"Hey." Megan walked up behind Chase who was sitting out back. She sat down next to him. "Missed you last night." After everything coming out about Chase being her brother and everything else that came along with it, Chase had taken off needing some time to himself and she hadn't seen him until she woke up that morning and saw him out the window.

"Yeah. Sorry about that." He turned to her and smiled. "I just needed to clear my head."

"Are we going to be okay?" she asked, as she looked into his eyes. She was afraid that things would change between them and she didn't want them to, she didn't want to lose her friend, or for that matter, her brother.

"Are you kidding?" He grinned. "We're better than okay." He wrapped his arm around her. "I just found out you're my sister; there's no way you're going to get rid of me that easily." He bit his lips. "Besides, how many people are willing to put up with you?"

"Watch it!" She playfully elbowed him in the stomach.

"Sorry." He grinned. "….But it's just going to be so fun when we get back to the academy, when I tell the cadets that my little sister had a crush on me," recalling that when the two first met that she had a little crush on him.

"Had being the key word." She gave him a dirty look as she crossed her arms against her chest. "And in my defense, I didn't know you were my brother."

"You got me there." He really wasn't going to tell any of the cadets about the small crush thing. He just liked to rattle her cage a little, have a little sister-brother rivalry. He had already missed fourteen years; he had a lot of catching up to do. "So where is our Sammy boy?"

"Oh, he's helping Grandpa move some boxes in the attic."

"Sounds like hard work," grinned Chase, knowing very well that moving a few boxes was nothing much for their young red-haired friend to handle. A few moments passed and Chase turned his head to stare off at the horizon, watching birds fly into the distance, feeling the sun hit his face.

"….Something else on your mind?"

"Hmmm…." Chase bit his lip. "Just thinking what it will be like…"

"To meet them?"

Chase turned his head and nodded. "Yeah. I mean I already met your mom, so it's going to be a little strange having met her already but not knowing at the time, but it's not really her I'm concerned about." He bowed his head down, sighing, the moment he had learned that Tommy Oliver was his father was what had caused him to take off on his own that night, needing some space to himself.

"You're worried about meeting Tommy?" exclaimed Megan shockingly. Though she knew it was going to be odd for Chase meeting his birth parents and he had every right to be nervous. She knew he really didn't have to be, both her mother and uncle were great people, who she loved to death. Chase had nothing to worry about; they were going to love him."He's a real good guy. You'll like him…"

"No." He turned to her. "It's not that. I know that he's a really great guy."

"Then, what is it?" she asked, a little confused as to why Chase was acting so strangely.

"Do you remember when I told you how I decided to become part of SPD, to become a Ranger?"

"Yeah…Oh…." Now understanding. Chase had told her a long time ago that what had driven him to the life of a Ranger was indeed Tommy Oliver, after hearing about the mission on the moon with several other red Rangers, two of whom included her father and Uncle Wes. "Tommy was the reason you trained to become a Ranger?"

"Like father, like son." He wasn't upset that Tommy was his father; ever since he was a little boy he had worked hard every day to be just like him. He had sworn to himself the day he had become a Ranger that he would live up to one of the greatest Rangers that ever lived. Anyone in his position would be thrilled to find out that such a man was their father. "I just never thought in all my wildest dreams that my hero would turn out to be my father."

And now Megan understood what the problem was: it wasn't the knowing or even meeting that scared Chase. It was the living up to. Ever since Chase had been a boy, he had idolized one of the most powerful Rangers there ever had been. Tommy had been his childhood hero, the reason behind his training. And now years later, he found out that that man, his hero, was his father. Megan reached to grip his wrist. "You know, I happen to be the daughter of a former Power Ranger." She smiled at him. "They're just like any other dad, they don't expect you to live up to their Ranger standards." She bit her lip. "In fact my dad probably would prefer I don't become one."

"….But it's in your blood."

"Yeah. I guess it is." Ever since she could walk and talk, she knew that she wanted to be like her father, follow in his footsteps. She just hoped that she would be half as good a Ranger as he was, when and if that day ever came.

Chase smiled. He didn't know what would happen or what the future would hold for him with his birth family. He knew what would happen, would happen, so there was no reason for him to worry or put too much thought into it. Right now he was just thankful he had Megan and had developed a relationship with her, one he would always be grateful for. Not only was she his sister, but she was his best friend. "….So how do you think Sky will take the news?" Knowing that sooner rather than later they were going to have to tell him.

