The White Falcon and the Pink Crane

Disclaimers: I own nothing of the characters or the show which belong to Haim Saban and Disney. The story-line belongs to me, everything else belongs to Saban and the Disney company.

Warnings: For the chapter the truth comes out of who the real pain of her anger is, as the original Rangers were childhood friends. And Jason just joined the circle that Kim and Billy has created now as the true anger. And of a broken heart comes out in a new direction for the original black ranger. As he's a pack animal and he's loved her as a best friend and sister, as it comes to the fore.

Chapter 25: The Anger Of The Crane, Rex And Wolf II

"She had to tell me first, as I was the only one left of the team, our childhood quintet that was offering her the strength to make this choice. So don't give us this crap right now, that we moved on from you, because you abandoned us. Why didn't you come back when I got cloned, when she lost her power coin, ended up in the hospital. And nearly quit her gymnastics and decided to go with her?!" Billy said to her sternly at that remark.

As she leaned into Adam's chest and Aisha took her hand, her eyes's blazing in anger at the duo and Peter and Mei noded sternly as they got it then. "No offense to you and Peter, Mei, but frankly she has every reason to be angry at your cubs right now. With them here, we could have prevented her from ending up in the hospital. With them here, they could keep her company as we got her power coin back at the time now."

"And most of all with them here, they could prevent the latest attack by Anderson and Curt, and Angie, had to do it. Jason told me that Anderson tried to attack her and the trio jumped him at the Youth center, but when it was Zack protecting her. And he and Curt let him have it with the fact their fathers are both cops." Nathan told her and she nodded as Peter's eyes narrowed in fury at that as the teenage duo paled in shock at that.

"That's why you are pissed at us?!" Zack said quickly and Billy said it with a growl. "Just where the hell were you when we needed you most, there are ten of us now. With Kat added to the team now, before Tanya joined the team next Zack, you listen to me. But with Kat added to the team we had ten, and Kim was in the hospital last year. So you three could have kept her company in person, though Jason did it by phone."

"That counts, she needed us, but when the going gets tough you decided not to acknowledge my orders of you getting back over here to help us. But Anderson is back on the prowl, you idiot, you guys maybe retired at the time. Why not return 10 months ago so that while the six of us are getting her power coin back. You're keeping her company here Zack?!" he said as Damian started growing at him in anger at that.

"It's my job to protect her when the alpha and Beta are dealing with the monster, I'm a wolf now, you idiot, the werewolf best friend, don't you get it. Of us, I was all she had left, I was with him since you left us, the alpha's third and fourth are the bodyguards. And of the alpha's mate, she's the alpha's mate, you're not acting like a brother, or the beta, when the alpha imprints on his omega, she becomes the alpha's mate, Zack."

"Alpha's mate, meaning she's the female leader of the pack, Tommy and Jason the alpha's, her the omega/the alpha's mate. It's my job to protect her now, and honestly I made my choice, she told me immediately and I broke the spell. Just before they teleported in and before you made it clear, to her and to me. I choose her and Tommy, I am not your friend anymore, Jason same thing, but she told you to but out right now."

"You don't even have your head on straight thanks to Angela, you are too damn hung up on the whore, to even consider she needs us even more then Tommy does right now." he said as Damian looked at him in anger at that and Zack flinched at that. As Jason pulled Kim into a hug and she leaned her head against his chest in response. "The ones in the wrong over that letter is you, not us, but you." Jason said sternly and the duo paled.

"And I don't give a damn why you think I need you, I am not the one in pain, she is, read my lips you idiot: I do not need you, she does. I am not the one in pain, she is, I need you more, no, that's crap, she does, until you get that through your heads. It's us and you, she is seeing me every day, she sees the guys and the trio every day. But continue holding on to that whore and the letter and it's us and you after that, Zack, Trinity."

"But Jason is not the one who abandoned us, you did, he at least keeps in touch right now, but you I am not surprised you are throwing your anger at Walsh on us. Wanting to use us for a scape goat is it, because you are hung up on that two bit whore?" Tommy finished sternly and the duo looked between the quartet who all had stern looks on their faces. "That's not fair Tommy!" Trini snapped and he crossed his arms at that remark.

"Don't give me that crap, Trini, you been jealous from the second you saw the six of us together, shall I tell them what we heard in your thoughts. That she started crying because of that cruel thought, or the fact that you are taking your jealousy and anger. At the fact we chose what he didn't, and you're tearing her apart emotionally?!" he said with a stern growl and they heard a warning growl building as James and Jake nodded.

