"Are you okay?" Trini asked as she sat up from the exertion that they had taken to send Kimberly back to the real world. She could not believe that they had actually managed it, but by looking at Tommy, she knew that he was even worse off. His injuries had been hidden until now, but he was really having a hard time of it now and so were Jason and Zack. "Guys?"
"We've got to get home, soon. This place is draining all of us too much," Zack managed to say as Jason and Tommy groaned as they sat up. They had felt pain before, but they were much worse off than they had ever been before. They knew that it was important to get Trini out of here as soon as possible, they couldn't live with themselves if they let her die here, that was the same reason that they had sent Kimberly on.
"You two need to go next," Trini said as Jason shook his head no. He was determined that she would be taken out of here next. He wanted to protect her. "Jason, don't argue with me about this, the two of you are taking it worse than us. It's the only way that I can help you, sweetie."
"You next," Jason said as Zack silently nodded and pushed Trini in the middle of the three of them and they concentrated on sending her home as well. They knew that it would drain them, but then after this, they would start choosing on who was the most injured. They had determined that much between themselves.
"Jason, no, you need to go back instead," Trini shrieked as she felt herself being pulled away and although she struggled to stay with them, she was thrown into the Command Center and immediately jerked awake. "I'm going to kill him!"
"You too?" Kim asked as Trini looked over at her and saw Rocky holding the still shaken pink ranger.
"Yeah and they are worse off than us," Trini said as Kim merely nodded. "I'm sorry that I couldn't convince them to let me and Zack send Tommy and Jason back here."
"Tommy will be the last one, you know that," Kim muttered as she walked over to Trini and gave her a hug. "Tri, we need them here, quickly. You don't know everything that is going on."
"What do you mean?" Trini asked as she looked around the Command Center. This is honestly where she expected to wind up.
"We're in the hospital for our injuries and the only reason that we are here is because they told the doctor that we are rangers and that they could treat us. Our parents aren't taking this too well, so they need to get us back as soon as possible so that things won't be too suspicious," Kim hurriedly spit out as Trini stood there in shock. She couldn't quite believe what she was hearing. It just didn't seem right.
"Do you think we have enough power to pull them here?" Trini asked as Kim shook her head no as Zack jerked awake and looked over at the other two.
"They sent me, I can't believe they sent me. I mean, I'm not exactly in great shape but…" Zack said as he began to cough and his ribs made him scream out in pain.
"Well, the three of you shouldn't have sent me first," Trini said as Zack just threw his arms around Kim and Trini and then looked over at the other two, who were laying motionless. "Who do you think?"
"Jason, because Tommy's too damn stubborn," Kim said as Zordon just looked at the three.
"Neither is strong enough. They exhausted all of their energies to make sure the three of you got back safely. They knew they probably wouldn't," Zordon said as Kimberly promptly fainted and Rocky and Adam began trying to wake her up.
"Zordon, why do that?" Billy asked as Kimberly came to, as Rocky and Adam let out sighs of relief. They had been worried that Kim would not wake up because Tommy was not there.
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"We've done it," Tommy said as Jason nodded his head. It had not really taken much out of him, but Tommy was close to fainting.
"Stay with me, Tommy. We can get better and then send ourselves home," Jason said as Tommy just shook his head. He was too far gone to be able to be helped by anyone. He had to get Jason out of here though, somehow.
"I'm sorry, Jason. Tell Kimberly that I love her," Tommy said as he used his remaining powers and sent Jason home to be with the other rangers and then promptly fainted.
"No," Jason muttered as he rolled over and promptly smacked the floor. "We've got to pull him here."
"What do you mean?" Trini asked as she walked over to Jason, who was scrambling over to Tommy's side.
"How weak are all of you?" Jason asked as Trini just looked at him. She was not sure how he got here, but she was definitely glad to have him back. He had just made her the happiest woman on earth, knowing that he was back and would never go away. He was no longer trapped in the morphing grid.
"We're not really bad," Trini said as Jason walked over and grabbed Zack and Kimberly.
"Pool your energies into him, it's his only chance," Jason said as they all joined hands and began the fireworks show. The other rangers could not look at it for its brightness, however, the four others had no problems with it. They had been through it without even recognizing it before. However, none of them expected the explosion, as Tommy bolted upright and sent the four of them flying in various directions.
"How'd I get back?" Tommy asked, bewildered as he looked around at the others who were lying on the ground. "No…not them, not her…why'd they bring me back? I knew what I was doing, I had to get rid of the problem."
"You being stuck in the morphing grid forever was no solution Tommy. They all needed you here, especially Kimberly," Zordon said as Tommy stood up and walked over to her first and saw the blood and the bruises before he scooped her up and held her close.
"Just make her better Zordon, repair her, because the rest of us can be taken care of at the hospital," Tommy said as Zordon looked around at the others, who merely nodded. Kimberly's injuries were bad, but she needed some emotional healing that none of them could give.
"It will calm her, for a spell Tommy, then the two of you will have to deal with the problems once her body is brought back to normal," Zordon said as the wave went over Kimberly as Tommy fell to the ground as their pain was completely taken into account. His pain for losing the child, her pain for feeling that she let him down and Tommy felt it all.
"Stop it!" Tommy yelled as the tears streamed down his face and Kimberly's eyes slowly opened to face him. Zordon had not been able to complete the transfer.
"Take me home, Tommy," Kim whispered as he looked over at the others, knowing it was impossible. "Why won't you?"
"Because you need to go to the hospital," Tommy said as Kimberly shook her head no and slowly lowered herself to where she was standing. "Baby, you need to or you're going to get much worse."
"Take her and we'll come later," Billy said as Tommy wrapped Kim up and they were quickly teleported away, where Kim again fainted, but in a room full of doctors.
"They will never be rangers again," Zordon said as Billy looked up at him, giving him a confused look. "The two of them have been pushed too far, they will be replaced. Lord Zedd can use too many things against them, now."
"Don't you think asking them whether or not they think that can do this anymore would be more productive?" Billy suggested as Zordon just shook his head no. He knew that this was not going to work well. Kim and Tommy were going to fight this with every fiber left in them. They had fought to be rangers, to stay together and he honestly doubted that would stop now.
"There is no asking, Billy. Their powers have decided to discard them," Alpha said as he handed Billy a printout and Billy just shook his head in disgust. He could not believe that they were being drained so much that they couldn't come back.
"We have to find two new rangers, quickly," Zordon said as they all stood there, flabbergasted. There was no way that they could lose the two of them just because they were extremely weak right now. "The same goes for the three of them, they cannot risk their lives in this fashion again, not for a very long time."
"Let the rangers focus on their friends getting well, I will do the search," Alpha said as he teleported them back into the hospital where they landed to the complete shock of the doctors. They had never quite experienced anything like this before and with any luck they would never experience anything like this ever again.
