Here's the second part guys! I'm so glad you all are liking it so far! Oh, and I realized I forgot to upload the character bios on my wiki, so they're there now if you want to check them out! They're all done, except for the villains. I will be upload those, but I want to keep a bit of mystery about them for now, but feel free to check out the others!
Last time on Power Rangers: Emergency Responders
Masters pursed his lips. "Well, just tell her it's about our project."
"Project?" They heard a voice and turned to see a short, blonde haired, woman walk over to them. She was dressed casually, as she was about to leave for break, wearing a light pink sweater over black skinny jeans and black booties. As she walked in, she noticed her interns and raised an eyebrow. "You're both on call today?"
"Well, we do work together, you know," Andi pointed out.
Sophie nodded. "Yeah, we're off in an hour, though."
Andi smirked. "Thank god for that. I'm so tired."
"You do know you still have to work for me, right?" Lia pointed out, making Andi sigh and turn back to her work. Lia chuckled before turning back to Masters. "So, what about it?"
Masters sighed. "You know I have the utmost faith in my rangers, but I think it's time to get to work finding your lieutenants. The chiefs may be considered the best, but they all have their faults. Besides that, we need someone to take care of smaller crimes while we deal with bigger ones."
Lia crossed her arms. "You want me to make a team of power rangers just to have them solve petty crimes?"
He scoffed. "Not petty crimes. We leave those to our students. You know what I mean. I need the chiefs in for the big ones. Like gruesome serial murderers and gang rapists. You guys can handle singular murders and break-ins and such."
"I'll look around," Lia nodded after a moment. "But, don't push us back if we get in on one of your missions, Linc."
Masters shrugged. "Fine, if you think they can handle it. But, keep in mind this isn't for sure. I want to see how my rangers do first."
"No problem."
Meanwhile, on the other side of ER, Tori had Mark locked up before running out of the complex as fast as she could - which happened to be through the chief firehouse. As she did so, she passed Joey, who watched her sprint out.
Where is she going? He thought, before deciding to follow her out.
Now
Taz and Sean sat on the porch steps of the old man's house, dejected looks on their faces. Taz was playing with a loose strand of hair that had fallen out of her braid, and Sean was looking at a scuff on his shoe, neither of them talking until Sean broke the silence.
"We have to keep trying." Sean spoke up softly. "Somewhere out there is a murderer and we have to find him or her."
Taz nodded. "Yeah, but where can we search? I mean, I guess I can call Junior to come out to help us, but who knows if he'll even want to get involved." Junior was Taz's boyfriend, who worked at a police station in the next town over, Holt Lake, and it wasn't likely that the officers from that town came over to help.
"How is Junior anyways?" Sean asked awkwardly, playing with the scuff in his shoe.
"He's good, he's good." Taz replied in an equally awkward tone. She looked over at him nervously. "How are you?"
"I'm good," Sean nodded, looking over at her with a small chuckle. "I'm great. Fantastic, even. What about you?"
Taz nodded with him. "Same,"
The two looked away in an uncomfortable silence. Sean internally cursed at himself. This isn't high school, Sean. Why do you do this to yourself?
Damn it, Taz, She thought. Stop it. You can't do that.
"So, watch any good shows lately?" Sean asked. Wow, that's the best conversation you can come up with? You suck. He thought to himself.
Taz looked back at him. "Oh, yeah. I've been really liking Bates Motel, but the new season isn't coming on until next year, so..." She shrugged. Try to be a bit more awkward next time. Taz thought.
"Wow, that's a long time," Sean mumbled.
"Yeah, it sucks." Taz nodded before they once again lapped into an uncomfortable silence.
Sean sighed. "Okay, look, Taz..." They were cut off when they heard the window next to them shattering due to a gun shot. Sean grabbed Taz and pulled her down while protecting her with his body. They stared at each other as they were on the ground for a moment, before looking over to see a woman standing there with a gun in her hand.
She had tan skin, black hair, and green eyes that were filled with hate. Sean looked her over for a moment, before remembering that he saw her picture at the base.
"Lara Letford?" He asked, the two getting up slowly as she trained the gun on them the whole time. Sean stood in front of Taz, due to him having the protection of a bullet proof vest, versus her not having anything to protect her.
The woman looked him over for a moment. "I guess so, Sean Francis and Fantasia Slide. Where's your valiant leader Victoria Fray?"
Sean was reaching to his own gun. "Why does that matter to you?"
"Well," Lara had a mischievous glint in her eye. "Probably so that I can kill all three of you at once and kill two birds with one stone.. or three."
