A/N: Sorry, I know that this is illegal, but I have no choice, I have to reply to a reviewer in my notes. Ruby Vulpix, you appear to be a common reader of this, and probably other fics besides the Poke Rangers, so I'm wondering why you haven't joined the site. Advantages it would give you include being able to visit the forums, have alerts on stories you're reading, and authors would be able to reply to your reviews. Well, the Latin meaning of teleport is to walk through a door, so most of us teleport a lot of times a day. On another note, has anyone else noticed how many cliffhangers I've had already?

Chapter 14; Celebi's Journey

"Oh dear, oh dear. This is not good. Oh, my head! What happened?" Miborg asked himself, before remembering.

"Oh NO! Oh, no, oh no, oh on! This is not good! I have to call the Rangers!" he said, before setting to work.

Meanwhile…

Celebi had just woken up, and was now looking at his surroundings. They seemed vaguely familiar to him, but he couldn't remember why. He was in a forest, so it may have seemed familiar, but this one seemed more familiar than it should without him having seen it before.

"Well. At least I'm out of that dratted bubble," he sighed, trying to look on the bright side, but when he turned around, he was petrified at the sight.

"NOOOOOOOO!"

Back at the Sanctuary…

Once they had been able to get away from Donny, Carl, and Whitney's cousin, they immediately departed for the Sanctuary, and immediately noticed Celebi missing, and the damage that had been caused.

"What happened here?" Greg asked.

"And where's Celebi!" Sabrina demanded of Miborg, treating him like it was his fault, and he practically burst into tears.

"Oh dear! It's all my fault! I should have protected him! The Black Ranger got in again, and knocked me out, and he must have done something with Celebi!" he cried, and Sabrina patted him on the shoulder guiltily.

"Don't worry, Miborg. There was nothing you could do. I'm sorry for shouting. But isn't there something we can do?" she asked kindly, and Miborg sniffed, before straightening up.

"Well. We could scan for his energy. Even if Nyura or the Black Ranger tries to hide it, she wont be able to, his energy is far too high," Miborg sniffed, and the Rangers set to work straight away.

Back with Celebi…

Celebi had realised where he was as soon as he had seen the teenage girl walking towards him. She looked kinder than kind, and she was extremely confused at Celebi's reaction.

"You can talk? But why did you say "no"? Was it something I did?" she asked sweetly and confusedly.

"No! No! Get away from me! This is impossible! It's too late! Too late to save you! But I have to leave you be! Or else you'll-" Celebi wailed, but before he could finish, everything around him went white, and all there was was himself and the girl, who appeared to have been frozen without ice. A moment later, the forest swirled back, only all the trees had been chopped down, and most were on fire. The girl then transformed herself, into the terrifying form of Nyura.

"NO! It's my fault! This should not have happened! I'm sorry!" Celebi screamed, and Nyura laughed maniacally.

"You pathetic creature. That is right. It is your fault. And I want to thank you for that, Celebi. And if you weren't to dangerous, I'd spare you, and let you serve me! But, if I let you live, you could be my downfall, so I must destroy you now!" she hissed, and though he was still shaking, Celebi took a battle pose. He was not going down without a fight, even if the Rangers couldn't help him.

Back at the Sanctuary…

"I don't understand! Why can't we find Celebi!" Sabrina asked desperately.

"Well…maybe its because he isn't in this time," Greg said quietly, but everyone heard him.

"What do you mean?" Eddie asked rapidly.

"Well…he's a time-travelling pokemon, right? Maybe he went to another time."

"No way! Celebi wouldn't leave us, and he definitely wouldn't leave us in this time!" Sabrina yelled at him, and Miborg agreed.

"He wouldn't be able to in the great sphere, anyway, whenever Celebi have to stay in it, they become extremely bored, and hate being confined, so I've had to make it so they are incapable of leaving," Miborg said, which was when inspiration struck Anna.

"Kris must have done something! Do you think somehow he could have forced Celebi to leave?" she asked, but Miborg shook his head.

"The Black Ranger might have been given a lot of power, but I don't think Nyura would have enabled him to force Celebi through time," he said.

