Power Rangers Lost in Space #13 The search for the chosen one chapter 2: the ghost station.
Zhane enters the bridge.
"I'd like to take a shuttle to a nearby system. I got a strange feeling that something is there." Zhane says.
"Like what?" Rio asks.
"Like a clue to the one I am searching for." Zhane says.
"Sir we are getting a strange signal from the same system that Zhane mentioned." An officer says.
"Put it on screen." Rio says.
"It's audio only." The officer says.
Over the speakers comes a lot of static but every once in awhile a couple of words come through.
"Need…can't…much longer…Please help…" The message says then cuts out.
"Okay Zhane. You got your wish. I am sending a couple of security officers just in case as well." Rio
says.
Zhane nods then leaves the bridge. He and the other officers leave on the shuttle and eventually arrive in
the new system. Once in the new system they see a station.
"It appears to be the same station that sent the distress signal. But I am not picking up any life signs." An
officer says.
"Let's dock and investigate." Zhane says.
The ship attaches it to what appears to be the docking bay. They enter the station and look around.
"The air seems to be intact. I am not picking up any kind of toxins. I say it's safe to take off our enviro-
suits." An officer says.
That same officer takes off his helmet. Suddenly without warning he starts to scream in pain and his head
starts to become shriveled and older looking until his head and his body turn to dust.
And now episode 13…
"What the heck happened to him?" Another officer yells.
"I don't know but I ain't taking off my suit. I don't care what his sensor scan said." Another officer says.
"I'd say that would be a good idea." Zhane says.
They look around at their surroundings. Everything seems normal except for the fact that everything seems
to have not been used for a very long time.
"That's strange. We got a distress signal just a hour ago and yet this place doesn't look like it's been used
for years." Zhane says.
They all walk down the corridor checking doors. None of them will open and the panels next to them are
useless. They finally find an open doorway and enter it. They find themselves in what appears to be a sick
bay. Or at least what used to be one. Just like the corridors this one looks unused from the dust and
cobwebs.
"Man this is weird." An officer says.
"Let's go and find the communication center where the guy must have sent from. We might get some
answers there." Zhane says.
They all agree and exit the sick bay. They continue down the corridor to the end and find another door that
won't open.
"Darn it. We aren't gonna get anywhere on this station unless we find a way to open these doors." Zhane
says.
One of the officers steps forward with some strange device and attaches it to the panel. The device comes
to life and starts making beeping noises.
"What is that?" Zhane asks.
"It's scanning the door panel. To see if it can open the door somehow." The officer responds.
After a few moments the door slowly opens.
"Good job." Zhane says.
They all enter the open door and continue down another corridor. Suddenly a strange light comes out of
nowhere and attacks the officer with the device.
"Ah. Help me." The officer says.
The others watch as the officer burns from the inside until the suit incinerates.
"What the heck was that light that enveloped him before he got set on fire?" An officer asks.
"I don't know and I don't want to stay around here to know." Another responds
That officer runs in panic but is rebounded back by a force field blocking the way they came from.
"Calm down now." Zhane yells.
"These suits are supposed to be flame retardant. And look how good it did him." The officer says pointing
to the charred remains of the on fire officer.
"I don't know what is going on here but if we don't keep a level head then we definitely won't make it out
of here alive." Zhane says.
The guy is still shaking but he nods his head in agreement.
"Now since we can't go back, I say we continue towards the bridge." Zhane says to the remaining two
officers.
They continue down the hallway until they reach what seems to be an elevator. Zhane pulls open the doors
and sees that the shaft is empty.
"Oh no way. I am not going in an elevator shaft. What if the power comes back on and the elevator comes
rushing up or down on us?" An officer asks.
Zhane takes a look up and down the shaft and does some scanning.
"Look I don't see the car anywhere close and it's not being picked up by the scanner. I will set the scanner
up to warn us if movement is detected other than our own." Zhane says.
