Chapter 8: Walls crumble
The B-Squad Rangers awoke at 7 a.m. to train. They all changed to their track suits and met outside at the grassy and muddy training course. They all dreaded the course, but they had to run the course at least two times a week. They strapped a data pad to their shoulders to measure their time and compare it to the other times that they had been through the course.
After 45 minutes, the Rangers met again at the starting point. Sky was already there. He looked at the others as they arrived. He took the pad off his arm and set it down on a small table. He wrote down his time on a list. Z glared at him.
"Looks like Mr. Stick-in-the-butt beat us again." Z said as she walked to the table to write down her own time.
"Jealous much?" Sky teased. Jack and Bridge wrote down their own times and then walked to Sky. Z gave a small, sarcastic laugh.
"You wish, Sky. Now if you will excuse me, I have to go take a shower." With that sais, Z headed to the showers. Jack and Bridge headed to the showers too. Bridge stopped for a bit as he saw Sky looking up at the clouds above him.
He suddenly remembered what day it was, it was the anniversary of Sky's friend kidnapp. Jack glanced at Sky. He wondered what was wrong with him, but he was no psychologist, he couldn't know what was going on inside Sky's head.
"What's up with him?" Jack asked as he pointed at Sky.
"Long story. Its Sky's story to tell, not mine." Jack nodded as Bridge told him. Jack headed to the showers. Bridge ran up to the Blue Ranger. He looked at him.
"I know we will find her, Sky. You need to trust us, we have been looking for her since we entered the Academy. Kat said she meant a big deal to you." Sky gazed at Bridge. He nodded sadly and sat with the Green Ranger in a bench.
"I know Bridge. I'm losing hope. I try to tell myself that we will find her. Every year that goes by is the same. I hate this day, I should have protected her. She was my best friend."
"There was nohing you could do. You were kids for Klingon's sake. The same would have happened to you if you had attempted to help her. I wouldn't want to lose you, you are a great Ranger." Sky gave him a small smile. Bridge always found a way to make him feel better.
"Thanks Bridge. I will see you later, I have to go and take a shower. Im just glad we don't have anymore training today." The Blue Ranger sighed and ran to the shower room. Bridge looked up at the sky and sighed sadly.
"Sydney, if you are out there, give Sky some hope. Give him a sign, he's losing himself and we need him." He said to the sky as he sttod up. He ran to the showers to wash the mud off himself.
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She awoke from bed, stretching her arms and yawning loudly. She was sure everyone in the ship had heard her. She smiled to herself and headed to her bathtub, she took a quick dip and shower and headed to her closet. A pink towel wrapped around her petite shivering body. She picked out a gingham sundress and ballet flats. She smiled to herself as she dressed.
Today was the day. The day of her anniversary. The dreadful day in which she was captured. Rogue herself did not remember much. But Sydney did. Rogue actually felt glad she was there with Grumm, at least she was not the one suffering from the destruction caused to the city. The evil side of her was not so sure about Sydney enjoying this day as much as she did. If she in fact, had a good side to her evil self, it was either really small, or buried deep inside. Very deep inside. She curled her hair and grabbed a navy blue headband with a small bow. She put it on and walked out of her room.
She made her way to Mora's room. She entered without even knocking. The ten year old shot her a dirty look as Rogue sat next to her on the small tea table. Rogue took the liberty of pouring herself some tea on a porcelain cup. She sipped the tea and smiled. She grabbed a donut. Mora shot her another dirty look.
"Didn't anyone teach you to knock?" Mora questioned the villianess. Syd put a hand to her lips and hummed a bit.
"No not really. Why do you ask?" Mora rolled her eyes at her comeback. She stood up and walked to the older girl. "And didn't anyone teach you not to throw food away. I'm sure you won't mind giving your friend here a donut. You won't eat all of this..." She gestured to the pastries in Mora's tea set. "Unless you want to get fat. If you ask me, you dont need the extra weight, you have enough as it is."
"All of this food is for my friends and you are not my friend." Mora stood up from her chair and walked to Rogue, she snatched the sweet pastry away from her mouth and stepped on it with her foot, making the donut a sugary, doughy mess on the floor. Rogue decided that that was what Mora was going to look like when she was done with her.
"Very mature." She clapped her hands and kneeled on the floor. She grabbed a bunch of napkins and cleaned the mess up. Mora gave her a curious glance and poked Rogue's cheek with her index finger.
"You are so... lifelike." Rogue raised an eyebrow and stood up, cleaning her dress from any sugar that was left on her dress. "I wouldn't be surprised if you baked me a pie."
"Excuse me?" She glared at the little girl.
"I was just checking if Grumm hadn't replaced with some Stepford Wife version of yourself." The petite blonde glared.
"Is that an insult?"
"It depends on how you look at it. I mean, you are usually all LaFemme Nikkita wearing leather and karate chopping the good guys. And today, you are wearing a dress. A dress that does not scream 'Dominatrix' and you are not wearing heels. You look different, that's all. And no, its not an insult. I like your dress." Rogue was surprised by Mora's statement. The little girl had a point, she did wear leather most of the time. Rogue looked at herself in Mora's mirror, she looked different, but in a good way. Could this be her good side surfacing at last?
Grumm came into Mora's room. The emperor observed the young humans. He looked around Mora's room and then sat down on a chair. Mora walked to Rogue's side. Grumm stared at the older girl closely. She felt like she taking part in some 'Stare at my body and state your opinion' contests.
