Chapter 7: Jen's Revenge

Jen and I were walking down the street. Jen was saying to me, "Wes you are so strong and so brave."

I smiled, "Yeah I know I know."

She touches my arms and said, "Can I see your muscles one more time."

I rolled my eyes and smirked, "Ok. Just one more time." I once again flexed my muscles. Jen's eyes were sparking and her face glowed.

"Oh Wes, You're so hot!" This was too good to be true. I leaned down to Jen's face and was about to kiss her until I heard an alarm clock. I then suddenly felt pain as I went from kissing Jen to kissing the wooden floor of the clock tower. I started waking up to see that I went from the upper floor to the bottom. I knew I shouldn't have slept so close to the edge. I saw everyone look at me. I noticed they were all dressed and looked like they were up for hours. I looked at the clock to see it was only 7:45. I asked, "What are you guys doing up so early?"

Lucas responded, "Its not early Wes." Not Early!? It's 7:45 that's pretty damn early to me. I was still half asleep and didn't realize I had the alarm clock still in my hand. I was too lazy to put it back so I just handed it to Trip, took the glass of orange juice he had and patted his shoulder. He gave me a weird look. I then continued walking. I didn't realize I still had a grip on Trip's arm. When I let him go he almost lost his balance. I was about to drink it until Katie took it from me. I didn't really care since I was still pretty groggy. I noticed Jen wasn't in the room.

I asked, "Where's Jen?"

Katie answered, "Training as usual." This gave me an idea. Maybe if I go work out with her it will give me some alone time with her. I then ran up stairs, brushed my teeth, combed my hair, got dressed and headed out the door.

I yelled, "See you guys later!" I knew they were all giving me weird looks. I then realized I didn't know where she was. I ran back up.

Katie already knew what I was going to say as she answered, "The Park."

I gave her a thumbs up and ran out the door. As I walked to the park all I could think about was Jen. Her face, her hair, her body. But it wasn't just her looks it was the way she lead the team and never gives up is what I think I really like about her. I've gone out with some girls here and there but they were usually easy since most were interested in my money. But I knew Jen was going to be a real challenge. I think that's another reason why I'm so attracted to her.

I eventually made it to park to see Jen sitting there. She looked like she had that tree she was sitting behind set up as a punching bag. She looked a bit winded but maybe she could consider working out with me. I yelled out, "Hey! Good morning. So you want someone to workout with because I bet I'm tougher than that tree." She didn't respond at first and just dry her self off with a towel. "Come on! I bet I can show you a thing or two" I said as I playfully slapped her face.

She said, "Really?"

"Yeah." I then went to punch her, not hard but almost fast enough to catch her off track, or at least that's what I thought. She grabbed my hand and twisted my arm flipping me over and I landed hard the grass. Geez I'm not even in ranger form and I've already nearly broken my back twice today.

She looked down on me and said, "Someday if get up early enough you can keep up with me." She then walked away leaving me on the ground. Oh yeah this girl is definitely gonna be a challenge. I got up quickly and followed her.

I asked, "What time do you get up?" She continued walking not even looking at me. I ran in front of her. "Come on what time do you wake up?"

She looked annoyed and answered, "I get up at 6. I appreciate you wanting to work out with me but I don't want to hurt you."

I got a little offended by this, "Excuse me? Ok I'll admit you are the better fighter between the two of us but I can still take you on."

She then took a deep breath and said, "Look it's nothing personal. It's just I've been going through a lot of stuff recently and I think it's better that if I took it out on the tree instead of you. Okay!"

She looked like she was about to cry. I put my hand to her face to wipe her tear away. "Jen look I know you don't exactly like me put were a team but more importantly were friends. Or at least I think we are. The point is you can tell me anything."

She looked at me with her beautiful eyes. She was about to say something until our morphers beeped. She went into ranger mode right away and said, "What's up?"

Trip said from the morpher, "We got a mutant attack in the plaza. Meet us at the time jet."

"Got it! Ready Wes?"

"Yeah definitely." I really did not want to fight especially when Jen was about to open up to me. But I guess duty calls. We both morphed and teleported to the time jet. We got to the plaza and jumped down. Jen took out her V weapon.

She yelled, "You're under arrest!"

The mutant said, "Power rangers?"

Jen said, "Don't move I've got you covered!"

The mutant said, "Ok ok you caught me fair and square. I'm not going to cause any trouble." He had his back turned to us with his hands up. Something was telling me this was tricked. "Physce!" I was right as he turned around and fired his gun at us.

He said, "So pink ranger we meet again!" This guy knows Jen?

