Destiny means Forever - 19/19 - Complete

[chrisangelo]

Okay I only decided to post this fic here because of JPS. She was my inspiration for continuing with the story. This was my first story so please no flames. It actually has a lot of good plots, and I stand by that. The backbone of the story is pretty good, I guess, it's just lacking the flesh. I'm writing the sequal now which will obviously be better. I've obviously hopefully improved. But once again please don't read if you expect perfection, because I was far from that.

- Chris

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DESTINY MEANS FOREVER

Disclaimer: I do not own the Power Rangers, this is simply for the enjoyment of fans.

Author's Note: This may be my first story, but I hope you don't consider this an amateur story. This is a Tommy/Kim fic so no bashers please. Also this is set during Dino Thunder / 2004. Please review, no flames, constructive criticism welcomed, and please enjoy!

Summery: With the death of the former yellow ranger, Trini, Kimberly returns home only to find out that her past has come back to haunt her.. Not only is her power coin is in existence but she must return to Angel Grove to find out everything Zordon's death brought years ago. But what happens when she does return to her true home and what she thought was a blessing turns out to be a disaster when she is attacked by Elsa, wanting to take Kimberly to none other than Mesogog. He knows Tommy's true weakness, which is the Pink Ranger. Will Tommy and the Dino Thunder Rangers be able to find her? And how long will Kimberly's powers last?

- Part One - Tragedy brings Hope

Angel Grove was a place well known as the home/base of the Power Rangers, or it used to be known as that. A storm was raging and the streets were abandoned except for a yellow cab. A woman clothed in black sat in the backseat staring out the window, as the rain trickled against it and a slight form of fog appeared as she breathed heavy. She was heading for Angel Grove Airport, heading back to her home in Florida. She rarely returned to her hometown of Angel Grove except for the one exception..visiting her best friend's grave site.

FLASHBACK

The sky was turning from day into night as a woman walked through a cemetery. She stopped and fell to her knees by a grave placing the yellow roses, she held in her arms, by the grave that read, "Trini Kwan". Tears started to drop from her eyes as she pressed her fingers against the letters engraved in the stone. "I can't believe it's really been 3 years..I miss you so much Trini." She thought back to the day of the funeral...

Trini was her best friend and she felt like she lost everything the day she received the call from Jason. Not only did the funeral bring heartache but it also brought a confrontation meant to happen. She saw the man she loved, but lost, a few years back as she wrote him a break-up letter. After the funeral she spoke with Tommy and they ended up in a terrible argument that forced both of them out of each other's lives again.

ARGUMENT

Tommy and Kim headed over to a back table away from everyone talking about the memories they shared with their fallen friend, Trini. Kimberly sat down and placed her hands on the table and looked up at Tommy.

"I hope you are happy with Katherine." She said her old feelings of self-consciousness coming back.

As soon as Tommy sat down he was taken back by her comment.

"What do you mean am I happy with Katherine? How's that boyfriend of your's that you left me for?"

Kim gave him a confused look and sat up in her chair. "I have no idea what you are talking about, you are the one that broke up with me Tommy, sending me a letter in Florida saying I was only like a sister to you and that you would much rather be dating Kat. I tried to talk to you at Muranthias, but when I saw you hug Kat after the fight, it just confirmed the letter." She revealed as tears formed in her eyes remember reading it. That was the hardest weak of her life, she had been training non-stop and couldn't get in touch of any of her friends let alone Tommy, and then she received the letter.

Tommy frowned getting angry. "What kind of made up story is that Kim?! You are the one that sent me the break-up letter saying you found someone else and that I was only like a brother to you. Stop trying to back out of it, you know you sent it so just admit it. Don't make up some story to try and make me feel sorry for you. It won't work!"

They ended up fighting and yelling more after the confrontation but it only brought tears to Kim and she eventually left, Jason soon following after her. That was the last time they spoke or heard from each other, besides from friends.

END OF FLASHBACK

Kimberly held a box in her arms with an envelope attached to the top that read, 'URGENT.' The box that was under it read 'Anton Mercer Industries INC.' She wiped the tears away from her eyes and slowly opened the letter.

Dear Kimberly,
I know this letter may come as a shock to you, but there is something you must know... I know you have heard this many times over the last six years but in the battle to save Earth, against my sister Karone, Zordon's life was taken, but what you don't know is in turn with claiming most of the evil in this world it not only took my powers but several of the other Ranger's as well. He left a message with me that was specifically meant for you, but he told me not to reveal it until the new power came into effect. I recently got back to Earth from Ko-35 and discovered there are new Dino Rangers fighting a new force of evil. I am also sorry that we could not meet in person but...I'll just get to the point. You must return to Angel Grove and to where the Command Center used to reside. With the death of Zordon, he used his strength to restore two powers; one of them being yours. Enclosed in the package is everything you will need. I wish you the best of luck.

- Andros

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Kimberly covered her mouth with her hand as her eyes trembled as she read the letter and the memories flooding back of the day Jason told her of Zordon's death. Tears formed in her eyes as they then released, streaming down her face. She held in a gasp as she took all of this in. "Why..this..why now? Oh Zordon.." She spoke softly as she closed the letter and then started to open the package. Her eyes widened as she saw what was inside. She picked up a pink communicator, the one she wore so many years ago, and slipped it onto her wrist as she closed her eyes feeling the cool metal against her skin. She then found a smaller box and when she opened it she gasped out as she grabbed the medallion that was and still is precious to her. She ran her fingertips over the Pink Power Coin as she finally smiled. When she heard the Cab Driver speak she quickly closed the coin within her hand and tipped her head up.

"We are now pulling up to Angel Grove Airport." He said stopping the cab.

Once Kimberly paid the driver, she stepped out of the cab grabbing the letter and package and headed inside the airport. She didn't carry any luggage because it was a day trip that she -thought- she was making. She had no plans on staying any longer than a few hours. She looked around and tried to think of the appropriate place to teleport but she needed to use the phone before she did any investigating of the power chamber. She walked over to a pay phone and quickly dialed a number. She rolled her eyes when it went to the answering machine, 'This is Jason Scott, leave me a message!' Simple and short, just like Jason always was.

"Hi Jase.. this is Kimberly..." She raised a brow as the connection went dead. Apparently she was not meant to tell Jason about any of this.

"Just my luck." She sighed running her hands through her long brunette hair.

Kimberly moved from the pay phone to the women's restroom. She looked and made sure no one was in there before she looked at her communicator. "I hope this works.." She said and then pressed the right button and she felt the sudden sensation of teleporting and she disappeared in a wave of pink energy.

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Kimberly reappeared in what was left of the Power Chamber. She looked around as everything was dark except for a few spots visible from the moonlight shining in from the partial exploded ceiling. She ran her hand through her hair as she looked around. It was definitely different than the Command Center. She saw the encasement of where Zordon would have been and felt teary-eyed but suppressed it. Kimberly continued to look around the power chamber as memories of her days as a ranger were rushing back. But sooner than they came back they faded as her pink power coin started to glow. "What..." She asked in confusion. To add to the confusion a figure stepped out of the darkness and with a loud scream came running at Kimberly and threw her sword out at her but before the sword collided with Kimberly her power coin activated as it radiated pink energy and started to wrap around Kimberly and soon a huge light went around her body. Elsa's sword was reflected back as she dodged it. Kimberly held out her power coin as if her morpher was there and the words that were so long forgotten came to her lips again, "Pink Ranger Power!" She yelled as she was once again morphed into the Pink Power Ranger.

"Yes, it worked!"

Elsa frowned as she came into the moonlight glaring at the Pink Ranger. "I guess my master was right about you, and the fact that the power would work for you."

Kimberly's eye brow rose inside her helmet as she frowned. "Who are you and who's your master?"

Elsa looked down as she smirked. "The name's Elsa, Pink Ranger, and my master is Mesogog, your worst nightmare!" She then let out a loud groan and held out her hand and got a devilish look on her face. "ATTACK!" She yelled as tons of tyrannodrones came running from behind her after a flash of green appeared.

Kimberly saw this and went into her fighting stance as she smiled. "I guess it's - BACK TO ACTION! -" She yelled as she quickly went into action as she jumped into the air and flipped over a few of them as they ran into the wall and she jumped on their heads and soon flipped to the ground. Her eyes widened as the dinosaur-looking-creatures came at her like the putties of the past...but ten times as strong. "I can do this.." she spoke softly to herself and then jumped into the air and flipped forward kicking three of them back and then kicked two more of their legs out. Once they were all down she turned to Elsa who came at her quick, growling like a dinosaur. She jumped again flipping over Elsa and kicked her from behind sending Elsa twisting into the air and against the wall.

Elsa quickly got up and cocked her head as she laughed. "Is that the best the ORIGINAL Pink Ranger has?"

Kimberly frowned. "Never underestimate me, dinosaur breath!" She yelled as she ran toward her. "Ki-ya!" Kimberly yelled as she tackled Elsa to the ground and then punched her face and when she went to jump away, Elsa grabbed her leg as she flipped Kimberly up into the air and then stood, kicking her in the stomach sending Kimberly flying through an opening of the Power Chamber. Kimberly screamed as she twisted into the air and fell to the ground hard hitting the rocks as she fell further down the path. As she tried to stand up her vision began to blur reminding her of a time several years ago. "No...not again. I have to do this.." She whispered as she managed to get up but only to see 20 or so more tyrannodrones running down the hill followed by Elsa.

-- Meanwhile --

Hayley gasped as her scanner zeroed in on the fight in Angel Grove. "A Pink Ranger? How..." She turned looking at Tommy who was coming up behind her. "Is there another gem? How is there a Pink Ranger?" He asked her not really registering the fact that it was Kimberly. "Why is Elsa attacking her? And why in Angel Grove..?"

Tommy was working on some of his papers as he got up to take a break. As soon as he did, he walked up behind Hayley and his eyes widened as he saw the screen. "That's not a Pink Dino Ranger...that's the original Pink Ranger..." He said softly as he knew exactly who it was. He couldn't believe this was happening. "..Kimberly...but how.." He watched in horror but then quickly came to his senses. "Alert Conner, Ethan, and Kira, and have them meet me there."

Hayley tried to protest but Tommy had already made up his mind.

Tommy flicked his wrist and yelled, "Dino Thunder Power Up!" And before she could stop him he disappeared in the invi-portal.

-- Outside the Power Chamber --

"Power Bow!" Kimberly yelled as she called for the weapon as it materialized in her hands. She jumped into the air and sent several arrows at Elsa and the Tyrannodrones. "I don't know how much longer I can last..." She said as they soon were all around her going in for the attack. She sent more arrows but they were all closing in on her as she backed up. She gasped as she was grabbed by someone.

Mesogog appeared in an invi-portal and grabbed the Pink Ranger as she struggled against him. "Dr. Oliver's one true weakness...you are priceless." He said in his sadistic tone with a hint of laughter. Kimberly struggled against him before she fell weak to the ground. "I'm sorry Zordon..." Her vision soon faded to black as she disappeared with Mesogog in the invi-portal.

Right when they disappeared Tommy had appeared and yelled, "NO! KIMBERLY!"

[chrisangelo]

- Part Two - Get Out Alive


-- Outside the Power Chamber --

Tommy pounded the ground with his fists as he yelled out her name over and over. Why was this happening to him? Why was she swept away from under his fingers again?! Why her..why Kimberly? None of this made sense as he tried to think of rationalizations for the events that just took place. How did Kimberly have her powers back? The power coins were destroyed. Why did Mesogog want Kimberly? How did he even know about her... The realization then hit him as he clenched his fingers into a fist as they grinded against the dirt. “Me..he knows I will do anything for Kimberly..it's because of Anton. I told him everything..” He tipped his head up then hearing familiar voices as Conner, Ethan, and Kira came running up behind him.

Conner ran in front of his other two teammates over to Tommy. “Dr. O! What happened?! Why did you rush here..”

Tommy spoke when the other rangers ran up behind Conner. “Mesogog took her...”

Kira took off her helmet as she raised a brow. “Took who, Dr. O?”

The rest of the rangers took their helmets off waiting for an answer.

Tommy stood up and turned to face his three students. “Kimberly Hart, the original Pink Ranger. The one you saw in the video.”

Ethan got a confused look on his face as he spoke, “What would he want with her? It's not like she has her powers anymore, she's worthless.”

That obviously upset Tommy as he moved past them and Conner lightly shoved Ethan with a look on his face screaming ' Why the hell would you say that man? '

Tommy shook his head as he was the last to remove his helmet. “She is definitely not worthless and she is never to be underestimated. He wants her because he knows it will get to me, and besides that fact, she has her powers back, though I still don't know how.”

Kira started to smile thinking that finally she wouldn't be the only girl on the team but her smile quickly faded in the situation. “We should get back and try to locate her Dr. O.”

Tommy nodded and held his wrist up and told Hayley to open an invi-portal. Once it was open the four quickly went through it and disappeared.

-- In Kimberly's Dream --

Kimberly was sitting by a shinning lake as she had her knees up, her chin resting a top of her hands which were resting against her knees. She saw a figure approaching her dressed in a white shirt and tan pants. She smiled and stood up walking over to the figure. She wrapped her arms around him and sighed of relief.

“Tommy...I was so scared.. I thought I lost you forever..”

“Don't worry beautiful, you'll never loose me.” He told her assuringly.

She always felt safe with him, at home, and at peace. She gazed up into his eyes as he smiled down at her but then his smile turned into a frown and he grabbed her by the shoulders and grabbed her arm and twisted it back following with a kick to her stomach, sending her to the ground a few feet from him.

Kimberly winced holding her wrist looking at him. “Tommy.. what's wrong with you?!” She said with obvious pain in her voice.

Tommy laughed as he began fading and a new image appeared to Kimberly. The figure appeared as Mesogog causing a scream from Kimberly.

-- Outside Kimberly's Dream / Mesogog's Lair --

Kimberly woke up screaming as she went to sit up but couldn't as she was being held down by black, tight, restraints. Her vision went from black to a blur and soon back to normal as she winced and gasped as a Mesogog was standing by the bed looking over her as he breathed and panted -like- a dinosaur.

Kimberly had a disgusted look on her face, not showing the fear. “Could use a breath mint, don't you think, dinosaur breath?” She frowned as she coughed.

Mesogog growled, but smirked as he ran his claws through her hair, making a fist and grabbing, pulling her head back. “You think you are so tough, don't you Pink Ranger...” He hissed as he glared at her.

Kimberly's eyes widened as she tried to reach for her pocket, gasping when she felt nothing. “What did you do with my power coin, you freak?!”

Mesogog nodded at Elsa as she walked over and held a sword to Kimberly's neck. “Speak when spoken to but never insult your master like that.” She said smirking.

Kimberly rolled her eyes as she looked at Elsa. “Oh some master right, do you enjoy taking orders from an extinct dinosaur like him?” She winced then as all that comment got her was a slap in the face.

She couldn't take holding the question burning her mind, she had to release it. “What do you want with me?!”

Mesogog smiled as he turned around facing the other side of the room. “Tommy.”

Kimberly's eyes widened then as they shook with horror. “No...” Tears started to form in her brown eyes as she thought of every time she was a mistake in Tommy's life.

-- Dr. Oliver's Basement / Command Center --

Tommy sat down by Hayley as they were scanning the area for the Pink Ranger. Conner, Ethan, and Kira were watching from behind them.

Tommy shook his head as he placed his hands on his face. “This is pointless, we all know where she is.”

Hayley frowned and looked over at him. “We can't exactly go in there, not with Trent's evil double. It will be a death trap waiting to happen. Do you remember last time?”

Tommy nodded as he turned to look at the other three rangers. “It's best if you guys go home. We can't do anything really until morning. Will one of you let Trent know what's going on?” He asked as Kira said she would.

He had also told Hayley to head home but she insisted on staying to try and find the Pink Ranger. He soon went upstairs, locking the basement door from his main level of his home and quickly going upstairs to his bedroom. He walked over to his closet and turned the light on, moving some boxes still unpacked out of the way until he found an opened box laying under some clothes. He took it out and sat down on his bed as he opened it up. Inside the box was full, filled with photo albums, a teddy bear, and some letters.

He turned the pages of the photo album looking through the many pictures as he sighed deeply. “Kimberly...how could we have grown so far apart... and why didn't I just listen to you at the funeral...”

FLASHBACK

Tommy was unlocking the door to his home as he was sorting through some mail. He had just come from a meeting at Reefside High School, he had gotten the job as the science teacher. He was very happy none to say the least but his mood was about to take a rapid change. He sat down on his couch as he sorted through the bills until he found a letter. He lightly smiled seeing it was from Katherine Cranston.

Katherine and Billy had married a few years back after meeting up again after Billy returned from Aquitar.

Tommy opened the letter expecting to hear they had a child or how their live was going.

Dear Tommy,
I know it's been awhile and for that I am sorry. I am not going to try and halt what this letter is really about. I am sorry I could not do this in person but I just had to finally tell you...after as many years as it has been. After I first came to Angel Grove, still somewhat under the control of Rita, I started to be very fond of you as you already know. Tommy..I made a terrible mistake.. I purposely wanted Kimberly out of the picture. I had already replaced her as the Pink Ninja Ranger and then took what would have been her spot as the Pink Zeo Ranger.. I wanted more.. I wanted you. I had been writing Kimberly already.. pretending to be Aisha, Adam, Billy, and Rocky.. just writing her letters how I had been replacing Kimberly in every way possible..but I saw that still didn't stop your relationship..so I wrote two letters.. the letter you received from Kimberly was actually from me.. I also sent her a letter saying that you wanted to break up with her, that you wanted to date me, and that she was just like a sister to you.. I am so sorry Tommy...for everything.

- Kat

Tommy's eyes had widened as he threw the letter to the ground and clenched his fists. Kimberly was telling the truth..Kat ruined everything..no..calm down Oliver. He thought to himself and sighed. “She may have started the break up but I didn't do anything when I received that letter, I didn't try to call Kim or fight for her..I may hate Kat for the letters but the ending of our relationship was my own doing..Kim tried to mend things at Trini's funeral..God.. Tommy you are so stupid.” He thought holding back tears.

END OF FLASHBACK

Tommy had tears fall from his eyes as all the memories flooded back to him...and after the events that took place in just the past few hours, it was all overwhelming. He placed the photo album on the stand next to his bed and soon drifted off into a needed sleep. What few hours he would be able to get without wanting to rush into Mesogog's lair and sweep Kim into his arms and destroy Mesogog.

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THE NEXT MORNING

--

The whole night Kimberly had been struggling to try and find a way to escape and trying to make it miserable for everyone there, screaming, and demanding things. Some of the comments she made were, “Wow! Doesn't a -prisoner- get any thing to eat?!” She knew how to annoy people but when it was dealing with hard heads like Mesogog, nothing of that nature would work.

However, being that she was a very small person, not to be taken lightly either, she had managed to free one of her arms as she waited awhile to see if anyone would enter the room she was in. It appeared they were all gone. She used this as a chance and pulled on the restraints until she was free. She closed her eyes only expected that witchy woman, Elsa to run in and grab her but that didn't happen. She eased herself off of the bed and started to look around for her communicator and power coin.

Kimberly ran her hand through her brown hair as she sighed to herself and whispered, “Where is it.. it has to be somewhere around here..I have to get out of here..alive.”

She continued to look around quietly until something sparked in her eye as she ran over to a table and nearly screamed of excitement as she found her belonging, including her Pink Power Coin. “Yes!” She yelled .. quietly. She placed the communicator back on her wrist and prayed it would work. She pressed the button as her body was engulfed in a pink light as she teleported out of the lair, not fully sure of where it would take her, she just prayed it would take her out of this place.

Mesogog walked into the room laughing devilishly with Elsa. “Once she morphs, the evil of the Pink Dino Gem will consume her..” He continued his plotting as he looked at Elsa when he saw Kimberly appear in Reefside, just near the high school. He looked over at Elsa and smiled. “Teach her a lesson, and make -sure- she uses her power coin. Once she does everything is ours!” he laughed evilly as Elsa disappeared in an invi-portal with several tyrannodrones.

Mesogog then turned to the white ranger. “Make sure Elsa does her job, if not, attack the Pink Ranger.”

The white ranger nodded as he prepared for the attack.

-- Outside Reefside High school --

Kimberly smiled as she reappeared, the pink light fading. “Thank you Andros..” What she truly didn't know was it wasn't Andros who had recovered the Pink Power Coin or the communicator, it was a set-up from the start. If she would have only read the package which clearly said -Anton Mercer Industries,INC.- But it was easy to miss, especially with a letter like that. She began to walk away from the tree she landed by when all of the sudden she heard screeching and she turned around to see Elsa appear with more tyrannodrones. She rolled her eyes as she held her hands out.

“Didn't you learn from last time? You can't obviously defeat me without your -master-.”

Elsa smirked and held out her sword. “Or so you think! ATTACK!” She yelled as the tyrannodrones ran towards Kimberly.

Kimberly instinctively went to take her power coin out of her pocket by stopped. “I need to conserve energy.. I don't know how long the power will last.”

She started to run towards the tyrannodrones and quickly jumped up twirling into the air as she kicked two of their heads. “Ki-yah!” as soon as she landed she quickly punched her way through as they continued to get up.

“Definitely not putties, I'll give you that, but that won't stop me!”

“Come and get me bone brains!” She yelled as she did several back flips until she swung her leg hitting Elsa's face sending her back and then flipped forward and grabbed at Elsa's legs flipping Elsa over as she flipped right side up.

A voice from the distance came as the tyrannodrones blew up in an explosion. “Still can't cut it, can you Elsa?” He said as he appeared behind the brunette. “My master tells me you are into white.”

Kimberly was at first frightened but then rolled her eyes. “Oh please, like you could pull white off?”

-- Dr. Oliver's Basement / Command Center --

Hayley gasped as she turned around to yell at Tommy. “I found her!” She yelled as Tommy came running over seeing this. Hayley then frowned, a report coming up on the computer with the readings of what was in Kimberly's pocket. All Tommy could do was smile.

“I'll handle this myself.” He said morphing into the Black Dino Ranger.

Hayley then stopped him. “Wait.. something dark is coming from Kimberly's power coin. You have to hurry Tommy, don't let her morph. I have a bad feeling about it.”

Tommy nodded. “Alright I won't.” He said disappearing in the insi-portal.

-- Outside Reefside High school --

Kimberly jumped away from the white ranger as she grabbed her coin from her pocket. “You have -no- idea who you are dealing with.”

As soon as she said that, Tommy appeared through the portal. Elsa tried to stop him but he continued to run towards Kimberly.

Kimberly smiled as she held the coin out. “It's morphing time!”

Tommy's eyes widened in his helmet as he outstretched his hand and tried running faster. “No! Kimberly!! STOP!”

“Pink Ranger Power!” Kimberly yelled as she tackled the white ranger in her uniform, powers fully back.

Once she heard Tommy's voice it all went dark for her as her figure stopped. A light mixed with black and pink appeared from her chest as her uniform started to shape-shift. Her old power uniform was soon mixing with a dino ranger uniform similar to Kira's, except pink of course and the emblem on the chest of the uniform had her past powers on it, the Pterodactyl, the Crane, and now the Stegosaurus, all 3 different shades of pink mixed with white and a black outlining.

Tommy ran over to Kimberly grabbing her arm, lightly, and frowned taking his helmet off. “Kim..it's me. Tommy.”

Kimberly still remained motionless. “Who's Tommy? I don't know any Tommy.” Her voice sounding slightly deeper.. and dark.

[chrisangelo]

- Part Three - Pink of Doom(part one):Confrontation and Secrets


-- Outside Reefside High School --

Tommy ran over to Kimberly, grabbing her arm lightly, and frowned taking his helmet off. “Kim..it's me.. Tommy..”

Kimberly still remained motionless. “Who's Tommy? I don't know any Tommy..” Her voice sounded slightly deeper and dark. She had no recollection of who this Tommy was. She then winced as she moved her hands onto her helmet and slightly leaned over.

The White Ranger knew what was happening and took this as the opportune moment to walk over to her side and kick Tommy in the stomach sending him to the ground. He then placed his hands on the Pink Ranger's shoulders. “Don't you remember, Kimberly? Tommy is one of the evil Rangers that are trying to destroy us, not only has he tried to kill you several times, but he broke your heart.”

Mesogog was feeding only certain memories back to Kimberly, and altering the other ones. Making it seem as if Tommy had attacked her when in reality it was actually of the White Ranger attacking the other rangers.

Kimberly lightly winced as she nodded slowly. “I..I remember..” The last part of what the evil White Ranger said sent pain instantly to Kimberly's heart as she remembered all the feelings she felt when she received the letter. “He tried to destroy me..he never cared..”

The White Ranger nodded and encouraged the memories she spoke of with his evil voice, “That's right, you remember. We must fight together and defeat him before he destroys us.”

Tommy placed his helmet back on and ran at the White Ranger, tackling him from the waist sending him into a tree. “Don't touch her! Kimberly listen, they've done something to you! You have to snap out of this! You have to remember everything, you have to remember -us-!” He told her as he tried to pin down the White Ranger.

Kimberly shook her head as she held her hand by her heart. “No you are wrong! Quit lying! All you have done is try to destroy me! And for the record there is no -us- there never was!” Her instincts as a ranger then kicked in as she held her arm outstretched and called on the one weapon that felt like a blanket to a child. “Stego Bow!” She yelled as a pink bow appeared in her hand as she jumped into the air. “Leave him alone!” She yelled as she fired 3 arrows that Tommy was barely able to dodge. “Kim stop this!”

-- Dr. Oliver's Basement / Command Center --

Hayley was viewing everything on the screen as she had already called the other rangers, including Trent. She moved back after letting them watch what was going on.

“Kimberly has obviously been brain washed, but what I don't understand is how she morphed into the Pink Dino Ranger. This must be the work of Mesogog. Tommy can't defeat Kimberly by himself, especially how raged she is. You must help him.”

Conner took the lead as always and nodded. “Don't worry Hayley, we'll help him.” He said looking at the other three nodding, and then he flicked his wrist as his dino morpher appeared.

“Ready guys? Dino Thunder Power Up!” He yelled as they all morphed into their respective colors and took the raptor cycles to arrive quicker.

-- Outside Reefside High School --

Kimberly frowned as Tommy tried to stop her assault. She jumped over him and kicked him into the back. In all of their ranger years together they were the ultimate match, together, but against each other, anything could happen.

Tommy then had a flashback to when he was still the green ranger.

It was right after Lord Zedd had appeared on the moon and his new and improved putties had tried to defeat the rangers. They had just learned that the only way to destroy them was to 'go for the Z'.

Tommy and Kimberly ran up as they saw putties appear in the park.

Kimberly stopped Tommy as her eyes widened. “Woah.. look out putties!” she said as she placed a hand on Tommy's chest.

Tommy nodded and looked at her. “Remember, go for the 'Z'.” Kimberly nodded, “Ok.” she said as they both began running into action.

The putties were easily defeated but when the Beetle monster appeared nothing was certain. The monster was after Tommy's green ranger powers.

Kimberly ran back over by Tommy and winced as she saw the creature, “Not another giant bug!”

Tommy nodded and then looked at her. “It's time to Morph!”

And once again the dynamic duo morphed into the Pterodactyl Pink Ranger and the Dragon Zord Green Ranger.

As the flashback faded Tommy came back to his senses.

He held her arms down as he looked at her. “Please Kim..listen to me. You're not evil, you're one of us.. after all we've been through together.. we need you Kim.. I need you. Please don't do this.”

Kimberly turned her head and looked down to the ground. “You're wrong...” She stopped speaking hearing calls from Conner, Kira, Ethan, and Trent. “No.. this battle is between us, only us!” She yelled as a power inside of her was calling her as she released it and as the other rangers ran towards them a huge force came from Kimberly as pink energy came from her suit and she held out her hands and forcefields came up around them and knocked the other rangers down, and out of the area they were in.

Conner frowned falling to the ground and catching Kira. “Are you alright?”

Kira nodded standing up, pulling him up with her. “Thank you..”

Ethan looked at Dr. Oliver and yelled out, “You alright Dr. O?!”

Tommy looked towards his students. “Just stay out of this.. it's between us..”

Kimberly stepped back from him then hearing his last comment. “You could never be more right, it started between us, and it will end between us.” She said leaping into the air with a 'ki-yaaa!' sound as she swept her leg under his and knocked him over to the ground.

The White Ranger smirked as Mesogog's plan was unfolding.

FLASHBACK

The White Ranger watched as Mesogog and Zeltrax fused together the gem's power with the power coin.

Mesogog smirked as he saw the coin grow in size a bit and then lit up in pink light. “This has never been done before..fusing two power sources. It will take the Pink Ranger some time to master the power but she will be a formidable foe.” He said laughing as he held the new, pink power coin.

The White Ranger smirked as he thought, “I will make sure the Pink Ranger uses up all her energy, and watch as she self destructs.” He then disappeared.

END

Tommy landed on the ground as he winced. He forgot how swift and agile Kimberly really was. “I won't fight you Kim..”

Kimberly frowned as she clenched her fist together. “Then this will be easier than I thought!” She jumped back up into the air and fired 3 more arrows as Tommy used his Brachio Staff to block the arrows from him, but one ended up reflecting back at Kimberly as it impacted with her chest as she was going to the ground. She gasped as she fell backwards and tumbled to the ground. Smoke rose off of her pink uniform as she curled up in pain. Those were some of her most powerful arrows.

A memory flashed through Kim's head as she laid in pain on the ground. It was one of her own.

Kimberly was sitting at a table arguing with Tommy. “Please listen to me Tommy.. I never sent you any letters.. I wanted to talk to you about why you broke up with me at Muranthias but I saw when you hugged Kat.. I just couldn't take the sight. That's why I went back with Jason.. one of the main reasons.”

Tommy frowned shaking his head. “You are unbelievable you know that?! You just keep making up excuses after excuses and trying to blame Kat for everything. Well you know one thing I can honestly say about Kat is that she never let me down like you did. She wasn't a disappointment.” He said out of anger.. and soon regretted it when he saw Kimberly's eyes full with tears.

Kimberly grabbed her purse and looked down. “I.. I'm sorry I even talked to you.” She said running out of the memorial gathering.

Kimberly winced and tears formed in her eyes as she remembered. “It's true.. the White Ranger was right. You hate me.. you always have.” She said trying to gain her strength back.

Tommy's eyes widened. “No! Kim!” He ran over to her and frowned tears forming in his eyes but weren't visible due to his helmet. “I'm so sorry Kimberly..”

Kimberly slapped his hands away. “Get away from me!”

Tommy once again reached out and grabbed her hands gently. “Please Kim.. remember.. remember me.” He said as he powered down completely. He reached to take off her helmet.

But as always the White Ranger interfered again looking towards the ground as he spoke towards Kimberly. “Call on the Crane.” It was at that moment where Mesogog released another memory, this time of Kimberly using her ninjetti powers to fight against tengas so many years ago.

Kimberly kicked Tommy in the chest sending him back as she flipped herself up. “Ninja Ranger Power!” She yelled as she swung her arm to make a circle and then did a sign holding her arms out. “Pink Crane!” She yelled as her suit once again changed into the robes of the Pink Ninja Ranger.

Tommy's eyes widened at this. She was using too much power! She was trying to stable her Ninja powers, along with the gem's powers. If he didn't get her to power down she could overload. Tommy knew he was in trouble though as Kimberly was much more fast with her Ninja powers. But the one downfall of her morphing into the ninja ranger was her forcefields were gone.

Kira jumped forward grabbing onto Kim to try and hold her back but Kim grabbed her wrist, twisting it back and flipped her up into the air and did a back flip, kicking Kira in the stomach sending her into the air.

Conner ran past where Kira had fallen and jumped at Kim sending her into the tree. “I'll handle her!” He yelled at the others as he kicked her in the stomach and then felt the wrath that is Kim as she faded through the tree and appeared at the top. “Nice try, but you are going to have to do better than that if you are going to catch me!” She yelled and then jumped off making a “T” with her body as she swung her legs out and grabbed Conner's head twisting him in the air and onto the ground.

Kimberly laughed as she rubbed her hands together but then gasped as she was grabbed from behind. Tommy turned her around and made her look up at him. “It's me, Tommy, we were part of the original team, we fought along side each other. We were best friends..and more.” Kim frowned as she looked into his eyes. “Oh yes more, and you mean more by when you broke my heart right?!” She said as a little of the actual Kim bursted out through her words. She then collapsed to the ground as she clutched her chest. “What.. what's happening to me.” She said as her ninja suit was changing into the dino suit, then into her original power suit, shifting each time. Pink energy was all around her body as she soon began to feel shocks as her suit started to explode as if she was getting hit by a blast.

Tommy grabbed onto her again and his eyes widened. “Kim are you alright?! What's happening?!”

The White Ranger smirked as he ran up behind her and tried to punch Tommy but he grabbed his arm out of defense but the White Ranger still threw him into the air back into the other 4 rangers. He then punched Kimberly in her face, knocking her out. “If you think this is the last of us you will see you are wrong! Wait until you face us both together.” He said picking her up and disappearing with her in an invi-portal.

Tommy stood up watching as they disappeared. Once again Tommy was unable to even reach Kim and now she was gone again.. he could see hatred in her eyes.. he knew the pain he had caused at Trini's funeral was intense but he had never imagined he made Kimberly think that he hated her. He held onto his arm as another memory came flooding back like it was yesterday.

It was during the day that he lost his Green Ranger Powers.

Tommy was at the lake practicing his martial arts as he saw a familiar girl walk up towards him. He smiled as she spoke.

“They said back at the gym, I'd find you here.” The girl in pink said.

Tommy nodded as he approached her, “Yeah, I like practicing outside sometimes.. smell the fresh air.”

Kimberly's smile somewhat faded as she looked up at him. “How are you doing?”

Tommy just smiled and nodded his head. “I'm hanging. I've been working on my karate, focusing on my school work, I'm just trying to keep busy, you know?”

Kimberly smiled and nodded. “We miss you..”

Tommy smirked and placed his hands by his side. “Yeah, but you guys were a team long before I showed up. It'll all be back to normal before long.”

Kimberly looked down as she felt tears form in her eyes as she spoke, “I miss you...”

Tommy reached down to her and grabbed her hand and leaned down as Kimberly tipped her head up as their lips met. It was their first kiss, one that was always worth remembering.

Tommy soon asked Kimberly out to a dance and of course she said yes. That was one of Tommy's best days back then.

Tommy's vision went from a blur to normal as he looked at the other rangers. “You guys better get back. Let Hayley know you are alright. I have some things I have to take care of.”

The other Rangers nodded and headed back.

Tommy grabbed his cell phone and dialed the only number he could think of that could help him.

The person picked up, “Yeah this is Jason.”

Tommy sighed in relief as he heard his best friend's voice. “Jase.. things are bad.”

Jason raised a brow as he heard this. “What's going on bro?”

Tommy sighed deeply as he told him what had been going on the past 2 days. “Jase I really need your help. I don't think I can face her alone. She has her old powers back as well as new ones. If she has her's we might be able to restore your old ones and give you the ones Rocky had. Is there anyway you can get down here?”

Jason was shocked he even suggested that but he nodded. “Actually I am in Angel Grove. Kimberly thought I was still in Florida but I decided to come visit Trini as well. I can be there in a few hours..”

Tommy had interrupted him. “I'll meet you in Angel Grove, I think it's best if we return to the Power Chamber. Maybe the answers lie there. That's where Kimberly was when I first discovered her.”

Jason nodded. “I'll see you soon, bro.”

