Chapter 25

A few days passed and all of us were relived when we finally got a message from Billy. We were excited and relieved that the treatment had worked, he looked 17 years old again. We were looking forward to seeing him again, but he said that he wasn't coming back to Angel Grove or Earth for that matter.

"I'm going to be staying here with Cestria on Aquatar. Um...I finally found someone that I can really relate to." A grin was on my face. This is too cute!! I thought as Cestria showed up on screen and it was revealed that both of them were holding hands!! I let out a happy little squeal and hopped in one place for a few minutes, clapping my hands. Billy had an embarresed look on his face.

"Come on Amy it's not that big of a deal." he said. Blue Elf was copying me, I turned toward him and we both clasped each other's hands and let out squeals of excitmente. Tommy waved a dismive hand and said.

"Ignore the two idiots." But he couldn't help but smile himself.

"Congrats Billy, I knew that you would find someone, but I never expected for her to come from a different planet." said Adam. I smiled and thought that Billy wasn't the only person to fall in love with a person that was from another planet. Look at me and Dad. I had stopped dancing and had limped over to stand beside Tommy and the others as we all said our goodbyes to Billy and wished him luck at his new life in Aquatar, he smiled and gave us his thanks and told us to keep in touch before the screen went blank.

A few weeks later I began to notice that Tommy and Kat were spending more and more time together, I mean way more than usual. I even cuaght Tommy covering Kat's hand with his own, but I turned "an ignorant eye" to it, as my mother would always say. When ever I saw them together I would grin toward them and continue on my way. Even though Kim and Tommy had broken up, I still thought as Tommy as Kimberly's boyfriend, only slightly, sure it was weird to see him walking around the school halls without Kim by his side but getting used to seeing him and Kat walking side by side laughing and chatting like he and Kim used to do was going to take a little time. But Kat was bringing a smile to Tommy's face again and he did appear to be happy.I had to fight the urge to phone Kim right away and tell her what was happening but I forced myself not to. Tommy and Kim are not an item anymore, they can go out with anyone they want. But it's strange, I wonder why Kat didn't tell me that she and Tommy were becoming an item. Maybe its because I'll probably accuse her of stealing my sister's boyfriend. When in reality I'm happy that Tommy's found someone again. A thought made itself known to me. About my dad and my step-dad. Dad had told me that he had watched me grow up, did that also mean he watched mom and Jared and grew jealous of the fact that mom had found someone else and of the relationship that they had? Probably...he must have been jealous over the fact that he could only observe and watch but not take part of my life. He must have also felt sadden that he could no longer hold either of us, heck I'd feel the same way if I were trapped in a tube with no way out while watching my only daughter grow up and being raised by another man. I remembered Dregon's words and felt chilled. Wonder how Dad stayed sane for all of those years? Well he did have Tento...but its hard to believe that Dad never told him anything. Surely he must have talk to someone about all that had happened. If I kept a secret like that for so long and not have been able to talk to someone I would have gone plum loco. I approached the cemetery glad that it was Friday.I limped over to mom's and Jared graves and began to talk to them. I glanced over at Aishia's grave and saw that someone had given the flowers that I planted there a nice pruning. I smiled, glad that my friends were talking to the fallen ranger. She must have felt lonely. As I was limping away from the cemetery it suddenly occurred to me that maybe I wasn't the only one that talked to mom, dad must talk to her as well. I felt cheered up by this. Even though mom had never given me an outright message to tell dad, seeing that she had brought me back to life and had given me my powers back was a message in itself. I'm pretty sure that dad got it loud and clear mom. I thought to myself as later I was limping home. I had invited Rocky and Adam over to the house tonight to watch the movie "The Terminator", I loved the theme song. It was just so awesome and powerful, and it kind of reminded me of facing an unknown world that was around you and that life for you, will never be the same, but you have to have the determination and courage to face it. Rocky just liked the superb acting and the action, Adam loved the music and the special effects, right now we were debating on whether or not we should also see "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" I had seen it a couple of times, with my family. Both movies were my favorite. As soon as I entered into the house, I peeked into Kat's room and saw with surprise that she had nearly pulled out her entire closet of clothes and was muttering under her breath. I turned and limped into my room, after dropping off my backpack on my bed, I went back to Kat's room and stood in the doorway watching as she stood in front of her mirror and tried to see which outfit worked. I grinned to myself, reminded of how Kim and I argued about what kind of outfit I should wear for my first date with Dex, I had invited him over but he said that he was going to spend time with his family. Anyway Kat saw me watching her and turned toward me, a pleading look in her eyes.

"Amy, can you help me pick out an outfit?" she begged.

