"Dr. O, you're back," said Trent as he walked up to Tommy and Eric; the others followed behind him.

Tommy stepped aside. "Guys I'd like you to meet Eric Myers, the quantum ranger and Commander of the Silver Guardians."

For a long moment there was just silence with Eric staring at the teenagers. These were Tommy's teammates. The other rangers? They were a bunch of kids. What did they know about saving the world? "You have a bunch of kids as your teammates?" questioned Eric looking at them blankly. He couldn't believe Tommy was letting a bunch of kids save the world.

The teenagers looked at each other in outrage. How dare he say that! This is our home town, our secret base of operation, and he comes in here calling them a bunch of kids thinking they can't do this. Who does he think he is?

"Hey, we're not kids!" yelled Conner, taking a step forward to be face to face with Eric. The tension between Conner and Eric continued to grow as the two locked eyes with each other.

Trent, Ethan and Kira stayed back watching the two knowing that at any moment Conner's jockness and cockiness was about to collide with this hardhead ranger, who has been known to have a temper.

"Oh really," Eric smirked, looking into Conner's childish face. "Because besides Tommy all I see here are a bunch of kids."

Conner clenched his fist together as he began to steam up. "Oh you're going to get it!" Conner raised his hands, getting ready to take a punch at Eric.

Eric saw it coming and just laughed, as he blocked Conner's punch and threw him to the ground.

"That's going to leave a mark," commented Ethan.

Conner, furious now, had just about had it with Eric. "Oh that does it!" He jumped back to his feet, getting ready to go at Eric for a second time.

"Conner, I don't think you should do that," yelled Kira, knowing that if Eric wanted to he probably could tear Conner apart.

But Conner ignored her. He got into a fighting stance, and locked his eyes right onto Eric. This time he meant business.

"Haven't had enough have you? Well I suppose I could show you another lesson, kid-o." Eric got into a fighting stance, and just as he and Conner were about to go at it…

"You were a bully in grade school and you're still a bully!" yelled Hayley who just had come in from the secret entrance of the base.

Eric, distracted by Hayley's arrival, didn't see Conner's fist heading right for his face. POW!! Conner punched Eric hard in the cheek throwing Eric back a few feet. Eric didn't know what hit him.

"YES!" yelled Conner, a victory smile covering his face.

Tommy threw Conner a stern and disciplined look. Conner's smile disappeared away, and he stepped back to join his other teammates.

Eric rubbed his cheek as he looked over at Hayley. She was fairly tall, with long brown hair, probably in her late twenties like him, and in some ways she reminded him of Jen. "And you are?"

"That's Hayley, she knows everything," answered Ethan.

"I bet she does," replied Eric, looking over at her.

Hayley walked over to the group, her eyes falling right onto Tommy. "Tommy, why didn't you stop him? You know Eric could have beaten the crap out of Conner!"

"Hey!" yelled Conner, in offence.

"Sorry, but he had it coming and if we're all going to work together, we have to settle our differences now." He nodded his head as if trying to make a point. Hayley just gave him a dirty look.

Tommy glanced over to his teammates. "Come on guys, let's head upstairs. You guys should head home anyways," said Tommy waving them over to follow him upstairs.

"What about those two, shouldn't one of us stay with them," noted Kira, having a feeling it would be a bad idea to leave Hayley and Eric alone, she could already sense the tension between the two.

"They'll be fine, come on."

Hayley couldn't believe Tommy had just done that. He knew how she felt about Eric. She couldn't even stand the guy. If it had been up to her, Eric would never have been told about this, and only Wes would have been brought along with the other rangers from the future.

Eric could tell she was upset about something. The problem was he had no idea why. What had he ever done to her? He didn't even know her. Or did he? He continued to look into her face trying to see if anything about her seemed familiar. "Okay, you made it perfectly clear that you know me somehow. The problem is I don't know you."

"Oh, like you don't know," she yelled getting right into his face. "You big hotshot! You only think someone up to your standards has the right to be a ranger."

Eric crossed his arms against his chest. "I never said they shouldn't be rangers."

