I finished this last night, but I was way to exhausted to post. I'm still too exhausted and I feel a relapse of whatever illness I had on Monday and Tuesday coming back, but oh well, gotta work to bring the money in. But anyway, back to the point. More of a sentimental chapter, although it does have its good bit of laughter. I'm in a very lazy mood at the moment, so editing isn't the best. I'm going to go back this week and do editing on all ten chapters, so have no fear, it will all be corrected. Still, I hope you enjoy.

Tommy sat at a table for five people at a local fast food restaurant. With less than three hours to find food, and make it to the park, the older rangers had opted for something quick. Especially when Jason reminded them that Trini could and would make their lives hell for the next two weeks if they were late.

Sitting across from him were Conner and Ethan who had taken it upon themselves to throw French fries back and fourth, while Jason and Zack watched, sending questioning looks at the man who looked like he was trying to disappear in his seat. He couldn't believe the two in front of him were supposed to be eighteen year olds.

"Make them go away," he mumbled to himself, and whatever god it was that had chosen to abandon him at that moment, or more precisely every moment that had occurred while they were in Angel Grove, or from when he was in Angel Grove. Yes, that's when the whole mess started.
"Make who go away?" Zack asked him, overhearing his friends mumblings, an amused look on his face. Tommy just stared at him for a moment, and shook his head, before looking back at the man who was about to add something.

"Don't even say it."

"Say what?"

"You know exactly what, Mr. Taylor."

"No really, what?"

"You were thinking about me being their father."

"No I wasn't. But you were! Ha! I win!"

Tommy just dead panned and looked at Jason with a pleading look. Jason just smirked and shook is head, sipping the chocolate shake in his hands and peaking one eye at Ethan beside him.

"Are you sure he was blue?"

Tommy sighed and nodded, looking very much defeated and embarrassed. "Just one more time? That's all I ask. Let me do it once more and I'll never ask for anything else as long as I live," Tommy muttered so low that no one could hear him. Or at least he didn't think anyone could hear him. Unfortunately, Conner choose the worse points in time to actually listen to what his science teacher was saying.

"Dr. O? You wishing you could be invisible ag-" Ethan cut him off with a nice sharp elbow to the stomach, which went unnoticed, as Conner had a coughing attack.

"Conner? You alright? Come on, your drinks empty and there's a water fountain over there," Ethan added, helping Conner to his feet, and pulling him towards the source of cold water, far away from the table where two former rangers were staring at their friend, who had a horribly guilty face.

"What?"

"Invisible?" Jason asked him, accusingly, his eyebrows raised.

"Everyone wishes they could be invisible at certain points. I've just been doing it a lot lately," he lied, easily. Zack and Jason looked at him for a second, trying to judge his answer, and then towards the teens. Zack opened his mouth to say something, but Jason just shook his head.

"Whatever you say, Bro. But really, maybe you should have gone to sleep, you're looking horrible."

"Gee, thanks. And leave you alone with those two? Are you nuts? Or did morphing yesterday rattle your brains?"

"I'm perfectly sane, thank you very much," was the retort from the man slurping the chocolate shake through three straws, and having a very difficult time of it.

"Sure," Tommy laughed, tossing one of the many wrappers on the table at his friend which resulted in a mini war, with the teenagers watching from the distance.

"Ok, so that really hurt, you know," Conner complained to Ethan, from their position beside the water fountain. Ethan just nodded, not taking his eyes off their science teacher and his friends. "Are you even listening?"

"Sorry," Ethan mumbled at looked at him. "You nearly ruined it. He'd have more reason to kill you when this is over."

"What makes you think he'd wait until it was over?" Conner asked him, still massaging sore ribs and a new bruise. He was going to be the next rainbow colored ranger if the weeks kept going as they were.

Ethan simply nodded towards the older man who was laughing along with his two friends. This was a side they had yet to ever see. Sure in the past two days he'd be laughing and joking around, but never once had he completely let his guard down. Well, Ethan supposed he had during his late night escapade with the Swedish giantesses, but it was the first time he'd noticed a genuinely relaxed Dr. Oliver. It was actually as if there were two separate individuals. The one they knew as Dr. O, and the one his friends knew as Tommy.

