Strong Enough
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, July 8th
You are cordially invited
To the
First annual "Family" Reunion
On Saturday July Twelfth Two Thousand Eight
At Four o'clock
Where it all started
Angel Grove, California
Held at Youth Center
Hosted by Original Leader
RSVP ASAP
Looking back and forth from the piece of paper in her hand to the photos on her desk brings back a lot of good and bad memories of her past. Mostly the pain that was caused not just by the people around her but the pain she caused others including herself. She tries to forget everything that happened up until a year after moving away from home. One year after arriving in her new home she adopted a young girl, named Amy. Yeah she is only 9 years younger and could be more of a sister but, there is a bond between them that is more mother/daughter. After finishing what she set out to do in Florida she returned home to California, but not to where she originally came from. She moved 4 hours north of her small hometown to the city of LA. There she opened her own gymnastics studio called Terra Crane Gymnastics. It is a thriving business that allows young gymnasts to become what she has. A gold medalist in the 1997 Pan Global Games.
The pictures that are on her desk are reminders of the good times that she once shared with her "family" as it is so called in the invitation. One is of the first five members of the "family", followed by other "family" pictures taken to the time she left. There is one of a boy with gorgeous brown eyes, and long brown hair tied in a pony tail wearing a white muscle shirt. And one with the same boy with his arms wrapped around a beautiful brunette about 5'1". Her, the boy was holding her, she remembered it was taken shortly after he returned to the "family" after a short absence. The last one was taken in Florida shortly after she adopted Amy.
Amy was found by her mother homeless wondering around apartment complex she happened to live in while in Florida. She was brought in and taken care of by her mother and her roommate. About 5 months later her mother adopted her. During this time they knew almost everything about each other. And it was moving to LA that Amy finally knew everything there was to know about her mother. There were no secrets between them. That is because while unpacking the new house she found items to her mother's past that should have been "hidden" better. Amy was curious and confronted her. Her mother knew she couldn't hide it from her anymore; Amy needed to know the truth. Her mother was not just Kimberly Ann Hart Pan Global Gold Medalist, but Kimberly Ann Hart Pink Ranger. And not any pink ranger but ORIGINAL Pink Ranger, she was there at the start of it all. Hand picked to save the world. (That is the hidden message in the invitation. Family replaced the word Ranger due to if the invitation was lost, their secret would not be shared with a non-ranger).It has been a little over 10 years that Amy has been living the life she should always have had. She had just finished her freshman year at UCLA and was home for the summer and helping her mom out at the Gym.
Ring ring. The sound of the phone ringing pulled Kim out of her thoughts. By the time her hand was on the phone the ringing stopped signaling that the line was already picked up. So she cleaned up her desk putting the invitation in the top drawer on her desk and stepped out of her office, because the afternoon classes would be starting soon.
"Mom, Uncle J is on the phone," Amy said as she saw her mother passing the receptionist desk. Amy was the one who answered the phone, due to her watching the phones while the original receptionist stepped out to have a smoke.
"Thanks," Kim replied while taking the phone from Amy who screamed in joy and nearly dropped the phone and ran around the desk to run into the arms of a brunette boy her age in dark blue jeans and a red jersey who had just walked through the doors. Kim shook her head and laughed at her while speaking into the phone, "hello?"
"Hey, sis what's up?" her "brother" replied. J/Jase/Jason is her best friend, he is like her brother and the First red ranger and leader of the power rangers. The original team consisted of Jason red, Trini yellow, Billy blue, Kim pink, Zack black, and shortly after was joined by Tommy green at first then when he lost his powers their Mentor Zordon along with his trusted assistant Alpha 5 created the White Ranger powers for him.
"Nothing Jason, probably about to meet this boy who has Amy all googly eyed. Oh, I got your invitation today."
"Really?! Awesome….your coming right along with bringing my favorite niece in the whole wide world"
"Jase, she is your only niece, and I'm not sure…it is just gonna bring up all the hurt I have caused everyone," she replied trying to not tear up at a certain memory. She could hear Jason sigh on the other end.
"Kim, listen to me, you had no control over what happened. Please, he is coming, and I know he would like to see you, please, everyone deserves the truth behind it, he deserves to know the truth."
"Jase-"
"Kim, please, don't do it for us, do it for yourself. Free yourself from the past. Zach, Trini and I already know, even Aisha and Billy because they found out only after they left the team and know you had no control over what happened."
"Alright, I guess I'll go. We will be there on the eleventh because I am sure you want to have a little get together just the originals the day before. But PLEASE, let me tell them/him on my own time."
