To all my readers, if you don't like the way I write SPD, then you don't have to read it and this goes for all of my Power Ranger fanfics, both current and future ones. I'm not gonna force you to read them.
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I DO NOT OWN CHARACTERS OF POWER RANGERS SPD! I ONLY OWN THE OC!
Shoutouts:
With a cry, Jack flipped through the air to dodge the green orb that was flying towards him. It bounced off the wall and Jack held his hand over his shoulder, catching it in the glove he wore. With a smirk, he hurled it over to the opposing team. It veered away from Bridge and bounced off the wall. Syd ran up the wall and flipped to avoid the ball as it flew towards her and Z back flipped as it ricocheted towards her. Leah, on the other hand, stood her ground with her eyes on the ball and as it bounced back at her, she held out her hand and caught it.
"You're showing off, Leah." said Z.
"No, I'm not. I know exactly what I'm doing." said Leah and flicked it at the wall to her right.
"Don't get cocky." she tells her.
"Yeah, right. I would never do that." she replied. It bounced off, straight at Z who grinned as she ducked to avoid it. It bounced back and Leah tilted her head. It flew, better yet, it bounced past Syd as she spun herself out of the way.
It hit the bowl of popcorn beside Sky, who jolted, but didn't look up from his book as popcorn showered around him. Leah winced at the accident she caused. "I didn't expect that to happen. Sorry, Sky. I'll clean it up." said Leah, feeling guilty at the sight.
The red ranger caught the ball and hurled towards Bridge. It bounced off the walls, forcing Bridge into a corner, before hitting him. It bounced off his chest and the others winced sympathetically. "Alright…" the green ranger said, sliding down to the floor. "Mental note…walls aren't always your friend." he decided.
"Don't worry, Bridge, next time you're on my team." said the young purple ranger, patting him on the back.
"Sorry, Bridge, nothing personal." said Jack. Bridge just shrugged, Jack looked over at Z and jerked his chin over at Syd's direction. The two went on a two on three game. They managed to tag her out. Jack brushed off Z's shoulder. "Nice one, Z." said Jack.
"Thanks." she replied.
"Add insult to injury, I broke a nail." stated Syd, showing Jack and Z, her hand with a chipped nail. Sky looked on with disbelief on his face. The light ball rolled over to Sky, Syd walked over and asked, "Come on Sky, play with us?"
"Light ball? You're kidding?" Sky asked, before going back to his book. "D-Level game."
"You used to love this game!" Syd exclaims. Leah walked over to them and puts on her puppy dog look.
"Pretty please, Sky? It would be awesome for me to get better if I had another person with more experience to help me." Leah said in a cute baby voice and batted her eyes.
"No time for games anymore. If you remember, we have an enemy sitting out in space." said Sky. "Gruumm's not playing games and neither am I." Soon as he uttered those words, the alarms sounded and everyone groaned. Sky looked down at Leah and said, "Puppy dog eyes don't work on me. You were being way too cute."
"Well, it was worth a shot." said Leah, with her arms raised. "Can't blame a girl for trying though."
"Come on." said Jack.
"That should get their attention." said the alien, sitting in the cockpit of the robot he was driving. Then an image of Gruumm appeared on the screen in front of him. "Rinbah, stop playing around and get to work on the city." said Gruumm.
"What's the point in doing this if you can't have any fun." asked Rinbah.
"You are a member of my army. Your job is to bring havoc on the city. We'll see how much fun you'll have when I stuff you in the air lock!" said Gruumm.
"Understood. Rinbah out." he said. B-Squad rushed into the command center where Cruger and Kat were monitoring the attack on the city. "Rangers! Suit up!" barked the commander.
"Ready?" Jack called as they grabbed their morphers.
"Ready!"
"S.P.D. EMERGENCY!"
"Space Patrol Delta!"
"Opening Zord bay tubes." Each of the rangers went to the tubes and slid down a pole to their zord.
"Lock 'em in, rangers." said Jack.
"Affirmative." said Sky.
"You got it." said Bridge.
"I'm ready!" said Z.
"Okay, let's go!" said Syd. Kat was already finished with the reconfigurations on the purple delta runner but Leah couldn't suit up to go into it yet, due to still getting a crashed course in driver's Ed.
"You know, I hate being the youngest." said Leah, watching her teammates form the Megazord.
"I know how you feel, Cub." said Kat, placing a hand on her shoulder. "Besides, you're almost done with that crashed course I've been giving you." Leah's face lite up.
"That's true." she replied, then turned to face the monitor.
