Chapter 21: Wormhole
Newtech City, the year 2028
An alarm blared the SPD base on Earth, earning the attention of everyone there.
'Power Rangers, report to Delta Command Centre immediately," the voice of Doctor Kat Manx, the head of technical support for the base, blared loudly. Minutes later, the doors into the command centre opened, and the group of seven teenagers ran in.
"What's going on?" the leader, Jack, whose grey SPD uniform was outlined in red, looked up at their canine commander.
"Grumm is gone, and so is his ship," Commander Kruger informed them, taking the group by surprise.
"Yes, he's retreated!" Sky, whose uniform had blue along with the grey, smiled brightly.
"We've won!" Jack cheered loudly, and all of the other Rangers, bar one, cheered along with him.
"Enough!" their cheering was quickly cut off by their Commander's sharp yell.
"Hello, hello!" Jack grinned up at him. "You said it yourself, Grumm is gone!" the Red Ranger pointed out.
"Yes, he's gone, but I know my enemy," Kruger told them. "He does not retreat," their smiles faded.
"The Commander has a point," they looked to the only one of the group who had not joined in on their short-lived celebrations. Spencer, whose uniform was outlined in gold, adjusted his glasses and looked up at his friends, his bright green eyes serious as always.
"Commander, I found something," Kat spoke up from the computer. "I was scanning the Turnerian Nebula when I found this," the screen brought up an image of a strange hole that was surrounded by whirling colours.
"A wormhole?" Kruger scowled.
"Yes. A temporal wormhole. There are traces of Troobian energy inside the rim," Kat told them.
"Sounds like retreating to me," Jack muttered.
"That's what he wants us to think," Kruger spoke sharply as he turned around.
"Sir, then where is he going?" Sky frowned, and it grew as a hand clapped on his shoulder. He looked to the taller blonde, whose sea-green eyes sparkled as she smirked up at the Blue Ranger.
"Oh Sky, that's not the important question here, now is it?" Annie, whose uniform was both grey and silver, smirked at him as he scowled at her touching him.
"Ok, then what is?" Syd, the shorter blonde whose uniform had a pink edge, frowned up at her.
"When is he going to?" Spencer finished softly.
Reefside, the year 2004
The school bell rang, signalling lunch time for the students. While they waited for Connor, the four other teenage Rangers relaxed. Kira practised a new song that she had been writing, and the peaceful melody was interrupted by Ethan's game that beeped loudly. On the grass, Ethan sketched the Blue and Yellow Rangers as they sat on the bench, and beside him, Ari dozed on her side.
"You'd never expect her to be a defender of earth," Trent grinned when he glanced to Ari, who looked even younger as she slept, her mouth hanging open a little.
"I suppose that's why she's never been figured out," Kira smirked. Trent grinned at her, watching for a moment as the songstress continued to play.
"Great!" Ethan's exclamation made Ari groan and open her eyes slowly.
"Aw, you woke her," Kira grinned as Ari yawned and rolled onto her back.
"I'm just about to defeat the evil Maxidrone, when his evil ship comes along and destroys all that I've done!" Ethan complained, seemingly oblivious. "Can you believe it?" he looked to Kira, who just laughed.
"It's just a game, Ethan," the Yellow Ranger shrugged, not really caring.
"Yeah, you're acting as if it's real," Trent smirked.
"What if it is real? What if this game is really an ancient diary telling me about a real even that happened in a distant galaxy, far, far away," he smiled happily.
"Ethan, your mind is the only thing that is far, far away," Kira smirked.
"Ow!" Trent started to laugh, before a ball rolled over.
"Hey guys, what's up," Connor grinned to his friends as Ethan caught the ball with his foot.
"Oh, Ethan's giving us a history lesson on something he leaned on his Geekboy," Kira smirked. "And he woke Ari up," she glanced to the Gold Ranger, who was sitting up and rubbing her eyes.
"Aww, you were asleep?" Connor grinned to the 16 year older, who let out another yawn.
"We can't all nap through math class," Ari retorted, wiping the smirk from Connor's face as Trent and Kira laughed.
"Alright. You're right. This is not ancient galactic history," Ethan relented.
"Finally," Kira rolled her eyes.
"But it could be...the future!" Ethan suggested, and they all sighed.
"Remember, it's just a game," Connor told him with a grin. As Ethan went to retort, they heard a loud roaring noise overhead, and looked up quickly. A massive ship flew overhead, and stunned, the Rangers watched as it shot into the distance, disappearing.
