Disclimer: Power Rangers? Not in my Christmas stocking.
A/N: This just might be my favorite Blue...Hope you agree.
For Lucas, there were ups and downs for going back to the future. He could drive again, and the foods were what he had grown up with; but, there was Time Force's military discipline, and no pizza and no Wes. There was no clock tower and odd jobs store to live in, just a two bedroom apartment in the bachelors' quarters shared with Trip. That didn't last long. Although there was no official reprimand from Time Force for their actions in 2001, it didn't take them long after the Mute Org incident to issue the orders.
Katie was first, she was sent to Europe to head up her own squad against her objections and attempts to get demoted. She was ignored and nearly dragged away from the quarters shared with Jen, protesting loudly. Only Jen's order to not injure her escorts kept her from actually struggling. Trip was sent to Asia to be a part of the R&D department, an appointment he'd once admitted to being his dream. He accepted it, knowing that he couldn't fight all of Time Force and went; leaving the Ranger Program with only a backwards look of regret. Jen vanished before any orders came through for her, and while Time Force made no official explanation, Lucas could only hope she'd made it safe back to Wes and wasn't a prisoner somewhere. For him, Time Force had decided to promote him out of the Ranger track entirely, against his wishes, and even marrying Nadira couldn't prevent them from giving him a small station in the middle of the country to run.
Two years later, as Lucas was celebrating the birth of his first child, a boy they named Wes, Katie vanished. For nearly a year, the Time Force internal affairs hounded him, asking him where Katie had gone, and even where Jen was. Trip's disappearance, while he was in the internal affairs' solitary confinement, was proof that he knew nothing about what had happened to them.
For three years, all was quiet. Lucas celebrated the birth of his daughter, Kim, and played the good station manager. Then, finally, Ransik was paroled. With his wife, father-in-law and children, Lucas left his job at Time Force and followed his teammates; vanishing from sight.
Alex, one time fiancé and Red Ranger, received a final communication from the Time Force Rangers. It was a picture, with all four rangers, Ransik, Nadira and the two children grinning happily. Jen and Katie wore bikinis and Jen was tanned, Trip had a peeling sunburn and Circuit sitting on his shoulder. Lucas had Wes on one hip, wearing blue swim shorts, his naturally dark skin an exotic counterpoint to Nadira's pale form in its white one peace. Ransik held Kim and looked content as his granddaughter hugged him with a huge smile. The caption read, "The weather is here, wish you were beautiful!"