"How come I have the feeling that the world is not going to be much better off without the Machine Empire?" Tommy asked looking over at his three friends and they all shrugged. They couldn't help but have the exact same sinking feeling. It seemed like everything they had gone through had been for nothing.

"It's just been a rough couple of days, everything is going to get better, Tommy," Trini said as Tommy just shook his head. He was tempted to teleport away right now and have a furious rant with Zordon, but he didn't see how that would help him any. He had too much going on here, that he didn't have time to go give Zordon a good piece of his mind.

"How? I have the sinking feeling that there is something that I don't know about," Tommy said looking her dead in the eyes and she looked away as Jason and Zack both looked down. They didn't want to have to deal with it at all, they didn't want to be the one to tell him that he was no longer a ranger.

"You might want to sit down," Jason said as Tommy looked over at him. They were in a crowded waiting room, but still that did not make him comfortable.

"It can't be that bad," Tommy said as Jason just shook his head and Tommy took a seat, although it was rather reluctantly.

"You've been kicked off the team," Jason said as Tommy just stared at him, wondering how that could happen when he just saved the world from utter destruction.

"How could that happen?" Tommy asked as Jason just shook his head that he didn't know the answer, but he knew that he would surely try to find it out while Kim was in the hospital and Tommy would not leave her.

"It's not really their choice, the powers rejected you," Jason muttered as Tommy covered his face and let out a frustrated groan as his mother looked over at him, wondering what else her son could have possibly heard that would make him do that. The hospital staff had managed to find a place to take Mr. Hart to deal with his injuries and also call the police.

"Tommy," Dr. Evans said as he walked into the waiting room and saw the boy look up at him. "Come with me."

"How bad?" Tommy asked, as he knew that something had to be injured in Kimberly that would not be healed in a few hours.

"She has a concussion Tommy, so we're going to have to keep her for a few more days, but you are free to go see her," Dr. Evans said as Tommy closed his eyes and he felt the doctor put his hand on his shoulder. "You don't deserve this after everything that you have done for all of us, but I hope I can pay you back by helping her. As far as we know you were never presented with the restraining order. Go be with her, you are the only one that she wants."

"Thank you," Tommy whispered as he walked down the hall, into a portion of the hospital that he had been able to avoid for many months.

"Tommy…" Kim whispered as she looked over to her side and saw a tall man walk into her room and she felt the tears roll down her cheeks, as he did not immediately respond. "…no they couldn't have…they promised…"

"It's okay," Tommy said as he sat down in the chair next to her bed and she reached out for him and he slowly moved her over and lay down next to her as she wrapped herself around him. He could feel her trembling and he slowly rubbed her back and smoothed out her hair in an attempt to calm her, which worked well as he lulled her back to sleep in a matter of minutes. Now he could only think of the other bit of news that he would have to tell her. That they were no longer rangers, that they had been cast aside by their powers.

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"You look better," Annie said with a smile as she walked into Kim's hospital room and saw Kim looking down at her son as he finally slept for the first time in days. They had gotten the restraining order reversed and Kim was now going to live with the Oliver's until their graduation and then after that they all had the feeling that there would be a wedding. Kimberly's father, on the other hand, was facing charges, if Kim decided to pursue it, but right now they weren't pressing her. She had enough to deal with.

"Thanks," Kim said, softly, as she brushed back Tommy's hair and he merely moved his arm around her and settled it there.

"Are you ready to go?" Annie asked as Kim nodded her head yes. Tommy had told her so much over the last few days, the fact that they were no longer rangers, the story of how Jason, Trini, and Zack had been called in and how they had been sent back without any damage being done. He had also reiterated repeatedly how much he loved her. He couldn't let her slip away, he couldn't sacrifice all of this and then not be able to have the one that he loved. He knew that this was going to be hard on them, but they would make it. They had to. "Do you think we should wake him up?"

"Give him a little while, he hasn't slept to well the last few days," Kim said as Annie nodded. She had been afraid that had been the case, but she would never have brought that up in front of Tommy. He saw it as his responsibility to stay up and watch her and hold her when she needed to cry and ease her mind when she was worried. A blind mind could see how much they loved each other, but it still shocked Annie to see it. Her son was desperately and hopelessly devoted to this woman and she felt the same way about him.

"How are you?" Annie asked as Kim looked down at Tommy and he reached over and grabbed her hand, opening his eyes sleepily and smiling up at her before drifting back off.

"I've been better, but he's helping, a lot," Kim said as Annie nodded while Tommy absentmindedly rubbed her hand and she gave him a love filled smile.

"You know that we'll do anything that you need," Annie said as Kim nodded. She knew that his parents had come to the conclusion that there was no use trying to keep the two of them away from each other and more importantly that Tommy was not going to leave her alone if there was a chance that her father would be around. He didn't trust the man anymore, not after what had happened to her.

"Right now, I need time and it's getting better, slowly but surely," Kim said as Carl walked in and smiled at his son and her. He hadn't seen Tommy move more than a few feet away from her these last few days and he often wondered what they had whispered about, but whatever it was had worked wonders on her and he was proud that he had raised a son that cared so much, for only one woman. "Is it all right that I stay with you? I could stay with Aisha if it's going to be a problem for you."

