Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters except: Sydney, Matt, Brian, Nick, Randy, Devon and Julie.
A New Generation
The Discovery
She reached in and pulled out a small pink velvet bag; she opened the bag and pulled out a wristband with tiny buttons on the top "My communicator! I thought I lost this when I moved to Florida." It was her only way of remembering her days as the Pink Power Ranger.
She closed her eyes as she remembered the last fight the Power Rangers had fought as she had seen it. It was against Divatox who had grown to the size of the Mega Zord the two giants battled each other for what seemed like forever till the Mega Zord shot a lazer beam that caused the defeat of Divatox.
That had also been the last week she had spent with Tommy Oliver tears formed in the corners of her eyes as she remembered the last time she saw Tommy.
"Kim I have something to tell you." He had said that night as they sat in his car.
"What is it?" she had asked turning in her seat to face him.
"Well you know how I've been racing here in Angel Grove." He said.
"Yeah."
"Well I'm going to be going to out of town races and I think it would be better if we put our relationship on hold till I have enough time to devote myself souly to you." He said looking into her eyes.
"Are you saying you want to break up?" she asked.
"Well not exactly." He said.
"I'm just saying I don't want to… We tried to keep our relationship going when you went to Florida and that didn't work very well so we should just put our relationship on hold till I get back." He replied, that had been the last time Kim saw Tommy alone.
"Mom." Kim quickly put the communicator back in the bag when she heard her daughter calling to her from the doorway of the room.
"Yeah." Kim stood up and turned to face her daughter.
"Mom do you know where my new shoes are?" she asked pushing her brown hair behind her back, Sydney had the same shade of brown hair Kim had and the same eyes, she had the same build since she took gymnastics like her Kim had.
"Aren't they in your closet." Kim replied.
"Oh mom I found this in the attic." Sydney said walking closer to Kim "Who is he?" she handed Kim a picture of her and Tommy. "Is he…"
"No he's not your father." Kim's husband had left Kim and Sydney when Sydney was two so Sydney didn't remember her father "He's just a boy I knew."
"Oh. Well I've gotta go meet Julie in a few minutes at the Juice Bar." She replied smoothing out her pink jeans.
"Ok have fun." Kim said putting the photo on her nightstand.
***
"Oh god this is so boring!" Devon Taylor declared collapsing on the couch.
"Hey it's not my fault my dad hasn't fixed the TV yet." Randy Desantos said.
"How long has your TV been broken Randy?" Nick Park asked.
"Uh about a week." Randy said looking at his two best friends.
"Well why don't we go over my house and watch TV." Devon suggested jumping off the couch and doing a dance move his father had taught him, he got his coordination from his father Zack and his kindness from his mother Aisha.
"He has a good idea." Randy said pushing back his blond hair; he got his blond hair and slight Australian accent from his mother Katherine and his sense of humor, karate skills and his appetite from his father Rocky.
"I'd rather go play baseball." Nick said rolling a baseball around in his hands, he got his karate skills from his father Adam and his baseball skills from his mother Tanya, even though his mother was African American his skin wasn't as dark as Devon's and wasn't as light as Randy's.
"Yeah we could do that." Randy said, "I mean what have we done all summer."
"We've sat here watching TV." Nick replied.
"Yeah let's go play baseball." Devon said, the three teens got up and started to go out the door.
"Ya know I'm starting to think my dad isn't fixing the TV so he can get us out of the house." Randy said as they left the house.
"Maybe." Nick said.
***
Billy Cranston stood over a headstone with his son Brian at his side.
"I love you mom." Brian whispered he could feel tears coming to his eyes.
"Let's go." Billy said putting his hand on Brian's shoulder.
"Ok." Brian said, it had been twelve years since Brian's mother died, and Billy and Brian always went to her grave on the anniversary of her death.
When they got in the car Brian fixed his blue shirt then sat back.
"Do you want me to drop you off somewhere?" Billy asked.
"No I have to study." Brian replied.
"Study?" Billy asked "But it's summer."
"I know but I want to be ready when school starts." Brian said.
Billy looked at his son he looked just like him when he was seventeen Brian had the same blond hair and hazel eyes and intelligence.
"Ok." Billy said starting the car.
Brian looked at his dad "What's wrong?"
"I just don't want you to spend so much time studying that you let the world pass you by." Billy replied.
Brian sighed "Ok you win drop me off at Matt's his dad is teaching him some new karate stuff."
