Power Rangers Lost in Space #14: memories
Matt and Jake are playing a game of handball.
"Haven't played against you before. I like new challenges." Jake says.
"Yeah well I guess I could use the exercise." Matt says.
Jake and Matt volley back and forth until Matt misses a return and loses the point.
"Nice try. But you can't beat the Jakeman." Jake boasts.
Matt suddenly doubles over in pain.
"Hey. What's wrong?" Jake asks worriedly.
But Matt can't hear him cause he is reliving a nightmarish vision. In it he and the other rangers are being
lead by strange men to an attack on a village.
"Weapons ready." The leader says.
Matt finds himself readying his weapon along with the others. They sneak into the village. A little girl
pops up and starts singing a song. The leader pops off a shot accidentally that hits the little girl and knocks
her down.
"No! What the heck did you do that for?" Matt yells.
"Intel says that anybody could be a threat. Even civilians." The leader responds.
"But she was just a little girl." Matt yells.
The vision goes away and Matt finds himself on the floor with Jake standing over him worriedly.
And now for episode 14…
Cynthia is in bed sleeping but whatever she is dreaming, it's not pleasant.
"This is your mission. We are to drop in on this planet and secure the main capital." A leading officer is
saying to Cynthia and the other rangers.
"Sir. What is the ultimate purpose of this mission." Cynthia asks.
"We have Intel that the enemy is secretly fortifying itself in that capital of the planet." The leader responds.
"So we are to find and take the enemy out?" Cynthia asks.
"No. This is simply a recon mission. To get intelligence on the enemies position." The leader responds.
After Cynthia sits through silence for about a half and hour, the ship slows down.
"Okay people. It's time to fall to the drop zone." The leader says.
The ship makes it's decent into the lower atmosphere. The leader motions the other rangers and the other
officers to the open bay doors. They all jump out and parachute to the ground. Once they land Cynthia and
the others quickly cut their lines and hide their parachutes. Although none of them know how they knew to
do this. They all regroup and the leader points to the north and they follow him. Cynthia wakes with a
start. She gets dressed and goes to the game room. He sees a worried look on Jake's face.
"What's wrong Jake?" Cynthia asks.
"I don't know. Matt just collapsed for a few minutes. He seems okay now. He says he had a weird vision
but he won't talk about it." Jake responds.
"I just had a weird dream myself. Please tell me about your vision and I will tell you my dream." Cynthia
says to Matt.
"The reason why I don't want to talk about it cause it was horrible." Matt says.
"Please tell me." Cynthia says in a sweet voice.
"Okay. I dreamed that me and the rest of us were all in a military unit. We were invading an enemy camp
and the leader shot an innocent little girl. He thought nothing of it. We were there to find an enemy that
was supposedly camped there. From what people said we jumped in from a space ship. But I didn't relive
that part." Matt says.
Cynthia's expression changes.
"Wait a minute. My dream was about us doing a jump from the lower atmosphere. Me and all the others
were there and we were to invade a village." Cynthia says.
"It could just be a coincidence." Matt says.
"Maybe." Cynthia says confused.
Meanwhile Joshua is looking at a data padd reading up on stuff taken from the surrounding area. Suddenly
the screen goes on the blitz. After a few seconds it's replaced by a strange moving image. A group of
what appears to be soldiers is moving from a village in a running motion. They are holding regular
projectile weapons. With a suddenness that startles Joshua the data padd emits a sound other than a beep
for the first time ever. After recovering from his shock he realizes that he is hearing audio from this
moving image.
"Darn it sir. Did we really have to kill all those innocent people?" One of the soldiers asks.
Something about that voice sounds familiar but Joshua can't put his finger on it.
"I told you all time and time again. These people are dangerous. Even civilians may be carrying." The
leader responds.
"This is mad. You're mad." Another soldier says.
Joshua suddenly feels cold as ice as he recognizes that voice very much. It's his own.
The other soldiers turn their heads towards the "camera" and Joshua's nerves dip a bit more in the cold side
when he recognizes the other crewmates.