"And have Tommy sneak out every night to make sure that you are all right? I don't think so," Annie said as Kim smiled over at her and then reached down to wake Tommy up, as her legs were starting to go asleep from his weight.

"Come on, Handsome, wake up," Kim said as he looked sleepily up at her and then pulled her down for a kiss as his father coughed rather loudly. Tommy, however, did not pull away immediately and lazily let go of Kim.

"We are going to have to make some ground rules though," Carl said as Tommy looked over at his dad and nodded. They had both expected that, at the very least. "You, missy, are going on birth control…I know, the condom broke, but we have to prevent this from happening again…until..."

"Secondly, you are going to have separate rooms and although I do expect to find you in each other's rooms some mornings, I don't want for it to be a daily occurrence, after the two of you have gotten most of this out of your systems," Annie said as they both nodded. Tommy, however, could already see a problem forming there, as it was going to be hard for him to just sleep without her after these last few days. No, he had not gotten a lot of sleep, but the sleep he had gotten had been better than any that he could remember.

"That's it?" Kim asked as Carl and Annie nodded, as she gave them a skeptical look. She felt like there had to be more restrictions.

"Well, unless you two give us a reason, we're not going to keep you away from each other. What we see in your eyes lets us know that we would be foolish to try," Annie said as Kim jumped out of the bed and gave her a tight hug as Tommy watched with an amused smile on his face. "Now, let's get you home."

"I need to tell Dr. Evans thank you before I can go," Kim said as Annie nodded, she had been pretty sure that Kim and Tommy would want to thank him. He had been understanding when no one else seemed to care about them. He had let Tommy stay, when the rest of the staff tried to insist that it could only be family. They owed him so much, for giving them the comforts that they desperately needed.

"I'm glad to hear that," Dr. Evans said as he stood in the doorway and the two teens looked over at him, as Tommy's parents walked out. "I've never been more glad to send two people home."

"Thank you, for everything," Kim said as Dr. Evans nodded.

"Actually, I think I should be thanking the two of you," Dr. Evans said as they gave him a confused look and he pulled out a newspaper from his wallet with the headline 'Local Doctor Saved by the Power Rangers'. "I never forgot the day when my life was put in your hands and you saved me. I promised myself then if I ever found out who the rangers were, I would thank them. I never thought that you would be my patients, but now that you have been, I see how much more I am indebted to you. If you ever need anything, feel free to call. Rangers will be free of charge."

"We couldn't ask that of you…" Tommy began as Dr. Evans held his hand up to stop him.

"It has already been approved by the board. They don't know who you are, but they know that I know and I told them that I'd take my services to another hospital that was willing to foot the bill for the rangers if they didn't want to do it," Dr. Evans said as they gave him sad smiles.

"We're being replaced, unless we can convince them that we are fit enough to fight, but we'll let the others know," Tommy said as Dr. Evans nodded as Kim gave him a hug and then turned to leave.

"Be careful out there," Dr. Evans said as Tommy nodded and watched the two of them walk out, wondering where their life was headed from here.

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"Where are the two of you going?" Annie asked as Kim and Tommy had immediately changed into their normal clothes and headed for the front door. "You haven't been here for five minutes and you're leaving."

"Mom, we have some stuff we have to take care of, but I promise that we'll be back as soon as we're done," Tommy said as Kim gave her a hopeful look and she let out a sigh. There was no use in telling them that they couldn't go anywhere, but it would all work out somehow.

"What are you doing here?" Billy asked as Kim and Tommy landed in the Command Center. They hadn't known when Kim was going to be let out and they had been so busy dealing with straightening out Jason, Trini, and Zack's situation that it had slipped their mind.

"Kim!" Aisha yelled as she wrapped her arms around Kimberly and held her tight.

"We want our powers back, Billy," Tommy said as Billy nodded. He had known that Kim and Tommy were not going to just let it go. They were not going to just quit being rangers without one hell of a fight.

"You're going to have to talk with Zordon about that," Billy said as Tommy nodded. He hadn't expected for Billy to be able to solve it all for them, but he had hoped that he would have known which way it was going to go.

"We might as well get it over with Tommy," Kim said with a sad expression as he reached out for her hand and took it. They were going into a place that they had never been in their ranger career and it scared them. They knew this might be the last time they got to come here and say they were the Power Rangers, but it had been worth it, through everything it had been worth it.

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End of Flashback

Jason's POV

Kimberly and Tommy were lucky that day, their powers took them back and the wild ride began all over again. We've talked about it from time to time and wondered why we were the ones chosen to complete a destiny that should have never been ours, but it's not something to be figured out. The paradise of our lives was broken, in ways that we couldn't believe. We had all thought that the ranger world would leave us alone or in Tommy and Kim's case, not interfere any more, but it has been fine. We have learned, we've gotten over it and we've become stronger for it. That is all you can ask after something like that, to learn and to never forget the day that paradise was broken.