Here's another chapter. I wanted a little return to the music and how it affects Kim and the others.
Hope you all enjoy!
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Adam grinned as Kim finished another song. He looked at the crowd, amazed that they already learned the chorus to some of her new stuff.
Kim took a few moments to take a sip of her bottle of water and pulled her guitar to her. She looked back at her band and nodded at them.
"You make me feel out of my element
Like I'm walkin' on broken glass
Like my world's spinnin' in slow motion
And you're movin' too…fast"
Zack thought of the past few days. He hung around Adam and Kim at the arena, getting everything ready for the concert. So he's heard some of Kim's new songs. He was already formulating a way to put her new songs in the show. When he heard Kim rehearse this song, he thought it would fit one of the episodes perfectly.
"Were you right, was I wrong?
Were you weak, was I strong, yeah
Both of us broken
Caught in the moment
We lived and we loved
And we hurt and we jumped, yeah
But the planets all aligned
When you looked into my eyes
And just like that
The chemicals react"
Hayley smiled as she listened to Kim sing. It described her and Tommy perfectly. Both of their faults, but once they got together, it was almost as if nothing has changed. At least that's what it seemed. Hayley thought guiltily of how she didn't like Kim before meeting her. But now, she and Kim were becoming as good friends as she and Tommy were.
"You make me feel out of my element
Like I'm drifting out to the sea
Like the tide's pullin' me in deeper
Makin' it harder to breathe
We cannot deny, how we feel inside
We cannot deny"
Rocky looked at Aisha and took her hand. Kim's song reminded him of how he and Aisha first got together. It was after Rocky moved to Florida to check on Kim. He and Aisha would often sit around and talk about how they could help Kim. They would talk about their lives, everything that happened after Aisha moved away.
Kim encouraged him to go for it and ask her out. He was just way too shy to do anything.
"Were you right, was I wrong?
Were you weak, was I strong, yeah
Both of us broken
Caught in the moment
We lived and we loved
And we hurt and we jumped, yeah
But the planets all aligned
When you looked into my eyes
And just like that
The chemicals react"
Tommy stared at Kim, mesmerized by her presence on the stage. Even though he's seen her perform many times, he's never gotten over how she is a music star. How so many people scream her name, buy her CDs, and love her almost as much as he does.
Almost.
"Kaleidoscope of colors
Turning hopes on fire, sun is burning
Shining down on both of us
Don't let us lose it"
Billy also couldn't believe that Kim was a big music star. He thought of her in high school and remembered the numerous times that the two of them got mixed up into something, whether it involved Rita, Zedd, Goldar, or any of the putties. He knew back then that Kim was strong, way too strong to be brought down by anything.
He thought back to the first show that he saw her at. The only other show of Annie H's that he's seen. How that night changed the lives of him and everyone else. And how Kira was the reason why they all reconnected.
"We lived
We loved
We hurt
We jumped
We're right
We're wrong
We're weak
We're strong
We lived to love
But the planets all aligned
When you looked into my eyes
And just like that
Watch the chemicals react"
Adam nodded at Kim and ran out onstage, amid the cheers. He took a seat at the piano and smiled at Kim, who moved her stool closer to him.
Kim looked out into the crowd as Adam started playing the piano. "This next song goes out to all of those women out there, who do everything for yourself, your family, and your friends."
"Is that Adam?" Aisha asked in disbelief.
Amy nodded. "Yup. I know that he wanted to be a bit more involved in Kim's shows and stuff. They have been writing and producing songs together. I think Kim wanted to drag him out onstage, too."
"Everywhere I'm turning
Nothing seems complete
I stand up and I'm searching
For the better part of me"
"I always forget that Adam's musically talented, too," said Trini.
"I didn't even know that he knew how to play any musical instruments," said Billy. "I don't recall ever seeing him pick up a guitar, play the piano, or anything else. I do remember him and soccer, though."
"I hang my head from sorrow
Slave to humanity
I wear it on my shoulders
Gotta find the strength in me"
Kim looked at Adam, who grinned at her, encouragingly.
"Cuz I am superwoman
Yes I am
Even when I'm a mess
I still put on a vest
With an S on my chest
Oh yes
I'm a superwoman"
Kim jumped up from her stool and started walking toward the end of the stage. She smiled at the crowd as she watched them wave their arms around to the song.
"For all the mothers fighting
For better days to come
And all my women, all my women sitting here trying
To come home before the sun
And all my sisters
Coming together
Say yes I will"
The crowd yelled "Yes I will!"
"Yes I can!"
Kim pumped her arms in the air to get everyone out of their seats, while she sang the chorus again.
"We are going out to dinner after this, right?" Rocky whispered.
Everyone looked at him in disbelief.
"Sorry, my stomach's trying to sing with Kim!"
Everyone started laughing.
"Anywhere, but Chili's," said Tommy.
"But I've been craving…"
"I've gotta go with Tommy, Rock," said Jason. "No Chili's."
Trini shoved both of them. "Shut up! Conversation can wait."
