Hey guys, I'm glad that you all are liking this so far! I'm really enjoying writing it! This chapter will start when Tori and Sean caught Mark (the man who tried to steal the car in the beginning).

Oh, and after this I will be back on my other stories as well, which means updates won't be as frequent as they are now. I'm already part way into the next chapter for Guardians of the Galaxy, and then I'll be onto Animal Guardians before this one again. But, that'll be definitely after this multi-parter, so don't worry about being left on cliffhangers for too long!

Autumn is portrayed by Leighton Meester

Jason is portrayed by David Henrie

Nikki is portrayed by Anna Kendrick

Owen is portrayed by Nicholas Hoult

Emma is portrayed by Tara Moss

Oh, and because I forgot this in the last chapter; Ross was portrayed by Ben Affleck

Two women sat in the front seat of an ambulance, parked outside of a grocery store, waiting for any calls. While they waited, one of them had brought their own holographic viewing screen, and the two were watching a movie.

"I'm really enjoying this, Autumn." The older of the two said. This woman was around 35, and had long blond hair, blue eyes, and pale skin. "I mean, since we're both so busy we can't really go out on dates, so this is perfect." She kissed her on the cheek.

Autumn smiled back at her. "I know. I'm glad we thought of this, Emma." Autumn was around 24 with light brown hair, dark brown eyes, and pale skin. She, like Emma, wore a paramedic uniform as they were both on the job.

Suddenly, their pagers beeped. Emma sighed and turned the movie off as the two checked out their CAD, or computer aided dispatch, to get the address. "1st and Fall Parkway," Autumn told Emma as she put the keys in the ignition and started up the ambulance.

Autumn turned on the sirens as the two sped off. "I wonder what it is," Autumn said.

"Well, you're the charge so I hope its something you can handle," Emma told her.

"I can handle it, for sure," Autumn smirked. "I might not deal with most pressures well, but I'm great at my job and it's always something I've been able to do."

Emma nodded as they neared. "I'm glad about that. You wouldn't have this job if not," She smiled to herself. "We wouldn't have met if that was the case."

Autumn chuckled lightly. "That's true."

Emma parked next to the scene, and hissed. "Car accident?"

"No," Autumn shook her head, seeing the two rangers next to the car as a police car also pulled up. She hopped out of the ambulance and ran around to them as Emma went to go get the medical bag. "Hi, I'm Autumn," She said to the red ranger, who was putting the man in her custody in the back of a police car. "I'm a paramedic. What's going on here?"

The red ranger gestured to the car. "You can see the car right?" She asked, crossing her arms. "My partner pulled the woman from the wreck, you should talk to him."

"What about the man in the police vehicle?" Emma asked, coming up behind Autumn and handing her the bag.

The red ranger let out an exasperated sigh, obviously impatient with the two. "We have our own medic at ER. We'll be fine." She walked back over to her bike and sat on it as the two paramedics walked over to the blue ranger.

"So," Autumn started with an unfazed attitude. "What happened here?"

"There was a man holding a gun to her head in the car while she drove. He didn't shoot her, but she crashed the car and claims her head hurts. I put her down and told her to lay flat in case of a spinal injury," He explained.

Autumn nodded and knelt down beside the woman, who's eyes were closed. "Excuse me, ma'am, can you hear me?" Autumn asked, putting a light hand on her shoulder. The woman didn't respond. Autumn put her head next to her chest to listen to breathing, and nodded when her breathing sounded at least somewhat normal. She then checked for a pulse, and found it beating erratically. "Her heart's beating pretty fast," She said, looking up at Emma. "But, her breathing sounds normal. This could be a stress reaction."

"Should I get the stretcher?" Emma asked.

"Get a neck support. We have to align her body first." Autumn told her. As Emma went to get that, Autumn looked up at the blue ranger. "She wasn't always unconscious?"

"No," He shook his head. "Just now."

Autumn nodded. "Alright, well, thank for your work Mr..."

"Francis; Sean Francis." The blue ranger told her.

"Mr. Francis. We can take it from here," Autumn told him as set set the brace on her neck and Emma pulled the stretcher over. "I'm guessing we'll see you at the hospital for questioning?"

Sean chuckled. "Actually, we don't usually take care of these kinds of crimes. I mean, we always question the perp, but we usually send someone else out to question the witness."

Autumn nodded. "Well, then, I'll be seeing he or she there."

- Cue Opening -

Andi made her way over to the lieutenant forensics lab, looking for one of the scientists, when she found exactly who she was looking for writing down his findings on a clipboard. This young man had brown hair, blue eyes, and pale skin. He wore a white lap coat over a white button down shirt, khaki pants, and nice brown shoes.

