What makes me blue

The morning of today was just like any other, the sun rose and people shook themselves from their dreams of fulfillment and started their day. I had gotten out of bed this morning knowing that I had to study to complete my high school finals, somehow find a job and that my partner does a job I fear will make me lose him. Unfortunately the rest of the day made this fear a very real possibility. I stood motionless in the crowd of onlookers outside of the star bucks that had just opened in angel grove which was of course packed for a weekday. There were a few kids from my school Angel Grove High and heaps of uni students and women with dyed red hair and small glasses, gay men with their tennis player boyfriends and trendy men who liked to read and sip mocha at the same time. We weren’t thinking of coffee though, not at this moment. In this town it’s a little like musical chairs only we all don’t rush for a seat… we rush for a television.
I pushed my glasses back into position, something I usually did when I was nervous or unsettled and moved my backpack filled with my school books which depending on the outcome of the images on the screen I may or may not need for the future from one shoulder to the other. The Power Rangers were fighting again for us and everyone needed to see. It was a rare thing that I had noticed in this community, we take the rangers for granted. There are always the few screams of the people who might be stomped by the aliens but most the time we live life like there are no aliens and no worries but this one was different.

‘Oh my god.’ One of the waitresses said under her breath, not in shock but in fear as the earth shook beneath us slightly just before seeing on live TV the megazord hit the ground. Gasps and heavy breathing filled and silence of the crowd. A middle aged woman put her hand on the girls shoulder as we continued to watch, united in a fear that this again was happening, and that perhaps for once the rangers won’t be able to stop it.

‘That fly looking thing won’t even give them a chance.’ A man commented from behind.
There were a few agreements and nods as the TV reporter told us what we already knew, that things were looking bad for our heroes.
‘Why aren’t they using that green dragon thing?’ A school boy asked out loud. ‘It works most the time.’ His voice wasn’t resentful but needing comfort, comfort the rangers usually provided.
‘The Dragon Zord lost power three days ago when Goldar came down, I don’t think it will be functional for a while yet.’ I responded knowing full well a few eyes suddenly looking in my direction and thoughts on how I knew what I knew.

A familiar beeping shook my thoughts, no one else seemed to notice as I slipped through the silent crowd and headed to the side of the building where no one could see me, oh how I was getting used to this game. The world’s fate was hanging in the balance and here I stood, away from the world in the dark shadows.
Taking a deep breath in a ran my fingers through my curly brown hair, looked around to see no one was looking and pressed the button as instructed on my communication device.

‘Are you…” I started.
‘Jason we need to get this thing up again for Christ’s sake.’ I heard Kimberly shouting.
Her words were quick and the usual youthful confidence wasn’t there but a woman getting down to business.
‘There is no use getting on our feet if we can’t defend ourselves.’ Jason answered with clear stress in his voice.
‘I’d rather be a moving target than a nice little dart board here on the ground.’ She called back as I heard move explosions as they continued to be attacked.
‘Trini redirect power to yellow and blue we need to get the legs online.’ Jason ordered confidentially, hell he had at least sound it.
“Brad, where are you?” I heard his voice… this one was to me.
‘I’m in town, watching it on the news.’ I answered softly.
‘Go to my house, its safer there.’ His tone was flat and cold.
‘Bill I’m worried.’ I started to tell him.
‘Are you alone?” He asked. I could still hear the voices of the others in the background.
‘Well yeah….’
Everything went white… I was moving very fast over what appeared to be homes or perhaps mountains…. And there I was… in Bills shadowy dark bedroom in his apartment.


