"What do you mean, you *saw* us?" Carlos demanded impatiently. "How could you have seen us?"

"I don't know," Cassie admitted. "We had this--vision. The six of us were on a ship, his ship, and it was in trouble." She pointed at Andros when she said "his ship", and he shifted a little.

"What kind of vision?" Carlos insisted, shooting an irritated look in Andros' direction. If that Ranger didn't stop gazing wistfully at his girlfriend, he was going to get seriously annoyed.

"The kind that can not be explained in words," Saryn interrupted, giving him an icy look. His expression said plainly that if Carlos didn't stop hassling *his* girlfriend, he wouldn't stop at annoyance.

"Wait," Ashley interrupted. "You just said 'six'." She looked at Cassie questioningly, and the other girl nodded.

"There's one other person we haven't been able to find. We think he's from Earth. His name's TJ."

"TJ who?" Carlos asked, trying to even his tone out a little.

"We don't *know*." Cassie's voice rose in exasperation. "We didn't get a list with everyone's personal information on it. He was the Blue Ranger; that's all I know."

"No," Andros said suddenly, and everyone turned to look at him. "I mean, yes, he was the Blue Ranger," he amended, a faraway look in his eyes. "But he didn't start out that way."

"What do you mean?" Cassie asked, frowning a little.

Andros was silent for a moment, for once contemplating the floor instead of Ashley. "He was the Red Ranger," he said at last. "He became the Blue Ranger after he joined the Astro Rangers."

"I thought you were the Astro Rangers," Ashley put in skeptically.

"We--we are," Andros said, stammering as he met Ashley's gaze. "But we were different... in the vision."

"It was a different team with the same name," Kerone explained, giving her brother an amused look. "There are only five people on our Astro team, and Andros is the only one from the real team who was also on the vision team."

"Something had happened to you," Andros muttered, looking at the floor again.

Kerone frowned. "Like what?" she prompted curiously.

He shrugged, not looking up. "I don't know. You weren't dead, you were just... gone."

The room was quiet for a moment, and Carlos folded his arms. This blushing, inarticulate kid was the leader of his Ranger team? *They should have put his sister in charge,* Carlos thought uncharitably.

"So this team that you... saw," Ashley said at last. "Saryn, Cassie, Andros, me, Carlos, and--TJ?"

Cassie nodded. "Those were the Astro Rangers."

Carlos saw Ashley bite her lip thoughtfully--something she almost never did. Andros must be making her uncomfortable. He wished they could hurry this meeting up. He didn't see what the point was, and even if Ashley was ignoring him he'd be happier when Andros was back on his own planet.

"And the rest of you recognized each other from this vision?" Ashley continued slowly.

Cassie and Saryn exchanged glances. "We have known each other for some time," Saryn answered. "But we both recognized Andros as soon as we saw his picture, and all three of us remember a similar vision."

"One that involves us," Ashley murmured, her puzzled gaze seeking Carlos out. "I don't get it. If this is all true, why don't we remember it too?"

Saryn stiffed noticeably. "I am not in the habit of fabricating stories."

Cassie put a hand on his arm. "Look, I know it sounds weird, but it feels important. I don't know why, but I think the six of us must have some connection to each other."

*Yeah, you're all mentally unstable,* Carlos thought.

Ashley seemed to consider that. "Well," she said at last. "Let's try to find TJ, then. You said you thought he was from Earth, right?"

Carlos looked at her in surprise. Was she actually going for this, or was she just trying to get them out of here as quickly as possible?

"Yeah," Cassie agreed eagerly. "And I think he had to be from around here... Andros is right about the Red Ranger thing. If he was a Ranger for Earth before he was on the Astro team, he must have lived near here."

"Everything else was different," Saryn reminded her quietly. "There is no reason for that one thing to parallel our world."

"But we have to start somewhere," Ashley pointed out. "Justin, can you get into the high school's records from here?"

"You mean can I break into them?" He looked offended. "Of course I can. You want me to look up TJs?"

"Yeah..." She frowned as she trailed off. "You're sure you can't remember a last name?" Ashley asked, her gaze flickering across the visiting Rangers.

Andros just shook his head, not meeting her eye, but Cassie and Saryn turned to stare at each other. Neither moved for several long seconds, while Ashley and Justin and the rest of the room waited on their answers. Finally, Cassie's eyes slid shut and Saryn turned his intense gaze on Ashley. "Carter," he said, his voice barely above a whisper.

"Carter?" Ashley repeated softly, staring back at him and apparently oblivious to everyone else in the room.

He nodded once. "TJ Carter," he said, more firmly. "That is his name."

She glanced at Justin, who flashed a thumbs-up in their direction and returned to the computer. Carlos watched Saryn's expression soften as he turned back to Cassie. He reached out to stroke her face with one finger, cupping her cheek in his hand as her eyes fluttered open again.

"I'm okay," she breathed. Her voice was almost inaudible, even in the unnatural stillness of the Power Chamber.

"I'm sorry," he whispered back, just as softly. He was completely focused on her, and all of the authority that had seemed to flow through him before was gone. He was just a boy, begging forgiveness from the girl he loved and praying she didn't hold whatever he had done against him.

"It's all right," she promised quietly, her voice regaining some of its strength. The color began to tinge her face again, and she smiled at him. He smiled back, the first time Carlos had seen such an expression on his face.