"Thanks, Kim, yeah that's fine, we will meet at the Youth Center at 2:00 on the 11th. Trust me, we won't interfere." They hung up shortly after saying their goodbyes. Just as she hung up, Amy made her way over holding hands with the boy that walked in at the beginning of the conversation.
"Mom, what did Uncle J want?" Amy asked.
"Just to know if we are going to the reunion, I told him we were. He is expecting us Friday at 2. Who is this?" Kim replied, while looking at the boy who was staring at her in a sort of shock.
"Oh, this is Conner, my boyfriend; we met our first semester at UCLA, and just started dating this past semester. Conner this is my mom, Kimberly Hart."
"Nice to meet you. Uh, is he alright?" Kim asked a little worried that his expression hadn't changed.
"Oh, he is just surprised that he gets to meet you, finally. He heard a lot about you a couple of years ago. Conner! You can snap out of it any time now, just because she was an original doesn't mean she is some goddess." She replied snapping her fingers from her free hand in his face.
"Amy?!" Kim replied shocked that she would say something like that and give away her secret.
"What? He knows. And I didn't tell him" Kim gave her a questioning look. At this time Conner was coming out of his shock.
"Hi, um it is nice to finally get to meet you, I have heard a lot about you."
"So I have heard. It is nice to meet you too, Conner. Sorry to cut this meeting short but Amy, afternoon classes are just about to start and I need you to help me finish setting some things up and get things organized," Kim replied seeing a few of the students wondering into the building and turning to get ready/
"Yep, no problem mom, um I'll see you tomorrow? It's my day off," Amy said while turning to face Conner.
"No problem, I have to meet some friends in the morning who are coming home from school, so we can all meet up after that, you will love them."
"Great. Tomorrow it is. Bye." Amy replied, giving him a kiss goodbye and walking off to help her mother.
"Bye."
Later that night, while setting up for dinner, Kim decides to finally know how Conner knows about Kim's past as a ranger.
"Alright Amy, spill. How does Conner know of my ranger past."
"Oh, it goes like this."
(Flashback)
After one of their biology study sessions Conner and Amy decided to order some Chinese instead of going out to eat.. It was one of the first times that they hung out just the two of them. They started to get to know each other a little better.
"Let me get this straight, you live in Reefside, California. You are the high school star's soccer player, who turned down the chance to play professional soccer for some personal reason. Then after graduating come to UCLA to become a coach, or whatever."
"That about sums it up. What about you. You don't seem like a California girl."
"What's that supposed to mean? Anyway you are right. I was born in Miami, Florida. My father was killed in a car accident when I was a baby, and my mom died shortly after. I was put in child services, and all the families I lived with were all dead beats especially the last one I lived in so I ran away. No one cared that I was missing. So I lived on the streets, one day during my usual rounds around the Apartment complex where the Pan Global competitors lived. I was taken in by an 18 year old gymnast and lived with her and her roommate. They took care of me and 5 months later I was adopted by the gymnast who found me. About a year after she competed in the pan global games we moved here to LA. She is old enough to be an older sister but there is just something between us that is more mother/daughter. I went from being just Amy to Amy Hart, the daughter of Kimberly Hart Pan Global Gold Medalist."
"What?! Your mom is the first pink ranger?"
"Excuse me? How did you know that? No one knows that except my aunts and uncles, my mom's closest friends."
"Um…"
"No! How do you know that?"
"Because I am a ranger also. Red Ranger, the leader of the Dino Thunder Rangers from Reefside California to be exact. My mentor was captured and we found his video diary that explained all the teams, and I just remembered hearing your mother's name as Earths first pink ranger, she was hand picked from a floating head."
"Wow, I mean wow. You're a ranger…or at least was one. I remember hearing about you guys."
"Yeah… wow its great to finally have someone other than my members to talk to about ranger stuff."
"Don't worry I won't tell anyone it will be our little secret."
"And that is how the story goes." Amy said after finishing her story.
"I can't believe it, I knew I felt a ranger vibe coming off him, just wasn't sure. I am just wondering who his mentor was. I mean not anyone can have I ranger diary consisting of ranger history."
"He just said it was his high school science teacher, Dr. O. Never thought of asking for anything more."
"I am sure that we will meet him and the rest of the team this weekend at the reunion. But enough of that lets eat then start packing for this weekend. I don't want to be rushing at the last minute. Jason is expecting us at the Youth Center by 2."
"Alright."
With that said they finished with dinner and got a head start on their packing for this coming weekend. Tomorrow they would mention that all weekend classes would be canceled, due to being out of town and to give all the gymnast a little vacation.