"What is this?" Joshua almost yells.
As if to hear Joshua's yells, the Joshua on screen looks around and says, "I can't believe I ever agreed to
this mission."
Meanwhile in Janus's quarters she gets a communication.
"This is Janus." Janus replies.
"I refuse to do this suicidal mission any longer." A voice over the communicator says.
"Matt? Is that you? What do you mean?" Janus asks.
"You will do as I say or I will have you court martialed when we get back." Another voice says.
"What's going on here. Who is this?" Janus says into the communicator worried.
"Fine get me court martialed. I will probably get in trouble anyway for my participation in this senseless
slaughter." Matt yells.
Janus finally realizes that whatever is happening, they can't hear her so she just listens to this strange drama
unfolding.
"If you are so intent on it then I will just have to pronounce you guilty right here and carry out your
sentence." The leader says.
A loud banging noise sounds off and Janus worries that Matt or whoever sounds like Matt has been shot.
"What are you doing?" Matt says.
Janus is relieved to hear his voice.
"I just saved your life. And stripped command from an officer that is obviously mad." Another voice that
sounds spookily like Cynthia.
"Janus please come to the game room." Matt's voice comes over the communicator.
It takes a few seconds before Janus realizes that what she heard was coming from the real Matt. She shakes
her head and leaves her room and heads for the game room. She is surprised to find everybody there.
"Janus. Have you had any weird visions or any other things happen to you that shows a event that you
don't remember ever doing?" Matt asks.
"Well actually I just received a strange conversation over my communicator. It was about somebody that
sounded like Matt arguing over a leading officer about what they did. He called it a slaughter. The officer
was about to execute him for treason but someone that sounded like Cynthia shooting him." Janus says
more confused than ever.
They all look at each other.
"What? What's going on?" Janus asks.
"We all have had some strange vision of some sort about a military mission that involved as all and a
leading officer." Matt responds.
"Except for me." Jake says.
"I had a premonition after losing consciousness about going into a village and killing an innocent little
girl." Matt says.
"I had a dream about jumping in from the lower atmosphere off of a space ship. The mission was the
invade a village and determine if the target was there." Cynthia says.
"I had strange video over my data pad with sound and stuff. It showed us all walking away what I now
assume is the same one where the slaughter of the girl happened. I was objecting to what the leader did
himself and what he wants us to do." Joshua says.
"What does it mean?" Janus says.
"Okay I haven't been honest with you. I did have a dream about it. A terribly disturbing dream. I didn't
want to relive but it seems like reliving it is the only way to solve this mystery." Jake says.
The others focus on Jake and prepare themselves.
"Okay it began with me and the others in space. The leader was talking about our mission like Cynthia
says. After we landed and made it to the village, he had us bring out our weapons even before he scanned
for the target. A little girl comes out from a side street and starts to sing a song. The leader told us to fire
on her but we refused. Finally he fires on her. He even shoots her couple of more times at point blank to
make sure she's dead. He says that she could have been packing." Jake says.
Matt shivers as he hears again what he saw.
"After that we find out the target isn't in this village and he orders us to place bombs and destroy the
village cause it's deserted. After we run from it, I saw a bunch of people walking out of their building right
before it all blew up. You Matt confronted the leader about why he lied about the village being empty. He
said that they were the entire enemy and must be destroyed. He knew that if they knew the truth that they
wouldn't do it. After that we all head down the path to the north. He sits us down and shows us a map of a
huge village that we are nearing. He says that the target will for sure be there." Jake says.
"What is this. These can't be memories. We wouldn't have been involved in a slaughter of this
magnitude." Joshua says shaking his head.
"So anyway when we reach the main village, he guns down every citizen he sees. Finally we object to it
and refuse to go any further. But suddenly a man holding a gun jumps out of nowhere and forces Matt to
fire on him. The leader says he can't back out now cause he has blood on his hands as well. Along the
way the leader continues to gun down everybody no matter how old or young or whether he or she are
armed or not. We reach the main citadel and the leader has us run inside and into the main chamber. In
there a shriveled up old man is sitting and meditating. But when he sees the group he stands up and bows.
