Title: Power Rangers NSDT – Fate's Plan

Summary: When a mysterious girl shows up and kidnaps Tori, as well as Kira, the two Rangers teams they belong two are dragged along to rescue them and the girls unlock the secret the their past, and a prophecy that hangs the fate of the planet in the balance.

Disclaimer: Any and all Power Ranger characters now belong to Disney and some other folk, not me. So I'm not cashing in on this deal, sadly. The villains (Allison and company) and the storyline are totally mine though. J

Chapter Seven: TRUTH & CONSEQUENCES

"I'm sorry, did you just say 'welcome home?'" Kira frowned. "What kind of 'home' is this dump?"

"This 'dump' used to be a very nice house, once upon a little time," the old man stated (for the voice was obviously that of both a man, and an elderly figure). "And it was once yours."

"Mine?" Kira scoffed.

"Hers as well," the old man pointed at Tori as he stepped through the door and the girls saw that he was dressed in the same black robes as his monsters and Allison, and had a crimson colored belt. "You used to live here, along with Allison too."

"Listen dude…wow I can't believe I just said dude, stupid Conner, you're rubbing off on me…," she shook her head clear and returned to the subject. "Listen old man, I've lived with my mom in the same house in Reefside for all my life, so I have no idea what you're talking about."

"So have I, except in my case its Blue Bay Harbor, and I've lived with my father," Tori added.

"And have neither of you wondered about your other parent, about where they may be or why they are not living with you?" the man smirked.

"I was always told they had left because both parents had agreed it was better for the family," both Kira and Tori answered at the same time, looking at one another with shock afterwards.

"Exactly," the old man smiled. "Little Victoria Mai and Kira Emily Ford-Hanson."

"Excuse me?" Kira turned on the man and Allison, frowning. "What did you just call me?"

"Your full names, is it not?" he smiled.

"Yes…well no…just Hanson," Tori answered.

"And just Ford here," Kira added.

"Ah, your father's last name, correct Victoria?" he inquired as Allison laughed a little to herself behind him. Tori nodded slowly and he smirked again before looking at Kira. "And is it your mother's maiden name?"

"Yeah…," Kira nodded slowly, glancing at the equally shocked and confused Tori. "But it's not possible that we're…that we're sisters…is it?"

"Oh it's very possible Kira," the man grinned wickedly. "Which is why I say this was once your home, when you three lived as a happy family."

"So you mean…she's our sister?" Tori asked, jabbing a finger towards Allison.

"Yes," he nodded.

"And who the heck are you to know so damn much, old geezer?" Kira snapped, becoming more irritated with every step the conversation took that confused or shocked her.

"My name is Terrance, and my relation to you all is of no importance, except that I know what I must," he smirked again.

"How…how did it happen then?" Tori asked suddenly. "If we were three sisters before, which is hard enough to believe without proof, how is it that we now live in separate places?"

"When you were no more than two Victoria, Kira was one, and Allison was three," Terrance began, giving the two Rangers the answer to their silent question of age range of the third girl, "your parents discovered a little family secret that meant their daughters would be involved in a plot to conquer the world. They knew that the only way to protect them from this was to separate them, so your father took you, Tori, and moved to a different house in Blue Bay Harbor. Your mother Christine took you, Kira, and moved to Reefside. And finally, Allison was sent to me to remain under my care in your nice little house."

"And what exactly happened to the 'nice house' you were saying this used to be? Looks more like a test facility or jail," Tori commented

"Terrance created a novel base with our old home sisters," Allison said childishly. "It has all the old comforts of home, just…more modern."

"Looks creepy if you ask me," Kira rolled her eyes. "And from the looks of it, Terrance, you're pretty crappy as raising her like model parents, she's evil now, just like you."

"No, she just knows the right path to take in order to succeed in the events to come," Terrance laughed – an eerie hollow sound.

"And what events, may I ask, are to come?" Tori inquired, eyes narrowed as they moved back and forth from the smirking Allison and Terrance.

"You will find out soon enough, little Tori," Terrance cackled mischievously. He motioned to Allison, and the girl nodded, before turning to her sisters and smiling wickedly. Slowly, but surely, she advanced.

-- PR – NSDT --

"This is stupid, while we're sitting around on our butts waiting for those three to get a damn location, God-only-knows what's happening to Kira," Conner mumbled irritably.

"And Tori," Blake pointed out with a similar tone.

"And Tori," Conner nodded, agreeing.