Sean was quick to pull out his gun and point it at her, but she had already shot at him. The bullet hit him square in the chest, and, although he wasn't pierced due to the vest, he was thrown back into Taz and the two fell to the ground.
Taz got up from behind him as Sean held his body in pain. Lara looked slightly startled at him not getting actually shot, and Taz took this as an opportunity.
"Emergency Responders," Taz held her arm in front of her chest. She pressed the buttons 9-1-1 on her morpher. "Get Into Action!"
She was suddenly surrounded by red, blue, and green lights, hitting her across her body. While the green obviously represented Taz's color, the red and blue represented the flashing lights on the top of a emergency response vehicle.
Lara put her arm up to protect her face against the light, and, when the light died down, she looked past it to see Taz dressed in her ranger suit, similar looking to Tori's, though her's was green in all the respective places.
"Green Chief Ranger!" She called out. Taz looked directly at Lara. "You're under arrest."
- Cue Opening -
"So," The boss looked through the database of wanted criminals on his holographic computer. "This is all you've got me?" He raised his eyes up to meet Bones', who shrugged. Thorn walked up next to him and looked over it.
"Is that a bad thing, boss?" Thorn asked, frowning. "This is a pretty good number."
The boss smirked. "Well, pretty good isn't great is it?" He slammed his fist down on the table. "Get me more. As many as you can find. I want an army. People I can call on whenever I need them," He glared, his eyes turning a strange amber color. "And I mean, whenever I want."
As if they were robots, Bones and Thorn stood up straight and stared at him for a few moments before nodding.
"Yes, sir." Thorn said as Bones nodded along with him.
The two walked out, almost like they were on treadmills. The boss watched him leave with a small chuckle. "Sometimes, life is just too easy."
"Silas," A feminine voice called from a back room, which was his bedroom. He turned back to her at his name, and licked his lips as he looked her over. She was dressed very risque, and was leaning suggestively against the door frame. "You want my service now or not? I do need to get to other clients."
Silas stood up and walked over to her, smirking as he rubbed his hand slowly down her body. "Of course, Sugar."
The two went into the bedroom and closed the door behind them.
- PRER -
Taz ducked out of the way of a shot, and tried to run forward to grab the gun out of Lara's hand. Lara pulled her hand back and hit her with the butt of the gun before flipping back onto a car roof, shattering the glass of the windows under the pressure.
The green ranger growled under her breath and grabbed a nightstick from her belt and used it to sweep her feet out from under her. Lara fell back and off of the car, though she recovered quickly.
She jumped back up and tried to shoot at Taz again, but her gun was jammed.
"Damn it!" Lara threw the gun down and hopped back onto the car roof. "You'll never beat me!"
Suddenly, she was thrown from the car roof. Taz looked over to see Tori coming over with a blaster in hand. She gestured to it in confusion. "You gotta know the right combo to use to get it," Tori gestured to her wrist morpher, where there were all of the numbers. "It's combo 3-9-2. It's useful, considering we don't want to kill our criminals."
"You know what she did?" Taz gestured to her.
"Yeah," Tori nodded as Lara got back to her feet with a scowl engraved into her face. Tori put her blaster back up and pointed it at Lara. "She killed that old man."
"Excuse me?" Lara almost laughed. "She did what now?"
Tori rolled her eyes. "Don't play dumb, Lara. We all know you did it. Your little distraction of a partner explained it all to me."
- Flashback -
"He was murdered?" Tori asked in shock. "No, didn't he die of natural causes? I mean, there were no wounds."
Mark nodded. "Yeah, but the dude wasn't brain dead before that incident. He didn't have a stroke, so now what? Obviously, you can put the pieces together, Victoria."
Tori nearly cringed at her name being spoken by this criminal, before she pursed her lips and continued. "Actually, I have no idea what you're talking about. What happened to that man."
"Well, first of all, his name is Lugh Schaal, and, as you already know, he's a human." Mark told her. "Anyways, Lugh made a deal with Lara Letford's partner in crime, who no one knows, and he didn't pay. Lara went over there with her partner, and killed him with a psonic blast. I was the distraction to get you off of her when she was trying to find a place to hide where the cops wouldn't find her."
"Wait," Tori put her hand up to stop him. "Lara doesn't have a psonic blast."
"Someone does," Mark said, putting his hands on the table. "One of the two. Either way, the person that did it seems to be..."
Tori stood up suddenly when her morpher beeped like a siren on her wrist. "I have to go," She said, grabbing her coat. She opened the interrogation room and called for the guards to come and get him.
