DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POWER RANGERS

*Blows dust away* Hmm… Please feel free to shout at me for leaving this story 'In Progress' for such an ungodly period of time. But I bring the 10th chapter!

"That's it Sky… Come on…" Syd took a gentle hold on the Blue Ranger's hand and coaxed him towards the Rec Room as Bridge walked behind in case he tried to make a break for it. But Sky appeared to be quite relaxed for the time being and started humming to himself, swaying back and forth as they walked.

The door to the Rec Room hissed open on the press of the green button and Syd let out a breath of relief that they had finally herded all three insane members of B-Squad into the same room… Or not.

"Bridge?" Syd looked around warily, noticing the distinct lack of red and yellow in the otherwise deserted room.

"Uh oh…" The Green Ranger had clearly been having similar thoughts and dashed away in search of the escapees.

"Sit down, Sky." Syd waved her hand towards one of the sofas that was still relatively intact from Sky and Bridge's earlier battle. "SKY!" The Blue Ranger earned himself a punch in the arm for ignoring her, but all it served to do was leave Syd looking at him with a worried expression on his face but that just made Sky laugh… for some reason.

"Syd…" He managed to gasp in between giggles, "Your face…oh…haha…you look…ridiculous!"

"Gee… Thanks Sky."

"Doggie… Please stop doing that." Kat scolded the Commander irritably as she cleaned up the mess that Charlie had made in the Command Centre whilst Cruger who was sitting in his chair, still wearing Syd's bathrobe, with his head tilted back and staring at the ceiling, where he could have sworn that pieces of the sky were falling down and he lifted his hands, trying to catch the flickering pieces as they fell past him.

Flicking a switch on the centre console, Kat patched through to the Pink and Green Rangers, who were hopefully having more luck. "Syd, Bridge, how are you getting on?"

"Err… Not brill-… Oh crap, gotta go Kat!" Bridge's strained voice was accompanied by a loud series of bangs that sounded like a baby elephant falling down the stairs on a motorbike.

"Jack!" The Green Ranger had indeed found one of his teammates, who at this current moment in time had preoccupied himself with killing a small housefly that was scuttling around on the floor… Or at least it had been, a few minutes before.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Jack held his left shoe eagerly above his head, waiting to pounce once more if the doomed fly dared to twitch again and Bridge sighed. The fly was now merely a black splat with a reddish tinge on the shined floor at the foot of the staircase. "Stupid spiders not doing their jobs properly… We should fire them all!" The Red Ranger muttered his annoyance and disposed of his one shoe in a corner before heading up the stairs.

Being more than a little unsteady on his feet, Bridge was ready to move if Jack fell, but the Red Ranger was blissfully unaware of the self-induced danger as he held onto the handrail which ran up the side of the stairs and dragged himself up calling out, "Oh spiders, wherefore art thou spiders?"

Bridge could do nothing but shadow Jack's movements as he loudly continued his modified Shakespeare quotations, albeit badly.

All Syd wanted to do at the present moment in time was run away to a dark room and seal herself off from the world until all had returned to normal. But her wish was unlikely to be granted as she frustratedly stomped her foot.

"I want an ice-cream!" Sky shouted out indignantly.

"That's nice."

"I WANT AN ICE-CREAM!"

"Fine." Syd disappeared to the small kitchen area of the Rec Room and dutifully returned with a large frozen cone that she had taken the liberty of unwrapping. "There." She handed the item to Sky, who still dressed in only his underwear, looked extremely pleased with himself and tucked in with all the manners and grace of a small child.

Locking Sky in the room would be a pointless exercise as Bridge had already taken out one of the huge glass windows, so, taking a chance, Syd quietly left and went in search of her other missing teammate, hoping that Z hadn't managed to kill herself accidentally with a hairbrush or something.

"There you are!" Not far away, in the large main corridor that led towards the reception area, the Yellow Ranger was stood glaring at something on the ceiling. "Jack?"

Bridge chose that moment to appear around the corner, tousled and slightly out of breath. "Jack! Get back here!"

But the Red Ranger was too busy clinging to a pipe as Z circled below him and held her arms out in a very Matrix-esque gesture, "Come get some, bitch."

"Z!"

