm down. I'll just blame it on you again," Sky said with a grin and leaned down to kiss him again. They made out for a couple seconds before there was a knocking on the door. Sky quickly leapt off Bridge and lay down on his own bed, picking up his SPD manual while Bridge grabbed the computer manual from his bedside table.
"Come in!" They shouted in unison. The doors opened with a hiss and Syd stepped into the room, one hand on her hip. She glanced about and then said as bluntly as possible.
"You guys were doing it again, weren't you?" The two Rangers blushed.
"How did you know?" Sky asked, matching the color of the position he desired.
"Simple," she picked up two jackets on the floor. "These were on the floor. Sky is freakishly clean guy and would have blown a blood vessel if he noticed this and the only way he didn't notice it, would be if he was 'distracted' if you get my drift," she smirked.
"Bravo, Shirley Holmes . . ." Bridge said, slightly awed, but a blush still on his cheeks.
"And judging by your hair, you were at the bottom again?" she asked. This caused Bridge to blush even more and duck his head down while Sky muttered something that sounded suspiciously like, How does she do that?
"You are oh-so-obvious Sky! Now come on! Cruger is getting impatient and you're lucky he sent me instead of the others since you haven't told them yet."
Sky sighed, "You know that if this gets to Cruger, we'll be thrown out of SPD faster than you can say 'SPD Emergency'?"
"Yes, but you can at least tell your teammates!" she exclaimed.
"Maybe when we're a bit more . . . 'prepared', Syd," Bridge sighed. Suddenly they all jumped as a voice came over the intercom system. Cadets Drew, Tate and Carson, please report to the Command Centre!
"Oh crap, we're screwed!" Sky winced.
"Let's go!" Bridge said as he pulled on his jacket before heading out.
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"Now that the remaining cadets have decided to join us," Cruger glared at the blue, green and pink Rangers who shrugged sheepishly, "I have decided that the five of you did an excellent job in the last case and have decided to give you the rest of the day off." The Rangers all cheered and slapped high-fives when Cruger finished, "But you will still be on call."
"That's better than nothing!" Bridge shrugged happily.
"Also, Carson, be careful with that leg of yours. We don't need you doing too many heroics. If there is a battle, you are to return to base immediately. Understood?" Bridge nodded and then walked out with the others to the rec room. Once there, they all began to plan their day off.
"I think we should go to the spa!" Syd said in her usual bubbly fashion.
"Nuh uh! We should go to a dance club!" Z interjected.
"No! There's a comic book convention that we just have to go for!" Jack added.
"Where do you two wanna go?" Z asked Bridge and Sky who glanced at each other and said in unison, "The carnival."
"What carnival?" Jack blinked, confused.
"The Newtech carnival!" Sky exclaimed as Bridge pulled out a flyer from his pocket and smoothed it out on the table.
"It's a fund raiser for the homeless on the streets. Sky and I were actually planning on sneaking out to it this weekend," he said with a grin.
"Weren't you going to tell us? Were we even going to be invited to go with you?" Z asked slightly indignant.
"We were planning on telling you to join us when we found a route that didn't involve us going 'Mission Impossible'."
"Well, that's where we will go!" Jack said with a slight triumphant tone in his voice. "We will leave at five."
"FIVE?!" That only gives me two hours to get ready!" Syd yelled and rushed towards her room while the others started laughing.
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Bridge looked at his clock and then back at his wardrobe. Contrary to what people thought, the Rangers did not only wear clothes in their respective colors. At least not when off-duty. Bridge was contemplating what to wear when Sky came and immediately walked up to him after locking the door.
"What are you doing?" Sky asked, wrapping his arms around his waist. Bridge leaned back and placed his hands over Sky's.
"Trying to figure out what to wear. What do you think of this?" Bridge asked turning around and plucking the collar of the wifebeater he was wearing.
"Looks good on you!" Sky commented and then gave him a slightly mischievous grin. "Though I think it would look even better if it were off you . . ."
"Sky!" Bridge reprimanded with a blush and a slap on the arm. "Seriously, we have to meet them in . . ." he glanced at the watch, "thirty minutes."
"We got time to do that and something else," Sky leaned forward and captured Bridge's lips with his own. The younger Ranger pulled away slowly and grinned at Sky before wrapping his arms around his neck.
"Fine, but we have to be quick. Just fifteen minutes, okay?" he managed to say before Sky kissed him again and this time pushed him backwards so that they fell back on Sky's bed. The Blue Ranger grinned as he felt Bridge mumble under his lips, "Not the bottom again . . ."
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"You see them Jack?" Z asked as she sat on one of the chairs in the rec room wearing a yellow top and blue jeans. She as well as Jack, who was wearing a red wifebeater with black jeans had decided to go casual, even convincing Syd to not dress up too much. The Pink Ranger was wearing a white blouse and a pink knee-length skirt and had her blonde hair in curls as usual.
