CHAPTER 10
THINK PINK
(This is the first in the ranger miniseries' about each individual ranger. You'll see their reaction to everything from their point of view. I thought it would be refreshing to get away from Brad for a while. The first one will be about our beloved pink ranger, Kimberly Ann Hart. Now keep in mind, I am SO not one for big monster scenes, I like to play the soaps between the characters within the battles, so dont get all angry mobbish with me :D)
It was a beautiful friday morning. School was out due to the inclimate snow that had fallen the night before, and Kimberly Hart couldn't have been happier. She smiled in the mirror as, for once, she woke up with good hair.
"I gotta say, I am loving the snow!" She opened her thin silky curtains and looked at the street she had lived on with Aisha for about a year. It was glowing with pure white percipitation. "Oh yeah... I love it!"
She walked into the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror. Being a gymnast kept her body very fit and tight. She smiled as she flexed her arms. Not very large, but that never really looked good on a woman. Her brightly decorated pajama pants with the hopping bunnies were so adorable, and matched the cute baby t she wore to bed. She smiled inthe mirror and picked up the sparkly purple toothbrush that lay on the sink before her, and squeezed some toothpaste on it, then began the morning routine.
1- Wake up, and smile! It's a beautiful day- most of the time :D 2- Brush teeth! Dont want to have bad breath! YUCK! 3- Shower. If ya think bad breath is depressing, you should suffer the eternal agony of smelliness. 3- Get dressed. A common activity after one showers 4- Hair! 'Do you like me better up? or down?'- Babs Bunny! 5- Muffin and juice! Yummy! I love Aisha's muffins! 6- Get goin!Time for some book learning! Tommy will be here any minute!
Kim made her way out into the livingroom. Since school was cancelled, she didn't have to rush for Tommy. Instead of watching television, she decided to throw on a pair of jeans and a nice pink sweater, with a white dress shirt under. Her long hair was put into two french braids, and she was ready to get to the gym! Before hetting out the door she went to the fridge to grab a water bottle and saw a note for her on the fridge door. When reading it she grabbed a doughnut.
Kimmie! DONT YOU DIG THA SNOW! I know my boss doesnt, can u believe I am working at the shelter until two. Meet me at the youth center for lunch? See ya there!
-Isha!
PS- You have my cell if ya need me!
Giggling, Kim took the note and slid it into her gym bag, with a bottle of Avian. She was barely out the door when the phone rang. She stuffed the doughnut into her mouth and picked up the phone, then took it out, balancing the phone on her shoulder.
"Hello?"
"Hey Kim, It's Rocky."
"Hey Rocky, what's up?"
"Nothing much. Do you wanna meet at the gym and work out."
"I'm already on my way. Boy, you read my mind!" She took a chunk out of the doughnut and popped it into her mouth.
"Great minds think alike!" He paused for a second. "Oh, hey, Brad wants to say something."
"Kay. "
"Hey Kim?" Brad's voice was so cute over the phone.
"Yup?" She tried to talk with her mouth full of glazed deliciousness.
He laughed a little. "Are you trying to talk with doughnut in your mouth again? You do remember what happened last time."
"Are you kidding, how can I forget. Tommy is still mad I dropped doughnut on his precious leather leather interior." She laughed a little and swallowed the food. "Yum!"
"You're going to the gym right?"
"Yupper doodle."
"Can you help me out with my layout? It is working but I keep landing wierd."
"You got your layout! Congrats!" She clapped for him, but forgetting the doughnut was in her hands, she made a little mess in them.
"Almost, but I need some tweaking time."
"Yeah sure, I can totally help. I'll see you two there in, say, twenty mintutes?"
"Okay, see ya there." Brad almost hung up before she got out her question.
"Is Rocky still there?"
"Yeah. You want me to get him?"
"Please and thank you."
Over the phone she could hear Brad yell Rocky's name. It was wierd for her to think that Brad was his son. Who was Brad's mom? She thought before that maybe she was. The signs were all there. Same hair color, both are hilarious, and they just click together. She ate the last bit of doughnut and walked over to the sink to wash her hands. Rocky finally picked up.
"Yep?"
"Hey, can you pick me up? I don't think I can walk all the way to the gym in the snow."
"Yeah, sure. Can you teleport over? Mom took the monsters out to grandmas last night when the weather reports came up for snow, so it's all cool. "
"What about that whole 'never use powers for personal gain' rule?"
