Angel Grove, California

Park Tournament Party

"Congratulations guys, you did it!" Rocky said, gathering food onto his plate. He wasn't just talking about winning the Karate Tournament but also receiving new powers. They were at the park celebrating everything that they had accomplished in the last couple of days.

"Wish you could have been there with us Rocky, it wasn't the same." Tommy said feeling bad that he couldn't join them in both the tournament but also the rescue mission.

"That's okay. I can focus on other things now. You'll be okay without me." He replied. They spent the rest of the time eating, talking and laughing about everything, until Justin interrupted.

"Um, guys, where is the girl?" They all turned to him with the look of confusion on their face.

"What girl?" Adam voiced knowing no one else was going to.

"The one we rescued along with Jason. I haven't seen her since you three won the tournament." He stated pointing to Adam, Tommy and Jason. This caused everyone to look around and realize that SHE was not there. In fact they don't remember seeing her either, they couldn't remember if she left with them or not.

"Oh no" Jason said realizing what could have happened, just before he quickly ducked and a ball flew over his head just missing him. Everyone looked to see where the ball had come from, and saw three people running towards them.

"Trini, Zach, Aisha?" Tommy asked, as every one of the rangers celebrating left the table and went to meet them somewhat halfway. They were surprised that they were back in California, because as far as everyone else knew they were on the other side of the earth, Aisha in Africa and Trini and Zach in Switzerland. They were even more surprised when Trini slapped Jason across the face just before Zach grabbed her arms and pulled her back. Aisha standing next to them trying to calm Trini and help Zach restrain her.

"SHE'S GONE…SHE'S GONE BECAUSE OF YOU!" Trini screamed at Jason. No one said a word they just looked on to the argument that was breaking out in front of them.

Power Chamber

"Zordon, please pull up my room on the viewing globe," a girl in jeans, a lavender shirt and a jean jacket said looking up to the head in the tube. He did as he was told. "See those boxes on my bed can you please teleport them here?" Just then four small boxes and 1 larger box were set down near one of the consoles. The smaller boxes were labeled Jason, Rocky, Adam and Kat, while the larger one was labeled Tommy.

"Are you sure you want to do this Kimberly?" Zordon asked the girl, his first pink ranger.

"It's the only way Zordon. The day I left the team was the day everyone's alliance to me ended." She said as she pulled out her old power morpher and only the two of the three power coins that she had had in her possession as a ranger, and set them on the edge of the console. Just as she was about to remove her communicator the alarm rang. She turned herself to look at the screen. What she saw made her even sadder than what she was. Trini was yelling at Jason while being held back by Zach and Aisha, while the others looked on. "Zordon, I have to go down there and say goodbye to Trini, Zach, and Aisha, it's the only way those three will be able to find me and help me. Then when I come back we can finish what needs to be done. Just then she was gone in a flash of pink.

"Aye Yai Yai," Alpha said sadly. He felt bad for the first pink ranger and could not believe what she was going through.

The Park

"Trini, what are you talking about? Who's gone?" Jason tried to reason with her.

"YOU LIED TO HER AND NOW SHE LEFT! WE CAME HOME TO VISIT AND FIGURED WE WOULD HANG OUT BUT YOUR LIES MADE HER LEAVE!"

"I didn't lie to anybody!"

"YES YOU DID!" Trini screamed as she yanked herself out of Zach's restraint. She then walked up to Jason and took out her phone, dialed her voicemail and put the speaker on. "Hey Trini, it's me" Jason put his head down knowing the voice, "um, I know I said we would get together when you came but, I can't, not anymore. I thought what Jason told me was true but it wasn't I came back to the life I left to go to France. They seemed pretty friendly to me, the same I last saw them. I can't do this anymore; I can't live in the lies that I were hoping were true. I am starting over; I'm leaving France and moving away, I'm also changing my phone number. I don't want anyone to find me. Goodbye Trini, you're my sister in everything but blood, tell Zach and Aisha I love them too. The four of us will always be a family." Trini hung up the phone, tears streaming down her face. "She's gone and it's your entire fault." She said looking pointedly at Jason who still had his head down.

"I didn't leave yet, I figured I should say goodbye to you three first Trini." Everyone turned to that voice. Trini, Zach and Aisha ran to her and pulled her into a bone crushing group hug.

"Kim you don't have to do this," Zach told her placing a hand on her shoulder.

"I do, it's the only way," she said sadly looking towards the three that surrounded her.

"Kim, what are you talking about? What's going on?" Rocky asked, causing the group of four to look towards the group of seven. Kim stepped forward.