"Unless…maybe one of Nyura's servants betrayed her. That Sudowoodo thing or Murkrow freak might have. They could have taken her staff one day, and created a power that could send Celebi through time, then traded it with Kris!" Greg said, not knowing how close to the truth he was.

"But a device that powerful wouldn't be controllable, so Celebi could end up anywhere! Or any-when!" Miborg said panicking, and adding more to the fact.

Back with Celebi…

Despite his size, Celebi had put up a great physical fight against Nyura, blocking most of her strikes, and hitting her with most of his, but they were now attacking with their special powers. She was firing bolts of ice from her staff, and he was shooting bursts of green energy.

One of Nyura's bolts hit and froze most of Celebi's body, and she was walking over to stand above him, and strike him down, as she had done back in 2006.

"Goodbye, Celebi. And thank you, for the power," Nyura laughed sadistically, and brought her staff down. Celebi flinched with his eyes closed, waiting for the fatal blow, but it never came. He realised the same thing as before was happening; he was travelling again, but to where and when he did not know.

Moments later, after everything had gone blank, and Nyura had also disappeared, he appeared in a forest he recognized, and he remembered why, and the reason caused him to smile.

He floated around for several minutes, and eventually heard something. Hiding behind a bush, he slowly opened a hole in a bush to conceal himself, but so he could still see.

He saw a large group of Celebi flying around, and it looked like a party of some sort. But there was one Celebi, a young one, sat on the ground. It looked like it was trying to fly, but was incapable, and that was making it sad. Another Celebi saw this, and flew down to comfort it. After a moment or so, the pair started playing tag, and at that point, Celebi almost started laughing with joy.

But just as he started laughing, something happened, and he remembered what happened next. A great, unknown force was coming, and would kill most of the Celebi. None of the survivors had seen what it was, but maybe Celebi would be able to now. He squinted at the Black energy that had entered the clearing that was seemingly consuming the poor pokemon. He thought he saw a human shaped body in the middle, but as soon as he did so, the black force disappeared, and Celebi did as well a moment later. After a brief re-visit to the blank void, he re-emerged in an even more horrifying place than the last.

He recognized it as Goldenrod city, but only barely. All the buildings had been destroyed, and there was a fire wherever you looked. A newspaper blew into his face, which according to a calendar in a shop window nearby, was a week old, and it was dated a just over a week after Celebi had left. Celebi removed it from his face, and read the headline in horror.

"RED & BLACK RANGERS JOIN FORCES IN EVIL"

"No! What has happened here? What has happened in a month? Why, Eddie?" Celebi asked aloud, but he heard shuffling under some rubble, and he realised he was not alone. The people jumped out from the rubble, each holding a weapon out at Celebi, not knowing who was near them, friend or foe.

Celebi gasped as he realised whom the four were. Dressed only in rags, and with thoroughly mad looks on their faces.

"Rangers! What has happened here? Is this true? What is going on?" he asked, indicating the newspaper on his third question. None of them lowered their lasers, not even an inch, not even Sabrina, though she addressed him.

"That's right. Eddie joined forces with Kris. Because he was mad. He thought you'd left us. Of course, it seems like he was wrong, but its too late. This is all your fault, Celebi!" she hissed, as she advanced, the others following in a zombie-like manner.

"What!" Celebi asked, paralysed.

"Yeah. If you hadn't of left us, even if it was only for a week, this world wouldn't have happened. The two of them joined forces later on the day you left. They killed off everyone else in town. Whitney. Donny and Carl. Rei. Miborg. And they even finished off Nyura. And it's all your fault."

Back in the Sanctuary…

Just like it seemed the future depicted, Eddie was growing frustrated.

"Come on!" he yelled, hitting the machine he was working on, but then he sighed. "Do you think maybe Celebi just doesn't want to be found?" he asked, and the others were shocked.

"What do you mean?" Kurtis asked.

"Well, maybe he was tired of that bubble, and tired of waiting for us to finish off Nyura. Maybe he went to another time to beat her there," he said, and the others, except Sabrina and Miborg stopped to consider for a moment.

