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A short sequel, I know! Short, sweet and to the point...hope you guys enjoyed this one! Chapter two of "Always and Forever" will be up probably by monday...

Alex is Lance's father? Since when? There is DEFINITELY something wrong...and Lance is determined to find out what...

Last Chapter up! Enjoy!

Steph

Time After the Tornado

Lance stood there, flabbergasted at the man in front of him.

"A-Alex?" Lance asked.

"Son, what's wrong?" Alex asked.

"Mom, where's Wes? Where's my father?" Lance asked. Jen laughed.

"Wes? Where'd you hear about him? And your father is right in front of you." She laughed, but then looked at him again.

Lance shook his head, blinked a few times, and looked at Alex again. "S-sorry Dad. I must have hit my head harder then I thought." Alex didn't smile.

"That's all right, Lance. Understandable." Alex said. "Go get some more rest."

Lance nodded and walked back to his room.

"Something is definitely wrong here." Lance said. He looked at the window, and was astonished at what he saw. "I'm back."

Cars zoomed around him as well as cars on the road. High buildings roamed the sky line, and people with Time Force uniforms walked around him. Lance looked at the clock, but was more concerned with the date.

October 12, 3010.

Lance's eyes opened wide. "Year 3010?" He asked himself.

"Yes. The year is 3010." A female voice answered. Lance turned around to see him mom standing in his doorway. "Something is definitely wrong here, if that's what you're inquiring."

"Yea, you're telling me. It's like a different reality." Lance said quietly.

"And you aren't my Lance." She said. "And I'm not your mother."

Lance sighed. "What do you mean by that?"

Jen sighed. "The Lance I knew had darker hair then you have. He didn't come call Alex dad either. He just called him Captain." Lance was confused. "I knew it from the minute you stepped outside."

"And I knew I wasn't in my reality when I saw Alex standing there. What the hell is going on?" Lance paused.

"I don't know." Jen shook her head.

Something dawned on him. "Where's Josh?"

Jen, the other Jen, gave him a weird look. "Who?"

Lance sighed. "My little brother, Josh. He's seven."

Jen's face shrunk. "He died a while ago." Lance gasped. "He was killed in a car crash, a few years ago." Tears lined her eyes. "After he died, Alex kept himself up at work, and you were...just a mess." She drew in a breath.

Lance bowed his head. "I'm sorry." He paused. 'Where's Wes?"

"Long gone. Back in the year 2001, we were facing a mutant, Arbatron. We were loosing terrible, too. But then a civilian saved me, and Wes just walked off, kinda sad too. He never used to talk to me then." She paused and sat down on the bed. "When I found out Alex was alive, Wes gave up his morpher. Alex stayed in the past until Ransik was caught, and then we all returned here. After we were married, I had you. I hadn't thought of Wes until you just said something about him."

Lance raised his head. "Wait, did you say a civilian saved you?" She nodded. "Do you have access to those files?"

Jen gave him a confused look. "Yes, at Time Force headquarters."

"Can you take me there, I think I know how we can get your Lance back, and send me home." The two walked out of the house and sped off to Time Force Headquarters.

Time Force: Files room

Lance walked into the room and went to a file cabinet, in search of a disk. He finally found one labeled "Ransik: 2001"

He popped it in the computer, and a table came up. Unsatisfied, he went I search of another disk.

"How about this one?" Jen asked. He looked at it. "Rangers: Mission 2001"

Lance smiled. "Thanks. Let's see if this one is it." He popped it in, and to his wanting, a file came up. Civilians involved in mission. One was of Wes Collins. Another came up as Eric Myers. One of Wes's dad also came up. Then it was the small citizens who were injured. One came up as unknown. Lance clicked on it.

His face came up. But he didn't have a record. There was a small clip of himself, and how he was involved.

"This is it." Lance clicked on it, and the screen came to life.

Lance went to a shady spot as the rangers went into battle. He watched as the rangers fought gallantly against the mutant, but things took a turn for the worst.

"This isn't suppose to happen..."Lance watched as the mutant fought every ranger, but then went landing down hard. He had heard countless stories of a mutant named Arbatron, a powerful mutant, skilled with a gun. He had heard of the ranger's triumph over him, but this was wrong.

"Well, rangers. Looks like you've been beaten! I can't wait to see Ransik's face when I tell him that the Power Rangers are destroyed!" He fired a powerful blast that struck each ranger, and hard. The Red Ranger's chrono saber flew out of his hands and near Lance.

"Do I dare interfere with time?" Lance asked himself. A cry from the rangers echoed throughout Silver Hills. "No time to think about it." Lance grabbed the saber and charged off after the mutant.

"Hold it right there!" Lance jumped in front of the mutant, just before it struck Jen.

The mutant cried out in pain, as Lance struck him, hard. He fell back, and sparks flew from the mutant. Then he exploded, but shrunk down to a smaller size.

Jen came over to him hugged him tightly. "Thanks Lance, you saved my life." Jen said.

"Aww, it was nothing, Jen." He walked over and handed Wes is chrono saber. "I think this belongs to you."

Wes's voice was sad. "Yea, umm thanks kid." Wes looked from Lance to Jen. "I better get going. Have a lot of things to do. Bye guys." Wes walked off, his head bowed low.

The clip faded out. Lance sat there, unsure of what he just saw.

"I---I did this." He muttered. "I changed time."

"What on earth are you talking about?" Jen asked.

"I interfered with the time line!" Lance raised his voice. "They were supposed to die! Or if not die, then..." He snapped his fingers. "That's why Wes was so down! He wanted to save Jen, err my mom, and then..." Lance smacked him head. "I'm such an idiot for not thinking that!"

