Chapter 8

Scott was the first one to break out of his shock. He had almost dropped his phone at to what the Dr. D had said.

"I'll be there as soon as I can."

Having Dr. K in the flesh was something that they had not expected. This day was getting more and more crazy as it went on.

After the phone call they all sat down in the waiting room. It was a tense silence since no one what to say or what to do.

They listened to footsteps of those who passed them and the conversations around them. Everyone was on edge and no one knew what to do. Every time the door to the OR opened they would jump out of their seats and hope it was the doctor coming to say that Ziggy would be all right.

After what felt like hours, Colonel Truman arrived with two guards a young looking woman in a lab coat.

Scott stood up to greet his father and looked at the woman strangely. Turning to look at his dad he asked, "Hey dad, what are you doing here?"

He responded by saying, "I heard about what happened and the doctor asked me to escort her here. How is he?"

"The doctor?"

The young women in the lab coat stepped forward and said, "Yes Ranger Red, I am Dr. K."

All of the rangers were in shock. They hadn't expected the doctor to be a woman let alone one so young.

She continued to look at them and noticed their shock. Feeling a little annoyed that they hadn't said anything she said, "Were you expecting me to be taller?"

Hearing this the rangers couldn't help but laugh annoying Dr. K even more since she didn't know what was so funny.

Summer managed to stop laughing and said, "Dr. K, we don't mean any disrespect, but by how you sounded we thought you were an older male."

Dr. K nodded in understanding satisfied with that answered.

Looking around she asked, "Where are they working on Ranger Green?"

All the rangers shook their heads indicating that they didn't know. Quickly flagging down a nurse she found out the operating room and was on her way. It took her about 10 minutes to get there (to her frustration) because the doctors and nurses where trying to stop her from going in operating room.

A quick nod from the Colonel and they relented. She disappeared into the room and the rangers were left to themselves.

The rangers lost track of time and by the time the head surgeon and Dr. K came out of the operating room it was past midnight. They all shot up from their seats and their faces asked the question.

Dr. K had frown on her face as she walked up to them. That look was no good.

She calmly looked at every single one of them and stated,

"The surgery was successful and he is fine but he did sustain serious injuries. Only one of the bullets grazed his spine. Luckily it was only a graze and the bone will heal. However, the other bullets hit major organs. One of his kidneys was penetrated and caused some internal bleeding. We managed to close the wound before he lost too much blood but he will have to avoid excessive movement. His stomach was penetrated as well. This was the worst of his injuries. The bullet made a hole in his stomach and gastric acid managed to seep through the wound. Thankfully the seepage was stopped in time or the lasting damage to the surrounding tissue and muscle would have been drastic. Ranger Green will have to stay in bed for about a month and be on a liquid diet until the damage done to his stomach has healed. He will have to be very careful with any movement. Other than that with rest he should be fine."

The Rangers emotions fluctuated with every word she said. By the end of her explanation, they didn't know what to feel. It was a mix between, elation, anger and sadness.

Noticing that the rangers weren't going to say anything she continued,

"Ranger Green will not be waking up anytime soon. All of you should go back to base and rest. Please remember that we are still at war and that Venjix does not care about Ziggy and emotions and he will not let any of you stop to worry. He will use this moment of weakness to launch another attack. I'm actually surprised he hasn't already. I suppose that is a good thing."

The Rangers were shocked out of their stupor by the mention of the enemy and quickly straitened up and nodded. With some waves, nods and salutes they all left back to base with a lot more on their mind.