-- Mesogog's Lair --

Kimberly screamed in pain when she awoke as her power continued to convulse as Zeltrax stood over her. “Master, the gem has already mutated to her. The power is fully hers.” He said as if they had done something successful.

Mesogog smirked, “Perfect...” He hissed.

After Mesogog and Zeltrax left the lab, the White Ranger walked into the room and over to Kimberly. He laughed lightly as he saw her innocent state as she slept.. she had finally powered down. He ran his hand along her arm up to her face. “Is this what Tommy Oliver really desires? I know it crushed him seeing her evil..but what if with a true White Ranger.” He laughed more as he plotted. “Maybe she is worthy enough to fight next me. In every way.”

-- In Kimberly's Dream --
Kimberly looked around as she was in a dark room.

“Tommy?! Zordon? Jason? Anybody..?”

She was dressed in black as she had been the day before when this mess started up. She heard a woman laugh as she turned around. Her eyes widened as she saw herself, but morphed, into her new dino uniform.

“Who are you?” Kimberly asked.

The Pink Dino Ranger laughed as she shook her finger. “Oh Kimmy, I think you know exactly who I am. I'm you! More like the perfected version. I'm your subconscious. Or more like what our master created of it. I am what will help you destroy Tommy Oliver.”

Kimberly's eyes widened as she shook her head. “No..please don't. You can't destroy him! I..I..”

The Pink Ranger laughed as she mocked her pathetic self. “I..I..I love him!” She laughed as she crossed her arms. “You think you love him, but he's only been a weakness in your life. You can have all the power in the world now.”

This was all overwhelming for the obvious true, but suppressed self of Kimberly. She ran her hands through her hair as she moved to the ground holding her legs up to her chest. She tipped her head up and looked into the darkness. “Tommy!!” she cried out for him as tears fell from her eyes.

[chrisangelo]

- Part Three - Pink of Doom(part two):All that I'm living for..


-- Kimberly's Dream / Mesogog's Lair --

A few hours passed as Kimberly still called out for Tommy in her dream. She looked at the Pink Ranger that was approaching her.

“Tick tock Kimberly, we don't have forever. Now wake up!” She yelled as herself regained control as she opened her eyes. She smiled evilly when she saw Mesogog and the White Ranger standing over her. She sat up and looked for her power coin. She tipped her head and looked at the both of them.

“Alright, what do I have to do to get my power coin back?” She taunted innocently.

Mesogog hissed as he ran his hand..more like claws through Kimberly's hair which got him a glare from the White Ranger. “Oh you will get it soon enough. When you go back into battle against the Black Ranger.”

Kimberly rolled her eyes and sighed. “Oh don't worry, Master, I won't fail against him again. Maybe if I was warned about the power consumption, I would have reserved more.” She said as she got up off the table and walked over to the White Ranger. “Oh thank you for saving me.” She thanked him sarcastically. The same look in her eyes was the same she had for Tommy when she was turned evil before.

“I think I'll -go to the mall-!” She said mocking her 'other' self. “Tell me when the Black Ranger is ready to die.”

The White Ranger smirked within his helmet as he loved her attitude. So much better than that innocent Kimberly. It was the ultimate plan turning Kimberly evil.

-- Angel Grove Park --

In the hours that followed, Tommy had made several phone calls, aside, from the one he made to Jason. As he waited for the four that he called on, he stared at his hands which he had four gems in. He knew Zordon had restored Kimberly's powers so that wasn't a problem. But in order to get Kimberly back there was only one solution. Make her not only see him in the past but the others as well..even Trini, though more metaphorically.

He turned around hearing footsteps. He smiled as he looked up seeing his best friend, Jason. “It's about time you got here.”

Jason rolled his eyes as he punched Tommy's shoulder lightly. “Hey bro, I had to grab some old friends. Thanks for providing those portals though. It made everything so much easier.”

Three figures appeared behind him then. A woman in yellow shirt and black skirt walked up to the left of Jason and two men in blue and black shirts with blue jeans walked up on the right side of Jason.

Tommy smiled as he went to hug each of them. “I'm so glad you are back.”

The girl in yellow tilted her head and hugged him back. “Oh please, anything for my girl. You know I would do anything to save Kimberly. She's my best friend.” Aisha told him.

Tommy looked then at the other two besides Jason. “Adam, Billy, you ready for one more fight?”

Adam smiled. “Haven't you learned by now?”

Billy finished his sentence with, “Once a ranger, always a ranger.”

Jason rolled his eyes as they all got reacquainted like they hadn't met before, come on! “K Tommy, so we know Kimberly is evil, and she has her powers back. But how exactly are you going to get our powers back?”

Tommy stood back in front of all of them as he held out four gems; red, black, yellow, blue. “I have a feeling that these alone will help restore the power coins. Zordon left a box that I found in the Power Chamber of the original power coins. It appears he didn't trust us with the originals so he made copies. I used the sword of power to help restore some of the power to the coins but I think this will do the finishing touches.”

Adam then raised a brow. “How exactly were Kimberly's powers restored?”

Tommy sighed, not wanting to relive any of it. “Well aside from Zordon being able to restore her old powers, Mesogog fused her power coin with the gem completely. So not only does she have her Thunder powers and Ninjetti powers, but she also has her own Dino Thunder powers. Where do you think I got the idea from anyway?”

Aisha winced at the thought. “I just hope she is not having a bad hair day when we face her. I can't even imagine how powerful she is now.. compared to how powerful she was when we were all fighting on the same side. I knew I could always count on her.”

Tommy reached for a box that was on the ground and opened it, revealing the dino power coins. All of them were there except Kimberly's. “I may not be able to restore your Ninjetti powers, but I can restore thi...” He was interupted by a flash of light in the sky and even though it was dark they could clearly see someone riding.. a cloud?

Ninjor jumped off of the cloud diving for the ground as he landed gracefully. “Rangers, it has been too long.”

Tommy, Aisha, Adam, and Billy all smiled as they walked over to him. “Ninjor!”

Jason stood in the back wondering who the hell this guy was...

Ninjor didn't smile at all as he knew this was a matter of up most importance. “Ranger's, I am here to help you receive your ninja powers. After I felt a surge in the morphing grid, Kimberly's Crane powers called from within me as I knew they fell into evils hands.”

Jason walked over by the others realizing who he was by the name. Tommy had filled him in years ago.

Tommy looked at Ninjor and nodded thanking him. “But first we have to restore their original power.” He gave Jason, Aisha, Billy, and Adam their coins as he set the gems out facing each of the rangers. “Hold your coins to the sky and call as if you were morphing.”

Jason raised his coin to the air as the coin started to shine red, “Tyrannosaurus, Bold and Powerful, Red Ranger Power!” He spoke with total confidence.

Billy was next to raise his power coin to the air as blue started to illuminate from it as he felt power return. “Triceratops, Patient and Wise, Blue Ranger Power!”

Adam slowly rose his hand to the air as black shone from the power coin. “Mastodon, Clever and Brave, Black Ranger Power!”

Aisha was the final one to raise her power coin to the air as yellow glowed brightly from her coin. “Saber Tooth Tiger, Fearless and Agile, Yellow Ranger Power!”

Tommy then watched as the gems activated as lights shone from the gem's cores onto the rangers. As a huge light of Red, Blue, Black, and Yellow faded, you could no longer see them as their human selfs, but as the Power Rangers once again.

Jason smiled feeling his power return as it brought him memories of the 'old days'.

Ninjor stepped in then as he looked at the Power Rangers. “It is wonderful to see you in uniform, all of you. Now you must take up the animal spirits if you even expect to live in a battle against Kimberly.” He turned to Jason first. “Even though Rocky was the first ranger to take the Ape powers, it was always meant for you. You have the inner spirit that resides with the Red Ape Ninja. He then turned to the others. “Everyone join hands.” As the four held their hands together into the air, while Ninjor was in the middle, he summoned the power once again having it flow inside of them.

After the transformation was complete Tommy looked at them.

“I'm sure by now Mesogog has been alerted of the power shift. I have to return these Dino gems to the other Rangers, but I suggest you stay here as Kimberly will most likely return here.”

Billy looked at Tommy and smiled then as he reached for his backpack by the tree. “Actually we should have no more problems teleporting, or as you use the invisi-portal's, it's time to go back through the ages.” He said reaching into his backpack and pulled out five communicators; red, blue, black, yellow, and white. He gave them to the respective colors except for Tommy's, but he received his second color, white.

Tommy and the others smiled. “This is great, Billy, thanks.”

Tommy pressed a button on his communicator and disappeared in a surrounding white light.

-- Mesogog's Lair --

Mesogog hissed as he stared at the viewing screen seeing the old rangers receiving two new powers. “Just more power to collect. Get the Pink Ranger, NOW!” He yelled at Zeltrax who nodded and ran to get Kimberly.

Kimberly was sitting filing her nails as she yawned. She was so bored, she couldn't get the next encounter with Tommy out of her mind.

The White Ranger stepped into the room as he shook his head watching her.

“You were always like this weren't you?”

Kimberly raised a brow. “You don't know me, and you've never known me so you have no idea how I've always been. And are you forgetting I'm not the real Kimberly?”

The White Ranger smiled under his helmet as he shook his head. “Who says that matters?” He asked as he reached up to pull his helmet off, but just as he did, Zeltrax ran in and glared at Kimberly.

“It's time to go, go after the other Rangers.”

Kimberly rolled her eyes and smiled. “Don't be so pushy metal head!” She said with an evil tone.

She stood up and looked at him. “What am I facing? Just Tommy? Or are there the other Dino Rangers?”

Zeltrax smirked. “Neither, you are facing the Ninja Rangers. Tommy helped them gain their powers back. Don't forget that they all tried to destroy you Kimberly, go in your first morphing powers, but if they use their ninja powers make sure to change immediately.” He gave her a strict glare as he told her what Mesogog said to do.

Kimberly stood up and then rolled her eyes again and sighed. She was so fed up with being told what to do. “It's Morphing Time!” She yelled and then twisted her wrist and held up the coin into the air. “Pink Ranger Power!”

-- Angel Grove Park --

As soon as Tommy teleported out, a dark, pink light came in front of the other rangers. Kimberly smirked as she went into her fighting stance. “Oh please, like you will be a challenge for me. You tried to destroy me before, but that won't happen this time.”

Jason frowned seeing Kimberly like this. “She's definitely gone, that is not Kimberly. Remember that when we are fighting!” He said immediately taking the leader stance. “You guys ready?!” He looked around seeing the other three nod. “For Kimberly! Ninja Ranger Power now!” He yelled as they all did the stance as they morphed into the Ninja Power Rangers.

“Black Frog Ninja Power!” Adam yelled as he felt the familiar robes wrap around him in place of his Black Power Suit.

“Blue Wolf Ninja Power!” Billy called out as the power rushed within him.

“Yellow Bear Ninja Power!” Cried Aisha as she had to save her best friend.

“Red Ape Ninja Power!” Jason said for the first time as he felt the differences in the normal power compared to the Ninja power.

Kimberly saw this and remembered what Zeltrax told her. “I need Ninja Ranger Power now!” She yelled as she twirled her right arm in a right half circle, bringing it back together with her other hand forming the sign as a wave of Pink went in between her index fingers.

“Pink Crane Ninja Power!” She yelled as she quickly flipped into the air, twisting her body as she dove at Aisha, the both of them flying to the ground.

Aisha frowned. “Kim, girl, it's me, Aisha..we're best friends!” She tried to get through to her, not wanting to fight, and completely ignoring Jason's advice on how she wasn't Kimberly.

Kimberly frowned and punched Aisha in her face as she said that comment. “You are -no- Trini!” She yelled as she flung Aisha up into the air and disappeared. She quickly reappeared however above Aisha and kicked her in her stomach sending her flying to the ground.

Aisha screamed as she tried to stop her. She grabbed her stomach when she felt the kick as she was sent towards the ground at a fast pace.

Adam was fighting with some of the tyrannodrones that Kimberly had brought with her when he saw Aisha. “No! Aisha!” He yelled flipping into the air and he grabbed her, landing safely on the ground. “Are you alright?”

Aisha shook her head. “I'll be fine.. but Jason's right. That's not Kimberly.”

No sooner than Kimberly was after Aisha, she moved her assault to her -big brother- as she ran towards him as he was backing up fast as he held his hands out. “Kim, snap out of it! It's me Jason! Come on! You've always been like my sister, don't do this. I'll have to defend myself if you pursue this Kim!” As she was going to swing and kick Jason, he grabbed her leg and threw her in the air as she landed into three tyrannodrones.

Jason regrouped with the others and frowned. “Ok Rangers! No screwing around anymore! It's morphing time!” He yelled as they grabbed their power coins and pointed them to the sky.

“Black Ranger Power!”

“Blue Ranger Power!”

“Yellow Ranger Power!”

“Red Ranger Power”

The four reappeared in their ranger suits as they saw Kimberly stand up.

Kimberly shook her head as she frowned. “I knew you would all turn against me. So much for friendship right?!” She grabbed her power coin then as she felt it was time to summon her Dino Thunder Powers. But just when she was Tommy appeared from the air and kicked Kimberly from the air sending her to the ground and rolling down a hill.

As Kimberly tumbled down the steep hill, she felt a twist in her powers as she screamed out when she realized what was happening. She didn't have her power coin! Without it she couldn't stabilize...

The other Rangers ran after Kimberly with Tommy as they saw pink light surround her body. It was beginning to mix of a light pink, which was the actual Pink Ranger color, and then the dark pink. The light that was in one being then split as Kimberly's body couldn't be seen but an enormous light that split into two could be as they continued to roll until they split.

As the lights faded the other rangers were in complete confusion. Aisha looked at both of what she saw and frowned. “No way is this possible..”

What they saw was Kimberly...but two...both unmorphed...both looked the same, except one was in a pink dress, the other in a dark pink tank top with black jeans. They both stood up and looked at each other.

Kimberly stared at her alter-ego that was created by Mesogog as she was so confused about what was going on. The last thing she remembered was fighting against Elsa and losing..

The evil Pink Ranger glared at the other rangers and then Tommy. “Damn you!” She yelled at him her voice much deeper than Kimberly's.

Kimberly and the evil Pink Ranger both saw something at the exact same time. “My power coin!”

Kimberly glared at the 'witch' and the Pink Ranger glared at Kimberly. “No it's mine!” They both yelled as they started to run towards it.

Kimberly jumped and rolled as she reached out and grabbed onto the power coin. Just as she did, the evil Pink Ranger jumped atop her to grab it but they both were struggling against each other. Kimberly struggled as she finally screamed out, “It's Morphing Time!”

As before with Billy, when there were two of him, both were able to access the power. However, the evil Pink Ranger chose to use the Dino Thunder power as she was the only one that knew how to use it out of the two.

“Pink Ranger, Dino Thunder, Power Up!” She yelled as she morphed into the much stronger ranger.

Kimberly felt what was in her heart and morphed with the only power she knew that existed within the coin. “Pink Ranger Power!”

They both morphed as they glared at each other. Kimberly had a hold of the coin however and placed it in her morpher, on her belt. “You will never be me. No matter how hard you try. You will never turn me against my friends. I know in my heart always who they are and how much they mean to me! How dare you try to make me destroy them.”

The other rangers, including Tommy, surrounded Kimberly. Tommy moved in front of Kimberly as she looked up at him and placed her hands up on his shoulders.

“Tommy.. I am so sorry.. I would never try and hurt you.. you know that.”

Tommy smiled and looked down at her. “I know Kimberly, I'm just glad you're back.”

The evil Pink Ranger used her power of forcefields to knock everyone away from Kimberly and out of the area they would finish this battle. “Hate to break up such a beautiful reunion, but it's time I destroy Kimberly forever!”

[chrisangelo]

- Part Three - Pink of Doom(part three) FINALEClash of Pink!


-- Angel Grove Park --

As Kimberly was sent flying away from Tommy she could hear her name being screamed by all of her friends. She fell to the ground hitting her back as she winced.

The evil Pink Ranger smirked as she began walking towards Kimberly. “Oh poor Kimberly, fell to her back.” She then held her hands out into the air as a dark pink bow appeared in her hands. “This should be easier than I thought. - I - will be the only Kimberly in this world!” She yelled as she jumped into the air to fire the arrows.

Kimberly was struggling to get up as her shoulder stung in pain, sending shivers down her whole body. She wasn't even aware that the evil Pink Ranger was about to put out an all force assault on her.

Even though the other Rangers couldn't get through the forcefields, they could still help Kimberly in words of encouragement.

Tommy frowned seeing Kimberly barely moving. “Kim! You have to get up!..” He then saw the arrows.

Aisha ran as close as she could without getting pushed back by the forcefields. “Kimberly! Look out!” She yelled as she saw the arrows go closer and closer to Kimberly. “I have to do something!” She held out both of her hands. “Power Daggers!” She threw both of them at the forcefield but they only came flying back and hit Aisha, sending her to the ground as they ignited.

Adam's eyes widened as he ran over to Aisha to help her.

Kimberly turned when she heard Aisha but once she stood up, she didn't have enough time to dodge the three arrows that the evil Pink Ranger set out. They collided with her chest as sparks flew off of her uniform and she screamed in pain falling backwards.

Jason heard the evil Pink Ranger laugh and frowned. “There has to be something we can do!” He went to look at Tommy but he was gone. “Tommy?”

As the evil Pink Ranger continued to laugh at the fallen Kimberly she then gasped as she was kicked in the head, sent sprawling towards the ground.

Tommy then became visible as he glared at her. “You're only at half strength, if that. My Dino powers work against yours.” He then ran over to Kimberly and knelt by her side, taking her into his arms. “Are you alright..beautiful?” The name he had given Kimberly years ago brushed out against his lips as it felt so natural and right to say it.

Kimberly tilted her head up seeing Tommy as she smiled in her helmet but then frowned. “Tommy..I have to do this by myself..” She said slowly getting up out of his arms and faced the fallen Pink Ranger. “I have to prove I'm strong enough. That I'm even worthy of being a Power Ranger.” She stepped forward and held out her arms. “Power Bow!” She yelled as it materialized into her hands. She began a quick pace towards her evil double as she loaded an arrow. As soon as she was going to lift off into the air she felt a kick in her abdomen as she gasped rolling to the ground, but catching herself as she turned around. “The..White..Ranger?”

The evil White Ranger had his drago sword in his hands as he walked over by the evil Pink Ranger. “No one touches her and lives to tell.”

Tommy frowned as he ran over by Kimberly again. “Stay out of this copy-cat!”

The evil White Ranger smirked inside his helmet. “Oh you have no idea how true that statement is. Not only in power, but in appearance.” He said in his deep voice as he began to lift his helmet up.

The evil Pink Ranger gasped as she saw this.

Tommy looked as the helmet was removed and then he almost pulled a Kimberly, almost fainting in shock.

Kimberly's eyes widened. “No.. it can't be..Tommy?!”

The evil White Ranger revealed his true identity as Tommy Oliver. He did not look like the adult Tommy however as he still had long hair and his appearance was almost of the era when Tommy was the Mighty Morphin White Ranger.

The evil Pink Ranger frowned as she stood up. “No way.. this isn't happening..” She was pale inside her helmet.

Thomas, as the evil White Ranger prefered to be called, walked over to evil Kim and grabbed her hand. “It's me alright, or rather him.” He said in a deeper voice than Tommy.

The other Rangers watched in shock.

Tommy glared at his evil counterpart as he got into his battle stance. “You will never be able to be or replace me.”

Thomas laughed as he looked at Tommy. “Oh really? I have the Dino White Ranger powers, I have the girl of -our- dreams. Unlike you at least I can admit my feelings. You truly are pathetic.” He looked at his love, the evil Kim. “Let's destroy these two together.”

The evil Kimberly smirked and nodded. “Let's do it.”

Kimberly's eyes widened as she stood up pulling Tommy with her. “Tommy I have to do this on my own.. you can't interfere..please just leave.”

Tommy shook his head as he looked down at the irrational woman. “Are you crazy? Kim, I'm not just going to stand by and watch you die.”

Kimberly frowned. “Why, you have before..” Anger, and pain were brought out from her voice. “I'm not Kat remember?” She then knew if she was going to go against two evil rangers she would have to be swift and fast. “I need Ninja Ranger power now!” She yelled as she brought her left arm up and rotated it in a half circle and then brought her two hands together. “Pink Crane!”

Tommy was brought back by her comment and frowned. She was so stubborn.. but so true. He had always treated Kat like she needed help in every instance, and he always trusted Kimberly. He only helped her when she asked for it. But the anger he could tell from her voice hurt more than anything else. “How about we make this a fair fight.” He said pointing to the evil White Ranger. “Let's leave Pink against Pink and later we will have our battle.”

The evil White Ranger, Thomas, smirked. “Sounds like a plan to me.” He said backing up and out of the forcefields.

The evil Pink Ranger's eyes widened as she saw Thomas leave the fight. “Bastard..” She said as she winced regretting losing her guard as she was sent flying, via a kick from Kimberly.

Kimberly knew she couldn't stop no matter what, which meant she had to keep up with every attack. She jumped into the air with a 'ki-yah!!' and flipped forward tackling the evil Pink Ranger who just got up. She disappeared then as she soon appeared behind the evil Pink Ranger sending her flying into the air by throwing her up. “Is that the best you have?! Give us some credit. You have the stronger powers and who is getting their ass kicked?”

The evil Pink Ranger growled as she regained her footing and held her hand to the air. “Tyrannodrones! Destroy her!” She said as she had to buy some time one way or another.

A swarm of Tyrannodrones appeared from a green portal and all started to run towards Kimberly.

Kimberly's eyes widened. She was barely able to destroy them with her pink ranger powers. She knew she had to switch and fast. “It's Morphing Time!”

“Pink Ranger Power!”

Kimberly's Ninja robes switched into her power suit but just in time apparently as she was pushed into a tree by a tyrannodrone.

Aisha frowned. “Their has to be a way in there. We can't sit by and do nothing! Obviously Tommy isn't going to do anything.”

Jason nodded and looked at the other rangers. “We need Kimberly for the power blaster.. but let's each try to get threw the forcefield with our combined weapons.”

Adam was the first as he yelled out, “Power Axe!” He jumped into the air and came slamming down against the forcefield as he held out his axe as the forcefield was weakened at that point.

Billy held out his hands, “Power Lance!” He yelled as it appeared in his hand in a flash of blue. He twirled his wrists and slammed it hard against where Adam had tried to break the forcefield.

Jason decided to go next as he jumped into the air without even calling on his weapon and it appeared as he dove at the forcefield giving it a few hits until Aisha stepped into action.

She twisted her hands as she called on her weapons, “Power Daggers!” She had sent them away earlier when they didn't work. She focused all her energy into the weapons as they started to serge with yellow energy. “Hi-yah!” She yelled as she threw the daggers through the forcefield as it broke then and the rangers ran through it before it had a chance to close. Live together, die alone.

Aisha ran over by Kimberly and started to help her defeat the Tyrannodrones. Kimberly sighed with relief as she saw her best friend. “Thanks Aisha.” Aisha smiled. “Anytime, girl.”

The evil Pink Ranger was on her knees having a hard time stabilizing the power without the gem. “I need that gem..” She ran through the rangers as she found Kimberly by Aisha and slammed Kimberly into the tree. “GIVE ME THAT GEM!” She yelled as she thrusted her fist at Kimberly's stomach and punched her face as she reached for the coin then.

Aisha frowned and tried to pull the evil Pink Ranger off of Kimberly but she was just sent flying by a forcefield. “Someone stop her! She's after Kimberly's coin!” She said as she hit the ground.

Tommy jumped into action then as he grabbed the evil Pink Ranger and threw her to the ground but only to hear a laugh.

Kimberly gasped, “She has my power coin!” She ran over to her and grabbed onto her arm trying to grab the power coin. “Give it back!”

The evil Pink Ranger smirked as she said, “It's Morphing Time!” They both lit up in a pink light.

“Pink Ranger Power!”

When the light faded you could clearly see two Kimberly's.. but morphed.. into the same uniform.

Aisha frowned seeing this. “Great.. just great. How are we suppose to tell them apart?”

Kimberly grabbed the power coin but her hands were grabbed by the evil Pink Ranger as they struggled against each other. “It's mine!” Kimberly dashed backwards towards the ground and flipped the evil Pink Ranger over her and away from her.

The evil Pink Ranger ran over by Tommy acting as if she was Kimberly. “Tommy..” she panted. “I need your help.” She said faking a gasp of pain.

Kimberly reached her hand out as she frowned. “Get away from him!”

Tommy was completely confused as the rest of the rangers. The evil Pink Ranger ran over to the other rangers and looked at them. “We have to form the power blaster!”

Aisha was convinced this was the real Kimberly because the evil one only had selective memory, or so they thought.

Jason nodded and smiled. “It's good to have you back. Ok, Rangers, Power Blaster!” A ' right ' was echoed by the other four rangers.

Kimberly's eyes widened. “Wait.. what? No!”

“Power Axe!”

“Power Bow!”

“Power Daggers!”

“Power Lance!”

“Power Sword!”

As the rangers brought their weapons together Kimberly had no plan of defense. She watched in horror as they fired at her. She tried to dodge it but it collided with her once she lept into the air. “Ah!” She yelled in pain as she was sent back curling up in pain.

The evil Pink Ranger laughed as she grabbed the power blaster from Jason and held it up into the air as it went through and invisi-portal. “Now my master will study the technology to the morphing grid.”

Tommy saw this happen and ran over by Kim who pushed him away. “Stay away from me. I told you guys not to interfere!” She gasped out in pain then as she grabbed her arm in pain. Kimberly saw the evil Pink Ranger take the power blaster and frowned. “Let me at her!” She said very angry now. She got a sudden boost of energy and moved away from Tommy jumping into the air. She twirled her body and summoned her own power bow. “Ki-yah!” she yelled as she sent three arrows at the evil Pink Ranger. She was so distracted that she didn't even see them coming. She screamed as they blasted her chest sending her back.

Kimberly ran over by her and held out her power coin. “I know your one weakness, or did you forget you told me when I was locked inside you.” Her power coin started to glow as it shot a pink light at the evil Pink Ranger. Once it faded Kimberly was the only Pink Ranger there.

The other rangers ran over by Kimberly and smiled as they demorphed. “You did it Kimberly!”

As Kimberly demorphed she felt instant pain from when the power blaster hit her. She was able to suppress it through being morphed but it was such an impact that her powers didn't fully protect her. She fell to her knees as she cried out in pain. Tommy ran over to her and knelt down by her only to find her fainting, and she passed out into his arms.

[chrisangelo]

- Part Six - Awakening Hearts


-- Dr. Tommy Oliver's Home/Command Center --

Kimberly felt her eyes sting in pain as she slowly began to shift in the bed she was in. A sensation she hadn't experienced for over two weeks happened as her eyes slowly opened to the intense light coming from the window. She moved her arms as they felt like rocks and covered her eyes as she groaned waking up. She sighed deeply still not aware of where she was or that she had been in a coma. She slowly sat up in the bed and then turned to see a man sleeping in a chair by the bed, curled up in a blanket. Wait..she knew this man..more than just knew him..it was..

“Tommy?...” She said softly as she pulled the blankets and sheets off of her and moved slowly out of the bed when she gasped and started to freak out. Where was she? What happened to her? She was just in the battle with the evil Pink Ranger. All of these questions started to come to her head as she felt a migraine banging away at her skull. She held her fingers up to her aching temple as she moved away from the bed over to the door. She looked back at Tommy and knew she had to get out of there -now-. She felt claustrophobic as she had all of her feelings and emotions come running back to her heart as she opened the door. Kimberly needed air.. and fast..especially as she wasn't breathing.. she was holding her breath out of confusion. She ran down the hallway and saw the front door as she saw some of her clothes on a chair. She was still in a bed gown, obviously from the hospital. She grabbed a bag that had her outfit that she came originally to Angel Grove in and looked around in the bathroom. Once she found it she locked the door and started to change her clothes. After she finished dressing she looked in the mirror to see how her hair was an an instance shrieking scream escaped her mouth as she saw what she looked like.

Tommy had been sleeping in the chair for the past few hours. He had been watching Kimberly sleep and had been like that since she was transported to his home. He had been very over protecting of her and of course with the help of Aisha had to sponge bathe her and take care of her this past week. He had no idea when she would wake up. His eyes snapped open when he heard the scream. He jumped up out of his chair looking around frantically. “Kim?! Kimberly?!” He yelled out seeing she was gone. He threw the blanket that was wrapped around him on the floor and took off in a run slamming the door and looking around for her. “Kimberly?!”

Kimberly stared in the mirror with a look of disgust. “Oh..my GOD!!” She yelled as she madly tried to fix her hair and she looked at the bags under her eyes and started to look herself over. “What happened to me?!” She said almost in tears as she saw how hidious she looked. She actually wasn't hidious at all, just to her, miss perfection.. she saw herself being hidious.

Tommy knocked on the door in panic. “Kim! It's Tommy, are you alright?!” He tried opening the door but it was locked. “Kimberly, please let me in, are you alright?!”

Kimberly heard his voice and her eyes widened. “You can't see me like this!” She said looking around the bathroom for some type of robe or towel or anything that would help her cover up her face. She saw a blanket that was in one of the shelves by the bath. She grabbed it and wrapped it around her body like a life jacket. She then unlocked and opened the door as she looked down at the floor.

Tommy sighed in relief as he saw she was alright. He quickly drew her into an embrace and felt her withdrawal. He frowned and moved back, holding onto her shoulders. “Do you know where you are Kim? Do you know what's happened?”

Kimberly looked up at him with a look of confusion in her eyes. She shook her head as she sighed moving past him. “I have no idea what you are talking about Tommy. I'm shocked to even see you. I don't know where I am but I don't know why I am not in a hospital. I took that blow from the power blaster just yesterday. I can't believe my powers healed me this much.”

Tommy frowned and turned around as he lightly groaned at the fact that he had to be the one to tell her.. everything seemed to always ruin their moment or the start to repair their fallen relationship. “Kimberly.. that happened over two weeks ago.. you were in a coma. The hospital agreed to let you take me to my home, here in Reefside.. you just woke up. Aisha's been helping me take care of you..”

Kimberly felt more tears form in her eyes as he told her this. Then she felt like she was somehow violated by being taken care of.. not that she would ever be disgusted by Tommy touching her but.. her guard was up now more than ever. She shook her head and frowned. “I can't take this.” She gasped out as she moved to the front door and just as she swung it open she saw a man move back as he was about to knock.

The man smiled as he looked at Kimberly. “Oh it's great to see you again Ms. Hart.”

Tommy walked after her and saw who the man was. “Anton? What are you doing here?”

Anton smiled as he looked at his old friend. “Oh, I came to see if Kimberly was alright...”

Kimberly interrupted him and looked at him with a smile. “Can you take me into town? I need to find a hotel.”

Tommy was about to fully object but Anton had already agreed. “Kim you know you can stay here.”

Kimberly turned around to look at him. “Tommy, I'm sorry but.. I can't trust you. With all of our issues I just need to be alone right now.” She looked down then as she said that and as Anton waved goodbye she followed him to the car.

Tommy shut the door lightly and then his hands turned into fists as he punched the wall. “I can't believe this!” He then sighed deeply as he shook his head. “I can't just let her leave .. not again.”

As Kimberly got into the car a door could be heard slamming as a figure came running towards her and grabbed the door. Tommy grabbed her arm and lifted her up and out of the car.

Kimberly frowned. “Tommy Oliver! Put me down! What do you think you are doing?!”

Tommy frowned and looked at Anton. “You can head back into town, I'll take Kimberly.”

Once back inside, Tommy put Kimberly down to only be slapped across the face by the tiny girl in pink. “What..?” He asked in shock.

Kimberly frowned and pointed as tears began to form in her eyes again. “Do you not understand that I'm not the same Kimberly you knew 8 years ago? Tommy we both have changed and after everything that has happened I needed an escape but no that wasn't good enough for you! You just had to sweep in there and act like we were teenagers again. I didn't need saving Tommy.” She sighed deeply as she looked down. “I'm sorry..”

Tommy shook his head and looked down at her. “No.. it's alright. But you really should stay here.. I can leave if you want. You can take a shower, get dressed. I'll have Aisha stop by.”

Kimberly frowned as she shook her head and slightly laughed. “You still don't understand it Tommy..” Tears then fell from her eyes. “It hurts to be around you, it hurts to breathe. After everything we have been through.. I thought it would get easier but it never has.” Tommy reached his hand down to her cheek and wiped the tears away from her eyes. “It will never get easier, Kim.. not until we make it easier.” Tommy was having a hard time not grabbing her and loving her to death, he was starting to feel things for her very intensely, almost like they were 17 again.

Kimberly looked at him and lightly smiled. “How about.. if I take a shower and get beautiful again, and afterwards we can talk?”

Tommy nodded at the compromise and then smiled at her comment. “You're still beautiful no matter what you say.”

Kimberly hugged Tommy as they both wrapped their arms around each other and stayed in that moment for what seemed like forever.

--
Three Hours Passed..
--

Tommy was half asleep when the Kimberly he recognized came out of the bathroom. She was wearing a pink dress that made him remember years past. “I was going to go in there and see if you fell asleep or something.” He said laughing. Kimberly smiled. “Well try not taking a shower for two-weeks, have someone give you a sponge bath, and then you see how long you are in there.”

Kimberly sighed walking over to him and sat down on the couch next to him.

Ten minutes passed before Tommy broke the silence. “I'm really sorry Kim... about everything... not believing you about the letter..the way I treated you..for not going after you when I received that letter. I thought that Kat could somehow replace you but I knew it wasn't possible. No one could ever replace you Kimberly.”

Kimberly looked over at him and looked down when she heard Kat's name. “Well it's not like I came after you when I got the letter..”

Tommy stopped her and shook his head. “No Kim.. look I want you to know I never stopped thinking about you. Kat left me after we handed our Turbo powers off to the new rangers. We were never really a couple.. we tried but it never worked out. I couldn't get you off of my mind. It got so bad I started calling Kat by your name in battle.”

Kimberly sighed deeply as her old insecurities were rushing back. “Maybe she was right for you Tommy..” She said as she almost got choked up by sudden tears brought to her eyes. “She was better than me in every way.. I remember getting letters from Aisha, Adam, Billy, and Rocky on how she fit right into my place..that you let her.. that she was the new and better me.” She said as tears fell from her eyes.

Tommy frowned as he moved closer to Kimberly. “Kim.. that's not true.. she was never better than you. She tried to be but she could never live up to what you were.. and.. about those letters..” He sighed knowing that Kimberly would never forgive Kat after what he was about to say. “Kat wrote them... she used some magic she still had from Rita to make it look like the others wrote them.. she also sent a letter to you and me.. both saying that we were only like a brother or a sister to the other and that we met different people. I just found out a few months ago. I'm so sorry I didn't believe you..”

Kimberly held her hands together as she was trying not to let go of her anger. “How.. how could she do that? Did she know how much we meant to each other?! Tommy.. I loved...” She stopped realizing the past tense of her word. “Tommy.. I love you.. I always have.. I don't care if she was under the control of Rita or not.. how could she do that.” As she began to have more tears fall she moved closer to Tommy and hugged him as she cried into his chest.

Tommy frowned, holding Kimberly in his arms. “Please don't cry Kim.. we have each other now.. right?”

Kimberly tipped her head up, looking at his eyes as she nodded and reached up and closed her eyes as their lips met. As some would say, the kiss of death, but in this case, the kiss of fate.

As they both broke for air, their passion fading, they both looked at each other with flushed faces. It was like they had never been apart. Kimberly smiled looking to the ground then embarrassed of what had just occurred. “What does this mean..for..-us-?”

