Power Rangers Galactic Force

Chapter 2: It Has Begun

It was two days since Raffael had joined them on the ship. Commander Jie had yet to return to them. He sent a message saying he had to take a detour due to some occupation of space by the New Galaxy. He was going to be longer than expected. It was no fault of his own, fortunately. He did have a habit of losing track of time or wandering.

It was not exactly a surprise that he ran into the New Galaxy. Solstice had probably ordered for increased patrols to try and find the Special Force as quickly as he could. Why would he want to let them grow if he could potentially track them down and end them now? Thankfully, their ship was made with having to stay hidden in mind, so evading prying eyes was easy.

Raffael was insistent on learning everything he could the moment everyone thought he was recovered enough. He was going to prove to the commander that he was worthy of being given a place on this team even without all the training. That meant learning how to fend for himself better.

He had never had any official training for combat. It was always risky to try and learn it. The New Galaxy was very good at cracking down on anyone offering those types of lessons outside of their official training camps. Raffael had to teach himself hidden away from sight. He was warned against it as he was young and should leave the fighting to his elders. Raffael had never listened to them. He was going to prove he was a worthy candidate to help fight back.

He was picking up English quite well despite it only being two days since learning. He was able to start communicating bit by bit in it. At least the ship had a translator so he wasn't alone if he couldn't say something yet. He was very fascinated by all of the abilities this ship had. He has heard rumors of advanced technology, but had never gotten to see much of it. His planet may not have been very primitive, but it was lacking in technology compared to most.

"So, you wish to learn how we fight?" Jae questioned.

"Yes. I know how to fight a bit, but I assume you guys have some good tricks up your sleeves to deal with those soldiers and stuff." Raffael replied to Jae. "I... was not doing that well against them. Maybe it was in part my weapon but... I want to learn better ways to fight back."

It was early on the ship. Everyone had only gotten up and hour or two prior. Jae always liked exercising in the morning to get ready for the day and Raffael had followed her there. Maxi was also in the room, curious about what was going to happen. Nico was busy helping ALIVA with some database organizing. He promised to join them later if time allowed.

"You're correct about that. I didn't even know half of these fighting techniques until I joined this program and I come from a race that teaches kids martial arts from a young age." Jae said. "If you're so certain, then let me teach you some warm ups and then we can start sparring a bit."

"Sounds good." Raffael nodded eagerly. "I can't wait to finally learn. I've always wanted to be taught how to fight since that day. Unfortunately, no one wanted to teach a kid and obviously we couldn't learn it very openly."

"It's been a while since I've seen such youthful hope." Maxi commented from where he was lifting some weights with ease. "A lot of kids we see live in fear. Too afraid to fight back."

"I got sick of being afraid. I learned it pissed them off if you didn't tremble under their gaze and I loved it." Raffael replied. "I've always rebelled in small ways. You may have seen the gash in my back. That was from the most daring of my small rebellions. Earned me a good strike with a blade but it was so worth it."

Maxi and Jae both laughed.

"You really are something, Raffael. I'll give you that." Jae said. "You have a lot of guts to stand up to a chief like that with no support. And even more guts to keep fighting back afterwards."