"Okay if you say so." The officer says reluctantly.
They all enter the shaft and step on the side ladder one by one.
"Now usually the bridge is on the top floor. I say we assume that's the same here and go up." Zhane says.
The others nod in agreement and start climbing upwards. After a half an hour the top is still not in view.
"Man when is this gonna end?" An officer asks.
Zhane takes out the scanner and does some scanning.
"That's weird. I am not picking up anything at all now." Zhane says frowning.
"I knew it. This place is weird." The same officer says.
"It could simply be a dampening field." Another officer says.
"Yeah but wouldn't that take power?" The first one asks.
"Yeah but It could have it's own power source and not the station itself for a source." Zhane responds.
Suddenly the shaft lights up and a loud buzzing sound starts.
"Arghhh. I knew it. We need to get out of here and into a floor." An officer screams.
They quickly climb up to the nearest door.
"It's closed. It won't open." The same officer screams.
Zhane tries to force the door open but to no avail. Zhane pulls the plate next the door off and exposes some
wires and a device.
"Here. I got the device that the other guy used to open a door." The other officer says.
Zhane takes the device and hooks it up to the now exposed panel. He punches some buttons on it and it
beeps a bit. Suddenly from far up above the elevator car is finally visible and is quickly coming down
towards them.
"Come on man. It's almost here." An officer screams.
Zhane pushes some more buttons and the door slowly opens. Zhane and the other officer quickly crawl
into the passageway. The other one loses his footing and hangs onto the rung by one hand.
"Help me." The officer yells.
Zhane reaches to help him but the other officer pulls him back just as the car comes rushing past the door.
Zhane winces when he thinks what happened to that poor man.
"Now it's just us." The remaining officer says.
"I am gonna hook up a scanner to a port that I see. Maybe we can get a map. There must be other ways to
the bridge. You know for when there's an emergency and the lifts cannot be used." Zhane says.
The other officer nods and they walk down the corridor searching for any data screens. They finally find
one and Zhane hooks up his scanner. After a bit of fuss a map comes up showing them where they are and
where the bridge is. Zhane punches some more buttons and a section of the map zooms in showing a series
of tubes leading to the bridge.
"Okay got it. I am saving the data so we don't get lost." Zhane says.
He disconnects the scanner after a few moments and pockets it again. They both walk down the corridor
until they reach a panel in the wall. Zhane pulls the panel aside and exposes a tunnel. They all enter it on
their knees and crawl until they reach a ladder.
"Okay this should lead us to the bridge. Are you okay?" Zhane asks the other officer noticing that he is
sweating a lot.
"Yeah I am fine. Just a bit tired and hot. I am not sure why though. I am in good shape." The officer
responds.
Zhane touches his forehead with concern.
"Oh my god. You're burning up." Zhane says.
Zhane takes out a medical kit and gives him a cold band to put around his head.
"Hopefully that will help for now. You tell me if you feel faint or nauseous." Zhane says.
The officer nods and they begin their ascent. After about another half-hour of climbing they finally reach
the top. Zhane pulls open the panel and they crawl out. The bridge is deserted. The guy that sent out the
distress signal is gone. The officer goes over and looks at the various consoles.
"I think I can access the databanks if you would give me the scanner to try to translate." The officer says.
Zhane hands over the scanner. The officer hooks it up to the computer and it starts to do its work.
"A lot of the data is damaged and unreadable. There's one section that is clear enough to read. It appears
to be about scientific experimentation." The officer says.
"Go there. Something tells me that it's the answer to this whole weirdness." Zhane says.
The officer manipulates the scanner and some information comes on the screen in an alien language. After
a short time the language is translated to English. The look on the officer's face changes to horror.
"This is awful." The officer says then doubles over and starts gagging.
"What's going on?" Zhane asks.
The officer is still gagging and can't answer so Zhane walks over to see for himself. His face changes to
horror also when he reads it.
"No. How could anybody with a conscious and a soul could do this?" Zhane asks.