He welcomes us and offers peace. Not knowing that the guy standing in front of him has slaughtered
almost all of his people. The leader suddenly says that this guy is the target and orders Matt to kill him.
Matt flatly refuses and throws his gun down. He declares that there must be something wrong with the
leader and orders him to step down from his command. Something in the leader snaps and he leaps for
Matt's gun and uses it to kill the leader of the village." Jake says.
The others simply hang their head in silence. Cynthia looks like she is ready to hurl.
"On the way Matt once again orders the leader to step down. He refuses to continue and so do the others.
The leader declares the Matt will be court martialed when they get back. When Matt says he doesn't care
the leader decides to carry out Matt's punishment right now and execute him. Luckily Cynthia had the guts
to take him out first. Afterwards we bury the leader and get called back to the ship to leave this planet. It
is revealed that the mission that the leader was leading us on was not the right one." Jake says.
After they realize that Jake is done they all look up and almost all of them have pale faces.
"This all happened when we entered this system. I have a feeling that the answers are here. Let's return to
the bridge and scan the surrounding area." Janus says shakily.
They all agree and file into the bridge. They do a scan of all the planets. When it comes to one particular
one they all react.
"That's it. That's the one we or whoever landed and had to participate in that nightmare." Jake says.
They all agree.
"I say we land and find out what's going on down there." Janus says.
"Are you nuts. If this really happened in the short time we have been in this sector then they will probably
shoot us on sight." Jake says.
"I think it's safe. I am not sure why I think that but I do." Janus says.
They land the ship and open the hatch. A view of a beautiful planet is in view outside the hatch.
"This doesn't look like a warzone. Something like the thing we saw couldn't have happened in this area
recently." Jake says.
"That way is the village." Joshua says.
"Yeah you're right. I think we should check it out." Janus says.
Jake reluctantly agrees and they head north. Where the village should have been instead a strange
monument lies. A tall spire with alien writing on it.
"What happened to the village?" Jake asks.
Matt steps forward with a scanner and tries to use it to translate the symbols.
"No good. It can't translate them." Matt says shaking his head.
"Wait a minute. I think I can. For some reason that vision or memory or whatever it was has left me with a
understanding." Janus says.
"Well what are you waiting for?" Jake asks.
"It says roughly that a massacre happened here a hundred years ago and this monument is a tribute to the
people who died. And to make sure other's don't make the same mistake the visitors did." Janus responds.
"Hundred years ago. Then it couldn't have been us." Jake says almost relieved.
"Then why were we remembering it like as if we were involved?" Matt asks.
Janus takes out her scanning device and scans the spire.
"I think I may know why. I am picking up a high-energy reading coming from the spire. The strange part
is it matches our brain waves." Janus says.
"You mean it is sending us something in the form that matches our brain waves. What does that mean?"
Jake asks.
"It means that what we witnessed was memories being broadcasted by this memorial. For some reason the
memories replace the five officers with us. They built this so that anybody that passes trough this system
will relive these memories in hope that the mistakes of the past will never be repeated again." Janus says.
"If it was just sent to me. Then why can't I forget it?" Cynthia asks.
"I believe that these memories are now part of our permanent long term memories." Janus responds.
"I will never forget what happened on this planet a hundred years ago no matter whether these memories
are long term or not." Cynthia says sadly.
"Let's return to the ship and continue to find a way home so we can tell others about this tragic mistake."
Janus says.
The others nod.
"Uh can I catch up with you. I have something I want to do real quickly in private. I will be there in ten
minutes tops." Matt says.
The others nod then run off leaving Matt alone. He takes out some flowers that he was gonna give to Janus
and instead puts them on the foot of the memorial.
"Thank you." He says simply then walks off.
The wind blows through the flowers and the memorial spire glows brightly.
The end.
Next week is the tragic final episode of the year 2000. Which ranger will die and how?
