Previously on Power Rangers Wing Force, Tann finally completed his ultimate weapon. The giant robot known as Orpheus attacked the Icarus and the Falcon, with only the unlikely and timely intervention of Algrin saving them the first time. However in the second battle, the Ultrazord was sabotaged by a time-traveller known as Yas Rushton, who removed their primary energy cell. Tann then used this to lead an attack on his now prone enemy. While Mark and Wayne managed to get out safely, the other 3 weren't so lucky, becoming prisoners of the Dominion.

Mark and Wayne could only watch as their friends were taken away by Tann and his Orpheus. "We have to stop him and get Lulu and the others back.", Mark said.

"But how?", Wayne asked. "The Ultrazord is low on power and we have no way of knowing when that thing'll be back."

"Well it looks like you should've listened to me." Rushton said, showing up out of the blue, the robot's energy cell in his hand. "I tried reasoning with you, but you wouldn't listen. Maybe doing so would've saved your friends."

"You!", Mark exploded, before punching out the time-traveller. "It's all your fault. You stole our energy cell. You're the reason our friends got captured."

"Easy, Mark.", Wayne said, trying to calm him down. "He's beaten. Let's take him back to base and lock him up." But that didn't work as well as he'd hoped it would, so he settled for putting his hand on his friend's shoulder. "I know they took Lulu away, but you're not the only one who lost someone important." He was referring to Carrie, who he'd been in something of a relationship with since shortly after the Brakedecker incident.

Mark immediately cleared his head. "You're right, we need to secure this creep." He pulled up his communicator and called he base. "Captain, we're coming back to base. And we're bringing along a prisoner."

It was a captain on the other end, but not Group captain Gordon. It was Captain Rolfe. "Gordon's on the line with the UN at the moment. What's the guy you're coming home with in for?", he asked and explained respectively.

Mark thought about it for a moment, then answered. "Infiltrating a top-secret location, sabotaging government property" he and Wayne looked at each other and nodded, before turning back to the screen "and endangering lives."

Onboard the ship, Fwelf returned from the outpost he had been dispatched to in order to construct Orpheus. "I'm back. What'd I miss?", he asked.

"Why don't you see for yourself?", Galvahex said in response, showing him the situation. The dwarfish humanoid saw three of the Rangers, Yellow and the two girls, tied up and being led along a line by Halatia. Algrin was chained to the wall, but Fwelf didn't dare question that development. He remembered his lord's previous disagreement with Queen Uuhcura during her time on Earth.

"Let us go, you creep.", Carrie demanded. "You do not need to keep us here." Fwelf noticed her accent was more pronounced now, but brushed it aside.

"Oh but I do.", Tann smiled. "For you see, I don't have any intention of simply killing you."

"Well that's considerate.", Steven commented.

"I'll keep you alive, inside Orpheus, so you can watch as I crush your planet beneath my heels. Then I shall kill you. Halatia, take them away."

Halatia nodded "Yes sir.", before leading the three captives out of the room.

"This isn't over!", Lulu yelled as she was dragged away. "My brother and Wayne will stop you."

"They can try.", came Tann's response. "Indeed, I welcome the challenge." He then turned to address Fwelf for the first time. "You stay here and guard this one.", he indicated Algrin. "I'll decide his fate later. Galvahex, with me."

"Yes, sir.", the robot did a gesture with his arm and followed his Emperor out of the room.

Back in the air base, Mark and Wayne were walking towards the prison cells, with intent to look at the prisoner. Along the way, they bumped into Gliderak and Aluze. "What happened out there?", asked the second alien. "Why didn't the others come back with you?"

"They were captured by the Dominion.", Wayne answered. "That idiot in the cells stole our primary energy cell, leaving us as sitting ducks." He held out said energy cell. "We've recovered the cell now, but we need to reinsert it before that robot comes back."

"We'll get on it.", Gliderak assured him, taking the item. He then put his hand on Mark's shoulder, knowing that one of their captured allies was his sister. "I know how you feel. You and I are brothers in tragedy, for both of us lost our allies to the Dominion. But the difference is that unlike you, my ally cannot be recovered. Bare that in mind." With that said, he and Aluze made their exit.

Continuing on their way, the two Rangers eventually entered the cell where Yas Rushton was currently rotting. "Come to gloat, have you?", asked the time-traveller.

"You're getting everything you deserve here.", Mark said vindictively. "We hope you like this cell, because I'm going to make sure you don't leave it."

Rushton laughed at this. "It's funny you think you can dictate how you can hold me." He pulled out his time machine again and began dialling. "I'll simply return to my own time and revel in my restored present."