The screen talks about experimentation on human beings on the effects of warping time and space. The
people on this station seemed to have created a rip in time and space and throw people in it and then pull
them back out.
"This might explain all the weirdness on this station. That one officer rapidly aging. Power disruptions."
Zhane says.
The officer finally stands up and seems to be okay now. He goes over to look again and accesses some
more of the documents.
"According to this the rip was created in the lab. It has a map that tells how to get there. I say we find it
and try to close it somehow. Or else I don't think we will ever get off this station." The officer says.
Zhane agrees and they exit back to the corridor and start to climb back down. Suddenly gravity seems to
shift like as if the whole station is turning upside down. The shock loosens the officer's grip and he falls
down to his death. Zhane luckily gets a good grip on the rungs and holds on tight until the messed up
gravity subsides.
Zhane continues down with the map on the scanner and finds a panel and opens it. He crawls into a
corridor then starts to walk down towards a door. He uses the device to open the door and enters a lab. He
looks around but finds no anomaly. He sees a closed door that may lead to more of the lab. He tries it but
it won't open and the device won't work on the panel. Zhane decides to access one of the computer
consoles with his scanner. The scanner brings up more damaged areas of data and the only good area.
Video recordings of experiments. Against his better judgement Zhane accesses it.
At first the voice is in an alien language coming out of a humanoid type doctor. But the translator quickly
decodes it.
"I am now preparing to pull the subject back out of the wormhole for study." The doctor says.
The video jumps ahead to where a figure launches out of the rip. If the figure was ever humanoid, it's
definitely not now. It's disfigured and gross looking. Sounds come out of its mouth that makes Zhane
shiver.
"Subject appears to come out deformed and changed at a molecular level. I cannot tell if this happened in
the trip through the wormhole or on the other side." The doctor says.
Zhane feels like throwing up himself when he thinks about what this sick doctor is doing. The video jumps
ahead again. The doctor is holding a subject that seems perfectly normal and healthy.
"I am sending in another subject. This time with a probe that can track the exact time the change occurs."
The doctor says.
He ties the plasma rope around him and throws him into the wormhole. Once again the video jumps ahead.
It shows the doctor preparing to yank the rope back again.
"Okay I am ready to retrieve the subject." The doctor says.
The doctor yanks on the rope, which comes out freely but with nobody on the end. Zhane shudders to think
what happened to that poor soul on the other side.
"What is going on here. Did he escape?" The doctor yells.
"No. We aren't picking him up on either side." A voice off camera answers.
The doctor sees some teeth marks on the edge of the rope.
"Oh my god. It looks like something ate him. And there's no sign of the probe. Are you getting any
readings from it?" The doctor yells.
"No nothing at all." The voice responds.
The video skips ahead again.
"Testing for today is complete. I am now shutting down the wormhole." The doctor says.
The doctor fiddles around with some things on the computer console. Something doesn't please him
obviously.
"The wormhole isn't closing. In fact it's expanding." The doctor says.
The wormhole shoots out big and envelops the doctor who gets out a scream before he disappears. The
wormhole then approaches the area where the camera obviously was. The last thing that is heard before the
camera goes offline is "What have we done?"
Zhane thinks it's over but the camera comes back on and what it picks up makes Zhane's blood turn cold.
The wormhole is gone but something is seriously wrong with the area. People are appearing and
disappearing. Sometimes appearing and screaming in agony from some unknown pain. Occasionally he
sees a burst of light and fire spread across the room. Suddenly fire leaps out and envelops the camera and
the transmission stop.
"I have got to get the heck out of here. I don't know exactly what happened in this place but I am not about
to become the next victim." Zhane says to himself.
Zhane accesses the map and uses it to find the cargo bay where they landed the shuttle. He gets to the area
but finds nothing but a blank wall where the entrance should be.
"Crap what's going on here?" Zhane yells.