"You been compromised, I don't care if you don't want the truth, but unlike you, your parents are a heck of a lot stronger in fighting off their instincts. But they deserve to know the reason she is close to lashing out, where your concerned. You'd rather believe the lie, that is so much easier in your eyes then admitting to it. That we chose what you didn't and you're taking that flaw out on her." he said, looking at her with a stern look.

As Kim leaned into Tommy's chest and the duo's parent saw them watching in shock to that response. "What's the problem, the fact that you think she's stringing me along, till she tears my heart out, like Angela did to you. You don't want to admit that she and I are still together, we're just cooling things down till she comes home. That you're hung up on that two bit whore and taking it out on us." Tommy said as she leaned into him at that.

"Forget it, we're not taking it and as long as you sing your tunes the four of us don't want anything to do with you, starting now, you jerk." she snapped as she leaned against him as they looked at her quickly. "Don't!" Zack said quickly as he grabbed her hand and she slapped him across the face as he saw their parents cross their arms at that. "No, you did this, you scorn me because of your choices, forget it, you choose that choice, you two."

"And there is no Dino ranger sextet, you destroyed us!" she snapped at him at that. "We are the dino ranger quartet, you remember, it would take a lot more then Zedd and Rita. Just to break up this team, keep it up and you may just do it for them, all because of your catalyst, these spells need a catalyst to make them stronger. Well congratulations, you just gave it that catalyst, by never ending it with Angela Walsh at the time."

"Taking your broken heart out on me, Taylor." she said with a stern growl at him. "Isn't it obvious that the more you turn that scorn out on her for your short comings. And the more this team is cut in half you on one side of that fence, the 9 of us on the other. And isn't it obvious that the duo's only desire is to kill us, destroy the team, and you guys. Are making it way too easy for them, Zack, you're just walking right into it here."

"So you have to stop pretending, in who we are, you're a power ranger, in uniform or not, as we may not have our powers, but we're still the power rangers. Tommy realized that, as did Billy and I, we lost our powers, we all get hurt, and finally. And we all had life changing decisions to make, and Jason is next, damn it. You never lost your powers you gave them up there is a huge difference." she said sternly to him at that remark.

"The Scotts gave you an order, you're a soldier." she said and he paled at that remark "Wait a minute, baby, are you saying that when Preston ordered them to return home, then your fathers revealed you're us as cubs, and vice versa last night now. That they said this statement aloud, or you just heard their thoughts at the time. That to them, they'd rather believe the lie then admit that what you did was for the best in your cases."

"And they're scorning you for his judgement of not ending his relationship with Angela before he left?" Peter asked, looking at Kim and she nodded to him gently. "I heard that thought mentally, but seeing the tears in my eyes, the broken hearted expression. Kat slapped him across the face, after we sent them back to Geneva now finally. I gave direct orders, mom doing the same, to tell you this." she said and the adult duo nodded sternly.

"Dad, she's lying, I never said that!" Zack snapped and they nodded. "Seems to me the one who is lying is you, that remark was loaded with desperation telling us everything. Everything we need to know, you're scorning her for your own flaws in judgement, you been compromised and most of all you're jealous she moved on with your replacements." Mei said sternly and they paled as Andrea opened her purse and looked at the duo.

"And even if the letter was telling the truth, you never should have chosen sides right now, she made the right decision, she came to us to confirm that. And we all said the same thing, long distance relationships never work at times they result in what happened to you. So best to cool things down and rebuild and then when the future spouse returns start heating things up again, she took that to a T." Preston said and she finished that.

"Too late, it was already too late to deny this, Curtis already knew the truth, we had a fast conference last night, she gave us orders to give this to your parents. But that attitude is not being tolerated right now and I don't care if you don't want it out. Your parents are hearing this truth, whether you want it said or not, Zachary. You both crossed a line here right now." Andrea said sternly, taking the letter out of her purse then.

"Boys cover up." Jake said sternly and the trio quickly did as they were told. "Oh boy, now she's done it right now." Danny said as he covered his ears at that remark. "Yes and that attitude is not tolerated either, but do you think we would use you for a scape goat. And the fact that we would take our anger out on you, but you think your parents wouldn't be pissed that I scorned you, because you did what we didn't at the time."

"Well do you?" Tommy asked and Peter and Mei nodded sternly. "You're right we would be on the fact you broke his heart, because they did what you didn't at the time. And you're scorning the duo for your own judgement lapses at the time. But his relationship is not your business like your's is not our's, just the supporting shoulders to lean on. Nothing more, but I never been so disgusted right now." Mitchell said in agreement to that.

"Yeah I agree with him, but this is none of our business, regarding their relationship, and even if the damn letter was telling the truth, you should never have chosen sides." Mei said to that remark. "Looks to me that nothing we say changes their minds till we break the damn spell on them as the trio are free of the spell. She told us first and with us, Aisha and Jason, but this is slowly eroding the fabric and added bad news right now."