Jack took one look and promptly dropped from his perch, running off flapping his arms about and making bird noises, hotly pursued by Z.

"Crap." Syd and Bridge took off after them but they had disappeared down one of the many corridors that branched out from their position.

Meanwhile, Sky aimlessly wandered down one of the smaller corridors, confident that he had escaped from Syd and melted ice-cream dripping down his face, but out of the corner of his eye he caught sight of a dark shape flitting down the adjacent pathway that led to an office.

A shiver ran down his spine as he spun around again trying to see what it was. He felt like he was in a bad horror film and any minute now some weirdo with an axe would try to hack him into pieces.

He curiously crept forwards but as he walked in, the door slammed behind him and he turned to see…

"Z?" He gasped out, "Don't scare me like that!"

Z merely smirked and stepped closer, a manic gleam in her eye.

"What you got behind your back there?" Sky asked cautiously, grasping at the chair behind him to stop the room threatening to knock him over with its hectic spinning.

"Back? Who's to say there's anything? Cheese! It's all cheese!" The Yellow Ranger cackled wildly.

"Huh?" Before Sky could comprehend what was happening, Z had sprung on him and pinned him to the floor. The creepy look was back in her eye and she lifted a hand and slapped Sky's cheek sharply, who winced

"You're in league with him aren't you?" Z demanded fiercely.

"Huh?" Sky said again.

"I know you're working with him!"

"With Fluffy?" Sky asked, concern gracing his features and Z growled.

"Ohhhh… Bird man?" Sky asked; his mind full of images of ice-cream and glittery Power Rangers.

Z nodded satisfactorily, "He flew."

In the ensuing moment's silence, in his mind, Sky could see cartons of ice-cream zooming down the halls in their attempt to find him and he whispered feebly, "Zoom?"

Suddenly the door flew open and Jack rushed in, still flapping his arms and squawking frantically and Z grinned in maniacal triumph, jumping off Sky and lunging at Jack, knocking him to the ground. Jack struggled but she had pinned his arms behind his back and he couldn't move them. "You had it coming bird man!" With a defeated and feeble squawk Jack lay his head down and chirped pathetically.

Having returned to the Command Centre, Bridge, Syd and Kat all flicked through the CCTV cameras until Bridge shouted out, "I found them!"

Scrambling to look, the trio watched with a mixture of worry and amusement as the recently-crowned Mafia warlord known as Z wrestled with Jack at the very top of the rather high up escalators that led down to the shuttle docking bays and perilously close to the edge.

"Oh no… No, no, no, no!" Bridge's eyes widened at the scene and ran off to find his teammates whilst Syd and Kat continued to observe.

"Kat, look!" The Pink Ranger pointed at Jack onscreen who had just suddenly bolted upright as he travelled down the escalator, coughing and gasping for air and looking around wildly as Z continued to rage.

"He's back." Kat stated with a glimmer of hope in her eyes as the Red Ranger stumbled around, stepping off the escalator at the end, thoroughly confused by his surroundings and waving his blaster around in his panic.

And it suddenly all came back to him, the vial, Z succumbing to the hallucinogen… After that it was all black… Wait… Z, succumbing to the…

He sprang into action holstering his blaster and running over to under Z, who sat on the safety rail above the sixty foot vertical drop to the floor and swung her legs over the side, giggling madly. He could have sworn his heart had stopped beating.

"Z, what are you doing?" He called frantically.

"Imma gonna fly!" She sang out spreading her arms and preparing to jump.

"Z!" Jack called as a warning, what the hell was he going to do? "Snap out of it!"

Then she jumped and he saw it as if in slow motion; her dark hair fanning out behind her and the expression of pure elation as she fell through the air.

Then there was the sudden weight in his arms as he caught her and his knees buckled from the force of the extra burden and they both crashed unceremoniously into the floor.

"Z!" Jack finally breathed with an added grunt from the bruises that were surely going to form as Z threw her head back and giggled with pure joy.

"That was fuuuun!" She said, delighted, completely oblivious to any element of danger.

"If you ever do that again…" Jack said in a calm voice, "I will not be catching you."

Aaaaaand, I'm gonna leave it there for this chapter. Hope you all enjoyed it! Reviews are pretty and shiny!