He'd passed the café a million times on his way to work, but today, he decided to wake up a few minutes early and stop in. Whenever he walked by, everyone inside seemed to be enjoying themselves; talking with friends, drinking coffee and laughing. Then, the aroma that came from the café as he as walked by was enough to catch his attention. The smell of eggs and bacon filled the air, and everytime he walked by, he found himself with a craving for it.

"What can I get for you?" a waitress asked as she walked over to his table with a note pad and ink pen in hand.

"Bacon and eggs," he said proudly, neglecting to look at the menu.

"Will that be all for you sir?" she inquired.

"As a matter of fact, make it two. I'm expecting someone. Oh, and two glasses of ice-cold milk," he told her.

"You got it," she said, writing down his order and walking away.

Work had kept him so busy over the last few weeks, he decided that he would take a personal day. For once, he wasn't going to talk about work, anything work related at all…… especially not the Slipstream. He'd earned a day to himself, and he was going to enjoy himself for once.

Things got even better as the door to the café open and she walked in. She was wearing a blue sundress, rather low cut he noticed. The dress itself stopped just below her knees, and for the first time he could clearly recall, she was wearing her hair down.

"So, this is that café you were telling me about," she said cheerfully, walking over to him and sitting down across from him in the booth.

"You look amazing," he sighed, either unable or unwilling to take his eyes off her.

"I bet you say that to all the girls," she blushed.

"Only the beautiful ones," he admitted.

"Did you order already?"

"Yeah, I got you bacon and eggs. I hope that's okay," he said.

"Sounds good to me,"

"Thanks for coming. I know its kinda early, and you probably wanted to get to……" he was cut short.

"Its okay Trip. There's nowhere else I want to be right now," she told him.

He blushed. "Thanks," he sighed.

Just then, she pulled a small slip of paper out her dress, opening it up. "I was up kinda late last night, and I came up with this idea for a modified spectral imagining system for the lab. I drew some schematics for it if you wanna……"

He shook his head. "Not today Cammy. No office talk today," he said.

"So what do you want to talk about?"

He paused. He'd practiced it a million times in the mirror before it left, he knew exactly what he wanted to say, but he couldn't seem to get the words out. 'Why is this so hard?' he wondered to himself. 'I know she likes me too,'

He wanted nothing more than to tell her that from the moment he saw her, he was in love with her, that he wanted to be with her. Somehow, it was easier to think than to actually say.

"Camille," he paused again, trying to gather his thoughts. "We've been working together for a while now, and I've been thinking that……" he stopped in mid sentence, unsure on how to continue. "What I mean to say is……" he stopped again. "I mean, for the last few months I've wanted to tell you that……" this time, she interrupted him.

"I love you too Trip," she sighed.

"What?"

"I said I love you Trip. I've always loved you, but waiting for you to say it I'll be an old lady," she told him.

Suddenly, there was a great weight lifted off his shoulders. Suddenly, his speech didn't seem as important as it was when he practiced it in the mirror this morning.

"Whoa. I didn't expect you to……"

"To what? Feel the same way? I've always felt that way, but we never found the right time or place to say anything," she said.

"So what happens now?"

"Now we eat," Camille said as the waitress arrived with their food.

Trip smiled.

(*)

"I don't think they're coming," Katie said as she glanced up at the clock.

"I told you, they're both taking a personal day today. Can't say I blame them, its been a rough couple of weeks," Jen mentioned, walking over to Katie and sitting down next to her at the conference table.

"So what are we? Work-a-holics?" she asked.

"You could say that,"

"Where is Tommy?" she asked.

"He was assigned to work with Alex today, something about a special mission. They were pretty quiet about it," Jen said.

"So its just me and you now, huh?"

"Nothing we can't handle. Besides, if we need backup, we can always call Captain Logan," she said.

"Actually, the Captain had a meeting with the counsel today. I don't think hes coming," Katie mentioned.

Jen shrugged her shoulders. "Big deal. We can handle it," she said, walking over to the control panel for the Slipstream. "I'll set the vortex to automatically reopen in one hour. You ready?" she asked.

"As ready as I'll ever be," she said as she stood up.

Jen activated the portal, and the two of them stepped inside, disappearing.

~

As soon as they stepped through, they found themselves surrounded by men in black uniforms. Each of them had disrupter weapons in hand.

Jen and Katie looked at one another as a man stepped forward. His uniform was black as well, but had a silver collar and he wore a pair of deeply tinted sunglasses. "Temportal Investigations. You're under arrest for an illegal time jump," the man said coldly.

"Alex?" Jen inquired, getting a good look at the man.

It was obviously shaken up that he recognized her, but dismissed it. "You have the right to remain silent. If you give up that right, anything you say will be held against you in a court of law," he warned them as two other men stepped forward, cuffing their hands behind their backs.

Katie motioned to Jen, letting her know she was ready to make a run for it, but Jen shook her head slightly, tacitly telling Katie to stand down.