Tommy smiled. “I hope it means we can start a relationship again.. I don't know Kim.. what do you think?”

Kimberly still looked at the ground as she turned her head facing the wall.

Tommy's eyes widened. “Kim?.. Kim?.. Kimberly?!”

Kimberly turned her head and looked up at him smiling. “Of course that's what it means.”

Tommy smiled with relief as he hugged Kimberly again. “You always make me wait in suspense.”

Kimberly smiled. “That's because if I don't, you'll forget too easily.”

As their 'moment' of fate finally happened it all seemed to end too soon as the house started to shake and before they knew it the front door was blown off of Tommy's house.

Tommy stood up as Kimberly gasped and remained behind him. “Who is that..?”

The evil White Ranger walked through the smoke and as his 'green ranger laugh' appeared he soon came into view. “Return the Pink Ranger to us, or perish, Tommy.”

Tommy got in his fighting stance as he frowned. “Never!”

Kimberly stood up and held onto Tommy's arm as she glared at the evil White Ranger. “What would you want with me?”

Thomas smirked under his helmet as he pointed to the table. “Your power coin.”

Kimberly gasped as she hurriedly grabbed the power coin and looked at Tommy who shook his head. “Don't Morph.. you are too weak.”

Tommy moved in front of Kimberly and flicked his wrist as his dino morpher appeared. “Dino Thunder Power Up!” He yelled as he soon became the Black Dino Thunder Ranger. “Teleport out of here Kim.”

Kimberly hesitantly nodded and pressed the button as she disappeared in a pink light.. but she fooled him as she only teleported outside, where she soon saw hundreds of tyrannodrones awaiting for battle. “Oh no.. Tommy.. I have to do something.” She then pressed a button on her communicator. “Jason, anyone? Please you have to help Tommy and me. We've been surrounded. We're out at his house.” She then panicked. “I have to do something...” She then rotated her arm and soon was in her ninja morphing stance as she yelled, “Ninja Ranger Power now!”

“Pink Crane!”

As soon as she morphed she was grabbed by...Elsa. “Tommy!” She yelled knowing she wouldn't be able to take on Elsa.. without using her normal Dino powers.

Elsa slammed her sword against Kimberly's chest as she let out a scream. She was still healing there from the last battle. Sparks flew off of her Ninja suit.

[chrisangelo]

- Part Six - Tangled up in You (part one) : Strike to the Core..


-- Outside Dr. Tommy Oliver's Home/Command Center --

Kimberly flew in the air as she was sent back from the blast by Elsa's sword. She yelled as she regained her balance in the air as she flipped forward and landed on the ground. “Nice try Elsa!” She said wincing holding her shoulder. Before she knew it 4 lights of red, yellow, blue, and black surrounded her. She gasped out of relief as she saw her friends.

Aisha ran over to her and smiled. “You're awake! Girl you looked so ...” She was interrupted by Jason who looked at Elsa glaring at them. “Kim, are you going to be alright to morph?”

Kimberly thought back to what Tommy said.. and knew she had to ignore it. “Yeah.. I'll be alright. Let's do this.”

Jason nodded as he placed his hand behind his back. “It's Morphing Time!” He yelled as the others placed their hands behind their backs as well.

“Black Ranger Power!”

“Pink Ranger Power!”

“Blue Ranger Power!”

“Yellow Ranger Power!”

“Red Ranger Power!”

They all yelled in sequence and soon took off in a sprint towards Elsa. Kimberly, however, ran towards the house knowing Tommy would need her help. “Kim are you crazy?!” Jason yelled as he dodged an attack from Elsa.

“Don't go in there!”

-- Dr. Tommy Oliver's Home/Command Center --

Tommy had been fighting with Zeltrax when he heard his name being cried out. “Kimberly! Ah! No!” He yelled as Zeltrax threw him into the wall so he couldn't see what was going on outside. Tommy summoned his Brachio Staff as he dove to the ground and quickly flipped around as he swung it at Zeltrax's legs, knocking him to the ground. No sooner than he did that he heard and saw Kim come through the front door.. and not only had she went against her word by not leaving.. but she was morphed. “Damn it! Kimberly!”

He flipped back up and ran over to her as she soon embraced him, however, still watching Zeltrax. “I told you to leave, Kim. You are too weak.” At that moment when Tommy finished he felt a chill go up and down his spine as he knew never to call Kimberly weak anything. “I'll be fine.” Kimberly said as she glared at Zeltrax.

Zeltrax laughed as he saw this reunion. “Sorry to break up such a happy moment but you two are finished!”

Tommy turned to face him and frowned. “Oh yeah? Is that what you think?!”

Kimberly returned to her battle stance as she clenched her fists trying to stabilize her power. “Come on metal-head, haven't you heard of us before? The ultimate team-up.” She said only speaking the truth as they were a fierce foe when paired together.

Zeltrax continued to laugh almost falling over. “Don't you mean ultimate disaster, Pink and Black? Sounds doomed from the start.” He then placed his fingers on his forehead as he smiled. “Have fun in paradise!” He swiftly moved his fingers from his head out to point at the two of them when a green mixed with black light shot out of his forehead as his magic wrapped around the pair and soon they were gone completely from Reefside.

Jason and the others rushed in after the army faded away, running.

Aisha frowned looking around as she took her saber tooth tiger, yellow, helmet off. “Where did they go?”

Jason frowned sensing something bad. “I don't know but whatever it is, it can't be good..”

-- Forbidden Isle, Zeltrax's Hidden Dungeon --

As the flash of green and black light faded, as well as their powers, Kimberly and Tommy stared at each other from across what appeared as a jungle.

Kimberly was held on a rock pillar by chains wrapped around her waist and two holding her arm up that were shackled at her wrists. She struggled against them as she stared at Tommy, “Are you alright?!” She yelled hoping nothing worse than what she was already in happened to Tommy.

Tommy saw Kimberly and yanked on the chains that held him. He wasn't attached to a pillar, two chains were shackled to his ankles and two around his wrists, holding him in place so he couldn't move far. “Yeah, I'm fine! Are you ok?” He asked worried about her energy after what had happened two weeks ago.

Kimberly smiled hearing his voice which gave her some relief. “Yeah, I'll be fine.”

Zeltrax voice then echoed in their ears as he stood in the middle area, between them. “I hope you enjoy being Master's lab rats. He mentioned you two love the island, so he figured it would be the perfect place for you to both die.” He said laughing as he then disappeared.

“You freak! Let us go!” Kimberly yelled as she then gasped out in pain when she tried slipping her wrist through the shackle. It electrocuted her with pink energy.

When Tommy heard her scream, his instinct was to run to her but he was sent to his knees in pain as black energy shocked him through the chains. It appeared as if their own powers were being used against them.

Tears welled up in Kimberly's eyes as she looked at Tommy. “I don't know if we can make it out of this, Tommy..” Her voice sounding crackling as she felt helpless and that the end would soon be coming.

Tommy frowned and shook his head. “No Kim.. you have to stay strong. We'll get out of here I swear it.. even if it kills me.” He said whispering the last part.

Three hours passed in the scorching bright sun.

The both of them knew that they couldn't let the other pass out as they would soon become dehydrated and with out being to reach each other, they couldn't wake the other, so they decided to use this time alone, to talk about everything they really felt for each other over the years.

Kimberly laughed as Tommy told her about how scared he was when they first went to the dance. “I think I was more afraid of going to the dance with you than actually asking you out.” He said smiling.

“And kissing me?” She asked curious.

Tommy shook his head and smiled. “No, that was the best part, I had wanted to do that for a long time.”

Kimberly nodded, her smile soon fading as she tipped her head up, leaning against the pillar. Her hair blew in the wind, slightly covering her left eye, when she decided to ask what had been burning a hole in her heart since Muranthius. “Tommy.. did you ever sleep with Kat?” She asked like it was in general, but a hit of fear in her voice.

Tommy looked at the ground as he wished she wouldn't have asked that question.. he could lie to her.. but what if she already knew, and that's why she was asking.. “Kim...”

“Just tell me..” Kimberly said as she knew the truth in her heart, but she had to hear it from him.

“Yes.. Kat and I were together.. shortly after we gave up our Turbo Powers.”

Kimberly knew that she was Tommy's first, when she had come back for Christmas, but she had never really thought that Tommy would be with Kat. “I see..” She said not wanting to cry.

A voice cut in then as Kimberly's head tipped up when she heard it, and her heart crushed more. “Oh and it was amazing, by the way, Kimberly.” Kat said as she appeared from behind a tree standing in the middle, where Zeltrax had stood. “He told me for weeks how that was the best experience of his life.”

Tommy's eyes widened as he saw Kat and then heard her comments. “That's not true and you know it Kat!”

Kat smirked as she turned to face Tommy, “Oh you don't have to deny it, Tommy, we're all adults here.”

Kimberly couldn't look at Tommy. The words that Kat spoke sunk right into her heart as all her fears came rushing back, just like when Katherine first came to Angel Grove. She feared that Tommy would leave her, for Kat.

Katherine walked over to Kimberly and put her hand on her shoulder. “It's ok Kimmie, you know I am the perfected version of you. That's why I was able to replace you in every way in Tommy's heart.”

Kimberly tipped her head up staring at the taller woman with a look of disgust as she spit at Kat's face. “Like you could ever replace me.”

smack

Kimberly's face was jolted away from its possession as Kat smacked her as hard as she could. “As much as I want to kill you right now, that's not why I came.” She then reached into Kimberly's pocket, grabbing the power coin. “It's mine...-again-!” She laughed as she shape shifted into once again, the evil Pink Ranger.

Kimberly's eyes widened as she gasped and struggled to try and grab the power coin. “No..! Give it back you witch! It's not yours! I..I thought you were dead!”

Tommy stared and sighed somewhat thankful that wasn't Kat. One, none of the things she said were true except about Tommy and Kat sleeping together; two, Tommy didn't love Kat, he loved Kimberly. But there was still the unthinkable realization that the evil Pink Ranger was alive.

Evil Kimberly stared at her counterpart as she smirked. “This is an island of illusion, one where I can enter when I want, and leave when I want. But you are stuck in this world without your power coin. That is the one key of getting out of here.” She then looked back to Tommy. “Oh and by the way, in case you didn't notice, but Zeltrax had the pleasure of stealing your morpher while we chained you up.”

Tommy's eyes widened as he looked down to see the metal cuff gone. “Why don't you just let us go and go fantasize about the white ranger!” He said as he glared at her.

“Oh how delightful that would be, but on the other hand, I have what I came for.” She said disappearing in pink light as Tommy's chains were released.

He rubbed his wrists and then quickly sprinted over to where Kimberly was. “Figures.. she couldn't remove your chains.” He said as he was trying to break them apart but got no where. He saw Kimberly looking in the other direction as he frowned and grabbed her chin with his hand and gently turned her head to face.. well look up at him. “You know nothing she said was true. I never said or thought those things. That is why Kat and I broke up was because I knew she couldn't replace you, and she knew it too.”

Kimberly frowned and tried to turn her head but now he had a firm grip on her chin. “Don't try to deny it Tommy. I felt that she replaced me the minute she came to Angel Grove, and you let her after I left. There wasn't one moment where you didn't try to idealize her over me. Not even when I came back for Christmas. You showed nothing.”

Tommy frowned letting her go as he stared at her. “Noticed nothing? Kimberly, we made love when you came back. How was that not showing you anything. If anything at all it should have shown how much I love you.”

Kimberly felt tears form in her eyes again as another argument heated up. “Did you notice how much weight I had lost? Or perhaps the bruises on my wrist and body? Or how weak I felt? I pushed myself over the limit in my training just so I couldn't think about how much I missed you or the thought of Kat taking my place in the Rangers hearts and yours. We made love Tommy but you didn't notice one of those things, not one..”

Tommy frowned feeling so helpless at this situation. “I.. I'm sorry Kim.. I was just so happy you were back.. I was caught up in the moment.”

Kimberly's chains broke then as she pushed them off of her and moved passed Tommy, walking in the opposite direction. “Just leave me alone Tommy!”

Tommy growled and turned around and ran after her, grabbing her arm with a bit of force. “Let go of me!” Kimberly screamed as she was pulled into an embrace.

“I don't know what I have to do to convince you that you mean -everything- to me, and that I am sorry for my mistakes of the past!” Tommy yelled at her as he held her in his arms, trying not to let the smaller one go.

Kimberly pushed him away from her and then saw the clouds cover the bright sun and soon get dark. “Can this day get any worse?” She said and continued to walk away from Tommy, into a cave, to escape the -outside- as much as she could.

Tommy sighed as he knew this was going to be a long day.. who knew what he had to do to convince Kimberly that he still and always had loved her. He walked into the cave to see her sitting down. “Kim.. we really need to talk.”

Kimberly frowned. “I'll talk to you when you find a way to get us out of here and we won't get interrupted by evil freaks, that's when I will talk to you. You always want to jump right back into things but you always choose the wrong place to do them.” She sighed after her ranting. “I'm really scared Tommy..”

Tommy walked over to her and sat down by her. He put his arm around her, to comfort her. “It's going to be alright Kim.. I promise.”

Kimberly leaned into him as she sighed deeply. As she closed her eyes she could picture not even a decade ago when Tommy would hold her. It always made her heart beat faster, but she always woke up and realized so much had changed between them.

Kimberly's facial expression changed then as she gasped in horror. She turned facing Tommy as she saw blood pouring from his chest where an arrow was. She looked into the distance to see.. her as the Pink Ranger, holding a bow. She immediately started to cry and screamed at herself for doing this. She moved her hands to try and apply pressure to the wound after she pulled the arrow out. She frantically moved her hands over Tommy's chest as she fell apart.

Everything was going smoothly for once, then things turned upside down once again for Tommy. He raised a brow seeing Kim start to cry and then he slightly gasped as she was moving her hands all over his chest as something appeared wrong. “Kimberly? What are you doing?” When he couldn't even get a glance from her, he knew something was wrong. “Kim? Kimberly snap out of this!” He remembered what the evil Pink Ranger saying about anything could happen here.. what if it was some type of illusion? In fact it was an illusion and now Tommy was getting another one. His eyes flashed white as he was drawn into this one as Kimberly remained in her trance believing that Tommy was dead, by her hands. Tommy's mind became conscious again as he saw Kimberly, limp, her body pale, as he was the one holding her by her neck. His hands were wrapped around her neck as he could then tell that it was broke. He let go slowly as his hands shook and his eyes widened as he came to the realization that he killed Kimberly. “No!..I .. I couldn't.. no.. Kim..!” He said as tears now came to his eyes as he fell to his knees feeling too weak to stand and he began punching the ground.

Kimberly's vision blurred as she came out of the trance to see Tommy's eyes closed and tears running down his face. She frowned and moved up on her knees as she gently brushed her fingers across his cheek to wipe the tears away. “Tommy.. what's wrong?” She asked but then screamed as she was suddenly grabbed by Zeltrax. Being much taller than Kimberly had its advantages and its disadvantages.. but in this case it was an advantage. Zeltrax threw her across the cave's main chamber as she hit the wall gasping out in pain.

“Do you see the shadows yet Pink Ranger? You will soon be walking into the valley of death.” He said as he ran forward jumping over an alter and grabbed onto Kimberly's throat and forced her up as he pushed her back into the wall, continuing to lift her up until she could no longer touch the ground. “Ah.. no.. please don't do this!” She struggled to speak as she started to panic when the lack of oxygen started to get to her as her body started to fidget. She then let out a screeching cry.. some would say as a mimic of the cry of the crane. “Tommy!” She screamed as she tried to get Zeltrax off of her.

Zeltrax laughed as he was slowly taking the life of the Pink Ranger. “This is so easy. I should have done it sooner! Now the child that was prophesized will never exist. The son of Tommy Oliver and Kimberly Hart will never be born!” He said referring to a union between Tommy and Kimberly long foreseen, would never happen, because of Kimberly's death.

Kimberly was losing sight of everything as she used all of her strength to speak one last time. “Who says he doesn't exist?” Soon after she fell to the ground by Zeltrax's questioning state and Kimberly felt the darkness take her in as she passed out.

[chrisangelo]

- Part Eight - Tangled up in You (part two) : Memories, Confessions, and Reunions


-- 3 months ago.. Kimberly Hart's Apartment --

The whole state of Florida seemed to be storming as the rain poured down and the lightning and thunder struck and crackled. Kimberly was in her bedroom as she saw what time it was. “Four in the morning.. still can't sleep.” She said groaning as she slowly moved from her bed. She opened her bedroom door and walked down the hall to another bedroom. A faint smile came to her face as she leaned against the door frame and watched her son sleep. “You look so much like him..” Tears then came to her eyes as she gently closed his door and walked back to her bedroom where she closed the door behind her. She held in her tears as she wrapped her arms around herself and closed her eyes not wanting them to escape. “Tommy..” She gasped. Kimberly sat down on her bed and slid to the ground, resting her back against her bed. “I don't know how things got so screwed up!” She quietly shouted as she ran her hands through her hair as she finally let the tears fall from her eyes. Memories continued to flash back to her as she pictured what Tommy and Kat would be by now.. married.. several kids.. happy. “How could you do that to me Tommy? How could you leave me behind and choose her over me.” She said as she looked at her nightstand which atop it were two pictures. One of her son, Jason James Oliver 'Jacee' or ' Jay Jay ' as his close family still called him, and the one next to it was of.. all the original rangers.. including Tommy. “How could you leave this life behind.. was I not good enough?” There had been so many chances that Kimberly tried to return to Tommy's life.. but he never would let her.. so many times she tried to tell him that he had a son.. but again every time failed..Trini's funeral.. all the letters.. Muranthius.. Kimberly needed to get out, and fast. She felt once again claustrophobic. She pushed herself up and got dressed as she spent 30 minutes in the bathroom and came out in her gym clothes and she walked out over to another bedroom where she knocked on the door. No reply came and she slowly opened the door and walked over to the bed where she shook her best friend. “Come on Jase.. wake up.”

Jason's eyes slowly opened as he groaned. He had been staying with Kim for a few weeks until he found an apartment. He was also helping out with Jacee. “What is it Kim? It's four in the morning..”

Kimberly sighed as she looked at him. “I have to go to the gym.. will you make sure Jacee gets up and can you take him to school?” She smiled when Jason nodded his head. “Sure.. I'll get right on that..” He said closing his eyes to drift back to sleep. Kimberly set his alarm clock just in case and then she soon was out of the apartment and driving to the gym.

-- 3 months ago.. Pink Hart Gymnastics Academy --

Kimberly walked over to the CD player and put in her usual music that she practiced at this late..well early in the morning. The song that she chose was “Evanescence: Bring Me To Life.” The band had recently became quite popular and she took an interest to this song. She slowly took her jacket off and her shorts as it revealed a pink and black leotard. Once the music started she took a swift run and dove into the air as she flipped and landed gracefully at the other side. This was always her first routine and she always pushed herself extra hard on this, especially due to the song. She then switched from her routine to something that brought her back to a time in her life that she could call the best.

A loud metal sound was heard as something from the ceiling rose down to the ground as sand bags appeared, held into the air by ropes and then Kimberly put her shorts back on.

“One for the old days.”

This was how she let loose most of her built up frustration. She pictured the sand bags as clay brains from the past. With a loud 'ki-yah!' she lept into the air and as she did several front handsprings, she twisted her body and jumped into the air, a push off with her hands, and then kicked and punched at the sand bags. As the hour went on the room was soon covered with sand as she destroyed each and every sand bag. Her body had bruises from top to bottom and her hands were cut and partially covered with blood. She walked to her office and unlocked the door.

When Kimberly went to reach for the light in her office, a crash could be heard as the lamp fell to the ground and shattered. Kimberly let out a loud sigh as she bent down and soon positioned herself on her knees as she started to pick up the glass. She still couldn't see very well and she let out a wince as she felt glass go through her finger tips. She reached up and flicked the light switch on and realized that it wasn't the lamp that fell.. it was a picture. Blood dripped from her fingertips as she placed them in her mouth then to sooth them and to lap the blood away and then she frowned when she saw what picture it was. It was one she didn't recognize. Apparently someone placed it on her desk.. and attached it with a letter. She smiled at the picture of Jason, Jacee, and her as she knew this had Jason written all over it. He knew she spent most hours in the gym and probably needed a break when she could use one. As she stood up to go get the broom she turned around and gasped when she saw a man in the distance that was darkened by the shadows.

“You do know the gym is closed..?”

The man stepped forward into the light to reveal himself as Anton Mercer.. to whom Kimberly would not have known. “Yes, I realize that. I came here from across the country and I guess I forgot the time change.” He said freakishly laughing.

He took two steps towards Kimberly, which made her move back.

“You need to leave, like I said, we are -closed-.”

Anton smirked as he continued to walk towards Kimberly when he jumped forward and shoved Kimberly into the wall, holding her arms down and using his elbow to pin her head back. “Listen, Miss Hart. Do not under any circumstances return to Angel Grove, or Reefside. This is your first and final warning.” He then swung his fist at her face, sending her to the ground, knocked unconscious. He laughed then staring at the helpless pink ranger and then he dragged her body and moved it over by the beam, making it seem as if she fell.

Kimberly's eyes slowly opened as she awoke in the hospital several hours later. “What.. happened?..” She asked moving her hand to her head.

Jacee saw his mother awaken and ran over to her bed. “Mom, you're awake!” He said smiling.

Kimberly smiled faintly at her son and then the curiosity rushed to her already questioning mind. “Jacee.. what are you doing here? Did Jason not take you to school?”

Jacee shook his head and smiled. “Uncle Jay let me stay out of school so I could come see you. Are you alright mom?” His smile fading into a face of fear then as he was very concerned about his mom.

Kimberly groaned as she placed her hand over her eyes. “Oh.. someone please pinch me so I'll wake up.” She said not wanting to believe she was put into the hospital over gymnastics again. She then gasped out and held her arm.

“Ouch! I didn't mean literally.” She said as she saw her best friend now at her bedside.

“Well I never know with you Kim.” Jason said smiling.

“What were you doing? I told you to stop those intense workouts. They always tire you out to exhaustion.”

Kimberly sighed as she tried to remember. “Honestly.. the last thing I remember was going into my office and picking up a broken picture frame. The rest is a blur..”

Kimberly then saw the concern on her son's face and smiled. “It's ok, I'm fine, I promise.” She said rubbing his hair which got a growl out of him and he moaned.

“Mom.. do you have to always do that?”

Kimberly laughed and then without thinking said, “Oh you are just like your father, he never liked his hair being played with.” Her smile turned to a frown as she laid back down not wanting to compare her son to him at all, especially after how things turned out.

That comment definitely got Jacee thinking. “Mom.. am I ever going to meet my father?”

Kimberly looked at him and slowly shook her head. “Not now Jacee.. we'll talk about this later.”

-- Forbidden Isle, Zeltrax's Hidden Dungeon --

Tommy's eyes shot open as tears continued to stream down his face from the illusion. He gasped out as he came out of the trance and he heard screams come from Kimberly as he turned his head and his eyes shook with horror. He let out a loud, trembling cry, “No!” He yelled and quickly got to his feet and when he went to attack Zeltrax, Zeltrax disappeared in his confused state.

Kimberly's body fell to the ground unconscious and not breathing.

Tommy rushed over to her and pulled her into his lap as he tried to wake her up. “Come on beautiful...you have to wake up.” His glance went from her face to her neck where he saw the bruises that he thought he had given her. But it was just another illusion. Tommy layed Kimberly gently back onto the ground and began to give her CPR as he tipped her neck up and opened her mouth and breathed in as he added compressions to her chest. “Come on Kim.. not like this.”

It took only a few minutes, but each one seemed like forever, as Kimberly gasped out and instantly coughed as her hands moved to her neck feeling the pain rush through her. “Tommy?” She gasped out.

Tommy scooped her up into his arms and held her gently as he smiled down at her. “Yeah.. it's me.”

Kimberly swallowed hard as her memories came flooding back to her as she remembered what Zeltrax said. “Tommy...” Tears formed in her eyes as her mind boggled with the decision to either tell him.. or continue to keep it from him. “There's something that I have to tell you..”

-- Elsewhere --

Zeltrax was having a meeting with the evil Pink Ranger, devising a new plan of action. “It is time for you to return to the real world. With that power coin you can return back to the place where I captured Kimberly and Tommy. But you must keep up pretenses as everyone will think that you are Kimberly. Search for the supposed child and bring him back here.”

The evil Pink Ranger rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. “And why should I listen to you? What gives you command over me?”

Zeltrax laughed as he then glared at her. “Because I hold the key.” He said holding up the Pink Power Coin.

The evil Pink Ranger groaned realizing she had no choice but to make this deal. “And then after I take the kid, I take over as Kimberly, correct? You won't let her escape?”

Zeltrax shook his head. “No, she will remain here for eternity. That is the deal. But only if you bring me the boy.”

Evil Kimberly agreed as she grabbed the power coin and stepped into the portal, her body disappearing in a pink light.

-- Dr. Tommy Oliver's Home/Command Center --

Aisha was waiting at Tommy's house for Jason to return. “Oh I hope he gets back soon.” She said as she sighed and figured she better go check on Billy and Hayley. They had been trying to locate Tommy and Kimberly but have had no success. As she stood up to go check on them, a pink portal opened and out came who she thought was Kimberly. “Kim!” She yelled as she ran over to her and went to hug her but Kimberly shoved Aisha down when she tried. / Who cares what Zeltrax says. I'll get the kid my own way. / she thought as she then held her coin out and soon became the Pink Ninja Ranger. She grabbed onto Aisha and dove out the door and threw Aisha into the air.

Aisha gasped as she shook her head and then held her coin out. “Yellow Bear Ninja Power Now!” She yelled as she flashed into the Yellow Ninja Ranger. She flipped forward and dove towards the ground and flipped herself up. “I should have known it was you!” Her head then turned to the side as she saw Tommy's jeep approaching from the distance. “No.. he doesn't know. I have to stop her.” She said as she ran towards Kimberly.

Kimberly noticed the jeep as well but had to deal with the annoying Yellow Ranger. “I'm done with you!” She said and when Aisha came at her she grabbed her neck and used all her might to choke Aisha and then kicked her in her stomach and kicked again, this time using more force and knocked her into the tree. “Jason!” Aisha yelled out having to warn him somehow.

Jacee was sitting in the passenger seat as he was getting impatient with his uncle. “Are you going to tell me why we are here? Is Mom here? Is she ok?” He said asking several questions. Jason shook his head lightly smiling. “I told you buddy, we are here for a reunion. Plus you are safe here.” He then saw a pink figure running towards the Jeep. / Why would she be morphed/ He thought as he continued driving. He then looked at Jacee and it all came together. “Hold on.” He said as he floored the jeep and went off the road and turned sharply in the other direction, almost tipping the jeep. In return to the madness, he got screams from his 8-year-old nephew in the other seat. “Uncle Jason!” Jacee cried out. “It's going to be alright, just hold on!” He said knowing the speed of the Ninja powers.

The evil Pink Ranger frowned as she continued to run. “Damn, stubborn idiot.” She said and then disappeared into the air and reappeared inside the jeep. “Nice try JASON!” She yelled as she grabbed onto the boy and threw him out of the moving jeep and went to punch Jason, but he was already gone. She then looked up to see him in the air and then heard him morph.

“Red Ranger Power!”

Jason dove for his nephew as he grabbed him and tumbled to the ground. He tried his best to protect Jacee from the ground but they both still impacted very hard, considering the speed of the jeep. Jason winced as he stopped rolling and he demorphed. When his vision came back and his head stopped ringing he realized that he no longer had Jacee. “Jay Jay!” He yelled out for his nephew and then saw the evil Pink Ranger pick him up. “Leave him alone and tell me where his parents are!”

“Or what? You'll try and stop me? Believe me, you can't.”

The evil Pink Ranger then snapped her fingers as a portal appeared and she jumped into it with the unconscious boy.

Jason frowned and tried to get up but he couldn't. “NO!!” He yelled as he thought the worst. He swore to Kim that he would protect Jacee at all costs.. and he didn't.

-- Forbidden Isle, Zeltrax's Hidden Dungeon --

Tommy wiped a tear that was falling from Kimberly's eye and smiled down at her. “Kim, you can tell me anything, what is it?”

Kim sat up and moved out of his embrace and pulled him up with her. “Let's get out of here.. I can't tell you here..” She said and pulled him with her, holding each others hand.

After about 15 minutes of walking, they reached an area out of the massive jungle, and onto a beach.

Kimberly turned to face Tommy and took a deep breath. As she began to speak tears began to fill her eyes as she did her best to hold them off. “Tommy.. there is something that I have been trying to tell you for the past 8 almost nine years..”

She took a deep breath as she looked up at the confused Tommy. “First let me tell you that I have tried many times to tell you.. but things always seemed to come up or stop me.”

Tommy looked at her and saw how upset she was getting. “Just tell me Kim..”

Kimberly bit her bottom lip as she looked at the ground. “Tommy.. when I came back for Christmas.. and we.. we.. we made love.. we also conceived a child..” She saw his hugely shocked expression and looked back at the ground. “It was right after I found out that I got that letter.. after so many failed attempts at trying to tell you.. I just couldn't get the strength up to tell you .. that you have a son.”

Tommy's eyes widened as they started to water. “I..I have a son?”

A gust of wind picked up as it knocked Kimberly back and she tumbled over into the shore of the water..

Tommy stared at Kim still shocked. Kimberly frowned as she crawled back to the sand and tears fell from her eyes. “Tommy..”

At that moment a flash of pink appeared as both of Tommy and Kimberly's heads jerked towards the light.

The evil Pink Ranger appeared with an unconscious Jacee in her arms.

Kimberly gasped as she quickly got back to her feet. “Let go of him!”

Tommy frowned running over by Kim and he looked down at her. “Is that.. -our- son?”

Kimberly nodded and then went to reach for her power coin but remembered it was gone.

Tommy frowned and glared at the evil Kim. “Give him back or I swear to you you'll be lucky not to see the light of day.” He said stepping into his fighting stance.

The evil Kimberly smirked as she laughed at the two parents. “Aww mommy and daddy want their son back? Well sorry, I can't do that!” She said as she watched Zeltrax walk out.

One mistake, however, was they forgot exactly who this child was, and who his parents were. Jacee had woken up, taken the power coin and the dino morpher that the evil Pink Ranger also had and then he jumped into the air, out of her arms and kicked her face, sending the small pink ranger back. He then started to run towards Kimberly. “Mommy!” He yelled out, as if of fear. Normally he only called her that in a dire situation. Zeltrax frowned and saw this occur. “No!” He yelled out as he swung his sword out and fired a blast.

Kimberly screamed as she saw this happen and almost fainted when she saw what had happened. Tommy swiftly ran and jumped before the attack hit Jacee and as he grabbed him, the attack collided with his back.

As much pain as Tommy was in he only cared about getting Jacee safe.

He ran over to Kim and put him down by her. He then gave Kimberly her power coin. He knew if he could morph the power would protect whatever injuries he received.

“Let's do this.” He said as she nodded. “Jacee.. stay behind me ok?” Kimberly told her son as she stepped in front of him, right by Tommy. “Dino Thunder Power Up!” They both yelled as Tommy pressed his morpher and Kimberly held out her coin.

“Pink Ranger Power!”

“Black Ranger Power!”

After the light faded, Jacee stood behind two power rangers. He couldn't believe his eyes.

[chrisangelo]

Part Nine - Tangled up in You (part three) : Destruction, Enemies Forever.


-- Forbidden Isle, Zeltrax's Hidden Dungeon --

Jacee smiled as he saw the Pink and Black Power Rangers. “My mom is a Power Ranger!” He said almost jumping up and down, forgetting the danger of the situation.

Kimberly looked back at Jacee and smiled within her helmet. “So is your dad.” She said and then looked up at Tommy and they both nodded and jumped into the air and flipped over to their respective enemies.

Jacee ran over behind a tree, watching the whole thing. “My dad?” He asked always wondering who he was. He then looked over at the Black Ranger and somewhat smiled. The excitement of meeting his father was taken away by all the thoughts and feelings he had over his 8 years of life of wondering where his father was and seeing his mother cry almost every night.

The evil Pink Ranger was able to tap into the powers of the coin even though she didn't have it with her. Kimberly jumped and flipped over by her and then swung her leg, knocking the Ninja Ranger down. “Haven't you learned yet? Like you could ever defeat me.” She said and then held her hand up. “Stego-bow!” She yelled and swung it at her, the weapon colliding with the Ninja Ranger's chest, sparks flying off as Kimberly drove it at her like a sword to a wall.

Kimberly flipped backwards into a handstand as she gracefully dodged the evil Pink Ranger's kicks. “Ki-Yah!” was echoed as a flash of pink pushed both of them back from eachother. “You won't win!” The evil Pink Ranger yelled.

Tommy used swept his staff under Zeltrax' legs, causing him to fall over. Zeltrax laughed as he stood up and glared at Tommy. “Try and stop me Oliver, you have five minutes to live.”

Tommy hadn't really registered in his mind what Zeltrax meant, he figured he meant before Zeltrax would defeat him, which he wouldn't let happen. Tommy jumped over Zeltrax and swung his leg up, pushing Zeltrax over and then Tommy slashed his Brachio Staff into Zeltrax' back making him fall to the ground. “It's over Zeltrax!”

Sword collided with staff as both of their weapons sent sparks off of eachother. Tommy swung his arm under the both of their weapons, sending both flying into the air. Tommy then with a 'ut-set-hiya!' kicked Zeltrax into the tree and jumped up into the air to grab the Brachio Staff. Once he landed Zeltrax came grabbing at him but Tommy grabbed his arms and flipped him up into the air and back onto the ground. He quickly thought and grabbed both of Zeltrax' arms, restraining them.

Kimberly held out her power coin and once again shook her head. “Back into the coin.. forever!” She said as she heard screams from the evil Pink Ranger.

Kimberly sighed deeply and then lightly gasped as Tommy flipped over by her. “Ready to finish him?”

A laughter could be heard from Zeltrax as a large noise came from the center of the isle as it sounded like an enormous bomb going off. The Island then began to shake like a massive earthquake.

Zeltrax smirked as he glared at Kimberly and then knew the true feeling of evil winning. “Remember that the only way out of this island is with a power source. Keep in mind you have two power sources, but three people.”

Tommy looked at Kimberly and then lifted her up into his arms and ran at Zeltrax. “Double Dino Thunder Power!” They both yelled as they turned into lights of Pink and Black and they collided with Zeltrax, making his outer armor fall to the ground and one of his arms became immobile. That action made them both remember when they were Ninja Rangers and they used the same saying only different 'Double Ninja Ranger Power!' They reappeared off into the distance.

“Was that enough?” Kimberly asked but turned to see it wasn't.

Kimberly then thought and remembered another tactic that the pair had used before.

“Tommy, let me see your Brachio Staff.” She said as her bow reappeared in her hands.

Tommy smiled and nodded knowing what she meant. “Here.” He said and lifted her up onto his shoulders so she could get a better shot. He extended his arms out as she grabbed his staff. Kimberly set it between the strings just like she had the Dragon Dagger.

Zeltrax turned around and his eyes widened. “Not another duo attack..”

The staff lit up in black as her bow lit up in pink. Kimberly released the staff like an arrow and it flew through Zeltrax and ended him in a huge explosion.

The explosion knocked Kimberly tumbling down off of Tommy, and quickly into his arms. He smiled looking at her as he held her in his arms. “You ok, beautiful?”

Kimberly blushed in her helmet and nodded. “Yeah.. I'm ok..”

