Everyone thinks that the Power Rangers are good, well except for those crazy evil ones, but what really happened to them? The green ranger could obviously be explained. Rita had gotten a hold of a power coin and turned it evil. What the public didn't know was that that started a long pattern for this particular ranger. He lost loved ones, he lost friends. He lost his family, but he tried to turn back good. He tried to get them back, he tried to have a life outside of the evil that had settled in his heart, but that wouldn't happen or at least they all thought it wouldn't.
"Jason it's useless. Why should we even try to talk to Tommy? He left his family for Christ sake!" Kat yelled as her twin sons looked back at her. Of course she was yelling about their father again. He had gone mental when they were about eight and although their mother would never tell them what brought it about, but they had often heard the words 'rangers', 'stress' and 'Kimberly' in tandem when she talked about their father's demise. Kimberly was a friend of theirs, she even visited at times when they were still a family. They never understood why Kimberly was such a touchy spot for their parents and they weren't sure if they ever would.
"Kat, I hate to point this out to you, but you were the one that ran when he went back evil," Kim said as Kat looked over at her and her glare began in earnest. It had gotten to where the two of them constantly fought about what should be done with Tommy. Kat had all but abandoned hope and Kim was still fighting for them to agree that he just needed help, but with everything he did that battle became harder. "You could have called."
"Called? Called and begged his one true love to come rescue him? Yeah, that would have been a great thing to do in front of my children," Kat said, sarcastically, as Kim stood up and then pushed something into Kat's chest.
"I asked, I begged to help and you've never let me, we don't even know if I could get him back. Who's fault is that Katherine?" Kim yelled as the other rangers turned to look at her. "Yes, I loved him and I still do, unlike you."
"He's the father of my children, how can I not love him?" Kat yelled back as they watched Kimberly shake and the tears rolled down her face. "That bastard of a child! You think Tommy would give a damn about the girl? She died Kimberly, it wouldn't make a difference!"
"We lied to him, so many times, we lied to him! He didn't even know she was a still born! Didn't even know that he had another child! God damn it Katherine! We have to help him!" Kim yelled as they all stared at her and then back at Katherine.
"You make it seem like we've done nothing over all these years," Kat said as she just shook her head.
"The one thing that could have worked, we have never tried, let me see him," Kim begged as Jason bowed his head in defeat. Every time that they talked about this, she would get to this point and no one would be able to fight her. The problem was, none of them knew exactly where Tommy was at any given moment. The only reason they knew he was alive was because of the repeated appearances in attacks.
"He would kill you Kimberly, he's too strong," Billy said as Kim looked over at the teenage boys and then back at them.
"They deserve a father," Kim said as the boys looked over at her and she placed a hand over her face. "I might be the only way they can get that."
"We can't lose you too Kimberly," Aisha said as she gave them a weak smile and then looked around the room.
"You lost me when you lost him," Kim whispered as she shook her head to try to clear her vision. "If I die, it will at least be doing something right, after all these years he deserves this."
"Kimberly, he told us to let him go," Kat said as her rational side came back and Kim just shook her head.
"He has never told me to let him go," Kim said with a fire in her eyes that none of them had seen before. "And I won't do that, even if he tells me to."
"Why are you arguing about Dad again?" Tyler asked as he walked into the kitchen and looked around at the adults. "He's gone. He's snapped, we're better off without him."
"You wouldn't say that if you knew the real reason Tyler," Kim said as she shook her head and then fell down in her seat as her body shook with barely contained sobs. "You were too young to understand when it happened."
"Kimberly, it is my place to tell my children what happened to their father," Kat said as she cut her off and Kim looked at her with disgust.
"And maybe that will happen sometime next century, when he has actually managed to destroy Angel Grove and the greater part of California," Kim spat as Kat rolled her eyes. "I'm tired of this. I'm tired of getting together to try to figure out what to do with Tommy and all of you basically forbidding me to even try. Why is it that you are so damn concerned about what he'll do to me?"
"Because you being alive keeps him somewhat sane. If he kills you, we will lose him completely," Billy said as they all looked at him. "Let's not be fooled here. Katherine has no effect on him. The only one that does is Kimberly, we've been able to talk to him in a sane fashion with her present. That is more than you can say, my dear."
"Billy, just because I've moved on does not mean that…" Kat began as Corey walked in and stood next to his twin.
"Mom, Billy's right," Corey said as they all looked over at him. "If anyone can help Dad, it's Kim, not you. I found the box of letters that you never threw away of his. If she hadn't…we wouldn't be your children, we might not even be here. I want Dad back and I don't care how that is done."
"Corey, you don't know what you're talking about. You don't know what he is capable of," Kat said as she looked around the room and her eyes fell upon a man that she had not seen in years. How was she going to explain herself?
