DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POWER RANGERS
Sorry for the delay on this one guys, I lost literally my WHOLE plan for this fic so I had to redo it, so hopefully it'll be as good as the original.
"I'm waiting..." Cruger's tone was far from impressed as he surveyed the two guilty members of B-Squad.
"I...erm..." Jack looked across to Syd, who had now become distracted by a shuttle that was currently docking outside. A devilish smile crossed his lips as he looked back at the Commander...he reached out his hand, before tapping Cruger on the arm definitively, "You're 'it'!" the Red Ranger promptly ran away giggling to himself. "Hehehehehe!"
Cruger growled loudly as he watched Jack disappear around the corner, he turned back towards the Pink Ranger in an attempt to make her see sense, but she was already gone...The Commander was quickly losing patience as he glanced around sharply for any sign of Syd, before looking out of the window...
He sighed defeatedly at the sight. God knows how, but in a very short space of time, Syd had managed to get herself outside and was now actually stood on top of the recently arrived shuttle, waving at him with her tongue out.
As Cruger began to walk away, his eyes caught sight of a shining object on the floor...he bent down to pick it up and immediately recognised it as the vial that the Red Ranger had been holding only moments before. Holding it tightly in his hands, he made his way back to the Command Center.
The relative peace and calm within Kat's lab was harshly interrupted by the wailing of the alarm systems, indicating Troobian activity. Kat leapt up from her seat and brought up the surveillance cameras. She groaned at the sight of the monster on-screen and turned towards the comms system. "Rangers to the Command Center!"
Kat concluded that Cruger had knocked the sense back into the Rangers when miraculously, they all sidled through the door within five minutes. However, the feline couldn't help but notice the red streaks of paint that adorned Syd's face and the fact that Sky couldn't seem to keep his feet still. Nevertheless, she ignored the minor details and the absence of the Commander. "Rangers, there's a Troobian attacking in Sector G, you need to contain it."
"YAY!" screamed Jack almost instantly. "We get to blow up a monster!" he jumped up and down giddily as the team took out their morphers.
"…"
"So how do we work these again?" Syd asked as she turned the morpher over in her hands.
"I think it's this one!" Z pressed one of the buttons on the top, yet to no effect, so she proceeded to hit every one of them in turn in an attempt to morph.
Kat's eyebrows rose significantly, she secretly hoped that she had simply forgotten about National Prank Day. "You press the big button on top and say 'SPD, emergency'," she reminded them.
"Ohhhh...okay," Sky seemed to understand the concept. "SPD, EMERGENCY!"
"Woo! Yeah!" Jack cheered for the suited-up Blue Ranger and attempted to imitate him, along with the rest of the team, "SPD, EMERGENCY!"
Having finally found the vehicle bay, now came the process of deciding who took what mode of transport.
"Err...well..." Bridge surveyed the three bikes and the jeep. "The red and green bikes match me and Jack...so...I guess that we go on those."
"So whose is the other one?" Z asked curiously.
"Mine!" Syd piped up as she ran to the only cycle without a color designation.
"Hey! I want the bike!" shouted Sky indignantly as he chased after the Pink Ranger...but it was too late, she had already started the engine and was now racing out of the Base at full throttle.
Sky turned back around to find Jack and Bridge about to leave in pursuit of the criminal and Z sat waiting behind the wheel of the jeep. "I wanna drive!" he protested childishly as he hopped in the passenger seat and attempted to steal the wheel away from the Yellow Ranger.
"I'M DRIVING!" Z roared defiantly as she gave the death glare to Sky and they sped off, last in line.
"But I wanna..."
"I'M DRIVING!" Z insisted, now looking like she was capable of killing him in that instant.
"This is fun!" Syd stormed through the streets of New Tech, closely followed by Jack and Bridge, who looked as if they were attempting to play 'rock, paper, scissors' whilst they travelled.
Soon after, the SPD jeep hurtled around a corner, the back end almost catching the car behind it as Z and Sky battled for domination. Sky persistently tugged at the steering wheel as Z batted him away with her one free hand, causing the car the lurch and swerve in all directions.