Jacee watched the explosion as he held onto the tree, so he wouldn't fall down from the shaking of the island. He saw the ground begin to crack and he began to run. “Mommy!” He said once again scared.

Kimberly saw this and moved out of Tommy's arms to embrace her son as she picked him up. “You're safe..”

Tommy decided it would be best to stay morphed for the time being incase more danger came. Zeltrax' words then echoed in his mind as he ran over to his -family- and frowned looking at Kimberly. “You have to take my gem and escape with Jacee.” He said running a hand through Jacee's hair.

Kimberly shook her head. “No.. Tommy.. I can't lose you.” She said as tears began to form in her eyes.

The ground shook more then causing more screams to come from Jacee.

Kimberly hugged Jacee tight and then the idea hit her. She gave Tommy, Jacee, placing him in Tommy's arms as she grabbed her coin and held it in both of her hands. She closed her eyes as she willed the coin to unmerge from the gem as her body began to glow a light shade of pink. As it faded, in both of her hands, were the coin and the gem. Giving them another power source.

“How will we escape?” She asked him unsure of how to even access a portal.

Tommy then thought and held onto Kimberly's hand as he still held their son. He closed his eyes and told Kimberly to do the same. Their gems and power coin started to glow as a portal of black mixed with pink appeared before them.

Tommy looked at Kimberly, giving her Jacee. “You go through first.”

Kimberly tried to protest but she nodded as she took Jacee. She jumped through the portal and before she knew it she was back in the normal world.

As Tommy was about to go through the portal, he was suddenly grabbed by... Zeltrax.

Zeltrax used his last bit of power to throw Tommy away from the portal, into a tree. He then went to fight him but the ground opened up from underneith him and Zeltrax went plunging down into lava.

Tommy slowly stood up and his eyes widened as the portal was closing. He ran at it hoping he'd make it before it closed..

-- Outside Dr. Tommy Oliver's Home/Command Center --

Kimberly appeared as she saw Jason running towards her with Aisha. She looked behind her and then frowned. “Tommy?!” She yelled asking no one in particular.

Jacee wiggled out of her arms and ran for his uncle. “Uncle Jason!” He said smiling as he gave Jason a big hug.

Aisha ran over to Kimberly and hugged her tight as she noticed something was wrong.

“Why didn't Tommy come through?” Kimberly asked herself again.

A portal of black light appeared then and Tommy came falling from it, landing on his back on the ground.

Kimberly left Aisha's embrace as she ran towards Tommy and fell to the ground, right by his side as she hugged him trembling. Her powers demorphed then as did Tommy's. “I..I thought I lost you again..” She said in between tears as she felt her shell of self defense that she had up break and she forgot all the hardships between them.

Tommy wrapped his arms and Kimberly and held her in his arms. “Sh.. it's ok, I'm fine, Beautiful.” He said and kissed her cheek.

Jason walked over with Aisha, and Jacee still in his arms. “What's with you always making a surprise entrance, bro?” He asked Tommy with a little laughter in his voice.

Tommy laughed as he helped Kim up as he stood up. “I don't know, it goes along with my memory.”

Jacee continued to look behind Jason as he was too nervous, now knowing who that strange man was. All he knew him from were the pictures from his mom's room.

Jason knew exactly what Jacee was doing and he walked over by Tommy and Kimberly and turned around so Jacee could finally meet his father.

Jacee shut his eyes tight and clung to his uncle even further. “No!” He protested. His whole life he felt horrible feelings for whoever his father was, for leaving his mom.

Kimberly smiled as she shook her head and tried to grab her stubborn son from Jason. “Hm.. I wonder who he get's that from?” She said winking at Tommy.

Tommy smirked as he knew exactly who he got it from. “You.”

Kimberly's mouth made a playful 'O' as she pulled Jacee from Jason and faced back towards Tommy. She brushed some of Jacee's hair out of his eyes as she made him face Tommy. “Jacee.. this is your daddy.” She said smiling.

Tommy took Jacee from her, even with Jacee groaning, and hugged him tightly.

Jacee struggled against Tommy then as he began to scream. “Let me go! Uncle Jay!” He yelled as he kicked Tommy in the stomach and jumped out of his arms, running over to Jason. “I don't have a dad!” He said glaring at Tommy.

Kimberly shood her head and looked up at Tommy. “I'm so sorry, Tommy..” She whispered.

The sky turned dark then as clouds began to form around to cover the light as lightning started to crackle and thunder roared.

Three faces appeared in the air then as the rangers gazed up in shock. Kimberly put her hand over her mouth as she saw 2 of them that ruined her life almost 10 years ago.

Rita, Zedd, and Thrax appeared in the sky all laughing.

Rita glared at the child by Jason and laughed then looking over at Thrax. “How funny is that Zeddy? Kimmy has a son about the age of Thrax.”

Kimberly glared at Rita in the sky and frowned. “Who brought your ugly face down to Earth?!”

Zedd roared and laughed at Kimberly. “Make sure you watch over your son, Pink Ranger, or someone might want him for his powers.”

Kimberly looked at Tommy confused, Jacee wasn't even a ranger..

[chrisangelo]

Part Ten - All I want for Christmas is YOU!


-- Dr. Tommy Oliver's Home/Command Center --

..Christmas Eve..

As Tommy walked to the living room, he first stopped over at his stereo where he turned on the radio. He figured like every other station, his favorite one would be playing Christmas music, which would help him get in the mood to finish decorating before Kimberly and the whole family arrived, and by whole family he meant a ton of Rangers and of course his son, Jacee. The radio station finished playing Jingle Bell Rock and the next song that came on was “All I want for Christmas is You” by Mariah Carey.

Tommy turned to look at the Christmas Tree and as he walked over to it he looked at the stack of presents that surrounded the tree, they were practically stacked to the ceiling there were so many. He stared at one ornament in particular as it was of a mistletoe which made him think of Kimberly and everything that happened over the past three months.

Tommy walked over to the couch and sat down, looking out the window as he spoke.

“I can't believe everything that has happened.. who would have wished for me and Kimberly to get back together? I guess I did every birthday and Christmas that we were apart.. things weren't as easy as they seemed though.”

He remembered right after they returned from Zeltrax' Island of Illusion, and another surprise happened where 'The Addams Family' returned and tried, and still are trying to destroy their lives. Besides the constant evil attempts, Tommy and Kimberly went through their own trials. Trying to forgive each other for everything that happened, and Tommy had a double threat. Not only did he have to mend things with Kim but also with their son, Jacee, which happened very soon actually. Jacee warmed up to his dad very fast and soon things were like they had never been apart. One of the biggest obstacles, however, was the fact that Kim and Jacee lived over 2000 miles across the country. But being the person Kimberly was she couldn't stand to be away from Tommy for longer than 2 days at a time so she flew back to Florida with Jacee and in less than two days they had it all arranged. Kimberly promoted one of her employees to run the Gymnastics Academy in Florida and she decided to open one up in Reefside, with Jason. They would open a Dojo/Gymnastics Academy together. Kimberly decided it wouldn't be best to move right in with Tommy though, not wanting to rush anything and have it fall apart.. which it might when Kimberly found out that Katherine was coming with Billy.. Tommy couldn't just invite Billy without inviting his wife.. but he hadn't found the courage to tell Kimberly. He just hoped she arrived first.

As the door swung open, Tommy's attention was taken away from the window as he saw Jacee run through and then soon after Jason walked in.

Jacee ran over and jumped onto the couch to hug his dad. “Merry Christmas, Dad!” He said smiling.

Tommy smiled and hugged his son as he playfully messed up his hair. “Merry Christmas, son.”

Jason saw that and his eyes widened. “Oh hell.. Tommy don't mess up his hair.. you should have seen Kim when she came by the Dojo to drop him off this morning. She said it took forever to get his hair just the way she wanted it. Take my advice bro, and fix it before she gets here.”

Tommy laughed picturing Kim freaking out over everything but then looked for her to come in, and she never did. “Where is she, Jase?”

Jason closed the door and took off his jacket. “She said she had some last minute shopping to do and would be by later.”

/ Shit.. / Tommy cursed in his head as he pretty much knew Katherine would arrive before her now.

“Do you think the plan will work, Jase?” Tommy asked Jason as he had a huge surprise planned for Kimberly in front of all the Rangers.

Jason smiled as he sat by the other side of Jacee. “She'll probably faint bro. You know Kim, always fainting because of her white prince.”

Jacee looked up at his father then with a questioning look. “Who's Mom's White Prince?” He had not known about his father's past Ranger colors, he only knew about Black.

Tommy looked down at Jacee and lifted him up off of the couch and took him over to some pictures on the wall. “That is Mom's White Prince.” He said pointing to a picture of Tommy and Kimberly, morphed, with their helmets off.

Jacee raised a brow. “Mom's White Prince is a girl?” Jacee had also never seen Tommy with long hair.

Jason cracked up at his nephew's comment and pointed at Tommy. “You always did look like a girl!”

Tommy had to bite his lip so he wouldn't laugh, he didn't really want to laugh at himself. “No Jacee, that's no girl, thats me when I was 17. I just had really long hair.”

Jacee nodded unsure of what to say. “Ohh.. is that why Mom always tries to make me have long hair?” He said referring to one time last year where Kimberly wouldn't let him get a hair cut because she wanted to see what he would look like with long hair.

Tommy nodded thinking that was the reason Kimberly would want him to have long hair. “Speaking of your mom, do you know what last minute Christmas shopping she's doing?”

Jacee was about to tell him but Jason coughed, interrupting. “Jacee you know that's a secret..” He said really not wanting Tommy to know, even though it wasn't for him.

Jacee frowned and sighed as he looked up at his father who was giving him a glaring look. “Ok ok.. she's buying a present for Jake.”

Tommy raised a brow and didn't remember Kimberly ever speaking of a Jake. “Who's Jake?”

Jason decided to speak up, so his nephew wouldn't have to do all the work and spill the beans. “Jake is her ex..boyfriend. They're still friends and have known each other for 5 years or so.”

Tommy instantly frowned and couldn't believe he was sorry about inviting Katherine. It's not like he secretly bought her a present or anything of that matter.

As he continued rambling in his head the door opened.

Kimberly walked through with at least 7 huge bags. She obviously went to the mall and decided to buy her.. some Christmas presents. “Hey can a man help this little lady with all of these?” She said talking to Tommy.

Jacee smiled and ran over to hug his mom but the bags blocked him. “I can help!” He said but frowned when she shook her head.

“No that's alright baby, I was talking about your father but he's too lost in his thoughts.” She set the bags down and walked over to Tommy, to give him a kiss. When she reached up to kiss him, he moved back and grabbed her hands.

“We need to talk, Kim.” He said pulling her with him to his bedroom upstairs. As she walked with Tommy upstairs she shot glares of death at Jason.

Jacee smiled and turned to Jason. “Someone's in trouble!” He said pointing to him with a devilish grin.

Jason groaned and ran over and grabbed his nephew and started to tickle him. “Oh yeah? That's because you can't keep a secret!”

-- Upstairs --

Kimberly prayed and pleaded the whole way up that Jason hadn't told him who she was buying a present for.

Tommy pulled her over to his bed and had her sit down by him. “Kim.. why didn't you tell me?”

Kimberly bit her bottom lip as she wondered if he knew. “Tell you about what Tommy..?”

When Kimberly saw his reaction she sighed deeply knowing he knew about her buying a present for Jake. “Tommy.. it's just a present.. I saw this book and I thought of him so I decided to pick it up.. it means nothing.”

Tommy looked at her and frowned. “How can you say it means nothing? Do you see me buying presents for Heather, or Kat? No. I know exactly how you would react so don't try and say it means nothing. It means something if you're buying it for him.”

Kimberly felt like an arrow busted through her heart when he mentioned his previous girlfriends and the jealousy came back.. so she knew exactly how he was feeling. “Tommy.. I am so sorry.. I wasn't thinking when I decided to go buy the book. I know how much that must have hurt you.”

Tommy looked at her and saw the sincerity in her eyes and it brought him back down to Earth. “It's alright Kim. I understand why you bought it. Just no more secrets ok?” He said and reached down to kiss her gently on the lips.

Kimberly wrapped her arms around Tommy and deepened their kiss by parting her lips. Tommy leaned her back into th e bed and moved over her as they kissed.

They continued to kiss and grab at each other's clothes for well over 15 minutes, as the sexual tension between the two grew every time they kissed. They hadn't made love since the first time, over Christmas, almost nine years ago.

Kimberly gasped as she broke their kiss, Tommy almost atop her as her face was flushed. “We..we can't do this.”

Tommy frowned as he moved off of Kimberly and looked at her. “Why the hell not? We love each other, Kim.”

Kimberly looked away as she sighed. “We loved each other the last time too Tommy.. I just don't know if it's the right time.. I have to be sure..”

Tommy laid on his back as he grabbed her hand and looked at her. “Kim.. I know you don't want to rush into anything.. but how much more do I have to prove that I love you to make you sure.”

Kimberly sat up and moved off of the bed as she composed herself and fixed her ruffled clothes. “Tommy, there's more to a relationship that sex.” She said as she moved to the door and walked out of the room.

Tommy sighed as he watched her leave. “That's not what I meant..” He cursed at himself as he got up to follow her.

As Christmas Eve faded into the night, everyone began to arrive. The whole day, Kimberly with the help of Aisha who arrived a while after Kimberly with Rocky.

As the doorbell rang, Tommy realized he completely forgot to tell Kimberly that Katherine was coming.

Jason went to answer the door as Tommy ran to the kitchen.

Tommy grabbed Kimberly and walked with her to the basement. “Kimberly.. I forgot to tell you something.”

Kimberly raised an eyebrow as she looked at him. “What was so important? I can't leave Aisha to do everything.”

As Tommy heard Jason let the others into the house his eyes widened and he grabbed Kimberly's hands. “I..forgot to tell you that Billy is bringing Katherine.. I'm sorry Kim.” He said as he saw her reaction.. and he knew it wasn't going to be such a pleasant evening.

Kimberly turned and pushed Tommy's hands off of her and ran up the stairs. “I so need a drink right now.”

“Damn it..” Tommy cured as he ran after her, he had to stop her before something escalated.

Kimberly walked past Aisha and grabbed a beer out of the refrigerator.

Aisha looked at Kimberly and frowned seeing this, normally Kimberly didn't drink unless she was stressed. “Kim.. are you ok?”

Kimberly frowned and shook her head as she took another drink. “Considering Katherine is in the living room, no.”

Tommy walked out of the basement and over to Kim where he stopped when she held her hand out. “Not now Tommy, I can't talk to you right now.”

Tommy frowned and grabbed her beer bottle. “Then at least let me take this Kim, you don't need it.”

Just knowing the fact that Katherine was in the next room was making Kim almost explode inside. Not only did it give her past memories of feeling lesser that perfect to her, all her insecurities came back as well as anger towards her for everything she did to her and Tommy.

Kimberly shook her head and looked away from Tommy. She decided this would be the best time to talk to Katherine so she walked over to where Jason was greeting Billy and Katherine. Kimberly smiled and acted like nothing was bothering her as she walked over to Katherine. “Hey.. I think we need to talk.”

Katherine slowly nodded. “Yes.. I agree.” She said as she lightly smiled at Kimberly and walked outside with her. Billy looked at Katherine and she gave him a look like it would be ok, they just needed to get things off of their chest.

Tommy looked at Jason and Billy as he frowned. “Are you guys crazy or what?”

Jason shook his head as he looked at them. “If they have something to settle, on such an occasion as Christmas, then we should leave it up to them.”

..Outside..

Kimberly glared at Katherine then as she frowned. “So it wasn't enough to have my powers, you had to try and break Tommy and me apart?”

Katherine frowned. “You did that all on your own. I just helped speed up the process.”

Kimberly walked up to Katherine and a loud slap noise could be heard as Kimberly slapped Katherine across her face. “You know as well as I do that you could never replace me. And who won out in the end? Me. There was never a competition.”

Katherine frowned as she shook her head and held her hand against her face.

-- The Moon; Rita & Zedd's New Palace --

Zedd and Rita were watching this happen and they laughed as another option was open. “On Christmas, makes it even more perfect.” Lord Zedd laughed as he looked at Rita. “Why don't you fire up the hatred in their hearts, smookums.”

Rita laughed as she grabbed her staff. “Oh Zeddy I just love Christmas, able to spread evil through both Pink Rangers. With our luck, maybe they'll destroy each other!” She said and twirled her rod and then a red beam shot out as it hit the ground near Tommy's home. It produced hate dust on the ground and as the wind picked up and blew the dust towards Katherine and Kimberly.

Zedd figured the other rangers would try to interfere so he cast his Z staff out and a lightning bolt shot from it as his spell to make the other rangers in the house sleep.

-- Inside Dr. Tommy Oliver's Home/Command Center --

Tommy was watching his son by the Christmas tree when he winced and then yawned as before he knew it he fell to the ground, asleep.

Jason, Rocky, and Billy fell backwards, right by the tree which caused a gasp from Jacee. As the sleeping spell went for Jacee, a flash of red light acted like a veil, covering him from the spell. He didn't know what was going on but then saw Aisha fall in the kitchen, asleep. “Mom!” He yelled out for Kimberly.

-- Outside Dr. Tommy Oliver's Home/Command Center --

Katherine got a devilish grin on her face as she glared at Kimberly. “Why don't we settle this Ranger style?”

Kimberly smirked. “I couldn't have thought of a better idea, Kat. Great one.” She said then as she flicked her wrist as a morpher appeared. She jumped off of the porch and pressed the button. “Dino Thunder Power Up!”

“Pink Ranger Power!” Kimberly yelled as her suit came covering her clothes in a pink light as she morphed into the Pink Dino Thunder Ranger.

Katherine flicked both of her wrists and held them up into the air and then together to make an upside down right angle. “Zeo Ranger One: Pink!” Kat yelled as her Zeo powers transformed her into the Pink Zeo Ranger.

Katherine launched herself into the air and flipped over Kimberly and was about to kick her from behind until some force restrained her.

Kimberly used her ability of forcefields to stop Katherine in the air and then she turned her hands and sent Katherine into a tree, tumbling down.

Adam and Tanya Park were arriving late, surprisingly. As they drove up the path to Tommy's they saw a confrontation taking place outside of the house. Clashes of pink lights could be seen but once they got closer you could tell that Katherine and Kimberly were fighting.

Adam quickly parked his SUV and jumped out of the car with Tanya as they ran at the duo fighting.

Adam ran over to Kimberly and held her arms behind her. “Kim, you have to snap out of this! You can't fight Katherine, you both are on the same side!” He said trying to convince her.

Kimberly frowned as she looked down. “Same side? Were we on the same side when she tried to steal Tommy from me?!”

Tanya shook Katherine and frowned. “Kat snap out of this! You would never fight Kimberly.. never!”

-- Inside Dr. Tommy Oliver's Home/Command Center --

Jacee crawled over to his father as the red veil still covered him. He shook his dad as he started to get teary-eyed thinking Tommy was dead. “..Dad..wake up.. please wake up Daddy.” He said sniffing as a tear fell from his eye, down to Tommy's face, dripping down into his eye. “Please wake up!” He said again as he began to really cry as he hugged his dad then.

Tommy was trapped deep in his dreams until he saw a bright red light. It blinded his vision as he felt rain against his face. He didn't know it was tears until the red light pulled him out of the dream and his eyes shot open as he saw his son was hugging him and everyone was passed out. He wrapped his arms around Jacee and looked around for Kimberly. “Shh.. it's ok. I'm fine. Where's mommy?” He asked as Jacee looked up at him. “Outside..” He whispered.

Tommy looked at his son and then outside. “Stay here Jacee.. whatever you do stay here.” He then got up walking his son over to the couch and he laid him down and draped a blanket over him. He then walked outside and saw the confrontation. Tanya had managed to get Katherine back to her senses but Kimberly was another story. Tommy ran over to Kimberly as Adam let her go. Tommy held her shoulders so she could look at him. “Kim.. this isn't you, you have to snap out of it..”

Kimberly tried to break free of his grip but she couldn't. “Leave me alone Tommy! How can you stand there and defend her knowing what she did to us? You always want to protect Katherine! Why can't you put me first in front of your precious Katherine, for once in your life!”

Tommy frowned as he felt they were taking another step back. He reached up from her shoulders and unclasped her helmet and took it off as it broke the spell..but it didn't break Kimberly. The spell enhanced what Kimberly was feeling but she knew the whole time what she was doing. Tears had been streaming down her face and still were as her face was revealed to Tommy. “Just stay away from me Tommy.” She said as she demorphed and ran off around the house, to the other side.

Tommy looked at Adam, Kat, and Tanya then as he sighed. “I think we should all call it a night. I can help get Billy into your car Kat since he will obviously be sleeping for awhile. I reserved you both hotel rooms in town.” He said reaching into his pocket to give Kat a key and then Adam and Tanya a key.

-- An Hour Later; Inside Tommy's Home --

Kimberly had eventually come in and after tucking Jacee in, with Tommy, she remained on the living room couch, staring out the window.

Tommy had managed to get Rocky and Aisha into one of the guest rooms and Jason in another. After tucking Jacee in, Tommy walked over to the Christmas tree and stuck a present behind his back and walked to his bedroom as he watched Kimberly still stare out the window. He closed the door and unwrapped the present. “This is probably the best time as any will be.” He said placing the box a top his dresser as he put on his pajama bottoms and a light t-shirt. He then placed the box in his pj bottoms back pocket.

After a while of sitting on his bed thinking, Tommy walked out into the living room and sat down by Kimberly, who didn't turn her gaze from the window. Tommy grabbed her hand and held it in both of his. “Beautiful.. look at me.”

Kimberly looked from the window to the floor. “I don't feel so beautiful right now, not after how I acted and how I treated you.”

Tommy smiled and reached over and touched her cheek and turned her head. “It's alright, I understand Kimberly. I should have told you about Katherine.”

Kimberly smiled at his nice gesture, of taking the blame, but looked down again. She moved her fingers to move her hair behind her ears as she took a deep sigh. “Tommy.. it's not your fault...I keep pushing away from you. I don't want to but every time Kat comes up in conversation or even a meaning behind something, I feel everything flood back and I feel like I can't trust you and I'm afraid you will leave me. That's why I wanted to take things slow, to give you the opportunity to run..”

Tommy frowned seeing how much this bothered Kimberly. He wouldn't dream of ever choosing Katherine over Kimberly.. they were incomparable. Kimberly was his everything and he had to show her exactly what he meant by that.

Tommy moved onto the floor and right in front of Kimberly as he was down on one knee. Kimberly really didn't pay any attention to that fact, she just smiled and ran her hands through Tommy's spiky hair.

Tommy smiled seeing that she didn't have a clue. “Kimberly.. you have been in my life for as long as I can remember. There hasn't been a single moment that I haven't thought about you. As a child growing up I figured I would meet the one sooner or later growing up. I met the one when I was 15. Kimberly, you were and still are the one. Even though we have been back together for only 3 months I cannot imagine my life without you. My heart beats an extra beat just when you are around. We have a son together. My life could not be happier.. well it could if you accept this. I can't wait any longer Kim. I was going to do this in front of all of our friends.. but I thought it would be best alone.” He reached behind him and grabbed a box out of his pocket. He gave it to Kimberly then as she held it in shock.

Kimberly was having a hard time choosing between either to cry or wonder in confusion. She bit her lip as tears fell from her eyes. “Tommy..” She gasped as she broke down with happiness. She slowly opened the box and saw the ring... it was absolutely stunning. It had two gems on each side of the diamond, one green, and one pink. It was a silver band with something written inside the band. “To my Beautiful, Forever.” More tears fell from Kimberly's eyes as Tommy spoke the words then. “I want you to be my Beautiful Forever.. Kimberly Ann Hart.. will you marry me?”

Kimberly bit her bottom lip as Tommy wiped her tears away. She turned her head then to leave him in suspense.

Tommy couldn't believe she didn't yelp yes and jump into his arms. “Kim..? Kim.. Kimberly?!” He asked shocked.

Kimberly turned to him and smiled. “Yes.. yes..yes!” She yelled as she jumped into his arms, pushing him down to the ground as she hugged him. “Oh Tommy..”

She grabbed the ring then and put it on her finger. “It's beautiful.”

Tommy shook his head and smiled. “No.. you are what is beautiful.”

Kimberly admired the ring for awhile and then as she was in Tommy's arms, she reached up and kissed his lips as she smiled getting butterflies in her stomach, which she hadn't felt in many years. She gazed into Tommy's eyes then and looked at him. “Tommy.. make love to me.. like it was our first time..” She said biting down on her lip.

Tommy's eyes widened then as he smiled and thought, -finally-.

He picked her up into his arms and headed for what would soon be their bedroom. He opened the door and swiftly moved in and closed it behind him. Tommy laid Kimberly on the bed and soon made love to her for hours, it was both incredible and amazing.

..Christmas Day..

As Kimberly woke up she felt the strong arms wrapped around her of her fiance. She thought screaming as she was so excited that they would be married within the year. Nothing would ever tear them apart again. Kimberly lightly kissed Tommy's neck as she moved her hands down his back. “Wake up Dr. Oliver..” She said in his ear.

Tommy was happily dreaming about none other than Kimberly. He was like a school boy with a crush. Nothing could shake his world now that he had Kimberly in every way. He heard her voice and smiled as he found her lips and kissed her passionately. He moved with her in the bed pulling the black sheets over them and the blanket as he started to kiss down her neck.

Kimberly blushed and was about to go along with this until reality set in. Everyone would be awake. She started to laugh softly as she grabbed Tommy's hands that were all over her. “Tommy..” She whispered. “We can't do this right now, handsome.”

Tommy pouted as his head peaked up out of the blankets. “Aw.. but why not Beautiful? It was so amazing last night.. we were amazing.” He said going to kiss her neck again.

That made Kimberly turn beat red and she hugged Tommy tight as she tried to distract him.. well from her. “Tommy Oliver! It's Christmas after all.” She said smiling. “Besides that we have an announcement to tell everyone.”

Tommy groaned and rolled over, pulling Kimberly with him so she was a top him. “Can't we just skip Christmas and spend all day in bed? That's all I want for Christmas.”

Kimberly touched his nose with her finger as she smiled. “Tough luck, baby. We can't.” She said and moved out of the bed as she took the sheet with her, heading for the bathroom. “I'm going to take a shower.”

Tommy smirked then. “Need some company?”

Kimberly looked back at him and smirked. “Come on white tiger.”

-- An Hour Later --

As Kimberly and Tommy finally came out of their room they saw everyone gathering around the tree, passing out presents. Jacee was all caught up in it until he saw his parents. “Mom! Dad! Look at all of these!”

Kimberly smiled as her eyes went big and she looked at her son. “Looks like someone's been nice this year!” She said referring to him.

Jason looked at the two and smirked. “Or naughty.” He said referring to Tommy and Kimberly. Aisha whistled then as she also knew what happened.

Rocky was holding Aisha on the couch as he looked at the two. “What are you talking about.”

Aisha rolled her eyes and looked back at her husband. “Oh please! Look at them, all glowing and holding each other. It's obvious.”

Kimberly thought it was as best as any time would be to tell them. She looked back at Tommy. “Would you like to or should I?”

Tommy smiled, holding Kimberly in his arms as he smelt her hair. “You can have the honor, Beautiful.”

Kimberly looked at all of their friends and Jacee. “Tommy proposed to me last night. We're getting married!”

Screeches came not only from Jacee and Aisha but also from Jason and Rocky! They all went to give the engaged couple hugs.

Jacee smiled as he hugged his mom. “This is the best Christmas present ever!”

[chrisangelo]

Part Eleven – It's how you play the game!!


New Years flew by faster than Christmas did as the Oliver family started to settle back down to get ready for their vacations to be over. Tommy and Jacee would soon be both back in school and Kimberly would have to start up with the Academy again. The other Rangers returned to their own lives for the time being as it was very quiet with Zedd and Rita, as well as Mesogog, which was a good thing for everyone. Tommy had called a meeting for the Dino Thunder Team which was in the afternoon. He wanted to catch up with Kira, Ethan, Conner, and Trent as well as officially accept Kimberly into the team. Also analyze why it had been so quiet.

Kimberly's eyes slowly opened as she felt strong arms wrapped around her petite body. She smiled looking up to see her fiancé, Tommy, still sleeping. She placed her hand on Tommy's chest as she gently laid her head back down as her brown hair covered part of her face. She breathed heavy as she gently ran her fingers in circles over Tommy's chest. She bit her bottom lip feeling like she was in heaven. For weeks, her dreams had been nightmares, but she always awoke to fairy-tales.

Tommy slowly began to stir as he felt Kimberly move in his arms. He opened his eyes and smiled down at her. He kissed the top of her head and moved her up so she was laying on top of him. “Good morning, Beautiful.”

Kimberly smiled as she brushed her lips against Tommy's. “Good morning Handsome..” She went back to cuddling with Tommy as she playfully groaned. “I wish we could stay in bed forever.. just like this.”

As great as that thought sounded Tommy knew they couldn't do that. “Nightmares again?” He asked knowing already because every time she had a nightmare, she always spoke about staying in his embrace, always having him there to be her savior. He knew that wasn't normal for Kimberly. She may like to know she has him there to always protect her but she is very independent and has proved that to so many over the years. He could tell when she was scared.

Kimberly slowly nodded her head as she sighed. “Same dream too.. you were gone.” Tears began to form in her eyes then as she wrapped her arms tighter around Tommy as just thinking of the thought made her want to cling to him for dear life. “Promise you won't leave me Tommy..”

Tommy sat up in bed pulling her up with him as he didn't let his arms leave her. “Kimberly.. I love you so much, I'd die before I left you..”

Kimberly shuddered when he said that and moved out of his arms and off of the bed as she grabbed her pink boxers and put them on. “That is exactly what I mean Tommy.. don't die.” She said as she walked over to the window and stared out as she moved her arms around herself tipping her head to the side as she wiped a tear away from her eye. “I can't imagine my life without you.. I don't know how I did it for almost ten years.”

As he rubbed his eyes Tommy got out of the bed, putting on his black boxers as she walked over to Kimberly and wrapped his arms around her from behind, resting his head on her shoulder. He gently kissed her neck and nudged her ear with his nose. “Kimberly.. you won't lose me, no matter what. I won't leave you or Jacee.”

A feeling overcame Tommy as he felt Kimberly didn't want to talk about this obviously risking it might come true. “Let's go take a shower, and then go drop Jacee off at Hayley's so we can get ready for the meeting, how does that sound, Beautiful?”

Kimberly turned around in his arms as she looked up at him. “That sounds perfect, but this time let's shower instead of heating up the mirror without water.” She said winking at him as she pulled him with her to their bathroom.

--

After dropping their son off, Kimberly and Tommy drove back through Reefside to the outskirts to meet back at Tommy's house to get ready for their meeting. As the jeep pulled up to the house Kimberly and Tommy noticed four teenagers waiting impatiently. As Kimberly and Tommy got out of the jeep Conner threw his arms up in the air and then crossed his arms. “It's about time!”

Tommy raised a brow and looked at his watch. “It's only 2, I told you guys to be here a little after 3, what are you doing here?”

Kira stepped up by Conner and looked at Tommy and Kimberly. “No Dr. O, you told us to be here at 2.”

Kimberly couldn't help but somewhat laugh as the situation was very similar to the one where Tommy was late for their date. “It's alright you guys, we can have the meeting now.” She said and placed her hands on Tommy's upper arm looking up at him. “I thought you told me your memory had improved.” She said jokingly as she walked inside with Tommy. “You know being around you makes me forgetful.” He said wrapping his arm around her as they walked inside.

Being the type of boy that he was Conner followed after the two and quickly admired Kimberly from behind as Tommy and Kimberly walked ahead of them. “Dude, look how hot Kim is, why does an old guy like Dr. O get someone as hot as she is.” He whispered to Ethan.

Ethan raised a brow. “Dude, she's like almost 10 years older than you.”

“I don't care!” Conner said as he crossed his arms.

Kira followed after them, along side Trent, as she shook her head. “You two are pathetic.”

Trent smiled down at her and followed with her inside.

Everyone soon found themselves in the basement of Tommy's home, as well as the Command Center. Tommy was of course sitting by Kimberly as they both held hands. Kira was stuck in between Conner and Ethan as she crossed her arms.

“So who is this new guy?” Conner spat out before the two love birds started making out or something.

Tommy looked over at him and sighed. “You mean, guys.” He said correcting him as there was more than one bad guy that had just appeared. “Rita Repulsa, Lord Zedd, and their son, Thrax.”

“We fought Rita and Zedd when we were first Power Rangers.” Kimberly added in after Tommy. “With Thrax, they are probably twice as strong as before.. and with Mesogog..”

“They're nearly impossible to defeat, right?” Ethan said after pondering the thought of 4 powerful villains.

Tommy shook his head as he heard the impossible come out of Ethan. “No, Ethan, they are not impossible to defeat, it's just going to take some time and a nice strategy, like with Mesogog. But besides having new enemies we also have to talk about having Kimberly on the team, you all know she is the Pink Dino Thunder Ranger and I just wanted to check in with you all if you able to accept her into the team.”

Kira threw her arms up into the air smiling. “It's about time another girl was on the team!” She said and got up and walked over to Kim to hug her. “The team gets old when you have smelly guys and one girl on it.”

Kimberly couldn't help but laugh at that as she remembered the times when Trini wouldn't be in battle and she was only with the guys, it got old being the only girl, well except for when she was around Tommy. “I'm sure all the boys don't stink.” She said referring to Tommy, as she knew he didn't.

Conner coughed hoping to change the subject. “So what's the plan, Dr. O?”

Tommy looked at him and then pointed to the computer. “As obvious as it is, things have been quiet, strangely. Our best plan is to be on alert and keep checking around, as I'm sure Zedd and Rita will attack soon.”

Kimberly frowned looking at the screen then. “I just hope soon doesn't mean today...” She said still enjoying the evil-free-time she had been able to spend with her family. Unlike the others, Kimberly had a lot of power to stabilize and had to choose her battles, not wanting to damage herself from too much power.

The alarms suddenly went off as something appeared on the screen. Golda and Zeltrax were in downtown Reefside attacking the citizens along with tyrannodrones, super-putties, and super-tengas.

Kimberly's mouth dropped open wide as she rolled her eyes. “You -have- to be kidding me!” She shouted as she stood up by Kira.

Tommy turned around in his chair then. “Looks like the time is here sooner than expected.” He walked over to Kimberly and took her hand in his. “Are you ready for this?”

Kimberly smiled then having a plan in mind. “Actually I am more than ready for this, but I think I should go in alone at first.”

Not only Tommy, but Conner, Ethan, Trent, and Kira went wide eyed. “You have to be joking Kimberly! It's a death trap waiting to happen.” Tommy tried reasoning with Kimberly.

Kimberly shook her head very determined. “Tommy, I will use my Ninja Crane powers to attack them first, not only am I faster, but I can confuse them and then you guys can come. You know as well as I do that Goldar will be expecting all of us.”

After a few minutes of convincing Tommy hesitantly agreed. “Alright, but we will be right behind you.”

Kimberly reached up and kissed Tommy lightly and then turned around as she swung her left arm into the air bringing it back into a ninja stance. “I need Ninja Ranger Power now!” She yelled as a pink light surrounded her. “Pink Crane Ninja Power!” As she morphed she pressed a button on her communicator as she disappeared in a pink light after programing the location.

“Let's go guys!” Conner yelled as he stepped infront of everyone ready to morph. “Dino Thunder Power Up!” Red, Blue, Yellow, Black, and White all morphed then as they teleported to the park a bit far off of where Kimberly would have been.