Matt and Jake are playing a game of handball.
"Haven't played against you before. I like new challenges." Jake says.
"Yeah well I guess I could use the exercise." Matt says.
Jake and Matt volley back and forth until Matt misses a return and loses the point.
"Nice try. But you can't beat the Jakeman." Jake boasts.
Matt suddenly doubles over in pain.
"Hey. What's wrong?" Jake asks worriedly.
But Matt can't hear him cause he is reliving a nightmarish vision. In it he and the other rangers are being
lead by strange men to an attack on a village.
"Weapons ready." The leader says.
Matt finds himself readying his weapon along with the others. They sneak into the village. A little girl
pops up and starts singing a song. The leader pops off a shot accidentally that hits the little girl and knocks
her down.
"No! What the heck did you do that for?" Matt yells.
"Intel says that anybody could be a threat. Even civilians." The leader responds.
"But she was just a little girl." Matt yells.
The vision goes away and Matt finds himself on the floor with Jake standing over him worriedly.
And now for episode 14…
Cynthia is in bed sleeping but whatever she is dreaming, it's not pleasant.
"This is your mission. We are to drop in on this planet and secure the main capital." A leading officer is
saying to Cynthia and the other rangers.
"Sir. What is the ultimate purpose of this mission." Cynthia asks.
"We have Intel that the enemy is secretly fortifying itself in that capital of the planet." The leader responds.
"So we are to find and take the enemy out?" Cynthia asks.
"No. This is simply a recon mission. To get intelligence on the enemies position." The leader responds.
After Cynthia sits through silence for about a half and hour, the ship slows down.
"Okay people. It's time to fall to the drop zone." The leader says.
The ship makes it's decent into the lower atmosphere. The leader motions the other rangers and the other
officers to the open bay doors. They all jump out and parachute to the ground. Once they land Cynthia and
the others quickly cut their lines and hide their parachutes. Although none of them know how they knew to
do this. They all regroup and the leader points to the north and they follow him. Cynthia wakes with a
start. She gets dressed and goes to the game room. He sees a worried look on Jake's face.
"What's wrong Jake?" Cynthia asks.
"I don't know. Matt just collapsed for a few minutes. He seems okay now. He says he had a weird vision
but he won't talk about it." Jake responds.
"I just had a weird dream myself. Please tell me about your vision and I will tell you my dream." Cynthia
says to Matt.
"The reason why I don't want to talk about it cause it was horrible." Matt says.
"Please tell me." Cynthia says in a sweet voice.
"Okay. I dreamed that me and the rest of us were all in a military unit. We were invading an enemy camp
and the leader shot an innocent little girl. He thought nothing of it. We were there to find an enemy that
was supposedly camped there. From what people said we jumped in from a space ship. But I didn't relive
that part." Matt says.
Cynthia's expression changes.
"Wait a minute. My dream was about us doing a jump from the lower atmosphere. Me and all the others
were there and we were to invade a village." Cynthia says.
"It could just be a coincidence." Matt says.
"Maybe." Cynthia says confused.
Meanwhile Joshua is looking at a data padd reading up on stuff taken from the surrounding area. Suddenly
the screen goes on the blitz. After a few seconds it's replaced by a strange moving image. A group of
what appears to be soldiers is moving from a village in a running motion. They are holding regular
projectile weapons. With a suddenness that startles Joshua the data padd emits a sound other than a beep
for the first time ever. After recovering from his shock he realizes that he is hearing audio from this
moving image.
"Darn it sir. Did we really have to kill all those innocent people?" One of the soldiers asks.
Something about that voice sounds familiar but Joshua can't put his finger on it.
"I told you all time and time again. These people are dangerous. Even civilians may be carrying." The
leader responds.
"This is mad. You're mad." Another soldier says.
Joshua suddenly feels cold as ice as he recognizes that voice very much. It's his own.
The other soldiers turn their heads towards the "camera" and Joshua's nerves dip a bit more in the cold side
when he recognizes the other crewmates.
