A/N: Here you go, chapter 21 right on time (for once, its actually early...) yay! So, the rangers aren't too happy about Tommy and Jason's plan, especially Kimberly. You better read on and find out what happens. Are you seriously still reading this Author's Note? Seriously? I thought you came here to read chapter 21! I thought so! Well then, get to it! You're wasting time reading this pointless bit of writing at the top of the page. GO! Why won't you do as I say? Just do it. ...I'm obviously quite bored.

Tommy was sitting in his classroom, trying to make out some tests for the end of the week. He had a free period right now, and he hoped to get the test ready before the next class came in. He stretched out, putting his pen down. He got up and opened one of the windows. The sun was shining outside and it was very warm, making the classroom very stuffy. He took the eraser and wiped the white board clean before sitting down at his desk again.

He picked up his pen and looked at the page. His thoughts drifted to the meeting he and Jason would have with Rita later on this afternoon. Those thoughts were interrupted by a loud thumping on the wooden classroom door. Tommy groaned and got up from his chair to open the door.

"What the hell were you thinking?" Adam Park yelled in his face. He pushed past Tommy into the classroom, followed closely by Kimberly.

"What are you talking about?" Tommy asked, confused. He closed the door behind them and turned to face his friends.

"Rita!" Kimberly said slowly and menacingly.

"Oh…"

"We already yelled at Jason, so now it's your turn," Adam informed him. "You cannot do this."

"It's just plain stupid," said Kimberly, nodding.

"Are you two done yelling at me?" asked Tommy, raising one of his eyebrows.

"No," said Adam. "But I will give you a break from it if you wish."

"Thank you," said Tommy politely. "Look, first of all, keep your voices down in case someone hears you. Secondly, you two are not allowed to be here during school hours."

"Stop trying to change the subject!" said Kimberly. "You always do this. If you don't like where the conversation is going, you just change the subject!"

Tommy looked taken aback. "What the hell Kim?"

Kimberly groaned. "You can't take the power coins to Rita!"

"We don't have another choice."

Adam put his face in his hands and groaned. The bell rang and they heard a lot of shuffling going on around them. "Guys, you have to go," said Tommy, running his right hand through his hair.

"We're not going anywhere," said Kimberly, folding her arms across her chest.

"I have class now!"

"Well, you had better hurry up and say you're not going to do it, because we aren't leaving until you do."

Tommy looked at both Adam and Kimberly. They were both standing with their arms crossed, looking straight at him with a stubborn look on their faces. A student opened the classroom door. "Just a minute," said Tommy, looking at him. He backed out and closed the door again.

"If I say I won't meet with her, will you guys leave?" They both nodded. Tommy sighed. "Fine!"

Kimberly let out a sigh of relief and gave him a small smile. "Good choice," she said, before walking out of the room.

Adam shook his head. "What?" Tommy asked him. His friend gave him an incredulous look. "You really shouldn't have lied to her."

Tommy opened his mouth to say something, but Adam help up a hand to stop him. "I don't think it's a good idea, but it's obviously something you and Jason need to do. I'm not going to stop you guys, and I won't tell Kim you lied to her either. I just hope you realise that she will find out and that she will murder you when she does." He took a few steps towards the door, and turned around to face his friend again. "I really hope you know what you're doing." Adam exited the classroom.

Tommy sighed and went to the door to let his pupils into the room. "Come on, everyone take a seat!"

The rest of the day went by very slowly. Tommy was counting down the minutes until the final bell rang. When it did, he gathered his things and headed over to Jason's house to pick up his friend. Jason hopped into the passenger seat of the car. "Kimberly is under the impression that we are not going to see Rita."

Tommy chuckled. "I will deal with her later," he said, driving off. "Right now, we have to meet Rita. You have the address?"

"Yep, we have to go to some offices downtown and she will meet us there. You have the power coins?"

Tommy nodded, pointing towards the glove compartment. Jason opened it and saw a small cloth bag sitting in it. He opened it to see the coins. "How cool would it be if they were the real deal?"

Tommy smiled. "It would be cool."

"Kim's going to murder you though."

"I'll deal with her when it comes to it." They pulled into a vacant space in the parking lot of a huge office building. They two men stepped out of the car, Jason still holding the pouch. He stuffed it into the inside pocket of his leather jacket so that they would not lose the coins.

