Disclaimer: Seriously if I owned the power rangers do you think I have the current idiot as the red ranger?

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Chapter 9:

Is Pink The Color For Upset

After all of the hectic series of events from breakfast, everything returned to a relative normal flow. There were chats among the male rangers of the same color. The female rangers were talking about something Tanya wanted to discuss. David was with Jason and Rocky while the girls who weren't rangers were joking about the men. Actually Emily was insulting Jason, but, then again whenever she got together with other women there was no stopping the 'my husband is so stupid' jokes. A positive atmosphere replaced the negative one until Jason's cell phone went off.

"Hello."

"Mr. Scott?" the woman on the other line asked.

"Dr. Banquette, how's Tommy?"

"He's shown improvement, but, he's far from out of the woods."

"Would it be possible for us to see him?"

"Not at the moment. We're waiting on the cleaning crew for his room, but I'm sure you know how they are."

"Yeah. Take an hour to get somewhere that it takes normal people only ten minutes." The Asian doctor laughed over the phone.

"That's them. He should be on the fourth floor in room 15 in section D by noon."

"I think we'll be in around one or two o'clock. I still have two people to pick up. Speaking of them, Emily what time is it?"

"It's almost fifteen till eleven."

"Thanks, sweetheart. Ok Dr. Banquette will be there about two. What's the maximum number of people allowed in the room?"

"Four or five people. Why, do you have a group of power rangers or something?"

"Or something." Jason nervously chuckled. "You'll find out when you see us."

"All right, I'll see you then. Goodbye Mr. Scott."

"Goodbye, Doctor." Jason hung up the phone before giving a small sigh of relief. "Hayley do you know of a place we can eat? I'm already sure we're violating some fire safety code just having this many people in your apartment."

"Why don't we just go to the Cyberspace? There's plenty of room and I already called my assistant manager to tell her that I need her to put up the sign saying 'Closed Due To Emergency' I used to put up whenever there was a monster attack."

"Monster Attack?" asked Cathy

"What's the matter, Cathy? Haven't you ever heard of the Power Rangers?" asked Zack

"I thought they were just a comic book."

"Well I hate to tell you this, but, they're not. I'm from Angel Grove, the birth place of the Mighty Morphin, Zeo, and Turbo power rangers. Reefside is home to the Dino Thunder rangers."

"Oh ok." Cathy said not giving it much thought much to the relief the rangers.
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It was noon as Jason was waiting for the last two members of the final ranger team he was on. Aisha was to arrive first with Kat's plane landing twenty minutes later. The group elected that Kim, Trini, and Tanya were to go with him along with the mini-van. The girls were talking amongst themselves about random subjects, for which the red ranger was grateful. It gave him the chance to think about the day along with planning the upcoming night.

"Well, more than likely Mr. and Mrs. Oliver will want to stay as close to the hospital as possible without worrying about security throwing them out, and there is a hotel within walking distance of it so maybe I can talk everybody into chipping in for the bill. Now I'll need to think of some sleeping arrangements for everybody. Tommy said that his place had three bedrooms, then there is the living room and I can't forget about the lab. Maybe I could at least fit everybody I shared a team with. But then there's Cathy. Why did I tell Zack he could bring her? Wait why don't I trade Zack with Conner. He's a smart kid and definitely a good leader. But then again he acts like Rocky. Well at least I'll have Trini and Tanya to keep him in line." The red ranger looked up because he could have sworn he saw a flash of yellow crossing his peripheral vision but as he looked around he didn't see anything and Kim wasn't talking in a voice that could possibly make dogs bark so he figured it was nothing.

"When we get to the Cybercafe I better ask Trent if his dad's still at that house they lived in two years ago. If so then maybe he would know if Mr. Mercer would let the Dino Thunder's bunk down there for the time being with Justin. Honestly I don't see any problem since Conner is going to be at Tommy's. I guess that I should round things off with Aisha, Cathy and Zack staying in Hayley's apartment. Two extra people is a lot more accommodating then a whole arena league football team." Jason looked up again because he saw that same yellow flash out of the corner of his eyes again only this time he was able to see the owner of said flash.

"Aisha, over here." He called as the woman ran up to see her friends.

"Thank god you saw me. For a moment I thought I would need to track you down." Aisha said as she ran up and hugged Jason.

"AISHA!" Kimberly yelled bouncing towards her shopping partner, "I've missed you."

"Missed you two, Kim." Aisha laughed hugging her pink friend.

"Oh I see how it's going to be. When you first see me you nearly talk me to death, but with her it's just 'I missed you." Trini teased in a mock pout.

"I had a valley girl moment, because I was an emotional wreck. Sue me."

"All right I will. Let's see you probably bruised ribs maybe even fractured one of them. I can say that you weakened my job performance and damaged my love life."

"Trini just because Billy won't get oral pleasure doesn't mean I ruined your love life." Trini could have been mistaken for a red ranger from the color of blush on her face while her friends laughed at her reaction.

"I don't know what you're talking about Kim." Now this caught the pink ranger by surprised. Back in high school whenever she would insulate that the blue and yellow rangers had crossed the lines that separated friends from lovers Trini would just emphatically deny the accusation followed by making a comment about her and Jason until Tommy showed up of course. But this time she just simply denied and looked off. For a moment Kimberly was confused until she figured out what was going on.

"Oh you are sleeping with Billy!"

