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June 20 3:28 a.m.
"No!" Jenna shouted as she bolted awake out of fear. Jenna sat there on her bed panting in fear trying to get a reign on her emotions. "It was just a dream," she muttered to herself as she laid her head back down on her pillow.
6:30 a.m.
"Jenna you need to eat something," Erika said as she sat down beside her friend at the kitchen table.
"I'm not hungry," Jenna said as she hugged both of her legs. She was but every time she would try and eat it made her sick. She was just so stressed that her body was rejecting food and making her sick.
"Please try, you didn't eat anything last night at dinner," Erika said as she put down her spoon to her cereal.
"I'm not hungry," Jenna muttered again.
"Jenna you can't keep pushing us away," Erika said.
"Just leave me alone," Jenna said without any conviction.
"Come on," Erika said as she dragged Jenna out of the kitchen.
"Please just leave me alone," Jenna asked.
"Sit," Erika ordered once they reached her room.
"Erika," Jenna started to complain.
"No, now talk to me," Erika demanded.
"I keep seeing Vert killing Kalus over and over again in my dreams. It's like that's all I see any more. I have no other dreams," Jenna said as she pulled her legs towards her again. She was using her legs to protect herself. "I can barely sleep and when I do I just see Vert killing Kalus. Then on top of that I feel like I'm losing Jason, and I feel like I'm being pulled in a hundred different directions."
Erika didn't know what to say. She didn't want to say that it was going to be okay when she didn't know if it was going to be okay or not. "Jenna, are you going to be okay?" Erika finally decided to ask.
"I don't know," Jenna said as she stared at her legs.
"How is she?" Vert asked as he watched Erika come walking into the room that he and A.J. were in.
"Not good," Erika said. "She's over the whole thing from the other day, but she's still freaked out over her nightmare. She needs something to take her mind off of it."
"I think I know a way that I could do that," Vert said as he walked out of the room and to find Sage.
"Come on," Vert said as he found Jenna in the rec room playing Slugbots.
"Where?" Jenna asked as she paused her game.
"We need to get Jason and then you'll find out," Vert said as he headed towards the kitchen.
"Why?" Jenna asked as she ran from the rec room.
"You'll see. Hey Jason come on, I got something to show you both," Vert said as he headed back towards the main hanger.
"Where are we going?" Jason asked as he followed Vert.
"No idea, he wouldn't tell me," Jenna answered as she followed Vert, her mind racing with different possibilities.
"Go and grab a swimsuit and then meet back here in about five minutes," Vert said. "Oh don't forget to wear your shock suit over your swimsuit because we're going to a Battle Zone."
"We're going swimming in a Battle Zone," Jenna asked as she looked from one brother to the other.
"Well you don't have to," Jason said as he walked away.
Five minutes later both Jenna and Jason came running back into the main hanger of the Hub.
"Let's go," Vert said as he jumped into the Saber.
Flashback
"Hey Sage I need a battle key," Vert said as he approached the Blue Sentient.
"Where to?" Sage asked as she led the way to the key vault.
"Well that's the thing. I know my dad's is in the multiverse, I just don't know where exactly," Vert said as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Do you have any ideas of where he is?" she asked. Sage had switched directions and was heading back towards the main computer.
"No, last time I we saw each other we were jumping through Battle Zones," Vert said.
"I can try to track and get a hold of him, but I make no promises that this will work," Sage said as she looked at Vert.
"I understand," Vert said as he left.
Four hours later
"Vert, I was able to locate your father and get a message to him. I told him to meet you at the Tropical beach Battle Zone," Sage said.
"Wait why do you get to go to the beach?!" Stanford demanded. He had walked into the room to ask Sage a question and had heard her tell where Vert was going.
"It's a safe zone that my siblings and I can go to see our dad," Vert said.
"I begged that we could go to this Zone for months, and now you get to go?" Stanford complained.
"Fine how about this, you get stuff ready to have a cook out on the beach this evening. Just give us a few hours alone before you come, okay?" Vert asked, he was not in the mood to deal with Stanford's whining.
"Deal," Stanford said as he ran from the room, forgetting to ask Sage his question.
End Flashback
"So where are we?" Jenna asked as they stopped on a beach.
"Welcome to the Tropical beach Battle Zone!" Vert said as he got out of the Saber.
"Wait a tropical beach and no bad guys?" Jenna asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Just a beach," Vert said.
"We'll I wouldn't say it was just a beach," called a voice from behind the twins.
Both Jenna and Jason just stood there shocked as they heard the voice. Neither one had thought that they would ever hear that voice again.
Jason slowly turned around first. He wasn't totally sure that he had heard right. He thought that maybe his mind was playing tricks on him.
Jenna was still standing still, shocked from hearing her dad's voice.
"Well are you two going to just stand there?" Jack Wheeler asked his set of twins.
