Chapter 20 posted, second part to the last chapter, again sorry it's pretty long, please enjoy reading, feel free to leave a review.

-Carol

"The many mutants we have fought, captured and locked in containment, but there was someone who I thought I would have never had to face in my entire life." Jen felt a little frightened what she was about to tell her brother.

"Who?" he asked.

"His name was Steelix, he was my old Time Force partner, he betrayed Time Force by selling secret information to Ransik. When I found out about this, I turned him in, he was sentenced to be in containment and swore vengeance on me." she answered.

"Was he dangerous?" he asked again.

"Yes he was." she answered. "While my friends and I were working I felt like I was being watched, I thought it was just nothing. Later that night, I was walking back to the clock tower when I felt like I was being followed I started running, I got my blaster out as it was getting closer but it was nothing, when suddenly I was attacked and even stole my morpher when I looked I was shocked to know it was Steelix." Jen paused for a minute a bit shaken.

"I've never seen you like this, you don't have tell me this if you don't want to." Michael said.

"No, I'm okay." Jen responded. "When I made it to the clock tower I was a bit hurt, my friends were wondering where I was they were really worried about me, I contacted Captain Logan and told him Steelix had been freed, I even told Wes about Steelix. The next morning I tried to sneak away to find Steelix, but my friends caught me thinking I couldn't do this alone, even Wes especially he made a point that we were all Time Force Rangers and we stick together and I trusted him. He came up with a plan to try and capture Steelix, while I was trying to find him, I heard his voice, calling my name I was trying to follow his voice when I found a strange box, it was a message from Steelix, he knew we were setting up to trap him, he even said if I ever want my morpher back, I have to go alone to meet him at a warehouse, my friends arrived and told them that Steelix didn't show up and knew we were going to capture him, but I didn't tell them I was going to meet Steelix at a warehouse. I secretly snuck out to the warehouse when I arrived Steelix and I had a little showdown, I managed to get my morpher and morphed. While I still fought him, he sprayed me with some kind of gas I fell unconscious. I demorphed when I woke up then all of a sudden I was under Steelix's control and I started to fight Wes, he then locked me in a hug and reminded me how I can trust him and I was free from being under the control of Steelix. We managed to catch up with our friends and defeated Steelix locking him in containment for good."

"Wait a minute, you were started to have feelings for the guy didn't you?" Michael looked at his sister smile a little."I knew it. It's hard to believe you got over your dead fiancé that fast."

"I wouldn't say that." Jen responded.

"What do you mean?" Michael asked.

"I'll get to that when I tell you this part of the story." Jen answered.

"Okay. Continue then." Michael said.

"When another mutant was on the loose, he was biting and infecting people in the city, it was something we have never seen before. We were fighting him, when he bit me and my friends then we started to get infected, he was about to bite Wes when he was saved by Ransik. It was hard to believe but we didn't know why he saved him from being bitten and infected, but it turned out that Ransik knew the mutant and he was fighting him. When Ransik was about to destroy him, but something happened to him, he had the same symptoms from the infection the one I saw before, I didn't know what happened then on. We were back at the clock tower and in bed really sick, lucky for Wes he wasn't infected." Jen said.

"Was there a cure for it?" he asked.

"Not that we know of, but Wes found out about something when he noticed Ransik drinking some kind of serum, he managed to find a sample of it where Ransik fought the monster, and then took it to the Bio-Lab for his father's help to cure everyone in the city. My friends and I were still badly infected but thanks to Wes he gave us the serum and we were all cured. After we were cured, we went to go fight that mutant and stop him from infecting people luckily Eric helped us, Wes though let Eric defeat the mutant on his own, then grew big and defeated the mutant then locked him in containment. After that we were helping out everyone getting cured by the serum, we were glad that Eric helped us out." she answered.

"At least that jerk did do something nice after all." he said.

"Yeah he did." she responded.

"Now will you tell me about-" Michael was about to finish his sentence, but Jen interrupted.

"Alright I will." Jen answered to her brother. "While my friends and I were at the clock tower, they were messing around with a camera they found and even taking pictures, they even took one with Wes kissing me on the cheek."

