Kim was feeling a lot better the following day, it was amazing how a good nights rest and guardians who know what is going on and therefore could help with the morning sickness could do.
At the moment she was on the balance beam, working on her routine, Tommy's dad had told her that as long as she was careful and didn't over do it she could still do some of the activities she loved to do, at least as long as she was careful.
Tommy was spotting her, still trying to come to term that this beautiful angel was his wife when someone approached them, "Your friend is very good."
the stranger commented in a thick German accent.
"Yeah, and getting better every day," Tommy said, allowing pride for his wife's talent to show in his voice before he realized that he had no idea who he was talking to, "Hi," he said, sticking his hand out, "I'm Tommy Oliver."
"Gunter Schmidt, I have a friend who lives up in the mountains who told me I should come see your friend here preform. He was right, she is amazing. But then again, he is always right, as you are well aware."
By this point Kim had dismounted and walked over, going into shock when she recognized the famous coach, who immediatly asked to speak to her coach.
Kim blushed slightly, "I don't have one," she admitted, she use to, but she stopped taking lessons there because her duties as a power ranger kept getting in the way.
"No Coach?" Gunter Schmidt exclaimed, "That won't do, that won't do at all. Tell you what I'll clear sometime in my schedule to train you. Let's go somewhere private to discuss this further."
Kim was hesitant but luckily Tommy stepped in, "I hope you don't mind, but I don't feel comfortable letting one of my friends meet with someone they just met in private by themselves, I will come too." That way if this is another of Rita's traps I can intervene, Tommy thought to himself.
"Of course," Gunter Schmidt agreed, "I wouldn't' expect anything else."
On the way to Coach Schmidt's hotel room, Tommy contacted Zordon and asked about the coach, Zordon quickly confirmed his story.
In the hotel room Coach Schmidt announced, "The story will be that you will be joining me in Florida to train for the Pan Global Games. Before we leave though everyone will believe that you are training with me. Therefore you will observe me training the other gymnasts. If you feel up to it you may participate in any training exercise you want to keep up the appearance that you are training with me."
Kim nodded, "Okay, but then what?"
"After you leave here to train at my gym in Florida I will take you to a Shiba family safe house. The Shiba family has been involved with the power rangers for centuries, their ancestors recieved power symbols from Zordon to help fight against monsters called nighlocks. Every generation or so they raise up again, so they have safe places for the younger members of the families of the rangers to go in a time of crisis. They are willing to open one up for you to use."
"So what do we do now?" Tommy replied, earnestly.
"You must inform your caregivers what is going on, seeing as they know about you condition they will find it odd that I would chose you to train with me.
Kim was wearing a sweatshirt and stretchy pants as she lead Coach Schmidt to the Juice Counter, she was craving one of Ernie's protein shakes and had convinced the coach to try one as well.
Ernie and Gunter Schmidt engaged in small talk while Kim wondered what in the world Bulk and Skull were up to. Did she even want to know? After awhile Coach Schmidt leaned over and whispered, "If you feel up to it, I think we should go over your balance beam routine while you are here, just to establish that I am truly training you."
Kim walked over to the balance beam and hoisted herself up onto it, before going through the routine, unaware of Kat watching them from the sidelines.
...Reefside California present day...
"So you just hung out with an older man all day long without doing anything?" Conner demanded.
Kim shrugged, placing a hand on the small bump on her stomach, "Well, as a power ranger I can notice small details really closely, so I helped him train some of the girls," she paused for a second, "I believe he told them I was an assistant coach or something."
"So what happened next?" Kira demanded, eager to learn more.
"Rita and Zedd attacked."
...Angel Grove January 1996...
Kim had took a break and was just getting back on the beam when her communicator went off, alerting her that there was trouble. After making up an excuse and hurrying off, more for the benefit of anyone listening in than for the coach, seeing as he already knew what that mysterious noise was.
The battle was tiresome, yet odd at the same time, a lot of the monsters that they sent down were ones that they had already defeated, and the moment that they managed to regroup the monsters retreated. Only to return about five minutes later when Kim had just returned back to the Youth Center.
This time they defeated them on the shark cycles. However, Kim wasn't feeling well enough to celebrate the defeat of so many enemies. In fact she felt almost light headed. She dismounted her Shark cycle and took a step towards Tommy, the next thing she knew she was on the ground with a splitting headache.
"Rocky! Find a phone and call and call an ambulance, Alpha, get the Shark Cycles out of here!" Tommy called out, crouching next to his wife. He had tried to get to her before she demorphed and hit her head, but it had happened so fast he didn't have time to respond.
