DISCLAIMER: Nope still not mine. How can I tell? Because I'm still sitting in a little house in the middle of Kansas and typing this.

SUMMARY: Sydney's on Phaedos in 2025 with her parents. Jason blew up his own house. What will the others think when they hear the news?

A/N: I know that the jumping gets confusing at times but I hope that everyone will stay tuned. I promise things will clear up eventually. I don't know why JD insists that it has to be this way.

New Tech City, 2025

"Oh My God!" Z exclaimed as she watched the news broadcast. "Guys, come quick! Syd's uncle's house just blew up. They found two bodies in the rubble and they're working on the assumption that it's them. Oh God, Syd's dead."

Sky didn't know what to make of the news. He simply slumped down in the nearest seat, his face a mask of shock and disbelief. Bridge simply shook his head.

"Not Syd. Syd can't be dead. Not like that."

Commander Cruger walked out of his office to find his Rangers staring at the television screen. He watched as the channel replayed the announcement about Jason Scott's house. He bowed his head in respect for his old friend.

"He was a great man. I held him in the highest regard. Sydney was a great Ranger. I am sorry to see this happen to her. She had so much of life left to live."

The phone in Doggie's office started to ring. He went in to face the flood of phone calls that he knew he was about to face regarding the explosion at Jason's house. He knew most of them would be the press. It wasn't the press he was worried about: it was the former Rangers that would be calling that he worried about.

Stone Canyon, 2025

"BILLY!" The shout rang through the huge house. Billy Cranston ran into to the kitchen where Kat stood with the phone in her hand.

"What happened, Kat? What's wrong?" The look on his face terrified him. The last time he had seen that look on her face it had been on hearing that Kim and Tommy had been killed by an assassin because of that damn prophecy.

Kat didn't answer him so he took the phone and put it to his ear. He heard sobbing on the other end. "Who is this?" he demanded.

"Daddy, have you been watching the news? Uncle Jason's house blew up and Syd was there. They found - - - -" The voice on the other end broke and couldn't continue for a moment. "They found two bodies. They were burned beyond recognition but they're assuming for now that they both died in the explosion. The explosion happened in the basement. I heard that everything down there was vaporized." She broke again.

"Rebecca. Becky, honey, I want you to calm down. Okay? Are you going to be alright?"

"I'll be functional." Rebecca's sniffles subsided a little.

"Come home as soon as you can. We'll find out what's happening one way or the other. Come home. Your mother and I need you here."

"I will, Daddy. I'll see you soon." The young woman hung up the phone and Billy turned to his wife.

"Kat? Kat, honey, look at me. Kat, please." His voice finally broke through to her and she fell to her knees, sobbing.

"It's not fair!" she cried. "We lost them fifteen years ago. But to lose Sydney and Jason like that- Why? Who would want to hurt them?"

"I wish I knew, Kat. I wish I knew." Billy sank to his knees beside her and pulled her into his arms as they both cried for the friends they believed lost.

Aisha and Rocky had just arrived home and were watching some TV as they warmed up leftovers for dinner. The news came on and Rocky reached for the remote just as the story started airing again.

The Ape and the Bear felt their hearts break as they watched the news of Jason and Sydney's apparent death. They forgot all about dinner as they held each other crying for their friends.

Adam Park knocked on his girlfriend's door in shock. Tanya opened the door with tears in her eyes. She had seen the news. Seeing that Adam was barely able to walk, she grabbed his arm and pulled him inside. They moved to the couch.

"They shouldn't have died like that. Jason was supposed to be indestructible. He was the original Red Ranger. And Sydney was still so young." Adam's monotone voice frightened Tanya. She had never seen her fiancé like this, not even when Kim and Tommy had died.

"Adam, don't. Please don't drift away from me like this." Tanya's tears flowed freely again. Her broken sobs cut through the shock and Adam turned to her, wrapping his arms around the woman he hoped he would never lose.

Andros sat in his office working hard on the report in front of him. When his phone rang, he just looked at it in annoyance for a moment.

It rang a second time and he picked it up. "Andros."

"Andros," his sister's tearful voice had him immediately alert. She and Zhane had been staying with Andros and Ashley for a while. Ashley was expecting and she'd been having a difficult pregnancy. Karone and Zhane were keeping an eye on her while Andros was at work.

"What happened, Karone?"

"Ashley went into labor. She was watching television in the bedroom and we heard her scream. Zhane reached her first and called for the medics the second he realized what had happened. I was frozen by the sight of the news report airing on the screen. Andros, Jason Scott died in an explosion today. His niece, Sydney, of the SPD was there visiting him. Both are dead."

"What?" Andros went into shock. The assassins had found out about Sydney. Did she and Jason make it out before the explosion? "Is Ashley alright?"

"She is and the twins are fine. Healthy girls. Ashley said you two wanted to name them Kimberly Anne and Katrina Leander?"

"As a fitting tribute to the original Pink and Yellow Rangers of Earth." Andros smiled sadly. And now, he had to deal with the thought of never seeing Jason or Sydney again.

He had known about the house, had helped set up the contingency plan just after Kim and Tommy left the planet. He couldn't believe that Jason had died in that explosion. The two had to have gotten out okay. Maybe he needed to make a trip to Phaedos.

"I'll be there shortly, Karone. Tell Ash that I love her and I'll be right there."

As Andros packed up his things to go talk to his boss about what had happened, his thoughts wandered to his friends. 'Jason, you and Sydney had better have made it out alive and alright. Or else I'll have something to say the next time I see you.'