"Lock them in rangers." said Jack, activating his zord. Once in their zords, they went out towards the robot. "There it is." said Syd.
"I'm going in for a closer look." the red ranger decided, skidding around the corner.
"You're breaking protocol!" snapped Sky.
"Who asked you?" growled Jack.
"We should form the megazord now!" Sky insisted and Jack groaned, rolling his eyes.
"Oh, gimme a break!" the red ranger complained.
"You know, you guys are lucky that I'm not there right now to knock your heads together. Now stop fighting each other in front of me or I swear that I will go somewhere that you will never find me." Leah snarled and the two of them sighed.
"Yeah…maybe wait to fight until after the fight?" suggested Bridge.
"Fine, form the megazord." said Jack. They came together, forming the megazord and grabbed their blaster. "Analyze perpetrator." said Sky.
"Analyzing." the others began to scan as the robot approached them.
"I think I found a weakness." said Syd as she scanned the robot's design.
"You're mine!" said Rinbah as he attacks the Delta Max Megazord.
"I know that it's a bad time to be asking this question but can I get some of those…?" Leah began to ask.
"NO!" shouted Z.
"Dang it!" said Leah. "I could've reprogrammed those parts."
"You don't need them." she tells her, causing her to growl.
"You're mine!" he roared, lashing out as it reached them. They blocked, hitting him back.
"We got him now!" Sky called confidently as they held him tight. "I'll take it from here." he said. The megazord moved around, twisting the robot's arm. "What are you doing?" frowned Jack.
"Haha, watch and learn." Sky smirked, calling on their sword. They slashed the robot, who stumbled back and laughed. "Now it's my turn, losers." Rinbah declared before pausing.
"Hi, whatcha doing?" asked Mora, appearing on the screen.
"Battling the rangers' zord." said Rinbah.
"Sounds like fun, if your energy levels weren't so down." she said and he noticed on his monitor that she was right.
"You're going to get vaporized if you don't get back here." she sang. "Now!"
"Another time rangers." he said then disappeared in a flash of light.
"We lost him." said Jack. The entire delta base could hear Jack and Sky arguing about their failure. "You should have listened to me. We could have caught that guy if we formed the megazord right away." stated Sky.
"You don't know that, Sky!" said Jack.
"Actually I believe I do!" exclaims Sky.
"Really, if you spent more time with the team, you could enlighten us." Jack said as the both of them entered Kat's laboratory.
"This is coming from a guy who used to order us around like he was our boss?" Sky asks.
"What? I was just trying to…" Jack started to answer.
"That's enough." Kat said, interrupting them. "Fight the enemy, not each other." Leah was behind her with a small smirk on her face. "I guess you two really don't know when to quit arguing." said Leah.
"What do you mean, Leah?" asked Jack.
"If my memory serves me correctly, I recall that I told you that the next time, the both of you fight in front of me, I would teleport somewhere that you would never find me and that's what it's gonna be. Deal with it, gentleman." said Leah and went over by Z and Syd. The red and blue rangers looked at each other in stalemate. "Good, now the Commander and I decided to add to your arsenal." continued Kat, pressing a button, a door opened and revealed a pair of issued SPD green and red motorcycles.
"Alright check it out." said Bridge as he and Jack went to inspect their new vehicles.
"Looks like Christmas came early this year." said Jack.
"Actually Jack, I'm Jewish." replied Bridge. "But I suppose you can say that Hanukkah came early."
"Okay." said Jack cheerfully.
"This is so unfair." complained Sky. "How come they get new bikes?"
"Something wrong with your bike, Sky?" asked an irritated Kat. The door opens and Commander Cruger walks in. "Cadets, I have something to show you."
"What is it, Commander?" Syd asked as B-Squad follows the commander. Without speaking, Cruger activated a hologram video of A-Squad alerting them to a trap. Before they could give their position, there was an explosion and the footage ended. Leah started staring off into space, visualizing what could happen to her future when Cruger spoke.
"That was the last communication with A-Squad." Cruger tells them. "And we have not established their location. I fear that they may have been…eliminated." he admitted in a low voice. Nobody spoke as the excitement in the air faded. "God have mercy on my soul." muttered Leah. If A-Squad was gone…then they were the next line in defense.
"You have failed me. Prepare for implosion." said Gruumm as he had Rinbah in the air.
"Please…have mercy…" Rinbah said, begging for his life.
"Gruumm, stop." said Mora and he drops him to the floor.
"What now? Are you going to try and talk me out of this?" he asked her.
"Of course not. I like seeing someone shot into space as much as the next person." she replied.