"Wait. He kissed you?" Michael said to his surprise.

"It was on the cheek, okay. Do you want me to continue or not?" Jen asked her brother.

"Okay. Sorry continue." Michael responded.

"Anyway, I was more focused on completing our mission, even worried that our time staying in the year 2001 was jeopardizing the future."

"By that you mean..." Michael was about to ask.

"The future had been altered." she answered.

"How?" he asked again.

"Michael I can't continue if you keep asking questions." Jen started to become irritated by her brother asking questions.

"Sorry. Continue." Michael responded.

"As I was saying, the serum that cured everyone from the mutant bite wasn't supposed to be invented for 200 years, we were tampering with the balance of time, the results would have been disastrous. Wes thought of getting the serum back from Bio-Lab would be our only option to stop the future from alternating. I thought Wes would have come back with the serum, but he didn't his father wouldn't let him take it. As always there was another mutant attack and fought more cyclobots then defeated another one and locking it in containment. While my friends were celebrating I was still worried about the future being alternated, we had to capture Ransik before the future changes more. That was when we heard a familiar voice saying "It's already too late." we saw him from far though we couldn't see his face, when he got closer, I was shocked to know it was Alex." Jen paused for a minute.

"Wait a second I thought he was dead. Care to explain that?" he asked.

"I thought so too, but he was alive." she answered.

"Okay. What happened when you found out your fiancé was alive? Or should I ask how was he alive and not dead?" he asked again.

"I was so happy he was alive, Wes was surprised to meet Alex for the first time. He was here to set the future back on track, when we followed Alex, he brought the time ship with him. When we were inside he started to shout at us about our actions here in the present was affecting the future, he even told us that Frax has broken away from Ransink and building a powerful robot that could destroy the city, and to our surprise he was going to take over as Red Ranger, and that Wes was suppose to take over Bio-Lab when his father died, Wes didn't believe that when Eric contacted him and told him his father was in critical condition, Wes had no choice but to hand over the morpher to Alex, he was about to leave to go see his father, I almost stopped him from leaving, but he just left." Jen stopped for a minute.

"What happened to his father?" Michael asked.

"Ransik attacked him, when he was trying to stop him from taking the serum." Jen answered.

"Sorry to hear that. But continue on." Michael said.

"We took Alex to the clock tower and showed him around though he didn't like how it looked and wondered why we weren't wearing our Time Force uniforms, I explained that Wes would thought it would be better if we blended in, Alex didn't look happy and said that Wes was just a civilian, he even said we looked ridiculous dressed in civilian clothes and to put on our Time Force uniforms. Alex was looking at the pictures my friends took, he started to get really mad when he saw the picture of Wes kissing me on the cheek, I asked him what was up with his attitude, he didn't explain it to me but even wondered why he hid the fact that he was alive the whole time and shows up then started to order us around, he even said that destroying Frax's robot was more important than me and him and to put my emotions aside. I couldn't believe he would say that and why he started acting strict and serious with us. We then saw a glowing light and landed in the ocean we ran out and followed it on the beach, then we morphed and summoned the Shadow Force Megazord, that's when Frax's robot appeared from the ocean, it was more powerful than anything we encountered, though it wouldn't be easy to defeat it had more power than our megazords, lucky it had a weak spot we had to focus on aiming on it's energy core, it was too risky. If we missed it the robot would explode and even along the whole city. We were about to aim for the weak spot, but Frax warned the robot and opened fire at us, luckily Eric showed up and summoned the Q-Rex to fight the robot then blasted the robot a couple of times not even a scratch. The robot was too powerful, I got confused when I called Alex by Wes. I didn't mean to call him Wes, I just got use to Wes being the red ranger. We tried many blasts but it was too powerful and couldn't even aim it's weak spot, but the robot retreated and we knew it was going to come back. After that incident happened, Alex was really angry at us because we failed and criticized our attitude, he thought we didn't care about the future, my friends thought what have we done to make Alex angry, I thought we didn't do anything, they even started to miss Wes, including me." Jen paused for a minute.