"The team being targeted is the original sextet, when we started out, Dragon." Nathan said sternly and the duo paled at that. "The original sextet, you mean when the Olivers were freed from the spell and he joined the team?!" Mei said slowly and he nodded to her. "Read the letter again Mei, that was a hidden clue." Preston said and and she looked at it and her eyes narrowed. "Dark Warrior, Draco." she said and the trio nodded sternly.

"She's trying to protect us, the town and him from being destroyed and they're holding on to a god damn psychosis laid on their own catalyst. And Zack is taking that anger and resentment out on her, scorning her, for her decision. Because she did what he didn't and he's resenting her for this fact, and Trini is following his lead." Dillon said with a stern growl and Mei and Peter's eyes narrowed in fury as Zack paled at the look on his face.

"You're my side of the team now Uncle Dillon, but you five and Aunt Janet took care of me, before I left for Miami." Kim said and he gave her a hug and she pressed her forehead to his and their colors linked into an intertwine that was wound five times. "Parental bonds, they're very strong, baby, time to test it now." Andrea said and she did it with her next and it was wound four times in a mother/daughter bond and she smiled.

"We read the letter, it's a fake, she explained everything to us, and Ernie and Jerry, let alone Jane, heard the conversation as well, but their entire graduating class knows. About this, that they never broke up, that things returned to the weeks after he returned to the team, but the seven of us chose both sides without thinking twice about it." Jake said and the Taylors and Kwans nodded as they crossed their arms at that news.

"Jake you're her Ninjetti Red, so say it for all of us." Peter added, crossing his arms. "We know about this little bitch you were dating, Zachary, she told us immediately. But this attitude problem is digging you into a very deep hole with us as the Ninjetti Seven. And with us, Preston and Erica right now, you think that Carrie wouldn't throw you out of her life. Especially if she finds out this psychosis of yours put her on the mat, again here."

"You're the reason she is losing weight, that she is crying herself to sleep every night, that she nearly loses him after he gets turned for the third time in four years. And most of all, you are just like Ken, causing her to expend her energy so hard. That it put her back in the hospital!" he said and they swallowed hard at that remark. "And it's not your own team mates you got to worry about, but us as their parents and your's damn it."

"Look at your own parents right now, is it fair that we got to tell them, you're acting like a spoiled brat, not wanting to admit she did the best thing. For both them, us and the team and to us it's not fair you're refusing to see this and instead you are wanting to believe the lie. Because they chose what you didn't and you tore her heart out by choice now?" James asked and their parents crossed their arms and they paled as he went on.

"Just like it's not fair to check the writing on the letter the address, you take the damn thing at face value, and she told the quintet first. Is that it, she told them first, before you, she saved our relationship to prevent what happened to you. And to you, you're resenting us for moving on when you told them to take care of us. You made them promise to be there when we needed them most?" he said and they paled at that news.

"Until you decide to change things, why, just why should we continue with the runaround, you made your choice, we made our's. Billy and I choose both of them, but we sided with her at the moment, she's the heart of the team. Hence the surname, you guys, but to us and the quintet, it's you would rather believe the lie then accept the truth. The truth she did what was best for both of them, them and us." Jason said, finishing his reprimand.

"We are not just abandoning her, not for you, and until you get your heads on straight regarding Angela, it's us and you, you recall last night's meeting. Half of the 9 in adults all said the same thing, this was the best thing for both of them and us. You never wanted to admit it did you, that she did the right thing as they took it back. Back to the beginning?" Billy asked and they swallowed hard at that and their parents nodded sternly.

"Peter, after the powers came out the team was put into two sides, but Ninjetti and non and Kat made the transference to their side of the team, Jason and Tanya are next. But the Dino rangers split in half, we belong to Jake, Dillon and Janet now. But we had this conversation last night, they never wanted to hear us adult rangers agree with her." James said as two more power coins appeared and Peter took his and saw a Mastodon.

"And definitely not in your voices, to them it was so easier to believe the lie, that she broke up with him. Then admit that what she did was for the best, but that remark broke her heart and Kat slapped him. Zack made that choice and Trinity is following his lead, but we made clear that he thinks that Andy and I are bad. You're even worse as you're their adult versions, the adult black and yellow." Preston said and he nodded sternly.

"Andy's our new pink/purple ranger?" he asked and she nodded. "I am Peter, she told me everything yesterday, but my daughter is her best friend now. Kim chose her to replace her as the new pink ranger, but they chose to spot shifts between them. But instead of taking advantage she told us that they were taking a step back now. And Kitty, my baby girl, belongs to Billy now as his imprint." she said and the duo nodded sternly at that.