"I am not!" Trini stated desperate to hide the fact she was becoming crimson. Jason now catching onto what was going on started putting two and two together.

"Yes you are. Don't lie to me. We know each other all to well."

"Might as well say yes Trini. Why else would you hit Billy for telling me he was hanging out?" Said Zordon's original red ranger, trying to keep the humor of it out of his voice yet failing. Aisha and Tanya who were trying to keep from laughing at their fellow yellow's expense were biting lips in order to do so.

"I'm sure your imagining his power lance right now." Kim teased.

"I think I better have you stay at Hayley's so I don't have to worry about you and Billy waking me and Emily up tonight." This did it as the other two girls started laughing.

"Shut Up!" Trini growled storming off towards the terminal that Kat was going to arrive in shortly.

"Was that really necessary?" asked Aisha recovering from seeing her predecessor being teased by her two closest friends.

"After the morning we had you'll understand." Tanya responded.
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(Kat's P.O.V.)

Talk about a long flight. Kathrine it was a good thing you racked up all of those reward points to upgrade to first class. You would've never survived it with coach. But they did serve a good 56 Bollinger. You just shouldn't have passed out after drinking it.

I guess my friends are right. I'm a lightweight. Well at least I don't have a hangover like that time after passing the turbo powers over to Cassie. But then again waking up to Tommy sleeping beside me did keep my mind off the pain. Calm down Kat no reason to go down that aisle. Speaking of Tommy I wonder how he's doing. Last I heard from Jason was he was in a coma in the E.R. Well I can ask Jason when I see him.

"Hey, Kat, over here!" Tanya!

"Hi, Tanya, how've you been?" I need to come to the states more often to at least see her and Adam. That reminds me better close my eyes when he does that swing when he hugs me.

"Same as usual."

"Hey, Kat." Jason please don't twirl hug me.

"Hi, Jase."

"Nice to finally make your acquaintance." There is only one ranger girl that would talk like that.

"So you're the infamous Trini that a certain little boy blue wouldn't shut up about half the time." I can't help it teasing. This sort of thing you need to keep your spirits up for.

"Whatever he said I deny every word of it, and it goes double for Jason."

"I never once said anything about you."

"Except for you telling me the story how you caught them having 'peculiar hand shaped oil stains' on their clothes on certain parts of their body."

"Jason, that was from the putties because I had them too." Great why did she have to be here. Easy, Kat, Tommy said he broke up with you since we were going to move away from each other and college is the type of place where things happen and he didn't want to betray you. And the fact that pink whore left him for another guy the first chance she got. Down girl.

"Hey, Kim, how are you feeling?"

"I'm having my ups and downs. You?"

"There are moments. Jason can we stop by the gift shop for a moment? I need some aspirin."

"Sure no problem, and don't worry we're fixing to have lunch so that might help with the hangover as well."

"And what makes you think I have a hangover?"

"Because I would still have one right now too if I wasn't worried about having David and Emily talking to the police right now."

"Let me guess seeing if they cleared Tommy's place?"

"That plus if they didn't find the lab along with getting the other note. With a little luck they didn't, then I'll finally get an idea at what was going through his head."

"Tommy is a hard person to predict, Jason. I was around him the least and I figured that out." Tanya does have a point. Maybe this doesn't have a thing to do with Kim, but that won't make me stop thinking that it did.

"Well we better get going. As much as Conner proved to me today his Rocky-like tendencies along with having both Rocky and Zack around him is making me wish there was a yellow with them."

"Aren't you forgetting about Kira?" Who is Trini talking about?

"Let me rephrase that. A yellow that won't put more people in the hospital than're already in there." Should I be scared?

"As long as you don't piss her off you'll be fine, Kat." Real reassuring Tanya. I start following everyone to the gift shop so I can get the headache medicine that I desperately need when I notice Kim is lagging behind just enough to keep up with me. She wants to talk to me I just know it.

"Um, Kat, I know it's none of my business, but, why did you and Tommy break-up?" Your damn right it's none of your business you f… Kathrine Marie Hillard! What would your mum say if she knew what you thinking?

"Tommy was the one that called it off. He said he didn't want to end up cheating on me because of a drunken moment in college." I certainly didn't believe that when he told me and I can tell Kim doesn't believe it now.

"Kat, do you blame me because of him breaking up with you? And be honest."

"Kim I…"

"Kathrine, please."

"Honestly yeah I do. But there's nothing I can do about it now. What's done is done."

"What about Tommy… you know?" Great why did she ask me that question? You know why Kat, she has probably been beating herself up since the very second she heard about it. And her watery eyes confirm it.

"Kimberly, listen to me. I can see that you've been blaming yourself enough over this. You don't need me saying anything about it."

"That doesn't answer my question, Kat. Do you or don't you?" Looks like she's going to be stubborn.

"No."

"Your lying."

"Okay I am, Kim. I blame you because I feel if you hadn't wrote him that letter years ago I wouldn't have had to pick up the pieces. He wouldn't have broken up with me. He wouldn't have tried to kill himself. We wouldn't all be here worrying about Tommy being in the hospital if it wasn't for you. Is that what you want to hear?" Good I wish I didn't have this hangover. Then maybe I wouldn't have snapped.

"Yeah, it was." Great I'm sure Jason is going to jump all over me because of this.

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Ok chapter nine is out of the way. So until chapter 10 The Reading. Shogun Out!