"He does look relaxed, doesn't he?" Conner asked his friend who simply nodded.

"It's a shame he's not like this more often. Anyway, we should get back or Zack and Jason will get even more suspicious."

"Right. And do me a favor?"

"Sure, what?"

"Don't tell Trent or Kira that you punched me in the stomach?"

"Awww… but it was fun." Ethan insisted, leading the way back to the table, as Conner hit him in the back of the head.

"Kira? Kira, wake up."

A very sleepy former yellow ranger cracked one eye to see her boy friend smiling down at her. She was curled up against his side at the base of Trini and Jason's couch and the only adults around were locked up, also asleep, in their own rooms.

"Why?" she mumbled, yawning and snuggling in closer to him, refusing to actually wake up. Trent sighed and shook her lightly, but she only groaned, trying to ignore her annoying boyfriend.

"Because if you don't the others are going to come out here and see you clinging to Trent, and they're going to tell Tommy," came a new voice and Kira's eyes flew open as she bolted up right and looked straight at Billy.

"I-I-we – I mean," she stammered, trying to place as much distance between Trent and herself as she could without literally running out of the room. The two guys just laughed, quietly.

"I know. You weren't doing anything. Don't worry, I won't say anything," Billy laughed, sitting down on the couch. Trent pulled himself off the floor and joined him, glancing at his watch. They still had at least a hour before they had to be at the park.

"Thanks," Trent told him, as Kira came back over, nodding, and sitting at his feet, her head propped on the end of the cushion. "So what'd you want to talk to us about?" he asked, and Kira just looked confused. Oh, right. She must have been asleep for that part.
"Well, I was sort of wondering, why exactly you and Conner got into the punching fight yesturday. I have an idea, but I need you to confirm it." Both teens just tensed up and looked at one another, an unsure look on his face. "Look, I won't tell Tommy; especially not if its why I think it is."

Trent just sighed and looked at Kira, who nodded. If anyone could tell them what they should and shouldn't do, it was Billy. "Go ahead," Kira whispered to her boyfriend, patting his knee.

"Conner wanted to try to get Dr. O and Kimberly back together," Trent stated. "We disagreed, and it escalated."

"That's what I thought," Billy said, shaking his head and looking towards Trini's bed room door. "Ok, you guys need to stay out of it," he told them simply. Kira frowned. That was it? No explanation? No nothing?

"But?" she protested, until he cut her off.

"Tommy could punish you if you get caught. Leave it to Trini, Jason, Zack, and I," he replied, a grin on his face.

"You mean…" Trent began, catching on to the older man's thoughts. Billy nodded.

"Yeah, we're working on having them back together by the end of next week. Just don't do anything. This has to be done very, very carefully."

"Understood," Kira replied. She and Trent would get the information to Conner and Ethan later.

"What's understood?" Trini asked, coming into the living room, stretching, the petite, former pink ranger behind her.

"Oh, nothing. Just that any stories we may tell before we get to the park do not get repeated around our fearless leader," Billy laughed. Kimberly grinned and fell into one of the arm chairs beside the television.

"I'm still sleepy. Do we have to go to the park?" she begged. Trini just nodded, and yawned.

"We're all sleepy, but we're going," she told her. "Come on, you remember the park at night."

"All too well, thank you very much," Kim retorted, glaring.

"What's wrong with the park at night?" Trent asked, looking a bit confused.

"Well, for one, the occasional monster attack, and two its actually pretty romantic. Oh, and just think Tommy will be there," Trini cooed, until a pillow was tossed at her head.

"We'll be lucky if we make it to friends by next week at this rate, Trin," Kimberly retorted.

"Ooo… she said lucky. Hoping for more Kim?" Billy asked her. Kimberly just sighed and shook her head, before getting up and walking over to the mantle piece where there was a picture of the six of them. She stared at it for a second and then turned back to her two former teammates.

