"You mean you came all the way back from the year 3000 just to help Wes?" Rebecca asked her.

Jen, who was sitting across from her in the main conference room of the Aqua Base, nodded and smiled. "Yes, I loved him. I couldn't have lived my life knowing it cost him his," she explained.

"But what about Alex? You two were engaged after all, why didn't you stay with him?" she asked.

Jen paused. Even now, after all these years, it seemed odd to her that the ring Wes bought looked just like the one Alex bought her. 'It shouldn't be too surprising, they were related... in a way,' Jen thought to herself.

"Alex had changed, so had I for that matter. Even if I hadn't met Wes, I probably wouldn't have stayed with Alex. We were both too different by the time I went back to the year 3000," she told her.

Jen and Rebecca were so caught up in their conversation that they didn't hear Michael walk into the conference room. "Do you mind if I ask you something?" he asked, injecting himself into the conversation.

"Go ahead," Jen said.

Mike took a seat next to Rebecca. "Well, history records that you and the Time Force rangers all went back to the future and the Silver Guardians defended Silver Hills. There is no record of you ever coming back, but obviously you did. What happened?" Mike inquired.

"After we left, the Silver Guardians defended the city for free, and with Wes and Eric leading them, did a good job. The reason Trip and I came back were for more personal reasons," she paused. "Trip had fallen in love with Nadira, and living in the future without Wes and having to be reminded of that everyday by seeing Alex became too much for me. When resigned from Time Force, and requested that we be sent back to the year 2001. Our request was denied, but Captain Logan offered us one final mission. He told us about the prophecy that the descendants of other rangers would take their place as defenders of the Earth against it's greatest foe, and our mission would be to prepare for that day. Trip and Nadira eventually had twins, Ka'Ron and Karen, but Wes and I chose not to have children. It wasn't something we wanted our children to be involved in," Jen explained to them.

"So you're saying that you and Trip were meant to come back in time," Rebecca mentioned.

Jen nodded. "If you hadn't, the twins wouldn't be here and the prophecy would have been wrong," Mike added.

"What the prophecy didn't tell us was that Wes' father would die a few years later. Wes & I followed up on a way to stabilize the crystals, and in our first experiment, Wes died as well. That left me to do the work alone, and it was too much for me," she said.

"And that's when you came to Ms. Fairweather," Mike said.

She nodded. "Yes, she had experience with this kind of energy source, and she was partly responsible for the creation of the Lightspeed morphers. I knew that if anyone could help me, it would be her," she told them, then continued. "Despite all our efforts, we still can't make the crystals permanent. Which is why you guys have to find the Eltarian Crystal," Jen explained.

It was Rebecca who stood up, walking over to Jen and wrapping her arms around her. "I for one am glad you're here to help Mrs. Collins," she said.

"Thank you,"

"Hey Rebecca," Jen called out.

Rebecca, who was heading for the door, turned around. "Yeah?"

"Just call me Jen," she said.

Rebecca smiled, and then walked out the room.


It had been over 10 years since it happened, but Josh could still see it as clear as day. The look on his father's face as they were forced to watch Shin Getti bury a sword in his mother's chest; The sounds of her screaming as she fell to the ground. The smell of blood as his mother closed her eyes for the last time. Then, as Shin Getti's henchmen grabbed him, he was forced to watch his father fight a losing a battle against Shin Getti himself. His father fought bravely, but in the end, he suffered the same fate his wife had done before him. The thoughts of that day haunted Josh, but nothing hurt him more than to know that their deaths were in vain. There was no honor, no sacrifice, no noble ending. Shin Getti and his father had never even seen one another until that day, so there wasn't a long standing feuding between them. His parents were simply first in a long list of causalities that day.

No rhyme, no reason, no purpose.

Josh sat up in his bed with his eyes wide open, covered in sweat as the images left his mind. He let out a scream, but he didn't realize it until Karen and Ka'Ron rushed in the room to check on him.

"Josh, you okay?" they asked him in unison.

Josh turned around, putting his feet on the floor as he wiped the sweat off his forehead. "Yeah, I'm okay. I just had a bad dream," he said.

Ka'Ron turned to walk away, but Karen stood still. "You want to talk about it?" she asked him.

'Josh and Karen sittin' in the tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G,' Ka'Ron sang in his mind as he walked out the room, taunting his sister.

'Shut-up Ka'Ron,' she shot back.

"Its okay Karen, I'm fine. Its just..." he took a deep breath.

"It was another dream about my parents," Josh told her.

Karen walked in, sitting down next to him. "Your father was the black ranger, wasn't he?" she asked. Josh nodded proudly.

