Eric, Jen, the former wild force rangers, along with Mr. Collins were in the back room. The last few attacks had taken its toll on them, time was running out. They all knew they wouldn't be able to last much longer. The room seemed quite full of blank stares and depression. Suddenly a ringing sound began to go off, on instant they all had thought it was an alarm going off, meaning there was another attack. But then they realized it was the sound of a cell phone going off, they all looked around seeing who had a phone in their position. All eyes fell on Jen. She held in her a hand a cell phone, Wes's cell phone. For a long moment she just let it continue to ring, Eric slowly got up from his seat getting ready to take the phone from her hands. But Jen stopped him. She put out her hand letting him know she could handle it. Jen took a deep breath.
"Hello," she said softly. The others waited and listened. "Carter…..yeah I'm fine thank you," They had told the Light Speed team of Wes's death, it had been sometime since they had last heard from their friends. "Are you positive?" Her eyes began to light up with joy and hope. The others all gave looks of wanting to know what he was saying. "Thank you we will do so……..you guys be careful too," Jen put the cell phone down.
"Well, what he say?" asked Danny.
"They think they know how to defeat the CellBorgs," said Jen, a lift up hope surrounded the room. None of them could believe it, they all out a joyance laugh.
"How?" asked Eric questioningly?
"Light, they think that is one of the reasons they may have taken away the sun," said Jen.
"It makes sense," Taylor nodded her head. "So looks like we need to get a hold of some very big flashlights," said Taylor standing up. This lift of hope would help motivate them all. They all began to get to their feet; they all turned looking at Mr. Collins.
"Looks like we have a plan," said Collins. They all nodded their heads, smiling. For the first time in a long time Jen smiled, they might actually win this one.
'This one is for you Wes' she said softly to herself.
A hole opened in the sky by the beach, a yellow ship of some sorts appeared. It was a time ship it landed roughly on the sand. The three time force officers jerked in their seats. They looked up the ship was no longer moving. "Are we here?" asked Katie looking at her two male friends. Lucas looked around everything seemed to be in order, the ship had defiantly landed. Trip had gotten up from his seat looking on the control panel, and then his eyes fell on the date.
"Oh no," he said softly. Both Katie and Lucas jumped from their seats and crowded around Trip to see what the problem was. They couldn't believe it.
"It can't be," said Lucas not being able to believe it. He had set the date to arrive just a few days after the CellBogs had arrived.
"Two months have passed, this can't be good guys," said Katie remembering that just as they were leaving their time, their future was disappearing away. Lucas took a deep breath.
"We have to find, Jen, Wes and Eric lets move guys," said Lucas taking lead. Katie followed behind him, Trip stood there with a great amount of fear.
"That's if their still alive," said Trip softly, knowing that there had to be a reason as to why Alex was fading away. Lucas and Katie looked at each other and then to Trip. None of them said a word, a second later they were all running outside. To what was a very different Silver Hills a darker and cold Silver Hills.
One CellBorgs with gold trim was running after a red ranger down the alley. The ranger looked to be tired and weak. Several blasts hit near where he was running. One of the blasts hit him right in his leg, he collapsed to the ground. The CellBorg laughed as he began approaching him, they were getting closer. The red ranger struggled to get up, but was unable to. He looked ahead and saw what looked to be a police officers flashlight. He then remembered what he had over heard about a source of light being a weakness. He began crawling as fast as he could. The CellBorg was just a few feet away. He had his blaster held high getting ready to shoot the injured red ranger.
His fingers were just inches from grabbing a hold of it, he herd the trigger locked. Just as the CellBorg was getting ready to shoot, the red ranger grabbed a hold of the flashed light. He rolled over now on his back he clicked the button and shined it right in his eyes, the CellBorg stopped. The red ranger used his free hand and grabbed his blaster he raised it up and shot at the CellBorg a few time. The shots stunned the CellBorg a few time, but it wasn't enough to destroy it. With the CellBorg dazed the red ranger saw a chance of escape. He quickly got to his feet running as fast as he could with an injured leg.
The dazed CellBorg watched as the red ranger disappeared out of sight. "I will get you soon enough," he laughed.
In the underground barracks Silver Guardians along with several citizens of Silver Hills worked quickly as they gathered up as many flashlights and any other sources of light that they could find. Jen and Eric were in the back room adjusting their weapon so that is had a flashlight connected to it. Merrick walked into the room with a big smile on his face.
"Look who I found," he said, Jen and Eric looked up hoping by some chance it could be Wes. Merrick stepped aside and three time force officers walked in.