While Mei looked at hers and saw a Sabretooth Tiger and nodded. "So you, Carrie and Nathan belong to the guys and Janet now, we are Preston's side of the team. And with us is the girls and possibly Justin's father, but we all agree, after the guys. And Jane busted us that their decision to put things on hold and rebuild is what was best. For the 7, and they never wanted to hear your words in our voices?" Peter said slowly and he nodded.

As they saw Trini trying to activate her transport circuit on the communicator, and desperately, and Jason grabbed her wrist. "We told Zordon to kill the transporter function on these until we talk it over you too, you're stuck. Aside from that, I build the darn thing so you don't understand how these work, but I do. So forget it, don't bother in trying to teleport out of here, the circuits are fused till further notice at the moment, you two."

"We're doing this whether you want to or not." Billy said as they kept trying to activate it and Kim nodded. "Boys, take custody of those." Kim said and the quartet nodded as they grabbed Zack and took his off at that as Jason took it and stuck it his pocket and nodded. "Yes I see it alright at the moment, you're not going anywhere until we hash this out young man, young lady, you don't want the truth." Peter said sternly to that action then.

"So that's the problem they tried to skip out today, because they didn't want his parents, or me and her father, agreeing that what Kimberly and Tommy chose was the best thing. For both of them or for the rest of the team and we agree with you, this was the best choice for both of them and for the rest of the team." Mei said and they paled at that and Peter nodded sternly as he crossed his arms at that remark as he looked at him sternly.

"So this is why, why you were trying to keep from coming back, when separated the spell keeps you focused on him. His being the alpha, but he is no longer your alpha and she and Billy belong to your replacements, now get over it young man. You never wanted to hear that we agree with her train of thoughts that this was the best thing for them. Them, and the team so they can focus." he said and Zack nodded sadly and he nodded.

"Just how many different ways do they have to tell us to but out of their personal life, before you get the message and never mind the fact that Angela is your catalyst. That you are throwing your anger at that on them, because they did the responsible thing. By cooling things down, that this spell needs a catalyst to make it strong. And you gave it that catalyst, Zachary?!" Peter said and he swallowed hard at that as Mei nodded sternly.

"We don't care that you can't accept this, we made our choice, she comes first, but you notice that there was never a black colored clothed duckling in the Ducktales. We were a quartet, and now once again we have to hold it together, praying we can find someone. Just to break the spell and before you destroy our team at the moment, and out of this preconceived notion that the alpha comes first." Billy said and they both swallowed then.

"My omega comes first, I just had the life scared out of me last year, and I am not going through that again, do you hear me, she needs me and she gets me. My best friend, my twin sister, she's my entire world do you get that, I love them both. But my job as alpha's third is I am her bodyguard, you idiot, while the alpha and the beta deal with it. Said it, with the monster, the alpha's third, fourth and secondary protect the omega now."

"She needs a serious recharge, but she drains every drop it could put her in the emergency room and I was there all night after Kat brought her to the hospital. As Tommy contacted Aunt Carrie on how long she was going to have to stay there. Just to recover, but Kat, Tommy and I never left her side though we had to get her power coin back, we never left her side, so where were you?!" Billy said, shaking in anger at this.

Pulling Billy into a hug, he tightened his arms around her gently as she buried her head into his neck and Tommy and Jason positioned themselves on both sides of them. "Dino ranger quartet, or Zeo ranger quartet, both of these don't have a full black ranger. When involved, you and Trini asked them to take care of us and they did so. But tell us, why should we come crawling when you guys are the ones in the wrong here right now."

"Billy stuck by me through thick and thin and we broke the spell on him, on Rocky and on Tanya, you as the pack animals are holding to psychosis. And one that doesn't concern you, but what right do you have to take sides, the only one. And I mean only one who had a right to freak out was Tanya, but I got to her first, before the letter was sent." Kim said as Billy kept his arms around her and Tanya crossed hers with a stern look.

"You don't see me freaking out, but I read the letter over his shoulder, I saw the lies for they are and we tested this letter it's fake." she said and passed it to Peter and Mei and they read it with Erica, Andrea and Dillon and the quartet nodded. "Yeah the letter is a fake the words are underlined, hidden messages, rewrites. There is a scent of sodium on this, indicating she was crying her heart out." Peter said and Erica nodded in agreement.

"Wait till Janet and Carrie read this next and we told Carrie last night, she asked us to do her decisions for her, regarding baby omega, Dillon. As we're her and Janet's side of the team, her, Nathan and Jim's." Jake told him and he nodded to the news. "In other words the seven of us call the shots in Baby crane's case, until Mother Crane comes home. And return to the nest again." Andrea said and the quartet nodded in agreement to that.

