A/N: Ever since my little brother told me about the letter and convinced me to watch the episode with him I always wondered what the true story behind the letter was. Because if you ask me it screams "it's a lie!"
Disclaimer: if I own power rangers Tommy and Kim never ever would have broken up.
Hints: Late night Mission.
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Chapter one: Dreams in Paris
Tommy was glad that Rocky suggested that they hit the slopes one last time together. He hadn't been certain that he could handle being alone this weekend. Not only was it Valentine's Day but it was also Kim's eighteenth birthday. He shook his head, Kim had sent him a Dear John letter just over a week ago, and he was still closer to flying without his falcon zord then he was too accepting the breakup.
But that wasn't the only thing bugging Tommy. For the past two months, he had been having a strange dream that always left him drenched in sweat. After the first couple of times, he had finally gone to Zordon and asked him what he had thought about it. Zordon had said that it was some sort of warning of something that was about to happen. Now the dream was coming more frequently, several times a night. Tommy was certain that meant that whatever that dream was trying to warn him about were about to happen soon.
"Hey, bro, you ok?" Rocky asked, plopping down next to him on the bed, a look of concern on his face. Tommy seemed kind of distracted, and for a power ranger to be distracted was never a good thing.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Tommy said reassuringly, shaking his head to clear it, "I just can't shake the feeling that something is horribly wrong."
"Don't worry; Zordon will contact us if he needs us." Rocky stated, slugging his friend in the arm before standing up, "So are you going to stay in the room and mope the whole time, or are you going to hit the slopes?"
Tommy slowly shook his head, wishing he could dismiss the feeling as easily as the blue ranger had, as he followed him out the door.
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Aisha was having the dream again, she knew it the moment her eyes closed. She was in the jungle, watching a crane fly gracefully above her head. Aisha smiled as the Crane dove down, skimmed across the water, and then rose back up in the air.
Suddenly the beautiful bird let out a scream of pain and plummeted to the earth. Aisha rushed to its side only to discover that she couldn't get through the undergrowth. She struggled through it until she could finally see the injured bird, and realized that it was pink.
Aisha woke up, covered in sweat, Kim was hurt, that was the only reason she could think of for the recurring dream that had plagued her for the past couple of weeks, but why was Kim alone; surely Tommy would not leave his Crane injured all alone, yet there had been no sign of a falcon. She needed to get back to her own time and place. Her sister needed her; she just hoped Zordon was awake.
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Everything was shrouded in the fog around Tommy, he couldn't see a thing but he could hear laughter. He headed towards the laughter only to see two big glowing yellow eyes moving towards him. He heard a woman's scream, followed by a little child's scream. Then there was a loud screeching noise and a loud thud, and a scream of pure terror.
Tommy bolted upright and glanced around the room, Rocky, Adam, and Billy were all still fast asleep. He glanced at the alarm clock next to him, it was 12:53 in the morning and he was certain that he was not going to go back to sleep anytime soon.
…Paris France…
Mrs. Dumas closed the door to her apartment behind her. She had tried everything except physical force to drag her daughter out of bed. Her daughter had moved in about a week ago, and nothing she said could get her to believe her life was not over.
She hoped that if she got her daughter's former team leader and teammates to come talk to her, as long as they didn't treat her the way her former gymnastic team treated her after the accident, that might help with the depression. She shook her head, they wouldn't dare; they had been her friends since preschool. And if they weren't there, then she'll call in Tommy. Surely if her boyfriend showed up it would cheer her up.
She called a cab, and headed out to the hotel that was hosting the Teen Peace Summit, already figuring out what to say.
She entered the lobby, and soon found an adult that was wearing a Peace Summit t-shirt, "Excuse me, Ms. Turner, but is Jason Lee Scott here?"
The woman scrutinized her with knowing eyes, "Who shall I say is calling?" she asked. It was an important question when people found out that Jason and his friends were from Angel Grove people tend to pester them about it, wanting to know about the power rangers. As Chaperone she was responsible for her students' safety.
"I'm his Aunt Caroline."
Ms. Turner nodded, heading upstairs to where Jason was hanging out with his girlfriend and best friend. She knocked on the door which was cracked open, "Excuse me, Jason, do you have an Aunt Caroline?"
"Sort of, she was my next door neighbor; she was like a second mother to me, why?"
"Do you know if she was planning to be here in Paris this weekend?"
"She moved here about eighteen months ago," Jason explained, a sinking feeling settling in his stomach.
"Why are you asking these questions, Ms. Turner?" Trini asked, glancing from her boyfriend to the chaperone standing in the doorway.
"She's in the lobby, asking for you."
Zack glanced at his two best friends, raising his eyebrow, why was she looking for Jason, "Do you think something happened to Kim? That's the only thing I could think of for her to come here."
Ms. Turner was shoved out of the way as the three friends raced past her down the stairs. She didn't know Kim, but she knew how much the girl meant to the three friends, and she hoped nothing too bad had happened to the girl.
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All was quiet in the Command Chamber, both Alpha and Zordon were in recharge when an alarm woke them up.
"Ay, Yi Yi!" Alpha shouted, "Someone's calling into the viewing globe." Alpha quickly accepted the phone call, and let out a sigh of confusion when it revealed it to be Aisha.
"What happened to Kim?" she demanded after hearing Alpha greet her.
