A/N note: I almost had this chapter on the computer when I realized that I had forgotten "Forever Red"
Time: June 15, 2001
Looking around the Command Center, Henry thought about the progress Billy and he had made. Unfortunately there was still a lot to do… Looking in a corner he saw the symbols of the Ranger teams.
Dino
Thunder
Ninjetti
Zeo
Turbo
Space
Lightspeed Rescue
Galactic
Time Force
He had placed the symbols for the Space, Lightspeed Rescue, Galactic and Time Force. The Lightspeed Rescue team's equipment was totally destroyed and the team had been deactivated. The Galactic teams weren't needed anymore so they had retired. Time Force was the new team. They operated out of Silver Hills. Henry was pretty sure that most of the team was from the future. He had almost got the time pinpointed.
Jason and Emily had set a date for their wedding, August 3, 2001.
Henry and Trini had been dating a lot. It seemed the others were making an effort to get them together.
Aisha got tired of waiting for Rocky to ask her, so she asked him to marry her. He said yes.
The owner of Angel Grove Dojo sold it to Tommy, Jason and Rocky.
"Daydreaming?" Billy asked.
Henry looked at Billy. "Just thinking about the things that have happened in the last few years."
Just then both of them heard the theme song to Star Wars. Billy's eyebrow rose as Henry answered his cell phone with a grin on his face.
"Hello."
"Where are you?" Was the question from his girlfriend.
Looking at Billy he nodded his head towards one of the control panels. "At home."
There was silence for a moment. Then "Where in the house?"
Operating the controls Billy began to get a picture on the viewing screen.
"The living room. Why?"
There was silence again. "No you're not. I'm in your living room."
Henry could tell she was getting mad from the tone in her voice.
"Got her." Billy said. Both men looked at the viewing screen. Sure enough there was Trini in Henry's living room looking very annoyed. Henry cringed, held his hand over the mouthpiece and asked Billy, "What do you think. Shall we bring her here?"
Billy looked at Trini and then looked at Henry. "If we don't your gonna be in a lot of trouble." and then moved over to the teleportation controls.
Taking his hand away from the phone Henry told Trini "Just a moment." and then hung up the phone as he nodded to Billy. Billy and Henry turned and watched as a streak of yellow light turned into Trini staring at her cell phone. "He hung up on me!"
"That's because we are right behind you." Henry said from behind her.
Turning around she was about to say something before she noticed where they were. "I thought this had been destroyed."
Billy replied, "The upper levels were destroyed, but the lower levels were only damaged."
"Me and Billy have been rebuilding as much as we can. This is the secondary Command center where I used to watch you when you were fighting."
"Why?"
"Why what?" Henry asked.
"Why rebuild? There are active Rangers who don't need this."
Looking at Henry, who nodded, Billy turned and replayed Zordon's message.
After viewing the message, Trini turned and asked "How can I help?"
Briefing Trini on what they had gotten done, and the larger list of things that still needed to be done, Henry handed Trini a communicator.
Time: early December 2001
Sitting at his computer Henry thought about what everyone had been doing.
Jason and Emily had just returned from their honeymoon.
Aisha and Rocky had decided to have a double wedding with Adam and Tanya in June.
Zack had asked Angela to marry him and she said yes.
Last month he had gotten a call from Angela Fairweather. She and Joel Rowlings had gotten married as had Carter and Dana.
Coming up behind him, Trini looked at the computer screen. "We still have so much to work on." She said with a sigh. "Have you decided on who your gonna have as Rangers?"
"It's not an easy selection. I'm not sure if I want experienced Rangers of brand new ones."
"Either way, at least we have some more communicators to give them."
"True. But we are going to need three times as many as we have right now."
"I don't see why we can't tell the others. I'm sure they would all like to help out."
Reaching up and holding her hand that was on his shoulder, he leaned back and looked up at her. "I don't want to worry them. They deserve the peace they have."
Smiling and looking down she replied. "And I don't?"
"You do. And so do I. But if I hadn't told you I would be in the dog house."
Leaning down she kissed him and then said "True but I'm glad you told me.
Turning his chair around, Henry pulled her into his lap and turned back towards the computer screen. Kissing her on the neck, he pulled up a list of names.
Recognizing most of the people on the list, Trini asked "Who are the other people on the list?"
Pointing at one group of names Henry said "These were the Lightspeed Rescue team"
Pointing at 6 other names some of which had no last names, he continued. "And these are the Time Force Rangers. The rest are people I know that might make good rangers."
