Avalon Series

All To Blame•Made Of Glass•These Walls•New Beginning

Avalon Mitchell has always been a loner; always taking care of herself, and she wasn't afraid of anything. But her past and current mistakes make things hard for her when she transfers to Angel Grove High. Now she has to deal with working on a team along with keeping her secrets from them, knowing that if she is found out, her whole life would fall apart. Being part of the Angel Grove street gang, The Vipers, makes things harder for Avalon as she is constantly pulled in two different directions. The pressures of good vs. evil while battling her own demons has never been so strong and when it starts to affect everyone around her, she needs to figure out what's most important. Tommy/Kim, Billy/Trini, Fred/Bailey, Jason/Avalon, Billy/Avalon, Rocky/Aisha, Adam/Sabrina, Adam/Tanya, Tommy/Kat, Connor/Bailey.

These Walls

Full Summary – [Sequel to Made of Glass]. Avalon Mitchell is happier than ever, now with her past is behind her and a bright future looming ahead. However the balance of her life seem to be crumbling down and the walls she had put up are coming down with them. It's one thing after the next; first a intergalactic being thought to be sealed away nearly destroys the world, then one of her best friends hides something so big from her and the rest of their friends that it nearly kills her, and more secrets are revealed with their powers and that there are even more monsters out there that want to destroy them other than Rita and Zedd. Balancing their lives against their ranger duties becomes even more difficult for the rangers; they're growing up. They're adults now; they should be able to handle what life throws their way. But when secrets are revealed and lies are exposed, the rangers come to realize that some things are more important.

Tommy/Kim, Tommy/Kat, Fred/Bailey, Billy/Avalon, Rocky/Aisha, Adam/Sabrina, Adam/Tanya

Chapter 01

Higher Ground

"I can't believe you all are going skydiving today!"

Mrs. Hart turned from the counter, nursing a steaming mug of coffee, and watched as her daughter practically skipped to the kitchen. Kimberly Hart dropped her bag onto the counter and pulled herself up onto the stool across from her mother. The pink ranger's eyes lit up as she reached out, grabbing a piece of toast from her mother's plate

"I know," she agreed. "It's so exciting! I didn't think we'd ever do something as cool as this." Her smile waned a little, slowly chewing the piece of toast. "I just wish it wasn't under such…sad circumstances, y'know? 'Cause Tommy had suggested it to Billy to make him feel better after this mother…"

Mrs. Hart nodded and the two fell silent.

It had been hard for the blue ranger in the past couple of months after his mother had been murdered by Rita Repulsa, Zedd, and Diabolico in their plan to destroy the rangers and take over the world. It had almost worked, too. They had invaded the school, captured the students and teachers, separated the rangers, and had sicked an evil clone of the green ranger against Tommy. While that was going on, they had murdered Billy's mother to cause psychological damage to him, enough to turn him evil. And it had worked for a while, but the rangers had managed to turn Billy back from evil and defeated the evil green ranger and the dragonzord. Billy and his father had dealt with it the best way anyone thought they could.

And while the past couple of months of the school year had made it hard for Billy in a few areas, he had managed to get past it and was more or less back to his normal self by the time summer rolled around. Now it was the start of their summer vacation and the rangers were excited to be doing something big to kick it off; the charity skydiving event to save the Angel Grove Observatory.

"But it should be really fun," Kimberly said, her face lighting up once more. Hardly anything could keep the energetic girl's happiness down. "I mean, how many people can say that they went skydiving, by themselves, after only a few months of practice?"

"Not many, I'm sure that most of them crashed to the ground," Mrs. Hart joked.

"Mom!"

"I'm only kidding, Kimmy. Relax." She watched as Kimberly took another bite of toast and dropped the piece of dried bread back onto her mother's plate. "Kim, you have to eat more than that if you're going to be jumping out of a plane."