Before his eyes the walls start to buck and twist. Suddenly the familiar shimmer of the wormhole shows in
the walls.
"The wormhole. It's grown to the size of the entire station. We've been in it the whole time." Zhane yells.
Suddenly the wall caves in and Zhane finds himself being sucked into space.
"Silver ranger power." Zhane yells quickly and punches the numbers in before it's too late.
He morphs just in time to avoid the vacuum and suffocation of space. But he can't see the shuttle
anywhere. He turns himself around and witnesses the station crumple in on itself. After it's all over there
is no station. Zhane fears he is trapped until he sees the figure of a familiar friend. The megasuit has come
to get him. He quickly gets in the suit and communicates with the ship.
"This is Zhane to explorer ship please come in." Zhane says.
"This is explorer ship. Zhane is that really you?" A voice asks.
"Yeah it's me. Only me, the others were killed." Zhane responds.
"Dang. We had given up hope on you." The voice says.
"What do you mean? I have only been gone for a few hours." Zhane says.
"Did you bang your head on the station or something. You've been gone for weeks." The voice says.
Zhane reels from the revelation. Time must have been slower in that station. What was only a few hours
for him, was weeks out here.
"Yeah must of hit my head or something. Well anyway I'm heading home." Zhane says happily.
"We have moved since then looking for you. Here's our new coordinates." The voice says.
Zhane receives the coordinates and the megasuit sets a course. His scanner beeps and he picks it up.
Something was downloaded to it by some unknown source. He accesses the file on it and it gives him a
picture. The file says this is what the chosen one looks like. The face seems kind of familiar to Zhane but
he can't be sure.
"I'll find you eventually." Zhane says to the picture.
The end.
Next week is the start of the final two episodes of this year.
First the rangers start having nightmares of them being involved in a senseless slaughter of thousands of
innocent people on a planet. Did they really do it or is someone or something misleading them
Then it's the final episode of the year. The rangers are trapped with no hope of survival, no hope of rescue
and for one ranger no hope of ever seeing the earth again alive.
Zhane enters the bridge.
"I'd like to take a shuttle to a nearby system. I got a strange feeling that something is there." Zhane says.
"Like what?" Rio asks.
"Like a clue to the one I am searching for." Zhane says.
"Sir we are getting a strange signal from the same system that Zhane mentioned." An officer says.
"Put it on screen." Rio says.
"It's audio only." The officer says.
Over the speakers comes a lot of static but every once in awhile a couple of words come through.
"Need…can't…much longer…Please help…" The message says then cuts out.
"Okay Zhane. You got your wish. I am sending a couple of security officers just in case as well." Rio
says.
Zhane nods then leaves the bridge. He and the other officers leave on the shuttle and eventually arrive in
the new system. Once in the new system they see a station.
"It appears to be the same station that sent the distress signal. But I am not picking up any life signs." An
officer says.
"Let's dock and investigate." Zhane says.
The ship attaches it to what appears to be the docking bay. They enter the station and look around.
"The air seems to be intact. I am not picking up any kind of toxins. I say it's safe to take off our enviro-
suits." An officer says.
That same officer takes off his helmet. Suddenly without warning he starts to scream in pain and his head
starts to become shriveled and older looking until his head and his body turn to dust.
And now episode 13…
"What the heck happened to him?" Another officer yells.
"I don't know but I ain't taking off my suit. I don't care what his sensor scan said." Another officer says.
"I'd say that would be a good idea." Zhane says.
They look around at their surroundings. Everything seems normal except for the fact that everything seems
to have not been used for a very long time.
"That's strange. We got a distress signal just a hour ago and yet this place doesn't look like it's been used
for years." Zhane says.
They all walk down the corridor checking doors. None of them will open and the panels next to them are
useless. They finally find an open doorway and enter it. They find themselves in what appears to be a sick
bay. Or at least what used to be one. Just like the corridors this one looks unused from the dust and
cobwebs.
