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It was 9 am and Bridge had been getting out of bed when he looked to Sky's bed and noticed that his friend had still been in bed. This was extremely rare seeing as Sky had a routine that he had never broken before. He would wake up around 6 am and change his clothes and head to the gym for a few hours. Once done at gym, he would usually be in shower by the time Bridge woke up. Then once they were both dressed and ready they would head to common room to get breakfast and go about the day's activities. Bridge was scared for Sky never fell out of routine; unsure of what to do Bridge went and removed Sky's blanket and found his comrade encased in his own force field. "Sky!!!" Bridge shouted trying in desperate hope to get the blue ranger to open his eyes, but nothing. In panic Bridge ran out of the room to find Kat. He entered the lab with short breath and said with great difficult, "Sky… he… he needs help Kat."
Kat looked at Bridge curiously, "Bridge… what's wrong with Sky?" she questioned the ranger before doing anything.
"He encased himself in his own force field Kat, we got to do something" Bridge said panicked and then ran back to his room leaving a very stunned Kat.
Within a matter of moment Kat contacted Doggie and told him of the situation of his blue ranger and then she got Dr. Felix and brought a stretcher to Sky's room. By time she reached his room with the stretcher all the members of B-Squad were surrounding Bridge and Sky's room with concerned looks and if she didn't know any better she thought that Z and Syd were going to cry. "Watch out guys" Kat demanded as she went into the room and saw Bridge, Doggie and Sky laying encased in his force field. Judging by looks of things moving Sky to the stretcher to get to medical wing was not going to be simple task. Kat poked her head outside the door of Sky and Bridge's room and looked to Jack, "We are going to need your help in here Jack."
Jack nodded and walked inside the room and saw Sky in a position he never thought he would see the blue ranger in. It seemed as though his own power had went against him and it wasn't looking good, "What you need us to do Kat?" Jack questioned instantly having his leadership kick in.
"Doggie, Jack and Bridge I need you three to carefully lift Sky up using the mattress of his bed. Don't touch the force field and carry him out here to stretcher with the mattress" Kat directed the three men and watched as all three of them carefully lifted Sky by the mattress and made their way to hall and placed the mattress down on the stretcher. Kat followed them out and had the three men carry the stretcher to medical wing and place Sky on a nearby empty cot. Once Sky was placed down Dr. Felix walked in and made Bridge, Doggie and Jack all leave so they could start finding a way to remove the force field around Sky.
Meanwhile in the common room Syd and Z sat on the couch neither making a sound or even making eye contact. They were absolutely terrified to see Sky in condition he was and all they wanted to know was more information. As they sat there Bridge and Jack walked in slowly. Z instantly got up and looked to them both, "What's wrong with Sky?" she demanded to be told something.
Jack looked to Z and frowned and replied, "We don't know… Dr. Felix kicked us all out so they could find a way to get him out of his force field. They wouldn't tell us anything" Jack looked to the floor knowing as leader he had to be strong.
"This can't be happening…" Z said sadly and left the common room heading for her room.
Jack was about to follow her but Syd stopped him, "This is a girl talk situation, no offense Jack" Syd said with a genuine smile and left the common room in pursue of her roommate. Syd had followed Z all the way back to their room and had found Z curled into a ball on her bed. Instinctively Syd knew something was up so she sat on her bed and looked to Z, "What's wrong Z? Sky will be fine you know that he is tough enough to make it out fine."
Z shook her head at Syd, "He doesn't deserve to go through this and I can't even help him" Z said as she tried to fight off tears she didn't need Syd knowing her feelings for Sky.
"Z is there something you want to talk about… involving Sky" Syd said trying not to grin at the fact she had already noticed that her friend in yellow had fallen for the SPD hunk of a blue ranger.
"If I tell you… you promise not to tell anyone especially Sky" Z said sitting up and looking to Syd.
"I promise Z that whatever you have to say will not leave this room" Syd said in a reassuring tone.
"Okay… don't laugh but Syd I think… well no I know that ever since I went with Sky to see his mom that I have fallen for him… I didn't mean for it to happen but it did" Z said with a frown on her face, "I know it against SPD rule book and that is why I never told Sky… besides the fact he wouldn't believe me."
