Command Center Sickbay:

Three Months Later…

A very young girl laid sleeping in the command center time warp. Kimberly Jo Johnson had fallen in battle, her arm sliced off by the hands of the evil green ranger, this she had remembered, and her memories reflected in her visions. Kimberly lay unconscious, and had been in a sleep state in the Command Center sick bay for more than three months. An image of the green ranger had haunted her mind, the vision of his blade piercing her chest still fresh in her memory as they danced in her dreams. Her mind continued to wander; she saw visions of Jason whispering sweet words into her ear. "I can keep a secret if you can," the figure in her dream whispered to her as the image of Jason knelled in and kissed her gentle lips.

More memories came to her, a scene of a struggle, whispers and voices in the darkness. "We need the Masked Rider," she heard a voice say. In the darkness she heard another voice calling to her. "I never meant to be so mean to you… to tell you the real truth, I've always liked you…" another voice called to her in the blackness. "We need you to wake up… we're losing so much out there… is her arm ready?"

Then it happened… and as her eyes suddenly sprang open her body shot up in a violent jolt. "ZORDON!" Kimberly shouted awakening form her dark dreams her breathing rapid almost to the point of hyperventilating. Kimberly sprang up, tossing the covers from her body, breaking the energy waves of her time warp. "I'm awake!"she nearly shouted. That is when she realized two very strange things. Her arm! She had used right arm to toss away the covers, something that should have been impossible since she had lost it in her last duel.

Kimberly brought both her hands in front of her. It was impossible; she saw two perfectly human hands looking back at her. Had it worked? Was Alpha successful in replacing her arm? "My hands…" That is when the second thing came back to her mind… the Command Center seemed to have no power. It was dark, the only light a red hue, and the time warp's energy lighting up the sick bay only enough to discern her surroundings. "My arm is back…" she whispered to herself.

Kimberly moved her right arm, noticing a sudden humming sound emitting from her it, as if her arm was revealing a secret. The arm hummed somewhat randomly the noise it made sounded with a gentle hum like that of a computer loading up a program. Her arm… it was cybernetic, and though it looked very human on the outside, on the inside it was pure robotics. She began to remember something Jason had whispered to her, something about Alpha building her a new arm. This most have been the new arm Jason had spoke about. She waved her arm in front of her more; she could even feel it, right down to the finger tips. It had seemed as though her arm had never been taken off, apart from the very low humming, no one could discern the fact that her arm was not natural.

She stood up, her bare feet touching the floor, looking around at the empty sick bay, and equally empty command center it seemed. Kimberly stumbled a moment, she had not stood in nearly 3 months, but she slowly began to remember how to walk. At first she was dizzy, were movements reflecting her inner dizziness, but ever so slowly she walked. "Jason… Trini…" she called out. No answer came.

Her body became more and more cold making her way out of the sick bay, she wore nearly nothing at all, a thin top that barley covered past her belly button, and a pair equally thin pink panties. She had wondered how she ended up in the manner she was, nearly nude, but guessed it must have had something to do with her injuries and her time in the time warp. With her arms she wrapped herself trying to warm up. It was of little use, but she continued her walk all the same.

She came out of the sickbay and saw the common rooms. She had only seen the quarter deck once, but remembered that there was a pink room dedicated to her. Kimberly walked to her own quarters hoping to find some clothes to dress in and even more importantly some shoes, her idea had proven correct as she quickly opened the draw by the pterodactyl statue and found some fresh clothes inside. A quick change of clothe, strapping on of new shoes and Kimberly was ready.

She suddenly felt a chill again, not from the cold, but from the emptiness. All around from the quarter deck, to the sickbay it was empty and very dark. Kimberly thought to herself, why was the command center so dark? Her first true clue that something was very wrong came for a piece of metal on the floor, she kneeled to retrieve it, it appeared like a piece of the command center's many control panels. Kimberly thought a short while, feeling very scared and vulnerable. What was going on?

Finally she came to the Command Center's command room; the sight she saw sent horrendous chills to her spine. Rubble! All she could see was rubble. The command deck was lit only by the sparking of broken panels, and a single brush fire in the center of the camber. Zordon's energy tube was shattered, the viewing globe only showed static. Kimberly's heart began to sink, what was happening? How and why was the command center in ruins? She came to the center holo-table brushing off concrete powder from what she guessed was from the roof. Suddenly the holo-table came on and a holographic message began to play. A robotic figure appeared, Alpha V! Was it a communication from Alpha? The message began to stream, and any hopes from Kimberly were soon dashed.

