"…Eric. Good, you're here," announced Cruger as he greeted him in the Command Center. "I do wish it was under better circumstances," knowing that most of his encounters with Eric Myers had never been under good terms, something always seemed to be at stake whenever the two crossed paths.

"At least we agree on one thing," answered Eric, not at all happy that he was here, given the grave situation involving both Sky and Chase missing, lost somewhere in time.

Cruger's eyes met with Drake's; right away he could see a resemblance to Wes Collins, but this man appeared harder than Wes Collins' relaxed, more laidback, playful appearance. "And you are…."

"Drake Alexander, I'm an old friend of Eric's." He put out his hand to shake the old dog's hand. "It is an honor to meet you, Commander Cruger." He recalled his early days back at the academy, having heard a story or two about the old Commander Cruger, though back then the Commander had long since been dead and was remembered for the greatness of what he had done with SPD which would eventually turn into Time Force.

"Eric told me over the phone that you may be able to help in locating Sky and Chase."

"I will do everything I can, sir." He bit his lip as he took a deep breath, knowing he would have to be straight with the old Commander, as to who he really was. "…The truth is, sir…" He wasn't one who liked to say too much about himself, but given the situation he saw that it was important. "I used to go by another name, many years ago….. I was once known as Alex Drake…" It had been years since he had gone by that name and at times it seemed like a lifetime ago for him.

And that's when Cruger realized where the man before him was going with this. "You're not from this time, are you?"

"No. I'm not…." He might not have been born during this time period, but this had become his home. He had made a life for himself here, with his daughter.

"You were the one who brought Sky here…"

"Yes. We came here together in 2005…."

"Do you still have…."

"I hate to interrupt, but…" Bridge entered into the room leaning against his crutches, his face looking as though he had seen a ghost. "I was just in the Memorial Chamber, and something strange happened…."

Cruger sighed, knowing that just about anything could be strange to Bridge. "Officer Carson, this isn't the best of times for your…."

"No, let him go on," interrupted Drake, knowing that given the situation anything was possible and given what Bridge's ability was he wanted to hear it.

"….I saw Cassie Chan's name disappear from the plaque. It was there one minute and gone the next…"

"That's impossible; Cassie Chan has been on Mirinoi in a coma ever since my planet was defeated," exclaimed Cruger, finding the whole thing just nonsense. There was no way that Bridge could have seen her name on the plaque one moment and gone the next. He remembered the day they had placed ithe memorial in the room and Cassie's name was nowhere near it, only her teammates who had died in battle.

"I'm afraid it might not be," answered Drake, his face white as a ghost, knowing that it was very possible that history could have been altered.

"You're absolutely right…"

The voice echoed throughout the whole room, everyone turned towards where the voice had come from. And that's when they saw the face of a man on the computer screen, looking back at all of them. Eric's eyes widened when he stared back at the black-haired man, he took a glance over at Drake, wanting to see his reaction.

The man on the video screen's eyes fell onto Drake, his face was hard and stern, but there was softness in his eyes, as he stared back at an old friend he'd never forgotten. "Alex, it's been a long time."

"…It's been a little longer for me." And it had been, more years had gone by for him than for his old friend, given the time difference of when he had arrived in the past.

"Ah, someone want to tell me what's going on here?" asked Bridge, getting the feeling that something out of this world was going on here, because his senses were going like crazy, he was picking things up all over the place and didn't know what to make of it. "Who is this guy?"

"….I can answer that question for you, Officer Carson. My name is Captain Lucas Kendall, of the elite force known as Time Force. I am contacting you from the year 3020." He glared at all of them, but his eyes fell upon a very old friend, a friend he once believed was dead. "Something is very wrong…"

"…Did he just say the year 3020?" asked Bridge, glaring at everyone. "….as in 3020, as in the future?"

"Where are we this time?" asked Sky as he took in his surroundings. From what he could tell they were in a park, which was starting to look very familiar to him. He's been here before though things were a little different. "….I know where we are." He turned to Chase. "We're back on Earth and we're in Silver Hills."

"Well, that's good to know," remarked Chase, glaring at his team leader.