“Ki-yah!” Kimberly yelled as she twisted her body in the air and kicked Goldar down. “Give it up feather brain! You will never win!”

Goldar quickly got up as he started to laugh. “Oh Kimmy, you have not changed! It is you who will lose!” He said as he outstretched his sword pointing at her. “Finish her off!” He said directing the putties, tengas, and tyrannodrones.

Kimberly outstretched her arms like a crane and flipped backwards as she pointed at Goldar. “It's you who's finished!”

She then ran forward as she twirled her body kicking the tengas and putties as they quickly surrounded her. “I can't let them get the best of me.. remember the ninjetti..” She whispered as she suddenly lept into the air as her arms outstretched and pink worms of light started moving around her arms. “Pink Ranger power!” She yelled as her ninjetti robes transformed into the first pink dino uniform. Kimberly felt safer for some reason in her original powers, a part of her still feared the Pink Dino Thunder powers as they had so far only brought her terror.

Goldar's eyes widened as he saw this. “But.. how! I destroyed the power coins!” He yelled at the Pink Ranger dumbfounded.

Conner looked over at Tommy as he raised his hands in a questioning manor. “Why did she do that Dr. O? She'll be weaker!”

Tommy ignored Conner for the moment as he had to have faith in Kimberly. “Just watch.”

Kimberly flipped from the air down to the ground as she kicked two putties down. She then dodged forward flipping swiftly past the putties and tengas as she sprung her body in a twirl as she tackled Goldar. She brought both of her hands up and made the letter “T” as she signaled for the others. The “T” obviously meaning Tommy.

Tommy saw this and looked at the others and then ran ahead. “You handle the putties and tenga's, I'll go after Goldar.”

“Right!” Was heard by the other four teenagers.

Kimberly swung her leg forward and then jumped up and crawled up Goldar like a wall as she finally kicked his face sending him back. As she pushed herself off of him with her feet he grabbed her boots and swung her flying through the streets right into a pack of tengas. They tore at her mad as they grabbed her power coin which also had the gem in it. Kimberly gasped as she struggled against their new strength. “No! You feather dusters, let me go! Don't! STOP!” She yelled as they slammed their razor sharp wings against her chest sending pink sparks off of her. They then threw her into the air where she was soon grabbed by a figure in black. Tommy jumped into the air and swept Kimberly into his arms as he landed at the ground. “Kim, are you alright?” Kimberly felt her powers draining then as she moved out of his arms and to the ground where she dug her hands into the ground. “My.. power gem..” She said referring to the coin that held the gem as well.

Sure enough, the Tengas held it up into the air seeing it shine as it distracted them from getting it back to Goldar.
The four teenagers were having new found difficulties fighting the new henchmen as their strength was unknown to them as they had never fought tengas or putties, nor knew the tactics except to hit the Z with the putties, and even on top of that they had to deal with the tyrannodrones.

Goldar's laughter could be heard as more flooded in around them. “Destroy them! Destroy them all and bring me their gems!”

Tommy could instantly tell Kimberly was weakening by the second as she started to demorph and then remorph, between her original dino powers, her ninjetti powers, and then her dino thunder powers. “Let's regroup and get back to the command center!” He said as he picked up Kimberly. “Tommy no!” She gasped out in pain as she outstretched her arm. “You have to get..it..back..”

As Tommy was about to teleport out with her lightning struck the ground as they all were sent back. Mesogog appeared then along side Zedd, Rita, and Thrax. “It's time you turn over your son, Oliver.” Mesogog hissed as he glared at Trent then. “And you as well, Trent.” He hissed as he had to teach Mercer's son a lesson.

Kira ran up and held onto Trent's arm. “You won't have him you sick freak! He's one of us now, you can't change that!”

Kimberly frowned as she went to say something but without her power coin she fell limp in Tommy's arms.

Tommy glared at Mesogog. “You will never have any of us, especially not my son.”

Mesogog psychotically tipped his neck as he smirked. “I knew you'd say that.”

Lord Zedd brought a machine out from behind his back and the four of them held onto it. “Dino drain!” They all yelled as a light shot out covering the rangers as well as Kimberly's power coin.

As the light faded each and every gem shattered into millions of pieces as it faded into sand. They all demorphed and Kimberly's power coin was crushed once again by their magic. When the pink powers fully went, Kimberly felt the power loss of 3 unlike the others. She gasped out in a scream which woke her up but only sent her body into tremors.

Conner, Kira, Trent, and Ethan rejoined Tommy and Kim as they all winced in pain. “We have to get out of here!”

Tommy agreed as he knew he could still contact Hayley with his communicator. “Hayley.. please teleport us out of here now.. we need to get Kimberly to the hospital.”

“Hayley?!”

Kira frowned as she heard no response. “Somethings wrong Dr. O!”

Ethan took the time to look at the army infront of him. “Let's get out of here!” He said helping Tommy up as he carried Kimberly and they all took off running.

Goldar pointed his sword commanding the henchmen but Zedd stopped him. “You idiot, let them run.”

Goldar frowned not understanding. “But we can't let them get away, Master!”

Mesogog interrupted Zedd then as he shook his head and the pathetic rangers. “Let them, once they find the power, and bring the others back, we will have them where we want them.” He said as he then used an invisi-portal as they all disappeared.

Tommy ran Kimberly to the hospital as the others went back to check on Hayley. He ran through the doors as he went to the E.R. “Please! I need help! I need a doctor!” He yelled as a nurse came running with a doctor as they tried to take Kimberly from Tommy. “No, just tell me where you want her and I'll take her there.” He said fearing he'd lost her already. The doctor nodded as he directed them to a room.

Tommy placed Kimberly on a bed as he moved back. “I'll be right here, Beautiful.” He said as he sat down in the chair feeling weaker than when he lost his Green Ranger Powers. His heart was beating fast as he felt the pains of his power draining along with worrying about Kim but he also felt another shock of pain like something else was going wrong. / I can't lose her.. / He said as tears fell from his eyes and he soon saw black and his body gave out as he passed out. The doctor immediately ordered the nurses to help him as they got him to another room where another doctor started the examination on Tommy.

Conner ran through the doors to Hayley's Cyber Cafe. “Hayley!” He yelled as he stopped in horror. Hayley was laying, dead, on the ground as Zeltrax stood over her dead body holding a screaming and crying Jacee. “Conner!” Jacee yelled out as he struggled against Zeltrax.

Conner knew he couldn't morph.. so he knew he had lost. “Let him go Zeltrax! You don't need him!”

Zeltrax smirked as he glared at the other rangers who ran in and gasped. “My master needs him to unlock the power. You lose in many ways rangers, goodbye, and pray for your lives.” He said as he disappeared in a green light from the in vis-portal.

Kira dropped down by Hayley and frowned as tears dropped from her eyes. “What are you guys doing just standing there! Call for help!” She cried out.

Trent frowned as he saw this. He knew about the power Zeltrax was talking about. “We need more than help..”

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Part Twelve – Thunder Storm( Part One ): Crying out for You!


As dark brown eyes opened, Tommy shot upwards as he looked around the room. The intense bright white light brought instant pain to his eyes as he closed them partially. He felt a small jolt of pain as he moved his arms and saw the machines that were hooked up to him. He removed the iv that was attached to his right arm and unclipped the others from him as he moved up and out of the bed. He felt some strength return to him as he only had one thing on his mind, and that was Kimberly.

Tommy moved past people that were waiting at the Nurse's station and moved through the line to the front. “I need to know where Kimberly Hart's room is.”

The nurse quickly jumped up and went to grab onto him. “Mr. Oliver you need to return to your room, now!”

Tommy shoved her hands off of him as he frowned. “No, I need to be with my fiancée!” He yelled as that got the nurse's attention and she directed him to Kimberly's room. “She's in intensive care right now, you need to be careful. I will get the doctor to come in.”

Tommy ignored every word she spoke as once he knew the room he moved inside and quickly over to the bedside where he took Kimberly's hand in his and brushed her brunette hair that was covering part of her face to the side. “Hey Beautiful.. it's me. I'm here.” He looked her up and down and immediately frowned as she almost appeared lifeless, except for her breathing and the constant monitors beeping every 5 seconds.

Dr. Matthews walked into Kimberly's room as he saw Tommy sitting in a chair by her. Tommy was still in his clothes from before, as nothing was serious, just a complete stress overload. “Ah, Dr. Oliver, it's good to see you up and walking.”

Tommy looked up and just shook his head. “How is she?”

Dr. Matthews looked at him and crossed his arms. “At first we thought she slipped into coma but she awoke hours ago but she had some type of panic attack and we had to induce her. She kept screaming your name and we tried to tell her that you were ok but she wasn't listening.”

/

Kimberly's eyes shot open as she gasped out and sat up in the bed. She looked around for Tommy and started calling out for him. Dr. Matthews and several nurses gathered around her as they tried to calm her down.

“Don't touch me! Tommy! Tommy!” Kimberly cried out as the nurses grabbed at her. After the whole shock with losing her powers and the battle that went on Kimberly jumped and grabbed their arms and kicked them away from her. “Tommy!” She yelled as tears fell from her eyes and they brought in a couple of male nurses that held Kimberly down pressing against her arms as the nurse injected her.

“Tommy..” She said as she slowly faded into sleep.

/

Tommy frowned noticing the bruises on her arms. “I'm guessing thats how she received those?” The bruises were definitely not from the tengas as she received most of the damage to her power suit chest.

Dr. Matthews stared down at her then as he sighed. “She was acting irate, she threw one of our nurses to the ground. We had to restrain her so we could inject her.”

Tommy shook his head as he stood up. “I want her discharge papers, now. I obviously can take better care of her at my home.”

Dr. Matthews didn't really need another law suit on his wall, and after the showing of the bruises he walked out of the room to gather her discharge papers. Even if he didn't see the bruises, Kimberly would have been allowed to go as she was perfectly fine, or as it appeared to the doctors. None of the Rangers were fine, the powers that were infused with their DNA were now gone.

Kira wiped her tears away but gasped when she saw Hayley move. “Wait! She's alive! She's alive!” She called out as she gently shook Hayley. “Hayley, wake up. It's Kira, are you alright?!”

Hayley slowly sat up as the illusion of blood all over her disappeared and she held her hands up to her head. “Yeah.. I'm alright.. I just have a really bad headache.. wait..” She stopped and looked around. “Why didn't you stop him?.. Why didn't you save Jacee?”

Kira frowned as Conner, Ethan, and Trent ran over and knelt down by Hayley. “We lost our powers..”

Hayley shook her head. “That is not possible! It was encoded into your DNA.”

Ethan frowned knowing she'd definitely believe him. “It's true Hayley.. Mesogog had this machine and combined with Lord Zedd, Rita, and Thrax it shattered our gems, and turned Kimberly's power coin into dust.”

“Where are Kimberly and Tommy?” Hayley asked as she slowly stood up taking this all in.

Trent looked at her and frowned. “Tommy took her to the hospital.. she was really hurt after her power coins shattered.”

Hayley nodded as she looked at the teenagers. “Let's first get to Tommy's to try and figure out a way to get your powers back, I'll call Tommy from there and see how Kimberly is.”

The teenagers agreed and they all left in Conner's car.

Tommy soon left the hospital with Kimberly in his arms. He didn't have his jeep, which was parked at the high school, so he first headed over there. As he reached the high school he noticed Kimberly started to stir in his arms.

“Tommy..” She whispered slowly as she was fighting to awaken but her drained state kept bringing her back into an unconscious sleep.

He quickly made his way over to his jeep and gently placed Kimberly in the seat. His eyes widened when he noticed pink worms of light surrounding her body. He then looked down at himself and saw white lights, which he didn't understand.

“Shh.. I'm going to take you home.”

He closed the door and then ran around to the other side when he winced grabbing his shoulder.

“What's wrong with me?”

He climbed into the seat as he arched forward in pain as the white worms of light continued to wrap around him, as the pink lights wrapped around Kimberly.

As both Tommy and Kimberly arched forward screaming in pain, dark clouds moved in from all directions covering Reefside.

--

Zeltrax threw the unconscious boy to the floor as two putties grabbed Jacee's arms and chained him to a pillar in the middle of Zedd's main floor of his palace. Mesogog crossed his claws as he smiled at Zeltrax. “Good...good...our plan is almost complete.”

Zedd rolled his eyes as he gripped his malicious staff. “Why can't we just finish off the pip-squeak now? I doubt he holds the powers to unlock the morphers, and even if he did what would we use them for? Are you planning on creating the dark rangers again? Don't keep me in the dark you dinosaur, tell me your plan, -NOW!-” Lord Zedd demanded as Rita walked over by his side and with her screeching voice she also added her own input. “Wake up and look at all the times evil incarnations of the rangers have been created, they always get destroyed!”

Mesogog turned and instantly hissed as he straightened his back a bit and looked at Lord Zedd. “First...never speak that way towards me...I could send you back to your happy little -good- selves...” He sighed a moment not wanting to reveal it all but decided it would be best. “The boy... the first -ever- child of a Power Ranger... he can unlock the Thunder Morphers... they are stronger than the dino ones, and the rangers would have received them when you were still ruling 10 years ago, but that idiot Zordon didn't know how to unlock them. They are powered from thunder and the ranger's inner power, or auras.”

Zedd laughed as he interrupted Mesogog. “That twat Zordon couldn't unlock silly morphers? He's more pathetic than we ever thought.”

Mesogog hissed loudly then as he continued his story. “They aren't just simple morphers. The story behind them goes back to even before Zordon existed. The first power rangers in existence, contrary to Zordon's belief, used these morphers to stop two teams of evil that teamed up. The powers focus on their inner strength, as I said before, or as you might know it to be referred to as chi. Zordon was only able to unlock the zords from the morphers, and even those weren't half the strength of the fully powered ones. If Zordon would have unlocked the power, you two would have been destroyed in the first battle.”

Rita gasped in shock. “Then how can this child possibly unlock such a power?!”

Zeltrax walked over as Mesogog looked at him. He was carrying a case with him. He walked over by Mesogog and opened the case. As he opened the case, it revealed 6 round orbs with the colors of white, red, pink, blue, yellow, and green. “I need the boy to unlock these so we can find the morphers, before the Rangers do. These command the zords.” Mesogog stated as he walked over to the boy with the box and shook Jacee as he hissed. “Wake up...boy!”

Jacee stirred as when he opened his eyes he saw the monstrosity that was Mesogog. He screamed as he tried to run away but fell back by the pillar because of the chains. “Leave me alone!”

Mesogog frowned and growled. “If you want to see your mommy and daddy again touch these.” He said placing them down by Jacee.

Jacee shivered with fear as he slowly reached his hand into the box and brushed his fingertips across the six orbs of light as they all began to glow then as well as his hand. White, Red, Blue, Green, Pink, and Yellow lights surrounded Jacee and the box then a map appearing across the room on the wall. The lights reflected the location of the morphers.

“At last...” Mesogog hissed as he knew exactly where they were. “Summon Elsa and bring together your armies.” He said looking at Zedd and Rita.

Conner and Ethan helped Hayley inside Tommy's home and down to the basement, where the Command Center was. Kira and Trent went to call the hospital and Tommy's cellphone.

Hayley moved away from the boys and rushed over to the computer as things were flashing everywhere. She pinpointed the location of Tommy and Kimberly. “They aren't at the hospital, they are at the high school..” She stopped seeing the pain they were both going through and the strange worm lights surrounding them.

“This shouldn't be happening.. Conner, Ethan.. I need you two to go call in some reinforcements. Get in touch with: Jason Lee Scott, Aisha Campbell, Adam Park, and Rocky DeSantos. You met some of them before with the battle against Kimberly. They are the only ones that can help in this situation since you all lost your powers. I will get Kimberly and Tommy here through an invisi-portal.”

Conner and Ethan nodded as they walked over to another computer and wrote down the phone numbers and started to call everyone.

Hayley punched a few buttons on the computer as Tommy's jeep disappeared off of the screen and soon outside of the house.

Kira yelled down to the basement that Tommy and Kimberly just appeared outside. She then moved from the door to outside on the porch only to see both of them screaming. “What's wrong you guys?” She said running over by the passenger side of the jeep. She saw the lights swimming around the both of them as she gently shook Kimberly. “Hayley!” She yelled from outside as all that seemed to do was drift both Tommy and Kimberly back to sleep.

Hayley looked over to see how Conner and Ethan were doing but they were having trouble getting a hold of the other Rangers. She decided to check herself as she switched to a satellite that had the locations of every ranger. Tommy decided to put it up years ago just in case anything ever went wrong where he would need to call upon them. Hayley's eyes widened as she placed her hand over her mouth in shock. Jason, Aisha, Rocky, and Adam were all unconscious in their homes with worms of lights moving all over their body. “I have to get them here.” She said as she pushed a few more buttons and after pressing the final one the other four rangers appeared on the floor in the Command Center.

Conner's eyes widened as he stepped back a bit. “I didn't know you could do that, Hayley. Wait.. so can you see every room in our houses?”

Ethan rolled his eyes as he looked at Hayley. “Ignore him, but why are those lights surrounding them?”

Hayley sighed and turned in her chair. “It has to do with the power shift. When Zeltrax came to the Cafe to get Jacee, he mentioned that if the other Rangers want to live they have to find the other power. He only told me because obviously he knew what was happening to them.”

Kira ran inside the house once again and yelled for Hayley. “Hayley!”

Hayley looked at Conner and Ethan. “I'll be right back, watch them carefully.” She said running upstairs.

Kira ran outside with Hayley and over to the jeep. “Why are they like this?”

Hayley sighed deeply as she tried to touch Kimberly's arm but she got a jolt from the energy. “Without a stable power source.. they will die. They are all in some way connected to this new power that Zeltrax was speaking of. But I have no idea what or where it is.”

“The caves...” Tommy whispered unconsciously.

“Caves? What is he talking about, Hayley?” Kira asked as she looked over at Tommy and then back to Hayley.

“Oh! That is it!” Hayley gasped as she smiled. “The caves of the morphing grid. Tommy discovered them back in Angel Grove a few years ago. He said that he found a great power there but it wasn't accessible.”

Kira nodded and looked at her. “How can we find it?”

Hayley thought for a moment and then an idea sparked her. “As Tommy explained it to me, each Ranger must embark on a journey.. much like when they found their zeo crystals years ago. But with the rangers out of commission..” She turned to see Conner, Ethan, and Trent walk out of the house. “As your last journey as the rangers, you must go back in time, to when Tommy and the others were your age. You must take them from the past and bring them to the future. They will have to go on the quests.”

Ethan frowned as he looked at her. “But graduation is tomorrow, how will we be back in enough time?”

Hayley smiled as she pointed to the basement. “With the time cycles. They will take you back and you will have enough time. When you return it will be as if you just left.”

Conner smirked and looked at his friends. “One last time guys, let's save the world.. or at least save the ones that will save the world.”

Hayley soon charged up the cycles and showed the four to them. “Even though you don't have your dino gems, the power is still deep within you. You can't morph, but you can use these to go back in time and return.”

“Please be careful..” Hayley said as the four nodded and mounted the cycles. A huge white light flashed and they all four disappeared.

“I hope this works..”

As the light faded, Conner, Ethan, Trent, and Kira looked around and saw that they were in a park. “Well if this isn't obvious.” Ethan said as there would be no place to hide the bikes.

A beeping noise was heard from over by a tree.

Conner looked around and then spotted the watch-like-object. “Hey, guys, over here!” He yelled as he ran over and picked up the pink communicator. “What's this?”

A panicked and stressed out Kimberly was walking around Angel Grove Park retracing her steps. “Let's see...oh.. right I remember I came here to meet the guys.. and then those tengas came..” Kimberly heard some boy speak and then the communicator beep. She turned around and lightly screamed as she ran over to Conner. “Oh! That.. that's my watch. Thank you for finding it.”

Conner's eyes widened. “Wow.. Kimberly was even hotter back..” Ethan hit him on his arm.

Kimberly crossed her arms and raised a brow looking up at Conner and then the other three teenagers. “You guys aren't from around here are you?”

Kira stepped forward in front of Conner. “Excuse him.. he doesn't have a brain. We really need to talk to you.. and your 'friends'.”

Kimberly outstretched her hand. “I asked nicely..this is an emergency.. I really have to go.. can I please have my comm..watch back?” She said asking Conner.

Kira shook her head and so did the others. “Please you have to talk with us. It's a matter of life or death.”

Kimberly was definitely freaked out when she said that. She grabbed past Kira and grabbed her communicator. When she went to turn, Conner grabbed her shoulder. “Look..”

Kimberly turned around and grabbed his wrist. “Ki-yah!” She yelled as she flipped Conner into the air and down onto his back. “Stay away from me you freaks!” She yelled and quickly ran past some trees and teleported to the Command Center.

Kira frowned and crossed her arms. “Way to go Conner!”

Ethan saw Trent staring at something far off on the otherside of the Park, by a lake. “Hey guys! Look! Aren't.. those are the Power Rangers. We're in luck!” Ethan shouted as they all ran over and hid behind some bushes. “Look at that monster.. what happened to their colors?” Ethan asked.

“I bet that white one is Dr. O.” Kira said as she pointed. “So where is Kimberly then.. where did she teleport to ?” Conner asked.

“Kimberly!” Alpha shouted as he felt relieved that she was safe.

“WELCOME, KIMBERLY. OBSERVE THE VIEWING GLOBE.” Zordon commanded from his encased tube.

“That's the monster from my dreams!” Kimberly shouted as she crossed her arms. The viewing globe then flashed to four teenagers behind some bushes. “And those are the guys that tried to keep me from coming here. They had my communicator.”

Zordon noticed this and then it all made sense. “I SENSED A SURGE IN THE MORPHING GRID EARLIER, THESE TEENAGERS ARE OBVIOUSLY FROM ANOTHER TIME. I SUGGEST YOU SPEAK TO THEM, BUT RIGHT NOW YOU MUST SAVE YOUR FRIENDS. I KNOW YOU FEAR LEAVING THE RANGERS BUT ALWAYS KNOW YOU WILL BE A RANGER FOREVER AND YOUR MOTHER WOULD NEVER PUT YOU IN HARMS WAY.”

Kimberly smiled turning to Zordon. “Yes, I know she only wants what's best for me. Thank you Zordon. I will talk to them after the battle.”

“It's Morphing Time!”

“Pink Ranger Power!”

As a pink light faded from the sky, Kimberly flipped forward in the air outstretching her arms and flipped her body over to the ground. “Ki-yah!”

As the Artist Mole was about to fire another blast at the Rangers he turned to see the Pink Ranger appear. “Huh!?” He groaned confused.

“Kimberly!” Tommy shouted happily.

Kimberly outstretched her arms into a fighting stance. “Ki-yah!” She yelled as she began to charge, running forward towards the mole from her dreams.

The artist mole smirked. “Perrfffect! A little PINK for my pallet!” He laughed and fired his brush at her.

As Kimberly continued to run the blasts moved all around her. She jumped into the air again flipping over the mole as graceful as a crane. “Ki-yah!” Once she was over him she moved to the tree, lifting off of it with her feet and flying back towards him with her arms outstretched.

“Oh, oh, oh!” The artist mole yelled as he fired his brush and the beam collided with Kimberly, sending her back falling towards the ground as sparks flew off of her chest.

Kimberly fell against the ground lightly gasping in pain. She slowly got up holding her shoulder. “I don't like your style..”

“Who made you a critic?!” The artist mole yelled back in retaliation.

Ninjor, even though in pain, managed to try and help the pink crane ranger. “Kimberly! You must not let him fire his brush at you!”

The artist mole laughed as he moved towards the fallen Kimberly. “As if you could stop me!”

From behind the bushes the other future Rangers watched. “Wow.. this is intense.” Ethan spoke quietly.

“Kimberly is so fast!” Kira added in. “She is amazing!”

“And hot.” Conner added.

Trent just rolled his eyes and kept watching how this amazing battle would fold out.

The artist mole swung his brush down at Kimberly.

“No!” Kimberly gasped as she did her best to not let the brush touch her by holding it away from her.

The artist mole pressed down further. “I'm going to paint you out!”

Tommy held out his arm as he watched this. “Hang on Kimberly, remember, your friends are always with you! -I- am always with you!”

The artist mole turned back as he glared at Tommy. “You keep out of this!” He said with his intense french accent.

Kimberly struggled against him as one arm fell to the ground as she balled it up into a fist. “No..”

“Time for the brusher!” Artist Mole yelled as he brought his brush up and then back down.

Kimberly quickly outstretched her arms into an “X” as she stopped it. “KI-YAH! Hi-YAH!” She yelled as she grabbed the brush and flipped the Artist Mole over onto the ground.

“How dare YOU!” Groaned the mole as he slowly got up trying to regain his composure. Being an artist, you always needed to be in your element!

Kimberly jumped into the air and swung her legs to the side kicking the brush as it was sent back in sparks. “KI-YAH!”

The Artist was sent back moaning in pain.

Kimberly flipped to the side and grabbed her Blade Blaster as she stood up, she readied the Blaster. “So long MOLE MAN!” She flipped over to the side again and fired the Blade Blaster towards the Mole's feet as rays of pink light shot out and sparks exploded sending smoke, surrounding the monster.

“Aim for his stomach, Kim!” Rocky said knowing that was his weak spot.

As Kimberly destroyed the monster in its normal form it was only to be raised into its large form by Rita and Zedd. After the Rangers called their Ninja Zords and the battle was over, Kimberly told the others to come with her so they could speak to the strange four that arrived just moments before.

Kimberly walked over side-by-side with Tommy as the other four rangers followed behind them. “Guys, these are the four, that Zordon wanted us to speak with.”

Conner kept his hands in his pockets as he stepped forward and looked at Kimberly then to Dr. O.. well Tommy. “I know this is going to sound crazy, but we are from the future.. eight years or so. We need .. well we need Tommy Oliver, Kimberly Hart, Jason Lee Scott, Aisha Campbell, Adam Park, and Rocky DeSantos to come back with us.”

Tommy looked at him and raised his eye brow as he crossed his arms. “Well.. that's not entirely possible.”

Trent frowned hearing this. “And why not..?”

“Jason is in Switzerland.” Billy said as he moved up by Tommy and Kimberly. “Can I take his place?”

Kira shook her head looking at the ground. “We need Jason.. it's.. it's life or death.”

Kimberly sighed running her hands through her hair. “Well I'm sure we could get Zordon to teleport him here.”

Aisha walked over by Kimberly. “Yeah, I'm sure Zordon would gladly do it. But first, before we do this, what exactly is this big emergency?”

Ethan decided to be the one to tell them. “You're future selves.. their powers are draining them.. and they can't search for the new power so we need you guys to. Kimberly.. erm.” He then looked at Kimberly. “You had three power sources: your power coin, your ninjetti powers, and your dino thunder powers. They were all taken just like the rest of our dino powers including yours Dr... I mean Tommy.”

Tommy took this all in as he nodded his head. “Alright, we'll get Jason and we'll meet you back here.”

Lights of Silver, Red, White, Pink, Yellow, and Black appeared in the park by Conner, Kira, Trent, and Ethan.

“Let's go save the future.” Tommy said as Conner nodded and took them to the time cycles. They all had to squeeze to fit onto them but once they were activated, they arrived right by Hayley, a second later.

Hayley smiled. “Welcome, Rangers.”

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Part Thirteen – Thunder Storm( Part Two ): Quest for Power


Hayley smiled seeing the past form of the Rangers, along with Conner, Ethan, Trent, and Kira. “Welcome Rangers.” She walked over to the four Dino Rangers to speak with them for a moment. “Tommy wanted to do this but I will say it in his place. You four will always be Power Rangers, no matter what. You have saved the world and shaped it in ways no ordinary human could. You are all heroes and should be very proud of yourselves as are we. Graduation is tomorrow which you all need to look forward to. Your journey as Power Rangers has ended.”

Kira smiled while leaning close to Conner, for reasons she didn't even know. “Thanks Hayley. Hey can we still set up for our graduation party at the Cafe?” She asked Hayley.

Hayley smiled and nodded. “I'll be by later after everything is said and done here.”

The four teenagers nodded and soon left, driving away in Conner's car.

Kimberly was holding hands with Tommy as they were huddled over by a jeep speaking about what this was all about. Kimberly's eyes drifted to the jeep as her friends were talking when suddenly she gasped. She let go of Tommy's hand and ran over to the jeep as she saw her future self, and Tommy's. “Oh.. I feel..”

Tommy ran over by her to see what it was and then saw. He grabbed onto Kimberly then. “Don't faint, Beautiful.”

Jason walked over by the drivers door and instantly began laughing. “You cut your hair! It's about damn time!”

Rocky, Adam, and Aisha walked over as well and couldn't help but let a little laugh escape.

Rocky looked over at Kimberly's future self and his eyes widened. “Wow.. Kim still looks good..” He looked up to see a glare from Tommy. “Ah I mean wow.. how strange.. you know seeing your future selves.”

Hayley walked over to the curious teenagers and remembered back to when she was a teenager. “Actually all of your future selves are here. The others are inside the house.”

Aisha crossed her arms and looked at Hayley. “So how are we going to find the power and save everyone?”

Hayley stepped forward seeing Kimberly about to faint, seeing this as the best time to say anything. “A great power resides within the Caves of Power.” She turned to Tommy then who was holding Kimberly so she wouldn't pass out. “Tommy, your future self discovered these caves a few years ago. He couldn't access the power, but he did say it would be a journey similar to your ninja quest, only this time facing all of your past fears, including the monsters. I have a list of locations of the powers, you will have to split up into 3 teams. Tommy, you will go with Jason, Kimberly will go with Aisha, and Rocky you will go with Adam.”

Aisha raised a brow. “Does this have anything to do with best friends?”

Hayley nodded as Aisha figured it out. “That's another stipulation, even though Kimberly and Tommy are a great fighting team, Tommy noticed the colors in the separate caves and came to the conclusion that it would take the power of friendship to overcome the barriers. However, one team is weakened.” She said turning to Jason. “You have no active powers, which means you will be at a disadvantage. But Tommy did tell me he knew you would prevail.”

Jason walked over by Tommy and nodded. “Can you teleport us there?”

Hayley nodded as she grabbed a box that held crystals. “Once there, you must absorb the powers from the morphers into these, as well as take the morphers. Then we will transfer the powers over. I will teleport you once you are morphed.”

Tommy looked down at Kimberly. “Are you going to be alright?”

Kimberly nodded. “Yeah.. you know me.. always have to try and faint.” She said jokingly.

Aisha walked over and stood by Kimberly and then Adam and Rocky stood by them.

Tommy looked at his team. “Are you all ready?” Everyone nodded after Tommy spoke. “It's morphing time!”

“White Ranger Power!”

“Black Ranger Power!”

“Pink Ranger Power!”

“Yellow Ranger Power!”

“Red Ranger Power!”

The five Rangers morphed and then Jason placed his hand behind his back. “Tyrannosaurus!” But unfortunately nothing happened. He shrugged his shoulders and looked at everyone. “I had to try.”

Hayley pressed a few buttons on her laptop and looked at the Rangers. “Good luck.” She said and then they all teleported to the Caves of Power, which were in different locations.

Kimberly and Aisha teleported to the southern cave. “This is strange.. I thought it was suppose to test us.” Kimberly said as she saw nothing but the cave.

A screeching, irritating voice then screamed. “Well, hello RANGERS!”

Aisha turned around to see a woman, well Elsa standing across from them with putties. “Who's that freak?” She said asking Kimberly.

Elsa growled. “Do you honestly think I am going to let you pass? If I destroy you that means there is no future for the Power Rangers and my master wins!”

Kimberly frowned and swung her arm out pointing at Elsa. “First of all you really need a manicure and second of all a stylist!” She then turned to Aisha. “Let's show this beast what friendship is all about!” She said as Aisha nodded. “Forever Friends!”

They both jumped into the air flipping over Elsa and the putties. They then summoned their power weapons.

“Power Bow!”

“Power Daggers!”

Elsa smirked as she saw this. “Oh really? You want to see a beast?” She held up her sword and the Bloom of Doom appeared after a lightning strike came from the sky.

Kimberly groaned as she saw her. “No..not you again!”

Aisha looked over at Kim and held her hands up in confusion. “Who is that?”

“The Bloom of Doom, it was a battle I faced with Trini that turned me against her and then we came together and destroyed her, but.. I can't do it without you Aisha.”

“Well you are going to have to!” Elsa yelled as she ran at Aisha and grabbed her sending her across the battlefield.

Kimberly gasped as she ran forward a bit reaching out for Aisha, but it was too late. “No!”

The Bloom of Doom jumped forward and wrapped it's vines around Kimberly.

Aisha frowned rolling to the ground. She saw Kimberly in the distance with the Doom Bloom and held out her hand. “No! Kimberly!”

Kimberly held the vines as her body twisted and the Bloom swung her into the air. “You can't defeat me you disgusting plant!”

The Bloom laughed as she continued to swing Kimberly around. “Oh really now, Pink Ranger? I seem to be doing a fine job at it!” She said as her laughter continued. She then used the electricity through her vines to shock Kimberly.

Aisha flung her daggers at Elsa but fell back when Elsa deflected them back at Aisha with her sword. Aisha tumbled to the ground and held her shoulder. “I..I need to help Kim..” A flash of yellow appeared by Aisha as it was a lightly faded form of Trini, knelt down by Aisha. “Trini!” Aisha yelled as she slowly stood up. “But how...?”

Trini smiled as she held onto Aisha's arm. “Now is not the time to ask questions, you have to help Kimberly. But first you have to see past the illusion. You were fighting yourself. Elsa isn't here, it would be stupid for her to show up, that is why Lord Zedd summoned the Bloom of Doom.. it was an enemy that almost broke my friendship with Kimberly. It is the ultimate monster to turn friends against each other.”

Aisha looked back to where Elsa was and her eyes widened as Elsa faded away. “You're right! But.. how am I suppose to help Kimberly?”

Trini lightly smiled. “Work together. Form the Dagger Bow and destroy that plant forever!”

Before Aisha could look back, Trini had faded away again in a yellow glow.

Aisha felt honored that Trini came to help her. “I won't let you down..”

Aisha jumped into the air and swung her daggers at the Bloom's vines. The Doom Bloom screamed in agony as it moved back, smoke rising from its cut vines, which soon regenerated.

Kimberly smiled running back over by Aisha. “How did you defeat that freak?”

Aisha looked at Kimberly and smiled. “Trini helped me.”

Kimberly gave a questioning look. “She didn't travel into the future with us.”

“I know.. I don't really understand but we have to work together to defeat the Bloom of Doom.”

Kimberly nodded and grabbed onto Aisha's hand and smiled. “Let's do this!” She yelled as they both flipped forward, Aisha first as she threw her daggers at the bloom which sent her back.

Kimberly twirled into the air and sent arrows at the monster but they only phased it.

“Stand in front with your arms out, Aisha!” She yelled as she picked up Aisha's daggers and then watched as Aisha outstretched her arms. “Thank you Trini..”

Kimberly jumped back into the air, flipping forward, as she readied her bow. She shot both of the daggers which shot from her bow swirling in yellow and pink lights. “Ki-Yah!” Kimberly yelled as they went through the Doom Bloom and caused the monster to explode, inside out.

As the monster disappeared as well as the other putties, the shield that was blocking the caves entrance, exploded giving Aisha and Kimberly the opportunity to gain access.

Kimberly jumped up with excitement as she powered down. “We did it!”

Aisha powered down as well and walked over by her. “We're only half done, girl. We still have to get 'this' power.”

As Kimberly and Aisha entered the cave, the walls glowed with yellow and pink. Kimberly held her arms as she looked around. “I don't have a good feeling about this..”