"What did you ever see in that guy?" Michael asked.

"That's the same question my friend Lucas asked me. I felt like Alex changed, he wasn't the same guy I met, he was a whole different person, a person who I don't even know anymore." Jen answered.

"Did you still love him?" Michael asked again.

"I'll get to that later." Jen answered. "When Frax's robot struck again, we used our megazords to try and fight it, but no luck. Frax then used some kind of siphon machine and drained most of our megazord power I tried to suggest a plan, but Alex had his own plan to destroy the siphon machine and we started to fight the cyclobots, after we destroyed them we surrounded Frax, I suggested to take Frax in but Alex decided to destroy the siphon machine instead, but we ended up getting blasted by Frax and demorphed. Alex though was still fighting and yelled at us to get up and fight, my friends and I were still lying on the ground really hurt, my friends couldn't take how Alex was treating us, we told him we were a stronger team with Wes as Red Ranger, but then Frax was about to destroy us when Wes showed up and stopped him. I could still remember what he said that he chose his own destiny and his was to help his friends. Wes managed to destroy the siphon machine, I pleaded Alex to give the morpher back to Wes, he took the morpher off and handed to me then I threw it to Wes, and we morphed back, then went back in the megazords and battle Frax's robot, even Eric and the Q-Rex helped out, we then managed to aim at the weak spot and destroyed the robot. We were glad that was over and celebrated, but Wes left to go check on his father at the hospital hoping he wasn't dead like Alex predicted."

"Was he dead when he arrived?" he asked.

"I'm getting there just be patient." Jen told her brother. "Alex was about to leave then he apologized to us for the way he treated us and even said we were excellent rangers, he didn't know what to say to me, I rather he didn't I know he was trying to do what was right then we hugged. Before he was headed for the time ship when Wes stopped him and asked if Alex saved Wes's father, he nodded yes, Wes thought if he was just playing with destiny, Alex responded "we all make our own destiny you taught me that.", and they both shook hands, then he left."

"Well at least he learned something from his ancestor from the present." he said. "But you still didn't answer my question did you still love Alex?"

"After Alex left, I was starting to have second thoughts and before you ask I started to have feelings for someone else. I realized that Alex wasn't the guy I fell in love with anymore, I later fell in love with Wes."

"I knew it, you did like him." Michael said. "But did he feel the same about you?"

"Michael. Let me finish, okay." she said.

"Sorry. Continue." he responded.

"With every mutant we captured and locked in containment, our mission was almost complete we only needed to capture Ransik then we could go home. Though I wished we didn't have to leave, I started to like being here in 2001 I was going to miss everything there even Wes. I felt I was actually home, that 2001 was my home." Jen started to feel sad when she started to remember.

"I wish I knew what it's like being there, then I would know how you feel." Michael said. "But still continue."

"After I talked about the things I will miss being in the year 2001, when Eric showed up at the clock tower, he told us that Bio-Lab was doing some research on creating Trizyrium Crystals, even though they weren't suppose to be made in 100 years, Eric told Wes he had to talk to his father." Jen stopped for a minute.

"Wait. After his father recovered, was he still cold hearted?" Michael asked.

"Well, from what Wes told me, after his father recovered he had been proud of Wes that he chose his own path of being a Time Force Ranger." Jen answered.

"Lucky him. But still continue." Michael said.

"I didn't know much yet, but we know we captured every mutant though Frax built a robot and released it in the city, lucky we managed to defeat it, hoping this would be the last we fought, even glad that Wes's father wasn't going to make the crystals." Jen stopped again.

"Did his dad ever known you and your friends were from the future?" he asked.

"Wes had no choice but to tell his father about my friends and I being from the future, it was the only way he could know why he can't make the crystals." she answered.

"By not making the crystals, which meant the future won't be altered that much, right?" he said.

"Well, not exactly, we thought things would have gone fine, but there was more danger that was happening." she said.

"Which meant, if you don't mind me asking?" Michael was about to ask.

"We later got a message from Alex, he told us that our mission was almost complete if we capture Ransik, he even told us some bad news, we saved the future but my friends and I won't survive." Jen felt she couldn't continue on.

