If someone had told him two years ago he would be standing on an island in the sky, he probably wouldn't have believed them. But with everything that had happened, time travel, being a ranger, the Q-Rex, everything, a floating island in the sky and a princess shouldn't throw him for any loops.

"Welcome, I'm Princess Shayla. You must be Eric, it's wonderful to finally meet you," The smile on her face just glowed, the others had been right. He truly was a warrior at heart, just by looking at him. She could feel his inner sprit. "It's not everyday we get to meet other power rangers."

"Yeah." He shook her hand firmly. "So the others have told me that this is your home….or at least what's left of it."

"Yes." She smiled faintly. "Many years ago there was a great battle. All that remains of my home is this piece of island, the wild zords, Merrick and myself; all others perished." Though it had been many years, a day hadn't gone by that she didn't think of all those who had died that day; all she could hope was that they were in a place of peace. "I suppose you can relate. I heard about what happened to your home and your friend. I truly am sorry."

"Thanks." He didn't know what it was, but just being in her presence made all the pain and agony he had been in seem to wither away. Maybe it was just part of it: this place, the other rangers. It seemed to remind him of how it had been working with Wes's team, though it had taken a while before they became a team and actually worked together. The funny thing was he had missed it; more than he wanted to admit.

"Ah hmm." Merrick coughed as he walked up behind Princess Shayla, staring at Eric sharply.

Eric released his hand from Princess Shayla and stepped back a few feet, watching as Princess Shayla moved around. "You must be Merrick." Eric put out his hand, waiting for the young man to return the same gesture. On the way here the others had told him a little about Merrick, not very much, and now he was beginning to see why.

"And you're Eric. It's nice to meet you. I've heard you're quite the fighter." He shook Eric's hand firmly.

"So I've been told."

"Well, now that we got everyone introduced, why don't we get down to business," interrupted Taylor. She could almost sense the tension between the two, which didn't surprise her too much, both Eric and Merrick shared the same personality. She just hoped it wouldn't get in the way of what needed to be done. "Like finding out where these three orgs came from."

A few moments later everyone gathered around and sat down. Before they did anything, they needed to know just who they were dealing with and why they were here. "I am sorry, rangers, but I'm afraid I have no idea where they came from." Shayla looked over to Merrick. "Merrick, did you recognize the three at all?"

"No, I'm afraid not. They aren't like any of the Orgs I have ever seen before. There's something very different about them…." He bowed his head down, sighing, hating that he couldn't provide more information. He was an ancient warrior, he should know more, but he couldn't place these three anywhere.

"But if we don't know what we're dealing with, then how are we supposed to fight them?" announced Alyssa.

"Yeah. You saw how powerful they all were," stated Max, who knew they had their hands full. If they hadn't gotten there when they did, Eric could very well not be sitting with them now.

Danny seemed distraught as well. Though he had great strength, he had very little courage, but would never let the others know anything of it.

"Then we'll just have to face them," announced Cole, as he eyed all of his friends, his family. "The Earth needs us, we can't let them win, guys."

"I…I…" Eric looked up, finally breaking his long silence. "I may know someone who can answer our questions about where they came from." If he hadn't yelled at her and blamed her, then maybe she'd be here with them now. "It just won't be easy finding her."

"Who?" Taylor asked.

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Jen slowly opened her eyes. At first everything was blurry and hard to make out. How long had she been out? But more importantly, where was she? She blinked her eyes a few times, and everything started to come into focus. The first thing she could make out was the ceiling above her, darkened, due to the lack of light. It was then she realized she was lying on something soft, a bed. How had she ended up here? The last thing she remembered… "Eric..." She jolted out of the bed.

"Oh, you're awake." Nadira stood up and turned around from the chair she had been sitting in from across the room. "How are you feeling, Jen?"

"Nadira." Jen started backing against the wall. She started feeling for her wrist, for her morpher. "What the hell is going on here!"

"Take it easy. I'm on your side," Nadira exclaimed, trying to convince Jen she no longer wanted to hurt anyone.

"Yeah. Like I'm supposed to believe that!" Jen snapped. There was no way in hell she would ever believe Nadira had changed sides, not after all the problems she had caused. Jen pressed her finger on her morpher and called for her blaster. "Put your hands up!"

"But it's the truth… You have to believe me," Frantically Nadira put up her hands; she couldn't blame Jen for not trusting her. "I've changed."

