One Team, Two Olivers
By: Lawrali & Faery23Dst
Note- I took the time to look up the actual transcript from the show of the Kat/Kim storyline. I've changed some lines and who says them (since this story has Jo and she isn't in the show). It had been along time since I'd seen the show and couldn't remember how much of it happened. This should be the only storyline that is gonna be very close to what happened in the show. The rest I'll do from memory or find a way to tweak it myself. This, however, was a pivotal time in the Rangers timeline and wanted to make sure it was accurate. Hope you enjoy!
Chapter Nine
As she looked back out to the friends something was telling her to go out and join them. A tiny voice was urging her to go and have fun with her new friends but then it was quickly replaced with the voice of Rita giving her command to steal the Purple coin.
No, I'm good. Kat thought.
She looked around at the busy lake. Maybe she wouldn't have to do what was screaming in her head. With all these people around she wouldn't have to steal any of the coins. She looked back to the friends splashing and laughing in the surf.
Rita growled as she watched Kat at the lake from the moon castle. Why was she hesitating?
"Finster!" Rita screamed.
"Yes, my Queen." He said, popping out of nowhere.
"Send your best monster with some tengas down to the lake."
"But, my Queen, I have not a monster ready. The Rangers have exhausted my supply." Finster said, backing away slowly.
"Garrrrggh, Goldar! Get down there! Now!" Rita yelled.
"Yes, my Queen." Goldar vowed and he disappeared.
Kat continued to look around battling with the fight within her mind. The one voice, hers, was telling her to join the friends; the other voice, Rita's, was urging her to steal the coin.
She looked up as she heard people screaming. Teens and children and adults were running in every direction as large winged bird-men chased them. She looked down at the bags sitting on the table. She opened the first one and saw a coin sitting in it. She ran her fingers over it.
Adam and Jo ran out from the trees to see people running everywhere. They joined their friends at the seashore. The took their stances and looked out to the tengas who were chasing the bathers.
"Oh, man, what are they doing here?" Jo asked.
"Looks like they're cruisin' for a bruising'." Tommy quipped. "Ninjetti."
"Crane!"
"Wolf!"
"Bear!"
"Ape!"
"Frog!"
"Falcon!"
"Phoenix!"
The seven friends stood in their colorful uniforms. They ran into the fighting with the tengas.
"You-hooo?" Rocky taunted to a small group. "Over here."
As the group ran toward him a small red flash moved him to a rock behind them. "To slow. I'm over here now."
"Oley!" Jo cried as she took the stance of a bull fighter. As the tengas charged at her she took it in turn to push them past her then turned on her heel and stomped a foot. "Toro! Toro!"
Kat watched the fighting with a smirk on her face. The rangers were going to lose this time. She returned her gaze to the coin still inside bag. She picked it up and held it in her hand. A smile grew on her face as she pocketed the coin and looked down at Aisha's bag.
While I'm here, she thought and began to open it.
"Excuse me, miss." Kat jumped and turned to see two men standing behind her. One portly, the other stick-figure thin. "As Junior Officers it is our sworn duty to guide you to safety."
Kat looked down at the bag and then to the two men. She walked between them and away from the cove, the two officers following her in a quick hurry. They ran threw the park; Bulk and Skull quickly running in front of Kat. They turned to look back at the girl they'd saved only to find her missing.
"How did she-- where did she-- Whew! Must be the heat." Bulk said.
"Yea! The heat." Skull followed.
Kim was fighting a pair of tengas. She jumped up into the air just as they charged at her from either side causing them to bang into each other. She landed a foot away and suddenly faultered. Her vision blurred and she felt faint.
Kim groaned and shielded her face as a wave of dizziness washed over her. "Tommy!"
Tommy was fighting two other tengas on top of a pier just behind Kim. "Hang on, Kimberly!"
He kicked one over the railing and swung the other in a circle before letting go, throwing him into the lake. He jumped off the pier and landed next to her. He battled off the tengas that were circling around her and then bent down to her.
The tengas started crowding together, retreating slowly. Kim was courageously leading the rangers toward them, chasing them off.
"We're outta here!"
The tengas vanished and the friends crowded around Kim. Her dizziness was starting to cloud her vision again and she covered her face again, willing the urge to throw up to go away.
"You ok?" Tommy asked Kim, after he'd demorphed.
"Yeah, I-I think so."
"Hey, where did Kat go?" Jo asked, looking around.
"I didn't see her." Adam said, panting slightly.
Kat stood in front of Zedd and Rita with the coin laying in her hand. Rita cackled as she approached Kat's outstretched hand and took the coin. She cackled again as she returned to her husbands side.
"Do you know what this is, Zeddy? My little kitty worked purrr-fectly!"
Zedd took the coin, kissed it and closed his fist around it. "With this we'll steal the Falconzord. Without it they're defenseless!"
The seven teens were sitting around the lake, trying to figure out what had just happened. Kim was covering her face trying to will away the headache that was forming. Chimes went off from the wrist communicators they each wore.
Adam, Aisha, Billy and Rocky joined Jo, Tommy and Kim at the tables to listen in.
"This is Tommy, go ahead."
"Rangers, Goldar and a group of tengas have been sent down to the park." Alpha cried.
"Not again." Jo moaned.
"Oh, man. Let's go guys." Tommy said, standing up and grabbing his bag.
The other rangers start to gather their own bags. Kim looks down to pick hers up and finds the pocket open. She reached inside of it and pulled out her morphed. Turning it over she sees that something is missing.
"Guys. My Power Coin is gone!"
The others turned to see a pink energy run the length of her left arm. She held it up to her face, scared.
"What's happening to me?"
Jo put her arm on Kim's shoulder to reassure her.
Billy activated his communicator. "Zordon, this is Billy."
"Yes, Billy." Zordon's voice rang out from the device.
"Kim's coin is missing and she seems to be losing energy."
"The only explaination is that her coin has landed in evil hands. She must be brought to the Command Center immediately."
"You guys take her. I'll handle Goldar." Tommy said, grasping Kim's hand before pulling out his morphed.
"It's Morphin' Time! White Ranger Power!"
The six friends stood before Zordon as the Command Center filled with a white light and Tommy materialized. He immediately moved closer to Kim and touch his hand to her arm.
"Are you ok?"
"I don't know. I feel," she watched as more pink energy ran up her arm. "I fell strange."
"Rangers. As my powers recharge, the power in your coins are linked to your human energies. This is the reason for Kimberly's power drain. The only way to reverse the effects is to retrieve her power coin."
Kimberly moaned and then fainted into Tommy's arms. Aisha gasped and Jo squealed in concern. Adam instinctively put his arm around her.
"Kim? Kimberly!" Tommy coaxed.
"We have to get that coin back." Jo cried.
Tommy looked down at his unconscious girlfriend with concern etched across his face. He moved a strand of hair out of her face and tucked it behind her ear.
Kat was sitting in a tree on a high branch. In her hand was the photo she'd stolen of Tommy and Kimberly. She'd taken it out of the frame and let it fall to the ground. She stared at it, running her fingers over one half of it.
"Soon." She cooed and tore the picture in half.
She looked at the half of Tommy with a peaceful gaze. She tucked his picture into her pocket and then crumpled Kim's side into a little ball and then let it, too, fall to the ground.
