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Jen has been taken captive! Can the rangers bring her back?

Chapter 14 up! Enjoy!

Heartbreaker, part 1

"Jen, no." he whispered. How could she have been taken again? "Jen, is that really you?" he stood up slowly as the pain shot through his heart.

Her helmet disappeared to reveal that it was indeed Jen, but her eyes said other. She walked slowly towards him, her eyes glowing red. "Hello Wes." She circled around him, her hand trailing around his waist ever so seductively.

Conwing laughed at her gesture. "Don't you like the improvements we made on your fiancé, Commander?"

Wes tensed under Jen's glare, as she walked back towards the mutants. "And how would you like to see your fiancé in action, Commander?" the gray mutant asked. "Show him what you can really do, Jennifer." Steelix commanded.

Jen's eyes glowed a deeper red as her head was encased with her helmet again. "With pleasure." She said darkly.

The next thing Wes knew, he was kicked in the back and sent flying towards the other Rangers.

"Now we shall see what this Phantom Ranger can really do." Gruumm muttered under his breath. "Crybots, attack!" he threw up a silver ball as they began to expand.

"Keep your head up, guys! We don't know what the Captain will do!" Jack told his Rangers.

But Wes had other plans. "Jack, Sky and Bridge, take Steelix. Lucas, Eric and Trip can handle Conwing." He looked towards the pink and yellow Rangers. "Girls, you take the Crybots."

"What about you, Commander?" Syd asked.

"And what about Jen?" Eric blurted out.

"Don't worry about me, Syd." He put his weapons back into place. "Leave Jen to me." He said. "Let's move!"

With that, the Rangers began their struggles. Katie, Z and Syd had no trouble with the Crybots. Once they were defeated, the girls split up to help the guys. While Lucas, Eric and Trip were managing fine with Conwing, Steelix was beating the daylights out of Jack, Bridge and Sky.

"Well, I would have thought that the SPD Rangers the Captain always bragged about would have put up at better fight then that!" he said as he threw Jack, Sky and Bridge back towards the girls.

"We're not done yet!" Jack called. "Delta blasters!" The Rangers weapons materialized in their hands.

"Fire!" Sky called. With that, they fired, but Steelix deflected the shots accurately.

"You cannot win, Rangers!" Steelix called. But he was suddenly knocked down as Eric, Trip and Lucas threw Conwing into him. Both mutants grumbled as they were knocked to the ground.

"Ha, talk about killing two birds with one stone!" Lucas laughed. That's when Wes went flying overhead and crashed into a wall.

Eric winced as he landed. "Wes!" The Quantum Ranger ran over to where he lay. "Wes, you okay?"

Wes groaned as he got up and held his shoulder. "Never been better."

"Give up, Rangers. You cannot beat the power of Phantom56. Not only is she quicker, she's stronger then ever before!" Conwing screamed. "Phantom56, power to full!"

Jen nodded at him. "Yes, Master!" She raised her morpher to her lips. "Chrono saber, full power!"

"Look out!" Eric called. The Rangers all ran in the opposite direction, but Wes stood still. "Wes, get your ass out of there!" But Wes remained where he was.

'Someone has to break through to her.' He thought. In a desperate attempt be stood stationary. Jen ran towards him, her weapon out and hot. All Wes saw next was a flash of pink and someone called his name.

Then everything went black.

An unknown time—SPD Infirmary

"Help me, Wes." A voice called. "Help me!"

"Jen?" Wes asked. A white light shown from a dark hallway. "Jen is that you?"

"Wes!" she called again.

It was her. "Jen, I'm coming!" He tried to run towards the light, but his feet were in concrete.

What he heard next was a blood-chilling scream.

"Jen!" he yelled as he bolted upright. A rapid beep rang out in his ears as his breathing began to increase.

"Commander Collins." A voice called. Wes looked at the door as several doctors began to rush in. "Commander, how are you feeling?"

"Like I've been hit by a fricken' Mac truck." He muttered.

"Well, I would think so, Commander." He doctor chuckled. "You've been in coma for just about a week. We were unsure if you would rejoin us."

Wes closed his eyes, but that shrill scream he heard in his dreams came back, and a name rung out in his head. "Oh no…Jen!" he screamed and sat up quickly. A sudden wave of pain crashed on Wes as he collapsed back.

"Dad!" he recognized it to be Sky. He was pushing his way through the security personnel and headed towards his father's room. "Let me through!" he commanded.

"Sky?" Wes asked. Another sudden wave of pain came over him as he gripped the sheets tightly.

From outside the room, Sky watched his father's face twist. "Dad!" He screamed as his father fell unconscious again.

"He's going into heart failure!" a doctor screamed. "Get the crash cart, move! Come on, Wes, don't give up on us now!"

