They were running as fast as they could. Their very lives were at stake. The titanium, blue and yellow ranger of the light speed team is being chased by a group of CellBorgs. Blaster fire was coming up from behind them. They were barley dodging the blasts. They were all growing tired from running for so long, but they had to keep going.
"Billy how far until were in range?" asked Ryan, through his morpher.
"About thirty feet,"
Ryan took a quick glance from behind the CellBorgs were gaining on them. He could hear their laughing and snarling. Ryan gulped in. The sight of them still scared him, their red glowing eyes, and their metal armored body. Ryan took a deep breath, to shake away some of his fear. He noticed that Chad and Kelsey were starting to slow down. He ran up to them.
"Come on guy we have to keep going, just a little bit further," encouraged Ryan. Chad and Kelsey both took deep breaths. Their hearts were pounding fast and then faster. They didn't need to turn around to know why. The yellow and blue ranger looked at each other and nodded their heads. The three then began running as fast as their feet and legs would carry them. It seemed like forever.
"Your almost there, just a few more feet."
The three used all of the strength they had left to speed up a little. More blasts came from behind them, just missing them by an inch. Their hearts were all racing now, racing to where it hurt to breath. "Now!" cried Billy. The three dodge to the ground landing on their back, in the process they drew their blaster and began to fire at the CellBorgs. Their weapons were useless against the metal beast. The CellBorgs glared at them evilly. Their eyes turned to a darker red. Why hadn't they been teleported yet? Ryan, Chad and Kelsey watched as the CellBorgs raised their blaster pointing right at them. "Billy!" cried Ryan.
"Gotcha!" Just as the CellBorgs were about to fire upon the three, they disappeared in a beam of light. The CellBorgs fired their weapons but the rangers were already gone.
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Once the three were teleported in, they all went into a force demorph. Ryan, Chad and Kelsey were all on the ground trying to catch their breath. Their breathing was hard and heavy. Their faces were all bright red and covered in damp sweat. Billy rushed over to them with three bottles of water. He handed one to each of them. Chad took it and took a quick sip, before pouring some on top of his head. Kelsey drank it like she hadn't had anything to drink for weeks. Ryan took in his sips slowly, wanting it to last. Andros and Eric, who had been standing near by, had waited for the three to catch their breath. "Well, did you find anything?" asked Andros being very direct. Ryan looked up at Andros. He took a deep breath before speaking.
"We didn't find their base, but we did find a warehouse of some type. It looked abandon, but we saw light coming from there," Ryan stated taking breaths in-between. Eric stepped forward he remembered that Steelix had a liking to abandon warehouses.
"Did you get close enough to see if anyone was in there?" asked Eric. Chad and Kelsey slowly got to their feet.
"No, we didn't even get close to it. The CellBorgs came out of nowhere," announced Kelsey who was still a bit jumpy.
"Yeah, we fought them for as long as we could, but the second we had a breakaway, we took on running," added Chad, feeling his heart rate begin to go down. Eric nodded his head, slightly disappointed. He was concerned about Jen, even if she wasn't the Jen he knew, she could still be in danger.
"Did you see Jen or Steelix at all?" asked Andros looking down at Ryan who was still lying on the floor. Ryan looked up at Andros and shook his head no. They had seen no sign or hair of those two. Andros nodded his head. No one knew if that was a good thing or a bad thing. Now days they weren't too sure, what Andros body language meant? "Alright," Andros glanced from Ryan and then to Chad and Kelsey. "Why don't you three go and get cleaned up and get some rest. Backup should be here tomorrow," announced Andros firmly. Chad and Kelsey exited out of the control room heading down the main hall.
Andros then headed out as well heading into the direction of the medical room. Ryan just about passed out of the floor, letting out a sigh. Billy had gotten up sometime during Andros's questioning and had headed else where on the ship.
Eric sighed. The past couple of days had been hard. As if he didn't have enough to worry about. He had his problems with Taylor that still needed to be sorted out, this mission and now Jen. He wasn't sure if it would come down to it, that he could pull the trigger on Jen, even if Steelix had done something that changed her. Eric without giving word of leaving to Ryan started heading in the same direction as Chad and Kelsey did. Ryan turned his head and saw Eric's back facing him. "Eric!" Eric stopped and turned around. "I'm sorry…"
"It's not your fault…" Ryan nodded his head knowing it wasn't.
"I know…..It's just…if we were only able to get closer, maybe we would know where she is, help her…..Maybe then you wouldn't have to………" Ryan couldn't finish his sentence. Eric was silent for a moment. His face was blank, as it had been ever since he told Andros he would take care of Jen.
"Yeah……."
