Disclaimer: This fic is based on "Cube" and "Cube II: Hypercube" and are owned by Geraint Wyn Davies and the Sci-Fi channel. I am using them without permission. Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Time Force, Wild Force, Lightspeed Rescue and all related characters are owned by Disney Entertainment and/or Saban. I am also using them without permission. I don't intend to make any money from this, but if I do, don't sue me.

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She moved her hand away from her eyes, only to find that her surroundings had changed. 'This isn't the Animarium,' she thought to herself as she glanced around the room, trying to figure out where she was and how she got there.

It all happened so quickly. 'I was talking to Max, and there was that light, now I'm…' her thoughts trailed off as she walked to the end of the room, climbing the ladder embedded in the wall to get a closer look at one of the panels. 'A tesseract,' she thought to herself, recalling reading something about them in school. 'Could this entire place be a tesseract?' she wondered.

Her first thought was to simply stay put, unsure of what outside that room. After thinking about it, it only seemed logical that she keep moving, hoping to eventually come to the end. She reached for her Growl phone, only to discover it was missing. 'Oh that's just great,' she sighed inwardly.

Finally, she looked around for a handle of some kind, hoping to get one of the doors open and get out. There were knobs, no handles, no sensors, nothing. She was about to climb down and try another one of the panels, but she decided to try something else. She placed her hand on the panel gently, and as it hissed open, she snatched back, almost falling off the ladder. She got back to her feet, peeking through the panel, only to see herself escaping through another one of the crawlways. She called out, trying to get… her attention, but the panel closed and she was gone. At first, she tried to convince herself it was an illusion, that it wasn't really happening. However, the more she thought about it, the more it began to make sense. 'If this really is a tesseract, its possible that it was me I saw,' she thought.

With that in mind, she thought it would be best to try to find her other self so they could work together.

"Wait," she heard a voice call out as she was climbing through. She backed up, climbing back down to the ladder and turned around. There was a man in a white uniform standing there. She'd seen the uniform before, but couldn't remember where. Next to him was a young woman, and a young man with glasses. "I didn't mean to startle you," he said.

"What's going on here?" she asked him, still trying to figure out where she'd seen that uniform.

"We're not sure, we're trying to figure it all out too," he said, extending his hand to her. "My name is Alexander,"

"Alyssa," she said, shaking his hand.

"I'm Cam, and this is Kelsey," the young man with the glasses said.

"Hi," Kelsey squealed eagerly.

"Do you have any idea how you got here?" Alex asked her.

"No. There was just this light, and when I opened my eyes again, I was here," she told him.

"Where you from?"

"Turtle Cove," she said.

"Well, that's one thing we all have in common. We're all from California," Kelsey pointed out.

"True, but there has to be something more. I doubt we were all just picked at random," Cam added.

Suddenly, it came to her. In fact, she was amazed that she didn't think of it sooner. "Time Force," Alyssa blurted out. "You're from Time Force,"

Alex took a step back. "How did you know that?"

"Jen and the others came from the future to help us with the mutorgs once. They had on uniforms like yours," she said.

"Did you say from the future?" Cam asked.

Alex let out a frustrated sigh. He'd hoped not to have to reveal anything about himself, fearing that it would somehow disrupt the time line. Yet, the more he thought about it, he began to realize that whatever this place was, time had already been disrupted. "Yes. I'm from what you would consider the future. The year 3000," he sighed.

"That's not possible, it's only the year 2000," Kelsey said.

"Not, its 2003," Cam mentioned.

"No, its 2002," Alyssa said.

"Its this place, time has no meaning here. Whoever brought us here has the ability to travel through time, and have snatched us from our own times to bring us here," Alex told them.

"So this is a tesseract," she said.

"A what?"

Again, he sighed. "A terreract, it's a theoretical concept dealing with stable containment of the fourth dimension," he said.

"The 4th dimension?" Cam asked.

"I thought there were only 3 dimensions," Kelsey brought up.

"There are only three that have been scientifically proven… so far," Alex said.

"What do you mean, so far?

Alex sighed. He knew that if any of them were going to get out of the situation, he'd need their help, and they wouldn't be able to help if they didn't know what they were dealing with. 'Besides, if this is a tesseract, none of them will be able to remember what happened once this is over,' he thought to himself. "Tesseract…" he paused. "Its another name for a hypercube," he said.

"I've heard about those, but its only a theory," Cam said.

"Can someone please speak English and tell me what the hell is going on?" Kelsey snapped.