The sun shone down on my face as I sat in the courtyard just behind the high schools café. I tried to block out all the noise, the chatter and general distractions that this new school had brought into my life. Being the new kid and being alone most of the time made you feel targeted like everyone was watching you thinking ‘wow there is the new kid’ and not always doing something about it. Right about now just going back home to Australia seemed like a good option, having the accent might get you noticed but the fact I was from the other side of the world showed intensely. I didn’t know anyone closely here and the only people who seemed to show me attention were the cheerleaders who wanted me to say something from some Australian/American comedy series about some guy with a big knife. Science however was still the same and so I turned to it but the lack of social interaction made my grades drop, hence the bad interview with the principle I had just walked out of. ‘Being a foreigner can make it tough.’ He warned me.
Constantly reminding me I’m different can make it tougher.
‘Your Brad, right?” I looked across and saw that there was a senior sitting next to me on the steel, cold seat. Being the middle of winter made it all that worse but he was so close he actually made me feel a little warmer.
‘That’s me, just transferred here.’ I said as I took in a deep breath and I turned to look at him. It was that science guy Billy I had seen around the school.
‘By the sounds of it you don’t like it too much.’ He said as he looked around the small courtyard and than back to me. ‘Don’t worry it does end.’
And than he smiled at me and every cell in my body started to buzz, my heart started to beat through my chest and I got that warm fuzziness I had always written off as childish.
‘I noticed you signing out in the office the other day, when do you leave?’ I took a chance and offered out the fact that I had seen him around and remembered.
‘You saw me huh?’ He asked with a same cheeky, confident smile that I hadn’t seen him use before, not around his friends anyway. ‘Today is my last day and than it’s off to university.’
‘Damn it,’ I shouted in my mind. ‘Oh, great.’ I said out loud.
He took a moment to gather his thoughts and he stared at his closed hands like he was considering something. I had seen my brother use that look when he flat out told me my dog had died and he was trying to figure out how to say it best. I watched him for a moment or two before he sat up properly and looked me straight in the eyes.
It must have been obvious I wanted to hear what he had to say.
‘Do you want to go my place?’ He asked.

I stared at the bedroom where I had first made love with Bill, most notably his bed with its red and black sheets. Those sheets were burned into my mind as the time I changed from who I was back than on that first day I met him at school. It was than on that day I discovered I had befriended a Power Ranger.
The air sizzled as a blue light gave way to form and a very damaged and almost lifeless looking ranger appeared before me. I didn’t see a warrior of the people, I didn’t see a defender of the Earth in intergalactic battle gear… I saw my boyfriend.
‘Fuck.’ I said as I jumped forward and took the blue ranger in my arms and directed him onto the bed. He fell hard onto the mattress and his weight pulled me down with him. I sat on his waist and tried to look into his helmet to see if he was alive and could only see my reflection in the black shiny surface.
‘Bill are you alright?’ I asked him loudly. I ran my hand down his chest and could still feel the heat from the no doubt exploding consoles of the Megazord. My fingers reached his belt and I fumbled at the morpher until finally it clicked and in a blue haze the ranger disappeared leaving a man with a bruised eye and some blood running from his mouth.
‘Are you alright?’ I asked again loudly as this time I ran my fingers through his hair which I always did when I was concerned or nervous for him. ‘Tell me where it hurts.’

On the drive to his place from school I tried to keep it casual talking about my home life and the move from Sydney to the US and all the schools I was thinking about applying for at the end of the next year. He nodded and kept small talk, sometimes chirping in with stats about strong points of the different schools etc but everything was matter of fact. Everyone now and than I noticed he would look at me like was sizing me up, when I caught him doing this he smiled that same boyish smile.
‘Brad, I want you.’ He told me.
‘Alright.’ I answered, not really sure of what I was meant to do. Nano seconds after I thought of one million cooler things to say than just alright, but it seemed to work because he smiled even more.
The walk from his car to his apartment was a little bit nerve racking. My hands were firmly placed into my pockets and for some bizarre reason that was beyond me I couldn’t look him in the eye. Could it be one of those social psychological interaction…
‘Brad?’ He asked me as he opened the front door. ‘You with me?’
His apartment was nice and actually pretty big with a main bedroom, spare room, lounge room, kitchen etc that I really didn’t expect for a high school student who spends most of his time at the juice bar. A few random multi colored pieces of clothing were spread over the furniture and he had a massive record collection sort of spilling out over his table in the corner.
‘Nice place.’ I said with a smile.
‘You like it?” He asked me. I turned around to see him leaning on the walls, his arms folded and his eyes looking right into mine.
‘I do.’ I answered, taking my eyes away from his in my naive attempt to tease it. “It looks good.’
He stepped into my vision with his glasses off and for a moment I could not recognize him. He took a step towards me, put his arm around my waist and leant forward and kissed me with a force I had not expected. His tongue was in my mouth before I knew what was happening and mine in his just a quick. He softly guided me backwards until my back was against the wall and his body was pushed hard up against mine. His left hand met mine and he held it tightly, while he guided my other to bottom of his blue t-shirt.
He pushed my hand up under his shirt, I could feel the warmth from his torso, it must have done something for me as I was caught by surprise when he grabbed my dick through my jeans and gently pulled up and down.
‘My jeans.’ He said as he pulled away from my mouth for just a moment.
I nodded and kissed him again deeply before I looked into his eyes for a second and knelt down before him and loosened his black belt from his blue jean shorts.
This wasn’t the guy I knew from school. I mean I knew he was confident, but this confidence was something totally different to I had seen in him before, I thought he was the geek guy who the other guys kept around cause they grew to love him. But this man looking down at me was something different.
‘What color are they?’ He asked me as I took his pants down revealing his boxer shorts.
‘Red.’ I answered.
‘Exactly.’

