A/N - I know it's been so long since I've updated. But it's the summer now and I'll have lots of time to work on my stories! To make up for my long absence I've uploaded two chapters. Hope you guys enjoy them!

Disclaimer: Don't own Power Rangers

Chapter 3- Blame & Explanations

Tommy demorphed and stared at Kat. She ran at him, slapped him, and then kissed him, holding on for dear life. After they pulled apart she started pounding his chest with her fists, fresh tears in her eyes.

"How could you? You call me in the middle of the night and say you need ranger power. Then the line goes dead. The next day I hear that the island you were on has blown up! I called our friends, they heard it too. We all thought you were dead! I came back to California, per your request to, and you've been alive all this time! And back in the spandex, with a new power and colour to boot! Why couldn't you phone, send a letter, email, ANYTHING to let us know you that you're alive? HOW COULD YOU?"

Tommy grunted as she pounded harder. He grabbed her wrists and pulled her to him letting her sob on his shoulder. By now the other rangers had demorped, revealing that Kat was right about their identities, and were crowded around her. They stayed that way for a while, and Kat's sobs became quieter. Finally she spoke again.

"How could you Tommy?" She said barely above a whisper. "I was so worried about you. I thought…I thought I would never see you again. I couldn't bear to think that I wouldn't even get the chance to say goodbye! I should have come to visit, I shouldn't have immersed myself completely in dance that I let you fall through the cracks…let us fall through the cracks. I didn't want that. I don't want that." Silent tears streamed down her face as well as Tommy's. She practically admitted she loved him.

Kat seemed to regain control of her emotions and settled on pissed.

"But either way you should have contacted me!"

"I know. I'm sorry. I have no excuse." He said.

"Well at least you admitted you were wrong. It's taken me years to train you to admit that."

"I seem to remember I got a treat every time I did." He said pulling her towards him, smirking with love in his eyes. Love that did not go unnoticed by Kat.

"Dr. O!" Came the cry of the other rangers. Kat jumped a little, she forgot they were there, and then she turned around and smiled.

"Ms. Hillard!" They all cried.

"Kira, Conner, Ethan. For future reference you need to make better excuses when skipping class at the same time to fight evil."

"You knew?" asked Kira.

"I've known for a long time. You all possessed the same signs and symptoms that we did when we first became rangers. Also there was the fact that you only started talking to each other after the rangers showed up."

"Oh." said Conner.

"What do you mean when you 'first became rangers?'" asked Ethan.

"Why don't we go back to the Dino ruins and we'll explain." Said Tommy.

"Dino Ruins?" asked Kat.

"My version of the Command Centre and Power Chamber."

They drove to Tommy's house and went down a secret staircase to the Dino Ruins. Kat was impressed. They all sat down and Tommy briefly glossed over how he became a ranger, not lingering on his early Green ranger days. Then it was Kat's turn.

"My family moved from Australia when I was 17. Almost immediately I was captured by Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd."

"The Mesogog of the time." imputed Tommy.

"I was turned evil and told to steal one of the rangers Power Coins. I was jealous of Kimberly, the original Pink ranger, because she was dating Tommy, so I stole her Coin. Without it she became very sick and could have died. But I was able to break Rita's spell and helped get Kim's coin back. I told them what happened and was so thankful that they forgave me. Then Kim got a chance to compete in the Pan Globals and took it. She passed her Coin on to me."

"So that's the power you were using?" asked Ethan.

"No. Our Power Coins have lost most of their power. We can use them but the power won't last long and it's dangerous, and possibly fatal."

"Then you were another ranger, like Dr. O." stated Conner.

"Yes. We were changed into kids and we couldn't use our Power Coins. The Alien rangers of Aquitar came to Earth and helped-"

"But we're not going to get into that." Tommy said firmly when Ethan looked as if it was his birthday had come early and Kat had just declared it a universal holiday.

"Zordon, our mentor, sent us to retrieve the fragments of the Zeo Crystal."

"When we returned them to the Command Centre we returned to our teenage selves." Kat and Tommy said taking turns explaining a part of their lives they would never forget.

"Then Rita and Zedd attacked the Command Centre, completely destroying it, and most of the power in our Coins."