"No, I think I'd just be happy if we were friends."

"You aren't happy now, are you?" Kira asked her, catching on to the situation. Kimberly just shook her head. "Well, Dr. O's a butt head if he doesn't want to be your friend."

"Kira, sweetie, I don't think its that simple," Trent told her. Kira just glared at him.

"No, I agree. Tommy's being a butt head," Billy answered, causing everyone to laugh.

"But things went well this afternoon, didn't they?" Trini asked, taking a seat beside Billy on the couch, and looking at her friend who had resumed her position in the arm chair.

"After this mornings mishap, yeah. But it just seems like we do something in the right direction, and then take a massive step back, before regaining the footing again. We're not going anywhere at this rate."

"Tell Jason. He'll knock some sense into him," Trini replied.

"As well as knocking out a few of his teeth," Kimberly retorted. "Personally, I'd rather him have all of those."

"Why? Friends don't need teeth?" Billy pointed out, slightly curious. Kimberly just glared, and when he started laughing, she tossed the pillow at him which he tossed back.

"We should get going," Trini pointed out. Billy and the kids nodded, but Kimberly just grinned.

"Wait a minute, I want to try something." She reached into her purse and pulled out a shiny silver bracelet that in some ways resembled a watch, and in others could never have been mistaken for one.

"Oh my god, you brought that?" Trini laughed.

"What is it?" Trent asked, leaning over Kira to see what it was. She pushed him off her, trying to get a better look herself.

"Its her old communicator," Billy answered, holding his hands out to his friend. She nodded, and handed it to him. Billy lifted the small piece of equipment in front of his face, and began to study it for a moment. "Crudely made; gaudy looking; never would have passed for a watch if people actually checked; and very flimsy; it's a wonder it stood up to all those battles; although, all the frequency trouble we had with these doesn't surprise me," Billy rattled off, critiquing every inch of the silver piece. The teens just stared at him.

"How can you say that? How can you let him?" Kira asked Kimberly and Trini.

"He can say whatever he wants. He made them," Trini replied.

"Some of my earliest work," Billy nodded, handing the piece back to Kimberly. "What did you want to try?"

"Well, do you have yours here Trini?" Kimberly asked the taller woman. Trini nodded, and moved off to the side where the basement door was located and motioned for the others to follow her. As soon as the door was opened, barking began, and Trini shook her head.

"Alpha! Zordon! Quiet!" she laughed, walking down the stairs, as the dogs immediately fell silent. "They're trained to keep barking anytime someone comes down here. They only stop if Jason or I tell them too." The others nodded, as they followed. Down in the basement was the home gym the two had set up. It appeared that each had his or her own equipment set up in precisely the way they needed it. At the far side was a heavy steel door, with a huge pad lock. Or at least what looked like a pad lock.

"Your kidding, right?" Kimberly asked her laughing. Trini shook her head, and placed her finger on the lock. The door released, and let them into a small room, no bigger than three feet by three feet. There was a small table on one wall, with two chairs, and several files, all pertaining to power rangers. At the back was a small safe. She turned the combination, and then placed her eye in front of a scanner.

"Retinal scan?" Billy asked her. "How did you manage to have that put in without people getting suspicious? And don't you think you're going a bit over board?"

"I have a friend who works for the government. He set it up, no questions asked. And maybe, but better safe than sorry. If Jason had his way, he'd walk around with this as his belt buckle," Trini replied, reaching into her pocket pulling out Jason's morpher, power coin in place, and handed it to Billy.

Billy tested its weight in his hands for a minute, laughing, before handing it to Kimberly, who examined it just as he had, running her fingers over every little crack, mainly staring at the intact gold coin with the Tyrannosaurus engraved on it. She smiled, before passing it to Trent and Kira.

Both teens were in shock to see one of the original morphers. Perfectly intact, with a power coin in place. They were both studying it. "Jason brought it to the hotel with him, means he had to get it from the safe?" Kimberly asked her, slightly amused. Trini had her head buried in the safe, obviously searching through things.