"Guys, I'm so glad to see you," cried Jen as she ran over to them throwing her arms around each and everyone of them. Eric gave a nod to them. Merrick then disappeared leaving the friends to reunite.
"It's good to see you too Jen, we would have been here sooner. But something happened in the future," said Katie sadly. Jen and Eric were both alert, they had known something had happen. But what they were unsure of.
"What…what happened?" she asked, afraid to ask.
"Several changes were rapidly appearing through our time. People were disappearing everywhere. The four of us ran as fast as we could to the time ship…" Lucas was cut off by Eric who stepped forward looking at him questioningly.
"The 'four of us," he repeated what Lucas had said. Only three of them stood before them Katie, Trip and Lucas. The three officers looked at each other this would not be easy, especially for Jen. They all gave a grim looks, they had to break the news.
"Alex was with us. The docking bay wouldn't work, so Alex said he would start it manly. He started to fade away slowly. He was able to start the docking bay, but then he was gone along with the rest of the future. Were all that's left," said Lucas sadly. The room never seemed quieter. The world seemed, as if it had come crashing down. Eric put his head down, now he wasn't sure if they would win this battle. All hope looked to be lost.
"Jen, where's Wes?" asked Trip softly he had not seen Wes anywhere. Jen put her head down she didn't speak, it hurt too much. Eric took a deep breath he would have to deliver their bad news, as well.
"We lost Wes about two months ago," said Eric softly. The others began shaking their heads in disbelief. It couldn't be true. Wes could not be dead.
"No," said Trip softly. Wes was his friend, his teammate.
"We got here too late, daren't," yelled Lucas angrily. Katie put her arms around Jen holding her friend in her arms.
"I'm so sorry Jen," said Katie softly. At first Jen did not move or say anything. But then a great anger and rage came over her, she pushed herself away from Katie. Tears were in her eyes, she shook her head firmly.
"No…No…I won't accept it, he is not dead!" she yelled looking at all of them angrily. They tried to step forward to help her, but Jen continued to back away from them. She refused to believe that he was gone. She would not give up, on Wes.
"Jen, you need to settle down before you hurt yourself," said Eric calmly. Jen shook her head firmly. Eric tried to get closer to her, so that he could hold her down until her anger would settle down, but Jen shoved him away.
"I'm tired of waiting I'm going to find him," she said sternly as she headed towards the way out of the room. Her three friends were all that stood to prevent her from leaving, she stared at them a sternly. "And don't try to stop me," she said. Lucas, Katie and Trip all put their heads down. They knew they couldn't stop Jen, and partly they couldn't blame her anger. So they all stepped aside not saying a word. They all watched as she stormed out with rage and motive.
"Danget," yelled Eric as he slammed his fist on the table top.
In was night out a young man walked through the city, cold, hungry and alone. His face was in a bad need of a shave. He then stumbled into a store, K-MART. The lights were off in the building. There was no one around all seemed quite, there was a lot of destruction down the streets broken windows, crashed cars. The young man walked inside the abandon building. It looked as though no one had been here in mouth.
He walked down aisle with different kinds of flashlights. He grabbed the biggest one he could find, knowing the bigger the better. He continued walking until he came down an aisle with a shaver he scratched his chin feeling the fuzziness. He grabbed the shaver and headed to the bathroom.
Jen had been walking for hours, nonstop. Lucky for her no CellBorgs were out, but there were destructions in every site. She ignored it best she could, she had her flashlight on so she was able to see where she was going. She was tired, and cold. She knew she needed to rest. She needed to find a place where she would have some cover just incase some CellBorgs decided to come out and play. That's when she came upon a K-MART, she blinked a few times. "I guess this will work, at least maybe I can find something to eat," she muttered to herself. She walked inside the dark building using her flashlight to guide her, that's when she heard a noise. She looked around not seeing anything, and that when she saw a shadow over a figure. Jen looked around for something she could uses as a weapon, the only thing she could find was a kid's baseball bat. Jen quickly grabbed it. She turned her flashlight off and put it in her pocket. She gripped on tightly to the bat and began to sneak behind who ever it was.
Jen was between one of the aisles. She could hear the foot steps coming her way. She got the bat ready just as the figure passed by her. She gave one hard hit hitting the figure on his head. The man fell to the ground on his stomach, with a thud. Jen waited until she saw no movement. She used her foot to kick him over to see who he was. It was too dark to tell who he was. Jen grabbed her flashlight from her pocket, turned it on and pointed it right at his face. Jen felt like her heart about stopped, her face turned white as a ghost.
"Wes?" she said softly.