Then Saryn looked away, taking in the rapt attention of their onlookers. His smile vanished, the stern look settling back onto his features, and the spell was broken. Carlos gave his head a shake, pulling his attention away and still not sure what had drawn him so strongly into the moment.

"Bingo!" Justin exclaimed, not seeming to notice the tense quiet of the room behind him. "TJ Carter, eighteen years old, a baseball player at Sanborn Regional. Is this the guy you're looking for?" he asked, projecting a picture up onto the main screen.

Carlos could tell from Cassie's swiftly indrawn breath that it was.

"That is him," Saryn agreed. "We must speak to him."

"Whoa," Carlos said, holding up his hands.

Saryn looked at him. That was it, didn't say anything, didn't do *anything*, just looked. Carlos tried to suppress a shiver. There was a disconcerting echo in those eyes, if you looked long enough.

"Look, no offense," he said, tearing his gaze away and plunging ahead, "but you guys sound a little bit... odd. I mean, have you listened to yourselves? You're tracking down people you saw in a vision for a reason you don't understand? What kind of sense does that *make* to you?"

"It feels right," Andros answered unexpectedly, his eyes resting on Ashley again.

Carlos frowned at him, taking a step closer to his girlfriend. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Carlos, wait," Ashley said, sliding her arm through his. "Maybe we should go along with this, just for a little while. Let's at least try and track down this TJ person, okay?"

Her expression pleaded with him to trust her, and he sighed. She knew he couldn't resist that look. "All right," he agreed grudgingly. "We'll try and find TJ. Justin?"

"Baseball diamond," Justin said over his shoulder, anticipating the question. "He's alone."

"Thanks Justin," Ashley said gratefully. "We'd better go before he leaves--" She looked at the others, hesitating.

"We will accompany you," Saryn said, before she could continue.

She looked at Carlos uncertainly. "I'm not sure that's such a good idea... He's going to be freaked out enough to have members of his own Ranger team show up suddenly; it might be better if we explain what's going on and then bring him back here."

"It is our interest," Saryn objected, but Matt cleared his throat before he could go any further.

"And it's our planet," the Red Turbo Ranger pointed out. "We're here to protect the people of Earth, not frighten them out of their wits. You'll wait here while Carlos and Ashley invite him to the Power Chamber."

Saryn didn't look happy about it, but he didn't protest further.

"Ready?" Justin asked, turning to face them.

He glanced at Ashley, and found her looking up at him. He nodded, and Justin touched the control panel to his left. The world sparkled emerald green, and he could feel the sun on his face before he even opened his eyes again.

He felt Ashley take a deep breath at his side. "You were right," she murmured. "It *is* too nice a day to be inside."

"Told you so," he said, scanning the field. "So what's this all about? Why are you so insistent that we find TJ?"

"Because he doesn't know them," she answered immediately, surprising him. "He couldn't possibly recognize them, but if what they're saying is true, he will anyway. Aren't you the least bit curious?"

"I didn't think of it that way," he admitted, his eyes focusing on a lone figure hunched on the bottom tier of the bleachers. "Yeah. Now that you mention it, yeah, I guess I am."

"Then let's go," Ashley said determinedly, starting across the field.

There was no doubt that the boy in question recognized *them*, but then, most of the world would have recognized them. He didn't say anything about any visions, but he also didn't question the fact that there were "people who would like to meet him" back at the Power Chamber.

That might have had something to do with the fact that he was too dazed to do much except mutter "yes" or "no" when they spoke to him, of course, but they didn't have time to let him get over his shock. Ashley's curiosity, once piqued, was as impatient as it was insatiable, and Carlos just wanted to get the whole thing over with as quickly as possible.

So they found themselves back in the Power Chamber not long after they had left, with a dazed and extremely confused visitor in tow. Carlos couldn't help feeling a little sorry for him as he looked around the room in bewildered awe--they had let news cameras into the Power Chamber once, and only once, but otherwise visitors had been strictly banned. And now TJ had been selected, almost at random from the populace, not only to see the famous command center but also to play guinea pig for a group of crazy aliens. He'd probably be in therapy for weeks after this.

Or maybe not. As he turned in a slow circle, taking in his surroundings in as much detail as he could comprehend, his eyes settled on the two Rangers from Kerova. His reaction was quite possibly the last thing any of them had expected.

TJ tensed, his hands coming up in an instinctively defensive gesture, and he glared at the girl. "Astronema! Andros, get away from her!"

Andros and Kerone exchanged startled glances, and Kerone took a step forward. "I'm Kerone," she began, keeping her voice even and soothing. "I'm pleased to meet you, TJ Carter."

TJ froze, staring from her to the Turbo Rangers and back again before abandoning his defensive posture and straightening uncomfortably. "I--I'm sorry," he apologized, shrugging sheepishly and giving her a boyish grin. "I don't know what got into me. For a minute there, you... you must have reminded me of someone else."

"But you recognize her?" Cassie said, stepping away from Saryn. "And Andros?"

TJ's gaze tracked inevitably toward hers, and the flicker of familiarity on his features was unmistakable. "Cassie?"

She nodded slowly. "Yeah."

His eyes slid past her to Saryn, and his voice was noticeably cooler this time. "Phantom."

Saryn frowned, and in the second before he replied his hesitation was obvious. "So it would seem," he said at last.

TJ flinched, lowering his gaze and putting his hands to his head. "No," he muttered. "It wasn't *real*..."

"TJ?" Cassie asked worriedly.

He jerked his head up, staring into her eyes. "How do I *know* you?"