Chapter 3

Metro City 1989

Stopping somewhere to switch out of his officers uniform, Kash felt more comfortable in his casual outfit. A pair of black cargo pants, a blue t-shirt and black short sleeve jacket. After moving, the walk was quiet. Neither Cody nor Haggar had spoken since they walked out the office. Anytime Kash tried to start a conversation, he was met with silence. Kash noticed they were approaching a guy, without hesitation, Cody slammed the guy to the wall. Kash couldn't help but feel like he met the guy somewhere.

"Start talking Bred," said Cody reaching for his wrench. "Mr. Wrench isn't having a good day today."

Kash couldn't help but stare at Cody weird, as every item he's shown had a name.

"I just heard that there's a meeting being organized," stuttered Bred. "Poison and Hugo went to go see who's organizing it as they are the only top Mad Gear people still around."

Throwing Bred aside, Cody continued walking ahead. Kash looked at Bred and finally realized he was the guy who yelled when he saw the condition the car was in after landing on it. Bred turned to look at Kash but Kash looked away.

"Aren't you the guy who totaled my car?" he yelled.

Before Kash got to say anything, he heard a giant smack and saw Bred knocked out and Haggar gripping his pipe.

"Look I know you guys are mad but shouldn't we focus on finding this Guy character?" asked Kash approaching Haggar.
"I don't want advice from someone who recklessly jumped into a random portal to find some turncoat!" yelled Haggar at Kash before turning and walking away.

What Haggar said hit Kash hard. He was right, he had no right to try and calm someone down from doing what he is currently doing. Considering to just return back to the Earth Federation, that thought was stopped when his 3PD began to beep. Intrigued, he began to hit buttons to turn on the communicator.

"Kash that you? Over" said an all too familiar voice.
"These aren't walkie talkies Xela," said Kash laughing.
"It's Captain you smart-ass," he responded back. "Any updates on the situation?"
"I just got a lead that Hien impersonated a ninja from this time and seems to manipulated a ninja friend of the people I'm with," said Kash walking to the wall and crouching. "Hows the situation with the station?"
"We've evacuated everyone, most of the second division was wiped out," said Xela in a low voice. "Colonel Ronyar and a few officers are currently interrogating Captain Hiryu for any information."
"So why didn't you let Roll stay here?" asked Kash. "I could have used the backup, plus she seemed to have gotten along better with these people than I have."
"Because she is my Lieutenant and she has important work to do than babysit a Lieutenant who doesn't know how to socialize," said loud voice in the background.
"It's like Jin just yelled in my ear Kash," said Xela. " We all are busy. Godot and Rebecca are treating the injured and Jin and Roll are working something under Ronyar's orders."
"Why can't you join me then?" asked Kash annoyed.
"Because I got put on navigator duty," said Xela annoyed. "Since finding out the portal goes across time and not just teleport between areas, Jin has me trying to track the signal of the two other devices and I'm not a scientist, this is real boring work."
"Wish you were in my shoes don't you?" laughed Kash.
"Probably, but I don't want to be you when Ronyar gets a hold of you," laughed Xela. "He was pretty mad when he found out what you did. Something about reckless youth I believe."

Kash was cut from his retort as he heard a loud scream come from the direction the guys walked to. Extending his arm gauntlet, he hit the communicator again.

"Going to have to call you back Xela, something just came up," said Kash.
"It's Captain..." was the last thing he heard as he shut the communicator off.

Looking around for something sturdy, Kash extended the grapple on a street light and began swinging from light to light, trying to find where the sound came from. A bit ahead, he saw Poison kneeling on the ground holding someone and not too far Hugo and Haggar grappling one another. Looking at the person Poison was holding, Kash saw it was a woman who could pass as a twin to Poison, but her hair was orange. Below he saw a knife inserted in her stomach and Kash didn't notice at first but Poison was in a pool of blood. The woman she was holding was probably dead. As he landed, he heard Hugo yelling.

"THIS IS ALL YER FAULT!" yelled the giant at Haggar. "ROXY IZ DEAD BECAUSE OF TRAVERS!"
"YOU DON'T HAVE ANY PROOF!" he yelled right back at him.
"WHO ELSE HAS A KNIFE WITH THE INITIALS C.T.?" yelled Poison at Haggar.

With a giant push, the two guys separated. Hugo picked up Poison on his shoulders and gently picked up Roxy's body.

"You're all going to pay for this, mark my words," said Poison in a low voice.

With that the two walked away. Kash turned to Haggar but he was turning around and returning in the direction of his offices.

"What's going on Mike, what happened to that woman?" asked Kash. "And where are you going?"
"You heard them, Cody did it," said Haggar in a low voice. "As the mayor of the city I have to call for his arrest."
"That's it, a random knife and you're going to turn your back on your friend?" said Kash to him.

Without hesitation, Haggar quickly delivered a double ax handle to Kash. With a giant THUMP, Kash landed on the floor. What he didn't realize was that with the collision, the 3PD activated. Trying to push himself up, Kash saw himself sinking quickly into a portal he unintentionally opened. When Haggar turned around, he saw the portal disappear. Different thoughts raced around his head about what's been occurring. Guy may be trying to rebuild what they just stopped not too long ago and he has no idea what is going through Cody's head.

Metro City, 2026

Inside of a secret base, two men are currently staring at a set of computer monitors. One of the monitors begin to beep and one of the two speak up.

"Hoover your monitor is picking up strange readings," said one of them.

"I know Captain Commando, I can both see it and hear it," said Hoover. "That's odd, it's Sho's tracker, it disappeared."

"He probably just dropped his communicator" said Captain Commando. "Jennety want to come with me?"