They followed Rita's instructions exactly until they reached the designated office. Tommy knocked on the mahogany door three times. They waited until they heard Rita call. When they entered they were surprised at her appearance. Instead of her usual gaudy dress choice, she was dressed simply in black pants, a plain red top and a black jacket.

"Hello boys," she said, smiling. Her voice was quite different from what they were used to. She sounded calm and quiet. Her dark hair was pulled back into a ponytail, with a few strands hanging down at the front. Tommy and Jason looked at each other.

"I blend in well, don't I?" she said, sitting down. She motioned for the two rangers to follow her lead. They did as she wanted slowly, never taking their eyes off of her.

"So, what can I do for you?"

"We were wondering whether you could tell us if the power coins we found were the real deal or not," said Tommy as Jason took the pouch from his pocket and placed it on the desk in front of Rita.

"What makes you think you can trust me?"

"We don't have another choice," said Jason.

She smiled again. "Don't worry. I'm not with the Alliance anymore. I think I was one of the only people there who realised that no matter what happens, the power rangers are always going to win."

Jason and Tommy were surprised to hear this from her. She reached out and emptied the pouch, placing all of the coins side by side. "I can help you out." She held her hands over the coins and closed her eyes. She muttered some words in a language that they could not understand. Jason and Tommy watched the coins. They started to vibrate on the table. They glowed in their respective colours and rose about an inch from the table. Suddenly, they stopped glowing in their own colours and all the coins changed from their golden colour and all turned black for a minute.

Rita opened her eyes and the coins fell back onto the desk, all turning back to normal. She took in a deep breath and shook her head. "Under no circumstances are you to attempt to use these coins."

Tommy and Jason looked at one another and then turned back to their ex-enemy. "Why can't we use them?" asked Jason, looking down at the coins.

"They do possess power, that's for sure, but I do not think that power is the one you used. They are tainted with a powerful evil, a force to be reckoned with. It appears that you were meant to find them, and use them. These coins are a trap."

"Do you know anything else about them?" asked Tommy, intrigued.

"They were planted by someone evil, that's for sure. Are you in the middle of a battle with a new villain?"

"Divatox has returned," Jason informed her. Rita laughed. "That's not all," he continued. "Dimitria has been kidnapped, and someone was posing as her in the Power Chamber. She even fooled Alpha."

"What did the imposter do?"

"Well, she asked Alpha to keep the return of Divatox a secret from all of us and to create a new ranger team to fight her," said Tommy, looking at Jason as he said it. Although Rita seemed to be good now, it was weird telling her their information as she had been their enemy for so long.

"Why bother asking him to make another ranger team if she's working for Divatox?" Rita asked the question more to herself than anyone else. "If someone is pretending to be Divatox and fooled Zordon's robotic assistant, then she must look like her and play the part well. I would think that it is Divatox pretending to be Dimitria as they look alike. However, if that is the case, then why ask for a ranger team?"

"Um, I don't know if this is important or not," Jason began. Tommy looked at him, confused. Jason turned back to Rita. "One of the new Power Rangers is Kimberly's daughter, and the others are her daughter's friends."

Rita leaned back in her chair and sighed. "I don't know whether or not that has anything to do with it. From the sounds of it, the fake Dimitria wanted a ranger team, but didn't ask for specific people. However, I was not aware that you two had a child Tommy…"

Jason burst out laughing as Tommy groaned. "Not again!" he said, putting his head in his hands.

"What?" asked Rita.

"T-tom-tommy a-and K-kimberly d-did –" Jason tried to explain to Rita through his chuckles. However, he was unable to stop laughing long enough to say anything of importance.

Rita turned her attention away from Jason and focused on Tommy. "Why is he laughing?"

"Kimberly and I are no longer together," he explained. "She married someone else and had a child with him. Alpha also made the same assumption, so I am kind of fed up with this…"

"Oh, I am sorry to hear about that. I always thought that you and Kimberly made a lovely couple." Rita smiled and Jason laughed even harder.

"Anyway," continued Rita. "Do not use these coins. Get rid of them as soon as possible. I will continue to research who left these coins for you to find and why they did it. You should concentrate on helping the new rangers. Do not try and resurrect your powers. That will alert the enemy of your involvement."