"Not long after, the Machine Empire invaded our galaxy and ran Rita and Zedd out of their moon palace."

"In the ruins of the blast we found the Zeo Crystal still in tact. We also found an entrance to the Power Chamber which Zordon had built under the Command Centre."

"In the Power Chamber we found Zordon and Alpha, but the Machine Empire was attacking the city."

"Zordon gave us our Zeonizers and we used the Zeo Crystal to power them. But there were only five fragments of the Zeo Crystal, and six rangers.

"Billy, the Original Blue ranger, stepped aside in favour of becoming our technical advisor along with Alpha."

"The battle with the Machine Empire was long, but we eventually defeated them."

"But our problems weren't over. A wizard named Larigot, came to Earth to escape the space pirate, Divatox. We created new zords and gained new powers, and we shifted into Turbo." Kat snorted trying not to laugh at the words Tommy chose, which were extremely close to their old morphing call. Tommy ignored her but smirked, in her direction and Kat decided to finish the story.

"Rocky, the second Red ranger, and Blue Zeo ranger, was injured and couldn't help us, so he chose another to take his place. Justin, who was a boy of ten at the time, became the Blue Turbo ranger. We saved Larigot and stopped Divatox's plan to marry Maligore, an evil demon. But Divatox decided to stay on Earth and take over from where the Machine Empire left off. That year we graduated high school, and put our lives on hold to protect the city. Not long afterwards we passed on our powers to TJ, Cassie, Carlos, and Ashley. You may know them as-"

"The Space rangers!" cried Conner. "They revealed their identities to save everyone from Astronema who turned out to be the Red Ranger Andros's sister, and-" he stopped when he saw the death glare Tommy was sending him.

"So how come you know all this and you can't pass a one page quiz on stuff you did in ninth grade?"

"Well, no offense Dr. O, but ranger history is much more interesting then twelfth grade science."

"Wait a minute." said Kat. "You-you teach at Reefside High?"

"Yeah, science."

"You mean to tell me, that we've been teaching at the same school for a month, gone to staff meetings, and never seen each other?"

"Yeah I never go to staff meetings. Wait a minute, YOU teach at Reefside?"

"Yes, dance."

"Well it's good to see some things never change. You always loved dance."

"And because it made me so fast, agile, and flexible I could usually kick your ass when we sparred."

"Uh, Kat-"

"Don't think I've forgiven you Dr. Oliver. You gave me, and all of the people you claim to be your friends, quite a scare. Of course I'll be telling them all, tonight, and I wouldn't be surprised if you got a few, if not many, angry phone calls. Not to mention that Jason, Zack, Billy, Trini, and Kim have been going ballistic. Kim blames herself you know."

"What? Why would she? She had nothing to do with this."

"But she thinks she does. You know Kim. If something goes wrong and there is the least possible chance that it could be her fault, she'll blame herself."

"But that still doesn't-"

"She thinks it's because of her and Jason's relationship."

"What?"

"Well the letter broke both of your hearts but you sort of reconciled after Muranthias. You could stand to be around her and actually enjoyed your time together, but there was too big of a gap between the two of you to be fixed so quickly. And then shortly after we gave up the Turbo powers she and Jason announced that they were an item, and then, not even a month later, you decided to become a palaeontologist and went to the island with Dr. Mercer. She thinks that if she had given it more time before she announced she was dating your best friend, and by the way they got engaged and married while you were gone but I'll let them tell you about that, and they are actually expecting a baby, she's due in early April, that you wouldn't have gone on the island and you wouldn't have 'died'."

"That's crazy! I was going to travel with Anton whether they were going out or not, and-married? Wait…BABY?"

"Yes. It was right after you stopped all contact with us. Jason proposed, and then they got married. They were going to tell you when you phoned again but the next time you called was the time we thought you had died. A few months ago, shortly before the wedding, Kim found out she was pregnant. Being as small as she is she started showing in the second month. Then morning sickness and everything started and…well you know the rest. She's just entering her fourth month. So when I tell her and Jase tonight don't act surprised when she shows up on your doorstep in the morning with a tired, and thus extremely pissed Original Red in tow after having made him drive all night."

"You think they'll come here…tonight?"

