It had been weeks since their fist attack and they had seen nothing other than trees and brush. All of this made Jessie very uneasy and she was constantly checking the surroundings, but nothing out of the ordinary would come up. Captain Nichols was also nervous due to the inactivity.

"Maybe Admiral Logan was wrong; maybe they didn't know we were coming." Lieutenant Stafford wondered aloud.

"I don't buy that." Captain Nichols replied.

They walked until dusk and set up camp not far from a stream. By now they were deep in the forest and sunlight wasn't even visible through the thick tree tops.

After eating her rations, Jessie went and sat on the bank of the stream. She couldn't believe how long they had been gone. She thought of Jen and how worried she must be; she wished that she could just let her know that she was alright.

"What's on your mind Captain?" Captain Nichols asked sitting down beside her.

"It's just my sister; we didn't really leave on good terms." Jessie admitted.

"You miss her don't you," He looked at her.

"Yeah, we've never been apart like this before." Jessie stared off into the trees.

"Hopefully we'll be home soon." He told her.

Jessie wasn't listening; she had spotted a pair of glowing red eyes watching them. They picked up on her sighting though and disappeared.

Jessie shot up and started running back to camp; Captain Nichols on her heels.

"Captain, get everyone ready; we're about to be attacked." Jessie yelled back at him splitting off and heading to where the red orbs had disappeared.

"Well hello Captain. Nice to see you dropped by," Drasi appeared behind her. "Leave this one to me; take the others."

An army of about twenty mutants came out of nowhere and ran off towards where she knew her team was bracing themselves.

"It looks like it's just you and me Drasi." Jessie drew her blaster.

Drasi chuckled, "Do you really think that is going to help you?" He shot a laser at her but she dodged it.

"It's going to take more than that to stop me." Jessie yelled.

"Define more," Drasi fired a turbine at Jessie and she fell to the ground. She fired her blaster but he deflected it and it hit her instead. Jessie got back to her feet.

"Let's finish this; Time for Time Force!" Jessie morphed.

Drasi advanced on her and she retaliated with her chrono-saber, "Time Strike!" Jessie's saber flashed white, but it was replaced by a shower of yellow sparks; Drasi had reflected it.

"Haven't you learned that you can't defeat me?" Drasi advanced on Jessie who had crumpled to the ground.

"I'm not through yet," Jessie stumbled.

"Let's fix that." Drasi hit her with a laser; she demorphed and flew backwards through the air. Jessie waited for the bone shattering connection with the ground but it never came. She felt herself being sucked downwards hard and fast; she was spinning and the sight made her sick. She closed her eyes and blacked out.

Thanks to Captain Nichols, the rest of the team had defeated the mutants and made it out of the ambush; however, they were badly beaten and needed medical attention. Limping over to his teammates, he noticed that Jessie was nowhere to be found.

"Captain Scotts," He said into his headset, but all he heard was static.

"Has anyone seen Captain Scotts?" He asked the rest of the team that was pulling themselves up and trying to make sure that everyone was accounted for.

"No, sir; she doesn't show up on any of the radar systems." Lieutenant Harper was staring threw his sunglasses.

"We need to split up and look for her." Captain Nichols began to help his team up.

"Captain," It was Lieutenant Stafford. "We don't have the time. If we don't get back soon, you'll lose half of your team."

Captain Nichols looked around, he was right; his team was struggling to move, let alone get up.

"We can't just leave her here." He replied.

"Sir, she's not here; she would have shown up on the radar." Lieutenant Harper assured him.

Captain Nichols could only bow his head, knowing the only reason that she wouldn't be detected. He went over and began to help his team salvage what was left of their equipment and get out of there.

Jen was trying to keep her mind off of Jessie and had buried herself in work for the past couple of weeks. She rarely left the office because she knew that if she went home she would realize that Jessie was still gone and couldn't bare the thought that something might have happened to her.

An alarm sounded, interrupting her thoughts, "All medics please report to docking bay; all medics please report to docking bay."

Jen walked out into the hallway and saw people rushing towards the left wing of the building. Garrett, the young officer she had talked to earlier, was among them.

Jen stopped him, "What's going on?"

"Captain, the SWAT team is back." He continued down the hallway.

"Jessie," Jen sprinted down after him.

She had reached to docking bay and was horrified to see the beaten and bloody forms of the SWAT team being carried in. She scanned the room but didn't see Jessie anywhere.

Jen was pacing in her office. Maybe they had already brought her in, Jen thought, God I hope she's alright.

There was a knock at her office door.

"Come in." Jen was hoping that Jessie would come walking through the door like nothing happened. She was wrong; it was Admiral Logan and another man that she didn't recognize.

"Jen, this is Captain Nichols; he was one of the leaders of the SWAT mission." Admiral Logan motioned to the man to his right. He was beaten and bruised.

"How's my sister?" Jen couldn't get it out fast enough.

"Captain Scotts, we were ambushed. Your sister tried to head off the attack; I never saw her return. We searched for her but she didn't show up on any of our radar systems." Captain Nichols stated.

"Are you saying that she's-"Jen couldn't even finish the sentence.

"I'm very sorry, Jen. We never meant for this to happen." Admiral Logan opened the door. "We'll leave you alone; I'll send someone to drive you home."

"I am terribly sorry, Jen." Captain Nichols did seem sincerely sorry.

Jen sat down in her chair; she couldn't believe what she had just heard. A few moments later, Katie appeared in her office.