Jason sobered up and nodded. Tommy put the coins back into the pouch. "I will call you with any new information I may come across," she said, standing up. The men did the same. "It was good to see you both again, under nicer circumstances than before of course."

Tommy and Jason nodded and smiled. It was good to have her on their side for once. They parted ways, with the two men heading back to Tommy's car and Rita getting ready to teleport to Eltar.

When leaving Jason off at home, Tommy went in with him to see his godson and to reassure Trini that the meeting with Rita went well and that she would not be attempting to kill them all anytime soon. With Trini calm, and talking to her husband again, Tommy left for home.

He went straight into his kitchen, dropping his car keys on the hall table on his way. There was a note attached to the door of the refrigerator:

Dr O, I am going to Justin's house to watch the game.
No need to wait up! ~Conner

Tommy grinned. He had peace and quiet for the rest of the night. He took a bottle of beer from the fridge and sat down in the living room, turning on the television. He was flicking through the TV channels when he heard someone banging on his front door.

"What the hell?" he muttered to himself. He got up from the sofa and went to answer the door. As soon as he opened it, Kimberly Hart stormed right past him and walked straight into the house. "Why don't you come in?" he said sarcastically. He followed her into the living room.

She was standing in the middle of the room with her hands on her hips. She gave him a death stare as soon as he walked into the room. "Tommy Oliver," she said slowly, her voice full of anger. She was clearly upset. "You lied to me!"

It took a minute for Tommy to fully comprehend what Kimberly was saying. He groaned and rubbed his temples. "Kimberly, I'm sorry –"

"How could you promise not to go see Rita, and then go and see her! Do you know how stupid that was? Do you realise how worried everyone was when we found out you and Jason had gone to see her? Why did you lie?!"

Tommy shook his head at her. She glared at him, and there were tears in her eyes. "Why do you care?" asked Tommy quietly. "It's done. Nothing bad happened. In fact, something really good happened. Rita is on our side now, and she is going to help us."

"But you didn't know that was going to happen! She could have been on Divatox's side."

Tommy sighed. "Look I know you were worried about what might happen to Tamara if Rita sided with Divatox and told her everything we told her, but we had to take that chance. We didn't have another choice."

"But why promise me that you weren't going to do it?" she cried, her voice raised and tears streaming down her face.

"You wouldn't have left the classroom if I didn't!" he yelled.

"So you honestly don't care?"

"Why should you care?"

Kimberly burst into tears. "I… I don't know…"

"Kim…" Tommy wiped a tear from her cheek with his thumb. "Don't cry. I'm sorry."

Kimberly looked up at Tommy and gave him a small smile. "How's your eye?"

"Better." His thumb was still resting on her cheek.

"I'm sorry for snapping at you. I was just… I don't know."

"I'm sorry for lying to you. I was just… I don't know."

"Stop copying me!" Kimberly said, shoving him playfully.

"OK, OK, I'm sorry for that as well," he said, smiling.

"You're an idiot."

"An extremely awesome idiot."

"Very true."

"How did you hear anyway?"

"Trini."

"Of course."

She smiled at him and he smiled back at her. "So," he said, holding out his hand. "Are we friends again?"

Kimberly looked at his outstretched hand. Her eyes rose to meet his. She still hadn't given him an answer.

"Kimberly?" said Tommy confused, lowering his head a little.

She looked up into his eyes, moving in closer until their lips were nearly touching. "Sure…" she murmured, her lips brushing against his. She closed the gap and kissed him.

A/N: So... What did you guys think of that? As usual, I would love to hear from you so please leave a review telling me what you thought of the chapter. Seriously reading your reviews makes my day sometimes. So thanks to anyone and everyone who has reviewed different chapters on this story thus far. :)

PS Wait, can't believe I haven't mentioned this before but... What do you guys think of all the hype around the 20th anniversary? I am actually loving the fact JDF uploads videos of him and the other ranger actors doing stuff in NZ. But then you hear all the crap going on about uninviting people and how they managed to piss off others by their send-same-one-to-everyone emails with grammatical errors... Although I loved the way the SPD guys were joking about gatecrashing on twitter.