"That's better. I haven't spent time with Tommy in a while anyway." Billy said.
***
"When you do that move kick higher." Tommy Oliver instructed "Like this." He kicked the air "Now you do it."
Matthew took a karate stance then kicked at the air like his father had.
"Good now…" he trailed off when he heard the doorbell "Be right back." Tommy ran up the stairs from the basement.
Matthew flopped down on the couch that was in the furnished basement, Tommy had been teaching him a new karate move before the doorbell rang.
"He's downstairs." He heard his father say from upstairs, he heard footsteps above his head them on the stairs then he saw Brian at the bottom of the stairs.
"Hey Brian what's up?" Matt asked getting up off the couch.
"Nothing much we just came back from visiting my mothers grave." Brian replied raking his hands through his mass of blond hair.
"Oh." Matt gave his friend a weak smile, Matt knew what it was like not having a mother his mother had left when he was young, "So where's your dad?"
"He's upstairs talking with your dad." Brian replied sitting down on the blue beanbag chair across from the couch where Matt had returned.
Matt readjusted his red shirt then pulled the elastic from his shoulder length brown hair then pulled it back in a ponytail again "So how have you been?"
"Oh I've been fine." Brian replied "You know Sydney Hart?"
"Uh yeah she sat behind me in science." Matt replied "What about her?"
"Well Julie Scott told Randy that Sydney told her that she thinks you're cute." Brian said.
"No way!" Matt's dark brown eyes were wide "Who told you this?"
"Randy." Brian replied.
"Wow. Maybe I should call her or something." Matt said.
"Maybe." Brian replied.
***
"Where is that girl?" Julie Scott thought to herself as she waited at the juice bar.
"Hey Julie sorry I'm late." Came Sydney's voice from behind her.
"Hi what took so long?" Julie asked as Sydney sat down across from her.
"I was talking to my mom I found this in some of her old things." Sydney replied putting a picture on the table.
Julie took the picture and examined it "That's Matt's father." She put the picture back on the table "You know Oliver."
Sydney's eyes widen "My mom dated Matt's dad! Oh my god!"
"Wow." Julie said pushing her black silky hair behind her back; Julie got her oriental looks from her mother Trini and her determination from her father Jason. "This is incredible."
Sydney lowered her voice "My moms going out in a little while and she has two boxes of stuff in her room from when she moved back here after those Pan Global games she was in. Maybe we can go to my house and look through them see if we can find anything else about her and Matt's father."
Julie could see the mischievous look in her friend's eyes "You're on."
"Let's go." The two girls got up and left the Juice Bar.
***
"How long have we been cruising around space?" Rita Repulsa asked leaning back in the main chair of Serpantera.
"Oh stop whining." Lord Zedd said turning to look at her, Lord Zedd, Rita and their henchmen had been roaming around space for about nineteen years since they had blown the Machine Empire into little pieces of scrap metal.
"Lord Zedd, Rita I have just found out something about Earth." Goldar growled coming into the control room of Serpantera.
"Well what is it?" Rita asked getting up off the chair.
Before Goldar could reply Rita's brother Rito rushed in "Sis there's no more power rangers on Earth." He blurted out.
Rita's eyes lit up "What? No more power rangers. How long?"
"Uh. Let Goldar handle that." Rito said.
"Well Goldar how long?" Lord Zedd asked.
"About seventeen years." Goldar replied.
"And we're only hearing about this now." Rita said pacing around the control room.
"Well your evilness there is a delay since we're in space." Goldar replied "This is the perfect time to go back and conquer it."
Rita paced around for a few minutes "He's right IT'S TIME TO CONQUER EARTH!"
***
Sydney and Julie were in Kimberly's bedroom searching through the two boxes on the floor.
"Find anything?" Sydney asked.
"Nothing but pictures." She replied.
Sydney pulled a pink diary out of the box and started flipping through it till she stopped at an excerpt from the year 1993 "Oh my god!"
Julie stopped and moved over to Sydney "What?"
"Listen to this." Sydney said "The day started out normal I went to school, I went to the juice bar, I practiced my bar routine, then there was an unexplaned earthquake but that's not the weirdest thing that happened. The weirdest thing was that me, Jason, Trini, Billy, and Zack have been chosen to be a team of superheroes called The Power Rangers." The two girls looked at each other neither spoke a word.
Sydney finally broke the silence "My mom was a Power Ranger."
To be Continued