Tommy and the others waited in the Dino cave, otherwise known as Tommy's basement. A basement only a few knew about, only the rangers and Hayley. It wasn't everyday you run into someone who has turned their basement into a secret lab.
Not a moment later, they heard footsteps above them. They waited and turned their faces towards the basement steps and watched as four people walked down, three men and one woman.
Conner eyed the two newcomers. His eyes lit up, one of them looked like Wes. He took a step forward. "Wow. Wes I didn't know you had a twin. I have a twin too."
Wes and Alex glanced at each other hard. It was as if both of them hated the fact that they looked like each other, from the mere fact both of them loved the same woman.
Ethan walked up behind Conner and whacked him on the head. "Dude, they're not twins. They're like a thousand years apart."
"Oh yeah, I forgot." Conner looked over at Wes. "Sorry."
Tommy just shook his head. Leave it to Conner to break the ice. 'I'm Tommy, you two must be Jen and Alex." Tommy walked up to the two and shook their hands.
Alex shook Tommy's hand firmly. "It's an honor to meet you."
Tommy didn't know what to say. He was kind of caught off guard. He never really thought of anyone in the far future knowing about him, about his ranger days. Then again, he never really thought he would be a ranger again, but things happened. Tommy then shook Jen's hand and smiled. He could see why Wes fell for her; she was everything he'd heard about.
"Nice to meet you."
"You too. I've heard a lot about you,' Tommy replied, but the second he said that he wanted to take it back. He saw Jen's smile slowly fade away.
Jen bit her lip, and slightly glanced over at Wes who had his head down. "I'm sure you did."
He nodded his head. "Yeah." Tommy turned around to introduce the others. "And this is Conner, Kira, Ethan, Trent, and Hayley."
Both Jen and Alex walked up to the five and shook their hands.
"So you guys are like from the future. Man, the computers must be awesome over there, like what kind of video games do you have there?" asked Ethan, starting to go a little nuts.
"Video games?" asked Alex.
The teenagers headed to Conner's car getting ready to head off home. "Man, did you see the way Wes and Alex were looking at each other, and I thought my dad's looks could kill," commented Trent. During the whole two hours they had listened to battle tactics exchanged between Tommy and Alex. And every so often Wes and Alex would give each other dirty looks.
"Yeah. I wonder what they have against each other. I mean they look alike so, somehow they must be family, even though Alex is from a thousand years in the future," replied Kira. It seemed odd to her two guys so far apart could hate each other's guts.
"You got me there." Trent shrugged his shoulders.
"Man, that girl was hot!" exclaimed Conner as he opened the driver's seat door. "Think she'd go out with me?" asked Conner, looking to his friends.
Both Trent and Kira exchanged a look to each other and then back to Conner.
"Sorry Conner, but I think Jen's a little out of your league." Trent patted Conner on the shoulder before getting into the back seat along with Kira.
"Kira?"
"Sorry, I'm going to have to go with Trent on this one. Not to mention the fact she's older then you."
"Hey, I'll be eighteen in a few months," announced Conner as he got into the car.
Trent and Kira just shook their head, sometimes Conner could be such an airhead, but they loved him for it.
Ethan sat silently in the front seat with his head hanging down. Conner started the engine and then turned to Ethan, seeing him looking down. "Dude, what's your deal?"
"Huh?" Ethan looked up.
"Yeah, ever since meeting Alex and Jen you've been pretty quiet," commented Kira, knowing it wasn't like Ethan to be so quiet and down.
"Oh, it's nothing." He shrugged his shoulders.
Trent leaned towards the front and gripped Ethan's shoulder. "Come on, man, you can tell us."
"Oh…Alright. I just can't believe in a thousand years, there won't be any video games," he pouted.
Everyone started to laugh. "Hey, it's not funny!" yelled Ethan.
"Sorry dude, but come on, in a thousand year we'll all be long dead, who cares if there's video games or not," said Conner, as he pulled out of Tommy's driveway.
It had been a few hours since they left Tommy's house and came back to Wes's father's place. The whole ride back was quiet; no one said a word to each other, which in most cases Eric wouldn't mind. But he didn't like the silence between them, and he especially didn't like the way Alex looked at Wes and vice verse. Eric had a feeling a fight could break out at any moment.