Bill managed to tell me something about the megazord coming back online and that the green dragon power coin had helped and the alien threat was neutralized. His words were quiet and his eyes remained closed for the entire telling but I got the most of it. I lifted his head and put a pillow under it, I dabbed up the blood as I lay by his side, my head next to his and my hand on his chest which rose and fell as he breathed. It was the quiet before the storm and I knew it.
I awoke to those same red and black sheets and an empty bed. I could hear Billy talking to someone in the lounge room.
‘As Rita gets more and more fanatical about this we need those upgrades. Alpha without the Green Dragon Zord we were nearly killed…” He continued heatedly.
I waited until he had been quiet for a few minutes when I walked out still dressed in my jeans and the blue jacket Bill has bought my for my seventeenth birthday.
He didn’t look at me as he sat on the lounge looking at the TV reports on the news.
‘I told you to get here the first sight of trouble.’ He said firmly.
I wanted to get close to him, I wanted to hold him, I wanted him to not do what he was doing.
‘I only saw it for a moment…’
‘We were attacked for fifteen minutes before the Zord went down.’ He said as he shot a look at me. ‘You saw nothing for fifteen minutes? I’m not an idiot. I told you.’
I looked to the carpet just to gather my thoughts and than back at him. ‘Listen, I’m…’
‘You’re sorry? Well fuck Brad what if I found you dead? What if Rita decided for some fucking twist to send down more than two monsters and you were killed.’ He yelled at me as he stood up, I took a step back.
‘Listen I’m here and you guys saved the day.’ It was meant to sound good.
‘Did we? Well cause of Jason we almost lost the entire Megazord and Zack was no where to be seen when it came to defense.’ He continued to walk towards me.
‘But it worked out, you brought the team together and I’m sorry you had to think of me Bill Ill do it next time I swear it.’ I tried to ease him.
He was now about half a meter away from me and he stopped and looked in my eyes. ‘Whatever, I don’t know why I even give a shit.’
The look in his eyes hurt more than words. I felt worthless, I felt like his punching bag and all I could think about was how to make him feel better.
He turned and headed back to his chair and sat down and totally ignored me.
‘He was in a battle.’ I told myself. ‘He needs you.’
I walked over and knelt down before him to which the man I loved gave no response to admit I was there. I ran my hands up his jeans. He continued to watch the TV as he moved his waist towards me as I took his cock out of his pants and put into my mouth, like I always did at times like these.