"When I'm breaking down
And I can't be found
And I start to get weak
Cuz no one knows
Me underneath these clothes
But I can fly
We can fly"
Kim stopped singing as she watched the crowd. They already knew the song and were singing the chorus while she smiled at them.
"Thanks, you guys! I swear, you amaze me every time I perform. All of these new songs and you all ready know it!"
Kim took a towel and wiped her sweat. She walked over to Adam, who pulled out a guitar of his own and pulled an extra stool next to her."This is Adam, one my closest, best friends ever. He's up here to help me with a couple of my songs."
Adam smiled and waved at the crowd. Kim pulled up her own guitar and sat down on the stool. She put her microphone in the stand in front of her and started to strum her guitar.
"All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am"
Kim thought about her past as a ranger. She and her friends all had their own separate stories taken from their time as rangers that has shaped them into the people that they are. She thought of Zordon and Alpha and desperately wished that she saw them one last time before Zordon's energy tube was shattered.
"But these stories don't mean anything
When you've got no one to tell them to
It's true
I was made for you"
Adam started playing his guitar in tune with Kimberly's. He looked at the crowd, down where his friends and his girlfriend sat. Kim's been telling him that he should tell Amy about their past, that it wouldn't be right unless it came from him. But he was afraid. He wasn't sure why, but he was.
"I climbed across the mountain tops
Swam all across the ocean blue
I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules
But baby, I broke them all for you"
Aisha thought back to when she decided to leave the rangers and stay in Africa. To this day, she wasn't sure if she made the right decision. She wasn't there when Kim went through her accident and she wasn't there when Rocky got hurt while preparing for the martial arts tournament. She never told anybody, but she sort of regrets going to Africa, when her true place was at home.
"Because even when I was flat broke
You made me feel like a million bucks
You do
I was made for you"
Trini thought of when she, Zack, and Jason got picked to go Switzerland. She knew that it was a wonderful, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and is grateful for the chance. She was sad that she experienced being a ranger for so short a time. Her and Zack. Jason, she thought, at least got to be the gold ranger for a bit. Trini remembered hearing about when Tommy, Kimberly, and Billy met Aisha, Rocky, and Adam in the park. She had felt a surge of jealously when she heard about the three of them saving the other three. And was even more jealous that they knew the biggest secret between them. Trini could already feel that Kim and Aisha were growing closer. They shared more in common than Kim and Trini did.
"You see the smile that's on my mouth
It's hiding the words that don't come out
And all of my friends who think that I'm blessed
They don't know my head is a mess"
Amy watched Adam and Kim flawlessly perform on the stage. When Amy and Adam first got together, she always thought that there was something going on between the two. Then she saw the same relationship that Kim had with Adam, between her and Jason and her and Rocky.
When Aisha first moved to Florida from Africa, the first thing she did was look for a job at the nearest veterinary clinic. There, she and Amy met and then the two of them decided to start up their own clinic. Aisha introduced Amy to the rest of the group and she grew to be pretty close friends to the others.
Amy knew about Kim's accident. She knew that Kim had never really gotten over an old boyfriend. She knew a lot of things about the others, too. She could see, could feel the closeness between the group of friends that Aisha introduced her to.
But she always felt that they were hiding something from her.
And she knew that she would always be the outsider of the group.
"No, they don't know who I really am
And they don't know what
I've been through like you do
And I was made for you..."
When Tommy, Hayley, Billy, and Zack went to Florida, Amy could also feel that they were already in the "inner" circle of the group of friends that she walked into. She could sense that they already knew whatever big secret that the others were hiding and she was angry about it, although she didn't show it. She didn't want to be jealous of them.
Amy looked up at her boyfriend on the stage. She looked at the person next to him, who's become one of her closest friends. She looked to her left and her right. She was glad that she was a part of this group of friends. She knew that no matter what, they would always be there for her and she would always be there for them.
"All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am
But these stories don't mean anything
When you've got no one to tell them to
It's true...
I was made for you."
Adam looked down at the audience again. He caught sight of his friends in the movement of the light. He looked at them and grinned and nodded towards them.
He thought about going back to the power. He and Kira still have their powers even though it isn't active. He had told the overdrive rangers that all they had to do was call them and they'd be there, but they seemed to have handled everything on their own. When Will had called him, he remembered feeling excited for a moment when he thought they needed help again. Then Will told him that they finished their tour of duty. He was surprised to hear that Mack was actually an android. That was something that he had never even thought about before. But he was glad that they were safe.
When they finished the song, Kim grinned at Adam, who waved to the crowd and walked off stage. He set his guitar down and smiled at Kira, who was waiting off to the side.
"You guys did great!" she exclaimed, hugging him.
"Thanks," he replied. "You know you're going to do even better out there."
Kira looked at him with wide eyes. "I hope so."
Adam hugged her. "I know so."
Kira looked out on the stage with Adam next to her. They watched Kim address the crowd.
"You've already seen her once tonight! I'd like you all to give a big welcome to Kira Ford!" Kim glanced offstage, smiling encouragingly at Kira.
