Camille had been at it for hours, going over the last modifications for the white Chrono Morpher. The lab had been completely silent since the meeting Admiral Logan held, and the silence was driving her crazy.

She'd gotten use to Jen and the others coming in and out the lab, the rhythmic hum of the slipstream, Trip rambling on and on about some new invention, but today there was nothing. With the entire building on secondary power, the slipstream had to be shut down to conserve power for other systems, personnel was down to a low at this point (with everyone either on patrol, training or tending to wounded officers) and Trip had been gone for hours.

"I'd kill for something to happen," she screamed.

And it did.

A red light began to flash on the control panel across from her, and a proximity alarm went off. Camille dropped the Morpher on the table and rushed over to the controls. 'A distress signal coming for a shuttle,' she observed. An image of the shuttle appeared on screen. 'That looks like an Xybrian ship,' she noticed.

"Unidentified shuttle, this is Lt. Camille Summers of Time Force. We have intercepted your distress call. How can I render assistance?" she asked, opening a communications channel.

The reply was mostly static. "Heavy… to the port… unable to… power levels at… cannot maintain… offline…"

"Unidentified shuttle, I have your coordinates. I am sending a rescue team to intercept you," she told them.

Realizing that most of the personnel were injured or off on other missions, there was only one thing to do. "I'll go get'em myself," she said eagerly, racing out the room.

~

The bay doors opened, and the blue time flyer shot into the sky, making its way toward the damaged shuttle. It only took Camille a few minutes to catch up with the shuttle, releasing the grappling hooks in an attempt to level off the shuttles descent. As soon as the hooks were attached, pieces of the hull broke away from the shuttle.

"That isn't going to work," she said, quickly going over other alternatives.

Before she could come up with something, an alert went off on the control panel. She glanced over at it. 'The shuttle is about to explode,' she observed. Running out of options, Camille put the time flyer on auto pilot, then stood up, disappearing into a stream of blue light.

She reappeared on the shuttle, which seemed to have taken heavy damage. The pilot was unconscious and slumped over the controls. Camille rushed over to him, grabbing him and reaching for her Morpher, disappearing again.

The two of them reappeared on the time flyer, and Camille set him down, heading back to the controls. She locked a torpedo on the shuttle and opened fire, destroying the shuttle before it could collide with anything.

With the worst of it over, Camille rushed back over to the pilot and rolled him over to get a good look at his wounds, but was shocked to see it was…

"Trip?" she mumbled.

(*)

Alex opened his eyes slowly, only to find himself in the infirmary. His chest had a bandage on it, and as he tried to sit up, he felt dizzy. The doctor walked over to him, motioning for him to lay back down.

"You need to conserve your energy," he said.

"Dr. Young. What happened to me?"

"Lt. Taylor brought you in here about an hour ago. You were bleeding heavily and had lost a lot of blood. Just relax, I still want to run a few tests on you," he told him.

"I don't have time, I have to…" he was cut short.

"That was a direct order Commander. Failure to comply with that order will force me to relieve you of your duties," he said.

"We're being invaded, I have…"

"You have to rest. What do you plan to do, bleed all over the enemy? Until you are cleared the two of us will be spending some time together," Dr. Young said, walking away.

Alex sighed.

(*)

"What are you looking for exactly?" Adam asked as Tommy sat down in front of the compute, going over the history logs.

"The truth," he sighed.

"You're telling me you're going to take the word of someone trying to take over the universe?" he replied.

"No, I'm not. That's why I'm checking for myself," he paused, reading over some of the files. "It says here that Chryo-Tech was founded in 2184 shortly after Bio-Lab merged with a small company to form Time Force. Both companies had the ability to travel through time, but in 2186, Chryo-Tech's technology was stolen from them," he said.

"Stolen by who?"

"It doesn't say, but I didn't expect it to," he turned the screen off. "Dez was right, Time Force does inflict their will on everyone they come across," Tommy said.

"From what I've seen of Time Force, they only want to improve worlds they've visited. You said it yourself, you travel to other worlds and correct mistakes," he brought up.

"I know, but people have to be given the chance to make mistakes. It's the only way we learn from our mistakes and improve for ourselves. What's the point of trying to improve our selves if we know that Time Force will step in and fix things for us?" he asked.

"You're looking at it the wrong way. Time Force doesn't step in and make sure you find a job, or stop your girlfriend from breaking up with you, they prevent incidents that would eventually lead to war, or the destruction of the world, saves someone's life. They saved your life, they saved mine too. I'd read over some of the logs, including most of your missions. If it wasn't for Time Force, the Earth would have been destroyed a dozen times by now. Time Force has done a lot of good for the universe," Adam mentioned.

