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A/n: yes I know its been a while since I've started writing anything and I have a lot of updating to do, which will come in time.

Warning: Please see previous chapters for full warning details.

Chapter 4

The planet didn't appear to have changed much as far as she knew. Well at least the aspect of busy roads, people going in every direction, constantly needing to be somewhere… Kayla milled easily through this as if this was the norm for her. Like an expert she wove through people and up and down sidewalks, avoiding what clearly felt like the "bad parts of town". She paused for only a moment as she took in her sroundings before continuing on her way. As she had expected many ignored her, and in this case Kayla perfered this.

Back at the SPD base, Jack searched frantically for Kayla. "Where is she!" he demanded upon his entrance of the main wreck area.

"She wanted to go out for a bit. I lent her some clothes and a wheelchair." Syd confessed. "I don't see why you would be so concerned.

"you let her go out by herself? I am sure earth has changed a lot since the first time she had been here…. She doesn't know the danger she could get into, or worse yet, what if Grum finds out? What then?" Jack bellowed louder then he had previously intended too.

"I am sure that she can take care of herself." Syd replied in a dismissive tone. In all truth she couldn't understand what the big deal with this was.

"We don't know that." Z, the yellow ranger, defended Jack. "We don't know if she's lived on the streets or not."

"So now we have to baby-sit her?" Syd wined. "you know that she'll just resent us for that."

"I am not sayng that exactly. I am just saying she shouldn't go out alone because she's never been here before. I am sure this is nothing like what she is used too." Jack stated he had calmed considerably since his outburst, but he could still feel the anger deep within him. "I'm going for a walk." He then turned on his heal after making his announcement and vanished through the door he had just entered through moments before.

The three other rangers all turned to Syd giving her one hated glare after another. "What were you thinking!" Z began. "Jack is right….. she could get hurt!"

"Even if she does have powers, how are we to know how strong they are… we don't even know the last time she used them!" Sky added.

"You should really think first you know." Bridge finished.

"Who are you to accuse me of thinking Bride?" Syd yelled. "You can't even do that!"

"I can so!" Bridge shouted back.

"Look Getting into it now isn't going to solve our problem, we have to find her before-" Sky interrupted but stopped short when their commanding officer entered the room fallowed closely by Kat.

"Before what?" the commander said picking up where sky stopped as if he had been standing their the entire time.

"Nothing sir…" Sky replied quickly.

"Where is the girl you retrieved yesterday?" he inquired.

Everyone's eyes landed on Syd, who seemed to shrink under their penetrating stairs. "its my fault…" she began her voice not much more then a whisper. "I lent the young lady clothing and showed her the way out. I also lent her a wheelchair." She finally admitted.

"You what!" Commander Doggie Cruger's voice boomed. His voice had outmatched Jack's pervious outburst. "You know that you will be severely punished for this."

"yes sir…" Syd said meekly but didn't bother to stand.

"Now all of you! Go find her!" he bellowed before turning to cat. His voice had lowered and when he spoke he sounded normal. "run a trace on any and all massive energy outputs of any odd orgain. If she tries to use her powers…. That may help us locate her faster.

"Yes sir.." came her reply as she hurried off to her lab where she begun to perform the requested task. The rangers had long since scattered in search of the girl, but so far no such luck.

Kayla had stopped in a local restrunt and bought herself something to eat. She didn't have much in the way of money, and at first the cashier wasn't going to except it, but when he saw it looked like she hadn't eaten in days he took what she had and gave her some food. She ate carefully making a quick mental note to get some present day money. Once she had quenched her hunger for the time being, she exited the establishment and continued along the busy streets, being mindful of the traffic.