"Man this is weird." An officer says.
"Let's go and find the communication center where the guy must have sent from. We might get some
answers there." Zhane says.
They all agree and exit the sick bay. They continue down the corridor to the end and find another door that
won't open.
"Darn it. We aren't gonna get anywhere on this station unless we find a way to open these doors." Zhane
says.
One of the officers steps forward with some strange device and attaches it to the panel. The device comes
to life and starts making beeping noises.
"What is that?" Zhane asks.
"It's scanning the door panel. To see if it can open the door somehow." The officer responds.
After a few moments the door slowly opens.
"Good job." Zhane says.
They all enter the open door and continue down another corridor. Suddenly a strange light comes out of
nowhere and attacks the officer with the device.
"Ah. Help me." The officer says.
The others watch as the officer burns from the inside until the suit incinerates.
"What the heck was that light that enveloped him before he got set on fire?" An officer asks.
"I don't know and I don't want to stay around here to know." Another responds
That officer runs in panic but is rebounded back by a force field blocking the way they came from.
"Calm down now." Zhane yells.
"These suits are supposed to be flame retardant. And look how good it did him." The officer says pointing
to the charred remains of the on fire officer.
"I don't know what is going on here but if we don't keep a level head then we definitely won't make it out
of here alive." Zhane says.
The guy is still shaking but he nods his head in agreement.
"Now since we can't go back, I say we continue towards the bridge." Zhane says to the remaining two
officers.
They continue down the hallway until they reach what seems to be an elevator. Zhane pulls open the doors
and sees that the shaft is empty.
"Oh no way. I am not going in an elevator shaft. What if the power comes back on and the elevator comes
rushing up or down on us?" An officer asks.
Zhane takes a look up and down the shaft and does some scanning.
"Look I don't see the car anywhere close and it's not being picked up by the scanner. I will set the scanner
up to warn us if movement is detected other than our own." Zhane says.
"Okay if you say so." The officer says reluctantly.
They all enter the shaft and step on the side ladder one by one.
"Now usually the bridge is on the top floor. I say we assume that's the same here and go up." Zhane says.
The others nod in agreement and start climbing upwards. After a half an hour the top is still not in view.
"Man when is this gonna end?" An officer asks.
Zhane takes out the scanner and does some scanning.
"That's weird. I am not picking up anything at all now." Zhane says frowning.
"I knew it. This place is weird." The same officer says.
"It could simply be a dampening field." Another officer says.
"Yeah but wouldn't that take power?" The first one asks.
"Yeah but It could have it's own power source and not the station itself for a source." Zhane responds.
Suddenly the shaft lights up and a loud buzzing sound starts.
"Arghhh. I knew it. We need to get out of here and into a floor." An officer screams.
They quickly climb up to the nearest door.
"It's closed. It won't open." The same officer screams.
Zhane tries to force the door open but to no avail. Zhane pulls the plate next the door off and exposes some
wires and a device.
"Here. I got the device that the other guy used to open a door." The other officer says.
Zhane takes the device and hooks it up to the now exposed panel. He punches some buttons on it and it
beeps a bit. Suddenly from far up above the elevator car is finally visible and is quickly coming down
towards them.
"Come on man. It's almost here." An officer screams.
Zhane pushes some more buttons and the door slowly opens. Zhane and the other officer quickly crawl
into the passageway. The other one loses his footing and hangs onto the rung by one hand.
"Help me." The officer yells.
Zhane reaches to help him but the other officer pulls him back just as the car comes rushing past the door.
Zhane winces when he thinks what happened to that poor man.
"Now it's just us." The remaining officer says.
"I am gonna hook up a scanner to a port that I see. Maybe we can get a map. There must be other ways to
the bridge. You know for when there's an emergency and the lifts cannot be used." Zhane says.
