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A/N: This takes place moments after "The End of Time pt. III"
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New Silver Hills, California 3001 AD"Sir, long range scans have picked up a temporal signature coming from the south side," one of the androids announced.
He approached the android slowly with his arms behind his back, getting a look at the readings himself. He was an android, but much different from the others that were scattered around the room. He was much taller, and appeared to be more human than anything else. His entire left arm was covered in a gold armor, which in turn connected to a chest plate. One of it's eyes were missing, replaced by an infrared censor, and a head plate covered most of it's face. He was no doubt the most advanced android there, but still have many human qualities. "Ah yes, a Time Force ship," he said.
"But sir, Time Force was…"
"I know, destroyed a long time ago. This is no doubt the survivors from my initial trip into the past," he paused for a moment. "Send a troop of hazzard drones to collect any technology and destroy any survivors they find," he said.
"Sir, a troop of hazard drones? Isn't that overkill? If these are the survivors we think they are, surely one hazard drone will suffice," he said.
He reached down, grabbing the android by the throat and lifted him up, then began to squeeze. Within moments, the android's head was severed, and it's body collapsed to the floor. "Is there anyone else here who wants to question my orders?" he asked.
"No sir," many of them said in unison.
"Good. Now dispatch a troop of hazard drones, and instruct them that I will personally lead the attack," he paused, looking down. "And someone clean up this mess," he ordered, kicking the android's lifeless body.
"What are you talking about? This can't be the year 3000," Jen said, looking around.
"I assure you, it is," he glanced up. "Listen, we have to get out of here. A patrol drone will be by any minute to see what the explosion was, and we can't be here when it does," he said.
"A patrol drone?"
"I'll explain it all later, but right now we have to go," he insisted.
Jen nodded, picking Katie back up and following Alex into the smoke.
They stopped in an abandon warehouse of some kind. From the looks of it, Alex had attempted to set up his equipment and establish a command center of some kind. Jen laid Katie down gently on a piece of cardboard, and then walked over to Alex.
"Tell me what happened?"
"A year ago, I successfully brought Ransik and Nadira back to this time, but things were different. Time Force as we know it was gone, and had been replaced by the Cyborg Alliance. There was a group of patrol drones waiting for us. They captured us, tortured Nadira for information, and Ransik was destroyed almost instantly."
"The Cyborg Alliance?"
"As best as I can tell, they're a group of robotic/human hybrids, all of them under the control of their supreme ruler, all of them hell bent on dominating the entire planet. They have been for a hundreds of years now, and us being here will be definitely put a kink into their plans," he said.
"I don't understand. You said a year ago, but it was just a few minutes ago when we left. How can these robot mutants have been in control for hundreds of years? What happened? What changed?"
"I'm not sure, but it happened it the past. After we left, something changed the time line, creating this new, alternate future. Whatever happened, it knocked my internal sensors out of whack, and the megazord landed in the year 2999, a full year before my intended destination. I suspect that whatever knocked me off course did the same to you. For a while, I wasn't sure any of you were going to make it," he said.
"Do we have any idea what changed? What could have affected the time line so badly that all of this happened?" Trip asked, injecting himself into the conversation as he walked over to them.
"Are they going to be okay?" Jen inquired.
"Katie heals fast, but Lucas, he's..."
"Oh God," Jen sighed, putting her hand over her mouth.
"He sacrificed himself so that we could make it here," Trip said.
"I have no idea what happened, or who caused this," Alex told them, trying to get them back on track.
Jen nodded. "So, we need to go back to the past, find out what happened and stop it from happening," she said.
"Sounds good in theory, but the Alliance have the megazord, and your time ship is in no position to go anywhere. Even if it was, we don't even know where to go, where to start looking."
"We need to know more about this Cyborg Alliance. Who are they? Who's in control?"
"I've been trying to figure it out for over a year now, but most of my equipment is beyond repair and I can't access the history logs. If I could, we could find out when it happened," he said.
"That's where I come in!" Circuit said, sticking his head out of Trip's book bag.
"Circuit, are your history logs intact?" Alex asked.
"Yes. I'm attempting to access this time's history logs and integrate them into my database now," he announced.
"Even if we do find out, then what? We can't exactly do anything about it."
"Still, it'll be a start," Jen said.
"History logs acquired, processing…" there was a pause, and a humming sound as Circuit processed the information. "In the year 2025, research went into artificial intelligence technology. An organization called Space Patrol Delta discovered the remains of a robot in a scrap yard, and work began to restore its CPU in order to determine how to duplicate the technology. They were successful, but in doing so, the original robot rebelled against them. He assumed control of the robots they'd already created, and they waged war on the planet. Millions were destroyed in the battle, including robots, and in an attempt to regain some of his troops, the robot found a way to integrate human DNA into a robot body, creating Cyborgs," he explained.
"Frax," Alex sighed.
"Who is Space Patrol Delta?" Jen asked.
"SPD was originally founded in the year 2001 by aliens living on Earth, most of them in peace. In 2006, SPD merged with Bio-lab. The red morpher and the quantum morpher were used as blueprints to create even more morphers, and those rangers were charged with protecting the planet from any alien threats," Circuit told them.
"You're saying Wes and Eric are a part of this… SPD?"
"Unclear. There is a lack of specific information."
"I knew that at some point, aliens were on Earth, but I didn't know it was the year 2001," Trip said.
"SPD was a very small organization then. The world wasn't ready to know that they weren't alone in the universe, much less that there were aliens already on Earth. If I remember my history, it wasn't until 2019 that the alien registration act was passed, allowing aliens to become citizens of Earth," Alex brought up.
"Now we know who is it and when it happened, but what do we do about it? We don't have a time ship, and the megazord is locked away by the Alliance. We're not even sure if it's still intact," Jen said.
"I may be able to use some parts from what's left of the time ship and combine it with the equipment Alex has here to open a temporal portal, but we'll need a power source, and even then, the portal will only be big enough for one of us, maybe two," Trip said.
"Do you still have a trixyruim crystal onboard?" Alex asked.
"They should be in storage, I'll take a look," she said, hurrying over to what was left of the ship.
"Assuming that whoever goes is successful and they stop Frax from being rebuilt, this time line should cease to exist, and the continuum should be corrected. We'll all be in the future we remember, and Lucas will be okay. Of course, if we fail, we'll be stuck here forever," Alex brought up.