This wasn’t how I imagined my first time, not at all. I thought of imagined it like some big event where I knew it was going to happen and plan for. But here I was in Billy’s house only an hour after actually meeting him and staring at his boxer shorts. My fingers found the elastic band of his boxers and my heart raced as I started to pull them down. I could see his hard on through the material and slowly revealed his pubic hair and than his manhood was there in front of me.
I took it in my hand and started to jerk him off, I looked up to see if he liked it and he had his eyes closed. Wanting with every fiber in my body to continue I put his hard dick into my mouth and started to suck and lick, up and down. My own cock was hard as in my jeans but I didn’t want to stop what I was doing. Being new to it the taste of his pre-cum caught me off guard but I swallowed and kept going.
‘Yeah, that’s it.’ Billy moaned in his deep voice.
He started to thrust his hips forward and his cock went further into my mouth and into my throat, making my gag at times but I didn’t want it to stop.
He pulled out and took off his shirt revealing his hard manly body and kicked off his jeans. He told me to do the same.
‘Lets go in here.’ He said as he took my hand and led me into his bedroom.
I kept telling myself this is it, but it never really sank in. I was in the hands of a man who knew what he wanted and what he wanted was me… there was no better feeling than that. The halls were lined in pictures of different men in different karate poses, they were naked and fighting, all in black and white. It was strong and masculine.
The black and red sheets stood out in the room full of dark colors like purples and maroons. He stood at the bedside and looked at me.
‘Come here.’ He said to me, his dick still hard as he jerked it a few times as I approached.
He kissed me deeply and ran his hand all over my naked body, until finally he rested me down onto bed. I layed looking down at him as he stood above me.
‘Relax.’ Billy said with a small smile as he knelt down before me, took my dick in his hand and guided it quickly into his mouth. His tongue started to work the top of my cock as his lips went up and down the length, my entire body seemed to tense up in pleasure. I took great satisfaction in reaching out and touching his hair as he did this to me. Every move he made was precise and I wanted to do each and everyone to him. I had sat alone in my room jerking off to movies of this moment, and now it was happening so fast it felt like I was going to miss out on it.
He stopped, looked up into my eyes and crawled onto the bed, his weight of his body pressing down onto mine.
‘Do you want me to fuck you?’ He asked me, his voice was heavy as he whispered into my ear.
I nodded, once again wishing I said something equally as cool, he nodded back and moved off of me to the side and once again stood up next to be bed. He grabbed my legs and bent them up, he grabbed some things from a drawer next to bed, one of which was a condom, which he put on while looking at me.
‘You look worried.’ He said to me almost mockingly.
‘I need this.’ I answered truthfully as I watched him.
He nodded in reply, took hold of his manhood and directed it. I could feel the top of his dick against my backside. I knew that this could be painful, the guys on the videos seemed to enjoy it enough. Before I knew it his dick slid into me, it felt some pain, and it felt like my body was telling me this wasn’t the right direction of flow but it was Billy inside of me, it was awesome. As he started to edge in deeper I felt the pain more and more but I ignored it. He started to thrust a little, I kept smiling.
‘Here’ He said as he tossed me something. It landed next to my head and I turned to see a little grey box, like a rectangle but with smooth sides.
‘What?” I asked him.
‘Pick it up.’ He told me, his voice was very low.
I picked up the small item and looked at it. It was silver and had a picture of what I knew was a triceratops.
‘What is it?’ I asked him, still very aware of the fact I was losing my virginity as we spoke.
‘It’s a morpher.’ On the word morpher he grabbed hold of my bent legs and drove his cock full length into my body. I winced back in the sudden blunt pain.
‘I’m a ranger.’ Billy said again, sweat starting to appear on his face. He kept fucking my ass as he spoke, moaning frequently.
He liked it, I liked that.
I didn’t need to speak, he kept telling me he was a ranger, how I was being fucking by a ranger and that he would protect me, watch out for me. At the time it all seemed very hot, very romantic but it was words he would live by.
He pulled out of me and furiously jerked his cock, I watched his expression on his face, pure lust and power as his deep voice moaned out that he was going to cum. The hot seamen hit my stomach, I could feel its warmth on me and it was enough I came seconds afterwards.
Billy leant forward, his torso on mine as he grabbed hold of my head and kissed my as deeply as he had before, I could taste him again and hoped I would get that everyday from now on.
‘That was great, Billy.’ I said breathlessly.
‘Call me Bill.’

