The Adventures of Wesley Collins

By

Brian McDonnell

Chapter 1: Force From the Future

Destiny is a word that I will never forget. Time and history are words I won't forget as well. You may be thinking who is this guy, Marty McFly? But I'm not. I'm just your average guy from a town called Silver Hills that got involved with something that changed my life and history as we know it. My name is Wesley Collins but you can just call me Wes, this is my experience as the Red Time Force ranger.

It began back in the year 2001 in Silver Hills, California I was just on my way back from getting a bite to eat. My life was not exactly that exciting. My dad is one the richest people in town which of course makes me rich. I'm not actually a rich brat, in fact I hate being rich. Money is not exactly something I value and people tend to look at me differently especially this one kid name Eric who I'll tell you about later. Another thing that's not good about being rich is that my dad has pretty much set out my whole future for me. I'm expected to take over his company when he leaves and corporate business is not exactly my passion. I don't know what my passion is yet or what I want to do in the future but I can tell you it has nothing to do with my dad's company.

Anyway I got back on my motorcycle and put on my helmet. Being on my bike is one of the things that help me escape from life. My keys slipped from my fingers and fell on the street. As I went to pick them up I felt someone bump into my helmet. I saw a redheaded girl who looked very attractive except for her wardrobe. She was wearing what looked like a white jump suit with a weird looking symbol on the back of it. It almost looked liked an atom. She also had on these sunglasses that had lenses that were so dark you could barely see her eyes. She looked kind of nervous and looked like she had something important on her mind. She then said, "Excuse me".

I felt like it was my fault because I was wearing my helmet and that sticks out so I responded, "Sorry about that." I started my engine and continued my ride around the city. I was still riding until I saw a crowd of people gathering around the Jewelry store. I followed them to see what was causing all the attention. I saw a bunch of weird robot looking things shooting lasers at some guys. This looked like something out of a star wars movie but hey this isn't something you see in Silver Hills everyday. I rode down further to see the people being attacked were that girl I ran into earlier and I guess her friends because they were wearing the same white jumpsuit. The girl looked like she was in trouble. She had two of the robots holding her down. Time to be a hero. I speed down faster on bike and I kicked one robot in the gut and he went flying through a table. I stopped my bike and began to fight more robots. I used the karate abilities I learned in private school and kicked some of the robots and threw another one through a table. They retreated and I walked up to the girl.

I asked, "Are you okay?" I sounded a bit muffled so I took off my helmet and asked, "What was that about?" She then gave me this look like she was so freighted. She covered her mouth with her hands and tears came out of her eyes. I asked, "Whoa what's the matter you looked like you've just seen a ghost?"

She began crying and could barely get a word out. The only thing she managed to say was "I…" Suddenly her friends ran up to her. One was a big black girl the other was a tall Asian looking guy and another was a small guy with green hair and a little diamond on his forehead.

The black girl asked, "Jen are you..." But before she could finish her sentence she looked at me with amazement like she has known me forever.

The guy with the green hair laughed and said, "Wow."

The Asian guy said, "It's unbelievable". They looked at me like I was some sort of god. I kind of liked it until the black girl began pulling my cheeks and said, "He looks just like Alex."

I pulled her arms off my cheeks and asked "Ha ha ok who is Alex?"

The shy girl pulled her friend back and said, "Nobody. Thank you for helping me I'm fine now." I could tell by the tone of her voice she wanted me to leave. I just looked at her strangely.

"Well it's been a blast but I got to jam. See ya." I hopped back on my bike and rode home. My dad needs me home for a meeting with his business partners. It's mainly a meeting about the future he has set out for me the one where I take over his company. At least having a little excitement put me in a better mood about it. I still wonder why those guys looked at me like they know me. They also called me Alex? Do I have a twin brother name Alex that I never knew about? Also what was the deal with those robots? Why are they here in Silver Hills of all places? I eventually arrived back at the manor. As soon as I entered my dad looked at me very annoyed and said, "Wesley the meeting will be starting soon go upstairs and get ready.