These moves earned them a rally of car horns and some unimpressed glares from civilians in their cars as they were nearly wiped out by the jeep. Seeing the three bikes turn down a side street, Z attempted to follow them as Sky stuck out his hand yet again, causing the jeep to scrape the driver's side painfully against the alley wall. The vehicle finally screeched to a halt as Sky was forcibly kicked out of the passenger door by an irate Yellow Ranger.
Jack and Bridge, meanwhile, had finally lured Syd away from the bike long enough for them to steal the keys and they were now in the process of searching for the Troobian.
"I don't see him anywhere Jack," Bridge scratched his head in confusion as they walked up and down the street. "The co-ordinates were definitely right."
Jack walked in the opposite direction, casually lifting up the occasional trashcan lid in search of the creature before coming face to face with quite a scary sight. "Ah!" he stared at the alien before him that seemed to have tentacles coming out of its forehead and an evil sneer on its face. "Uhm...have you seen any monsters around here?" he asked nonchalantly.
"Yes, I have..." the alien growled back menacingly as it strode towards Jack.
"Could you tell me where?" the Red Ranger asked hopefully as he back-tracked.
"Here!" the creature snarled.
"Oh..." Jack looked around. "I don't see hi-...Ahhhhhhh!" in a split second the 'alien' had flung the Ranger into the opposite brick wall. "Ow!" Jack rubbed his shoulder as the other Rangers helped him on his feet. "Not fair!"
"Doggie?" Kat stole a quick walk through the main corridors of the Base, whilst the Rangers battled on, knowing that she still had her communicator on her person if they needed assistance. "Doggie?" she called again, looking for any sign of the Commander, who had seemingly disappeared from existence. She had even tried contacting him through both the Base comms system and his morpher, yet there was still no reply.
"Let's make things interesting!" the monster raised his hand into the air and on command, a large robot appeared in the middle of the city.
"Uh oh..." Jack slowly looked upwards.
"Cool!" Bridge gazed up in wonder.
"I want a toy like that!" Z pouted.
"I like cheese," Sky scratched his ear randomly.
"Rangers, i'm sending you the Zords," Kat's voice rang clearly through their morphers, perfectly on cue.
"Finally!" Z sighed exasperatedly as the Zords raced towards them, grinding to a stop. The rangers merely stood staring at the giant vehicles, making no attempt to board them.
"I bag Green!," Syd shouted happily as she ran towards the truck, clapping her hands as she went.
"Then i'm taking the helicopter!" Z sang out as she leapt towards the Blue machine.
"Pink is soooo pretty!" Jack stared googley-eyed at the Signal Car as he made stroking actions with his hands in mid-air, whilst Bridge and Sky boarded the remaining Runners.
"Let's see what this does..." Syd stomped hard on a lever-like device that was, for some reason, bolted to the floor and the Green truck promptly shot forwards at an alarmingly fast rate. The Pink Ranger screamed and her legs flew up and down on the spot, causing her left foot to hit another and the Zord screeched to an abrupt halt.
"Woohoo!" Sky shouted in delight as he span the yellow armored car in repetitive donuts; kicking up ginormous clouds of dust, that hampered the vision of Bridge from the red Delta Runner...
"Ahhh!" the Green Ranger screamed in terror as the red Runner, which he had maneuvered onto two wheels, came crashing back down to Earth, right on top of...
"Ooomph!" Jack was jolted from his seat as the Signal Car shook from the weight of the other Zord falling on top of him. "No free rides!" he shouted indignantly out of the front windscreen as the red Delta Runner started to roll off him and back onto its own wheels.
The monster arrived in front of the Rangers in the enormous robot sent courtesy of Broodwing and Grumm and let out a defiant roar as it balled its fists, ready for action. Suddenly, a blue streak whizzed past and unleashed a torrent of laser fire upon the creature before doing a loop-the-loop and zooming back to safety.
"Oh yeah!" came the voice from inside the blue Runner that could only be the Yellow Ranger as the helicopter hovered above the others. "Erm, aren't we supposed to grow really big into that...erm...big...err...Mega...err" she struggled to find the word to finish the sentence as the suggestions came from the other Rangers.
"Megathing?" replied Bridge.
"Megamouse?" suggested Syd.
"Megaplod?" shrugged Jack.
"I got it..." Sky said gleefully, "Megazoom!"