Suddenly the hairs on the back of her neck begun to stand on end and a chill ran down her spine. In that moment she knew something may require her attention, but for the life of her she couldn't place her finger on it. The sounds of destruction echoed off in the not to far off distance giving the answers she really didn't want. She crept through the streets trying to avoid the chaos that had occurred in only mere moments trying to find a suitable place to hide. Once she had convinced herself she were safe, she raised her hands above her head. As she made a motion of a full moon words unspoken in what felt hundreds of years sprang from her slowly parting lips, "Lunar Prism power… Make up!" She made sure to keep her transformation call low, but as the words flowed freely from slightly parted lips, a transformation had taken place.

Her lent cloths vanished and gold and silver ribbons took their place. They encircled her form creating parts of a uniform as they made contact. Once the transformation completed she stood clad as the sailor senshi Sailor Gwaten. With a sift motion of her now gloved hands she caused the SPD wheelchair to vanish into her sub-space pocket. Without stopping to think she began to run towards the source, little did she know that the ever so famous power rangers would also get the exact same call.

Jack had been wondering the streets searching rather successfully for Kayla when his morpher sounded. He grabbed it hoping that the young moon princess had called, or at least one of his friends claiming to have played a practical joke. However the voice on the line wasn't either.

"The city is under attack." Came Kat's call.

Jack knew exactly what that meant and a look of fear crossed his features. He didn't understand why he felt this way, but he just thought it to be some old memory. After all that poor girl had shown them her tragic past, and now he had this feeling he had once lived the same fate. He shook the feeling off morphing into the red ranger to join his friends.

By the time he had arrived the robot had caused massive destruction, and it appeared that nearly half the city had been destroyed. Syd, Sky, and Bridge were down while Z looked like she were having a difficult time keeping up. "Watch out Jack!" She managed to warn before a claw-like appendage sung at her sending her flying to the pavement.

"This is unlike anything we have faced before!" Sky called taking his wepons and striking at it. The creature laughed acting as if, the blasts tickled it. The newly arrived Jack also tried his hand at blasting it, only to be sent about ten feet back.

"Damn its strong…." Syd muttered as she had just come too only to find herself flying back the second she tried to form any type of attack.

Sailor Gwaten arrived on the scene noticing that Jack, Sky, and Z seemed to be holding their own, but Bridge and Syd couldn't even stand. A staff appeared in her hands and she quickly turned it creating a shield-like effect. Most attacks and flying objects bounced back away from her hitting their target dead on. "Moon Twilight Flash intensified!" she cried as she shot one final attack at the "robot". It flailed striking Kayla down in the process before turning into dust then vanishing. Not having any time to recover, she sat up a second transformation taking place. Once this second transformation had completed, she stood proud and begun to play a harp-like object returning the city back to normal. Once done, she fainted her transformation fading leaving her completely exposed. The cloth given to her did not return like it should have done.

Everyone stood eyes wide at the sight before them. Jack had been the first to wake from the trans-like state she seemed to put on everyone and ran to her side. He powered down and gave her his jacket in order to cover her. He then handed her to Z who had also powered down and she put the girl in the back of the squad car. They drove quickly back to base each taking in what had just happened. No one spoke, nor did they dare to for fear of what the outcome would be.

"We have found the girl and defeated the robot…." Sky reported. He left out the details of her condition and what had really happened knowing that the commander most likely already knew, at least the outcome of the battle. Jack led the way, not able to look anyone in the eye.

:I shouldn't have…. I should have….: he kept repeating in his mind blaming himself for not taking better care of her. As he drove images of a past he thought only to be a dream, given to him by the moon princess, kept replying in his mind causing him to be even more confused. If the others were experncing other or similar problems he didn't notice too caught up in his own thoughts.

Once back at base, Jack rushed Kayla off to the room provided for her, explaning that she needed some time to rest. The commander wanted her in the hospital, but Jack quickly explained that she hated such places. Once he had finished explaining, a thought crossed his mind causing him to wonder how he knew this information in the first place. Kat and the commander also took notice of Jack's odd behavior but did not press the issue. They would need to gather more information from the young girl before they could come to any conclusions.