"Sure." I said as I limped toward her and looked over the outfits that she had strewn all over her bed. She watched me as I picked out a couple of outfits and replaced the others in the closet with a wave of my hand. I held out a light purple dress, a red skirt with a white top and a hot pink top and a black skirt. I helped her pick one outfit out, then helped her pick out some jewelry, sprayed her with a light mist of perfume, and helped her with her hair, remembering the lessons that Kim gave me, while Kat applied make up to herself. We didn't talk much and I didn't ask any questions as to where she was going or why she was getting all dolled up. She was watching me through curious eyes while I searched in her closet for shoes that matched the outfit. Pulling out some nice looking high heeled shoes I showed them to her, she cocked her head to one side and studied them for a bit, finally she nodded and put them on. For the life of me I could never understand why so many girls out there had so many shoes cramped into their closets. Its like they had to have a pair of shoes for each and every outfit that they wore! Me, I would rather go through life with a pair of sneakers and a pair of nice shoes and that would be it. My mouth nearly dropped open when I saw how many shoes Kim had and I would often question her on why she had so many shoes. Her answer?

"I have so many shoes because I have so many outfits." I had only stared and shook my head. Anyway Kat was all dressed now and I had gone to the kitchen to make the popcorn and get the living room ready for Adam and Rocky. Kat walked in as I was pulling out a bag of popcorn, thought about it, then pulled out another bag and popped one of them into the microwave. Next I placed a very big bowl for the popcorn on the counter. I went over to the fridge and peered into it wondering what I could serve to drink. There was a pitcher of ice tea and half a bottle of coke. Kat was still watching me as I took out the coke and the iced tea and filled a small tuper ware with ice and set all three of them on the counter.

"I still can't believe that Billy is going to be living in Aquatar now." she finally said.

"Yup. But at least he won't be lonely and he's with people that he can really talk too."

"Have you told Kim about this?" I nodded as I heated up some nacho cheese and got a bag of nacho chips from out of the cupboard. "Can't watch a movie without nachos." Jared would always say.

"She says that she wished that she were contacted sooner so that she could have said good bye to him, but maybe it was for the best. She would have probably broken down. But I'm pretty sure that Billy has already told her good bye, I gave him her email address." Kat nodded.

"That's cool." She frowned as she watched me. Isn't she going to say anything?

"I hope the boys aren't going to bring over any zombie movies, I totally hate zombies. If they are then I'm going to try to convince them if we could watch "Back to the Future" instead. I love the main theme song, makes me want to go out and ride a skateboard through town." I grinned at her, she smiled half heartedly back. The cheese was heated, I poured the cheese on the nachos and with the coke and iced tea and the ice floating behind me I made my way to the living room and set everything down on the coffee table. The popcorn bag that was in the microwave was almost done. I turned to her.

"So where are you and Tommy going? Dinner? Dancing? Movie?" She stared at me in surprise.

"How did...?" I laughed.

"Kat, other than the obvious I've seen the way you and Tommy are starting to look at each other and act when you guys are around each other. I'm not really blind you know." I began to rearrange the tv and the couches. Kat gave herself a quick shake and said.

"How long have you known? Have you been watching us?" I laughed again.

"I've noticed a change in Tommy that's all and in you of course and no I haven't been watching you, its just small observations really." I straighten up from moving a couch and stepped back a bit to look at my work. I couldn't help but recall the last time I had rearranged furniture. My brothers and sisters were helping mom clean the house from top to bottom and us kids had moved the couches to the front porch, when we had to move them back in we had a lot of difficulty fitting the couches through the doorway. So there we were, laughing our heads off while my step-dad was busy yelling at us and mom asking us why we had moved the couches outside in the first place. I smiled at the memory, and turned toward Kat, who was looking at me with a weird expression.

"I have to ask. When I was under that spell of Rita's, you were suspicious of me...h—how long did you know that...?" I gave a sigh and put my hands on my hips.

"Back then, I knew from the very beginning." she stared at me shock on her face.

"You knew the whole time??" I gave a shrug of my shoulders and nodded.

"How?" she finally said after a moment of silence. I glanced toward the door wondering when Adam and Rocky were going to show up. I looked at Kat.

