"Kim…" Tommy said, tentatively as he opened the door to their hotel room and walked in, with the still wailing Chris. He hated doing this to her when she felt so bad, but he wanted to get them out of here as soon as possible.
"What do you want Tommy?" Kim barely muttered as she barely opened her eyes. She could hear Chris, but she was honestly too tired. She felt much worse than she had an hour before and she was just trying to keep from throwing up again.
"Baby, I'm sorry, but…" Tommy began as she pushed past him and ran for the bathroom, with Tommy following after her. Chris then toddled in, still wailing, as Kim vomited over the toilet and then placed her head against the wall.
"Mama!" Chris cried as she struggled to keep from vomiting again as he toddled over to her and wrapped his little arms as far around her as he could reach.
"Hey baby," Kim whispered as she rubbed his back distractedly and Tommy just watched Kim, knowing that she was not in any condition to deal with a crying toddler. "It's okay, Mama's here."
"I 'ant oo Mama," Chris cried as Kim looked over at Tommy, who pulled him away long enough for Kim to throw up again.
"Kim…do you want me to stay?" Tommy asked as Kim shook her head no. She wanted him here, but even more she wanted to be able to go home and be in her bed with the two of them. "Baby, you don't look so good."
"I know, Tommy…but I need you to finish everything with them…and take care of Chris, I can't do it," Kim muttered as he rubbed her back and Chris snuggled up against her.
"I'll handle it Kim, you're coming with me buddy," Tommy said as he grabbed Chris and he then screamed out in displeasure as he was being pulled away from Kimberly. He wanted to stay with his mama, but Tommy knew that Kimberly could not take taking care of him today. She was far too sick from the second child to even attempt to take care of the first.
"Mama!!" Chris shrieked as Tommy just pulled him into a bear hug, trying to comfort him as easily as he could, but finding that the boy was desperate to stay put.
"Why is he still here?" Agent Flowers asked as Tommy walked back in with Chris, who was not crying nearly as much, but he was still crying nonetheless.
"Kim's sick as a dog," Tommy said as Trini and Aisha exchanged a glance. They all knew that Tommy did not want to be here right now, but if he didn't say this, then no one would and they would be stuck here even longer. "But we need to just get this over with."
"What the hell? I can't tell you what power I should have after looking at all of this bull shit. The two of us have been different colors, so why don't we just take those colors back?" Jason asked, extremely frustrated with the entire process.
"Because neither of you are the stereotype for Blue or Gold," Tommy said as Jason looked over at him. How could he even attempt to clarify it all? "I've done my fair share of studying the properties of a rangers colors and believe me, we can't screw this up. If we do, we won't have a chance to make the life that we desperately need to make."
"Well what is the stereotype of each of these colors, since you're such an expert?" Aisha said, sarcastically, as Tommy let out a sigh. They all were short tempered because of the fact that they were having to sit here and haggle over which power embodied them more. Why couldn't the powers just pick them, like they always had in the past?
"Let's start with the colors that we know the most about: red, yellow, and blue. Those colors have always been the core of any ranger team. It is honestly rare to see a team that does not have any of those colors, actually I can't think of any," Tommy said as the others nodded. "Yellow is generally female, while blue is generally male, although there have been exceptions in recent years. Red has always been male, no matter what, so I think that we know that it will be one of you four to receive that power."
"That helps a lot, we've all be reds," Rocky snapped as Tommy closed his eyes and carefully counted backwards from ten. He knew that they were frustrated, but they needed to just dumb everything up and talk about things that they already knew were a fact.
"Yes and so was I, but by default, I got white, because I was a white first. All of you were reds first and therefore you have the true elements of a red that I didn't have. I'm a white, that's it, that is where I was most at home. Jason, you and Rocky, both have some of the characteristics of the blue and gold rangers, but neither of you fit. Trini is better inclined to blue, while I think that Aisha will be better off staying with yellow," Tommy said as the girls looked over at him and Kim gave him a sideways glance. If he was sure, she would not argue, but she thought he had lost his damn mind. Trini? As a blue? What the hell?
"Me? A blue? Come on Tommy, I think that you've taken one too many hits," Trini said as Tommy just shook his head as they all stared at him.
"I'm sure of this, you and Aisha were the easiest to figure out. If Billy hadn't been there, you would've been a blue, that's it," Tommy said as she reluctantly nodded her head in agreement. She had to admit that she had thought about it a couple of times. "Now, if the four of you will have some patience with me, I think I can get all of this figured out in the next few minutes."
"Tommy…" Kim whispered as he looked over at her and she gave him a scared look. He was connecting with something that she had only seen him connect with a couple of times and every time that had happened it had been rough for them afterwards. "Please, be careful with this."
"I will," Tommy said as he focused his mind towards the four remaining powers. He had been three of the four remaining powers, and he knew that both Jason and Rocky had been other colors, but it was obvious to him that they had been more at home in red. He was almost positive that Jason would be the red ranger in the end, but he did not think it wise to say that now. "Let's start with black…"
"Why black?" Andros asked as Tommy rubbed his temples and thought for a long moment. Why was he choosing black first?
"Because it is what I was most recently, it'll be the easiest. Black rangers always seem to have that little bit of their life that is a secret. They are strong people, but there are things that they hide. Now that I think about, it makes sense for Andros to be the black ranger," Tommy said as Andros stared over at him.
"What?" Andros bellowed as Tommy looked up at him, half annoyed. He had fully expected to be able to keep his color, but Tommy thought otherwise.
"Your wife doesn't even know that you are here, that's a hell of a secret if you ask me," Tommy said, solidly shutting him up and Andros just nodded his head, accepting his fate to have one color added to his persona. "Green next…I was evil, hell…I can't categorize a green…I don't know how."
"Hardship, Tommy…that is what comes to green rangers. Adam had to watch his best friend have his back broken, you almost killed all of us…I'd say that hardships come with a green ranger," Kim said as Tommy looked over at her and gave her a grateful smile. She could go and search out that type of power, but she was honestly better at other areas.
"Which one of you has had more hardship?" Tommy wondered aloud as he looked between Rocky and T.J. The fact was, he had already throw Jason out of the equation. He was the true red ranger, even if the others didn't want to accept it. "Rocky…you're the green ranger."
"And by default that makes Jason the gold ranger and me the red ranger since he's had that power, right?" T.J. said, hopefully, as Tommy shook his head no.
"Jason is the red ranger, T.J. I might have picked you as my successor, but you are better suited for the gold powers. Jason was never at home there and will never be at home there. You will, you'll find things in the gold ranger that you only ever imagined as a red," Tommy said as T.J. just shrugged his shoulders. He was not going to have a choice about it, as it seemed that Tommy's word was final.
"So that's the team?" Trini asked, still a little bit skeptical of it all.
"Yes, that is the team, Trini…but how do we get these powers?" Tommy asked, turning to Andros and T.J., who took a slight step back.
"It's not a mission, but it's going to be uncomfortable…" Andros trailed off as Kim let out a disgruntled sigh. 'Uncomfortable' in the ranger world meant painful as hell.
"Well, let's not just sit here, let's get it over with," Jason said as the others nodded their heads in agreement. They could not wait around as the world continued to fall apart at their finger tips.
"Uncomfortable? Why do all of you have that look on your face?" Fred asked as each of the rangers was shifting around uncomfortably in their chair.
"Because of what it does to us, uncomfortable is a word in power ranger lingo that means that we're completely screwed," Tommy said as Fred and Agent Flowers looked at them in confusion. "Let's take a break for lunch and then Andros is going to take over. He knows the process much better than me."