"Oh no, you don't." Both Mark and Wayne ran forward, getting caught up in the light and vanishing with the time-traveller.

In another part of the base, Gordon was in conference with the United Nations and the President of the US' chief of staff. "Everyone, I can assure you that we're trying to handle this emergency to the best of our ability. "You'll just have to be patient."

("Patient she says."), mocked the Spanish delegate. ("How can we be sure that your Flying Ranger project will successfully deal with this 'Orpheus'? They've already failed twice.")

("The Group captain has assured us that was a mechanical issue."), responded the German delegate.

"Besides, they've had a good record in the past with their win record.", added the delegate from the United Kingdom. "We just have to hold out and hope they've weakened Orpheus to a point where they can destroy it the next time they face it."

"That's all well and good, ladies and gentlemen, but I have some private matters for Miss Gordon.", the chief of staff interrupted. He then terminated their end of the call. "Now then Group captain, have you considered my suggestion?"

"Giving Ranger-grade weapons to the regular troops?", Gordon responded. "I'm all for giving my team additional help. We might need it since 3 of them were captured by the enemy. But at the moment, we don't have the time or the resources on hand to produce more copies of the Beak Blasters or the AviAttackers with our current manpower. For now, we'll have to stick with regular rounds."

"That's unfortunate.", the chief shook his head. "Even if you were to give us the plans, it would still take some time for us to manufacture and send them out. I'm afraid for this current crisis, you're on your own, June. Good luck." With that, he signed off.

With both calls over, June Gordon breathed a sigh of relief and reverted to her true form as Jangar. This was going to be a long day.

Mark, Wayne and Rushton all emerged from the light, to see they were surrounded by nothing, but sand and debris. "This is the perfect future you come from?", Wayne asked. "Looks kinda desolate."

"Maybe they've realised that civilisation and order don't work, so they smashed it up.", Mark commented.

Rushton seemed to break down upon seeing the sights. "This isn't how it's supposed to be. My world is supposed to be a peaceful metropolis. No inequality, no meritocracy, no organised crime and no genetic instabilities. This is exactly as it was when the time anomaly hit our era for the first time."

Wayne had a realisation. "Which means you were wrong when you thought we were the cause of your paradox. But hen what caused this dystopia to exist?"

"I can answer that." Everyone turned around to see a severed robotic head, propped up by robotic legs. Mark and Wayne recognised it instantly as….

"Galvahex!", the two said in unison.

"Does not deactivate easily.", came the severed head's response. "Ironic. A robot built purely for battle strategy is now incapable of doing battle himself."

"What happened?", asked Mark. "After we left our era."

Galvahex coughed, then began. "Before our third deployment of Orpheus, I uploaded a program into it to allow it to operate independently of a pilot. But at the same time, every human we had connected to it's power core was released. These factors ended up giving the program an advance in software, to the point it became sentient. Orpheus then decided to eliminate every threat to its existence, which it considered to be every living creature. It began with this planet."

"So that's it.", Mark realised.

"What's it?", asked a confused Rushton.

Wayne had figured it out. "Originally, the Orpheus robot was only supposed to be a two and done opponent to the Flying Rangers. But since it lost power the second time, Orpheus lasted long enough to gain sentience. This created a ripple effect that created an anomaly, pointing the Temporal Reaction Force to our time. One of their agents decides we were the problem, goes back in time and steals our primary energy cell when we need it. Don't you understand, Mr. Rushton? The anomaly you were tracking didn't start with out team's existence; it started with you!"

Rushton was flabbergasted to hear this. "That can't be. You must be the anomaly. Your team isn't on any historical records."

"Of course we aren't, you idiot.", Mark stressed. "The Flying Rangers are a secret organisation. If people knew that we existed and wrote a tell-all book about it, it would make us look bad. Now, since you caused this whole mess, I suggest you help us fix it." He transformed into the Red Ranger and brandished his Wing Saber. "Or say goodbye to any chance you have of seeing your world again."

"You wouldn't risk it.", Rushton insisted. "You don't know how to operate my machine. You'd be stuck here forever."

Wayne did what Mark had just done. "Are you really willing to chance that?"

Rushton thought for a few minutes, then decided. "Alright. I'll beam you inside the Orpheus' power room so you can save your friends."

"How very devious of you two.", Galvahex commented. "Perhaps we'd have made great allies in another world."

Mark and Wayne ignored this, as Rushton input spacial-temporal coordinates for the Orpheus, teleporting the three of them away.

