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Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers.

Sky was briskly walking in his SPD commander uniform in the long hallways of an old jail in the city.

An officer following him saying "Please Commander Tate, as per the rules, he had to be dismissed from the jail."

Sky simply getting more and more annoyed almost barked "How the hell can you free a child rapist?"

The officer gulped "But he had finished his term of imprisonment."

Sky, who was fuming, commands "I need his address. Now."

The officer nods "Yes sir." and removes the address and from the database from his tablet and sends it to Sky's morpher, Sky gets a confirming beep in his morpher and starts walking away leaving a very scared officer behind.

In the afternoon, Sky enters the SPD premises to see Bridge, Z and Tylor teaching C-squad cadets, Bridge and Tylor teaching the cadets combat skills and Z giving other cadets special equipment training. Just as Tylor sees Sky looking at Z, he starts showing his moves to the cadets by moving closer to her and as she turns back she trips on his foot which he planted there on purpose and falls into his arms.

Tylor smirks at her and she getting embarrassed, got away from his arms and said "Can't you train over there with Bridge, Tylor? This is the special equipment area."

Bridge then calls Tylor to come to him and Tylor continues teaching the cadets, Sky then walks towards Z and as he approached her all the cadets saluted him, and she turned back to see him and then saluted him.

Sky then asked "Status report." Z gave him the report of the special equipment training, he nodded and left over to Bridge and Tylor.

Z then looked back and saw all the cadets smirking at her, she then rolled her eyes smiling and said "Wipe that smile away or everyone gets a lap on the water course."

Everyone suddenly becoming serious, as she smirks and continues showing them the latest technology in the equipment.

In the night as Sky saw the time it was 11pm, his doors then opened revealing Z with a box as she said "Well today we have MINI BURGERS!" as she opened the box full of small burgers and then added "leftover from the party!"

Sky rolled his eyes and went to take two cola cans as Z sat on her spot in the balcony and Sky came, he didn't sit on his spot and simply came towards her and sat beside her and picked her up as she whined "Heyyy not fair!" and made her sit on his lap and adjusted the pilows behind him as he positioned himself on her spot and said smirking "I always liked this spot."

Z rolled her eyes "The sacrifices I make for love."

Sky chuckled and snaked his hands on her waist and held her tight, with his head resting on her shoulder and said "Mmm I like this..."

Z chuckled "So do I..." and turned her head to kiss his cheek but he suddenly turned his head and her lips met with his and they both kissed eachother and when Z pulled apart when he started getting too carried away, he frowned and said "It's going to get very difficult to stay with you alone Z..."

Z chuckled and then Sky sighed "Z? I went to beat up Peterson but couldn't find him in the old city jail, it turns out he was dismissed from his punishment."

Z's expression was full of shock and said "You what?!"

He said matter of fact-ly "Well yeah, what did you think I'll let him be, after the way he scared you and what if you're mom didn't come then what?"

Z sighed, shaking her head, "I don't want to think about it Sky, and before you, I wanted to kill him myself.."

Sky then said "Oh..."

Z then looked at him and asked "What?"

Sky gave a goofy smile and said "I kinda tracked him and already beat him up and contained him."

Z eyes widened and he continued "But if you would tell me once we could have done it together!"

Z rolled her eyes and hit him "Skyyyyy, you always have to be the hero don't you?"

Sky smirked "Only your hero." and kissed her.

He then removed a box from the side and gave it to Z. Z then looked at him confused and he motioned her to open it while holding her tightly, Z opened it to see trapped in a little card, and gasped "Oh my God." her old fears coming back as she shut the box close and closed her eyes tightly.

Sky then said holding her tightly "Cmon Z, you're not the 10 year old girl anymore, you're SPD blue ranger second in command, you've defeated hundreds of criminals and monsters, don't let this guy scare you."

He put his hand over hers and opened the box with her and she saw the containment card and took a deep breath, all her fears slowly going away feeling the strong arms around her, and then in her normal Z way she smirks at the card saying "Later loser."

And Sky smiles "That's my girl."

Z chuckles "Thanks Sky for being there, you're everything that I ever wanted and even more." she then strokes his cheeks and Sky says "Same goes for you Z, I never thought I could love someone the way I love you... stop eating the burger you pig!"

Z chuckled as she hit him "What? I didn't eat anything for like 12 hours because YOU put me on squad training!" she whined with a glare at the end.

Sky shakes his head chuckling and kisses her forehead as he bit into a burger himself.

The next day the A-squad rangers were sent to fight an evil monster named Kendrax. Sky was in the command centre with Kat and Boom and was watching the battle intently. Bridge and Sophie had formed a sort of team when it came to battling and Z fought alongside the Smith brothers. When Sophie got hit by one of the blasters and was shot back, Tylor caught her and Bridge ran towards Kendrax while shooting him with his blaster, and then Z and Kyle joined him and they three started kicking and blasting the monster but all in vain as all three were shot back and fell, but just then Tylor and Sophie joined and started fighting with the monster, but they were sent flying back too, just as they regained their posture and everyone stood up, Z said "This isn't working."

Bridge said "Yeah let's go SWAT!"

"SPD SWAT!"

"Special Weapons And Tactics."

The red and yellow rangers ran and started blasting the monster, the monster getting hit but not getting effected, just the the blue, green and pink rangers joined and started blasting too but the monster was just too powerful and send a shot which caused all the rangers to get hit and fall down, just then Sky came in between the rangers and the monster and shouted "SPD Emergency!" And started battling the monster with all his power giving time for the rangers to regain their strength. But after sometime he was sent flying back and then Bridge and Z got up and started fighting the monster and then the monster aimed at the commander and was about to shoot when a blast caused his gun to disintegrate, when seeing, it was Tylor who just saved Sky from being hit, just then Sky got up and stood with the rangers between Bridge and Z and said "You're going down Kendrax."

But the monster just laughed and then Tylor and Sophie went on to blasting him, and after their onslaught Z and Kyle charged towards him and gave a series of kicks and blasts and then Sky and Bridge finished the deal and then Kendrax was defeated. After containment, Bridge walked with one hand on Z's shoulder and the other on Sophie's waist and they walked joking about something, as Kyle ran and joined them, followed by Sky and Tylor.

Sky said "Hey Tylor, thanks for... you know... I never expected you to... "

Tylor simply chuckled "To what? Save you? Commander we may not be the best of friends but while battling I'm not gonna let my emotions fight my battles for me..." and left Sky walking slowly and smiling and then Tylor added "But I'm gonna win Z in the end just to let you know."

Sky simply chuckled sarcastically and thought 'You wish buddy you wish.'