Sigh…

Sky plopped down on a park bench. "What I wouldn't give for a good monster attack to clear my head,"Sky muttered to his head. He hated situations like these: the illogical ones. It was part of why he took up criminal profiling. When you did criminal profiling you realized that there was a reason for every action and every decision. Things had patterns to them even if they didn't make sense in a rational type of way, there was always some sort of justification, even if it was simply that the criminal was evil. That made sense. This situation didn't. He had a few of the pieces of the puzzle but he felt like he was missing something. Like a piece that would be the key to pulling it all together. Then it hit him… literally.

"Ack!" Sky sputtered as a strong gust of wind sent a spray of news paper flying into his face.

"Whoops!" Sky heard someone shout. He pulled the piece of paper from his face to see a little old lady come trotting up with her tiny white dog. "I'm so sorry about that deary. I was just trying to take a peak at today's local announcements page the wind took it right out of my hand."

"It's fine. No harm done," Sky replied with a laugh. Sky couldn't help but smile at the sight of the fretting old lady. She reminded him a bit of his own grandma before she died. She was always fussing and trying to get things just right. It was actually quite cute at times which made it impossible at times like these to get annoyed. "Here, let me help you gather these up," Sky said as he began to pick up some of the sheets that had hit him.

"Oh, thank you so much. What a helpful young man you are," the old replied with a smile.

"It's my pleasure," Sky said, smiling. Together the two gathered up the remaining papers from about the park bench. It was only one section of the paper so it didn't take long. Sky finally grabbed the last sheet and handed the pile to the old lady, "Here you go."

"Oh, thank you so much. You've been such a de- oh no!" she cried in surprise as a gust of wind took the top sheet off the pile.

Sky dashed after the sheet before it got too far. "I got it," he yelled triumphantly as he snatched it off the ground, "Oh and look, I even found the announcement section," Sky said with a laugh. He scanned the page, curious himself over the array of events, "Looks like their having a back sale next week."

"Really? The annual Briarwood bake-off or is it that school one the elementary school holds. My pies win first place every year so I need to know if I need to get my secret ingredients ready."

Sky chuckled at her enthusiasm. "Hmm, let me see. Yep it is. It's next Friday, June 11th…" Sky paused as something caught his eye. It was the date on the top of the page: 2006. "Impossible…"

"What's impossible deary?" the old lady asked curiously.

"Huh," Sky replied, shaken from his train of thought. "Oh um, it's just… the date. It must be a miss print."

"Well, what does it say?" she asked peering at the paper herself, "That looks right to me."

Sky looked at the lady in disbelief. "But look, look at the year."

"June, 5th, 2006," the lady read aloud. "That sounds right to me. What year did you think it was?"

"Not that…" Sky replied, his voice barely above a whisper.

"Are you alright deary. You look like you've seen a ghost or something."

Sky just shook his head, blinking a few more times and trying to process the new information.

"Deary?"

Sky finally broke from his daze, turning to the now concerned looking old lady. "I'm… I'll be fine. Thanks. Here's your paper," he said, handing her the last sheet and quickly walking off.

2006! 2006! The warning bells in his mind screamed in panic. How was this possible? What happened? How had he gotten here? More importantly, how come it took him this long to figure it out? He had certainly thought he was smarter than this.

He had to think this through logically. Don't panic! First of all, what happened? He was jogging through the park. Nothing unusual about that. He was definitely still in 2025 at that point. Then what happened? The monster showed up. He fought the hench men. He ran into the forest. He defeated the hench men. He battled Troblicon. He got hit and demorphed. Troblicon attacked him. He threw up a shield and then… the flash! That must have been it! Something about Troblicon's energy and the energy from my force field must have caused some sort feedback loop when they collided that sent me to the past. That had to be it. But now what will he do now? Sky didn't even know if Troblicon had been sent back too. It would make sense if he was too though. If it was the collision of their energy fields that sent them back it would have probably sent them both back. That meant that Sky had to find him before he went and messed with the time line. There's no telling what kind of changes he could make. Especially since this is pre-SPD.

Sky also had to make sure he did the same thing himself. No one can know he's from the future. If would mess things up to greatly if they did. Sky looked himself over. The clothes he was wearing were fairly simply so he wouldn't have much trouble blending in. Good thing he attacked me while I was going on my morning jog. He'd just have to find him quickly. With any luck he could find him by the end of the day and be gone before anyone even realized he was there. This is going to be one heck of a report to file when I get back.

BOOM!

Sky looked up from where he had been sitting on the park bench and scanned the area. He saw several random civilians running away from what looked like a swarm of Hidiacs. And speak of the devil, in the middle of them was Troblicon. "Huh! Well that was surprisingly easy. It's a good thing these bad guys are so consistent."

Sky got up and started to run towards Troblicon, ready to battle, but was surprised when he was beaten to the punch by a group of muli-coloured warriors in capes. Sky stopped dead in his tracks. "No way," he muttered to himself. Power rangers? Sky didn't remember reading about any Power Rangers in Briarwood before. Heck, he'd never even heard of Briarwood before today. Where did these guys come from? And what's with the capes? I don't remember any power rangers ever having capes in any of our history books.

The rangers seemed to fairing fairly well although their fighting technique was a little unorthodox. He'd never quite seen that style before but at least it seemed to be working for them. Sky almost jumped as he saw the pink one turn into a tornado, plowing down half a dozen hidiacs in her path. Impressive.