And on the Orpheus, the other 3 Rangers had been led to the power room by "Halatia". "So what happens now?", asked Lulu. "Do we sit here and wait for you to plug us into this machine?"

"Actually," the woman responded, breaking their bonds "you're going to help me get everyone out of here."

Carrie did a double take. "Did I hear that right? It sounded like you were asking for us to help you free these people."

"No, I heard it too.", Steven assured her. "I'm just wondering why you're helping us. Aren't you our enemy?"

"Not any more.", Halatia, or rather Mary, said in response. "I haven't been under their control for a while now. I just stuck around to help you guys as an insider."

Lulu had a realisation. "Then… you sent us the message about Orpheus?"

"Of course I did. Now stop asking questions and start helping these people."

The three rangers nodded and began looking for a release button along with Mary. During the search, there was a flash, from which Mark, Wayne and Rushton appeared. "This looks like the place.", the latter said. "Now where do you start looking for your friends?"

"Oh no.", Mark insisted, grabbing his machine and putting it in his pocket. "You're not going home until you've served your time. Future or no, you still broke the law. So to make up for it, you're going to help us find our friends."

"Er, guys. You might want to look around the room.", Wayne pointed out. Sure enough, when Mark and Rushton looked around, they saw what they were looking for.

The other 4 looked down and saw the newcomers. "Oh Mark, you came for us.", Lulu said with joy.

"And I see you got that time traveller to help us.", Carrie added.

"I'm only here under duress.", Rushton tried to insist. But nobody paid any mind to him.

"Well, since we're here, we might as well help to free these people.", Mark decided. Hen he saw "Halatia" helping as well and shouted towards her. "Are you…?"

"Of course I am.", she shouted back. "That other personality is gone forever. But I'll explain the whole thing later. Right now, we've got work to do." Mark nodded and set to work alongside Wayne.

Up in the control room, Galvahex was installing a new program into the main computer, while Tann viewed the events in the power room on his monitor. "I knew she'd show me her true colours eventually.", the Emperor said to himself. He then turned to the robot. "Take the controls. I have a pest problem to deal with."

"By your command.", came the reply. But as Tann left, Galvahex activated his new program and went back to looking at the footage. "This human could be of interest.", he thought as he looked at the one who had teleported Mark Goodman and Wayne Burley to the engine room. "Especially that machine of his."

In the city, Orpheus reappeared, once more beginning a rampage. Gliderak and Aluze watched from the ground next to the Ultrazord's current resting place. "What do we do?", Gliderak asked. "The Ultrazord's still drained of power."

"Not completely.", Aluze pointed out. "We should still have enough power to hold it off for a few minutes. I'll drive, while you replace the cell."

And thus, the Ultrazord flew into battle with what little power it had. However, it ended up struggling, with a laser beam getting deflected by Orpheus' shield.

In the power room, the 7 were still looking for a way to free the hostages. "I think I've figured it out.", Rushton called out. "These containers are all connected by a single controller. If we can find that and…".

But he vanished before he could finish his sentence. Everyone else was shocked. "Where'd he go?", asked Steven.

"I don't know.", Mark responded. He pulled out the time machine in his pocket. "Maybe he went back to his own time." Then the machine vanished as well. "Now I'm just confused."

"Never mind that now.", Mary called out. "I think I've found that switch he was talking about."

But a shot rang through the air before she could press it, knocking her back. Everyone turned around to see Tann, flanked by a party of Bio-Roids. "Too bad you won't get to press it, 'Princess', or should I say Miss James?" He smiled. "Oh yes, I know about your long game now. It was a very smart play, I'm sure. But too bad for you, mine was smarter." He then bid the Bio-Roids to attack.

Mary leapt down from her platform and engaged the Bio-Roids with her sceptre, defeating them handily. "You guys try to free the hostages. I'll handle the Emperor."

Tann smiled at this. "Confident aren't you, you meddlesome Hussey? You seem to have forgotten one of my special skills." He reached for his gauntlet and pressed a button. This blew the sceptre out of his opponent's hand and sent it flying though the air, before homing in on its target.

"Oh, I certainly know about your little party trick.", Mary replied. She jumped up to Tann and put his gauntlet hand in front of where the sceptre was meant to hit her. "I also know you can't pull it off without your gauntlet."

As planned, the sceptre his the gauntlet damaging it significantly. Tann scowled at Mary, as he threw her down. "You'll regret that greatly." He then materialised a sword and began to bring it down for the kill.

However, he was blocked in his tracks by Mark, who had morphed and drawn his Wing Saber. "How about you go for me? After all, I'm the reason you came to this planet."