"Yeah; he takes it out every few days, hoping I won't notice. Generally he'll accidentally leave it in is pants and I'll find it when I do laundry. I stole it back from him while he was sparring Tommy this morning," she replied. "Ah, here it is," she said, pulling out her old communicator, and blowing a bit of dust off it. "Did you want to see if they still work?"

"Yeah, and I want to set them off at the park. Watch and see if Jason, Tommy, and Zack still react," Kimberly grinned evilly. Trini smiled back and looked at her communicator and the buttons on the right side. The correct combination of them pressed would contact each communicator and holding all three down would send it to all of them. Lets see, Jason was the top button; Billy was the bottom; Zack was the middle; She was the top and middle at the same time; and Tommy had been added last as the top and bottom together; so that meant that Kimberly's was the bottom and middle at the same time. Trini placed her fingers on the communicator and Kimberly's went off with the characteristic series of six tones. Both girls smiled.

"Oh, we can do better than that," Billy told them, from where he had taken Trini's place by the safe. He pulled out a disk another communicator from the safe.

"And it involves Jason's communicator, how?" Kimberly asked him, sitting in one of the chairs, as the teens handed back the morpher. They'd been attempting to follow the conversation, but were getting confused without watching. Billy let his voice drop to a whisper as he explained his plan to his former teammates. "I feel like I should have my hair in a pony tail, and be wearing a pair of stretch shorts and a t-shirt," Kimberly said sarcastically.

"I agree," Trini replied, and Billy got to work. "But it's so going to be worth it."

"I have a feeling Dr. O is going to regret this vacation even more by the end of tonight," Kira told Trent, giggling at Billy's idea. Trent just grinned. He agreed with Trini. It would be so worth it.

"We're not late, are we?" Tommy asked Jason for the hundredth time, as they walked towards the children's play equipment in the middle of the park. Trini had called a bit earlier to tell that that's where they'd meet up. Jason just shook his head and glared at his friend.

"No, get a grip."

"You're sure?"

"If we are, I'm blaming it on you. Now stop asking," Jason demanded, placing some distance between himself and his very agitated best friend. It was funny when he'd first started being paranoid, and now, well now it was just the most irritating thing in the entire world. What he wouldn't do to get his hands on his power sword at that moment.

Tommy just went quiet, but shot glares at Conner and Ethan when the teen started snicker. Even Zack was laughing, but the glares didn't work on him as well as they worked on the kids; he was learning that rapidly.

They finally reached the equipment, only to see Billy and Trini standing against it in deep conversation, while Kira and Trent sat on the swings talking even more. They seemed excited about something. Tommy's eyes fell on the middle figure, who was seated on the edge of the equipment, her hair loose, leaning back on her hands, head tilted up to the sky.

"Hey guys," Trini called, waving, when she noticed the group walking towards them. Kimberly turned her attention to them, only to smile, when her eyes fell on Tommy, who unconsciously had stopped walking at was just staring at her. Damn moonlight.

Jason was already on top of Trini, kissing her; Conner and Ethan had joined their teammates by the swings, Conner avoiding Kira, explaining that she was the only one that hadn't bruised him, and he would rather not add another scratch to his already shattered ego. Kira just narrowed her eyes, and asked why he was telling her, then.

Zack finally realized that Tommy was in danger of making a huge fool out of himself; especially if anyone actually realized he was staring, and gently nudged him, as he passed. Tommy stumbled, and looked at his friend.

"You were starting to drool."

"Was not."

"Whatever. Moonlight does her good, doesn't it?"

"Unfortunately," Tommy admitted, following him the remaining distance. "Beautiful, isn't it," he asked her, pulling himself up beside him, and nodding toward the moon.

"Yeah," she replied simply, feeling slightly uncomfortable, and at the same time, knowing that maybe this is where she would be most comfortable. "To war wounds this time? Everyone got along ok at dinner?"

"Yeah; Just like old times," he replied, and immediately regretted it. "Sorry."

Kimberly just nodded. Of course things had gone smoothly. They weren't both there. "It know."