"What the hell is your problem?" exclaimed Sky.

"You want to know what my problem is?" he exclaimed. "….You may know where we are, but we don't know what time we're in or how we're going to get back to our time. And not to mention the fact that you really screwed up back there on Sirius," knowing that if Cassie survived or if their being there had any effect on history, he didn't even want to think about the reprocutions. "By saving her, you could have altered history."

"I don't give a shit!" hammered Sky as he got right into Chase's face. "If anyone is going to be bringing in Mirloc it's me! It's my fault he escaped."

"And that's exactly why Cruger assigned me to this mission." He looked Sky hard in the eyes. "Face it, when it comes to Mirloc you're too involved, you can't think straight.

"I can think just fine." His face hardened, his fist clenched together. "I'm going to bring down Mirloc and no one is going to stop me. He's mine!" He could feel the rage inside of him building up. "And I am not going to let you or anyone take that away from me…"

"You are such a blind fool." Chase just shook his head. "It's no wonder you're alone." Now fully understanding Sky's issue with him. "….You're not pissed that I turned out to be Hayley's son. …..What you're really pissed off about is you always had them, but never did anything about it. …So instead of just dealing with it, you're taking all your aggression and anger out on getting vengeance against Mirloc, because you see him as the root to all your problems!"

"He is the root to all my problems!" roared Sky clutching his fists together. "He destroyed my life!" Mirloc is the reason everyone left him, first his father, then Lisa, Eric and Hayley, followed by his grandfather. Even the damn butler left him.

"No…" Chase shook his head. "He may have messed it up, but the one that's destroying your life, is you."

"Take that back!"

"No!"

"Take it back!"

"No. It's time someone told you the truth…"

"Bastard!" Sky took a swing at Chase, punching him smack in the face, which only caused Chase to return the favor. The two started going at it, punching each other like there was no tomorrow and neither one was going to let up.

A couple minutes passed and the two felt themselves being turned about, arms grabbing a hold of them pulling them away from each other and holding them back. At first the two struggled against their holders trying to break loose, both of them took deep breaths, exhausted from their scuffle. "You two done here, or do we need to call in for reinforcements?" asked a man's voice, who was holding Chase back from Sky.

"No." Chase pulled away from his holder. "It was just a misunderstanding!"

"It didn't look that way to me," exclaimed a woman's voice, as she let go of Sky and walked around to stand next to her comrade so the two could face both Sky and Chase together. "…Now do one of you want to tell us what's going on? SPD isn't supposed to be around on earth for another four years."

Sky's eyes widened when he stared at the young woman, his heart was pounding against his chest.

"How do you know we're from the future?" asked Chase crossing his arms against his chest. He wasn't about to let two civilians get the best of him.

Sky shook his head, knowing he had to regain control of himself; this was no time for his emotions to be getting the best of him. And he knew he had to get Chase to stand down because the last thing they need right now was for him to get into it with two Time Force Officers. "….Because they're from the future, the year 3000."

"…The year 3000?" questioned Chase. What the hell was going on? And how the hell would Sky even know that?

"How the hell do you know that?" exclaimed Jen, getting into Sky's face, looking like she was going to rip him apart, knowing that nobody should know that, not even some hot-shot SPD officer. It would still be many many years before SPD would turn into Time Force. There was no possible reason that SPD would even know about the existence of Time Force, much less time travel.

"I just do," remarked Sky, crossing his arms against his chest. Two can play this game.

"Easy, Jen." Lucas grabbed a hold of her shoulder pulling her back slightly. "Let's hear them out."

"Yeah, Sky…" Chase turned to his teammate. "How do you know they're from the year 3000? The Commander didn't mention anything to me about Time Force when he debriefed me on the mission." He wanted to know just how Sky could know that, it's not the type of thing that just anyone would know.

Sky sighed heavily, as his eyes fell onto Jen, his mother, or one day would be. He knew he couldn't tell them the whole truth and he wasn't exactly in the best of moods to get into it, especially with her. "…I grew up in Silver Hills, as a child. My father was one of the Silver Guardians."