I rolled my eyes and said, "Hi dad nice to see you too." The one thing he hated was me being late. He was about to say something but I wasn't in the mood to fight so I just ran upstairs and got changed. I put on a blue button down shirt a black short sleeved sweater, a tie; I hate ties with a passion they are so uncomfortably, and khaki pants and black dress shoes. I ran downstairs and saw the food that was being cooked I was so hungry. I smelled the beautiful and delicious turkey that was finished. This made hungrier so I tried to get a piece of that delicious chocolate cake. I stuck my finger in the cake but the chief yelled at me, "Hey hey! Get out of that!"

I whined, "But I'm so hungry"

"You are always so hungry." I then laughed and he patted me on the back as he left. The butler of the house Phillips walked up to me. He was a good guy but he made me laughed with his accent because he always reminded me of Alfred from Batman. I actually used to call him that when I was little, it used to get him sort of annoyed but understood since I was a kid but my father on the other hand told me stop and treat Phillips with the proper respect.

Phillips held up two suit jackets and asked, "Master Wes you must get ready. Which would you like to wear?"

I looked at the jackets and said, "Hmm how about neither? These meetings are so boring."

I left the room but Phillips followed me and responded, "That's why they are called "Board" meetings sir."

I took out a bouncing ball and began to bounce it around until I saw the red headed shy girl sitting in the corner. She stood up when she saw me. "What is she doing here?"

Phillips answered, "She's been waiting for you. Says it's very important." Thanks for telling me. I hope she wasn't waiting long. I don't understand why Phillips didn't tell me she was here. I was about to walk up to her until my dad walked by.

"You're not going to be late are you Wesley? You know how I feel about Punctuality." Oh yeah I think you have drilled it into my head a few times already. Suddenly an idea came up. I could use the girl as an excuse to get out of the meeting.

I then explained, "Actually dad I can't go." He gave me a frustrated look. "I have a date".

"A date", my dad asked confusedly.

"Yup this is my friend", I said as I pulled her over. I said friend because I had no clue what her name was.

She started to get what was going on and played along, "I'm Jen." My dad looked at her from up to down. He just said in a very rude way, "Charmed."

I continued, "And you always told me to keep my commitments so I told…" I forgot her name already. She said, "Jen" in an annoyed tone.

"…Jen that I would take her out." Before my dad could say anything I grabbed Jen's hand and asked, "Shall we?" We walked out the door and before I closed it I laughed and said, "Bye dad." I kept pulling her and looking back to see if my dad would go after me or not. He didn't and I breathed a sign of relief. I should have this girl around more often.

We walked out to the driveway where my bike was. I headed towards the bike and told her "Thanks now were even." I wasn't really planning on going out with her. It would be nice but after the way we first met she didn't exactly seem my type.

She then said, "Wait a second I need to talk to you." I was thinking she came here to thank me again.

"Look you don't have to thank me again. Actually it was kind of fun." I responded as I hopped on my bike. Out of nowhere she grabbed my keys from the ignition. "Hey give me those."

She said, "Not until you listen to me. Look I didn't come here to thank you. I need your help."

I was intrigued. "Help? What kind of help"? If she meant help as in fighting more of those robots then I'm defiantly in. She then grabbed this weird oval shaped thing. It sort of looked like a big watch without numbers or hands.

"I need you to put on this morpher and activate it." She started grabbing my hand and tried to put the thing on my wrist. What is with these people and touching me?

"Whoa Whoa Whoa! Hold on. Now what's a morpher?"

"If I told you, you wouldn't believe me."

I was still intrigued by this. "Try me." I decided to give her shot, besides she got me out of the meeting and I have a very open mind.