"Sorry to keep you waiting!" Bridge said with a grin as he and Sky walked past Jack into the rec room. Sky was wearing a black wifebeater and light blue jeans and looked a lot less uptight than he did with the uniform. Bridge wore an orange sleeve-less top and blue baggy pants with an orange strip down each side. He had also changed out of his usual black leather gloves and was now wearing white ones made out of an odd material which covered his entire hands and extended to slightly past his wrists. He caught the others looking and held out his hands.
"Kat made these gloves for days when I think it's too hot to wear the leather ones. They're just as good and a lot cooler," he said with a shrug.
"Looking good, guys! Sky, you actually have casual clothes! The apocalypse is upon us!" Syd said in overdramatic anguish.
"Ha ha," Sky said dryly. "Now, if we're done being shocked about the fact that I-" he gave a gasp of shock, "actually have items of clothing that are not SPD-related, may we leave?"
"Sure!" Jack said with a laugh and they all headed out to carnival.
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"Wow! This place looks incredible!" Syd gasped as they entered the carnival's gates. There were lights everywhere as well as stands and people. A large ferris wheel was in the centre and people were climbing into its booths.
"Where do we go first?" Bridge asked as he peered over Jack's shoulder.
"Let's go to one of the stands first!" Syd said, pulling them to a nearby stand.
They walked on until they reached a stand which had teddy bears wearing the SPD Ranger uniforms.
"Ooh! Sky, you have to win one of those or me!" Syd whispered, "Get one for Bridge too."
"Sure," Sky rolled his eyes and stepped up to the man who explained the rules.
"If you knock down the first batch of bottles, you get the bear of your choice. Knock down all three with three balls and you get three bears."
Sky nodded and picked up the first ball, knocking down all the bottles in the first try. He knocked down the other two batches with ease and then the man showed him the bears, "Which do you like?"
"I'll have a pink, green and yellow one," he said and then gave the bears to their color counterpart Rangers.
"Thank you Sky!" Syd squealed as she gave him and her bear a hug. Bridge blushed a bit but gave a slightly abashed grin. Z however nearly had tears running down her cheeks.
"Z?" Sky asked worried, "you okay?"
"No one has ever given me a gift in my life!" she said in a choked voice. "Thank you Sky!" she gave him a hug.
"You're welcome," he said, returning it.
"Aww, how cute!" Jack gushed and then smirked as both Sky and Z gave him a look that clearly said, 'Shut up or we'll hurt you'. He raised his hands and then pointed to a food stand.
"Let's go! I'm hungry anyway!" Bridge said enthusiastically and Sky grinned.
"You're always hungry," he pointed out.
"So?" Bridge pouted at him. Sky simply shook his head and Rangers headed to the food stand. After placing their orders, Jack took Sky and Bridge aside and took a deep breath.
"Sky, is there something going on between you and Bridge? And don't try to lie, I know you by now." Jack said in one breath and saw the two Rangers glance at each other.
"We are Jack." Sky responded and grabbed Bridge's hand, which squeezed back.
"Well that's great!" Jack said happily, surprising them, but then he turned angry. "Why didn't you tell us?"
"Because our type of love is not permitted in SPD, Jack," Bridge said softly, "we'd be thrown out. So please don't let Cruger know."
"No problem," the Red Ranger nodded.
"How can you be so calm about this?" Sky raised an eyebrow.
"Hey, I'm not prejudiced. According to me, if you like someone, the gender doesn't matter."
"If only everyone else thought that way," Sky sighed and then the boys heard the girls calling them. "We better go back."
"Yeah. Hey, does Z know?"
"Nope. Will you tell her?"
"Only if you want me too, man," Jack said with a hand on his shoulder.
"She should know as well," Sky nodded and smiled slightly, "Thanks man."
"No problem!" Jack smiled back while Bridge watched the two rivals act as friends he knew they were with a smile of his own.
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"Where do we go now?" Syd asked walking between Jack and Sky.
Z was about to answer when they heard a scream and saw a large batch of Krybots and a monster which was nearly eight feet tall. "There goes our day-off!" she grumbled and grabbed her morpher.
"Bridge get to base!" Jack yelled as he and the others went towards the creature.
"But Jack!" Bridge complained, not wanting to let his teammates fight without him.
"Get to base!" Sky yelled as well.
"Fine . . ." Bridge turned around and headed the other way to where they had parked their bikes and then headed to the base. The ride back was uneventful and he was in the base in a few minutes. The Green Ranger ran up to the Command Centre and saw that only Kat was there and was watching the battle by satellite.
"Where's the Commander?" he asked.
"Helping them fight," she pointed at the screen and Bridge saw that the rangers were getting beaten badly by the monster identified as Kuzaroo.
"Crap! I should be helping them fight, not sitting in the base!" he yelled, frustrated.
Kat was silent and then she looked up at him, "Bridge, how much do you care for your teammates?"
"Huh?" he blinked, confused, "Kat, what do you-"
"Would you be willing to do anything for them?"
"Yes, but what do you-"
"Bridge, follow me," she interrupted and headed towards her lab, Bridge following, confused.
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"Agh!" Sky yelled as he was struck across the chest and knocked to the ground again. The Rangers were not having any luck with Kuzaroo and even having the Shadow Ranger around was of no help.