"Looks like naptime's over," Ari yawned.
Newtech City, the year 2028
"A wormhole is a tube of space time connecting distant regions of the universe that could provide the possibility of time travel," Kat explained to Jack, Annie, Z, who wore a yellow and grey uniform, and Bridge, whose uniform had a green outline.
"Einstein's theory of relativity," Bridge nodded.
"Correct," Kat smiled at the Green Ranger. "Commander," she looked to the large dog.
"I believe that Grumm has become frustrated with the resistance SPD has shown, and has decided to take the terror and his battle into the past, where victory will be certain," Kruger explained to the four Rangers.
"We can't just let him do that!" Z looked horrified at the thought.
"We won't. We will go after him," Kruger told the Yellow Ranger.
"You're sending us through the wormhole, aren't you sir?" Annie sounded almost resigned to the idea already. "That's why you only called us," she commented.
"Yes. I can't leave the present unprotected," Kruger told her. "Say your goodbyes, and report to Delta Launch in five minutes," he ordered, and they saluted. While Jack, Z and Annie went to leave immediately, Bridge paused.
"Sir, when you say 'say your goodbyes', do you mean 'say goodbye' as in 'see you later', or do you mean 'say goodbye' as in...'goodbye'?" he asked. Kruger tilted his head, and went to respond, but Bridge stopped him. "Wait!" he shook his head. "Don't answer that," he told the canine.
"Come on Bridge," rolling her eyes, Annie grabbed his jacket sleeve and pulled the Green Ranger out.
Reefside, the year 2004
"Ok, the next time you predict the future like this, could you at least make me a pop star," Kira grumbled as the five Rangers walked through the forest, attempting to find the ship.
"Or at least let me have a longer nap before making it come true," Ari complained.
"I didn't know it was gonna come true!" Ethan defended.
"We gotta find Doctor O," Trent told them, and the others nodded in agreement.
"Well, you've found me, instead," Zeltrax announced, and they looked up quickly to find the machine, standing with a group of Tyrannodrones. The five sighed.
"At least it's a familiar face," Connor growled.
"Yeah...great," Ethan muttered. Zeltrax growled as they fell into fighting positions.
"Rangers, we fight again!" he declared, before the ship appeared overhead, and he, along with his Tyrannodrones, were caught in a bright light and sucked up into the ship.
"Now that's something you don't see every day," Connor glanced to his friends, whose eyes were all wide.
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After the ship had taken Zeltrax, it had flown off again, and the Rangers continued to search for it.
"I wonder what they wanted with Zeltrax," Trent spoke up as he pushed past a bush.
"Does it really matter?" Kira rolled her eyes as she walked beside the White Ranger. "Hopefully, they'll take him into space, and sell him for scrap metal," she muttered irritably. Ari giggled as Trent grinned at the annoyed singer.
"The point is, it's all good," Ethan grinned at her. "Zeltrax is gone, and so are they," he said, before Ari stopped them, giving a nervous laugh.
"Yeah, but we've got new guests," she pointed over to a strange ship that was resting nearby. It was white and blue in colour, with the initials SPD written on the side. A door opened, and four people walked out, wearing grey uniforms, each with their own colour as well.
"Connor, Kira, Ethan, Ari, nice to see you guys again," the one in red called over to them as the four walked over. "You must be Trent!" he pointed to the White Ranger, and the Rangers looked to each other slowly.
"Uh, what?" Connor asked his friends.
"That's an excellent question," Ari frowned suspiciously at the strange people who seemed to know who they were.
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"Ok, so let me see if I got this straight," Ethan spoke as the two groups stood together. "You guys are from the future. And you're Power Rangers?" he blinked several times.
"You're chasing Emperor Grumm, who's trying to conquer the future Earth?" Kira spoke up next.
"And Grumm came to defeat the Earth now, so in the future, he'll already have conquered Earth?" Connor continued on.
"And you know these guys because they were brought to the future and helped you out?" Trent glanced to the four Rangers.
"This is too much information to process when I didn't even get to finish that nap," Ari moaned, putting her hands to her head.
"Nap?" Annie, whom Ari found very familiar, raised her eyebrow at the Gold Ranger.
"Ok, let's go out on a limb here and say you're telling us the truth. Why don't we remember any of this?" Connor demanded as he looked at the four.