He ran out of the room, but stopped. "Umm, thanks, Jen. I hope your Lance comes back soon."

"No problem." She smiled.

Lance cleared his throat. "Umm, one more thing. Do you know of any way I can get to the year 2001?"

Before Jen could answer, a rumble of thunder was heard, and they ran outside, the wind picked up and Lance found himself being lifted off of the ground, just like when the tornado hit. "Thanks!" He called.

He watched helplessly as everything went black.

Year 2001

Lance woke up to see everything blurry, but the past events made his vision go clear.

"Gotta hurry." Lance said to himself. He ran up to the park, where he saw an empty tree, it was where he would be sitting, but instead it was empty.

"Weird..." Lance began. But then he remembered his mother telling him something a few years ago.

"When you travel back in time, there will always be two of you. But this cannot happen, so the two of you phase into one person. Normally it will be yourself is the dominate life, so you'll only remember a few things about your trip."

Then it happened. Lance took his same spot and watched.

Arbatron was hitting the rangers, and hard. Each ranger got their piece, and was thrown helplessly across the road.

The mutant laughed as the Pink ranger sat helplessly on the ground, and was at his mercy.

"Well, well, well. Lookie at what we have here. The Lone Pink Ranger." He laughed. Fear shown on her eyes.

Lance looked and watched as the Red Ranger struggled over to where his saber was and grabbed it.

"I'll take pleasure in destroying you, Pinkie!" Arbatron raised his weapon.

"Hold it right there!" Wes leaped in front of Jen and slashed the mutant. "Don't you lay a hand on her." Wes said, his voice strong.

"Wes!" Jen cried happily.

"Jen, are you okay?" Wes asked.

"Yea, thanks." Jen smiled.

"Now to finish you off!" Wes stated.

From behind the tree, Lance smiled as he saw the excitement in Jen's eyes, and the happiness in Wes's.

Wes leapt up into the air. "TIME STRIKE!" He slashed the mutant, and the mutant shrunk.

The rangers powered down and chatted merrily as the mutant was put away. Lance, having curiosity, followed the rangers back into the clock tower, only to see his parents fall behind and veer off into the park.

With a smile, and his curiosity rising, he followed behind them, just far enough to hear what they were saying.

Jen and Wes soon stopped at a bench and sat down, wide smiles on their faces, wild passion in their eyes.

"Thanks for helping me, Wes." Jen said. "I owe you a lot."

He shrugged. "It was nothing. Hell, you'd do the same for me."

"Ha. Where have I heard that before?" Lance muttered to himself.

"I'm just gearing up for when you say Wes, you own me." Wes joked.

Even Jen laughed. "Yea, you can do that."

Wes looked into her eyes, as the sun lit up their faces. He slowly inched forward, diving in for a kiss.

To Lance's guess, she didn't move away either.

That was until thunder rumbled and the wind picked up.

"Gaa. Perfect timing!" Lance hit the ground. But the wind grew stronger. He watched his parents run for shelter from the wind, a strong hail began to fall.

"What! I didn't do anything wrong this time!" Lance yelled into the air. A distant roaring was heard. He turned his head slowly to see a black tornado charging towards him. "Oh shit!" He yelled and began to run for his life.

The black cloud blew behind him as the distance between Lance and the tornado decreased.

"Come on, I fix everything and then I'm dead!" Lance yelled. He soon felt himself being sucked back up into the funnel. The color inside was black, green and yellow yet again.

Lance was knocked out by a piece of wood flying around him.

Somewhere

Lance awoke to feel a soft cloth on his face, and cool water running down his face.

"He's okay!" a voice rang out. He squinted his eyes at the loudness of the person's shout.

"Where am I?" Lance muttered.

"Home." A female voice answered. Lance opened his eyes to see his mother's face over his. "Lance, you're okay. God, I was so worried!" Jen hugged her son happily.

"Mom, where's dad?" Lance shot up.

"Right here, Lance." Lance turned his head to see his father standing in the doorway.

"Dad!" Lance jumped up and hugged his father.

He jumped back. "Well, I guess you aren't too old to hug your old man, huh Lance?"

"After all that I went through, I'll hug anyone right about now." Lance laughed.

"Well Wes, this is certainly interesting." Jen laughed.

A smaller boy ran into Lance's room. Lance saw him, and his face lit up.

"Josh! My favorite little brother!" Lance went to hug him as well.

Josh backed away and ran to his mother. "MOM! SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH LANCE!" he screamed.

Jen and Wes laughed. "What's wrong with wanting a hug from your little brother, Josh?" Lance asked.

Josh smiled and hugged his brother. He looked at the calendar. October 19, 2011. He sighed contently.

"Lance? Jen, is he okay?" another younger woman came running in. At the sight of Lance standing, Gabrielle hugged her boyfriend lovingly. "God, you're okay." Lance hugged her. "Don't you ever scare me like that again!" Gabrielle yelled.

Lance chuckled. "Nice to see you too."

Her face softened. "I'm just glad you're okay."

"And that's our queue to get outta here." Jen stated.

"Come on boys; let the couple have their time alone." Jen pushed Wes and Josh out of the room, then winked at Lance.

While alone in his room, Gabrielle and Lance held each other, happy that each was okay.

"So, Lance...where did you go exactly?" Gabrielle asked.

Lance laughed. "Well, it all started out at the soccer game..." He put his arm around her waist as they went downstairs to talk to Jen and Wes about Lance's venture through time, and how that old clock tower still counted down time.

THE END