"I understand if you don't want to continue." Michael said.

"No. It's okay, I'm almost done." Jen responded. "Alex showed us the city was going to be attacked and time holes opening, he told us that if we stayed in the present, we won't survive to make it back, he was sending a time ship so we can go back before the time holes open. We later made a decision to stay in the present and fight, we chose our own destiny, we were a team no matter what happens. He later contacted again, and wondered why we didn't return, I told him we decided to stay and fight to save the city, he told me we didn't know what we're up against and if the time wholes start to open we won't be able to make it back, even Alex said he will never see me, I didn't want to hear anymore from him, our decision was already made. While packing our things and loading them in the time ship even putting away the captured mutants, Circuit alerted us that the attack had begun. When we arrived the Q-Rex was fighting Frax's robot, and the time holes we're starting to open, Circuit then told us the reason why the time holes were opening is because both the Q-Rex and the robot we're powered by the Trizyrium Crystals, we tried to stop Eric from using the Q-Rex but he wouldn't listen, then more time holes started to open making things worse, then Wes had an idea by using the time ship, I didn't understand why the time ship was an idea. When we arrived at the time ship Wes was pressing on some buttons, my friend Katie asked him how he knew what he was doing, he didn't answer her, Lucas knew something was up, he tried to leave, but Wes stopped him then he pushed him and Wes ran out the time ship, we tried to go after him but the door closed, and the ship was about to launch in thirty seconds. I should have known he was trying to send us back, he told us we had to go back to our own time that it would be for the best and we would be safe, we were a team but we could let Wes fight alone or he would be destroyed, I'll never forget what he said before we went back that he won't stop fighting until he's taken his last breath, I tried to stop the time ship from launching with only ten seconds left, I had to tell Wes something, but I never had the chance to tell him, the time hole opened and the ship launched."

"I can't believe he did that to you guys." Michael said. "Did you and your friends even made it back?"

"We did, but didn't even feel glad we were back, when we heard the door slide open it was Alex he welcomed us back. My friends and I asked Alex what had happened to Wes, he told us that he didn't make it, he died saving the city, I didn't want to believe it, but it was true. That was when Alex told us we had to be put through Memory Adaptation, having our memories erased, forgetting ever traveling in the year 2001, and even forgetting about Wes. My friends and I didn't want to have our memories erased, we want to remember the year 2001, we heard the doors slide open it was Alex and told us it was time to have our memories erased. When we went inside Memory Adaptation, I was remembering my times with Wes, I saw Alex about to press the button, but I stepped out I told Alex I didn't want to forget neither did my friends we all wanted to go back and help Wes, Alex didn't want us to go back and said we could be destroyed, I told him how could we live our lives knowing it would cause Wes's life. I decided to break off my engagement to Alex, I gave the ring back to him. He let us leave to go and help Wes, he told us to use our megazords on jet mode, it would be our only chance to go through the vortex, and help Wes finish this once and for all." Jen paused for a minute.

"Sounded like you made a big sacrifice not wanting to marry him anymore." Michael said.

"It was, I didn't love Alex anymore." Jen responded.

"Don't stop. Continue." Michael said.

"Anyway, my friends and I boarded in the megazord and took off to the present. When we finally arrived Frax robot was still attacking the city so we knocked it down using a tornado spin, then we defeated every single cyclobots out there. After that, Wes wondered why we came back, I told him he wasn't the only one who can choose his own destiny, we all can, and we all chose to stay and fight and save the city. Luckily Trip had an idea to neutralize the Trizyrium Crystal and modified the Quantum defender, he only needed one shot, when the robot got up on his feet, we were ready. While Wes summoned the Q-Rex, we summoned our megazords to distract the robot while Wes neutralized the crystal and it worked and managed to defeat the robot and the time holes even disappeared." Jen was about to continue but her brother interrupted.

"Wait a minute. I thought the Quantum Ranger could only take control of the Q-Rex." Michael said.