"The boys make a very good point, it seems to me and your parents, you'd rather believe the lie then admit that what they did was for the best right now. But they told us to stay out of their love life, though she came to the quintet and me first. And told us, this was just a step back, the only one that had a right to freak out. And over that letter is my daughter and me, you knew her way too well." Erica said and they swallowed hard then.

"Why do you suppose we dragged you here last night for a team meeting at Jake's house, before doing it here at the moment. Outside looking in, you gave up your powers, and you gave up up everything that came with it. Including us right now, we tested the connection and us Ninjetti are back to full strength again. Is that the reason your jealous Zachary, Trinity?" James asked them sternly and they paled at that remark quickly.

"We don't have to hear the words, because her emotions are jumping into us right now, she's ticked you abandoned her when she needed you the most. We were there for everything that happened as a result, so though she never said this was the second time in 9 years she ended up in the emergency room. But you know what, she doesn't need to tell us that, because everything she feels, we feel it." Adam added to them firmly then.

Straightening up at that, Jason, Zack and Trini looked at the pain and anguish in her body language as they quickly realized what he meant. "Oh great, nice work you guys, you say she matters to you, then why didn't you come back. At the time when I was turned into the plant nine months ago and I had to get her to the hospital when she collapsed, you fools?!" Kat said quickly as she looked at the trio with a furious look at that.

"What's the added problem here at the moment is that though I can't control what it is I'm saying, because I'm the damn conduit you three. But the only girls, the boys, that really understand this and what it's doing to her right now at the moment. Are me, Billy, Tommy and Tanya, and it's not Aisha and the guys she's pissed at right now. In fact it's you three and it's for a simple reason right now at the moment, but here it is."

"1) the second the spell breaks on me, I'm the one who had to get her to the E.R., 2) is while the quintet are working at getting her power coin back. I'm keeping her company, and the person she wakes up to sitting there next to her. Telling her parents, her mother and Pierre, that he'll let them know when we get news. In regarding her time limit this time, is Tommy, and 3) is that Adam gave her a stuffed frog and Tommy a bear."

"So just where the hell were you guys when the seven of us were trying to help her recover and with it. Preventing her from giving up her gymnastics, while keeping her company and everything else as if that not enough right now. The first to be told, again regarding the letter and the fact they decided to take a step back. And it is, once again, was Billy, Tanya, the duo and me." She said feeling her anger growing by the minute.

"And with that the one she had to tell, immediately, is me, because of us members now with Tommy, I'm the only one who hasn't met her but has heard good things. About her from the quintet and Kat regarding her predecessor, she had to tell me immediately. And get our bond into place, but in all of this, both of these events and the backlash. Just where were you, where were you 3 all this time?" Tanya asked the trio then sharply.

"No, no, it's not Jason or Trini that I'm really pissed at here, because that song could be point in another way and of 6. Only 3 are pack animals and the other 3 are solo, so with that, who of the 5 of you broke his promise to me. Said promise if I needed you, you were going to be there for me no matter what and though not physically present. The original red was, so who does that leave?" Kim said sharply and Zack's eyes widened.

"Guys you're right, Jason was always the one on the phone when you came to check on me, Kitty, like always. But you are my best friend and you were there when I needed you most. Now that I broke the spell on you, but that's what hurts so much: where were they when my power coin got stolen, when Zedd blackmailed you guys into piloting the zords. During Anderson and then my collapse, where?!" she said, shaking in pain and anger.

"My best friend, my total equal, our powers as the purple and pink Ninjetti rangers are completely even, but the best friends you and Jason replaced are Zack and Trini." Kim said and she nodded as she hugged her tightly and Kim buried her head. And into her shoulder. "We never left you hanging when you needed us most, Kat got your power coin back, I kept you company by phone." Jason said and they nodded in agreement to that.

"Every story to this situation of the letter had you always getting ticked and your scapegoat is always the girl you're dating Zack and 'she' always follows your lead. Fortunately, before the damn thing even arrived I told the quintet first and the duo. And because the quintet are with him and Sha' and Jason are family. And honestly I hate it that you're throwing that anger at me, for your own faults at the current moment."

"Just tell me, why didn't you end it before you left exactly, just what the heck did I ever do to you to have you treat me like this. The fact I changed and moved on, the fact that your replacement was there for me when you weren't. Or is it the fact that I chose the one option you never did, and he's still mine as a result, what exactly?" she snapped sternly with a growl and Zack swallowed hard at that remark as she looked at Jason.

