Jenny rushed into the hospital and refused to waste any time finding her daughter. She rushed to the counter, asking where she could find Sarah. As a nurse went off to look for a doctor, Jenny felt her heart jump into her throat.

"You're Sarah's mom?" she heard a woman call out and turned to see a couple approaching her. Calvin was right behind with Hayley, looking more than a little concerned and apologetic. Jenny also noticed the scratches on Calvin's arm as well as the ice-pack he was holding to his face.

"I… I am," Jenny answered.

"Your daughter's a psychopath!" the woman yelled. "Look what she did to our son!"

"Mom, I'm fine," Calvin insisted. "You heard the doctor, it's going to heal on its own."

"Sarah did that?" Jenny asked. "For real?"

"She's having a bad day," Calvin said and gave Jenny a little wink to let her know he couldn't give more details in front of his parents.

"I don't care if she's having a bad day," his mother screeched. "Your daughter has absolutely no right to lay a finger on my son! We're pressing charges!"

"Mom, please don't," Calvin begged. "Please, I'm fine. I restrained her!" he said and looked to Jenny, "I was restraining her. I knew I risked getting hurt."

"Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell, I understand you're very upset but we don't need to get the police involved. I will speak with my daughter and…"

"Oh, you'll speak with her?" Mr. Maxwell scoffed. "Oh, that's just perfect? You'll give your barbarian daughter a lecture after she's torn my son's arms to shreds and put him at risk for brain damage!"

"Dad, it's not that bad!"

"Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell, Sarah really didn't mean to hurt Calvin," Hayley insisted. "She didn't want to hurt him. She was upset and…"

"Civil people don't violently attack their so-called friends when they're upset," Mrs. Maxwell growled. "Do you really think this type of behaviour is okay?"

"No, but…"

"This really isn't like Sarah at all," Jenny insisted. "I can assure you, it's just a one-time thing…"

"One is all it takes! She could have really hurt my son! If she's going to act like an animal, you need to lock her up like one!"

"Mom, dad, stop it!" Calvin shouted and stood between them and Jenny so he could look directly at his parents. "I don't want to press charges! Sarah's my friend. She's having a bad day and I had to keep her from doing something she would regret! I knew I might get hurt when I restrained her, but I did it anyways. I could have let her go if I wanted, but I didn't. And if I had to, I'd do it all over again. You can't press charges."

"Cal…"

"Hayley was there," Calvin said. "Sarah never came after me. I grabbed her. I held her back. I carried her off. I got involved and I restrained her against her wishes. What she did, that's self-defence, right? Technically, aren't I the attacker?"

"He did restrain her," Hayley nodded her head. "And I remember Sarah asking him to let go. She didn't want him to touch her."

Jenny looked to the two teens gratefully, then up to Calvin's parents with a smirk. She really didn't want to fight them over this. Right now, she only wanted to concern herself with her daughter's well-being, but she also really didn't want to deal with lawyers and a trial.

"I don't press charges if you don't?" she offered the Maxwells, who grumbled as they looked to her.

"We'll think about it," they said. "Come on, Calvin, Hayley…"

"I want to stay," Calvin said and Hayley took his hand. "Make sure Sarah is okay."

"I can drive them home," Jenny offered.

"Calvin…"

"Dad, she's my friend," Calvin said.

"Don't stay out too late," his parents told him. "And take Hayley home tonight."

"Fine," he agreed and waved to his parents as they left. When he turned to Jenny, he saw she had stepped away to speak with the doctor who arrived. He and Hayley sat down to wait for the news.

"So, a time machine," Hayley said, glancing to her boyfriend. "Do you think she was serious?"

"She did create clones," Calvin shrugged. "And she said it before she was smacked with a car."

"I wonder what the story is there."

"Do you think Mick really killed her dad? Or let him die or whatever?"

"It doesn't seem like Mick at all," Hayley shook her head, then sighed, "But, I mean, Sarah was right about Aiden."

"So you think she's right?"

"I… I don't know," Hayley said. "I know she thinks she's right. I'm pretty sure there's another side to this story, though."

"We can talk to Mick about it in the morning," Calvin told her. "But I'm really hoping she's wrong."

"Me too."

-Ninja-Steel-

Preston, Brody and Levi took Mick back to the Ranger base after separating him from Sarah, and the Ranger mentor had been quiet the whole way home, speaking only to insist that Sarah hadn't hurt him, despite how hard she had punched.

"So, you gonna tell us what Sarah meant when she said you killed her father?" Preston asked and earned a couple harsh glares from the Romero brothers. He shrugged, "Hey, I'm only curious."

"It's fine," Mick assured the boys. "She's not… wrong."

"Mick, you need to explain what happened," Brody said. "It can't be just that. You wouldn't…"

"I didn't kill him, but I did let him die," Mick answered. "In Sarah's mind, that's the same thing."