"Ah, um… We'll cross that bridge when we come to it." She eyed him. Though she was ecstatic, she had known Sky long enough to know he hated having news like this sprung on him. And with him and Chase not exactly being on good terms, she just wasn't sure how Sky would react. Not to mention the fact that her father had been asking her questions about Sky and Chase; she knew Cruger must have spoken to him about what had been going on with Sky lately.

Sky woke to find Syd sitting on his bed, buttoning up her blouse. He turned his head towards his nightstand to look at the clock; it was six in the morning. After Jack's goodbye hang out the two had departed, leaving their other two friends behind, and headed back here to have some time alone together. With Cruger working the girls so hard, they hadn't really had much time to be alone together the last couple of days.

"Morning." Sky sat up in bed, leaning his back against his headboard.

"Hey, you." Syd smiled as she turned towards him and crawled into his lap and planted a kiss onto his lips. "Hope I didn't wake you, we kind of had a late night last night," referring to the events that had taken place moments after they entered the apartment.

"No. You didn't wake me." Sky wrapped his arms around her, holding her close to him for a few moments before letting her go to finish getting ready. "I am a little surprised that you're up so early though, usually it's me that's up bright and early."

"Yeah. Well I still need to head back to my apartment, take a shower and change into my uniform before heading to the Academy," she exclaimed as she hopped off his lap and onto the floor. The moment her feet hit the floor her body swayed a little, causing her to lose her balance; luckily Sky jumped to his feet and caught her.

"You okay?' he asked, as he helped her back to the bed, sitting her down, and sat down next to her putting one arm around her shoulders.

"Yeah." She turned to him, slightly confused as to why that had happened. None of them had drunk last night, the only one who was legal was Sky and being the way he was, playing by the rules, he would rarely drink when he was around them. "Just a little dizzy is all." She started to lift herself up, intending to finish up here and head back to her apartment so she could get ready for work. "I'm fine. Really," she assured him. But again, she lost her balance and Sky caught her.

"You sure about that?" He eyed her.

"I'm probably just a little tired is all, we were up late and I have been working a lot of hours…"

"Which is why you're going back to bed," Sky announced firmly as he forced her back down on the bed, pulling the covers over her.

"Sky, I have to be at work in an hour…."

"I was planning on going in anyways and working out. I'll explain to Cruger why you aren't there." And then thinking about it for a moment and knowing very well that Cruger wouldn't approve of that being a reason for Syd's absence. "…..But leaving out a few minor details."

"Try not to argue with him today." The last thing she wanted was for Sky to get in any more trouble then he already has.

"I'll do my best." He leaned down and kissed her on the forehead. "Now get some rest. I'm going to take a shower and head to the academy."

"Okay…." Syd smiled faintly, watching as Sky left the room, closing the door behind him. She yawned heavily as she felt sleep take her over; maybe she was just tired after all. She had been working a lot harder than normal. So there was nothing to worry about.

Fifteen minutes later Sky returned to his bedroom to find Syd fast asleep. A part of him was feeling guilty; she had been overworked this past week due to his bad behavior and actions that caused Cruger to suspend him. Deep down, as hard as it was for him to admit, he knew he was the team leader and should have handled things better with Chase. He smiled faintly, watching her for a moment, before getting into his clothes. Before he headed out of the room, he did a double check of Syd to make sure she was okay. "I'll call you later," he whispered as he closed the door behind him quietly.

Kat and Boom were working in the lab; they had gone as far as they could trying to unravel just what had attacked the Rangers over a week ago and were waiting on a call from Eric to see if he could give them any more information on Omni, who they believed might have some kind of link, but they would not know for sure until they spoke with him. So while they waited on his call they were gathering information, putting blueprints together of two Ranger morphers which would be developed in years to come. It still was just the beginning stages, but Kat was sure they would be a nice addition when they were ready.

"I still can't believe that we are putting together the blueprints for the Omega Ranger!" Boom exclaimed excitedly. "It just seems like yesterday that that he was still here fighting alongside the Rangers." But it had been several months since the Omega Ranger, who had turned out to be Sam, had come from the not so distant future to save them. "Do you think that when the morpher is ready, that Sam will get it?"

