Author's Note: The song I used here is a Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) cover sung by Emily Browning, who plays the amazing Babydoll, from the super-awesome movie Sucker Punch directed by Zack Snyder.

Chapter 19- Sweet Dreams Are Made of This.

Sydney looked at her alarm clock for the third time. It marked 1:00 a.m. She groaned silently and closed her eyes once again. She opened them again fifteen minutes later. It seemed like sleep would never come, even though she was pretty tired. Failing to fall asleep was nothing new to her, since this problem had been very persistent ever since she got released from the medical wing a few weeks ago.

She had tried just about everything, from sleeping pills to drinking warm milk, to make her doze off. But not even the strongest remedies seemed to work. She thought it was just because she was experiencing some post-traumatic stress after Morgana's attack, she knew that the sight of her alone could be the cause of many nightmares and insomnia.

She closed her eyes again and smiled at herself when sleep began coming to her a few minutes later, making her feel relaxed and numb all over. While her body was still in the Academy, her mind was on a completely different place.

Sweet dreams are made of this

Sydney usually never dreamed and when she did, it was always to warn her about something. The warnings she had seen before had been serious, but serious didn't even begin to describe the sight before her eyes.

Who am I to disagree?

Syd groaned as she opened her eyes, seeing nothing but darkness before her. She felt like Morgana had just attacked her, and she had lost. She found herself wearing only wearing a white dress, which had gotten dirty and wet. She assumed it had been raining, since the floor beneath her feet was wet and small puddles surrounded her.

She stood up slowly and assessed her surroundings. The buildings around her looked familiar, even the street she was standing on did. That's when she realized she was standing on the square of Newtech City, or what remained of it.

The street was filled with rubble from some of the buildings that had been damaged or completely destroyed. She kept wandering around, trying to figure out what had happened. She leaned down and touched the debris before pulling her hand away. It was still hot, which meant it hadn't been there for a very long time.

Travel the world and the seven seas

A heavy downpour of rain began falling over the city. The rain wasn't warm or light, like the one from the time she had had her first kiss. This one was extremely cold and heavy, like little ice cubes hitting her skin rapidly. She looked around for shelter, running as quickly as she could, trying not to slip. When she finally found shelter in an abandoned parking lot, she sat on the floor and pulled her knees to her chest. She wrapped her arms around herself to keep warm.

She looked up when she spotted a shady figure darting around the room. She got on her feet and began chasing after it. After a few failed tries to make it stop, she finally get some luck as she held on to the creature's cape, not letting go until the little thing stopped moving when she put her arms around it.

The creature broke free and exposed its face. It wasn't that of a creature, but of a little girl. Sydney saw her younger self again. The little girl stood in front of her, wearing a child-like replica of her white dress. She was dirty and wet. The little girl also wore a pink hood to protect her from the cold. Just when the girl was about to run off again, the Pink Ranger stood in front of her, blocking her way out of the parking lot.

"I'm not going to hurt you. Please don't run from me." Older Sydney told her gently.

The younger girl stopped fighting her and sat down on a safe spot. Syd followed her and adopted the same position she had a few minutes ago. She rubbed her hands together for warmth. "Why are you running?"

"She's looking for me. Don't let her find me." Her younger self said shakily, mimicking her moves to stay warm. She began sobbing quietly after a few minutes.

Everybody is looking for something

"Who's after you? If you tell me, I promise I will find a way make her stop. I'll even get my friends to protect you." She said with a smile on her face, taking her younger version's hand and squeezing it gently. Somehow, the younger girl didn't seem to agree with her statement and quickly pulled her hand away.

"You can't stop her, no one can." She lowered her voice and stared her in the eyes. "Everyone who tried has been killed."

The young girl got on her feet. Sydney grabbed her hand but she pulled away, looking around. She began to walk toward the other entrance, checking every part of the abandoned parking lot. The older version realized her younger self had been forced to grow up quite quickly. No young girl could be as secretive or as careful as her.

Syd followed behind her, making sure that she didn't escape again. The Pink Ranger turned around when she heard the familiar sound of high heels against concrete. That's when the little girl came by her side.

Some of them want to use you

"She will kill me. Don't let her find me." And with that, the little girl began running again. She could have sworn that the little girl had been injected with Cheetah DNA when she had been born because of how fast she was. When the footsteps came closer, she got on a fighting stance. There would be no surprises, she knew Morgana would appear before her and tell one of her extremely bad jokes.