"Okay. That answers one question," remarked Jen, eyeing them as she crossed her arms against her chest, wanting to get down to business. "Now why are you here? No one should be using time travel in your time."

"…Look, we don't have to tell you anything. We can't jeopardize our futures," answered Sky knowing exactly what to say.

"He's got a point, Jen…"

"No. The way I see it, you have no business being here." She getting into the face of the young red shirted tall man before her. "….People from your time do not have the training or the experience to be traveling on missions through time."

"Trust me, lady, I have plenty of training and experience," remarked Sky, staring her down.

"Oh really? Well, maybe you forgot your training on obeying your superior officer." She wasn't about to back down until she got her answers and she wasn't going to let his hothead smart ass attitude get to her.

"I don't have to listen to a word you say." He widened his eyes. "The only one I have to listen to is Commander Cruger…"

"Yeah. And you listened real well to him," remarked Chase sarcastically.

"Stay out of this, Chase!" announced Sky, not wanting Chase to get involved into the matter.

"No," answered Chase as he stepped forward. "Maybe they can help us get back home…" Thinking that if they really were from the year 3000, then they must have used something to get to the past, and perhaps they could use it to get back to their time.

"Nobody is going to be going home," hollered a voice. "….at least not alive." everyone turned around to find a purple-like man with glowing yellow eyes tearing right at them.

"Mirloc!" shouted Sky, his eyes glaring furiously at the monstrous beast, his fist clenching together. He wanted nothing more than to hear Mirloc begging him to spare his life. This would be his chance to end things once and for all.

"….Well…Well…Well… I didn't think Doggie Cruger would have sent daddy's boy to come to get me, considering what happened the last time," mocked Mirloc, knowing how easily he was able to play with Sky's emotions. "I should thank you for helping me with my escape, you were so very good."

Sky could feel himself tensing up, but he was not about to let Mirloc beat him this time. "I let my guard down, I won't make the same mistake again." This time he would not fall for any of Mirloc's tricks, this time he would make sure that his father's killer could do no more harm to anyone. He ran towards him, morphing as he jumped to face his nightmare.

"Sky!" shouted Chase. He sighed heavily, as he ran to join his friend, morphing into the blue Ranger. "Damnit, Sky! You're going to get yourself killed."

Lucas and Jen stared at each other, not sure what to make of it, other than that Mirloc seemed to be what the two SPD officers were after. "We should help them," exclaimed Jen, raising her wrist, knowing one thing was for sure, this Mirloc was a threat and needed to be stopped.

"Jen, wait." Lucas grabbed a hold of her wrist. "We don't even know who this Mirloc is. What he's capable of…."

"It doesn't matter. They need our help. If this Mirloc escapes, all of our futures could be lost."

"Then we should contact the others…

"No!" Jen glared at him. "….In case something happens, someone needs to be around to stop Ransik."

All who remained in the Command Center were Eric and Drake; Commander Cruger and Bridge both had left the room at Lucas' request, feeling that it would be best that he speak with Eric and Drake alone, knowing that something might come up that would not be for the ears of anyone who wasn't apart of Time Force. Eric was an exception, as he had worked with Eric in the past and in some ways this did concern him.

"….So you think they were in 2007 on Sirius?" asked Eric.

"….Yes. We discovered alterations, just a few hours ago. Cassie Chan was not supposed to survive the attack on Sirius. And things can only get worse…"

"How so? She's been in a coma for years; no one even thinks she'll ever wake up. How could that be a problem?" Eric wasn't seeing how much of an impact of Cassie being alive could have on the timeline. "It's not like she was a danger to anyone. She's one of the good guys for crying out loud…"

"….You haven't told him?" Lucas's eyes fell on Drake, his former leader.

"Told me what?" asked Eric, looking from Drake to Lucas, wanting to know what the hell was going on here.

"…There's a time disruption and it's centered around Sky."

"What's he talking about, Drake?" Eric turned to Drake, formerly known as Alex, wondering what the hell Lucas was talking about, 'time disruption'? It didn't make any sense and since it dealt with Sky he demanded to know. "Well…"

Drake sighed, though in the past when things had gone wrong and others had told him that it wasn't his fault, this time was going to be very different, this time it was his fault. He had caused this time disruption, as Lucas had called it. "It's a ripple…."