Syd couldn't help but grin at Z, "Its okay Z to be afraid especially right now… don't worry you got the whole team here for support, we are all feeling the pain of Sky being like this" Syd hugged Z in an embrace and let her friend let silent tears fall.
Meanwhile in the medical wing Dr. Felix and Kat stood dumbfounded; they had absolutely no idea how Sky even put himself in this position let alone how to get him out of it. Then it dawned on Kat that maybe Jack could use his power to go through force field and take a blood sample of Sky for them. So in haste Kat went to common room and grabbed Jack and headed right back into Sky's medical room and handed Jack a syringe. "Jack we need you to use your powers to faze through sky's force field and use the syringe to take a blood sample."
Jack only nodded and did as he was told and put the syringe in his right hand and turned his right hand invisible along with the syringe and went through the force field. Once he was through he fumbled with the syringe too much to be able to get a blood sample. Then Jack had an idea of his own and using his being passed the force field to his advantage put both of his arms through the force field and started to shake Sky. Somewhere in the whole process of shaking him did Sky's force field finally had disappeared, "Sorry Kat I know you wanted me to get blood but it was too hard and I just got this gut instinct that maybe if I shook him it would work and well it did I think…" Jack said with a frown.
"It's okay Jack even though it not the way I would have liked it to happen, Sky is a bit safer now that the force field is down and we can start running tests and hopefully see Sky up and running like normal" Kat responded as she guided Jack out of the room and looked to Dr. Felix. Neither one knew what it was that made Sky really put his force field down but they knew they had to get to work. They set up monitors to Sky and started doing the normal procedure's to see if he was okay. After a couple of hours of testing and medical procedures they still had not figured out what caused the encasement of his force field but what really bothered them was Sky not being awake yet. As she looked over the chart most of his vitals were normal, the only real problem evident on the chart was his high fever and according to some blood tests he was normal. Looking to Dr. Felix she knew that there was one more test they should do, "Let's put him in the MRI, maybe there something wrong with his brain…" Kat said really hoping she was wrong. Dr. Felix nodded to Kat and within a few hours they had Sky back in the room. Upon entering the room Sky finally came through and looked at Kat and Dr. Felix extremely confused.
"Why am I here?" was the first question popping into Sky Tate's mind he was in the medical wing with machines hooked up to him and he had no recollection of even coming here. "What is going on? What time is it?"
Kat had rushed to Sky's bed while Dr. Felix went to get the MRI results, "Sky it's good to see you are back with us, you were brought here this morning when Bridge found you encased in your own force field. We were able to get you out of your force field hours ago but you were still unable to be awakened. Do you know any reason as to why this happened?" Kat asked Sky knowing he was taking in a lot of information at once.
Sky stared at Kat with confusion evident all over his face, "I don't know why that happened… I feel great though so can I go back to my morning routine?" Sky asked not wishing to be here at all.
Kat couldn't help but laugh at the fact that all Sky wanted to do was go back to his routine mornings, "I'm afraid we can't let you go Sky, we did an MRI on you and Dr. Felix is getting the results now… We need to know what wrong with you before letting you go" Kat replied to Sky knowing it was going to kill him not being able to go anywhere. Before Sky even got a chance to reply Dr. Felix came in and asked Kat to follow him to the other room to talk about the MRI scans. While laying there in the cot Sky couldn't help but wonder what the others were doing or if they even knew what was going on. He was soon taken out of his thought when he felt someone's arms fall on top of his torso and started squeezing him for life.
"Sky you are okay" said a very upset but relieved Z she had been passing medical wing and seeing Sky's eyes opened made her have to rush in and hug him.
Sky couldn't help but laugh at Z "Take it easy Z you hugging me like I was going to die or something" Sky replied with a smile and put his free arm around Z.
"You looked like you were long gone when you were encased in your force field" Z replied with a frown "but now that you are awake I have to tell you something…" Z started to say but was interrupted by the doors opening and in walked Doggie, Kat and Dr. Felix.
"Sky we looked over your MRI and we found something small but possibly a threat and cause to what happened" Dr. Felix started as he took out the scan and showed it to Sky and pointed at something in his head "You see that, that is what I believe to be a small tumor and it possibly effecting your powers. We informed Doggie of the tumor and told him the best for your safety and return to active status is for us to surgically remove the tumor as soon as possible."