When Jenna heard her father say that, she turned and went running into him. "Dad!"
she screamed as she collided with him. "Missed you so much!"
"I know and I'm sorry," Jack said as he wrapped his arms around his baby girl.
"Dad?" Jason breathed out. He was still in shocked and hadn't moved.
"Jason," Jack said as he looked up at his son. He could see the hurt that he had hidden behind his eyes. The resentment he held towards almost everyone. It broke Jack's heart that he may have been the one that put the hidden emotions in his middle child's eyes.
"Come on!" Stanford begged as he sat in front of the clock. He was trying to willing it to go faster.
"You do realize talking to a clock will not make it go any faster right?" Sharron asked as she approached her brother.
"Yes but it's been two hours since Vert and his siblings have left that mean only one hour left," Stanford said, the clock still captivating his full attention.
"One hour until what?" Sharron asked.
"Until we get to go to the Tropical beach Battle Zone and have a party," Stanford replied.
"We're going to the beach?" Sharron demanded.
"That's what I just said," Stanford said as he finally took his eyes off the clock.
"Were you going to tell anyone about going to the beach?" Sharron demanded.
"Uh-" Stanford started. He had totally forgotten about tell everyone else and get the supplies for the beach party.
"I'll round up the food and supplies, you go tell everyone," she ordered.
Nodding his head, Stanford sprinted out of the kitchen to go find everyone.
"What are you up to?" Erika asked as she walked into the kitchen to find Sharron looking for different things.
"Good, I could some help. My idiot brother forgot to mention that we're having a beach party in less than an hour," Sharron said as she continued to pack up the cooler with hot dogs and condiments that went on them.
"What do you need me to do?" Erika asked as she shook her head.
"We'll need chips, drinks, plates, and cups," Sharron said as she finished with the hot dogs.
"Okay," Erika said as she went to go find paper plates and plastic cups.
Sharron left the kitchen to go find one of the guys and have them make a quick run to get drinks. They were out of soda because some of the guys had had a chugging contest last night. "Zane!" Sharron called as she saw the guy go walking down the hall.
"Hey, whatcha need?" Zane asked as he readjusted his backpack with his stuff for the beach.
"I need you to run and get drinks," Sharron said.
"Sure, anything in particular?" Zane asked.
"No," she said as she headed back towards the kitchen to help Erika.
"Okay, I got the cups, plates, and chips," Erika said as she watched Sharron walk back into the kitchen.
"I got Zane to run and get drinks," Sharron said.
"Cool, I think we're ready then," Erika said.
"Then we should go get ready," Sharron laughed as she ran from the kitchen and back towards her room.
"I can't believe you're alive," Jenna said as she clung to her dad.
"I know and I'm sorry that I left," Jack said as he looked between the three of his children.
"So you've been here all this time?" Jason asked.
"Yes, I got trapped in a Battle Zone and was then captured. When the thing that captured me found out I could fix cars, I was kept as a slave to work on all the broken vehicles from the coliseum," Jack said. "But enough about me, what are you doing here?"
"We're Battle Force 5 members!" Jenna shouted.
"Really?" Jack asked shocked.
"Yea, Sage contacted us about a month ago and had us come a little over a week ago," Jason said.
"Wait a week ago was both of your guys birthday wasn't it!" Jack shouted as he realized that he had missed another birthday with his kids.
"It's okay," Jenna said, her tone becoming softer.
"But hey, I'm here and I have been meaning to give these to Vert for you guys," Jack said as he walked back towards his car. "For you," he said as he handed Jenna a cloth wrapped package. "And for you," Jack said as he handed his son a bigger cloth wrapped package as well.
"Thank you," Jenna said as she looked down at the handmade crystal necklace. The crystal was a swirl of blue and red on a silver chain.
"I got that crystal from a Battle Zone," Jack said. He could see the joy shining in his daughter's eyes. "And that I got from the Red Sentient home world."
Jason sat there and looked in awe of the sword that his father hand given him. Fencing was the one thing that Jason excelled at. That and racing. But Jason had always been fascinated by swords. Any movie that had a sword in it, Jason had seen.
"Dad-" Vert started.
"I checked it all out. It is safe to take back to Earth," Jack said. He may not be able to get the tracker out of himself, but he was able to check other objects for trackers and get them out.
"Would you mind?" Jenna asked as she walked to her dad to have him help put the necklace on. "Thank you," she said as she turned and hugged her dad as he finished clasping the necklace.
"You're welcome sweetheart," he said as he noticed the storm shock opening behind Vert.
"Yea! Time for some swimming!" Zoom shouted as he and the other members came racing through the Storm shock.
"Hey Mr. Wheeler!" A.J. said as he popped up out of the Gearslammer.
"Mr. Wheeler!" Erika shouted as she ran to her best friend's father.