"Oh!" Bridge exclaimed suddenly, making them all jump. "I know," he told him with a goofy smile.
"Here we go," Annie smiled softly.
"We erased your memory, because a knowledge of the future would have a detrimental effect, causing it not to happen in the random manner that it's supposed to happen, without you interacting with it," Bridge explained in a fast voice.
"What did he say?" Kira glanced to Z.
"Annie?" Jack and Z just looked to their Silver Ranger, who opened her mouth to translate.
"He said that they wiped our memories so then we didn't try to influence any change in the future, whether we mean to or not," Ari spoke up with a bright smile.
"Yeah!" Bridge nodded, his smile just as wide.
"You speak Bridge?" Annie stared at the Gold Ranger. "Now that's something he didn't get," she smirked to Bridge, who covered his grin with a gloved hand. Ari tilted her head, not understanding as Z and Jack both laughed.
"You know, I forget sometimes that Ari is super smart," Trent commented, and Ari stuck out her tongue at him.
"There's one thing he left out though," she then stated, and everyone looked at her. "That other meeting, hasn't happened in our timeline yet, so even if we hadn't had our memories erased, we wouldn't have a clue what you're on about," Ari told the SPD Rangers.
"Oh yeah," Bridge nodded. Their conversation was cut short when Jack's morpher began to beep, and he lifted it from his side, flipping it open.
"Krybots. I've got three separate readings, we gotta split up," he told the other three SPD Rangers. "Ok, you guys stay here, this is our fight," Jack ordered.
"Excuse me!" Kira shouted as he went to run. "Not any more. Your Grumm probably just teamed up our mortal enemy Zeltrax," she pointed out as they looked around.
"Right. Your fight is now our fight," Connor said, and the other three nodded their agreement. Jack frowned at them.
"Well, it hardly worked last time, trying to keep them out of it," Annie smirked.
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The groups split up into separate teams and began to search for the readings. While the rest of the Dino Thunder team went with Z, Ari decided to tag along with Annie and Bridge.
"I know you, don't I?" Annie looked around at Ari as she walked beside the 16 year old Gold Ranger. Bridge led the way towards the signal, following it on his morpher. "I mean, I know your parents or something, you're just so familiar," Ari told the blonde girl.
"You did say she was perceptive," Bridge looked over his shoulder and grinned.
"Just keep following the signal Bridge," the Silver Ranger told him firmly, and with a laugh, he did just that.
"Are you two dating?" Ari asked, making Annie go red.
"Do you always ask so many questions?" Annie asked. "Aren't you like, 16 now?" she grumbled, and Ari grinned widely.
"You do know me," she told the blonde, who raised an eyebrow at her. "Most people think I'm younger, or older, considering I'm a Ranger," she rested her hands behind her back. Annie huffed, pushing her messy blonde hair from her face.
"Dad was right, you really were even crazier before..." she trailed off, and Ari tilted her head, watching her.
"The signal is getting stronger," before Ari could ask any more questions, Bridge spoke up, much to Annie's relief. "They've gotta be around her somewhere," he frowned, and Annie tapped him on the shoulder.
"I think we've found them," she lowered his morpher, and he saw a group of what Ari assumed were Krybots standing in front of them.
"Any last words, Rangers?" one of the blue-headed robots demanded.
"Oh cool, they talk!" Ari pointed at him. "Neither the Kelzacks or the Tyrannodrones can do that!" she exclaimed.
"Would you please stop finding the robots who are about to try and kill us cool?" Annie groaned. "Ready?" she glanced to Bridge as she grabbed her morpher.
"Ready!"
"SPD, EMERGENCY!" they morphed into Green and Silver suits. While Bridge's had the number 3 on it, Annie's had the number 7.
"DINO THUNDER, POWER UP, HA!" Ari morphed into her Gold suit, and called on her swords. The three moved quickly, taking out the robots with ease. Bridge suddenly cried out as he was hit from behind, and rolled along the ground.
"Bridge, you ok?" Annie was by his side in an instant, helping him up.
"Is that all you got?" Bridge instead called out to the orange robot, who then fired another blast. This time, Ari intercepted, raising a shield and blocking it. It shattered on impact, but the three were unharmed. "Thanks," Bridge grinned at her under his helmet.
"You see why you let me tag along now?" Ari laughed back, and they ran at the Orange-Head again.