"For the third time in three years I saw our zords destroyed, the part of me that died with the loss of Fire, with Darren, Tiger, Red, Kiara, and Brandon's zord forms. I had to embrace being a Crane and I was happy as I never lost the people I love. I hated that you left, I hated that my life as a power ranger was supposedly destroyed. And most of all I hated Rita and her family for everything they ever did to us, my one constant now."

"Was the quintet that turned into a sextet, I have six friends who are power rangers and three are the piece that mattered most. A whole new beginning as you leave and they take your place, we couldn't have picked a better choice that our new friends were it. You abandoned me when I needed you most, but now you're putting your anger. And for your own faults on me, don't think so, you did this to yourselves right now and with that."

"I don't care why suddenly you're taking the fact that Angela broke up with you out on me, I caught her in the act and told you. Just before your letter arrived today, so knock it off." she said and the duo paled as Peter and Mei crossed their arms at that. "You and Curtis caught her in the act and the same day you decided to put things on hold. You tell him that she's cheating on him, with Barnes?" Mei repeated and she nodded to her.

"And that's no damn excuse, just why are you guys going against your best friend, is it because she belongs to your replacements. Or is it the fact she chose a decision you didn't and you're furious she moved on with your replacements right now." Peter added as he looked at his son and Trini. "That's the part I'm telling you he never wanted you to know in why he's scorning me and her with him." she said and Billy nodded to that.

"And she told me first as I know her best, Uncle Peter, she needs me and she gets me, Jason decided on the same thing, as did Rocky and Adam and if Justin says the same. That's all of us guy rangers that know she needs us and gets us now, my omega, she's my entire world, I am not leaving her hanging. But the one who did, is now the one asking to get blasted if we have a repeater." he said and the trio nodded in agreement.

"Re-translated, you abandoned her when she needs you most, she turned to us as a result, I don't care that you're jealous. That she belongs to me now, but you left me a broken heart I had to put back together, that time was evidently going to leave it's mark. On both of us, you broke her heart, you abandoned her and she turns to me. Is it any wonder she's so furious at you right now?" Adam said sternly as Billy crossed his arms.

"Yeah I agree with him, and she was happy I immediately came home to her and put our bond back into place, my only failure is I wasn't here to get her power coin back. But everything the boys, Sha' and Kat did, I did the very same thing, to the end. And she has the ring I gave her back on her finger as a result, I kept my promise. And she's still mine as a result." Jason said sternly to him and Kim looked at him smiling gently at that.

"Not your fault Jason, you never failed either of us, but a choice between our powers and our lives, the powers are expendable, our lives as your friends mattered more to you. But you can bring me back even stronger then before, you can." she said and he nodded as he closed his eyes as the true pain of failure shot through him. "I failed you guys once, I am never doing that again, I am not losing you." he said and she hugged him tightly.

"The powers are expendable, though we love being powers rangers, our lives are more important Jason, I understand that. But once you go through what we did you'll understand, still a ranger, powers or no, still a ranger, we can still protect others. We may not have our powers, but we're still the power rangers, you can reactivate. Once recovered, you get your powers back and you are the new Zeo red after that, bro."

"Return of an old friend, parts III and IV now, first me, then you, the return of old friends to the team, but we're dinosaurs, we been brought back and we're a herd. The team is home, this is where we belong, time to come home Rex, time to come home." Tommy said softly and he nodded. "Yeah the team is home, time to come home." Jason said softly as the quartet went into a group hug then tightly as the duo swallowed hard then.

"And who says you can't come home, we've been away so long, we're running away from the only thing we ever known, but never again, this is where we belong. We're power rangers, the team, the family, came first over our own needs now. We need each other to survive in the field and the link went berserk, so to fix that. Simple solution and the duo gave us their answer, time to come home." she said and they nodded softly to that news.

Looking at their original power coins, the quartet exchanged smiles. "Together." she said and he nodded. "We call upon the power of all those combined, Dragonzord!" "Pterodactyl!" "Triceratops!" "Tyrannosaurus!" Jason shouted and all four shot into the duo's power coins and they started glowing in their own colors. " Get ready, you're going to need those as we give her enough power now." Billy said and Peter and Mei nodded.

"Again!" James said and the quartet nodded and gave them to the trio. "We call upon the power of all those combined, Dragonzord!" "Triceratops!" "Tyrannosaurus!" Preston shouted out and then a darker version to Kim's shade also joined in and that did it finally. "Uh oh, either that was mom's pterodactyl or it was Aurora, but whoever it is, get ready, once you guys hit with me all four upgrades later." she said and Peter nodded to her.