Adam squeezed Kira's arm before she walked out there. She smiled shyly at Kim and waved at the crowd, before the two started playing their guitars.
Kim started to sing.
"You're not alone
Together we stand
I'll be by your side, you know I'll take your hand"
Kim smiled at Kira as she nodded to her. Kira glanced down to Trent, Conner, and Ethan and grinned at them before she started to sing.
"When it gets cold
And it feels like the end
There's no place to go
You know I won't give in
No, I won't give in"
Kim co-wrote this song with Kira and Adam. Like her other songs, the three of them pulled mainly from their ranger past. They wrote this song after the three of them stayed up all night talking about how each of their ranger teams were nearly defeated by evil. Kim recalled the Ivan Ooze incident and when Kat stole her power coin, right before she left for Florida. Adam remembered losing the original powers and finding the Zeo crystal. They both talked about getting their Ninja powers. Kira told them about Mesagog and Zeltrax. And when they helped the other rangers.
"Keep holding on
And we'll make it through, we'll make it through
Just stay strong
You know I'm here for you, I'm here for you"
Kira remembered when she found out that Trent was the evil white ranger. She remembered Tommy talking to her and the others about how they should try to reach out to Trent, how his friends never gave up on him.
"There's nothing you could say
Nothing you could do
There's no other way when it comes to the truth
So keep holding on
And we'll make it through, we'll make it through"
Tommy watched as Kim and Kira performed. The last time he was a ranger, Kira was a part of that team, along with the other three guys sitting near him. He spent many days thinking about how their team was a lot like the original team that he was a part of. Tommy looked down and stole a glance at Conner and looked toward his other side at Jason and Rocky.
When Conner bonded with the red Dino Gem, he could see Jason and Rocky in him. Conner was an athlete, a leader first and foremost, like Jason. He played around a lot, like Rocky. But above all, he was loyal to his friends and his teammates and always made sure that they were safe.
Kira always reminded Tommy of Kim and Trini. From the first day of school to detention, Tommy always felt that Kira had a little bit of the original female rangers in her. Kira, played the guitar like Kim, but also shared her willingness to help others. She was a fearless fighter, and the person who always mediated any arguments, like Trini.
Ethan was so obviously just like Billy. Both of them were computer savvy, although Ethan spoke in a language that everyone understood. He had a bit of Zack in him because they were both playful and pretty sarcastic at times, and they would always be there for their teammates.
Trent...when Tommy found out that Trent was the evil white ranger, he felt an even deeper connection to the kid. Trent was caught right in the middle of the battle of good and evil and he didn't know what side to pick. His father was on one side and his friends on the other.
"So far away
I wish you were here
Before it's too late, this could all disappear"
Zack felt his Blackberry vibrating in his pocket. He knew that whoever it was wouldn't leave him alone. "Two more days," he thought. "Two more days and they'll get me back."
He couldn't believe how successful his show has become in its short run, so far. He credited it in large part to his friends, because without them, he knew that he never would've been able to get such good ideas for his television episodes. He knew that they were all mainly part of their past experiences, but he was glad to relive it. He was glad to see that the actors and actresses portraying the friendship between him and his friends, portrayed them well. He was glad that they all truly got along with each other. And he was glad that he wasn't cut off from his past anymore.
"Before the doors closed
And it comes to an end
With you by my side, I will fight and defend
I'll fight and defend"
Trini thought again about Switzerland. She knew that Aisha and Kim were growing closer. She knew that she was feeling a bit of jealously toward her.
But then, Trini and Aisha started to hang out with each other. Even though Aisha lived in Stone Canyon, Kim always dragged the two of them together so that the three of them would become good friends.
Then Aisha moved to Angel Grove and Trini was selected to go to Switzerland. And there was nobody else that Trini wanted to entrust her powers to, other than Aisha.
"Keep holding on
And we'll make it through, we'll make it through
Just stay strong
You know I'm here for you, I'm here for you"
Billy thought back to his years on Aquitar. He helped the ranger team there, but always felt a void for home. He was extremely glad that he and his friends all got back in touch with one another, almost as if no time had passed. He was glad that he found a person who truly makes him happy.
"There' s nothing you could say
No other way when it comes to the truth
So keep holding on
And we'll make it through, we'll make it through"
Kim and Kira were walking around the stage, before they joined in the middle. They faced the crowd and continued to sing.
"Hear me when I say, when I say I believe
Nothing's gonna change, nothing's gonna change destiny
Whatever's meant to be will work out perfectly
Yeah, yeah, yeah"
Aisha thought about Africa. She looked at her friends and saw how happy everyone was. When she heard Kim and Kira sing, she knew that she had to get over the past. She knew that everyone had to. She knew that everyone pretty much got over the past, but that they all felt a little inkling of either regret or something.
But she knew that they would all stick together.
There you go!
Songs are: "Chemicals React" - Aly & AJ; "Superwoman" - Alicia Keys; "The Story" - Brandi Carlisle (one of my favorite songs!); "Keep Holding On" - Avril Lavigne.