"Hey, you two gonna whisper all night, or are you going to join the rest of us?" Conner called towards them, as the rest of the group was sitting in the grass in the distance. Kira smacked him upside the head, causing the rest of them to laugh. "What? What'd I do?"

"Coming!" Kimberly called back, hopping off the platform, and turning back to Tommy. "Gonna join us?" she offered. Tommy seemed to consider it for a moment, but then shook his head.

"I think I'll stay here, its nice."

"Want company?"

"Sure," he replied, pulling his legs back and leaning against the bars, allowing Kim to climb back up. She slipped around and seated herself, beside him, her back to the others as well.

"So, they're not coming?" Ethan asked.

"Leave them," Jason responded. "We'll finish that story for you guys, if you want."

"Yes please," Kira put in, turning her attention away from her science teacher and his… well, she didn't know what Kimberly was to Tommy, and she was pretty sure that he didn't know either.

"Well, now there were three really big problems. One, we still had no Zordon; Two, we still had no idea who the green ranger was; and three, there was a fifty foot tall Goldar rampaging through downtown Angel Grove," Trini began the story.

"He tried to eat Bulk and Skull," Billy tossed in.

"Should have let him," Zack laughed and Trini hit him lightly, before laughing a bit herself.

"So, we took on the one problem we could; we formed the megazord, and went to work on Goldar. While we were gone though, the green ranger snuck back into the command center, and tried to undo all the work we'd done since he first destroyed it. Billy had set Alpha up with a few things, just in case, and this time, Alpha trapped him in a stasis shield which was pretty good for the time."

"Trini's right; but unfortunately, our technology, and Rita's magic were too different things. She freed the green ranger, and grew him to the same size as Goldar, and he began to attack us as well, along with Scorpina. So we're talking three on one," Jason emphasized.

"Ouch," Conner winced at the though of the situation.

"You've no idea. Ok, well, maybe you do; but yeah… ouch was right."

"Anyway, Rita decided to cut off our power by eclipsing the sun. We got an energy boost from the power sword, but we still collapsed, due to the ferocity of their attack," Billy described, shaking his head. "The zords separated, and fell into a burning hole in the ground; we had no other choice but to beat a hasty retreat."

"The only good that came of the whole situation, was that we had one answer. Alpha had managed to scan the green ranger while he was in the stasis shield; that's how we found out it was Tommy."

"What'd you do?" Ethan asked.

"Only thing we could; sent in Kim," Trini laughed. "No, she just felt she needed to confront him. She told him we knew who he was at the youth center; she wasn't in danger. Just like us, he wouldn't do anything in a public place. All he did was swear that we were going down."

"A little later, things got worse. Tommy used his dragon dagger to summon the Dragonzord, which began to destroy whatever buildings were still left down town, which wasn't many," Zack told them. "Good news was, we got Zordon back, and with him the power and the megazord; we didn't waste any time getting back to the battle, and trying to stop Tommy."

"We managed to destroy the sword of darkness, which freed him, though it left him more disoriented than I'd ever seen him again," Jason told them. "And he remembered everything. The rest is history; offered him a place on the team, and now he's the "greatest living power ranger."

"We should get all the credit. Saving his ass and all," Zack laughed. Jason just nodded and Trini shook her head, while Billy grinned.

"They have a point," he told her. Trini just laughed at his comment, and leaned back against Jason.

"What about you guys? Any fun and interesting times with Tommy?" she asked the teens.

"Fun?"

"We're talking about Dr. O, right?"

"Look," Trini interrupted, nudging Billy and pointing. Tommy had his arms wrapped around the petite frame of the former pink ranger. The teens just stared in shock; but the other four adults were grinning. This was very good.

"What do you think they're talking about?" Kimberly asked, looking over at the group for a moment before turning back to Tommy.

"Us maybe," came the reply. He didn't look at her, or the others, just up at the moon above them.

"Think maybe we should talk about us?" she asked him, focusing her eyes on his face. He shrugged for a moment and looked at her.

"What in particular?"

