"Grumm, stand before me," Omni commanded as the Emperor entered his chambers.

"What are your orders, oh glorious magnificence?"

"Since you have failed so many times to eliminate the Power Rangers yourself, I have decided to take matters into my own hands."

"What do you mean, my lord?"

"This is for me to know and for you to find out Grumm. All will reveal itself in time. First we must get the Rangers' attention."

_

While this was all taking place the five SPD power Rangers were all enjoying there much needed day off. Well everyone that is except for Sky. He just stood under a tree while he watched the others toss a football around the park. He kept staring at an old picture of his father that was taken on the day he was killed.

_

Flashback

"Remember Sky. No one can decide your destiny for you. The future is not written in stone." Sky smiled at his father's words and hugged him. As they continued to hug Sky's father's communicator went off.

"Go ahead," He replied.

"It's bad out here! Merlock's captured 3 members of the team and-AHHHH!" The communicator went dead. Sky's dad let go of him and stood to his feet.

"I have to go son. SPD Emergency!"

"Go get them dad," Sky thought not knowing this was the final time he would see his father.

"Come on you can do better than that," Merlock chuckled deflecting the Ranger's attack and throwing through a window. Merlock charged his sword and fired at the ceiling and a pile of debris fell on top of him. The ranger tried to get up, but he was too weak from the fight. "Now to add another Ranger to my collection," Merlock laughed opening the mirror prison on his chest.

"I don't think so Merlock!" The Red Ranger called out firing a blast from his laser. Merlock jumped over the attack, which barely missed hitting the fallen Ranger.

"Are you alright!"

"I'm fine- Watch out!" Merlock hurled himself through the air tackling the Red Ranger out of the building and onto the streets. He dragged the Ranger to his feet and punched him in the chest. The Ranger fell back and pulled out his sword. He ducked under his slice and cut him in the back. Merlock tried again, but missed. The Ranger cut him up the chest and went for another strike. Merlock demonstrated great speed and deflected the strike before attacking the Red Ranger with a stronger attack.

As the fight continued the fallen Ranger attempted to pull himself out of the ruble to help his friend.

Merlock sliced across the Ranger's chest and went for a finishing strike. The Red Ranger revealed a second sword and blocked Merlock's attack. The other sword glowed red as it went across Merlock's stomach.

"AHHH!" Merlock yelled and fell to the street.

"You are herby judged for the crimes of high theft and mutable accounts of kidnapping, NOW!" The Red Ranger called out activating his morpher's judgment mode.

"Guilty!" He prepared to confine Merlock when he charged his sword and aimed not at the Red Ranger, but at an innocent bystander! The Red Ranger acted instinctively and dove in front of the onlooker just as the blast was fired. He fell to his knees injured, but alive.

"You'll have to do better than that…" He never finished his sentence. Merlock used the distraction to get to his feet and impale the Ranger right through the chest.

"WES! NOOOO!" Eric called out breaking himself out of the ruble. "Quantum Defender FULLPOWER!" He shouted charging Merlock full speed.

"Some people never learn," Merlock mumbled opening the mirror prisons on his chest.

"That's what you think," Eric thought and jumped over him. As Merlock attempted to turn around Eric shouted, "Confinement Strike!" Merlock was engulfed in an explosion as the strike was completed and when the smoke cleared he lay trapped inside a confinement card; the other 4 power rangers all freed from his mirror prison. "Power Down," Eric said looking down at Wes.

"Come on Wes don't give out on me now!" Eric shouted pulling off his helmet. Wes's eyes remained shut. His body was completely limp. "Come on you fought an entire army of cyclobots by yourself. You can't let one silly alien be the death of you. Wes? Wes!" He shouted a final time before he laid him back down on the streets. Eric was fighting his desire to break down and cry in front of the team. The Yellow Ranger noticed this and walked over to him powering down.

"It's ok Eric," Taylor said placing a comforting hand on his shoulder. "Let it out." The tears finally started to roll don Eric's face. He became overcome with sadness over the loss of his first true friend. The other Rangers all stood there; unable to believe they had just lost such a good man.