The fact that Bill is a Power Ranger didn’t really strike me as being overly off putting or weird. Love can do crazy things to a guys mind and I thought it was even hotter than when ever the rangers were fighting or on the news that he was thinking about me. Not only did a have a boyfriend who was in university but he was the defender of the earth too… not many guys could say that.
As myself and Bill became closer and spent more time together we were attacked a few times by Putty Patrollers. When it first happened I was heaps freaked out as these were grey alien things sent from the moon to Earth to kill us by evil alien lords but Bill always took care of me. He told me to stand behind him as he kicked, ducked, dived, punched and generally constantly kicked their asses, which was a major turn on. I think that first time we were attacked was the hottest sex I had ever had with him to that point, all the rage and electricity was flowing through his body.
‘I won’t let anything hurt you.’ He told me as he fucked me one night, his face damp with sweat as he thrusted into me.
The real problem began when I was walking home from the school gym one night to my dads place in angel grove because I had missed the bus. I was in a pair of gym shorts and a singlet and the winter night was bitterly cold. Bill had meant to pick me up but he had his ranger thing to do so I told him not to sweat it. Even before I meet Bill I had always been into keeping myself fit, and truth be known I could take care of myself and ever since watching the putty fights I had learnt a thing or two.
I could hear some people walking behind me; it was early in the night so I ignored it and kept walking not thinking anything of it. My walkman was blaring away in my ears and I figured as long I didn’t see anything grey or gold aliens in the sky I should be set.
Even over the music I heard something being yelled and my internal senses was telling me something was up. I looked around where I was, angel Grove Park… pretty much alone besides whoever was behind me.
I took off my ear phones and turned around. In the small amount of light coming from the moon I could see six guys were behind me, well to put it better six men as they looked to be in their late twenties. All in jeans and the same sort of black leather jacket with crosses all over them.
‘There isn’t a gang in angel grove.’ I thought to myself.
‘Yeah you faggot, I’ve been calling to you.’ A guy with short brown hair said to me, a tattoo under his left eye of a snake.
I didn’t answer, I just watched for a moment or too. I didn’t recognize them from around which suggested to me they weren’t local. Maybe the faggot thing was a coincidence, no one else knew.
‘We’ve been following you for a while now. It’s not polite to ignore people.’ Another said to me, he was the closest being about three meters away.
‘Sorry didn’t hear, what can I do for you guys?’ I answered, trying to be calm and collected.
‘We want your stuff.’ A third said to me. His eyes sort of shined out in the dark, he would have been hot if I wasn’t being robbed.
I can handle myself, I knew this but six guys seemed a little full on. Backup isn’t a dirty word so I reached to my watch and pressed the button that linked me to a two comms system that only went to Bill.
‘Bill I need…’ I didn’t get to finish, I turned around just in time to see there were actually seven guys, the last of whom had snuck behind me and smacked me in the head with a baseball bat.

I could feel someone going through my pockets, they had taken my walkman. I could hear them laughing. The pain was searing to the left side of my head… I couldn’t see much but I knew I couldn’t let them get away with this.
‘Bill.’ I cried out, not even aware I was doing it.
A blue light appeared beside; my boyfriend had just showed up.
‘What the fuck?’ I heard the guy with a snake tattoo yell out as he saw the Blue Ranger.
‘Yes, what the fuck is right.’ The Blue Ranger yelled out as he walked straight up to the leader who tried in vain to punch him. The ranger easily dodged the attacked, grabbed the loser by the throat and lifted him one handed off the ground.
‘You fucked with the wrong guy here.’ Bill yelled out in anger.
The leader was chocking as Bill held him. A few of the other members were trying to hit Bill to get him to let go, it wasn’t working.
Just as I started to daze out again I heard a crack and the leader fell dead from Bills arm. With the speed and strength of a ranger Billy attacked my attackers. With a swift kick they went flying meters into the air. Each blow must have been like a truck hit them.
I opened my eyes again for a brief second to see Billy had all seven of them in a pile on the ground. My eyes must have been open wide enough as I think the Blue Ranger looked at me for a moment before they all vanished in the blue haze of the teleporter.
I never found out what happened to them. I awoke in the hospital to find Billy sitting beside me, my hand in his and all my stuff that was stolen on the table and all of their wallets in my backpack by my bed. The licenses of course were taken out, but I think it was more for my sake so I didn’t have to look at the photos of those who hurt me, or think about what happened to them. It didn’t stop me though, what couldn’t a Power Ranger do? Did he zap them with his energy blaster? Did he teleport them into the deepest darkest regions of space? Were they alive at the time? Did they scream?