"I don't think so." Jen started coming towards her, blaster pointing straight out. "People like you don't change." As Jen got closer, she heard another voice coming from the chair, but couldn't quite make it out. "What's that noise?" When Nadira didn't answer, Jen yelled once again. "Tell me!"

"Easy now, just don't shoot." Nadira moved very slowly and bent down to pick something up from the chair. It was a baby boy, no more than a year old. "It's okay, James, she's not going to hurt you." Nadira gently rocked James in her arms, trying to calm the young child down.

"What…. What's going on here…" Jen was in total shock, she started moving backwards. What was going on? And what was Nadira doing with a baby? None of it made any sense.

Other noises emerged from outside the room. "Don't move." Jen looked at Nadira square in the eyes, then turned around and opened the door. She saw a group of six or eight Silver Guardians running down the hall, and running ahead of them, the Quantum Ranger.

"Let's move it, men!" she heard him shout.

Jen took one last look over at Nadira and the baby boy and then started after the Silver Guardians, needing to find out what was going on here.

"No, Jen, wait!" Nadira yelled, but it was too late. She sighed heavily and hugged James, before giving him a kiss on the cheek. "He's going to kill me."

James giggled and looked into Nadira's eyes. "Mama…"

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"So the other rangers, they were from the future?" asked Alyssa. Eric had just finished telling them about Jen and the others, everything.

"Yes. They came from the year three thousand, to capture Ransik."

"And Wes sent them back. And up until the other night was the last time you heard from any one of them?" added Max.

"That's right. Jen told me she's been after those three orgs, as you call them."

"But then you yelled at her and she took off," exclaimed Taylor, which didn't surprise her, Eric seemed the type to yell at anyone, no matter the reason. But in this case, she couldn't say she wouldn't have done the same thing.

"Yeah…" he answered softly, knowing he had gone a little too strong on Jen. He had said some things he probably shouldn't have, but there was nothing he could do to undo the words he had shed on her the night before.

"What if she went back to the future?" asked Danny.

Eric shook his head. "No. That wouldn't be like Jen. She's still here, somewhere." He bowed his head down, sighing. "I just don't know where, and without my morpher I have no way to get in touch with her."

"What about your friend's morpher, Wes's?" asked Cole.

"No. Wouldn't work. The morpher was seriously damaged, not even Bio-Lab's top technicians could repair it."

Merrick stood up promptly. "I'll find her."

"You don't even know what she looks like."

"Won't be a problem, because you'll be coming with me."

"Okay, but we don't even know where to begin to look." Eric could sense from the moment that he met Merrick that a part of him didn't quite trust him. "Unless of course you're some type of tracker?"

"Something like that."

Princess Shayla stood up and gripped Merrick's shoulder. "Yes. Merrick is very good at tracking people down."

"Alright. I'll give you that." He eyed the other rangers. "But, first sign of trouble, get a hold of us."

"And that goes for you too," announced Taylor. "We're in this together."

Eric nodded his head and then followed Merrick as the two left the Animarium to begin their search for Jen and perhaps their only hope at stopping the three creatures from the future.

Alyssa walked up behind Taylor and grinned. "Still think he's such a bad guy?"

"He's beginning to grow on me."

"Do you think they'll find her?" asked Danny.

"Don't worry, my friends, they will find her. I can just feel it," answered Princess Shayla.

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Jen rushed up a flight of stone stairs, quickly catching up to the Guardians. She wasn't sure what was going on or where they were going, but one thing was for sure, something was definitely up.

"Be careful guys, we don't know what they're capable of!" announced the Quantum Ranger. "And remember if Ransik is there, he's mine!"

"Understood, commander!" exclaimed one of the Silver Guardians. As they reached the top of the stairs, they were in total darkness.

"Let's move out, nice and easy." Slowly he crept outside, Quantum Defender in hand. He waved his hand, signaling for the Guardians to follow him outside in the dark of night.

Jen watched them go, one by one; she peered out the entryway that appeared to no longer have a door. And what she saw outside put her in total shock. Destruction was in every direction she looked. Traffic and road signs torn into pieces, bricks of buildings crumbled into pieces and no light in sight.

She couldn't believe what she was seeing. What the hell had happened? Jen backed away, right into a large desk; not being able to move any further she turned around and her eyes just lit up. Right above her was a worn out sign, but she could still make out the lettering, it read SILVER HILLS HOTEL.