"Hey, Jason, what are doing?" Andi asked.

Jason gestured to the older man on the table, not looking up at her. "The chiefs just left, so this body was transferred over here by Sera to be vetted one last time. I know it's usually the other way around, but she said that Taz didn't fully figure out what happened to him. I never get to do this, so its exciting."

Andi looked at the body a bit. "It doesn't look like there's anything significant that happened to him to cause this."

"You wouldn't think so," Jason nodded. "According to Taz, he's brain dead. It's a bit strange, considering Sera said he wasn't when they picked him up."

"That's crazy," Andi muttered, noticing Jason's refusal to look up at her. "Hey, Jason?"

Jason looked slightly up at her. "Yeah?" He asked.

"Why won't you look at me? It's kinda weird, especially since we've worked together for quite a while." Andi crossed her arms.

He chuckled awkwardly. "I'm not trying not to look at you," He scoffed. "I just.. I'm working, you know?"

Andi rolled her eyes. "Okay," She said, clearly not buying that story. "So, you are aware that you and Nikki are going down to the hospital, right?"

Jason suddenly looked up at her, wide eyed. "Wait, what? No, no, no, no - I work in a lab, not at a hospital. Besides, why do I have to go? I mean, Nikki's a detective, so it makes sense, but I.. I work in forensics. You know, with dead people? And, with Nikki? She's just... That just..." He spoke almost frantically.

"Jason, calm down," Andi told him, taking a deep breath with him. "Look, we need you to go down there with her because we have no other detectives on duty, and the chiefs tell us nothing. Sera literally caught me and told me to send someone to the hospital. No explanation at all, besides that a paramedic would be waiting for you." Andi rolled her eyes. "They only do that because they don't want us moving in and taking their place or anything. I honestly don't even know why they think that."

"You mean we could never help people like they do?" Jason asked, calmed down and a bit taken back by her statement.

Andi shrugged. "Well, it's not like they're looking to add more rangers. I mean, yeah, we do have an extra base just in case, but I doubt that'll happen. The chiefs are too prideful for that. I'm almost positive Masters tells them not to tell us anything." She then frowned. "Wait a minute, why wouldn't you want to go with Nikki? I thought you liked Nikki."

"Yeah, that's the problem," He ducked his 5'11 frame down a bit as he saw Nikki walk by, dancing a bit with headphones in her ears. "Someone like that would never like someone like me."

"Well, you could always go for a guy." Andi pointed out, making Jason give her a look. "Hey, just because you don't flaunt it doesn't mean nobody knows. Besides, there are probably guys around here that would love to hang out with you, or more," She smirked.

Jason scoffed. "Like who?"

Andi gestured around, though it was obvious she didn't know. "Like, anybody. You never know, Jason, okay? Somebody around here has to like you, or will like you. You just don't out yourself out there that much." Andi walked around the table and began pushing Jason out. "Go change and go get Nikki to go to the hospital. Find out what's going on."

"I feel like the only reason I'm going is because you want me to hang out with Nikki," Jason crossed his arms, trying to look angry to get out of going.

Andi rolled her eyes at his attempt. "So what? Besides, you need more field experience, and what better way to get that than with a detective?"

"Only this one time," Jason sighed, after a moment of silence. "I don't like doing things like this."

- PRER -

Meanwhile, a young woman was in the gym, or the training room, running on the treadmill with headphones in her ears. She was listening to Ldn by Lily Allen and was singing along to it. This young woman had long dark auburn hair, blue eyes, pale skin, and was about 5'2. She was wearing yellow shorts, white tank top, black converse and a yellow zip-up jacket. Her other clothes were hung up in her locker not too far away.

"Sun is in the sky oh why oh why?
Would I wanna be anywhere else
Sun is in the sky oh why oh why?
Would I wanna be anywhere else," She sung loudly.

She looked at herself in the mirror and was startled to see Jason standing behind her. He was now dressed in his usual attire, consisting of a blue and black striped short sleeve shirt, black zip up hoodie over the top, black jeans, and blue and black sneakers. She nearly tripped and stopped the treadmill, pulling her headphones out. "Hey, Jason, what's up?"

"Hey, Nikki. S.. sorry, I didn't mean to make you.. umm.. trip. Did I scare you?" He chuckled nervously.

Nikki smiled and gathered her phone and water bottle up. "No, I'm okay. It's fine!" She laughed. "Was I singing too loud?"

Jason shook his head. "No! No, of course not. Even if you were, no one would mind - you're a really great singer. I mean, you know.." He sighed. "Umm.. Andi needs us to go talk to someone at the hospital."