_

"Hey Sky. Are you alright?" Jack asked with a concerned look on his face.

"I'm fine. Why do you ask?" Sky unconvincingly answered.

"Let's see. There are you holding a picture of your father, the fact that you are standing under a tree while we are all enjoying ourselves, or the fact that you look like you have been crying."

"Ok, ok. You caught me Landers," Sky admitted holding up his hands and sighs.

"Your father was a great ranger wasn't he?"

"The best of the best."

"How did he become one?"

"You're probably going to laugh, but it all started in the year 2001 when," Sky began, but was cut off by the sound of his morpher.

"I read you commander."

"Cry bots are attacking the city! Report back immediately!""

"Understood."

"Man would it kill Grumm to give us one lousy day off?" Z complained pulling out her morpher.

"It probably would," Jack answered. "Ready?"

"Ready!"

"SPD EMERGENCY!"

"SPD Red!"

"SPD Blue!"

"SPD Pink!"

"SPD Green!"

"SPD Yellow!"

"Space Patrol Delta! SWAT mode!"

_

The team ran into the city and came face to face with a huge army of cry bots. The Rangers raised their weapons and prepared to fire when something unusual happened; the bots all teleported away from the fight.

"Umm… did they just retreat?" Bridge asked stating the obvious. The sky began to darken at his question and the rangers all looked up and were shocked by what they saw. Grumm's massive starship hovered above them. A part of it began to glow like it was gathering power for an attack.

"RUN GUYS!" Sky warned taking off down the street; the others following. The ship fired a blast at them and the resulting explosion knocked them into the air and back down to the street.

"Kat! We need the zords!" Jack informed her.

"They're already on their way." Kat revealed.

"Yes Rangers. Call your precious Zords," Grumm said observing the battle from the view screen. "You may begin when ready great magnificence."

"Excellent." Omni began to gather tremendous energy inside of him for his plan.

Meanwhile the Rangers formed the SWAT team Megazord and took to the skies. They charged their main weapon and prepared to fire when a beam of light shot out from the top of the ship throwing off the zord and causing it to shoot a nearby building. The attack blew it up and the falling debris killed several more innocent people. The Rangers were horrified by what they just did and focused their attack back on the ship. It hit its target, but did minimal damage.

"We need a better target! Sky, maneuver us towards the engines!"

"Way ahead of you Jack!"

"Guys! What's that!?" Bridge asked acknowledging a large object in the sky.

"Rangers. It appears to be a space time hole. It must have been created when Grumm's ship fired that energy blast," Kat explained. "The portal is very unstable, however. Be careful."

"Change course to the wormhole," Grumm ordered the pilot. "Those fools will most definitely follow us." Grumm's ship picked up speed and blasted into the time hole.

"You aren't escaping us that easily Grumm!" Sky shouted piloting the SWAT Mega Zord into the time hole. "Jack! Fire when I give the word!"

"Roger Sky!" Jack replied taking careful aim at the engines of Grumm's massive space ship.

"I think this might be the end for him," Cat believed observing the rangers changing the Zord to blaster mode. "One clear shot at that ship's engines and the time hole will take care of the rest." Cat had a cocky smile placed on her face believing that the Rangers truly had Grumm where they wanted him. Commander Crueger however did not share her enthusiasm. Something about this picture did not seem right. Grumm barely put up any sort of fight. It was almost as if.

"Oh no," Crueger said worriedly.

"Commander, what is it?" Cat asked noting the look on his face.

"Rangers, pull back NOW!!! IT'S A…"

"FIRE!!!" Grumm orders. His ship locks on to the SWAT Mega Zord and fires.

"Brace for impact!!!" Jack commands.

The Zord is hit full on and is thrown into the sides of the time hole. It is bounced continuously from one side to the next; bolts of energy attacking it every time it does.

"Keep it together everyone!" Z says trying to stay conscious in spite of the pain coursing through her and the others. The Zord hit one final side of the time hole and was blasted into a deeper section.

"Rangers do you read!?" The Commander frantically asked. "Rangers answer me!" All he received was static over the communicator. The viewing screen went blank for a few moments then Grumm's ugly mug appeared.

