SPD: The Continuing SAGA

Episode 3

General Vengeance

In a seemingly abandoned factory, a large horned creature known only as Rhinox was attacking machinery. "Halt! SPD!" Called three female voices at once. The SPD Rangers stood proudly staring down the monster. "And who's gonna stop me?"\

Bridge, who was wearing his Red ranger suit stood in front of his team and yelled "1, SPD Red." Heart, who wore Blue called, "2, SPD BLUE." Kintora, who wore Green, called, "3, SPD Green." Z, who wore Yellow, called, "4, SPD Yellow." Syd, who wore Pink, called, "5, SPD, Pink." "Defenders of the Universe Space Patrol Delta!" The Red Ranger yelled.

"Yadda yadda yadda!" Rhinox yelled as he charged them with his horn down. Red Ranger stood by a wall and awaited Rhinox to rush him "Come and get me." Rhinox ran towards Red Ranger, but Green Ranger started toward Rhinox at the same time Yellow Ranger did and they crashed into each other. Bridge smacked his head. "This is going to take some time."

Bridge called for Syd and the two longtime friends prepared to attack Rhinox as one. Z and Kintora jumped up and started arguing. Heart followed Syd and Bridge. Bridge called for a plan with the Pink and Blue Rangers. "Anyone got an idea," the young leader asked. Heart thought a minute. "What about three separate attacks?"

Bridge looked to Syd and said, "What do you think, Pinky?" Syd nodded but added, "Right. Oh and Bridge I don't care if you are the leader, don't call me Pinky."

Kintora and Z continued arguing. Bridge sighed under his helmet and muttered. "The anger of a vindictive woman and I get 4, lucky me." He then joined Heart and Syd in a three way attack." Bridge starts the fun by attacking the savage beast in the back with massive amounts of fire from his Delta Blasters the monster screams in pain. Heart attacked from the side with her Delta baton in blaster mode, blasting away and charging him. Syd attacked from the other side in the same way as Heart though used her baton in sword mode and attacked close range.

Rhinox fell to the ground, his horn cut off. Bridge demorphed."I would say good job team, but you don't seem to comprehend the concept, and although it pains me to use my authority, Elizabeth Delgado and Kintora your behavior is horrendous. You two are both on probation, until I notice change in your behavior. You are Dismissed."

The hologram shut off… and Z stalked off. I'm sorry Bridge, I've never worked as part of a team... after all you did to get me on too... Kintora walked away sadly.

Bridge looked around. Everyone was just staring at the young leader. "Did I go too hard on them?" Heart shook her head. "If that had been real we could have been killed." "I agree." Bridge walked out.

Michael Boom mostly known by his last name, walked over to Syd and Heart. "I've never seen Bridge like that. He is always so light hearted." Syd nodded… "I don't think he was meant to a leader. Authority weighs heavily on him..." Boom noticed Heart "I don't believe we have met have we?" Heart shook her head. "No. My name is Heart… and you are?"

Boom responds "I'm uh...Boom Ranger Tech Guy I got kicked out of the academy in the shortest time of the history of SPD but I got to stay on as the Tech guy." "Well that is good." Heart smiled. In the back ground, the computer turned on unnoticed.

Boom continued talking, "Your fighting skills are great. I personally suck at fighting. In the last few years though I had to first fight as the "Orange Ranger" against General Tomars/ Its a long story. And then I fought alongside the rest of SPD against the Troobians when they attacked the base."

Heart raised an eyebrow. "I never heard of an Orange Ranger." "Okay see, I never told my parents that I got kicked out of the Academy and they came to visit. Well I convinced Jack, Sky, Bridge, Z and Syd to act like I was the team leader but then General Tomars showed up and my parents kind of guilted me into going to the battle site. Then Jack and Sky got captured but we got them back eventually. The media really latched onto that story until Shadow ranger showed up at their doorsteps." Heart smiled. "Ahh." A-Squad appeared behind them.

Boom laughs. "Although according to the D-Squad cadets, I often spoke, to my proundest moment was when SPD was attacked by the Troobians as B-Squad fought A-Squad. Those turncoats! How could anyone betray SPD still astounds me, but anyway we were down and almost out. We suffered serious injuries and even Kat was looking to give up but not me! I rallied the troops and we held back the Troobian invasion with no casualties."

Charlie laughed cruelly. "You'll pay for that coward!" Boom looks up. "Did you guys hear that?" He saw the A-Squad and cowered behind Syd. Syd yelled in her comm.."Base BREAK IN! LEVEL 5 Emergency!" Heart and Syd morphed. Bridge showed up a minute later fully morphed and accompanied by RIC.

"We're not sure ourselves. But you will die this time." Meanwhile in the park, Kintora found Z. Z was on the bench replaying the scene in her head. "Two years and I have never seen Bridge like that. He was so angry, but it's that new girl's fault not mine; the way he flaunts over her though. I'm surprised she even got yelled at."

Kintora had heard Z. "Hey, Z can we talk?" Z blushed. "Uh how much of that did you hear?" "Just about all of it. It doesn't matter. Look, I've never worked with anyone before. I was either.. well following orders as a single unit or on the run. I'm not sure yet how to work as a team. I'm sorry."