"We've also done damage. Because of us, Justin was killed in battle. Because Time Force, after I brought you to the present, Tanya searched years for you. Did you read about that in the logs?" he turned to him. "Tanya went crazy looking for you, eventually losing her mind," he told him.

"Sounds to me like you're looking for reasons to believe Dez. Listen man, no one is perfect. Time Force may have caused a few unfortunate situations, but weigh those situations against the world being destroyed, and I'd call them acceptable situations. We've all lost something; Tanya lost her mind looking for me, Kim married someone else, it comes with the job we accepted," he explained.

"I know, but…"

"But nothing. We may not agree with everything Time Force does, but they do way more good than harm. I'm proud to be here, and so should you," Adam said.

Tommy nodded.

(*)

The admiral walked into the science lab, where Camille was sitting at a table going over some calculations.

"What is the status of the white Chrono Morpher?" he asked her.

"Look for yourself sir," she said, turning his attention across the room.

The admiral glanced over to see the white ranger walking into the room, making his way towards them. "Its good to see you again sir," he said.

"Who is that?"

The white ranger removed his helmet, setting it down on the table. "Its me, sir," he said.

"Trip? But how?"

"I received a distress call about forty minutes ago from a shuttle on its way from Xybria. I intercepted with the time flyer and brought him here," Camille explained.

"Oh I see. You're the other Trip," he said. "What brings you all the way from Xybria?" he asked him.

"I read the reports of problems here on Earth and I thought I'd come help. Thought you could use an extra resident genius," he told him.

"We already have two," he mentioned. "But it doesn't hurt to have another one. Welcome back," he said, extending his hand to him.

They shook hands.

Just then, the science lab doors opened as Lucas, Lt. Emery and Nadira walked in, making their way towards the others.

"Admiral, I'm pleased to report that James and Nadira are ready for anything you can throw at them," Lucas said.

"Admiral? Did he say admiral?" Trip asked.

"Yeah, he got promoted," Camille told him.

"Oh, congratulations sir,"

"Thank you,"

"Why is Trip wearing the white Morpher? It doesn't match his hair or anything," Nadira pointed out.

"This is the other Trip from Xybria. Do you remember the incident with Ransorg a few months ago?" Camille asked.

"Of course,"

"This Trip was from an alternate reality, but was allowed to stay when he helped us defeat Ransorg. To avoid confusion, he went back to Xybria," she said.

"So now that he's here, how will we avoid confusion?" James inquired.

"Well, one of us is the white ranger, and the other is the green ranger," they heard a voice say.

They turned around to see Jen and Trip walk into the room. Trip hurried over to his counterpart, wrapping his arms around him.

"It's good to see you man,"

"You too. White is a good color on you,"

"You think so?"

"Yeah, its nice,"

"I still prefer green though,"

"So what are you doing here?"

"Time Force's problems are common knowledge on Xybria. I thought I'd come lend a hand," he told him.

"We need all the help we can get," Trip said.

"You're right, we do," they heard another voice say.

The entire group turned around as Tommy and Adam walked into the room with their helmets under their arm.

"Report," the admiral said.

"Tommy and I were able to get onto Dez' ship. He seems to be collecting these monsters to harness their life energy for something, but we're not sure what," Adam said.

"That's why we're going in there and shutting it down before he can figure out what he wants to do with them. If we all go in and hit him now, it should be enough to overwhelm him and give us the advantage," Tommy said.

"What about the creatures? If we shut down whatever he's using to harness their life energy, it will free them and we'll find ourselves in a world of trouble," Lucas mentioned.

"Dez is able to control them with collars," he reached in his belt, pulling out a collar. "Its broken, but I figure it should be enough for Trip to determine who it works and use them to our advantage," Adam said.

"I'm on it," both the Trip's said in unison.

"Adam, you're our secret weapon here. Even under cloak Dez was able to detect me, but your cloak is years ahead of anything we have right now. The rest of us will serve as a distraction as you get in there and destroy those tubes," Tommy said.

Adam nodded. "You got it,"

"There should be three smaller groups, each with our own objectives," he turned to James. "Lt. Emery, you will lead your team in and try to take out as many creatures as you can. Its up to you and your team to make sure Tommy and the others have a straight path to Dez. Nadira and Katie will go with you," the admiral said.

"Yes sir," James said eagerly.

"Camille, you, Tommy, Jen and Lucas find a way to get that ship on the ground. Once we can get it to land, we can lead another group of officers in," he said.

"Consider it done," Jen said.

"Trip, both of you, get to work on that collar. That could be the deciding factor in this invasion," he said.

"Yes sir," they said in unison.

"Adam, your job will be to get onto the ship and apprehend Dez by any means necessary. I'd prefer you brought him in alive, but do what you must," the admiral said.

"I understand sir,"

"Alright everyone, lets do it," he said.