A/N: So here we are... I can't say how happy I am, to finish my first Fanfiction EVER!
Btw, to get the gist I'd recommend the songs ''Born to Be Yours (Kygo and Imagine Dragons)'' and ''Meant To Be (from Teen Beach-2)'' playing in the background, because i had them in mine when i was writing it, especially the last scene!

Ch- 20: Destinies

Another day passed, and finally the Doctor gave permission for inter-time travel.

Cyro and Epsilon Rangers got to the task of setting up the inter-dimensional-time-portals, right away, early morning, about six, to create the portals that would send Sky and Z back to 2025.

"NOVA!" Cyro called out, "how the hell did you figure out WHAT time to go back to when you went to rescue Sam?"

"yeah it took a while," she said, strolling over casually, to the devices that were being set up.

"See when Omega had tried it, he had transported several days BEFORE he was required, then I went a few days later, with a completely perfect timing, right down to minutes and seconds. But that idiot machine fries EVERY damn time it was used so finally it was tossed into the trash."

"I know that why are you telling me that?" Cyro asked, a little frustrated.

"I don't know WHY, but I know how to set it up, and so does Omega. All time-travelling devices (unless it's a wormhole) work in a similar fashion. Chill."

Then nova strolled over to the device, punched a few buttons, pulled a few levers, spun a few dials, and a portal took shape; she then poked her head through to the other side, and then nodded, "the time is set, New Tech City, 2025 around a week after their abduction."

"you knew all that by just poking your head through?" Epsilon asked, baffled.

"Yeah, I had set the location right in front of a train station schedule. So, yeah, it wasn't much. I saw it quite well." She grinned.

"cool! So let's get this party started!"

"farewell party?" Epsilon tried making a joke, but it was a moo point, and SO, he, embarrassed, said, "I'll show myself out" red as a tomato.

X-X-X

"wake up sleepy-head" Z said, kissing Sky's neck, trying to wake him up, but when he mumbled something sleepily, she nipped his shoulder, and made his squeak, and his eyes flew open, he looked at her, on top of him, and grinned, realizing this was her 'special' way of waking him, and so he decided she also deserved her own special treat.

He smirked, and tossed her up, turning them around, so that he covered her body with his much larger one, and started kissing her heatedly. They were already quite naked from their exploits of the previous night, and he was just making love to her, when there was a loud and definite knock on their door.

The two, startled, cut short their session, and quickly wrapped some cloth around themselves, to answer the door…. Or to be more specific, Sky went and poked his head out of the dor, wrapping a towel around his waist, while Z pulled the bed covers close to her chest.

"commander" he said, looking at his own older self, and Commander Tate looked at the 23 year old suspiciously, "you're departure time has been set by the rangers in an hour. Get Ready" There was certain authoritarianism in his voice, which made Sky salute himself, and then duck back in, and tell Z that they didn't have time to complete whatever they had been doing, and so she agreed, and they quickly dressed up.

Sky and Z met up with the two commanders, and the A-Squad in the command centre. Richie was the only one from the B-Squad, allowed to join, and say goodbye to the two.

Z hugged Ruth tightly, Sky fist bumped Richie (Baymax Style), they said goodbyes to the commanders, and then Draco morphed into Cyro, and as per his duties, got ready to escort the two back to the past. But Sky stopped him, he said that he and commander Delgado-Tate would escort the two.

Commander Tate morphed into a red ranger crossed with black form, with a massive X print, the DekaRanger. While Elizabeth Delgado morphed into the Silver crossed black Enneranger, with a massive IX printed on her chest.

So then Nova rigged the portal, and it opened, into 2025.

The four people walked through the portal, and felt a shimmery mercury-like substance engulf them. Last time they had been through, they had been dragged, and didn't remember any part of it whatsoever.

Off to the other side, minutes later, the four found themselves standing in the extremely familiar command centre of New Tech City, 2025. Watching the portal open, commander Cruger, and Dr. Manx had gathered in front of it, the other three rangers were nowhere in sight.

