Disclaimer: Nothing's mine, never have been, never will be.. sigh...

Soooo sorry I took so long to update this! Been really busy lately and not to mention I missed the earlier part of 'Something to Fight For'. Right when Jen was yelling at Wes so 'beautifully'!
darn... got the scene figured out anyway, thanks to the wonderful summariesavailable on PRspoilers. A big THANKS!

Chapter 3: My Parents are Freaks

'Flump'! Oww... ok, this one's more painful. Cement road! I opened my eyes while getting up. Ren got up as well, rubbing her neck, wincing.

"Are we home?" I asked.

"You again?" yelled a rough voice, "After what happened to your friend, I never thought you had the courage to come after me!"

I turned around and saw four people in a line. They wore the exact same white suit mum wore. Opposite them, was another gorup of people. Very weird people. In fact, I'm not sure whether they are people...

There was a lady with bright pink hair, a guy in black with a cloak and a mask covering the left side of his face. There's also a big and fat weird-looking thing that looks like a warthog, a tall golden robot, and hordes of costumed 'things' in gold and silver. What in the world?

"We're not home," replied Ren in a defeated tone.

I recognized one of the people in the white suits, mum. Beside her, is the green-haired guy I saw earlier on that bulging watch of mum's. With them is a tall guy with heavily gelled jet-black hair and an African-American girl with long curly hair.

Mum announced,"You're under arrest Ransik! You've got nowhere to run this time!" while holding out something, but I can't see what it is.

Ok... Ransik is the fierce guy dressed in black, yup, the boss is always the meanest looking.

Anyway, Ransik lifted his right leg and slammed it on a large piece of rock. He yelled out loud while pulling something right out of his thigh.

"Gross!" exclaimed Ren.

"Cool!" I said.

It was a sword and it had a handle that looked a lot like a bone... In fact, I think it is a bone! He pulled the sword back and thrust it foward again. A sharp blue ray appeared and seemed to cut through all four in front.

Ren yelled,"Duck!" as the blue ray headed for us next.

"Yii!" I yelled as we ducked to the pavement. There was a loud explosion and all on our side fell to the road in pain.

Ransik went over to mum and pulled her to her feet roughly.

Ren and I, along with mum's three friends watched in fear.

Ransik said,"Still upset about your fiancee's untimely demise? His fate will be your own!"

I asked,"Fiancee?" It can't be dad, mum and dad were anything but engaged to each other just now!

With that statement, Ransik threw mum into the air.

Ren yelled,"MUM!"

"She can't hear you!" I said. Ren wringed her hands in anxiety.

Suddenly, dad appeared, running from the corner of the road, he jumped onto a white car's hood, arms open, and grabbed mum, breaking her fall.

Both of them slammed against the car door. Mum looked extreamly surprised, she turned around to see dad whose obviously winded out. He was still managing to smile. So dad...

"So, is it too late to help?" he asked. They got up and mum pulled out the oval-shaped device and handed it to dad,"It's yours,"

Dad smiled and let out a cheer, and put the device on his wrist. "DNA confirmed," announced a voice somewhere. Ok, DNA confirmed, that means he wore it before? But still... Ok, I'm very confuse...

The freaky bone guy was staring hard at dad. The girl with pink hair asked,"Daddy, didn't you already get rid of him?"

Ooh... daddy!

Ransik scowled and pointed at dad,"I've destroyed you once, I'll destroy you again!"

Dad asked mum,"What's he talking about?"

Oh, good. I thought Ren and I were the only ones who didn't understand this entire thing.

"Doesn't concern you," mum replied roughly. "Ready?" she continued.

All four nodded and did some sequence of motions with their arms (though dad wasn't as smooth as the others) while shooting, "Time for, Time Force!"

Time Force? Why does that name keep on popping up everywhere? In a flash, all five appeared, dressed from head to toe in a specific colour.

Ren's jaw dropped while I said, "And the surprises keep on coming..."

Ren dropped the little time device that got us in this mess in the first place.