"Your mother is just as bad as you are if you lose your temper baby, if not worse, so I'm just saying this for the both of us, we'll deal with our cubs." he said bemused and they nodded to him. "Thanks for the help mom." Tommy said and they heard a deeper version to Fire's voice at that. "You're welcome Chick, Ptera and Fire explained it to me, so though out of my nest, I can help recharge Fire when she needs me to baby."

"Darren, Bella, I don't see why you're getting angry, when you left you gave up everything that comes with it. You're the siblings, Tiger is now the family, but as Ninjetti we got a bond that you don't understand. When you left you gave up your chance to remain in your colors forever and the trio with it. Surrendering everything you did for her to the duo." she said and the duo paled at that news.

As Kim sat between the sextet, Jason and Tanya at that remark. "When you left, you gave up everything that comes with the job, your colors, your ranks. And our bonds as a result, the Ninjetti Six are the strongest of the team. Though we're now the Ninjetti seven and soon to be nine later, but either way. When you left, you gave up everything that connects to it." Shalimar said as she appeared then.

"When Shal needed me, I was right there beside her, waiting for her to wake up, waiting for her in getting stronger. Just after her collapse put her in the emergency den room, of you, only Rex came back to us. He was keeping tabs on her, while Kalina got her power coin back, Tobin, Lexa, Jesse and I though. We got stuffed versions of us and gave her the strength to heal, make her decision."

"We never abandoned her, not when she needed us most at the time, you want to see us, let us show you now, guys cub size, together." they heard and five flashes followed the pink flash as Jesse, Brennan, Lexa, Tobin and Damian appeared. And sat there with stern eyes as Kalina moved to them and the sextet surrounded Shalimar. And in the way the sextet had Kim surrounded at this as the duo paled at that news.

"When the ones that normally did that when you were recovering were Trini and me." Zack said, shaking as he realized what it was he did to cause this in her. "There, don't you get it, while the sextet are trying to her get power coin back, tell me. Just where the hell were you two, as I would be right there with them as I went to get her morpher. And from the place that Zedd was hiding it?!" Jason snapped at angrily and they swallowed.

"I am so pissed I can barely think straight, that once again my team mate has their powers cut in half, I try to prevent her losing her powers. He's my brother, my best friend, but she's my baby sister, she needs me and like with him. I have to get the reason she is close to losing her powers back, but I am once again too late to prevent it. Her energy and her powers are cut in half and I am ready to kill those two and Goldar."

"Once again I fail her as a team leader, like I did him, I prevented it by the Green candle and recharged her. But this time I am too late, but she is so weak that if we don't recharge her, ourselves, she's ending up back in the emergency room. Tommy told me it was a repeat of him, but this time it's far more dangerous. I can't lose her like I lost him or I'll never be able to focus." he said in anger as the tears of anger ran down his face.

"Alpha of the team, I am the strongest in the pack in powers I can recharge you guys myself to put you back at full power. That I never considered this with him, and I am on the opposite side of the planet as the six of us put in enough power. That she can last till the coach chooses her and we get her power coin back, you don't get it. But as the team leader, I am responsible for the safety of the team." he said and she hugged him tightly.

"You never left me, when I needed you most, always there, you came back and answered the call, you are my best friend, my brother, my twin, but we're a trio. We all agreed, so long as we keep answering the call to our true calling we never stop being who we are. But more then my original alpha, you are my team leader, from beginning to end, you never let me down, always there." she said and he pressed his forehead to hers at that.

"Us not active right now, us original quintet can still be power rangers as long as we remember who we are now. But you never let me go, I came back for you, I answered your question, I made my choice, it's you and it will always be you, Crane, always. As a result still the man you know, I'm still me, your big brother, still the man you know." he said softly and she wrapped her arms around him, as Zack swallowed hard at that.

"Yeah still the man I know, I never let you go, and you're still the man I know, my best friend, my brother, my twin, we never changed at all, still us." she said and the quartet put their foreheads together as their colors turned into a ring circling them. That the adult trio couldn't tell where one color ended and the next one started. "That says it all, she never let us go, we are still the men she knows." Rocky said and she nodded to him.

"I tried, but I had to draw the line and still that question keeps on spinning in my mind." she said and Kat read it out. "What if I never let you go, would you be the man I used to know, if I stayed, if you tried, if we could only turn back time. But I guess we'll never know the answer to that' will we." she said and the boys nodded as Tanya said. "Many roads to take, some to joy and some to heart ache anyone could lose the way."

"And if I said we could turn it back, right back to the start, would you take the chance and make the change." she added and the quintet nodded as they looked at her and Adam said it for all of them as he pressed his forehead to her's. "We answered the question, we took the chance, made the change, we took it back. And we are still the men you know, not letting you go." Adam said, hugging her and she nodded to him.