"He wouldn't leave us here, Eddie," Sabrina told him through gritted teeth.

"And he wouldn't be able to control his powers, if Kris had sent him through time, we agreed on that! And if he went to beat her in her past, then he would change time, and if he went to her future then she could have already taken over without Celebi here! Oh know! The team is falling apart without Celebi! Oh, I knew this would happen!" Miborg said, and started crying. Sabrina gave Eddie a stern look, and he replied with a guilty one. They were distracted, a moment later, by the Danger Orb, which showed Sudos with a group of Armens just pointlessly attacking the city.

"Great. Just what we needed. Well, looks like Nyura knows were busy. Greg, you and Anna stay here to help Miborg, the rest of us will go sort this out. Ready?" Eddie asked.

"Ready!"

"Morph, I choose you!"

Back with Celebi…

Celebi was pleading with the Rangers to give him another chance.

"Please! Let me go back, I can change the way things happen, I will make sure Eddie does not join Kris, please, let me help you!" he cried, but the Rangers weren't hearing any of it.

"Its too late. You should know that you can't change history. Sure, if you haven't visited that time, then you can change events leading to an event that might have happened. But you cant change what you know has happened."

"I guess we'll just join Kris. He's really cute, you know. He'll make a great ruler. Unlike you, Celebi!" Anna said, and rather than feeling fear, Celebi felt confusion. Anna should know that he didn't want to rule the planet, even if she was just saying it to make Celebi try to feel bad. And he knew, that, no matter her own feelings, she would never describe an enemy as "cute". At least not out loud.

Celebi summoned a Magical leaf, and sent it flying at Anna. She didn't seem to notice it at all, and in fact, it passed right through her, and her entire being seemed to flicker, as did Kurtis; and Greg's. They then disappeared, and Sabrina started laughing an evil laugh.

"So you've figured it out?" she asked rhetorically, and Celebi shot a leaf at her, and her body flickered as well, but rather than showing nothing beneath it, it showed the Black Ranger. After a moment, Kris' disguise of Sabrina vanished, and so did Goldenrod, so Celebi was left facing the Black Ranger.

"Did you expect me to believe that Anna, or anyone, would say that her enemy is "cute" aloud?" Celebi asked with a smirk, which was shared by Kris through his helmet.

"Hey, I may be evil, but I'm still a teenager. Is it not natural for me to want a cute girl to call me cute back?" he asked, and he gave a laugh, not like his evil one, but one that someone might use when with their friends. He momentarily seemed to be a normal teenager again, but he quickly tried to act evil again once he realised, though the effect was now lost.

"How did you do this? How did you create an alternate timeline in this - void?" Celebi asked, and Kris went into a monologue, as villains often do.

"It was a lot easier than you might have thought. All I had to do was follow you when you went through time, then use my own powers to shape that alternate existence. But otherwise, you really did just walk down memory lane, didn't you? Wasn't it heart breaking? Doesn't it just destroy your spirit?" he laughed, and Celebi just gave him a look of understanding.

"So that's what you want, is it? You want to weaken me, and then destroy me yourself? Well, knowing that, you'll never break me, knowing that there is an evil that I can stop, my spirit will not be broken!" Celebi cried, and he and Kris fought a brief battle, which Celebi dominated and easily won, before he teleported again, but he saw Kris leap on him before he did. This place and time was all too familiar, for he'd spent much of the last few months thinking about it, and spent his time in the place he was now in.

At the battle…

"Okay guys, lets not waste too much time here," Eddie said, and the others nodded. They started fighting every Armen in arms or legs reach, and it didn't take long for them all the retreat. The Rangers called for their weapons and attacked Sudos with them once before he retreated in a daze.

"Guys! I think we've found Celebi!" Greg's voice said on their morphers, so they tried to teleport back to the Sanctuary, but they saw something which stopped them.