The other officer nods and they walk down the corridor searching for any data screens. They finally find
one and Zhane hooks up his scanner. After a bit of fuss a map comes up showing them where they are and
where the bridge is. Zhane punches some more buttons and a section of the map zooms in showing a series
of tubes leading to the bridge.
"Okay got it. I am saving the data so we don't get lost." Zhane says.
He disconnects the scanner after a few moments and pockets it again. They both walk down the corridor
until they reach a panel in the wall. Zhane pulls the panel aside and exposes a tunnel. They all enter it on
their knees and crawl until they reach a ladder.
"Okay this should lead us to the bridge. Are you okay?" Zhane asks the other officer noticing that he is
sweating a lot.
"Yeah I am fine. Just a bit tired and hot. I am not sure why though. I am in good shape." The officer
responds.
Zhane touches his forehead with concern.
"Oh my god. You're burning up." Zhane says.
Zhane takes out a medical kit and gives him a cold band to put around his head.
"Hopefully that will help for now. You tell me if you feel faint or nauseous." Zhane says.
The officer nods and they begin their ascent. After about another half-hour of climbing they finally reach
the top. Zhane pulls open the panel and they crawl out. The bridge is deserted. The guy that sent out the
distress signal is gone. The officer goes over and looks at the various consoles.
"I think I can access the databanks if you would give me the scanner to try to translate." The officer says.
Zhane hands over the scanner. The officer hooks it up to the computer and it starts to do its work.
"A lot of the data is damaged and unreadable. There's one section that is clear enough to read. It appears
to be about scientific experimentation." The officer says.
"Go there. Something tells me that it's the answer to this whole weirdness." Zhane says.
The officer manipulates the scanner and some information comes on the screen in an alien language. After
a short time the language is translated to English. The look on the officer's face changes to horror.
"This is awful." The officer says then doubles over and starts gagging.
"What's going on?" Zhane asks.
The officer is still gagging and can't answer so Zhane walks over to see for himself. His face changes to
horror also when he reads it.
"No. How could anybody with a conscious and a soul could do this?" Zhane asks.
The screen talks about experimentation on human beings on the effects of warping time and space. The
people on this station seemed to have created a rip in time and space and throw people in it and then pull
them back out.
"This might explain all the weirdness on this station. That one officer rapidly aging. Power disruptions."
Zhane says.
The officer finally stands up and seems to be okay now. He goes over to look again and accesses some
more of the documents.
"According to this the rip was created in the lab. It has a map that tells how to get there. I say we find it
and try to close it somehow. Or else I don't think we will ever get off this station." The officer says.
Zhane agrees and they exit back to the corridor and start to climb back down. Suddenly gravity seems to
shift like as if the whole station is turning upside down. The shock loosens the officer's grip and he falls
down to his death. Zhane luckily gets a good grip on the rungs and holds on tight until the messed up
gravity subsides.
Zhane continues down with the map on the scanner and finds a panel and opens it. He crawls into a
corridor then starts to walk down towards a door. He uses the device to open the door and enters a lab. He
looks around but finds no anomaly. He sees a closed door that may lead to more of the lab. He tries it but
it won't open and the device won't work on the panel. Zhane decides to access one of the computer
consoles with his scanner. The scanner brings up more damaged areas of data and the only good area.
Video recordings of experiments. Against his better judgement Zhane accesses it.
At first the voice is in an alien language coming out of a humanoid type doctor. But the translator quickly
decodes it.
"I am now preparing to pull the subject back out of the wormhole for study." The doctor says.
The video jumps ahead to where a figure launches out of the rip. If the figure was ever humanoid, it's
definitely not now. It's disfigured and gross looking. Sounds come out of its mouth that makes Zhane
shiver.
"Subject appears to come out deformed and changed at a molecular level. I cannot tell if this happened in
the trip through the wormhole or on the other side." The doctor says.
Zhane feels like throwing up himself when he thinks about what this sick doctor is doing. The video jumps
ahead again. The doctor is holding a subject that seems perfectly normal and healthy.