"Aisha, I am afraid that I have no idea what you are talking about," Zordon said, for the very first time allowing confusion to enter his voice.
"I've been having dreams for the past couple of weeks, Kim's crane is flying, then it falls, and I can't get to it to help it."
"I see; the last I had heard from Kimberly was a week ago when she sent a letter telling Tommy she had meant someone else."
"Kim sent that in a letter, that doesn't sound like her at all." Aisha pointed out, "Please let me come home; she needs me."
"Very well Aisha, Alpha 5 will work on opening a time portal for you," Zordon replied, deeply concerned, what could have happened to his crane to cause his bear so much distress.
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Paris France
Jason quickly hugged his aunt as she greeted him and his friends. Jason frowned, there was something wrong he could feel it, he could see it in her eyes.
"What's wrong Mrs. H.?" Zack asked, slowing his hops at the sight of her face.
"I'm worried about Kim."
"So do you want us to call her?" Trini asked, confused there really wasn't much they could do while they were in Paris and she was in Florida.
"I was hoping you could go visit her, cheer her up. Maybe take her shopping." Caroline suggested.
"You want us to go to Florida to check on your daughter?" Jason asked.
"No, she's here, in Paris, didn't she tell you about the accident?"
"What accident?" the three friends asked together.
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"I don't like this," Jason muttered as he crossed the street, "Why would Kim be in Paris when she's supposed to be in Florida?"
"I don't like this either, why would Kim not tell us that she was in Paris, she's known for over a month that we were going to be here this week, we could have made plans to meet up and hang." Zack pointed out.
"I think Zack that the better question would be why she left Florida in the first place; the Olympics are in a few months." Trini interrupted, "I mean; going to the Olympics has been a dream of Kim's since she was a little girl. She would never give that up unless she was forced too."
"Tri's right," Jason agreed, "Aunt Caroline mentioned something about an accident, but why didn't she tell us about it? Unless there's something more about the accident then she's letting on."
Zack stopped and turned around to face his friends, "You don't think that her accident has something to do with us being…" Zack paused as he looked around to make sure nobody could hear him, "power rangers?" he finished in a soft hiss.
Jason stopped, "I haven't even thought about that. If it is, we're going to need Tommy." He raised his wrist to his mouth, ignoring Trini's warning on how late it was in California, his little sister could be in big trouble and he might need Tommy's help.
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Aisha nodded her thanks as she landed in the command chamber. "Thanks, Zordon, now you don't happen to know where Kim is, do you?"
"Alpha 5 is searching for her location as we speak," Zordon announced, indicating the busy android that was busily at work at the computers.
Alpha 5 nodded absentmindedly, not even stopping long enough to say hi to his old friend. Just then the alarm went off, alerting them to a new call coming in.
"It's Jason," Alpha announced, pulling him up on the viewing globe.
"Yes, Red Ranger what is it?" Zordon asked, concerned, the former Rangers never called the base, especially so late at night, to have two calls within five minutes of each other was truly troubling.
"Can you patch me through to Tommy; I believe that Kim might be in trouble," Jason stated.
If Zordon had a chest for his heart to pound in, it would have started pounding very hard with that one statement. Two former rangers called the base about the same person being in trouble. Add in the fact that it was Kimberly Hart who was quite literarily was the heart of the team. She was the one that the others went to when they were feeling down. The others viewed her as a little sister; he viewed her as his daughter. He hoped that the situation wasn't as bad as it sounded, but he felt that the opposite was true instead.
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Tommy jumped when his communicator went off as he watches the digital clock turn to 1:00 in the morning, "Tommy here." He moaned into it, not looking forward to waking his teammates if it turned out to be King Mondo up to his tricks earlier than usual.
"Hi bro," Jason's voice filtered through his wristband.
"Jason, it's one in the morning, why are you calling me?" Tommy kind of growled, he didn't mind too much, he had been awake anyway. It was more of the fact that it was one in the morning than anything else.
"See I told you it was too early to call him." Trini retorted.
"But we had to call him," Zack's voice responded.
Tommy ran his hand through his hair, "Would one of you tell me why you called me at one in the morning."
"Sure thing," Zack said, even over the communicator, Tommy could hear his smirk as he added, "Kim's here in Paris."
Any irritation or tiredness Tommy might have been feeling disappeared by that simple statement, "Why is Kim in France?"
"We don't know, her mom mentioned something about an accident. Have you heard anything about that?" Trini asked.
"No," Tommy announced.
Jason cleared his throat, "We're afraid that the Power Rangers are involved in the accident. That's the only reason we can think for her not to tell us about it."
"So you want me to be there in case you need a ranger?"
"Well, yes and no." Trini replied, "We figured that Kim might like to see her boyfriend seeing as it is Valentine's Day and her birthday."
Tommy shook his head, he had forgotten to tell his friends about the breakup, "um, guys, I hate to disappoint you but she dumped me last week in a letter." Tommy suddenly thought of something, "What if the accident happened before the letter, if it was, then the letter was a lie."
"There's one way to find out." Jason pointed out.
"I'll meet you there, just let me talk to Zordon," Tommy replied getting out of bed and pulling a shirt on.
A/N: There you go my version of the letter. What do you think happened to Kim? Here's a hint the two dreams are related.