Suddenly Sky snapped out of his daze. What am I doing just standing here? I have to get to Troblicon before he messes with the timeline anymore. With that Sky continued his dash towards the fray and immediately started fighting off the nearest Hidiacs.

Power Rangers' Point of View:

Another day, another monster attack. Just another normal day in Briarwood. It's actually funny how someone can consider a monster attacking the city something normal but things haven't exactly been normal for any of the rangers since they became rangers. What they consider normal now and normal three months ago have become two very different things.

For Nick things being abnormal were part of the norm. He never stayed around somewhere long enough to even be able to call things normal so adapting to this hadn't been that difficult. Although it was surprising how much easier it was for the other rangers when their perception of normal was much more set in stone than his. They actually ended up being more accepting than he was at first although he caught up eventually.

Right now they were dealing with another weekly occurrence: a monster attack. This one went by the name of Troblicon. Not that any of them really cared. From what they could tell he was just another run of the mill, prepare to meet your doom foolish rangers, over dramatic clown who was in serious need of a hobby. Thus they would have to teach him why he should have found one instead of attacking Briarwood by kicking his ugly butt and getting on with their day.

For Vida this was actually a breath of fresh air. Fighting monsters could be quite the stress reliever when one was having a bad day. It was certainly better than doing inventory at the Rock Porium. Unfortunately, they still had to finish that once they kicked this monster's butt. The hidiacs were more difficult than usual today . It was that they couldn't take them. They were easy to defeat. It was just that there were so many of them and you had to fight them all individually before you could even get to the monster. It could get really annoying at times.

"Alright, I've had enough of this," Vida muttered to herself. Tossing one hidiac to the side, Vida began to spin around in a circle. She immediately began to pick up speed and felt her feet lift up off the ground. She leaned forward as she spotted a particularly thick clump of hidiacs and sent her tornado bowling towards them sending them flying in every direction.

Mean while, the other rangers were doing well on their own as they each engaged in their individual battles with the hidiacs. None of them noticed at first that they had received some extra help with the arrival of the young man from the Rock Porium earlier. He was doing quite well, having no problem holding his own as he tossed a hidiac out of the way. He pushed through two charging at him and flipped over a third heading directly for Troblicon.

Nick was the first to notice his presence. What the hell does he think he's doing? That nut job is going to get himself killed. "Hey you!" Nick shouted as he blocked an oncoming Hidiac, "Get out of here! It's too dangerous!"

The man just ignored him and headed towards the monster. He waved his arm around in front of him as he walked forward. No one noticed the shimmer of blue that irradiated from his hand. Had they had, they might not have been as concerned for his well being.

"Troblicon," he yelled, immediately getting the monster's attention. "Remember me? As I recall, you're still under arrest."

"Ah, ranger… I was hoping we would meet again," Troblicon cackled. "I never did get the chance to finish destroying you."

"You know? I'd give up that dream if I were you," the man replied with a smirk, taking a fighting stance, "Because it's never going to happen. You're free to try though if you like. Although I doubt it'll do you much good."

"If you insist ranger, it would be my PLEASURE!" Troblicon roared as he began to charge forward, his energized blade drawn. Surprisingly, the man didn't even move a muscle. He simple stood his ground awaiting the attack with an assured smirk on his face. To the rangers who were all now watching (who didn't know what he did), this was an act of pure insanity.

Madison was the first to react. She dashed forward leaping at the young man, slamming into his side to push him out of the way just in time. Together they rolled a few meters, only seconds after Troblicon's blade hit where the man had just been standing. The other rangers who had been watching immediately laid down an offensive, pushing the monster back and away from the Madison and the man. After taking several hits Troblicon stumbled backwards. He looked around to see that all his hidiacs had been defeated and he was now alone and would have to face all 5 rangers.

"An impressive feat rangers, but I wouldn't let this little victory get to your head. I'll be back. And as for you red ranger," he said, pointing towards Sky, "You should watch your back, because next time we fight you may not have your little friends here to save you." With that Troblicon disappeared into a glowing seal in the ground leaving the rangers to puzzle out what he was talking about.

They immediately turned their attention to their new companion who currently pushing Madison off from on top of him.

"Get off of me," he snapped, pushing her aside as he got to his feet. "Ugh! I can't believe this! Do you have any idea what you just did?"

Madison looked up at him in surprise, not expecting a back lash for trying to help him. Vida of course would have none of this and immediately stepped forward to her sister's defense.

"It's called saving your life," she replied, stepping in front of her sister to meet the young man's glare. "Most normal people are appreciative of things like that."

The man quickly gave the pink warrior the once over before raising an eyebrow, "Right, because you would know so much about being normal."

"Excuse me?" Vida shrieked, her voice rising angrily. Chip and Xander immediately had to step forward to hold their ferocious pink friend back (to her protest) because both were quite sure she wouldn't hesitate in making him eat every single word he had just said to her.

Nick, being just as insulted but slightly calmer stepped up to reply. "Hey! Don't go judging us! You were the one just standing there waiting for that ugly freak back there to turn your head into a Pez dispenser!"

The man just rolled his eyes. "You can't even been to grasp the severity of the situation we're all in."

"Try me," Nick replied evenly.

The young man sighed. "I can't exactly explain, but I can tell you that there's a lot more at stake here than the destruction of some public property. That monster there could ruin more than just the local park, and because of your blue girl friend over there, we may have done more damage than I'll be able to fix."

"Damage? What damage? What the heck are you talking about?" Nick asked, beginning to get exasperated with this stranger's cryptic answers.

"I'm talking about the future, the one that you may have just destroyed."

To be continued…