a/n-so i was thinking about something. it gets kind of confusing, all of these characters, right? i mean, i made like half of them up. my sister gave me this idea, what if i put a 'family tree' of sorts on my profile page? it would list all of the characters i use in here. and all of the ones I made up as well, and who there related to and so on. tell me what you think. if i get some positive feedback i'll start working on it right away, so i can get it up as soon as possible. enjoy the chapter.

disclaimer-not mine. not mine. not mine. not mine. not mine. not mine. not mine. not mine. mine. i mean, not mine.

Chapter Nine-Reunions at the Original Command Center

"Zordon?" Kim questioned her daughter. "What about him? He's been dead for years."

"No, he hasn't." David said, catching on to what his sister was thinking. "He's the one who sent us to Dulcea to receive our powers."

"And Dulcea mentioned something to us about someone named Zordon." Ada put in. "I think she said that he was the one who chose us to receive the powers."

"That guy is so dead." Ann muttered. "And for real this time. What was going throught that guy's head when he made Kyle a ranger?"

"Birds!" Kyle exclaimed.

Tommy and Adam shared a look over their gradnson's head. "Did we miss something? About birds?"

"He's been obsessed with them ever since Dulcea said you people were all birds." Ada explained. "Kind of annoying really."

"Back to the point." Kim interrupted. "What about Zordon?"

"If we want to save everyone else," Ann began, "Then we need Zordon's help to do it. He's the one who started the legacy of power rangers here on Earth. And wasn't he the one who trapped Rita in the dumpster in the first place? If he could get her in there, who's to say he can't trap her daughter in there as well?"

"I wish he would." Crystal muttered.

"You know," David said, "That's exactly how I feel about my sister, too."

Ann glared at him.

Kim smiled slightly. "Things with you two will never change."

"We don't fight that much." Ann insisted.

"Yes we do." David contradicted.

"No we don't." Ann snapped.

"Did I miss something?" Ada questioned.

Kim turned to her granddaughter. "They were always fighting, back when I visited them. Loudest two and a half years of my life."

"Same question." Ada said.

"You never told them?" Kim asked her children. She turned to Ada. "When these two were oh, sixteen I think it was, I came from the past while I was supposed to be in some kind of coma. It's all quite complicated really. But in a strange way, it makes sense."

"Must be a very strange way." Sam muttered.

"I've got it." Billy said suddenly, and randomly. He was standing over a computer console.

"Got what?" Everyone chourused together.

"The command center." He said.

The image on the screen held the face of someone most of them recognized.

Alpha.

"Mistress, I have some news for you." Haxel said, bowing before Scarlette's throne.

"Does it have anything to do with my sister and those missing rangers?" Scarlette snapped.

Haxel hesitated. "Um...no...not really."

"Then I don't want to hear about it." She hissed. "I want you focusing everything on finding them. It doesn't matter that there's no one to take them in, they are still a danger to us. I want them found!"

"Yes mistress." Haxel said hastily. "But this concerns Goldar."

Scarlette's eyes went wide. "Goldar?" She questioned. "What about him?"

"They've freed him. Goldar is no longer in prison." Haxel told her. "He was released early this morning."

"Released into whose custody?" Scarlette questioned. "The intergalactic police just wouldn't let someone like Goldar go."

"From the information I have," Haxel began, "It looks like it was the second pink galaxy ranger."

"I'm not familiar with the galaxy rangers." Scarlette said. "What else do you have on her?"

"Well, mistress, it would appear that the two of you have met before." Haxel informed her. "But then, you knew her as Astronema."

Scarlette grinned evily. "Excellent."

"Rangers!" Zordon said. "I haven't seen or heard from you in years. To what do I owe the pleasure?"

Ann snorted. "Oh please, don't tell me you haven't been watching the viewing globe."

"Okay, I won't." Zordon said.

"Dude, you don't know?" David asked in awe.

"Know what?" Zordon questioned. "Has something happened? Cruger was supposed to contact me if anything major happened and he needed reinforcements."

Ann sighed. "Cruger's gone. They're all gone. Remember how you helped to set up S.P.D. to protect the Earth from Scarlette?"

Zordon could only nod.

"It didn't work."

Zordon closed his eyes. They were all silent for a moment. When he opened them again, the pain he felt was evident. Never had he lost so many rangers at one time. Other than the time with Scarlette all those years ago.

"Before we ask for your help, Zordon," Ann said softly, "There's something we should explain to you."

"What?"

"We found mom and dad, and Uncle Adam."

"How?" Zordon asked in awe.

"Well, actually, it was Crystal." David explained. "You remember that girl? The white ranger on our team? Well, she was...is, Scarlette's younger sister. But her total opposite as well. She found the three of them and was able to rescue them. She knows where the others are, but we need your help to rescue them."

A smile lit up Zordon's features. "Anything to help the rangers..."

Scarlette stood on the balcony overlooking the desolate landscape of the moon, just thinking about the past few days. And maybe a bit further back than that as well.

It felt so good to get out of here. Thirty four years is really a bit too long to stay inside of this place. And what better way to commemorate my newfound freedom from that dreary place than to kill off a bunch of rangers? Now there are none left. None left at all. Okay, so there aren't any left that are in a position to come after me.

So, altogether, I won. I finally won. I accomplished what my parents never could.

Those fools.

And the nerve of them! Abandoning us for the side of good. Well...that little brat was always good. But really, they made me the laughing stock of...well...the universe. The Emperor of All Evil and Rita Repulsa going over to the side of good! It's perposterous!

Ugh, I need to find those rangers!

It doesn't matter that they are alone and powerless, they were the power rangers. Who knows what they could do in their position?

Scarlette was interrupted from her thoughts by the sudden appearance of General Haxel in the throne room.

"Mistress." He said.

"What?"

"I have something."

Scarlette turned around eagerly. "What is it?"

"It's the 'Morphin Grid." Haxel announced. "It's re-activated itself. Someone's using the old command center."

Scarlette's eyes lit up in anticipation.

So long, rangers...

a/n-thanks for reading the chapter, but just so you know, no matter what, i won't be updating until friday at the earliest. i have a huge test i need to study for that if i took right now, i would fail. thats all.