As she ran out, and the guards began to roughly drag him towards the holding cells, he tried to call towards her. "Wait! I had to tell you that one of them is really powerful! You could die!"
- End of Flashback -
"So, now what?" Tori tightened her grip on her blaster. "You ready to come with us? We know everything."
Lara smirked. "No without a fight!"
She flipped over the car and kicked Tori down hard, making a dent in the ground where she landed. She punched towards Taz, who tried to block it but was shocked at the amount of strength in the punch.
"She has super strength!" Taz screamed as Lara twisted her arm, making her fall to her knees to cushion the bending.
"Just a little more," Lara grabbed Taz by the chin of her helmet with her other hand. "And it'll snap your bones from your elbow. You'll never be same."
Sean had managed to get back up at this point. "Emergency Responders, Get Into Action!" He called. "Blue Chief Ranger!"
He pulled Tori back, out of the way, and kicked the arm that was grasping Taz's. The green ranger fell back and held her arm in pain as Sean fought back. Lara growled at him and tried to sweep his feet out from under him, but he jumped high into the air to avoid it in a swirl of air, before descending and kicking her down in the same manner.
From behind a building, Joey watched in awe. "Levitation," He whispered to himself. "Awesome!"
Lara flipped back to her feet and kicked him in the chest in her way up. When she stood, she looked around in confusion. "Where did your friends go?" Lara asked, wiping blood from her lip with an insane smirk on her face.
"Right here!" Taz and Tori suddenly appeared from behind her, and jumped off of two nearby cars, Taz on the left and Tori on the right, and kicked her down. Lara grunted in pain as she fell.
Joey almost smiled in admiration. "Invisibility," He nodded. "That's crazy!"
The young woman stumbled up from the floor and stood angrily, and shakily, in front of the two. "You can't beat me." She sneered. "Never." Lara grabbed them both by the throats and lifted them up with ease, choking them in the process.
Tori kicked and struggled hard against the hold, as did Taz, though Lara wasn't letting up. Sean got up and tackled Lara, knocking all four of them to the ground. Lara groaned in pain, but she wasn't ready to give up. She kicked Sean high into the air and threw the two girls with him, making them all demorph and land on the sidewalk.
Lara walked slowly over to them, smiling with all of the blood and bruises on her face.
"Any final words, chiefs?" Lara mocked.
She was about to deal the final blow to them, when suddenly a shot was heard. The chiefs looked in shock as Lara's face contorted from success to shock and into pain in less than minute. Lara's shirt began to turn red from her upper left chest, and she turned around slowly to see Joey standing there with her gun in his hand.
The chiefs also looked at him as Lara fell to the ground, breathing heavily and trying to contain the injury. Joey ran over to the three and helped them up, glad to see them mildly okay, despite their injuries.
"You guys okay?" He asked, looking them over.
"We can get checked out at the base," Tori pushed Joey back defensively. "Who are you, and what are you doing here? I could arrest you right here, right now if you don't cooperate."
"Hold up," Sean pulled her back from Joey. "He works at ER with us. He's the fire chief, Joseph Dixon."
Joey put his finger up. "I go by Joey, just so you know."
Tori ignored him. "Well, he just shot someone."
"Someone who was going to kill us!" Taz input, amazed that Tori wasn't more grateful. "He saved our lives, and Lara's not dead." She kneeled next to Lara and cuffed her, despite her protests. Taz pulled her shoe off and grabbed her sock, holding it against the wound in her back. "Sean, you should call for an ambulance. Make sure to tell them she's highly dangerous, and we'll be there to interrogate her as soon as she's capable of doing so."
Tori crossed her arms. "Are you taking charge, Taz? It's funny, cause, before now, you've just stayed in your lab."
"Yeah, well, someone has to," Taz looked up at her. "You care more about the fact that he shot someone, than you do about the fact that he saved our lives and did what anybody who needed to would've done."
"Really?" Tori gave a humorless chuckle. "Because, considering the fact that he's not a ranger or an officer, he can't do that. So, I'll do my job by bringing him to Masters like I'm supposed to."
- PRER -
While Masters decided to leave to go on lunch with Lia to discuss their project, Andi escaped the lieutenant base to go check on the holding cells to make sure the prisoners were safely put away until they got transferred to Waverly Prison to ride out their sentences.
She took her tablet with her, looking in the cells to call out the names of the criminals. "Carson Vido?" She asked, and the tan man nodded at her from his seat on the bench, refusing to look up at anyone. Mark was also in there with him. "Mark Rene?" He looked up at her, before nodding and putting his head down dejectedly.
