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"We're picking up an incoming transmission. It's a distress call," Camille said.
'My sensors indicate the distress call is coming from an alternate reality. The call is from Time Force, they are under attack by a race of beings known as the Leorians,' A.I.S.H.A. said.
"We have to help them, but we have to find Alex, too," she said.
"We'll go. Just contact us if you find Alex," Katie said, stepping forward.
"Good idea. Nadira, go with her. If you need reinforcements, contact us and we'll see what we can do," she said.
'I have the coordinates set and I'm activating the slipstream portal now,' A.I.S.H.A. said.
Within seconds, the portal opened, and the two of them stepped through.
The two of them stepped through the portal, finding themselves in a room of some kind. It was, at first glance, an industrial warehouse of some kind, but the entire warehouse was empty. There was no equipment, no people, nothing.
"What the hell?" Katie inquired, glancing around.
"Hello??" Nadira called out, her voice echoing through the building.
Katie reached for the morpher. "Camille, this is Katie. Can you confirm these are the right coordinates?" she asked.
But there was no response.
This time, Nadira reached for her morpher. "Nadira to science lab, respond," she said.
But again, there was nothing.
"Something in here must be blocking our communication systems," she said.
"But if that were true, how were they able to send us a signal in the first place?" Nadira asked.
"Welcome rangers," they heard a voice say, but because of the echo, it was difficult for them to determine where the voice was coming from. Nadira and Katie both looked around, but they didn't see anything.
"You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?"
"I sure am," the two of them got into position. "TIME FOR, TIME FORCE," they called out…
… but nothing happened.
"Okay, that isn't good," Nadira sighed.
"You'll find that your morphers won't work here rangers," a voice said.
Though they were unable to determine where the voice was coming from, it was obvious that it was an entirely different voice.
"What's going on here? We're here in response to a distress call," she said.
"You'll soon discover that the only ones in distress here are the two of you," the voice told them.
"Show yourselves!" Katie snapped.
At that moment, he materialized in front of them. It was a ranger, a green ranger, wearing armor similar to the black ranger Chrono armor. It was Katie who stepped towards him. "Who are you?"
"All you need to know Kathryn is that you and your mutant friend will never leave this place," the green ranger told her, then disappeared into a stream of green light.
"Whoa," he mumbled, struggling to get his balance as he materialized in a stream of light.
"Alex! You're okay," Camille said, rushing over to him, helping him get his footing. "We've been looking all over for you,"
"I just got an interesting visit from Admiral Summers. She warned me about an evil group of rangers from the future who plan to invade and take over the past, rewriting history as they go," he said.
"Did she tell you how to stop it?"
"Yes. She warned me that they'll be a distress call, and that one event will trigger the beginning of an all out invasion," Alex said.
Camille paused. "A distress call? It wouldn't by chance have anything to do with the Leorians, would it?" she asked.
"As a matter of fact it…" he glanced over at the screen, getting a look at the incoming transmission. "Oh no," he sighed. "It's begun,"
"I don't get it, what's begun?" Lucas asked him.
Before he could answer, an alarm went off on the main control panel. Trip and Camille both hurried over to the controls to get a good look.
"There's a shift in the time line, a major shift," Trip warned.
"What is it?" Adam asked.
"Some sort of temporal rift, it's sending a ripple through the space/time continuum," he added.
"The ripple will travel through the space/time continuum like a shockwave, altering not only history, but future history," Camille mentioned.
"Not if I can help it," Trip hurried over to the opposite panel, inputting a sequence of numbers. Suddenly, the entire room turned blue, and there was a humming sound. "After the incident with the Harvengers, I installed a temporal shield around the building. When the shockwave hits, the future will be changed, but everything here will remain the same," he said.
"That means the cadets must have failed," Alex sighed.
Just then, the entire building began to shake. All of them hurried over to the window, watching as the shockwave passed over everything. Buildings disappeared, only to be replaced by a baron wasteland. For as far as the eye could see, there was nothing. The sky was dark, and a thick smoke seemed to cover the ground.
"So we're all that's left of the future," James sighed.
"What about Katie and Nadira? Can we contact them?" Camille asked.
Alex shook his head. "No, that's what Admiral Summers was trying to tell me. There was no emergency, the renegade rangers lured Nadira and Katie to another reality in order to get the coordinates to this point in time. Any minute now, they'll be here, and they'll be nothing we can do to stop them," he explained.
"Come on, we've stopped the Harvengers, preventing invasions, saved the universe a hundred times over and come back from the dead… twice. I say these renegade rangers don't have a chance against us," Camille said.