"Time for you to die Rangers!" the beast cackled and then released a deadly beam. Sky closed his eyes and waited for the blast, too weak to do anything. Bridge, I'm sorry! he thought and all of a sudden, a blast of green energy struck the blast approaching the fallen Rangers and Sky turned to see-
"Omega?" Z said in disbelief as a familiar Ranger from the future came towards them on the Omega-Max Cycle. He dismounted and gave Sky and the others a hand up and then turned towards the monster.
"Sam? What are you doing here?" Jack asked in shock.
"Not really Sam, guys!" A familiar cheery voice came from the Omega Ranger. Sky froze.
"Bridge?" he asked in disbelief. The Omega Ranger simply nodded and turned back towards their enemy who was looking furious that someone had interrupted his fight.
"No matter. Another Ranger to crush!" he laughed and then sent a bunch of small beams at the Rangers.
Bridge raised the morpher on his wrist and powered up, "Omega morpher, Hyper mode!" He managed to catch all the beams being shot at him and then threw them back at the monster. He ran forward and leapt up, launching a flying kick at the monsters head, flipping back onto his feet. By then, the monster was already damaged badly and Bridge raised the morpher once again, "Judgment mode!" The morpher charged 'guilty' almost immediately and Bridge got ready for a final attack.
"Electro-mode!" he slammed his open hand into the ground and the energy struck Kuzaroo, sending him into a containment card. "Power Down" Bridge picked up the containment card then turned to the others with a smile.
"How what when?" Jack couldn't form a question and then Bridge cut in, "Kat will explain everything," his voice died down as he fell forward and fainted.
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"Kat, what happened?" Sky yelled, out of his mind with worry.
"When we saw that you were being defeated, I showed Bridge the Omega morpher that we had made using the blue-prints Sam had given us when he came from the future. It fuses with the user and is said to destroy itself when the holder becomes evil, so there is no chance of it being used for evil."
"What do you mean it 'fuses' with the user?" Jack asked.
"Meaning it remains attached at all times. This is very advanced technology. When not in use, it looks like an ordinary bracelet. A bit like the Dino Thunder Ranger's morphers."
"What I want to know is what is happening to Bridge?" Sky yelled as he saw his roommate lying in the infirmary bed hooked up to all sorts of machines.
"His body is adjusting to the morpher. He'll be fine. But most likely unconscious for a couple days as well as a few body spasms since his body is used to the Green morpher. It wouldn't have hurt our Sam since he hasn't been a Ranger at all. He knew the risks Sky, but-"
"He wanted to save everyone . . ." Sky muttered and then sat down next to Bridge's bed while the others left the room.
The next day, Sky returned to Bridge's side after training and arrived in time to watch him having a body spasm. The new Omega Ranger yelled in pain while Sky tried to calm him down while yelling for a doctor.
"Bridge, please remain calm! You're hurting yourself!" he pulled off the gloves on his hands and then grabbed his bare hands. "Bridge, I love you. Please calm down." Bridge eventually calmed down and then Kat came in and began to check his vitals.
"He's recovering well, Sky. I estimate that he'll be awake by the evening and won't remember the spasms at all. That was the last one."
Sky smiled relieved and then decided to get a shower to wash of the dirt and grime of the day, when a voice called him.
"Sky!" the voice belonged to Anubis 'Doggie' Cruger who stood outside the infirmary. Sky saluted, but faltered a bit under the look Cruger gave him.
"Sky, are you and Bridge together?" he asked bluntly.
"No sir!" Sky said immediately but then heard Cruger growl.
"Don't lie to me! I heard what you said. Are you two together?"
Sky knew there was no point in lying, "Yes we are."
"If you wish to remain in the Academy, you must stop it at once," he said in a expressionless voice.
Sky clenched his fists and then stared up at Cruger defiantly, "No. Bridge is my whole life, more than SPD. I will never give him up."
"Then I am afraid that I will have to follow the rules. You are hereby expelled from the Academy along with Cadet Carson. I will give him permission to remain with his morpher as it is attached to him, but he is not to use it aside from extreme emergencies. Sky Tate, hand over your morpher."
Sky literally threw the morpher at Cruger's feet and stormed into the infirmary to take Bridge's hand.
"You are to leave the Academy within a week," Cruger said and then turned to go back to the Command Centre.
Sky meanwhile had tears coming from his eyes. His dreams to be the Red Ranger had been shattered in a second, but even more, he couldn't believe that Cruger had so calmly thrown both him and Bridge out of the Academy. He felt Bridge shift slightly and saw the expression of pain on his face. Sky attempted to calm his thoughts and saw Bridge calm down into sleep and smiled slightly. He may have lost one dream, but he had gained another. He knew Bridge would never leave him and now they had to start a new life together.
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No this is not the end! I know that I'm cruel, but this is what happens when you write a chapter while in a not-so-sunny mood and not having a plan. Thanks to everyone who reviewed, this is for you! I estimate one more chapter will be coming soon. Until then, enjoy! Reviews are welcome and flames will be doused with my special fire-extinguisher.