"We're not. We're going to the gym to get better at kicking butt. I think it's all in the good of the rangers."
"Alrighty. Be there in a sec." She hung up with rocky and dried her hands. The thought of being Brad's mom still lingered on the edge of her mind. Oh well. She pulled on her kakhi courderoy jacket with a sherpa lining and pressed the button to send her to Rocky's house.
She arrived in the livingroom and was immediately greeted by Brad. He rushed by her and went strait into the kitchen. Kim looked at him and smiled. He was getting along pretty well here now. After they had seen the cyborgs go into the time portal, she thought for sure he would want to join them. But he didnt. Instead he told them he wanted to stay here, at least until Billy got well again. She sat her bags and jacket down onto a large brown leather chair she had arrived near and walked into the kitchen. Brad was standing at the fridge, looking for two water bottles. As soon as he found their bottles he whirled around to the sink to fill them up.
Kimberly handled the blue one while he filled the red one up. She contimplated bringing up the subject of his mother, but wasn't quite sure if it was right to. He looked up at her, and smiled.
"I am so excited, I can't believe I almost have a full." He screwed the cap over the red bottle and Kim handed him the blue one. She could tell he knew something was up.
"What's wrong?" He asked her. "Aren't you glad one of your students is succeeding?"
"I taught you?" She looked at him oddly. He finished filling the bottles up and brushed a few drops of water off his hands onto his jeans. He was wearing a western plaid blue button down shirt with hints of olive in it.
He smiled at her with a response." Yeah, you taught all of us."
SHe paused for a second as he went around her and packed the bottles into the two bags sitting on the glass table. When she turned around to talk to him more, the two nearly bumped into each other. "All of you?" She followed him into the livingroom, and then up the stairs to his and Rocky's bedroom. Rocky was in there, pulling on some brown boots.
"Yeah." He responded. Then he realized that she wasn't the Kim who taught them. Not yet anyways. "Nothing. I just forgot that you weren't there." He stopped for a second and sat on the bed next to Rocky. Kim leaned against the dresser facing them. Brad continues as he pulled on a pair of chunky tan boots. "Well, you were there, but you werent, I mean.. I think you get it."
"Yeah." She let out a small giggle and turned to Rocky. "So where's your honey bunny?"
"At the gym."
"OH!" Kim plopped on the bed next to the two boys. "So this is just a ploy to see your man all hot and sweaty!"
"No." Rocky was blushing. He smiled a goofy grin and slid on a brown leather wristband that matched his outfit perfectly. He was wearing a pair of brown faded kakhis with a dark red, almost burgundy long sleeved shirt. "It was to work out with my man, so we both can be hot and sweaty!"
Brad jumped up in protest. He held his hands over his ears and began to walk out of the room. "I don't want to hear about your kinky sex stuff! I have to sleep in the same room with you, I know what you say in your sleep!" He stopped at the door and turned back to them. "And by the way Rock, You are a naughty little boy!" Brad and Kim laughed as Rocky tossed a pair of socks at him. Brad dodged them and left the room.
Rocky turned back around to Kim. "He was joking about the kinky." Then a mischevious smile spread across his face. "Well...maybe."
Kim picked up a pillow and slapped Rocky over the arm with it. He heald up an arm defensively and knocked the pillow down. She dropped it onto tehe bed, followed by herself. "Can I ask you a question?"
Rocky leaned up against the dresser and faced her. "Yeah, shoot."
"Who is Brad's mom. We know that you're his dad, but, who is his mom?"
"I dunno. The subject never came up." His chestnut eyes pierced into her hazel ones. "Why?"
"Haven't you noticed?" She could tell from his expression that he had no clue about what she was saying. "Rocky!" She stood up and looked at him closer.
He studied her face and then it his him. "Oh, you think you're his mom?"
"Maybe, I mean look at us. We are too much alike for this to be a coincidence." She crossed her arms over her chest.
"But, Kim..." Her put his hands on her shoulders. "I don't want to sound crued or anything, but you're not exactly my type...or gender."
"Rocky, get your head out of the gutter! We don't have to have sex in order to have a kid."
"Explain?" He looked at her, far beyond confused.
"Well," She lowered her voice. "What if I wanted a baby and had no guy to give me one." The thought was bad to think of. Kim couldn't see anything about the next day, other than Tommy, but it has come to her attention before that he might not always be there. Especially in their line of work.