I walked down the main street of Angel Grove with my hands in my pockets and my head down as a I tried to ignore the look of people trying to not look at my bruises. They just saw some troubled like fuck of a boy who was probably high on drugs or something else that isn’t suitable for the dinner table. I cant describe this feeling that I have, this secret that my body belongs to Billy as much as he owns his television set. I’m starting to know him a little too well, I mean if he walked in and caught me jerking off in the shower he would be in there is a second, hands around me demanding what it is I was doing experiencing something without him, demanding to know what was going through my head at that exact moment in fear that I was shifting away and that I was moving onto something better. He would strike me, call me ‘a waste of his and the worlds fucking time’ and storm out leaving me on the ground holding my arm hoping it wasn’t yet again broken. I would get dry, get changed and go to leave where he would ask where I thought I was going, he would stop me and break down emotionally and possible cry and tell me I was the reason he worked so hard every day saving the world. I would see for a second that Billy I loved, the one who wanted me so badly but didn’t need to possess my every cell and I would allow my broken arm to fall painfully to my side without showing it and reach out and touch him hoping it was that boy I met at school and we would go back to that room, that red room with black sheets and make love, once again concreting myself to this life and tell him it was all alright.
‘Hey there little dude, do you want to save the world one day?’
A thirty year old mans voice who was trying to sound seventeen broke into my internal reasoning and made me look up and reveal the outside proportion of that I wished to hide and try to cover with a ‘I’m okay, really’. The irony of what I saw made me want to laugh and for a second I thought I had until I saw my reflection in the black plastic screen that made up the blue ranger that stood before me.
‘Cause you can if you start investing with …’
It was a salesman, I can’t believe this a salesman dressed up in a crappy Triceratops Ranger outfit with his hands on his hips, a picture of a mammoth on his suit (which confused the hell out of me) and a little cardboard sign pointing into the pathetic bank that I don’t wish to provide and publicity to by naming.
For a moment the whole world went silent, my face seemed to pound with blood and the soft wind behind me seemed to lick my skin, mess my hair and provide me with a moment to compose myself if only for a second.
‘Do you love me?’ I asked him.
‘Uh…’
‘Do you need me?’
‘I need you to get an account.’ He was now confused. I didn’t care.
‘You say you’re a ranger? You fight each and everyday so you can be a part of something Bill. At first it was enough to be accepted by this small group of friends and than your entire life is changed with this amazing and fucked up gift and suddenly its different, you are a super hero to the god damned world…’
‘Listen kid…” the man who so wanted my attention a few seconds ago stuttered.
‘But it didn’t happen to just you Bill, it happened to your little circle of friends to so to them you aren’t that special are you?’ I began to shout. ‘You love me because when your around me you can be dominant, you can be in charge. Why is that?”
‘Listen kid, just fuck off.’ The Plastic blue ranger said to me and he started to walk away.
‘Who is real? Bill or Billy?’ Which one are you when you wake up in the morning? Which one is out there fighting for the world? Which one loves me? Which one fucks me?’
I pushed past him and for a second caught a glimpse of myself in the glass of the nameless bank and saw my black hair pressed hard down onto my pale white skin; my arms tightly crossed over my flimsy blue punk want to be t-shirt and my blue jeans with rips down the front. As I walked I thought I couldn’t figure out how I had gotten there to this place, how I had lost what I once was. But than it struck me… I hadn’t.