"I'm meeting everyone at the Youth Center before we go," Kimberly explained. She slid off of the stool and rounded the island. Leaning into her mother, she gave her a kiss on the cheek and a quick hug. "No offense, but you have to lighten up."

Kimberly smiled as her mother rolled her eyes. She picked up her bag from the ground and slung it over her shoulder, before quickly walking out of the house. Once the door was closed behind her, she looked over her outfit for the day. A white crop-top and pink, high waisted, jean shorts that showed off a bit of her stomach.

Her flat, toned stomach.

Smiling to herself, the pink ranger placed her hand along her abs before skipping down the front steps of the porch and approached her car. All of the hard work she had done over the summer had paid off. Waking up early to go to gymnastics practices, working hard at the youth center to get some weight lifting and cardio in, and that's not including the workouts she got while working as a ranger. She felt stronger and was doing better to keep up with the other rangers in battle, even having been a great helping hand in defeating more of them as of late. Her diet was only limited when she needed it; when she felt bloated, when she didn't get to exercise as much as she had wanted in the day, when she simply didn't feel hungry.

But as the butterflies erupted in her stomach this morning, it was due to her excitement for jumping out of a plane and doing well enough to help save the observatory. As well as that, Hailey's comet was coming around in a few days and she was excited for the city-wide picnic that was going to be held that night, where, after the food was eaten, the residents of Angel Grove were to spend the night watching the sky for the space object.

It was the most romantic night of the year, and she planned on spending it with her boyfriend whom she dearly loved.

Checking her watch, the pink ranger quickly turned on her car and peeled out of the driveway, heading out to the Youth Center, where she was going to meet her friends. Once arriving, she hurried inside and found her friends sitting around a table, closest to the door. Kimberly smiled as she looked over her friends.

Tommy Oliver, her boyfriend and love of her life was sitting at the head of the table. He was laughing at something that Rocky DeSantos, the red ranger was saying to him and Kimberly felt her stomach explode with even more butterflies when she spotted him. He was the perfect guy for her; strong, loyal, great sense of justice, great fighter, and if it wasn't for the fact that he had some memory problems with caused for some of their few arguments when he forgot to pick her up for a date he would be absolutely perfect.

Rocky DeSantos was someone she had started to become close to. He made her laugh like no one's business and he did nothing but look at life with anything short of excitement. She had been a bit weary of him, after he had taken Jason Scott's place as being the red ranger—with Adam Park and Aisha Campbell taking the places of Zack Taylor and Trini Kwan—but his excitable personality was infectious and she loved having him around. Adam was quieter than the rest of the rangers, but that was a great change of pace, especially considering how he always had something sensible and helpful to say when he did speak up. His strong and silent demeanor was outmatched by his natural skill in martial arts and as time went on and he continued to teach classes along with Rocky over the summer, he started to come out of his shell. It probably helped that Aisha did his best to motivate him to step out of his shell a little bit. She was a bright ball of energy, her sunny disposition easily matching the color of her spandex and her sassiness had caused Kimberly to quickly become friends with her.

Looking over at the other side of the table, Kimberly took in Billy Cranston, Avalon Mitchell, Bailey Mitchell, and Fred Kelman. The blue, orange, and purple rangers respectfully as well as a new friend of theirs. Billy, she had known forever and she was glad that he was finally back to his normal self. Not that she didn't understand his grief, but he always dealt with his emotions in ways that were different than most people did; with logical and reason and that had scared her. The dark, empty look in his eyes the first few months after his mother's death was gone and replaced with that quiet excitement he always carried. Avalon, on the other hand, was standoffish and really rude to the rangers, keeping her secrets and her past as close to her as possible. But as she had finally gotten out of the gang, The Vipers, and her life continued to move upwards from there. The orange ranger was now one of Kimberly's best friends, her opposite personality to hers meshing together. Bailey, despite being Avalon's little sister, was like a little sister to all of the rangers and just as smart as Billy. She worked hard at her martial arts training with Tommy and she had managed to help the rangers get through some of the most difficult problems; her innocent view and excitement towards the world always left her thinking there was so much more out there than originally thought. And as the case was, she and Avalon were months away from being adopted by the Olivers, making the close relationship between the purple and white rangers much more official.

