DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POWER RANGERS

So i'm finally rockin' and rollin' with chapter 7, thanks to all the readers and reviewers! :)

Syd jerked bolt upright, gasping as if she was short of breath, "Ow...my head," she frowned, rubbing her temples. Glancing around, it was apparent that she was in the B-Squad's primary training room, on the floor in the training room to be exact. Slowly getting to her feet, the Pink Ranger still strained to remember how on earth she had ended up where she was and why all her hair and uniform were sopping wet through; she was pretty sure that the Rangers didn't even have training scheduled in this room today.

Letting herself into the corridor, it was unusually quiet for this time in the morning - normally, there would be Cruger and Kat shouting something over the intercom every five minutes and cadets who always had someplace better to be. Glancing at her watch, Syd nearly doubled over when she read the time: 3pm.

Panicking slightly, she rushed towards the Command Center; her feet squelching from the sheer amount of water in her shoes, in the hope that her teammates didn't think she was missing, but she didn't have to run far as she nearly crashed headlong into a fully morphed Yellow Ranger.

"Z!" she blurted out, briefly wondering why her friend was suited up inside the Base, "Sorry, I guess I must have dozed off; I didn't really get much sleep last night." The unusually quiet Yellow Ranger simply stood and stared at her pink counterpart with her head tilted to one side and her morpher in her left hand.

"Z?" Syd waved her hand in confusion as the Yellow Ranger pressed the large middle button on top of the morpher...

"Whoa!" Syd nearly staggered as she came face to face with the leader of the infamous A-Squad. Quickly reaching for the standard issue blaster that hung from her belt, Syd didn't take her eyes off her opponent. "Hand over the morpher!"

However, Charlie completely ignored her and resumed pushing every button that she could find on the device in her hand. Syd watched on, completely baffled by now as Charlie repetitively morphed and demorphed in front of her. "Hmm..." the A-Squad Ranger stared inquisitively at the morpher as it suddenly started to flash between red and green, Syd raised her eyebrows slightly as Charlie shrugged before hitting the next button... "Ahhhhhhh!" in a brief flash of light, she promptly disappeared only to reappear seconds later as a much smaller person stored safely away in a containment card.

Briefly wishing that she had gone back to sleep, Syd reholstered the blaster and grabbed the containment card that held the self-imprisoned Charlie, who was now pulling grotesque faces at the Pink Ranger as she headed towards the Command Center once more.

"Commander?" The Command Center door hissed open as Syd wandered in, yet Cruger and the rest of B-Squad for that matter, were nowhere to be seen. The computer systems that completely engulfed the walls blinked away happily as Syd called out again. "Commander Cruger?"

"He's not here."

Syd turned just as Kat walked in from her adjoining lab looking slightly ruffled and eyeing the Pink Ranger suspiciously, "Are you okay Kat? Where is everyone?"

"Oh i'm fine...are you feeling okay?"

Syd's forehead creased up in confusion; "Yeah, i'm fine, why?"

"How many fingers am I holding up?" Kat held her left hand in front of her face.

"Are you joking?"

"No, it's just a little 'test'"

"Fine...three."

"And now?"

"One." Syd sighed.

"Now?"

"None."

"Okay, you're fine."

"Well, I could've told you that five minutes ago."

"Yes, but an hour ago you've have run away by now and jumped in the fountain again."

"What are you talking about?" Syd was totally lost, yet she couldn't help glancing down at her sodden uniform as she heard Kat's words.

"You really don't remember, do you?"

"Remember what?"

Kat sighed heavily yet still managed a sly grin as she brought up the day's CCTV footage...

The Rec room looked like a small nuclear warhead had just hit it. Every cushion from the several couches was now on the floor and one of the tables had been completely upturned. A severely blackened and squashed banana lay defeated near the door and a pen; completely snapped in half, littered one of the work surfaces.

However, the ink from said pen had managed to spread itself all over a still irate Sky, his face now a nice tinge of blue as he glared daggers at Bridge. The Green Ranger was by the toaster yet again as he retrieved his fifth slice and smothered it in butter, chomping down greedily. He waved one of the remaining pieces directly in Sky's face. "Want one?"