The white moon hit my face and made the concrete covered area around me sort of glow in a white shade that seemed almost sweet, the tree that grew between the pentagon arrangement of silver seats struck me as disconnected from the green grounds of the high school football field that in comparison seemed to free and wild about a hundred metres away, but even through the tree was in a foreign area it had unseen roots that made it strong.
A zap of power behind me let me know that he had arrived.
‘Bill.’ I said softly, not yet turning around.
‘Brad.’ His voice was strong, deep, and unsure.
My heart pounded heavy in my chest and every hair on my body seemed to be on end as I turned around and saw the man I fell in love with in this very spot.
‘How was your day?’ As I asked him I looked into his eyes of his and all my nerves vanished.
‘Alright, I guess. I had some troubles tying to fix this machine.’ He looked into my eyes as he spoke, trying to figure out what was happening.
‘Machine, really what sort?’ I asked him as I walked up and sat beside where he stood on one of the silver seats.
He had his hands in his jeans as he sat down next to me. As he did I couldn’t help but notice his bulky jacket he was wearing was blue because of the unwritten law of the rangers dress code, but the shirt beneath was red.
‘I have had some troubles with transportation device.’ He started. ‘When we get to space and all that there is some interference.’
I nodded as he spoke and looked up at the stars above; they seemed to be burning so brightly tonight.
‘It’s all a bit too technical to explain to someone like you but it’s really shitting me off.’
I knew what he was talking about because it had been keeping him from coming to bed to the early morning for the past few nights.
‘Well by the sounds of it I think the problem is that your using a direct wave transmitting system to get into space during teleportation, and a sky wave to teleport around the world which is great during the day because if the ionosphere is stronger with the D and E layer being present for radio deflection however I think seeing the system is using the same transmition device for multiple ways of teleportation and is leading to small amounts of signal degradation.’ Like I had once said, I loved science.
He looked me up and down for a moment as if just noticing me.
‘Your clothes are different, what happened to the ones I bought for you?’ he seemed almost shocked.
I knew what I had one, a pair of black jeans and a red, white and blue cross checked button up shirt.
‘Yeah, I thought I would wear something different tonight, something a little more me.’
‘Right.’ He said softly, his hands clutched together as he looked forward at the ground. ‘Why did you call me here?’
I took in a deep breath and each and every moment I had spent with him flashed through my mind. All the times we made love, when we fucked, when he protected me, when he needed me.
‘Just to say I love you.’ I leant forward and ran my fingers through his hair as I kissed him. My tongue touching his. I knew his taste, his smell, how he felt.
I pulled away and looked at him knowing this next second is when I needed to be me, to be a man and to be strong.
‘I love you too.’ He said softly as he studied my eyes trying to figure out what was happening.’
‘I’m sorry.’ I said as closed my eyes and reached down and touched my leather strapped wrist watch that I had built that afternoon and a zap of energy split between us and a silver light took me away, not before seeing a look of confusion in his eyes that almost killed me.

‘Hurry.’ Alpha seemed to yell out at me as I materialized.
It took a moment for me to figure out my surroundings, but it appeared to be a room of the command centre, I wouldn’t have known because I had never been there before, but the robot assured me no ranger knew of its existence.
I reached down to my watch again and pressed down on a little grey button right on the top. The button went down and wouldn’t come back up, it was locked in.
‘My vital signs are now hidden as long as I wear this.’ I told the robot and assured myself.
‘You are safe here but as soon as you leave you had better hope that works.’ Alpha 5 said with a strange sort of stress in his voice for a robot.
My heart seemed to be trying to convince me not to do this as I reached for my back pack that contained all my belongings that I had come here with.
‘My brother lives in Angel Grove with his girlfriend.’ I told the robot as I double checked I had everything. ‘I am going to get him and leave. I can’t do this anymore.’
“I understand.’ Alpha told me as he reached out to me, holding something that looked familiar.
‘A morpher?” I asked in disbelief.
‘Just in case.’ He assured me.

I transported my brother and his girlfriend from their home to another town where I was sure that Billy wouldn’t find me. I enrolled in university and started my so called normal life.
I know in his veins that his ownership for me must be going overtime but I think somewhere there it was love. Every now and than I look to the sky and think of what is out there, who he is battling. I see the Rangers all the time on the television and think maybe one day I might see him again. All it would take is for me to take off this watch that I am now bound too, but I betrayed him… what now makes me different to those guys in the park? I don’t know.