He caught her thought and understood. "Oh. " He could tell she was thinking the worse scenerio for the situation. "Artificial insemenation doesn't always mean that you didnt have someone. It could also mean that your someone couldn't make a little someone, so you needed someone else to give you his somethings for you to have a little someone of your own."
He stopped and thought about what he just said. Before another word was spoken Brad came into the room. "Hey, Adam just called, something is up at the gym, I think we should teleport there. Kim gave Rocky a second glance, then they followed Brad out of the room and into the hallway, then downstairs. Brad slid on his navy down jacket with a fur trimmed hood, Kim slipped her jacket back on, and Rocky put his black leather motocross neck jacket. They stood next to each other and pressed their communicators. Instantly they were swallowed in irridescent colored light and transported to a remote corner of the gym.
The three rangers arrived in the corner of the pool. Luckily due to the cold weather, there were only two people there. Adam, and a blonde girl, about their age. Kim and Rocky walk over to him and gently tap his shoulder. Brad is busy trying to find a way to get his foot out of the robe he landed in. He fumbles around in the background as the three talk.
"Hey Adam? You called?" Kimberly asked, tossing one of her long braids over her shoulder.
"Yeah, theres a uh..." He pauses and looks to Cathrine, who is looking on innocently. "This is Kat"
"Hi Kat, I'm Kim, and this is Rocky." Rocky shakes her and and smiles a little.
"Kat can't talk, she was just on her way to get something to eat from Earnie's." Adam guides her along past them.
"No I wasn't.." She tries to say, but Adam eggs her on.
"Sure you were!" He walks her off a bit and then rushes over to the other rangers. Brad walks over to the three, shaking a small bit of rope off of his leg.
"What's the big deal?" Kimberly asks, crossing her arms over her chest.
"I'll show you." Adam grabs his waist length pea coat from off of a deck chair and slides it over his grey longsleeved shirt and black, grey, and white camo pants.
"Where are you going?" Kimberly follows the guys outside, where the wind is blowing violently. She hugs her jacket close to herself, scared to let go for a second. Adam leads them to the trees in the yard and there, she gazes upon a woman, dressed all in white, with glowing silver hair and a flowing gown. She looks almost as if she's made of snow herself.
"It's one of Zedd's monsters" Kimberly almost has to yell over all of the noise. "How come nobody has said anything!"
"Look!" Adam points to the large crystal structures around the woman. "I don't think she would let them. The only people who would come outside here are crystalline."
Kim stands upright, followed by the others. "We have to save them!"
She grabs the morpher behind her back and raises it to the sky, but before the can morph, Adam grabs her arms and pulls her down. "What are you thinking. We can't just go at it, she'll turn us into ice before we finish morphing. We need to get to the command center, pronto."
"You guys head there. I can stay here and keep an eye on her." Kimberly throws her hood on and settles down. Adam and Rocky give her a look. Brad stares intently at the monster before them.
"LOOK!" He says a bit over excitedly. The four of them drop down. Brad, in a hushed whisper talks to them. "She has a hot spot on her back."
"What's that mean."
"Remember what I did to Bulk and Skull?" Off their looks he goes on. "I think if I can get close enough I can hit her and she'd fall. That would give you guys enough time to take her down with your weapons!"
Rocky immediately steps in. "No, that's crazy. How the heck are we going to get you in there without her noticing.
"We can settle that one when we get to it." Kim pats Brad on the back. "But let's not morph right now. We can be way stealthier as ninjas."
"Right." Adam has caught on."Rocky, follow me."
Adam runs off behind some other trees and leaves Brad and Kim behind a fallen log. Kim looks to Brad and nods.
"PINK NINJA RANGER POWER!"
"BLUE NINJA RANGER POWER!"
The two rangers' clothes melt into ninja uniforms. "Alright, showtime." Kimberly jumps up super high and lands in the top of a tree. "The crane, light as a feather."
Adam grips Rocky's jacket and kisses him on the cheek. "I'm sorry but, I have to do this."
Rocky's eyes widen as Adam runs out into the open, waving his arms in the air like a maniac. The Ice Queen immediately looks his way. Her bright blue eyes fogging over with a white tint. She raises her hand and sends a shock of ice spiralling at the black ranger.
"BLACK NINJA RANGER POWER!" Adam leaps into the air and didges her blast. All the while, Brad is sneaking up on her. He is quiet and low, like a jaguar.
It was time for Brad to make his move. Brad leaps off of the soft snow and nails her right in the back, the sweet spot.
