Chapter 26 posted, it's been getting good and interested as I write hopefully sooner I can get this story done, thanks for those who still keep an eye on my story, please enjoy reading and don't forget to leave a review.

-Carol

Sky and the rest followed RIC to where he was going and went inside the clock tower. When they reached upstairs, they saw by surprise that the whole room was trashed.

"What happened here?" Sky said.

"It's obvious someone was here." Jack said.

"I'll say they went through all our stuff." Z said.

"Not only that, most of our things are missing." Syd said.

"Even the most of our electronic stuff like to communicate with." Bridge said, and Sky knew what he meant.

"This looks bad, you guys, I'm sorry this happened." Megan said.

"Maybe you guys should go to the cops." Andrea said.

"No. I mean, it's not like they'll find anything or won't think it's serious." Sky said.

"Look, if there is anything we can do to help, we will be okay to give you a hand." Tyler said.

"Nice of you, but I think we will be alright." Jack said.

"If you want, we can help pick up around." Andrea said.

"Andrea. It's okay. We got it from here." Sky said."If you say so." Andrea said.

"It's getting a little late. We should start going. Mom and dad are probably home already." Tyler said.

"Careful and take care." Sky said.

"We will. Bye, everyone." Megan said.

"See ya, Sky and everyone." Tyler said.

"Bye. Hope you all be okay." Andrea said, then left out the door.

"How could all of this have happened?" Z said.

"RIC. You have to know what happened?" Sky asked.

"Yeah. Who did this?" Syd asked.

"Hang on a second, RIC, before you show us." Bridge said and started to get some string and a white curtain, then RIC opened his mouth, showing what he recorded.

"It's those robots. They were here." Jack said.

"Not only them." Sky said, seeing the mysterious criminal with the robots.

"What were they trying to find?" Syd asked.

"More like, how did they know where our hideout is at?" Z asked.

"Who knows, but they're much smarter than we think." Bridge said.

"RIC. You were lucky to have escaped from them." Jack said.

"We don't know what would have happened if you were captured by them." Z said.

"Glad you did alert us even if not by our morphers or these watches." Syd said.

"Hey. Wait. RIC. Rewind a bit." Sky said, while RIC was rewinding the recording. "Right there. Stop." Sky and the rest saw two hooded figures by the criminal.

"This criminal is not working alone. He has two accomplices helping him." Jack said.

"We have to contact Commander Cruger about this immediately." Sky said.

"How? They stole our equipment of communicating with him and Kat." Bridge said.

"Aww man. Your right, we can't." Sky said.

"Might as well start picking up the all this mess." Z said.

"Yeah. Sadly, who knows how much of our things got stolen." Syd said.

"We told you not to pack so much Syd, most of this is your stuff than our stuff." Sky said.

"Sorry, sometimes your never too sure." Syd said.

"Can't believe most of the equipment that Kat and Boom gave us is stolen." Bridge said, when RIC barked finding something underneath their things.

"RIC. What is it?" Jack asked and went by him seeing what he found then picked it up from the floor. "Hey guys. Look what RIC found." Everyone went by Jack and RIC.

"It's a slip of paper that says "STEEL", even if its spelled wrong." Bridge said.

"That criminal must have dropped it while he was looking through our things." Sky said.

"Whatever it means, it's obvious he is up to something." Z said.

"Just hoping it's not too late." Sky said.

Meanwhile: Year 3025

In a stadium, Lucas was helping out on the race track, he had since retired his days of being a race car driver and had been training new rookie drivers on the track, he still had kept in touch with Katie and Trip, even if it was no longer their ranger days or working with Time Force.

Lucas was heading his way out, then stopped by a coffee shop, when he suddenly bumped into someone by accident spilling his coffee.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to-." Lucas paused, when he was surprised to see it was his formal rival Dash in his human form.

"Lucas. Hey. Can't believe its you." Dash said.

"Dash. What a surprise seeing you." Lucas said.