"This is Alpha V, robot assistant to Zordon, white titanus ranger. If you are watching this, it means the command center has fallen… I am leaving this message in the event we lose the battle for Earth. February 12, 2014. It has been two months since Lord Zedd launched his invasion, things are not going well. Much of the world is now under his control and Zordon is still missing, we fear him dead. Yesterday the location of the command center was discovered… we fear an attack is emanate…" BOOM! A large explosion reverberated around Alpha in the holographic Transmission. Kimberly heard another voice from the message. "Alpha, they're here!" the voice said as the transmission went to static and shut off.

Kimberly's eyes began to widen, her heart feel to her stomach, had the battle been lost? Was the fight over? "Oh no… oh no…" she uttered in terror. "Oh God…"

Kimberly frantically ran outside, she must have been dreaming she thought, this was not really happening. She pushed open the command center's main door open and ran into the corridors, the long hallway lonely light by emergency lights. She came to the outside panel doors and began to push the doors apart with her bare hands as the electronic sensors were no longer on. The beams of sunrays hit her eyes with intensity, from both the darkness of the command center and the fact that she had not been outside in over 3 months.

The sun came at her eyes, Kimberly raised a hand over her forehead trying to block the run's rays. Slowly her eyes began to adjust to the bright lights and a view of the outside could be seen. Everything appeared as normal she thought, looking over the warming heats of spring time. Kimberly gasped not seeing snow on the floor, she had indeed been out for several months, for the last time she had been outside she saw nothing but snow, now all she could see was grass and dirt. She began to turn around, her eye fixed on the command center, it did not look good. For Kimberly, when last she saw the command center, it was beautiful with white walls, and concrete like surfaces. The image of the command center now was anything of the short, most of its walls were scared, rubble and plumes of smoke was all she could see. Half of the command center was collapsed in on itself, and other half seemed barley standing. "Oh God…" She whispered covering her mouth.

Kimberly would have collapsed then and there, but the roar of a passing by slave ship ended any notion of it. With a thunderous roar, the slave ship hurtled by over Kimberly's head. She wanted to vomit at the sight of it, but if that was not enough, more ships began to zoom past her. There were more slave ships, and larger cigar shaped craft zooming by now, vehicles she did not recognize. She began to follow them toward a hill, running to the top of it, Kimberly sprinted if only to catch a glimpse of where the ships were headed to. As she reached the top of the hill a sight that took her breath away appeared. There lay the city of Angel Grove in complete destruction and smoldering ruin. Flames could be seen burning in nearly all the buildings, as hundred of slave ships flew all around the city in a manner like flies over the lid of a trash can. Kimberly began to collapse, the holo-graphic message in the holo-table was true, Zedd had destroyed the command center and taken over the world!

Kimberly began to cry, her tears flowing so naturally, sobs coming from her as she witnessed her home town burning. "No…" she began to cry. "No… this can't be! Zedd won!" She felt the world crumble before her, the command center was destroyed, the other rangers were most likely dead or worse, and the morphing shield must have failed. "Oh God…" she uttered. "This can't be real!"

Slowly Kimberly began to stand up and walk over to a very large canyon ledge near the command center. She looked over the ledge wall toward the ground. She thought a moment; it must have been at least 100 feet fall, more than enough to kill her if she dove off. Kimberly pondered a moment, did she really want to take her own life, diving off the ledge to her death? Her city was destroyed, no sign of any resistance, the rangers dead, Zedd in control of the world… yes, it did seem like a very good idea, and at the very least she could die with honor in her mind not allowing Zedd to take her with the others.

Kimberly began to stand by the ledge of the cliff, the city of Angel Grove burning in rubble in front of her, she extended her hands breathing in the air deep. "Dear God… I know we don't talk, and I know you don't like people that take their own lives, but right now I can't live anymore. Please forgive me, for I can't live under Zedd's rule. Show me a sign if this is wrong, show me there is still hope, let me know I should not do this…" Kimberly began to walk to the very ledge of the cliff where she began to open her hands waiting for death's sweet embrace.

Dee Dee Beep Beep Dee Dee

Was she hearing things?

Dee Dee Beep Beep Dee Dee

The sound of her communicator going off made Kimberly stop in her tracks, she became very confused even scared at the sound, but also very excited nearly revealed listen to it. She took a step back from the cliff edge slowly putting her communicator to her face softly speaking… "Hello…?"

Jason's voice suddenly set Kimberly's heart at ease. "Kimberly…"

"Jason?" she asked in a slow voice.

"You're awake…"

The rangers were not dead, the city, the command center and even the world may have all fallen, but the Rangers were not dead… the fight wasn't over… not yet!

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