Adam looked on, hoping to see something happen. But nothing did. The ice queen went rigid and her face plain, but nothing out of the ordinary. Whirring around she set her eyes on the blue ninja. Here eyes fogged over with an opaque white. Brad was too scared to move. It was his first time taking on a monster. He knew the cyborgs, but not this. Before he could react, she raised her hand and blasted him with ice.
"NOOO!" Rocky jumped out from behind the tree, furious.
"Looks like blue got a bit cold." The ice queen spoke. Her voice was distant and hollow. The fog cleared around Brad, and sure enough, he had been engulfed in ice. "Who's next?"
"RED NINJA RANGER POWER!" Rocky jumped up from the ground, the power he harnessed was exploding inside. He landed just inches in front of the beast. They traded a few blows until Adam came up and decided to double team them.
Meanwhile Kim was up on the roof. It was getting hairy. Plan one was out because the hit didn't work. She had to find out a way to take this bad chick down. She was just about to jump down and help the guys when it happened. The big freeze. Adam and Rocky both got turned into ice pops.
"ROCKY! ADAM!" She was all alone now. The storm was interfearing with her frequency to Tommy, and Aisha was working. "PINK RANGER POWER!" Now in her power suit she could at least deal with the cold.
"Alpha!" Kimberly cried into her communicator.
"I know Kimberly, I know" The computerized voice echoed from her wrist. "I have made some corrections and some improvements on your powerbow. It should be enough to take her down."
"Right." She focused her ninja powers and called upon the weapon annointed to the pink ranger. "POWER BOW!"The weapon developed over her arm. Connecting from the elbow down, the new bow fastened itsself to her arm, giving the pink ranger complete control. "HEY SPACE FREAK! You wanna step in tha rink with tha pink?"
Kimberly jumped down from the roof and landed on top of a car. Along the way she fired four arrows. As soon as they left the bow, flames covered them and created a heat force large enough to melt ice. One arrow hit the ice queen, and jammed itsself deep into her shoulder, forcing her onto her back. The heat melted her entire arm. The other three arrows hit the other rangers. The ice begins to melt, and The rangers break out of their icey chambers.
"Yes!" Kim jumps up and down, clapping. She holds the communicator up to her mouth. "Alpha, get Rocky, Adam, and Brad to the command center fast for a de-freezing."
"Consider it done Kim. " The robot responded.
The pink ranger leaped off of her pirch and landed directly in front of the ice queen. Kim gripped her bow strait at the queen. She fiercly adds three arrows onto the bow and pulls back the strong rope to fire. "PHEONIX BOW! TRIPLE THREAT ATTACK!"
She lets go of the arrows. Not only do they explode into vicious fire, but each of the arrows multiplies into three. The arrows plant themselved in the Ice Queens chest, forehead, and stomach. Kimberly tunrs around as the queen falls to the ground and explodes.
Immediately after the fire clears from the monsters demise, the snow ceases and winds ease off. Kimberly Hart, The pink ranger has saved the day. Who says snow days are boring.
Everything was back to normal. Kimberly had decided to get to the juice center for some hot chocolate and wait for Aisha until lunch with Brad. She looked at him as he sipped a large cup of chai tea. He looks up at her with deep emerald eyes. Her mother had emerald eyes. It was time for her to find out who his mother is.
"Hey Brad?" She takes a long draw from her mug as he looks on with curious eyes. "Can I ask you a question?"
"Sure."
"I don't want to meddle, but...do you remember your mom, or who she is?"
"Nope. She died when I was really young, at least that's what Dad told me."
Kim takes another long draw, as relief spreads through her. After the feeling of ease subsides, a small pang of hurt hits her. For a second, she had been a little excited that maybe he was her kid. She loved him like one. Then it hit her. Adam and Rocky are together. How could Brad be here, if he came back to keep the two together. "Are you scared?"
"What?" Brad looks to her with concern. That was way from left field. "Why?"
"Well... "She thought about how she could word the question.
"If Adam and Rocky are together..."
"Oh.." Brad looked deeply into his cup. Kim couldn't help feel bad about bringing it up. It had to be frightening.
"I don't want to scare you."
"Well..." brad took another sip of the chamomile tea. "The way I see it, I should be gone, but I'm not. There has to be a reason for it." He paused and looks back up to the pink ranger, determination beaming form his being. "I need to know why."
"I want to help."