Right now Kat wasn't concerned as to who would get the morpher when it was completed. Though it had been Sam who had come from the future bearing the Omega morpher, that didn't necessarily mean that he would be the one to get it in the end. The timeline had changed; in the future that Sam had come from SPD had fallen, that hadn't happened. SPD was still standing. "That isn't up to me to decide, Boom." It would all come down to Cruger, who would make the final decision. She knew it would be a good few years before both the Omega and Nova morphers would beready for the testing stages, and in three years Sam would only be sixteen, a year younger than the age required to even be considered for the Ranger program.

"I know; I was just thinking it would be awesome if he would get it. Sam was a great Ranger."

"Yes, he was." Kat turned to Boom, but looked at him very seriously. "But remember, that Sam came from a very different life than our Sam does. That Sam had lived in fear and hiding for years, he had to become the Ranger we saw otherwise he wouldn't have survived." She had seen a very different Sam than the small young boy who was in their care. The alternate future Sam was driven, cocky and even at times a little arrogant, a very different picture than the young thirteen year old boy living in the academy.

Though he didn't want to, Boom had to agree. Sam would have a very different life now since his future self came from a possible future to change history to prevent the fall of SPD. Since the future had changed, the morpher was fair game. It could end up going to any cadet who was ready to step up to the plate, that along with the Nova Morpher. They assumed who the Nova Ranger was now, months later, after seeing how quickly a friendship had developed between Sam and his new found friend who was just a year older than he was. But even so, the future always has a way of working things out. If the two were meant to become these Rangers, whether by Cruger's order or another's, they would be. "Guess we'll just have to wait and see then."

"Yes, we will." answered Kat. Not a moment later, Kat heard her cellphone ringing. She stepped away from the computer and answered it. "This is Dr. Manx."

"Kat… It's Eric; Cruger said you needed to speak with me."

"Yes. I do." She answered, knowing that it might be difficult for Eric to talk about this, knowing that Omni was the one that had put out the hit on Wes. "And I know it may be difficult, but it's very important you tell me what you remember about the battle you and Wes had when you fought Omni." She paused for a moment, trying to get a sense of his reaction over the phone. "The Rangers' lives may depend on it in the future…."

"…..Wh-what do you need to know about that night?" Though he had put Wes's death behind him, every so often he would find himself having difficulty talking about the battles he and Wes had fought side by side, especially this one. This was the one that would always come back to haunt him. Even more than the one that would be the last battle they would ever fight alongside each other.

"I need a clear description of Omni, whatever you can remember about what his appearance was before he lost his body." She knew that this would be a very hard thing to do, since that encounter was more then a decade ago and it had been only that one time that Eric had ever come face to face with what Omni had really looked like. "We think that there may be a link somehow between Omni and what attacked the Rangers."

"But Omni is dead…. It couldn't have been him."

"We know." She licked her lips. "Which is why we think there may be another one out there like Omni, but without knowing what his true form had been, we haven't been able to get any information."

"I don't remember much about what he looked like, it was dark and everything happened so fast. It never registered….." He cleared his throat, knowing that wouldn't help her cause. "….The only thing I really remember was his dark glowing eyes, the way he could see right through you, knew everything about you…"

"…Did you ever feel like that with anyone else you fought?"

Eric didn't answer right away, as if he was almost afraid to. "…There was only one other I ever felt like that with. And I don't know why I didn't realize it until now…"

Kat's eyes widened. She couldn't believe it, but the more she thought about it, the more it made perfect sense. "…They're brothers."

Commander Cruger was in the training room with ten members of the B squad, all of which had the potential to be considered for the Ranger program. He could tell that despite the issues that had gone on between Sky and Chase, the two had made an excellent team. All ten members showed promise, but in the end it would only come down to the five who would be moving up to become rangers, while the rest would continue to be officers. He just hoped that Sky and Chase would work out their differences, along with Sky getting a handle on his own personal issues.

"Again!" Cruger ordered firmly, commanding them once more to go through a sequence of movements, a combination of punches, blocks and kicks, all that would become vital when and if they would be promoted to Ranger level. But already he could see leadership in two of the cadets; they would be most likely the ones moving up to the Ranger program, to see which one had what it took to be the red Ranger: Cadets Danny Rockford and Vick Harrison. Both of them had been at the academy just a year less then Sky and had worked very hard to get to this point in their careers, as for the other three he knew both Sky and Chase would have their work cut out for them.