"You do have your uses," Annie nodded. "Now let's finish this guy!" she called. The three then grabbed their blasters, and with quick shots, they destroyed the robot.
Newtech City, the year 2028
Having been summoned to the command centre, Sky, Syd and Spencer stood before the Commander, along with the morphed Omega Ranger.
"The wormhole is closing. I need to go after the Rangers and warn them," he told them.
"I'll go with you sir," Sky volunteered.
"I'll go too," Syd stepped forwards as well.
"Me too, sir," Spencer nodded.
"No," Kruger spoke sharply. "I need you here in case the unthinkable happens," he told them.
"Sir, if you go back and we stay here, and Grumm wins...then being here will be unnecessary," Sky pointed out. "There won't be a here," he told their Commander.
"That was very Bridge-like," Spencer whispered to Syd, who giggled as the Blue Ranger shot them a glare.
"He's right sir," Kat spoke up. Kruger let out a growl, and nodded. "Alright then, we will all go," he decided.
Reefside, the year 2004
After meeting back up with Jack, they then found Z and the other Dino Thunder rangers.
"Hey guys, wait up!" Jack called out to them.
"Any luck?" Connor asked them.
"Just ran into a couple of Krybots," Bridge told him with a smile. "We took care of them," he shrugged.
"Dude, it was awesome! One of them talked!" Ari bounced over to her friends. "Ethan, you would have geeked out so bad," she told the Blue Ranger.
"A talking robot? Sounds about right!" Ethan laughed.
"Does she have an off-switch?" Annie asked as she pinched the bridge of her nose.
"Spencer asked that about me once," Bridge commented, and earned a small glare. "Did you guys find anything?" he quickly changed the subject as he looked at Z, who was trying not to laugh.
"No, nothing," Z shook her head. "Which doesn't make any sense, the Troobian energy around here is off the charts!" she exclaimed, irritated. No sooner had she spoken, however, was there a large explosion. Zeltrax flew through the air, and crashed to the ground nearby.
"Hey!" Jack spotted him first, falling into a fighting stance. Zeltrax ignored them, and blasted someone else whom he'd been fighting. Doctor Oliver flew through the air, and landed in front of Zeltrax.
"The Black Ranger!" Bridge's eyes widened.
"Time to take it to the next level!" Doctor Oliver yelled. He ran at Zeltrax, and movement behind the Rangers caught Ari's attention.
"Guys, Zeltrax may have brought some company," she commented, and they looked around to see a large crowd approaching them.
"Ok, what are those?" Bridge asked, not recognising the lizard-like monsters mixed in with the robots.
"Tyrannodrones," Connor scowled at the sight.
"Well, let's look on the bright side. It couldn't get any worse," Z gulped.
"There's our enemy, comrades!" they looked around quickly to see three monsters standing together.
"Guys, I think it just got worse," Jack gulped.
"Really? What kind of Ranger says that?" Ari looked at Z with a raised eyebrow. "I mean, that's just tempting fate, and fate likes to laugh at Power Rangers," she told the Yellow Ranger, who watched her for a second.
"Yep, there he is," she stated. Ari frowned as Annie snorted.
"Ready?" one of the monsters called out as they were completely surrounded.
"Come on!"
"This'll be easy!" another laughed. Doctor Oliver landed nearby, having narrowly avoided another attack.
"Better late than never," he commented as he looked at the new Rangers. "You guys ready?" he asked them.
"The Black Ranger! I've read all about you," Jack told him with an excited smile.
"Time to go to work!" Doctor Oliver called as the monsters grew impatient.
"Prepare to be defeated! Zeltrax yelled.
"Let's go!" Doctor Oliver called as he raised his staff.
"You don't stand a chance," Zeltrax told him, leaning his sword on his shoulder.
"Ready?" Jack called as he, Z, Bridge and Annie grabbed their morphers.
"Ready!"
"SPD, EMERGENCY!" the four morphed into their respective suits. "Space Patrol Delta!"
"Not bad," Connor smirked. "Check this out," he told them, looking to his friends. "Ready?"
"Ready!" they activated their morphers.
"DINO THUNDER, POWER UP, HA!"
"WHITE RANGER, DINO POWER!"
"Dino Power!"
"Attack!" Zeltrax led the charge on the now morphed Rangers.