"The only ones that understand are the seven of you, you understand, and answered my questions, all I wanted was to come home, be with you. You gave me your answer and I belong to you now, both of you, Tanya, Kat and Aisha now." she said and he nodded as she buried her face into his shoulder and Zack felt the tears running down his face. As he realized he never answered her questions and and knew the quartet and Aisha did.

"Think it over, 'what if I never let you go, would you be the man I used to you know, if you stay, if I tried, if we could turn back time, but I guess never we'll never know.'. Subtext, Jason and you specifically kept your promise, and we chose to take it back. You took back the original decision and we snapped the connection back into place. And we snapped it so hard, our powers are full back on full power in it for us right now, Billy."

"It's the same for Rocky and Adam, the connection snapped back into place and we snapped it so hard, like us, their back to full powers as well, with Tommy. I took it back so fast that we gave it another shot and we're still together right now. But the three of you, you kept your promise that you'd be there when I needed you most. Jason, he took back the original decision and went Ninjetti as well to keep us together starting now."

"So who does that leave exactly, because you four kept your promises, the girls stuck by me through thick or thin right now. And Tanya just met me as well, so it's not Trini, as she's thinking I'd let them go, but not going to happen. But it's not her, or the girls and it's not you, or Jason, let alone the duo. It's the one who's been there for me since we were four and the first two pieces of the imprint." she said and Billy stood up at that.

As Jason wrapped both arms around her from behind as she was shaking in anger as Tommy crouched in front of her and Billy moved to her as well then. "It's him isn't it, you're not mad at me or Billy, because we kept our promise, though not here. I kept in touch and was keeping you company in spirit, even though I wasn't here. And for real, right, is that it, that's why you're so pissed, it's because he was afraid now."

"And in trying to protect himself from a broken heart here, he only hurt you by doing that, is that it, for Trini, it's he's her beta and she's following his lead. But I'm your alpha, I always was and to me it's the family that matters more, I'm your twin. Like Billy was, and to keep us together, us as adopted triplets to each other, I went Ninjetti as well?" He asked her softly and she nodded as the tears started coming into her eyes out of anger.

"Jason the truth is, he's the one I'm pissed at, you at least kept calling, keeping me company by phone and I had you in spirit. They even get the reason right now, you supported me in making this choice. You were there when I needed someone to talk me out of giving up gymnastics, every piece that Billy was here for you were there. Too, and in the same way, but that's exactly the problem right now in my eyes and with that."

"But where was he when my power coin got taken, when Anderson was harassing me, when I ended up in the hospital. To talk me out of giving up my chance at the pan globals and when I needed a second opinion to make this choice. But where was he, you gave me the strength, as did Billy, you kept your promise, so where was he exactly. Just where was he, when you were acting like my twin and helping keeping me going."

"The empathy link between us went active, Jason, and you just hit it exactly, by trying to protect himself from a broken heart he hurts me in the process. I still need you guys, yes I love the duo and yes they were there for me these last 2 years for me. When I needed it, that's the point, what right does he have to but in, regarding my love life, Tommy. I took it back so fast nothing chance right now, but I know you Jason, I know you so well."

"That I know you never wanted to let me go, but that's exactly the point, you never did let go, of four: you and Billy stayed by my side, for real and in spirit. Of four: you and Billy kept your promise, of four, it didn't matter to you we took a step back. But so long as I was happy that's all you care about right now, but my Wolf and Rex. To you so long as I was happy that's all you care about now, like him, the imprint is that of brothers."

"Best friends, ten years together and when he left, it's like all of that got thrown aside, but you guys, it never did, I still need you like I always have, Jason." she said, shaking in anger and pain then as he pulled her into a hug and she buried her head into his shoulder as she wrapped both arms around his neck then. 'I'm not letting go, you mean too much to me.' he heard and he closed his eyes in fury at what Zack had done then.

"Our childhood bond was what saved us, but the reason is, because we always had each other's back and when Tommy joined the team. You both knew that though things changed, what didn't was that I would always love you and protect. Be there for you no matter what happens, it's always been like that, our childhood, our trio. We stuck it out together, but now 2/3's of are Ninjetti, I am a Rex, a king and leader now."

"But without you leading at my side I have no powers, the alpha gets his strength from their pack, no pack, we have no true power. But alpha and omega, 16 years always the alpha and omega and the duo's ranks are in reverse. Billy is the true beta in the Dino Ranger team, and Zack is the secondary beta. But now that Rocky got added to the team he is the beta and Billy my next in command." he said softly and she nodded to him.