"Sorry man, I can't explain it. Just trust me when I say that everything will be okay," Tommy told him as the five of them hurried away.

TJ put his hands on his hips as he watched the five of the walk around the corner. 'Something about those uniforms are familiar,' he thought to himself, trying to place where he'd seen them before. It didn't take him very long to figure it out. 'That day in the woods, when Cassie and me saved Tommy and Katherine. I saw a man wearing a uniform just like that one, but he had on sunglasses,' he recalled.

Finally, it was all beginning to take sense……

Whoever those people were with Tommy, they were obviously from the future. They had to be. They appeared from a hole in the sky, and they were talking about events that hadn't happened as if they were past tense. 'They have to be from the future, but how did Tommy get involved with them?' he wondered.

He knew there was only one way to find out, follow them. He crept around the corner as quietly as he could, ducking down behind a dumpster as the five of them thought.

"I still don't see why we couldn't tell TJ what was happening. I trusted him with my identity a long time ago, and he kept my secret. He would be able to keep this a secret too," Tommy insisted as they walked.

TJ cracked a smile.

Jen stopped, turning to him. "Tommy, understand that TJ was carefully selected to replace you as red turbo ranger. We made sure that he was in the right place at the right time when Piranhatrons captured you and Katherine. Believe me, I know the kind of person that TJ is, but we can't……" she was cut short.

"Are you telling me that Time Force had something to do with TJ and Cassie saving us?" he asked.

"I'm telling you that history has to play itself out, and sometimes, its Time Force's responsibility to make sure that everything goes the way its suppose to," she said.

'I knew it,' TJ thought to himself, remembering the man standing in the woods wearing the exact same uniform.

"So you're telling me that TJ is trustworthy enough to allow him to take my morpher and keep my identity a secret, but we can't tell him why we're here or where we're from?" he asked.

"Exactly,"

'You may have to tell him Jen,' they heard a voice say.

TJ continued to watch on as one of them reached for the morpher on her wrist. "What do you know Captain?" she asked.

'History logs state that Zordon's energy wave cleansed the galaxy of all evil, but evil, like any other energy in the universe, cannot be destroyed. All the negative energy somehow manifested in space, creating a being of pure evil. It has no soul, no conscious, no mercy, and according to the history logs, its on it's way to Earth,' a voice explained.

"Wait a sec, I've read about this in our history logs. You're talking about Shin Getti, aren't you?" Trip asked.

'Yes,' he said.

"If that's true, and it is Shin Getti, he isn't supposed to get to Earth until the year 2005. The Earth should be safe for another six years," Katie said.

'No. Shin Getti originally came to Earth shortly before the launch of Terra Venture. He was captured and trapped in the Shadow World by a group of rangers,' he said.

"But they aren't going to be any other rangers on Earth until the development of the Lightspeed morphers. Who is supposed to stop Shin Getti?" Tommy asked.

Finally, TJ had heard enough. He came from behind the dumpster, walking over to them. "I think that's where I come in," TJ said, folding his arms.

"What are you doing here man?" Tommy asked.

"I was going to ask you the same question," he mentioned.

"This doesn't concern you," Jen said, stepping between the two of them.

"Sounds to me like it does. Whoever this Shin Getti is, you're going to need someone to stop him," he turned to Jen. "If I'm right, none of you are allowed to get involved, so that leaves me and the other rangers," he said.

"You have no idea what you're getting yourself in……" she was cut short.

"Lets hear him out Jen," Tommy said, stepping forward.

"Right now Andros, Shane and Karone are on KO-35 helping the rebels rebuild, and the morphers are locked in the power vault onboard the Megaship, but I still have my turbo morpher here. Cassie and Ashley will help if I ask them, and I'm sure I can find Justin," he told them.

"I thought the Turbo powers were destroyed," Camille brought up.

"Power can't be destroyed, only transferred. Before we followed Divatox into space, we transferred out power and our morphers back to the zords. We thought that we'd come back for them one day, but then we met Andros and we didn't need to," he paused. "You guys may be right, we might be in over our heads with Shin Getti, but we're the only chance the world has right now," TJ explained.

"After your battle with Divatox, the turbo morphers should be extremely low on power. It would take a huge amount of energy to bring them back to full power," Trip mentioned.

"Any theories?" Jen asked.

"What about the Lightspeed rangers?" Camille asked.

"The new morphers won't be ready for another six months, and it will take over six to assemble their team," Katie mentioned.

"There was a woman in the meeting I just came from – Ms. Fairweather. She said they'd found a suitable power source for the new morphers. Couldn't we adapt that power source for the turbo morphers?" TJ asked.

"More than likely the power supplies won't be compatible. I doubt they could even be modified to give the turbo morphers enough energy for what you're trying to do," Camille said.

"What about the Galaxy rangers? Couldn't we call them for help?" Tommy asked.

"If I know my history, Leo and the others don't even have the Quasar Sabers yet. The Earth is defenseless," Camille said.

"What if I borrowed the new morphers?" TJ asked.

"I don't think you could walk into the Aqua Base and say 'excuse me, I'd like to use your morphers. I'll bring them back when I'm done,'" Katie pointed out.

"Then I'll just have to borrow them without permission," he said.

"We don't exactly have a lot of options here," Trip said.

"That settles it. I'm going to get in touch with Cassie and the others. We'll get the new morphers and do what we can to defend the Earth. Zordon would want it that way," TJ sighed, extending his hand to Jen.