"What is this?" Joshua almost yells.
As if to hear Joshua's yells, the Joshua on screen looks around and says, "I can't believe I ever agreed to
this mission."
Meanwhile in Janus's quarters she gets a communication.
"This is Janus." Janus replies.
"I refuse to do this suicidal mission any longer." A voice over the communicator says.
"Matt? Is that you? What do you mean?" Janus asks.
"You will do as I say or I will have you court martialed when we get back." Another voice says.
"What's going on here. Who is this?" Janus says into the communicator worried.
"Fine get me court martialed. I will probably get in trouble anyway for my participation in this senseless
slaughter." Matt yells.
Janus finally realizes that whatever is happening, they can't hear her so she just listens to this strange drama
unfolding.
"If you are so intent on it then I will just have to pronounce you guilty right here and carry out your
sentence." The leader says.
A loud banging noise sounds off and Janus worries that Matt or whoever sounds like Matt has been shot.
"What are you doing?" Matt says.
Janus is relieved to hear his voice.
"I just saved your life. And stripped command from an officer that is obviously mad." Another voice that
sounds spookily like Cynthia.
"Janus please come to the game room." Matt's voice comes over the communicator.
It takes a few seconds before Janus realizes that what she heard was coming from the real Matt. She shakes
her head and leaves her room and heads for the game room. She is surprised to find everybody there.
"Janus. Have you had any weird visions or any other things happen to you that shows a event that you
don't remember ever doing?" Matt asks.
"Well actually I just received a strange conversation over my communicator. It was about somebody that
sounded like Matt arguing over a leading officer about what they did. He called it a slaughter. The officer
was about to execute him for treason but someone that sounded like Cynthia shooting him." Janus says
more confused than ever.
They all look at each other.
"What? What's going on?" Janus asks.
"We all have had some strange vision of some sort about a military mission that involved as all and a
leading officer." Matt responds.
"Except for me." Jake says.
"I had a premonition after losing consciousness about going into a village and killing an innocent little
girl." Matt says.
"I had a dream about jumping in from the lower atmosphere off of a space ship. The mission was the
invade a village and determine if the target was there." Cynthia says.
"I had strange video over my data pad with sound and stuff. It showed us all walking away what I now
assume is the same one where the slaughter of the girl happened. I was objecting to what the leader did
himself and what he wants us to do." Joshua says.
"What does it mean?" Janus says.
"Okay I haven't been honest with you. I did have a dream about it. A terribly disturbing dream. I didn't
want to relive but it seems like reliving it is the only way to solve this mystery." Jake says.
The others focus on Jake and prepare themselves.
"Okay it began with me and the others in space. The leader was talking about our mission like Cynthia
says. After we landed and made it to the village, he had us bring out our weapons even before he scanned
for the target. A little girl comes out from a side street and starts to sing a song. The leader told us to fire
on her but we refused. Finally he fires on her. He even shoots her couple of more times at point blank to
make sure she's dead. He says that she could have been packing." Jake says.
Matt shivers as he hears again what he saw.
"After that we find out the target isn't in this village and he orders us to place bombs and destroy the
village cause it's deserted. After we run from it, I saw a bunch of people walking out of their building right
before it all blew up. You Matt confronted the leader about why he lied about the village being empty. He
said that they were the entire enemy and must be destroyed. He knew that if they knew the truth that they
wouldn't do it. After that we all head down the path to the north. He sits us down and shows us a map of a
huge village that we are nearing. He says that the target will for sure be there." Jake says.
"What is this. These can't be memories. We wouldn't have been involved in a slaughter of this
magnitude." Joshua says shaking his head.
"So anyway when we reach the main village, he guns down every citizen he sees. Finally we object to it
and refuse to go any further. But suddenly a man holding a gun jumps out of nowhere and forces Matt to
fire on him. The leader says he can't back out now cause he has blood on his hands as well. Along the
way the leader continues to gun down everybody no matter how old or young or whether he or she are
armed or not. We reach the main citadel and the leader has us run inside and into the main chamber. In
there a shriveled up old man is sitting and meditating. But when he sees the group he stands up and bows.