And Fred was a new friend of theirs, one of the few friends they had that wasn't a ranger. Not only did he look up to Tommy and practiced in martial arts as well, but it was actually really cute the way he was 'dating' Bailey. As much dating as the two of them could do at thirteen years old when they were too shy to really do anything. But she saw him a bit as a brother now, too, considering how much he was around now.

"Hey guys," She greeted them, hurrying over. She dropped her bag to the ground and gave Tommy a kiss, despite the noises of protest she received from Rocky and Avalon. "Aren't you guys so excited?"

"To be watching you all hurl to your deaths at hundreds of miles per hour?" Avalon asked. She laced her fingers together, resting her hands on the table. "Yes, I'm actually really looking forward to that."

Aisha laughed. "You know you could come with us?"

"No, thanks, mate. I told you before that my feet like to stay firmly planted on the ground, thank you very much." The orange ranger grinned as the group of friends burst out laughing. Raising her hands, she tucked her long hair behind her ears and Kimberly smiled when she noticed the new thunderbolt tattoo that was on the inside of her left wrist. "But don't come crying to me when you can't get out of the plane."

"Once again, Ava, your vote of confidence is really uplifting," Billy teased her, gently nudging her shoulder with his own.

"I try."

Aisha reached out and swatted her on the arm. "Her vote aside, this is going to be the best experience ever! I've always wanted to do this and I'm glad that I finally have an excuse to." She paused and brought her hands up to cover her mouth, suddenly looking stricken. She exchanged a glance with Rocky and Adam, who appeared just as unnerved as she did.

Noticing the look, Billy chuckled, gently shaking his head. "Guys, I'm fine," he insisted. "It's been months…it'll take a while to get over it completely, but…I'm fine. My Dad's fine too…things are harder for him, but that's to be expected." He bobbed his head back and forth. "Christmas might be hard, but…we'll get through it." He turned to Tommy. "I have to thank you, again, for suggesting this. It's going to be a lot of fun."

"No problem, man," Tommy agreed. "I'm glad that you're still up for it. And, besides, we're saving the observatory. We can't have it close down right before Hailey's comet comes around, right?" He rubbed his hands against the legs of his white pants. "I just hope we have enough people to jump to raise money."

"My Dad's gonna do it," Fred jumped in. He scratched his forehead, pushing up the hat that always rested over his light brown tresses. "When he's not working on the construction site he loves to go there and look at the new exhibits."

"That's cool," Bailey agreed. She pouted. "I still wish I could do it. I'm not afraid to jump out of planes." Avalon gave her sister the stink-eye but didn't otherwise reply as the friends laughed once more.

"Well, no one's going to be jumping out of any plane if we don't get going soon," Adam reminded his friends, looking at his watch ."The plane is going to take off in about an hour and we need to get there early so that we can go over the last minute safety precautions and everything."

Avalon motioned to the blank ranger, eyes widening. "And you boofheads wonder why I don't want to do it."

"Aww, don't worry Av." Rocky placed his hands on the orange ranger's shoulders and gently shook her. "If you ever need to do anything dangerous, like crossing the street, one of us will be there to hold your hand the whole way." He laughed and ducked out of the way as the orange ranger scowled and swung a punch at him.

Kimberly giggled. Stooping to pick up her bag, she noticed a pensive expression on Billy's face as he was the only one that hadn't moved from the table to gather his things. She exchanged a glance with Tommy before leaning over towards the blue ranger and waved a hand in his face. "Billy, are you OK?"

He snapped out of his reverie and smiled up at her. "Yeah, Kim. I'm fine." He picked up his bag and slung it over his shoulder before handing her her own. "Thanks for asking." Kimberly glanced at him and seeing that he meant it, she smiled and nodded back.

