A/N: again an idea that wouldn't leave me alone, let's see if this helps.

Chapter One:

A girl wearing a pink leotard existed the gym, heading back to her room when a voice that she honestly had hoped she would never hear again called out behind her, "Can I have a word with you, Crystal?"

The girl froze for a second, trying to calm her beating heart, he couldn't have found her, surely there was some mistake. Maybe someone who sounded like him was calling out one of the other gymnasts, she believed she had met one named Crystal the other day.

"I'm talking to you, Crystalynn," the voice said grumpily, causing her to freeze, he did know, it was him, she had been found.

She slowly turned around, "I think you're mistaken, my name isn't Crystalynn."

The man with oily hair laughed, "Clever, very clever, changing your name and using a time warp to hide from me, too bad I was able to follow the slipstream here. Now, where did you hide it?"

The girl's soft doe colored eyes grew wide in alarm, but she didn't back down, "I don't know what you are talking about, my name is Kim." She lied as her heart started to pound loudly in her chest.

"Of course you don't," the man stated before he brushed his hair away from his face and revealed an angry looking scar.

Kim smirked, at a time like this she should be allowed to gloat in her victory, she was the one, after all, who gave him that scar, "Want to see what a full-grown Princess of Acaria can do? Maybe I can do some will damage this time, not that pathetic scar that I gave you last time we fought."

The man growled, throwing himself at the young gymnast, who leaped up into the air as if she had a pair of wings to hold her up, "You forget, dear Uncle, that I am fully grown now. I am not the little girl that fled from you eight years ago."

"And you forget, dear niece, that I killed your parents with ease." With that, he too was airborne.

Kim flipped over him and landed on the ground brushing a strand of her caramel colored hair out of her eyes, "Give it up Uncle Thistle, I will fight you until you surrender or I die, your call."

"You are the one who is mistaken, you will surrender and give me the Heart. It's the only way to save your siblings."

For the first time, the gymnast showed doubt in her stance, "My siblings are gone, lost in time, you know that."

"But you are wrong, they are still on Acaria, frozen in time, unaware that the planet they call home has been totally destroyed. Give me the Heart and I will gladly free your siblings."

Kim froze, could he be telling her the truth, were her siblings truly frozen in time, or was it a lie, a scheme to get the Heart, and even if it was true how did she know that he would fulfill his end. Hadn't Goldar once ransom the power ranger parents and not return them after they had paid the ransom. She cleared her throat, "While frozen in time no harm can befall them, as you well know. I will rather my siblings remain frozen in time and the universe safe than free them and put the whole universe into your greedy little hands!"

Kim didn't have time to react as a blast threw her into the wall and the world went dark.

"Kim, Kim wake up!" a voice called forcing Crystal to open her eyes to find Amy, her roommate, leaning over her.

Kim groaned, deciding to play the confused victim, if only to find out how much Amy really knew, "What happened?" she asked.

Amy's blue eyes grew round in surprise, "I don't know, I found you laying here as if you were attacked, I think we need to report this to Coach Schmidt."

"No," Kim insisted, almost aggressively, "don't tell Coach anything just yet, for all we know I passed out due to lightheadedness. I feel fine, really."

After that Kim hurried up to her room, her heart pounding, her siblings were alive, that was news worth celebrating, but what had befallen her people, surely they had been destroyed with the planet. She had been raised as a young child to care about those beneath her station, to be the kind of leader they wanted to follow. If her siblings were alive how many of the others were too? She'll have to rebuild the Kingdom, if there was a place to rebuild it, it was her duty as the heir to the throne.

As she plopped down on her bed, she froze; a picture of Tommy was staring at her. If she returned to Acaria, when would she see Tommy again, her duty to her people would always come first. That was the way her parents had raised her. What would happen to Tommy?

He couldn't come with her, the Rangers needed him too much for that, and travel between the planets was hard enough, communication would be near impossible. She couldn't do that to Tommy.

There was only one thing to do, she found a piece of paper and wrote the hardest letter she ever wrote in her life. She had to let Tommy go, she was needed on Acaria and he was needed on Earth. She wasn't going to be responsible for holding Tommy back from having a happy life when she had other things to worry about.

...

Kim knew what she was doing was risky, but she had to do it, besides, if she had Thistle's ship, he couldn't follow her to Acaria, right?

She took a step out of the ship and winced as her foot crushed in dry dust. She took a deep breath of air, if you add in the two hundred year time warp she went through when she escaped and her eight year exile, two hundred and eight years had done little to diminish the smell of destruction. There was no hope for her planet.

