"You again?' Eric opened the front door of the home Mr. Collins and he had been staying at. It was late morning and the last thing he expected to find was Taylor and a group of others standing at the door. The other Wild Force rangers, he assumed.

"See, I told you he wouldn't be happy to see us," announced Taylor, crossing her arms against her chest. "This is just a waste of time."

"Look." Max stepped forward. "We really could use your help in destroying these orgs."

Eric stared Max down and smirked. "And what are you, twelve?"

"I'm…I'm eighteen!"

"Right, sure you are." Eric then looked back to Taylor. "Sorry, but I work alone." He was getting ready to shut the door, when…

"But you don't like to." Cole moved his way in front of Max and Taylor.

"And what do you know about what I like and don't like?" Eric was getting real annoyed with the situation, after the one last night. The last thing he needed was these five pounding on the door.

"I just know." Cole sighed heavily. "We can't do this on our own; we need your help, Eric."

"Yes, please, our mentor told us it will take everything we have to defeat these three creatures," added Alyssa. "You're our only hope."

"Yeah, please help us, with the quantum ranger at our side we can do anything!" shouted Danny, almost jumping up and down.

Seconds of silence seemed to pass, as Eric stared them all down. Taylor just shook her head. "See I told you, you guys. He's worthless, just another pigheaded jerk."

"I hate to say it guys, but I think Taylor is right. He's just a coward." Max just shook his head disappointedly. "Come on, let's get out of here." Max turned around and started to head back down the stairs.

"Now hold on one minute." Eric grabbed Max by the shoulder. "I may be a lot of things, but I am not a coward."

"So you'll help us then?" asked Alyssa.

"Yeah. I'll help you."

"Yes!" both Max and Danny jumped in the air and high-fived each other. "Alright, we're going to see the quantum ranger kick some ass!"

Eric's face became very serious, as he eyed all of them. "There's just one thing, though."

"What's that?" asked Taylor.

Back in the Future…..

"Are you positive, Trip?" asked Katie. Lucas, Trip and she were all in Lucas's apartment hanging out, when Trip had just told them what he had found inside of Circuit. "Maybe you just forgot that you made that kind of adjustment."

"Yes. I'm positive. I know all of Circuit's wires and chips by heart; someone changes his wiring."

Lucas lay back against his couch, not seeming alarmed by the issue. "What's the big deal anyways? Circuit seems just fine to me."

"And he is." Trip took a moment to gather his thoughts on how to explain to them what alarmed him about Circuit's changes. "But the wires and chips that were different, they were the ones for his memory bank." He waited for the reactions of his two friends.

"Wait." Lucas stood up, becoming slightly alarmed now. "Are you saying someone messed with his memory?"

"I think someone erased his memory, or at least altered it."

"Why would someone do that?" asked Katie.

"I…I don't know," answered Trip as he shrugged his shoulders. "But I did some checking… You do know that it is standard procedure that whenever anyone who has gone on a mission to a different time for more than a week, that when they return, any human, alien, mutant or robot must have their memories erased."

"So you're saying that Time Force sent Circuit on a mission and then erased his memory when he returned, without your knowledge?" Lucas had known Trip to come up with some crazy ideas, but this had to be the craziest of them all. "Why would Time Force send a robotic owl on a mission?"

"I don't think it was just Circuit…."

Katie felt her heart skip a beat, as she stared into Trip's eyes. That look he was giving her told her something was wrong, and just maybe he was right. "You're saying we all were on a mission and had our memories erased?"

"Trip come on, you can't really believe that."

"Then explain to me how we became power rangers." He looked at them both, waiting for an answer. "Do one of you remember how we got the morphers, or why Alex no longer is a ranger?"

"Lucas, he's right." Katie had to agree Trip was onto something, she wasn't sure what, but something definitely was up. "We just woke up one day, had our morphers and Alex was alive and well. The last I knew he was dead, killed by Ransik, after that I remember nothing except waking up and several months had passed."