"A ripple?" That even made less sense than what Lucas had said. "What the hell is a ripple?"

"It's a ripple in time…." Drake walked over to the computer and sat down in one of the chairs. He pulled out the necklace from around his neck and clipped off the chain from around the circular object. "It's a change of events that have been altered throughout history." He opened up the slot and placed the round object inside the computer.

"So you're saying that by bringing Sky here, you altered history?" Eric didn't quite get it, this was one of those times he really wished he had brought Hayley along, and she would be able to explain it in a much better way than two top notch time travelers. "But I thought you said that you checked the history banks once, everything was as it should be."

When Drake didn't answer, it was Lucas who responded on the transmitter. "Sky was supposed to be brought to the past. It was his destiny."

"Then what's the problem?"

"You have to tell him, Alex, he has a right to know."

"I know." Drake watched at the disk loaded on the screen, once it was finished. He paused for a moment, when it asked him to click okay to view its contents. He turned around in his chair to face Eric. "I know what I said, and at the time it was true, but that changed once the ripple took effect. It changed things; made things different, caused some things to happen earlier than they should have."

"And what was this ripple that caused these changes?"

Drake returned back to the computer to view the contents of the object he had worn around his neck for so long. The first thing to pop up was a news clipping, dated October 8th 2007. It was the day after Wes had died. It was about the battle that had been fought against Mirloc, how Eric barely had survived. It read exactly as it did when Hayley had showed it to him in the hospital, there wasn't any difference as far as he could tell.

"I don't see a difference; it's all the same."

Drake didn't answer, just clicked to the next page that had Wes's obituary on it; slowly he raised his finger and pointed to the last few sentences. He didn't even wait for Eric to read it. "…..he is survived by his father, Alec Collins." There was no mention of Lisa or Sky.

Eric's eyes widened, his heart nearly skipped a beat, he read it over and over, thinking he must have heard wrong, but he hadn't, it was right there in black and white. According to this Wes never married Lisa and apparently never knew Sky. "What? What the hell is this? Is it some kind of joke?"

"It's no joke," sighed Lucas. "That was how the timeline was supposed to go."

"But you just told me that Sky was meant to come here. It doesn't even mention Sky in the paper. Sky came here in 2005, " exclaimed a frustrated Eric.

"That's just it."

"Just what?" Eric turned back to Drake.

"Sky was conceived in 2004 remember….. If Jen had remained here he would have been born in 2005."

"So Jen was supposed to stay here, is that the ripple?" But even that didn't make sense; if Jen had stayed here she and Wes would have gotten married and it would have mentioned both of them in the obituary.

"No." Drake cleared his throat and moved onto the next content of the CD, which was a photo.

Eric just glared at it, not believing what he was seeing; his heart skipped several beats, as he stared at the three in the photograph. It was a picture of him wearing his Quantum Ranger suit with the SPD badge, his daughter Megan was next to him holding his helmet, she was three years old, but what really got him was the little five year old boy who was also in the picture with them, holding another helmet in his hands. "What the hell…. That's not possible, Megan and Sky are seven years apart, but there they're like two…"

"That photo is dated 2010…." Drake licked his lips. "The year Sky was supposed to arrive here, the actual year when he would have been five."

"2010, but that was three years after Wes had died…." And then it finally hit him, in this reality, Wes would have never known about his son, to him Sky never existed. He then began to wonder how many other things would have been different. What else had changed? According to this photo Sky and Megan had grown up together and… "I never left SPD."

"No, you did leave," Drake corrected him. "But in 2010, you would get a call from Alec Collins, about Sky. He's what brought you back to Silver Hills and to SPD. You would reconcile with Cruger and help Alec raise Sky."

"Does he still die in 2014?"

"Yes, you would have gotten custody of Sky four year after, when he's nine." Drake moved onto another photo, that was a family photo, it was Christmas. It reminded him of another Christmas photo, of little Wesley's first Christmas, but the only difference was Sky was in the photo with them and they weren't in the home he was living in now, they were in the mansion.