The man in uniform them shoved them into the back of a black truck, closing the doors behind them. Once inside, they saw another man in uniform holding a disrupter weapon as well. "Just have a seat ladies, we'll be there in a second," he said as the truck pulled away.

"Be where?"

"Your home for the next twenty years," he said with a laugh.

Again, Katie was ready to make a move, but Jen motioned for her to stop. "What are we being charged with?" Jen inquired.

"Save the innocent speech. We detected your temportal vortex before it even opened. You're guilty," he told them.

"We're guilty of coming through the portal?" she asked.

"You're lucky you didn't try such a stupid stunt a few months ago when the death penalty was legal. Too many activist groups lobbied to have the death penalty abolished, and the mayor gave in," he said.

"So you're saying that on this world, traveling through time is illegal?" Katie asked.

"What do you mean this world? This is the only world. Time travel was outlawed years ago, but every now and then someone stupid tries to go back in time and change things. When they do, we catch them and deal with them," he said.

"What year is this?"

"What kind of stupid question is that?"

"Just answer me," Jen said.

He paused. "The year is 2618," he told her.

Jen paused to collect her thoughts. "In 2618, Time Force's only major competition was a company called Chryo Tech. They'd been experimenting with Chryo genics and working on a way to travel through time on their own. Time Force eventually bought them out," she said.

"Except here, sounds like Chryo Tech was able to stay in business and shut down Time Force, then outlaw time travel altogether," Katie added.

"I don't know what you two are talking about, but that's enough. Time Force has been gone for years, and even if they were here, they were nothing compared to Chyro Tech," the guard said.

Just then, the truck stopped and the doors opened. Another group of guards pulled Jen and Katie out the back and down a long, dark hallway. They stopped at the end of the hallway, opening a door and tossing them inside. Before they could make a move, the guards slammed the door shut.

"So now what?" Katie asked.

"Now you rot away in here like the rest of us," they heard a voice say.

They glanced over their shoulders as a figure stepped through the shadows, walking over to them. "Jen?" she inquired.

Jen found herself at a lose for words staring at herself. There were a few differences though; the other Jen's hair was much longer, and her clothes were ripped to shreds.

"What's going on here?" Jen asked.

"What's going on is that you're going to be here for a long time, so you might as well get use to it," the other Jen said.

"Do you recognize me?"

"I know who you are Jennifer Scotts, probably from Time Force. Probably part of the Temporal Investigations unit on your world too. Not that none of that matters anymore," she sighed.

"What are you saying?"

"I'm from what you would call an alternate reality too, but the Chryo Tech people captured me and my team during a routine mission and locked us away in here. That was years ago, I think," she said.

"Where is the rest of your team?"

"Chryo Tech used some of them for Chryogenic experiments a few years ago, the others were tortured for information. Either that or when they tried to escape, the walls vaporized them," she said.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean the walls are lined with motion censors. If anyone tries to escape, a beam comes out the wall and vaporizes them," she said.

"You said they tortured your team for information. What do they want to know?"

"They know that other worlds exist, but they can't find a way to travel to them. They're looking for a way to block other people from other worlds coming here so they can be the only company with the ability to travel through time," she said.

"If another team were to come here and find out what was happening, they'd try to put a stop it to," Katie pointed out.

"And to avoid that, Chryo Tech captures everyone who knows anything about alternate realities and gets rid of them. Those bastards," Jen sighed.

"So what do we do?"

"You don't get it, we don't do anything. We're here now, and they're not going to let us go," the other Jen said.

"Do they ever open those doors?" she asked.

"Twice a day. Once to feed us, the second one to give us a bucket,"

"A bucket? For what?"

"To relieve ourselves," she groaned.

"Have you ever been out of this room?" Jen asked.

"Once, about three years ago. I tried to escape, but I didn't make it passed the rangers in the control room," she said.

"The rangers?" Katie inquired.

"The gold and silver rangers. Chryo Tech uses them to maintain control here. If someone tries to escape, they're job is to dispose of us by any means necessary," she said.

"If you can lead us out of here, I promise to take you with us," Jen said.

"You still don't get it. We're never getting out of here," she told them.

"Fine, shes not going to be any help," she turned to Katie. "You ready to get out of here?" she asked her.

Katie effortlessly broke free of the handcuffs, and then quickly snatched the cuffs off Jen as well. "Ready whenever you are," she said.

"Getting out of here isn't enough, we have to shut down Chryo Tech before we go. If we don't, they'll capture anyone who travels here," she said.

"You have a plan?"

"Of course I do," she said.

~

"Guards! Guards!" Katie yelled, pounding on the door.

A few moments later, the doors and opened and a guard stepped in with a disrupter in hand. "What do you want?" he asked.

"My friend tried to escape and this beam came out the wall. It turned her to ashes," she cried.

"Serves her right," he said, heading for the door.