Dad was in red, he put both hands on his helmet while saying excitedly,"Wow! You were telling me the truth!"

Yeah dad? You weren't exactly doing the same thing to Ren and me!

The others, in blue, green and yellow muttred softly in amazment as well. Only mum (in pink) was all business, "Let's do it," she announced.

Well, once you got over the shock, you actually admire their costumes, they were quite cool... only I've never seen anything like this before, add mum and dad as the pink and red ones, all this time turning craziness and these weird bad guys... well, I might be watching some crazy science fiction movie...

"Time Force Rangers?" Ransik yelled furiously, "Get them!" he instructed to the gold and silver clad robots.

They lifted their weapons, which looked like double ended blades and started firing, bullets started flying out, or are they some futuristic ammo that replaced bullets?

Mum, blue, green and yellow rangers bent over in all kinds of positions, the bullets missing them completely. It's like that old movie, 'The Matrix'!

Ren yelled,"Look out!"

Oh, man! Now the bullets are headed for us! They went through us but I couldn't feel a single thing. It was freaky! I could even hear a 'warp!' kind of sound effect!

Poor dad, a few bullets hit him squarely in the chest, forcing him to the ground. mum said,"Don't worry, your suit protects you,"

Dad jumps up and states,"This just keeps getting better!" He rushed in to help his teamates.

Ren pulled me back, so as not to be in the action. "Ren, c'mon! This is soooo cool!"

Ren groaned,"Calm down, will you?"

"We can't be hurt! It's OK!" I retorted, half screaming.

One robot blade came flying towards us and if I had been visible, my head would have been sliced in half. "Yii!" I yelled. Ok... that sure cured my excitement. I retreated back to where Ren was standing.

The warthog guy was battling with mum. Woah! Is that fart propelling him? Eww...

Suddenly, a young robotic voice called out,"Rangers! What are you waiting for? Use your weapons!"

I located the source of the voice, it belonged to a small robot blue owl. Woah...

"Great idea!" said dad, and everyone activated their weapons... green and yellow had huge cannon-like guns while the rest used blades.

Yellow and green started fireing and one came flying in our direction. "Aruggh!" we yelled as the power sliced through us. I'm really beginning to pity those robot things... that cannon must hurt!

Ren said through gritted teeth,"That's it! We're so outta here!" She started groping around her pockets for the device. "Oh-oh..." she mumbled.

I scowled at her, there goes our ticket home...

Suddenly, mum landed on the ground in front of us. The golden robot called Frax, warthog and pink-haired lady were in front of her, sneering.

Frax said,"Looks like you're outnumbered, Pinky!"

The others lined up beside mum. dad announced,"You need to learn how to count, Goldie!"

I chuckled, dad isn't so different after all.

The pink lady let out a weak mock laugh. now, the rangers used their cannons, joined together. "Brace yourself..." I said.

Dad said,"Target locked, FIRE!"

Woah, now that's what I call an explosion. The three ended on the ground in pain. After a quick recovery, the pink lady announced,"You haven't won! My daddy will beat you!"

"I've had enough for one day... Frax!" called the warthog.

"Teleporting," announced Frax, while pressing something on his arm. The trio disappeared in a flash.

The four rangers from the year 3000, pressed something on their 'orphers' and they reappeared in their white uniforms.

Ren and I ran over to them to hear their conversation. Dad was estatic, hugging the curly-haired girl and the green haired guy,"That was amazing!" he too pressed whatever button there was and demorphed.

"I must have taken down a dozen of those tin heads! And you guys! Hah, you guys were awesome!"

I had to admit, he's acting like an excited little kid, in other words, an idiot.

"Lucas!" dad continued, walking towards the tall guy who was in blue previously,"Lucas, how many did you get?"

Lucas just remained stoney serious. Dad waved a hand in front of him while whistling, good ol' Lucas didn't move.

Unfazed, dad turned to mum.

"This is a game, Wes. We're fighting for our future!" she scolded.

"I know, lighten up! I'm just saying I can't wait to do it again!" dad said.