"Lose something Commander? Hahahahah!" He mocked over the screen.

"Grumm, you filthy coward! I swear if I ever get my hands on you…"

"You'll do what? Without your precious Power Rangers this world will fall faster than you can say…" BAM. Grumm was thrown from his chair and onto the floor. "What on Earth is happening!?"

"One of the bots piloted the ship to close to the time hole walls! We're being attacked by the energy output!" Morgana informed. The ship began to violently shake again. Grumm managed to pull himself over to the control panel and activated the comm. link.

"Pilot. Steer this ship to the nearest exit hole before we're all fried!" He ordered with utmost fury, and yet fear at the same time.

"Are you crazy Grumm!? We could end up anywhere!"

"Yes. But unlike the Rangers we actually have a way to return to our own time." Grumm informed Morgana before letting out another evil cackle.

_

"Hang on guys!" Sky shouted attempting to steer the Zord as the fell further down the exit portal. The controls fired off violent burst off electricity into his face as he attempted to do so.

"We're losing power!" Bridge announced.

"Emergency power is offline as well!" Syd revealed. The team finally saw a light at the end of the portal as they fell through. Sky grabbed the controls and ignored the pain he felt as he desperately tried to gain control. The rangers flew out of the exit and their Zord made a crash landing somewhere on the outskirts of town. The Rangers were thrown around the cockpit of the Zord and then it all went black.

"Everyone ok?" Sky asked lifting himself up of the control panel regaining consciousness.

"Yeah. Great landing, Sky." Syd grunted as she stood up.

"Bridge, what's the total damage?" Jack asked.

"It's not looking too good. The Zord's power source is completely drained and the Zord itself suffered significant external damage." He explained exiting the Zord with the others. It's nothing that can't be repaired, but something tells me we aren't close to home."

"What makes you that?" Z questioned.

"The overly futuristic city just in front of us." All of the Rangers spun around at the moment said this, their mouths hanging open. In front of them was a city, which was of the likes they had never seen. As they continue to stare the automatically powered down.

"What the," Jack said astonished as he checked his morpher. The others did the same. As they overlooked their morphers they failed to notice three beams of light shoot out from the time hole. The hole made a loud noise before sealing itself shut.

"Great there goes our ticket back home," Sky complained as he once again tried to get his morpher to function.

"It won't do any good. The electric blasts from the time hole shot the power cells."

"Do you think you can fix them Bridge?"

"I could give it a try, but we'll need to go into the city first."

"Salvage whatever you can from the Zord, team. Then we move out," Jack ordered. They didn't find much. Just a few spare blasters that still worked. They placed them in their pockets and headed for the city.

_

The Rangers were completely awed by the sight of the city as they walked around.

"We cannot be in the year 2025," Sky thought. He saw someone pass by and decided to ask. "Excuse me. This is going to sound weird, but what year is it?"

"3001 obviously. Why do you…wait," The person took a long look at Sky and his friends before running off screaming.

"What was that all about?" Sky wondered. Suddenly the sound of police sirens filled the streets. 4 police cars were speeding over to the scene. They came to a screeching halt only a few feet from the Rangers. The doors opened slowly, then 16 police officers exited them and approached Sky, Jack, Bridge, Syd, and Z. Their weapons were all drawn. Four of the officers stepped in front of the other twelve and came closer.

"Stay right here you are and put your hands over your heads," One of them ordered in a tone that said "don't mess with me." Sky was about to obey when Jack blurted out, "Who the heck are you guys?"

"My name is Jennifer Scott and we are Time force. You're all under arrest!"

To be continued…

A/N: The Taylor that comforted Eric is the same one from Power Rangers Wild Force. I am also aware that Wes isn't Sky's dad, but since this was never confirmed nor denied on Power Rangers SPD by any character I decided to go with this. Hope you are enjoying this story. Any guesses as to who the other three beams of light that exited the portal were? More importantly does anyone have any thoughts on why the Rangers are under arrest? Let me know what you all think. Thanks.