A/N: This story is dedicated to Thuy Trang who passed away 14 years ago today, she was the original Yellow Ranger and left this world at only 27 years old on September 3, 2001.

Disclaimer: Don't own anything, if I did, I would not be on a free website writing stories.


August 2, 2011

Tommy sat in his living room looking at old photos, it had been 6 years now since the Dino Thunder Rangers defeated Mesogog. In those 6 years Tommy remained a high school teacher, teaching more students that were eager to learn. He missed those four teenagers that he had that first year of teaching, the time with them was memorable. Smiling at the photo of the four teens standing in his basement/lab he missed them so much.

Flipping to another page in his photo album he found a picture that made his heart clench tight, it was one taken almost 10 years ago... Their dear friend and fellow former ranger Trini, had been killed in a car crash, ending her life at a young age. The photo he was looking at was at her grave side, Jason had an arm wrapped around a grieving Kimberly, with Billy standing near them with tears in his own eyes trying to comfort Trini's parents, in his arms was a two week old baby boy wrapped in a blue and yellow lined blanket. Zack stood beside the other two former rangers in a weird group hug. He saw him self in the next photo with an arm around Kathrine and one arm around Aisha. Adam stood with Tanya, and Rocky stood near the two of them. It was a sad day for them all as they said their last good byes to their fallen friend.

A knock on the door pulled him out of his thoughts, getting up Tommy answered and was surprised to see Conner standing there.

"Hey Conner? What brings you home?"

The young man smiled and said. "Well, I came back to see my folks and thought I would drop by for a visit."

Tommy ushered him in and said. "It's good to see ya. How is your soccer team doing?"

Conner smiled wide and told him. "Great! We are playing against Angel Grove next week."

Noticing the look on his former teacher's face he said with a chuckle. "I'm not playing professionally any more. Not since I hurt my knee during a game, now I am a coach in Stone Canyon."

He saw the open photo album on the table. "Who's that?"

Tommy looked down at the photos of all the former rangers knelt down around a freshly laid head stone and said.

"That's a bunch of us that had attended a very good friends funeral .A friend had died and we came to pay respects."

Picking up the album Conner read what the head stone said out loud.

"Trini Kwan loving friend, cherished daughter, wonderful humanitarian, and loving mother gone but not forgotten."

After a moment of silence he asked softly. "I knew of her... My dad used to work for the ambulance service... he told me about a young woman from Angel Grove who lost her life in a car accident."

Tommy let out a breath he had no idea he had been holding and told him.

"Yea, over a year and a half of battling Rita's monsters and a car crash was what ended her life... It just is not fair. She would not have wanted to go out like that, if she had a choice that is. She was an amazing person."

Conner looked down at the photo again and then asked.

"Did she leave any one behind? Other then friends and parents?"

Tommy pointed to Billy and said softly. "This was the first Blue Ranger, Billy's his name. The two had a crush on each other for years. When Billy came back from Aquatar in 2000 he met up with Trini who came back from the conferences... they started dating and things got serious. Billy proposed to her on July forth of 2001... They were going to get married in October. They also had a son together, he was born two weeks before she died. So yea she left some one behind..."

Conner looked up at his former teacher and said. "I'm so sorry."

"It's alright, you didn't know. She was a fierce worrier and a great friend. That's why it says humanitarian on her head stone. We figured saying something about her being a Power Ranger might draw some unwanted attention so we left that part out."

Conner sighed softly and then asked. "So where is every one now?"

Tommy motioned for him to sit beside him as the two flipped thru the book together.

"Kim is back in Angel Grove, she teaches gymnastics at Angel Grove High now. Kat lives in LA and is a dance instructor, Jason and Billy are both here in Reefside, Billy teaches chemistry and Jason Physical Education/Martial Arts. Rocky, Adam and Zack own a Dojo/Dance studio in Angel Grove. And Tanya is a music teacher at Angel Grove High."

Conner let out a sigh of wow and told the older man. "Wow sounds like they are all successful."

Tommy sat for a moment before remembering something. "Hey, Ethan, Kira and Trent are coming back in a few weeks, maybe we should have a reunion of sorts?"

Conner lifted his head up and said to him. "I'm game."

"Alright, you get those three into this and I will get the other Rangers. The reunion will be at the Youth Center in Angel Grove."

It took a few days, but the reunion was decided to be on the anniversary of Trini's death, September third.

As Tommy drove down the familiar streets of Angel Grove, he couldn't help but let the memories wash over him. He brought with him his four former students, Kira, Ethan, Conner and Trent. As the group drove the four former rangers asked questions about his teenage years growing up in Angel Grove, when questions pertained to the former first Yellow Ranger Tommy simply told them that those questions were better left for the reunion.

Tommy smiled wide when he saw the familiar faces of his friends, Jason was the first to greet him when he stepped out of his Jeep.

"Hey Tommy, it's good to see you man."

Tommy looked around at the parking lot and said.

"Good to see you too, you know these guys I am sure. Kira, Trent, Conner and Ethan."

Jason nodded and said. "Rangers always know each other, nice to see you guys."

A round of 'nice to meet yous' went around the group. Tommy was taken off guard when a set of arms wrapped around his waist.

"Tommy!"

He spun around and saw Kimberly standing there smiling at him, they had dated on and off again over the last couple of years. But because of the letter that had been written years ago, they were slowly building a relationship again. Trust was the main issue...