As the four figures stepped through, at first they took a defensive stance, but when they saw the familiar faces of Sky and Z, along with two power rangers, they relaxed.

"cadets Tate and Delgado, we are glad to have you back" Cruger… welcomed? In his voice you'd never know. It might be sarcasm too.

Dr. Manx was way nicer, "the other rangers had been worried sick. We're all glad that you are okay"

Commander Tate, the Dekaranger saluted commander Cruger, and spoke, in a heavier voice than usual, "commander" His tone was one of respect.

Cruger must've noticed Tate's badge, because he also saluted, as a sign of respect, and replied, "commander", acknowledgement.

"The two of them were transported to New Tech City, to 2045. Twenty years in the future. We refrained from erasing their memories for the greater good. It is possible that every action they take from this moment on, might alter the future time-line once and for all. We have chosen to let that happen."

Then commander Delgado, the Enneranger picked up the conversation, Cruger saw her, and addressed her "commander" as well, though he did seem a little confused by what he saw. Two commanders?

"The knowledge they have is highly classified, and we implore you to not let them reveal it. The consequences of their actions are inevitable, but that is chosen. But if they reveal this knowledge to other people, their friends for example, it might cause even greater changes in the timeline, which might, or might not be required."

Sky and Z nodded, they had received the same lecture the previous night also. They were not going to reveal anything to anyone. The commanders didn't need to put babysitters onto them.

But anyway, their requests made, the commanders of the future bid goodbye to their own younger versions, quite discreetly, and then passed over to the other side.

Sky and Z looked at each other, and wondered what to do next. Cruger asked them for a briefing, and they said, quite cheekily, it was 'classified information' and so they couldn't revela what their mission was, but assured that the monster who had taken them to the future 'wouldn't cause any more trouble'.

Cruger applauded, telling them it had been a test, and they had passed. Then Kat run a few tests on them, making sure it was really them, and then they were let go, to meet their friends.

On the way, though the hallways, Sky and Z talked, "Sky?" she asked, "should we tell them?"

"I don't really know." He shrugged.

"I think we should keep it a secret for a while at least. I mean this would be too soon." She said.

"true, true, true" he nodded, "so should we do what? continue our fight?"

"what fight?"

"the one we were having, but were very rudely interrupted by Count time o'clock?"

"right…" she nodded, now remembering.

"should we… fight?"

"let's not."

"yeah I didn't want to either." He replied, chuckling nervously. It felt as if everything was up to them now. But then again, they'd never be able to explore the repercussions of what they did before 20 years, and for them, that time would be their present, so they'd never fully understand what changed what.

"let's just leave all this burdens and forget we ever went there." she said, "let's do whatever time makes us do, and for now, I think we should just chill with our friends"

"for the first time, I couldn't agree more!" he agreed, and at that very moment, Bridge, Syd, Jack and omega in a light-ball came jumping towards them, yelling (no prizes for guessing who spoke the lines) "KAT TOLD US YOU WERE HERE!"
And, "WE'RE SO GLAD U GUYS ARE BACK!"
And, "WE WERE JUST WORRIED SICK!"
And, "WE LOVE YOU GUYS DON'T EVER LEAVE US ALONE AGAIN!"
AND then they gripped both of them in a GIANT TEAM HUG! Sky and Z wouldn't get a chance to get away from them anytime soon!

X-X-X

"through the portal, on the other side, somehow, because of some miscalculations in the location region by Cyro, (who's math was almost as good as Bridge's counting— 4,5,7,8 kinda) The two commanders found themselves in the vorest surrounding New Tech City. It wasn't dense, and they had been there multiple times before, and knew almost every nook and cranny. They unmorphed, but as they left the portal, they saw that in their hands, they held a long silver, mercury like rope, which was shimmering, and wasn't actually solic. It was like a string of memories from the pensieve.

