A/N: Before you start crediting me for this…don't. This is Bella Vision's work and idea. I'm just the messenger carrying out the plot she's described before me. As such, I am warning you that this will be VERY, VERY different from Power Ranger canon, especially Dino Thunder.

A/N 2: For instance as you will see, in this story Tommy Oliver was NOT a Dino Thunder Power Ranger as a matter of fact while he lives in the town he doesn't even know who the Rangers are even though he's seen them on TV. Instead, one William Cranston is in his place as the leader of that team. I won't go too much further into this but suffice to say there will be other differences as the story goes along.

A/N 3: I own absolutely, positively NOTHING

Kitten De-Clawed

Last Time on Return of Pink…

"And now, to reveal our second surprise," Ninjor said as he stepped up to the second box and opened it. He opened it and the Rangers immediately converged on the box to find…

End flashback

…five different colored coins and five much different looking devices

The Rangers stared at what was in the box, not really knowing what these were. For the record, the coins were colored red, pink, yellow, green, blue, silver and gold.

"Behold, the new powers in the Morphing Grid…the Samurai Strike Powers," Ninjor said. "The powers have been dormant for a long time, looking for their proper holders. We sense that they have found their holders…just in time."

"Tommy, Cassie, Tanya, Adam, Rocky, Zhane, Jason, will you please step forward?" Dulcea said.

As they did, Ninjor muttered some words that were incomprehensible, and suddenly seven beams of light shot out and hit the seven adults, coating them in a beam of light. When the light faded, seven color coded individuals stood there as the new Samurai Strike Rangers – Tommy in red, Cassie in pink, Tanya in yellow, Adam in green, Rocky in blue, Zhane in silver and Jason in gold.

As Tommy took off his helmet he smiled, more than relieved he could be part of this fight again. After all, Kimberly was his, so it was only natural that Tommy wanted her back.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the depths of hell…

"Yes, Tommy, smile all you want. Hell, son, if I was you, I'd be smiling as much as I could tonight," Kimberly hissed. Through the new powers that she had been granted, she was also allowed to see inside Billy's Dino Thunder lair, so she could see everything that was going on right now. "Because when I get through making my move, son, one of your little pathetic teammates is going to be put out of commission."

Billy and Hayley's home

By this time, Dimitria, Dulcea and Ninjor had all left, leaving just the previous teams there. It was late enough that night and everyone had had a long day, so what the teams decided to do at that point was simply order pizza – in particular ten different pizzas because everyone on the team had different interests. Being the outright leader of the group that he was (even though Billy had taken on a Zordon role for the latest team), Tommy had decided to go get the pizzas himself – and surprisingly, Jennifer Scotts of Time Force had agreed to go with him.

While he was gone, the other members of the different teams had paired off and were exchanging conversations. In particular, everyone noticed that Katherine in particular had a worried expression on her face. Presently, Andros noticed this and walked up to her.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Andros said. "You look sort of scared."

Kat just threw her hands up in the air, frustrated because she knew Andros had just said was the truth.

"I am scared," she bluntly admitted. "We've all seen what Kimberly is capable of. We already know now that she isn't going to play by the rules like some of the previous opponents did."

"Kat, please calm down," Jason said. "Nothing is going to happen."

"I'm…I'm just afraid she's going to come after me next," Kat said. "I can't beat her alone…no one can."

"You won't have to be there alone," Leo of Lost Galaxy said. "We all stay together, remember?"

"I just hope you're right," Kat said. Somehow, she just had a terrible feeling in her gut that Kim was going to come after someone in the group when they got out alone…and that she was a prime suspect.

Meanwhile…

"Jen, thanks for coming with," Tommy said gratefully to the brunette-haired older woman that stood before him. "I very much appreciate the assistance you chose to lend to me."

"Every hero needs help once in a while," Jen said as she helped put the pizzas in Tommy's Mustang and then got in the passenger seat. "Whether you know it or not, Tommy, you and I are a whole lot alike."

Tommy looked confused until Jen said, "I know this is hard for you…and I know how hard it is for you because I have been in similar situations to what you are in. I know what it's like to miss a loved one because I go through this with Wes all the time."

Tommy looked at her and knew she was telling the truth. He'd read about Time Force before from the accounts that others had given him and he couldn't imagine how hard it would be for him if he lived in this time and Kimberly had to live 1,000 years away from him. He didn't know if he could stand it.

"Can we get her back?" Tommy asked bluntly. "Because right now, I wonder if she's too far gone for even our help. Mesogog's hold on her is pretty tough at this point."

"It is tough, no question," Jen said. "And I can't tell you much about what is supposed to happen because it would mess up the timeline greatly. But I will say this much Tommy…nothing is too far gone, if you believe it's possible then we can get her back."

"I'm just…going through hell right now," Tommy said. "I feel like my heart is being ripped apart again just when it was starting to heal!"

"That's part of why I decided to come with you," Jen said. "I know the guys you served with will be there for you as well, but I sincerely think I can be an influential voice if you listen to what I have to say."