Aisha smiled at her as she shook her head. “Come on Kim, it's just a cave, what's the worst that could happen?”

Kimberly glared at Aisha then as she stopped. “You do realize when one of us says that, it usually happens?”

Aisha covered her mouth then as both of them proceeded into the center of the cave which held two pedestals that had two morphers on them. Surrounding the pedestals were barrier lights of pink and yellow. “I'm guessing those are the morphers.” Aisha stated as she walked over to the yellow one.

Kimberly gulped as she closed her eyes moving closer to the pink light. She gasped then once her fingertips touched the light. “It's so.. strong..” She said almost unable to stop herself from grabbing the morphers.

Aisha's eyes widened. “Kim don't! We have to use the crystals.”

Kimberly snapped out of it and moved back. “Woah.. you're right. The pull is strong though..”

Both Kimberly and Aisha held out the crystal power absorbers that Hayley had given them as they flashed with a spark and the pink and yellow barrier power shields were being sucked into the crystals.

“I hope this works.” Kimberly whispered.

Both Aisha and Kimberly screamed when sparks flew off from the crystals. Their power coins activated as a protective shield went around the girls. “Kim, I don't think this was suppose to happen!” Aisha said as she still held onto the yellow, almost exploding crystal.

Kimberly held onto hers as well as she winced as she began to scream when it appeared as if the power was going to consume her. “No!” She screamed as both her and Aisha were flung against the ceiling of the cave and then the explosion stopped as they fell to the ground.

Kimberly coughed as she moved over by Aisha, both of them helping each other up. Their eyes sparkled with relief and accomplishment as they saw that the barriers were gone and that the morphers were free from the light. They left each others side to grab the morphers as they held them into the air admiring the morphers they would some day receive in the future.

As they ran out of the cave they were suddenly teleported back to where Hayley was, at Tommy's home in the outskirts of Reefside.

Hayley smiled as she saw both of them with the crystals of power and the morphers. “You did an amazing job, Rangers.” She said as she looked at Kimberly. “I need you to go over to the jeep and place the crystal on top of your future self and then place the morphers on each of her wrists.” She then turned to Aisha. “I need you to do the same. Your future self is inside the livingroom.”

Both of the girls nodded as they looked at each other and then went their separate ways.

Kimberly walked over to the jeep seeing her future self. “I haven't changed that much...” Her gaze then went over to Tommy and she smiled. “At least we are still together...” She then placed the crystal down and snapped the morphers onto Kimberly's wrists. As she did this, the pink worms that were surrounding Kimberly's body suddenly disappeared along with past Kimberly. They faded away as Kimberly's eyes shot open and her body shot upwards. “Tommy?” She gasped out as she looked around and then saw the crystal that rolled down to her lap and the morphers on her wrists.

Aisha walked into the house and instantly stopped when she saw her future self lying on the ground surrounded by yellow worms of light. “I cut my hair?!...” She said all girly as she held onto her long strands of black hair. “Well I definitely will remember this.” She said walking over and placing the crystal and morphers on. Once she did she felt herself disappear just like Kimberly had.

Aisha woke up groaning as she sat up looking around. Her eyes widened when she saw Jason, Rocky, and Adam unconscious on the ground. “Kimberly?!” She yelled out and slowly moved outside to where she saw Kim. She first screamed with excitement and ran over to hug Kim but saw the worry on her face. “What's wrong Kim..”

Kimberly looked to Hayley and frowned. “What have you done..”

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Part Fourteen – Thunder Storm( Part Three ): Quest for Power Part Two

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Kimberly's gaze drifted to the ground as she took a deep breath and then looked back over at Hayley. “I'm sorry...I just am frustrated because I cannot remember what happened or now why I am here.”

Aisha looked at Kimberly and then at Hayley and nodded as she walked over by Kimberly. “I don't understand either..” She looked down at the yellow crystal in her hands as memories from the past came rushing back. “Are these the Zeo Crystals?”

Hayley looked at them both and then sighed deeply. “I think it will be best if we talk inside. What I am about to tell you can't be heard but unlikely ears, and you need to see a few things that are down in the basement as well.”

Both girls nodded as they soon started to follow Hayley.

Kimberly turned before heading into the house. She ran over by the jeep and gently touched Tommy's cheek. “I'll be back soon handsome.”

Hayley's eyes widened when she did that. “Don't... but.. how were you able to touch him? The others were knocked away when they tried to before.”

Aisha looked at Hayley and then extended her crystal. “Maybe these? Or the fact that my girl and my boy over there love each other to death so that is probably the reason. Love overcomes everything.”

Kimberly just smiled at her best friend's comment and walked side by side with her inside after Hayley.

As Hayley sat down in the chair by the computer, in the Command Center, under Tommy's home, her half happy expression turned sour as a frown appeared on her face. “I have a very long legend to tell you.. but you must know why each event happened.. from the beginning.”

Kimberly sat down by Aisha and slowly nodded. “Yes, please start from the beginning.. like how Tommy and all of us got here?”

Hayley shook her head as she crossed her arms. “I need to go before that.”

“Why.. what do you mean? What happened before that..?” Kimberly asked unsure and somewhat frightened.

Hayley felt the lump in her throat as she fought tears not wanting to seem like the victim in this case because the only victim was Jacee as he was captured. “I got an alert that you guys were engaging in battle and when I went to see what was going on Zeltrax appeared in the Cafe...” She shakily sighed as she was revealing what happened to Jacee to Kimberly. “I was attacked and I couldn't stop him.. Zeltrax captured Jacee in the mist of it all.”

Gasps came from both girls as their mouths fell. Kimberly's first reaction was to get angry and yell at Hayley for not trying to stop him, but then her irrational side faded and her rational side kicked in as she knew it was not possible for Hayley to stop Zeltrax as she had no powers, nothing to help stop him. Kimberly stood up and walked over to Hayley and gave her a light hug. “It's not your fault.”

Hayley smiled at this as she sighed with relief. She half expected Kimberly to throw her out and tell her to never come back. But the other half knew Kimberly would understand as she had been dealing with situations like this most of her life, dealing with evil that is. “I promise I will do everything I can to help you find Jacee and save the others.”

Kimberly smiled and nodded thankfully. “I know you will.”

Aisha walked over as she placed her crystal down by Kimberly's as they were being scanned and images were being brought onto the computer. “Ok so let's cut to the chase.. what is this legend you want to tell us about?”

Hayley nodded as Aisha wished to be informed over everything. “The crystals are similar to the Zeo Crystals yes, in the fact that they harness the power, but they are more similar to the Dino crystals that the Rangers used to pilot their first Zords.”

Kimberly looked at Aisha and saw her confused look. “We used them first, Trini used hers to pilot the Saber-Tooth Tiger, her sword before the Griffin Zord.”

Hayley smiled as Kimberly moved right into her next topic. “Speaking of the Griffin Zord, Zordon was able to harness some of the Thunder Storm power, or also known as Star Power and he was able to somewhat bring the Thunder Zords to aid you as well as partially create the Tiger Thunder Ranger.”

Aisha smiled hearing that as she knew exactly who she was talking about. “Tommy, so that boy was able to use this incredible power even back then?”

Hayley shook her head as she brought up the costumes of the six Thunder Storm rangers. “He was only able to use about a quarter of the power that the crystals held, that put him at your strength back then. If Zordon would have been able to unlock the Star Power, each of you would have been able to gain new powers and of course new costumes.” She turned around bringing up the screen as both Kimberly and Aisha's eyes lit up like they were back in high school. Both of the pink and yellow costumes were amazing as well as both with a white skirt outlined with their color which Aisha especially liked since she didn't have one with her original powers. “Those are so fierce!” Aisha shouted excited. “Ok ok sorry.”

Hayley smiled as she lightly shook her head remembering the cheer leading type that she was secluded from in High School. “If you would have acquired these powers when you were teenagers, not only would you have been able to destroy Rita and Zedd, but you would have been able to defeat the whole Machine Empire up to Astronema. You would have been matched up all the way to Mesogog. But unfortunately Zordon was not able to unlock the powers.”

Kimberly and Aisha both gave Hayley a questioning look as they listened to her last words. In unison they both said, “Then how are the powers unlocked?”

Kimberly looked down then as the answer hit her and it felt as if someone had just kicked her in the stomach. “Jacee... they used him...”

Hayley nodded and then decided it was time to reveal another secret to Kimberly. “Being the first child born from two original Power Rangers.. he is very special.. which is why Tommy and I have been secretly testing him for the past few months.”

Kimberly's expression turned downwards as she heard that. “Excuse me? You were doing what to my son?” She said immediately angered.

Aisha jumped to her side grabbing her arm. “Girl calm down, but wait no, excuse me, what were you doing to my God-son?” Aisha retorted back as they both glared at Hayley.

Hayley sighed agitated as she could already picture the quarrel between Tommy and Kimberly after this was all said and done. “We took the necessary precautions to protect Jacee.”

“Which didn't work.” Kimberly said turning around as she ran her hands through her hair. This already had begun an emotional day, now it was just going chaotic. “Please just finish the story.” She said walking to the other side of the room as she sat down on a couch in the corner. “Come over here 'Sha.” She said rubbing her forehead.

“Oh come on Girl if that was my son she would have never heard the end of it..” Aisha said mumbling all the way over to the other side of the room.

After watching the girls finish their blow directed towards Hayley, she turned back in her chair as she continued the story. “The legend of the powers date clear back before the original Dino powers were created, and even before Zordon was born. They were said to be clear back from the dawns of time but that is unknown. The first Rangers to ever use these powers were Zordon's mentors, 6 guardians of Eltar, that protected it in a huge war with Master Vile. Yes, you heard me right, Master Vile, and not the one you are thinking of. This would have been Rita's grandfather, who possessed incredible powers as well as possessed the Dark Thunder Storm crystals which to date are unknown to exist. Jacee has pure energy, and in addition to that he carries with him energy from the Dino, Thunder, Ninja, Zeo, Turbo, and Dino Thunder powers, passed through him from you and Tommy. He was able to unlock the Zords which unlocked the powers, and your past selves were able to claim them. And BEFORE you yell at me like I'm some ignorant child, I know it was a big risk to bring your past lives here as if they fail, your future lives are gone forever. But obviously it is working out for the best.”

As Kimberly and Aisha cooled down listening to Hayley, an irritating beeping noise came from the computers as it zeroed in on an attack that was taking place in downtown Reefside. “We've got trouble.” Hayley said as she punched in few codes into the computers and a screen pulled up showing Zeltrax and Goldar with their army of putties, tengas, and super-tyrannodrones attacking the city. In the arms of Zeltrax rested Jacee as he was unconscious.

Once Kimberly saw this she quickly forgot whatever irritation and anger she felt towards Hayley as she looked at her pleadingly. “How do we access the power?”

Hayley stood up as she rushed over to a desk and pulled out the Fire Bird and Griffin Crests. She handed them to Kimberly and Aisha. “Hurry, we're running out of time. Open the morpher and place the crests in them and then bring the morpher together.”

Aisha slightly rolled her eyes at Hayley for treating them like they were first time Rangers. “I think we got this.” Aisha then looked at Kimberly. “You ready, girl?”

Kimberly nodded smiling. “It's Morphing Time!”

Both girls placed the crests inside the morphers as they glowed yellow and pink and then opened up their morpher on their right wrist as they twirled their arms back and then forward pushing the key through the left morpher as it activated.

“Pink Fire bird Thunder Storm Power!”

“Yellow Griffin Thunder Storm Power!”

As Aisha and Kimberly morphed the crystals levitated into the air and then as both girls outstretched their arms after activating their morphers and closed their eyes the crystals shot out lights of yellow and pink that wrapped around them and shot through them as the power suits materialized around their clothes.

Kimberly and Aisha didn't have to wait for Hayley to teleport them as she did after seeing the crystals disappear. “Good luck Rangers...”

Ki-yah! Hu-YAH!” Kimberly and Aisha flipped into the air as the lights of pink and yellow faded away from them. “Jacee!!” Kimberly yelled running with her arms reaching out.

As Kimberly and Aisha ran to the scene Goldar and Zeltrax began laughing as they saw the first of the Star Rangers. “Well if it isn't Kimmy and Aisha!” Goldar said swinging his sword forward. “If you've come for the boy you can have him.” He said grabbing Jacee from Zeltrax by the back of his red shirt.

Kimberly gasped as she held both of her hands by her heart. “Leave him alone you bird brain! He's just an innocent little boy! He has nothing to do with this!”

“TENGAS, PUTTIES, ATTACK!” Goldar yelled as the putties and tengas moved past them for the girls.

Zeltrax shook his head at how stupid Goldar was. “Tyrannodrones, show them some real mercy from the triassic era!”

Aisha's eyes widened in her helmet as she looked at Kimberly. Before she could say anything the tengas and putties attacked both Kimberly and Aisha swarming them in every direction.

A light of pink shot up into the sky as the feather brains, otherwise known as tengas, flew up and all that was left of them were feathers. “KI-YAH!” Kimberly yelled as then pink blast of energy shot out of her fingers like lightning bolts. She then swung her arms up like wings as she pushed herself off of the ground. She swung over the putties and dove into Zeltrax.

Aisha found her new powers to be quite helpful as well. “Thunder Staff!” She yelled as a staff materialized in yellow energy and at the top of the staff was a spear point that looked like a dagger. “Well at least somewhat normal.” She said missing her daggers already. She swung the staff around her body hitting the putties all on their targets sending them flying.

Zeltrax brought out his sword as he swung it at Kimberly who summoned one of the lightning swords as when their swords clashed pink energy flew off in sparks. “Uhn.. you'll never win! Never mess with a mother's child, especially a mother like me!” She yelled as she swung her leg underneath her other one and swung it under Zeltrax and made him lose his balance as she swung her sword at his shoulder and took off in a run, running him into a building that ended up in a huge clash of energy.

“Kimberly!” Aisha yelped as the tyrannodrones were becoming too much for her as she didn't have the experience in fighting them. “I need help!”

Kimberly gasped as she turned around to see her over run. “Aisha! Hold on!” She screamed again when she was grabbed by Zeltrax. “You'll never win.. Pink ranger.”

“You wanna bet?” Kim asked as she was being torn in three places. Jacee, Aisha, and Zeltrax.

“Kim!” Aisha yelled as she struggled fighting them.

Kimberly felt her chest hurt as she gasped out in pain. “I don't know what to do.. uhn.. Tommy.. I need you...no.. I can do this.. I have to. Tommy always believes in me and I have to do this.” Then almost as of instinct she ran towards Aisha as she jumped into the air. As she did a wave of Pink light shot out and Aisha mimicked it as she jumped into the air as a yellow wave shot out. Their zords, the sacred beasts' energy flowed through them and shot out colliding with Zeltrax and the Tyrannodrones.

Goldar saw this and saw Zeltrax explode as his eyes widened. “Uh.. uh.. uh... uh!? SCORPINA!” He yelled as his wife, the demoness in gold Scorpina, appeared next to him. “Ugh, you can't do anything without me can you?” She yelled in a screeching voice much like Rita's.

Aisha and Kimberly huddled together as they winced in pain as they used a lot of energy in their first fight. “We.. we have to do something..”

Something deep inside stirred as Aisha saw Scorpina. “Yeah! I want to fight her!” She said still feeling hatred for her with the situation with Adam.

Kimberly shook her head as she held back Aisha. “Not when Jacee is involved. We can't risk him getting hurt. We have to pull back. That's what Tommy would do.”

She said as she pressed her communicator and the two disappeared in yellow and pink lights.

Speaking of lights, black and red lights appeared near the east cave as Rocky and Adam stepped out of the lights. “Where are we?” Adam asked as he turned around looking. A very, very, familiar, and evil laugh came from behind them as Lord Zedd stepped away from the smoke from the cave as a snake ran down his body. “Well, if it isn't the frog, and ape rangers! Both pathetic species if you do ask me. I much prefer snakes!” He said laughing as he pointed his staff at the Rangers.

Rocky and Adam spun around as they glared at Lord Zedd. “You call that a higher species? Try looking in the mirror Zedd, or perhaps take out your list of all the failed attempts that you've tried to destroy us!” Rocky yelled back as he stood in his fighting stance.

Lord Zedd leaned back laughing as listened to the Rangers' insults. “Well then, lets make it a victory now!” He said running towards the duo as he fired his staff at their feet.

Rocky and Adam looked at each other and then towards Zedd when they jumped over the blast and kicked forward as they collided with him. As their kicks and punches collided with Zedd he used his staff to block several as silver sparks flew off each hit.

Rocky flipped over Zedd so he was facing his back and kicked his lower back, sending Zedd flying to the ground. When he went to go pursue another attack he heard a call from Adam.

“Rocky! It won't stop!” he yelled as the snake was wrapping around Adam from feet to face.

Zedd turned on the ground and laughed at the sight. “Say goodbye to the Black Ranger!”

Rocky ran over to Adam and started to pull the snake away. “No! Ah.. come on we have to get this off of you!”

Adam shook his head as he struggled as the snake wrapped around tighter. “No! You have to get the power, the fate of the future rests on it. Forget about me Rocky!”

Rocky shook his head as he grabbed his Blade Blaster. “Sorry but I can never leave my best friend behind, and you know that!” He pointed the blaster at the snake and fired. As the red laser destroyed the snake, Zedd groaned in agony. “You fools! How dare you destroy my precious pet! You will pay dearly for that!”

“Thanks Rocky...” Adam panted as he ran over by Rocky facing Zedd. “You will never win, Zedd.”

“You fools!” Lord Zedd yelled as he ran forward and soon began a blade clashing fight as Rocky and Adam summoned their weapons.

“Power Axe!”

“Power Sword!”

As staff met sword and axe the war fueled up.

Adam flipped over Zedd as he grabbed his legs and then back kicked Zedd in the neck. He then flipped backwards as he fired the Power Axe into Zedd's Staff which made it break in half.

Rocky took this opening as he flipped forward into the air and thrusted the sword into Zedd as he split in two and then in a blast of two a new monster appeared as an old enemy came back, just to haunt a certain red ranger.

Rocky rolled on the ground and moved up to his feet as he turned and frowned. “Pachinco machine?” Rocky winced as he suddenly got a major headache and a wave of red energy appeared around his helmet as a spell was casted over him.

Adam's eyes widened as he saw this. “Rocky get away from him!”

“Woooohoooo!” Rocky yelled as he started to run around in circles around the monster jumping up and down. “It's time to play!!”

Adam shook his head as he ran over and grabbed Rocky by the shoulders. “Rocky snap out of it!”

Rocky tipped his head to the right a bit and shrugged his shoulders. “Snap out of what? All I want to do is have fun!”

Adam shook his head and flipped backwards as he kicked the machine into the cave wall but then fell backwards when the Pachinco Machine swung its staff at him. “Do you want to be turned into a ball of fun too?” He asked Adam.

“I've had enough of this!” Adam yelled as he punched the Machine in the chest as the monster disappeared in yellow lightning bolts. He turned around to see Rocky surrounded by putties being held back. “Adam! I can't break free”

Adam glanced down unaware what was on the ground as he suddenly fell to his knees. The mirror of regret lay on the ground as he picked it up and suddenly all of his fears and regrets over his childhood suddenly came back again. “I am a failure.. I am a failure..” He repeated as he placed his free hand on his helmet.

Rocky swung his arm back knocking the row of putties off of him as he flipped up and then swung his legs under the two putties that were on the other side of him. “Adam! Snap out of it! It's the mirror, remember?!” He kicked the putties and punched at the “Z” finishing them off. As he ran over to Adam to try and help him he was knocked back by a blue wave. He coughed as he stood up and as his vision cleared he saw a blue power ranger? “Who are you?”

“You are not worthy of the power.” The Blue ranger stated as he sent another blast of blue energy from his hands and fired it at Rocky as it hit his chest he was sent flying back down to the ground. “You shall not pass. You are not worthy of friendship. You are weak!”

Rocky clenched his fists in the sand under him as he shook his head. “I'm not weak.. I have friends! And I'll never let them down!” He said and slowly stood up and then took a leap towards Adam. “I have to snap him out of this!”

When Rocky went to try and help Adam the Blue Ranger swung his staff at Rocky knocking him back on his back which in turn caused a shrieking scream to come from Rocky as he hit the ground he was suddenly struck with the blue blast again.

This scream caused Adam's head to jerk away from the Mirror, making it faded into ash as the power of his friendship with Rocky drew him away from the mirror. “Rocky! Hang on!” He yelled and started to run towards him.

A blast of Green lightning surrounded Adam then as a Green ranger flipped in from the air holding his arms out to block Adam. “Not so fast, BLACK!” The Green ranger shouted as he walked over by the Blue Ranger.

“Your friendship is true, you may pass.” They both spoke in unison as they faded away with the dusty breeze.

Adam switched his gaze back to Rocky as he ran back over by him and knelt on his knees as he placed his hand on Rocky's shoulder. “Are you alright, Rocky?”

Rocky nodded slowly as he looked towards the cave. “The..the barrier's gone..” He said wincing.

They both helped each other up and limped into the cave as they soon found themselves in a center chamber and two circle statues of blue and green light. “This must be the power..”

As Rocky and Adam went to approach the morphers, the light shot into the crystals that they held and the barriers disappeared. As they faced the actual power outside of the cave, they did not have to face it here. As they both reached for the morphers and collected them, they were automatically teleported out in black and red teleportation lights, back to the Command Center in Tommy's basement.

Hayley was waiting for them up in the living room as they appeared. She smiled lightly as she pointed to their future selves. “Once you place the crystals on their chests and place the morphers around their wrists, your mission is complete.”

Rocky demorphed as he sighed deeply glad this mission was over. “Some mission, I guess it was true what those other Power Rangers said about it being life or death. They meant literally.”

“Definitely.” Adam responded as both him and Rocky did as Hayley asked, simply passing through the swirling lights of blue and green around their future selves.

Once they finished what Hayley asked them, they faded away just like Kimberly and Aisha had.

As soon as Kimberly and Aisha teleported back to the living room, still morphed, Adam and Rocky woke up.

Rocky rubbed his head as he saw the Rangers and some strange woman. “Wow.. I must have really had to many to drink if I'm waking up with strange women.. dressed like Power rangers... in a strange house...”

Adam sat up and shook his head as he lightly laughed at his best friend. “I don't think you have anything to worry about, drinking wise.” He looked at the Power Rangers and at Hayley. “What's going on?”

[chrisangelo]

Part Fifteen – Thunder Storm( Part Four ): Quest for Power Part Three

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Kimberly and Aisha both powered down to see two of their confused friends. Jason was still unconscious surrounded in red worms of light on the floor. Kimberly sighed deeply as she knew that Tommy was as well.

Rocky looked at Aisha and Kimberly and stood up from the ground. “What's going on you guys?”

“I believe I can answer that question.” Hayley stated moving forward as she told both Adam and Rocky what she told Kim and Aisha before the battle.

A few minutes after she finished Adam and Rocky registered everything in their heads and then wanted to help immediately. “What can we do to help?”

Aisha smirked as she stepped forward. “Help us take down that bitch Scorpina!” She said feeling relieved as she gave Scorpina the appropriate name as when she was a teenager she only called her a witch, but she was so much more than that.

Hayley looked at the Rangers and frowned as they wanted to go full force into battle again. “You won't be at full strength until Jason and Tommy return but I think you will be able to put up a fight.”

Kimberly walked over towards the door as she crossed her arms and turned around to face everyone. “We will put up so much more than a fight. We just doubled our strength, let's go teach that bird brain and his mistress who the Power Rangers are!”

“It's Morphing time!” Kimberly yelled as they all stood in a line and activated their morphers.

The alignment was very similar to the sequence of morphing of the Zeo Rangers.

“Pink Fire bird Thunder Storm Power!”

“Yellow Griffin Thunder Storm Power!”

“Blue Unicorn Thunder Storm Power!”

“Green Lion Thunder Storm Power!”

As Goldar and Scorpina were attacking the city, Zeltrax had taken Jacee and was taking him to the Caves of Power where he would interfere with the final rangers taking up the powers.

Scorpina went to fire her stinger at a Reefside citizen when she heard noises from the air.

The four Rangers flipped into the air as their respective colors surrounded them in glowing light.

“You picked the wrong day to return Scorpina!” Adam yelled as he swung his arms in the air summoning his staff that soon turned into the lion staff is it glowed green.

Rocky stepped forward next as he spun in a circle and a staff appeared in his hands but then it glowed blue as it turned into two nunchakus as he swung them in the air and then stopped them pointing at the swarm of putties. “It's your last day on this planet, you ignorant clay-heads!”

Aisha stepped forward then as she chose to bring out her specialized weapon. “Griffin Thunder Whip!” She yelled as a yellow whip appeared in her hands that when around an enemies neck would bring her full control of them. “Ready for a make-over Goldar?!” She turned back to Kim to notice the posture of her body and she knew Kimberly wanted to find Jacee at all costs. “Girl, you go and find that adorable boy of yours and we'll handle things here.”

Kimberly held her hands by her heart as she looked at the others. “Are you sure you guys? I have been fighting longer than you.. what if you need me?”

Rocky smiled as he nodded his head. “Go get Tommy Junior for us and we'll handle things here, come on Kim, we are Rangers.”

Kimberly nodded and slightly bowed in thankfulness. “Thank you guys.. I'll hurry.” Kimberly ran and dove off the building as she held her hand to the sky as lightning struck the ground and a pink bike emerged from the ground. It was similar to the shark cycle except that it was representing the Thunder Zords as it depicted a mythical beast. Kimberly flipped forward and landed on it as she took off in a pink stream of light.

Adam, Rocky, and Aisha flipped off of the building and soon took on the fight against Goldar's team.

Adam ran forward and swung his lion staff at Scorpina as it collided with her sword. “It's time I finish you off for real Scorpina!”

“Ah! Adam! You haven't changed at all! You're still a shriveling power ranger that no one will love, awe how sad!” Scorpina yelled back at him in her screeching witchy voice.

Adam swung his staff up and then under Scorpina as it knocked her off of her feet. As soon as she tumbled to the ground Adam twirled his staff from side to side forming a circle of green energy. “Green Lion Roar!” He yelled as the green energy started electrocuting Scorpina as sparks flew off of her golden armor.

Goldar saw this and frowned. “Scorpina!”

Aisha flung her whip at his arm as she shook her finger. “Not so fast goldie!” She said and swung her whip into the air tossing Goldar into a near by light pole.

Rocky swung his weapons at the putties back and forth as they surrounded him. Once two were finished in front of him he flipped them back to destroy more, but then eventually more would appear. “What gives!?”

Silver and White lights appeared at the North cave of power. Jason and Tommy walked out of the lights as they both stood in amazement. It was a magnificent forest filled with a light green path of green grace that led into a cave with flowers surrounding it. It was almost bliss like nirvana. “This is our journey?” Jason asked as he stepped forward to investigate.

Tommy rubbed his arms as he felt a shiver go up and down his spine. “I don't know Jase, something doesn't feel right about this.”

“Oh how right you are!” Two figured came out from two different trees as they approached the duo.

Jason's eyes filled with shock and fear as he saw the sight before him. “No way! This isn't possible.”

Tommy gulped as he stood in his fighting stance already morphed. “How is this possible!?”

The Red and Green Mighty Morphin Power Rangers stepped out as they were the past selfs of Jason and Tommy, only evil. What would have become of Jason if Tommy would have succeeded in destroying the Power Rangers.

“It's time for you to pay for your consequences Tommy.” The Green Ranger stepped forward as he held out his dragon dagger.

“And it's time for you to realize what you gave up, Jason!” The Red ranger yelled as he extended his power sword.

Jason looked at Tommy as his eyes widened. “Bro, how are we suppose to defeat them? It's two against one! I don't have any powers.”

Tommy realized the danger in the situation as he reached for Saba and handed it over to Jason. “Here, use this. It will help you but we have to survive this.”

They both shook hands and then run towards their evil, past, counterparts.

Jason swung Saba at the Red Ranger as he kicked at his sword bringing it down. As soon as the sword was down far enough Jason jumped on it and swung his leg at the ranger's helmet and then kicked him in the chest knocked him back. “You think you're so tough because you have powers?! Well prove it!”

The Red Ranger pushed himself back up and ran at Jason swinging his sword which was immediately blocked with Saba by Jason. “You miss what you gave up yet?”

“I never gave it up!” He yelled as he reached behind him and grabbed out a power coin. “The power has ALWAYS been mine, no matter who else succeeded with it. The power lies within me and Zordon gave it to me.” He twisted his wrists together like a morpher and then the coin began glowing red. “Tyrannosaurus!” he yelled as the power suit wrapped around him, the powers returning to him as the evil Red Ranger disappeared. “I am one with my powers, and one with the team. Zordon chose me to be leader of the very first Power Rangers. We destroyed Rita Repulsa. I above all deserve the Red Ranger Powers!” He yelled almost seeming to have to prove it to everyone that he wanted and deserved the powers which was the ultimate key in destroying the illusion of himself as evil.

Tommy eased into the situation as he held up his hands in defense. “I know those powers better than you do, and unlike you, I've faced you many times. Try dealing with your own consequences before you push them on me!”

Each move was matched by the other as they kicked and punched at each other. The evil Green Ranger swung the dagger down at Tommy but was stopped when Jason swung Saba at it, the dagger flying into the tree bark near them. “I won't let you destroy my -brother-!” He yelled as he ran forward and helped Tommy as he kicked the Green Ranger back so Tommy could regain his composure.

A sound could be heard from behind them as it sounded like a very fast moving object. A ranger, a different ranger, in pink, appeared on a cycle right behind Jason and Tommy.

Kimberly knew she couldn't reveal her identity but the sooner she helped them get the power, the sooner she would have her Tommy back and hopefully Jacee along with him.

She jumped off the bike and flipped over Jason and Tommy as she kicked the Green ranger almost running up him until she gave one hard kick to his chest sending him pouncing backwards. “Fire bird Thunder Strike!” she yelled as she extended her arms until pink waves shot out of her finger tips and then she directed it towards the Green Ranger and sent him into the air and then blasting into the caves as the barrier faded away with him.

Kimberly quickly turned around as she saw Jason and Tommy. “Both of you need to hurry into the cave and find the power. I will wait outside for you to return.”

Tommy crossed his arms as he looked at her. “Who are you?”

Jason smirked inside his helmet as he recognized exactly who it was. “Wow Kim, you haven't changed at all in 7 or so years.”

Tommy looked at him and then his eyes widened. “Kim?”

Kimberly shook her head. “You are mistaken, now please hurry and find the power. It's life or death.”

Jason and Tommy proceeded into the cave after she asked them to, but they both knew it was Kimberly. There was no denying her amazing fighting style, or the height, or even the physique of her body. Tommy recognized that especially.

As Kimberly watched them go into the cave she went to take off her helmet but she was suddenly grabbed by someone and thrusted into the cave's outer wall, her neck being pushed into it. Her head tipped back as she shut her eyes trying to gasp out but she couldn't. As she slowly opened her eyes she saw Zeltrax and Jacee next to him.

“Mommy?!...” He asked almost brought to tears as he saw this. He ran at Zeltrax and kicked him in the leg as he shook him. “Let my mom go!”

Kimberly reached her hand out for her son as tears were brought to her face. “Jacee.. please run!” She managed to get out of her vocal chords that were being crushed.

Jacee shook his head as he looked up at her. “Not without you! Daddy will save us!”

Zeltrax let go of Kimberly with one of his hands as the other still held her pinned. He grabbed Jacee by the collar of his shirt and tossed him across the grass and into a tree.

Jacee fell to the ground when he let out a painful cry as he held his arm. “Mommy!” he shouted as he laid on the ground in pain.

Kimberly coughed as she swung her arm up and punched Zeltrax in his face and then used his arm like a beam and kicked him back with all her might as he fell back but still held onto her. She twisted in his grip and then twisted his arm back. “Ki-yah!” She said horsely. “Don't -ever- touch my son!” she yelled as she vaulted over him and jumped at the tree pushing herself back as her body glowed with pink energy. She collided with Zeltrax sending the both of them flying into the caves outer wall.

Jason and Tommy ran into the cave when they spotted the morphers surrounded by white and red lights.

“We still didn't break the barrier?” Jason asked as he tried to move through the red light but he was shocked back by it.

Two girlish laughs could be heard as two women stepped out from behind the statues.

Kimberly and Katherine stepped out as they came into the center light.

Katherine walked over to Jason and lightly touched his cheek as she saw him blush. She smiled shaking her head. “Jason, if you only knew what the future held. Would you come with me to see it?”

Kimberly walked over to Tommy and wrapped her arms around the man in the white suit. “My white knight..” She said and then tipped her head to look up at him as she brought her hands to the helmet clasps and unhooked the helmet with her fingertips. “Will you protect me Tommy?”

Both girls were obviously not from this time, though the time was unsure as they looked older than they would have in both boys' normal time. Tommy already knew Katherine as she just came into the Ranger's lives back in his time. Jason briefly knew her from pictures the other rangers sent him of their new found friend.

Needless to say, both boys were heavily confused, or at least Jason was. Tommy seemed fully entranced.

Tommy touched Kimberly's cheek as he held her in his arms. “Of course Beautiful, I'll always protect you.”

Jason saw right through this trap as he pushed Katherine lightly back, forcing her to disappear as the red light went down. “Tommy! That's not Kimberly, fight the spell man!”

Tommy shook his head as he smiled down at Kimberly. “Of course this is Kimberly, she's as beautiful as ever.”

Jason quickly grabbed the morphers and absorbed the power of red into his crystal and then ran over to the duo. “That's not Kimberly! I'm telling you!”

Kimberly wrapped her arms around Tommy tighter as her face turned from happy to frightened. “Tommy.. please protect me!”

Tommy looked down at Kimberly and took her arms away from him as he moved her back a bit. “Kimberly, you know Jason would never hurt you...and you never ask me to protect you. You are always confident unless you are in immediate danger which your not.. you're not Kimberly.”

The image of Kimberly faded as did the barrier that was blocking the morphers. Tommy quickly ran over to it and picked the morphers up and absorbed the power. As he did both Jason and him heard a loud crash from outside of the caves.

A man in a gray shirt, around Kimberly and Tommy's age jumped out from behind a tree and ran over to Jacee. “Hey, it's going to be ok!”

Jacee recognized the man immediately and smiled. “Billy!” He said as he went to hug his parent's friend but his arm was broken and it caused the boy to let out a scream again.

The man looked down at him and smiled. “I guess you could call me that if you really wanted to.” He said and swooped the small boy into his arms and carried him over to where a de-morphed, coughing, Kimberly was.

Kimberly gasped in fear after the initial attack but realized who it was. It was Billy, one of her dearest and best friends. She quickly stood up. “Billy! Oh my.. how did you find us here!?” She said and then brushed her hand against Jacee's face as she smiled. “It's going to be ok Jay Jay, we're going to get you home and Daddy will fix you up, ok?” She said brushing his hair back that was covering his eye as Jacee slowly nodded between tears.

The man looked at Kimberly then as he lightly smiled. “That's not important right now, what is important is getting back before Jason and Tommy see anything else from the future. Can you teleport us?”

Kimberly nodded as Billy made perfect sense. “Thank you so much Billy.” She said as she pressed her communicator and then held onto Billy's arm as they all disappeared in different colors. Jacee was in a faded red color, representing his future ranger status, Kimberly was of course in pink, but the man that was with them was in a gray almost transparent light.

As soon as Jason and Tommy ran out of the cave, Hayley teleported them back to the Command Center as they disappeared in silver and white light.