Z couldn't believe what she was hearing and looked to Sky and saw the fear in his eyes for a brief moments before he went back to shielding off emotions, "If getting rid of the tumor is only way I can get back on duty and into routine again then I guess we should get moving" Sky looked to Z and put his hand to her cheek, "Guess what you had to tell me is going to have to wait till after surgery."
Z could only nod and hold back her tears knowing the information she knew and then watched as Dr. Felix and Kat took Sky out of the room and off to the room where surgery would be performed. Doggie had walked over to Z and put a hand on her shoulder, "Don't worry Cadet Delgado, Cadet Tate is strong and will make it through this procedure perfectly fine. Also tell the rangers to meet in my office so I can brief them in on Sky's condition."
"Yes sir" Z said getting up and heading off to gather her teammates so they could all head to Doggie's office to be told of Sky's surgery on his tumor in his brain… It took Z only a matter of minutes to find all her fellow teammates and have them all gathered into Doggie's office. Now they just all had to wait on his appearance in the office.
"Wonder what he has to tell us" Syd said to the others not really worrying much about the situation.
"Maybe he has new information concerning Sky" Bridge said with hope, "They I can have my bestest buddy back in the room and then give him some buttery toast and we won't be a ranger down."
"Cadets" Doggie said as he entered his office and watched them all get into attention from, "I have new concerning Cadet Tate and his condition…" Doggie had started and saw the hopeful look in all their eyes except Z's. "On the plus side Sky as you know was removed from being encased in his force field by Cadet Landors, but had not waken up until about 30 minutes ago. Before Cadet Tate woke up Dr. Felix and Kat performed an MRI on his brain to see if something was wrong. Unfortunately they had found a small tumor in Sky's brain which we believe to have been the cause of his powers encasing him in a force field in his sleep. Cadet Tate agreed to have the surgery be done and they are in the process of removing the tumor right now. I do not want you to be alarmed and I do want you all to continue on with your ranger duties. You will be a ranger down for some time, but not too long because once Cadet Tate is fully recovered he will be able to join you all. That is all, dismissed."
The new had been shocking to Syd, Jack and Bridge while Z on the other hand had already heard it all. They all exited out of the office not saying a word; in fact they hadn't said much of anything for the rest of the day. None of them were informed of what it was that was going on with Sky and had all reported to their room for sleep. The problem was that none of them really could sleep. All they could think about was Sky and the fact that he had to go through surgery for something dangerous as a tumor that was able to cause him to encase himself with his own power. The next morning the instant Z was awake she went to the medical wing to see Sky and upon entering his room seeing him in his condition was actually scary. She took the chair closest to his bed and sat at his side for the whole morning even though he was sound asleep. Then she would leave for her duties and then come back and sit there. At night she didn't go to bed she just sat with Sky. This had become Z's routine for about a week and every time she went she made sure he was asleep. It was about two weeks into this routine that Sky had woken up in the middle of the night and saw that Z had been there at his bed side. Seeing her there made him curious and made him wonder as to how often Z was in his room without him knowing it. It also made him smile because he knew that she cared maybe even cared as much for him as he did for her. Within a matter of moments Sky was once again taken over by sleep and by time he woke up she was gone. A couple days later Sky was released from the medical wing but still off active ranger duty for another week. He slowly made his way into the common room where he knew his fellow teammates would be relaxing. As soon as Sky entered the room he was attacked by his roommate Bridge in a huge bear hug, "Sky! You are back, I missed you now I can get you some buttery toast and we can do puzzles together and now the room won't be as empty" Bridge said excitedly as he then let go of Sky and got the plate of buttery toast.
Sky had then been forced into another embrace this time by Syd, "It good to see you up and about, I think Z was going to go insane without you being around" Syd said with a grin and then moved out of the way.
"Yeah Z was going crazy without you around Sky that she made a routine that revolved around you" Jack snickered and instantly got a glare from Z.
"A routine eh?" Sky looked at Z with a grin, "I would like to hear that routine."
Z crossed her arms feeling attacked by every one, "It was nothing, well at least nothing worth talking about" Z said and hugged Sky hoping to never say anything about the routine she had while he was hurt ever again.