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Who is this mysterious being? Will Sky and his father work out their differences, or will they continue to fight?

Chapter four up finally!

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Blast from the Past

The streets of Silver Hills were quiet, expect for the humming of Sky's motorcycle. He sped around the corner as a large house came into view. The Collins Estate was bigger then he remembered. Maybe it was just the fact that he hadn't been there in almost ten years.

He parked his bike and slowly made his way up the steps of his childhood.

"Ready, son?" Wes called.

Seven-year-old Sky laughed. "Ready, Dad!"

Wes launched the football across the yard and Sky caught it. The boy charged towards his father and easily evaded him.

Phillips was seen bringing out a tray of lemonade as father and son played football. Sky pushed past Wes again and let out a happy cry as he ran into their end zone.

"Touchdown!" Sky threw down the football as Wes sat down, panting.

"I'm getting too old for this." The Red Ranger muttered. Eric laughed besides him.

"You're getting old period the end." The Quantum Ranger retorted. Wes threw him a look.

"He's a lively one, isn't he?" Phillips offered Wes a glass as Wes nodded and smiled.

"Gets that from his mother."

There were so many memories here. Sky's birthday celebrations, Christmas, everything. There was one birthday that stuck out in memory, his eighth birthday.

"Master Sky! Come on. Your guests are here and awaiting you outside!" Phillips called from the bottom of the stairs.

Sky came careening down the stairs in a pair of jeans and a blue shirt. "Coming, Phillips!"

As he put his sneakers on, he noticed a young woman and his father standing outside talking. "Hey Phillips, who's that?" he asked.

Phillips looked outside to see a young woman's face whom he recognized plainly. Seeing that Wes and her were busy, he hurried the boy outside. But Sky's curiosity got the best of him. He shied stealthy away from Phillips and went back to the door, to find that it was slightly open. He listened intensely onto the conversation.

"How is he, Wes?" a female asked.

His father smiled. "Fine, Jen. Just fine. We're celebrating his eighth birthday today."

The brunette, Jen, smiled. "Why do you think I came here?"

"I thought you had business to attend to?" Wes asked. She nodded.

"Admiral Marshall granted me a three hour stay, since we're running a drill now." Jen said. "But I can't stay the full three hours. Just one."

His father's face shrunk. "Oh."

Sky watched his father curiously. "Who's she?" he asked himself. "She's beautiful."

"Master Sky." Phillips rushed over to the door. "Come now, your father would be upset if he caught you eavesdropping on him and your—" he cleared his throat. "and his guest."

Sky gave one last look at the brunette, trying not to forget her face. "Phillips, what's eavesdropping mean?"

He never did forget his face. He tried to think back to who she was. He'd seen her face somewhere before, but couldn't pinpoint it. He meant to ask his father, but decided against it.

Sky turned the doorknob as the door opened. An elder man came walking over. "Sir, can I help you?" he asked. The butler quickly identified the man. "Master Sky!"

Sky smiled. "Phillips, long time no see." He gave his old friend a hug. "What are you doing up at this hour?"

"Fetching a glass of water, but never mind that. How have you been, young sir?" the butler asked cheerfully.

The Blue Ranger nodded. "Fine. Is my father here?"

"No," Phillips said. "He went to his office."

Sky nodded. "Thank you. Give the staff my warm regards."

"Will do, young sir. Be safe." Phillips said. He watched the ranger run down the stairs and onto his bike. "Jennifer, you would love to see him now. He is just like you." The butler sighed and closed the door. Memories of his past mistress came back into his mind.

At Wes's office

Several guards stood outside doors as Sky walked past them.

"Mr. Collins." One saluted him; Sky gave him a warm nod. He hadn't been called 'Collins' in a long time.

Sky made his familiar travel down the hallway and into an elevator. He sighed as it traveled upwards. "I shouldn't have said those things." He said aloud. "He gave us useful information, and saved our asses from that mutant."