"Ok, give it all you've got!" Jack yelled. The Rangers ran forwards to meet their enemies, and the fighting began. Flipping through the air, Ari cut through both Tyrannodrones and robots, before they heard another call. They all looked up, just in time to see Blue, Pink and Gold Rangers leap through the air. They blasted Zeltrax before he could land a hit on Doctor Oliver, and another attacked him from the ground.
"We thought you might need some help!" Syd called.
"Let's do it!" the Omega Ranger called, and the four ran to join the battle as Kruger helped Doctor Oliver up.
"Took you long enough to get here," Annie called to Spencer as he flipped through the air.
"Hey, I wouldn't be here at all if we hadn't found out that the wormhole has a time limit!" the SPD Gold Ranger retorted as he landed. He dodged a Tyrannodrone and kicked it into a Blue-Head, before spinning his swords and cutting through more. When he paused to breath, he realised that Ari was watching him. "Good thing I showed up morphed," he commented, and started fighting again.
"Did you know she speaks Bridge?" Annie asked as she passed him.
"She does?" Syd asked in surprise, having caught their conversation.
"Annie, there's been times I've thought Bridge was like my secret brother or something," Spencer rolled his eyes. "Considering how insane they both are, it would make sense," he commented, not realising that the Gold Dino Ranger could hear his every word. She continued to fight, but she was also watching her fellow Gold Ranger, who was fighting in a very familiar style. And he wasn't the only one. Annie's fighting style had given away who she was.
"Surround them!" Zeltrax ordered, and the Rangers were all pushed together, surrounded by the large force. "This is your end, Power Rangers!" the machine mocked. "You are outnumbered! Look at the size of my army," he bragged.
"It is true. You have us outnumbered," the Shadow Ranger nodded. "But remember, it is not the size of the dog in the fight. It is the size of the fight in the dog!" he yelled with determination.
"You've always had us outnumbered Zeltrax, but you've never won! And it'll stay that way!" Ari yelled as she pointed one of her swords at the machine.
"That's all about to change, Gold Ranger!" Zeltrax growled at her. "Attack!" he roared, and they were attacked from all around. However, the fight quickly turned in the favour of the Rangers, who easily fought off the assortment of robots and monsters.
"Nice moves," Ari commented as Spencer landed beside her.
"Thanks, you too," he nodded, and she laughed.
"Do not get her started, you have no idea how irritating her billion questions have been," Annie warned him.
"How does she annoy you, when Teddie is even worse?" Spencer demanded as he looked to the Silver Ranger.
"Teddie's more like your dad," Annie shrugged. "And besides, she doesn't ask as many questions," she said, and blasted more of the Blue-Heads that ran at them. Nearby, Zeltrax fled, and while Jack called on his Battilizer, Connor called on his Triassic Power. Before long, they had destroyed all of the robots around them. Connor called on his newly acquired Battilizer, and Jack switched the form of his own, to finish off the last monster. Within moments, the ship overhead flew off.
"This is it Rangers!" Kruger called as they faced against the last of the army.
"RIC!" Jack called on the robotic dog. "Canine Cannon!"
"Z-Rex Blaster, ready!" the Dino Rangers combined their own weapons.
"Fire!" they all blasted the last of the robots.
"Rangers!"
"Red!"
"Blue!"
"Green!"
"Yellow!"
"Pink!"
"Gold!"
"Silver!"
"Omega!"
"Shadow!"
"Tyranno!"
"Tricera!"
"Ptera!"
"Plesio!"
"Brachio!"
"Drago!"
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"Well guys, it's time to say goodbye," Jack smiled as the clock struck five and chimed loudly.
"So soon?" Connor frowned. They all stood back at Reefside High, and now the only ones still morphed, where the Omega Ranger, and Spencer.
"Yeah, what's the rush?" Kira shrugged. "I mean, you're time travellers, right? So no matter how long you stay, you get back at the same time?" she asked them curiously.
"Not true. The wormhole is closing. We gotta go," Z told them.
"We're technically not time travellers. We just followed Grumm here," Spencer shrugged.
"We understand. You've got to go," Trent grinned.
"Too bad. I was wanting to talk Annie about the whole, you know, Hunter and Zoe being her parents," Ari smirked, and everyone looked at her.
"You know?" Annie stared at her in shock.
"Wait, you mean those guys from your last team?" Kira asked, recognising the name.
"Yeah," Ari giggled. "I knew you were familiar, you look way too much like Hunter," she told the Silver Ranger.
"Told you that you should have stayed morphed," Spencer shrugged, and flinched when she elbowed him hard.