Nikki frowned as she walked over to a bench and wrapped a towel around her neck, before stretching out. "I thought the chiefs usually took care of.. everything. Not that I don't wanna go, though. I can get dressed."

He opened his mouth to respond to her, but Nikki had already run over to the locker, grabbed her clothes, and then went into the bathroom to change. Jason waited awkwardly for her to come back. Nikki came out a few minutes later, wearing her uniform, consisting of black denim skinny jeans, a black-and-yellow flannel shirt with a black tank top on underneath, and brown ankle lace-up boots. She looked very nice, and Jason couldn't help but stare as she put her towel and bottle in her locker.

When she was done, she walked over to him. "Shall we?" She asked, full of energy.

"Yeah," Jason nodded. "Yes, yeah. I am ready to go," He said, trying to be nonchalant.

"Great! Let's go," Nikki grabbed his arm and dragged him behind her.

- PRER -

Autumn waited outside of the room where the young woman was, both of them waiting for the detectives Sean said would come over. Autumn leaned against the wall, feeling pretty bored, actually. She had been waiting for a few hours, at least, and there was nothing to do. Emma, her very tall girlfriend, had left to continue working while Autumn had to wait to talk to the detectives.

Soon, she heard the elevator ding and looked up to see two people walking towards her, one man and one woman. They approached her. "Hi, I'm detective Nicole Keegan and this is forensics specialist Jason Lee Johston."

Autumn shook her hand, finding Nicole looking her over and staring at her a bit. "I'm Autumn DeWitt, paramedic." She also shook Jason's hand. "I don't think we need a forensics specialist on this one, though. Our victim is still alive. I mean, she has a mild concussion and potential PTSD, but besides that she's alright."

Nicole, noticing that Jason was trying to find the words to respond, spoke up for him. "He's coming along to learn a few things for the lieutenant squad." She looked in the window, past Autumn. "What do we have here, anyways?" She asked, a bit louder than needed.

"Well," Autumn turned to gestured to the young woman. "This is Zoey Bilson," She said. "She was involved in a car accident after having a gun pressed to her head by a man that the power rangers took away." She reported as Nicole wrote that down. "So, you guys are the next power rangers, huh? The lieutenants?"

"Actually, Nikki and I are..." Jason tried to speak up, when Nikki interrupted him.

"We're working on it," Nikki smiled. "Hopefully, you know? It's really a matter of if the chiefs need it or not. They tend to take all of our cases." She looked Autumn over once more. "You know, you should go by ER and talk to one of our interns, Andi or Sophie. You seem pretty good at your job, and we need more candidates for the team than we have."

Autumn chuckled. "Really? But, you don't even know me."

Nikki smirked. "I can just tell. You'd be great."

Jason looked at the two talking, and felt a bit of jealousy rise up in him, though he had no idea why. From his knowledge, Nikki was straight, and he was probably overthinking it anyways.

"So, maybe we should go in and talk to Zoe," He nudged Nikki lightly, getting her attention.

Nikki nodded. "Oh yeah, we should," She said, but turned back to Autumn first. She handed her a business card, which had an address on it. "Since you're probably off now, you should go over there. The sooner the better, you know?"

"Yeah, alright," Autumn smiled. "Thank you,"

As she left, Nikki called out, "No problem!" To her, startling some other people in the hallway. She chuckled nervously. "Sorry," She said, quieter as she dragged Jason in the room with her. She smiled at Zoey. "Hello, Zoey, I'm detective Nicole Keegan," She shook the young woman's hand. "This is Jason Johston. We're here to ask you some questions - is that alright?"

Zoey nodded. "Okay, but I don't really know anything important. That man didn't tell me anything, really. He just said he wanted me to drive."

"Drive where?" Nikki asked, writing it down in her notepad.

"To the pier," Zoey responded, sitting up a bit in her bed. "He didn't say why, just that he would.. kill me if I stopped."

Nikki nodded. "But, he didn't give you any other information?" Zoey shook her head. "Alright, did he have anything with him besides the gun? Like, do you think he might've robbed a store or something?"

"No, actually." Zoey frowned. "He just.. told me to drive. But, when he got in, I saw a woman watching us! She had tan skin, black hair - I couldn't really see her eyes but I think they were green."

Jason frowned also, tapping Nikki lightly on the shoulder. "Nikki, I think she's talking about Lara Letford. She's been avoiding police for a while, and I've been seeing her poster everywhere in ER."

Nikki thought about it for a moment. "Yeah, I know about her. I tried getting on the case, but the chiefs wouldn't let me." They turned back to Zoey. "I think that'll be all for now. We'll get back to you if we have anymore questions."