Kayla awoke several hours later. She took quick notice she were in the dark but this did not bother her. What did bother her so was the fact that for the life of her she couldn't figure out where she were. She pulled the wheelchair had been given from her sub-space pocket and exited her room. Upon her exit memories of the last couple of days flooded her mind causing her to hold her head in pain. Jack came around the corner at that moment just in time to catch her before she fell out of the wheelchair. "Are you ok Kayla-chan?" he asked concern filling his words.

"Hai….. just a little light headed." She responded. The feeling subsided as she gained more wakefulness and became aware of where she now resided. "Gomen Nasi Jack-kun." She stated suddenly.

"What did you say?" Jack asked clearly confused.

"I'm sorry…." She repeated having lost herself a moment.

"Are you sure you are ok?" Jack questioned.

"Yeah I'm fine. Once I wake more I need to speak to your commander, I will not be able to rest otherwise." She commented taking notice that she only had a sheet coving her thin form. She backed into her room shutting the door and searching for the light leaving a very stunned jack in her wake.

"Are you ok in there?" he asked though the closed door. Kayla did not reply to caught up in her frantic search for clothing that she did not hear anyone else. She dropped the sheet letting it fall limply to the floor. An all to fimular shutter ran through her body causing her to feel feelings she hadn't felt in 20 years. Taking a deep breath she forced herself to suppress them while pulling her cell phone out of her sub-space pocket. She didn't remember placing it there, but she must have when she had to fight. She then flipped it open as reality dawned on her.

She felt as if someone were watching her and instinctively she let her phone drop joining the bed sheets on the floor as she got into a defensive stance. "Who's there?" she demanded her voice sounding as cold as ice.

Jack just stood in the dark taken aback, frozen in place. "Its just me Jack." He stated after a long moment. "I was worried about you… Do you want a uniform?"

Kayla knelt down but still kept one hand out to strike. She felt around for the abandon phone and pressed a button upon its retrieval from the floor. In a flash cloths covered her once naked form and she stood as straight as her right ankle would permit. "Jack…" She whispered in a voice so low if he weren't looking right at her, he'd swore it were not her own. "I suspect you have jus as many questions for me, as do your friends. I will answer my best in due time, but there are some things I must do alone." She begun extending a palm to prevent him from speaking until the time were right. "I am well aware of the danger, and although my powers are rusty from lack of use, I must do this alone. I do not want anyone tracking me or trying to fallow me in any form or fashion. When or if, I require assistance I will contact you." She finished lowering her hand o allow Jack to comment.

"But, Kayla-chan." Jack began. "the world is not like you knew I all those years ago." He pleaded trying to convince her not to leave on her own again.

"it has only been twenty years Jack. I have seen the city. I know that a lot has changed, but in he same token, it really has not. Roads and most forms of public transportation still exist." She explained to the best of her ability.

"Then I have but one question…. Where are you going?" he asked.

"To find something I may have lost…" came her reply. So soft spoken and smooth. In fact Jack swore that he detected a hint of sadness lining her words.

Upon hearing her heart felt words, Jack left the room and didn't look back. He had headed instead to his own room where he sat thinking about what he had lost. "All those flashes of memory couldn't be for nothing could they?" He said aloud, mainly to hear for himself, those words coming from his own lips and not those of someone else. He punched a pillow in anger moments later. :Why did I have to go an do that? Poor my heart on the line for someone who loves another? This couldn't be real love….. could it? After all she has had a life before me…. She must have.. a family, maybe even kids that don' know their own mother is alive and well. : jack hought to himself as he let the tears fall. After all he fell in love with memories, not the girl behind them right…?

Kayla gathered what she would require, and even barrowed some money from one of he Rangers. Hey didn't like the idea she wanted to leave on her own again, but one look into her eye and they knew. Syd had seemed clueless, but Sky, Jack, and Z knew all o well. With one final glance back she waved good-bye to her new found friends and set out for he airport and her search to find what she thought she might have lost.