"what's that Sky?" Z asked.

"we've entered a new world Z," he replied, he had known this would happen, "but we still have our old memories, this string, that connects us to our old world. We can't actually enter our new world until we let go of these memories."

"so we'll lose all our beautiful memories if I let go of this string?

"I don't really know." He shrugged, not really knowing.

"so what do we do?" she was confused.

"How about we leave it together?" he suggested, softly.

"I can't do it Sky. I can't watch you leave!" she seemed to have almost made up her mind that Sky wouldn't be there.

"we have to Z, we can't just stay here all our lives," he said, because she was being completely irrational, then he got an idea, "you know what? close your eyes, and leave the string."

"If I close my eyes, and leave it, would I open it to find someone else in your place?" she asked, tears clouding her eyes.

"I was born to be yours. Don't worry. WE're destiny." he barely whispered, and pressed his lips against hers, transfixing her is a passionate kiss. Z closed her eyes, and let herself get completely lost in his kiss, she love the feel of his lips on hers. it wasn't a tongue kiss, just a sweet one, that was supposed to make her feel safe, and it really did. He himself let go of the string of memories, and wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her up, even closer to her, if that was possible. Finally, building faith in him, and their destinies, she also let go of the silverine string, and wrapped her arms behind his neck, brushing the nape of his neck.

The two stood there, bound in an embrace of love for a few minutes… or it could've been seconds, or even hours, because time seemed meaningless to the two. But finally they had to part, for a bitch called oxygen; panting, he rested his forehead against hers, and looked into her eyes, as she slowly opened them to take in her husband.

Schuyler Marcus Tate was standing in front of her, his clear, deep, green-blue eyes staring lovingly into hers. He was just the same, her eyes clouded with tears as she realized how much she loved him…
but something was different. To start off, there was no knife-mark on his temple, which felt really really good to see, because it meant something had changed.
But the other thing, she asked, "Sky," her voice still cracked a little from the tears, "what happened to your hair?" she gave a short chuckle.

He broke away from her to run a hand in his hair, and gave a wide grin, as he found himself saying, "I knew I shouldn't have let that idiot Bridge cut them! Just because his wife is coiffeuse doesn't make him one too!"

"I know right!" she said, grinning, even though her mind told her to not believe everything he had just said! Bridge was dead! He was this criminal who had shot himself not even two days ago! There was supposed to be a funeral in a couple more days! What was happening? But at the same time, somehow she found her own memories countering the statement, as Bridge hadn't shot himself, he had arrived with Sydney as a backup force, right when Count Time o'clock had shot himself! She tried to remember the time they had found out that Bridge was on drugs, and involved in criminal stuff, right after Syd's divorce, but the only picture coming to mind was Bridge toppling over with a whole mountain of toast, when he heard that his best friend Sydney Drew was getting divorced. No memory of evil Bridge came to mind even when she thought of what he had done. It was as if she KNEW what had happened, yet couldn't seem to picturize the moments in her mind, instead, they had been replaced in her memories by innocent, often funny memories of Bridge ad his goofiness. It was like writing a fanfiction. Being able to think of a story, like it actually existed, yet somehow not being able to place it back in the canon universe of the show. It was strange, but nice, like everything that they had gone through was actually just reading a horrible fanfiction, and not living it in real life!

Even for Sky, everything seemed confusing. He felt the same way, things seemed to not make sense, yet somehow make perfect sense. Had he just said that he had let Bridge give him a haircut? He remembered it distinctly, but he also knew he had arranged a press conference, actually multiple ones, for arranging bounty sums to people to get Bridge Carson, and the last one, in which he had said that he would do it himself. He tried remembering the time Bridge had thrown him off a roof, on his own anniversary night, but all the images that came to his mind were those of Bridge carrying a 15 layer anniversary cake, celebrating Sky and Z's fifteen year anniversary! What the hell was happening? He had been paralyzed for four years! That had'nt changed, but the cause of it had. He had toppled from a balcony as a result of an… earthquake? His memories told him of times Z had crashed at his and Bridge's bedroom to be with HIM and not with Bridge as he knew had actually happened in the beginning, which was what had led him to develop feelings for her. Remembering how he had actually started going out with her, he had a brand new album of memories of his visit to the dystopian...'future?'...where he had confessed he had liked her, and it had led to so much!