The expression on the Blue Ranger's face changed instantly from one that you'd steer clear of to one of pure fear. He shrieked and dived straight under the nearest table, cowering for no apparent reason. The confused Bridge approached him and held out the toast again. "I said, '.?'"

Sky shook his head nervously, "I'm...allergic..."

"Allergic?" Sky nodded earnestly as he eyed the toast warily.

As it slowly dawned on him, an evil grin slowly spread across Bridge's face; "Oh Skyyyyy?" he settled the plate down and grabbed the largest slice on it. "The toast is gonna get ya!"

Sky leapt into the air, almost banging his head in the process and screaming hysterically and ran for his life...

Meanwhile, as the chase developed, Jack broke into song once more;

"Old MacDonald had a farm,

Ee I ee I oh!

And on that farm he had some chickens!

Ee I ee I oh!

With a cluck-cluck here and a cluck-cluck there..."

"So where are the others?" Syd asked as she still reeled from what she had just seen on the monitors – what on earth was she doing earlier?

"Still feeling the effects i'm afraid," Kat explained as once again, up came the surveillance cameras to show Sky and Bridge's showdown and Jack and Z piggy-backing each other down the corridor. "And as for Doggie..." Kat hit another button to locate his signal and Syd and Z's room came into view – the door wide open.

"Huh?" Syd looked momentarily confused as there was no sign of Cruger anywhere in the camera's view...that was until Syd's wardrobe door shut to reveal who had been looking inside. "Commander!" The Pink Ranger's eyes widened as she stared at Cruger as he modeled her favorite dress in the mirror. Seemingly satisfied, Cruger strode out into the corridor as the camera followed him and he stopped a completely bemused-looking cadet.

"Does this color suit me?"

The cadet's shocked face reddened at the sight of him as he spluttered the nicest reply possible, "Of course it does Sir," before quickly making his escape in the opposite direction.

"Yes, Doggie has been caught out too and i'll be having serious words when he returns to his good self."

"Why?"

"He set free one of our top-priority prisoners."

"Ahh..." realization hit Syd, "Would it be this one?" she held up the containment card, inside which, Charlie was backflipping across the small window.

Kat smiled with relief. "Thanks, it's a good job she was contained before the hallucinogen wears off."

"It's the Kitty Kat!" shouted Charlie happily as she pointed upwards.

"That's enough from you, you're coming back down to where you belong," Kat strode purposefully out of her lab in the direction of the lift.

Back in the bomb-site otherwise known as the Rec room, Bridge was facing up to the tragedy of having dropped his slice of toast on the floor only for Sky to follow up and jump up and down on it. Now defenseless, Bridge looked into the menacing eyes of the Blue Ranger that screamed revenge before bolting for the door.

In his haste and panic to get as far away as possible, Bridge had literally punched the button to open the door, resulting in it getting jammed into the wall – permanently.

"Ahhh! Open up!" Bridge continued to pound the control panel but it was too late as he was tackled from behind by several kilos of Blue Ranger. "Oomph!"

Pinned to the floor, Bridge was rendered completely helpless as Sky sat on his legs, reaching for one of the discarded cushions...

"NEVER..."

WHACK!

."..STEAL..."

WHACK!

."..MY..."

WHACK!

."..HANDBOOK..."

WHACK!

."..AGAIN!"

"OW!" Bridge whimpered, "Stop!"

"NOT..."

WHACK!

."..UNTIL..."

WHACK!

."..YOU..."

WHACK!

."..PROMISE!"

"Okay, okay!" Sky momentarily stopped his assault to let Bridge speak; "I...PROMISE never to steal your handbook again," he finished proudly; of course with his fingers crossed, which Sky didn't hesitate in picking up on.

"Liar!" he screamed just as Bridge wriggled out from under him and launched himself through the glass pane in the wall and out into the corridor, yelping like a wounded dog and leaving shards of glass and a fuming Sky behind him.

"BRIDGE!"

So, FINALLY someone has 'woken up' but there's still 5 more left to go...

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