"I know it's been a while. How have you been?" Dash asked.

"I've been good, I kind of left Time Force and went back on the race track for the past couple of years then retired since then and now I train new rookie drivers." Lucas answered.

"Sounds like you had it great. How have your friends been?" Dash asked.

"They've been good, I haven't heard from them in a while, since a lot has happened, it's sort of a long story though, but enough about me. How has everything been with you?" Lucas said.

"Well, ever since I was released from cyro prison for good behavior and made a difference in my life, I thought maybe I would try to do some good in me." Dash explained.

"That's good to hear, you should stop by the race stadium and you can help me out." Lucas said.

"Would be great, but at the moment I'm just sticking around here." Dash said.

"You work here? Sorry, I didn't know." Lucas said.

"It's okay, like I said trying to do some good here and it's not so bad being a server." Dash said.

"So I've been told." Lucas said.

"I use stop by here a lot when it was once a bar a few years ago, you wouldn't believe the many weirdest things I see here, I remember I was at a party here once talking to this guy who was a complete wreck, he was completely waisted I tried to help him, but he didn't want my help and was heading his way out, not before I realized he left his wallet and went to go find him thinking he couldn't have walked far, when I followed to where he walked which was not far, I saw a car following him then sped up a bit while he was running, next thing I knew the car stopped and someone got out then dragged the guy who looked unconscious in the car then the person went back in and just drove away. I couldn't believe what I saw that day, since then I kept his wallet in case he came back, but never did besides who knows what happened." Dash explained.

"That does sound weird, you know sounds like I have heard something similar to what you just told me. How did this guy looked like? Do you remember?" Lucas asked.

"Sort of he was around your height and brown hair, from what I can remember. Hey, you know I can bring you the wallet." Dash explained.

"If you have it, bring it." Lucas said.

"Sure. I'll go get it." Dash said, and went to go get the wallet, when Katie and Trip came entering in the coffee shop and saw Lucas there.

"Lucas. Hey." Trip said and Lucas turned around hearing his name.

"Trip. Katie. Hey. What a surprise seeing you two." Lucas said.

"So glad we found you, you have to come with us." Trip said.

"Is it an emergency?" Lucas asked.

"It is, but will explain on the way." Katie answered.

"Come on. We got to go." Trip said, when Dash came walking, surprising Trip and Katie.

"Lucas. Here's the wallet." Dash said.

"Dash. Hey. Surprise seeing you." Katie said,

"Hey. Same to both of you." Dash said.

"Thanks for the wallet Dash, I got to go with my friends." Lucas said.

"No problem. Hope you find the answers in that wallet." Dash said.

"Hope so. See you." Lucas said, and walked out of the coffee shop with Trip and Katie. "Okay, you two what's the big emergency?"

"We received a message from Alex that there is trouble going on in the year 2026 and he needs our help." Trip said.

"Which means we're back on being a team again." Katie said.

"Well, I have missed you, though it won't be the same without..." Lucas paused for a minute and they both knew what he was going to say.

"Yeah. We know, it's okay our lives have to move on anyway." Trip said.

"By the way, how long was Dash out of cyro prison?" Katie asked.

"Who knows, he got out on good behavior." Lucas said.

"Good for him. Glad he's doing okay." Trip said.

"Why did he give you a wallet?" Katie asked.

"He told me something and hopefully it is what I think." Lucas answered, when he opened the wallet and was surprised to know who's wallet it was. "I don't believe it."

"Who's is it?" Katie asked.

"Take a look for yourselves." Lucas answered, showing them and both were shocked.

"No way, it can't be, it's Michael." Trip said.

"It is him. I'm not understanding here." Katie said.

"There's one way to find out." Lucas said.

"Were suppose to meet Alex at his apartment once we found you." Trip said.

"I think he can wait, right now this is important." Lucas said, getting in his car. "Are you two coming or not?" Both Trip and Katie got in Lucas's car and he started driving.

Chapter 27 coming soon.

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