"Good. Do you want to push the button?" Gruumm asked.
"You betcha. It's not every day you get to rid the galaxy of a great bounty hunter." she said as she started to pace. "I'm just saying, Rinbah failed because his robot ran out of energy, right?"
Gruumm motioned for her to continue. "What if we powered the robot with the same hillarian crystals that power our ship?" she asked.
"It's possible." replied Gruumm. Then Broodwing steps forwards from the shadows and stood right behind Rinbah. "Hillarian crystals don't exist in this galaxy." he tells her.
"I know where we can get something just as good." she argues.
"Do not."
"Do too."
"Prove it."
Sky was in his room taking out his aggression on the punching bag as Leah was still staring off into space, only by this time, she had a baseball in her hands. Kat walked by, then seen the two cadets. "Hey, everyone else is training on the simulator and you're here?" said Kat.
Leah shook her head and snapped out of her thoughts. "I'm sorry, Kat. I was just thinking about something. Plus Cruger took me to do the simulator earlier to see how advance I am." said Leah then started playing with the baseball.
"Ok. Be careful with that. Don't break anything when you're playing indoors." said Kat and she nodded.
"Sure thing." she said, not losing her concentration.
"I was thinking about A-Squad." said Sky. "And anyways, I wasn't invited and I don't care."
"Sure you don't." Kat replies in disbelief, then hears an "ow!" from behind her. She then turns around to Leah rubbing her forehead and glaring at the baseball. "You ok?" she asked.
Leah looks over and nods. "I think I should use a helmet the next time I throw a baseball in the air." she replied as she leaves the room. Just then the alarms sounded that Krybots were attacking a transport van that was carrying diamonds. The rangers headed out to the coordinates provided by Kat. "Get to the ware house. We'll handle things here." said Jack.
"On it." Syd called from the jeep as Z sped along. Leah was in the back seat with a look on her face. "All clear. Thanks Jack." said Syd as Jack and Bridge clear the area of Krybots. Sky and the girls went on ahead to the warehouse and came to a stop in front of a crate. "Diamonds!" squealed Syd.
"And it looks like some type of teleportation device." said Sky, flipping off the switches as the timer had 40 seconds left on it.
"Turn it off!" exclaims Syd.
"I'm trying." replied Sky. He then continues to try to turn the teleportation device off.
"Bridge is the mechanical genius here." said Sky in frustration. Z then looks at Leah with a 'think you can do it?' on her face. "Does it look like I know how to disarm that thing? I haven't even learned how disarm things like that." said Leah. Then she and Z heard a strange, muffled sound coming from somewhere.
"Guys, Z and I will be back." said Leah, then both girls followed the sound. The purple and yellow rangers found two employees, both bound and gagged inside a van. "Any of you know how to turn off that teleporter?" Z asks as she removes the gags.
"No." said one of the employees. Z looked at them. "If I were you, I'd run." she tells them. The two left in a hurry. "I hope Sky figured out that teleportation device." said Leah.
When both of them returned to the others, Z asked Sky, "How's it coming?" Sky looked at her, shaking his head. "Don't answer that."
"There's got to be some way to stop the timer." said Sky, just as Jack and Bridge came riding over the hill. "Look out!" Jack warns before firing laser beams at the teleporter. The others ducked for cover. "That's one way." commented Sky. Z smiled. "Nice Jack, you zapped the teleporter."
"Not to mention you saved the diamonds." added Syd. Leah and Sky turned as they heard something behind them. "Excuse me guys, but the diamonds aren't safe yet." said Sky.
"Run!" Jack ordered as the six cadets ran for it just as the Krybots opened fire and destroyed the crates. "Take cover!" said Bridge as he quickly ran past Z. Once the lasers hit the crates, they exploded and it started to rain diamonds. "Wow, I had a dream like this once, only I was a princess." stated Syd.
"Can it Syd, before I lose my breakfast." interrupted Z.
"I don't think I ever had a dream like that." muttered Leah. "I usually dream about pranks or building something."
Syd held one of the diamonds in her hands. "You guys could use some sun. Let's shed a little light on the situation. I summon the stone." she said, making her ability to reflect the light onto the Krybots. The others shielded their eyes before leaping into action. "Next time, I'm bringing sunglasses." said Leah.
They each fought and used their side arm blasters. One of the Krybots grabbed a huge diamond and took off with it. "We have a ground full of diamonds; we can't just leave them here." said Sky, as Jack picks up one of the diamonds. "I suggest, one of us stays here to guard them, while the rest of us report back to Cruger." Bridge volunteered himself.