"You look nice. Its too bad that I need you to go pick something up for me." Rogue shaked her head and looked at him. She felt confident in talking back to Grumm.
"Actually, Emperor. Its my day off. All high rank villians have days off, the 'Intergalactic Rulebook of Villians' says so, they could sue if I dont get my day off. High-rank villians have a danger scale from 5 to 10. Im on level 7, Mora is level 5. So, that means we will both be at the park if you need us." Grumm huffed and walked out of the room. Mora smiled and changed her clothes in a flash. She decided to wear a skirt with thights underneath and a red sweater. Rogue covered her lips with red lipgloss. She looked at Mora and smiled. "Let's go, pretend you are my sister. And don't say anything about you working with Grumm. I really want to get some guy to like me." She snapped her fingers, he hair turned into a dark golden blond. Her eyes turned a dark blue. She held Mora's hand as they tele-transported down to Earth.
Mora looked around the park as she walked with Rogue on the grass. She glanced at everything. She asked Rogue questions about the things that humans were doing there. The younger girl let go of the other girl's hand.
"I'm going to be by the swings. See you later, alligator." The younger girl ran to the swings and giggled. That was definently a new facet to Mora, the evil little brat. Rogue continued to walk through the park.
A mechanic dog came over to her and began walking around her. A small red ball came out of its mouth and fell to the floor. She picked it up and tossed it so it could catch it. A few seconds later, a familiar face approached her. He came running up to the mechanical dog. "RIC!" He shouted. He came up running up to her, the dog at his side.
"I'm sorry. RIC can be a little rude at times. He likes playing that's all." She smiled and looked at him. "I'm sorry I did not introduce myself, I'm Sky Tate." She nodded and shook his hand. The Blue Ranger did have a name after all.
"I'm Cyndi Jones. Nice to meet you too." She smiled and faked a southern accent. He shook her hand and smiled at her. She gave a slight grin and walked with him by the park.
"So Cyndi, where are you from?" He asked the girl in front of him. She looked familiar but he couldn't place her face.
"I'm from Louisiana, I moved here with my sister and my parents." She was surprised as to how well she could fake accents. She had gotten the accent from watching CSI Miami, Calleigh Duquesne, a female investigator from Louisiana.
They walked through the park for another hour. Sky held back as 'Cyndi' touched his hand. He was nervous. There was something familiar with her. The Blue Ranger told her about his family and what he did. She faked amazement when he said he was in the SPD Academy. She also told him about her 'family', everything was a lie. She felt bad, but she was enjoying the moment too much to screw it up with the truth. What was she supposed to say? 'Hi, my name is not Cyndi Jones, my real name is Rogue and Im your enemy.' That would have been a hell of a conversation.
A beep came from Sky's morpher, he took it out and pressed a button to open. He gazed at her. A voice came from the phone-like device. Sky shot her an apologetic look. He took her hand in his and a smile crossed his face. She smiled back and blushed a bit.
"I'm sorry, Cyndi, I have to go. Can we go out sometime else?" He looked directly into her dark blue orbs. Blue met blue as he penetrated her gaze. He could have sworn that he had seen a hint of baby blue in her beautiful dark orbs.
"My father is quite overprotective. I don't know. But I will give you my private cell phone number and we can talk there." She grabbed a napkin from a nearby ice cream cart nad wrote down her number in pink pen. He gave her a kiss on the cheek. Her cheeks were now a bright pink. She actaully felt warm when his lips touched her soft skin. Sky gave her his cell phone number and kissed her cheek one more time. She grinned at him.
He waved and ran to his bike. She waved back and started to formulate her evil plan in her mind. A smile crossed her face as ideas came to her mind. Oh, the possibilites. She thought of many ways to destroy the Rangers. Slowly and painfully. She had already discarded the possibilty of capturing a Ranger and converting him to evil. Brainwashing took a long time, years maybe. She wanted to see the destruction of Earth when she was still young. Unlike Grumm who was a sack of bones and dust, a powerful one at that. She walked to Mora. The little girl got down from the swing and smiled at her.
"Got a new boy you can use for an evil plan?" Mora started to pick on Rogue's brain as they got on the ship. Rogue looked happy, she let out a small laugh.
"Better yet, I got a new boy, who just happens to be a Ranger. I will use him for my evil plan." Mora was delighted at her words. They walked into the bridge of the ship. Syd noticed there were about 50 boxes of small diamonds. She was in awe.
"I dreamt about this once. Oh I love diaminds!" She saw a big one and smiled holding it up. She was pleased and so was Mora. After all, diamonds really are a girl's best friend. Well right after boys and pets. In that order. Mora picked up a big diamond and looked at her reflection in the shiny rock. She was amazed by so much beauty. Grumm came into the bridge of the ship. Mora set the diamond down, Rogue imitated her.
"Stop playing you too, I hope you came up with something, Rogue." The petite girl nodded and smiled.
"Oh yes, my plan is genius!" She clapped her hands and grinned. "But I will only do it if you give one of these diamonds. You know how much I love them." She tried her best to persuade him, she even attempted the puppy dog eyes. Grumm glared at her. "Ok, don't give anything. I will tell you about my plan later. Time for me to go boogie." She grinned nervously and headed to her room.
She started feeling a little remorse for what she was about to do. Her future plans would eliminate any possibilities of a relationship with a human. She would have to settle for aliens. She shivered and sat in her bed. Had her good side surfaced today? Did she even have a hint of good in her body? She shook her head and sighed. She layed down and fell asleep with her clohes on, she did not even bother to change.