AN: This chapter is what happened in chapter ten, from the Time Force officers' point of view. I'd like to explain that, technically, The Mistress' time travel, despite the fact it occurred before the Rangers', actually happened after, because the others landed four hours before she did. So, all of this is happening while The Mistress is preparing to travel. Hope it makes sense. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------

Chapter 11

The yellow time ship landed on the beach where it had landed so many times before. However, its occupants didn't get out.

"What's the plan?" Katie asked. Jen swallowed hard.

"I don't have one," she said. "I don't even know how The Mistress is going to kill her."

"Perhaps we could go and warn Wes," Trip suggested. Jen shook her head.

"No, it wouldn't do any good," she told them.

"Why not? I'm sure Wes would believe us," Katie commented.

"Let me focus on Wes for a moment, to get an idea of the situation," Jen told them.

"You don't even know where he is," Lucas complained.

"I'll scan the city."

"It'll take you ages."

"I dare you to find him faster than me," Jen snapped, throwing an angry stare at Lucas, who returned it. Obviously, as her body was there to prove, the argument about Nadira was still fresh in their hearts, and neither of them was changing his or her mind. Lucas didn't answer, so Jen closed her eyes, taking deep breaths.

Her mind traveled through the city, directly to the Collins' estate. She could see it in her mind, not that different from the image she had of it, when she had left for the future three years ago. Only something had changed, Mr. Collins' presence was gone, and the presence of a woman was very strong, almost touchable.

Pictures on a small table showed Mr. Collins with his son, and the current Mr. Collins, Wes, next to his wife, who Jen though, rather sardonically, was a very beautiful woman. She had red hair, blue eyes and beautiful features, drawn, strangely, by hard lines that made her look stern and unhappy. Her body was perfect though, wasp waist well sized and shapely breasts. Jen thought they looked alike, but, just like Alex and Wes, they were very different at the same time.

She continued her mental walk around the house and found Philips the butler, sitting with the chef, she hadn't ever had the pleasure of meeting him, and two maids, one old and one younger, who was her daughter.

She approached Philips and put her hand near his temple. Where's Wes, Philips? She asked him.

The butler looked concerned. Master Wes is in the hospital, with the mistress, the old butler answered.

The Mistress?! Jen asked herself for a second. What was Wes doing in the hospital with--? She chuckled. Of course, the butler hadn't meant The Mistress, but Wes's wife; he had also called Wes 'master'.

What hospital are they in? She asked the butler, who unaware of her presence in his mind, kept chatting with the other members of the manor's staff.

Silver Hills General. She's in the ICU last thing I heard, the butler answered.

Thank you, Phillips, Jen answered.

She went back to her body and opened her eyes. Lucas was running a scanner on the city. She smirked and looked significantly at Katie and Trip, both of them trying to hide their smiles.

"Did you find him yet?" Jen asked Lucas, who, startled, jumped slightly in his seat.

"Not yet," he said sourly.

"Try the general hospital, in the ICU unit to be exact," she told him.

He did, the scanner showed a red spot where Wes was. "How did you do it?"

"Instead of scanning the whole city, I went to the manor, and asked Phillips, he was bound to know," she explained.

"That's cheating!" the blue Ranger complained playfully.

"Hey, you use your resources, and I'll use mine," she answered in the same tone. "This is what we'll do. Trip and I will stay here, put a shield on the ship, and keep our eyes open for The Mistress. Lucas and Katie, you have to go to the hospital, and use the unprogrammed nano-machine treatment we have in our first aid kit on Wes's wife." All three officers nodded. "You both have to keep an eye on Wes and his wife, but don't talk to him, unless he discovers you."

"Why is it you don't want us to talk to him?"

"Extra interference might change things more than we need to," she explained. "Please stick to the plan," she pleaded. They both nodded and Lucas got up to look for the first aid kit.

"Tao, Circuit, please, start the scanners, set the shield and prepare all the weapons," Trip ordered.

"In a second," the owl answered.

"In a nano-second," said the mouse in a challenging tone.

Jen and Trip shot each other a significant look and forgetting about their problems for a second, snorted loudly and broke into a laugh.

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Wes was asleep on the chair next to the bed when she entered the room.

Katie had taken a robe from a doctor and put it on, hiding the plastic box that contained the unprogrammed nano-machine crystal in her pocket. She had walked naturally around the hospital, and had followed the signs directly to the ICU. Lucas had stayed in the lobby, in case there was trouble, although they didn't expect The Mistress to arrive in the past for another two hours.

Katie tiptoed into the room, trying hard not to wake Wes up. She pulled the plastic box out of her pocket, and turned it upside down over Jessica's hand, so the small crystal ball fell into her open, upturned hand.

It began to immediately shine blue and spark white, and Katie let it work for about twenty seconds, she didn't want Jessica perfectly healthy overnight, only out of immediate danger.

However, she did let it act too much, after all. Jessica stirred and Katie took the crystal ball from her hand before she opened her eyes. She hid the futuristic device and sneaked out of the room in the moment Jessica opened her eyes, in time to get a quick glance of her.

Katie stayed around the floor, and saw Wes coming out of the room and talking to the nurse who followed him into the room. She activated her communicator. "It's done," she said simply.

"Great," Jen answered, her holographic image shining at her from her wrist.

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"Time line change should be reaching us any time now," Trip told her. Jen nodded. "But, due to our powers, we are bound to remember this one," he added.

In that moment, the wave of temporal change caught up with them, and they both closed their eyes. When the sensation stopped, Jen kept her eyes closed, wishing silently it had worked. She felt a hand on her shoulder, and lips on her cheek.

"Jen, honey, are you all right?" she heard an all too familiar voice ask her.

She opened her eyes, which filled with tears instantly at the sight of her husband's very much alive face. She threw her arms around him and kissed him deeply.

"You all right?" he asked again when they parted.

"I am now," she said with a broken voice, obviously excited. "Oh, Alex, I love you so much," she told him, once again wrapping her arms around him.

He hugged her tightly, looking around at the other officers who looked puzzled, except for Trip, who was smiling. Alex had the feeling he was the only one, besides Jen, who knew what was going on.

To be continued.