"I'm leaving, starting anew if you all listened to Trini's voicemail.

"But why?" Justin asked. He had taken a liking to this girl in the time he had spent with her on the way back from Muranthius and while in the power chamber.

"Let me tell you all a story," she started. Trini and Aisha wrapped their arms around her to give her support. Zach laid a hand on her shoulder to let her know that she had his support. "Once upon a time there was a group of five teenagers that hung out all the time. One day they were recruited by an inter-dimensional being stuck in a time warp to save their planet. They fought hard and long for a year, in which during that time they gained another member to their group. Shortly after, the new member lost his powers, and was forced back to having a normal life in which brought him and the person known as the "heart" of the team together. He returned for a short time due to his powers being reinstated before losing them for good. Finally he returned even stronger than before and was made leader of the team." The whole time she looked at Tommy. This caused Justin to understand what was going on. "Shortly after Tommy arrived back on the team, he and I were able to make our relationship stronger, we became almost inseparable. Because of our relationship our team became stronger. A few months later though, Jason, Trini and Zach were replaced with Rocky, Aisha and Adam, when they went to the peace conference, leaving Tommy, Billy and I as the only originals left. We lost our powers and gained new ones." She had said pointing to five of the people she was talking about. "Finally my time came. A new girl moved here and was put under a spell. She stole my power coin, and gave it to the enemy causing me to nearly die. Zordon and Alpha were able to cut my connection from my coin, allowing me to live. I could still be a ranger but who knew how long that would last, since I still didn't' have my coin." This time she stared directly at Kat who shifted uncomfortably under the glare. "I was soon offered to compete in the pan globals. I practiced all day everyday only being a ranger when needed. I almost died when I fell off the balance beam one night due to being exhausted from battling. My power coin was still in the hands of the enemy. Kat overcame the spell and called 9-11 and saved my life. I competed in the preliminaries and won. I needed to make a choice. All my friends told me to go and achieve my dreams, and I did. I gave Kat my power coin and that's how she became the new pink ranger. I came home for Christmas that year and saved Christmas and when I left to go back to training that was the last time I saw anyone face to face until recently…I remember a promise that was made to me by my white knight at the time I lost my power coin, that no matter what happened I would always have him…but I guess a promise is only good if you stayed a member of the team. Most of you know what happened next." She finished, her eyes filling up with tears knowing what was going to happen next.

"I kept my promise Kimberly, until you went and screwed it all up…you wrote the letter, you cheated on me and told me in a letter!" Tommy shouted taking a step forward.

"I never wrote you a letter! I called you for days, I needed you and you weren't there. Your mother told me you were on a ski trip with Billy and Kat, and to never call there again. The only people I could get a hold of were Trini and Zach, I came to Angel Grove for you and Zordon showed me the letter scene, I then proceeded to go to the youth center to tell you the letter was fake, and I saw you dancing with my replacement and a finished candle lit dinner two feet away!"

"How can you say that? Kat was helping me get over you. You cheated on me and in your handwriting wrote me a Dear John letter."

"One I never wrote you a Dear John letter, someone else did, they forced my hand writing they had to have. Secondly….IF I DID CHEAT ON YOU THEN EXCUSE ME FOR NEVER KNOWING THAT THE DEFINITION OF CHEATING INCLUDED BEING GANG RAPED!" Everyone gasped. "THAT'S RIGHT I WAS RAPED, GANG RAPED TO BE EXACT OUTSIDE MY DORM BUILDING!" everyone stared at her in shock except for Trini, Zach, Aisha and Jason who all knew.

"What?" everyone asked almost in unison.

Kimberly now had tears falling down her face. "It's true you can ask these three beside me or even Jason, or Billy if you can get a hold of him. All three knew but swore to me that I would be the one to tell you. I called you the whole time the trial against the leader, the person in charge of the rape, was going on. Trini got a hold of Kat and she said she would tell you, but considering your facial expressions and how big of a surprise this is to all of you she never did, especially since Tommy received a Dear John letter say two-three days after we got a hold of someone." Everyone turned their attention from Kimberly to Kat.

"I never talked to Trini, this is the first time I am ever hearing about this," she lied.

"Why you little-" Trini said, with a look of evil in her eyes, unwrapping her arm from around Kim to go attack Kat. That was until Kim touched her arm causing Trini to look at her and shook her head no.

"She's not worth it Trini, just let it go." With that Trini stepped back. Trini gave her a hug, followed by Zach and Aisha, each time whispering "Reefside, California" into their ears, and each of them nodding in understanding.