"Well, first off, your story for one thing. The one that you told us when we found you in the park. As far as I could tell no one gets away from Rita or Zedd without showing a few bruises and scratches. Second, the fact that you just so "happen to escape" and wound up in the park raised questions for me. Lord Zedd would never, not in a million years release a prisoner and teleport him/her to the exact spot of the Power Rangers. He would either have to be crazy to release a human hostage without inflicting some bodily pain on you, or he would had cast a spell over you, making you into his puppet, third, the fact that you did escape led me to think two things. One, Zedd must have teleported you to our location or two, Tentomon got a lock on your position and teleported you out of Zedd's palace. Frankly I had bet my money on the first suggestion, and as it turned out, I was right." I looked down at the table. Oh, the glasses. Forgot. I limped back into the kitchen, while Kat followed me, went to the cupboard, opened it and pulled down three glasses. I got out the first bag of fully popped popcorn and placed in the second one and started the timer, after emptying out the first one into the bowl I made my way back to the living room. Kat asked.

"What gave you the suggestion that it was Zedd that teleported me there?" Is she really asking me this? I set down the cups and walked over to the shelf with our collection of movies and began searching for "Back to the Future" I rolled my eyes then turned to face her, movie in hand.

"Well, Tento wouldn't really teleport an innocent to be near the front lines of the battle field and you being there unharmed and watching the Rangers doing battle and not acting hysterical and panicky after "being released" from a dark and terrible place? Please, it had my old master's name written all over it." Kat sat down on the couch and looked at me for a full minute.

"Did you tell any of the others about your suspicions?"

"How can I? With no proof to back up my findings and the other rangers already liking you I had to turn to someone else for help."

"Dex."

"Yup." Thankfully Tommy showed up right then to take Kat away for their very first date.

"See ya later you two and have fun." I called to them as they walked down the driveway heading toward Tommy's car. I closed the door behind me and leaned against it with a sigh. Why was she asking me all of those questions? Must have been curious. I thought as limped back into the kitchen, got the rest of the popcorn out of the microwave, put it in the bowl and carried it into the living room. Soon Rocky and Adam showed up and we watched the "Terminator" Halfway through the movie, Dad contacted us. Gasket and Archerina were on the rise. Curious the three of us set out to investigate along with the others. And we all got a bit of a shock. Gasket and Archerina had made themselves big! Hmm...didn't know that they could do that. I thought as we called on the Super Zeo Zords and combined them and began to battle. I hope that the Mega Zord can keep up. Tommy had called on the Red Battle Zord and was fighting Archerina, I winced as she began to fire arrows at him with lighting speed and Tommy got hit. Kat cried out as Tommy's Zord fell. Archerina began to kick the Zord over and over again, I managed to send her a Power Blast that she barely dodged. But then it made a U-turn and sent her flying towards us, luckily Gasket was near us whom we grabbed him and placing in the path of Archerina. The both of them fell to the ground. Not exactly light is she? I thought to myself as the couple detangled themselves, got to their feet and began to charge us. As we fought, I couldn't help but wish for this fight to be on the ground instead of in the Zords. These guys are a lot more easier to take care of on the ground. I thought as we were slammed into the ground by one of Gasket's blast and an arrow from Archerina.. A lot more easier. I thought as I sent blast after blast that were coming right toward us, back toward the couple. They managed to dodge them but not for long. The blasts finally hit their mark when I called out to them.

"Hey look it's King Mondo!" Both Gasket and Archerina turned and were sent sprawling to the ground. The guys all laughed.

"Good one."

"Nice."

"Thanks."

"All right guys, let's finish this!" Shouted Tommy. Jason showed up and we began to form the Red Battle Mega Zord. The transformation was complete and we were armed and ready to finish off Gasket and Archerina once and for all. All of us powered up. Gasket and Archerina were just standing there frozen.

"You're terminated." said Blue Elf.

"Fire!" The rest of us shouted. And we sent everything at them Gasket and Archerina were slammed with everything, they let out screams and fell to the ground as they were turned into burning metal. All of us let out cheers and hugged each other laughing. When we got back to the Power Chamber Tento and Dad happily reported that Queen Machina and Prince Sprocket had taken off, we all let out cheers and began to dance around the Power Chamber. I just hope that's the last of them. I thought as we contacted Billy and Kimberly and told them of the good news. They let out cheers, screams and congratulations and were planning on coming home for a small celebration. All of us told them that we were looking forward to seeing them, but first...a bit of a break. Blue Elf, Adam and I went back to our movie and Kat and Tommy went back on their date. I contacted Dex but he wasn't at the cave but I left a message with Chopper telling him what went on.

"Hey! Congratulations!" he said.

"Yeah!" said Magno. I told them about the party that we were having and invited the both of them over, they promised that they would come and also promised to pass the word along to Dex. I smiled as I relaxed with my friends while we watched the second "Terminator" then with a bit of begging and a headlock, we watched the first "Back to the Future". Maybe now the Power Rangers can get a bit of a break.