"Okay. Lets call one dimension, length, and represent that with a simple line," Alex walked to the end of the room, breaking the arm off his sunglasses, then used it to crave a line into the wall. "Now, two dimensions are length and width, which can be represented by a simple square," he continued to carve into the wall, making a square. "Now if we extend that square and add one more dimension, we get a cube, which has three dimensions: length, width and depth. "If we take this cube and extend it one dimension further, we get…" he was cut short.

"A tesseract," Alyssa sighed.

"But in all the theories I've read, time is the forth dimension," Cam brought up.

"It is, but if this thing really is a tesseract, each one of these room would be a self contained entity, each with it's own set of laws, each existing in a different point in time," he said.

"That explains why he's from the year 3000, but the rest of us are from the 21st century," Alyssa mentioned.

"So now that we all know what this thing is, how do we get out of it?" Kelsey asked.

"We can't, at least no way that I know of. There's no telling how many rooms this thing has, and if time moves differently from room to room, we could have been here weeks or months already. And if the rooms continue to shift, we could trapped in this thing forever," Cam said.

"That's encouraging,"

"I'm convinced that there has to be a way out here. Somehow we got in here, there has to be an exit. I vote we keep moving. Maybe there are others in here, maybe we'll find whoever or whatever put us in here," Alex said.

"I say he's right. Sitting here and doing nothing won't get us anywhere," Kelsey said.

"But we have to stick together. The last thing we need to do is get lost in this place," she said.

"Agreed," Cam said.

It was Alyssa who headed over to one of the panels on the wall, pressing her hand against it. The panel slid open, and she headed through. Kelsey quickly followed her. Alex and Cam were close behind as they made their way into the next room. By the time they made it through, they saw Kelsey and Alyssa both standing over what looked like a lifeless body.

"Oh my God," Alex rushed over to it, rolling the body over. It simply slumped over, and Alex quickly checked for a pulse. "Whoever this guy was, he's been dead for a while," he sighed.

"What could have happened to him?"

"Based on the facial hair, the gray hairs on his head and the length of his finger nails, it looks like he'd been in here a lot longer than we have," Cam pointed out.

"Wait a second, I know him," Alex leaned in, getting a closer look. "This is Jason Scott, the red Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger," he said. "He was a legend in his own time,"

"Kelsey, are you a Power Ranger?" Alyssa asked.

"Yes. I'm the yellow Lightspeed ranger,"

"I'm the white Wild Force ranger. Its reasonable to assume that whoever created this thing is trapping rangers inside," she said.

"That can't be it, I'm not a ranger," Cam brought up.

"Maybe not yet, but the history logs state that at some point, you'll become the green samurai ranger," Alex said. "I'm the red Time Force ranger,"

"So its true, this thing is a ranger trap," Kelsey said.

"I wonder how many other rangers are trapped in this thing,"

"Did Jason die of natural causes, or was he…" she allowed her sentence to trail off, unwilling to accept that he may have been killed.

"There are no signs of a struggle, no blood. If I had to take a guess, I'd say he died from hunger," Alex said.

"Oh God,"

"Come on, there's nothing we can do for him. He have to keep moving," he said, walking over to the panel on the floor. He opened it, quickly jumping through. Kelsey tried to follow, but the door closed. She opened the door again, but he was gone.

"This is just great," she sighed.

*

Alex landed on his feet, and then glanced upwards, only to see that the door was already closed. "Damn it," he sighed.

"What is it Alex? What's wrong?" he heard a voice ask.

He quickly turned around, taking a step back when he saw him. "Jason?" he inquired.

He didn't have a beard anymore, and from the looks of it, was in perfect health. 'How is this possible?' he thought to himself.

"Of course its me. I thought I'd lost you there for a second," he said, walking towards him.

Alex backed away again. "What are you talking about?"

"Are you feelin' okay Alex?"

"Just humor me and tell me what the hell is going on,"

"We've been going room to room for the last few days, looking for a way out of this place. About an hour ago, we got separated, and I've been looking for you ever since. There are so many rooms in this place, I didn't think I was going to see you again," he said.

"You've been with me the entire time?"

"Yeah, we woke up in the same room together. Don't you remember?"

"I remember, I just remember it differently," he took a step closer. "Do you know what this place is?" he asked him.

He shook his head. "No, but I'm thinkin' its Rita up to her old tricks again. Its okay, I know my friends are on the outside looking for me. They'll get me out of here," he assured him. "When they do, we'll get you out too,"

He paused. "Jason, what year is it?"

"What kind of question is that?"

"Just humor me,"

"Its 1993," Jason told him.

Alex sighed inwardly. "There are at least three other people in here, I've seen them. Its two women and a man, we have to find them," he said.

"Well come on, lets find them," he said eagerly, walking over to the panel up against the wall, pressing his hand against it.

Jason climbed through, and Alex reluctantly followed him.