He welcomes us and offers peace. Not knowing that the guy standing in front of him has slaughtered
almost all of his people. The leader suddenly says that this guy is the target and orders Matt to kill him.
Matt flatly refuses and throws his gun down. He declares that there must be something wrong with the
leader and orders him to step down from his command. Something in the leader snaps and he leaps for
Matt's gun and uses it to kill the leader of the village." Jake says.
The others simply hang their head in silence. Cynthia looks like she is ready to hurl.
"On the way Matt once again orders the leader to step down. He refuses to continue and so do the others.
The leader declares the Matt will be court martialed when they get back. When Matt says he doesn't care
the leader decides to carry out Matt's punishment right now and execute him. Luckily Cynthia had the guts
to take him out first. Afterwards we bury the leader and get called back to the ship to leave this planet. It
is revealed that the mission that the leader was leading us on was not the right one." Jake says.
After they realize that Jake is done they all look up and almost all of them have pale faces.
"This all happened when we entered this system. I have a feeling that the answers are here. Let's return to
the bridge and scan the surrounding area." Janus says shakily.
They all agree and file into the bridge. They do a scan of all the planets. When it comes to one particular
one they all react.
"That's it. That's the one we or whoever landed and had to participate in that nightmare." Jake says.
They all agree.
"I say we land and find out what's going on down there." Janus says.
"Are you nuts. If this really happened in the short time we have been in this sector then they will probably
shoot us on sight." Jake says.
"I think it's safe. I am not sure why I think that but I do." Janus says.
They land the ship and open the hatch. A view of a beautiful planet is in view outside the hatch.
"This doesn't look like a warzone. Something like the thing we saw couldn't have happened in this area
recently." Jake says.
"That way is the village." Joshua says.
"Yeah you're right. I think we should check it out." Janus says.
Jake reluctantly agrees and they head north. Where the village should have been instead a strange
monument lies. A tall spire with alien writing on it.
"What happened to the village?" Jake asks.
Matt steps forward with a scanner and tries to use it to translate the symbols.
"No good. It can't translate them." Matt says shaking his head.
"Wait a minute. I think I can. For some reason that vision or memory or whatever it was has left me with a
understanding." Janus says.
"Well what are you waiting for?" Jake asks.
"It says roughly that a massacre happened here a hundred years ago and this monument is a tribute to the
people who died. And to make sure other's don't make the same mistake the visitors did." Janus responds.
"Hundred years ago. Then it couldn't have been us." Jake says almost relieved.
"Then why were we remembering it like as if we were involved?" Matt asks.
Janus takes out her scanning device and scans the spire.
"I think I may know why. I am picking up a high-energy reading coming from the spire. The strange part
is it matches our brain waves." Janus says.
"You mean it is sending us something in the form that matches our brain waves. What does that mean?"
Jake asks.
"It means that what we witnessed was memories being broadcasted by this memorial. For some reason the
memories replace the five officers with us. They built this so that anybody that passes trough this system
will relive these memories in hope that the mistakes of the past will never be repeated again." Janus says.
"If it was just sent to me. Then why can't I forget it?" Cynthia asks.
"I believe that these memories are now part of our permanent long term memories." Janus responds.
"I will never forget what happened on this planet a hundred years ago no matter whether these memories
are long term or not." Cynthia says sadly.
"Let's return to the ship and continue to find a way home so we can tell others about this tragic mistake."
Janus says.
The others nod.
"Uh can I catch up with you. I have something I want to do real quickly in private. I will be there in ten
minutes tops." Matt says.
The others nod then run off leaving Matt alone. He takes out some flowers that he was gonna give to Janus
and instead puts them on the foot of the memorial.
"Thank you." He says simply then walks off.
The wind blows through the flowers and the memorial spire glows brightly.
The end.
Next week is the tragic final episode of the year 2000. Which ranger will die and how?