"When did Sky go to the academy?"

"Sky would go in 2020, when he's just 16 years old. Everything will happen as it did; he will meet Dru and will end up being teamed up with Bridge and Syd in 2022."

"But that would make Bridge and Syd…."

"Older than Sky, Syd would be about twenty and Bridge would be nineteen." Drake then began to flip to the next photo, it showed all three of them. For three years they would work hard together, becoming a team, just as they had in this reality. Sky would push himself to the top, even being younger than the other two he would be one of the best throughout the whole academy.

"What about Jack and Z?"

"They come in just as they did before; the only difference is Jack doesn't want any part of SPD. He chooses to serve his time in prison, but with Z's help he will get out sooner and will meet up with Ally."

"So if Jack doesn't become red Ranger…."

"Sky will become the red Ranger." Drake moved onto the next photo, to reveal all four of them in their SPD uniforms. Sky was red, Bridge was blue, Syd was pink and Z was yellow.

"If Bridge is blue, who would have been green?"

"Due to the time ripple someone came to SPD a lot sooner than expected." He went to the next photo, to reveal a young teenager about seventeen with short red hair.

"Sam…" Sam, the little thirteen year old boy who was his daughter's best friend and sort of boyfriend.

"Yes…."

"But….." Now things really had gone over the top.

"Had things been allowed to happen this way, the battle where Gruumm killed the Rangers never would have happened. Your daughter and Sam would have never traveled to the past to change it."

"I don't get it?"

"There wouldn't have been a need. They would have won the battle, they would have been older and more ready for it," Lucas announced.

"So basically," Eric turned to Drake, "by bringing Sky here early, it caused some things to happen that shouldn't have happened."

"Yes…"

"Is there anything else that has changed?"

"The only big change is the final battle with Gruumm happened five years earlier in 2020 instead of 2025."

"Is that bad?" asked Eric, looking at both Lucas and Drake.

"No, not in a sense, history has already adapted to that change. Crucial events concerning Sky, still happen. Jen still existed, she joined Time Force, she still met Wes, fell in love, had Sky, none of that has changed."

"So what's the problem?"

Drake sighed heavily, as he glanced from Lucas back over to Eric. "With Sky being out of place and jumping through time the way he is, it could cause more ripples. He's like a magnet, a chain reaction. That is why I have to go after him and bring him back here, before any major alterations happen."

"You and I both know that Sky won't listen to you. I should go with you…."

"No…."

"What?" exclaimed Eric, as he turned to the screen to face Lucas. "This is bullshit, Lucas, and you know it."

"Whatever it may be, you cannot go."

"Why the hell not?"

"Because I'm the only one trained for situations like this," answered Drake firmly. "SPD doesn't have the training or the experience, most of their time travel is still experimental."

"Yeah. Well, I'm not just SPD." Eric got right into Drakes face. "I was Time Force; I've traveled through time…"

"Once!" Drake raised up one finger. "You travelled through time once and nearly caused a catastrophe." He looked Eric hard in the eyes, he wasn't about to back down from this one.

"Look who's talking." Eric crossed his arms against his chest. "At least I didn't cause a ripple and made Sky into some kind of beacon."

"Would you rather I didn't bring him here, and Wes died never knowing about his son and that Jen still loved him?" He looked Eric hard in the eyes. "Because that was the alternative!"

"That's enough, you two!" announced Lucas. "This isn't the time for your bickering. This situation needs to be taken care of now! I'm sorry Eric, but Alex will be doing this alone, bringing you in could disrupt the time stream."

"Fine!" He narrowed his eyes. "I don't like it, but fine. But you just better bring him back in one piece."

"I'll bring him back. I'll bring both of them back," he promised.

"…Now that we have that settled, I should be in your time in under the hour."

"Why are you coming?" asked Eric. "….Won't that cause more problems?"

"I'm going to need a time ship, one that will get the job done," answered Drake knowing that his time watch wouldn"t be able to for this rescue mission.

"…Yes. And there is another matter, concerning Mirloc." Lucas's eyes looked grim as he gave a warning look to Drake, a look he knew his old friend would recognize.