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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"Come on, there's nothing we can do for him. He have to keep moving," Alex 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.
"So now what are we suppose to do?" Alyssa asked.
It was Cam who took a step forward. "I say we keep moving. Maybe we'll bump into Alex again," he suggested, walking over to the panel on the floor and opened it. "Who's with me?" he asked, climbing through.
Not giving the panel time to close, Alyssa crawled through, followed by Kelsey. The door closed behind them, and they found themselves in a room identical the last one.
"This room smells funny," Alyssa pointed out.
"No funnier than the room with the dead guy in it," Kelsey added.
"No, she's right," he paused for a moment. "The air is different in this room. Wait, the air in here is thin," Cam said.
"We gotta get out of here," she said.
Cam rushed over to the panel on the floor, but it refused to open. He rushed to the wall, trying to open another door, but no luck. Kelsey and Alyssa both rushed to opposite ends of the room, trying to open those doors, but without success.
"If we don't get out of here soon, we'll suffocate," Cam said, holding his throat as the lack of oxygen began to effect him.
"None of the doors will open, we're trapped in here," Alyssa sighed.
Just then, the panel on the ceiling slid open, and a rope of some kind lowered from the ceiling. "Come on," they heard a voice call out.
Not wasting any time, Kelsey began to climb up the rope, which looked to be made out of clothing. Once she was through, Alyssa made her way up as well. Finally, it was Cam who climbed, but the lack of oxygen was getting the best of him. He was only a few inches away from the panel before he completely passed out. He fell back, but someone reached through the panel, grabbed his wrist and pulled him through. The panel closed, and all them sighed with relief.
"Thank you, whoever you…" he turned around, allowing them to get a good look at him. "Alex?" Alyssa sighed.
"Yes, my name is Alex, how did you know that?" he asked her.
"We were with you earlier, about ten minutes ago, but you went through one of the doors and we lost you," she said.
"That isn't possible. I'm never seen you before," he said.
"This must not be our Alex," Kelsey mentioned.
"Its possible that there is more than one Alex here, each from a different point in time," Alyssa turned to Alex. "Do you know where you are? What this place is?" she asked him.
"It's a tesseract. Jason and I have been looking for a way out for days, but we got separated and I…" he was cut short.
"Jason? The red Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger?" she asked.
"Yes, you've seen him?"
'Maybe the Jason we saw is from another point in time,' she speculated. Alyssa wanted to tell him the truth, but she wasn't convinced that this version of Alex would be able to handle the news of Jason's death, so decided to keep it to herself, for now. "No. From what we gathered, we think this place is a ranger trap. When you said Jason, we just assumed you meant the red ranger," she said.
"How long have you been in here?" Kelsey asked him.
"I've lost track of the days, but it's been a while. Jason and I woke up in the same room, and we were exploring them together, trying to find a way out of this place," he told them.
"Well, you're welcome to stick with us. Who knows, maybe we'll run into Jason," she said, realizing that wasn't as far fetched as it sounded. "I'm Alyssa, this is Kelsey, and that's Cam," she introduced.
"Very nice to meet you all, but I have to disagree with you," he said.
"With what?"
"This can't be a ranger trap, I'm not a Power Ranger," he told them.
"What?"
"I only joined Time Force academy a few weeks ago. From what I heard, the Chrono Morpher was still in the experimental phase," he said.
"They must have captured you at a point in time before you became a ranger. But why?" Alyssa wondered.
"Guys, get a look at this," Kelsey said, motioning for them to follow. Alex and Alyssa walked over to her as she stared at a set of numbers carved into the metal plating on the wall.
105709
"What is that suppose to mean?" Alex asked.
"It could be the number of rooms in this place," she said.
"You're telling me there's one hundred and five thousand, seven hundred and nine rooms in this place?" Kelsey snapped.
"That can't be right," Kelsey sighed with relief. "In a tesseract, there could be as many as one hundred million rooms," Alyssa said.
"That's encouraging,"
"Maybe its coordinates on a map," Alex suggested.
"I don't think so. Without a reference point to start with, no one would be able to determine any points in this place," she said.
"We're needles in a haystack," Kelsey sighed.
"Maybe it's a message of some kind. Obviously someone has been here before, and they wanted to leave a clue as to how they got out," he suggested.
"It could be a password, and a combination to a lock," she said.