The elevator stopped as Sky stepped out. He made the short walk from the elevator to his father's office, where he saw a light shining from it. He knocked.

"Come in," his father said.

"Dad?" Sky asked in a small voice. Wes turned around in his chair and smiled at his on.

"Have a seat, Sky." Wes said. Sky closed the door behind him and slowly made his way to a seat in front of his father.

"I want to apologize for what I said. It was wrong, and mean and heartless." Sky rambled on.

"Stop Sky. It's okay. We all can make mistakes." Wes said.

Sky sighed. "I have one question, though. Why didn't you tell me?"

Wes also sighed. "Like I said before, I was protecting you, son. That mutant isn't like anything I've even seen. Even in my Ranger days. I tried contacting Time Force, but Lucas, Katie nor Trip returned it." Sky gave him a look. "My fellow Rangers."

"Oh," Sky said. "Dad, come back to New Tech with me, please. We need you." Sky said this with a spark Wes couldn't help smile at.

"Your mother said the same thing when I first got my morpher."

Sky chuckled and sat down again. "Tell me about her, please. I'd like to know about her. If its something you're not comfortable with, that's okay."

Wes laughed. "Your mother, there's a love story for you. When I first met her I thought she was going to put me through the nearest brick wall." Sky laughed. Wes sighed as he stared at a picture of Jen. "Your mother was beautiful. Strong, smart, stubborn. She was just as you saw her." Wes handed his son an album.

Sky opened it curiously as she flipped through it. Picture after picture revealed a pretty brunette with bold eyes. "Is this her?" Sky showed his father a picture where she had jumped up into his arms as he twirled her around.

Wes looked at the picture that warm memory coming back to place. "Jennifer Scotts was one that captured my heart. Every day that we spent together was heaven. That was until Ransik was caught, and…"

"And what?" Sky flipped through another page.

"Well, she had to return to her home state. Her parents wouldn't have us be together. She kept her powers, and a year later came back. Turns out some rogue mutants decided to attack. So after we captured them, she stayed for a few months."

"Why?" the Blue Ranger asked.

Wes smiled. "Because we had you." But his smile faded. "Then she had to return again. So I was left to raise you. It was just after your first birthday when I got that call, saying that she…" Again, Wes couldn't get the courage to say that she was dead.

"Died in the car crash?" Sky suggested.

Wes sighed. "Yea. God, I miss her so much. What I wouldn't give to just hold her again, to see her smile." A low rumble of thunder was heard as the rain began to fall. "But no, she isn't coming back. Nope, not in a thousand years."

Sky heard the hurt in his father's voice. "You really loved her, didn't you?"

"More then you'll ever know. She'd be proud of you, Sky. Never forget that. She told me once, that we each make our own destiny. That she did."

The rain fell harder as father and son talked about Jen, and all the good she did.

But Wes never got up the courage to tell Sky the truth about his mother, that she was alive and well a thousand years from them.

The next day

A nearby building exploded as the Rangers rushed to get everyone out of it.

"Come on, run!" Jack yelled. The panicked civilians rushed out as the mutant blew another hole in it.

Wes watched in horror from command. "No…" He watched Sky fall, the mutant hitting him hard. "Sky!" He called. Wes ran over to the telecom. "Sky, son, are you all right?"

"Yea, Dad. I'm fine."

"We've got to do something." Wes said. Eric was all ready out the door.

"Then what the hell are we waiting for?" He said. The Time Force Rangers bolted out the door and down into their jeep.

Butler Square

"Syd!" Sky cried out. He watched the Pink Ranger fly across and slam into a light pole. "God, Syd, are you all right?"

She sighed. "I've been better."

"Well, look here. Little blue ranger and his girlfriend." The mutant taunted. Sky stepped protectively in front of Syd.

"You leave her alone." He said darkly.

The mutant shook its head. "No, I think I'll destroy you both!" He fired at them as they fell back.