"I am sending in another subject. This time with a probe that can track the exact time the change occurs."
The doctor says.
He ties the plasma rope around him and throws him into the wormhole. Once again the video jumps ahead.
It shows the doctor preparing to yank the rope back again.
"Okay I am ready to retrieve the subject." The doctor says.
The doctor yanks on the rope, which comes out freely but with nobody on the end. Zhane shudders to think
what happened to that poor soul on the other side.
"What is going on here. Did he escape?" The doctor yells.
"No. We aren't picking him up on either side." A voice off camera answers.
The doctor sees some teeth marks on the edge of the rope.
"Oh my god. It looks like something ate him. And there's no sign of the probe. Are you getting any
readings from it?" The doctor yells.
"No nothing at all." The voice responds.
The video skips ahead again.
"Testing for today is complete. I am now shutting down the wormhole." The doctor says.
The doctor fiddles around with some things on the computer console. Something doesn't please him
obviously.
"The wormhole isn't closing. In fact it's expanding." The doctor says.
The wormhole shoots out big and envelops the doctor who gets out a scream before he disappears. The
wormhole then approaches the area where the camera obviously was. The last thing that is heard before the
camera goes offline is "What have we done?"
Zhane thinks it's over but the camera comes back on and what it picks up makes Zhane's blood turn cold.
The wormhole is gone but something is seriously wrong with the area. People are appearing and
disappearing. Sometimes appearing and screaming in agony from some unknown pain. Occasionally he
sees a burst of light and fire spread across the room. Suddenly fire leaps out and envelops the camera and
the transmission stop.
"I have got to get the heck out of here. I don't know exactly what happened in this place but I am not about
to become the next victim." Zhane says to himself.
Zhane accesses the map and uses it to find the cargo bay where they landed the shuttle. He gets to the area
but finds nothing but a blank wall where the entrance should be.
"Crap what's going on here?" Zhane yells.
Before his eyes the walls start to buck and twist. Suddenly the familiar shimmer of the wormhole shows in
the walls.
"The wormhole. It's grown to the size of the entire station. We've been in it the whole time." Zhane yells.
Suddenly the wall caves in and Zhane finds himself being sucked into space.
"Silver ranger power." Zhane yells quickly and punches the numbers in before it's too late.
He morphs just in time to avoid the vacuum and suffocation of space. But he can't see the shuttle
anywhere. He turns himself around and witnesses the station crumple in on itself. After it's all over there
is no station. Zhane fears he is trapped until he sees the figure of a familiar friend. The megasuit has come
to get him. He quickly gets in the suit and communicates with the ship.
"This is Zhane to explorer ship please come in." Zhane says.
"This is explorer ship. Zhane is that really you?" A voice asks.
"Yeah it's me. Only me, the others were killed." Zhane responds.
"Dang. We had given up hope on you." The voice says.
"What do you mean? I have only been gone for a few hours." Zhane says.
"Did you bang your head on the station or something. You've been gone for weeks." The voice says.
Zhane reels from the revelation. Time must have been slower in that station. What was only a few hours
for him, was weeks out here.
"Yeah must of hit my head or something. Well anyway I'm heading home." Zhane says happily.
"We have moved since then looking for you. Here's our new coordinates." The voice says.
Zhane receives the coordinates and the megasuit sets a course. His scanner beeps and he picks it up.
Something was downloaded to it by some unknown source. He accesses the file on it and it gives him a
picture. The file says this is what the chosen one looks like. The face seems kind of familiar to Zhane but
he can't be sure.
"I'll find you eventually." Zhane says to the picture.
The end.
Next week is the start of the final two episodes of this year.
First the rangers start having nightmares of them being involved in a senseless slaughter of thousands of
innocent people on a planet. Did they really do it or is someone or something misleading them
Then it's the final episode of the year. The rangers are trapped with no hope of survival, no hope of rescue
and for one ranger no hope of ever seeing the earth again alive.