Andi moved to the next person. "George Tucker?" She asked, and the light skinned man in there raised his hand at her. She looked in and saw another, darker skinned man with him. "Steven Jefferies?" The man put his thumb up.
"Lilly Anne Stewart?" She said, moving on to the next, and final, cell with anyone in it, where a short, tan woman stood with her head down, her black hair covering her face. The woman didn't respond. "Lilly Anne?" Andi frowned, knocking on the wall next to the cell. "Are you Lilly Anne?" The woman stood there, moving her fingers in a contorted motion. "Are you alright? I'm a paramedic, I can help you if you're hurt."
This woman looked up at her, and Andi was taken aback suddenly. The young woman's green eyes were wide with anguish as she looked up, revealing a startling picture. Her mouth was grotesquely sewn up, and she was crying in a muffled fashion.
"Holy shit!" Andi screamed. "Guards! Someone!"
In less than a minute, Sophie came running. "What's going on?" Andi pointed to the woman, who had now ran up to the bar and was screaming as loud as she could with her mouth in the condition it was in. Sophie gasped in horror. "Oh my god!"
"Okay, Soph, one of us has to keep watch while the other treats her," Andi told her, taking deep breaths - as was Sophie.
Sophie nodded. "Okay, I can do it. Make sure she doesn't run when we open it," She whispered to Andi, before walking slowly towards the woman, who was sobbing uncontrollably. "Hello, Lilly Anne, I'm Sophie. I'm here to help you." She gestured to the lock. "I'm going to put in the password and come in there with you to fix you up. Don't run."
Sophie put in the password slowly, not noticing Lilly Anne staring at her hands as she did so. It unlocked quickly and, almost immediately, Lilly Anne ripped the stitches out of her lips, startling Sophie and Andi. Her lips didn't look much different from the grotesque manner they were in with the stitches in, but that had to have been extremely painful.
"Why did you do that?" Sophie asked, walking towards her with her hand out to touch her face gently to look her over.
Lilly Anne grabbed her wrist and quickly grabbed her by the head, slamming it into her knee and knocking Sophie out cold. Andi ran over quickly to close the lock but Lilly Anne smirked at her. Suddenly, Andi felt an intense pain in her head - so painful that she almost passed out immediately from the pain. Then, as suddenly as it came, it stopped.
Taking deep breaths, she looked up at Lilly Anne, who seemed angry. "It doesn't fucking work," She cursed to herself, before walking past Andi to let the other criminals out.
"You're not that good with your power," Andi gasped out, rolling onto her stomach and looking up at her through her pain. "If you were, I'd be dead right now."
Lilly Anne shrugged, putting the password into every cell, unlocking them all and letting the criminals loose. "Does it matter? You can't come after me like that, and your friend isn't getting up anytime soon," Sophie was on the floor of the cell, her hair covering her face, and she wasn't moving.
Andi glared up at her. "You won't get away with this, you know. It won't work."
She smirked. "I already have." Lilly Anne walked over to her. "By the way, my name isn't Lilly Anne." She kicked her hard in the face, and Andi slipped into unconsciousness.
- PRER -
Sera was sitting in the front of the ambulance, waiting for her partner to finish up. They were called for a child's bump to the head, but all he needed was a few stitches and for them to be on their way.
Her partner, Ross, was busy flirting with the child's single mother, who was equally as interested in him as he was in her. Sera had saw it and rolled her eyes, as Ross did this all too often. Anytime he found out a woman was single, he was right on top of it. It always drove her crazy.
No matter what was going on, he always had time to flirt and date. She didn't even have time for a relationship for herself, but he always made time. Considering his job and everything, Sera truly wondered how he always did it.
Then again, she worked not only as a paramedic with him, but also as an intern with Masters and the rangers. She really didn't have much time to herself, but that wasn't always a bad thing. Sometimes she preferred to be working to occupy the time.
Truth be told, Sera didn't really know what she would do if she didn't have her jobs. She didn't have much or a social life outside of the people she worked with, and she really didn't have a hobby at this point.
Ross climbed into the ambulance and held up a piece of paper for her to see. "Got her number, and we already planned a date for Saturday night."
Sera rolled her eyes at him. "You literally just met her, and now you're going out with her?"
"Hey, I saved her kid's life," Ross crossed his arms.
Sera almost laughed. "No, you didn't. He could've survived just fine without our help, and, besides, you don't like kids."
"So?"
"So," Sera gave him a look. "Why are you going out with a mom? Nothing is going to come from it."