They spent the rest of the ride in silence. When they finally pulled up at Billy's house with the pizzas, Tommy sincerely gave Jen a hug.

"That helped me quite a bit. You possess excellent leadership qualities. Thank you," Tommy said.

"No problem. Let's go eat."

Two days later…

It was Monday by now, and Kat was back in Angel Grove, preparing to leave the house she shared with her boyfriend Jason. Both were successful business people…Jason, as could be expected, owned a large dojo chain, the lead offices emanating from this area (there were also chains in several of the other cities the Rangers were associated in, as well as San Francisco, several of the L.A. suburbs, and San Diego, while Kat had her own large dance academy with chains throughout the state.

"That should do it," she said. "Let's hope the girls are ready for today."

"And I hope you're ready for what's about to happen to you, Pink Ranger," a voice said from behind her. Jason had heard the voice too and had come rushing in from the backyard. Both were utterly shocked to see Kimberly standing on their front lawn, fully morphed.

"What are you doing here?" Kat said.

"Just sending a message…that I can take any one of you any time I wish," Kimberly sneered. Kat moved to morph, but Kimberly moved her hand to say, 'uh uh.'

"I think you look much better un-morphed, Katherine so drop your little pathetic morpher now!" Kimberly ordered. "And if you refuse to take that charger off…then he gets it as well."

Katherine slowly removed her Turbo Morpher and key dropping it on the ground. Meanwhile, Jason looked to find a safe place to morph and was about to when he was suddenly grabbed from behind by three Tengas, who dragged him out to watch the festivities and ripped his communicator off before he could call anyone.

"You even think about freeing yourself and morphing, Gold Samurai Ranger, and I'll slice her body in two right now. Don't think I won't do it," Kimberly said.

Jason tried his best, but the grip of the Tengas was too strong, and with no other Ranger in the area, Kat was helpless, and the mugging was on as Kimberly wasted no time in slicing open her face with her daggers, causing blood to pour out in buckets.

Then she pinned Kat to the ground and pummeled her with hard rights for a good five minutes. Then when she was done with that, she focused her energy and threw a powerful pink ball of energy at Kat, who was sent flying against the house, almost causing Jason to snap.

It didn't matter to Jason anymore that Kimberly and him had been extremely close once…all he knew now was that Kat was getting the living hell beaten out of her and he couldn't stand it.

"You'll never get away with this!" Jason roared.

"Shut up, human!" Kimberly shouted. "You're not the one I want but you better shut up before I make you next. Mesogog is my master, and he has suggested that Katherine be put out of commission. Now shut up and watch the show lest I make you my next victim!"

As if to demonstrate her point one final time, she summoned one of her daggers and played it, unleashing her pink cyclone on Kat for a good five minutes, tossing her into the house, blood running down her face.

"Too easy," she smirked as she simply picked up the Turbo Morpher and Key that belonged to Kat. "Just remember I own TWO sets of powers now. Be sure to tell your little phony leader this…the rest of you are next."

Kimberly disappeared as Jason rushed over to Kat, horrified by what had just happened. It was one thing to get devastated like that when you had the protection of the Power, but unmorphed, Katherine had taken a lot of serious damage.

Quickly, Jason called 9-1-1 who arrived in short order and wheeled Kat into the ambulance, taking her towards the hospital.

Meanwhile, Reefside, CA

"Another strong effort, guys," Tommy said as his current class finished up their first part of their lessons for the day. "Let's break, and we'll do some more later."

Suddenly, there went his communicator and he moved to a safe place quickly.

"This is Tommy," he said.

"Tommy, you need to get your ass to Angel Grove as soon as possible. Kat and I were ambushed by Kimberly as we were about to leave and she's in bad shape!" Jason said in an extremely panicky voice.

"OK, I'll be there soon. Call the others."

Angel Grove

It wasn't but two hours later that all the Rangers got their as quick as they could after they'd heard what happened earlier and they all stared at Katherine and realized she was lucky to be alive. She was breathing but it had been slowed somewhat and she'd been taken to intensive care as soon as she had arrived.

"I can't BELIEVE this!" Zack said incredulously. "What do we do now?"

"You can do NOTHING, weaklings," a giggly, female voice said as it ominously swept through the room. The Rangers all turned to see a holographic face of Kimberly emanating from one of the walls of Kat's room.

"You have some nerve showing up here!" Jason said.

"So says the guy who didn't have the guts to step up and face me, huh?" Kim's voice echoed.

"You're a coward!" Tommy said. "That's real big of you to attack Kat like that, when she was completely defenseless!"

"Shut up, Tommy," Kim said nonchalantly. "You should learn one thing from this attack, Rangers…I grow stronger by the day, and I can take any one of you any time I wish. So I think it would behoove you to…do what you do. Because if I see an opportunity to take any one of you out, I won't hesitate to do it. Ta-ta, Rangers."

With that, the image of Kimberly's face disappeared and the Rangers looked at each other more nervously than ever before.

They now knew that no one had ever threatened them like they were being threatened right now.

TBC…

TBC…