Some of them want to be used by you

But what appeared before her was something completely strange yet familiar. The sight before her was not someone else, like she assumed at first, but herself. She contemplated the sight before her.

This version of her had a long, straight and sleek white-blonde mane that made her look paler than she already was. Wore something she would never even dream of putting on, a black mid-riff leather top that proudly showed off her brand, a pair of tight, black skinny jeans and thigh-high boots.

"Let me guess, you got a gift card to go shopping at Sluts R' Us." Sydney taunted playfully, not believing the sight before her.

"Ouch, that hurts my feelings, Syd." Her blue eyes widened at the sound of her name. "Oh yes, I know your name. You can choose to think of this as whatever you want, but fate has already laid out its cards for you."

"What is your name?"

"Oh, you know my name quite well. We've known each other for a long time; I'm surprised you could forget me so quickly after all those adventures we had together. I'm disappointed."

"No, you can't be. You're not real, not anymore." Sydney shook her head and began running, looking for a way out, screaming as walls began to grow around her.

"You will never be able to escape from me." The Pink Ranger glared at her opponent. "I am you. Stop pretending like you're something you're not. You are only hurting yourself and your friends."

Some of them want to abuse you

"I stopped being you when I became part of this team." That just made Rogue laugh and come closer. The other girl instinctively stepped back and looked for a way out.

"Are you sure you are part of that team? Some of your 'friends' don't even trust you yet." She knew Rogue was taunting her, trying to make her believe things that weren't real.

"Sooner or later, you'll find out who you really are and become who you are meant to be." The evil girl gripped a sword from a holster behind her back and stabbed Syd in the stomach as she walked to the nearest way out of the parking lot.

Sydney looked down at her dress. What used to be a pristine, white dress was now a red and light pink bloody disaster. She pressed her hand over her wound, trying to apply as much pressure as she could so she wouldn't bleed out. Her body began feeling weak and limp from the blood loss, which also made her hands shake gently. She moved her eyes over to Rogue, who was still taunting her. The last words she heard coming out of her mouth were, "The darkness will consume you. Stop fighting against it."

Some of them want to be abused by you

Sydney awoke violently in her bead. She gripped her stomach and gasped for air desperately, looking around to see her surroundings. Z awoke when she saw her roommate's distress and sat beside her, grabbing her hands.

"Get away from me!" The Pink Ranger pushed her friend away harshly and stood up. After getting her out of her way, she walked out of her room. She stared at the of the SPD Academy in amazement, as if she had never stepped foot inside them.

"She's probably sleep-walking." Z muttered under her breath. Even though she dismissed her roommate's attack on her as an effect of the stress she was going through, she still ran to the other rangers' rooms and knocked on their doors violently.

Sky emerged from his and Bridge's room, rubbing the back of his head. He yawned loudly. "Is there something going on?"

"Normally, I would be sarcastic, but I'm afraid that not even sarcasm is going to help this time."

"Get to the point; you're starting to speak like Bridge." The irritation was clear as he spoke.

"Your girlfriend attacked me after she woke up screaming and gasping. She simply walked out of the room afterwards. I'm going to go ahead and say that this isn't just a case of sleep–walking."

"My…Wait, Z, why do you think Syd and I are… you know…"

"Lovebirds? Oh come on, seriously? You two are extremely obvious. The way you look at each other says everything." He had grown to trust Z in the short time she had been at the Academy, so he assumed she would keep his secret for now.

"Where did you last see her?" Z grabbed her license and opened it to show the Pink Ranger's current location. The Blue Ranger did the same and ran off to din her while Z stayed behind to wake Bridge and Jack.

She poked Bridge's shoulder a few times, only getting a sleepy growl as a response. She looked around for something she could use to wake him. Her first option was loud music, but then she decided not to use that because the whole Academy would be woken up. So instead, she grabbed a bottle of water and poured it over his head. She grinned and laughed when he glared at her.

The tender moment was quickly interrupted by Sky, who sent a message to Z telling her that he had found Syd and that it didn't look good. The Yellow Ranger ran to Jack's room and took the liberty of waking him up. She hit him with a pillow and smiled at his reaction, which was also a glare of annoyance directed straight at her.

