First of all:

Happy Christmas Eve everyone! (In Germany today is Christmas eve:) )

And to all those who live somewhere else and celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December: I hope you have a wonderful Christmas tomorrow!

And now no more talking: here comes the next chapter!

I don't own anything. Just the part of the story-idea or better to say, anything unrecognizable is mine ;)

In the park:

The monster still wondered why there was no red ranger in sight.

Each time before there had been the red one, too. But it didn't matter. The plan was so perfect that nothing could ever destroy it!

"Now I'm ending your pathetic lives!" The machine announced while it scanned the rangers on the ground to know, which one to terminate first.

He made his choice for the gold one as he seemed the one who would be up on his feet again first. So he raised his arm and began channeling energy.

But suddenly he got thrown down from behind.

"What?" He exclaimed. "Who is daring to interrupt me when I'm about to finish a ranger?"

"That would be me!" Kim explained while flying around him and shooting him with her Satellite Stunner.

"You make me mad!" The monster shouted and raised his arm to shoot at her. The first ones didn't hit her, but then eventually he hit her or better to say the Glider, which disappeared as it was damaged.

…..

With Tommy:

While Kim had returned to help their friends, Tommy had gone in the direction Billy had advised him too.

Soon he found the strange area, the scanners jumped every time.

Though he couldn't see anything strange, only trees and bushes, he decided to hide and wait.

…..

With the Rangers:

As her Glider disappeared while standing on it, Kim managed to land safe on the ground and ran to the monster. But she didn't kick it and instead flipped over its head and punched at him faster than it could turn around.

Then she shot another series from her Satellite Stunner and while the monster was flying through the air, she helped her team mates up.

"You ok, guys?" She asked while helping Kat from the ground.

"Yeah, thanks to you!" Jason stated, glad that Kim had finally arrived.

"You could have been a bit faster, you know?" Adam joked.

"Yeah, did you eat something first?" Rocky asked her playfully.

"Well, you might have, but not me," Kim answered and turned her attention to the monster that picked itself up from the ground. It was smoking a bit, by now, as a result from her attack.

"That was not how I expected it to happen!" They could hear the monster shouting. "You should have been arriving here otherwise! You should have been battling different!"

"I thought I surprise you this time, you know, just to make it a bit more interesting!" Kim smirked under her helmet and turned to her friends: "Call your weapons, and we make an end to this!"

They nodded and called their Zeo Pistols:

"Fire!" they ordered and the monster began getting hit by numerous shots.

"That's not how I like it! You should have been the ones being thrown to the ground! But I can change that! Next time you won't be so lucky!" the monster cried and then disappeared.

That was just what Kim had been expecting it to do. She spoke into her communicator: "Billy, Tommy, are you on him guys?"

….

With Tommy:

He didn't have to wait long as he heard Kim's voice and seconds later the monster appeared not far from him and headed to a special direction.

"Tommy, the monster must have appeared near your spot!" Billy could be heard the same moment over his communicator.

"Yeah, I'll follow him and you track him and the device." Tommy decided.

The red Ranger then quickly followed him but used the trees and bushes to hide out of sight.

Soon he thought the monster couldn't go anywhere interesting and just the same moment it passed something and his body began to disappear in waves.

"Billy, did you see that?" Tommy called his friend.

"Yes… sign… disappeared!" came from Tommy's communicator, but the sound only arrived broken.

Something had to interfere with his energy field, because the connection was bad.

Tommy decided that it was now or never, as he didn't want to risk living the day another time and he quickly ran to the spot where the monster had disappeared.

He raised his hand and reaching out he saw it disappear piece by piece, though he still could feel it. Quickly he made his choice and went through the barrier and suddenly got a sight of the monster again.

It was just about to touch a strange looking machine as Tommy knew that had to be it!

The reason, they lived through the day again.

The reason, the day would begin again – but not this time.

He had his Zeo Pistol ready and shot at the device, destroying it immediately.

"No!" The monster screamed and turned around, while Tommy noticed that the barrier seemed to fade away.

"Where are you?" Could suddenly be heard over his communicator and he answered shortly: "Ending it!"

He then charged the monster and soon was joined by the others.

Billy had given them the coordinates so they could teleport as soon as the energy field and the machine had been destroyed by Tommy.

"How could you find me?" The monster screamed desperate. "Everything was precisely planned!"

"Not as good as you think, we knew something was up." Tommy answered.

"Yeah, flipping over you, I attached a little surprise at your back but you didn't notice." Kim explained.

"That way our friend could monitor your movements to follow you and as soon as I destroyed the machine and your energy field disappeared, the rangers teleported here." Tommy ended the explanation.

Then the rangers didn't lose time and destroyed the monster for good.

….

Later at Tommy's flat:

The rangers had met here to finally get all their questions answered.

How Tommy and Kim had known the monster… how often they had actually lived through the same day and finally they got to know the details about Kim, they couldn't get at Ernie's.

The time went by and soon it was time to say good bye.

Though Kim thought she also should leave, she knew that she couldn't avoid the talk any longer. Technically for the others, Kim had just arrived. But for Tommy and her it felt much longer as they remembered most of the days they had relieved a couple of times.

"Kim before you go, there is something I wanted to talk to you about." Tommy began and wasn't sure how to continue.

But Kim already knew. She nodded and took over: "I know, I thought the same. By the way, before you say anything: I am so sorry that I hurt you. But now it's time you should get to know about the letter."

Tommy nodded and went to make another cups coffee, as the night would get long.

Well, finally the next day can come!

What will Kim be telling him about the letter?