"All right." She took a deep breath meaning that this will be a long explanation. She then turned away from me. I've heard that it sometimes easier to explain things while not looking at the person. "My friends and I from the year 3000. We're trying to recapture of gang of mutants that escaped through time and take them back with us. We think you may be the only one that can unlock these morphers so we can defeat them." She then turned back at me. I realized this girl is officially nuts.

"I believe you." Her face began to light up because she thought I actually believed her. I'll admit she is a beautiful girl but she does have some issues. "Whoa Whoa I believe you're nuts. Give me back my keys."

She threw the keys at me and I caught them easily. She got angry and yelled, "I knew you wouldn't help us! You are nothing like him." Like who? Who was she talking about? She walked away until a beep sound came from her so called morpher. She put it close to face and a hologram of the little guy with green hair came up. He said, "Jen, Ransik is attacking the city. We need you."

She responded, "I'm on my way." She then ran away. She must have been telling the truth. I then followed her to the city. When I finally got to the city Jen and her friends were being attacked by those robots and also this big looking guy with a goatee and a spiked shoulder pad. He wore all black and had a cape. Also on his face he had a half metallic mask that kind of looked like the phantom in the opera. There was also a girl with him with Pink hair wearing this weird white armor. She also had a cape except hers was white. There was also a big fish that looked like a biker. The big guy then grabbed Jen. I couldn't make out what he was saying to her but then he suddenly threw her across the street. I sprinted immediately. I had to catch her before she really hurts herself. I ran on top of a car and bounced off of it and caught Jen in mid air. We both landed on the concrete with me breaking her fall.

I laughed and said, "So is it too late to help?" She got up as her friends ran up to us. She took out the morpher and handed it to me.

"It's yours". I grabbed the morpher and yelled out "Woo!" I attached it to my wrists and I began to feel a surge of energy pass through my body. It was something I never felt before in my life. It felt amazing. I also felt like a bunch of information was being downloaded into my head. The morpher actually talked and said, "DNA CONFIRMED". We put our hands in a circle with our morphers facing each other and I saw balls of light going into the morphers. I guess this is what she meant by unlocking them. We faced down at our enemies. The big guy in black pointed at me and screamed, "I destroyed you once and I'll destroy you again!" What is the deal with these people knowing me and I don't know who they are?

I asked, "What's he talking about?"

Jen responded in a stern way, "Doesn't concern you". I don't know what it was but she had flames in her eyes. She was so angry and very determined. Men think women are less inferior well I feel like a peanut right now compared to her. She seemed like someone you could look up to. She was also someone that seemed like if you mess with her she will kick your ass. Suddenly she yelled, "Ready?"

The rest of us responded at once, "Ready!" All together we made cool hand motions and yelled, "TIME FOR TIME FORCE!" I knew to say this and do the motions because of the information given to me by the chrono morpher which I also found out was the term for the morphers. We activated the morphers and I felt more energy go through my body. Suddenly my body began to glow and reappeared in a red suit. Then a red helmet attached on to my head. My vision became all red from the visor on the helmet.

I began to feel my helmet and got all excited, "Wow! You were telling me the truth!"

The Asian guy who was in a suit like mine except blue said, "Amazing!"

The black girl was in yellow and said, "Awesome!"

The little green haired guy was in, surprise surprise, green said, "Yeah!"

Jen, who was in pink, was not as impressed as we were and just said, "Let's do it."

The big guy yelled, "Time Force rangers?" Wait did he say rangers? Does he mean that I'm a power ranger! No way! This is awesome!

"This time you won't get away Ransik!" yelled Jen. Ransik! What a horrible name. Where did this guy come from anyway the sewer?

Ransik yelled, "We'll see about that! Cyclobots!" Suddenly the robots began to fire weird laser/darts things at us. The others were dodging them all with cool Matrix moves. I on the other hand was not so lucky. Once the third shot hit me I knew I was done for. I thought I was dead until Jen said, "Don't worry your suit protects you"

I was relieved, "This keeps getting better!" I started to lay out some of the robots. I felt stronger because of my power and it felt great. I blocked their attacks and kicked them to the curb. The others rangers were amazing fighters as well especially Jen. Suddenly as if not enough weird stuff has happened already today a small robotic owl flew down to the battlefield.