"How about Megazord?" a voice interrupted their conversation as the monster stood waiting; surprisingly patient for them to make the first move.
"Kat?"
"Yes, you could obviously use a little help..."
"How do we know it's really you?," Bridge butted in.
Kat ignored the question and continued; fully aware now that something was not right with the Rangers. "You need to form the Megazord," she stated authoritatively. Only silence was heard on the other end as she heard the tapping of what sounded like every button on the control panels in front of the delirious Rangers. The feline rolled her eyes and spoke into the comms again whilst making her way to her main computer in the lab. "Engaging Zord Override," she gave her security clearance to the computer before continuing on. "Initiate Delta Squad Megazord."
"Whoa!" Bridge was taken aback as Kat took over and the back end of his Zord reared into the air, two long arms protruding from it.
"Hey! Let go of me!" Jack tried to steer the pink Zord out of the grasp of the red one, but to no avail as all of the controls were currently disabled. He looked across to the armored car to see Sky pummeling the control panel in front of him, several sparks flying.
Syd squealed in fright as her truck suddenly reversed so that it was directly under the half-Megazord and a loud noise signaled that the Zord was transforming, ready to join the others.
Being occupied, the other Rangers failed to noticed the curses that were currently being shouted throughout the comms system, courtesy of Z. The Yellow Ranger was currently helpless as the helicopter-type Zord plummeted towards the ground, before coming to a halt right beside Syd. She looked across with fire in her eyes from the 'free-fall' to see that her pink teammate now had her face plastered against the side window of the truck as she pulled grotesque faces towards Z.
A loud and definitive clunk along with the retraction of unnecessary Zord parts signaled that the transformation was complete. The controls all whirred back into life as Kat gave control back to them.
"About time!" the monster snarled from in the cockpit of his own robot. "Prepare for defeat!" he charged towards them, detaching one of the tentacles from his forehead as he ran and making it materialize in the hands of the robot; brandishing it like a whip.
"Let's smash this guy!" Sky seemed to be in a particularly violent mood as he jumped up and down in his seat.
Syd automatically went through every button on the control panel, hitting them all inquisitively until finally, a large sword jumped out of the third Delta Runner and into the hands of the Megazord.
"GET HIM!"
Kat sighed with worry over the Rangers and she was also starting to feel slightly concerned over the whereabouts of Cruger. She left the lab and the Command Centre was deserted, save for RIC, who sat happily in the corner chewing on what looked like a pair of headphones.
The mechanical canine gave the scientist an idea..."RIC?" the dog looked up at Kat, "Come here boy," he got up from his current position and bounded over, his tail wagging enthusiastically. "I want you to find Commander Cruger, okay?" she asked, to make sure he understood the command. He nodded his head with a small bark and raced out of the Command Centre in pursuit of his fellow canine.
Having given up on figuring out how to judge the criminal whilst he stood, severely weakened by the force of the Delta Sword, the Rangers simply opted to contain him anyway as the weapon transformed itself into a menacing-looking gun.
"5!"
"2!"
"1!"
"4!"
"3!"
"Huh?" Bridge looked around wildly as the Rangers simply shouted out random numbers.
"FIRE!"
The giant robot exploded in a colorful cloud of smoke and flames as the Rangers all cheered themselves.
"Engaging Zord override," Kat's voice came through the comms once again. She wasn't going to bet on the fact that the Rangers would return any time soon, if at all, without her intervention.
"Pleeeeeeeeaaaaase can we go back in the Zords?" Jack pouted and put on his best puppy dog eyes as he knelt at Kat's feet, the other members of the team following suit.
"NO!" she confirmed, walking away and also wondering why she hadn't lost her temper yet.
"Rangers!" a voice squeaked from the doorway.
Kat turned with a relieved tone in her voice, "Thank God Comm-..." her eyes grew wide as she surveyed Doggie, ."..-ander," she finished.
"Hehehehe!" Bridge giggled as he pointed childishly towards Cruger. "The doggie's wearing a dress!"
Hope you didn't mind waiting for this chapter, i've got a lot on at the minute. Anyways, hope you all enjoyed it! :)
Thanks to all my brilliant reviewers! -hands out super-size cookies-