"Is something supposed to?" Ross asked her, chuckling. "It's just a date. She's hot."
Sera scoffed. "That is so messed up, Ross," She shook her head. "I don't know how you can do that to somebody. Not everybody is a plaything." She began to drive, and he was silent. As she drove, she sighed. "Look, I think you should call her and end it now, or really go for it."
Ross looked down. "I'm not going to do that. Sera, I'm just passing time, honestly. I just haven't found my right person yet, and I like going out with different people all the time. You wouldn't understand."
"You're right - I don't understand. Why don't you go for a person you really want instead of random people you don't even know? I mean, it's really messed up to go after people, especially ones that could potentially really like you, just to 'pass the time.'"
Sera took her eyes off the road for a moment to see his reaction, when he exclaimed, "Stop!"
- PRER -
"I can't believe this," Tori shook her head as she held onto the handcuffs she put on Joey to bring him to Masters. "We're seriously going to wait here to see if she comes out ready for questioning? I'm the leader, you know." She pointed out. "We need to get back to the base and bring him into Masters, before telling him what happened so he gives us our next assignments."
Sean scoffed. "Tori, I think you're having an off-day," He muttered under his breath, though she still heard him and elbowed him in the ribs.
"Why aren't you getting your bruises checked out and what not?" Tori asked him irritatedly. "I mean, you need to make sure you're gonna be okay, and get a new bulletproof vest."
"I will," Sean said. "As soon as we hear something."
Taz nodded. "Besides, Tori, you don't understand. There's a reason we can't tell Masters."
"And why is that?" A voice came from behind them, only to reveal Masters standing behind them in the waiting room. "While Sera was waiting for Ross, yet again, she told me you three were over here." He looked past Taz and Sean to see Tori and Joey. "Why are you holding my fire chief hostage, Victoria?"
Tori gestured to the gun she had put in her pants to hold. "He shot our suspect."
Sean cleared his throat. "After she shot at me and attacked us," He gestured to the bullet hole in his uniform. "We would've died if he didn't step in."
"Is that so?" Masters stepped forward to look Joey over.
"Sir, I am so sorry if I did anything to make you upset," Joey pleaded with him. "I really wasn't thinking - I just saw them in danger and had to act."
"Upset me?" Masters almost laughed, removing his handcuffs. "Actually, I'd like to offer you a promotion," Masters reached into his pocket, and pulled out a morpher similar to the chief rangers. "I've been holding this with me for the right time and right person, and I'd love to offer it to you. Will you join our team?"
Sean and Taz smiled, while Tori was in shock. Joey was also in shock, but nodded eagerly and placed the morpher firmly on his wrist. "Thank you so much, sir. I won't let you down."
"Please, call me Masters." He said. "I prefer it from my rangers."
Joey nodded again. "Alright, Masters."
Masters turned to the others, looking them up and down. "Before you three go off to get medical attention, which you need, does anyone want to tell me why you went off to investigate a crime you had no right to investigate without my permission?"
Tori nodded, turning on Taz and Sean. "I told them we should come to you before anything."
The two were quiet. "Well, I'm glad you did, despite your faults. If you didn't, I wouldn't have found my yellow ranger, and I wouldn't have confirmed something I knew. I've been talk to Lia and..."
He was cut off when a doctor, covered in blood and surgical covers, came out of the OR with a dejected look on his face. "Unfortunately, rangers, we have lost Lilly Anne. She flat-lined while we were operating, and we were unable to revive her."
"Wait, that's Lara Letford." Tori said, still shaken up by the day so far. Usually she was very on top of her game, so this off-day was very rattling to her. "Lilly Anne is locked up at ER, awaiting transfer to prison."
The doctor gave her a strange look. "No, that was definitely Lilly Anne. I know her because she came in last week after a headache of sorts almost killed her. I'd say some sort of psonic blast, but I know one thing for sure. That's not Lara Letford."
Next time on Power Rangers Emergency Responders: The lieutenant rangers are introduced, and they are asked by Lia to become rangers and help solve the crime.
Next chapter title: Lieutenants Part I
So, I know there are a lot of things left open, and a lot of plot holes, but they will all be filled in in the next two-parter. The day the chiefs experienced will be somewhat told through the lieutenant's perspective, but, since you haven't seen them yet, there won't be a lot (if any) copying of scenes from this chapter to the next.
Anyways, I hope you guys liked this chapter, and I'm excited to get to work on the lieutenants next - so everyone who hasn't seen their character yet, will definitely see them in the next one (unless they don't come in until later)!
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