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Hey guys, thanks for the reviews for last chapter! Sorry this one's been long, but I've been busy with school and whatnot. So after that had ended, I had written the next chapter on some paper, but that got washed in my pants. Then my computer had like 10 viruses on it, so I needed to fix that. But now everything's okay and fixed, so on with the story!

This chapter is short, I know. But it's preparing for an unexpected even to show up in Chapter three!

Sky's been taken captive; can the Rangers find him in time?

Earthquake

His head spun wildly as Sky opened his eyes up, and crimson red blurred his vision. He tasted blood on his tongue.

"Where am I?" he muttered into the darkness,

"That isn't any of your concern." Came a voice. Sky recognized the voice instantly.

"Broodwing." He muttered. The creature smiled at his name.

"Very good, Cadet."

The Blue Ranger was just about to lash out, but he was suddenly blink folded and uncuffed from his prison on the wall. "Take him down, you know where to." commanded Broodwing.

"Take me where?" Sky screamed, but all that got him was a kick in the stomach. He felt a cool breeze suddenly smack him as a loud metal on metal clacking was heard in the rock cavern. The Krybots soon stopped for a second, and Sky seized his chance for an escape.

He closed his fists tightly together, and jolted them apart. His cuffs flew off, as well as the Krybots from his arms. Sky pulled the blindfold off and dashed away from his captors in search of a way out.

"Sky, Sky come in. It's Syd, do you read me?" she said into the speaker. "SPD Pink to SPD Blue, come in Sky!" a frustrated Syd threw down the headset and sat down angrily. "Where the hell is he?"

"I don't know." Jack responded. "But we've got to find him." Jack's eyes scanned the screen intensely, hoping for an answer.

"Kat, widen the scanning zone to one-hundred miles radius." Cruger spoke up. With a nod, Kat increased the range. But alas, nothing showed.

"What do you think happened to him?" asked Z as Syd stood up and began to slowly walk the perimeter of the room.

"It's hopeless." Syd muttered.

"Hey, nothing's hopeless." Z placed her hand on Syd's shoulder. "We'll find him."

All of a sudden, low rumble came from under the Rangers' feet. "What was that?" Kat muttered and felt a tremor come from under her desk. Her question was soon answered as the floor beneath SPD Headquarters suddenly lurched and shook violently and threw the Rangers into the wall. "Brace yourselves, Rangers!" Kat screamed.

Bridge grabbed hold of the center console as Z and Jack fell towards the floor. Syd and Kat collided together and slid hard against the wall. Once the floor beneath them stopped shaking somewhat, Kat stood up and helped Syd to her feet.

"An earthquake?" Bridge muttered.

"I've got a strong reading on the runner, Kat!" Boom shouted from the other room. He suddenly came careening over and brought up the picture of Casper's Fault." Z looked at the picture, her mind was boggled.

"That's his runner!" shouted Jack happily. "But no Sky."

"Something's wrong there," Bridge spoke up. "I can feel it. There's more going on then we see."

"Well, he couldn't have gone too far, could he?" She asked curiously. "I mean, there's nothing but rocks."

"And water." Bridge added. Jack rolled his eyes as Syd and Z exchanged glances. "Well, maybe he wanted to take a swim." He said. The room was silent, and all eyes were on the Green Ranger. "What?"

An idea suddenly came to Jack. "Kat, do you still have our Runners available?"

"This was my only good uniform, too." Sky muttered as he waded through waist-high water to get across the pond. "Of all things," he muttered and came up to a large pile of rocks and gazed through a small crack.

He could see more this time. A large amber and rust colored metal was seen as what seemed like gold Krybots digging it out.

Sky slowly sat down on the rock as he watched these creatures dig furiously. After watching them for a while, he was still baffled by this mysterious metal they were digging.

One Krybot seemed to hit something hard and metallic, causing him to jump for joy. But that joy was quickly short-lived as the entire cavern surrounding them began to shake violently.

"An earthquake?" Sky shouted and jumped away from a large falling boulder. The walls around him screamed as he jumped from place to place, trying to avoid the falling rocks. From the panic he heard in the other room, the Krybots weren't doing to well either.