WHAT WAS HAPPENING?

Sky and Z both looked at each other, and in their eyes they saw the confusion, which slowly cleared, as they realized that they had new memories, images, in their mind, BUT they still knew the turn of events. They were perhaps the only people in their universe now, who remembered what their world had looked like before. On the brighter side, now they could compare and contrast what had changed, and what hadn't. Oh God! To think that they'd never be haunted by the memories of guilt and murders! To know that their best friends were still their best friends! To know that nothing in their own life had changed, even though a life very closely connected to their had been saved! It was utopia! No other situation could've been more perfect.

Z realized just how paranoid and wrong she had been all this while. She had though that it was anomalous that she had chosen Sky over Bridge, but yet here, in this alternate parallel, utopian universe, she was still with Sky! That wasn't the anomaly. SHE AND SKY HAD ALWAYS BEEN DESTINED TOGETHER. And to think Sky had known it all along.

"Goddamnit, they did it!" Z said, hugging Sky tightly, "WE did it Z," Sky corrected, and hugged her back, and in the process, lifted her off the ground, and then spun her around in the air.

When they came down again, they kissed, "Here we are Z, look at us; at the end of the day, We. Were. Destined. To. Be. Nothing in the universe could change that. Not even crazy time-traveling psychos and kid us."

"yeah, you're right, sorry I had doubts... I mea everything's just so... perfect... Bridge isn't evil, and we're together." she said, "I love you, and I will, in every life... forever."

And then finally, Sky called SPD Base on his intercom, and a very, very familiar voice came through, "yes commander?"

"Bridge" Commander Sky Tate found himself speaking, "we're coming home."

THE END

A/N: There we go! Love or Hate? Was it worth the whole suspense? I had to rewrite the like five times, with different storylines... things changing not changing, and finally I settled on this!
And here's a little afterthought, a description of what the world would look like in the future since there's no epilogue and I didn't want to ruin Sky and Z's little moment. So here it is:

AU: Bridge Carson is and will always be Sky Tate's best friend, and now, the head technician at SPD since Dr. Manx moved to the galactic command. He was SUPER supportive of them dating when they finally revealed their little secret, actually kinda like a crazed fan, (Eg: Boyle for Peraltiago in B-99) Later down the line, he also got married to a woman, who was at first at SPD only, but later became a professional hair-dresser, or as Sky puts it a little more classily, a ''coiffeuse''. Bridge also tries his hand at his wife's equipment, though it doesn't seem to make much difference for him, as he still ends up screwing up sky's hair such that they're sticking out in all directions, but everybody dismisses it as ''oh that's just plain old Bridgey''. Bridge's son, Freddy, is STILL unable to join the ranger squad(s) because commander Tate doesn't think he's still good enough, and needs more training. Freddy still literally worships both of his parents. As for Richie and Ruth, their stories are exactly the same, even the Sam part. Half the people that died because of Evil Bridge never died, and actually live happy lives. Aurora is still a little... estranged, but now she has a mentor in Bridge who, also being a psychic, helps her maintain her powers. Sky and Z were brought into the future by the actual Count Time o'clock. And DZ Vaughn/Crestos is still evil, and serving time in prison, though he never worked with Bridge. Draco is still the wise-ass boy wonder he was, and Syd still dearly loves him, and often rescues him from trouble. Only now, she has Bridge to assist her in her rescue operations.

So yeah, I believe that's a happy ending... do you agree?