"Jen," Katie looked very solemn towards her old friend.

"Katie, she's gone." Jen felt her eyes fill with tears.

"Jen, I'm so sorry." Katie hugged her.

Wes looked thoughtfully out on the ocean; it was at this spot that he and Jen had said goodbye two years ago. There wasn't a day that went by that he didn't think of her. Did she miss him? Did she go back with Alex? Did she even remember him? All of these and more questions flooded his mind day and night.

His job with Eric was going well; the Silver Guardians hadn't had much action though since Ransik was captured. Being it was his day off, Wes had decided to relax, but his mind wouldn't let him. Something had told him to come to this beach but he guessed it must have just been him longing to see the giant yellow Time Ship outlined in the sky. He started to leave and heard something crunch underneath his shoe. Moving his foot, he saw that it was a Time Force Badge.

"What is this doing here?" Wes wondered.

He glanced around, looking for some other object or something that would give him an explanation as to what a badge from the year 3002 was doing on the beach in the year 2003. His eyes caught sight of a brown haired girl in a white uniform lying in the sand.

"Jen!" Wes rushed over to the immobile figure. She looked like she was in pretty bad shape.

"Jen, come on get up." Wes rolled her onto her back and noticed that it wasn't Jen at all. It was a young girl who looked as if she were about twenty-one. Wes had now understood why he had mistaken her for Jen; she bore a striking resemblance.

Jessie grunted and opened her eyes. "What happened?"

"I don't know, you tell me." Wes replied helping her sit up.

"Wes?" Jessie was shocked to see the man her sister was in love with sitting right in front of her.

"How do you know who I am?" Wes was confused.

"My sister; she talks about you all the time." Jessie was still a little shook up from the fall.

"Your sister?" Wes couldn't think of any other explanation.

"Yeah, I think you might know her, Jennifer Scotts?" Jessie smiled.

"I didn't know that she had a sister." Wes was shocked.

"Well, she does; but she is wondering how she got here." Jessie stood up.

"That makes two of us." Wes added.

"I must have fallen into a time vortex when Drasi threw me backwards, but what was a vortex doing in the middle of the forest?" Jessie rubbed her shoulder.

"Does Jen know that you're here?" Wes asked.

"No, she probably thinks I'm dead." Jessie replied.

"Why would she think that?"

"It's a long story." Jessie smiled.

"Why don't you tell me about it; I'll take you back to my place and we can get you cleaned up and see if we can contact Jen." Wes walked her over to his car.

"So you were ambushed by Drasi and got thrown into a time vortex?" Wes was recapping everything that Jessie had told him.

"I'm guessing; how else would I have ended up here?" Jessie sat across the table from him.

"It beats me." He was working on establishing the com link that Jen had left with him two years ago but the connection wasn't going through.

"Here, Wes, let me try a different way; one that I know will work." Jessie held up her chronomorpher.

"Jen," Jessie spoke into it with no reply. "Katie, Trip, Lucas; anybody? Huh, the vortex must be interfering with the communications link."

"Wait a minute; you're a power ranger too?" Wes asked.

"Wes, don't even worry about it; you'll just give yourself a headache." Jessie laughed.

Katie had brought Jen home and had offered to stay, but Jen had turned her down; she just wanted to be alone.

Jen opened the door to Jessie's room and walked inside. A wave of emotions came over her as she glanced at the pictures that lined the walls.

"Jess, I can't believe that it ended like this." Jen wiped a tear from her cheek. "I just wanted what was best for you and you went and got yourself killed. It's my fault; I shouldn't have yelled at you and maybe you wouldn't have gone."

Jen heard her com link beep and she went to answer; it was Alex.

"Hey Jen, are you okay?" Alex asked her. "I just heard about Jessie."

At the sound of her name, Jen had to hold back tears. "Do I look okay, Alex? For God's sake, I just found out that my little sister is dead."

Jen couldn't take anymore sympathy from anyone right now, "I'm sorry alright, I just want to be left alone." Jen shut down the connection. She went back into Jessie's room and crawled into her bed.

"What am I suppose to do now Jess?" Jen, exhausted, fell asleep.

Her com link beeped again; it wasn't Alex this time.

"It went through, but she's not answering." Wes replied.

"The vortex must have closed." Jessie replied yawning.

"How is Jen?" Wes asked.

"To be honest, Wes, I don't know." Jessie told him. "I've been gone on the mission for almost a month and Jen and I had a really big fight before I left."

"About what?"

"There was an upgrade that Trip put in my morpher and when I went and ran the logistics it injured me pretty bad. I didn't tell Jen and she found out about it." Jessie admitted.

"You two don't seem like the kind who would fight all the time." Wes told her.

"That was our first fight. God, Wes, if she thinks I'm dead there is no telling how bad she is beating herself up for it." He saw pain in Jessie's eyes.

"I'll keep trying her until she answers." Wes assured her.

"Thanks," Jessie yawned again.

"Why don't you go and get some rest?" Wes offered.

"I don't want to be asleep if she answers." Jessie told him.

"I'll wake you up." Wes replied. "The bedroom is up the stairs and to the left."

Jessie smiled, "Thanks Wes."

"No problem, anything for Jen's little sister." Wes smiled

Author's Note: Jessie has traveled back in time and has found an ally in Wes; Jen still believes that Jessie is dead. Will she finally see Wes again? In the next chapter, sparks will fly…

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