Before he could get out the door, Katie pushed him up against the wall. No sooner did he hit the wall did a beam of light shoot from the ceiling, vaporizes him on impact.

"This is your last chance. You coming?" she asked, turning to the other Jen.

"No," she sighed.

"Fine," Katie said, walking out the door.

Katie and Jen walked down the hallway without being seen, making their way to what looked to be the main control room. There was only one guard in the room, which they eliminated quickly. After knocking him out, Jen headed for the control panel.

"I wish Trip was here," she whispered. "This looks like the equipment they use to monitor temporal incursions with," she said.

"Can you shut it down?"

"Shutting it down won't be enough, we have to erase all information on it so they can't rebuild it. There has to be a way to destroy it," she said.

"One of us could set our morpher on overload. That would be enough to destroy the entire system. Even if they could rebuild it, it would take them years," Katie suggested.

"Good idea," she said.

"Hold it right there. Your time is up," they heard a voice say.

Katie turned around, catching a boot across the jaw. It was enough to knock her through a window in the room, shattering it on impact.

Jen turned around to find herself surrounded by the gold and silver rangers. Their uniforms looked similar to the Time Force ranger uniforms, but with some minor differences. Both of them seemed to have armor on their chest over their uniforms, including arm plates.

"I can't believe you stole my line," she said, charging at the gold ranger with a spin kick, taking him down. The silver ranger grabbed her from behind, but she kicked back, catching him between the legs, then dropped to her knees, flipping him over her shoulder. As he got back to his feet, Jen kicked him in the face, knocking him over the table. The gold ranger called for a sword, swinging at Jen, but she caught the blade between her hands. As she tried to get the blade away from her face, he kicked her in the stomach, knocking her up against the control panel. He cocked back with the sword and swung, but Jen moved aside and the blade went through the panel. An electrical shock went through the sword, connecting with the gold ranger, knocking him out.

The silver ranger called for his weapon, but it was Katie who came through the window with a tornado kick, taking him down as well. He quickly got back to his feet, only to fall to his knees. Katie looked up as the other Jen walked into the room with a metal pipe in hand.

"I changed my mind," she said.

Jen turned back to the control panel. "He did some serious damage, but its not enough. Katie, give me one of their morphers," she said.

Katie leaned down, taking the morpher off the gold ranger. As soon as she removed the morpher, he powered down. "Oh my God, its Alex," she sighed, handing the morpher to Jen.

Jen didn't even bother to look as she set the morpher to overload, putting it on the control panel. "We only have thirty seconds to get out of here," she said.

"We can't just leave them here," the other Jen said.

"She's right. Grab'em," she ordered.

Katie picked Alex and the silver ranger up, putting one on each shoulder and hurried out the room. She followed both of the Jens out the building, ducking down behind a truck. Seconds later, the morpher exploded, taking most of the building with it.

"Take his morpher," Jen said.

Katie took the morpher off the silver ranger, forcing him to power down as well. "I don't recognize him," she said.

"I do, it's Jesse. He's my husband," the other Jen said.

"Husband? How?"

"We traveled to this world together, but they used him to experiment with their version of memory adaptation. They turned him against me," she cried.

"Get him in the truck. We're getting out of here," Jen said.

The other Jen helped Katie put Jesse in the truck, then climbed in themselves, shutting the doors. Jen climbed in the front seat, hotwiring the truck, then pulled away.

"According to my calculations, the portal will open in about 3 minutes," Katie reminded her.

"We'll make it," she said.

When they arrived at the transfer point, there were a group of guards standing in front of the portal, blocking their entrance.

"We don't have time to fight them all," she said.

"We're not going to," Jen said as she stepped on the gas, speeding towards the portal.

The guards dived out of the way just in time as Jen drove the truck through the portal.

~

She quickly hit the breaks, colliding with the conference table before she was able to stop the truck. The vortex closed behind them as they all got out the truck.

"I'll get Jesse down to memory adaptation, maybe they'll be able to restore his memory," Katie said, putting Jesse over her shoulder and took him out the room.

"What about me?" the other Jen asked.

"We can scan you to determine your temporal code, then input that code into the computer so we can transport you and your husband back to your own world," she told her.

"Thank you, for everything," she sighed.

(*) Later that evening (*)

Trip and Camille walked into the science lab hand in hand, only to find a truck parked in the middle of the room.

"What the hell happened here?" he asked.

Jen and Katie were doing their best to clean up the mess. "Sorry about the table, we'll fix that. How was your personal day?" Katie inquired.

He looked at Camille and smiled. "Things went well," he said.

"Good,"

"Looks like you guys had your hands full while we were gone," Camille brought up.

"Hmmmmmm, lets see: we stopped an evil organization from ruling the world, reunited a husband and wife, not to mention sent them back to their own world, destroyed an entire complex and managed to get our hands on a silver Chrono morpher," Jen said.

"We should take personal days more often," he sighed.

"Yeah," Camille said.