"Wes had control of the morpher, but he told us that Eric got shot by one of the cyclobots because he saved Wes and his father, he was badly hurt, so he gave Wes his morpher so he could use the Quantum defender." Jen explained.

"Well at least he did something to help you guys." he said. "Go ahead and continue."

"After we defeated the robot, we tracked down Ransik and surrounded him, we started to fight him with all the power we got, but we were really battered and hurt by his attack, Wes was the last one standing and he still kept fighting Ransik, but then an explosion happened we thought Wes was destroyed, but he survived. We were all on the ground badly hurt, I was so badly hurt that I wasn't going to give up, until Ransik was captured. I finally stood up to him and vowed to take him in, I looked at my friends on the ground really hurt, I had an idea to let Ransik chase me. I made him chase me into a factory, I hid from him, when I suddenly heard a blast and he thought he blasted me, but he didn't I came from behind and blasted him, when I got closer to my shock he blasted his own daughter, my friends came and saw what was happening, and to my surprise Nadira changed her ways." she stopped for a minute.

"How did she change?" he asked.

"My friend Trip convinced her that not all humans were all bad." she answered.

"Okay, makes sense. Continue on." ha said.

"Anyway, with all the hate Ransik had, he almost destroyed the one person he cared about, and he finally surrendered. The next day, my friends said good-bye to Wes and headed to the time ship, I was the last to say good-bye, Wes really wanted me to stay, even though I can't, he knew that too. I gave him my time force badge so he could always remember me, and I finally told him that I loved him and he even loved me too he even wished he could live a thousand years in the future so we could be together again, then I went inside the time ship and left, I could see him staring up at the time ship even his father and Eric along with the Silver Guardians." Jen started to feel tears in her.

"He meant a lot to you didn't he?" Michael asked.

"I loved him, I really wished I was from his time, so we could be together." Jen answered.

"What happened when you and your friends came back?" Michael asked again.

"We were greeted back by everyone at Time Force and were glad that we finally captured Ransik." Jen answered.

"How did your now ex-fiancé felt when you broke off your engagement to him?" he asked.

"He felt sad that I didn't love him anymore, I knew he didn't take this well, but we decided to be friends, he knew how much I loved Wes." she answered.

"Did you ever know what happened after you and your friends left the present?" he asked.

"A year later, after we captured Ransik, three fugitives escaped from the future and somehow traveled in the present. I was assigned to capture them which meant traveling in the year 2002, Alex tried to stop me from not going saying the mission was too dangerous and I could be killed, I knew he still had feelings for me, but it was my decision to go and capture them." she answered.

"When you went back did you see him again?" he asked.

"No. I was more focused on searching for the three fugitives, I had been tracking them down for two weeks but no luck. When I finally found them, though they were hard to understand I didn't know what they were saying, they were speaking in a different language, while I hid I used a translator to understand what there saying, they were planning to pollute the city. I waited ti'll the next day when they made their attack, when I tracked them down I found out where they were at, they were fighting but there were other rangers that I didn't know about that we're fighting them I even saw Wes and Eric fighting along too, but they were all overpowered by all three of them. When I saw one of the three fugitives about to destroy Wes, I managed to blast at him and saved Wes then we managed to escape." Jen explained.

"Wait. There were other power rangers?" Michael asked.

"Yeah. I kind of forgot to tell you that before we met these rangers we met other ones who were trying to stop an enemy they fought before from stealing some kind of amulet and formed an alliance with Ransik, then the amulet transformed in some kind of demon and all twelve of us managed to defeat it." Jen answered.

"Wait. There are more rangers? How many?" Michael asked.

"More than you ever known, my friends and I aren't the only rangers." Jen answered.

"Yeah. But-" Michael was about to ask.

"Michael just listen and let me finish, don't ask anymore questions until I'm done, then you can ask, and please don't interrupt me." Jen said to her brother.

"Okay, sorry. Continue." Michael responded.