"Thanks for volunteering." said Jack, glancing at Sky.
"Me? But I didn't volunteer." Sky disagreed.
"Okay, Sky. Then I order you to stay here." Jack responds before leaving. Syd turns to look at Jack. "One man to guard all these diamonds?" She said to him.
"Alright, keep him company." replied Jack.
"Yes!" squealed Syd. Leah didn't know how to react to Syd and starts walking towards the SPD vehicle. "Leah, stay here." said Jack.
"Do I have to?" asked Leah.
"Yeah, I need you to wear down Sky a little bit." said Jack.
"What do I get out of it, Jack?" the preteen felina asks, crossing her arms.
"Next month, I'll check you for fleas." said Jack.
"Make it cookies and you have a deal." said Leah.
"Deal." Leah then walks over to join guard duty. Two of the Krybots were on board Gruumm's ship as they handed him the diamond. "All you managed was one diamond!" he shouted and he hits the bots with his staff.
"At least it's a big one. I'll prep it for the conversion." said Mora, but then Gruumm stops her.
"No, use to power Rinbah's machine and send him into the city. It will create a diversion that will get the power rangers away from the warehouse. I need more crystals." said Gruumm
One out of the three guards were sitting on the crates, while the other two played with the diamonds. After the diamonds were brought in a nice somewhat neat pile, Sky started to complain. "This is ridiculous." complained Sky, reaching into the saddlebag on his bike for a water bottle. "I should be the one debriefing Cruger, not babysitting a bunch of reflective rocks."
"Try millions of dollars with of reflective rocks." replied Syd.
"Normally I don't complain about things like this, but I have stuff to actually do rather than hang out with Mr. Bad Mood over there." said Leah.
"I heard that, kid. So don't even think about trying to be cute with me again." said Sky, passing her over.
Leah hated that Sky kept calling her 'kid'. She stomps over to him and said angrily, "I get that I am a younger cadet and I haven't started at the academy from the ground up like you did, but at least I deserve to be treated with some respect! You wouldn't know what it's like for someone like me who doesn't have parents."
"You don't have parents?" asked Syd.
"You got that right. I was dumped at a local hospital here on earth until they pushed me out onto the streets where I had to basically raise myself. I didn't know what being part of a family was until Z and Jack found me, so I got trust issues." said Leah, glaring at Sky.
Sky and Syd felt sympathetic towards her. Sky didn't know what to say next to Leah, then went back onto complaining about Jack. "Whatever. It's obvious that Jack wants to keep me as far away from the action as possible. He feels threaten by me that I should have been red ranger." said Sky.
"Come on, Sky, Jack had nothing to do with that." said Syd.
"Whatever Syd." replied Sky, taking back the water bottle for another drink. Leah smirks at Syd and reaches for a couple of diamonds. She hands one to Syd and throws one at Sky.
"Whatever Syd." mocked Syd.
"Knock it off." said Sky.
"Or what, you're going to call my parents?" asked Syd.
"Seriously don't test me or you'll be sorry." Sky warns. Leah and Syd kept tossing diamonds at Sky; he then came over to them and poured the rest of the water bottle on top of them. Sky then started laughing at the two soaked girls. "It took us looking like this, to get a smile out of you?" asked Syd, with her blond hair dipping. Sky went back to his by the book self.
"Very funny." he said.
"No, it looks good on you." said Syd while Leah nods in agreement. The two girls walked over to him. "You know, if you spent a little more time with the team, you wouldn't be such a loner…." Syd stated.
"There's an old Felisan saying that Kat told me: Kuishi Ne Kucheka. It means, live with a laugh and a smile." said Leah. Sky didn't answer but moved his arm and his force field appeared, Syd touched the force field and it shocked her. She walked off and Leah followed her.
"So, you're learning Felisan?" asked Syd.
"I am. Since I was conceived on the planet, might as well learn the language from someone who was there when it was still an actual planet." said Leah.
Back at Delta base, the others were reporting to Cruger. "So what would Gruumm want with diamonds?" Z asks as she and the others were around the computer.
"Engagement ring?" Bridge asks. Z and Jack gave him a strange expression. "Not likely." answered Kat, turning away from another computer.
"Diamonds, if property converted, can mimic Hellarium Crystals." said Kat.
"So Gruumm's looking for energy." said Cruger and the alarms sounds.
"Looks like he's found it." Jack said as the monster that they were fighting earlier was back. Jack, Z and Bridge went out and confronted the robotic zord piloted by the alien criminal. They then formed the delta zord.