Tommy stepped towards them sympathy/guilt in his eyes. "Kim, I-" causing Kim to step back.

"Don't," she said with her hand up to stop him from coming closer, "please." Then addressing Rocky, Adam, even Jason and Kat, "I commend you all for your duty towards your leader. I guess respect lies with those on the team. In his time of need you stood by him even though it was a lie. I respect you all for that. Jason I thought-, never mind. Goodbye." With that said she teleported away, back to where she came from. Trini Zach and Aisha started walking out of the park without saying anything to the others who just stood there dumbfounded.

Power Chamber

"I'm ready Zordon," Kimberly said as she teleported into the Power Chamber one last time and removing her communicator and placing it next to her morpher.

"KIMBERLY, WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO TAKE THIS GIFT AS A TOKEN OF OUR APPRECIATION OF YOUR TIME AS A POWER RANGER. IT REPRESENTS WHO YOU WERE. IT ALSO HAS A TRACKER BUILT IN SO IF YOU ARE IN ANY TROUBLE IT WILL ALERT WHOEVER IT IS THAT IS IN CHARGE OF SAVING THE PLANET." Kimberly took the box out of Alpha's hand and opened it. Inside the box was a necklace that had her initials in pink with 3 charms on it ((Pterodactyl)K(Firebird)H(Crane)).

"Thank you Zordon, Alpha, I will cherish this" She said with tears in her eyes as she put it on.

"YOU DO UNDERSTAND THAT ONCE THIS IS DONE THERE IS NO GOING BACK. YOUR MEMORY WILL BE WIPED OF THE POWER RANGERS. YOU WILL ONLY KNOW OF THEM AS THE CIVILIANS DO, DEFENDERS OF EARTH. YOUR FRIENDSHIP WITH THE OTHERS STOPPED WHEN THE BECAME RANGERS. THE ONLY FRIENDS THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO HELP YOU THROUGH THIS ARE TRINI, ZACH AND AISHA. IN WHICH I HOPE YOU GAVE THEM THE HINT. THE ONLY WAY EVERYTHING WILL RETURN TO YOU WOULD BE IF SOMETHING WERE TO HAPPEN TO ME. I WILL ALSO REMIND YOU THAT YOUR MEMORY OF THE RAPE AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT IS NOT RANGER RELATED WILL STILL REMAIN."

"Yes Zordon, I do. I have also told my three friends the name of where I will be and they understand, any questions they do have they know to ask you in private. Zordon, I would like to thank you so much for everything, I am really going to miss you two, very much. Zordon you were always my father when my real father could not be here for me and I thank you for that. I know that you understand why I want to hide from my past I just hope that you can forgive me."

"THERE IS NOTHING TO FORGIVE, KIMBERLY! I WISH YOU WELL IN YOUR NEW LIFE. WHEN THIS IS DONE YOU WILL BE DIRECTLY TELEPORTED TO YOUR ROOM IN PARIS. ARE YOU READY TO PROCEED?"

Kimberly hugged Alpha goodbye and stepped away from him and looked to her mentor, "I am." With that Kimberly closed her eyes and let Zordon do his mind sweep.

In the power chamber Zordon and Alpha were watching Kimberly in the viewing screen being woken by her mother and leaving for the airport. Zordon knew that unless he checked on her periodically through the viewing screen that this would be his last time seeing her. Shortly after they saw her board the plane, and shut off the screen the rangers teleported in. The rangers decided shortly after Kim left that they needed to go home and think about everything that had happened today at the celebration and promised each other that they would meet up later at the power chamber.

"Zordon is everything true?" Adam asked his mentor, once everyone had arrived. Tommy looked to his left and saw on the consol a morpher, two power coins and a pink communicator like the one he used to wear. He walked over and picked up the communicator, as he heard Zordon's voice.

"IT IS ADAM. KIMBERLY HAS LEFT EVERYTHING HERE BEHIND, IN HOPES OF STARTING OVER. IF YOU ARE REFERRING TO WHAT HAPPENED TO HER SHORTLY AFTER THE HOLIDAYS THEN THAT IS CORRECT TOO."

Everyone lowered their head except for Justin. He had just met the girl and knew nothing of the letter that they spoke of. He did feel bad for her, she lost everything.

"You guys look!" Tanya shouted pointing to the boxes in the corner, finally voicing herself since before the fight between Trini and Jason. The group walked over to them and saw that each one had a name on it. The only people who did not have a box were Tanya and Justin. Each person opened their box, and what was in them surprised the hell out of them. Each box had pictures of the gang/group, or that individual and Kim. It also had newspaper clippings of the rape, so they knew that it wasn't some lie that it had really happened along, with a little note.