"You can't investigate something by yourself you scaredy cat?" chuckled Hoover.

Jennety, from the back of the same room, looked on at his two teammates bicker. Jennety is an alien from outer space. To the people of Earth they think he's a guy in a mummy costume and this doesn't bother him. When he came to Earth, he met Captain Commando and liking his style, he invited Jennety to join the Commando Team and giving him his Captain Cap. Since then he's never taken it off and the only person who can understand him is Hoover which still puzzles Jennety as Hoover is just a baby riding a robot.

"Once I get back, maybe I can tell you about that dream I had last night," said Captain Commando. "This time the fate of two worlds was on the line."

"How many times must I tell you that it was just a dream and not a premonition," said Hoover. "Plus who would call on just you and not us to save two worlds?"

"I told you, like the other two dreams, you guys were like my super moves," said Captain Commando. "The guy this time was like a giant and he ate planets like nothing."

"Yeah you got less chance fighting something that big, we might have cool gadgets but he eats planets," said Hoover pointing. "Go investigate already, last thing we need is you away when you're needed."

Captain Commando shook his shoulders and began to walk away.

"Sometimes I wonder about him," muttered Hoover. "What do you think Jennety?"

"..." he said.

"I agree too, we'd be more suited to save the world from something that ate the planets than him," laughed Hoover.

Both didn't notice a second blip was appearing on the monitor. The location was closer than they'd think because from a corner of the base a portal was forming just outside the room they were in. A blue portal was slowly forming from the ceiling in the small hall. The strange noise was heard by both Jennety and Hoover; both slowly made their way to the door just in time to see a man fall with a thud on the floor.

"What was that thing he fell from?" questioned Hoover. "Is that something you recognize Jennety?"

"..." he said shaking his head.

Walking closer they noticed the man was unconscious. Both looked at one another before Hoover grabbed him with his mech and moved him into the infirmary.

Back in the Future

Inside his makeshift lab, Jin and Roll are working on a project by order of Colonel Ronyar, when Roll notices the 3PD is starting to glow.

"Captain Saotome, something odd is going on with the 3PD," she said dropping her wrench.

Turning to look at it, he quickly rushed to the 3PD. As soon as he grabbed it, a blue light flashed illuminating the lab. When the flash disappeared, the both of them were faced with the other Captains and Lieutenant rushing into the lab.

"What on earth are you up to now Jin?" questioned Godot.
"I didn't do anything, we noticed the device glowing and when we touched it, the flash happened," he said rubbing his eyes. "What did you do Xela, you were the last one with the thing?"
"Don't go trying to blame me, all I did was contact Kash to see what he was up to," said Xela crossing his arms. "Once he hung up and I couldn't reach him back, I brought it right back here."

A loud clearing of the throat cleared the room. They all turned and saw Colonel Ronyar and Captain Hiryu at the doorway.

"Captain Saotome, what did you do?" questioned Ronyar.
"Why is everyone asking me that, I didn't do anything!" he yelled. "Plus it was just a light flashing, no harm done right?"
"That's where you're wrong," said Ronyar presenting him a book.

The book was an encyclopedia, he noticed the bookmark that was on a page and opened it to that page. It was a list of the Presidents of the United States.

"I don't see anything unusual here," said Jin putting the pages in view of everyone. "All I see are old Presidents."

"Anyone else want to take a guess at what's wrong here?" questioned Ronyar with a look of disappointment.
"WAIT!" yelled Roll pointing at a portrait. "Where is President Haggar?"
"And here I thought the youth of today were becoming dumber," said Ronyar. "I noticed it after the flash of lights in my meeting with the other higher ups. His picture disappeared during the flash. Something is happening in the past."
"Roll didn't you warn Kash not to mess with anything in the past?" yelled Godot.
"Captain, from what Xela mentioned the past already has a changed due to Hien," said Rebecca. "That flash could have been the aftereffects of that decision that just caught up. The future just changed."

Jin walked to his computer screen where he began to run a scan. He ignored everyone's questioning of his actions until his worst fears were realized. Rebecca was right, the future changed. He continued searching for something before Hiryu touched his shoulders.

"We need to get in touch with Kash and tell him to fix the problem before this change stays permanent," said Hiryu to Jin.
"I can't locate him, that's the problem," said Jin. "He should be in Metro City in the year 1989 bur I'm not getting a signal from him."
"Captain try searching Metro City but change the year range from 1989 to now," said Roll. "I have a hunch Kash might still be in Metro City."

Joining to help Jin, the two of them began to run a search and to Roll's amusement, they found him.

"We found him!" she said smiling but letting it drop when she pulled out his signal. "He's not conscious, and hes also in the year 2026."
"What are the odds he teleported himself subconsciously to escape?" asked Hiryu staring at Xela.
"Knowing him, I wouldn't be surprised if he did it by accident," said Xela with a worried look.
"Captain Godot I have a request," said Rebecca looking at him and the group. "We don't know if he's hurt or if he's being hunted. I'll bring my healing kit to assist him and brief him about what's going on."

"As brave as that sounds of you, I recommend Captain Godot to go instead," said the Colonel speaking up.
"Sir with all due respect, there's still a lot of people here I'm tending to," said Godot sipping on some coffee.

Grabbing the 3PD from the table, Colonel Ronyar put the device on Godot's arm. Looking at the rest of the group, he smiled.

"I know you all agree that Godot should go right," he said smiling at the Lieutenants. "I don't want to send anyone who might let their emotions get the better of them. Get going Captain."

Smelling what's left of his Godot blend #89, he savored the last drops as he opened a portal. He was about to enter before Rebecca stopped him.

"I think you might need this," she said handing him her healing kit.

Grabbing the kit he walked into the portal.