"Well it was also the Thunder Ninja style you fought in. That's kinda what made it click for me," Ari giggled as Annie sighed. Grinning, Bridge took her hand and shot her an amused smile as she gave a sheepish one back. "And besides, the suit doesn't hide everything," she then looked to Spencer, who gulped.
"What are you talking about?" Connor looked at the 16 year old, who frowned at him.
"Isn't it obvious?" she asked, and when she was met with blank stares, Ari giggled. "The way he and Annie were talking, it was easy to figure out," Annie and Spencer exchanged looks while the Dino Rangers looked confused. "He's my son," she stated, and their jaws dropped instantly.
"What?" Connor looked from her, to Spencer, and back to Ari. "But...how? Who? When?" he couldn't process sentences completely.
"She's as ridiculously perceptive as you Spencer," Sky commented with a small smirk as Spencer put a hand to his helmet.
"Just because you lack the skills needed to be perceptive Sky, doesn't mean that Ari and Spence are overly perceptive," Annie rolled her eyes, and Sky glared at her.
"But...who's your dad?" Connor still couldn't get over the thought of the goofy 16 year old having a son, who would become the Gold Power Ranger as well.
"You," Spencer told him simply, and when Connor and Ari looked at each other in horror, everyone else burst out laughing.
"Holy hell Spence, it's not that often you make a joke, but oh my god," Annie was on her knees, her hands around her waist as tears stung at her eyes.
"So, it's not me?" Connor asked slowly, just to make sure.
"Of course it's not you!" Spencer exclaimed, sounding a little disgusted at the thought, and the two Rangers looked incredibly relieved.
"Well, I have plenty of time to work it out," Ari laughed.
"No, you don't actually," Sky spoke up again, trying to look serious. Even the stoic Blue Ranger had been laughing at Spencer's claim.
"You're going to erase our memories, aren't you?" Kira realised.
"Yeah, we have to," Syd nodded. "Knowledge of the future would only change what's meant to be. For better, or worse. It's gotta be like this," she explained. Kruger then stepped forwards, and held up a strange device.
"Say cheese," he instructed, and before they realised it, there was a bright clue flash. "School's over. Go home," he ordered, and with dazed and confused frowns, the five walked off.
"Did that dog just talk?" Kira frowned at Connor.
"I think so," Connor nodded.
"It's five already? Where the heck did the rest of the day go?" Ari frowned, looking up at the clock.
"Finally," Spencer finally demorphed, and returned his glasses to their perch on his nose. His dark brown hair was flattened from being under a helmet for so long. "I was drawing way too much attention to myself," he muttered.
"It really doesn't seem fair that they're not gonna remember any of this," Bridge commented with a frown.
"I agree. It is not fair," Kruger agreed. He then turned to them, and held up the memory-erasing device again. "Say cheese," they looked up in confusion, and the bright blue light flashed again. When it faded, the seven Rangers looked very confused.
"Uh, Commander?" Jack frowned up at the canine. "Excuse me, I don't mean to sound confused, but where are we?" he asked as they all looked around.
"We're on a mission, Jack. Now get in the shuttle, and buckle up," Kruger instructed. "We have preset coordinates to take us home," he told them.
"Sounds good," Sky nodded.
"This place is weird..." Annie commented as she looked around.
"Weirdly familiar," Spencer added as they walked up to the shuttle.
"Honestly, how have we all missed half a day?" Ari asked as she and her friends all wondered the same thing.
"We probably all just fell asleep listening to Kira's music," Trent shrugged. "It put you to sleep pretty quick after all," he grinned at Ari, who went red.
"I suppose you're right," she relented, but looked around again to where the group of strangers had been standing, and caught sight of them before they disappeared into a strange ship a split second later. "Was that...? Nah, couldn't have been. Xander's in Briarwood, not Reefside..." Ari mumbled to herself.
"Hey Ari, hurry up or I'm gonna eat your dinner as well as mine!" Kira called, and with an anguished cry, Ari ran after the Yellow Ranger.
I had a lot of fun writing this chapter, especially introducing Spencer and Annie! You'll see more of them in History, which will be in Mystic Force: The Sun's Destiny, and then in their own story, SPD: A New Sun Warrior!
Let me know what you think!
Please review!
Edit: I forgot to mention that I purposely changed the year that SPD is set to suit the timeline of this story, thanks to xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx for pointing it out!