Power Rangers: Chrono Storm (Game)

"Understood." Lalah said, doing her best to quell the uneasiness coming ahead. "Lead the way, Mateo."

The Rangers reluctantly started to leave, making their way to Patricia. Bishop shared a fist bump with Mateo as the former saw the latter off to battle.

"Good luck. Be careful, Teo."

"Always am." Mateo smiled as he took his leave.

Once the Rangers were gone, Bishop nodded in approval. "You too. Take care of em for me." Bishop knew that Sensei was lurking in his Chrono Com, even though she was no longer his AI.

"I always do."

"That's my girl."

The Rangers were back on the ship. It was clear that none of them were happy about what they had to do but they knew they had to do it. Mateo sat down in the captain's chair.

"Sensei!" Mateo called out.

"Yeah...setting course." She waited for Mateo to launch the ship into the time stream and once he did, she set it on the path to 2017, giving the Rangers a little time before they arrived at their desired destination.

Samara sighed to herself as she sat in her room on the ship. "We gotta help the bad guy? And let a group of kids die? I ain't right with that...that ain't what I signed on for," she said. "What the hell..."

Ledger changed into the proper clothes, looking at himself in the mirror and sighing. "I can't believe we have to do this," he said. "We're supposed to be the good buys, right? And that means keeping the good guys alive. I wish it didn't have to be this way." He walked out of his room, biting his lip and looking around. He made his way toward Lalah's, knockig on the door lightly.

"Oh, Ledger. Hello." Lalah greeted genuinely, happy to see the young man.

Ledger smiled a bit. "Hi, Lalah. Umm...sorry if I'm interuppting something, but...I don't know if the others are available, and I just need to talk," he said. "This whole mission today feels wrong..."

While everyone chose to go to their quarters, Mateo chose to remain on the Bridge, sitting in his chair and hopelessly staring into the time stream.

"I don't know. I just don't know." Mateo muttered.

"Don't worry yourself. You have a good team. I'm sure they will be fine." Sensei responded, speaking through his com.

"It's not them I'm worried about." Mateo admitted. "I remember the data on Eddie Morrison and the pain he went through. It's one thing learning about it but to actively contribute to it and that of those families?" Mateo sighed. "I don't know if I'll be able to keep from taking that demon's head myself."

"Teo.. sweet boy." Sensei's voice began to soften. "You can't beat yourself up over this. Bishop hand picked you for a reason. He fought for you for a reason. When it comes down to it, you know what needs to be done. It'll hurt today but the billions you'll save with this one move will be in your debt and that of our crew."

"I don't care about debt." Mateo's eyes began to water. "I just care about keeping as many people safe as I can."

"I know you do. That's why you have to steady the ship. You have people depending on you, including your team."

"Even you?" Mateo asked.

"Not even close. Don't push it." Sensei's sudden shift from caring to snarky made the Red Ranger laugh. He wiped his eyes and sat back, taking a deep breath.

"Thanks. I guess you are good for something." Mateo responded with the playful jab.

"You little fucker! I'll remember that!"

"I'd expect no less." Mateo said with a soft smile on his face.

Ledger nodded, smiling a bit. "Alright. Thank you," he said. He walked in, biting his lip softly. "I just...this doesn't feel right to me. Aren't we supposed to be the good guys?"

Allowing Ledger to come inside her room so he could grab a seat, Lalah went to the small island to retrieve tea bags and two cups from the cabinet. She released the hot water into the cups from the water dispenser before placing the chamomile tea bags into the filled cups.

"In my time, there are no such thing as good guys and bad guys. Black and white kind of situation. Just the actions speak for themselves." Lalah explained, handing the tea over to Ledger. Then she sat on another chair across from him. "In this case like this mission, there are million ways to solve the situation without the need of death but these will cost the change in the timeline. Losing one Ranger from the first mission is one thing, but losing five more? It is hard to swallow." She said. "All we can do is to enforce the past in order to protect our future."

"Even with a bunch of Rangers deaths on our conscious," Ledger said, sighing. "Let's just...get this over with, I guess. Much as it hurts."

Samara nodded, silent as she put her hand on her Morpher strapped to her hip.