"But you were here, in the base," Brody said. "You were with Sarah while Galvanax was attacking."

"I was, and I was there."

"I thought Sarah only cloned herself," Levi frowned. "How could you be in two places at once."

"Time travel."

"Of course," Levi said sarcastically and glanced questioningly at the other two Rangers. Mick caught the look and sighed loudly.

"Sarah got it in her head that she needed to get answers about her father's disappearance. And she decided time travel was the way to do it. So, she created, well, this."

He held up the broken device. Levi, Preston and Brody all looked to it carefully before glancing to each other again.

"A time travel machine?" Brody frowned.

"What is she still doing in high school?" Levi muttered.

"I helped," Mick said. "When it was obvious she was going to do this with or without help, I thought it'd be better to keep an eye on her. Maybe talk her out of it. But she insisted it was the best way to figure out what happened and so I agreed to go along with her. I hoped she would see he was dead and let it go but… it didn't work out that way."

"Was he still alive?" Preston asked.

"Barely," Mick answered. "He was the walking dead. Sarah saw what she wanted to see, but I saw… he was hurt, he could barely stand, his clothes were torn and bloodied and he was coughing up blood. And Sarah and I had barely survived long enough to find him and it had barely been ten minutes. He was on his way out. He wouldn't make it to a hospital. He didn't make it longer than five more minutes. At least, I didn't try to help him make it longer."

"What does that mean?" Brody asked.

"I knew he wasn't going to live. Sarah was in denial but… I've seen people in his condition before. It was a miracle he was still alive. I couldn't let Sarah bring him home, just to watch him die here. I couldn't let her lose him again so… I pretended we lost the time machine."

"Mick…"

"He was dying," Mick reminded the Rangers. "He wouldn't have survived. Even if he made it to a hospital, he would have been far too weak for anyone to save him."

"So, you ended his life for him?" Levi asked. Mick shook his head.

"No. No, of course not. Sarah went to look for the time machine, insisting she would be faster. She left me to look after her father and since we were safe in the moment, we stayed where we were. Her father knew exactly what was going on so when Galvanax came closer and we had to run to avoid being stepped on, I tried to… you know, humour Sarah's wishes but… her dad asked me to let him go. So… I did."

Mick breathed in deeply and let it out slowly, "He was a dead man walking anyways but… he was alive when Galvanax's foot came down. When it lifted, he wasn't."

"So, you let him die?"

"I didn't stop it happening," Mick said. "And he was already dying. He knew it, I knew it. All he wanted was for Sarah to be safe. So that's what I did. I took her home, and I broke the machine. We can't risk going back there again and if we save her father, who knows what effects it might have on the present. It's a risk we can't afford."

"But you didn't even try," Preston frowned. "You lied about the time machine. Maybe if you brought him back…"

"We weren't close to a hospital," Mick said. "If we used the time machine with her father, we would have come to the present, but we would be in the exact same spot we left. I'm not equipped to resurrect the dead and he never would have survived a trip to the hospital. He was breathing his last breathes when he asked me to leave him."

"But Sarah…"

"Sarah only needed answers," Mick said. "She only needs confirmation that her father is dead. It doesn't matter if it happened here or in the past. He's gone. What she needs is to move on. I promised her father I'd take care of her and that's what I'm going to do."

Mick smashed the time machine on the table and stormed off to his room, leaving behind the three boys. Brody sighed heavily as he looked to his brother and Preston.

"He did the right thing," Brody said.

"But he could have tried harder," Preston argued. "He lied about losing the time machine and… how could he know her father was just seconds away from death if he let him be crushed by Galvanax?"

"Preston, you remember how bad those attacks were," Brody reminded him. "Hundreds of people died, some of them didn't even have a fighting chance."

"Her father did! Mick shouldn't have made that call!"

"Mick wasn't trying to kill him, but... he's seen fatal injuries before. He knows what he's talking about."

"But…"

"Preston, I don't like it either," Brody shook his head. "But you have to trust Mick. You have to believe that he was only doing what he thought was right. You don't have to agree with him, you just need to trust him."

"I trust him," Preston insisted. "I just think he was wrong. He should have tried harder."

"Harder?" RedBot asked, piping in, reminding the boys he was there. "No offense, Preston, but it sounds to me like Mick tried as hard as he could."

"RedBot…"

"Sarah said it herself, her father was in the heart of the attacks, and from what I recall, no one survived if they were in the heart of it," RedBot stated. "If Mick and Sarah found her father where Sarah thought he was, that means they were in the most dangerous position. They're lucky this didn't kill them."

"But…"

"If Mick and Sarah both came back, not only alive, but unharmed, that's way more than Mick or I expected. As far as I'm concerned, Mick didn't let anyone die today. He saved Sarah. From herself, from Galvanax, doesn't matter. His actions kept her alive. I know it."

"Mick is a good person," Brody insisted as he looked to Preston. "You have to trust him."