Mum shook her head,"You won't get a chance to," with that, she twisted dad's left arm around and pulled out the morpher on his wrist.

"Oww! Hey, what's the deal?" dad asked, rubbing his wrist.

Mum said,"We needed you to unlock our morphers, and you did. We don't need you anymore," turning towards the girl and greeny, who were both looking at mum, silently begging her.

However, mum didn't care, she turned her back to them and stared at dad. Dad merely said,"Whatever," and wlked away, trying hard to hide his bruised ego.

Despite how he acted earlier, Lucas muttered to mum,"He is a good fighter..."

Mum said,"We can get along fine without him," and they headed in the opposite direction.

I stared after dad, who was walking off with his hands in his pockets.

I sighed,"Guess dad wasn't a ranger after all..."

Ren said,"I can't take this anymore! Those aren't our parents! Our parents are supposed to love each other!Now we can't even get home cos' the stupid remote control is missing!"

She started to walk backwards with a painful expression on her face. That's when I saw something silver on the grond right behing her.

"LOOK OUT!" I yelled.

Too late, Ren stepped on it. She found the time travelling device, right on the red button. We plunged into the tunnel, again.

Not for long though, we appeared nice and hard onto concrete, again. That's it, no more basketball for a week, my limbs are too sore.

Ren got up and held up the device,"Found it..." she announced sheepishly.

I tried to shoot her a glare, but I couldn't help but smile instead. For once, I don't mind her being my big sister.

Once again, we were in the back alley behind some white building. There, dad had just been pushed been pushed back against the wall by mum. He was in a business suit, tie loosened a little. Mum's still in her uniform along with her three comrads.

"He-e-ey! Ease up! What'd you do that for, anyway! I had Nadira RIGHT where I wanted her!" said dad, making a punching gesture. Ok, we're not far away from the last scene, dad's still acting childish.

Mum scolds him, "I TOLD you to stay out of our way!" 'Our'? looks like mum's doing a solo show, the other three look like they'd rather be anywhere else but there.

Dad argues, "But you need my help!"

Mum yells, "I TOLD you, this is NONE of your business!"

Dad chuckles a little than said,"What's your problem? I'm fighting on your side!" pointing a finger in mum's face.

Mum slapped his finger away and yelled angrily,"You're not FIGHTING at all! You're PLAYING!"

Lucas chimes in gravely, "This isn't a game for us."

Dad's smirk had cleanly wiped off his face.

Mum said, "You've never had to FIGHT for anything in your life."

Dad pauses for a moment, seeming to think it over, and remarks, "Of course I have," defensively.

He slowly walks off, back to them.

"What! Name ONE thing you've sacrificed EVERYTHING for," challenged mum, "Something that helped EVERYONE but YOU," she continued, and before dad had time to take a breath, she added, "Something you couldn't BUY."

Dad is speechless, is it my imagination, or are that tears gathering in Ren's eyes?

Teh green haired guy looks like he has to go to the bathroom badly, walks over to mum and taps her shoulder anxiously. She simply lifts her left hand up, scowling at dad.

Dad remains silent which promps mum to say, "That's what I thought! Let's go."

She leads the team down the alleyway, the guy with green hair hung back, shooting dad a 'I'm sorry' look, and joins mum, sadly.

Dad stares after them, then mumbles,"Nice going, Collins..."

When he too disappeared down the corridor, I burst out,"Did I say that they didn't like each other? I'm sorry, I was wrong... they didn't like each other, they HATED each other!"

Ren rubbed her eyes and said wearily,"Let's not start this again..."

"Start what?" I asked,"I'm just saying that-"

Suddenly, someone entered the alleyway. He looked about at us. No... through us. Dressed in jeans and a sweater, he looked around a little longer. Maybe he's looking for something.

Ren said,"C'mon," pressing the button, "Pray hard,"

I turned my back to the guy and felt the now familiar pull into time. But somehow, I couldn't resist turning back, then, I received a quick shock...

Was it just me, or did that guy actually make eyecontact?

TBC