"This isn't Turtle Cove. I'm in Silver Hills." She ran outside. "Eric…." But no one was in sight; both the Quantum Ranger and Guardians were gone. "They must have gone after the mutorgs…" Knowing that they wouldn't have the firepower to stop them, she had to catch up to them and warn them. "They don't know what they're up against!"

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"This was the last place I saw her," announced Eric. He had taken Merrick to Mr. Collins' office, the last place he had seen Jen. He watched as Merrick walked around the room, scanning everything in sight.

Merrick took in the sight, trying to lock onto anything that would lead them to Jen's whereabouts. He could almost feel the tension in the room from the other night, but the whole room was full of tension. He walked around the desk and stopped when he noticed a photograph on Mr. Collins desk; it was of Mr. Collins and a young man. "Is that him?" He turned to Eric. "Your friend, Wes?"

"Yeah. That's Wes."

Merrick had a way of knowing people. He could just take one look at them and know what kind of person they were. He could tell that Wes was a good person and wanted nothing more than for his father to be proud of him. "He seemed like he was a good person."

"…Yeah. He was."

Merrick turned to Eric, eyeing him carefully. "You answer that like you really don't know. I thought you were his friend."

"Well…" Eric sighed. "We never were really friends. In fact I spent most of my time envying him, rather than being his friend."

"But you mourn his death."

"Yeah." Eric bowed his head. "I guess it took him dying for me to realize just how much of a friend he was. I just never took the time to notice before."

"Sometimes it take losing someone, to know just how much they mean to you."

"You make it sound like you know what you're talking about."

Merrick took one last look around the room, ignoring Eric's last comment or just choosing not to answer it. "Let's move out."

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It was unbelievable. A little less than a year before, this had once been a proud and beautiful standing city, but now it was in ruins. Destroyed. Silver Hills had fallen, even with Wes's brave and sacrificing efforts the city had fallen. And Ransik still remained. Jen had lost sight of the Guardians she had tried following nearly an hour ago. They had been too quick for her to catch up with, due to the injuries she had from her encounter with Ransik.

"I can't believe this happened!" It nearly brought tears to her eyes, seeing the city in the state it was. Total darkness. The ground littered with dead bodies, piled on top of each other, and destroyed cyclobots scattered all around. Buildings were either destroyed or abandoned.

The park she had gone to on many occasions was gone. Nothing was left, the freshly grown green grass, the tall leaf-filled trees, the singing birds and beautiful growing things, all of it was gone. But nothing prepared her for what she saw next. "No….no…." The Clock Tower, the home she and the others had lived in with Wes, had been destroyed. It felt as if someone had stabbed a knife in her heart, to see her home in pieces. "Not you too." A few tears trickled down her cheek.

Back in the future….

Alex was working on the computer, going over cadet files. Logan had assigned him to desk duty shortly after their talk about Jen; it was Logan's way of de-ranking him, or in this case his punishment, for the time being. He didn't mind the work, but given the situation he'd much rather spend his time searching for Jen than going over reports of other cadets and their status. But Captain Logan had made it clear that he would handle Jen's situation.

"Okay, Cadet Porter Cook." Alex read off the list and then typed the Cadet's name into the computer. The computer began to scan for the file on Cook. Once the scan completed it came back, saying NO RECORD.

"No record… That's impossible." Again Alex typed the name into the computer, but each time it came back with the same results. Maybe he was just tired; maybe he had misread the name on the paper. He looked over the list and searched for Porter Cook, but there was no Porter Cook on the list. He let out a heavy sigh, relieved that he wasn't losing it. "Okay, who's next, Luc Barns…" And even as he read the name aloud, he watched as the name faded away off the sheet of paper. "What in the world…." He quickly put Luc Barns' name in the system, but it came back with no record of him ever being in the system, ever existing….

Now he was frightened, scared out of his mind, and what scared him even more was that Barns and Cook probably weren't the only ones that had disappeared without a trace. Alex knew something in the past must have changed, something bad had happened and it would only be a matter of time before his memory of those two ever existing would be erased from his memory. He had to act fast. He needed to get to the past and stop the mut-orgs before they caused any more damage.

He flashed out of the room, running as quickly as he could, but he was in such in a rush he didn't see Lucas ahead of him. He ran right smack into Lucas. "We need to talk," announced Lucas harshly, as Katie and Trip joined him in surrounding Alex.

"Look, I don't have a lot of time. Just come with me and I'll explain everything." He looked them all in the eyes, knowing any moment now any one of them could disappear from existence. "But we've got to move now!"