Last time in my story ancestors...

It was about a half an hour later, when Diego and the two men arrived in the pueblo, not knowing that what was waiting for them there, or better who was waiting for them, waiting in the shadows behind the quartel, aiming a pistol towards Diego.
He didn't know though that he was shadowed also.
Tommy saw the glistening of the barrel, aiming towards his ancestor. " Damn someone knows he secret." Tommy was snapped out of thoughts when two shots rang through the pueblo. He saw a bullet flying towards Diego, he pushed Diego out of the way without a single thought, slamming against a pole of Victoria's Tavern, who came running outside, but stopped in her tracks by the look of Tommy laying against the pole of her tavern, Shot!
Tommy had pushed Diego and caught the bullet in his shoulder. His body motionless, his face pale.
" Baby nooooo! " Jason ran towards his commander kneeling right beside his head, Diego sitting in the other sight. " Baby please wake up for me, please don't leave me like this! Wake up Tom!" Tears rolling over the silver ranger's eyes.

Chapter 10...

Jason didn't care who would see them, couldn't care less who heard him at this moment. His boyfriend took a bullet for his great-great-great-great grandfather, he could understand that part, but to fake in just being friends was too much for him to carry.
He didn't really notice what was happening around him, the only thing that was important enough was that pale body next to him, the body of his Tommy, still motionless, the only thing that moved was his chest due to his shallow breathing. The only thing really heard was Diego giving commands to someone.

"What happened here?" came a voice from behind them. It was the voice of Don Diego's father.
" No time to explain father, please ride to Dr. Hernandez we have no time to lose. Tommy took a bullet that was meant for me. He needs to survive this." Diego's voice was full of worry, but he knew he would be the one that kept his emotions under control.
" Senorita Escalante, is there a room available that we can use?" pointing his attention towards the woman who held his heart.
" Yes Diego, take the room you usually use when you stay in town."
Diego nodded. This wasn't time to be romantic, his great-great-great-great-grandson needed to survive this, he couldn't die, not by a bullet meant for him.
" No time for your guilt complex Diego." thought Diego to himself.
Diego put his hand on Jason's shoulder before whispering, " come on Jason, let get him in a bed. The doctor will be here any minute"
Jason barely nodded, he raised himself on one knee, putting one arm underneath Tommy's armpits, his other arm underneath the white falcons' knees. Letting his love's head rest on his shoulder, carrying him bridal style. It was like Jason was carrying nothing more than a feather and not his muscled boyfriend. " Show me the way!" was the only thing Jason said, his voice raw of emotions.
He walked behind Diego, not speaking one single word, keeping Tommy's motionless body close to him until they walked in the room, he walked towards the bed that was standing in the middle of the room. Carefully he placed his falcon down on the bed in front of him. Dr. Hernandez arrived just a minute later.
" Come on Jason, let the doctor do his work." Diego put his hand on Jason's shoulder to lead him out of the room.
" He is in good hands Jason, I don't know how the doctors work in the future, but in these times he is the best! He saved Victoria's life too, she too jumped in front of a bullet that was meant for Zorro, me!"
Diego and Jason didn't know though that someone had overheard their conversation. Don Alejandro was shocked " My son is Zorro and those are people from the future? Diego isn't that naive so there must be some truth about it. The conversation went on without knowing his father was hearing everything they said.
" Is there someplace secure I need to talk to our mentor, I don't know what to do Don Diego. We just found each other I can't lose him now."
" I know a place!" came a voice behind them.
Diego and Jason turned around quite shocked, but it was Diego who reacted.
" Father? How long have you been standing there?" asked Diego surprised.
" Long enough, come on, the alcalde didn't survive, I don't want to lose the man who saved my son's life."
" The alcalde dead?" asked Diego even more surprised now.
" Yes, don Diego." came yet another voice.
" I couldn't let him shoot you, not when you gave your life so many times to help the poor."
The mysterious man came out of the shadows.
" Did you shoot the alcalde sergeant? What do you mean by gave your life so many times?" asked Diego.

" With all due respect don Diego, It is an open secret under us, soldiers, that you are our hero. We always respected you, we knew what you did was the right thing, but we couldn't openly support you. That is why we shot to miss every time and we knew that our horses were nothing against Toronado's speed. So when I caught the alcalde aiming at you I didn't think
I shot, but clearly seconds too late. Please forgive me senor Jason, it was never my intention to shoot or hurt your friend."