"Like maybe how we're both sitting here, ten years older than the last time we were here, and even though we're side by side, there's a huge rift that we can't seem to bridge," she snapped at him, slightly agitated that he didn't seem to care very much. He turned and glared at her for a moment, before letting his gaze soften just slightly.

"I didn't cause the rift," he snapped simply.

"I know," she replied softly, looking a bit hurt, but knowing in her heart, she didn't have the right to. "I was scared."

"What?" he asked, confused by her answer.

"I was scared."

"Of what?" he asked her. He'd never known her to be afraid of anything. She was Kimberly, the first pink ranger, the one that would face hell and more.

"Of us. Of what could happen. Of what was going to happen if we stayed that serious. Tommy, I was afraid of love."

"Of Love?" he asked her, and she nodded, letting a tear slip from her eye. "Jason was right; there wasn't anyone else, was there?" She shook her head, and let the first sob fall. Tommy just shook his head. "Don't cry."

"I hurt you so badly."

"Not that badly," he retorted, protecting his pride. She just laughed a bit. "See, that's better. Now stop," he ordered. She whipped her eyes and looked up at him. He wasn't smiling, he was frowning, or glaring, or anything else. He was just looking at her. Studying her. "You were just scared of love?" She nodded. "Well, that was stupid."

"What?"

"It was. We were seventeen. We're all scared of love; I was shaking in my shoes every time you touched me. Why do you think Rocky avoided Aisha like the plague back then? He was afraid of what would happen. But I didn't run; you did. I'd never known you to run before."

"I'm sorry. In my mind, I just thought that I'd rather be facing a hundred Lord Zedd's than admit to myself that I was in love."

"And now?"

"Now what?" she asked him, tilting her head to the side. He just looked at her, his eyebrows raised. She sighed and shook her head. "I'm not a teenager anymore. Neither are you. I'm still scared; but I don't run anymore."

"But you did back then?"

"Yes; I told you that. Why do you keep asking?" she pushed harshly, turning back to look at the sky.

"I'm just trying to get it all straight. I've wanted to know what happened for the past ten years, alright," he snapped back.

"You've been thinking about it for the past ten years? About me?"

"Of course. What'd you expect?" he asked, confused. Kimberly just shrugged. "Did you think I'd just let it go?"

"Well, I'd hoped."

"I did move on; eventually. I've been in love with other women before," he told her, and looked at her frown. "No, don't give me that. I'm allowed to fall in love. You dumped me. But either way, I never stopped thinking about what exactly went wrong. What I did wrong."

"You didn't do anything," she retorted, placing her hand on his shoulder. "It was all me. All me and being a stupid teenager."

"But I thought it was me. I've been living with that guilt for the past ten years. Its not an easy thing to forget, Kimberly," he told her. She sighed and nodded.

"I'm sorry."

"I know," he replied. "And I'm sorry too," he added.

"For what?" she asked him.

"For not coming after you. For not bringing you back. For ever letting you leave. For not at least staying friends."

"Friends?" she asked him and he nodded. "Can we have another go at that?"

"A relationship? Kim, I don't think-"

"No; at a friendship. You were my best friend back then; when I gave you up, I get up more than a relationship. I gave up my confidant."

"I agree," he told her with a nod. "Of course we can be friends. I don't think I could have left here with less," he laughed a bit. Kimberly smiled, and threw her arms around his neck, kissing his cheek as Trini had the first time she'd latched onto him. It felt good to be able to do that without thinking it would be awkward.

He was a bit surprised at first, but just wrapped his arms her small frame, enjoying how it felt to have her back in his arms again. He breathed in the scent of her hair and closed his eyes, pulling back a tear, even though he heard her quietly sobbing. Yeah, friends. That's exactly what he wanted, he thought to himself, kicking himself for his friends. Better than nothing though.

"Come, lets go break up their little congregation. If I'm right, they've finished the story of my conversion from the undefeatable bad guy to the undefeatable good guy," he said, trying to lighten the mood. Kimberly pulled back and nodded, whipping her eyes again, and smiled.

"Undefeatable?"