"Hey Kim, you know my students right?"

She smiled happily and said. "Yep! I remember you telling me about them when I first came back from College."

They were soon met with the rest of the former Rangers, introductions were passed around as the group settled down inside the Youth Center. Tommy looked towards the bar and saw their old classmate Skull, after high school Skull gave up being a police officer and decided he wanted to go into business management. While he had been in college Ernie had passed away due to a long time illness he could not carry on fighting. Skull had read in the news paper about the Youth Center closing down and took out a hefty loan to save the place. After that he kept the place running the way Ernie had, a memorial picture hung behind the bar in Ernie's memory.

Skull had talked to Tommy the previous month about using the Youth Center for them to have a small get together. He was fine with that, and would make it closed to the public for the day. Skull knew that Tommy and the others were Power Rangers, when he and Bulk had changed back to humans from being chimps he retained his memories even though Bulk remembered nothing. Skull had seen Tommy morph several times, he knew to keep his mouth shut and not say a word. He told Bulk one day many years later, but his old friend just did not believe him. This caused conflict between the two old friends, they stayed friends, but lived in separate towns now. Bulk married and was still on the police force, and had two boys of his own. Skull had married shortly after taking over the Youth Center, unfortunately his wife passed away while delivering their son who Skull ended up naming Billy.

Skull caught Tommy's eye and walked over.

"Hey guys, what can I get ya?"

Jason looked up at him and told him simply. "How about we start with a round of waters."

"I can do that, one round of waters coming up."

Jason looked around at his friends and then over to the gym area he watched as a few of the children were playing among each other. He could not believe that some of them were parents, he wondered where the time had gone. Looking at the four new additions to the former Ranger group he said.

"So how did you guys like being Rangers?"

Trent took a drink of water and said.

"It was alright, I could have lived with out trying to kill my friends tho."

Tommy smiled at him and chuckled. "Yea I know what you mean, literally."

Trent asked. "You were an evil ranger?"

"That's how I started out, I was the evil Green Ranger."

"How did you break the spell?" This time Conner asked.

Tommy took a sip of water and told him. "The spell was associated with a sword of darkness that I carried, once Jason destroyed it the spell was broken and he asked me to join the team."

Conner looked away, he remembered how he had treated Trent after he had become good. He felt guilty after all these years knowing he should have been more civil towards Trent.

Jason noticed the sudden change and asked the former Red Dino Ranger. "What's wrong?"

Conner looked over at the elder Red Ranger and told him. "I wish I had done things differently..."

"How do you mean?"

"You greeted the Green Ranger with open arms and I pushed our White Ranger away like the plague... I was hostile and cruel to him."

Trent looked over at his former leader and said softly. "Conner, I forgave you for that, if I had been in your shoes I would have felt the same way. You thought you were protecting Ethan and Kira from me, that is a noble thing to do. It's what a good leader SHOULD do, is protect his team. Yes maybe you should have been nicer, but living with guilt is not going to change what happened."

Tommy put a hand on Conner's shoulder and told him. "We talked about this, I told you not to feel guilty about the decisions you made."

Jason smiled at them and said. "Conner, I had hostile feelings towards Tommy too, but I kept them to my self. I know there are some similarities between our situations, but, when we want to protect some one we care a lot about some times we make rash decisions. You see, back in those days, in those early days Billy and Kimberly were our two weakest fighters. Trini, Zack and I could hold our own, but if for what ever reason Tommy became evil again it could have hurt Kim and Billy badly. Now when he was evil he never really seemed interested in fighting Kim, it wasn't until afterwords we all found out why. But he would fight Billy quite often when he attacked us, I got in the way a lot and protected him; after the spell was broken I was hesitant to allow Tommy anywhere near Billy, or the rest of the team for that matter. But part of me knew to give him a chance."

Conner looked around at the former Rangers, he could see the look in Billy, Zack and Kimberly's eyes that said it was alright. Kira had enough talking about this subject and had a question of her own.

"I thought there were five original Rangers?"

Billy looked down at the table top as Kimberly felt tears well up, Jason put a comforting hand on her shoulder as Zack explained.

"Yes there was... but ten years ago today..." He looked over at Billy before cautiously continuing.

"Ten years ago today, she was in a tragic car crash that killed her."

Kira looked down, she felt like kicking her self for asking seeing the hurt in their eyes. Jason told her comfortingly.

"Kira, it's alright, you didn't know."

Trent asked the next question. "How long did you guys all know her?"

He noticed how no one said anything for the longest time, he knew what it was like to feel a loss, his parents died when he was younger. After a few moments Kim answered.

"I knew her the longest, she was my best friend in the world, we met when we were 5 years old."

Jason spoke next. "Zack, Billy and I met her when we were 11 along with Kimberly."

A far away look appeared in Jason's eyes thinking back to how they first met, Ethan noticed and asked.

"What is your best memory of her?"

Jason looked around at his three best friends and said to them.

"Who wants to go first?"

Tommy piped up. "How about we start with memories dating from our Ranger days back to childhood."

He figured that was the best place to start, so it was decided that Tommy would start the story telling.


A/N: So? What do you think? This a good enough start? This is a tribute story for Thy Trang the first Yellow Ranger who may be gone but is certainly not forgotten...