"You're welcome."

She turned and started to follow the group of out of the Youth Center. Her stomach growled and she stopped walking, moving her hand to her stomach. It growled loudly once more and a dizzy spell washed over her. Letting out a quiet moan, she brought her hand up to her forehead. Maybe I should've eaten something earlier this morning. She thought.

"Kim, are you OK?" Adam asked, coming up to her side.

The pink ranger flashed him the smile she had managed to perfect over the past couple of months as her mother would ask her the same question. "Yeah, I guess I'm just a bit anxious," she explained. "I was in such a rush to get out this morning I didn't get much of a chance to eat breakfast."

"We can go back and get you something really fast," Adam suggested, pointing over his shoulder towards the juice bar. Kimberly followed his gaze and hesitated, watching as Ernie cleaned out the inside of the blender, watching the TV, as well as speaking to Violet McKinley, who seemed to be half-listening to what he was saying. "It won't take long, and besides," he lowered his voice, sharing a secret smile with her. "We can teleport to catch up with the others if we need to."

Kimberly smiled back at him. "That's alright," she replied. "I can just get a bagel or a banana or something down at the launch site. Let's go!" She grabbed onto Adam's arm and tugged him forward and out the Youth Center to catch up to their friends.

"Zedd! I've been calling you for the last ten minutes!" Rita Repulsa shrieked as she walked onto the balcony of the Lunar Palace. "I thought you said you were going to rub my feet!"

"I wouldn't touch your crusty feet with a hundred foot pole," Zedd replied. He turned and motioned towards Earth with his Z-scepter. "Besides, there are more important things we need to worry about. I just had a feeling of a wave of evil coming from Earth. And if I'm not mistaken, it will be the thing that'll destroy the rangers once and for all." He turned and held out a hand towards his wife. "That is, if you don't mind working with the person I choose this time."

Rita scowled. "My plan with Diabolico was going to work, too. I don't understand what happened!"

"You happened, that's what," Zedd said. "You're always messing something up." As Rita's scowl deepened, Zedd leaned in and gave his wife a kiss. "But that's what I like about you, you mess up and I can work my magic and fix it for you. We just work that way, baby."

"Oh, Zeddy, you know how to treat a woman," Rita said with a pleased smile as Zedd gave her another kiss then kissed her neck. "What is it that you have planned this time?"

Pulling himself away from his wife's neck, Zedd dropped his arm from around her and looked down at Earth once more. "As I was saying, I sensed a wave of evil energy and it's gotten stronger by the day. I looked down on Earth and those sniveling humans are doing all of the work for us. It appears that they've found the burial site of the egg."

Rita's mouth dropped open.

'The egg' could've been anything, but she, Zedd, and everyone evil in the known galaxy knew what the 'the egg' was and what it held. Had it really been that long? Had it already been 6,000 years since he was put away? It was always said that he'd come back in that time, but she never believed it. Then again, she had been stuck in that forsaken space dumpster for 10,000 years so what did she know about the passage of time?

"Ivan Ooze is being unearthed?" She questioned.

"Yes, my dear and with him on our side, we'll be unstoppable!"

A/N: And now the first chapter is done! They're usually ones done to make sure that things from the last few stories are explained, so things pick up with the next one. Next chapter will be up on Tuesday.

This story goes through season 3 and Zeo with plots from the show tying in with specific plots I have for each of the characters. Some of which have been teased in this first chapter. Thanks for sticking with me throughout the whole series. If you suddenly stumbled upon this story, you need to read All To Blame and Made of Glass first for things to make sense. Also, that being said, I forgot to add something in the last chapter of Made of Glass that would be the start of a side-story I'm working on soon, that'll be in its own timeline, so I briefly mentioned it here.

Oh and thanks to heartpunker123 for talking me through some of the ideas of these next few chapters.

~Avalon