"Until we know for sure, there's no reason to stay in this room. We should wake Cam up and get him out of here," Alyssa said.
The three of them walked over to Cam, trying to revive him. "Come on Cam, we gotta get out of here," Kelsey said.
"Cam?"
Alyssa reached down, touching his neck. "He's not breathing," she said, and then began to push down on his chest. "Come on Cam, breath," she screamed at him. She leaned down, pinching his nose and began to breathe in his mouth, then pushed on his chest again. "Damn it Cam, breath," she snapped.
Just then, Cam took a deep breath, and then began coughing.
"Good job Alyssa, you saved him," Alex said.
"Lets grab him and get out of here," she said, opening the panel on the floor. Alyssa went first, and as Alex and Kelsey helped Cam through, Alyssa grabbed Cam, helping him the rest of the way. Alex allowed Kelsey to go next, and then followed her.
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As soon as the panel on the floor closed, the panel on the ceiling opened. "This room looks safe," Jason said, peeking his head through.
He quickly climbed through, falling to the floor. Next was Alex, who carefully used the ladder along the wall to climb down.
"Looks like someone has been in here before," he mentioned, noticing the writing on the wall.
Each of them walked over to it, getting a good look.
"What do you think it means?" he asked.
"If I had to guess, I'd say it's a code of some kind. We'll have to keep it in mind as we go," he said, walking over to another panel and opened it.
"You're ready to go already?"
"You're not?"
"We just got here, and we've been going room to room for hours now. We should stay and catch our breath. Besides, this is the first room that's had any kind of a clue at all, we should think about it before we go on to the next one," Jason pointed out.
Alex was convinced that Jason was merely tired, and was looking for an excuse to rest, but he had a good point. 'There's no telling when we'll get another clue in this place. Maybe we should examine it, see what we can come up with,' he thought.
They sat down next to one another up against a wall, taking a sigh of relief.
"So, how long have you been a ranger?" Alex asked him.
"Only a few weeks now. Zordon gave us our powers and we've been fighting Rita Repulsa's monsters," he said.
"If it makes you feel better, you guys will always get the best of Rita. Of course, when Lord Zedd comes along, you'll have a much harder time," he said.
"Lord who?"
"Zedd. Don't worry, you'll see,"
"What happened to all that talk about not disrupting the time line? Why are you telling me this?" Jason asked him.
"This place is a tesseract. If we… I mean, when we get out of here, I doubt any of us will remember ever being in this thing," he said.
"How is that possible?"
"Our minds aren't meant to work on a multi-dimensional level like this. We're constantly trying to understand each of the laws for each room, but it can't be done. When we do escape from this place, our minds should block all of them out in an attempt to regain our sanity," he said.
"You mean we can go crazy in this place?"
"I wouldn't be surprised if someone did… sooner or later. There are a lot of things the human mind aren't meant to comprehend, and this is one of them," Alex explained.
"Well, I doubt I'll go crazy. If anything, I'll die of hunger first," Jason said.
Alex sighed inwardly. "You're probably right," he sighed.
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"Cam? Cam are you okay?" a voice asked.
He opened his eyes, only to see Kelsey and Alyssa standing over him. He slowly sat up, holding his head in pain. "The last thing I remember was…" he paused. "… that room with the low oxygen level. Is everyone okay?" he asked.
"We're all fine," Kelsey said.
"I'm glad to see you're back on your feet. We were worried about you for a second," Alex said, walking over to them.
Cam made it to his feet, getting a good look at Alex. "It was you who saved us, wasn't it?" he asked.
"I tied my uniform jacket and pants together to make a rope long enough to pull you guys out of there," he told him.
"Thank you," he turned to Alyssa. "Any luck on finding a way out?"
"No, but we did run into a clue. 105709," she said.
"What is that?"
"We don't know. We've been trying to figure it out for hours now. We saw it carved into the wall in one of the rooms," she said.
"Now that you're okay, we should get moving again," Alex suggested, walking over to the panel up against the wall. He was about to open it, but it opened on it's own. One of the other side of the door was a bright light, so bright that all of them had to cover their eyes.
When they opened they, she was standing there. "What's going on here?" the young woman asked.
She had blonde hair and blue eyes, and wore a pair of black jeans and a pink cut off shirt. The others stared at her, but Alex who exactly who she was.
He walked over to her. "Hello Karone," he sighed.
