Strickland, a skug inventor, delivers to Ziktor the means to destroy Ryan's past-providing the industrialist with a portable time machine. Ziktor sends the inventor through the time barrier. From the data stream, the Professor has pulled Ziktor's plans for the time machine. While J.B. and Ryan build the device, Kaitlin volunteers to find a rare crystal needed to power it. Retrieving the crystal, Kaitlin encounters skugs which she battles and defeats. With the crystal, the Troopers complete their version of the time machine and send Ryan after Strickland while Kaitlin and J.B. go into battle with one of Grimlord's mutants. J.B. and Kaitlin defeat Grimlord's SHARKFIN as Ryan and Young Ryan, joining forces, defeat Grimlord's skugs. Bruised during the fight, Young Ryan doesn't remember anything about the skugs. Ryan sees his father but must return to the future before he has an opportunity to talk with him.