"Computer, give me a listing of all communications sent in the last 12 hours," Katie instructed as she sat down on front of the control panel in the communications room.

'Accessing. One moment please,' the computer announced.

Part of her thought that Jen was being paranoid. 'No way Logan was up here long enough to contact anyone, much less another dimension. Besides, he doesn't even have security access,' she thought to herself, but she also knew it couldn't hurt to look. The fate of not just their world, but of countless other worlds hung in the balance, so it made sense to be thorough.

The computer didn't answer, but instead gave a read out of every communication made. Katie quickly skimmed through them.

"Computer, there's a gap between 1396 and 1398. Explain."

'That communications file has been deleted,' the computer answered.

"By whom?"

'Unknown,' the computer said.

She paused. "Computer, is the deleted file still in the network?" she asked.

'Checking,' there was a pause. 'Affirmative. File still exists on network,' it said.

"Retrieve file 1397 and display,"

The screen blinked on, and Katie's jaw dropped at the sight of him. "Oh my God," she sighed with a look of panic on her face.

(*)

"Anything yet?" Jen inquired as she walked into the lab where Lucas was working. He didn't even bother to glance back as she put her hand on his shoulder.

"No yet. I swear you have to be a science geek to make sense of this stuff. Even if I had found something, I wouldn't know," he admitted.

She paused. "I was thinking about what you said," she mentioned, changing the subject a little.

"About Tommy?"

She nodded. "I just don't know if pursuing a relationship with him is the best thing right now. He still needs time to adjust to his new surroundings, and I'm not completely over Wes yet. Maybe I should hold off on….."

"Jen, Tommy is a living legend, when word gets out that he's alive and well in the 31st century, there will be women lined up around the corner to meet him. Do you really want to hold off on telling him how you feel? If you do, it might be too late," Lucas told her.

She sighed. "You're right, it's just that……" she was cut short as Ransik, Trip, Tommy and Jindrax walked into the room.

"Hey guys," Tommy said, speaking for the group.

"You found the staff, good. All we have to do now is wait for Katie," she said.

"Where is Katie?"

"In the communications room checking something for me," she reached for her morpher. "Katie, this is Jen. Come in," she said.

There was no response.

"Katie, this is Jen. Do you read me?"

Still, no response.

"Katie, this is Lucas. Come in," he said, but still nothing.

"Computer, locate Katie," Jen said.

'Katie is on deck 9, section 4,' it announced.

"That's communications, but why isn't she answering?" Trip wondered.

Just then, Captain Logan rushed into the room, hitting Ransik over the head with a metal pole. As he fell to the ground, Logan grabbed the staff, aiming a disrupter to it. "Another move and I destroy the staff," he warned.

"Who is this clown?" Jindrax asked.

"You're a fine one to talk, aren't you? It won't matter, none of it matters. In a few minutes, my master will merge the realities and mutants will rule not only this world, but all worlds," he told them.

"We're not going to let you get away with this Logan. There's no way you can make it to the launch bay without one of us catching you," Tommy mentioned.

"I thought of that, that's why I brought along some help. Isn't that right Trip?" he asked.

The others turned to Trip, who had a disrupter aimed at Jen's head. "Get to the shuttle bay, I'll hold them here," Trip said.

Logan let out a sinister laugh, and then hurried away.

"Why Trip?" Jen asked.

"Hell, why not? The Trip you knew was erased from existence with the time line shifted, but you would have known that if you took the time to review the personnel logs yourself. Master Ransorg sent Logan and I here to ensure that the mutants would inherit the world, and now that we have the only thing that can stop us in our possession, it's only a matter of time," he explained.

"It all makes sense now. When we came back from our first mission, Logan told us that the time line had been repaired and Trip was back, but we never stopped to check," Lucas said.

"And he's been helping us the entire time, but secretly undermining everything we've tried to do," she added.

"Which means the ion charges won't work," Ransik pointed out.

"Oh they work all right. They'll open the rift even further, allowing the barriers between worlds to be destroyed. The world will belong to……" he was cut short as something hit him from behind.

It was enough to let Jen connect with an elbow to the stomach, then a kick, knocking Trip off his feet. Before he could regroup, she grabbed the disrupter, pointing it at him.

"Why do the bad guys always talk so much?" they heard a voice ask.

They all glanced up and saw him.

"Trip?" Jen inquired.

"The one and only," he glanced down at his other self. "Well, not really, but you get the idea," he said.

"I don't understand, you were erased from the time line," she said.

"If anyone had stopped to check, you'd see that whatever you did to repair the time line restored history. I've been here the whole time, but thought I'd see how all this played out. Good thing too, looks the like the bad guys were about to win," he mentioned.

"What do you know about ion charges?" she asked.

"Only that if you plan to flood that reactor with ion radiation, the rift will open one hundred times faster, and there's no telling what might come through the rift," he said.

"So what do we do?"

"Reverse the charges polarity, that should close the rift," he said.

"None of it matters now you fools, Logan is gone and he took the staff and the time ship with him. Even if you're right, there's nothing you….." he was cut short as Trip leaned down, hitting his other self, knocking him out.

"I think this belongs to me," he said, taking his morpher and putting it on. "Am I really as annoying as this guy?"

"Not at all Trip."

"It's a shame, he really is a handsome guy," he pointed out.

"Um, in case you haven't noticed, the entire universe is doomed and there's nothing we can do about it. I should have stayed in the Nexus," Jindrax said.

"Ransik, go check on Katie and meet us in hanger 6," Jen said.

"Hanger 6, that's where……"

She nodded. "Where the megazord is," she sighed.