Jen glanced back at the others, tacitly asking for their approval. It was Camille who nodded, speaking for the entire group. Finally, Jen reached out, accepting TJ's hand. "We can't interfere, but we'll help any way we can," she told him as they shook.

(*)

Captain Mitchell and Ms. Fairweather walked through the halls of the newly built Aqua Base. It was truly an impressive sight, almost as impressive as the schematics for Terra Venture.

When the government originally confronted her with the idea of building morphers with an Earth based power source, she was convinced it wouldn't happen. The thought of giving one person that much power didn't seem feasible. To harness that much power and compress it into something as small as a morpher seemed…… a little far fetched. It wasn't until she was shown a blueprint of a morpher that she was able to come up with an all new design. The new morphers were a bit bigger than the originals, but in theory, would be able to do the job.

"You seem worried Angela," Captain Mitchell said as the two of them turned the corner, walking into what appeared to be the main control center.

"I am. Frankly, I was hoping that Mr. Jarvis would accept our offer to work with us on Operation: Lightspeed," she said.

"I have the utmost confidence in you Angela. I'm sure you'll be able to do it without him," he told her.

She shook her head. "That's just it, I can't do it without him. I can design a morpher, build all new zords from the ground up, but we're lacking a conduit strong enough to handle the power source necessary to activate them," she said.

"But in the meeting, you said that we……"

"I know I said I would have them working in six months, but that was when I thought Mr. Jarvis was going to work with us. Until we find a conduit strong enough to maintain power to the morphers, they might as well be oversized watches," she said.

"So what are you saying? That the government pumped out over two million dollars in money for research, development and supplies so they could have fancy watches? There has to be a way to get those morphers working without Mr. Jarvis' help," he said.

"I'm afraid there isn't," she sighed.

(*)

Ashley found herself sitting on the porch, staring up into the sky again. It had only been a few weeks since Andros and the others headed to KO-35 to help the rebels access the damage to the planet. After the battle, she was convinced that Andros would stay with her, but it only took him few weeks to head back to his homeworld.

The ironic part was, he asked her to come along. They'd been to KO-35 before, and she thought it was one of the most beautiful planets she'd ever seen (not that she'd seen a lot of different ones). There were a lot of things about KO-35 that were similar to Earth, but a few differences as well. When he asked her to go, she found herself debating on if she should go or not. She understood that the planet would need all the help it could get, but on the same hand, so did Earth. She'd been an active part in helping clean the city, doing what she could as they prepared to rebuild buildings that were destroyed during the assault.

Plus she had to admit, she loved the attention……

Everywhere she went, someone would stop her and ask to take a picture with her, or wanted an autograph. After being a turbo ranger for a few months, then a space ranger for almost a year, she began to think that no one on Earth would ever know what she'd done. It was a thankless job, saving the world countless times over, but now, she was being recognized for what she'd done.

"If you were just going to sit around sulking about it, you should have just gone with him," she heard a voice say from behind.

She turned around and saw Cassie step through the front door, handing her a glass of juice. "I am not sulking, just admiring the sky," she mentioned.

"The same way you've been admiring the sky since Andros left, right? He'll be back, don't worry so much," she told her, sitting down next to her on the porch.

"I know, I just wish I had a way to contact him," she said, rubbing her wrist slightly, wishing she still had her morpher.

"Hey, I saw Justin the other day," Cassie brought up, changing the subject.

"Really? When?"

"I was down at Angel Grove Hall doing a charity benefit to raise money, and Justin came down there. He's a lot taller now, and it looks like he's been working out," she said.

"Good for him,"

Just then, they were interrupted when TJ's convertible pulled up into the driveway. He stepped out the car, throwing his jacket over his shoulder as he walked over to them. "Hello ladies," he said cheerfully.

"Hey TJ, its good to see you," Cassie said warmly.

"Do you guys have a minute? I need to talk to you about something important," he said.

Ashley and Cassie looked at one another, then back at him. "Yeah, of course. What is it?"

For the next few minutes, he explained everything to them; how the energy wave that cleansed the world also created a being of pure evil, how a group of rangers from the future warned him on the impending threat, and how the turbo morphers weren't going to be enough to stop Shin Getti.

"So what are you saying? We're just going to walk into the Aqua Base and borrow these new morphers?" Ashley asked.

"There's a transport that delivers supplies to the Aqua Base everyday. All we have to do is hitch a ride on board. Once we get there, we shouldn't have a hard time finding the morphers," he said.

"Even if we do manage to get on board the Aqua Base and find the morphers, how would we get back without being noticed?" Cassie asked.

"I've got it all worked out. The transport that delivers supplies always waits fifteen minutes so that personnel on the base can unload the supplies and give them the empty containers. Once we get on the base, we'll have roughly fifteen minutes to find the morphers, get back the transport and get out of there," he explained.

"What about the other rangers you were telling us about, why can't they help?" she asked.

"They're from the future. Anything they would do would alter the time line," he said.

"By telling you what was going to happen, didn't that alter the time line? Surely we weren't destined to break into the Aqua Base and steal the experimental morphers," Cassie mentioned.

"They didn't tell me, I overheard them. This is something we're going to have to do on our own. Who's with me?" he asked.

Ashley nodded. "Count me in,"

"Me too,"

"Good. We'll leave first thing in the morning," TJ told them.