Jen said, "I remember you, you tried to destroy Alex and me! Didn't you learn your lesson last time Fat catfish?" Fat catfish? Nice name sounds like a boss from a megaman game.

"Yeah I learned you and your boyfriend got lucky then. You won't be so lucky this time around and what's this your boyfriend's not here?" He then started to pretend crying and then laughed again. "Yeah I remember now Ransik destroyed him how does that feel pinky?" I couldn't take this anymore. No one insults my friends and gets away with it especially Jen.

I yelled, "You're going down!" Myself and the rangers except Jen charged at him. We tried using our chrono sabers but he kept using his gun on us. He had Lucas pinned to the ground. I tried to attack him from behind but he pushed me aside. As I was on the ground I saw Jen charging at catfish. She was screaming with rage. She looked so furious that she pushed Lucas and Trip out of her way. She started slashing the crap out of catfish.

Trip asked, "Whoa what's with Jen?" I knew it was what he said about Alex before. She eventually pushed him to the ground and took out her V weapon. This when we had to step in. We all crowded Jen and tried to prevent her from firing.

I yelled, "Jen stop! What are you doing?"

She yelled, "Let go of me" and shoved Katie and I to the side. I had to stop her. I know she won't be able to live with her self knowing she killed a mutant instead of bringing it to justice. "He deserves it!"

Lucas tried stopping her, "Jen stop! The blaster is set on destroy"

"I know!" She fired but thanks to Lucas missed catfish and hit a thing of barrels instead.

I said, "Come on give us the blaster."

Trip said, "Jen you can't do this." While we tried to calm Jen down catfish was able to escape. Lucas finally managed to get the blaster out of her hands.

Lucas asked, "What did you think you were doing? You almost destroyed him." Jen bended down.

She growled, "That's what I wanted!" I couldn't believe what I was hearing. She slammed her fist to the ground. "We'll find him again and then I'll finish him!"

I said, "That's right we'll defiantly get him in containment."

She got up looked at me and said, "No not containment! He deserves to die!"

"No he doesn't. No one deserves to die. Jen you know revenge isn't the answer! You taught me that Time Force's policy is never to kill put to freeze and contain."

She demorphed. She had such fire in her eyes. She said, "I need to take a walk." We all demorphed. Trip was going to stop her.

I put my arm in front of her, "Let her go. She needs time." We decided to head back to the clock tower. As we got back I asked, "Why is she acting like this?"

Katie answered, "Jen took Alex's death really hard. She was the first and only man she loved." My heart dropped when she said only. Does that mean she'll never love anyone again? I sat for a while with my thoughts as Katie and Trip played go fish and Lucas did what he usually did which was look at him self in the mirror. An half hour later Jen came back to the clock tower. We all looked at her but decide not to say anything.

Jen smiled, "Its okay guys. I'm fine now." Everyone laughed and smiled like nothing happen. I was happy to see her happy again. But something seemed off. I asked, "Are you sure you're all right?"

She laughed, "I'm fine Wes." She looked fine but I just didn't feel it. Something was up. Later that night we were sleeping. I woke up for a second and I thought I heard footsteps but I just shrugged it off and went back to sleep. A little bit later I felt thirsty and went downstairs to get a glass of water. I then noticed Jen's PJs hanging on a chair. "Jen?" I looked up and saw her time force uniform was gone. I knew something wasn't right. I turned on the lights.

I yelled, "Everyone wake up!" Lucas, Katie and Trip woke up annoyed.

Lucas groaned, "Wes it's past midnight."

"Guys Jen is gone! She took her Time Force uniform with her!"

Katie asked, "You don't think…"

"She going to fight the catfish by herself." We all got dressed and morphed. We left the clock tower and hopped on the vector cycles. I contacted Circuit, "Circuit can you give me Jen's location?"

Circuit answered, "I'm tracking her morpher now. She's at the old warehouse."

"I know where that is thanks Circuit. Come on guys!" We eventually made it to the warehouse. I kicked the door open and yelled, "Jen where are you?" I then saw her on the ground. We ran up to her. She looked like she was beaten down as she had bruises all over her face. It was something I wish I didn't have to see. She looked so weak and venerable and I never saw her like that. I almost cried. I tried shaking her to get her to out of shock. "Jen speak to me!" Instead she went unconscious in my arms.

Trip yelled, "We got to get her home." I saw Frax and Ransik. I know Jen would never forgive us if we saw Ransik and left him. I didn't care Jen's safety was more important. We all ran. Lucas and I carried Jen. As we ran a explosion came behind us that luckily just missed us as we kept running.