"I think they'll be the first out of five who show up. The others will probably show up the next day knowing that the Originals will be here and not wanting to get in the line of fire when they pull out their Morphers, lack of power or not, and use them on you."

"Y-you think it'll be that bad?

"I think it'll be worse then that." said Kat. Tommy groaned.

"It's your own fault." she reminded him. "If you had called or emailed or I don't know...sent a courier pigeon, then you wouldn't have signed your own death sentence." He smirked at her.

"Courier pigeon?" Kat rolled her eyes, smirked back and pulled out her cell phone.

"Who are you calling?" She didn't answer.

"Hi Kim, it's Kat." Tommy's eyes widened.

"Yes I'm fine Kim, although there's someone here who won't be once you and the Originals get your hands on him. No it's not Jason-what has he done now? Haha! He seems to piss you off everyday. He just doesn't learn. Anyways, the person I'm talking about was on an island when it exploded and led us to believe he was dead." She held the phone away from her and sure enough, everyone could hear a scream on the other end followed by yelling.

"Thomas James Oliver! I know you're there and you better pick up this phone or even The Power won't be able to protect you!" The teens looked at their mentor and saw him turn deathly pale. Kat smiled and held out the phone and Tommy shook his head, backing away.

"NOW!" shouted Kim. Tommy grabbed the phone from Kat, not daring to put it up to his ear knowing he'd be able to hear her."

"Kim..." he said meekly.

"Don't you 'Kim' me Thomas James Oliver! The island you're on explodes and you don't even call to let us know you're not dead!"

"Kim what you yelling about?" asked a voice Tommy and Kat knew all to well.

"Find out for yourself." she snarled.

"Hello?" said a quiet voice and Tommy moved the phone to his ear.

"Hey Jase." Tommy regretted his decision.

"Don't you 'Jase' me Thomas James Oliver! The island you're on explodes and you don't even call to let us know you're not dead!" It was scary how alike Jason and Kimberly were sometimes. There was a struggle on the other side followed by Jason's yelp of pain and Kim's voice.

"Go get some things together and start the car."

"Kim you're in no condition to be travelling. And besides we don't even know where he lives."

"I'm four months pregnant, not nine and I don't care if he moved to Aquitar! Now move!" Tommy could hear Jason scrambling to do her bidding.

"And you..." she turned on him in a low deadly voice which was worse then her yelling.

"You stay where you are. Jason and I will be there shortly, and yes, we will be calling everyone. Now where do you live?"

"1992 Valencia road, Reefside California." he said automatically, knowing she'd draw out his death even more if he fought her.

"Put Kat on."

"Hi Kim." said Kat taking the phone and watching at Tommy sank into a chair. "Of course he won't run. He fears you too much to do otherwise…No I won't be here when you arrive. I'm exhausted, it's getting late and someone needs to make sure the Rookies get home safely…Yes apparently he found a power source on the island and created Morphers…Yes he's back in the spandex. Black this time. I think he's going for every colour, pink could be next for all we know." The teens tried to smother their laughter.

"Haha yes, his ass would be too big although the skirt might look nice." Tommy hung his head while Connor and Ethan couldn't hold back anymore and Kira blushed trying to shake the image of her science teacher's ass in pink spandex out of her mind.

"Alright I'll see you tomorrow. Give me a call when you're through with him, I'll come by and pick up the pieces…Yes, alright bye." She turned toward everyone and watched Kira slap Connor to get him to stop laughing.

"Tommy you know that you deserve everything Kim and everyone else gives you. I'm certain they won't kill you, although I can't guarantee dismemberment." She smiled sweetly and turned to the teens.

"Alright you three time to go. Your parents will be getting worried and you do NOT want to be around when Kim gets here. Tommy if we could borrow your jeep? I'll return it tomorrow." he threw her his keys and watched as the teens waked up the stairs.

"You might want to go upstairs. If Kim has to search for you it will only be worse." he nodded and got up to follow her upstairs but was pulled into a kiss. He pulled her close and deepened the kiss, truly fearing this might be their last.

"I've missed that." said Kat once they pulled apart. Tommy nodded.

"I'll see you tomorrow." she said walking up the stairs and out the door. Tommy watched his jeep pull away then sat on the couch, waiting Kim's wrath.

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