"Yeah, Zach. He left the rangers to go to a peace conference with Trini and Jason, two other rangers. Jason went back to Angel Grove a few years later, giving my mom and dad more time to spend together, just the two of them," he said.

"Trini was your mom?" she asked.

"Yeah. They always joked that Jason left because he felt like the third wheel, but they knew he was going back to be the Gold Ranger," Josh explained.

"Shin Getti killed your parents, didn't he?" she asked.

He nodded. "In cold blood, for no reason at all. He didn't know they were power rangers once; it was just a random act of violence. He even made me watch as he dealt with them one by one. After that day, I promised myself that when Shin Getti went down for good, I would have a hand in it," he told her.

"So how did you, Rebecca and Mike get captured by Univex in the first place?" Karen asked. "We were contacted by Zolara and told we were suppose to go on a quest to find the other heirs of destiny. Univex must have found out about our quest and captured us. At first, we were confused about how he knew exactly where to find us, but after Zolara betrayed us, it all made sense," he said.

She put a hand on his shoulder to comfort him. "I won't pretend to know what you went through, but I know that now, you have a family here with me…" she said, then realized what she said when Josh looked at her. "…and the others too. We're all a family," she corrected.

He put his hand on top of hers and smiled. "Thanks Karen, that means a lot," Josh told her.

Then it happened...

Josh and Karen moved in closer to one another, wrapped up in the moment. They were inches away from kissing one another when they were interrupted.

'Josh and Karen sitting in the tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G,' Ka'Ron taunted in her mind again.

Karen sat up, breaking up the moment.

"So... um, if you need to talk again, my room is right down the hall, okay? Yeah, okay then, bye," she said nervously, and as she turned to walk away, ran into the doorway.

Not bothering to turn around, she just walked out the way.


Michael had been in his room working out with whatever he could find. Doing sit-ups in on the floor, doing pull-ups on a pipe that ran through his room, doing push ups with one hand behind his back, anything he occupy himself. The thought of Shin Getti destroying not only the city, but the entire world, worried him. But what bothered him most was that he may not be good enough to do his part. Unlike the other rangers, he was never trained to be a warrior. Josh's parents were both rangers, the twins had been preparing for this day their entire lives, even Rebecca had taken martial arts before. Not him, not ever. Living with his grandmother most of his life, he didn't understand the need for it. He never even knew his parents. He had no idea about his heritage, but at his father's funeral a few years ago, his grandmother finally told him about his bloodline. She explained that his mother, Kim, was the original pink ranger, and that his parents sent him away because of the possibility that some evil force would come after him, using him as a pawn to get to Kim. She told him that his mother wanted him to have a normal life, shielded from the concept of evil creatures from outer space wanted to take over the world. Even after she explained it to him, he didn't believe it. He thought that old age had caught up with her and she was just confused, but soon after, the truth became clear to him. He began to have visions, flashes that he at first dismissed as dreams. As he got older, the visions became clearer.

When Rebecca and Josh came to him out of the blue one day, confirming everything his grandmother told him.

They explained that he was an heir of destiny, and the world needed someone to protect it from evil. That brought him here, to this point, and he wasn't sure he was prepared to live up to his birthright.

"I'm not going down without a fight," he said to himself, then continued with his workout.


Rebecca was worried.

'Everyone here is a descendant of the power rangers. Josh's father was the black ranger, Ka'Ron and Karen's father was a ranger, Mrs. Collins... I mean, Jen, was a power ranger. Ms. Fairweather worked on the original Light speed morphers, they all belong here,' she thought to herself. 'Maybe I'm here for the wrong reasons,'

Rebecca's only motivation was revenge. When Zolara approached her, telling her she was an heir of destiny, descendant of one of the original rangers, she wanted to tell her it was a mistake. She wanted to tell her she wasn't descendant of anything, but the prospect of having her revenge on Shin Getti stopped her. Much like Josh, she was forced to watch her parents be killed by Shin Getti and his warriors, but her parents weren't rangers, or even had anything to do with the power ranger legacy. Nothing at all. They were typical parents, they went to work, they came home, they fussed at her when she did something wrong. After they were killed, an older woman named Ann befriended Rebecca. They instantly clicked, and since she didn't have any other living relatives, Ann allowed Rebecca to stay with her. Ann trained her in martial arts, showing her various different styles. Ann told her it would prepare her for the future, showing her how to defend herself. Now, Rebecca had plans to use everything Ann had taught her to take down Shin Getti, or die trying.

'Rebecca, this is Ms. Fairweather, come in,' a voice said.

Rebecca looked down at the morpher on her wrist.

"Yes ma'am, what is it?" she inquired.

'Shao Khan is back, meet me in the conference room,' she responded.

"Yes ma'am, I'm on my way," she said, then rushed out her room, making her way to the conference room.