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"Guys I've found something," announced Trip. Alex and the others surrounded around the computer. They found Trip looking at a news clip from the year 2004 in Silver Hills. It read 'BIO-Lab Owner Wesley Collins wakes up from coma' everyone had shocked looks on their faces, as if they hadn't expected this.
"Wait a minute. I thought Wes died from that shooting," announced Katie. Alex stepped away from the computer.
"He did?" The others all turned away from the computer looking over at him. "Or at least he was supposed to," replied Alex, as he turned around to face them. They all had questioning looks on their faces. How had this happened? What had been done that changed Wes's fate?
"Then what happened?" questioned Lucas, crossing his arms against his chest. Alex looked up at him blankly, he shook his head.
"I…I don't know," A second later Alex felt a quick pain in his head. His teammates watched as he cried out and held onto his head, as if he were having an enormous headache. Then a second later, they saw him slowly release his hands from his head. He appeared to be confused or in discomfort.
"Alex…You okay?" asked Trip. Alex blinked his eyes a few times, as if something had changed in him.
"Alex!" stated Katie after he had failed to answer Trip.
"My memories…..Something changed," The three looked at him a little confused. What did he mean? "Tommy Oliver…" The three stared at each other what did a dead legend have to do with Alex's memories?
"What about him? What does he have to do with your memories?" asked Lucas not seeing the connection.
"Wes woke up out of the coma because of him. I don't know how, but he did, that story has been in my family for years…" If the others were confused Alex seemed just as confused. It was like his memories had been readjusted and he wasn't sure where it was coming from, only that it happened.
"Trip what does the next news clip say?" asked Katie. Trip went back to the computer and clicked on a button.
"File unknown" they heard the computer say. That couldn't be right? Could it? Trip tried again and again and the same thing happened.
"What does this mean?" questioned Lucas. There was a long pause before anyone said a word.
"What it means is the future still hasn't been written," announced Alex.
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Inside the large ship the rangers waited as the small aircraft came in for a landing. The hatch lift was open and in flew a small ship. The hatch quickly closed back up. Eric, Ryan, Chad and Kelsey were there to meet with Joel and whoever he brought along with him. The hatch door of the small ship opened and out jumped Joel, and to all of their surprise Wes. Wes looked pretty rough. His right arm was in a sling and they could tell his rips were wrapped up in bandages, and he looked to be in pain. Eric couldn't believe his eyes. Wes was okay, for the moment anyways. Everyone else seemed frozen and uneasy. They hadn't expected Joel to bring Wes with him. In fact that is the one person they were all hoping that wouldn't show up. They all knew Wes wouldn't like one thing that had happened. Everyone stayed silent and didn't move a muscle. Joel and Wes looked at each other confused and then stared at the group around them. This was not the sort of welcome they had expected and not to mention the complete silence was unconformable for the both of them.
"Did someone die or something?" asked Wes looking at them, not thinking anything of it. When the distress message had been sent to Light Speed Head Quarters nothing was mentioned of anyone dieing, only that they needed two more rangers. Joel seemed to be thinking the same thing. Eric bit his lip, and slightly turned away from Wes's questioning glance. If it wasn't for the situation involving Jen, Eric probably would be jumping for joy or something close to that, to see Wes alive. Wes looked at Eric oddly. There was something they weren't telling them. Chad, Ryan and Kelsey looked at each other, giving concerned glances. Unsure how they should handle things or more so how would Wes handle things? None of them seemed to want to explain exactly what happened and the reason as to, why they needed backup? Now both Wes and Joel knew defiantly was up.
"Yeah Wes is right. You all look like your going to be sick," Joel looked around the large space ship. No one else seemed to be in the main area computer room, and he knew for a fact there should be more rangers then just the four of them. Joel looked around again and saw someone in a small room that looked to be a lab of some sorts. He saw Billy working alone, so where did that leave everyone else? "Where is everyone else?" asked Joel looking at the group. Again the four shared glances with each other, but still said not a word. This was starting to get old. Wes looked around as well and all he saw were the four before him, and Billy working in the lab. Wes eyed Eric carefully wanting at least one straight answer.
"Where's Jen?" There it was. The question they all have been dreading to hear out of Wes. When they didn't answer Wes knew something bad had happened. Joel glanced at his three teammates. He could see the uneasy faces starting to show more and more. If he thought the small ship was uncomfortable, this was way more uncomfortable. Joel had a bad feeling about this in the pit of his stomach.
Eric did his best not to make eye contact with his partner. Eric wasn't prepared for this. He wasn't even sure. How he would have explained to Wes what had happened when they would have returned from the mission? And now, he knew sooner or later he was going to have to say something. He couldn't keep avoiding Wes. Eric noticed mixed emotions cross Wes face. Wes was concerned and annoyed. Eric turned away again. That seemed to tick Wes off even more, when his own friend would not answer him. "Where is my wife?" Wes demanded loudly. No one answered him, even as his voice startled them all.