The owl said, "Rangers! What are you waiting for use your weapons!" He was a smart owl. Then again all owls are smart.

"Good Idea. Here goes nothing" I said, and downloaded new information on how to use the weapons. I also learned the rest of the rangers' names somehow. Yellow was Katie, Green was Trip and Blue was Lucas. Suddenly two big daggers appeared. These were my chrono sabers. "Chrono Saber red!" Jen and Lucas got Chrono sabers as well. Katie and Trip however got these huge guns that looked like bazookas. I haven't downloaded information on them yet but until then the Chrono sabers are fine with me. I jumped in the air and landed near the Cyclobots and began to slash them to pieces with the sabers. Katie and Trip took more bots out with their huge guns. Jen and Lucas were a lot more skilled with the chrono sabers then I was. Especially Jen she was such an amazing fighter. All the rangers were. I may feel powerful but compared to these guys I'm nothing they are the ones that stole the show. I saw Jen take out the big fish by herself. Unfortunately thou Ransik just escaped which made Jen even more furious. She was suddenly shot by some weird golden robot.

"Looks like you're outnumbered Pinkie", said the robot. The rest of us ran by Jen's side.

"You need to learn how to count Goldie", I yelled. The girl dressed in white made an annoying mocking laugh. Jen got her to shut up by using a time strike attack with her sabers and took all the bad guys down a time strike attack is an attack where Jen jumps into the air and combines her sabers and rays of pink energy blast come out form the sabers and attack all the enemies around her.

Jen yelled, "Do you surrender?"

The girl in white said, "No way! My daddy will beat you." Well I see where she gets her good looks from.

The biker fish said, "Well I had enough humiliation for one day Frax!"

Frax I guess was that Golden robot, "Teleporting now." We tried chasing them but they teleported before we could catch them

I grunted, "They got away."

Jen said, "This isn't over yet Ransik!"

Katie Trip and I started to celebrate. I was spinning around in circles. "Wahoo Yeah! I love this!" The others powered down and were back to their normal states. "Unbelievable", I said as I powered down. "That was great I must have taken out a dozen of those tin heads." Katie and Trip ran up to me. "But you guys. You guys were awesome! Lucas how many did you get!" I was so freaking hyper but Lucas was just the opposite he gave me a cold stare. No wonder why he's the blue ranger. I gave him a whistle and waved my hand in front of his face. He didn't respond. Suddenly Jen came up to me with her hands on her hips like she was my mother or something.

"This isn't a game Wes! Were fighting for our future."

I started laughing, "Ok lighten up. I'm just saying I can't wait to do it again."

"You won't get the chance to", Jen said as she twisted my arm and took the morpher off my wrists.

"Ow! Hey what's the deal?" That really hurt. She's strong. I began feeling my wrists to try to ease the pain.

Jen then said, "We needed you to unlock the morpher and you did it. We don't need your help anymore." After that I completely lost respect for Jen. All of them just gave me a cold stare. I just helped them defeat those freaks and this is the thanks I get! Instead of showing my anger I just kept it in instead.

"Whatever", I said as I walked away. As I walked away I did hear the other rangers try to defend me.

Lucas said, "He's a good fighter." Thanks Lucas you're a good fighter too.

Jen was not convinced and just said, "We can get along just fine without him." I was disappointed but hey it was fun while it lasted and besides maybe Jen is right I mean I shouldn't become a burden for them but they could of at least thank me and Jen could of at least ask for them morpher back instead of nearly breaking my arm for it. But I guess they will be fine without me. For now.

(Feedback is appreciated. Next up Something to fight for? With a little help from Trip Wes tries to get Jen to convince him to be on the team while Ransik unleashes the first of his many mutant criminals.)