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Chapter Six: Six More Days till Xmas!

~Kim's Place~

Billy chuckled as he helped Kim wrap up the last of the presents. The kids were in the living room chanting six more days till Christmas, all the while skipping in circles. Well, the girls were skipping; Moss was sitting on the couch since he was sick again. All of the rangers were present, minus Tanya who was on a tour, and Tommy, who no one knew where he was. Jason had just got off the phone with David and Sam, both of whom have not seen him. Rocky and Zack were getting ready to go visit Zordon and see if their all knowing mentor was still all knowing.

"Kim! Billy! We're ready to go!" Zack called out loudly suddenly.

Kim looked up from the green ranger coloring book she was wrapping. "Drive safe! Oh! Don't forget, the house is where the Command Center used to be!" She called out suddenly.

"Hey, if you two are going, can you swing by the jewelry store to pick up my gift for Tanya. It's already paid for, just need to pick it up." Adam called out from the kitchen where he was stringing popcorn.

"Will do!" Rocky hollered back.

The sound of the door closing signaled their leaving. Silence fell as everyone concentrated on their different tasks.

~Zordon's Place, few minutes later~

Zack rang the doorbell, before walking right on in. It was a given fact that Zordon's place was a second home to all power rangers, whether or not they were on or off duty. The doorbell was so he knew they were there. Rocky walked past, sniffing the air. Turning, he headed down one of the hallways, following his nose. Zack hurried after him, grumbling something under his breath.

"Rocky! We're supposed to find Zordon and ask if he knows where Tommy is!" Zack hissed loudly as he followed Rocky into the kitchen.

"Oh? Did you lose him?" Zordon looked up from where he was stirring a new batch of Christmas cookies, another batch in the oven, and two more batches sitting out to cool.

"Yeah. Any ideas?" Zack asked as he nervously eyed his always hungry friend.

"Not really. Perhaps he went to buy some kind of romantic gift for Kim?" Zordon concentrated on his baking.

"Why Kim? He has a girlfriend." Zack pointed out as he pulled Rocky away from the cookies.

"Last I check he was back with Kim. Since Kim asked him out to the dance, and they've been going steady since then." Zordon looked up to see shock crossing their faces.

"Those two are a couple?!" Zack screeched in shock.

"Yes! Cookies!" Rocky reached for the sweets.

Zordon quickly swatted his hand away, "No Rocky. They're for Ernie's Christmas party."

"Is he too busy to make them himself?" Zack wondered aloud.

"No. I'm just the better baker out of the two of us."Zordon shoved a cookie in each of their mouths.

Zack's eyes went round as he realized that Zordon was right. He did make better cookies. "I'll tell the others to go for with all baking needs."

"Agreed. How exactly are you better than him?" Rocky swallowed the sweet sugar cookie.

"I was raised in a bakery. He was raised in the fashion world. Uncle Sol wanted him to be a model or fashion designer, but Ernie and Aunt Emma wanted him to follow his dreams." Zordon began scooping the batter onto a cookie baking tray.

"Ernie was almost into fashion?!" Zack choked out.

"Whoa. I think your family was a bit spread out in the career area. How did your uncle react to Ernie opening the Youth Center?" Rocky gaped at his mentor.

"Well…technically he doesn't know about that." Zordon turned bright red at the insubordination he was supporting.

"What! You, helping someone else rebel? What's next? We really are your kids and you just put us up for adoption?" Zack comically threw his hands in the air.

"No!" Zordon burst out laughing, "I meant that has in he died two years before the Center was opened. We were still in the planning phase."

"Oh…wait. We?" Rocky leaned forward, eyebrow shooting up suddenly.

"Well, yes. Originally the youth center was going to be called Ernie and Zordon's Delicious Eats. But, then I got trapped in that time warp…so Ernie opened it up by himself. Honestly, we've discussed it, and we aren't going to change a thing. We like how it ended up as." Zordon smiled to himself. "Besides, I never would have been in a good position to train you if I was a co-owner to a restaurant."

"True. Come on. We promised Adam we would pick up his fiancé's present for him." Zack stood up as he stretched, glancing at the clock on the wall.

"Adam is marrying Tanya on New Year's Eve, correct?" Zordon double checked when the wedding was.

"Yeah. And Trini and Jason are tying the knot two days before Christmas." Rocky nodded confirmation.

"Hmm, I actually received an invite from them earlier this week." Zordon pointed to the invite, drawing their attention to a request on the bottom of the invite.

"Trini wants you to walk her down the aisle instead of her father?" Zack gasped in awe.

"Oh. That is an honor usually reserved for the bride's father? I didn't know that. It seems to be that Earth's wedding costumes, compared to my home planet's, aren't quite the same." Zordon started, surprise flashing across his face about how strange her request was.

"We really should get going." Rocky eyed the cookies.

"Patience. The party is later this week. Now go before the store closes on you two." Zordon chased them out.

~Few Minutes later, Jewelry Store~

Zack crashed right into Rocky. They had just arrived at the store, and were headed inside. Zack started to open his mouth only for Rocky to clap his hand over it, a quick shh escaping him as he pointed…straight at Tommy. The former ranger was walking to his jeep, cradling a package in his hands as if it were the most precious thing in the whole world.

"You don't think…" Rocky whispered quietly.

"No idea. Come on." Zack rushed into the store.

They quickly approached the cashier and explained that their friend had ordered and prepaid for something and had asked them to pick it up.

"I see. What's his name?" she looked bored as she looked at the screen.

"Parks. Adam Parks." Rocky leaned across the counter.

"Hmm. I have it right here." She pulled out a small jewelry box.

"Adam's not planning on giving Tanya another ring, right?" Zack muttered to Rocky.

"Not sure. I don't pretend to read his mind." Rocky mumbled back, scratching his neck in the process.

"Wait. Tanya Sloan has a fiancée named Adam something…it's not your friend, is it?" the cashier was suddenly very interested in what they were picking up.

"Yeah, the four of us used to work together at this high end place. Hard to get a job there. You have to really impress the boss. Once you start working there though, everyone becomes your best friends, a second family basically." Zack tugged on Rocky, signaling they should go, before she announces to the world that they knew the famous singer personally.

They hurriedly left the store with Adam's purchase. Pulling out of the parking lot, they aimed for Kim's home.

"So, we never did discuss if we should tell everyone what we found out about Tommy and Kim. What should we do?" Rocky leaned back in his seat.

"I have no idea. We should come up with a big plan to tell everyone. Maybe, even lock them in a closet together?" Zack suggested as he drove the black car.

"Yeah…don't think that'll work. We need something bigger." Rocky sighed, mentally agreeing with Zack that they needed a big plan to tell the others this news.

~With Tommy~

Tommy eyed his wrapping abilities. He had wrapped all but one of his gifts for Kim. He just hoped she liked it, or else springing for the whole set was pointless. Standing up, he walked over to the window. He had spent the entire day buying gifts for his friends, girlfriend, her kids, and of course, house shopping. He found what that was just perfect. Apparently the current owners were power ranger crazy and each room was painted to represent one. Tommy just needed to talk the owners to sell it to him as is. It was perfect. He could already see it, three power ranger bedrooms for his kids, a play room full of toys, everything was just perfect. If she allowed it. Tommy held the small black box up to his eye level. He'll know soon enough.

A/N: SkyTalon