With Celebi…

He was in the sanctuary. The Danger Alarm was going off, but the Rangers and Miborg were just looking up at Celebi in the great sphere, either in confusion, awe, or both. Celebi couldn't hear a word, and he expected that the Rangers couldn't hear him either, so he just watched as a strange box appeared floating before them all. The box opened, and the Rangers morphers were inside. The Rangers took their morphers, and looked back up at Celebi. Celebi said something, before the Rangers teleported, as did Celebi, but rather than teleporting to the void, he teleported with the Rangers, and watched as they fought a magnificent battle with the Armens. After all the Armens had been destroyed, and Celebi saw the Rangers pose for the first time, he teleported again, not with the Rangers, nor to the void. He seemed to have skipped that place, and was going to another battle of the Rangers, though he didn't think this one had happened yet.

The Rangers were all grouped around a blur, which Celebi guessed was the Poke Cannon, along with another blur supporting it next to Eddie. They fired at the Diglett-like monster, and it was destroyed. Celebi just saw it grow in size before he was teleported to a battle against Kris. Eddie was just about to hit him with his Cinder Sabre, but he appeared to have missed, hitting Kris' morpher, which caused him to de-morph. A moment later, Celebi realised with a gasp that that was Eddie's intention, as he was helping Kris up and talking to him, and Kris was apparently siding with good again, and the other Rangers joined them, and they teleported together, and Celebi did as well.

This time he was presented with still images that he had entered of previous and future battles, including one against Nyura herself, in which she appeared to be winning. Eventually, Celebi came to one where it appeared a battle had just taken place; Eddie, Kurtis and Sabrina were all looking in his direction in their Ranger suits, but they appeared to be aware of his presence, which they wouldn't if it was a still.

"Celebi!" Sabrina screamed, confirming his suspicions, and he had thankfully been found, as Sabrina rushed forward and pulled him into a hug.

"It is good to see you, as well," Celebi said to her, returning the hug.

"Quickly, we have to teleport to the sanctuary!" Jack said anxiously, as he and Kurtis rushed over to them, and the Rangers teleported, Celebi being teleported with Sabrina.

At the Sanctuary…

"Hey guys, we've got Celebi!" Kurtis said panicking, and the other three looked round in amazement.

"But how? According to this, he's gone back to when we first became Rangers!" Greg said quickly.

"Never mind that, quickly, get in the great sphere, it'll stop you going off again!" Miborg snapped, so Celebi flew out of Sabrina's arms, and into the irritating "bubble".

"What happened? Weren't you back when we got our powers?" Anna asked.

"Yes, I was. But I left that time, and went to several others, before I managed to return to this one, by sheer coincidence. It was only luck that brought me here, but luck also took me to another place on my horrifying journey," Celebi told them, and the girls gasped.

"Horrifying? Greg asked, fearing for what Celebi must have seen.

"Yes, but those are details I'd rather not go into. But, I was lucky, in that I went to a point in the future, in which I saw you destroy Kris' evil powers," he finished, perfectly calmly.

"Alright! So how do we do it then!" Eddie asked excitedly, but Celebi shook his head.

"I will tell you, when the time is right, but this is not it. How long have I been gone?" Celebi asked, changing the subject.

"Only a couple of hours, we've had quite a hectic day, really," Sabrina said, and everyone agreed.

"Then that would be about the amount of time I was travelling," Celebi added. The Rangers stayed for some time after that, joyfully trying to get the secret of the Black Ranger powers destruction out of him, but he just laughed and shook his head.

Meanwhile, Miborg was working on a secret project for Celebi, unbeknownst to the Rangers…

A/N: About time we focused more on the other characters. Now, today's quiz is one you might have already spotted the answer to. I've made a deliberate mistake in here, and it's your job to find it. Remember the prize you'll get if you win! Also, I've decided to do something that should be fun for us all. For the next however many chapters, every reviewer will get a reply to their review, but it wont be written by me. It will be written by one of the characters of the fic! Today's character is Eddie! So if you have a question you want to ask, now's the time! Now, after this chapter, I've decided that this shouldn't really be a K, so I'm changing it to a T. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Coming soon: Chapter 15; The Enlightenment. part 1

See ya!