We eventually got Jen back home. Trip and Katie got bandages and applied them on Jen. Lucas got her a wet cloth and I got her blanket. We stared at her for a 10 minutes. After while the guys decided to go to bed. I decided to stay with Jen for a few more minutes. I took Jen's hand. It felt cold and I squeezed it a bit to give it some warmth. I then started talking to her. "Jen, I know you can get through this your strong and you never gave up on anything. Please come back to us Jen, we need you, I need you. Jen…. I love you." I saw she started to wake up a bit. I said, "Jen?"

She said, "Alex?" I felt like my heart just shattered in an instant. Alex was the only man in her life not me. I still held on to her hand and eventually I feel asleep. I woke up to find it was morning and to see Jen's bed was empty. Ok relax maybe she just went to get some breakfast or something. I looked around to see she was gone. I yelled, "Guys! Guys wake up! She's gone." Katie, Lucas and Trip woke up. We morphed and we found her at the docks. We started running to her as we saw her having her V weapon pointing right at catfish. I yelled, "Jen no! Stop!" We decided to keep our distance from her this time. Us trying to stop her just made her more angrier.

Trip said, "Don't fire you got to think this thing through."

Jen said, "Save it. This guy deserves whatever I give him."

Lucas said, "You'll be the same as them."

Katie said, "Jen you're Time Force. You're sworn to bring him back alive."

Jen said with such venom in her voice, "This time it's personal! You tried to destroy me and Alex you're as evil as Ransik and it's time for you to pay!" I then tried to butt in. Maybe some reverse psychology will work.

"Wait Jen, Your right." I stared to walk closer to her. "You got every reason to want revenge. But I wonder what would Alex do?" I hoped this would work.

She looked at me and then looked back at catfish. "He say everything by the book. All right." She let go of the trigger.

We all breathed a sign of relief. I said, "You made the right choice Jen."

Trip said, "Please do not scare us like that again." Suddenly the catfish shoved Jen back to us. I grabbed her so she wouldn't fall.

Catfish yelled, "You should have finished me when you had the chance."

Jen flashed her badge, "Time Force you are under arrest!" I smiled. That's the Jen I know. She took out her chrono sabers put them together and leapt in the air. She fired blast of energy at catfish. She put her saber to full power and slashed him down.

Jen said, "It's over." We ran up to her.

I said, "Yeah." unfortunately while the catfish was exploding he some how managed to expose his mutant DNA.

Jen yelled, "Whoa! Circuit we need help!" The time flyers appeared and we formed jet mode. Catfish fired at us but we dodge his fire. We then used the cyclone defense. We used the usual coming out of the cyclone and firing strategy. We formed mode red to finish him off. I took the saber out and said, "Jen this one is for you come on." I handed the saber to her.

She said, "Thanks. Megazord saber full power! Your time is up!" She performed the final strike and the catfish was shrunk to action figure size. We jumped out and demorphed. Jen took the catfish. "You're under arrest." As she put catfish in containment I walked over and helped her close the capsule. I smiled at her. She smiled back at me. It's a moment I will treasure forever.

Lucas said, "Good job guys." We turned and looked at them smiling at us.

I put my arm around Jen, "Come on let's go home." She smiled again and we started walking back. I realized I still had my arm around her. I let it go.

She said, "Thanks."

I said, "For what?"

"For getting your arm off of me." I just laughed and we continued to walk home. Later that day I saw Jen sitting outside on one of the balconies.

I said, "I know I'm not Alex." She turned at me and headed back inside. I helped her down.

Jen said, "But I don't want you to be like him. In fact I like you just the way you are."

I couldn't believe it. "You do?"

"Yeah I do."

I felt like I could fly right down. Now I know I have a chance. I couldn't hide my happiness. "Yes! Yes! Who hoo!" I noticed we both still had our hands together but I didn't care I was so freaking happy. The pain I felt from last night was completely gone. I actually hugged her. She didn't return it of course but it's understandable. We then heard a big bang and turned to see Katie and Trip on floor and Lucas just whistling pretending like nothing happen. Jen felt embarrassed and let go of my hands and shoved me.

Trip and Katie then put on their own version of what happen. Katie mocked, "I like you just the way you are."

Trip said, "You do?"

"Wes!"

"Jen!" They hugged each other. This got Jen mad and she started chasing them. I laughed. Now I know I have a chance with Jen. She may deny it now but I feel like she's starting to have the same feelings for me.

((Next chapter The Time Shadow. The megazord gets pretty banged up in a battle and the rangers have to find a way to stop a giant robot controlled by Frax. Mr. Collins uses the new invention form Bio lab to try and stop the monster. But it take a special delivery from the future to take out this robot.))