Kenny stared at his sister's house, the Christmas lights illuminating the dark woods surrounding it. He didn't understand why Kim had picked such an isolated house. She thrived on interacting with others. Out here there wasn't a neighbor in over a mile radius.
If he didn't know better, he would think Kim was hiding something, but Kim wasn't the type of girl to get involved with anything illegal, and he guess Kim had a right to keep secrets, but Kim did have full custody of Kira and Ronny, and as Kim and Kira's older brother he had a right to worry. Right?
What about Tommy, besides phone calls and letters, he never met him until the wedding. Sure the two of them appear happy together, but what about behind close doors? Why did Tommy insist to isolate his family like this?
He shook his head, he's been watching to many cop shows, Tommy wasn't like that and Kim was far to spunky to let something like that happen to her. After all, she was the one who went on to win gold after being told she would never compete again.
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Kim spread the papers out on the desk in the study, technically she really shouldn't leave these out were someone could she then, but her brother was the only one who didn't know their secret who would stop by unannounced, and it being the middle of the night she ought not to worry.
At least not of someone finding out that she was up in the middle of the night peering over battle plans that spread across the universe.
She had plenty of other things to worry about though, like what these battle plans meant. A mass invasion on the whole universe. The worst part was, these plans may no longer be accurate. Karone, the red Astro ranger's sister, had been the one who told them about it, but she had been captured and brainwashed so they had no idea what had been changed.
Star was willing to help, but her team couldn't fight in space like power rangers could. And they were down two rangers, three, if Tanya wasn't careful, they learned about the invasion before the wedding and she and Adam promised to be extra careful, seeing on how easy Trini and Kim got pregnant. Luckily she herself should be back in action soon.
A couple of kicks distracted her for a second. The way the kick almost made her wonder if they were practicing karate in there. She wondered if they would be born morph or something.
The likely hood of them having powers was extremely high, it ran in Tommy's family and they both were connected to the morphin grid.
A noise behind her caused her to crouch down into the best fighting position she could while eight months pregnant with triplets, until a familiar presence entered her mind.
"Handsome, I hope I didn't wake you. I thought that Mama was kidding when she warned me about being unable to sleep."
Tommy laughed, pressing a kiss to his wife's head, "Well, considering the fact I can't sleep due to the looming alien invasion, I totally understand. I've never had to lead such a large team and the stakes are so much higher."
"Add in the fact that we have children to worry about and no guarantee that I'll be able to fight when the time comes."
"And Trini can't fight unless they hold out for five months, and I doubt that."
Tommy and Kim shook their heads, letting out a unified sigh of exhaustion. Just then the doorbell rang, pulling them out of their dark thoughts.
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Kenny shook his head, trying to pull himself together and just ring the doorbell. There was a good chance despite the late hour Kim was up, her pregnancy and the stress of having two tweens getting to her.
Tommy answered the door, "Kenny," He looked surprised and almost panicked. Kenny rose an eyebrow but didn't say anything as Tommy called into the other room, "Beautiful it's your brother, Kenny!"
Kenny didn't hear Kim's reply as she left what he seemed to remember was the study. The room with the old speak easy that they transformed into some sort of secret lab.
Why did they even have a secret lab. They allow him into it until Billy and Justin showed up during Thanksgiving break and did, something in there, and suddenly it was off limits.
He wondered why.
"Kenny," Kim said with a smile that didn't quite meet her eyes, her smile hadn't met her eyes a lot recently, "What are you doing up, it's like two in the morning?"
"I could ask you two the same thing," Kenny pointed out.
Tommy and Kim looked at each other for a full five minutes before saying that they just had a lot on their mind. Kenny couldn't fault them yet. They were in the process of trying to get Ronny's parents to allow them to actually adopt her.
"Any news on the adoption?" Kenny asked, hoping to make small talk instead of just telling them what had happened.
Tommy shrugged, "None, we won't commit to a date for a court hearing until some of the other things are taken care of." It was true, it would look bad if they couldn't make it to the hearing because they were on some far off planet.
"Why did you come over, Kenny?" Kim demanded, "it's kind of late for a social call."
Kenny rubbed the back of his neck as he said, "I think we better go into the living room and sit down, I have some bad news."
"Dad?" Kim asked with a pain expression on her face.
Kenny nodded his head, "I'm sorry Kim," he said with a sob that he had been holding in since he had heard the news.
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A/N: this story is coming to its end, probably only four more chapters left. Don't worry I have a Dino Thunder one in the works. I just need to figure out a title.