Jack was about to begin screaming when she explained what had happened with the Pink Ranger. Both ran out of the room and met Bridge in the hallway. They began making their way to where their friend was.

While help arrived, Sky observed the girl in the pink nightgown closely. She wandered around the main halls aimlessly, as if trying to find something. She stopped before the doors of the Command Center and entered slowly. She looked around as if it were the first time she had ever been inside it. She stopped walking and closed her eyes.

Sky heard her take a series of deep breaths before she made her way to the computers. She turned one of the monitors on and ran her fingers over the letters of the keyboard, cocking her head to one side, closing her eyes again. She frowned and smiled a few seconds later as she opened her eyes and began typing a series of coordinates.

Sky noticed her hands had begun to shake as she typed faster and more clumsily, making mistakes a few times. She started gasping for air a few minutes later, sweating profusely from the lack of air she was experiencing. Sydney began closing her eyes slowly, blinking as if she were trying to stay awake.

She rolled her eyes and fell backwards after passing out in Sky's arms. Sky carried her to her bed after meeting up with the team. Her eyelids fluttered a few minutes later. She sat up in bed and stared at the team, who had gathered around her.

She couldn't remember exactly what she had done, but by the looks on everyone's faces, it was pretty bad. "I'm sorry for whatever it is I did."

"Do you remember anything from an hour ago?" Jack asked gently. She took a few minutes to think and then shook her head.

"I just remember the dream I had."

"What dream?" Sky sat beside her and took hold of her hand. She took hers away, still trying to hide their relationship from the team. She stared at her feet as she spoke.

"I had a dream, in which the city had been destroyed. At first, I though Grumm was behind it." She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. "It was raining heavily, so I got some shelter and found a little girl who's always in my dreams. She comes to me often. Especially at times where I think that I have no choice but to be evil."

"May I ask who this little girl is?" Z crossed her arms and covered her body with a blanket lying on her bed.

"It's me, actually, when I was a little girl." She sighed and smiled. "It's a part of me I've kept locked away for my entire life. As crazy as it sounds, she makes me sane."

"After meeting her again, she told me to protect her since she was being hunted by the destroyer of the city. As it turned out, Grumm wasn't the destroyer, it was me. I saw myself as Rogue. She stabbed me and that's when I woke up."

"Why would she kill you? I mean, she is a part of you." Jack stated as he sat on a pink chair at the corner, pinching himself to stay awake.

"She's not a part of me. I am a part of her." Rogue had gotten that right, since she had been that person for almost her entire life. As far as she could tell, Sydney was just another piece of the villain's personality. To her, Sydney was not an individual personality yet, since she still displayed a lot of the characteristics, not only physical, but mental too, that Rogue did.

No one said anything afterwards. The room fell into an awkward, pensive silence. Sydney closed her eyes again and drifted off to sleep. Bridge, Jack and Sky left after making sure Sydney was all right.

While the Pink Ranger slept peacefully on Earth, a raven-haired girl had a violent awakening on space.

"Grumm!" Morgana screamed at the top of her lungs.

The alien growled at her when he entered her room. "What do you want at this time of night? I was meditating."

"You're always meditating."

"Get to the point." He growled at her teasing, not taking it as a joke.

"Next time you hire a stupid alien, who gets inside people's dreams, tell her not to come into mine." She complained. Grumm, as a way of trying to get back what was his, hired an alien called Dreamcatcher from the planet Zaro. She had the ability to get inside people's minds and control their dreams and thoughts as she pleased. This also allowed her to control someone's body as long as they were still asleep, which took a lot of energy out of her.

After Dreamcatcher's failed attempt to control the Pink Ranger's body, she redirected her power to another body, which she thought belonged to a Ranger. Instead, she entered Morgana's subconscious.

"I'm just glad to have another powerful ally we can rely on."

"I don't care who you make alliances with, as long as that alien or person stays away from my personal business, understood?" She snarled at the Emperor. He just nodded and left her room afterwards.

Grumm smiled when he saw his new ally standing in his throne room. He felt better now that he knew he had an advantage against the Rangers and Cruger. Dreamcatcher sighed with delight as she approached his throne, kneeling before the Emperor.

Sweet dreams are made of this

Everybody's looking for something

Some of them want to use you