"The rangers I met were called Wild Force Rangers, the other ones we teamed up with before we met them were the Lightspeed Rescue Rangers. When we arrived at their base, it was some kind of island, which was up in the sky, Wes was upset with me because I was in the present for two weeks and wondered why I didn't even contacted him, I wanted to but I just didn't know why. We then got a message from Circuit that my friends were coming back to help us, when they arrived I was really happy to see them, but to my surprise Ransik and Nadira came along too, and I thought I wouldn't have to face him again. I was about to attack him, but my friends stopped me, my friend Trip told me they were here to help us, Ransik said to me he had done many terrible things and wanted to make it up to me, I didn't want to believe him, but the Red Wild Force Ranger convinced me Ransik was telling me the truth and that his words were coming from his heart, I decided to give him a chance to listen on what he had to say. Later that night, Ransik told us that it was his fault he created the Mut-Orgs, which is a combination of a mutant and an org, he found them in statues and freed them, he wanted to make things right by helping us destroy the Mut-Orgs if I trusted him, everyone was looking at me waiting for an answer, I answered "no matter how much we want to, we can't change the past, but we can work for a better future." and I released him from his handcuffs and shook hands with him. That night Wes and I stood by the fire, he knew someday I would come back, I guess I can change my own destiny." Jen paused for a minute.

"You still loved him even if he was from the present." Michael said. "What about the Quantum Ranger, I bet he didn't have a girlfriend, who would like a guy like him."

"Well from what I know, Wes joined the Silver Guardians as their new commander and Eric as his co-commander. They now became friends, Eric changed his ways though he was still a bit of a jerk, and we all knew Eric had a crush on the Yellow Wild Force Ranger." Jen said.

"Okay. That's all I needed to know. Still continue." Michael said.

"When the Mut-Orgs were located we split up and fought these things called Putrids and managed to defeat them. When we finally came face to face with them it was only twelve of us and three of them, with all our power we defeated all three of them. When we defeated them, we ran to check on Ransik, he almost sacrificed himself by destroying the Mut-Orgs mutant half, we thought Nadira was mourning over her father's death, but she wasn't, she was happy that Ransik turned human and his face wasn't scarred anymore. After defeating the Mut-Orgs, we celebrated by having a picnic, though I knew it wouldn't last long since I had to go back." she stopped for a minute.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"Before I left to go capture the Mut-Orgs, I was told when I completed my mission I had to go through Memory Adaptation, I wasn't the only one my friends were told too, before they left to help us out. I told Wes all of this he was sad that I had to leave and it was for good, I won't be allowed to see him again. The next morning, my friends and I said good-bye to everyone, it was like the past repeating itself again, saying good-bye to Wes again really hurt me, he really wanted me to stay, I did too, I told him no matter what happens, he will always be in my heart, he told me that he will always love me and would never love anyone like me. While my friends and I we're about to leave, when we heard a voice telling us not to start the ship, we were all wondering where the voice came from, we checked on the screen and someone appeared, it was Alex, he wanted to tell us that Captain Logan and him had a recent discussion that none of us had to go through Memory Adaptation, I was relived my friends were happy that we get to keep our memories, but there was one thing he wanted to tell me, I was starting to get worried thinking it wasn't good news, he told me when two people love each other there meant to be together forever. I was surprised when he said that I could stay and happy that I will finally be together with Wes, my friends were happy too, I thanked Alex for everything, he knew I would be happy in the present, my friends were saying good-bye to me and were really going to miss me. When I got out of the time ship, everyone was gone, I noticed Eric and Taylor who's the Yellow Wild Force Ranger walking together, I heard a bit of their conversation and heard Eric saying that Wes will never get over his love for me, I surprised them when I said "he won't trust me." they thought I might of left, I told them I could stay and asked them where was Wes, they told me when I was headed to the time ship, he left and didn't tell anyone where he was going, we then went to go find him. We kind of drove around when we finally found him at the park sitting on the bench, I asked him if someone was sitting there, he had no idea it was me, when he turned around he was surprised to see me, he was so happy, I explained to him everything, he had no idea what to say and then we kissed. It was the happiest day of my life." Jen answered.

"You finally kissed him and you were able to be with him for the rest of your life." Michael said. "But why did you come back?"

Chapter 21 coming soon.

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