"I wish I shared your optimism, but I've seen the future, I've seen what they did to the world," he said.
"It can't look any worse than this," Adam said, motioning to the window.
His statement was enough to make Alex take a closer look. "Wait, it looked exactly like this. Whatever these rangers are up to, they're trying to change the past, present and future at the exact same time, but Admiral Summers said it took three explosions to cause," Alex said.
"Maybe they have three bombs," Lucas mentioned.
"That wouldn't be enough. It would take a huge amount of radiation, and a huge explosion to destroy an entire reality," Camille said.
The doors to the science lab opened as Tommy and Jen rushed in, making their way over to the window.
"What's going on? There was this wave of…" his sentence trailed off as he glanced out the window. "Oh my God, what happened?" he asked.
"There's been a shift in the time line," Trip said.
"But how? Who?"
At that moment, there was a flash of light as both the green and pink ranger materialized in the lab, each of them with disrupter weapons in hand.
"Goodbye rangers," the green ranger said, firing the weapon.
Trip was able to dive in front of Jen, knocking her out the way as the beam connected with one of the control panels, causing an explosion.
"Alright guys, its now or never," Alex said with an emotionless look on his face.
"TIME FOR, TIME FORCE," they called out, and their ranger uniforms replaced their clothes.
James and Alex charged in with a double spin kick, but the pink ranger phased, and the two of them went straight through her. Before they could regroup, the pink ranger landed a kick of her own, knocking James against the wall. Alex called for his Chrono saber, swinging at her, but she caught the blade in her hand, and then snatched the saber away from him. As Alex stumbled forward, the pink ranger sliced his stomach with his saber, sending Alex tumbling to the ground.
Tommy picked up a pipe and swung at the green ranger, but the pipe went through him. The green ranger turned around to hit Tommy, but for some reason, paused. That moment of indecision gave Camille a chance to grab a disrupter and fire at the green ranger. The beam connected with him, but the energy was absorbed by his armor. He responded with a backhand, sending Camille to the floor.
Lucas and Adam made their move on the pink ranger. Lucas went for a kick as Adam tried a sweep, but she was ready for them. She grabbed Adam's ankle, then pulled him upwards, knocking him into Lucas as the two of them fell to the floor.
"Computer, lock all main system functions. Authorization Oliver Gamma 67," Tommy shouted.
'All main system functions are off line,' A.I.S.H.A. announced.
"Bring them, I will do the rest," the green ranger said.
The pink ranger nodded, and then grabbed both Tommy and Jen. Before they could do anything, the three of them disappeared into a stream of light.
"Jen! No!" Alex called out as his wound continued to bleed.
The green ranger placed a small device on the control panel and activated it. As soon as he did, the device phased, making it transparent. "Foolish rangers. Your own arrogance will be your undoing," he warned, and then disappeared into a stream of light.
Camille hurried over to Alex, trying to help him up. "Are you okay?" she asked.
"Don't worry about me, just disarm the device before it has a chance to detonate," he groaned.
Camille helped Trip back to his feet, and the two of them hurried over to the device.
"It's phased," he said.
"If I had to take a guess, I'd say by about 1.6 seconds, just enough to make out of our reach," she said.
"Maybe he tried a multiphased field converter, we could disarm it," he suggested.
"No, the field converter would be disabled the second we attemped to phase it. Plus neither one of us would be able to hold it once it phased," she said.
"How about a particle beam slightly phased, but set at the same frequency? That would neutralize it," he brought up.
"Yes, but it would take hours to figure out the right frequency. Using the wrong one would only make the problem worse," she said.
"So what do we do?"
"I don't know," Camille sighed.
"What about Tommy and Jen? We have to go after them," Adam brought up.
"If we don't disarm this device, we won't be around to worry about it. This should be our first priority," Alex told him.
"Well, I have good news and bad news," Trip turned around. "The bad news is, nothing we can do will be able to completely disarm it. The good news is, because of the temporal displacement caused by the first shockwave, this device is slightly off, so it will take roughly two hours before it goes off and destroys us all," he said.
"Yeah, that's good news," Lucas sighed.
"We have to figure out what these rangers are trying to do. If we knew that, it would be give us a clue on how to stop them," Camille said.
"Admiral Summers said that it would take three explosions, all of them enhanced by radiation from morphers to cause the annihilation of the planet, but each explosion would have to happen in the same place. That doesn't make sense," Alex said.
"Yes, it does," Trip walked over to him. "She said they had to be in the same place, but what about the same time?"
"What do you mean?"
"Think about it. The past was just completely destroyed, probably by the same device as this one here. That would send a shockwave through the space/time continuum, changing everything in its path," he said.
