Epilogue

Later the Rangers were back at the clock tower, doing nothing in particular. Suddenly, Wes jumped up.

"Hey, guys, I forgot that today is the fourth of July!" Wes said excitedly.

"So, what does that mean?" Jen asked.

"What? You haven't heard of it? I can't believe the fourth of July never made it to the year 3000! It's a holiday where people eat barbecued food and watch other people shoot off fireworks."

"Why the fourth of July? What happened then?" Lucas asked.

Wes rolled his eyes. "I don't know! Just for the hell of it."

"Well, let's do it." Katie said. "Just for the hell of it."

Wes, Jan, Katie and Lucas went shopping for fourth of July stuff, leaving Trip and Christi to themselves. They sat on the couch in uncomfortable silence.

"Christi?" Trip asked after a while.

"Yeah?"

"When you asked me out the first time, was it just because you knew that I was a Ranger?" Trip asked.

Christi looked at him, plainly shocked. "No! I didn't even figure out that you were a Ranger until our second date. Why do you think I asked you about your morpher?"

Trip shook his head. "I don't know, maybe you were just seeing if I would tell you?"

"No," Christi moved a little closer. "Why would you think I wanted to test you?"

Trip shrugged. "I guess because of that time you told me I was the nicest human being you'd ever known."

"I really meant that!" Christi was shocked and hurt.

"I just meant, you know, that I'm not human."

"You're not?" She looked at him a little more closley. "Wow! I didn't even realize . . . "

Trip sighed. "Well, I guess it dosen't matter now. You have to go back tonight."

"But we still have today. We should make the most of it. . ." Christi got closer to Trip, and gently ran her finger over his gem..

"I guess. . ."

Christi and Trip leaned into each other, closer and closer. . .

"Hey, losers!" Wes called as he burst through the clock tower doors. Trip and Christi jumped apart, their moment ruined.

Jen and Lucas closely followed Wes. They shared a collective "Muh."

Katie was not far behind. Her eyes were round with horror, and she kept muttering the same phrase. "So . . . much . . . urine."

"Guess who made six old guys PEE THEIR PANTS ALL AT ONCE?" Wes yelled.

"I'm gonna. . ." Jen growled.

"Just wait until tonight. Then we'll burn Wes." Lucas assured her.

"What are you gonna do?" Trip asked.

"Just wait." Lucas grinned.

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That night, before the fireworks started, Jen, Lucas and Katie set up their Wes-burner in the park. Circuit had told them about Wes's secret underwear stash. All of Wes's underpants had stains of some kind on them, except for three pairs Wes kept hidden away, because he harbored a superstition that unstained underpants were lucky. So Jen, Lucas and Katie had stolen Wes's underwear stash and were fixing to attach them to fireworks, and then shoot them off. Then they summoned Wes to come to the park with them at night to 'see the fireworks.' As soon as Wes arrived, Jen gave the signal to begin.

"Hey, Wes. Check this out." Jen said as she, Lucas and Katie dangled the underwear in front of Wes.

"No! My underwear!" He screamed.

"Really?" Asked Lucas. He, Jen and Katie ran to the row of three fireworks rockets they had set up and quickly tied Wes's underwear to them.

"DON'T DO IT!" Wes begged.

"Remember the dead rodent breakfast?" Jen asked.

"Or all those times you harassed my baby- I mean, Trip?" Katie put in."

Lucas said, "I will avenge my late pissed-in hair gel."

"PLEASE DON'T!" Wes pleaded.

"NOW!" Jen ordered. They lit the fuses all at once.

"Five, four, three, two, one. . ." Jen counted. Until. . . BANG! In a colorful explosion, Wes's underwear were gone forever. Wes fell to his knees in anguish.

"Aww, Fuuuuuck." Wes sobbed.

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Meanwhile, Christi and Trip were at the beach, where Christi had left her time ship. Christi swallowed a lump in her throat.

"Trip. . ." She began. "You could come back to the future with me, and we could be together. . ."

Trip shook his head. "I wish I could. But the other Rangers need me. I can't go back until Ransik is defeated."

Christi nodded. "I'll be waiting." She sighed and looked back at her time ship.

"Christi. . ." Trip said.

Chrsti turned to face him, with the sea breeze gently blowing her hair, and stars in her eyes.

"Yes?"

"I love you."

Christi's eyes welled up with tears. "I-I love you, too . . ."

Trip leaned into Christi's warm embrace, and the two shared a passionate kiss. As they came together, the fireworks began to shoot off in colorful bursts of light, illuminating the entire sky. Trip and Christi held onto each other, not wanting it to end. Finally, when they had to pull away, the tears in Christi's eyes spilled over as she let go.

"Goodbye, Trip," Christi walked into her time ship, and it took off.

Trip watched Christi's time ship as it flew off, as it grew smaller and smaller, and finally, the time hole opened and the her time ship disappeared.

Trip stared at the sky long after the time hole had closed.

"Goodbye, Christi." He said quietly. Christi was gone now, a thousand years beyond him. But no matter what amount of time separated them, Trip knew he would be with her again.

Someday.

THE END.