She blinked away her tears, now wasn't the time to cry over a lost kingdom, now was the time to focus on the fact that her siblings might still be alive. She hurried through the crunch of dust through what had once been a busy shopping center and was now an eerie ghost town.

She hurried along as if she knew the streets like the back of her hand, and she did. She soon skidded to a stop in front of a large pile of ruins, this had once been a museum of intergalactic history. It was her that she had first learned about Zordon and power rangers and their war against Rita Repulsa.

She had to get down below to the catacombs. Which might be easier said than done, seeing as there were two tons of wreckage over the entrance. Kim scrambled through the wreckage, moving and shifting it as she needed to reveal the entrance.

Inside the catacombs, Kim moved forward with confidence despite it being pitch black. As an Acarian she could see relatively well in the dark. She quickly took a left that ended almost immediately in a dead end, however, she didn't turn back. She stood there feeling the cracks in the wall, looking for something.

Kim let out a sigh of relief when she found something, a latch that caused the whole wall to fall away. Inside the hidden room, there were piles of gold and jewels as well as a large treasure chest in the center of the room.

It was there that she headed to, she slowly opened the box and let out a sigh of relief, the Heart, which was a golden heart-shaped gem, was still where she had put it all those years ago.

"Well, well, well," a cold voice called out, "I had a feeling that you would lead me right to the Heart if I let you on my ship."

The battle that followed was fierce until the heart was knocked out of Kim's hand and landed at Thistle's feet. Kim watched in horror as he bent down and picked up the heart. Kim quickly ducked behind a pile of rubble to shield herself as Thistle threw a massive energy ball at her, causing her to scream in pain as it tore through her protective pile of rubble.

Tommy still couldn't believe that Kim had dumped him through a letter, he just didn't think it was something Kim would do. He had tried to do things to help him forget and meeting Heather at the ski resort certainly help, that was until Adam showed up the morning they were supposed to leave and demanded, "Did you watch the news at all while you were here?" he demanded.

Tommy frowned, turning towards him, "No why?"

"A girl in Florida found her roommates body in their room," Adam said slowly as if he was treading on thin ice.

"Okay, why are you worried about me learning about a murder that took place in Florida?"

"You might want to sit down for this," Adam stated before physically pushing Tommy into the nearest seat, "I don't really know how to explain this, Tommy," tears were forming in Adam's eyes, "Her mom called your parents this morning to tell them what had happened, so far they haven't released any names until the family could be contacted. Tommy, Kim was murdered."

Tommy jumped out of the chair, swearing in a language that no one on earth could understand. This is what happens when he gets close to a girl, they die thousands of miles away from him. First Crystalynn and know Kim.

He didn't pay much attention to what was going on around him, he wanted answers and he wanted them now! Zordon would explain why he didn't notice that Kim was being murdered and didn't send him to intervene. He just hoped that Adam had covered his sudden departure and that nobody saw him teleporting. Either that or Billy needs to build a mind wiping device quickly.

"How did you not notice that one of your former Rangers were being killed!" were the first words Tommy shouted at the top of his lungs when he arrived at the Power Chamber.

"Ay Yi Yi," Alpha said, "Tommy the truth is, we're still getting a reading from Kim, only she's not on earth, in fact, she's on a planet that was destroyed over two hundred years ago by the Machine Empire, a planet called Acaria, we don't understand how this is possible, unless…"

"She's Acarian," Tommy stated simply, "An Acarian has seven lives when one body dies they receive a new body that doesn't have the life-threatening injury."

"How do you know about the Acarian's seven lives?" Zordon asked, shocked.

"Because I still have six of mine, I lost one during the Machine Empire Invasion, I'm Sar Jadeon."

Just then a voice was picked up on the system, "It originates from Acaria, more importantly, it's coming from Kimberly's communicator," Alpha announced.

"Patch me through," Tommy ordered, before switching to a language he hadn't use in eight years and saying, "This is Sar Jadeon, I am currently serving as the leader of the power rangers on Earth, and we have intercepted your distress call."

There was a gasp on the other side before someone stated over the line in perfect English leaving no doubt who had contacted them, "This is Crystalynn, Tommy, get here quick, I need you."

Tommy only paused for a second, long enough to remove his zeonizer and teleport out. He didn't really know how he was going to get to Acaria, but he would figure it out. His Beautiful Kim needed him, as did Princess Crystalynn heir to the throne of Acaria.

A/N: I've been playing with this idea for awhile now, please tell me what you think.