The former Red Dino Ranger and Navy Thunder Ranger sat upstairs in Tommy's living room on a couch, brooding about their missing objects of affection. They had been doing this in the basement previously, hovering at the computers and badgering Hayley, Cam and Ethan to work faster to find the location. Finally, Hayley had got to fed up about their gloomy and irritably plaintive attitude and she'd sent them upstairs, refusing to let them back in unless they got a location lock.

So here the boys sat, in front of the TV, trying to find something that would take their mind off of the missing girls. Unfortunately, Tommy had satellite and the only channels he bothered to order were about Science, Discovery or Sports. Even the fact that the sports channels were covering either Soccer or Motocross didn't manage to help their mood (something which Dustin remarked was really sad when he'd come upstairs for a drink and seen them like this).

"You know what's even more stupid?" Conner inquired and Blake pulled his eyes away from the random hole in pillow cushion he'd been staring at to look at Conner.

"What?" Blake arched an eyebrow.

"I don't think that Allison would've been able to teleport very far all those times, since she had the monsters with her as well, and so she could've gone to any sort of base-like structure between here and Blue Bay Harbor, y'know, because it'd be more practical," Conner stated.

"Your point?" Blake mumbled patiently.

"There's like over a dozen empty warehouses and old abandoned facilities between here and Blue Bay Harbor that could hide that many monsters, and yet instead of going to check them, we're sitting here, doing abso-freakin-lutely nothing," Conner finished.

"Wow, you're right…," Blake sighed. Then, he frowned. "Wait a sec, aren't you the dumb jock of the group?"

"Yeah…," Conner nodded, lost in thought. He shrugged. "Can't be from Ethan, smartness don't rub off on me from him. Must've been hanging around Kira so much I've picked up a bit of brains…"

A dead silence filtered through as the mention of Kira brought the thought of the missing girls to both boys' minds and they slumped further into their seats, sighing.

"This is stupid," Blake agreed.

"Yeah…if the others really wanna waster their time using some lame search program thing to find them, that's fine with me, but I think we should be out there looking," Conner muttered.

"I agree," Blake nodded. "So why don't we? I mean, the others are all in the basement anyway, busy, and since we're not allowed down there thanks to caring more than them, we should be able to go, right? They won't even notice we're gone."

Conner looked at him as if he'd just said the most brilliant thing on the planet. "I like how you think," he smirked, getting up as Blake did.

"And I don't," Tommy stated as the boys turned around and realized he was standing in the doorway to the basement.

"How long have you been there Dr. O?" Conner inquired.

"Long enough to realize there's a lecture I should've given you guys a long time ago that I didn't," Tommy sighed. "At least not to the point I wanted to."

"Oh boy…," Conner rolled his eyes. One thing he'd learned during their time as Power Rangers was that Tommy Oliver and Lectures did not go well together.

"Sit," Tommy ordered and both boys complied, sitting on the couch as Tommy came to stand in front of them, turning off the TV.

"What's the lecture on this time Dr. O?" Conner asked.

"It's about liking another teammate," Tommy replied and both boys exchanged glances before opening their mouths to state the same thing. Tommy beat them to the punch. "Don't go telling me you don't, because it's clearly obvious you do. Why else would you be freaking out more than the others at the loss of Kira and Tori?"

This, incidentally, shut both Conner and Blake up.

"One rule that I should've imposed long ago, if I didn't already, is that when you're a Power Ranger, and you have archenemies that are trying to take over the world – which is what they're always trying to do – you never get involved," Tommy began. "Because your enemies can use the person you like against you and to hurt you, which isn't what's happened here, I don't think, but it's similar in many ways."

"I thought there were only three golden rules Dr. O," Conner grinned cheekily. "Never use your powers for personal gain, never escalate a fight unless the enemy does first, and never reveal your secret identity to non-Rangers. On my count, there is both nothing about dating in that, and you've broken all of those rules yourself."

"I think Conner's right, from stories I've heard," Blake nodded. "You used to work to the bad guys when you were first a Ranger, so you did in fact use your powers for personal gain, and you escalated a fight first, and you told a non-Ranger about your identity – Hayley."

"Oh, and he's been involved with a teammate before!" Conner shouted, proudly telling his former teacher off. "Her name was Kimberly and she was the original Pink Ranger!"

"That's enough!" Tommy bellowed. "I realize I'm not the best example of rule-following myself, because as you both kindly pointed out, I've broken them at one point during my Ranger years. But that's exactly why I always tell you guys to follow them; because I know what the consequences can be when things like that happen."

"And at this point I think its' time to remind you of what can happen when you get emotionally attached to a teammate when you're a Ranger," Tommy went on.