"I don't think that would happen, unless of course you're the one that starts it," replied Hayley from the phone.
Eric had to laugh at that. "Oh, I don't know about that. If you were in the car with us on the way back here, you would see what I mean."
"That bad, huh?"
Wes stared out the window overlooking the water. The day was nearly over and he had hardly spoken a word to Jen. There were so many things he wanted to tell her, so many things he wanted to do with her, but Alex was lurking in the back, and Wes knew there would be no way Alex would allow anything to happen between him and Jen.
A shadow stepped up behind Wes. "We need to talk!" The tone in the voice was harsh.
Wes stiffened, a bit fearful or ashamed, he didn't know. One thing was for sure, he didn't have to turn around to see who it was. It was the same voice he heard every time he opened his mouth. "Like what?" he said, acting dumb.
Like he doesn't know. Angry and upset, Alex stormed up to Wes, grabbed him by the shoulder and forced Wes to look him in the eyes. "You know damn well, Wes." Alex glared right at Wes, staring him down. "What do you have to say for yourself?"
Wes didn't know what did it, the sound in Alex's voice, or what he was implying, but something snapped inside of him, something he couldn't control. Wes shoved Alex away from him. "Get off my back, Alex!" Wes yelled. Angry, he walked past Alex, brushing against his shoulder.
"You're unbelievable." Alex just stood back, shaking his head. Wes was acting like a spoiled little brat.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Wes turned around.
"Look at yourself. What happened to this great red ranger I've heard about?" Alex shook his head almost as if he were disappointed. Wes clenched his fists as Alex went on. "Why didn't you contact us sooner, huh?" But Alex already knew. It was written all over Wes's face. He just shook his head disapprovingly. "And to think she gave me up for you. I don't know what she ever saw in you." And with that said Alex walked away, but didn't get very far.
Wes could feel his anger boiling up. How dare he say that? He had no idea what he and Jen had together, what they went through. Careless and blinded with rage, Wes jumped Alex, taking him down to the ground.
"Take that back, you………!"
"What was that?" asked Hayley, having heard what sounded like something falling to the ground.
Eric didn't answer her at first, he walked around the house to where the noises were coming from. Jen must have heard it too, she was right behind Eric as he walked around the corner to where the den was. Both of their eyes widened.
"Hayley, I'll have to call you back," Eric quickly said and put his cell phone back on his belt.
Both Jen and Eric stood motionless for the next few seconds watching as both Wes and Alex pounded each other to the ground. Yelling at each other and calling the other names.
"What the HELL are you two doing!!?" Jen screamed angrily at the top of her lungs.
In an instant both Wes and Alex stopped to find both Eric and Jen staring at them. Neither one of them said a word, just gave each other dirty looks.
Eric took a step forward. "The lady asked you a question." Eric then pounded a fist into his hand. "I suggest one of you say something or things could get real rough, if you know what I mean." Again they didn't say anything. Eric took a hard look at Wes. "Wes?"
Wes got to his feet and dusted himself off. "It was nothing." Wes took a glance over to Alex who was on his feet dusting himself off also. "Just a misunderstanding," answered Wes harshly.
But both Jen and Eric knew it was more than just some misunderstanding. Jen just shook her head, knowing very well what this was about and she didn't like it one bit. "I can't believe you two!" she yelled almost breaking down into tears of heartbreak.
Eric turned his head looking over at Jen and that was when he knew just what this fight had been over. Nice going, Wes, you idiot!
Jen took a step forward. "You were fighting over me!! Weren't you?"
Wes and Alex didn't dare to make eye contact with Jen. "LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!!" she yelled even louder.
Shamed by their actions, they both looked at her, to find tears in her eyes. That was one thing they both hated to see, Jen crying and they had caused it. "What do you two have to say for yourselves?"
"He started it, Jen," said Wes, and the moment he said it he knew it was childish of him.
"You're the one that jumped me!!" yelled Alex.
"You all but asked me to!!" shot back Wes.
"STOP IT. JUST STOP IT!!" yelled Jen, but she couldn't take it anymore. She just walked away from the two and ran upstairs to her room.
Eric just looked at the two, shaking his head. "Nice going, guys."