"Good," he answered as they finished with their exercises and stood at attention, keeping their eyes locked on him. He could tell that they all had been questioning among themselves when their primary instructors would return to teach the class, but he knew they all knew better than to question him on anything, especially after his disciplinary action against Lt. Tate and Lt. Ryder. "All right, for the next….." His words were cut off by the sound of the training room door opening and echoing throughout the room.

"Sorry to interrupt your session with the cadets, but certain information has been brought to my attention." Kat eyed him carefully, not wanting to alarm any of the cadets, knowing how fast rumors can spread throughout the academy.

"…..Cadet Harrison, please take over and follow through with drills seven and nine."

"Yes sir!" He saluted.

Cruger made his way over to Kat, while Cadet Harrison took his place and took over the class. "Okay, let's begin with drill seven!" announced Vick, as he eyed the cadets before him firmly.

Kat and Cruger had stepped outside of the room, so they would not disturb the class. Cruger could tell that Kat was very shaken up, something he had learned over the years to take very seriously. "What is it?"

"….Omni does have a brother." She paused a moment, looking him deep in the eyes. "It's Mirloc….."

"What…." Cruger's eyes widened, but the more he thought about it the more it did make sense. Omni had wanted revenge on Wesley Collins for destroying his body and had used Gruumm to hire Mirloc. He should have seen it before, why out of all the criminals had Omni wanted Mirloc? Now he knew why. "….You're sure?"

"Yes. The DNA sample we have of Mirloc and the one we got from Omni match." It hadn't been easy to do, but she had found enough evidence that the two were closely related, probably brothers.

"But it can't be Mirloc who attacked the Rangers. He's locked up," exclaimed Cruger. He had been the one to see Mirloc sent off to the special prison, a very dark and grim planet, a place no criminals would ever be able to escape from.

"Are you sure?" asked Kat, looking him in the eyes questioningly. "Mirloc has outmaneuvered us once before; he's crafty, if there was a way for him to escape he would have found it."

"….You're right." He hated to admit it, but she was right. Mirloc was one of the most crafty criminals they had ever been up against. "I will travel to the prison myself, make sure he's where he's supposed to be."

"Good…." But that didn't make Kat any more comfortable; in some ways she considered Mirloc to be worse then Gruumm. The way he had murdered Wes, used Sky's emotions against him and come close to destroying the Rangers. He was as bad as they got.

Cruger could tell that she was not completely satisfied with what he planned to do. "Is something else bothering you?"

"….Look, I know that it is none of my business, but if Mirloc really got out," she looked him hard in the eyes, knowing she had to be very firm about this, "You know he'll be coming after him…."

"You are asking me to return Sky's morpher…"

"Yes…" She knew right away that he didn't like where she was going with this, but at the same time she knew that Sky would be in danger without his morpher with Mirloc lurking about. "I understand that you need to teach him a lesson, but his life could be in danger, Mirloc will stop at nothing to get him."

Cruger knew that to be true. Mirloc had already played Sky once before and nearly succeeded. He even had to wonder whether when he had first sent Sky to go interrogate Mirloc about Slate, if Mirloc had known right from the start that the young cadet before him was the son of Wes Collins who he had killed years ago. The old Commander knew that if Mirloc had indeed escaped he would go after Sky, with the intentions of killing him just as he had with Sky's father. "I'll handle it in my own way, Dr. Manx," he answered. "Thank you for sharing your concern though, I will take it into consideration."

Kat knew what that meant. She crossed her arms against her chest. "You aren't going to tell him, are you?"

"There is nothing to tell."

"And if there was, you still wouldn't. He should know, that his life-"

"You and I both know that Sky wouldn't give a damn if his life was in danger. And in the light of his recent behavior I don't want to add more to it." He knew very well that if Sky knew that Mirloc was out and about, he'd go out like a madman hunting him down. "The less he knows the better."

"Right, because it really worked out fine the last time…." she exclaimed giving him a hard glance before walking past him.

Sky was in the gym working out, trying to blow off some steam, for the last few hours. He had yet to cross paths with Cruger today, so he hadn't even been able to inform him of Syd's absence, but had run into both Bridge and Z at one point during the day. And had explained to the two that she wasn't feeling well and wouldn't be in. Bridge had seemed okay about the answer, Z on the other hand never said a word, but had given Sky a look that he hadn't been able to shake off.