Erika may have only met Jack once before he disappeared, but she still knew him and knew how important he was to Jenna and Jason.
"I thought you guys were coming later?" Vert asked Stanford.
"Oh come on, it's been three hours since you left," Stanford whined.
"It's fine Vert," Jack said as he walked over towards his oldest.
"Race you," Erika said as she took off towards the water.
"No fair!" Jenna yelled as she broke away from her father and ran after her friend. "Shock suit!" she shouted the reminder to her friend.
"Crap!" Erika said as she had to stop and take it off. "Hey!" she yelled as Jenna went running by. She had already had her suit off.
"I win!" Jenna shouted as she was mere feet away from the water.
"Nope!" Jason said as he ran past her.
"No fair!" she shouted as she reached out and tried to grab her older brother.
"They'll never change," Jack laughed as he watched his two youngest.
"I hope not," Vert muttered.
"Come on!" Agura yelled from where she was beside the Tangler ready to go.
"You joining us?" Vert asked his father.
"Nah, I think I'll stay up here and watch," Jack said.
"You sure?" Vert asked.
"Go," Jack laughed as he watched Jenna fail to dunk Jason under the water.
"Marco!" Erika asked as she started to feel around in the ocean.
"Polo," everyone chorused.
"Marco," Erika asked again trying to lock onto someone's voice.
"Polo," everyone chorused again.
This time she was able to pick out a voice and started walking towards it. "Marco?" she called out again.
"Polo!" a few people shouted to try and lure Erika away from Zane.
"Polo," Zane whispered trying to be quiet so Erika would head in a different direction.
But it didn't work, Erika had still found him and was moving towards him. "Marco?" she asked one more time before she planned on lunging at Zane because she had found him.
"Polo!" Jenna screamed three feet away from Erika to distract her.
"Ahh!" Erika let out a started scream. She hadn't been expecting Jenna to blow her ear drums out by screaming all but right next to her.
Jenna smirked as Zane was able to get away from Erika. But her smirk faded away as Erika was now coming after her. It was no use running because Erika over took her and ended up catching her.
"Pay back!" Erika shouted as she opened her eyes the second she caught Jenna.
"Fine," she smiled as she then yelled, "Marco!"
"Polo," everyone yelled back.
"I swear if you drop me," Agura threaten from where she sat on Vert's shoulders to play chicken.
"Now would I do that?" Vert asked with a smirk.
"You ready?" Sharron yelled from where she sat on Zane's shoulders.
"Ready," Agura said as Vert started walking towards Sharron and Zane.
"Hey sis," A.J. called to Erika and motioned for her to climb up on his shoulders.
Getting his meaning she climbed up and A.J. made his way to the other four.
Both Sharron and Agura were pretty evenly matched. They both had great upper body strength and were able to fight the other off. Devin may not have looked strong, but he was. He was able to hold his ground and hold Sharron on his shoulders to keep Vert and Agura from advancing.
"Ahhh!" Sharron screamed as she fell sideways off of Devin's shoulders. Erika and A.J. had come up from the side and pushed her off as she was locked arms with Agura.
"Your turn!" Erika said as they went after her.
"You okay?" Devin asked as he helped Sharron up.
"I'm good," she replied.
"And down goes Erika!" Agura yelled in triumph.
"Not fair, Vert cheated!" Erika yelled as she stood up.
"You cheated first," Sharron yelled.
"Well," Erika said.
"Exactly," Sharron said.
"Today was great!" Erika said from where she sat between Zane and Jenna roasting a hot dog.
"I know," Jenna said as she munched on cheddar, jalapeño kettle chips.
"Well I have to get going," Jack said as he approached the group. He and Vert had been talking.
"What? Why?" Jenna asked shocked.
"There are still Red Sentients out there that can track me and are trying to get to Earth. I can't go back yet," Jack said with a sad smile.
"But dad," Jenna said as she got up and gave him a hug.
"Hey Vert and I have found a way for us to be able to talk to each other," Jack said as he handed Jenna a walkie talkie.
"A walkie talkie?" Jenna asked confused as she looked at the device in her hand.
"Sage and Tezz were able to modify it. So now you can be anywhere in the multiverse and still able to contact the other one," Vert said.
"Okay," Jenna said as she stared at it.
"Hey, this isn't good bye forever," Jack said as he took Jenna into his arms.
"I know," Jenna said as she pulled away.
"Take care," Jack told Jason as he hugged his son good bye. "Look after her," he whispered to Jason.
Jason's heart clenched before he replied back, "I will."
"Take care everyone," Jack said as he turned away from the group.
"Are you sure that this will allow us to contact them?" Negative Vert ask skeptically.
"Yes," Negative Sage said as she turned away from the computer screen.
"Good, the eclipse is almost here," Negative Vert said.