Hayley quickly jumped up into action when Jason and Tommy appeared in the Command Center. She grabbed both of their arms and led them upstairs. “Alright Jason, I need you to place the crystal on his chest and then strap the morphers onto his wrists.” She gently, but urgently tugged Tommy with her outside to the jeep and lead him over to his future self. “I need you to do the same thing. Thank you and your friends for everything you did.”

Jason and Tommy both did as they were instructed to do and then they faded away back to the past. Each and everyone of them would not remember a thing except destroying the Mole. Hayley made sure of that as she erased their memories as they faded back to the past. She had to take every precaution that nothing would change the past, or the future except finding the power.

Jason ran outside after he awoke carrying the crystal as he ran over to Hayley. “Why am I here?...” He saw Tommy wake up and he quickly moved over by him. “Bro, you look like hell.”

A groggily Tommy smiled as he looked down to what was on his wrists and in his hands. “Thanks...”

Hayley sighed deeply while rolling her eyes. 'Ok, enough with the reunions. The others are in danger.”

The word danger quickly made Tommy think back to Kimberly and he turned in his seat to see her gone. As he took another glance at what was in his hand he knew what Hayley did and what Jason and him needed to do now. “Thanks Hayley, I think we can take it from here.”

He unbuckled his seatbelt and moved out of the jeep taking Jason with him. “I'll explain later but right now we have to morph.”

Hayley smiled as the weight of the world was taken off of her shoulders. “I'll teleport you both to the location of the attack!”

Tommy looked back and smiled at one of his best friends. “Thank you Hayley, for everything.”

“It's Morphing Time!”

Both Tommy and Jason, instinctively, activated their morphers as the crystals surged them with power.

“White Tiger Thunder Storm Power!”

“Red Dragon Thunder Storm Power!”

Kimberly teleported them near Reefside hospital. “Billy.. please can you see that Jacee gets taken care of? The others.. need me.”

The man lightly smiled as he nodded. “Go, your friends need you, I will see to it that Jacee is treated.”

Kimberly raised her brow at the fact that he did not claim the others as his friends but brushed it off as she gave him a light hug and kissed Jacee on the cheek. “Mommy and Daddy will be back very soon. I promise.”

She ran into an alley near the hospital and activated her morphers. “It's Morphing Time!”

“Pink Fire bird Thunder Storm Power!”

Almost at the exact same time, Kimberly, Tommy, and Jason all teleported to the scene.

Kimberly would have rejoiced in seeing her future husband, and her -brother- but she knew her friends were in trouble.

As Aisha, Adam, and Rocky saw the others come back they jumped into the air and flipped over by the three.

“Powers of the stars, Thunder Storm Rangers!” They all shouted in unison.

“White Star Ranger! Ut-set-hi-ya!”

“Pink Star Ranger! Ki-yah!”

“Yellow Star Ranger! Hu-yah!”

“Blue Star Ranger! Uh-Yah”

“Green Star Ranger! Hi-yah!”

“Red Star Ranger! Huh-Yah!”

As the Rangers finished a blast from behind them ignited as smoke of white, pink, yellow, blue, green, and red appeared behind them.

Goldar and Scorpina stepped back as they were instantly 'questionably' frightened. “Putties! Tengas! Attack!!” Goldar screeched.

The Rangers rushed into the fight then taking on all of their old enemies.

Adam moved past the putties as he had a score to settle with a female scorpion. He swung his leg at Scorpina and grabbed her stingers as he brought out his Lion Staff and swung it down at them. “Green Lion Strike!” He yelled as the staff acted like a blade and cut right through them.

Scorpina screamed in agony as smoke came from them as they were destroyed. “Why.. why.. we're not finished here Green Ranger!” She crossed her arms and disappeared.

Kimberly flipped into the air with Tommy as they took on Goldar together.

Kimberly swung her leg forward as Goldar grabbed it and looked back at Tommy who knew exactly what she was thinking. Tommy ran over and grabbed onto her arms pushing her up and over him which brought Goldar into the air with her and slamming down hard onto the ground as Tommy grabbed Kimberly from him.

“Thanks Tiger.” She said so happy to see him in his White Ranger uniform again.

Kimberly grabbed onto Tommy's hand as both of their hands glowed pink and white as they extended their other hands towards Goldar.

Blasts of thunder shot out as the energy from their mythical beast changed at Goldar causing him to fall to the ground sparks flying off of his golden armor. He wasn't defeated but close to it.

As the others finished off the putties, Goldar slowly stood up and raised his hand to the sky. “This is far from over Rangers!” He said as he disappeared with what was left of the putty patrol and the tengas.

“We did it!” Kimberly yelled as she demorphed and ran into Tommy's arms after he demorphed. She reached up and passionately started to kiss him as it seemed like another lifetime that they were apart.

The others unmorphed and watched the sight as they all began to lightly laugh at the situation.

Aisha's eyes widened as she playfully began to fan herself. “Damn girl, do you want a room?” she said covering Adam's eyes as he most likely missed Tanya by now.

Kimberly pulled away only because of lack of air, not from Aisha's comment.

Tommy smirked as he touched her cheek. “If all I have to do is be unconscious for a day to get a kiss like that, I better start accidentally hitting my head a lot more often.”

Kimberly smiled and shook her finger at him but then grabbed his hand as she looked at the others. “Come on! We have to get to the hospital, Billy took Jacee there.”

Tommy gave Kimberly a questioning look as she said this. “Jacee is with Billy?”

Kimberly sighed as she nodded. “I'll explain on the way..”

By the time they got to the hospital, Jacee was sitting down with the man, waiting for everyone else to come. He was chewing on a lolly pop as the man sitting next to him was signing Jacee's red cast.

Kimberly and Tommy ran forward as they both swooped up their son into their arms.

Jacee groaned then acting tough as he pushed away with his free arm. “Aww.. come on mom.. dad! Let me down!”

Jason, Aisha, Rocky, and Adam walked over to where the man that was with Jacee was. “Billy! Way to save the day, bro.” Jason said as he patted him on the back.

Aisha crossed her arms and looked around. “Where's Kat? Didn't you bring her with you? Come on I know how much that girl likes to travel.”

The man looked at them all as he crossed his arms. “The man before you is not who you think. I believe it will be better if we talk back at Tommy and Kimberly's.”

He received six questioning looks but eventually they left to speak with him back at the house.

The man that appeared as Billy looked at the six Rangers as he sat down. “I was formerly known as Billy, yes.”

Aisha looked at him and rolled her eyes as she crossed her arms. “Come on Billy, stop with this. What is going on with you? Why are you acting this way?”

“After the Red Space Ranger, Andros, destroyed Zordon's chamber, his spirit was spread throughout the universe, with hopes of ridding the universe of evil. It was a failed attempt. Soon after Kimberly began her journey as the Pink Power Ranger again, this same spirit came to me, and we all know it as Zordon. After Billy finished his duties as the Blue Ranger, after saving Kimberly, he was in a terrible plane crash on his way back home to see Katherine. The spirit came to him and offered him a deal, he would be able to share the mind of the spirit and always be if he would give up all of his attachments and former life. As a big sacrifice as that is.. he willingly accepted as he did not want to lose his life. Rangers, the man you are looking at is your mentor. I chose each and everyone of you to be Power rangers. I am Zordon of Eltar.”

Jacee was sitting in Kimberly's lap as he listened when he looked at his mom. His eyes widened as he looked over to his father. “Dad.. mom's doing it again.”

Before Jacee could finish, Jason took him from Kimberly's lap as Kimberly passed out against Tommy.

Tommy glared at Zordon as he shook his head. “The Zordon I know, the Zordon we all know would have saved Billy, not taken over him!”

Zordon slowly nodded at Tommy as he frowned. “In all actuality, Billy was my reincarnation. The appearance, the color of blue, the soul, everything in one. Essentially I am Billy, but he did this to protect not only himself, but all of you. Without me, the Powers would have completely disappeared. I held onto my life for years but I could not stabilize them just being a spirit.”

“Wait.. you were a Power ranger?” Rocky asked as his interest was at full drive now.

Zordon nodded as he sighed deeply. “I was the first Blue Ranger..”

[chrisangelo]

Part Sixteen – Torn Identity

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Kimberly felt tight arms wrapped around her when she awoke moments later. She looked up to see Tommy holding her as he was glaring at their former mentor. “Zordon?” She quietly whispered and moved Tommy's arms as she pushed herself up. She walked across the Command Center to embrace Zordon as she wrapped her arms around him. “I missed you so much Zordon!” She said with tears in her eyes. To Kimberly, Zordon was so much more than a mentor, or a leader, he was like her father. Leaving Angel Grove was the hardest thing she ever had to do but being brought back into the power was the biggest blessing she could ask for, well until now, Zordon was finally back.

Zordon hugged his Pink ranger as he smiled widely. “Ah, I missed you very much as well, Kimberly. No Pink Ranger has ever been as graceful, and true to the heart as you.”

Kimberly smiled as she turned around to face her friends. “Well? Come on everyone. Zordon is back.”

Tommy stood up and walked over to Kimberly as he grabbed her arm gently and tugged her back with him to the other side of the room. “You can't trust him Kimberly. How can you embrace a man that destroyed our friend?”

“Yeah Kim, Tommy's right, the Zordon we knew would never do such a thing. Wake up girl.” Aisha added to Tommy's comment as she looked at Zordon a bit unsure of her words herself.

Kimberly moved away from Tommy as she looked at all of her friends. “How can you guys say such horrible things! Zordon did not destroy Billy! If Billy were here now he would say the same thing, you know how much Billy was wrapped up in Zordon, we all looked to him to solve our problems just like we did with Zordon. They are the same!” She spoke as a tear trailed down her face. They used to all be like a family and it crushed her heart to see her friends ridicule Zordon like that. “Zordon gave us a one in a million chance to save the world. He brought us together. Why can't you just accept what is, not what was?”

Jason stood up as he was carrying Jacee. He moved over to where Zordon was and wrapped one of his arms around him. “I'm sorry guys, but Kim is right. I know for a fact if Billy had said no Zordon would not have proceeded. Billy would be dead if it weren't for Zordon. He's saved our life a thousand times, we owe him more than the world.”

Zordon smiled at the Red Ranger and knew in it his heart still to this day Jason was one if not the best Red Ranger. “Still loyal to those you care about I see.”

Jason smiled lightly as he nodded. “But Zordon, maybe the others will understand if you go into more detail of why this happened?”

Zordon nodded his head slowly as he agreed with Jason as that would be hopefully what would bring the other Rangers around. “I'll start from the beginning, from when my friends and I first used the Dino powers.”

“Many years ago, on the planet Eltar, my friends and I went on a quest that was donned on us all by our Lords and superiors. We are all chosen by the Elders who were previously fighting against Lord Zedd, and his new witch ally, Rita Repulsa. She was a sorceress around our age and the Elders knew she would be the one to deal with the best when they were handling Lord Zedd. They had their own powers, not Ranger powers but still great powers that aided them in the grave battle. During the quest, I was with my best of friends, Darmis, Zytun, Nephenne, Titri, and Quarin. Together we found the Dino crystals, and power coins, and were the first to morph into the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

I myself was the Blue Triceratops Power Ranger. Darmis, a man that I see many similar qualities to that of Jason, was the leader, the Red Tyrannosaurus Power Ranger. Zytun, a very close friend of mine, with many similarities to Zack and Adam, was the Black Mastodon Power Ranger. Titri was fearless and resembled many qualities of Trini and Aisha as she was the Yellow Saber-Tooth Tiger Power Ranger.

The last set of Power Rangers have their own tale which I wish to share with you before I continue about my journey here. Nephenne and Quarin were the Pink Pterodactyl and Green Dragon Power Rangers. As you can imagine, they shared the most qualities with Kimberly and Tommy. I believe in all my heart that Nephenne and Quarin were the past lives of Kimberly and Tommy. Although they share their own unique story, they share their own unique tragedy. Nephenne and Quarin were in passionate love with each other as they spent every living breath together. Though through their history as Rangers, they had a terrible fight occur when Nephenne sent a messenger to break up with Quarin as she was scared of how fast the relationship had taken off. There was no denying the love that they shared but after Quarin had been turned evil by Rita, things changed rapidly. Quarin was so furious and hurt by Nephenne he started to make her life into, none to say the least, a living hell. We tried to stop him but when they clashed into battle...the tragedy that I speak of is not the break up, but the fact that Quarin murdered Nephenne..”

As Zordon shared the last part, Kimberly and Tommy immediately turned to each other with fear stricken on both of their faces.

“The murder of Nephenne broke the spell Rita had on Quarin but after realizing what he had done, killed the love of his life, he quickly took a vow of darkness and the Green Power coin was surrendered to Rita Repulsa, which is how she received it.

With two rangers down, the four of us did our best to stand up to Rita's evil but she soon destroyed my friends, and I was the last one left. She cast the spell over me which trapped me in the chamber which you all remember. You know the story up until I thought I destroyed the evil of the entire universe. My soul was suppose to purify every evil being but as you know, everyone has free will, which gave the opening for Rita and Zedd to return to the dark side as well as the other beings of evil that have appeared over the years. As far as I knew I was in heaven, or what I always pictured it to be. One day I felt like I was in a non moving time era when all I saw was the earth spinning in slow motion. My spirit was rushed down to the earth after Kimberly summoned her Pink Ninja Powers. I knew my time was not over then as I was given a second chance. That led me to Billy. We both were suspended in time as we talked for what seemed like forever. I mentioned this whole thing to him and he said that he wouldn't allow me to leave and that he wanted me to take over his soul...”

“Kimberly, Tommy, I want you both to know that you are not doomed because of Nephenne and Quarin's fate. Even with their epic story, you two have accomplished more and surpassed their tale and I know you both will live a very happy life. After all, you have one thing they didn't. You have Jacee.” Zordon finished as he glanced at all of his Rangers.

Jacee's head perked up at that as he looked at his father. “Are you still mad at Zordon.. dad?”

Tommy still felt a little bit off about the whole thing, and what scared him even more was the story of Nephenne and Quarin, but as he looked at his son he lightly smiled and shook his head. “No, son, we all shall except him back into our lives.” Tommy looked at Aisha, Rocky, and Adam as he awaited their reply.

“Zordon, I have never been one to question you, so I cannot express enough words to welcome you back.” Adam said as he went to embrace Zordon.

Aisha soon followed as she was silenced by Adam's words. He was always the first to take what the others were going to say.

Rocky smiled as he threw his hands up in the air. “We're truly back in action now!”

Kimberly was standing in the badly-lit corner by the rock slab entrance as her arms were crossed and a frown dressed her face. Tommy walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her petite body from behind as he gently brushed back her brunette hair as he brushed his lips against her neck. “What's wrong, Beautiful?”

Kimberly smiled at the touch and his words that always made her shiver in delight, but shook her head as she turned around in the embrace. “What if.. Tommy.. you know as well as I do what we both imagined at Zeltrax' island.. what if it somehow comes back to haunt us. I mean with the irony of the past, and now what's happening..” She was silenced when his finger touched her lips. He moved his finger then as he knelt down and kissed her softly. “I won't let that happen.”

Zordon had settled into the Command Center as just like before. The Rangers even built him his own condo near the back of Tommy's house as he lived comfortable there. Zordon was taking over the Ranger's once again as he even summoned Alpha 5 to return from Eltar as soon as he could. Which being the robot he was, only took what seemed like a second for the others. He helped Zordon manage the new Command Center just like he always had.

Tommy was thrilled that the summer was finally here. It had only been what seemed like a couple of days since he proposed to Kimberly. The wedding plans were going great as Kimberly went between being a Power Ranger, to being a mom, to being a girlfriend, to being the head gymnast at her gymnastics academy, to even being a wedding planner. He could not have been more proud of her. Things were going smoothly for them as Rangers as well. Zedd and Mesogog were having a hard time keeping up with them. The other Rangers couldn't relocate right away so things had been hectic for them over the past few attacks but thank alpha for the teleportation system.

Tommy and Kimberly were left to several fights by themselves which they prevailed of course. Pink and White were definitely colors to be feared.

Things had been tense, however, as Katherine decided to move to Reefside after everything with Billy. Not only was Kimberly now hugely jealous, but Jason had started to stir up the flame with her as they had been dating for a few weeks. That took Jason away from Kimberly, as a friend and as a brother, and now that would mean that he would be neutral in the girls fights which Kimberly did not like at all. No matter how much Tommy convinced Kimberly that he loved her, she wouldn't be completely healed with the issue until they tied the knot.

Kimberly and Tommy decided to take Jacee shopping for toys as they made an all-day trip to Reefside Hilltop Mall as Kimberly split them up into two teams. She would take Jacee shopping for clothes if Tommy took him shopping for toys.

Tommy took him first as Kimberly decided to go look at wedding dresses, even though, knowing her, she would stop eating entirely being too afraid that she wouldn't fit into her wedding dress.

Even for being eight years, Jacee was a very smile child, much like how Tommy was at that age. If ever asked, Kimberly always states that it is most likely due to him being born nearly 3 and a half months early. She went into early labor and almost lost him when he was born.

Jacee let go of Tommy's hand as he ran into the game store as he started to look at the shelves. The higher up ones he had to stand on his tip-toes to see what was up there. He was after one thing really, and that was the Nintendo Wii, but he always made sure to look around. His hair was down to his lower neck as Kimberly wanted it to grow out as it reminded her of Tommy. Even before she reunited with Tommy she always had Jacee's hair grow out.

Tommy took off after him as he followed him through an isle. “Jacee, don't run off.” He said as he walked up behind him. The father-son relationship between Tommy and Jacee was still getting adjusted to as they both were starting to bond. Kimberly did everything in her power to try and push those two together so a bond would form. Jacee actually saw Tommy more now, as Kimberly was busy with her Gymnastics Academy which usually kept her usually until 8 at night. Tommy and Jacee also 'attended' the same school so they saw each other everyday there.

Jacee slowly nodded his head as he looked up at his father. “I'm sorry.”

Tommy rubbed his hair as she shook his head as a light smile came over his face. “It's ok buddy, I just don't want to lose you.”

Jacee nodded as he continued to look through the isles until he came to a display case where his whole face lit up like snow on Christmas Day. “D A A A A A D!” He yelled with excitement.

Kimberly browsed from shop to shop until she came to the one of her desires, the Bridal Dress shop. She stared at the wedding dresses in the display case as a large smile crept up on her face as she pictured her wedding day.

Walking down the isle, with Jason giving her away as still to this day she had no contact with her father. She would be looking at only one thing and that would be her handsome soon to be husband, Tommy, with their son, family, and friends surrounding them.

Joyful tears filled her eyes as she lightly laughed as she just became one of those girls that she always hated in high school. She was always fiercely independent but marrying the love of her life took away any insecurities she has or ever would have, including Katherine. As Kimberly turned the corner to enter the shop she was bumped into as her back hit the glass case. “Excuse you!” She yelled at the tall man as she crossed her arms watching him go by. Her eyes shook as she saw who it was.. or who she thought it was. She reached out and grabbed his arm as she lightly gasped when he finally stopped. “Lucas?!” she almost yelled as she quickly wrapped her arms around him as she smiled. “I can't believe it's really you!”

Lucas Phillips was one of her best friends from Pan Globals. After receiving the letter from Tommy, that in all reality Katherine sent, Lucas and Kimberly grew very close, as he helped her through the time. They never dated because of their feelings for each other. They were nothing more than best friends and almost like brother and sister. Similar to the relationship she shared with Jason.

“Kim! Wow! I totally didn't expect to see you here. When did you move to Reefside?!” He asked ecstatic as he moved his arms from around her to her hips as they spoke.

Kimberly smiled as she looked up at him. “I moved back in with Tommy. We're getting married.”

Lucas' eyes widened as he smiled. “No way, what happened? I thought the letter.. well you know. What made you change his mind?”

Jacee saw his mom in the distance and let go of his dad's hand who was carrying all the bags as he ran over and gave Kimberly a hug as he squeezed in between the two causing them both to go apart. “Mom! You should see what Dad bought! He bought the Nintendo Wii!” Jacee stated excited.

Tommy walked up as he put the bags down on the mall floor as he raised his brow staring at Lucas. “So who's this?” Instant jealousy was tinted in his tone as he lightly glared at Lucas seeing how close he was with Kim before they arrived.

Kimberly hugged her son and then rubbed his hair as she moved to the side by Lucas as she lightly rubbed his arm. “This is one of my closest friends from Pan Globals. We were really close.”

Lucas smiled at Tommy as he reached out his hand to shake Tommy's. “Hi, I'm Lucas Phillips, it's so nice to finally meet the “not” so famous Thomas Oliver.”

Tommy lightly shook his hand as he looked at Kim afterwards. “Can I talk to you for a second, Beautiful?” He said taking her hand in his and picking up Jacee walking over by a bench where he sat Jacee down. “So who exactly is he? You two were fairly close for just being friends.”

Kimberly suddenly realized Tommy was jealous, and really couldn't blame him for it as the many times she was jealous of Katherine. “He helped me through a time in my life where I felt like I had no one. He's like my big brother.”

Tommy shook his head as he sighed. “I don't ever see you like that with Jason.”

“I can't believe you are acting like this Tommy.” She said as she looked down at Jacee.

Beside them, Jacee was giving Lucas an evil look as he instantly picked up on Tommy's jealousy and felt almost like Lucas was entering 'their' family territory.

Kimberly sighed deeply as she shook her head. “Let me at least say goodbye.” She couldn't exactly be angry with Tommy for every time she was jealous of Katherine but she didn't understand how he could seem so cold towards the situation.

Kimberly walked over to Lucas and explained the situation as she gave him a business card. “I own the gymnastics studio, come by later so we can catch up.” She said smiling as she gave him a small hug and returned to her family.

Lucas completely understood as he moved back to finish shopping.

A beeping noise came on both of Kimberly and Tommy's communicators then as Zordon contacted them.

Kimberly grabbed Jacee's hand and walked over to a secluded hall with Tommy as he answered his communicator. “We read you Zordon.”

Zordon sighed with relief as he heard Tommy's voice. “Kimberly, Tommy, the others are being attacked by Zeltrax and Scorpina. They are near Reefside Mall.”

Kimberly smiled as she pressed down on her communicator. “We are there, we'll handle things. Can you please teleport Jacee to the Command Center?”

Jacee shook his mom's arm then as he brought it down so he could speak into the communicator. “Zordon! Can't I stay and help? Please...!”

Kimberly looked down at him then and shook her head answering for Zordon as a no way in this lifetime answer.

“But MOM!” Jacee then yelled as he crossed his arms wanting to help.

“Jason James!” Kimberly said using his full name as she glared down at him. “Don't argue with me.”

“Of course, Kimberly, May the Power protect you both.” Zordon said as he pressed a button and Jacee disappeared in a red light.

Tommy looked over at Kimberly as he lightly smiled. “We'll talk about this later, let's morph.”

Kimberly nodded as she and Tommy activated their morphers. “It's Morphing Time!”

“White Tiger Thunder Storm Power!”

“Pink Fire bird Thunder Storm Power!”

During the process of finishing the morphing sequence, two hovering souls with green and pink auras shot into the opposite pink and white lights as they entered through the power suits, into Kimberly and Tommy's bodies.

Once Kimberly and Tommy finished their teleportation to the location of the attack, which was near the mall, the green and bright pink lights that were surrounding them faded as new souls took over and became the hosts of their bodies.

Aisha swung her leg in the air as she kicked a tenga back. As she turned her head to see her friends arrive her eyes widened as she saw them begin to attack...each other!

Kimberly shoved Tommy as she then drove her leg into Tommy's groin sending him forward to his knees.

Aisha noticed after another glance that it wasn't intense ranger fighting. It was almost human, if fighting can be classified as human. The moves or body postures also appeared to be off. She ran over to Jason and grabbed onto his arm. “Look! Why are they fighting?”

Jason shook his head as he crossed his arms. “I don't know but we have to finish things here first before we can help them.”

Aisha nodded agreeing as she flung forward kicking a tenga.

The spirits that had taken over Tommy and Kimberly's bodies were Nephenne and Quarin. They had come back from the past to settle the feud, only now, Quarin's spirit was free from Rita but Nephenne was still enraged by the fact that Quarin had killed her.

“How could you do that to me?!” Nephenne yelled at him as she pushed herself into the air and tapped into Kimberly's powers. A wave of pink thunder shot out of her fingertips as she thrusted her hands down as the lightning wrapped around Quarin and started shocking him.

Zordon was watching this on the viewing screen as his eyes widened. “No.. it's not possible.”

He looked towards Alpha who was already devising a plan to rid the spirits from Kimberly and Tommy's bodies.

“Ai yi yi Zordon! I think this will work.” He pressed a few buttons into the computer as a portal opened from the sky around Nephenne and Quarin. “I only hope it works in time.” Alpha finished as he activated the soul switching device.

Quarin had to stop her someway as he jumped out of the pink waves and summoned Saba. “You destroyed me Nephenne! I turned to Rita as the only solution I knew! I didn't want to kill you, but I couldn't stop myself! You have to understand! You know how much I love you Nephenne!”

Nephenne jumped to the ground as she shook her head. “You loved me so much you killed me? I'll never understand that!” She formed a ball of pink energy in her hands and then looked at Quarin. “This is for taking my life away, and our love!” She yelled as she fired it.

Right when Quarin swung Saba at the energy ball to send it back, Tommy and Kimberly regained control over their bodies as the portal shot down a light that purified their bodies.

Just as Kimberly opened her eyes the blast collided with her causing her to gasp out in pain as she felt her body spiraling across the parking lot as she collided with a parked car. She down the front of it as glass shattered and once she hit the ground, she demorphed as pink light surrounded her and then shattered in crystal shapes as she gasped out in pain. The energy ball that Nephenne shot out used a ton of Kimberly's own ranger powers not to mention the rage fueled by Nephenne. The blast was the equivalence of a blast from the Power Canon.

To forms in pink and green light appeared in the middle of the battle field as they were dressed in strange robes and had the appearances of Tommy and Kimberly, only the one that looked like Tommy had shoulder length hair pulled back.

A green portal opened then as Mesogog appeared next to Elsa and Zeltrax. Zeltrax and Elsa ran over and grabbed the two as they shoved two cards into the backs of Quarin and Nephenne as they jumped away afterwards.

Both Quarin and Nephenne screamed in pain as black and green waves of lightning exploded from them and darkness surrounded them as it placed a cocoon of power around them.

Tommy regained his senses just in time to see Kimberly hit the ground and demorph. “KIMBERLY!” He yelled as he ran across the parking lot and demorphed down by her as he swooped her up, carefully, into his arms. A tear ran down his face as he looked at her. “I..I'm so sorry.. come on beautiful. Wake up..” He clenched his fists as he realized the severity of her condition as he looked down at his hands and saw blood trickling down them. “Jase! I have to get her to Zordon!”

Tommy then looked down at her and pressed his communicator as he disappeared in white lights, accompanied by a pink one. The only thing that rested in his mind now was Kimberly.

As the four Rangers left on the battlefield gathered together they noticed the cocoons of black energy in the distance.

Jason moved forward to investigate but was shocked back, flying into the other rangers, sprawling to the ground in pain as he clutched his chest.

Two laughs came from the cocoons as they emerged from them appearing in the sun light. Quarin and Nephenne were turned into Psycho Green and Psycho Pink, similar to the Psycho Rangers that the Space and Galaxy rangers faces. Mesogog knew he could corrupt the spirits and it was just enough to charge the previous psycho ranger key cards.

Before the other Rangers could get a second glance, Zordon teleported them out of there.

Tommy appeared in the Command center as he rushed over to a table and placed Kimberly on it. “Zordon, is there anything you can do to help her?” In the weeks that followed after the Rangers received their new powers, Zordon along with Alpha set up a medical station as they couldn't take the rangers to an actual hospital, they would have to explain the situation of the injury which they all knew would be impossible as it would give away their identity.

Alpha pressed a button on the table that Kimberly was laying on as a wave of pink light surrounded her then as it was a protective shield. “Tommy, do not worry, we will scan her injuries and then take the best care of her. She is not mortally injured, her powers protected her. She just needs time to rest.”

Jacee came running over to the side of his dad as he frowned. “What happened?!”

Tommy looked down at Kimberly as he knew when she awoke.. things would only get worse. He promised her that they would never turn against each other, and they had twice today. He was regretting the whole situation with Lucas as he was now afraid of what was going to happen. With only three months until their wedding..so much could happen to tear the two apart. Had he ruined any chance of them ever being happy?

“Your dad is an idiot is what happened.” He said as he took Jacee upstairs so he wouldn't have to see his mother like that.

The other rangers materialized in the Command Center then as they took off their helmets.

“What were those Zordon!? Why did you teleport us out?” Jason asked still holding onto his chest from the attack.

Aisha stepped forward as she saw Kimberly and then ran over to her. “What happened to her?!” She gasped seeing the extent of her injuries.

Zordon frowned as he looked at Jason. “The Psycho Rangers have returned.”

[chrisangelo]

Part Seventeen – Forever Gone?

A full week had passed since the almost fatal attack with Kimberly occurred. Mesogog had captured 5 of the original power ranger's spirits and turned them into psychos; the only one left was Zordon. Aside from that bad news, Kimberly's condition did not improve, but the only good thing was it didn't worsen either. They were all puzzled to why she had not awaken yet but they weren't planning on giving up anytime soon.

The new Dai, or Spirit Rangers were stronger as a team of six, but with one man..or woman down, it was harder to beat the new threat that rose up to challenge the rangers. Even though the Psycho Rangers were down one as well, their strength was equal if not greater than each of the rangers powers.

Tommy stayed with Kimberly from all hours except when taking care of Jacee or fighting against the forces that be. He didn't have to worry about work since it was summer but that was the last thing on his mind.

He was more scared than anything else, scared that Kimberly would believe Zordon's tale, that it would become true for them. It already was falling into the right pieces, even if the spirits did take over their bodies. Then he knew for sure she would be very angry if she found out...to what Jason and he agreed on. He just prayed she stayed peacefully asleep until it was over.

With an alarming sound the computers activated as screens pulled up showing downtown Reefside being attacked by the evil Psycho Rangers. They were attacking innocent people as well as destroying the surroundings around them.

Zordon saw this and crossed his arms as he looked back at Alpha. “Wake Tommy up, I will alert the other rangers.”

Alpha scurried over to the sleeping Tommy as he nodded. “Right away, Zordon.”

Zordon quickly moved to the microphone as he pushed up the button. “Rangers, the Psychos are attacking the city again, morph there and I will send the battle tactics that you assembled to your helmets.” For the past week the rangers had been simulating their next battle, but as if Kimberly was there, hoping she would wake up. Psycho Pink had been ruthless to Rocky in battle but continued to shift from him to go after Tommy, double teaming him.

Alpha shook Tommy lightly as his robotic voice poured out of his helmet. “Aiyiyi Tommy, the psycho rangers are attacking again, the rangers need you!”

Tommy was hunched over resting against Kimberly's bed as he sat in a chair. His head was resting on her chest as he held both of her hands. His eyes opened wide when he heard the word psycho. They seemed to have haunted his dreams every night for the past week. “What, where?!”

Tommy stood up as he let go of Kimberly's hands and rushed over to the computer monitor. “Alright, I'm out of here.” He activated both of his morphers as they glowed white. “It's Morphing Time!”

“White Tiger Thunder Storm Power!”

Tommy looked back at Kimberly and lightly smiled. “I'll be back beautiful.” He then teleported to the scene of the psychos.

Those words entered Kimberly's ears as they registered in her mind. For days she had been fighting to wake up, but every time she tried, it never seemed to work. A groggily grunting noise was heard from the petite female that was resting on the bed in the lower Command Center. “Tommy...” She coughed out then as she sat up feeling very weak. Her medium-tone brown eyes opened as her vision was blurry. She quickly wiped her eyes in time to see Zordon run over to her. “Zordon...?” She whispered as she rubbed her arms.

Zordon turned around in his chair seeing the pink ranger awaken. He quickly rushed over to her as he smiled and nodded. “Yes, Kimberly, it is.” He then looked over at Alpha. “How are her vitals?”

The robot pulled them up on the monitor as everything seemed normal. “She appears alright, Zordon, but I am not sure if she is capable to face Psycho Pink yet...aiyiyi...”

Zordon sighed as he nodded agreeing with Alpha. He knew more than anyone of how powerful Nephenne was before she was turned into a Psycho Ranger. The amount of energy that she was able to gain from Kimberly when she took over her body, was proof enough.

Kimberly took off every piece of equipment that was attached to her as she slowly slid off the bed. “I can handle her. I think I already know her greatest weakness, we have that in common.” She slowly moved as the pain struck her then but she didn't show it. She bit her bottom lip as she faintly smiled at both of them. “I have to help them.”

“I can help you, Kimberly.” A faint female voice called after her from the shadows as she stepped out. The tall blonde revealed herself to be Katherine.

Kimberly's heart almost stopped as she instantly became fueled with rage, anger, and hate. “How did she get in here?”

“You've been in a coma for a week. Jason and Tommy both were trying to think of a strategy, and came to the conclusion that if you were going to remain in this state, that I could take over your powers until you were ready to use them again.” Katherine admitted as she didn't once glance at her, already feeling the tension between them.

Betrayal instantly filled the current pink ranger as her heart broke as well She felt an anger deep inside her that she hadn't felt since...no it couldn't be. It was just the fact that -she- was back. How could Tommy do this to her? He knew how she felt towards Katherine, but to honestly agree that Kat could take over her powers, even for a short period of time? “Well it's a good thing I woke up then. I will never make the mistake in handing OUR.. I mean my powers over, -again-.”

Zordon cleared his throat then as he looked at both of his pink rangers. “Kimberly, Tommy only agreed to this earlier. He knew how you would feel about it and didn't want to do it, but we had no idea when you would awaken from your slumber. Both of you possess the power of pink, even if the Zeo powers are limited, and fading away, she could help you fight against Psycho Pink.”

You've got to be kidding me right? Kimberly looked at Zordon with unspoken fear in her eyes, that was the only part that could escape over her anger. “-We-.. I mean I don't need her, Zordon.”

Katherine walked over to Kimberly and placed her hand near her shoulder. “Considering our past, I know things will be hard, but this is the last time I can use my Zeo powers, as Zordon said, they are fading. It's the best shot we have against Psycho Pink. Even though it's a different soul inside her, she still carries the powers of the Savage Sword.”

“And if I disapprove?” Kimberly retorted back as she moved away from her hand.

“You can't.” Zordon finally spoke, giving them both the direct answer. “Kimberly, either you fight along side Katherine, or I will be forced to ground you both from ranger duty.”

Another bomb shell, exploded in the pit of Kimberly's stomach. She couldn't believe this was happening. But she knew that if she didn't go and help her friends, something worse could happen than swallowing her pride. “I guess I have no choice then.” She lightly glanced up at the taller woman who brought back her fears every time she was around. “We'll do this together.” She said shaking her hand faintly.

Katherine smiled and nodded hoping that she could get the trust back from Kimberly.

“It's Morphing Time!” They both shouted as they activated their morphers.

“Pink Fire Bird Thunder Storm Power!”

“Zeo Ranger One: Pink!”

Sure enough, the Psycho Rangers were defeating the Thunder Storm Rangers without ease. They needed Kimberly more than they realized.

“Ready to give up?!” The Green Psycho Ranger yelled stepping forward.

“Never!” Aisha yelled as she held her arm from the last collision with Psycho Yellow.

Two lights of pink flashed in the sky as they then rushed down and collided with the Psycho Rangers, making all of them fall back after pink sparks blasted from their suit chests.

Psycho Pink stood up first as she stood in unbelievable shock.