Pointing at one name she asked "Are you sure about her?"
"Yes. Her situation was similar to Tommy's and Kat's. She has done a lot to make amends for that."
Time: Right after Forever Red
As they headed towards the front gate of the NASADA space port, they made a small convoy. Tommy was leading the group in his white SUV. Behind him was Jason on his motorcycle, who was followed by Wes and Eric in the Silver Guardians vehicle with Carter and Cole following them in the Lightspeed Rescue Rover.
Suddenly Tommy slammed on his brakes. Jason swerved and stopped next to Tommy's window. Looking over at him, Jason saw that Tommy was looking towards the front gate. Looking in that direction, Jason saw the three cars that were parked outside the gate. "Oh crap." He said.
Tommy turned to him as the other four rangers walked up. "We are so dead."
A few months before Kimberly's birthday, Adam (with the help of Clint Eastwood, who he did a lot of stunts for.) had been able to talk the movie studio into selling him one of the cars from Pink Cadillac. Adam didn't have enough money so everyone pitched in to help pay for it. They had given it to Kimberly on her birthday along with an autographed picture of Clint leaning against the car. That car was now sitting outside the gate along with Jason's black and gold Mustang and Trini's yellow Volkswagen Bug.
Carter asked "What's wrong?"
Both men pointed at the five women standing next to the three cars.
"Wife" Jason said, followed by "Pink girlfriend." From Tommy. Both looked at each other and said "Three yellows."
Wes and Eric looked at each other then headed back towards their vehicle. Carter looked at Jason then at Tommy and then finally at the five women. He grabbed Cole's arm and pulled him to the Rescue Rover as Wes and Eric drove past them.
As Jason and Tommy watched the two vehicles go through the gate and speed past the women Tommy muttered "Cowards."
"Um Tommy?"
"Ya?"
"Where did you get the morphers?"
"From Henry. He said they were only good for twenty-four hours of use. Think we should tell Trini?"
"Are you nuts? Trini would kill him, and then Kimberly would kill us. You know she's been trying to get the two of them together."
"Ya. Ok if they ask these are our original morphers. Well let's go face the music." Tommy added.
As he drove up to the gate Tommy could see Kimberly staring at him with her arms crossed, tapping her foot. Leaning against Jason's car was Emily and between them stood Trini, Aisha, and Tanya.
Ten minutes later Emily was hugging Jason like she was never going to let him go while Kimberly was lecturing Tommy while Aisha and Tanya stood glaring at him. Trini stood nearby and was trying to hide a grin. The men had told them that those were the original morphers but she knew better. She had helped Henry build Jason's morpher. She also knew that Tommy thought his was a copy as well but his was the original red Zeo morpher. Suddenly she frowned 'Why did they lie about the morphers?' She knew Henry had given them to Tommy. Her frown got deeper. The only reason she could think of for them to lie would be to cover for Henry so he wouldn't get in trouble. If she hadn't already known about the morphers and they told the truth she would have killed Henry. But why would they care if Henry got hurt if they could shift some of the blame on him? "Oh she was going to kill all of them!' As the answer popped into her head.
After another fifteen minutes past the men left and the girls got into their vehicles. Trini walked over to Kimberly's car and leaned into the driver's side where Kimberly was sitting. She pointed her finger at her best friend. "Stop messing with my love life! I mean it."
Turning she walked back to her car and got in.
"What was that about?" Aisha asked.
Trini turned towards her with eyes narrowed and pointed at Aisha. "Don't help Kimberly anymore!"
"What do you mean?" Aisha asked innocently.
"Don't give me that innocent look. Lord of the Rings comes out and you tell Rocky you two already have plans? And you're a fellow yellow, shame on you."
Aisha slumped in the car seat. "Sorry. It seemed like a good idea at the time." "Are you going to stop seeing him?"
Trini grinned with a gleam in her eyes. "No! He's mine! But don't say anything to anyone. Yellow swears."
Aisha grinned "I Yellow swear."
A/N: ok I am real sorry for not updating this sooner. RL sorta got in the way as well as lazyness…..
Been spending a lot of time reading stories in my spare time… on thing I have noticed is most of the stories I have read have Kimberly getting pregnant hence the dear John letter…. I think that is way over used and like my excuse better.
I started typing the next chapter but am not sure when I will post it.