As much as Lucas hated to admit it, they were right. "If this is true, we may not be able to get our memories back for whatever did happen, but just maybe Circuit can."

Katie turned to Trip. "Trip, can you get Circuit's memory back?"

"Maybe. I won't be able to get all of it, but I may be able to get a portion of it back. It's just going to take some time."

"We should all be very careful, guys, we're running on thin ice." Lucas's face became very serious. "Time Force erased our memories for a reason."

"Right." Trip nodded his head, agreeing.

Katie's eyes lit, if their memories had been erased then maybe… "Guys, do you think Jen's memories were erased, too…."

Eric had just gotten finished explaining to them the situation of how the odds might not be on their side, after all.

"If you don't have it, then who does?" asked Alyssa.

"Anyone could have it for all I know. I deactivated my voice identification. It is fair game." He sighed heavily. "The best thing we can hope for that it was destroyed. The last thing we need is for it to land in the wrong hands."

"But you'll still fight by our side?" asked Cole.

"Yes. Powers or no powers, I'm still going to fight."

Taylor bowed her head down; maybe she had been wrong about Eric after all. He might be very high-strung, but he was an honorable warrior for good. He was full of courage, and willing to die protecting mankind from the havoc of the three org-like creatures.

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She was not sure how long she had been out. The last thing she remembered was Ransik tossing her against the brick wall like she was a rag doll. Her forehead felt damp and then she realized someone was holding a wet cloth to her head. Jen tried to open her eyes but everything was a blur.

"Easy now, you've been out for nearly sixteen hours," answered a gentle voice.

Jen wasn't coherent enough to recognize the voice, but one thing was for sure, the voice wasn't Eric's. The voice belonged to a female.

"Wh-where am I?" Jen tried to push herself up.

"You need to lie down, Jen, you hit your head pretty hard," answered the voice as she pushed Jen back down onto the bed. The stranger ran the cloth in a bowl of water and pressed it against Jen's head. "We're in the bunker of the old Silver Hills hotel…"

"Silver Hills? ... But I was in Turtle Cove ….. Silver Hills was destroyed." Jen soon drifted off to sleep once again.

"How is she?" asked a deeper voice.

The female stranger, revealing herself to be Nadira, turned her face toward the dark figure standing in the shadows of the entranceway. "She's going to be fine. Just needs to rest…"

"Good. Let me know when she wakes up."

"Of course." She watched as he turned around and started to head out. "Wait, how's James doing?"

"The little guy is doing just fine. Still sleeping in his crib." He knew Nadira worried very much about the young baby boy. "Don't worry, he's safe, nothing can get to him."

"I know. I know you won't let anything happen to him."

"To what do I owe this pleasure?" Ransik faced the three mutorgs. "It has been many long years since we last met. Last I heard, you were in Time Force prison."

"And we were, until three weeks ago," answered Takach. "But when we arrived here we learned of your presence and thought perhaps we'd join forces."

Ransik eyed the three; still to this day he did not trust them. "And why should I trust any of you?"

Takach laughed. "Still the same old Ransik; that's what I like about you. Always questioning other's true intentions." Takcach eyed Ransik sharply, maybe even tauntingly. "But I can assure you, our intentions are the same. To wipe out mankind, and take the Earth for our own." He got right into Ransik's face. "What do you say?"

Ransik quickly drew out his sword, pointing it right at Takcach. "And how do I know that once we have taken over the Earth that you and your kind won't take me out?"

"I see you have accomplished the techniques of the org powers we gave you." He put out his hand. "You have my word; after all you are practically one of us."

Slowly Ransik drew his sword away. "Perhaps we can work something out." The four then began discussing battle strategies of how they would take over the Earth, but Ransik had plans of his own. For now he would trust the three, but he would keep his eyes open and would not let the slightest thing slide by. He knew the orgs were not to be trusted. But for now they could be of some help to him.