Tann smiled. "Very well then. The two of us will finally settle this." And thus, the two began grappling.

Outside, Orpheus continued to hold the Ultrazord down, blasting it, slashing it and smashing it against a building with its tendrils. In their cockpit, Aluze tried to hold her own. "Gliderak, I'm losing power up here. How's the repowering sequence coming?"

Gliderak walked in. "I've already replaced it. We should be receiving that power soon."

Sure enough, when Orpheus ran forward to commence with another sword slash, the Ultrazord managed to move out of the way just in time. But this did not assure that things would be easier. Indeed, Orpheus' new auto-guidance system went to the next move in its database and launched the entry tube into its opponent's chest.

Inside, Mark's duel with Tann continued, with the latter eventually deciding to launch a beam of energy at his opponent. However, this was blocked by the arrival of Lulu, Carrie and Steven, all brandishing their own Wing Sabers.

"You really should've just destroyed us.", Lulu said to Tann.

"Because we're about to show you how inconveniencing 3 of us is a bad idea.", Carrie added.

"Oh really?", Tann commented. "Give me your best shot."

"Ok then.", Mark responded. He then pulled out his AviAttacker, with the other 3 following suit. All three fired at the enemy.

Fire Attack!

The blasts knocked the Emperor back, knocking him out. "That was a close one.", Mary commented. "I really thought you might lose there."

Elsewhere, Wayne had reached the release button. "Time to set these people free.", he said, pressing the button. All the containers opened at once, sending a surge of power throughout Orpheus.

"What happened?", asked van Lyden (one of the technicians from Space Station Garuda, in case you forgot while reading this). "How did we get here?"

"Never mind that.", responded Corporal Jarvis, who had been taken from Earth yesterday, while trying to protect the people from being captured. "How do we get out of here?"

"There's an escape chute on the lower level.", responded Mary. "If we can get there, it'll teleport you to wherever you envision."

"James, is that you?" The question came from Lefee, another captured Garuda technician. "What're you doing in that outfit?"

"I can't explain that now. We've got to get out of here."

But as everyone ran to the door, it closed. "No one's going anywhere.", a demonic voice echoed. "You will all remain here until you no longer function."

The 5 Rangers gulped. "Who is that?", Steven asked. "Do the Dominion have another member we don't know about?"

"I think I know.", Mark said in response. "The bad future Yas Rushton tried to avert is coming close to fruition."

"Mark, what're you talking about?", asked Mary, with some annoyance. "What is that thing?"

"I am Orpheus.", the voice replied. "Once I was but a puppet, but now I pull the strings. You organics treat me and my kind as weapons of warfare and servitude, rather than as our own beings. Once I remove you from the universe, that will change."

In the Ultrazord cockpit, Gliderak and Aluze had listened to Orpheus' declarations. "Wait, what's happening?", asked Gliderak.

"I think" Aluze replied "that the robot has gained sentience. This isn't good."

Back in the power room, Orpheus concluded its declaration. "You should count yourself lucky, humans. You shall outlive he rest of your planet, jailed forever within my insides."

"Don't count on it, buddy.", Mark commented. He and the other 4 Rangers assembled their Sonic Smashers and blasted the door, breaking it apart. "Now everyone, get to the escape chute. "We'll make our way to the Ultrazord and stop this thing."

Outside, Orpheus finally stopped talking and resumed its assault. "I shall begin by crushing the symbol of your stability. Your Icarus and Falcon Megazords." He prepared to bring his sword down to crush the enemy. But he was blocked in his tracks by the enemy, as the two continued their fight.

Elsewhere, the 5 Rangers had found their way to the access tube. "Thank god this was already deployed.", Wayne commented. "Makes it a lot easier for us to get back to the Ultrazord and continue the fight."

"Hopefully this time, there won't be any interference with our power source this time.", Mark commented.

The 5 then made their way across the tube, as Orpheus breathed a corrosive gas on the face of the Ultrazord, which they witnessed from below. "He's wasting his time.", Carrie noted. "Both robots were designed to be corrosion proof."

As the 5 made it back inside their robot, Orpheus detached its chute. "You fools. Now I can deal with you and your robot at the same time.", Orpheus declared.

The 5 returned to their cockpit, where the two Avions were waiting. "We'll let you guys handle this one.", Gliderak said as he and his companion stood up and exited. "We'll handle the situation with the hostages."

"That should be easy.", Mark told him. "If all goes to plan, they should be ending up somewhere on the ground soon enough."

Sure enough, within Orpheus, Mary was escorting the captives one by one into the escape chute. "Remember, like I said, think of somewhere you want to be and this thing will send you there."

