Chapter 10

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Emily stood in shock as the blonde woman in front of her whipped her head around to Ji.

"You must be out of your mind. I'm not even married let alone a mother." Nicole told Ji and everyone else in the room.

"Actually Nicole, you are. You and David got married 6 months before James sealed Xandred away the last time. you had just given birth to your eldest daughter Serena two months before the battle." May told her friend.

"Anthony, Mark, May, this is totally insane. I don't remember any of this. I remember the battle but I don't remember being married or a mother before that."

"Please Nicole, let us explain everything. A nighlok probably messed with your memory to make you forget your family and the life you were leaving behind." Anthony told her stepping up to fill his role as second in command to his team.

"While you guys work on getting Emily's mom's memory back I think the current team should deal with the gold ranger appearance before something happens." Ji told the occupants of the room.

Jayden led his team to the outdoor dojo where Emily still stood in a catatonic state of mind while the rest of the rangers began to debate the gold ranger status.

"I think he should stay." Mike spoke up.

"No way, he isn't properly trained as a samurai. We would be putting him in danger." Kevin defended.

"Guys, you both saw how he took on the moogers. Kevin, does that look like someone who would be in a lot of danger during a battle if he can fight like that?" Mia questioned.

"Still, he isn't trained as a samurai. He could get hurt or make a mistake." Kevin argued to his girlfriend.

"Enough, gold ranger; reveal yourself." Jayden took control of his team.

The gold ranger reached for the latches on the side of his helmet and unhooked them. Slowly he lifted his helmet above his head and then brought it down to his side. The gold ranger was in fact the same boy from the picture Emily had shown her team hours before. Standing before the samurai rangers was Antonio Garcia; Emily's best friend from Angel Grove.

"I can't believe you are the same one Emily was talking about." Jayden stepped forward.

"In the flesh." Antonio spoke.

"You guys know each other?" Mia asked.

"He was my best friend, right up to the day he moved from Panorama City." Jayden answered.

"I promised him when he became the red ranger I would be back to fight by his side and here I am."

"You are not fighting on this team, Jayden tell him this is nuts. He'll get himself killed." Kevin tried to get his leader to see reason.

Mia was rolling her eyes and walked away from the four guys to check on Emily. When she got over to where Emily was standing earlier when they all came outside she was gone.

"Guys! Emily's gone!" Mia called to the boys.

Immediately they all began to search for their missing yellow friend.

(Inside)

Nicole sat next to May on the couch while the guys were lining the table in front of her with photos of people she should remember. David decided to let the former samurai team take the lead on this since she still had memories of them.

May started to point to photos, "this is our team right after we became samurai together, James had just told everyone the rules of the house when you thought there should be a group photo if we were all going to be living together."

Anthony pointed out the next photo, "this is your family, your sister had just graduated high school. She uh...she died three weeks later in a crash. That's where Serena got her name."

Mark took the next one, "this is one at your wedding, you and david made the whole team stand with you for this photo. There is one of you and the bridesmaids, May was your maid of honor while David's sister-in-law Kimberly was one bridesmaid and you made her friend Aisha the other bridesmaid."

"Kimberly? She sounds familiar." Nicole said staring at the photo of her and her bridal party.

"You and Kim were in gymnastic competitions together, she moved to Florida to train for the Pan Global games the summer before our senior year." Tommy told his sister-in-law.

"You are?"

"Tommy is David's brother. You went to school together and that's actually how you met David; he was with Tommy at one of Kim's competitions and you were there. You used to tell Serena and Emily it was love at first sight how you guys met."

"I have children?"

"Yes, you do. Two very beautiful girls, both lost you at such a young age but they fought on to be the best they could be for you. Serena your eldest daughter is 19 years old with a boyfriend; Eric, he would do just about anything for her. That young blonde girl that was in this very room is your daughter Emily; she's 16 years old now."

"What happened to Serena? Obviously something happened to her if Emily is here in her place. Tell me what happened."

David decided that he was going to be the one to tell his wife what happened to their daughter. "She was in a wreck. Three months before the call came from Ji for the samurai rangers to unite, she was traveling to Blue Bay Harbor for a weekend visit with Eric and her friends there when she was hit head-on in a collision. Doctors told her she was paralyzed from the waist down but there is still a chance she'll walk again. Emily was sent in her place to become the yellow ranger."

"Not a very good one." Ji muttered but everyone in the room heard him.

Nicole knew that regardless of what she knew of her girls they were still her daughters and she wasn't going to let anyone talk bad about her girls. "What exactly do you mean by that Mentor?"

"Nothing Nicole, just Emily hasn't exactly been a model samurai. She has sent Jayden into a lovesick phase and he isn't focusing on the mission at hand. She is the reason that the team now get visits with family, she's changing the way of the samurai."

"So what? The samurai traditions were put in place years ago and each generation is too afraid to change them. Maybe this is what is needed to finally seal Master Xandred. If the red ranger doesn't have a problem with the traditions being changed then leave them be Ji. They have followed the way of the samurai to the best of their ability now it's up to them to find the path best suit for them." Nicole told the mentor.

"How can you expect her to know the way of the samurai you weren't around to show her." Ji told the former yellow ranger.

"I have to trust that regardless of what happened to me, my husband raised our daughters the best way possible and trained them to defend themselves and use their earth element." Nicole said looking at her husband with a smile.

"They both received amazing training. Serena's boyfriend is actually an earth ninja at the wind ninja academy down in Blue Bay Harbor, he spent a lot of time helping them control the element of earth." David told the occupants of the room.

"Should someone go check on the kids?" May asked.

Before anyone got up to move towards the outside dojo Mike ran into the room, "Emily's gone."

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