"Yeah, but future history would be altered, and this event would be changed," Lucas brought up.
"It would, except for the fact that there's a shield in place preventing things from being changed," he said.
"If the renegade rangers knew that, they'd use it to their advantage," Adam said.
"That's just it, they did know it. In fact, they were counting on it. The shockwave that destroyed the past caused a shockwave destroying everything here, except for us. They knew we'd have a shield to prevent that, and after the shockwave hit, they came here and placed another device. When this one goes off, our shockwave will travel to the future, where no doubt Admiral Summers will have a similar shield in place, and the same thing will happen again. The force of both shockwaves combined with the shockwave from the third device will annihilate the entire world," Alex explained.
"With the Earth destroyed, the gravity in the universe will shift. Planets will go off course, some colliding with each other, others colliding with the sun. The entire universe will be in chaos, and in time, destroy itself," Camille added.
"So how are we supposed to stop this?" Adam asked.
"The key to all this is the renegade rangers. We have to find them and eliminate them before these devices have a chance to go off," Lucas said.
"That's just it, one of them already has. Any minute now, this one will go off, and followed by the third shockwave, the world will be destroyed in a heartbeat," Trip said.
"What if we travel back to the past and stop the first one from going off? That would solve everything," Adam said.
"We can't. With the space/time continuum so disrupted, there's no way we could safely travel back in time. Even if we could, the past has been so badly changed we wouldn't know where to begin to fix the damage," Camille said.
"I can't imagine things getting any worse," Lucas sighed.
At that moment, the doors to the science lab were destroyed, and as smoke filled the lab, he walked into the lab.
"Lord Zedd," Alex groaned.
Adam turned to Lucas. "You just had to say something, didn't you?"
Tommy and Jen found themselves in a warehouse of some sort. As far as the eye could see, there was nothing. There were metal beams, all of them connected to the ceiling, but there was no equipment to be seen.
"What is this place?" Jen asked.
"I don't know, but I vote for getting out of here," Tommy told her.
Just then, the pink ranger walked over to them, removing her helmet. "Both of you will be safe here. You have nothing to fear," she said.
It was Jen who got a good look at her. She had shoulder length brown hair, and brown eyes, but there was something about the way she looked at her that seemed familiar…
'But what?' Jen thought to herself.
"Who are you? What do you want?" Tommy snapped.
"Everything my brother and I want, we have. Soon, the world you know will be destroyed, and two of you will be the sole survivors of your race. You will be allowed to pick any other world you wish to live on, where you will live free of war, of oppression, of pain and sorrow. You will be live the rest of your lives in peace," she told them.
"But at what price? Our friends? Our families? Our entire world? No thanks lady," she snapped.
"You speak of friends, of families, but they are the same people who allowed an entire world to be destroyed. They forced innocent people to be driven from their homes, and enslaved others. Time Force is a disease that needs to be exterminated. Our master insisted that you too be destroyed, but we begged for your lives, and he saw fit to spare you the fate that Time Force will face," she said.
"Your master? Who is that?" he asked.
"He is the sole ruler of the planet my brother and I are live, he is the Prime Minister of New Earth," she told her.
'Where have I heard that before?' Jen thought to herself. She knew it was familiar, but no matter how hard she tried, couldn't recall where she'd heard that phrase before.
"Where are Katie and Nadira? Before you arrived, they were sent to respond to a distress call," Tommy mentioned.
"There are here, in this place, but in a different time. They are slightly out of phase with your time, about 30 seconds into the future to be exact. With them out of the way, there will be no one here to stop our master from accomplishing his goal and getting revenge on Time Force for what they've done," she said.
"What did Time Force do?" Jen asked.
The pink ranger put her helmet back on. "No more questions. I've already told you too much," she said, and then disappeared into a stream of light.
They all stared intently as Lord Zedd, who stood in front of them with his staff in hand.
"Things are bad enough Zedd, the last thing we need is you coming here and making things worse," Camille snapped.
"You misunderstand ranger," he took a step closer. "The end of the human race is at hand, but I have no desire to see the elimination of humanity," he said.
"Are you saying you're here to help?" Alex asked.
"I have information that may be critical to your survival. What you choose to do with that information is up to you," he said.
"Why are you doing this? Why help us? What's in it for you?" Lucas asked.
"I know what you must think of me rangers, but I am no monster. Do I want to rule the world? Sure. But destroy the world? That isn't my ," he told them.
"So what do you have to tell us?"
"Goes the name Galen mean anything to you?" he asked.
"I've heard that name before. Jen was telling me something about him once, but that was over a year ago," Lucas mentioned.