"Sky!" Wes called. He and Erik ran over to where the Rangers surrounded their fallen comrades. "Syd, Sky, you two all right?"

"Yes, sir." Syd said.

"Fine, Dad." Sky muttered.

"Well, look who is it! The famed Red Ranger. We finally meet." The mutant snickered. Eric walked besides Wes. "Ah, and the Quantum Ranger. Well, I shall have the pleasure of destroying seven rangers today! How wonderful!"

Wes and Eric stood side by side. "I'm sorry you won't fulfill your wish." Eric said.

"You want to get to the Rangers, you have to go through us." Wes raised his left wrist, his chronomorpher shown in the sun. Eric's quantum morpher also was seen.

"Dad, don't! It's been almost twenty years!" Sky called.

"Looks like the Time Force Rangers are back in action!" Wes stepped forward and changed out loud. "TIME FOR TIME FORCE!"

"QUANTUM POWER!" Eric called. Two flashed of light and Wes and Eric felt a sudden rush of energy surge through them.

The mutant's smirk fell. Wes called for his weapon. "Chrono saber, online!"

"Quantum Defender, blade mode!" Eric said.

"It'll take more then just you two to stop me." The mutant snickered.

Sky jumped up next to his father. "Then how about us?" the other rangers stood besides the veterans.

"The more the merrier!" The mutant fired a blast, which caught the SPD Rangers off guard. Wes and Eric, however, returned the mutant's attack with an expert shot.

"Lets show him how we do it, old school!" Eric said. Wes followed him.

"Right behind you!" Wes leapt up into the air. "Time strike!"

"Restrike mode!" Eric said. The SPD Rangers watched in amazement as Eric and Wes struck the mutant with a powerful blow.

"Nice!" the rangers slapped hands. "Give up!" Wes called.

"You can't defeat us." Eric followed. The mutant got up slowly.

"Just watch me." He uttered under his breath. He threw a glowing ball at them, which exploded violently, sending Wes flying forward. He demorphed and coughed.

"Wes, no!" Eric watched as the mutant walked towards his friend.

"Well, Officer. Looks like you've met your maker." It snickered.

"DAD!" Sky cried.

Wes watched the blade come down onto him, but the mutant stopped. It cried out in an agonizing pain as green ooze dripped from a new hole in its stomach. The mutant looked up to see a cloaked figure walking past the SPD rangers.

"Put the weapon down, Crockaton!" it commanded. A female voice was clearly audible, and it had a commanding tone.

The mutant, Crockaton, snickered. "I thought I killed you!"

Sky watched the figure chuckle. "They think they know everything, don't they?"

He looked at her. "Who are you?" But she didn't have time to respond, for Crockaton fired again.

The figure jumped with skill and went into a hand-on-hand on battle with the mutant. Wes and Eric had finally made their way back to where the Rangers stood.

They watched in amazement as this person fought Crockaton with amazing skill and profession. But he soon got the best of her, finally grasping the hood and choking the person.

She, however, was able to break free, her cape ripping to reveal a woman in white, whom Wes clearly recognized. "Jen!" he called.

She gave Crockaton one last kick, knocking him out. "Just try and do that again," she said to its unconscious body.

Wes ran forward and held her close, feeling her return his embrace. Sky watched the look on his father's face as he held the woman.

"Jen, I thought I'd never see you again." Wes muttered. He ran a hand down her cheek, thinking he had just been imagining things. "Is—is it really you?" he asked, tears of joy began to fall down his cheeks. Jen looked at him, unable to find her words.

Sky watched his father's face turn, the bright red color restored to its natural tone. But he watched the mutant rise.

"Too bad you won't have time to enjoy yourself, Captain! Crockaton shouted. He pulled a sword and charged at the rangers.

"Look out!" Sky called. Wes felt Jen push him out of the way and dropped to one knee, expertly firing her weapon and hitting the mutant right between the eyes, shrinking him on impact.