A large rock fell and jammed him hard in the shoulder, causing his uniform to tear. These little pebbles were slowly starting to enlarge. Sky knew only one thing to do. He made his right hand into a fist and concentrated hard. Moments later a blue aurora began to glow and he encircled his entire body in a force field that kept most of the rocks off. He gritted his teeth together and prayed this would end.

A minute or two later it did. Chaos was heard in the next room that made him chuckle. That's when he heard a sound coming from his morpher.

"Sky-Co-n-Ky." Came the staticy voice. "-o-you-ead-me?"

"Z?" he asked into the speaker

"Sk-oh-ank-od. Swi-h-to-chael eight."

After adjusting his dial, the voice finally came in clear. "Go ahead, Z."

A quick zip of static was heard as her voice came clearer. "It's about time, what happened to you?"

"Long story."

"Kat is requesting you take some pictures while you're down there. We're picking up some strange readings down there.

"I'm way ahead of her, Z. I'm coming home in my Runner."

"No, meet us on the rock formation."

"Received, what's your ETA?"

"About five minutes."

"Perfect. I'll see you outside. Tate out." He said and shut the lid. "Time to go home, Sky," he muttered to himself and stealthily made his way outside.

Once he crawled out of the hole his eyes searched the sky, hoping for a sigh of his fellow Rangers. A few minutes passed, and he finally saw something coming from the horizon. Seconds later he was holding Syd, as Jack patted him on the back.

"Crazy trip?" Jack asked. Sky rolled his eyes.

"You don't know the half of it."

Bridge chucked. "Come on, lets get you home. I think a nice shower will do you good."

Sky nodded in agreement. "The pictures I have, I think Kat will want to see them." He smiled down at Syd and kissed her forehead. She snuggled into his arms, thankful he was okay.

Once Sky's runner was securely in place, the five Rangers made their way back onto the platform and headed towards land. Jack told them about the earthquake they had, which left Sky in awe. He had been in that same earthquake.

Did it mean anything? The Rangers put it behind them as they made there over the ocean and back towards Headquarters.

But that earthquake just hadn't shifted around some rocks. Not in the slightest. Once they left and the sun began to set, a soft blue glow came from a small rock just above the waterline.

It had been a long day for everyone back at Time Force. More mutants had been put away as Jen's team was slowly coming to find the leader of a new mutant gang. As the clock in Jen's office slowly blinked seven pm, she sighed.

"Not much going on around here, huh?" came a voice. Jen looked up from her folder to see Katie standing in the doorway.

"Not as much as it used to be." The Captain muttered. Katie smiled and handed Jen a picture of three kids piled on a trampoline.

"Figured you could use an updated picture." Katie smiled. Jen nodded and placed it in a picture frame. Katie had married a few years ago to a man named Devon Miles. Over the past 12 years they had three wonderful children: Elisa who was ten, Matt who was eight and Devon Junior who was four. "So, have you heard anything about Sky?"

Jen shook her head. "Nothing." There was a silence again. "I just wish I could see him again. Even if it were just for a few minutes. There are a lot of things that we have unsaid." Jen smiled slightly at her next thought. "I could go visit Wes."

"But I thought the doctor's said you couldn't travel through time anymore. Wasn't that the main reason you had that heart attack a few months ago?"

Jen rolled her eyes. "I've been on medication for weeks now. Soon, I'll be cured."

"I just worry, Jen." Katie said.

Just then a cadet came careening into her office. "Captain!" he said and snapped to attention.

"Thomas, what's wrong?" Jen jumped from her chair.

"Admiral Watson needs to see you in Central Command, immediately." He panted.

Jen looked at Katie as they suddenly bolted out. The trip to Command wasn't that long. Two elevator rides and they were there. Once the doors opened it seemed like panic had broke out. Technicians were running all over the place and typing codes into computers like crazy.

"Admiral!" Jen said and preformed a perfected salute. "Sir, what's going on here?"

His voice was full of panic as he pointed her towards the plasma screen directed in the middle of the room. "Captain Scotts," he spoke. "We have a serious emergency…"

Chapter two up soon…