“It's not possible?! Two Pink Rangers?!” The Green Psycho said as she stood up after her.

Psycho Pink growled as she pushed him to the ground. “Shut up! They're mine!” Psycho Pink still held the deep hatred for Psycho Green but wouldn't let it interfere with her chances of destroying both Pink Rangers.

As Kimberly and Kat appeared next to their fallen friends they stood in front of them.

“Pink Star Ranger! Ki-Yah!” Kimberly yelled as she outstretched her arms like a bird.

“Pink Zeo Ranger!” Katherine stepped into her fighting stance as well

Jason rushed up and to Kat's side as he wrapped his arms around her, lifting her up into the air. “I'm so glad to see you!” He yelled excitedly as he held her in his arms. Their relationship had intensified over the past week.

Kat lightly laughed as she was placed down. “You didn't think I'd leave you lying there, on the ground, smoking to death, now did you?”

Their light engagement only made Kimberly's guard go further up, which increased when the White Ranger wrapped his arms around her. As much as Kimberly would have loved to take of their helmets and exchange a kiss that felt so distant to her lips, she couldn't. Not after learning about everything, and after experiencing the conflict with Nephenne and Quarin. She pushed herself out of his arms, barely. She couldn't believe how much her strength had left her in a week, she couldn't even get out of Tommy's arms. “Not now.” She said coldly as she turned around to see the Psycho Rangers advancing towards them.

“Just follow my lead!” Kimberly said as she glanced over and up at Katherine, who nodded at her.

The team split up again once attacking their own color Psycho.

Kimberly flipped forward in the air as she ran against Psycho Pink, finally kicking her back into a barrel.

When Kat went to strike down Psycho Pink with a super-zeo-punch, Kimberly grabbed her arm and flipped her over on the ground as she outstretched her leg and kicked Psycho Pink back. “Just stay out of this, go help Jason.” As she looked down at Kat, Psycho Pink sent a wave of dark pink energy back at Kimberly which sent her flying back in the air.

Right before she was about to reach the side of a building, she changed her direction and pushed herself off of the wall and with a dark pink glow, she demorphed still with the light around her. In the dark pink light she appeared in the middle of the battle field as the light disappeared, revealing her unmorphed state.

Tommy turned to see this as his eyes widened. “Kimberly!” When he went to run to her, he was tackled by Psycho Green.

“Kim, what are you doing?!” Kat asked as she ran over to her. “You need to morph! She'll destroy you!”

When Katherine placed her hand on Kim's shoulder, Kimberly grabbed her hand and twisted it back sending her flying with an incredible amount of strength.

Jason quickly ran over and shoved Kim a bit. “What the hell was that for, Kim?!”

“I'm just protecting her.” Kimberly whispered softly, her voice growing deeper.

“Protecting her? By killing her?!” He said staring at the now demorphed Kat.

“No.. I'm not protecting her. I'm protecting Kimberly.” She then grabbed onto Jason's suit and tossed him into the air back over by Psycho Red.

Through the mist of Kimberly's attack, and her feeling betrayed by Tommy, the evil began to fill her heart once again. But this time not because of any evil foes, but because of what happened to Kimberly and Jason at Muranthius. They both were turned and corrupted by evil and therefore the evil form of Kimberly was able to once again seep through her broken and shattered heart, to resume role as the host.

The hold that Mesogog had on the Psycho's made them all 5 disappear, through an invi-portal, back to his lair. He wanted to see how the evil Kimberly would play out amongst the rangers.

Jason quickly ran over by Kat and knelt down by her. “Are you alright?”

Kat nodded and she lightly smiled. “Just a little winded..I guess.”

As Tommy, Aisha, Rocky, and Adam ran over to try and see what was wrong with Kim, they were all thrown back by...forcefields?

Jason saw this as his eyes widened with confusion. “What? How can she still have her gem power?”

“Wake up Jason. Wake up...” Kimberly whispered as she closed her eyes and the same energy that was in her heart, shot out and collided with Jason as a dark red glow covered his entire body. She knew that if she could get Jason on her side, they would be unstoppable in destroying the one thing that continued to keep Kimberly weak, Tommy Oliver.

Jason's eyes flashed as he stood up and demorphed.

Kat struggled to get up as she grabbed onto his arm. “Jason, what are you doing?! Why did you power down?”

A growl escaped his lips as he flipped up into the air and kicked Kat back into a couple of barrels. “...”

-Beep, beep, beep, beep-

When Tommy stood up his communicator started to go off as he pressed a button on his gloved wrist. “I read you Zordon.”

“Teleport back here immediately.” Zordon commanded as he was analyzing Kimberly and Jason.

Tommy shook his head as he refused to do so. “I'm not leaving here without Kimberly.”

He then took off in a fast run, using his powers to his advantage, as he dodged one of Kimberly's forcefields and, forcefully, tackled her to the ground. Once they landed on the hard grungy ground, he demorphed holding her wrists down. “Kim, look at me!”

Before evil Kimberly could react, everything froze as the sky and surroundings turned gray and the frozen in time bodies of Kimberly and Tommy both glowed Pink and White as their souls escaped the body and then disappeared in the sky.

Angel Grove High School? Why..how did .. how was it possible? Kimberly walked over to where she remembered her locker to be is she opened the lock and then looked in her mirror. She looked so young...not that she was old or anything, she looked 15-16 years old. She felt very faint as she hoped this was some weird dream of yearning for the old days. To her surprise she turned to see Tommy, as young as she was. She was almost afraid to speak, wondering if it was her Tommy, or the past Tommy.

Tommy moved over to the one girl he hoped to see. He placed his arms around her and lifted her up into the air as he lightly breathed against her ear. “Is it you Kim?”

Kimberly gasped when Tommy did this but relaxed in his arms. “That depends on which Tommy you are..”

Tommy slowly placed her down back on the ground as he looked into her petrified eyes. “What do you mean?”

Kimberly turned around, facing her locker door as she sighed deeply. “I would rather have the Tommy that would be in this time period. He never betrayed me, or physically would harm me. He would do anything for me.” She turned around as she crossed her arms. “How could you honestly call Katherine? Of -all- people, you agreed to give my powers to her?”

She lightly laughed as she looked to the ground. “I guess when you told me you loved me it was all just a lie. Or when you said that what happened to Nephenne and Quarin would never happen to us, I guess that was just a lie as well” She turned once again as she shut her locker door and proceeded down the hallway. Her heart jumped a bit as she never had been able to fully express her feelings towards Tommy, in fear that he would leave her or get hurt, but now she had the chance and she fully expressed what was on her mind.

When Tommy went to run after her they both disappeared again, going through time.

Kimberly felt chains wrapped around her wrists as well as someone behind her. They were both suspended over a lava pit. She winced as she knew exactly where she was. Jason agreed to go back to Angel Grove to help Kimberly finally tell Tommy about Jacee but while they were on their way back they were captured by Divatox.

Kimberly screamed as the lava was getting closer as they were being lowed down. “You guys, help!”

Tommy along with the others struggled to break free from the battle to save their friends. “Ah.. no Kim!” Tommy yelled as he wished they would move through time again, especially because he knew what was about to happen.

Two flames appeared on a pedestal as it revealed Jason and Kimberly, perfectly fine, or so it appeared.

Even though Kimberly was already turned evil from Malagore, -evil- Kim's soul was switched for Kim's. She growled deeply as she swung her wrists breaking the chains. She jumped down as she quickly advanced for Katherine. “Evil is like evil does.”

Just before Kimberly was about to start her assault on Katherine, Tommy and her both faded away from the event to once again be teleported through time. It appeared to them now they were going truly down memory lane to remember their love, as the trials they had been through lately truly tested it.

The place that they were teleported next, they were both back in battle. Kimberly, Rocky, Aisha, Billy, and Adam went to help Tommy after he was overrun by putties and Goldar.

“Our friend is in trouble, you know what to to guys!” Rocky commanded as they all ran in unison towards the putty patrol.

Rocky jumped forward as he kicked a putty that was about to hit Tommy. “We're here Tommy, you alright?”

Tommy had no control over his body this time, he was simply there to watch this time. “Yeah..” He whispered tiredly.

“Good, we'll take care of these goons.” When Rocky went to turn around he was kicked fiercely by a putty sending him flying back to the ground near Kimberly.

Kimberly knelt down by him as she gasped. “Woah, Rocky, are you alright?”

Rocky nodded as he clenched his fists. “They want Tommy, we have to help him!”

Kimberly groaned as just the thought of Tommy made her grow irritated. “Oh.. why can't he do anything right. I'll help him.”

She ran and jumped into the air as she flipped over by the putties that surrounded Tommy. “Ki-Yah!”

Once Tommy saw Kimberly he stopped his attack as he walked over to her. “What do you think you're doing, I don't need your help!”

“You're useless! Let me handle this before you get hurt.” Kimberly said as she pointed her finger up by his helmet.

Tommy swung her arm back which collided with a putty as he glared at her. “Ha, you? Yeah right!”

Kimberly swung her arm back towards him as she nodded. “Yes me, you arrogant airhead!”

Tommy quickly turned around as he walked away from her.

This caused a stir in the Pink ranger as she stomped her feet on a putty. “Ugh! Get back here! How dare you walk away from me when I am TALKING to YOU! Typical typical Tommy block headed behavior!”

“Who's the blockhead!?” Tommy retorted back as he pointed at her.

“You are!” Kimberly growled as she completely ignored the fact that Goldar was standing right beside them.

Goldar's head was spinning as the two continued to argue.

“You're out of your mind!”

“Can't take the competition!?”

“You're no competition for me!”

“Oh! Am I more than you can handle?!”

Tommy finished as he waved his hand at her. “Go back to the mall!”

As Goldar finally grabbed Kimberly and thrusted her back to the ground, the both of them regained control over their bodies.

Tommy ran at Goldar and kicked him down. “Don't ever lay a hand on her!” He ran over to Kim and helped her up. “Are you alright?”

Kimberly nodded as she looked down to the ground. “Tommy..I just want to go back home. But I know if we return to the future the evil inside me will be back.”

Time around them seemed to stop once again as they both disappeared in white and pink lights to a white circular room where Zordon was standing.

Kimberly took off her helmet as she stepped forward. “Zordon...what are you doing here?.. Where exactly are we?”

The man turned around and smiled. “Actually, you're talking to Billy right now.”

Smiles appeared on both of Kimberly and Tommy's faces as they moved forward to both hug him, but he stepped back as his smile turned into a frown. “There's not much time. I'm not sure of the source that sent you back in time, but who ever it was, there plan indeed worked. You can't go back to your present time. The time line has been completely altered and evil has conquered not only Reefside, but the whole universe. After you and Tommy left, Jason destroyed the other rangers, and then eventually himself. Also, your son, Jacee, was a casualty of the fight. Mesogog sent Zeltrax after Zordo..well technically me, but he got to Jacee as well I am here to set history back on course, and to undo what was done.”

Tears were brought to Kimberly's eyes as Tommy wrapped his arms around her to comfort her. “What do we have to do? We'll do anything.”

Billy shook his head as he sighed. “I was afraid you'd say that. The only way to rewrite what was, to what would have been, is to sacrifice the ultimate gift...Jacee.”

Kimberly moved out of Tommy's arms as she glared at Billy. “You have to be kidding me. How can you even ask us?! No. No.. Never!”

Billy sighed as he held out his hands. “It's not what you think. Jacee won't be gone forever, his birth will just be delayed and moved into another time of the time line. But that's not the only thing that will have to be placed differently. You both will have to return to the day where you're journey first began. To when Kimberly first took up the Pink Powers again, and to when Tommy found out that she was back in Angel Grove.”

“...” Silence came from both Kimberly and Tommy.

“The rewards will be however great. I can tell you both that you will find each other again, but you both won't remember anything that has happened over the past almost year, and two events will have forever be written right..” He waited a few moments before he finally asked, “What is your decision?”

[chrisangelo]

Part Eighteen – Quest of Love (Part One)Like it was yesterday...

A little dream that both Tommy and Kimberly were sharing...

Kimberly looked at Billy through teary eyes. “Can we have some time before this has to happen?” Tommy and Kimberly both agreed to sacrifice their love, as well as the placement of when Jacee was born to save their friends and the future of the universe. Kimberly looked at Billy as she was trying to hide her tears from her constant thoughts. / How can this be happening? Why now.. after all we've been through.. after all the mistakes I made. Keeping Jacee from Tommy, stupidly being jealous over Kat..allowing my inner most darkest feelings to come out. If I hadn't been so stupid this would have never happened.. How can I say goodbye to him/

Billy knew that Tommy and Kimberly needed time to at least say goodbye, but he knew the longer they waited, the chance this little piece of hope would not work. “I'll give you guys five minutes...I'm sorry it can't be longer but there's a chance it won't work if we don't hurry.” He then proceeded through a dark door as he left the pair to say goodbye.

Tommy quickly wiped away Kimberly's falling tears as he brought her into his arms. “We'll find each other again, Kim..”

Kimberly rested her head against his chest as she deeply sighed. “I don't know Tommy..why does this always have to happen to us? What if we can't find each other again...because Jacee.. you know I wouldn't have had any ounce of a push towards you if it weren't for him..” She sighed again as she looked up at Tommy. “I don't want to say goodbye...”

Tommy haded this more than he was showing. He lived without Kimberly in his life for damn too long, and now he was going to have to wait even longer. Well technically time would just reverse itself, but all they had accomplished, all they had worked through was almost as if for nothing. But if it meant saving the world and their friends.. they both knew they had to do this. “Then don't.”

Kimberly looked up at him with questioning eyes as she slowly moved out of his embrace. “What.. what are you saying? Do you not want to go through with this?”

Tommy slowly shook his head as he lightly sighed. “No Kim, you know as well as I do that we have to do this..but I mean don't say goodbye. We will see each other very soon.”

Just the thought of being apart made Kimberly shiver in fear. She ran up into his arms once again as she reached up and kissed Tommy as they both felt the passion from their love flow through their lips.

Billy...through...door...he...the...share...kiss. “Guys...time...go...”

The rest of the dream was blurry and faded slowly as time reset but to Kimberly and Tommy, it seemed as if a strange yet horrible dream.

...Miami, Florida; Kimberly's Apartment; 6:45 a.m...

Brown eyes shot open as the form of the former original pink ranger, Kimberly sat up as out came a gasp that weakly escaped her from between her lips, that released mixed emotions. Sweat poured down her face as she looked out her balcony window as the moonlight hit her now pale, frightened face. She glanced over at her mirror that was by a picture frame as she spotted her tear stained cheeks. She reached her fingertips up to wipe away the sweat as she ran them down her cheeks as her hands began to shake. “Tommy...” Her voice cracked as her dream was soon fading from her mind as she tried to register everything that happened.

She slowly stood up but felt light headed instantly as she sat back down on her bed. She ran her hands through her damp hair as she glanced over at the picture that the moonlight was now shining down on. The picture consisted of two people, sitting at a picnic table, enjoying their basket of food that the man brought. Laughter, happiness, and love filled their young faces as time seemed to stop just for the moment between them. It was of one of Kimberly and Tommy's dates, one of the many, when they were still in highschool, and still together... A photographer spotted them and took the picture, which Kimberly found several years after. She recovered the photo shortly after Trini, her best friend's funeral. Even though she hated to look at it, because of the painful memories that it brought back about Tommy, she still held onto it. During the funeral, she fell into a terrible fight with Tommy, which of course brought her to tears and she ended up leaving. There was no reasoning with him, he seemed fueled with anger and gave her looks like she meant absolutely nothing to him and that he would die a happy man if he never saw her face again.

She never understood how he could have such hatred for her. Shouldn't it be here that felt anger..or even hate towards him? Why did he have to send her a letter...why? If he was really interested in Katherine why couldn't he have told her that when she was still in Angel Grove. At least do the honorable thing. For nearly eight years, she always seemed happy, but beneath the surface scars lit from the day that Tommy broke it off with her.

She had been going through intense, physical, painful, and even emotional practices while her coach trained her to be ready for Pan Globals. She had to eat, sleep, and literally breath gymnastics. Her coach continued to tell her that clings to the past needed to be dropped from her mind and soul and the only thing that should have mattered was gymnastics. But that didn't stop Kimberly from staying in contact with her family, friends, or even Tommy. The one person that she refused to give up was Tommy. As much as her friends and family meant to her, Tommy was the one thing that she would do the impossible for. For weeks the letters and phone calls from her friends and Tommy had literally ceased to exist. She received a phone call from her mother once and awhile, and on the rare occasion her father actually called to say hello, and that he loved her. She wrote a letter everyday to Tommy hoping that everything was alright but he still didn't reply back.

Well when he finally replied back, Kimberly's world turned upside down. She read the letter in private as she always did because Kimberly tended to be quite an emotional girl. She would cry even when happy and she didn't want her friends to see her with any tears down her face, even tears of joy as that would just be another indication that she was still hanging on to the clings of the past, to the coach.

“Like a sister...in love with...Katherine...”

It was almost like a switch went off in Kimberly as she became completely emotionless and became the one thing that the Zeo Rangers were already facing, a machine...maybe not in the literal sense but she drove herself into her gymnastics and nothing else. She threw away each and every letter that she got from Aisha, Adam, Rocky, Billy, Jason, Trini, Zack, her mother, and even the ones she received from Tommy afterwards. She figured it was just more apology letters and him saying that he wanted to remain friends. The one thing that could have brought those two back together, though, would have been if Kimberly would have opened one of those letters. Each one was a response to why Kimberly wanted to break up with Tommy. Katherine would have been -outed- so to speak if Kimberly would have opened just one! Just one letter.. but unfortunately that never happened.

If you can count one good thing that came out of that, was the fact that Kimberly dominated at Pan Globals and became semi-famous in the Gymnastics World. But her heart was still empty.

“Why does my memory seem like a complete blur.. why can't I remember why I fought with Tommy...at Trini's funeral...” The partial conclusion hit her then. “It's over..nothing can change what happened in the past..” She placed the picture facing down on her night stand as she stood up. “Come on Hart.. get yourself together. That's what coach would tell me. I have to follow my dreams always. I shouldn't let the past keep interfering with my life. I'm sure Tommy has moved on with his life by now.” She grumbled and groaned as she stomped off into the bathroom. Her eyes drifted to the calender on the wall which brought tears to her eyes. Today was the anniversary of Trini's death. Every year Kimberly flew out back to Angel Grove to visit her grave and reminisce with her former best friend about how her life was going.

“I forgot...damn it.” Kimberly cursed under her breath as she looked at herself in the mirror. “Was fame worth everything?” She asked herself as she turned on the shower and quickly removed her loose white tank top and pink boxers as she stepped in and cleansed her body in God's medicine.

...Reefside, California; Tommy's Home; 3:45 a.m...

“Kim...Kimberly...no!..” The struggling unconscious form known as the black dino thunder ranger, Tommy Oliver whispered in his uncomfortable dream. He yelled out the name of Kimberly as his eyes shot open and he rose his body to sit up as he wiped his forehead as the trickles of sweat disappeared onto his fingertips. He moved the sheets that were covering his body as he looked down at the clock. His heart was racing as he felt this urge to call Kimberly. Jason had given him her number a few months ago after he found out about Katherine but he had never been courageous to just pick up the phone and call her. “What time would it be in Florida...” Tommy thought back to the time zones as he was glad he hadn't forgotten. “I hope she's awake..” He hesitated for a moment as he stood up and walked over and grabbed his cellphone off his dresser. “Come on Tommy, it's not like this is when I asked her out to the dance...God that is completely irrelevant.”

Tommy slowly dialed Kimberly's number as his knees were literally shaking. After how he had treated her, he half expected the small brunette to hang up on him. His eyes widened as he heard the phone pick up and his voice literally ceased to exist.

“Hello?...” Came a faint girl's voice as it brought a smile to Tommy's face as he recognized it as Kimberly's.

“Kim...hey...this is Tomm...”

“Sorry I couldn't get to the phone, please leave me a message! You know I will get back to you!”

/ Damn, a suspence in her message. That sounds like Kimberly though. / Tommy thought as he decided to leave her a message anyway.

“Hey, Kim.. this is Tommy. Look I know you probably want to delete this message but please just hear me out. Uh..uh.. I think we need to talk Kim. I need to talk. If you haven't called me back by tonight, I'll take it as you don't want anything to do with me which is fine, I just hope you have a change of heart..for old time sakes. Bye Beautif..bye Kim.”

Unfortunately for Tommy, Kimberly was in the shower by the time he left the message.

Tommy looked back at the clock and sighed deeply. “I better get back to bed...I still have school in the morning.” He said as he yawned crawling back under his black sheets.

...Miami, Florida; Miami International Airport; 9:45 a.m...

After nearly three hours that it took for Kimberly to get ready, she finally arrived at the airport.

Kimberly ran frantically through the airport as she was trying to juggle her carry on bag, with her gymnastics bag, with her purse, with her dry cleaning she picked up, her luggage behind her, and her beeping cell phone. She placed her key chain in her mouth as she tried to reach for her cell phone.

“All passengers boarding Flight 134 to Angel Grove, California, last boarding call.” Came over the intercom as it widened the ex-pink ranger's eyes.

“Oh no!” Kimberly gasped as she dropped her keys on the ground. “Ugh! Can my day get any worse?” She asked herself as she placed her bags down to recover her keys.

Kimberly quickly moved through and dropped her luggage off to be boarded to the plane as she headed for the gate. Her phone once again went off as she ignored it and turned it off as she showed her ticket to one of the flight attendants. Kimberly turned around as she looked at the passing people in the airport. She took a deep breath as she smiled and turned around walking through to board the plane.

As Kimberly was walking through the terminal, both doors shut. One from the airport and then one on the plane. She gasped as she quickly ran back to the door as she banged her fists against it. “Hey! I haven't boarded yet!”

Kimberly moved back against one of the walls as she felt light headed. She then felt a familiar sensation as she shook her head. “No..this can't be happening again.” Her body disappeared in pink energy as she teleported out of the Airport Terminal, stretching across space and time.

Kimberly teleported to a large open area that seemed to be somewhere in a desert. Kimberly felt the sands under her palms as she slowly stood up. “What..? Where am I?” She asked herself as she turned around in a complete circle as she ran her hands through her hair.

“It's nice to see you again, Kimberly.” A faint voice came from behind her as it quickly approached her. The voice echoed as if there were two, but between the two voices they both seemed alike.

A gasp came from the former pink ranger as she turned around to see where the voices came from. “No.. this can't be happening.”

The two figures revealed themselves to be the Pink Crane Ninjetti Ranger and the Pink Pterodactyl Dino Ranger.

“Are you ready to face your past?!” Screamed the Ninja Ranger as they disappeared from sight into the sky.

Kimberly looked down at her hands as she saw pink worms of light begin to swirl around her. She smiled as she felt some power return to her but she was unsure of the source or why it was. All she knew was she had to defend herself some how, and there was only one way to do it.

“Ninja Ranger Power NOW!” Kimberly yelled as she swirled her arms in the air as she brought them back together as a pink spark ignited from her two index fingers.

Two flashed of pink lights collided in the air as Kimberly jumped back down to see herself or another form of her standing across from her. “Do you really think I have forgotten how to soar like the crane?” Kimberly asked her past self, or who she thought was her past self.

Kimberly used her Ninja speed as she outstretched her arm punching her counterpart. “Ki-Yah!” She then grabbed her wrist and sent her over in the air as she kicked her back.

As the Pink Ninjetti Ranger ran at Kimberly, she swung her leg forward to collide with Kimberly's shoulder, but as this happened Kimberly swiftly ducked back and regained herself as she pushed herself up. She swung her leg out and into the Pink Ninjetti's stomach as she sent her flying back. As the kick collided, not only was the Pink Ninjetti Ranger sent back, but so was Kimberly as they both gasped out in pain. “This is definitely not like fighting the tengas..”

“What...uhn... but how?!” Kimberly gasped out as she felt the power leaving her.

“Do you really expect to fight yourself?” Another voice entered the scorching hot arena as they walked over by the Pink Dino Ranger. The voice brought chills to Kimberly as she knew who it was.

The White Tiger Ranger walked up beside the Pink Dino Ranger as they both looked down at Kimberly. The White Ranger then turned to his companion as he placed his hand on her shoulder. “Shall we teach the one thing that came in between our love a lesson?”

Kimberly's eyes widened as she moved to her feet as she began to shake with fear. She had no powers, she had no friends, she had no Tommy. All her fears came rushing back to her as the duo surrounded her and began their assault.

/Why is this happening to me? What did I do to deserve this? Is this some kind of karma coming back at me for leaving the team? If so it has come back each and every time I regretted it!/

The Pink Ranger swung her leg out at Kimberly as Kimberly back flipped into the air, barely escaping the attack. She was soon met by the White Ranger as she swung his fists at her which caused Kimberly to dodge each one by several back hand springs. On her last one as the White Ranger continued to move after her, she swung her legs and moved his hands apart as she was rotating in the air. Kimberly then drove her fists into his chest as she sent him back.

“Oh I wish Zordon were here.. I could sure use some help right about now!” Little did Kimberly know, the events that had already been changed in the future, had altered the past and Zordon was already back sharing a host body with Billy. The Pink power coin materialized into her hand along with the power morpher as her face lit up with hope. “I hope this works...” As she thought back to each and every time she used this coin her confidence flowed through her once again.

“It's Morphing Time!” Massive pink energy waves flowed around her arms and wrapped around her body as she swung her morpher forwards and twisted her wrists. “Pink Ranger Power!”

As Kimberly morphed, the Pink Ninjetti Ranger had regained her composure as she was standing next to the White Ninjetti Ranger as he had just appeared.

Kimberly's eyes widened as she stood still strong. “No matter what, I cannot change the past, or what mistakes I made, but I can face the past and face myself so I can make my future better. I have to. I will win.”

[chrisangelo]

Part Nineteen – Quest of Love (Part Two)Please don't go..

My heart seemed to race faster by the second. I continued to dodge every attack from my current, and I guess inner demons, but I know I am growing weaker by the second. How am I suppose to defeat myself?

My vision seemed to blur as all I see is swirls of pink and white lights swarm around me as my thoughts race through my head..

“Why are you doing this?!” Kimberly screamed as she rubbed her visor and tried to focus on where the attacks were coming from. Her eyes widened as both white rangers were coming down at her from the air. Their kicks collided with her chest as it sent a painful scream from Kimberly as her body fell down to the sandy ground. She clung to her chest as she tried desperately to stop the aching pain that was draining her powers. Instant thoughts of doom crashed in her mind as she fought to try and stop every negative thought from entering her mind. Her hands scooped up sand in her white gloves as she winced. “I.. have to do this.”

She quickly turned over and pushed herself up as she jumped into the air, sand trailing off of her body. “Ki-yah!” She shouted as she back flipped in the air and stepped back into her graceful, aero-like battle stance. “No matter what mistakes I made in the past, I have never let my friends, or Zordon down. The one person I let down I still regret to this day, but you can never question my loyalties to the Power Rangers!” She yelled as she took off in a running sprint as she quickly summoned her power bow. She had no idea how exactly she was able to do this, but considering the fact that her power coin was materialized to her, she figured who ever sent it, would have a back up plan, or two..hopefully.

Kimberly rolled her wrists as she used the bow against the white and pink ninjetti rangers, almost like a lance or sword. She thrusted it into their robes as it cut right through, revealing their true colors, which consisted of a black, empty space. She expected to feel some pain of course, from the pink ninjetti ranger, but when she felt nothing a light smile crept its way to her face. “It's now or never!”

The pink and white dino rangers were obviously confused as they stood their with their heads tilted. “It's her power bow!” The pink ranger shouted as she quickly jumped up and stood on the white ranger's shoulders as she held her hands to the sky as a darker version of the power bow materialized into her hands. “Two can play at that game, Kimberly!”

/This seems so strange..almost familiar. Wait! This was almost what happened when I fought the putty rangers./

The two occurrences definitely had similar qualities, except Kimberly never received pain from an attack against the pink putty ranger. Sure they were almost evenly matched, blow for blow, but Kimberly still was able to defeat, but it was with her team work and the power blaster that finished the job. Now she was facing two rangers, who seemed even stronger than she was right now, and with no team.. no Tommy, she was all alone.

Kimberly ran and jumped to the side as she missed an arrow that was aimed just under her feet. She instinctively grasped the bow as she pulled back and shot three arrows, aiming right for the tower of white and pink she was facing. The arrows just were aiming right at them but then they were diverted in their course as they went to the left of her...striking someone else.

“What.. but how? What did you do!” She screamed harshly at the two as she tried to see who was lying in the sand. She froze in her place as she saw the man fall. She collapsed to her knees and held her helmet in her hand. “No!”

Kimberly took off her helmet as she ran past the duo that she was facing and dropped down to her knees by the side of whom was hit by the arrows. Tears streamed down her now pale, weakened face as she lifted part of his body up. “I'm sorry..” She whispered as her brunette hair covered her tear flooded eyes.

The arrows disappeared as did the alter dino rangers as Kimberly and the man were transported to another location as it.. no it couldn't be.. it looked like the island she was on with Tommy when.. Zeltrax and the evil Pink Dino Thunder Ranger captured them.

Tommy stepped out of his shower as he wrapped a towel around his waist as the steam surrounded the room. He moved to the mirror as he ran his cool finger tips over the steam fogged mirror as he saw a bit blurred vision of himself. “Man I hope Kim calls me back.. I haven't felt this anxious since the day I first asked her to the dance.” His stomach was turning and tossing like back when he was in high school. It seemed so surreal that he would feel like this over a girl, at this age, but then again it was Kimberly Hart. He was locked in love with only her from the moment he saw her at the lockers in Angel Grove High School.

He grabbed another towel from the closet as he began to dry his hair as his mind raced with the reunion that he had been dreaming about for years. If he only knew it had actually already happened, but because of a screwed up future, their destiny was put on hold again.

He soon dressed in dark blue jeans and a black shirt as he walked out of his room and down to the lower command center. This spark gave him the motivation to start back on his project, which he classified as “Dino Thunder” combining two generations of power, which he experienced.

As he pressed a button on the computer, he felt himself be familiarized with a sensation he forgot many years ago. He disappeared in a black teleportation grid which soon landed him on an island where his memories from the future rushed back. The rush was incredible, but the terrible memories completely out weighed the good ones. He looked around as his dazed state of being soon became brought back to the norm as standing a few feet from him, stood his ultimate, and by far, worse enemy, Mesogog.

All the anger and emotions came to Tommy at once as he took and ran right at him as he grabbed him by the neck, literally strangling him as he vented out all his frustrations. “How can you be so evil?! How is it even conceivable! You destroyed my life! You tore the only person that meant anything to me away from me.” He yelled as he pressed against Mesogog's throat.

Mesogog just stood there laughing as he shook his head the best he could anyway. “You are such a fool, Oliver. When will you realize the only evil here is you. You have craved it since the rangers set you free from that witch Rita. You caused your future to be destroyed, just like you caused that pesky bitch of a pink ranger to finally walk through the valley of the shadow of death! Way to go Tommy!” He hissed as his image started to fade. “Thanks to you, never again shall the pink dino gem exist!” His words faded as the image of him did as well as it revealed an unconscious, limp form of a short, petite, athletic woman, dressed in a short pink shirt and black shorts.

Her head was tipped to the side as her brunette, slightly curly hair draped across Tommy's hands and her neck was red from the strength of the strangle and her face was ghost white. However her eyes were still open and they were filled with horror and fright.

Kimberly opened her eyes as she saw the same man that was shot with the arrows standing up a few feet from her, unharmed. She became over joyed as she powered down her coin and ran into his arms as her already tear full eyes, filled even more. “Tommy!” She gasped out as she felt the weight of the world lift from her shoulders. They had found each other.. finally.. just like Billy said they would! Nothing would ever come between them. “I love you so much Tommy..” Every word that escaped her mouth felt like the relief of breathing after you hold your breath for several minutes. “I don't want to wait anymore. Let's go home.” She smiled as she tipped her head up to see his emotionless face. “Tommy?”

Kimberly tilted her head in question as she shook him a bit. “Hey.. it's alright, handsome. We never have to be away from each other ever again.” She was certainly love struck to the extreme as her eyes filled with a passion that had been lost since she left for Pan Globals. “Tommy.. what's wrong?”

This was so unlike Tommy. Every time that Kimberly was near him, he practically smothered her, especially after being apart for so long. Kimberly was expecting a huge Tommy-tiger hug and a passionate kiss that would mark the rest of their lives. But instead Tommy looked.. angry.. incredibly angry..

Kimberly's eyes widened as Tommy grabbed a hold of her neck and started pressing with all his strength, nearly pushing her to the ground.. well until he lifted her up so far that she couldn't even touch the ground. Her widened eyes soon dropped as she winced and gasped out as she held Tommy's hands, trying to pull them away from her. “Tommy!” She screamed as her feet were starting to kick out and around as she began to panic.

“Tommy, it's me! Kimberly!” Tears began to stream down her face again as her lungs were screaming for air and her voice became scratchy and rather low as Tommy increased his strength.

She hadn't seen this side of Tommy since he was the Green Ranger.. but even then.. it wasn't like this. It was like all the anger that Tommy had built up just released and she was the target..but why?

“Please..Tommy..” Kimberly gasped out with her last bit of strength as more tears fell down from her widened, horror-filled eyes. Her hands dropped from around his as her legs eventually stopped quivering as her body fell limp from his hands.

Tommy's eyes instantly filled with tears as he let go of Kimberly's neck and caught her before her faint body fell to the ground. He picked her up in his arms as he looked down at what he had done. He had the exact same feelings as he did on the island, only worse, because this wasn't a dream.. “Ki..kim..kimberly..” Tommy bit his bottom lip as he looked up at the sky and then clung Kimberly's body to his chest as he screamed as loud as he could.

He set Kimberly's body gently on the ground as he moved over her and gently touched her face as he shook her body. “It's time..to..wake up, Beautiful..” Tears burned in his eyes as the words he once said to reunite with her as the White Ranger were now used to try and make her awaken from the death, which was caused by him.

Tommy's body began to shake as he sobbed against Kimberly's chest as he laid his head against her. “Come on Kim.. this can't be the end.. please wake up..” He shut his eyes as he shook his head. “No, you're not dead!” He stood up and picked her body up as it still fell faint against him as he started walking away from the caves. He shook her head as he frowned. “Wake up! Wake up Kimberly!” His angry look continued as he could not process what he had done, which obviously under a spell or two, or the fact that Kimberly was no longer of this world.

He moved her head to rest on his shoulder as he began to sob once again as he fisted the back of her shirt in his hands. “You.. you can't..” Tommy had never shown such emotions before, but when he had, usually they were all tied to Kimberly. She was his soul mate, how could he live if she wasn't there. Sure he had lived without her for many years, but he knew she was alive, and hopefully happy, which she wasn't. “You can't be dead..” His voice cracked from going high from the intense breakdown he was having. “I'm so sorry Kimberly..”

A light flashed as both Kimberly and Tommy were teleported back to Reefside, inside Tommy's house. It was there that Tommy fell to his knees, clinging Kimberly to his body as he just cried...screamed...and sobbed. “Kimberly.. please.. don't go..”

[chrisangelo]

Okay I posted it. I would have done it in one message, but I wasn't sure if that would fit.

I tend to pic out the negative points of my fics so don't mind me here. I think all and all it was an alright fic, definitely not like some of the great ones out there. The plots were solid, but my downfall was I rushed them. Being my first story I had so many ideas in my head and just as my readers were going to the left, I turned to the right.

I also rushed it.. a lot. But I thought that if I was slow with my updates, I'd lose readers.

BUT anyway. I hope someone enjoys my amature story