Z responds "Hey no one said team work was easy. Everyone always saw SPD as an almost invincible solid unit. I swear what New Tech TV wouldn't have paid for some of the behind the scenes footage."

Kintora laughed. "I also haven't much experiance with relationships... my mother was taken from me when I was three and later died. My father.. well.. I have never had friends."

"My parents disappeared but I don't really rememeber them too well. I was put in Foster Home after Foster Home until I ran away and met Jack Landors, Red SPD Ranger before Commander Tate." Kintora turned away. "Danny Delgado..." She whispered.

"Did you say something" Z asked. "Um.. no." Kintora said. "So we seem to have a lot in common." "That remains to be seen. Anyway did Bridge show you around the base?" "Yeah somewhat... It was kinda of... buttery?" "Oh god… not you too?"

"Huh? What are you talking about? I suppose you didn't hear about the incident. He was showing me the food replicator and replicated some buttered toast, when it malfunctioned and squirted butter everywhere."

"Strange but definitely not as weird as my first week remind me to tell you about it some time" Z said reminiscing.

Their SPD Morphers went off. "Delgado here. What's up." Tate literally yelled…"A-Squad broke out and they are attacking the others, get here now!" "We'll be right there." She turned to Kintora. "We Have To Go NOW!"

Back at SPD. Bridge yelled out in pain as the blue ranger (Beevor) and green ranger (Cliff) double team him while yellow (Ivan) and pink rangers (Rachael) viciously attack Syd with their weapons. Heart, the newest of the team was left to fight Charlie. Even with her inherited strength, she was quickly thrown across the room. Z and Kintora rushed into the room already morphed.

Now each of the rangers was matched one to one. Tate ran in with a Delta Saber to help. "Boom figure out how they escaped!" Boom was still trying to cowardly hide, when he responded. "Uh Yes, sir." Bridge yelled, "Rangers, Don't let them escape." Boom found the A-squad right where they should be.. "What the ... that's not possible.." Bridge yelled to Boom "What's wrong?"

"The A-Squad is right here, they haven't escaped!" Z yelled. "I'm clearly fighting them right now." Kintora thought to Bridge as she fliped away from Cliff, Wasn't there an alien who was the master of disguise? And Grumm gave him the power to be more than one at once? Bridge yelled, "SLATE" at the top of his lungs.

Boom shook his head. "He's here too. What the ... The hologram computer is on... who turned it on?" Bridge responds "You were the last one to touch it, did you accidently hit it while you talked to Syd and Heart?"

"No, I swear I didn't…" He said turning it off. The images of the A-Squad flickered and came back as the Computer immediately came back on. Bridge now broke an awkward silence, "You know I could really go for some Toast right about now."

Charlie knocked him into the computer. Bridge stood up and grabbed his head "You know why do we even have holographic versions of A-Squad? That wasn't a smart idea?" Boom pulled the plug. A-squad vanished, but General Tomars appeared in their place.

Boom turns to Tomars "Hey I was just talking about you.""I know and now Orange Ranger You shall pay for your insolence!" Tate wondered. "Is he a hologram too?" "I see your little team has done some shifting of ranks."

Kintora... Ain't that the guy that was trapped in the other dimension? … Affirmitive… Bridge replied. What he's doing here?

"Boom! How did Tomars get here?" Bridge says. "I have no idea!" I do. Who is responsible then? My dad… How could your father release Tomars? I assumed he was dead too. Nope… but he sure is an asshole... How could he get into SPD private network? ...Did I mention he's an ECIA asshole? Those people who had you held captive, I'm so sorry. - Oh don't bother. He raped my mother and proceeded to experiment on her child. Yep, real asshole.

Why release Tomars though? Because you took me in… Duh. It was S.O.P a government organization should know that. S. O. P.? S. O. P.? No. The fact you didn't give me back. And this an infiltrated government we are talking about.

Z yelled to Bridge, "Hey Boss Leader, Villian attacking! You can stare at your girlfriend later." "Sorry, I was passing on information, Z. Let's kick some butt." Kintora resolved to later ask what girlfriend meant. Bridge held out his morpher "We'll get you this time Tomars!" Tomars laughs "Fools you cannot defeat me for I have the backing of those far beyond your comprehension." "Yeah like assholes." Bridge tell Z, I want to do a double team.

Bridge yelled, "Z, I want you to try working together with Kintora again." Dumbass, I could have done that. I meant mentally. Z and Kintora prepared Bridge yelled, "Syd, Heart stand back and wait for my command."

Tomars said, "Uh oh," as Z and Kintora flipped and slashed him with their batons, dealing out a massive blow. "NOW!" Bridge yelled as he pulled out his dual blasters! Heart and Syd pulled out their SPD Batons in Blaster mode. Massive laser blasts congregated and attacked the villainous general who fell to the ground.

Z nodded to Kintora. Kintora stepped forth. "You are judged with multiple crimes, including ranger kidnapping, conspiracy and alliance with Grumm and so forth."

Sky walked over to the card and picked it up. "Good work Power Rangers you appear to be working well as a team thus far." He Continued, "It appears not all of Grumms forces have been detained. We must continue our mission of capturing the remainder of his fearsome gallery." The team saluted.