After a long and hard workout kicking the snot out of the punching bag that hung from the wall, Sky made his way over to the drinking fountain to get a drink and splash some water into his face. When he looked up into the mirror to wipe the water away, he didn't see his reflection, but another's. "Hello Sky…. Have you missed me, because I've missed you. I've missed our talks."

"What the hell…." Sky immediately turned around, expecting to be face to face with Mirloc, but his former foe wasn't there. Instead he had come face to face with Commander Cruger. Sky half looked around and even turned back to the mirror, but this time only saw his reflection. Mirloc was nowhere to be seen. What the hell was going on?

"Sky, are you all right?"

"I'm fine!" he answered. He hadn't meant to sound so defensive, but he didn't want to believe that he was going crazy and seeing things that shouldn't be there. "…..I just wasn't expecting you to be behind me, sir."

"I see."

"Was there something you needed, sir?"

"Yes, I haven't seen Officer Drew today, I was told that you could tell me of her whereabouts."

"She wasn't feeling well, so I told her to stay in bed."

"I see." Cruger knew that the relationship between Sky and Sydney had been developing into more then just friends and squad members. "When you see her, tell her I hope that she feels better."

Sky nodded his head. "Well, if that's all, there were a few other things I needed to take care of." He started to walk past Cruger, but was stopped by the old dog pressing his hand firmly against Sky's shoulder.

"Sydney wasn't the only reason I came to see you."

"Okay. What is it?"

Though it was against his better judgment, he knew that for now given Kat's findings, that it was the best thing to do. Sky would never agree to protection of any form, unless it was him doing the protection for himself. Cruger dug into his back pocket and pulled out Sky's morpher and held it out.

That was something Sky hadn't been expecting. He still had a week of suspension left until he was supposed to get his morpher back. "What's going on? I thought-"

"You still are suspended, but you are available to me on active standby duty." He placed the morpher into Sky's hand. "But don't think this is it, I am returning your morpher to you on three conditions." He looked the young man in the eyes firmly. "The first condition is, you will be teaching that special defense class with the children. Second, you will continue to train with me in sword combat, and the third condition is, you are to straighten things out with Lt. Ryder when he returns from his trip. Is that understood?"

"Yes sir!" Sky saluted him.

"Good. Meet me outside in one hour to begin our training." Cruger nodded his head and allowed Sky to depart from the gym. He just hoped that he had made the right decision in allowing Sky to have his morpher back early.

Sky entered into his apartment to be greeted by the smell of spaghetti sauce. He turned his head, and sure enough there was spaghetti cooking on the stove. Syd stood in front of it stirring the pan. He took off his uniform jacket and set it over the chair before heading over to her.

"What's this?"

She grinned. "It's dinner. What does it look like, silly?" She wrapped her arm around him, pulling him closer to her.

"I see that." He kissed her on the forehead. "But you didn't have to do that."

"I know. I wanted to do it, besides I was bored sitting around here waiting for you to come home."

"You feeling better?" he asked her.

"Yeah. I'm fine, it probably was just a little bug." She moved her hands down to his waist and then felt something on his harness; she looked up at him with her questioning bright blue eyes. "Your morpher?"

"Yeah. Cruger gave it back to me today."

"Really?" She found that very odd. Cruger was usually very strict and hardly ever recanted on any punishment. "Did he say why?"

"No. I guess he realized I'm more useful with a morpher than without."

"Yeah. Probably…." Although she wasn't so sure that was the real reason as to why Cruger returned the morpher to Sky. She knew that Cruger would have needed to have a very good reason to give it back.

"Is something wrong?" he asked, seeing a trace of concern come over her.

"No…." She smiled and stroked his cheek. "I'm just so happy that you got your morpher back." She leaned up and kissed him on the lips. "Now, why don't you go get cleaned up for dinner."

"Okay. I'll be back in a few." Sky released his hands from Syd and headed towards the bathroom.

Once inside, Sky turned on the faucet to wash his hands and face. He splashed his face with water and cleaned it with soap; he rinsed again with water and reached with his hand for a towel to dry it off. He then went to change out of his uniform into something a little more comfortable, knowing that if he didn't he wouldn't hear the end of it from Syd. Once he was finished he exited the bathroom to go have dinner with Syd, but unbeknown to him, dark flashing glowing eyes lurked about.

"I'll be coming for you, Ranger….."