"Of course."

"Oh I'm so sure," she said sarcastically, giggling, as he helped her off the equipment, and they both walked over to the group, Tommy taking a seat between Zack and Jason, while Kimberly sat near Billy; ignoring the looks their friends were giving them.

"Um… hi guys," Trini said, looking back and fourth between her friends.

"Hi," Kimberly responded easily.

"What was that?" Zack asked bluntly.

"What was what?" Tommy responded, same tone as his former girlfriend.

"Never mind," Jason said, shaking his head. Obviously neither was in the mood to explain. He'd get it out of his friends later; probably be easier without the teens present. Maybe slip Tommy some alcohol. "So what do you all want t-" He was about to ask what everyone was interested in doing for the time being but was cut off by a very familiar sound. His heart stopped as six steady tones rang out through the air in one of the most familiar patterns his ears had ever heard. His face drained of all color, as his eyes darted from his own bare wrist to the faces of his friends. Zack looked worried; Tommy looked like he might wet himself at any given moment; Kimberly and Trini were both frowning; And Billy's eyes were planted on Kimberly's purse and Zack's wrist, as they appeared to be the only ones who had theirs. Truth be told, Billy's was back at the hotel, as was Tommy's: buried deep in the box marked for Conner to stay away, which was locked in the safe in the room. At the sound, all of them were on their feet, except Zack.

"What was that?" Conner asked, basically stating the question that all the adults wanted to ask as Kimberly reached into her purse and pulled out her communicator. She held it out to Jason and Tommy. They were the leaders, they should answer.

"O-our communicators," Tommy squeaked, taking the devise from Kimberly's hand. Zack already had his wrist raised, waiting to see if he should answer, fear displayed all over his face. Tommy looked at his friends, all who bit their lips nervously and nodded.

"I-I read you," he replied unsteadily into the speaker, not saying his name in case someone had found their frequency.

"Rangers!" A loud booming voice resounded over the wavelengths, causing Tommy's mouth to fall open in utter panic. It was now Jason's turn to look as if he were trying not to wet himself in fright. Zack was completely white. The teens studied all of them, noticing Trini and Kim kept their eyes locked on the white and red leaders, while Billy maintained his gaze on the white ranger.

"Zordon?" Jason asked, leaning over Tommy's shoulder.

"Ranger's there's a disturbance in Angel Grove park," the voice answered. Immediately the white and red rangers were searching their area with terrified eyes. What the hell was going on? Zack appeared to be struggling to maintain consciousness. Kimberly and Trini hadn't changed expressions, but Billy took a deep breath, as if trying to calm himself.

"Where? We're at the park? And Lord Zedd is gone! YOU'RE GONE!" Tommy stated, still searching. If Zordon said there was a problem, then there was a problem; despite the fact that Zordon was gone. Jason was no longer standing beside him; instead he was on his feet, searching his pockets for the morpher he'd put there that morning, and coming up completely empty handed.

"It's worse than Lord Zedd."

"Who is it?" Jason called over his shoulder. Zack was nearly gone by that point. He was staring at his wrist, his face devoid of color, his body slightly shaking.

"It's the blue ranger," came a new voice over the speaker. Jason and Tommy turned to look at the former blue ranger who was sitting between Kimberly and Trini, holding Jason's communicator in his hands, laughing his ass off along with the two female rangers. The two former ranger leader's faces were classic of 'what the fuck' and completely totally scared shitless at the exact same time. Zack still seemed to be processing everything, as he joined the other two looking between the yellow, pink, and blue rangers, who had begun rolling on the floor.

"Did you see his face?"

"His face? What about Zack?"

"And Jason? Oh man, that was priceless."

"I think he nearly wet himself."

"I think he did!"

"We should have brought a camera."

And it went on and on for several minutes, the three male rangers, completely speechless as they tried to wrap their consciousnesses around the information that was being fed to them so quickly.

"I-I- you- is there a reason you did that?" Jason finally managed to ask his wife. Trini just shrugged through her laughter.

"It was Kimberly's idea."