"On an alternate world, Queen Bansheera was able to defeat the Lightspeed Rangers and take over the planet. Eventually, Bansheera was defeated, but over the years the planet's core became unstable. The world was going to explode, and Time Force stepped in, finding a new suitable world for them to live on. The locals didn't understand what was happening, and assumed that Time Force was forcing them to work as slaves, then sacrificing them," he explained.
"I remember Jen brining a Lucas from another reality here to help him find his friends," Camille mentioned.
"One man decided to stay on that world, and his name was Galen," Lord Zedd told them.
"But when the planet exploded, didn't Galen die?" Trip asked.
"He would have, but another group of Time Force rangers found him, and saving him from his planet before it exploded. Apparently he was able to get access to their equipment, and took over Time Force," he said.
"Wait a second. You're telling me that one guy was able to take over Time Force by himself?" Trip asked.
"No, the rangers who found him were the renegade rangers. Together, they were able to overthrow Time Force, and set out to destroy all worlds. After my attempt to bring Rita back, I returned to my world, where the renegades had already begun the destruction of the planet. I've been tracking them, and they've eliminated over a dozen realities," he told them.
"So why do you want to stop them now? Why is this world so important to you?" Camille asked.
"Because the problem starts on this world. If it can be prevented on this world, then other worlds might be saved," he said.
"But its already started, so how do you plan to stop it?"
"Your morphers are useless now, but there is a power source strong enough to defeat them. All you need to do is activate it," he said.
"You mean the Omega Project, but I've done everything I know how to do. There is nothing in the lab, in special projects or anywhere else on the planet that has enough energy to activate it," Camille said.
"Which is why you have to go to another planet," he brought up.
She paused. "Of course. That's what Khalil was trying to tell us. The morpher is left wasn't meant for us to use, but to take us where we need to go. We have to go to another system to find an energy source," Camille said.
"I don't get it. If we just needed to go to another system to find the power source, why would we need the morpher for that?" Alex asked.
"To get to a region of space that we couldn't get to without that much power…" Trip started.
"The Fikus sector," Camille finished. "Katie was having dreams about the Fikus sector, and we were trying to find a way to safely travel to that system, but none of our shuttles could withstand that region of space. I was able to build a new shuttle with Emery's help, but we didn't have the power source to get to the Fikus sector," she said.
"So we use the morpher to get to the Fikus sector, get the power source and bring it back here," Lucas said.
"But we only have about an hour and a half to do it, and even if we did get back in time, defeating the renegades won't stop this device from going off and destroying the world," Alex said.
"We have to try. I'll go, and take Adam with me," Camille said.
"Okay, lets go," Adam said, taking a step forward.
"The new ship does have a hyper drive. In theory, we could reach the Fikus sector in twenty minutes, which would give us about 30 minutes to find the power source and bring it back," she said.
"You two go, and may the power protect you," Alex said.
Adam and Camille nodded, then made their way out the lab.
"So now what?" Lucas asked.
"We try to find a way to track the renegade rangers, then find a way to stop them," Trip said.
"Everything is going well master," the green ranger said, kneeling in front of a figure wearing a hood and cloak.
The figure motioned for the green ranger to rise. "You have done well my son. Soon, Earth Prime will be destroyed, and those who destroyed our world will know first hand what its like to lose everything in one foul swoop," he told him.
"Yes master,"
"And where is your sister? Is her work complete?" he asked.
"Yes. The Olivers have been contained. The mutant and the Ethros demon have also been captured. There is no one who will be able to oppose us," he said.
"Very good. Our total victory is at hand. Soon, very soon, we will be able to live in peace, never again concerned about the threat of humans destroying our way of life," he told him.
"Very good master," he agreed. "But what is to become of the Olivers after the Earth is destroyed?" he asked.
"The woman will be allowed to give birth, but after that, I see no need for either of them. Kill them," he said sharply.
"But master, we assured them that…" he was cut short.
"I care nothing about your assurances. Allowing them to live will give them the opportunity to oppose us. Our plan must go without incident if it is to succeed,"
"But surely we have avenged the destruction of old world, we should…" he was again interrupted.
He stood up. "I know what you're thinking. You believe that if we continue to destroy worlds, then we are no better than Time Force, who enslaved my people and kidnapped them, then destroyed my world. I assure you young one, this is the final phase of the plan. Once this world has been conquered, there will be none who can oppose me," he told him.
"Yes master, of course,"
Preview: Endgame pt. IINext time on Parallels II: Camille and Adam head to the Fikus sector to find a new source of power. Meanwhile, Katie and Nadira receive a strange message from the past.