Jason walked towards the good sergeant putting a hand on his shoulder. " You didn't hurt him, sergeant, you did what you have to do, you even prevented worse. If you hadn't shot him, he could have shot a second time and who knows what would have happened then." The sergeant nodded and said before turning around, " I will pray for his recovery! I will leave you now, I have much work to do since the alcalde died. Lot's of administration in order to choose a temporary alcalde."
The De La Vega's and Jason waited until the sergeant was out of sight.
" Follow me." whispered the older De La Vega.
They did like they were told and followed the older De La Vega to a spot between the tavern and the nearest house.
Jason held out a small, round device with two buttons, a large red button and two small yellow ones on the side. Jason pushed the large red button and a big cloud appeared. The cloud opened and showed a large head without a body and a robot. It was all very strange for both De La Vega men. They stared in surprise when the floating head started to talk to them.
" Jason, I am glad to see you what is wrong with Tommy, I get a low reading about him?"
" May I Jason?" asked Diego before he could react on what was obviously their mentor.
Jason made a gesture with his hand in front of him while he took a step back.
" Buenos dias senor, my name is Diego De La Vega and I took care of your rangers while he was here."
" I am glad to meet the man who kept my rangers save, I know who you are senor De La Vega. I am Zordon, mentor of the power rangers and I wanna thank u for what you did for Tommy and Jason but what I wanna know is what happened to the ranger-commander."
" He means Tommy!" whispered Jason.
" Tommy took a bullet that was meant for me. Doctor Hernandez is removing the bullet on this very moment. He pushed me away and got shot himself."
" Not only is family very important to Tommy, he was saving both of yours and his life. If you died before you married his great-great-great-great grandmother he would disappear forever." responded the floating head through the cloud.
" Why is it that his power didn't protect him, Zordon?" asked Jason his voice still raw of all the emotions.
" Your power will work Jason, but they work on half strength, the power of healing needs to much of that power to work properly. Like you noticed your Zords didn't work either," responded Zordon gently.
" What do I do now, Zordon? Can we teleport when the doctor is ready?" Jason hoped he could just teleport him back to the future, Alpha could help him much better than the doctor here. It wasn't that he didn't trust the good doctor, Alpha's technology was more advanced and his healing power would do the rest.
" I am sorry Jason. Tommy is much too weak to teleport him here, it would mean his death for sure." Jason sighed in defeat.

" He will stay with us in our hacienda until he is ready to go home." Zordon bowed his head in gratitude at the words of the older De La Vega before speaking again.
" Thank u very much senor De La Vega we owe so much to you and thank u for being open-minded, it is certainly not easy in your time. They could have a very hard time if it wasn't for you and your son."

" That is the way we De La Vega's stand for, yes they are two men in love, something that isn't easy in the year 1820, but from the future or not Tommy is a De La Vega by blood and we take great pride in our family's. Nothing on earth can break that, not even if the love of his life seems to be another man. I am not gonna lie, it isn't easy for me but our Family pride always wins." Don Alejandro spoke from the heart and Zordon sensed that.

" Zordon, I am going to leave you now, I want to be there when the doctor is done with Tommy. I will come back to you from the moment I know more," spoke Jason before ending the conversation with Zordon.
" OK, Jason, may the power protect you and be careful." Zordon reacted happily that Jason had contacted him.
" Jason out"

on the moon 1993...

Rita was happy with what she saw, it didn't happen like she wanted to but if she was lucky the result would be just the same. All she could do was pray, pray that the bullet did what neither she or her husband had managed to do, end the life of the strongest ranger and take revenge of his betrayal a few years ago.
" You get what you deserve for your betrayal, white ranger!" laughed Rita evilly.
She continued watching through her Repulsascoop, she wouldn't miss a thing, this would lead to her victory on the power rangers, she would rule the world very soon now!

Command center 1993 …

Alpha contact the rangers immediately, I have new from Tommy and Jason.
" Right away, Zordon." said the little robot while he pushed the buttons. It was only a few seconds when a voice boomed through the command center, It was Rocky's voice.
" Yes Zordon, this rocky."
" Rangers, teleport to the command center as soon as possible." Zordon didn't want to bring the new through the communicator.
Zordon saw his well-known flashes of red, black, blue, yellow and pink appearing in the circle in front of Zordon.
" Rangers, I have some bad news from the past."
" Is there something wrong with Tommy or Jason." Cat couldn't care less of Jason but there wasn't anyone who needed to know how she thought about the new silver ranger, so she kept up her appearance that she cared for both of them. If she couldn't have Tommy like she wanted, she would take anyway she could, like a friend. If it meant being friends with Jason, so be it!
" I am afraid that Tommy's life is in danger and he is too weak to come home. He took a bullet for his great-great-great-great grandfather, knowing that this was his best way of surviving. He and Jason will stay with Tommy's ancestors for the time being. This is all I know for the moment, I am sorry rangers but I thought you wanted to know this."

" Thank u Zordon for Informing us. Please let us know when you hear more of the situation" said Rocky he was the only one who could bring up any words to speak everyone else was just to shocked to answer. The thought that one of them could die, by a stupid bullet nonetheless, was just too much to bear. A monster yes, an ancient bullet was just too much to understand.

" Why did you have to do that Tommy? Why not someone else, like Jason" thought by herself. Cat knew that those thoughts weren't right but she couldn't help herself, she hated the fact that Jason had what she desperately wanted, Tommy's heart.
All rangers left the center without saying another word. Scared for the life of their commander.

Will Tommy survive this and how long until our couple can go home, stay tuned and find out in the next chapter...

TBC