"Hey, I just wanted to see what would happen if it went off. The whole recording thing was Billy's idea," the former pink ranger responded, between her own giggles.

"We hate you," Tommy muttered. "Look what you did to Zack!"

The black ranger was still staring at his wrist, and then back at Billy, and back to his wrist, and then at Billy, as if things weren't really clicking. "But- but- but?"

"Relax buddy," Jason told his friend, patting him on the back. "It wasn't really Zordon. It was an idiotic blue ranger, and his pink and yellow counterparts."

"Awww… is the big bad red ranger's ego hurt?" Kimberly teased.

"No."

"Admit it, you were terrified."

"Well duh!" he stated bluntly, turning to look at his best friend. "Tommy, I don't like your girlfriend."

"Ex-girlfriend!" Tommy and Kimberly shouted at the same time, causing Jason to blink.

"Um… ok. Ex-girlfriend! Ex-girlfriend! Don't kill me!" Jason whimpered, as Kimberly glared down at him. She'd managed to apologized. Managed to be his friend, and there was no way that some stupid idiot was going to ruin it for her. Besides, Jason was already rattled. Kimberly just smiled sweetly and nodded.

"What the hell just happened?" Ethan asked, looking back and fourth from a blushing Tommy, a grinning Kimberly, a stunned Jason, a terrified Zack, a laughing Trini, and a self satisfied Billy.

"Ethan, its simple. Billy, Kim, and Trini pretended that their old mentor was contacting them via their old communicators, which scared the pants off Dr. O, nearly put Zack in a shock coma, and had Jason about to rush off in morphed form to fight whatever was supposedly attacking. As a result, his scared mind moved too slowly for his mouth, and he blurted out that Kimberly was still Dr. O's girlfriend, causing her to nearly kill him," Kira replied.

"How did you know all that?" Tommy asked her simply. He'd been part of the whole thing, and he barely understood what had just taken place. Not to mention the fact that his brain was still in morph then panic mode.

"Trent and I were there when they devised the plan. Got to see Jason's old morpher," she responded.

"How did you get my morpher? I had it in my pants pocket," Jason asked, slightly stunned.

"Oh Jason, relax. I took it while you were sparring. Its back in the safe at home with mine, my communicator, Alpha's program disks, some of the file disks, and the recordings," Trini told him, with a bit of a laugh. He gave her a look that said I don't believe you. "Jason, no one but me was near you ass," she stated bluntly, causing him to glow bright red.

"I know that," he snapped.

"Besides, the only man's pockets Kira's thinking about are Trent's," Conner put in, getting a kick in the shin from Kira, and a punch in the stomach from Trent. "Ok, shutting up now," he wheezed, as he backed into Ethan who helped steady him.

"That's it! I don't want you two anywhere near each other for the rest of the trip," Tommy yelled, stepping between the teenage yellow and white rangers, a horrified look on their faces.

"Dr. O!" Kira shouted, trying to get around him.

"Not even in the same hotel," he stated, shaking his head.

"Tommy?" Trini called. The former multi-colored ranger turned his head to look at her. She and Kimberly were staring at him, hands on hips, glaring at him.

"On second thought, just keep your hands in your own pockets," he replied, stepping away from them. Kira grinned at the two former ranger women, and sighed.

"Can we go get sleep now that we're done making blackmail opportunities for the teenagers?" Trent asked the adults, indicating how tired they all were.

"Black mail?" Tommy asked.

"We could tell Haley," Kira reminded him, yawning. Tommy just groaned, as the group walked toward the vehicles. Oh yes, it was going to be a very long vacation.

Poor Tommy. Everyone's driving him nuts, and its only Monday. Oh well, that's what characters are for. Hope you all enjoyed. Next chapter is a reappearance of our three friends, and Ethan and Conner go missing. I'll post asap. And I'm pretty sure I can break a hundred reviews, but lets see who can be reviewer 100! A special present to whoever it is. If you put any one question about the fic that you really want answered, and you're reviewer 100, and you leave a contact, I WILL answer it completely.
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