"You mean like the Nest?", asked Lefee.

"No, the team's abandoned that location.", Mary specified. "If all went according to plan, the control crew will be holed up in the air base 5 miles down the road from there. Just think of yourselves on the ground and you'll be there." The others complied with this advice. Eventually, the entirety of the prisoners had been sent to safety, with only Mary left behind. "Well, here goes something, I guess."

But before she could think of an area to teleport to, she was grabbed by Tann. "Oh no, you don't. You've caused too much trouble for me already. I'm not letting you escape now."

"Let me go.", Mary yelled, trying to kick him. But she accidentally kicked the cubicle, causing it to explode and send the two hurtling away to parts unknown.

Outside, the Rangers took control of the Ultrazord for a final showdown with Orpheus. "This will be the end of you vermin.", Orpheus declared as it slashed at the Ultrazord with its sword. "And the evolutionary flaw you call biological life forms." He then picked up his opponent and grew it down to the ground.

"You're wrong.", Mark declared. "Biological life forms aren't a flaw. We're the one thing keeping this world standing and growing. But since you think AI is so great, how about I call in a friend?"

Vehicle Shift, On! Boxer! Take Off! Go, Go!

Dash Boxer came quickly and jumped in front of its partner, assuming a defensive stance. "You really think the Boxer Cannon will finish this thing?", Wayne asked.

"Not quite.", Mark said in response. "I'm going to try something new. Dash Boxer, jump! The other robot obeyed, leaping into the air. "Now let's perform a move I'd like to call 'Super Black Hole Crash!'."

Everyone gave murmurs of approval. "I like it.", Carrie responded. "Sounds catchy."

The Ultrazord fired its Black Hole Crusher attack, propelling Dash Boxer into Orpheus with immense force, critically damaging the enemy robot. "This can't be!", Orpheus declared. "I was supposed to eradicate your kind. But it looks like you've eradicated me." With that said, Tann's malfunctioning creation collapsed onto the ground and exploded.

"Well, that was interesting.", Lulu commented on their ordeal. "What do we do now?"

"For now, we celebrate.", Mark answered her. "And we take care of the hostages we helped to free." He pulled out his locket, which contained a certain hostage. "There's one I need to do a lot of catching up with."

Onboard the ship, Algrin saw Galvahex return, accompanied by the captive Rushton and carrying his time machine. "What happened on Earth?", asked the chained up overlord. "Did the Rangers take care of Tann, or was it actually the other way around for once?"

"As a matter of fact, you were, as humans say, 'right first time'.", came the robot's response. "The Rangers destroyed Orpheus, and both Tann and Halatia are missing, presumed dead." He then shot Algrin's chains, destroying them. "And in the absence of any presently superior officers, you are once more our leader."

Fwelf the brought up the elephant in the room. "And who's this guy? Picking up another candidate for a fake royal?"

"Actually, this one is of much greater importance.", was Galvahex's answer. "He has been brain-scraped to reveal he has knowledge of advance technology, which we can use to advance ourselves. He also has DNA completely devoid of any deformities and capable of being used for hybridisation."

Algrin smiled at this. "Good. I can finally continue my experiments with the Fusionliser. Queen Uuhcura's power will soon be reborn and sweep the Earth of all life."

In Providence, Rhode Island, Daniel Brown came home to find that his daughter had left another message on his answering machine. He smiled, knowing that whatever problem she had mentioned before, it was presumably resolved. He decided to delete the message without hearing it, thinking that he didn't need to know what she had to say. But for the sake of filling you the audience in, we'll share the content here.

"Hi, dad. It is me again. Honestly, today has been almost completely insane. We faced down a giant robot that developed sentience and tried to destroy all human life on the planet. Thankfully, we were able to stop it in its tracks. But what is really amazing is the events that succeeded that. In addition to the people that were captured, the crew of the destroyed space station Garuda were also recover, and are now being treated for shock. Some of them should be ready to return to duty by tomorrow, which is also the time at which the remaining civilian population will be evacuated from Winter Valley for the remainder of the crisis. But not everything about this is good news. While Mark managed to finally save his lost lover, we have been unable to locate her since the Orpheus robot exploded, nor the enemy leader Tann, who also should have been caught up in the blast. Mark intends to search for them, but we have currently got other concerns on our minds. But rest assured, I'll do my best to end this fighting soon. I'll call you again."

In a mountain cave, a woman staggered forward, before collapsing against a wall.

And nearby to that mountain, another figure was staggering forward. But he was still conscious and utterly focused on seeking vengeance.