Leah and Sky were watching Syd measuring a large diamond. "Do you think a 100 karats is a bit too much?" asked Syd.
"Personally, that is way too much for me. 50 karats is good enough for me and nothing more." said Leah, looking at the diamond in her hands.
"Me either." she replied. Sky called into Jack. "Break for Jack. It's all clear at the warehouse. Ready to join you." He said into his morpher.
"Negative Sky. We're engaged in battle. Maintain position. The Troobians are up to something. Send Syd and Leah as back up." said Jack.
"Later dude!" said Leah and teleported away.
"That's my cue. Later gator." said Syd as she begins walking away.
"I'm going with you." stated Sky.
"Disobeying an order?" questioned Syd.
"I'm not sitting on the sidelines." said Sky. Both rangers left, unaware that there were more foot soldiers lurking around. In the city, the morphed rangers regrouped and Jack noticed that Sky was with Leah and Syd. "Sky, I told you to maintain your position." Jack said as he walked over to Sky. "What about the diamonds?"
"They'll be fine. Look, I'm better suited for battle." answered Sky.
"That's not the point." said Jack.
"Let's not start that again." said Leah.
"You can battle me when you're battling each other." Rinbah jeers.
"He's right about that." answered Jack.
"Okay, thanks. Now surrender." Sky ordered.
"Who's going to make me?" Rinbah asked.
"One! S.P.D. Red!"
"Two! S.P.D. Blue!"
"Three! S.P.D. Green!"
"Four! S.P.D. Yellow!"
"Five! S.P.D. Pink!"
"Six! S.P.D. Purple!"
"Rangers ready! Space Patrol Delta!"
"Oh yeah?" Rinbah tossed a ball up into the air and it exploded into a group of Krybots. The rangers called on their weapons and began to fight. Before long, the Krybots were defeated and the rangers regrouped to face Rinbah.
"Don't forget about me!" he yelled, grabbing his weapon and attacked. However he was easily outmatched by them and Sky knocked him to the ground.
"Got him! It's time to face judgement." said Sky. He took out his morpher and issued judgement mode. "I'm innocent!" Rinbah pleaded, quickly changing his tune.
"I was framed!" he insisted, before it flashed red.
"Guilty as charged. Delta max blaster!" The blue ranger fired his weapon. Rinbah stumbled as he got up from the blast. "We're taking you in." stated Sky.
"Never!" Rinbah replies.
"Wanna a bet?" Sky asks, taking back out his morpher. "Confine criminal."
"Not fair." said Rinbah as he was put into a confinement card.
"That's how it's done, Blue Ranger style."
"Excellent. This is going to be easier than I thought. Store the remaining diamonds in the energy field." he said to Mora. She then turns to him. "Work, work, work. Don't you just ever want to play?" she asked.
He gives her a simple "No." then starts laughing.
Back at the base, Sky was being dressed down by Cruger. "Your decision to disobey Jack and leave your post has given the enemy a great prize." said Cruger. "With the disappearance of A-Squad, this was the worst possible time for your selfishness."
"Yes sir." Sky replied, he felt like even guiltier of letting his jealous get the best of him.
"You can't win every battle. However when we allow our emotions to control our actions, we give the enemy an added advantage. Dismissed." said Cruger.
"Sir." Sky said quietly, saluting the commander and leaving. In the B-Squad barracks, Sky was laying on his bed and looking at a picture of him and his father. Jack knocked on the door a short time later. "How did it go?" he asked.
"Brutal. Two weeks on night watch." he replied.
"Mind if I come in?" asked Jack. Sky waved him in. "Suit yourself." he tells him. Jack walks in and sits down on Bridge's bed, rubbing his hands together.
"Look Sky, the reason why I left you at the warehouse, is that I was pretty sure those Krybots were coming back and you were our strongest fighter." Jack explains.
"Yeah right." said Sky.
"I'm serious." said Jack. Sky sat up and puts the picture aside on the nightstand. "I know you don't trust me yet but I do trust you for looking after Leah, even if the kid has issues of her own." said Jack. Sky nods and rolled his eyes.
"Hey, hey I don't blame you ok. I'm still learning to trust myself. But I'm willing to work with you, if you're willing to work with me?" Jack asks, standing up with a raised fist. "What do you say?"
"Well, it's not worth bumping heads." said Sky, finishing the fist bump.
"Alright." said Jack. He starts walking off before turning, "We're going to play some light ball?"
"I got a…" Sky began before picking up his glove. "Yeah, I'll not only play. I'll win."
"Then you get to be on Leah's team."