Joel glanced at his three teammates all they did was give him a grim and weary look again. Joel knew something terrible must have happened. Wes was furious. Why wasn't anyone answering him? Where was Jen? Wes started forward heading right for Eric, when doors slid open and walked in Andros carrying some sort of blaster. He didn't seem to notice that Joel and Wes had joined them.
"Okay Eric I have the blaster all setup. One clean shot, should take……. J….en o….out," announced Andros his last words muttered, when he saw Wes eyeing him. If looks could kill Andros would be dead where he stood. There was a long moment of silence that seemed to last forever. Everyone was waiting for Wes's reaction, and Joel couldn't believe what he had just heard. But now that explained everyone's reactions when they had arrived. And after that everything seemed to come crashing down. Wes lost it.
"WHAT!!! Take Jen out," Wes started towards Andros his left hand turning to a fist. Andros stood still, his heart racing. Just as Wes's fist was about to meet with Andros face Eric and Ryan had jumped in and grabbed a hold of Wes holding him back. Andros took a step back, just as Wes leaped forward again. Eric and Ryan pulled Wes back again, this time harder without adding injury to his already injured ribs. Eric started to put light pressure on his right shoulder, knowing it would slow Wes down. "Let me go. What does he mean take Jen out? TELL ME!!" demanded Wes. Andros eyes locked with Wes's. He could see the anger and rage building up. And he knew he couldn't blame Wes. He had just told Eric he finished the blaster that would take Jen out.
"Wes you need to calm down before you hurt yourself," said Eric, as he and Ryan struggled to hold Wes back.
"Calm down! Calm down! You want me to calm down? That LUNATIC just said you were going to kill Jen," Wes' voice was full of rage and anger. "Where is she? Tell me what happened? Or I swear I'll kill all of you with my bear hands," said Wes viciously. Eric eyed Andros as if waiting for him to speak, but Andros turned away.
Joel felt uneasy and in shock. "Would somebody please tell me what is going on here," Joel faced Chad and Kelsey. "Guys?" he asked. Chad and Kenly looked at each other. They both looked like they were going to be sick. Kelsey and Chad sighed, nodding their heads. Chad wrapped his arm around Kelsey for support. Kelsey looked over in Andros's direction.
"Andros you have to. He has a right to know," announced Kelsey. Andros sighed knowing she was right, as much as he hated it. She was right. Wes had more right then any of them to know, why?
Andros stepped forward only standing a few feet away from Wes. Eric and Ryan still had their arms gripped around Wes, just incase. Wes's face was stern, angry and confused. Andros glanced at Ryan and Eric, he nodded his head. The two slowly released Wes and took a few steps back. Wes just stood there staring at Andros. His face looked to be burning up, turning to a reddish color. Andros took a deep breath sighing. Here goes nothing.
"It was a couple of days later, after we arrived here. We were all heading in for the night. Jen had gone to the weapon room to pick out a blaster…….Steelix was in there, waiting for her," Wes's eyes lit up, as Andros continued on. "We think he some how got aboard the ship before we left Earth. Steelix some how turned her against us before we got there," Wes looked uneasy, his legs gave away and he was on his knees. Eric dropped down next to him, checking to make sure he was alright. But Wes shoved him away. Andros took another deep breath. He wasn't finished, not by a long shot. "When we all got there she was holding onto Ashley pointing a blaster at her," Wes began shaking his head no. "None of us morphed we didn't want to hurt her. We tried to get through to her but we couldn't. Steelix was pointing his blast at us," Andros licked his lips. The next part was going to be very difficult, for Wes to take in. "Then she shoved Ashley away and fired the blaster at her. Then her and Steelix teleported away." Fear began to shine in Wes's face. He began shaking his head again and again. She couldn't of, not his Jen. "Right now Ashley's is in a coma, she's badly bruised. It doesn't look too good," Andros put his head down. He could see the small tears going down Wes's face. "We don't know where Jen is right now, but when we do find her we have to take her out. Before she hurts anyone else," announced Andros softly. Wes didn't look up. He still was taking all of this in. He didn't want to believe it. He didn't want it to be true, but he knew it was true. They wouldn't lie, not about this.
"You might want to rethink that," Billy walked out of the lab room where he had been working in. His voice broke all of their train of thought, all eyes were on him. His face looked tired and uneasy, as if he was about to give devastating information to all of them. "The results just came in of why Jen wasn't able to morph," There was a long short pause before he spoke. "She's pregnant…….about three or four weeks," Wes felt his heart racing, did he just hear things right. Jen pregnant?