Sky watched in horror as the heart monitor went straight, his father's body was shocked once more. "Dad!"

"Sky…" Wes whispered. He was soon consumed by darkness.

A light shown brightly as he felt his pain disappear.

"Wes…Wesley, wake up." A voice cooed.

The light made his eyes burn as he squinted. There was a lake nearby and he gazed into it. "Impossible." He muttered. He was dressed in a Time Force uniform, and was surrounded in a cloud.

"Wesley." That same voice said. A figure began to appear as Wes's eyes widened.

"It couldn't be." Wes muttered. "D-Dad?" he asked.

The man nodded. "Son." Wes jumped forward and hugged his father. It felt so real, yet…

"No, wait." Wes stepped back. "You're dead." Then it hit him. "Then that mean's I'm…"

"You still have time, Wesley." His father said.

"But I thought that once you're dead…" Wes asked confused.

"No, I meant to save Jen." His father stated. "You have time to save her. But it's not much. Her heart is fading fast. The power the morpher brings to her is drawing away from her strength. If you do not save her in time she will die, Wes."

"No, I promised her that nothing would ever happen." He sighed. "But the power Steelix has over her, I cannot match."

"He has power over her mind. But you, you have a power that is greater then any. With that power, you can bring her back." Collins said.

"How?" Wes asked.

"I cannot tell you, but look inside your heart for the answer, Wes. You will know what to do." His father stated.

"I don't understand. What power do I have?" Wes asked again.

"Look inside your heart, Wes. The answer lies within." Collins said.

"Dad, don't…don't leave." Wes stammered. He felt tears wash over him. "Please."

"Jen needs you more then I do, Wesley." He smiled as he began to fade. "I love you, son."

"Dad, no!" Wes called as another shock hit his body. His father's words echoed in his head.

"Look inside your heart, Wes. The answer lies within."

"Dad!" Sky's fists banged on the glass. His breathing was heavy as he watched his father's heart monitor come back online for a steady heartbeat. He clutched his own heart. "Thank god." He muttered.

"Commander, can you hear me?" The doctor said.

Wes gasped as he drew in a breath of air. As he lay back again and drifted off into sleep.

Somewhere

"You have outdone yourself, my mutant friends." Gruumm said and circled around Jen. She stood at attention, her eyes unfocused. "She will perform beyond my expectations."

"Thank you, Emperor Gruumm." Steelix bowed as well as Conwing. "Now, there is this…small matter she will attend to, in a matter of days."

"And that would be?" the impatient monster asked.

"Destroying her fiancé." Steelix chuckled. Conwing raised an eyebrow as he watched Jen blink.

Gruumm nodded. "Very well. Now, leave me."

"As you command, Emperor." Conwing and Steelix left and turned the corner with Jen not too far behind.

Once they were out of sight, Conwing shoved Steelix into a back room. "You told me that as soon as we had this ship Jen would be destroyed and the future would be ours."

"As soon as we have the ship, and once the Rangers are destroyed. And once she destroys them, we'll take her out of the trance and give her a pistol with one shot. She'll have killed ten innocent lives, among them her fiancé and her son. She'll know what to do with that one shot." Steelix chuckled. "Then, the foundation for Time Force shall be destroyed, as well as Time Force. Mutants shall rule the future."

"Excellent." Conwing chuckled. "Jennifer."

Jen stepped forward involuntarily. "Yes, Master?"

"Send a message to the Commander and tell him to meet you somewhere. Say…you'd like to have a chat with him." Jen nodded. "You know what to do."

"It will be done." She said and turned on her heel, then left.

A few days later

Wes walked slowly into command with his son at his side.

"Commander." Bridge said and grabbed a chair. "How are you feeling?"

Wes sat down with a grumble. "Never better. How is the search for Steelix and Conwing going?"

"We haven't found them yet, Sir." Z said from behind the computer.

Wes gulped. "And…what about Jen?"

Kat shook her head. "Nothing yet, Wes. I'm sorry."

Just then the doors of Command opened as a young Cadet came marching in. "Sir." He saluted Cruger. "I have a note to be hand delivered to Commander Collins."

"Well, give it here, Cadet." Wes instructed and took the note from the Cadet. "Dismissed, Cadet."

"Dad, what is it?" Sky asked. Wes looked at the name written on the envelope.

To be hand delivered to Commander Wes Collins, Time Force Red Ranger.

"Sky, help me to my room, please." Wes said and stood up quickly. Sky helped his father to his room.

Once Wes was alone, he re-read the message. To be hand delivered… and he knew the handwriting instantly.

With a shaky breath he slid his finger under the envelope and read the message inside…

ch 15 up soon…