Eric laughed hard. "Oh yea, that's Jen all right." Jen left his arms and put Crockaton in his respective quarters.

"Rangers, come back to base. I must have a meeting with you." Cruger's voice was heard over their morphers.

"Right, lets move out!" Jack said. Sky watched his father and this woman, Jen, fall behind slowly as they made their way back to headquarters.

"I've seen her face before," the Blue Ranger stated.

Bridge shrugged. "Apparently your dad knows her pretty well." Sky gave him a look as Bridge silently got on his bike, sorry he said anything.

The Rangers rode away as Wes and Jen were left behind.

At Command

Jen walked slowly through the halls of Space Patrol Delta's headquarters. "Not bad, it seems like you invested in something pretty good." She teased Wes.

The Red Ranger shrugged. "Guess so." He pulled her aside and his voice dropped. "Jen, I…" he couldn't find the right words.

But the Captain merely shushed him. "I know. I missed you, too." Wes smiled and was about to open his mouth, but Cruger called them in.

The Rangers watched their Commander give a different salute, one like the Army officers did. "Captain Scotts, good to see you again."

Jen smiled at him. "Anubis, you as well. First name basis, please." He nodded. The Rangers were in line standing in front of her as she paced in front of them. "So, this is the esteemed Space Patrol Delta B-Squad we hear about, back in my time."

"Your time?" Syd questioned. Jen turned, a smile on her face.

"I take it you're Syd, the Pink Ranger. Wes had told me all about you." Jen stepped back. "But, please, starting with the Red Ranger. Step forward and tell me your name." Jen nodded towards Jack. Sky glanced at his father, who had a wide smile on his face.

"Jack Landers, SPD Red Ranger. A pleasure to meet you, Captain." Jack said.

Bridge then stepped forward. "Bridge Carson, SPD Green Ranger."

Next was Z. "Z Delgado, SPD Yellow Ranger."

Syd followed. "Sydney Drew, SPD Pink Ranger."

Jen looked at the last ranger, something shined in her eyes as Sky stepped forward. "Sky Tate, SPD Blue Ranger."

Cruger smiled. "Rangers, this is…"

"Captain Jennifer Scotts," Jen said. "Time Force Captain," she smiled at Wes. "and Pink Ranger."

Bridge jumped. "You're a Power Ranger?"

"One of the best." Wes followed.

Jen turned to him. "You flatter me to much, Wes."

"Excuse me, Captain." Sky stepped forward. "Before, you mentioned your time. I am curious…"

"As to what I meant by that." Jen finished. He nodded. "My time, the year 3019. I am Captain of the most elite crime fighting force of all time, Time Force. We were here in the year 2001 to capture Ransik, since he escaped through time. This is where we met Wes and Eric, the commanders of the Silver Guardians."

Wes walked towards her and sat down as Jen told them of her exploits with Ransik.

About forty-five minutes later, her tale was complete. A nearby clock blinked 10:00PM. "Get to bed early tonight, Rangers. We have a long day of training head of us, tomorrow." Jen said.

The five rangers jumped up as each exited and separated. Sky watched the Captain, curiosity rang through his mind. He had definitely seen her somewhere before…

Later—In Jen's room

Jen had finished unpacking her suitcase and walked out into the hallway and onto a balcony. There she stood in the moonlight, until someone else walked up besides her.

"Need some company?" Wes asked. Jen smiled.

"I could always use company." She said softly. Again, words were a mountain Wes could not overcome.

"I had planned out so many things to say when I saw you again," he whispered. Tears shined in his eyes. "Is it really you?"

Instead of an answer, he felt Jen's lips caress his in a tender kiss, one that he had longed to have for so many years. Jen hugged him tightly and placed her head on his shoulder.

"Yes, Wes. It's me." She whispered. "I'm home."

ch 5 up soon…