- PRER -

Autumn had driven to ER in her car, and had also changed on the way there. She wore a dark red peplum top that ties at the top, black leggings, black vans. She parked her car in the nearby parking garage and walked over to the large building. The first open door she saw was in a firehouse - one that looked practically abandoned. She walked cautiously inside.

"Hello?" She asked, looking around the dark garage area. She saw a firetruck, the fireman gear of one person, and a pole that came down from the top floor. There were also stairs to get up there. "Is anyone here?" She called out.

She was startled when she heard barking, and looked over to see a dalmatian running down the stairs. The dog moved a bit slower than she expected, but it ran up to her, sniffing her and seeming a bit distrustful. "Hello," Autumn smiled, kneeling to the dog and petting it's head. "Who are you? Where's your owner?"

Suddenly, she heard someone land from the pole behind her. She stood up and looked over to see a young man standing there with his arms crossed. He was a tall young man, standing at about 6'3, with black hair, blue eyes, and pale skin. He wore a black jacket over a long sleeved dark green shirt, black jeans, and dark brown work boots.

"Who are you, and why are you in my place? Also, why are you petting my dog?" He asked, turning on the lights and walking towards her. He looked her up and down, surprised at her presence.

Autumn chuckled nervously. "I'm sorry, I was looking for.. a place in this giant building. I'm Autumn," She held her hand out to him, and he shook her hand.

"Owen Lalley," He responded. "That's my dog, Buster. Where are you going?"

She gestured around. "I have no idea actually. This detective, Nicole Keegan, told me I should talk to the interns? Andi or Sophie?"

Owen made a face and nodded. "The lieutenant interns, I know them. I guess Nikki's trying to recruit everybody she can find to become a ranger, then." He laughed. "She really wants to show up the chiefs. They tend to take any and all cases of anyone lower level than them - which is everyone."

Autumn frowned. "Really? That's not cool."

"Yeah. If you're wondering why I'm the only fireman here, that's why. Everybody trains to be like the chiefs, or to be with them. There's only three that I know of, and only one I've actually met; Victoria. To me, she's kind of like a queen bee. Always on top. She knows where she stands, and makes sure everyone else knows it too." Owen told her. "But, since I'm a nice guy, and since we don't have to see them, I'll show you the way to the base."

"Thank you," Autumn smiled as the two began to walk, after Owen put Buster back upstairs. "I would never find otherwise."

Owen nodded. "No problem..." He trailed off as the two were passing by the holding cells. "Okay, so we found them faster than I thought we would." The two ran down the hall to the two fallen interns. Owen ran to Sophie while Autumn ran to Andi. "Soph, can you hear me?" Owen called to her, tapping on her face lightly after turning her over. "Come on, Soph, please!" Sophie didn't move.

Autumn tapped on Andi's face after putting her straight to make sure her neck wasn't injured. "Hey, can you hear me?" She asked. When Andi didn't respond, Autumn turned to Owen, who seemed more than a bit startled at this. "Owen, we have to get them to the hospital. They need medical attention."

As she was about to dial Emma's number, she was shocked to see Emma already calling her. "Hello?" She asked.

"Autumn, Sera just hit a few criminals in the ambulance on her way to the hospital. She's bringing them in now, but she said they escaped and everyone needs to keep a look out. Where have you been?!" Emma asked.

Autumn looked up at the open holding cells and swallowed the lump in her throat. "She hit a few criminals in the ambulance?" She asked aloud, getting Owen's attention as he also looked up at the cells. "Oh my god. Hey, tell Sera to let Ross handle the criminals and pick her up. Tell her to lead you into to ER near the holding cells, and that Sophie and Andi are injured, okay? I have to go, but please get that done quickly. We have to leave, but we'll get someone to watch them in the meantime."

"Wait, Autumn, what's..." Autumn cut Emma off by hanging up and running over to Sophie after making sure Andi was straightened up, and did the same to Sophie.

"I'm a paramedic," She explained to Owen when he gave her a look. "Look, we have to go,"

Owen looked at her like she was crazy. "No, we can't leave. They're hurt!"

Autumn nodded. "I know, but we have to go find those criminals. Everyone else is busy, and we're the only ones that know about this."

Owen stared at her for a moment, and looked between Sophie and her, before nodded. "Okay, let's go."

Next time on Power Rangers Emergency Responders: Autumn and Owen go to track down the criminals, when word gets to Nikki and Jason who join them when confronting Lara Letford. Meanwhile, after Lia and Masters find out what happened, they put their plan into motion, much to the chief's chagrin.

Next chapter title: Lieutenants Part II

Everything should be wrapped up in the next chapter! Also, I appreciate all of your reviews and I can't wait to read them on this chapter! Glad you guys are enjoying it so far!

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