Timeforce-Delta
Prologue – The Message

A/N: Hey guys, this idea has been brewing in my head for while so I decided with the success I had with Forever Red 2, I would go ahead with this one. I've made a few alterations to the canon so AU and I'll discuss the changes as they come up. ENJOY R&R PLZ!

The halls were metal and smelt of rust. A man weakly limps along, well aware that he is soon to be recaptured but if there was chance to send a signal out, it would be worth it. He didn't know where he was or when it was. He'd lost count of the days he'd spent in this desolate place, probably years, his captors revealed nothing but tortured him for information that he would take to his grave. They meant too much to him, he wouldn't risk their safety. It was night now, the guards were more lax and he was able to slip out. From the talk around him, he gathered that he was in some kind of facility and had heard them speak a control room somewhere on that floor. He got into the deserted main control room and went straight for the communications desk. Pushing his hair out of his face, he studied the panel, punching in the codes for SPD's Earth headquarters.

He cleared his throat and spoke in to the microphone attached the console, "SPD, SPD, this is WC20-02. Been captured by hostiles. They want information on the project GENPOW. Send aid, I repeat send aid." He was going to say more when the door burst open and armed guards swarmed him, dragging him off. He didn't fight them - he was too weak - he just stared at the microphone, his only hope.

*TFD*

It had been an ordinary night for Kat Manx until one of the minor squad members brought her a distress signal that had been picked up. It was her job to verify the message and alert Doggie who would decide how to respond appropriately. Since Grumm had been taken down, the distress signals were mainly from stranded ships so she simply started the message, expecting to just take down the coordinates and pass them along to the commander. However within in seconds of playing the transmission, her heart stopped, her blood froze, her muscles seized, it couldn't be him…not after all this time. She hastened to play the message again, and again, she listened to it five times and verified it twice before the shock ebbed away and urgency took over. She ran to Doggie's quarters and very nearly banged on the door.

Doggie appeared in seconds, "Kat?"

"Anubis you won't believe who just contacted us." Kat played the message and Crueger was just as shocked as she.

"Are you certain that this authentic?"

"How could it not? He talked about GENPOW."

Doggie nodded and headed towards the space craft docks, Kat following, "I have to take care of this myself. It's my fault he's captured in the first place."

"Doggie you don't know that," Kat shook her head.

"If it has something to do with GENPOW then I DO know that." Doggie selected a single man shuttle from the fleet and Kat programmed the message's origins into the navigation system. "I don't want anyone to know about this. If I'm needed, say that I've been called away by the high command until further notice. Sky can takeover in my place."

"Commander speaking of Sky, and the other rangers, shouldn't they -"

Doggie cut Kat off, "I said I don't want anyone to know about this. Not even the rangers. That is an order Doctor Manx."

Kat looked like she sorely wanted to argue but she bobbed her head all the same, "Yes Sir. Be careful Sir."

"I will," Doggie closed the door on the ship and took off. Kat watched it go with solemn eyes, she'd give the stupid old mutt three days.

*TFD*

Some hours later, Anubis landed on a tiny desolate planet. It didn't really have anything except for one low, long building with a few lights on. Perhaps this was an old outpost, he cautiously approached the structure unaware that he was being watched…

Inside the building, in a security room, three alien creatures, one sitting and two standing either side, watched Doggie on the monitors with glee. "You were right Master Vilex," the seated proclaimed. "Your ruse with the prisoner worked! The Commander no less!"

"I knew he would take the first chance to contact SPD," said the one of the left. "Our friend may have held out for long but let us see if the commander is the same, and if SPD will sacrifice him too. Get him."