Clock Tower, Next Morning

"Hey Wes!" Jen bounced down the stairs and walked over to Wes who was sitting at the counter, waiting for calls for jobs.

"What's up Jen?" He asked, looking up with a coy smile.

"My turn." She smiled and tried to push him off the chair, but he resisted and after a shove fight that lasted a few minutes, they found themselves face to face and their laughter ceased. They were uneasy for a moment and Wes' head started to tilt downward to Jen's, who closed her eyes in anticipation. Without warning the door opened with a loud bang, jolting them apart. Rachael stormed in and walked up to the counter and slammed her hands down.

"I swear I'm going to kill him." She said breathing heavily. Jen and Wes exchanged glances and Wes motioned to Jen to talk to Rachael, who wasn't looking at either one, but at the floor, breathing heavily. Finally Wes pushed her forward and the two girls locked eyes.

"What's up?" Jen asked, attempting to be sympathetic.

"My Dad!" Rachael threw her arms up into the air and settled them down. "He's setting me up on these dates with his advisors, and businessmen. I swear he's going to try and set me up on an arranged marriage!"

Jen looked thoroughly uncomfortable with Rachael's honest outburst. "Um, wow."

"Wow is right!" She sighed and completely collapsed with her head on the counter. "I hate him." She murmured and lifted her head off of the counter and looked at Wes, her face thoroughly miserable.

"Look sis." Wes leaned next to her. "Dad can't make you do anything you don't want to."

"I'm just too scared to fight him!" Rachael said, eyes glittering with an attempt at not crying. She looked up as Jen and Wes' morphers both beeped at the same time. Their faces went white and Jen's mouth opened and closed dumbly before she came up with and excuse.

"Pagers, we have to get upstairs." She said quickly, and Wes nodded in agreement.

"See you later sis." He waved and the two vanished upstairs. Despite her bad situation, she smiled at them. They were hiding something, and she was going to find out exactly what was happening, even though she kind of already knew.

Upstairs Jen and Wes met Lucas, Katie, and Trip at the monitor. A mutant who looked like a large computer was displayed on the screen.

"His name is Mac."

"Mac?" Wes said, his voice slightly amused. "Like the computer?"

"Yeah, the really ancient kind." Trip replied before his eyes widened in embarrassment.

"Thanks Trip," Wes' voice was understanding and amused, "You make me feel so old."

"Sorry." Trip's face flushed red, contrasting with his bright green hair. "But yeah, Mac is a dangerous one, we'd better be careful."

"Let's go then." Jen said, pulling on her leather jacket. Wes stopped.

"Rachael's downstairs. Let's go see if I can get rid of her." He turned and galloped down the stairs, taking one after the other before reaching the bottom. "Hey Rach…" But stopped, his sister was no where to be seen. The other four stopped behind him as he looked around the area, confused. "Where'd she go?" Jen blew past him and toward the door.

"Doesn't matter, she's gone, problem solved." She said, and exited quickly. Wes and the others followed, as they usually did with their commanding pink ranger.

Downtown

The five rangers wandered around downtown, morphers out, searching for the monster, unaware they were being watched themselves. Jen glanced around, determined to find the perp, but she was also considering this morning's events. Wes had forced her to speak to Rachael, why? She was his sister, but what did that have to do with her? Even Jen had to admit to herself she had first looked down on Rachael, for some reason, filled with intense feelings of… jealousy? Jen stopped as she realized that she actually had been jealous of the girl at first because she thought she was something different to Wes, and old girlfriend perhaps.

"Jen?" Wes' voice cut into her thoughts and she looked over and smiled weakly and turned back to her morpher and tracking the perpetrator. But she needn't have bothered. With one blow, she was thrown back twenty feet, knocking Wes over and the two lying in a pile on the concrete. The large computer monster stood above them laughing, and the red and pink rangers untangled themselves and stood, presented their morphers and, in flashes of their respective colors they were Time Force Rangers.

"Rangers." He growled in recognition of the red and pink rangers. The two started an almost lyrical attack on him, striking quickly and without mercy. Unfortunately for them, he was tougher and within minutes of their battle, both were lying on the ground in pain. "I tire of you." He said almost regally and turned to walk off the battlefield with dignity but a large blast sent him flying. Jen and Wes moved to their knees and looked up, confused to why the monster would be thrown a hundred feet. Trip, Lucas and Katie gathered behind them, already morphed and helped them to their feet as they all started in disbelief at the huge monster lying on the ground in pain. Then, they saw them.

Two rangers, standing directly between them and Mac, one suit purple, the other navy blue and both clearly female. The two rangers were in defensive positions and the other rangers were still with surprise. Mac growled with anger and in a flash of brilliant blue light, was gone.

"Hey!" Wes shouted at the two rangers. Without recognizing that they heard him, both rangers suddenly sprinted away from the scene, jumping up and away from them, vanishing in almost an instant.

Clocktower

"Ow!" Jen protested as Katie dabbed a small piece of cotton on her bloody forehead. She and Wes had been badly defeated by Mac and they weren't in the best condition.

"Maybe if you stop moving, it wouldn't hurt so much." Katie reprimanded her, pushing her face away from the computer screen she was trying to access.

"What did he hit us with?" Wes asked, holding a coldpack to his jaw as he went over to the picnic table where Trip sat.

"Some kind of beam." He said, unsure of what even he was saying. "I don't really know, there isn't much information in the system."

"Who are those rangers?" Jen asked loudly, pushing Katie away and slamming her hand down on the desk. The computer beeped and Trip pushed a button, making Captain Logan appear on the screen.

"Rangers, the two that helped you are Time Force Auxiliary rangers, Delta and Theta, how they got to 2001 is beyond me." He said frustrated.

"So they're Time Force." Katie said.

"Hopefully." Logan said with a grimace, and the communication channel quit.

"They might not even be Time Force?" Wes said wincing in pain as he slid off the table to the floor.

"All we can do is hope." Katie said with a soft shrug, staring off into space.