"Oh, then what was the kid remark for? How old were you when you joined the Marines?"

This girl was really starting to push Eric's buttons. No girl besides Jen had ever been able to get to him. "Okay, you've proven your point. Now you mind telling me how you know me? It's obvious you have something against me."

Hayley just glared at him. She couldn't believe this. Was he so thick-headed that he didn't remember what he had done to her all those years ago? But the clueless look on Eric's face proved he had no idea what she was talking about. "You don't remember, do you?"

"Yeah, that's what I've been trying to tell you."

"Franksville Elementary."

There was a moment of silence, with Eric just repeating the name in his head over and over. Franksville Elementary sounded familiar to him, that's where he had gone to school for a few years, until he got booted into another foster home. And then it came to him.

"Hayley Walker. You're Hayley Walker, we were in Mrs. Brinker's third grade class together, now I remember," answered Eric getting a smile across his face.

Hayley didn't seem too amused. "Do you also remember gluing me to my chair so I couldn't stand up to answer the trivia question? My team lost because of you."

"You're still mad over that? Come on, that was years ago," exclaimed Eric. He couldn't believe she was still holding a gauge against him for some stupid prank. Then again, his team won from the result of it. But yet again it was harmless.

"Okay fine, but don't think just because you're some hotshot that you get to make the calls. You're in Tommy's turf now," remarked Hayley, as she stomped away from Eric.

And I thought Wes had issues. Eric sighed as he took a look around the underground base. He saw large pieces of equipment, a state of the art computer complex, and a few dinosaur fossils. Off to the side he saw what appeared to be weapons of some sort that looked like large blaster guns. So this is what Tommy has been up to ever since he disappeared.

Eric knew it had been a while since anyone had heard from Tommy. Even Jason and he was Tommy's best friend. Well at least this explained why Tommy took off in a hurry after their mission and why he didn't say much about what was going on with him. But the question was, why? Why had he not said anything about this? Was there something he wasn't telling him?

Eric walked into a large house. Mr. Collins' hideaway from home, or at least it was at one time. Before coming out here Collins gave both Wes and Eric a key to the large cabin house. Years ago, back when Wes was just a boy, he and his parents would come out here for the weekend, just to get away from everything. But after Wes's mother died, that had stopped.

"Wes?" called Eric.

"In the living room."

Eric followed the voice and it led him to a large living room, where he saw an L shaped couch, with Wes sitting on it watching the television. "We missed you at Tommy's." Eric walked around and took a seat on the couch.

"Yeah, well, I decided to head over here. No one has been here in years. I figured we would need some supplies, food and stuff," answered Wes not taking his eyes off the television.

Eric nodded his head. He knew Wes and he needed to talk about what had happened earlier, if they were going to be living with each other and working together, they needed to settle things between them. "Wes…"

"Don't worry about it. I'm fine," Wes answered all too quickly.

The sound of Wes's voice didn't convince Eric that everything was fine. He sighed heavily. He hated seeing Wes like this, moping around, snapping at any moment, and breaking down at the mention of a name. "It's okay to miss her."

"Miss who?"

"Lisa," replied Eric.

Wes looked at Eric quickly, sighing heavily, as he flipped through the channels.

"Look, I'm sorry about at the bar, maybe if I hadn't-"

Wes tossed the remote on the table. "No, don't be. Even if you hadn't, it probably wouldn't have worked out anyways." Wes turned his head around, looking over at Eric. "You were right. I guess I didn't love her, not in the way I thought I did," sighed Wes, bowing his head down. He wanted so badly to go on and move on with his life, but he just couldn't. He loved her too much.

"I'm sorry. I wish there was something I could do." And he meant it. If there was a way for Wes and Jen to be together, he would find it. Do whatever it took for them to be together. But Eric knew there was nothing he could do or say to give Wes what he wanted. It was up to Wes. He had to be the one who wanted to move on.

"Thanks," answered Wes softly. "So, the other rangers, what were they like?" asked Wes wanting to change the subject.

Eric crossed his arms against his chest. "They were alright for a bunch of kids..."