In the end, although the Rangers and their dragon themed Zords were able to hold back the Wraiths until the Daedalus and her ZPM arrived, it was Sheppard who conceived of the plan to fake destroy the city. When that tactic proved successful, the Rangers joined in to pull down the last of the Wraith, saving Colonel Everett from being fed on in the process. They were unable to save Ford however, and Justin could only trust that the Power would look out for the other man as he escaped out the Gate.

"Power Down," T.K. said finally, as they stood in the Gate Room once again. "We're done," he added.

Justin gripped T.K.'s shoulder, "We're done, for now."

"Get some rest," Dr Weir told them as she approached, "You have all done fine work today. We will be returning to Earth soon, including you, Justin."

"Me?" Justin replied, "Why would I want to do that?"

"People want to meet you," Dr Weir replied, "and Storm Blaster too."

"Great," Justin muttered.

"It won't be that terrible," T.K. told him.

"You don't understand," Justin replied, spreading his hands out, "I have to register Storm Blaster on Earth if he's going to drive me around and those custom car forms take forever to get finished."

A/N: With Wayward Son finally done, I take this time to share a few thoughts on this story.

1. The scene of Justin saving Colonel Everett was in my mind practically from the beginning, although I didn't know the Colonel's name at the time.

2. Yes, they have a knight and dragon based power, mostly because it just sounded fun.

3. Akamu is human, mostly, he has Eltarean ancestors, but their abilities have mostly faded out of the genetic pool.

4. I don't know how someone who builds their car from the ground up makes them registered street legal, I just invision there being a lot of paperwork. Justin knows this because T.J. was in that same delimma and was the one who got Storm Blaster registered before 'giving' him to Justin as a 'birthday gift' with Zhane's help.

5. I am not affiliated with the SCA and I don't really know much about them. What I was able to determine about them is shown here in that Justin (who left when he turned 18, remember,) wouldn't have gotten much in the way of combat training, but there were a lot of things he could learn. I did some research into the heraldry of the ranger insignia and uniforms as well. I can't describe the animals well, but the uniforms are something like the Ninja Storm designs. Also, I have this mental image of canon Justin as part of the SCA and having the Astros around for his first tournament...something tells me that Zhane, Andros, and Karone at an SCA event would be hilarious. ('So this is about people from Earth who get together and pretend to be even more technologically backwards than they actually are?')

6. This story was somewhat inspired by the Kansas song "Carry On My Wayward Son" (as heard on Supernatural actually). There is a sequal in the works which will actually focus more on Jenna than Justin which is currently untitled but features this very promising scene: Jenna eyed the silver clad, white haired man for a long moment before turning to his Hispanic, black clad companion, "So you're one of those idiots who hurt Justin so badly." Then she took two quick steps forward and landed a punch on the man's chin just as Justin had taught her.