The reason Tommy's box was larger was because it was filled with everything he had given her along with every picture taken of him and her and the gang. Three letters were placed on the top of the little trinkets, his green and white plaid hoodie, even the teddy bear he had given her when she was in the hospital after falling off the beam just before she left for Florida. He handed the two labeled Tanya and Justin to their rightful owners. Tears were soon forming in his eyes, and the guilt he was feeling was worse than the guilt being the evil green ranger. He picked up the letter with his name on it and read what was written: If you truly loved me then you would have tried to find out if the letter was true instead you believed in a lie and broke the promise you made to me at the time I needed you most. p.s Don't make promises you can't keep. She hadn't cheated, in fact she didn't even write a letter, instead of not swallowing his pride when he received it and calling her up, he believed in the lie and had cheated on her, and more than once. All of a sudden he felt sick. He then teleported himself and his box out of the power chamber back to his home.

Oliver Household

Tommy landed in his room and ran straight to the bathroom where he got sick. When he was done he flushed the toilet and slowly made it back to his room and collapsed on his bed. His mother hearing the commotion he made came to check up on her son.

"Tommy, honey what's the matter? Are you feeling okay?" Mrs. Oliver asked her son. Tommy didn't say anything instead he lifted the note that was in the box and handed it to his mother. Mrs. Oliver read it and gasped. "Tommy what is this?" Again Tommy said nothing and pointed to the box that was on the floor at the end of the bed. Mrs. Oliver walked over and looked inside the box, what caught her eye was not all the trinkets and pictures in the box but the news clippings that lay on top of everything. Pan Global Hopeful Raped Outside Dorm Building and California's Representation in Pan Global Games Raped were only two of the many news clippings. Mrs. Oliver picked them up and looked towards her son. One thing she had noticed was that the date was one week pre-letter. "Tommy?"

"She never wrote the letter, someone else did. Someone told me a lie and I believed it." He sat up and faced his mom but stayed seated on the bed. "She was raped and I had no idea, instead I never returned her calls, believed in a lie and cheated on my girlfriend." He said just before he broke down. Mrs. Oliver dropped the papers she was holding and ran to her son's side. She held onto him and let him cry. She in some ways felt responsible because she remembers Kim calling and asking her to never call their house again. Tommy cried for a couple of hours until he couldn't cry no more. Shortly after all the tears had stopped he fell asleep.

Power Chamber

Everyone couldn't believe what had just happened. Within 10 minutes of arriving at the power chamber Tommy had left. He handed Tanya and Justin envelopes and was the first one to read his letter that everyone had gotten in their boxes and left soon after with a look of pain and guilt. Shortly after he left everyone opened theirs at the same time and read it to themselves. Adam and Rocky's letters said the same thing: you all were awesome friends and teammates; we were there for each other till my leave. Even though the letter was a lie, and you all believed it you were there for Tommy and that's where your alliance should have been, thank you. P.s. stay true to you self and your team even after you leave.

Jason's was quite different: I always considered you my big brother even though we weren't blood related. You were always there for me until the end. I know that you were only trying to help by bringing me home and telling me that they weren't close but in the time you were gone to get me they got closer and it only hurt me more. P.s thanks for trying anyways

Kat: You replaced me in more ways than one. P.s. the truth will come out.

Tanya: Tanya, I know I don't really know you but I would like to thank you for not acting like a bitch toward me, in the time that you believed the letter. Aisha has told me so much about you that I feel like I know you. Thank you for being there for Tommy, he is going to need you now more than ever. P.S. you make such a great yellow, good luck in life.

Justin: you are such a great kid. It shocked me to know that you are the youngest power ranger. You did well with your first mission and I wish you luck in the future. You have been brought into a legacy, don't give up on your team even after you separate. P.s. Billy, the original blue, if he was still here and not on another planet would be proud of you. I know I am.

When everyone finished their letters, those who had boxes picked them up and everyone teleported out of the power chamber without saying one word to Alpha or Zordon.

"Aye Yai Yai!" Alpha said once everyone was gone. Today was an emotional day even for a little robot.

Author's note: there is more to come, next chapter is titled In space and pre-DT. Hope you all like my story so far…please R&R…please no negative reviews, only positive ones. Third chapter should be up in a day or two. Hopefully next chapter for strong enough will be up sometime end of the week if not next week. Catch ya on the flip side.