"But we're not even Rangers anymore!" Blake exclaimed. "It's been three years since our team-up, and us Ninja Rangers had already lost our Rangers powers by then, we only had enough juice for one more morph. And you Dino Rangers defeated Mesagog later on, losing your morphing abilities afterwards."

"Who said I was talking about you two as the Rangers?" Tommy inquired, and the hearts of both boys skipped a beat.

"What?!" both Blake and Conner exclaimed, eyes wide. "Does that mean…are saying that…"

"Yes, Kira and Tori are still Rangers, they can still Morph," Tommy nodded.

"How is that possible?!" Conner exclaimed.

"They lost their powers along with us!" Blake added.

"They did, that I don't deny," Tommy sighed, turning on his TV. It flicked into life on the sports channel, which was covering hockey at the moment, before pressing an odd looking purple button and the screen flickered again, switching to the familiar logo that the screens in the basement bore. "A friend of mine from San Angeles, Andrew Hartford, is the dispatcher for the current Power Rangers, the Overdrive Rangers. About a year ago, their Morphing Grid went offline, and they lost their powers, so in order to protect something of value to them – gems of the Corona Aurora – the Sentinel Knight called upon former Rangers with his powers. Kira, along with Tori, and three other male Rangers, were recruited and given back their powers by the Sentinel Knight."

Tommy pressed another button or two and a video feed appeared on his TV screen, it showed six teenagers with black outfits that each had different color outlines on them, as well as two men and what Blake and Conner guessed to be the Sentinel Knight. They were at Stonehenge and it was glowing. Suddenly, in the middle, five figures began to materialize and it didn't take long for Conner and Blake to spot Kira and Tori, since they were the only females among the group and we wearing their tell-tale colors – yellow for Kira and light blue for Tori.

"So is that why you're getting Hayley and the others to track the Morpher signals? Because Tori and Kira's will be much stronger than ours, because their morphing powers are still intact?" Conner inquired and Tommy nodded, before motioning for them to quiet down and look at the screen.

The five Rangers were introduced to the Overdrive Rangers, as well as one another, and Conner's eyes widened when he spotted Bridge, much like Kira did onscreen.

"Isn't he…didn't he…he seems…have we…?" Conner stammered incoherently.

"Bridge Carson, S.P.D Ranger, usually Green, but the Sentinel Knight pegged him before he changed ranks," Tommy replied. "You, Ethan and Kira met him and the other Rangers when a monster from the future brought you forward in time, to where the Space Patrol Delta Rangers governed."

"I don't remember this but he…seems familiar," Conner scratched his head, lost in thought.

"That's because your memories were wiped, but not your morphers, which I recorded when you came back, as such to chronicle what was erased," Tommy explained. "You met them again - we all did - when they came here, to follow a monster that had traveled back in time through a time portal."

Again Conner opened his mouth to say that he didn't remember that either, but Tommy stopped him. "They wiped that too."

"Oh," Conner said.

"Then how do you remember?" Blake inquired.

"Reefside has a bunch of cameras branched to this Ranger Base, so I pretty much found all the evidence I needed, and put together with what Ethan, Conner and Kira experienced when they went into the future, I chronicled it all," Tommy explained. "That's also how I have a video of them in the Ranger files, because of what cameras had captured that memory did not."

"Wow…okay Dr. O, now all this talk about erasing memories and time traveling, and seeing people I've met before but don't remember is starting to make my brain hurt," Conner groaned. "What happened to that lecture you were giving us?"

"Oh yeah, I'd almost forgotten," Tommy chuckled and Blake glared at Conner, who smiled sheepishly. "Look, I know you don't want to hear it, and I know that I can't tell you not to get involved and that it's against the rules, because that would make me a hypocrite, so I won't."

"Cool!" Conner and Blake cheered, thinking they were free.

"But I will tell you this," Tommy stated firmly, turning off the TV again and looking at them seriously. "Just be careful of your actions, I know that feelings like this can sometimes get in the way of things, and that it can sometimes make your head spin in ways you wish it wouldn't, but you have to stay focused, you can't be reckless and go throw yourself into danger because your girl is out there, somewhere. You have to have some calm, and wait for a solution to saving them that is safer to both yourselves, and probably them."

"We understand Dr. O," Conner nodded.

"Yeah, thanks," Blake agreed. "I guess we'll just have to wait until something comes up."

"Tommy! Tommy we've got it!" Hayley exclaimed as she and Cam ran up the stairs, the other Rangers not far behind. "We've got a lock on their Morphers' locations!"

"Something like that?" Tommy smiled at the two boys, who nodded eagerly, knowing the time for waiting was over, and the time for saving was soon to come.